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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: Southerners take to the streets
    Challenging the stereotype of the happy-go-lucky Southerner, residents of North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia are taking to the streets and standing up to the right-wing corporate agenda. read more
  • Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallac ...
    Once accused of being a spy and held in solitary confinement by the Iranian government, Sarah Shourd is now a playwright who is using her work to shine a light on the notorious case of Herman Wallace of Louisiana's Angola 3 and the broader human rights issue of prolonged solitary confinement in ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: North Carolina tax revamp hel ...
    The Republican-led legislature has dramatically overhauled North Carolina's tax code, but not everyone will benefit from the changes. read more
  • Virginia unveils plan for restoring voting rig ...
    In May, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced a plan to automatically restore voting rights on an individual basis to nonviolent felons who completed their sentence. This week, his administration revealed the details of the plan, which was crafted with the help of voting rights advocacy grou ...
  • NC Senate outdoes the House with harsh voter I ...
    The Republican-led state Senate unveiled legislation this week that will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians to vote. Voting rights advocates are protesting the latest example of the state's regressive political turn. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Dota 2 for Linux Officially Arrives on Steam!
    After the release of blockbusters such as Half Life 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead 2 on Steam, now it's  the turn of popular online multiplayer, Dota 2. For many ardent Linux fans, Dota 2 was the last thing they needed to finally delete the Windows partition and switch completely to Linux. Und ...
  • [OT] Red Hat's Seth Vidal is Killed in a Tragi ...
    Lead developer and primary contributor to YUM (a package-management utility for RPM based Linux OSes such as Red Hat), Seth Vidal, has been tragically killed in an accident in Durham, North Carolina. He was hit by a car from behind while travelling northbound in the 1700 block of Hillan ...
  • XMir will be Default in Ubuntu 13.10, Fallback ...
    Canonical is moving faster than anybody would have thought. Mir was introduced as a proof of concept display-server earlier this year, which Canonical plans to deploy slowly across their products. Now they claim that Mir is good enough to be deployed in the next major release, Ubuntu 13.10 ie. ...
  • XSensors: Lets you Monitor CPU Temperatures in ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" has its share of issues, at least for me. One of the most annoying one being the return of overheating bug (in Intel Core i3 hardware) which plagued me during the Ubuntu 11.04 release cycle (if I remember it correctly). In our previous post discussing things to d ...
  • 30 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 ...
    And here we go again. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released almost a month ago and unlike previous releases, this has been more of a silent affair. Mainstream blogs and news websites didn't cover much about the release. Ubuntu 13.04 is mostly an incrementally updated release and th ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
    GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | The Trayvonita Tango, over t ...
    By Visible Meanwhile, I hear about all kinds of cool people, doing cool things, solo and in groups and I think; well, sure, there’s hope, there’s promise, there’s possibility and… I am an optimist. There is always the chance that the whole world will hear the word, “Cut”! ...
  • How the FBI Uses Rapists and Child Molesters t ...
    The FBI is under pressure to capture terrorists, even where none exist. So they work with some of the worst criminals to entrap losers that likely pose no real threat. July 17, 2013 | The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism b ...
  • Was 9/11 an Inside Job or a Mossad Job? | Vete ...
    by Laurent Guyénot As the role of Israel and its powerful lobby in the recent destabilization of the Middle-East becomes clearer, the idea that a gang of Israeli likudniks, helped by their moles in the U.S. administration, are responsible for the false flag 9/11 attacks, is gaining ground. Franc ...
  • Visible Origami | The Darkness within the Dark ...
    By Visible It seems that the more we uncover, the more horrible is the filth that we uncover and it seems there is very little filth that we do uncover that does not have a good portion of the usual suspects, like Cass Sunstein engaged in it. It’s good to know that when the right […]
  • Cato Comments on TSA Body Scanners | Cato @ Li ...
    By Jim Harper Share In 2007, the president and CEO of the RAND Corporation, James Thomson, wrote up his impressions of the management at the Department of Homeland Security. “DHS leaders … ‘manage by inbox,’ with the dominant mode of DHS behavior being crisis management,” he wrote. “DHS implemen ...

Veterans Today

  • Dome of the Rock Virtually Destroyed
    And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire-Jeremiah 52:13 Dome of the Rock   Few holidays are more confused than the fast day of Tisha B’Av (“the ninth of Av”) in I ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...
    Were you exposed to Agent Orange during your military service and have a chronic B-cell leukemia? You may qualify for VA health care and disability compensation.
  • The Zionist Regime and the Israeli-Run NSA Bus ...
    The NSA and the Zionist establishment create terrorism and tell the American people that they are fighting terrorism.
  • Atheism to Secular Humanism and Objectivism
    At first thought, the different philosophical positions of Emma Goldman and Ayn Rand seem to be well defined. Notwithstanding, the contrast between a propensity towards anarchism with an advocacy for laissez-faire capitalism, both Russian born "Khazar Jewish" theorists and activists shared a rej ...
  • Secret Space War V: Exopolitics
    by  Preston James Recently there have been well founded rumors that the USG is now in the process of setting up an official Office for Exopolitics and considering several esteemed individuals from which to choose a director to run this new office. Exopolitics is the official, public admission by ...

electric politics

  • Inspector Chen
    Sometimes we learn more through literature than non-fiction. Sometimes, believe it or not, there's a lot to be learned from police procedurals. Sometimes, also, police procedurals are just plain fun! But there really aren't that many great writers of them — few enough, anyhow, such that if ...
  • Après 1947
    The watershed 1947 National Security Act provided a post-war full employment guarantee to the U.S. arms industry. Indeed, it succeeded so well — with no real changes since then in the apparatus it devised — that today U.S. spending for military purposes bears no meaningful relationsh ...
  • Worst Cases
    As the war in Syria grinds on the children of Washington want to get credit for doing something. Arming the "good guys" and opposing the "bad guy" seems to be the path of least resistance. A pity, that, because throwing arms into Syria will only prolong the bloodshed indefinitely... Much better, ...
  • On Recognizing Geographical Realities
    The question of when a country is not a country may seem, for outsiders, little more than an abstract principle or an academic argument. But for those who dwell in the imaginary state the issue may well be about abject poverty or, indeed, life and death. The Congo being the most extreme example ...
  • Eating Healthy
    It's fair to say that there's more we don't know about food than what we do know. And it is the absolute truth that we don't know about the potential effects of thousands of additives routinely incorporated into processed comestibles. Prudence, then, suggests sticking to natural foods where poss ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • AEN needs casino fundraiser volunteers
    Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
  • Career Opportunities with the Pembina Institute
    Pembina Institute The Pembina Institute is currently seeking to fill a number of job opportunities in Calgary and Edmonton. Visit the Pembina Institute website for details: Director of Finance and Administration (Calgary) Directo ...
  • Cheap Power At What Cost?
    Carbon Conversations 10 Jun 2013 - 07:30 A Panel Discussion on the Health Impacts of Alberta's Heavy Reliance on Coal-Fired Power Plants doors open 7pm, panel begins at 7:3 ...
  • Bike Month
    Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...
  • EcoLiving Tour
    EcoLiving Events 8 Jun 2013 - 09:00 - 15:00 From the EcoLiving website: This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions a ...

Stop NATO

  • NATO Military Committee Visits Waterloo, Recal ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations July 20, 2013 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO – LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM 198 YEARS AGO “From the Cockpit” Phil Breedlove General, USAF Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Commander, U.S. European Command ==== The key lesson of our ...
  • Jules Romains: If mankind could put two and tw ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jules Romains: Selections on war ==== Jules Romains From Verdun: The Prelude (1938) Translated by Gerard Hopkins One of the most extraordinary things here in the trenches is the apparent inability of the soldier to imagine ant conn ...
  • McCain Harangues Dempsey, Obama Wants Invasion ...
    Voice of Russia July 20, 2013 McCain harangues Dempsey, Obama wants invasion plans for Syria John Robles Despite apparent overtures by the new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, pointing to U.S. willingness to seek a peaceful solution to the internal conflict in Syria, the U.S. continues to see ...
  • Roger Martin du Gard: A hundredth part of ener ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war ==== Roger Martin du Gard From Summer 1914 (1936) Translated by Stuart Gilbert “A defensive war! A war that’s forced upon us! A just war! Don’t you realize they’re thr ...
  • Admiral Lays Out U.S. Global Missile Shield Plans
    Missile Defense Agency July 17, 2013 Unclassified Statement of Vice Admiral James D. Syring Director, Missile Defense Agency Before The Senate Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee [Edited by RR] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile launch Good morning, Chairman Durbin, Vi ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
    July 16, 2013 By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human rights of Black people in the world, has been working to free political prisoners for over three decades. The organizati ...
  • What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
    July 16, 2013 By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human rights of Black people in the world, has been working to free political prisoners for over three decades. The organizati ...
  • Jose Campos Torres, and Oscar Grant, Trayvon M ...
    Gil Scott-Heron — Jose Campos Torres, and a Visual Poem for Oscar Grant Gil Scott Heron’s “Jose Campos Torres” (1978) and video by TripleTruth Trayvon Martin (no justice, just us) Inspired by Gil Scott Heron’s “Jose Campos Torres” Brooklyn born lyricist/ ...
  • Jose Campos Torres, and Oscar Grant, Trayvon M ...
    Gil Scott-Heron — Jose Campos Torres, and a Visual Poem for Oscar Grant Gil Scott Heron’s “Jose Campos Torres” (1978) and video by TripleTruth Trayvon Martin (no justice, just us) Inspired by Gil Scott Heron’s “Jose Campos Torres” Brooklyn born lyricist/ ...
  • The Five Most Important Demands from the Calif ...
    Thousands-strong strike is the latest chapter in the state’s unfolding prison crisis http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-five-most-important-demands-from-the-california-prison-hunger-strike-20130716 By Ryan Devereaux July 16, 2013 For more than a week, the California prison syste ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Worst Places To Live In The Universe
    And you thought 97 degrees F was bad.    
  • The 10 Worst Places To Live In The Universe
    And you thought 97 degrees F was bad. Recently, we told you about an exoplanet that rains glass. Sideways. Which got us thinking: 1.) we will never complain about the weather here on Earth again and 2.) surely that's got to be the worst place to live in the entire universe. But no! With the he ...
  • Who Would Win In A Fight, A Cold-Blooded Dinos ...
    One scientist hits upon a creative way to argue that dinosaurs were endothermic. Were dinosaurs "cold-blooded" or "warm-blooded"? Paleontologists still aren't sure. Now, one environmental scientist has painstakingly gathered the data to answer a related question: Given they were the same size, ...
  • The Week In Numbers: New Dinosaur Discovered, ...
    2014: the year this aerodynamic, flying saucer-like research station is set to open in Antarctica 15 feet: the length of a new cow-like dinosaur discovered in Utah 1 week: the time it would take Earth's average global surface temperature to drop below 0 degrees Fahrenheit if the sun went out $1 ...
  • Whisky Sour: Almost An Expert No. 4
    How to prepare a delicious whisky sour. Plus, the science of umami. Please enable Javascript to watch this video What's a better mix than science and booze? In this episode of our new video series, Popular Science Art Director Todd Detwiler shows you how to make a delicious whisky sour using ...

