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2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Bees, India, Climate Change ...
    The new reality of heat waves will diminish both the quality and quantity of foods commonly grown. We’ll all have to make adjustments to cope with our planet’s changing behavior, including efforts to reverse the loss of biodiversity through over-reliance on monocropping.
  • What Would Rachel Carson Do?
    A recent incident that occurred in the house I used to occupy would have Rachel Carson turning over in her grave.
  • Italian entrepreneur drives the extra mile for ...
    No doubt Stefano realizes he cannot provide the requisite food system glue all by his onesies, but perhaps he'll consent to being a one-man stopgap until more passionate foodie entrepreneurs like himself rush in where ordinary capitalists fear to tread.
  • Fair Trade versus Organic: Perspective from Gu ...
    Witnessing first hand the struggles of the small-scale, fledgling farmers in rural Guatemala, I now have a better sense of the social implications of my food choices.
  • CLF Week in Links: Superbugs, Immigration Refo ...
    GOP House leaders called the Sentate immigration bill “flawed legislation.” Let Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) know what you think @repgoodlatte.

k2p blog

  • Noted in Passing – 28th July 2013
    Noted in Passin 28th July 2013
  • Canada used indigenous children to “stud ...
    Less well known were two separate long-term studies that went so far as to include controlled experiments conducted, apparently without the subjects’ informed consent or knowledge, on malnourished Aboriginal populations in Northern Manitoba and, later, in six Indian residential schools.
  • Canada used indigenous children to “stud ...
    Less well known were two separate long-term studies that went so far as to include controlled experiments conducted, apparently without the subjects’ informed consent or knowledge, on malnourished Aboriginal populations in Northern Manitoba and, later, in six Indian residential schools.
  • The lunar nodal cycle and its effects on climate
    The lunar nodal cycle is not something that is very well known but it is another celestial cycle which is clearly not to be ignored. Naturally the IPCC takes no notice of solar cycles, planetary cycles or lunar cycles and all these are lumped into what could be considered "natural variability".
  • The lunar nodal cycle and its effects on climate
    The lunar nodal cycle is not something that is very well known but it is another celestial cycle which is clearly not to be ignored. Naturally the IPCC takes no notice of solar cycles, planetary cycles or lunar cycles and all these are lumped into what could be considered "natural variability".

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • NSA Whistleblowers Praise Snowden at GAP Confe ...
    International Business Times: FISA Court Should Directly Monitor Spying Agency, Former NSA Analyst Says This article quotes NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake, Bill Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe, all of whom spoke yesterday at a GAP conference at the National Press Club. The three former spy agency em ...
  • NSA Whistleblowers Praise Snowden at GAP Whist ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) conference "Whistleblowers, Journalists, and the New War Within" held yesterday, July 25, at the National Press Club featured a panel of three ex-NSA whistleblowers, along with experts on digital surveillance, telecom systems engineering, and whistlebl ...
  • House Narrowly Defeats Bill to Stop NSA Blanke ...
    New York Times: House Defeats Effort to Rein in NSA Data Gathering Last night, the House of Representatives, in the first Congressional vote related to the disclosures of NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden, narrowly defeated legislation that would have restricted the NSA's blanket ...
  • House Amendment Would Limit NSA Surveillance: ...
    Guardian: House Forces Vote on Amendment that Would Limit NSA Bulk Surveillance July 23, 2013 Summary: Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to vote on an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill that would restrict NSA surveillance activities exposed by whistleblower Edw ...
  • NYT Reporter James Risen: "I Will Always Prote ...
    On Friday, July 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the First Amendment does not protect New York Times reporter James Risen from revealing the source(s) who provided him with information for a chapter in his 2006 book State of War. The 2-1 decision overturned a lower ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • WARNING: Using a different computer could chan ...
    How bad are these global forecast models? When the same model code with the same data is run in a different computing environment (hardware, operating system, compiler, libraries, optimizer), the results can differ significantly. So even if reviewers or critics obtained a climate model, they co ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
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  • The real free market is making the fake carbon ...
    In a nutshell, this new study adds numbers and detail to a home truth that the grown ups in the room know already.  Basically humans  want cheap energy. The free market, powered by human creativity and mass demand, will always find ways to circumvent national policies that try to force people to ...
  • Let’s burn forests and millions of dolla ...
    7:30 Report, ABC Nothing succeeds in flagrant waste quite like Big-Government. Following in Soviet footsteps with gusto, politicians all persuasions manage business failure on a grand scale. Did you miss yet another case-study on 7:30 report from last week (see the segment there)? A mass of taxp ...
  • A Handy-Dandy Carbon Tax Temperature-Savings C ...
     Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger have created a calculator of exactly how many degrees of global warming will be averted if the IPCC is right. I can’t think why the IPCC didn’t do this before. For example, if all industrialized nations  achieve a 100 ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

Facing South

  • 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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • British Joy and Syrian Blood
    In April 2011 when all mainstream media were jabbering about British royal wedding, NATO aircrafts were bombarding Tripoli, Sirte and other Libya cities killing innocent civilians. Then Libyan children even congratulated the couple showing a picture during a press-conference in Tripoli: the bloo ...
  • Watergate & Snowdengate
    40 years of walking in desert in search of democracy It happened 40 years ago – in 1973. There was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. to install tapping devices so that Republican President Richard Nixon could mon ...
  • On Leaks and Pseudo-Reality: The US’ Futile Se ...
    Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a Hollywood account of how US SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011. But a recently leaked report shows that the ‘riveting’ Hollywood account of the ‘greatest manhunt of ...
  • American Liberty in Need of Renovation
    On U.S. Independence Day on July 4 the symbol of American democracy, the Statue of Liberty, was reopened to visitors. If it had not been a gift from France to the American people, then the sculpture, which was designed by a French architect, cast from Russian copper and placed on a pedestal made ...
  • Russian FM: “There Cannot Be A Military Soluti ...
    While a politically brokered end to the war in Syria seems more remote than ever, and most recent intelligence and reports indicate that a major political and military campaign against Syria is scheduled for August and September, Russia´s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, reiterated, that there c ...

BlogHer

  • A Life Full of Anti-Role Models
    In moments of discouragment and depression when I am about to give up on my dreams and hopes, I tend to look around me for a source of inspiration. I am lucky enough to find that in other women around me, although not in the form I want it. I would love to know a woman (I know she is out there) ...
  • A Life Full of Anti-Role Models
    In moments of discouragment and depression when I am about to give up on my dreams and hopes, I tend to look around me for a source of inspiration. I am lucky enough to find that in other women around me, although not in the form I want it. I would love to know a woman (I know she is out there) ...
  • I Miss the Freedom I Had Before Motherhood
    The question usually comes from people who don't qualify as friends -- acquaintances at best, usually total strangers. They coo over your baby or smile politely at your child hanging upside down from the monkey bars at the playground. "Don't you just love being a mom?" Well, uh, sure, total stra ...
  • I Miss the Freedom I Had Before Motherhood
    The question usually comes from people who don't qualify as friends -- acquaintances at best, usually total strangers. They coo over your baby or smile politely at your child hanging upside down from the monkey bars at the playground. "Don't you just love being a mom?" Well, uh, sure, total stra ...
  • 13 Cute Summer Sandals Under $150
    What I love most about summer is shopping for cute sandals. I love to buy everything from open toe flats to wedges. Personally, I dislike seeing women just wear flip flops all summer. I think to myself, man, they're missing out on all the pretty sandals, and why are they subjecting their feet to ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • The Best Natural Antibiotics
    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibacterial power of the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928. Even though it was a natural healing agent effective in destroying Staphylococcus aureus and other noxious bacteria, the pharmaceutical industry got ... Related posts:Scientist ...
  • Baby Einstein product recalled after complaint ...
          Kids II has voluntarily recalled over 400,000 units of the Baby Einstein “Musical Motion Activity Jumper” in the United States and Canada after receiving nearly 100 complaints about the product, Medical Daily reported. Of the incidents ... Rela ...
  • Natural Cures For Depression
    At any given time, close to 20 million adults in the United States suffer from a medical illness that sends your body and mind on a roller coaster ride. Contrary to popular belief, you just ... Related posts:23 Natural Alternatives For Depression Many people have struggle ...
  • Why Skipping Breakfast Might Raise Risk Of Hea ...
          Breakfast has long gotten a good rap for everything from aiding weight loss to improving focus in the classroom. And ever since the Alameda County study in California back in the 1960s linked breakfast — along with a host of other ... Related posts:Sitting ...
  • Bayer and US Government Knowingly Gave HIV to ...
          What if a company that you thought you could trust, knowingly sold you a medicine for your child that they knew had the potential to give your child HIV? How would you react? What if ... Related posts:US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice on Childr ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, July 26, 2013
    Jose Antonio, 55 years old and coal worker, carries fuel to prepare  the mountain of charcoal he is making, to sell during the summer season in his small town of Viloria, northern Spain on Friday, July 19, 2013.  Charcoal making by heating wood under a mound of earth is an old tradition in the m ...
  • EIA: Coal market fundamentals have changed
    Here’s the latest from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration: While coal market fundamentals changed in first-half 2013 compared with the same period of 2012, spot prices remained largely unchanged. Demand for coal was higher and supply was lower in first- ...
  • Coal’s role in Appalachia’s drug p ...
    The other evening, during a panel discussion following a Charleston screening of the film “Oxyana,”, there were apparently some questions raised about the coal industry’s role in the prescription drug abuse crisis in the Appalachian coalfields. Dave Boucher over at the Daily Ma ...
  • House passes Rep. McKinley’s latest coal ...
    In this Dec. 22, 2008 file photo, an aerial view shows homes that were destroyed when a retention pond wall collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authorities Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn.  U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Varlan ruled Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 that The Tennessee Valley Auth ...
  • Getting it done? W.Va. Democrats double down o ...
    The Gazette’s Dr. Paul Nyden has the story this morning about what West Virginia Democrats were billing yesterday as a major announcement regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: State Democratic Party leaders, along with union and business leaders, announced Tuesday they are se ...

