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Scoop - NZ

  • Many Australians joining Al-Nusra
    Australians now make up the largest contingent from any developed nation in the Syrian rebel forces. There are around 120 French fighters in Syria, about 100 Britons and a handful of Americans — but there are at least 200 Australians, according to a public statement made by David Irvine, directo ...
  • UK, France step back from arming Syrian Rebels
    After leading a determined push with France to remove legal hindrances to arming Syria’s rebels, Britain is apparently signaling a more cautious approach, even as British newspaper reports say Prime Minister David Cameron has retreated from the idea altogether. The reluctance reflects a simil ...
  • Syrian rebel leader: Britain betrayed us
    Syria's top rebel commander has accused David Cameron of betrayal after the British prime pinister abandoned plans to arm the Syrian opposition, Britain's The Telegraph reported Tuesday. General Salim Idris, head of the Free Syrian Army, said the decision would "leave us alone to be killed" ...
  • Pak-Taliban: We Have Sent Hundreds to Syria
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Leaders of the Pakistani Taliban claim to have sent “hundreds of fighters” to Syria to support local mujahideen forces in their struggle against President Bashar Assad. Senior commanders in the militant Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a group considered close to al-Qaeda, said ...
  • Syria: Rebel Infighting Undermnining Revolt
    On Syria's front lines, al-Qaida fighters and more mainstream Syrian rebels have turned against each other in a power struggle that has undermined the effort to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. After violent clashes and the assassination of two rival commanders, one of whom was beheaded, ...

Independent - London

  • Greece approves scheme to fire thousands of pu ...
    Greece's shaky coalition government scraped through a vote yesterday on a bill to sack public sector workers as thousands chanting anti-austerity slogans protested outside parliament.Related StoriesCosta Concordia captain Francesco Schettino offers 3 years and 5 months in plea bargain offerCost ...
  • Greece approves austerity measures to fire tho ...
    Greece's shaky coalition government scraped through a vote yesterday on a bill to sack public sector workers as thousands chanting anti-austerity slogans protested outside parliament.Related StoriesCosta Concordia captain Francesco Schettino offers 3 years and 5 months in plea bargain offerCost ...
  • Nelson Mandela turns 95 in hospital
    Former South African president Nelson Mandela has turned 95 in hospital, as events take place around the world to celebrate his birthday.Related StoriesNelson Mandela's granddaughter speaks of her hurt over the family's dispute    
  • Postcard from... Brussels
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  • The natural world, photographed by Sebastião S ...
    The acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado says his images currently on display at the Natural History Museum seek to depict the “stunning mosaic of nature in all its unspoilt grandeur”.Related StoriesFrench are riding high as the next wave of crime fiction as interest in Scandinavian detecti ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Paranormal investigators visit Ukiah home fami ...
    When Juan De Los Santos kids' bicycles got stolen from outside his house, he put up security cameras, hoping to catch any thieves in the act the next time. But what De Los Santos caught on camera scared him much more than prowlers, as he believes the footage shows his home is being haunted. "I ...
  • UFO cover-ups must end, moonwalker Edgar Mitch ...
    On Feb. 5, 1971, Edgar Mitchell became the sixth of only 12 men to step on the moon. Of that elite dozen, which included Buzz Aldrin and the late Neil Armstrong 44 years ago this week, Mitchell is the only one to go on record about his controversial belief in extraterrestrial UFOs -- and of a po ...
  • 'Body in Thames' at Richmond was giant catfish
    Richmond police officers were called to reports of a dead body in the Thames only to discover it was a giant catfish. Richmond MPS sent a message out on Twitter on Monday, July 15, which read: "Police were called to a body in the River Thames, it was established that it was actually a very larg ...
  • A gas cloud is sweeping past the Milky Way's c ...
    In 2011, astronomers in Germany announced the discovery of a cloud of gas - with several times the mass of the Earth - accelerating fast towards the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way. They originally said that the cloud would pass closest to the black hole in mid-2013, but a ...
  • How Austerity Has Failed
    Austerity has failed. It turned a nascent recovery into stagnation. That imposes huge and unnecessary costs, not just in the short run, but also in the long term: the costs of investments unmade, of businesses not started, of skills atrophied, and of hopes destroyed. What is being done here in ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Constitutional violations . . .
    DIGITAL JOURNAL has a disturbing report, "Bush-Cheney began illegal NSA spying before 9/11, says telcom CEO". According to Ralph Lopez, Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court rec ...
  • Positive thinking . . .
    POSITIVE THINKING can be found at CORE77, which is a site about industrial design. Do check out the home page and articles. Anyway, one of their contributors, Ray, has a post about a Canadian triumph, "First Human-Powered Helicopter Surpasses Sikorsky Standards, and Why Humans Are Still ...
  • Golden oldies . . .
    Evidence shows that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Partyexercised considerable influence over Hollywood,including what films went unmade and what scenes were cut. WHEN HOLLYWOOD HELD HANDS WITH HITLER. Really. That's the title of an article by Alex Kafka at the Chronicle of Higher Education. I ...
  • Halloween horrors . . .
    NO COSTUME NEEDED. Should be a fun time.
  • Know thy enemy . . .
    GIZMODO has a report you should read: "How a Supercomputer May Have Finally Unlocked a Way to Beat HIV". Thanks to Blue Waters, a 11.5 petaflop-size cruncher, we now have an idea of what HIV really is, and how to go about killing it.

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Fox News, CNN Ignore Historic LGBT Ant ...
    The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in a historic, bipartisan 15-7 vote on July 10. The bill, which would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, received no coverag ...
  • The Weekly Standard 's Week Of Sexual Assault ...
    After the Department of Defense reported a significant increase in sexual assault in the military, estimated at nearly 26,000 incidents in 2012, and after military leaders decried the epidemic as a "crisis," The Weekly Standard responded to Congress' preventative actions with sexual assault trut ...
  • "Race Hustlers": Fox Demonizes Civil Rights Le ...
    Fox has blasted civil rights leaders and organizations as "race hustlers" for taking action in response to George Zimmerman being found not guilty of murder in the killing of 17-year-old African-American teenager Trayvon Martin.Zimmerman Found Not Guilty Of Murder And Manslaughter NY Times: "Zi ...
  • 10 Fox Figures V. Zimmerman Juror On Whether S ...
    Even after a juror in George Zimmerman's trial for killing Trayvon Martin said that Florida's Stand Your Ground self-defense law influenced the outcome of the case, Fox News hosts and contributors continue to claim otherwise as a means to attack Attorney General Eric Holder f ...
  • Media Ignore Why Women Need Access To Abortion ...
    Media are misleadingly hyping Republican anti-choice rhetoric to promote the idea that legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy is "reasonable." In fact, many severe health complications for the mother and fetus are only discovered during or after the 20th week of pregnancy, and ...

Global Research.ca

  • The “Unnatural Death” of David Kel ...
    by Justin Schlosberg Ironically, those calling for an inquest into David Kelly’s death – ten years on today – base their arguments on precisely the values held so dear by professional journalists: the need for a full, impartial appraisal of…
  • VIDEO: Was Journalist Michael Hastings Murdere ...
    The Political Blind Spot reports: Mercedes Benz debunks the theory that the car of Wikileaking journalist Michael Hastings “just blew up” upon impact. Journalists have consulted leading University Physics professors in the Los Angeles area, who all agreed that the…
  • Israel’s “New Army” Will Use “Technological Ad ...
    Recently the Jerusalem Post reported that new budget cuts for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are expected to create a “New Army” according to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya’alon.  This means that Israel’s defense establishment will focus on new…
  • ReThink911: The Evidence Might Surprise You
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  • Wall Street Profits and the Widening Social Di ...
    The profits of the biggest US banks continued to swell in the second quarter of this year, even as the impact of five years of mass unemployment, stagnant economic growth and brutal cuts in social spending produced a further rise…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Fracking Water Injection Could Trigger Major E ...
    New studies suggest injecting water for geothermal power or fracking can lead to larger earthquakes than previously thought. Pumping water underground at geothermal power plants can lead to dangerous earthquakes even in regions not prone to tremors, according to scientists. They say ...
  • An Open Letter to President Obama from Gasland ...
    Obama's administration has met with industry officials numerous times, now Fox is calling for the president to meet with families directly impacted by oil and gas fracking. Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary Moniz, Heather Zichal and Valerie Jarrett,I write to request a ...
  • How We Can Wrench Independence from the Corpor ...
    This week we learned what “extreme” in climate changed extreme weather means for human loss -- so what are we doing about it? "Within a few years we are going to have more people off the surface of this planet more often, and we’ll have to determine value in that new environ ...
  • How We Can Find Independence from the Corporat ...
    This week we learned what “extreme” in climate changed extreme weather means for human loss -- so what are we doing about it? "Within a few years we are going to have more people off the surface of this planet more often, and we’ll have to determine value in that new environ ...
  • 5 Photos Show King Coal’s Grip on Appalachia
    It helps to fly above the mountains to truly undersand what's going on. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. Follow the trip on Facebook or follow ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • FOODOPOLY – Meet the author on August 7th in A ...
      Wenonah Hauter grew up on a family farm that her husband runs today as a Community Supported Agriculture Project (CSA), which is part of the growing local food movement. Yet, as one of the nation’s leading healthy-food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough ...
  • Rick Perry vs The Public Integrity Unit
    As you may or may not know, Governor Rick Perry has vetoed the funding for the Public Integrity Unit, the group charged with enforcing ethics standards for public officials, as well as insurance fraud and motor vehicle tax fraud.  This veto could not have come at a more questionable time.  On th ...
  • Group Purchase for Solar brings some sunshine ...
    A local group of Solar advocates in Plano Texas has worked to put together a group purchase agreement to help reduce the costs of adding solar to your roof top if you live in Plano TX. So far they have gotten 24 locals to commit to the project and hope that they can reach at [...]The post Group ...
  • Eminent Domain: After the legislative session, ...
    NPR’s State Impact takes a look at where landowners stand against pipeline companies’ claims that they have the right to take land through eminent domain. Click here to read part one of a three-part series devoted to looking at efforts to overhaul eminent domain in Texas and what may come ...
  • StateImpact on the continuing Texas Drought
    StateImpact Texas, a reporting project of local public media and NPR, has provided us with an excellent overview of the continuing drought in Texas. In October 2010 the current drought began and Texas endured the worst single-year drought in its history in 2011. While the situation has improved, ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • The Story of Manal Abu Shalouf
    Subheadline:  One Palestinian girl's experience since Operation Cast Lead radish_girl.jpg Here in the office of Grassroots International hang many pictures of our part ...
  • Communities to President Obama: US Government ...
    leonardo_mab_with_cindy_ggj_and_sara_at_scottsdale_action.jpg President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan before an audience of college students at Georgetown University on June 25,  Countless young people, environmental acti ...
  • General Strike in Brazil: Social Movements Lea ...
    1039557_495414877203336_21934416_o.jpg Millions of Brazilians are marching today (July 11) in another demonstration of the vitality of national social movements. The demonstrations taking place in different major cities across the country f ...
  • Grassroots International to honor the World Ma ...
    Subheadline:  30th Anniversary Event celebrates extradinary partnership for social change Image:  invitation_cover_image.jpg Grassroots International is honoring ...
  • Agroecology Grows Food and Self-Sufficiency
    Subheadline:  Settlement in Maranhao thrives despite drought brazil-mst_farmer.jpg The embattled northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão is experiencing its worst drought ...

