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Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
    On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
  • Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
    Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
  • Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
    How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • If it’s all kosher, why lie about NSA spying?
     Pay no attention to those men behind the curtain of the NSA security state. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR:  “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper:  “No, sir.”  On March 12, 2013, the Director ...
  • Ding dong, Prop 8 is dead
    “Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.” – William Blake
  • $1 billion vaporizes and Corzine merely sued b ...
    This overblown sentence from Dealbook ignores the real problem. $1 billion was transferred out of MF GLobal in its final days. CEO Corzine failed to prevent it so the feds have sued. Corzine now faces his “biggest fight”? I think not. He’ll send in the lawyers, end up paying a ...
  • Huge solar farms in rural areas maybe not a go ...
    Building ginormous solar farms in remote desert areas and sending the power hundreds of miles to cities maybe isn’t such a good idea after all. The Calico Solar Project in California has been cancelled after the developer cited “changed market conditions.” The ever-plummeting c ...
  • Remembering the Hohokam in a time of severe Ca ...
    The Fresno Bee considers the severe California drought, especially in the Central Valley, and ponders the fate of the Hohokam. Drought is a slow killer. But efficient. Give drought a decade and it can permanently drive humans from a region they may have inhabited for centuries. Ask the Hohokam. ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Obama’s Tyranny Against the Media
    Back in 1987 I graduated from a night school course in digital electronics from the DeVry Institute of Technology which had a campus in Lombard, IL at the time. While attending night school in the two years prior I had a chance to talk with a couple of technicians who worked for AT&T at the ...
  • Snowden voiced contempt for leakers in chat lo ...
      Washington Post When he was working in the intelligence community in 2009, Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who passed top-secret documents to journalists, appears to have had nothing but disdain for those who leaked classified information, the newspapers that print ...
  • WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for t ...
    WIRED On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a ...
  • WAR ON LEAKERS; Ex Four Star General Under Cri ...
    “According to legal sources, Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has received a target letter informing him that he’s under investigation for allegedly leaking information about a massive attack using a computer virus named St ...
  • Tsarnaev indicted for weapon of mass destruction
    A Massachusetts federal grand jury returned a 30-count indictment against Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Thursday, charging the 19-year-old Cambridge man in the deaths of three bombing victims and the separate slaying of a Boston-area campus police officer. The officer was fatally s ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Mobile app install ads are the latest in Faceb ...
    Facebook’s move to simplify advertising has reached mobile. The company announced this week that it has simplified the creation flow for mobile app install ads, allowing advertisers to simply enter a link to the app in...
  • Facebook is cracking down on ads next to offen ...
    Facebook has come under fire recently, with advertisers being pressured to pull out, as ads show up next to offensive content and in  groups and pages with questionable material. The company announced Friday that it will...
  • New Facebook Ads Manager reports completely ch ...
    Yesterday, Facebook announced changes to its Ads Manager reports, citing a desire to simplify its advertising products. Whilst at first glance it certainly seems to do that from the reporting point of view, it goes further...
  • Facebook updates Ads Manager to make it more u ...
    It’s no secret that Facebook is trying to make its advertising more accessible. The company has pared down its ad units and placed a focus on the end goal for advertisers. Now the Ads Manager has been...
  • FBX architect Antonio Garcia-Martinez joins Na ...
    One of the key minds behind Facebook Exchange (FBX) has joined the Nanigans team. Nanigans announced Thursday that former Facebook ad targeting product manager Antonio Garcia-Martinez is now with Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer Nanigans as an...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Crime of Alleviating Poverty -- A Local Co ...
    Former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years in prison after developing a cost-effective way to alleviate poverty in Africa's poorest slums. Their solution: a complementary currency issued and backed by the local community. ...
  • Greenwald: Every Phone Call is Recorded and St ...
    Glenn Greenwald, in a skyped in talk to the Socialism 2013 Conference, told the audience, for the first time, about his experience going through the process of encountering and working with Ed Snowden. told the audience that a bombshell he would soon be releasing was that "NSA can redirect to i ...
  • White House threatens aid cut-off if Palestine ...
    "Gone are the days when those who commit international crimes could be cleansed of their atrocities through a mere hand shake and a scribble of their initials on a piece of paper which purports to bind them to conditions that they have no intention of ever observing."
  • Ten Years of Hell: The Harrowing Tale of Ahmed ...
    Ahmed Abu Ali was born to Palestinian parents in Houston, Texas, in 1981 and was the valedictorian of his high school class in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2000, he received a scholarship to study at the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, so he left the University of Maryland to pursue a ...
  • Why we're headed for a double dip
    As wages stagnate & shrink for most consumers, and interest rates rise, consumer spending will shrink. When interest rates increase, consumer spending declines because it costs the consumer more to borrow, so they step back from buying. Problem is, consumer spending is the backbone of any growth ...

Switchboard

  • Flaring hell for those who live in the oil and ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. NRDC experts have blogged about the very harmful climate impacts of flaring. it is also an enormous waste of energy--when instead our country should be saving energy--and a financial loss to min ...
  • Progress in Bangkok: India Begins Looking Beyo ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Guest Blog by Bhaskar Deol, NRDC India Representative. The Montreal Protocol’s 33rd Open Ended Working Group Meeting concluded this week in Bangkok. HFCs were high on the agenda. This year, again ...
  • Curbing HFC Super Pollutants: Global Benefits ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Last Tuesday, President Obama announced a far-reaching Climate Action Plan to cut U.S. carbon pollution, protect vulnerable communities from climate impacts, and reinvig ...
  • Presidential Leadership: President Obama Annou ...
    Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York This week, President Obama took a big step towards combating climate change and reducing carbon pollution.  In a speech at Georgetown University, the President unveiled his plan ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile's Bachelet say ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. June 23-28, 2013 Chile Former president and current l ...

