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JoNova

  • Did Macquarie University sabotage, exile, blac ...
    Short of sending Murry Salby to Siberia, Macquarie University have seemingly done everything they could to sabotage and silence him and his PhD student. Is his research is so dangerous to the cash cow that is “global warming” that it had to be stopped at any cost?  Is is difficult to ...
  • Oh Wait! Bricks and mortar will create warmer ...
    I thought warmer nights were a fingerprint of CO2 induced warming? John Cook has claimed that at least five times on his blog:  The human fingerprint in the daily cycle. It’s also known as Diurnal Temperature Range, and the theory is that extra CO2 keeps us warm all night. Now Excellent (A ...
  • Weekend (sort of) unthreaded
    Another spot to tell odd news … Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)
  • Fake polite guys, and Fake “skeptical sc ...
    … It’s a sign skeptics are winning. A few years ago the term “skeptic” had been turned into an insult. People would write to me and implore me to call myself a realist. (I wasn’t having a bar of that). Now, all kinds of wannabees are pretending they are skeptics eve ...
  • Witchcraft on Catalyst — Scary weather ...
    There they go again. Last night the ABC again used taxpayer dollars to post up a slick advertisement for their favourite religion. Because Catalyst won’t read skeptical blogs, interview skeptics, or ask difficult questions, they give a false impression to any poor viewers who haven’ ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
  • New Chambers at Teotihuacan
    What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...
  • Tunguska was a Meteorite
    For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...
  • Gourmet Spam in Space
    In Hawaii six people are living in a geodesic dome, experimenting with they types of food that astronauts can eat when they journey to Mars. NASA have five meat products that have a long shelf life, and it is not surprising that one of them is Spam. One of the the problems with long-distance spa ...
  • Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun
    Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico: The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been sn ...

Facing South

  • Clean water advocates criticize limited EPA he ...
    After proposing a rule to clean up toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants, the EPA holds a single public hearing -- but dramatically limits its scope. Environmentalists cry foul. read more
  • Tea party group responds to NC protest movemen ...
    With another Moral Monday protest getting underway at the North Carolina General Assembly, a group affiliated with the tea party movement offers a satirical song for the occasion titled "Marxist Mondays." read more
  • What now for North Carolina's Racial Justice Act?
    North Carolina has repealed its groundbreaking law targeting racial discrimination in administration of the death penalty, but Republican lawmakers looking for a speedy return of executions are likely to have their hopes dashed in the courts. read more
  • Water pollution a problem for Southern beaches
    The NRDC's annual report on bacterial contamination at U.S. beaches finds serious problems at popular swimming spots across the South. The group is calling on the federal government to take action to better protect beachgoers from serious health risks. read more
  • Essential reading for July 4th
    This Independence Day, we revisit one of our favorite holiday-themed readings: the brilliant speech by abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass reminding us of the unfinished work of guaranteeing liberty and justice for all. So what's your favorite reading for the 4th? read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Egypt: Ominous Perils of Civil War
    Ex-Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi is overthrown on July 3, 2013 when Egyptian army managed a military coup against the firstly elected head of state, causing a grave blow to the democratic norms and spirit. Prior to the condemnable situation, Morsi won 51.7 % vote against Shafique Ahmed&#8217 ...
  • Does Morsi’s fate foreshadow that of the Musli ...
    After five days of giant protests demanding the resignation of President Morsi, the Egyptian Army toppled him and appointed the head of the Constitutional Court as interim president pending new elections. To guage the importance of the event, it suffices to place it in within its own narrative. ...
  • America’s Plan B in Egypt: Bring Back the Old ...
    The road that has been taken in Egypt is a dangerous one. A military coup has taken place in Egypt while millions of Egyptians have cheered it on with little thought about what is replacing the Muslim Brotherhood and the ramifications it will have for their society. Many people in cheering crowd ...
  • Egypt’s Turning Point
    As predicted, the Egyptian army was unable to stay away from the fierce confrontation between the supporters of president Morsi and the opposition, demanding him to leave. The military presented Morsi with an ultimatum to leave the Office within 48 hours to execute the will of millions of people ...
  • Episode 12. Why did Britain and the United Sta ...
    Part I Part II Part III In order to turn his nation into a powerful aggressor, Hitler had to first reclaim everything that had been so recently taken away from his country.  He was assisted in this by the very British, French, and American nations that had raked Germany over the coals at Versail ...

BlogHer

  • Summer Grilling: Maple-Bacon Beer Burgers
    Editor’s note: With grilling season in high gear, I’m always looking for a new spin on the same old, same old hamburger, steak, pork ribs menu. Kristin from Iowa Girl Eats offers up a Maple-Bacon Beer Burger, in which she seasons the ground beef with beer, maple syrup, and Worcestershire sauce a ...
  • Announcing: BlogHer 5K Chicago Fun Run, Prese ...
    Get ready to lace up those running shoes because the annual BlogHer 5K is back and better than ever! This year, BlogHer is excited to be partnering with Best Buy for the Chicago edition of the BlogHer 5K. So excited in fact that the first 280 participants will receive a FREE FitBit device. You w ...
  • Gearing Up for BlogHer '13: Pre-Conference Fea ...
    BlogHer '13 is right around the corner! With the quickly approaching dates and recent announcements, the number of posts you have been writing in your own spaces has sky-rocketed. As always, we're reading along -- and bringing your words to our readers to help calm their fears, get them excited, ...
  • Susan Sarandon Doesn’t Consider Herself a Femi ...
    When did feminism become such a bad word? Susan Sarandon, known for playing tough broads such as a take-no-prisoners waitress in Thelma and Louise, was recently asked by a reporter from The Guardian whether she calls herself a feminist. Her lack of enthusiasm for the term says it all: "I th ...
  • All I Ever Needed to Know About Parenting I Le ...
    I just got schooled. I guess I had to be here, in this place. This place of banging my head against the wall trying to parent a wacko/pyro 7- almost 8-year-old. I will start with this admission: I am a total hypocrite. I used to preach no TV until the Roosters Came Home and the Cows Went to Bed. ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Using Coconut Oil Sunscreen This Summer
    Did you know that coconut oil is a sunscreen? Seriously! If you’re headed out for a day of sun and want some UV protection all you need is to grab some coconut oil sunscreen from your ... Related posts:Ditch the Toxic Sunscreen; Use Coconut Oil Instead Summer time is beach ti ...
  • Sunscreen: New Labels, Same Problems
    While revamped sunscreen labeling has finally gone into full effect just in time for summer pool parties and outdoor activity,dermatologists warned that the same old pitfalls will still bring on the burn. The FDA introduced new labeling requirements in ... Related posts:Ditch ...
  • Unapproved genetically-modified rice trials in ...
    During 2006 and 2007 traces of three varieties of unapproved GM rice owned by Bayer CropScience were found in US rice exports in over 30 countries worldwide. At the time of discovery only one of ... Related posts:US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice on Children Inste ...
  • Mixed Results for Acupuncture to Improve in Vi ...
    Acupuncture, when used as a complementary or adjuvant therapy for in vitro fertilization (IVF), may be beneficial depending on the baseline pregnancy rates of a fertility clinic, according to research from the University of Maryland ... Related posts:Probiotics Improve Symptom ...
  • Brain Differences Seen in Depressed Preschoolers
    A key brain structure that regulates emotions works differently in preschoolers with depression compared with their healthy peers, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The differences, measured using functional ... Related posts:P ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • FirstEnergy to close 2 more coal plants
    The Hatfield’s Ferry plant in Masontown, Pa. Photo via FirstEnergy Here’s today’s news from FirstEnergy: FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) announced today that it expects to deactivate two coal-fired power plants located in Pennsylvania by October 9, 2013. The decision is based on t ...
  • Remembering the cost of coal
    As part of its continuing series, Fifty Years of Night, the Lexington Herald-Leader over the weekend provided an important reminder of the true cost of coal to our society. The first story, headlined Hundreds died in Kentucky coal mines in decades after mine blast exposed safety problems, focuse ...
  • Hendryx leaving WVU, but research will continue
    Word had been circulating for a few weeks, but West Virginia University researcher Michael Hendryx made it official this weekend with a Facebook post: I have some news that has been difficult to share but no more procrastination. I am leaving WVU for a new job at Indiana University in Bloomingto ...
  • Friday roundup, July 5, 2013
    In this Monday, July 1, 2013 photo, an Indian laborer helps another with a basket of coal to load onto a truck at a roadside coal depot at Khliehriet in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. Coal mines are privately owned in the state because land and resources are owned by local tribal co ...
  • ‘Shaking one’s fist at the storm d ...
    Today’s Gazette editorial puts it all pretty simply: Right on cue, as soon as President Obama announced plans to combat air pollution that causes climate change, his opponents parroted criticisms, including the industry slogan “war on coal.” In states like West Virginia, that k ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Vimoptphobia
    vimoptphobia vim-opt-phobia, noun, The overwhelming fear (almost invariably justified) that whatever you’re doing in vim can be done much more elegantly.Related Posts:If Gingrich Wins the Primary, Obama Gets a Second TermThere’s Something to Fear in Both Obama and RomneyHow Roger Ail ...
  • Electron Joke
    An electron is driving down a motorway, and a policeman pulls him over. The policeman says: “Sir, do you realise you were travelling at 130km per hour?” The electron goes: “Oh great, now I’m lost.” Also check out my /jokes page.Related Posts:Feynman on Why You Should Enjoy What You DoOnion Post ...
  • The Freedom to Suffer
    I think a lot about human suffering and how best to reduce it. I particularly enjoy mixing this effort with various political philosophies, such as progressivism, or “libertarianism”, or “communitarianism”. More on those later. For now I want to simply ask a few questions ...
  • Looking for a Personal Intern/Assistant
    If anyone knows someone, or a good service, I’m looking for a personal intern/assistant to help me with a number of technical tasks. Examples include: Mass edits / adjustments to my website code (removing deprecated PHP includes, etc.) Twitter account maintenance, i.e. unfollowing everyone ...
  • How Exercise Calms Anxiety
    So they gathered adult mice, injected them with a substance that marks newborn cells in the brain, and for six weeks, allowed half of them to run at will on little wheels, while the others sat quietly in their cages.Afterward, the scientists determined each group’s baseline nervousness. Given ac ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Papers on the ER-EPR correspondence
    This new, standardized, elegant enough name of the Maldacena-Susskind proposal that I used in the title already exceeds the price of this blog entry that you had to pay. ;-) Yesterday, there was a one-page critical paper by Hrvoje Nikolić of Zagreb, Croatia, EU trying to criticize the ER-EP ...
  • Cumrun Vafa: Strings and the magic of extra di ...
    One month ago, Cumrun Vafa's son determined that he needed to go to Bangalore, South Central India, and because Cumrun is a good father, he went with him. So why wouldn't he give a public talk (one hour and one second) about strings and the magic of extra dimensions at the local campu ...
  • Tim Maudlin's right and (more often) muddled o ...
    Vincent has asked me what I thought about an interview with philosopher of physics Tim Maudlin at 3:am, On the foundations of physics. Regular TRF readers remember Maudlin as the main villain in the 2011 story about Tom Banks and anti-quantum zealots which was ignited by a discussion at Prep ...
  • Negligible impact of dark matter on the Solar ...
    Mike has asked me about the following preprint: Constraints on Dark Matter in the Solar System by N.P. Pitjev and E.V. Pitjeva (Leningrad, Russia) This article was celebrated by an impressive title and a "more than just uncritical" article at the Physics arXiv Blog: The Incredible Dark Mat ...
  • Summer School of Philosophy
    I returned from a few days long trip at the Summer School of Philosophy 2013 in Dub nad Moravou (Oak Upon Morava, and it is Morava, not Morave, for all the Californian nitpickers!). It's a small township (2,000 inhabitants) beneath a pretty presbytery 10 miles South of Olomouc, the histori ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Laurence Kotlikoff – Make Sure Your Money Outl ...
    from FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com: Professor Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff is an expert is in retirement planning. Government policies and taxation are always changing. Rates of return and stock market indexes are often unpredictable. Against this backdrop, you have to figure out when to take your soci ...
  • BlackBerry faces investor ire at annual meeting
    Executives at Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion faced questioning from investors today at the company’s annual general meeting. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: RIM changes name to BlackBerry as BB10 launches The eyes ...
  • Why Government Regulation is a Lie (and what y ...
    from corbettreport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: John Kerry & Your Globalist Government from corbettreport: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Si ...
  • Hamilton woman charged after putting 11-year-o ...
    A Hamilton woman used her 11-year-old neighbour to drive her to errands. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Mexican police make arrests in slaying of former Hamilton man Mexican authorities say three teens have been arrested in conn ...
  • Pandemic – Are N/P 95 Masks Effective? – Prepp ...
    from FullSpectrumSurvival: In this week’s Mailbox Monday we cover n95 Masks and their efficiencies and limitations. We hope that you’ll enjoy this Mailbox Monday, that you’ll get something from it and please send us in any questions that you have. SGTreport – The Corporat ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Minister ‘arrogant,’ farmers ‘spoiled’
    Norway’s Agriculture Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum is “unbelievably arrogant” and Norwegian farmers are “spoiled,” according to elected representatives from member countries of the European Union (EU). They’re now threatening retaliation for higher import ta ...
  • Minister ‘arrogant,’ farmers &#821 ...
    Norway’s Agriculture Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum is “unbelievably arrogant” and Norwegian farmers are “spoiled,” according to elected representatives from member countries of the European Union (EU). They’re now threatening retaliation for higher import ta ...
  • EU blasts Norway’s protectionism
    The EU Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a measure calling for the Norwegian government to cut its new, high import tariffs on cheese, meat and hortensia plants. EU parliamentarians, who are elected representatives from all countries in the European Union, claim Norway’s tariffs amoun ...
  • EU blasts Norway’s protectionism
    The EU Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a measure calling for the Norwegian government to cut its new, high import tariffs on cheese, meat and hortensia plants. EU parliamentarians, who are elected representatives from all countries in the European Union, claim Norway’s tariffs amoun ...
  • AUF campers rally around Labour
    Record numbers of young Labour Party supporters defied rain and chill along the Tyrifjord on Thursday in a massive pep rally before the September national election. They cheered and applauded their leader Eskil Pedersen, as he attacked the two women leading Labour’s biggest opposition part ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Putting Down Roots – Improving Asylum Seeker F ...
    Earlier this year I came across a very inspiring program being piloted by the Australian Red Cross called ‘Putting Down Roots’. It teaches organic gardening to newly arrived asylum seekers in Melbourne, Australia. Many asylum seekers experience food insecurity from a lack of funds, a ...
  • Do We Have the Right Brain for the 21st Centur ...
    Click play below to hear the podcast: Transcript below: Everyone knows that humans are doing a pretty poor job, at the moment, of solving our toughest 21 Century problems… (insert your issue of choice… for example climate change, world poverty, nature protection, misuse of antibioti ...
  • Upcoming Permaculture Courses at the PRI Zaytu ...
    At PRI Zaytuna Farm we run three 10-Week Internship programs per year. In the past five years this Internship Program has included five subject specific courses – a Permaculture Earthworks Course, Permaculture Project Establishment Course, Learn how to Teach Permaculture Creatively Course, ...
  • We’re Covered in Germs – Let’s Design for That ...
    Our bodies and homes are covered in microbes — some good for us, some bad for us. As we learn more about the germs and microbes who share our living spaces, TED Fellow Jessica Green asks: Can we design buildings that encourage happy, healthy microbial environments? Jessica Green want ...
  • Summer 2013 at ‘Caroola’ (NSW, Australia) – Wa ...
    Scorched land What can I say, the beginning of 2013 saw a huge exposure to external influences, including bushfire and lots of rain, but continued learning, planning and a solid and exciting way forward! Water… Water, as any permaculture designer will attest, is one of the most ...

