Friday, June 21, 2013

21 June - RSS SnapShot! III

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Prison sentence for Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling ...
    ShareThisPrison sentence for Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling slashed by 10 years 21 Jun 2013 One of the country's most notorious financial scandals came to a protracted legal conclusion Friday as ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling -- already in prison for his role in the once-mighty energy giant's coll ...
  • Mystery Bee Kill: Causes Being Sought
    ShareThisMystery Bee Kill: Causes Being Sought 18 Jun 2013 Tens of thousands of bumble bees and other pollinators were found dead under trees at the Target store in Wilsonville, Oregon, on Monday, June 17th. The massive bee kill was first documented on Monday by Rich Hatfield, a conservation ...
  • Senate poised to OK $30 billion for defense co ...
    ShareThisSenate poised to OK $30 billion for defense contractors in border 'surge' --Proposal for military-style buildup is intended to draw Republican votes for larger 'immigration overhaul' --Spending $30b -- more than four times what senators initially had proposed -- would also be a boost to ...
  • Apartheid at NYU? Prof. Michael Rectenwald Is ...
    ShareThisApartheid at NYU? Prof. Michael Rectenwald Is Afraid So  20 Jun 2013 Joan Brunwasser (OpEdNews) interviewed Dr. Michael Rectenwald, who is on the faculty of New York University in the Global Studies Program as well as being the founder and chair of CLG (Citizens for Legitimate Gov ...
  • Obama to Pick Bush-Era Justice Dept. Official ...
    ShareThisObama to Pick Bush-Era Justice Dept. Official to Lead F.B.I. 21 Jun 2013 President Obama on Friday plans to announce the nomination of James B. Comey, a senior Justice Department official under President [sic] George W. Bush, to become the next director of the F.B.I., according to Whi ...

Daily Loaf

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Quick Notes and Updates
    19 June 2013 Due to time constraints, I must write this as an unedited stream of consciousness.  My apologies for the roughness. Michael Hastings was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.  The single car accident happened at about 0425.  He crashed into a tree and was burned bey ...
  • Tado Dambrausko fotokonkursas
    Apdovanoti geriausi Tado Dambrausko fotokonkurso “Lietuvos kariuomenė 2012–2013” dalyviai Nuotraukų katalogas „Tado Dambrausko fotokonkursas Lietuvos kariuomenė fotografijoje 2013 m." Fotogalerija Vaizdo medžiga Birželio 11 d. Lietuvos dailininkų sąjungos galerijoje apdovanoti Tado Dambrau ...
  • Verizon Ordered to Turn Over Records
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  • Verizon Ordered to Turn Over Records
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The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • MSNBC Censors NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Minu ...
    “We Don’t Want a Word on Your Allegations Pertaining to NSA Wiretapping of Obama, Judges  & Activists”-MSNBC On Wednesday, June 19, Boiling Frogs Post broke the news on the NSA’s targeting of political candidates, elected officials, federal judges, law firms and  activists, including candida ...
  • A Former President Suggests Self-Censorship; W ...
    A Different America is Being Created By Linda Lewis Recently, at the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago, Trish Reagan asked former President Bill Clinton to share his thoughts on domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) for Bloomberg TV. Clinton defended the NSA programs as ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 20, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Power, Ecology, and Society The way in which our society is structured ensures that environmental degradation and destruction is written into the actual function of our society. Trade agreements not only allow rich countries and companies to exploit the cheap labor of poor nations, or to simply ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Security Guard Kills Mentally Ill Jew ...
    A 45 year-old mentally ill Jewish man, known to those who regularly frequent the Kotel and volunteer for Chabad’s soup kitchen there, was shot ten times (Hebrew) by a private security guard and killed.  The man’s crime?  Aside from being mentally ill (he was known to have told others ...
  • Senior Israeli Minister Endorses Arab League I ...
    Former Shabak chief and current Israeli minister, Yaakov Peri, visiting the IAEA offiices in Vienna endorsed the Arab League peace initiative.  Peri even said he was doing so “on behalf of the government.”  Though later he said he “hoped” Bibi Netanyahu agreed with him.  ...
  • Naftali Bennett on Palestinian “Problem:” Like ...
    Some people are Holocaust deniers, others are Palestine deniers.  Almost the entire Israeli cabinet fall into the latter category.  The world rightly condemns those in the former, among them the most recent president of Iran.  For some reason, in Israel being a Palestine denier gets you a job as ...
  • Meir Dagan: Israel Can Defend 1967 Borders
    One of the most prevalent memes among those who defend the Occupation, settlements and oppose a Palestinian state (that is, the entirely Israeli cabinet and much of the Knesset) is that Israel can’t possibly return to 1967 borders because the past perfidy of the Arab states has proven that ...
  • Price Tag Vision: “Racism or Assimilation”
    Amir Schiby posted an interesting bit of price tag graffiti featured in a Walla story.  There are two items related to the report especially worth noting.  First is the graffiti itself which says simply: “Racism or assimilation.”  That’s an interesting concept illustrative of t ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for a Smart Grid - New Research Cente ...
    The Energy Department and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colorado, as the latest Energy Department user facility and the only one in the nation focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration. The f ...
  • Archaeology on Edge - Hopes Rise For Archaeolo ...
    When Tatar parents want to show their children the exquisite wash basins that were excavated at the ancient town of Bolgar, they have to pack up and head to Moscow’s State Historical Museum. Due to the legacy of Soviet and Russian laws on artifacts, the lion's share of Tatarstan’s archaeolog ...
  • The New Venezuela - Jimmy Carter Gives Seal of ...
    When the Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez passed away back in March, one notably unctuous commemorative tribute came from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. “Although we have not agreed with all of the methods followed by his government, we have never doubted Hugo Chavez’s commitment to improv ...
  • Obama's Second Term - How to Not Inspire Confi ...
    This is what happens when the President of the United States is dragged into making foreign and defense policy decisions, instead of determining American interests and then making policy to suit. And it is what happens when the president fails to make a clear case for those policies not only to ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Jordan Prepares for Spi ...
    With no end in sight for the Syrian civil war that has already claimed 93,000 lives, Jordan is again hosting a 12-day military exercise designed to train personnel in counter-terrorism and border security tactics. Known officially as Eager Lion 2013, the mid-June collaboration of 8,000 troops in ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Shame On Hadassah And Reform Jewry! Jewish Law ...
    The Christian view is that life begins at conception, the Jewish view is that life begins when the kids move out of the house and the goldfish dies-Unknown Jewish Humorist Last week's bill passed by the House of Representatives proposed to limit abortion after 20 weeks, and once again progr ...
  • Obama's New Friends: Syrian Rebels, Iranian Pr ...
    By Barry Rubin Let’s say that you feel Iran is the bigger of the two evils and that Tehran, Hizballah, and Russia cannot be allowed to have a victory in the Syrian civil war. Therefore, the United States has to supply weapons to the rebels despite the fact that they are America-hating Isl ...
  • NSA SCANDAL Senate Hearings: 87% of US Securit ...
    How porous is the process to get security clearance in the US?  Let's just say given the chance to look at the all names of the people who have been cleared for access to the United States' top secrets, one shouldn't be surprised if they saw names like Usama Bin Laden, or Vladimir P ...
  • USDA Says There IS a Free Lunch (With Wine and ...
    What the USDA Does With Taxpayer Money Senator Tom Coburn sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack asking a very simple question: Why are you threatening to use the sequester as an excuse to cut off funding for food for  600,000 very needy people while your department is w ...
  • SHAM!! The Hoeven-Corker Amendment Doesn't Sea ...
    The media is calling it a "border security surge", actually it's the typical political subterfuge.  An agreement on an amendment to the immigration bill proposed  by Senators Hoeven and Corker was announced today.  The amendment Gang of Eight” senators who drafted the original leg ...