Climate

  • Battery Seen as Way to Cut Heat-Related Power ...
    (New York Times) As scorching weather envelops the Northeast and the Midwest, electric utilities are scrambling to keep the power on while air-conditioners strain utilities' capacity. By Tuesday afternoon in New York City and Westchest ...
  • Milwaukee Leaders Announce Sustainability Strategy
    (The Journal-Sentinel ) Milwaukee's Rust Belt image may be a distant memory years from now if a new sustainability plan can transform the city into what Mayor Tom Barrett envisions as a "fresh coast" capital. At the edge of the inner ...
  • Power Plants Face ‘Collision Course’ With Wate ...
    (Bloomberg) U.S. power producers must reduce their dependence on water or they may be forced to lower output as drought and other extreme weather events curtail their access to water supplies, researchers said today. Power plants thro ...
  • Dem Source: Energy Efficiency Bill Hitting Sen ...
    (The Hill) The Senate will debate a comprehensive energy efficiency bill the last week of July, marking the first time the upper chamber will consider substantive energy legislation since 2007, a Senate Democratic aide told The Hill on ...
  • BP Asks Court to Suspend Spill Claims Pending ...
    (Fuel Fix) British oil giant BP asked a federal judge late Tuesday to order that all payments from its multibillion dollar Gulf oil spill civil settlement be suspended until an independent investigation of the claims administrator's of ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Your Choice
    Bruce Springsteen: Or, Ted Nugent: Your choice. Discuss
  • Let's Get Empirical
    Gee. Who could have predicted that people would be spending half what they used to to buy health insurance under ObamaCare? That's the situation in New York State. And everywhere new rates have been announced, those rates are lower. Good thing that the House of Representatives is having anot ...
  • Thinking Outside the Box
    People should read John Buntin's piece on how the LAPD is stopping gang violence and reducing violent crime without resorting to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk insanity. When we talk about crime, we tend to talk about victims and offenders, innocence and guilt, prey and predator. Gang violence c ...
  • Today in Minority Outreach
    Knowing that if they wanted to avoid the Nuclear Option they had to let Harry Reid get 60 votes for cloture so he can confirm Thomas Edward Perez to be Secretary of Labor, the Republicans gave Reid the minimum. Only six Republicans voted yes (Lamar Alexander, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Mark Kir ...
  • Condray Confirmation is a Big Deal
    On July 17, 2011, President Barack Obama announced Richard Cordray as his nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. When the Republicans balked at confirming him (or any other possible candidate) to head the CFPB, the administration announced his recess appointment on January 4, ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Supermassive Vacuum Cleaner At the Edge of ...
    Beyond the bounds of the observable universe, something is causing galactic clusters to speed along at unimaginable speeds following a particular path. But what is it? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's so much to pick from this week – be inspired by amazing bridges, creepy asylums, colorful kindergartens and much more... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Somaliland: The East African Country That Isn't
    Wedged in between troubled neighbors, Somaliland manages to stay a peaceful democracy. One day, it hopes be recognized as an official country. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's sure to be something to inspire you this week, whether you love food, urbex, comic books or animals. Take a look... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Magical Muggle Quidditch: Harry Potter Broomst ...
    Born in the magical universe of Harry Potter, the bizarre sport of Quidditch has made the transition from fantasy to reality, and it’s bewitching the world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • VIDEO: Minneapolis Rally #Justice4Trayvon #Jus ...
    Here is live video from #justice4trayvon #justice4terrance rally Sat night ~12:30AM in Downtown Minneapolis >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RyjuazWlik&feature=youtu.be (creative commons - interview w Mel Reeves!) - several FB events for Monday >> https://www.facebook.com/event ...
  • Canadian First Nations - Shut Down the Tar San ...
    A network of direct action camps - and indeed a network of networks - continues to spread across North America uniting Natives, First Nations, meddling kids, even ranchers and activists vs corporate exploitation. Mercenaries have appeared in northern Wisconsin to protect dangerous & widely o ...
  • Backstories & Backbones; Security of US Emerge ...
    Oh For Facks Sake. All this big government/police state techno-crap is so often easily hacked in some way, which means the Awesome Emergency Powers of Teh Govmints are easily subverted by the Baba Booey fans of the world, or zombie apocalypses as the case may be. Indeed quite possibly all this N ...
  • Mysterious Parastoo apparent Iranian hacker gr ...
    A few linxors on hacker stories both Turkish and Iranian. Pretty mysterious, not sure what to make out of it… Another post via Cryptome. SOURCE: Parastoo Claims Launch of Second UAV in US FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM : PARASTOO TO : DOD RE : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 HANDLE ...
  • Information Operations & Solicitation for US P ...
    Radio Free Asia and its parent organization the Broadcasting Board of Governors are pretty shady entities. I can't resist cross posting this odd appeal for "Open Tech Fund" from RFA… SOURCE Cryptome.org - Solicitation for US Propaganda Disruption Ideas Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:20:37 +0100 Fr ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 4 Unhinged, Offensive Reactions to the Zimmerm ...
    There's nothing like a racially-charged trial to bring racist apologia out of white folks. Following a six-person, all-female jury's acquittal of Trayvon Martin's klller George Zimmerman this weekend, media and individuals on the both the right and left have responded with a hail storm o ...
  • Judge Rules Cop Who Shot and Killed Unarmed 14 ...
    Texas officer with a history of ignoring orders went in with his gun drawn. SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CN) - A police officer for a Texas school district may have used excessive force in fatally shooting a teenager who fled the scene of a fistfight, a federal judge ruled.     &#xA ...
  • A Rough Guide to Life in the United States of ...
    In the US of Z the law allows people to hunt each other, and feel no remorse for killing someone. The most important thing about the Zimmerman verdict is that it's a clear demonstration of how the American legal system is only about law. It is not about justice. It is not even about the conseq ...
  • At What Age does a Black Male Become a Threat?
    My hope is that my grandson will never encounter a George Zimmerman but the question of when does a black male become a threat is one I have to learn the answer to. The following was originally published on JustUs Talking.My grandson is too young to know anything about the events surroun ...
  • Nordstrom Prides Itself on Caring, But Not Whe ...
    CodePink's Stolen Beauty campaign against Ahava sets its sights on Nordstrom deparment stores. There is a global consensus that Israel’s unceasing annexation and seizure of Palestinian land, water and natural resources, and its ongoing military control of the Palestinian Occupied T ...

Threat Level

  • License Plate Readers Track You for Profit
    As license-plate readers proliferate, law enforcement and private business are pooling surveillance data in light of a hodgepodge of conflicting guidelines on how long they may retain the data, which is often being marketed for profit, according to a report ...    
  • Snowden’s Contingency: ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ Bor ...
    The strategy employed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to discourage a CIA hit job has been likened to a tactic employed by the U.S. and Russian governments during the Cold War.    
  • Spygate Lawsuit Accuses NSA of Unconstitutiona ...
    A broad coalition of groups supporting everything from religion, drugs, digital rights to guns and the environment sued the National Security Agency today, demanding a federal judge immediately halt what they are calling an "unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance" ... & ...
  • Makers of War
    Once ordinary workers, the arms makers of Aleppo now use their desperate creativity to supply fellow rebels with the machinery of death.    
  • Yahoo’s ID Land Rush Begins Today With Updated ...
    Yahoo is set to recycle unused YahooIDs today, as well as the email addresses associated with them. The company is implementing some new security measures to try to prevent instances of identity fraud with a new email header that attempts ...    

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Cyclospora Linked to Vegetables in Iowa, Nebra ...
    Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin and Illinois report Illnesses. Richard Piersol of the Journal Star reports that health authorities say they are closing in on the source of an outbreak... Continue Reading
  • Cyclospora Outbreak: 81 Iowa, 53 Nebraska and ...
    The Dallas County Texas Health and Human Services reports 25 cases of the gastrointestinal infection have been reported statewide, a third of them in Dallas County alone.  Investigators still aren’t... Continue Reading
  • “Eat your vegetables” – Well perhaps not with ...
    An outbreak of the foodborne illness cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite, which can leave victims with symptoms lasting for nearly two months, has infected at least... Continue Reading
  • Boston’s Clover, a responsible company, linked ...
    Deborah Kotz of the Boston Globe reports that 12 people in Cambridge, Boston, and possibly elsewhere in the state, have been sickened by a Salmonella outbreak since late June, prompting... Continue Reading
  • James Armitage, Westminster City Council’s Foo ...
    Chef cooked for the Queen on her 80th birthday and his withering judgments on aspiring chefs have made him the star of the BBC’s Great British Menu series. It has... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Joe Martino Hemp has been making a lot of noise lately, especially with the growing awareness surrounding the use of hemp oil for treating cancer. Although the word ‘hemp’ still often gets confused and lumped into the same definition as Cannabis, a similar but psychoactive plant, it’s importa ...
  • Mega Banks Go After Credit Unions
    Liberty Bliztkrieg The rampant hypocrisy in the position of the mega banks on the issue of credit unions is so glaring it’s almost hard to believe. Then again, there is nothing we shouldn’t assume when it comes to mega bank criminality and culturally destructive behavior after these last few yea ...
  • CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio ...
    CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer Virus Jul 17 • Articles, Big Pharma, Vaccines • 956 Views • 1 Comments 34909 99 369 34 38 Share37091 VaccineThe CDC has quickly removed a page from their website, which is now cached here, admitting that more than 98 ...
  • Corridors of powder: Drug scandal at the House ...
    Posted by James μολὼν λαβέ on July 14, 2013 at 3:07pm in Current News/Events View Discussions Evidence of class A drug use detected in UK’s seat of power Chemical swabs found substance on toilet seats and hair dryers Drug was also found in toilets close to MPs’ offices, away from pub ...
  • In Texas, Tampons Are A Bigger Threat Than Gun ...
    Texas makes no secret of the war being waged on women, declaring feminine hygiene products off-limits at the Texas state Capitol building. As the Texas senate gets ready for a second vote on the stifling and unreasonable abortion bill, women of all walks of life are making their way into the bui ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Watch as plutocrats mold us into a New America ...
    Summary: Increasing wealth creates positive feedback, much like a hurricane moving over warm water. A more powerful 1% allows them to command the political and economic high ground of America, so that they can gain further wealth — and shape a New America more to their liking. This process ...
  • The US economy is slowing. Things might get ex ...
    Summary: In an this time of almost unprecedented economic intervention by governments — experiments on a scale never before attempted during peacetime — determining the state of the economy is difficult. Determining the near future of the economic is almost impossible. Determining th ...
  • Let’s watch the oceans die while we worr ...
    Summary: While we worry about other things, including the possible fate of the world in 2100, the oceans are dying. Dying right now. The world’s oceans were suffering from pollution and overfishing, destroying the major fisheries. Now we administer another blow, with radiation from the Fuk ...
  • Good news about climate change!
    Summary: To start your week on a pleasant note, here are articles giving good news from climate scientists. It’s easily lost amidst the predictions of apocalypse soon. At the very least, these suggest that we have more time to prepare than commonly expected. Contents Update on the rising s ...
  • A look at the state of the US economy. Join me ...
    Summary: The current economic situation of the US is fascinating. Repeated disappointments in the past, great optimism about the future, confusion about today, all occurring amidst one of the greatest monetary experiments in history. The stakes are high. Growth will force perilous withdrawal of ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • From Wired Design: Geolocated Tweets Form Towe ...
    A data visualization scientist at Twitter has created a three-dimensional, interactive look at where people in New York City, San Francisco and Istanbul have been tweeting from for the past four years.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: ‘Comet of the Ce ...
    Across the world, children fall asleep under the faint light from glow-in-the-dark astronomy stickers. Though undeniably adorable, these ceiling planetariums are too jam-packed to be realistic. You’d never see stars, dozens of spiral galaxies, and comets all at the same ...    
  • Stretchy Gold Electronics Could Someday Live I ...
    What looks like a shiny piece of gold foil is actually a stretchy new conductive material that might one day live inside your head. Crafted from gold nanoparticles and an elastic polymer, the material retains its conductivity even when stretched ...    
  • Great White Sharks Feast at the Seal Buffet Be ...
    Before hitting the road for a long drive, it’s a good idea to fill up the gas tank. Before they set out on their great migrations, great white sharks do the same. Only instead of unleaded, they fuel up on ...    
  • Bizarre Horn-Faced Dinosaur Discovered in Utah
    Meet Large-Nosed Horned-Face, a newly described dinosaur that would have undoubtedly been a favorite among paleowranglers (ignoring the fact that its skull alone is nearly 6 feet long).    

PakAlert

  • Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation ...
    At the time of this writing, the US sits upon the edge of the biggest depopulation event in US history. No, I am not talking about the roll out of martial law, mass incarceration into detention centers under the NDAA, nor am I speaking about the commencement of WWIII. The biggest threat the larg ...
  • Michael Hastings Cremated Immediately Without ...
    I have to agree. Cremating the body of a so-called “accident victim” without consulting the family and simply sending the urn to them is a dead giveaway of foul play—pun intended. The Illuminati has done this before. They try to cover their tracks, but we always know when they murdered someone t ...
  • Bizarre Backwards Storm Strikes US This Week
    An extreme US summer that has featured floods and heavy rains in the east and drought and devastating fires in the west boasts yet one more bizarre weather pattern: a backward moving storm system. As of last week, a strong frontal boundary had swept into the southeastern US bringing with it a ...
  • Obama administration drowning in lawsuits file ...
    Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Obama administration and are demanding the White House stop the dragnet surveillance programs operated by the National Security Agency. Both the White House and Congress have weighed in on the case of Edward Snowden and the revela ...
  • Coup d’etat
    The executive branch coup against America has succeeded. Illustration: David Dees The American people have suffered a coup d’etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who clai ...

Andy Worthington

  • From Guantánamo, Hunger Striker Abdelhadi Fara ...
    Although I’ve been very busy for the last few months with a steady stream of articles about Guantánamo and the ongoing hunger strike, I haven’t been able to keep track of everything that has been made available. In terms of publicity, this is an improvement on the years before the hu ...
  • Video: “Is Guantánamo Forever?” &# ...
    On Friday, I was delighted to talk to Susan Modaress, for the show “Inside Out” on Press TV. Susan interviewed me while I was in New York City in January 2011, for protests on the ninth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, which are available here. The 22-minute show, “Is ...
  • Bradley Manning Trial: No Secrets in WikiLeaks ...
    Last week, just before the defense rested its case in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, I was delighted that my book The Guantánamo Files was cited as a significant source of reliable information about the prisoners in Guantánamo — more reliable, in fact, than the information contained in ...
  • For Ramadan, Please Write to the Hunger Striki ...
    Every six months, I urge readers to send letters to the prisoners in Guantánamo, and, as this is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began July 8, there is no better time to write to the 166 men still held, the majority of whom have been on a hunger strike for over five months, [...]
  • Guantánamo Hunger Striker Abu Wa’el Dhiab: &#8 ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...

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Sciencebase

  • Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
    Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
  • Satisfying your curiosity
    Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...
  • Science books for summer
    Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we di ...
  • Guiding pledge 2.0 dismisses God and the Queen
    Apparently, the Guiding Movement is to upgrade its pledge that all members must make when they join. Currently they vow to: "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country" That obviously only applies to people of faith and those with a female monarch…and indeed compromises the i ...

