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If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• The Edge of Space - Revealed – The Mystery O ...
  We now understand the nature of the giant storms on Saturn. Through the analysis of images sent from the Cassini space probe belonging to the North American and European space agencies (NASA and ESA respectively), as well as the computer models of the storms and the examination of the clouds the ...
• Israel and Palestine - Will Secretary Kerry Co ...
  The next time U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Ramallah, will he actually violate U.S. law to make sure there are no Jews among his entourage, lest he upset his Palestinian hosts?"We will approve the meeting on condition there are no Jews."This is what you are likely to hear these days ...
• Iraq After Saddam - Man Who Executed Saddam Hu ...
  One of the executioners involved in the hanging of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been killed, the outlawed Baath Party said in a statement. While not providing a date for when the executioner was killed, the statement identified him as Mohammed Nassif al-Maliki, who allegedly appeared in th ...
• Italy on Edge - Silvio Berlusconi Sentenced to ...
  Silvio Berlusconi was handed a seven-year jail sentence on Monday for abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor, adding to the complications facing Italy’s fragile left-right government.The former Italian prime minister will not have to serve any jail time before he has exhausted an appe ...
• The Race for Biofuel - Supreme Court Declines ...
  The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a case that charged federal regulators allowed a mid-level ethanol fuel blend onto the market without proper testing.The move preserves a space at the gas pump for E15 fuel, a mix comprised of 15 percent ethanol — compared with the standard 10 per ...

High Country News

• The blue window
  Of face paint, nunataks and Alaska's Harding Icefield
• So long, San Onofre (in like 700 million years)
  The closing of a Southern California nuclear plant signals the end of an era — and the start of another
• Clinging to coal on the reservation is looking ...
  Buying a 50-year old coal mine is a bad idea for the Navajo.
• Hard choices for an uncertain future
  After seeing a talk by climate activist Tim DeChristopher, the author wonders: which energy source is the lesser of many evils?
• What's eating the snowpack?
  Researchers untangle the causes of unusual snowpack declines throughout the Rockies

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

• Obama's Climate Speech Today: Start The War On ...
  Daniel P. Schrag,  White House climate adviser and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, told the New York Times  today "a war on coal is exactly what's needed." Later today, President Obama will give a major "climate change" address at Georgetown University th ...
• Snowden Shocker: Tells Hong Kong Paper He Took ...
  The United States Government and much of the media try to track down Edward Snowden (word is that the employees of the Washington Zoo who tracked down a missing Panda bear today will be asked to take up the the task.  But Snowden isn't totally missing, he left a little present for the ...
• The IRS Scandal Is Alive and Kicking Despite E ...
  Last week Rep Elijah Cumming released the full testimony of and IRS employee in Cincinnati named John Shafer. Cummings released the testimony despite the objections of Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, because  he believes it destroys Issa's contention that the White House was involved wit ...
• $1.5 Billion Bernie Sanders Sweetener Added To ...
  Boy oh Boy those socialists really know how to negotiate.  Bernie Sanders the socialist senator from Vermont had a $1.5 Billion dollar youth jobs bill added to the Hoeven-Corker amendment to purchase his vote in favor of the bill.  According to the Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt ...
• ICE President Says Marco Rubio's A LIAR- Corke ...
  Today the Senate will vote on the 1,200 page Corker/Hoeven Amendment to the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill. This tome of an amendment does little fulfill the promise of protecting the border before amnesty.  It supposedly doubles the number of border agents and completes the bord ...

Wind Watch

• Minnesota regulators have pulled the plug on a ...
  The eagles in Goodhue County won a victory Thursday. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission pulled the plug on a controversial wind energy project that was stalled for years by a fierce and well-organized local opposition that successfully used its potential impact on eagles to help derail it ...
• 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 ...

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

• South remains the epicenter of U.S. child pove ...
  An annual report that measures the well-being of U.S. children finds improvements among some Southern states -- and slippage among others. Where does your state stand? read more
• 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 ...
• 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
• Is True the Vote telling the truth when it cla ...
  The Texas-based group that targets alleged voter fraud is suing the IRS for refusing to grant its request for tax-exempt status. But the agency has cause to be skeptical about True the Vote's claims of non-partisanship. 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

• Green rules will leave Europe importing even d ...
  Draconian green regulations risk putting European refineries out of business, leaving the continent importing more fuels from dirtier plants elsewhere in the world, Essar Energy has warned.    
• The oil fields of Syria
  Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is helping to finance its activities by selling the product of oilfields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad    
• Oil price manipulation 'could have driven up f ...
  Families could have been paying too much for food and household goods if companies are found to have fixed the oil price, the Government says.    
• Price fixing: Is slick trading pushing up the ...
  As the EU launches an investigation into claims of price fixing by oil companies, Harry Wallop examines the factors that affect the cost of our petrol at the pumps    
• Graphic: how crude oil price-fixing could have ...
  A rise in the price of crude often coincides with a rise in the price of petrol at the pump.    

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

• The Newsonomics of membership » Nieman Journal ...
• Giussani
• MediaShift . PubCamp Examines New Models, Phil ...
• New Voices: What Works
• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw

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

• Strangely like Fiction: Sponsored academics ad ...
  Independent Science News – The fight over rbGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) continues, even under new ownership. After acquiring rbGH from Monsanto, Elanco (part of Eli Lilly) has stepped up efforts to convince milk processors and the wider food industry that milk from rbGH-injected ...
• Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minist ...
  ABC – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of paying for sex with a prostitute and abusing his powers of office. A Milan court has sentenced Berlusconi to seven years in jail and banned him from public office after a salacious two-year trial known as Rubyga ...
• Homophobia on the rise in Africa: rights group
  AFP – Homophobia in sub-Saharan Africa has reached “dangerous levels” with more countries passing laws criminalising same-sex relations, a report released on Tuesday by Amnesty International revealed. The rights group said homophobic attitudes and attacks on gays were in some c ...
• Nissan CEO Ghosn says was paid $10.1 million i ...
  (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said he was paid 988 million yen ($10.1 million) in the financial year that ended in March, little changed from the previous year and putting him among the highest-paid executives in Japan.  The 0.1 percent increase in Ghosn ...
• UK – Phone hacking: MPs probe claims pol ...
  Mirror – MPS are poised to quiz police over explosive claims officers failed to tell them firms often phone-hack rivals. Evidence has emerged that the Serious and Organised Crime Agency knew for six years that law firms and other companies routinely spy. And some use criminals for the prac ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• May global temperature ties as third warmest o ...
  Last month was among the hottest Mays in the 134-year global record, tying with 1998 and 2005 as the third warmest.
• UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling wins Blue P ...
  Daniel Sperling, a UC Davis civil engineering professor and international transportation expert, has won the Blue Planet Prize .
• Warming temperatures taking the sparkle out of ...
  Business is not so bubbly for sparkling wine makers. Climate change is bringing higher temperatures to regions like Champagne, France, where delicate vines are succumbing to heat.
• Latest attempt to reintroduce Mexican wolves t ...
  A pair of Mexican wolves that had been waiting for their final release into the wild in Arizona are heading back to captivity after federal officials determined that the alpha male of an existing  pack behaved aggressively toward them.
• Climate change could slash snowfall in Souther ...
  Climate change is likely to wipe a lot of the white from those postcard winter scenes of Los Angeles ringed by snow-capped mountains, according to new research.

