Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Opit`s LinkFest!

Deadline Live

  • Revolution in Turkey? Live Updates and Video
    3:30 Pm EST: Just Heard Richard Haas of the CFR say that PM Erdogan should offer concessions to end the growing protests. Sounds like the Globalists may be behind this event OR are trying to take it over. Istanbul warzone: Thousands of protesters try to reclaim Taksim Square (link has live updat ...
  • Live Updates: Anti-G8 Protests In London
    Anti-G8 protest headquarters in London raided by riot police Riot police clash with anti-G8 protesters in London Riot police in London arrest 6 during protests against G-8 summit Demonstrators stage a “Carnival Against Capitalism” ahead of the G8 summit hosted by Britain next week. S ...
  • IRISH HOLOCAUST; Britain Continues Coverup Of ...
    (AE) – The latest British state run media BBC propaganda is not worthy of posting, but I will provide the link here as a reference:   2013.5.20 Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Identified (bbc.co.uk): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22596561   One purpose for exposing t ...
  • This Day In History – June 11
    1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. 1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. 1775 – The American Revolutionary War’s first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a ...
  • North Colorado Seeks Status as 51st State to E ...
      NewsMax Colorado residents fed up with a law cracking down on gun ownership and a rule forcing residents to purchase costly renewable energy have a scheme to escape the new restrictions – create the nation’s 51st state of North Colorado. The idea to add another star to the American flag i ...

The Air Vent

  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...
  • Problematic Science Incorporated
    Holy crap.  I have realized it isn’t practical to do a half of a blog.  Did you know that the Internet is full of crazy people.   I’ve heard rumors, read other blogs, often commented on the generally high quality of tAV readers but when I don’t blog on science for months, guess ...
  • A Real Challenge to PSI
    This is awesome, the wife is downstairs watching a movie, I’ve finished my work and have a little time for blogging.   Not a lot, but some… There are too many pressures in my head.  Today a commenter, who is anonymous to me, left a slayer-style comment which has none of the Doug Cott ...
  • Answers
    So all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from adding CO2 to the atmosphere?   An interesting new study has been released which matches quite closely to Nic Lewis’s work.  The difference is that 14 of the authors are lead-coordinating lead authors of the pending ...
  • Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest
    John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at th ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • The surprising reason why Coca-Cola is not the ...
    Being Liberal has 600,000 fans on Facebook. Coca-Cola has 65 million fans — a following 100 times bigger. Coke has an astronomical annual ad budget and marketing machine. Being Liberal is just one guy posting content —...
  • Mark Zuckerberg pleads for patience at inaugur ...
    Those who own a part of Facebook gathered Tuesday at the company’s shareholders meeting to ask about the future of the company, the direction of Facebook’s stock value, as well as other concerns. Co-Founder and CEO...
  • The science and art of Facebook advertising: H ...
    I’ve read a few articles lately (New York Times, Financial Review, NPR) about the misplacement of brand ads on Facebook and other social networks that have me thinking. While Facebook worked quickly to resolve the issues...
  • Facebook brings business object type to Open Graph
    Last week, Facebook updated open graph developer tools with the introduction of the business object for Open Graph. The feature will help convey local business information better in the news feed, Graph Search, Check-ins and Pages....
  • Apple’s iOS 7 impact on Facebook: image sharin ...
    At its annual developer’s conference, Apple has announced iOS 7, a complete revamp of its mobile operating system. Sporting a new, flatter look, the company has made significant updates to all facets of the operating system, including more...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Exposing the Turnkey Tyranny, NSA Whistleblowe ...
    Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history stepped into the public limelight to explain his motives.
  • Edward Snowden Beware: How Spooks Smear Whistl ...
    Hopefully, we have all learned from the individual courage of Daniel Ellsberg, Bradley Manning, Philip Agee, and now Edward Snowden that it is possible to fight back, especially if we find nonviolent ways for massive numbers of us willing to stand up with them against Big Brother. We are beyond ...
  • Burma: New report calls for transparency and l ...
    Possible risks are likely to be happened such as the use of forced labor during project construction; land confiscation and forced eviction; disruption of and loss of livelihoods; increased presence of Burma Army troops; restrictions on freedom of movement and access to transportation; illegal t ...
  • Digital Blackwater Rules
    When it comes to how a 29-year old IT wizard with little formal education has been able to access a batch of ultra-sensitive secrets of the US intelligence-national security complex, that's a no-brainer; it's all about the gung-ho privatization of spying -- referred to by a mountain of euphemism ...
  • Let's Pledge to Boycott the Boy Scouts
    This article is a LGBT positive (anti military) perspective on the Boy Scouts recent decision to allow openly gay teens to be members while continuing to discrimate against openly gay Scout leaders.

Switchboard

  • President's Memorandum on Transmission Corrido ...
    Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission, San Francisco Last week President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum that should greatly improve the way transmission lines are sited, reviewed and permitted and their corridors designated ...
  • Department of Interior's own Watchdog in New R ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York The Department of Interior’s Inspector General released a scathing report today on the way Interior (DOI) sells taxpayer-owned coal to big coal companies at cut-rate prices. Most of the ...
  • Data indicate water pollution from shale gas o ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigated the potential impacts to surface water quality from shale gas development. The researchers use ...
  • Monitoring Abuses by White House Office
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. This week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is holding a confirmation hearing on one of the most important White House positions you’ve ne ...
  • Midwest Governors on Separation of Watersheds: ...
    Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL Two important messages on aquatic invasive species came out of the recent 2013 Leadership Summit, where the Great Lakes Governors and the Premiers of Ontario and Quebec gathered to disc ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Separating Production from Consumption
    Arguably capitalism’s greatest feat in the last century is the almost complete separation of production from consumption. Modern Americans rarely see where anything is produced, whether food or consumer goods. This is an intentional move by corporations to shelter themselves from pressures ...
  • Daley
    If there’s one thing the state of Illinois needs, it’s another centrist insider Democrat running for high office on a position of tearing down the good life for working-class people. Always important to follow Rahm Emanuel’s example.
  • Evers
    Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Today marks the 50th anniversary of this tragedy.
  • Foreign Entanglements: Talk Turkey to Me
    On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks to Hugh Pope about US-Turkish relations:
  • How to get a job, 2013 style
    I’m posting this for its sociological interest. The topic being addressed is how to get a summer associate position (SA) after your second year of law school, via on campus interviewing (OCI) if you have middle of the class grades at Michigan (i.e., a top ten law school). Getting a 2L SA t ...

Desert Research Institute

  • In memory of Carl Young
    The DRI family was saddened to learn over the weekend of the passing of Carl Young, a former graduate assistant at DRI and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Microbiologist at the Desert Research Institut ...
    Dr. Duane Moser, Environmental Microbiologist explores the habitat of the rare Devils Hole Pupfish, a species believed to be somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 years old.
  • Tribute to Dorothy S. Gallagher
    Today the entire DRI family is saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and long-time supporter Regent Dorothy S. Gallagher.
  • Farnaz Hosseinpour, May 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
    Meet Farnaz Hosseinpour, a Ph.D. student working on climate modeling and simulation in DRI’s Atmospheric Sciences division. She’s using an ensemble of NASA satellite datasets to explore relationships between interactive-aerosol forcing and planetary-scale climatic responses. 
  • DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-lon ...
    In a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydro-geologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Government Surveillance Draws Lawsuit, Legislation
    Civil liberties advocates and a bipartisan group in Congress stepped up pressure on Tuesday against the Obama administration's secret domestic surveillance programs via a lawsuit and legislation that could shed light on the scope and legality of the government's snooping.
  • First Circuit Rejects Retaliation Claim Over W ...
    A federal appeals court disposed of a hedge fund principal's lawsuit accusing Massachusetts' secretary of state of retaliating against him for criticizing securities industry regulations.
  • Report: Campaign Contributions Influence State ...
    A study released on Tuesday by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy identified a "statistically significant" relationship between ballooning campaign contributions by business interest to state supreme court candidates and pro-business decisions by those courts.
  • Belmont University College of Law Wins ABA Acc ...
    The Nashville law school's smooth path to ABA approval stands in contrast to Tennessee's other newcomer, the Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law in Knoxville.
  • DLA Piper Beats Out Baker & McKenzie at Top of ...
    DLA Piper topped the NLJ 350 this year, marking only the third time that it has unseated rival Baker & McKenzie from the No. 1 spot in the survey's 36-year history. • Read the results of this year's NLJ 350 survey.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

  • Unmet Need of Contraception in India 'Bad' for ...
    Results of an efficacy study published in 2002, showed SDM to be more than 95 percent effective with correct use and 88 percent effective with typical use, well within range of other user-dependent methods.
  • Drug Abuse Prevalent Among Students in India
    Quoting the source of government of India controlled voluntary organization 'Gold,' a local vernacular daily, has published from Diphu has reported that out of 3000 drug addicts of Assam 300 are from Diphu town alone.
  • FTC Study Claims Many Credit Reports Contain F ...
    Many credit reports contain false information. One company, CR Credit, is helping consumers do something to fix this problem, and clean up their credit.
  • A Brief Lesson in How to Succeed in Life
    Moira Cue of The Hollywood Sentinel shares here her advise on how to succeed in life with a positive mental attitude, and free learning tools one can consult to help do so.
  • Convictions of Six Technology Executives Raise ...
    Appellate lawyer Gwendolyn Solomon and Just-Cause members say the five black and one white man were victimized by a vicious, biased criminal justice system, riddled with corruption when dealing with minorities.

environment 360

  • Interview: How Detergent Became A Catalyst for ...
    Adam Lowry is the co-founder and “chief greenskeeper” of Method, a small but rapidly growing company that has been a leader in the field of manufacturing Adam Lowry environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products. Indeed, it was Method that pioneered the use of concentrated ...
  • Growing Number of Pests Developing Resistance ...
    An increasing number of pest species are developing resistance to crops genetically engineered to be toxic to insects, according to new research. In an analysis of 77 studies conducted in eight countries, a team of U.S. and French scientists found that five of 13 major pest species had become re ...
  • Carbon Emissions Increased 1.4 Percent in 2012 ...
    Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1.4 percent in 2012, a pace that could lead to a temperature increase of as much as 5.3 degrees C (9 degrees F) over pre-industrial times, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest World Energy Outlook. Despite s ...
  • Green Highways: New Strategies To Manage Roads ...
    From northern Europe to Florida, highway planners are rethinking roadsides as potential habitat for native plants and wildlife. Scientists say this new approach could provide a useful tool in fostering biodiversity. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • New Map of Antarctica Provides Clearest Glimps ...
    British scientists have unveiled the most detailed topographical map available yet of Antarctica, a vast dataset that provides a penetrating 3-D view of the Click to enlarge NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Antarctica's subglacial terrain frozen continent down to the bedrock level and c ...

