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Scoop - NZ

  • Bipartisan US Opposition to Syrian War Increases
    .. a June 1st NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found: The American public is extremely hesitant to intervene directly in Syria’s civil war. Asked to pick a response to stop the killing of civilians in Syria, just 15 percent in the poll say they favor U.S. military action, and only 11 percent w ...
  • Ashcroft: UK Conservatives fall further behind ..
    The ten-point Labour lead is familiar, though 37% is not much of a score for an opposition party expecting to sweep to power in 23 months’ time. Indeed UKIP is the only party with momentum on its side, with more voters saying they are moving towards it than away from it. Perceptions of the Con ...
  • Austerity: Death by Zip Code
    Everything else being equal, it turns out that “Zip code is the leading determinant of our health and life expectancy” says Basu. Which is why austerity (cutting services, shrinking care) isn’t just bad for our economy (because it swells layoffs and shrinks spending) it’s also dangerous to human ...
  • Sickness, Work, "Presenteeism", Aylward
    Presenteeism, apparently, is the culture of working ridiculously long hours and not taking time off when sick. According to Professor Aylward, presenteeism costs the country ten times more than sickness absence. The learned Professor, who has spent many years telling people that the best cure ...
  • Scottish referendum might affect Australasian ...
    The people of Scotland will go to the polls in September next year to determine whether the country should achieve independence from the United Kingdom. As the blue in the Union Jack represents the Scottish national flag (the Saltire, or flag of St Andrew), there has already been debate in Br ...

Independent - London

  • Mandela has made 'sustained improvement', but ...
    There has been sustained improvement in the condition of Nelson Mandela from the recurring lung infection that is forcing him to spend a ninth day in hospital, South Africa's president said today.Related StoriesNelson Mandela 'continuing to improve' in Pretoria hospital    
  • Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupa ...
    For about a year-and-a-half I lived the reality of Occupation. Like other male and female soldiers serving in the Occupied Territories, I learned soon enough the kind of conduct acceptable and expected of me as a combatant in this reality. I learned to do the job assigned to me – controlling Pa ...
  • Cameron and Putin to discuss Syria crisis ahea ...
    David Cameron will today meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks on the Syrian crisis amid fears that differences between Moscow and the West are pushing the two sides towards a new Cold War. Related StoriesSyria's red line: After months of talk, the West may finally be forced to actWest ...
  • North Korea calls for 'senior-level' talk with ...
    North Korea's top ruling committee has proposed "senior-level" talks with the United States, less than a week after cancelling talks with South Korea the day after they were planned.Related StoriesPakistan: Hospital siege follows Quetta bus bombing which killed 11 female studentsPakistan: Gunme ...
  • Riot police forcefully remove Gezi Park occupa ...
    Protesters erected barricades whilst plumes of tear gas rose and rubber bullets fell in Istanbul's streets, continuing into the early hours of Sunday morning as Turkish police forcefully removed occupants of the park, just two hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued his ultimatum ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • James Holmes' lawyers enter insanity plea; her ...
    "What do you do for a living?" "I slap fictitious disease labels on people and poison their brains." "Sounds good. We want you to examine a defendant and determine whether he was morally competent on a specific night a year ago." "Piece of cake." That's what we're dealing with now in the Bat ...
  • Riot police attack protesters in Taksim Square
    The Turkish riot police have attacked anti-government protesters in Istanbul's flashpoint Taksim Square, shortly after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the demonstrators to evacuate the area. The forces stormed the protest camp in Gezi Park on Saturday, firing tear gas and using w ...
  • One World Police State: EU-US merger comes clo ...
    Talks on a landmark US-EU trade deal have been given the green light after EU trade ministers agreed on the bloc's negotiating mandate on Friday night (14 June). The agreement, which was reached after more than 12 hours of talks in Luxembourg, paves the way for EU leaders and US President Barac ...
  • Google launches giant balloon powered internet ...
    Google launches giant balloons over New Zealand's south Island, carrying computer equipment that can create a high-speed internet infrastructure. Codenamed 'project loon', the helium filled balloons carry antennae, computers, batteries and navigational equipment, collecting power from solar pan ...
  • Massive fire near downtown Indianapolis forces ...
    A fire engulfed a sprawling mixed-use building near downtown Indianapolis filled with tires and wooden pallets Saturday, producing a towering pillar of black smoke that prompted the evacuation of a five-block area surrounding the structure, authorities said. Capt. Rita Burris of the Indianapoli ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Women in space . . .
    FIFTY YEARS NOW, women have been in space, starting with Valentina Tereshkova, who went to orbit on June 16, 1963. You can find out all about it at io9. And there are places on the planet where women aren't allowed to drive?
  • Bradley vs the Beast . . .
    THE AMERICAN STATE has become a mutant, vicious beast, beyond its own laws. Julian Assange posted a letter on Wikileaks, commenting about the persecution of Bradley Manning: Statement by Julian Assange As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Brad ...
  • By George . . .
    THE ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE seems to be with us, as we regard the "processing" of Bradley Manning, the hounding of Julian Assange and now Edward Snowden. There's good news, bad news and really bad news. The good news is, eventually the Fourth Reich will be overthrown. The bad news is, Hol ...
  • Schadenfreude super-size me . . .
    SCHADENFREUDE INDEED: “My fellow Canadians, we have all just witnessed a sad spectacle, a prime minister so burdened with corruption in his own party that he is unable to do his job and lead the country, a party leader playing for time, begging for another chance. This is not how a prime ...
  • Glad I don't live there . . .
    A CAR-JACKING in Venezuela. Citizens 1 Carjackers 0, it seems.  Violent, to be sure, but perhaps this might help see how the NRA and Tea Party types regard owning guns and the right of self-defense. Where they live, you see, sooner, rather than later, you'll probably need one.

Media Matters for America

  • How The NRA Hinders The ATF Director Confirmat ...
    The agency responsible for the enforcement of federal gun laws, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has not had a permanent director since 2006 largely due to obstruction from the National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress. Today, a Senate hearing ...
  • Myths & Facts About Contraceptive Access
    Right-wing media have perpetuated myths about the implications of widespread contraceptive use in response to the legal debate and resultant decision to increase access to the morning-after contraceptive pill. Such misinformation has been found to increase risky contraceptive behaviors.Justice D ...
  • Fox Uses Flawed Data To Continue Campaign Agai ...
    Fox News used a flawed study to falsely claim that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase health insurance market premiums by 88 percent in the state of Ohio, ignoring the counter effect of the premium tax credit subsidy and deceptively suggesting that premium increases will affect the stat ...
  • REPORT: Swept Up In "Scandal," Network Sunday ...
    In recent weeks, Sunday morning network news programs have virtually ignored economic issues, instead devoting hours of coverage to the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya; improper targeting of conservative nonprofits by the Internal Revenue Service; controversial ...
  • Right-Wing Media Plead With Rubio To "Walk Awa ...
    Right-wing media have urged Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) to abandon comprehensive immigration reform efforts in their continued effort to thwart the Senate's attempt to overhaul the nation's immigration system.Senate Debate On Immigration Reform Bill Begins Washington Post: Senate Opened Floor De ...

Global Research.ca

  • Nigeria: Candidate for Political Destabilizati ...
    It is worth reminding, if such reminder is at all necessary, how even in the contemporary circumstances of an omnipresent international security system represented by the United Nations which promotes the ideals of mutual security and co-existence, the conduct of…
  • Deleted Daily Mail Online Article: “US B ...
    In January 29, 2013, Britain’s most popular Daily Newspaper, in its online version Dailymail.co.uk published an article titled: U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’ A few days later they pulled…
  • The Protest Movement against the TransCanada K ...
    by Steve Horn Vague language also ensnares journalists, researchers and academics Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline – has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in…
  • My Creeping Concern that the NSA Leaker Edward ...
    I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more…
  • A Free, Quick and Easy Way to Protest Governme ...
    While it’s obvious to everyone that the government is spying on virtually all of the digital communications of Americans – phone, email, Internet, credit card, etc. – the government is pretending that it only spies on foreigners and collecting our …

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Police Trained to Treat Keystone XL Protesters ...
    Peaceful environmental protesters framed as criminals? Guess who’s scared of people power… It’s often difficult to gauge just how much fear activists instill in the powers that be. But on Wednesday, environmental activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline saw firsthand ...
  • Police Trained to Treat Keystone XL Protesters ...
    Peaceful environmental protesters framed as criminals? Guess who’s scared of people power… It’s often difficult to gauge just how much fear activists instill in the powers that be. But on Wednesday, environmental activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline saw firsthand ...
  • Police Trained to Treat Keystone XL Protesters ...
    Peaceful environmental protesters framed as criminals? Guess who’s scared of people power… It’s often difficult to gauge just how much fear activists instill in the powers that be. But on Wednesday, environmental activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline saw firsthand ...
  • Can Utah's Beautiful Wildlands Survive an Ener ...
    A town known for its astounding natural beauty is in the cross hairs of energy developers. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. You can follow the trip on Facebook or ...
  • Can Moab and Utah's Wildlands Survive the Next ...
    A town known for its astounding natural beauty is also at the epicenter of energy development. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. You can follow the trip on Facebook ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Public Citizen bemoans Perry’s veto of Texas E ...
    Texas’ governor is at it again.  Just 15 minutes ago, dozen’s of bills went down in flames under the governor’s veto pen.  This included a bill essential to providing more efficient enforcement of ethics violations in the Texas political process: the Ethics Commission sunset bi ...
  • US Wildfire Season Upon Us Again
    Fire season started early in California this year because the winter rains that usually tide this area over until July or August, barely materialized. Last year, the focus was on wildfires in Colorado and New Mexico. In 2011, Texas was a hotbed of drought and wildfire.  Now, all signs point to a ...
  • San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: A harbinger ...
    On Friday, Southern California Edison (SCE) announced that they will retire Units 2 and 3 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), essentially closing the troubled nuclear power plant which is located between San Diego and Los Angeles. SONGS, which has been in operation for 45 years ...
  • San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: A harbinger ...
    Earlier today, Southern California Edison (SCE) announced that they will retire Units 2 and 3 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), essentially closing the troubled nuclear power plant which is located between San Diego and Los Angeles. SONGS, which has been in operation for 45 y ...
  • Hotter Summers, More Intense Storms and More H ...
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns climate change means we should continue to expect hotter summers and more intense storms that could knock power out for days — and kill people. According to an article by NBC news, data on heat-related deaths suggest that public health o ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Via Campesina Youth View Staying on the Land a ...
    via_campesina_-_youth.jpg Our Palestinian partners frequently tell us: “To stay – and, frankly, to exist – is to resist.” I heard this same message during the 3rd International Youth Assembly of La Via Campesina (LVC). In a world ...
  • Role of Women Strengthened in Global Peasant R ...
    Subheadline:  Via Campesina's Women's Assembly concludes in Jakarta, Indonesia Image:  via_campesina-6th_international_conference.jpg read more
  • Report from the Women's Assembly of the Via Ca ...
    via_campesina-womens_assembly_poster.jpg This June, I traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia for the Via Campesina’s – a Grassroots partner – 6th International Congress. The Via’s International Women’s Commission kicked off the Congress by organizi ...
  • Global March Against Monsanto
    mam_photo.jpg On May 25 activists, farmers and consumers in 52 countries and 436 cities around the world united to March Against Monsanto. The grassroots Facebook campaign was started by Tami Monroe Canal who wanted to protect her two daugh ...
  • From Food Security to Food Sovereignty
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  San Francisco native Antonio Roman-Alcalá has been irrationally dedicated to urban sustainability since he decided that there wasn't enough "land" for all dropouts to go "back to". ...