spiked

• MoD litigation: making judges into gods of war
  The UK Supreme Court ruling that servicemen can sue the Ministry of Defence for negligence is a disaster for troop morale and the public good.
• Who’s afraid of a couple of cranky bloggers?
  Message to UK liberals: if you’re campaigning to bar two right-wing US bloggers from Britain, you’re no liberal.
• Childhood is not a health and safety risk
  Child Safety Week won't prevent accidents, but it will prevent kids from being allowed to enjoy themselves.
• Stuart Hall: the thirst for punishment
  The calls for the TV presenter’s sentence to be harsher are not based on the principles of justice, but on a desire for revenge.
• A degree of instrumentalism
  Despite some fine rhetoric, a new think-tank report rehashes the failed ideas behind UK higher-education policy.

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

• Bangladesh Hits 1 Million Solar Home Systems
  A few months back Nancy Wimmer told us about Bangladesh’s solar success read more
• Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security
  Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate it onto oil that flows through a tubing at the center of the curved mirrors. This heated oil makes its way into a h ...
• Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emer ...
  If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled so ...
• New crowdsourcing platform gives hope to small ...
  Less than 24 hours after launching its online marketplace, Mosaic raised $313,000 to power read more
• “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
  Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...

backofthebook.ca

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libcom

• In Brazil, demonstrations against transport pr ...
  An article written by comrades of the International Communist Current in Brazil read more
• Support Dmitri Zvanko, anti-fascist prisoner f ...
  Dmitri Zvanko – is anti-fascist from Brest of Belarus. He was arrested 9th of May 2013, as one of 5 anti-fascists who were suspected of a fight with far-right activists the day before. read more
• Caroline Lucas: Green scab
  Caroline-Lucas-scab.jpg Caroline Lucas (aka St Caroline), Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, today proudly tweeted she had scabbed on the Brighton refuse workers' strike despite her earlier claims ...
• Poland Does Away with the 8-Hour Day
  labor-day-eight-hours.JPG The avant-garde of neoliberal horrors has finally done away with the 8-hour day. read more
• Greece: Thousands gather in an anti-government ...
  img_8842.jpg Anarchist solidarity with the fired 2,656 employees of State TV and Radio of Greece. Thousands in Athens, Greece gathered in the evening of June 11, 2013 outside t ...

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

• JFK Blows The Whistle (ala Ed Snowden) And Die ...
    The dictionary defines TREASON as follows: trea·son  (trzn) n. 1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies. 2. A betrayal of trust or c ...
• Mormo Missionaries Make Massive Media Moves
  In a massive press release Sunday, May 23, 2013, Mormon General Authorities announced a “historic” shift in their traditional uniform rules for Missions and their 70,000+ “full-time missionaries”.   In a nutshell – missionaries will be doing less door-to-door &#8220 ...
• Quantum Computing + Utah NSA Data Collection C ...
  This is an update to my post I authored 18 months ago concerning the damnably dark Edomite/Madman Agenda of Raymond Kurzweil (Cursed-well) and the Trans-humanist Agenda where certain elite “men” literally desire to elevate themselves to the level of “God” as soon as human ...
• 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Tom Mulcair, Leader of the Opposition
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with the Leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair to discuss the major political issues facing Canada today and what Mr. Mulcair's party, the NDP, would do differently in Ottawa.
• Father Thomas Rosica
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Father Thomas Rosica to discuss the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the process of electing a new Pope.
• Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater (Feb 9, 2013
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan as he prepares for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
• Mark Burnett, television producer (Feb 2, 2013)
  Peter talks about television, fame and chasing the American Dream with the king of reality TV.
• Chris Hadfield, astronaut (Jan 26, 2013)
  Peter talks to the Canadian Astronaut from his current home in space aboard the International Space Station.

Scotts Contracting

• Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
  Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
• 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 ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large
  by Stephen Lendman Snowden in RussiaCold-blooded barbarity reflects US policy. Democracy's more illusion than reality. Rule of law principles don't matter. They're systematically spurned. Dissent's increasingly targeted. Freedom's imperiled. Obama's ruthless. He exceeds the worst of Ge ...
• Brazilians Demand Social Justice
  by Stephen Lendman Justifiable public anger holds back only so long. On June 11, protests began. On June 17, they erupted across Brazil. Hundreds of thousands turned out. Estimates ranged up to 1.5 million. At issue is scandalous misspending on sports. It's at a time of stalling economi ...
• Trafficking in Lies about Syria
  by Stephen Lendman Media scoundrels substitute lies for truth and full disclosure. They violate core journalistic ethics doing so. They threaten world peace. They're waging war on freedom. They do it shameless, recklessly and unapologetically. They continue ad nauseam. Victims are c ...
• Decline and Fall - Snoop Daddy ECHELON, Real U ...
  Michael Collins A chronicle of the spectacular incompetence of those who purport to lead us WASHINGTON - Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor, revealed a government process of spying on citizens and organizations, not information about the subjects of cyber spying. If not illegal, it is ...
• Washington v. Edward Snowden Update
  by Stephen Lendman Events are fast-moving. On June 23, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (HKSAR) press release said: "Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel." "The US Government earlier on ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Reflections and perspectives on Indigenous edu ...
  Woven Words for Indigenous Education, the latest publication from CCPA's Education Project, brings together the reflections and perspectives of practising professionals in the field of Indigenous education. From the education activism of a seasoned community leader to the supporti ...
• 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

• Arkansas oil spill: Timeline
  April 7, 2013 Friday marks one week since an ExxonMobil pipeline burst in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of toxic tar sands. Town residents say they are being kept in the dark over compensation and the cleanup by Exxon. April 7 Members of Pipeliners Union 798 told ...
• Tar Sands Oil Arkansas
  April 7, 2013 Exxon pipeline heavy crude oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. (photo: 350.org National security demands secrecy in the heart of Arkansas ithin a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, ExxonMobil was in charge of the clean-up, the U.S. government ...
• Singapore smoke hits life-threatening levels, ...
  June 21, 2013 Singapore health officials have warned that air pollution is at hazardous, record-high levels due to peatland wildfires in neighboring Indonesia. In a bid to quell a diplomatic row, Jakarta has sent helicopters to ‘seed’ rainclouds over the blaze. Smoke from the ...
• Fraud at State? Taxpayers Take Pipeline
  March 13, 2013 Keystone pipeline: U.S. pays foxes to assess henhouse as delicious o it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact statement issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That's the report that assured people tar sands ...
• EPA to outlaw many wood burning stoves