Red Ice Creations

  • DHS Admits Boston Training Drill Involving Bac ...
    The Department of Homeland Security has gone public with an admission that an exercise was planned months before the Boston Marathon bombings that involved backpacks being used to detonate explosives by rogue terrorists. “The real thing happened before we were able to execute,” a Boston police o ...
  • Hearing On UFO Disclosure
    Gary Heseltine Testifies about UFO Incidents – Citizen Hearing On Disclosure As large as three football fields…. The following YOUTUBE clip is from the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, which happened a few weeks ago. The event took place in Washington DC and was attended by Ex military personal, ...
  • Parliament laughs off Bilderberg inquiry
    Following up from the weekend protests and coverage, Labour MP, Michael Meacher took it straight to Parliament today in which Ed Balls and Ken Clarke were forced to admit Bilderberg and laughed it off. Here is Michael Meacher’s presence at the protests: British MP Speaks Out Against Bilderberg " ...
  • Modern art was CIA Weapon
    Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists ...
  • Why is Germany the most spied upon EU country?
    Germany most-spied-on EU country by US - leaked NSA report Germany appears to be the most snooped on EU country by the US, a map of secret surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows. EU officials are to question their US counterparts on data snooping in Europe. The color ...

Not My Tribe

  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...
  • Colorado Springs gay pride festival 2013 moves ...
    Haven’t we seen this countless times before: a nonprofit buys bigger britches forgetting that there was a reason it wore tight pink shorts, esthetics being the governing factor in neither case. Local Pride organizers may tell you they needed a larger park, but for what? The world’s l ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Why You Should Make a Donation at MarkBasile.org
    9/11: Explosive Material in the WTC Dust Please Donate Dust or Money for an Independent Study to Conclusively Confirm or Refute the 2009 Paper By Harrit et al. Version 1.2 By John-Michael Talboo and Ziggi Zugam Abstract. In April 2009, an international team of scientists published the peer-r ...
  • My Call to C-SPAN on the Free Fall Collapse of ...
    Nothing like starting off your morning by spreading 9/11 truth through the mainstream media! So I was asked by a friend to call in to C-Span this morning to ask a question about the free fall collapse of WTC7, and luckily I made it through! Granted they did cut me off before I finished the whole ...
  • British MPs need to look up the word conspirac ...
    The subject of Bilderberg was discussed in the British House of Commons yesterday, where two members dismissed concerns about it while just about everyone else was laughing non stop. So basically... The Bilderberg conference isn't a "conspiracy" ... It's just a place where public officials me ...
  • Cracked writers puts nine seconds of research ...
    5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Shockingly Easy to Debunk http://www.cracked.com/article_20466_5-conspiracy-theories-that-are-shockingly-easy-to-debunk.html From #3: "Conspiracy theorists like Rosie O'Donnell like to rattle off statistics like how the towers fell in nine seconds, which just happ ...
  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Survival condemns Steven Pinker’s ‘Brutal Sava ...
    Steven Pinker, like Jared Diamond, bases his assertion that the Yanomami are a violent people solely on the work of controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival International has launched a vigorous rebuttal of Harvard ‘evolutionary psychologist’ Steven Pinker’s ...
  • Brazil - indigenous affairs chief quits follow ...
    Indians protesting in Brasília, against the dismantling of their rights© Antônio Cruz/ABrThe head of Brazil’s indigenous affairs department, FUNAI, resigned on 7 June, citing ill health. Dr Marta Azevedo took office just over a year ago, and declared that the situation of the Awá and Guarani tr ...
  • Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despit ...
    Trucks have reportedly arrived to remove Ranyane Bushmen from their ancestral land.© Survival InternationalGovernment trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. The move to evict the Ranyane ...
  • Brazil police shoot Indians – more violence feared
    Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrPolice in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of t ...
  • Brazilian journalist sentenced for racism agai ...
    A journalist described Brazil's Indians as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA journalist in Brazil has been found guilty of discrimination against Indians, who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’. In an article published by the news site Jornal NH, Ivar Paulo Hartmann stated ...

Greg Palast

  • The Idiot's Guide to the Voting Rights Act
    Will the Supreme Court pull the teeth out of the law? by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net This month –as early as tomorrow— the US Supreme Court will tell us whether Black and Brown citizens have the right to vote. Now, if you saw the film Lincoln, you probably thought that issue was settled abou ...
  • Will the Supreme Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court to decide on Voting Rights Act this month. For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. This month, as ...
  • My Father's Victory in the Pacific
    By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
  • My Big Fat Greek Minister
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine It wasn't too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. (We'd both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasi ...
  • "Now that the SOB is Dead..." A Novel Idea: As ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry with us?" "Us", in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden. The Taliban's frustration was relayed to me by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid K ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • First Degree Murder Charges Filed in Alex Spou ...
    June 11, 2013 (RIVER GROVE, Ill.) (WLS) -- First degree murder charges have been filed against Dorothy Spourdalakis, the mother of a teen with severe autism found stabbed to death in west suburban River Grove. Prosecutors also charged Jolanta Agatha...
  • Dachel News Update: Red Tape
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. June 10, 2013, Hanover (PA) Evening Sun: Autism: Red tape can tie families in knots June 10, 2013, News 12 Yonkers, NY: Ribbon-cutting ceremony held for New York Presbyterian Center for...
  • The Gut Microbiota Is Connected To The Brain, ...
    By Teresa Conrick Dr. Mercola recently had an article about Round Up and its many effects on the body, specifically gut bacteria: " Your gut bacteria are a key component of glyphosate’s mechanism of harm, as microbes have the pathway...
  • Interview with W VA Valedictorian On Her Punis ...
    By Anne Dachel In May, I found the news reports about a young woman, Olivia Hudok, who stood up to officials and refused two vaccinations required for school in West Virginia, a state that does not allow for a either...
  • Weekly Wrap: Autism and The Gut, First Responders
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. June 10, 2013, The Atlantic: In Autism, the Importance of the Gut June 9, 2013, Hanover (PA) Evening Sun: Autism: Can there be a cure without a cause? June 9, 2013,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Groundbreaking new study: Evidence of GMO harm ...
    A groundbreaking new study [1] shows that pigs were harmed by the consumption of feed containing genetically modified (GM) crops. GM-fed females had on average a 25% heavier uterus than non-GM-fed females, a possible indicator of disease that requires further investigation. Also, the level of se ...
  • GMO Wheat Saboteur Caught!
    Monsanto catches the dastardly Oregon GMO wheat saboteur! Graphic
  • Synthetic Biology Should We Be Afraid?
    A public crowd-funding campaign has been launched by a starter Biotech company Genome Compiler, to create bioengineered glow-in-the-dark plants that will be given away to donors. This will be the first organism created by synthetic biology techniques to ever be released into the wild and most as ...
  • 1500 Acres of GM Wheat Trials Receive Okay by USDA
    Did Monsanto really stop field testing GMO wheat like it says it did?
  • Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
    For most of the world who don’t have time to research the official statements of Monsanto but merely glance at a Reuters or TAZ headline, the message has been delivered that Monsanto has given up its EU effort on proliferating its GMO seeds. Not true. The timing of the TAZ interview is suggestiv ...

new geography

  • The Mad Drive to Subvert Democracy in Toronto
    Let me stipulate that I think Toronto’s Rob Ford is a terrible mayor. In fact, while I might not go so far as Richard Florida, who labeled Ford “the worst mayor in the modern history of cities, an avatar for all that is small-bore and destructive of the urban fabric, and the most ...
  • Housing Boom Is The Best Chance For A Recovery ...
    Our tepid economic recovery has been profoundly undemocratic in nature. Between the “too big to fail” banks and Ben Bernanke’s policy of dropping free money from helicopters on the investor class, there have been two recoveries, one for the rich, and another less rewarding one ...
  • Is Michael Bloomberg Finally Ready for His Clo ...
    After being elected New York City’s mayor in 2002, Michael Bloomberg quickly expanded on the city’s progress during the 1990s. He combined predecessor Rudolph Giuliani’s reforms in welfare and policing with his own. He rezoned land for needed housing, reduced public school inefficiencies, and ad ...
  • Falling In Love With Where You Are
    Where I live is where most Californians live: in a tract house on a block of more tract houses in a neighborhood hardly distinguishable from the next, and all of these houses extending as far as the street grid allows. My exact place on the grid is at the southeast corner of Los Angeles Cou ...
  • Suburbs and Sacred Space
    Suburbs are often unfairly maligned as lacking the qualities that make cities great. But one place that criticism can be fair is in the area of sacred space. There most certainly is sacred space in the suburbs, but usually less of it than in the city both quantitatively and qualitatively.  In ...

water.org

  • Rani's Toilet
    While the toilet is a basic need for all human beings, not having one affects the safety of women more often than men. In Karnataka, India, due to lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rani’s family members were going out into open for defecation and had to travel long distances every day for this.
  • Margery's Two Loans
    Margery took out two WaterCredit loans that allowed her to install toilets and a water storage tank. Both have brought her and her family dignity, health and comfort.
  • Water for Leah's Farm
    Leah lives in Ngawene village on the outskirts of Maua town with her two children – a daughter (25) and a son (18). Leah, pictured second from the right with ECLOF and Water.org staff, is a secondary level graduate and also holds an accountancy technician certificate. Leah is 50 years old, marri ...
  • Celebrities endorse the toilet strike
    Richard Branson, Olivia Wilde and Bono join Water.org Co-founder Matt Damon to protest lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for 2.5 billion people
  • Three Mothers, Three Stories
    The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding - in celebration of Mother's Day, watch this video and hear the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and found a path to water.

