Friday, June 07, 2013

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The Sons of Liberty pulling down the statue of...The Sons of Liberty pulling down the statue of George III of the United Kingdom on Bowling Green (New York City), 1776. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Deadline Live

  • Bilderberg 2013: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton ...
    Although the ‘official’ guest list for Bilderberg has been made public through the major media for the first time  this year, the real interest will be in who is NOT on the list…   Global Research Today’s Bilderberg coverage which was streamed live on the Guerilla Media Network, saw the UK’ ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – June 6 2013
    THORSDAY 6.6.2013 (aka 666) Jack Blood throwns down on Breaking news (man goes suicidal at Rockefeller Plaza LIVE on the today show – slashes wrists.) Paris Jackson (Michael’s alleged daughter) slashes wrists? American Drone Operator confesses etc…. HOUR 2: Jack is joined by GL ...
  • This Day In History – June 7
    1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence. 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade. 1892 – Benjamin Harr ...
  • Former Hacker Testifies at Private Manning&#82 ...
    Govt Snitch – real trustworthy huh?   FORT MEADE, Md. — (NYT) Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who reported Pfc. Bradley Manning to military authorities in May 2010 after Private Manning confided that he had provided vast archives of secret government documents to WikiLeaks, te ...
  • Psych’d you out – TSA Drops Plan T ...
    This did not make sense from the start! Anyway – Knives and weapons are easy to come by – even under total “security”… If you don’t believe us just ask someone who has been in Jail. Now – can I keep the TSA out of my Underwear?   Sky News US Team Th ...

The Air Vent

  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...
  • Problematic Science Incorporated
    Holy crap.  I have realized it isn’t practical to do a half of a blog.  Did you know that the Internet is full of crazy people.   I’ve heard rumors, read other blogs, often commented on the generally high quality of tAV readers but when I don’t blog on science for months, guess ...
  • A Real Challenge to PSI
    This is awesome, the wife is downstairs watching a movie, I’ve finished my work and have a little time for blogging.   Not a lot, but some… There are too many pressures in my head.  Today a commenter, who is anonymous to me, left a slayer-style comment which has none of the Doug Cott ...
  • Answers
    So all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from adding CO2 to the atmosphere?   An interesting new study has been released which matches quite closely to Nic Lewis’s work.  The difference is that 14 of the authors are lead-coordinating lead authors of the pending ...
  • Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest
    John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at th ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook’s new advertising flow could help att ...
    Facebook wants to simplify advertising and place the focus on the objective, not the method. The company announced Thursday that it is turning its advertising model around and going from 27 types of ad units to...
  • Facebook reveals ad unit improvements, will ph ...
    Facebook has announced plans of streamlining its ad products by simplifying its offerings. From these changes, users will see a more standard set of ads, as the social network intends to reduce its 27 different ad units to...
  • Facebook Director of Product Management Doug P ...
    In his fireside chat at Inside Social Apps today, Facebook Director of Product Management Doug Purdy discussed about mobile app discovery difficulties faced by developers. He discussed how developers can use the platform to drive app...
  • Facebook careers: platform industry hires, int ...
    Facebook has removed 18 job listings from its careers page appearing to have made hires in for localization project managers and other miscellaneous positions. Listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Partner Manager, Preferred Marketing Developer Program (Menlo Park) Localization Project...
  • Facebook careers: Parse, consumer communicatio ...
    Facebook has added 49 positions to its careers page including a number of positions on Parse, which it acquired late last April. Parse is a cloud-based platform providing tools for app developers. When Facebook purchased it, the...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Citizens v. United Requires A Fairness doctrine
    Capital now controls our central bank, major media, campaign finance and election processes. In effect, the vast majority now lack control over their own society, economy, and republic. We, the people, do not set the agenda. Instead, a small, powerful and ultra-rich minority does due to our rela ...
  • Obamacare Exchange Watch: Low Healthcare Costs ...
    Low projected premiums for Obamacare healthcare Exchanges were the big news in California last week. But the story the media told was a flawed one, characterized by gee-whiz reporting, a willingness to accept official spin, and failure to ask basic questions.
  • Political Feasibility in the Clash of Paradigms
    Slapping band-aids on the wounds of empire may be necessary in the short-term, but we can do better than that. First we have to be honest about what's going on, the science and processes that support systemic change, and on what our effective responses are. Here's a hint: Arguing with ideologues ...
  • Trash Talking Economists
    There's a war on. Corporate interests are killing the middle class and depriving poorer people of hope, opportunity, and basic human needs, and they're using economics as a weapon They say truth is the first casualty in any war, and maybe so. But can't we give it a decent funeral, or is that too ...
  • Will Brussels Miss a Historic Moment in Europe ...
    During the Upcoming Eastern Partnership Summit at Vilnius, the EU Should Provide Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine with an Official Membership Perspective

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “I Want to Create A National Epidemic of ...
    Even leaving aside the ethical issues, rarely has a book proposal without “Camille Paglia” in the author’s slot seemed so unreadable: Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced writer who resigned from The New Yorker after he was discovered plagiarizing and fabricating material, has sold a bo ...
  • “Look, If You Can’t Torture People ...
    Shorter John Yoo: No, I still can’t till any difference between wiretapping in defiance of a statute and wiretapping with the authorization of a statute, because the Constitution clearly states that laws apply only at the pleasure of the president. Somewhere in the back. I note as well tha ...
  • It’s always been raining in Castamere
    We probably don’t need to talk too much about the content of “The Rains of Castamere,” if only because I said most of what I wanted to, content-wise, in the podcast. Instead I’d like to focus on how the director, David Nutter, used the confusion created by Michelle MacCla ...
  • Your Privacy Through A PRISM
    The Verizon order was problematic, but the PRISM program revealed by the WaPo yesterday seems much worse than that. A key lesson, I argue, is that as often happens the separation of powers doesn’t produce checks and balances so much as the legislative branch delegating broad authority so i ...
  • With Arya as Inigo Montoya…
    Appropriate.