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

• British Columbia Declines Oil Pipeline. Should ...
  The Northern Gateway pipeline, which could carry more than 525,000 barrels of oil per day, would link the oil sands to Asian markets and seemed like a “no-brainer”. But British Columbia sees things differently.
• Energy Efficiency: Home Internet Devices Use E ...
  Although appliances and consumer electronics are getting more efficient, they still represent about 35 percent of the energy consumed in U.S. homes. And it's not just the big appliances using up energy.
• EPA Risks Crisis of Confidence in Protecting D ...
  The EPA has been investigating the water in Pavillion, Wyoming for years now, but announced last week that it was dropping an investigation into contamination before it was completed, and now everyone wants to know why.
• The Energy Efficiency Gap & The Research Myth
  Every time energy policy is being discussed, you’ll usually find a call for more R&D spending at the top of the list of ways to solve problems. While I agree that research is great, it’s obviously not enough and, if anything, only the first step.
• Ten Startup Tips for Utility CEOs
  When you’re privileged to be an Executive in Residence at a Silicon Valley incubator like I am, you enjoy exposure to many interesting ideas and thought-provoking perspectives.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
• Receive up to $50 of personalized Pexagon Tech ...
• This Seasons Biggest Blow-out Sale! 74% off Au ...
• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

• U.S. Said to Explore Possible China Role in Sn ...
  Regardless of how Snowden came to land in Hong Kong and then Moscow, U.S. intelligence agencies must assume that China and Russia have debriefed Snowden and now have all the digital information he brought with him, said one of the officials. Such a debriefing could have been direct or through i ...
• New IRS Information Shows Progressives Include ...
  The Internal Revenue Service today provided Congressional investigators with new information that shows that the term "progressives" was included on the IRS "Be On the Look Out" (BOLO) lists used to screen tax-exemption applications. The so-called BOLO lists were previously known to have include ...
• What's So Special About Patent Law, Judge Asks
  Want to know what U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh really thinks about patent litigation? Companies demand too many do-overs; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office behaves like no other federal agency; and the recent suggestion in a New York Times op-ed that lower court judges have the power to make ...
• The most popular end-user Linux distributions ...
  It's getting so you can find Chromebooks everywhere. Best Buy, Office Depot, Office Max, Fry's and TigerDirect are all either already selling Chromebooks or will be summer's end. Acer is even selling its $199 C710-2856 Chromebook at Walmart, the United States' favorite superstore. [PJ: So, I ...
• Congress looking to act on patent assertion en ...
  The legislative landscape: A number of legislative proposals have now been advanced. Some are at a public draft stage, while some have been formally introduced. Others are 'forthcoming'. The key ones under discussion appear to be the following: ... - Mark Bohannon, OpenSource.com

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

• Edward Snowden as super empowered individual
  In 4th generation warfare, a small, nimble adversary trips up a vastly larger opponent. A ‘super empowered individual’ takes that one step further and does it himself. I’d say Snowden meets the definition. What say you? A super empowered individual, in my view, is autonomously ...
• Yikes. Removing aerosols from atmosphere makes ...
  You read that right. Removing man made aerosols from the atmosphere has made hurricanes stronger, which no doubt is not what anyone was expecting to find. They found that tropical storms were much less frequent during periods when emissions of man-made aerosols increased over the North Atlantic. ...
• Wind Farms Gone Wild – Report from Scottish en ...
  The Scottish Wild Land Group opposes wind farms and explains why in a special issue of their newsletter, Wind Farms Gone Wild, which is available for free. A primary concern is cost. Wind farms are expensive. This hurts the poor because their cost of energy rises. The profits generally do not he ...
• Steve Earle & The Dukes – The Devil’s Right H ...
  Not guilty, I said You got the wrong man Nothing touched the trigger but the devil’s right hand.
• Are forest fires good, are forest fires bad?
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TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

• Overwhelming support to end unnecessary animal ...
  More than 4,500 emails have been sent through our website to MP’s since last Friday, and MPs have been receiving many more directly. I am blown away by the speed and size of this response. I know that this is a reflection of the depth of public feeling about this issue – that it’s just [...]
• Doing our Bit?
  It honestly warms my heart to see the doing our bit campaign and facebook page created by Murdoch Stephens. The campaign seeks to double New Zealand’s refugee quota and Double refugee funding so that the hard working people across New Zealand’s governmental and NGO services have the resources th ...
• General debate, June 23, 2013
• 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 ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

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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JAMA

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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

• Editorial: Corruption and the Charbonneau Comm ...
  Testimony at the Charbonneau Commission has been disheartening in many respects, but ultimately the inquiry will help make the province a better place.
• Andrew Coyne: Who's right, who's wrong in the ...
  All of your questions about the Justin Trudeau speaking fees imbroglio, answered in one place:
• Printemps érable commission lacks credibility
  Stéphane Bergeron, Quebec's minister of public security, has managed a remarkable feat.
• Editorial: Searching for a saviour as our next ...
  A host of qualities has been suggested for what would make an ideal mayor for Montreal, but with time running short for candidates to emerge, Montrealers might have to settle for someone less than ideal.
• Opinion: Attacks on Christians in Egypt are pa ...
  What was originally dubbed as the Arab Spring has evolved into a series of deadly seasons, especially for the indigenous Christians of the Middle East.

Food World Order

• FBI Calls Destruction of GMO Sugar Beets in Or ...
  from GreenMedInfo.com: In a breaking development, the FBI confirms that 1,500 GM Sugar Beet plants were destroyed this month in Oregon, in what they are calling an act of "Economic Sabotage." When GM pollen blows into a non-GM farmer's fields and irreversibly contaminates his crop wit ...
• Tennessee official: Water complaints could be ...
  from usatoday.com: A Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy director warned a group of Maury County residents that unfounded complaints about water quality could be considered an "act of terrorism." (See video below) "We take water quality very seriously. Very, very ...
• 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 ...

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

• The 441 TRILLION Dollar Interest Rate Derivati ...
  Do you want to know the primary reason why rapidly rising interest rates could take down the entire global financial system?  Most people might think that it would be because the U.S. government would have to pay much more interest on the national debt.  And yes, if the average rate of interest ...
• Not Prepared: 17 Signs That Most Americans Wil ...
  The vast majority of Americans are going to be absolutely blindsided by what is coming.  They don't understand how our financial system works, they don't understand how vulnerable it is, and most of them blindly trust that our leaders know exactly what they are doing and that they will be able t ...
• The Biggest Ponzi Scheme In The History Of The ...
  Did you know that you are involved in the most massive Ponzi scheme that has ever existed?  To illustrate my point, allow me to tell you a little story.  Once upon a time, there was a man named Sam.  When he was younger, he had been a very principled young man that had worked incredibly [...]
• “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 [...]

