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JoNova

  • The Ben Factor. One man drives a market. The w ...
    How much is that company worth? You can look at its PE, debt, market spread, sovereign risk, and discounted cash flow, but in the end, it’s the Ben Factor (BF) which dominates all companies, metal prices, and sovereign currencies in the West. The Ben hath spoken, and said that in future, i ...
  • More signposts on the road to the post-Climate ...
    … Not so long back, Deutsche Bank were writing 50 page reports on the science of climate change. They paid for giant 70 foot high towers of doom counting carbon emissions near Madison Square Gardens. They were so concerned about the planet they had a division called Deutsche Bank Climate C ...
  • Even Big-Oil is begging for Big-Green subsidies
    Royal Dutch Shell is concerned we won’t sequester away enough of that pollutant, carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and storage [CCS], a way of cutting emissions from industry by burying them underground, needs more state support for the European Union to meet clean-energy goals, a Royal Dutch ...
  • The data is in: more Green jobs means less rea ...
    It’s not rocket science. If energy costs more, that means we have to make do with less of it, or make do with less of something else. Thus if the government forces everyone to pay more for electricity, companies have less spare cash to employ people. Their margins are tighter, they can&#82 ...
  • Key players, Gore, are giving up: they can&#82 ...
    In history studies of the Great Global Warming Scare, people will ask, is this the bargaining stage or the start of acceptance? Adapting to _ not just fighting _ climate change is taking the heat out of global warming talk Seth Borenstein for The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to cur ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • I Happily Admit I Was Wrong (ish), But Zero Re ...
    For years now I have been saying that it is unlikely that an ancient culture could have predicted a natural event (I highlighted the return of a long period comet or a massive solar storm) accurate to a day or even a week. My (unique) take on the 2012 meme was that Dec 21 was chosen by the ancie ...
  • Vivos Still Trying – New Site in Kansas
    Robert Vicino, CEO of The Vivos Group, received a lot of media attention leading up to 2012 – promoting the idea of buying a berth in a bunker. His plans were grand, and relied on hundreds of people providing up-front money. Although many reasons were cited, my guess is that the Barstow mi ...
  • Nuking Asteroids Back on the Agenda
    When Bruce Willis nuked an asteroid in Armageddon, scientists told us that we didn’t have nuclear weapons powerful enough to pull off such a feat. And if the asteroid still struck Earth, but in smaller pieces, the damage might have been worse. The best recent solutions involve getting to t ...
  • Here Come the Doomsday Comedy Movies!
    After numerous serious and blockbuster films about the apocalypse, some of which were certainly a result of the 2012 meme, here come the comedies. Of course they were probably written and filmed prior to last December, but it wasn’t unusual to expect the Mayan doomsday to be a flop. And no ...
  • What Will (likely) Kill You – Giving Doomsday ...
    Often when I am discussing killer solar storms with people, they’ll say something like I’m going to die one day anyway, so, whatever. It’s the opposite attitude of a prepper. But how do preppers react to the concept of something mundane killing them? I guess some strive to stay ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will NC lawmakers push long-t ...
    At the end of this month, 71,000 jobless North Carolinians will lose federal extended unemployment benefits unless state lawmakers act soon. read more
  • Art Pope-funded group launches database target ...
    The Civitas Institute is publicizing the names, residence, political registration, employers, and other details of those arrested at the ongoing NAACP-organized protests at the legislature. The project calls to mind how Southern civil rights opponents once published the names of NAACP supporters ...
  • Duke Energy caught making illegal charges to c ...
    A utility watchdog and its hired expert scoured Duke Energy rate-hike filings and uncovered numerous instances where the company inappropriately charged customers for things like political contributions and a sports team sponsorship. They're calling on state regulators to fine Duke at least $5 m ...
  • VOICES: NSA spying comes as no surprise to Gul ...
    In the wake of the NSA surveillance revelations, Gulf Coast advocate Cherri Foytlin considers her own experience of monitoring by federal authorities while pressing for justice from BP, part of a long history of U.S. spying on people's movements. read more
  • In media spotlight, Pope issues non-denial ove ...
    Facing South's report on Art Pope's role in killing a pioneering election reform in North Carolina garners national attention -- and a statement from Pope that doesn't dispute any facts of the original story. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Syria: Looming Sunni-Shia Crisis
    The government forces are gaining ground almost everywhere in Syria. Their advance has become an important international game changer. The anti-government camp has become vibrant applying efforts to rescue the giant international project, which has already consumed so much time and effort. Presi ...
  • Episode 12. Why did Britain and the United Sta ...
    The essential cause of the stability of our currency was to be sought for in our concentration camps. Adolf Hitler  For many years a single question has tormented the historians and politicians of many countries: would it have been possible to prevent the horrific Second World War?  And it&#8217 ...
  • Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s plan to sta ...
    In the closing days of WW II, Winston Churchill came up with a bizarre plan for a joint British-American attack on the USSR. When told the Russians would bombard the UK on a massive scale, the British PM quietly backed off. On May 8, 1945, as people everywhere celebrated the end of World War II, ...
  • Obama, Morsi, Plunge Middle East Into Chaos
    This week, President Obama announced that US “intelligence estimates” conclusively prove Syria has been using chemical weapons. The US will now supply weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels, the Washington Post says are, not just al-Qaeda “affiliates” but working to destabilize and “Balkanize” ...
  • Dipping Our Military Toes In Very Murky Water
    After resisting for more than two years hawkish political pressures to intervene militarily in Syria’s bitter civil war, the Obama administration apparently has decided that now’s the time. On Friday, news agencies reported that the U.S. will begin supplying small arms and ammunition ...

