Sunday, June 16, 2013

16 June - RSS SnapShot! III

English: An anti-Occupation demonstration at t...English: An anti-Occupation demonstration at the Qalandia checkpint in East Jerusalem, involving Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • How To Write About NSA Spying – A Style Guide ...
    Ok all you budding authoritarians, raving Obots, and the rest of you craven weasels who who think that Snowden man is just dreadful, get thee to Not The Singularity and learn “how to climb on the bandwagon and muddy the waters in the establishment-approved fashion.” 1. Attack the mes ...
  • Colorado fire disaster. Rainwater harvesting m ...
    John Robb explains why. In particular, rainwater harvesting and growing the right plants and trees would raise humidity and lower temperatures, which certainly would help prevents these catastrophes. This is simply a disaster due an inability to think resiliently, at every level. Pernicious gove ...
  • NSA surveillance much worse than you thought
    The American Stasi is tapping directly into US internet companies servers. PRISM is just a small part of NSA surveillance, aided and abetted by a compliant Silicon Valley. WaPo: US, Brits tap directly into US internet companies The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into t ...
  • Amazon opens 3D printing store
    In another sign that 3D printing is going mainstream, Amazon has started a 3D printing store featuring printers, supplies, and more. And what of the folks who want their 3D printers to be the hardware equivalent of underground prog rock? Well, we’re probably out of luck. I’ll know it’s gone main ...
  • Well alrightee, then
    Google bans Google Glass from Google shareholder meeting  

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – June 15 2013
    Friday 6.14.13 (Open Mind / Open lines) Jack Blood breaks down the difference between “perceptions” and reality…. aka – Who are the “know it alls” – Callers and host discuss potential solutions to world problems. Jack Gives Karma to supporters and discus ...
  • FASCISM RISING; America, ‘You Want To Ch ...
    “I want to quote David Simon, former reporter, he’s the creator of “The Wire” on HBO… he likens this, not only just to try to find the needle in the haystack, this is trying to identify the needles before they’re placed in the haystack.” – Eleanor ...
  • Free Markets, Central Planning and the Family ...
    Recently a Facebook friend of mine commented on a story about austerity not working and made a statement to the effect that therefore Hayek was wrong and Keynes was right. I was quick to race to the defense of Hayek and free markets. I pointed out that we haven’t had a truly free market ev ...
  • FASCISM RISING; Greece, State Run Media Shutdo ...
    “What we experienced yesterday was unprecedented, not only for Greece but for all of Europe.  Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.“ – Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA Party Leader “They want to ...
  • David Icke – Syria:The Truth (Viewer Dis ...
    Or maybe the NWO er NATO is right…. You have to Kill the people to save them. Uh….

The Air Vent

  • NSA – Balancing the Risk
    The NSA has been tracking details of every pone call and email by every American for years.   I have no doubt that this is the case.  Yes, this is in violation of the fourth amendment which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreas ...
  • My Apologies to Readers
    I have really let this blog go to pieces. I will post useful stuff in the future but allowing Mr Cotton to take it over again was a mistake. It seemed reasonable to allow him to write, because the topic was PSI.   It won’t happen again, even though I am starting to think a […]
  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...
  • Problematic Science Incorporated
    Holy crap.  I have realized it isn’t practical to do a half of a blog.  Did you know that the Internet is full of crazy people.   I’ve heard rumors, read other blogs, often commented on the generally high quality of tAV readers but when I don’t blog on science for months, guess ...
  • A Real Challenge to PSI
    This is awesome, the wife is downstairs watching a movie, I’ve finished my work and have a little time for blogging.   Not a lot, but some… There are too many pressures in my head.  Today a commenter, who is anonymous to me, left a slayer-style comment which has none of the Doug Cott ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • PageData: Miami Heat winning NBA Finals — on F ...
    The Miami Heat are tied with the San Antonio Spurs in the best-of-seven NBA Finals at two games each, but the Heat are crushing the Spurs on Facebook, according to PageData. The Heat, who are led...
  • Facebook to announce new product June 20
    Facebook went old school in announcing the launch event for its newest product, sending invitations out to the media through snail mail. The company told members of the media that it will introduce something new at...
  • Effective Facebook ad techniques for effective ...
    Quick, which website gets the most traffic? If you said Facebook, you’re caught up with the times! We spend about 6 hours per month on Facebook, and with over 1 billion people on Facebook, that’s a lot...
  • Facebook SEC filings: Board of directors chose ...
    Facebook has officially decided its eight members of the company’s board of directors, a vote that was taken earlier this week at the company’s inaugural shareholders meeting. It has been a busy week for Facebook executives,...
  • VIDEO: How KTLA.com used Facebook data to help ...
    Through Facebook’s social plugins, businesses are finding new and innovative ways to attract readers and customers. At the recent AllFacebook Marketing Conference in San Francisco, Jason Jedlinski, the Vice President of Digital Products & Platforms at...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Don't Forget Syria
    Syria in danger of ceasing to exist as a nation-state. Its collapse could inspire a new global jihad and provoke violence throughout the Middle East, while its chemical weapons could easily fall into dangerous hands. Israel is already threatening to intervene, which could produce a major regiona ...
  • Syria Chemical Weapons Accusations "A Means Of ...
    The US is conveniently ignoring accusations that the Syrian rebels themselves might have engaged in crimes against humanity, while throwing blame at Syria for unproven chemical weapon use to justify further military, political and diplomatic pressure against the Syrian government.
  • Military Judge Runs A Shell Game
    Court-martial judge Col. Denise Lind hasn't exactly banned the public -- or reporters, who are part of the public -- from the courtroom or its extensions, but she has presided over a system that, so far, seems designed to protect the public's right to know as little as possible.
  • A Father's Day Barbeque--Washington-Style
    The Republicans want to roast donkeys for Father's Day. It looks like all they'll get is a lot of smoke.
  • On Prism, Partisanship And Propaganda
    How can anyone think that it's remotely healthy in a democracy to have the NSA building a massive spying apparatus about which even members of Congress, including Senators on the Homeland Security Committee, are totally ignorant and find "astounding" when they learn of them?

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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Helmets
    After yet another pitcher, this time Alex Cobb of Tampa Bay, goes down from a liner to the head, it’s hardly unreasonable to say that pitchers need to wear helmets on the mound. I suppose a full face guard is ideal, but even a batting helmet would be tremendously helpful. Or does a pitcher ...
  • Louisiana Chemical Plant Explosions
    The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn’t mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in Louisiana, killing 2 and injuring about 100. The last time this plant received an OSHA inspecti ...
  • A Rubber Stamp, Not A Court
    While one would expect the majority of warrant requests made by authorities to be accepted by the magistrate, the rejection rate of the FISA court is so insanely low that it’s reasonable to wonder if the process provides only a Potemkin simulation of oversight rather than actual oversight. ...
  • The Non-Union Workplace
    Here’s what happens when workplaces don’t have unions. An employee of Sewon America, an auto parts supplier for Kia, allegedly died Wednesday, May 29, after working in extreme heat on the company’s “project weld line” in LaGrange, according to another Sewon employee who spoke with La ...
  • The Cost of Carelessness
    Someone brought this up in comments a few months ago but I never posted what is by far the greatest traffic safety film ever made. The great stuff is in the last 5 minutes or so. Well worth your 15 minutes on a Friday night. From 1913. Remember, one think before an accident is worth [...]