CASSE

• Bill Clinton, The Nature Conservancy, and The ...
  Wishful thinking and political rhetoric aside, we've got to get a handle on economic growth to conserve biodiversity and environmental health.
• Steady Statesmanship Goes Global
  A window of opportunity has opened at the United Nations: it's time to promote the steady state economy around the globe.
• How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-For-Profit ...
  The transition from profit-based businesses to not-for-profit enterprises offers one of the most hopeful paths to a sustainable economy.
• Slumlord Nation
  Whether it's an apartment complex or an economy, the slumlord model of management can only lead to ruin and regret.
• Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Co ...
  State of denial: it's easier to pretend that unlimited economic growth can support an unlimited population, including immigrants.

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

• South remains the epicenter of U.S. child pove ...
  An annual report that measures the well-being of U.S. children finds improvements among some Southern states -- and slippage among others. Where does your state stand? read more
• 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 ...
• 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
• Is True the Vote telling the truth when it cla ...
  The Texas-based group that targets alleged voter fraud is suing the IRS for refusing to grant its request for tax-exempt status. But the agency has cause to be skeptical about True the Vote's claims of non-partisanship. 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

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

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

• Nobody’s Safe: ‘Car Hacking’ ...
  By Shepard Ambellas Intellihub.com June 23, 2013 Now it looks as if ‘vehicle security’ will be a new trending concern after the recent fiery death of reporter Michael Hastings who was “onto a big story” and needed to “go off the rada[r] for a bit.”, according to an email sent to members of the p ...
• 20 Signs the Pharmaceutical Companies are Runn ...
  If you could get 70 percent of Americans addicted to your drugs and rake in $280 billion a year in the process, would you do it? If you could come up with a “pill for every problem” and charge Americans twice as much for those pills as people in other countries pay, would you do […]
• 20 Signs the Pharmaceutical Companies are Runn ...
  If you could get 70 percent of Americans addicted to your drugs and rake in $280 billion a year in the process, would you do it? If you could come up with a “pill for every problem” and charge Americans twice as much for those pills as people in other countries pay, would you do […]
• Sherwin Smith, Tennessee Official, Says Water ...
  A Tennessee state official reportedly told residents who were concerned about dirty drinking water that complaining about water quality could be considered “an act of terrorism.” The controversial comment was made by Sherwin Smith, the deputy director of the Tennessee Department of E ...
• Sherwin Smith, Tennessee Official, Says Water ...
  A Tennessee state official reportedly told residents who were concerned about dirty drinking water that complaining about water quality could be considered “an act of terrorism.” The controversial comment was made by Sherwin Smith, the deputy director of the Tennessee Department of E ...

Veterans Today

• Is Obama arming Al Qaeda to topple Assad?
  After two years of hesitating, US President Barack Obamaannounced he will deliver arms to the Syrian rebels, citing unverified “proof” that the troops of the Syrian Bashar Al-Assad government used Sarin gas against so-called opposition rebels. The Obama flip-flop is bizarre and reveals a Preside ...
• Israel: Only Nation that Systematically Arre ...
  By Mohamed Khodr (Please do take the time to read this article and view the important Videos and photos included,  With  our own umanity and future at stake, Ignorance is no longer an option. Thank you)    Part of Jewish Morning Prayers: “Blessed are You, Eternal our God, who has NOT ...
• Republicans Veer Toward Socialism
  Onama Tries to Privatize TVA By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall   According to a recent article article by Gar Alperowitz, Obama has inserted a proposal to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in his 2014 budget. The TVA was established by the Roosevelt administration during the Depression. ...
• 19 Telltale Signs of Fake Terror (Part IV of: ...
  “The tragedy of historical investigations: The confirmation of diabolical hypotheses by ugly facts.” “The only means of being able to protect yourself will be to understand the answer to the question, ‘What is the final end game for the most powerful families that are in fact running count ...
• Presidential Rule by Deception: Obama, the Mas ...
  by Professor James Petras In an electoral system, run by and for a corporate oligarchy, deception and demagoguery are essential elements – entertaining the people while working for the wealthy. Every US President has engaged, in one fashion or another, in ‘play acting’ to secure popular approval ...

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 ...

PR News

• L'Oreal names first lady's comms director as i ...
  NEW YORK: L'Oreal USA has appointed Kristina Schake, first lady Michelle Obama's communications director, as CCO.
• Henderson given top comms role at 21st Century Fox
  NEW YORK: News Corporation has named top spokesperson Julie Henderson CCO of 21st Century Fox after the company splits into two publicly traded entities later this week.
• McLean to step down from DC GM post at Porter ...
  WASHINGTON: Catherine "Kiki" McLean, GM of Porter Novelli's Washington office, is set to step down from her position at the end of this month.
• Gerace to replace Thonis as Verizon comms chief
  NEW YORK: Verizon has promoted Jim Gerace to CCO, succeeding Peter Thonis.
• UBM names PR Newswire's Mozarsky tech president
  NEW YORK: United Business Media has named PR Newswire chief commercial officer Scott Mozarsky president of media and partner solutions in its UBM Tech division. It is a newly created role.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
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• Allen speaks about the day the Afghanistan cam ...

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

• U.S., NATO Complete Baltic War Games
  U.S. European Command June 25, 2013 BALTOPS ’13 culminates at Kiel Week By Lt.j.g. Loren M. Terry Expeditionary Strike Group TWO, Public Affairs ==== “For 41 years, this exercise has provided EUCOM the interoperability necessary to continually improve and maintain security in the Bal ...
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: War and all its dread ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Coleridge: All our dainty terms for fratricide ==== Samuel Taylor Coleridge From The Destiny of Nations (1817) ‘When Luxury and Lust’s exhausted stores No more can rouse the appetites of kings; When the low flattery of ...
• NATO Delegation Sees Off Georgian Troops To Af ...
  Trend News Agency June 24, 2013 NATO delegation to attend seeing off ceremony of Georgian soldiers to Afghanistan N. Kirtzkhalia Tbilisi: A NATO delegation within its visit to Georgia will take part in a seeing off ceremony of Georgian soldiers to Afghanistan. The visit of the NATO delegation le ...
• Romain Rolland: War and the factories of intel ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From A World In Birth (L’enfantement) (1933) Translated by Amalia de Alberti Throughout the war, while the nations were tearing at each other, had not the Money of the Fra ...
• Georgia: U.S. Officials Preside Over Closing O ...
  Ministry of Defence of Georgia June 22, 2013 Course closing ceremony The Basic Mountain Training Summer Course has officially finished at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School today. A solemn closing ceremony of the course was held at the drill ground of the Sachkhere School. Trainings and Mili ...