BlogHer

  • The VICE Fashion Spread Brouhaha and Apology: ...
    On Monday, June 17th, the VICE magazine website published a fashion spread inspired by the suicides of noteworthy female authors. Entitled “Last Words,” the photoessay depicted models dressed in designer clothing reenacting the deaths of writers including Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and Iris Ch ...
  • The Problem with 'Mad Men' As It Wraps Up Seas ...
    AMC's Mad Men will wrap up its sixth season this Sunday night, and I'm ready. I love Mad Men, I do, but the show has two devastating problems. One of the problems with Mad Men is that it is so very good, and so rich with symbols and subtext, that devout fans tend to watch each episode two or th ...
  • Food Network Drops Paula Deen
    [Editor's note: Food celebrity Paula Deen, with her Georgia accent and famously buttery recipes, is synonymous with Southern tradition. But the National Enquirer reported that Deen herself recently stated -- in court -- that her "traditions" include flat-out racism. (Updated to include facts f ...
  • Yes, Sometimes Autism Sucks
    Editor's Note: Do you ever put on your brave face and pretend like it's all okay? That despite all of the challenges of special needs, this parenting gig is a piece of cake? Well, Jennifer at Anybody Want a Peanut? got real recently, and she wants you to know it's okay to say that sometimes it s ...
  • Is North West the Most Ridiculous Celebrity Ba ...
    So, I really want to know who came up with Kaidence Donda, which was the originally rumored name of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's baby girl. Image: © Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMAPRESS.com Because, you know, I think Swistle might even have approved. It's got a honor name, for Kanye's late mom, as the ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • 3-D Printer Brings Dexterity To Children With ...
    Richard Van As was working in his home near Johannesburg, South Africa, in May of 2011, when he lost control of his table saw. “It’s a possibility that it was a lack of concentration,” he says. ... Related posts:US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice o ...
  • Former GMO Engineer Drops Biotech and Goes Organic
    The “con­ver­sion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO pro­moter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engi­neer who speaks out against the risks of genet­i­cally engi­neered foods, has far ... Related posts:Biotech Crops V ...
  • 6 Natural Pain Reducing Remedies
    Instead of popping an aspirin, or taking one of the many pain medications on the market today, you can target pain with natural remedies that cause absolutely no side effects and induce no negative impact ... Related posts:Chronic Pain Is Determined By Emotions Scientists Beli ...
  • How Food Companies Exploit Americans with Ingr ...
    Thoughts of outrage, unfairness, disbelief, and ultimately grief consumed me while I was doing this investigation. A list of ingredients that are banned across the globe but still allowed for use here in the American food supply ... Related posts:New Report: Americans Eating T ...
  • Can Turmeric Alleviate 500+ Causes of Human Il ...
      There is a medicinal spice so timelessly interwoven with the origins of human culture and metabolism, so thoroughly supported by modern scientific inquiry, as to be unparalleled in its proven value to human health and well-being.   Indeed, turmeric turns the entire d ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 21, 2013
    Keith Hainer walks along a partially completed coal conveyer belt in the mine training area during a tour of the Running Right Leadership Academy in Julian, Va., Tuesday, June 11, 2013.  Alpha Natural Resources safety training center that grew out of its $210 million non-prosecution agreement wi ...
  • Another way to help plan West Virginia’s ...
    Gazette photo by Kenny Kemp It’s great that West Virginians are spending so much time and energy celebrating our state’s last 150 years. But it’s also important to look to the future, as the Gazette tried to encourage readers to do by collecting ideas about making West Virginia ...
  • Happy West Virginia Day!
  • Friday roundup, June 14, 2013
    Smoke billows from chimneys of the cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) There was an interesting story this week in the Springfield-based Illinois Times: What do you get if you’re facing millions of dollars in fines for water p ...
  • Patriot struggle ‘a long, long way from ...
    Trying to follow the back-and-forth between the United Mine Workers of America and Patriot Coal this week has been a bit like watching a tennis match. First, we had the UMWA declaring on Wednesday that Patriot officials had “walked out” on negotiations aimed at working out some sort ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Free Will Evidence Isn’t
    Image from starlean.blogspot.com The only evidence that free will exists comes in the form of humans “feeling” like it does. That’s a pretty low standard when coming from a species that can’t walk straight if spun in a circle a couple of times.Related Posts:Different Fall ...
  • The Connection Between Superman, The Matrix, a ...
    I’m fairly stupid for Superman. Always have been. And when Matrix came out I was absolutely enthralled. One thing that’s fascinated me since The Matrix was how many ways it ties in with Superman, and, oddly, how much they both tie in with Jesus. Here are a few connections that I know ...
  • Is Facebook About to Fill the Hole Google Left?
    The event invite, first spotted by Joanna Stern of ABC News, says “A small team has been working on a big idea. Join us for coffee and learn about a new product.” The conspicuously analog invite was sent out via paper snail mail instead of by email like Facebook usually does. There’s also a coff ...
  • Predictions and Inevitabilities
    This will be in a highly unedited format. Please pardon the writing. Paid to Be Good Citizens The jobs are going, and they’re not coming back. Right now they’re going overseas, but the reality is that they’re going away permanently. Machines are taking them. Computers are takin ...
  • Why It’s Dangerous to Call Whistleblowers Heroes
    Exposing blatant criminal activity is generally a good thing. This is especially true when it’s being financed by, and wielded against, the same group–e.g., the American people. The Manning and Snowden cases are dissimilar in a number of ways, but in both situations they are being la ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Obama's new obsession with the global warming myth
    Barack Obama was visiting Berlin and at the Brandenburg Gate (which looked so ordinary to me a few years ago – relatively to my childhood – because no one is waiting there to shoot you anymore), he gave a speech urging the world to reduce nuclear weapons and... to combat climate change. ...
  • Austin: 1-inch accelerator gets electrons to \ ...
    PopSci, Science Recorder, The Guardian Express, and The Hindu Business Line describe a new accelerator developed at the University of Texas in Austin that is really, really small. Half a billion of electrons may be accelerated to \(2\GeV\) on a square inch. A similar gad ...
  • Supersymmetric Google Hangout with John Ellis
    According to a 2004 SPIRES survey, the CERN particle phenomenologist John Ellis of the U.K. was the second most cited physicist in high-energy physics and, except for the third one (Steven Weinberg), the only one surpassing 50% of the citations collected by Edward Witten. ;-) After 20 ...
  • Kenneth Wilson, RIP
    Kenneth Wilson died from complications of lymphoma (a blood cancer) in Saco, Maine (where he and his wife were previously brought due to their love for kayaking) on Saturday, aged 77 years and 1 week. He received his Nobel Prize in 1982. His adviser was Murray Gell-Mann and students included Jac ...
  • Most species originate in the tropics
    Yesterday was the first really good day of 2013 to swim in a pond – two months later than in 2012 – and today is the first supertropical day of the otherwise cloudy year 2013 with temperatures reaching 35 °C in Pilsen where the warmth has its headquarters. Prague was colder but 33.5 °C was still ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • 10 influential Aboriginal Canadians
    In recognition of this year’s National Aboriginal Day, here are 10 highly influential aboriginal Canadians. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: A salute to inspiring citizens on National Aboriginal Day On June 21st, Canadians c ...
  • The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Go ...
    by Michael Snyder, Economic Collapse Blog: Why did the U.S. government spend 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly? Why did the U.S. government spend $ 175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”? Why did th ...
  • WestJet wing tip clips grounded plane at Ottaw ...
    At least five flights have been cancelled after a WestJet airplane that had been backing out of a gate before takeoff struck the wing tip of another plane at the Ottawa airport this morning. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Solar ...
  • Your CRIMINAL Gov’t: Obama Program Requires Fe ...
    by Marisa Taylor and Jonathan S. Landay, Star Telegram: Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep close ...
  • Hershey Canada fined $4M for chocolate price f ...
    Confectionery giant Hershey Canada Inc. pleaded guilty in Toronto and was fined $ 4 million for its role in a chocolate price-fixing cartel. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Widespread price-fixing alleged in Toronto home construc ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Midsummer message to our readers
    As Norway heads into the Midsummer weekend, the lightest time of the year, we’re going to be busy on projects to further light up newinenglish.no. It’s time to make some more technical improvements, four years after our launch in 2009. Last year, the sheer traffic growth of our site ...
  • ‘Jens vs Erna’ on prime time TV
    It was billed as a “duel” over “your next prime minister:” Norway’s national commercial television channel TV2 helped kick off the government election campaign with a live debate between Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Erna Solberg, the leader of the Conservativ ...
  • Partner murders set off alarms
    Police are calling this year the worst ever for partner murders in Norway, with more committed since January than in any full prior year. Experts, alarmed by the increase, are asking how these murders can occur in Norway, one of the most sexually equal countries in the world. Police launched the ...
  • ‘Jens vs Erna’ on prime time TV
    It was billed as a “duel” over “your next prime minister:” Norway’s national commercial television channel TV2 helped kick off the government election campaign with a live debate between Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Erna Solberg, the leader of the Conservativ ...
  • Danes buy ‘Dagbladet’
    Lengthy negotiations to sell the Oslo-based newspaper Dagbladet and its related media units to Aller Media of Denmark culminated with a deal on Thursday. Dagbladet employees seemed mostly relieved, calling the deal “a good match” that will create one of Norway’s largest media c ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Thinking Out Loud: Rentier Capitalism, Natural ...
    Ecological destruction and environmental degradation are merely symptoms of a more profound structural economic problem endemic to industrialization and consumerism. As can readily be observed, these are systems based on a flawed operational and ideological premise that believes it can “g ...
  • Top Five Fruit Trees for Canberra Backyard Foo ...
    As we move into the winter months here in Australia, it’s a great time to start planning and design your backyard food forest so you are ready to go in spring. Further, winter is a time when you can buy bare root trees, which are cheaper than stock that has been potted on. With this [...]
  • If You Plant It, They Will Come – Friendly Pol ...
    Blazing Star and Little Sulphur (source) Encouraging pollinators into our gardens is one of the biggest contributions we can make to ensure a healthy polyculture of plants and insects on our land. About ninety percent of all plant species need pollinating insects. Planting natives is an esse ...
  • Fernglade Farm – Late Autumn (May) 2013 Update
    Some of the 50kg worth of tomatoes growing this season What a summer it was in the South Eastern corner of Down Under. The weather was just wacky, in that the farm received no significant rainfall between early October and late February. The farm received 60mm (2 ½ inches) of rain in very ...
  • Debt and Money: Facing the Music
    What is music? An agreement. What is debt? An agreement. They are the same thing. No, they aren’t the same. Let me explain. Music is an activity that people do together based on an agreement about the value of units of time, frequency of beats, frequency of tones, [...]

Pointman's

  • Know your enemy : the climate activist.
    In the context of this series of articles about getting to know the opposition, I think it’s important at an early stage to get a realistic view of what we’re actually dealing with when it comes down to this particular category, because so many of the people who fall into the other c ...
  • An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
    An interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight. That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something, which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was Saturday ev ...
  • Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.
    We wretched dissenters from the climate orthodoxy have been placed under the psychological microscope several times in the last year or so. Since the studies, and I use that word advisedly, were conducted by featherweight academics with warmista rap sheets as long as your arm, the results as you ...
  • How to run a really bad infowar campaign.
    It’s perhaps a debatable opinion, but I think the main way that a lot people found out there actually was such a thing as the climate skeptic blogosphere, was that its existence was highlighted by the alarmists themselves. In the complete absence of any PR budget, it was actually the alarm ...
  • Politicians, thieves and those greedy pigs in ...
    It’s simple, easy and a mistake, to despise all politicians. In my experience, they’re actually like us and mostly decent people, and when push comes to shove, they’ll usually try to do their best for the people they’ve been elected to represent. To some extent or another ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Defending your personal health choices
    Jabbed is a documentary produced by SBS televison In today's show we zero in on some of the outright fraud which is being perpetrated on behalf of large companies who make their money from selling vaccines. We go through some facts and figures on the the incidence of pertussis (whooping coug ...
  • The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo on the psy ...
    In today's show we take a look at the work of Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist whose experiments have demonstrated that there is the potential within all ordinary law-abiding folk to become evil. Zimbardo's "prison experiment" involved recruiting a group of normal young people and arbitrarily a ...
  • No jab, no play - the vaccine crackdown and yo ...
    In today's show we look at the controversy over vaccines from the perspective of basic human freedom. We propose that, whether or not vaccines are safe and effective, there is a moral imperative to protect the freedom of the individual which is being eroded by medical fascists who seek to make ...
  • Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached a new high ...
    In today's show we report on the latest climate change news as reported by Australia's national broadcaster the ABC.  On 11 May the ABC reported: The world's longest measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million (PPM) for the first time in three millio ...
  • World news roundup for 8th May 2013 - Part 1
    In today's show we bring you a wide range of stories from Australia and around the world, leading with the latest developments on the Syrian conflict. In a shocking development, the lead UN investigator into war crimes in Syria, Carla Del Ponte, has announced that the Syrian rebels most likely ...

Beacon

  • 20 Percent of Seafood Worldwide Illegally Caught
    Last week, a U.S. federal court struck a blow against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing operations when it ordered three men to pay $22.5 million in restitution for smuggling sea bass and rock lobster from South Africa, which is the largest monetary penalty ever given for this ...
  • National Aquarium Gives a Fresh Approach to Co ...
    Asian catfish hiding in your grouper sandwich. Escolar sold in your “white tuna” sushi roll. By now, most consumers know they can’t always trust what’s on their dinner plate, especially when it comes to seafood. But how often do you actually get to test your own knowledge of what you’re eating ...
  • Brunei Becomes First Asian Country to Ban Shar ...
    Brunei's strong ban on shark finning sets an admirable step for the rest of Asia to follow! Photo: Wikimedia Commons We have some big news for  you –Brunei has become the first Asian country to adopt a nationwide shark fin ban! With his June 7 announcement, Sultan Hossanal Bolkiah’s decr ...
  • Destructive Fishing Gear Kills 400K+ Seabirds ...
    Hundreds of thousands of seabirds like this critically endangered waved albatross chick are snared and drowned by gillnets around the world every year. Photo: Wikimedia Commons “Walls of death.” Gillnets have often been described in this haunting way due to their devastating ability to catch ...
  • Meet the Faces of the Ocean Hero Junior Awards!
    Winners of the 2010 Ocean Hero Award, the Shark Finatics' most recent project involved plastic bottles filled with important ocean conservation messages.  The Shark Finatics were the 2010 Ocean Hero Awards Junior Winners! Since winning the Ocean Hero Award in 2010, the Shark Finatics ha ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • “People’s Filibuster” Stops Vote on Anti-Abort ...
    Last night in Austin, when the Texas House State Affairs Committee took up House Bill 60 – an omnibus anti-abortion bill – something rather amazing happened that’s being called a “people’s filibuster.” Hundreds of people showed up to speak against the bill, and stopped the vote from occurring. I ...
  • Biggest Loser: Speaker John Boehner
    THE SHOCK of Speaker John Boehner blowing the Farm Bill is still reverberating through the Republican intelligentsia. He’s no Nancy Pelosi, who could at least do basic math and know if her left flank was going to make her life a nightmare and scuttle a bill. John Boehner is so totally clue ...
  • Paula Deen Bails on Today Show
    The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook LAST NIGHT on Erin Burnett’s CNN show, Paula Deen was the subject and whether she should be fired from Food TV was the question, which I thought was absolutely absurd. Sh ...
  • Howard Dean at Netroots Nation: Hillary Will B ...
    “She is not going to have a pass,” Dean said. “There will be other people who will run.” [CNN] THE “SHE” in Howard Dean’s statement above, which was made to CNN at the Netroots Nation conference, is obviously Hillary Clinton, as if you couldn’t gue ...
  • Howard Kurtz Lands at Fox News Channel
    IT HAS been a very weird spring watching Howard Kurtz implode, which will be Fox News channel’s gain. First it was all the drama at Daily Beast and Newsweek, then the train wreck of criticism on his own CNN show “Reliable Sources.” Now he’s out at CNN, though “Relia ...