Climate

  • Canada's Tar Sands Companies Fail to Clean Up ...
    (Guardian) None of the companies operating in Canada's tar sands have met a commitment to clean up the vast and expanding sprawl of toxic wasteponds, an official report has found. The report, from Alberta's Energy Resources ...
  • Tar Sands Activists in Commons Protest Against ...
    (Guardian) Three environmental activists demonstrating during a visit to parliament by the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, have been arrested, say police. Environmental campaigners against tar sands, a form of fuel that produ ...
  • Exxon CEO Advocates for Natural Gas Exports
    (Reuters) Delays in approval of more natural gasexport projects are costing U.S. companies millions of dollars a day and giving a leg up to rival countries also looking to boost exports, the chief of Exxon Mobil Corp said on Thurs ...
  • For Energy Chief Moniz, the Honeymoon is Not Over
    (The Hill) STATE OF PLAY: There’s plenty of time for new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to fall out of favor with top Republicans. But after his first Capitol Hill hearing as secretary, Moniz drew praise from a senior GOP lawmaker who ...
  • DOE's Crusade Against Leaks of a Potent Greenh ...
    (New York Times) Every year, the United States Department of Energy’s far-flung operations generate millions of tons of climate-warming greenhouse gases. By tightening valves, replacing worn gaskets and such, Josh Silverman and the dep ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Even if she tried, she couldn't make John McCain look more stupid for selecting her as his running mate. John McCain wants to punch Ted Cruz in the neck. Discuss
  • We're Wired to Care
    When my son was born three and a half years ago, he looked like he had just gone 15 rounds with Joe Frazier. He was beat up. He had red welts on his face. But I couldn't see it. Every time I took a picture of him, I was amazed at how the picture had all these imperfections that I hadn't seen ...
  • A Positive-Looking Election in Iran
    The Iranian elections seem to have provided a welcome shock. Hassan Rohani appears to have won the majority of the votes outright on the first ballot, meaning that there may be no need for a run-off. If that lead holds, the hardliners will have lost the presidential election. Here is Jack Str ...
  • Stupidest Thing Ever
    For the love of Christ, I have about had it with our military justice system. They will find any excuse not to hold sexual predators accountable for their actions. I see no good reason why the president, as commander in chief, shouldn't be able to say what he thinks appropriate minimal penalti ...
  • Well, This is Unfortunate
    Well, this is tragic. George Zimmerman's father has just released an ebook, obviously timed to the beginning of his son's murder trial. And, in the book, he accuses the NAACP, the National Basketball Players Association, the Black Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Black Law Enf ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Don't miss this week's coolest links – perfect for lovers of sculpture, NFL, Star Wars, and animals (including Angry Birds)... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Lost World: Expedition Discovers Amazing N ...
    During a three-week expedition into a remote corner of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, scientists have discovered and rediscovered some incredible new species. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Stark Beauty of North India’s Mountainous ...
    The area around Kaza and Kibber in Himachal Pradesh is made up of a deep river valley and high mountain desert. Amazing natural beauty and cultural artifacts both abound. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • War on Crime: How Armed Police Are Clearing Ri ...
    The drug gangs who have run Rio’s favelas are notorious, and for a while they seemed invincible, but a new police presence is trying to change this state of affairs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 100 Most Endangered Species in the World
    A brilliantly interactive infographic that counts down the 100 most endangered species, filtering results according to species type and where on Earth they each remain. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The disgusting world of nuclear power: Pandora ...
    There is some movie called Pandora's Promise which is more-or-less nuclear industry cheerleading in town with a full blown event going on. People will be nibbling on delicious cesium tainted tea leaves straight from Fukushima Prefecture I would assume. [ https://twitter.com/PandorasPromise ] Som ...
  • Careers at Booz Allen Hamilton: Honolulu Junio ...
    There appears to be a vacancy at Booz Allen Hamilton's work site in Hawaii (the NSA.gov site also has lots of jerbs at Honolulu). Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC's Attempted Propaganda - YouTube So the word on the street is that this job has root logins to both the email server AND the web serv ...
  • Adrian Lamo testimony at Bradley Manning trial
    This is worth posting as it is a pivotal section of the case. I can appreciate that Lamo candidly points out Manning did *not* want to funnel this information to foreign powers, which is important to the case. Ugh snitches… Lamo is @6 on Twitter. Locally there is a rally downtown on Thursday Jun ...
  • Drupal 8 & Drupalcon 2013, Open Source content ...
    So North America's Drupalcon 2013 is happening in Portland this week - a lot of people are bringing the A-Game. I got out to the 2011 & 2012 Drupalcons in Chicago & Denver, but can't this year. Regardless here are a bunch of links I quickly slammed together about what's cropping up in th ...
  • Make Great Hack Cartel: CyberWar Afloat!! DIB ...
    "10 providers serve 80 percent of the market. We have classified relationships with a good number of them." -- US Rep Mike Rogers, reminding us how the government creates cartel structures [source Reuters] One of the more interesting news elements concerns how the federal goverment is going to ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • “Tax-free NY” as misguided as it sounds
    The decade-long conservative campaign for lower taxes and limited government has hit a wall of public outrage over the unfairness of the American tax system. But while lower taxes for the wealthy and corporations may not be popular, there is still huge public skepticism about how tax dollars c ...
  • Grandpa is a criminal
    People sometimes do bad things. They sneak a piece of their sister’s favorite Halloween candy. They download a game on their dad’s phone without asking and claim it was an “accident.”Like most families, we’ve experienced the occasional lapse in honesty and integ ...
  • From Ike to “The Matrix”: Welcome to the Ameri ...
    American society has been sliding toward the realm of dystopian science fiction -- toward a nightmarish mishmash of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Philip K. Dick -- since at least the early years of the Reagan administration, and arguably a lot longer than that. (Since Watergate? The Kennedy ...
  • Wave of car bombs, shootings kill 25 in Iraq
    Iraqis gather at the scene of an explosion in Aziziyah, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on June 16, 2013. A wave of car bombs and shootings, mostly targeting Shiites, killed 25 people Sunday as Iraq grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged polit A wave of car bombs and shootings, mos ...
  • Turkish government supporters gather in Istanbul
    Protesters clash with Turkish police near Gezi Park in Istanbul June 15, 2013. Tens of thousands of Turkish government supporters are expected in the city hours after police stormed a park to clear it of opponents of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Tens of thousands of Turkish government s ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Secretive US cyber unit has been spying on Chi ...
    A secretive cyberattack unit within the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has been engaged in protracted offensive cyberespionage operations against China for nearly 15 years.
  • News you may have missed #842 (world reaction ...
    Chinese media focus on Snowden leaks. Switzerland furious about Snowden’s charge that CIA spies on Swiss banks. Is Russia considering giving asylum to Snowden?
  • News you may have missed #841 (Snowden leak an ...
    US officials defend spy programs as safeguards against terror. Some in US intelligence see Chinese behind Snowden leak. Leak highlights risk of outsourcing US spy work.
  • World’s first undergraduate intelligence journ ...
    To satisfy the growing undergraduate interest in security and intelligence, King University has launched The Security and Intelligence Studies Journal. It is the world’s first undergraduate scholarly journal focusing exclusively on themes of intelligence, security, counterterrorism, geopolitics ...
  • Ex-CIA technician who leaked Verizon court ord ...
    Last week, British newspaper The Guardian revealed a secret court order that enables the United States government to collect the telephone records of millions of customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest cellular phone service providers. On the morning of Sunday, June 9, the individual resp ...

War is a Crime.org

  • The Chemical Weapons Hoax
      The Chemical Weapons Hoax   by Stephen Lendman   Greater US intervention in Syria looms. Manufactured threats facilitate doing so. Replacing Assad with puppet leadership is planned. Independent governments aren't tolerated. More on that below.   Fact: Washington bears full ...
  • One-Sided Anti-Syrian Human Rights Council Res ...
      One-Sided Anti-Syrian Human Rights Council Resolution   by Stephen Lendman   HRC mocks human rights, It systematically spurns them. It's a de facto US imperial tool. It defiles its own mandate. It does so lawlessly. It does it unapologetically.   HRC was established to stre ...
  • Syria News June 16
        Russia questions Syrian chemical weapons evidence as it doesn't meet criteria for reliability, says Assad has no need to use them - Yahoo! News Chemical weapons experts still skeptical about U.S. claim that Syria used sarin - McClatchy U.S. missiles, jets to stay in Jordan as Syria ...
  • Sister of 911 Victim Goes to Yemen to Oppose t ...
    By Terry Rockefeller I am in Yemen with the Codepink delegation.  Here are some reactions: A 9/11 Family Member Meets the Families of Yemeni Guantanamo Detainees “You don’t solve mistakes, with more mistakes!  As a government, the U.S. must follow the law. Be legal!” pleads the brothe ...
  • Obama Ups the Stake in Syria
      Obama Ups the Stakes in Syria   by Stephen Lendman   Obama lied. He's a serial liar. He claims Syria used chemical weapons. His so-called red line was crossed. No verifiable evidence provides proof. Clear facts prove he lied.   Syria's Foreign Ministry called Obama's accusa ...

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: After Man Was Beaten into Coma by Borde ...
    As the Senate begins its debate on the immigration reform bill, we speak to Shena Gutierrez, whose husband was nearly killed in an encounter with Border Patrol agents. While still unconscious in the hospital, he was threatened with deportation. She explains what happened. We also speak with And ...
  • Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architect ...
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. The former CIA staffer and analyst for the private intelligence consulting firm Booz Allen ...
  • Report from Istanbul: Turkish Police Attack Pr ...
    Turkish riot police have forcibly removed throngs of protesters from Istanbul's Taksim Square after nearly two weeks of demonstrations. Beginning Tuesday and lasting overnight, officers fired tear gas and water cannons into a crowd of thousands of people, forcing them to disperse. Thousands of ...
  • A Strike at Wal-Mart: Josh Eidelson on Growing ...
    On May 28, around 100 Wal-Mart workers in Florida, Massachusetts and California walked off the job for an unprecedented series of "prolonged strikes" against worker retaliation. Organizers of OUR Walmart describe the action as the longest Wal-Mart strike to date. Many of the striking workers ...
  • TONIGHT: Watch Amy Goodman Discuss NSA Leaks o ...
    Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman tonight at 8:40pm ET on MSNBC's 'All In With Chris Hayes.' She will discuss the NSA leak and Edward Snowden. In the meantime, see all of Democracy Now's coverage of the National Security Agency including interviews with NSA whistleblowers W ...

