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Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Acts of Entrapment - Law and Religion
    It's bad manners to discuss faith and politics - the ethos of my youth. This delves into both to note the effects of ignoring injustice and blindly accepting authority. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Exclusive: Red Hat's lethal Okinawa smokescree ...
    In July 1969, a leak of chemical weapons on Okinawa sickened more than 20 U.S. soldiers and laid bare one of the Pentagon's biggest Cold War secrets: the storage of toxic munions outside of continental United States. Submitted by Naoko I. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Chaos over 4 underground oil blowouts in Canada
    ] This is a new kind of oil spill and there is no off button You cant cap it like a conventional oil well or turn off a valve on a pipeline. You are pressurizing the oil bed so hard that its no wonder that it blows out. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
  • The Sun and Skin Cancer
    Examining the Truths, Pseudo-Truths and Lies of Mainstream Science (?) We are a society immersed in fear… fear… and more fear. People that live on the surface of this planet, should cover-up and stay out of the sun...we are not nocturnal by nature ! Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness ...
  • Your Place in the Database
    "I am not a terrorist, so I don't have to worry." In the drip-drip of truth, we recently found that the NSA spies on people "3 hops" removed from a suspect. That means that if you are the friend of a friend of a friend of a suspect, you are a suspect. Submitted by Carol Kocsis to US Politics & ...

Farm Wars

  • Hounds From Hell Nipping At Our Heels
    Those who doubt the awesome but evil power of secret societies are in denial because denial is a much more comfortable place to exist. It's much easier to accept all the lies, all the time. To acknowledge the level of deceit and betrayal by almost every president for more than a century, as well ...
  • Save Your Bacon Fundraiser
    Mark Baker in Michigan, who is fighting for the survival of his free range pig farm. His plight has inspired our upcoming event, Save Your Bacon Weekend, a FundRAISER on Sept 7 on Polyface Farm and several grassfed pork inspired events Sept 7-8 in historic Staunton, VA.
  • Why GMOs Can Never be Safe
    In order to survive, the organism needs to engage in natural genetic modification in real time, an exquisitely precise molecular dance of life in which RNA and DNA respond to, and participate fully in ‘downstream’ biological functions. That is why organisms and ecosystems are particularly vulne ...
  • Welcome to PlantVillage – Free and Easy Intera ...
    PlantVillage is built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone on the planet. PlantVillage is a user moderated Q & A forum dedicated to the goal of helping people grow their own food. It is an open, freely available resource that he ...
  • 30% Off Listed Price on Organic Heirloom Seeds!
    As Farm Wars' readers know, I do not advertise anything for personal profit. I chose to become an affiliate with Heirloom Organics in order to provide good quality, organic Heirloom seeds to my readers, and use any proceeds to keep the site running without anyone spending a penny more for their ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 9/11 Firefighters Reveal Bombs Destroyed WTC lobby
    ShareThis9/11 Firefighters Reveal Bombs Destroyed WTC lobby 27 Jul 2013 Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discussing how secondary explosions occurred immediately before the co ...
  • While Officials Released Few Details on Sandy ...
    ShareThisWhile Officials Released Few Details on Sandy Hook to CT residents, Police Talk Newtown Shooting Across U.S. 27 Jul 2013 While law enforcement officials have released few details of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre to Connecticut residents, state police and Newtown offi ...
  • US vice president vows his nation will remain ...
    ShareThisUS vice president vows his nation will remain a resident Pacific power --'I state without apology that we are a Pacific power.' 28 Jul 2013 The United States vice president has vowed that his nation will remain a Pacific power as [US-generated] territorial disputes continue to destabi ...
  • FBI admits to flying drones over US without wa ...
    ShareThisFBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants 27 Jul 2013 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has used drones for domestic surveillance purposes in the United States at least ten times without obtaining warrants. In three additional cases, drones were authorized but ...
  • U.S. intends to send two Guantanamo detainees ...
    ShareThisU.S. intends to send two Guantanamo detainees to Algeria 26 Jul 2013 The Obama administration said on Friday it plans to repatriate two inmates to Algeria from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resuming the transfer of detainees from the controversial prison for the first ti ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Fox and Friends at 0820 EST Sunday
    27 July 2013   Jill Stephenson and I will be guests on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning.   Jill is the courageous and inspirational mother of Benjamin Kopp, the hero who literally was killed but did not die.  Army Rangers are hard to stop. Please read this before watching th ...
  • Mesmerizing halo effect caused by blades of la ...
    27 July 2013 The Kopp-Etchells Effect was named in honor of two soldiers - one British and one American - who were killed in Afghanistan in 2009 The dazzling photos were taken by a photojournalist who covered the war, and who decided to start calling the halos the Kopp-Etchells Effect When ...
  • JBLM soldier’s Afghanistan heroics earn Medal ...
    27 July 2013 By Hal Bernton Seattle Times staff reporter A valiant, bloody defense of a small outpost in eastern Afghanistan four years ago has produced a second Medal of Honor recipient — a Spokane-born soldier who repeatedly risked his own life on behalf of his fellow soldiers. Staff Sgt. ...
  • Note for Non-Americans on Race relations in th ...
    22 July 2013 Having spent about twenty years in dozens of countries, I have some idea about how we are viewed abroad. When it comes to race, many people look at America as black and white. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. We are a bunch of mixed breeds. One of my siblings rece ...
  • Race Baiting and Lies in America
    21 July 2013 George Bush Senior -- Naval Aviator at 18, then off to war. (Many Americans will be familiar with much of what is in this dispatch, yet many international readers never stepped foot inside the United States.  This case is getting international ink, and so here we go.) Trayv ...

The Killing Train

  • A tribute to Trayvon, from Delhi
    Trayvon Martin You forgot your Biblical lessons, Dear boy; God being Light, all Good things are white; And Satan being the prince Of darkness, being born black Is a hopeless mess. Against such black vissicitudes Was a just law found that said To the white killer, “stand your ground.” Onl ...
  • The Zimmerman Verdict and MMA
    Misinformation about martial arts seems to have played a role in the Zimmerman verdict. Because of the mass popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), there is an assumption that people know more about martial arts than they actually do. When the defense asked Zimmerman's MMA (mixe ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    For those in Toronto, I will be doing a little Q/A session at the University of Toronto's Hart House South Dining Room from 6-8pm on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Here's the description: The Future of India's Conflict Zones - Q/A with Justin Podur July 25, 2013, 6-8pm Hart House South Dining Room ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 2, Jon Elmer on ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This week we have Middle East journalist Jon Elmer, and we discuss the Egyptian Revolution, the Syrian Civil War, and the great powers and their designs in the middle east.
  • Kashmir: The fruits of isolation
    India wants Kashmir for itself. Pakistan wants Kashmir for itself. But the effect of both countries' policies has been to isolate Kashmir. read more

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Lawyer representing Rohingya accuses RNDP part ...
    Defence attorney providing legal counsel to a group of Rohingya in Arakan state’s Sittwe claims the general-secretary of the Rakine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) has threatened him for representing members from the Muslim minority.
  • French minister to lead trade mission to Burma
    French Trade Minister Nicole Bricq will lead a delegation of small- and medium-sized businesses to Burma next week as France looks to boost trade ties with the once-isolated nation.
  • Ministry of information, press council lock ho ...
    Wednesday’s meeting between Burma’s interim press council and the Ministry of Information has been deemed “fruitless” by participants as the two sides continue to argue over the contents of a new draft media law
  • Britain denies breaching Burma arms embargo
    The British government has denied breaching the EU arms embargo for Burma, after a parliamentary report revealed that it has eight active arms export licences for the former military dictatorship
  • Ministry set to rewrite colonial-era business law
    The Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development is planning to redraft the 99-year-old law in an attempt to make the legislation more compatible with the country’s evolving business climate