Desert Research Institute

  • In memory of Carl Young
    The DRI family was saddened to learn over the weekend of the passing of Carl Young, a former graduate assistant at DRI and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Microbiologist at the Desert Research Institut ...
    Dr. Duane Moser, Environmental Microbiologist explores the habitat of the rare Devils Hole Pupfish, a species believed to be somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 years old.
  • Tribute to Dorothy S. Gallagher
    Today the entire DRI family is saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and long-time supporter Regent Dorothy S. Gallagher.
  • Farnaz Hosseinpour, May 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
    Meet Farnaz Hosseinpour, a Ph.D. student working on climate modeling and simulation in DRI’s Atmospheric Sciences division. She’s using an ensemble of NASA satellite datasets to explore relationships between interactive-aerosol forcing and planetary-scale climatic responses. 
  • DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-lon ...
    In a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydro-geologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Two Men Photographed Near Boston Marathon Sue ...
    Two Massachusetts men whose photos were splashed across the New York Post in an article claiming they were possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have sued the newspaper for libel.
  • Judge Unseals Details of Dodgers' Deal With Ex ...
    The new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers must make public a single document that reveals their financial arrangement with previous owner Frank McCourt, under a ruling made on Wednesday by a judge in Los Angeles.
  • For Eric Holder, There's No Escaping the Heat
    Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. defended himself Thursday amid growing criticism and calls for his resignation, saying on Capitol Hill that he has done a "good job" and would remain the nation's top law enforcement officer until he has accomplished his goals.
  • DNA Swabs for Arrestees: What's the 'Right" An ...
    Reading the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision of June 3 in Maryland v. King, which upheld the right of the state to take a DNA swab from a person who was arrested, but not convicted, and use it to tie him to an unsolved rape, left me with two minds.
  • ITC Can Take Steps to Enforce Its Own Exclusio ...
    The commission should not wait for legislation or an adverse court decision but should act now to improve the Section 337 enforcement system.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Map of Antarctica Provides Clearest Glimps ...
    British scientists have unveiled the most detailed topographical map available yet of Antarctica, a vast dataset that provides a penetrating 3-D view of the Click to enlarge NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Antarctica's subglacial terrain frozen continent down to the bedrock level and c ...
  • Carbon Emissions in Brazil Dropped 39 Percent ...
    Greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil fell by nearly 39 percent from 2005 to 2010, largely because of reductions in the amount of forest loss, according to a new government report. Overall, Brazil emitted the equivalent of 1.25 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2010, which was more than 10 percent ...
  • As Extreme Weather Increases, Bangladesh Brace ...
    Scientists are predicting that warming conditions will bring more frequent and more intense extreme weather events. Their warnings hit home in densely populated Bangladesh, which historically has been hit by devastating sea surges and cyclones. BY BRIAN FAGAN
  • First Amphibian Declared Extinct ‘Rediscovered ...
    A team of scientists says it has “rediscovered” in northern Israel the first amphibian declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a species of frog that turns out to be the only Click to enlarge Sarig GafnyA Hula painted frog surviving member of an extinct gen ...
  • Nanofilter System Can Deliver Clean Water to R ...
    Indian scientists have developed a filter system they say can provide clean water to rural families for less than $2.50 per year and help reduce incidences of diarrhea that cause tens of thousands of deaths in the developing world annually. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of S ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Part 1: 12,000-Year-Old Gobekli Tepe - Is It L ...
    "...as the sun rose I was standing on the Gobekli Tepe hilltop in southern Turkey not far from the Syrian northern border. Carbon dated to 12,000 years ago, Gobekli is older than Egypt, Sumeria, classical Greeks and Stonehenge. I had hoped, expected, that being there physically would help me und ...
  • Can People Live on Only Sunlight and Water?
    A woman in Seattle who believes she can live without food is trying to prove it, and promoting her claims through social media. According to a story on Fox News, “Navenna Shine, the founder and subject of the Living on Light experiment, plans to spend the next four to six months abstaining from ...
  • Is Obama Lying About Big Brother?
    As of this moment, Obama is making the case that the US government is not eavesdropping on phone calls. Specifically, he said "nobody is listening to your phone calls - they are just looking at phone numbers and duration of calls" and concluded that the NSA was only engaged in "modest encroachme ...
  • What Color Is That? The Answer Depends On the ...
    Color has long been one of the battlegrounds in psycholinguistics — this dates back to 1969 or earlier, when Brent Berlin and Paul Kay’s book Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution was published and struck what appeared to be a deathblow to the idea that the language a person speaks ...
  • Just Tap Here: Technology and Travel
    Goodbye, plastic hotel room key. So long, wallet. Farewell, camera. These days you don’t need any of the above to unlock a hotel room, buy a mojito or snap a vacation photo. All you need is, well — you. At hotels like Alma Barcelona in Spain, a scan of your fingertips opens the door to your room ...

Not My Tribe

  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...
  • Colorado Springs gay pride festival 2013 moves ...
    Haven’t we seen this countless times before: a nonprofit buys bigger britches forgetting that there was a reason it wore tight pink shorts, esthetics being the governing factor in neither case. Local Pride organizers may tell you they needed a larger park, but for what? The world’s l ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Cracked writers puts nine seconds of research ...
    5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Shockingly Easy to Debunk http://www.cracked.com/article_20466_5-conspiracy-theories-that-are-shockingly-easy-to-debunk.html From #3: "Conspiracy theorists like Rosie O'Donnell like to rattle off statistics like how the towers fell in nine seconds, which just happ ...
  • A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 - Full Version
    http://www.anoblelie.com - Please support the filmmakers by purchasing the DVD. The 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City was a direct blow to the heart of America. 168 people were killed, including nineteen children. For those watching the nightly news, Terrorism had come home. For years following t ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 5/30/13: Actual Fire Collapses ...
    Published on Jun 2, 2013 9/11 researcher Adam Taylor talks about his latest paper, "Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Steel Structures Collapsing due to Fire and their Relation to the WTC". One by one he goes over each structure cited in his paper, which have been erroneously ...
  • Upcoming Interview on 9/11 Free Fall, 5/30/2013
    This Thursday I will be featured on the No Lies Radio program "9/11 Free Fall" for the second time to discuss my recent paper published at scientificmethod911.org. Tune in this Thursday at 10:00 EST for a thorough discussion of why other steel-framed structure collapses are totally unjustified c ...
  • Why Was a Sunday Times Report on US Government ...
    In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, published last year, charged senior gover ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despit ...
    Trucks have reportedly arrived to remove Ranyane Bushmen from their ancestral land.© Survival InternationalGovernment trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. The move to evict the Ranyane ...
  • Brazil police shoot Indians – more violence feared
    Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrPolice in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of t ...
  • Brazilian journalist sentenced for racism agai ...
    A journalist described Brazil's Indians as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA journalist in Brazil has been found guilty of discrimination against Indians, who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’. In an article published by the news site Jornal NH, Ivar Paulo Hartmann stated ...
  • Bushman eviction suspended
    The Botswana government has repeatedly attempted to evict Bushmen from their land, but many have defiantly resisted leaving their ancestral homes. © Dominick TylerBushmen from Ranyane in southern Botswana have been granted a court order which suspends Tuesday’s planned evictions of the community ...
  • Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis
    Nixiwaka Yawanawá is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis.© Survival InternationalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a 26-year-old Yawanawá Indian from Brazil, is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis – the highest point in the British Isles.   Nixiwaka will be available for ...

Greg Palast

  • The Idiot's Guide to the Voting Rights Act
    Will the Supreme Court pull the teeth out of the law? by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net This month –as early as tomorrow— the US Supreme Court will tell us whether Black and Brown citizens have the right to vote. Now, if you saw the film Lincoln, you probably thought that issue was settled abou ...
  • Will the Supreme Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court to decide on Voting Rights Act this month. For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. This month, as ...
  • My Father's Victory in the Pacific
    By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
  • My Big Fat Greek Minister
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine It wasn't too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. (We'd both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasi ...
  • "Now that the SOB is Dead..." A Novel Idea: As ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry with us?" "Us", in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden. The Taliban's frustration was relayed to me by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid K ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Weekly Wrap: Vaxxing Sick Kids Now OK?
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. June 7, 2013, Madison Journal, Madison County GA: OPINION: Anti-vaccine movement must not take root June 6, 2013 KTVZ--Bend, OR: Bend moms-to-be weigh in on vaccine debate--Ore. Senate votes to tighten...
  • Roche Backs Out on Seaside Therapeutics Drug T ...
    Managing Editor's Note: The drug in question called arbaclofen, was in clinical trials for both Fragile X and autism. To learn more and to read about family stories, please visit stx209.com and read A Plea for Help: Fragile X Stories....
  • Dachel Media Update: Growth of Awareness?
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. June 5, 2013, RTV6: Ind. chief: Officer right to stun autistic woman June 5, 2013, US News: Study: A Third of Autistic Children Also Have ADHD June 5, 2013, Free Press,...
  • Protocol 007: Feds Urge Judge Not to Dismiss M ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill In a blow to Merck’s hopes for a quick legal victory, the U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal judge not to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit over the company’s mumps vaccine just because the...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield Talks about Death, Trust ...
    In Dr. Wakefield's fifth challenge to Dr. Salisbury to debate issues of vaccine safety, he discusses the tragic death of Christopher Coulter.