Veterans Today

  • Dome of the Rock Virtually Destroyed
    And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire-Jeremiah 52:13 Dome of the Rock   Few holidays are more confused than the fast day of Tisha B’Av (“the ninth of Av”) in I ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...
    Were you exposed to Agent Orange during your military service and have a chronic B-cell leukemia? You may qualify for VA health care and disability compensation.
  • The Zionist Regime and the Israeli-Run NSA Bus ...
    The NSA and the Zionist establishment create terrorism and tell the American people that they are fighting terrorism.
  • Atheism to Secular Humanism and Objectivism
    At first thought, the different philosophical positions of Emma Goldman and Ayn Rand seem to be well defined. Notwithstanding, the contrast between a propensity towards anarchism with an advocacy for laissez-faire capitalism, both Russian born "Khazar Jewish" theorists and activists shared a rej ...
  • Secret Space War V: Exopolitics
    by  Preston James Recently there have been well founded rumors that the USG is now in the process of setting up an official Office for Exopolitics and considering several esteemed individuals from which to choose a director to run this new office. Exopolitics is the official, public admission by ...

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
    July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...
  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...
  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • Summer is here at last
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • The climate conundrum - why aren't global temp ...
    News that carbon dioxide levels have reached 400 parts per million – a level widely thought by scientists not seen for at least 3 million years – caught the headlines last month. It comes at a time when global temperatures have remained largely flat since the late 1990s, despite climate forecast ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • PRC TV Drama Viewership: The Int'l Pecking Order
    Popular culture has a way of reflecting preferences and biases, especially when taken from an international perspective. Commercial implications aside, the WSJ's China Real Time blog has an interesting feature on TV drama viewership habits in China, with British dramas such as Downton Abbey gain ...
  • In Detroit We Glimpse America's Future
    Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit He took the midnight train goin' anywhere... I have been to Detroit and it is not an experience I fondly remember. So, I do not question the motives of the protagonist in the Journey song above in leaving. Still, it was with some sadness that I ...
  • When the IMF [Hearts] Capital Controls: PRC Case
    My, my, how things have changed. As late as September 1997--with the Asian financial crisis already underway--the IMF was still arguing for amending its Articles of Agreement to include regulatory powers over opening up members' capital controls: Last September [1997] in Hong Kong, the Interim C ...
  • Badluck Shinawatra's Failed Global Thai Rice E ...
    I suppose that Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has received as much grief over her first name as Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. But oh, Yingluck, how your name has proven to be unworthy of your fate as of late! Let me explain... Since her election, Yingluck Shinawatra has continued to court ...
  • Meet America's #2 Jetliner Company...Airbus S.A.S.
    Mas oui! There's an old joke that the best car made in America is the (Ohio-made) Honda Accord. Similarly, we may soon hear that the best jetliner made in America is the (Alabama-made) Airbus A320. Following the lead of Mercedes-Benz, the multinational European concern has decided to set up shop ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Share This Chart With Anyone That Believes The ...
    Anyone that thinks that the U.S. economy can keep going along like this is absolutely crazy.  We are in the terminal phase of an unprecedented debt spiral which has allowed us to live far, far beyond our means for the last several decades.  Unfortunately, all debt spirals eventually end, and the ...
  • 25 Facts About The Fall Of Detroit That Will L ...
    It is so sad to watch one of America's greatest cities die a horrible death.  Once upon a time, the city of Detroit was a teeming metropolis of 1.8 million people and it had the highest per capita income in the United States.  Now it is a rotting, decaying hellhole of about 700,000 people that [...]
  • Worldwide Unemployment Crisis: There Are 93 Mi ...
    Did you know that the total number of unemployed workers in G20 counties is now up to 93 million and that it is increasing with each passing day?  You see, the truth is that the United States is not the only one dealing with a systemic unemployment crisis.  This is literally happening all over t ...
  • Everything Is Fine, But…
    Everything is going to be just great.  Haven't you heard?  The stock market is at an all-time high, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that inflation is incredibly low, and the official unemployment rate has been steadily declining since early in Barack Obama's first term.  Of course I a ...
  • The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Tri ...
    When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching.  You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it must also "roll over" existing debt that has re ...

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...
  • Vatican determined to canonise him, but JPII a ...
    The news we were dreading has been released. The magic wand will be brought out and, with an abracadabra and a puff of pink smoke, Pope John Paul II will become a saint. Pope Francis has approved a second supposed “miracle”, pretending once again that someone mumbling ritual words to ...
  • Julia Gillard’s legacy lives on in historic Ro ...
    Many victims of child sexual abuse are mourning Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s overnight defeat at the hands of the smirking, conniving, grey haired boys club. I suspect she knew all along her time at the top would be short and that she had a limited opportunity to achieve real change before she ...
  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...

WL Central

  • 2013-07-21 Manning trial: Judge lets govt reop ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org Manning trial: Judge lets govt reopen case for baseless allegation In an extremely rare, last-minute move weeks after the government rested its case, military judge Col. Denise Lind allowed prosecutors to expand ...
  • 2013-07-18 Manning trial judge won't dismiss " ...
    Colonel Denise Lind, judge for the court-martial of Bradley Manning, today denied defence requests that the charges "aiding the enemy" and "computer fraud" be dropped. Lind ruled that the government had presented "some evidence" to support the charges. read more
  • 2013-07-18 Glenn Greenwald interview at Harper's
    Harper's published an insightful interview with Glenn Greenwald yesterday on the evolving PRISM story. It's very much worth a read. read more
  • 2013-07-17 Exchange: Edward Snowden, Senator G ...
    Gordon Humphrey served in the US Senate for 12 years and was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. The exchange below was shared with Glenn Greenwald. read more
  • 2013-07-15 Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel ...
    Swedish sociology professor Stefan Svallfors revealed on Twitter yesterday that he has contacted the Nobel Committee in Norway, nominating Edward Snowden for the Peace Prize. read more

U N News

  • Human rights central to Colombia&#39s peace pr ...
    Respect for human rights will be critical as Colombia transitions from conflict to peace, a top United Nations official stressed, noting in particular that the rights of victims must be at the centre of the Government&#39s negotiations with rebel groups.
  • UN emergency fund allocates extra $1.5 million ...
    The United Nations emergency relief fund will allocate an additional $1.5 million to the cholera response in Haiti, at a time when cases are set to rise due to the rainy season.
  • UNESCO chief deplores murder of Honduran broad ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has condemned the recent murder of a Honduran broadcaster and called on the authorities to bring those responsible to justice.
  • UN rights chief urges protection for individua ...
    A senior United Nations official today stressed the need to respect the right to privacy, using the case of United States citizen Edward Snowden to illustrate the urgent need to protect individuals who reveal human rights violations.
  • Latin American nations voice concerns to Ban o ...
    Five Latin American nations voiced their concerns to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today about the recent incident in which the aircraft carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was not allowed by several European nations to fly over their airspace on suspicion that United States whistleblower Ed ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Trek West Blog #37 – Exactly as We Want
    Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:48 AM PDT “In addition to the words and still images here, a short video also shares with you the inspiring High Lonesome Ranch story…”Trail Break at High Lonesome Ranch in Western Colorado, June Half way through TrekWest, 2500 or so miles into a journey we expect will be ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Wilderne ...
    End of the Frontier It hit America like a grizzly’s slap across the cheeks.  After the 1890 census, the U.S. Census Bureau said there was no more frontier.  Before, there had been a line of settlement past which was mostly wild, uninhabited country.  That line was gone in 1890.  The Killin ...
  • Cougars at Wolverine Project and Good News for ...
    From the July 2013 Wild Cat News - International Society for Endangered Cats: The Alberta Conservation Association is undertaking a field study on the wolverine in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Their cameras picked up some unexpected wildlife action. 24 hours, 3 very determined cats, 4,590 pho ...
  • TrekWest Blog 35: Meandering Over Sandstone S ...
    Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:08 AM PDT More Rambles in Utah’s Grandest Monument so Far When Kim Crumbo suggested that diving a hundred feet down into a Calf Creek plunge pool, here in the heart of spectacular Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, could create a fine photo opportunity for TrekWe ...
  • Rewilding Giant Tortoises in Madagascar
    by Crystal Gammon, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor First published: 28 June 2013   Two millennia ago, millions of giant tortoises roamed Madagascar, an island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa that is rich in species found nowhere else on Earth. Those tortoises kept Madagascar’ ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Fracking Industry Routinely Violates Laws... S ...
    A scathing new investigation from EnergyWire confirms the worst fears of citizens across the country who live near fracking sites: state regulators are not doing everything they can to prevent oil and gas companies from repeatedly violating the law. EnergyWire spent months analyzing state record ...
  • Treatment Plants in Pennsylvania Accused of Il ...
    A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants, according Clean Water Action, which announced today that it is suing the plant. ~ Sharon Kelly read more
  • How Bill Clinton Forced Agenda 21 on America
    A number of critics claim that Agenda 21 is not a treaty, so it is non-binding and that it is merely a paranoid conspiracy theory. Agenda 21 is not a voluntary program. The smoking gun is Bill Clinton's Executive Order # 12852 in 1993, creating the President's Council on Sustainable Developmen ...
  • The Chemical Dumbing Down of America... Why M ...
    Why are people so brainwashed by their corporate media?... Why do people care more about American Idol and Dancing with the Stars than being harmed with thimerosal in their vaccinations and sodium fluoride in their water supply? The sad truth to why most people may never wake up. ~ Video read more
  • Obamacare... Why Your Physician May Not Protec ...
    In years past, you could count on your independent physician to look out for you both inside and outside the hospital. Times change, and today, things are quite different... ~ Lawrence R Huntoon MD, Ph D read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Preparedness For Life
    Every once in a while I take a step back and I think about the idea or notion of preparedness, and what it is, or what it means, in relation to a lifestyle of adapting to the risks that we potentially face in our modern world today. Here are my thoughts on preparedness for life… [...]
  • Lightning Risk and Safety
    There are other outdoor activities that lead to more lightning deaths than golf. During the past 7 years there were more than 3 times as many fisherman killed by lightning as golfers. Fishing, boating, camping, and beach activities have each caused more lightning fatalities than golf (NWS statis ...
  • 10 Tips For Better Home Security
    Would you like some tips how to make your home less of a target for a home burglar? While the security goal isn’t to make your house completely break-in proof, all you need to do is some of these things to make your house a less attractive target than the other houses in your neighborhood& ...
  • 3 Simple Ways To Save More Money
    Are you looking for ways to save more money and trim your personal expenses? Well, some of your spending habits are just that… habits, and may be draining more money from your budget than you think. Here are just three ways to save more money…   The challenge is actually realizi ...
  • How To “Can” Chicken Breast
    Canning meat is one of the most feared things to “can” at home. It is actually very easy, more nutritious and cheaper than buying canned meat. Here’s how…   The following is a re-post of a timeless guest-post by Christine, a long time contributor to MSB…   ...