Desert Research Institute

  • Nyssa Perryman, June 2013 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nyssa Perryman, a Ph.D. student working in Atmospheric Sciences as a part of the Climate Modeling Team. Her research focus is understanding how global climate models, when transformed and applied to the complex terrain of the Western U.S., characterize atmospheric rivers and their cons ...
  • DRI Annual Convocation – Honoring our research ...
    Today the Desert Research Institute took time to celebrate the success of its faculty and students during its Annual Convocation event. Eleven awards were presented to scientific researchers and graduate students on behalf of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, DRI’s donors a ...
  • In memory of Carl Young
    The DRI family was saddened to learn over the weekend of the passing of Carl Young, a former graduate assistant at DRI and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Microbiologist at the Desert Research Institut ...
    Dr. Duane Moser, Environmental Microbiologist explores the habitat of the rare Devils Hole Pupfish, a species believed to be somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 years old.
  • Tribute to Dorothy S. Gallagher
    Today the entire DRI family is saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and long-time supporter Regent Dorothy S. Gallagher.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Nicaragua Approves Plans to Build Massive Cana ...
    Nicaragua has approved plans to build a $40 billion cross-country canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a project that would rival the Panama Canal but is raising major concerns about impacts on regional Click to enlarge Gran Canal Interoceánico por Nicaragua Possible canal route ...
  • Population Could Reach 11 Billion By End of th ...
    A new United Nations report projects that the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by 2100, about 8 percent more than predicted just two years ago. The projected increase largely stems from the fact that the fertility rate in Africa has declined more slowly than expected, with demograp ...
  • The Surprising Role of CO2 in Changes on the A ...
    Recent studies show that many of the world’s savannas, including famed African landscapes such as the Serengeti, are experiencing significant change as rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere favor the growth of trees over grasslands. BY ADAM WELZ
  • Mobile Apps that Mimic Bird Songs Harmful to S ...
    Wildlife officials in the UK are urging people not to use mobile phone apps that mimic bird songs in nature reserves, warning that the devices can harm some sensitive species, particularly during breeding season. iSpinyIcon for Chirp! app The increasingly popular apps, which use recordings of bi ...
  • Interview: How Detergent Became A Catalyst for ...
    Adam Lowry is the co-founder and “chief greenskeeper” of Method, a small but rapidly growing company that has been a leader in the field of manufacturing Adam Lowry environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products. Indeed, it was Method that pioneered the use of concentrated ...

Red Ice Creations

  • What Is The Government’s Agenda?
    It has been public information for a decade that the US government secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally spies on its citizens. Congress and the federal courts have done nothing about this extreme violation of the US Constitution and statutory law, and the insouciant US public seems unpert ...
  • Climate Science Goes Megalomaniacal
    A February 6 report in the Guardian describes budding efforts to displace decarbonizing with geo-engineering as the goal for reducing the predicted catastrophic effects of global warming. At present, these efforts are being funded by mega-wealthy private citizens like Bill Gates, but some tradit ...
  • Is Your Taste In Music Influenced By The Shape ...
    Why is it that some songs get your toes tapping and others leave you cold? Part of the answer may lie in the unique shape of your skull. In addition to the obvious social and cultural influences on musical preference, there are also a myriad of little physical quirks of the body that affect the ...
  • Supreme Court Bites Into First Amendment, Bans ...
    The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional. The regulation bans activities on the court’s grounds or building such as picketing, speech-making, marching, vigils or religi ...
  • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy ...
    The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where re ...

Not My Tribe

  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is no loser, ...
    Apparently Edward Snowden is a good for nothing high school dropout, but he’s a better man than you. Petty technocrats are splitting hairs to pretend that the NSA whistleblower broke the law while corporate mouthpieces are obfuscating that the public doesn’t care about its privacy. B ...
  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Guarani man killed in ambush by gunmen
    The Guarani frequently suffer violent attacks by gunmen after returning to their ancestral lands.© SurvivalA Guarani Indian man was killed yesterday in southern Brazil, reportedly by gunmen working for the cattle ranchers who have occupied his community’s land. According to the leader of ...
  • Rallying cry: Dongria stand firm against Vedan ...
    Dongria leader Lodu Sikaka has called for an end to the harassment of village leaders and vowed to defend Niyamgiri.© SurvivalDuring a rally of defiance, India’s Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their Niyamgiri Hills against an open pit mine by British mining giant Vedanta Resources, and ...
  • Survival condemns Steven Pinker’s ‘Brutal Sava ...
    Steven Pinker, like Jared Diamond, bases his assertion that the Yanomami are a violent people solely on the work of controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival International has launched a vigorous rebuttal of Harvard ‘evolutionary psychologist’ Steven Pinker’s ...
  • Brazil - indigenous affairs chief quits follow ...
    Indians protesting in Brasília, against the dismantling of their rights© Antônio Cruz/ABrThe head of Brazil’s indigenous affairs department, FUNAI, resigned on 7 June, citing ill health. Dr Marta Azevedo took office just over a year ago, and declared that the situation of the Awá and Guarani tr ...
  • Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despit ...
    Trucks have reportedly arrived to remove Ranyane Bushmen from their ancestral land.© Survival InternationalGovernment trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. The move to evict the Ranyane ...

Greg Palast

  • The Drone Ranger: Obama’s Dirty Wars
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine 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," because Abdul was my son's age almost exactly, so I know the kind of ...
  • The Idiot's Guide to the Voting Rights Act
    Will the Supreme Court pull the teeth out of the law? by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net This month –as early as tomorrow— the US Supreme Court will tell us whether Black and Brown citizens have the right to vote. Now, if you saw the film Lincoln, you probably thought that issue was settled abou ...
  • Will the Supreme Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court to decide on Voting Rights Act this month. For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. This month, as ...
  • My Father's Victory in the Pacific
    By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
  • My Big Fat Greek Minister
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine It wasn't too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. (We'd both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasi ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Arise, Sir Andrew Hall (For Services to Public ...
    By John Stone The Chair of the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, Prof Andrew Hall of the Gates Foundation funded London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine received a knighthood today in the Queen’s Birthday Honours . Meanwhile,...
  • Easter Seals Apology for Calling Autism an Epi ...
    This email snap was on FB yesterday. Is it a hoax or did Cameron Robbins receive a call or email or cry-o-gram from a Neurodiversity group complaining that Easter Seals had called autism an "epidemic and crisis" and have to...
  • BMJ Rapid Response to Measles in the UK: Test ...
    Measles in the UK: a test of public health competency in a crisis BMJ 2013; 346 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f2793 (Published 1 May 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f2793 Rapid Response from Jackie Fletcher (see the online thread at BMJ.) In my...
  • Weekly Wrap: Mercury and the Mystery of the Mi ...
    By Dan Olmsted It's a fool's errand to try to determine the real autism rate these days, especially tracking it over time. But a couple of "soft signals" from California make me question the idea that severe or "full syndrome"...
  • Censorship and Denialism as Slate Attacks RFK Jr
    Laura Helmuth By Lou Conte Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Speaking At Autism One in May. Laura Helmuth’s June 11th article in Slate about Robert Kennedy’s Autism One Conference keynote speech signals a new low in main stream media’s ongoing denial...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

new geography

  • The Evolving Urban Form: The Rhine-Ruhr (Essen ...
    Rhine-Ruhr, or Essen-Düsseldorf, is among the world's least recognized larger urban areas (Figure 1).  Germany does not designate urban areas according to the international standard, and for that reason the Rhine-Ruhr does not appear on the United Nations list of largest urban areas. Yet, in ...
  • No Solar Way Around It: Why Nuclear Is Essenti ...
    Nobody who has paid attention to what's happened to solar panels over the last several decades can help but be impressed. Prices declined an astonishing 75 percent from 2008 to 2012. In the United States, solar capacity has quintupled since 2008, and grown by more than 50 times since 2000, a ...
  • The Unexotic Underclass
    The startup scene today, and by ‘scene’ I’m sweeping a fairly catholic brush over a large swath of people – observers, critics,  investors, entrepreneurs, ‘want’repreneurs, academics, techies, and the like – seems to be riven into two camps. On one side sta ...
  • The Mad Drive to Subvert Democracy in Toronto
    Let me stipulate that I think Toronto’s Rob Ford is a terrible mayor. In fact, while I might not go so far as Richard Florida, who labeled Ford “the worst mayor in the modern history of cities, an avatar for all that is small-bore and destructive of the urban fabric, and the most ...
  • Housing Boom Is The Best Chance For A Recovery ...
    Our tepid economic recovery has been profoundly undemocratic in nature. Between the “too big to fail” banks and Ben Bernanke’s policy of dropping free money from helicopters on the investor class, there have been two recoveries, one for the rich, and another less rewarding one ...

water.org

  • The intersection of passion and need
    Co-founder Gary White discusses how he and Matt Damon found the intersection of philanthropic passion and world need in this month's SUCCESS magazine cover story.
  • The intersection of passon and need
    Co-founder Gary White discusses how he and Matt Damon found the intersection of philanthropic passion and world need in this month's SUCCESS magazine cover story.
  • Rani's Toilet
    While the toilet is a basic need for all human beings, not having one affects the safety of women more often than men. In Karnataka, India, due to lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rani’s family members were going out into open for defecation and had to travel long distances every day for this.
  • Margery's Two Loans
    Margery took out two WaterCredit loans that allowed her to install toilets and a water storage tank. Both have brought her and her family dignity, health and comfort.
  • Water for Leah's Farm
    Leah lives in Ngawene village on the outskirts of Maua town with her two children – a daughter (25) and a son (18). Leah, pictured second from the right with ECLOF and Water.org staff, is a secondary level graduate and also holds an accountancy technician certificate. Leah is 50 years old, marri ...