Cryptogon

  • The Moral Order Is Inverted
    Via: TruthDig: The moral order is inverted. The criminal class is in power. We are the prey. Manning, in a just society, would be a prosecution witness against war criminals. Those who committed these crimes should be facing prison. But we do not live in a just society.
  • Air Force Prohibiting Airmen from Reading NSA ...
    Via: Caffeinated Thoughts: I wanted to make sure that all of you read this because just doing a simple search could jeopardize your future. In summary, anything to do with the recent news about the NSA and Verizon phone records are considered classified and searching news or records about these ...
  • Off-Duty Cops Collect DNA Samples at Alabama R ...
    You’ll love this one. Via: Daily Caller: Off-duty cops in two counties in Alabama spent the weekend collecting saliva and blood samples from drivers at roadblocks. According to Lt. Freddie Turrentine with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, drivers were asked to voluntarily offer sa ...
  • “We’re Looking Out For You”
    Via: CBS: The shorthanded Antioch Police Department is enlisting the help of local garbage collectors and letter carriers tospot crime on city streets. Employees of the local trash collector, Republic Services Inc., as well as U.S. Postal Service employees have been given tips on how to act as e ...
  • Ava 500 Telepresence System
    Via: TechWorld: Ava 500 is essentially a Cisco TelePresence EX60 personal video endpoint mounted on top of an iRobot mobile robotics platform, which can self-navigate busy environments like offices, manufacturing floors and laboratories without bumping into people or objects. The robot is contro ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted ...
    The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit.  Outrage has been pouring in from all over the planet, and one member of the European Parliament is even comparing [...]
  • 27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government ...
    Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up?  He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world.  He says that he ...
  • The U.S. Government Has Been STEALING User Dat ...
    The U.S. government has been hacking in to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple and has been taking their user data without their knowledge or consent.  According to the Washington Post, the information being stolen includes "audio and video c ...
  • Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Wil ...
    Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States?  Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen.  Chinese acquisition of U.S. bus ...
  • 12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is Abou ...
    A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are starting to happen again.  As you read the list below, you will notice that the year "2009" comes up again and again.  There is a reason for that.  Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic downt ...

Desertification

  • The enormity of the twin menaces of deforestat ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/letters/11-Jun-2013/killing-it-slowly Killing it slowly Regrettably, the forests and green pastures in Sindh have almost vanished, but the relevant federal and provincial organis ...
  • Do you have the best desertification photo ? ( ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.rtcc.org/enter-the-uns-desertification-photo-contest/ Enter the UN’s desertification photo contest! Last updated on 10 June 2013, 10:17 am For the third time, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is holding a p ...
  • Crop models to better forecast food production ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130609195713.htm How Do You Feed Nine Billion People? June 9, 2013 — An international team of scientists has developed crop models to better forecast food production to feed a growing population — projected to reach 9 billion … C ...
  • Large quantities of anthropogenic carbon in re ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130610095146.htm Leakage of Carbon from Land to Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Coastal Regions Revealed June 10, 2013 — When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in … C ...
  • Escalation in dust emissions due to the interp ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130610193033.htm Amount of Dust Blown Across the Western U.S. Is Increasing June 10, 2013 — The amount of dust being blown across the landscape has increased over the last 17 years in large swaths of the West, … Continue reading →

News Blaze

  • Unmet Need of Contraception in India 'Bad' for ...
    Results of an efficacy study published in 2002, showed SDM to be more than 95 percent effective with correct use and 88 percent effective with typical use, well within range of other user-dependent methods.
  • Drug Abuse Prevalent Among Students in India
    Quoting the source of government of India controlled voluntary organization 'Gold,' a local vernacular daily, has published from Diphu has reported that out of 3000 drug addicts of Assam 300 are from Diphu town alone.
  • FTC Study Claims Many Credit Reports Contain F ...
    Many credit reports contain false information. One company, CR Credit, is helping consumers do something to fix this problem, and clean up their credit.
  • A Brief Lesson in How to Succeed in Life
    Moira Cue of The Hollywood Sentinel shares here her advise on how to succeed in life with a positive mental attitude, and free learning tools one can consult to help do so.
  • Convictions of Six Technology Executives Raise ...
    Appellate lawyer Gwendolyn Solomon and Just-Cause members say the five black and one white man were victimized by a vicious, biased criminal justice system, riddled with corruption when dealing with minorities.

Worldnews

  • FocusAsia lures deep-sea methylene chlori ...
    By Heng Hui SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Asia looks set to attract more deep-sea flows of methylene chloride, as demand in the region is relatively stable compared with declining consumption in Europe and the US, raising concerns of a possible supply glut, market sources said on Wednesday. Methylene ...
  • Economists cut growth forecasts for Singa ...
    SINGAPORE, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Private sector economists and analysts expected the Singapore economy to grow by 2.3 percent this year, according to the results of a survey released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on...
  • World Cup tourists face rude shock in pri ...
    Warning for football fans ... visitors to Rio de Janeiro for next year's World Cup could be in for a rude shock when they discover how expensive the city is. Photo: Getty Images Tourists planning to flock to Brazil for the World Cup a year from now should brace for some of the world's highes ...
  • Gulf Shi'ites fear rising sectarian rheto ...
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Shi'ite Muslims in the Gulf, alarmed by the shrill sectarian rhetoric of some Sunni clerics after Lebanon's Hezbollah militia entered Syria's civil war, fear they will be blamed and may be victimized for the bloodshed. "Hate language is on the rise, in the press, on social ...
  • Asian markets down on concern about Japan ...
    BEIJING -- Asian stocks fell Wednesday amid concern about a lack of new Japanese moves to calm bond markets and uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. monetary policy. Oil prices fell to below $95 per barrel amid concern central bankers around the world might ease off measures to boost the g ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Does Not Raise Heart A ...
    There is not a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular events in patients who take controversial type 2 drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) reported after carrying out a re-analysis of data from a pivotal study. The DCRI researchers re- ...
  • Promising Results In Early Trial of Novel MS T ...
    Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine researchers say a new method for essentially resetting the immune systems of patients with multiple sclerosis appears to be safe. Study co-author Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University, describes the novel approach tested in this smal ...
  • Summer Deadliest Time of Year for Teen Drivers
    Crashes often linked to distracted driving Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Motor Vehicle Safety, Teen Health
  • Fewer Families Struggling to Pay Medical Bills ...
    But some may be skipping needed care altogether, expert says Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Health Insurance, Health Statistics
  • Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Non ...
    About $6000 in extra annual costs stem from more time off, smoking breaks, health care, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Smoking

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • The Natural Gas Pathway to Sustainable Transpo ...
    If you read the business section of a major U.S. newspaper with any regularity, chances are you’ve seen something about the potential for the shale gas boom to transform the transportation sector. Much of this excitement is derived from the fact that natural gas currently enjoys a three-fold adv ...
  • China and U.S. Agree to Cooperate to Reduce Po ...
    After years of opposing international efforts to restrict hydrofluorocarbons China has now agreed to cooperate with the United States in moving forward to phase down the use of these chemicals under the Montreal Protocol.
  • 49 Percent Of New US Electricity Capacity Is F ...
    A couple of big solar records were set in Q1 2013 in the US. For one, 49% of all new US electricity generation capacity came form solar, the most ever for a first quarter.
  • Welcome to Renewable Electricity Nirvana
    Back in 2011, the federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency commissioned the Australian Energy Market Operator to investigate two future scenarios in which the National Electricity Market was fuelled entirely by renewables.
  • Renewable Energy in Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
    This infographic looks at our portfolio of renewables and offers an overview of the share of renewables in the energy supply, country by country.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Seven Kinds of Sustainability
    by Nancy DeLucrezia The following article by PLACE President, Chris Velasco, is not only brilliant, but reflects an altruistic view that is applicable to virtually every aspect of our lives! (Reprinted by permission) What is “Sustainability?” Sustainability is a difficult word t ...
  • Aleppo, Istanbul, and London
    Michael Collins The war in Syria went from a seeming quagmire to a conflict that may reach a dramatic climax with the coming battle for Aleppo, a city of nearly three million people that was once the commercial center of the nation. Political leaders and events in two other cities, Istanbul a ...
  • Genetic Weapons--Can Your DNA Kill You?
    Janet C. Phelan Activist Post It is a scene out of a futuristic political thriller—the Secretary of State issues secret orders for embassy officials to collect the DNA of foreign heads of state while the President, speaking at a $1000 a plate dinner, is surrounded by a contingent of S ...
  • America's Student Loan Racket: Stiffer Debt Bo ...
    by Stephen Lendman For growing numbers of American youths, higher education is increasingly out of reach. High tuition and fees make it unaffordable. So does a disturbing government/corporate partnership. Millions of students need financial aid. They're exploited for profit. Providers are enr ...
  • Mass Surveillance in America
    by Stephen Lendman It shouldn't surprise. It's longstanding policy. Post-9/11, it escalated. Previous articles said Big Brother is real. It's no longer fiction. Mass surveillance is official US policy. It's not for national security. It's not about discovering terror or other threats. None wh ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC's water: time to stop giving it away for free
    The largest industrial water users in BC pay little to nothing for the water they use, and in most cases are not even required to track or report what they use. The provincial government recognized the need for a modernized Water Act in 2009; our latest report calls on them to move forward with ...
  • On Guard for the Economy
    Here's a nice video of Jim Stanford's presentation to the AFL. On Guard for the Economy reminds us all of basic economic lessons that tend to get overlooked, including the value unions add to society. 
  • History and Drama of a Prairie Commons
    Once the victim of hasty prairie settlement, the PFRA Community Pastures became grassland jewels through belated foresight and science-based planning. The termination of this world-class program was embedded in omnibus bill C-38, with ownership of the land returned to the provinces of Manitoba a ...
  • More Background on Bill C-525
    Leftnews.org has more information on Bill C-525. It explains the impact the Bill will have on card-check certification and provides research on why card check has proven to be the preferred method of certifying and de-certifying. 
  • Merit Canada Speech on Open Shops
    Here's a speech from the president of Merrit Canada calling for restrictions on unionized shops and unions in general. He uses the term 'opportunity to work' and tries to differentiate between that and RTW. 