Daniel Miessler

  • I’m Quite Unhappy with Obama Right Now
    Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, ...
  • Media = AppleTV, Netflix, and AirPlay
    I’m a bit impressed right now with that media experience I’m getting with Apple. To be clear, it’s like 20% of what it should be, but damn, that’s pretty good. AirPlay is way better than it sounds when someone describes it. When I sit at home and play music I play it to o ...
  • Google+ is Stuck in the Uncanny Valley
    Plenty of people have Google+ accounts, but do many people actually use them for being social? Marketing Land reports that online brand management firm Gigya has released new data showing that Google’s social network only accounts for 2% of all social sharing across the web. The most embarrassin ...
  • Don’t Conflate the Actions of Manning and Snowden
    image from dailydot.com I’m not an expert on the Manning and Snowden cases, and to what extent that I could be I’m not sure it would help that much. Outside of the government and the actors themselves it’s difficult to truly know what all has taken place. What we do (seem to) k ...
  • Sharing as the Ultimate in Decentralizing Disr ...
    Airbnb has also spawned its own ecosystem — ordinary people who will now come clean your home, coordinate key exchanges, cook dinner for you and your guests, photograph rooms for rent, and through the ride-sharing business Lyft, turn their cars into taxis to drive you around. “It used to be that ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Some amazing technological advances
    I am getting lots of similar news and sometimes I collide with some of them in the media. Sometimes they sound amazing. First, MIT has developed a perfect mirror – a material that reflects electromagnetic waves without any losses. Now, Tesla Motors and Colorado's company SpaceX b ...
  • Arctic methane bubbles will destroy 1/2 of you ...
    Tons of journalists have promoted a "Stern review on steroids", namely a commentary about the Arctic methane that Gail Whiteman, Chris Hope & Peter Wadhams have published in Nature: Climate science: Vast costs of Arctic change. For the sake of brevity and accuracy, I will refer to the author ...
  • John Dalton: an anniversary
    ...and also Baron Loránd Eötvös... This CV looks ordinary but it is an experiment. ;-) John Dalton was born to a family of a weaver (and Quakers, independent Christians dissatisfied with the existing denominations) in Northwest England on September 6th, 1766. He died on July 27th, ...
  • Reuters' climate alarmism down by 50% since 2012
    Media Matters for America, a propaganda arm of the neo-Stalinist movement in the U.S., has complained that the number of articles published by Reuters that promote the unlimited climate hysteria has dropped by 48 percent in the recent 12 months. They take the data and interpretations from D ...
  • Spanish train crash: quantifying the acceleration
    A tragically motivated homework problem in mechanics Chances are that you have already seen the dramatic video of the Wednesday Santiago de Compostela derailment. Warning: the following video is brutal. 78 people died and 145 extra ones were injured. In total, it's 223 people – m ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Indiana officials seek cause of fatal church b ...
    A bus carrying teenagers from a youth camp in northern Michigan was just minutes from home when it came speeding off an Indianapolis interstate, struck a retaining wall and flipped on its side. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Bus ...
  • Fast & Furious Murdered Border Patrol Agent’s ...
    from Fox News, via MichaelSavage4Prez: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Judge Jeanine Pirro – Obama Admin LIED To America About Benghazi from MichaelSavage4Prez: SGTreport &#8211 ...
  • Egypt death toll rises to 72 in pro-Morsi protests
    The death toll from weekend clashes between supporters of Egypt’s ousted president and security forces backed by armed civilians in Cairo has risen to 72, the deadliest single outbreak of violence since the army deposed the Islamist Mohammed Morsi in a July 3 coup, a health ministry offici ...
  • Book Update 2: The Armageddon Letters
    from Armageddon Letters: (C) 2013 The Balsillie School of International Affairs SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Glenn Beck’s New “Eye of Moloch” Book Exposes the Illuminati? fro ...
  • The Resident: “Let’s put some a&$es in jail”
    from RTAmerica: In a recent interview with Reason.com, former police officer Justin Hanners revealed how he was fired for speaking out against quotas. He secretly recorded his sergeant talking to officers about quotas, providing unequivocal proof that quotas are, indeed, a very real problem. Oth ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Statoil signals cost cuts
    Norwegian state oil company Statoil is poised for another round of cost-cutting after reporting a 74 percent decline in its profits for the first half of this year. Even though Statoil has enjoyed record-high oil prices in recent years and several major new discoveries, its stock hasn’t pe ...
  • UD faces claims of discrimination
    Staff employed locally at Norwegian embassies around the world, all run by Norway’s foreign ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD), claim they’re often treated quite differently than the diplomats and staff sent to the embassies from Norway. Lower pay, poorer benefits, less protection ...
  • Judge’s home burns down, arson feared
    The family of a judge in Hamar is under special protection after their home was destroyed in a fire that police believe was set by an arsonist, local newspaper Hamar Dagblad – Østlendingen reported. The judge was not at home, but a daughter and her girlfriend were trapped in the burning ho ...
  • Norway ready for Euro 2013 final
    Norway’s female football stars beat Denmark’s national team in a dramatic semi-final on Thursday night, securing a ticket for the final against Germany this weekend. Their success in the European Championships has also sparked new interest in Norway in organizing a future Euro tournament. ...
  • More foreign aid abuse revealed
    The Norwegian government has paid out tens of billions of kroner to fund foreign aid projects around the world since 2007. A new report found irregularities or malpractice in fully half the projects funded with Norwegian taxpayers’ money, but only a few cases have been prosecuted. Norway&# ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Linkfest – Edition 18
    Welcome to round eighteen of our News Linkfest, where we share the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain interesting from what we’ve seen of late. To have your interesting discoveries included in the next Linkfest, please email editor (at) permaculturenews.org with links (and ideally ...
  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    This is the early Winter post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found here. Gro ...
  • Whoever Invented the Fishfinger (Musical Inter ...
    Whoever Invented The Fishfinger by Leon Rosselson on Grooveshark Click play just above to hear the song, and lyrics follow: Whovever invented the fishfinger, ought to be transmogrified. Skinned mashed and boxed, into uniform blocks, then covered in breadcrumbs, from collar t ...
  • The Dawn of Cybernetic Civilization
    Humanity appears to be in the grip of a global system – one that we originally created, but which is now shaping our lives independently of our wishes. I’ve recently begun to suspect that humanity is at a point of endosymbiosis with our electronic communications and control technolog ...
  • Fossil Fuel Use Pushes Carbon Dioxide Emission ...
    by Emily E. Adams, Earth Policy Institute Increasing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping gas, are pushing the world into dangerous territory, closing the window of time to avert the worst consequences of higher temperatures, such as melting ice and rising seas. Since the d ...