Cryptogon

  • Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA L ...
    I’m still waiting for Snowden to release something, anything, that hasn’t been intuitively obvious to me for at least the past 15 years, and confirmed as fact since 2006/7 (Klein/Room641A). If Snowden is the real deal, why are we having to deal with the corporate media censors to dec ...
  • Sesame Street Designs Online Kit for Kids Who ...
    Via: KSLA: With the highest incarceration rate in the world, nearly 2 million children in the U.S. have a parent behind bars. In response, Sesame Street has designed an online kit to help children deal with the emotional problems of having incarcerated parents. The kit is targeted towards childr ...
  • U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said. Thes ...
  • Chipotle Becomes First U.S. Restaurant Chain t ...
    Via: Natural News: The recent decision by Whole Foods Market to label all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) sold in its stores by the long-off date of 2018 looks silly and almost meaningless compared to the right-now policy of fresh food chain Chipotle, which is officially the first and only ...
  • U.S. Says It Will Give Military Aid to Syria R ...
    For the first time, no less. Via: BBC: The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced. President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spoke ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Thousands Of Companies Have Been Handing Over ...
    It isn't just Internet and phone companies that are giving your personal information to the U.S. government.  According to an astounding report by Bloomberg, "four people familiar with the process" say that "makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommu ...
  • Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just To Dis ...
    Well, isn't that convenient?  At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war.  Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scanda ...
  • Member Of Congress: Edward Snowden’s Rev ...
    According to U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, members of Congress learned "significantly more than what is out in the media today" during a closed briefing about the NSA on Tuesday, and that what has been revealed so far about NSA snooping is "just the tip of the iceberg".  During her interv ...
  • 22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establi ...
    Establishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden.  They are attempting to portray Edward Snowden as a "traitor" and the spooks over at the NSA that are snooping on all of us as "heroes".  In fact, many of the exact ...
  • The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted ...
    The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit.  Outrage has been pouring in from all over the planet, and one member of the European Parliament is even comparing [...]

Desertification

  • Undernourishment, volatile food prices and sus ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2013_2183/small-farmers-buffeted-climate-change Small Farmers Buffeted by Climate Change Inter Press Service ROME, Jun 15 (IPS) – The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has long warned that a quarter of th ...
  • A comprehensive strategy to eliminate desertif ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/16178/ Desertification, erosion may cause food shortage: Speaker by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat. LAKKI MARWAT: Agriculture experts have said that the problems like desertification and land degradation can cause a s ...
  • Biological soil crusts (BSCs) of Earth’s ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130614125642.htm Secrets of Biological Soil Crusts Uncovered June 14, 2013 — They lie dormant for years, but at the first sign of favorable conditions they awaken. This sounds like the tagline for a science fiction movie, but … Continu ...
  • Food aid or family gardening ? (Willem Van Cot ...
    MY REQUEST OF MAY 20TH 2013 http://desertification.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/alleviation-of-malnutrition-and-hunger-by-small-scale-container-gardening-jojo-rom-willem-van-cotthem/ We are counting on you to help us spread the good word.  Do not leave us preaching in the desert : ALLEVIATION OF MAL ...
  • Vacant position of the Climate Change and Dese ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://unjobs.org/vacancies/1370297769217 Environmental Economist, Climate Change and Desertification Control, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Closing Date: Monday, 01 July 2013 The African Union, established as a unique Pan African continental body, is char ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • George Osborne set to show off his comic ...
    Osborne: keeping a straight face before last year's Mansion House speech. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters Last year, as George Osborne arrived to deliver his Mansion House speech, he was greeted by a BBC comedy presenter, who handed him a GCSE maths text book. The chancellor might have just ...
  • 25 die in Pakistan bus, hospital bombings
    At least 25 people were killed in troubled southwest Pakistan yesterday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors. Militants had earlier blown up a historic building in Baluchistan linked to Pakistan's founding father. The attack on the b ...
  • Qatari leaders signal they are ready to c ...
    Change is afoot in the world's richest nation, Qatar. Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and his Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, are said to be putting in place an ordered succession plan for the tiny Gulf emirate. The transition will see them ...
  • China shows resolve, action against air p ...
    BEIJING - The State Council, or China's cabinet, adopted a set of concrete measures to counter air pollution on Friday, demonstrating not only resolve but also action to cope with environmental issues. China's leadership has repeatedly promised all-out efforts to conserve resources and curb ...
  • Sen. Rand Paul voted yes for the $650 bil ...
    Somewhere, in the midst of the $650 billion funding bill, mixed in with $88.5 billion for ongoing wars and $60 billion for the Navy’s F-18 fighter program, remains the indefinite detention clause that had many so upset in 2012. An amendment to the 2013 NDAA included the right to trial for “c ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • 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." ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Can We Curb Our Addiction to AC?
    Chances are your power bill will be lower this summer than last summer. It’s not because of falling energy prices or eco-friendly practices, but because this year is expected to be cooler than 2012, which was much warmer than normal.
  • Nuclear Energy Doc Pandora's Promise Getting M ...
    If Robert Stone’s primary purpose in creating Pandora’s Promise was to generate discussion about nuclear energy, it appears that he has succeeded.
  • New Program Trains Soldiers To Use Solar Energy
    New developments in the growing partnership between Solar Energy International and the United States military.
  • Ford Cuts Carbon Emissions 37 Percent Per Vehicle
    Just two days ago I was praising Ford for its plugin electric vehicle options. Well, those clean vehicles aren’t the only things that are cleaner around Ford headquarters and factories these days.
  • Vodafone Debuts Energy Harvesting Clothes at U ...
    Music fans at the Isle of Wight Festival are taking part of an experiment. British cell phone company Vodafone is using the festival to try out the Power Pocket, a wearable gadget designed to power peripherals with body heat and movement.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Chemical Weapons Hoax
    by Stephen Lendman Greater US intervention in Syria looms. Manufactured threats facilitate doing so. Replacing Assad with puppet leadership is planned. Independent governments aren't tolerated. More on that below. Fact: Washington bears full responsibility for Middle East/North Africa/Ce ...
  • What’s Your Breaking Point to Take Action?
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers When Edward Snowden reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and people around the world. In an act of conscience, Snowden released secret information, saying “My sole motive is to infor ...
  • Arab Triangle: How the Prosperity Bubble Destr ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD The Arab people live in a fantasy bubble being floated by the transitory oil revenues, controlled and managed by the Western nations. Oil revenues are not the outcome of Arab’s hardwork but a planned scheme of things carried out for several generations to distract ...
  • One-Sided Anti-Syrian Human Rights Council Res ...
    by Stephen Lendman HRC mocks human rights, It systematically spurns them. It's a de facto US imperial tool. It defiles its own mandate. It does so lawlessly. It does it unapologetically. HRC was established to strengthen "the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and ...
  • The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America
    James Petras Introduction The exposure of the Obama regime’s use of the National Security Agency to secretly spy on the communications of hundreds of millions of US and overseas citizens has provoked world-wide denunciations. In the United States, despite widespread mass media coverag ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • What can our Saskatchewan office do for you?
    What can the Saskatchewan office do for you? Take a look at our new CCPA-Saskatchewan Prospectus to see all the ways the Saskatchewan Office impacts public debate in our province. Whether it's workers' rights, environmental sustainability, education, or the economy, CCPA Saskatchewan produc ...
  • BC's water: time to stop giving it away for free
    The largest industrial water users in BC pay little to nothing for the water they use, and in most cases are not even required to track or report what they use. The provincial government recognized the need for a modernized Water Act in 2009; our latest report calls on them to move forward with ...
  • On Guard for the Economy
    Here's a nice video of Jim Stanford's presentation to the AFL. On Guard for the Economy reminds us all of basic economic lessons that tend to get overlooked, including the value unions add to society. 
  • History and Drama of a Prairie Commons
    Once the victim of hasty prairie settlement, the PFRA Community Pastures became grassland jewels through belated foresight and science-based planning. The termination of this world-class program was embedded in omnibus bill C-38, with ownership of the land returned to the provinces of Manitoba a ...
  • More Background on Bill C-525
    Leftnews.org has more information on Bill C-525. It explains the impact the Bill will have on card-check certification and provides research on why card check has proven to be the preferred method of certifying and de-certifying. 

