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English: Kevin Rudd (right) and Julia Gillard ...English: Kevin Rudd (right) and Julia Gillard (left) at their first press conference as leader and deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party on 4 December 2006. Français : Kevin Rudd (à droite) et Julia Gillard (à gauche) à leur premier conférence de presse en tant que leader et député du parti travailliste australien le 4 décembre 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Scoop - NZ

  • Key's New Fluency, Ease, & Norton Anti-Virus
    If you are having trouble reconciling the Prime Minister who steamrolled John Campbell last night in an interview about the GCSB Bill with the Prime Minister who has previously spoken on the issue, you can forgive yourself. As far as I can recall, John Key has never previously demonstrated such ...
  • Labour Turnaround Targets Abbott
    Labor plans to put Tony Abbott's character at the centre of the election campaign after a third stumble by the Opposition Leader in three days. Despite having presented Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a beacon of positive politics, Labor strategists have called game on for an all-out assault on ...
  • Change the Look of Your Home with New Hardware ...
    You are tired seeing the same décor of your home and want to add something that is in trend, it can be easily done without renovating the entire house and going through the pains that only adds to your budget. It is rather simple to add on some new hardware fixtures and accessories and that can ...
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  • Decision nears on US military action in Syria
    Chairman of the US Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Israel Monday, Aug. 12 for critical talks with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, followed by parallel talks in Jordan. debkafile reports he has com ...

Independent - London

  • Facebook can lead to unhappiness, according to ...
    Using Facebook may makes us feel more connected, but it does not necessarily make us happy, according to the findings of a new study. Related StoriesI’m sorry leaks hurt US interests, says whistleblower Bradley ManningI’m sorry leaks hurt US interests, says Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manni ...
  • Into Darkness voted 'worst Star Trek film' by ...
    The Trekkies have spoken. Into Darkness has been declared the worst film in the Star Trek franchise, in spite of its critical success and impressive performance at the box office. Related StoriesMichelle Obama launches hip-hop album with Blink-182 and Run-D.M.C. artistsChina resumes payment to ...
  • In pictures: Egypt protests - The aftermath
    Egypt woke up to scenes to devastation following a day of violent protests which left hundreds dead and many more injured. Related StoriesMuslim Brotherhood set to march in Cairo as Egypt death toll rises to 525Muslim Brotherhood supporters storm church in Cairo as protests begin over Egypt vio ...
  • New Zealand woman drives 200 miles through the ...
    Repeatedly texting friends while driving your car is pretty bad. Doing so while snoring at the wheel after taking sleeping medication is quite a different order of bad. Related StoriesVideo: Whale trapped in net in Queensland is freedPolice officer secretly filmed himself having sex with 33 wom ...
  • Medieval tomb discovered by a... badger
    A badger has reportedly proved to be a talented archaeologist after helping to discover the tombs of two medieval lords in Germany. Related StoriesEurozone bounces back from longest-ever recessionGrowth in Germany and France ends euro recessionVitaly Klitschko to join Ukrainian presidential fig ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Morning sex on TV during major network news pr ...
    This morning, I woke up with both kiddos in bed with me. Their daddy is out of town on business for a few days - giving me ample opportunity to avoid bedtime scheduling madness (guess who's the disciplinarian here) and revel in those snuffly sighs and giggles that escape just before exhaustion o ...
  • New York Times takes down the Clinton Foundati ...
    Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation - that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. ...
  • Oliver Stone: Barack Obama is a "snake" for hi ...
    Film director Oliver Stone - who has made no secret of his liberal political views - called President Barack Obama a "snake" for his role in National Security Agency spying programs that have become, he said, more about silencing protestors than finding terrorists. "Obama is a snake," Stone tol ...
  • "Skyfishing" UFO watcher in Texas spots 'orb' ...
    A UFO watcher in Texas used a technique known as "skyfishing" over the weekend in the hopes of catching something "out of the ordinary." What he captured on camera has at least UFO enthusiasts and the local media talking. According to the description of the video posted to YouTube, skyfishing i ...
  • Evangelical pastor who 'accused gays and lesbi ...
    A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a crimes against humanity case brought against evangelical pastor Scott Lively of Massachusetts. Lively is accused of violating international law by inciting the persecution of LGBT individuals in Uganda. The lawsuit was filed by the Cente ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Paper bag time . . .
    MAYOR FORD BECOMES a world-wide joke. Here's the latest on YouTube, titled “Rob Ford's drunk Greek life, and the Toronto mayor's trip to jail”. done by an outfit called Taiwan Animation. The people who posted have some acerbic comments to go with it. Click on the link to read the whole epistle ...
  • Old Fort Mac . . .
    AS SEEN BY Corin Raymond, the Stevie Paradise, where any job is a good job — just ask the hookers.
  • Running scared . . .
    FROM THOSE CONCERNED FOLKS at 350.ORG. 
  • Creative Kiwis . . .
    DESIGNER DRUGS ARE BIG in New Zealand, according to a post on The Economist, “A New Prescription”, and the Kiwi government has had to come to terms with the situation. Unlike Stevie and the CONs, for whom prisons are perfection, the Kiwis have decided that regulation and taxation is the only ...
  • Reality is relative . . .
    REAL Women vs. Real Women, as seen by Sonya Bell & Jessie Willms on iPOLITICS. Love it.

Media Matters for America

  • "The Biggest Con In The World": Fox News React ...
    Fox News launched a smear campaign against a historic California law that would allow transgender public school students to have access to school facilities and athletic teams that match their gender identity. The network peddled a number of myths about the measure, adding to Fox's long history ...
  • Fox News Ignores Reduction Of Violent Crime In ...
    Fox News cherry-picked data to falsely claim that New York City's stop-and-frisk policies reduced crime, when in fact many cities without the policy saw larger declines in violent crime and the drop in violence in New York was part of a trend that preceded widespread use of the controversial pol ...
  • Conservative Media "Death Panels" Lie Returns ...
    Fox News and other media outlets in recent weeks have aggressively tried to revive the claim that President Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes "death panels," a myth that has been repeatedly debunked and is undermined by the law itself.Affordable Care Act Includes Independent Payment Adv ...
  • "Lawlessness": Krauthammer Baselessly Attacks ...
    Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer claimed Attorney General Eric Holder's directive that federal prosecutors omit evidence that would trigger mandatory minimum sentences for some non-violent drug offenders is unlawful and reflects a pattern of "repeated lawlessness" by the Obama administra ...
  • Fox News' Idea Of Immigration "Loophole" Is Lo ...
    Fox News repeatedly trumpeted a report from a local Fox affiliate claiming that immigrants crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border are using a "loophole" to enter and stay in the United States illegally by saying key phrases, namely that they have a  "credible fear" of the drug ca ...

Global Research.ca

  • Top U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility to Be Powere ...
    File this one away under Poetic Justice: the largest ever federally owned wind power project just broke ground at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, which happens to be the nation’s #1 facility for maintaining its nuclear weapons arsenal. The…
  • America’s Upside-Down Morality: Manning Apolog ...
    Pvt. Bradley Manning has prostrated himself before his court-martial judge, apologizing for leaking documents on U.S. government wrongdoing and referencing his psychological problems as reasons for mercy. The sad spectacle underscores how upside-down American morality now is. Having covered the& ...
  • All Journalism Is ‘Advocacy Journalism&# ...
    Writing for the Washington Post in June, Paul Farhi wondered if, in breaking the story of the US National Security Agency’s spying programme, the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald had ‘become something other than a journalist in the activist role he has…
  • Abu Ghraib Torture Victims sued by ‘Tort ...
    American defense contractor CACI International has sued four former detainees in Abu Ghraib prison to compensate the legal expenses it paid over their dismissed lawsuit regarding the company’s role in torturing the plaintiffs in the notorious jail in Iraq. The…
  • Egypt: Coups Modern and Postmodern
    Already the early enthusiasm for Egypt’s 3 July coup is waning, as EU leaders demand President Morsi’s release and US President Obama prevaricates. Senator John McCain, who soon after the coup called for an end to US military funding as…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Are We Trading Our Health For Oil in New, Frac ...
    When it comes to the health impacts of fracking and drilling in California, there are more questions than answers. Editor's Note: This article was produced as a project for the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, a program of USC's Annenberg School for Communcation & Journa ...
  • New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Grou ...
    While the findings are far from conclusive, the study provides further evidence tying fracking to arsenic contamination. A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fr ...
  • Fracking the Commons: Why Your Public Lands Ar ...
    A significant amount of fracked wells are currently drilled on federal lands—that is, public land, our national commons. As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. I made this controvers ...
  • The Climate Time Bomb That Will Cost Us $60 Tr ...
    Obama in the US, and Harper in Canada, are turning North America into a petro–imperial and petro–despot continent. This doesn't bode well for solving the climate crisis. On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arc ...
  • Methane: The Climate Time Bomb That Will Cost ...
    Obama in the US, and Harper in Canada, are turning North America into a petro–imperial and petro–despot continent. This doesn't bode well for solving the climate crisis. On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arc ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Double Standards in Texas Water Law
    Double Standards in Texas Water Law Under Texas Water Code, there is a double standard between groundwater and surface water. Groundwater is generally the property of the landowner as long as it is on private property, while surface water is property of the state. The Water Code Section 35.002 d ...
  • U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, Climate Denier
    Today, I had the privilege of addressing citizens in San Antonio, Texas that attended the Organizing for Action Climate Change Event at Congressman Lamar Smith’s office.  Here is a transcript of my speech: “Congressman Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, has recen ...
  • In the U.S., proximity to a pipeline is at you ...
    In a report by TruthOut, Mike Ludwig tells how federal regulators have failed to enforce pipeline safety despite spills and deadly accidents.  Each year more than 250 significant pipeline accidents cause explosions, pollution, property damage, injury and death across the country.  Since 2006, 96 ...
  • Solar a Shining Opportunity for Austin – Solar ...
    Business leaders, environmentalists and low income advocates are behind a push to get Austin to increase its solar energy goal to 400 megawatts by 2020 and expand solar programs to meet that goal. A diverse group of community leaders appointed to the Local Solar Advisory Committee (LSAC) by City ...
  • Many Texas Towns Still in a Water Crisis
    In the midst of the 2013 Texas drought, many towns and communities have suffered disastrous blows, either completely running out of water or coming close enough to warrent desperate measures. Some of have made significant headlines, including Spicewood Beach, Barnhart and Brownwood. According to ...

