Friday, July 05, 2013

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THE GRAND KREMLIN PALACE, MOSCOW. President Pu...THE GRAND KREMLIN PALACE, MOSCOW. President Putin with Lyudmila Putin at a party after the inauguration ceremony. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kizimen Spews Fresh Ash CloudsKizimen Spews Fresh Ash Clouds (Photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
Original headquarters of the Fersman Mineralog...Original headquarters of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum - the Kunstkammer in Saint Petersburg. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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CFACT

  • Mr. President, please read the handwriting on ...
    The New York Times appears to have finally recognized that the feverish climate fervor behind these Green grab gambits is overheated. They reported on June 6 that, “The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And ...
  • Obama’s climate action plan: a millstone ...
    Current EPA regulations are already closing coal-fueled power plants at an alarming rate—which New Mexico Public Regulations Commissioner Pat Lyons calls “the real energy crisis that no one is talking about.... Progressive thought leaders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhous state: “Energy pov ...
  • Are you killing the planet with a burger and a ...
    As Maurice Strong who spearheaded the 1991 Rio Earth Summit wrote in the U.N.’s Conference on Environmental Development (UNCED) report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class … involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen ...
  • Think local, shop global
    Are foods like lettuce, eggs and beef better for you if they’re grown locally in your area, than if they’re shipped in from far away? Not necessarily . . . [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/258/5160.mp3]
  • Feds kill striped owls to save spotted owls
    Do you prefer spots or stripes on owls? The federal government favors spots and is shooting striped owls! [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/258/5159.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • US-Russian Scientists Relieved at Academy Refo ...
    Prominent US-based Russian scientists breathed a sigh of relief Friday after a Kremlin-backed bill to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences was stripped of an option that included the academy’s possible “liquidation” and appeared to give scientists more of a say in the institution’s future.&nbs ...
  • Russian Team Wins, US Places 11th at ‘Battle o ...
    A crack squad of Russian computer programmers took advantage of the home terrain to win 1st prize at the world finals of The Association of Computing Machinery’s International Computer Programming Contest (ICPC) in St. Petersburg this week, while the highest placed American team narrowly missed ...
  • Bill to Reform Russia’s Academy of Sciences Mo ...
    Draft legislation to overhaul Russia’s Academy of Sciences, a network of hundreds of research institutions that the government has long accused of ineffectiveness, passed its second of three readings in the lower house of parliament on Friday.    
  • 5 Things to Know About the Battle for Russia's ...
    A bill on sweeping reforms to the Russian Academy of Sciences, that could see it dismantled, was approved in the first reading by the lower house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday. Below you can find an outline of the problems with Russia’s Academy of Sciences, the solution proposed and pro ...
  • Russian Duma Gives Green Light to Science Acad ...
    A government-backed bill on a sweeping overhaul of Russia’s Academy of Sciences was passed in the first reading by the lower house of the federal parliament on Wednesday, despite fierce opposition from the academy’s leadership.    

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Julian Ku and George Conway on Chevron/Ecuador ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Congratulations to Julian and his co-author, George Conway, on their op ed this morning in the Wall Street Journal, “When Corporate Defendants Go On Offense.”  I commented a few days ago here at OJ on a long profile in the Washington Post on ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, July 4, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The Egyptian army has overthrown President Mohamed Morsi and suspended the constitution, announcing a roadmap for the country’s political future that will be implemented by a national reconciliation committee. Al Jazeera has a collection of international rea ...
  • This July 4th, Exploring Paths Away From Citiz ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro As July 4th approaches, get ready for stock-in-trade accounts of uplifting naturalization ceremonies conducted in dignified settings and presided over by distinguished persons. That’s a nice thing for those who see citizenship through a traditional lens and ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A US drone strike in Pakistan’s Waziristan region killed at least 17 after two missiles struck a house near the main market in Miranshah and reports allege that rescuers were hesitant to help wounded and injured for fear of a second attack, a common ta ...
  • Chevron Update/Profile in Washington Post
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson We haven’t blogged recently here about the Chevron Ecuador case, but over the weekend the Washington Post carried a long analysis and profile by Business section reporter Steven Mufson on the state of play – focused particularly on a Washingt ...

Public News Service

  • Report: Climate Change Pace Moving Faster Than ...
    Report: Climate Change Pace Moving Faster Than Birds Can Fly PHOENIX – Birds are often considered highly adaptable, but a new report from the National Wildlife Federation claims that many species are struggling as the climate changes. In Arizona, the effects are seen in the more than 500 ...
  • Thousands More Arizona Kids Eligible for Low-C ...
    Thousands More Arizona Kids Eligible for Low-Cost Health Coverage PHOENIX - Thanks to a recent expansion of KidsCare health coverage, many thousands of Arizona children from lower-income families now are eligible to immediately join the program. A KidsCare Summer Sign-Up drive kicks off today, ...
  • Report: More Protections Needed for AZ Health ...
    Report: More Protections Needed for AZ Health Insurance Consumers PHOENIX - The Arizona Department of Insurance gets credit in a new report for helping to inform consumers and protect them from unreasonable health insurance rate hikes. But, according to the Arizona Public Interest Research Group ...
  • Advocate: Energy “Independence Day&#8221 ...
    Advocate: Energy “Independence Day” Growing Closer PHOENIX - By some estimates, the U.S. is growing close to its "energy independence day," when the nation no longer needs to import energy from foreign sources. Oil and natural gas production are booming, along with new sources of ren ...
  • Your Hands Can Save a Life
    Your Hands Can Save a Life PHOENIX – Learning Hands-Only CPR is easy, and could well put you in a position to save someone's life – possibly that of a family member. Katie Connolly, community CPR manager for the American Heart Association, says 80 percent of sudden cardiac arrests ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • FDR speech on New Deal, the bankster threat he ...
    Not only did FDR, in announcing the New Deal, clearly delineate the problem, which was organized money using government as an appendage, he point blank said he welcomed their hatred. Can you imagine any modern-day president or politician being this blunt, especially against Wall Street investmen ...
  • What happens if NSA surveillance data is compr ...
    Zenpundit nails it. NSA surveillance is so Orwellian and omnipresent that it poses a huge security risk to whoever can compromise the data. If Snowden could, then many others can and probably have too. Plus, we already know that NSA swaps data with private corporations. All this data the NSA pro ...
  • Government tortures Lynne Stewart, decrees ext ...
    Political prisoners in the U.S. are no better off than anywhere else. In the American justice system, even when a prisoner is not sentenced to be executed, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons still have extra-judicial ways of making sure a politically-targe ...
  • London Array, world’s largest offshore wind fa ...
    Well done, Britain. The London Array shows how offshore wind can be done – at grid scale. (Maybe someday the US might actually have one, single, solitary, offshore wind turbine…) Powered by 175 Siemens turbines, the wind farm has a capacity of 630 MW – enough to power nearly half a m ...
  • Question doctors. Their advice isn’t always co ...
    A few years ago I was gardening and got some dirt in my eye. It got infected so I went to a doctor and told him what happened. They said, “That’s impossible, we see no sign of it,” and wanted to put me on highly toxic IV antibiotics for a month for some rare and [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – July 5
    1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire began. 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition. 1813 – War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York began. 1814 – War of 1812: Battl ...
  • Egyptian Protesters Denounce Obama As A War Cr ...
  • Concerns About How Much Canadian “Police ...
  • This Day In History – July 4
    362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeat the Spartans. 1636 – City of Providence, Rhode Island forms. 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts 1776 – American Revolutio ...
  • Attempted Set Up of Luke Rudkowski
    A few hours before making this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org received an email from an anonymous sender claiming to be a Bilderberg whistleblower with attached photos from inside the 2013 Bilderberg meeting at the Grove Hotel in Watford, England. Luke opened the email from another com ...

The Air Vent

  • NSA – Balancing the Risk
    The NSA has been tracking details of every pone call and email by every American for years.   I have no doubt that this is the case.  Yes, this is in violation of the fourth amendment which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreas ...
  • My Apologies to Readers
    I have really let this blog go to pieces. I will post useful stuff in the future but allowing Mr Cotton to take it over again was a mistake. It seemed reasonable to allow him to write, because the topic was PSI.   It won’t happen again, even though I am starting to think a […]
  • PSI – Theory Destroyed
    So PSI completely surrendered discussion of a highly emotional topic like…. thermodynamics after only a few days.   It turns out that photons emitted from a cold body which then strike a warmer one, are the Kryptonite of the organization.   A group so cocksure of itself that it would throw ...
  • Problematic Science Incorporated
    Holy crap.  I have realized it isn’t practical to do a half of a blog.  Did you know that the Internet is full of crazy people.   I’ve heard rumors, read other blogs, often commented on the generally high quality of tAV readers but when I don’t blog on science for months, guess ...
  • A Real Challenge to PSI
    This is awesome, the wife is downstairs watching a movie, I’ve finished my work and have a little time for blogging.   Not a lot, but some… There are too many pressures in my head.  Today a commenter, who is anonymous to me, left a slayer-style comment which has none of the Doug Cott ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook stock activity roundup: CTO, CFO, CAO ...
    Shortly before the 4th of July holiday, three prominent Facebook executives sold some company stock. Michael Schroepfer, Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer, sold 45,000 shares for $1,117,152. He also converted 21,314 shares of Class B stock into...
  • Facebook stickers designer leaves company
    Shortly after Facebook launched stickers for desktop chat, news circulated that it lost one of the minds behind the popular messaging feature. TechCrunch and AllFacebook reported that Sophie Xie, the designer who started the sticker craze...
  • Top 25 Facebook pages July 2013
    Once again, Facebook for Every Phone is the most-liked Facebook page — and by a wide margin, according to PageData. The page, which helps Facebook’s feature phone users, has more than 263 million fans on Facebook,...
  • Facebook tests new gifts prompt, bookmark ads ...
    Facebook appears to be testing a new ad unit on mobile (sponsored apps in the bookmarks bar) and has started putting birthday notifications in the mobile News Feed, accompanied by a prompt to buy that person...
  • Facebook stickers now available in desktop chat
    Stickers, a popular messaging function in Facebook’s mobile applications, are now available in desktop chat. Facebook announced the arrival of stickers on Tuesday, with a message popping up in the chat module that users can now...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • In Retrospect Morsi Never had a Chance to Succeed
    All revolutions including Egypt are messy affairs. Pres. Morsi now removed in a coups by the military faced conditions & roadblocks preventing any chance for success. The people w/ a newly found voice helped to get the authoritarian Mubarak to step down. Now it's popularly elected Morsi forced o ...
  • Forcing Down Evo Morales' Plane Was An Act Of ...
    The forcing down of Bolivian President Evo Morales's plane -- denied airspace by France, Spain and Portugal, followed by his 14-hour confinement while Austrian officials demanded to "inspect" his aircraft for the "fugitive" Edward Snowden -- was an act of air piracy and state terrorism. It was a ...
  • No Hope On The Jobs Front
    The BLS news release points out that the number of involuntary part-time workers (the number of people who are unable to find full-time jobs or whose hours were cut back) increased by 322,000 in June to 8.2 million. This deplorable report provided the cover for the market riggers to take the sto ...
  • Is Our Political Process Fatally Damaged?
    In addition to money, two other variables combine to weaken our political process.
  • Lessons From Chicago-- on Million Person Actio ...
    How distracted and "entertained" into hypnotic trance states are we? We have been lulled into the poppy fields-- the fields of sleep and illusion-- by jingoism & a faux news system that sells entertainment & corporate lies that keep us smiling and satisfied, while our childrens' and grandchildre ...