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The New Great Game Round Up- July 28, 2013
    U.S. Spy Network in Kyrgyzstan, NATO’s Cold War Revival, Dagestan Dangerous for Rabbis, SCO & WTO Expansion & More The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, he ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israel Looted Millions in Mavi Marmara Booty, ...
    One thing you’ve got to hand Israel: it has chutzpah in spades.  Those who participated in the Mavi Marmara expedition to break the Gaza siege were kidnapped by Israeli commandos.  Nine Turks were murdered, many with bullets fired at close range or in the back.  The surviving victims were ...
  • Lindsey Graham Wants War Against Iran
    Trita Parsi’s NIAC just sent me an e-mail message with the delightful news that Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to declare war on Iran.  Well, he can’t actually do that since he’s just a senator and that’s a job reserved for the president.  But that doesn’t seem to stop h ...
  • Mossad’s Pardo Visits UAE
    If I were an Iranian intelligence official I’d be following very closely the travel schedule of Tamir Pardo, Israel’s Mossad chief.  Last month, he visited his Turkish counterpart.  Four weeks later, Israeli bombers flew from a Turkish airbase to attack the Syrian government weapons ...
  • Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talk Charade
    I’ve held off writing about John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy attempting to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, because I thought there was “no there, there” and figured it might collapse of its own weight.  But developments in the past 24 hours indicate that whil ...
  • Video: Syria in Crisis
    Last month, I organized a talk at Seattle’s University Temple with humanitarian relief activist, Rita Zawaideh.  She’s a Jordanian-American active in providing relief for the millions of Syrian refugees spanning Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon.  I spoke in particular about Israe ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • RADICAL!
    Obama’s D.C. Circuit nominee Nina Pillard is an activist radical feminist court-packing judicial activist radical. You can tell because she’s 1)a woman, and 2)is such a radical feminist judicial activist that she’s willing to quote known Trotskyite William Rehnquist. The court- ...
  • The Energy Industry’s Crocodile Tears
    Governments subsidize energy. That is a way of life in the United States that is not going to change, because powerful interests make sure those subsidizes become naturalized and we don’t think of them as welfare. That’s probably a good thing. It’s in the government’s int ...
  • Cannibal Lobsters
    Let’s take massive overfishing and combine it with rapidly worsening climate change. What you end up with is a nightmare of cannibalistic lobsters, not to mention a Maine fishing economy desperately holding on for survival. Here’s a great infographic explaining what the larger articl ...
  • J.J. Cale, RIP
    J.J. Cale has died. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of a style this laid-back, which can become outright sleepy. But Cale could write some excellent songs.    
  • Isbell on Fresh Air
    If you haven’t already listened, I heartily recommend the Jason Isbell Fresh Air episode. There’s some fantastic stuff; Isbell gives a very good interview, and even covers Don’t Let it Bring You Down. As for the new album… it’s not really my cup of tea. Isbell&#8217 ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
  • A new understanding of the North American monsoon
    Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...
  • Desert Research Institute contributes to ongoi ...
    Using a dust detection device patented by Desert Research Institute scientists, Dr. Vic Etyemezian and George Nikolich have the ability to identify how “Valley Fever,” a devastating fungus called Coccidioides, spreads.
  • Nyssa Perryman, June 2013 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nyssa Perryman, a Ph.D. student working in Atmospheric Sciences as a part of the Climate Modeling Team. Her research focus is understanding how global climate models, when transformed and applied to the complex terrain of the Western U.S., characterize atmospheric rivers and their cons ...
  • DRI Annual Convocation – Honoring our research ...
    Today the Desert Research Institute took time to celebrate the success of its faculty and students during its Annual Convocation event. Eleven awards were presented to scientific researchers and graduate students on behalf of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents, DRI’s donors a ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Parched New Mexico Reservoir Reveals Effects o ...
    A pair of satellite images released by NASA this week shows the effects of a severe drought on New Mexico’s largest reservoir, where water levels are at their lowest Click to enlarge NASAElephant Butte reservoir, 1994-2013 levels in four decades. Earlier this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engine ...
  • Mapping of Oil Palm Genome Could Boost Product ...
    Scientists say they have identified the gene responsible for the yield of oil palm crops, a discovery that could boost the productivity of the world’s top source of Click to enlarge Malaysian Palm Oil BoardTwo varieties of palm oil fruit. vegetable oil and help reduce the size of oil palm plant ...
  • European Investment Bank Will Not Finance Most ...
    The European Investment Bank (EIB), the main lending arm of the European Union, has decided to stop financing most coal-fired power plants, part of an effort to help the 28-nation bloc meet ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030. The EIB says that new and refurbished coal-fired power ...
  • Interview: Leaving Our Descendants A Whopping ...
    Last week, a group of scientists led by Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research released a paper that made a stark forecast: Anders Levermann For every 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, the world will eventually experience a 2.3-meter increase in sea level ...
  • Booming Cashmere Market Is Threatening Snow Le ...
    A surging global market for cashmere is pushing several iconic species, including the snow leopard and wild yak, toward the margins of survival in remote regions where wool-producing goats are raised, according to a new Anna Yu A snow leopard in the mountains of Central Asia study. Demand ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Death Happens More Slowly Than Thought
    A new study reveals how death in organisms, including humans, spreads like a wave from cell to cell until the whole individual is dead. The good news is that, in certain cases, scientists may be able to stop the biochemical process that leads to this death wave, reviving the individual. It’s dif ...
  • Archaeologist who discovered the Hobbit dies
    The archaeologist who helped discover the extinct Homo species Flores Hobbit, Professor Mike Morwood, has died after a struggle with cancer. The Hobbit was thought to have lived around 18,000 years ago. New Zealand-born Professor Morwood, who was based at the School of Earth and Environmental Sc ...
  • Islam’s Medieval Underworld
    The year is—let us say—1170, and you are the leader of a city watch in medieval Persia. Patrolling the dangerous alleyways in the small hours of the morning, you and your men chance upon two or three shady-looking characters loitering outside the home of a wealthy merchant. Suspecting that you h ...
  • NASA’s Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Acce ...
    Scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe called the Van Allen radiation belts. Scientists knew that something in space accelerated particles in t ...
  • New Theory: The Universe Isn’t Expanding, It’s ...
    But you’d never know, because everyone is getting more massive at the same time. Whoa. One cosmologist is proposing that the universe isn’t actually expanding, as the standard theory goes. Instead, the redshift effects astronomers see could mean that everything is just gaining more mass, while p ...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Film 'Counter-Intelligence' Debunks Common Cla ...
    "One of the things this documentary does is to completely debunk common claims/misperceptions about intelligence agencies and black ops: 'someone would have talked', 'everyone would have known', 'governments cannot keep secrets', and so forth. These A Priori arguments are used as a shield to pre ...
  • 9/11 Free Fall 7/18/13: Dr. deHaven-Smith and ...
    Dr. Lance deHaven-Smith is a professor in the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia, summa cum laude, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. In a 2006 peer-reviewed jo ...
  • David Ray Griffin 2011 "911 Miracles"
    Note: I strongly disagree with some of Griffin's research, such as his analysis of the phone calls from the planes on 9/11 and the Pentagon crash. Published on Jul 6, 2013 911TVorg David Ray Griffin 2011 "911 Miracles" 9/11: Why do Bill Moyers and Robert Parry Accept Miracles? Related: ...
  • New Immortal Technique Album is Free!
    I was checking out some Joe Rogan podcasts the other day and came across a show with Immortal Technique, who if you didn't know is a 9/11 truth activist, having protested at ground zero and rapped about it several times. Joe Rogan Questions Everything, 9/11 included. So I was listening to the sh ...
  • Inform Senator McCain's Office That His '9/11 ...
    "Recently 9/11 activists and various experts held a meeting with a member Senator John McCain's staff to present the evidence that the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Building 7 were brought down in a controlled demolition on 9/11.  In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall those involved in ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Botswana bars Bushmen's lawyer as landmark cas ...
    Mr Bennett with Bushmen clients after their historic 2006 legal victory. Botswana's government is now preventing him from entering the country.© SurvivalIn an unprecedented move branded ‘vindictive and repressive’, Botswana’s government has prevented British attorney Gordo ...
  • Indian tribe blocks Pan-American Highway to pr ...
    Yesterday the Ayoreo demanded that local officials from the Attorney General's office stop the invasion of their land.© GAT/SurvivalA key South American highway connecting Paraguay and Bolivia is being blocked by an Indian tribe angry at the destruction of their rapidly-shrinking island of ...
  • Venezuelan Indians travel to capital amidst mi ...
    Yanomami woman. Mining is bringing devastation to the land of the Yanomami, Ye’kuana and Sanema Indians. © VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALA delegation of Ye’kuana and Sanema Indians traveled to Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to express their fears about the devastating effects mining is having on thei ...
  • Not primitive: Short film showcases proud life ...
    A new 30-second short shows that tribal peoples like the Dongria Kondh are proud, not primitive. © SurvivalA new short film showing the richness of tribal peoples’ lives has been released as part of the Proud Not Primitive campaign in India.  The 30-second short aims to challenge prevaili ...
  • Tanks move in around Earth's most threatened tribe
    Brazil's military has moved in to stop illegal logging around the land of Earth's most threatened tribe. © Exército BrasileiroSurvival International has received reports that Brazil’s military has launched a major ground operation against illegal logging around the land of the Aw ...

Greg Palast

  • An Open Letter to Trayvon Martin's Father
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Dear Mr. Martin, I have a 16-year old son. I cannot imagine losing him because some beast decided to play Lone Ranger. And so, with cautious humility, I make this suggestion, this plea. Sue the beast. You must. I understand you are reluctant to launch another painful ...
  • The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Y ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a cliff. This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged wi ...
  • New York Genitals Fight for Office ... While S ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Go ahead and shoot me. It’s hopeless. My War on Stupid is facing defeat on every front. I open up the New York Times and there’s a page one story about Anthony Weiner, who is now ahead in the race for Mayor of New York. The article is 17 [...]
  • Summer versus Stupid
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine We all have bad habits. And the worst, besides yelling at our kids when we're hung-over or just generally disappointed, is the daily deal we make with Evil. Every day we are thrown head first into that dog fight between What is Right, What is Horrible and, our th ...
  • Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law Replaces ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King's grave.  The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I'm so angry, so distraught b ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Lady of the House
    By Cathy Jameson “Wrong number,” I replied. Every few weeks someone calls the house looking for a woman named Rosa. I can tell right away that it’s either a telemarketer or a collection agency. Sometimes it’s a recording for Rosa...
  • Dr. Koran Boggs Bogged Down in Defending Vacci ...
    Thank you to our friends at Thinking Moms' Revolution for this guest bog - I mean blog post From Ginger Taylor, Canary Party Director. Ginger - able to dissect merde-du-taureau in faster than most of us can whip up a...
  • Dachel Media Update: Pollution, Seattle Childr ...
    By Anne Dachel July 26, 2013, Salt Lake Desert News: My view: Stericycle should stop incinerating July 25, 2013, Puget Sound Business Journal: Seattle Children's receives $7 million for adult autism program July 25, 2013, Health AIM: Autism Risk May...
  • Weekly Wrap: Honestly.
    By Dan Olmsted The death of my treasured colleague Helen Thomas last week reminded me of her very useful comment that if you want to be loved, don’t go into journalism. Not that I needed much reminding. Recently I’ve read...
  • Dorit Rubenstein Reiss and the Benefits of Age ...
    By John Stone I always supposed that the concept of agency capture, in which government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control or the Food and Drug Administration are taken over by the culture industries from which they were...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Hounds From Hell Nipping At Our Heels
    Those who doubt the awesome but evil power of secret societies are in denial because denial is a much more comfortable place to exist. It's much easier to accept all the lies, all the time. To acknowledge the level of deceit and betrayal by almost every president for more than a century, as well ...
  • Save Your Bacon Fundraiser
    Mark Baker in Michigan, who is fighting for the survival of his free range pig farm. His plight has inspired our upcoming event, Save Your Bacon Weekend, a FundRAISER on Sept 7 on Polyface Farm and several grassfed pork inspired events Sept 7-8 in historic Staunton, VA.
  • Why GMOs Can Never be Safe
    In order to survive, the organism needs to engage in natural genetic modification in real time, an exquisitely precise molecular dance of life in which RNA and DNA respond to, and participate fully in ‘downstream’ biological functions. That is why organisms and ecosystems are particularly vulne ...
  • Welcome to PlantVillage – Free and Easy Intera ...
    PlantVillage is built on the premise that all knowledge that helps people grow food should be openly accessible to anyone on the planet. PlantVillage is a user moderated Q & A forum dedicated to the goal of helping people grow their own food. It is an open, freely available resource that he ...
  • 30% Off Listed Price on Organic Heirloom Seeds!
    As Farm Wars' readers know, I do not advertise anything for personal profit. I chose to become an affiliate with Heirloom Organics in order to provide good quality, organic Heirloom seeds to my readers, and use any proceeds to keep the site running without anyone spending a penny more for their ...

