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Scoop - NZ

  • IMF: Fed tapering could 'reignite' euro debt c ...
    The tapering of stimulus by the US Federal Reserve risks reigniting the eurozone debt crisis and pushing the weakest countries into a "debt-deflation spiral", the International Monetary Fund has warned. [The ECB] should launch "credit-easing" policies to alleviate the deepening lending crun ...
  • Ahmadinejad's Technology University in Teheran
    An Iranian news website says outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has obtained clearance to establish a technology university in Tehran after he leaves office next week. It's the first hint of what Ahmadinejad will do after he steps down on Aug. 4, when president-elect Hasan Rouhani is to b ...
  • Abe: What energy future for Japan ?
    Abe has won decisively – to no one’s surprise – in the July 21 Upper House elections. Abe’s LDP took 65 of 121 seats at stake, and gained a comfortable majority of 135 of 242 seats in the House with its coalition partner the Komei Party. The LDP now has majorities in both houses of the national ...
  • Abe: LDP’s 10 most dangerous constitutional pr ...
    The LDP revision plan would affect nearly all of the 103 articles of the 1947 Constitution. Most proposals are for minor changes in wording or technical adjustments that would not make a significant difference. But some LDP proposals could have a potentially devastating impact on individual rig ...
  • Political Islam’s Moment of Reckoning
    It remains unclear what course the events in Egypt will take after the toppling of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi. What can be said with some certainty, however, is that the Brothers will not give in easily, because they rightly see it as a fight for their very survival. The Egyptian ...

Independent - London

  • Remembering the Holocaust: An education about ...
    In the early 1940s, Hannah Lewis was an ordinary young girl.Related StoriesIsraeli cabinet set to release Palestinian political prisoners in attempt to restart peace talksIsraeli set to release Palestinian political prisoners in attempt to restart peace talksIsrael to clear the way for negotiat ...
  • The Holocaust ambassadors asked to ensure that ...
    In the early 1940s, Hannah Lewis was an ordinary young girl.Related StoriesIsraeli cabinet set to release Palestinian political prisoners in attempt to restart peace talksIsraeli set to release Palestinian political prisoners in attempt to restart peace talksIsrael to clear the way for negotiat ...
  • Morsi supporters stay on Cairo streets despite ...
    Supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsi vowed to continue defying government threats to clear them from their sprawling tent encampment in eastern Cairo – despite the massacre of scores of protesters by security forces over the weekend.Related StoriesEgypt unrest: More than 60 supporters ...
  • Supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsi ...
    Supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsi vowed to continue defying government threats to clear them from their sprawling tent encampment in eastern Cairo – despite the massacre of scores of protesters by security forces over the weekend.Related StoriesEgypt unrest: More than 60 supporters o ...
  • Morsi supporters stay on Cairo streets despite ...
    Supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsi vowed to continue defying government threats to clear them from their sprawling tent encampment in eastern Cairo – despite the massacre of scores of protesters by security forces over the weekend.Related StoriesEgypt unrest: More than 60 supporters ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Siberian city hits record-breaking highs
    Siberian city which sees snow and ice for most of the year hits record-breaking highs as mercury rises to 32C Temperatures in Norilsk have hit a record-breaking high of 32C Previous record in the city was 31.9C in 1979, according to reports Average July temperature in Norilsk is 1 ...
  • Meteor-encrusted medals up for grabs at Sochi 2014
    Sochi Olympic champions that happen to win their medals on February 15, 2014 - one year after the meteor crashed in the Urals - will receive special medals inlaid with tiny pieces of the celestial object. A select few athletes lucky enough to win gold medals on a specific date at the upcomi ...
  • It's time to start taking this global food rio ...
    You should already know the name Yaneer Bar-Yam. He's the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and made news for a 2011 paper tying global food prices to 2008 and 2011 riot outbreaks in Africa, and the general theory that above a certain benchmark food price, the condi ...
  • American tourist in Greece kills and eats rare ...
    Labros Hydras, 49, pulled the 'hexapus' from the sea while snorkelling in Greece, and following local tradition he smashed it against a rock to kill it before taking it to a nearby tavern to cook. But after the chef refused to cook the rare animal, the father-of-two fried it for himself before ...
  • Fisherman smashes rare six-legged octopus agai ...
    Labros Hydras, 49, pulled the 'hexapus' from the sea while snorkelling in Greece, and following local tradition he smashed it against a rock to kill it before taking it to a nearby tavern to cook. But after the chef refused to cook the rare animal, the father-of-two fried it for himself before ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Fear for the future . . .
    WIRED has a frightening report by John Bohannon, “Why Are Some People So Smart? The Answer Could Spawn a Generation of Superbabies”. Really, just sooner than I was expecting. After sixty years of DNA research and computer development, serious effort is being made by non-dogmatic people tak ...
  • The poison spreads . . .
    THE TORONTO STAR has a frightening report by Emma Pullman and Martin Lukacs: ‘Nobody understands’ spills at Alberta oil sands operation. There's been a bitumen blow-out — and they don't know how to stop it. This apparently originated from a government scientist. The question is, how long ...
  • Owen nails it . . .
    — Porkarama personified — IN CASE YOU MISSED Owen's post at Northern Reflections, "Mr. Harper's Balloon", do click on the link to find out more about the Mike Duffy Hot Air Balloon and a lot more about some serious facets of Stevie's malfeasance. The way the CONcheese seems to be ripening ...
  • Oily secrets . . .
    KEYSTONE XL May Actually Raise American Gas Prices — that's the title of an article by TRUTHOUT. Stevie ain't gonna like it: “Keystone XL is not an economic benefit to Americans who will see higher gas prices and bear all the risks of the pipeline,” said report author Judy Dugan in a ...
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Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Fox News Covers Up Steve King's Anti-I ...
    Fox News has repeatedly given Rep. Steve King (R-IA) a platform to discuss a number of political issues, including immigration, this year but has completely ignored his comments likening undocumented immigrants to drug smugglers -- even as the network has continued to discuss immigration issues. ...
  • Right-Wing Media Forward Bogus Food Stamp Comp ...
    In the wake of President Obama's economic policy speech, conservative media have refocused their attention to an outlandish comparison of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and job creation during the Obama administration, ignoring the fact that most SNAP participants ...
  • Print Media's Dependence On Raw Social Securit ...
    Throughout the first half of 2013, coverage on the finances of Social Security in the three major print outlets relied on reporting figures in raw numbers devoid of relevant context, such as previous years' figures, that could provide a more accurate picture of the program.Print Media Rely On Ra ...
  • The Wall Street Journal's Hypocritical Opposit ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial downplayed the vacancies on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to justify Republican opposition to filling the posts, ignoring the Journal's past editorials highlighting vacancies during the George W. Bush administration as well as statements from judges on the D.C ...
  • Contrary To Right-Wing Media Claims, Middle Cl ...
    Right-wing media figures have attacked President Obama's "middle out" approach to economic growth, claiming that only a trickle-down model that slashes taxes and regulations will drive economic recovery. However, there is growing consensus that economic prosperity begins with the middle class, w ...

Global Research.ca

  • Saudi Arabia, Corrupt and Fraudulent Regime: S ...
    Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud has announced his defection from Al Saud royal family through a statement, calling on other princes to break their silence and reveal the truth for sake of God. In his statement on Saturday, the Saudi…
  • The Federal Reserve Is Bailing Out Foreign Ban ...
    Federal Reserve Policy Mainly Benefits Big Foreign Banks We’ve extensively documented that the Federal Reserve is intentionally locking up bank money so that it is not loaned out to Main Street. Specifically – due to Fed policy – 81.5% of…
  • Thousands of Syrian Police who joined the Rebe ...
    The United States has been paying thousands of Syrian police officers who deserted the regime of President Bashar Assad. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama has approved tens of millions of dollars to pay the salaries of police…
  • Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood: Shifting ...
    A military coup d’état recently took place in a country whose military is financed by the United States. Some dislike using the term “coup” in the Egyptian case, given the massive popular demonstrations calling for greater democracy and freedoms than…
  • Canada’s First Nations and Israel: Manip ...
    This month, Canada’s media solemnly related “the sad truth that the country engaged in a deliberate policy of attempted genocide against First Nations people”, referring to government-sponsored abuse of Native children a century ago, which Canada’s Chief Medical Officer Peter…

