Friday, June 07, 2013

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Gray wolfGray wolf (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Mexican Gray WolfEnglish: Mexican Gray Wolf (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Government plans to end remaining gray wolf protections across most of Lower 48 

Prominent scientists and dozens of lawmakers in Congress want more wolves in more places. They say protections should remain in force so the animals can expand beyond the portions of 10 states they now occupy.
The gray wolf’s historical range stretched across most of North America.

 

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • URGENT- YOUR INPUT IS DESPERATELY NEEDED! Help ...
    Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is standing up and fighting for consumers. As she’s talking these steps to fight for Floridians, we all need to do our part to report the ongoing abuses that consumers are facing in the context of foreclosure cases and modification abuses. It’s ther ...
  • ATTENTION CLIENTS: YOUR COMMUNICATION WITH ME ...
    The revelation that the federal government is in fact spying on all Americans is disturbing and poses a very important ethical issue.  Attorneys must keep all communications between client confidential. Now there is evidence that communication is not secret, but is being monitored, full time, by ...
  • BOMBSHELL! (hell hath frozen over!) Florida At ...
    BOA Tweet this!Scridb filter
  • URGENT CALL TO ACTION CALL GOVERNOR SCOTT TODA ...
    HB87 is now in the Governor’s office and we are awaiting his decision to sign or veto in the next few days. There is still time to call asking him to VETO HB87. Calling him now will make a difference! Call (850) 488-7146. As a foreclosure leader you know what isRead the Rest...
  • Amerika, A Crumbling Coliseum, Governed By Ang ...
    From George Mantor:   The horrifying collapse of the I-5 bridge in Seattle in May, one in an ongoing series I’m afraid, is a grim reminder of the true state of our condition…we are dying. There is a difference between pessimism and realism. Badly deteriorating infrastructure is a reality an ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • When this interglacial ends ….
    This interglacial will end.But this time the ice sheets will not stop humans from utilising the resources under some of the ice sheets. As during the last glacial period, human innovation and engineering will flourish and reach new heights as the challenges are met. New science and new technolog ...
  • Walking Eagles and carbon taxes
    Carbon taxes and Tony Blair.
  • Climate models stretch credulity
    What is perplexing is the blind faith in the climate models and reluctance to revisit the assumptions on which the clearly fallacious models are based.
  • Future human evolution will be selection by de ...
    Human selection and deselection - when used - will operate much faster than "natural selection". The extent to which future evolution will depend upon human rather than natural selection will merely follow the growth of the use of human selection. It is likely that it is deselection of unwanted ...
  • IK leaves IKEA
    Ingvar Kamprad, creator of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA, is to take another step back from his company as the youngest of his three sons takes a key board role in a gradual handover of power.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Letter To President Gets Samsung’s Atten ...
    Laurence was disappointed that he dropped a few hundred dollars on a microwave, and didn’t get to enjoy it for very long. He isn’t sure exactly how long a microwave that cost a few hundred bucks should last, but figures it’s somewhere between “two years” and “ ...
  • Here’s Another Dose Of Chuckleworthy Ama ...
    If there’s one thing we know about or Consumerist readers, it’s that you like to make yourselves laugh, and by extension, the rest of us. Last week’s call for more hilarious Amazon product reviews was more than heeded — our cup basically overfloweth and by cup of course we mean ...
  • T-Mobile Has A $30 Unlimited Data Plan For Peo ...
    A growing number of smartphone users — especially younger folks — almost never use the “phone” part of their wireless device, but many of them have monthly plans that include a ton of voice minutes they will never exhaust. If that describes your phone behavior, you might ...
  • Latest News About Xbox One And Used Games Only ...
    Among the major concerns Xbox users had about the unveiling of Microsoft’s newest console, the Xbox One, was whether or not gamers would be able to play used games. Some retailers who make mountains of cash selling old games also have reason to worry. The company is now attempting to clear ...
  • DirecTV Wants To Sell You A Home Security System
    DirecTV’s terrestrial-cable competitors like Comcast and Time Warner offer home security systems, a logical extension of a business that’s already running wires through and piping information back and forth from customers’ homes. DirecTV decided to get a piece of that very prof ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Tip of the Iceberg: NSA Surveillance Goes Far ...
    The Guardian has another blockbuster scoop: The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program call ...
  • NSA Whistleblowers Vindicated by Explosive Rep ...
    Washington Post: Documents – U.S. Mining Data from 9 Leading Internet Firms; Companies Deny Knowledge There was a media storm yesterday after The Guardian reported on late Wednesday night that they had obtained a secret court order requiring Verizon to provide the National Security Agency (NSA ...
  • NSA Domestic Spying Revelation Vindicates GAP ...
    Yesterday, news reports revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon. British media outlet The Guardian obtained a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) order requiring the company ...
  • House Committee Takes Action on Military Whist ...
    Last night, the House Armed Services Committee unanimously approved legislation sponsored by Representative Jackie Speier (D-Ca) and Mike Coffman (R-Co) to strengthen rights under the Military Whistleblower Protection Act of 1988. Their legislation mirrored the Military Whistleblower Protection ...
  • NSA Collecting Verizon Customer Phone Records: ...
    The Guardian: NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily The Guardian obtained a copy of a court order issued in April requiring Verizon to give the National Security Agency (NSA) information on all telephone calls in its systems, showing that communication records of ...

UK Progressive

  • The Boston Marathon Bombers and the Theory of ...
    by Tina Dupuy My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armc ...
  • Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009 ...
  • Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
    by Tina Dupuy The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly def ...
  • The Dis-Uniting of America (2): Social Issues ...
    by Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported by 90 percent of Americans, was to be furious at the spinelessness of t ...
  • Boston Strong!
    by Janet Landry-Borden On March 5, 1770 three men were killed on the streets of Boston in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Two more died later from their injuries, and several more were wounded. It took five years for the British to begin to feel the tremors of the outrage of that [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Climate Aid: The $39 bn industry, mostly used ...
    Climate Analytics say that developed nations have paid $35.9 billion dollars into the UN Aid program called FastStart. This was the project rescued from the aftermath of the 2009 Copenhagen climate convention.  Somehow $3 billion of private finance has been tossed in as well, making it nearly $3 ...
  • Can the Moon change our climate? Can tides in ...
    Image by Luc Viatour  www.Lucnix.be The Moon has such a big effect — moving 70% of the matter on the Earth’s surface every day, that it seems like the bleeding obvious to suggest that just maybe, it also affects the air, the wind, and causes atmospheric tides. Yet the climate models ...
  • Lewandowsky, Cook and the Barack Obama tweet t ...
    Stephan Lewandowsky (and John Cook) got excited that Barack Obama ‘retweeted’ the (fallacious) 97% consensus study. In The Conversation, Stephan Lewandowsky made it the leading line (right under the name-calling headline): “When President Obama last week tweeted that “97% of sc ...
  • Global warming brings first ever summer skiing ...
    [The Local] A combination of an icy winter and a chilly spring has meant that for the first time ever in the month of June, skiers will have the option of heading to the pistes in the French Pyrénées, French TV TF1 reported on Wednesday. After recent cold weather, bosses at the ski station Porte ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    Is it cold where you are? Rating: 6.3/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 6.3/10 (6 votes cast)

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • What Will (likely) Kill You – Giving Doomsday ...
    Often when I am discussing killer solar storms with people, they’ll say something like I’m going to die one day anyway, so, whatever. It’s the opposite attitude of a prepper. But how do preppers react to the concept of something mundane killing them? I guess some strive to stay ...
  • Governments Should Be Supply Bottlenecks
    Of the many major concerns I have with a general lack of preparedness in society, two stand out that can be jointly fixed: Lack of government preparedness – especially in the more major scenarios like the next Carrington Event Just in time delivery to stores and supermarkets, as well as j ...
  • Salt and Survivalism
    Forget what they tell you about salt being bad for you – the jury is still out. And that’s only regarding too much salt. In ancient times salt was a valuable commodity! Ever wonder why? There are many good reasons for storing salt in your prepping supplies: Preserve meat – whe ...
  • Some Worrisome Virus Updates
    Flu Professor Hualan Chen, director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very ...
  • Wish List? Axe Multi-Tool
    There are a lot of choices when it comes to multi-tools. They are almost always small, like a Swiss army knife. But there’s another way of achieving similar results – store all the little tools inside one big tool, like an axe: Mo-Tools Wood Inlay Axe On the big side we have an axe, ...

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

One News Page

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

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Syria: Opposition In Retreat
    With financial assistance from Qatar and Saudi Arabia drying up and the flow of weapons from Turkey and Lebanon slowing, what had to happen now has: The rebels have begun retreating in panic under the Syrian Army’s onslaught. This is occurring against the backdrop of bad things happening for the ...
  • Meet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
    Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. Well, the “Syrian people” have spoken. Roughly 70% support the ...
  • Finland: A Terrorist Haven
    Finnish officials started to interact with Chechen terrorists as far back as 1999. Rene Nyberg, a high standing official from Finnish Foreign Ministry, first met Chechen representatives at the Helsinki EU summit by the end of 1999. When the criminal gangs of Basayev and Khattab invaded Dagestan ...
  • Why Do They Frighten Us With Syrian Chemical W ...
    The latest reports on the confiscation of two kilogrammes of sarin gas, a powerful neurotoxin, from safe houses in Adana, South Turkey, some 150 kilometres from the border with Syria, earlier this week, adds the relevance to an insightful comment by Peter Lvov, a Middle East expert from New East ...
  • The Syrian Crisis in Light of the Decline of E ...
    What does the legalization of single-sex «marriages» in France, which even such desperate acts as Dominique Venner’s suicide in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris have been unable to stop, have in common with the civil war in Syria? The common factor is that in both cases we can see sign ...