Common Dreams -News

  • A Portrait of Edward Snowden and the Heroism o ...
    Artist and author Robert Shetterly—best known for his work depicting and sharing the stories of progressive luminaries from throughout US history—has released the most recent work in his Americans Who Tell the Truth series with this portrait of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ...
  • Military Industry Employee 'Throws Down Rifle' ...
    A five-year employee at private defense contracting corporation General Dynamics publicly resigned Tuesday in protest of the company's arming of US-led wars, declaring: "I have always believed that if every foot soldier threw down his rifle war would end. I hereby throw mine down." ...
  • NSA Comments Disclose Ever-Expanding Surveilla ...
  • Presidential 'Blank Check for War' Wielded Thi ...
    (Photo: Win McNamee / Getty Images)Together Presidents Bush and Obama have wielded the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) 30 times against an alleged "nation, person, or organization" affiliated with the attacks of September 11, according to new public disclosures. ...
  • Nation's Farmworkers Demand Protections From T ...
    Fruit pickers in Oxnard, California. (Photo: Alex Proimos/cc/flickr) Farmworkers and their advocates from across the nation descended on Washington, DC this week to demand better protection from the pesticides they're exposed to while picking the nation's produce. ...

Lifehacker

  • Gmail Shortcuts, Lending Money, and Sugru Pres ...
    Readers offer their best tips for navigating Gmail, lending money to your friends, and making Sugru last longer.Read more...    
  • Lenstag Registers Your Expensive Camera Gear i ...
    Thieves are always on the lookout for camera equipment. Like jewelry, cameras and lenses are easy to resell, portable, and net a high price. Lenstag is a free service that aims to combat photography gear theft.Read more...    
  • How often should I check my credit score?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more ...
  • Gizmodo You Won't Believe How Much Netflix Cro ...
    Gizmodo You Won't Believe How Much Netflix Crops Your Movies | Gawker Here's the Flag-Crazy Senate Intern Email Everyone in D.C. is Reading | Jezebel This Week in Tabloids: An Invite to Ogle Angie's Post-Mastectomy Boobs | Lifehacker The Three Rules of Stress-Free EmailRead more...  &n ...
  • SimpleExtManager Selectively Disables and Unin ...
    Chrome: Google's web brower has a great library of extensions, but digging through menus to disable them when you need to is a pain. SimpleExtManager simplifies managing your add-ons.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Activists Ready to Launch Ballot Initiative fo ...
    Activists are aiming to put the Portland water wars back on the ballot—this time with the goal of wresting control of the water and sewer bureaus from City Hall. A coalition of water activists and utility ratepayers say they'll officially announce Thursday morning what has been expected for ...
  • Robards brain injury camp has been offering po ...
    You may have heard about the “war” earlier this summer near Robards.
  • WATER WARS: Claim, counter-claim on control of ...
    ORANGE City Council's move to take control of Central Tablelands Water (CTW) is an attempt to suck its neighbours' water supply dry, according to the county council's general manager Tony Perry.
  • SMFD Hosts Annual 4th of July Parade
    Water wars wage on The Stewart Manor Fire Department (SMFD) continues to outdo itself year after year. The 15th annual Fourth of July parade boasted nearly two dozen volunteer fire departments, thousands of water balloons and countless spectators eager to engage in a no-holds-barred water fight ...
  • Water Wars: The LADWP really, really wants you...
    The LADWP really, really wants you to save water by ripping out your lawn, and they're upping the price per square foot that they'll pay you to do it. But you don't have to swap green for gravel: "L.A. recognizes...

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The Wonk Room

  • NASA: Globally, June Was Second Warmest On Record
    How hot was it in June? So hot that NASA reports the only warmer June in the global temperature record was 1998, a year juiced by both global warming and a super El Niño. By contrast, 2013 has been hovering between a weak La Niña and ENSO-neutral conditions, which would normally mean below-avera ...
  • Republican Senator Says His Party Was Wrong To ...
    In a stunning admission, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) conceded that he and his party had been wrong to block an up-or-down vote on now-confirmed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Richard Cordray. Despite having no personal objection to the nominee, Graham and the Senate Republican minority ...
  • How Climate Change Is Fueling A Rise In Deadly ...
    In the summer of 2012, the mosquito-borne West Nile virus made a surprising comeback in America. In Dallas, the most affected region, 400 people contracted the disease and 19 of them died. That came as a shock to public health officials, since West Nile virus was thought to be in such precipitou ...
  • Treasury Inspector General Blocked IRS From Re ...
    The Inspector General conducting the investigation into the Internal Revenue Services’ improper targeting of conservative groups applying for 501 (c)(4) status is preventing the agency from turning over documents showing that progressive organizations were similarly subject to additional s ...
  • Reporters Waste Everyone’s Time Asking White H ...
    South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) wants the United States to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia if the Russians grant asylum to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency employee who leaked info on the NSA’s surveillance of Americans and other countries last m ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Crossed Lines, Apathy and Delusion
    Sometimes lines are crossed and someone is discredited and they're not very consequential and so you forget about them. Or I have anyway, in the case of, say, Margaret Wente. I mean, it's long been known that she's an idiot and a liar; but she was exposed about a year ago as a total fraud as wel ...
  • More on the Imaginary Torture-Murder Scandal ...
    Two posts back I started a meme about how the rulers of an imaginary desert island society are trying to torture and kill one of the island's inhabitants for the sheer blood-lust of it all. It's an allegory about how we on the Left are stupid chumps for our inability to stand up to naked aggress ...
  • I Know! Let's Have a Rally!
    The pseudo-elected scuzzballs who rule over our desert island society are trying to torture one of us to death ... "Who? Me?" No. I read about it in yesterday's post. It's not you. It's some other guy. "Oh. Okay. Well, see ya!" Huh. Well, who needs you anyway? The rest of you; Do you think t ...
  • Hey! We're Going to Have a Vote on Torturing Y ...
    Imagine that for a second. There's a bunch of dickwads who are in control of your desert island society. Through a lot of electoral jiggery-pokery, the most ruthless and power-mad folks have seized control of the government, but there are some other people involved in the decision-making process ...
  • G20 Police Riot Explained
    The reason they couldn't stop the window smashers along the parade route, even with tens of thousands of cops and over one-billion dollars was because they didn't want to. They needed an "excuse" (however idiotic) to justify the random harassment and beatings of genuine protesters the day after. ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Nuclear Abolition Week in Canada
    During Nuclear Abolition Week (6-13 July), humanitarian, environmental and peace organisations are taking to the streets in a concerted effort to demand the start of a process to ban nuclear weapons.
  • Drones debate is just getting started
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan for armed drones is not much more than a faint blip on Ottawa’s radar screen, so the recent increase in media coverage on the subject is good news.
  • We need volunteer campaigners
    If you are passionate about making a positive change in the world by helping to ban nuclear weapons then please sign up to be a Ceasefire.ca volunteer campaigner.
  • Amazing Response
    A very generous Ceasefire.ca supporter has offered to match every donation made by other supporters, dollar for dollar, until we reach our goal. That's incredible!
  • The most unreported story in Canada…
    When you put all the pieces together, it’s clear that Harper wants to do a lot more than be able to send commandos, stealth fighters, and drones to fight wars around the world. Now he wants to sell billions in arms internationally, making Canada a global weapons dealer.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-22-13
    Today, Kevin reveals how he was able to build his financial empire and gives you tips on how to do the same! Self Help: Flood Your System With Nutrition Loss Weight Safely Become Financially Set Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kev ...
  • Here Are a Few of My Natural Cures Revealed!
    A while back I revealed my secret natural cures to such ailments as; allergies, constipation, pain, acid reflux, heart burn, insomnia, snoring, AND emotional issues! Here’s a small list to get you started right! **For pain, click here to purchase Biotape and here to purchase the Teeter Inv ...
  • The Bitter Truth…
    Well, you’ve asked for it and NaturalCures.com has done it! The NaturalCures.com team has written a no-holds barred, in-depth, special 130-page exposé on the deadly artificial sweetener, aspartame, and it is on sale now. The report, Aspartame, The Bitter Truth tells you all you need to kno ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-18-13
    Today, Kevin exposes the evil that lurks within the government and explains how riding your bike without a license or registration may be considered illegal one day. Self Help: Reprogram Your Brain Be Prepared! See KT Live! Health: FDA Pulls 500 Cold Medicines From the Market FDA Knew About Safe ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-2-13
    Today, Kevin explains why America has become the land of free lunches instead of the land of opportunity. Plus, turn off the news and put down the newspapers, Kevin gives you the FACTS behind the HCG Protocol. Self Help: The Weight Loss Cure HCG Weight Loss Miracle Get 3 of KT’s Books FREE! HCG ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Former President and Commander-In-Chief: Amer ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFormer President and Commander-In-Chief: America Is No Longer a Democracy By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com And Says Snowden’s Revelations are “Helpful” One of Germany’s biggest newspapers &#8 ...
  • Banking on Influence With Bank of America
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Andrew Gavin Marshall This July, Bank of America was expecting to report an earnings increase of 32% from last year. The Washington Business Journal declared the bank among th ...
  • 30 Iraqis Killed As Summer Heat Makes Them Eas ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com30 Iraqis Killed As Summer Heat Makes Them Easy Targets – Wednesday: 30 Killed, 42 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis Iraqis seeking relief from the summer heat have become easy marks for insurgents. Swimmers were ...
  • System-wide Demonization of Whistleblowers
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Kim Petersen I expect state and corporate media to pursue elitist interests. Therefore, when a whistleblower exposes malfeasance in the system, I expect the state corporate me ...
  • Saudis’ Unprecedented Break with Washington ov ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSaudis Unprecedented Break with Washington over Egypt By F. William EngdahlWednesday, July 17th, 2013 Saudis Unprecedented Break with Washington over Egypt   Saudi King One of the least commented aspects of ousting ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: We Must Grasp Reality to Build E ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad July 18, 2013 TheRealNews on Jul 18, 2013 In the continuation of Paul Jay’s Reality Asserts Itself interview with Chris Hedges, they discuss the fantasy that we can have everything we want and the reality of the grave dangers facing us. Pt 3 of 7 * ...
  • Chris Hedges on NDAA Defeat: It’s a Black Day ...
    by Peter Z. Scheer with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 17, 2013 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has dealt a terrible blow to Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky and the other activists and journalists suing to prevent the indefinite military detention of ...
  • Chris Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad July 17, 2013 TheRealNews on Jul 17, 2013 On Reality Asserts Itself, Chris Hedges tells Paul Jay about his criticism of the Iraq War and the events that led to him leaving the New York Times. Pt 2 of 6 * Transcript (available later today) Chris Hedges sp ...
  • The Gospel Of Mark VS The Imperial Mindset by ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Originally posted March 30, 2009 July 16, 2013 Many literary critics have said that in the theocratic age of literature, that the gospel of Mark is the most radical and important work of antiquity ...
  • Walking From the Ogaden–Seeking Peace in ...
    by Graham Peebles Writer, Dandelion Salad London July 11, 2013 Many people living outside Africa, most perhaps, have never heard of the Ogaden (or Somali) region of Ethiopia, they know nothing of the murders, rapes and destruction that the ethnic Somali’s allege are taking place there. We all ha ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • From Wired Design: Geolocated Tweets Form Towe ...
    A data visualization scientist at Twitter has created a three-dimensional, interactive look at where people in New York City, San Francisco and Istanbul have been tweeting from for the past four years.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: ‘Comet of the Ce ...
    Across the world, children fall asleep under the faint light from glow-in-the-dark astronomy stickers. Though undeniably adorable, these ceiling planetariums are too jam-packed to be realistic. You’d never see stars, dozens of spiral galaxies, and comets all at the same ...    
  • Stretchy Gold Electronics Could Someday Live I ...
    What looks like a shiny piece of gold foil is actually a stretchy new conductive material that might one day live inside your head. Crafted from gold nanoparticles and an elastic polymer, the material retains its conductivity even when stretched ...    
  • Great White Sharks Feast at the Seal Buffet Be ...
    Before hitting the road for a long drive, it’s a good idea to fill up the gas tank. Before they set out on their great migrations, great white sharks do the same. Only instead of unleaded, they fuel up on ...    
  • Bizarre Horn-Faced Dinosaur Discovered in Utah
    Meet Large-Nosed Horned-Face, a newly described dinosaur that would have undoubtedly been a favorite among paleowranglers (ignoring the fact that its skull alone is nearly 6 feet long).    