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

  • Iran on Edge - Talk to Iran’s New President. ...
    The election of Hassan Rowhani as Iran’s new president has created a sense that there are new possibilities of progress on the nuclear issue; we need to respond, but warily. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, allowed Mr. Rowhani to win the election, recognizing that he had run ag ...
  • Russia After Putin - Russia After Putin: Inher ...
    Russia has undergone a series of fundamental changes over the past year, with more changes on the horizon. Russia's economic model based on energy is being tested, the country's social and demographic make-up is shifting, and its political elites are aging. All this has led the Kremlin to begin ...
  • Oil Addiction - House Votes to Expand Offshore ...
    The House voted Friday to require the Obama administration to develop a new five-year plan allowing offshore oil-and-gas leases in coastal waters with the most promise for energy development.Members passed the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act in a 235-186 vote that saw 16 Democrats join Republicans. ...
  • Europe on Edge - The Security Implications of ...
    The European Union's unfolding crisis tends to be seen as purely economic in nature and consequence. The EU is a common market, with a common currency adopted by most of its members and with fiscal problems of one kind or another facing almost all of its capitals. Most analyses of the euro crisi ...
  • Destination Byblos - Byblos, the best Arab Tou ...
    Byblos, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city in Lebanon has been named the Arab world’s best tourist city by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, and it offers a host of lessons in greening too. Called Jbeil or Byblos, this World Heritage site 37km north of Beirut has evo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Did They Check Eric Holder's Closet? US Park P ...
    This is just additional proof that the federal government does not do anything particularly well. According to the Inspector General of the Interior Department The US Park Police (who take care of national parks and national monuments) lost track of hundreds of firearms.  I know fo ...
  • The "Official" Mid-East Peace Narrative is ABSURD!
    "He who tells the truth is driven from nine villages."-- Turkish proverb By Barry Rubin Has it become time that the absurd paradigm governing the Israel-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the “peace process” be abandoned or challenged? After all, this narrative has become in ...
  • BREAKING: Snowden Makes Offer To Return and Fa ...
    Living in the Moscow office must be "getting to" leaker of American secrets Edward Snowden, through his father's attorney he has made an offer to voluntarily return to the US and be tried for espionage. In a letter written by Bruce Fein, a Washington-based lawyer for Snowden's father, Lon ...
  • New Yorker Cover "OUTS" Bert and Ernie as Gay
    Well there it is in all it's glory.  According to the latest cover of the New Yorker, the famous Sesame Street characters are gay partners. For those of you who do not know, I used to be in the "Kids Business." One of my jobs was as the senior media planning person on everything owne ...
  • Immigration Moves On: CALM DOWN The House Will ...
    If you are reading this post it means the world did not end last night and the gang of eight bill did not destroy this constitutional republic while we slept.  John McCain is still in the Senate an still a nasty old man. The NBA Draft didn't see the Knicks waste their first round draft pi ...

Wind Watch

  • Senator Whelan joins protest
    There was “palpable anger and incredulity” amongst the crowd of between 1,000 and 2,000 protesters who travelled to Dublin Castle last Friday June 21 to voice their opposition to the 2,000 gigantic wind turbines planned for the midlands. The marchers, young and old, included community groups fro ...
  • Birdwatchers see rare bird killed by wind turbine
    A travelling group of bird watchers witnessed a rare bird die after flying into a community wind turbine. The White-throated Needletail – the world’s fastest flying bird – was thousand of miles off course after turning up at Tarbert on the Isle of Harris. It was first spotted by two ...
  • High Court rules in favour of wind farm
    The Te Rere Hau wind farm on the Tararua Range is too noisy but a High Court ruling says the problem can be dealt with by a review of resource consent conditions. Justice Williams has upheld New Zealand Windfarms’ appeal against an Environment Court declaration that would have paved the wa ...
  • Leaseholders air energy complaints
    BAD AXE — County Commissioners discussed the frustrations of several wind leaseholders during this week’s meeting. Commissioner Jeremy Tietz said the leaseholders had come to him and asked if there was anything the board could do in the face of disagreement between them and Next Era Energy over ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • NC protester database now disclosing public em ...
    A website publicizing details about people arrested in nonviolent protests at the N.C. legislature expanded this week to include salaries of arrestees who are public workers -- and suffered a setback when local officials said they’d no longer take arrestees' mugshots. Meanwhile, private data-gat ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A Texas-sized fight over repr ...
    The nation turned to Texas this week to watch state Sen. Wendy Davis's 11-hour filibuster against legislation restricting abortion in the state. The bill failed to pass before the special session ended at midnight -- and now Democrats say there will be a probe into Republicans' efforts to alter ...
  • The Voting Rights Act and the future of Southe ...
    The Supreme Court's decision to strike down key sections of the Voting Rights Act paves the way for conservatives to pass a host of voting and election changes. But pushing too hard could backfire in the long run. read more
  • What does the Supreme Court's marriage equalit ...
    Though no Southern states currently recognize same-sex marriage, organizing is underway to change that as public opinion shifts. read more
  • Southern coal plants top list of worst carbon ...
    Bypassing a Congress that's failed to take action to address a worsening problem, President Obama unveiled a plan to curb climate-disrupting pollution from coal-fired power plants -- with big implications for the coal-dependent South. 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.