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    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • Western Energy News Round-Up: Wind, Feed-in Ta ...
    Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco Western Energy News Round-Up is a selection of news highlighting recent energy and environmental iss ...
  • Want Great Beer? You Need Clean Water.
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Some archeologists think humans learned how to make beer before bread—beer is that fundamental to human civilization. We know they were making beer at least 7,000 years ago, in what is now Iran. ...
  • As the Climate Warms, Toxic Blue-Green Algae F ...
    Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago The past two weeks did not bring good news to Lake Erie and Ohio’s shores. Our Testing the Waters report last week showed the beaches along Lake Erie were the most contaminated in the nation last year. ...
  • Recovering Grizzly Bears - Proposed Changes Fa ...
    Christine Wilcox, Research Scientist, Montana The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed revisions to its Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan.  These revisions include changes to where and how they count grizzly bears and what the mortalit ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Egypt’s Second Revolution - More Mulsim Brot ...
    If the world thought the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi would quell the civil unrest and violence in the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities and towns, they may discover that peace and civility is merely wishful thinking, according to an Israeli police and counterterrorism analyst on ...
  • Moldova on Edge - Moldova Bans Chemical Castra ...
    Moldova's constitutional court has banned the use of chemical castration to punish convicted pedophiles. The court ruled that the procedure amounted to medical intervention against a person's will and therefore was a violation of basic human rights.Deputies from Moldova's Liberal Party pushed th ...
  • Egypt's Second Revolution - Muslim Brotherhood ...
    Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called for mass protests on July 5 against the military-backed ouster of President Mohamed Morsi. The Brotherhood is part of an alliance of Islamist parties calling for peaceful protests to follow Friday afternoon prayers at mosques across the country. Until now, the a ...
  • Book Review - Disinformation: Soviet & Russian ...
    In an exclusive interview, Ronald Rychlak, co-author of a new book entitled Disinformation, offered further insights into the Soviet era campaign to enflame worldwide passions not only against the United States and Israel, but also the Catholic Church. Rychlak said that the Soviet Union engaged ...
  • Egypt’s Second Revolution - Egypt’s Muslim ...
    It is unclear what will become of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of the July 3 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. In the short term, the world’s oldest and largest Islamist movement will continue to denounce the coup and engage in protests which, coupled with the security crackdo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • HYPOCRISY- France is Using It's Own Version of ...
    The French Government has been very angry at the the United States because of the NSA Revelations.  Perhaps a bit too angry.  The French Newspaper, Le Monde has reported that the General Directorate for External Security does the same kind of data collection as the Am ...
  • Leave John Kerry Alone--He Hadn't Had a Vacati ...
    There are mean people who are complaining that John Kerry U.S. Secretary of State, spent Wednesday sailing on his yacht to Nantucket Island.  I think we should lighten up a bit. First of all the guy was out of the country for 12-days trying to craft a peace between Israel and the ...
  • Unemployment Stays at 7.6% Under-Employment JU ...
    Today's Unemployment report for the month of June has good news and bad news. Overall total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 195,000 in June, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. But the number of people unemployed, p ...
  • Obama's Impotent Middle East Policy
    A self-interview by Barry Rubin and Barry Rubin First, I want to apologize that I have often used intemperate language to describe U.S. policy and the people making it in the last 4.5 years. Perhaps I have put off some of you who would otherwise have been persuaded that something is ve ...
  • Gallup: Conservatives Extremely Proud to Be Am ...
    On the 237th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,  Gallup published a poll revealing how Americans feel about being an American. Overall about 85% of us are extremely or very proud to be an American a number that has been creeping up slowly since 2007. This show's ...

Wind Watch

  • Senator Whelan joins protest
    There was “palpable anger and incredulity” amongst the crowd of between 1,000 and 2,000 protesters who travelled to Dublin Castle last Friday June 21 to voice their opposition to the 2,000 gigantic wind turbines planned for the midlands. The marchers, young and old, included community groups fro ...
  • Birdwatchers see rare bird killed by wind turbine
    A travelling group of bird watchers witnessed a rare bird die after flying into a community wind turbine. The White-throated Needletail – the world’s fastest flying bird – was thousand of miles off course after turning up at Tarbert on the Isle of Harris. It was first spotted by two ...
  • High Court rules in favour of wind farm
    The Te Rere Hau wind farm on the Tararua Range is too noisy but a High Court ruling says the problem can be dealt with by a review of resource consent conditions. Justice Williams has upheld New Zealand Windfarms’ appeal against an Environment Court declaration that would have paved the wa ...
  • Leaseholders air energy complaints
    BAD AXE — County Commissioners discussed the frustrations of several wind leaseholders during this week’s meeting. Commissioner Jeremy Tietz said the leaseholders had come to him and asked if there was anything the board could do in the face of disagreement between them and Next Era Energy over ...
  • Minnesota regulators have pulled the plug on a ...
    The eagles in Goodhue County won a victory Thursday. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission pulled the plug on a controversial wind energy project that was stalled for years by a fierce and well-organized local opposition that successfully used its potential impact on eagles to help derail it ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • What now for North Carolina's Racial Justice Act?
    North Carolina has repealed its groundbreaking law targeting racial discrimination in administration of the death penalty, but Republican lawmakers looking for a speedy return of executions are likely to have their hopes dashed in the courts. read more
  • Water pollution a problem for Southern beaches
    The NRDC's annual report on bacterial contamination at U.S. beaches finds serious problems at popular swimming spots across the South. The group is calling on the federal government to take action to better protect beachgoers from serious health risks. read more
  • Essential reading for July 4th
    This Independence Day, we revisit one of our favorite holiday-themed readings: the brilliant speech by abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass reminding us of the unfinished work of guaranteeing liberty and justice for all. So what's your favorite reading for the 4th? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Attack on women's reproductiv ...
    Following recent efforts by Texas and Ohio, North Carolina becomes the latest state to embrace Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers or TRAP laws, which aim to make it difficult for women to obtain legal abortions -- and for clinics to provide them. read more
  • Job actions have Wal-Mart running scared
    Wal-Mart is disciplining and firing employees who are demanding improved working conditions -- a sign the Arkansas-based retail giant is worried about historic job actions spreading through its U.S. operations. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