Wind Watch

  • Rural citizens lose battle to have say in wind ...
    “I feel like a citizen who is seen to be of less value than my neighbors,” said Karen Bessey Pease, after Maine Senate Democrats on Wednesday sidelined an effort to give her and other residents of the state’s most rural areas a say in whether wind towers are built in their communities. “We just ...
  • Rural Mexican communities protest wind farms
    We can’t sow our fields, which they have rented for next to nothing. What good do we get out of it?” Guadalupe Ramírez complained about wind farms operating in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Ramírez said, “the governments play favourites with big business; our land produces more than what ...
  • Wind farm oil spill causes uproar
    GARDEN — An oil leak at the Heritage Garden Wind Farm in Garden caused an uproar recently. The oil leaked was a spray from a cell under one of the turbines. Heritage Garden Wind Farm says the leak was less than 20 gallons. Any leak under 55 gallons does not have to be reported to the Depar ...
  • Wind plants built too close to residential areas
    Permits for wind power plants are being issued under outdated regulations that do not adequately take into consideration the type of noise generated by modern wind turbines. The rules that regulate the construction and zoning for wind power plants has not been updated since the advent in Finland ...
  • Board of Health sends written order to turn tu ...
    Fairhaven Wind developer Gordon Deane announced his intention Monday to recover from the town the lost profits of the two turbines the Fairhaven Board of Health ordered shut down overnight. His announcement was in reaction to news earlier Monday that the Board of Health had issued a written orde ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Michael Hastings
    died in a car accident.  He was most famous for reporting on General McChrystal’s attitude towards civilian authority, and ending his career. Buzzfeed has a good reminiscence. There is only one rule of writing which matters: tell your readers the truth as you know it.  Michael understood t ...
  • The Syrian Civil War
    To put it simply, Assad is most likely going to win this.  Hizbollah has clearly turned the facts on the ground for him, and Syrian public opinion appears to have decisively turned against the rebels.  10% support is too low, it can keep them going low-grade, but it’s not sufficient to win ...
  • The Logic of the Surveillance State
    I don’t have a lot to say about Prism, it’s nothing that I find surprising at all.  I would have been surprised if they weren’t doing this.  That does not, of course, mean that they should be doing it.  Basically, assume you’re being watched at all times. That does not me ...
  • Rudeness to Politicians
    In the early days of the political blogosphere, we said fuck rather a lot.  We were making a point: that rudeness is not as great a sin as many others.  It is not so great a sin as lying. It is not so great a sin as killing people in the Iraq war.  And today, [...]
  • Yeah, rape < Hacking to out rapists
    Maybe the backwards data shows rapists getting longer sentences than hackers, but I doubt that’ll be the case in 10 years, just as for a long time we thought America had the most social mobility in the West, when that hasn’t been true for a couple decades, at least. This is your just ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Mild strain of bird flu contained on Arkansas ...
    Reuters – A low-pathogenic strain of avian influenza was found on an Arkansas poultry farm, but was quickly contained and did not appear to be a threat to other poultry farms in the nation’s second largest chicken state, a state poultry official said. “We’re pretty certai ...
  • Singapore haze hits record high from Indonesia ...
    BBC – Pollution levels reached a new record high for a third day in a row in Singapore, as smoky haze from fires in Indonesia shrouded the city state. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hit 401 at 12:00 on Friday (04:00 GMT) – the highest in Singapore’s history. Read article
  • India monsoon: officials say at least 150 dead ...
    ABC – Officials in India say at least 150 people have died and fear the toll could pass 1,000 as rescue teams desperately try to reach towns and villages in the country’s north cut off by flash flooding and landslides caused by monsoonal rains. Helicopters and close to 10,000 soldier ...
  • China Money Rate Jumps to Record as PBOC Holds ...
    ( Bloomberg ) - China’s benchmark money-market rate climbed to a record as the central bank refrained from using reverse-repurchase agreements to ease a cash crunch in the world’s second-biggest economy. The financing system must “support economic transformation and upgrading in a more forceful ...
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 Post Big ...
    ( ABC ) – Stocks endured their worst two-day sell-off this year as investors reacted to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments about scaling back economic stimulus later this year.   For most people, the sell-off seems odd. After all, the Fed chairman is going to ease back ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

backofthebook.ca

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • One Million Protest in Brazil Last Night - Tro ...
    Michael Collins 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," s ...
  • The False Flag "War on Terror"
    By Timothy V. Gatto The recent revelations about government intrusion into everyone's privacy are alarming. More alarming however, is the justifications that the government uses for invading its citizens privacy. The entire argument that we must balance our liberty against our security is a per ...
  • Big Brother Writ Large in America
    by Stephen Lendman Spying on its citizenry reflects one of the most defining police state characteristics. Post-9/11, America crossed the line. Unconstitutional mass surveillance became official US policy. Bush began it. Obama accelerated it. He did so straightaway as president. He ...
  • Fast-Tracking Toward War on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman America's run by sociopaths. They're out-of-control criminals. They're traitors. They menace humanity. They violate their sacred oaths of office. Presidents "do solemnly swear (or affirm to) faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to ...
  • War by Another Name in Syria
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut. The Group of Eight leaders meeting in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, having called for an international conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria to be held “as soon as possible” could not agree on much else that might end the civil war anytime soon there. T ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Indigenous children face deplorable poverty
    A new study, released by the CCPA and Save the Children Canada, finds that 40% of Indigenous children in Canada are living in poverty. The report, authored by CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald and Indigenous rights advocate Daniel Wilson, finds that Indigenous children in Canada are over two ...
  • Time to review education funding formula
    Pressure is mounting on the province to fix the way it funds education in Ontario. Chronic underfunding of the school system has led to a renewed call from Toronto District School Board Trustee Chris Glover for the province to correct the funding formula implemented during the Mike Harris era. I ...
  • What can our Saskatchewan office do for you?
    What can the Saskatchewan office do for you? Take a look at our new CCPA-Saskatchewan Prospectus to see all the ways the Saskatchewan Office impacts public debate in our province. Whether it's workers' rights, environmental sustainability, education, or the economy, CCPA Saskatchewan produc ...
  • EI and Ontario Workers
    Want to know more about how changes to Employment Insurance (EI) is affecting Ontarians? Join us for a special EI teach in at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto on June 20, 2013. This free public event includes the following roster of speakers: CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan among ot ...
  • BC's water: time to stop giving it away for free
    The largest industrial water users in BC pay little to nothing for the water they use, and in most cases are not even required to track or report what they use. The provincial government recognized the need for a modernized Water Act in 2009; our latest report calls on them to move forward with ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Solar Energy Powered Wheelchair Wins Competition
    A solar-powered prototype of a wheelchair with retractable solar panels was the winner of the Change My World in One Minute organized by the 2012 World Cerebral Palsy Day.
  • Thousands Protest Fracking in Albany
    Thousands of citizens and celebrities embarked upon New York’s Capitol building in Albany to protest the possibility of lifting the state-wide moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
  • Climate Change Solution Could Save US Business ...
    A report published by the World Wildlife Fund and the Carbon Disclosure Project could save companies billions and help the corporate sector avoid pushing global temperatures over 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
  • Time To Reform US Ethanol Policy
    This April, two separate bills were introduced in the US House of Representatives to reform, or repeal, the federal Renewable Fuel Standard that mandates how much ethanol and other biofuels must be blended into gasoline.
  • Pandora's Promises - Kept and Unkept: Examinin ...
    I saw Pandora’s Promise – the new film promoting nuclear power largely through interviews with environmentalists who have embraced it — and I participated in a discussion with Michael Shellenberger of The Breakthrough Institute.