Pointman's

  • The pause.
    There’s a book called Puckoon by the wildly erratic comedy writer Spike Milligan. It concerns the travails suffered by a fictional village of the same name, as the boundary commission draws the border between Northern Ireland and the new Republic of Eire in the aftermath of the War of Inde ...
  • Know your enemy : the alarmist scientist.
    I’d like to preface this piece by saying there are a number of scientists doing significant work in the field of climate science whom I deeply respect. They have all along raised the balanced doubts about the supposedly “settled” science and I’ve no doubt taken some easil ...
  • Know your enemy : the climate activist.
    In the context of this series of articles about getting to know the opposition, I think it’s important at an early stage to get a realistic view of what we’re actually dealing with when it comes down to this particular category, because so many of the people who fall into the other c ...
  • An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
    An interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight. That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something, which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was Saturday an ...
  • Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.
    We wretched dissenters from the climate orthodoxy have been placed under the psychological microscope several times in the last year or so. Since the studies, and I use that word advisedly, were conducted by featherweight academics with warmista rap sheets as long as your arm, the results as you ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...
  • Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • The psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks
    As the psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks steps up I want to offer my perspective on some aspects of the situation. Firstly, we have to recognise that in situations where the powers that be are powerless to directly control outcomes, they often resort to indirect means, specifically: ...
  • Brian Monk on the lies, injustices and public ...
    My 2nd hour guest in today's show is Brian Monk, a farmer from Queensland who has become a vocal and passionate critic of the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry in Australia. Brian is a member of the Lock the Gate Alliance, whose mission statement we present below: The mission of the Lock the G ...
  • Defending your personal health choices
    Jabbed is a documentary produced by SBS televison In today's show we zero in on some of the outright fraud which is being perpetrated on behalf of large companies who make their money from selling vaccines. We go through some facts and figures on the the incidence of pertussis (whooping coug ...
  • The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo on the psy ...
    In today's show we take a look at the work of Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist whose experiments have demonstrated that there is the potential within all ordinary law-abiding folk to become evil. Zimbardo's "prison experiment" involved recruiting a group of normal young people and arbitrarily a ...
  • No jab, no play - the vaccine crackdown and yo ...
    In today's show we look at the controversy over vaccines from the perspective of basic human freedom. We propose that, whether or not vaccines are safe and effective, there is a moral imperative to protect the freedom of the individual which is being eroded by medical fascists who seek to make ...

Beacon

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: EU Fishing Su ...
    Yesterday, Oceana released the results of a six-month study on European Union (EU) subsidies to the fishing sector since 2000, and the results were shocking. Our report showed that 4.9 billion euros in subsidies were granted in the form of “state aid” for the fishing sectors, with most of this € ...
  • VICTORY: European Union Bans All Shark Finning!
    © Oceana/Carlos Suarez We at Oceana are thrilled to share this news with you – the European Union (EU) has just officially adopted a strict ban on shark finning! Saturday ended nearly a decade of battle to close several enforcement loopholes that had permitted some forms of shark finning. Fin ...
  • The Race to Protect Northern Chilean Oceans
    © OCEANA | Alex Muñoz The coastline of La Higuera and Isla Chañaral in Northern Chile is different from any other coastline I have ever experienced.  I grew up in New York, next to the East River, with the Atlantic Ocean right around the corner.  I have travelled along many differen ...
  • California's Shark Fin Ban Officially in Effec ...
    California has banned shark fins within the state...for now Let's start with the good news: As of yesterday, July 1, California's shark fin ban (passed in 2011) officially came into effect! California grocers that stocked shark fins and restaurants that offered shark fin soup on the ...
  • Reckless Bill Passes House of Representatives
    HR 2231 could nearly double U.S. offshore drilling, threatening tens of thousands of marine animals like this common bottlenose dolphin. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, a reckless bill that would nearly double U.S. offshore drill ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Spitzer on Ballot Signatures, Sex and “Self-In ...
    “I have spent five years reflecting, thinking, apologizing. I am ready to ask for forgiveness,”he said on Tuesday’s Morning Joe in a grueling interview. “It’s not easy, but I’m ready to ask.” [Morning Joe] IN THE interview on “Morning Joe,” Mika Brzezinski, who had forewarned everyon ...
  • Abortion Debate in Texas Continues, and “If My ...
    UPDATE The Texas House just passed HB 2, as expected, with a vote of 98 / 49. The Senate vote is to come, though we don’t know what day. Original post The abortion debate in Texas continues, in both the Senate and House, as well as by and among citizen proponents and opponents of Senate [. ...
  • Rand Paul Staffer a Pro-Secessionist, Neo-Conf ...
    NOT ONLY did Jack Hunter help Senator Rand Paul co-write his book The Tea Party Goes to Washington on his was to becoming senator of the great state of Kentucky, but according to a whopper of a story in the Washington Free Beacon, Hunter, an avowed secessionist, was known as the neo-confederate ...
  • Queer Talk: ACLU Lawsuit Challenges PA Ban On ...
    An ACLU lawsuit, also filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, challenges Pennsylvania’s law banning same-sex marriage. According to the New York Times, The suit … was filed in Federal District Court in Harrisburg with the aim of adding Pennsylvania to the column of 13 other states ...
  • The Militarization of Police: “Warrior Cops” a ...
    The most recent, significant attention by national media to the militarization of police departments and law enforcement in general was the response to the Occupy movement, and “warrior cops,” in his words, are the focus of a book by Radley Balko. You can read an extended excerpt of Rise of the ...

Hudson New York

  • Italy: "Fighting in the Name of Allah"
    Italian counter-terrorism authorities are monitoring several dozen Italian Muslims who have obtained combat experience in Syria and are now promoting jihad, or holy war, in Italy. Somewhere between 45 and 50 Italian citizens -- mostly Muslim immigrants
  • The Problem at the Heart of Egypt's Revolutions
    This latest revolution in Egypt, the second in the last two years, is a symptom of a deep-rooted problem at the heart of Islam itself: Egypt is on the verge of a civil war to bring a resolution to the never-ending tension between what Islam demands
  • Muslim Brotherhood Out, Killing Christians In
    "In scattered locations across Egypt, mobs of hard-line Muslims," according to Morning Star News, "enraged over the deposing of the country's Islamist president [Muhammad Morsi] this week attacked Christian homes, business[es] and church buildings and
  • Tinker, Tailor, Snowden, Spy
    "Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now." So wrote Edward Snowden in the middle of last month, in a live chat with readers of London's Guardian.
  • Will Hamas Be Next?
    These are tough days for Hamas. After losing the military and financial support of Iran and Syria, Hamas has now lost its main allies in Egypt. The downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt is a severe blow to Hamas, whose leaders are now

Urban Survival

  • A Big Summer Rally Ahead?
    (Palestine, TX) There’s some reason to be optimistic about the coming period between now and say, oh, the first week or two of September.    Mainly, it looks from the Federal Reserve’s Consumer Debt (misnamed credit) report that all that … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Captain Midnight Continued (II)
    We began yesterday’s Coping section with an introduction to my friend Captain Midnight, but I think before we get into this morning’s report from him, we may wish to think for a moment about an important concept that was taught … Continue reading →
  • A New Solar Minimum?
    (Batesville, AR)  OK, bear with me here:  The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest solar weather predictions from NOAA seem to make it clear that the Sun is seriously under-performing … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Words from Capt. Midnight
    If you knew the writer, who writes under the pen name “Capt. Midnight” and he sent you a five-part series on what’s ahead, I do believe you’d share it.  So this week we will be providing a five-part series on … Continue reading →
  • How to Write Your Own Jobs Report
    (Newburgh NY)  Since we will be in the sky somewhere over the Poconos by the time you read this, I’m left with no alternative to teaching you how to do a jobs reports for yourself, since that’s the main economic … Continue reading →

