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Scoop - NZ

  • Legacy of the 1965 Indonesian Massacre
    ...armies almost never boast about mass murder (see the mendacious handling of the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese military and the near-genocide of Armenians by the Turkish army). International scandal was to be avoided as much as possible. National armies are not supposed to slaughter their fe ...
  • Escobar: Pipelineistan and the New Silk Roads
    Si chou zhi lu ("Silk Road" in Mandarin). What's in a name? Trouble. A lot of trouble. At least if you ask the Pentagon, which places most of these roads - from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia and even the South China Sea - smack in the middle of its famous "arc of instability". In parallel, in ...
  • Is the timing right for an Australian republic ?
    Malcolm Turnbull, who for years after the 1999 referendum defeat was reluctant to talk about a republic, has now set out a detailed blueprint for achieving the goal, including suggesting an online plebiscite for the model. In an unusual joint appearance, Turnbull and treasurer Wayne Swan are ...
  • NT: Yunupingu Dies. Treaty Now ..
    The death of the educator and former singer of Yothu Yindi has taken not just an innovator, community man and a worldwide pop star, but what indigenous country singer Troy Cassar Daley called "a true bridge builder" and Prime Minister Julia Gillard described as ''a great Australian voice in the ...
  • Brit PM caught in No 10 sex scandal
    Speculation is rife about an illicit affair in the halls of 10 Downing St, which it's feared could bring down the British Prime Minister. According to British media, Cameron has held crisis talks after a story on the mysterious liaison ran in The Mail on Sunday. Those involved in the affa ...

Independent - London

  • President Obama tries to calm fears over gover ...
    Barack Obama has defended the US government’s previously undisclosed eavesdropping operations put in place in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and dismissed reporting of them as “hype”.Related StoriesPlagiarist Jonah Lehrer finds words (his own) to tell storyDirty secrets of Hollywood ...
  • Special Report: The tortured activist whose fa ...
    Bulut Yayla, a Turkish archaeology student and left-wing activist, says he travelled to Greece in April this year to escape imprisonment and torture he endured under the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Related StoriesFrance to ban violent neo-Nazi groups as eight clai ...
  • UN calls for £3.2bn for Syria in biggest ever ...
    The United Nations has launched an appeal for £3.2bn – the largest in its history – for “urgent humanitarian aid” within Syria and for its neighbouring states, where refugees from the escalating civil war have fled. Related StoriesIsrael bolsters defences at Syrian border after regime forces ta ...
  • Quiet please: China falls silent for universit ...
    More than nine million students packed examination centres all over the country for China’s annual university entrance exams. Attempts to stop cheating were so stringent that even metal bra clasps were banned.Related StoriesBurma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi underlines desire to become ...
  • Putin’s marriage is finished, but the rumours ...
    At around 8pm on Thursday, the Russian news wires flashed up an announcement that Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila had gone to the theatre to see the ballet La Esmeralda.Related StoriesFrance to ban violent neo-Nazi groups as eight claim self-defence over 'anti-fascist' student Clément Méri ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Northampton 'explosions' treated as unexplained
    Three "explosions" heard in the early hours of the morning in Northampton are being treated as unexplained. Northamptonshire Fire Service investigated the separate reports in St Mary's Street, Castle Street and Silver Street but "didn't find anything". Andy Gineikis, who lives nearby, said he ...
  • Human-like dexterity: Bear caught opening truc ...
    Smarter than average bear opens vehicle doors and gets inside A Maple Ridge, B.C., resident caught an unusual sight on video this week - a bear standing on its hind legs breaking into a pickup truck. Rebecca Moore, who took the video and posted it to YouTube on Tuesday, says she and her hus ...
  • U.S. House of Representatives votes to (Preten ...
    The House late Wednesday voted to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from entering into new contracts to buy millions of rounds of ammunition until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports to Congress on the need for the ammo, and its cost. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) propos ...
  • Hysterization anyone? Guns and grade-school panic
    The specter of school shootings has brought a too-typical staple to local newspaper sections: the boys disciplined at (or suspended from) grade school for bringing a toy gun or anything resembling a gun. The Washington Post just found the latest wild overreaction, from Calvert County, Md., a bl ...
  • Multiple victims as gunman opens fire near San ...
    At least three people have been wounded in a shooting in the Santa Monica College area, California. The school is on lockdown and students are advised to stay away from the campus. A "fully armed" suspect has opened fire at cars and a bus in the area, local police said. Witnesses reported heari ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Don't buy from fascists . . .
    NOW YOU CAN AVOID buying stuff from companies controlled by fascists like Nestlé or the Koch brothers. Once you’ve scanned an item, Buycott will show you its corporate family tree on your phone screen. Scan a box of Splenda sweetener, for instance, and you’ll see its parent, McNeil Nutri ...
  • For the next G20 protest . . .
    HARD TIMES IN TURKEY. People are fed up with encroaching fundamentalism of the current government, as civil rights are being whittled away. So, a protest against the demolition of a park has become much, much more. Tarihinde Yayımlandı has a blog post you should read, "What is Happenn ...
  • Nestlé, again . . .
    THESE MAMZERS JUST DON'T QUIT: according to Sum Of Us, Nestlé is pulling a million litres of water a day for bottling — out of an acquifer in Ontario where there are surrounding drought conditions. Nestlé can take the water, but you, who live there — can't. Ironically, the head Pirate o ...
  • do NOT mess with our national animal
    Many countries have a national mascot - the U.S. has its bald eagle, the British have their bulldog, the Russians have their bear. Fierce creatures all, but none of them compare with the Canadian beaver. Oh sure, they look cuddly and were once prized as the raw material for stylish hats, but d ...
  • Stevie's Tar Baby . . .
    THE BEAVER LAKE CREE JUDGMENT: The Most Important Tar Sands Case You’ve Never Heard Of. That's what Carol Linnitt at DESMOG CANADA contends. Do click on the link for more. Sure they’re bad for the environment, for human health, and for wildlife, but we rarely stop to wonder if the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Rehashes Myth That Unemployment And Disabi ...
    Fox & Friends used the May jobs report to indict unemployment and disability benefits, claiming that they encourage poor job search behavior that keeps the labor force participation rate low. In fact, unemployment and disability benefits do not pull people out of the workforce, and low ...
  • Right-Wing Media Call Susan Rice's Elevation T ...
    After President Obama named former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his new national security advisor, right-wing media figures called the appointment a "slap in the face," a "middle finger," and an "eff you" to Americans.President Obama Selects Susan Rice As New National Security Advisor Obama Na ...
  • Fox Host Andrea Tantaros' War On Women
    Fox News host Andrea Tantaros claimed that Susan Rice was appointed National Security Advisor only because she is a woman and could be used as a "human shield" by President Obama, continuing her pattern of launching sexist attacks against progressive and other women with whom she disagrees.Tanta ...
  • Fox News Spent 4 Hours Covering IRS Hearing, 1 ...
    Fox News spent nearly four hours on June 4 covering that day's House committee hearing on the IRS' inappropriate focus on conservative groups, largely ignoring the simultaneous Senate committee hearing into the epidemic of sexual assaults in the military.Congress Holds June 4 Hearings On Sexual ...
  • REPORT: Cable And Network News Silent On Gener ...
    Cable and network news outlets barely covered the announcement that General Motors will return to the Standard & Poor's 500, a landmark achievement for the company that was booted from the index after filing for bankruptcy four years ago.GM Set To Return To S&P 500, Four Years After Bein ...

Global Research.ca

  • Week in Review: Bilderberg Secrecy and the Sur ...
    America’s Economic War on the People of Iran: Obama Signs Executive Order Targeting Iran’s Currency and Auto Industry Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 07, 2013 America’s “Secret Fukushima”: Uranium Mining is Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World, Margaret Flowers and …
  • “Democracia cubana” versus “democracia estadou ...
    Primera parte de una entrevista con Arnold August, autor del libro “Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion” (Cuba y sus vecinos: Democracia en movimiento). Arnold August es analista político, escritor, periodista y conferencista, residente en Montreal, Canadá (Quebec). Es…
  • “Kubanische Demokratie” versus &#8 ...
    Teil I eines Interviews mit Arnold August, dem Autor von “Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion” [Kuba und seine Nachbarn - Demokratie in Bewegung] Arnold August ist ein Autor der politischen Wissenschaften, Journalist und Dozent in Montreal, Kanada (Quebec).…
  • America’s Economic War on the People of ...
    The Nobel Peace Prize President recently signed another executive order targeting Iran’s currency, the ‘rial’ due to its nuclear program.  It is intended to make the Iranian people angry at the government for high food prices and an economy that…
  • VIDEO: Los quebequeses apoyan jornada para lib ...
    En EE. UU. se está desarrollando el evento más importante en favor de la liberación de los cinco antiterroristas cubanos. Los quebequeses se unen a este llamado internacional por la defensa de los derechos humanos. http://www.hispantv.com http://www.facebook.com/Hispantv http://plus.google.com/+ ...

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Pro-Fracking Greens Called Out in Ecologist Sa ...
    In a statement, ecologist Sandra Steingraber denounced Illinois’ new fracking regulations and described the need for a movement dedicated to abolishing fracking nationwide. A new salvo has been fired in the national battle against fracking.Within hours of the Illinois General Assembly ...
  • Beyond Protest: First Nations Community Seeks ...
    If the destruction isn't stopped in Alberta, we will be locked into a never-ending series of pipeline and refinery fights across the continent. A couple years ago I was asked by theKeepers of the Athabasca to be the Master of Ceremonies for a very different kind of event. It took place i ...
  • Native American Communities From New York Laun ...
    Since New York was dubbed the "Empire State," Native American territory has been ransacked by ecological exploitation. Five years ago, Hickory Edwards was called to the water. A citizen of the Onondaga Nation, whose territory just south of Syracuse is the heart of the Haudenosaunee C ...
  • U.S. Groundwater Consumption Accelerating
    The depletion of aquifers has many negative consequences, including land subsidence, reduced well yields, and diminished spring and stream flows. RESTON, Virginia, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Aquifers across the United States are being drawn down at an increasing pace, finds a new study releas ...
  • Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Al ...
    A leading international voice on arctic conservation addresses President Obama’s strategy for tapping America’s northern frontier. I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review “In the Beautiful,Threatened North” by Ian Frazier in  ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: A harbinger ...
    Earlier today, Southern California Edison (SCE) announced that they will retire Units 2 and 3 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), essentially closing the troubled nuclear power plant which is located between San Diego and Los Angeles. SONGS, which has been in operation for 45 y ...
  • Hotter Summers, More Intense Storms and More H ...
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns climate change means we should continue to expect hotter summers and more intense storms that could knock power out for days — and kill people. According to an article by NBC news, data on heat-related deaths suggest that public health o ...
  • Texas Senate “Public Hearing” on Redistricting
    Guest Blog by Marion Mlotok On Thursday, May 30, 2013, the Texas Senate held a public hearing on redistricting as a launch of the 83rd 1st special session.  The hearing started at 9:00 am and closed at 11:30 am after everyone had testified.  Testimony was for 3 minutes each. I arrived early to a ...
  • How Will ExxonMobil Adapt to Climate Change Cr ...
    by guest blogger Jane Dale Owen On May 9, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the earth’s atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time since measurements began in 1958, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. Climate experts consider thi ...
  • A win for democracy at Austin City Council meeting
    The democratic governance of Austin Energy has been preserved thanks to all the citizens who have turned out and did so again last night. It was a late night at City Hall yesterday. By the time many of us testified it was after midnight, but our efforts and those of our partners — the SEED […]

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Bilderberg meeting raises suspicions
    A meeting of the secretive Bilderberg group this week has been met with suspicion and intrigue. The Bilderberg group consists of a number of influenti...
  • Neanderthals also suffered from cancer
    Scientists have discovered signs of bone cancer in the 120,000-year-old remains of a Neanderthal. Up until now the oldest known incidents of cancer we...
  • 15 new bird species found in the Amazon
    The Amazon rainforest has yielded a treasure trove of 15 species of previously undiscovered birds. The vast swaths of South American rainforest are we...
  • Oldest primate skeleton discovered
    Scientists have uncovered the near complete skeleton of a primate species dating back 55 million years. Known as Archicebus achilles, the species was ...
  • Massive shark caught off California coast
    A huge shortfin mako shark caught in Southern California looks like it could be a world record breaker. Fisherman Jason Johnston and colleagues encoun...