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Dissenting 1928 opinion of Justice Louis D. B ...
    When the Fourth and Fifth Amendment were adopted, "the form that evil had theretofore taken," had been necessarily simple. Force and violence were then the only means known to man by which a Government could directly effect self-incrimination. It could compel the individual to testify-a compulsi ...
  • Chief Judge Markey and Doctrinal Development
    As an example of the importance of strong judicial personalities in patent law, I thought it was worth highlighting the remarks at PatCon3 by Federal Circuit Judge Linn about the Federal Circuit's first leader, Chief Judge Howard Markey (starting at 15:00): To say that he had an agenda is a ...
  • Pre-roll ads can be patented: appeals court ru ...
    The patent court, however, today said the pre-roll video patent was not abstract because: The '545 patent seeks to remedy problems with prior art banner advertising over the Internet, such as declining click-through rates, by introducing a method of product distribution that forces consumers ...
  • Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surv ...
    And the rules show that the communications of lawyers and their clients may be retained if they contain foreign intelligence information, although dissemination must be approved by the NSA general counsel . . . "What's most striking about the targeting procedures is the discretion t ...
  • The best slides from the closing arguments in ...
    While we wait for Judge Denise Cote's verdict - which could take weeks or months - here's a peek at some of the funniest and/or most interesting slides from the closing arguments. - Laura Hazard Owen, paidContent

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Headline of the Week
    JP Morgan to eurozone periphery: “Get rid of your pinko, anti-fascist constitutions”
  • Student loan rates are set to double
    On July 1st, student loan rates will double. Many young already are debt slaves due to crushing loan burdens which cannot be discharged by bankruptcy. The banksters make billions off this at zero risk, since the loans are guaranteed by the government – just another example of the noxious, ...
  • Whiny ecoalarmists at World Bank say global wa ...
    Just in case you’re feeling overly perky this morning, a World Bank report predicts serious doom and gloom for the planet unless global warming is reversed. It’s way past time to get off fossil fuels, especially coal, and transition to renewable energy or nuclear power (if we have to ...
  • Decline of the nation-state is the reason for ...
    John Robb nails it. The nation-state is crumbling worldwide. Economies everywhere have been stagnant for years. Only a few on the top are prospering. But the natives are getting restless and increasingly mistrust their supposed leaders (who, instead of leading are mostly plundering and corrupt.) ...
  • Google ranking advice changes – build sites us ...
    Google just changed their advice for webmasters wanting to improve rankings. Incoming links are now much less important. Instead, focus on building a site people want to use and share. They appear to be focusing on social media as the driver of rankings which, when you think about it, is a momen ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Electoral reform in the constitutional review
    This week the deadline for submissions on the Constitutional Conversation was extended by a month, so now we’ve got until July 31st to submit. This is a great chance for all of us to have a say on how we want our country to be run, as well as to share our values and aspirations [...]
  • Paul Mees will be missed
    Paul Mees, an expert and great advocate of smart, green transport in Australia (and New Zealand) died this week. We hosted him as the keynote speaker at our Smart Transport for New Zealand conference in 2011. It was a hugely interesting and entertaining talk. You can watch it below.   &#160 ...
  • Going Geothermal
    Yesterday Gareth Hughes and I visited the Contact Energy geothermal power complex at Wairakei. It was a chance to see how the power stations work including how the energy is managed and how water and waste is treated It was a fascinating opportunity to go inside the older facility at Wairakei bu ...
  • Next steps on a fair exchange rate
    The Greens are committed to pragmatic steps to get the dollar down and stabilise the exchange rate so that our exporters and local businesses have a level playing field against international competitors. That will mean more jobs and higher wages for New Zealanders. Last year, I released a propos ...
  • Gifted kids at Parliament
    This week is Gifted Awareness Week and a range of organisations who support children to fulfill their potential are promoting their work. As part of this an organisation called Gifted Kids held a conference for about 100 children who are 12 years old and under at Parliament. They were leading se ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • 'Jaguar people's' urgent appeal to oil company ...
    The Matsés have urged shareholders of Pacific Rubiales to disinvest from the company to protect Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalAn Amazonian tribe has sent an urgent appeal to shareholders of Canadian-Colombian oil giant Pacific Rubiales to protect the lives of uncontacted Indians in Pe ...
  • Indigenous rights highlighted at central Londo ...
    Protestors in London demanded respect for indigenous people’s rights. © SurvivalThe rights of Brazilian Indians were highlighted at a protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London yesterday. Over 1,000 protestors attended to show their support for the demonstrations that have taken place i ...
  • Success: Soliga tribe's forest rights upheld i ...
    Tribal peoples like the Soliga have been living with and protecting the wildlife in their forests for countless generations.© Kalyan Varma/SurvivalA village belonging to the Soliga tribe in southern India has won an important court victory after its entire stock of honey – its key source of live ...
  • Court reprieve for Bushmen threatened with evi ...
    Relocation trucks arrive at Ranyane.© FPKDozens of Botswana Bushmen threatened with eviction, reportedly because they live in an area proposed as a ‘wildlife corridor’, have won a significant court victory in their struggle to stay on their land. Since the wildlife corridor between the Central ...
  • Guarani man killed in ambush by gunmen
    The Guarani frequently suffer violent attacks by gunmen after returning to their ancestral lands.© SurvivalA Guarani Indian man was killed yesterday in southern Brazil, reportedly by gunmen working for the cattle ranchers who have occupied his community’s land. According to the leader of ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • GMO Eggplant Found to be Unsafe for Human Cons ...
    from GlobalResearch.ca: 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 ...
  • Executive at #Monsanto Wins Global Food Honor
    from nytimes.com: When it comes to agriculture, the World Food Prize is the equivalent of the Oscars. This year, the prestigious award went the mastermind behind Monsanto’s big move into genetically modified crops. In foodie terms, that is like a commercial blockbuster winning best pi ...
  • Nearly 70% Of Americans Are On Prescription Drugs
    from disinfo.com: This is a very, very scary statistic (unless you work for Big Pharma, in which case it’s just the start). The Mayo Clinic reports on its study: Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic resear ...
  • Animal-human embryo test clears first hurdle
    from JapanTimes.co.jp: Proposed experiments with animal-human embryos cleared the first regulatory hurdle Tuesday as Japanese scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal. Researchers want to introduce a human stem ...
  • Target to Remove GMOs from Major Food Brand
    from NaturalSociety.com: Super store giant, Target, has announced they will be adding a new brand to their shelves—one that is made with natural health in mind. Called Simply Balanced, the brand will be on shelves soon and will phase out genetically modified ingredients by the end of 2014. ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • “If The Yield Goes Significantly Higher ...
    If yields on U.S. Treasury bonds keep rising, things are going to get very messy.  As I write this, the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasures has risen to 2.51 percent.  If that keeps going up, it is going to be like a mile wide lawnmower blade devastating everything in its path.  Ben Bernanke's super ...
  • Mass Carnage: Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Eur ...
    Can you smell that?  It is the smell of panic in the air.  As I have noted before, when financial markets catch up to economic reality they tend to do so very rapidly.  Normally we don't see virtually all asset classes get slammed at the same time, but the bucket of cold water that Federal [...]
  • The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Go ...
    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 the U.S. government spend nearly a million dollars on a ...
  • The Financial Markets Freak Out When The Fed H ...
    U.S. financial markets are exhibiting the classic behavior patterns of an addict.  Just a hint that the Fed may start slowing down the flow of the "juice" was all that it took to cause the financial markets to throw an epic temper tantrum on Wednesday.  In fact, one CNN article stated that the m ...
  • 32 Facts That Show How Men Are Being Systemati ...
    What is wrong with men in America?  Why isn't our country producing lots of strong, independent, hard working men of character like it once did?  Well, many believe that it starts at a very young age.  When compared with girls, boys in the United States get lower grades, they are much more likel ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
    GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Hastings’ 2013 Mercedes could have inste ...
    A team of hackers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington conducted a study which has proven that all cars equipped with antilock brakes sold in the U.S. can be hacked via remote control and have their brakes entirely disabled with the car in motion, throttle revv ...
  • RDR: Hastings likely murdered for what he knew ...
    By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor Posted: June 20, 2013 reddirtreporter@gmail.com OKLAHOMA CITY – In an violent explosion more conducive to a fire-prone ’75 Ford Pinto, rather than a newer model Mercedes, investigative reporter Michael Hastings, 33, is being mourned following his myst ...
  • Deaths connected to the Obama White House
    Mama Lois” Anderson: 79, and her 52 year old daughter Zelda White: Two US women aid workers were shot dead in Nairobi in Kenya (2008) were the retired Presbyterian Church missionaries of Pennsylvania (USA), known to thousands of Africans.  The suspected killers of the US women, who were travelli ...
  • The American prison system is so massive that ...
    The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations. What is perhaps most unsettling about this fun fact is that it is the American taxpayer who foots the bill, and is increasingly padding the pockets of publicly traded cor ...
  • The American prison system is so massive that ...
    The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations. What is perhaps most unsettling about this fun fact is that it is the American taxpayer who foots the bill, and is increasingly padding the pockets of publicly traded cor ...