Hudson New York

  • Spain: "Soon the Muslims Will Be the Kings of ...
    Spanish police have arrested a Muslim immigrant in Mallorca after he claimed to have been sent by Allah to "kill all the Spanish." The arrest follows a series of other Islam-related incidents in recent weeks and months which reflect the mounting
  • Lebanon's Apartheid Laws
    About three years ago, the Lebanese government decided to amend its Apartheid law that denies Palestinians the right to work in as many as 20 professions. Then, Palestinians were told that from then on they would be able to work in many professions and
  • Violence and Context in Islamic Texts
    Recently, the journalist Paul Sheehan, reflecting on the Woolwich beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby, invited consideration of the view of Muslim violence in authoritative Islamic texts. In the Sydney Morning Herald of May 27, 2013, Sheehan observed that the
  • The Arabs of Israel
    Israel's Arab citizens are clearly not listening to the bad advice they have been getting from some of their leaders, including Arab members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, who keep inciting them against Israel. These leaders and parliamentarians
  • Extremism Overpowering Indonesia
    Nations are falling like tenpins: not only Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and nations throughout the Gulf, but now also Turkey, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt, and increasingly large swaths of Africa and South America. After the U.S. withdraws from

Urban Survival

  • My “Black Monday” Rag
    There are some very interesting possibilities for next week with the market now down as critical support levels if you follow 2-standard deviation trend channels, as I do when nothing else is going on.   Thursday trading saw the major … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Survival Boat Friday
    Texas and I have a love/hate relationship going on the matter of boats.  I like boats and have “salt water in me veins, matey” and frankly, as pretty as some of the lakes are in Texas, they don’t turn my … Continue reading →
  • The String is Wet, Gold’s Collapse…
    The price of gold this morning was down more than $60-bucks earlier when I looked.  Almost immediately, my frail male ego suggested that people must be taking Wednesday’s in-depth report for Peoplenomics readers [SUBSCRIBE] to heart.  In the analysis I … Continue reading &# ...
  • Coping: With Field Day
    My life-long retired .mil pal (we’ve been friends since age 3) called from Fort Worden State Park up at Port Townsend, Washington last night to chat about the annual gathering of ham radio operators up there for Field Day. Happens … Continue reading →
  • Deflation Stalks Economy
    Not that this will come as any real surprise to you, since, as we have been reporting all along, deflation comes when money created is not making it back into circulation in anything other than financial markets and a few … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Opportunities to Tackle Climate Change as Secr ...
    Radhika Khosla, Staff Scientist, India Initiative , New York Fifteen senators wrote in an open letter to the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry today about the opportunities to take climate change during Secretary Kerry’s upcoming visit to In ...
  • Latin America Green News: Turbines start turni ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. June 17-21 2013 Chile A new report from the Inter-Ame ...
  • Toll Road Denied Key Permit; Big Win For South ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica For the third time in six years, a regulatory agency has put the brakes on an ill-conceived toll road project in Orange County. On Wednesday, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted 3-2 ...
  • New Report from Bipartisan Commission on How t ...
    Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney and Director, Ocean Initiative, New York As Americans nationwide pack up and head toward the beach this summer,  a timely new report has been issued about ways of improving the management of our ocean resource ...
  • Climate Change Hits Home: New Tool Shows Extre ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The fires burning around Colorado Springs in the past week have been called the worst in the state’s history. Nearly 40,000 people were forced to evacuate their houses and two people lost thei ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Riots in Brazil: Protester killed, dozens inju ...
    An 18-year-old protester has been killed and dozens injured as massive protests continue in Brazil’s cities. Over a million people have flooded the streets of the country on Thursday. Mass protests continued throughout Brazil Thursday as hundreds of thousands assembled in the main cities o ...
  • Breaking News: British spy agency has access t ...
    The British spy agency GCHQ has access to the global network of communications, storing calls, Facebook posts and internet histories – and shares this data with the NSA, Edward Snowden has revealed to the Guardian in a new leak. GCHQ’s network of cables is able to process massive quantities of i ...
  • Obama called “war criminal” & “hypocrite of th ...
    Ms Daly has accused the Government of “prostituting” Ireland to US President Barack Obama. Ms Daly also criticised what she described as media and political “slobbering” over First Lady Michelle Obama and her children Sasha and Malia during their stay in Ireland this week. She told t ...
  • Obama Joins “Holy War” As US Military Gets Pow ...
    Early releases of security notes circulating in the Kremlin today, provided to the Office of the President by diplomats accompanying President Putin during his G-8 meetings with Western leaders, are confirming that US President Barack Obama, along with British Prime Minister David Cameron, are p ...
  • Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s and ...
    Multinational military exercise ‘Eager Lion’ has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards. The exercises will last for 12 days, bringing t ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Beyond Zero Radio Comedy Fundraiser
                 Come along to the Beyond Zero Emissions Comedy Extravaganza featuring Beyond Zero Radio's own Matt Grantham and other top local and international comics. Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) has two weekly programs on 3CR Community Radio. All procee ...
  • Film: Generation Green
    Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his pe ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...
  • Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
    Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project. The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne. The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New pirate ant uses sickle-shaped mandibles to ...
    A new species of ant has recently been discovered in the Hortarium of the Los Baños University in the Philippines. Scientists named it the pirate ant (Cardiocondyla pirata) due to the female’s unique pigmentation pattern: a distinctive stripe across the eyes that resembles a pirates&# ...
  • Building a new generation of local conservatio ...
    Conservation work is often focused on the short-term: protecting a forest from an immediate threat, saving a species from pending extinction, or a restoring an ecosystem following degradation. While short-term responses are often borne of necessity, one could argue that long-term thinking in con ...
  • Saving one of Africa's most stunning parks thr ...
    When Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern first arrived in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2000 to study monkeys, little did they know then that they would stay on to kick-start an innovative organization, The New Nature Foundation, connecting locals to the park through videos and visits. Nor di ...
  • Tibetan monks partner with conservationists to ...
    Tibetan monks could be the key to safeguarding the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) from extinction, according to an innovative program by big cat NGO Panthera which is partnering with Buddhist monasteries deep in leopard territory. Listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, snow leopard population ...
  • Should zoos educate the public about climate c ...
    Zoos are usually thought of as entertainment destinations. As a place to take the kids on a nice afternoon, they are sometimes perceived to lack the educational heft of an art museum or a theatre. However, over the past few decades many of the world's best zoos and aquariums have also worked to ...