Solari

  • The NSA, Edward Snowden and What It All Really ...
    “So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero By Catherine Austin Fitts When you start to dig down into Edward Snowden’s background and story and the the ongoing NSA implementation of total digita ...
  • The Hush Sound – “The Market”
    Related Reading: The Hush Sound’s Official Website The Hush Sound on Wikipedia
  • ECB Coeure: Moving from Bail-Out to Bail-In En ...
    By Wall Street Journal BERLIN–Europe is currently moving from a bail-out environment to a bail-in environment when it comes to rescuing failing banks, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board said Wednesday. In designing a common bank resolution mechanism for Europe, ...
  • Second Phase of US Swaps Rules Takes Hold
    By FOW Intelligence This week the latest stage in the US swaps reforms was implemented under a cloud of uncertainty as to how ready the industry was for the change, writes Jonathan Watkins. The second phase of swaps rules were implemented on Monday, affecting commodity pools, hedge funds and no ...
  • This Island Earth
    By Geoff Olson More of a tourist than a traveller, I’m standing on an outcropping of volcanic rock in the Caribbean, scratching away at my archipelago of bug bites. My guide Calvin, a relaxed fellow with dark skin and blue eyes, notices my agitation and stoops to pluck leaves from a nearby plan ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • Vodafone Unveils Smartphone-Charging Shorts Ju ...
    British telecommunications company Vodafone wants people to be able to use their phones, even when they're away from a power source for days on end at music festivals, for example. So this week, the company unveiled a pair of denim hotpants that can actually    
  • Product Review: The BioLite Campstove Charges ...
    Photo by Mark Andrew Boyer For starters, the BioLite Campstove is remarkably easy to use. I've used several types of gas and wood-burning stoves before, and the BioLite is about as user-friendly as they come. After attaching the orange power module to the    
  • Exbury Egg: Amazing Self-Sustaining Floating O ...
    The Exbury Egg is a collaboration between British design firm SPUD, Perring Architecture + Design (PAD), boat builder Paul Baker, naval architect Stephen Payne, and artist Stephen Turner. The egg is made from cold molded plywood and local timber, and    
  • Chamfer Home: Tiny Self-Sufficient House Opera ...
    The Chamfer Home is a tiny self-sufficient shelter with a clean modern design that is made from eco-friendly materials. Designed by S-Archetype, the portable living unit can operate completely off the grid, which means that it can be anchored just about anywhere    
  • Don’t Miss the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute’s Firs ...
    Interest in biomimicry has grown tremendously over the past few years as professions ranging from architects to doctors, engineers to climate scientists look to nature for solutions to some of the world's most complex problems. If you want to learn more about    

Pogue's Posts

  • S.L.R. Advantages at Half the Size
    Sony has made major advances with its camera sensors, and its NEX line offers a wide variety of features along with interchangeable lenses.
  • Concerns About Dashlane, and Answers
    Answers to the most frequently asked questions from readers about Dashlane, a site that memorizes all your passwords and credit card information.
  • Making Windows 8 Better
    Microsoft is working on version 8.1 of its operating system, and it shouldn't be too timid or proud to undo the coupling of its tile-based and desktop environments.
  • Questions, and Opinions, About Flickr
    Tips on downloading a photo, a complaint about the new presentation and other reader comments about the sudden changes to the online photo gallery Flickr.
  • The E-Book Piracy Debate, Revisited
    A publisher's decision to remove copy protection from its e-books revives a debate over whether such features hurt or help revenue -- and not just for books.

The Progressive Realist

  • Will the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Be E ...
    Earlier this month, states that participated in the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty last March were allowed to sign the document. The ATT—designed to curb the sale of small arms and ammunition to terrorists, criminal gangs, and organizations committing human rights violations or genocide ...
  • Is There a Right Way to Do Development?
    In our newish MA program in Global Policy Studies, it turns out “International Development” is the most popular concentration. Now, many of our students who are interested in this “specialization” have what I call a distinct project-based approach to development. They thi ...
  • Sorry General, War Is a Choice
    General David Petraeus advises Americans and their allies to be coldly realistic about what force can achieve. Oddly, he also advises them to prepare for a future where small wars are pretty much inevitable, where America must intervene early to prevent worse things happening later on, and where ...
  • The Logic of US Escalation on Syria
    The White House announced yesterday that it would start providing direct military assistance to Syrian rebels. The New York Times fills in some helpful details: The Obama administration, concluding that the troops of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria have used chemical weapons against rebel fo ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Surveillance Programs, ...
    Alastair Iain Johnston, “How New and Assertive Is China’s New Assertiveness?“ International Security 37, no. 4 (Spring 2013): 7–48. Why, then, does it matter whether PRC diplomacy as a whole in 2010 can or cannot be characterized as “newly assertive”? It may matter because lang ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: The Family that Tweets Together
    Being a politician requires a certain comfort with transparency. You have to accommodate yourself to being recorded all the time and accept that you'll have to be more open about your private life than most people. Not only will you have to parade your family before the cameras and worry that t ...
  • When Republican Governors Do the Right Thing
    One of the oddest political turnarounds in recent days has been the emergence of Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona as an Obamacare hero. Up until now, Brewer was known primarily for her forceful advocacy of the notorious anti-immigrant measure S.B. 1070, for supposedly wagging her finger at the pr ...
  • Nothing to Hide, Much to Fear
    In reviewing the public’s ambivalent reaction to the disclosures of NSA data mining, I find that some people conclude that it’s no big deal, while others are uneasy but can’t quite explain why. It’s just a modest generic invasion of privacy that is not even activated in most cases. Presumably, ...
  • Mo' Children, Mo' Problems
    Courtesy of Nona Willis Aronowitz The author with her mother, feminist and author Ellen Willis, and father, professor and labor activist Stanley Aronowitz in 1986 When I was around six years old, I begged my parents for a younger sister. When she failed to materialize, I dreamed ...
  • A Quiet Blockbuster
    (AP Photo/J. David Ake) As we near the end of this Supreme Court term, a number of cases of substantial interest to politically-aware people who aren't court specialists remain to be decided. Landmark rulings involving the constitutionality of affirmative action, crucial provisions of ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Fox News Host Tells English Extremist: ‘We Go ...
    Fox News host Brian Kilmeade told the leader of a violent nationalist hate group that targets British Muslims, “We got your back” and “it’s great what you’re doing.” Brian Kilmeade, one of the wise men of Fox News, recently told Tommy Robinson, aka Stephen Len ...
  • Cut from Haley Camp, CCC Board Member Denies K ...
    Roan Garcia-Quintana is a board member of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which opposes “all efforts to mix the races of mankind.” At 62, Roan Garcia-Quintana is a worldly, retired college professor and longtime South Carolina political operative with deep roots in the Republican Party. Th ...
  • Bomb-Maker Case Highlights Links Between Domes ...
    A young man from Clarkston, Wash. – who idolized Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and nearly died exploding a test bomb before becoming interested in radical jihadists – was sentenced Tuesday to 12.5 years in federal prison. The federal investigation and prosecution of Joseph Jefferey Brice ...
  • Would-be White House Crasher Wanted to Paint ‘ ...
    An unoccupied black Jeep Patriot rolls down the street and crashes into a light pole and steel bollard of a guard booth near the White House shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday. A block of wood had been affixed to the accelerator with Velcro. Inside the vehicle – its motor still running, its airbag depl ...
  • Usual Suspects Blamed and Blasted at CCC Confe ...
    What do you call a weekend spent immigrant-bashing, democracy-dissing, race-baiting, Holocaust-death-toll-denying, pistol-packing, and calling for “bigots to come together?” If you guessed two days at the nearest funny farm, you weren’t far off. The correct answer, however, is the 2013 nat ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Women Speak Out: No Arms for Syrian Rebels
    MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, spoke out today to oppose the Obama Administration’s decision to send arms to Syrian opposition forces.read more
  • GAP Statement on Edward Snowden & NSA Domestic ...
    Recently, the American public learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) has conducted, and continues to conduct, wholesale surveillance of U.S. citizens through a secretive data-mining program. The program collects the phone records, email exchanges, and internet histories of tens of milli ...
  • ACLU: New Report a Step Forward, but U.S. Stil ...
    Yesterday, the State Department submitted a major report to a U.N. committee on the state of racial discrimination in the U.S. The report was submitted to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which oversees compliance with the International Convention on the Eli ...
  • Bipartisan Over-Criminalization Task Force Beg ...
    The House Committee on the Judiciary Over-Criminalization Task Force of 2013 held its first meeting today to begin reducing federal criminal code. The task force, led by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), will comb through the code, identify unnecessary and ineffective ...
  • Sanders Proposes Limits on Surveillance
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to put strict limits on sweeping powers used by the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation to secretly track telephone calls by millions of innocent Americans who are not suspected of any wrongdoing. “We must give our ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Via Campesina and the Fight for Seeds
    Salena Tramel The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto and its patented seeds last Monday by throwing out a case tirelessly petitioned for by organic farmers. That decision dealt yet another blow to the small-scale agricultural ...
  • Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food
    Michelle Chen Americans these days are nervous about what they eat, and they should be, what with outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, meat pumped with veterinary drugs and genetically modified organisms creeping into our groceries. And in May ...
  • Turkey: Dilemma of the Kurds
    Immanuel Wallerstein The world's attention is focused at the moment on Taksim Square in Istanbul and the popular uprising against the government of Recip Tayyip Erdogan.read more
  • Congratulations! You’re Being Watched
    Randall Amster With revelations (yet again) that we are all essentially being watched virtually all the time, we might expect a popular backlash against such a massive and unprecedented intrusion on privacy. Americans may differ on a pletho ...
  • Cigarettes and Senators
    Christopher Brauchli For thy sake tobacco, I would do anything but die. — Charles Lamb, (1775-1834) A farewell to Tobaccoread more

Water Privatization

  • Work begins on water authority: Orr plan could ...
    Kirk Pinho - The spigot has been opened for a new regional authority to take over the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department .
  • Metro Manila experience: Poor water service, u ...
    “In the allocation of water resources, there should be preferential treatment and affirmative action for the poor and marginalized sectors.” – The Filipino People’s Water Code By IBON FOUNDATION IBON Features — The petitioned water rate hike by Metro Manila water companies is still being reviewe ...
  • Targets of San Bernardino recall claim effort ...
    SAN BERNARDINO - Officials targeted by a recall effort and their allies are increasingly making one specific charge: that it is all about taking control of the city's water resources for the personal gain of the developers behind the recall.
  • Progressive groups call looming water rate hik ...
    This year, private water concessionaires are up for ‘rate rebasing,’ meaning they would substantially increase water rates to pass on the costs of their planned projects, some of which would not be implemented but will be charged to consumers anyway. This is aside from the usual rate increases.
  • Gov’t weighs ‘winning offer reduction’ f ...
    One of the major conditions sought by winning bidder Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) for the closing of the Angat hydroelectric plant privatization deal would be reduction in the asset's purchase amount, hence, this is a key matter being weighed by Philippine government in the negoti ...