Veterans Today

  • Who is Terry Richards?
    Like a thief in the night, Terry Richards snuck into town last year on a Greyhound bus from St. Petersburg, Florida and finagled himself a room at the Los Angeles VA with a warm bed, hot meals, shower, TV, computer, etc.
  • How Much Does Foreign Investors Lose in South ...
    ow much does Foreign investors lose in South Africa. Few will dare to tell the truth and most media in South Africa will report using weasel words such as, firmer rand, softer currency and instead of weaker or down when reporting currency changes on television within the country of South Africa.
  • Shalit Splits Canada
    “1027 Terrorists Were Freed. Gilad Shalit Returned Home”   Helmut “Helmut” is a nickname given to IDF soldiers who are considered clumsy. The soldier who always places the rubber band holding his trousers lower end on the shoe, instead than on the leg just above the ...
  • Prisons Full of Innocents
    There are probably more innocent men and women in prison in the United States now than there were people in prison here total -- innocent and guilty -- 30 years ago, or than there are total people in prison (proportionately or as an absolute number) in most nations on earth.
  • Alan Moore, Freemasonry, and Aleister Crowley ...
    "Virtually every form of Western mysticism and spiritualism known today draws upon Jewish mythic and occult teachings—magic, prayer, angelology, numerology, astral projection, dream interpretation, astrology, amulets, divination, altered states of consciousness, alternative healing and ritual po ...

electric politics

  • Eating Healthy
    It's fair to say that there's more we don't know about food than what we do know. And it is the absolute truth that we don't know about the potential effects of thousands of additives routinely incorporated into processed comestibles. Prudence, then, suggests sticking to natural foods where poss ...
  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

  • Slovakia: NATO Conducts Largest-Ever Logistics ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization June 21, 2013 Training for logistics cooperation in Slovakia ==== “Standards, common procedures and compatible equipment are key to interoperability. Without interoperability, there is no effective cooperation in logistics, and that can have an impact on the su ...
  • Interview: Nobody Too Gruesome For U.S. And NA ...
    Voice of Russia June 21, 2013 Will Syrian “rebels” swear they’re not going to eat someone’s organs? – Rozoff Recorded on June 10, 2013 AUDIO The US and its NATO allies are backing what can only be described as murderous cannibalistic savages in Syria but according to Voice of Russia regula ...
  • MEADS Missile System Successfully Networks Wit ...
    Al.com June 20, 2013 MEADS demonstrates ability to successfully network with NATO systems By Leada Gore The Medium Extended Air Defense Systems, or MEADS, successfully demonstrated the ability to network with NATO systems during Joint Project Optic Windmill exercises held in May and June. MEADS ...
  • Henri Barbusse: The enemy is militarism and no ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray If, from the idea of motherland, you take away covetousness, hatred, envy and vainglory; if you take away from it the desire for p ...
  • NATO Signs Major Interceptor Missile Deal With ...
    NATO Communications and Information June 20, 2013 NATO contracts major missile defence upgrade ​On 20 June, the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency signed with ThalesRaytheonSystems a 136 million Euro contract for a significant upgrade to NATO’s current theatre missile defence comma ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Brazil: “The Validity of revolutionary ...
    By R. Mineiro, Posted on 18/06/2013 in the blog of the newspaper, The New Democracy (rough translation by Revolutionary Frontlines) We can see in the streets, the sizzling legacy of the Confederations Cup. Thanks FIFA. The powers and communication monopolies, astonished, say they do not understa ...
  • South African Lawyers Call for Obama’s A ...
    [This is not the first effort at bringing imperialist "human rights" law against imperialists and the imperialist machinery, and once again it will fail, undoubtedly.  But it does have the educational benefit of highlighting the hypocritical "exemption" which bourgeois law grants the internation ...
  • Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really repres ...
    By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian | 18th June 2013 It was bad enough in 2005. Then, at the G8 summit in Scotland, Bono and Bob Geldof heaped praise on Tony Blair and George Bush, who were still mired in the butchery they had initiated in Iraq(1,2,3). At one point Geldof appeared, ...
  • Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really repres ...
    By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian | 18th June 2013 It was bad enough in 2005. Then, at the G8 summit in Scotland, Bono and Bob Geldof heaped praise on Tony Blair and George Bush, who were still mired in the butchery they had initiated in Iraq(1,2,3). At one point Geldof appeared, ...
  • Mass hysteria outbreaks hit Bangladesh’s ...
    [Entire societies have been brutalized, poisoned and traumatized by inhuman colonial and neo-colonial/comprador-ish exploitation.  The most recent mass trauma has hit Bangladesh, where the largest part of the world's clothing is produced by workers in desperate conditions.  --  Frontlines ed.] D ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Week In Numbers: A Billion-Pixel Panorama ...
    1.3 billion: the number of pixels in this new panorama of Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover (go explore the red planet!) -321 degrees Fahrenheit: the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, which is a terrible thing to pour in a swimming pool full of people 1890: the year wiretapping began in the U. ...
  • Chemist Says BuzzFeeᴅ Article About Food Chemi ...
    A refutation of "chemophobia." Chemist and blogger Derek Lowe has a long and angry piece up today in response to the BuzzFeeᴅ article titled "Eight Foods That We Eat in The US That Are Banned in Other Countries." It's largely a refutation of the idea that "chemicals" are inherently unsafe, but ...
  • The Science Of How Applause Spreads In An Audience
    Clapping is just as infectious as a disease, according to a new study. Sorry, Toastmasters. When people clap at a performance, they're not really driven by how much they enjoyed what they saw, according to a new study. Instead, they decide how long to applaud based on the applause they hear aro ...
  • England, Meet Your New Giant Sheep-Eating Plant
    It's huge and spiky and about to bloom in Surrey. Puya chilensis is a very large bromeliad, native to the mountains of Chile. Bromeliads are spiky, mostly tropical, mostly New-World plants, the best-known of which is probably the pineapple. But while the pineapple is delicious, Puya chilensis i ...
  • See A Supermoon In The Sky This Weekend
    The biggest full moon of 2013! This Sunday at 7 a.m. ET, the moon will reach its annual perigee, its closest point to Earth for all of 2013. Thirty-two minutes after that, the moon will turn full. This celestial combination will bring about the biggest full moon of the year, a so-called supermo ...