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: An interview on the Syrian revol ...
    It is hard to make progress in the real world without making various compromises. I have no advice other than to say don’t let your wishes whip away the facts entirely. Be aware of the facts. We live... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Haaretz’s Gideon Levy endorses boycott of Israel
    In his op-ed in Haaretz on Sunday, columnist Gideon Levy openly endorses a boycott of Israel as the “Israeli patriot’s final refuge.” He argues that it is in fact those who fear for Israel’s future... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Treatment of Palestinians is ap ...
    [Lawyers] and others argue that Israel is carrying out a systematic and intentional policy to drive Palestinians off their land to replace them with Jewish communities. This, they say, should be... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Aisha Mershani: Palestine photo project – 10 y ...
    Ten years ago, Aisha Mershani began a project to document the lives of everyday Palestinians non-violently resisting Israeli occupation. Since 2003, she have photographed and gathered testimonies... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Aisha Mershani: Palestine photo project – 10 y ...
    Ten years ago, Aisha Mershani began a project to document the lives of everyday Palestinians non-violently resisting Israeli occupation. Since 2003, she have photographed and gathered testimonies... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlik ...
    Two recent stories have made for an interesting juxtaposition. First, the map of America’s intelligence underworld had some important contours filled in last Sunday with the New York Times’ report on the secret body of law that it called “almost a parallel Supreme Court.&#8221 ...
  • Adventures in cord cutting
    A few weeks ago the reception on my satellite TV service mysteriously went kaput. I put in a service request and the company said the earliest anyone could get out was in a week. This gave us some time to live without any traditional broadcast television, and after a few days we were getting a ...
  • Yes, Congress and the president are responsibl ...
    There is an emerging theme on the left that the true blame for our metastasized domestic spying programs lies with the American people. John Cole put it bluntly (via): “No, you want to see the villain, look in the mirror.” Charles Pierce was a little more diplomatic:You can argue & ...
  • Transcripts and audio from ODNR information se ...
    INTERVIEW Dan: One of my big concerns is the failure of these wells. I’ve got just a page printed out, this is about a 125 page report from MIT. This page just mentions the problems with some of the causes of failures in wells. And then this is a more intensive study from Pro Publica, a ...
  • ODNR meets with public on Nelson wells
    Last summer the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced plans to approve seven toxic fracking waste injection wells for a single site in our county. Many citizens were alarmed by this, and at the time I posted on some of our fruitless attempts to get ODNR (in the person of geologi ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Extreme Toxicity of Roundup Destroys GM/Non-GM ...
    If Monsanto's Roundup herbicide were actually 'safer than table salt' as they once advertised, the consumption of GM food wouldn't be nearly as controversial. The truth, however, is that virtually all GM food today contains residues of this toxic chemical, which disproves that GM and non-GM food ...
  • Organic Consumers Association Calls for Safewa ...
    The Organic Consumers Association is calling on its million-plus network of consumers to boycott Safeway's O Organics brand until the supermarket chain withdraws from the Grocery Manufacturers Association and contributes financially to Initiative 522, a Nov. 5 ballot measure that would require l ...
  • Challenging the Vocabulary of "Common Sense" - ...
    At the foundations of contemporary economics, we have neoliberal terms and definitions. In what way has this shaped our thinking, imposed its own logic on economic experience, and in what way can we subvert these terms to help us overcome the crisis we are in?Click here to read this article
  • We Have to Embrace Apocalypse If We're Going t ...
    To think apocalyptically is not to give up on ourselves, but only to give up on the arrogant stories we modern humans have been telling about ourselves.Click here to read this article
  • It's Time for Americans to Admit That We've Ha ...
    The American people have suffered a coup d'etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere " ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Global Research - stories by author
    Activist Teacher Denis Rancourt's list of notable information at globaliztion/military/intelligence monitoring site Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Some big lies of science
    The maintenance of the hierarchical structures that control our lives depends on Pinters vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed. Schools, universities, and mass media and entertainment corporations, have a primary function to create and maintain this Submitted by John Farnham to Society & ...
  • The People's Voice
    David Icke is involved in a crowdsourced mass media project to bypass mainstream media suppression of real news Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Al-Nusra Front Leader in Syria is a CIA Operative
    Former al-Qaeda member Sheikh Nabil Naiim, historical leader of the Islamic Jihad movement in Egypt, has released astounding video testimony - also identified al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri as a US double agent Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Not ...
  • Is GE Food Making Pigs Sick?
    An article published in the most recent issue of Journal of Organic Systems sheds light on the effects of GE food on animals. The study examined pigs during their entire lifespan of 22.7 weeks and also had a large sample size Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   N ...

Farm Wars

  • Our Greatest Challenge – Asserting the Power o ...
    It is we who are complicit in allowing the merchants of darkness to suck from us the energy they require in order to keep manifesting their war games as the central plank of day to day life on this planet - Non-compliance: A call to action!
  • Dr. Anna Goodwin speaks out about water fluori ...
    There is actually no “science” whatsoever to justify the dispersal of industrial waste in our drinking water. Telling us “its good for our teeth” is pure hubris.
  • Government Will Not Save You From Corporations
    Most excess power of corporations is provided and granted by government and that government seeks partnership with corporations and shares in the profits. This "public-private partnership" is so advanced that the public interest is no longer a primary concern of government. Government is now a f ...
  • Farmer Hershberger Seeks Full Vindication in R ...
    Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Files Appeal in Wisconsin Raw Milk Case.
  • Klamath Basin Water Shutoff – Leaving Livestoc ...
    Everyone above Klamath lake is getting turned off. Modoc irrigation district got turned off a few days ago. Most of Sprague has already been turned off, any that are still using surface water will soon be. All of Fort Klamath area will be turned off. It is not just irrigators either. I hear that ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • DHS warns employees not to read leaked NSA inf ...
    ShareThisDHS warns employees not to read leaked NSA information --The US Government may penalize workers for opening a Washington Post article. [Just wow. The fascism is breathtaking. Interesting to note, I see the CIA, DHS, and DIA in the CLG website logs, so I hope they're penalizing *themselv ...
  • Reward increases for info in turtle beating
    ShareThisReward increases for info in turtle beating 06 Jul 2013 (WI) Authorities are still looking for suspects in the death of a snapping turtle found bludgeoned on a Delevan golf course last month. And a reward for information in the case is now more than $10,000. The Janseville Gazette ...
  • 'No dog should die alone': Photographer promot ...
    ShareThis'No dog should die alone': Photographer promotes senior pet adoption 17 Jul 2013 Photographer Lori Fusaro is lavishing affection on the most recent addition to her family, a sweet-natured 17-year-old dog named Sunny... Fusaro decided to launch a photography project called "Silver Hearts ...
  • Greenwald: Snowden doesn't want to be 'put in ...
    ShareThisGreenwald: Snowden doesn't want to be 'put in a cage' like Manning 17 Jul 2013 On 'NOW with Alex Wagner' Wednesday, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald explained why Edward Snowden had chosen to flee the U.S. and seek refuge in countries with questionable human rights records, saying ...
  • President Obama eyes NYPD Commissioner Ray Kel ...
    ShareThisGag me with a chainsaw: President Obama eyes NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to run the Department of Homeland Security --President Obama told Univision that he'd consider hiring Ray Kelly to run the Department of Homeland Security if he wanted to make the jump from the NYPD 16 Jul 2013 Pre ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Special Report: How the Pentagon's payroll qua ...
    17 July 2013 By Scot J. Paltrow and Kelly Carr EL PASO, Texas | Tue Jul 9, 2013 6:11pm EDT (Reuters) - As Christmas 2011 approached, U.S. Army medic Shawn Aiken was once again locked in desperate battle with a formidable foe. Not insurgents in Iraq, or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan - enemie ...
  • West Point Leadership- Profiles of Courage
    16 July 2013 Yesterday a tremendous book arrived via courier.  I normally do not review books but this one includes some of my writing and photographs and so this was mandatory.  I spent hours flipping through the pages.  The quality is amazing. My initial impression is that ...
  • Statement by President Barack Obama on Egypt
    THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 3, 2013 Statement by President Barack Obama on Egypt As I have said since the ...
  • Combat Tracking IX
    02 July 2013 www.pencari.co Combat Tracking IX, modern Combat Tracking for the 21st Century. 02-13 September 2013 We are now taking bookings for our next Combat Tracking IX Class. This Class is crucial training for all Military (Conventional and SoF), Law Enforcement, Border Patrol and Ant ...
  • Gettysburg Anniversary -- The Largest Battle i ...
    01 July 2013 Please see this excellent video.  

The Killing Train

  • The Zimmerman Verdict and MMA
    Misinformation about martial arts seems to have played a role in the Zimmerman verdict. Because of the mass popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), there is an assumption that people know more about martial arts than they actually do. When the defense asked Zimmerman's MMA (mixe ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    For those in Toronto, I will be doing a little Q/A session at the University of Toronto's Hart House South Dining Room from 6-8pm on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Here's the description: The Future of India's Conflict Zones - Q/A with Justin Podur July 25, 2013, 6-8pm Hart House South Dining Room ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 2, Jon Elmer on ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This week we have Middle East journalist Jon Elmer, and we discuss the Egyptian Revolution, the Syrian Civil War, and the great powers and their designs in the middle east.
  • Kashmir: The fruits of isolation
    India wants Kashmir for itself. Pakistan wants Kashmir for itself. But the effect of both countries' policies has been to isolate Kashmir. read more
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 1, John Clarke o ...
    A new internet talk show begins! The Ossington Circle is hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. A news and politics show, tOC will have fascinating guests discussing international (and local) politics from a thoughtful, informed, and progressive perspective. This week we have John Clarke from the On ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 17, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Egypt: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution In the two and a half years since the uprising began, Egypt has undergone not only a continuation of the Revolution, but an institutional counter-revolution from within Egyptian society, most dramatically witnessed with the ouster of Morsi two weeks a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- How to Boycott Big Tech
    There are people who are still hoping that some Congressional committee or some brave Senator or some court case will somehow put an end to the total surveillance madness that has been carefully built into the very source code of the software and operating systems and internet services which bil ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Offers More Detail ...
    A Rogue NSA with Leverage & the Power of Blackmail Peter B. Collins interviews NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice on the wiretapping of Senator Feinstein’s offices, homes and family, and how NSA used other surveillance methods on Feinstein. Mr. Tice responds to questions about evidence for his disc ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Kafka in an Arab Sea
    I know I keep saying this to you–that the more Israeli intelligence stories I report the broader I have to expand my definition of bizarre and outlandish. This one is another in this series. Back at the end of January, I reported that Israel had detained a boat in the Red Sea which contain ...
  • Israel to Sign Guns for Refugees Deal With Afr ...
    Writing this blog as long as I have, I’ve seen some pretty low blows from the Israeli government.  But this one ranks right up there.  Those of you old enough remember Ronald Reagan’s arms for hostages deal with the Iranians–now, Israel proposes an arms for refugees exchange.  ...
  • Israel Social TV Video: Israel’s Attack on Latakia
    This is my latest video for Israel Social TV dealing with the Israeli attack on Latakia and the media’s strange lack of interest in it and unwillingness to address the role alternate media sources play in reporting stories they can’t or won’t. I’d be grateful for your enc ...
  • Israel Used Turkish Military Base in Latakia A ...
    This story keeps getting weirder and more interesting: RT (formerly Russia Today) reports based on a “reliable source” that Turkey allowed Israeli air-force jet bombers to use one of its military bases to attack the Syria port of Latakia, where the government had stored Russian-made ...
  • Latakia, MSM, and Why Rodney Dangerfield was Right
    The mainstream media has finally decided that Israel did bomb Syria’s Latakia weapons depot five days after I first reported this.  My post was written on July 7th, one day after the incident.  Yesterday, CNN was the first MSM outlet to report, based on anonymous Pentagon sources, that Isr ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • An LGM podcast: Life is “The Kingsroad,” they ...
    Steven Attewell and I decided that we didn’t want to wait until next February to continue talking about Game of Thrones, and so we decided to start over. Here’s our take on “The Kingsroad,” the series’ second episode. Works Attewell discusses (warning, all of these posts contain spoilers f ...
  • More On Cohen’s Racial Profiling
    So I come back after being mostly gone from the internets for a couple days, and see that a controversy that seems silly even for Malkin’s flying monkeys (you did see the “became a monster” bit, right?) actually getting some mainstream traction as well.  But I will let SEK deal ...
  • The ESPYs
    So the ESPYs are super dumb and self-serving. Unless Norm Macdonald is the host. If you’ve never watched his monologue from when he hosted in 1998, you really should do so. Not only do you get reminded of sports scandals of the past–Anthony Mason!–but there’s the general ...
  • About that Rolling Stone cover?
    I don’t see the big deal. It’s not even that great of a picture: Now that I have that out of my system, I can write a serious post about it tomorrow.      
  • Banning Howard Zinn
    I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States as a good history book, but it’s power and importance can’t be denied. And that’s why Mitch Daniels wanted it banned from state universities when he was governor of Indiana. Unfort ...