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Ian Welsh

  • Start from common humanity
    The basic political principle is that we all share our humanity.  Compassion starts from imaging ourselves in other people’s skin, in feeling that pain and indignities to them, are injuries to our common humanity.  An injury, an injustice, to one of us, is an injury and injustice to all of ...
  • On Islam, Religion and Love
    As with many things, I’m no expert on Islam.  Nonetheless, within the limitations of my language skills, I’ve done the reading. One of the things which seems clear from the life of the Prophet, is that he made things better for women and slaves. Zakat is meant to be used, among other ...
  • The comment thread you should read
    Is this one.  It’s one of the reasons why I have no time for Iraq war pushers.  It’s one of the reasons why one of my friends used to say that the person who will wipe a major US city off the face of the planet has probably been born. Read it.  Feel the hatred. [...]
  • 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 ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Fitch affirms U.S. AAA rating but outlook stil ...
    (Reuters) – Fitch Ratings on Friday affirmed the United States’ top level credit rating at AAA but held the outlook at negative, saying still-elevated debt levels leave the country vulnerable to shocks without more deficit reduction.  The affirmation reflects strong economic and cred ...
  • Investors to pay for bank failures – EU
    (RT News) - European Union finance chiefs agreed Thursday investors and wealthy depositors will foot the bill for bank bailouts, in a break with the past convention of burdening taxpayers.  If pursued, bailout strategy, shareholders, bondholders and depositors with more than 100,000 euro will sh ...
  • Raptor’s rare disease drug recommended i ...
    Reuters – European regulators have recommended approval of a drug from Raptor Pharmaceutical to treat a rare genetic disorder that can cause irreversible tissue damage, organ failure and premature death. Friday’s green light for Procysbi from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) follo ...
  • Syria death toll tops 100,000, rebels lose bor ...
    Reuters – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have retaken a town on the Lebanese border as they press an offensive against rebels in a conflict that has now cost more than 100,000 lives, activists said on Wednesday. The army took full control of Tel Kalakh, driving out insurge ...
  • Vatican official arrested on suspicion of corr ...
    CNN – A Vatican official, a financial broker and a former secret service police officer were arrested Friday on suspicion of corruption over an alleged attempt to smuggle a huge sum of cash into Italy, Rome’s prosecutor said. The official, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, works as a financi ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Is Hell Real? Hell Yes!
    Truth must have an anchor – a solid ANVIL upon which all lies will crumble to dust.   That solid anchor is God’s Word – the Holy Bible!  This is self evident by the vigor by which totalitarian, communist regimes over the last century have banned it from the people.   It is simp ...
  • Deborah Tavares Speaks Up
    It was my pleasure and privilege to meet Deborah and her husband Lou at the Conspiracy Conference in San Jose this year.   She sat next to me at the “Meet the Speaker’s Dinner” on Saturday night – and we had a tremendous conversation. She provided me with a copy of the NA ...
  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Program
    by Stephen Lendman Iran complies fully with NPT provisions. Nothing suggests otherwise. It's program is legal and non-military. Washington, other Western nations and Israel know it. They maliciously claim otherwise. Iranian President-Elect Hassan Rohani promises transparency and outreach. He ...
  • ‘Blackula’ Obama, Whistleblowers, ...
    By Larry Pinkney “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” –Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “I think people are dazzled by Obama’s r ...
  • Obama in Africa
    by Stephen Lendman Voice of America reflects raw imperial power. It broadcasts US propaganda globally. On June 26, it said Obama "arrived in Senegal, the first stop of a three-nation African trip, focused on supporting democratic progress, and increasing US trade and investment." It's his s ...
  • Snowden: Shooting the Messenger
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article said challenging US lawlessness more than ever matters. Big Brother spying reflects it. Unprecedented global surveillance is official US policy. Everyone can be monitored all the time, everywhere, for any reason or none at all. National security threats a ...
  • Lynne Stewart Denied Compassionate Release
    by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles discussed her. She's one of America's best. She's a role model for others. She's wrongfully imprisoned. She got 10 years for acting responsibly. She served others honorably, ethically, and heroically. She did so for 30 years. Doing the right th ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • It's getting great: Government investment in ...
    Over the last few years, the Province of Manitoba has invested millions of dollars in renovating and providing resources in two public housing complexes in Winnipeg, Lord Selkirk Park and Gilbert Park. These renovations were significant, and included complete interior and exterior renovations to ...
  • CLC's post on the Senate's response to Bill C-377
     Read the CLC's letter to Senators explaining why Bill C-377 should be quashed.  Arguments include those based in law, the issue of provincial jurisdiction, It includes excerpts from letters from Provincial Ministers and many groups that are not connected to labour, such as the Canadia ...
  • Toby Sanger's detailed summary of Bill C-377
    Rabble.ca has posted Toby Sanger's take on the Bill, with links to background information. Twelve reasons union-busting Bill C-377 is the worst is the best if you want a quick, well-informed response. 
  • The Senate has introduced amendments to Bill C-377
    The Globe and Mail's Conservative-dominated Senate blocks union disclosure bill offers an update on the status of Bill C-377. Senator Hugh Segal's amendments now have to be considered by the House of Commons; this won't happen until September at the earliest. 
  • Premier Wall's employment record lags Calvert ...
    Is the Wall government playing a shell game with provincial employment numbers? The government regularly issues press releases - repeated by the media - claiming record job creation. However, how well does the Wall government stack up against the historical job creation record of other Saska ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • How to Cook Up a Community Solar Energy Project
    What does it take to cook up a community solar project? A dash of crowdfunding, a pinch of grassroots outreach, and a generous helping of persistence. That’s the word from San Francisco nonprofits RE-volv and Everybody Solar.
  • 5 Ways to Engage Low-Income Customers in Energ ...
    Many utilities have a hard enough time improving relations with the general customer base. It can be even more difficult to successfully engage low-income customers, but there are strategies that work.
  • Mixed Reactions to Obama's Climate Change Speech
    President Obama’s speech on Tuesday had its fair share of twists and turns, and arguably presented the most extensive groundwork on carbon emission restrictions in the nation’s history.
  • Energy Choice: WindMade Wants Consumers To 'Sh ...
    For many, being able to choose what product to buy based on a variety of criteria is important. WindMade have latched on to this desire, creating the first global consumer label identifying products and companies made with wind energy.
  • Energy: The Oxygen of Africa's Growth and Deve ...
    Historically people associate the sound of Africa as the roar of the lion; but in reality, it’s been the roar of the diesel generator. Herds of these archaic beasts are on the prowl in cities, towns, factories, mines, businesses and big farms.

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Securing the cloud
    Last week, at the Association for Computing Machinery's 45th Symposium on the Theory of Computing - the premier conference in theoretical computer science - researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, together with colleagues at the University of Toronto and M ...
  • New system uses low-power Wi-Fi signal to trac ...
    Wi-Vi, being presented at the Sigcomm conference in Hong Kong in August, could be used to help search-and-rescue teams to find survivors trapped in rubble after an earthquake, say, or to allow police officers to identify the number and movement of criminals within a building to avoid walking int ...
  • iOS 7 Steals From, Stomps On Competitors
    Animated wallpapers? Android. Universal multitasking? Android again. The multitasking interface? I'm not the only one who thinks that looks like WebOS. Android has auto-updated apps for years. Car integration is one of BlackBerry's last great strongholds. iTunes Radio is like Pandora with sales ...
  • Doctor Performs First Google Glass-Equipped S ...
    Dr. Rafael Grossmann, of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, recently performed his first Google surgery with Google Glass in tow. As far as we can tell, it's also the first such Google Glass-equipped surgery in the device's history - complete with a corresponding Google Glass Hangout (which wasn' ...
  • US and Ecuador discuss Snowden's bid for asylum
    Ecuador has said it is willing to consider Mr Snowden's request but only when he is physically in the Latin American country. Mr Correa said on Saturday that Mr Biden had "passed on a polite request from the United States to reject the request". He said he had told the US vice-president: "Mr v ...

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Politics in the Zeros

  • If it’s all kosher, why lie about NSA spying?
     Pay no attention to those men behind the curtain of the NSA security state. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR:  “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper:  “No, sir.”  On March 12, 2013, the Director ...
  • Ding dong, Prop 8 is dead
    “Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.” – William Blake
  • $1 billion vaporizes and Corzine merely sued b ...
    This overblown sentence from Dealbook ignores the real problem. $1 billion was transferred out of MF GLobal in its final days. CEO Corzine failed to prevent it so the feds have sued. Corzine now faces his “biggest fight”? I think not. He’ll send in the lawyers, end up paying a ...
  • Huge solar farms in rural areas maybe not a go ...
    Building ginormous solar farms in remote desert areas and sending the power hundreds of miles to cities maybe isn’t such a good idea after all. The Calico Solar Project in California has been cancelled after the developer cited “changed market conditions.” The ever-plummeting c ...
  • Remembering the Hohokam in a time of severe Ca ...
    The Fresno Bee considers the severe California drought, especially in the Central Valley, and ponders the fate of the Hohokam. Drought is a slow killer. But efficient. Give drought a decade and it can permanently drive humans from a region they may have inhabited for centuries. Ask the Hohokam. ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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frogblog