Veterans Today

  • Who is Terry Richards?
    Like a thief in the night, Terry Richards snuck into town last year on a Greyhound bus from St. Petersburg, Florida and finagled himself a room at the Los Angeles VA with a warm bed, hot meals, shower, TV, computer, etc.
  • How Much Does Foreign Investors Lose in South ...
    ow much does Foreign investors lose in South Africa. Few will dare to tell the truth and most media in South Africa will report using weasel words such as, firmer rand, softer currency and instead of weaker or down when reporting currency changes on television within the country of South Africa.
  • Shalit Splits Canada
    “1027 Terrorists Were Freed. Gilad Shalit Returned Home”   Helmut “Helmut” is a nickname given to IDF soldiers who are considered clumsy. The soldier who always places the rubber band holding his trousers lower end on the shoe, instead than on the leg just above the ...
  • Prisons Full of Innocents
    There are probably more innocent men and women in prison in the United States now than there were people in prison here total -- innocent and guilty -- 30 years ago, or than there are total people in prison (proportionately or as an absolute number) in most nations on earth.
  • Alan Moore, Freemasonry, and Aleister Crowley ...
    "Virtually every form of Western mysticism and spiritualism known today draws upon Jewish mythic and occult teachings—magic, prayer, angelology, numerology, astral projection, dream interpretation, astrology, amulets, divination, altered states of consciousness, alternative healing and ritual po ...

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Have weather patterns really been unusual?
    There’s been much in the press in recent days following the widely publicised ‘Unusual weather’ conference held at the Met Office.  The Independent headline was similar to others in the media, advising readers to ‘Stand by for another decade of wet summers’, continuing that the UK was in the mid ...
  • A typical British summer in the making
    An expected return to more changeable weather through this week reminded me of the work of one of our best known and most respected climatologists Professor Hubert Lamb. Professor Lamb is credited with discovering an empirical relationship between low solar activity and an increased probability ...
  • Summer is here, but how long will it last?
    What a nice change to be able to report a decent fine spell of weather as we begin summer (climatologically June, July and August), the first such warm settled spell in our area since the second half of May last year. High pressure looks set to dominate into early next week, with light winds and ...
  • Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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  • In the big freeze - but for how long?
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Internat'l Political Economy

  • 2013=1997? Volatile Asian Markets + SE Asia Haze
    There is something about Asia that seemingly brings on the confluence of cataclysmic financial and environmental events . In 1997, the Asian financial crisis devastated wide swathes of the region in a credit crunch of epic proportions. To further the doomsday mood, the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapo ...
  • FATCA, Tax Havens & the New American Imperialism
    Once upon a time there was an offshore, where we'd hide a multimillion dollar account or two... The wheels of financial history are spinning once more. Whereas offshore financial centres were all the rage just a few years ago, the world's most powerful countries are now causing them much discom ...
  • Crackpot Conspiracies: Bilderberg Group Circa 2013
    I think it's Hollywood's fault: In any number of action/spy/suspense/thriller movies, there is a good chance that they will depict some kind of shadowy secret organization that really runs the world--usually to fulfil nefarious ends. (You can't sell movies if they were a bunch of do-gooders, can ...
  • Did US Ask Philippines to Kill KAT.ph?
    News site Torrent Freak, "[t]he place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide" believes so, at least. Coming from the Philippines, I've always wondered whether to be proud or ashamed that the world's top torrent sites have had .ph top-level domains [TLDs] at one time or another. I ...
  • Will France's "Culture" Concerns Delay US-EU FTA?
    I have already dubbed the proposed " Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership" AKA the US-EU FTA a non-event on the grounds that (a) the counterparties are slow-growing economies (b) which already have few barriers on each other's products [around 2% tariff rates on average]. Also, (c) the ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • “If The Yield Goes Significantly Higher ...
    If yields on U.S. Treasury bonds keep rising, things are going to get very messy.  As I write this, the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasures has risen to 2.51 percent.  If that keeps going up, it is going to be like a mile wide lawnmower blade devastating everything in its path.  Ben Bernanke's super ...
  • Mass Carnage: Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Eur ...
    Can you smell that?  It is the smell of panic in the air.  As I have noted before, when financial markets catch up to economic reality they tend to do so very rapidly.  Normally we don't see virtually all asset classes get slammed at the same time, but the bucket of cold water that Federal [...]
  • The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Go ...
    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 the U.S. government spend nearly a million dollars on a ...
  • The Financial Markets Freak Out When The Fed H ...
    U.S. financial markets are exhibiting the classic behavior patterns of an addict.  Just a hint that the Fed may start slowing down the flow of the "juice" was all that it took to cause the financial markets to throw an epic temper tantrum on Wednesday.  In fact, one CNN article stated that the m ...
  • 32 Facts That Show How Men Are Being Systemati ...
    What is wrong with men in America?  Why isn't our country producing lots of strong, independent, hard working men of character like it once did?  Well, many believe that it starts at a very young age.  When compared with girls, boys in the United States get lower grades, they are much more likel ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-06-19 Oliver Stone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ru ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 01-516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org Oliver Stone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Russell Brand, & others release video for WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning While Pfc. Bradley Manning stands ...
  • 2013-06-04 Assange Statement on the First Day ...
    As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun. re ...
  • 2013-06-03 Nearly 2,000 rally for Bradley Mann ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: June 1, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org Nearly two thousand rally for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade Nearly two thousand supporters of US Army PFC Bradley Manning rallied and marched on Fort M ...
  • 2013-06-01 Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press ...
    Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press Release Saturday - June 1, 2013 10:30 PM ET USA Greetings World -- We are Anonymous. And we have watched for days with horror as our brothers and sisters in Turkey who are peacefully rising up against their tyrannical government have been brutalized, beaten, r ...
  • 2013-05-31 June 1: Mass Protest for Bradley Ma ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: May 31, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org June 1: mass protest for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade, MD read more