TPM Cafe

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

  • US Sues Exxon Fracker in Pennsylvania Over Pol ...
    A federal lawsuit claims hydraulic fracking has polluted public drinking waters in Pennsylvania with toxic wastes. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (CN) - The United States sued Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy, claiming its hydraulic fracking has polluted public drinking waters in Pennsylvania with toxic wastes. ...
  • Is Climate Change Driving the Southwest Toward ...
    A severe drought in the Southwest is devastating crops and farm communities—and sending a warning about climate change. The following article first appeared inthe Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for theiremail newsletters here.Ed Moore’s ranch sits on the flatlands of t ...
  • Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Cancellation ...
    Unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurs near homes of some of fractivism's most effective mobilizers. Certain powerful images really stick with you when you watch Gasland or Gasland 2. First is the shot of the tap water on fire. Equally powerful are the images of the film’s di ...
  • Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate as Gas Compa ...
    The unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurred in a region that is home both to Josh Fox, fractivism’s heroic Pied Piper, and to the first fractivist organization Damascus Citizens for Sustainability. Certain powerful images really stick with you when you watch Gasland or Gasland 2 ...
  • Tsunami of Public Outrage Builds in Colorado a ...
    What's happening in Greeley should be frightening to the citizens of every city that sits atop a shale deposit. Many people used to think serving on city council wasn’t worth a bucket of warm piss, as Roosevelt’s first vice president, John Garner, famously described his job.Sewers, gutte ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • 2013 Texas Water Legislation Wrap-up
    In the midst of Texas’ worst drought since the 1950s “drought of record,” we face serious issues regarding water consumption and waste, water rights, and how conservation efforts can be integrated into public policy. Texas’ population is projected to double by 2060. So how can we sustainably pla ...
  • Purpose of San Antonio Spy Center Becomes More ...
    At the intersection of Loop 410 and Military Drive on Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas lies the Texas Cryptology Center. It’s a huge and intimidatingly bland building, covered in massive A/C units and shrouded in secrecy. Operated by the NSA, the general function of this spy center ...
  • Gina McCarthy confirmed as new head of EPA
      The Senate approved Gina McCarthy to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency on a 59-40 vote Thursday, ending a lengthy battle over the post. President Obama nominated Ms. McCarthy, a longtime top official of the EPA, to replace Lisa Jackson, who served in the post in the p ...
  • FOODOPOLY – Meet the author on August 7th in A ...
      Wenonah Hauter grew up on a family farm that her husband runs today as a Community Supported Agriculture Project (CSA), which is part of the growing local food movement. Yet, as one of the nation’s leading healthy-food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough ...
  • Rick Perry vs The Public Integrity Unit
    As you may or may not know, Governor Rick Perry has vetoed the funding for the Public Integrity Unit, the group charged with enforcing ethics standards for public officials, as well as insurance fraud and motor vehicle tax fraud.  This veto could not have come at a more questionable time.  On th ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Buffett Says Coal's Slide to Be Permanent, Yet ...
    (Bloomberg) Coal use in the U.S. will continue to fall though the slide will be gradual as electric utilities switch to cleaner alternatives over "years and years," billionaire Warren Buffett said at an event in Indiana& ...
  • Wyden Floats Fracking Regs Framework
    (The Hill) Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) floated a proposal Thursday to let states regulate fracking underground while permitting the federal government to set reporting and disclosure requir ...
  • Effort to Speed Up Fracking Derailed in NC House
    (News Observer) A last-minute legislative effort to speed up the state's fracking timeline was derailed late Thursday after lawmakers couldn't round up enough support for it in the House. Throughout the day Thursday, the House kept on ...
  • Who Can Invest in Oil Wells? A Colorado Judge ...
    (Businessweek) By most accounts, Charles Reed Cagle is a smooth-talking Texan who's made millions over the years selling stakes in oil and gas wells. Although the names and location of his companies have changed, Cagle's business strat ...
  • Enbridge to Build $1.3 Bln Canadian Oil Sands ...
    (Reuters) Enbridge Inc, Canada's largest pipeline company, said on Thursday it will build a $1.3 billion extension to its Woodland crude line in northern Alberta to serve Imperial Oil's Kearl oil sands project. The 345-kilometer (214- ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Sixty years ago today, we signed the armistice that ended the Korean War. If it had gone on for another year, my father might have had to fight in it. And I might not be here. It took a few decades, but South Korea really came around, and it's shocking how much better they are doing than Nort ...
  • Slaughter in Egypt
    I am no fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, but I don't understand why the Egyptian military feels it is necessary to open fire on protesters. The trumped up charges against deposed President Mohamed Morsi are transparently ridiculous and have the effect of rejecting the legitimacy of the revolution ...
  • This Logic Thing Isn't Working
    Hah. Ramesh Ponnuru has now been enlisted to try to talk sense to the Republican hive-mind. I guess he didn't get the memo that the Borg doesn't listen to pinheads and consultants. I love how Ramesh is forced to conclude his column, as if he knows he's talking to morons. One possible ou ...
  • What a Mess
    Arming the Syrian rebels is a sordid business that makes me deeply uncomfortable. While I am generally supportive of Secretary of State John Kerry's effort in the Middle East, there are worrying signs. I don't think that Martin Indyk is the right choice to serve as envoy to the Israel-Palestin ...
  • They Won't Listen
    Apparently, there is no talking to these people: National Republican officials say theyve done everything imaginable the past few years to convince the House rank-and-file that fiscal battles are eroding the partys popularity and hurting its prospects in general elections. Trying again, they ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Almighty Blast: The Massive Explosion of a Kaz ...
    We are so accustomed to using gas that we often forget what a dangerously flammable liquid it is; the explosion of this tanker truck was a sobering reminder of its power. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Take a seat and peruse our pick of this week's coolest links This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Getting Trashed: Garbage Bin Spotted Exploring ...
    Follow the adventures of a friendly bin, as it spreads joy around the streets of London. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Supermassive Vacuum Cleaner At the Edge of ...
    Beyond the bounds of the observable universe, something is causing galactic clusters to speed along at unimaginable speeds following a particular path. But what is it? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's so much to pick from this week – be inspired by amazing bridges, creepy asylums, colorful kindergartens and much more... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Sierra Club flotilla advocates TVA switch from ...
    Sierra Club flotilla advocates TVA switch from coal The Tennessean The Sierra Club also is concerned about indirect environmental impacts from coal, such as strip mining and a growing increase in mountain top removal mining to harvest the energy resource. “This is a popular movement all across t ...
  • Sierra Club flotilla advocates TVA switch from ...
    Sierra Club flotilla advocates TVA switch from coal The Tennessean The Sierra Club also is concerned about indirect environmental impacts from coal, such as strip mining and a growing increase in mountain top removal mining to harvest the energy resource. “This is a popular movement all across t ...
  • UCC: Faith and life in conversation - Danbury ...
    UCC: Faith and life in conversation Danbury News Times Taking stands against bullying, mountaintop removal, and sex trafficking. The establishment of a non-geographic, online church. A closing worship that began like a New Orleans-style funeral and ended in celebration of a group of believers th ...
  • Resisting the planet destroyers - Freedom Soci ...
    Freedom Socialist Party Resisting the planet destroyers Freedom Socialist Party Protesters with Capitalism vs. the Climate and Hands Off Appalachia were arrested in Stamford, Conn., at the headquarters of financial services giant UBS, which funds mountaintop removal companies. And Climate First! ...
  • Duke Energy casts wide net for coal to power u ...
    Duke Energy casts wide net for coal to power utilities across six states Platts Bid proposals offering Central Appalachian coal need to include the approximate percentage sourced from mines using mountain-top removal. Bids must be received by email by noon on August 14, 2013, and must remain val ...

Memeorandum

  • Going for Bolingbroke (Ross Douthat/New York T ...
    Ross Douthat / New York Times: Going for Bolingbroke  —  BEFORE political movements can be understood by others, they need to understand themselves: what they want to be, what they actually are and how they might bridge the gap between aspiration and reality.  —  ...
  • Lew: IRS exhibited 'equal opportunity bad judg ...
    Peter Schroeder / The Hill: Lew: IRS exhibited ‘equal opportunity bad judgment’ in targeting  —  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Sunday the Internal Revenue Service exhibited “equal opportunity bad judgment” in the improper targeting of political groups, ...
  • States seek to nullify Obama efforts (Tal Kopa ...
    Tal Kopan / Politico: States seek to nullify Obama efforts  —  Infuriated by what they see as the long arm of Washington reaching into their business, states are increasingly telling the feds: Keep out!  —  Bills that would negate a variety of federal laws have p ...
  • Lew warns GOP to avoid 'false crises' over spe ...
    Peter Schroeder / The Hill: Lew warns GOP to avoid ‘false crises’ over spending, debt limit  —  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Republicans to avoid “false crises” over a government shutdown and the debt limit in the coming months.  —  ...
  • George Zimmerman's Brother: Civil Lawsuit 'Mig ...
    David Lohr / The Huffington Post: George Zimmerman's Brother: Civil Lawsuit ‘Might Not Be Very Flattering’ To Trayvon Martin's Family  —  If Trayvon Martin's family decides to file a wrongful-death suit against George Zimmerman, they could be opening a Pandora's box, ...

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  • Louisiana police use invalid anti-sodomy law t ...
    According to an investigative report from the Baton Rouge Advocate, there have been a dozen cases since 2011 in which undercover police officers in Louisiana have propositioned gay men for sex -- agreeing to have sex in private, and without money changing hands -- only to arrest them under the ...
  • Spanish train crash driver appears in court
    Spanish train driver Francisco Jose Garzon Amo leaves the police station to be transferred to the courthouse of Santiago de Compostela on July 28, 2013.The driver of a train that hurtled off the rails killing 79 people in Spain appeared in court for questioning on Sunday, as the pilgrimage cit ...
  • Cambodian strongman PM's party claims election win
    Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany cast their votes in Kandal province, on Sunday. Hun sen's party claimed victory in Sunday's elections which were marred by allegations of widespread irregularities, but it faced rare competition from The ruling party of strongman Cambodian ...
  • Leading Philippine woman guerrilla arrested
    New People's Army rebels drill at an unspecified location in Surigao del Sur province, Mindanao, in December 2009. Philippine police and troops Sunday captured a woman who is one of the country's most wanted communist guerrillas, officials said.Philippine police and troops Sunday captured a wo ...
  • Marco Rubio leads Senate effort to advance 20 ...
    Senate Republicans Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rob Portman have been meeting discreetly to help advance a measure to ban abortion at 20 weeks and leverage what anti-choice activists are calling a "moment to be very ambitious" as similar bills pass in state Legislatures across the country, the New ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • NAFTA Pushes Many Mexicans to Migrate
    Mexicans have little to celebrate as NAFTA turns 20 years old in 2014 - the destruction caused by the agreement continues to push many Mexicans to migrate to try to make a living.
  • 11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry
    Our current economy, based on insatiable extraction and consumption, is simply unsustainable - for the planet as well as for us.
  • The Wars, Coups, Crises and Occasional Good Ne ...
    The pace of events exploding across the Middle East continues to quicken - and while it appears the Obama administration has no clear strategy for some of it, the fall-back position of the U.S. continues to make those developments even more dangerous.
  • Winning the Fight Against Coal Financing
    Hopefully, this is the dawn of a new day, when public financing of coal mines and power plants around the world is no longer acceptable. After 16 years of persistent pressure from IPS and other groups, our government seems to finally be listening.
  • This Week in OtherWords: July 17, 2013
    Marc Morial, Donald Kaul, and Terrance Heath weigh in on the acquittal of George Zimmerman -- the man who killed Trayvon Martin.