  • General debate, June 30, 2013
  • Chemicals remain in our foods
    The Environmental Protection Authority is effectively the Chemical Promotions Authority with its decision yesterday allowing continued use of all organophosphate (OP) and pesticides currently used in New Zealand, although safer alternatives exist. Although some will be phased out between 2 and 1 ...
  • Protecting the environment in our constitution
    The Government-led ‘Constitutional Conversation’ currently underway is a chance for the public to share their views on a new constitutional set-up for Aotearoa New Zealand. We’ve got a submission guide to help you have your say. If there is sufficient public interest in an area, the independent ...
  • How NZ stacks up for students
    The OECD has just released its annual ‘Education at a Glance’ report, which takes a look at the state of education around the world. The theme that emerged in their findings is that the value of education is rising, but investment in education is falling. The specific findings for New Zealand ar ...
  • Women’s Affairs Minister ripping off women
    Today in the Parliament Sue Moroney asked Minister of Women’s Affairs Jo Goodhew whether she had received a briefing on the equal pay case being heard in Court this week. Jo’s response was to paraphrase:  No. Equal pay is not in my brief. According to the Ministry’s website, “The Ministry’s key ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banne ...
    from babble.com: If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they contain ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Recor ...
    Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private?  If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble.  As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions.  And in turn, those government a ...
  • New EU Plan Will Make Every Bank Account In Eu ...
    Did you actually believe that they were not going to use the precedent that they set in Cyprus?  On Thursday, EU finance ministers agreed to a shocking new plan that will make every bank account in Europe vulnerable to Cyprus-style bail-ins.  In other words, the wealth confiscation that we just ...
  • Soaring Mortgage Rates Are Going To Make It Fa ...
    Did you actually think that mortgage rates were going to stay at all-time lows forever?  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was able to grossly distort the market for a while by buying up massive amounts of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities, but there was no way in the world tha ...
  • Silver At Less Than 19 Dollars An Ounce? Are Y ...
    The day that silver traders have been waiting for has arrived.  On Wednesday, the price of silver dropped another 5 percent.  As I write this, it is sitting at $18.55 an ounce.  On Wednesday it hit a low that had not been seen in three years.  Overall, the price of silver has declined by 34 [...]
  • The Trigger Has Been Pulled And The Slaughter ...
    What does it look like when a 30 year bull market ends abruptly?  What happens when bond yields start doing things that they haven't done in 50 years?  If your answer to those questions involves the word "slaughter", you are probably on the right track.  Right now, bonds are being absolutely sla ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • NC protester database now disclosing public em ...
    A website publicizing details about people arrested in nonviolent protests at the N.C. legislature expanded this week to include salaries of arrestees who are public workers -- and suffered a setback when local officials said they’d no longer take arrestees' mugshots. Meanwhile, private data-gat ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A Texas-sized fight over repr ...
    The nation turned to Texas this week to watch state Sen. Wendy Davis's 11-hour filibuster against legislation restricting abortion in the state. The bill failed to pass before the special session ended at midnight -- and now Democrats say there will be a probe into Republicans' efforts to alter ...
  • The Voting Rights Act and the future of Southe ...
    The Supreme Court's decision to strike down key sections of the Voting Rights Act paves the way for conservatives to pass a host of voting and election changes. But pushing too hard could backfire in the long run. read more
  • What does the Supreme Court's marriage equalit ...
    Though no Southern states currently recognize same-sex marriage, organizing is underway to change that as public opinion shifts. read more
  • Southern coal plants top list of worst carbon ...
    Bypassing a Congress that's failed to take action to address a worsening problem, President Obama unveiled a plan to curb climate-disrupting pollution from coal-fired power plants -- with big implications for the coal-dependent South. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • XMir will be Default in Ubuntu 13.10, Fallback ...
    Canonical is moving faster than anybody would have thought. Mir was introduced as a proof of concept display-server earlier this year, which Canonical plans to deploy slowly across their products. Now they claim that Mir is good enough to be deployed in the next major release, Ubuntu 13.10 ie. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Activist Post: A Pox on the CDC’s Vaccination ...
    Sayer Ji Activist Post A new systematic review published in PLoS titled, “Herpes Zoster Risk Reduction through Exposure to Chickenpox Patients: A Systematic Multidiscplinary Review,” confirms that the widespread adoption of chickenpox vaccine over the past 30 years, which has resulte ...
  • Activist Post: A Pox on the CDC’s Vaccination ...
    Sayer Ji Activist Post A new systematic review published in PLoS titled, “Herpes Zoster Risk Reduction through Exposure to Chickenpox Patients: A Systematic Multidiscplinary Review,” confirms that the widespread adoption of chickenpox vaccine over the past 30 years, which has resulte ...
  • Revealed: Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat was st ...
    Carey Gillam Reuters June 28, 2013 Monsanto Co’s unapproved, experimental genetically engineered wheat, which is feared to have potentially contaminated U.S. wheat supplies after it was found growing in an Oregon field this spring, was kept in a U.S. government storage facility until at least la ...
  • Revealed: Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat was st ...
    Carey Gillam Reuters June 28, 2013 Monsanto Co’s unapproved, experimental genetically engineered wheat, which is feared to have potentially contaminated U.S. wheat supplies after it was found growing in an Oregon field this spring, was kept in a U.S. government storage facility until at least la ...
  • Snowden asked to brief Russian parliament on U ...
    by Kryptographic on June 28, 2013 at 3:50pm Press TV June 28, 2013 Russia’s parliament has invited former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden to assist Moscow in investigation whether US Internet firms gave information about Russian citizens to Washington. “We invite Edwa ...

Veterans Today

  • Bill Hicks – Outlaw Comic and Patriot
    You'll be shocked at how clearly Bill Hicks saw the whole political game and how it was played ~ and that was over 20 years ago. With a few minor updates for today, he'd still be ahead of the cutting edge.
  • First Super-Hercules Delivered to IAF
    It was a breezy summer day; global warming was still in the future. The wind caressed the tall building, which didn't bend under that soft pressure.
  • History of the Theft of Palestine and the Jewi ...
    They, the Jews, were the first to use terrorism in recorded history and are responsible for inventing terrorism in modern history in Palestine, the Middle East.
  • NSA spy scandal: It’s even worse than Sn ...
    The illegal NSA spy-on-Americans program apparently “became necessary” several months before 9/11, not after 9/11. Why?
  • The House That Broke The Camel’s Back
    It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.-Matthew 19:24 Even Hebrew speakers—always reluctant to admit their knowledge of Arabic—understand and adopted the idiom the straw that broke the camel’s back. On June 28, 2013, ...

electric politics

  • On Recognizing Geographical Realities
    The question of when a country is not a country may seem, for outsiders, little more than an abstract principle or an academic argument. But for those who dwell in the imaginary state the issue may well be about abject poverty or, indeed, life and death. The Congo being the most extreme example ...
  • 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 ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

  • Georgia Hosts U.S.-NATO Afghan War Commander, ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia June 28, 2013 Georgian Defence Minister met with General Dunford Defence Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania held a meeting with the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), General Joseph F. Dunford and US Dep ...
  • Georgia: U.S. Deputy Commander Meets With Geor ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia June 29, 2013 Meeting with General Shirreff Defence Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania held a meeting with Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff. At the meeting the sides discussed Georgia’s participation in international missions ...
  • Hungary: NATO Chieftain To Visit Global Strate ...
    Hungarian News Agency June 28, 2013 NATO Secretary General to visit Hungary on Monday Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen is scheduled to visit Hungary on Monday at the invitation of Defence Minister Csaba Hende. Rasmussen will pay a visit on the occasion that a heavy airlift unit wa ...
  • H.G. Wells: The abolition of war will be a new ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts H.G. Wells: Selections on war ==== H.G. Wells From The Salvaging of Civilization (1921) What else has to go if war is to go out of human life? and the problem of what has to be done if it is to be banished and barred out […]
  • Sweden Hosts 55-Nation NATO Strategic Military ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Transformation June 26, 2013 NATO Partner Sweden Hosts 2013 Strategic Military Partner Discussions on Alliance Future Written by US Navy Reserve Officer, Commander Steve Zip ==== Currently, there are 41 countries that partner with NATO through a ...