Pointman's

  • A quarter of a million pages later.
    The pages read counter on this blog is closing in on 250,000, so it seems to be a natural review point. The blog came out of an extended discussion with some friends that occurred at the height of climate hysteria. We could all see the damage it was doing but for them it was an … Read ...
  • Know your enemy: the establishment journalist.
    The origins of journalism go back a long way. For most of agrarian history, there were individuals who travelled from settlement to settlement, mainly trading goods but part of what they did was bring the news of what was happening in those distant lands twenty or more miles away. Beyond the new ...
  • Know your enemy: the environmental regulator.
    If you work in an industry and gain a reputation for being one of the more knowledgeable people knocking around in it, you’ll eventually be asked to attend external meetings to discuss things like standards or simply to represent the particular sector you are working in. They’re usua ...
  • The pause.
    There’s a book called Puckoon by the wildly erratic comedy writer Spike Milligan. It concerns the travails suffered by a fictional village of the same name, as the boundary commission draws the border between Northern Ireland and the new Republic of Eire in the aftermath of the War of Inde ...
  • Know your enemy : the alarmist scientist.
    I’d like to preface this piece by saying there are a number of scientists doing significant work in the field of climate science whom I deeply respect. They have all along raised the balanced doubts about the supposedly “settled” science and I’ve no doubt taken some easil ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...
  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...
  • Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • The elephant in the room: it’s immigrati ...
    Both sides of Australian politics are once again playing the game of "getting tough on people smugglers", taking turns to sound more aggressive, ruthless and brutal in turning back boats filled with people less fortunate than ourselves. Tony Abbott has declared a "national emergency" and plans ...
  • A heart to heart talk with Fair Dinkum Leon - ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Leon Pittard, host of Fair Dinkum Radio, a show which lifts the lid on the sordid mess of corruption, propaganda and disinformation which characterizes Australian public discourse on virtually any topic. During the show we go through issues of the da ...
  • Craig Isherwood outlines plans for a Cyprus st ...
    Craig Isherwood is the National Secretary of the Citizen's Electoral Council (CEC). The CEC recently launched a petition to the Commonwealth Parliament, calling for immediate legislation to enact a Glass-Steagall-style banking separation in Australia, to protect deposits and essential banking se ...
  • The psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks
    As the psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks steps up I want to offer my perspective on some aspects of the situation. Firstly, we have to recognise that in situations where the powers that be are powerless to directly control outcomes, they often resort to indirect means, specifically: ...
  • The pale shadow of democracy
    In today's show we cover the bizarre turn of events in Australian politics which has seen the return of Kevin Rudd as the nation's Prime Minister. Is this democracy in action, or is it just the pale shadow of democracy? We also share some clips from ABC's coverage of the Edward Snowden story w ...

Beacon

  • Anonymous Heroes
    Photo: © OCEANA | Claudia Pool The coal-fired power plants in Las Ventanas in Chile look like something out of science fiction.  They loom larger than life over the bay, their pipes extending like the legs of some huge prehistoric spider out into the water where they deposit contami ...
  • Dolphin Escapes Pen to Reunite with Her Pod Af ...
    Sampal in the temporary sea pen that she eventually escaped from to reunite with her pod l Photo: KAWA Dolphins Seapen We always knew that dolphins were incredible, but this story made our jaws drop – a dolphin, captured and held in captivity for several years, escaped from her pen and reunit ...
  • All Too Familiar: Offshore Drilling Explosion ...
    NOT AGAIN: Rig explodes and catches fire today in Gulf of Mexico l Photo: U.S. Coast Guard The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement confirmed this morning that an oil and gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico has ignited, causing an offshore drilling explosion and subsequent fire.&nbsp ...
  • Congressman Pallone Challenges Secretary of In ...
    Congressman Frank Pallone, defender of the oceans and the creatures that call them home! In a House Natural Resources Committee meeting last week, Congressman Frank Pallone of New Jersey expressed his strong opposition to proposed seismic airgun testing along the Atlantic coast, and even deli ...
  • Court Upholds Protections for Steller Sea Lions
    Photo: Daniel Hershman We’re pleased to share with you that yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld necessary protections for the endangered Western Population of Steller sea lions, recognizing that this threatened population still needs protection from industrial fishing. The pr ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

  • Hyper, mega, ultra: talking in superlatives
    One of the ultra-fascinating facets of Japanese is its super-large arsenal of intensifying prefixes that provide an otherwise neutral expression with some emphatic edge. The ...
  • Refreshed Donovan energizes U.S. team
    Burned out and exhausted from more than a decade as the standard bearer for the U.S. soccer team, Landon Donovan needed a break. For four months ...
  • Snedeker grabs Canadian Open lead after Mahan ...
    Brandt Snedeker was on the seventh tee when he noticed something wasn't quite right. He couldn't find Hunter Mahan's name at the top of the Canadian ...
  • Isner outplays Hewitt to reach final
    Top-seeded John Isner and second-seeded Kevin Anderson set up what Atlanta Open officials will be the "tallest" final in ATP Tour history. The 208-cm Isner beat ...
  • Eagles rally to sweep Marines
    Shintaro Masuda singled in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Eagles came from behind to ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The absurdity and injustice of now
    I’m back from a short sabbatical, grateful for some time outside of my daily work and home life, feeling all big picture. But as I settle back into work, I feel like I’m seated in a Theatre of the Absurd play. My news feeds are pulling up astonishing things. Exhibit one: the North Po ...
  • PotashCorp Reports Inadequate Royalties
    PotashCorp reported today that it paid $81 million of “provincial mining and other taxes” on $975 million of potash sales in the second quarter of 2013. In other words, Saskatchewan’s potash production tax and resource surcharge amounted to 8% of potash sales. Adding the basic Crown royalty of j ...
  • Average Weekly Earnings: Wages vs. Hours & Sal ...
    Today, Statistics Canada reported a seemingly impressive monthly rise of 0.9% in average weekly earnings, from $906.24 in April to $914.68 in May. Digging a bit deeper reveals that average weekly earnings for workers paid by the hour – the majority of Canadian employees – edged up by ...
  • Consider this an Outcy about Special Needs Inc ...
    The government’s response to our recent report on special needs income assistance allowances requires a response on two counts in particular. First, the Minister of Community Services says: “the report stating these changes have hurt people is totally erroneous.  That’s totally ...
  • NHL free agency: market dysfunction
    Free agency opened on July 5 in the National Hockey League (NHL) and a myriad of contracts were signed. Between July 2 and 16, which includes the few days before the free agency officially began, free agents (or players on the verge of becoming free agents) were offered a total of $618 million, ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • China Coal-Fired Economy Dying of Thirst as Mi ...
    “At first glance, Daliuta in northern China appears to have a river running through it. A closer look reveals the stretch of water in the center is a pond, dammed at both ends. Beyond the barriers, the Wulanmulun’s bed is dry. Daliuta in Shaanxi province sits on top of the world’s biggest ...
  • The Alberta Oil Sands Have Been Leaking for 9 ...
    “The sites are located in a remote area which has restricted access to the public. The emulsion is being effectively cleaned up with manageable environmental impact. Canadian Natural has existing groundwater monitoring in place and we are undertaking aquatic and sediment sampling to monito ...
  • Powdered Water Hydrates Drought-Stricken Farms
    “Mexican farmers have been fighting drought with Solid Rain for more than a decade, but the powdered water designed by chemical engineer Sergio Jésus Rico Velasco only hit the American market last year. A highly absorbent substance with a potassium base, Solid Rain stores one liter of wate ...
  • The Bullet That Killed Tomás Garcia
    “The National Commission for Human Rights has calculated that there is a violent death every 74 minutes in this small nation of about eight million people. It has the highest murder rate in the world per capita. But the bullet that killed Tomás Garcia came from an army officer, and was int ...
  • Suez Wins Water-Supply Contract for Oil Vessel ...
    “Suez Environnement (SEV), the second-largest water company in Europe, won a supply contract for vessels involved in offshore oil production in Brazil. Degremont, Suez’s water-management subsidiary, was awarded an engineering and procurement contract for four water-supply units for Keppel ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • OMG … THEY MOVED TO ARIZONA
    …OMG… They moved to Arizona and “we” elected them as our ‘leaders’ … so who is the real Bozo…?   Filed under: Blogroll
  • thinking inside confined to a box
    …When you are educated to thinking inside confined to a box, a relatively small box at that, understandably one cannot and will not see, feel, hear or acknowledge anything outside that box … current U S Capitalism it on its way out…   There Are Good Alternatives to US Capitalism, But No Way ...
  • what a bargain
    …WOW … a whole $200,000 fine … WOW … what a bargain … prove$ it pay$ to have friend$ in high plaee$ … like our Congre$$…   Halliburton to Admit Destroying Evidence in 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill   Read the Article at The Washington Post   The oil services giant Halliburton agreed ...
  • Ea$y as perpetrator$
    …Ea$y as perpetrator$ are the one$ who own and control our government and ju$tice system … I know they don’t allow this disclosure in our schools or on corporate controlled mass media…   …Why Do Protesters Against Egregious Environmental and Financial Misconduct Get Arrested, But Not Corpor ...
  • Humor…?
    …Likely provided by NaturalNews as humor … tragically it aligns perfectly with Eugenic goals…   Looking for a cheap contraceptive? Try Roundup, made with glyphosate. (Well, not really. It’s poison.) The science says it causes reproductive problems: http://www.naturalnews.com/041380_Ro ...

