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English: Photos from Zuccotti Park on Wednesda...English: Photos from Zuccotti Park on Wednesday, November 2, Day 47 of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Occupy Wall Street protesters have taken over ...Occupy Wall Street protesters have taken over Zuccotti Park as a base of operations. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Republicans are a Disease

  • Glenn Beck You And Your Friends Are The Diseas ...
    ““But it makes total sense if people understand progressivism is a disease in the Republican Party as well,” Beck responded.” Yeah, that’s right Beck. Making sure all American have a chance to get ahead, that’s a disease right? All Americans have a right to see a doctor w ...
  • The Rich Get Richer
    And the poor get poorer. Who do you blame? Republicans or Democrats? Both? If you think the “rich” earned their money think again. They have all the advantages. Tax loopholes written especially for them, and the companies they own. The ability to move their money offshore, or put it ...
  • Pay More Taxes So Apple Doesn’t Pay Any
    Man, the testimony today about Apple’s offshoring of their entities to not pay taxes makes me want to puke. They take their income through an Irish corporation, with a part ownership from an entity in the British Virgin Islands so they don’t even have to pay taxes there. Billions upo ...
  • Republicanism Is A Disease
    You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
  • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
    Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

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  • ‘NY Times’ publishes defense of ra ...
    Imagine that the ‘New York Times’ published an op-ed defending the segregation of white and black schoolchildren at an American amusement park. That’s more or less what happened in Israel recently. By Mairav Zonszein and Lisa Goldman This article was originally published on the ...
  • Why soldiers don’t ‘break the sile ...
    When Israeli soldiers admit their past abuses of Palestinians, as they did again this week, the occupation’s defenders often ask: Why didn’t you report this to the army at the time? A personal illustration of why it is a disingenuous question.    I was 37, a new immigrant three and h ...
  • Hasidic music: Pushing the boundaries of the I ...
    Why don’t most of Israelis know this music that has been passed down from generation to generation? How open are we to a culture that seems so far away from us, despite the fact that it is just across the street?  By Merav Livneh-Dill He dances like Madonna, dresses like Lady Gaga and has ...
  • WATCH: Who does the Israeli coastline belong to?
    The coasts that allow us a respite from the Israeli heat is now in danger. The public beaches are about to face massive construction that will decrease their public territory and destroy their ecological balance in favor of upscale hotels and apartment buildings. Now, a new protest movement, lea ...
  • From Taksim protests to Women in Black: A week ...
    This week: anti-government protesters continue to clash with riot police in Gezi Park near Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Israeli police arrest social protesters in Jerusalem and the Angry Grandmothers make a (singing) return to mark the 46th anniversary of the Israeli occupation.   &#1 ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Foreclosure Process….Profits for Inv ...
    So much energy from state policy makers, judges and “leadership” focused on the “foreclosure crisis”…..all this energy focused on, CLEAR THE BACKLOG! But no one asking the question: What happens to homes after a foreclosure judgment? You would think this would be an ...
  • BOMBSHELL….more….many more…A ...
    From the Affidavits: Our firm has been contacted by thousands of individuals who have potential claims involving HAMP modifications, but who have not yet filed their own suits. These include well over a thousand people who have confirmed that they completed all requirements of a Trial Period Pla ...
  • The Federal Reserve Board Didn’t Even Bo ...
    From Credit Slips: The foreclosure fraud settlements were already farcical, but it just gets worse and worse. Now we learn that the Fed approved the amendments to its consent orders with mortgage servicers without it actually going before the Board of Governors for a vote. I get that Fed regulat ...
  • Mortgage is Paid Off….HOME IS SOLD IN FL ...
    This is PRECISELY the scenario I warn about.  This is EXACTLY why the Finality of Foreclosure Section in Florida’s new foreclosure bill cannot stand….read on: From Think Progress: A homeowner in Florida says her house was sold in foreclosure even though she was current on her Wells F ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Bank of America Employee, “We ...
    wow…… TALK ABOUT NUCLEAR BOMBSHELL VIOLATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT…. affidavit.boa3.djk affidavit.boa4.djk affidavit.boa2.djk Tweet this!Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

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Consumerist

  • Closing A Wendy’s? Kinda Sad. Tearing Do ...
    How could you let this HAPPEN, Eddie Murphy?!?!? It’s like we can’t count on you for anything these days. To wit: the real-life Wendy’s that played the part of McDowell’s in Coming to America‘s — “They got the Golden Arches. Mine is the Golden Arcs”— is being torn d ...
  • Petco Won’t Sell Child Any Goldfish Beca ...
    Pets aren’t toys. Tracey understands that, and she wanted to teach her son how to care for a small pet. They bought a tank and all of the extras, let it sit for five days, then returned to the store to get the actual fish. That’s when a helpful employee told them that she wouldn&#821 ...
  • Calphalon Matches Old Pan To New Lid, Sends It ...
    The warranty on Calpahlon cookware is pretty good, but doesn’t cover accidental damage or breakage. So Kenneth wasn’t expecting much when he contacted them to find out where he could buy a replacement lid for a discontinued pan. They figured out which lid went with his pan for him&#8 ...
  • At Least You Won’t Get Stranded At Sea I ...
    If you’ve found yourself entirely put off by the idea of climbing aboard a ginormous floating funhouse, for fear of say, becoming stranded at sea and wading around in sewage, but you still have a hankering for that maritime flavor, you’re in luck. A new hotel is touting itself as the ...
  • Lost Bus Driver Adds 100 Minutes To Morning Co ...
    Remember those Sunday versions of the Family Circus comic where Bil Keane would use a dotted line to trace the adventures of one of the little scamps who did everything but get the milk they were sent to the store to buy? Well, replace that wholesome scene with an angry, lost bus driver and a bu ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Statement on Edward Snowden & NSA Domestic ...
    GAP Statement on Edward Snowden & NSA Domestic Surveillance GAP released a statement earlier today on Edward Snowden’s exposure of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program. The statement makes clear our stance on the disclosure, and Snowden's role as a whistleblower who ...
  • The Diminishing Authority of the Global Fund’ ...
    Information about the diminishing authority and capabilities of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Global Fund continues to surface. Indications are that the Board of the Global Fund, through its Audit and Ethics Committee, is responsible for the reduced scope of OIG work and autho ...
  • 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 ...
  • Americans View Snowden as Patriot: Daily Whist ...
    The Diane Rehm Show: Leakers Versus Whistleblowers GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn RadackWidespread media coverage continued on NSA/PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosure that the US government is behind a massive data sweep of American citizens’ personal o ...
  • Heated Discussion Continues Over NSA Whistlebl ...
    Piers Morgan Live: Whistleblowers Support Edward Snowden GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, along with NSA whistleblowers and GAP clients Tom Drake and Bill Binney, appeared on Piers Morgan Live on Monday night to illustrate the importance of Edward Snowden’s r ...

UK Progressive

  • The Boston Marathon Bombers and the Theory of ...
    by Tina Dupuy My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armc ...
  • Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009 ...
  • Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
    by Tina Dupuy The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly def ...
  • The Dis-Uniting of America (2): Social Issues ...
    by Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported by 90 percent of Americans, was to be furious at the spinelessness of t ...
  • Boston Strong!
    by Janet Landry-Borden On March 5, 1770 three men were killed on the streets of Boston in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Two more died later from their injuries, and several more were wounded. It took five years for the British to begin to feel the tremors of the outrage of that [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Weekend Unthreaded
    I think it’s my Chinese Year of the Gremlin. Yesterday some node belonging to our giant service provider broke near us. We have had no net access for two days. My new big beautiful monster sits mute. After another hour on the help line, they said the phrase no one in the modern era likes t ...
  • An Abbott fan offends with a bad joke. Gillard ...
    Pre-draft Update: I wrote all this before the latest twist came. For foreign readers: gawk, supposedly in March at an Opposition fundraiser, a menu listed an insulting Julia Gillard Kentuky Fried Quail (and worse). It turns out the menu was not even used, it was an inhouse mockup. No one at the ...
  • Australian skeptics outnumbers believers say O ...
    The bottom line is that a third of people are concerned enough to be willing to act, a third say they are concerned but are only paying it lip service, and a third are openly skeptical. What matters is that 63% of people around the world don’t want their governments to take any money from ...
  • Even with the best models, warmest decades, mo ...
    This beautiful graph was posted at Roy Spencer’s and WattsUp, and no skeptic should miss it. I’m not sure if everyone appreciates just how piquant, complete and utter the failure is here. There are no excuses left. This is as good as it gets for climate modelers in 2013 and John Chri ...
  • Unthreaded weekend
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ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Vivos Still Trying – New Site in Kansas
    Robert Vicino, CEO of The Vivos Group, received a lot of media attention leading up to 2012 – promoting the idea of buying a berth in a bunker. His plans were grand, and relied on hundreds of people providing up-front money. Although many reasons were cited, my guess is that the Barstow mi ...
  • Nuking Asteroids Back on the Agenda
    When Bruce Willis nuked an asteroid in Armageddon, scientists told us that we didn’t have nuclear weapons powerful enough to pull off such a feat. And if the asteroid still struck Earth, but in smaller pieces, the damage might have been worse. The best recent solutions involve getting to t ...
  • Here Come the Doomsday Comedy Movies!
    After numerous serious and blockbuster films about the apocalypse, some of which were certainly a result of the 2012 meme, here come the comedies. Of course they were probably written and filmed prior to last December, but it wasn’t unusual to expect the Mayan doomsday to be a flop. And no ...
  • What Will (likely) Kill You – Giving Doomsday ...
    Often when I am discussing killer solar storms with people, they’ll say something like I’m going to die one day anyway, so, whatever. It’s the opposite attitude of a prepper. But how do preppers react to the concept of something mundane killing them? I guess some strive to stay ...
  • Governments Should Be Supply Bottlenecks
    Of the many major concerns I have with a general lack of preparedness in society, two stand out that can be jointly fixed: Lack of government preparedness – especially in the more major scenarios like the next Carrington Event Just in time delivery to stores and supermarkets, as well as j ...