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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

  • Turkey: Police detain protesters as thousands ...
    Hurriyet, ISTANBUL, Saturday,June 29 2013 [Protestors are detained by the plainclothes police officers during an anti-government protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul. REUTERS photo] Thousands of protesters have gathered at the Taksim square June 29 to denounce the government’s response to ...
  • South Africa: Protesters Denounce US Foreign ...
    While the US media focused on Obama meeting the Mandela family, and claiming a link to the iconized figure of Nelson Mandela. police disperse protesters opposed to US drones and foreign policy U.S. President Barack Obama met the family of South Africa’s ailing anti-apartheid hero Nelson Ma ...
  • Brazil Needs a Great Revolution!
    [The statement by the Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People - Brazil (Frente Revolucionária de Defesa dos Direitos do Povo - Brasil), has now been translated into English.  It provides important background on the current rebellion, as well as clarifying the revolutionary program and ...
  • Suicide Letter from Iraq War Veteran Says He W ...
    During my first deployment, I was made to participate in things, the enormity of which is hard to describe. War crimes, crimes against humanity. Though I did not participate willingly, and made what I thought was my best effort to stop these events, there are some things that a person simply can ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Voyager 1 Entered Weird Region In Space Last S ...
    New papers describe an unexpected boundary region at the edge of the influence of the Sun. Voyager 1 entered a strange and unexpected part of space within the solar system last August, scientists announced in three papers published yesterday. A few different effects mark the area, which astrono ...
  • The Week In Numbers: The Most Expensive Experi ...
    233 degrees Fahrenheit: the temperature at which NASA sterilized the Viking landers before before they went to Mars (turns out that was probably unnecessary—if Earth microorganisms could survive on Mars, they're probably already living there…) €13 billion to €16 billion: the cost of the Interna ...
  • Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Fuzzy Leaf ...
    Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We have a winner! So, here are the rules: To answer, follow us on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag #mysteryanimal. For example: Hey ...
  • What Happens When Stars Collide?
    In this case, you get a newly observed kind of pulsating star. It sure would be interesting to watch two stars run into each other — from a safe distance, of course. One can imagine there would be quite the titanic battle going on between their competing gravitational forces, throwing off gas a ...
  • FYI: Does The Komodo Dragon Really Kill With A ...
    Surprising facts about the world's largest lizard. Based on a single observational study from the 1970s, published in 1981 by biologist Walter Auffenberg, we've long assumed that Komodo dragons cause fatal infections in their prey by gifting prey with scary bacteria that lives in the mouths of ...

Veterans Today

  • Bill Hicks – Outlaw Comic and Patriot
    You'll be shocked at how clearly Bill Hicks saw the whole political game and how it was played ~ and that was over 20 years ago. With a few minor updates for today, he'd still be ahead of the cutting edge.
  • First Super-Hercules Delivered to IAF
    It was a breezy summer day; global warming was still in the future. The wind caressed the tall building, which didn't bend under that soft pressure.
  • History of the Theft of Palestine and the Jewi ...
    They, the Jews, were the first to use terrorism in recorded history and are responsible for inventing terrorism in modern history in Palestine, the Middle East.
  • NSA spy scandal: It’s even worse than Sn ...
    The illegal NSA spy-on-Americans program apparently “became necessary” several months before 9/11, not after 9/11. Why?
  • The House That Broke The Camel’s Back
    It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.-Matthew 19:24 Even Hebrew speakers—always reluctant to admit their knowledge of Arabic—understand and adopted the idiom the straw that broke the camel’s back. On June 28, 2013, ...

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • The climate conundrum - why aren't global temp ...
    News that carbon dioxide levels have reached 400 parts per million – a level widely thought by scientists not seen for at least 3 million years – caught the headlines last month. It comes at a time when global temperatures have remained largely flat since the late 1990s, despite climate forecast ...
  • 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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Internat'l Political Economy

  • Snowden Files: Ecuador Cuts US Trade Benefits ...
    It's probably not the wisest thing to do, but at least Ecuador may be accepting the consequences of putting its foot in its mouth. Famously harbouring WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in its London embassy, it appears ready to up the stakes in testing America's (quite frankly idiotic) "Internet Freedom ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Recor ...
    Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private?  If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble.  As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions.  And in turn, those government a ...
  • New EU Plan Will Make Every Bank Account In Eu ...
    Did you actually believe that they were not going to use the precedent that they set in Cyprus?  On Thursday, EU finance ministers agreed to a shocking new plan that will make every bank account in Europe vulnerable to Cyprus-style bail-ins.  In other words, the wealth confiscation that we just ...
  • Soaring Mortgage Rates Are Going To Make It Fa ...
    Did you actually think that mortgage rates were going to stay at all-time lows forever?  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was able to grossly distort the market for a while by buying up massive amounts of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities, but there was no way in the world tha ...
  • Silver At Less Than 19 Dollars An Ounce? Are Y ...
    The day that silver traders have been waiting for has arrived.  On Wednesday, the price of silver dropped another 5 percent.  As I write this, it is sitting at $18.55 an ounce.  On Wednesday it hit a low that had not been seen in three years.  Overall, the price of silver has declined by 34 [...]
  • The Trigger Has Been Pulled And The Slaughter ...
    What does it look like when a 30 year bull market ends abruptly?  What happens when bond yields start doing things that they haven't done in 50 years?  If your answer to those questions involves the word "slaughter", you are probably on the right track.  Right now, bonds are being absolutely sla ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Julia Gillard’s legacy lives on in historic Ro ...
    Many victims of child sexual abuse are mourning Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s overnight defeat at the hands of the smirking, conniving, grey haired boys club. I suspect she knew all along her time at the top would be short and that she had a limited opportunity to achieve real change before she ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • UN climate change body applauds US climate cha ...
    President Barack Obama's climate action plan can be a critical move forward on the path towards a new, global climate agreement, the head of the United Nations climate change body said in reaction to today's announced strategy by the United States leader.
  • 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.