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Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Oil and gas accidents -- who is protecting wor ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, a few NRDC colleages and I took a field trip to visit some fracking communities in West Virginia. We visit communities around the country periodically to see the affects ...
  • Efficient Locations Lead to More Secure Mortga ...
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Fannie Mae’s recent findings that property owners with apartment buildings located in walkable, transit-friendly neighborhoods are less likely to default on their mortgages parallels a ...
  • Investing in Local Water Supplies Makes More S ...
    Jake Sahl, Water and Wildlife Program Assistant, San Francisco NRDC recently published a paper highlighting the water supply strategies of five Southern California agencies that plan to significantly reduce their reliance on water imported from the ...
  • Bristol Bay: NRDC's Reynolds Discusses EPA's W ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA OnPoint Aired: Monday, July 8, 2013 My interview with E&E News just aired today, where we discussed the Pebble Mine – a giant gold and copper mine proposed at the headwat ...
  • Didn't Think China had Bottom-Up Activism? Thi ...
    Christine Xu, Program Assistant, China Program and Energy & Transportation Program , Washington, D.C. I was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s China Environment Forum recently to hear Ms. Wang Yongchen, a Chinese environmental report ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Egypt moving towards civil war: Russian President
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the impasse between the supporters and opponents of the ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, might spark a civil war in the North African country. Speaking during his visit to Kazakhstan on Sunday, Putin expressed concern over the present sit ...
  • China and Russia send joint force of 19 warshi ...
    China and Russia have launched what Beijing described as its “largest ever joint naval exercise” as an armada of military hardware descended on the Sea of Japan. China and Russia have launched what Beijing described as its “largest ever joint naval exercise” as an armada ...
  • Economist Caution: Prepare For ‘Massive Wealth ...
    Take immediate steps to protect your wealth . . . NOW! That’s exactly what many well-respected economists, billionaires, and noted authors are telling you to do — experts such as Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, Donald Trump, and Robert Wiedemer. According to them, we are on the verge of another recess ...
  • Russia denies closure of embassy, naval base i ...
    Moscow: Moscow has denied the reports suggesting closure of Russian embassy in the Syria’s capital city and evacuation of a naval base in its second largest port city of Tartus. “These rumors are speculations and provocations aimed at preparing public opinion for the attempts to chan ...
  • Social networks steal billions of dollars from ...
    Social networking has been accused of all mortal sins. It deprives people of live communication, makes citizens dependent on the internet, and causes a number of other psychological issues. But these are not the only troubles caused by social networks. It turns out that this technology has an ex ...

Daily Dose

  • Take a break from work: Pong.com emerges as a ...
    Pong.com is a new, brilliantly named and extremely sticky social network for lovers of flash games and haters of how staggeringly fragmented the browser-based game landscape has become. Much like... Keep reading →
  • Tizen unveils $4 million app challenge to get ...
    In a world where iOS and Android combined account for more than 90 percent of smartphone shipments, how is it possible for the rest to compete — let alone a... Keep reading →
  • US ‘deeply concerned’ by Singapore ...
    The US has weighed in on Singapore’s recently-unveiled regulations to supervise websites that cover local news, with the State Department saying that it is “deeply concerned” by what it called... Keep reading →
  • Google and Maker Faire’s annual summer camp re ...
    It’s summertime and for millions of teenagers, it’s a time when school’s out and they can enjoy the next couple of months without having to be in a classroom. For... Keep reading →
  • Citrix’s collaboration platform Podio gets Sky ...
    Podio, Citrix’s online collaboration platform service, officially rolled out its video and audio conferencing technology for all its users. The addition of video communication to the platform enables users to speak... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Film: Generation Green
    Generation Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about his companies contribution towards adverse climate change. Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental stewardship, his pe ...
  • National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
    This week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate change. Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The Feder ...
  • Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
    Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project. The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne. The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Stand up paddleboarding in the Amazon for cons ...
    This week an international team is setting off on a unique journey, aiming to be the first to descend the Amazon River using inflatable Stand Up Paddle boards. The group, led by Dr. Mika Peck, a conservation biologist from the University of Sussex with years of work in Ecuador and Colombia, incl ...
  • Rising temperatures are triggering rainforest ...
    Slight rises in temperatures are triggering rainforest trees to produce more flowers, reports a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
  • Palm oil lobby group misleads on origin of haz ...
    World Growth International, a group that lobbies on behalf of industrial forestry and palm oil companies, is clouding the origin of the fires that triggered 'haze' air pollution alerts across Singapore and Malaysia last month.
  • Chinese lose 2.5 billion years of life expecta ...
    Chinese who live north of the Huai River will lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years of life expectancy due to the extensive use of coal burning in the region, concludes a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • New tree shrew discovered in Vietnam forest
    Researchers have described a previously unknown species of tree shrew in the forests of Vietnam. The study was published July 2 in the open access journal ZooKeys.

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone’s Trade Minister on his visit to ...
    The name Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara (in photo) is not new in Sierra Leone, especially with the framework of party politics. From being  a former Mines Director, to a leading figure in the governing All Peoples Congress (APC) in Sierra Leone, Usman Boie Kamara has been a key player in that small We ...
  • Sierra Leone Imams Honoured In Kuwait
    The Ministry of Endowment and Islamic Affairs of the State of Kuwait in collaboration with the Islamic Cultural Centre this week concluded a 3 – month intensive course in Arabic language and other Islamic subjects; with special focus on Islamic Tolerance.  (Photo: An Imam receiving his cer ...
  • Wednesday is Ramadan, Saudi Arabia announces
    The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, for a period of 29 or 30 days commences Wednesday, 10th July, 2013, announced the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today, quoting the Supreme Court. “Tuesday, 9th July, 2013 will be the last day of Sha’aban, making Wednesd ...
  • US Ambassador praises Dignity Market’s skills ...
    FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone Michael Owen visited the Dignity Market on June 28.  The Ambassador toured the center, talked with the artisans, and enjoyed a musical and dance performance. Ambassador Owen discussed the US Embassy’s commitment to support individ ...
  • Hon. Kemoh Sesay lures Diaspora
    In the wake of the speech delivered by the Political and Public Affairs Minister, Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay at the Ministerial Conference on Diaspora and Development in Geneva on 18 – 19th June, 2013, Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora have disclosed that it was one of the best speeches ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Synlait shares priced at $2.20, company valued ...
    Synlait Milk will sell shares at $2.20 apiece before joining the NZX later this month, valuing the dairy processor at $322 million and making it the 43rd biggest company on the exchange.The Rakaia-based company plans to raise...
  • Fonterra confirms 300 job losses
    Fonterra Co-operative Group said about 300 jobs from its head office in Auckland would go after a review of its support services, saving the company $65 million, or $216,666 per position, a year.Fonterra signalled the job losses...
  • Fonterra price scheme big hit with farmers
    Fonterra's guaranteed milk price (GMP) pilot scheme for the current season has proven so popular that it has required scaling, the co-operative dairy giant said.Fonterra said 328 farms have applied to supply 37 million kg of milk...
  • Auditor's eye on aid for big business
    The Auditor-General is to investigate a flagship Government project which involves millions in subsidies being paid to some of New Zealand's biggest primary sector businesses.Plans by the public-spending watchdog to take a close...
  • Westland milk processing up despite drought
    Westland Milk Products said it processed 5.3 per cent more milk in the season just ended, compared with the previous season, in spite of the area being hit by drought early in the year.This compares with a 2 per cent drop in the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Fracking Tempts the Amish Community
    It’s likely that members of the Amish community have not seen either Gasland or Gasland Part II. But they do have the possibility of fracking coming to their neck of the woods, and their concerns are a bit different from those of environmentalists. The Associated Press reports: I ...
  • Prison Ordered to Hire Back Guards Fired over ...
    In 2011, Officer Jayme Biendl was strangled by an inmate inside the Monroe Correctional Complex prison chapel in Monroe, Wash. Prison officials put the blame on three guards and fired them, accusing them of dereliction of duty and attempting to mislead investigators trying to figure ...
  • Obama May Be Forced to Withdraw All Troops fro ...
    The Obama Administration has floated the idea of a complete troop withdrawal in Afghanistan by 2014 over frustrations with the Karzai government. The bags and bags of cash sent to Afghan president Hamid Karzai may have fueled a lot of corruption in Kabul but, unsurprisingly, it di ...
  • While Teen Rots in Jail for Making Facebook Jo ...
    Justin Carter, 19, has been in jail since March 27, when the Comal County (Texas) teen was arrested for making an off-color joke to a friend about a MOBA* computer game they were playing. "You're crazy," the friend told Carter. "I think I’ma shoot up a kindergarten. And watch the bl ...
  • Forensic Pathologist Lends Support to George Z ...
    Today the defense in George Zimmerman's murder trial presented testimony from forensic pathologist Vincent Di Maio, who said the gunshot wound that killed Trayvon Martin was consistent with Zimmerman's claim that the teenager was on top of him at the end of their fight. Di Maio, Sa ...

Mercury Rising

  • FISA judge condemns the court
    Dan Roberts, The Guardian: A former federal judge who granted government surveillance requests has broken ranks to criticise the system of secret courts as unfit for purpose in the wake of recent revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. James Robertson, who retired from the District of C ...
  • Snowden in Oz; Brazilian fallout continues
    RT: Ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has disclosed his first set of documents outlining Australia’s role in NSA surveillance programs, picking out four facilities in the country that contribute heavily to US spying. The locations of dozens of the US’s and associated countries s ...
  • Should Dinkytown Become A Gated Community?
    Dinkytown, one of the three major neighborhoods near the sprawling University of Minnesota campus, is being destroyed and turned into a place for the well-heeled students the U seeks to do some shopping at upscale national chains in between classes. We’ve already lost the Podium and the ol ...
  • NSA leaks
    Greenwald: NSA engaged in mass surveillance of Brazil. An as-yet-unidentified US telecomm company [Charles: which I would bet is AT&T] is partnering with the NSA and, in turn, with foreign telecomms. Jonathan Watts, The Guardian: Snowden’s potential locations for asylum are expanding. ...
  • Reclaiming Our LIBERT-E
    John Conyers and Justin Amash have a message for us all: On July 4th our thoughts turn towards our Nation’s proud history, and the hard fought rights and freedoms that we all enjoy. This Independence Day we honor those traditions, yet in the wake of the reported twin controversies surrounding th ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Debt Freedom
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  • Pardon Edward Snowden
    [Action Alert] • Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs. read more
  • One For The Spirits: Automatic Writing into Th ...
    This article is excerpted from Trance Poetics: Your Writing Mind, recently published by Wide Reality Books. Automatic writing is an eccentric activity with a strange history. Like the ectoplasm which the Spiritualists believed to be the membrane between the living and the dead, when a perso ...
  • Lucid Dream Healing Experiences: Firsthand Acc ...
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  • Evolver Talks at LIB
    Evolver is proud to hosts a series of talks and workshops at the Lightening in a Bottle Festival this week in Temecula, CA (July 11-15).  ----- read more

Desertification

  • Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
    As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia a ...
    Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning. “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts ...
  • FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food ...
    Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) underlines the strong links between the two when it declares that agriculture accounts for over 70 percent ...
  • Small Farmers Buffeted by Climate Change
    The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has long warned that a quarter of the world’s farmland is “highly degraded”. The main culprits are natural disasters, including droughts, floods and desertification. These pressures have now reached critical levels, with climate change expec ...