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Can We Curb Our Addiction to AC?
    Chances are your power bill will be lower this summer than last summer. It’s not because of falling energy prices or eco-friendly practices, but because this year is expected to be cooler than 2012, which was much warmer than normal.
  • Nuclear Energy Doc Pandora's Promise Getting M ...
    If Robert Stone’s primary purpose in creating Pandora’s Promise was to generate discussion about nuclear energy, it appears that he has succeeded.
  • New Program Trains Soldiers To Use Solar Energy
    New developments in the growing partnership between Solar Energy International and the United States military.
  • Ford Cuts Carbon Emissions 37 Percent Per Vehicle
    Just two days ago I was praising Ford for its plugin electric vehicle options. Well, those clean vehicles aren’t the only things that are cleaner around Ford headquarters and factories these days.
  • Vodafone Debuts Energy Harvesting Clothes at U ...
    Music fans at the Isle of Wight Festival are taking part of an experiment. British cell phone company Vodafone is using the festival to try out the Power Pocket, a wearable gadget designed to power peripherals with body heat and movement.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Prism secret: Even bigger data seizure
    But interviews with more than a dozen current and former government and technology officials and outside experts show that, while Prism has attracted the recent attention, the program actually is a relatively small part of a much more expansive and intrusive eavesdropping effort. Americans who ...
  • Project Loon - How It Works
    [Slideshows] - Google+
  • Officials: NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations
    Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries - and that gathered data is destroyed every five years. Last ...
  • Thomas Penfield Jackson, Outspoken Judge, Dies ...
    Thomas Penfield Jackson, a federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, only to see an appeals court reverse his order because he had improperly discussed it with journalists, died at his home in Compton, Md., on Saturday. He was 76. The caus ...
  • Federal Circuit Permits Appeal of Liability Pr ...
    Today, June 14, 2013, in Robert Bosch LLC v. Pylon Manufacturing Corp., No. 2011-1363, 1364, an en banc Federal Circuit ruled that parties can appeal a decision on liability in patent infringement cases before there has been a trial on damages or willfulness. - Matt Rizzolo, Essential Patent Blog

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Politics in the Zeros

  • How To Write About NSA Spying – A Style Guide ...
    Ok all you budding authoritarians, raving Obots, and the rest of you craven weasels who who think that Snowden man is just dreadful, get thee to Not The Singularity and learn “how to climb on the bandwagon and muddy the waters in the establishment-approved fashion.” 1. Attack the mes ...
  • Colorado fire disaster. Rainwater harvesting m ...
    John Robb explains why. In particular, rainwater harvesting and growing the right plants and trees would raise humidity and lower temperatures, which certainly would help prevents these catastrophes. This is simply a disaster due an inability to think resiliently, at every level. Pernicious gove ...
  • NSA surveillance much worse than you thought
    The American Stasi is tapping directly into US internet companies servers. PRISM is just a small part of NSA surveillance, aided and abetted by a compliant Silicon Valley. WaPo: US, Brits tap directly into US internet companies The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into t ...
  • Amazon opens 3D printing store
    In another sign that 3D printing is going mainstream, Amazon has started a 3D printing store featuring printers, supplies, and more. And what of the folks who want their 3D printers to be the hardware equivalent of underground prog rock? Well, we’re probably out of luck. I’ll know it’s gone main ...
  • Well alrightee, then
    Google bans Google Glass from Google shareholder meeting  

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frogblog

  • General debate, June 16, 2013
  • Hope for Denniston
    On Friday there was another step backwards for Bathurst Resources in their bid to open cast mine the Denniston Plateau. The High Court ruled that the Environment Court had been in error with some of their findings from their interim decision in March. This requires the Environment Court to re-ev ...
  • A GE rollercoaster week
    This week has been a bit of a GE rollercoaster. On the downward spiral side, last weekend we heard that Britain will be pushing for a relaxation of rules in Europe to allow for GE crops to be grown and sold into the human food supply. Then on Wednesday we received the latest Journal of [...]
  • The Privileges Committee Report and ‘parliamen ...
    Thinking through the deep stuff:  The Privileges Committee Report and ‘parliamentary protections’  Every now and then we MPs are challenged to think.  Yesterday was such a moment – actually, for the preceding 12 months, on and off. In 2005-06, an issue arose in the House in which a cabinet minis ...
  • Postgrad allowance cuts have not affected stud ...
    So Steven Joyce believes his decision to remove access to student allowances for postgraduate students has had no effect on the numbers studying. Really? Appearing before a select committee yesterday, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said that this cut had made very little difference in ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Guarani man killed in ambush by gunmen
    The Guarani frequently suffer violent attacks by gunmen after returning to their ancestral lands.© SurvivalA Guarani Indian man was killed yesterday in southern Brazil, reportedly by gunmen working for the cattle ranchers who have occupied his community’s land. According to the leader of ...
  • Rallying cry: Dongria stand firm against Vedan ...
    Dongria leader Lodu Sikaka has called for an end to the harassment of village leaders and vowed to defend Niyamgiri.© SurvivalDuring a rally of defiance, India’s Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their Niyamgiri Hills against an open pit mine by British mining giant Vedanta Resources, and ...
  • Survival condemns Steven Pinker’s ‘Brutal Sava ...
    Steven Pinker, like Jared Diamond, bases his assertion that the Yanomami are a violent people solely on the work of controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival International has launched a vigorous rebuttal of Harvard ‘evolutionary psychologist’ Steven Pinker’s ...
  • Brazil - indigenous affairs chief quits follow ...
    Indians protesting in Brasília, against the dismantling of their rights© Antônio Cruz/ABrThe head of Brazil’s indigenous affairs department, FUNAI, resigned on 7 June, citing ill health. Dr Marta Azevedo took office just over a year ago, and declared that the situation of the Awá and Guarani tr ...
  • Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despit ...
    Trucks have reportedly arrived to remove Ranyane Bushmen from their ancestral land.© Survival InternationalGovernment trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. The move to evict the Ranyane ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Growing Chorus Seeks Labels For Genetically Mo ...
    from burlingtonfreepress.com: From Maine to Washington, a growing number of states are taking on the issue of genetically engineered foods, fanning the flames of a decades-old debate about whether the products are dangerous to human health. This month, Connecticut became the first state to ...
  • Sanity prevails: US Supreme Court rules that h ...
    from Natural News: In a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling invalidates the thousands of patents that have already been granted on human genes, including the patent by Myriad Genetics on the BRCA breast cancer gene ...
  • Grand Canyon Threatened by Uranium Mining
    from Alternet.org: The U.S. Forest Service has decided to allow Energy Fuels Resources, Inc. to begin operating a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park. The Canyon Mine, located on the Kaibab National Forest six miles south of the park, threatens cultural values, wildlife and enda ...
  • Evidence of GMO Harm in Pig Study
    from sustainablepulse.com: A groundbreaking new study [1] shows that pigs were harmed by the consumption of feed containing genetically modified (GM) crops. GM-fed females had on average a 25% heavier uterus than non-GM-fed females, a possible indicator of disease that requires furthe ...
  • Panic Attacks and Anxiety Linked To Low Vitami ...
    from undergroundhealth.com: If you suffer from anxiety or develop occasional panic attacks marked by bouts of hyperventilation, you could merely be experiencing the side effects of an underlying nutrient deficiency that is easily correctable, says Jonathan Benson of Natural News. ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Thousands Of Companies Have Been Handing Over ...
    It isn't just Internet and phone companies that are giving your personal information to the U.S. government.  According to an astounding report by Bloomberg, "four people familiar with the process" say that "makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommu ...
  • Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just To Dis ...
    Well, isn't that convenient?  At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war.  Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scanda ...
  • Member Of Congress: Edward Snowden’s Rev ...
    According to U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, members of Congress learned "significantly more than what is out in the media today" during a closed briefing about the NSA on Tuesday, and that what has been revealed so far about NSA snooping is "just the tip of the iceberg".  During her interv ...
  • 22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establi ...
    Establishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden.  They are attempting to portray Edward Snowden as a "traitor" and the spooks over at the NSA that are snooping on all of us as "heroes".  In fact, many of the exact ...
  • The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted ...
    The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit.  Outrage has been pouring in from all over the planet, and one member of the European Parliament is even comparing [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • XSensors: Lets you Monitor CPU Temperatures in ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" has its share of issues, at least for me. One of the most annoying one being the return of overheating bug (in Intel Core i3 hardware) which plagued me during the Ubuntu 11.04 release cycle (if I remember it correctly). In our previous post discussing things to d ...
  • 30 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 ...
    And here we go again. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released almost a month ago and unlike previous releases, this has been more of a silent affair. Mainstream blogs and news websites didn't cover much about the release. Ubuntu 13.04 is mostly an incrementally updated release and th ...
  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...
  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Veterans Today