IntelNews

  • Ex-MI6 head ‘might air memoirs’ to ...
    The former director of Britain’s external spy service has hinted he might publish his personal account of the decisions that led to Britain’s entry in the Iraq War, if he is criticized in a public inquiry on the subject.
  • CIA finances geoengineering study on climate c ...
    The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is among the principal funding bodies of a scientific research program on using geoengineering to slow down or halt climate change.
  • UK to pardon genius wartime cryptanalyst convi ...
    One of the greatest mathematical minds of modern times, who is widely considered the father of computer science and is credited with helping the Allies win World War II, is to receive a posthumous pardon by the British government, who in 1952 convicted him of homosexuality.
  • UK to probe Chinese telecoms firm over securit ...
    The British government has confirmed that it will review the involvement of a Chinese telecommunications hardware manufacturer in a cybersecurity testing center in Oxfordshire, England.
  • Former CIA station chief arrested in Panama &# ...
    A former station chief for the Central Intelligence Agency, who was detained in Panama last week for his alleged role in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Italy, returned to the United States on Friday.

War is a Crime.org

  • Pastel Silk Ties Will Force Putin to Back Down
    Puttin’ the Pressure on Putin July 28, 2013 Editor Note: The Obama administration continues to compound the diplomatic mess around former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The latest blunder was announcing that the U.S. wouldn’t torture or execute Snowden, a reminder to the world how far Offic ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies and US Promises
      Lies, Damn Lies and US Promises   by Stephen Lendman   US promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. They never were. They're not now. They're made to be broken. It happens with disturbing regularity.   Attorney General Eric Holder wrote Russia's justice minister A ...
  • Israel Spurns Peace and Justice
      Israel Spurns Peace and Justice   by Stephen Lendman   They're verboten. They're off the table. They always were. They are now. Upcoming peace process pretense masks reality.    Initiatives were stillborn from inception. They remain so. Palestinians genuinely want peac ...
  • Resisting Pro-War Video Games
    Watch this video.
  • Syria/Egypt News - July 28
      Violent clashes in north Cairo leave dozens of Morsi supporters dead, Death toll has risen to 80 according to the Health Ministry - Ahram Online Police used live bullets in Cairo violence: Brotherhood - Ahram Online NSF mourns deaths and says 'can't help' but blame the Muslim Brotherh ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Dutch City of Rotterdam Bans Monsanto Glyphosa ...
    by Elizabeth Renter Some cynics write off citizen action including petitions and sign-carrying protestors. They don’t believe such small efforts can make any big difference. But the more than 600,000 people of Dutch city Rotterdam disagree. Their efforts, which began with a petition, have led to ...
  • He Who Controls the Food: Is GMO Really Necess ...
    Waving a banner that it can ‘feed the world’, the genetically modified organism (GMO) is one trojan horse everyone seems to be riding these days. According to United Nations projections, the world will require 70 percent more food by 2050, so we simply have to have GMO technology to feed everyon ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Amazon “declares war&#822 ...
    BREAKING NEWS: Amazon “declares war” on book industry by Dennis Johnson Is the evil clown still beatable? Has the vicious end-game scenario we discussed just yesterday — whereby a government-sanctioned Amazon.com makes its move to cement its position as the most colossal monopoly in publishing h ...
  • Soon It Will Be Us, by JB Campbell | Darkmoon
    Alexander’s cohort, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, is also a seasoned professional liar. When Senator Wyden asked him if the NSA collects any kind of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans, Clapper answered, “No.” Edward Snowden soon revealed that Cla ...
  • Empowering Citizens and Deterring Crime, One F ...
    Mac Slavo July 27th, 2013 The 400 homeowners of the Oak Forest neighborhood in Northwest Houston were terrorized by 107 home invasions last year. It’s a neighborhood ripe for the picking by criminals who have no worries about being stopped in the act or even pursued by an already overworked poli ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Why the 1% is winning, and we are not
    Summary: A cold clear look at the tactics and order of battle of us vs the 1%, plus some thoughts on the requirements to win. What distinguishes the 1% from the rest of us? Many things (eg, they have more money). But perhaps the most important differences are that they have a clearer view of [&# ...
  • Gallup sounds an alarm, again, about our lack ...
    Summary: The sands on the hourglass slowly run out for America’s Second Republic. Anyone who cares to look can see this in a thousand ways, large and small. Today we review one especially obvious indicator: Gallup’s annual Confidence in Institutions Poll and the dark trends it record ...
  • The secret, simple tool that persuades America ...
    Summary: Part one of this series discussed some dark origins of the New America, and why most discussions of America should touch on NAZI Germany. Today we examine a specific example of this: the big lie as the most effective tool of political persuasion on Americans. . All this was inspired by ...
  • How we became what we are today. See some dark ...
    Summary: We need to dig in order to understand what’s happening with America. Today look back to a critical moment in western history, a moment that’s shaped what we are today and will be for uncounted years to come. Tomorrow we look at how NAZI innovations in political mechanics hav ...
  • Watch our world warm! How warm was June? What& ...
    Summary:  Each month brings forth a crop of cherry-picked news from climate alarmists about rapid and severe global warming, usually with little or no reference to any historical context. Why do people listen, as the world’s climate science institutions show us a broader and more accurate ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Turkey-Syria-Kurdish Fronts Heat-Up
    Reports that Turkish F-16s will fly reconnaissance flights along the Syrian frontier highlights rising alarm over border security and suggests a further internationalization of the civil war in Syria with implications for it, Turkey, and the regions Kurds.   read more
  • Zimbabwe’s Un-Credible Elections
    In less than a week, Zimbabwe will go to the polls in the first presidential and parliamentary elections since the violent 2008 election and formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU). Analysts generally agree that this election may be the most important in determining the country’s ...
  • You Might Have Missed: CIA in Pakistan, Syria, ...
    Kathy Gannon and Sebastian Abbot, Criticism Alters US Drone Program in Pakistan, ABC News, July 25, 2013. The CIA has been instructed to be more cautious with its attacks, limiting them to high-value targets and dropping the practice of so-called “signature strikes” — hitting larger ...
  • Getting to the Root of the Middle East Problem
    Defying the skeptics, Secretary of State John Kerry announced last Friday that Israelis and Palestinians had “established a basis” to return to peace talks, which have stalled since 2010. Kerry is wisely keeping a close hold on details so as not to create opportunities for spoilers in advance of ...
  • Top of the Morning: Syrian Death Toll Passes 1 ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Death Toll Crosses 100,000 in Syria This is up from a semi-official tally of 93,000 just one month ago. The new figures come from remarks Ban Ki Moon made at a press event with John Kerry. “The number of dead in Syria’s civil war has passed 100,000, the U.N. c ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Christie vs. Paul
    There are a number of divisions within the GOP today, many of which are more about strategy than substance. For instance, Karl Rove is trying to get the party to avoid nominating more people like Todd "legitimate rape" Akin for office, not because he has any particular disagreement with what th ...
  • Kerry's Heavy Lifting Begins on Israel-Palestine
    Defying the skeptics, Secretary of State John Kerry announced last Friday that Israelis and Palestinians had “established a basis” to return to peace talks, which have stalled since 2010. Kerry is wisely keeping a close hold on details so as not to create opportunities for spoilers in advance o ...
  • Is McCutcheon v. FEC the Next Citizens United?
    Are we ready for the next Citizens United? Can our democracy, and Americans’ faith in government, take another body blow from the Supreme Court? An unprecedented group of organizations with nearly 10 million members and supporters—representing small businesses, working families, young people, c ...
  • GOP Circular Firing Squad Locked and Loaded
    Apparently, it's Republican circular firing squad week here in Washington. Item 1: David Corn of Mother Jones got hold of the proceedings of a secret group of conservatives scheming to take hold of American politics and shove it where it needs to go: Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes ...
  • Not That Exciting
    AP Images/Paola Ardizzoni/Emilio Pereda I'm So Excited! might have made a good 15-minute sequence in one of Pedro Almodovar's bubbly movies of the '80s and early '90s, when he was more or less single-handedly putting Spanish cinema on the international map after the country's pivot fro ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Despite Boss’ Support, Rand Paul’s Aide Quits ...
    Miss Scarlett, the “Southern Avenger” has surrendered. On Sunday, Jack Hunter, a close aide to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, announced he had resigned from the Kentucky Republican’s Washington staff after a storm of controversy erupted July 9 surrounding Hunter’s past neo-Confederate statements and views ...
  • Oath Keepers Rally Reveals Radical Politics of ...
    Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has always trusted his intellectual pedigree to keep him above the fray. Boasting a Yale Law School degree and a smooth-talking manner, Rhodes from the start described the group he formed in 2009 — made up largely of law enforcement officials and past and pres ...
  • Members of New Skinhead Gang Accused in Two States
    Die Auserwahlten, a little-known racist skinhead gang in Nebraska and several other states, is less than a year old. But in the last few days, the crew has been making a name for itself – in mayhem and murder separated by more than a thousand miles. In a small college city in south-central Nebra ...
  • SPLC Report: U.S. Groups Fan Anti-LGBT Hate in ...
    Caleb Orozco is a gay man in the tiny Caribbean country of Belize who is bringing an important legal challenge to a criminal statute that can land people in prison for 10 years for having gay sex. He has been threatened. He has been physically assaulted. Now, he fears for his life. “I cannot wal ...
  • Activist Son of Key Racist Leader Renounces Wh ...
    Derek Black, son of the former Alabama Klan leader who now runs the largest racist Web forum in the world, has renounced white nationalism, saying that he has been through “a gradual awakening process” and apologizing for his past activism. In an E-mail (pdf) to the editor of this blog earlier t ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Currently Over 50 Activists Shutting Down Envi ...
    Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is the lead consultant contracted by the State Department to assess the environmental impacts of Transcanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Activists have occupied ERM’s office building in an effort to expose ERM’s corruption and conflicts of i ...
  • CCR Seeks Full Court Review of Warrantless NSA ...
    Last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a request that the entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reconsider the dismissal of its lawsuit against President Barack Obama, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and the heads of the other major national security agencies, cha ...
  • Lawsuit Challenges 800,000-acre Oil Shale, Tar ...
    A coalition of seven conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday afternoon in federal district court in Colorado for allocating more than 800,000 acres of federal public land to climate-warming oil shale and tar sands development without undertaking formal consultation to ...
  • US: Expand Protections for People With Disabil ...
    The United States should mark July 26, 2013, the 23rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), by strengthening legal protections for people with disabilities at home and abroad, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to US senators today. The US should ratify t ...
  • Sanders Details Tax Plan, Declines Secrecy Offer
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today laid out a series of tax reform proposals in letters to Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and declined an offer by the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee to keep his proposals secret.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Bad Seed: The Health Risks of Genetically ...
    Caitlin Shetterly The office of allergist Paris Mansmann, MD, sits on a grassy slope overlooking the Royal River, a wide waterway that originates in inland Maine and winds down across farmland and under train tracks until it hits the coasta ...
  • ‘Bargain’ on Immigration Would Feed Prison Profits
    Michelle Chen The majority of immigrants who have languished in detention facilities have no criminal record. (Rennett Stowe / Flickr / Creative Commons)The supposed grand bargain of the immigration reform bill is shaping up to be a lucrati ...
  • Edward Snowden's Not the Story. The Fate of th ...
    John Naughton While the press concentrates on the furore surrounding Edward Snowden's search for political asylum, it has forgotten the importance of his revelations. (Photograph: Tatyana Lokshina/AP)Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not ...
  • Is General al-Sisi Egypt's Pinochet?
    César Chelala General al-Sisi appeared on state television earlier this week calling for rallies and a mandate from the peoplel. (Egyptian television)There is an ominous resemblance between Egypt’s General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi and the ...
  • Is General al-Sisi Egypt's Pinochet?
    César Chelala General al-Sisi appeared on state television earlier this week calling for rallies and a mandate from the peoplel. (Egyptian television)There is an ominous resemblance between Egypt’s General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi and the ...