Sierra Express

  • A Review of local Children’s Books by Sierra L ...
    On 10th May 2013,  eight children’s books written by authors of Sierra Leone, and illustrated by home grown artists were launched by PEN SL as part of a collection known as Reading Sierra Leone Books.  The latter is a collaborative initiative of PEN Sierra Leone, and CODE, a Canadian NGO s ...
  • London Mining resumes operations after communi ...
    Lunsar- (20 June 2013) – London Mining management team statement: Following a protest today at London Mining’s Marampa site, management announce that operations fully resumed from 16:00 hours. Management would like to thank all Government officials, dignitaries and the Sierra Leone Police for th ...
  • Bail in Sierra Leone’s Courts: Through the len ...
    Introduction The latest high profile corruption scandal which dominated the media for weeks is now playing out at the Freetown High Court.  A total of 29 officials, the vast majority from the Ministry of Health have been indicted by the country’s anti-graft body for misappropriating hundreds of ...
  • Meet the Sierra Leonean with 5 PhDs
    In April 2011, I was in the United States on a brief visit.  During the visit, I spent one week in the Washington Metropolitan Area – shuttling between Virginia, Maryland and D.C. In D.C, I tried to interview a Sierra Leonean Professor believed to be one of the most educated men in the world – [...]
  • New transport minister to tackle crisis in tra ...
    Freetown,  (SLENA) – The newly appointed Minister of Transport and Aviation, Leonard Balogu Koroma (in photo) has opined that no country in the world will succeed in its economic and overall development strides without a robust transportation system. In this regard, Mr. Balogu Koroma said a lot ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Chinese play in infant milk market
    China's Government appears to be making good on its promise to rebuild its domestic infant formula industry, with a Chinese dairy giant making a bid to buy Yashili International, a Hong Kong-listed baby milk maker that is planning...
  • Twelve Questions: Simon Washer
    1. So, how many calls, emails, texts, stalkers have you had since winning Rural Bachelor last week? I had the cellphone in my back pocket when I won and it didn't stop vibrating for a couple of hours. I've now got 80 texts on the...
  • Dairy prices halt slide, up 1.1pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, snapping three straight declines as prices rose for skim and whole milk powder.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.1 per cent compared to the last sale...
  • Debt weighing down dairy sector
    New Zealand's dairy sector debt nearly tripled over the past decade to $30.5 billion last year and some farmers will have difficulty servicing their loans in the year ahead, despite the prospect of a higher milk price.The Ministry...
  • Fonterra ready to go on China formula trade
    Fonterra remains confident about its push into China's branded infant formula market, despite controversy in the Chinese media this year over New Zealand-made baby milk.The dairy co-op is planning to release its Anmum formula brand,...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Surveillance Sharing Between US and UK Goes Bo ...
    The British government isn’t just the recipient of the National Security Agency’s phone and Internet data collections. They do it themselves as well and send what they gather back over to the NSA. The federal government has something called the Insider Threat Program that urges ...
  • Katherine Mangu-Ward on the Bitcoin ATM
    In the Artifact from Reason’s July issue, Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward reports on an anarcho-capitalist entrepreneur’s announcement of a new way to make financial transactions in Cypress and Los Angeles. View this article.
  • Bush-Era Whistleblower Russ Tice Claims the NS ...
    Although The Guardian made the shocking revelation earlier this month that the NSA has been collecting meta data on millions of Americans, it may come as an even bigger surprise who was among those millions. Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst, alleged in an interview with Si ...
  • Congressman Proposes Automatic Dismissal for F ...
    Sound like a good idea? Via the Hill: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Thursday proposed legislation that would require federal workers to be fired if they don't answer questions from Congress. The bill is a reaction to Lois Lerner, the IRS official who refused to answer questions ...
  • PolitiFact Rolls Eyes at Obama’s Claim of FISA ...
    Up until now, PolitiFact had rated only seven claims by President Barack Obama as “Pants on Fire” lies, all but two of which were claims about political opponents. But not even PolitiFact could countenance the president’s ludicrous claim that the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Su ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Oh, that wiretapping!
    Maybe now Obama will concede that the powers of the NSA are just a little bit overboard. Nick Wing, HuffPo: Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the N ...
  • Boehner loses one
    Savage cuts to NSAP (Food Stamps) and international food aid in HR 1947 were voted down 234-195. You can see the vote here. But they’ll be b-a-a-a-a-c-k. If this happens enough times, maybe Republican leadership will figure out that being a–holes is not a good political strategy. Dem ...
  • Valerie Plame On Edward Snowden, NSA, Cheney, ...
    One thing she mentioned — her horror at the fact that around 70% of our intelligence budget is spent on contractors. There’s lots more here.
  • Pity The Poor Old War Criminals And Dirty Tric ...
    If you’re a Twin Cities resident and you hang out on Facebook, you might on occasion see postings from Old Minneapolis, which features pictures of Minneapolis sites from long ago and the present day. Recently, the proprietor, Jesse Jamison, posted a picture (which had previously appeared v ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Exploding the UFO Bottle: Trauma, Perception, ...
    What new wine can be poured into the old bottle of the UFO? Or is it time to explode the bottle? In a Universe of quantum uncertainty, are UFOs necessarily even objects? And if not, are they really flying? Maybe unidentified is putting it too mildly? I mean, what are we even talking about h ...
  • You've Got the Power
    Don't miss out on the FREE introductory session, taking place tonight, June 20! Click here to join now.  read more
  • We Need Climate Action
    [Action Alert] • President Obama has promised action to confront climate change. To do that, he must end the detrimental "all of the above" energy policy of his first term and reject the Keystone XL Pipeline. read more
  • Dreams that Warn of Breast Cancer
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  • THC: The Neuroprotective Medicine of Tomorrow
    Day by day, the veil of reefer madness is gradually and continually lifting. The once standard, poorly-held public opinion revolving about the herb seems to be shifting ever so quickly, especially within the last decade or so. With this has come an influx of studies looking into the potential ...

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • '600 Russians, Europeans fight in Syria'
    Russian President Vladimir Putin says some 600 Russians and Europeans are fighting as militants in Syria to bring down the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Syria militants receive new weapons
    Foreign-backed militants fighting against the government of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say they have received new weapons which they claim can change the course of the battle.
  • Bomb attack kills seven in W Iraq
    At least seven people have been killed in a bomb attack in Iraq’s western al-Anbar Province.
  • Turkey summons German ambassador
    Turkey has summoned German ambassador over Chancellor Angela Merkel's criticism of Turkish police's heavy-handed response to anti-government protests and her opposition to Turkey’s bid to join the European Union.
  • 'Turkey may face 1mn Syrian refugees'
    The United Nations has warned that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey could double to one million by the end of the year should the unrest in the Arab country not end.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Lynx Love
    More lynx photos, videos, and fun facts on the CUNY SPS Pinterest account.
  • Your Diploma is Ready for Pick Up!
    Class of 2013 degree students, your diploma is ready for pick up! Visit the SPS Office on the 9th floor in room 905 at 101 West 31st with a photo ID. We will be open from 9:00am through 7:30pm Monday through Thursday. During the summer, we will be closed on the following days: July 4, […]
  • Applied Mothering
    Carrie has been a teaching artist in NYC for 10 years and a mom for 6 months. She received her MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies in 2011. Carrie is currently working for organizations such as TDF, The Roundabout Theatre Company, and The Museum of the City of New York ...
  • Claire Davis, SPS Spring 2013 Graduate
    Claire Davis, SPS ’13 shares her thoughts on why she selected the Adult Learning Graduate Certificate Program at SPS: I am currently working as a genetic counselor and as the assistant director of the Master of Genetic Counseling Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. One ...
  • What Type of Learner Are You?
    More infographics on CUNY SPS’s Pinterest account.

Dissident Voice

  • Inflicting Death and Avoiding Taxes
    For some time it has been a gathering that seemed to be more floral than substantive, a matter of chit chat, sometimes serious, over issues of the day.  General guidelines are proposed.  Bland suggestions are made. Declarations are always filled with well meaning suggestions, the well aimed brom ...
  • End Times: Scripture vs. Climate
    The mainstream press has not yet picked up on the most pressing issue of our time, which is rapid warming of the Arctic with a consequent colossal release of methane into the atmosphere, threatening an extinction event. On the other hand, the press has no problem castigating Iran and North Korea ...
  • Who Does Claim This Steed ?
    Behold the wild horse of Birmingham Running freely Kicking at the four winds Standing on hind legs Defiantly waving mighty hoofs With head held high, tail waving, Speeds off into the margins Answering to no one Ever present, watching injustices Undisciplined discipline jumper There are many who ...
  • Stealing from Zakaria
    Fareed Zakaria, eminent columnist (Time), commentator (CNN), author of several barn-burner books on foreign policy, Washington foibles, Presidential peccadilloes and the world in general, was recently criticized for stealing (the polite word is plagiarizing) from a lowly New York Times writer. N ...
  • Activism and Kids
    For radical parents, it sometimes feels like the deck is stacked when it comes to kids’ media that represents progressive values. Children’s books often tokenize girls, depend on stereotypes, and push kids into fulfilling narrow gender roles. Diverse families are hard to find – most mainstream k ...

Nick Turse

Sources

 

IPS - Inter Press Services

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

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • How bogus narratives perpetuate
    Summary: Back in April, The Guardian newspaper published an article in its Business section on the supposed sanctions-evading trade relationship between Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and the massive British commodities broker Glencore. The article, written by Rupert Neale, was riddled wit ...
  • UK's Supreme Court quashes British sanctions o ...
    Summary: LONDON (Reuters) - The UK's highest court has ruled that the British government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on an Iranian bank in 2009 over alleged links to Iran's nuclear program. source: Reutersread more
  • European Court vindicate rule of law; US court ...
    Summary: According to Reuters, Iranian companies which have been blacklisted due to EU sanctions are winning in their legal fight against the sanctions in European courts. This is indeed a vindication for the rule of law -- and how ironic is it that in this nuclear dispute. the "rogue" and "p ...
  • Chomsky: Obama is ‘dedicated to increasing ter ...
    Summary: In a wide-ranging interview with GRITtv host Laura Flanders, MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky plainly stated that President Barack Obama’s administration is “dedicated to increasing terrorism” all around the world. source: Raw Storyread more
  • How Washington Should Engage Iran's New President
    Summary: Friday's presidential and local council elections in Iran show that the Islamic Republic is far more stable and politically dynamic than Western conventional wisdom commonly acknowledges. Moreover, the election of Hassan Rohani -- who headed the Islamic Republic's Supreme National Se ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Yea ...
                                There is archaeological evidence for the evolution of a human "super-brain" no later than 75,000 years ago that spurred a modern capacity for novelty and invention, according to John Hoffecker, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado. Scientists seek ...
  • The Vanishing --Earth's Third Radiation Belt D ...
                    Data sent back from NASA's Pioneer 3 and Explorer IV spacecraft, both launched in 1958 and both carrying instruments built by James Van Allen, showed the presence of two distinct rings of high-energy electrons. This week, NASA scientists have announced the discovery of a ...
  • Kepler Mission May Continue Search for Habitab ...
               Although the Kepler space telescope has been hobbled by the failure of two of its four reaction wheels, which help stabilize the craft in space, two researchers propose modifying its mission so that the telescope could continue to produce useful data. Since its launch in 2009, K ...
  • Pulsations Discovered Coming from Crystal Remn ...
                  Astronomers have  discovered pulsations from the crystalized remnant of a burnt-out star, GD 518,  roughly 170 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco, but far too faint to be seen without a telescope. It is a white dwarf, a star at the end of its life cycle that ...
  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Remnants of a Pe ...
      The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this vivid image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies stray too close to each other they begin to interact, causing spectacular changes in both objects. In some cases the two can merge — but in others, ...

Natural News

  • Caught without a script, Obama has no idea wha ...
    Once a Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan had a gift for oratory. George W. Bush, not so much; though he graduated from a pair of Ivy League schools, Harvard and Yale, the nation's 43rd president was no debate team champion. Enter Barack Obama, whose presidency has perhaps...
  • Arizona proof-of-citizenship law for voters th ...
    The destruction of the America our founding fathers fought and died to create is now nearly complete as yet another U.S. Supreme Court decision turns a fundamental right of citizens on its head - the key word being citizen. In an unbelievable 7-2 ruling that included...
  • A better way of treating cancer patients
    Does it make sense, to you, that when a person is diagnosed with cancer - or any other serious health condition - that we declare "war" against the disease? This is the foundation of conventional medicine - cut, poison and burn the disease. Personally, I think there...
  • Genetically-modified eggplant found to be unsa ...
    Field trials of genetically-modified (GM) Bt eggplant, also known as Bt talong, have officially ceased in the Philippines following a major ruling by the nation's Court of Appeals. Representing a massive victory for food sovereignty, the Court found that Bt talong is...
  • Overheated this summer? Cool anger, anxiety, s ...
    Long revered by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), chrysanthemum tea balances the system in a variety of ways. Especially useful during the spring and summer months, it cools the body and clears the liver. The tea also supports immunity, reduces high blood pressure...