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

new geography

  • Suburbs and Sacred Space
    Suburbs are often unfairly maligned as lacking the qualities that make cities great. But one place that criticism can be fair is in the area of sacred space. There most certainly is sacred space in the suburbs, but usually less of it than in the city both quantitatively and qualitatively.  In ...
  • Toward a Self Employed Nation?
    The United States labor market has been undergoing a substantial shift toward small-scale entrepreneurship. The number of proprietors – owners of businesses who are not wage and salary employees, has skyrocketed, especially in the last decade. Proprietors are self employed business owners wh ...
  • Florida's Pinellas County: Growth Gone Wild
    In the seventeen years since my last visit, Florida's Pinellas County hasn't much changed. It's still a low-grade carpet of commercial junk space from coast to coast, and the edges - where the value really lies - aren't very different than they were in the 1990s. There's more, but not better. ...
  • Retrofitting the Dream: Housing in the 21st Ce ...
    This is the introduction to "Retrofitting the Dream: Housing in teh 21st Century," a new report by Joel Kotkin. To read the entire report, download the .pdf attachment below. In recent years a powerful current of academic, business, and political opinion has suggested the demise of ...
  • Market Surge Confirms Preference for Homeowning
    Ever since the housing bubble burst in 2007, retro-urbanists, such as Richard Florida, have taken aim at homeownership itself, and its "long-privileged place" at the center of the U.S. economy. If anything, he suggested, the government would be better off encouraging "renting, not buying." ...

water.org

  • Margery's Two Loans
    Margery took out two WaterCredit loans that allowed her to install toilets and a water storage tank. Both have brought her and her family dignity, health and comfort.
  • Water for Leah's Farm
    Leah lives in Ngawene village on the outskirts of Maua town with her two children – a daughter (25) and a son (18). Leah, pictured second from the right with ECLOF and Water.org staff, is a secondary level graduate and also holds an accountancy technician certificate. Leah is 50 years old, marri ...
  • Celebrities endorse the toilet strike
    Richard Branson, Olivia Wilde and Bono join Water.org Co-founder Matt Damon to protest lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for 2.5 billion people
  • Three Mothers, Three Stories
    The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding - in celebration of Mother's Day, watch this video and hear the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and found a path to water.
  • Breathing Easier in India
    In Tamil Nadu, community residents are often dependent on remote and unsafe connections for drinking water. Even when a public water tap is nearby, long lines can take up precious time that could be better spent on income generating opportunities.

Cryptogon

  • Mass Shooting Half Hour After President Obama& ...
    Via: New York Daily News: A berserk black-clad gunman carrying an AR-15 assault weapon went on bloody rampage in Santa Monica on Friday, shooting eight people — six fatally — before cops gunned him down near a college library. The violence erupted about noon during an apparent domestic dispute a ...
  • GCHQ Also Accesses PRISM
    It’s probably not just the U.S. and Britain. See Five Eyes, which also includes Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Via: Guardian: The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies th ...
  • NSA Whistle-Blower: “Now We Are All Pers ...
    Via: Salon: For Thomas Drake, the former National Security Agency employee who blew the whistle on the agency’s expansive post-9/11 surveillance programs in 2006, the latest revelation of blanket surveillance is simply “déjà vu.” Drake, who was indicted under the Espionage Act and faced life in ...
  • Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract to Build ...
    Via: Guardian: Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications. The president of the country’s national assembly, Rene Nuñez, announced the $40bn (£26bn) project, ...
  • San Onofre nuclear Power Plant Closing Down
    Via: CBS: The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California is closing, after an epic 16-month battle over whether the twin reactors could be safely returned to service, officials announced Friday. Operator Southern California Edison said in a statement it will retire the twin r ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Government Has Been STEALING User Dat ...
    The U.S. government has been hacking in to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple and has been taking their user data without their knowledge or consent.  According to the Washington Post, the information being stolen includes "audio and video c ...
  • Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Wil ...
    Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States?  Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen.  Chinese acquisition of U.S. bus ...
  • 12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is Abou ...
    A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are starting to happen again.  As you read the list below, you will notice that the year "2009" comes up again and again.  There is a reason for that.  Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic downt ...
  • 20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being ...
    Would you like to know what America's young people are actually learning while they are away at college?  It isn't pretty.  Yes, there are some very highly technical fields where students are being taught some very important skills, but for the most part U.S. college students are learning very l ...
  • Does China Plan To Back The Yuan With Gold And ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Why are the Chinese hoarding so much gold?  Does China plan to back the yuan with gold and turn it into a global reserve currency?  Could it be possible that China actually intends for the yuan to eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the primary reserve curren ...

Desertification

  • Malnutrition, the underlying cause of death fo ...
    Read at : http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/tackle-malnutrition-now/ Tackle Malnutrition Now By Jomo Kwame Sundaram In this column, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, assistant director-general for economic and social development at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), writes that while th ...
  • Agricultores de pequeña escala en el mercado g ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List Nueva publicación: Agricultores de pequeña escala en el mercado globalizado: tomando decisiones en un mundo cambiante Passiflora (Photo WVc) IIED, Hivos y el Centro Mainumby se complacen en anunciar la publicación de &#8 ...
  • Green revolution technologies will benefit a f ...
    Read at : AfricaFiles No. 26656: Corporate takeover of agriculture & land will increase hunger, groups claim  — Food and Land http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/media/64-media-releases/432-g8-qhunger-summitq-initiative-rejected-by-african-civil-society-corporate-takeover-of-agriculture- ...
  • Reduce food waste to save money, resources and ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=236159 Stop wasting food Salaseini Moceiwai PEOPLE have been urged to take responsibility and reduce food waste to save money, resources and minimise environmental impacts. This was the advice from acting perm ...
  • Numerous bans on the cutting of wet and young ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://somalilandsun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3071:somaliland-government-reacts-to-alarming-threat-of-deforestation-and-desertification&catid=44:government Somaliland: Government Reacts to Alarming Threat of Defo ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Nesting duck halts work on Towcester's £4 ...
    Work on part of a £45m regeneration scheme in Northamptonshire has stopped while council bosses wait for a brood of ducklings to hatch. A nesting mallard duck was...
  • How bird flu viruses adapt to humans
    Tweet Washington, June 7 (ANI): Two new studies have identified mutations that increase the infectivity of H5N1 and H7N9 viruses through improved binding to receptors in the human respiratory tract. The findings offer much-needed strategies for monitoring the emergence of dangerous bird flu ...
  • Putin announces split: 'We have different ...
    June 7, 2013 -- Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, have ended their nearly 30-year marriage, the state-run news agency reported on Thursday, June 6. Putin is a popular but polarizing figure who has dominated Russian politics for more than a d ...
  • Poor Sleep May Worsen Heart Woes in Women ...
    But lack of shuteye doesn't seem to have same effect on inflammation levels in men FRIDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Poor sleep appears to contribute to the progression of heart disease in women by raising their inflammation levels, but this effect was not seen in men, researchers say. "Inf ...
  • Williams hopes to end poor French Open re ...
    For a decade, the French Open has presented more problems for Serena Williams than any of the other Grand Slam tournaments. Her collection of 15 major championships includes five from Wimbledon, five from the Australian Open, four from the US Open ... and one from Roland Garros. Ever since s ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • A Crisis of Leadership? Rebuilding Trust in th ...
    Re-building trust in the energy industry was the topic of the day at a May 15th event hosted by Edelman and TheEnergyCollective.com. The event was the first live, in-person event we’ve hosted, and you can watch the full event here.
  • It Takes a Crisis: Climate Change and Energy P ...
    With respect to energy policy, major initiatives have required a perceived crisis either ongoing or recently past. Without a crisis, proposed energy and climate legislation has typically gone into committee to die.
  • Renewable Energy Gets a Rural Boost in Colorado
    Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed legislation that will double the amount of energy that his state’s large rural electric coops and the utilities that provide them power must get from renewable sources to 20% by 2020.
  • Low-Cost EV Batteries Get a Hand From Carbon N ...
    Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have discovered a pathway for developing low cost electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to a new generation of affordable EVs.
  • Offshore Wind Advances and Cleantech Investmen ...
    The first floating wind turbine in U.S. waters was towed into the Atlantic over the weekend, and it might be a big new greentech investment opportunity.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Washington and the Breakdown of the Colombia-V ...
    James Petras Introduction Washington has devised a dual strategy toward Latin America. This involves a new set of ambitious imperial initiatives designed to undermine the principal anti-imperialist governments (Venezuela), social movements and armed insurgency (Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...
  • Samantha Power for UN Envoy
    by Stephen Lendman Obama's cabinet, national security team, and other close advisors reflect a virtual rogues gallery of scoundrels. Susan Rice as National Security Advisor and Samantha Power as UN envoy are on board in new capacities. Rice shifts from UN ambassador to the White House. A previ ...
  • Anti-Syrian Blame Game Escalates
    by Stephen Lendman Since early 2011, ongoing blame game strategy holds Syria responsible for Western-enlisted death squad crimes. In August 2011, the Human Rights Council (HRC) appointed a so-called Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria (COI). Paulo Pinheiro heads it. His ...
  • Susan Rice for National Security Advisor
    by Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed her. Calling her controversial stops short of accurately characterizing her. Moral depravity explains best. Vishay Prashad calls her the "queen of interventionist hawks." South African journalist Getahune Bekele said she's a "consummate ally of g ...
  • NYCLU Analysis Exposes Stark Racial Disparitie ...
    From Jennifer Carnig There are gaping racial disparities in low-level marijuana arrests in counties across New York State, according to a New York Civil Liberties Union analysis released today of federal crime reporting data from 2010. The greatest racial disparities occur in Kings County (Br ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • More Background on Bill C-525
    Leftnews.org has more information on Bill C-525. It explains the impact the Bill will have on card-check certification and provides research on why card check has proven to be the preferred method of certifying and de-certifying. 
  • Merit Canada Speech on Open Shops
    Here's a speech from the president of Merrit Canada calling for restrictions on unionized shops and unions in general. He uses the term 'opportunity to work' and tries to differentiate between that and RTW. 
  • CPC National Convention: Policy Resolutions/Am ...
    Here's the PCP's PDF document pertaining to the convention coming up in Calgary later in June, 2013. Of particular interest: Page 14: disclosure of how union dues are spent and ability of union members to opt out of paying for certain activities; Page 67: Dues checkoff Page 68: RTW Page 71: ...
  • Private Member Bill C-525 - Card Check Federal ...
    Private Member Bill C-525 is now available. Jim Stanford has reviewed it and finds that it does more than eliminate card check in the federal sector. It also changes how votes would occur. Jim notes that cards representing 45% of a bargaining unit will be required to trigger a vote; union would ...
  • Jim Stanford argues against RTW
    This link will take you to a debate (broadcast on BNN) between Jim and the Labour Watch spokesperson position on RTW.   