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

  • The Oregon and California Act Revisited: Peril ...
    by Paul F. Torrence A monster is rising from western Oregon, one that makes Frankenstein’s creation look like a pussycat. It is poised to further erode the biological integrity of at least 2.1 million acres of public lands in western Oregon. But beware! This ecocidal dark vision may well be the ...
  • 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 ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • U.S. Court Decisions Confirm... "Driving a Mot ...
    For many years Professionals within the criminal justice System have acted upon the belief that traveling by motor vehicle upon the roadway was a privilege that was gained by a citizen only after approval by their respective state government in the form of the issuance of a permit or ...
  • Retired FBI Agent Ted Gunderson Told Patriot G ...
    Before his death in 2011, former FBI agent Ted Gunderson spilled the beans on what the Obama administration is planning. Was he a conspiracy nut, or did he tell the truth? You decide... read more
  • Pharmaceutical Companies Are Running A Massive ...
    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 it?&nb ...
  • China's Ghost Towns...The Chinese Version of A ...
    As most aware people already know, England often provides us with a forward-looking view of where our police state surveillance grid will be in three or four years. The US has a matter canary in the mine from which to predict its future and it has to do with how China are implementing Agend ...
  • 21 Facts About NSA Snooping
    There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing. Are they reading our emails? Are they listening to our telephone calls? Do they target American citizens or is it only foreigners that they are targeting? ~ Michael Snyder read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Heat Stroke And Avoidance
    Heat stress is the buildup in the body of heat generated by, -your muscles during work, and/or, -heat coming from a hot environment. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke will result when the body is subjected to more heat than it can cope with…   When the body becomes overheated, less bloo ...
  • Why Do We Need “Washington DC” ?
    Why is it that “our” politicians (“representatives”) spend so much time in Washington D.C., and in today’s modern world – is it necessary at all? Could our system change for the better if our representatives stayed in their home states instead? At least for mo ...
  • Homemade Remedy For Dehydration
    Becoming severely dehydrated can become life threatening. The most common cause of dehydration is diarrhea, which can be a result of food poisoning, drinking contaminated water, or other sickness or contamination. Those of us who have experienced any of these ailments know full well the extraord ...
  • JFK Secret Society Warning
    John F Kennedy’s Secret Society Speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association where he warns the press about the secret societies that are the real power in global affairs, was not only relevant in the day, but is more relevant now than ever.   Although JFK’s speec ...
  • 3 Common Edible Plants
    One of the most common edible plants, the dandelion, can be eaten in its entirety. There are many edible plants, many of them common, all you need to know is what they are and how to identify them. These three edible plants are easily identifiable as they are common…   Dandelions Sure ...

Fast Company

  • Modular Tiles That Form Beautiful Kaleidoscopi ...
    Valencia, Spain-based Mut Designs take on their latest exploration into geometric forms with a series of cement tiles. A quick scroll through the works of Mut reveals a propensity for geometric shapes. The quartet of creatives behind the Valencia, Spain-based design studio have tried out t ...
  • How Dan Wieden Is Trying To Create A Diverse W ...
    One of the founders of Wieden and Kennedy noticed that the faces in his office looked remarkably similar. He’s set out to fix that. Editor’s NoteThis is the latest entry in Catchafire's Generosity Series, a multi-month celebration and investigation of bold generosity with the ...
  • Dear Sean Parker: Alright, You Nailed Us
    When I started in journalism seven years ago, I hated telling people I was a technology journalist--they thought I reviewed products. As modern storytellers and modern readers, we have amnesia about the core of our art form: Telling stories about people. And your epic rant about your wedding ...
  • Dear Sean Parker: Alright, You Nailed Us
    Dear Sean, You've misdiagnosed the problem in your screed about journalism. What happened to you isn't a result of the downfall of "media" or "news" or "journalism." The problem is that our sense of storytelling has become totally warped by old media: 20 years of bullshit blockbusters made of pa ...
  • Maybe Don’t Try This Virginity Lifehack
    Comedy-music duo Garfunkel and Oates celebrate that workaround for anyone struggling to maintain their virgin status for religious reasons. Where there’s a will, there’s a way--and for most religious folks "saving themselves" for marriage, there’s just a colossal, gut-wre ...

Jadaliyya

  • What Happens on 30 June? The Silver Lining
    Numerous questions surround 30 June protests, most of which revolve around whether or not President Mohamed Morsi will be pushed out. The subtleties surrounding such questions are more important to note. What will the Muslim Brotherhood do? What will people do? Will the protests turn violent? Ho ...
  • When Civic Action Confronts Militia Politics i ...
    [The following is the combination of an eye-witness account by Jadaliyya affiliate and interviews s/he conducted with affected persons of the thuggish and violent behavior of a Lebanese MP convoy, the complicity of various Lebanese state institutions, and the resilience of everday citizens and a ...
  • توني موريسون: وطن
    [مقطع من رواية “وطن” لتوني موريسون (نيويورك، كنوبف، ٢٠١٢) التي ستصدر بالعربية قريباً.] التنفس. كيف يقوم به بحيث لا يعرف أحد بأنه مستيقظ. يفبرك شخيراً عميقاً منتظماً ويترك الشفة السفلى تتدلى. والأهم هو أنّ الجفنين يجب ألا يتحركا ولا بد من وجود نبض منتظم ويدين رخوتين. في الثانية صباحاً، عندما ...
  • Between Inaction and Complicity: The Shi‘a and ...
    Some have commented on the incident of sectarian violence in the village of Zawiyat Abu Musallam in the Giza district on 23 June 2013 as the product of a "simple" people and a "crowd" mentality. The figure of the "simple" like that of the "poor" have becom ...
  • !بحثّاً عن حلف تاريخي جديد
    ما هو الخطر الأكبر على الثورة؟ يخطئ من يظن أنه السلطة، أو حتى الثورة المضادة أيًا ما كانت درجة شراستها. الخطر الأكبر على الثورة هو قيادة غير ثورية تلجم، تنحرف يمينًا، وتخون. أناقش في هذا المقال مسألة الطابع الطبقي لـ30 يونيو، أو بمعنى أدق التناقض الطبقي بين قيادتها والقوى الاجتماعية المُنتظ ...

mediagazer

  • Acts of Journalism and the Espionage Act (Josh ...
    Josh Stearns / Boing Boing: Acts of Journalism and the Espionage Act  —  Earlier this month, federal prosecutors filed a formal criminal complaint against Edward Snowden charging him with three felonies for leaking information about the National Security Agency's surveillance pr ...
  • Who's a Journalist? A Question With Many Face ...
    Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal: Who's a Journalist?  A Question With Many Facets and One Sure Answer  —  Behind almost every correction in The Times, there is a story.  In the case of the correction about Alexa O'Brien, the story is a particularly inte ...
  • One newspaper cuts to survive; another invests ...
    Rem Rieder / USA Today: One newspaper cuts to survive; another invests to thrive … Talk about a study in contrasts.  —  One was a vision of an industry in rapid decline, one that needed to scale back dramatically on its beleaguered core product and reinvent itself to prev ...
  • First Round Capital wants to be Harvard Busine ...
    Eliza Kern / GigaOM: First Round Capital wants to be Harvard Business Review for startup founders  —  First Round Capital is announcing Friday that it's going to be taking the insights learned from its portfolio companies and launching a series of blog posts that give tactical a ...
  • Profit at L.A. Times owner Tribune Co. plummet ...
    Walter Hamilton / Los Angeles Times: Profit at L.A. Times owner Tribune Co. plummets 41%  —  Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times, KTLA-TV and other media properties, reported declines in first-quarter income and revenue.  Above, the front entrance of Tribune Tower i ...