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Energy Collective

  • The Natural Gas Pathway to Sustainable Transpo ...
    If you read the business section of a major U.S. newspaper with any regularity, chances are you’ve seen something about the potential for the shale gas boom to transform the transportation sector. Much of this excitement is derived from the fact that natural gas currently enjoys a three-fold adv ...
  • China and U.S. Agree to Cooperate to Reduce Po ...
    After years of opposing international efforts to restrict hydrofluorocarbons China has now agreed to cooperate with the United States in moving forward to phase down the use of these chemicals under the Montreal Protocol.
  • 49 Percent Of New US Electricity Capacity Is F ...
    A couple of big solar records were set in Q1 2013 in the US. For one, 49% of all new US electricity generation capacity came form solar, the most ever for a first quarter.
  • Welcome to Renewable Electricity Nirvana
    Back in 2011, the federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency commissioned the Australian Energy Market Operator to investigate two future scenarios in which the National Electricity Market was fuelled entirely by renewables.
  • Renewable Energy in Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
    This infographic looks at our portfolio of renewables and offers an overview of the share of renewables in the energy supply, country by country.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Europe warns US: you must respect the privacy ...
    The European commission's vice-president, Viviane Reding, has sent a letter with seven detailed questions to the US attorney general, Eric Holder Jr, demanding explanations about Prism and other American data snooping programmes. Reding warns him that "given the gravity of the situation and the ...
  • Senators propose bill to declassify orders beh ...
    A bipartisan group of eight prominent US senators announced a new bill today to declassify the court opinions that give the US National Security Agency the legal power to carry out the sweeping internet surveillance program known as PRISM and the separate phone records surveillance program, both ...
  • Fact Check
    Statement from Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot: As Mark said last week, we strongly encourage all governments to be much more transparent about all programs aimed at keeping the public safe. In the past, we have questioned the value of releasing a transparency report that, because of exactl ...
  • Googles Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
    Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer court-ordered data to the government, a company spokesman says, refuting with some finality one of the lingering theories about the NSA's PRISM program. Instead t ...
  • ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging NSA's Patriot A ...
    In the wake of the past week's revelations about the NSA's unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, today the ACLU filed a lawsuit charging that the program violates Americans' constitutional rights of free speech, association, and privacy. This lawsuit comes a day after we submitted a ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Food Truck Movement in San Jose – gourmet food ...
    These aren’t your grandfather’s roach coaches, this is seriously good food! Last night Sue and I had Korean ribs, Hawaiian- style Loco Moco, and a lamb / cucumber wrap. All of it was delicious and from gourmet food trucks, all part of the growing food truck movement. The photos were ...
  • OMB – Metroland
    Released this year, they were amazing at Coachella
  • Why Shouldn’t I Work for the NSA? (Good Will H ...
  • Whoa. Germany demands Obama explain “American- ...
    Even our allies are appalled at the rise of the American Stasi and wish to know just what the fuck is going on in a country that bleats incessantly about how it is the protector of democracy and freedom. Well done NSA. Bravo, Obama. When even Zee Germans are staring open-mouthed at what they cal ...
  • Hey Los Angeles, want higher property taxes fo ...
    Surely it makes perfect sense to build huge tunnels to siphon water away from that useless California Delta to agribusiness and oil in the Central Valley and then onto Los Angeles, and then raise property taxes in L.A. to pay for this shambling $50 billion dollar behemoth. Oh, but wait, L.A. won ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Consequences of Domestic Violence
    Last week of Chase Douglas, who has admitted assaulting his girlfriend three times including choking her, sought a discharge without conviction for the assaults; because he claims a criminal record will impede his ability to perform overseas. Douglas’s lawyer said his client accepted his guilt a ...
  • The Tensing Norgays to teachers – happy ...
    Today is the day when schools and communities recognise the vital work of school support staff – from the administrators to the special needs support people, the librarians, classroom teacher aides, sports co-ordinators and lab technicians. Many, but not all these support staff are women. ...
  • Students struggling to get by
    Some pretty interesting research was released today by the Financial Education and Research Centre at Massey University, who surveyed nearly 300 students about their views towards money and their finances. What’s pretty alarming are the numbers that show the burden of debt and the struggle for s ...
  • Sustainable energy for all
    It’s not every day I share an infographic from the World Bank but I thought this one was a good one. It is incredible that we have 1.2 billion people without power in 2013 and providing clean renewable electricity is a huge opportunity to save lives, build jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • It’s time to submit against spying
    Submissions close on spying law this Thursday. John Key may be comfortable with many things but we are not comfortable; we are not comfortable with, among many things, John Key’s pandering to the USA’s spymasters, and the wholesale spying on New Zealanders, either already happening o ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival condemns Steven Pinker’s ‘Brutal Sava ...
    Steven Pinker, like Jared Diamond, bases his assertion that the Yanomami are a violent people solely on the work of controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival International has launched a vigorous rebuttal of Harvard ‘evolutionary psychologist’ Steven Pinker’s ...
  • Brazil - indigenous affairs chief quits follow ...
    Indians protesting in Brasília, against the dismantling of their rights© Antônio Cruz/ABrThe head of Brazil’s indigenous affairs department, FUNAI, resigned on 7 June, citing ill health. Dr Marta Azevedo took office just over a year ago, and declared that the situation of the Awá and Guarani tr ...
  • Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despit ...
    Trucks have reportedly arrived to remove Ranyane Bushmen from their ancestral land.© Survival InternationalGovernment trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. The move to evict the Ranyane ...
  • Brazil police shoot Indians – more violence feared
    Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrPolice in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of t ...
  • Brazilian journalist sentenced for racism agai ...
    A journalist described Brazil's Indians as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA journalist in Brazil has been found guilty of discrimination against Indians, who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’. In an article published by the news site Jornal NH, Ivar Paulo Hartmann stated ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Grand Canyon Threatened by Uranium Mining
    from Alternet.org: The U.S. Forest Service has decided to allow Energy Fuels Resources, Inc. to begin operating a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park. The Canyon Mine, located on the Kaibab National Forest six miles south of the park, threatens cultural values, wildlife and enda ...
  • Evidence of GMO Harm in Pig Study
    from sustainablepulse.com: A groundbreaking new study [1] shows that pigs were harmed by the consumption of feed containing genetically modified (GM) crops. GM-fed females had on average a 25% heavier uterus than non-GM-fed females, a possible indicator of disease that requires furthe ...
  • Panic Attacks and Anxiety Linked To Low Vitami ...
    from undergroundhealth.com: If you suffer from anxiety or develop occasional panic attacks marked by bouts of hyperventilation, you could merely be experiencing the side effects of an underlying nutrient deficiency that is easily correctable, says Jonathan Benson of Natural News. ...
  • Top 10 Natural Health Remedies of Coconut Oil
    from naturalblaze.com: The popularity of coconut oil has skyrocketed in the Western world over the last several years.  However, its many health benefits have been known in other regions of the world as part of their ancient history. Better late than never! Coconut oil i ...
  • Japan cancels tender to purchase U.S. GMO wheat
    from reuters.com: A strain of genetically modified wheat found in the United States fuelled concerns over food supplies across Asia on Thursday, with major importer Japan cancelling a tender offer to buy U.S. grain. Other top Asian wheat importers South Korea, China and the Philippin ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted ...
    The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit.  Outrage has been pouring in from all over the planet, and one member of the European Parliament is even comparing [...]
  • 27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government ...
    Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up?  He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world.  He says that he ...
  • The U.S. Government Has Been STEALING User Dat ...
    The U.S. government has been hacking in to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple and has been taking their user data without their knowledge or consent.  According to the Washington Post, the information being stolen includes "audio and video c ...
  • Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Wil ...
    Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States?  Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen.  Chinese acquisition of U.S. bus ...
  • 12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is Abou ...
    A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are starting to happen again.  As you read the list below, you will notice that the year "2009" comes up again and again.  There is a reason for that.  Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic downt ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • Rape and other sexual violence prevalent in ju ...
    Georgia and South Carolina are among the states with the highest rates of sexual assault of juvenile detainees, and most of the abuse involves the very staff members charged with supervising and counseling the troubled youngsters. read more
  • The 'shadow intelligence agency' behind the NS ...
    Booz Allen Hamilton employed Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on the National Security Agency's massive domestic spying program. The Virginia-based company has long had close ties to government intelligence. read more
  • How taxpayers subsidize union avoidance by Wal ...
    Taxpayers help support companies that are hostile to worker organizing through economic development subsidies and also through social safety net programs such as Medicaid and food stamps. read more
  • VOICES: From 'Mississippi Goddam' to 'Jackson ...
    Human rights advocate Chokwe Lumumba's election this week as mayor of Jackson, Miss. is the result of work by a new Black-led progressive coalition that intends to fight for power in a state too often written off as redneck Tea Party territory. read more
  • The end of the Solid South?
    The new issue of The American Prospect looks at changes unfolding in Southern politics, including a piece by Institute writers on the turbulent state of North Carolina. read more