Fast Company

  • A Tarp That Makes It Simple To Become A Gardener
    The Nourishmat is a simple device that could make it incredibly easy for anyone to garden. And it’s cheap enough that school gardens are already getting involved. Growing your own food could be as simple as painting by numbers. A new kit on Kickstarter hopes to make gardening incredi ...
  • Yahoo Buys Back $1.16 Billion In Shares From H ...
    Yahoo has bought 40 million shares back from investor Third Point LLC. Dan Loeb, behind the Third Point hedge fund, has sold 40 million Yahoo shares back to the company for $1.16 billion. Third Point is removing three of its members, including Loeb, from Yahoo's board as part of the buybac ...
  • Forget Food Trucks: Here’s A Mobile Butcher Shop
    It’s way more artisanal than that ice cream you’re buying: Brandon Sheard’s Meatsmithing truck is designed to help small farmers turn their animals into food humanely and easily. Meat on wheels is a familiar sight in a city setting, but Brandon Sheard isn’t Kickstar ...
  • Massive Sand Dune Threatens To Destroy Tatooine
    A team of scientists says a storm is on course to sweep through Tunisia’s Mos Espa film set. The force is strong with this one. A sweeping, crescent-shaped sand dune is to collide with Mos Espa, the fictional stomping ground of Anakin Skywalker. The town is actually a film set of a d ...
  • The Best Of The Wurst: Famous Artworks As Sausages
    Imagine if Warhol’s place was The Sausage Factory. A Berlin photographer links tubes of meat with iconic artworks. “Everything started with The Scream,” Karsten Wegener says. While grocery shopping one day in her Berlin neighborhood, the photographer stumbled across the f ...

Jadaliyya

  • تحالفات العسكر - مصالح الأعمال في مصر قبل وبعد ...
    سررت بإجراء هذه المقابلة مع وائل جمال، أحد أكثر الصحافيين المطلّعين والموثوق بهم، والذي يتطرق، من وجهة نظر نقدية، إلى المتغيرات السياسية والاقتصادية في مصر. يقارب وائل في هذه المقابلة الوضع الإجتماعي والإقتصادي الملّح الذي قلّما تتم مناقشته والذي أثار احتجاجات 30 يونيو والأحداث التي أع ...
  • Seventy-One Percent of Egyptians Unsympathetic ...
    July opinion poll surveying 2,214 adults across Egypt shows public disapproval for protests backing toppled Islamist leader. Egyptians are by and large unsympathetic to protests calling for the reinstatement of Egypt’s toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Sevety-one percent of Egyptians v ...
  • Morsi Family Accuses Egypt Army of 'Kidnapping ...
    Ousted president Mohamed Morsi's children accuse army of carrying out 'destructive coup' and their father's kidnapping. The ousted president Mohamed Morsi's family held a press conference in Cairo's Engineers' Syndicate Monday to denounce the "illegal detention" of their father, accus ...
  • One death, Twenty-One Injured as Pro and Anti ...
    Pro and anti Morsi forces face-off near Tahrir Square Monday; video shows individuals fire shotguns; one death confirmed; army tanks interfere to stop the violent clashes; two killed in Qaliubiya clashes. Hundreds of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi clashed late Monday afternoon wit ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (July 22)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

  • Aereo will launch in Utah on August 19 (Laura ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: Aereo will launch in Utah on August 19  —  Aereo, the service that lets users watch live TV online and on mobile devices and save shows to a personal DVR, will launch in Utah on August 19, the company announced Monday.  —  Aereo is alr ...
  • Circulation revenue up 11 percent at Gannett ( ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Circulation revenue up 11 percent at Gannett  —  Domestic circulation revenue in Gannett's publishing division rose 11 percent in the second quarter, the company announced in its second-quarter earnings report Monday.  That gain, as well as gains i ...
  • Sun editor pleads not guilty to charges over a ...
    Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Sun editor pleads not guilty to charges over alleged payments  —  Fergus Shanahan to fight allegations of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office  —  The Sun executive editor Fergus Shanahan is to fight charges that he conspire ...
  • David Shuster Joining Al Jazeera America: Sour ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: David Shuster Joining Al Jazeera America: Source  —  NEW YORK — David Shuster, a veteran of MSNBC and Fox News, is joining Al Jazeera America as an anchor, according a source familiar with the deal.  —  Shuster is th ...
  • Forget second-screen apps. Today, the TV is th ...
    Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: Forget second-screen apps.  Today, the TV is the second screen  —  Recently I had a great discussion with a friend of mine from Germany, who told me that TV networks over there are slow to embrace the future of television.  Some of that has to ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Israel to free 'around 80' Palestinian pr ...
    Jerusalem: Israel is set to decide on the release of around 80 long-serving Palestinian prisoners ahead of renewed peace talks, an Israeli official said Monday. US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators had agreed to meet to prepare a resum ...
  • Healthy diet cuts risk of breast cancer
    Houston: Genetic mutation alone is not responsible for increasing the chances of breast cancer in women, according to researchers who claim diet plays an equally important role in keeping the disease at bay. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have suggested a woman who eat lots of...
  • Stay Out of Syria
    President Barack Obama is taking heat from prominent figures in both parties who are eager to intervene more in Syria and help topple President Bashar al-Assad. But Obama rose to the presidency in large part because he promised a humble, restrained foreign policy completely different than hi ...
  • Latin America's first pope heads to resti ...
    Rio De Janeiro: Bringing his message of a "poor Church for the poor," Pope Francis headed for Brazil on Monday to find a country facing a shrinking Catholic flock and anger over government waste. Francis left Rome for Rio de Janeiro shortly before 0700 GMT, embarking on his first foreign tri ...
  • EU to consider sanctions against military ...
    (European Union governments could decide to blacklist the military wing of Hizbullah today, in a major policy reversal fuelled by concerns over the Lebanese militant movement’s activities in Europe. Britain has sought to persuade its EU peers since May to put the Shia Muslim group’s military ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/22/13 - ProCon.org Used by Educators in over ...
    www.procon.org - – ProCon.org Used by Educators in over 4,000 Schools - Teachers, librarians, and educational administrators at 806 elementary schools, 2,063 high schools, and 1,055 colleges and universities in all 50 states and 57 countries have used ProCon.org. Read their lesson plans, resourc ...
  • 7/19/13 - 45 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - 45 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption - Our chart on state exceptions to the minimum legal drinking age has been updated with new entries for states that allow students to "taste, but not imbibe" alcohol as part of culinary school (11 states), and ...
  • 7/17/13 - England legalizes gay marriage
    gaymarriage.procon.org – England legalizes gay marriage – Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval to the new law, a formality after it passed through the House of Lords and the House of Commons earlier in the week.  Same-sex weddings are expected to begin in the summer of 2 ...
  • 7/17/13 - Historical Timeline: A History of Co ...
    milk.procon.org - Historical Timeline: A History of Cow's Milk from the Ancient World to the Present - Our updated timeline begins in 8000 BC with the origin of the domesticated cow, and, after dozens more sourced and illustrated entries about the history of milk, ends with a 2012 government rep ...
  • 6/28/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Felo ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Felon Voting - Our updated timeline on the history of felon voting and disenfranchisement from 1100 BC to present includes the May 23, 2013 announcement by the Governor of Virginia that voting rights will be automatically restored to nonvi ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • `Demand Response’ Programs Saved Crucial Elect ...
    As electricity producers struggled to supply power during last week’s heat wave along the U.S. East Coast, so-called `demand response’ programs — which enable utilities to remotely reduce power usage in participating businesses and homes — were vital in avoiding blackouts, utility officials said ...
  • Forum: How Daring Is President Obama’s New Cl ...
    President Obama has unveiled a proposal to combat global warming that would, for the first time, regulate carbon dioxide emissions from all U.S. coal-fired power plants. Yale Environment 360 asked a group of experts to assess the president’s climate strategy.
  • European Fish Stocks Show Signs of Recovery, S ...
    A major assessment of fish stocks in the northeast Atlantic Ocean shows that many species are recovering and are now being fished sustainably. The surprising findings, reported in the journal Current Biology, are based on data from government research institutes that collected millions of measur ...
  • Malaysian Borneo Plundered As 80 Percent of Ra ...
    The first comprehensive, satellite-based assessment of industrial logging practices in Malaysian Borneo has shown that more than 80 percent of the region’s forests have been heavily impacted by logging. Reporting in the journal PLOS One, researchers from Australia, MongaBay Logging damage ...
  • 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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • EU Blacklists Hezbollah: Not Really
    After years of equivocating, a reluctant European Union agreed on July 22 to place part of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, ostensibly to cut off the Shiite militant group's sources of funding inside Europe. But the unanimous decision by the
  • Extremism Escalating in the West Bank
    What happened at the al-Aqsa Mosque during last week's Friday prayers should be sounding alarm bells in the U.S., Britain and France. After the prayers, during a demonstration in support of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Morsi, thousands of Muslims
  • Courts Unravel Sanctions on Iran
    Supporting sanctions against Iran is understood to be a position designed to moderate Iranian behavior regarding the acquisition of nuclear capability. It is the position of people and countries that do not want to contemplate military action by either
  • The European Union: What Was Said
    When it comes to matters of Israel and Palestine, the European Union (EU) has made no attempts to mask its biases. The Europeans' June 28th announcement of sanctions on Israeli products produced outside of the 1949 cease-fire line serves as yet another
  • The Politics of Race: "Perpetual Victimhood"
    The highly sensationalized George Zimmerman case, which ended in his acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin in the Florida state court, is far from over and could end up in federal court. The NAACP has announced that it will pursue civil rights charges