Grassroots

  • Global March Against Monsanto
    mam_photo.jpg On May 25 activists, farmers and consumers in 52 countries and 436 cities around the world united to March Against Monsanto. The grassroots Facebook campaign was started by Tami Monroe Canal who wanted to protect her two daugh ...
  • From Food Security to Food Sovereignty
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  San Francisco native Antonio Roman-Alcalá has been irrationally dedicated to urban sustainability since he decided that there wasn't enough "land" for all dropouts to go "back to". ...
  • MAB is Nominated for International Human Right ...
    Subheadline:  Interviews Grassroots International Executive Director Previous Publication Info Previous publication:  Brasil de Fato ...
  • Defending Seeds - The Via Campesina's 20-Year ...
    indiagmprotest.jpg "A seed is miraculous. A seed has life – you sow one and you reap hundreds.” – Nandini Jairam, La Vía Campesina member, IndiaSeeds have been a key issue of concern for the Via Campesina since its inception in 1993. As an ...
  • Debunking the Myths of GMOs, GRAIN Report
    unorca_protest_3.jpg The stories of industrial agriculture as the only solution to end hunger re-emerge here and then, like weeds. At least, as biological indicators of soil quality and fertility, weeds are telling us the truth. The myth th ...

Climate

  • Canadian Utility Finds a Use for Detroit’s Pil ...
    (New York Times) In something resembling a bottle return program, Detroit's enormous petroleum coke pile, a byproduct of Canadian oil sands, is making its way back to Canada. A Canadian electrical power plant, owned by Nova Scotia Pow ...
  • Farm Subsidies Leading to More Water Use
    (New York Times) Millions of dollars in farm subsidies for irrigation equipment aimed at water conservation have led to more water use, not less, threatening vulnerable aquifers and streams. From Wyoming to the Texas Panhandle, water ...
  • House GOP Adds Pressure on EPA over FOIA Fees
    (The Hill) Republican lawmakers are piling on demands that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) addresses accusations that it discriminated against conservative groups in the fees it charges for retrieving public records. Rep. St ...
  • Feds Give Industry, Environmentalists More Tim ...
    (FuelFix) U.S. regulators are giving the oil industry and other stakeholders more time to weigh in on a controversial proposal to stiffen standards for wells drilled on federal lands, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell pledged Thursday. ...
  • Democrats Link Keystone XL Oil Sands Fee With ...
    (Bloomberg Businessweek) A little-noticed part of U.S. Senate Democrats’ effort to freeze the interest rates on federal student loans could have implications for the debate over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The legislation, whic ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • The Law is Too Permissive
    If the author of the Patriot Act is really so concerned about how it is being utilized then maybe be can join with progressives and libertarians who want to curtail the surveillance powers of the government. Otherwise, he should shut his pie hole, because he's responsible for the permissive lan ...
  • No Longer Complacent About Rape
    There are 26 members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and only seven of them are women. Historically speaking, however, that's a totally unprecedented number. When you consider that women chair three of the six Armed Services subcommittees, you can better appreciate their newfound power ...
  • War Erodes Privacy
    I chose the wrong day to disengage from the internet. There is too much to digest in the new Washington Post revelations about the NSA tapping into the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Trust me, I will work through it and have something to ...
  • Youth Outreach
    Every Senate Republican except Dan Coats of Indiana (who didn't cast a vote) just voted to sustain a filibuster against Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island's bill to extend low interest rates on college loans. Independent Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, and Joe Manchin of West ...
  • Another Stupid Thread
    Who is doing something stupid, now? Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • War on Crime: How Armed Police Are Clearing Ri ...
    The drug gangs who have run Rio’s favelas are notorious, and for a while they seemed invincible, but a new police presence is trying to change this state of affairs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 100 Most Endangered Species in the World
    A brilliantly interactive infographic that counts down the 100 most endangered species, filtering results according to species type and where on Earth they each remain. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    A fabulously exciting selection of the coolest stuff online, including climber survival stories, geeky laptop bags, weird creatures and more... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Homeless and Unwanted: The Desperate Plight of ...
    The Rohingya people of Burma are not only one of the most persecuted minorities in the world but are also one of the largest ethnic groups without a home... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether you're into Barbies, Star Wars or helicopters, you'll love this week's round-up... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Adrian Lamo testimony at Bradley Manning trial
    This is worth posting as it is a pivotal section of the case. I can appreciate that Lamo candidly points out Manning did *not* want to funnel this information to foreign powers, which is important to the case. Ugh snitches… Lamo is @6 on Twitter. Locally there is a rally downtown on Thursday Jun ...
  • Drupal 8 & Drupalcon 2013, Open Source content ...
    So North America's Drupalcon 2013 is happening in Portland this week - a lot of people are bringing the A-Game. I got out to the 2011 & 2012 Drupalcons in Chicago & Denver, but can't this year. Regardless here are a bunch of links I quickly slammed together about what's cropping up in th ...
  • Make Great Hack Cartel: CyberWar Afloat!! DIB ...
    "10 providers serve 80 percent of the market. We have classified relationships with a good number of them." -- US Rep Mike Rogers, reminding us how the government creates cartel structures [source Reuters] One of the more interesting news elements concerns how the federal goverment is going to ...
  • Cubic NUWAIX: Spoiler Alert! Uncompetitive Bid ...
    HOW TO CUBIC YR APOCALYPTIC SKRILLO FLOW? uncompetitive bidding :) source- CBRNE Exercise / CMAP Support Services - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities J&A6.302-1_-_J3PBCS5990.pdf - Dec 7 2012 Quick post about how much money you can make simulating the apocalypse for the new Home ...
  • Pentagon domestic operations switches from "pu ...
    This is an incredibly short period of time, he said, and it forces a change in the relationship between DOD and other agencies. The old paradigm was to have civil partners “pull assistance” from DOD, while now DOD will actually push assistance where it is needed. Defense.gov News Article: Offic ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Can Christians get along with America?
    It's about a cake. It's about a graduation ceremony. It's about so much more. It's about what we, as Americans should have the right to do -- and the right to refuse to do.Let's start with the cake. This week, the Colorado ACLU filed a discrimination suit against Lakewood, CO's Masterpiece Cake ...
  • Crush elites’ carefully maintained status quo
    Among the complaints you often hear from political organizers is the one about silos. As the lament goes, too many organizations are trapped in specific single-issue silos and are therefore unable to work in any coordinated fashion as part of a larger movement. It's a fair criticism, but it mis ...
  • Adam Scott, Amy Poehler deliver “The Greatest ...
    Adam Scott has released his follow-up to "The Greatest Television Event in History" with what he insists is the actual greatest television event in history, a remake of the opening credits of the fourth season of 80s sitcom "Hart to Hart."Scott announced in April that Amy Poehler and Horatio Sa ...
  • Welcome to the age of Bush-Obama
    BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. — The sensational disclosure that the US government’s National Security Agency has been scooping up phone and internet records of millions of Americans might have surprised ordinary citizens in Topeka or Milwaukee, but it did little to excite politicians in Was ...
  • Privacy tools are a joke
    President Obama told the nation Friday morning that "you can't have 100 percent security and 100 percent privacy and also have zero inconvenience."He was defending government online snooping in the context of protecting Americans against terrorism. But the funny thing was, that exact thought ha ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #840
    S. Korea prosecutors might seek ex-spy chief's arrest. CIA self-described whistleblower writes about life in prison. Comment: End the spy budget secrecy in Israel.
  • Controversial French former spy chief found de ...
    The retired director of a now-defunct French intelligence agency, who was involved in several politically charged court cases in recent years, has been found dead in his Paris apartment.
  • News you may have missed #839
    US officials say Comey in line to head FBI. Ex-KGB agent marks fourth year in Canada sanctuary. Senior US intelligence official gets personal email hacked.
  • Chile launches search for suspect in alleged N ...
    The government of Chile has launched an official search for a United States suspect in connection with the alleged poisoning of celebrated poet Pablo Neruda.
  • Iran announces spy arrests after Ahmadinejad h ...
    Iran announced the arrest of an alleged 12-member spy network on Sunday, just hours after a helicopter carrying the country’s President was forced to make an emergency landing due to an unspecified “accident”.

War is a Crime.org

  • Recent Revelations are Worse Than Our Worst Ni ...
    By Alfredo Lopez This past Thursday (June 6), The Guardian (the British newspaper) and the Washington Post simultaneously reported that the National Security Agency has been collecting staggering amounts of user data and files from seven of the world's most powerful technology companies. read more
  • Man Asks Obama Why He Killed His Son and Then ...
  • Bahrain: Crackdown on citizens reach new highs ...
    “We will remove you, Hamad” was the slogan of the countrywide demonstrations throughout the country in the past two days, in reference to the Bahrain’s dictator. From five points, the demonstrators braved the attacks by the regime’s forces aiming to stop their peaceful marches. They called for t ...
  • Join Me in D.C. Saturday
    Saturday June 8 is packed in Washington, D.C.  Here's where I'll be and I hope to see you! --David Swanson PROTEST CIA DRONE KILLS I'll be speaking to a group of protesters of drone murder in front of CIA headquarters.  We'll be there from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  You can park next ...
  • SAN ONOFRE REACTORS SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD!
    6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; nirsnet@nirs.org; www.nirs.org Terrific news from southern California today: early this morning Southern California Edison sent out a press release announcing the permanent shutdown of the two remaining reactors at San Onofre! Her ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Witness to a Massacre: Yemeni Tribal Leader Re ...
    Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of today's special on U.S. military operations in Yemen. In this web-only segment we look at the first airstrike on Yemen authorized by President Obama. On Dec 17, 2009, the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC ) launched a cruise missile attack on the Yemeni ...
  • Time for a Raise in the Minimum Wage
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is rapidly approaching, commemorating the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington. But 45 years ago, 1968, the year of his assassination, King was waging the Poor People’s Camp ...
  • VIDEO REPORT: Inside Istanbul's Taksim Square ...
    In this video report filed from inside Taksim Square, independent journalist Brandon Jourdan brings us the voices of union members and others who have continued to join in the protest that began nine days ago and has continued despite police violence that has left thousands injured. Prime Min ...
  • Must Watch 2008 Debate: U.N. Ambassador Nomine ...
    President Obama is set to nominate former White House aide Samantha Power to replace Susan Rice as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Power has long been a staunch advocate for U.S. intervention on moral grounds. In 2008, she appeared on Democracy Now! to debate journalist Jeremy Scahill ab ...
  • Ralph Nader on the Federal Reserve's Gamble, B ...
    In this web exclusive, we continue our conversation with longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. He has just published a new book, Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns , and is organizing with the campaign RaiseTheMinimumWage.org. Watch Part 1 of To ...