Water Privatization

  • San Miguel, K-Water negotiate JV for Angat
    The energy unit of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) reportedly kicked off serious discussions last week for a joint venture deal on the 218-megawatt privatized Angat hydropower facility.
  • Ibon Foundation opposes water privatization
    A TOP official of the Ibon Foundation expressed opposition to the water privatization during a forum at Central Philippine University in Iloilo City on Friday.
  • Miya won't retreat from Baciwa deal
    Advance Options Attach image:  No var OutbrainPermaLink = 'http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2013/07/22/miya-wont-retreat-baciwa-deal-293781'; var OB_raterMode = 'none'; var OB_recMode = 'dualBox'; var OBITm = '1352879357'; var OB_langJS = 'http://w ...
  • American States Water Company to Report Second ...
    American States Water Company announced today that the Company will release its financial results for the second quarter on Thursday, August 8, 2013, followed by a conference call at 2:00 p.m.
  • Editorial: Water for the People
    IN THE past months, debates on the water district privatization, alleged scams and vested interests of certain individuals in the management have hounded both the Baciwa and the general consumers.

Guardian

  • Stafford's A&E set for closure as anger grows ...
    Despite furore stoked by parts of the media and fanned by some politicians, there is local anger at decisionIt was the hospital that was dubbed by the media as the "Killing Fields" of the NHS. After a highly critical report by the Healthcare Commission in 2009, a handful of elderly-care wards at ...
  • Man held after banknote campaigner receives ra ...
    Police say man arrested on suspicion of harassment offences, after shadow minister criticises Twitter's response to abuseA 21-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating a sustained barrage of threats and abuse directed against a feminist campaigner on Twitter after she successfully c ...
  • Email links Lockerbie bomber's prison transfer ...
    Document emerges from 2008 showing agreement 'ready for signature' as soon as purchase of air defence system concluded An email has emerged suggesting a connection between the prisoner transfer deal negotiated between Libya and the last Labour government, which ultimately paved the way for the r ...
  • Cleveland abductee Amanda Berry steps out on s ...
    Berry appears at her first public event since rescue from house where she and two others were held captive for a decadeOne of three women held captive in a house in Cleveland for 10 years has appeared on stage with the rapper Nelly at her first public event since her rescue – a day after her abd ...
  • Sports Direct: 90% of staff on zero-hour contracts
    Retail chain's 20,000 part-time workforce do not know how many hours they will work each week and have no holiday or sick paySports Direct's entire 20,000 part-time workforce are employed on zero-hour contracts at a time when 2,000 full-time staff are about to cash in bonuses of up to £100,000.T ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan president likely to suffer political ba ...
    The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is likely to bear the brunt of the decision to give military bases to the United States. President Karzai's chief of staff has said the country will expect an enduring peace and security in exchange for the handover. Abdul Karim Khoram, speaking to local me ...
  • Talibans rapid-fire spread in Pak likened to p ...
    Taliban fighters rapid-fire spread in Peshawar has been compared to Ricky Ponting, known for his prolific scoring ability. Taliban is increasingly showing their presence in Peshawar through intimidation and violence, according to residents, the police and city officials. A senior security offici ...
  • 30 militants killed in Afghan operations
    Thirty Taliban militants have been killed and 38 others wounded in military operations since Saturday, the Afghan interior ministry said Sunday. The Afghan National Police conducted several operations with the army, intelligence service and NATO coalition troops in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Kunduz, Kan ...
  • Seven killed in Afghan suicide attack
    Seven people, including a key anti-Taliban figure, were killed and eight injured in a suicide bombing incident in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, police said Saturday. The attack was carried out in a market Friday evening where Daulat Khan, a key anti-Taliban figure in the province, was shopping. ...
  • 45 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
    As many as 45 Taliban militants were killed in an air-strike in Afghanistan's Helmand province, authorities said Saturday. The militants got killed when NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) aircraft raided the terrorists' hideout Friday night, Xinhua reported citing a statemen ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • National Whistleblower Center to Participate i ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) will participate in the upcoming Whistleblower Summit which will be held July 29, 2013 through July 31, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The Whistleblower Summit is being organized by several different whistleblower advocacy groups.  The Whistleblower S ...
  • Kohn Discusses Current State of Whistleblowing ...
    On Monday July 22, Stephen Kohn was interviewed by Kim Williams of 2SER Sydney, Australia. Mr. Kohn discussed NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden. Mr. Kohn explained how the United States has left National Security employees with little options for reporting wrongdoing as they have no whistleb ...
  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted
      On June 27, Politix published a guest OP-ED by Stephen Kohn, entitled Edward Snowden Should Be Protected, Not Prosecuted.   Stephen Kohn is the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and author of The Whistleblower's Handbook.  
  • DOJ Announces False Claims Act Settlements Rec ...
    Last week the Department of Justice issued a series of press releases announcing settlements of several claims made under the False Claims Act. These settlements resulted in recoveries of about $60 million. The settlements are listed below: Fifty-Five Hospitals to Pay U.S. More Than $ ...

TechDirt

  • Cathy Gellis' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Hello, Techdirt readers! I'm Cathy Gellis, an Internet and IP lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area. You may have heard of me from the lawsuit Paul Levy and I filed against Charles Carreon to protect a blogger's free speech rights and some of the blogging I did on Prenda Law over at Popehat. I al ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Battery Power
    As someone who often is working "on the go," I've built up my "office in a bag" over time, and one key element has always been making sure I've got power. That means I've always got a portable power strip on me (you make friends at airports quickly) for when there's a scarce power socket around. ...
  • American Historical Association Says Scholars ...
    For years, scientific research funded with tax dollars has been consigned to a sterile life locked up behind publishers' paywalls. The argument is that paywall fees fund scholarship, and without these fees, no one would be properly incentivized to... well, lock up published research behind payw ...
  • Details Revealed On Old NSA Intelligence Datab ...
    You may remember that, back in June, we pointed out that if you plugged in a few of the "code names" for various NSA programs (as revealed by Ed Snowden's leaks), you could find a few resumes of NSA employees, listing out other such code names. Jason Gulledge apparently saw that post, and used t ...
  • UK Police's 'Ring Of Steel' Spying On Every Ca ...
    The UK is famous for its abundant CCTV cameras, but it's also pretty keen on the equally intrusive Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras that can identify cars and hence their owners as they pass. Here, for example, is what's been going on in the town of Royston, whose local police ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...
  • The Power of Denial
    My relationship with my parents started a downhill slide when I reached my teen years and never recovered. My father was the type of person who never wanted to talk about anything. He would blow up once in a while. But mostly he handled the hurt – the hurt that he felt or that he [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure none of you have missed the NSA spying scandal, which will probably blow over in about 10 minutes. Or maybe people will finally freak out when they find out all their phone sex and dick pics are being filed somewhere. How intricate do you think their filing system is? A homeland s ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • From Tahrir Square to Tiananmen Square
    Sarah Carr writes: Every time I go to the Rab3a sit-in I think that it would be an almost impossible task to clear the people crammed into it; surely not even the Interior Ministry and armed forces would want to take on that task, not because they are concerned about loss of life but because [...]
  • Civil society coups are bad for democracy
    Omar Encarnación writes: To understand the swift and dramatic demise of Egypt’s first democratically elected leader and what it might portend for the country’s future, it helps to take a broad comparative perspective. The manner in which the country’s military deposed President Mohamed Morsi, of ...
  • Rouhani’s 2003 role in halting Iran’s nuclear ...
    François Nicoullaud, France’s ambassador to Tehran from 2001 to 2005, writes: As Hassan Rouhani prepares to become the next president of the Iranian Islamic Republic, it is worth recalling the leading role he played as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in late 2003, when the clandestine program ru ...
  • Profiting off war: A look into the world of Is ...
    Eilat Maoz writes (translated from Hebrew by Guy Eliav and edited by Ami Asher): A laboratory is a site where scientists conduct experiments under controlled conditions – a space where large-scale phenomena such as hurricanes are miniaturized and tiny objects such as microbes are magnified to ob ...
  • Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace process’ re-launche ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Solar Cycle 24 Update
    Guest essay by David Archibald Recently, a number of newspaper articles spoke of the potential of cycle 25 to be   “Weakest Solar Cycle In Almost 200 Years”. “We’re in a new age of solar physics,” said David Hathaway of NASA’s … Continue reading →
  • Ride the Space Shuttle into space, on the outs ...
    If you are a space enthusiast, this is well worth 400 seconds of your time for the unique perspective it offers…like strapping a HERO Go Pro camera to a booster and getting it back. From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: … Continue reading →
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences presiden ...
    At least she didn’t claim to be a Nobel prize winner.  Via Slashdot: “The 233-year old American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced that its longtime President and Chief Executive, Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, has agreed to resign effective at … Continue reading →
  • Another uncertainty for climate models – ...
    New peer reviewed paper finds the same global forecast model produces different results when run on different computers Did you ever wonder how spaghetti like this is produced and why there is broad disagreement in the output that increases with … Continue reading →
  • The IPCC has a real pack of trouble on its hands
    By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the midst of finishing its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) on the topic. Based on a series of content leaks, it … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Stunningly beautiful 3D medical animations!
    The Nucleus team of graduate-degreed medical animators, writers, and designers specializes in creating accurate, cinematic 3D medical animations for patient and professional education. via Nucleus Demo Reel 2013 – YouTube.
  • Researchers turn off Down’s syndrome genes
    The insertion of one gene can muzzle the extra copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down’s syndrome, according to a study published today in Nature1. The method could help researchers to identify the cellular pathways behind the disorder’s symptoms, and to design targeted treatments. “It’s a ...
  • Most Mutations in the Human Genome are Recent ...
    We really are a mutant race. Our genomes are strewn with millions of rare gene variations, the result of the very fast, very recent population growth of the human species. From an estimated 5 million individuals just 10,000 years ago, we ballooned to more than 7 billion. On average, every duplic ...
  • Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation
    Retrovirus Replication 3D Animation – YouTube.
  • Nailing Regeneration
    Stem cells at the base of finger and toenails act as coordinating centers to orchestrate communication between the nail, bone, and nerve tissues necessary to promote mouse fingertip regeneration after amputation, according to new research published today (June 13) in Nature. Researchers found th ...