Threat Level

  • In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search ...
    The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland, according to court records released to the volunteer this week.    
  • U.K. Spy Agency Secretly Taps Over 200 Fiber-O ...
    The British spy agency GCHQ has secretly tapped more than 200 fiber-optic cables carrying phone and internet traffic and has been sharing data with the U.S. National Security Agency, according to a news report.    
  • 5 Fun Facts From the Latest NSA Leak
    After a brief respite, the Guardian newspaper has resumed its publication of leaked NSA documents. The latest round provides a look at the secret rules the government follows for collecting data on U.S. persons. We found a number of interesting ...    
  • Feds Seized 1,700 Online Domains in 3 Years
    Federal authorities said today that, since June 2010, they have seized more than 1,700 domains that allegedly breached intellectual property rights. Seized under a program known as "Operation in Our Sites," the domains hosted material the authorities said illegally streamed ...    ...
  • Aaron’s Law, the Much-Needed Reform of the CFA ...
    Lying about one’s age on Facebook, or checking personal email on a work computer, could violate this felony statute. This flaw in the CFAA allows the government to imprison Americans for a violation of a non-negotiable, private agreement that is ...    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Still Fixates on Border Security as Illega ...
    There is a saying that America is always preparing to fight the last war. So it is with the conservative crusade against illegal immigration. After all, even as Tea Party Republicans demand draconian--and expensive-- new "border security" measures, apprehensions of the undocumented have plumme ...
  • How Obamacare Ends the Real Death Panels
    For four years, "death panels" has been the GOP's killer lie in the debate over the Affordable Care Act. The slander that proposed Medicare coverage for end-of-life counseling constituted a government "death panel" that would "pull the plug on grandma" was Politifact's 2009 Lie of the Year. The ...
  • IRS Officials Threatened with Violence Again
    If House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's faltering inquisition of the IRS seems familiar, it should. Back in the 1990's, Republicans demonized the agency, slashed its enforcement staff and, unsurprisingly, helped the growth of tax cheating which now costs Uncle Same up to $500 billi ...
  • FEMA Denies More Aid to West, Texas and San Br ...
    News that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had denied additional disaster aid to the town of West, Texas has Lone Star State leaders crying foul. President Obama, they charge, "used West, Texas as a photo op" and "turned his back on Texas and gone against his word." But while the ...
  • Press, Polls Wrongly Conflate Bush and Obama N ...
    In the wake of the twin revelations about the National Security Agency's dragnet of phone calls and online activity, polling suggests that a majority of Americans apparently remain comfortable with their civil liberties being compromised in the cause of preventing terror attacks. Probably just ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • The Red Queen Was Right, Run To Stay In The Sa ...
    Was the Red Queen from the famous story ‘Through the Looking Glass’ right? Do you need to run in order to stay in the same place? On the larger scales of time this may be true with regards to evolution, according to new research from UC Berkeley — without continually emerging a ...
  • Neuroscientists Create First Ever 3D ‘Whole Hu ...
    An international consortium of neuroscientists has completed a ten year effort in high-resolution “brain mapping” and created the most detailed map of a whole human brain ever produced. The complete 3D brain atlas is constituted from over 20,000 trillion bytes (terabytes) of data (mo ...
  • Thirdhand Smoke Causes Significant Damage To D ...
    Thirdhand smoke causes significant damage to human DNA — significant irreversible genetic damage, new research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found. Thirdhand smoke is the “noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from ...
  • 7 Out Of 10 Americans Are On Prescription Drug ...
    7 out of every 10 Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug, according to researchers from Mayo Clinic. And out of those that are on at least one — more than half take two, and 1 out of every 5 takes five or more. Something worth noting — the drugs most-commonly presc ...
  • Simple Molecule Seems to Prevent Cancer in Nak ...
    They’re not the most impressive or attractive looking creatures in the world, with their poor eyesight and rubbery, wrinkled skin, but the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), has other impressive abilities; chief of which are its long lifespan and the fact that these subterranean creat ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Worst. Speaker. EVER.
    By @BginKC Yesterday the multi-year Farm Bill went down in flames, leaving John Boehner with a reason to cry, and Eric Post-Turtle Cantor rushing to the well of the House to...wait for it...blame the Democrats for the failure of the bill. No, I'm not making that up. He really did. Steney Hoyer, ...
  • Futbol and Politics
    Courtesy of AFP Two of my favorite things have come together down in Brazil: association football and massive government protest. While I'm sitting up here in NY State, safely ensconced in my office watching the 2013 Confederations Cup, outside the stadiums in which the games are being played, p ...
  • Cummings, unlike Issa, is true to his word
    By @BginKC When I was a little kid and I was being an unreasonable brat and throwing a fit, my mother would look at me with exasperation and say "I get it. You're mad. When this little storm blows itself out, you'll have the same clothes on to get glad in," and she would go on about her business ...
  • This is a Big F*cking Deal -- or -- Why ObamaC ...
    By @BginKC I am one of the people who thinks ObamaCare didn't go far enough. I want true universal coverage provided through a single-payer entity that is supported by tax dollars. But I also have a visceral reaction to short-sighted chuckleheads who never miss an opportunity to let the perfect ...
  • Albany Times-Union Calls it Terrorism
    How many right-wing nuts have to go off before our media calls these people what they are -- terrorists? So, I have to give credit to the Albany Times-Union for saying what the rest of us have been saying for years: Terrorism radiation plot uncovered in Albany ALBANY, N.Y. - An industrial mecha ...

Care 2

  • Happy Litha
    My Summer Solstice greeting to my friends. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop Plans to Build Canal That Would Destroy E ...
    Cease talks of constructing a canal through the country that undermines its citizens and ecosystems Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Turn up the heat on climate denial ! PLEASE SI ...
    We can't solve climate change if Congressmen like Jim Bridenstine continue to deny the problem exists. Worse, Bridenstine wants to president to apologize for funding research into climate change Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Silly Dog Hates Mornings and Won't Wake Up
    Do I have to get up? Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Violence against women worldwide is 'epidemic'
    More than one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence, a report by the World Health Organization and other groups says. Submitted by Ray C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Laura Ingraham Whips Bill O’Reilly’s Ass on Im ...
    O’Reilly can really be a pompous poof. He likes to think of himself as a tough inquisitor, but when put to the test must either scream like a crazy man or repeat himself like Rainman (you know, saying the same thing over and over in a pedantic, monotone voice). On yesterday’s O&#8217 ...
  • Vince Flynn, So Long
    I have to be careful how I write this. Vince Flynn has died, way too early, from prostate cancer. When I learned a year ago that Vince Flynn had advanced prostate cancer, I genuinely wished him a speedy recovery. But on a personal level, I was profoundly disappointed in Vince. I had discovered t ...
  • Obama Getting Ass Whooping in Syria
    Give it to Vladimir Putin. He schooled the boy from Hawaii this week in a very public way. Whooped his ass he did. My friend and mentor on all things Middle East, Pat Lang, said it best: Barack Obama is about to have his “butt kicked” by the Russians over Syria. This will be the [...]
  • No Dick, Unlike You, Snowden Ain’t a Traitor
    If Dick Cheney is looking for traitors, I suggest he take a look in the mirror. The audacity of his chutzpah is unsurpassed. One does not need a well-honed sense of irony to appreciate the weirdness of Cheney–the man who went on a rampage against an authentic, genuine undercover CIA office ...
  • Syria, Follow the Money and Oil
    Why is Obama doing what he is doing in Syria? Some think this is all about Israel. I want to suggest an alternative explanation. It is a bit complicated, but I think it hangs together. It starts with Saudi Arabia. While Saudi Arabia is a majority Sunni population, it has a substantial, growing, ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • ​2013 Earth First! Round River Rendezvous July ...
    ​ 2013 Earth First! Round River Rendezvous July 1-8 Southern Pines Pilot Speakers and activists from around North America fighting fracking, the tar sands, mountain top removal, biomass, logging, genetic engineering, nuclear energy and more. Go to http://summerrondy.wordpress.com. ​​. for schedul ...
  • Wendell Berry: No technological fix to climate ...
    Wendell Berry: No technological fix to climate change The Courier-Journal (blog) In fact, mountaintop removal and climate change are not the sort of simple problems that can be solved by what we call problem solving. They are summary evils, gathered up from innumerable causes in the bad economy ...
  • Notes from Deep in the Dick - Dissident Voice
    Notes from Deep in the Dick Dissident Voice We just don't see the shuttering of public schools, foreclosures, long term unemployment, for profit healthcare, education and prisons, mountaintop removal and extractive finance like asset stripping, outsourcing, off shoring and tax codes that fav ...
  • Louisville clean energy rally unites religious ...
    Louisville clean energy rally unites religious and environmental groups The Courier-Journal Participants held up banners calling for the use of wind, geothermal and other alternatives to fossil fuels, citing their link to global warming, mountaintop removal and other ecological consequences. “We ...
  • Louisville clean energy rally unites religious ...
    Louisville clean energy rally unites religious and environmental groups The Courier-Journal Participants held up banners calling for the use of wind, geothermal and other alternatives to fossil fuels, citing their link to global warming, mountaintop removal and other ecological consequences. “We ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. charges Snowden with espionage (CNN)
    CNN: U.S. charges Snowden with espionage  —  Washington (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have charged Edward Snowden, the man who admitted leaking top-secret details about U.S. surveillance programs, with espionage and theft of government property, according to a criminal compl ...
  • Food Network Drops Paula Deen (Julia Moskin/Ne ...
    Julia Moskin / New York Times: Food Network Drops Paula Deen  —  Paula Deen, the self-proclaimed queen of Southern cooking and a sugary mainstay of the Food Network, was dropped by the network on Friday, following a bewildering day in which she failed to show up for an interview ...
  • Fischer: Democrats Are Going to Tell President ...
    Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch: Fischer: Democrats Are Going to Tell President Obama to ‘Sit in the Back of the Bus’  —  On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer spent a segment gloating about how President Obama's recent speech in Berlin was an “absolute ...
  • White House doesn't have 'figure on costs' of ...
    Yahoo! News: White House doesn't have ‘figure on costs’ of Africa trip  —  President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won't be stopping in the country of his birth.  —  Obama's weeklong trip ...
  • Hillary Clinton wants a female president 'in m ...
    Maggie Haberman / Politico: Hillary Clinton wants a female president ‘in my lifetime’  —  Hillary Clinton spoke Thursday about her “hypothetical” desire to see a woman president “in my lifetime,” the latest scrap of data fueling the will-she-r ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Guam region
    Friday, June 21, 2013 22:19:05 UTC Saturday, June 22, 2013 08:19:05 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.80 km (6.71 mi)
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    Friday, June 21, 2013 10:33:59 UTC Friday, June 21, 2013 12:33:59 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.30 km (6.40 mi)
  • M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Thursday, June 20, 2013 01:49:44 UTC Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:49:44 AM at epicenterDepth: 51.20 km (31.81 mi)
  • M 5.7, Mendoza, Argentina
    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 21:29:11 UTC Wednesday, June 19, 2013 06:29:11 PM at epicenterDepth: 99.50 km (61.83 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 09:39:34 UTC Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:39:34 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.10 km (21.81 mi)