Solari

  • Lauryn Hill – “Forgive Them Father ...
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  • Catherine’s Latest Donation: The OPEN AM ...
    The Open AMERICA Project “Ye are many – they are few” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley By Catherine Austin Fitts Crowdfunding makes it possible for thousands, if not millions of citizens to invest our donations in the investigative journalism that protect us and our society from tyran ...
  • Lunch With Catherine
    By Catherine Austin Fitts On June 1st, twenty-five Solari subscribers gathered in a field in Marin County, California for a delicious lunch and much discussion. The marvelous photographer Leonardo Ferri - Leonardo Ferri Photo - was there to lend his skills. California subscribers came from far ...
  • Gee, You Think?
    “The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofits rose 4.5% in the first quarter to $70.349 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. It is a significant milestone as it shows, on average, Americans have rebuilt much of the wealth lost during the recession, although the regained wealth m ...
  • U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data From Ni ...
    By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign target ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • 15 Fantastic Green Gift Ideas for Father’s Day
    Father’s Day is approaching quickly, and if the special dad in your life is an eco-minded type, you might be a bit stumped on what to get him this year. Lucky for you we've rounded up more than a few fantastic gift ideas that are sure to inspire smiles all    
  • Artist James Dive Compacts an Entire Amusement ...
    James Dive of The Glue Society has compacted an entire amusement park - including coasters, plush prizes, bells and used tickets - into a single cube. Entitled “Once”, the demolished amusement park sculpture was built to evoke childhood memories of fun    
  • INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Chats with J Mays, VP of ...
    Automotive designer J Mays has become well-known as the design director of Ford Motor Company. Born in rural Oklahoma, Mays started working at his family's auto parts store at an early age with aspirations of becoming an architect, but eventually found his    
  • San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant to Close After ...
    Southern California Edison just announced plans to permanently close the San Onofre nuclear power plant after a 16-month battle over whether or not to restore its twin reactors. Facing political opposition, regulatory challenges, and expensive repairs, the    
  • Facit Homes’ D-Process Creates Buildings that ...
    Using D-Process, Facit Homes designs each building on a computer in extremely detailed pieces which are then cut on a CNC router. The building components are shaped into LEGO-like cassettes and are usually made from plywood, which is light enough to be easily    

Pogue's Posts

  • Concerns About Dashlane, and Answers
    Answers to the most frequently asked questions from readers about Dashlane, a site that memorizes all your passwords and credit card information.
  • Making Windows 8 Better
    Microsoft is working on version 8.1 of its operating system, and it shouldn't be too timid or proud to undo the coupling of its tile-based and desktop environments.
  • Questions, and Opinions, About Flickr
    Tips on downloading a photo, a complaint about the new presentation and other reader comments about the sudden changes to the online photo gallery Flickr.
  • The E-Book Piracy Debate, Revisited
    A publisher's decision to remove copy protection from its e-books revives a debate over whether such features hurt or help revenue -- and not just for books.
  • Genius in Helsinki!
    A technological surprise on a layover in Finland.

The Progressive Realist

  • You Might Have Missed: Targeted Killings, Syri ...
    Lance M. Bacon, “Soldiers Go Global,” Army Times, June 10, 2013. While the Army’s primary mission remains its ability to fight and win the nation’s wars, this new model places greater emphasis on those areas “left of the bang.” Training will enable soldiers to prevent and shape so they don’t hav ...
  • Top of the Morning: UN Launches Largest-Ever H ...
    Top Stories BREAKING: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is asking for $5.2 billion to provide assistance to about half of the population of Syria. This is the largest-ever single humanitarian appeal ever launched by the United Nations, testifying to the scale ...
  • Institutionalized: China and Superpower Status
    Decline and power transition create curious anxieties. For many those who insist that it is a choice which we must not relinquish, leadership simply exists within the international system, waiting for some nefarious power to take up the metaphorical crown and gain, in spite of material realities ...
  • Austria Pulls Troops from Golan as Peacekeepin ...
    Austria is pulling its peacekeeping contingent from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights. Austrians contribute 380 troops out of a total peacekeeping force of 1,000 so this is a big diminution. The impetus for the withdrawal is an ongoing battle between rebels gov ...
  • The Verizon Data Order and Why it Matters
    Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian had a major scoop yesterday, revealing a court order requiring the communications giant Verizon to hand over information about all the calls in its system, domestic or international. As Greenwald explains, this means "the communication records of millions of US ci ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: In the Name of Terror
    Imagine that the government said the following: There is a terrible threat to Americans' lives that we need to address, and though in the past we've tried, we haven't done enough. This scourge has killed nearly 400,000 Americans over the last decade, and the government wouldn't be doing its job ...
  • How All Three Branches Conspired to Threaten Y ...
    The recent revelations about the court order issued to Verizon asking them to hand over data about the calls made by millions of customers were chilling not so much for the specific information the government was asking for, but for what the order likely portended. Given its massive scope, the ...
  • A Shocking Outbreak of Intellectual Consistency
    As soon as an issue like the NSA surveillance comes along (and by the way, it needs a name—BigDataGulp, perhaps?), we immediately start hearing charges of hypocrisy. When a Democratic administration does something normally associated with Republicans, we've come to expect everybody to give thei ...
  • Triple-A Games: Pretty and Brain-Dead
    There are two video-game industries. The first is the blockbuster industry, in which games cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to create and expect to reap millions of sales at $60 a pop in return. These blockbuster games, often called “AAA” or “triple-A” games in the industr ...
  • Virginia's New Dominion
    Victor Juhasz   This piece is the fourth in our Solid South series. Read the opening essay by Bob Moser here, Abby Rapoport's Texas reporting here, and Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis on North Carolina here.   By the summer of 1864, Confederate armies were hitting the limits of their stren ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Reward Doubled in Hunt for Neo-Nazi Murder Suspect
    The manhunt for a white supremacist suspected in the brutal beating death of a comrade affiliated with the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations has dragged on for more than two months and stretched from Tennessee to East Texas to New York state. Now, the U.S. Marshals Service has doubled the reward – from $2, ...
  • Study Debunks Claim That Kids of Same-Sex Pare ...
    Australian Study of Child Health In Same-Sex Families In the latest blow to anti-gay forces, a major study conducted at the University of Melbourne in Australia has found that children of same-sex parents do as well or better than children raised by heterosexual parents. The Australian Study of ...
  • New Racial Incident Hits Texas Town, Site of T ...
    After watching a surveillance video of two white male police officers slam a black woman’s head into a countertop and yank her to the floor by her hair in the town lockup, the Jasper, Texas, City Council voted unanimously on Monday to fire the men, less than a month after the brief but violent e ...
  • Forum on Muslim Americans Disrupted by Hundred ...
    Tennessee has been a hotbed of anti-Muslim activism for years, especially after plans were laid to build an Islamic center in Murfreesboro. There have been bomb threats and numerous conferences centered on the unfounded but widely hyped fear that Shariah law will somehow be imposed on Americans. ...
  • White Supremacist Sentenced to Life for Deadly ...
    The day after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a cold January day in 2009, becoming the nation’s first black president, a young, obese white supremacist named Keith Luke went on a racially motivated one-day rape and killing spree in Brockton, Mass. Luke, who was 22 and had a history of mental ill ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Economists Call on Media to Report “Overwhelmi ...
    Fourteen economists and other academics have written an open letter to the media calling for the reporting of “overwhelming statistical evidence” that shows that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro won the April 14 elections as verified by Venezuela’s electoral authorities. The ...
  • Obama Administration Strips Wolf Protections A ...
    In a move questioned by some of the World’s leading wolf researchers, the Obama administration announced plans today to prematurely strip Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves across most of the lower 48 states, abruptly ending one of America’s most important species re ...
  • At Walmart's Annual Shareholder Meeting, Worke ...
    Striking workers believe in Walmart, but they - along with business analysts, economists, shareholders, and human rights activists - also believe the company must address deep-rooted issues affecting workers, customer service and sales, and they are raising their concerns at this year's shar ...
  • Victory: Edison Closes San Onofre for Good
    Here is a statement from Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, on the announced closure of the San Onofre Generating Station. “This is very good news for the people of Southern California. We have long said that these reactors are too dangerous to operate and now Edison has agreed ...
  • NSA Can Access Much of Americans’ Digital Lives
    The government has the ability to secretly tap into a wide range of Americans’ online activities, according to reports in The Washington Post and The Guardian.read more

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

  • Tanzania Courts Chinese, Indian Investors for ...
    Tanzania is in talks with Chinese, Indian and Israeli companies to provide water services in partnership with the government after a previous attempt at privatization failed, the Water Ministry said.
  • More from Sustainalytics
    2013 marks the United Nations’ International Year of Water Cooperation with the objective of raising awareness on collaborative water management strategies and initiatives. Water is a vital resource in Canada; it is linked to the health of the nation, its environment and its economy.
  • Bacolod water firm director warns peers of ant ...
    A director of the Bacolod City Water District has warned members of the board who approved a joint venture agreement with Israeli firm Miya and Maynilad Water Services that they could be violating certain provisions of the anti-graft law.
  • Tsipras speaks out against Thessaloniki water ...
    SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras spoke in Thessaloniki on Wednesday against the privatization of the local water company, EYATH. He said that the ‘fight to save the water company is the fight for democracy.’
  • Workers to sue execs in case of Baciwa privati ...
    THE Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) Employees Union headed by Claudio Salmo said they are warning the three officials who are passionately pushing the joint venture contractual agreement, also known as privatization, that they will for sure be facing an Ombudsman case.

Guardian

  • Prism: ministers challenged over GCHQ's access ...
    Government rounded on after disclosure that highly-classified system supplied eavesdropping headquarters with informationMinisters are under mounting pressure to explain whether they authorised GCHQ to gather intelligence on Britons from the world's biggest internet companies through a covertly ...
  • Vodafone paid no corporation tax in Britain la ...
    Generous tax breaks mean second largest mobile phone company able to reduce bill to zero for second consecutive yearVodafone, the world's second largest mobile phone company by revenue, paid no corporation tax in Britain last year. The blue chip company has distributed £4.8bn in cash dividends t ...
  • Bilderberg group summit: Cameron attendance at ...
    Tory MP Douglas Carswell accuses prime minister of joining 'unaccountable clique of Davos men' at luxury hotel in WatfordDavid Cameron has been accused of joining the "unaccountable clique of Davos men" after he attended the secretive Bilderberg group meeting at the luxury Grove hotel in Watford ...
  • Pablo Picasso works draw art world to Berlin
    Reopened Berggruen Museum will feature many of artist's paintings, alongside pieces by Matisse, Klee and GiacomettiSweeping into the museum, Diana Widmaier-Picasso walks past a towering Giacometti figurine in the lobby, and into a room full of small sculptures. One is of a tiny bird, fashioned f ...
  • Prince Philip 'progressing satisfactorily' aft ...
    Buckingham Palace says Duke of Edinburgh is comfortable after undergoing surgery following abdominal investigationsThe Duke of Edinburgh is "progressing satisfactorily" after his exploratory operation, Buckingham Palace has said.Prince Philip underwent surgery earlier on Friday after being admit ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • DOD Identifies Units for Upcoming Afghanistan ...
    The Department of Defense today identified a major unit to deploy as part of the upcoming summer rotation of forces operating in Afghanistan. The scheduled rotation involves one infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) with roughly 1,230 personnel. The deploying unit is the 4th Infantry Brigade Comba ...
  • Pakistani officials say suspected US drone str ...
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed seven militants near the Afghan border. The strike occurred Friday night in the Shawal area along the border dividing the North and South Waziristan tribal regions. The two officials spoke on con ...
  • Afghan forces kill 72 Taliban fighters in 24 hours
    Afghan police backed by the national army and NATO-led troops have eliminated 72 Taliban insurgents during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here Saturday. "In the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted s ...
  • Afghanistan’s Opium Trade to Be Domestic Issue ...
    MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) – Afghanistan, the world’s No. 1 producer of opium, will have to decide on its own how to combat drug trafficking after the US military pulls out next year, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said Friday in Moscow. His Russian counte ...
  • Camp Pendleton unveils tribute to Afghanistan dead
    CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -; A memorial honoring 89 Marines and Navy medical corspmen killed in Afghanistan has been unveiled in Southern ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • When a CCO becomes a Whistleblower (It Usually ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme  Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Named by ComplianceX to "Who Compliance Professionals Should Follow in 201 ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Bard Whistleblower Awarded $10.1 Million
    C.R. Bard Inc., a medical device company based in New Jersey, has agreed to pay the United States $48.26 million to resolve claims that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to the Medicare. The claim alleged that the company paid off doctors and hospitals to induce them to prescribe ...
  • Bill to Extend Whistleblower Protections to Of ...
    On Apr 18, 2013, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) introduced bill to extend whistleblower protections to offshore oil and gas workers. Currently there is no federal law that protects oil and gas workers if they are retaliated against after they blow the whistle on workplace health and safety viola ...
  • Senate Democrats put off vote on Labor Nominee ...
    On April 24, Senate Democrats delayed a confirmation vote on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez. Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. Read more. Senate Republicans have crit ...