BlogHer

  • Is It Ever Okay to Put the Needs of One Kid Ov ...
    Whenever talk amongst my friends turns to "is it possible to have a favorite child -- or not," I always make the point that one kid is usually in an easier phase than another at any given time. As such, it may come across as playing favorites, either in action or even in your heart. Adrienne at ...
  • Nie Asks: Show Me Your Favorite Photo Today
    What's your favorite photo today? Today, I love this self-portrait by my daughter Jane. Now, your turn: Share with me YOUR favorite photo today. Leave a link in the comments and tell me why you're loving it!
  • Want To Strengthen Your Marriage? Try These 10 ...
    Editor's Note: I was advised when very young to heed the lessons imparted upon me by my elders or those who have lived certain aspects of life before me. In this piece, one mother reflects on her own marriage as her daughter prepares to embark upon married life herself. There's great wisdom here ...
  • Tofu Banh Mi: A Vegan Version of the Vietnames ...
    Editor’s note: The classic Vietnamese banh mi sandwich has seen many interpretations by trendy restaurants, most of them full of meat. Jamie from Thrifty Veggie Mama offers up a vegan version. She marinates slices of tofu, bakes them in the oven, and then layers them on a fresh baguette. Just ad ...
  • Buy Toilet Paper in Bulk -- and Other Pregnanc ...
    Editor's Note: Oh, the things I didn't know about pregnancy. In fact, I think that even if someone had told me certain things, I would have laughed, shrugged them off. But Lauren at Lauren's Latest shared eight things she wished she had known. She's pregnant for the second time -- with twins, th ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Probiotics Help The Brain Cope With Anxiety
    Eating a probiotic fermented product not only helps improve gut health, it may also make us emotionally more resilient, researchers have found. The small, preliminary study, conducted by scientists with UCLA’s Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family ... Related posts:Probiotics Impr ...
  • GMO apples may be deregulated by the end of 2013
    WASHINGTON, DC, May 10, 2013- Genetically modified (GM) crops have been part of the U.S. food supply for several years. However, only one type of GM fruit, the Hawaiian papaya (Rainbow and SunUp), has been ... Related posts:Tell FDA Not to Approve Genetically Engineered Salmon ...
  • Whey Too Much: Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side
    Greek yogurt is a booming $2 billion a year industry — and it’s producing millions of pounds of waste that industry insiders are scrambling to figure out what to do with. Twice a day, seven days ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Relate ...
  • Yoga better than aerobics for clearing cobwebs ...
    Good news if you are feeling a little fuzzy headed; a single, 20-minute session of Hatha yoga can help improve the ability to maintain focus and take in, retain and use new information. In the small ... Related posts:Say ‘Om’: Researchers Find Gene Action Altered After Relaxati ...
  • Paralysis Cases Spike in Wake of Bill Gates&#8 ...
    The following is from the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics “Furthermore, while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an ... Related posts:Scientists Sue Merck: Allege Fraud, M ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, June 7, 2013
    In this photo taken Tuesday, May 28, 2013, sprinklers watering coal ash landfill to limit dust, near the village of Usce, by the power plant Nikola Tesla, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the Serbian capital Belgrade. In Serbia _ a Balkan country that once took pride in its unspoiled nature ...
  • Taking on the EPA: The latest from AG Morrisey
    Photo via Patrick Morrisey for Attorney General Facebook page. I had been meaning to point out to Coal Tattoo readers an important decision this week from the West Virginia Supreme Court (discussed here by the Gazette’s Kate White), because the ruling could impact the ongoing efforts of At ...
  • Coal miner killed in Alabama
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration reports today that there’s been a coal miner killed in Alabama, at the Jim Walter Resources No. 7 Mine near Brookwood. Here’s what was reported by the local media: A 36-year-old man was killed in a mining accident at the Jim Walters Reso ...
  • McKinley’s coal ash bill: Is Obama EPA o ...
    Petra Wood, right, of Casswille, WV., holds a protest sign outside the Morgantown, W.Va., office of U.S. Rep. David McKinley on June 23, 2011. Wood and other members of the West Virginia Sierra Club want McKinley to withdraw a bill they say would strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its ...
  • Help us gather 150 ideas for improving West Vi ...
    Gazette photo by Chip Ellis Later this month, West Virginia will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its statehood, so after some initial discussion of the matter on Twitter the other day, The Charleston Gazette has launched a new project aimed at gathering 150 ideas for improving the state&#8217 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Obama’s Clear Response to the Monitoring Scandals
    I’ve been complaining for a while that I’ve not heard from Obama at all about his monitoring programs, and that I considered this a failure. But then I remembered something else: I don’t follow the news much anymore. Here’s an excerpt from what I consider to be an extreme ...
  • Obama Owes us an Apology and an Explanation
    Who the hell is this man? I love him. He should run. – Mr. President, I have been with you all the way, and if you have a reason to OVERTLY break your promises on security to us–with the blatant monitoring of Americans, with the failure to close Gitmo, with the expansion of the Patri ...
  • Hacker News Coverage of the NSA Stories (IMG)
    I didn’t look closely, but that’s just about every single item. I’ve never seen a single story dominate the front page this convincingly.Related Posts:Protesting with KindnessThis is a Snowflake2012 Site StatsMy First Pair of ShoesDeleting Horizontal Lines From WordTrying Tempo ...
  • Is Amazon Keynesian?
    They never enter a market they can’t compete in, and they keep entering new markets all the time. Their revenue strategy is to keep spending money to generate more revenue, hoarding money is not an option. They are running a zero sum, revenue splurging, ever-evolving machine for which there is n ...
  • Just Joined a Rowing Club
    So, as a follow-up to this post, I just joined the SF Rowing club. I’m going for my first (mandatory) lesson soon, then I pay my dues to become a member, and then I can show up and row on their professional boats on Lake Merced whenever I want. Complete win. Many thanks to my [...]Related ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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  • Pros and cons of the U.S. surveillance program
    It has been revealed that the FBI and NSA are using the Patriot Act to monitor pretty much all telephone calls and media files drifting through 9 major Internet companies including Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Obama says that those things are in the context of the fight against terrorism. Some ...
  • Trade war: Chinese solar panels vs EU wine
    Business Week and many other news outlets tell us about another worrisome development in a possibly looming trade war between the EU and China (or EU and the rest of the world). Some EU apparatchiks have decided that China is selling solar panels below cost so they imposed 11.8% tariffs on ...
  • Competing Japanese regions shoot videos to win ...
    ...a poll... Japan is clearly getting serious about hosting the International Linear Collider, a planned 250+250 GeV (or later 500+500 GeV) electron-positron collider which could measure properties of the Higgs boson and perhaps other new things much more accurately than the LHC. As th ...
  • Sea temperature trend: 1.35 ± 0.15 °C per century
    I made the following easy-to-understand calculation of the warming trend, including an error margin, of the global sea surface temperatures since the late 1970s, as seen by the UAH AMSU satellite dataset. First, I loaded the file of the monthly data, isolated the third temperature-lik ...
  • Maldacena, Susskind: any entanglement is a wor ...
    ...more precisely, EPR is equivalent to ER... Juan Maldacena and Leonard Susskind wrote a cool paper attacking the horizons of our current understanding of quantum gravity which may look convoluted if not entangled to many readers, which may swallow your attention like a black hole, and whi ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Canada threatens U.S. with tariffs over meat-l ...
    Ottawa is warning it may impose tariffs on everything from maple syrup to mattresses if the United States doesn’t change a meat-labelling policy that Canadian beef and pork industries say is costing them more than $ 1 billion a year. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dolla ...
  • Can Texas become 1st tax free Gold state?
    from BullionStreet: Texas is all set to become the first state to fully expand a tax exemption for gold and silver coins after Texas Senate passed H.B. 78, the bill that eliminates the sales tax on precious metal coins and bullion. Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to approve a bill that eli ...
  • Whale tangled in crab gear sought in St. Lawrence
    Marine mammal experts are trying to find a fin whale spotted yesterday with its head entangled in crab-fishing gear in the St. Lawrence River near Tadoussac, Que. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Duffy sought cabinet perks for &#8 ...
  • The Gold Investors Future…From the Outhouse to ...
    from visionvictory: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: GOLD & SILVER CARTEL RAID – “I’ve NEVER seen anything like it” – Bill Murphy from Unconventional Finance: SGTreport &#821 ...
  • Conservative Party denies secret fund run by PMO
    The Conservative Party is denying a secret fund exists within the Prime Minister’s Office in a statement issued a day after CBC News reported on the fund controlled by the prime minister’s chief of staff. The CBC stands by the story. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Investor wants small parties ‘erased’
    Talkative investor Øystein Stray Spetalen caused a stir among Norway’s smaller political parties on Friday, saying he sincerely hopes they’ll be ‘erased’ from parliament in the upcoming national elections. Asked by Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)  to comment on an opinion po ...
  • Investor wants small parties ‘erased’
    Talkative investor Øystein Stray Spetalen caused a stir among Norway’s smaller political parties on Friday, saying he sincerely hopes they’ll be “erased” from parliament in the upcoming national elections. Asked by Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)  to comment on an opinion po ...
  • Nesbø’s new book sold out in two days
    The first edition of Jo Nesbø’s new crime novel Politi was sold out in just two days, news bureau NTB reported. The much-anticipated initial run of 270.000 was in itself very large for Norway. Now publisher Aschehoug will print another 115 000 copies, approaching record levels, a spokesper ...
  • Nesbø’s new book sold out in two days
    The first edition of Jo Nesbø’s new crime novel Politi was sold out in just two days, news bureau NTB reported. The much-anticipated initial run of 270.000 was in itself very large for Norway. Now publisher Aschehoug will print another 115 000 copies, approaching record levels, a spokesper ...
  • Egeland moves to refugee work
    Jan Egeland is the next head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a large humanitarian organization working to improve displaced persons all over the world. He is currently Europe director for Human Rights Watch. Egeland, 56, has several international jobs on his CV, including a spell as UN U ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Great Strawberry Heist
    The thieves watched and observed from a safe distance, noting my movements 24/7, 365 days a year. They struck hard when opportunity presented itself and then disappeared, leaving only a trail of destruction and broken dreams. Hundreds of strawberry plants, leaves, roots and berries all disappear ...
  • Rent a Ruminant
    Permaculture loves redundancy; stacking functions over elements. It’s all about efficiency in design after all…. We are familiar with a few techniques to integrate animals into our farm life (chook tractor, aquaponics and vermicompost), but I don’t see enough concerning ou ...
  • China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move ...
    by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that may not be enough to satisfy the growing Chinese appetite for meat. While meat consumption in the United States has fallen more than 5 percent since peaking ...
  • Agricultural Hegemony
    Why do farmers’ groups indulge in such ridiculous scaremongering about the restoration of the natural world? by George Monbiot The dam is beginning to crack, faster than I would have believed possible. Britain, one of the world’s most zoophobic nations, is at last considering the return of some ...
  • Mark Shepard’s Proven Technique – “Sheer, Tota ...
    Broadacre permaculturist Mark Shepard takes us on a tour of his 106-acre farm, where he grows dozens of crops with almost no care at all. Mark tells you how, twenty years ago, he and friends put thousands of varieties of perennials in the ground, and left them there. Now, parts of his farm ...