Guardian

  • Andy Murray v Marin Cilic - live! | Jacob Stei ...
    Game-by-game report: Andy Murray takes on the defending champion in the Aegon final at Queen's. Follow the action with Jacob SteinbergJacob Steinberg     
  • Nick Clegg: arming Syrian rebels is not the ri ...
    Deputy prime minister says it would be fanciful to think Britain can provide solution to conflictDivisions of emphasis within the coalition over the provision of arms to the Syrian rebels emerged on Sunday when Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, stressed the conflict was a civil war and no U ...
  • Syria crisis: David Cameron and Vladimir Putin ...
    Russian president and UK prime minister will discuss conflict on eve of G8 summit in Northern IrelandDavid Cameron will meet the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for talks on the Syrian crisis on Sunday amid fears that differences between Moscow and the west are pushing the two sides towards a ...
  • Plane continues journey to JFK after emergency ...
    Police investigate after note apparently threatening to start fire is found in toilet on flight from Cairo to New YorkA plane which made an emergency landing in Scotland following security fears is back in the air, Police Scotland has said.The aircraft travelling between Egypt and the US was div ...
  • Iraq attacks targeting Shia Muslims leave doze ...
    String of car bombs in southern Iraq and shooting in Mosul raise fears of return to sectarian warAt least 27 people have died in attacks mainly targeting Shia Muslims across Iraq, police and medics say, intensifying fears of a return to full-blown sectarian war.More than 1,000 people were killed ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Saif bin Zayed meets his Afghan Counterpart
    WAM ABU DHABI, June 16th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, has today held a meeting with his Afghani counterpart, General Ghulam Mujtaba, who is currently on a visit to the UAE. During the meeting, they exchang ...
  • Four killed in Afghan blast
    Four civilians were killed Sunday when a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, Xinhua reported. A civilian vehicle touched off an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chora district at around 7 a.m., causing the deaths, an official spokesman said. The IED was ...
  • Senior Taliban leaders arrested in S. Afghan o ...
    KABUL, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Two senior Taliban leaders had been detained in operations in southern Afghanistan, authorities said on Tuesday. "An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader and three other extremists during an operation in Kandahar City, Kandahar pro ...
  • 8 militants killed 12 injured in S. Afghan clash
    LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Eight Taliban militants had been killed and 12 others wounded following a clash in the southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the police said on Tuesday. "Militants numbered 25 launched an armed attack on Afghan National Police (ANP) che ...
  • Army Ranger dies in routine parachute jump in ...
    An Army Ranger died during a routine parachute jump in Georgia when his chute's cords got tangled around his neck, an officer said. Investigators had yet to determine how the cords came to be wrapped around Pfc. Christopher P. Dona's neck during a jump Thursday evening at Hunter Army ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblower Group Requests Attorney General ...
    Request Based on Credible Evidence of Illegal  Conduct Raised by Whistleblower Edward Snowden Washington, D.C. June 13, 2013. Attorneys at the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund (“NWLDEF”) sent a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder r ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Case Highlights Lack of Prot ...
    There is a lot of discussion as to whether Edward Snowden, the NSA Whistleblower is a hero or a villain. If the government had established procedures under which intelligence employees could report wrongdoing and be protected from retaliation, Snowden would not have had to risk his freedom ...
  • The National Whistleblower Center Issues State ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement of Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center “Edward Snowden should not be prosecuted. Instead, the White House must keep the promise made by President Obama, during his 2008 election campaign, when he pledged to support ...
  • When a CCO becomes a Whistleblower (It Usually ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme  Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Named by ComplianceX to "Who Compliance Professionals Should Follow in 201 ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...

TechDirt

  • NSA's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Given how much time we've spent on the NSA surveillance story this week, we thought it would only be fair to allow the NSA a chance to speak for itself, and so we offered up our standard "favorite Techdirt posts of the week" post to the NSA. I think we may have accidentally signed ourselves up ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Have A Cool Drink This Weekend
    For this week's awesome stuff post, we're going to suggest it's about time you kicked back and had a cool drink. You deserve it. Thankfully, there are a bunch of crowdfunding projects to help you make that cool drink a reality. First up, The Ice Baller, for those of you who think your ice c ...
  • Rep. Grayson: Let Me Tell The NSA: There Is No ...
    So far, we've seen lots of Congressional Representatives falling over each other to attack Ed Snowden and Glenn Greenwald over the NSA surveillance efforts. A few have raised concerns, but if you want to see an elected official say what's on many of our minds, listen to Rep. Alan Grayson's spee ...
  • Senator Biden Teaches President Obama A Lesson ...
    The folks over at the EFF have put together a nice "debate" video, showing a clip of then-Senator Joe Biden angrily denouncing warrantless wiretapping by the NSA, spliced with President Obama defending the latest NSA surveillance leaks to show a "debate" between the two. I think Biden wins, han ...
  • Prenda Law Claims Its Winding Down Its Operati ...
    With Judge Otis Wright telling Team Prenda to pay significantly more on the bond to cover Morgan Pietz's legal fees in the big case in California where Prenda got called out for what the judge suggested were racketeering violations, Paul Duffy and Prenda are fighting back in typical fashion. Th ...

VacTruth

  • These Tricks Are Played to Get You to Vaccinat ...
    Countries around the world are coming up with more and more elaborate tricks to pressure parents into fully vaccinating their children. Here are just a few...
  • The Value of Your Child’s Life – According to ...
    Most mothers and fathers vividly remember the days they took their child for shots, filled with anxiety, knowing it would be painful for the child...but you should know much of this doesn't matter to those promoting vaccines.
  • Revealed Government Documents Show Vaccine Inj ...
    In December 2012, five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine. Government documents reveal more of the story...
  • Announcing New Transparency Bill to Disclose V ...
    A new bill gained enough votes in committee to go to the state legislative floor allowing greater transparency in the disclosure of vaccine ingredients.
  • Urgent Press Release: NY Assembly Voting to Gi ...
    On Monday, May 6, a new bill is to be brought to the New York State Assembly floor which will allow licensed physicians to administer preventative medical care for sexually transmitted diseases, including vaccines to minors without their parent’s permission.

BroadSnark

  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...
  • The Power of Denial
    My relationship with my parents started a downhill slide when I reached my teen years and never recovered. My father was the type of person who never wanted to talk about anything. He would blow up once in a while. But mostly he handled the hurt – the hurt that he felt or that he [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...
  • Stuff Dudes Do
    Mild rant warning. I’m an anarchist. I used to be in a punk collective. I worked on criminal injustice issues. Sadly, all of these things mean that I end up in spaces that are largely dudes. Maybe those things attract more men than women. Or maybe a whole lot of us women have been chased [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Iran’s new president hails ‘victory of moderation’
    Reuters reports: Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday with a resounding defeat of conservative hardliners, calling it a victory of moderation over extremism and pledging a new tone of respect in international affairs. Though thousands of jubilant Irani ...
  • Landslide win for Rowhani in Iran elections
    The Washington Post reports: Hassan Rouhani, a moderate Shiite cleric known as one of Iran’s leading foreign policy experts, has won the election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the Islamic Republic’s next president, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced Saturday evening. With re ...
  • The Syria strategy vacuum
    Marc Lynch writes: Many of the advocates of aggressive intervention define the Syrian conflict primarily as a front in the cold war against Iran. From this perspective, Hezbollah’s entry into the fray and the fall of Qusayr are not necessarily a bad thing — Washington now has an oppo ...
  • CIA preparing to deliver rebels arms through T ...
    The Washington Post reports: The CIA is preparing to deliver arms to rebel groups in Syria through clandestine bases in Turkey and Jordan that were expanded over the past year in an effort to establish reliable supply routes into the country for nonlethal material, U.S. officials said. The bases ...
  • The sickening Snowden backlash
    Kirsten Powers writes: Hell hath no fury like the Washington establishment scorned. Since Edward Snowden came forward to identify himself as the leaker of the National Security Agency spying programs, the D.C. mandarins have been working overtime to discredit the man many view as a hero for reve ...

Watts Up With That?

  • How data revisionism hypes global warming
    By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I have now had the opportunity to study SteveF’s remarkable essay at Lucia’s Blackboard, to which Anthony kindly draws attention in his footnote to my earlier posting on the absence of statistically-significant global warming for … Continue reading →
  • Google hangout notes: ‘I’ve never ...
    This is from Tom Nelson, who took notes on yesterday’s Google hangout between Andrew Revkin and David Roberts [1-hour video] Andrew Revkin from Dot Earth Blog and David Roberts from Grist.org chat about climate change topics [Before and during this … Continue reading →
  • Model-Data Comparison: Hemispheric Sea Ice Area
    I discovered this climate model failure a while ago, but haven’t published a post about it because, if I were to compare the modeled and observed sea ice area for each hemisphere, I would need to make too many approximations … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny (well maybe not so funny) – ...
    Sobering graphics to scale: ice sheets 21,000 years ago versus today’s skylines. “Data adapted from ‘The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum’ by A.S. Dyke et. al., which was way better than the sequels ‘The Laurentide … Continue reading →
  • 12 Reasons Why The Met Office Is Alarmed
    From the GWPF: Met Office To Hold Crisis Summit On Epic Forecast Failures The Met Office’s temperature forecasts issued in 12 out of the last 13 years have been too warm. None of the forecasts issued ended up too cold. … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Image of the Day: HIV
    False-colored scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles (yellow) infecting a human H9 T cell (blue, turquoise) Image of the Day: HIV | The Scientist Magazine®.
  • Lifespan-Extending Drug Given Late in Life Rev ...
    Elderly mice suffering from age-related heart disease saw a significant improvement in cardiac function after being treated with the FDA-approved drug rapamycin for just three months. The research, led by a team of scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, shows how rapamycin impac ...
  • First Fluorescent Protein Identified in a Vert ...
    The Japanese freshwater eel (Anguilla japonica) has more to offer biologists than a tasty sushi snack. Its muscle fibers produce the first fluorescent protein identified in a vertebrate, researchers report in Cell. Fluorescent proteins are as standard a tool for cell biologists as wrenches are f ...
  • Dad’s Life Stress Exposure Can Affect Offsprin ...
    Sperm doesn’t appear to forget anything. Stress felt by dad—whether as a preadolescent or adult—leaves a lasting impression on his sperm that gives sons and daughters a blunted reaction to stress, a response linked to several mental disorders. The findings, published in a new preclinical study i ...
  • Hepatitis A and B
     This 3D medical animation describes Hepatitis A and B. This animation begins by showing a healthy liver and explaining its function. The animation then goes on to explain the causes of Hepatitis A and B, how these viruses may be transmitted, the effects the virus can have on the liver as well a ...