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 30 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 ...
    And here we go again. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released almost a month ago and unlike previous releases, this has been more of a silent affair. Mainstream blogs and news websites didn't cover much about the release. Ubuntu 13.04 is mostly an incrementally updated release and th ...
  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...
  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...
  • Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
    Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | The Pasto and the Anti-Pasto ...
    By Visible It’s coming. It’s definitely on the way. We don’t know what it is or what it will look like. We don’t know much, that’s for sure. We do know more than our leaders however, at least some of us do. Some of us know that the creeps and cretins in (snicker) el ...
  • Colorado secede? Counties weigh exit plan to f ...
    By Mark Trumbull | Christian Science Monitor – Sat, Jun 8, 2013 In this photo taken May 24, 2013, a large sign posted at the entrance of Paradise Firearms in Colorado Springs, Colo., invites customers to sign a recall petition against Colorado Democratic State Senate President John Morse. I ...
  • Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Fast ...
    by Dr. Susan Berry As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject publi ...
  • Second Colorado Senator recall Election underw ...
    by Max Slowik Colorado voters in Pueblo have gathered enough signatures to start a recall vote of Democratic Sen. Angela Giron following her support of the unpopular gun laws recently passed in the state, including mandatory background check on all firearm transfers as well as magazine capacity ...
  • Boulder woman disturbed by police policy to en ...
    By Joe Rubino Camera Staff Writer Posted: 06/09/2013 03:00:00 PM MDT Boulder residents who intentionally leave their doors open, may unintentionally be inviting a Boulder police officer in for a visit. Chrissy Smiley learned this fact in surprising fashion on Thursday afternoon when she returned ...

Veterans Today

  • Illuminati Council of 13 Human Sacrifice Denve ...
    Illuminati Council of 13 Human Sacrifice Denver Colorado Amber Alert:  Warning kidnapping of new born infant between June 17-20, 2013 Bush Satanic Rituals and Human Sacrifices      Warning kidnapping of new born infant between June 17-20 2013, check all aircraft for any infants ask for birt ...
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson and the JFK Assassination
    by Robert Morrow (with Jim Fetzer)   On the night of New Year’s Eve, 31 December 1963, at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, TX, Lyndon Johnson and Madeleine Brown, a longtime mistress and the mother of his only son, Steven, had an interesting conversation. Madeleine asked LBJ if he had an ...
  • Abunimah and Atzmon at the UN
    It is far from a big shock to find that Israeli agent Hillel Neuer recruits electronic Abunimah in his bitter fight against Prof. Richard Falk, The only question that is left opened is how Ali Abunimah feels about it?
  • The Last Jew Dies
    Few people have been awarded the questionable honor of being featured by the exclusive Obituaries Section of this website.
  • VA Texas technology center accidentally delete ...
    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs accidentally deleted 464,000 electronic data files last month that contained information about home loans.

electric politics

  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Cheap Power At What Cost?
    Carbon Conversations 10 Jun 2013 - 07:30 A Panel Discussion on the Health Impacts of Alberta's Heavy Reliance on Coal-Fired Power Plants doors open 7pm, panel begins at 7:3 ...
  • Bike Month
    Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...
  • EcoLiving Tour
    EcoLiving Events 8 Jun 2013 - 09:00 - 15:00 From the EcoLiving website: This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions a ...
  • Update on the Alberta Energy Regulator
    Alberta Environmental Network 1 Jun 2013 - 10:00 - 12:00 In December 2012, the Government of Alberta passed the Responsible Energy Development Act which creates a single regulator f ...
  • Call for Comments: Proposed Ambient Air Qualit ...
    Organization:  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Initiative:  Alberta Ambient Air Quality Ob ...

Stop NATO

  • Strategic Partnership: NATO, EU Continue Milit ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization June 11, 2013 Strengthening IMS-EUMS complementarity NATO International Military Staff (IMS) and European Union Military Staff (EUMS) Directors convened today at NATO Headquarters for the first high-level military conference of 2013. This informal staff-to-staf ...
  • Jules Romains: War under modern conditions has ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jules Romains: Destruction of war itself, its deletion from the pages of history Jules Romains: Fraternization versus fratricide, the forbidden subject of peace Jules Romains: Romantic view of war played a dirty trick on the warrio ...
  • NATO Burden Sharing: 22 U.S. Nuclear Bombs Sto ...
    Agence France-Presse June 11, 2013 ‘Dutch still store US nukes’: former PM B61s THE HAGUE: The Netherlands continues to store some 22 tactical US nuclear bombs at a southern air base where they were brought during the height of the Cold War, a former Dutch prime minister has revealed. Ruud Lubbe ...
  • Top NATO Military Commander Focuses On Cyber W ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations June 10, 2013 ATTACKS FROM CYBERSPACE…NATO’S NEWEST AND POTENTIALLY BIGGEST THREAT “From the Cockpit” Phil Breedlove General, USAF Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Commander, U.S. European Command Our NATO team ...
  • Romain Rolland: Peace and war are in the hands ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From A World In Birth (L’enfantement) (1933) Translated by Amalia de Alberti When Marc began to play on the violin of European peace, Jean Casimir’s girlish tongue b ...

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Intel Hub

  • Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones
    JG Vibes | The Obama administration finally admits that their drone program has targeted US citizens.The post Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids ...
    Cassius Methyl | Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? The post Department of ...
  • JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffin ...
    author | An interesting controversy over the JFK assassination has erupted at the Huffington Post.The post JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffington Post appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump
    Cop Block | Long story short, the supervisor showed up and made the cop give me back my pump. The ambulance showed up and I went with them because I was then bleeding where the port is.The post Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can ...
    Andrew Puhanic | An exciting and new water treatment breakthrough has been announced that will now make the removal of fluoride from the drinking water supplies of the world’s poorest people more affordable than ever.The post Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can Be Used To Remove ...

FRS

  • Charting The Growth of China’s Military ...
    [A website devoted to "military education" has developed a graphic presentation on China's program to develop their military capability.  While it certainly falls short of the ability to challenge the US/NATO force, they are certainly developing into a competitive world-class power within the wo ...
  • Palestine: Female Detainees Start Hunger Strike
    Thursday June 06, 2013 — by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian female detainees, held by Israel, started an open-ended hunger strike demanding the Israeli Prison Authority to provide the needed medical treatment to detainee Heba Abu Rezeq. [Abu Rezeq was kidnapped three ...
  • The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
    At midnight all the agents and their superhuman crew go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do. – from Desolation Row, by Bob Dylan Posted on Jun 9, 2013   By Chris Hedges   FORT MEADE, Md.—The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The governmen ...
  • When they tell you “resistance is futile ...
    [During the US war on Vietnam, the collective determination and perseverance of the Vietnamese was matched by an extraordinary resourcefulness against the US occupation/war in the South.  One of the best examples of the creative response the liberation struggle made to US aggression, was the cre ...
  • When they tell you “resistance is futile ...
    [During the US war on Vietnam, the collective determination and perseverance of the Vietnamese was matched by an extraordinary resourcefulness against the US occupation/war in the South.  One of the best examples of the creative response the liberation struggle made to US aggression, was the cre ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Military Responds to Oklahoma Tornado
    The Oklahoma National Guard, joined by Air Force personnel, are on location in Moore, OK, following an EF4 tornado that struck the community yesterday. At least 250 Army and Air National Guard soldiers and airmen have been dispatched.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: May 21, 2013
  • Watching Tornadoes and Severe Weather Go Right ...
    Not everyone here in Oklahoma is sitting outside in a lawn chair, or chasing tornadoes in their cars, some of us are trying to be prepared, calm children, and be safe.Contributor: M.D. Weems Published: May 20, 2013
  • Super Cell Tornados Tearing Through Oklahoma
    Super cell tornadoes have been carving paths of destruction throughout Oklahoma since Sunday afternoon.Contributor: Marie Lowe Published: May 20, 2013
  • Congress Wants the Abrams, but the Army Says ' ...
    There’s a reason that there’s a huge bloated Pentagon budget, and it really doesn’t involve the Pentagon. It’s about Congress and the private sector pushing for products the government doesn’t want or need.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 29, 2013
  • The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
    According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • New Type Of Pulsing Star Discovered
    Scientists' current understanding of stars says these stars shouldn't vary in brightness, but they do. Astronomers have discovered a new type of pulsing star. There are 36 of the new type, located in a cluster about 7,000 light-years away from Earth. Based on their brightness and temperature, ...
  • Martian Gullies Were Formed By Gliding Boulder ...
    "I dream of snowboarding down a Martian sand dune on a block of dry ice," says Serina Diniega, the lead researcher. On the sides of some hills and mountains on Mars, there are curious features that have become known as "linear gullies." These are long troughs or grooves, up to a mile long, that ...
  • Almost An Expert: Flaming Dr Pepper
    brightcove.createExperiences(); What's a better mix than science and booze? In this episode of our new video series, Popular Science Art Director Todd Detwiler shows you how to make a flaming Dr Pepper. Plus, the weird science of phlogiston—a 17th-century theory about why things burn. &nbsp ...
  • The Energy Fix: How Geography Drives Energy De ...
    The importance of global landscapes Worldwide renewable energy production reached 66.83 quadrillion BTUs in 2010. The countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—which keeps detailed records for its 34 members [see map]—produced 16.50 quadrillion BTUs that year. Whi ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg Plans To Strengthen NYC Agains ...
    The New York City mayor's new $20 billion storm preparation plan is based on some scary data about how the city will look by the 2050s. Earlier today, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg rolled out a wide-reaching, $20 billion plan to fortify the city against the future effects of climate change, ...