Popular Technology

  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
    "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Skeptical Science In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned in at least 65 discussion ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • Cook's 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Introduction to TCP" (2012-01-19) John Cook layed out the game plan for the 97% consensus study, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries
    Deforestation has fallen in Congo Basin countries over the past decade despite a sharp increase in the rate of forest clearing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B as part of a set of 18 papers on the ...
  • Scientists build app to automatically identify ...
    New technology makes it possible to automatically identify species by their vocalizations. The platform, detailed in the current issue of the journal PeerJ, has been used at sites in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica to identify frogs, insects, birds, and monkeys. Many of the animals identified by the ...
  • Stand up paddleboarding in the Amazon for cons ...
    This week an international team is setting off on a unique journey, aiming to be the first to descend the Amazon River using inflatable Stand Up Paddle boards. The group, led by Dr. Mika Peck, a conservation biologist from the University of Sussex with years of work in Ecuador and Colombia, incl ...
  • Investigation clears APP of deforestation alle ...
    Two logging companies that supply Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) with timber have not violated the Indonesian forestry giant's new zero deforestation commitment, according to a field investigation by The Forest Trust, a conservation group. The investigation was a direct response to allegations rais ...
  • Fighting deforestation—and corruption&#8 ...
    The basic premise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program seems simple: rich nations pay tropical countries for preserving their forests. Yet the program has made relatively limited progress on the ground since 2007, when the concept got tentative go-ahead du ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Janet McAllister: Einstein showcase cutest eve ...
    Einstein would have been a giant of the twitterverse. Brevity is the soul of t-wit, and you can't get more super-saturated with meaning than "E=mc2". Then there are poetic bon mots such as: "I live my daydreams in music" and "imagination...
  • Kiwi who helped find 'hobbits' dies
    A New Zealand-born archaeologist involved in the discovery of a new species of people, known as "hobbits'', has died.Professor Mike Morwood, most recently of the University of Wollongong in Australia, was one of the archaeologists...
  • New type of big-nosed dinosaur unearthed
    Researchers in Utah say they have discovered a new type of big-nosed, horned-faced dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago when the North American continent was split in two.The discovery of the creature, named "Nasutoceratops...
  • Lab success: Chromosome for Down's is switched off
    Gene scientists say that in lab-dish cells, they had found a way to switch off the rogue chromosome that causes Down's syndrome.The breakthrough opens up the tantalising goal of therapy for Down's, they said, cautioning that years...
  • NZ scientists in Alzheimer's breakthrough
    Auckland neuro-scientists have made important discoveries in how Alzheimer's and Parkinson's may affect the brain, work which has prompted preliminary experiments with drugs they hope could help people who have the diseases.The...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • Science-based public policy being eroded in th ...
    From Carrie Saxifrage, in the Vancouver Observer: “Dr. Katie Gibbs has seen her colleagues at the University of Ottawa biology department realize that if anybody in Canada can stand up to the attacks on science, it’s the scientists themselves. Last … Continue reading →
  • GMO scientist turned anti-GMO activist
    From Ken Roseboro, on NewHope360.com “The “conversion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engi­neered foods, has far … Contin ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Euro Sucks Italian Blood; Prime Minister Blame ...
    This summer a private air plane has been flying over Italian beaches with a banner message Euro is Sucking Italian Blood The article states "Italians have only one solutions to fight against this situation : leave Italy." No End in Sight to Italy's Economic Decline Der Spie ...
  • Farm Robots to Make Migrant Worker Vegetable P ...
    The migrant worker agricultural jobs that few legal US citizens are willing to do for the price farmers are willing to pay will vanish within a decade as robots will soon be able to perform even those tasks cheaper. Welcome the "Lettuce Bot", the "Grape Bot", the "Strawberry Bot" Time ...
  • Payroll Employment for Age Group 18 to 29 Show ...
    A Gallup Poll on US Payroll Employment for Age Group 18 to 29 shows Fewer Young Adults Holding Full-Time Jobs in 2013. Fewer Americans aged 18 to 29 worked full time for an employer in June 2013 (43.6%) than did so in June 2012 (47.0%), according to Gallup's Payroll to Population employment r ...
  • Funniest and Most Absurd Real Estate Promotion ...
    Those attending the iProperty.com International Property Expo in Singapore, to learn about "the best property in Asia" can win a free house by attending. Guess where the house is located. One might think somewhere in Asia because that's the focus of the expo. But No! The free ho ...
  • Spain Levies Consumption Tax on Sunlight
    Proving that idiocy truly has no bounds, Spain issued a "royal decree" taxing sunlight gatherers. The state threatens fines as much as 30 million euros for those who illegally gather sunlight without paying a tax. The tax is just enough to make sure that homeowners cannot gather and store s ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Righteous Brothers – “You’ve Lost That Lovin Feelin” It’s back to 1965 for this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick with the Righteous Brothers (Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield) performing You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. The song was written by Bar ...
  • Duck-Talk: On Challenging Narrow Mind-Paths & ...
    Boiling Frogs Post: An Independent Site … Not a Duck Nest The saying goes something like this: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. While the duck philosophy, if you chose to call it that, may apply to lots of things [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 26, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • What Do We as a People Really Fear More: Terro ...
    “Snowden’s NSA Domestic Surveillance Revelations Are Old News: So Why Are US Power Centers So Intent on Portraying The Whistleblower As a Traitor?” The following are excerpts from the latest analysis by one of my favorite investigative journalists Bill Conroy at NarcoNews. I encourage you ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Reflecting on Revolution What makes a successful revolution? Has there ever been one? Looking at Egypt’s current situation, two and a half years after the fall of Mubarak, what have we learned about the revolutionary process, about its failures and successes? How does this relate to the gl ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • US-led soldier killed in C Afghanistan
    A soldier enlisted by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed by “direct fire” in central Afghanistan.
  • Leader voices regret at Egypt situation
    Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has voiced regret over the situation in Egypt, calling it “very painful.”
  • Egypt interim PM to allow civilian arrest
    Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour has given the interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi the power to grant the army the right to arrest civilians.
  • ‘Blasts heard in Libya’s Benghazi’
    Three loud blasts have reportedly been heard near a courthouse in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.
  • Political sex scandals in US
    The frivolity of summer was slipping away: Fears were growing National Security Agency surveillance program was nipping at civil liberties, unrest was roiling the black community following the Zimmerman verdict in Florida and Republicans and Democrats were again sniping over the federal budget a ...

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • SPS Awards Six Scholarships for the 2013-2014 ...
    The SPS Scholarship Committee has identified six scholarship recipients for the 2013-14 academic year. After careful deliberation, the Committee selected these students from an impressive pool of approximately 70 submissions—the most SPS has received to date. Vearlane Edge and Velma Felix have b ...
  • Divided By Race Again
    Once again we are a country divided by race. Without any witnesses to the altercation between George Zimmerman and Treyvon Martin, sides have been drawn, and not much has to do with the evidence presented. Zimmerman has injuries consistent with his story but Martin is dead with no way to tell us ...
  • Learning to Lead, Remembering to Follow
    From yratlarge We awoke to another beautiful day in Rwanda: birds singing, perfect temperatures and the promise of another rich day at work with the K.I.E. students. The day lived up to its promise. Chris and Helen led a session examining the speed at which things move in “real time” versus the ...
  • Microsoft Excel© for HIM Professionals
    The webinar Maximizing Microsoft Excel© for HIM Professionals: Transforming Data Into Actionable Information presented by Michael Gera, was recorded on June 18, 2013 in conjunction with the CUNY School of Professional Studies online degree in Health Information Management. You can access the pre ...
  • Domestic Violence 19 Years Later
    19 years ago a mother was butchered to death in her walkway as her children slept upstairs. Not far from where she laid dying was her friend, also butchered, after attempting to do a good deed. Small personal touches like a bath that had been run or a cup of ice cream melting on a […]

Dissident Voice

  • “Big Data” Dynamo: How Giant Tech ...
    As the secret state continues trawling the electronic communications of hundreds of millions of Americans, lusting after what securocrats euphemistically call “actionable intelligence,” a notional tipping point that transforms a “good” citizen into a “criminal&#8221 ...
  • Wake Up Little Susie: Insomniac Capitalism
    Most of us are familiar with the fact that the global financial markets run twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week with just a few exceptions. This is due in part to the incredible improvements in technology which have enabled trading to occur at rocket speed and across national borders. ...
  • The Mali Election Scam
    The objective is the total reconquest of Mali. — French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, (20 January, 2013) Presidential elections are due to take place in Mali on Sunday, July 28th. The latest polls indicate a victory for Ibrahim Boubecar Keïta, with Soumaila Cissé coming in second place. T ...
  • Manipulating Genocide
    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 Bryce exposed in 19 ...
  • A Shameful Day to Be a US Citizen
    I have been deeply ashamed of my country a number of times. The Nixon Christmas bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong was one such time, when hospitals, schools and dikes were targeted. The invasion of Iraq was another. Washington’s silence over the fatal Israeli Commando raid on the Gaza Peace Flotilla ...

Nick Turse

Sources

Newswise

  • Researchers Identify Novel Mechanism That Help ...
    A seafood contaminant that thrives in brackish water during the summer works like a spy to infiltrate cells and quickly open communication channels to sicken the host, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report.
  • Migraine is Associated with Variations in Stru ...
    The network of arteries supplying blood flow to the brain is more likely to be incomplete in people who suffer migraine, a new study by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reports.
  • U.Va. Darden School Professors Decipher "Big D ...
    More than a catch phrase, "big data" now poses big questions for marketers and company decision-makers. The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has new ways to help marketing practitioners find the narrative in the numbers and articulate their meaning to leaders who must deploy reso ...
  • Alcohol Use Among Pregnant Women in Substance ...
    According to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) the percentage of pregnant woman in substance abuse treatment using alcohol (with or without drug use) dropped from 46.6 percent to 34.8 percent over a ten year period. However, the report also s ...
  • Sudden Decline in Testosterone May Cause Parki ...
    The results of a new study by neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center show that a sudden decrease of testosterone, the male sex hormone, may cause Parkinson's like symptoms in male mice.