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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

• Sky News: “Riot Police Clash With Prote ...
  Police push back against thousands of protesters in Istanbul as unrest returns to the city’s Taksim Square. Saturday 22 June 2013 Riot police have fired water cannon to clear protesters from Istanbul’s Taksim Square, in the first clash at the site for nearly a week. The demonstrators ...
• Sky News: “Riot Police Clash With Prote ...
  Police push back against thousands of protesters in Istanbul as unrest returns to the city’s Taksim Square. Saturday 22 June 2013 Riot police have fired water cannon to clear protesters from Istanbul’s Taksim Square, in the first clash at the site for nearly a week. The demonstrators ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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

• Before-And-After Satellite Photos Reveal Massi ...
  The death toll nearly doubled over the weekend. $(function(){ $('#slider1').beforeAfter(); $('#slider2').beforeAfter(); }; Torrential rains have caused devastating flooding and landslides in northern India and Nepal this month, as seen in these false-color satellite images from NASA's Earth Ob ...
• How To Hack A Cockroach So You Can Control It ...
  Oh yes, there's a video. We've already covered their DIY project to build your very own mind-controlled cyborg cockroach, but now the North Carolina State University researchers have taken roach control to a whole new level. The team created an interface that sends a cockroach scurrying in any p ...
• The Cure For Cancer Could Be Found In Space
  Biologists find microgravity conditions are optimal for cancer research. Cancer researchers looking for a breakthrough might want to relocate to the International Space Station. Biologists have found that microgravity research and other space-based experiments provide greater insight into ab ...
• Why Are Pearls Round?
  How can an oyster rotate pearls so perfectly when it's basically just a giant booger? Not all pearls are round, but many are, and these are the most prized. But given that the creation of a pearl happens within the locked-tight shell of a living creature, we don't really know exactly how they're ...
• How To Get People To Care About Climate Change
  Giving open-minded people a chance to think about both sides of the issue encourages them to support climate change policy. Good news for those of us hoping for greater government involvement in the fight against climate change: Our views on climate change policy aren't always as rigid as they ...

Veterans Today

• Is Obama arming Al Qaeda to topple Assad?
  After two years of hesitating, US President Barack Obamaannounced he will deliver arms to the Syrian rebels, citing unverified “proof” that the troops of the Syrian Bashar Al-Assad government used Sarin gas against so-called opposition rebels. The Obama flip-flop is bizarre and reveals a Preside ...
• Israel: Only Nation that Systematically Arre ...
  By Mohamed Khodr (Please do take the time to read this article and view the important Videos and photos included,  With  our own umanity and future at stake, Ignorance is no longer an option. Thank you)    Part of Jewish Morning Prayers: “Blessed are You, Eternal our God, who has NOT ...
• Republicans Veer Toward Socialism
  Onama Tries to Privatize TVA By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall   According to a recent article article by Gar Alperowitz, Obama has inserted a proposal to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in his 2014 budget. The TVA was established by the Roosevelt administration during the Depression. ...
• 19 Telltale Signs of Fake Terror (Part IV of: ...
  “The tragedy of historical investigations: The confirmation of diabolical hypotheses by ugly facts.” “The only means of being able to protect yourself will be to understand the answer to the question, ‘What is the final end game for the most powerful families that are in fact running count ...
• Presidential Rule by Deception: Obama, the Mas ...
  by Professor James Petras In an electoral system, run by and for a corporate oligarchy, deception and demagoguery are essential elements – entertaining the people while working for the wealthy. Every US President has engaged, in one fashion or another, in ‘play acting’ to secure popular approval ...

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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

• Is the IMF Beating Colleges at Online Learning?
  There is a big debate raging in academia about the relevance of university education as we know it today: First, it is becoming increasingly expensive as salaries remain stagnant or even decline as in the US and other Western nations. Second, do what universities offer have relevant course conte ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• The 441 TRILLION Dollar Interest Rate Derivati ...
  Do you want to know the primary reason why rapidly rising interest rates could take down the entire global financial system?  Most people might think that it would be because the U.S. government would have to pay much more interest on the national debt.  And yes, if the average rate of interest ...
• Not Prepared: 17 Signs That Most Americans Wil ...
  The vast majority of Americans are going to be absolutely blindsided by what is coming.  They don't understand how our financial system works, they don't understand how vulnerable it is, and most of them blindly trust that our leaders know exactly what they are doing and that they will be able t ...
• The Biggest Ponzi Scheme In The History Of The ...
  Did you know that you are involved in the most massive Ponzi scheme that has ever existed?  To illustrate my point, allow me to tell you a little story.  Once upon a time, there was a man named Sam.  When he was younger, he had been a very principled young man that had worked incredibly [...]
• “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 [...]

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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

• 2013-06-24 Seat 17A: Where is Edward Snowden?
  Edward Snowden was expected to fly to Havana today at 14:05 Moscow time, together with WikiLeaks legal advisors. But Snowden's seat 17A was empty at takeoff, and no one seems to know where he is. Julian Assange has however stated that Snowden is safe and in good spirits. Assange says he knows wh ...
• 2013-06-23 Edward Snowden en route to Ecuador
  Earlier this morning, WikiLeaks announced that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden had left Hong Kong with the assistance of WikiLeaks legal advisors. FLASH: WikiLeaks has assisted Mr. Snowden's political asylum in a democratic country, travel papers ans safe exit from Hong Kong. More soon. &md ...
• 2013-06-22 Free Barrett Brown sends condolence ...
  Free Barrett Brown sends condolences to the friends and family of Michael Hastings who died in a fiery car crash early Tuesday morning. Hastings was a fearless journalist who questioned power. He was a friend of Barrett's and an active member of Project PM, a crowd-sourced research effort to exp ...
• 2013-06-22 Statement by Julian Assange after O ...
  Statement by Julian Assange after One Year in Ecuadorian Embassy Saturday June 22nd, 15:00 GMT It has now been a year since I entered this embassy and sought refuge from persecution. As a result of that decision, I have been able to work in relative safety from a US espionage investigation. But ...
• 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 ...

U N News

• Live at the Apollo: UN chief urges Democracy P ...
  Hailing the first-ever graduating class of Democracy Prep High School, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the young scholars to "change the world" through global citizenship, and to help the United Nations respond as "one human family" to major international challenges.
• 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.