Veterans Today

  • Illuminati Council of 13 Human Sacrifice Denve ...
    Illuminati Council of 13 Human Sacrifice Denver Colorado Amber Alert:  Warning kidnapping of new born infant between June 17-20, 2013 Bush Satanic Rituals and Human Sacrifices      Warning kidnapping of new born infant between June 17-20 2013, check all aircraft for any infants ask for birt ...
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson and the JFK Assassination
    by Robert Morrow (with Jim Fetzer)   On the night of New Year’s Eve, 31 December 1963, at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, TX, Lyndon Johnson and Madeleine Brown, a longtime mistress and the mother of his only son, Steven, had an interesting conversation. Madeleine asked LBJ if he had an ...
  • Abunimah and Atzmon at the UN
    It is far from a big shock to find that Israeli agent Hillel Neuer recruits electronic Abunimah in his bitter fight against Prof. Richard Falk, The only question that is left opened is how Ali Abunimah feels about it?
  • The Last Jew Dies
    Few people have been awarded the questionable honor of being featured by the exclusive Obituaries Section of this website.
  • VA Texas technology center accidentally delete ...
    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs accidentally deleted 464,000 electronic data files last month that contained information about home loans.

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Come to Where the Energy Is: Myanmar Country
    With apologies to the Philip Morris Co.'s iconic figure, let's draw some analogies here: Both Marlboro and Myanmar are not exactly the most politically correct of figures, one representing the hazards of cigarette smoking and the other decades of political oppression. That said, both are irresis ...
  • World Economic Forum in Myanmar: Isolated No More
    In the retail space, there are certain token signs of global integration: McDonalds, KFC and Starbucks. In the realm of economic summitry, there too are certain "franchises" one can have: Think of hosting IMF/World Bank meetings...or, in this case, a World Economic Forum event. What brought Myan ...
  • Why World Bank Doesn't Get 'Doing Business'
    The World Bank's Doing Business report has garnered much attention in purportedly comparing the ease of doing business in different countries. That is, how is easy is it to start up or close a business? Oftentimes, it's not only how easy it is to set up a business that determines entrepreneurshi ...
  • IMF Agrees w/Cheney: Deficits Don't Matter for US
    Here we go again: for everyone else--especially the likes of Egypt, Pakistan and so forth, deficits do matter. But for the United States which (they say) has little funding its current account deficit, it's not really a problem. In essence it's the IMF approving of American deficits as per Dick ...
  • Money Printing Plus: Japan's Other Growth Stra ...
    Everyone knows of Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's money-printing strategies for combating Japan's seemingly unconquerable deflation. However, it is but one tactic in a multi-pronged strategy to get the world's third largest economy growing again in a noticeable fashion. Tomorrow Abe unveils a raft of o ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted ...
    The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit.  Outrage has been pouring in from all over the planet, and one member of the European Parliament is even comparing [...]
  • 27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government ...
    Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up?  He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world.  He says that he ...
  • The U.S. Government Has Been STEALING User Dat ...
    The U.S. government has been hacking in to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple and has been taking their user data without their knowledge or consent.  According to the Washington Post, the information being stolen includes "audio and video c ...
  • Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Wil ...
    Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States?  Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen.  Chinese acquisition of U.S. bus ...
  • 12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is Abou ...
    A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are starting to happen again.  As you read the list below, you will notice that the year "2009" comes up again and again.  There is a reason for that.  Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic downt ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...

WL Central

  • 2013-06-04 Assange Statement on the First Day ...
    As I type these lines, on July 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun. re ...
  • 2013-06-03 Nearly 2,000 rally for Bradley Mann ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: June 1, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org Nearly two thousand rally for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade Nearly two thousand supporters of US Army PFC Bradley Manning rallied and marched on Fort M ...
  • 2013-06-01 Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press ...
    Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press Release Saturday - June 1, 2013 10:30 PM ET USA Greetings World -- We are Anonymous. And we have watched for days with horror as our brothers and sisters in Turkey who are peacefully rising up against their tyrannical government have been brutalized, beaten, r ...
  • 2013-05-31 June 1: Mass Protest for Bradley Ma ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: May 31, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org June 1: mass protest for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade, MD read more
  • 2013-05-14 Statement of Lisa L Williams on Bra ...
    "News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee", wrote Glenn Greenwald. "When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, ...

U N News

  • Haiti: UN warns 1.5 million people face severe ...
    The United Nations food relief agency said it remained extremely concerned by the plight of 1.5 million people in Haiti who need food assistance, following extreme weather conditions and poor harvests.
  • Haiti: Senior UN official gravely concerned' b ...
    Following the razing of a temporary camp sight in Haiti, a senior United Nations official today expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake.
  • Independent UN rights expert urges more clarit ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today wrapped up his visit to Washington, DC by calling for more clarity on aspects of President Barack Obama's speech last month on United States counter-terrorism policy, particularly on the use of drones.
  • Ban congratulates Ambassador Rice on being nam ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on her appointment as National Security Adviser to her country.
  • UN experts urge El Salvador to reconsider abor ...
    A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of El Salvador to reconsider its abortion legislation, following a ruling by the Supreme Court which denied the procedure to a seriously ill woman.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

  • Gila Resources Information Project – Job Annou ...
    Program Associate 30 hours/week Applications Due June 21, 2013 This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic environmental organization and help promote Gila River conservation, water quality protection, and environmental sustainability in southwestern New Mexico.  The Gila Resources In ...
  • How Ranching Broke the West – Around the Campf ...
    I call the twenty or thirty years after the Civil War the “Killing Decades” as the American slaughter of wild things reached its peak then.  Market hunting, mining, logging, and railroading all helped lay the groundwork for the coming of ranching.  Cattle and sheep were the last straw in the dom ...
  • One Vision of Ecological Justice
    By David Skrbina On present estimates, we humans share the Earth with some 8 million other animal species, and some 1 million plant species.  Yet we Homo sapiens—a single species—dominate the ecological basis of this planet.  We use, by some accounts, about 40% of the global “net primary product ...
  • Settlement Reached In Wolf Legal Fight
    Conservationists help craft balanced plan; includes stronger legal standards, improved livestock husbandry, greater public accountability. Salem, Oregon  –  After seventeen months of grueling negotiations, conservationists, Governor John Kitzhaber, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODF ...
  • Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Reef Defense C ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense, a global campaign to end the destruction of coral reefs and the many threats they face worldwide. Coral reefs represent some of the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems providing critical habita ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Obama Hints At Leaving Office Before His Term ...
    Everybody knows that President Obama, having 'won reelection' in November and having been sworn into office again on January, has three-and-a-half years left to serve as 'President' of the United States. Everyone that is, except Obama... read more
  • Obama Told Senior UN Official... “The United S ...
    On the surface, the fact that the U.S. Commerce Department is considering granting "disadvantaged minority" business status to Arab Americans doesn't appear to elicit a cause for alarm. ~ Avi Lipkin - Videos read more
  • Obama Will Ignore Senate and Sign U.N. Gun Tre ...
    A majority in the U.S. Senate has told President Barack Obama not to do it. There’s no doubt that an overwhelming majority of Americans would oppose it... if the media ever told them about it. ~ Chip Wood read more
  • Who's at Bilderberg???... Former Ohio Congress ...
    Jim Traficant and American Free Press are at Bilderberg! ~  Audios read more
  • Growing List of Sheriffs, Associations and Pol ...
    The following sheriffs, state sheriff’s associations, and police chiefs have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unconstitutional gun control measures.  We applaud these public servants for their courage and conviction. ~ List - Video  read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • The Mindset Of A Whistle-blower
    While Edward Snowden (NSA surveillance whistle-blower) has suddenly disappeared from his last known location in Hong Kong, you may be wondering what kind of person is a whistle-blower…   You may think that a whistle-blower is of a rebellious personality, someone who is standing up aga ...
  • Another Scandal: State Department Cover Up
    It just doesn’t stop… another scandal… the US rule of law is suffering ‘calamitous collapse’… Inspector General Investigator, Aurelia Fedensin, regarding being shut down… “We were very upset…we expect to see ‘influence’…but ...
  • NSA WHISTLEBLOWER COMES FORWARD
    The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history… “I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good… The NSA routinely lies in response to Congressional inquiries about scope of surveillance in America. The NSA is intent o ...
  • What Is PRISM?
    PRISM was launched in December 2007. The Washington Post and the London-based Guardian have reported the National Security Agency and the FBI are siphoning personal data from the main computer servers of nine major U.S. Internet firms. Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Skype, YouTu ...
  • Current Regime Meltdown…
    The current regime of the American executive branch of government is in meltdown… …whose big government and big brother approach is being increasingly questioned by Americans; and also, shockingly, by the liberal-dominated mainstream media…   It may be understated to say t ...