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

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

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Oriental Review

  • France Channels Weapons to Terrorists Involved ...
    he Western press was mute on the Syrian war on June 12th  as reports came of another massacre  carried out by the so called ‘rebels’, who are in fact members of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliated groups.  Among those massacred in the village of Hatlah in the region of Deir e Zohr were dozens of wo ...
  • France Channels Weapons to Al Qaeda Terrorists ...
    The Western press was mute on the Syrian war on June 12th  as reports came of another massacre  carried out by the so called ‘rebels’, who are in fact members of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliated groups.  Among those massacred in the village of Hatlah in the region of Deir e Zohr were dozens of w ...
  • Turkey: Another Egypt?
    On many occasions the «Turkish-style» political system has been viewed as an example for Egypt to follow after the «Jasmine Revolution». Visiting Cairo in 2011, Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), tried to look as someo ...
  • Syria: Opposition In Retreat
    With financial assistance from Qatar and Saudi Arabia drying up and the flow of weapons from Turkey and Lebanon slowing, what had to happen now has: The rebels have begun retreating in panic under the Syrian Army’s onslaught. This is occurring against the backdrop of bad things happening for the ...
  • Meet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
    Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the ...

BlogHer

  • Everybody Was Kung-Fu Sleeping
    Editor's Note: Less so now, but still... little feed will thump into my room in the darkness of night. The sheet will pull a little bit as a hand reaches up to find leverage. A warm body slides under the covers and cuddles up. No words spoken. Everyone goes back to sleep. Megan at Absolute Mommy ...
  • Organization: Time To Do Something About All T ...
    I have always been crafty, so over the years, I've built up quite the collection of art supplies. I've never really had a system for keeping everything organized, until now. I had a few big plastic bins, but somehow everything ended up jumbled together in one big mess.So this week, after a  ...
  • The Real Problem with Breastfeeding in Public: ...
    Editor's Note: Normally I can't read a post about breastfeeding without getting all nostalgic for our days gone by. His Mrs. Her Mr. wrote about the "distractable" phase of nursing, which usually involves accidental flashes of entire breasts in places you never imagined flashing breasts, on purp ...
  • Nie Asks: Do You Have Gray Hair?
    If I look close enough to this picture, I feel like I can see gray hairs. Do you have any grays? When did you get your first? How old were you? What are your thoughts about gray hair? Tell me; I want to know!
  • Grandparenting: It Isn’t For Everyone
    Editor's Note: Have you ever cringed, grimaced, or flat out flown off the handle after your child's grandparent has done or said something? Yeah, me too. While grandparents are awesome, Steph at Where Crazy Meets Exhaustion points out that not all grandparents are... well... grand. She even wrot ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Chinese Plant Compound Wipes out Cancer in 40 ...
      A little-known plant with a truly bizarre name is now making headlines as a cancer killer, with the compound of the plant vanishing tumors in mice with pancreatic cancer. Known as the ‘thunder god ... Related posts:Top Healing Foods That Stop Ovarian Cancer in its Tracks Ova ...
  • Now The Feds Want Your Mental Health Records?!!!
    ‘ Privacy experts are warning of a strategy embedded inside a federal plan to adjust privacy rules so that the federal government can access Americans’ mental health records as part of Barack Obama’s war on gun ... Related posts:Arkansa Feds Seek Justice Against Exxon Mo ...
  • The Amish Don’t Get Autism and They Don’t Get ...
    People outside the alternative health community are often confused by the lack of autism in the Amish people. The Amish do not experience autism, or most of the other learning disabilities that plague our technological ... Related posts:Paralysis Cases Spike in Wake of Bill Ga ...
  • Why Consume Less Salt? (and how to do it!)
    Many of us eat too much salt, this can lead to elevated blood pressure, which puts you at an increased risk of health problems such as heart disease and stroke. Cutting down on salt will ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
  • Memory-Boosting Chemical Identified in Mice
      Memory improved in mice injected with a small, drug-like molecule discovered by UCSF San Francisco researchers studying how cells respond to biological stress. The same biochemical pathway the molecule acts on might one day be targeted ... Related posts:How Green Tea Boosts ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 14, 2013
    Smoke billows from chimneys of the cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) There was an interesting story this week in the Springfield-based Illinois Times: What do you get if you’re facing millions of dollars in fines for water p ...
  • Patriot struggle ‘a long, long way from ...
    Trying to follow the back-and-forth between the United Mine Workers of America and Patriot Coal this week has been a bit like watching a tennis match. First, we had the UMWA declaring on Wednesday that Patriot officials had “walked out” on negotiations aimed at working out some sort ...
  • Appeals court considering rehearing in Spruce case
    There was a little bit of action yesterday at the U.S.  Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia regarding the case over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of the permit for the Spruce Mine. Recall that a three-judge panel of the court upheld EPA’s authority to veto ...
  • UMWA says Patriot ‘walked out’ of ...
    This just in from the United Mine Workers of America: Negotiators from Patriot Coal walked out of talks with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) yesterday, threatening health care for thousands of retirees. The company also cancelled negotiations that were scheduled for the remainder of th ...
  • Heads out of sand: Conservatives and climate c ...
    The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden had the story in today’s newpaper: During his second stint in Congress, Bob Inglis said Tuesday, his concerns about climate change grew. The South Carolina Republican visited Antarctica twice, as part of congressional delegations. Those trips, he said, pl ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Is Facebook About to Fill the Hole Google Left?
    The event invite, first spotted by Joanna Stern of ABC News, says “A small team has been working on a big idea. Join us for coffee and learn about a new product.” The conspicuously analog invite was sent out via paper snail mail instead of by email like Facebook usually does. There’s also a coff ...
  • Predictions and Inevitabilities
    This will be in a highly unedited format. Please pardon the writing. Paid to Be Good Citizens The jobs are going, and they’re not coming back. Right now they’re going overseas, but the reality is that they’re going away permanently. Machines are taking them. Computers are takin ...
  • Why It’s Dangerous to Call Whistleblowers Heroes
    Exposing blatant criminal activity is generally a good thing. This is especially true when it’s being financed by, and wielded against, the same group–e.g., the American people. The Manning and Snowden cases are dissimilar in a number of ways, but in both situations they are being la ...
  • The Government is One Nuke Away From Being Too ...
    Without commenting one way or another, I find it fascinating that if a nuclear weapon were to go off tomorrow in an American city, the narrative would switch instantly from the government being too invasive to them not being aggressive and vigilant enough. I’m not saying we should fear-mon ...
  • Understanding and Validating Cross-site Reques ...
    Cross-site Request Forgery–often written CSRF and pronounced "Sea-surf"–is a common web applicaiton vulnerability thats far too misunderstood. Having participated in countless information security interviews over the years, its stunning to see the number of experienced profes ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

reference frame

  • Valentina Tereshkova: 50 years ago
    Exactly 50 years ago, on June 16th, 1963, the first woman went to outer space. The story of Valentina Tereshkova is also a story of the remarkable similarity between the propaganda tools of the Soviet Union and those employed by feminism and other pathological ideologies of the contemporary ...
  • There is no classical world
    ...even Sean Carroll may say true things about the foundations of physics... How is it possible? Well, quantum mechanics implies that if a process isn't prohibited by some absolute laws such as symmetries and conservation laws, it may happen even though the probability may be very tiny (lik ...
  • Czech police raid on lobbyists and politicians
    Trained plasma physicist and Czech prime minister Petr Nečas' government named some prosecutors and created the environment in which they may investigate and efficiently combat corruption and other economic crime on the interface of the public and commercial sectors. Ms Jana Bradáčová is t ...
  • Amazon: 3D printers below $1,200
    When Howard Wolowitz bought a 3D printer to print figures of himself, Rajesh Koothrappali, Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, and other heroes of The Big Bang Theory, he had to be chastised by Bernadette because it was her money and it was $5,000 of them. (Incidentally, I made some research ...
  • International Linear Collider: Technical Desig ...
    Yesterday, as I learned from the CERN website and a CERN press release, the Linear Collider Collaboration (obtained by merging the officials behind ILC and CLIC) has released the ILC Technical Design Report, including a free and colorful 60-page PDF booklet. It may be meaningful to me ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Scholars, authors wary of government review of ...
    Canadian history has a reputation for being dull, but the government’s decision to revisit accounts of our nation’s past is arousing passions in Ottawa. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: 5 types of beer that shaped Cana ...
  • Obama Ups the Stakes in Syria
    by Stephen Lendman, SJLendman.Blogspot.com: 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 accusations “a ...
  • Iran’s president-elect says fixing economy wil ...
    Iran’s newly elected reformist-backed president said the country’s dire economic problems cannot be solved “overnight,” as he took his first steps in consulting with members of the clerically dominated establishment on his new policies. CBC | Top Stories News I fund ...
  • Considering Chinese Demand
    from TF Metals Report: It’s one of those things. You hear about it every day but never stop to really think about it. This began as an email discussion with my friend, Ned, yesterday. All of us in Turdville are aware that the Shanghai Gold Exchange has physically delivered something like 1 ...
  • Nelson Mandela ‘continues to get better,’ pres ...
    South Africa’s president says that Nelson Mandela is seeing sustained improvement from the recurring lung infection that is forcing him to spend a ninth day in the hospital. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Nelson Mandela &# ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Geologist believed to have found large meteorite
    Terje Fjeldheim, a geologist who acknowledges that he “knows a bit about rocks,” was out fishing in the mountains of Setesdal, southern Norway, when he stumbled upon what’s believed to be a meteorite weighing four-and-a-half kilos. That would make it the largest meteorite found ...
  • Geologist believed to have found large meteorite
    Terje Fjeldheim, a geologist who acknowledges that he “knows a bit about rocks,” was out fishing in the mountains of Setesdal, southern Norway, when he stumbled upon what’s believed to be a meteorite weighing four-and-a-half kilos. That would make it the largest meteorite found ...
  • Murder suspect on Hamburg train
    A young man from Afghanistan who’s charged with murdering the 17-year-old mother of their child in Grua earlier this week has been spotted riding on a train between Copenhagen and Hamburg, according to police. The little girl was still with him, after he took her along when he fled Norway. ...
  • Murder suspect on Hamburg train
    A young man from Afghanistan who’s charged with murdering the 17-year-old mother of their child in Grua earlier this week has been spotted riding on a train between Copenhagen and Hamburg, according to police. The little girl was still with him, after he took her along when he fled Norway. ...
  • Teenaged robbers torment children
    Police in Oslo have charged as many as 20 teenagers aged 15 to 19 with the robberies of children as young as nine. Most of the children have been held up in the Groruddalen district on the capital’s east side, and robbed of their mobile phones and other valuables. Police told newspaper Aft ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    This is the mid-Autumn post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found here. Growe ...
  • Water is Life
    How Integrated Natural Resource Management improves water security for small farmers. by Dinabandhu Karmakar, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), India A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here. ...
  • Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation
    Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption, has described Entropia as "a masterful work of the imagination… a literary manifesto that will inspire, challenge, and give hope." Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth, has praised the book as follows: "Overflowing with ...
  • Unapproved Monsanto Crop (Wheat) Found Growing ...
    A genetically modified strain of wheat that was never approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as been discovered growing in Oregon, triggering a federal probe that is now spanning several states. The GMO wheat was made by biotech company Monsanto and was tested in parts of the ...
  • March against Monsanto: A Huge International S ...
    by Jeffrey M. Smith Our movement to end the genetic engineering of the food supply just entered a whole new era. On May 25th, two million people in 436 cities and 52 countries banded together to express their outrage over GMOs and Monsanto’s attempted takeover of seeds and agriculture. Re ...