Urban Survival

  • Waiting for News, Adios Egypt
    The market was set to open a tad higher this morning as last week’s frenzy has had a weekend to wear off or sober up.  The first news out this morning will be existing home sales at 10 AM but … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Marvel’s Franchise/DLT?
    Lots of buzz coming out of San Diego where Comic-Con has been going on and with it, word of a new super-hero (Avengers: Age of Ultron) flick to start shooting in February.    I have a terrible confession to make:  … Continue reading →
  • If This Ain’t a Depression…
    Complexity is a grand and glorious thing:  It enables people to hide the truth right in front of themselves and even go so far as to deny its reality. Against that backdrop, please consider: If you had purchased an item … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Reading at the Exit
    Let’s start with a reader’s write from Tom in Illinois:   “….Your digital madness novel is a great idea, do it if you have the time. However, may have a mildly rhyming plotline, in an old sci fi book, written … Continue reading →
  • Job Seeker Secret: Why Bother?
    As every morning, I begin on an economic note since our roots around here are sustainable living, long wave economics, and couple of nickels from from confiscation by government (inflation and taxes) and charlatans in finance (the Bernies et al) … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Financial Collapse of America 13 Sept 2015
    The Shmita & The Septennial Sabbatical Cycle, 17 September 2001 corresponds to 29 Elul,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • David Icke - A Shift in Consciousness
    Sovereign - Kevin MacLeod  ,Hold On - Tony Mortimer If you want a world of peace...then be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • The Alex Jones Show : Ed Asner, Larry Elder - ...
    The Alex Jones Show - Monday, July 22, 2013 (Full Show): Ed Asner, Larry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Jason Liosatos Interview With Barbara Wren
    Jason Liosatos Interview with Barbara Wren, from The College of Natural Nutrition, and author of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Detroit : What's Left After Bankruptcy?
    July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Economics Editor Michael McKee looks at the depths of Detroit's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • What NYC Can Do to Contribute to a Better Food ...
    Johanna Dyer, Attorney, New York Last week, six of the major candidates in the race for New York City Mayor gathered at The New School to speak about a topic that's relatively new to the city’s political scene: food. The event was hosted by a ...
  • Crisis Averted...For Now: How We Can Learn Fro ...
    Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL As I sit here, sweating through this weeklong heat wave, nothing sounds better than drinking a glass of ice water or taking a cold shower.  With temperatures stubbornly hovering in the 90&rsq ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile's first electr ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. July 14-19, 2013 Chile Chile’s first electric c ...
  • Mercury-free gold mining takes hold in Norther ...
    Susan Egan Keane, Senior Environmental Analyst, Washington DC Amid the spectacular beauty of the northern Philippines, I recently attended the 1st summit on Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Kalinga province.  On its face thi ...
  • A low-carbon electricity future is cleaner and ...
    Allison Clements, Senior Attorney, Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, New York A new study released today shows that taking steps to significantly reduce carbon emissions as part of planning our future electric generation and transmission m ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Obama Dictatorship Grows As Carter Declares US ...
    A grim report issued by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) today is warning that the Obama regime dictatorship has grown “beyond all logical scope and moral reason” after a US Federal Court ruling once again allowed the White House to legally indefinitely detain persons that fit in the category of en ...
  • Brutal Reality: Aerial photo of 160,000 Syrian ...
    Zaatari is a refugee camp in Jordan, located 10 km east of Mafraq. It was first opened on July 28, 2012 to host Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011. On July 4, 2013, the camp population was estimated at 144,000 refugees, making it Jordan’s four ...
  • Putin says war games show Russia’s military power
    President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia can be proud of its military, which has shown a “high degree” of combat readiness during the nation’s biggest war games in more than two decades. “Today we can be proud of our army,” Putin said. The maneuvers, whic ...
  • Russia holds large military exercises
    The Russian Air Force began war games Wednesday in the Western Military District, military officials said. The games involve more than 40 airplanes and helicopters, RIA Novosti reported. A spokesman said the exercises include the biggest deployment to date of the new Sukhoi Su-34 strike aircraft ...
  • Japanese jets intercept Russian bombers, on he ...
    Russian strategic nuclear bombers taking part in large-scale military exercises flew practice strike missions in the western Pacific on Monday and were intercepted by Japanese fighters, according to Japanese and Russian officials. The bomber flights were the latest case of strategic saber rattli ...

Daily Dose

  • Aereo prepares to launch its antenna and Inter ...
    Aereo is gearing up to launch its Internet-based television service in Utah on August 19, building on its recent expansions in Boston and Atlanta. The controversial set-up uses a small... Keep reading →
  • Unity’s cross-platform game dev tools no ...
    Just like that, cross-platform video game engine Unity now supports Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry 10, Windows 8 and Windows RT. Version 4.2 of Unity, launched today, now covers all of... Keep reading →
  • TNW Poll – Controlling your home with yo ...
    Earlier today, we published a story about the Canary Multi-Sensory Hub which learns about your home and alerts you if something is wrong. This is not the first, nor the... Keep reading →
  • Leap Motion starts shipping its 3D gesture con ...
    Following a two-month delay, Leap Motion is today finally launching its incredibly innovative 3D gesture controller to the public. The first devices are being shipped to pre-order customers ahead of a... Keep reading →
  • Google doubles down on Glass after buying a 6. ...
    Google has invested in a subsidiary of Himax Technologies today to help fund the production and expansion of silicon chips and modules used in head-mounted displays such as Google Glass.... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Is climate action working?
    With the first year of the carbon price just over, we've seen a lot of commentary and hyperbole from all sides. Fortunately some facts are also available. Emissions have fallen. Prices have not skyrocketed and the sky has not fallen in. Case closed? Jenny Riesz and Roger Dargaville have written ...
  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Graphs: Can high-speed rail cut air travel emi ...
    By Ben Courtice Australia’s domestic air travel (and its associated greenhouse emissions) has grown markedly – especially in the last 10 years, as this graph illustrates. Air travel (passenger km) data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics We have calculated emis ...
  • Graph: Can high-speed rail cut air travel emis ...
    By Ben Courtice Australia’s domestic air travel (and its associated greenhouse emissions) has grown markedly – especially in the last 10 years, as this graph illustrates. Air travel (passenger km) data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics We have calculated emis ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Featured video: saving animals from the illega ...
    Found in Central America's largest forest, the Maya Biosphere Reserve, the Guatemalan organization Arcas has rescued and rehabilitated thousands of animals since its inception in 1989. Unlike many wildlife rescue centers worldwide, Arcas focuses on rehabilitating every animal for eventually rele ...
  • Madagascar occupied by humans 2,500 years earl ...
    New research indicates that Madagascar was occupied some 2,500 years earlier than previously established. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests a more complex view of the human role in the extinction of the island's mega-fauna. A large body of resea ...
  • Sinar Mas buys stake in Indonesian pulp, paper ...
    Sinar Mas subsidiary Tjiwi Kimia bought a 35 percent stake in pulp, paper and tissue maker Oki Pulp & Paper Mills for $30 million earlier this month.
  • Weak laws governing Malaysia's indigenous peop ...
    The balance between biodiversity conservation, land acquisition, natural resource utilization and indigenous peoples is often wrought with conflict. Legislation governing the use of natural resources should ideally protect biodiversity and address the needs of indigenous peoples, but in many pla ...
  • Mammals of China - book review
    China is home to greater than 10% of the Earth's mammals. In the Mammals of China, Andrew T. Smith, PhD and Yan Xie, PhD have produced a comprehensive easy-to-read pocket guide to this outstanding biodiversity. Mammals of China is the first time that the natural history of all the mammals of Chi ...

Sierra Express

  • Condolences – Haja Tigidankay Bayoh Fadika
    Sierra Express Media offers condolences to the family of Haja Tigidankay Bayoh Fadika of Freetown, Sierra Leone, who has passed away at the age of 94 years. She is survived by 8 children, Kemoh Fadika, Baimba Fadika, Marie Fadika, Abdul Fadika, Moseray Fadika, Kalilu Fadika, and Kadie Fadika. Ou ...
  • Society, Corruption and Attitudinal Change
    A society, to me, is made up of a group of people who work together towards common goals, has its own unique practices, rituals, beliefs and even language, and also has rules and standards that help to maintain and keep it organized. A society can be considered effective or functional when all t ...
  • “I can do anything to help in the development ...
    Saudi Arabia based Sierra Leonean Educationist says in an exclusive interview A few weeks ago, I had a telephone interview with a USA based Sierra Leonean with five PhDs. Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura lectures at Howard University, Washington D.C. This time, I caught up with a Saudi based Sierra Leone ...
  • Parliament discovers irregularities in Pujehun ...
    Pujehun, July 19 (SLENA) - The Parliamentary oversight committee on Finance and Economic Development was in Pujehun district last Tuesday to assess the level of performance by MDAs in that part of the country.  (Photo: Health officials in Pujehun District facing the Committee on finance) The com ...
  • Ambassador Foh optimistic, President Koroma’s ...
    Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Victor Bockarie Foh has, in a letter to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, informed the Chinese Government, that the recent visit by President Ernest Koroma will help to further strengthen the already existing cord ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Light-proof milk bottles integrated into recyc ...
    Anchor says its light-proof milk bottles have been fully integrated into the country's recycling system.The triple-layer bottles were described as a "world first'' innovation when they hit the market in April.But the packaging...
  • Fonterra slashes prices in China
    Fonterra has announced a 9 per cent price cut in its Anmum maternal health products sold in mainland China just as the people's republic gets an investigation into the pricing of dairy products there under way.The co-operative said...
  • Fonterra cuts China prices amid price-fixing probe
    Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, cut the price of its Anmum-branded products in China as the local regulator looks at potential price manipulation by major foreign firms selling into the world's most-populous...
  • Dairy payout lift tipped as world prices up 4. ...
    Dairy farmers could be looking at another record year for profit in 2013-14 after a 4.9 per cent rise in GlobalDairyTrade prices was recorded at the overnight auction, banks said.Prices for whole milk powder - the most important...
  • NZ riding China's big dipper
    China's so-called "economic miracle" has hit some speed wobbles, but a top New Zealand economist says this country should be reasonably insulated from any direct impact.The Chinese Government, which revealed a sharp drop in exports...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Oklahoma D.A. Contracts Out Highway Robbery
    What's worse than the perverse incentives created by civil forfeiture laws that let police and prosecutors keep the property they seize? An arrangement that pays a private business a share of the loot for training cops how to maximize forfeitures, then lets the trainers make traffic ...
  • Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Are Battling for the Ev ...
    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last week made his second pilgrimage to Iowa in three months, this time for the Iowa Renewal Project, a gathering of conservative evangelicals. Joining Paul in coach was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), who was also slated to speak at the weekend event. The two men ...
  • Dem Congressman Doesn’t Like Leaks About Immig ...
    The Washington Post interviews Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez, one of the “gang of seven” working on the House version of a “comprehensive” immigration reform bill, about how the Republican-led House could pass a bill that could then get conferenced with the Senate’s. The P ...
  • David Cameron Announces Porn "Opt-In" Measure ...
    British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that British households that use the internet will have to opt-in if they want to access pornography online thanks to a measure that will be fully implemented by the end of next year.  The move is intended to crack down on what Came ...
  • A. Barton Hinkle: Obamacare Is an Expensive Fa ...
    President Barack Obama and his allies in Congress named their sweeping health care overhaul the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But as the expenses start piling up as Obamacare lurches into effect, A. Barton Hinkle asks a simple question: Where is the “affordable” part of ...