CFACT

  • Sierra Club whines that clean coal costs too m ...
    The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity presents an even gloomier future for coal than the EIA projects. They predict that more than 280 coal-fired generating units are set to be shut down, partly due to stricter EPA regulations. And according to a report released by the National Econo ...
  • Climate talks collapse!
    For the UN climate conference in Bonn the bear to worry about was not Polar, but Russian. Russia has revealed a lack of due process at the UNFCCC and forced them to suspend treaty talks.
  • The climate IS changing: it’s getting co ...
    European officialdom and media have more fully absorbed the implications of global cooling than their counterparts in the United States. Germany and England, where aggressive decarbonization schemes already have driven energy prices 40% to 70% higher, now consider reeling back their plans. In th ...
  • Sierra Club: They’re coming to take our ...
    The “century-old” Antiquities Act gives President Obama the authority to designate national monument status even if there’s no actual monument erected. A national monument designation makes the locale off limits to development. President Obama has used this “emergency” designation nine times—six ...
  • Fashion alert: Weak solar cycle 25 means keep ...
    Right now we’re seeing the same kind of major events on a regional scale that occurred in the early 1950s. That was the last time the Pacific Ocean shifted its temperature phase from warm to cold when the Atlantic was in a warm phase, and globally, the Earth’s temperatures have fallen about 0.05 ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Valentina Tereshkova, the First Female Cosmona ...
    The Vostok-6 spacecraft, manned by the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit 50 years ago, on June 16, 1963. Watch this archive footage showing Tereshkova prepare for the flight and the launch itself    
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  • Ovechkin Wins 3rd Hart Trophy in NHL Career
    Washington Capitals superstar Alexander Ovechkin has won Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player for the third time during his eight-season career in the league, the NHL said on its website.    
  • N. Korea Proposes High-Level Talks With Washington
    North Korea proposed high-level regional security talks with the United States on Sunday, following the recent failure to resume direct talks with rival South Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported.    
  • Russia Hopes to Sell Su-35 Fighter Jets at Le ...
    Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport is planning to sign a number of export contracts on the delivery of advanced Su-35S fighter aircraft as well as Ka-52 helicopter gunships and Yak-130 combat trainers at the Paris Air Show, the company said.    

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Pruning Shears

  • Yes, Congress and the president are responsibl ...
    There is an emerging theme on the left that the true blame for our metastasized domestic spying programs lies with the American people. John Cole put it bluntly (via): “No, you want to see the villain, look in the mirror.” Charles Pierce was a little more diplomatic:You can argue & ...
  • Transcripts and audio from ODNR information se ...
    INTERVIEW Dan: One of my big concerns is the failure of these wells. I’ve got just a page printed out, this is about a 125 page report from MIT. This page just mentions the problems with some of the causes of failures in wells. And then this is a more intensive study from Pro Publica, a ...
  • ODNR meets with public on Nelson wells
    Last summer the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced plans to approve seven toxic fracking waste injection wells for a single site in our county. Many citizens were alarmed by this, and at the time I posted on some of our fruitless attempts to get ODNR (in the person of geologi ...
  • DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learni ...
    The music business was probably the first big segment of the entertainment industry to need to figure out the Internet. Napster forced the industry to think about it because Napster’s original version used peer-to-peer technology, which allowed users share their own music files and copy o ...
  • Vanessa Elisha - Don't Go EP
    A few months ago I heard “Blur” by Vanessa Elisha and enjoyed it right away, so I sent her a quick fan email and got on her mailing list. This morning she let me know her new EP Don’t Go is available for free download. I’ve also got her permission to host “Blur&#8 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • GMO Food Labels Being Considered by Mass. Lawm ...
    BOSTON/State House - The Massachusetts legislature is currently reviewing three bills this session that may lead to food products containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) to carry identifying labels.Click here to read this article
  • Sanity Prevails: US Supreme Court Rules that ...
    In a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling invalidates the thousands of patents that have already been granted on human genes, including the patent by Myriad Genetics on the BRCA breast cancer genes which the company says no ...
  • Your Spiritual Right to GMO Labeling
    As you already figured out, I try to find out all I can about how callous, impersonal, selfish, greedy and uncaring about people Monsanto is. So, I'm cruising the internet and I come across an article that put Monsanto's complete disregard for people's spiritual/religious perspective about eatin ...
  • Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Pa ...
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a decision that is likely to shape the future of medical and biotech research.Click here to read this article
  • An Open Door for GMOs? - Take Action on the EU ...
    At the end of June, the European Union and the US will officially launch negotiations for a new free trade agreement known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The plan is to create the world's largest free trade area, 'protect' investment and harmonize regulation. While ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • The worst part about BPs oil-spill cover-up: I ...
    My notes http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/broken-search-corexit_931.html Listen to Admiral Thad Allen almost totally dismiss dispersant effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkc1IrG5cxM Yet we blame BP for the coverup Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |  &nb ...
  • FDA approves first GMO Flu Vaccine containing ...
    New influenza vaccine has hit the market which contains GM proteins from insect cells ( I don`t know which I think worse - another `flu vaccine`or the GM source ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG8XNgTByGU oldephartte.livejournal.com/4649.html Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...
  • Popular Seattle Teacher Forced Out for Teachin ...
    The battle at Seattles Center School raises the questionhow should schools teach students about tolerance and discrimination? Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Vaccine Infects 10-Month-Old Baby with Polio i ...
    If polio is eradicated, then that means India should be good on polio vaccines by now, right? If thats the case, why are these very vaccines still being pushed on the nations children en masse? Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  • The Fight Against Factory Farms
    Video by 14 year old showing difference between farming animals and running factories of animals Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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 ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israel Official: Iran Sanctions Must Be Tightened
    ShareThisIsrael Official: Iran Sanctions Must Be Tightened 16 Jun 2013 A senior Israeli official says international sanctions are still needed to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program, despite the election of a reformist-backed president. Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister of intelligence an ...
  • Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-A ...
    ShareThisIran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria 16 Jun 2013 The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran - even before last week's presidential election - to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to ...
  • Russia slams US talks of imposing no-fly zone ...
    ShareThisRussia slams US talks of imposing no-fly zone on Syria 16 Jun 2013 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against any effort by the United States and its allies to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, saying the move would be a 'violation of international law.' "You don't have ...
  • Rohani becomes Iran's new president
    ShareThisRohani becomes Iran's new president 15 Jun 2013 Hassan Rohani has won Iran's 11th presidential election following a vote that saw a massive popular turnout on June 14. Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on Saturday that of a total of 36,704,156 valid ballots co ...
  • U.S. to keep F-16s and Patriot missiles in Jor ...
    ShareThisU.S. to keep F-16s and Patriot missiles in Jordan, fuels Russian fear of Syria no-fly zone 15 Jun 2013 The United States said on Saturday it would keep F-16 fighters and Patriot missiles in Jordan at Amman's request, and Russia bristled at the possibility they could be used to enforce a ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Tado Dambrausko fotokonkursas
    Apdovanoti geriausi Tado Dambrausko fotokonkurso “Lietuvos kariuomenė 2012–2013” dalyviai Nuotraukų katalogas „Tado Dambrausko fotokonkursas Lietuvos kariuomenė fotografijoje 2013 m." Fotogalerija Vaizdo medžiga Birželio 11 d. Lietuvos dailininkų sąjungos galerijoje apdovanoti Tado Dambrau ...
  • Verizon Ordered to Turn Over Records
    06 June 2013
  • Security Risks for Kachin IDPs and Refugees
    25 May 2013 Kachin State, Burma IN THIS REPORT: •    Summary of the major security threats for Kachin IDPs and refugees •    Raw field reports from Kachin Rangers describing recent military clashes and Burma Army troop movements Security Threats In Kachin Stat ...
  • Letter by General Odierno on Sexual Assault an ...
    18 May 2013 Over the last twelve years of war, our Army has demonstrated exceptional competence, courage, and resiliency in adapting to the demands of war and accomplishing the mission.  Today, however, the Army is failing in its efforts to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment.&nbsp ...
  • Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Fa ...
    07 May 2013 Petitioning President Obama President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Written By: Morris Davis I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help. I pe ...

The Killing Train

  • India: Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy
    A mini-documentary based on a March 9/13 interview with Adivasi Mahasabha General Secretary Manish Kunjam. Conducted in Dantewada in the middle of a march for tribal autonomy.
  • My Red Wedding Story
    SPOILER ALERT: This article, like many of my conversations, contains massive spoilers about George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books and the HBO Game of Thrones series. I was handed George R R Martin's Game of Thrones in 1997, by a friend who has recommended many of the books I've read o ...
  • Eleven things India must change in Kashmir
    http://kafila.org/2013/05/28/eleven-things-india-must-do-in-kashmir-justin-podur/ read more
  • Evicting the Gandhians: An Interview with Hima ...
    [First published at http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/] read more
  • The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha ...
    [First published in Kafila: http://kafila.org/2013/04/20/the-bastar-land-grab-an-interview-with-sudha-bharadwaj/] This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see the relationsh ...