new geography

  • Bruce Springsteen: The Wrecking Ball Strikes ...
    It makes sense that the European continent would enthusiastically welcome Bruce Springsteen this summer on his Wrecking Ball Tour. Europe is in its second year of a prolonged recession, and its economic union looks like a failed savings and loan association. As he has in the past, the Boss is m ...
  • America's Emerging Housing Crisis
    The current housing recovery may be like manna to homeowners, but it may do little to ease a growing shortage of affordable residences, and could even make it worse. After a recession-generated drought, household formation is on the rise, notes a recent study by the Harvard Joint Center on Housi ...
  • Manufacturing in Los Angeles: A Test Case in W ...
    What comes to mind when you think of Los Angeles’ big industries? Motion pictures and other entertainment sectors, yes. Real estate and corporate headquarters, too. But probably not manufacturing. No other sector, however, contributes more to the Los Angeles metro area’s gross ...
  • High Confidence Not Translating to High Math S ...
    Swedish fourth graders are leading the world in mathematics, followed closely by those in other developed European nations, at least if we look at students’ reported self-confidence in the subject. Fully 77% of Swedish students at fourth grade express a high level of confidence about t ...
  • Is the “Rust Belt” a Dirty Word?
    Many people hate the term “Rust Belt”. They dislike the aesthetics of the Rust Belt. For others, the term is less loaded, but rather a moniker denoting who we are. Consider me in the latter camp. But I often cross paths with those who loathe the term, or more exactly any notion ...

water.org

  • A Water Connection for Siddamma
    Siddamma lives with her husband and a daughter in the Mysore district of Karnataka. Her family consumed water from the public tap for several years. On some days, they would get enough water, but on most days the water was not sufficient for consumption. Siddamma and her daughter would wait for ...
  • A Well Inauguration
    The people of Pot 15 applaud with the joy for the well [that they now have] after three months of training to ensure that the well has a future. For several years residents had to go to neighboring communities for a drop of water. During the [well] inauguration ceremony one of the members of the ...
  • Teaching Hygiene Through Song
    Community education is just as important as drilling a well or building a latrine.
  • A Toilet for Sumit
    “Our previous toilet was a ‘katcha’ toilet made with bamboo sticks. The pit was covered with bamboo thatch. It was too near to the house. During monsoons, the water from the katcha toilet used to flow through the house and spread a foul smell all over the place,” says Sumit Deori, who lives with ...
  • Chandramaya's Story
    Chandramaya Chettri is 65 years old and, until now, has only had access to water from unclean sources. She says, “We [used to] collect water from the nearby pond and sometimes from our neighbor’s well. Borrowing water from our neighbors was not easy. We were subjected to ill-treatment.”

Cryptogon

  • Halliburton to Plead Guilty to Destroying Gulf ...
    You’ll think it’s comedy hour on Cryptogon this morning when you get to the part about the penalty. Via: BBC: US company Halliburton will plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill. The plea agreement, which is subject to court approval, means H ...
  • The Great Chinese British Firewall: Censorship ...
    If this was forced on me, here’s what I’d do (short of taking my money out of the country and leaving): Manually whitelist a VPN provider in a more free country and then run everything through that connection. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll hear pretty quickly if cryptogon.com is ...
  • Spills at Alberta Oil Sands Operation
    Via: The Star: Oil spills at a major oil sands operation in Alberta have been ongoing for at least six weeks and have cast doubts on the safety of underground extraction methods, according to documents obtained by the Star and a government scientist who has been on site. Canadian Natural Resourc ...
  • FBI Using Drones for Warrantless Surveillance ...
    Via: The Verge: Earlier this year, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publicly revealed for the first time in a hearing that it has been using drones to conduct surveillance operations inside the country, a striking admission, given that domestic drone is a subject of intense debate an ...
  • Egypt: Army Fires on Morsi Protestors, Many Do ...
    Via: Independent: Egypt’s troubled transition reached a new nadir of bloodletting today when at least 70 supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsi were gunned down during a sustained attack by the security services – three weeks after the army committed a similar massacre in nearly exactly t ...

The Economic Collapse

  • It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between ...
    If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008?  That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.  Many o ...
  • Who Controls The Global Economy? Do Not Undere ...
    Are the big banks really as powerful as some people say that they are?  Do they really control the global economy?  If y0u asked most people, they would tell you that governments control the global economy.  But the campaigns of our politicians are funded by the ultra-wealthy, the big banks and ...
  • Debt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dang ...
    Never before has the world faced such a serious debt crisis.  Yes, in the past there have certainly been nations that have gotten into trouble with debt, but we have never had a situation where virtually all of the major powers around the globe were all drowning in debt at the same time.  And wh ...
  • The Biggest Oil Discovery In 50 Years?
    In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has been made which could rock the world.  Some are calling it the biggest discovery of oil in 50 years.  Earlier this year, a company called Linc Energy announced that tests had revealed that there was a minimum of 3.5 billion ...
  • The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Coming Retiremen ...
    The pension nightmare that is at the heart of the horrific financial crisis in Detroit is just the tip of the iceberg of the coming retirement crisis that will shake America to the core.  Right now, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are hitting the age of 65 every single day, and this will continue ...

Desertification

  • An experimental greenhouse with the promise of ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/growing-food-in-the-desert-is-this-the-solution-to-the-worlds-food-crisis/ Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world’s food crisis? by Jonathan Margolis The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of ...
  • Coping with drought in Brazil (OurWorld 2.0)
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/living-laboratory-for-coping-with-drought-in-brazil/ Living laboratory for coping with drought in Brazil by Mario Osava The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit &# ...
  • Provision of dry season cultivation assistance ...
    Read at : http://www.acted.org/fr/node/7360 All the way from the camps to the market During years of conflict, families from Central Darfur State have lost their businesses and sources of income to support their families, being forced to move to camps … Continue reading →
  • Why are small scale farmers wary of change? (Z ...
    Read at : http://zaraimedia.com/2013/07/26/agricultural-practices-in-developing-countries/ Agricultural practices in developing countries Zaraimedia Team By:Nadia Khawaja Traditional farming is characterised by small scale or ‘subsistence farms’ operated by families who consume most of the outpu ...
  • Asparagus : a plant that can be used to contai ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=966124 Scientists Use Asparagus To Fight Desertification In North China Scientists have used asparagus in a successful experiment to curb desertification in north China, Xinhua news agency re ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Kyle Busch wins NASCAR Nationwide Series ...
    INDIANAPOLIS — Despite having the dominant car, Kyle Busch nearly saw victory slip away in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday. Busch was passed by Brian Scott on the final restart with six laps left. But Busch reclaimed...
  • Hunter Mahan Withdraws As Wife Goes Into ...
    Hunter Mahan withdrew from the RBC Canadian Open on Saturday after learning his wife went into labor a month earlier than expected. Despite leading the open at 13 under after 36 holes, Mahan announced he would withdraw from the golf tournament to welcome his baby daughter into the world. The ...
  • Spanish train driver Garzon to be questio ...
    The driver of a train that crashed near the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday killing 78 people is due to appear before a judge. Francisco Jose Garzon Amo has been detained on suspicion of reckless homicide and the judge will decide whether to press formal charges. Mr Garzo ...
  • AL pitches trio of 1-0 games, 1st time si ...
    Comment () Tweet By The Associated Press, Associated Press Rays rookie Chris Archer helped American League teams pitch a trio of 1-0 games Saturday, the first time that's happened on the same day in nearly a half-century. The last time three AL games ended 1-0 on the same day was Sept. 4, 19 ...
  • Germany's Schaeuble set to stay center st ...
    BERLIN (Reuters) - Two years ago, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was on the point of giving up his role as iron fist in the euro zone debt crisis, but the 70-year-old champion of closer European integration now seems likely to remain on Europe's center stage. Chancellor Angela Me ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Dazzling Dozen US States Illuminate Path To So ...
    A solar energy revolution is dawning in America, led by twelve states whose progressive policies dominate the US solar industry and illuminate the path forward to a nationwide clean energy economy. This “Dazzling Dozen” represent 85% of US solar energy capacity.
  • Nuclear Energy: Who Owns the Plutonium? How Mu ...
    Galen Winsor was a hands-on nuclear expert in the fullest sense. Before irrational radiation protection rules were imposed, he directly handled used fuel. They limiting their exposure time and depended on the “time, distance and shielding” trifecta of radiation protection.
  • Natural Gas Must Peak Between 2020 and 2030 To ...
    A new report on climate change and natural gas usage finds natural gas must peak sooner than many policymakers currently realize is necessary—if the United States is to meet its climate goals and avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
  • Virginia is Feeling the Heat From Climate Change
    Being from Northern Virginia, right outside of Washington, D.C., I was fortunate enough to experience the region’s fairly consistent climate throughout the seasons. In the late 1980’s and 1990’s, I experienced what I considered a “normal” temperate climate.
  • Vogtle Nuclear Energy Plant Construction Time- ...
    A new time-lapse video shows early site preparation and containment vessel bottom head placement at the Plant Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia. Two new reactors are scheduled to begin operations at Plant Vogtle in 2017 and 2018.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Obamanians
      The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power By James Mann, Penguin Books 2012 Book Review The main focus of the Obamians is the young idealistic foreign policy advisors who joined Obama’s campaign and subsequently his administration. ...
  • At Last a Male Contraceptive?
    Male Birth Control? A recent feature in GreenMedInfo asks whether Monsanto has inadvertently invented a male contraceptive. Owing to the unreliability and/or unpleasant side effects of the contraceptives available to females, women have been begging drug companies for five decades to produ ...
  • Was Occupy Wall Street Coopted?
    After wondering for several months where the Occupy movement had gone, I ran across an article about a new project called Rolling Jubilee. It seems a coalition of Occupy groups has joined up to pay off individuals’ personal debt. Rolling Jubilee is a project of Strike Debt, a group form ...
  • BP Tries to Overturn Gulf Oil Settlement
        BP’s massive 2010 Gulf oil spill virtually destroyed the Gulf of Mexico economy. Fisheries, tourist-related enterprises, and the businesses dependent on them went belly-up in the hundreds of thousands. Yet as business owners quickly found, the only way they could get co ...
  • What the Corporate Media Won't Tell You About ...
    photo credit: Thomas Hawk via photopin cc   The general attitude of corporate pundits towards Detroit’s recent bankruptcy is that it’s good news: the city is living beyond its means, and the bankruptcy will enable city leaders to adopt long overdo austerity cuts. ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Energy Collective

  • Dazzling Dozen US States Illuminate Path To So ...
    A solar energy revolution is dawning in America, led by twelve states whose progressive policies dominate the US solar industry and illuminate the path forward to a nationwide clean energy economy. This “Dazzling Dozen” represent 85% of US solar energy capacity.
  • Nuclear Energy: Who Owns the Plutonium? How Mu ...
    Galen Winsor was a hands-on nuclear expert in the fullest sense. Before irrational radiation protection rules were imposed, he directly handled used fuel. They limiting their exposure time and depended on the “time, distance and shielding” trifecta of radiation protection.
  • Natural Gas Must Peak Between 2020 and 2030 To ...
    A new report on climate change and natural gas usage finds natural gas must peak sooner than many policymakers currently realize is necessary—if the United States is to meet its climate goals and avoid the worst impacts of global warming.
  • Virginia is Feeling the Heat From Climate Change
    Being from Northern Virginia, right outside of Washington, D.C., I was fortunate enough to experience the region’s fairly consistent climate throughout the seasons. In the late 1980’s and 1990’s, I experienced what I considered a “normal” temperate climate.
  • Vogtle Nuclear Energy Plant Construction Time- ...
    A new time-lapse video shows early site preparation and containment vessel bottom head placement at the Plant Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia. Two new reactors are scheduled to begin operations at Plant Vogtle in 2017 and 2018.