Pointman's

  • An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
    An interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight. That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something, which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was Saturday ev ...
  • Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.
    We wretched dissenters from the climate orthodoxy have been placed under the psychological microscope several times in the last year or so. Since the studies, and I use that word advisedly, were conducted by featherweight academics with warmista rap sheets as long as your arm, the results as you ...
  • How to run a really bad infowar campaign.
    It’s perhaps a debatable opinion, but I think the main way that a lot people found out there actually was such a thing as the climate skeptic blogosphere, was that its existence was highlighted by the alarmists themselves. In the complete absence of any PR budget, it was actually the alarm ...
  • Politicians, thieves and those greedy pigs in ...
    It’s simple, easy and a mistake, to despise all politicians. In my experience, they’re actually like us and mostly decent people, and when push comes to shove, they’ll usually try to do their best for the people they’ve been elected to represent. To some extent or another ...
  • Birthday bash.
    It’s my birthday in May, there’s going to be a party and it’ll follow the same procedure as every year. An intermittent BBQ throughout the afternoon and evening, followed by a bonfire after it gets dark. The buildup is happening; wooden pallets are arriving and being stacked up ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...
  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • No jab, no play - the vaccine crackdown and yo ...
    In today's show we look at the controversy over vaccines from the perspective of basic human freedom. We propose that, whether or not vaccines are safe and effective, there is a moral imperative to protect the freedom of the individual which is being eroded by medical fascists who seek to make ...
  • Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached a new high ...
    In today's show we report on the latest climate change news as reported by Australia's national broadcaster the ABC.  On 11 May the ABC reported: The world's longest measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million (PPM) for the first time in three millio ...
  • World news roundup for 8th May 2013 - Part 1
    In today's show we bring you a wide range of stories from Australia and around the world, leading with the latest developments on the Syrian conflict. In a shocking development, the lead UN investigator into war crimes in Syria, Carla Del Ponte, has announced that the Syrian rebels most likely ...
  • The cancer of statism is eating away at the Au ...
    In today's show we cover some local news, in the wake of announcements that the Australian economy is suddenly looking shaky after several years of moderate growth. In late April the Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that revenue will be down $12 billion since the October budget update, and ...
  • Debunking the climate change scam with Malcolm ...
    In the 2nd hour of today's show we welcome to the show Malcolm Roberts, who joins us to continue the David and Goliath struggle of confronting and destroying the lies about climate which are being spread by the corporatist cartels who use bastardised science to subvert democracy and impose their ...

Beacon

  • Meet the Faces of the Ocean Hero Junior Awards!
    Winners of the 2010 Ocean Hero Award, the Shark Finatics' most recent project involved plastic bottles filled with important ocean conservation messages.  The Shark Finatics were the 2010 Ocean Hero Awards Junior Winners! Since winning the Ocean Hero Award in 2010, the Shark Finatics ha ...
  • Oceana Testifies in Support of MA Seafood Labe ...
    Do you really know what you're ordering? Oceana's Beckie Zisser testifies in support of stronger seafood labeling bills in Massachusetts. Photo: Jenn Hueting The Massachusetts Legislature is currently considering three bills relating to seafood mislabeling, following in the footsteps of Washi ...
  • Scottish Government Welcomes New Wind Subsidies!
    Scotland hopes to boost development of offshore wind through new federal subsidies. Photo: Wikimedia Commons In a move to promote the development of offshore wind, the Scottish government has introduced new wind subsidies.  Offshore wind is a renewable energy source which will help ...
  • Puffins Are Struggling with Warming Waters
    Puffins like this one have become the "canary in the coal mine," showing us the real threat that climate change poses to the oceans and to the creatures that call it home. Photo: Andreas Trepte Puffins are rightfully dubbed the “clowns of the ocean” from their animated appearance, but sadly, ...
  • Oceana's Michael LeVine Testifies Against a Re ...
    Michael Levine testifying before Congress | Courtesy Alaska Wilderness League Yesterday, Michael LeVine, Pacific Senior Council, Oceana, testified on the “Offshore Energy and Jobs Act” (H.R. 2231) in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of th ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Empty newsfeed.

Taylor Marsh

  • What’s Obama’s Strategy on Syria?
    PRESIDENT OBAMA had done everything possible to stay well away from the civil war in Syria, but on what the Administration judges is very high probability that President Bashar Assad has unleashed chemical weapons on his people, he judged the U.S. could no longer remain outside the action. Speak ...
  • Iran Elects “Reformer” Hassan Rouhani
    THE HEADLINES are blaring after Hassan Rouhani appears to have won a decisive victory in Iran’s presidential elections. Whether he’s a moderate by American standards is hardly as important as what Iranians feel, especially the young, who were hoping Rouhani would win. When compared w ...
  • Erotica Good Asset of New CIA #2 Avril Haines
    AS YOU can imagine, the headlines on President Obama’s choice to replace Mike Morrell as the second in command at the CIA got my attention. Not just because Avril Haines will be the first-ever woman in that position. Ms. Haines and I, it turns out, have quite a bit in common. We both have ...
  • Pond 2013, Frogs, Turtles and Fish
    WE MOVED the pond this year! What an ordeal it was… I got it started one Saturday morning a few weeks back and 6 hours of manual gardening labor later, I had moved all the lilies, other plants, and even the frogs! I also got a start on digging out the clay & filling the [...]The post ...
  • Sexist Attacks Bombard Austrialia’s Julia Gillard
    SHOCK JOCKS on radio, no matter the country, will do anything to get attention, which was proved in an interview with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard this past week. Howard Stettler verbally assaulted Julia Gillard with questions about whether her live-in partner was gay, because he&#821 ...

Hudson New York

  • National Defense vs. the Ideology of Jihad
    Counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole has compiled a meticulously-documented record of disastrous U.S. policy behavior that is as chilling as it is comprehensive. In "Blind Terror: The U.S. Government's Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S.
  • The Other Battlefront: The Propaganda War
    In 2000, a French television station, France 2, broadcast footage of a gunfight between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Caught in the middle, a father shields his young son, Mohammed, as bullets rake the air around them.
  • The Palestinian Authority's Reign of Terror
    Until recently, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank used to arrest Palestinians who criticized its leaders, especially Mahmoud Abbas. But now the Palestinian Authority has resumed using thugs to break the bones of its critics. It is an easy and
  • New Iran Crisis Looming
    At a time when news headlines from the Middle East are dominated by battles in Syria, growing Sunni-Shi'ite conflict in Iraq and Lebanon, and mass disturbances in Turkey, it is easy to forget about Iran's nuclear program; but early warning indicators are
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013
    The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were killed in that African nation. Among some of the atrocities committed in March alone, at

Urban Survival

  • Gee, That Was Fun…
    My, wasn’t that a peach of a rally Thursday?  Why the Dow put on rocket pants and blasted up 181 points. Are green shoots becoming strong trunks, or is something else going on here?   Would I have much to … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With a supernatural Vacation
    Well now, here is an odd thing:  I used to get  a dozen, or so, pretty cool reports of WuJo-like events per month.  But, for whatever reason, then have dried up – gone missing – and everyone I bump into … Continue reading →
  • Retail Sales: Saved by Cars!
    First the press release: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for May, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $421.1 billion, an … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Being out of “Pop”
    An alert reader (Sam)  called me out on my note to you earlier this week in which I wrote: “I get a kick out of seeing how gullible the American consumer is when I see headlines like “Apple’s quest for … Continue reading →
  • Russia for Snowden?
    We were wondering yesterday about the travel options for Edward Snowden now that Hong Kong has hung out the “not welcome” sign.  I can think of several countries where he might be able to seek refuge, but all are likely … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

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Radical Chic

  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
  • MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
    Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
  • MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
    It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
  • IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
    Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Latinos, Robert Redford, and YOU: Who's Next t ...
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco Summer is here, and for much of the country, it brings more than beach visits and shorts weather. As climate change drives our global temperatures upward, this summer ...
  • New York Assembly Poised to Ramp-Up Local Sola ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Our leaders in Albany are THIS close to taking giant leaps forward for solar energy in the state. Three-way negotiations are underway between Governor Cuomo and both houses of the state legis ...
  • Oil Companies Bet on Tar Sands, Against Califo ...
    Brant Olson, Campaign Manager, San Francisco Oil's Rail Wager A series of rail terminals proposed by California's biggest oil refiners could dramatically increase the supply of crude oil from the Canadian tar sands into the state,  potentially ...
  • New evidence that cutting forests to burn for ...
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Burning our forests for electricity is a bad idea—bad for our climate, bad for local ecosystems, and bad for our communities. But a new study just out of Dartmouth College shows that it might be even wors ...
  • Eighteen years and counting - keeping Cabo Pul ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC June marks two important anniversaries for Mexico’s Cabo Pulmo National Park, and both are reminders that protecting coral reefs is an enduring and critical challenge. Earlier this month, ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
    More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
    From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Worst of the Month – February 2013
    This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.   There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force.  If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...