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ReDress News

  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Bon Jovi- “Livin” It’s Bon Jovi rocking with “Livin’ on a Prayer” for this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. The single was released in late 1986 and was second single from Jovi’s Slippery When Wet album. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie S ...
  • Radio New Zealand National: A Memorable, Sober ...
    Last Thursday I was interviewed by one of the (if not ‘the’) most respected and award-winning radio hosts in New Zealand – Kim Hill. Please take a few minutes and read her bio here. Thanks to Ms. Hill’s producer Mark Cubey we were able to overcome the Time-Zone Difference obstacle. They we ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 14, ...
    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 ...
  • Podcast Show #111: Why is Edward Snowden Censo ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents John Young In this episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Show Cryptome.Org’s John Young joins us to discuss and evaluate the recent controversies involving NSA’s illegal surveillance, PRISM, and whistleblower Edward Snowden. Mr. Young talks about Snowden’s choice of p ...
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Tikun Olam

  • Iranian Moderate Rowhani Wins Presidential Ele ...
    Today’s surprising news that a relatively moderate cleric, Hassan Rowhani has won the Iranian presidential election carries a few important meanings and raises several pitfalls we should avoid.  First, it means that Ayatollah Khamenei determined he didn’t want a repeat of the 2009 el ...
  • Michael Burrows Exposed as Former Mossad Agent ...
    For the past decade, someone using the alias Michael Ross has made the rounds of the media and publishing world claiming to be a former Mossad agent.  The story he told was impressive…on the surface.  In the book, The Volunteer and numerous articles in pro-Israel media outlets like Canada& ...
  • Break the Gag: Judge Refuses to Allow Israelis ...
    This is getting to be so damn tiresome. There’s a case: either rape or some other crime a powerful interest doesn’t want too widely known. So they get a judicial gag order which protects that interest and suppresses vital information that the public should know. In this case, it&#821 ...
  • Bibi Refuses to Sign Two-State Communique with ...
    It’s been a lousy week for the two-state solution.  First, tourism minister, Uzi Landau, sniggered at the two-state solution and said the very idea was ridiculous and would never happen under this government.  Then, a few days later, Danny Danon, the deputy defense minister and a far more ...
  • Golda Meir Was First Israeli Leader to Expel A ...
    The current furor in Israel about the “epidemic” of African refugees “flooding” the country is unfortunately not new.  Nor is the plan by the Netanyahu government to throw them into concentration camps or expel them.  In 1969, Black Israelites began to arrive in Israel fr ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
    About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas with developers working to "change media for good." The dozen or so ...
  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Terrorism - Forest Fire Warfare
    The fire raging in Colorado Springs forced William (Bill) Scott and his wife Linda to evacuate their home. Last we spoke, Bill didn't know if they'll have a home to return to. As of Saturday afternoon, June 15, the apparent arson that set Colorado's Black Forest on fire last Tuesday killed at le ...
  • The Middle East on Edge - Kerry: Deadly Attack ...
    Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday called an attack on a former U.S. Marine base in Iraq that houses Iranian exiles “brutal, senseless, and utterly unacceptable.�A mortar attack on Camp Hurriya killed three people in Baghdad on Saturday, police sources told Reuters. The Mujahidin-e-Kh ...
  • Architecture on Edge - Carbon-Fiber Tape Takes ...
    The weight of the traditional steel cable that hoists today's elevators has prevented them going any higher than 500 meters in one run. That means that people going up and down inside the world's tallest building, Dubai's 828-meter-high Burj Khalifa tower, need to switch lifts to go above the to ...
  • The Edge of Climate Change - Cut Energy Subsid ...
    Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time, yet most countries in the Middle East and North Africa continue to subsidize energy derived from fossil fuels. Seeking solutions, The Guardian launched a three part Global Public Leaders Series and sent us this recent lecture by the In ...
  • The Digital Edge - New Array Measures Vibratio ...
    In the near future, a buzz in your belt or a pulse from your jacket may give you instructions on how to navigate your surroundings. Think of it as tactile Morse code: vibrations from a wearable, GPS-linked device that tell you to turn right or left, or stop, depending on the pattern of pulses yo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Why The West Doesn't Understand Islamists (The ...
    By Barry Rubin To read Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s 1984 book, Islamic Education and Hasan al-Bana, is to get an Islamic education. Nobody should be allowed to talk about Islam or political Islamism without having read this or similar texts. Just as Marx claimed in the “Communist Manifesto” for his ...
  • How Obamacare Screws Low-Income Americans
    Yesterday we reported that dozens of lawmakers and their aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare, that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. But there is a group who are truly feeling the effect of the higher ...
  • JUNE 14th Flag Day: Celebrating Old Glory
    I Pledge Allegiance.com I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Today, June 14th is Flag Day. It commemorates the adoption of the f ...
  • Obama FINALLY Wakes Up And Smells The Syrian ...
    It was back in April that Great Britain concluded that President Assad, the Syrian despot used chemical weapons on the rebellion, which was right around the time Israel determined the same thing, which I believe was the day after videos of the aftermath of the attack were uploaded to you tube. ...
  • WE QUIT! Capital Hill Retirements To Surge Be ...
    Most polls show American want Obamacare repealed, now it appears the people who can do the repealing are not to happy with the government takeover of our heath system either. Politico is reporting that dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyroc ...

Wind Watch

  • Native Americans decry eagle deaths tied to wi ...
    A Native American tribe in Oklahoma on Thursday registered its opposition to a U.S. government plan that would allow a wind farm to kill as many as three bald eagles a year despite special federal protections afforded the birds. The stand taken by the Osage Nation against a proposed wind energy ...
  • Haldimand realtors say home values will drop
    There’s a familiar smell in the air for realtors in Haldimand, and it’s not a pleasant one. About a decade ago, homeowners in the newly minted municipality of Haldimand were worried about pigs. Large industrial pork operations were moving into the area, and residents and politicians alike were c ...
  • Boards vote to shut turbines down at night; Gi ...
    FAIRHAVEN — Two industrial wind turbines on town land were ordered shut down from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. following a vote of selectmen and the Board of Health Monday. “We come together as a team to work on a new beginning and begin the town’s healing,” said Select Board Chairman Char ...
  • Baldwin County crafts ordinance that prohibits ...
    An effort by a Charlottesville, Va., company to put a wind farm in Baldwin County might be coming to a grinding halt. Vince Jackson, director of the county’s Planning and Zoning Department, has crafted an ordinance that would prohibit wind projects like the one APEX Wind Energy has propose ...
  • Wind farm study under fire again
    For the second month in a row, residents of May’s Lick attended Tuesday’s fiscal court meeting to express their opposition to and concerns about a potential wind farm in Mason County. Mike Averdick serves as spokesman for the citizens, who asked last month that a countywide moratoriu ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...
  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Justice at risk from big mone ...
    With special-interest spending on judicial races soaring, a new study finds that a state supreme court justice who gets half of his or her contributions from business groups votes in favor of business interests two-thirds of the time. read more
  • How Art Pope killed clean elections for judges ...
    For more than a decade, North Carolina's Republican mega-donor fought tirelessly to stop the state's pioneering program to free judges from special interest influence. This week, Pope's crusade came to a victorious end. read more
  • What happens if the Supreme Court cuts out the ...
    With the high court expected to hand down a ruling soon on the constitutionality of the key section of the landmark civil rights law, a new report warns of what could come to pass if Section 5 is weakened or eliminated altogether. read more
  • How not to respond to peaceful protesters: Les ...
    The NAACP-led protesters who've been gathering weekly at the North Carolina General Assembly have offered a textbook example of how to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. But the reaction from some of the state's elected officials has been less than respectful -- and has evoked an ugly chap ...
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Logic of the Surveillance State
    I don’t have a lot to say about Prism, it’s nothing that I find surprising at all.  I would have been surprised if they weren’t doing this.  That does not, of course, mean that they should be doing it.  Basically, assume you’re being watched at all times. That does not me ...
  • Rudeness to Politicians
    In the early days of the political blogosphere, we said fuck rather a lot.  We were making a point: that rudeness is not as great a sin as many others.  It is not so great a sin as lying. It is not so great a sin as killing people in the Iraq war.  And today, [...]
  • Yeah, rape < Hacking to out rapists
    Maybe the backwards data shows rapists getting longer sentences than hackers, but I doubt that’ll be the case in 10 years, just as for a long time we thought America had the most social mobility in the West, when that hasn’t been true for a couple decades, at least. This is your just ...
  • Heckling Mrs. Obama is entirely productive
    Yes, yes it is.  You get things from our elites by making their personal lives miserable. Hammer them everywhere they go.  This has been particularly true of gay protestors, who have received support from Obama, to the extent they have, by cutting donations till they got it, and by heckling him. ...
  • The Decline and Fall of Post War Liberalism an ...
    In the Anglo-US world post-War liberalism has been on the defensive since the 70s.  This is normally shown through various wage or wealth graphs, but I’m going to show two different ones.  The first, to the right, is the number of strikes involving more than 1K workers.  Fascinating, eh? T ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australia gets ‘deluge’ of US secr ...
    Sydney Morning Herald – The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-se ...
  • Hong Kong protesters rally in support of US sp ...
    ABC – Hundreds of protesters have staged a rally in Hong Kong to urge the city’s government not to extradite American whistleblower Edward Snowden, and slam the US for its surveillance programs. Mr Snowden, 29, exposed the way the US National Security Agency gains information from in ...
  • IMF urges repeal of ‘ill-designed’ ...
    Reuters – The International Monetary Fund urged the United States on Friday to repeal sweeping government spending cuts and recommended that the Federal Reserve continue a bond-buying program through at least the end of the year. In its annual check of the health of the U.S. economy, the I ...
  • Facebook got 10,000 requests for data from NSA ...
    Daily Mail – Facebook and Microsoft were able to reveal limited information on Friday night about the government orders they have received to turn over user data to security agencies. Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s general counsel, said in a statement that they had between 9,000 and 10,000 r ...
  • Canada: – Oilsands monitoring deal inked ...
    CBC – Ottawa and Alberta have reached a deal outlining how a long-promised environmental monitoring agency for the oilsands will be run. “The signatures are in place,” said Wayne Wood of AlbertaEnvironment, who added his office was informed Thursday that federal minister Peter ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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libcom