Blogging Canadians

  • $ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
    I wonder what the people in poor  countries think when they see the sheikdoms  throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock which ...
  • Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
    In my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours.  Yeh, I know ... that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the niceties of comfort we have become.  Even six hours was hard to take. There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I ...
  • Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
    It turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also ...
  • The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
    Last week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so ...
  • Warren Kinsella Hunts Little Girl!
    I hadn't seen Wendy Sullivan's blog in a while. She blocked me on Twitter! But so did Warren Kinsella. Wendy's blog was often inflammatory. I seldom read it. Growing up in Montreal her dad was some sort of union New Democrat guy who was abusive and that led her to becoming an ultra-ultra conser ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Protest in WB in support of prisoners
    A demonstration has been held in the occupied West Bank city of al-Bireh in solidarity with Palestinian and Jordanian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, Press TV reports.
  • Syria rebels used sarin: Russia
    The Russian ambassador to the United Nations says that firsthand evidence shows that militants, and not the Syrian army, have manufactured sarin nerve gas and used it during an attack near the city of Aleppo in March.
  • Syria militants made sarin gas: Russia
    Russian experts have found that Syrian militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad made sarin nerve gas and used it in a deadly attack outside Aleppo in March.
  • Israel puts Palestine women on trial
    Two Palestinian female activists have been put on trial in an Israeli court on charges of instigating in a demonstration against Israeli regime’s illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank.
  • KSA plans to kill fugitive Iraqi VP
    The Saudi regime is reportedly planning to assassinate fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi over fears that he might disclose Saudi Arabia's role in cooperation with al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • ePortfolio Student Showcase Now Live!
    SPS is delighted to present our 2012/2013 ePortfolio Student Showcase! The showcase, which is hosted on an SPS ePortfolio site, highlights student work in individual courses, programs, and capstone projects at both the bachelors and masters level. ePortfolio provides a window into our students&# ...
  • Paula’s Pound of Flesh
    Paula Deen is in the news again and, no, it’s not because people discovered that frying food in massive amounts of butter is not healthy. This time she was fired her contract was not renewed by Food Network because she did not perjure herself. Ok, so it wasn’t exactly for not perjuring her ...
  • Lynx Love
    More lynx photos, videos, and fun facts on the CUNY SPS Pinterest account.
  • Your Diploma is Ready for Pick Up!
    Class of 2013 degree students, your diploma is ready for pick up! Visit the SPS Office on the 9th floor in room 905 at 101 West 31st with a photo ID. We will be open from 9:00am through 7:30pm Monday through Thursday. During the summer, we will be closed on the following days: July 4, […]
  • Applied Mothering
    Carrie has been a teaching artist in NYC for 10 years and a mom for 6 months. She received her MA in Applied Theatre from CUNY School of Professional Studies in 2011. Carrie is currently working for organizations such as TDF, The Roundabout Theatre Company, and The Museum of the City of New York ...

Dissident Voice

  • Israeli Colonists Dump Sewage on Palestinian land
    Villagers in Wadi Fukin near Bethlehem were attacked by Israeli colonists/settlers from a nearby colony/settlement, when they intentionally poured thousands of tons of sewage into the only natural water spring and onto the land.
  • Rolling Dumb-Outs — When the chickens co ...
    They Say ‘Working Class’ Okay, okay – I’ll insert a conversation two DV contributors have been having around the state of the collapse, but first some musings. Interestingly, both the DV poets are Baby-boomers approaching the Magical 65 (one’s USA-rooted; the other is Can ...
  • Shooting the Messengers
    We’re living in a cuckoo’s nest that would have baffled Ken Kesey. Consider just three items at the top of our agenda. (1) Astronomical military spending at a time when there’s nobody left in the world big enough to fight us, (2) the health care farce, which makes us the most e ...
  • Back to the Past with the GOP
    Despite being a party that looks backwards, Republicans are mounting attacks on Hillary Clinton’s “politics of the past,” fearful she will become president. At a recent conservative confab, party stalwarts took pride in representing the GOP as the party that “stops progress cold in its tracks,” ...
  • NSA Spying: An Open Air Prism
    Last month, whistle blower Edward Snowden’s leaking of the US National Security Agency (NSA) spying on hundreds of millions of people in the US and elsewhere sent shock-waves around the world. Disclosures included the collection of phone records and the PRISM program, which gives the NSA d ...

Nick Turse

Sources

Newswise

  • Behavior Change May Have the Greatest Influenc ...
    To investigate factors underlying the three-wave shape of the 1918 influenza epidemic, McMaster researchers developed what they describe as a simple epidemic model. It incorporates three factors in addition to natural disease spread: school terms, temperature changes during an outbreak and chan ...
  • Biceps Bulge, Calves Curve, 50-Year-Old Assump ...
    The basics of how a muscle generates power remain the same: Filaments of myosin tugging on filaments of actin shorten, or contract, the muscle - but the power doesn't just come from what's happening straight up and down the length of the muscle, as has been assumed for 50 years.
  • Iowa State's Iverson Leads International Team ...
    Iowa State's Neal Iverson and a team of researchers are heading to Iceland to study long, narrow hills formed underneath glaciers. The hills are of particular interest these days because they could affect how quickly ice sheets move and shed ice into the oceans.
  • Innovative Vaccine Offers Hope to Ovarian Canc ...
    Loyola University Medical Center is conducting a clinical trial of an innovative vaccine that could offer hope to patients with advanced ovarian cancer.The vaccine is designed to jumpstart the patient's immune system to attack and kill cancer cells.
  • Six Tips for "Type-A" Personalities at the Doc ...
    Saint Louis University instructors of health informatics and information management Julie Howe and Teresa Neal offer advice we all can use as we prepare to make the most of our visits to a physician.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
    As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
  • Kenya’s Mothers Shun Free Maternity Health Care
    It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth. “During childbirth my uterus comes out, a traditional birth attendant has the knowledge of how to push t ...
  • U.S. Has “Largely Failed” to Protect Marine Sp ...
    Environmentalists on Monday filed a petition with the U.S. government requesting regulatory safeguards for 81 particularly vulnerable marine wildlife species, from corals to sharks. According to WildEarth Guardians, a conservation watchdog, U.S. officials have failed to protect ocean-dwelling sp ...
  • Needed in Brazil: Integrated Urban Transport S ...
    Bus lanes, cycle paths and pedestrian walkways are viable solutions to the transport collapse in Brazil’s big cities. But economic interests, red tape and the lack of strategies for an integrated system are delaying a process that the protests raging across the country for the last few wee ...
  • Over a Barrel, Caribbean Seeks Finance for Cle ...
    When James Husbands, a 24-year-old Barbadian businessman, began weighing the possibility of manufacturing solar water heaters, there was already a prototype on the island that had been designed and installed by an Anglican priest living there in the early 1970s. A market study on the viability o ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Mainstream U.S. Media & A Tale of Two Coups
    Summary: The military coup that removed Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, on Wednesday July 3, 2013, after serving only a single year in office, will have far reaching implications in the months, years, and decades to come. Following the announcement that Morsi h ...
  • Ban on Iranian media violates human rights: Pr ...
    Summary: Press TV News Director Hamid Reza Emadi says a wave of attacks launched by international satellite companies against Iranian channels violates human rights and freedom of speech. source: PressTVread more
  • Why the United States Can’t Have an Effective ...
    Summary: Earlier this month, Real News Network broadcast a two-part interview that Gareth Porter, the wonderful journalist and historian, did with us. The interview focuses on our book, Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but also del ...
  • Former US general James Cartwright named in St ...
    Summary: A retired US general, James Cartwright, is the target of a Justice Department investigation into the leaking of secret information about the Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing unidentified legal sources. source: The Gu ...
  • Syria: Ten Reasons Why We Oppose Intervention
    Summary: An attack on Iran remains the ultimate goal for the US. Intervention in Syria is a stepping stone toward that goal. source: Stop The War Coalitionread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Photo of the Century" --Astronomers Poise ...
                A world-wide project called the Event Horizon Telescope combines the resolving power of numerous antennas from a worldwide network of radio telescopes to capture the first image ever of the most exotic object in our Universe --the event horizon of a black hole. "In essence ...
  • Searching for DNA on Mars & Beyond --New MIT C ...
                    If there is life on Mars, it’s not too farfetched to believe that such Martian species may share genetic roots with life on Earth, based on RNA or DNA because more than 3.5 billion years ago, a blitz of meteors ricocheted around the solar system, passing material betwee ...
  • Kepler Mission Count Now at 3,277 --Prepares f ...
                     Operations in Point Rest State (PRS) have continued for the Kepler Mission spacecraft, which was placed in PRS on May 15, 2013, after the failure of reaction wheel 4. It has been 53 days since the spacecraft collected new science data. Meanwhile, the team continues to ...
  • The Sun as an Antimatter Lab
                 Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to a presentation by NJIT Research Professor of Physics Gregory D. Fleishman and two co-researchers at the 44th meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division ...
  • Mystery of a Cosmic Radio Burst Beyond the Mil ...
                   A single burst of radio emission of unknown origin was detected outside our Galaxy about six years ago but no one was certain what it was or even if it was real, so astronomers have spent the last four years searching for more of these explosive, short-duration bursts. ...

Natural News

  • The missing link in your storable food strateg ...
    I don't know if you can feel it too, but there's a lot of cultural tension in the air these days. Many people believe things are on the verge of snapping, causing possible riots (the Zimmerman trial verdict), bank closures (bond market implosion) or another martial law...
  • Shocking photos and video shows Golden Corral ...
    Shocking photos posted on the internet claim to show behind-the-scenes filth at a Golden Corral restaurant. The photos appear to show filthy dishes stacked nearly head-high, with food waste littering the floor right next to beverage service carts. Three employees are...
  • Ecuador finds hidden bug at UK embassy - is th ...
    The massive U.S. surveillance state is very powerful and has tentacles everywhere, as evidenced by the fact that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden can't find a country which will grant him asylum from an American government incensed with him over his disclosure that Washington...
  • Mike Bundrant vs. Eric Pearl of Reconnective H ...
    It is my privilege to welcome to Mental Health Exposed this week none other than Dr. Eric Pearl, developer of Reconnective Healing, author of The Reconnection and the new book, Solomon Speaks. I am not a Reconnection follower, although I do have some appreciation...
  • Food as medicine: Rooibos shines as a potent d ...
    If you are a fan of green, black or white tea you may want to rethink your beverage of choice. Rooibos (Aspalathus linear) trumps all three with its substantial health enhancing features. Even if you are not an ardent tea drinker, a second look at this red hued nectar...