Metanoia

  • Psywar screened on Free Speech TV on MLK day
    https://www.freespeech.org/tv-schedule/day/2013-01-22T00–2013-01-22T23?timezone=MST
  • Rise Like Lions screened at Digital Film Festi ...
  • Rise LIke Lions screened at Seoul Independent ...
    http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Seoul_Independent_Film_Festival/
  • Lifting the Veil screened at Peace and Justice ...
    http://www.peaceandjusticefilms.org/2012fall/index.html
  • American Empire: the Feature Film
    Scott Noble’s “The Power Principle” American Empire: the Feature Film by RON JACOBS Counterpunch Discussing the nature of the US Empire and how it got to where it is today with most US residents is always a challenge. Recommending books explaining it is equally so. This is espe ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Kurds Find a German Healing Touch
    “I witnessed a Turkish tank made in Germany destroying a Kurdish village. Civilians, children included, were wounded, and many were taking shelter inside a besieged church,” said Media, the German nurse who has become legendary in the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq and is known here on ...
  • Olympics Gold Medalist Sets Sights on Ethiopia ...
    Ethiopia’s track legend Haile Gebrselassie is mostly known for one thing – his world records. The two-time Olympic gold medallist, multiple world 10,000 m champion and holder of more than 27 world records in distances ranging from 1,500 m to the marathon, is now contemplating running a different ...
  • Without Funding, Haiti Faces “Endemic Ch ...
    Lack of financing for a 10-year eradication plan means that cholera will likely be endemic to Haiti for years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts of the government’s 2.2-billion-dollar National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in ...
  • Activists Demand Justice for Victims of Cleric ...
    Human rights groups are calling for the Committee on the Rights of the Child to bring the Mexican state to account, as it has done in other countries, for failing to investigate widespread reports of sexual abuse of minors in Catholic institutions. Experts consulted by IPS said the lack of actio ...
  • Nepal Moves to Curb Child Labour
    Last December, Pradeep Dongol, child protection officer at the Kathmandu-based Children and Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH), received an urgent call from one of the NGO’s many offices in Nepal’s sprawling capital city. Dongol rushed over to find an 11-year-old girl in the care o ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • How European courts are dismantling sanctions ...
    Summary: (Reuters) - In the years-long campaign to tie a web of sanctions around Iran and stall its nuclear program, the European Union may just have met its biggest obstacle: its own law courts. source: Reutersread more
  • Why Hezbollah is not going away as long as Isr ...
    Summary: Attempts to brand Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation are not only futile, but fly in the face of the facts of this movement and its history. Like all genuine resistance movements, the Lebanese resistance, led by Hezbollah, was born as a reaction to occupation. And like all success ...
  • The Language of Power: Obama's "Humanitarian ...
    Summary: In her first appearance before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Samantha Power, Obama's pick for next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, made clear that she will spend her time in the role much as her predecessor Susan Rice did: acting as Israel's consummate defender, fear-m ...
  • Einhorn on Getting to Yes with Iran
    Summary: I just read Robert Einhorn’s new article over at Foreign Policy entitled “Getting to ‘Yes’ with Iran.” Most of you will know that for the past four years, until May, Einhorn was a key member of the Obama administration’s diplomatic team working on the Iran nuclear issue, and was invo ...
  • Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israe ...
    Summary: The Iranian electorate did about the most cruel thing possible to uber-hawk Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It replaced former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with an eminently reasonable and personable successor, Hasan Rouhani. source: JuanCole.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Enormous Magnetic Fields of Embryonic Black Ho ...
    It has been speculated for a long time that enormous magnetic field strengths, possibly higher than what has been observed in any known astrophysical system, are a key ingredient in short gamma-ray burst, one of the brightest explosions observed in the universe.Scientists at the Max ...
  • Alien Planets Older than Our Milky Way Galaxy ...
                     Two huge Jupiter-sized planets found in 2012 orbiting a star 375 light-years away  that will soon transform into a red giant (image above), are among  the oldest alien worlds yet discovered according to scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, ...
  • Our Lopsided Universe is Darker, Lighter, Slow ...
          Our Lopsided universe is darker, lighter, slower, and older than we thought. Europe's Planck Satellite new skymap shows that one half of the microwave background is brighter than the other, and the universe has a large cold spot. Anomalies suggest that Universe may be differe ...
  • Oxygen! --Were the Building Blocks of Earth's ...
      For decades, scientists believed that the atmosphere of early Earth was highly reduced, meaning that oxygen was greatly limited. Such oxygen-poor conditions would have resulted in an atmosphere filled with noxious methane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia. To date, the ...
  • NASA Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in H ...
                   NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes show that particles in the radiation belts surrounding Earth are accelerated by a local kick of energy, helping to explain how these particles reach speeds of 99 percent the speed of light. Scientists have know that something in space accelera ...

Natural News

  • Mysterious NASA video of Saturn reveals imposs ...
    Here at NaturalNews, we normally report on Earthly events, but right now some rather grand events are taking place in our solar system that you may want to know about. Check out what NASA's Cassini spacecraft first noticed in 2007. There is a large rotating hexagon...
  • Bitter melon juice may hold the key to prevent ...
    Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult forms of the disease to diagnose and treat, and prognosis of the illness is extremely poor as it takes the lives of nearly 50,000 men and women in the U.S. each year. The pancreas is responsible for releasing digestive enzymes...
  • Coconuts are the 'wonder food' with a multitud ...
    Coconuts are scientifically known as Cocos nucifera and they get the coco part of their name from Spanish explorers that thought they resembled monkey faces. The Coconut is extremely nutritious and on some islands it's actually the biggest part of people's diets. Its...
  • Treat hot flashes the natural way
    Eighty five percent of women suffer from hot flushes (or flashes) during the menopausal transition, making it the most commonly reported symptom during this change of life. The severity of the symptoms depends to a large degree on a woman's dietary and lifestyle history...
  • FAA is gearing up to spy on regular Americans: ...
    Have privacy protections contained within the Constitution's Fourth Amendment become completely irrelevant in this modern age of technology? More and more unelected federal bureaucrats sure think so, as evidenced in responses to questions from members of Congress by...

Threat Level

  • Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received ...
    House members who voted to continue the NSA's domestic phone-spying dragnet on Wednesday received more than double the campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry than those voting to end the program, according to a new analysis commissioned by ...    
  • Feds Identify the Young Russians Behind the To ...
    Four Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged with masterminding a massive hacking spree that was responsible for stealing more than 160 million bank card numbers from companies in the U.S. over a seven-year period.    
  • House Fails to Repeal NSA’s Dragnet Phone Surv ...
    The House today narrowly defeated an amendment to a defense spending package that would have repealed authorization for the National Security Agency's dragnet collection of phone-call metadata in the United States.    
  • Two-Day-Old Royal Baby Gets First Cybersquatter
    A Portuguese domain-name broker won the royal baby internet sweepstakes Wednesday, scooping up the web address GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com moments after Prince William and Kate announced the name of their newborn.    
  • House to Vote on Repealing NSA Dragnet Phone S ...
    The House is expected to vote later this week on an amendment to a roughly $600 billion defense spending package that would repeal authorization for the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance program of chronicling phone-calling metadata in the United States.    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Senate Tax Writers Offer Colleagues 50 Years o ...
    During the 2012 campaign, Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan proposed what might be called "tax cuts for cowards." That is, Romney/Ryan proposed slashing tax rates for the wealthy and corporations, partially offsetting the trillions in lost revenue by promising to close some of the hundreds ...
  • The Republican Health Care Emergency in One Chart
    With Congress set to adjourn for the summer, Republican leaders are hoping to reprise the recess of 2009, when furious Tea Partiers armed with incendiary signs, bogus GOP talking points and occasionally guns (though not the truth) ran roughshod over town hall meetings nationwide. But along with ...
  • John McCain Was Right: Rich Feel Wealthy Start ...
    During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican John McCain famously struggled to explain at what point an American could be considered rich. When Pastor Rick Warren asked McCain at the Saddleback Church presidential forum "where do you move from middle class to rich," the $100 million man wh ...
  • Fleischer and Perino Recall George W. Bush, Ra ...
    The conservative campaign to brand Barack Obama "Race-Baiter in Chief" over his remarks on the Trayvon Martin tragedy continued uninterrupted over the weekend. Joining ranks with Sean Hannity, who said the young Obama resembled Martin because "he smoked pot and he did a little blow," were forme ...
  • It's a Conservative Thing; You Wouldn't Understand
    This week, millions of Americans struggled to understand how an unarmed 17 year old African-American kid stalked by an overzealous community watch volunteer came to be blamed for his own murder. Millions more wondered what all the fuss was about. And like many Americans across the country, I n ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Livestock Production Is Not A Solution To Glob ...
    Editor’s Note: Livestock production is actually estimated to account for about 51% of global greenhouse gas emissions from humans. A staggering amount. So, the theory promoted by Allan Savory that grazing livestock is a potential solution to global warming is a bit absurd. A wonderful post ...
  • Solar Array Will Light A Long Norwegian Winter
    It’s pretty dim in Rjukan, Norway, for five months of the year. Between the capital of Oslo to the east and the famous Norwegian fjords on the west coast, the town of about 3000 lies in a narrow valley at the foot of Gaustatoppen, the highest mountain massif in Telemark County. Winter spor ...
  • Severe Inbreeding In The Winter Flounder Of Lo ...
    Most winter flounder populations found in the bays of Long Island, NY, are severely inbred as the result of overfishing, new research from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University has found. The new research highlights a significant, and rarely acknowledged, proble ...
  • Climate Change Will Cut Snow Water Storage In ...
    The amount of water stored in peak snowpack in the McKenzie River watershed of the Oregon Cascade Range will fall by about 56% by the year 2050, as a result of climate change, new research from Oregon State University has found. The research also suggests that similar impacts will be seen in oth ...
  • Comet ISON — New Image Of Rapidly Approaching ...
    Comet ISON — the rapidly approaching ‘comet of the century’, as some have dubbed it — is the subject of a spectacular newly released image. In the image, the the icy comet is seen against a stellar backdrop which includes a number of stars and galaxies. The image, which w ...