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Grassroots

  • Rose Edith: From Nun to Peasant Leader to Pers ...
    rose_edith_cropped.jpg Getting to Northwest Haiti takes the strongest of wills and an even sturdier truck or SUV. The roads, all of which somehow lead to Port-au-Prince, amount to nothing more than occasionally paved gravel. You’ll get lost ...
  • 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize Honors Grassroots ...
    Image:  fs_prize_logo.jpg The US Food Sovereignty Alliance announced today their selection for the fifth annual Food Sovereignty Prize. This year’s winners and honorable mentions include peasant organizations and movements that G ...
  • Celebration and song from our Brazilian partners
    Members of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) showed off their creativity, singing voices and solidarity in a special 30th anniversary message to Grassroots International. In it they recognize what the partnership has meant for them in their struggles in the Amazonian region and throu ...
  • The Story of Manal Abu Shalouf
    Subheadline:  One Palestinian girl's experience since Operation Cast Lead radish_girl.jpg Here in the office of Grassroots International hang many pictures of our part ...
  • Communities to President Obama: US Government ...
    leonardo_mab_with_cindy_ggj_and_sara_at_scottsdale_action.jpg President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan before an audience of college students at Georgetown University on June 25,  Countless young people, environmental acti ...

Climate

  • Enbridge Protesters Shut Down Hamilton Court H ...
    (CBC News) A number of Enbridge pipeline opponents were taken into police custody Wednesday after a court hearing into trespass charges erupted into scuffles between court security and protesters. The court appearance for 13 people ch ...
  • Vermont Can't Shut Entergy Nuclear Power Plant ...
    (Bloomberg) Vermont doesn't have the authority to shut down its only nuclear power plant, operated by Entergy Corp. (ETR), an appeals court said in affirming a lower-court ruling. U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha in Brat ...
  • Intermittent Nature of Green Power Is Challeng ...
    (New York Times) The 21 turbines at the Kingdom Community Wind farm in Vermont soar above Lowell Mountain, a testament in steel and fiberglass to the state's growing use of green energy. Except when they aren't allowed to spin at thei ...
  • BP Asks Federal Judge to Deny U.S. Investors' ...
    (Bloomberg) BP Plc (BP/) asked a federal judge to deny U.S. investors the right to pursue a class action, or group, lawsuit claiming the company misled them before and after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The investors, led b ...
  • Obama Administration Names Coast Guard Vet as ...
    (Houston Chronicle) The Obama administration is once again tapping a Coast Guard veteran to be the nation's next chief offshore drilling regulator. Former Coast Guard Vice Adm. Brian Salerno will take over as director of the Bureau of ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Thinking About 2016
    I think Larry Sabato's 2016 presidential analysis is pretty solid. But it's a little thin on detail. For example, he fails to mention that Govs. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Chris Christie of New Jersey, John Kasich of Ohio first have to win reelection before they can make a strong case to be the ...
  • At a Loss
    I gotta admit it. When it comes to Egypt, I am at a loss. I can't game it out, even in theory. Every possible move seems wrong. Discuss
  • Casual Observation
    Probably the weirdest thing about all these Republicans who want to shut down the government to prevent the implementation of ObamaCare isn't even their delusion that this would actually stop ObamaCare. The weirdest thing is that they are totally disregarding the fact that the 2012 election was ...
  • What Humility Is And Isn't
    The right's recent obsession with Howard Zinn is probably counterproductive. The more attention they give him, the more people will be curious about the controversy and pick up one of his books. The more they try to keep Zinn's books out of classrooms, the more students will be inspired to def ...
  • Nice Way to Start a Campaign
    It doesn't look like Lindsey Graham's visit to Egypt (at the president's request) did anything to calm the generals, but I think this response is a bit extreme: State Sen. Lee Bright announced his candidacy Tuesday for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate, calling incumbent Republican U.S. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Abandoned Poison Gas Plant of Okunoshima I ...
    This idyllic island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea was once home to a chemical weapons plant responsible for the deaths of thousands. Now bunny rabbits roam free here. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Here's our pick of the coolest links to be found on the interwebs this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Abandoned Soviet Nuclear Arsenal Gouged In ...
    When Cold War USSR stockpiled nuclear weapons they needed places to assemble and store them. This abandoned underground facility was one such place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Check out our pick of this week's coolest links: we've got cat cafes, funky libraries, crazy animals, Harry Potter, and toilets! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Almighty Blast: The Massive Explosion of a Kaz ...
    We are so accustomed to using gas that we often forget what a dangerously flammable liquid it is; the explosion of this tanker truck was a sobering reminder of its power. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmental group wants role in EPA visit - ...
    Environmental group wants role in EPA visit Beckley Register-Herald CHARLESTON — If and when new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy pays West Virginia mining sites a visit, a group adamantly in opposition to mountaintop removal wants its voice to be heard. Yet, the Ohio ...
  • Climate justice: Civil disobedience as law enf ...
    Climate justice: Civil disobedience as law enforcement Scoop.co.nz The failure of governments to protect the global commons is currently driving the climate protection movement to turn to mass civil disobedience, as witnessed by the campaigns against the Keystone XL pipeline, mountaintop-removal ...
  • Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is In ...
    Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is Inevitable Truth-Out Obviously, approval for mountaintop removal should be stopped, as should construction of the KXL and other pipelines, the extraction of tar sands for oil and further hydro-fracking for methane gas (which the industry falsely calls ...
  • Vibrant Environmental Movement Builds in Respo ...
    Living Green Magazine Vibrant Environmental Movement Builds in Response to Extreme Energy ... Living Green Magazine Radical energy includes fuel derived from extreme extraction methods like tar sands, hydrofracking and off-shore drilling for oil or methane gas and mountain top removal for coal. ...
  • American Energy and Independence – We Have Wor ...
    Las Vegas Informer American Energy and Independence – We Have Work To Do Las Vegas Informer Mines are closing throughout the coal mining regions of our country because natural gas is cheaper and plentiful. Power plants are using more and more natural gas, creating a diminishing demand for coal. ...

Memeorandum

  • Missouri legislator files suit to be exempted ...
    Amanda Bynes / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri legislator files suit to be exempted from contraception mandate in state health plan  —  • By Tim O'Neil toneil@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8132  —  ST. LOUIS  • A Missouri legislator asked the federa ...
  • Great-grandmother accuses Mayor Bob Filner of ...
    EndPlay / KGTV-TV: Great-grandmother accuses Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment  —  News conference set for 1:00 pm  —  SAN DIEGO - A great-grandmother will hold a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred early Thursday afternoon, alleging she is a sexual h ...
  • Sony Reaches Preliminary Programming Deal With ...
    Wall Street Journal: Sony Reaches Preliminary Programming Deal With Viacom for Online Pay TV Service  —  By - AMOL SHARMA And - SHALINI RAMACHANDRAN -  —  Sony Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom Inc. to carry the media company's cable channels ...
  • Administration awards $67M to 'navigators' pro ...
    Sam Baker / The Hill: Administration awards $67M to ‘navigators’ promoting ObamaCare  —  The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department released $67 million in grants Wednesday for “navigators” who will help people make sense of new coverage options under ...
  • Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind ...
    Andy Greenberg / Forbes: Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road  —  An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services.  Forget phones or Skype.  At one point ...