TechDirt

  • Morgan Pietz Objects To Duffy's Bond In Prenda ...
    We were a bit surprised that Prenda Law's Paul Duffy actually filed a bond to cover the amount that Judge Otis Wright ordered Team Prenda to pay in legal fees for their shenanigans. To date, Team Prenda seems to go out of its way to play games and to avoid doing what the court is actually askin ...
  • Crowdfunding Protests: Turkish Protesters Rais ...
    There's been plenty of talk about how social media -- and specifically tools like Twitter and Facebook -- have been useful in organizing various protests around the world, but it's interesting to see how other popular tools are being used as well. For example, with the huge protests in Turkey, ...
  • President Obama 'Welcomes' The Debate On Surve ...
    President Obama's incredibly weak response to the revelations this week of widespread data collection of pretty much everything by the NSA is to say that he "welcomes" the debate. But, of course, he hasn't actually welcomed the debate at all, because people have tried to bring that debate to hi ...
  • Anonymous Leaks Some NSA Documents About PRISM
    Well, this is getting interesting. Anonymous has now leaked some NSA documents about PRISM and related programs. You can see the documents over here and a slightly hyperbolic, but not unexpected, statement about the leak. The documents don't appear to have anything that surprising or revealin ...
  • A Trip Down Memory Lane: People Warned What Wo ...
    One of the points we've made throughout this discussion on the revelations around widespread NSA surveillance is that if you had been paying attention, none of this should have come as a surprise. It's just the confirmation of the exact issues that people raised. In 2007, when Congress passed ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...
  • Stuff Dudes Do
    Mild rant warning. I’m an anarchist. I used to be in a punk collective. I worked on criminal injustice issues. Sadly, all of these things mean that I end up in spaces that are largely dudes. Maybe those things attract more men than women. Or maybe a whole lot of us women have been chased [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I did a bunch of blog reading last weekend, which means you are about to get link bombed. Sorry. So pissed that the Ríos Montt verdict was thrown out. Silly me for having a little bit of hope for the injustice system. You have probably been following the protests outside the DOJ. Best part &#821 ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This Christian kids video is …they are like children of the corn, but scary. I sincerely hope that some of these kids are someday horrified that they did this. Great response to people who claim sex work entrenches gender inequality. A pediatrician with a child porn collection. Ok. That&#8 ...
  • The Problem With Gifted
    I’ve been catching up on some of my blog reading and came across this report about how Latino children are underrepresented in New York City public school gifted programs. Data obtained by The Wall Street Journal shows that Latino children are dramatically underrepresented in the program, ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama orders U.S. to draw up overseas target l ...
    The Guardian reports: Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals. The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued ...
  • Clapper admits secret NSA surveillance program ...
    The Guardian reports: The US has admitted using a secret system to mine the systems of the biggest technology companies to spy on millions of people’s online activity, overshadowing attempts by Barack Obama to force China to abandon its cyber-espionage program. As concern mounted over the ...
  • New York Times tones down scathing editorial
    Politico: The New York Times editorial board has quietly changed the language in the most widely cited line from Thursday’s scathing editorial about the Obama administration’s surveillance of U.S. citizens. The line — “The administration has now lost all credibility&#8221 ...
  • Hands off my metadata
    We know where you live. We know who you talk to. We know where you travel. We know where you are now. We have your social security number; your credit card numbers; your purchases; your emails; your text messages; your photographs; your videos; We know the websites you visit; the searches you pe ...
  • DNI Clapper lying to Congress in 2013 about th ...
    On March 12, at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Clapper answered: “No, sir.” And Wyden re ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Is Fighting Global Warming the Solution to Wat ...
    Guest essay by E. Calvin Beisner In late May two evangelical environmentalists, recently returned from visiting Malawi, published articles in which they said poor Malawians are suffering from reduced rainfall caused by manmade global warming. Jonathan Merritt wrote for Religion … Continue ...
  • Friday Funny – we live in interesting times
    This has been the most strange and unsettling week ever. Wiretaps, using the tax code as a political tool against your opponent, Huffington Post goes over to the dark side, and we witnessed the collapse of climate models ability to … Continue reading →
  • Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause ...
    From the University of Washington: Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow lake used to water crops in neighboring countries, to almost dry out completely. The shrinking lake and … Continue reading →
  • Solar gains in Spain may cause warmists pain
    From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology via Eurekalert comes this interesting note about solar forcing. It seems there’s a 2.3% per decade increase in solar radiation observed in Spain. Surely this is more than enough to … Continue reading →
  • Humor: U.N. Climate delegates unaware of &#821 ...
    Craig Rucker of CFACT writes: You’d be surprised at what they don’t know at the UN climate conference in Bonn. Then again, maybe you wouldn’t. Although the evidence keeps mounting up, most of the delegates in Bonn are unaware that … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • An unforgettable life
    In 1953, a young man named Henry Molaison underwent an experimental operation that doctors hoped would control his frequent epileptic seizures. When the surgeon could not locate the origin of Molaison’s seizures, he removed a structure known as the hippocampus from both sides of his brain. Soon ...
  • A step closer to artificial livers
    Prometheus, the mythological figure who stole fire from the gods, was punished for this theft by being bound to a rock. Each day, an eagle swept down and fed on his liver, which then grew back to be eaten again the next day. Modern scientists know there is a grain of truth to the tale, […]
  • Brain makes its own version of Valium
    Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that a naturally occurring protein secreted only in discrete areas of the mammalian brain may act as a Valium-like brake on certain types of epileptic seizures. The protein is known as diazepam binding inhibitor, or DBI. It cal ...
  • Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your B ...
    If you are one of the 20% of healthy adults who struggle with basic arithmetic, simple tasks like splitting the dinner bill can be excruciating. Now, a new study suggests that a gentle, painless electrical current applied to the brain can boost math performance for up to 6 months. Researchers do ...
  • New Tools to Hunt New Viruses
    A new flu, H7N9, has killed 36 people since it was first found in China two months ago. A new virus from the SARS family has killed 22 people since it was found on the Arabian Peninsula last summer. In past years, this might have been occasion for panic. Yet chicken and pork sales have […]

CFACT

  • “Loss and Damage” a novel wealth r ...
    Do you realize how much money you owe to developing nations to compensate for all the harm your extravagant car-driving, food-refrigerating, detached-housing, lifestyle has caused? The Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting to let you know.
  • No one told the UN conference that there&#8217 ...
    WATCH NOW. What they don't know at the climate conference in Bonn may shock you. Then again, maybe not.
  • UN press conference: Acknowledge temperature ...
    CFACT's Bonn press conference: Statement of Executive Director Craig Rucker, the UN streamed it live and there is UNFCCC on demand video available featuring Craig Rucker and Wolfgang Mueller of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE).
  • CFACT press conference Wednesday 11:30 AM UN c ...
    Press conference -- UN climate conference Bonn. Wednesday June 5, 2013, Hotel Maritim room Haydn.
  • “Hot air” at the UN climate conference
    It's becoming apparent that so long as there's taxpayer money and nice venues to hold conferences, there's probably going to be no end to these regularly scheduled gatherings of international bureaucrats attempting to clamp down on our economy and regulate the weather.

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

  • Transcripts and audio from ODNR information se ...
    INTERVIEW Dan: One of my big concerns is the failure of these wells. I’ve got just a page printed out, this is about a 125 page report from MIT. This page just mentions the problems with some of the causes of failures in wells. And then this is a more intensive study from Pro Publica, a ...
  • ODNR meets with public on Nelson wells
    Last summer the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced plans to approve seven toxic fracking waste injection wells for a single site in our county. Many citizens were alarmed by this, and at the time I posted on some of our fruitless attempts to get ODNR (in the person of geologi ...
  • DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learni ...
    The music business was probably the first big segment of the entertainment industry to need to figure out the Internet. Napster forced the industry to think about it because Napster’s original version used peer-to-peer technology, which allowed users share their own music files and copy o ...
  • Vanessa Elisha - Don't Go EP
    A few months ago I heard “Blur” by Vanessa Elisha and enjoyed it right away, so I sent her a quick fan email and got on her mailing list. This morning she let me know her new EP Don’t Go is available for free download. I’ve also got her permission to host “Blur&#8 ...
  • James Rosen, irresponsible journalism and untr ...
    Earlier this week I had a brief and unproductive Twitter exchange with Libby Spencer over leaks, whistleblowers and journalists. It was prompted by this from BooMan:We need to get our heads around the distinction between a whistleblower, who observes criminal or unethical behavior by government ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • OCA Calls for Immediate Moratorium on Open-Air ...
    FINLAND, Minn. - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately end all open-air field testing of genetically engineered crops (GMOs). The request comes in response to last week’s discovery by an Oregon farmer of an unapproved, i ...
  • OCA and Our Allies Pressure 10 Senators Who Vo ...
    Seventy-one senators voted against the Sanders Amendment to the Farm Bill, an amendment to uphold states’ rights to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food. It’s time to take action. The Organic Consumers Association has selected 10 of the 71 senators (listed below). With help fr ...
  • We Know Who You Are: 71 Senators Reject States ...
    On the eve (May 24, 2013) of a worldwide protest against Monsanto, 71 U.S. senators (listed below) voted against an amendment to the Senate version of the 2013 Farm Bill that would have guaranteed states the right to enact mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling laws. Click here ...
  • Consumers Call for Labels on GMO-Fed Livestock
    Pressure for foods derived from genetically modified ingredients to be labelled as such was stepped up this week, as the Food Standards Agency prepared to debate the issue. Click here to read this article
  • Warning - Corporate Agribusiness Cloaked as Fa ...
    Recently, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) announced that they are forming a "Farmer Advisory Council." This comes at a time when the OTA has received widespread, sharp criticism from organic farmers and ranchers and the organizations that represent them.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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My Care2 Picks