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The GOP's Impossible Climb on Race
    By @TedFrier I am no big fan of Kirsten Powers. She is one of those right-of-center nominal "Democrats" who Fox News likes to hire as a "political analyst" so that Roger Ailes' right wing propaganda machine can bask in the patina of bi-partisan respectability and credibility. But in today's Dail ...
  • Connecting the Dots on Republican Bigotry
    By @TedFrier Two stories currently at the top of the day's news cycle deserve to be viewed as parts of a matched set. The first is conservative reaction to President Obama's effort last week to use the Trayvon Martin case as a "teachable moment" on race relations in America. As former Rudy Giuli ...
  • Conservatives Don't Do Nuance, Empathy
    By @TedFrier "Spot on," writes a Facebook Friend who baselessly asserts that President Obama's marvelous, off-the-cuff and heart-felt remarks in the White House briefing room last week on the state of race relations in this country today were just a cynical ploy to take people's minds off of the ...
  • blunt nips the bud
  • It's Politics Stupid!
    By @TedFrier In May 2009, former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson wrote an important essay in The Atlantic on the origins and implications of the 2008 financial collapse, called "The Quiet Coup." The financial gloom that swept over the US economy at the twilight of the G ...

Care 2

  • PLEASE SIGN Ban the Sale of Lion Meat - Force ...
    Have you ever seen lion burgers or lion meat tacos on a restaurant menu? Lion meat isnt currently regulated by the United States government, so lion meat could come from imports, zoos, circuses, or Midwestern farms. Submitted by zora b. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • Make Rhino Poaching a Felony in Mozambique - F ...
    There are less than 5,000 rhinoceros left in Africa as of 2013. The brutal slaughter of rhinos for their valuable horns has spiraled out of control, with more than 500 rhinos killed in 2012 alone. Our horns are not medicine! Please save us! Submitted by Kelly Pretorius to Animals  |  ...
  • Indonesia : Immediately Form National Commissi ...
    In lights of a few recent animal mistreatment and animal cruelty in Indonesia (most recently the death of a mutilated elephant), this petition was created to appeal to the Indonesian Government to Form a National Commission for the Protection of Animals. Submitted by Monica T. to Animals   ...
  • Patty Still Has a BIG Mouth! ;-)
    Honoring the reader who posted the 44,000th comment at Politics Plus. She uded to be a daily regular here, but stopped coming, because the Care2 glitch monster fried her ID twice and would not let her in, and she gave up. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |  &nbs ...
  • Fresh but ancient beer
    Ever tried making your own beer? Home brewing has been with us literally for millennia, and now the University of Chicago is getting in on the trend. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • “The Only People Fit To Run For Congress Are ‘ ...
    From the Mediate article, “Daily Show Concludes The Only People Fit To Run For Congress Are ‘Assholes’”: On Thursday night’s Daily Show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi tried to understand what type of crazy person wouldn’t want to give up their career in local politics to join the ineffe ...
  • Barack Obama Phony in Chief
    Jesus! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, good old Barack Obama was out yesterday leading with his chin. Just what “phony” scandal does he have in mind? Was the death of Border Patrol officer, Brian Terry, “phony?” Was Barack Obama’s failure to take charge ...
  • Obama’s Lunacy on Syria
    To be fair, the festering corpse of Obama’s Syria policy ain’t his fault alone. Nope. He’s got plenty of company from other Democrats, Republicans and Neo-con enablers, who have been egging him on to arm the rebels and put US military forces into the fray. That list includes, a ...
  • Bill O’Reilly Goes Medieval on Obama and Other ...
    Did you see this last night? Give O’Reilly props. He is genuinely and appropriately outraged by Obama’s sanctimonious hypocrisy on the subject of race. Glad to see that O’Reilly shares my outrage and my sense of the proper prescription for fixing the problem.
  • Back to Benghazi
    The following picture provides a damning indictment of what is truly important and the failure of the media to focus on genuine issues: Today on the steps of the US Capitol, Special Operations Speaks, with the backing of current and former members of the US Congress, will present a petition sign ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Immigrants Have Cantaloupe Calves, and 4 Other ...
    We hope Rep. Steve King likes cantaloupe, because his office received hundreds from the immigrants and supporters he offended. You know you’re pretty far out on the rightward flank of the right wing, when Speaker of the House John “repeal all laws” Boehner and Rep. Paul “slash all social progr ...
  • “Ridiculous pseudo-science garbage”: Meet the ...
    What do the 8 Republicans who sit on the Senate Environment Committee think about climate change? We break it down As scientists agree that the problem of man-made climate change is getting more and more urgent, a review of their records reveals that all eight Republican senators on the Envir ...
  • Could Bank-Boy Tim Geithner Be the Real White ...
    He's busy right now raking in bucks from big banks on the speaker circuit, but could Geithner, rather than Summers, be the nominee? Whoever said "What you don't know can't hurt you" doesn't know much about economics.  That goes double for the nomination of Lawrence Summers to head the Fed ...
  • John Oliver: Monopoly Game Removed 'Go to Jail ...
    Last night on the Daily Show, Oliver brilliantly connected the board game's change-up to banks' apparent infallibility -- Goldman Sachs price-rigging included. Hasbro's classic board game Monopoly has eliminated its jail space,  freeing up time for young players more interested in w ...
  • Feds Raid WA Medical Pot Dispensaries: Could M ...
    A strong, state-based regulatory system appears key to avoiding the crackdown. On Wednesday, federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency raided several marijuana dispensaries in Washington's Puget Sound region. It's tempting to interpret the crackdown as a threat to state-sanctioned legal ...

Threat Level

  • Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received ...
    House members who voted to continue the NSA's domestic phone-spying dragnet on Wednesday received more than double the campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry than those voting to end the program, according to a new analysis commissioned by ...    
  • Feds Identify the Young Russians Behind the To ...
    Four Russians and one Ukrainian have been charged with masterminding a massive hacking spree that was responsible for stealing more than 160 million bank card numbers from companies in the U.S. over a seven-year period.    
  • House Fails to Repeal NSA’s Dragnet Phone Surv ...
    The House today narrowly defeated an amendment to a defense spending package that would have repealed authorization for the National Security Agency's dragnet collection of phone-call metadata in the United States.    
  • Two-Day-Old Royal Baby Gets First Cybersquatter
    A Portuguese domain-name broker won the royal baby internet sweepstakes Wednesday, scooping up the web address GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com moments after Prince William and Kate announced the name of their newborn.    
  • House to Vote on Repealing NSA Dragnet Phone S ...
    The House is expected to vote later this week on an amendment to a roughly $600 billion defense spending package that would repeal authorization for the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance program of chronicling phone-calling metadata in the United States.    