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

  • The Politics of Fashion
    Dressing appropriately can be a minefield, whether it be for business or leisure, and in particular for politicians. Having made the journey from MP to being a CEO in the fashion industry, I know that I prefer the choice and freedom that comes with my new life in business. Pity the politicia ...
  • Business Highlights
    ___ Tiny Allegiant Air thrives on low costs, high fees LAS VEGAS (AP) — There are no sure things in this city — with one exception: Allegiant Air. While other U.S. airlines have struggled over the past decade from the ups and downs of the economy and the price of jet fuel, Allegiant has been ...
  • Brazil protests have not harmed Fifa - Se ...
    Fifa president Sepp Blatter believes the governing body's reputation has been enhanced by the Confederations Cup, despite the demonstrations that have swept across Brazil. Speaking for the first time since the protests began, Blatter said he had sympathy with people who took to the stre ...
  • Colombia coca crops 'drop by 25% to histo ...
    Colombia, one of the world's largest producers of cocaine, has seen the proportion of land planted with coca drop to a "historic low", sources in the Colombian security forces say. Counter-narcotics experts say that soon-to-be-published United Nations figures will suggest that ...
  • Gay marriages resume in California as app ...
    As the rather exciting cap to a monumental week in equal rights, a federal appeals court allowed the state of California to immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to...

no frakking consensus

  • Rare Bird Slaughtered by Wind Turbine
    The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds sacrifices today's birds in the name of fighting tomorrow's climate change. Not only does it provide cover for the wind industry, it cashes its cheques.
  • Canada – Green Pariah or World’s B ...
    Activists & journalists insist that Canada's climate policies have destroyed our international good name. But survey results released yesterday indicate - for the 3rd consecutive year - that we have "the world's best reputation."
  • Dumb Energy vs Smart Energy
    Supplying electricity to a typical family for 12 hours requires the pedal power of 80 elite cyclists. The same amount of electricity can be purchased from the grid for under $5.
  • Obama Dresses CO2 in a Big Bad Wolf Costume
    Why would a president who says he's protecting our children use such odious language?
  • The Sierra Club’s Violent, Totalitarian ...
    Truth squads. Pushing "bitter pills" down other people's throat. Democracy's new enemies are green.

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

  • 6/28/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Felo ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Felon Voting - Our updated timeline on the history of felon voting and disenfranchisement from 1100 BC to present includes the May 23, 2013 announcement by the Governor of Virginia that voting rights will be automatically restored to nonvi ...
  • 6/27/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Alt ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Alternative Energy and Fossil Fuels - Our updated timeline featuring the history of alternative energy and fossil fuel development from 2000 BC to present includes the latest details from President Obama's June 25, 2013 climate actio ...
  • 6/26/13 - Two Gay Marriage Cases Decided by Su ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Two Gay Marriage Cases Decided by Supreme Court
  • 6/26/13 - US Supreme Court says Proposition 8 ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – US Supreme Court says Proposition 8 defenders lack "standing," clears way for legal gay marriage in California – Although the 5-4 decision did not address the constitutionality of the same-sex marriage ban, it leaves in place a lower court ruling that overturned Proposit ...
  • 6/26/13 - Gay marriage ruling strikes down key ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Gay marriage ruling strikes down key part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – The 5-4 US Supreme Court decision found that the 1996 law that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman is unconstitutional, and will allow gay couples to receive the same fe ...

Truth About Our World

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environment 360

  • Global Biodiversity Maps Show Species Health D ...
    U.S. researchers have published a series of data-rich maps that identify the world’s conservation priority View gallery Saving Species/GlobaïaDensity of biodiversity, South America hotspots with a level of detail they say is 100 times finer than previous assessments. Using the latest data on mor ...
  • New Bird Species Identified in Crowded Outskir ...
    A team of scientists in Cambodia has identified a new species of lowland tailorbird recently captured in the densely populated outskirts of Phnom Penh. Originally J.A. Eaton/WCSAn adult male Cambodia tailorbird caught and photographed in 2009 during a routine sampling for avian influenza, the sm ...
  • Marines Push to Front Lines in Renewable Energ ...
    A backpack that generates electricity? A vest that cools you in a hot tent? As the U.S. military looks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, the Marine Corps is leading the way with cutting-edge technology and innovative devices. BY JUSTIN GERDES
  • Lead Exposure Costs Developing Nations $1 Tril ...
    The exposure of children to toxic lead, and the subsequent declines in IQ and earning potential, costs the developing world nearly $1 trillion annually, according to a new report. Based on the average lead levels in children under the age of 5, researchers from New York University found that Afr ...
  • Obama Unveils a Sweeping U.S. Plan to Tackle C ...
    President Obama today unveiled 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 climate ch ...

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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 ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Fish, Frogs, and People to Benefit from Bigges ...
    “Over the next 28 months, the beautiful Carmel River will be set free to flow more naturally for 70 percent of its length as the 106-foot (32.3 meter) San Clemente Dam is dismantled. Downstream of the dam, threatened fish and frogs will get a new lease on life as critical habitats open up. ...
  • Egypt Sees a Dam Confrontation
    “Ethiopia began diverting the course of the Blue Nile, the primary source of Egypt’s Nile water, on May 28 in another step towards construction of its massive 4.2-billion dollar hydroelectric Grand Renaissance Dam project. When complete, the dam will be capable of producing 6,000 megawatts ...
  • Bengawan Solo in need of restoration
    “An immediate restoration of Bengawan Solo river basin in Central Java is urgently required as the river is in a critical condition, an environmentalist says. Bengawan Solo is one of five highly polluted river basins in Indonesia along with Brantas in East Java, Ciliwung in Jakarta, Citaru ...
  • Methane found in drinking water near natural g ...
    “Elevated levels of methane, ethane and propane gases were found in drinking water wells in Pennsylvania, close to operations that shake natural gas loose from underground shale formations in a process known as fracking, scientists report. Detection of contaminated drinking water suggests ...
  • U.S. EPA funding for safe drinking water in Ca ...
    “California’s Department of Public Health issued a plan Monday to improve the distribution of federal money for safe drinking water projects following a threat from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this spring to cut off further funding unless the money was spent more effecti ...

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

  • This had been SOP for decades
    …This had been SOP for decades … but thanks for finally making it just a bit for transparent … so you trust the research data reported…?   Universities Selling Out Important Research to Corporate Overseers By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express UC Regents recently approved a new corporate e ...
  • The challenge is objectively discerning what i ...
    The challenge is objectively discerning what is true…?   Truth Is Treason in the Empire of Lies 06-28-2013  •  Lew Rockwell blog Michael, governments have long had similar repressive legislation to those laws which you discussed on the statute books for many decades since the endi ...
  • So where do you go to get the truth, the whole ...
    …So where do you go to get the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…?   …Exposing the Dark Forces Behind the Snowden Smears   …   Who is planting anti-Snowden attacks with Buzzfeed, and why is the website playing along…? Read complete article here … Jun ...
  • Past time to recall
    …Past time to recall … First they came for the socialists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out beca ...
  • Not true
    …Not true … corporate contractors will make out like bandit$ & we will pick up the tab … again…   No Winners When It Comes to Border Security By Alana de Hinojosa , AlterNet The militarization of the border has become not simply a means to an end, but the end itself. READ MORE»   [ ...

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

  • Zombie film staggeringly astute
    Could a dire new infection sweep the world in a matter of weeks? Might the disease be so strange it alters the behaviour of people beyond recognition, making them predatory and fearless? World War Z , the latest Brad Pitt action...
  • Why shoulders are one of the most important ev ...
    The shoulder may have been one of human's greatest evolutionary successes, allowing us to kill prey by hurling spears or rocks, a study shows.Focusing on a relatively underappreciated part of the anatomy, scientists said the shoulder...
  • 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...