CFACT

  • Senate hearing proves Obama is lying about &#8 ...
    Spencer pointed out: “The magnitude of global-average atmospheric warming between 1997 and 2012 is only about 50% that predicted by the climate models.… The level of warming in the most recent 15-year period is not significantly different from zero, despite this being the period of greatest gree ...
  • Justifying power grabs with phony climate science
    During this hot, wet summer, a “national climate expert” recently told Delawareans that they can expect even hotter summers – with a climate like Savannah, Georgia’s – by the end of the century. The culprit, naturally: runaway global warming.
  • Senate warming hearing backfires!
    The warmist experts assembled by Barbara Boxer were over-matched by the experts invited to question global warming and the massive hard evidence they brought with them proving yet again that when both sides are allowed to speak, the global warming line does not hold up.
  • “Ten Billion” is poppycock and bal ...
    Two new books, Ten Billion, by Stephen Emmot, and Population: Ten Billion, by Dan Dorley, claim too many people will bring on disaster. They claim humanity will be doomed by the combination of overpopulation, climate change and species loss.... Oddly, this claim has new proponents just as the w ...
  • Study on floods and carbon dioxide defy UN pro ...
    Those convinced of man-made global warming believe that as carbon dioxide levels rise, there should be a corresponding increase in flood levels. But according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey, floods in the U.S. have not shown the measurable increase that researchers expected to see. ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Events and Announcements: July 28, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Announcements From September 23-26, 2013, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will be running a new four day programme called International Law in Practice. Led by many of the Institute’s leading researchers and practitioners, the cour ...
  • Thoughts on Peter Margulies’ Reply to My Criti ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller Peter's reply is posted at Lawfare, and it addresses both my criticisms (here and here) and Steve Vladeck's (here). The reply is largely non-responsive to the points that I made in my posts; most of it is dedicated to establishing that the evidence presented at trial is suf ...
  • The Amicus Brief Urges Adoption of JCE — Which ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller As I noted in my first post, the amicus brief's central argument is that it does not matter that al-Bahlul was convicted of a non-existent war crime -- conspiracy as an inchoate offence -- because (p. 13) “the defendant had adequate notice that he was charged with conspirac ...
  • FP Says the New York Times Aided the Enemy
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Here is a paragraph you don’t often see in the mainstream American media: The conviction of Manning, in other words, would also be a conviction of Bill Keller. Most importantly, if Manning is found guilty on the charge of aiding the enemy, it would ...
  • Weekend Roundup: July 20-26, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we teamed up with the American Journal of International Law to bring you a discussion on the two lead articles in their latest issue. Jose Alvarez, the co-editor in chief of the AJIL, explained their decision to run this online symposium ...

Public News Service

  • Southwestern States Celebrate Colorado River Day
    Southwestern States Celebrate Colorado River Day PHOENIX – Five southwestern cities celebrated this year's Colorado River Day, marking the 92nd anniversary of renaming the Grand River as the Colorado River. Events Thursday emphasized the benefits of the river system and the current and g ...
  • Pocketbook Reality Check for Childless Couples ...
    Pocketbook Reality Check for Childless Couples in Arizona PHOENIX - Sunday is Parents' Day, and a time for a reality check for childless Arizona couples seeking to adopt or explore fertility treatments. Carolyn Berger, an adoption coordinator for the American Fertility Association, knows the in ...
  • Animal Rights Activists Hope Congress Plugs Co ...
    Animal Rights Activists Hope Congress Plugs Cockfighting Loophole PHOENIX - As lawmakers in Washington continue to debate the 2013 Farm Bill this week, one amendment would eliminate a loophole in the current federal animal-fighting law. Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane ...
  • More Than 30 Million Americans Taking Anti-Dep ...
    More Than 30 Million Americans Taking Anti-Depressants PHOENIX - When it comes to dealing with depression, as millions of Americans do, experts say people too often turn to prescription drugs as their first option. However, according to Dr. Jim Gordon, founder and director of the Center for Mind ...
  • How Much Is Climate Change Already Costing Us?
    How Much Is Climate Change Already Costing Us? PHOENIX - How much money is damaging weather resulting from climate change costing Arizona? A look at insurance data suggests it's more than a billion dollars a year and rising. Opponents of clean-air limits on carbon pollution say the new rules w ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • PG&E plug-in hybrid trucks bring power to work ...
    This is a seriously smart idea. Electric-powered hybrid trucks bring power with them when there’s a power outage. The truck IS the generator. The purpose of a utility-owned plug-in hybrid truck includes the ability to carry a crew, supplies and tools to a job-site—mostly using electric pow ...
  • Big Tech and the Ruling Party
    TechCrunch thinks big tech can somehow save us from government intrusion, not realizing that big tech has already quite willingly been co-opted. Facebook, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and many other big tech companies have been in bed with NSA for years, as recent revelation clearly show. They are ...
  • Peckham Cowboys – Crack House Blues
  • Protest grows against ginormous solar power fa ...
    Many proposed solar plants are on BLM land, yet would become “private industrial zones” where the public can’t go. In addition, these huge solar power farms would require clearing thousands of acres of land with unpredictable but certainly deleterious impact on the area and its ...
  • Egypt crisis: ‘Scores killed’ at Cairo protest
    Snipers on rooftops were shooting to kill, not wound. Most if not all those killed were pro-Morsi supporters. Were the snipers government or militias? Much of the slaughter was triggered by pro- and anti- Morsi factions fighting the the streets. As I predicted when Morsi was forced from power, t ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • US (AG Holder) says it won’t seek death ...
    They will just take him out the old fashioned way…. (ahem) KPPC Attorney General Eric Holder has told the Russian government that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden. In a letter dated July 23, the attorney general sai ...
  • Untimely death takes out top hacker
    BOSTON (Reuters) – Barnaby Jack, a celebrated computer hacker who could force a bank ATM to spit out cash and sparked safety improvements in medical devices, has died in San Francisco. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office said Jack died in the city on Thursday. It gave no deta ...
  • Pope Francis attacks anti drug war legalisatio ...
    Everything that Pope Frank has suggested or endorsed had been tried and has massively failed. The money involved in the drug war, the police state that exists because of it,  the Money laundering at banks… (and YES we will add elite profits, and Govt, “Cui Bono” to our list) PR ...
  • Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Eviden ...
    HOUSTON — Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destruction of critical evidence after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. The oil services company said it would pay the maximum allowable fine of $200,000 and will be subject to three years of p ...
  • This Day In History – July 26
    1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. 1533 – Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro’s Spanish conquistadors. His death marks the end of 300 years of Inca civilization. 1775 – The office that ...