  • Climatism
    Stories ignored in the rush to tax the world for the use of fire. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Nuclear Authorities continue to deny genetic t ...
    DNA damage to nuclear test vets prompts call for study of children : a Massey study confirmed that veterans had suffered genetic damage as a result of radiation. Roy Sefton says more than 400 of 551 sailors who took part in Operation Grapple have died. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & ...
  • Think Fracking Is Bad? Wait Until You Hear abo ...
    It is a 'scandal' how little the public knows about 'rock melting' extraction process Submitted by Theodore Shayne to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Health effects of BPs Gulf oil & Corexit disas ...
    Louisiana physician Dr. Michael Robichaux approached GAP in summer 2011, requesting assistance to document ravaging health effects appearing to be caused by the spill and the extensive application of Corexit. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • ProPublica
    Page of investigative journalists as it appears on Rebel Mouse. We're a non-profit, independent newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Synthetic Biology Should We Be Afraid?
    A public crowd-funding campaign has been launched by a starter Biotech company Genome Compiler, to create bioengineered glow-in-the-dark plants that will be given away to donors. This will be the first organism created by synthetic biology techniques to ever be released into the wild and most as ...
  • 1500 Acres of GM Wheat Trials Receive Okay by USDA
    Did Monsanto really stop field testing GMO wheat like it says it did?
  • Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
    For most of the world who don’t have time to research the official statements of Monsanto but merely glance at a Reuters or TAZ headline, the message has been delivered that Monsanto has given up its EU effort on proliferating its GMO seeds. Not true. The timing of the TAZ interview is suggestiv ...
  • Ban GMOs Worldwide or become Genetically Engin ...
    How would you someday like to wake up to find that the dinner you ate the night before made you sterile, or dosed you with a medicine for a relatively unknown, rare disease, or caused a life-threatening reaction because of a drug that made its way across a field and into your organic corn? How w ...
  • Victory for raw milk in Vernon Hershberger trial!
    Hershberger said he was pleased with the acquittals, and that now he can return to his farm in Loganville and continue to run his food store without a retail license because it's a members-only buying club. "I can continue to feed my community," he said.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Obama staunchly defends US surveillance programmes
    ShareThisObama staunchly defends US surveillance programmes 07 Jun 2013 President Barack Obama vigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America's phone records and foreigners' Internet use, declaring "we have to make choices as a society." It was revealed late Wednesday that the N ...
  • San Onofre nuclear power plant to shut down
    ShareThisSan Onofre nuclear power plant to shut down 07 Jun 2013 Southern California Edison's parent company announced Friday it is shutting down the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station just north of Camp Pendleton, the latest chapter of a saga that began with the discovery of a 'small' lea ...
  • Grand Jury Rejects Indictment of Teen Arrested ...
    ShareThisGrand Jury Rejects Indictment of Teen Arrested for Rap Lyrics--Massachusetts student's arrest for alleged 'terroristic threats' raised First Amendment concerns 06 Jun 2013 A grand jury has declined to indict an aspiring Massachusetts rapper whom police had accused of making "terroristi ...
  • Shooting at Santa Monica College
    ShareThisBreaking: Shooting at Santa Monica College --All schools in area on lockdown --Police: One suspect in custody, POSSIBLE SECOND SHOOTER 07 Jun 2013
  • NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection p ...
    ShareThisNSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program 07 Jun 2013 Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a w ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Verizon Ordered to Turn Over Records
    06 June 2013
  • Security Risks for Kachin IDPs and Refugees
    25 May 2013 Kachin State, Burma IN THIS REPORT: •    Summary of the major security threats for Kachin IDPs and refugees •    Raw field reports from Kachin Rangers describing recent military clashes and Burma Army troop movements Security Threats In Kachin Stat ...
  • Letter by General Odierno on Sexual Assault an ...
    18 May 2013 Over the last twelve years of war, our Army has demonstrated exceptional competence, courage, and resiliency in adapting to the demands of war and accomplishing the mission.  Today, however, the Army is failing in its efforts to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment.&nbsp ...
  • Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Fa ...
    07 May 2013 Petitioning President Obama President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Written By: Morris Davis I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help. I pe ...
  • Webview : Crisis At Guantanamo - May 10
    07 May 2013 From: Center on National Security at Forham Law Crisis at Guantanamo: Will the Prison Ever Close? Join Carol Rosenberg, David H. Remes, Dr. Gerald E. Thomson, and Karen Greenberg for a discussion about current conditions at Guantanamo and the feasibility of closing down the pr ...

The Killing Train

  • My Red Wedding Story
    SPOILER ALERT: This article, like many of my conversations, contains massive spoilers about George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books and the HBO Game of Thrones series. I was handed George R R Martin's Game of Thrones in 1997, by a friend who has recommended many of the books I've read o ...
  • Eleven things India must change in Kashmir
    http://kafila.org/2013/05/28/eleven-things-india-must-do-in-kashmir-justin-podur/ read more
  • Evicting the Gandhians: An Interview with Hima ...
    [First published at http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/] read more
  • The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha ...
    [First published in Kafila: http://kafila.org/2013/04/20/the-bastar-land-grab-an-interview-with-sudha-bharadwaj/] This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see the relationsh ...
  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 6, 2013
    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 ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Iran: A Modest Proposal- The Sanctions of Mass ...
    “Iran’s basketizing has begun with draconian sanctions, the way the basketizing of Iraq began.” Washington’s sanctions against Iran are a wonder to behold, seriously hampering Tehran’s ability to conduct international commerce, make payments, receive money, import, export, invest, travel … you n ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post: It Boils Down to ‘Us’ vs. ...
    Half Way There-Half Way to Go First things first: We want to thank all our supporters for their kind and generous contributions during these tough times. We know who you are. You are not ‘the’ 1% with deep pockets and big devious agendas who feed and sustain the mainstream and pseudo-alternative ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 5, 2013
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Tikun Olam

  • U.S. Exposes Location, Layout of Top-Secret Is ...
    As a follow-up to a post I wrote a few days ago, Cryptome has published maps and drawings of Israel’s top-secret Sdot Micha air base.  This is where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will build an even more secret (until Jane’s Defense Weekly spilled the beans) underground launch faci ...
  • U.S. Built Replica of Iranian Underground Nucl ...
    Alex Fishman, Yediot’s security correspondent, reports that the Pentagon spent millions of dollars to build an exact replica of an Iranian underground nuclear facility in the U.S.  I presume we’re talking about the Fordo complex.  It then armed a B-2 bomber with a new type of bunker ...
  • Tel Aviv Youth Center Killings Were Anti-Gay H ...
    It’s taken four years, thousands of hours of police work, and the most expensive investigation in the history of the Israeli police, but they finally appear to have cracked the case of the Tel Aviv gay community center killings in which a counselor and young member were killed by weapons f ...
  • Israel SocialTV Video: Syrian Crisis and Iran’ ...
    This is my latest video for Israel SocialTV on the Syrian crisis.  It specifically deals with Iran’s cut off of funds for Hamas and what it portends for Gaza and the Palestinians. Related PostsIsrael’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers from Iran to LebanonPalestine Spring, Bibi& ...
  • Israeli Intelligence Services Budget Increased ...
    Aluf Benn, writing in Haaretz (Hebrew here), reports an enormous increase in the budget of the Mossad and Shabak intelligence services during the Netanyahu regime.  Funding increased 26% overall to a 2012 figure of $1.5-billion.  If you think the intelligence budget is opaque here in the U.S., t ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Africa on Edge - Leaders Call for Investing in ...
    Leaders of some of the world’s top foundations say much more needs to be done to encourage the hopes, dreams and ambitions of young girls. The issue was discussed at the Women Deliver conference in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.United Nations Foundation President and CEO Kathy Calvin sai ...
  • Film Review - Frances Ha: Chanelling Francois ...
    The title of Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha is an allusion to something at the very end of the film, a visual suggestion that part of the heroine has been amputated during the course of what we have seen during the previous 86 minutes — a part that has something to do with the youth, exuberance, ...
  • The Defense Edge - How to Meet the Threat from ...
    When President Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping Friday and Saturday in Southern California, a major topic of conversation between the two will be Chinese cyber-attacks and cyber-espionage against American commercial and government targets.According to U.S. counterintelligence offici ...
  • Film Review - What Maisie Knew: About Adult Fo ...
    Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s film version of Henry James’s novel What Maisie Knew (the screenplay adapted by Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright) is worth seeing if only for the best performance by a child actor, in my view, since Freddy Highmore’s star turn in Finding Neverland back in ...
  • Obama's Second Term - It Wasn't an Accident--T ...
    Yesterday it was revealed that that the current US ("I've Got Israel's back") administration leaked to the media the specifications for the heretofore-secret US-Israel installation for Israel's Arrow 3 missiles. It was quickly called just another leak from an administration already reeling from ...

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

  • The Welfare Of The People Has Always Been The ...
    The Welfare Of The People In Particular Has Always Been The Alibi Of Tyrants-Albert Camus These pages rarely expound outlandish conspiracy theories except in satire. I believe that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and al Qaeda committed the horrendous acts of 9/11 without the help of George W ...
  • Scandalpalooza Shocker-Not Just Verizon: The N ...
    The revelation the federal government was stockpiling the record of every Verizon phone call made was simply the tip of the iceberg. The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebo ...
  • Islamistgate: The Obama Administration's New S ...
    By Barry Rubin Up to now the Obama Administration has faced three big scandals—the IRS, the bugging of AP and Fox, and Benghazi. And now here is scandal Number 4: For the last four years the Obama Administration has conducted a major “outreach” program to Islamic groups in the United St ...
  • IS END OF WORLD NEAR? NYT Editorial:Obama Admi ...
    Warning: While reading this post PLEASE keep checking for wrath-of-God type fire and brimstone coming down from the sky, rivers and seas boiling!  Earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together -the entire end-of world-type s ...
  • Your Tax Dollars at Work: $588,160 To Study Wh ...
    Before today, one would believe that this was a question only asked by female birds. Did you know why Bird Penis' are getting Smaller?  Well you should because $588,160 of this country's almost $17 trillion dollars of debt have been given to the University of Florida so they can figure ou ...

Wind Watch

  • Lawmakers want to restore rights to residents ...
    A legislative committee today sided with residents in some of the state’s western mountain communities in their fight to have more say over the construction of industrial wind towers in their backyards. If the full legislature approves the bill, it would be the first significant blow to the stat ...
  • County, townships fight turbine ruling
    Champaign County and a handful of townships will ask the Ohio Power Siting Board to revisit its ruling on the Buckeye Wind Project, including issues such as road maintenance and other protections the county is seeking if the wind farm is built. Last month the siting board approved the second pha ...
  • UK: Wind farms may be stopped by locals under ...
    Residents will be able to stop construction of wind farms under tough new rules that could sound the death knell for onshore wind. New guidance is expected to tell councils that local people’s concerns should take precedence over the need for renewable energy, and give more weight to the impact ...
  • PSC formally dismisses Galloo Island transmiss ...
    The state Public Service Commission has put the final nail in the coffin of Upstate NY Power Corp.’s Galloo Island Wind Farm transmission line application. In his order of dismissal, PSC acting Secretary Jeffrey C. Cohen reiterated the fact that Upstate NY had been “afforded a great deal of time ...
  • Wind farm seeks permit to avoid fines in case ...
    A wind farm being developed in Osage County has applied for federal bald eagle “take” permits for the deaths of up to three of the protected birds each year for at least five years. Opponents of the permit, including conservationists and tribes in the area, say they aren’t agai ...

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

  • 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. ...
  • Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-ai ...
    It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of ...