Daily Censored

  • The 1% Rules Through Corporations
      NSA’s PRISM                                       The 1% Rules Through Corporations    By Steven Miller   Edward Snowden’s courageous exposure of how NSA routinely intercepts the [...]The post The 1% Rules Through Corporations appeared first on DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censo ...
  • General Wesley Clark: Whistleblower, Warrior
    One a warrior, always one. Clark hasn’t forgotten. His credentials are notorious. He’s a war criminal. He’s also a whistleblower. More on that below. He [...]The post General Wesley Clark: Whistleblower, Warrior appeared first on DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, Worl ...
  • Another Israeli War Criminal of the Year Award
    America represents the worst of rogue governance. So does Israel. They menace humanity. They persecute their best. They honor their worst. Peacemakers are scorned. Waging [...]The post Another Israeli War Criminal of the Year Award appeared first on DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, Wo ...
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  • 4-minute video: Give love or this is humanity’ ...
    Happy Feet 2: Under Pressure Artistic expression reaches human feeling and comprehensive embrace differently from academic discourse. This 4-minute video from Happy Feet Two (lyrics [...]The post 4-minute video: Give love or this is humanity’s last dance appeared first on DailyCensored.com - Bre ...

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  • Four theories on when you’re too old to have a ...
    The age of first motherhood in the United States is rising, according to available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And as women are having kids later, an abundance of research aimed at documenting the facts about fertility is there to terrify, console and per ...
  • Gun control rally turns violent, embodies stat ...
    This is where we're at, folks:Speaking at a gun control rally in Concord, N.H., this week, a man who lost his daughter in a fatal shooting had to contend with the charms of Daniel Musso, a jolly-looking grown man who approached and berated him. Naturally, elements in the crowd cheered Musso on ...
  • “Devious Maids” skewers the one percent
    I was recently having a conversation about working class people and television, and how it has become nearly impossible to find the former on the latter. Sitcoms used to have a blue-collar tradition, from “All in the Family” to “Roseanne,” but in recent years that's been ...
  • End of sex worker pledge in AIDS funds lifts s ...
    Students let out balloons on December 1, 2008 at Vienna International Centre on World AIDS Day. US groups that work to end HIV around the world will no longer be forced to take a pledge against prostitution, after the Supreme Court ruled this week it is aUS groups that work to end HIV around t ...
  • The gay rights movement’s key advantage
    In the cascade of comparisons made recently between abortion and same-sex marriage -- and the specter of a political backlash arising from a Supreme Court ruling advancing gay marriage -- one glaring distinction between the two issues has been largely overlooked by prognosticators: the power of ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Skype set up secret project to enable governme ...
    Skype, the world-famous company that provides Internet-based communications between registered users, set up a secret project five years ago to facilitate persistent requests by government agencies to listen in on users' phone calls.
  • Analysis: PRISM revelations harm US political, ...
    Ever since June 6, when former CIA technician Edward Snowden exposed a vast communications spying system called PRISM, observers have focused on the ramifications of this controversy inside America. But Snowden’s revelation could result in extensive international blowback for the United States i ...
  • Swiss parliament halts US tax deal following C ...
    The lower house of the Swiss parliament has voted to stop considering a legislation designed to help the United States identify tax evaders, just days after a former CIA employee revealed an espionage operation targeting a Swiss bank executive.
  • UK/US spy agencies targeted heads of state at ...
    British and American intelligence agencies targeted the communications of heads of state and other senior officials during a G20 summit held in London in 2009, according to documents. The summit was hosted by the then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and was attended by delegates from 20 majo ...
  • Secretive US cyber unit has been spying on Chi ...
    A secretive cyberattack unit within the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has been engaged in protracted offensive cyberespionage operations against China for nearly 15 years.

War is a Crime.org

  • Tropical Spring! A million people protest acr ...
    Sparked by a public transportation fare increase in Sao Paolo a week ago, an estimated one million people showed up in cities across Brazil expressing  discontent with the limited opportunities they face and an indifferent government. "It's not really about the price anymore," said Camila S ...
  • Emergency Forum 6/19/2013 Cooper Union Great H ...
    Through an act of tremendous courage and self-sacrifice, Edward Snowden has revealed the most massive government spying in history into the communications and activities of billions of people on the planet. If you are outraged by these revelations, by the trampling on fundamental rights, and by ...
  • Washington Funds Secret Israeli Ballistic Miss ...
      Washington Funds Secret Israeli Ballistic Missile Base   by Stephen Lendman   On June 3, McClatchy's foreign staff headlined "US publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret." More on that below.   read more
  • Bahrain: Senior prisoners denied medical care, ...
    A new “Urgent Action” issued by Amnesty International has highlighted the plight of Hassan Mushaima and Dr Abdul Jalil Al Singace , two of the most prominent leaders of Bahrain’s Revolution, calling for their release and demanding that they receive medical treatment. Titled “Jailed activists den ...
  • Obama's Nuclear Arms Reduction Hoax
      Obama's Nuclear Arms Reduction Hoax   by Stephen Lendman   Jack Kennedy was America's last peace president. He underwent a spiritual transformation. He changed from cold warrior to peacemaker.    He wanted nuclear weapons abolished. He urged "general and complete disar ...

Grist - News

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Dead Man Walking, 20 Years On
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Thirty years ago, a Catholic nun working in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans was asked if she would be a pen pal to a death-row prisoner. Sister Helen Prejean agreed, forever changing her life, as well as the debate on capital punishment in this country ...
  • Dead Man Walking: Extended Interview with Sist ...
    Watch Part 1 of Interview Sister Helen Prejean is one of the world's most well-known anti-death penalty activists. As a Catholic nun, she began her prison ministry more than 30 years ago. She is the author of the best-selling book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Pena ...
  • Journalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Acci ...
    Michael Hastings , contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a reporter for BuzzFeed, has been killed in a tragic car accident. Rolling Stone reports: “Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a ...
  • VIDEO: After Man Was Beaten into Coma by Borde ...
    As the Senate begins its debate on the immigration reform bill, we speak to Shena Gutierrez, whose husband was nearly killed in an encounter with Border Patrol agents. While still unconscious in the hospital, he was threatened with deportation. She explains what happened. We also speak with And ...
  • Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architect ...
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. The former CIA staffer and analyst for the private intelligence consulting firm Booz Allen ...

Solari

  • Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole & ...
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  • Summer Solstice
    By Wikipedia The summer solstice occurs when the tilt of a planet’s semi-axis, in either the northern or the southern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the star (sun) that it orbits. Earth’s maximum axial tilt toward the sun is 23° 26′. This happens twice each year, at which ...
  • Boiling Frogs: Podcast Show #112: NSA Whistleb ...
    By: Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs In this bombshell episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Podcast Show NSA whistleblower Russ Tice joins us to go on record for the first time with new revelations and the names of official culprits involved in the NSA’s illegal practices. Mr. Tice explains in d ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “A mathematician friend once told me that if all of the dimensions in the universe suddenly and simultaneously increased by a factor of 2, we would never know the difference – we would never know that this increase had occurred. This is essentially what the central banks have been a ...
  • 3-D Printers to Make Things You Need or Like
    Photo Credit: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times By Amy O’Leary You may have seen some odd-shaped plastic trinkets on someone’s desk or heard about the first shots fired a few weeks ago from a 3-D printed gun. With every new 3-D printed object, the world seems to be getting closer to a [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • New Master Plan for Wimbledon Incorporates Gre ...
    The new 2020 Master Plan for Wimbledon provides a pathway for improvements and enhancements to the famous tennis grounds. Led by Grimshaw and aided by Rolfe Judd Planning, Atelier Ten, Vectos and Movement Strategies, the new plan calls for a strategic reconfiguration    
  • New Satellite Map from NASA and NOAA Shows All ...
    Just how much greenery covers the Earth? Now we have an answer, thanks to a new interactive map produced by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that shows how much of the earth is covered in living plants. Using the Suomi    
  • 25,000 Bees Found Dead in a Target Parking Lot ...
    Photo via Shutterstock This week is National Pollinator Week, but you wouldn't know it if you stepped into the Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Oregon. There, shoppers noticed thousands of dead bumblebees scattered across the asphalt below a few dozen    
  • The Atomium 3D Prints Food in Any Shape You Ca ...
    That food you're eating is probably tasty and nutritious, but don't you wish it were shaped like a dump truck? With the Atomium, a new 3D-printing concept designed by student Luiza Silva, your next meal could be shaped like a sailboat or a tractor, or basically    
  • Billionaire Climate Activist Tom Steyer Launch ...
    Oil Spill photo from Shutterstock Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer just launched an anti-Keystone XL Pipeline campaign that mobilizes President Obama's grassroots supporters to help the President strike down what many believe would be one of the    