  • 7 Reasons War with Syria is a Really Bad Idea
    Activist Post (with Jim Fetzer)   The Obama Doctrine of preemptive “humanitarian” war is once again moving into high gear, this time in Syria. Without providing any concrete evidence, U.S. officials have concluded that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels. Apparently, this is now ...
  • Taksim Square Belongs to Armenians
    The history of the Taksim Square and Gezi Park symbolize the vicious, inhuman and barbarous policies of successive Turkish governments vis-à-vis minorities. The racist policy has persisted unmitigated for the last one hundred years.
  • Baluchistan: Between Culprits & the Accomplices
    Another day breaks across Pakistan’s largest province, but unlike associated with the dawn, little hope accompanies it. Pakistan has again been bruised by a series of well-coordinated, implemented and executed events of terrorism on horrifying magnitude. The newly elected democratic government o ...
  • SARCOMAS and hope for veterans exposed to Agen ...
    Important information for sufferers of Sarcomas.
  • VetLikeMe, 4.4, June 2013
    VetLikeMe June 2013, Vol. 4 Ed. 4 Interview: Sam Graves, Chairman House Small Business Committee VetLikeMe: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your time. This is our second interview with you, Congressman, since you’ve been the Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business. Our initial interview w ...

electric politics

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

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Career Opportunities with the Pembina Institute
    Pembina Institute The Pembina Institute is currently seeking to fill a number of job opportunities in Calgary and Edmonton. Visit the Pembina Institute website for details: Director of Finance and Administration (Calgary) Directo ...
  • Cheap Power At What Cost?
    Carbon Conversations 10 Jun 2013 - 07:30 A Panel Discussion on the Health Impacts of Alberta's Heavy Reliance on Coal-Fired Power Plants doors open 7pm, panel begins at 7:3 ...
  • Bike Month
    Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...
  • EcoLiving Tour
    EcoLiving Events 8 Jun 2013 - 09:00 - 15:00 From the EcoLiving website: This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions a ...
  • Update on the Alberta Energy Regulator
    Alberta Environmental Network 1 Jun 2013 - 10:00 - 12:00 In December 2012, the Government of Alberta passed the Responsible Energy Development Act which creates a single regulator f ...

Stop NATO

  • Pentagon To Keep Patriot Missiles, F-16s In Jo ...
    Stars and Stripes June 16, 2013 US to keep some F-16s, Patriot missiles in Jordan post exercise Henrick Simoes A detachment of F-16s and U.S. Patriot missiles dispatched to Jordan for the joint Eager Lion military exercise will remain in the country after the exercise ends, the Pentagon has anno ...
  • NATO’s Denial Of Afghan Civilian Killing ...
    Press TV June 16, 2013 Denial of killing Afghan civilians ‘predictable’ AUDIO The denial of killing innocent Afghan civilians in bombings by U.S.-led forces is “fairly typical” and “predictable,” a political analyst told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Saturday. “This is not the first time that atrociti ...
  • Henri Barbusse: War’s loathsome horror a ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray Up there, borne by the flag-draped rostrum, a man is speaking. He lifts a sculptural head aloft, whose hair is white as marble. At ...
  • No-Fly Zone In Syria Would Break International ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti June 15, 2013 No-Fly Zone in Syria Would Break International Law – Lavrov MOSCOW: The creation of a no-fly zone in war-torn Syria would contravene international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday, amid media speculation that the ...
  • Jules Romains: Selections on war
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jules Romains: Destruction of war itself, its deletion from the pages of history Jules Romains: Fraternization versus fratricide, the forbidden subject of peace Jules Romains: Romantic view of war played a dirty trick on the warriors Ju ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Dual Power in a Guerrilla Zone: Two Reigns of ...
    by Bernard D’Mello and Gautam Navlakha The ambush on May 25 by Maoist guerrillas in the Darba Ghati valley (in the Sukma area of the Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh), 345 kms south of the state capital of Raipur, of a convoy of provincial Congress Party leaders has shocked the India ...
  • Nepal: Ex-revolutionaries denounce Indian Maoi ...
    [Prachanda, once leader of Nepalese Maoists, having disbanded the people's war, the revolutionary PLA and peoples guerrilla zones and administrative zones, and further confused and disoriented many revolutionaries in Nepal and internationally with a revisionist "creative" line of bourgeois elect ...
  • Tel Aviv Sold Advanced Weapons To Four Arab Co ...
    by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Tuesday June 11, 2013 11:20 The British Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has reported that Israel sold, over the past five years, military and security equipment for four Arab countries in addition to Pakistan. In its report, which dea ...
  • Abu Dhabi buying a new mercenary force to supp ...
    Colombia Worries as Troops Join Arab Mercenary Force ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, June 7 (UPI) – Colombia’s defense ministry is alarmed about an exodus of top soldiers to the United Arab Emirates to join a highly paid U.S.-led mercenary force organized by Erik Prince, billionaire ...
  • Nigeria: Police Kill University of Uyo Student ...
    By Ogala Emmanuel, 12 June 2013 Police shot and killed at least one student of the University of Uyo Wednesday as a demonstration by students over insufficient lecture venues and campus transit buses transportation system turned violent, witnesses said. Some residents of the area said three stud ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The 10 Best Dads In Nature
    We all know our own fathers are deserving of annual praise, but nature is full of unappreciated fathers as well. From seahorses to great hornbills to giant water bugs, the planet is covered with loving, dedicated dads. Click here to enter the gallery    
  • The Week In Numbers: Saturn's Moon Hides An Oc ...
    700 miles: the diameter of Dione, an icy moon of Saturn that may be home to a subterranean ocean—and "astrobiological potential" 13 million light-years: the distance from Earth to this perplexing black hole, which appears to have recently gone quiet at the center of the Sculptor galaxy 1975: th ...
  • Bike Shares Make Cities Safer For Bikers
    The New York Times looks at studies of urban bicycling. Want to make your city safer for bicyclists? Perhaps you should think about asking for a public bike-share program. Bike shares, such as the new system in New York City, improve accident rates for all bicyclists. What probably happens is ...
  • Gallery: Nature's 10 Best Dads
        
  • Corrective Running Shoes Are Based On A Myth
    New research suggests that ordinary shoes work just fine for runners with under- and over-pronating feet. For decades, running shoes have been manufactured in different styles to affect "pronation": rotational movement of the foot. If you tend to rotate either too far (over-pronate) or not enou ...

Veterans Today

  • 7 Reasons War with Syria is a Really Bad Idea
    Activist Post (with Jim Fetzer)   The Obama Doctrine of preemptive “humanitarian” war is once again moving into high gear, this time in Syria. Without providing any concrete evidence, U.S. officials have concluded that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels. Apparently, this is now ...
  • Taksim Square Belongs to Armenians
    The history of the Taksim Square and Gezi Park symbolize the vicious, inhuman and barbarous policies of successive Turkish governments vis-à-vis minorities. The racist policy has persisted unmitigated for the last one hundred years.
  • Baluchistan: Between Culprits & the Accomplices
    Another day breaks across Pakistan’s largest province, but unlike associated with the dawn, little hope accompanies it. Pakistan has again been bruised by a series of well-coordinated, implemented and executed events of terrorism on horrifying magnitude. The newly elected democratic government o ...
  • SARCOMAS and hope for veterans exposed to Agen ...
    Important information for sufferers of Sarcomas.
  • VetLikeMe, 4.4, June 2013
    VetLikeMe June 2013, Vol. 4 Ed. 4 Interview: Sam Graves, Chairman House Small Business Committee VetLikeMe: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your time. This is our second interview with you, Congressman, since you’ve been the Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business. Our initial interview w ...