Desert Research Institute

  • A new understanding of the North American monsoon
    Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...
  • Desert Research Institute contributes to ongoi ...
    Using a dust detection device patented by Desert Research Institute scientists, Dr. Vic Etyemezian and George Nikolich have the ability to identify how “Valley Fever,” a devastating fungus called Coccidioides, spreads.
  • Nyssa Perryman, June 2013 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nyssa Perryman, a Ph.D. student working in Atmospheric Sciences as a part of the Climate Modeling Team. Her research focus is understanding how global climate models, when transformed and applied to the complex terrain of the Western U.S., characterize atmospheric rivers and their cons ...
  • DRI Annual Convocation – Honoring our research ...
    Today the Desert Research Institute took time to celebrate the success of its faculty and students during its Annual Convocation event. Eleven awards were presented to scientific researchers and graduate students on behalf of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, DRI’s donors a ...
  • In memory of Carl Young
    The DRI family was saddened to learn over the weekend of the passing of Carl Young, a former graduate assistant at DRI and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Congress Gingerly Takes Up Voting Rights Legis ...
  • NLRB Recess Appointments Ruled Unconstitutiona ...
    Another federal appeals court has held that President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess.
  • Judges Refuse to Let Law Grads Discharge Stude ...
    Some judges within the past year seemed to take a softer stance toward struggling law school graduates carrying tens of thousands of dollars in loans. But during this month alone, federal judges in two states slapped down attempts by law graduates to discharge their student loans through bankruptcy.
  • Ford Faces Class Action Over Touch-Screen Syst ...
    The MyFord Touch system, launched in 2010, was designed to seamlessly operate audio controls, global positioning system navigation and climate controls, as well as a Bluetooth device. But Ford chief executive officer Alan Mulally acknowledged that the system has had technology problems.
  • Holder Assails 'Stand Your Ground' Laws in NAA ...
    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., in a much-anticipated speech before the NAACP annual convention in Orlando, took a strong stance Tuesday against what he called ?senseless? state stand-your-ground laws, while continuing his neutral position regarding the acquittal of George Zimmerman in th ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Major Thrust to Improve Responses to Non-commu ...
    The NCD Alliance launched a new programme, formally called 'Strengthening Health Systems, Supporting NCD Action' at The Economist event 'New Approaches to Non-Communicable Diseases' in South Africa.
  • Is Testosterone The New Estrogen?
    It's only been ten years since estrogen replacement was huckstered as a sexual fountain of youth. Women don't lose their hormones because they get old, they get old because they lose their hormones was the lucrative sales pitch.
  • Rengma Naga Hills Protection Force Cadre Killed
    In a joint operation of the Indian Army and Chokihola police, a cadre of the lesser-known Rengma Naga outfit, Rengma Naga Hills Protection Force, was gunned down in the village of Zongfa
  • Boro People Suggest Alignment With China May B ...
    After seven years of working through a negotiated peace process with the government of India, The National Democratic Front of Boroland suggests India is not serious about resolving the issues.
  • Foundation Helps Morocco Overcome Subsistence ...
    Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, a sociologist and former Peace Corps volunteer, talks about Morocco, planting trees and medicinal herbs, and taking care of people.

environment 360

  • Should Wolves Stay Protected Under Endangered ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has stirred controversy with its proposal to remove endangered species protection for wolves, noting the animals’ strong comeback in the northern Rockies and the Midwest. It’s the latest in the long, contentious saga of wolf recovery in the U.S. BY TED WILLIAMS
  • New App Identifies Species By Recordings of Th ...
    A new app is enabling scientists and the public to automatically identify frogs, birds, insects, monkeys, and other animals by recording their vocalizations. Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico have created a system called the Automated Remote Biodiversity Monitoring Network (ARBIMON) th ...
  • Russia Blocks Plans to Create Massive Marine R ...
    Russian officials have blocked plans to establish the world’s largest marine reserve in the waters off Antarctica, citing concerns that it would restrict their John B. Weller/The Pew Charitable TrustsRoss Sea pack ice fishing interests in the region, according to news reports. The plan, which w ...
  • Map Shows Possible Link Between Warmer Springs ...
    An interactive tool produced by the group Climate Central illustrates how rising temperatures and reduced snowpack in the western U.S. have corresponded with an increase in wildfires in recent decades. Based on Climate CentralLinking warm springs and large fires in the U.S. West federal wildfi ...
  • New Green Vision: Technology As Our Planet’s L ...
    The concept of ecological modernism, which sees technology as the key to solving big environmental problems, is gaining adherents and getting a lot of buzz these days. While mainstream conservationists may be put off by some of the new movement’s tenets, they cannot afford to ignore the issues i ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Toss the Treaty! Politicians Propose "National ...
    A pair of lawmakers are pushing a plan to establish a new national park that would be quite literally out of this world — a full 250,000 miles away from this world. The pair hope that a lunar national park would protect historical artifacts like gear left on the moon by seven lunar missions – si ...
  • Confirmed: Fracking Triggers Quakes and Seismi ...
    Major earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger reflex quakes in areas where fluids have been injected into the ground from fracking and other industrial operations, according to a study published in the journal Science on Thursday. Previous studies, covered in a recent Mother Jones featur ...
  • First Unlooted Royal Tomb of Its Kind Unearthe ...
    Three queens were buried with golden treasures, human sacrifices. It was a stunning discovery: the first unlooted imperial tomb of the Wari, the ancient civilization that built South America’s earliest empire between 700 and 1000 A.D. Yet it wasn’t happiness that Milosz Giersz felt when he first ...
  • BBC accused of monitoring employee emails
    The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been accused of spying on the emails of staff it suspected of leaking information, it is revealed. According to figures revealed under Freedom of Information legislation, the BBC’s Investigations Service monitored emails sent and received by 30 memb ...
  • Homeland Security chair: FBI not cooperating w ...
    The FBI is stonewalling a congressional investigation into intelligence failures, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee complained today at a hearing looking into the Boston Marathon bombings and several other domestic terrorism assaults. “I walked the streets of Boston with my c ...

Not My Tribe

  • Florida open season on black teenagers
    George Zimmerman has been found NOT GUILTY of chasing and shooting dead a black teenager for being a “fucking punk”. Now what? George W. Bush got away with murder, he and Zimmerman are peas in the same simian-eyed pod. Yes a Mack Truck might have been as good as a guilty verdict agai ...
  • Have Americans overtaken the Nazis as the real ...
    Funny how Americans think the Nazis are still the ne plus ultra of evildom. Isn’t it about time we stop pretending the cruelty of Hitler’s machine exceeded ours? The US military has of course blown well past the benchmark of “Godwin’s Rule” by any measure of war cri ...
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is no loser, ...
    Apparently Edward Snowden is a good for nothing high school dropout, but he’s a better man than you. Petty technocrats are splitting hairs to pretend that the NSA whistleblower broke the law while corporate mouthpieces are obfuscating that the public doesn’t care about its privacy. B ...
  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • New Immortal Technique Album is Free!
    I was checking out some Joe Rogan podcasts the other day and came across a show with Immortal Technique, who if you didn't know is a 9/11 truth activist, having protested at ground zero and rapped about it several times. Joe Rogan Questions Everything, 9/11 included. So I was listening to the sh ...
  • Inform Senator McCain's Office That His '9/11 ...
    "Recently 9/11 activists and various experts held a meeting with a member Senator John McCain's staff to present the evidence that the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Building 7 were brought down in a controlled demolition on 9/11.  In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall those involved in ...
  • Peer-reviewed 9/11 Truth
    What you need to know about "Peer-review" Academic Papers on 9/11 Some of the papers below are discussions papers published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics. "Debunkers" have claimed that discussion papers in this journal are not peer-reviewed. This is consclusively shown to be inc ...
  • New Video: Global Tyranny and the Illusion of ...
    My latest compilation. This one exposes the left-right paradigm, Rockefeller's globalization and the police state. The video may get blocked worldwide at any minute if NBC Universal rejects my fair use claim on the Jay Leno clip. So watch while you can haha!
  • 9/11 World Trade Center Red /Gray chips igniti ...
    Published on Jun 25, 2013 cappucinokid100 Mark Basile conducts an ignition test on known WTC primer paint and known WTC Red/Gray chips,and some paint chips actually taken from his house.For more details visit Mark`s website (link below). Footage shot by Mark Basile starts at 0.33 SEE BELOW. ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Not primitive: Short film showcases proud life ...
    A new 30-second short shows that tribal peoples like the Dongria Kondh are proud, not primitive. © SurvivalA new short film showing the richness of tribal peoples’ lives has been released as part of the Proud Not Primitive campaign in India.  The 30-second short aims to challenge prevaili ...
  • Tanks move in around Earth's most threatened tribe
    Brazil's military has moved in to stop illegal logging around the land of Earth's most threatened tribe. © Exército BrasileiroSurvival International has received reports that Brazil’s military has launched a major ground operation against illegal logging around the land of the Aw ...
  • Sacred object handed back to Hopi tribe after ...
    The katsina was handed over to Hopi chairman and religious leaders by lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon (no photography was allowed during the handover itself).© SurvivalIn a historic handover ceremony, an object sacred to the Hopi people has bee ...
  • Brazilian Indians block railway over health chaos
    The Carajás railway threatens the health and livelihood of Earth's most threatened tribe. © Sarah Shenker/SurvivalIndians from seven tribes in Brazil have blocked a controversial railway, demanding reforms to the indigenous health service, which has fallen into a state of chaos. Approximat ...
  • INDIA: 'Proud Not Primitive' campaign challeng ...
    The 'Proud Not Primitive' campaigns challenges the prevailing view in India that tribal peoples, like the Dongria Kondh, are 'backwards' and 'primitive'.© SurvivalA groundbreaking new campaign has been launched in India to challenge the deep-seated prejudice that tr ...

Greg Palast

  • New York Genitals Fight for Office ... While S ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Go ahead and shoot me. It’s hopeless. My War on Stupid is facing defeat on every front. I open up the New York Times and there’s a page one story about Anthony Weiner, who is now ahead in the race for Mayor of New York. The article is 17 [...]
  • Summer versus Stupid
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine We all have bad habits. And the worst, besides yelling at our kids when we're hung-over or just generally disappointed, is the daily deal we make with Evil. Every day we are thrown head first into that dog fight between What is Right, What is Horrible and, our th ...
  • Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King's grave.  The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I'm so angry, so distraught b ...
  • Arizona Law
    by Greg Palast On Tuesday, the Supreme Court finally busted the Arizona election law that was supposed to keep "alien" (i.e. Democratic) voters off the voter rolls.  Two years ago, we flew to Arizona to bust this bogus game.  Here's the original report  ... Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GO ...
  • The Drone Ranger: Obama’s Dirty Wars
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine About the time Barack Obama ordered the drone strike that killed Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American kid Facebooked his second-rate choice of hip-hop favorites. I say "second-rate," because Abdul was my son's age almost exactly, so I know the kind of ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Thank You from SafeMinds to IACC Public Commenters
    By Lyn Redwood I want to personally thank everyone who responded to the SafeMinds action alert to submit written public comments to the IACC regarding their child’s medical conditions this past month. And a huge thanks to Eileen Nicole Simon,...
  • Dachel Media Update: The Concerted Media Thras ...
    Managing Editor's Note: The concerted media campaign to discredit Jenny McCarthy has been a thing to behold, hasn't it? Even if you know nothing about autism and vaccine policy in America, you can tell that there are a whole lot...
  • UPDATE: Canadian Mother's Story: Is There Just ...
    By Anne Dachel On May 20, 2013, I watched a disturbing video from Canadian TV News about a single mother of four adopted special needs children (2 have autism). The Dept. Youth Protection in Quebec suddenly seized her nonverbal 8...
  • “Vaccines’ Benefits Outweigh Risks” Implies Ch ...
    By Nancy Hokkanen Online comments by vaccine injury denialists often seem plucked from George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, a dystopian allegory in which “some animals are more equal than others.” At the websites of magazines struggling to regain lost market...
  • Winner: QR Code iD Wandering Scan Code System
    Congrats to Sandi Saponaro - our winner. Every so often I get an email that really grabs my attention and boy, did the email from QR Code ID stop me in my tracks. They make a scan code that you...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Our Greatest Challenge – Asserting the Power o ...
    It is we who are complicit in allowing the merchants of darkness to suck from us the energy they require in order to keep manifesting their war games as the central plank of day to day life on this planet - Non-compliance: A call to action!
  • Dr. Anna Goodwin speaks out about water fluori ...
    There is actually no “science” whatsoever to justify the dispersal of industrial waste in our drinking water. Telling us “its good for our teeth” is pure hubris.
  • Government Will Not Save You From Corporations
    Most excess power of corporations is provided and granted by government and that government seeks partnership with corporations and shares in the profits. This "public-private partnership" is so advanced that the public interest is no longer a primary concern of government. Government is now a f ...
  • Farmer Hershberger Seeks Full Vindication in R ...
    Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Files Appeal in Wisconsin Raw Milk Case.
  • Klamath Basin Water Shutoff – Leaving Livestoc ...
    Everyone above Klamath lake is getting turned off. Modoc irrigation district got turned off a few days ago. Most of Sprague has already been turned off, any that are still using surface water will soon be. All of Fort Klamath area will be turned off. It is not just irrigators either. I hear that ...

new geography

  • Metropolitan Dispersion: 1950-2012
    America has become much more metropolitan since 1950, when the Office of Management and Budget released the first modern criteria for determining the boundaries of metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas are the economic or functional definition of the "city." They are otherwise kno ...
  • A Suburban Economic Future?
    The basic, often unappreciated, fact  about economic life in Australia’s  metropolitan regions are that most of the jobs are in suburban locations. Our central business districts (CBDs) – prominent though they are – account for only around 10% of all metro wide jobs. That rises to maybe ...
  • Will Europe Hit a Demographic Tipping Point?
    The best hope for the youth of France, according to a recent New York Times op-ed, is, well, to get out of France.  Youth unemployment in France is running at 26%.  No wonder some might believe their best opportunity lies elsewhere, including their old colony of New France (Quebec).  But ...
  • Eastvale, CA: Suburban Charm Trumps Urban Conv ...
    Eastvale, a new community just over the Riverside County line from Orange County, is a place that most urbanists would naturally detest. City Hall is no architectural masterpiece, occupying a small office inside the area's largest shopping mall. The streets are wide, and the houses tend ...
  • The Truce That Could Save American Cities
    Some states, such as New York and California, are loudly proclaiming that they have returned from the fiscal abyss. Maybe for now, but the future doesn’t look so good when long-term debt and pension obligations are factored in. Taken together, our 50 states owe $1 trillion in unfunded ...

water.org

  • A Well Inauguration
    The people of Pot 15 applaud with the joy for the well [that they now have] after three months of training to ensure that the well has a future. For several years residents had to go to neighboring communities for a drop of water. During the [well] inauguration ceremony one of the members of the ...
  • Teaching Hygiene Through Song
    Community education is just as important as drilling a well or building a latrine.
  • A Toilet for Sumit
    “Our previous toilet was a ‘katcha’ toilet made with bamboo sticks. The pit was covered with bamboo thatch. It was too near to the house. During monsoons, the water from the katcha toilet used to flow through the house and spread a foul smell all over the place,” says Sumit Deori, who lives with ...
  • Chandramaya's Story
    Chandramaya Chettri is 65 years old and, until now, has only had access to water from unclean sources. She says, “We [used to] collect water from the nearby pond and sometimes from our neighbor’s well. Borrowing water from our neighbors was not easy. We were subjected to ill-treatment.”
  • Young Woman Rolling Incense
    Easy access to clean water has afforded this young woman the ability to earn some extra income for her family. Watch as she uses her newfound spare time to roll traditional Indian incense in today's Clip of the Day!