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • A Crisis of Leadership? Rebuilding Trust in th ...
    Re-building trust in the energy industry was the topic of the day at a May 15th event hosted by Edelman and TheEnergyCollective.com. The event was the first live, in-person event we’ve hosted, and you can watch the full event here.
  • It Takes a Crisis: Climate Change and Energy P ...
    With respect to energy policy, major initiatives have required a perceived crisis either ongoing or recently past. Without a crisis, proposed energy and climate legislation has typically gone into committee to die.
  • Renewable Energy Gets a Rural Boost in Colorado
    Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed legislation that will double the amount of energy that his state’s large rural electric coops and the utilities that provide them power must get from renewable sources to 20% by 2020.
  • Low-Cost EV Batteries Get a Hand From Carbon N ...
    Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have discovered a pathway for developing low cost electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to a new generation of affordable EVs.
  • Offshore Wind Advances and Cleantech Investmen ...
    The first floating wind turbine in U.S. waters was towed into the Atlantic over the weekend, and it might be a big new greentech investment opportunity.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • BlueStacks GamePop Console Plans to Run iOS Ap ...
    The company already announced that the device will be able to run games written for Android. But, in a surprise move, the startup is announcing Friday that the set-top box will also be capable of running games written for Apple phones and tablets. It's doing that through a virtualization process ...
  • Xbox One: Microsoft will require Internet conn ...
    "With Xbox One you can game offline for up to 24 hours on your primary console, or one hour if you are logged on to a separate console accessing your library," the company posted on its site today. "Offline gaming is not possible after these prescribed times until you re-establish a connection, ...
  • TiVo shares fall on settlement with Google's M ...
    Shares of TiVo Inc. plummeted Friday after the set-top box maker announced a settlement with Google's Motorola Mobility unit, Cisco and Time Warner Cable for less than expected. TiVo said Friday it reached a settlement with the three companies for a total of $490 million. That's significan ...
  • Anthony Pellicano Wiretap Lawsuit Nears Settlement
    It's been more than a decade since P.I.-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano left a dead fish with a rose in its mouth and a sign reading "Stop" on the windshield of journalist and former THR editor Anita Busch's car. On June 6, a long-awaited civil settlement will be announced in the class-action su ...
  • Tech industry groups like Obamas patent crackdown
    "The White House proposals will help crack down on the most abusive practices," said a statement released by the Internet Association, which represents Facebook, Google, Amazon and other leading online companies. Another big trade group, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, als ...

WideShut

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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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Muldoon and Key
    In my speech to our party conference last week, I compared John Key to Robert Muldoon. This has provoked a furious response from the Right who accuse me of being a migrant who has no right to speak about Muldoon. So lets have a look at it a bit more rationally. Obviously Key isn’t exactly [...]
  • Longfin eel victory but more needs to be done.
    The Government is finally looking at implementing some of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s Recommendations on longfin eels. We have been pushing for protection for longfin eels for a long time and we now welcome some progress. There was good analysis in the PCE report which s ...
  • Bad news for SkyCity workers health
     There was some bad news for hospitality workers and their ability to operate in a smokefree environment at SkyCity casino today.  Two applications have been approved by the Gambling Commission allowing SkyCity to create new smoker-friendly areas. SkyCity is currently being sued by the Cancer So ...
  • Searching for a consensus on climate change &# ...
    Picking up from Part I of this blog post, I had occasion to question Minister Tim Groser yesterday about climate change and his Government’s policy.  This followed from Russel Norman questioning him 30 minutes earlier. Given that he has declined to come to my conference in Parliament today for a ...
  • Counting down to Youth Parliament
    In just over a month, parliament and the press gallery will be taken over by 16-18 year olds for Youth Parliament. We’ve previously blogged about the fantastic Green Youth MPs. This amazing experience includes question time, debating a mock bill in the debating chamber and considering a ra ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despit ...
    Trucks have reportedly arrived to remove Ranyane Bushmen from their ancestral land.© Survival InternationalGovernment trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International. The move to evict the Ranyane ...
  • Brazil police shoot Indians – more violence feared
    Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrPolice in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of t ...
  • Brazilian journalist sentenced for racism agai ...
    A journalist described Brazil's Indians as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA journalist in Brazil has been found guilty of discrimination against Indians, who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’. In an article published by the news site Jornal NH, Ivar Paulo Hartmann stated ...
  • Bushman eviction suspended
    The Botswana government has repeatedly attempted to evict Bushmen from their land, but many have defiantly resisted leaving their ancestral homes. © Dominick TylerBushmen from Ranyane in southern Botswana have been granted a court order which suspends Tuesday’s planned evictions of the community ...
  • Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis
    Nixiwaka Yawanawá is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis.© Survival InternationalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a 26-year-old Yawanawá Indian from Brazil, is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis – the highest point in the British Isles.   Nixiwaka will be available for ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Panic Attacks and Anxiety Linked To Low Vitami ...
    from undergroundhealth.com: If you suffer from anxiety or develop occasional panic attacks marked by bouts of hyperventilation, you could merely be experiencing the side effects of an underlying nutrient deficiency that is easily correctable, says Jonathan Benson of Natural News. ...
  • Top 10 Natural Health Remedies of Coconut Oil
    from naturalblaze.com: The popularity of coconut oil has skyrocketed in the Western world over the last several years.  However, its many health benefits have been known in other regions of the world as part of their ancient history. Better late than never! Coconut oil i ...
  • Japan cancels tender to purchase U.S. GMO wheat
    from reuters.com: A strain of genetically modified wheat found in the United States fuelled concerns over food supplies across Asia on Thursday, with major importer Japan cancelling a tender offer to buy U.S. grain. Other top Asian wheat importers South Korea, China and the Philippin ...
  • #Video: Despite FDA Approval, Many Distrustful ...
    from youtube.com/cnn: New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moore says there are, as yet, no studies linking GMO to health problems.
  • GM Salmon, Genetic Engineering of Farm Animals ...
    from NaturalSociety.com: By summer of 2013, US governing bodies, or, the alphabet soup of corruption (USDA, FDA, etc.) are expected to grant permission for scientists to roll out genetically modified salmon and allow for genetic engineering in farm animals for human consumption. The ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Government Has Been STEALING User Dat ...
    The U.S. government has been hacking in to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple and has been taking their user data without their knowledge or consent.  According to the Washington Post, the information being stolen includes "audio and video c ...
  • Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Wil ...
    Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States?  Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen.  Chinese acquisition of U.S. bus ...
  • 12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is Abou ...
    A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are starting to happen again.  As you read the list below, you will notice that the year "2009" comes up again and again.  There is a reason for that.  Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic downt ...
  • 20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being ...
    Would you like to know what America's young people are actually learning while they are away at college?  It isn't pretty.  Yes, there are some very highly technical fields where students are being taught some very important skills, but for the most part U.S. college students are learning very l ...
  • Does China Plan To Back The Yuan With Gold And ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Why are the Chinese hoarding so much gold?  Does China plan to back the yuan with gold and turn it into a global reserve currency?  Could it be possible that China actually intends for the yuan to eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the primary reserve curren ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 30 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 ...
    And here we go again. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released almost a month ago and unlike previous releases, this has been more of a silent affair. Mainstream blogs and news websites didn't cover much about the release. Ubuntu 13.04 is mostly an incrementally updated release and th ...
  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...
  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...
  • Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
    Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