Threat Level

  • Court Rejects State Secrets Defense in Dragnet ...
    A federal judge today rejected the President Barack Obama administration's assertion that the state secrets defense barred a lawsuit alleging the government is illegally siphoning Americans' communications to the National Security Agency. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco, ...&n ...
  • This Is Not a Test: Emergency Broadcast System ...
    Several models of Emergency Alert System decoders, used to break into TV and radio broadcasts to announce public safety warnings, have vulnerabilities that would allow hackers to hijack them and deliver fake messages to the public, according to an announcement ...    
  • Judge Orders U.S. to Release Aaron Swartz’s Se ...
    A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday ordered the government to promptly start releasing thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz, following months of roadblocks and delays.    
  • Privacy Group Asks Supreme Court to Halt NSA P ...
    The privacy rights group Electronic Privacy Information Center asked the Supreme Court today to halt the National Security Agency's spy program that collects phone records on millions of people.    
  • Courts Can’t Agree on Whether Cops Can Track Y ...
    Prosecutors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of criminal suspects in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling 18 months ago that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles to ...    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Blue States Should Get a Refund Under Roberts' ...
    Among the many disturbing arguments in John Roberts' Voting Rights Act (VRA) decision, the most pernicious may be his invention of the "equal sovereignty" doctrine. In his Shelby County majority opinion, the Chief Justice struck down the VRA's Section 4 formula for determining which jurisdictio ...
  • Egypt Prompts Buyer's Remorse for Bush Doctrine
    As the carnage and chaos grow in Cairo, there are no easy answers for the United States in Egypt. But once upon a time, Republican leaders and their allies in the conservative commentariat had a simple answer indeed for the Middle East. Waiving their purple fingers in early 2005, the likes of D ...
  • New GOP Debt Ceiling Ransom Demands Adoption o ...
    As has been thoroughly documented, until 2011 no political party had both the votes and the intent to block an increase in the U.S. debt ceiling and thereby trigger both a U.S. default and a global economic catastrophe. Now, despite plummeting annual federal budget deficits, a stabilization of ...
  • Colorado Republican Joins List of Right-Wing E ...
    I have good news and bad news for Colorado Republican state senate candidate Jaxine Bubis. The bad news is that her would-be constituents now know that she authored a series of erotic novels under the name Jaxine Daniels, including the not-so-classic Beantown Heat. The good news is that publis ...
  • 150 Years Ago, the Greatest July 4th of Them All
    Every July 4th, Americans gather at picnics, watch parades and shoot off fireworks to celebrate the birth of the United States. But some years are more notable than others. In 1826, Founding Fathers and former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson marked the nation's 50th anniversary by d ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rare Jellyfish — Black Jellyfish Species Swarm ...
    A rare jellyfish species — Chrysaora achlyos, also known as the black stinging jellyfish — recently made an appearance at a popular Southern California beach. The rare black jellyfish was seen in very large numbers and apparently left quite a few people with stings — not surpri ...
  • Florida Panther Kitten Found Healthy
    A wild Florida panther kitten about one month old was found two weeks ago by biologists working with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. The kitten was birthed by a female adult panther that was raised as an orphan. This young adult was just released back into the wild in January of this y ...
  • Tiger Cub Killed By Men; Tigers Kill Man
    The reporting on this situation in Sumatra is almost completely human-centric. Some men ventured into Sumatran tiger habitat to trap deer. They accidentally caught a Sumatran tiger cub, which they killed. Sumatran tigers are critically endangered with only about 300-350 remaining in the wild. Th ...
  • Chevy Volt Sales Surpassed Nissan Leaf Sales I ...
    June was a great month for the Chevy Volt — 2698 units of the popular plug-in hybrid sold during June, a 53.3% increase over June 2012. With no more than 1626 units sold during any of the other months of 2013, the uptick in sales must be pleasant news or the company. June also marks the fi ...
  • Honda & GM Partner To Develop Hydrogen Cars
    General Motors (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) announced on Tuesday, July 2, that they will collaborate to develop hydrogen-powered cars. They have joined in a long-term, definitive master agreement to jointly develop a next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Coming Soon to a Protest Near Your: Private Pa ...
    Folks in Wisconsin have had a lot of bad ideas force-fed to them since Scott Walker was elected governor and proceeded to trash the state's progressive-populist traditions. Now we have an even weirder and infinitely more disturbing story coming out of the state (via Josh Marshall): There's been ...
  • Are We Living In A "Post-Economic" World?
    By @TedFrier Have we entered a "post economic" era in which the Republican contempt for science in fields as diverse as climatology and evolutionary biology has now migrated over to economics so that our ability to shape the way we earn our daily bread using long-standing and time-tested economi ...
  • The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is Afraid
    By @TodWesthttps://twitter.com/#!/ Dr. Krugman this morning offers readers of his NY Times blog a vision of a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. The professor argues, rightly in my opinion, against David Warsh's assertion that Clinton would be a figure of reconciliation: So, what would a Hill ...
  • Right Wing Destroys Free Speech In Order to Sa ...
    By @TedFrier Last month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell traveled to the flagship conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute to deliver a speech titled "The Continuing Assault on the First Amendment" whose central charge is that liberals don't respect free speech and conservati ...
  • This Ought to be Universal
    By @BginKC I've had a hell of a year. On October 4, 2012 - two days after we  celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary the headache I had the night before, and blamed on President Obama for his lousy performance in the first debate - turned out to not be just a headache. I had a vertebral a ...

Care 2

  • Armed Military-Style Guards Patrol Large Mine ...
    Dear Neighbors GTAC now has men in military fatigues with automatic weapons in the Penokee Hills lands that you have legal access to as they are in Managed Forest status. IS THIS THE KIND OF BUSINESS we want in our community? Submitted by Judy C. to Environment  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • PLEASE TAKE ACTION!!! End Sumatran Tiger Renta ...
    The critically endangered Sumatran tiger, once prevalent throughout the forests of Indonesia, now maintains a population of only about 400 individuals in the wild. Submitted by Monica T. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Saved from slaughter:Bleeding filly finds hope ...
    For many years, Lovell pulled horses from kill pens, re-trained and re-sold them. She always kept a low profile. Few were even aware she was doing itShe has also heavily lobbied Canadian slaughterhouses to ban imports of American Thoroughbreds . Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Bill Budde, Kansas Farmer, Sues Monsanto Over ...
    Another Kansas farmer has filed suit against seed giant Monsanto over the discovery of an isolated field of genetically engineered wheat in Oregon. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Demand Regulation of Youth-Targeted Fast Food ...
    Given the epidemic proportions of childhood health risks and disastrously effective fast food marketing to minors, it is time for the FDA to step up and limit dangerous advertising. Demand stricter regulation of youth-oriented junk food marketing. Submitted by Monica T. to Health & Wellness &nb ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Was Barack Obama Piloting the Plane Crash in S ...
    What an apt metaphor–a careless, cocksure pilot crashes a sound plane, amid perfect weather, simply because he did not take care of details and refused to believe that he was wrong. Fortunately, most of the passengers on board the doomed flight survived. Can’t say the same for our co ...
  • The Stunning Incompetence of Obama Over Egypt
    Heard via friends in the “intelligence” community that the spooks have known for “weeks” that the Egyptian Army was planning to oust Egyptian President Morsi. Do you think they kept that news to themselves? Nope. Barack Obama was briefed on this–repeatedly. So here& ...
  • Egypt Into the Abyss Part Deux
    Morsi needed to go and good riddance. But this ain’t a Hollywood movie with three acts and a happy ending. The goal of Morsi and the Muslim Brothers to subject Egypt to Sharia law is stalled for now. But the battle is not over. It is important to remember that even the Muslim Brothers are ...
  • Playing Politics With Health Care?
    I used the question mark simply out of irony. Of course Obama is playing politics with health care, and a political coward he is. News today that the Obama Administration is going to delay by one year the implementation of part of the “beauty” of Obama care that applies to business: ...
  • Barack Obama, This Blood is On Your Head
    I do not post this to appeal to purient interest. What follows is abject horror. It is the murder of Metropolitan “François Murad”, who was patron of Sumaan al-Amoudi Monastery (WARNING–This shows the beheadings of three Christians): As the Holocaust unfolded in World War II, President Roo ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Pro coal sentiment intensifies as mines close ...
    Pro coal sentiment intensifies as mines close in southeastern Kentucky CoalGuru.com In 2008, Perry County Ky, Mr Clerk Haven King got fed up with how the Lexington Herald Leader depicted mountaintop removal mining in southeastern Kentucky. Mr King, who was a longtime coal operator before going i ...
  • Back to Nature: A Summer Camp Experience for C ...
    Back to Nature: A Summer Camp Experience for Children Mother Earth News We discussed deforestation, strip mining, mountain top removal, as well as air and water pollution. I gave the children several examples of how they can help by reducing their carbon footprint and by living by the daily prin ...
  • In coal country and pro coal sentiment intensi ...
    In coal country and pro coal sentiment intensifies as mines close CoalGuru.com In coal country and pro coal sentiment intensifies as mines close. 6 minutes ago. hits: 3. In 2008, Perry County Ky, Mr Clerk Haven King got fed up with how the Lexington Herald Leader depicted mountaintop removal min ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Redemption Mountain': West Virgi ...
    BOOK REVIEW: 'Redemption Mountain': West Virginia As It Really Is, Warts and All HNN Huntingtonnews.net It's also a novel of political corruption and powerful Charleston law firms run by faux good ole boys who know how to make things happen -- like obtaining a permit for a mountainto ...
  • Pro-coal Sentiment Increases as Mines Close - ...
    Pro-coal Sentiment Increases as Mines Close HispanicBusiness.com In 2008, Perry County, Ky., Clerk Haven King got fed up with how the Lexington Herald-Leader depicted mountaintop-removal mining in southeastern Kentucky. "They showed pictures in there that just weren't true. They showed ...

Memeorandum

  • Police: Evidence criminal act may have led to ...
    Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN: Police: Evidence criminal act may have led to Canada train crash  —  Train derails, explodes in Canadian town  —  Lac-Megantic, Quebec (CNN) — Canadian authorities have found evidence that a criminal act may have led to a train c ...
  • Democrat on Democrat: Sen. Warren rips Sen. Ma ...
    Joe Picard / The Hill: Democrat on Democrat: Sen. Warren rips Sen. Manchin on student loan proposal  —  Liberal firebrand Elizabeth Warren blasted a fellow Democratic senator Tuesday as a dispute over how to stop student loan rates from doubling tore splits in the party.  & ...
  • UPDATED - RAISE YOUR VOICE, NOT YOUR HANDS (Ke ...
    Keyla Concepción / Broward Sheriff's Office: UPDATED - RAISE YOUR VOICE, NOT YOUR HANDS  —  The Broward Sheriff's Office, working closely with the Sanford Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies, has coordinated a response plan in anticipation of the ve ...
  • Sarah Palin Considering 2014 Senate Run (Noel ...
    Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters blogs: Sarah Palin Considering 2014 Senate Run  —  Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Tuesday said that she is considering running for Senate in 2014.  —  Appearing on Sean Hannity's radio program, Palin also reiterated that she wou ...
  • Governor's son arrested, charged with intoxica ...
    Jim Nolan / Richmond Times-Dispatch: Governor's son arrested, charged with intoxication, swearing  —  Sean McDonnell, the 21-year-old son of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, was arrested Saturday in Charlottesville and charged with public swearing and intoxication.  —&nbs ...