Total Collapse

  • Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s and ...
    Multinational military exercise ‘Eager Lion’ has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards. The exercises will last for 12 days, bringing t ...
  • Bilderberg conspiracies are ‘absolute nonsense’
    Ken Clarke today dismissed conspiracy theories  about the secretive Bilderberg Group conference as ‘absolute nonsense’. And in a thinly-veiled swipe at Commons Speaker John Bercow, he said he could not believe he had been dragged to the Commons to comment on an event held by a privat ...
  • US nuclear bombs ‘based in Netherlands’ – ex-D ...
    Some 22 US nuclear weapons are stored on Dutch territory, says former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. Mr Lubbers, a centre-right prime minister from 1982-94, said they were stored underground in strong-rooms at the Volkel air base in Brabant. He made the revelation in a documentary for Nation ...
  • Internet monitoring system to stalk social med ...
    (NaturalNews) If you post articles to your Facebook wall that warn others about the dangers of vaccines, or Tweet links to the latest studies tying vaccines to autism through Twitter, the vaccine pushers of the world could soon know about it in real time. According to new reports, Bill & Mel ...
  • US Marines deployed along Jordan border with Syria
    US Marines have been deployed along Jordan’s border with Syria as the Syrian army inflicts heavy losses on foreign-backed militants, Israeli media reports say. Source.  

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook design tests, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Facebook design tests in New Zealand, porn blocking in China and Google Books for India. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Calendar, Insta ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, a new Google search test, Instacart keeps up the yuppie pressure, and North Korea gets tinted. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, Angry ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, The Flixies, music making money and Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mobile World Congress ...
    Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona. Listen to today’s Daily Dose for a roundup of news from the first 24 hours of the event. Check our full... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Glass details, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google Glass pricing and availability, North Korea’s 3G plans and tech words in the dictionary and more. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Comedy night benefit for Beyond Zero Radio
    In this federal election year, we are asking you to make a donation that matters! Beyond Zero Emissions volunteers run two weekly programs on Community Radio 3CR. Proceeds from this comedy fundraiser will go to 3CR's annual Radiothon, to keep our shows and our station on air. This fun night ...
  • Beyond Zero Radio Comedy Fundraiser
                 Come along to the Beyond Zero Emissions Comedy Extravaganza featuring Beyond Zero Radio's own Matt Grantham and other top local and international comics. Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has two weekly programs on 3CR Community Radio. All procee ...
  • Film: Generation Green
    Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his pe ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Logging may destabilize carbon in forest soils
    Logging in temperate zones may release more greenhouse gases than previously thought by destabilizing carbon stored in forest soils, argues a new paper published in the journal Global Change Biology-Bioenergy.
  • Peru opens deforestation data to the public, s ...
    Peru has made its comprehensive deforestation data available to the public.
  • Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples
    Indonesia is home to an estimated 50-70 million indigenous peoples, but the government does not recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples and claims that none live in Indonesia. In a response to the United Nations Periodic Review in 2012, a four–year human rights check-up for all coun ...
  • Fertility in Africa could push world populatio ...
    The global population could grow by another 4 billion people by the end of the century if fertility rates in Africa don't decline, according to a new report by the United Nations. Currently around 1.1 billion people live on the continent, but that number could skyrocket to 4.2 billion (a 380 per ...
  • Dude, are those shrooms glowing? Unraveling th ...
    Aristotle (384–322 BC) reported a mysterious light, distinct from fire, emanating from decaying wood. Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned feasting on a glowing, sweet fungus found on trees in France and, in the late fifteenth century, a Dutch consul gave accounts of Indonesian peopl ...

Sierra Express

  • Brazil 2014! Defeat ends Sierra Leone’s hopes ...
    Cape Verde 1 Leone Stars 0 Sierra Leone’s national team, Leone Stars was defeated in Praia, Cape Verde by a lone goal from Ramos Nhuck in the 12th minute of play in the World Cup Group B qualifier on Saturday 15th June 2013.  (Photo: Tubarões Azuis (Blue Sharks), Cape Verde National Team) ...
  • Discipline is the refining fire by which talen ...
    You will be forgiven if you wake up this morning and ask yourself; “What is this world coming to?” Every well meaning, past and present student of the illustrious Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone would be cringing; courtesy of some misguided miscreants who pass for students.  Viole ...
  • Reporters Union Condemn Sylvia Blyden over thr ...
    The attention of the Sierra Leone Reporters Union (SLRU) has been drawn to persistent threats emanating from the Office of the President, State House, against Journalists in Sierra Leone. For the past one week, the Special Executive Assistant (SEA) to the President, Dr. Sylvia Blyden, has been p ...
  • Sub-Regional Maritime Fisheries Commission Ele ...
    The Elections, to appoint a Permanent Secretary to the Sub-Regional Maritime Fisheries Commission in Dakar, Senegal, has resulted in a stalemate. As a result the seven Fisheries Ministers from Sierra Leone, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Guinea, Cape Verde and The Gambia have been asked to ...
  • African Youth at the forefront of the 2nd edit ...
    Over 10 Heads of State and 1,500 participants are meeting since Friday for the second edition of the New York Forum AFRICA  (Photo: H.E. Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Gabonese Republic and current chair of the CEMAC) LIBREVILLE, Gabon, June 15, 2013/ – Over 1,500 participants (econom ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy company victim of 'sophisticated fraud'
    Two former employees of dairy processing company Sutton have been sentenced for dishonesty and theft charges, with one being sent to prison and another given home detention.Paul Normington, 33, pleaded guilty last year to 16 charges...
  • Fonterra confirms $7 milk price
    Fonterra said it had confirmed $7.00 per kg of milksolids as the set price for its pilot guaranteed milk price scheme.The set price is the same as Fonterra's opening milk price forecast for the current season.The pilot scheme...
  • Liam Dann: Govt too slow on China dairy concerns
    Food safety is the hottest of issues for the Chinese public and there is a great deal of pressure on the Government to show the food scandals of the past few years are behind it. Last week I wrote that there was a sense in which New...
  • Aussie biggest NZ investor
    Widespread fears of a flood of Asian investment and a Chinese farm-buying spree are misplaced - Australia is the largest overseas investor in New Zealand.A new KPMG analysis of foreign investment from July 2010 to December last...
  • Ministry works to allay Chinese concerns
    The Ministry for Primary Industries says it's working on a number of initiatives aimed at addressing concerns in China about the rapid rise in the number of New Zealand infant formula brands available to Chinese consumers.The statement,...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Sheldon Richman: Obama Speaks with Forked Tong ...
    The Obama administration’s response to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s secret monitoring of the Internet and collection of our telephone logs is a mass of contradictions. Officials have said the disclosures are (1) old news, (2) grossly inaccurate, and (3) ...
  • Yes, Actually, the NSA Says They Can Eavesdrop ...
    I’ve run out of interesting ways of combining humor, horror and outrage to introduce the latest National Security Agency revelations. Here you go. Read what Declan McCullagh at CNet reports: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does ...
  • Cathy Young on Female Breadwinners and the Pow ...
    Are female breadwinners bad for America? Is caveman punditry bad for Republicans? These are the questions in the wake of a new study on women as family breadwinners and of a controversial Fox Business Network segment in which several male contributors deplored the trend as a sign of ...
  • Watch Matt Welch Talk Immigration on MSNBC's < ...
    Beginning at 10 am Eastern Time, I will be on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry show, guest-hosted by Ari Melber, to talk about the politics and policy of comprehensive immigration reform. 
  • Baylen Linnekin on Menu Labeling at Fast Food ...
    From studies that look at whether food logos make kids fat to ones that examine whether alcohol is the new soda, much research in the area of food law and policy isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. The latest dubious example comes from the Journal of Public Health, where researche ...

Mercury Rising

  • Magical state, magical ballots
    We reported earlier on a Florida scandal in which Ana Alliegro, a consultant to Republican U.S. House representative David Rivera, was accused of paying Justin Lamar Sternad to run as a fake Democrat against Democratic challenger Joe Garcia. Garcia won by 6,000 votes. Alliegro, who had disappear ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Financial crisis 2.0
    Atrios linked a bit by Charles Pierce which linked Mary Williams Walsh in the NYT, with an uncharacteristically easy to understand article (based on a report by Benjamin Lawsky of NY Dept of Financial Services) on how life insurance companies are cooking their books. Let’s suppose that you ...
  • And it was all going so nicely! (Is Assad abou ...
    I don’t pretend to know whether this is correct, but the Agonist under Sean Paul Kelley was generally a place to go for international news. I am less taken with the current editor, Michael Collins, but it’s certainly a tonic to what we hear in our press: The war in Syria went from a ...
  • Cliff-diving, Japanese style
    Down 5.7% (758 points) so far today, and 20% from its high. US futures scheduled to open down 0.75%, and roughly 4% (S&P) from its high. Seems pretty clear that money is flooding out of international markets (Japan, Brazil, Turkey which is down roughly 20% from its high) and into the US. Whi ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Psi in the News
      The Observatory-Brooklyn opens its doors to a day with The Trickster and the Paranormal, Ryan Jordan introduces us to the subtle secrets of retro-death-telegraphy, Communist mind training music is now available on MP3, and Shannon Taggart captures the mysteries of physical mediumship in ...
  • Two Chaos Magic Practices
    "The science and art of creating change in conformity with will." --Aleister Crowley's definition of magick I'd like to offer a couple of chaos magic practices I created. read more
  • Sex in the News
    Warrior Princess A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender. Why bird sex matters. What Women Want.  An Israeli judge's unpopular rape statement. Mr. Balls goes to bat for testicular cancer. read more
  • The Headdress Thing - Festival Culture, Native ...
      On many occasions I allow myself the perverse indulgence of participating in public conversations on Facebook. The signal to noise ratio is vast, but it can be managed. Careful attention and a generous sifting of one's feed can reveal honest, coherent debates like golden nuggets h ...
  • 4 Days To Go – and Almost There
    Thanks to you, the Reality Sandwich 2.0 Kickstarter already shot past our target for Thursday noon -- a day early, yet again! We received the matching pledge of $2,500, and we're now over 90% funded, closing in on our goal of $40,000! Let's get it done now! Pledge today at: http://www ...

Desertification

  • Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
    Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday. The findings, from the International Energy Agency (IEA), come just weeks after scientists in Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere higher than 400 parts p ...
  • Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
    Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík. And a big part of reversing soil decline is carbon, the same element that is overheating the planet. “Keeping and putti ...
  • Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangl ...
    Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh’s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of rea ...
  • Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
    Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activis ...
  • Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
    As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with ...