Facing South

  • Why I joined Moral Monday
    North Carolina leaders are dismissing demonstrations that have brought thousands to Raleigh and resulted in more than 300 arrests for peaceful civil disobedience. But the concerns that are fueling the Moral Monday movement won't go away anytime soon. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A blow to racial justice in N ...
    North Carolina lawmakers this week voted to repeal the Racial Justice Act, a groundbreaking state law that allows death row inmates to have their sentences commuted to life without parole if they can prove racial bias played a role in their cases. read more
  • VOICES: From 'Mississippi Goddam' to 'Jackson ...
    Human rights advocate Chokwe Lumumba's election this week as mayor of Jackson, Miss. is the result of work by a new Black-led progressive coalition that intends to fight for power in a state too often written off as redneck Tea Party territory. read more
  • The end of the Solid South?
    The new issue of The American Prospect looks at changes unfolding in Southern politics, including a piece by Institute writers on the turbulent state of North Carolina. read more
  • What Gulf lawmakers should learn from Sen. Fra ...
    The U.S. senator from New Jersey, who died this week at age 89, worked to protect communities from toxic industrial pollution. Lawmakers who represent environmentally challenged districts along the Gulf Coast could learn a lot from his legacy -- and so could their constituents. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Yeah, rape < Hacking to out rapists
    Maybe the backwards data shows rapists getting longer sentences than hackers, but I doubt that’ll be the case in 10 years, just as for a long time we thought America had the most social mobility in the West, when that hasn’t been true for a couple decades, at least. This is your just ...
  • Heckling Mrs. Obama is entirely productive
    Yes, yes it is.  You get things from our elites by making their personal lives miserable. Hammer them everywhere they go.  This has been particularly true of gay protestors, who have received support from Obama, to the extent they have, by cutting donations till they got it, and by heckling him. ...
  • The Decline and Fall of Post War Liberalism an ...
    In the Anglo-US world post-War liberalism has been on the defensive since the 70s.  This is normally shown through various wage or wealth graphs, but I’m going to show two different ones.  The first, to the right, is the number of strikes involving more than 1K workers.  Fascinating, eh? T ...
  • Stirling Newberry
    I’m getting more and more questions, and Stirling was a public figure, albeit a minor one, so here is the basic news. Stirling had a stroke a little over two weeks ago.  It was very severe.  As of the latest news he cannot talk, cannot walk, etc… He was in a coma for quite some [...]
  • Brief comments on the Syrian civil war
    I haven’t written much about this because I don’t know enough.  I think it’s worth noting, at this point, that the full commitment of Hezbollah seems to have swung the war in Assad’s favor.  I am not surprised by Hezbollah’s involvement.  Had the rebels won, Hezboll ...

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

  • Dresden hit as 100,000 people across Germany f ...
    Guardian – The river Elbe flooded on Thursday in the eastern German city of Dresden, sparing the historic centre but engulfing wide areas of the Saxony capital. Residents and emergency crews had worked through the night to fight the floods in Dresden. The German military and national disas ...
  • Nazi war criminals got away with atrocities be ...
    Independent – Nazi war criminals escaped prosecution because crucial evidence in Britain’s National Archives and in government archives in the United States was ignored for decades. The thousands of pages of documentation describe atrocities carried out in both Eastern and Western Europe – ...
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/07/centrica-talks-buy-shale-fracking-bowland
  • A Password So Secret, You Don’t Consciously Kn ...
    TR – Some efforts to replace traditional letter-and-number passwords rely on gestures, wearable devices, or biometrics. An approach in the works from research-and-development company SRI International and Stanford and Northwestern takes a different tack: passwords that you know but don’t k ...
  • Nuclear states developing new weapons in defia ...
    Guardian – All five legally recognised nuclear states as defined by the non-proliferation treaty – China, France, Russia, the UK and US – are either deploying new nuclear weapons and delivery systems or plan to do so, according to a leading international research organisation. The countrie ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Wolves losing federal protection; small group ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced it intends to drop all federal protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states, carving out an exception for a struggling population of Mexican wolves in New Mexico and Arizona.
  • Despite more people and more cars, California' ...
    Despite a three-fold increase in people and cars in the last 50 years, California’s strict vehicle emissions standards have managed to significantly clear the state’s air, according to  new research.
  • U.S. water infrastructure needs $384-billion u ...
    The federal government must spend at least $384 billion to improve the nation’s drinking water infrastructure in order to ensure the safe delivery of water to Americans for the next 20 years.
  • EPA survey ranks California No. 1 in water inf ...
    California could use $44.5 billion to fix aging water systems over the next two decades, according to a federal survey that placed the state at the top of a national list of water infrastructure needs.
  • Oil dispersants must be checked before use in ...
    Environmentalists won a big victory for marine animals this week, with a court ruling that requires the government to determine whether dispersants used to to break up oil spills are harmful to endangered species before the chemicals are used in federal waters off California.

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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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libcom

  • Pop-Up Union to ballot for strike
    yellow square.png Workers opposed to privatisation decided to ballot for industrial action after Sussex uni bosses refused to stop the ongoing outsourcing process. The move comes less than three weeks ...
  • Opposing the EDL: Leeds 1st June 2013
    The occurence at the cenotaph in Leeds on the first of June and its implications for resisting the EDL. On first of June we gathered to protest against the EDL in Leeds. Looks like the UAF wanted a wreath laying ceremony so we all mar ...
  • Halo 4 contractor staff member calls for union ...
    ringofdeath.jpg A former Quality Assurance tester at Certain Affinity studios, is calling upon games industry staff to be aware of the negative aspect of contractor work and need to organise for bette ...
  • Solidarity is needed - please help to get Alex ...
    Member of Autonomous Action, anarchist Alexey Sutuga has been remanded for more than a year. Police has intentionally delayed the investigation, they were only working on the case for the first 2-3 months of the arrest, and since then investigation has s ...
  • An autonomist analysis of the Stockholm fires
    The suburbs of Stockholm are on fire. The outside viewer might still perceive Sweden as the promised land of welfare. Yet termite-like neoliberal policies have been busy chewing up the welfare system from within for a long time, the end result being an empt ...

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

  • WEATHER, Or Not? CONSPIRACY CON 2013 – ...
    For those who may be interested, here is my complete power point presentation in its entirety: WEATHER – Or Not Also, here are the primary supporting documents: 1. The 1966 Homer Newell NASA report:  NASA Weather Modification Report 1966 2. 1976 U.N. Treaty On Weather Modification Weaponry ...
  • Conspiracy Conference 2013
    Here are this year’s list of speakers and guests:  http://www.conspiracycon.com/speakers.html From Brian Hall, Executive Producer of Conspiracy Con: This annual conference is a bold and serious approach to serious issues, dedicated to providing a forum for those who say what few are willin ...
  • Rolling Stone Gathers no Slimey Moss?? Not Thi ...
    Wake up America!!  I’m talking FULLY awake – don’t push the snooze button and continue dozing.  WAKE UP!! Take 14 minutes and watch this very concise, factual summation of the “terrorist” events of Sept. 11, 2001.  Then click on the Rolling Stone article below, writ ...
  • Take Courage, Mormon Women, Take Courage
    Essay: It takes courage for women to ask for the priesthood http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/utah-valley/essay-it-takes-courage-for-women-to-ask-for-the/article_695d7e3f-387c-586d-b3e9-10bdcee78fa0.html This is a classic example of the blind leading the blind.    There is no “priest ...
  • Mormon Transhumanism – (AKA Iron Man IV)
      Hats off once again to Texe Marrs.  His latest book, “ROBOT ALCHEMY” is simply a must-read.  You can order it by clicking here: http://www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=catalog&Product_Code=bbtm_robot_alchemy Without a doubt, the anti-Ch ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Solar Impulse Lands in StLouis Lambert Field
    FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWING THE PATH OF THE SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE, SOLAR IMPULSE.  THE SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE SAFELY LANDED IN STLOUIS AT LAMBERT AIRPORT LAST NIGHT-AFTER A 21 HOUR 21 MINUTE FLIGHT! reposted from Green Blog at: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2013/06/solar- ...
  • Tornado Safe Room CAD Designs for the DIY People
    Tornado Safe Room Designs copied from green blog at-http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com With the Rash of Tornadoes caused by the Extreme Weather Conditions we have had recently in the USA.  I put together a few Tornado/Hurricane SafeRoom Designs and Build Options. Complete plans, Design-B ...
  • Tornado Safe Room CAD Designs for the DIY People
    Tornado Safe Room Designs copied from green blog at-http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com With the Rash of Tornadoes caused by the Extreme Weather Conditions we have had recently in the USA.  I put together a few Tornado/Hurricane SafeRoom Designs and Build Options. Complete plans, Design-B ...
  • Eliminating Solar Panel Fires from Wire Faults
    WHAT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE SOLAR PANEL FIRE ON THEWEBSTER GROOVES SCHOOL IN STLOUIS MO? (previously published on Sister Site: http:stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com)  Solar Panels that utilize the M215 MicroInverters made by Enphase Energy could have stopped the Solar Panel fire before the fi ...
  • Eliminating Solar Panel Fires from Wire Faults
    WHAT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE SOLAR PANEL FIRE ON THEWEBSTER GROOVES SCHOOL IN STLOUIS MO? (previously published on Sister Site: http:stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com)  Solar Panels that utilize the M215 MicroInverters made by Enphase Energy could have stopped the Solar Panel fire before the fi ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Coming Economic and Political Turmoil
    (This is the first of two posts about a recent Farleigh Dickinson University study about changing American attitudes towards violent revolution.) A new study from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that 29% of Americans believe an armed revolution may be necessary in the next ...
  • New Zealand's Charter Schools Misadventure
    Guest post by Geoff Eaton (New Zealand presently has legislation in Parliament to create the country's first charter schools, despite the failed experiment in the US and the UK. The majority of the New Zealand public oppose the law. Despite substantial taxpayer funding, charter schools would ...
  • Let Them Eat Crickets
    (With apologies to Marie Antoinette – a very special post for readers who have lost their pensions or unemployment benefits or who are looking at having their hours, wages or Social Security benefits reduced. Some simple cricket recipes below. Please note in preparing cricket flour, ...
  • The Pope is Onto Something
    Monetary Reform 101 "Somewhere in our history we took a wrong turn and today we are reaping the consequences. If we don't step back to evaluate the root causes of the rolling economic crises, our civilization is in danger of collapse." - Clive Menzies As a follow-up to the Pope’ ...
  • Interview with Syrian President Assad
    A highly illuminating interview (for Argentinian TV) in which Assad argues that the Syrian people should decide who rules Syria in internationally monitored elections scheduled for 2014. They would be conducted according to constitutional reforms enacted in 2011-2012 that limit the power ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...
  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • About Those Plunging Oil Prices
    Based on recent headlines, one might suspect that we were right in the middle of a major bear market for oil, yet it's only fallen to $92 a barrel. Robert Rapier examines the situation and fundamentals behind the near and long term trends.
  • Who Loses from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Natural gas is an important feedstock for the chemicals and fertilizer industries, so higher prices could pressure those sectors. Oil companies with significant chemical operations could also see this business segment take a hit, but based on ExxonMobil’s (NYSE: XOM) advocacy of liquified natura ...
  • Who Wins from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Given their heavy investments in natural gas, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, along with Chesapeake, stand to benefit from the recovery in natural gas prices, writes Robert Rapier.
  • Estimate for Williston Basin Oil Resources is ...
    Last week the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided an update of oil and gas resources in the Bakken region. This was their first update since a 2008 report that estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil and 1.85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
  • The Key to Running the World on Solar and Wind ...
    Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel supplied electricity typically costs above 40 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind and solar power can compete ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Ready to Opt Out of the Unconscious Economy?
    Excerpted from Saved: How I Quit Worrying about Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World, by Ben Hewitt, the best-selling author of The Town That Food Saved and Making Supper Safe. In 2009, the year I first met him, Erik Gillard earned about $6,000 from a part-time job at a children's wi ...
  • The Healthy Secret to a Longer Life
    A glass of wine every day and a positive attitude may add years to your life and give life to your years, but the real secret to longevity may very well be eating one less burger every week or swapping your sirloin for a salmon dinner, according to a massive new investigation published in the J ...
  • Could You Live on $10,000?
    Are you wealthy? Hint: Don't go by your bank account balance. What we want to know is—are you really wealthy? We know someone who is. His name is Erik Gillard, and although he makes less than $10,000 a year, he's happier than many other people on the planet. When best-selling author Ben Hewitt ...
  • Feds Want You to Stop Wasting Food
    We're all guilty of it: letting a cucumber go bad hidden in the back of the fridge, leaving a carton of milk to get sour while the family goes on vacation for a week, not finishing a loaf of bread before it gets moldy…. But all that seemingly insignificant food waste adds up when you look at it ...
  • 5 Ways Cats Make You Healthier
    The benefits of owning a cat keep growing. While many cat owners bring these furry, four-legged friends into the home for sheer companionship, it's important to note the healthy side effects that come along with owning a cat. Scientists are increasingly proving what we've known for years—cats c ...