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  • Feminism can’t be just for white women
    When blogger Mikki Kendall created #solidarityisforwhitewomen, she didn’t realize the trending topic would go global. Nor did she realize the silence from some major feminist media outlets would be so loud. The silence is deafening, but not surprising. This is a conversation many feminis ...
  • JC Penney ads aren’t bullying, they’re just dumb
    JC Penney has faced plenty of controversy recently -- for its ads, for its brands. But this week, the retailer pulled a seemingly innocuous back-to-school commercial after parents complained it was subtly encouraging bullying.After a woman's voiceover extols the merits of Penney's clothing bran ...
  • Story of a human being: Who gets to be Bradley ...
    A short, sad apologywas made on Wednesday in a Fort Meade military court room. Just who made the apology -- who is Bradley Manning -- will become the stuff of history books. For all its seeming simplicity, it is a complicated question indeed, which cuts to the heart of the sentencing portion of ...
  • GOP Rep: My most popular vote ever was against ...
    Exhibit Z in the case that John Boehner has lost control of his caucus: A Republican congressman says that one of the most popular votes he's even taken was to strip the House Speaker of his gavel.Rep. Steve Pearce is an unusual Republican, representing a sprawling New Mexico district that's la ...
  • Severe heat waves set to quadruple by 2040
    Here's what's going on in China right now, as the country trudges through its hottest summer in over half a century -- and its second major heat wave this year: people are dying, while trees, billboards and buses have all been witnessed spontaneously bursting into flames.The spon ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • Obama Appoints Spy Chief to Head NSA Investigation
      Obama Appoints Spy Chief to Head NSA Investigation   by Stephen Lendman   The fix is in. You can't make this stuff up. It sounds like a bad film plot. It's true. Obama's reform assures business as usual. His promises aren't worth the paper they're written on.   He says one ...
  • Egypt: Blood in the Streets
      Egypt: Blood in the Streets   by Stephen Lendman   Junta power runs Egypt. Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) generals decide policy. Interim officials serve at their pleasure.    On July 3, President Mohamed Morsi was ousted. Coup authority replaced him. It di ...
  • Syria/Egypt News - Aug 15
      Egypt police storm protest camps; Officials say 235 civilians and 43 policemen were killed - AP Egypt declares state of emergency - Al Jazeera English Egypt army vows strict curfew enforcement - Ahram Online 3 Journalists Killed in Egypt Turmoil - ABC News Egypt's V ...
  • America: Addicted to War
      America: Addicted to War   by Stephen Lendman   It's been that way from inception. America's history reflects violence. It's blood-drenched. It glorifies war. It does so in the name of peace.   America believes war is peace. It's part of the national culture. Eventually it' ...
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Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The New York Times takes down the Clinton Foun ...
    By Tim Stanley August 14th, 2013 An internal review of the Clinton Foundations’ workings has proved troubling Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are war ...
  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | The Big Windup a ...
    By Visible Why has it always got to be a million (insert title) marching? Why can’t it be 2 million? I think this one needs five million. We’re coming up on the yearly anniversary of that Great Zionist Caper, that big ‘blame the Muslims’ extravaganza, on which the state o ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | Hell’s Unfinished Symp ...
    By Visible May your noses always be cold and wet and your noble heart free of all regret. May you walk like the Sun and reflect like the Moon. May the spirit within you carry a tune. You got to love that Mr. Apocalypse, he kicks ass and takes names. Because he is working beneath […]
  • Flight 77 Hijacker Hani Hanjour – 9/11 P ...
    From the ridiculous to the sublime… Federal Aviation Administration records show [Hanjour] obtained a commercial pilot’s license in April 1999, but how and where he did so remains a lingering question that FAA officials refuse to discuss. His limited flying abilities do afford an ins ...
  • Coke To Defend Safety of Aspartame in New Chic ...
    NBCChicago.com Coca-Cola plans to run its first ad defending the safety of artificial sweeteners on Wednesday, a move that comes as the company looks to stem declining sales of diet soda. The print ad is set to run in USA Today in the Atlanta area, followed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The second step to reforming America (the most ...
    Summary:  The most frequent request by readers is for solutions. How can we reform America? This is another in a series of posts attempting an answer. Today we consider what kind of organization might accomplish so great a goal, and what tactics it should use. Links to other posts in this series ...
  • Rollerball shows us one aspect of America, and ...
    Summary:  The Arts show us visions of the future. Some bright, some dark. Here we look at Rollerball (1975), one of the most powerful films of that decade, a reminder of when Hollywood made more than cartoons. These visions  can help to shock us our complacency, our unthinking confidence that th ...
  • The US government is competent, as proven by t ...
    Summary: Since 9-11 Homeland Security has declared 15 alerts (8 Red and 7 Yellow) with no terror strikes. Now we have another, this time overseas. Again, nothing has happened. These alerts are successes on a historic scale, as the government has maintained a climate of fear and built support for ...
  • We fear what we’re told to fear, not wha ...
    Summary: Like obedient peons Americans fear what they’re told to fear (no matter how bogus), and remain blind to obvious dangers. Unfortunately our “good sheep” policy might not work well for us, or for our children. For example, events at Fukushima might turn ugly. Too bad we ...
  • Visions of the future: Adam Posen asks what th ...
    Summary:  A brilliant economist sees the future as a triumphalist continuation of today’s trends, a return to the past of the Gilded Age.  Posen asks the big question, one long discussed on the FM website: has the post-WW2 era ended, and what will follow. It’s worth careful considera ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Where Are All the Republican Realists?
    In light of the brouhaha between Chris Christie and Rand Paul over foreign policy, conservative columnist Ross Douthat opined in The New York Times that the Republican Party seems to be missing the sort of realist pragmatists of old that might have mediated between these views. He attributes the ...
  • 5 Useful Twitter Feeds to Follow for Egypt Clashes
    Egypt is in full bore crisis mode with the military regime making good on its promise to violently disburse protests encampments by supporters of the toppled Mohammed Morsi. Here are 5 useful resources on Twitter and beyond to stay on top of this story. @LeilaFadel, NPR Bureau Chief in Cairo. Sa ...
  • No More Illusions in Egypt
      (Globovision / Flickr) With the bloody attack on protest camps in Cairo, the announcement of a one-month state of emergency across the country, and the authority given to the army to “assist” the police in maintaining law and order, there can no longer be any question that Egypt is once ...
  • The Unsettling Question of Israeli Settlements
    As if the challenges to productive Israeli-Palestinian talks—set to begin today in Jerusalem—weren’t already monumental, over the past several days the Israeli government has announced the building of over 3,000 new settlement units, and has identified a number of settlements located deep in the ...
  • Top of the Morning: Egypt Security Forces Viol ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Egyptian Security Forces Violently Clear Protests Security Forces have signaled for several days that they would no longer tolerate protest encampments by pro-Morsi supporters. Several people are reportedly been killed, but the Muslim Brotherhood puts the number of ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ezra Klein's Blind Spot
    On Monday, Ezra Klein argued that “conventional wisdom on Washington is that corporations win every fight and everyone else—particularly the poor—get shafted" is, wait for it, "wrong, or at least incomplete." He posits that advocates for the poor have increased their influence during the Obama ...
  • Our Failure to Stop You from Voting Means We W ...
    North Carolina recently passed what can only be described as an omnibus voter suppression law, including a whole range of provisions from demanding photo IDs to cutting back early voting to restricting registration drives, every single one of which is likely to make it harder for minorities, po ...
  • Houston Rockets Pre-K to Top of the Priority List
    AP Photo/LM Otero It’s hard to find a politician these days who doesn’t at least pay lip service to the idea of “early childhood education.” But actually improving pre-kindergarten remains an enormous hurdle—and in some states the situation has gotten worse. While a number of states ma ...
  • Six Charts that Explain Why Our Prison System ...
    When Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that he would be issuing instructions to federal prosecutors that could result in fewer mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders, it wasn't the risky policy change it would have been only a few years ago. With crime on a two- ...
  • Slow and Steady Wins the Anti-Keystone XL Race
    Flickr/ Elizabeth Brossa Grace Cagle knew what Keystone XL’s path through Texas meant for the state’s environment. The pipeline was going to run through the post-oak savannah, a type of forest that's drying out, desertifying. It’s one of the few places in the world where the ivory-bill ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Neo-Nazi Skinheads Sentenced in N.J. Hate Crim ...
    Two members of a white supremacist group called the Aryan Terror Brigade, one of them a native of Slovakia, were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their New Year’s Eve 2011 hate crime attack on two Egyptians in New Jersey. U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano, decrying the men’s “blatant acts of r ...
  • Members of New Skinhead Gang Accused in Two States
    Die Auserwählten, a little-known racist skinhead gang in Nebraska and several other states, is less than a year old. But in the last few days, the crew has been making a name for itself – in mayhem and murder separated by more than a thousand miles. In a small college city in south-central Nebra ...
  • White Student Unions: White Nationalist Minor ...
    Patrick Sharp started “White Student Union” at Georgia State University Matthew Heimbach created quite a stir at Towson University in Baltimore when he created his “White Student Union” last year and proceeded to launch night patrols to keep students safe from black-on-white crime. N ...
  • Militia-Leading Penn. Police Chief Suspended A ...
    Video: Mark Kessler rants on YouTube The police chief of a tiny borough in Pennsylvania’s coal country, who also heads a militia formed to oppose any new federal gun control measures, has been suspended for 30 days after he posted a series of profanity-laced videos to YouTube in which he angrily ...
  • Michigan State House Candidate is Hard-Line An ...
    Gary Glenn leads of one of the nation’s most vicious anti-gay hate groups Gary Glenn, who announced earlier this week that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the 98th district of the Michigan House of Representatives, says nothing whatsoever about LGBT people on his campaign website. Bu ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Walmart Worker Reacts to Weak Q2 Earnings Report
    Walmart's second quarter sales report shows the continuation of negative same store sales. In response, OUR Walmart member Larry Born, who has worked at Walmart in Crestwood, IL for over three years, issued the following statement: read more
  • California Coastal Commission Urged to Protect ...
    At least a dozen offshore oil wells in California state waters have been fracked in the past three years, apparently without legally mandated review under the California Environmental Quality Act, according to new research. This new revelation doubles the number of known offshore frack jobs, put ...
  • Manning Takes the Stand; Push for Nobel Peace ...
    Bradley Manning is expected to take the stand today in his trial — which is now in its sentencing phase. The following have covered the entire trial and are expected to be providing live updates: @kgosztola, @carwinb, @nathanLfuller.read more
  • New York City Comptroller Releases Report Deta ...
    Today, New York City Comptroller John Liu released his report calling for a system to tax and regulate marijuana for adult recreational use.  The report comes just two days after Federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin condemned the city’s police department’s use of stop and frisk &nd ...
  • Two Florida Butterflies Proposed for Endangere ...
    Following an agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity to speed decisions on the protection of 757 imperiled species across the country, the U.S.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Chaos and Bloodshed in the Streets of Cairo
    Sharif Abdel Kouddous
  • America’s Upside-Down Morality
    Robert Parry Having covered the U.S. government for nearly 36 years, I am not so naïve as to expect perfection or even anything close. But there are times when the immoral dimensions of Official Washington stand out in the starkest sha ...
  • Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Sc ...
    Matt Taibbi On May 31st, president Barack Obama strolled into the bright sunlight of the Rose Garden, covered from head to toe in the slime and ooze of the Benghazi and IRS scandals. In a Karl Rove-ian masterstroke, he simply pretended they ...
  • Bradley Manning Did Not Hurt the United States
    Rainey Reitman Bradley Manning. (Sketch: Clark Stoeckley)In his sentencing hearing yesterday, Bradley Manning took the stand and apologized for the "hurt" he inflicted on the United States.read more
  • Sophistry Bestrides ‘Free-Trade' Axis
    John R. MacArthur The day before Detroit declared bankruptcy, I found The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman up to his old tricks, extolling the North American Free Trade Agreement and “free trade” in general in a column so ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • A-level results 2013: fall in A* grades for gi ...
    Overall proportion of A and A* marks dips for second year in a row, as maths and science entries rise and languages fallA dip in the number of girls achieving the highest A-level grades was behind a slight fall in the proportion of students receiving A* marks in 2013, as part of a wider shift to ...
  • Iraq car bombs kill at least 33 across Baghdad
    One hundred wounded in five attacks including explosion near green zone diplomatic complexA series of car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 33 people and wounded more than 100 on Thursday, with one attack close to the green zone diplomatic complex.Iraq is experiencing some of its worst violence s ...
  • Alex Salmond accused of misleading voters over ...
    Both political opponents and allies of Scottish government say pledge to join Nato is at odds with stance on nuclear disarmamantAlex Salmond's government has been accused of misleading voters over the viability of its plans for joining Nato, while also closing down the Trident nuclear base by bo ...
  • Cairo: Egyptian PM defends crackdown as death ...
    Hazem Beblawi says Egypt cannot move forward without security, and interior minister says protesters incited violenceEgypt's interim government and its backers remain defiant amid a rising death toll and widespread international condemnation of Wednesday's massacre of Islamist supporters of the ...
  • Costa Rica state zoo closures may face legal b ...
    Decision to close last two zoos is welcomed by animal rights campaigners but challeged by Simón Bolívar zoo in San JoséCosta Rica's decision to close its last two state zoos has been hailed as a breakthrough for animal rights, but in the short term it could mean a legal battle as well as a major ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan interpreters in danger
    WINSTON Churchill's great-grandson says Afghan interpreters who served alongside British troops on the frontline "face almost certain death" at the hands of the Taliban unless they are offered refuge in the ...
  • Afghanistans first woman MP abandoned for divorce
    Noor Zia Atmar , one of the first woman MPs from Afghanistan was a poster child for liberal forces showcasing how women's rights were being restored ...
  • India-Pak rivalry Afghan angle involved in bor ...
    Afghanistan next year, several sources say, raising the risk of a dramatic spike in tensions between nucleararmed rivals India and Pakistan. Intelligence source in India believe that a botched suicide bombing of an Indian consulate in Afghanistan, which was followed within days last week by a le ...
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2126
    As of Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, at least 2,126 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
  • Local Marine Awarded Medal For Bravery In Afgh ...
    (CBS) — It is a high military honor for bravery, once awarded to John F. Kennedy years before he was elected president. Today, a former Marine from the Chicago area had that same medal pinned on his shirt. CBS 2′s Jim Williams was at the Great Lakes Naval Station for the ceremony. ...