  • Bilderberg Conference Begins
    On June 5, the London Evening Standard headlined "No minutes, no press conferences - just the world's power brokers chewing the fat on the issues of the day. It's the Bilderberg conference - and it's coming to a suburb near you."
  • Lincoln Man Must Repay VA in Theft
    A Lincoln man convicted of theft has been ordered to pay the Department of Veterans Affairs more than $124,000 in restitution.
  • It is not Terror if We do It
    Imagine a world in which illogical statements would be automatically nullified and prosecuted.
  • Spy State Shock: ALL Social Media Sharing wit ...
    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 have been living in denial.
  • Syria – Israel Is Losing the Battle
    The media in Israel is far more tolerant toward criticism than the Zionist dominated Media in the West.

electric politics

  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Cheap Power At What Cost?
    Carbon Conversations 10 Jun 2013 - 07:30 A Panel Discussion on the Health Impacts of Alberta's Heavy Reliance on Coal-Fired Power Plants doors open 7pm, panel begins at 7:3 ...
  • Bike Month
    Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...
  • EcoLiving Tour
    EcoLiving Events 8 Jun 2013 - 09:00 - 15:00 From the EcoLiving website: This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions a ...
  • Update on the Alberta Energy Regulator
    Alberta Environmental Network 1 Jun 2013 - 10:00 - 12:00 In December 2012, the Government of Alberta passed the Responsible Energy Development Act which creates a single regulator f ...
  • Call for Comments: Proposed Ambient Air Qualit ...
    Organization:  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Initiative:  Alberta Ambient Air Quality Ob ...

Stop NATO

  • NATO Chief Thanks Poland For Missiles, Afghan War
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization June 6, 2013 Secretary General thanks Poland for strong commitment NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen thanked Poland for its staunch commitment to the Alliance and its strong contributions to missions, in particular in Afghanistan and Kosovo during a ...
  • Former Maldives President Opposes U.S. Militar ...
    Xinhua News Agency June 7, 2013 Former Maldives president opposes U.S. plan to set up foothold for forces NEW DELHI: A former Maldives president has expressed opposition to a plan by the United States to establish a foothold for its armed forces in his Indian Ocean island nation. The local daily ...
  • Georges Duhamel: Who has taught children of ma ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Georges Duhamel: Selections on war ==== Georges Duhamel From The Heart’s Domain (La Possession du monde) (1919) Translated by Eleanor Stimson Brooks The whole of humanity at this moment utters one despairing, heart-rending cr ...
  • Pentagon Chief: NATO To Build Afghan, Libyan P ...
    U.S. Department of Defense American Forces Press Service June 5, 2013 Hagel Describes Post-ISAF Afghanistan Mission By Karen Parrish ==== Hagel said the U.S. role will be as the overall framework nation, with geographic responsibility in the east and south, the areas of strongest insurgent resis ...
  • Georgia Suffers Largest Troop Loss In NATO&#82 ...
    Civil Georgia June 6, 2013 Seven Georgian Soldiers Die in Afghan Truck Bomb Attack Tbilisi: Seven Georgian servicemen were killed and nine wounded after a truck bomb hit one of the forward operating bases in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on June 6, less than a month after three Georgian so ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Cruelty of Israel’s Cast Lead assault captured ...
    Daryl Meador, The Electronic Intifada, 6 June 2013 Where Should the Birds Fly, the new documentary directed and narrated by Fida Qishta, begins with chilling footage of Israeli bulldozers destroying houses in Rafah in 2004. Qishta, a native of Rafah, the city in the south of the Gaza Strip, watc ...
  • How the Pentagon Removes Entire Peoples
    June 06, 2013 The Past is Never Dead by DAVID SWANSON, CounterPunch If we think at all about our government’s military depopulating territory that it desires, we usually think of the long-ago replacement of native Americans with new settlements during the continental expansion of the United Stat ...
  • Washington DC: Students Against Israeli Apart ...
    Published on Jun 5, 2013 See the protester’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GMUSAIA On June 4, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson Center to offer a so-called “moderate” perspective on Middle East affairs and the Palesti ...
  • Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Missi ...
    Democracy Now, Thursday June 6, 2013 Democracy Now:  “Just days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the city’s voters have elected longtime black nationalist organizer and attorney Chokwe Lumumba to become mayor. Describing himself as a ...
  • On India’s Political Imprisonment of Kas ...
    Statement issued by the Committee for The Release of Political Prisoners Published Online: May 22, 2013 At the outset it is a case of gross injustice and political vendetta on Dr. Muhammad Qasim Faktoo who has spent twenty years of his life in prison. The case of Dr. Muhammad Qasim epitomises ho ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Week In Numbers: World's Oldest Primate, B ...
    55 million years: the age of the sedimentary rock strata in which scientists discovered this skeleton of a Archicebus achilles, the oldest-known primate fossil 90 days: the record-breaking time in which a Chinese firm plans to build the world's next tallest building, the 2,750-foot, 220-story ...
  • Do Adults Keep Making New Brain Cells? Cold Wa ...
    A different kind of carbon-14 dating When the U.S. and Soviet Union tested nuclear weapons aboveground in the 1950s and 1960s, they left their mark on everyone alive at that time. The tests released unusual amounts of carbon-14 into the atmosphere, which people's cells would sometimes incorpora ...
  • How I Survived A Week Without Food
    I consumed nothing but Soylent, a food-replacing beverage, for a week. Here's what happened to me (and my poop). Click here for a step-by-step guide to making homemade Soylent My best friend's graduation ceremony starts in 10 minutes and I'm trying to suppress vomit at a Speedway. It’s my th ...
  • A Step-By-Step Guide To Making Soylent, The Li ...
        
  • A Mind-Bending Gun Rack Illusion And Other Ama ...
    Plus a lopsided hotel, art made out of email spam, and more     

Veterans Today

  • Bilderberg Conference Begins
    On June 5, the London Evening Standard headlined "No minutes, no press conferences - just the world's power brokers chewing the fat on the issues of the day. It's the Bilderberg conference - and it's coming to a suburb near you."
  • Lincoln Man Must Repay VA in Theft
    A Lincoln man convicted of theft has been ordered to pay the Department of Veterans Affairs more than $124,000 in restitution.
  • It is not Terror if We do It
    Imagine a world in which illogical statements would be automatically nullified and prosecuted.
  • Spy State Shock: ALL Social Media Sharing wit ...
    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 have been living in denial.
  • Syria – Israel Is Losing the Battle
    The media in Israel is far more tolerant toward criticism than the Zionist dominated Media in the West.