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Did US Ask Philippines to Kill KAT.ph?
    News site Torrent Freak, "[t]he place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide" believes so, at least. Coming from the Philippines, I've always wondered whether to be proud or ashamed that the world's top torrent sites have had .ph top-level domains [TLDs] at one time or another. I ...
  • Will France's "Culture" Concerns Delay US-EU FTA?
    I have already dubbed the proposed " Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership" AKA the US-EU FTA a non-event on the grounds that (a) the counterparties are slow-growing economies (b) which already have few barriers on each other's products [around 2% tariff rates on average]. Also, (c) the ...
  • Come to Where the Energy Is: Myanmar Country
    With apologies to the Philip Morris Co.'s iconic figure, let's draw some analogies here: Both Marlboro and Myanmar are not exactly the most politically correct of figures, one representing the hazards of cigarette smoking and the other decades of political oppression. That said, both are irresis ...
  • Language Games: Should French Unis Teach in En ...
    I have long been fascinated with the France's Academie Francaise, a body intended to guard the French language from the barbarisms of other, uncouth languages. The erstwhile linguistic barbarians have changed over the centuries: whereas the Academic Francaise was developed as a bulwark to Spanis ...
  • World Economic Forum in Myanmar: Isolated No More
    In the retail space, there are certain token signs of global integration: McDonalds, KFC and Starbucks. In the realm of economic summitry, there too are certain "franchises" one can have: Think of hosting IMF/World Bank meetings...or, in this case, a World Economic Forum event. What brought Myan ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Thousands Of Companies Have Been Handing Over ...
    It isn't just Internet and phone companies that are giving your personal information to the U.S. government.  According to an astounding report by Bloomberg, "four people familiar with the process" say that "makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommu ...
  • Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just To Dis ...
    Well, isn't that convenient?  At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war.  Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scanda ...
  • Member Of Congress: Edward Snowden’s Rev ...
    According to U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, members of Congress learned "significantly more than what is out in the media today" during a closed briefing about the NSA on Tuesday, and that what has been revealed so far about NSA snooping is "just the tip of the iceberg".  During her interv ...
  • 22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establi ...
    Establishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden.  They are attempting to portray Edward Snowden as a "traitor" and the spooks over at the NSA that are snooping on all of us as "heroes".  In fact, many of the exact ...
  • The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted ...
    The rest of the world has found out that the U.S. government has been listening to their phone calls and watching what they do on the Internet and they do not like it one bit.  Outrage has been pouring in from all over the planet, and one member of the European Parliament is even comparing [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Demand Justice for the Murder of Costa Rican S ...
    Original post on Sea turtle Restoration Project website: http://www.seaturtles.org/article.php?id=2485 Demand Justice for the Murder of Costa Rican Sea Turtle Activist, Jairo Mora Sandoval, & Kidnapping of 4 Women from U.S. and Spain The shocking murder of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old ...
  • Gila Resources Information Project – Job Annou ...
    Program Associate 30 hours/week Applications Due June 21, 2013 This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic environmental organization and help promote Gila River conservation, water quality protection, and environmental sustainability in southwestern New Mexico.  The Gila Resources In ...
  • How Ranching Broke the West – Around the Campf ...
    I call the twenty or thirty years after the Civil War the “Killing Decades” as the American slaughter of wild things reached its peak then.  Market hunting, mining, logging, and railroading all helped lay the groundwork for the coming of ranching.  Cattle and sheep were the last straw in the dom ...
  • One Vision of Ecological Justice
    By David Skrbina On present estimates, we humans share the Earth with some 8 million other animal species, and some 1 million plant species.  Yet we Homo sapiens—a single species—dominate the ecological basis of this planet.  We use, by some accounts, about 40% of the global “net primary product ...
  • Settlement Reached In Wolf Legal Fight
    Conservationists help craft balanced plan; includes stronger legal standards, improved livestock husbandry, greater public accountability. Salem, Oregon  –  After seventeen months of grueling negotiations, conservationists, Governor John Kitzhaber, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODF ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Glenn Beck Will Break News Within 24 Hours Tha ...
    Glenn Beck says that within 24 hours, his network will break news from a whistleblower that is going to take down the entire power structure. read more
  • Eric Snowden May Soon 'Disappear'!
    Former NSA spy turned whistleblower Edward Snowden may soon ‘disappear’ following his mega leak regarding the NSA tracking operation known as PRISM, and new information reveals it may already be in the works. ~ Gordon Rupe read more
  • JFK Motorcade and Odd Secret Service Behavior
    You will be riveted by this video, not even three minutes long, showing JFK’s Secret Service protection being waved away from his car, and the perplexed reaction of at least one Special Agent. ~ James Huang - Video read more
  • Why The Surveillance State Must Be Erased
    In America today there is a great rushing storm, a swirling hurricane of clashing opinions and ideologies that defy coherent organization and classification. This social tempest has been triggered by certain revelations among the general public on issues which we in the Liberty Movement hav ...
  • It's High Time We Abolished the Department of ...
    The surveillance state is even bigger, and scarier, than we thought... As a result, it's time that we broke up the failed national security experiment known as the Department of Homeland Insecurity Security. ~ Thom Hartmann read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Senators Go Home Early, Skip NSA Briefing
    Despite that it has been main stream news and an enormous scandal, half of your Senators apparently don’t care too much about what’s going on regarding NSA spying on Americans as was exemplified during a Thursday classified briefing by the Director of the NSA to the Senate… Hal ...
  • How To Search The Internet Without Big Brother ...
    Given the new and reaffirming knowledge that our government is watching us on the internet (and elsewhere), and given that the those who command the lions share of search engine traffic (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) are participating in the NSA surveillance program (PRISM), I thought you might like ...
  • The 1st & 4th Amendment Under Attack
    Do you know the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution? In relation to what has been uncovered of the NSA, IRS, and the executive branch, might there be a conflict with these amendments? …   The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, (one of the ten ...
  • A Washboard is a Great Survival Prep Item
    Several years ago Ken purchased a washboard. “We’ll be able to keep clothes clean if the power goes out”, he said. It was made out of a wooden frame with it’s steel ridges to ‘wash’ your clothes on. I don’t know if any of you have ever used a washboard o ...
  • Dear Senator…
    An email sent to me by one of our regular readers… I thought it may help some of you who wish to contact your congressmen or senator to demand putting a stop to NSA spying on Americans, an unconstitutional act…   Dear Senator: It has recently come to my attention that the NSA (N ...

Fast Company

  • Signals In The Sky: Google Announces "Project ...
    Google's latest initiative to help connect more people to the Web is full of air--literally. Google is taking to the air. The online giant has announced plans to test a network of stratosphere-wandering balloons intended to provide Internet access to the two-thirds of humanity who still ca ...
  • Bizarre Still Lifes Of Food, Rigged Like Explo ...
    Catherine Losing creates "charged" foods that power their own destruction. Photographer Catherine Losing likes to play with her food. Flipping through her online portfolio reveals an array of odd, culinary-themed set pieces that combine biodegradables ranging from fungi to meats with noned ...
  • What Happens When Robots Eliminate All Our Jobs?
    In his weekly column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman talks about a problem that is likely (or at least should be) on the minds of many technologists: Companies are making more money today on the back of fewer laborers, and it’s not just low-skilled workers who are being displaced: ... ...
  • Nuclear Power Is So 20th Century
    Nuclear power seems cheap, but if you count the embedded costs of dealing with the fuel, does it make sense as an option for a clean future? When I was born, in the 1950s, nuclear power was said to be “too cheap to meter.” Although few and far between, disasters at Fukushima an ...
  • Design Icon: Revisiting The Sticky Lamp, A Lig ...
    Designer Chris Kabel’s Sticky Lamp can be stuck to any wall, ceiling, or just about any other convenient surface. Sometimes the proverbial light bulb just flicks on, and an idea strikes you with immediate force. Other times, you have to throw all your thoughts at the wall and see wha ...