Blogging Canadians

  • We have to care about Hamilton’s history
    I lived at home during my undergrad days. The HSR became my best friend, shuttling me from campus to home with a slight downtown detour with…
  • "Emperor" Erdogan doing what Muslim dictators ...
    People are being arrested for using Twitter to spread "untrue information" according to the regime. ....Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 25 people for "spreading untrue information" on social media and provoking protests. The Anadolu Agency says Wednesday the peop ...
  • Canada's Bank CEO's Are Among Highest Paid .. ...
    "Canadian bankers were among some of the highest-paid banking executives in North America last year, with three in the top 10, according to a new list compiled by Bloomberg Markets magazine. In all, six Canadian bank CEOs were in the top 20." CBC  "Canada's biggest banks accepted ten ...
  • Chair of Toronto Catholic School Board Tries t ...
    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the Catholic school system, they find a way to further disgust you. The Toronto trustees are preparing to vote on a motion tomorrow to replace the government-mandated Gay-Straight Alliances with the Archdiocese’s Catholic alternative called ...
  • Detroit’s amazing urban farms help build community
    When I ran for the Presidency of the McMaster Student Union, one of the platform points I was most passionate about was one concerning the creation…

Press TV - Middle East

  • Violence kills 27 people across Iraq
    At least 27 people have been killed and many more injured in a wave of violence across Iraq, involving car bomb attacks and a shooting incident.
  • ‘Turkey may dub protesters terrorists’
    Turkey’s European Union minister has warned that Turkish police will consider protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square as members or supporters of terrorist groups.
  • ‘UK planned war on Syria before unrest’
    A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country.
  • Obama escalating Syria war: Ron Paul
    Former US Congressman Ron Paul has sharply criticized President Barack Obama for his decision to approve arming foreign-backed militants in Syria, noting that such a move would “escalate” the ongoing crisis in the Middle Eastern country.
  • Anti-regime protests continue in Bahrain
    Bahrainis continue anti-regime protests despite a fierce crackdown by forces loyal to the Al Khalifa family, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What Type of Learner Are You?
    More infographics on CUNY SPS’s Pinterest account.
  • Lynx Love
    More lynx photos, videos, and fun facts on the CUNY SPS Pinterest account.
  • Educational Attainment, Occupations, & Work-Li ...
  • CUNY TV Goes Digital
    New Yorkers on the small screen! CUNY TV premieres several new shows on digital channel 25.3 this week. Based on the trailer there is something for everyone. Which one will you tune in to watch? Incredible Indies, Asian American Life, Surviving the Recession, or Arts in the City?
  • Much Needed Advice From Academic Advisors
    As we enter our second week of the Summer 2013 Term, many of us have busy schedules that can range from working full time and taking classes, working part time and taking care of children, or a combination of both scenarios. By this time many students reflect on their time management skills and ...

Dissident Voice

  • What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America ...
    Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout th ...
  • Big ‘Bama is Watching You
  • The Games Kids Used to Play, They’re Sti ...
    When I was a kid, there were no computer games. In fact there were no computers. But there were games. One game, typical for its intellectual content, went like this: you had this piece of cardboard with four corner spaces and laddered spaces in between, a pair of dice and several little plastic ...
  • Former French FM: War against Syria Planned 2 ...
    In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing ...
  • Upcycling: Saving the Planet By Design
    In The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability — Designing for Abundance (Northpoint Press), American architect William McDonough and German chemist Dr Michael Braungart offer a new improved version of the cradle to cradle (C2C) vision they first introduced with their 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Re ...

Nick Turse

Sources

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
    Khadija Komboani’s nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania’s Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. And until recently, the 36-year-old mother of 12 from Nungwi village in Unguja on the northernmost part of Zanzibar, spent most of her day walking to her nearest ...
  • Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious R ...
    The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism’s most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as “Women of the Wall” prayed legally and in a way they saw fit. For 24 years, the Women o ...
  • Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel S ...
    The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag’s apartment in one of Cairo’s poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building. Constructed ...
  • Globe Less Peaceful Than Five Years Ago – Report
    The world – especially the Greater Middle East – has become less peaceful than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Consistent with that trend, the Index also foun ...
  • U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Int ...
    A broad-based alliance of public interest and other groups is warning that years of attacks by business interests has made the U.S. regulatory so inefficient that public safety is being put at risk. The groups, under the umbrella of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), are urging the Whi ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran’s Presidential Election and the Real Dyna ...
    Summary: This year’s Iranian presidential election is likely to produce a strong political figure who will have a significant impact on the Islamic Republic’s foreign and domestic policies, helping to ensure Iran’s continued internal development and bolstering its regional importance. Yet ev ...
  • America’s Failed Syria Strategy
    Summary: U.S. support for the Syrian opposition was about two things. One was to use the opposition to bring down the Assad government, to (in their calculation) damage Iran’s regional position. Secondly, it was about coopting the Arab Awakening: to show that after the loss of pro-Western ...
  • Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear enrichment
    Summary: The campaign to elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor as Iranian president is well under way. The eight candidates took part in a TV debate on cultural policies yesterday, with a further debate scheduled before the vote takes place on 14 June. source: The Guardianread more
  • The Self-Defeating Dynamics of American Hegemo ...
    Summary: Our experience in the U.S. government—running from roughly the period of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s until March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, when we left our positions at the White House on the National Security Council staff—effectively spanned the high-water m ...
  • Former Canadian ambassador to Iran: Canadian F ...
    Summary: John Mundy, the last Canadian ambassador to Iran, writes that the Canadian Foreign Minister Baird's hawkish position on Iran has prevented real solutions from being considered, and notes that Iran had already accepted many of the demands placed on its nuclear program source: Iran ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Great Attractor" --Is Something is Pullin ...
                 A busy patch of space has been captured in the image below from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the background. Located on the border of Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle) and Norma (The ...
  • "Cosmic Flows" --Mapping the Movements of the ...
                 An international team of researchers has mapped the motions of structures of the nearby universe in greater detail than ever before. The maps are presented as a video, which provides a dynamic three-dimensional representation of the universe through the use of rotation, pa ...
  • Alien Planet Discovery a Puzzle --Accepted The ...
                A team of researchers has discovered evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star—- about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun. Planet formation far away from a small parent star is at odds with the conventional planet-making dogma. Under the ...
  • 26 New Black Holes Found In Andromeda, Our Si ...
                     Using more than 150 Chandra X-ray Observatory observations, spread over 13 years, researchers identified 26 black hole candidates, the largest number to date, in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. Many consider Andromeda to be a sister ...
  • Galaxy Clusters Reveal Distribution of Dark Matter
                  “Each bright city light is a galaxy, and the dark areas between the lights that appear to be empty during the night are actually full of dark matter. You can think of the dark matter in a galaxy cluster as being the infrastructure within which the galaxies live,” say an i ...

Natural News

  • By arming al-Qaeda in Syria, Obama's transform ...
    Obama's "chemical weapons" claims against Syria are woven from the same fabric as Bush's "weapons of mass destruction" claims against Iraq. That fabric is, of course, fiction. Neither claim has any basis in reality, but they make a great story that can be spoon-fed to...
  • Monster mosquito panic! Global warming causes ...
    Giant mosquitoes the size of elephants are invading Florida and sucking so much blood out of victims that they shrivel up and die, warned health authorities in Seminole County. They're being called "zombie mosquitoes" because a bite from one of these massive mosquitoes...
  • Down with GMOs
    (NaturalNews)Recently, In one of Hawaii's only newspapers that is for the people and free, The Honolulu Weekly, an article written by Tiffany Hervey put the GMO issue in an incredible, proper perspective. The problem is that before any change can take place, we have to somehow negate...
  • High-calorie foods that are good for you (but ...
    When we're attempting to lose weight, it goes without saying that we're going to skip the cheesecake, avoid fried foods and pass on the sweets. However, there are quite a few foods that, while healthy, are also extremely high in calories. In fact, by watching calories...
  • Understanding thyroid disorders and how to tre ...
    Perhaps one of the most misunderstood of all the body's systems, your thyroid - a gland that is located in front of your neck - is also one of the most important among them, for it controls or supports a wide range of functions. Consequently, thyroid disorders can be...

Threat Level

PERRspectives : Blog

  • IRS Officials Threatened with Violence Again
    If House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's faltering inquisition of the IRS seems familiar, it should. Back in the 1990's, Republicans demonized the agency, slashed its enforcement staff and, unsurprisingly, helped the growth of tax cheating which now costs Uncle Same up to $500 billi ...
  • FEMA Denies More Aid to West, Texas and San Br ...
    News that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had denied additional disaster aid to the town of West, Texas has Lone Star State leaders crying foul. President Obama, they charge, "used West, Texas as a photo op" and "turned his back on Texas and gone against his word." But while the ...
  • Press, Polls Wrongly Conflate Bush and Obama N ...
    In the wake of the twin revelations about the National Security Agency's dragnet of phone calls and online activity, polling suggests that a majority of Americans apparently remain comfortable with their civil liberties being compromised in the cause of preventing terror attacks. Probably just ...
  • S&P Raises U.S. Outlook, Warns GOP on Debt Ceiling
    In recent week, a growing consensus of economists, analysts and political leaders has called for an end to U.S. fiscal austerity. Even as the influential Reinhart-Rogoff high-debt/low-growth thesis was being shredded, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) slashed its FY 2013 deficit forecast by ...
  • How Arrested Development Explains the Republic ...
    The arrival of season four of Arrested Development on Netflix may have been one of the most hyped developments in entertainment in recent years. But whether you loved it or hated it--or just didn't care--it's hard to dispute the lasting impact of the show. As Ben Yagodo explained in Slate, the ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
    Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
  • “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
    An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
  • Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
    With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
  • Headlines for November 28, 2012
    Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
  • Palestine Activism in the UK
    Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Antarctic Ice Shelves Losing Mass As A Result ...
    The Antarctic ice shelves have been melting at ever increasing rates in recent years — losing mass, though not always extent, as much of the mass loss has been with regards to ice thickness. And now, new research has shed some new light on the causes of this ice loss — the warming oc ...
  • How The Famous Got Green And What You Can Do
    Many presidents have done their bit to help the environment, as well as famous actors. You can find out what they've done to go green, and what you can do to go green too.How The Famous Got Green And What You Can Do was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousa ...
  • Fossil Kangaroo Teeth Shed New Light On Climat ...
    The newly discovered fossilized teeth of an extinct kangaroo species — as well as a variety of new fossils from other extinct marsupials — are helping to shed new light on the climate of the Australian Pliocene — revealing that the region of Australia where they were found was ...
  • Crocodiles, Alligators, Caimans, and Gharials ...
    Crocodilians — crocodiles, alligators, gharials, and caimans — are some of the most successful predators on the planet, as well as being very interesting looking. They possess and impressive an array of “super-sensory” adaptations that make them very effective in their pr ...
  • Baobab Tree — Adansonia Facts, Uses, And Photos
    Baobab is the common name for the trees of the genus Adansonia — along with the names boab, boaboa, bottle tree, upside-down tree, and monkey bread tree. The genus contains nine different species, six of which are native to Madagascar, two native to the African mainland, one to Australia, ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Paul Cellucci: Last of a Breed
    By @TedFrier When was the last time you saw a Republican in these fractious, bitterly polarized times hold up a T-shirt that reads: "Some of our best friends are Democrats!" You would have if you were present in the House Chamber on Thursday as former Governor Bill Weld joined the rest of the Ma ...
  • Where's Vera Lynn When You Need Her?
    If you're a cheerleader for human extinction, a notion with which I am beginning more and more to sympathize, this week brought some terrific news -- as in really shitty. It seems the permafrost isn't, or at least won't be for very much longer: Permafrost (perennially frozen) soils underlie muc ...
  • Wal-Mart Gets Rich Off Government Subsidies
    Bashing welfare is a very easy thing to do, and with some reason. I just saw my hometown not long ago, and it looked like a scene from The Last Picture Show. Storefronts that used to thrive were boarded up. Half the town, probably more, is on government assistance of some sort. Agriculture is mo ...
  • The Guardian Needs To Do Some Vetting Here
    By @TomBales1  Before I make any hard fast judgments about this young Snowden fella that I won't be able to walk back later should I prove to be wrong, I want to know one thing.  What was the relationship between he and Glenn Greenwald prior to Mr. Snowden's employment by BAH because based ...
  • A modern application of an old idea
    By @BginKC A few years ago I was the leader of a study group for a Criminal Justice class on the history of the penal system. One session sticks out in my mind because in it I used the current surveillance state as an analogy to help them grasp the concept of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison d ...