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Googles $35 Chromecast Streaming Device Bridge ...
    Netflix, YouTube, and Google Play all work with Chromecast, and Google says that you can "cast" anything from the web via the Chrome web browser. To use Chromecast, you'll need an Android (2.3 or higher) or iOS (6 or higher) phone or tablet, a Mac (OS X 10.7 or higher), a PC (Windows 7 or higher ...
  • NSA Award for Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper
    Yesterday [July 18] I received the NSA award for the Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper of 2012 for my IEEE Oakland paper "The science of guessing." I'm honored to have been recognised by the distinguished academic panel assembled by the NSA. I'd like to again thank Henry Watts, Elizabeth Zwi ...
  • Microsoft Is The Cancer Killing Nokia
    Recent earnings reports out of both Nokia and Microsoft alongside the staggering long-term collapse of Hewlett Packard and Dell business models support the thesis that Windows is a cancer. Windows software licensing generates consistent heaps of cash for Microsoft, at the expense of real growth ...
  • GeeksPhone Taking Pre-Orders for Firefox OS Pe ...
    Several months after GeeksPhone developed two Firefox OS-based phones for the developer community, the Spanish smartphone startup is bringing Mozilla's OS to consumers with the new Peak+ smartphone. The Peak+ is now available for pre-order and follows the April debut of the Keon and Peak develo ...
  • Technology Will These Guys Kill The Computer ...
    In his experiments, Holz realized early on that computers were powerful tools. "I always felt like I was better with technology than without it," he says. But at a certain point, he started to notice the opposite effect. In middle school, he taught himself to use sophisticated design software an ...

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Politics in the Zeros

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

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frogblog

  • How long is a piece of string? RAMSI, New Zeal ...
    We flew to Honiara, Wednesday, to mark the 10th anniversary of RAMSI, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.  The Prime Minister, 3 cabinet ministers, Phil Goff, Winston Peters, Peter Dunne and me; several Pacific leaders; NZ officials – several hundred of us, all up.  Australian mi ...
  • NBR Rich List highlights inequality
    It is hard to find reason to celebrate the latest NBR rich list while one quarter of all New Zealand children are living below the poverty line. The NBR’s annual publication, out yesterday, reports an increase from 2012 of $3.5 billion in total minimum net worth among Rich Listers a total minimu ...
  • Impatiently waiting for a real response to ele ...
    This week the Government released their formal response to the select committee inquiry into the last election. I have to say I was pretty disappointed with what was released. Justice Minister Judith Collins has had the select committee report for three months, but rather than present anything s ...
  • Animal Welfare video shoot
    The launch of our exciting new Animal Welfare campaign is just around the corner (25th August). The Animal Welfare Act is under review for the first time in a long time, and we’d like to see some big changes. Last week some of our staff headed up to The Animal Sanctuary in Matakana to inte ...
  • New lipstick not enough for cruel suffering
    When a bunch of people dressed as rabbits with their dogs show up at Parliament to hand over a petition, they have my attention. Today I received a petition from SAFE and the Humane Society International calling for an end to animal testing for cosmetics in New Zealand. Animal testing is the ugl ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Botswana bars Bushmen's lawyer as landmark cas ...
    Mr Bennett with Bushmen clients after their historic 2006 legal victory. Botswana's government is now preventing him from entering the country.© SurvivalIn an unprecedented move branded ‘vindictive and repressive’, Botswana’s government has prevented British attorney Gordo ...
  • Indian tribe blocks Pan-American Highway to pr ...
    Yesterday the Ayoreo demanded that local officials from the Attorney General's office stop the invasion of their land.© GAT/SurvivalA key South American highway connecting Paraguay and Bolivia is being blocked by an Indian tribe angry at the destruction of their rapidly-shrinking island of ...
  • Venezuelan Indians travel to capital amidst mi ...
    Yanomami woman. Mining is bringing devastation to the land of the Yanomami, Ye’kuana and Sanema Indians. © VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALA delegation of Ye’kuana and Sanema Indians traveled to Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to express their fears about the devastating effects mining is having on thei ...
  • Not primitive: Short film showcases proud life ...
    A new 30-second short shows that tribal peoples like the Dongria Kondh are proud, not primitive. © SurvivalA new short film showing the richness of tribal peoples’ lives has been released as part of the Proud Not Primitive campaign in India.  The 30-second short aims to challenge prevaili ...
  • Tanks move in around Earth's most threatened tribe
    Brazil's military has moved in to stop illegal logging around the land of Earth's most threatened tribe. © Exército BrasileiroSurvival International has received reports that Brazil’s military has launched a major ground operation against illegal logging around the land of the Aw ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #MonsantoVideoRevolt best of: GMO A-Go-Go
  • Pooping Canada geese may have helped spread GM ...
    from Ottawacitizen.com: Canada geese may have spread viable seeds of genetically modified wheat grown at the Central Experimental Farm, documents from Agriculture Canada show. The odds aren’t high, the department says. But the geese ate the experimental wheat last summer at the ...
  • Italy to Ban Monsanto GMO Corn with 80% Public ...
    from naturalsociety.com: First India gives Monsanto a run for their ill-gotten money by refusing their patent applications, and now Italy, with the help of three Italian ministries, will try to undo Monsanto. A decree has been signed which will ban Monsanto’s MON810 maize, one of the ...
  • 213 Women Who Took Gardasil Suffered Permanent ...
    from realfarmacy.com: Naomi Snell, a 28-year-old woman in Melbourne, Australia, is leading a class-action civil lawsuit against drug maker Merck after suffering autoimmune and neurological complications following injections with the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. After receiving the first o ...
  • We Did The March, Now Join The Revolt. #Monsan ...
    from MonsantoVideoRevolt.com: At this point in history, we have the unique opportunity to reclaim our food supply from biotech juggernauts like Monsanto. We have the ability to remove the mutated GMO garbage from our dinner tables, and demand that activism turn into anti-Monsanto legislati ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between ...
    If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008?  That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.  Many o ...
  • Who Controls The Global Economy? Do Not Undere ...
    Are the big banks really as powerful as some people say that they are?  Do they really control the global economy?  If y0u asked most people, they would tell you that governments control the global economy.  But the campaigns of our politicians are funded by the ultra-wealthy, the big banks and ...
  • Debt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dang ...
    Never before has the world faced such a serious debt crisis.  Yes, in the past there have certainly been nations that have gotten into trouble with debt, but we have never had a situation where virtually all of the major powers around the globe were all drowning in debt at the same time.  And wh ...
  • The Biggest Oil Discovery In 50 Years?
    In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has been made which could rock the world.  Some are calling it the biggest discovery of oil in 50 years.  Earlier this year, a company called Linc Energy announced that tests had revealed that there was a minimum of 3.5 billion ...
  • The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Coming Retiremen ...
    The pension nightmare that is at the heart of the horrific financial crisis in Detroit is just the tip of the iceberg of the coming retirement crisis that will shake America to the core.  Right now, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are hitting the age of 65 every single day, and this will continue ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • MKBHD Explains Ubuntu Edge
    Wondering what MKBHD is all about? They are kind of a YouTube sensation for everything tech related. I was in the process of preparing an "Ubuntu Edge explained" post and then I saw this MKBHD video detailing Ubuntu Edge. And I thought, this is as good as it gets. So here it is, "Ubuntu Ed ...
  • Top 10 Keyboard Apps for Android
    With the kind of customizability Android is capable of, things can get a little overwhelming for an average user who has just bought his first smartphone. There are plenty of app replacements for each and every action. Take launchers for example. From lightweight to the extremely flamboyant ki ...
  • Ubuntu Edge Campaign Touches 4.5 Million! New ...
    Ubuntu Edge campaign smashed a number of records on the first day itself. Many of its "perks" were instantly sold out and now, the total amount raised stands at a staggering 4.5 Million USD! Canonical team has now replaced sold out perks with new ones with the cheapest one selling at a lowly ( ...
  • Canonical sets the Biggest ever Crowdsourcing ...
    So Ubuntu Edge it is. That's what the countdown on Ubuntu home page just a week ago was all about. Ubuntu Edge is Canonical's own superphone, with the kind of specs that can make any tech enthusiast drool. But Canonical is approaching this differently. Ubuntu Edge will be produced in limited ...
  • Dota 2 for Linux Officially Arrives on Steam!
    After the release of blockbusters such as Half Life 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead 2 on Steam, now it's  the turn of popular online multiplayer, Dota 2. For many ardent Linux fans, Dota 2 was the last thing they needed to finally delete the Windows partition and switch completely to Linux. Und ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

  • Psychology professor demonstrates: “Conspiracy ...
    Is Coast to Coast afraid to let me explain why "conspiracy theorists" are saner than government dupes?
  • Will Egypt Burn?
    - Will a new Muslim Brotherhood leadership emerge in Egypt - to pick the pieces left from the old?
  • Israel Declares Sanctions on Europe
    Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.—Romans 12:20 - “Don’t bother me with the Palestinians. If the Egyptian new dictator—What’s his name? Order a lecture on his name!—calls, tell him ...
  • The United States Is Awash in Public Stupidity ...
    By Henry A. Giroux [1] America has become amnesiac – a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both ...
  • Secret Space War VI: Dead Humans by the Milli ...
    By   Preston James   Unless Americans wake up from their slumber and take their country back from Neocon Zionist hijackers who appear to be operating according to an Alien Agenda run out of the City of London Financial District, it certainly seems that they are destined to become dead by th ...