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • IMF Agrees w/Cheney: Deficits Don't Matter for US
    Here we go again: for everyone else--especially the likes of Egypt, Pakistan and so forth, deficits do matter. But for the United States which (they say) has little funding its current account deficit, it's not really a problem. In essence it's the IMF approving of American deficits as per Dick ...
  • Money Printing Plus: Japan's Other Growth Stra ...
    Everyone knows of Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's money-printing strategies for combating Japan's seemingly unconquerable deflation. However, it is but one tactic in a multi-pronged strategy to get the world's third largest economy growing again in a noticeable fashion. Tomorrow Abe unveils a raft of o ...
  • Endangered Species: SMEs in Italy, Spain
    Make no mistake: there are giant companies in Italy and Spain. However, many of the specialist products these countries are known for are from small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which also provide the bulk of employment. Unfortunately for them, the credit crisis has made their existences ...
  • Too Strategic to Fail? The IMF & Pakistan (Again)
    With its forex reserves down to a trifling $6.4 billion, Pakistan is definitely in trouble. You know the drill: the United States will not let Pakistan descend into chaos--make that civil disorder even worse than its regular state of perma-anarchy--because it's a nuclear-armed state with a const ...
  • Why Eastern Europe Spanks US in Software Devel ...
    Last Thursday our home computer running Windows XP was infected by a fairly old autorun.inf virus. For, we accidentally brought home an infected USB thumb drive from the workplace, which has computers running unpatched versions of XP. Unfortunately for us, we were also running copies of Micros ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The U.S. Government Has Been STEALING User Dat ...
    The U.S. government has been hacking in to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple and has been taking their user data without their knowledge or consent.  According to the Washington Post, the information being stolen includes "audio and video c ...
  • Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Wil ...
    Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States?  Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen.  Chinese acquisition of U.S. bus ...
  • 12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is Abou ...
    A lot of things that have not happened since the last recession are starting to happen again.  As you read the list below, you will notice that the year "2009" comes up again and again.  There is a reason for that.  Many of the same patterns that we witnessed during the last major economic downt ...
  • 20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being ...
    Would you like to know what America's young people are actually learning while they are away at college?  It isn't pretty.  Yes, there are some very highly technical fields where students are being taught some very important skills, but for the most part U.S. college students are learning very l ...
  • Does China Plan To Back The Yuan With Gold And ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Why are the Chinese hoarding so much gold?  Does China plan to back the yuan with gold and turn it into a global reserve currency?  Could it be possible that China actually intends for the yuan to eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the primary reserve curren ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-06-04 Assange Statement on the First Day ...
    As I type these lines, on July 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun. re ...
  • 2013-06-03 Nearly 2,000 rally for Bradley Mann ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: June 1, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org Nearly two thousand rally for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade Nearly two thousand supporters of US Army PFC Bradley Manning rallied and marched on Fort M ...
  • 2013-06-01 Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press ...
    Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press Release Saturday - June 1, 2013 10:30 PM ET USA Greetings World -- We are Anonymous. And we have watched for days with horror as our brothers and sisters in Turkey who are peacefully rising up against their tyrannical government have been brutalized, beaten, r ...
  • 2013-05-31 June 1: Mass Protest for Bradley Ma ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: May 31, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org June 1: mass protest for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade, MD read more
  • 2013-05-14 Statement of Lisa L Williams on Bra ...
    "News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee", wrote Glenn Greenwald. "When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, ...

U N News

  • Independent UN rights expert urges more clarit ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today wrapped up his visit to Washington, DC by calling for more clarity on aspects of President Barack Obama's speech last month on United States counter-terrorism policy, particularly on the use of drones.
  • Ban congratulates Ambassador Rice on being nam ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on her appointment as National Security Adviser to her country.
  • UN experts urge El Salvador to reconsider abor ...
    A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of El Salvador to reconsider its abortion legislation, following a ruling by the Supreme Court which denied the procedure to a seriously ill woman.
  • Career diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago appoi ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed career diplomat Sandra Honoré of Trinidad and Tobago as the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, it was announced today.
  • Ban thanks head of UN-backed panel for his eff ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep appreciation for dedication and efforts of Francisco Dall'Anese, who has announced that he will step down as the head of the United Nations-backed commission charged with dismantling illegal armed groups and tackling impunity in Guatemala.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Gila Resources Information Project – Job Annou ...
    Program Associate 30 hours/week Applications Due June 21, 2013 This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic environmental organization and help promote Gila River conservation, water quality protection, and environmental sustainability in southwestern New Mexico.  The Gila Resources In ...
  • How Ranching Broke the West – Around the Campf ...
    I call the twenty or thirty years after the Civil War the “Killing Decades” as the American slaughter of wild things reached its peak then.  Market hunting, mining, logging, and railroading all helped lay the groundwork for the coming of ranching.  Cattle and sheep were the last straw in the dom ...
  • One Vision of Ecological Justice
    By David Skrbina On present estimates, we humans share the Earth with some 8 million other animal species, and some 1 million plant species.  Yet we Homo sapiens—a single species—dominate the ecological basis of this planet.  We use, by some accounts, about 40% of the global “net primary product ...
  • Settlement Reached In Wolf Legal Fight
    Conservationists help craft balanced plan; includes stronger legal standards, improved livestock husbandry, greater public accountability. Salem, Oregon  –  After seventeen months of grueling negotiations, conservationists, Governor John Kitzhaber, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODF ...
  • Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Reef Defense C ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense, a global campaign to end the destruction of coral reefs and the many threats they face worldwide. Coral reefs represent some of the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems providing critical habita ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • President Kennedy is Killed by His Driver!!!
    This video is shocking but blatantly obvious... watch closely... You decide. ~ Video read more
  • Whistleblower Reveals World Bank Corruption
    Whistleblowers continue to endure an increasing level of targeting and prosecution by an administration that touts its commitment to transparency. Despite this, many brave insiders continue to come forward to reveal the extent of corruption at the highest levels. ~ Joe Wright - Video read more
  • Obama Wants Whistleblowers 'Silenced'...
    Sibel Edmonds Sibel Edmonds founded the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). She did so to aid "national security whistleblowers through a variety of methods." The ACLU called her "the most gagged person in the history of the United States." ~ Stephen Lendman - Related article rea ...
  • Connecticut Passes First GMO Food Labeling Law ...
    The state of Connecticut has become the first to successfully enact a law requiring food containing genetically modified ingredients be labeled, though it comes with the unusual requirement that four other states must pass similar legislation. read more
  • EXPOSED... Secret 'Man Caves' Found in EPA War ...
    More government waste of tax dollars... A warehouse maintained by contractors for the Environmental Protection Agency contained secret rooms full of exercise equipment, televisions and couches, according to an internal audit. ~ Eric Katz read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Have We Met The Threshold Of Tyranny?
    Are we presently on a path to tyranny? Throughout history, free societies descended into tyranny when their populations realized they can use the power of government to give themselves benefits at the expense of others. Is the increasing size and expanse of government leading us there?   On ...
  • NSA-Verizon Data Collection Is Tip Of The Iceberg
    We’ve been telling you for years, and it has finally made main-stream news… The NSA (National Security Agency) is secretly collecting data of your communications… this time they’ve been caught with ALL Verizon wireless customers. The holy grail for the US government has b ...
  • Layout Of Survival Plans
    If you become lost or stranded, and whether you are alone or in a group, a survival plan is your first priority. Survival plans need to follow a logical sequence to ensure all aspects are covered. The plan should include the following…   Situation Mission Execution   SITUATION [b ...
  • The Varieties Of The French Marigold
      French Marigold flowers are a popular and beneficial garden companion that will help your garden plants thrive because of their potent pesticide-producing root system, and strong aroma to ward off pests. Have you ever wondered which varieties of the Marigold are actually ‘French&#82 ...
  • Weather Radio Reviews 2013
    The NOAA Weather Radio reviews in 2013 have clearly identified three top-best manufacturer/models of all-hazards /public-alert /early-warning weather radios. Each manufacturer has dominated the market for several years and they are well established as excellent choices to trust with your safety& ...