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Three Outbreaks in Iowa – Cyclospora, Cryptos ...
    The Iowa Department of Public Health reported that it has received 26 reports of illness linked to a relatively uncommon strain of the Salmonella bacteria. The department said Salmonella cases... Continue Reading
  • Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Florida, New York City, ...
    The CDC reports as of July 25, 2013 (5pm EDT), CDC has been notified of 321 cases of Cyclospora infection in residents of multiple states and one city, including Iowa,... Continue Reading
  • Cyclospora and Hepatitis A Outbreaks Update – ...
    The CDC reports that as of July 24, 2013, 285 cases of Cyclospora infections have been confirmed from 11 states. The number of cases identified in each state is as... Continue Reading
  • Why I Love My Job
    A few months ago I was asked to write something by WSBA about my practice and life as a lawyer.  The ask was something like this: Mr. Marler, I noted... Continue Reading
  • 275 with Cyclospora in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, ...
    The CDC reports a total of 275 cases of Cyclospora infection have been reported from nine states. The number of cases identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (127)†,... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, N ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan As the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington approaches, commemorating that historic gathering where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech, it is important to recall the extent to which King was targeted by the governm ...
  • WATCH: Veteran White House Correspondent Helen ...
    Trailblazing journalist Helen Thomas, who reported on every U.S. president since John Kennedy, has passed away at age 92. We look back at her 2009 interview on Democracy Now!, when she talks about how she would have asked then-President Bush, "why do you continue to support the killing in Gaz ...
  • Let The Light of Mandela Shine on U.S. Injustice
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan As the world celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, it is timely to reflect on his life, spent fighting for equality for people of color who long suffered under South Africa’s apartheid regime. Mandela was arrested in 1962, a year before Martin Luther ...
  • READ: The Lab Magazine Profiles Democracy Now! ...
    Read a new profile of Democracy Now! host, Amy Goodman, by The Lab Magazine, in which she discusses her upbringing, her reporting in Indonesia, covering climate change and much more. The full profile is here. The Lab Magazine is an international publication and website that features intima ...
  • WATCH: Fruitvale Station Director Ryan Coogler ...
    Watch Democracy Now!'s interview with the director of the feature film, "Fruitvale Station," which opens in theaters nationwide this week. "I’ve seen these kind of things happen before, instances of police brutality and instances of urban violence, and people riot and rally," Ryan Coogl ...

Solari

  • The Breakaway Civilization, Part Two with Dr. ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Are you concerned that the world is not making sense? Have no fear, things are about to snap into focus! One of the most fascinating Solari Reports interviews in our library is Dr. Joseph Farrell’s interview on the Breakaway Civilization last fall.  You most ce ...
  • Norah Jones – “Nightingale”
    Related Reading: Norah Jones’ Official Website Norah Jones on Wikipedia
  • This Saturday – Here Comes Permafacture!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you ready to build your very own tractor? Hey, why not! You are invited to join me this Saturday on the next weekly virtual Design Sprint lea ...
  • Food Documentaries: Let’s Go to the Movi ...
    Accessing and creating your own food sources can be fun. Often it involves collaborating with friends and neighbors. What if you were to organize a regular potluck dinner and show documentaries that would inspire others to participate with you in building a local food supply. What would be the ...
  • Solari’s Latest Donation
    Send Musicians To Prison Do you believe music can heal and restore? Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot? Do you believe music can impart worth, and provoke a soul to change its present orientation? Continue Reading

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • 7 Eco-Friendly DIY Summer Crafts for Creative ...
    Tin Can Table Lantern Planning a barbecue or an al fresco dinner party? These recycled tin can lanterns are an easy way to add some sparkle without stretching your decorating budget. The materials are practically free, and the tiny holes create gorgeous    
  • Petition Calls for More Gender Equality in LEGOs
    Young boys and girls across the world grow up playing with Legos, but for some reason, most of the Lego people -- known as "minifigs" -- are male. But a growing movement to add more female minifigs is gaining momentum. In April, a Lego user submitted the Female    
  • GUIDE: Effective Non-Toxic Bug Repellents for ...
    Photo via Shutterstock With concerns over Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus, bug bites can be not only uncomfortable, but particularly worrying. Of equal concern for many families are the questionable ingredients in many commercially available insect repellents.    
  • Rainshader Helmet-Shaped Umbrella Can Withstan ...
    When caught in the rain, there's nothing worse than being hit by a gust of wind only for ones umbrella to transform from a protective shade to a mangled pile of metal and plastic. But a British company named Hospitality Umbrellas has come up with an ingenious    
  • New Study Suggests Pesticide-Tainted Pollen is ...
    Although it's obvious that something is killing bees in mass quantities, for years scientists have struggled to finger a culprit. A continued mass die-off of honey bees would be disastrous for our food system, so investigations into possible causes have become    

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Obama Administration Demands Internet Companie ...
    The Obama administration’s security services want your Internet service to hand over your password to them. Are you comfortable with this? The website that broke this news, CNET, called this an “escalation in Internet surveillance” by the federal government. Yeah, I’d say so!
  • He Who Controls the Food: Is GMO Really Necess ...
    We are continuously inundated with the message that our world is overpopulated because humanity is reproducing at a rate much faster than the Earth’s resources can possibly accommodate us
  • Wake Up America: Homeland Security Preparing F ...
    Obama ready to impose martial law in the USA. (New World order RFID chip) Economic Collapse in America
  • Israel’s WWDs: German Made Nuclear Armed Dolphins
    At least one of Israel’s 5 Weapons of World Destruction, WWDs: German Made Nuclear Armed Dolphin Submarine is Nuking’Syria via the Mediterranean Sea. “Israeli submarines carried out the attack on an arms depot in the Syrian port city of Latakia on July 5, according to a report published in th ...
  • Video: FEMA Making Mass Deliveries, Russian Dr ...
    Recently, a FEMA insider reveals Russian & Polish truck drivers are vanishing to a tune of 30%, and shipments of military equipment, bullets and flash grenades are being stockpiled around the US. We all know FEMA’s mission statement “to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occu ...

Andy Worthington

  • I’m Off to WOMAD, Back on Monday: Lee Pe ...
    Since 2002, my family and I, along with a crew of friends, including our kids, have been regulars visitors at the WOMAD festival (World of Music Art and Dance), originally in Reading but, since 2007, at Charlton Park in north Wiltshire, where my wife runs children’s workshops, and we get b ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Calls for the Release ...
    Please sign the international petition calling for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer! Last Thursday, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign — dedicated to securing the release from Guantánamo of the last British resident in the prison — held its final vigil outside Parliament prior ...
  • The Schizophrenic in Guantánamo Whose Lawyers ...
    The prison at Guantánamo is such an extraordinarily lawless and unjust place that 86 prisoners cleared for release by an inter-agency task force established by President Obama when he took office in 2009 are still held. Other prisoners recommended for trials languish, year after year, with no ho ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: The Last Days in the Life of Adnan ...
    This article, published simultaneously here and on the “Close Guantánamo” website, contains exclusive information from the unclassified notes of a visit to Abdelhadi Faraj — a Syrian prisoner, and one of 86 men cleared for release from Guantánamo but still held — by his a ...
  • From Guantánamo, Hunger Striker Abdelhadi Fara ...
    Although I’ve been very busy for the last few months with a steady stream of articles about Guantánamo and the ongoing hunger strike, I haven’t been able to keep track of everything that has been made available. In terms of publicity, this is an improvement on the years before the hu ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • Monitor Toilet Occupancy with An Arduino
    Ever wish your home or office had airplane-style occupancy lights so you know when the toilet is in use? Some crafty hackers in Tokyo made this dream into a reality.Read more...    
  • Resist the Temptation to Deflect Compliments
    Many of us, myself included, brush aside compliments in a subconscious effort to be self-deprecating, but this behavior actually does more harm than good.Read more...    
  • Lux Automatically Adjusts Your Screen Brightne ...
    If you aren't satisfied with how Android controls your device's screen brightness (is anyone?), Lux is a simple alternative that is easy to configure, while still offering a ton of options.Read more...    
  • Five Best Car GPS Units
    If you're hitting the road this summer, you probably want a solid GPS with you to make getting to your destination a little easier. Whether you just use your phone or you prefer a stand-alone unit, there are pros and cons to each, and this week we're looking at five of the best, based on your no ...
  • Pack Single Servings of Condiments in Contact ...
    When you're fresh out of excess McDonalds condiment pouches, a contact lens case is a perfect alternative when you bring your lunch to work.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Water wars: Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions blasts ...
    Metro Atlanta has used more water from a north Georgia reservoir than allowed, according to an Alabama senator who Monday urged federal officials to crack down on the renegade withdrawals and protect the water flow for downstream communities and industrie
  • McDonald antes up on water
    AUSTINTOWN - McDonald village on Monday jumped into what is shaping up to be water wars over who will provide the utility to a planned new thoroughbred racetrack here.
  • SSJID may join effort to protect groundwater
    San Joaquin County is fighting water wars on two fronts. * There’s the highly publicized battle over the proposed Twin Tunnels that could drastically alter the Delta and increase the diversion of surface water currently being used for farming and urban uses to protect fish. *And then there is th ...
  • Anthony Westbury: Water can really shape a cit ...
    A new"monumental" agreement between Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce could mean the end of the water wars along Midway Road.
  • Male Gaze: Watch Ryan Reynolds Get Soaked With ...
    Yesterday, the Canadian actor visited Late Night With Jimmy Fallon only to get wheedled into playing a friendly game of Water Wars (a.k.a. War, the card game, except the loser gets a glass of water thrown in his face). Kick off your weekend by viewing the video above, in which ... More »        