U N News

  • UN calls on Brazilian authorities to exercise ...
    Brazilian authorities must exercise restraint in dealing with spreading social protests in the country, the United Nations human rights office said today in the wake of reported clashes between demonstrators and police in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
  • Haiti: UN warns 1.5 million people face severe ...
    The United Nations food relief agency said it remained extremely concerned by the plight of 1.5 million people in Haiti who need food assistance, following extreme weather conditions and poor harvests.
  • Haiti: Senior UN official gravely concerned' b ...
    Following the razing of a temporary camp sight in Haiti, a senior United Nations official today expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake.
  • Independent UN rights expert urges more clarit ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today wrapped up his visit to Washington, DC by calling for more clarity on aspects of President Barack Obama's speech last month on United States counter-terrorism policy, particularly on the use of drones.
  • Ban congratulates Ambassador Rice on being nam ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on her appointment as National Security Adviser to her country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Big, Wild, and Connected – John Davis on his n ...
    Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:37 PM PDT on John’s TrekWest blog Big, Wild, and Connected:  Wildlands Network and Island Press collaborate on Trek E-books “Was it really necessary to push myself across more than 7000 miles of a hypothetical wildway, climb a hundred mountains, paddle dozens of wate ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Upsh ...
    I’ve written here before about my first forebears in the New World, how they came to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1600s.  In that edition of Around the Campfire (#44) I wondered what they thought about the wealth—the Superabundance—of the New World: the mighty trees and seemingly endless big woods. ...
  • Wildlands Adventurer’s 5,000-Mile “TrekWest” i ...
    This article originally appeared in the June 2013 edition of Green Fire Times Outdoor journey invites citizens to “say yes” to wildlife corridors Written By Kim Vacariu, Western Director, Wildlands Network, and Jan-Willem Jansens, Coordinator, New Mexico Wildways Wilderness explorer and outdoor ...
  • Demand Justice for the Murder of Costa Rican S ...
    Original post on Sea turtle Restoration Project website: http://www.seaturtles.org/article.php?id=2485 Demand Justice for the Murder of Costa Rican Sea Turtle Activist, Jairo Mora Sandoval, & Kidnapping of 4 Women from U.S. and Spain The shocking murder of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old ...
  • Gila Resources Information Project – Job Annou ...
    Program Associate 30 hours/week Applications Due June 21, 2013 This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic environmental organization and help promote Gila River conservation, water quality protection, and environmental sustainability in southwestern New Mexico.  The Gila Resources In ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Night Vision Device
    Night Vision Image Enhancement Image-enhancement technology is what most people think of when you talk about night vision. In fact, image-enhancement systems are normally called night-vision devices (NVDs). NVDs rely on a special tube, called an image-intensifier tube, to collect and amplify inf ...
  • 5 Mistakes While Hiking
    Here’s one scenario where the hikers make mistake after mistake, with disastrous results… A group of four friends set a date in late spring to hike Mt. [fill-in-the-blank], making the date months in advance. The night before they drive four hours from home to a lodging near the trail ...
  • Survival Garden Food
      Grow Your Own Food To Rely Less On ‘The System’ Growing your own food is the absolute single best way to begin to liberate yourself from the system, to help you be prepared to survive hard times, to be more self sufficient, and to add high quality nutritious food to your diet ...
  • Americans Don’t Trust News Institutions
    It’s not a big surprise to many of us, but apparently the majority of Americans don’t trust Newspapers and Television News. A question is… how much to blame are the main stream news institutions for enabling the decay and corruption that is apparently all around us today, by al ...
  • Battery “State Of Charge” Chart
    If you want to know the approximate State Of Charge (SOC) of a 12-volt battery (or 6-volt, or other battery bank combination), I put together a chart which indicates the percentage charge as it relates to battery voltage or specific gravity. Here’s the chart, and the reason I did it… ...

Fast Company

  • How Cell Towers Could Save Forest Elephants
    Modern technology can give scientists a better picture of what’s actually happening deep in the rain forest. Elephants are probably not the first animal you think of when picturing the rainforest--they’re generally seen roaming the savannahs of Africa, like the one in the pictu ...
  • A Farmers’ Market In A School Bus Brings Food ...
    The South Bronx Mobile Market--fueled by vegetable oil and filled with produce from local farms--will soon try to create an oasis in a persistent food desert. How do you fight hunger--not in some distant, drought-wracked foreign country, but in your own New York City neighborhood? If you&r ...
  • The Visual Trick Behind James Turrell’s Latest ...
    A master of perceptual manipulation, Turrell’s luminous installations are being exhibited simultaneously in three cities this summer. Aten Reign opens at the Guggenheim today. Is there anything we take for granted more than natural light? It’s all around us and yet mostly invis ...
  • Why We Need “Decimated Reality” Aggregators
    At the recent Augmented World Expo, Will Wright--designer of The Sims and co-founder of Syntertainment--advocated the creation of what he termed “decimated reality” over the more accepted “augmented reality.” The concept is one that every developer should consider. We Nee ...
  • Redesigning Abandoned Storefronts To Keep Neig ...
    Just because stores are vacant doesn’t mean a neighborhood needs to appear like it’s down and out. Ideas from around the world are finding ways to use empty storefronts. Abandoned storefronts are bad for business, and bad for the soul of a place. There’s something about e ...

Jadaliyya

  • War's Yawning Mouth
    I sat down today to write an article on proposed legal reforms to both the personal status and the electoral system in Lebanon. I have been meaning to write this article for over a month, and have it sketched out on paper, and half written it in my head. Its sentences haunted me while preparing ...
  • Upheavals in the Arab World Two Years on (Video)
    The following video features the proceedings of a panel discussion titled “Upheavals in the Arab World Two Years on,” and that took place at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Boston on 1 June 2013. Organized and chaired by Lisa Hajjar, the panel assesses the impact of movements a ...
  • لا جسد لا سياسة
    أن تسير في شوارع القاهرة، وفي فضاءها المديني العام، وعلى إحدى شوارعها الأخطبوطية المرتفعة، فيصدمك سترٌ وحجبٌ صوري، لجزء من جسد مؤنث في فوضى المدينة الدعائية الضوئية، فذلك وإن بدا جديداً في فظاظته؛ إلا أن المراقب لسيرورة الجسد في المجتمع المصري على مدى العقود الماضية يمكنه التنبؤ بذلك، وإن فاجأ ا ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (June 20)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Tadween Roundup: News and Analysis from the Pu ...
    [The following is a roundup of the latest news and analysis from the publishing world that relates to pedagogy and knowledge production. It was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more updates, follow Tadween Publishing on Faceboo ...

mediagazer

  • Demise of 'Rock Center' Shows Difficulty of Cr ...
    Brian Stelter / New York Times: Demise of ‘Rock Center’ Shows Difficulty of Creating a Newsmagazine  —  If “Rock Center With Brian Williams” has proved anything in the last year and a half, it is this: however hard it is to gather an audience for anything ...
  • Gawker's Unpaid Interns Sue After Fox Searchli ...
    Christie Smythe / Bloomberg: Gawker's Unpaid Interns Sue After Fox Searchlight Ruling  —  Gawker Media LLC was sued by unpaid interns who allege the online publisher violated minimum-wage law, 10 days after a federal judge ruled in a similar case that interns at Fox Searchlight ...
  • Army: Freedom of Information Does Not Include ...
    Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire: Army: Freedom of Information Does Not Include Edward Snowden's Military File  —  A Freedom of Information Act request from The Atlantic Wire for the military records of Edward Snowden was “withheld in its entirety” by the Department o ...
  • U.S. charges Snowden with espionage (Washingto ...
    Washington Post: U.S. charges Snowden with espionage  —  Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United State ...
  • Former interns sue @Gawker for violating minim ...
    Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Former interns sue @Gawker for violating minimum-wage laws. Suit filed in Manhattan federal court.