Pointman's

  • How to run a really bad infowar campaign.
    It’s perhaps a debatable opinion, but I think the main way that a lot people found out there actually was such a thing as the climate skeptic blogosphere, was that its existence was highlighted by the alarmists themselves. In the complete absence of any PR budget, it was actually the alarm ...
  • Politicians, thieves and those greedy pigs in ...
    It’s simple, easy and a mistake, to despise all politicians. In my experience, they’re actually like us and mostly decent people, and when push comes to shove, they’ll usually try to do their best for the people they’ve been elected to represent. To some extent or another ...
  • Birthday bash.
    It’s my birthday in May, there’s going to be a party and it’ll follow the same procedure as every year. An intermittent BBQ throughout the afternoon and evening, followed by a bonfire after it gets dark. The buildup is happening; wooden pallets are arriving and being stacked up ...
  • Working together.
    You’re moving through hostile territory, so you stick close to each other. The boss is a real leader man, and he’s as good as they come, brave as a fighting Rhode Island Red rooster, liked and held in high respect by his men, which is why he’s right up front, doing the leadersh ...
  • Some thoughts about policy for the aftermath o ...
    Charles Mackay wrote in his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” The book may have been written in ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...
  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Anatomy of a terrorist attack: the Boston Mara ...
    Remains of the pressure cooker bomb believed to been packed with ball bearings Today's show focusses on the recent terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. Our aim is to understand the underlying "message" behind this attack, and to deconstruct the MSM propaganda which seeks to portray this a ...
  • Introducing Nicole Bijlsma: building biologist ...
    Today it is my pleasure to welcome to the show Nicole Bijlsma, a best selling author with extensive knowledge on many health issues related to the toxic effects of ordinary things found in your home. Nicole joins us in the 2nd hour of today's show. Nicole's website provides information on th ...
  • Full body scanners now in full operation at Sy ...
    In today's show we re-visit the thorny issue of full body scanners and what they signal for your rights, your privacy, your health and human freedom generally. Full body scanners (millimitre wave) are now in operation at all international airports in Australia. The devices deployed in Australi ...
  • An unprecedented assault on media freedom
    In today's show we are joined by Josh Jackson to discuss highly controversial media reforms proposed by the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy. We also take a look at the implications of the Cyprian crisis for internatinal banking, and the alternate non-centralised currency bitcoin. ...
  • Live show with current news and some callers - ...
    In today's show we take calls from TNRA listeners, as well as covering news and current topics of interest, including reflections on the death of Hugo Chavez. Related links What happens when you refuse a search in Parramatta

Beacon

  • VICTORY! EU Shark Fin Ban Loopholes to Be Closed
    The European Union closed a final loophole in their shark fin bans, effectively making shark finning forbidden by all vessels in EU waters and by all EU-registered vessels around the world. Photo: Wikimedia Commons We’ve got some great news to share with you – The European Union (EU) agr ...
  • Meet the Faces of the Ocean Hero Awards
      Sara Bayles was a 2010 Ocean Hero Awards Finalist. In May 2009, Sara Bayles started her Daily Ocean Project, in which she pledged to do 365 (non-consecutive) 20-minute beach cleanups and blog about it the whole way through.  Two and a half years later, on December 8, 2012, she co ...
  • Meet the Faces of the Ocean Hero Awards: Sarah ...
  • The 5th Annual Ocean Hero Awards Coming Soon!
    WANTED: Ocean Heroes. Could it be you?  Do you know an individual (maybe yourself?) with a devotion to protecting and preserving our world’s oceans? Do you know someone who is working to save the oceans in new and unique ways? If so, you can nominate them for Oceana’s 5th Annual Ocean He ...
  • Sawfish Designated as Endangered Species
    The unique and magnificent sawfish gained new protections this week. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Sawfish have a reason to breathe a little easier today: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has completed comprehensive status reviews under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and has determi ...

What Did We Really Expect Would Happen When The Patriot Act Was Passed?

Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: Which is Worse? Heckler Rudeness o ...
    Considering the mixed reviews regarding LGBT protestor Ellen Sturtz interruption of Michelle Obama, as she spoke at a Democratic Party fundraiser, and considering the general focus of much of it, the question being asked initially was more about heckler rudeness than about a POTUS failure to act ...
  • #DisneySMMoms and Disneyland at $92/day
    WHAT are #DisneySMMoms going to do about the elitism of expecting families to pay $92/day per ticket to enjoy Disneyland? The Disney Social Media Mom conference is trending on Twitter. What’s not trending is the price tag that excludes the working and middle class families from enjoying wh ...
  • Vermont Decriminalizes Marijuana
    COMMON SENSE is spreading, at least it is beyond the Washington Beltway, with Vermont tilting toward what Colorado and Washington state have already done. From Vermont comes great news, especially for libertarian minded liberals like myself. GOV. SHUMLIN SIGNS BILL DECRIMINALIZING POSSESSION OF ...
  • Obama to Republicans: Eat It
    OF COURSE, Republicans aren’t the only ones to receive Obama’s presidential up yours this week. Beyond showing them who’s boss through the appointment of Susan Rice this week, President Obama’s hypocrisy meter has exploded off the charts, further alienating the national m ...
  • Greenwald: NSA Mining Data from Google, Facebo ...
    Mr. Obama clearly had no intention of revealing this eavesdropping, just as he would not have acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, had it not been reported in the press. Even then, it took him more than a year and a half to acknowledge the killing, and he is still ke ...

Hudson New York

  • Islamic Law's Foothold in German Legal System
    An appeals court in northwestern Germany has decided a contentious divorce case based on Islamic Sharia law. The ruling is the latest in a growing number of court cases in Germany in which judges refer or defer to Islamic law because either the
  • On Israel's President's Conference
    Recently I received an email from "a Palestinian in Vancouver," in Canada, asking me to boycott Israel's annual Presidential Conference, "Facing Tomorrow," soon in Jerusalem, where I have been invited to speak. The request for my boycott citied as
  • The Return of the Cold War
    The Arab television stations, as usual, angrily claim that the West is taking no action to end the slaughter in Syria, and at the same time they represent the Arab leaders as deep in diplomatic negotiations to end the war -- while neatly hiding the
  • "Debating" Beheading
    Here is the problem when it comes to the aftermath of events such as beheading of one of our soldiers in Woolwich recently. It is not that almost every Muslim community spokesperson didn't come out and say that the beheading was bad. That is what they
  • It Wasn't an Accident
    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

Urban Survival

  • Job Report – Pass the Salt
    That’s because you will want to take this morning’s job report with a grain or two of salt…   “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 175,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.6 percent, the U.S. … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Futuring and Where’s the GCE
    Looking over our cube results from a quick read of 364 web pages on various sites we track (non-news discussions), we see:     The most fascinating layer of all of them has been horizontal Layer 1 of the data … Continue reading →
  • Cell Smell – Sneakaboo!
    If you really want to have some (sick) fun (and we disavow all liability), call up all your friends who have Verizon cell service today and read them the list of surveillance “hot words” and toss in a few Muslim … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Food Revolution is ON
    A colleague of mine, often referred to around here as Oilman2, has been sniffing about the stores in Houston between his globe-spanning oil-chasing adventures…   “I think maybe, perhaps, with a little luck and in striving after dollars…that the food … Continue readin ...
  • Stirring Distractions (in Syria, Syria, Turkey ...
    With the PTB holding their top echelon meetings this week, we regular people apparently need top be spoon-fed a series of distractions to ensure that we the people have enough fodder on our media-plate to keep from looking up and … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Army Corps Gives Away "Surplus Water"
    Amanda Jahshan, Legal Fellow, Washington, D.C. Mark Twain once said: “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.” I think he was on to something, because after reading about what the Army Corps of Engineers is doing on the Missouri ...
  • A Significant Win for Clean Energy in Colorado
    Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco Today Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a measure to expand and improve the state’s R ...
  • Show Me The Money, Pebble Mine!
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California In recent weeks, we’ve seen several different economic reports regarding Bristol Bay’s riches: First, the independent Environmental Protection Agen ...
  • Vote Solar's new Project Permit gives you a wa ...
    Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City German homeowners who want to install solar on their roofs pay about half the price Americans do: $3 a watt, compared to $6 a watt here. That’s the difference between wide-sc ...
  • 10 Steps to Reduce Your Own Foodprint on World ...
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Today is World Environment Day, and this year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) chose to focus the day around food waste.  Why? Because wasting food has a huge ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • US Marines deployed along Jordan border with Syria
    US Marines have been deployed along Jordan’s border with Syria as the Syrian army inflicts heavy losses on foreign-backed militants, Israeli media reports say. Source.  
  • Putin: Russia ready to replace Austrian peacek ...
    President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is ready to send peacekeepers to the Golan Heights to replace Austrian forces after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a UN monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria. “We could replace the leaving Austrian contingent ...
  • Large US Marine force lands in Aqaba to deploy ...
    A large American military force disembarked Tuesday, June 4, at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba – ready for deployment on the kingdom’s Syrian border, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military sources report. The force made its way north along the Aqaba-Jerash-Ajilon mountain road bisecting Jord ...
  • Israeli expert says military coup possible in ...
    The ongoing unrest in Turkey may lead to a new military coup in that country, Israeli political expert Avigdor Eskin told ArmInfo.  The expert believes that Turkey is changing its image these days. Even if Prime Minister Erdogan manages to suppress the wave of protests, they will have a crucial ...
  • U.S. to send Patriot missile battery, fighter ...
    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved the deployment of a Patriot missile battery and F-16 fighter jet aircraft to Jordan as part of a planned military exercise, but with an understanding that the weapons systems may stay in the country to bolster Jordan’s security as violence from th ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Film: Generation Green
    Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his pe ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...
  • Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
    Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project. The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne. The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...
  • Solar campaigner dies
    Joy Baluch the mayor of South Australia's Port Augusta, who campaigned for solar energy for her city has died but not before South Australia's take-up of rooftop solar has risen to double the national average. Transcript (ABC TV Lateline) TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Joy Baluch, the legendary mayor ...
  • Solar warrior, Port Augusta mayor Joy Baluch d ...
    By Sophie Vorrath Port Augusta’s long-serving mayor, Nancy Joy Baluch AM, died in hospital on Tuesday night, after a long battle with cancer. Baluch, who would have turned 80 on Wednesday, was mayor of the South Australian city for 29 years over three separate terms – a large part of which sh ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • U.S. govt has role to play in stopping commodi ...
    The U.S. government could play a key role in breaking the link between commodity production and greenhouse gas emissions associated with tropical deforestation, argues a new report released by seven environmental groups.
  • Indonesian President visits Greenpeace ship 3 ...
    Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo aboard the activist group's ship, the Rainbow Warrior, today in Jakarta to discuss Indonesia's environmental issues. The meeting took place 31 months after the Rainbow Warrior was barre ...
  • Record-setting shark catch sparks talk of over ...
    A giant mako shark caught by a sports-fisherman Monday in California has spurred a conversation about declining shark populations worldwide, reports the Associated Press.
  • Controversial palm oil project in Cameroon rai ...
    The Cameroonian government has lifted the suspension on controversial palm oil project in the northwestern part of the Central African nation, reports the AFP.
  • Saving one of Africa's most stunning parks thr ...
    When Rebecca Goldstone and Michael Stern first arrived in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2000 to study monkeys, little did they know then that they would stay on to kick-start an innovative organization, The New Nature Foundation, connecting locals to the park through videos and visits. Nor di ...