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

thwap's schoolyard

  • Capitalist Scum-bags
     The tragedy at Lac Megantic was the result of ruthless cost-cutting. Cut costs - increase profits. Increase profits to "invest" in financial flim-flam and conspicuous consumption. These guys just want to cut everything to the bone and then they rely on government bail-outs whenever anythi ...
  • Adam Giambrone & Justin Trudeau & The Mound of ...
    What benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your only soul? A bit melodramatic perhaps but What The Fuck. I mean, supposedly Adam Giambrone was an up and coming Toronto City Councilor of the progressive stripe. He ran for mayor and had to resign because he was exposed as having an affair. ...
  • Win a Date With thwap!
    Sigh. I'm desperate. Any Toronto-area readers who are interested in actually doing something about harper in the 3-d world, ... send me an email to smartzeethwap[at]yahoo.ca. We'll meet up and talk shit out. I don't want this initiative to come from "thwap" so that's why I'm not posting about i ...
  • Where's the Outrage?
    Let's see what I can do with this article by Richard Eskow entitled "Where the Hell Is the Outrage?" on Common Dreams. From the first breaths of life to the last, our lives are being stolen out from under us. From infant care and early education to Social Security and Medicare, the dominant ec ...
  • Don Martin Agrees With Me
    Don Martin agrees with me about the rumours of stephen harper's political death: The reality is this: 1. Stephen Harper has a firm grip on the Conservative leadership and will, without any self-doubt or hesitation, fight the next election, supremely confident in securing another victory. . ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Evidence suggests that up to 90 percent of can ...
    The vast majority of the published scientific literature on cancer and cancer research is inherently flawed and non-reproducible, reveals a new review published online in the journal Nature. Researchers C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis found that a mere 11 percent of 53 papers on cancer published i ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-15-13
    Today, pet expert, Dr. Geoffrey Broderick, stops by the show to explain how you can turn your pet’s health around and even double its lifespan! Plus, Kevin gives you his predictions about the economy! Self Help: Improve Your Pet’s Health Wealth: Oil Prices On The Rise Home Prices Take Big ...
  • Tea-riffic news for chamomile fans!
    Love a cup of tea to wind down in the evening? Good news! Choose chamomile, as researchers have recently revealed it can help ward off cancer. Containing a chemical – apigenin, which can halt the spread of cancer cells - chamomile tea, parsley and celery could help ward prevent the onset of the ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-27-13
    Today, Kevin explains exactly what it takes to be successful and who to listen to. Plus, Marshall Sylver gives you the secrets behind creating real wealth and how YOU can make money just by listening to Kevin Trudeau. Self Help: Financial Freedom Anti-Aging Miracle Look Younger Health: Selenium ...
  • Could your smart phone be the cause of your in ...
    If you’re struggling to sleep at night, the answer could be closer than your think (hint, your bedside table). What are we talking about? A leading expert has revealed that electric lights – including on smartphones and tables – often play a key role in causing people’s bad sleeping patterns. Di ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • On The Money: Russia’s G20
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com With the G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg approaching, we ask what Russia’s economic situation is. What are its prospects within the global context? What decisions should be made at the summit ...
  • States seek to nullify Obama efforts
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTal Kopan Politico July 28, 2013 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 la ...
  • Egypt turmoil: Morsi supporters defy removal t ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBBC July 28, 2013 Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi have defied threats of removal from their sit-in protest in Cairo, despite the deaths of dozens in clashes with security forces. Speakers from the ...
  • MSNBC: “Detroit is America’s Most Libertarian ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKaren De Coster LewRockwell.com July 28, 2013 Dont get too excited over that headline on MSNBC, because Ari Melber has not been readingmy Detroit blog. MSNBCs Ari Melber describes Detroits plight with the usual media rin ...
  • Snowden Ping Pong: Edward still in transit lim ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com There’s been a fresh round of diplomatic wrangling over Edward Snowden between Russia and the US – as the world expected the fugitive whistleblower to leave a MOSCOW airport this week. ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: The Empire Is Imploding + Q&A
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad July 27, 2013 ciwebvideos on Jul 24, 2013 Chris Hedges spoke at Friday’s Interfaith Lecture in the Hall of Philosophy. He was the last to speak on the week’s theme, “Markets and Morals.” His lecture traced the demise of liberal valu ...
  • China – Avoid the West’s Debt Over ...
    by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com July 22, 2013 How can China avoid the “Western financial disease” – a real estate bubble followed by defaults and foreclosures? The U.S. and European economies originally sought to avoid this fate by taxing the location’s site value. A ...
  • How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenc ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger johnpilger.com 25 July 2013 I have known my postman for more than 20 years. Conscientious and good-humoured, he is the embodiment of public service at its best. The other day, I asked him, “Why are you standing in front of each door like a soldier on parade?& ...
  • What!? A Charismatic, Public Drinking Water Ma ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page July 24, 2013 In contrast to years of serious underinvestment in America’s public drinking water works that has invited takeover drives by large corporations hustling city governments, George S. Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia Wa ...
  • Egypt’s Military Junta Playing With Fire by Fi ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV July 26, 2013 Egypt’s military strongman General Al Sisi is playing with fire that may engulf the North African country with even more internecine bloodshed. This week on state TV, Al Sisi called for massive street ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Weiner’s bigotry towards Palestine is worse th ...
    While everyone is so caught up with Weiner’s wiener, and the many puns that can be created for headlines, the real scandal and reason why he should not be running for office is going unnoticed. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Moshé Machover: Israel-Palestine – déjà vu all ...
    Watch US secretary of state John Kerry assuming the mantle of our lord: just as JC resurrected Lazarus, JK is about to revive the dead-as-a-doornail talks between the Israeli government and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s thriving arms trade is ...
    Former Israeli defence (then industry) minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer: "People like to buy things that have been tested. If Israel sells weapons, they have been tested, tried out. We can say we've... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: An interview on the Syrian revol ...
    It is hard to make progress in the real world without making various compromises. I have no advice other than to say don’t let your wishes whip away the facts entirely. Be aware of the facts. We live... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Haaretz’s Gideon Levy endorses boycott of Israel
    In his op-ed in Haaretz on Sunday, columnist Gideon Levy openly endorses a boycott of Israel as the “Israeli patriot’s final refuge.” He argues that it is in fact those who fear for Israel’s future... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Don't Frack Ohio starting this weekend: three ...
    Activists across Ohio are preparing for a weekend of activities in the northeast part of the state. On Saturday and Sunday, July 27th and 28th, at the First Congregational Church in Ravenna, there will be two days of trainings designed to give us the tools we can use to build a powerful movemen ...
  • Online news stories, corrections, and keeping ...
    One of the interesting wrinkles of journalism in the online age is the ease of accessing archives. It used to be that back issues were at best scanned to microfiche and stored in some musty, stale vault somewhere. Now, though, anyone with an Internet connection can get to them.This is not exac ...
  • U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlik ...
    Two recent stories have made for an interesting juxtaposition. First, the map of America’s intelligence underworld had some important contours filled in last Sunday with the New York Times’ report on the secret body of law that it called “almost a parallel Supreme Court.&#8221 ...
  • Adventures in cord cutting
    A few weeks ago the reception on my satellite TV service mysteriously went kaput. I put in a service request and the company said the earliest anyone could get out was in a week. This gave us some time to live without any traditional broadcast television, and after a few days we were getting a ...
  • Yes, Congress and the president are responsibl ...
    There is an emerging theme on the left that the true blame for our metastasized domestic spying programs lies with the American people. John Cole put it bluntly (via): “No, you want to see the villain, look in the mirror.” Charles Pierce was a little more diplomatic:You can argue & ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Millions Against Monsanto: On the Road to Victory
    After enjoying a year of maximum profits, record stock prices, the defeat of a major GMO labeling campaign in California, pro-industry court decisions, and a formidable display of political power in Washington, D.C. – including slipping the controversial Monsanto Protection Act into the Federal ...
  • GMO Soybeans Are Speed Bump in EU Trade Deal : ...
    Scientists started working back in the 1990s to genetically engineer a soybean that's oil would be free of artery-clogging trans fats, a product farmers think will appeal to consumers as well as food-makers and fast-food chains.Click here to read this article
  • U.S. Farm Subsidy Program Adds to Worsening Ob ...
    Agricultural policies in the US are contributing to the poor health of Americans, and, specifically, government-issued agricultural subsidies are worsening the US obesity epidemic, concluded a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.Click here to read this article
  • Pill Poppers: Are Prescription Drugs Really Be ...
    Despite what the media preaches to you, your body has no intrinsic need for drugs. Over the course of a lifetime, the average person may be prescribed 14,000 pills (this doesn't even include over-the-counter meds), and by the time you reach your 70s you could be taking five or more pills every d ...
  • City Farming: Videos
    The ancient practice of agriculture meets modern city as we explore groundbreaking farms in Japan, the US and Norway. Monocle Films visits the people bringing green growth to their thriving metropolises. Click here to read this article
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