The Bovine

  • New study shows stomach problems and more, in ...
    From Fritz Kreiss, on Occupy Monsanto: “A new study by scientist Judy Carman, PhD. that was just published in the peer reviewed journal Organic Systems on the effects of a (now normal) diet of mixed GMO feeds for pigs causes some disturbing health problems, … Continue reading →
  • Treating raw milk farmers like whistle blowers ...
    The prosecutorial crackdown on raw milk in both Canada and the United States doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s part of a larger political context. For example, it’s sometime jarring to see echoes of raw milk trials in reports of … Continue reading →
  • Video of Dr. Thierry Vrain in Surrey; India&# ...
    Edited and Compiled  by Raoul Bedi, BASc (www.biofield.ca ). This is a sampling of some important articles and campaigns in the world of anti-GMO activism during the month of June 2013.  1. Dr. Thierry Vrain in Surrey, BC  - A Critique of GE Agriculture … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Bill Gross Discusses the "Tipping Point" For B ...
    Bill Gross did not see this major selloff in bonds coming. He discusses the setup in his recent Investment Outlook called The Tipping Point. Much of the article is about how he almost tipped a ship while in the Navy. He uses the tipped ship metaphor to talk about the position in bonds. ...
  • FHA Swamped By Defaults; Congressional Report ...
    An alleged "worst case scenario" shows the FHA could lose as much as $115 Billion. Since these worst case scenarios are always famously optimistic, the best course of action would be to shut the agency down. I was quoted as saying just that by the Heartland in Congressional Report Raises Sp ...
  • Calmer Waters for the Bond Market? Gold? Worst ...
    Curve Watchers Anonymous has its eyes on the bond market as the quarter comes to a close today. It's been a very bad stretch for US treasuries as the chart below shows. Yield Curve as of 2013-06-28 click on chart for sharper image $TYX: 30-Year Long Bond Yield - Green $ ...
  • Unpaid Interns Get Scrutiny; Reader Mailbag on ...
    Reader Mailbag Reader "CM" writes .... Hello Mish Just two weeks ago, our human resources department blocked us from taking on an unpaid summer intern. The college student did not have any professional experience, but was trying to do something productive with his summer. My coll ...
  • Michael Pettis on the China Liquidity Crunch; ...
    Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets commented on the liquidity crunch and spike in SHIBOR a few days ago via email. His comments came in before China intervened to quite the markets as noted in China Acts to Calm Markets; Stock Market Rebounds From 6% Plunge After Central Bank Pledge ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    “Loreena McKennitt – “All Souls Night” We have a request from a BFPer for this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music pick. The request comes from Pick and it’s Loreena McKennitt performing All Souls Night. McKennitt is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and piani ...
  • Washington Is Driving the World to the Final War
    “Whether the desire for liberty exists in America remains to be seen.” “V For Vendetta,” a film that portrays evil in a futuristic England as a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends with the defeat of evil. But this is a movie in which the hero has super powers. If you [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 28, ...
    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 ...
  • Global Power Project- Part 3: The Influence of ...
    “Dynastic power was and remains largely wielded in the corporate and financial sectors.” Dynastic power, embedded in the institution of “family,” has been with humanity for as long as empire: ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the European empires and beyond. With the rise of capitalism, financ ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • 10 Months Later, M/V Ocean Breeze Finally Remo ...
    In August of last year, the bulk carrier M/V Ocean Breeze found itself being absolutely pummeled by huge surf on a Chilean beach approximately 1.5 miles south of the Port [...]
  • Ardmore Shipping Files for IPO on NYSE
    June 28 (Reuters) – Shipping company Ardmore Shipping Corp filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $160 million in an initial public offering of common stock. Ardmore, which transports [...]
  • Will New Container Technology Cut Handling Costs?
    By Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar The development of a new type of 20ft container technology has taken a step further with the completion of a trial shipment of the [...]
  • U.S. House Backs Bill To Expand Offshore Oil a ...
    The measure would require the Obama administration to conduct additional sales of oil and gas leases off the coasts of Virginia, South Carolina, southern California and Alaska over the next five years.
  • $745 Million to ‘Inactivate’ USS Enterprise
    Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced this week that the company has been awarded a contract for the inactivation of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65)... for $745 million.

Press TV

  • Israel deploys Iron Dome system in north
    Israel has deployed Iron Dome missile interceptor batteries in the north, citing the alleged tension on its northern borders.
  • UK govt., army disagree on Afghanistan
    The UK government has ruled out any involvement in providing extensive logistical advice to Afghanistan until 2020 as proposed by NATO military commanders on the ground.
  • Lebanon's Berri denies secterianism
    The Lebanese parliament speaker has dismissed accusations that link holding parliament sessions to the issues between the Sunni and Shia Muslim communities in the country.
  • Iran calls for dialog to end Syria crisis
    Tehran has reiterated the need for a diplomatic solution to the Syria conflict, saying dialog is the only way out of the crisis in the Arab country.
  • UK PM visits Afghanistan unannounced
    British Prime Minister David Cameron has made an unannounced visit to troops stationed in the Afghan province of Helmand, telling troops that the campaign in nearing the end.

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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

  • Can magnets help stroke patients?
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  • Can imagination affect what you see?
    Transcript to follow....
  • Keeping an eye on diabetes
    Diabetics could one day be able to monitor their blood sugar levels using bionic contact lenses, instead of having to resort to painful finger pricks. Researchers have developed a fuel cell that runs ...
  • Coating firmly anchors bone implants
    A new coating technique that makes bone bond tightly to an artificial joint has been developed by scientists in the US. Millions of joint replacements are performed each year, but in under a decade...
  • Maths maketh mortgage success
    Did homeowners with a poor command of maths cause the global financial crisis, US researchers are wondering? Kindled in the US subprime mortgage market, the ensuing economic shockwaves ricocheted ar...

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Care2 - Environment

  • The Ripple Effect: The Heartbeat to Eternity
    Drop a pebble in a still pond and watch the ripple travel out in an ever expanding ring The Ripple Effect is rooted in the belief that all we are all connected by our shared Humanity. Submitted by Lynn Squance to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • Paws in Prison Helps Inmates and Their Dogs
    This saved the dogs from death Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PLEASE HELP: Rescue animals from the Bangkok z ...
    These animals need to be rescued:they are caged and are forced to perform in Bangkok.There is also a gorilla grasping the cage as he looks sadly at onlookers.None of the animals have access to sunlight or fresh air.Please sign! Submitted by Jeanie S. to Animals  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • Philadelphia Designer Cuts Fresh Turf with Boo ...
    EAT UP: The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture, the newly released book on rooftop agriculture by Lauren Mandel, has people figuratively and literally looking up at the notion of rooftop farming. Mandels instructional and inspirational text is Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  | ...
  • Researchers find human activities threaten Sum ...
    Sumatran tigers are threatened with extinction; it is estimated that fewer than 400 currently survive in the wild. Credit: naturepl.com/Edwin Giesbers/WWF-Canon Submitted by Cher C. to
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