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  • Two Koreas start fresh talks on joint industri ...
    South Korean vehicles make their way towards the Kaesong industrial complex across the border in North Korea on July 10, 2013. South Korean delegates left for North Korea for talks on reopening a joint industrial zone, with the two sides remaining wide ap North and South Korea started talks We ...
  • Top NHL pick MacKinnon signs with Colorado
    Nathan Mackinnon puts on his jersey after being selected by the Colorado Avalanche during the NHL Draft on June 30, 2013. The Avalanche has signed first-overall entry-draft pick MacKinnon to a three-year contract, the NHL club announced.The Colorado Avalanche signed first-overall entry-draft p ...
  • US, China to take up hacking, business rows
    This photo taken on February 3, 2013 shows the US and Chinese flags outside an office building in the Chinese city of Chongqing. The United States and China will on Wednesday try to find common ground on rows ranging from hacking to trade access, with fewThe United States and China will on Wed ...
  • US, China to take up hacking, business rows
    This photo taken on February 3, 2013 shows the US and Chinese flags outside an office building in the Chinese city of Chongqing. The United States and China will on Wednesday try to find common ground on rows ranging from hacking to trade access, with fewThe United States and China will on Wed ...
  • Asiana pilot 'couldn't see runway' before US crash
    The inside of the crashed Asiana plane is shown July 7, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The flight crew of the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco Airport couldn't see the runway just seconds before the accident, given how far the The flight crew of the Asiana Airlines ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #845
    Mideast envoy Blair's adviser is former Israeli intel officer. Who is the New Egyptian Intelligence Minister? Five unanswered questions about the NSA’s surveillance programs.
  • News you may have missed #844 (analysis on Sno ...
    Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden was right to flee US. NSA 'in bed' with German intelligence says Snowden. Can Snowden fly from Moscow to Caracas without being stopped?
  • S. Korea’s spy agency accused of politic ...
    South Korea's main opposition party has accused the country's intelligence agency of acting as a "political provocateur", "championing conservative causes" and promoting partisanship among the electorate.
  • World reaction to Snowden’s spying revelations ...
    Governments around the world continue to issue sharp official reactions to the revelations of large-scale spying by the United States, as Washington attempts to minimize the diplomatic fallout from the disclosures.
  • Bugging device found in Ecuador’s UK embassy w ...
    The government of Ecuador has announced the discovery of a “hidden listening device” inside its embassy in London, United Kingdom, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria/Egypt News July 10
      Liberal economist Hazem El-Beblawi appointed new Egyptian PM - Ahram Online Mohamed ElBaradei appointed Egypt's new VP - Ahram Online Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rejects timetable for elections - latimes.com Egypt's interim constitutional declaration draws criticisms - Ahram Online & ...
  • Egyptian Model:  Three Cheers For Coup Democracy
    By John Grant It was a typical US government response to favorable facts-on-the-ground rooted in violence. Once the military coup in Egypt had been accomplished and the first democratically-elected president of Egypt and many of his allies had been arrested and all sympathetic radio stations h ...
  • Stasi's New Incarnation
      Stasi's New Incarnation   by Stephen Lendman   Stasi was East Germany's secret police. It suppressed opposition to Stalinist power. It was one of the most repressive state apparatuses in modern times.   When East Germany collapsed in 1989, Stasi had over 90,000 full-time em ...
  • Middle East Continues to Boil
      Middle East Continues to Boil   by Stephen Lendman   A previous article called it the curse of oil and gas. Independent countries are targeted. Washington's war on Syria rages.    It's been ongoing for 28 months and counting. It continues because America, key NATO alli ...
  • Syria/Egypt News July 9
      Death toll rises to 51 in Monday clashes between Egypt army and pro-Morsi protesters - Ahram Online Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for national uprising - latimes.com Armed groups attacked Rep. Guard at dawn: Military spokesman - Ahram Online Pro-Morsi protesters recount bloody sc ...

Grist - News

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • A Growing Divide in Egypt: As Army Outlines Tr ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Cairo six days after the Egyptian army ousted President Mohamed Morsi. "I think the only way forward is for all sides to come to the table and for the Muslim Brotherhood to hopefully be invited in a real way to take part in this ...
  • Glenn Greenwald: Edward Snowden "Satisfied" by ...
    In this web-only interview, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald reveals he talked to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Saturday. "He is doing very well in terms of his mindset, his demeanor," Greenwald said. "He is able to follow things online, the debates, as they unfold, and ...
  • AUDIO: Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports Egypt is ...
    "Whatever happens it will be pivotal to Egypt's future," reports Sharif Abdel Kouddous as he calls in his latest update from Cairo, in which he recaps what has taken place since the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi. Click here to listen to Sharif's audio report.
  • This Independence Day, Thank a Protester
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan More than 160 years ago, the greatest abolitionist in U.S. history, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, addressed the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass asked those gathered, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” His words ...
  • AUDIO: Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports From Cair ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports on the crisis in Egypt as the Army detains ousted president Mohamed Morsi and shuts down TV stations supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood: Click here to listen to Sharif's audio report. SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS : Today, July ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.” ~Rumi
  • Student Loan Rates Double After Congress Fails ...
    Photo Credit:AP/Susan Walsh By FoxNews.com Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed to reach a deal. Though lawmakers potentially could still pass a bill to undo the damage, Congress’ Jo ...
  • Bohemian Grove Starts Saturday, July 13th!
    “The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That’s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I’ve never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It’d be good for you. You’d get some fresh air.” — Bill Clinton &# ...
  • Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?
    By Jon Rappoport This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them, but it hits the high points… Let’s begin here: If you absolutely must have a hero, watch Superman movies. If your need for a hero is so great, so [...]
  • A New Solar Minimum?
    By George Ure OK, bear with me here: The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest solar weather predictions from NOAA seem to make it clear that the Sun is seriously under-performing its projected output. This means colder weather, or at least a dr ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Grab a Drink Inside a 6,000-Year-Old Baobab Tr ...
    Also known as the Pub Tree, the unique bar is part of the Sunland Farm near Modjadjiskloof. The massive tree has a circumference of over 108 feet, and its tangle of branches soar to almost 75 feet. The baobab is naturally split into two connected trunk-like    
  • Solar-Powered OnBeat Headphones Charge Your Ph ...
    Listening to music can be a drain on your smartphone or iPod battery, and stopping to charge up restricts your mobility. But with the OnBeat solar headphones, you can listen to music and watch videos on your phone or tablet continuously without stopping to    
  • BIG Unveils Twisting LEED Platinum Telus Sky T ...
    BIG is collaborating with the Canadian architecture firm Dialog to design the mixed-use tower for the developer Westbank Corp. Calgary is a rapidly growing city and features cluster or towers in the downtown area surrounded by low-density suburban housing.    
  • Chaise Urbaine: MVRDV Unveils Plans to Turn In ...
    The waterfront along the river in Strasbourg is undergoing a transformation as old warehouses are renovated into fresh new residences and offices. With its close connection to the water and transportation, the area is quickly becoming the place to be. The    
  • Ohita: A Wearable, Portable Air Filter for Cit ...
    It's pretty easy to control the air quality in your home; you can open the window, turn on a fan, or even invest in an air filter. But in public places it isn't so easy. Enter the Ohita, a portable air purifier designed by Jorge Alberto Treviño Blanco,    

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The Progressive Realist

  • In Morocco, King Curbs Free Speech
    Tyler McBrien is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on coerced confessions in Morocco, which was released last week, has led many observers to question whether the United States’ North African ally actually represe ...
  • Top of the Morning: Death Toll Rises in Pro-Mo ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Egypt: Death Toll Rises to At Least 51 in Pro-Morsi Rally Massacre Rallies across the country show no signs of abating a day after a crowd of Muslim Brotherhood supporters were fired upon by security forces. “Tens of thousands of Mr Morsi’s supporters gathered ...
  • In Syria, It Takes Three to Tango
    Mark Katz has an interesting post on his blog, which is repurposed from his 1982 book about Soviet military thought, but applies to Syria today. The operative part is here: In wars between the people and a regime of extreme reaction, both radicals and moderates unite to fight the dictatorship, w ...
  • UN Prepares for Mali Mission Facing Funding Sh ...
    The newest UN Peacekeeping mission, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) officially commenced operations last week. But it will be several months at least until the mission deploys to its full strength of 12,640 Blue Helmets. The delay is partly ...
  • Egypt: A Coup Is What it Is
    On Wednesday, Egypt's military, long the country's most powerful political institution and an outfit with a massive economic empire, deposed Mohamed Morsi, the only Egyptian president ever to attain office by winning an election in which all political parties could compete on an equal footing. ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Forever War Sputters to an End
    When the United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, polls showed a remarkable nine in ten Americans supported the action. After all, we had just been attacked by an organization headquartered there, so it seemed only natural that our military would go in, hunt down the culprits, and pun ...
  • GOP Establishment Fractures on Immigration
    Over the course of this year's immigration debate, we've come to view the Republican party division as follows. On one side, advocating for comprehensive immigration reform, you have a group that is sometimes called "the establishment" or "the elite," made up of people whose primary interest is ...
  • Spitzer Is Dead Wrong on Public Financing
    Former Governor Eliot Spitzer announced his run for NYC Comptroller yesterday and this morning on the Brian Lehrer show, he attacked his opponent, Scott Stringer, for opting into public financing. Spitzer said, “He (Stringer)’ll be spending your money, I’ll be spending my own.” This characteris ...
  • I'm Shocked—Shocked!—That Rand Paul Has Ties t ...
    Gage Skidmore / Flickr During his 2008 presidential campaign, then Texas Representative Ron Paul faced wide criticism for his newsletters—published as far back as the 1970s—which, at various points, were racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic. One newsletter from 1992 claimed that nearly ...
  • Teach For America's Civil War
    AP Images/Todd Sumlin Twenty-four years running, the rap on Teach for America (TFA) is a sampled, re-sampled, burned-out record: The organization’s five-week training program is too short to prepare its recruits to teach, especially in chronically under-served urban and rural districts ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

SPL Center

  • Aide to Sen. Rand Paul Exposed for Neo-Confede ...
    The “Southern Avenger” may sound like a comic book character, but he is no superhero fighting for truth, justice and the American way. In fact, the man who calls himself the Southern Avenger is Jack Hunter, a close aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and for years a pro-secessionist, mask-wearing radio ...
  • After Hatewatch Story, Maryland Military Engin ...
    The U.S. Army is not commenting on its decision to suspend with pay one of its chemical and biological research engineers while he is investigated for his reported close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views. John Stortstrom, a mechanical engineer who worked for the Army at ...
  • Meet WorldNetDaily’s Latest Cause Célèbre, Che ...
    Paula Deen has had a crummy couple of weeks. Since it emerged in late June that the celebrity chef has used offensive racial slurs, is fond of racist and anti-Semitic jokes, yearned to host a “real Southern plantation” wedding featuring black waiters tricked out as slaves, and doesn’t particular ...
  • Speakers at Anti-Semite’s Texas Conference Go ...
    At a day-long conference in Austin organized by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs, a series of speakers revealed who really killed JFK, explained the evils of Obamacare and ranted about the “New World Order,” but steered clear of spewing overt hatred against Jews. Sponsored by Power of ...
  • Alleged Leader of Soldiers’ Terror Gang Faces ...
    HINESVILLE, Ga. – FEAR goes on trial today. Court-martial proceedings against Pvt. Isaac Aguigui (right), the accused ringleader of FEAR, an antigovernment gang of active-duty American soldiers, are scheduled to begin here this morning on the Fort Stewart Army base where, military prosecutors ch ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU of Florida Responds to DOJ Findings of Mi ...
    Today, the United States Department of Justice released the findings of an investigation into the City of Miami Police Department concluding that the department has engaged in a pattern of excessive use of force, including the use of deadly force, in a series of fatal police shootings. The follo ...
  • OCA Calls for Boycott of Safeway’s O Organics™ ...
    The OCA today called on its million-plus network of consumers to boycott Safeway's O Organics™ brand until the supermarket chain withdraws from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and contributes financially to I-522, a GMO labeling initiative on the Nov. 5 ballot in Washington ...
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America and North Carolina on ...
    Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue and NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina Executive Director Suzanne Buckley were on-the-ground in North Carolina to oppose anti-choice bill HB695 and are available to comment on the referral of the legislation to the House for a concurrence vote. ...
  • Obama Administration Denies Protection to Arct ...
    The Obama administration today denied Endangered Species Act protection to Arctic ribbon seals. These seals depend on sea ice in the Bering and Chukchi seas off Alaska and are mainly threatened by global warming and the consequent loss of its sea-ice habitat, as well as dangerous oil development ...
  • Two Rare Southwest Snakes Proposed for Endange ...
    As part of a landmark agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • How Capitalism's Great Relocation Pauperized A ...
    Richard Wolff Detroit's struggle with bankruptcy might find some relief, or at least distraction, by presenting its desperate economic and social conditions as a tourist attraction. "Visit Detroit," today's advertisement ...
  • Oil and Blood in Lac-Mégantic
    Michael Lee-Murphy (Photo: Michael Lee-Murphy)Oil and gas flow throughout the Canadian economy like blood through the body, powering the industries which depend on those resources. The blood of oil is pumped through the body of the country ...
  • An Open Letter to President Obama from Gasland ...
    Josh Fox (Photo: Eco Watch)I write to request a meeting with you and families directly impacted by oil and gas drilling and fracking—as documented in Gasland Part II—together with a small group of scientists and engineers who ar ...
  • Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Calls for ‘Uprising ...
    Juan Cole The killing of over 50 Egyptians outside the Republican Guards Barracks on Monday morning continued to roil the country on Monday, as the Freedom and Justice Party, the civil wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for an “u ...
  • Comey Hardly a Poster-Child for Civil Liberty
    Laura Murphy President Barack Obama announcing his nomination of James Comey to become next director of the FBI, at the White House, 21 June 2013. (Photo: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images)It had the air of Hollywood.read more