Care 2

  • The Viral Sprial - Internet Rumors DeBunked
    Just because you read it on somebodys blog or in an email from a friend or relative doesnt mean its true. Its probably not, as we advised in our special report Is this chain e-mail true? Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Time for a change at the White House (de)regul ...
    Pop Quiz: whats the most powerful government office youve never heard of? Submitted by JL A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! End Cruel Trapping and Ki ...
    There are approximately 50,000 wild Mustangs in captivity today, with only 32,000 left in the wild. Unless measures are taken to control the Mustang population more ethically, these numbers will continue to decline and shift unstably. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   N ...
  • How Local Sustainable Food is Transforming Com ...
    "People are realizing that we can't rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that's happening is our greatest opportunity..." Submitted by Judy C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
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No Quarter

  • Syria, Follow the Money and Oil
    Why is Obama doing what he is doing in Syria? Some think this is all about Israel. I want to suggest an alternative explanation. It is a bit complicated, but I think it hangs together. It starts with Saudi Arabia. While Saudi Arabia is a majority Sunni population, it has a substantial, growing, ...
  • The Incompetence of Obama on Syria
    First the good news–some liberals are not buying into Obama’s Syria nonsense. The bad news? Cheerleaders like Jonathan Alter, who scorched Bush on the Iraq venture, is urging Obama on and making excuses for his Bush-like actions. The hypocrisy is sickening. Regardless of your view on ...
  • Obama Taking US to War?
    Goddamn Obama and everyone in his Administration, the press and punditry who build the case to insert us into a needless, unnecessary, feckless civil war in Syria. If he does this, and it receives the support of the American people, then goddamn us! We will have debased our nation’s honor. ...
  • Congressman Peter King is a Despicable Piece o ...
    I am hoping that an enormous mountain of Karma will collapse on this buffoon from New York. Peter King was out today pushing a goddamn lie about Glen Greenwald–i.e., King accused Greenwald of threatening to lead the name of CIA officers. Greenwald did not and has denied in the strongest te ...
  • Top Secret Hysteria
    Watching the parade of politicians and pundits condemning NSA “whistleblower”, Edward Snowden, as a traitor who should be charged with treason is both amusing and disturbing. I am amused in the same way that a smile crosses my face while watching the classic scene from CASABLANCA, Po ...

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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Ithaca College Offering Alternative Spring Bre ...
    The Ithaca Independent Ithaca College Offering Alternative Spring Break Choices The Ithaca Independent West Virginia is the epicenter of mountaintop removal (MTR), a process by which explosives and heavy machinery are used to remove the top portion of a mountain to expose the coal fields underne ...
  • Big clean energy rally draws early challenge f ...
    Big clean energy rally draws early challenge from coal supporters The Courier-Journal (blog) We need to stop the harmful effects of practices like mountaintop removal, hydraulic fracturing, mining, and drilling. We need to protect our children and communities from the harmful impacts that come f ...
  • Professor's journey traces Daniel Boone's step ...
    Professor's journey traces Daniel Boone's steps Lexington Herald Leader "I get this from people who are gladly working in the coal-mining industry and mountaintop removal," he said. "They see the land as important, but 'the land is ours and therefore we need to use it. ...
  • Arch Coal seeks to reverse Spruce No. 1 revers ...
    Town Hall Arch Coal seeks to reverse Spruce No. 1 reversal West Virginia Public Broadcasting The EPA said destructive and unsustainable mountaintop removal mining practices at the Spruce No. 1 surface mine in Logan County would cause irreparable environmental damage and threaten public health. T ...
  • Coal company readies for possible fight with E ...
    Coal company readies for possible fight with EPA The Logan Banner The case made headlines on April 23 when the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled the EPA could withdraw terms of a Clean Water Act permit already granted to the company for its work on a mountaintop removal m ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. spy agency paper says fewer than 300 phon ...
    Mark Hosenball / Reuters: U.S. spy agency paper says fewer than 300 phone numbers closely scrutinized  —  (Reuters) - The U.S. government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records colle ...
  • Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney gen ...
    Washington Post: Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general  —  We were disappointed to read David Ignatius's June 9 op-ed column, “A mediocre attorney general,” purporting to represent the views of a number of unnamed Washington lawyers about Attorney Genera ...
  • Video: Congressman Claims He Was Told Governme ...
    Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed: Video: Congressman Claims He Was Told Government Could Listen To Phone Calls Without A Warrant  —  Democratic New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler claims he was told in a closed-door briefing that the NSA could listen to a specific phone call, and get a call ...
  • SECRET TO PRISM PROGRAM: EVEN BIGGER DATA SEIZ ...
    bigstory.ap.org: SECRET TO PRISM PROGRAM: EVEN BIGGER DATA SEIZURE  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after ...
  • NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls witho ...
    Declan McCullagh / CNET: NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants  —  National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls.  That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text ...

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  • 美国政治分&#2749 ...
    近期的气候丑闻表明，科学问题政治化使美国环境保护署极易受到外界的干扰。美国 ...
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    2012 年接连发生的几场环境群体事件，让邻避运动成为无可回避的社会现象。霍伟亚根&#2 ...
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    生活在中国城市的数亿人口，有一半饮用着不合格的自来水。撰写这篇报道的宫靖和 ...
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    中国大量有毒的土地被开发为住宅区，甚至是高档的住宅。但居民对此一无所知。高 ...
  • 遥远的“清&#27905 ...
    世界上能够使用清洁厕所的人远不如人们从前认为的那样多，这已经给公共健康和环 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Male Menopause? Scientific Study Says It's Pos ...
    Study authors note that if women preferred to have kids with younger men, female menopause would be reversed—men would go through it instead. Scientists have long wondered why women’s fertility declines after a certain age. Now researchers have a new theory: It’s all men&# ...
  • Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Sn ...
    The firm that formerly employed both the director of national intelligence and the NSA whistleblower merits closer scrutiny. Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia, has shot into the news recently over two of its former employees: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who ...
  • Atheists Can Be Just As Obnoxious As Christians
    Just because you’re in the right doesn’t mean you have to be a jerk about it. Just because you’re in the right doesn’t mean you have to be a jerk about it. Today’s case in point: the battle going on right now in Florida’s Orange County over who gets t ...
  • Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permi ...
    Movies have got us used to the sight of people as pixellated quarry, tracked by powerful technology. Last week's NSA leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the 360-degree, all-platform access tha ...
  • How Predatory Reformers Are Destroying Educati ...
    Online courses can't replace the good old fashioned teaching methods we once pioneered but are now driving Finland's educational success. Several months ago, on a damp gray afternoon, I found myself sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, just a few blocks from the La ...