electric politics

  • Whose Future?
    If Susan Crawford is right about the introduction of fast fiber internet being analogous to the introduction of electricity then America is in big trouble — because a lot of other countries are getting fiber before we do. And, I suppose, possibly getting smarter faster, too... Unquestionab ...
  • Inspector Chen
    Sometimes we learn more through literature than non-fiction. Sometimes, believe it or not, there's a lot to be learned from police procedurals. Sometimes, also, police procedurals are just plain fun! But there really aren't that many great writers of them — few enough, anyhow, such that if ...
  • Après 1947
    The watershed 1947 National Security Act provided a post-war full employment guarantee to the U.S. arms industry. Indeed, it succeeded so well — with no real changes since then in the apparatus it devised — that today U.S. spending for military purposes bears no meaningful relationsh ...
  • Worst Cases
    As the war in Syria grinds on the children of Washington want to get credit for doing something. Arming the "good guys" and opposing the "bad guy" seems to be the path of least resistance. A pity, that, because throwing arms into Syria will only prolong the bloodshed indefinitely... Much better, ...
  • On Recognizing Geographical Realities
    The question of when a country is not a country may seem, for outsiders, little more than an abstract principle or an academic argument. But for those who dwell in the imaginary state the issue may well be about abject poverty or, indeed, life and death. The Congo being the most extreme example ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

  • NATO And The “Phantom Menace”: A P ...
    Voice of Russia July 27, 2013 NATO and the “phantom menace”: a pretext for global expansion John Robles Upcoming NATO military exercises envisage an attack on Poland and an Article 5 NATO intervention against a foreign power. To the dismay of Russia, these exercises continue the outdated “Cold W ...
  • Henri Barbusse: I will wage war, even though I ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Chains (Les Enchaînements) (1925) Translated by Stephen Haden Guest “It is you, you alone, who create, ye poor and oppressed: Power arms against you all your own acts ...
  • Poland: U.S., NATO Strengthen Military Positio ...
    United States European Command July 26, 2013 Aviation Detachment Deployment to Poland Shows U.S. Commitment to Europe General Philip Breedlove In recent months, due to the U.S. “rebalance” to Asia, I have heard and read concerns decreasing U.S. engagement in Europe is causing a shift ...
  • Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff: U.S. To Con ...
    Polish Radio July 25, 2013 Joint US-Polish military training to continue US budget cuts will not affect the joint American-Polish military training programme, the US’s highest-ranking general insisted on Wednesday. General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the ...
  • Roger Martin du Gard: Secret commitments which ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war ==== Roger Martin du Gard From Summer 1914 (1936) Translated by Stuart Gilbert Taking a notebook from his pocket, he began jotting down phrases as they occurred to him: Frenchmen and Germans, ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • BRAZIL: Combative protests during the visit of ...
    [Three videos from Brazil, documenting the massive protests at the corruption and mis-use of State resources for the Pope's visit.  The videos are narrated in Portuguese, and the videos give visual testimony to the ongoing problems of credibility and legitimacy of the Brazilian state, in the fac ...
  • BRAZIL: Combative protests during the visit of ...
    [Three videos from Brazil, documenting the massive protests at the corruption and mis-use of State resources for the Pope's visit.  The videos are narrated in Portuguese, and the videos give visual testimony to the ongoing problems of credibility and legitimacy of the Brazilian state, in the fac ...
  • Missteps by Brazil Mar Visit by Pope
    [The New York Times reports the Brazilian power elite's attempts to attribute "blunders" -- not mass resentment at religious and political arrogance, extravagance, and brutal repression -- for the obvious breakdown of bourgeois authority and credibility in social and political life. -- Frontline ...
  • Missteps by Brazil Mar Visit by Pope
    [The New York Times reports the Brazilian power elite's attempts to attribute "blunders" -- not mass resentment at religious and political arrogance, extravagance, and brutal repression -- for the obvious breakdown of bourgeois authority and credibility in social and political life. -- Frontline ...
  • The Nightmare of the American Dream
    Prisoner — Undocumented — Immigrants… July 7, 2013  –  CORCORN SHU I would like to take this moment to possibly enlighten you to a situation we as Hispanic Mexican Nationals would like to share with all of you. Our hope is to create discussion and ultimately change this sad rea ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Week In Numbers: An Asteroid-Zapping Space ...
    4,580 degrees Fahrenheit: the surface temperature on exoplanet COROT-7b, one of the 10 worst places to live in the universe, according to NASA scientists 600 miles: the diameter of the largest known asteroid, Ceres (could an asteroid impact knock the moon into Earth?) 70 gigawatts: the power of ...
  • A Mathematical Model Of Gun Control Means We C ...
    UC Irvine researchers have published a model to predict how gun control affects homicide rates. As highly debated as the topic of gun control is in America, there's almost no research into the causes of gun violence or how to prevent it. Until recently, there was a virtual gag on gun violence ...
  • The Physics Of Usain Bolt's Record-Breaking Sprint
    Usain Bolt's historic 100m dash at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. In 2009, at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt beat his own previous world record by 0.11 seconds, running a 9.58-second 100-meter dash. The record is getting more and more difficult to break, as it's history ...
  • FYI: Could I Have Prevented My Nearsightedness ...
    Yes, you could have, you little bookworm. My parents were right!! A spate of studies over the past decade has found that kids who spend more time outdoors are less likely to develop near-sightedness. Outdoor time seems to protect kids even if they do a lot of "near work" (e.g., reading Goosebum ...
  • Seriously, What's Up With Anthony Weiner?
    The science of being a horndog Anthony Weiner has been at it again. Or he’s been at it all along? Regardless, the former disgraced Congressman turned NYC mayoral candidate has admitted to sexting up a storm last year, even as he proclaimed to anyone who would listen that his illicit messaging ...

Veterans Today

  • Psychology professor demonstrates: “Conspiracy ...
    Is Coast to Coast afraid to let me explain why "conspiracy theorists" are saner than government dupes?
  • Will Egypt Burn?
    - Will a new Muslim Brotherhood leadership emerge in Egypt - to pick the pieces left from the old?
  • Israel Declares Sanctions on Europe
    Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.—Romans 12:20 - “Don’t bother me with the Palestinians. If the Egyptian new dictator—What’s his name? Order a lecture on his name!—calls, tell him ...
  • The United States Is Awash in Public Stupidity ...
    By Henry A. Giroux [1] America has become amnesiac – a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both ...
  • Secret Space War VI: Dead Humans by the Milli ...
    By   Preston James   Unless Americans wake up from their slumber and take their country back from Neocon Zionist hijackers who appear to be operating according to an Alien Agenda run out of the City of London Financial District, it certainly seems that they are destined to become dead by th ...

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Rest of July & early August outlook
    Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average.  To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record.  Of cou ...
  • Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
    July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...
  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...
  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • Summer is here at last
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Belo Monte, Brazil's "Ethical Megadam"
     Here at the IPE Zone, we are true aficionados of oxymoronic terms, many of them wrought by those famously tongue-twisted Yanquis. For starters, try "financial stability," "Internet freedom," and my current favourite, "American savings." Today, though, we have some other (Latin) Americans e ...
  • Private Banking: When Will Asia Overtake Europe?
    As more fortunes are being built with each passing day in Asia than in Europe, it is inevitable that the former will overtake the latter as the world's top region for HNWI (high net worth individual) accounts. Remember, the Forbes Rich List already had more Asian billionaires than European ones ...
  • PRC TV Drama Viewership: The Int'l Pecking Order
    Popular culture has a way of reflecting preferences and biases, especially when taken from an international perspective. Commercial implications aside, the WSJ's China Real Time blog has an interesting feature on TV drama viewership habits in China, with British dramas such as Downton Abbey gain ...
  • In Detroit We Glimpse America's Future
    Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit He took the midnight train goin' anywhere... I have been to Detroit and it is not an experience I fondly remember. So, I do not question the motives of the protagonist in the Journey song above in leaving. Still, it was with some sadness that I ...
  • When the IMF [Hearts] Capital Controls: PRC Case
    My, my, how things have changed. As late as September 1997--with the Asian financial crisis already underway--the IMF was still arguing for amending its Articles of Agreement to include regulatory powers over opening up members' capital controls: Last September [1997] in Hong Kong, the Interim C ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between ...
    If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008?  That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.  Many o ...
  • Who Controls The Global Economy? Do Not Undere ...
    Are the big banks really as powerful as some people say that they are?  Do they really control the global economy?  If y0u asked most people, they would tell you that governments control the global economy.  But the campaigns of our politicians are funded by the ultra-wealthy, the big banks and ...
  • Debt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dang ...
    Never before has the world faced such a serious debt crisis.  Yes, in the past there have certainly been nations that have gotten into trouble with debt, but we have never had a situation where virtually all of the major powers around the globe were all drowning in debt at the same time.  And wh ...
  • The Biggest Oil Discovery In 50 Years?
    In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has been made which could rock the world.  Some are calling it the biggest discovery of oil in 50 years.  Earlier this year, a company called Linc Energy announced that tests had revealed that there was a minimum of 3.5 billion ...
  • The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Coming Retiremen ...
    The pension nightmare that is at the heart of the horrific financial crisis in Detroit is just the tip of the iceberg of the coming retirement crisis that will shake America to the core.  Right now, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are hitting the age of 65 every single day, and this will continue ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...
  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...
  • Vatican determined to canonise him, but JPII a ...
    The news we were dreading has been released. The magic wand will be brought out and, with an abracadabra and a puff of pink smoke, Pope John Paul II will become a saint. Pope Francis has approved a second supposed “miracle”, pretending once again that someone mumbling ritual words to ...
  • Julia Gillard’s legacy lives on in historic Ro ...
    Many victims of child sexual abuse are mourning Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s overnight defeat at the hands of the smirking, conniving, grey haired boys club. I suspect she knew all along her time at the top would be short and that she had a limited opportunity to achieve real change before she ...

WL Central

  • 2013-07-28 DC: Protesters demand Maj Gen Bucha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org DC: Protesters demand Maj Gen Buchanan free Bradley Manning On Friday afternoon demonstrators marched and blocked the gates of Ft McNair, Washington DC, at the office of Maj Gen Jeffrey S Buchanan, Convening Au ...
  • 2013-07-26 Free Barrett Brown: The right to link
    Welcome to the age where copying and pasting a link can land you in jail. In a case that threatens the future of information sharing and journalism, Barrett Brown is facing up to 105 years in prison for sharing a link from one chatroom to another in the course of research he was doing as a journ ...
  • 2013-07-25 July 26: DC rally to confront Bradl ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: July 26, 2013 Contact: Mike McKee, 215-888-1570 mckee@bradleymanning.org July 26: DC rally to confront Bradley Manning's Convening Authority What: demonstration at Ft. McNair, base of Convening Authority Maj. Gen. Buchanan W ...
  • 2013-07-23 July 27: Global actions for Bradley ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: July 27, 2013 Contact: Emma Cape, emma@bradleymanning.org July 27: Global actions for Bradley Manning as verdict looms Activists in more than 30 cities across the United States and the world will demonstrate their support for ...
  • 2013-07-23 July 25: Closing arguments in Bradl ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: July 23, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 Nathan@bradleymanning.org July 25: Closing arguments in Bradley Manning's trial What: Court Martial proceedings for United States vs. PFC Bradley Manning When: Thursday, Jul ...