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Ian Welsh

  • Start from common humanity
    The basic political principle is that we all share our humanity.  Compassion starts from imaging ourselves in other people’s skin, in feeling that pain and indignities to them, are injuries to our common humanity.  An injury, an injustice, to one of us, is an injury and injustice to all of ...
  • On Islam, Religion and Love
    As with many things, I’m no expert on Islam.  Nonetheless, within the limitations of my language skills, I’ve done the reading. One of the things which seems clear from the life of the Prophet, is that he made things better for women and slaves. Zakat is meant to be used, among other ...
  • The comment thread you should read
    Is this one.  It’s one of the reasons why I have no time for Iraq war pushers.  It’s one of the reasons why one of my friends used to say that the person who will wipe a major US city off the face of the planet has probably been born. Read it.  Feel the hatred. [...]
  • Michael Hastings
    died in a car accident.  He was most famous for reporting on General McChrystal’s attitude towards civilian authority, and ending his career. Buzzfeed has a good reminiscence. There is only one rule of writing which matters: tell your readers the truth as you know it.  Michael understood t ...
  • The Syrian Civil War
    To put it simply, Assad is most likely going to win this.  Hizbollah has clearly turned the facts on the ground for him, and Syrian public opinion appears to have decisively turned against the rebels.  10% support is too low, it can keep them going low-grade, but it’s not sufficient to win ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • European Parliament Panel To Probe US Surveill ...
    RTT – The European Parliament has adopted a resolution authorizing its Civil Liberties Committee to conduct an “in-depth inquiry” into the US surveillance programs, including the bugging of EU premises and other spying allegations, it was announced Thursday. The resolution, pas ...
  • London banker arrested on suspicion of tax fraud
    Guardian – HM Revenue and Customs reveals suspected fraud of unnamed senior 63-year-old bank executive related to personal tax return.  A senior London banker was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of tax fraud.  The 63-year-old man, who has not been named, was held at an address in the ca ...
  • Portuguese bond and stock markets tumble amid ...
    DW – Portugal’s financial markets have taken a dive as the government sits on the brink of collapse. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has defied calls for his resignation after key ministers stepped down.   The interest rate on Portugal’s 10-year bond reached 7.39 percent on ...
  • African rights body appeals to Nigerian govern ...
    Associated Press – The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights is appealing to President Goodluck Jonathan to halt resumed executions. Four men have been hanged and a fifth is in imminent danger of being shot. Human rights lawyer Femi Falana called Thursday’s request “a landmark de ...
  • Honey bees’ electric charge makes them e ...
    Telegraph – Scientists have found that tiny electrical charges that build up as bees fly attract spider silk, making them more likely to be snared in a web. // For bees the findings reveal yet another hazard facing these insects. Honey bee populations have halved in the past 20 years while ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Why Protest NSA Utah?
    MY TOP 5 REASONS TO OPPOSE NSA UTAH By A. True Ott, PhD 1. WAR. On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry forcefully declared: “Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace, but there is no Peace. The WAR is actually begun!” It is often very difficult for humans to separate WAR from the daily BATTLES against evil tha ...
  • Where Will YOU Be this July 4, 2013?
    “In a way, the world－view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested ...
  • Is Hell Real? Hell Yes!
    Truth must have an anchor – a solid ANVIL upon which all lies will crumble to dust.   That solid anchor is God’s Word – the Holy Bible!  This is self evident by the vigor by which totalitarian, communist regimes over the last century have banned it from the people.   It is simp ...
  • Deborah Tavares Speaks Up
    It was my pleasure and privilege to meet Deborah and her husband Lou at the Conspiracy Conference in San Jose this year.   She sat next to me at the “Meet the Speaker’s Dinner” on Saturday night – and we had a tremendous conversation. She provided me with a copy of the NA ...
  • JFK Blows The Whistle (ala Ed Snowden) And Die ...
      The dictionary defines TREASON as follows: trea·son  (trzn) n. 1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies. 2. A betrayal of trust or c ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...
  • Solar Impulse Lands in StLouis Lambert Field
    FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWING THE PATH OF THE SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE, SOLAR IMPULSE.  THE SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE SAFELY LANDED IN STLOUIS AT LAMBERT AIRPORT LAST NIGHT-AFTER A 21 HOUR 21 MINUTE FLIGHT! reposted from Green Blog at: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2013/06/solar- ...
  • Tornado Safe Room CAD Designs for the DIY People
    Tornado Safe Room Designs copied from green blog at-http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com With the Rash of Tornadoes caused by the Extreme Weather Conditions we have had recently in the USA.  I put together a few Tornado/Hurricane SafeRoom Designs and Build Options. Complete plans, Design-B ...

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Peoples Voice

  • The Arabs And Their Spring
    By Gilad Atzmon It is not a secret that summer skipped Europe this year and some meteorologists even predict a sun eclipse for the next seven to ten years. When asked to explain this dire prediction a few experts ended up blaming the Arabs, ‘it is all because of the Arabs, they took all t ...
  • http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/07/05/title-62
    By Gilad Atzmon It is not a secret that summer skipped Europe this year and some meteorologists even predict a sun eclipse for the next seven to ten years. When asked to explain this dire prediction a few experts ended up blaming the Arabs, ‘it is all because of the Arabs, they took all t ...
  • America's Independence Day Hypocrisy
    by Stephen Lendman Ron KovicRon Kovic's an anti-war activist. He was born on July 4, 1946. Vietnam combat left him paralyzed. He's wheelchair-bound. His memoir titled "Born on the Fourth of July" became an Academy Award-winning film. Oliver Stone directed it. Tom Cruise played Kovic. An upd ...
  • Independence Day for Serfs
    Philip A Farruggio July 4th is always ripe with the obligatory fireworks displays, picnics, barbeques, and a day off for many of our American workers… some with pay… some without. Yet, what is there to celebrate if you are one of the hundreds of millions of folks who get up each and ...
  • Obama Threatens Humanity
    by Stephen Lendman He represents the worst of rogue governance. He does so lawlessly. He serves monied interests. They own him. Whatever they want they get. He violates core rule of law principles. He mocks democratic rule. He's waging multiple imperial wars. He's doing so on humani ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Thanks for the feedback!
    Recently we asked you for some feedback. We posted a survey with one question (well, actually multiple questions disguised as one): Please share your thoughts about where the CCPA should go from here... What do you think the recent provincial election means for progressives in BC? What should th ...
  • We’ve got a new look!
    We are excited to announce the launch of the CCPA’s newly redesigned website! Aside from a spiffy new look, we hope you’ll find the site easier to navigate, and more fully integrated with our blogs and social media channels. Rest assured that the website still has the same comprehensive research ...
  • Premier Wall's employment record lags Cal ...
    Is the Wall government playing a shell game with provincial employment numbers? The government regularly issues press releases - repeated by the media - claiming record job creation. However, how well does the Wall government stack up against the historical job creation record of other Saskatche ...
  • Reflections and perspectives on Indigenous edu ...
    Woven Words for Indigenous Education, the latest publication from CCPA's Education Project, brings together the reflections and perspectives of practising professionals in the field of Indigenous education.  From the education activism of a seasoned community leader to the supporting activiti ...
  • Indigenous children face deplorable poverty
    A new study, released by the CCPA and Save the Children Canada, finds that 40% of Indigenous children in Canada are living in poverty. The report, authored by CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald and Indigenous rights advocate Daniel Wilson, finds that Indigenous children in Canada are over two ...

World Wide Hippies

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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

  • US Energy Transitions: 1776 to 2076
    In 1776, Britain's thirteen American colonies ran on a 100-percent renewable portfolio standard and a distributed (wood- and horse-based) energy economy. Today, natural gas is ascendant while coal is in decline.
  • EPA Pressured to Weaken Oil, Gas Science and E ...
    There is now a pattern of the EPA stepping down from important cases of drinking water contamination that are linked to oil and gas operations, and communities across America with oil and gas development want to know why.
  • President Obama, Coal Killer
    President Obama put natural gas at the center of his agenda to deal with climate change. "We should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because it can provide safe, cheap power, and reduce our carbon emissions."
  • Community Renewable Energy Plans to Receive Ex ...
    The Department for Energy and Climate Change has said it will increase the generation threshold under which community projects are eligible for feed-in tariffs to enable larger projects to benefit.
  • Renewables Policy: "EU can learn from the US" ...
    Since the economic crisis began the climate agenda has struggle in the European Union, but renewables have always had lots of other arguments for them – jobs and growth, for example.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • The web you know is dying
    The kids on Hyperboria have the right idea: if you don't want to be spied on, evolve beyond reach. I'm doing just that. Distributed everything is where we're going. The way I see it, if you're still on centralized social networks, you're part of the problem. You can't stick your fingers in you ...
  • Révélations sur le Big Brother français
    Si les révélations sur le programme d'espionnage américain Prism ont provoqué un concert d'indignation en Europe, la France, elle, n'a que faiblement protesté. Pour deux excellentes raisons : Paris était déjà au courant. Et fait la même chose. - Le Monde
  • ATandT to sell users anonymous usage and locat ...
    AT&T is planning to cash in on the large amount of data it collects from its subscribers every month. The company said this week that it is looking to follow in the footsteps of Google, Facebook and Verizon, and begin selling information about its customers to other businesses. AT&T says ...
  • Report: France data gathering program compared ...
    Citing no sources, the Le Monde daily says France's Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, the country's foreign intelligence agency, systematically collects information about all electronic data sent by computers and telephones in France, as well as communications between France and abro ...
  • The Google Commitments Testing Substantive Th ...
    What the complainants ultimately seek is free promotion. Free promotion that would, nota bene, come at the expense of sites that Google identifies as directly relevant to the query, such as restaurant sites that Google references in response to a restaurant query. Ultimately, this would be to th ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • FDR speech on New Deal, the bankster threat he ...
    Not only did FDR, in announcing the New Deal, clearly delineate the problem, which was organized money using government as an appendage, he point blank said he welcomed their hatred. Can you imagine any modern-day president or politician being this blunt, especially against Wall Street investmen ...
  • What happens if NSA surveillance data is compr ...
    Zenpundit nails it. NSA surveillance is so Orwellian and omnipresent that it poses a huge security risk to whoever can compromise the data. If Snowden could, then many others can and probably have too. Plus, we already know that NSA swaps data with private corporations. All this data the NSA pro ...
  • Government tortures Lynne Stewart, decrees ext ...
    Political prisoners in the U.S. are no better off than anywhere else. In the American justice system, even when a prisoner is not sentenced to be executed, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Prisons still have extra-judicial ways of making sure a politically-targe ...
  • London Array, world’s largest offshore wind fa ...
    Well done, Britain. The London Array shows how offshore wind can be done – at grid scale. (Maybe someday the US might actually have one, single, solitary, offshore wind turbine…) Powered by 175 Siemens turbines, the wind farm has a capacity of 630 MW – enough to power nearly half a m ...
  • Question doctors. Their advice isn’t always co ...
    A few years ago I was gardening and got some dirt in my eye. It got infected so I went to a doctor and told him what happened. They said, “That’s impossible, we see no sign of it,” and wanted to put me on highly toxic IV antibiotics for a month for some rare and [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Quotas for women
    I don’t meant to be picking on the Minister of Women’s Affairs, but these quotes can’t be left without a response: “Women’s Affairs Minister Jo Goodhew criticised the quota, saying people should be selected on their merit. “What really bothers me about this is New Zealand has g ...
  • Sleeping rough
    Today is the morning after the Lifewise Big Sleep Out.  Last night I joined about 80 or so Aucklanders sleeping on a sheet of cardboard in the plaza at AUT. This is an annual fundraising event that also aims to raise awareness about homelessness in Auckland. This year’s event coincided with comm ...
  • Bus tunnel better in Auckland than in national ...
    Glenorchy based Stop the Tunnel  is presenting a series of stunning photographs of Mt Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks  to the Local Government and Environment select committee today. The presentation is in support of their petition to Parliament to stop the proposed $150 million Milford Da ...
  • Greens mourn Matthew Wootton’s disappearance
    Green MPs and staff are mourning the disappearance of Matthew Wootton – a UK Green Party activist who was aboard the Nina schooner with six others who have not been seen since May 29, 2013. The Nina left Opua in the Bay of Islands bound for Newcastle, Australia, and is now believed to have been ...
  • Magical Matariki in Hauraki
    He mihi nui ki te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, te reo rangatira o Aotearoa. In addition it is Matariki and all over the motu celebrations are being held for this season of reflection and renewal. Last Friday we had a wonderful day and night in Thames focussed on Matariki kōrero and the kaupapa of [...]