Futurismic

  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC's David Colapinto Featured on Program Disc ...
    NWC General Counsel David Colapinto appeared on The Firm, a show on CNBC-TV18 (India).  The Firm produced an in depth segment explaining the SEC's Whistleblower Policy. Mr. Colapinto shared his expertise in this informational program. 
  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Senate Establishes "National Whistleblower App ...
    Yesterday, by an unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day." The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate's historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistlebl ...
  • Washington Journal: Stephen Kohn on the Mannin ...
    Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center discusses the military court's decision to refuse to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy" for information given to WikiLeaks. He also discusses federal laws that cover whistleblowers. Bradley Manning Verdict and Trea ...
  • National Whistleblowers Center Issues Statemen ...
    National Whistleblowers Center's Statement on Manning Verdict Washington, D.C. July 30, 2013. The National Whistleblowers Center issued a statement expressing relief that the military court today refused to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy."  The char ...

TechDirt

  • Senate Intelligence Committee Has Been Able To ...
    More problems have surfaced related to the overseers that are supposed to be providing the oversight the NSA keeps pointing to while swiftly sweeping terabytes of data under its brand-new Utah rug. A few representatives have expressed their frustration about keeping the public in the dark, but ...
  • Microsoft Uses DMCA To Block Many Links To Com ...
    Another day, another example of excessive DMCA takedown actions. The latest is that Microsoft has been issuing DMCA takedowns to Google directing the search engine to remove links to Open Office. Open Office, of course, is the open source competitor to Microsoft, and Microsoft has no copyright-r ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg Loves Cameras Watching Everyon ...
    One of the directives ordered by Judge Scheindlin in her decision declaring New York City's stop and frisk program unconstitutional was to equip NYPD officers with body cameras. Mayor Bloomberg treated this suggestion derisively during his post-decision press conference apoplexy, as he sarcasti ...
  • GoDaddy Support Recordings Show Same Caller Cl ...
    Here's a post on a few of the latest events in the ongoing Team Prenda saga -- with the key one being that Blair Chintella has filed a response to Prenda local lawyer Jacques Nazaire's attempt to block a variety of discovery efforts designed to suss out more details on the Prenda scam. The respo ...
  • The Getty Gets It: 'Open Content, An Idea Whos ...
    Techdirt has published a number of posts that explore the issue of whether art organizations can stop people sharing images of works in their collections when the latter are indisputably in the public domain. Even if museums might be able to claim copyright in their "official" photographic imag ...