U N News

  • Ban rings Wall Street closing bell, welcomes N ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to a United Nations initiative which seeks to support responsible and sustainable investments.
  • UN, Caribbean bloc hail strong partnership, hi ...
    Sustainable development, climate change and security challenges were among the shared concerns highlighted during a two-day meeting between the United Nations system and the regional grouping known as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which wrapped up today in New York.
  • UN official urges investigation into killing o ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the recent murder of Mexican reporter Alberto López Bello and called for a full investigation into his assassination.
  • Human rights central to Colombia&#39s peace pr ...
    Respect for human rights will be critical as Colombia transitions from conflict to peace, a top United Nations official stressed, noting in particular that the rights of victims must be at the centre of the Government&#39s negotiations with rebel groups.
  • UN emergency fund allocates extra $1.5 million ...
    The United Nations emergency relief fund will allocate an additional $1.5 million to the cholera response in Haiti, at a time when cases are set to rise due to the rainy season.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Finding of Rare Gartersnake Underscores Need t ...
    Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on July 15, 2013 The northern Mexican gartersnake, thought to be extinct from New Mexico, was recently found along the Gila River. Last month, after no confirmed sightings in nearly twenty years, scien ...
  • TrekWest Blog #38: Wild Island of Love
    Posted: 24 Jul 2013 08:02 AM PDT Mountain Island Ranch, Colorado & Utah, June The western Colorado ranch was fairly glowing with romance.  Being of New England academic heritage, I could not help but blush, as flowers, willows, rose bushes, bees, hummingbirds, and nighthawks did their wild t ...
  • Trek West Blog #37 – Exactly as We Want
    Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:48 AM PDT “In addition to the words and still images here, a short video also shares with you the inspiring High Lonesome Ranch story…”Trail Break at High Lonesome Ranch in Western Colorado, June Half way through TrekWest, 2500 or so miles into a journey we expect will be ...
  • TrekWest Blog #36: Easy Being Green
    Posted: 05 Jul 2013 11:52 AM PDT A Week on Desolation, Gray, and Labyrinth Canyons, Green River, Utah, June “So there we were, a sun-baked bunch of veteran conservationists and river guides, paddling the Green, exploring side canyons, and plotting strategies to save the wild West…” People are tr ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Wilderne ...
    End of the Frontier It hit America like a grizzly’s slap across the cheeks.  After the 1890 census, the U.S. Census Bureau said there was no more frontier.  Before, there had been a line of settlement past which was mostly wild, uninhabited country.  That line was gone in 1890.  The Killin ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Wi-Fi in Schools... Radiation Poisoning, Healt ...
    Dr. George Carlo, public health scientist and epidemiologist explains the health issues related to WiFi including decreased mental focus, reduction in memory and other cognitive effects, behavioral problems and... cancer. ~ 2 Part Documentary read more
  • Gun Confiscation... Obama Assigns Job To… CDC???
    On January 26th, Obama issued Exec Order # 14, a “Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.” Why does the president believe a public health approach will undermine the right to keep and bear arms? read more
  • Is It Possible The U.S. Government Is Murderin ...
    Ever since a helicopter carrying nearly a dozen Navy SEALs crashed in 2011, killing everyone on board, Dr. Savage has pushed for an investigation into this suspicious incident. ~ Kathy Shaidle - AudioLinks read more
  • Navy SEAL's Father... 'Obama Sent My Son to Hi ...
    The father of one of the 22 Navy SEALs killed in August 2011 when their Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan, told talk-host Michael Savage he believes the U.S. government sent his son and his colleagues to their deaths. ~ Video read more
  • Home Schoolers Plead for Help Fighting 'Anti-P ...
    A government proposal that is being described as “anti-parent” is threatening to overwhelm a small team of parents in Scotland who are dedicated to fighting the “Children and Young People Bill,” and they are asking for help from fellow homes schoolers worldwide. ~ Bob Unruh read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Government Blimp Drones Over Washington DC
    Image: Raytheon You think that ordinary drones are invasive to our privacy? Check out the latest implementation by our government… Giant Drone Blimps… That’s right… Our government has spent 2.7 billion dollars on a pair of blimps that will initially be floating over Washi ...
  • Gangs WILL Rule The Cities
    After TSHTF, Gangs will be the Number One problem in cities of any size. The gangs will take over a city very quickly starting with their own blocks and neighborhoods. Their numbers will grow very rapidly as those desperate for water and food will become their “new recruits” and will ...
  • Overcome The Path Of Least Resistance
    Humans will usually take the path of least resistance. This is not only literally true, but metaphorically. We will walk the straightest line to where we are going; the shortest or easiest way. The same places as before. We tend to do things the easiest way, and often the same way we’ve do ...
  • Body Armor
    Is it legal to own body armor in the US? Yes, it is widely legal to wear and purchase body armor as long as you are a US Citizen living in the country and a NON-FELON you can own body armor. Apparent exceptions… Residents of Connecticut are prohibited from buying Body Armor. Here’s m ...
  • Timeline Of A Bio-terrorism Smallpox Attack
    New research just released in a recent study published in Scientific Reports reveals the alarming global spread of smallpox while considering the effects of human mobility patterns. Using a large-scale population model, they simulated the global spread of smallpox after an intentional release ev ...

Fast Company

  • Changing Frightening Economic Realities Into O ...
    The realities of scarcity--of food, of oil, of water--can be horrifying, but there are ways to turn that scarcity into advantage. Global population hit 7 billion well ahead of most predictions. The UN now forecasts that we will share the planet--and its increasingly scarce natural resource ...
  • Otherworldly Pics Of The Iridescent Universe I ...
    If the sky is falling and meteorites mean an end to all of us, at least let them look like this. Meteorites--the chunks of debris from space that may have killed the dinosaurs and sometimes threaten humans, too--are usually lumpy, gray, and sinister-looking from the outside. But when crack ...
  • Can The Advertising Industry Tame The Wild Wes ...
    When you use your phone, you’re giving away more information than you’re probably aware. The ad industry is trying to police itself on this issue, but will that be enough? If you pay attention to the ads embedded on your monitor as you click your way through cyberspace, you may ...
  • Pay As Little As $1 For More Than 30 Typefaces
    Will you want anything in this name-your-own price font collection? Maybe not. But for as little as $1, you can score a heck of a lot of new glyphs. Name-your-own price bundles are all the rage. A collection of creators pool their products in one big package, and shoppers get to name how m ...
  • A Photo Series Questions Our Can’t-Stop Photo ...
    What’s to become of people taking pictures of people taking pictures of….? An art-school send-up of our infinite jest point-and-shoot. Memes aren’t made to last. They’re diversionary by nature and slapped together with absurdist of-the-moment content, which is pret ...

Jadaliyya

  • "تأملات في "العنف
    تقدم الأنثروبولوجيا العنف كالتالي، تعريفاً: "العنف: هو خطابٌ أو فعلٌ مؤذٍ أو مدمر يقوم به فرد أو جماعة ضد أفراد أو جماعة/ت أخرى. وتشتمل أنماط العنف على أسطورة البطل، وديناميكية إستغلال القاتل/الضحية، وثنائية الجسد/العقل، وأسطورة الكاوبوي، وأسطورة الفردية التنافسية، ونظرية العنف الفطري، وأسط ...
  • The Officers’ War of Terror
    Since the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has become a battlefield of narratives. Each narrative has sought to appropriate and define the January 25 Revolution. The wielders of power, most notably the army, along with its allies, advanced a narrative claiming that the revolution succe ...
  • Interior Ministry Reinstates Department to Mon ...
    Departments whose role it is to combat terrorism and monitor religious activity will be reinstated in the National Security Agency, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said in a press conference Saturday. Ibrahim attributed the “extremist religious activity” the country is currently witnessing to ...
  • Dozens Killed Near Rabea Al-Adaweya Sit-In
    [It is reported widely that the death toll has risen to more than 125] Dozens of people from the Muslim Brotherhood Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in were reportedly killed in the early hours of Saturday as police stopped an attempt to block a nearby bridge. There i ...
  • عقيل علي عبَّد طريقاً وسلكه بمفرده
    إذا كان الشعر طريقاً للوصول إلى الألم عند بعض الشعراء، فإن الألم عند عقيل علي هو الطريق المعبد والجاهز للوصول إلى الشعر. الشاعر العراقي الذي مات مشرداً في شوارع بغداد، لم يعلن شعريته إلا موته. وهو بأية حال، كان موتاً فيزيولوجياً متمماً لموت التواصل مع الحياة. لم يكن عقيل ديناميكياً أو فلنقل براغ ...

mediagazer

  • Publicis to Merge With Omnicom as Biggest Adve ...
    Bloomberg: Publicis to Merge With Omnicom as Biggest Advertising Company  —  Publicis Groupe SA (PUB) and Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC) agreed to merge in an all-stock deal to create the world's largest advertising company, toppling market leader WPP Plc.  (WPP)  —&nb ...
  • Business Insider Gives Advertiser Veto Power O ...
    Michael Sebastian / AdAge: Business Insider Gives Advertiser Veto Power Over ‘Future of Business’ Edit Mix  —  To Start, Newsroom Stories in Sponsored Section Won't Include Competitors of SAP  —  When Business Insider introduced a sponsored section la ...
  • British newspapers are becoming more American ...
    Economist: British newspapers are becoming more American  —  NEWS sells newspapers.  The arrival of the royal baby will provide a small bundle of joy to proprietors and the newsagents who hawk their products this week.  But the bigger picture is of steady decline, not ...
  • Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Independent ...
    Craig Silverman / Poynter: Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Independent & others published fake Jenny McCarthy quote  —  Attention journalists, Jenny McCarthy never said this: … She's responsible for many objectionable and false claims about autism, but the above isn ...
  • Publicis, Omnicom Agree to Merge (Suzanne Vran ...
    Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Publicis, Omnicom Agree to Merge  —  Omnicom and Publicis, the world's second- and third-biggest advertising companies, have agreed to merge, people familiar with the situation said.  —  Omnicom Group Inc. and Publicis Group ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Kyle Busch wins NASCAR Nationwide Series ...
    INDIANAPOLIS — Despite having the dominant car, Kyle Busch nearly saw victory slip away in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday. Busch was passed by Brian Scott on the final restart with six laps left. But Busch reclaimed...
  • Hunter Mahan Withdraws As Wife Goes Into ...
    Hunter Mahan withdrew from the RBC Canadian Open on Saturday after learning his wife went into labor a month earlier than expected. Despite leading the open at 13 under after 36 holes, Mahan announced he would withdraw from the golf tournament to welcome his baby daughter into the world. The ...
  • Spanish train driver Garzon to be questio ...
    The driver of a train that crashed near the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday killing 78 people is due to appear before a judge. Francisco Jose Garzon Amo has been detained on suspicion of reckless homicide and the judge will decide whether to press formal charges. Mr Garzo ...
  • AL pitches trio of 1-0 games, 1st time si ...
    Comment () Tweet By The Associated Press, Associated Press Rays rookie Chris Archer helped American League teams pitch a trio of 1-0 games Saturday, the first time that's happened on the same day in nearly a half-century. The last time three AL games ended 1-0 on the same day was Sept. 4, 19 ...
  • Germany's Schaeuble set to stay center st ...
    BERLIN (Reuters) - Two years ago, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was on the point of giving up his role as iron fist in the euro zone debt crisis, but the 70-year-old champion of closer European integration now seems likely to remain on Europe's center stage. Chancellor Angela Me ...