The Progressive Realist

  • You Might Have Missed: Syrian Intervention, Dr ...
    “Nuclear Nonproliferation: IAEA Has Made Progress in Implementing Critical Programs but Continues to Face Challenges,” U.S. Government Accountability Office, May 16, 2013. As of December 2011, IAEA reported that 1,209 nuclear facilities and other locations outside such facilities containing sign ...
  • Turkey's Problems Go Beyond Erdogan
    What started as a protest to preserve a park behind Taksim Square morphed into large-scale leaderless action against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s rule. But against heavy handed police tactics, the movement’s ability to have a lasting effect on policy is likely to be dependent on its ability ...
  • Istanbul Rising
    AP Images/ Kaan Saganak ISTANBUL—As I finished checking into my hotel Sunday in Istanbul’s Sisli neighborhood, a few miles from the Taksim area that has been the epicenter of recent protests rocking Turkey, the hotel clerk, without being asked, pulled out and opened a city map. I expected the us ...
  • Is the Supreme Leader Really So Supreme?
    With the surprising Iranian election over, and the moderate Hassan Rouhani elected by a clear majority, a new narrative is emerging. It asserts that absolutely nothing has changed, that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, let the election proceed for his own devious reasons, and that ...
  • Top of the Morning: Singapore Paralyzed By Rec ...
    Top news from DAWNS Digest Singapore Paralyzed By Record Air Pollution Schools are closed and relations between countries are strained. “Smog fueled by raging Indonesian blazes has hit Singapore and Malaysia many times, often in the middle of the year, but the severity of this week’s condi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The GOP's Endless Immigration Infighting
      There was a time not long ago when liberals looked at their conservative counterparts with envy. The right was so disciplined, so unified, so well-coordinated, so good at devising and sticking to its talking points, while getting three liberals to agree on anything, much less act in concert, ...
  • The Song of the White House Spokesperson
    If you asked me who was the most appalling evader/distracter/dissembler among White House spokespeople over the time I've been politically aware, I'd have to say Ari Fleischer, who served in that position for the first couple of years of George W. Bush's administration. I remember often shoutin ...
  • Can We Forgive Alan Chambers?
    AP Photo/Alan Marler Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International A year ago, I wrote in the pages of the Prospect about the three and a half years I spent in "ex-gay" therapy and about prominent psychiatrist Robert Spitzer's repudiation of his infamous 2001 study claiming th ...
  • Istanbul Rising
    AP Images/ Kaan Saganak ISTANBUL—As I finished checking into my hotel Sunday in Istanbul’s Sisli neighborhood, a few miles from the Taksim area that has been the epicenter of recent protests rocking Turkey, the hotel clerk, without being asked, pulled out and opened a city map. I expec ...
  • The Great Gandolfini
    AP Images/Barry Wetcher There's a distinction to be made between dying too young and dying too soon. The first connotes unfulfilled promise: Heath Ledger, for instance, was barely beginning to realize himself as both an actor and a human being. Moviegoers can only guess what he might h ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Colorado Man Shot Dead by Police May Have Been ...
    Lewis Pollard The investigation continued Thursday into another violent confrontation between authorities and a suspected antigovernment  “sovereign citizen,” a 61-year-old Navy veteran who was shot and killed by police early Saturday morning in the small Colorado town of Fruita. Authorities say ...
  • Leader of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Charge ...
    Chris Simcox, the former leader of one of the largest militia groups patrolling the Arizona border during the peak of the nativist Minuteman movement, has been charged with molesting three young girls. Simcox, 52, was arrested yesterday after detectives found probable cause that he had molested ...
  • Feds: Klansman and Accomplice Designed Radiati ...
    Two men, one of them a member of the Ku Klux Klan, were arraigned today in Albany, N.Y., on federal charges of plotting to build a mobile radiation gun intended to kill Muslims – or “medical waste,” as the plotters called their intended targets. Glendon Scott  Crawford, 49, a Klan member from Ga ...
  • Another ‘Sovereign’ Sentenced in Tax Fraud Scheme
    A federal judge in Seattle had a short, simple message for a 70-year-old “sovereign citizen” accountant who persuaded other antigovernment activists to file fraudulent tax returns that called for refunds equal to their personal debts. The tax fraud cost the government $700,000 in erroneous payme ...
  • Teaching Intolerance: ‘Klan Kamp’ to Open in O ...
    Thomas Robb, Knights Party leader and pastor. Call it Klan Kamp, a summertime retreat in the Ozark Mountains where, for $500 per camper, young and old can learn the fundamentals of the “HOLY mission of White Christian Revival” with the goal of becoming leaders in the “New Crusade for race, faith ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • U.S. Mayors Demand Change to Federal Policy, E ...
    As mayors from across the country gather today in Las Vegas for the 81st annual U.S. Conference of Mayors, the federal government's crackdown on medical marijuana is expected to be discussed and debated over the weekend. A resolution "in support of states setting their own marijuana pol ...
  • Senate Reaches Border Security Compromise at a ...
    After much late night deliberation, Senate Democrats and Republicans announced today their compromise over an amendment that would heighten border security measures in the immigration bill at a high cost to taxpayers and border residents.read more
  • World Food Prize Laureates Undermine Hunger So ...
    Honoring executives of biotechnology giants Monsanto and Syngenta with this year's World Food Prize “sends precisely the wrong message about sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty,” the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance said in a statement today. The Alliance includes faith-bas ...
  • Problematic Senate Border Plan in the Works
    According to news reports, Sens. Corker (R-Tenn.) and Hoeven (R-N.D.) plan to file an amendment today to the immigration reform bill that would place an additional 20,000 border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border, require construction of 700 miles of additional border fencing, and provid ...
  • Problematic Senate Border Plan in the Works
    According to news reports, Sens. Corker (R-Tenn.) and Hoeven (R-N.D.) plan to file an amendment today to the immigration reform bill that would place an additional 20,000 border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border, require construction of 700 miles of additional border fencing, and provid ...

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

  • MWSS in hot water over claims of anomaly
    The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System is taking heat from consumers and its employees amid allegations of nontransparency in setting water rates and the anomalous hiring of consultants.
  • Regina group says it has enough names to force ...
    Public advocacy group Regina Water Watch says it now has the numbers to force a referendum over the proposed privatization of the city's waste water treatment plant.
  • Winning Korean bidder seeks reduction in $440. ...
    The Korean company that won the bidding for the Angat hydropower plant wants to bring down the $440.88 million price tag on the facility, citing its deterioration as well as several changes the Philippine government has introduced in the agreements that both signed for the privatization deal.
  • McIlhinney privatization plan may not have vot ...
    State Sen. Chuck McIlhinney's plan to privatize wine and liquor sales in Pennsylvania does not have the votes to pass the Senate, its leaders admitted Tuesday.
  • PPP — profits before people
    By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The privatization mantra is being incessantly hummed by the Aquino III administration. Privatization is being promoted to the public as the solution to deteriorated, broken-down and inadequate public utilities and social services. The argument ...