Cryptogon

  • Cancer-Free Woman Undergoes Chemotherapy After ...
    Via: KHOU: A 54-year-old Victoria woman is trying to find sense in a life-changing diagnosis that never should have happened. Herlinda Garcia said she became “a whole different person” after she was diagnosed with Stage IV terminal Breast Cancer. That diagnosis came after Garcia had a benign tum ...
  • Driving Somewhere? There’s a Government ...
    Via: AP: Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong. Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digita ...
  • Insecticide Laced Food Kills at Least 22 Child ...
    Some of this food wasn’t “properly washed” and dozens of children are dead? Via: The Star: At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday. It was not immediat ...
  • Millions of Americans Living Abroad: Get Ready ...
    Via: Wall Street Journal: Beware the sledgehammer used to crack the nut. In this case, the nut is the U.S. government’s laudable goal of catching tax evaders. The sledgehammer is the overreaching effect of legislation that is alienating other countries and resulting in millions of U.S. cit ...
  • Michael Hastings’ Body Cremated Against ...
    Via: San Diego 6: Details uncovered by this reporter shed new light into the June 18 death of journalist Michael Hastings. Hastings’ friend and confidant SSgt. Joe Biggs disclosed a macabre twist in the award-winning journalist’s death in a suspicious single-car accident. According to SSgt. Bigg ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 40 Stats That Prove The U.S. Economy Has Alrea ...
    The "coming economic collapse" has already been happening.  You see, the truth is that the economic collapse is not a single event.  It has already started, it is happening right now, and it will accelerate during the years ahead.  The statistics in this article show very clearly that the U.S. e ...
  • The “McDonald’s Budget”: Lau ...
    Can you support a family on $2,000 a month?  Recently, McDonald's and Visa teamed up to launch a website that is intended to help employees of McDonald's manage their money.  The aspect of the website that is getting a tremendous amount of national attention is the "McDonald's Budget" which is a ...
  • A Nightmare Scenario
    Most people have no idea that the U.S. financial system is on the brink of utter disaster.  If interest rates continue to rise rapidly, the U.S. economy is going to be facing an economic crisis far greater than the one that erupted back in 2008.  At this point, the economic paradigm that the Fed ...
  • Goodbye Full-Time Jobs, Hello Part-Time Jobs, ...
    A fundamental shift is taking place in the U.S. economy.  In fact, this transition is rapidly picking up momentum and is in danger of becoming an avalanche.  The percentage of full-time jobs in our economy is steadily declining and the percentage of part-time jobs is steadily increasing.  This i ...
  • Love Your Neighbor As You Love Yourself: An Ap ...
    Whatever you may think about the George Zimmerman trial, the truth is that it is yet another example that shows very clearly how divided America is at this point.  I was hesitant to write anything about the Zimmerman trial today, because it seems like the more people talk about it the more divid ...

Desertification

  • DOCUMENTS FOR THE DRYLANDS / DOCUMENTS POUR LE ...
    Here is a series of documents that might be of interest for all people combating desertification, not only in Africa. Voici une série de documents qui peuvent avoir un certain intérêt pour tous ceux qui combatent la désertification, non seulement … Continue reading →
  • Reforestation and efficient collection and sto ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.caux.iofc.org/en/desertification-center-discussion Desertification at the center of discussion On the morning of July 10th 2013 there took place in Caux a plenary session entitled “Grounding peace and stability : especially in the Sahel” ...
  • To help today’s farmers be more resilient to d ...
    Read at : http://blog.conservation.org/2013/07/fighting-off-the-desert-in-south-africas-succulent-karoo/ Fighting Off the Desert in South Africa’s Succulent Karoo Malinda Gardiner To this day, the thought of drought raises the hair on my neck. It makes me recall the terrible impact a long drough ...
  • Mapping of desertification severity (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.ijetae.com/files/Volume3Issue6/IJETAE_0613_97.pdf International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering http://www.ijetae.com (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal, Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2013) 568 Mapping of ...
  • Indicators for Land Degradation and Desertific ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23811772 Evaluation and Selection of Indicators for Land Degradation and Desertification Monitoring: Types of Degradation, Causes, and Implications for Management. Kairis O, Kosmas C, Karavitis C, Ritsema C, Salva ...

News Blaze

  • Major Thrust to Improve Responses to Non-commu ...
    The NCD Alliance launched a new programme, formally called 'Strengthening Health Systems, Supporting NCD Action' at The Economist event 'New Approaches to Non-Communicable Diseases' in South Africa.
  • Is Testosterone The New Estrogen?
    It's only been ten years since estrogen replacement was huckstered as a sexual fountain of youth. Women don't lose their hormones because they get old, they get old because they lose their hormones was the lucrative sales pitch.
  • Rengma Naga Hills Protection Force Cadre Killed
    In a joint operation of the Indian Army and Chokihola police, a cadre of the lesser-known Rengma Naga outfit, Rengma Naga Hills Protection Force, was gunned down in the village of Zongfa
  • Boro People Suggest Alignment With China May B ...
    After seven years of working through a negotiated peace process with the government of India, The National Democratic Front of Boroland suggests India is not serious about resolving the issues.
  • Foundation Helps Morocco Overcome Subsistence ...
    Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, a sociologist and former Peace Corps volunteer, talks about Morocco, planting trees and medicinal herbs, and taking care of people.

Worldnews

  • Carrefour French hypermarkets, China impr ...
    PARIS (Reuters) - Carrefour said on Thursday that sales improved at its core French hypermarkets and in China in the second quarter, further reassuring investors about head Georges Plassat's ability to revive Europe's largest retailer. Growth in Brazil, Carrefour's largest market after Franc ...
  • Samsung bets on storage devices as smartp ...
    By Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co on Thursday launched storage technology aimed at replacing computer hard disk drives as it targets the rapidly expanding memory devices market to offset slowing sales growth for smartphone memory chips. Samsung is the world's top maker ...
  • Honda aims to make Acura in China by 2016
    BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's Honda Motor Co is planning to produce Acura cars in China with a local partner starting in 2016, part of an effort to tap growing demand for upscale vehicles in the world's biggest auto market. Honda said on Thursday it has agreed with Guangzhou Automobile Group C ...
  • Heatwave deaths: 760 lives claimed by hot ...
    Up to 760 people in England have died as a result of the current heatwave, figures show, and the death toll is set to rise further still. A woman with a sunburnt back Photo: PA 7:09AM BST 18 Jul 2013 Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that between 540 and 76 ...
  • Second Ashes Test starts amid off-field b ...
    LONDON — After just a three-day break since England’s thrilling 14-run win over Australia in the first Test at Trent Bridge, the Ashes rivals will meet for the second of a five-match series at Lord’s on Thursday. But the manner in which Australia competed in Nottingham suggests Ashes-holders ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Does Not Raise Heart A ...
    There is not a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular events in patients who take controversial type 2 drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) reported after carrying out a re-analysis of data from a pivotal study. The DCRI researchers re- ...
  • Promising Results In Early Trial of Novel MS T ...
    Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine researchers say a new method for essentially resetting the immune systems of patients with multiple sclerosis appears to be safe. Study co-author Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University, describes the novel approach tested in this smal ...
  • Summer Deadliest Time of Year for Teen Drivers
    Crashes often linked to distracted driving Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Motor Vehicle Safety, Teen Health
  • Fewer Families Struggling to Pay Medical Bills ...
    But some may be skipping needed care altogether, expert says Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Health Insurance, Health Statistics
  • Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Non ...
    About $6000 in extra annual costs stem from more time off, smoking breaks, health care, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Smoking

Common Dreams

  • A Portrait of Edward Snowden and the Heroism o ...
    Artist and author Robert Shetterly—best known for his work depicting and sharing the stories of progressive luminaries from throughout US history—has released the most recent work in his Americans Who Tell the Truth series with this portrait of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ...
  • Military Industry Employee 'Throws Down Rifle' ...
    A five-year employee at private defense contracting corporation General Dynamics publicly resigned Tuesday in protest of the company's arming of US-led wars, declaring: "I have always believed that if every foot soldier threw down his rifle war would end. I hereby throw mine down." ...
  • NSA Comments Disclose Ever-Expanding Surveilla ...
  • Presidential 'Blank Check for War' Wielded Thi ...
    (Photo: Win McNamee / Getty Images)Together Presidents Bush and Obama have wielded the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) 30 times against an alleged "nation, person, or organization" affiliated with the attacks of September 11, according to new public disclosures. ...
  • Nation's Farmworkers Demand Protections From T ...
    Fruit pickers in Oxnard, California. (Photo: Alex Proimos/cc/flickr) Farmworkers and their advocates from across the nation descended on Washington, DC this week to demand better protection from the pesticides they're exposed to while picking the nation's produce. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Greens Should Support Coal-Killing Natural Gas ...
    For decades, natural gas was considered a highly attractive alternative to coal. It produced fewer greenhouse gas emissions, resulted in far less toxic pollution of landscapes and waterways, and could be a viable bridge to a zero-carbon future.
  • Road to Daegu Series: Modernization of the Rus ...
    Siemens “Road to Daegu” activities leading up to the World Energy Congress hosted a Round Table discussion in Russia, where the panel discussed the country’s energy market.
  • Germany's Clean Energy Push: What Can the Worl ...
    Known as the Energiewende, or "energy transition", Germany's campaign to move to renewable power is ambitious, massively popular at home, and by many accounts, quite successful. With 25% of Germany's electricity currently being sourced from solar, wind, and biomass generation and a target of 80% ...
  • Electricity Prices Soar Past $200 per Megawatt ...
    With a heatwave settling across the northeastern and Midwestern United States, electricity systems across some of the nation's most densely populated areas strained to meet peak demands today, sending power prices spiking.
  • GOP Staffer Uses Pseudonym To Call on GOP to A ...
    The good news is that someone in the GOP did say it. The bad news is they had a bag over their head. One might call this a nom de plume of smoke. Or Profiles in Discourage.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • New Law Would Jail Banksters
    In Britain, though. Not the US. Britain’s Conservative prime minister David Cameron plans to introduce a bill in Parliament to penalize bankers for reckless and criminal behavior. Would Obama, the so-called liberal Democrat, ever push such a law? In your dreams. According to the Dail ...
  • Obama, Your Bitch is Our Dictator
    Another video by Storm Clouds Gathering that connects the dots behind the recent coup in Egypt. The filmmakers establish, clearly and coherently, that Mursi, like Mubarak (and El Baradei) are handpicked US puppets. That, with US backing (after Israel, Egypt is the second largest recipient of ...
  • Obama's Africa Trip Highlights Declining US In ...
    US Army in Africa If you are one of those people, like me, who wondered why Obama would visit Africa and forgo a visit to his relatives in Kenya (the government has built a special runway to accommodate Air Force One), you won’t find the answer in the corporate media. In a recent Coun ...
  • An NSA-Approved Guide to Revolution
    Tahrir Square Activists who advocate for violent revolution don’t advertise their views on the Internet for obvious reasons. That being said, Storm Clouds Gathering treads a really fine line with their recent. Revolution: An Instruction Manual. They don’t exactly advocate using ...
  • The Case That Michael Hastings Was Assassinated
    Below is a brilliant Corbett Report video laying out existing evidence supporting recent speculation that Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings’ June 18 car accident was most likely foul play on behalf  of the US government. Hastings thus joins the ranks of Danny Casolaro and Gar ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
  • Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
    "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...
  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...
  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Renewable Energy Status Update 2013
    Today I begin a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because the past two posts have dealt with the Keystone XL pipeline project, I thought it would be a good change of pace to kick off this series by looking at the current global picture of rene ...
  • Protecting a Drowning Man from Sunburn
    There is lots of extrapolating, and emphasis on the potential for burning all of Alberta's oil sands. Yet all of the extrapolating in the world, writes Robert Rapier, doesn't take away from the fact that oil -- over the course of the next century or more -- will make a relatively insignificant c ...
  • The Increasing Irrelevance of the Keystone XL ...
    Last week President Obama unveiled a new plan to combat climate change in a speech at Georgetown University. While there is generally broad consensus that his comments further threaten the already battered US coal industry, his comments on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline project had pundits g ...
  • Avoiding Energy’s Big Buts
    It is true that wind and solar power are intermittent, writes Robert Rapier. However, we do not have a single energy source that doesn't have a downside associated with it.
  • Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012?
    The failure of the mainstream media to note that it is the growth in oil consumption that fell, and not actual oil consumption -- leaves many with a false impression that perhaps the world is beginning to wean itself off of oil, notes Robert Rapier.