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Risks have paid off, says Emraan Hashmi
    Kolkata, June 21: Actor Emraan Hashmi who drew plaudits for his role in "Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai", says that the risks he took in his career have paid off. "I always wanted to play versatile characters, it's just that I got slotted. I was...
  • Sri Lankan President condoles Indian floo ...
    Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday mourned the death and destruction due to massive flooding in north Indian...
  • Steve Carell: People don’t care for chick ...
    Steve Carell is worried he has offended a “chicken lobby” by admitting he doesn’t like the birds. The actor voices the character of Gru in animated sequel Despicable Me 2. This time around Gru is a good guy, who is asked to help find a master criminal using his knowledge of villainous ways. ...
  • Carly Rae Jepsen: I believe in Bieber
    Carly Rae Jepsen believes Justin Bieber is doing the best he can. The 27-year-old popstar rose to fame on TV singing competition Canadian Idol and increased her popularity after touring with teen heartthrob Justin. Carly claims the various controversies surrounding the 19-year-old have mostl ...
  • Lea Michele raves about braids
    Glee actress Lea Michele “loved” the messy braid she sported at an event in New York City earlier this week. The Glee actress attended the FEED USA and Target collaboration launch in New York City earlier this week, and sported a rather fetching fishtail plait. Lea usually wears her long bru ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/20/13 - Obesity Is a Disease, Says American ...
    obesity.procon.org - Obesity Is a Disease, Says American Medical Association
  • 6/20/13 - "Ex-Gay" Ministry Ceases Operations, ...
    borngay.procon.org – "Ex-Gay" Ministry Ceases Operations, Apologizes to Gay Community – Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, a Christian group that tried to "cure" homosexuality, apologized "for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization and the church as ...
  • 6/13/13 - Critical Thinking Explained
    www.procon.org - – Critical Thinking Explained – What is critical thinking, and why is it so important? This episode of ProCon.org's Critical Thinking Video Series explores the ways critical thinking cuts through confusion, encourages citizen involvement, and leads to a stronger democracy.
  • 6/7/13 - New study shows students who discuss/ ...
    www.procon.org - – New study shows students who discuss/debate controversial issues get higher NAEP test scores – See this and other studies proving the importance of teaching controversial issues to stimulate critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship.
  • 6/6/13 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Should gay marriage be legal? – Read our updated pro and con arguments in this popular debate.

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environment 360

  • Singapore Engulfed in Smoke Pollution From Ill ...
    Billowing smoke from illegal fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has engulfed Singapore this week, pushing air pollution to record levelsfor three Click to enlarge NASA Smoke engulfs Singapore consecutive days. The smoke, which is captured in a new NASA satellite image, has create ...
  • Global Reports Underline Rising Threat to Plan ...
    New global research underlines the rising threats facing the world’s bird species, with three reports providing evidence that climate change, overfishing, and unsustainable agriculture are taking a heavy toll on USFWSPuffins along the Maine coast. avian populations worldwide. The U.S. Fish and W ...
  • Megadrought in U.S. Southwest: A Bad Omen for ...
    Scientists studying a prolonged and severe drought in the southwestern U.S. say that extensive damage done to trees in that region portends what lies in store as other forests worldwide face rising temperatures, diminished rainfall, and devastating fires. BY CAROLINE FRASER
  • Mapping Likely Wildlife Migration Corridors as ...
    The southeastern U.S., eastern Canada, and the Amazon Basin could become three of the more heavily used wildlife thoroughfares as species are forced to relocate Click to enlarge University of WashingtonWildlife corridors in the southeastern U.S. in response to warming temperatures in the future ...
  • Interview: Coal-Fired Plants and the Struggle ...
    As the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Director, Jacqueline Patterson often finds her work questioned by constituents of the venerable civil rights Jacqueline Patterson organization. “Some of the communities I work in were like, ‘Well, we’re dealing with double digit unemployment and ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Is Québec more corrupt than the rest of Canada?
    My colleague Marie Léger-St-Jean recounted the drama of corruption in Québec in her last blog post. The classic characters took the stage one after the other: puppets, harlequins, Artful Dodgers, Pierrots, and happier clowns. While her post was published yesterday, a new pathetic act was added : ...
  • The Sorrows of Wise Charbonneau: or, the need ...
    After a year of hearings, let’s stop and reflect on what we’ve learnt so far from the ongoing show on the Charbonneau Commission channel. Prologue Though hearings began last year, in the midst of the Maple Spring, revelations regarding dubious links between the construction business, the mafia, ...
  • A Referendum on Referendums?
    With the deadline for Regina’s wastewater privatization petition fast approaching and rumours of signatures gathered close to 19,000, the City of Regina is beginning to sweat a little. According to the Leader-Post, City clerk Joni Swidnicki has asked the province to boost the number of sig ...
  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    In our previous blog post, we took a look at 5 proposals from a feature entitled “A better life without growth” in the French magazine Alternatives économiques aimed at decreasing individual expenses in order to discourage the quest for monetary accumulation. We continue this series by presentin ...
  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very ...

ReDress

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

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Peakwater

  • Films Focusing on Local Water
    “Two water-wise documentaries by two different filmmakers are in the works in the Owens Valley. Jenna Cavelle’s short documentary, “Paya – The Untold Story of the L.A.-Owens Valley Water War,” has met itsKickstarter funding goal and filming is under way with a projected August or early Sep ...
  • Films Focusing on Local Water
    “Two water-wise documentaries by two different filmmakers are in the works in the Owens Valley. Jenna Cavelle’s short documentary, “Paya – The Untold Story of the L.A.-Owens Valley Water War,” has met its Kickstarter funding goal and filming is under way with a projected August or early Se ...
  • Are we responsible for the Uttarakhand disaste ...
    “India’s summer monsoon will become highly unpredictable if the world’s average temperature rises by two degree Celsius in the next two-three decades, a scientific report commissioned by the World Bank says. The report released here on Wednesday evaluates at the likely impacts ...
  • Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima
    “TOKYO- High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday. Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear ...
  • Ecuadorian Amazon Oil Slick Heads Towards Peru
    “An oil spill in the Ecuadorian Amazon is flowing downstream towards Peru and Brazil, heightening concerns about the impact of drilling in one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses. About 1.6m litres of crude was discharged into a tributary of the Amazon from the Trans-Ecuador p ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • follow the $$$ they comply
    …whatever gave you to understand the bank$ters need to comply … they own Congre$$ … the Court$ … the Ju$tice Dept … so they comply … next question… Filed under: Blogroll
  • cut through the hyperbole
        …Make time to cut through all the hyperbole surrounding the changes to voting and elections in Arizona … personally while I understand its politics I do have heartburn our state legislators unethically choose to make the playing field so very difficult for any 3rd party candidate … ...
  • help mon$anto OK … help the “least ...
    … OK … got it Congre$$ will $ubsidize farmers to grow Mon$anto GMO crops … but …providing assistance to those the “least” among us … cannot do … and hey that takes $$$ away from the FED and their muscle IRS which the bank$ters need for their bottom line and to fill the coffer$ of […]
  • kudos to Tucson
    …easy to see why the largest newspaper with its home in Phoenix would not want this article as a headline on their Page 1 … …Kudos to Tucson …   Filed under: Blogroll Tagged: kudos
  • Another congre$$ional “gotcha”
    …WOW… another “gotcha” from Congre$$… Immigration law mandate: Biometric ID cards to become mandatory 06/16/2013  •  http:godlikeproductions.com Buried in the comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the Senate are obscure provisions that impose on Americans expansive ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Closing in on organ advance
    Japanese scientists are expecting to be granted approval to grow human organs in animals and then harvest them for transplant within the next year.A panel of scientists and legal experts appointed by the Government has drawn up...
  • The science of sport: Exploring ways to be bet ...
    The young cyclist pumps her legs upon the pedals of the ergometer, her face turning red and wet within a few short seconds."Go, go, go, come on, come on, come on, go, go go," a trainer shouts, as the cyclist pushes her body as far...
  • Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old
    A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced today, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship...
  • Lessons from mean streets of London
    Where were you born and educated? I was born in Kent, England and self-educated by reading Encyclopedia Britannica in public libraries, while living rough on the streets of London. Later on I received formal education at Wye C...
  • Eclipse image lights dark side of moon
    The US space agency NASA has come up with a startling image of an eclipse.Except it is not quite what it seems - it is a composite creation, taken and assembled at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland using data collected...