Guardian

  • India flood and landslide death toll nears 600 ...
    Some 50,000 Hindu pilgrims still stranded in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand with 34,000 rescued so far, home minister saysThe death toll from monsoon flooding and landslides in mountainous northern India rose to nearly 600 on Friday with rescuers finding bodies in the Ganges and in the muddy ...
  • Teenage Kicks tribute to John Peel removed fro ...
    Consternation after government department erases mural with opening line from Undertones 1978 song much loved by late DJA mural honouring DJ John Peel and his love of the Undertones' classic song Teenage Kicks has been wiped off a wall in Belfast.The opening lyrics of the 1978 punk anthem, "Teen ...
  • Whitehall planning for long-term cuts as spend ...
    George Osborne to set out coalition's plans for 2015-16, but departments already looking beyond next electionWhitehall departments have begun drawing up plans for cuts lasting into the next decade after officials concluded the spending review to be unveiled by George Osborne next week is largely ...
  • Democratic Left withdraws from Greek coalition ...
    Moderate leftist party's withdrawal in row over state broadcaster leaves government with three-seat majorityThe political uncertainty engulfing Greece intensified on Friday as a junior partner in the fragile coalition government announced it was defecting after a heated dispute over the public b ...
  • GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access ...
    Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden revealBritain's spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban May Free U.S. POW In Exchange For Seni ...
    Melissa Block speaks with Jessica Robinson, reporter with the Northwest News Network, about the latest involving U.S. prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured in Afghanistan and has been held for nearly four years ...
  • Centcom Undertakes Massive Logistical Drawdown ...
    By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service TAMPA, Fla., June 21, 2013 Two years ago, as commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq, Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III was marching against a strict Dec. 31, 2011 deadline to complete the largest logistical drawdown since World War ...
  • Combat Medical Evacuations Key to Afghanistan ...
    U.S. Army medical staff wheel an Aghan interpreter injured while working with U.S. Marines off a medevac helicopter in southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 27, ...
  • U.S. defence chief Hagel expresses regret over ...
    Reuters © U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel attends the opening ceremony of the Pentagon's permanent Korean War exhibition near Washington June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Jason ...
  • Kazakhstan Claims U.S. To Stay Involved In Afg ...
    U.S. President Barack Obama has reportedly told Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbaev that Washington would remain "deeply involved in developments in Afghanistan and Central Asia" after U.S. troops leave ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • Patent Court Stands By Its Claim That Adding ' ...
    We've been following the Ultramercial case quite closely over the past few years. If you're not aware, this involved a company that more or less patented the idea of "you must watch this ad to get this content" (US Patent 7,346,545) and then sued pretty much everyone. Most of the companies it su ...
  • Copyright Exceptions Gaining Ground Around The ...
    There finally seems to be a growing recognition in many countries that copyright is not fit for the digital age. In the US, the Copyright Registrar has spoken on this; in the UK, the Hargreaves Review delineated many problems; and more recently, Australia, too, is starting to address the questi ...
  • Another Judge Figures Out What Prenda Is Up To ...
    It would appear that yet another federal judge has taken an interest in what Prenda Law was up to for the past few years. Over in Minnesota, US Magistrate Judge Franklin Noel has reopened a case that Prenda had dismissed and ordered Prenda's local counsel, Michael Dugas, to supply an awful lot o ...
  • Trading Lives For Freedom Is The American Way
    As the national discussion about the NSA's secret domestic spying program rolls along, revelation has given way to a vast splintering of argument. By that I mean, the shock of the discovery has since devolved into various discussions about whether the program was needed, what checks and balance ...
  • Latest Leak: UK Spies Tap Internet Cables, Col ...
    Another day, another leak released from the Ed Snowden files. The latest: evidence that the UK's equivalent of the NSA is tapping into fiber optic cables to hoover up all sorts of internet data, similar to the NSA. The UK group, GCHQ, literally has called these program: "Mastering the Internet ( ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama as president reflects America’s role in ...
    Gary Younge writes: Not long after the story into the National Security Administration’s spying programme broke, US president Barack Obama insisted the issues raised were worthy of discussion: “I welcome this debate and I think it’s healthy for our democracy. I think it’s ...
  • Booz Allen, the world’s most profitable spy or ...
    Bloomberg Businessweek reports: In 1940, a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy began to think about what a war with Germany would look like. The admirals worried in particular about the Kriegsmarine’s fleet of U-boats, which were preying on Allied shipping and proving impossibl ...
  • Obama meets barely functional privacy ‘oversig ...
    Reuters reports: President Barack Obama will meet on Friday with members of a privacy oversight watchdog board to try to reassure Americans rattled by revelations of the U.S. government’s vast monitoring of phone and Internet data. Obama is scrambling to show he has credibility on the issu ...
  • Fact-check: The NSA and 9/11
    By Justin Elliott, ProPublica, June 20, 2013 In defending the NSA’s sweeping collection of Americans’ phone call records, Obama administration officials have repeatedly pointed out how it could have helped thwart the 9/11 attacks: If only the surveillance program been in place before ...
  • Guantánamo and the intelligence agency that hi ...
    The Miami Herald reports: The military judge in the Sept. 11 conspiracy trial abruptly cleared the court Thursday after a defense attorney said he was threatened by a prosecutor during a tense standoff over what U.S. intelligence agencies are working at the base. Navy Cmdr Walter Ruiz, a veteran ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Desktop Sized Atom Smasher Demonstrated
    From the “E.O. Lawrence would be jealous department”  and the University of Texas Austin comes this bit of interesting news (h/t to “View From the Solent”). Full disclosure, I made a cyclotron myself and went to the National Science Fair … Continue reading →
  • Members quitting the American Meteorological S ...
    This can’t be good: In last 24 hrs, correspondence w 3 multi decade members of The American Meteorological Society, we all quit due to AMS position on #climate— Tim Kelley NECN (@SurfSkiWxMan) June 21, 2013 It gets worse: Officers of … Continue reading →
  • Paper: ‘Summer temperatures were about 1 ...
    From AAAS: From Russia with Lovely Data Climate and the atmospheric concentration of CO2 are closely linked. Brigham-Grette et al. (p. 1421, published online 9 May) present data from Lake El’gygytgyn, in northeast Arctic Russia, that shows how climate varied … Continue reading →
  • Global Savings: Billion-Dollar Weather Events ...
    republished with permission from Master Resource by Chip Knappenberger “For every billion-dollar weather disaster identified as being ‘consistent with’ human-caused global warming, there are probably several other potential billion-dollar weather disasters that human-caused global warming averte ...
  • May 2013 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperatu ...
    Initial Notes: This post contains graphs of running trends in global surface temperature anomalies for periods of 12+ and 16 years. They indicate that we have not seen a warming hiatus this long since the 1970s. Other than the overview … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • New implant helps boy hear for first time
    The surprise on 3-year-old Grayson Clamp’s face in the video is priceless. His mouth opens wide as he points to the person in front of him speaking. It was the first time Grayson had heard sound. He was born without a cochlear nerve, which connects the brain stem to audio waves in the outs ...
  • Genes Get in Your Eye
    Using mouse eyes as a setting for directed evolution, scientists have created a new version of the gene therapy vector adeno-associated virus (AAV) that can deliver genes deep into the retina, according to a paper published online today (June 12) in Science Translational Medicine. Such a vector ...
  • Study Finds Sharp Drop in HPV Infections in Gi ...
    The prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — has dropped by half among teenage girls in the last decade, a striking measure of success for a vaccine that was introd ...
  • Image of the Day: HIV
    False-colored scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles (yellow) infecting a human H9 T cell (blue, turquoise) Image of the Day: HIV | The Scientist Magazine®.
  • Lifespan-Extending Drug Given Late in Life Rev ...
    Elderly mice suffering from age-related heart disease saw a significant improvement in cardiac function after being treated with the FDA-approved drug rapamycin for just three months. The research, led by a team of scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, shows how rapamycin impac ...

CFACT

  • Bonn endgame: Africa rebels as climate talks c ...
    Representatives of Africa are stepping up and asking whether it is truly a just climate policy to pay a poor African to remain poor.
  • How safe is your organic food?
    How safe are organic foods, especially when compared to conventionally grown varieties? Not as safe as many assume. A recall has just been announced for certified organic berries sold at Costco. According to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 106 people in eight states have contracted hep ...
  • A gentlemanly discussion of climate change: S. ...
    Texas State Climatologist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, a Regents Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, will present a view that global temperatures have seen an upward trend since the late 1970s. Former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service and University of Virgin ...
  • Will California finally choose greenbacks over ...
    A recent study -- Powering California: The Monterey Shale & California’s Economic Future -- found that development of oil from the Monterey Shale using hydraulic fracturing and other recovery technologies could result in (a) the creation of 512,000 to 2.8 million new jobs; (b) personal inco ...
  • Sierra Club whines that clean coal costs too m ...
    The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity presents an even gloomier future for coal than the EIA projects. They predict that more than 280 coal-fired generating units are set to be shut down, partly due to stricter EPA regulations. And according to a report released by the National Econo ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Invasive Russian Mollusks on the March in Texas
    The Russian mollusks are coming! The Russian mollusks are coming! Check that – the Russian mollusks have arrived.    
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  • NASA Reveals Billion-Pixel View of Mars Surface
    NASA has compiled a 1.3-billion-pixel view of the surface of Mars based on some 900 photos taken by its Curiosity rover, the US space agency said Wednesday.    
  • Russia-linked Firm Develops Video App to Help ...
    The US affiliate of a Russian software company has developed a database for the city of Baltimore that would help its police department track down private surveillance video that could solve crimes, an executive from EastBanc Technologies’ (EBT) Washington office said Wednesday.  &nbsp ...
  • NASA Bill Would ‘End Reliance on Russia,’ Nix ...
    A draft Republican-backed bill released Wednesday that would authorize NASA programs for the next two years backs a $500 million project to develop crew transportation systems to end US reliance on Russian rockets for getting astronauts into space even as it blocks a less costly project to captu ...

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • Junk Food Science: What Kids See On TV Can Hur ...
    As New York City likes to remind us, kids can drink themselves fat on sugary drinks. But another popular drink option for kids, high-caffeine "energy drinks" such as Monster or Red Bull, has an even darker side: the possibility that you can drink yourself dead.Click here to read this article
  • Sponsored Academics Admit Falsely Claiming Saf ...
    The fight over rbGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) continues, even under new ownership. Click here to read this article
  • Popular Resistance Newsletter --June 20, 2013 ...
    We are all subjects of the American Empire. Whether we live in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East . . . we are all under the thumb of neo-liberal capitalism that puts concentrated corporate power in control of our lives. For decades, American Empire and wealthy elite ha ...
  • U.S. Approves a Label for Meat From Animals Fe ...
    The Agriculture Department has approved a label for meat and liquid egg products that includes a claim about the absence of genetically engineered products.Click here to read this article
  • The Dutch Prize Their Pedal Power, but a Sea o ...
    AMSTERDAM - About 6:30 weekday mornings, throngs of bicycles, with a smattering of motor scooters and pedestrians, pour off the ferries that carry bikers and other passengers free of charge across the IJ (pronounced "eye") harbor, clogging the streets and causing traffic jams down behind Amsterd ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Agricultural Subsidies For Wealthy Republicans ...
    A bunch of political hacks, some of whom have never done much of anything aside from feed at the public trough, voted against food stamp help for desperately poor people. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is Your Greek Yogurt Destroying the Earth?
    Your Greek yogurt just might be harming the planet, according to a story at Modern Farmer (which you should all be reading). So, Greek yogurt. You see it everywhere, and you probably even eat it, too. Its healthy and tastes enough like nothing that you Submitted by Marty Powell to Offbeat &nbs ...
  • Breaking Our Young To A Trendy Prudery
    ... the desire for control, control, control that characterizes the vaguely frightened. Control is indeed what they want: To browbeat kids into conforming, into complying with their pallid sanctimony over imagined peril. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Not ...
  • FDA approves first GMO Flu Vaccine containing ...
    New influenza vaccine has hit the market which contains GM proteins from insect cells ( I don`t know which I think worse - another `flu vaccine`or the GM source ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG8XNgTByGU oldephartte.livejournal.com/4649.html Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...
  • Popular Seattle Teacher Forced Out for Teachin ...
    The battle at Seattles Center School raises the questionhow should schools teach students about tolerance and discrimination? Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • Hain Celestials – Not so “Organic” or Healthy ...
    Hain Celestials has been caught mislabeling its “organic” products. Not only that, but Celestial Seasonings tea, which is so popular and “healthy?” Well, hold onto your hats…. It has been found to be laden with pesticides and known carcinogens, well above FDA standards.
  • The Gene Revolution and the Future of Agricult ...
    Ex genetic engineer and microbiologist Thierry Vrain educates about potential health problems of GM foods.
  • Ban GMOs Now – Health & Environmental Hazards ...
    GM agriculture is failing on all counts while hazards to health and the environment are coming to light. Opposition to GMOs is gaining momentum worldwide but the expansionist GM corporate agenda continues undiminished. GM agriculture is a recipe for disaster as this report will make clear. It is ...
  • Monsanto, GMO Labeling, and Little Red Riding Hood
    Will labeling GMO food stop the type of destruction and environmental pollution caused by growing GMO crops and trees? No. While I am not against labeling and know that good people are spending their lives on it, I also realize that there is a bigger picture. Only a ban will stop the spread of G ...
  • 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 ...

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