Fast Company

  • Tracking: The NSA's Secret Surveillance Programs
    The latest news and updates on the NSA's secret surveillance of phone calls and internet communications. At least two separate, secret National Security Agency (NSA) programs are monitoring telephone calls and internet communications. On Thursday, June 6, The Guardian and The Washington Po ...
  • A Food Sharing Club To Help The Elderly And Vu ...
    The Casserole Club adds a little social good to the glut of you-cook-for-others sharing economy startups. This one, you cook for people who really need it. Food sharing is a great way to meet your neighbors and make a few friends, as we said here and here. Could it also help re-connect the ...
  • If You Watch One Jaw-Dropping Polish Animation ...
    Polish film studio Platige premiered the trailer for their first combination animated/live action feature recently, and it is an eye-popper. Another Day of Life is slated to be the first feature from Polish visual effects studio Platige Image, a studio known for animated shorts such as The ...
  • Infographic: Where Will A Map Of The Smiths’ D ...
    Calling all fans of 1980s Brit rock. The Great Bear by Simon Patterson is perhaps the most famous reappropriation of any subway map--London or otherwise. It charts London’s icons by replacing station names along the Tube with names of actors, philosophers, writers, saints, and other ...
  • Gift Your Friends Your Parking Spot When You Leave
    ParkTag lets you find your car where you left it, which is helpful. But even more helpful is the ability to alert friends who might be driving around vainly searching for a spot that yours just opened up. There’s a special kind of street cred that comes with being able to tell people ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt's Khaled Said: Three Years on, Still No ...
    In a small bedroom in Alexandria adjacent to the sea, the belongings of a young man: new trainers, a computer console and homemade speakers are quietly gathering dust. Three years of dust, to be precise. On 6 June 2010, their owner a twenty-eight-year-old called Khaled Said left his desk to wal ...
  • Linah Alsaafin on Social Media and Palestine
    [This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.] Jadaliyya (J): What do you think are the most gratifying aspects of Tweeting, and Twitter? Lin ...
  • Students Against Israeli Apartheid Walk Out fr ...
    On 4 June, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington DC’s Woodrow Wilson Center to offer a so-called “moderate” perspective on Middle East affairs and the Palestinian-Israeli impasse. A DC-area coalition of Palestinian justice activists, led by George Mason University Students ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (June 7)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • O.I.L. Monthly Edition (May 2013)
    [This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of O.I.L.-related topics. Th ...

mediagazer

  • Is the future of mobile video all about apps? ...
    Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: Is the future of mobile video all about apps?  These two apps don't think so  —  Mobile video is growing quickly, and with that also comes an explosion of apps from publishers who want their slice of the pie.  But do consumers really want to s ...
  • Paramount Accuses JPMorgan Chase, Content Part ...
    Tim Kenneally / The Wrap: Paramount Accuses JPMorgan Chase, Content Partners of Conspiracy  —  Paramount claims that it was duped during negotiations for participant rights to its films  —  There's a conspiracy afoot — or at least that's what Paramount Pict ...
  • On, Wisconsin! What happens when you try to ki ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: On, Wisconsin!  What happens when you try to kick a nonprofit journalism center off campus?  —  And once again there is a nation full of journalists wondering what's going on in Wisconsin's state legislature.  —  This we ...
  • For Turkish media, Taksim story reveals flaws, ...
    Committee to Protect Journalists: For Turkish media, Taksim story reveals flaws, threats  —  The coverage of the Taksim Square protests will not be remembered as a moment of glory for a number of Turkish mainstream media.  While demonstrators were being tear-gassed and beat ...
  • YouTube Throws a Curveball by Becoming a Sport ...
    Victor Luckerson / TIME: YouTube Throws a Curveball by Becoming a Sports Broadcaster  —  Though it's now easy to consume music, movies and television on the Internet, watching live sports online is still a fantasy for many fans.  Even as other forms of entertainment have di ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Nesting duck halts work on Towcester's £4 ...
    Work on part of a £45m regeneration scheme in Northamptonshire has stopped while council bosses wait for a brood of ducklings to hatch. A nesting mallard duck was...
  • How bird flu viruses adapt to humans
    Tweet Washington, June 7 (ANI): Two new studies have identified mutations that increase the infectivity of H5N1 and H7N9 viruses through improved binding to receptors in the human respiratory tract. The findings offer much-needed strategies for monitoring the emergence of dangerous bird flu ...
  • Putin announces split: 'We have different ...
    June 7, 2013 -- Updated 1058 GMT (1858 HKT) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, have ended their nearly 30-year marriage, the state-run news agency reported on Thursday, June 6. Putin is a popular but polarizing figure who has dominated Russian politics for more than a d ...
  • Poor Sleep May Worsen Heart Woes in Women ...
    But lack of shuteye doesn't seem to have same effect on inflammation levels in men FRIDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) -- Poor sleep appears to contribute to the progression of heart disease in women by raising their inflammation levels, but this effect was not seen in men, researchers say. "Inf ...
  • Williams hopes to end poor French Open re ...
    For a decade, the French Open has presented more problems for Serena Williams than any of the other Grand Slam tournaments. Her collection of 15 major championships includes five from Wimbledon, five from the Australian Open, four from the US Open ... and one from Roland Garros. Ever since s ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 6/7/13 - New study shows students who discuss/ ...
    www.procon.org - – New study shows students who discuss/debate controversial issues get higher NAEP test scores – See this and other studies proving the importance of teaching controversial issues to stimulate critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship.
  • 6/6/13 - Should gay marriage be legal?
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Should gay marriage be legal? – Read our updated pro and con arguments in this popular debate.
  • 5/30/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer ...
    vaccines.procon.org - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information – Read the vaccine ingredients and the products used in making 31 commonly recommended vaccines including some controversial items such as Cocker Spaniel cells, human embryonic lung cells, and mouse brains.
  • 5/24/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets ...
    tablets-textbooks.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools?- Read pro and con arguments from former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski (pro), Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tuft ...
  • 5/22/13 - UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline 1970-2013 – Gay marriage became legal in New Zealand on Apr. 19, 2013, in Uruguay on May 3, 2013, and, most recently, in France on May 18, 2013.  14 countries now permit same-sex couples to marry.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New Map of Antarctica Provides Clearest Glimps ...
    British scientists have unveiled the most detailed topographical map available yet of Antarctica, a vast dataset that provides a penetrating 3-D view of the Click to enlarge NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Antarctica's subglacial terrain frozen continent down to the bedrock level and c ...
  • Carbon Emissions in Brazil Dropped 39 Percent ...
    Greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil fell by nearly 39 percent from 2005 to 2010, largely because of reductions in the amount of forest loss, according to a new government report. Overall, Brazil emitted the equivalent of 1.25 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2010, which was more than 10 percent ...
  • As Extreme Weather Increases, Bangladesh Brace ...
    Scientists are predicting that warming conditions will bring more frequent and more intense extreme weather events. Their warnings hit home in densely populated Bangladesh, which historically has been hit by devastating sea surges and cyclones. BY BRIAN FAGAN
  • First Amphibian Declared Extinct ‘Rediscovered ...
    A team of scientists says it has “rediscovered” in northern Israel the first amphibian declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a species of frog that turns out to be the only Click to enlarge Sarig GafnyA Hula painted frog surviving member of an extinct gen ...
  • Nanofilter System Can Deliver Clean Water to R ...
    Indian scientists have developed a filter system they say can provide clean water to rural families for less than $2.50 per year and help reduce incidences of diarrhea that cause tens of thousands of deaths in the developing world annually. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of S ...