Mercury Rising

  • Go See ‘Blackfish’ Before Sea Worl ...
    David Neiwert has the deets: There’s an amazing and gripping new documentary out this week that — like The Cove — may prove to be at least a small turning point in how humans treat our fellow animals, wild and otherwise. It’s titled Blackfish, and it’s well worth yo ...
  • The Upside Down World
    An open letter by a number of LatAm experts: The supposed “irony” of whistle-blower Edward Snowden seeking asylum in countries such as Ecuador and Venezuela has become a media meme. … The media has never noted the “irony” of the many thousands of people who have taken refuge in the United ...
  • What They’re Not Telling You About Detro ...
    Questions no one in the US mainstream press seems to be asking about Detroit’s predicament: – If Detroit’s woes can be blamed on a shrinking tax base due to a broke and dying auto industry that conservatives insist needs to be left to rot, why then is Oakland County, which cont ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • The Dangers of Surveillance
    A synopsis of two Harvard Law Review articles. I’m too tired to crosspost it. Read it at DK here. Believe it or not, it’s pretty good.

Reality Sandwich

  • Power for the People—From Water
      The following is excerpted from Infinite Energy Technologies: Tesla, Cold Fusion, Antigravity, and the Future of Sustainability, published by Inner Traditions.  read more
  • In Debt We Trust
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  • Memory Tracer
    A research team from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has, for the first time, visualized the neuronal activity associated with the retrieval of long-term memories during decision making. In mammals, it is the cortico-basal ganglia circuit that scientists believe plays an important role in ...
  • Transform your World
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  • Psi in the News
    The Parapsychological Association announces new officers for 2013, Eben Alexander gets grilled by Esquire,  Sheldrake contra Dawkins on London Real, and a few tips for developing telepathy and psycho-kinesis in this edition of Psi in the News.   read more

Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • $ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
    I wonder what the people in poor  countries think when they see the sheikdoms  throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock which ...
  • Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
    In my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours.  Yeh, I know ... that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the niceties of comfort we have become.  Even six hours was hard to take. There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I ...
  • Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Cana ...
       Complaints pile up over airport border guardsReports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents "Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed complaints about rude treatment and harassment by Canada Border Services ...
  • Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
    It turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also ...
  • The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
    Last week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so ...

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Are Memories just for Humans?
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  • Quick Fire Science - Human Flight
    This week, a team at Toronto university won the "Igor I. Sikorsky Competition" by building a man-powered helicopter and flying their machine "Atlas" within a 10mx10m box, at a height of 3m for over a ...
  • Intelligent scalpel detects tumour edges
    A scalpel that can discriminate healthy and cancerous tissue, to tell a surgeon when a tumour has been entirely removed, has been developed by scientists in the UK and Hungary. The technique is inte...
  • Reprogramming stem cells, chemically
    A magic cocktail of seven key chemicals can reprogramme adult cells to turn them into stem cells capable of producing any tissue in the body, a new study has shown. In recent years, scientists have ...
  • Gut bugs and diet affect how drugs work
    Intestinal bacteria with a taste for certain drugs can dramatically affect how some people respond to different medicines, new research has shown. Using the cardiac agent digoxin as a proof of conce...

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Care2 - Environment

  • China's Gansu Province Hit by Powerful Earthquakes
    Two powerful earthquakes have struck China's north-west Gansu province, killing at least 75 people and leaving more than 400 others injured. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • JUSTICE FOR PATAUD - DOG KILLED, THROWN AGAINS ...
    Pataud, an 8 years-old poodle was slain by an individual during his walk with his owner. Continuously hitting, throwing him against a glass door, the assailant did not let go until Pataud, out of strength, died from a bleeding caused by injuries. Submitted by Jeanie S. to Animals  |  ...
  • Dogs See In Color, Not Black & White; What Thi ...
    Contrary to what we once thought, dogs aren't limited to a world of blacks, whites, and greys; in fact, they can recognize the color of an object better than the brightness of it. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 7/22/2013
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Video of the Day: The Undertakers of the Sky
    Beautiful video. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Power Woos Critics with Pro-Israel Charm Offensive
    Samantha Power, U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee for the post of ambassador to the United Nations, made a strong case for her confirmation Wednesday with strong pro-Israel and interventionist statements that will appeal to many of the hawks in the U.S. Senate. Speaking at her confirmation h ...
  • U.S. Backlash Growing Against “Stand You ...
    In the aftermath of the recent acquittal of 31-year-old Florida native George Zimmerman, the state’s so-called Stand Your Ground law has come under national scrutiny, as have dozens of other states that have enacted similar legislation. The criticism will perhaps be led by whatever the U.S ...
  • Insuring Ghana’s Smallholder Farmers Against t ...
    Smallholder farmer Suleman Mustapha Simbia, 40, is pleased with the introduction of an insurance initiative called the Ghana Agriculture Insurance Programme. The programme is being implemented in this West African nation to help farmers who had been suffering from loss of income as a result of t ...
  • Ethiopia’s Opposition Rises Again
    Since the violent quashing of political protests after the ruling party won Ethiopia’s 2005 elections, this East African nation has seen little in the way of political dissent. That is, until the last few months. Since June, the country has witnessed mass protests in three of its major cities. D ...
  • Egypt May Not go the Algeria Way
    The ouster of Egypt’s first freely elected president by the military has led some to warn of a possible Algeria-style civil war. Local analysts, however, dismiss the likelihood of the “Algeria scenario” occurring in Egypt. “For one, Egypt’s Islamist current is much ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Language of Power: Obama's "Humanitarian ...
    Summary: In her first appearance before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Samantha Power, Obama's pick for next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, made clear that she will spend her time in the role much as her predecessor Susan Rice did: acting as Israel's consummate defender, fear-m ...
  • Einhorn on Getting to Yes with Iran
    Summary: I just read Robert Einhorn’s new article over at Foreign Policy entitled “Getting to ‘Yes’ with Iran.” Most of you will know that for the past four years, until May, Einhorn was a key member of the Obama administration’s diplomatic team working on the Iran nuclear issue, and was invo ...
  • Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israe ...
    Summary: The Iranian electorate did about the most cruel thing possible to uber-hawk Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It replaced former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with an eminently reasonable and personable successor, Hasan Rouhani. source: JuanCole.comread more
  • Iran is no threat: Our Middle East 'allies' are
    Summary: WASHINGTON, July 17, 2013 — Contrary to dominant thinking in Washington, Iran poses no immediate threat to the U.S. In fact, our Middle Eastern allies, eager to have America do their fighting for them, wildly inflate the supposed threat from Iran. source: Washington Timesread more
  • Roots of the Egyptian Coup—and What Comes Next
    Summary: In this interview, Abdullah al-Arian—an exceptional young historian of the modern Middle East who is, among other things, a trenchant student of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood also offers sharp comments about the impact of the coup on Egypt’s posture vis-à-vis Gaza—and sobering obse ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "If We Ever Encounter Extraterrestrial Intelli ...
                   During an epoch of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Several leading scientists are asking: Is the human species entering a new evolutionary, post-biological inflection point? Paul Davies, a British-born theoreti ...
  • A Moment of Awe: "The Six Epochs of Evolution"
                 THE SIX EPOCHS OF EVOLUTION by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo.    
  • Image of the Day: The Bolshoi Simulation --"Fr ...
      The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. The simulation is a cube roughly 1 billion light-years on each side. The luminous part of a large galaxy might be about 100,000 light-years, and the dia ...
  • Galaxies a Trillion Times Brighter than the Su ...
        In 2011, galaxies a trillion times brighter than our Sun were observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope  inside enormous blobs that were first found  by visible-light telescopes, located billions of light-years away in ancient galactic structures or filaments, where thousands of yo ...
  • Antarctica Reveals Ancient Sea Level Rise of u ...
                   "The Pliocene Epoch had temperatures that were two or three degrees higher than today and similar atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to today, says Dr Tina Van De Flierdt, co-author from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. "Our stud ...

Natural News

  • Warning to all police, firefighters, schooltea ...
    Last week, Detroit declared bankruptcy, becoming the largest city in U.S. history to take such drastic action in the face of financial insolvency. A declaration of bankruptcy isn't what most people think it is, though: it's not just a statement of "we're broke!" It's...
  • Lymphological birthing
    We begin life unified with our mother's blood and lymphatic systems through the umbilical cord, the placenta, and a kind of water bed called amniotic fluid until the day we are born. Just as lymph comprises and cleanses cerebral spinal fluid, lymph also comprises and...
  • University of Pennsylvania professor calls God ...
    The mainstream media and the Obama administration's active fomenting of racial tension and hatred following the George Zimmerman not-guilty verdict has led to some bizarre public outbursts, including a recent deranged blog posting published by a supposedly well-educated...
  • Eat your weeds!
    It's that time of year when home gardeners are tasked with a lot of weeding chores. It doesn't matter if your penchant is growing vegetables or flowers - we all grow weeds. The whole concept of a "weed", actually, is pretty interesting. We have a rather erroneous...
  • Six ways to catch and stop a migraine before i ...
    Migraines are not just headaches. They are more severe, even incapacitating, and last longer than average tension headaches, sometimes for days. They can also be accompanied by extreme nausea and overall body stiffness or reduced motor control. Many experience what's...