VacTruth

  • HPV Vaccines Can Kill And They Do!
    On every packet of cigarettes sold, there is a warning, Smoking Kills, to deter people from damaging their health by smoking. Governments around the world decided to put this warning on every packet of cigarettes due to the high death rate caused by the toxic effects of nicotine and other additi ...
  • Dear Doctor, Do You Really Know What Vaccines ...
    Doctor, you strongly recommend vaccines, so you should surely be able to tell us about the ingredients. No doubt you have studied the product information, so what is your opinion about secret and unknown substances in vaccines?
  • New Information Dissolves Illusions About Vacc ...
    There’s a new book out. It’s called Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History. The biggest illusion is quite simple and is the basis for the entire book and what the book ultimately proves.
  • International Day of Peace Manipulated to Prom ...
    United Nations International Day of Peace is a day of ceasefire, both personal and political. Last year the day was ambushed and used to promote and distribution of vaccines to children in developing countries.
  • This “Free” Vaccine Can Cause Brain Damage and ...
    The state of Missouri is offering a free whooping cough vaccine to residents. The whooping cough vaccine accounts for over half of vaccine injury awards.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Is this Egypt’s Intifada?
    Michael Hirsh writes: As the Egyptian military consolidates control by murdering pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters and declaring a state of emergency, we may be witnessing the most dangerous potential for Arab radicalization since the two Palestinian intifadas. Despite the resignation Wednesday ...
  • Egypt’s experiment with democracy
    Peter Hessler writes: In Egypt, the current conflict reflects the vastly different responses that groups can have to a fledgling democracy after decades of dictatorship. For the Brotherhood, this means stubbornly following what it believes to be the correct and legitimate political path, even if ...
  • An educated guess about how the NSA is structured
    Marc Ambinder writes: Want to understand how an organism really works? Take a look at its plumbing. Figure out where the pipes fit together. That’s the approach I take to national security and that’s the spirit behind this look at the structure of one of the most important institutio ...
  • Intelligence committee urged to explain if the ...
    The Guardian reports: The leadership of the House intelligence committee is under growing pressure to explain whether it withheld surveillance information from members of Congress before a key vote to renew the Patriot Act. A Republican congressman and government ethics watchdogs are demanding t ...
  • The NSA is commandeering the Internet
    Bruce Schneier writes: It turns out that the NSA’s domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Som ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The WUWT Hot Sheet for Thursday August 15th, 2013
    Keith Olbermann: Current TV Co-Founder And Former VP Al Gore Was a ‘Clod’ – TVNewser “When you’re working for somebody whom you admired politically, who turns out to be a clod,” says Olbermann, referring to Gore, “the scales fall from … Continue reading →
  • Lomborg: Renewables are stuck, although green ...
    Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg Globally, renewables have been *declining* for the last two centuries, and have remained stuck at about 13% for the past 40 years. People expect them to rise dramatically to 30% by 2035 — the honest … Continue reading →
  • Current Crop of Computer Models “Close to Useless”
    From the Institute for Energy Research: … It is this second class of models, the economic/climate hybrids called Integrated Assessment Models, that Pindyck discusses. Pindyck’s paper is titled, “Climate Change Policy: What Do the Models Tell Us?” Here is his … Continue reading →
  • Claim: CO2 ended the last ice age
    From Oregon State University Study explains early warming of West Antarctica at end of last ice age CORVALLIS, Ore. – West Antarctica began emerging from the last ice age about 22,000 years ago – well before other regions of Antarctica … Continue reading →
  • The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature (SAT)
    Here’s an interesting Q&A on issues with trying to determine the SAT of the Earth that I have not seen before. There’s a surprise at the end as to who wrote it. Q. What exactly do we mean by SAT … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Disease laughs at researchers
    Disease laughs at researchers. In this highly-unusual image, beta-catenin (green) was monitored moving into the nucleus, the round shape in the centre. The dark patches in the nucleus that bear an uncanny resemblance to a smiley face, with eyes and a mouth, are actually parts of the nucleus wher ...
  • ▶ How brains see
    ▶ How brains see – YouTube.
  • Researchers reveal how the brain keeps eyes on ...
    “Are we there yet?” As anyone who has traveled with young children knows, maintaining focus on distant goals can be a challenge. A new study from MIT suggests how the brain achieves this task, and indicates that the neurotransmitter dopamine may signal the value of long-term rewards. The finding ...
  • ▶ Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body
    ▶ Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body – YouTube.
  • World’s first lab-grown burger is eaten ...
    Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty. One food expert said it was “close to meat, but not that juicy” and another said it tasted like a real burger. Researchers say the technolog ...

CFACT

  • Not so bright lights
    “Renewable energy” is a deliberate false labeling strategy, designed to curry favor with trendy urbanites who are ignorant about energy and economic reality. The real cost to U.S. economic growth, jobs and living standards from following the Green Brick Road to ecological paradise is equally bey ...
  • Europeans learning the hard truth about wind a ...
    Since 2009 American taxpayers have shelled out $14 billion in cash payments to solar, wind and other renewable energy project developers. This includes $9.2 billion to 748 small and large wind projects, and $2.7 billion to more than 44,000 solar projects, which will add just 48 terawatt- hours o ...
  • Reagan vs. Obama: Not even close on energy policy
    Obama doesn’t believe in the technology, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, Pendley told me. He believes in big government and its regulations. Pendley points out how he’s given the environmentalists a seat at the table where Reagan denied them the moral high ground. When the e ...
  • DDT ban linked to population control
    Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World Revisited (1958), warns that the danger to civilization posed by Third World overpopulation would lead to communist revolution, attacking DDT as an important contributor: “We go to a tropical island…and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria, and in two or ...
  • Walt Cunningham: Restore climate science integ ...
    NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused [anthropogenic] global warming [AGW]. Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advoc ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Emerging Voices: Does International Law Forbid ...
    by Bharat Malkani [Bharat Malkani is a lecturer at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, where he also runs the Birmingham Law School Pro Bono Group. You can also follow him on Twitter at @bharatmalkani] Recently, Ali Babitu Kololo was sentenced to death by a Kenyan court for his ro ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 15, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called for the U.N. Security Council to convene quickly and act after what he described as a massacre in Egypt. The UN has said the departure of a team of chemical weapons inspectors to Syria was “imminent.” ...
  • Emerging Voices: Illegal Vetoes in the Securit ...
    by John Heieck [John Heieck is a Lecturer of and PhD candidate in Public International Law at the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies] When Russia and China vetoed two Security Council resolutions demanding all sides to the Syrian conflict to cease all forms of violenc ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 14, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey North and South Korea are holding fresh talks on reopening the Kaesong joint industrial park, ahead of South Korea-US military exercises next week. United Nations inspectors are investigating a North Korean ship caught carrying arms from Cuba amid suspicion ...
  • More Misdirection on Specific Direction
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Another person who should know better has misrepresented the ICTY’s specific-direction requirement: Owen Bowcott, a legal correspondent for the Guardian. Here is the sub-headline of his new article on the impact of the Perisic judgment: Legal exper ...

Public News Service

  • Little Celebration of Deferred Action Annivers ...
    Little Celebration of Deferred Action Anniversary by AZ Dreamers PHOENIX - It's been a year since President Obama ordered creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which grants legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. Some 15,000 Ari ...
  • Latino Youths Take Colorado River Message to C ...
    Latino Youths Take Colorado River Message to Congress PHOENIX - Latino students are bringing the plight of the Colorado River to Capitol Hill. Eighteen Latino high school students from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico are starting a weeklong rafting trip through the Grand Canyon today, ...
  • Seeing Red Over Planned Running of the Bulls
    Seeing Red Over Planned Running of the Bulls PHOENIX - Concerns are being raised across the nation as a series of events patterned after the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, is being planned for ten cities around the U.S. It's called the "Great Bull Run" and it's billed as an exciting e ...
  • A Return to the Norm: Breastfeeding Rates Rising
    A Return to the Norm: Breastfeeding Rates Rising PHOENIX - With a vast array of known benefits to the practice of breastfeeding, for infants and their mothers, the number of mothers who choose to breastfeed is on the rise. The increase in breastfeeding isn't an anomaly, but a return to the norm, ...
  • Online Tool Calculates Affordable Care Options
    Online Tool Calculates Affordable Care Options PHOENIX – Specific information about available options under the Affordable Care Act is only a few clicks away on a new website. AARP expects its Health Law Answers tool will help people cut through the clutter about the health care law. Cy ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Pro-Morsi forces burn govt buildings after Sta ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Pro-Morsi forces torched two government buildings today. I’ve not seen any reports that indicate that military or police were there to stop it. Hundreds are dead, thousands are wounded. Sounds to me like the government in no longer in control of ...
  • Los Angeles to treat contaminated groundwater ...
    Los Angeles is planning to reduce its huge reliance on imported water by treating contaminated groundwater and making it drinkable and safe. A whopping 90% of water for Los Angeles is imported, often hundreds of miles, from the Sacramento Delta, the Colorado River, and Owens Valley. Obviously re ...
  • Since Egypt had a non-coup coup, this must be ...
    Zero Hedge, as usual, cuts through the bullshit and babble about the horrific events today in Egypt, with the US managing to alienate most everyone as our nonentity Secretary of State babbles platitudes. With the US denouncing actions left, right, and center, it is tough to know what they stand ...
  • Bottle Light used around world. Inventor is po ...
    Alfredo Moser, a Brazilian mechanic, devised a way to provide light inside during the day using only plastic bottles, water, and bleach. Soon one million homes in impoverished areas will be using it. He makes no money from it but is happy it helped so many. Fill a clean plastic bottle with water ...
  • My NanoLight light bulb has arrived, most ener ...
    NanoLight funded their project on Kickstarter and blew the doors off. They wanted $20,000 and raised $273,00! Nanoleaf LED light bulbs are now shipping. Mine is in my office lamp now, replacing a CFL, and produces a pleasing light. When we announced the NanoLight to the world on Kickstarter, we ...