no frakking consensus

  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 3
    There's nothing wrong with writing a sex-saturated novel. But IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri says this book is "all about spirituality."
  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 2
    Between the ages of four and six, our hero is judged to be the smartest, gets "revenge against the whole world," and is preferred by the girls.
  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 1
    Tidbit #1 from Rajendra Pachauri’s 2010 novel. HSBC, the huge multinational bank, has linked its brand to this strange, stilted prose.
  • Mark Jaccard Re-Writes History
    A Simon Fraser University economist declared, on his blog in May, "I have never spoken or written of myself as a Nobel laureate." After I unearthed written testimony to the contrary, he quietly rewrote the post, removing that denial.
  • WWF Partners With Country Where Rape Victims A ...
    Any country in which a woman finds herself sentenced to 16 months after reporting a rape is barbaric and deserves to be shunned. Instead, the WWF is burnishing the image of this oppressive regime.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/25/13 - Critical Thinking Quotes
    www.procon.org -  - Critical Thinking Quotes - Read insights on critical thinking from famous thinkers such as Plato, Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Jefferson.
  • 7/23/13 - New Hampshire becomes 19th medical m ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - New Hampshire becomes 19th medical marijuana state - Gov. Hassan signed a bill that will allow qualifying patients in New Hampshire to use marijuana to treat certain medical conditions. The law allows for up to four non-profit alternative treatment centers (dispensa ...
  • 7/22/13 - ProCon.org Used by Educators in over ...
    www.procon.org - – ProCon.org Used by Educators in over 4,000 Schools - Teachers, librarians, and educational administrators at 806 elementary schools, 2,063 high schools, and 1,055 colleges and universities in all 50 states and 57 countries have used ProCon.org. Read their lesson plans, resourc ...
  • 7/19/13 - 45 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - 45 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption - Our chart on state exceptions to the minimum legal drinking age has been updated with new entries for states that allow students to "taste, but not imbibe" alcohol as part of culinary school (11 states), and ...
  • 7/17/13 - England legalizes gay marriage
    gaymarriage.procon.org – England legalizes gay marriage – Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval to the new law, a formality after it passed through the House of Lords and the House of Commons earlier in the week.  Same-sex weddings are expected to begin in the summer of 2 ...

Truth About Our World

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environment 360

  • Parched New Mexico Reservoir Reveals Effects o ...
    A pair of satellite images released by NASA this week shows the effects of a severe drought on New Mexico’s largest reservoir, where water levels are at their lowest Click to enlarge NASAElephant Butte reservoir, 1994-2013 levels in four decades. Earlier this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engine ...
  • Mapping of Oil Palm Genome Could Boost Product ...
    Scientists say they have identified the gene responsible for the yield of oil palm crops, a discovery that could boost the productivity of the world’s top source of Click to enlarge Malaysian Palm Oil BoardTwo varieties of palm oil fruit. vegetable oil and help reduce the size of oil palm plant ...
  • European Investment Bank Will Not Finance Most ...
    The European Investment Bank (EIB), the main lending arm of the European Union, has decided to stop financing most coal-fired power plants, part of an effort to help the 28-nation bloc meet ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030. The EIB says that new and refurbished coal-fired power ...
  • Interview: Leaving Our Descendants A Whopping ...
    Last week, a group of scientists led by Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research released a paper that made a stark forecast: Anders Levermann For every 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, the world will eventually experience a 2.3-meter increase in sea level ...
  • Booming Cashmere Market Is Threatening Snow Le ...
    A surging global market for cashmere is pushing several iconic species, including the snow leopard and wild yak, toward the margins of survival in remote regions where wool-producing goats are raised, according to a new Anna Yu A snow leopard in the mountains of Central Asia study. Demand ...

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Hudson New York

  • Political Fairy Tales from America's Enemies
    The Soviet Union and its successor regime were, and still are, masters at creating "propaganda legends masquerading as historical evidence," writes Vladimir Tismaneanu, the director of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, in
  • Israel Prepares for Jihadis
    As al-Qaeda-affiliated radical forces pour into areas bordering Israel's north and south, the Israeli defense establishment is adjusting itself to prepare for a new, post "Arab spring" reality. According to Israeli security assessments, thousands of
  • EU's Full-Blown Boycott Kills Chance for Peace
    Europe's unreasonable acrimony towards Israel has finally gone beyond the usual condemnations, and been sealed in a document worthy of the pro-Palestinian activist who initiated it. It does significant economic and moral harm all around – to Israel
  • Gatestone Weekly Roundup
    You can count on the mainstream media to misreport, misunderstand or just ignore disturbing trends and events that remind us just how dangerous a world we live in. In case you missed them on the website this week, here are a few Gatestone analyses that
  • France: Muslims Attack Police for Enforcing Bu ...
    Police in the suburbs of Paris are working to restore order after hundreds of Muslims went on a rioting spree to protest the simple identity check of a Muslim woman who was wearing a full-face Islamic veil. It is against the law to wear the face-covering

Urban Survival

  • NSA Technique? Something About JSTOR?
    Other than the summer sweeps (which ended day before yesterday)  and the George Zimmerman whip-up of emotions and the royal diaper king, what do you think has been going on at the mentally subcutaneous level of thick-headed America?  Glad you’re … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Past-Life Learning – A Bad Idea?
    After being a microphone-slinging journalist for 15-years in a major market, and another xx years of writing/journalism, you get a pretty good idea who’s writing you the straight skinny and who’s pulling your chain.   so yesterday morning I was … Continue reading →
  • Slip-Sliding Away
    The recent election victory of Shinzo Abe in Japan seems to be blowing up as the Japanese market, which has rallied for a while at the prospect of more Abe-nomics promptly fell on its butt last night, down 168 points … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Shrink Seeking
    I’m not sure where the stars are, but this morning I got up with two marvelous ideas…both of which are ground-breaking and both of which deserve serious discussion.   The first of these is one that I’m already researching a … Continue reading →
  • A GroupThink Project: Sectorial Dependencies
    [Long report warning:  >7,000 words] When someone says the word “GroupThink” I’m sure that there are some negative  connotations.  But in this morning’s context the term  “groupthink” is not a bad thing since we’ll to be using it to help … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Whistleblowers & The NSA ~ William E. Binney - ...
    William Edward Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Operation Northwoods : Cuban Crutches, False F ...
    Operation Northwoods , which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Remote Viewing THE KILL SHOT - Sub Higher Dime ...
    A team of remote viewers discuss the vision of a massive CME from the sun that changes life on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Webster Tarpley ~ The Imperialists are losing ...
    Webster Tarpley world crisis radio July 27 2013 Webster Griffin Tarpley is a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Secession: Can US States Make It, Without the ...
    The cost of war is emphasized and made clear to those who watch this video Breakdowns are done to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Why Would EPA Hide Info on Fracking & Water Co ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City The Los Angeles Times published a story today reporting on a leaked document that indicates that the Environmental Protection Agency  has never conveyed to the public the possibility that methane rel ...
  • Texas Loses Another One: Court Upholds EPA Ca ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. State and industry groups led by Texas and coal-based power companies lost another challenge to EPA’s carbon pollution standards today, the latest in their string ...
  • Latest Blowout in the Gulf Shows America Still ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City A natural gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico blew out Tuesday night, igniting a fire and forcing the evacuation of 44 workers. Fortunately no one was injured, but natural gas is leaking and a relief ...
  • Water/Climate News Digest: 7/15/2013 - 7/26/2013
    Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL Welcome to the first W/C News Digest, a bi-weekly roundup of all news water and climate: Climate change will disrupt energy supplies, DOE warns, USA Today Two weeks after President Obama anno ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile to cut CO2, Co ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. July 20-26 2013 Chile The Ministry of Environment is heading up a te ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • A simple tip to keep your users happy when the ...
    Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Lasse Clausen, co-founder and CEO of FOUNDD, a Berlin based discovery engine. You can follow him on Twitter here. This post originally appeared on his blog.... Keep reading →
  • WeChat took Facebook’s mantle in China a ...
    It’s been a positive past few days for Facebook. The world’s most popular social networking site announced an impressive set of results for Q2 2013 which were well-received by investors, particularly... Keep reading →
  • WordPress now powers 18.9% of the Web, has ove ...
    Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg laid out his vision for his company’s blogging platform today in a presentation at its WordCamp San Francisco conference. Called the “State of the Word”, Mullenweg... Keep reading →
  • Microsoft launches third white spaces pilot in ...
    Microsoft announced its first white spaces project in Kenya earlier this year, as part of its 4Afrika initiative, and now the company has expanded its focus with a new program in South Africa... Keep reading →
  • Twitter UK chief responds to abuse concerns af ...
    The head of Twitter’s business in the UK has responded to concerns that the service is not doing enough to help users report abuse, after a UK-based equal rights campaigner... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • It's time to launch the ZCA Buildings Plan!
      Launches in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne: Thursday, 8 August, 6:30PM at The Spot Basement Theatre, Melbourne University, 198 Berkely St Carlton. Click here to book Melbourne seats. Brisbane: Monday, 12 August, from 6PM at C Block Auditorium C1411, Southbank TAFE, 66 Ernest St S ...
  • Is climate action working?
    With the first year of the carbon price just over, we've seen a lot of commentary and hyperbole from all sides. Fortunately some facts are also available. Emissions have fallen. Prices have not skyrocketed and the sky has not fallen in. Case closed? Jenny Riesz and Roger Dargaville have written ...
  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...
  • Graphs: Can high-speed rail cut air travel emi ...
    By Ben Courtice Australia’s domestic air travel (and its associated greenhouse emissions) has grown markedly – especially in the last 10 years, as this graph illustrates. Air travel (passenger km) data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics We have calculated emis ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Illegal marijuana cultivation threatens Nigeri ...
    The world’s highest deforestation rate, the execution of eight environmental activists including a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and ongoing turmoil surrounding oil operations in the Niger River Delta has created a notoriously disreputable environmental record for the West African country. No ...
  • U.S. signs $32M debt-for-nature swap to protec ...
    The U.S. government will redirect $31.8 million in debt payments owed to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) by the Philippines to establish a conservation fund for endangered rainforests across the Asian archipelago, reports the AFP.
  • FSC response to TFT: Ensuring a Strong Chain-o ...
    Recently, the Director of The Forest Trust (TFT) shared his opinion with Mongabay readers criticizing Chain-of-Custody systems in general, and the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) system in particular. The impetus for the critique was a joint statement issued by FSC and PEFC rejecting an ...
  • Cheetah don’t overheat during hunts
    A new study published in Biology Letters finds that contrary to popular opinion, cheetah don’t overheat during hunts. But their body temperature rises after successful hunts due to stress than another predator may seize their prey.
  • How YouTube has put the world's only poisonous ...
    It all started with a video: in 2009 a Russian man uploaded a video of himself tickling his exotic pet (a pygmy slow loris) from Vietnam onto the hugely popular site YouTube. Since then the video has been viewed over half a million times. But a new study in the open source journal in PLoS ONE, f ...