Jadaliyya

  • #resistankara: Notes of a Woman Resisting
    Thousands of women filled the streets and squares in Ankara and took them back: spraying anti-teargas solutions in someone’s eyes, picking up the trash, advising people not to use swear words, but still talking, screaming, not keeping silent, swallowing, and walking, and walking again. The Gez ...
  • It Is About the Park: A Struggle for Turkey’s ...
    It is with alarming regularity that I read coverage of the protests and ensuing police brutality that erupted in Gezi Park and Taksim Square, Istanbul that emphatically insists that the confrontations are about “so much more than a park.” Ensuring their readers that the protests are not about so ...
  • 'Ottomanalgia' and the Protests in Turkey
    It was the sixth day since a peaceful sit-in had begun in Gezi Park in Istanbul to protect the last remaining green space in the center of the city. Protests had spread throughout the country due to the excessive use of force by police, including tear gas, water cannons, and plastic bullets agai ...
  • إصلاح بروتوكول باريس في عامه العشرين: أسئلة وأ ...
    "على طول برج المراقبة، رصد الأمراء المشهد، والنساء يرحن ويجئن والخدم حافي الأقدام. بعيداً في الخارج، مُواء القط البرّي، اقترب فارسان، وعَوَت الرياح. (بوب ديلان، "على طول برج المراقبة") يأتي هذا المقال، كغيره من المقالات التي ستنشر خلال هذه السنة دون شك، ليذكرنا أن ع ...
  • Report from Istanbul: Koray Caliskan on Democr ...
    This is an interview conducted with Koray Caliskan on 12 June, addressing the ongoing protests in Istanbul. The interview addresses the violent repression of protests, including the use of tear gas and water canons, as well as the context of the protests, relating to what led to the mobiliz ...

mediagazer

  • Media, administration deal with conflicts (Pau ...
    Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Media, administration deal with conflicts  —  It's all but a journalistic commandment: Thou shalt not have a vested interest in the story you're covering.  Otherwise, a personal entanglement could color a reporter's neutrality or cloud public p ...
  • Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped? - It's been a good we ...
    Jon Evans / TechCrunch: Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped?  —  It's been a good week for old media.  The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal have all done a superb job of reporting on the NSA/PRISM revelations.  Unfortunately it has als ...
  • Politics: some / Politics: none. Two ways to e ...
    Jay Rosen / Pressthink: Politics: some / Politics: none.  Two ways to excel in political journalism.  Neither dominates.  —  “Edward Snowden's decision to leak to Greenwald, and Glenn's domination of newsland for several days, tells us that politics: none is not ...
  • Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20t ...
    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event  —  The upcoming death of Google Reader and the addition of hashtags signal Facebook will likely launch a new way to discover and read news at the June 20th press event it's just sent out my ...
  • BBC suspends ties with Turkey's NTV over prote ...
    Agence France Presse: BBC suspends ties with Turkey's NTV over protests coverage  —  LONDON — The BBC announced on Friday it has suspended its partnership with Turkey's private NTV channel after it pulled a programme on press freedom and the anti-government protests.  ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • George Osborne set to show off his comic ...
    Osborne: keeping a straight face before last year's Mansion House speech. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters Last year, as George Osborne arrived to deliver his Mansion House speech, he was greeted by a BBC comedy presenter, who handed him a GCSE maths text book. The chancellor might have just ...
  • 25 die in Pakistan bus, hospital bombings
    At least 25 people were killed in troubled southwest Pakistan yesterday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors. Militants had earlier blown up a historic building in Baluchistan linked to Pakistan's founding father. The attack on the b ...
  • Qatari leaders signal they are ready to c ...
    Change is afoot in the world's richest nation, Qatar. Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and his Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, are said to be putting in place an ordered succession plan for the tiny Gulf emirate. The transition will see them ...
  • China shows resolve, action against air p ...
    BEIJING - The State Council, or China's cabinet, adopted a set of concrete measures to counter air pollution on Friday, demonstrating not only resolve but also action to cope with environmental issues. China's leadership has repeatedly promised all-out efforts to conserve resources and curb ...
  • Sen. Rand Paul voted yes for the $650 bil ...
    Somewhere, in the midst of the $650 billion funding bill, mixed in with $88.5 billion for ongoing wars and $60 billion for the Navy’s F-18 fighter program, remains the indefinite detention clause that had many so upset in 2012. An amendment to the 2013 NDAA included the right to trial for “c ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/13/13 - Critical Thinking Explained
    www.procon.org - – Critical Thinking Explained – What is critical thinking, and why is it so important? This episode of ProCon.org's Critical Thinking Video Series explores the ways critical thinking cuts through confusion, encourages citizen involvement, and leads to a stronger democracy.
  • 6/7/13 - New study shows students who discuss/ ...
    www.procon.org - – New study shows students who discuss/debate controversial issues get higher NAEP test scores – See this and other studies proving the importance of teaching controversial issues to stimulate critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship.
  • 6/6/13 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Should gay marriage be legal? – Read our updated pro and con arguments in this popular debate.
  • 5/30/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer ...
    vaccines.procon.org - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information – Read the vaccine ingredients and the products used in making 31 commonly recommended vaccines including some controversial items such as Cocker Spaniel cells, human embryonic lung cells, and mouse brains.
  • 5/24/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets ...
    tablets-textbooks.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools?- Read pro and con arguments from former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski (pro), Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tuft ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Nicaragua Approves Plans to Build Massive Cana ...
    Nicaragua has approved plans to build a $40 billion cross-country canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a project that would rival the Panama Canal but is raising major concerns about impacts on regional Click to enlarge Gran Canal Interoceánico por Nicaragua Possible canal route ...
  • Population Could Reach 11 Billion By End of th ...
    A new United Nations report projects that the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by 2100, about 8 percent more than predicted just two years ago. The projected increase largely stems from the fact that the fertility rate in Africa has declined more slowly than expected, with demograp ...
  • The Surprising Role of CO2 in Changes on the A ...
    Recent studies show that many of the world’s savannas, including famed African landscapes such as the Serengeti, are experiencing significant change as rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere favor the growth of trees over grasslands. BY ADAM WELZ
  • Mobile Apps that Mimic Bird Songs Harmful to S ...
    Wildlife officials in the UK are urging people not to use mobile phone apps that mimic bird songs in nature reserves, warning that the devices can harm some sensitive species, particularly during breeding season. iSpinyIcon for Chirp! app The increasingly popular apps, which use recordings of bi ...
  • Interview: How Detergent Became A Catalyst for ...
    Adam Lowry is the co-founder and “chief greenskeeper” of Method, a small but rapidly growing company that has been a leader in the field of manufacturing Adam Lowry environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products. Indeed, it was Method that pioneered the use of concentrated ...