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

  • Brazil threatens to take claims of U.S. spying ...
    Brazil said Wednesday that it may go to the United Nations over US spying, which it said was not only used to combat terrorism, but also for industrial espionage. “We are not satisfied with the explanations presented” by US Secretary of State John Kerry during a visit Tuesday, Communications Min ...
  • Oliver Stone Speaks Out: “Obama is a Sna ...
    We are pretty sure that Obama playing Santa Claus to Wall Street didn’t help matters much, as Stone analyzed the state of the Presidency. Comparing Cousin O to Cousin Dick Nixon, or Cousin George Jr should be considered the ultimate insult! A real bitch slapping! Will other “liberals ...
  • Fuzzy Math? Treasury Ran $98 Billion Deficit i ...
    Stopped Clock? Calm before the storm? How accurate is the Debt Clock to begin with? – Some would say that the actual number could be as high as $100 trillion….. Time for some POSITIVE austerity!   U.S. Treasury Department (AP Photo)  (CNSNews.com) – The Treasury Depar ...
  • Ron Paul Channel Launches First Episode With G ...
    Could have had this guy for President. Would it really have been so bad? HT: Before its News The first Ron Paul Channel episode launched last night and his guest was Glenn Greenwald, one of the original writers to expose the level of domestic and international spying conducted by the U.S., using ...
  • Massacre: 149+ now dead as Egyptian forces cle ...
    USA Backed Military, CNN, Global Intel (Mossad) Vs the people of Egypt. The world is watching!   Washington Times Egyptian security forces used armored cars, bulldozers, tear gas and automatic weapons Wednesday to clear two protest camps in Cairo set up by Muslim Brotherhood supporters of o ...

The Air Vent

  • Weaponized “Science”
    I don’t have much time today unfortunately, but there was a minor kerfuffel in the news about a study (a term very loosely used) which according to the media reporters (also loosely used)  shows that Fox news watchers are being tricked by Fox into “distrust” of climate scientis ...
  • Climate Science – A Field of Dreams
    Real Climate is still trying to communicate the message that climate science needs to communicate better, never realizing that the content of their message is their problem.  I mean, the first link on their page is to a Richard Alley presentation, where he flat says that there is no reason to ad ...
  • Regulatory Creep
    The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is one of the largest and most draconian governmental organizations on the planet.  Under Obama, it has also become one of the most powerful.   The ability to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, being one of the chief new results of Obama’s ...
  • Time Travel
    Well, I’m not really interested in replacing coal plants as our eco-nazi climate science community would have us do, but there are a bunch of forms of nuclear power which are viable replacements and this one is fairly interesting to me.   A smaller modular plant produced in a factory using ...
  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...

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

  • Instagram hires first Director of Product, Fac ...
    Product Management Director Peter Deng is leaving Facebook — but he’s not going far. The Verge reported Wednesday that Deng has accepted a position with Instagram, marking the photo-sharing company’s first Director of Product. Deng has...
  • When New York Times website crashes, newspaper ...
    When The New York Times’ website suffered some downtime Wednesday because of technical issues, the newspaper turned to Facebook Notes to post stories. Using Facebook Notes, The New York Times posted the entirety of three stories...
  • How can brands optimize for Facebook’s recent ...
    Facebook recently added two components to its News Feed algorithm: Story Bumping and Last Actor. Although some greeted the system—which ascertains what unread posts are most important to each user and bumps them to the top...
  • Facebook to launch country level MAU and DAU m ...
    Facebook is giving advertisers and marketers a wider level of understanding by rolling out country level monthly active user (MAU) and daily active user (DAU) metrics — both for desktop and mobile. This will be a...
  • Facebook reportedly testing VIP app for celebs
    Facebook is reportedly developing a new app, but unless you’ve walked on a red carpet, it probably won’t be for your phone. According to AllThingsD, Facebook is testing a new app for celebrities to manage their...

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

  • "Bloodbath That Is Not A Bloodbath": Why Egypt ...
    Stop. Look at the photos. Linger on dozens of bodies lined up in a makeshift morgue. How can the appalling bloodbath in Egypt be justified? Take your pick. Either it's Egypt's remix of Tiananmen Square, or it's the bloodbath that is not a bloodbath, conducted by the leaders of the coup that is n ...
  • A New Holiday Is Being Created for Peace
    When I wrote When the World Outlawed War, I was struck by the significance of a forgotten day, a day matching the description in the 1950 folk song that begins "Last night I had the strangest dream . . . "
  • Banksters Love Holder; The FBI's 2010 Mortgage ...
    DOJ has refused to prosecute any elite banker for mortgage fraud. The Obama administration's refusal to prosecute the elite banksters... has made it clear that the rule of law no longer applies to wide ranges of life and that crony capitalism will continue to reign.
  • Tom Engelhardt, Putting War Back in Children's ...
    Now that Darth Vader's breathy techno-voice is a staple of our culture, it's hard to remember how empty was the particular sector of space Star Wars blasted into. The very day the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973, Richard Nixon also signed a decree ending the draft. It was an admission of ...
  • Bradley Manning's "Apology"
    America's new fascism is on display in the trial of Bradley Manning. When this idealist whistleblower goes to prison the nation's prison population will soar from 2 million to 300 million.

Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    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 ...
  • Starting to Break the Efficiency Standard Logj ...
    Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, San Francisco, CA The Department of Energy did not waste any time in taking a first step towards fulfilling last week’s commitment to issue long overdue energy-savings standards: yesterday, DOE issued a ...
  • Clean Energy Can Help Protect the Grid Against ...
    Allison Clements, Senior Attorney, Project for Sustainable FERC Energy Policy, New York Earlier this week, the president’s office released a report that: describes the costs of weather-related grid outages to the U.S. economy (an average of $1 ...
  • Water/Climate News Digest: 7/27/2013 - 8/14/2013
    Janie Chen, Program Assistant – Midwest, Chicago, IL From Maryland to California and the Great Lakes in-between, the effects of climate change have serious implications for coastal cities, the economy, and the nation’s water resources: Vulner ...
  • Canada's Lackluster Climate Record and Massive ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. President Obama recently drew national attention to Canada’s poor record on climate: But I meant what I said; I'm going to evaluate this [the Keystone XL pipeline] based on wheth ...

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

  • The Edge of Faith - Mysterious 'Angel' Priest ...
    A mystery was solved when the so-called “angel priest,� who anointed a young woman trapped in her wrecked vehicle on August 4, was identified. Rev. Patrick Dowling of the Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, stepped forward. According to the Catholic News Agency on August 12, Fr. Do ...
  • Egypt's Second Revolution - State of Emergency ...
    Cairo has come under curfew—and many parts of Egypt under a month-long state of emergency–after protests Wednesday turned violent, leaving as many as 150 people dead, according to media reports.Egyptian security forces had moved early in the day to clear a sit-in of supporters of recently ou ...
  • The Edge of Transportation - Hyperloop Propose ...
    Inventor Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX and PayPal, is proposing what he’s calling a fifth mode of transportation after planes, trains, cars and boats.In a release posted today on the Tesla Motors website, Elon calls the Hyperloop idea a “safer, faster, lower cost, more convenien ...
  • Oil Addiction - Libyan Oil Output Cut in Half ...
    The Libyan oil industry is in the midst of its worst crisis since the 2011 civil war because of lawlessness and strikes at major petroleum facilities.In the latest disruption, security guards re-imposed a strike they called off over the weekend, forcing the closure of Libya’s two main crude oi ...
  • France on Edge - Muslims In France Warn Of Ris ...
    Muslim leaders and groups are warning against a rising climate of "Islamophobia" in France as the government vows to stamp out extremism in any form. The statements follow the arrest on August 11 of a military serviceman suspected of planning an attack on a mosque outside the city of Lyon. The 2 ...

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

  • Obama's Economic Approval Plummets (They Ain't ...
    President Obama recently pivoted to the economy for the 13th time during his 55 months in office. In case there was any double as to the reason for the pivot, the latest Gallup and Rasmussen polls will eliminate all doubt. In reading polls trends are as important as the actual number and fo ...
  • The Inevitable: An Anthony-Weiner Themed Hot D ...
    A few years ago the cousin of a friend of my wife's was visiting from Greece. He was looking for a ticket for the hottest Broadway play. My wife explained to him that the play was sold out, but if he went across the bridge to New Jersey he could get a ticket from a scalper. After my wife ...
  • More Fast And Furious Guns Found at Crime Scenes
    Fast and Furious is the Scandal that wont go away. Even though Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to release the documents which may prove that he lied about the scandal, we do learn a little more about this scandal every day.Assault weapons ceded to the drug cartels by the US hav ...
  • Et Tu NBC? Network Investigation Reports Biz C ...
    When Obamacare starts to loose NBC News perhaps people will stand up and notice.  The peacock network filed an investigative report this morning admitting that Obamacare is resulting in fewer hours/lower wages for many hard working Americans. The group who is most feeling the effect are l ...
  • Science Indicates Earth is Heading Toward an I ...
    It's time to buy a heavier winter coat and an enormous gas-guzzling  SUV because there is more evidence that the Earth is getting colder. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published its “State of the Climate in 2012” report, saying that “worldwide, 2012 was a ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind project developer wants data kept secret
    The developer of a proposed wind energy project on Lanai has asked the state Public Utilities Commission for permission to keep confidential some of the information it will be submitting as part of a regulatory review of the project. Lawyers for Castle & Cooke Properties Inc. filed the “pro ...
  • Piedmont councilman voted out in recall election
    A Piedmont city councilman who faced a recall election Tuesday lost after one of his two challengers pulled in nearly 55 percent of the vote. Councilman Vernon Woods, who upset some local residents by meeting privately with officials from a company interested in building a wind farm in northern ...
  • Lake Winds Energy Park sound study findings to ...
    The results of the post-construction sound study of Lake Winds Energy Park will be presented to the Mason County Planning Commission Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Summit Township Hall, 4879 W. Deren Road. It’s likely that when the sound consultants hired to study the noise level of Lake Wi ...
  • No local authority on turbines
    CENTRE – For reasons dating back over a hundred years, the Cherokee County Commission cannot declare an outright ban on construction of wind turbines, as the Baldwin County Commission did last month. “This all goes back to home rule,” Probate Judge Kirk Day said last week. &#82 ...
  • Ocotillo residents complain of turbine noise s ...
    When Pattern Energy presented its proposed Ocotillo Express Wind Facility project to Imperial County Supervisors, the company promised that massive industrial wind turbines would be no louder than a refrigerator or a library. But now residents are complaining that noise levels are far louder—and ...