Discovery Educator Network

  • Six Free iPad Apps for Making Healthy Choices ...
    Comments:"Back to school is the perfect time of year to establish routines and remind students about making healthy choices. Children of all ages should have an understanding of the impact of their decisions related to the food they choose to eat. There are a variety of games and resources to pr ...
  • Interactive Websites
    Comments:Check out these great interactive websites! Great site to find an interactive activity to go with a classroom lesson! - congerjan CongerTags: interactives, websites, websites_for_kidsby: congerjan Conger
  • Can apps teach kids about emotions?
    Comments:"How do we raise emotionally aware and well-adjusted kids? With lots of talking and sharing, of course. For some kids, digital media can also help by packaging powerful messages inside enticing apps. In one, kids explore how we are the same and how we are different from one another. In ...
  • The 50 Best Smartphone Apps For Teachers Arran ...
    Comments:"We’ve discovered a seemingly endless collection of smartphone apps that teachers can put to work in the classroom and beyond, creating a powerhouse of back-to-school mobile tools. Read on to discover 50 of the best smartphone apps for teachers, and share any personal favorites we’ve mi ...
  • Free Technology for Teachers: 18 Google Earth ...
    Tags: freetech4teachers, googleearth, googlemaps, K-12by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • The Great Diet Soda Myth
    Want to lose weight, ward off diabetes and still drink something that tastes sweet and fizzy? Grab a diet soda! After all, they're sweetened with zero-calorie sweeteners that give you the sugar fix you need without boosting belly fat. Except that's all a great myth, as a growing number of studi ...
  • 5 Weird Things BPA Is Doing to Your Body
    More than one million pounds of bisphenol A, or BPA, are released into the environment each year, but scientists are beginning to find that it could take just a tiny amount to create strange and lasting health problems. Embedded in some plastics, as a protective lining inside most canned foods ...
  • FDA Takes On Arsenic in Apple Juice
    The Environmental Protection Agency sets a limit for the amount of inorganic arsenic (the carcinogenic kind), in drinking water. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is proposing a similar maximum limit on arsenic found in apple juice, a problem highlighted by Dr. Oz, Consumer Reports, Food &a ...
  • The Hidden Threat in Your Workout Gear
    A lot of workout clothing advertised as "antibacterial" or "anti-odor" contains microscopic particles, or nanoparticles, of silver. These particles, shrunk down to sizes as small as one billionth of a meter, are natural bacteria-killers that can prevent odor- and mildew-causing bacteria from ru ...
  • FDA Bans BPA in Baby Formula
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced an official ban on using the toxic chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in baby-formula packaging, citing the fact that baby formula manufacturers have largely abandoned the chemical. Scientists have linked BPA to all sorts of health ailmen ...

big think

  • The 7 Essential Life Skills
    Like the cockroach, we humans are extraordinarily adaptable creatures. At the same time, we are creatures of habit, and our lives can easily become routinized to the point where the very idea of change becomes terrifying. This is the flip side of adaptability – we can fit ourselves into ...
  • Criminalising drugs, legalising murder, and th ...
    Should things be banned because they destroy many lives? An initial response might be YES. But consider what we’re actually replying to by saying “YES”. We’re not saying we want banning in and of itself, really: we want the thing being banned to not have the negative effects and think the act of ...
  • Are Cyborgs the Next Step in Human Evolution?
    Are you a cyborg? If your smartphone is glued to your hand, then, we believe you are already a kind of Cyborg. What is a cyborg? It’s an organism that has both organic (“natural”) and cybernetic (“machine”) parts. In other words, when people become cyb ...
  • The Rolling Stone Cover and the Manufacture of ...
    The image on the top left is the cover of the August issue of Rolling Stone, featuring Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The image on the top right is the cover of Rolling Stone from 1970, depicting Charles Manson. Both covers seem in keeping with the magazine's promise ...
  • The Universe May Not Be Expanding
    How do we know the universe is expanding? Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity posits one of two possibilities: the universe is either expanding or contracting. It can't be static. Thanks to Edwin Hubble and every sophisticated instrument available since 1929, we know that most ...

Information Liberation

  • Rialto, CA Police Made to Wear Cameras, Use of ...
    When cops in a Rialto, California were forced to wear cameras, their use of force dropped by over two-thirds. Additionally, the officers who were not made to wear the cameras used force twice as much as those who did. This strongly suggests the maj...
  • Cop Demands Man Give Him Oral Sex Or Go To Jail
    From WREG: Imagine getting two choices: going to jail or performing a sexual act. A man says he was faced with this proposition when a police officer picked him up because of a warrant. The man says the officer sexually assaulted him and t...
  • Mission Kansas Police Cavity Search Mom After ...
    On the evening of 3-16-2013 around 5 pm I was leaving the Mission Post Office. I had just put my two young daughters (Ages 4 & 2) in the minivan. While I was putting packages in the car, I was unexpectedly approached from behind by a...
  • All True Journalism is Adversarial
    Thomas Jefferson famously said that he would prefer to have a newspaper without a government over having a government without a newspaper. Unfortunately, those running the contemporary news media see themselves as allies to, or appendages of, governm...
  • Internet Fascism and the Surveillance State
    What is the purpose of telecommunication and internet surveillance? The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues, claiming that the programs are needed to counter terrorist attacks. Bald assertions of plot...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • No Big Deal
    Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
    This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →
  • Libel, Reputation and Thin Air
    This isn’t something I had planned to discuss any time soon, but recent headlines in Australia have pushed it to the head of the queue. If you don’t follow Australian politics closely, you may have missed the recent news that … Continue reading →
  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Gun Law
    This post will be briefer than I had originally intended, and for a couple of reasons. First, I haven’t put up any threads for a while, and I feel as though I need a break from work today, so here … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
    Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
  • Satisfying your curiosity
    Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...
  • Science books for summer
    Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we di ...
  • Guiding pledge 2.0 dismisses God and the Queen
    Apparently, the Guiding Movement is to upgrade its pledge that all members must make when they join. Currently they vow to: "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country" That obviously only applies to people of faith and those with a female monarch…and indeed compromises the i ...

RFF Library

  • The Quality of Our Nation’s Waters: Ecological ...
    US Geological Survey / by Daren M. Carlisle, et al. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1391/ [From Press Release] A new USGS report describes how the health of our Nation’s streams is being degraded by streamflow modifications and elevated levels of nutrients and pesticides. The national assessment of st ...
  • Decreasing Colorado River Flows Could Lower Pr ...
    Potential Impacts to Property Values from Long-term Changes in Water Levels on the Colorado River and Its Tributaries: A Delphi Approach Southwick Associates for Protect the Flows http://protectflows.com/real-estate-report/ [From Press Release]  A new economic report released today by Protect th ...
  • Water Constraints on European Power Supply und ...
    Environmental Research Letters (2013; v8 p035010+; doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035010) / by Michelle T.H. van Vliet, Stefan Vogele and Dirk Rubbelke http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/3/035010/pdf/1748-9326_8_3_035010.pdf [Bloomberg] Waterways warmed by climate change will increase electricity ...
  • Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture and Storage
    International Energy Agency (This seems to be an open access document.) http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/name,39359,en.html This carbon capture and storage (CCS) roadmap aims at assisting governments and industry in integrating CCS in their emissions reduction strateg ...
  • Sea Level May Rise 2 Meters (6.6 Feet) for Eac ...
    The multimillennial sea-level commitment of global warming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print July 15, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1219414110) / by Anders Levermann, Peter U. Clark, Ben Marzeion, Glenn A. Milne, David Pollard, Valentina Radic, and Alexande ...

Scientific American - News

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Silver Bullet
    Canadian mine in Guatemala brings violence, militarization TORONTO—“The soldiers came and killed my brother and grandfather,” said Diego Santiago Cedillo. The Maya ...
  • Navigating between spirits
    Two-spirited people still struggle to be understood “A lot of the hipsters, they love everything Native,” says Bryson Syliboy. “They're like, 'Oh, I'm t ...
  • Ask first: Haligonians respond to Robin Thicke ...
    Two women from Halifax have released a playful but serious video in response to American pop star Robin Thicke's recent single "Blurred Lines." Kaleigh Trace and Mary Burnet, both employees at Venus Envy, a sex shop an ...
  • Unionizing baristas symptom of job crisis in NS
    Halifax millenials want respect in service industry ...
  • Entrevue avec Mateo du Pekuakami sur la décolo ...
    Entrevue avec Mateo, un Ilnu du Pekuakami, sur la colonisation en général ainsi que française/québécoise en particulier et la décolonisation, la défense du Nitassinan, la langue ilnue, la culture traditionnelle ilnue, l'identité ilnue, l'importance de la culture orale, la lutte contre le ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The death of Trayvon Martin
    David Seaton's News LinksTaking the whole thing into account, taking as given America's history of racial tension, thus taking as given the practical inevitability of "racial profiling" I think the root cause of Trayvon Martin's death was that George Zimmerman was allowed to carry a pistol.Racia ...
  • Could a Nobel Peace Prize injure the sphincter ...
    David Seaton's News Links"None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree." - Foreign Operations, Export Fi ...
  • Alexis de Tocqueville defines Barack Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksAlexis de Tocqueville Quote of the day: "Very few monarchs, from Augustus to our day, have failed to keep up the outward forms of freedom while they destroyed its substance, in the hope that they might combine the moral power of public approval with the peculiar convenie ...
  • Wouldn't it be nice to actually see Edward Sno ...
    David Seaton's News Links"Beyond technical systems, U.S. officials are deeply concerned that Snowden used his sensitive position to read about U.S. human assets, for example spies and informants overseas as well as safe houses and key spying centers. They worry this recent quote from Snowden was ...
  • Looking at the world through a PRISM
    David Seaton's News LinksThere is no reverse gear on the machine of governmental power. If power exists, it will be seized and exploited. To do what? That will be revealed in the course of this power’s employment. Its potential uses will automatically be discovered by those who have it or seize ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The U.S. Army Drawdown in Afghanistan Is Being ...
    From the Washington Post: An escalating dispute between the Afghan government and the United States over customs procedures has halted the flow of U.S. military equipment across Afghanistan’s borders....The Afghan government is demanding that the U.S. military pay $1,000 for each s ...
  • Executive Branch Filibusters Aren't Gone, Just ...
    Jonathan Bernstein points out today that the Democratic victory over filibusters of executive branch nominees wasn't quite as total as some of the reporting has suggested. After all, Republicans didn't agree to stop the filibusters. They just agreed to provide 60 votes for cloture when needed: ...
  • Gang of 7 Planning to Offer New Immigration Co ...
    Greg Sargent has some details on a new bipartisan House plan that—maybe—has a chance of saving immigration reform. The key points appear to be: Redefining the initial "provisional" legal status granted to undocumented immigrants as "probation." Lengthening the path to c ...
  • Pie Chart of the Day: Police Are Tracking You 24/7
    The ACLU reports today that routine tracking and storage of license plate information is becoming increasingly common: License plate readers would pose few civil liberties risks if they only checked plates against hot lists and these hot lists were implemented soundly. But these systems ...
  • Capitol Records Architect Welcomes His New Nei ...
    For the past several years, Los Angeles has been embroiled in controversy over a plan to build a couple of office towers next door to the iconic Capitol Records building. Today in the LA Times, the guy who actually designed the Capitol Records building weighs in with a refreshingly reasonable& ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 401: Distraction
    Most people are aware of how rough this week has been so this show is Kriss, Kev & Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips trying to have a show focused on the more fun things in life. Random topics and reading back some listener emails. Also Kriss recorded his thoughts earlier in the day [...]
  • IC 400: Dear White People
    400 shows Kev retells some stories about his Europe trip Race relations break down when The Insanity Check takes a break What people don’t understand about the Paula Deen situation White people trolling The Zimmerman Trial Dear White People Jon Jones is the Lebron James of the UFC The misu ...
  • IC 399: Man of Feel
    Kriss wasn’t impressed by E3 Games aren’t the next generation of consoles Fanboys complaining about Microsoft giving them what they’ve been asking for Sony’s smart PR war The Next-Gen is a marathon not a sprint Man of Steel & Nerds Why nerds get defensive about block ...
  • IC 398: Tentacle Porn
    NSA whitleblower goes to China Osama Bin Laden died horribly as a former rich guy Why no one fucks with Japan Man breaks into houses and sucks unsuspecting men’s dicks The Rock is having a good year Marvel Studio’s has some great casting Women have bad online dating profiles too Kris ...
  • IC 397: This is Retarded
    The Bible is a Great Read Roy Hibbert & No Homo Cause Bullies Owning up to being offensive People exaggerating about sex Dating as you get older How no one talks about rejection Dating success rates are worse than baseball batting averages Why online dating isn’t really different from ...

Simple Climate

  • Scientists spotlight rock’s role in carbon cap ...
    Comparing three carbon capture and storage sites shows how the makeup of the rocks that CO2 is pumped into influences the risk of leakage, find University of Bristol’s James Verdon and colleagues.
  • Extra climate targets urge faster CO2 cuts
    Avoiding damage from climate change needs multiple goals that would mean even lower carbon emissions than for temperature limits alone, Marco Steinacher and his team from the University of Bern, Switzerland, have found.
  • Extra climate targets urge faster CO2 cuts
    Avoiding damage from climate change needs multiple goals that would mean even lower carbon emissions than for temperature limits alone, Marco Steinacher and his team from the University of Bern, Switzerland, have found.
  • Missed Greenland melt cause raises sea level c ...
    Climate models aren’t simulating jet stream changes responsible both for record melt in Greenland and unusual wetness in UK in 2012, warns Edward Hanna from the University of Sheffield, which could mean we’re surprised by sea level rise.
  • Missed Greenland melt raises sea level concern
    Climate models aren’t simulating jet stream changes responsible both for record melt in Greenland and unusual wetness in UK in 2012, warns Edward Hanna from the University of Sheffield, which could mean we’re surprised by sea level rise.

e!Science News

  • Bees under threat from disease-carrying bumble ...
    Stricter controls over bumblebee imports to the UK are urgently required to prevent diseases spreading to native bumblebees and honeybees, scientists have warned. The call follows the discovery of parasites in over three-quarters of imported bumblebee colonies they tested. The study - the first ...
  • Impossible material made by Uppsala University ...
    A novel material with world record-breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities has been synthesized by researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden. read more
  • NASA engineer achieves another milestone in em ...
    A NASA engineer has achieved yet another milestone in his quest to advance an emerging super-black nanotechnology that promises to make spacecraft instruments more sensitive without enlarging their size. read more
  • Compound discovered at sea shows potency again ...
    A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered a new chemical compound from an ocean microbe in a preliminary research finding that could one day set the stage for new treatments for anthrax and other ailments such as methicillin-resistant Sta ...
  • Discovery of stone monument at El Perú-Wa ...
    Archaeologists tunneling beneath the main temple of the ancient Maya city of El Perú-Waka' in northern Guatemala have discovered an intricately carved stone monument with hieroglyphic text detailing the exploits of a little-known sixth-century princess whose progeny prevailed in a bloody, ...