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Daily Beast

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Energy News

Japan Times

  • Lefty tied for U.S. Open lead
    Phil Mickelson birdied his last putt while Billy Horschel never missed a green and they still only just broke par at the U.S. Open on ...
  • Morgan, BayStars trample over Lions
    Nyjer Morgan knows his game. So he wasn't too hard on himself when he struggled early in the season. Because he knew that as soon as ...
  • Iran’s Rowhani favors nuanced tack
    Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in Iran's 2005 presidential election, the country's top nuclear negotiator, Hasan Rowhani, resigned after quarrelsome meetings with the new ...
  • Nara selects Toyama as first coach
    It didn't take long. Koto Toyama has landed another coaching gig. The Bambitious Nara have handed the reins to Toyama for the team's inaugural season, 2013-14. The ...
  • Orioles blank listless BoSox
    Ryan Dempster pitched well enough to win. Boston's offense didn't do enough to make it happen. The Red Sox wasted a solid start by Dempster, managing ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • A Referendum on Referendums?
    With the deadline for Regina’s wastewater privatization petition fast approaching and rumours of signatures gathered close to 19,000, the City of Regina is beginning to sweat a little. According to the Leader-Post, City clerk Joni Swidnicki has asked the province to boost the number of sig ...
  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    In our previous blog post, we took a look at 5 proposals from a feature entitled “A better life without growth” in the French magazine Alternatives économiques aimed at decreasing individual expenses in order to discourage the quest for monetary accumulation. We continue this series by presentin ...
  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very ...
  • Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state ...
    France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates w ...
  • On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour ...
    The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • 1863 Indian Massacre Site Uncovered in California
    “Archaeologists say they’ve stumbled upon a grim page in American history: the site of the 1863 Owens Lake massacre. The Los Angeles Times provides a history lesson: The Paiute Indians occupied land some 200 miles north of LA that proved desirable to an influx of ranchers in the mid ...
  • River be damned
    “As the narrow longtail boat glides downstream from the dusty hamlet of Nong Kiew towards the golden temples of Luang Prabang, mirror images of jungle, vertical limestone cliffs and impossibly steep mountains shimmer in the waters of the Nam Ou River, a tributary of the mighty Mekong. Enda ...
  • Toxic waste spill in northern Alberta biggest ...
    “The substance is the inky black colour of oil, and the treetops are brown. Across a broad expanse of northern Alberta muskeg, the landscape is dead. It has been poisoned by a huge spill of 9.5 million litres of toxic waste from an oil and gas operation in northern Alberta, the third major ...
  • Winners in harsh battle for Klamath River wate ...
    “Some southern Oregon ranchers will have to reduce or completely shut down irrigation in the parched Upper Klamath Basin this summer as a result of a historic assertion of water rights by other users in the region. On Monday, several groups, including the Klamath Tribes and irrigators in t ...
  • Zimbabwe: Making a Business Out of Water Rationing
    “For 61-year-old Sarah Chikwanha from water-starved Chitungwiza, a town about 25 kilometres outside Harare, Zimbabwe, there is no choice. She must buy her water from illegal water traders, whose businesses have sprung up across the country. “We only have water once weekly in Chitungw ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • illegal is illegal … really …?
    … the author of this letter to the editor invites us to consider taking a “hardline” respecting those labeled illegals summarily declaring … “illegal is illegal” … true enough but I wonder what the author’s position is on the illegal action of our Maricopa County Sheriff … State Legislators … Bo ...
  • Bold … progressive … Arizona &#823 ...
    …so you honestly think such a bold, progressive educational proposition has a “snowball’s-chance-in-hell” of being given “due consideration” by Arizona’s state legislature…? …if you do, just what are you smoking…? Filed under: Blogroll
  • public input not a priority
    …Providing meaningful honest disclosure and transparency to Arizona citizens is not a priority for our current state legislature … remember it is “we” who elected them to serve & to protect … …Interesting “we” allow them to data mine us to determine how they can manipulate us and “we” ...
  • the world sees this as nothing more than a sham
    …it appears the rest of the world sees through this sham as nothing more than a prelude to war which Az Sen, John McCain and his military industrial corporate congressional complex compadres are striving to promote… …they have a host of new war “boy-toys” they are dying to test … and our drone p ...
  • who makes the call…?
    …inasmuch as the DECI$ION on how BALANCE will be defined is solely in the hands of government and the military industrial corporate congressional complex which summarily excludes all public disclosure and transparency is there really any question…   Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Cook's 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Introduction to TCP" (2012-01-19) John Cook layed out the game plan for the 97% consensus study, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on ...
  • The Statistical Destruction of the 97% Consensus
    Dr. Richard Tol has been tweeting a statistical destruction of the "97% consensus" study, Cook et al. (2013) by educating co-author Dana Nuccitelli as to why his "sample" is not representative. "In his defense, [Dana] has had limited exposure to stats at uni" - Richard Tol Including "glob ...
  • Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
    Table of Contents: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Debunked - References - Reports World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) - References - Reports Conspiracy Theory Videos Debunked Debates Books Peer-Reviewed Papers ...
  • 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Paper ...
    The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These res ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, env ...
    In a patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, a 28-year-old in a jeans and tall rubber boots snubs out out his cigarette and pulls a headlamp over his short black hair. Standing under a tarp, he flicks the light on and leans over the entrance of a narrow shaft lined with wooden planks that he an ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...
  • New global network bridges gap for primate con ...
    Drawing from her personal experience as a primate educator and the challenges she saw others facing, Amy Clanin envisioned a network that would advance the field of primate conservation education by addressing three needs of educators: connections, resources, and services. It was this vision tha ...
  • A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives ...
    On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of ...
  • All the world's rarest birds in one book: phot ...
    The World's Rarest Birds is an extraordinary bird book. 590 different bird species are classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered, with many species only existing in captivity. A new book, The World's Rarest Birds, catalogs all of these species. Each species is shown with remarkable color ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Eclipse image lights dark side of moon
    The US space agency NASA has come up with a startling image of an eclipse.Except it is not quite what it seems - it is a composite creation, taken and assembled at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland using data collected...
  • US Court: Human genes cannot be patented
    The US Supreme Court has ruled that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the potential to profoundly affect the emerging and lucrative medical and biotechnology industries.The high court's...
  • Icy continent holds climate clues
    The closest most of us will get to Antarctica is nature documentaries like Frozen Planet - but the white continent's relevance to us and our future is far greater than we think.Many of the clues to climate change lie buried within...
  • Cuba girds for climate change by reclaiming coasts
    After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 5,630 kilometres of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the public to avoid causing panic.The scientists...
  • Otago microbiologist leading fight against tub ...
    University of Otago microbiologist Prof Greg Cook and the university's new infectious disease containment laboratory have found themselves in the research front line in the international war against tuberculosis.Clad in space-suit-like...

The Bovine

  • Jury members write to judge about Vernon Hersc ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Modern Farmer: “The criminal misdemeanor trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger that drew national media attention ended more than two weeks ago, but Michele Bollfrass-Hopp, one of the jurors in the case, has been … Continue reading →
  • “New Studies Confirm: Raw Milk A Low-Ris ...
    From the Wall Street Journal: “Washington DC, June 11, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Three quantitative microbial risk assessments (QMRAs) recently published in the Journal of Food Protection have demonstrated that unpasteurized milk is a low-risk food, contrary to previous, inappropriatel ...
  • The Gene Revolution with Dr. Thierry Vrain; GM ...
    by Raoul Bedi, BASc A: Introduction Building on the theme of collaboration and synergy, in the work of food security,  anti-GMO awareness and public education, through the examples of interviews (Vandana Shiva May 1, 2013), writings (Dr. Thierry Vrain’s May … Continue reading →
  • Nadine Ijaz’s presentation on raw milk m ...
    From Nadine Ijaz: I am pleased to announce that my May 16, 2013 Grand Rounds presentation at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC), where I examined scientific evidence around raw milk safety and benefits, has now been posted at BC … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and Gordon Watson convicted of ...
    Ontario raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt and BC raw milk pioneer Gordon Watson were found guilty today, on charges of contempt, by Mr. Justice Wong of the B.C. Supreme Court. The charges relate to an order dating from March 18, … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Dumb and Dumber Tax Hikes in Italy; Grand Coal ...
    One of the dumbest things a country can do in a recession is raise taxes. Yet, after pronouncing the end of austerity, Italy's "grand coalition" government, led by Enrico Letta, is going to hike the VAT. Why? It seems they need to hike the VAT to pay for a decrease in property taxes. R ...
  • Do You Trust Banks? Country by County Comparison
    Here is an interesting Gallup poll that came my way today from a friend "BC". The poll was taken last month. It shows European Countries Lead World in Distrust of Banks. Thirteen percent of Greeks said they had confidence in their country's banks or financial institutions in 2012, leading ...
  • Don't Worry, Trend Towards Hiring Temps is Onl ...
    Wal-Mart has a new strategy of hiring temporary workers, everyday (seemingly to match everyday low pricing). Spokesman David Tovar says that the move is not related Obamacare, even though it could take a year or more for temporary workers to receive health care benefits. Let's dig deeper ...
  • Mish Buys a Basket of Miners
    Most of my investment funds are under management at Sitka Pacific. I also have investments with GoldMoney and some other assets from my late wife Joanne. I believe precious metal miners represent true value, but I cannot state when the market will come to the same conclusion. Last wee ...
  • IRS Refunds $4 Billion Child Tax Credits Per Y ...
    Here's an interesting video that came my way yesterday from a close friend. The video highlights a news investigation by Channel 13, WTHR in Indianapolis, regarding fraudulent refunds of taxpayer money to illegal immigrants living in the US. The refunds are based on child tax credits, when the k ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

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

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Press TV

  • 'US aid to Syria militants ups insecurity'
    An Iranian deputy foreign minister says remarks made by certain US official about increasing military aid to terrorist groups in Syria increase insecurity in the Arab country and the entire region.
  • 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.
  • ‘NSA leaks extremely damaging to US’
    US Attorney General Eric Holder says the recent revelations about the spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA) are "extremely damaging," vowing to punish severely the person behind the leak.
  • Russia set to boost ties with Iran: Putin
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani on his victory in the country's 11th presidential election, announcing readiness to expand bilateral relations with Tehran.
  • Hezbollah, Kuwait congratulate Rohani
    Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah, and Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah have congratulated Hassan Rohani over his victory in Iran’s 11th presidential election.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Leprosy DNA from Mediaeval Skeletons
    German scientists have used DNA from ancient skeletons to rebuild the genetic sequence of mediaeval leprosy. Caused by Mycobacterium leprae, leprosy was at one time a worldwide scourge affecting m...
  • Gene therapy focused on eyes
    Scientists in America have developed a new virus that can deliver therapeutic genes to treat retinal diseases. A number of sight-loss conditions are known, including some that are genetic and whic...
  • Tuguska Fireball meteor fragments found
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  • Self-healing concrete
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  • Cloaking device developed, for fish
    The dream of invisibility goes back to at least the Greeks whose god of the underworld, Hades is supposed to have had a helmet of invisibility. But this week scientists at the Nanyan Technological ...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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
  • Monkeys + Synthesizers : Video Clips From The ...
    Let's make some music Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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