Threat Level

  • The Secret Service Agent Who Collared Cybercro ...
    The government calls it “Operation Open Market,” a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of the alleged scammers, carders, thieves, ...    
  • NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Cou ...
    The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the "public interest," does not breach the constitutional rights of ...    
  • MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swa ...
    Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in a FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz.    
  • 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.    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • It's a Conservative Thing; You Wouldn't Understand
    This week, millions of Americans struggled to understand how an unarmed 17 year old African-American kid stalked by an overzealous community watch volunteer came to be blamed for his own murder. Millions more wondered what all the fuss was about. And like many Americans across the country, I n ...
  • McCain Blocks Joint Chiefs Chairman Over Perso ...
    Just days after playing a key role in ending the log jam over Republican filibustering of President Obama's executive branch nominees, Arizona Senator John McCain put a road block in the front of the anticipated confirmation of Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey. McCain announced he would put ...
  • Liz Cheney Follows in Mitt Romney's Footsteps
    During the 2012 presidential election, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin cemented her reputation as a willing stenographer for Mitt Romney. Now in a new piece for the Post ("Ten reasons why Liz Cheney should run"), Rubin has transferred her affections to Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz. As i ...
  • To Attack Obamacare, Republicans Forget the Le ...
    Last week, former Bush Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt offered a very instructive look back at the rollout of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In what the Washington Post's health care reporter Sarah Kliff praised as a "great piece," Leavitt recounted the techn ...
  • How Conservatives Learned to Love John McCain ...
    The Senate Tuesday reached agreement on a deal paving the way for seven Obama nominees to be confirmed without Democrats resorting to the so-called "nuclear option" ending the 60 vote supermajority required by a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave credit where he thought it was d ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Iberian Lynx Likely To Go Extinct Despite Curr ...
    The nearly €100 million that have spent on conservation efforts for the Iberian lynx so far have likely been in vain — as the methods are insufficient to prevent the species extinction when other environmental factors such as climate change are factored in, according to new research from t ...
  • Earth From The Saturn System — NASA Releases N ...
    NASA just released the raw imagery from the Cassini probe’s July 19th imaging session of the Earth, and the first unofficial versions of the images are now coming through thanks to the amateurs who have been working on processing them. The official versions are expected to be released by N ...
  • Paper-Thin E-Skin Responds To Touch — First Us ...
    The first ever user-interactive sensor network on flexible plastic — a new milestone in the field of robotics — was recently created by researchers at UC Berkeley. The new electronic skin, or e-skin, reacts to touch by lighting up — the harder that the pressure that is applied ...
  • What Is The Sound Of One Species Vanishing? Li ...
    (Note to the Reader: The following article details a new remote monitoring system for tracking animal diversity and identifying threatened species, and, as an inspirational supplement, presents a TED Talk video by Bernie Krause on the value of listening to Nature’s many sounds.) Accurately ...
  • Underwater Universe Uncovered With Completion ...
    The first ever global atlas of marine plankton — cataloging the wheres, whens, and hows of the world’s oceanic plankton populations — has now completed thanks to an international collaboration between many of the world’s premier marine research centers. When seen under th ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Conservatives Don't Do Nuance, Empathy
    By @TedFrier "Spot on," writes a Facebook Friend who baselessly asserts that President Obama's marvelous, off-the-cuff and heart-felt remarks in the White House briefing room last week on the state of race relations in this country today were just a cynical ploy to take people's minds off of the ...
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  • It's Politics Stupid!
    By @TedFrier In May 2009, former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson wrote an important essay in The Atlantic on the origins and implications of the 2008 financial collapse, called "The Quiet Coup." The financial gloom that swept over the US economy at the twilight of the G ...
  • Nick Gillespie: Throwing Stones in Glass Houses
    By @TedFrier Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman turns out to be an amateur when it comes to ad hominem partisan name-calling. And so Nick Gillespie, editor of the libertarian journal Reason, shows Krugman how it is done in a 1,000-word temper tantrum in today's Daily Bea ...
  • Racists Hide Racism Even From Themselves
    By @TedFrier The reason racism persists is that all too often racists don't even recognize their own racism. Washington Post conservative columnist Kathleen Parker wants us to know she feels our pain. If she, a Southern white woman, were an African American mom instead, she too would "fear" for ...

Care 2

  • China's Gansu Province Hit by Powerful Earthquakes
    Two powerful earthquakes have struck China's north-west Gansu province, killing at least 75 people and leaving more than 400 others injured. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • JUSTICE FOR PATAUD - DOG KILLED, THROWN AGAINS ...
    Pataud, an 8 years-old poodle was slain by an individual during his walk with his owner. Continuously hitting, throwing him against a glass door, the assailant did not let go until Pataud, out of strength, died from a bleeding caused by injuries. Submitted by Jeanie S. to Animals  |  ...
  • Dogs See In Color, Not Black & White; What Thi ...
    Contrary to what we once thought, dogs aren't limited to a world of blacks, whites, and greys; in fact, they can recognize the color of an object better than the brightness of it. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Open Thread - 7/22/2013
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Video of the Day: The Undertakers of the Sky
    Beautiful video. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • More on the Smear of George Zimmerman
    Thanks to an old member of NoQuarter I want to direct you to an important article documenting the enormous smear job the left is unleashing on George Zimmerman. The race hustlers and the left are pushing the meme that Zimmerman is a racist because he called the police to report a 7 year old blac ...
  • Florida Lawyer Overload
    First a confession. I got a speeding ticket last week while rushing to the airport to pick up my business partner. Got nabbed in Pompano Beach. You may be wondering, “Why is this worthy of a blog post?” “What does this have to do with Trayvon Martin or Benghazi?” Answer? ...
  • Barack Obama’s Delusional Racist Sanctimony
    Barack Obama, race baiter in Chief, was out in public Friday spouting this crap from his yawning yap: “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” the president said in his first on-camera response to Saturday’s verdict. “In the African- American community at least, ...
  • Theft by Government via Politics
    Let’s change the subject for a moment to the immigration bill. Last year some idiots in the Greek government offered a proposal that would solve their nations debt to the world. Take 10% of every Greek depositor’s bank account and give it to the bankers in Europe that wanted Greece to pay off th ...
  • George Zimmerman vs OJ Simpson
    Reflecting on the madness that has accompanied the just and proper verdict in the bogus case brought against George Zimmerman, I am struck by the disparity of the public reaction among many black Americans. Zimmerman admitted he killed Trayvon Martin. It was an act of self-defense. OJ? He killed ...

Futurismic

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

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

  • High Civilian Death Toll from CIA Drone Strike ...
    The report describes 147 civilian deaths, much high than the U.S. administration has admitted to.   This article originally appeared at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. A secret document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals for the first time th ...
  • I Was Almost Raped at Yale and They Told Me to ...
    The pressure to stay quiet benefits universities looking to avoid scandalous headlines for the sake of reputation, application rates, and alumni donations.  July in Washington DC is brutally hot, but last week sexual violence survivors and allies couldn't be contained to the sh ...
  • "Justice for Trayvon" Rallies in 100 Cities Ac ...
    Marches across the country demands civil rights charges against Zimmerman. The following is a transcript, originally published by The Real News Network. Video appears at the bottom.OSCAR LEÓN, TRNN PRODUCER: Today, Saturday July 20, a journey of protest was held nationwide. In L ...
  • Blacks Who "Stand Their Ground" Are Often Impr ...
    Defendants in Florida who employ the “Stand Your Ground” defense are more successful when white and when victim is black. The recent acquittal of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old unarmed Trayvon Martin has led to intense scrutiny of Flori ...
  • Atheism Has a Women Problem
    From Hitchens to Dawkins, the most prominent faithless are white men. The movement needs to take a look at itself — and church history “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also s ...

Threat Level

  • The Secret Service Agent Who Collared Cybercro ...
    The government calls it “Operation Open Market,” a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of the alleged scammers, carders, thieves, ...    
  • NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Cou ...
    The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the "public interest," does not breach the constitutional rights of ...    
  • MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swa ...
    Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in a FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz.    
  • 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.    

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 ...
  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Two Worldwide Hepatitis A Outbreaks
    Friday, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) reported 10 cases of Hepatitis A all belong to genotype 1A linked to frozen berries. Italy is also currently experiencing an outbreak... Continue Reading
  • Clover’s Closure – Voluntary or Not – Doesn’t ...
    According to the Boston Globe’s Deborah Kotz, twelve cases of Salmonella were reported in June and early July among patrons of Clover’s various locations in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline.  That... Continue Reading
  • 224 Hit by Cyclospora in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas ...
    Health officials in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas and Wisconsin continue to investigate an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness caused by Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite. Wisconsin health officials say there are four cases... Continue Reading
  • After nearly 25 children tragically die, call ...
    As many as 24 other children and a cook are still under treatment at the Hospital. According to Indian press reports, the Indian government has now made it mandatory for... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A Outbreak Hits 149 – How Long Will ...
    As of July 17, 2013, 149 people have been confirmed to have become ill from hepatitis A after eating ‘Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend’ in 8 states: Arizona (22), California... 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 ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WATCH: Veteran White House Correspondent Helen ...
    Trailblazing journalist Helen Thomas, who reported on every U.S. president since John Kennedy, has passed away at age 92. We look back at her 2009 interview on Democracy Now!, when she talks about how she would have asked then-President Bush, "why do you continue to support the killing in Gaz ...
  • Let The Light of Mandela Shine on U.S. Injustice
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan As the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, it is timely to reflect on his life, spent fighting for equality for people of color who long suffered under South Africa’s apartheid regime. Mandela was arrested in 1962, a year before Martin Luther ...
  • READ: The Lab Magazine Profiles Democracy Now! ...
    Read a new profile of Democracy Now! host, Amy Goodman, by The Lab Magazine, in which she discusses her upbringing, her reporting in Indonesia, covering climate change and much more. The full profile is here. The Lab Magazine is an international publication and website that features intima ...
  • WATCH: Fruitvale Station Director Ryan Coogler ...
    Watch Democracy Now!'s interview with the director of the feature film, "Fruitvale Station," which opens in theaters nationwide this week. "I’ve seen these kind of things happen before, instances of police brutality and instances of urban violence, and people riot and rally," Ryan Coogl ...
  • As Hunger Strike Continues, Ex-Chief Guantánam ...
    More than 150 days in their hunger strike, at least 45 Guantánamo prisoners are being force-fed through tubes. "It's regrettable that it's taking them putting their lives at risk to get us to pay attention, that they've been cleared for transfer, yet they're still in prison," said Col. Morris D ...