The Air Vent

  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...
  • NSA – Balancing the Risk
    The NSA has been tracking details of every pone call and email by every American for years.   I have no doubt that this is the case.  Yes, this is in violation of the fourth amendment which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreas ...
  • My Apologies to Readers
    I have really let this blog go to pieces. I will post useful stuff in the future but allowing Mr Cotton to take it over again was a mistake. It seemed reasonable to allow him to write, because the topic was PSI.   It won’t happen again, even though I am starting to think a […]
  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...
  • Problematic Science Incorporated
    Holy crap.  I have realized it isn’t practical to do a half of a blog.  Did you know that the Internet is full of crazy people.   I’ve heard rumors, read other blogs, often commented on the generally high quality of tAV readers but when I don’t blog on science for months, guess ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Turbo, Despicable Me’s Minions are among the f ...
    Facebook users love getting animated, and it’s showing up in like trends. Three of the fastest-growing Facebook pages in the U.S. deal with popular animated films, as the page for DreamWorks’ Turbo, a fan page for...
  • Facebook stock roundup: COO Sheryl Sandberg se ...
    Facebook’s stock value is rocketing in light of the company’s glowing second quarter earnings report. Some prominent Facebook employees cashed in, but unfortunately, most shares were sold before the boom. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, General Counsel...
  • 18 million obvious secrets about Facebook busi ...
    During Facebook’s second quarter earnings call, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced there are about 18 million business pages on Facebook and 1 million are being added every *month*. Broken down that would be around:...
  • Facebook starts asking why you hid a News Feed ...
    Facebook appears to be testing a questionnaire that digs deeper into the reasoning behind why someone hides a post. Websonic.nl and Post Planner noticed that Facebook is asking users why they’ve hidden something. Facebook does this when a...
  • Preparing for Instagram as an advertising platform
    Ever since Facebook purchased Instagram, Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted that advertising will come to the photo sharing service. During Wednesday’s second quarter earnings call, Zuckerberg pretty much confirmed that someday, Instagram will have...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Texas Loses Another One: Court Upholds EPA Ca ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. State and industry groups led by Texas and coal-based power companies lost another challenge to EPA’s carbon pollution standards today, the latest in their string ...
  • Latest Blowout in the Gulf Shows America Still ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City A natural gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico blew out Tuesday night, igniting a fire and forcing the evacuation of 44 workers. Fortunately no one was injured, but natural gas is leaking and a relief ...
  • Water/Climate News Digest: 7/15/2013 - 7/26/2013
    Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL Welcome to the first W/C News Digest, a bi-weekly roundup of all news water and climate: Climate change will disrupt energy supplies, DOE warns, USA Today Two weeks after President Obama anno ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile to cut CO2, Co ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. July 20-26 2013 Chile The Ministry of Environment is heading up a te ...
  • NEPA: The Magna Carta of Environmental Law
    Amanda Jahshan, Legal Fellow, Washington, D.C. This post was researched and written by NRDC Land & Wildlife Intern Emily Hampton: You might already know that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) paved the way for our country’s ex ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Destination Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi Five-Star Le ...
    A five star hotel will offer chefs, tennis and golf pros, hairdressers and masseuses, but the Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi just upped the ante by adding a marine biologist to its permanent staff. The resort’s resident marine expert will be organizing workshops and eco-excursions to educate and enterta ...
  • Oil Addiction - Cyprus Oil Spill Threatens Pri ...
    Better call out that airborne Mediterranean pollution surveillance crew Tafline just wrote about! Last Tuesday, an oil tanker delivering fuel to a power plant in the Turkish Cypriot-controlled north of Cyprus spilled approximately 40 tons of oil into the Mediterranean Sea.In a separate report, o ...
  • Book Review - The Rebirth of Union City's Schools
    David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and a longtime observer of American education, has written an invaluable book that is remarkable for its good sense and insight, and even more remarkable for appearing in the midst of an ongoing educational conver ...
  • The Weapon's Edge - Embarassing Glitches Cause ...
    One of the Navy’s newest warships suddenly found itself immobilized in the South China Sea on July 20, as the failure of one of its four diesel generators caused a shutdown of all its engines during its first operational deployment. It was not the first major glitch since the USS Freedom began ...
  • Broken Government - Anthony Weiner's Campaign ...
    Former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-N.Y.) bid for New York City mayor faced another setback Saturday with reports his campaign manager quit the team.The New York Times reported that Danny Kedem, the head of Weiner’s campaign, resigned following last week’s disclosures that the candidate had co ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • John Kerry's Latest Foreign Policy Blunder
    By Barry Rubin Secretary of State John Kerry doesn’t seem to grasp his job. Now he has referred to Palestine as a country already. He said: “It’s my hope that…as procedures are put in place both countries in order to empower” progress toward peace Of course, it was a slip of the ton ...
  • John Kerry's Latest Foreign Policy Blunder
    By Barry Rubin Secretary of State John Kerry doesn’t seem to grasp his job. Now he has referred to Palestine as a country already. He said: “It’s my hope that…as procedures are put in place both countries in order to empower” progress toward peace Of course, it was a slip of the ton ...
  • EXCLUSIVE Anthony Weiner's Sexting Partner Sid ...
    Drew Hanley and Ex-Girlfriend Sydney Elaine Leathers The last woman Drew Hanley dated before he met his wife was Anthony Wieners latest public sexting partner Sidney Elaine Leathers. After learning of the relationship from his brother, I spoke to/emailed Drew Hanley about his ex. I s ...
  • EXCLUSIVE Anthony Weiner's Sexting Partner Sid ...
    Drew Hanley and Ex-Girlfriend Sydney Elaine Leathers The last woman Drew Hanley dated before he met his wife was Anthony Wieners latest public sexting partner Sidney Elaine Leathers. After learning of the relationship from his brother, I spoke to/emailed Drew Hanley about his ex. I s ...
  • Foreign Policy Farce: U.S. Conduct of Israel- ...
    By Barry Rubin Let's consider what has just happened. A farce. What is shocking is the lack of outrage by mainstream journalists and foreign policy opinion-makers. This has required the slanderous consignment of normal and proper and competent foreign policy practices--as would have bee ...

Wind Watch

  • DEP staff recommends rejecting Carroll Plantat ...
    CARROLL PLANTATION, Maine — An industrial wind site proposed for Bowers Mountain will be the second denied by the state’s top environmental agency if the department’s commissioner accepts a draft order, officials said Wednesday. In a 48-page draft decision that closely mirrors the rejection advi ...
  • Wind power falls short of targets
    New Brunswick’s commercial wind farms came up woefully short of their electrical production targets last year, new documents reveal. It is the fifth year in a row wind has failed to produce as much power as expected in the province. In filings with the Energy and Utilities Board earlier th ...
  • Planning Commission denies wind farm permits
    Baker County Planning Commissioners on Tuesday denied conditional-use permits for construction of a pair of wind farms near Huntington and Lime. Commissioners began deliberating about the projects last week. The large number of public comments at that time resulted in a meeting lasting more than ...
  • Wind farm owner sued for $1.8M
    Sheldon Township is suing the owners of the Settlers Trail Wind Farm in Iroquois County, claiming the company failed to properly restore township roads used to build the 94-turbine wind farm in 2011. The suit, which was filed last week in Iroquois County Circuit Court, seeks more than $1.8 milli ...
  • RAF warns turbines threaten pilots’ lives
    RAF chiefs fear pilots’ lives are being put at risk by the number of windfarms being built in the Moray area. Papers lodged with the Scottish Government show military top brass are worried that turbines are jeopardising the safety of fast jets returning to the key Lossiemouth base at speeds of u ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...
  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...

Facing South

  • DOJ to sue Texas under Voting Rights Act 'bail ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court may have struck down one provision of the Voting Rights Act, but the Department of Justice is turning to another to sue Texas over its discriminatory redistricting law. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: North Carolina turns back the ...
    The Republican-controlled N.C. legislature has passed the nation's most restrictive voting bill, but voters are fighting back -- and may get help from the U.S. Justice Department. read more
  • Restrictive NC voting bill sparks sit-in, talk ...
    North Carolina lawmakers are poised to pass the harshest voter photo ID law in the nation -- an effort that's been met with protests from voting rights advocates and talk of a possible lawsuit by the federal government. read more
  • Why is the White House aiding and abetting law ...
    A new report from environmental groups documents widespread disregard for the Clean Water Act by electric utilities -- and an effort by the White House Office of Management and Budget to dilute proposed EPA rules trying to curb the industry's water pollution problem. read more
  • NAACP links proposed NC voting changes to hist ...
    "If you know this history," said Rev. William Barber of the N.C. NAACP, "you understand why every North Carolinian ought to be sick to their stomach." read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

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Ian Welsh

  • People can believe pretty much anything
    This is something I may be posting on at length later, but Gary Olson has written a post that says much of what I’d say, albeit in a different way: It can’t be emphasized too strongly that all brains are basically alike, with the same equipment,but differing cultural experiences contribute ...
  • Start from common humanity
    The basic political principle is that we all share our humanity.  Compassion starts from imaging ourselves in other people’s skin, in feeling that pain and indignities to them, are injuries to our common humanity.  An injury, an injustice, to one of us, is an injury and injustice to all of ...
  • On Islam, Religion and Love
    As with many things, I’m no expert on Islam.  Nonetheless, within the limitations of my language skills, I’ve done the reading. One of the things which seems clear from the life of the Prophet, is that he made things better for women and slaves. Zakat is meant to be used, among other ...
  • The comment thread you should read
    Is this one.  It’s one of the reasons why I have no time for Iraq war pushers.  It’s one of the reasons why one of my friends used to say that the person who will wipe a major US city off the face of the planet has probably been born. Read it.  Feel the hatred. [...]
  • Michael Hastings
    died in a car accident.  He was most famous for reporting on General McChrystal’s attitude towards civilian authority, and ending his career. Buzzfeed has a good reminiscence. There is only one rule of writing which matters: tell your readers the truth as you know it.  Michael understood t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • 1000s stage anti-government demo in Peru
    AP – Thousands of anti-government protesters have clashed with riot police in Peru while marching towards the congress building in the capital. On Saturday, police used tear gas and batons in an attempt to halt the march in Lima, the Associated Press reported. Read article
  • Pesticides Contaminating Critters in Californi ...
    Live Science – Pesticides from California’s valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds. The chemicals include two fungicides never before found in wild frogs, said Kel ...
  • Study starts debate over Indonesia volcano
    SBS – A debated has been sparked over what triggered Indonesia’s Lusi mud volcano. Scientists have sparked a fresh debate over what triggered Indonesia’s Lusi mud volcano, still spewing truckloads of slime more than seven years after it leapt catastrophically into life.
  • Mysterious hum driving people crazy around the ...
    NBC – It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away. It’s known as the Hum, a steady, droning sound that’s heard in places as disparate as Taos, N.M.; Bristol, England; and Largs, Scotland. Read article
  • As parents die, Vietnamese worry who’ll care f ...
    McClatchy – Dang Chi Trung and his sister, Dang Chi Tam, live down a narrow alley in a small house that once belonged to their parents. The son and daughter of two lifelong Communist Party members who fought against the French in the 1950s and the Americans a decade later, they live on a g ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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libcom