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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Running the numbers on NC's d ...
    Image Caption:  Voting rights advocates rallied earlier this year in North Carolina, which just passed one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws. (Photo by Brentin Mock.) Three lawsuits have been filed alleging tha ...
  • The Bayou Corne sinkhole is one year old
    Image Caption:  Residents of Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish, La. are angry over Texas Brine's response to the massive sinkhole disaster that began unfolding a year ago this month, forcing 350 people out of their homes. (Photo by Cherri F ...
  • Meet the 92-year-old plaintiff challenging res ...
    Image Caption:  Mrs. Rosanell Eaton is among the plaintiffs in three lawsuits challenging North Carolina's restrictive new voting law signed this week by Gov. Pat McCrory (R). (Still from N.C. NAACP video.) Mrs. Rosanell ...
  • New study finds high levels of arsenic in grou ...
    Image Caption:  Brian Fontenot and Kevin Schug, two of the authors of a study that ties fracking to arsenic contamination of groundwater supplies. (University of Texas Arlington) Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlin ...
  • In denial about its racism, Texas fights precl ...
    Image Caption:  Engaged in a legal battle over findings its new political district maps are racially discriminatory, Texas argues its behavior isn't flagrant enough to be of any concern to federal authorities. Facing a le ...

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.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Need help with finding old Bop News Articles ( ...
    I’ve decided, after some prompting, to put together an anthology of my writings.  Unfortunately they’re scattered over multiple blogs and some of those blogs don’t exist any more.  I had assumed this would be relatively easy, using the Wayback machine, but they seem to have mad ...
  • All registered users will have to re-register ...
    Sorry folks, but the amount of registration spam is out of control and one of the things slowing down the blog.  I’m going to purge everyone who doesn’t have at least editor level access tomorrow, and you’ll have to re-register with the new captcha system.  Sorry about this, it ...
  • Why Egypt’s Regime Must Double Down
    There have been more killings in Egypt today of Muslim Brotherhood supporters.  Of particular note is the death of Asmaa al-Beltagi, daughter of a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, Dr. Mohammed al-Beltagi (h/t MFI).  Martial law has been declared, the streets are being cleared, and military gove ...
  • The Beauty of Obama’s Clapper Appointment
    As you’ve probably heard, Obama has appointed James Clapper (the man who lied under oath to Congress about NSA spying) to review NSA spying. I am in awe, few things have impressed me this deeply. This isn’t just a middle finger to everyone to everyone who is against blanket surveilla ...
  • Because you all come here because of my taste ...
    some fiddle music:

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

  • Dozens killed as car bombs explode in Baghdad ...
    ABC – At least 60 people have died and dozens more were injured in a series of car bomb explosions in Baghdad and shootings elsewhere in Iraq. The attacks targeted markets, shopping streets and parks as the country marked the end of its deadliest Ramadan holy month in years. Nearly 300 peo ...
  • Save the Children issues warning over abuse an ...
    ABC – The charity Save the Children has warned that more than 100,000 young people in the Central African Republic are facing the threat of sexual abuse and recruitment into armed groups. It says many children have been forced to flee their homes following the overthrow of the government b ...
  • Greek economy shrinks 4.6 percent in second qu ...
    (Reuters) – Greece’s economy shrank at annual pace of 4.6 percent in the second quarter, contributing to a slump of more than 20 percent in real terms since 2008.  The figures were slightly better than economists’ average forecast for a 5 percent contraction, but that will be c ...
  • Three Syrian TV Employers Kidnapped 40 Km Nort ...
    RSF – Reporters Without Borders condemns the abduction of three Orient TV employees in Tel Rifaat (40 km north of Aleppo) on 25 July and calls for their immediate and unconditional release. Reporter Obeida Batal, soundman Hosam Nizam Al-Dine and technician Aboud Al-Atik were kidnapped by u ...
  • Official youth unemployment nudges 1m as think ...
    Daily Mail – The number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance fell to its lowest level for more than four years in July, official figure showed today, while employment levels reached a record high. But long-term and youth unemployment also increased. The so-called claimant count f ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • WikiLeaks: Manning apologizes, admits he ...
    August 14: US soldier Bradley Manning offered an apology in a military court today over his disclosures to WikiLeaks and acknowledged he "hurt the United States." "I'm sorry that my actions have hurt people and have hurt the United States," he...
  • Egypt protest crackdown: Army leaves hund ...
    Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi flee from tear gas and rubber bullets fired by riot police during clashes in Cairo. Photo: Reuters TV cameraman shot dead The world is watching 'Serious blow' to peace efforts Nasr City, Cairo: Outsid ...
  • After hundreds killed, Egypt faces new un ...
    CAIRO — Egypt faced a new phase of uncertainty on Thursday after the bloodiest day since its Arab Spring began, with nearly 300 people reported killed and thousands injured as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president. Wednesday's raids touched off ...
  • Indians across world celebrate Independen ...
    BEIJING/MELBOURNE: Indians across the globe on Thursday donned patriotic colours as they celebrated the country's 67th Independence Day, unfurling the national flag and organising cultural events to mark the occasion. India's ambassador to China S Jaishankar hoisted the tri-colour at the emb ...
  • Neymar laments poor Brazil display
    After tasting Confederations Cup success only last month, Luis Felipe Scolari's side were overwhelmed by Switzerland at St Jakob-Park, much to the annoyance of their star man £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = FCB Draw LEV £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = FCB Draw L ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • Profits Trump Blood as US Aid Undeterred by Eg ...
    The bodies of protesters who died Wednesday in Cairo. (Khaled Elfiqi/EPA)Following the unprecedented crackdown that left more than 500 protesters dead at the hands of the U.S.-funded Egyptian military on Wednesday, President Obama made an official statement condemning the interim government' ...
  • Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut Streets
    A massive car bomb exploded in Beirut, Lebanon Thursday killing at least three and injuring scores more. (Photo: @thearabdigest/ Twitter)Developing.... A massive explosion has torn through a heavily populated area of southern Beirut, Lebanon on Thursday. Television footage showed crowds in the s ...
  • Hot Century Ahead: Study Finds Onslaught of He ...
    People take shelter from the heat in a government meeting center in Shaoxing, China, on Saturday, August 10 (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)A new study dishes out some very bad news about the global warming crisis. read more
  • Win for Equality: California's Prop 8 'Gone fo ...
    A gay rights flag flies high above San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. (Photo: caribb/ cc/ Flickr)In a major triumph for same-sex marriage in California, the state's Supreme Court struck the final blow against Proposition 8 Wednesday when a bid to revive the state's marriage ban was una ...
  • Public Transportation Price-Rigging Ignites Th ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Follow the Money
    Bust of John D Rockefeller Classical Economics as a Stratagem Against Henry George (free link) By Mason Gaffney (2007) Book Review-Part II (In Part I, I discussed how Henry George’s work inspired the Populist and Progressive movements of the early 1900s and how the corporate elite str ...
  • Karl Marx vs Henry George
    photo credit: Felix42 contra la censura via photopin cc  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/janusg/100yrs.htm   Classical Economics as a Stratagem Against Henry George (free link) By Mason Gaffney (2007) Book Review-Part I Why do American school children study the beliefs of a German rad ...
  • Facebook's Billionaire Tax Refugee
    French actor Gerard Depardieu In January Forbes reported that Facebook’s billionaire co-founder Eduardo Severin had renounced his U.S. citizenship to move to Singapore, where the top tax rate is 20%. The article about millionaires and billionaires fleeing high western tax rates was tr ...
  • My Identity Crisis
    Who me? A Politician? After about a week of sleepless nights, I recently agreed to stand (in New Zealand. you “stand” for office) as a Green Party candidate for Taranaki District Health Board (DHB). Does this mean I’m a politician now? I sure hope not. For most of my life ...
  • Can World War III Be Prevented?
    With the 2012 elections out of the way, the US edges ever closer to war with Iran. China and Russia have clearly indicated they will support Iran if it is attacked by Israel or the US. Both are nuclear powers. Thus there is no longer any question where or when World War III is likely to s ...