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Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
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    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • The Problem with Hepatitis A, Frozen Berries a ...
    99 sickened in 8 states – so far! Last week Erin Ivie of the Mercury News reported that the frozen berries from Costco recently linked to hepatitis A cases continued... Continue Reading
  • Shhh, E. coli Link to Chicago Area Restaurant
    According to the Chicago Tribune, the DuPage County Health Department closed an unnamed Lombard restaurant in connection with the investigation into four confirmed cases of E. coli in people admitted... Continue Reading
  • Why Food Retailers Really Don’t Care
    If you were not legally responsible for the food you sell, why would you give a %^&$ about food safety? The next time you walk down the produce aisle (with... Continue Reading
  • Massachusetts E. coli Outbreak Investigated
    Wellesley Health Department (WHD) received notice by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (MDPH) surveillance system on June 12, 2013 of a case of E. coli in a Wellesley resident.... Continue Reading
  • More Ill with Hepatitis A Linked to Townsend F ...
    As of June 11, 2013, we are investigating acute hepatitis A illnesses in 99 people in eight states: Arizona, California Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Washington. Investigation by... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Are You Going to Give Your Terrorist Friends I ...
    by Steven Argue U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are making new claims that chemical weapons have been used by the Assad government in Aleppo. Obama is using these claims to increase U.S. involvement in the armed conflict in Syria on behalf of the genocidal Is ...
  • The Dangers of Corporations Controlling Nation ...
    It’s time to completely end the privatization of national security. Business Week recently pointed out that 99 percent of Booze Allen Hamilton’s revenues come from government contracts. Why would we pay a CEO millions, stockholders tens of millions, and workers a small fortune when the same work ...
  • Deleted Daily Mail Online Article: “US Backed ...
    In January 29, 2013, Britain’s most popular Daily Newspaper, in its online version Dailymail.co.uk published an article titled: A few days later they pulled the article. What the reason was for the deletion remains unclear. The article was published at this URL: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270 ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | Lowdown, Dirty, Rotten, Filt ...
    By Visible It mystifies me. I cannot get my head around that mass of the population, who possess no curiosity and do not thirst for the truth, as if it were the wellspring of existence, which it is. Not infrequently, people presume that I hold the opinions I hold because they are things I want [ ...
  • Visible Origami | The Pekingese Personality an ...
    By Visible This is also Origami, so… maybe we don’t need to talk about any of that because… some permutation or another of this sort of thing is ALWAYS going on. You get your head stuck into the world’s business and it’s not much different than having your head stuc ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The Empire Strikes Back: The Demonization of S ...
    Summary: Marcus Ranum, our in-house cyber-expert, looks at the next stage of the government’s defense against the revelations of NSA surveillance. Like the surveillance itself, they rely on non-governmental agents to get the job done. I’m sure we’re all shocked to see attempts ...
  • Conserveratives were correct: we have record-b ...
    Summary: Today we look at inflation, past and present. It tells much about who to trust for economic analysis, the current state of the US economy, and what we can expect in the future. . Contents Introduction The inflation picture Implications Why has inflation fallen since 2011? Others see the ...
  • Someone call Nixon’s plumbers. We need t ...
    Summary: Marcus Ranum looks to our past — the government’s history of surveillance — to see the future which the government’s vast surveillance machinery makes possible, and perhaps will help bring into being. . The NSA Doppleganger and Enemies The Nation currently has an ...
  • Compare our New America to the America-that-on ...
    Summary: We made a compact with ourselves when creating the United States, ratified by elected officials to show consent of the governed for so long as the Constitution lived. Many considered this a bold act, one with few if any precedents. But our forefathers successfully fought to defend the R ...
  • What they mean when the government says &#8220 ...
    Summary: Even the best journalists and national security experts have difficulty with technical stories like the recent NSA revelations. Today Marcus Ranum (bio) cuts through the government’s lies, explaining the truth behind the NSA’s tapping vital telephone and email communication ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Warm Venus Volcano
    This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees east longitude) in the Imdr Regio area of Venus. The topographic backbone derives from data obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, with a vertical exaggeration of ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of Day: Guts of a Dead Star
    Suspended in time and space, the aftermath of a massive star’s dramatic ending in a supernova explosion is captured by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory. Nested knots of hot gas glowing green at X-ray wavelengths – equivalent to millions of degrees celsius ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Changing Neptune ...
    NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations in August 2002 show that Neptune's brightness has increased significantly since 1996. The rise is due to an increase in the amount of clouds observed in the planet's southern hemisphere. These increases may be due ...    
  • Strange, Glowing Night Clouds Continue to Spread
    Just after summer sunsets in northern latitudes, shimmering, wispy clouds appear in the twilight sky. This year, these noctilucent clouds have appeared earlier and farther south than ever before.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Black Hole Bonanza
    Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Milky Way's galactic neighbor, Andromeda, as described in our latest press release. This is the largest number of possible black holes found in ...    

PakAlert

  • FOX Reporters Fired For Reporting the Truth Ab ...
    FOX NEWS Reporters (Steve Wilson & Jane Akre) uncover that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unsafe to drink due to Monsanto Corporation’s POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone.(known in short as “BGH” “BST” or “rBGH” ), but th ...
  • Firefox plug-in warns users of NSA surveillance
    Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day? The government is likely logging even the most mundane day-to-day computer habits of millions of Americans, but there’s a way to stand up against surveillance while also rocking out
  • Blast hits midtown Manhattan
    A massive explosion has rocked Manhattan, few blocks away from the UN headquarters. Police and firefighters are at the scene. Initial reports suggest that an underground transformer exploded setting nearby cars on fire. The incident occurred at the intersection of 50th street and 2nd Avenue. ...
  • Zionist Psyschopaths To Ignite World War 3?
    The crisis in Syria may appear to be no more or less than a civil war in a country many people would struggle to place on a map. But it’s much more than that: it is rapidly becoming a sectarian struggle for power that is bleeding across the Middle East, with the potential to engulf the entire ...
  • Illuminati Council of 13 Human Sacrifice Denve ...
    Illuminati Council of 13 Human Sacrifice Denver Colorado Amber Alert: Warning kidnapping of new born infant between June 17-20, 2013 Bush Satanic Rituals and Human Sacrifices

Andy Worthington

  • From Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer Speaks, As His L ...
    Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, needs your help. Please write to the British Prime Minister David Cameron, via Twitter, or via the 10 Downing Street website, asking him to urgently raise Shaker’s case with President Obama when they meet at the G8 Summit in Northern I ...
  • Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being For ...
    Please support my work! This is my 2000th post since I began writing articles about Guantánamo on a full-time basis as a freelance investigative journalist and commentator six years ago. Please donate to support my work if you appreciate what I do. As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser Day 3: $2000 Still Need t ...
    Please support my work! Thanks to the generosity of nine friends and supporters, I have so far received just over $400 in my quarterly fundraising appeal for donations to support my ongoing work on Guantánamo as a freelance investigative journalist and a campaigner for the prison’s closure ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Defends Bradley Mannin ...
    Last week, as the trial of Bradley Manning finally got underway at Fort Meade in Maryland, nearly three years after the military analyst was first arrested for the biggest leak of classified documents in US history, I was asked to take part in a radio show on Voice of Russia, the radio station w ...
  • Join the Anti-Capitalist Week of Action in Lon ...
    I just have time to throw out a quick reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday June 11, there’s a Carnival Against Capitalism taking place in London’s West End, beginning at 12 noon, at the start of a week of action against the G8, which takes place on June 17-18 in Northern Ireland. There ar ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Revealed: Secret Offshore Tax Evaders
    An interactive database allowing users to search more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore tax havens including the British Virgin Islands has gone online. The data, part of a cache of 2.5m leaked files that has already led to a series of exposes of the offshore fi ...
  • Ahead of G8 Meetings Protesters Gather en Mass ...
    G8 protest in central Belfast (BBC) Global leaders of the G8 are set to begin their two-day meetings on Monday in Belfast, but protesters are already demonstrating in force against the "corrupt capitalist system" made worse by the neoliberal policies enforced by the world leaders invol ...
  • Second Louisiana Chemical Blast in Two Days
    A general view of the Williams Olefins Chemical Plant as it continues to burn following an explosion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana on Thursday. Photograph: Bevil Knapp/EPAFederal investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are expected in south Louisiana over the weeken ...
  • Iran Picks New President: Rowhani Wins by Larg ...
    Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rowhani shows his ID as he casts his vote in Tehran on June 14, 2013 (AFP, Atta Kenare)Following a day of mass voter turnout in Iran, the votes have been counted and cleric Hasan Rowhani has been declared the winner of Iran's presidential election. ...
  • Chemical Weapons Experts Not Sold on US Claim ...
    There is still a major lack of solid evidence showing that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, chemical weapons experts warned on Friday, saying "they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a sarin gas attack." ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...    
  • Don't Peel the Skins When You Snack on Fava Beans
    In addition to being great pea replacements in recipes, fava beans make for great snacks on the go. But if you're peeling the beans before eating them, you're just making the snack too difficult.Read more...    
  • Flashify Sends Web Sites Between Android Browsers
    Android: If a web page isn't rendering correctly in one of your Android browsers, normally you would need to copy the URL, go to your home screen, open a new browser, and paste the URL. Flashify removes all this friction by adding alternate browsers to Android's share menu.Read more... &nb ...
  • Store Multiple Fishing Rods with a DIY PVC Org ...
    Fishing rods can be unwieldy to pack and carry around, especially if you're transporting a lot of them. Luckily, you can keep them organized and upright with this DIY PVC holder.Read more...    
  • Hang a Laundry Hamper on The Back Of Your Clos ...
    If you have a small closet, a laundry basket or hamper can take up a ton of valuable floor space. Luckily, you can take it back by hanging the hamper on the back of the closet door.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: Who Controls The Flow?
    So often, we take water for granted. But it's not always where we need it, or there when we need it. Two rivers on opposite sides of the country — the Chattahoochee in the South and the Klamath in the far West — may provide lessons for the inevitable and growing dispute over how we manage our mo ...
  • Water Wars: Who Controls The Flow?
    So often, we take water for granted. But it's not always where we need it, or there when we need it. Two rivers on opposite sides of the country — the Chattahoochee in the South and the Klamath in the far West — may provide lessons for the inevitable and growing dispute over how we manage our mo ...
  • Water Wars, In a Bottle
           
  • Latest phase of Water Wars plays out in Congress
    Georgia officials knew their fight wasn’t over when they claimed victory in the long-running legal battle with Alabama and Florida over water rights.
  • Klamath tribes, feds call in water rights
    The historic calls come after Oregon set water rights priorities earlier this year in the basin, home to one of the nation's most persistent water wars. Drought has cut water flows in upper basin rivers to 40 percent of normal.