  • Support Irina Lipskaya, imprisoned anarchist a ...
    iraupload2.jpg On 27th June 2013, the arrest of Irina was prolonged until 2nd October. She was arrested on 2nd July, 2012 which means that Irina has already spent more than one year in prison without ...
  • Mid Yorkshire health strike
    mid yorks strike.jpg Prolongued strike action in West Yorkshire hospitals has shown that attacks by the bosses can be fought off. read more
  • Support the Huddersfield 2
    Barclays11.jpg On 26th July two local anarchists are to be tried at Huddersfield Magistrates Court after they were arrested at an Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration on 6th April this year. The arrests occ ...
  • Building a Revolutionary Anarchism Speaking Tour
    545708_531809053500796_959639503_n.jpg A look at a speaking tour by Colin O'Malley about the idea of a nationwide revolutionary anarchist movement. ...
  • 100 years of anarchism in New Zealand celebrat ...
    100 years ago today, the Freedom Group was formed in Wellington, New Zealand. the activism of Josephs and others like him, whether from the soapbox or through the mailbox, played a key role in the ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Please – Call me a Christian Patriot!
    Please call me a Christian Patriot.   I did no work to earn that – but Jesus did it all for me.  
  • NSA Attrocities – THE FULL STORY BEHIND ...
    Ok, friends.  I haven’t wanted to tread on this ground simply because it has been my experience that it is well beyond the scope of most people to comprehend, even though it is all completely true.   Furthermore, nothing will label you a “crackpot conspiracy nut” by the “ ...
  • Glen Beck’s Latest Lying Insanity
    Beck is flat out Crazy as Bat Guana piled in a dark cave!   Typical Zionist Mormon propagandist – spewing false rhetoric while promoting a clear RELIGIOUS FRAUD that is deceitful in every conceivable way.    That FRAUD is modern-day “Jews” falsely laying claim to being the lite ...
  • Letter to President Obama From Snowden’s ...
    This letter says it all in a most powerful way!!!  The lies and hypocrisy of Barry Soetoro (aka Barak Obama) are stunning – remember his 2008 campaign promised to be totally “open and transparent”??     All lies!! WELL DONE MR. FEIN!!!  America should pin a medal on Edward Snow ...
  • Russell Tice Speaks Up – THE MORMON CONN ...
    First, listen to the original NSA whistleblower Russ Tice detail the extent of the criminality of the NSA cartel.  Imagine – illegally spying on Supreme Court Justices, Generals, Pentagon officials, in order to BLACKMAIL AND CONTROL THEM.    Above all, when most government agencies have fe ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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Scotts Contracting

  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israel Spurns Peace and Justice
    by Stephen Lendman They're verboten. They're off the table. They always were. They are now. Upcoming peace process pretense masks reality. Initiatives were stillborn from inception. They remain so. Palestinians genuinely want peace. Israel categorically denies them. Issues mattering most re ...
  • The unlikely bipartisan coalition
    Michael Collins Republicans and Democrats in the United States House of Representatives united last week to oppose Obama administration policies on meddling in the Syrian conflict and violating the privacy of citizens through pervasive collection of telephone records. A vote on lethal aid to S ...
  • Escalated Thatcherism in Britain
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed Thatcherism. It's Chicago School fundamentalism writ large. It's financial terrorism. It's hugely exploitative. It's forced-fed austerity. It's corporate welfare. It's mass privatizations. It benefits business and society's wealthy. It's governm ...
  • America: Super-Bully Nation
    by Stephen Lendman Count the ways. Obama's waging financial war on humanity. He's waging multiple direct and indirect hot ones. He bears full responsibility. He represents the worst of rogue leadership. He heads America's coup d'etat government. It "lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy ...
  • Israel: Talking Peace, Waging War
    by Stephen Lendman No peace talks convene next week in Washington. They're fake. They're subterfuge. They're meaningless. They never worked before. They're rigged to fail now. Israeli and US orchestrators assure it. So do longtime Palestinian collaborators. They're Israeli enforcers. They'r ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Canada Sinking Fast on Global List of Job Creators
    Jim Standord has posted a blog on the Progressive Economic Forum about Canada's dismal performance regarding job creation.  This blog complements the OECD's recently released Employment Outlook report. 
  • Applications Now Open for Next Up Saskatchewan!
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Saskatoon, Vancouve ...
  • Applications open for the Next Up youth leader ...
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Vancouver, Edmonto ...
  • Education and the art of social justice
    From teaching dance to elementary school students, to using poetry about conflict in the Middle East to facilitate a classroom discussion about difference and acceptance, the arts provide students with opportunities to engage more deeply with their learning process(es), expose injustice, and wor ...
  • Panel to review Ontario's minimum wage
    The Ontario government has named a six-person panel to study a possible increase to the province's minimum wage, which has been frozen at $10.25 an hour since 2010. Read the news story about the panel here. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in this blog post that Ontario accounts for ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
  • Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
    "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...
  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013
    This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower and geothermal power. Some of the ...
  • Renewable Energy Status Update 2013
    Today I begin a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because the past two posts have dealt with the Keystone XL pipeline project, I thought it would be a good change of pace to kick off this series by looking at the current global picture of rene ...
  • Protecting a Drowning Man from Sunburn
    There is lots of extrapolating, and emphasis on the potential for burning all of Alberta's oil sands. Yet all of the extrapolating in the world, writes Robert Rapier, doesn't take away from the fact that oil -- over the course of the next century or more -- will make a relatively insignificant c ...
  • The Increasing Irrelevance of the Keystone XL ...
    Last week President Obama unveiled a new plan to combat climate change in a speech at Georgetown University. While there is generally broad consensus that his comments further threaten the already battered US coal industry, his comments on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline project had pundits g ...
  • Avoiding Energy’s Big Buts
    It is true that wind and solar power are intermittent, writes Robert Rapier. However, we do not have a single energy source that doesn't have a downside associated with it.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Is Your Diet Breeding MRSA?
    Here's a shocker: Your shopping habits could be destroying modern medicine. Certainly, that's not your intention, but every time we drop a standard meat product into our shopping carts, we're supporting the dark side of the food industry, one that uses millions of pounds of antibiotics to raise ...
  • 6 Recipes for a Gluten-Free Summer
    Recipes adapted from Flat Belly Diet! Gluten-Free Cookbook The second half of your summer doesn't have to be loaded with all of the refined carbs typically found at summer cookouts. All of those store-bought hamburger and hotdog buns could be leading to unnecessary weight gain, actually trigger ...
  • Scientists: Farm Chemicals Causing Massive Bee ...
    A class of insecticides called neonicotinioids appears to be decimating wildlife, including bees, bats, and amphibians, according to a new multinational study from researchers from the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands. The research, published in the Journal of Environmental Immunology and To ...
  • Congressmen Attempt to Save Honeybees
    Congressmen can bee friendly, too. A pair of Democrats, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Earl Bluemenauer (D-OR), introduced the Saving America's Pollinators Act of 2013, legislation that if passed, would require the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily suspend the use of certain inse ...
  • Survive Your Next Power Outage
    Blistering heat waves, deadly tornadoes, powerful hurricanes, and "superstorms"…what do they all have in common? The ability to knock out your power within minutes and leave you in the dark for days and possibly even weeks. And it's getting more and more likely that you'll be dealing with more ...

big think

  • Essential Life Skill #2: Perspective Taking
    What's the Big Idea?  Emotional intelligence, a term coined by psychologist Daniel Goleman and closely connected with the work of Howard Gardner on “multiple intelligences”, has become a powerful frame of reference for employers. Numerous studies have shown that the ability to understand ...
  • How Frequent Are Sexual Side Effects?
    If you read popular articles about antidepressants, it's easy to get the impression that drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, Cymbalta, Luvox, etc. are primarily psychoactive drugs that specifically alter brain chemistry. Indeed, this is what the drug companies want you to think. Depressed ...
  • Does Age Predict Technology Adoption?
    A common perception is that ‘older people’ (whatever age that is) do not adopt technology as quickly as younger users. It appears some preferences may be ageless. Consider the e-book or e-reader. Whether a Kindle, Nook, Sony or another manufacturer, one might assume that these pieces of high-tec ...
  • A Post-Scientific Thought Experiment
    Real estate seems to be as concrete as it gets.  It’s the land that we stand on, and yet, on the other hand, it is as abstract as it gets.  It is something that somehow we own in spite of the fact that it existed before us and will be around long after we are here. Science is al ...
  • Why Dogs Are Amazing Copy Cats
    Dogs are capable of copying our behavior as long as 10 minutes after it's happened. Watch trainers teach dogs to imitate human behaviors here:   Read More