Water Privatization

  • Signature campaign vs Baciwa privatization on
    A LABOR group in the city is launching a signature campaign against the proposed transaction between the board of directors of Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) and Miya-Maynilad amounting to P924 million. Labor leader Winnie Sancho of the General Alliance of Worker's Assembly (Gawa) also dis ...
  • Senate body grills ministry over irregularitie ...
    ISLAMABAD: The Sub-Committee of Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power Tuesday grilled the Ministry of Water and Power over the alleged irregularities in the privatization of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) to ABRAAJ Group without prior approval of the Prime Minister.
  • Groups call for termination of ‘onerous’ water ...
    “There are more than enough grounds for the rates to go down if regulators will really disallow the charging of questionable items such as the income taxes of the two water concessionaires.” – Renato Reyes, Bayan
  • Incentives to water utilities not new, says En ...
    Senator Juan Ponce Enrile on Tuesday said granting tax incentives to water concessionaires is not new in the country, as the government had previously entered into such contracts for other public projects with private companies.
  • Private concessionaires mull legal action afte ...
    Metro Manila's two private water concessionaires are mulling over haling the government to international court after regulators removed corporate income taxes from among the expenditures that both can recover from customers.

Guardian

  • Royal prank call DJ Mel Greig accuses broadcas ...
    Greig, one half of team that made phone call to hospital treating Duchess of Cambridge, making Fair Work Commission claimHelen Davidson     
  • Chilean president praises raped girl, 11, for ...
    Concern for child's welfare as Sebastián Pinera, who supports ban on abortion, says decision shows 'depth and maturity'Chile's president has praised an 11-year-old girl after she said in a TV interview that she wants to give birth to the baby who was conceived when she was raped by her mother's ...
  • Quebec train blast: police open criminal inves ...
    Canadian police raise death toll to 15, and say explosion not likely to have been caused be terrorismCanadian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the fiery wreck of a runaway oil train in the small town of Lac-Mégantic as the death toll climbed to 15, with dozens more bodies fe ...
  • San Francisco crash plane was too low and slow ...
    Questions remain including whether pilot or computer was controlling throttle during Asiana Airlines flight's approachThe pilot in charge of landing the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco tried to correct its course when he saw it was off centre and too low as it approached ...
  • Care workers need better training and regulati ...
    Report criticises the training and support care workers receive and recommends new training and qualification regime Healthcare assistants and care support workers – who wash, dress and feed the elderly and the infirm – will have to obtain a "certificate of fundamental care" to work in the healt ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. wants Afghanistan to ink security pact wi ...
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai revealed Saturday that the United States wants to ink the proposed security pact with Kabul within the next three months. "President Obama emphasized recently to reach agreement over the security pact within three months until next October," P ...
  • Is he bluffing about Afghanistan
    Negotiations between the U.S. and Afghanistan over post-2014 troop levels have deteriorated Those who have dealt with Afghan President Karzai say it's sometimes 'like dealing with a child' The U.S. planned to leave some residual force in place to fight insurgents and train Afg ...
  • Is he bluffing about Afghanistan
    Negotiations between the U.S. and Afghanistan over post-2014 troop levels have deteriorated Those who have dealt with Afghan President Karzai say it's sometimes 'like dealing with a child' The U.S. planned to leave some residual force in place to fight insurgents and train Afg ...
  • Taliban extremists shut Qatar base
    (7 mins ago) The Taliban have temporarily closed their office in Qatar, where it was hoped peace talks would begin with the US and Afghanistan, an official of the extremist group said, blaming ';broken promises''. The office opened on June 18 but it enraged Afghan President Hami ...
  • Is Obamas Afghan Drawdown Threat Realistic
    Monday, comes amid frustrating times in Afghanistan where negotiations with the Taliban have stalled, with the Afghan government suspending the peace talks. The local economy remains fragile ahead of next year's elections, which are not guaranteed to produce a legitimate leader, even if th ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted
      On June 27, Politix published a guest OP-ED by Stephen Kohn, entitled Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted.   Stephen Kohn is the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and author of The Whistleblower's Handbook.  
  • DOJ Announces False Claims Act Settlements Rec ...
    Last week the Department of Justice issued a series of press releases announcing settlements of several claims made under the False Claims Act. These settlements resulted in recoveries of about $60 million. The settlements are listed below: Fifty-Five Hospitals to Pay U.S. More Than $ ...
  • Federal Employee Whistleblowers Win Rare Victory
    The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a ruling today in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. The MSPB held that the new definition of a" protected disclosure" set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WEPA) applied to cases pending and/or whic ...
  • The Whistleblower's Handbook Featured in Bosto ...
    This past Sunday Katharine Whittemore of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “A look at books on whistle-blowing.” Whittemore writes that it is currently “kind of a strange, explosive golden age” for whistleblowers. The “tipping point” in a cultura ...

TechDirt

  • Leaked EU Policy Papers Show TAFTA/TTIP's Huge ...
    After last Wednesday's debate, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the subject of NSA surveillance, which included the following mild wrist-slap: Expresses, while confirming its ongoing support for transatlantic efforts in the fight against terrorism and organised crime, serious conc ...
  • Making Mobile Video Streaming Better By Operat ...
    The streaming video experience on many mobile phone networks frequently flat out sucks. A YouTube video that would never trouble your home wi-fi connection sputters to a near halt before dividing its time between buffering and coughing up bursts of unsynched video and sound. And while having Ne ...
  • DailyDirt: Asiana Flight 214
    Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at SFO last weekend, and plenty of people were glued to the TV to find out what happened and why. While the NTSB (National Traffic Safety Board) investigation will likely take weeks or months to come to final conclusions, there were plenty of citizen journalist ...
  • Bad Lawyer Tricks, By John Steele
    Last week, we wrote about a bunch of the members of Team Prenda submitting separate filings with Judge Otis Wright, who has been the most vocal in calling them out for their questionable legal shenanigans, trying (once again) to go on the offense and accuse their accusers. John Steele, Paul Hans ...
  • The Colonel vs. Adolf Hitler In A Trademark Ex ...
    We've had dust-ups in the restaurant industry over trademarks before. Whether it was Psy vs. Gangnam Style Restaurant, which turned out to be a nothing, Nutella vs. restaurants promoting their products, or Waffle House vs. rap music, the conflict is there, but I feel like it lacks a certain gra ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...
  • The Power of Denial
    My relationship with my parents started a downhill slide when I reached my teen years and never recovered. My father was the type of person who never wanted to talk about anything. He would blow up once in a while. But mostly he handled the hurt – the hurt that he felt or that he [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...
  • Stuff Dudes Do
    Mild rant warning. I’m an anarchist. I used to be in a punk collective. I worked on criminal injustice issues. Sadly, all of these things mean that I end up in spaces that are largely dudes. Maybe those things attract more men than women. Or maybe a whole lot of us women have been chased [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • How the separation of powers between the execu ...
    The Associated Press reports: A former federal judge who served on a secret court overseeing the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs denied Tuesday that the judges act as “rubber stamps.” But James Robertson said the system is flawed because of its failure t ...
  • Video: Edward Snowden interview Part Two: ‘The ...
    Part One of the interview can be viewed here.
  • How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight ...
    Julian Assange writes: The original cypherpunks were mostly Californian libertarians. I was from a different tradition but we all sought to protect individual freedom from state tyranny. Cryptography was our secret weapon. It has been forgotten how subversive this was. Cryptography was then the ...
  • Morsi led Egypt to this crisis
    Michael Hanna writes: Despite inheriting intractable political, economic, and social problems, when Morsy ascended to power on June 30, 2012, he had choices — and he chose factional gain, zero-sum politics, and populist demagoguery. In a system without functioning checks and balances, thos ...
  • The growing divisions among ordinary Egyptians
    The New York Times reports: The doctor’s sorrow was twofold when he found his son in the back of an ambulance, waiting to be carried in to the morgue here with a bullet hole in his chest. Not only was his youngest son among the scores of supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi who had [...]

Watts Up With That?

  • ‘Mann of Steel’ – another bo ...
    WARNING: contents of this post may cause nausea, have your air sickness bag handy. Apparently Michael Mann agrees with the label, his Twitter feed says: The movie referred to is this one. Well, we all knew it was simply a … Continue reading →
  • UAH global temperature, up somewhat
    UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for June, 2013: +0.30 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. After 10 days in Michigan’s U.P. for my 40th high school reunion, here’s the belated monthly global temperature update. We added two satellites … Continue reading →
  • New hurricane tracking map shows potential imp ...
    I’m sure the greenies will be following this closely, rooting for a hurricane to hit that nearby oil platform or coal power plant onshore. U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON DC 20585 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2013 EIA provides new … Continue reading →
  • Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies of Tropical ...
    INITIAL NOTE: This post has nothing to do with the Kerry Emanuel’s new climate model-based paper, Downscaling CMIP5 climate models shows increased tropical cyclone activity over the 21st century, but feel free to comment about it. The USA Today article … Continue reading →
  • Is Professor Murry Salby who is critical of AG ...
    People send me stuff. Just last week we heard that Dr. Robert Carter had been blackballed at his own university where he served as department chair, and now we have this from Dr. Murray Salby, sent via email. Between John … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • One million people who have non-body odour gen ...
    Researchers have found that two per cent of the population have a genetic variant that means they do not suffer from under arm body odour yet more three quarters of them continue to use scents. The ‘cultural norm’ in Britain is to use deodorant every day whether body odour is a probl ...
  • Gut Bugs Could Explain Obesity-Cancer Link
    Why does obesity raise the risk of developing cancer? A new study suggests that the wrong mix of gut bacteria could be to blame. Researchers report that obese mice carry altered communities of intestinal bugs, which produce DNA-damaging acid that leave the mice more susceptible to liver cancer. ...
  • Mechanics of Throwing
    The ability to throw an object with great speed and accuracy is a uniquely human adaptation, one that Harvard researchers say played a key role in our evolution. In a paper published June 26 in Nature, a research team led by Neil Roach, who recently received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and Daniel Li ...
  • Oral Cancer Caused by HPV Soars in Developed C ...
    Oral Cancer Caused by HPV Soars in Developed Countries – YouTube.
  • Migraine study opens door to research into a cure
    A major study into the causes of migraine could offer hope for sufferers, experts believe.Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute say they have identified five regions of DNA containing genes linked to the onset of migraine.Studying these could “open new doors” to understan ...