Solari

  • Rosalie Bertell and Planet Earth as a Weapon
    [CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell's review from 2011] By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell In my search to find information regarding the possibility of earthquake wars and planetary-scale weapons engineering, I came acros ...
  • Viktor Schauberger – Comprehend and Copy ...
    Related Reading: Viktor Schauberger on Wikipedia
  • Catherine in 2010 on Obamacare
    This is a clip from an interview Catherine Austin Fitts did called “The Looting of America”. Catherine, the daughter of a physician, has been watching the change in government regulations regarding the practice of medicine. Her unique perspective comes from having worked for a govern ...
  • Coming Clean in 2013
  • QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Est ...
    With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Sky City: Construction Of the World’s Tallest ...
    Changsha, China's Sky City tower is set to be the world's tallest building at a staggering 2,739 feet - however the project just hit a bump in the road as its developer announced plans to postpone construction until April 2014. Developer Broad Sustainable    
  • Thomas Heatherwick Designs a Futuristic Learni ...
    With the notion that corridors create social separation and isolation, The Hub brings together 55 tutorial rooms in a structure without any conventional corridors. Similarly, the building does not have a traditional main entrance; students can enter from any    
  • Scientists Find That Nanoparticles from 3D Pri ...
    3D printers can create amazing things, but new research show that they may have a dark side - at least when it comes to our health. Scientists found that the printing process involved in creating those fantastic 3D models can release a high amount of ultrafine    
  • 5 Fantastic and Easy Recipes for Jump Starting ...
    NUT MILK + 1 cup almonds (or substitute with nuts of your choice) + 5 cups filtered water + 1/4 teaspoon vanilla (optional) + 1/2 cup soaked and pitted dates (add extra for more sweetness) + Nut milk strainer bag Soak the nuts overnight in at least    
  • 75 Confirmed Dead, 459 Injured As Early Mornin ...
    Gansu Province Landscape via Shuttertock Officials are just starting to pick up the pieces after an early morning earthquake rocked a hillside farming community near the city of Dingxi in China's Gansu province. The quake, which is said to have been a magnitude-6.6    

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galaxy Swirl
    This striking cosmic whirl is the centre of galaxy NGC 524, as seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Pisces, some 90 million light-years from Earth.    
  • Dark-Matter Hunt Appears to Be Zeroing In on a ...
    Whispers of the elusive particles are becoming louder, with a series of signals that appear to be converging on a narrow energy range.    
  • Robotic Skin Lights Up When Touched
    Super-thin and flexible, a new electronic skin lights up when touched. More pressure produces a brighter light.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Medusa Nebula
    The Medusa nebula, known scientifically as Abell 21, is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. It is estimated to be over 4 light-years across. This image was taken on Oct 24th, 2008 at the ...    
  • The Best Space Images Ever Were Taken by Apoll ...
    The most iconic photos from the manned exploration of space come from the monumental Apollo project. But something you may not know is that nearly every single famous photo from that program was taken using cameras from one company: Hasselblad. ...    

PakAlert

  • US Authorizes Preparations for War with China?
    The Pentagon has concluded that the time has come to prepare for war with China, and in a manner well beyond crafting the sort of contingency plans that are expected for wide a range of possible confrontations. It is a momentous conclusion that will shape the United States’ defense systems, forc ...
  • Striking Back at Police State Amerika
    Every day a granny is goosed by TSA, a federal swat team raids thewrong house, a citizen acquitted of a crime still has their property confiscated by authorities, even the dumbed down public is aware that their every communication is monitored by the NSA and Obama has set his administration up t ...
  • How Much does Israel Cost the Average American?
    While so many Americans are subsisting on food stamps, losing their homes, and accumulating credit card debt they will never be able to pay off, the US is giving Israel $3 billion in direct foreign aid every year and, according to Congressman James Traficant, another $12-17 billion in indirect a ...
  • Did A Raging Fire Burn Down JPMorgan’s Gold Vault?
    Overnight there has been a flood of viral reports that 'there was a fire at JPM's gold vault' based on a self-made video showing a barrage of fire trucks located on Broad Street between Wall Street and Exchange Place, further substantiated additionally by a @FDNY tweet around 6:30 pm on Saturday ...
  • Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of ...
    “Control the oil, and you control nations. Control the food, and you control the people.”* -Henry Kissenger “Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation” by F. William Engdahl is a skillfully researched book that focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Schizophrenic in Guantánamo Whose Lawyers ...
    The prison at Guantánamo is such an extraordinarily lawless and unjust place that 86 prisoners cleared for release by an inter-agency task force established by President Obama when he took office in 2009 are still held. Other prisoners recommended for trials languish, year after year, with no ho ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: The Last Days in the Life of Adnan ...
    This article, published simultaneously here and on the “Close Guantánamo” website, contains exclusive information from the unclassified notes of a visit to Abdelhadi Faraj — a Syrian prisoner, and one of 86 men cleared for release from Guantánamo but still held — by his a ...
  • 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

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

Lifehacker

  • Gmail Has New Ads That Look Like Emails, Here' ...
    When Google introduced the new tabbed interface for Gmail, it also brought along some new ads under the Promotions tab.Read more...    
  • Jalopnik The Ten Scariest Aircraft Landings Ca ...
    Jalopnik The Ten Scariest Aircraft Landings Caught On Video | Gawker Man Records Final Fight with Soon-to-Be-Ex-Wife, Uploads It to YouTube | Lifehacker When Should I Use Credit and When Should I Use Debit When Shopping? | Gizmodo The 10 Most Expensive Photographs in the WorldRead more... & ...
  • How Often Do You Clean Inside Your Desktop Com ...
    Desktop computers suck in cool air and blow out hot air. Along with that air comes dust, pet hair, and whatever else you have floating around in your home. How often do pop open your desktop computer to clean out the gunk?Read more...    
  • Write Notes Before Making a Phone Call to Stay ...
    Phone calls are increasingly cumbersome as text messages replace most brief calls. If you're going to take the time to call someone, have a list of talking points ready.Read more...    
  • When Should I Use Credit and When Should I Use ...
    Dear Lifehacker, When I'm out shopping, I'm always presented with the option to use debit or credit when I check out. I've heard there are benefits to using credit, but aren't there fees involved that can drive up the price or put a strain on the owner of the shop I'm in? When should I use whic ...

Water Wars

  • SSJID may join effort to protect groundwater
    San Joaquin County is fighting water wars on two fronts. * There’s the highly publicized battle over the proposed Twin Tunnels that could drastically alter the Delta and increase the diversion of surface water currently being used for farming and urban uses to protect fish. *And then there is th ...
  • Anthony Westbury: Water can really shape a cit ...
    A new"monumental" agreement between Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce could mean the end of the water wars along Midway Road.
  • Male Gaze: Watch Ryan Reynolds Get Soaked With ...
    Yesterday, the Canadian actor visited Late Night With Jimmy Fallon only to get wheedled into playing a friendly game of Water Wars (a.k.a. War, the card game, except the loser gets a glass of water thrown in his face). Kick off your weekend by viewing the video above, in which ... More »        
  • Beach Blast this weekend
    Published: Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 16:20 PM. KINGS MOUNTAIN -- Water wars, a bikini competition and a backyard burger contest are set for Saturday.
  • 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Facebook Won’t Cooperate With The U.N. To Figh ...
    According to a new report, the social media giant Facebook isn’t exactly being cooperative when it comes to helping the Somali government hunt down the people who support the pirates that frequently raid its coast. The United Nations Monitoring Group for Somalia issued its annual report to ...
  • Conservative Paper Invokes Lynching In Anti-Sh ...
    Investors’ Business Daily, a business newspaper widely viewed as having a conservative editorial page, decided to dip its toes into racial politics over the weekend with a political cartoon about the case of Trayvon Martin. But instead of presenting a valid criticism of the negative reacti ...
  • Phil Mickelson, The Open Championship, And Why ...
    As Tiger Woods strutted to the 16th green Saturday afternoon at Muirfield, the iconic course on the Firth of Forth in Gullane, Scotland, it looked like this was about to turn into the weekend the golf world had been waiting for: Woods’ return to greatness in the majors after a five-year lo ...
  • Victims Of Mortgage Abuse Refuse To Cash Tiny ...
    A billion dollars in checks sent to foreclosed homeowners as part of a national settlement with big banks is going uncashed, another sign that the government’s much-criticized effort to redress mortgage abuses is coming up far short of its promised impact. While the agency in charge of dis ...
  • Orson Scott Card Apparently Quit The Board Of ...
    Entertainment Weekly, to which Ender’s Game novelist Orson Scott Card gave his now-infamous statement that “it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance towards those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute,&# ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • All harper Needs
    Apparently 38% of Canadians think harper is doing a good job; down from 43%. A 5% drop. 38% is enough to win, or convincingly steal another majority. All harper needs to do is hunker-down and wait for these scandals to blow over (as they eventually will since "accountability" isn't for governm ...
  • Obviously ...
    EI worker suspended for disclosing that her and her fellow workers are given quotas of people to throw off of EI. Cue the right-wing imbeciles who can't grasp that this is about inventing fraud just to save a spendthrift, wastrel government some money.
  • Bwa-ha-ha-ha!
    I'm seriously just too busy to post anything else.
  • I Should Have Told Him To Shut Up
    Some people say that my "thwap" persona is too abrasive. You know: "Internet + anonymity = SHIT-COCK!!!!" It's also the case that when you work with people, you have to expect different points of view and different reactions to your ideas other than awestruck applause. But when I think about h ...
  • Summarizing Declining Participation in Democracy
    Owen at Northern Reflections beat me to it. Yesterday I read this excellent summary by Alex Himmelfarb of a Samara study on declining political participation in Canada and thought I'd blog about today. Himmelfarb mentions "social trust" the "degrees of inequality in society, and public policy ...

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: 4-20-13
    Today, Kevin explains how natural supplements, like honey and apple cider vinegar, can improve your health and even reverse the aging process. Self Help: Make Food Allergies Vanish Get Rid of Depression Give Your Support Health: Leading Experts Rethinking Food Allergy Causes New Blood Tests Spot ...
  • STAR IN THE NEW NATURAL CURES TV SHOW!
    Have you lost over 50 pounds, cleared your skin of acne, or recovered from a serious illness after reading Kevin Trudeau’s book “Natural Cures They Don’t Want You To Know About”? We want to hear from you!! Please send a brief summary of your story to mystory@naturalcuress ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-27-13
    Today, Kevin reveals exactly how he would fix America if he were elected to office. Find out which programs he would cut, what he would make legal and illegal, what he would expose, and what laws he would demand! Self Help: Give Kevin Your Vote of Support! Don’t Worry About The How Everything Ke ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-4-13
    Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind mind manipulation within the music industry and two ways to counteract it. Self Help: No More Fluoride Free Audiobook Download Cell Phone Protection Natural Cures Grass Fed Beef Financial Independence Health: High Doses of Vitamin D Prevent Cancer Cell Phone ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-11-13
    Today, Kevin finally reveals how the secret society, The Brotherhood, approached him and what his vibrational frequency had to do with it. Plus, you are being programmed for failure; learn how to program yourself for success! Self Help: Viral Detox Subliminal Messaging KT’s Daily Life Esse ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • ‘US pressures EU to list Hezbollah&#8217 ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com The EU has agreed to put the armed wing of the Lebanese group Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist – at a meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brussels. London insisted on sanctions – after ...
  • Former NSA Head: Snowden Is Worse Than Every A ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSays journalist is “co-conspirator” in constitution-trampling rant Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com July 22, 2013 Former head of the NSA and the CIA, General Michael Hayden, has said he believes that Edward Snow ...
  • Whose Ground Is It, Anyway?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Steve Martinot The Travesty goes like this. The grounds for Zimmerman’s acquittal were that he shot someone, and killed him. Pure and simple. The grounds for Trayvon Mar ...
  • Bernanke’s Farewell Tour
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRon Paul Prison Planet.com July 22, 2013 Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered what may well be his last Congressional testimony before leaving the Federal Reserve in 2014. Unfortunately, his farewell ...
  • Fiction, not a Tyrants Handbook
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGeorge Orwell is rolling in his grave. Today, many Americans have lost all concept of freedom; instead seeming to believe our freedom comes from the government and thus can be taken away by the government. This fundament ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Edward Snowden and Latin America Expose Washin ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation July 17, 2013 One of America’s genuine heroes, Major General Smedley D Butler revealed in his memoirs the true, abhorrent nature of Washington’s foreign policy. Butler had led countless militar ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Radical Movements Have Been ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad July 22, 2013 TheRealNews on Jul 22, 2013 On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges says The Democratic Party used to watch out for the interests of labor and even for the poor. But that all changed under Bill Clinton. Although Obama, like Cl ...
  • Casting Out Demons by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 22, 2013 Noel Lyons, a member of the U.S. Ski Team from 1976 to 1981 and once one of the country’s top professional skiers, found herself in a Vail, Colo., hospital in the spring of 2010 after another round of binge drinking. “I had given up ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Corporatization of the Unive ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Isaac Epstein on Jul 14, 2013 July 12, 2013. Rackham Auditorium, University of Michigan Sponsored by: GEO, LEO, MI-AAUP Lead Organizer: Jim McAsey Videographer: Isaac Epstein All proceeds benefitted the Carol Chomsky Fund. If you enjoyed this talk, please make a ...
  • “Justice for Trayvon” rallies in 1 ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jul 21, 2013 Marches across the country demands civil right charges against ZImmerman. *** ‘Justice for Trayvon’ rallies hit 100 US cities RussiaToday on Jul 20, 2013 Protests are underway across the US – a week after a Florida court acquitted Geo ...