The Bovine

  • Controversy in social media over “raw mi ...
    by Nadine Ijaz It is healthy that we are seeing some vigorous conversation about raw milk safety this week.  In an earlier post, I responded to some inaccurate depictions of my work on this front.  The discussion continues across social … Continue reading →
  • Controversy in social media over “raw mi ...
    by Nadine Ijaz It is healthy that we are seeing some vigorous conversation about raw milk safety this week.  In an earlier post, I responded to some inaccurate depictions of my work on this front.  The discussion continues across social … Continue reading →
  • Farmer Michael Schmidt calls B.C. raw milk cos ...
    From the Owen Sound Sun Times: DURHAM - Local raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt’s appeal of a British Columbia judge’s contempt of court finding against him is based what he views as the lack of proof anyone drank his milk and lack … Continue reading →
  • Farmer Michael Schmidt calls B.C. raw milk cos ...
    From the Owen Sound Sun Times: DURHAM - Local raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt’s appeal of a British Columbia judge’s contempt of court finding against him is based what he views as the lack of proof anyone drank his milk and lack … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt to appeal cont ...
    From Scott Dunn in the Owen Sound Sun Times: “Local raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt is appealing a British Columbia Supreme Court judge’s finding of contempt against him for violating an injunction to stop the distribution of raw milk for … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • How Currency Wars End: Violence Erupts in Braz ...
    The flareup in Brazil erupted in violence overnight as millions protested corruption, inflation, bus fares and a seemingly growing list of items. Unsurprisingly, the Brazilian real weakened against the dollar now in its sixth consecutive day of decline. Bloomberg reports Brazilian Revo ...
  • Ford CEO Calls Japan a "Currency Manipulator"; ...
    I was wondering when someone would throw the "Currency Manipulator" label at Japan. It happened on Thursday. Bloomberg reports Ford’s CEO Calls Japan Currency Manipulator Amid Weaker Yen. Ford Motor Co. (F) Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally called Japan a currency manipulator that’ ...
  • 800,000 Protest in Brazil Over a 10-Cent Hike ...
    It's always impossible to know what the trigger for a mass reaction will be in advance. In Brazil, hundreds of thousands of people have been in protest over corruption, bad services, and even the cost of hosting the World Cup. The trigger was a mere 10-20 cent hike in transportation fares. ...
  • No Hiding Places
    I have been wondering for well over a year when the day would come that there are no hiding places. Today is one such day: US equities down, Asia equities down, European equities down, Treasuries down, European bonds down, foreign currencies down, commodities down. The one and only hid ...
  • EU Twists the Screws on Spain With Inane Requests
    The economic madness in the EU continues unabated. In return for granting Spain an extension on meeting 3% deficit threshold of the stability act, Vice President of the Commission responsible for Economic Affairs, Olli Rehn, said Wednesday it is "crucial" that Spain and other countries that ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • MSNBC Censors NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Minu ...
    “We Don’t Want a Word on Your Allegations Pertaining to NSA Wiretapping of Obama, Judges  & Activists”-MSNBC On Wednesday, June 19, Boiling Frogs Post broke the news on the NSA’s targeting of political candidates, elected officials, federal judges, law firms and  activists, including candida ...
  • A Former President Suggests Self-Censorship; W ...
    A Different America is Being Created By Linda Lewis Recently, at the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago, Trish Reagan asked former President Bill Clinton to share his thoughts on domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) for Bloomberg TV. Clinton defended the NSA programs as ...
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    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Power, Ecology, and Society The way in which our society is structured ensures that environmental degradation and destruction is written into the actual function of our society. Trade agreements not only allow rich countries and companies to exploit the cheap labor of poor nations, or to simply ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Indonesian Forest Fires Set Singapore Smog Rec ...
    Indonesia deployed military planes on Friday to fight forest fires that blanketed neighbouring Singapore in record levels of hazardous smog for a third day in one of Southeast Asia's worst air-pollution crises.
  • COSL Places Newbuild Order for 15 Offshore Vessels
    On Wednesday, China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) signed newbuild agreements for the construction of 15 vessels at five different Chinese shipyards. The vessels to be built are as follows: (1) [...]
  • Baltic Dry Index Climbs to Highest Level of 2013
    June 21 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, touched a high for the year on Friday, helped by [...]
  • ENI and Rosneft Declare Commitment to Sustaina ...
    At the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum today, Rosneft and Eni signed a Declaration on Protection of the Environment and Biodiversity for Oil and Gas Exploration and Development on the [...]
  • COSCO to Build High-End Floating Accommodation ...
    COSCO Corporation announced today that COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard Co. Ltd. secured contracts from a Singapore firm for the conversion of two semi-completed hulls to high-end floating accommodation units valued at [...]

Press TV

  • '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.
  • US terror drone strike kills 3 Afghans
    At least three people have been killed and several others severely injured in a strike by a US killer drone in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar.
  • Morsi supporters hold rally in Cairo
    Thousands of supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have gathered in the capital Cairo to renew allegiance with him less than two weeks before a planned opposition rally.
  • ‘Israel uses Iran N-issue for own goals’
    The Zionist regime of Israel raises baseless allegations against Iran’s nuclear energy program to scare Israeli citizens and serve its own domestic political goals, an analyst says.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Blood vessel blocker keeps vision clear
    How the eye prevents the destructive growth of blood vessels that would otherwise block the path of light reaching the retina has been discovered by scientists in the US. The work might lead to new tr...
  • How aspirin blocks cancers
    Aspirin cuts down the rate at which cell DNA is damaged, explaining its anti-cancer effect, new research has revealed. It been known for some time, from observational studies and in particular a rec...
  • Retinal solar implant restores sight
    A self-powering retinal implant that can turn light into sight has been successfully tested in rats. The device, the brain child of scientists at Stanford University led by Yossi Mandel, is intended...
  • Quickfire Science: Project Loon
    This week Google launched 30 huge plastic balloons in New Zealand to test the technology for 'project Loon'; a planned balloon network which could bring internet access and mobile phone signals to rem...
  • How do we store memories?
    Scientists have created a new cool technology to peer into the living brain and see memories forming as little dots moving around!Oscar Wilde called memory the diary that we all carry about with...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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
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