Fast Company

  • A Global Invention Lab With One Goal: Stop Cli ...
    The Ocean Invention Network is a trying to invent our way out of planetary catastrophe. Climate change, as British economist Sir Nicholas Stern says, is perhaps the largest market failure in human history. "The benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs," says th ...
  • What Will We Look Like In 100,000 Years? Animé ...
    Artist Nickolay Lamm and scientist Alan Kwan team up to see what humans will look like in the future. Science-fiction has a knack for predicting the future. Speculative weapons from swipe-based interfaces to unmanned aircraft were long sci-fi hallmarks before they became ubiquitous technol ...
  • A Designer Overhauls The NSA’s Atrocious Power ...
    Slideshow expert Emiland De Cubber transforms the NSA’s clunky Prism deck with minimalist cool. When news of the NSA’s classified Prism program broke last week, revealing that the U.S. government had ordered the collection of all Americans’ online activities, many cried f ...
  • The Kind Of App Experiment You’d Only Find In NYC
    As the technology scene grows in cities like NYC and L.A., we’re going to see all kinds of experiments that solve those cities’ most acute problems--but which also have much wider implications. Life in New York can be a lot like the life of one of those trees that attempts to g ...
  • The Kind Of App Experiment You’d Only Find In NYC
    Life in New York can be a lot like the life of one of those trees that attempts to grow into a cliff. Unlike the Bay Area, with its downy-soft incubators, people here invent a lot of things based purely on creative desperation. One such early-stage web experiment is this: “Help Jeremy Find ...

Jadaliyya

  • Ministry of Culture or Ministry of Intellectuals?
    Since the new minister of culture, Alaa Abdel-Aziz, took up his post, conversations about the attitude he has adopted to prove himself have not ceased within Egypt's cultural scene. The minister commenced his work in the ministry with a series of decisions to sack leading ministry figures, star ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (June 3-9)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles, and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  The Right to the City Movem ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (June 11)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Occupy Gezi: A Roundtable Discussion and Podcast
    The world’s eyes are currently on Istanbul. As protests spread throughout Turkey, media outlets are scrambling to convey some type of picture of what is taking place to an eager audience that often lacks the proper context and background knowledge to make sense of the events. Meanwhile, commenta ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (June 10)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

  • CNN Pitches Sponsors Seeking Younger Viewers ( ...
    Brian Steinberg / Variety: CNN Pitches Sponsors Seeking Younger Viewers  —  Cable-news outlet uses new ayem show, travel series to pick up ads  —  When it comes to advertising, CNN isn't exactly acting its age.  —  The Time Warner news cabler has ...
  • A Reality TV Show, Minus the TV (Ben Fritz/Wal ...
    Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: A Reality TV Show, Minus the TV  —  ‘Summer Break’ Follows Nine Teenagers, but Only Through Social Media Like Twitter, Instagram  —  LOS ANGELES—Two teenage boys sit by the airport here, competing to use their ph ...
  • New York Times brings magazine experience to t ...
    Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk: New York Times brings magazine experience to the web  —  The New York Times Magazine has been re-imagined for the web, built with HTML5 technologies and following a responsive design  —  Copyright: By adKinn on Flickr.  Some ...
  • Netflix to launch user profiles later this sum ...
    Jason Gilbert / Yahoo! News: Netflix to launch user profiles later this summer  —  LOS ANGELES — Sharing your Netflix account with a friend or lover who has dramatically different taste in movies than you do?  Soon, there will be no need to worry about getting your Ne ...
  • Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart Ne ...
    Bloomberg: Time Warner Cable Content Incentives Thwart New Web TV  —  Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and other pay-TV operators are offering incentives to media companies that agree to withhold content from Web-based entertainment services such as those pursued by Intel Corp. (INT ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • FocusAsia lures deep-sea methylene chlori ...
    By Heng Hui SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Asia looks set to attract more deep-sea flows of methylene chloride, as demand in the region is relatively stable compared with declining consumption in Europe and the US, raising concerns of a possible supply glut, market sources said on Wednesday. Methylene ...
  • Economists cut growth forecasts for Singa ...
    SINGAPORE, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Private sector economists and analysts expected the Singapore economy to grow by 2.3 percent this year, according to the results of a survey released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on...
  • World Cup tourists face rude shock in pri ...
    Warning for football fans ... visitors to Rio de Janeiro for next year's World Cup could be in for a rude shock when they discover how expensive the city is. Photo: Getty Images Tourists planning to flock to Brazil for the World Cup a year from now should brace for some of the world's highes ...
  • Gulf Shi'ites fear rising sectarian rheto ...
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Shi'ite Muslims in the Gulf, alarmed by the shrill sectarian rhetoric of some Sunni clerics after Lebanon's Hezbollah militia entered Syria's civil war, fear they will be blamed and may be victimized for the bloodshed. "Hate language is on the rise, in the press, on social ...
  • Asian markets down on concern about Japan ...
    BEIJING -- Asian stocks fell Wednesday amid concern about a lack of new Japanese moves to calm bond markets and uncertainty about the outlook for U.S. monetary policy. Oil prices fell to below $95 per barrel amid concern central bankers around the world might ease off measures to boost the g ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/7/13 - New study shows students who discuss/ ...
    www.procon.org - – New study shows students who discuss/debate controversial issues get higher NAEP test scores – See this and other studies proving the importance of teaching controversial issues to stimulate critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship.
  • 6/6/13 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Should gay marriage be legal? – Read our updated pro and con arguments in this popular debate.
  • 5/30/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer ...
    vaccines.procon.org - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information – Read the vaccine ingredients and the products used in making 31 commonly recommended vaccines including some controversial items such as Cocker Spaniel cells, human embryonic lung cells, and mouse brains.
  • 5/24/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets ...
    tablets-textbooks.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools?- Read pro and con arguments from former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski (pro), Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tuft ...
  • 5/22/13 - UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline 1970-2013 – Gay marriage became legal in New Zealand on Apr. 19, 2013, in Uruguay on May 3, 2013, and, most recently, in France on May 18, 2013.  14 countries now permit same-sex couples to marry.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Interview: How Detergent Became A Catalyst for ...
    Adam Lowry is the co-founder and “chief greenskeeper” of Method, a small but rapidly growing company that has been a leader in the field of manufacturing Adam Lowry environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products. Indeed, it was Method that pioneered the use of concentrated ...
  • Growing Number of Pests Developing Resistance ...
    An increasing number of pest species are developing resistance to crops genetically engineered to be toxic to insects, according to new research. In an analysis of 77 studies conducted in eight countries, a team of U.S. and French scientists found that five of 13 major pest species had become re ...
  • Carbon Emissions Increased 1.4 Percent in 2012 ...
    Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1.4 percent in 2012, a pace that could lead to a temperature increase of as much as 5.3 degrees C (9 degrees F) over pre-industrial times, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest World Energy Outlook. Despite s ...
  • Green Highways: New Strategies To Manage Roads ...
    From northern Europe to Florida, highway planners are rethinking roadsides as potential habitat for native plants and wildlife. Scientists say this new approach could provide a useful tool in fostering biodiversity. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • New Map of Antarctica Provides Clearest Glimps ...
    British scientists have unveiled the most detailed topographical map available yet of Antarctica, a vast dataset that provides a penetrating 3-D view of the Click to enlarge NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Antarctica's subglacial terrain frozen continent down to the bedrock level and c ...

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Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • The collector who saw the fine print
    The Nezu Museum is currently showing "Ceramics and Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Hagi Uragami Museum," an exhibition of outstanding artworks collected over the years by ...
  • Observing the present and past is to see into ...
    For the past 48 years, Daido Moriyama has followed his photographic instinct, drawn to subjects whose characters appear as vibrant as they are tragic while ...
  • Japanese U.N. diplomat’s shouts of ‘shut up’ t ...
    Japan's human rights envoy to the United Nations faced calls to quit Wednesday over a video that showed him shouting at fellow diplomats to "shut ...
  • Kanazawa artists play with genres
    It's 11 p.m. and Kanazawa venue Puddle is packed. The space is a two-room, wood-furnished cafe/bar in the city's Katamachi neighborhood. There's a mediocre jam ...
  • Stand down on pre-emption
    Allowing Japan's Self-Defense Forces to develop the capabilities to attack military bases in enemy territory risks egging on an arms race in Northeast Asia.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    In our previous blog post, we took a look at 5 proposals from a feature entitled “A better life without growth” in the French magazine Alternatives économiques aimed at decreasing individual expenses in order to discourage the quest for monetary accumulation. We continue this series by presentin ...
  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very ...
  • Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state ...
    France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates w ...
  • On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour ...
    The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months ...
  • New mining royalties: much ado about nothing
    On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit based and ad valorem royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the go ...