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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • INDIA: 'Proud Not Primitive' campaign challeng ...
    The 'Proud Not Primitive' campaigns challenges the prevailing view in India that tribal peoples, like the Dongria Kondh, are 'backwards' and 'primitive'.© SurvivalA groundbreaking new campaign has been launched in India to challenge the deep-seated prejudice that tr ...
  • Brazil: Protestors call on President to uphold ...
    Davi Kopenawa, a spokesman for the Yanomami tribe, calls on Brazil's President to uphold indigenous rights.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs demonstrators continue to flood Brazil’s streets, Brazilian Indians have joined protestors in calling for an end to the onslaught on indigenous rights b ...
  • 'Jaguar people's' urgent appeal to oil company ...
    The Matsés have urged shareholders of Pacific Rubiales to disinvest from the company to protect Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalAn Amazonian tribe has sent an urgent appeal to shareholders of Canadian-Colombian oil giant Pacific Rubiales to protect the lives of uncontacted Indians in Pe ...
  • Indigenous rights highlighted at central Londo ...
    Protestors in London demanded respect for indigenous people’s rights. © SurvivalThe rights of Brazilian Indians were highlighted at a protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London yesterday. Over 1,000 protestors attended to show their support for the demonstrations that have taken place i ...
  • Success: Soliga tribe's forest rights upheld i ...
    Tribal peoples like the Soliga have been living with and protecting the wildlife in their forests for countless generations.© Kalyan Varma/SurvivalA village belonging to the Soliga tribe in southern India has won an important court victory after its entire stock of honey – its key source of live ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Watchdog group finds carcinogen in Pepsi
    from usatoday.com: An environmental group said Wednesday that the caramel coloring used in Pepsi still contains a worrisome level of a carcinogen, even after the drink maker said it would change its formula. In March, PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. both said they would adjust their ...
  • Video: Akbar - "Good Food"
    Check out the OFFICIAL video for "Good Food" by Akbar | Directed by FredOnes
  • Unapproved GM rice trials in U.S. may have con ...
    from NaturalNews.com: New evidence has emerged suggesting that the entire global supply of rice may have already been contaminated by unapproved, genetically-modified (GM) rice varieties manufactured by the American multinational corporation Bayer CropScience. A recent entry in the GM Co ...
  • World Leaders Denounce Monsanto Exec Winning W ...
    from naturalsociety.com: Last month, Monsanto executive Robert Fraley received the World Food Prize. This highly esteemed prize, considered among many to be the “Nobel Prize” of food, was given to the chief technology officer of the chemical company who is ironically working to diabolica ...
  • Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat govt-stored up t ...
    from RT.com: Monsanto’s unapproved GMO wheat, which made its way onto an Oregon field and is feared to have contaminated US wheat supplies, was stored at a US government-controlled facility until at least late 2011. The confirmation that the controversial str ...

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

  • Economic Bizarro World: Persistently High Unem ...
    The mainstream media is heralding today's "fantastic" employment numbers as evidence that the U.S. economy is steadily recovering.  But is that really true?  The number of jobs created in June was just a little bit more than what is required to keep up with population growth, and the official un ...
  • Are We Really Free When Big Brother Is Systema ...
    Every year on July 4th we celebrate our "independence", but is America really free?  How could we possibly be free when "Big Brother" is constantly intruding in our lives in hundreds of different ways?  And I am not just talking about NSA snooping.  Sadly, the truth is that the United States is ...
  • Have Central Bankers Lost Control? Could The B ...
    Are the central banks of the world starting to lose control of the financial markets?  Could we be facing a situation where the bond bubble is going to inevitably implode no matter what the central bankers do?  For the past several years, the central bankers of the planet have been able to get m ...
  • 41 IMF Bailouts And Counting – How Long ...
    Broke nations are bailing out other broke nations with borrowed money.  Round and round we go - where we stop nobody knows.  As of April, 41 different countries had active financial "arrangements" with the IMF.  Sometimes they are called "bailouts" and sometimes they are called other things, but ...
  • 19 Reasons To Be Deeply Concerned About The Gl ...
    Is the global economic downturn going to accelerate as we roll into the second half of this year?  There is turmoil in the Middle East, we are seeing things happen in the bond markets that we have not seen happen in more than 30 years, and much of Europe has already plunged into a full-blown [...]

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

  • What now for North Carolina's Racial Justice Act?
    North Carolina has repealed its groundbreaking law targeting racial discrimination in administration of the death penalty, but Republican lawmakers looking for a speedy return of executions are likely to have their hopes dashed in the courts. read more
  • Water pollution a problem for Southern beaches
    The NRDC's annual report on bacterial contamination at U.S. beaches finds serious problems at popular swimming spots across the South. The group is calling on the federal government to take action to better protect beachgoers from serious health risks. read more
  • Essential reading for July 4th
    This Independence Day, we revisit one of our favorite holiday-themed readings: the brilliant speech by abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass reminding us of the unfinished work of guaranteeing liberty and justice for all. So what's your favorite reading for the 4th? read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Attack on women's reproductiv ...
    Following recent efforts by Texas and Ohio, North Carolina becomes the latest state to embrace Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers or TRAP laws, which aim to make it difficult for women to obtain legal abortions -- and for clinics to provide them. read more
  • Job actions have Wal-Mart running scared
    Wal-Mart is disciplining and firing employees who are demanding improved working conditions -- a sign the Arkansas-based retail giant is worried about historic job actions spreading through its U.S. operations. 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

  • XMir will be Default in Ubuntu 13.10, Fallback ...
    Canonical is moving faster than anybody would have thought. Mir was introduced as a proof of concept display-server earlier this year, which Canonical plans to deploy slowly across their products. Now they claim that Mir is good enough to be deployed in the next major release, Ubuntu 13.10 ie. ...
  • XSensors: Lets you Monitor CPU Temperatures in ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" has its share of issues, at least for me. One of the most annoying one being the return of overheating bug (in Intel Core i3 hardware) which plagued me during the Ubuntu 11.04 release cycle (if I remember it correctly). In our previous post discussing things to d ...
  • 30 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 ...
    And here we go again. Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released almost a month ago and unlike previous releases, this has been more of a silent affair. Mainstream blogs and news websites didn't cover much about the release. Ubuntu 13.04 is mostly an incrementally updated release and th ...
  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...

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

  • CAN OBAMA SAVE MORSI’S ARSE? ~~ PHOTO ESSAY FR ...
    A massive wave of anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt has been utterly ignored by vintage media, even though the protests may be the largest in all of human history. * * via CAN OBAMA SAVE MORSI’S ARSE? ~~ PHOTO ESSAY FROM TAHRIR SQUARE | Desertpeace.
  • The Todashev Killing and the House of Cards | ...
    by David Martin Sometime in the evening of May 21 a contingent of law enforcement officials arrived at the apartment of 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev (pronounced Ibrahim To-DAH-shev). The FBI says that the group consisted of an FBI agent, two Massachusetts state troopers, and “other law enforceme ...
  • Activist Post: It Just Doesn’t Feel Like the 4 ...
    Dave Hodges Activist Post Are you like me in that you are having a difficult time trying to decide what to for the 4th of July holiday? Do you feel like me and feel that we don’t have a lot to celebrate given the present state of affairs? Because I have a family I will […]
  • What REALLY Caused the Coup Against the Egypti ...
    Washington’s Blog Egypt’s Support for Intervention in Syria Was the Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back The protests in Egypt against president Mohammed Morsi were – according to the BBC – the largest in history.   The Egyptian military threw Morsi out in a coup today. Why? Irish Times reports: Ar ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Sayer Ji How much longer will we deny the growing body of research linking Roundup to infertility before calling this chemical a contraceptive? Following closely on the heels of the EPA’s decision to allow Roundup herbicide residues in your food at concentrations a million times higher ...

Veterans Today

  • Western-Instigated Putsch in Egypt
      Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.-Exodus 14:21 Anak! “To fill one’s mouth with water”* is a Hebrew idiom meaning “refusing ...
  • Egypt needs real Islamic revolution
    So much for the Muslim Brotherhood's "Rothschild Islamism."
  • Nickola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers, Part ...
    Nickola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers, Part Three – by Rand Clifford for Veterans Today — One thing seeming most reliable for seekers of truth about Nikola Tesla: 90% of available information is disinformation, or misinformation. What’s more, Tesla’s greatest triumph is not only fo ...
  • Zionist Responsible for Bombing Argentinian AM ...
    Zionist Responsible for Bombing Argentinian AMIA Jewish Center   Credit to Press TV — Zionist Responsible for Bombing Argentinian Jewish Center Purpose of these Mahyudi monsters: to lay the blame on Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic on Iran to gain internationals support to attack and des ...
  • Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the 4th of July
    - Atop the list is the name Capt. E. Fletcher Satterfield, the one who went "the farthest at Gettysburg".

electric politics

  • Worst Cases
    As the war in Syria grinds on the children of Washington want to get credit for doing something. Arming the "good guys" and opposing the "bad guy" seems to be the path of least resistance. A pity, that, because throwing arms into Syria will only prolong the bloodshed indefinitely... Much better, ...
  • On Recognizing Geographical Realities
    The question of when a country is not a country may seem, for outsiders, little more than an abstract principle or an academic argument. But for those who dwell in the imaginary state the issue may well be about abject poverty or, indeed, life and death. The Congo being the most extreme example ...
  • Eating Healthy
    It's fair to say that there's more we don't know about food than what we do know. And it is the absolute truth that we don't know about the potential effects of thousands of additives routinely incorporated into processed comestibles. Prudence, then, suggests sticking to natural foods where poss ...
  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...