  • Poland Does Away with the 8-Hour Day
    labor-day-eight-hours.JPG The avant-garde of neoliberal horrors has finally done away with the 8-hour day. read more
  • Greece: Thousands gather in an anti-government ...
    img_8842.jpg Anarchist solidarity with the fired 2,656 employees of State TV and Radio of Greece. Thousands in Athens, Greece gathered in the evening of June 11, 2013 outside t ...
  • Istanbul: An impression of the barricades
    barricade.JPG Impressions from occupied Taksim Square from Saturday 8 June. The first barricade seems impenetrable. Hundreds of bricks piled high, torn fences, and flipped over ...
  • Pop-Up Union to ballot for strike
    yellow square.png Workers opposed to privatisation decided to ballot for industrial action after Sussex uni bosses refused to stop the ongoing outsourcing process. The move comes less than three weeks ...
  • Opposing the EDL: Leeds 1st June 2013
    The occurence at the cenotaph in Leeds on the first of June and its implications for resisting the EDL. On first of June we gathered to protest against the EDL in Leeds. Looks like the UAF wanted a wreath laying ceremony so we all mar ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Illegal Immigration’s Invisible Elephant ...
    Most Americans are of the opinion that illegal immigrants are downtrodden victims who need a helping hand instead of a swift boot out of the country.  After all, isn’t America a nation of immigrants? Many people ask:  What ever happened to the iconic axiom on the Statue of Liberty: “ ...
  • Edward Snowden: Becoming a Criminal For Tellin ...
    “IN AN AGE OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT – TELLING THE TRUTH BECOMES A REVOLUTIONARY ACT”. ———— George Orwell —- 1984 He’s the ultimate NSA whistleblower – Edward Snowden, age 29.  What would make this brilliant and gifted young man sacrifice his ...
  • June 8, 2013 – 35th Anniversary of LDS ( ...
    On June 8, 1978 – Mormon “Prophet” Spencer Woolley Kimball pulled the wool over the collective eyes of the LDS (Mormon) Church faithful in a major way.   On this date, 35 years ago, the Mormon Church ended a full 130+ years of extreme racism and bigotry by allowing black males ...
  • WEATHER, Or Not? CONSPIRACY CON 2013 – ...
    For those who may be interested, here is my complete power point presentation in its entirety: WEATHER – Or Not Also, here are the primary supporting documents: 1. The 1966 Homer Newell NASA report:  NASA Weather Modification Report 1966 2. 1976 U.N. Treaty On Weather Modification Weaponry ...
  • Conspiracy Conference 2013
    Here are this year’s list of speakers and guests:  http://www.conspiracycon.com/speakers.html From Brian Hall, Executive Producer of Conspiracy Con: This annual conference is a bold and serious approach to serious issues, dedicated to providing a forum for those who say what few are willin ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...
  • Solar Impulse Lands in StLouis Lambert Field
    FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWING THE PATH OF THE SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE, SOLAR IMPULSE.  THE SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE SAFELY LANDED IN STLOUIS AT LAMBERT AIRPORT LAST NIGHT-AFTER A 21 HOUR 21 MINUTE FLIGHT! reposted from Green Blog at: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2013/06/solar- ...
  • Tornado Safe Room CAD Designs for the DIY People
    Tornado Safe Room Designs copied from green blog at-http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com With the Rash of Tornadoes caused by the Extreme Weather Conditions we have had recently in the USA.  I put together a few Tornado/Hurricane SafeRoom Designs and Build Options. Complete plans, Design-B ...
  • Tornado Safe Room CAD Designs for the DIY People
    Tornado Safe Room Designs copied from green blog at-http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com With the Rash of Tornadoes caused by the Extreme Weather Conditions we have had recently in the USA.  I put together a few Tornado/Hurricane SafeRoom Designs and Build Options. Complete plans, Design-B ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Coming Economic and Political Turmoil
    (This is the first of two posts about a recent Farleigh Dickinson University study about changing American attitudes towards violent revolution.) A new study from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that 29% of Americans believe an armed revolution may be necessary in the next ...
  • New Zealand's Charter Schools Misadventure
    Guest post by Geoff Eaton (New Zealand presently has legislation in Parliament to create the country's first charter schools, despite the failed experiment in the US and the UK. The majority of the New Zealand public oppose the law. Despite substantial taxpayer funding, charter schools would ...
  • Let Them Eat Crickets
    (With apologies to Marie Antoinette – a very special post for readers who have lost their pensions or unemployment benefits or who are looking at having their hours, wages or Social Security benefits reduced. Some simple cricket recipes below. Please note in preparing cricket flour, ...
  • The Pope is Onto Something
    Monetary Reform 101 "Somewhere in our history we took a wrong turn and today we are reaping the consequences. If we don't step back to evaluate the root causes of the rolling economic crises, our civilization is in danger of collapse." - Clive Menzies As a follow-up to the Pope’ ...
  • Interview with Syrian President Assad
    A highly illuminating interview (for Argentinian TV) in which Assad argues that the Syrian people should decide who rules Syria in internationally monitored elections scheduled for 2014. They would be conducted according to constitutional reforms enacted in 2011-2012 that limit the power ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...
  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Oil Industry Declares War on E15
    I just finished reading a story that made my blood boil. It was about how the oil industry is using dirty tricks to keep the ethanol industry in check. I need to sit down, take a deep breath, and make sure everyone knows of the atrocity that has happened in Kansas. The problem started when the e ...
  • About Those Plunging Oil Prices
    Based on recent headlines, one might suspect that we were right in the middle of a major bear market for oil, yet it's only fallen to $92 a barrel. Robert Rapier examines the situation and fundamentals behind the near and long term trends.
  • Who Loses from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Natural gas is an important feedstock for the chemicals and fertilizer industries, so higher prices could pressure those sectors. Oil companies with significant chemical operations could also see this business segment take a hit, but based on ExxonMobil’s (NYSE: XOM) advocacy of liquified natura ...
  • Who Wins from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Given their heavy investments in natural gas, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, along with Chesapeake, stand to benefit from the recovery in natural gas prices, writes Robert Rapier.
  • Estimate for Williston Basin Oil Resources is ...
    Last week the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided an update of oil and gas resources in the Bakken region. This was their first update since a 2008 report that estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil and 1.85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Blow to Monsanto, Round 2: Maine Passes GMO La ...
    The quiet, reserved state of Maine just became the second David to deliver a blow to the Goliath biotechnology industry, easily passing a law that would require foods containing genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs, to be labeled. Though it still needs to be signed by the state's governor, ...
  • 7 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Save Money This Summer
    The dog days of summer are meant for swimming and relaxing—lazy vacations by the beach. But don't head outside quite yet! Spend just a few minutes jazzing up your energy efficiency efforts at home now, and it'll set your family up for some significant savings down the line. By the end of the su ...
  • Target Launches New Organic, GMO-Free Food Brand
    Big-box retailers may be the epitome of urban sprawl and overdevelopment, but here's one reason you might not want to write Target off completely: The mass-market retailer has just debuted a new private label line called Simply Balanced, made up largely of foods certified as organic and free of ...
  • What to Do If You Find a Kitten
    There is something magnetic about kittens. Ever see one and immediately want to scoop it up? Although your first instinct might be, "I need to help this stray kitten!" you might want to refrain. In some cases, the mom of a stray kitten could be hunting nearby, and taking the kitten away and to ...
  • The New Meat Label that Could Save Your Life
    The meat industry has a lot of dirty little secrets. Chicken producers add the carcinogenic heavy metal arsenic to chicken feed to speed growth. Poultry producers "enhance" their meats with brines that keep the meat moist when cooking but expose you to so much potassium that doctors are worried ...

big think

  • 5 Minute Drill: How to Negotiate Like a Pro
    In today's lesson, Dan Shapiro describes the value of creating a positive and more productive work environment, and lays out 5 core emotional concerns of employees that need to be met in order to accomplish this. This lesson is derived from Big Think Edge, an online learning platform designed to ...
  • Unleashing Superman's Super-strength in Human DNA
    What's the Latest Development? Superman's speed, leaping abilities, and strength all boil down to having stronger muscles than is humanly possibly, at least for now... In experiments on non-human primates, biologists are working to switch off the gene that keeps muscle mass between certa ...
  • Gene Therapy Restores Vision to Some of the Blind
    What's the Latest Development? By injecting a virus with a normal gene directly into the retina of an eye with a defective gene, researchers have successfully restored some sight to more than a dozen people with a rare inherited eye disease called Leber’s congenital amaurosis, which lead ...
  • What Wall Street Can Learn from Spinoza
    In the Bible, Moses goes into the desert, God tells him he should go to Pharaoh and tell Pharaoh to let his people go and Moses doesn’t want to do it.  And he runs away into the desert, and he comes across a burning bush and presumably God’s in the bush, the bush keeps burning, but it’s never .. ...
  • The Unconscious: Freud's Gift to Neuroscience
    The history of understanding that there is an unconscious that’s riding under the radar of conscious awareness is such a new idea, historically.  Several hundred years ago, people got pieces and parts of the idea, but it wasn't until Freud that he really nailed it.  Neuroscience has drif ...

Information Liberation

  • New Polls: Americans Decry NSA Spying, View Sn ...
    Contradicting a previous Pew poll which found that a majority of Americans support the NSA spying on telephone records, new surveys find that most Americans decry NSA snooping and view whistleblower Edward Snowden as a patriot for exposing the existe...
  • Why No Perjury Indictment for Clapper?
    The feds indicted and prosecuted Martha Stewart for lying to federal investigators about a stock trade. They also indicted baseball star Roger Clemens for supposedly lying to Congress about drug abuse. So, the obvious question arises: Why no perju...
  • Slaton Police Arrest Woman After Request to Se ...
    Slaton police came to this woman's house, who wishes to remain anonymous, to arrest her son. But by asking one simple question, she found herself behind bars instead. "I told him, 'I will release my son to you upon viewing those orders.' Those we...
  • SPCA Wants Humane Officer Who Shot Kittens Fired
    NORTH RIDGEVILLE -- The Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wants Humane Officer Barry Accorti fired for allegedly shooting five kittens in a home's back yard on Monday. OSPCA Executive Director Teresa Landon says Accorti should ...
  • Even The AP Is Calling Bull On Government Clai ...
    We've already explained how some NSA supporters, including Rep. Mike Rogers and Senator Dianne Feinstein, are trying to defend PRISM and other NSA surveillance efforts by saying that it stopped a NYC subway bombing but their claims don't seem to hold...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Gun Law
    This post will be briefer than I had originally intended, and for a couple of reasons. First, I haven’t put up any threads for a while, and I feel as though I need a break from work today, so here … Continue reading →
  • Of Human Dregs And Piano Legs
    Everyone else seems to be talking about sex this week, so I’ll devote a dedicated post to a topic raised by Luton Ian on the last thread. I’m going to try to avoid sniggering here about New Zealand and the … Continue reading →
  • Bushfire Update
    G’day everyone, Sorry I haven’t had much time for blogging lately; getting the property and my business back to normal has occupied all of my calendar for the last couple of months. Farmerbraun asked me earlier today to put up some … Continue reading →
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • What do you do if you’ve got osteoarthritis of ...
    Film director Baz Luhrmann made a spoof graduation speech famous with his hit “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” back in 1999. At the time, I wasn’t particularly worried about the line in that track: “Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.&#8 ...
  • Say my name, say my name
    Successful companies have solid brand names we recognise wherever we are in the world and they rarely change them – Coca Cola, Microsoft, Apple, Gap. Of course, there are successful companies that do re-brand, although usually when bigger companies subsume and split them up, think Imperial ...
  • Dietary DMAA, dimethylamylamine, death
    DMAA was originally a decongestant but has been marketed as a “dietary supplement”. It’s dodgy, it seems, to say the least, and the US Food & Drug Administration does not allow its legal sale as a food supplement. Here’s what Andrey Pavlov doggedly had to say about D ...
  • Buzz blinds Dolby
    This is a major geek out, Thomas Dolby sings his classic “She Blinded Me With Science” with Buzz Aldrin taking the role of the late, great Dr Magnus Pike. Shame Aldrin fluffs it at one point and shouts “Silence”, but then other members of the crew of Apollo 11 are infamou ...
  • Drowning doesn’t look like drowning
    It’s all thrashing and screaming for help isn’t it? Well, no. Absolutely not. Drowning people cannot even reach out to grab your oustretched hand or a thrown ring let alone yell and wave their arms. I used to help lifeguard our now dry local, public swimming pool, lido, but I was nev ...