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Brave New Climate

  • New critique of AEMO 100% renewable electricit ...
    Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). For other critiques of the “100 Per Cent Renewables Study – Draft Modelling Outcomes” report on BNC, see here and here. Summary: The AEMO report concludes that 100% of Australian electricity demand c ...
  • A tale of three cities
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. Thought experiments have a long noble tradition in more than a few sciences. Here’s one that I think is illumin ...
  • Log, slash, truck and burn – welcome to ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. Back in 2011, the federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency commissioned the Australian Energy Marke ...
  • Advanced fission and fusion technologies for s ...
    Last week, the Australian Academy of Science held their annual meeting in Canberra, and the final day’s event was focused on energy technology. The symposium was called “Power to the people: the science behind the debate“. I was invited as one of the speakers, to discuss next-g ...
  • Green Junk – In praise of waste
    This post has two purposes. First, for those who don’t follow my Twitter feed (hey, why don’t you?), I’d like to highlight some terrific work from Geoff Russell and Ben Heard that has hit the ‘net over the past few weeks. These are all ‘must reads’ – wit ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • From Daily Koz
    “One difference between liberals and conservatives is, liberals correct their mistakes to keep up with reality while conservatives correct their reality to keep up with their mistakes.”
  • Female? Republican?
    Are you f-ing insane?
  • Niall Ferguson Is An Idiot
    On “Morning Joe” Niall Ferguson claimed that jobs were not being created because “Small businesses are deeply discouraged from hiring people by a massive regulation. I know this because I should try to setting up a business.” He then goes on to blather more nonsense. Look ...
  • Glenn Beck You And Your Friends Are The Diseas ...
    ““But it makes total sense if people understand progressivism is a disease in the Republican Party as well,” Beck responded.” Yeah, that’s right Beck. Making sure all American have a chance to get ahead, that’s a disease right? All Americans have a right to see a doctor w ...
  • The Rich Get Richer
    And the poor get poorer. Who do you blame? Republicans or Democrats? Both? If you think the “rich” earned their money think again. They have all the advantages. Tax loopholes written especially for them, and the companies they own. The ability to move their money offshore, or put it ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Hiding from the boycott: An industry of settle ...
    Despite their intentions, the new EU guidelines may serve as a boost for an already growing industry of lies and deceit, meant to hide away settlement products and other forms of occupation profiteering. Judging by the front pages of all Israeli newspapers today (Wednesday), the new European Uni ...
  • Israel responds to EU: We only accept charity ...
    Europe says it doesn’t want its largesse to be funneled over the Green Line – Israel screams anti-Semitism.  Despite all the outrage and charges of Nazi-style behavior (here and here) that Israeli patriots are leveling against the European Union, the EU’s new guidelines concern ...
  • Right-wing parties revive attack on left-wing NGOs
    The absurd contradiction between advancing bills with paranoid, dictator-style accusations of ‘foreign meddling,’ while throwing temper tantrums over the loss of that meddling for the sake of strengthening the occupation is deeply disheartening.  Knesset members from two right-wing p ...
  • What’s in the new EU guidelines regardin ...
    The European Union’s new guidelines regarding the settlements were the talk of the day in Israel yesterday (Tuesday), and they are still the leading story in all the morning papers. The feeling is that for the first time, an international body has taken a real measure to limit Israeli acti ...
  • The day Europe got Israel’s attention
    Responding to the EU’s decision to limit all joint projects at the Green Line, Prime Minister Netanyahu displayed a confrontational attitude, vowing not to let anyone ‘harm’ the settlers. The European Union’s decision to limit all joint projects with Israel beyond the pre-1967 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Turtle power!
    Kowabunga! A lucky green sea turtle was released off The Strand in Townsville today by Federal Environment Minister Mark Butler following its solar-powered ‘hydro’ treatment at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s Reef HQ Aquarium turtle hospital.
  • Further funding to protect the Great Barrier Reef
    New funding of $5 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef from coral-eating predators was announced today by Federal Minister for the Environment Mark Butler.
  • Supporting Indigenous management of Queensland ...
    The Rudd Government has committed $930,000 to Indigenous organisations and Traditional Owners across Queensland to manage marine turtles, dugongs and sea-country.
  • Antarctic Officials meet on Southern Ocean Mar ...
    Australian Antarctic policy makers and scientists will today put forward the case to establish an East Antarctic representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs) to a Special Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Bremerhaven, Germany.
  • A plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef
    The Australian and Queensland governments confirmed their commitment to protecting the Great Barrier Reef with today’s release of the 2013 Reef Water Quality Protection Plan and the 2011 Great Barrier Reef Report Card.

Matt Weidner Blog

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • T Rex on the Seine
    Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in chrome that now stands watch over the Seine.
  • Lunatic science? Cardiac surgery gives better ...
    For patients having aortic dissection, the odds of dying following this procedure were greatly reduced during the waning full moon, and that length of stay was also reduced during the full moon.
  • The profligacy of “green” power is ...
    A household’s energy bill will rise from £1,247 today to £1,487 by 2020 in real terms - not taking into account inflationary increases - if usage remains static, npower warns in a report. Costs caused by government policies such as subsidies for new wind farms and energy efficiency schemes will ...
  • What food crisis?
    So while population has increased by a factor of 2.3, the food available per person has increased by about 30%. Of course there are many millions who still suffer from malnutrition but this is primarily due to poverty and a failing of distribution systems. It is not the availability of food whic ...
  • And so to bed…
    For user friendliness I would rank - in order of effectiveness with politeness- the airport security as follows: 1. Stockholm, 2. Delhi 3. Munich, and a long way back 4. Frankfurt.

Left Foot Forward

  • Alex Salmond’s oil dream goes bust
    Alex Salmond’s dream of an independent Scotland based on North Sea oil revenue to keep it afloat was dealt a fresh blow last night as new research by the Office for Budget Responsibility showed the extent of decline in revenue from North Sea oil taxes.
  • Confusion reigns over government rent policy f ...
    The chancellor’s recent Spending Review announcement and a subsequent letter from a civil servant to council housing authorities confirm that the government has got itself in a real muddle over policy towards rents in social housing.
  • How to write an Owen Jones column: a step by s ...
    As part of Left Foot Forward's ongoing 'how to' series, this week we take a look at the Bennite left's brightest young star, Owen Jones.
  • Yes, the mega-rich did postpone their bonuses ...
    This month’s labour market statistics continue the same pattern we have seen in recent months: small improvements in overall employment and unemployment but youth unemployment and long-term unemployment not going anywhere much.
  • It is not just Hungary that the EU needs to ta ...
    The European Commission is reportedly planning to harden its stance against member states who fail to adhere to democracy and the rule of the law.

Consumerist

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Snowden and Former Senator Correspond: Daily ...
    The Guardian: Email Exchange Between Edward Snowden and Former GOP Senator Gordon HumphreyGetty Images: Terry Ashe A recent Guardian article reveals an email conversation between Edward Snowden and former Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey, who served for twelve years on the Foreign Relations, ...
  • Government Whistleblowers and Whistleblower At ...
    The Government’s Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has been in operation since 1979, with directives to protect the rights of government employees and applicants for government jobs, defend the merit system, and support government whistleblowers in their fights against government retaliation. Thro ...
  • The Global and Domestic Surveillance Debate Co ...
    The Washington Post: Leaks from Edward Snowden Focus Attention on NSA Director Keith Alexander General Keith B. Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), has been the center of debate since the onset of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosures. The General has supporters tha ...
  • Greenwald – Snowden has NSA "Blueprint'': Dail ...
    Associated Press: Glenn Greenwald – Edward Snowden has NSA ‘Blueprints’ Glenn Greenwald – the Guardian journalist that broke the NSA surveillance story – told the Associated Press that Edward Snowden has sensitive national security ‘blueprints’ in his possession. According to Greenwald, t ...
  • Snowden's Whistleblowing a Human Right
    The press conference Friday morning by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, and his subsequent written statement accepting offers of asylum, now formalize his status as a recognized recipient of political asylum in five countries. It is the position of the Government Acc ...

UK Progressive

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

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JoNova

  • India threatens Wind farms with fines. They mu ...
    What the Nanny-State Goddess Giveth… The intermittent power of wind towers plays havoc with electricity grids. Power black outs in India are so bad, they cut off the supply to 600 million or so people for two days last year. To make the grid more stable, an official somewhere decided it wo ...
  • Try to keep up with Australian politics. The z ...
    So, we might have an election next month, we might trade carbon next year, the carbon price might be $24, or $6, or $40. We might have a new government soon, or none of the above. Hows that stability working out for us now Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor? Kevin Rudd announced The Tax would move to ...
  • Wetlands like CO2 — “Gimme 700ppm& ...
    scirpus olneyi | Smithsonian Not only does one particular grass seem quite happy at 700ppm, it was absorbing 30% more carbon dioxide, and there was no sign that it might not be equally happy at even higher levels. Will disaster strike the world at 401ppm? This 19 year study suggests (again) ...
  • Holden Volt costs more to run than a big SUV
    The Holden Volt is an electric hybrid car that, according to advertisements, costs only $2.50 to fill. But it still only has a 60-80km range on electric power, before it has to switch to petrol. The ads don’t mention that if you are an average driver, doing about 40 km a day, you’ll ...
  • The start of the end. Rudd ditches carbon tax ...
    What once was the Greatest Moral Challenge, has now been downgraded. Not because the evidence shows it is futile, but because of the polls. It’s democracy in action, working through the fog of ulterior motives, and the inefficiency of lazy journalists informing distracted voters or not, po ...

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...

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Judge rules burning trash isn't renewable energy
    San Francisco Chronicle
    Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Crane McClennen ruled Tuesday that the commission erred and abused its discretion in deciding to give renewable energy credits to the Mohave Electric Cooperative for the project planned near Surprise by the ...
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    Hitting the “blend wall”: Renewable fuel credit prices hit an all-time high
    Hot Air
    The Renewable Fuels Standard — that oh so ingenious method of creating a fake market for a not-green, not-clean, food-price-spiking, special-interest-serving and overall terrible product — requires that the nation's refiners blend an ever-increasing ...
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    Saudi Arabia aims to be world's largest renewable energy market
    Arab News
    Saudi Arabia aims to become the world's foremost market for renewable energy with an aggressive investment budget of $109 billion. By 2032, the country strives to generate as much as a third of the Kingdom's energy demands using renewable energy (54 ...
    Saudi Arabia eyes renewable energy gains
    AME Info (press release)
    The ambitious renewable energy goals raise the question of how the world's largest oil exporter could achieve the transition. Keisuke Sadamori, director of the Energy Markets and Security Directorate, International Energy Agency (IEA) points to ...
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    Human Habitat

    ecology water energy
    Antarctic ice loss alters ocean ecology, study shows
    The Guardian
    Climate change could literally throw new light on the dark submarine world. In the 20 years since the tempestuous break-up of the Larsen A ice shelf, off the Antarctic peninsula, the sea floor beneath has been colonised by a new set of citizens: glass ...
    Sufi teacher explores spiritual ecology in new anthology
    National Catholic Reporter (blog)
    For Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, a Sufi teacher and writer, the prayer must be unpacked and expanded to address our growing ecological crisis. The part of the prayer that talks of "no God"/ "not God" means no Canadian tar sands, no Keystone XL pipeline, ...
    Student studies changing ecology of Ethiopia
    Cornell Chronicle
    A single change that affects plant diversity can have multiple impacts to the ecology, culture and economics of the region. Therefore, it is important to understand the interconnected impacts of planting an introduced species such as eucalyptus, said ...
    Ecology gets boost from development
    China Daily
    The tour has overridden concerns over the environment and instead accelerated ecological restoration in the Qinghai Lake region. Part of the lakeside pavement has been submerged, and this is a welcome sign, according to specialists. "It is a proof that ...
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    Water Power

    water floods pollution
    Prince George's water shut-off averted
    Washington Post
    Their unlikely repair of a 48-year-old water valve was heralded Wednesday as a near miracle that averted a human and economic catastrophe for Prince George's County. It also has led to questions about whether the Washington Suburban Sanitary ...
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    Air Canada flight diverts on water-throwing flier
    USA TODAY
    SHARECONNECT 48 TWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE. A London-bound Air Canada flight from Vancouver diverted to Nova Scotia on Monday after a passenger became unruly and started throwing water at the crew and other fliers about 6 hours into the flight ...
    Gulf Arab states eye Arabian Sea for safer water supplies
    Reuters
    KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) are planning a joint water supply system that takes seawater from outside the Gulf and distributes drinkable water across member states, an official at the GCC Secretariat ...
    A Bottle of Water in Brazzaville
    New York Times (blog)
    It involved a young man and a bottle of water. I had the bottle of water and the young man didn't. I had spent the afternoon in the company of this young man, who was a participant in a writing workshop I had co-taught for a few hours in a hot, stuffy ...
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