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The Wonk Room

  • Rick Perry Vetoes Equal Pay Bill
    Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) vetoed a bill on Friday that would have allowed women suffering wage discrimination to take legal action, alleging that the measure “duplicates federal law, which already allows employees…to file a claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commiss ...
  • Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies
    As the level of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in the United States has intensified in recent years, much of the mounting public concern has centered on fears that underground water supplies could be contaminated with the toxic chemicals used in the well-stimulation technique that cra ...
  • Open Thread And Cartoon Of The Week
    Opine away!    
  • One Year Later: How Deferred Action Has Change ...
    One year ago Saturday, I was given the opportunity to partake in a presidential executive action called Deferred Action for Childhood Beneficiaries (DACA), which grants a temporary two-year work authorization and halts the deportation proceedings of undocumented immigrants between the ages of 15 ...
  • Conservative Minority Outreach Panelist Explai ...
    Minority voters are too dependent on the government to understand what’s good for them, and that’s why they don’t vote for Republicans, according to a panelist at the influential Faith And Freedom Coalition Conference’s minority outreach discussion. On Friday, Rich Thomps ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Don't Blame the Shlubs. Blame the Left Leadership
    My view on ordinary apolitical Canadians is that I don't blame them for not having taken to the streets to take down the fraudulently empowered stephen harper. How was that supposed to have happened? At 3pm, June 2012, each individual apolitical ordinary Canadian is simultaneously struck by visc ...
  • Violence Against Women Is No Big Deal
    That's why it's so prevalent. That's why ordinary average joes, "good guys" do it so easily. Our society (patriarchal) devalues women. I have my issues with the whole "rape is not about sex, it's about power" thesis, but I do know that rape isn't "surprise sex." Rape is meant to take something f ...
  • Busty Hookers, Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, Child P ...
    That's about the size of it. What should you expect to find with right-wing politicians? These are people who slash much-needed services for the poor, and who want to toss their fellow citizens into the cruel hands of private health insurance parasites, ... and it's all based on a "respect for t ...
  • Democracy Decays ... whatev's
    Anti-democratic sleaze-ball Dalton McGuinty presided over the deliberate deletion of government emails that detailed the costs of cancelling the gas plants and what the government knew about it. This deliberate cover-up of public information, this destruction of public information, should have b ...
  • Newspapers Routinely Slander Politicians ...
    In Right-Wing-World it is simply a given that a newspaper with a vendetta against a hero of the people will invent scandalous accusations, of, say, the Mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine with gangsters, just to pick on him and be mean and try to destroy him to protect their union-buddies and ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Celebrities to Obama: Zero nukes!
    Celebrities supporting the Global Zero campaign call on U.S. President Barack Obama to seek further cuts in US-Russian nuclear weapon stockpiles and work towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
  • Future of Canada’s subs in doubt
    That Sinking Feeling: A new report by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives raises questions about the future of Canada’s submarine program.
  • Arms Trade Treaty: Where’s Canada?
    The Canadian government voted in favour of the new U.N. Arms Trade Treaty in April, but it has refused to commit to signing the treaty, arguing that it needs to consult Canadians first.
  • Peacekeeping: Changes and constants
    Steve Staples and Josh Libben discuss what's changed and what hasn't over the history of U.N. peacekeeping and call on the Canadian government to once again become a significant contributor to peacekeeping missions.
  • Think carefully about the push for drones
    The Hill Times talks to Steve Staples and others about the Harper government's plan to acquire armed drones for Canada.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-15-13
    Today, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Plus, Kevin gives you his predictions about the economy! Self Help: Improve Your Pet’s Health Wealth: Oil Prices On The Rise Home Prices Take Big ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-2-13
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...
  • Could your smart phone be the cause of your in ...
    If you’re struggling to sleep at night, the answer could be closer than your think (hint, your bedside table). What are we talking about? A leading expert has revealed that electric lights – including on smartphones and tables – often play a key role in causing people’s bad sleeping patterns. Di ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-26-13
    Today, Kevin explains how there is one very unique ability that ALL successful people have. Find out what it is and if YOU have what it takes to become a part of this exclusive club! Self Help: Your Wish Is YOUR Command Lose Weight The Safe Way Improve Your Health & Vitality Give Kevin YOUR ...
  • Read this if you have EVER taken an antibiotic….
    A subject that we don’t hear a lot about anywhere is called Candida albicans, which is also known as the Candida albicans yeast infection or candida overgrowth. Let me explain this. As you know, I’ve had Dr. Jeff McCombs on the show before, a longtime friend of mine. He is the world& ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Tom Burghardt Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for wa ...
  • Keen on George Osborne’s Ponzi Scheme
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMax Keiser TVyoutube.com Stacy talks to Professor Steve Keen about George Osborne’s Help to Buy Scheme. As an expert on Hyman Minsky and ponzi economics, Prof Keen declares Osborne’s scheme, indeed, a PONZI!C ...
  • J.R.R. Tolkien Would be Arrested Under Florida ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com June 15, 2013 Its another sign that the Tea Party meme is an excuse to institute more statist coercion. Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed legislation that will make possession of a pipe a third deg ...
  • A Free, Quick and Easy Way to Protest Governme ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comA Free, Quick and Easy Way to Protest Government Spying By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   While it’s obvious to everyone that the government is spying on virtually all of the digital communications of Am ...
  • $100 Million and 4 Guns
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com$100 Million and 4 Guns By Roi TovSaturday, June 15th, 2013 $100 Million and 4 Guns Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land Jeremiah 1:14 — Hebrew “mita’am” ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Obama: Sweat the Small Stuff for Big Justice b ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page June 12, 2013 The imaginative uses of the mighty presidency in American history and its bully pulpit have rarely been much above amateurish when it comes to helping people empower themselves. This has been the case even when the same party controls t ...
  • Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann: Why the Unite ...
    with Gareth Porter Writer, Dandelion Salad June 14, 2013 TheRealNews Jun 13, 2013 Gareth Porter interviews veteran US officials about why US policy towards Iran needs to change. Gareth Porter, an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy, received the U ...
  • Hassan Rohani Becomes Iran’s New President
    Dandelion Salad Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani wins Iran presidential election in 1st round RussiaToday on Jun 15, 2013 Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani has won Iran’s presidential election with just over 50 percent of votes, state TV reported. 72 percent of the 50 million Iranians turned out ...
  • The Drone Ranger: Obama’s Dirty Wars by Greg P ...
    by Greg Palast Writer, Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com For Vice Magazine June 13, 2013 About the time Barack Obama ordered the drone strike that killed Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American kid Facebooked his second-rate choice of hip-hop favorites. I say “second-rate,” ...
  • Barack Obama’s Letter — Regarding ...
    Dandelion Salad A little wrap-up on the status of permanent war. Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 14, 2013 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and con ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Warm Venus Volcano
    This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees east longitude) in the Imdr Regio area of Venus. The topographic backbone derives from data obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, with a vertical exaggeration of ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of Day: Guts of a Dead Star
    Suspended in time and space, the aftermath of a massive star’s dramatic ending in a supernova explosion is captured by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory. Nested knots of hot gas glowing green at X-ray wavelengths – equivalent to millions of degrees celsius ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Changing Neptune ...
    NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations in August 2002 show that Neptune's brightness has increased significantly since 1996. The rise is due to an increase in the amount of clouds observed in the planet's southern hemisphere. These increases may be due ...    
  • Strange, Glowing Night Clouds Continue to Spread
    Just after summer sunsets in northern latitudes, shimmering, wispy clouds appear in the twilight sky. This year, these noctilucent clouds have appeared earlier and farther south than ever before.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Black Hole Bonanza
    Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Milky Way's galactic neighbor, Andromeda, as described in our latest press release. This is the largest number of possible black holes found in ...    

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • 100-year-old general: We razed Arab villages, ...
    In an interview on IDF Radio, Pundak confirmed that forces under his command razed Arab villages in 1948. “My conscience is at ease with that, because if we hadn't done so, then there would be no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Construction of new West Bank settlement proje ...
    Despite the 2011 tent protests, house construction has actually decreased over the last year in Israel. At the same time, the West Bank registered a national high in new construction projects for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The return to Iqrit
    In 1948, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from more than 400 villages as the new state of Israel was declared on a large part of their homeland – an event known to Palestinians as the nakba,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Julia Amalia Heyer: Racist attacks on Arabs in ...
    Youths attacked an Arab cleaning man working for the city of Tel Aviv as he was emptying garbage cans. They broke a bottle over his head. The man, covered with blood, asked them why they were doing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • New Israeli plan calls for more “intelligence” ...
    This week in Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign ministry hosted the fourth international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism... This is “a gathering that has served as an important... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

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Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • The PTC’s Erroneous Decision Regarding the Sur ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On 6 February 2103, the PTC ordered Libya to surrender Al-Senussi to the ICC. Libya failed to comply with that order; instead, on April 2, it filed an admissibility challenge in the case and argued that Art. 95 of the Rome Statute entitled it to postpone ...
  • Weekend Roundup: June 8-15, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, there was a lot of news to cover with NSA leak and the US administration’s decision to arm Syrian rebels. On the first, Julian thought Hong Kong was a dumb choice of refuge for the NSA leaker. Chris dug deeper into domestic data-mi ...
  • The Choice to Protect (or Not) in Syria
    by Neomi Rao by Neomi Rao The White House’s recent statement that it would begin supplying Syrian rebels with arms demonstrates how military assistance and intervention remain a choice of states rather than an obligation. Recent events confirm the arguments I make in a recent article The Choic ...
  • Welcome to Guest Blogger Professor Neomi Rao
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome Professor Neomi Rao of George Mason University School of Law as guest-blogger for the next week. With the Syria crisis re-emerging as a possible flashpoint for military intervention, we thought it would be interesting for Professor R ...
  • Kiobel Guest Post: A rejoinder to Samuel Moyn
    by Elizabeth A. Wilson by Elizabeth A. Wilson [Dr. Elizabeth A. Wilson is Assistant Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.] In the “Insta-Symposium” conducted here after the Supreme Court’s Kiobel decision, Peter Spiro linked to a piece by Sa ...

Public News Service

  • Whistle-Blowers Targeted Down on the Farm
    Whistle-Blowers Targeted Down on the Farm PHOENIX – Animal cruelty whistle-blowers have shot undercover video exposing illegal or unethical abuse inside factory farms and slaughterhouses across the country. The meat industry is fighting back by supporting bills in many states that would ...
  • Survey: Teachers Reveal Summer Break's Toll on ...
    Survey: Teachers Reveal Summer Break's Toll on Student Progress PHOENIX, Ariz. - Teachers are tired of having to backtrack after summer break. A new survey of more than 500 teachers revealed it takes requires weeks to reacquaint students with the previous year's skills after they have been out o ...
  • What Mosquitoes Have in Store for AZ This Year
    What Mosquitoes Have in Store for AZ This Year PHOENIX - They represent one aspect of the summer monsoon you may prefer to do without. The peak of mosquito season is quickly approaching in Arizona, and you can help keep yourself from becoming a victim by learning a little more about the buggers. ...
  • More AZ Children Eating Free Summer Meals
    More AZ Children Eating Free Summer Meals PHOENIX - More low-income children in Arizona are getting the free summer meals that help their families stretch food dollars, although, according to a new report from the Food Research and Action Center, many more could be served. It says more than 462, ...
  • Hold the Honeybee Panic – Other Crop Wor ...
    Hold the Honeybee Panic – Other Crop Workers Available PHOENIX - Honeybees are still in decline across the United States, according to a report from the USDA that points to pesticides, parasites, poor diet and lack of genetic diversity as some of the problems. The situation has piqued inte ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food


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