Sierra Express

  • Chief demands apology for his people
    Paramount Chief Shebora Lion II of Mambolo Chiefdom, Kambia District, has demanded an apology from the Resident Minister North Hon. Alie D. Kamara for his appalling attitude towards his people in Mambolo Chiefdom Kambia District. Paramount Chief Shebora Lion II expressed frustration over the can ...
  • Chairman Absconds With Millions in Sierra Leone
    The Chairman of the Bike Riders Union (BRU), East Ward District, Mr. Anthony Navo, is reported to have run away with the sum of Le8 million meant for the Union. The money is said to be the salaries and contributions of the bike riders. According to source from the BRU branch at the SLPMB compoun ...
  • Over Demolition…Riot at Lumley
    Desperate youths recently went on the rampage at Lumley in protest against the attempt by the demolition team to demolish sixty houses, including a school at Lumley Road in the West end of Freetown. According to Adama Kong, one of the residents whose dwelling was about to be demolished,  a demol ...
  • Big demo looms over Kamakwie, Sierra Leone
    Indigenes of Kamakwie in the Northern Province are reported to have planned a masterpiece demonstration against the AMR Gold Exploration Company operating in the Kahinbor section.  This was revealed during an emergency press conference at the Kamakwie Court Barray on Wednesday, June 5TH 2013,  b ...
  • PROFESSOR PARROT – Thieves Plot to Steal the P ...
    Parrot has gathered that the thieves who connived to steal Pa Koroma’s hyper-expensive Obama-donated chronometer are now conspiring to steal the president himself to tell him that his security is vulnerable. The thieves have no evil intention for the president as they know him to be a diligent a ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Ministry works to allay Chinese concerns
    The Ministry for Primary Industries says it's working on a number of initiatives aimed at addressing concerns in China about the rapid rise in the number of New Zealand infant formula brands available to Chinese consumers.The statement,...
  • NZ infant formula status at risk, say big players
    New Zealand's reputation for high quality infant formula is being jeopardised by inexperienced companies looking to cash in on booming Chinese demand, a high-powered industry group says.The
  • Fonterra share, unit prices plunge
    Fonterra's share and unit prices fell sharply this morning after farmers became eligible to sell more of their so called "dry", or non-production related shares.In early morning trading the units, which can be owned...
  • Analysts tip lower Fonterra earnings as prices ...
    Analysts have trimmed their short-term earnings forecasts for Fonterra because of ongoing strength in dairy prices and what they expect to be higher costs associated with the launch of new products in China.Units in the Fonterra...
  • Bumper season tipped despite dairy price fall ...
    Westpac economists still expect a "bumper" season for New Zealand dairy production, despite the first GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction for 2013/14 starting on a soft note.Dairy product prices fell for the third auction in...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • The Maine House Just Voted Down a Marijuana Le ...
    LD 1229, a tax-and-regulate bill, just lost in the Maine House by four votes, according to NORML.  Maine Rep. Diane Russell announced a week after Colorado and Washington voters approved tax-and-regulate initiatives that she would introduce similar legislation in the Maine Hous ...
  • Making Sense of the Surveillance Scandals
    If you're trying to put the latest revelations about the National Security Agency into a larger context, here are four articles that are worth your time: * In The Atlantic, Bruce Schneier takes a broad look at recent surveillance stories, reeling off many of the things we now know ...
  • Teen Arrested for Posting Rap Lyrics on Facebo ...
    Grand juries are famously accused of a propensity to indict a ham sandwich if a slick D.A. tells them to, but a Massachusetts grand jury has wisely declined to indict Cameron D'Ambrosio, a teen arrested for posting rap lyrics on Facebook that were thought by cops to constitute a "ter ...
  • On NSA Spying, Sen. Obama Would've Disagreed B ...
    In response to a Guardian report about the National Security Agency's collection of data on millions of Verizon customers, Pres. Obama told reporters today, "Nobody is listening to your phone calls." In the same speech, Pres. Obama explained that "there are some trade-offs invol ...
  • Why the NSA's Snooping Supposedly Complies Wit ...
    Yesterday's revelations about mass NSA snooping were quickly followed by assurances from administration officials and members of Congress that it was all perfectly legal. How can that be true? The NSA's collection of telephone records from Verizon was based on Section 215 of the ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Noted with boredom: the smoking gun on the wir ...
    Not that we shouldn’t be shocked and angry. So, DemocracyNow covered the story in 2005, and I quoted them here: The NSA, on the other hand, does it wholesale, where they take entire streams of communications coming down from satellites, which can contain millions of communications… S ...
  • America’s Secret Fukushima: Abandoned Ur ...
    Margaret Flowers [of healthcare reform fame] and Kevin Zeese: Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill in New Mexico caved in and released 95 million gallons of highly acidic fluid containing 1,100 tons o ...
  • Putin’s Useful Idiots: The Republican Co ...
    How stupid do you have to be for Michele Bachmann to potentially be smarter than you? As stupid as Dana Rohrabacher and Steve King, for starters: Jim already described Dana Rohrabacher’s posturing with Steven Seagal while he attempted to replay his glory days palling around with the mujahadeen. ...
  • Kerry is a lost cause
    You may recall that former Guatemalan president Rios Montt was convicted of mass murder for directing the massacre of the Ixil Indians, part of the mass murder of 250,000 people in the roughly 40-year repression initiated by and abetted by the US. In the course of Montt’s trial, the bloody ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Psi in the News
    Induced Afterlife Communications, Out of Body experiments with Alex Tanous, the evolutionary fear of Psi, and some classics of psychical research come up for review in this edition of Psi in the News!  Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology is now a ...
  • Sex in the News
    Abortion in El Salvador, Michael Douglas, throat cancer and HPV, Angelina Jolie's ovaries are gone, Feminist porn, and more in this week's update. read more
  • Remember to Bounce
    This article contains summarized excerpts of my subjective nonfiction story “Remember to Bounce!” – which tells of my experience at Sonic Bloom Festival 2012. SolPurpose.com is publishing the entire story in six parts, starting here. An asterisk (*) indicates that the name has been changed t ...
  • A Waking Dream
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  • Emergence of the Entheopolitan
      A mass transmutation is occurring on our planet, leading to the emergence of a new kind of transhuman being: the Entheopolitan. Consider this essay an outline of both the complex dissipative environment in which this rhizomatic interconnective supercharging shamanic shape shift is hap ...

Desertification

  • Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
    Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík. And a big part of reversing soil decline is carbon, the same element that is overheating the planet. “Keeping and putti ...
  • Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangl ...
    Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh’s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of rea ...
  • Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
    Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activis ...
  • Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
    As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with ...
  • Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by H ...
    Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some species facing extinction within the next decade. Ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, focused this year on water resour ...

Blogging Canadians

  • "Emperor" Erdogan doing what Muslim dictators ...
    People are being arrested for using Twitter to spread "untrue information" according to the regime. ....Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 25 people for "spreading untrue information" on social media and provoking protests. The Anadolu Agency says Wednesday the peop ...
  • Canada's Bank CEO's Are Among Highest Paid .. ...
    "Canadian bankers were among some of the highest-paid banking executives in North America last year, with three in the top 10, according to a new list compiled by Bloomberg Markets magazine. In all, six Canadian bank CEOs were in the top 20." CBC  "Canada's biggest banks accepted ten ...
  • Chair of Toronto Catholic School Board Tries t ...
    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the Catholic school system, they find a way to further disgust you. The Toronto trustees are preparing to vote on a motion tomorrow to replace the government-mandated Gay-Straight Alliances with the Archdiocese’s Catholic alternative called ...
  • Detroit’s amazing urban farms help build community
    When I ran for the Presidency of the McMaster Student Union, one of the platform points I was most passionate about was one concerning the creation…
  • Akaash Maharaj: A Witness to Triumphs and Terrors
    My article in the Huffington Post: Recently, work took me to Istanbul to meet with the Syrian resistance. We discussed options for the international community to help bring an end to the Syrian war, by destroying the financial networks that enable the Assad regime to purchase weapons and fina ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Student Success Stories
    Christina Boryk has taken the position of Associate Director, Healthcare Transformation Project with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She will combine her interests in health care, training and adult learning to help develop activities to improve the quality o ...
  • #SPSGRAD2013
  • #SPSGRAD2013
    Share your photos of commencement with us on Instagram! Follow us at @CUNYSPS and don’t forget to use the commencement hashtag #SPSGrad2013!
  • Claudia Jordan…The Strength Behind the B ...
    In a world driven by celebrity gossip it’s easy to forget that behind those beautiful faces, long legs and perfect hair are real people with real stories. We see the finished product on a magazine cover or after hair and make-up on a television show but what is real? Having met Claudia Jordan I ...
  • SPS Commencement in California!
    Tammy Menezes (SPS Class of 2013) lives in California and can’t make it to Commencement on June 5 at Alice Tully Hall. To celebrate the occasion, her son Cameron conferred Tammy with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Culture, Magna Cum Laude, during a small ceremony at home. He ...

Dissident Voice

  • As Nation-States Falter, Capitalism Shines
    Robert Hunziker delves into the widening disparity between the good fortunes of capitalism versus the stumbling misfortunes of nation-states. This 40-year trend has now reached a point where the very existence of the legacy nation-states, like the U.S., is at risk.
  • Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to I ...
    Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled w ...
  • Fracking America’s Food Supply
    Fracking—the process the oil and gas industry uses to extract fossil fuel as much as two miles below the ground—may directly impact the nation’s water supply, reduce water-based recreational and sports activity, and lead to an increase in the cost of food.       The cocktail soup required for ea ...
  • Refuge in the Sturm
    There is saying among religious progressives that Christianity should “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Unfortunately, there are all too few of such Christians, but the new Pope, to his credit, is making some effort to, at least rhetorically, move his Church in that direction. ...
  • Turkey’s Urban Uprising
    It began innocently enough, it seemed, when a plan to turn Istanbul’s Gezi Park – located at Taksim Square – into a shopping mall spurred a small group of environmental activists to occupy the park in protest in late May of 2013. Within a week, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the cou ...