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

• Alienation and Ethnocide in Burma
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The ominous political debate over ethnicity
• Afghanistan's Dim Hopes for Peace
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Reconciliation and ethnic polarization
• Was Edward Snowden a Spy?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Or was Dick Cheney looking for a cheap excuse to play politics?
• China May be Easing Up on Tibet
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Major relief possible in religious repression
• Will Myanmar's Soldiers Return to Barracks?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Civil-military relations and constitutional reform in a changing society

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

• Kerry Coup to Start Bombing Syria Fails, Rebuf ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio June 22, 2013 [download audio]
• How to Identify a CIA Limited Hangout Operation
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV June 18, 2013 In the vintage movie Casablanca, the Vichy French official played by Claude Raines is “Shocked! Shocked!” to discover that gambling is going on in Rick’s American Bar, a notorious gambling den. He is then handed his winnings of the night, a hefty w ...
• The Glenn Greenwald/Ed Snowden Limited Hangout ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio with Tom Kiely I.N.N. World Report June 18, 2013 [download audio]
• To Avoid War with Syria, Neutralize the CIA&#8 ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com June 18, 2013 [download audio]
• Tarpley at New York Left Forum: The Syrian War ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 9, 2013 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• Is The Patriot Movement Being Manipulated?
  Guest Post: by Phil from S.Carolina I think the patriot movement is being manipulated and they don’t even realize it. I think they need to “cool it” in many ways before it is too late. Let me explain why and what I think people need to do.   …continued It seems likely to me that [...]
• Caught In The Rain
  While caught in severe weather yesterday with torrential rains pouring down, I made an observation that may help you stay a bit drier if you’re out in the woods and you too are caught in the pouring rain…   This really is a common-sense observation, but one worth repeating. Firs ...
• Why The Elites Want To Destroy The Economy
  I happened across this question and answer within a comment thread of another post, and decided to share it here… While the question conjures up conspiracy, the answer may prove to be self-fulfilling regardless of conspiracy… as the earth and mother nature may have her own way with u ...
• Will This Weekend’s Super Moon Trigger A ...
  This weekend there will be a Super Moon. On June 23rd, the Moon becomes full at essentially the same time it reaches perigee (the closest to the earth). This near-perfect coincidence makes the Moon “super.” One question, Will the extraordinary tides from the super moon trigger a mega ...
• 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 ...

Fast Company

• A Workbook Of Simple Tasks For Sparking Your C ...
  The folks behind Conditional Design want you to experiment in structured ways. Good ideas can arrive (seemingly) in an instant or may emerge after a hard-fought battle between right brain, left brain, and reality. But even people who are blessed with a fertile imagination can benefit from ...
• What Antarctica Looks Like Under All That Ice
  Stripping away its protective ice coating isn’t just a fun exercise: The topography under the surface will affect how and when all that ice melts and starts flooding our cities. For years, climate scientists have tried to hammer home the point that changes in temperature and the volu ...
• Watch: A 2-Minute History Of American Industri ...
  The design movement that revolutionized consumer goods, explained. If you were born after a certain year, then buying toothpaste that doesn’t come with the promise of whitening your snappers is unthinkable. As explained by the animated short from The Open University's series on 20th ...
• Creating A Match.com For Unused Medicine
  People get prescribed a lot of drugs. Then they usually don’t take them. Instead of throwing them away, what if they could get the drugs to people who need them? Talk about a disconnect. One-in-three uninsured Americans have difficulty paying for prescriptions. And yet we throw away ...
• Baroque On Steroids? The World’s First 3-D Pri ...
  Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger designed a Baroque room with 80 million surfaces. Michael Hansmeyer, who is known for using algorithms and computation to generate incredibly complex architecture, is finally ready to build (print) it. This summer, Hansmeyer, in collab ...

Jadaliyya

• Sexual Torture is Systematic: from Mubarak and ...
  This video from the Mosireen media collective is entitled "Sexual Torture is Systematic: from Mubarak and SCAF to the Muslim Brotherhood.” It brings together the testimonies of Egyptians who have survived sexual torture over the past decade, and who refuse to be silenced by their torturers. ...
• Covering Gezi: Reflecting on Photographing Dai ...
  [Text by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, photos courtesy of Nar Photos.] After a few days, we asked one of our friends to go buy us some gas masks. He called and said there had been a run on them, and prices were up to 350–400 Turkish liras each (approximately $160–$220). We opted for some cheaper ...
• Egypt Media Roundup (June 24)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
• Last Week on Jadaliyya (June 17-23)
  This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles, and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Jadaliyya Launches Turkey Page ...
• في الذكرى المئوية للمؤتمر العربي الأول : تساؤل ...
  يميزالفيلسوف الفرنسي بول ريكور بين ثلاثة أنواع من الأحداث التاريخية : أولاً: حدث ذو معنى في ”حده الأدنى“، أي حدث عادي واضح المعالم ولكن دون أي تأثير على مجرى التاريخ ولا في تشكيل الهوية الجماعية. ثانياً: حدث يندرج ضمن نمطية معينة ويشكل نوعاً من ”الشيما“، مما يفقده طبيعته الأساسية كحدث. أما النوع ...

mediagazer

• Mashable Taps New York Times VP as Its First C ...
  Michael Sebastian / AdAge: Mashable Taps New York Times VP as Its First Chief Revenue Officer  —  Times Veteran Seth Rogin Will Seek to Bolster Branded Content and Events  —  Mashable, the news site about all things digital and social, has named New York Times ve ...
• Sprint Shareholders Approve Softbank Bid As Er ...
  Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Sprint Shareholders Approve Softbank Bid As Ergen's Options Dwindle  —  Charlie Ergen's attempt to take over Sprint was already dead last week, and now the dirt is on the coffin: Sprint shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to accept a $21.6 billion off ...
• Digital Natives Still Tend to Prefer Print (Me ...
  Mercy Pilkington / Good E-Reader: Digital Natives Still Tend to Prefer Print  —  A study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project uncovered an interesting trend regarding “digital natives,” or, those members of the age-group demographic who h ...
• NYT uses work of journalist covering Manning h ...
  Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: NYT uses work of journalist covering Manning hearings, refuses to call her a journalist  —  [Update: The New York Times issues a correction.]  —  Alexa O'Brien, the independent journalist who has been doggedly covering the Bradley Manni ...
• WSJ, Dow Jones to 'restructure' (Dylan Byers/P ...
  Dylan Byers / Politico: WSJ, Dow Jones to ‘restructure’  —  Three days ahead of News Corp's split into publishing and entertainment divisions, the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires are set to undergo “a limited restructuring” effort that will re ...

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

• Punjab hit by scarcity for sand, Badal looks a ...
  Chandigarh: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday asked various departments to properly utilize the material lying unused at various government construction sites as Punjab faces scarcity for sand. Owing to a mining ban the prices for sand are sky-high in past few months. Badal...
• Del Bosque: Casillas is still Spain's No.1
  The Roja head coach has stressed the 32-year-old is likely to start the semi-final with Italy but admitted he was blessed with the number of top keepers at his disposal Spain head coach Vicente del Bosque says Iker Casillas is still No.1 choice ahead of their Confederations Cup semi-final clash ...
• Benitez determined to keep Cavani
  The Napoli boss says that his star player will not be leaving for less than his €63 million buyout clause as speculation over a move to Real Madrid or Chelsea intensifies Napoli boss Rafa Benitez says that Edinson Cavani can only leave the club if one of his suitors agrees to meet his €63 m ...
• Moratti plays down police raid
  The Inter president insists he is not unduly concerned after officers began investigations into money laundering and tax evasion in Italian football Inter president Massimo Moratti has played down the severity of a police raid on Inter's headquarters as part of an investigation into money launde ...
• 1983 World Cup win gave new dimension to India ...
  New Delhi, June 25: Kapil Dev relived some of the moments of the 1983 World Cup triumph as India today celebrated 30 years of its most famous win. Kapil, who led India to the win, along with his teammates Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, the youngest man in the team, walked down memory lane reca ...

no frakking consensus

• The Sierra Club’s Violent, Totalitarian ...
  Truth squads. Pushing "bitter pills" down other people's throat. Democracy's new enemies are green.
• ‘Carbon Pollution’ Jargon is Sick ...
  If carbon dioxide is pollution, every human being is a perpetual pollution factory. Every toddler in their sandbox generates CO2 every minute of every day.
• Media Fail: John Cook’s Atom Bombs
  News stories citing and quoting a single individual (a self-described non-climate-scientist) make declarations about climate change and atomic weapons.
• Visit from an Australian Film Crew
  Are attempts to prevent climate change a colossal waste of money? An in-progress film makes that argument.
• A Question for John Kerry: Where’s Your ...
  If the US Secretary of State has evidence that the public is clamoring for action on climate change the time to produce it is now.