RFF Library

  • The Next Step in Europe’s Climate Action ...
    Ecofys for Greenpeace http://bit.ly/16bZWzA
  • Black Carbon and the Regional Climate of Calif ...
    California Air Resources Board / Prepared by: V. Ramanathan, Principal Investigator http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/apr/past/08-323.pdf [report] http://1.usa.gov/13LR5SM [press release] Reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s, mostly from diesel engines as a result of air qua ...
  • Outsourcing CO2 within China
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print June 10, 2013; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1219918110) / by Kuishuang Feng, Steven J. Davis, Laixiang Sun, Xin Li, Dabo Guan, Weidong Liu, Zhu Liu and Klaus Hubacek http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/04/1219918110 [BBC N ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg’s Climate Change Adaptat ...
    A Stronger, More Resilient New York New York City Economic Development Commission http://www.nycedc.com/resource/stronger-more-resilient-new-york [Yahoo! News]  Citing the perils of climate change and the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday cal ...
  • Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Ga ...
    US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/ This report provides an initial assessment of shale oil resources and updates a prior assessment of shale gas resources issued in April 2011. It assesses 137 shale formations in 41 countries outside ...

Scientific American - News

  • Oceans Melt Antarctica's Ice from Below
    They may be less dramatic than the events in which icebergs break off, but everyday interactions with warm ocean currents could cause more than half of the ice melt along Antarctica’s coastline. [More]
  • First Fluorescent Protein Identified in a Vert ...
    The Japanese freshwater eel ( Anguilla japonica ) has more to offer biologists than a tasty sushi snack. Its muscle fibers produce the first fluorescent protein identified in a vertebrate, researchers report in Cell . [More]
  • Optical Circuits: Single Photon Flips Transist ...
    Transistors, the tiny switches that flip on and off inside computer chips, have long been the domain of electricity. But scientists are beginning to develop chip components that run on light. Last week, in a remarkable achievement, a team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech ...
  • How Nails Regenerate Lost Fingertips
    If a salamander loses its leg, it can grow a new one. Humans and other mammals are not so fortunate, but we can regenerate the tips of our digits, as long as enough of the nail remains. This was first shown some 40 years ago; today researchers finally reveal why it is that nails are necessary. [ ...
  • Speed Test Devised for Wild Cheetahs
    The cheetah crouches in the undergrowth. When a young antelope strays a little too far from the herd, the cheetah explodes out of the bush -- and, with a burst of speed unrivalled in the natural world, brings down its next meal. [More]

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • "I can honestly say I've never been consulted."
    SWN ignores letter from Grand Council, offers Elders cash at info sessions ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK - Noel Augustine is a Geptin in the Migmaq Grand Council, the pre-contact, traditional form of government of Mi'kma'ki which still ...
  • "This is an infringement upon human rights."
    Listuguj chief visits sacred fire encampment, pledges a bus load of support. ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK - After 12 more early morning arrests, the events at the sacred fire encampment at the junction of highways 126 and 116 west, in Kent Cou ...
  • 12 arrests made at sunrise ceremony, SWN seism ...
    Community members now wait for release of arrested MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK - SWN seismic trucks, flanked again by an escort of RCMP guards, today pushed past the junction of highways ...
  • COMIC: Bees on the Road
    Comic from the July/August 2013 issue of The Dominion. View larger version. For Heather Meek's previous comics, click here. AttachmentSize heather_bees.jpeg2.08 MB
  • SWN avoids confrontation, community finds caus ...
    Without RCMP escort, gas exploration company tucks trucks in early ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK – With SWN Resources Canada’s seismic testing trucks only about 5 kilometres ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Edward Snowdon, China's American dissident
    David Seaton's News LinksSnowdon's Hong Kong JudgesThe real risk to our democracy is what this situation does to potential dissenters, whistle-blowers, investigative journalists, and anyone else who thinks that some aspect of government policy might be boneheaded, unethical, or maybe even illega ...
  • NSA scandal... I got algorithm
    David Seaton's News LinksWhen separate streams of data are integrated into large databases — matching, for example, time and location data from cellphones with credit card purchases or E-ZPass use — intelligence analysts are given a mosaic of a person’s life that would never be available from si ...
  • A new angle on fracking
    David Seaton's News Links I had an interesting conversation about fracking today with a very knowledgeable Spanish executive in the energy sector.We weren't asking ourselves about the ecological questions that arise with fracking, but more about the geopolitical-strategic factors of this techno ...
  • Israel: the fiddler fiddles while the roof burns
    David Seaton's News Links Samson pulls down the temple (in Gaza, no less) Henry Kissinger famously wished that the Bible had been written in Uganda...Israel has never been richer, safer, more culturally productive or more dynamic. Terrorism is on the wane. Yet the occupation grinds on next d ...
  • My European Union Rant
    David Seaton's News Links Now it is the European Union itself that is in danger, mainly but not entirely because of the economic crisis inherited from Wall Street abuses. (...) A new Europe-wide report by correspondents of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro reveals mounti ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Yet More Reporting on NSA's Surveillance Programs
    I can't keep up with all the new reporting on NSA surveillance programs tonight. Here are two more. First, Mark Hosenball of Reuters reports that although NSA collects metadata for every phone call made, it makes only modest use of them: Millions of phone records were collected in 2012, ...
  • How Much Email Metadata Does NSA Collect?
    In Barton Gellman's big NSA surveillance piece, he says it wasn't bulk collection of telephone metadata that caused the dramatic showdown in John Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004. (Metadata consists of records about phone calls—time, location, and participants—not the contents of t ...
  • Washington Post Provides New History of NSA Su ...
    Barton Gellman has a big piece in the Washington Post today about NSA's codenamed surveillance programs that draws on "a classified NSA history of STELLARWIND and interviews with high-ranking intelligence officials." STELLARWIND, an umbrella name for the original Bush-era program that collecte ...
  • Can NSA Analysts Listen to Your Phone Calls?
    Declan McCullagh at CNET draws our attention today to testimony from FBI director Robert Mueller at a House Judiciary hearing on Thursday: Mueller initially sought to downplay concerns about NSA surveillance by claiming that, to listen to a phone call, the government would ne ...
  • NSA Apparently Surveils About 0.01 Percent of ...
    Tech companies, under pressure from foreign users who want to know if their accounts are routinely under surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies, have been begging the federal government to allow them to release general figures on how many FISA requests they get. The feds haven't allowed th ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 398: Tentacle Porn
    NSA whitleblower goes to China Osama Bin Laden died horribly as a former rich guy Why no one fucks with Japan Man breaks into houses and sucks unsuspecting men’s dicks The Rock is having a good year Marvel Studio’s has some great casting Women have bad online dating profiles too Kris ...
  • IC 397: This is Retarded
    The Bible is a Great Read Roy Hibbert & No Homo Cause Bullies Owning up to being offensive People exaggerating about sex Dating as you get older How no one talks about rejection Dating success rates are worse than baseball batting averages Why online dating isn’t really different from ...
  • Insanity Check: The OkCupid Special
    Kriss & Kev put together a special podcast/rant about the stressful nature of trying to use an online dating site like OkCupid.com Share with your friends:
  • IC 396: Comic Book Nerds
    Kriss talks about losing his fight The Fallon Fox/Transgender Fighter issue revisited Kriss, Phenom & Kev have the worst idea ever: Bringing “Faggot” back Xbox One Comic book nerds are ruining comic book movies What Fox needs to do to fix its X-Men movies Sony & Marvel migh ...
  • IC 395: Fuck This Shit
    Kev is fed up Work sucks Running people who do good for others into the ground Kriss – sugar – alcohol = Asshole Kriss Marvel Studios being cheap with Avengers payouts Nerds are hypocrites Charles Ramsey is awesome The transgender issue Walkout music for Kriss Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Deciphering climate messages via the heart of ...
    Through a lifelong involvement in nuclear science, Hans Suess developed radiocarbon dating, and provided evidence that burning coal puts carbon into the atmosphere and the activity of the Sun can change, affecting Earth’s climate.
  • Historical sea voyage sends manmade warming signal
    Will Hobbs from the University of Tasmania and NASA’s Joshua Willis have confirmed that ocean warming calculated from data collected by the HMS Challenger between 1873–1876 couldn’t realistically be from natural variability alone, pointing strongly to humanity's role.
  • Lifting the fog of war and climate
    Guy Callendar’s knowledge of climate and heat let him help devise a system to clear fog from British airfields during World War Two, and do detailed measurements on gases in the air that established how important CO2 is in driving climate change.
  • The well-qualified amateur who threw the spotl ...
    75 years ago Guy Callendar revealed calculations and temperature measurements linking rising 20th century temperatures to burning fossil fuels, helping to lay the foundations for understanding the global warming that is still ongoing today.
  • Ocean heat puts pressure on poorest fisheries
    The first evidence that climate change has affected fishing catches, revealed by William Cheung from the University of British Columbia and his team, shows tropical countries are set to be hardest hit.

e!Science News

  • Osteoporosis drug stops growth of breast cance ...
    A drug approved in Europe to treat osteoporosis has now been shown to stop the growth of breast cancer cells, even in cancers that have become resistant to current targeted therapies, according to a Duke Cancer Institute study. read more
  • Teaching complete evolutionary stories increas ...
    Many students have difficulty understanding and explaining how evolution operates. In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteris ...
  • Tobacco laws for youth may reduce adult smoking
    States that want to reduce rates of adult smoking may consider implementing stringent tobacco restrictions on teens, suggests a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. read more
  • E-commerce's future is in creating 'swift guan ...
    Despite the reputation of online marketplaces being distant and impersonal, through social technologies such as instant messaging, they can create the sense of personal and social relationships between buyers and sellers, termed "swift guanxi" in China, to facilitate loyalty, interacti ...
  • Researchers explode the myth about running inj ...
    If you are healthy and plan to start running for the first time, it is perfectly all right to put on a pair of completely ordinary 'neutral' running shoes without any special support. Even though your feet overpronate when you run -- i.e. roll inwards. read more

unEarthed

  • "All of the Above" Fails in Face of Climate Change
    President Obama's energy mantra echoes the fossil fuel industry Climate change increases the frequency of deadly wildfires. (U.S. Forest Service Region 5) ...
  • Narrowing the Chances of Gray Wolf Recovery
    Federal agency proposes handing protections to the states The famed wolf OR-7. (Richard Shinn / DFG) If the Obama administration has its way, one of Oregon&rs ...
  • Eliminating a 4-Letter Word: Smog
    Cleaner Fuels and Cars Mean Cleaner Air Smog over Los Angeles, CA. (EPA) “It's a scary moment to walk into a client's home or onto the freeway underpass ...
  • Grassley's Plan to Block 3 Court Nominees
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    The Desert Sun
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    Court ruling: a boost for renewables or can of worms?
    Christian Science Monitor
    The decision has been hailed as a victory for renewable energy. FERC's ability to structure recovery from a broad pool of ratepayers to support new transmission capacity for prime renewable development sites that have been undeveloped because they were ...
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    Forbes
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    Austin American-Statesman
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    Times of India
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    Nature.com
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    Access Washington
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    CounterCurrents.org
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    Influx of Syrian refugees stretches Jordan's water resources even thinner
    Washington Post
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    NPR
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    USA TODAY (blog)
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    Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon at defiant demonstrators
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