Information Liberation

  • 'Pepper spray cop' demands pay for 'psychiatri ...
    A police officer who was caught on camera hosing down a group of student protesters with pepper spray for no apparent reason has filed for worker*s compensation, asking taxpayers to pay him for a *psychiatric injury* he claims to have sustained in th...
  • Radley Balko on The Rise of The Warrior Cop
    Over the years, the lines between military soldiers and police have become more and more blurred. The Department of Homeland Security has provided local law enforcement agencies across the country with military-grade weaponry such as armor, tanks a...
  • St. Pete Police Officer Christopher Goodwin su ...
    A St. Petersburg Police officer has been temporarily suspended for dragging a woman into the Pinellas County Jail. ...
  • 7th Heaven Marijuana Parody
    Hilarious video via reddit....
  • U.S. Refused Italy's Extradition Request for C ...
    After an Italian court convicted ex-CIA Cief Robert Seldon Lady on a kidnapping charge in Milan, it requested his extradition from Panama. Panama being a vassal state of the U.S. sent him back to the U.S., which by this means thwarted or refused Ital...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
    Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →
  • No Big Deal
    Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
    This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →
  • Libel, Reputation and Thin Air
    This isn’t something I had planned to discuss any time soon, but recent headlines in Australia have pushed it to the head of the queue. If you don’t follow Australian politics closely, you may have missed the recent news that … Continue reading →
  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Pale Blue Dot 2.1
    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Business Impact of BLM’s Proposed Fracki ...
    Business Impact of Revised Completion Regulations John Dunham and Associates http://bit.ly/1dPOHyC [Fuel Fix] The Obama administration’s proposed rules on hydraulic fracturing would cost an average $96,913 per well, according to a study commissioned by two oil industry groups. The Western Energy ...
  • Closing the Floodgates: How the Coal Industry ...
    Western North Carolina Alliance http://bit.ly/13IHONY [Earthjustice] A new report released today by a coalition of environmental and clean water groups, highlights the critical need to clean up power plant water pollution. The report, Closing the Floodgates: How the Coal Industry Is Poisoning Ou ...
  • An Overview of Unconventional Oil and Natural ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43148.pdf The United States has seen a resurgence in petroleum production, mainly driven by technology improvements—hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling—developed for natural gas production from shale formations. Applicatio ...
  • State of the Plug-in Electric Vehicle Market
    Electrification Coalition | PricewaterhouseCoopers http://electrificationcoalition.org/StateEVMarket [Greenwire] The cost of batteries for electric vehicles is expected to drop by half and battery electric vehicles with 100-mile ranges will be the cheapest cars to own and operate in less th ...
  • North of England has Twice as Much Shale Gas a ...
    Bowland Shale Gas Study UK Department of Energy & Climate Change https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bowland-shale-gas-study [Sky News] …a recent report from the British Geological Survey revealed there was twice as much shale gas in the north of England as previously thought. O ...

Scientific American - News

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • All night Anti-shale gas truck seizure, road b ...
    Interview with District War Chief Jason Okay ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK - Last night, July 27th, about 35 anti-shale gas activists blockaded a 20 ton truck, subcontracted to SWN Resources Canada, for over 8 hours. The truck, filled with ...
  • Appel urgent - Menaces de mort et attaques à l ...
    La coordination du Réseau du Forum social de Québec Chaudière-Appalaches invite les gens à joindre leur voix à l'appel urgent du PASC auprès des autorités colombiennes (À Québec – 26 juillet 2013) — Les 13 et 14 juillet 201 ...
  • Christine Saulnier: Consider this an Outcry ab ...
    By Christine Saulnier, director of the CCPA-NS. This blog was originally posted at Behind the Numbers, a blog from the CCPA.  The government’s response to our recent report on special needs income assistance ...
  • "We Want Our Meds!"
    Ontario Hep C Action Coalition demands treatment access ...
  • Call for Pitches: Send us your story proposals ...
    We know they're out there: those stories, actions and ideas that are ignored by the corporate media but are shaping the world we live in. We want to share more of those stories, so we're looking for your news pitches!  You can submit your pitch online here. We accept several article ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The "North Korean Propaganda" film: a discussion
    David Seaton's News LinksA YouTube video purported to be a leaked North Korean propaganda film has been making the Internet rounds. The film, which has been called scarily accurate, criticizes Western capitalism, consumerism and celebrity culture. Update: The clip is actually from a 2012 documen ...
  • Snowden... what if?
    David Seaton's News LinksDisclaimer: I would start off by saying that whoever or whatever Edward Snowden is, I believe that he has performed an important and useful service to America and to the world by revealing the extent of the National Security Agency's spying programs.  This universal ...
  • The death of Trayvon Martin
    David Seaton's News LinksTaking the whole thing into account, taking as given America's history of racial tension, thus taking as given the practical inevitability of "racial profiling" I think the root cause of Trayvon Martin's death was that George Zimmerman was allowed to carry a pistol.Racia ...
  • Could a Nobel Peace Prize injure the sphincter ...
    David Seaton's News Links"None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly any assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree." - Foreign Operations, Export Fi ...
  • Alexis de Tocqueville defines Barack Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksAlexis de Tocqueville Quote of the day: "Very few monarchs, from Augustus to our day, have failed to keep up the outward forms of freedom while they destroyed its substance, in the hope that they might combine the moral power of public approval with the peculiar convenie ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 26 July 2013
    Today is fun with wide-angle lenses day. In this picture, Domino is a giant among cats, ready to envelop the entire world in her Brobdingnagian paws. My sister wanted me to do something to commemorate the birth of Prince George Alexander Louis, and if I'd had a little cat-sized crown I would h ...
  • Obama Should Commit to a Trillion-Dollar Infra ...
    Barry Ritholtz passes along the chart on the right from the McKinsey Global Institute. It shows how much various countries spend on infrastructure compared to future demand. On the far right, Japan is spending a lot more than it needs. On the far left, the United States is spending a lot less. ...
  • One NSA Reform Proposal Has Failed, But There ...
    In a normal court case, there are lawyers on both sides. But when the secret FISA court is deciding whether to approve the collection of phone records on 300 million Americans, only one side gets a lawyer. In fact, there's only one side, period. Greg Sargent reports on a proposal to fix this: ...
  • Fake Facts Update: George Zimmerman and the 46 ...
    Bob Somerby is not pleased: We live in a culture which runs on fake facts....And one fact is plain above all: Absolutely nobody cares! Paul Krugman won’t complain about this. Kevin Drum won't talk about this; neither will E. J. Dionne. And when our best and our brightest won&rs ...
  • The Cost of Austerity: 3 Million Jobs
    Here is the Congressional Budget Office's latest estimate of the economic benefit of eliminating sequestration: Those changes would increase the level of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.7 percent and increase the level of employment by 0.9 million in the third ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 402: Nolan’s Back
    Kriss is really excited about SDCC news Kriss goes off on nerds Kev tries to steal a man’s girlfriend…then embarrasses the dude in front of her A man that is really bad at parallel parking The horrible Gladiator 2 script Share with your friends:
  • IC 401: Distraction
    Most people are aware of how rough this week has been so this show is Kriss, Kev & Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips trying to have a show focused on the more fun things in life. Random topics and reading back some listener emails. Also Kriss recorded his thoughts earlier in the day [...]
  • IC 400: Dear White People
    400 shows Kev retells some stories about his Europe trip Race relations break down when The Insanity Check takes a break What people don’t understand about the Paula Deen situation White people trolling The Zimmerman Trial Dear White People Jon Jones is the Lebron James of the UFC The misu ...
  • IC 399: Man of Feel
    Kriss wasn’t impressed by E3 Games aren’t the next generation of consoles Fanboys complaining about Microsoft giving them what they’ve been asking for Sony’s smart PR war The Next-Gen is a marathon not a sprint Man of Steel & Nerds Why nerds get defensive about block ...
  • IC 398: Tentacle Porn
    NSA whitleblower goes to China Osama Bin Laden died horribly as a former rich guy Why no one fucks with Japan Man breaks into houses and sucks unsuspecting men’s dicks The Rock is having a good year Marvel Studio’s has some great casting Women have bad online dating profiles too Kris ...

Simple Climate

  • How a beer bottle helped reveal rapid past cli ...
    University of Copenhagen’s Willi Dansgaard's method for linking rainfall to temperature grew from a simple back garden experiment to a way to decipher Earth’s climate history from kilometre-long cylinders of ice.
  • Speeding poor countries’ progress could halve ...
    Reducing the ‘yield gap’ between rich and poor countries could almost halve the increase in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from farming between 2010 and 2050, say Hugo Valin from the IIASA in Austria and his teammates.
  • Scientists spotlight rock’s role in carbon cap ...
    Comparing three carbon capture and storage sites shows how the makeup of the rocks that CO2 is pumped into influences the risk of leakage, find University of Bristol’s James Verdon and colleagues.
  • Extra climate targets urge faster CO2 cuts
    Avoiding damage from climate change needs multiple goals that would mean even lower carbon emissions than for temperature limits alone, Marco Steinacher and his team from the University of Bern, Switzerland, have found.
  • Extra climate targets urge faster CO2 cuts
    Avoiding damage from climate change needs multiple goals that would mean even lower carbon emissions than for temperature limits alone, Marco Steinacher and his team from the University of Bern, Switzerland, have found.

e!Science News

  • Evolution on the inside track: How viruses in ...
    Humans are far more than merely the sum total of all the cells that form the organs and tissues. The digestive tract is also home to a vast colony of bacteria of all varieties, as well as the myriad viruses that prey upon them. Because the types of bacteria carried inside the body vary from pers ...
  • Empowering your customers? Think twice about s ...
    Companies that empower consumers by involving them in important processes such as product development shouldn't also try to influence them through social media, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
  • Buying a used car? Be sure to flatter the seller
    Consumers set high prices when selling their possessions because they feel threatened, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
  • From embarrassing Facebook posts to controvers ...
    Increased use of digital communication is causing consumers to lose their inhibitions and "overshare" online, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
  • Removing complexity layers from the universe's ...
    Complicated statistical behaviour observed in complex systems such as early universe can often be understood if it is broken down into simpler ones. Two physicists, Petr Jizba (currently affiliated with the Czech Technical University in Prague), and Fabio Scardigli (now working at Kyoto Universi ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Time To Surrender GOP
    Never before has America seen such an organized attempt by one political party to oppose legislation that would help so many citizens. Since Obamacare was passed and signed into law, the Republicans have trying to repeal it, repeatedly lie about it’s benefits, and do all they can to keep 4 ...
  • From Daily Kos – Before Black Presidents
    •  Deliberately sabotaging economic recovery was not considered a legitimate option for the opposition party.
  • Kathleen McMorris Rodgers Is Right – Gov ...
    Here is some nonsense babbled by Kathleen McMorris Rodgers, a congress critter from in Eastern Washington State. “”We know that Washington is broken,” writes Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), chair of the House Republican Conference, in the guide. “It spends too much ...
  • From Daily Koz
    “One difference between liberals and conservatives is, liberals correct their mistakes to keep up with reality while conservatives correct their reality to keep up with their mistakes.”
  • Female? Republican?
    Are you f-ing insane?

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
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    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
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    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
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    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
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    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...

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