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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

  • Interview: Afghanistan to remain under indefin ...
    Press TV July 2, 2013 ‘US intends to stay longer in Afghanistan’ AUDIO The Taliban’s Tuesday attack in the Afghan capital Kabul dashes hopes of any possible peace talks between the U.S. and the militants, an analyst says. The Taliban attack indicates there are suspicions amongst both “Tali ...
  • Romain Rolland: Real peace demands that the ma ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From A World In Birth (L’enfantement) (1933) Translated by Amalia de Alberti “…I see the despoiling of the world – so overwhelming and beyond measure, in ...
  • NATO Chief: Georgia Continues To Be Corralled ...
    Civil Georgia June 27, 2013 Rasmussen on Georgia’s NATO Integration Tbilisi: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on June 27 in Tbilisi that Georgia “is on the right path”, which moved “a lot closer to NATO”, but “the burden may still be on you now to continue to deliv ...
  • Orthodox Prelate: NATO Is Fourth Reich
    Tanjug News Agency July 2, 2013 Church dignitary likens NATO to “Fourth Reich” PODGORICA: SPC Metropolitan of Montenegro Amfilohije has referred to the Western military alliance NATO as “the Fourth Reich.” The media in Podgorica are quoting him as saying that NATO represe ...
  • Russia Denies U.S. Could Destroy Nuclear Force ...
    Itar-Tass July 2, 2013 No country will be able to hit Russia’s defenses with impunity – deputy defense minister MOSCOW: Not a single country will be able to attack Russia’s strategic nuclear forces with impunity, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said after talks between the Russian ...

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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

  • India Press describes how Nepali Maoist leader ...
    [Prachanda makes it appear that the turnabout was a political version of a religious experience, but the "born-again bourgeois" actually prepared this reversal and capitulation and betrayal over many years.  Still, his sugary description of the lure is a near-textbook example of the peaceful roa ...
  • India: Death Squad kills RDF Vice-President
    Condemn Strongly the Ghastly Murder of Ganti Prasadam, the Vice President of RDF by State-Sponsored Vigilante Gangs! COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025 05/07/2013 Constitute Immediately a Judicial Inquiry into the Killing of Ganti ...
  • Greenwald: “Snowden’s Files Are Out Ther ...
      by Eli Lak, The Daily Beast Jun 25, 2013 Snowden has shared encoded copies of all the documents he took so that they won’t disappear if he does, Glenn Greenwald tells Eli Lake. As the U.S. government presses Moscow to extradite former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, Am ...
  • US military blocks entire Guardian website for ...
    General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very ...
  • US’ Egyptian “democratic” pu ...
    Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. –  Bertolt Brecht Obama expresses concern, but does not condemn Egyptian military intervention By Patricia Zengerla and Steve Holland, Reuters, 07/03/2013 WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama expresse ...

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

  • Almost An Expert: Dark And Stormy
    Please enable Javascript to watch this video What's a better mix than science and booze? In this episode of our new video series, Popular Science Art Director Todd Detwiler shows you how to make a delicious dark and stormy. Plus, the science of dark matter.     
  • A Submarine In Space And Other Amazing Images ...
    Plus the shoes of the future, a Lego dystopia and more Click here to enter the gallery    
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  • Hubble Catches The Comet ISON Hurtling Toward ...
    It's like space fireworks! Fourth of July is the perfect time to watch fiery masses streak across the sky. This speedy guy, the comet ISON, looks like it pretty much fits that bill. Except that it's actually quite icy at its core, and it's barreling toward the sun at around 48,000 miles per ho ...
  • First-Ever Super-Slow-Motion Video Of Hummingb ...
    How does a hummingbird hover? Let's point a $150,000 high-speed camera at one and find out. In order to design and create better flying robots, a team at Stanford University needed to see things our pitiful human eyes can't--like, how exactly does a hummingbird hover? How does a swift dive? So t ...

Veterans Today

  • Western-Instigated Putsch in Egypt
      Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.-Exodus 14:21 Anak! “To fill one’s mouth with water”* is a Hebrew idiom meaning “refusing ...
  • Egypt needs real Islamic revolution
    So much for the Muslim Brotherhood's "Rothschild Islamism."
  • Nickola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers, Part ...
    Nickola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers, Part Three – by Rand Clifford for Veterans Today — One thing seeming most reliable for seekers of truth about Nikola Tesla: 90% of available information is disinformation, or misinformation. What’s more, Tesla’s greatest triumph is not only fo ...
  • Zionist Responsible for Bombing Argentinian AM ...
    Zionist Responsible for Bombing Argentinian AMIA Jewish Center   Credit to Press TV — Zionist Responsible for Bombing Argentinian Jewish Center Purpose of these Mahyudi monsters: to lay the blame on Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic on Iran to gain internationals support to attack and des ...
  • Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the 4th of July
    - Atop the list is the name Capt. E. Fletcher Satterfield, the one who went "the farthest at Gettysburg".

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • Summer is here at last
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...
  • The climate conundrum - why aren't global temp ...
    News that carbon dioxide levels have reached 400 parts per million – a level widely thought by scientists not seen for at least 3 million years – caught the headlines last month. It comes at a time when global temperatures have remained largely flat since the late 1990s, despite climate forecast ...
  • Have weather patterns really been unusual?
    There’s been much in the press in recent days following the widely publicised ‘Unusual weather’ conference held at the Met Office.  The Independent headline was similar to others in the media, advising readers to ‘Stand by for another decade of wet summers’, continuing that the UK was in the mid ...
  • A typical British summer in the making
    An expected return to more changeable weather through this week reminded me of the work of one of our best known and most respected climatologists Professor Hubert Lamb. Professor Lamb is credited with discovering an empirical relationship between low solar activity and an increased probability ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • WSJ: What Egypt Needs is Its Pinochet
    I do not need convincing that Hosni Mubarak was a better compromise for an Egyptian leader than any of the buffoons that followed him. Witness the total bankruptcy of ideas demonstrated by the Muslim Brotherhood "leadership." While I was amused by their total lack of political sophistication and ...
  • Agents of Imperialism? Bolivia Expelled USAID
    I have become captivated by the twists and turns of the Edward Snowden real-life spy caper. While the original accusation that the US was using its advantageous position in the Internet infrastructure to spy on its own citizens and its allies was sort of expected, its unfolding implications are ...
  • With (Spying) Friends Like US, Who Needs US-EU ...
    It seems the Yanks have gotten themselves into yet another fine mess with their Internet Unfreedom spying activities. [Hello NSA lackeys, I hope you're enjoying yourselves reading this post in between surfing porn sites.] Over the weekend, Der Spiegel added fuel to the fire over the US National ...
  • Ecuador's Eco-Econ Gimmick: Pay Us NOT to Drill
    Ah, Ecuador, home of central bankers with fake degrees and would-be destination of Edward "And the Truth Shall Set You Free" Snowden. Regardless of its harrumphing and chest-thumping, there's no getting away from the fact that Ecuador is a really, really hard-up nation. Just a few days ago, some ...
  • Snowden Files: Ecuador Cuts US Trade Benefits ...
    It's probably not the wisest thing to do, but at least Ecuador may be accepting the consequences of putting its foot in its mouth. Famously harbouring WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in its London embassy, it appears ready to up the stakes in testing America's (quite frankly idiotic) "Internet Freedom ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Economic Bizarro World: Persistently High Unem ...
    The mainstream media is heralding today's "fantastic" employment numbers as evidence that the U.S. economy is steadily recovering.  But is that really true?  The number of jobs created in June was just a little bit more than what is required to keep up with population growth, and the official un ...
  • Are We Really Free When Big Brother Is Systema ...
    Every year on July 4th we celebrate our "independence", but is America really free?  How could we possibly be free when "Big Brother" is constantly intruding in our lives in hundreds of different ways?  And I am not just talking about NSA snooping.  Sadly, the truth is that the United States is ...
  • Have Central Bankers Lost Control? Could The B ...
    Are the central banks of the world starting to lose control of the financial markets?  Could we be facing a situation where the bond bubble is going to inevitably implode no matter what the central bankers do?  For the past several years, the central bankers of the planet have been able to get m ...
  • 41 IMF Bailouts And Counting – How Long ...
    Broke nations are bailing out other broke nations with borrowed money.  Round and round we go - where we stop nobody knows.  As of April, 41 different countries had active financial "arrangements" with the IMF.  Sometimes they are called "bailouts" and sometimes they are called other things, but ...
  • 19 Reasons To Be Deeply Concerned About The Gl ...
    Is the global economic downturn going to accelerate as we roll into the second half of this year?  There is turmoil in the Middle East, we are seeing things happen in the bond markets that we have not seen happen in more than 30 years, and much of Europe has already plunged into a full-blown [...]

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Julia Gillard’s legacy lives on in historic Ro ...
    Many victims of child sexual abuse are mourning Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s overnight defeat at the hands of the smirking, conniving, grey haired boys club. I suspect she knew all along her time at the top would be short and that she had a limited opportunity to achieve real change before she ...
  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...