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 ...
• 6/20/13 - 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.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• Prosecutors reveal star witness in Trayvon Mar ...
  The girl Trayvon Martin was talking with on the phone in the last minutes of his life is due to testify in court.
• No clear favourite to host 2020 Summer Olympics
  An IOC report indicated there is no clear favourite among the bids to host the event from Madrid, Tokyo and Istanbul.
• British attempts to cut spending fuel angst
  The idea of further spending cuts has upset some voters and stoked tensions among senior members of government.
• Six arrested, suspected of planning terror att ...
  French police have arrested six people suspected of belonging to a radical Islamist cell and of preparing attacks.
• Tension in South Africa over Mandela's health ...
  Frustrations are growing in South Africa as people demand more information about Nelson Mandela's health.

environment 360

• Obama To Unveil Sweeping Plan to Tackle Climat ...
  President Obama was set to unveil today a long-awaited national strategy to tackle climate change, a sweeping plan that will include cutting carbon emissions at power plants, protecting the coastline from rising seas, and a greater U.S. role in global climate talks. Calling the need to address ...
• Houston to Buy Half of its Electricity From Re ...
  The city of Houston has agreed to purchase half its electricity from renewable energy sources, a step that makes the Texas city the nation’s largest municipal buyer of green energy. In a contract signed with Reliant Energy, Houston committed to buying more than 140 megawatts of renewable power f ...
• Our Overcrowded Planet: A Failure of Family Pl ...
  New UN projections forecast that world population will hit nearly 11 billion people by 2100, an unsettling prospect that reflects a collective failure to provide women around the world with safe, effective ways to avoid pregnancies they don't intend or want. BY ROBERT ENGELMAN
• 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 ...

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• State of the Beach - Beachapedia
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• Lies My Country Told Me
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Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Muslim demographics, rabid Islamophobia and Th ...
  The Islamophobic myth that Muslims are engaged in the gradual but inexorable conquest of the West takes different forms, depending on where you live.
• Here He Goes Again: Sam Harris’s Falsehoods
  Sam Harris posted a recent blog about Scott Atran's views on Jihadis that is unbecoming of serious intellectual debate, if not ugly.
• Walsall Mosque: Package Was Explosive Device
  A suspicious package found near a mosque in Walsall was a small home-made explosive device, West Midlands Police said tonight.
• Israeli Jew Killed by Guard Near Western Wall
  Israeli Jew killed by guard who freaked out after hearing him say, "Allahu Akbar."
• Fox Business guest uses ‘spanking for Jesus’ t ...
  Bernard McGuirk, the executive producer of the radio program Imus in the Morning, on Thursday used the movement known as Christian Domestic Discipline to launch an attack on Muslims.

Energy News

• Radioactive material “soars” in oc ...
• Official: “This stands out from the string of ...
• Giant Louisiana sinkhole “now a 22.4-acre open ...
• “U.S. state on alert after nuclear waste leak” ...
• TV: “It appears the worst case scenario has ha ...

Japan Times

• U.S. probes if China played role in Snowden le ...
  U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating whether Edward Snowden's leaks may be a Chinese intelligence operation or whether China might have used his concerns about U.S. ...
• Level of radioactive tritium rising in harbor ...
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. has seen a rise in the level of radioactive tritium in seawater within the harbor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 ...
• Obama climate plan to limit carbon at power plants
  President Barack Obama's national plan to combat climate change will include the first-ever regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, as well ...
• China slump, higher bond yields weigh on world ...
  More signs of distress in China's economy and rising bond yields led to a broad sell-off in stocks Monday, leaving key market indexes down more ...
• Berlusconi convicted in sex-for-hire case
  Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's flamboyant former premier, was sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from politics for life Monday for paying an underage prostitute ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Here is Obama’s Climate Action Plan
    At 2pm today at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama will deliver a much-touted...
• Partisans posing as normal people
  When a protest is a "protest"
• Shawn Atleo meets the PM
  Tease the day: The PMO claims progress on the aboriginal file
• Janet Malcolm: Essays expose critic at work
  Book Review: Janet Malcolm's Forty-One False Starts
• 5 fashions Canada gave the world
  People everywhere love our parkas, yoga pants, makeup and man purses

Making It Count - CCPA

• The Great Wall Ties Chairman Calvert’s Five-Ye ...
  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released my policy brief (PDF) on Saskatchewan employment growth. It is covered on the front pages of today’s Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon StarPhoenix business sections. The press release follows: Premier Wall’s Employment Record Lags Calvert a ...
• 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 ...

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

• Dams Threaten Mekong Basin Food Supply
  “The future of food security in the Mekong region lies at a crossroads, as several development ventures, including the Xayaburi Hydropower Project, threaten to alter fish migration routes, disrupt the flow of sediments and nutrients downstream, and endanger millions whose livelihoods depen ...
• Megadrought in US Southwest: A Bad Omen for Fo ...
  “Across the West, “megafires” have become the norm. With climbing temperatures, after a century of fire suppression, the total area burned has tripled since the 1970s, and the average annual number of fires over 10,000 acres is seven times what it was then. Fighting and suppressing fires c ...
• Tennessee Official Says Complaining About Wate ...
  “Sherwin Smith, deputy director of TDEC’s Division of Water Resources, made the claim during a meeting with residents of Maury County, Tennessee. Organized by State Rep. Sheila Butt, R-Columbia, the gathering sought to address complaints by residents that area water was making their childr ...
• 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 ...