Nick Turse

  • In a new 132-page report — Suppressing Protest ...
    In a new 132-page report — Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street — members of a national consortium of law school clinics, lawyers, law professors and other legal experts “catalog 130 specific alleged incidents of excessive police force, and hun ...
  • gettyimages:Daily Life In KabulA young Afgh ...
    gettyimages: Daily Life In Kabul A young Afghan boy looks on as his hand is held roadside by a woman wearing a burqa in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
  • "In the 1960s, the issues at stake seemed far ...
    “In the 1960s, the issues at stake seemed far more separate, more distinct. The nuclear...
  • killanythingthatmoves:Troops in the field re ...
    killanythingthatmoves: Troops in the field regularly carved their unit’s initials or numbers into corpses, adorned bodies with their unit’s patch, or left a “death card”— generally either an ace of spades or a custom- printed business card claiming credit for the kill. Company A, 1st Batta ...
  • Local residents surround a vehicle after they ...
    Local residents surround a vehicle after they overturned it, as they gather to protest against plans for a water discharge project in Qidong, China Saturday, July 28, 2012. AP

Sources

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  • IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Malnutrition Still Killing Three Million Child ...
    Kevin’s Carter’s disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize. The image of an emaciated child being watched by a vulture was etched into the world’s memory forever, drawing attention to conditions where survival becomes the only priority. Reducing the child mort ...
  • Ethiopia’s Protest Leaders Say No Change in Go ...
    Despite speculation that the first anti-government protest in eight years, which was held this week in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, might signal new levels of political tolerance by the government, leaders of the political party that organised the protest say this cannot be further fro ...
  • Looking to Cameroon’s Women Senators
    Marlyse Aboui, a 40-year-old nurse, has still not gotten over the astonishment she felt when she heard that Cameroon’s President Paul Biya had nominated her to the senate. “I feel like I am in a dream that I will wake up from at any minute. When I first learnt that I had been appointed to [...]
  • Rice Replaces Donilon as Obama’s Top Foreign P ...
    In a reshuffle of top foreign policy posts in his second term, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced that his controversial and blunt-spoken U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, will replace Tom Donilon as his national security adviser. He also announced that another longtime aide on the Natio ...
  • U.S. Denounces Egyptian NGO Trial Results
    President Barack Obama’s administration and several major rights groups are reacting with frustration to the decision of an Egyptian court, announced Tuesday night, to convict 43 civil society organisations and 16 U.S. employees of illegal use of foreign funds. Reactions by both the administrati ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear enrichment
    Summary: The campaign to elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor as Iranian president is well under way. The eight candidates took part in a TV debate on cultural policies yesterday, with a further debate scheduled before the vote takes place on 14 June. source: The Guardianread more
  • The Self-Defeating Dynamics of American Hegemo ...
    Summary: Our experience in the U.S. government—running from roughly the period of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s until March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, when we left our positions at the White House on the National Security Council staff—effectively spanned the high-water m ...
  • Former Canadian ambassador to Iran: Canadian F ...
    Summary: John Mundy, the last Canadian ambassador to Iran, writes that the Canadian Foreign Minister Baird's hawkish position on Iran has prevented real solutions from being considered, and notes that Iran had already accepted many of the demands placed on its nuclear program source: Iran ...
  • Print What Message New US Sanctions Are Meant ...
    Summary: The United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Relations passed a bill on May 22, 2013, which has paved the way for the US President Barak Obama to enforce new sanctions against all companies conducting transactions with Iran regardless of the type of their transact ...
  • On Ambassador Sherman’s Testimony on Iran
    Summary: The Congressmen were told that Iran is “isolated”. In reality, Iran maintains full diplomatic relations with some 100 states. Iran’s Foreign Minister is received courteously almost everywhere in Asia and Europe apart from the UK and Israel. Just this week Iran assumed the chair of th ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: After 30 Million Years --How ...
        Antarctica’s mountains, concealed for more than 30 million years under miles of ice, have now been exposed in a new map and video released June 5 by NASA. Using a new tool created by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) called Bedmap2, researchers created the map by compiling deca ...
  • NASA: The Search for Alien Life in Infrared-Li ...
                   A new study explores the potential for photosynthetic life to persist in sun-starved, lower-energy (and invisible to our eyes) infrared light environments. And in the case of one kind of bacteria—discovered years ago, deep underwater near a hydrothermal vent—this light ne ...
  • Image of the Day: Massive Comet Factory Discov ...
      Astronomers using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a region around a young star where dust particles can grow by clumping together. This is the first time that such a dust trap has been clearly observed and modelled. It solves a long-standing mys ...
  • NASA Curiosity Rover Heads Toward Mount Sharp ...
                 NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars' Gale Crater last summer. Curiosity is finishing investigations in an area smaller than a football field where it has been working for six months, ...
  • Comet Impacts on Early Earth Catalyst for Buil ...
                     Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Lawrence Livermore scientist Nir Goldman and University of Ontario Institute of Technology colleague Isaac Tamb ...

Natural News

  • Spy state shock: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, ...
    In a week that has already been rocked by one explosive government spy scandal involving the NSA scooping up phone call data and geographic locations of Verizon customers, another scandalous discovery has just erupted that's sure to "wake up" millions of Americans who...
  • The unspoken qualifications for president of t ...
    (NaturalNews)An announcement: This is satire. After writing about 150 million Americans going to Mexico, swimming back across the Rio Grande, applying for benefits as immigrants, and becoming instant millionaires...
  • Sculpt your shoulders for summer
    If you haven't pulled out your summer wardrobe yet you will soon. That means bathing suits, tank tops, and sleeveless dresses for the ladies. The heat drives men to roll up their sleeves, put on a tank, or just take off their shirts. A summer wardrobe means baring your...
  • Treat PCOS naturally with vitamin D and calcium
    Supplementation with vitamin D and calcium may be a simple, inexpensive way to significantly reduce many symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PCOS is characterized by the formation of numerous small cysts on the edges of the ovaries. It is one of the most...
  • Insiders galore: Presidents of both ABC and CB ...
    For years the mainstream media has been criticized for what many analysts see as an incestuous relationship with the power brokers in Washington, D.C., and while top media performers roundly reject such notions, it doesn't help their argument to know that at virtually...

Threat Level

  • Zuckerberg, Page: NSA Has No ‘Direct Access’ t ...
    Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page both denied today that they’ve given U.S spies access to their companies’ backend servers, deepening the core mystery around the NSA’s newly-disclosed PRISM program: how exactly is the NSA getting its ...
  • Obama Asked Intel Agencies to Draw Up List of ...
    President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to draw up a list of possible overseas targets for offensive cyberattacks, according to a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian.
  • NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Serv ...
    The NSA and FBI directly tapped central servers belonging to nine U.S. internet firms, in order to get a constant feed of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as connection logs, according to a new report.
  • Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and ...
    While the feds are required to disclose the number of orders they apply for and receive, they aren’t required to say how many people are targeted in each order. So a single order issued to Verizon Business Solutions in April ...
  • Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveilla ...
    Verizon responded to allegations that the telecom was served with a top-secret court order demanding it provide the FBI and the NSA with customer call records continuously, and in bulk, saying it respects "customers' privacy" but must comply with the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rubio, Like McCain, Pledges to Vote Against Hi ...
    It is said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to Republican presidential frontrunners and comprehensive immigration reform, the results appear to be all farce, all the time. After all, in 2008 a John McCain desperate to win over xenophobic ...
  • Right-Wing Hypocrites Call Sebelius, Organ Net ...
    Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.Right now, a heart-breaking tragedy is unfolding in Philadelphia, where desperately ill 10 year-old Sarah Murnaghan is in a race against time as she waits for a lung transplant that is her only hope as she battles end-stage cystic fibrosis. Bu ...
  • Rubio Backs Constitutional Amendment Banning O ...
    Until this week, Republican Congressman Steven Palazzo of Mississippi's Katrina ravaged 4th district was best known for his opposition to federal aid for New York and New Jersey in the wake of super storm Sandy. Now thanks to his partnership with Florida Senator and 2016 GOP White House hopeful ...
  • Obamacare Foes Ignore Successes in Massachusetts
    Over the past few days, Erza Klein and Jonathan Cohn among have debunked the claims by Avik Roy of Forbes that Obamacare will produce a "rate shock" in California. As they noted, Roy conveniently ignored the fact that many people individual market cannot currently buy insurance at any price, le ...
  • Ann Romney's Cookbook to Hit the Shelves in Oc ...
    Back in 2002, Ann Romney revealed, "I truly want Mitt to fulfill his destiny, and for that to happen, he's got to do politics." As it turned out, Mitt Romney's destiny was to be the husband of yet another political spouse turned cookbook author. As Politico reported: The wife of former presid ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Quantum Teleportation Between Atomic Systems O ...
    A new milestone has been reached in the development of a practical quantum teleportation system — researchers have for the first time succeeded in the teleportation of information between two separate clouds of gas atoms, over long-distances. And not just once, the method is apparently alr ...
  • Hula Frog — Frog Thought To Be Extinct Found I ...
    The Hula Frog — a species of frog declared extinct back in 1996 — was recently found to not actually be extinct. The species was rediscovered in northern Israel, where a small remnant population has apparently managed to persist, within a small portion of the species’ previous ...
  • Sturgeon Fish Aren’t Living Fossils — Actually ...
    It’s often been remarked that the group of fish known as sturgeons are living fossils — having remained more or less unchanged for the past 100 million years. But now, new research has shown this to be far from true — sturgeon are actually one of the fastest-evolving group of f ...
  • New Laser Cloaking Technology Creates ‘Time Ho ...
    When Alice went down the rabbit hole, she may have felt that she might never get back (though she did eventually). But some types of information can be sent into a ‘time hole’ and truly never come back. A team of engineers (Lukens et al) at Purdue University has developing an optical ...
  • Millions Of Children Die From Starvation
    Nearly 50% of all deaths of children under the age of five are from malnutrition, according to new research published in the Lancet. A world hunger summit was just held in London and the updated mortality figures were presented there. ‘Our findings strengthen the evidence that good nutriti ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Conservative Reformers" Face Steep Climb
    By @TedFrier Okay, I admit it. I am obsessed with the Republican Party and its transformation into a vessel for a right wing movement that, by my reading of history, rejects democracy in favor of some form of authoritarian "freedom" that represents the worldview of reactionary conservatives, and ...
  • It's Critics of Food Stamps Who Are "Corrupt"
    By @TedFrier Jeff Jacoby's screed against welfare and food stamps is bad on so many levels. "Is welfare corrupt?" the conservative columnist asks in this morning's Boston Globe. "Of course it is." Jacoby's hook for this sweeping claim is a recent report from the Massachusetts state auditor show ...
  • Obama, Reagan And The GOP Double Standard
    An old joke: Ronnie and Nancy are back in Southern California, at their favorite restaurant on Rodeo Drive. The waiter asks for Nancy's selection. "I'll have the filet mignon," she tells him. The waiter asks, "What about the vegetable?" Nancy quickly replies, "Oh, he'll have the same." Groan! I ...
  • The Right Expects, Demands Conformity
    By @TedFrier Imitation being the highest form of flattery, Chris Matthews provides an example of a tactic used more than 50 years ago to promote group solidarity that is still being used by right wing "movement" conservatives today to keep their followers in line. In his worshipful new biography ...
  • So, Who's Responsible for the "Culture of Inti ...
    By @TedFrier There is a flip side to the "culture of intimidation" Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell accuses President Obama of creating when, as McConnell baselessly alleges, federal agencies controlled by Obama single out for "targeting" right wing groups like the Tea Party for inordina ...