WL Central

  • 2013-07-04 Pilger, Stone: 'Global gangsterism' ...
    Denying Bolivian president Evo Morales air space was a metaphor for the gangsterism that now rules the world, writes John Pilger. Oliver Stone says the world is in danger with the tyranny of the US. read more
  • 2013-07-04 NSA: Further EU Fallout
    "Europeans are furious", reported Spiegel Online. "Revelations that the US intelligence service National Security Agency (NSA) targeted the European Union and several European countries with its far-reaching spying activities have led to angry reactions from several senior EU and German politici ...
  • 2013-07-04 NSA Fallout: German Prosecutors Inv ...
    The German Federal Prosecutors Office is looking into allegations that the NSA conducted massive spying against German citizens. A first formal complaint has already been lodged in one city, reported Spiegel Online. read more
  • 2013-07-04 NSA Fallout: German Furore
    "The fallout has been immense over revelations that US intelligence agencies systematically spied on EU officials as part of their far-reaching surveillance programs", reported German Spiegel Online. "German commentators on Monday say that Washington must explain itself." read more
  • 2013-07-04 Snowden-Morales: South American Fallout
    The revelations of and the US hunt for Snowden, together with violations of the Vienna Convention by the US in connection with the flight of Bolivian President Evo Morales from Moscow to La Paz, have resulted in considerable political fallout in South America. read more

U N News

  • UN climate change body applauds US climate cha ...
    President Barack Obama's climate action plan can be a critical move forward on the path towards a new, global climate agreement, the head of the United Nations climate change body said in reaction to today's announced strategy by the United States leader.
  • Live at the Apollo: UN chief urges Democracy P ...
    Hailing the first-ever graduating class of Democracy Prep High School, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the young scholars to "change the world" through global citizenship, and to help the United Nations respond as "one human family" to major international challenges.
  • UN calls on Brazilian authorities to exercise ...
    Brazilian authorities must exercise restraint in dealing with spreading social protests in the country, the United Nations human rights office said today in the wake of reported clashes between demonstrators and police in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
  • Haiti: UN warns 1.5 million people face severe ...
    The United Nations food relief agency said it remained extremely concerned by the plight of 1.5 million people in Haiti who need food assistance, following extreme weather conditions and poor harvests.
  • Haiti: Senior UN official gravely concerned' b ...
    Following the razing of a temporary camp sight in Haiti, a senior United Nations official today expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake.

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

  • Cougars at Wolverine Project and Good News for ...
    From the July 2013 Wild Cat News - International Society for Endangered Cats: The Alberta Conservation Association is undertaking a field study on the wolverine in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Their cameras picked up some unexpected wildlife action. 24 hours, 3 very determined cats, 4,590 pho ...
  • TrekWest Blog 35: Meandering Over Sandstone S ...
    Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:08 AM PDT More Rambles in Utah’s Grandest Monument so Far When Kim Crumbo suggested that diving a hundred feet down into a Calf Creek plunge pool, here in the heart of spectacular Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, could create a fine photo opportunity for TrekWe ...
  • Rewilding Giant Tortoises in Madagascar
    by Crystal Gammon, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor First published: 28 June 2013   Two millennia ago, millions of giant tortoises roamed Madagascar, an island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa that is rich in species found nowhere else on Earth. Those tortoises kept Madagascar’ ...
  • The Oregon and California Act Revisited: Peril ...
    by Paul F. Torrence A monster is rising from western Oregon, one that makes Frankenstein’s creation look like a pussycat. It is poised to further erode the biological integrity of at least 2.1 million acres of public lands in western Oregon. But beware! This ecocidal dark vision may well be the ...
  • Big, Wild, and Connected – John Davis on his n ...
    Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:37 PM PDT on John’s TrekWest blog Big, Wild, and Connected:  Wildlands Network and Island Press collaborate on Trek E-books “Was it really necessary to push myself across more than 7000 miles of a hypothetical wildway, climb a hundred mountains, paddle dozens of wate ...

Asia Sentinel

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Modern Survivalism

  • Pay Cash For Everything
    What’s the difference between digital money and cash? Answer: Nothing, in its basic value. However there is a VERY significant difference when it comes to your freedom and liberty…   PRIVACY. When you use digital money, your privacy is completely relinquished. When you use digit ...
  • This Independence Day…
    As did the Patriots during the American Revolution on July 4, 1776, who declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, Declare your own independence! Independence from…   …the system. Establish your own liberty from the system that is restricting and controlling you. U ...
  • 5 Things That Raise Your Skin Cancer Risk And ...
    Melanoma rates in women have skyrocketed according to a Mayo Clinic study which finds they’ve increased eightfold between 1970 and 2009. These are some potential causes of skin cancer and what you can do to prevent it…   FAMILY HISTORY If your mother, father, siblings, or childr ...
  • Use Honey For Burns
    Home Remedies: Honey Use it for: Minor cuts and burns, cough or sore throat How it works…   Most of us at one time or another have tried honey in tea to soothe a scratchy or soar throat, but honey has also been used to treat wounds for thousands of years. A Dutch study has [...]
  • A Summer Burglar’s Easy Entry
    A widely overlooked security hole in the home, is something that is hiding in plain sight… especially to a would-be burglar during the summer… One easy way that a burglar will gain access to your home is…   When the weather warms up, the air-conditioners come out. How many ...

Fast Company

  • Confusingly, Crops Engineered To Not Need Chem ...
    Contrary to industry claims, a new report links our dependence on GMO crops to the spread of superweeds. And more herbicides. It’s one of the main sells on Monsanto’s website: “[Roundup agricultural herbicides] use on Roundup Ready crops has allowed farmers to conserve fu ...
  • Watch Douglas Engelbart Give The Greatest Pres ...
    Douglas Engelbart, most famous for inventing the computer mouse, has died at 88. Here, we celebrate him giving the most incredible technical demonstration of all time. The first time I watched the Mother of All Demos, I thought I was being pranked. And as I realized it was real, I got chil ...
  • Lasers, Human Megaphones, And Guy Fawkes Masks ...
    The hottest accessory in Tahrir Square today was the laser pointer, the newest meme-tastic tool of civil disobedience. In the days leading up today's ousting of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, many of the protesters in the country's Tahrir Square concentrated laser pointers upward, dire ...
  • We Are Living In The Imagination Era—And We Ca ...
    Futurist Rita King says that the goal of future thinking is to cut through the crush of technological change to help people imagine a better future. Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists ...
  • The Biggest Bang: A Dazzling View On the World ...
    The pyrotechnic scene in Tultepec, Mexico, puts our Fourth of July to shame. As popular as Mexican bottles of Coke among certain purists are Mexican bottle rockets--crown king of fireworks and hailing from Tultepec, about an hour outside of Mexico City. Tultepec, otherwise not known for it ...

Jadaliyya

  • حوار مع نعوم تشومسكي حول الثورة السورية
    في زيارته القصيرة لبيروت، كان لنعوم تشومسكي، المفكر والفيلسوف الأميركي الغني عن التعريف، لقاء مع بعض الأفراد السوريين المستقلين، من ناشطين إعلاميين وعاملين في مجال الإغاثة ومشتغلين في الحقل الثقافي والاقتصادي. وقد صارح تشومسكي المجتمعين بأنه جاء ليصغي إليهم، وليستمع إلى وجهات نظرهم المختلفة حول ...
  • Brotherhood Guide: We Will Protect Morsi with ...
    The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie showed up on Friday afternoon at the Rabea al-Adawiya sit-in where Islamists have been camping to demand the return of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.  Badie addressed the thousands in the sit-in on a stage despite earlier new ...
  • Update: Clashes Erupt on 6th October Bridge
    Clashes erupted between supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and their opponents on Friday evening at the 6th October Bridge near the state television building, Al-Ahram state-run daily reported.  There was no security at the site of the clashes. Meanwhile, army person ...
  • Update: Militants Attack Checkpoints in Sinai
    State media reported on Friday attacks on security posts in north Sinai, when armed groups targeted five military and police checkpoints in the area with heavy arms, killing a conscript and injuring three.  The attacks were perpetrated on Al-Masoura, Sheikh Zuwayid, Al-Jora, Abu Tawila and ...
  • Excuse Me Sir, Is It a Coup?
    The question of what to label the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by a military intervention following massive protests looms in newsrooms. This including Mada Masr’s. While coup and revolution are the two ends of the nomenclature spectrum, some see that labeling is the wrong exercise. “Refr ...

mediagazer

  • The British Are Coming--And They've Brought Ne ...
    Nicky Woolf / The Atlantic Online: The British Are Coming—And They've Brought Newspapers  —  The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters in Hong Kong after the release of Edward Snowden's identity.  (Vincent Yu/AP)  —  Of the three English-langu ...
  • Hulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights (Wall Stree ...
    Wall Street Journal: Hulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights  —  The big media companies that created Hulu endowed the online video provider with arguably its most valuable asset: access to the current seasons of hit network-TV shows.  Now, as an auction of the site enters its f ...
  • CBS Chief Leslie Moonves sells $22 million in ...
    Meg James / Los Angeles Times: CBS Chief Leslie Moonves sells $22 million in stock  —  CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, shown in May 2012, sold CBS shares this week for about $22 million.  (Evan Agostini / Associated Press)  —  CBS Corp. Chief Executive L ...
  • Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape ...
    Josh Halliday / Guardian: Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape  —  In tape, Murdoch is heard admitting to Sun journalists that payments to public officials were part of 'culture of Fleet Street  —  Scotland Yard detectives were on Friday attempting to t ...
  • MuckRock cofounder plans to appeal NSA's respo ...
    Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: MuckRock cofounder plans to appeal NSA's response to his FOIA request  —  Michael Morisy didn't get the answer he was looking for after making a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Agency.  Hoping to find out more abo ...