ReDress

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Winners in harsh battle for Klamath River wate ...
    “Some southern Oregon ranchers will have to reduce or completely shut down irrigation in the parched Upper Klamath Basin this summer as a result of a historic assertion of water rights by other users in the region. On Monday, several groups, including the Klamath Tribes and irrigators in t ...
  • Zimbabwe: Making a Business Out of Water Rationing
    “For 61-year-old Sarah Chikwanha from water-starved Chitungwiza, a town about 25 kilometres outside Harare, Zimbabwe, there is no choice. She must buy her water from illegal water traders, whose businesses have sprung up across the country. “We only have water once weekly in Chitungw ...
  • Experts Urge Focus on Aquifers in Push for Wat ...
    “As Texas lawmakers say farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are hurting because Mexico is not honoring a treaty on surface water delivery, experts caution that greater attention should be paid to water deep below the surface. At least 20 aquifers stretch across the United States-Mexico border ...
  • Leading the way to water conservation, one sch ...
    “All water conservation efforts depend on public awareness and an understanding of the need for conservation. Promoting reductions of water misuse, waste and loss are considered to be the most economical and environmentally-protective management tools for meeting water supply challenges to ...
  • When You Waste Food, You’re Wasting Tons ...
    “According to a new report by the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank, inside the 1.3 billion tons of food wasted every year worldwide is 45 trillion gallons of water. This represents a staggering 24 percent of all water used for agriculture. And agriculture is already t ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • MISSING
      …MISSING… In virtually every water discussion one link in the chain and one piece to the puzzle are missing.   And in each case, it is the same piece.   The missing piece is the one which in almost every instance is left feeling the repercussions of unintended conseque ...
  • while leaving to the whims of America’s ...
    …Very revealing as this letter to the editor only suggests placing limits … restrictions … on the amount of funds a student can borrow … while leaving to the whims of America’s capitalistic “free-market” system the actions of the bank$ters and their privately owned FED… Filed under: Blogroll Tag ...
  • and hey … we’ll obediently comply
    …Funding Child Protective Services is NOT anything Arizona’s corporate leaders find worthwhile to immediately propping up their bottom line so it’s highly doubtful they will permit those dancing at the end of their puppet-$ring$ to spend tax payer $$$ on such an unattractive venture … and hey … ...
  • that’s really not what our elected offic ...
    …Hello… second bill of rights … what are you saying … Arizona does NOT appear to know … let alone honor the first bill of rights … …But then for Arizona citizen to know requires us to educate them and that’s really not what our elected officials want… …They prefer to govern as they have […]
  • When is enough … enough …!
    …How can we allow this type of action to be perpetuated…?   … When is enough … enough …! Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Cook's 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Introduction to TCP" (2012-01-19) John Cook layed out the game plan for the 97% consensus study, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on ...
  • The Statistical Destruction of the 97% Consensus
    Dr. Richard Tol has been tweeting a statistical destruction of the "97% consensus" study, Cook et al. (2013) by educating co-author Dana Nuccitelli as to why his "sample" is not representative. "In his defense, [Dana] has had limited exposure to stats at uni" - Richard Tol Including "glob ...
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  • 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Paper ...
    The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These res ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, env ...
    In a patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, a 28-year-old in a jeans and tall rubber boots snubs out out his cigarette and pulls a headlamp over his short black hair. Standing under a tarp, he flicks the light on and leans over the entrance of a narrow shaft lined with wooden planks that he an ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...
  • New global network bridges gap for primate con ...
    Drawing from her personal experience as a primate educator and the challenges she saw others facing, Amy Clanin envisioned a network that would advance the field of primate conservation education by addressing three needs of educators: connections, resources, and services. It was this vision tha ...
  • A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives ...
    On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of ...
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Science - NZ Herald

  • Simple maths holds key to climate threat
    A so-called "rockstar" climate change campaigner says he is hopeful - but not confident - that the world can avert a catastrophic global warming scenario.Prominent United States environmentalist and author Bill McKibben is visiting...
  • Swarm of bees sheltered in Serbian surgery wing
    A swarm of runaway bees who have found shelter in a ventilation air hole forced a Belgrade hospital to evacuate all the patients and staff from a now-shuttered surgery wing, Serbian state television reported."It was a real emergency,...
  • Rhys Darby: Bring in the Pied Piper of Mars to ...
    Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity finally caused some real curiosity last week with a photo of what appeared to be a "rat" on Mars. The photo is one of many thousands that are churned out showing the red planet's landscape at regular intervals....
  • Sample lab raises the bar
    A pathology service has become the first in New Zealand to use a a high-tech barcode tracking system to help eliminate the risk of laboratory botch-ups.Mistakes with specimens have had catastrophic consequences and last year health...
  • Identical twins' genes tell diverse tales
    Barbara Oliver has had an intriguing relationship with her identical twin sister, Christine, over the decades. Throughout their childhoods they were treated as two versions of the one person: they were dressed the same and given the...

The Bovine

  • “New Studies Confirm: Raw Milk A Low-Ris ...
    From the Wall Street Journal: “Washington DC, June 11, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Three quantitative microbial risk assessments (QMRAs) recently published in the Journal of Food Protection have demonstrated that unpasteurized milk is a low-risk food, contrary to previous, inappropriatel ...
  • The Gene Revolution with Dr. Thierry Vrain; GM ...
    by Raoul Bedi, BASc A: Introduction Building on the theme of collaboration and synergy, in the work of food security,  anti-GMO awareness and public education, through the examples of interviews (Vandana Shiva May 1, 2013), writings (Dr. Thierry Vrain’s May … Continue reading →
  • Nadine Ijaz’s presentation on raw milk m ...
    From Nadine Ijaz: I am pleased to announce that my May 16, 2013 Grand Rounds presentation at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC), where I examined scientific evidence around raw milk safety and benefits, has now been posted at BC … Continue reading →
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    Ontario raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt and BC raw milk pioneer Gordon Watson were found guilty today, on charges of contempt, by Mr. Justice Wong of the B.C. Supreme Court. The charges relate to an order dating from March 18, … Continue reading →
  • Wisconsin prosecutors still want to send Amish ...
    From Kimberly Hartke at the Weston A Price Foundation: Baraboo, Wisconsin—June 3, 2013 —Less than a week after the jury acquitted him of three criminal charges, Eric Defort and Phillip Ferris, attorneys for the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), move … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Fierce Selloff in Emerging Market Currencies; ...
    I's hard not to laugh at the irony of recent central bank currency actions. After complaining for years about the strength of the Real, the Brazilian central bank stepped up intervention actions hoping to stop a plunge in the currency. Turkey now attempts to attract capital after taking ...
  • Mortgage Refis Plunge Following 76 Basis Point ...
    Curve Watchers Anonymous has been watching the rise in interest rates across much of the yield curve. Yield Curve as of 2013-06-11 click on chart for sharper image As one should suspect, mortgage rates have been rising in conjunction with the rise in treasury rates. Here is ...
  • German Constitutional Court to Rule Whether EC ...
    The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, heard arguments on Tuesday on whether ECB measures to contain the eurozone crisis violate German law. The court does not have the power to block the ECB, but it does have the power to restrict German participation in various funding schemes. ...
  • Australian Dollar Plunges as Home Loans Dive; ...
    Curve Watchers Anonymous has its eye on the Australian dollar. As expected, it has taken a big dive in conjunction with a housing bust and a slowdown in China that impacts the demand for commodities. click on chart for sharper image The only thing surprising to me about this plun ...
  • Fear of Missing Out Sparks Covenant Light Lend ...
    With the Fed forcing interest rates low, commercial and industrial lending has picked up. That may sound like a good thing, but is it? I suggest it's not. Competition is such that "covenant light" lending has returned in full force. "Cov-lite is financial jargon for loan agreements which d ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 11, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Pardon Me for Taking Offense with Your ‘Pardon ...
    Do Not Mix Up Criminals with Whistleblowers Someone had the gall to send me this pathetically misguided, ignorant, and demeaning petition requesting a Governmental Pardon for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. I say pathetic because I believe this was a genuine attempt to support this courageous ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- NSA Spying: False Hope v ...
    Make a Statement Today & Support a Real Independent Alternative In this very special edition of The Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener Video Report, James introduces new members of the irate minority to the problem, as well as the false hopes (and real solutions) that are available to address tha ...
  • Another Phony Jobs Report From A Government Th ...
    “Washington’s claim that Americans have “freedom and democracy” is the sickest joke in human history.” June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the fantasy. Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000 jobs, but the New Economy produced 179 ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 10, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

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Press TV

  • UK letting agency fees rip off tenants
    Leading housing charity Shelter has begun a campaign to try and stop letting agency fees in the UK, which are costing renters hundreds of pounds just to set up a tenancy.
  • Greece unions, parties call for strike
    Main trade unions and political parties in Greece have called for a general strike in protest to the shutdown of the state television and radio broadcaster, ERT.
  • Steadfastness tops Rezaei foreign policy
    Presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei says upholding the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution will top his administration’s foreign policy if he wins the June 14 election.
  • UK govt. fails exposed child immigrants
    British MPs have lashed out at the coalition government for its harsh attack on immigration, and for failing vulnerable child asylum-seekers in particular.
  • Canada government spies on its people
    The Canadian government has been spying on its people by monitoring their telephone records and Internet data,Press TV reports.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Skimming through the Sun's atmosphere
    The surface of the Sun is an incredibly violent place that it is difficult for theorists to model or for experimentalists to reproduce on Earth. However, a paper in Science this week by Cooper Downs a...
  • Planet caught in the act of forming
    For as long as people have been looking at the night sky, they have been wondering where our Earth came from, and by what processes it formed. A paper published in Science this week by Neenka van der ...
  • What's in a name?
    Parents are subconsciously selecting names that linguistically portray their children as, in the case of boys, bigger and stronger, or, in the case of girls, more feminine and petite. That's the co...
  • Nuclear bombs mark newborn neurons
    Radioactivity released into the air by Cold War nuclear tests has enabled Swedish scientists to probe how adult brains produce new nerve cells and whether they survive for any length of time. The di...
  • Misdiagnosed manganism near Mount Etna?
    Scientists in Italy have found that the surfaces of lava stones from Mount Etna, in Sicily, may be leaching manganese into the environment. Almost 1.5 million people are supplied with water from Etn...

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