Care 2

  • Stop torture for profit in Israel : Take Action
    British security company G4S works for Israel all over illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank It is profiting off of Palestinian oppression -- Submitted by Abdessalam Diab to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Bernie Buzz: Alarming and Absolutely Unacc ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today criticized a secret domestic surveillance program that swept up millions of telephone records on calls by Americans who were not suspected of any wrongdoing. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 10 Ways to Grow a Shade Garden
    If you arent blessed with a prime gardening spot that receives full sun (eight to 10 hours of sunlight per day), dont despair. A handful of fresh garden vegetables and quite a few delicious culinary herbs will grow happily in shady spots, including==> Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle &n ...
  • A Letter to Verizon Customers ~~ Andy Borowitz
    Today, President Obama issued the following letter to all Verizon customers: ***HUMOR*** Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • YOUR VOICE NEEDED! Petition | Fire USDA Wildli ...
    November 2nd the Sacramento Bee & Missoula Independent published graphic images of Wyoming Wildlife Services employee Jamie P. Olson's dogs tormenting trapped wildlife including coyotes bobcats & raccoons. Olson shared the images on FB labeling it "work." Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nb ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Shame on the Fascists
    Some Republicans and Democrats are fascists. They do not give a damn about the Constitution and use the pervasive threat of fear to justify giving the Federal Government unlimited power to pry into your life. The despicable, loathsome members of Congress–McCain, Graham, Mike Rodgers and Di ...
  • Some Republican Hypocrisy Meets Some Democrat ...
    Remember the good old days when that evil genius, George W. Bush, was savaging our civil liberties and Democrats were in an uproar? I was reminded of this golden age last night while watching a re-run of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911. We learned last night, courtesy of Gleen Greenwald, th ...
  • Jesus, Is Rice Really that Stupid?
    Paid liar, Jay Carney, tried to do his usual smear job today while defending Susan Rice for her godawful lies on five different TV networks the Sunday after the attacks on our diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya last September. Carney, living in his delusional world, continues to insist tha ...
  • Why I Support Hezbollah, Iran and Russia
    Got your attention? Hope so. We are in a very dangerous place in the Middle East right now and the risk of a regional war growing into a global conflict is greater today than was the case two years ago. Russia and, to a lesser extent, China are backing the government of Syrian President, Bashir ...
  • Obongo Obama Joins the Bamboozle Train
    Nothing better highlights the corruption that is Barack Obama then the special favors extended to his muslim, polygamist half-brother, Obongo Obama: Want to bet his operation has not been audited? This is one more piece of the puzzle that will be the undoing of Barack Obama. His wanton use of th ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Could Biofuel Forests Repair Mountaintop Remov ...
    Could Biofuel Forests Repair Mountaintop Removal Sites? Earth Island Journal Biofuel forests could jumpstart economies of mine-ravaged communities and renew the land in the process. This article originally appeared on the website of YES! magazine. Using valuable food crops like corn and sugar ca ...
  • New lawsuits target mountaintop removal landow ...
    New lawsuits target mountaintop removal landowners Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia environmental groups have renewed a legal effort that targets the landowners of former mountaintop removal operations that continue to pollute state streams. Lawyers for the Ohio Valley Envir ...
  • New lawsuits target mountaintop removal landow ...
    New lawsuits target mountaintop removal landowners Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia environmental groups have launched a new legal effort that targets the landowners of former mountaintop removal operations that continue to pollute state streams. Lawyers for the Ohio Valley ...
  • A better life beyond mountaintop removal and c ...
    A better life beyond mountaintop removal and coal? The Courier-Journal (blog) A few weeks ago, I visited Eastern Kentucky to see firsthand sites relevant to some of today's environmental controversies. Among those controversies, of course, is coal and the way it's often mined. I'm fr ...
  • Arrest made in mountaintop removal protest nea ...
    WCYB Arrest made in mountaintop removal protest near Alpha headquaters TriCities.com They were protesting Alpha's use of mountaintop removal mining and coal slurry impoundments. Members of activist groups Mountain Justice and Radical Action for Mountain Peoples' Survival participated. Fi ...

Memeorandum

  • Military benefits for same-sex couples to begi ...
    Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times: Military benefits for same-sex couples to begin Sept. 1  —  The Pentagon plans to begin issuing identification cards to the same-sex partners of service members beginning Sept. 1, according to an internal personnel Web posting on Thursday.&n ...
  • Mark Zuckerberg · 18,221,868 followers ...
    Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg  · 18,221,868 followers  —  I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM:  —  Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our serv ...
  • Dershowitz To CNN: 'Hearing Lot Of Lies' From ...
    Noah Rothman / Mediaite: Dershowitz To CNN: ‘Hearing Lot Of Lies’ From People Like Greenwald Who ‘Foment A Paranoid Streak’  —  Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard University, defended the Obama administration on Friday and excoriated those in ...
  • Manchin Seeks End to Widespread Anti-Terror Su ...
    Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg: Manchin Seeks End to Widespread Anti-Terror Surveillance  —  President Barack Obama should end the broad surveillance of telephone calls and Internet usage, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said today.  —  “It bothers me, and I ...
  • Americans Think Officials Knew About IRS Polit ...
    Lydia Saad / Gallup: Americans Think Officials Knew About IRS Political Targeting  —  Majority disapproves of the way Obama has handled the matter  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Nearly six in 10 Americans believe that high-ranking IRS officials in Washington were awar ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.8, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    Friday, June 7, 2013 20:13:13 UTC Friday, June 7, 2013 07:13:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 5.70 km (3.54 mi)
  • M 5.9, Taiwan region
    Friday, June 7, 2013 16:38:03 UTC Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:38:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 38.20 km (23.74 mi)
  • M 5.9, south of the Fiji Islands
    Friday, June 7, 2013 12:54:11 UTC Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:54:11 AM at epicenterDepth: 566.60 km (352.07 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Friday, June 7, 2013 08:46:57 UTC Friday, June 7, 2013 07:46:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 201.40 km (125.14 mi)
  • M 5.2, southern Greece
    Thursday, June 6, 2013 11:53:42 UTC Thursday, June 6, 2013 02:53:42 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.30 km (6.40 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 中国一半城&#2406 ...
    生活在中国城市的数亿人口，有一半饮用着不合格的自来水。撰写这篇报道的宫靖和 ...
  • 中国城市的&#8220 ...
    中国大量有毒的土地被开发为住宅区，甚至是高档的住宅。但居民对此一无所知。高 ...
  • 遥远的“清&#27905 ...
    世界上能够使用清洁厕所的人远不如人们从前认为的那样多，这已经给公共健康和环 ...
  • 无锡—杜塞&#23572 ...
    中德这两个截然不同的城市，是否能携手找到应对气候变化挑战的解决方案？乍看起 ...
  • “死飞”单车 ...
    传言中的“死飞”禁令难掩自行车的魅力。固定齿轮（俗称“死飞轮”）自行车以其&#20 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Victory for Grassroots Activism and Public Saf ...
    This victory at San Onofre is a falling domino. Had the public not fought back, those reactors would have been “fixed” at public expense. From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre.  As of June 7, 2 ...
  • In Mistaken House Search, SWAT Team Rummages t ...
    Imagine if this happened to you. Another raid on the wrong residence; another dead dog. This time, Iraq War veteran Adam Arroyo says he came home on Monday to find his door busted down, and his beloved pup dead from bullet wounds. The Buffalo, NY police did not seem too concerned with cleaning ...
  • Thousands of Women March Against Guatemala's D ...
    A female-led movement for justice follows the overturning of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt's genocide conviction. f Two weeks ago, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court overturned the historic guilty verdict of the nation’s former military dictator Efraín R&#xE ...
  • Hacker Who Exposed Steubenville Rape Case Coul ...
    How's that for justice? The Steubenville rape case, in which two high school football players were convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl at a party, helped spark a national conversation about consent, victim-blaming, and rape culture. The case gained national ...
  • AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on Obama's "Rela ...
    "Droney! I didn't see you there!"  Related StoriesIs the White House Open for Hedge Fund Business?Cenk Uygur on NSA Scandal: ‘Barack Obama is a liar.’Pro-Fracking Greens Called Out in Ecologist Sandra Steingraber's New Manifesto

Threat Level

  • Zuckerberg, Page: NSA Has No ‘Direct Access’ t ...
    Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page both denied today that they’ve given U.S spies access to their companies’ backend servers, deepening the core mystery around the NSA’s newly-disclosed PRISM program: how exactly is the NSA getting its ...
  • Obama Asked Intel Agencies to Draw Up List of ...
    President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to draw up a list of possible overseas targets for offensive cyberattacks, according to a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian.
  • NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Serv ...
    The NSA and FBI directly tapped central servers belonging to nine U.S. internet firms, in order to get a constant feed of audio, video, photos, emails and documents as well as connection logs, according to a new report.
  • Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and ...
    While the feds are required to disclose the number of orders they apply for and receive, they aren’t required to say how many people are targeted in each order. So a single order issued to Verizon Business Solutions in April ...
  • Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveilla ...
    Verizon responded to allegations that the telecom was served with a top-secret court order demanding it provide the FBI and the NSA with customer call records continuously, and in bulk, saying it respects "customers' privacy" but must comply with the ...