CFACT

  • Subsidies to wind and solar dwarf those to &#8 ...
    Oil depletion allowances, the first category, principally apply to small independent producers, with similar benefits available for all mineral extraction, timber industries, etc., allowing them to pass the depletion on to individual investors. Large integrated corporations haven’t been eligible ...
  • Why should “organic” mean “u ...
    Organic farmers in many developing countries – such as Turkey, the apparent origin of this outbreak – still use raw human sewage to fertilize crops! In many people’s opinion, that practice qualifies as “organic” – whereas using safe modern fertilizers and insecticides does not! Even worse, feces ...
  • Mr. President, please read the handwriting on ...
    The New York Times appears to have finally recognized that the feverish climate fervor behind these Green grab gambits is overheated. They reported on June 6 that, “The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And ...
  • Obama’s climate action plan: a millstone ...
    Current EPA regulations are already closing coal-fueled power plants at an alarming rate—which New Mexico Public Regulations Commissioner Pat Lyons calls “the real energy crisis that no one is talking about.... Progressive thought leaders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhous state: “Energy pov ...
  • Are you killing the planet with a burger and a ...
    As Maurice Strong who spearheaded the 1991 Rio Earth Summit wrote in the U.N.’s Conference on Environmental Development (UNCED) report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class … involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Europe’s ATV-4 to Raise Space Station’s Orbit ...
    The European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) will readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.    
  • US, Italian Astronauts Spacewalk to Prep for R ...
    Astronauts from the United States and Italy on Tuesday were conducing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to prepare the research lab for a new Russian laboratory module set to arrive in December.    
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  • Malfunctioning Satellite Disrupts Russian TV B ...
    About 117 million residents of the Russian heartland were left without four state-run television channels earlier this week due to problems with a telecom satellite, the government said Friday.    
  • US-Russian Scientists Relieved at Academy Refo ...
    Prominent US-based Russian scientists breathed a sigh of relief Friday after a Kremlin-backed bill to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences was stripped of an option that included the academy’s possible “liquidation” and appeared to give scientists more of a say in the institution’s future.&nbs ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • David Bosco, AKA The Multilateralist, Intervie ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson In the tooting my own horn department, the estimable David Bosco, who authors the outstanding “The Multilateralist” blog at Foreign Policy (and who is also my American University colleague in the School of International Service), conducted an ...
  • Crossing Lines S01E04 (“Long-Haul Predators”)
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller We are now up to the fourth episode of Crossing Lines, the new NBC drama that features a team of detectives who work for the ICC. This episode, which is apparently about families who are forced to hunt each other for sport, features a nice jurisdictional ...
  • Emerging Voices: Minilateral Approaches to Int ...
    by Maninder Malli by Maninder Malli [Maninder Malli recently completed a LL.M. (International Legal Studies) at New York University and he is currently working with the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.] International investment law (IIL) is highly dynamic.  The lack ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, July 9, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey China has banned its trawlers from fishing in waters off the eastern coast of North Korea, due to a dispute over fuel supplies. South Korea has “strongly” protested against a Japanese defense report for describing South Korea-controlled islets in ...
  • Okinawan Independence and Overlapping Interests
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen My thanks to Brad Roth for pointing me to a recent New York Times article on activists in Okinawa seeking secession from Japan. Okinawa is part of the Ryukyu island chain. The Ryukyu Kingdom was an independent or semi-independent state until annexed by Japan and ...

Public News Service

  • Tuition-Free College? New Plan Gains Traction
    Tuition-Free College? New Plan Gains Traction PHOENIX - Tuition and fees at Arizona's public universities have risen as much as 96 percent since 2007. Today, a new idea for funding college without student loans is gaining national attention. "Pay It Forward, Pay It Back" works much like Social S ...
  • Survey: Rural Areas Feel Ignored
    Survey: Rural Areas Feel Ignored PHOENIX - After a federal Farm Bill died in the U.S. House of Representatives last month, for the second time in two years, a new survey shows discontent in rural areas of the nation. A poll commissioned by the Center for Rural Affairs indicates rural residents b ...
  • Report: Climate Change Pace Moving Faster Than ...
    Report: Climate Change Pace Moving Faster Than Birds Can Fly PHOENIX – Birds are often considered highly adaptable, but a new report from the National Wildlife Federation claims that many species are struggling as the climate changes. In Arizona, the effects are seen in the more than 500 ...
  • Thousands More Arizona Kids Eligible for Low-C ...
    Thousands More Arizona Kids Eligible for Low-Cost Health Coverage PHOENIX - Thanks to a recent expansion of KidsCare health coverage, many thousands of Arizona children from lower-income families now are eligible to immediately join the program. A KidsCare Summer Sign-Up drive kicks off today, ...
  • Report: More Protections Needed for AZ Health ...
    Report: More Protections Needed for AZ Health Insurance Consumers PHOENIX - The Arizona Department of Insurance gets credit in a new report for helping to inform consumers and protect them from unreasonable health insurance rate hikes. But, according to the Arizona Public Interest Research Group ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Obama refuses to stop Guantanamo torture, AKA ...
    Obama has authorized torture in the form of force feeding twice a day at Guantanamo. A judge has said it is a “painful, humiliating and degrading process” and wishes she has the power to stop it. She added the prisoners “set out in great details in (their) papers what appears to be a ...
  • Word
  • Sacramento Delta plan doesn’t make any sense
    The Delta Stewardship Council wants to build two huge tunnels to shunt water away from the Sacramento Delta and send it south. Somehow, in their magical thinking, this will help the already ailing Delta. The California Delta is starving for water, so state officials set up a plan to take more wa ...
  • 3D-printed underwater propulsion inspired by o ...
    The octopod-inspired propulsion system consists of four bulbs made from a flexible plastic polymer (sometimes called elastomer). Water is sucked into each bulb with an actuator. Whereas a squid or octopus has a muscular closure to seal water in the mantle, the synthetic reproduction uses a recir ...
  • Edward Snowden interview, pt 2, excerpts
    Snowden details in Pt 2 of the early June interview that NSA surveillance is omnipresent, that they consistently lie to Congress, and how the government is doubling down on it, instead of backing off. “There’s a monster on the loose / It’s got our heads into a noose / And it ju ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Police: Evidence criminal act may have led to ...
    Lac-Megantic, Quebec (CNN) — Canadian authorities have found evidence that a criminal act may have led to a train crash in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed at least 15 people, provincial police Capt. Michel Forget said Tuesday. There have been many questions about the crash and explosion ...
  • This Day In History – July 10
    1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain. 1832 – The U. ...
  • Bin Laden raid files secretly moved to CIA to ...
    Military files detailing the Navy SEAL raid which killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 were removed from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, in an effort to make the documents harder for the general public to access. The secret move, ordered by Adm. William McRaven, was mentioned in a dr ...
  • Ireland says no to arrest warrant for Edward S ...
    The Republic of Ireland has denied the US an arrest warrant for whistleblower Edward Snowden in case he lands in the country, it has been revealed. The High Court ruled that American security chiefs failed to show where alleged crimes had been committed by the former intelligence contractor. The ...
  • G ov. Perry announces he won’t run for r ...
    SAN ANTONIO — The longest-serving governor in the United States and in the history of Texas is hanging up his spurs. “The time has come to pass on the mantle of leadership,” Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) told a warehouse full of supporters in San Antonio. “Today I’m ann ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook platform roundup: Tigerlily, Unified
    Unified Enterprise marketing technology company Unified has hired Roger Clark from Interclick as CFO. Clark assisted in the sale of Interclick to Yahoo! at $270 million. In addition to this key hire, Unified has also added a number...
  • Facebook’s Asia Pacific ad director joins Spotify
    Facebook is growing in emerging Asian markets, but the company is now without the advertising director for its Asia Pacific division. AllThingsD and AllFacebook reported Tuesday that advertising director Sunita Kaur has left Facebook and joined Spotify in...
  • A sneak peek at Facebook’s redesigned page ins ...
    Last month, Facebook announced that it was giving its page insights product a renovation, making it simpler for page admins to figure out how their posts are performing. Social media expert Jon Loomer recently gained access...
  • 7 best practices for increasing Facebook ad en ...
    With clear objectives laid out and an understanding of your target audience, Facebook represents a vast and truly global advertising opportunity. But getting the most out of your ad creative might require a little help. Below...
  • Facebook app ecosystem shifts as King overtake ...
    As reported by sister site Inside Social Games, King (maker of Candy Crush Saga) has passed Zynga, long the top dog in the Facebook application market, in terms of monthly active users. This move is 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

  • Hero Fukushima ex-manager who foiled nuclear d ...
    Masao Yoshida, 58, former Fukushima supervisor of damage control works at the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant has died of cancer. His decision not to follow a corporate order prevented Chernobyl-like explosions of overheated Fukushima reactors. Yoshida is believed to have prevented the wo ...
  • The Spirit that Drove Us to Civil War Is Back
    In our times, a destructive force has emerged in the American political system. This force --- or spirit -- should be understood as the re-emergence onto center stage of what drove the United States to polarize, break apart, and fight a bloody Civil War a century and a half ago. This destructive ...
  • Toward a Living Legacy for Nelson Mandela Now
    Nelson Mandela's exceptional and exemplary life has and will produce worldwide celebrations of his extremely unique blend of character, personality and resolve for broad-gauged justice. To truly memorialize his contributions, however, requires grand actions. Taking immediate recognition of the d ...
  • What is happening in Egypt now
    The complicated road to democracy as viewed by an Egyptian living in the US for over 40 years
  • Did Marijuana Use Make Trayvon Martin Violent?
    The instant that Sanford police officials in March, 2012 leaked to the media school records that showed Trayvon Martin had been suspended from school for possessing a trace amount of marijuana, there was little doubt that George Zimmerman's defense attorneys would jump all over this to prove the ...

Switchboard

  • Quebec rail tragedy: a time to honor the victi ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. In a tragic weekend rail accident, tanker cars carrying crude oil broke loose and raced into the small town of Lac-Mégantic, near the border Quebec shares with Maine, whe ...
  • Efficient Locations Lead to More Secure Mortga ...
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Fannie Mae’s recent findings that property owners with apartment buildings located in walkable, transit-friendly neighborhoods are less likely to default on their mortgages parallels a ...
  • Investing in Local Water Supplies Makes More S ...
    Jake Sahl, Water and Wildlife Program Assistant, San Francisco NRDC recently published a paper highlighting the water supply strategies of five Southern California agencies that plan to significantly reduce their reliance on water imported from the ...
  • Oil and gas accidents -- who is protecting wor ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, a few NRDC colleages and I took a field trip to visit some fracking communities in West Virginia. We visit communities around the country periodically to see the affects ...
  • Bristol Bay: NRDC's Reynolds Discusses EPA's W ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA OnPoint Aired: Monday, July 8, 2013 My interview with E&E News just aired today, where we discussed the Pebble Mine – a giant gold and copper mine proposed at the headwat ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Washington - Obama's Job Approval Ratin ...
    The president’s poll numbers are no longer sagging. They’re just plain down. Looking at the Gallup poll’s daily tracking trend line of President Obama’s job approval, the president has been at 45 or 46 percent since the end of last month.More importantly, he has been upside-down, with hi ...
  • Broken Government - Black Lawmakers Demand Oba ...
    Members of the Congressional Black Caucus urged President Obama to take action on gun control legislation on July 9 at their first meeting with the president in more than two years.Obama “reaffirmed his commitment� to the issue during the White House meeting, one administration official said ...
  • Eugenic America - Report Reveals California Du ...
    Nearly 250 women have been sterilized in California prisons since the 1990s, according to a new investigative report. As recently as 2010, women were pressured into having tubal ligation surgery at the behest of the California prison system in a process that has been likened to the racist past o ...
  • The War on Drugs - British Ban on Addictive Kh ...
    Some Kenyans, especially farmers, are calling for the African nation to usher British troops out ofthe east African nation following a controversial regulation imposed by the United Kingdom. This followed a ban a stimulant known as khat that was announced by Home Secretary Theresa May last week. ...
  • The Way We Are - Iraqi Refugee to Boost Cricke ...
    An Iraqi refugee has been chosen to help boost the profile of cricket in Australia.  Sam Almaliki, who’s 24, has been appointed to a senior community development role at Cricket Australia, the sports powerful governing body.  He first encountered cricket watching fellow refugees play ...

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