Sierra Express

  • BARCELONA 2013 FINA World Championships Sierra ...
    After the spectacular Opening Ceremony held in Palau Sant Jordi and the port of Barcelona the 15th FINA World Championships are currently taking place in from 19 July to 4 August 2013. The World Championships is already witnessing the best Aquatics athletes in the five continents and they are re ...
  • Pre-season friendly…Kamara to feature against ...
    Sierra Leone International striker Alhassan Kamara (in photo) is expected to feature for AIK against English Premiership Champions Manchester United at the Friends Arena August 6th, 2013 in Stockholm as part of the Manchester United pre-season tour 2013. Kamara 20, who started his career with lo ...
  • ABC Secretariat Meets Youth Leaders
    The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat has held a consultative meeting with the leadership of youth groups in the Freetown Municipality.  (Photo: Participants at the workshop) This took place in the conference room of the Ministry of Information and Communications on Wednesday ...
  • President Koroma congratulates Saudi King
    Sierra Leone’s President, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has joined world leaders to congratulate Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (in photo) on the advent of the blessed month of Ramadan. In his message to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, his Government and the people of t ...
  • Emulate the Fine Example of Haja Fadika Imam C ...
    The Chief Imam of the Madingo Central Mosque in Freetown, Sheikh Fomba Abubakarr Swarray, last Friday called on mourners, especially the women folk, to emulate the fine example of the late Haja Tigidankay Fadika (Nee Bayoh) who died on Monday 22 July 2013, at the age of 94 years.  (Photo: The la ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Westpac upgrades Fonterra milk price forecast
    The combination of a weaker New Zealand dollar and persistently strong global prices has prompted Westpac to upgrade its Fonterra milk price forecast to $7.40 per kg of milk solids for the 2013/14 season, up 90c from the bank's previous...
  • Fonterra to miss forecast
    The Fonterra Shareholders' Fund unit price dropped by 21c yesterday after the co-operative signalled that its earnings would fall slightly short of prospectus forecasts in the current year.By mid-morning, the units were trading...
  • Big Waikato farm sales - $200m for 29 properties
    Twenty-nine South Waikato dairy farms and one drystock property, converted by Carter Holt Harvey from forestry land, have sold for about $200 million, PGG Wrightson Real Estate said.The final five Carter Holt properties, in Atiamuri...
  • Fonterra 2013 earnings to dip
    Fonterra said its earnings for the 2013 financial year ending on July 31 would be slightly short of the forecast outlined in the prospectus for the Fonterra Shareholders Fund, which was launched last year.The cooperative said the...
  • Synlait shares snapped up
    Shares in Canterbury-based milk processor Synlait Milk ended their first day of trading on the NZX at a 54c, or 24.5 per cent, premium to their $2.20 issue price, reflecting strong investor demand and a limited supply of stock.Synlait...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Cathy Young on Media Misinformation and the Zi ...
    More than a week after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin, the backlash against the verdict continues. President Obama spoke some undeniable truths when he noted that the African-American community’s intense reaction to the case must b ...
  • Undercover Informant Plants Crack Cocaine in S ...
    Who exactly is the victim when crack cocaine is found on someone’s person or property? Maybe the owner of that property? In Scotia, New York, local and county police decided they were suspicious of Donald Andrew’s smoke shop, one of many in Schenectady County but, according to Cory ...
  • New at Reason: Nick Gillespie Asks, What Did Y ...
    Nick Gillespie writes: The bipartisan effort on civil liberties being led by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is likely to win the longer struggle because it proceeds from deep-seated principle rather than lip-service politics. Years from now, when the fever over the threat of Islamo- ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on a Small Victory for Hemp
    Earlier this month, buried deep inside the bloated Farm Bill that passed the House thanks to GOP leadership, was a tiny seed of good news. Many seeds, in fact. This Farm Bill amendment, co-sponsored by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) ...
  • Ron Paul Revolution: GOP Aftermaths in Iowa an ...
    Two accounts this past week of two ongoing aftermaths of the influx of Ron Paul people into state GOPs. First, the bad news, from Nevada's Clark County as reported in the Reno Gazette Journal: Clark County Republicans have ousted a Ron Paul supporter in favor of a more conventi ...

Mercury Rising

  • Richard Wolff On Detroit, Cars, And Capitalism ...
    This is a good point: If the autoworkers had transformed the auto companies into worker co-operatives, Detroit would have evolved very differently. Worker co-operatives would not have moved production, thereby undermining their jobs, families and communities, including especially Detroit. Worker ...
  • Swedish Supreme Court Justice Calls Assange Ca ...
    This is from April, but I don’t think many people are aware of it except at the most superficial level. To be clear, Swedish Supreme Court Justice Stefan Lindskog is not saying Assange is innocent or shouldn’t be prosecuted, only that the handling of the case has been horrific. And h ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Dinkytown Saved, For Now — And Perhaps F ...
    There was a public hearing on the fate of Dinkytown today: Dinkytown is one of Minneapolis’s oldest commercial districts (130 years old!). Currently Dinkytown is zoned C1 for small-scale neighborhood commercial uses. This is to protect and promote the independent businesses and the unique charac ...
  • Snowden granted (provisional) asylum
    From RT. It’s provisional, meaning that it’s not official–he just has permission to leave the airport. But it’s hard to believe they’d let him into the country and then ship him off to the US. In any case, we probably won’t be getting any NSA stories for a whi ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
      The evolution of kink, fapstinence, marriage is so 1950's, the body hair conundrum, the Squildo, and more in this week's update.   read more
  • The Launching of Timeship Earth and the End of ...
      In the Gregorian Calendar, this Friday, July 26th will be Yellow Galactic Seed in the Dreamspell. It will also be the last day. read more
  • War God: Nights of the Witch (Chapters 14 & 57)
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  • Sacred Portals
    Please join Harlan Emil Gruber this Mon. July 29th, 8 pm, at the Golden Drum in Greenpoint for "Evolutionary Interfaces: Sacred Geometry and Earth Energies of the Portals," an in-depth presentation of the interactive “Portal” installations that have been at Burning Man and other fes ...
  • Spirit Possession Here and Now
    Michael Brownstein Interviews Margaret De Wys, author of Ecstatic Healing, published by Inner Traditions. read more

Desertification

  • First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
    Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country’s forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation. Burkina’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas and the ...
  • Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
    As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia a ...
    Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning. “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts ...
  • FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food ...
    Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) underlines the strong links between the two when it declares that agriculture accounts for over 70 percent ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • KSA prince defects from royal family
    A Saudi Prince known as Khalid Bin Farhan al-Saud has decided to leave the royal family, saying the regime does not consider God’s rules.
  • Gazans protest planned Israel, PA talks
    Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have staged a protest rally to object to the planned resumption of US-backed talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli regime, Press TV reports.
  • Three killed in Syria bomb attack
    A bomb explosion has killed at least three people in Syria’s western city of Homs, as the Arab country’s army continues to fight foreign-backed militants, Press TV reports.
  • Bahrain approves bill banning protests
    Bahrain parliament has reportedly approved a bill banning all protests in the capital, Manama, as the Al Khalifa regime continues its crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
  • Israel agrees to free Palestine inmates
    Tel Aviv has approved the release of long-held Palestinian prisoners as a move toward the resumption of talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel, reports say.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Palm oil genes
    Close study of the genome of the oil palm tree could result in significantly increased palm oil yield, a paper published in the journal Nature this week has revealed. Palm oil is one of the most comm...
  • Diagnosing the plague
    A dipstick test for plague on the way Plague could soon bediagnosed fasterthan ever before, thanks to scientists in Germany. The team, led by Peter Seeberger from the Max Planck Institu...
  • Quick Fire Science - Organ Donation
    Priya- 1,000 people die in the UK every year waiting for a transplant. Claudia - The first organ transplant was a thyroid transplant, carried out by Theodor Kocher in 1883. Priya -...
  • Smarter bed times
    Irregular bedtimes in young children may be associated with reduced academic performance, a UK study has shown. Professor Yvonne Kelly, from University College London, followed the progress of over 1...
  • "Mark" don't dance
    'Marking' through a dance can actually be more beneficial than dancing it properly in rehearsal. 'Marking' is something that most dancers will be familiar with. When you are rehearsing a routine, you...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Don't let them get away with this anymore ! PL ...
    It was the worst live export disaster in Australia's history, and no one is going to be held responsible. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Urge Japan to stop killing whales ! PLEASE SIG ...
    It's time to put an end to the brutal slaughter of these gentle giants. Speak up for whales and send a message to the Japanese Embassy asking them to put an end to whaling for good. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop koalas becoming industry casualties ! PLE ...
    Koalas have become the silent victims of international paper production. ABC's 7.30 has exposed the maiming and killing of countless koalas on plantations in Victoria and South Australia. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Make a Splash: Free Lolita ! PLEASE TAKE ACTIO ...
    Lolita was one of seven orcas kidnapped in the notorious 1970 Penn Cove round up in Puget Sound, Washington. In this horrific event, four orcas (three calves) drowned in the nets and their bellies were slit in an attempt by human captors to sink the Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • Taking Ag Gag to Court! !
    Ag gag laws aim to control our behavior by instilling fear of prosecution. This is legally known as the chilling effect because it intimidates people from acting and gathering informationeven in legally-protected ways. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbsp ...

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