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

  • Scott Boras: Sports Super-Agent Isn&#8217 ...
    Scott Boras may have some competition for the title of greatest sports agent in the world, but he’s not worried about Jay-Z just yet. The rapper, who is planning a big move into the world of sports representation with his new agency Roc Nation, called out Boras on his new album, Magna ...
  • Anderson Silva An Underdog? Pros Pick Chr ...
    Anderson Silva may be the greatest MMA fighter of all time but that doesn’t mean that he’s the clear favorite to win UFC 162. Several professional fighters are picking against Silva in favor of his opponent Chris Weidman. Chael Sonnen said: “I think Anderson is an excellent ...
  • Samsung Profits To Reach $8.3 Billion On ...
    Samsung will soon release its Q2 2013 earnings report and the company is expected to fall below analysts expectations. According to several reports the company for the period ending June 30 earned 9.5 trillion won ($8.3 billion) on revenues of 57 trillion won ($49 billion). Samsung’s e ...
  • Josh Hamilton Returns To Bad Habits With ...
    Josh Hamilton is an MLB superstar who made his way to the top after battling drug abuse earlier in his career. He rose to fame with the Texas Rangers after winning the battle and he’s now tracking down fly balls for the Los Angeles Angels. This past Tuesday, Hamilton was reportedly spo ...
  • Scottie Pippen Fight: New Details Emerge ...
    Scottie Pippen’s fight with a fan outside of a Malibu restaurant last month keeps getting weirder and weirder. We reported late last month that the former Chicago Bulls star got into a scrap with a man outside of a Malibu restaurant called Nobu Sushi, that Pippen won the fight handily, ...

no frakking consensus

  • The UN’s Pretend Climate Scientists
    A UN press release falsely describes those attending an IPCC meeting as "climate scientists," In fact, these people are policy wonks, economists, political scientists, and UN advisors.
  • More on Stephen Emmott, Author of ‘Ten B ...
    A new book appears to be a rehash of 40-year-old environmental scaremongering endorsed by that era's men of science.
  • The Coming Hellhole – Exhibit #7 of the ...
    Emergency! Catastrophe! Earth is turning into an unprecedented hellhole - according to an Oxford professor and Microsoft official.
  • Rare Bird Slaughtered by Wind Turbine
    The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds sacrifices today's birds in the name of fighting tomorrow's climate change. Not only does it provide cover for the wind industry, it cashes its cheques.
  • Canada – Green Pariah or World’s B ...
    Activists & journalists insist that Canada's climate policies have destroyed our international good name. But survey results released yesterday indicate - for the 3rd consecutive year - that we have "the world's best reputation."

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

  • 6/28/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Felo ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Felon Voting - Our updated timeline on the history of felon voting and disenfranchisement from 1100 BC to present includes the May 23, 2013 announcement by the Governor of Virginia that voting rights will be automatically restored to nonvi ...
  • 6/27/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Alt ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Alternative Energy and Fossil Fuels - Our updated timeline featuring the history of alternative energy and fossil fuel development from 2000 BC to present includes the latest details from President Obama's June 25, 2013 climate actio ...
  • 6/26/13 - Two Gay Marriage Cases Decided by Su ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Two Gay Marriage Cases Decided by Supreme Court
  • 6/26/13 - US Supreme Court says Proposition 8 ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – US Supreme Court says Proposition 8 defenders lack "standing," clears way for legal gay marriage in California – Although the 5-4 decision did not address the constitutionality of the same-sex marriage ban, it leaves in place a lower court ruling that overturned Proposit ...
  • 6/26/13 - Gay marriage ruling strikes down key ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Gay marriage ruling strikes down key part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – The 5-4 US Supreme Court decision found that the 1996 law that defines marriage as being between one man and one woman is unconstitutional, and will allow gay couples to receive the same fe ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opened in North Sea ...
    British Prime Minister David Cameron has inaugurated the world’s largest offshore wind farm, a 630-megawatt project capable of producing enough electricity to power 500,000 homes. The $2.3 billion project — located 12 miles offshore in the North Sea, east of London — is being operated by an inte ...
  • Flexible Glass Solar Cells Said to Boost Effec ...
    U.S. researchers have developed a solar shingle made of flexible glass that could emerge as an alternative to conventional roof shingles and drive down the costs of CorningCorning’s Willow Glass rooftop solar energy systems. Unlike conventional solar panels, which are bulky and breakable, the n ...
  • New Initiatives to Clean Up The Global Aquariu ...
    An estimated 30 million fish and other creatures are caught annually to supply the home aquarium market, taking a toll on some reef ecosystems. Now conservationists are working to improve the industry by ending destructive practices and encouraging aquaculture. BY REBECCA KESSLER
  • Drought Tolerance in Plants Boosted by New Syn ...
    Scientists have identified a chemical that helps plants better tolerate drought conditions, a discovery they say could help boost crop production as extreme weather Click to enlarge Cutler Lab/UC RiversideSoybean plant, right, treated with quinabactin conditions become more common. After testin ...
  • Climate Change Driving More Active El Niño Cy ...
    A new analysis of tree-ring data indicates that the climate cycle known as the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been more active during the latter part of the 20th century than at any other time during the past seven centuries, suggesting that global warming is affecting this climate ph ...

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Is the housing crisis over? Not in the resourc ...
    In Québec, the coming of the new millennium coincided with a crisis in rental housing. From 2000 to 2003, each Canada Day, families ended up homeless, unable to find housing. The crisis situation eventually gave way to times of shortage (2004-2012). They seem to be coming to a close this year. F ...
  • The Great Wall Ties Chairman Calvert’s Five-Ye ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released my policy brief (PDF) on Saskatchewan employment growth. It is covered on the front pages of today’s Regina Leader-Post and Saskatoon StarPhoenix business sections. The press release follows: Premier Wall’s Employment Record Lags Calvert a ...
  • Is Québec more corrupt than the rest of Canada?
    My colleague Marie Léger-St-Jean recounted the drama of corruption in Québec in her last blog post. The classic characters took the stage one after the other: puppets, harlequins, Artful Dodgers, Pierrots, and happier clowns. While her post was published yesterday, a new pathetic act was added : ...
  • The Sorrows of Wise Charbonneau: or, the need ...
    After a year of hearings, let’s stop and reflect on what we’ve learnt so far from the ongoing show on the Charbonneau Commission channel. Prologue Though hearings began last year, in the midst of the Maple Spring, revelations regarding dubious links between the construction business, the mafia, ...
  • A Referendum on Referendums?
    With the deadline for Regina’s wastewater privatization petition fast approaching and rumours of signatures gathered close to 19,000, the City of Regina is beginning to sweat a little. According to the Leader-Post, City clerk Joni Swidnicki has asked the province to boost the number of sig ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Chinese factory accused of poisoning Somalilan ...
    “A Chinese-owned tanning factory based in Somaliland has been accused of dumping dangerous chemicals in waterways. But the government has failed to intervene for fear of spooking foreign investment, according to local people. Jeronimo Group of Industries and Trading PLC, a subsidiary of Ch ...
  • Decline of the Ogallala Aquifer has left farme ...
    “Deep in the Texas Panhandle, where the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer has left farmers fearful for their future, Harold Grall is hoping his field of tiny green corn plants will survive with minimal watering.“We’re doing everything that we know possible that we can do to conserve water,” ...
  • Fish, Frogs, and People to Benefit from Bigges ...
    “Over the next 28 months, the beautiful Carmel River will be set free to flow more naturally for 70 percent of its length as the 106-foot (32.3 meter) San Clemente Dam is dismantled. Downstream of the dam, threatened fish and frogs will get a new lease on life as critical habitats open up. ...
  • Egypt Sees a Dam Confrontation
    “Ethiopia began diverting the course of the Blue Nile, the primary source of Egypt’s Nile water, on May 28 in another step towards construction of its massive 4.2-billion dollar hydroelectric Grand Renaissance Dam project. When complete, the dam will be capable of producing 6,000 megawatts ...
  • Bengawan Solo in need of restoration
    “An immediate restoration of Bengawan Solo river basin in Central Java is urgently required as the river is in a critical condition, an environmentalist says. Bengawan Solo is one of five highly polluted river basins in Indonesia along with Brantas in East Java, Ciliwung in Jakarta, Citaru ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • eliminate the pesky whales…
    …WOW… you mean it took this long for us to realize the artificial sound we transmit in the ocean will affect whales who use a form of sonar for guidance … brilliant … now what … develop a weapon to eliminate the pesky whales… Study shows military sonar changes feeding behavior in whales   S ...
  • they will take him down
    …Why … because corporate will not allow him to feel safe … they will take him down …count on it…   Why won’t anyone take Edward Snowden? Eric Posner … Why won’t anyone take Edward Snowden? The problem for Snowden is that these countries wouldn’t gain anything by giving him asylum. He has pr ...
  • Who makes the call that government has become ...
    …Who makes the call that government has become destructive and to whom…?   Outside View: When governments become destructive Washington (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 – July Fourth, marks the United States’ Independence Day. The central celebrated document, the Declaration of Independe ...
  • I do not $ee even one member
    …What’s interesting is I do not $ee even one member of our Congre$$ standing to ask why or to defend us … and you still think they represent you and me …?   Meet the Big Banks’ Latest Slave Product: “Payroll Debit Cards” 07-03-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/  I firmly b ...
  • they do and still
    …What do you mean … IF … they do and still we remain deaf, dumb, silent … why…?   If They Can Lie About NSA/Snowden, They Can Lie About Syria and Iran   Robert Naiman, Truthout: … Read the Article  Regardless of what one thinks about Director of National Intelligence James C ...