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  

PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • With over 300,000 packages of Townsend Farms O ...
    Costco sold over 300,000 packages of Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend that have been linked to hepatitis A illnesses.  Harris Teeter sold a relatively small quantity of the blend and... Continue Reading
  • Raw Milk Vetoed in Nevada – Too Much of a Gamble
    Raw milk from Nye County’s Amargosa Valley won’t be showing up on store shelves in Las Vegas anytime soon. Existing law confines the sale of certified raw milk to the... Continue Reading
  • FSIS Requires Labeling of Needle Tenderized Steaks
    In January 2010 I wrote, “FSIS Should Require Labeling for Tenderized Steaks.”  As Food Safety News reports today, the long-stalled new U.S. Department of Agriculture rule to require labeling mechanically-tenderized... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A Toll Reaches 61 in 7 States
    As of June 5, 2013, 61 people with acute hepatitis A infections that may be linked with consumption of a contaminated product have been reported by seven states: Arizona, California... Continue Reading
  • Marler Clark Applauds Costco for Responsible C ...
    Attorney Bill Marler commended Costco today for proactively reaching out to the warehouse chain’s customers who purchased “Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend” frozen berry and pomegranate mix and offering to... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • PressTV – Egypt court convicts 43 NGO em ...
    An Egyptian court has convicted 43 local and foreign employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the US nonprofit groups, of receiving foreign funds to incite unrest in the North African country. Out of the 43 defendants, 27 workers, including at least 16 Americans who went on ...
  • Osama bin Laden’s Ghost – Salem-Ne ...
    Tim King Salem-News.com “As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other human beings as an appreciable act.” – bin Laden (SACRAMENTO, CA) – How many Americans kno ...
  • The Truth Comes Out: Former IRS Director Steve ...
    Susanne Posel | Occupy Corporatism Steve Miller, former Director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), admitted at a Congressional hearing that the taxes collected by the IRS are not mandatory – but voluntary. When questioned at the House Ways and Means Committee (WMC) hearing last week, M ...
  • It’s on! Farmers begin suing Monsanto ov ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The next wave of farmer backlash against Monsanto has just been unleashed by Ernest Barnes, a wheat farmer in Morton County, Kansas. He filed suit this week in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, alleging that Monsanto’s genetic pollut ...
  • Inventor of Rotavirus Vaccine Wants To End Par ...
    Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Public health officials are routinely failing to inform the public of their right to refuse vaccines in both school and work settings. Greater powers are at work to make mandatory vaccination policies which will allow officials to conduct childhood vaccinations wi ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The NSA news might be a birthday for the New A ...
    Summary:  These are special days! The New America approaches as the Second Republic (under the Constitution) dies.  Our children are the victims. Powerful elites are the agents. We are the cause. Recent events show this to any who choose to see. . This week we learned more about the extent of th ...
  • Danger, America! Wet your pants in fear of China!
    Summary: Ruling requires work. Feeding internal factions to prevent collective action. Feeding fears of others, turning their gaze to foreign foes. Feeding misinformation so that they no longer clearly see or understand the world, so that they cannot predict or adapt. Fortunately Americans makes ...
  • A nation lit only by propaganda
    Summary: Instead of writing, I’ve spent time listening, reviewing the 28 thousand comments on the FM website. My inferences from this (via induction) might explain much about the politics of 21st century America. We have become nation whose thinking is lit only by propaganda. . In 2007 Che ...
  • Our choice of heroes reveals much about America
    Summary: Our heroes reveal who we are. Under economic stress not seen since the Depression, we display the same powerlessness — and revert to the same heroes. In some ways we are back to conditions like the Depression era. High unemployment. High school graduates entering a crowded job mar ...
  • A second try at describing The First Step to r ...
    Summary: The first post in this series reviewed my posts about the state of the American Republic, asking why it has deteriorated far faster than I expected — or considered possible. This post attempts a diagnosis, and points to a path perhaps leading to a cure. A series about America Conf ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Bubbles Within B ...
    This infrared image shows a striking example of what is called a hierarchical bubble structure, in which one giant bubble, carved into the dust of space by massive stars, has triggered the formation of smaller bubbles. The large bubble takes ...
  • Atomic Bomb Fallout Helps Solve Brain Mystery
    The mushroom clouds produced by more than 500 nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have had a silver lining, after all. More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into ...
  • New Algorithms Force Scientists to Revise the ...
    More genetic data is available than ever before to help build evolutionary trees, but scientists are finding that different genes even in the same organism can tell conflicting stories.
  • Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Un ...
    A technique called quantum cryptography can, in principle, allow you to encrypt a message in such a way that it would never be read by anyone whose eyes it isn’t for. But in recent years, methods that were once thought ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hole in the Sun’ ...
    An extensive coronal hole rotated towards Earth over several days last week (May 28-31, 2013). The massive coronal area is one of the largest we have seen in a year or more. Coronal holes are the source of strong solar ...

PakAlert

  • Obama administration defends massive phone rec ...
    The White House has sought to justify its surveillance of millions of Americans’ phone records as anger grows over revelations that a secret court order gives the National Security Agency blanket authority to collect call data from a major phone carrier. Politicians and civil liberties campai ...
  • Nestle’s Wet Dream: They Mark Up Water 53 MILL ...
    The directors of Nestle must be breathing a sigh of relief as the world targets Monsanto with a barrage of negative publicity, global protests, and grassroots campaigns. While we’re all distracted by Monsanto’s GMO corruption of the food supply, Nestle is taking steps to profit off of the natura ...
  • Dissolving Micro-Chip Will Tell Big Brother Yo ...
    John Rogers PhD and his team work out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They, along with other teams at Tufts are developing transient electronics, tiny micro-thin chips that dissolve when they have served their purpose. On April 8th this year their research paper was present ...
  • Video: Shocking, Powerful & Heart Breaking Tes ...
    The following Testimony Compilation is from Soldiers who have been in the wars in the middle East and therefore their accounts obviously are more credible that the propaganda we are subjected to by the Pentagon controlled jewstream media
  • Bilderberg agenda: Western elites meet to dete ...
    During the world’s most secretive gathering the Bilderberg Group is set to discuss topics including cyber warfare, US foreign policy, “developments in the Middle East” and “Africa’s challenges” despite the glaring absence of regional representatives. The Bilderberg Group, long criticized for ...

Andy Worthington

  • Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz: The Mauritanian Teacher ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Further Calls for the Closure of Guantánamo fr ...
    Since the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo began, four months ago, it has been reassuring to see international organizations, the mainstream media and nearly a million members of the public (through various petitions) queuing up to criticize President Obama, and to urge him to address the ...
  • Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
    It is now 119 days since the prison-wide hunger strike began at Guantánamo, and 12 days since President Obama delivered a powerful speech at the National Defense University, in which he promised to resume releasing prisoners. The process of releasing prisoners — based on the deliberations ...
  • My Exchange with Guantánamo Spokesperson Who C ...
    In the early morning on Saturday June 1, drawing on reports published in in the Arabic- and French-speaking media in Mauritania, I published a story based on those reports, which, in turn, drew on comments made by a human rights representative in Mauritania, who stated that the last two Mauritan ...
  • Pentagon Denies Reports That Two Guantánamo Pr ...
    I’m sorry to report that claims that two prisoners were released from Guantánamo to Mauritania on Friday have apparently proved to be false. I was alerted to the story by a Mauritanian friend on Facebook on Friday night, and checked out two Arabic news sources that were cited — here ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Walmart Files Restraining Order on Protesters ...
    As striking Walmart workers and supporters headed from around the country to protest the retail giant's annual stockholder meeting in Fayetteville, Ark., the corporation issued a restraining order on several Walmart labor groups and banned protesters from going near the meeting. ...
  • Obama Terms Massive Domestic Spying Programs a ...
    Responding to the revelations detailing the US government's massive surveillence programs in recent days, President Obama on Friday said called the two programs--one which allows the collection of virtually all phone records produced in the United States and the other which allows the Nation ...
  • Anonymous Releases NSA Docs Related to Global ...
    Amid the explosive back-to-back revelations made by the Guardian and Washington Post regarding a pair of National Security Agency surveillence programs this week, the hacktivist group Anonymous on Friday released what they claim are additional NSA documents that both deepen and expand on those e ...
  • 'Reprehensible, Reckless, Illegal': Washington ...
    "Reprehensible." "Reckless." "Illegal." These are the adjectives some officials in Washington are using to describe not the sweeping surveillance of Americans by the NSA revealed this week, but letting Americans know that such surveillance exists. ...
  • Deaf to Dissent, Turkey's Erdogan says Popular ...

Lifehacker

  • What's the Worst Mistake You've Made in a Job ...
    When you interview for a job, you have a limited amount of time to come across as an amazing worker with a charming, stellar personality. On top of that, you have to seem like a fit for a particular company's culture. With all that pressure, mistakes often happen. What's the worst error you've ...
  • Reward Boost Finds the Best Rewards Credit Car ...
    Rewards credit cards are a great way to earn hundreds of dollars back on everyday spending. However, with so many different cards available and spending categories, finding the right ones to use can be tricky. Enter Reward Boost.Read more...    
  • The Best Comic Reader App for iOS
    If you've been looking to go digital with your comic book collection, you're probably overwhelmed with all the comic readers available on the iPhone and iPad. Fret no more: Comic Zeal is the app you want.Read more...    
  • Fit Tall Bottles in Short Cupboards with a Wir ...
    If you have a few bottles that are just a smidge too tall for the cupboards in your kitchen, weblog I'm an Organizing Junkie has a solution: just store them on their side with a wire rack.Read more...    
  • Android Lost Controls Your Stolen Phone, Even ...
    Android: Most phone recovery apps require you install the app before you lose the phone or it gets stolen. Android Lost, however, can be remotely installed and it comes with a slew of useful features beyond just locating your phone.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Water Wars Affecting Oyster Business
    The waging water wars is now effecting the oyster business.
  • Tri-state water wars taking a toll on Apalachi ...
    The Florida bay, which provides 10 percent of the nation's oysters, is suffering from a lack of fresh water from the Apalachicola River.
  • Coastal Voices: Dams can be removed while righ ...
    There has been much debate lately over the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and whether legislation is needed to remove the Klamath River dams and whether the KBRA terminates tribal rights. We are in the water wars together and should strive for unity. However a debate on whether tribal peopl ...
  • Drums Along the Nile
    Editor’s note: Water fights in Texas and elsewhere in the United States are gettting serious, but the furor building in Africa provides a taste of the water wars — possibly actual shooting wars — that may become a prominent feature of this century. A familiar legend says that Egypt has privately ...
  • Water crisis turns 'knotty' in Himacha ...
    Water crisis has turned into a knotty problem for most of the eligible bachelors in the parched villages of Kangra district.        

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • GOP Senate Candidate Compares The IRS To Al-Qaeda
    In a recent poll for his Senate campaign, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA.) compares the Internal Revenue Service to a terrorist group, asking voters, “When you go to your mailbox or answer your phone, who do you fear more?” The poll, posted on Broun’s campaign website, lists “IRS& ...
  • Insurers Aren’t Just Giving Out Rebate Checks ...
    Americans who bought individual health plans in 2012 saved $2.1 billion thanks to Obamacare consumer protections that limit how much insurers can profit off of Americans’ premiums, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The vast majority of those savings stem from ...
  • Colorado Attorney General Says Marijuana Magaz ...
    A new Colorado state law requiring magazines focused on marijuana to be treated like pornography is unconstitutional, according to the state’s Attorney General John Suthers (R). The law provides that “magazine whose primary focus is marijuana or marijuana businesses” must be ke ...
  • Air Force Names Woman To Head Sexual Assault P ...
    The Air Force on Friday announced that it had named a woman to head its troubled Sexual Assault Prevention program, herself a much higher rank than the former director who was himself arrested on charges of sexual assault. Maj. Gen. Margaret H. Woodward was named the new director of the Sexual A ...
  • Federal Judge Sends Menacing Email To Attorney ...
    The nation’s youngest federal judge compared herself to the “Hulk” in a menacing email to a prosecutor, warning, “You won’t like me when I’m angry. There’s a lesson in there for all attorneys.” The email is one of several pieces of evidence in unsealed court records examined by the DesMoines Reg ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Busty Hookers, Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, Child P ...
    That's about the size of it. What should you expect to find with right-wing politicians? These are people who slash much-needed services for the poor, and who want to toss their fellow citizens into the cruel hands of private health insurance parasites, ... and it's all based on a "respect for t ...
  • Democracy Decays ... whatev's
    Anti-democratic sleaze-ball Dalton McGuinty presided over the deliberate deletion of government emails that detailed the costs of cancelling the gas plants and what the government knew about it. This deliberate cover-up of public information, this destruction of public information, should have b ...
  • Newspapers Routinely Slander Politicians ...
    In Right-Wing-World it is simply a given that a newspaper with a vendetta against a hero of the people will invent scandalous accusations, of, say, the Mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine with gangsters, just to pick on him and be mean and try to destroy him to protect their union-buddies and ...
  • Radiation in Space
    NASA's Mars Rover (or whatever) has done some studies or some such. The gist of it all is that there's so much radiation in space on the way over and then hitting the surface of Mars itself, that any human beings sent on a mission to Mars would die of cancer eventually. We just can't give them e ...
  • I've noticed ...
    ... that when right-wingers start off, it's always about the stupid leftard fairy tree-huggers who don't know shit from shinola about the real world. Then, when you bring on the facts and arguments that decimate their arguments and leave them looking like the ignorant chumps that they are, they ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Arms Trade Treaty: Where’s Canada?
    The Canadian government voted in favour of the new U.N. Arms Trade Treaty in April, but it has refused to commit to signing the treaty, arguing that it needs to consult Canadians first.
  • Peacekeeping: Changes and constants
    Steve Staples and Josh Libben discuss what's changed and what hasn't over the history of U.N. peacekeeping and call on the Canadian government to once again become a significant contributor to peacekeeping missions.
  • Think carefully about the push for drones
    The Hill Times talks to Steve Staples and others about the Harper government's plan to acquire armed drones for Canada.
  • Fighters and Arctic sovereignty
    Ernie Regehr debunks the claim that fighter aircraft such as the F-35 have any significant contribution to make to Canadian security and sovereignty in the North.
  • Do you have a Peace Mom?
    How did your Peace Mom make a difference in your life, and in your community? Let us know, and send her an eCard for Mother's Day!