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

• promotes and advocates precisely this outcome
  …Why should this come as any surprise as “we” in Arizona continue to elect those who foster an educational system which promotes and advocates precisely this outcome … Ranked 42nd, AZ among worst ‘liquid asset poor’ states When we think of the "poor," we usually don’t t ...
• when you and your corporate buddie$ own Americ ...
  …when you and your corporate buddie$ own America’s ju$tice $ystem you  expected a different outcome … Hello… Enron CEO Skilling’s sentence cut to 14 years  (Reuters) – A federal judge slashed 10 years off of his prison sentence of former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey S ...
• latest “spin” on I’m from th ...
    …latest “spin” on I’m from the government … I’m here to help you … trust me…   U.S. Attorney Said Montana Medical Pot Growers Wouldn’t Be Prosecuted — Now They’re Facing Life in Prison Eric Stern, Salon Obama appointee now says pot is a dangerous drug and growing it ...
• America doesn’t require any stinking tra ...
  …transparency America doesn’t require any stinking transparency … we kill first and ask questions later … need verification … see “W” Bush/Cheney…   In Syrian chemical weapons claim, criticism about lack of transparency 06-20-2013  •  Washington Post Despite months of laboratory t ...
• can you spell … POLITICS
  …this is SOP for American Presidents why is it suddenly challenged … can you spell politics…   The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of recess appointments that President Barack Obama made during short breaks in which the Senate claimed not to be in r ...

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

• Beach pollution a mystery
  Scientists are trying to solve the mystery cause of persistent high levels of water pollution at some of Auckland's west coast beaches.The "no swimming" signs went out frequently last summer at placid lagoons which are tempting...
• 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...

The Bovine

• The illusion of nutrient dense foods
  From the Soil to Sustenance blog: ““Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.“ - Hippocrates In my wayward vegetarian days, before finding Weston A. Price and eventually Paleo, I ate my fair share of faux food:  soy ground … 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 →
• 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Immigration Bill Incentivizes Employers To Fir ...
  Obamacare is bad enough in and of itself. An immigration bill in the Senate is about to compound the problem. Brietbart reports Senate Bill Incentivizes Employers To Fire Americans and Hire Amnestied Immigrants. Under the Gang of 8’s backroom immigration deal with Senators Schumer, C ...
• 10-Year Treasury Yield Up 100 Basis Points Sin ...
  Curve Watchers Anonymous note the yield on the 10-year treasury note hit as high as 2.657% today, up a whopping 104 basis points since the early May low in yield of 1.614%. $TNX: 10-Year Treasury Yield The 10-year yield has been falling since the open today, but the overall rise ...
• Bank Transfers and Services Suspended in China ...
  Several readers sent a link to an article regarding online bank outages and suspended services in China. The translation show below is very choppy. If a reader has a better translation or a different source I will post it. Please consider Bank of China, Bank of suspension of transfers morn ...
• Currency Stress Hits India: Rupee Near Record ...
  Numerous foreign exchange issues have simultaneously hit the global economy recently. Latest on the list is India where a Funding Strain Grows as Fed Outlook Hurts Rupee. India faces growing strain to fund the widest current-account deficit in major Asian nations after the rupee slid to a ...
• Day Traders Take Control of Japanese Stock Mar ...
  High-Frequency-Trading (HFT) Algorithmic Programs dominate the equity markets in the US with as much as 80% of the volume in some markets. Day Trading With 300% Leverage It's different in Japan. In what seems like a flashback to dot-com trading in the US in 1999, Abenomics Spurs Day Tr ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Report- Whistleblower: NSA Wiretapped Obam ...
  *This is a preview to our coming Full Video Report(s) this week.  Last week, during exclusive interviews with Boiling Frogs Post and Corbett Report, NSA whistleblower Russell Tice revealed first-time-ever shocking new details of the NSA spying scandal. In addition to detailing how the NSA is col ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 24, ...
  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 ...
• Stasi in the White House
  Obama’s Berlin Speech: The Most Hypocritical of All Time On June 19, 2013, US President Obama, hoping to raise himself above the developing National Security Agency (NSA) spy scandals, sought to associate himself with two iconic speeches made at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Fifty years ago, P ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The World is Rising After three weeks, Turkey is still experiencing massive unrest as the urban uprisings across the country progress, along with the state repression of them. As tear gas canisters used in Istanbul are made in Brazil, the population of Brazil – across the world – is ...
• Corbett Report: Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistl ...
  Sibel Edmonds on Hoover’s FBI & Thick Files on Government Officials, Rubber-Stamp FISA, Edward Snowden, Recent Revelations by Russ Tice James Corbett unplugs me (as always) on the recent revelations by NSA whistleblower Russ Tice, Edward Snowden, Qualifying Federal Judge Candidates,  the Sti ...

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

• Tugs Reach MOL Comfort, Sister Ship Inspection ...
  Three tugs and a patrol boat arrived on scene yesterday near the two floating sections of the MOL Comfort. According to a statement by the shipowner, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), [...]
• Sinking Rupee Hits India’s Worst-Performing Ga ...
  June 25 (Bloomberg) — Petronet LNG Ltd., India’s worst- performing oil and gas stock this year, is considering slowing contracts for importing natural gas as the rupee’s slide to a [...]
• Bollinger Delivers Fourth Ocean-Class Tug for ...
  Bollinger Shipyards delivered the DP 2-classed Ocean Sky today, the fourth Ocean Class tugs for Jacksonville-based Crowley Maritime Corporation. The first two Ocean Class vessels, the Ocean Wave and Ocean Wind, were [...]
• European Cruise Industry Manages Growth In Dif ...
  Europe's cruise lines managed to eke out growth in 2012 despite a difficult economy and lingering memories of the Costa Concordia disaster, luring new customers with bigger ships and even heavy metal concerts.
• United Against Nuclear Iran Launches Vessel Tr ...
  The not-for-profit, non-partisan advocacy group, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), has announced the launch of an around-the-clock Iranian vessel tracking system known as MINERVA.

Press TV

• Iran capable of repairing own copters
  The commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces says the country’s air force has achieved self-sufficiency in repairing helicopters.
• Twin blasts kill 11 in north Iraq
  At least 11 people have been killed and 55 others injured after two bomb blasts rocked the Iraqi city of Tuz Khormato.
• Gunmen kill 6 govt. soldiers in Libya
  At least six Libyan soldiers have been killed after unidentified gunmen attacked a military checkpoint near the coastal Libyan city of Sirte, military sources say.
• 4 Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  Four US-led Polish soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Afghanistan's central-eastern province of Ghazni.
• Gunmen kill 3 Afghan guards in Kabul
  Gunmen have attacked the Afghan presidential palace in central Kabul with multiple bombs and gunfire, killing at least three security guards.

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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

• 'Circumcision controls women's sex common sens ...
  Female genital mutilation was made illegal in Egypt in 2008 but is still very widely practiced. Some estimates suggest over 75% of women, Muslim and Christian, still have had the procedure in some areas of the country Submitted by Marty Powell to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
• Giant Pyramids and Sphinxes Found in The Bermu ...
  Two scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki, working off the coast of Cuba and using a robot submersible, have confirmed that a gigantic city exists at the bottom of the ocean. The site of the ancient city that includes several sphinxes and at Submitted by Evelyn J. to Science & Te ...
• Knobby-Headed Beast Roamed Ancient Desert
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