big think

  • Passwords That Only Your Unconscious Mind Reme ...
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at Stanford and Northwestern are working with the computer scientists at SRI International to create a method of password authentication that will be as intuitive as riding a bike. Specifically, users play a simple repetitive game that, over tim ...
  • Should People Who Entered the Country Illegall ...
    While Congress is bickering, we want to know what you think: should there be a legal pathway to citizenship for people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally? Read More
  • Is Your iPhone Making You Less Human?
    I’m usually a big fan of Leon Wieseltier’s learned, delightfully acerbic essays, but I’m less excited about his commencement address to the graduates of Brandeis University on May 19. In his rousing defense of the humanities, Wieseltier criticizes the “scientism” encroaching on our lives and on ...
  • Are Some Religions More Compassionate Than Others?
    Do certain types of religions foster different kinds of beliefs? It really depends a lot on the individual who is participating in that religion and what ideas in that context they hold onto.  If we look at the Christian tradition or the Muslim tradition or the Jewish tradition there are lots of ...
  • Old Age Brings Happiness: Why Sixty is the New ...
    One of the things that people dread the most is getting old, and the idea that the best years of your life are over or that you're on the downslope. I think that's really scary and really depressing for a lot of people. I have a chapter about that in my book, The Myths of Happiness ...

Information Liberation

  • Obama in 2007: "That means no more illegal wir ...
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  • Middletown, CT Police Officer Detains Man for ...
    This is a film of my encounter with the Middletown CT Police Department on June 5th, 2013. In the 10 minutes before this video begins, I was filming police entering and exiting the MPD building, then filming their rear parking lot. All filming was ...
  • Army Vet Says Police Raided Wrong Apartment, K ...
    BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) - Adam Arroyo has lived in his Breckenridge apartment for three years but has never experienced a day like this past Monday; when police busted down his door in search of drugs, shooting and killing his dog in the process. "Sh...
  • WeAreChange Vlog: Charlie Skelton, Alex Jones ...
    WeAreChange meets up with PressForTruth's Dan Dicks and heads to the Grove Hotel on Wednesday, June 5th 2013, the day before the Bilderberg conference is set to begin. We arrived to a strong police presence and found that the road next to the Grove...
  • Man Charged With DUI Despite Testing 0.000 on ...
    ABC 15 reports: Around 11 p.m. [Jessie] Thornton, according to Surprise Police Department paperwork, was pulled over for crossing the white line in his lane. "He (the officer) walked up and he said 'I can tell you're driving DUI by looking in you...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Gun Law
    This post will be briefer than I had originally intended, and for a couple of reasons. First, I haven’t put up any threads for a while, and I feel as though I need a break from work today, so here … Continue reading →
  • Of Human Dregs And Piano Legs
    Everyone else seems to be talking about sex this week, so I’ll devote a dedicated post to a topic raised by Luton Ian on the last thread. I’m going to try to avoid sniggering here about New Zealand and the … Continue reading →
  • Bushfire Update
    G’day everyone, Sorry I haven’t had much time for blogging lately; getting the property and my business back to normal has occupied all of my calendar for the last couple of months. Farmerbraun asked me earlier today to put up some … Continue reading →
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Dietary DMAA, dimethylamylamine, death
    DMAA was originally a decongestant but has been marketed as a “dietary supplement”. It’s dodgy, it seems, to say the least, and the US Food & Drug Administration does not allow its legal sale as a food supplement. Here’s what Andrey Pavlov doggedly had to say about D ...
  • Buzz blinds Dolby
    This is a major geek out, Thomas Dolby sings his classic “She Blinded Me With Science” with Buzz Aldrin taking the role of the late, great Dr Magnus Pike. Shame Aldrin fluffs it at one point and shouts “Silence”, but then other members of the crew of Apollo 11 are infamou ...
  • Drowning doesn’t look like drowning
    It’s all thrashing and screaming for help isn’t it? Well, no. Absolutely not. Drowning people cannot even reach out to grab your oustretched hand or a thrown ring let alone yell and wave their arms. I used to help lifeguard our now dry local, public swimming pool, lido, but I was nev ...
  • Translating teenage grunts
    Linguistics of adolescent phonetics If you don’t get it, then I just have one thing to say and it’s: “A voiced alveolar stop and breathy-voiced low-back unrounded vowel, with advanced tongue root” – duuuuh… (That latter words is described by James Harbeck in h ...
  • Deceived wisdom about pruney fingers
    I discuss the myths about why our fingers go “pruney” in the bath or swimming pool in my book Deceived Wisdom, the truth seems to lie in the work of Mark Changizi. In this cartoon, we see the explanation and get to hear his theory in his own words. Deceived wisdom about pruney finger ...

RFF Library

  • Green Growth in Cities
    World Bank (fee-based based report; available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary — username and password are on the library’s landing page on the left) http://bit.ly/120QX6d This report synthesises the findings from six case studies of urban green growth policies, four at city level (Pa ...
  • Urbanisation and Green Growth in China
    World Bank http://bit.ly/14mawUC This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities. It applies the OECD conceptual framework for urban green growth to examine the potential challenges and opportunities for increasing economic ...
  • ParkScore Index Rates Best, Worst and In-Betwe ...
    The Trust for Public Land http://parkscore.tpl.org/ [From Press Release]  Minneapolis took top honors in The Trust for Public Land’s 2nd annual ParkScore index, earning the first perfect “5 park bench” rating from the nonprofit organization. Defending champion San Francisco fel ...
  • Community-based Adaptation and Community Reloc ...
    “Adaptive governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations in Alaska” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 4 2013, v110 n23 p9320-9325; doi:10.1073/pnas.1210508110) / by Robin Bronen, and F. Stuart Chapin III http://www.pnas.org/co ...
  • Air Implementation Pilot – Lessons Learn ...
    European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/air-implementation-pilot-2013 Almost three quarters of Europeans live in cities. The air quality in our cities is therefore of significant importance to the health of Europeans. Considerable progress has been made in the past twen ...

Scientific American - News

  • Do Serious Beach Injuries Come in Waves?
    Jeff Harris was on a beach in The Outer Banks, N.C., with friends, kicking a soccer ball in the surf. Diving for the ball in shallow water, he hit his head on the sand with such force that he couldn't move. He kept trying to lift his head but it became so tiring that he just let it dangle ...
  • UK Official Defends Badger Cull
    England’s badgers are once again in the firing line, as pilot culls to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis begin. As protesters descended on the nation’s capital last week, the chief scientific adviser of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Ian Boyd, ...
  • Compulsive Behavior Successfully Triggered and ...
    Researchers have both created and relieved symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in genetically modified mice using a technique that turns brain cells on and off with light, known as optogenetics. The work, by two separate teams, confirms the neural circuits that contribute to the cond ...
  • Wiretaps through Software Hacks to Get Legal S ...
    Earlier this year a group of researchers published a controversial idea for giving law enforcement access to suspicious electronic communications. Instead of forcing tech companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors into their software , the researchers suggested law enforcement simply ...
  • 'Plastic Wood' Is No Green Guarantee
    Ishmael Tirado watches as his fellow construction workers rebuild the Steeplechase Pier, a central feature of New York’s iconic Coney Island boardwalk. Planks of tropical ipê wood that were torn asunder by last year’s Hurricane Sandy lie in grey stacks behind him, ready to be s ...