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-13-13
    Today, Kevin explains how the government is secretly taking money from you and what could be done to prevent inflation from getting any higher! Self Help: KT on Tour Get Your Omega-3’s Protect Your Bank Account Get Rid of Diabetes Weight Loss Cure Video: The Youth of America Health: Carmel Color ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-20-13
    Today, Kevin explains how natural supplements, like honey and apple cider vinegar, can improve your health and even reverse the aging process. Self Help: Make Food Allergies Vanish Get Rid of Depression Give Your Support Health: Leading Experts Rethinking Food Allergy Causes New Blood Tests Spot ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-27-13
    Today, Kevin reveals exactly how he would fix America if he were elected to office. Find out which programs he would cut, what he would make legal and illegal, what he would expose, and what laws he would demand! Self Help: Give Kevin Your Vote of Support! Don’t Worry About The How Everything Ke ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-4-13
    Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind mind manipulation within the music industry and two ways to counteract it. Self Help: No More Fluoride Free Audiobook Download Cell Phone Protection Natural Cures Grass Fed Beef Financial Independence Health: High Doses of Vitamin D Prevent Cancer Cell Phone ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-11-13
    Today, Kevin finally reveals how the secret society, The Brotherhood, approached him and what his vibrational frequency had to do with it. Plus, you are being programmed for failure; learn how to program yourself for success! Self Help: Viral Detox Subliminal Messaging KT’s Daily Life Esse ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • Police-State ‘Progressivism’
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPolice-State ‘Progressivism’ – Glenn Greenwald exposes the dark side of Obamaism Antiwar.comJustin Raimondo The bombshell dropped by Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian has exploded any pretenses to being ...
  • Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers!
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers! By Veterans TodayFriday, June 7th, 2013 Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers!   Tesla Coil   Humanitys horizons glowed from the brilliance of Nikola Tesla. But to our h ...
  • Jon Stewart hands The Daily Show over to John ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.comBy Eric W. Dolan The Daily Show host Jon Stewart turned the reins of his show over to John Oliver on Thursday night, but not before explaining his upcoming absence. Stewart is temporarily leaving the show to ...
  • NBC News: “The Government Has Been Collecting ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNBC News: “The Government Has Been Collecting Records On EVERY PHONE CALL Made In The U.S.” By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   NBC News reports: NBC News has learned that under the post-9/11 Patriot ...
  • Washington and the Breakdown of the Colombia-V ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy James Petras Washington has devised a dual strategy toward Latin America. This involves a new set of ambitious imperial initiatives designed to undermine the principal anti-im ...

Dandelion Salad

  • James Bamford: Inside the NSA’s Largest ...
    Dandelion Salad Repost from March 21, 2012 democracynow on Mar 21, 2012 democracynow.org – A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillanc ...
  • Erdogan’s Intrigues Against Syria Biting the D ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV June 4, 2013 Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lives in a world of foreign intrigue and mischief making. Now his penchant for dark forces seems to be rebounding on his government – with a vengeance ...
  • C’est Une Révolte, Pas (Encore) Une Revolution ...
    Dandelion Salad Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/ by Sungur Savran Socialist Project June 5, 2013 On May Day 2013, the police poured tonnes of tear gas on tens of thousands of workers and youth in different quarters of Istanbul, Turkey in order to stop them from ap ...
  • American Fascism: Ralph Nader Decries How Big ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader democracynow Jun 4, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org – Describing the United States as an “advanced Third World country,” longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the pow ...
  • Humanity Imperiled–The Path to Disaster ...
    Dandelion Salad by Noam Chomsky www.tomdispatch.com June 4, 2013 What is the future likely to bring?  A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside.  So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
  • No title
    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Bubbles Within B ...
    This infrared image shows a striking example of what is called a hierarchical bubble structure, in which one giant bubble, carved into the dust of space by massive stars, has triggered the formation of smaller bubbles. The large bubble takes ...
  • Atomic Bomb Fallout Helps Solve Brain Mystery
    The mushroom clouds produced by more than 500 nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have had a silver lining, after all. More than 50 years later, scientists have found a way to use radioactive carbon isotopes released into ...
  • New Algorithms Force Scientists to Revise the ...
    More genetic data is available than ever before to help build evolutionary trees, but scientists are finding that different genes even in the same organism can tell conflicting stories.
  • Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Un ...
    A technique called quantum cryptography can, in principle, allow you to encrypt a message in such a way that it would never be read by anyone whose eyes it isn’t for. But in recent years, methods that were once thought ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hole in the Sun’ ...
    An extensive coronal hole rotated towards Earth over several days last week (May 28-31, 2013). The massive coronal area is one of the largest we have seen in a year or more. Coronal holes are the source of strong solar ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • New Israeli plan calls for more “intelligence” ...
    This week in Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign ministry hosted the fourth international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism... This is “a gathering that has served as an important... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Palestinian plight hits UEFA sp ...
    With Europe’s most talented young footballers preparing for the kick-off of the under-21 championships on Wednesday, Israelis are celebrating the biggest footballing coup in their history... Last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Mass graves of Palestinians killed in 1948 Nak ...
    Six mass grave sites dating back to the 1936 Palestinian uprising and the 1948 Nakba were discovered around the Jaffa cemetery, the al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage reported Wednesday,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Marwan Barghouti: Arab Peace Plan damages Pale ...
    Marwan Barghouti: "I call for a strategy that is based on referring to the United Nations to achieve full membership in the UN and all other international agencies, so as to be able to sign pacts and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Kerry’s new peace plan sets the ...
    Israel, it seems, hopes that the Palestinian Authority, now permanently mired in financial crisis, can be arm-twisted with promises of billions of dollars in sweeteners. According to Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Speaking at OSISA in Johannesburg
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am currently in Durban, South Africa, co-teaching a fantastic ICL course with my friend (and War and Law blogger) Chris Gevers at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban is a very nice city, with amazing coffee — high praise from someone who live ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, June 6, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen South Korea has agreed to negotiate with North Korea on the reopening of a joint industrial park that was closed in April after rising tensions. The ICC Prosecutor has reported to the UN Security Council on the situation in Darfur. The EU Counter-Terrorism Co-ordi ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen According to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, forensic examination has shown that the Syrian regime used sarin gas against the rebels. He added that all options are now on the table regarding the response to the situation in Syria. Syrian troops, assisted b ...
  • China and the Philippines Take Their “Battle” ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The indefatigable Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare has a short post describing a lively exchange between the Chinese and Filipino representatives at MILSOPS, an invitation-only off-the-record meeting of top military officials from the Asia-Pacific region, about China’ ...
  • Guest Post: Germany’s Ratification of the Crim ...
    by Jennifer Trahan by Jennifer Trahan [Jennifer Trahan is associate clinical professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs (NYU-SCPS). She is also chair of the American Branch of the International Law Association International Criminal Court Committee and was a member of the American Bar Associ ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Women May Be Unaware of Chronic Lung P ...
    Report: Women May Be Unaware of Chronic Lung Problems PHOENIX – A new American Lung Association report says women are 37 percent more likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, than men – and that millions of women have symptoms that go undiagnosed. The most rec ...
  • Pork Giant's Sale to China Could Put Pig Promi ...
    Pork Giant's Sale to China Could Put Pig Promises in Jeopardy PHOENIX, Ariz. - A big business story about the sale of Smithfield Foods to a Chinese company puts a "pig promise" in peril. After the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) exposed the treatment of pigs at a Smithfield factory in ...
  • Day of Action Launches Campaign for Early Learning
    Day of Action Launches Campaign for Early Learning PHOENIX - Today is a national Early Learning Day of Action, kicking off a campaign to draw attention to the benefits of early childhood education and to support additional funding at both the national and local levels. "Numerous studies have sh ...
  • AZ College Grads: The Diploma and the Debt
    AZ College Grads: The Diploma and the Debt PHOENIX - The average college student in the United States will graduate owing almost $27,000 in student-loan debt, a 40 percent jump since 2002. Arizona grads typically owe about $20,000. According to Jonathan Fox, who is a college financial counsel ...
  • Arizonans Urged to Take Life Saving Measures i ...
    Arizonans Urged to Take Life Saving Measures into Own Hands PHOENIX - When it comes to cases of sudden cardiac arrest, bystander CPR can double or even triple survival rates, but in the majority of such incidents, there is no immediate help. According to CPR educator Kim Harkins, that's partly ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tweet Of The Day!
    Dang, accidentally deleted a VM message on my Verizon acct. Will reach out to the White House for a transcript… — Steve Woodruff (@swoodruff) June 7, 2013
  • Woo Hoo. It’s Global Donut Day!
    Dunkin’ Donuts celebrates Global Donut Day with a listing of yummy donuts in its stores across the planet, like the Saffron Pistachio Melody donut from India. While saffron may be more commonly associated with savory dishes like paella and rice, you might not know that it is also delicious ...
  • San Onofre nuclear plant will close permanently
    Southern California will now need to find 2.1 GW of power elsewhere, not an easy task.
  • Pandora’s Promise. Major environmentalists tur ...
    Pandora’s Promise, opening soon, documents five major environmentalists who changed their views and now are pro-nuclear. The gap between the amount of power produced fossil fuels vs. renewables is so huge it simply can’t be closed. Thus Stewart Brand and Michael Shellenberger, among ...
  • New resin developed for 3D printed microelectrodes
    Science fiction becomes reality. 3D printed microelectrodes could be used to send and receive signals from the brain, aiding in treating Parkinson’s disease, depression, and epilepsy. A new resin material that can be molded into complex, highly conductive 3-D structures with features just ...

Coteret

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