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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

  • Media Slammed For Limited Analysis Of Major Re ...
    The Columbia Journalism Review has criticized major media outlets for inadequate coverage of NOAA’s annual State of the Climate report. In its critique, CJR points out that the mainstream press provided surprisingly limited analysis.
  • Can Wildlife Services and Conservationists be ...
    Wildlife Services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture agency, kills tens of thousands of native carnivores every year, mostly at the behest of the livestock industry. These practices are unnecessary, and ecologically damaging. But not everything the agency does is bad.
  • Fracking and Drought: They Call It Texas Tea, ...
    How dry is it in Texas? So dry some residents are wishing for a hurricane to replenish the aquifer. So dry that many Texans are now against using water to frack for oil, because every fracking job requires several million gallons of water.
  • Sea Level Rise: Holding Back the Ocean
    The hideously high cost of the climate change impacts we’ve already locked in and continue to magnify with business as usual, which is to say, too bloody high and still growing emissions. Another major component is the latency of human systems.
  • Power Play: People, Politics, Electricity, Nuc ...
    Energy-related events in Vermont continue to be a jumble of citizen activism, political maneuvering, changes to the electric power system, and an overall focus on nuclear energy issues. The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant continues to run well.

Rodale News

  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Old Bay Seasoning
    One of my earliest memories of a special party meal was sitting perched on the radiator on the "back" side of the dining room table when I was just a few years old, stuffing myself silly with shrimp boiled in beer. Three decades later, I enjoyed a similar meal, featuring crabs this ti ...
  • Warm Weather's Hidden Threat: Violent Crime
    In 20 years, climatologists predict that the United States will be a mere 1.8ºF warmer than it is today. A small increase, yes, but one that could be accompanied by an increase in murders and domestic abuse and possibly lead to a civil war. Sound a little bit like the plot of The Hunger Games? ...
  • Your Flushable Toilet Wipes Are a Pain in Your ...
    How you take care of yourself after taking care of your business is a highly personal issue. But let's face it, sometimes toilet paper doesn't always get the job done, which is why people are increasingly adopting flushable toilet wipes, adult versions of baby wipes, to get a cleaner hiney. Bu ...
  • Another Freaky Side Effect of BPA
    A staggering number of U.S. couples are unable to get pregnant. According to 2013 data, about one in six couples haven't become pregnant after a year of trying. That statistic is on the rise—but why? Increasingly, scientists are finding evidence that certain everyday chemicals could be throwin ...
  • Why the Planet is Heating Up
    Following is an excerpt from Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health—and How We Can Save Ourselves by Linda Marsa For more than 100 years, scientists had cautioned that burning fossil fuels like coal and oil would cause global warming because it adds enormous amounts of carbon dioxide ...

big think

  • An Eye Clinic Built Into A Smartphone
    What's the Latest Development? Andrew Bastawrous of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is currently testing a smartphone app that could help bring much-needed treatment to people in areas of the world with little to no access to eye clinics. As its name indicates, the Por ...
  • Google's Magic Sauce: The Common Pursuit of Kn ...
    I think one thing that Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] have in common, and they’re both the children of academics, is a real intellectual curiosity.  They want to understand how the world works.  They come to that with a very scientific approach, a very logical approach to understanding w ...
  • Is this the most bizarre paper ever published ...
    A paper titled "Welcome to My Brain" has been published in the journal Qualitative Inquiry by Sage which is so unintelligible that it is baffling beyond belief. Unfortunately, the paper is behind a pay-wall, but some of the highlights are below. "This article is therefore about d ...
  • Have Marriage and Children Become Luxury Thera ...
    Here's what two excellent sociologists have concluded about marriage today:   Thanks to falling working-class wages, the outsourcing of American manufacturing, the thinning of company benefits, and the rise of part-time and self-employment, American jobs are, in many wa ...
  • How Not to Waste My Time in Your Meeting
    Unproductive meetings are absolutely the norm out there, so the important thing is why are we meeting, do we need to be meeting, is there some other format that would help us achieve what we’re trying to achieve here? For me it has always been about checking in at the end of the meeting ...

Information Liberation

  • Cop Convicted Of Second-Degree Manslaughter Fo ...
    Five year old Austin Haley was out fishing with his grandfather when police officer Paul Bradley Rogers shot his firearm in a failed attempt to kill a snake hiding in someone's birdhouse. The bullet passed through the birdhouse onto the Haley's prop...
  • Boston Cop Shoves Videographer, Then Threatens ...
    Being assaulted by a police officer is grounds for being charged with battery on a police officer, at least according to this Boston police "Sargent" caught on video intimidating and threatening a man for videotaping. From Carlos Miller: A heft...
  • Man Refuses To ID At Texas Border Patrol Check ...
    A man driving through a border patrol checkpoint in Texas is asked whether he is an American citizen by a checkpoint agent, the man refuses to answer the question and says he has the right not to. Despite the checkpoint officer's protestations...
  • Manning Speaks: "I am a Good Person"
    Pfc. Bradley Manning spoke on his own behalf during the final sentencing phase of his trial in a military courtroom at Ft. Meade in Maryland on Wednesday. What follows is the transcribed version of his spoken testimony as recorded by the stenograp...
  • Philly Cop Filmed Punching Small Woman In Face ...
    Remember Police Lt. Jonathan Josey, the philly cop who decked a small woman in the face because he wrongly thought she threw beer at him? A few months ago we reported how a judge in a non-jury trial found him not guilty of simple assault after he ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

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    BEAUPREZ: EPA's renewable fuel folly
    Washington Times
    Yes, the EPA did give refiners an extra four months to meet the target of 16.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel. However, the agency's announcement is too little, too late. Issuing the mandated ethanol level now can be likened to putting a Band-Aid on ...
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    Flexible Grid, Renewable Energy Offer Hope for Future
    Huffington Post
    It's time for America to embrace the idea of flexible grids, which will better meet our nation's electricity needs and take into account the growing use of clean, renewable energy sources such as solar. The expanded use of distributed generation from ...
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    Renewable Energy Fair Explores Alaska's Options
    Alaska Public Radio Network
    Tidal power, wave, wind and solar: there's no lack of options when it comes to renewable energy in Alaska. To participants at the Alaska Renewable Energy Fair on the Anchorage Park Strip last weekend, Alaska may be one of the best places on the planet ...
    Kroger Converts Food Waste into Renewable Energy
    Triple Pundit
    Feed utilizes this natural process, along with proprietary technology and optimization advancements, to cleanly and efficiently convert the carbon in organic waste into a renewable natural gas.” As described in a Feed Resource video, this is what the ...
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    Faculty members host class on Great Lakes region ecology
    MSUToday
    Faculty members host class on Great Lakes region ecology. MSU faculty members, Kalamazoo Nature Center naturalists and conservation professionals from nonprofit and government agencies are hosting an 11-week class on Great Lakes region ecology.
    PNC grad continuing her studies in ecology
    Post-Tribune
    Clark recently earned her bachelor's degree in biology with a concentration in ecology at Purdue University North Central and she is preparing to enter the Purdue University Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the ...
    China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
    The Guardian
    Engineers and environmentalists say that little work has been done on the human or ecological impact of the dams, which they fear could increase floods and be vulnerable to earthquakes. "We do not have credible environmental and social impact ...
    Ecology ministry proposes making recycling tax equal for all vehicles
    Kyiv Post
    The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry of Ukraine has proposed cancelling the adjusting coefficients for the basic rate of the vehicle recycling tax: UAH 5,500 for passenger cars and UAH 11,000 for the rest of the vehicles. Announcement To Readers.
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    Energy Firm Makes Costly Fracking Bet—on Water
    Wall Street Journal
    Antero Resources Inc., an energy company backed by New York private-equity firms, plans to spend more than half a billion dollars on a pipeline. But the 80 miles of pipe won't transport oil or gas: They will carry water from the Ohio River to fracking ...
    Texan Tragedy: Ample Oil, No Water
    Mother Jones
    "The day that we ran out of water I turned on my faucet and nothing was there and at that moment I knew the whole of Barnhart was down the tubes," she said, blinking back tears. "I went: 'Dear God, help us.' That was the first thought that came to mind.".
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    Scituate's discolored water stirs concern
    Boston Globe
    But this time, the water turned from tan to a sewage-looking brown. “And it went on for three to four weeks,” said Larkham. The deluge of discolored water, caused by sediment released from century-old pipes, has since spurred town officials to action.
    Florida governor says he'll sue Georgia for water
    USA TODAY
    Florida will fire the next salvo in its water war with Georgia next month as the governor promised to seek a Supreme Court injunction for more river flow into the Sunshine State. After members of Florida's congressional delegation had a field hearing ...
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