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backofthebook

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    In our previous blog post, we took a look at 5 proposals from a feature entitled “A better life without growth” in the French magazine Alternatives économiques aimed at decreasing individual expenses in order to discourage the quest for monetary accumulation. We continue this series by presentin ...
  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
    Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very ...
  • Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state ...
    France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates w ...
  • On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour ...
    The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months ...
  • New mining royalties: much ado about nothing
    On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit based and ad valorem royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the go ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Egypt warns ‘all options open’ on ...
    “Egypt will demand that Ethiopia stop construction of a Nile river dam and warned “all options are open” if it harms its water supply, advisers to President Mohamed Morsi said on Wednesday. “It is Egypt’s right to defend its interests,” said Ayman Ali, one of ...
  • Global Grain Reserves Are Low; Legacy of U.S. ...
    “The global reserves of wheat, rice, corn, and other food grains are at the tightest levels since 2007-2008, according to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. The data show that the current amount of grain held in storage is less than 20 percent of the amount consumed by th ...
  • Refugee influx worsens Jordan’s water woes
    “Najeem Azzoubi, a heavy-set Jordanian in his mid-60s, is upset. Before Syrian refugees began arriving in droves in 2011, water was delivered once a week to his home in the northern Jordanian town of Ramtha. Then, as more and more Syrians fled their country’s civil war, squeezing int ...
  • Mining companies turning to costly recycling a ...
    “High in Chile’s bone-dry Atacama desert, mining engineer Enrique Miranda surveys a metal structure filled with a pungent mix of earthworms and woodchips. Sprinklers inside the enclosure snap to life, shooting waste water from the nearby mining camp into the wriggling mass, which ser ...
  • Ethiopia diverts Nile for huge hydro dam
    “Ethiopia began diverting a stretch of the Nile on Tuesday to make way for a $4.7 billion hydroelectric dam that is worrying downstream countries dependent on the world’s longest river for water. The Horn of Africa country has laid out plans to invest more than $12 billion in harness ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • your government thanks you for “drinking ...
    …WOW… what a business opportunity for those corporate entities reputedly engaged in “protecting” your right privacy … so you really believe any of your stuff on the internet is SAFE … your government thanks you for “drinking their kool-aid”…       Filed under: Blogroll
  • tell me again when it was
      …OK … tell me again when it was that Americans taxpayers trusted the IRS… …Just what are you smoking…? Filed under: Blogroll
  • no longer any such right as unreasonable searc ...
    …thanks to corporate owned U $ $upreme Court there is no longer any such right as unreasonable search and seizure… Supreme Court Rules Police Can Take DNA From Suspects   Read the Article at MSNBC   The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the police practice of taking DNA samples from peopl ...
  • what am I not seeing
    …OK … so Vegas doesn’t believe the Colorado River will be able to provide WATER they need … and they are upstream from Arizona … and they have a very active water conservation program whereas Phoenix doesn’t give a damn … what am I not seeing…     Las Vegas was first settled for ...
  • nothing like the lure of the almighty $$$
    …nothing like the lure of the almighty $$$ … legalize$ everything… Looks Like Wall Street Is Starting to See the Dollar Signs in Legalizing Pot     The influential and conservative financial newsweekly Barron’s put marijuana legalization on its print cover this week. In reading t ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Identical twins' genes tell diverse tales
    Barbara Oliver has had an intriguing relationship with her identical twin sister, Christine, over the decades. Throughout their childhoods they were treated as two versions of the one person: they were dressed the same and given the...
  • Chequered history of science's twin tests
    The use of twins to reveal the genetic roots of human attributes has had a mixed history, though the technique offers rich scientific pickings.The methodology involves comparing identical twins with fraternal twins. The former have...
  • Climate change talks at Parliament today
    Leading scientists, farmers, politicians, foresters and business people will descend on Parliament today to take part in a climate change conference.About 150 people are expected to pack into the old legislative chamber to look...
  • Smart science: A high-flying future beyond dea ...
    Drones might be best known for their death strikes on Taleban and al-Qaeda hideouts, but their use in the non-military world is spreading rapidly.Drones have been used for spotting Canadian cannabis crops, catching poachers in Africa,...
  • Winners take aim at new targets
    A group that helped sway Hamilton City Council to stop fluoridating its water is now taking aim at Auckland, Wellington and other centres.The 7-1 vote this week by Hamilton councillors has sparked calls for health officials to take...

The Bovine

  • Nadine Ijaz’s presentation on raw milk m ...
    From Nadine Ijaz: I am pleased to announce that my May 16, 2013 Grand Rounds presentation at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC), where I examined scientific evidence around raw milk safety and benefits, has now been posted at BC … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and Gordon Watson convicted of ...
    Ontario raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt and BC raw milk pioneer Gordon Watson were found guilty today, on charges of contempt, by Mr. Justice Wong of the B.C. Supreme Court. The charges relate to an order dating from March 18, … Continue reading →
  • Wisconsin prosecutors still want to send Amish ...
    From Kimberly Hartke at the Weston A Price Foundation: Baraboo, Wisconsin—June 3, 2013 —Less than a week after the jury acquitted him of three criminal charges, Eric Defort and Phillip Ferris, attorneys for the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), move … Continue reading →
  • Vernon Herschberger’s court victory repo ...
    Unlike the recent worldwide March on Monsanto, Vernon Herschberger’s recent court triumph is getting ink in the mainstream media. Here’s an excerpt from a story in the Wall Street Journal, of all places: “Raw-milk proponents celebrated a Wisconsin farmer’s acquittal &#823 ...
  • “March against Monsanto” in Toront ...
    Robert Bright reports on the Toronto March against Monsanto: SPECIAL TO THE BOVINE: On a chilly, but sunny Saturday afternoon in Toronto, I made my way down to St. James Park on King Street East between Jarvis and Church Streets.  … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Spinning the Data on the Non-Recovery in Spain
    On June 1, Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy Promised Encouraging Jobless Figures. Employment Improvement Seasonal Mirage The results are in and Eurointelligence reports Encouraging Figures Nothing But a Seasonal Mirage. The Spanish government can hardly contain its glee over ...
  • Hollande's Popularity Sinks to 28%, a New Reco ...
    With rising unemployment, rising taxes, a slumping economy, and with Hollande's threats of pension reform (when the socialists in France still believe mightily in the free lunch), it should not be surprising to discover Hollande’s popularity reaches new low. From Eurointelligence ... ...
  • Jobs +175,000; Unemployment Rate 7.6%; Is the ...
    Initial Reaction The establishment survey showed a gain of 175,000 a reasonably good but not spectacular print. The bright spot was involuntary part-time employment only rose by 26,000 so most of the jobs were (for a change) full-time jobs. The civilian labor force rose by 420,000 for ...
  • Personal Arrogance; Preserving Culture vs. Com ...
    In response to France Considers Ban on Free Shipping by Amazon, a "Destroyer of Bookshops"; Prepare for Economic Collapse in France I received an interesting comment from "Slavador" who writes "My ability to go to a local bookstore owned by a neighbor with my family is something I see as even mo ...
  • Nouriel Roubini Seriously Misguided on Gold, o ...
    I just finished reading Nouriel Roubini's seven point analysis on the Bursting of the Gold Bubble in which Roubini's asks and answer the question "Gold skyrocketed to over $1,900 per ounce in the fall of 2011 from $800 in early 2009, but has since collapsed by around 27%. Why?" I offer a p ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 6, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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  • Iran: A Modest Proposal- The Sanctions of Mass ...
    “Iran’s basketizing has begun with draconian sanctions, the way the basketizing of Iraq began.” Washington’s sanctions against Iran are a wonder to behold, seriously hampering Tehran’s ability to conduct international commerce, make payments, receive money, import, export, invest, travel … you n ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post: It Boils Down to ‘Us’ vs. ...
    Half Way There-Half Way to Go First things first: We want to thank all our supporters for their kind and generous contributions during these tough times. We know who you are. You are not ‘the’ 1% with deep pockets and big devious agendas who feed and sustain the mainstream and pseudo-alternative ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 5, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Bus inferno kills 42 in China
    At least 42 people have been killed and more than two dozens injured after an overcrowded express bus burst into flames on an elevated roadway in southeastern China.
  • US drone strike kills 7 in NW Pakistan
    A US assassination drone strike has killed at least seven people and injured several others in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan tribal region, local security officials say.
  • Hungarians brace for worst floods
    People in Hungary have been warned to prepare for the worst floods ever as the swelling Danube River is feared to reach record levels over the next three days.
  • EU fears militants returning from Syria
    The European Union’s interior ministers have convened in Luxembourg to address the emerging threat of the European militants who return from Syria after gaining experience in the ongoing fight against the Syrian government.
  • ‘May jobless rate in US rises to 7.6%’
    New official data show the upward trend of the unemployment rate in the United States.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Skimming through the Sun's atmosphere
    The surface of the Sun is an incredibly violent place that it is difficult for theorists to model or for experimentalists to reproduce on Earth. However, a paper in Science this week by Cooper Downs a...
  • Planet caught in the act of forming
    For as long as people have been looking at the night sky, they have been wondering where our Earth came from, and by what processes it formed. A paper published in Science this week by Neenka van der ...
  • What's in a name?
    Parents are subconsciously selecting names that linguistically portray their children as, in the case of boys, bigger and stronger, or, in the case of girls, more feminine and petite. That's the co...
  • Nuclear bombs mark newborn neurons
    Radioactivity released into the air by Cold War nuclear tests has enabled Swedish scientists to probe how adult brains produce new nerve cells and whether they survive for any length of time. The di...
  • Misdiagnosed manganism near Mount Etna?
    Scientists in Italy have found that the surfaces of lava stones from Mount Etna, in Sicily, may be leaching manganese into the environment. Almost 1.5 million people are supplied with water from Etn...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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 ...

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