Popular Technology

  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Cook's 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Introduction to TCP" (2012-01-19) John Cook layed out the game plan for the 97% consensus study, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on ...
  • The Statistical Destruction of the 97% Consensus
    Dr. Richard Tol has been tweeting a statistical destruction of the "97% consensus" study, Cook et al. (2013) by educating co-author Dana Nuccitelli as to why his "sample" is not representative. "In his defense, [Dana] has had limited exposure to stats at uni" - Richard Tol Including "glob ...
  • Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
    Table of Contents: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Debunked - References - Reports World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) - References - Reports Conspiracy Theory Videos Debunked Debates Books Peer-Reviewed Papers ...
  • 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Paper ...
    The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These res ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • The Egyptian Vulture on the Balkans – a ...
    “They look like humans: have bare skin, wrinkles, hairdos… Maybe that’s why many people don’t like them,” says Dr. Stoyan Nikolov from the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds about Egyptian vultures. Poisoned, electrocuted, shot, these rare and magnificent ...
  • Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, env ...
    In a patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, a 28-year-old in a jeans and tall rubber boots snubs out out his cigarette and pulls a headlamp over his short black hair. Standing under a tarp, he flicks the light on and leans over the entrance of a narrow shaft lined with wooden planks that he an ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...
  • New global network bridges gap for primate con ...
    Drawing from her personal experience as a primate educator and the challenges she saw others facing, Amy Clanin envisioned a network that would advance the field of primate conservation education by addressing three needs of educators: connections, resources, and services. It was this vision tha ...
  • A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives ...
    On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • To infinity and beyond
    As giant leaps or even small steps go, this was more an awkward waddle for mankind. Some were even laughing.In one lane was a Dodge Viper, sleek, macho and fast even when still. In the other was what looked like a child's bike with...
  • Picture special: Polar light show
    For one of the harshest places on the planet, Antarctica in the winter does have its delights.This dazzling display over Scott Base, captured in this long-exposure photograph by Antarctica New Zealand winter-over staffer Tim Delany,...
  • Zombie film staggeringly astute
    Could a dire new infection sweep the world in a matter of weeks? Might the disease be so strange it alters the behaviour of people beyond recognition, making them predatory and fearless? World War Z , the latest Brad Pitt action...
  • Why shoulders are one of the most important ev ...
    The shoulder may have been one of human's greatest evolutionary successes, allowing us to kill prey by hurling spears or rocks, a study shows.Focusing on a relatively underappreciated part of the anatomy, scientists said the shoulder...
  • Beach pollution a mystery
    Scientists are trying to solve the mystery cause of persistent high levels of water pollution at some of Auckland's west coast beaches.The "no swimming" signs went out frequently last summer at placid lagoons which are tempting...

The Bovine

  • GMO scientist turned anti-GMO activist
    From Ken Roseboro, on NewHope360.com “The “conversion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engi­neered foods, has far … Contin ...
  • Michigan demands destruction of 70 “fera ...
    by David Michael, BSc, MSc, PEng “On this Independence Day we should be celebrating freedom and thankful for those who died, were injured and served in the military over the decades to keep the freedom we have. This is the … Continue reading →
  • Salmon Confidential Movie & Review; CFIA Block ...
    Edited and Compiled by Raoul Bedi, BASc A film by Twyla Roscovich This article compilation is dedicated to ‘Salmons Are Sacred‘ www.salmonaresacred.org  , all its friends and supporters, and to Dr.Fred and Molly Kibenge . Sections A and B provide some background … Continue read ...
  • Raw milk farmer Vernon Herschberger appeals ve ...
    From Kimberly Hartke: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Files Appeal in Wisconsin Falls Church, VA–July 3, 2013–The absolute right to private, unregulated, direct trade with a local raw milk producer is being fully tested in the heart of “America’s Dairyland.” The ...
  • The “civil rights” of the 21st cen ...
    Just received David E. Gumpert’s latest book a couple of days ago. It had been back ordered at Amazon for a few weeks. And while it was a little mangled in transit, all the words seem to be intact. Back … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • MBS Clobbered and Treasury Yields Soar Followi ...
    Curve Watchers Anonymous notes that treasury yields surged higher and mortgage backed securities (MBS) had a steep selloff following purportedly good job numbers. Beneath the surface, the economy actually shed 326,000 full-time jobs. In the short-term what matters is the reaction, so l ...
  • Establishment Survey Jobs +195K; Household Sur ...
    Initial Reaction The establishment survey showed a gain of 195,000 and that is a very respectable number. However, the household survey shows a more modest gain of 160,000 jobs. The civilian labor force rose by 177,000 thus the unemployment rate was steady at 7.6%. Digging beneath the ...
  • Big Brother Français; Don't Worry It's Only "A ...
    It did not take too long to discover that France operates its own "Big Brother" network gathering systems after demanding explanations from the US. The Financial Times reports Veil lifted on France’s ‘Big Brother’ Network. France operates an “immense” surveillance system of telephone ...
  • China Declares War on French Wine
    In retaliation for ridiculous EU tariffs on solar panels (sponsored mainly by France over the objections of Germany) China Declares War On Wine. Via Mish-modified Google translate from El Economista ... The Chinese government has decided to launch an investigation into the European wine ...
  • Communication Only "Tool" Left
    The message on this 4th of July from Central Banks is "we will keep doing what hasn't worked and what won't ever work" until it does work. Case Number One In central bank case number one Draghi Says ECB Rate to Stay Low for ‘Extended Period’ President Mario Draghi said the Europe ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The New Great Game Round Up- July 5, 2013
    Uyghurs Fighting in Syria, Central Asia’s Terror Threat & More! The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia and the Caucasus region be ...
  • Global Power Project, Part 4: Banking on Influ ...
    Meet the Elites at the Biggest & Most Connected Bank In May, JPMorgan Chase was listed as the largest bank in the world with assets at roughly $4 trillion — some $1.53 trillion of it in derivatives. This was reported a month after the announcement that the bank had posted a record first-quar ...
  • A few Minutes of Reflection this 4th of July
    “I hereby declare, on oath, that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic”- Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the USA During this celebratory holiday please take a few minutes to read our Declaration of Indep ...
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  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 3, 2013
    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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Nigeria LNG Expecting Court Ruling On Costly B ...
    By Tim Cocks and Oleg Vukmanovic LAGOS/LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s liquefied natural gas company (NLNG) is expecting a ruling on Friday on a tax dispute with the maritime [...]
  • ClassNK: MOL Comfort Was Fully in Compliance
    Japanese classification society ClassNK issued a statement today on the ongoing investigation into what might have gone wrong with the ill-fated containership, MOL Comfort, which cracked in half in heavy seas on June 17th.
  • Baltic Dry Index Sees Biggest Weekly Decline S ...
    (Bloomberg) — The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity-shipping costs, fell for a fourth day, capping the biggest weekly decline since December, as rates declined for all four vessel [...]
  • China Rongsheng, Symbol Of Shipping Downturn, ...
    By Clement Tan and Umesh Desai HONG KONG, July 5 (Reuters) – China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group, China’s largest private shipbuilder, appealed for financial help from the Chinese government and [...]
  • Suez Canal, Egypt Ports Operating Normally
    CAIRO/LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) – Egypt’s ports and its strategic Suez Canal were operating normally on Friday with no disruption to cargo traffic, two shipping sources and a canal official [...]

Press TV

  • MB vows non-stop protests in Egypt
    Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood vows to continue unabated string of mass protests outside the presidential palace in Cairo until the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, returns to power.
  • ‘Britain needs to work with Egyptians’
    British Foreign Secretary William Hague says his country will continue to work with Egypt's interim authorities despite not supporting the military intervention that toppled president Mohamed Morsi.
  • One killed in south Egypt clashes
    At least one person has been killed and several others injured in clashes between supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, in the southern Assiut city.
  • 'Military action on Syria serves Israel'
    Iran’s Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi says a military approach vis-à-vis the ongoing crisis in Syria will serve Israeli security in the region.
  • Egyptians march on to state TV HQ
    Supporters of the ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, have marched on to the national broadcasting center in central Cairo.

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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

  • Carbon-dating ivory
    Nuclear fallout from Cold War nuclear tests could help to identify poached ivory. Poaching of elephant tusks and rhino horns is at an all time high, according to a CITES report released last year, wi...
  • Quickfire Science: Wildfires
    Nineteen fire-fighters were killed in Arizona this week tackling a ferocious wildfire that had got out of control. But how do blazes like this start and how can we tackle them? Here's the Quickfire Sc...
  • Measuring gut microbes
    Your guts are home to millions and millions of tiny bacteria, which make up your gut microbiome. Most of them are what you might call "good" bacteria, helping you to digest your food and stay healthy,...
  • Earliest grave flowers found
    When it comes to ceremonies around death - and in particular the significance of flowers - it turns out that our ancestors were not so different from us. New research from an international team led by...
  • H7N9 a major threat
    The new H7N9 influenza virus identified in China poses a high risk to humans, researchers are now warning. National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention scientist Jiangfang Zhou and hi...

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Care2 - Environment

  • Save the Woodland Caribou from Extinction ! PL ...
    Woodland caribou may be extinct before the year 2100 if the rate of range loss continues. Once found throughout much of Canada's boreal forest, widespread range collapse and landscape disruption caused by humans are the chief causes of migrating caribou Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&n ...
  • Save the Alaskan Sea Otter from Slaughter ! PL ...
    Alaska Representative Donald Young has introduced a bill to restart the fur trade of northern sea otters. Bill (H.R. 2714), seeks To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the transport, purchase, and sale of pelts of, and handicrafts, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nb ...
  • Next Stop: Belgium
    Belgium fires one's imagination. Tourists from all over the world are attracted to Belgium and its cosmopolitan capital, Brussels. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Brazil: Protestors call on President to uphold ...
    As demonstrators continue to flood Brazils streets, Brazilian Indians have joined protestors in calling for an end to the onslaught on indigenous rights by the government. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • To Be We the People Once Again -- William Rive ...
    "We the People," as a functioning entity, has been weaker than water for years, a claim without purchase, a boast without meaning, an empty promise of spoils long spoiled. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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