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • FTQ: Palestine doesn’t want your solidarity!
    “Let it be known that the Palestinian people do not want, nor need, the solidarity or funding of an ethically bankrupt organization like the FTQ Solidarity Fund...  The FTQ has been at ...
  • At Least It Was A Great Photo Op!
      Kat Kitching Governor-General Disappoints at Aboriginal Peoples Panel in Victoria   VICTORIA -- At the 2013 Annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Victoria, BC, an event that sees thousands of academics descen ...
  • Les militantes et militants quittent le squat, ...
    COMMUNIQUÉ COLLECTIF À QUI LA VILLE Les militantes et militants quittent le squat, mais ce n’est pas terminé pour autant! Montréal, le 6 juin - À 8h00 ce matin, Peter Sergakis, propriétaire du terrain occupé, a lu l’avis d’expulsion à la trentaine de militantes et militants tou ...
  • Shale Gas opponents arrested, determined to st ...
    Elsipogtog, New Brunswick - Shale gas opposition is heating up as SWN Resources attempts to do exploration work on Mi’kmaq territory in Kent County in eastern New Brunswick. On the evening of June 5th, three people were arrested at a ...
  • Cyclist says bus driver injured him during Bik ...
    HRM says Metro Transit drivers learn to share the road At around 5:10 yesterday evening, Adria ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A new angle on fracking
    David Seaton's News Links I had an interesting conversation about fracking today with a very knowledgeable Spanish executive in the energy sector.We weren't asking ourselves about the ecological questions that arise with fracking, but more about the geopolitical-strategic factors of this techno ...
  • Israel: the fiddler fiddles while the roof burns
    David Seaton's News Links Samson pulls down the temple (in Gaza, no less) Henry Kissinger famously wished that the Bible had been written in Uganda...Israel has never been richer, safer, more culturally productive or more dynamic. Terrorism is on the wane. Yet the occupation grinds on next d ...
  • My European Union Rant
    David Seaton's News Links Now it is the European Union itself that is in danger, mainly but not entirely because of the economic crisis inherited from Wall Street abuses. (...) A new Europe-wide report by correspondents of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro reveals mounti ...
  • The military sexual abuse scandal
    David Seaton's News LinksIt would seem to me that the current, quite justified uproar about sexual violence in the US armed forces sheds a very bright light on the cognitive dissonance produced by America's view of itself as a democratic, enlightened and inclusive society that serves as a model ...
  • The First of May... mayday, mayday
    David Seaton's News Links May Day - Margaret Scott"Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize..." Joe Hill The first of May, commemorating bloody labor unrest in Chicago, is celebrated all over the world as the universal holiday of labor... except in the USA of course.The same USA where "red", t ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Could the NSA Keep Track of Who You Send Lette ...
    OK, this is just out of curiosity. Suppose the government started up a program that tracked everyone's mail. They didn't open letters to read them, they merely kept track of the address, return address, and postmark date for every piece of first class mail and every package that anyone sent an ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 7 June 2013
    This has been a dispiriting week on a bunch of levels. I'm not sure what else to say about it. So here's a soothing sort of catblogging photo to make up for it. The weather is nice, our garden is in full bloom, and this week Domino was outside enjoying it. Maybe we should all do the same this ...
  • Obama is Bad on Civil Liberties, But That Shou ...
    I turned on Fox for a few minutes and heard Megyn Kelly talking to someone who claimed that Democrats would all abandon President Obama en masse over the latest leaks about NSA spying. Maybe so. But I'm curious about something: Is anyone really surprised by the recent revelations of NSA survei ...
  • What Does PRISM Do? How Does It Work?
    What, precisely, does the PRISM program do? The Guardian described it as providing "direct access" to corporate servers owned by the likes of Google and Microsoft, and I was puzzled about exactly what that meant. From a technical perspective, I didn't understand what this entailed. Some kind o ...
  • "Horror at Their Capabilities" Drove Leak of N ...
    Dan Drezner is curious about why we're suddenly getting a bunch of leaks about U.S. surveillance programs. As it happens, the Washington Post explained in the very last paragraph of its story about the PRISM program: Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabiliti ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 397: This is Retarded
    The Bible is a Great Read Roy Hibbert & No Homo Cause Bullies Owning up to being offensive People exaggerating about sex Dating as you get older How no one talks about rejection Dating success rates are worse than baseball batting averages Why online dating isn’t really different from ...
  • Insanity Check: The OkCupid Special
    Kriss & Kev put together a special podcast/rant about the stressful nature of trying to use an online dating site like OkCupid.com Share with your friends:
  • IC 396: Comic Book Nerds
    Kriss talks about losing his fight The Fallon Fox/Transgender Fighter issue revisited Kriss, Phenom & Kev have the worst idea ever: Bringing “Faggot” back Xbox One Comic book nerds are ruining comic book movies What Fox needs to do to fix its X-Men movies Sony & Marvel migh ...
  • IC 395: Fuck This Shit
    Kev is fed up Work sucks Running people who do good for others into the ground Kriss – sugar – alcohol = Asshole Kriss Marvel Studios being cheap with Avengers payouts Nerds are hypocrites Charles Ramsey is awesome The transgender issue Walkout music for Kriss Share with your friends:
  • IC 394: Fuck Your Religion
    Rod from ‘The Black Guy Who Tips’ joins us Stereotyping tall people Fuck your religion Who decides which interpretation is correct? MPAA ratings for porn Torturing people works Gun control 30 comic book movies worse than Iron Man 2 Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Lifting the fog of war and climate
    Guy Callendar’s knowledge of climate and heat let him help devise a system to clear fog from British airfields during World War Two, and do detailed measurements on gases in the air that established how important CO2 is in driving climate change.
  • The well-qualified amateur who threw the spotl ...
    75 years ago Guy Callendar revealed calculations and temperature measurements linking rising 20th century temperatures to burning fossil fuels, helping to lay the foundations for understanding the global warming that is still ongoing today.
  • Ocean heat puts pressure on poorest fisheries
    The first evidence that climate change has affected fishing catches, revealed by William Cheung from the University of British Columbia and his team, shows tropical countries are set to be hardest hit.
  • Arctic mission recovers record of surprising w ...
    The longest continuous Arctic land sediment core shows that the last time CO2 levels reached current levels, over 2.6 million years ago, North-East Russia was taken was 8°C warmer.
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...

e!Science News

  • Climate conditions determine Amazon fire risk
    Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through deforestation in recent years. read more
  • Large-scale biodiversity is vital to maintain ...
    Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long peri ...
  • UC Santa Barbara study provides a new framewor ...
    A new study by researchers at UC Santa Barbara provides clues into the understanding of the behavior of the charged molecules or particles in ionic liquids. The new framework may lead to the creation of cleaner, more sustainable, and nontoxic batteries, and other sources of chemical power. The r ...
  • How do immune cells detect infections?
    How do immune cells manage to sort through vast numbers of similar-looking proteins within the body to detect foreign invaders and fight infections? read more
  • Making sense of patterns in the Twitterverse
    If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by 7 billion -- and you'll have a sense of what Court Corley wakes up to every morning. read more

unEarthed

  • Wake and Smile, the Nightmare is Over
    Landmark law moves Nevada from coal to renewables "It felt like I was waking up from a nightmare. I wasn't really sure what was true or false. I was confused. My heart was racing. I was excited. Maybe, I thought, this nightmar ...
  • Climate Ride: A Sustainable Conference on Wheels
    320 miles of smiles Earthjustice team members enjoying the coastline. A traditional road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway provides many “oohs” and “ah ...
  • Citizen Army Lobbies Congress for Clean Air
    Ambassadors from every state arrive en masse to buttonhole congress reps The grassroots campaign involved ambassadors from every state, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico. ...
  • Defending Arizona's "Ribbon of Life"
    Lawsuit seeks to protect San Pedro River from huge development The upper reaches of the San Pedro River.  (Melanie Kay / Earthjustice) Earthjustice has w ...
  • Advocates From 50 States Call for Health Standards
    More than 100 clean air and water advocates gather in D.C. When our elected officials continue standing in the way of clean air and water—it’s time t ...

Brave New Climate

  • Advanced fission and fusion technologies for s ...
    Last week, the Australian Academy of Science held their annual meeting in Canberra, and the final day’s event was focused on energy technology. The symposium was called “Power to the people: the science behind the debate“. I was invited as one of the speakers, to discuss next-g ...
  • Green Junk – In praise of waste
    This post has two purposes. First, for those who don’t follow my Twitter feed (hey, why don’t you?), I’d like to highlight some terrific work from Geoff Russell and Ben Heard that has hit the ‘net over the past few weeks. These are all ‘must reads’ – wit ...
  • 100 Per Cent Renewables Study Needs a Makeover
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • The Rich Get Richer
    And the poor get poorer. Who do you blame? Republicans or Democrats? Both? If you think the “rich” earned their money think again. They have all the advantages. Tax loopholes written especially for them, and the companies they own. The ability to move their money offshore, or put it ...
  • Pay More Taxes So Apple Doesn’t Pay Any
    Man, the testimony today about Apple’s offshoring of their entities to not pay taxes makes me want to puke. They take their income through an Irish corporation, with a part ownership from an entity in the British Virgin Islands so they don’t even have to pay taxes there. Billions upo ...
  • Republicanism Is A Disease
    You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
  • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
    Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
  • Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
    According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

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  • From Turkish Spring to Naksa Day: A week in ph ...
    This week: Clashes between Turkish protesters and police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and the capital Ankara, Israeli soldiers threaten the children of the West Bank, Palestinians commemorate the Naksa and Israelis protest against the occupation in the streets of Tel Aviv.     &#1 ...
  • Protests in Turkey: How I became a ‘marginal, ...
    How did a modest student protest against the destruction of a park in Istanbul turn into one of the biggest protests in Turkey’s recent history? A personal story from Taksim Square. By Gulfem Saydan Sanver Gezi Park, in the heart of Taksim Square, was one of the last remaining green areas ...
  • PHOTOS: Ankara protests grow as Istanbul clash ...
    Photos and text by Oren Ziv and Yotam Ronen Istanbul: Police and protesters did not clash in Istanbul on Thursday night for the first time since the anti-government demonstrations began. Inside Gezi Park, protesters created different systems to serve the thousands of inhabitants, including: a me ...
  • Jerusalem Post compares labeling settlement pr ...
    The paper’s correspondent in Berlin, known for his ties with a radical right-wing groups, has done it again. In a couple of articles published last month, the widely-read Jerusalem Post compared the European Union’s decision to label Israeli settlement products to nothing less than Nazism. ...
  • Isolated incident: Soldiers refuse to treat in ...
    Accompanied by a settlement security officer, IDF soldiers abuse a Palestinian boy and avoid giving him proper medical attention. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz One day in May M., a 13-year-old child from the village of Qariut left his school and headed to his father’s lands to find ...

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    DTE seeks to lower renewable energy surcharges
    Crain's Detroit Business
    DTE Energy Co. asked the Michigan Public Service Commission Tuesday for permission to lower its monthly surcharge to residential customers for renewable energy to 43 cents from $3. Business customers could see their surcharges drop by 85 percent.
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    GLREA's Michigan Energy Fair Highlights Renewables
    CBS Local
    But the Michigan Energy Fair, sponsored by the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association and held again this year at the Mason County Fairgrounds along US-10 just east of Ludington, seems to have an increased sense of urgency this year. Hundreds of ...
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    Hickenlooper signs bill to double rural renewable-energy requirement
    Denver Post
    In a move to boost renewable-energy generation in Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday signed a controversial bill doubling the renewable-energy target for rural electric cooperatives. "No question that the country as a whole is looking for, ...
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    Actis, Mainstream Renewable Power Invest in Aela Energía
    Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release)
    Actis said Friday it committed US$290 million for a 60% stake in Aela Energía. Mainstream Renewable Power, the global wind and solar developer, will own 40% of the asset. The total value of the project is US$1.4 billion including debt, Actis said.
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    3 peacocks get new home at ecology center
    Newsday
    Three peacocks, who had flown the coop from their Port Jefferson home, have moved on to accommodations at the Town of Brookhaven's Wildlife and Ecology Center in Holtsville, according to the Suffolk County SPCA. The SPCA was called May 31 by Port ...
    Ecology seeks comment on Kitsap County's shoreline program update
    Access Washington
    BELLEVUE - The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is seeking public comment on Kitsap County's recently updated shoreline master program. The proposed updated shoreline program will guide construction and development within shoreline ...
    Gillibrand, Lowey, Maloney offer Hudson Valley tourism, ecology proposals at ...
    The Journal News | LoHud.com
    Local Deals Yellow Pages. ADVERTISEMENT. Gillibrand, Lowey, Maloney offer Hudson Valley tourism, ecology proposals at Boscobel. Jun. 7, 2013 9:43 PM |. Comments · Tweet. Email; Print; Share. LinkedIn; Tumblr; StumbleUpon; Reddit; Del.icio.us; Digg ...
    Ecology approves updated Wilkeson shoreline program
    Access Washington
    OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has approved the Town of Wilkeson's comprehensively updated shoreline master program. Wilkeson's shoreline program will result in significant improvements in the protection, use, development ...
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    Opportunity rover finds traces left by 'water you can drink' on ancient Mars
    NBCNews.com
    The water isn't there anymore, but the minerals left behind bear an aluminum-rich chemical signature that suggests they were formed through interaction with neutral-pH water. That's different from the previous evidence that Opportunity found, pointing ...
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    World's craziest water slides
    Fox News
    Wild Wadi Waterpark. 4 JUMEIRAH SCEIRAH AT WILD WADI WATERPARK. Next Slide Previous Slide. These crazy water slides will send you free-falling into swimming pools, spinning in circles, and hitting speeds as high as 65 miles per hour.
    Water stops rising in flood-hit Germany
    USA TODAY
    BERLIN (AP) — Water levels in southern Germany have largely stabilized following massive flooding as the crest of swollen rivers has moved north, but many communities remain under water. The military said Friday it now has 11,300 soldiers helping in ...
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    Can Milwaukee Build Its Future on Water?
    Yahoo! News
    MILWAUKEE–Inside a former warehouse, just south of where the Menomonee River joins the Milwaukee River, construction workers are busy exposing beams and laying carpets. A century-old building on E. Pittsburgh Avenue is about to take on a flashy new ...
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