Your New Reality

  • Appetite For Rock Immortality
    The original album cover for Appetite For Destruction, top, with its record store friendly replacement below Guns N Roses' Appetite For Destruction is 26 years old today. Not only one of the truly great rock albums, but also the most successful debut of all time. Not a dead song amongst the bunc ...
  • No title
    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
  • No title
    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galaxy Swirl
    This striking cosmic whirl is the centre of galaxy NGC 524, as seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Pisces, some 90 million light-years from Earth.    
  • Dark-Matter Hunt Appears to Be Zeroing In on a ...
    Whispers of the elusive particles are becoming louder, with a series of signals that appear to be converging on a narrow energy range.    
  • Robotic Skin Lights Up When Touched
    Super-thin and flexible, a new electronic skin lights up when touched. More pressure produces a brighter light.    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Medusa Nebula
    The Medusa nebula, known scientifically as Abell 21, is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. It is estimated to be over 4 light-years across. This image was taken on Oct 24th, 2008 at the ...    
  • The Best Space Images Ever Were Taken by Apoll ...
    The most iconic photos from the manned exploration of space come from the monumental Apollo project. But something you may not know is that nearly every single famous photo from that program was taken using cameras from one company: Hasselblad. ...    

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

  • Online news stories, corrections, and keeping ...
    One of the interesting wrinkles of journalism in the online age is the ease of accessing archives. It used to be that back issues were at best scanned to microfiche and stored in some musty, stale vault somewhere. Now, though, anyone with an Internet connection can get to them.This is not exac ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Italy to Ban Monsanto GMO Corn with 80% Public ...
    First India gives Monsanto a run for their ill-gotten money by refusing their patent applications, and now Italy, with the help of three Italian ministries, will try to undo Monsanto.Click here to read this article
  • House Legislation Proposed to Ban Bee-Killing ...
    Capitol Hill is buzzing about a new bill that aims to provide long overdue protections for America's imperiled pollinators. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) will be introducing the Save America's Pollinators Act, calling for the suspension of neonicotinoids, a class of sy ...
  • A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis
    Several strands of green thinking maintain that capitalism is incapable of a sustainable relationship with non-human nature because, as an economic system, capitalism has a growth imperative while the earth is finite.Click here to read this article
  • Farmers Want More Scrutiny of New Monsanto Crops
    A coalition of farmers is asking federal regulators to further scrutinize Monsanto Co.'s new soybean and cotton offerings, saying they could pose environmental threats to nearby crops.Click here to read this article
  • Pepsi Products Still Contain Carcinogenic Cara ...
    In 1986, California passed a ballot initiative called Proposition 65, which required consumer products with potential cancer-causing ingredients to bear warning labels.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • 50 HARMFUL EFFECTS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ( ...
    2009 We are confronted with what is undoubtedly the single most potent technology the world has ever known released throughout our environment and deployed with superficial or no risk assessments - as if no one needs to worry an iota Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |&nbsp ...
  • Roundup Herbicide Linked To Overgrowth of Dead ...
    Glyphosate negatively impacted the gastrointestinal bacteria of poultry in vitro. The researchers presented evidence that highly pathogenic bacteria resisted glyphosate, whereas beneficial bacteria were moderately to highly susceptible to it. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness &nb ...
  • The Coca-Colization of Mexico, the Spark of Ob ...
    When Coca Cola is cheaper than water, obesity, malnutrition and diabetes are sharply on the rise. This story is enough to make your blood boil. The photos truly do paint a thousand words. Submitted by Iona Kentwell to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • 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 & ...

Farm Wars

  • Why GMOs Can Never be Safe
    In order to survive, the organism needs to engage in natural genetic modification in real time, an exquisitely precise molecular dance of life in which RNA and DNA respond to, and participate fully in ‘downstream’ biological functions. That is why organisms and ecosystems are particularly vulne ...
  • Welcome to PlantVillage – Free and Easy Intera ...
    PlantVillage is built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone on the planet. PlantVillage is a user moderated Q & A forum dedicated to the goal of helping people grow their own food. It is an open, freely available resource that he ...
  • 30% Off Listed Price on Organic Heirloom Seeds!
    As Farm Wars' readers know, I do not advertise anything for personal profit. I chose to become an affiliate with Heirloom Organics in order to provide good quality, organic Heirloom seeds to my readers, and use any proceeds to keep the site running without anyone spending a penny more for their ...
  • USDA Protection Racket Demands 47% of Raisin C ...
    This is a criminal extortion racket. What is the difference between a mobster coming to your property and demanding a portion of your profits for "protection" and the government coming to your property and demanding a portion of your crops for "protection?" NOTHING!!!
  • 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!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • EU adds Hezbollah's military wing to terrorism ...
    ShareThisEU adds Hezbollah's military wing to terrorism list 22 Jul 2013 The European Union agreed on Monday to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, a move driven by concerns over the Lebanese militant group's roles in a bus bombing in Bulgaria and the Syrian war. The powe ...
  • Critics to Obama: NYPD commissioner Kelly wron ...
    ShareThisCritics to Obama: NYPD commissioner Kelly wrong for Homeland Security --Minority law enforcement groups excoriated Kelly for the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy and its Muslim surveillance program. 22 Jul 2013 Black and Latino law enforcement groups rallied Sunday against the [*insane*] id ...
  • Suicide bomber attacks Iraq army convoy, killi ...
    ShareThisSuicide bomber attacks Iraq army convoy, killing 10 22 Jul 2013 A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army convoy in the northern city of Mosul early on Monday, killing at least eight soldiers and two passers-by, police said. The bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives up to a mil ...
  • CIA backs $630,000 study into how to control g ...
    ShareThisCIA backs $630,000 study into how to control global weather 21 Jul 2013 The power, reach and influence of the Central Intelligence Agency is a staple of conspiracy theories. The news that the CIA is reportedly part-funding a scientific geoengineering study into how to control the weathe ...
  • Ministers accused of 'betrayal' over plans to ...
    ShareThisMinisters accused of 'betrayal' over plans to automatic right of Britons to challenge extradition abroad 20 Jul 2013 The Government is at the centre of a row over plans to abolish the right to challenge extradition proceedings, ending the protection of vulnerable suspects like Asperge ...

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

  • Note for Non-Americans on Race relations in th ...
    22 July 2013 Having spent about twenty years in dozens of countries, I have some idea about how we are viewed abroad. When it comes to race, many people look at America as black and white. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. We are a bunch of mixed breeds. One of my siblings rece ...
  • Race Baiting and Lies in America
    21 July 2013 George Bush Senior -- Naval Aviator at 18, then off to war. (Many Americans will be familiar with much of what is in this dispatch, yet many international readers never stepped foot inside the United States.  This case is getting international ink, and so here we go.) Trayv ...
  • My Zimmerman-Martin Moment: On a vastly smalle ...
    18 July 2013 I am hypersensitive to legal/media cases like this because I was involved in one. At 19, I was attacked, unprovoked, by a 23 year-old troublemaker who had three other run-ins that day. He also had been fired from his restaurant job after wrecking the kitchen. He said he would k ...
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • A tribute to Trayvon, from Delhi
    Trayvon Martin You forgot your Biblical lessons, Dear boy; God being Light, all Good things are white; And Satan being the prince Of darkness, being born black Is a hopeless mess. Against such black vissicitudes Was a just law found that said To the white killer, “stand your ground.” Onl ...
  • 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

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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

  • An Anarchistic Understanding of the Social Order
    Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Resistance & a Place for the Sciences FOR ROUGHLY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, INDIGENOUS peoples have been struggling against the dominant institutions of society, against imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, impoverishment, segregation, racism, and genocide. ...
  • Brazil: Extractive Capitalism and the Great Le ...
    “The point of confrontation is the street – not the workplace.” Introduction: Brazil has witnessed one of the world’s most striking socio-economic reversals in modern history: from a dynamic nationalist industrializing to a primary export economy. Between the mid 1930’s to the mid 1980’s, Brazil ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- July 21, 2013
    CIA Committed To Education in Kyrgyzstan, The Never-Ending TAPI Story, New States in Central Asia & More! The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Mike & the Mechanics – “The Living Years” This week the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick features Mike & the Mechanics performing In the Living Years. This ballad is about a son’s regret over unresolved conflict with his now-deceased dad. This song brings back memories of ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent with Guillermo Jimene ...
    “What does an end to the drug war means for the police state in America?” with Dr. Mark Thornton On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent, Guillermo welcomes Dr. Mark Thornton of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute onto the show. Dr. Thornton and Guillermo discuss the “Economics of Prohibiti ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talk Charade
    I’ve held off writing about John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy attempting to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, because I thought there was “no there, there” and figured it might collapse of its own weight.  But developments in the past 24 hours indicate that whil ...
  • Video: Syria in Crisis
    Last month, I organized a talk at Seattle’s University Temple with humanitarian relief activist, Rita Zawaideh.  She’s a Jordanian-American active in providing relief for the millions of Syrian refugees spanning Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon.  I spoke in particular about Israe ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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