Thursday, August 15, 2013

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Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • IOA status update
    After nearly five years of operation, the IOA website is suspending regular content uploads. Having started immediately after Israel’s attack on Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009, the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: When they fail, peace talks wil ...
    It may not have reached the level of fevered expectation unleashed by that famous handshake between Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the White House lawn in 1993, but the sense of hope inspired by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israeli army recruitment plan a ...
    Leaders from the [Israeli] Palestinian community, Christian and Muslim, who have spoken against this new [IDF] enlistment effort have been called in for investigation by Israel’s secret police. In an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine peace talks, ...
    Noam Chomsky covers the upcoming Israel-Palestine 'peace talks' and the history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; settlements, the Occupation and the 'One-State' and 'Two-State' solutions; US... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Michael Sfard: ‘The peace process has become a ...
    Michael Sfard: “While talks are happening Israel gets away with anything. Land grabs, the expansion of settlements, even [Operation] Cast Lead was waged while there were peace talks.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its f ...

Ria Novosti - Military

Pruning Shears

  • US tech companies hamstrung by US surveillance
    About two and a half years ago I posted on the danger of the US turning into a tech pariah over its data collection policies. At the time I thought the main sticking points would be foreign governments’ concerns about their own confidential data being sent abroad, and objections to privac ...
  • Don't Frack Ohio starting this weekend: three ...
    Activists across Ohio are preparing for a weekend of activities in the northeast part of the state. On Saturday and Sunday, July 27th and 28th, at the First Congregational Church in Ravenna, there will be two days of trainings designed to give us the tools we can use to build a powerful movemen ...
  • Online news stories, corrections, and keeping ...
    One of the interesting wrinkles of journalism in the online age is the ease of accessing archives. It used to be that back issues were at best scanned to microfiche and stored in some musty, stale vault somewhere. Now, though, anyone with an Internet connection can get to them.This is not exac ...
  • U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlik ...
    Two recent stories have made for an interesting juxtaposition. First, the map of America’s intelligence underworld had some important contours filled in last Sunday with the New York Times’ report on the secret body of law that it called “almost a parallel Supreme Court.&#8221 ...
  • Adventures in cord cutting
    A few weeks ago the reception on my satellite TV service mysteriously went kaput. I put in a service request and the company said the earliest anyone could get out was in a week. This gave us some time to live without any traditional broadcast television, and after a few days we were getting a ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • The whole chain of events: CLF meets CTY
    The Center for Talented Youth is another great partner of the Center for a Livable Future and we are thrilled to have had such a successful first collaboration.
  • Trying New Things: Notes from a Dietetic Intern
    Together we set up a taste test at the store—handing out cups of frozen yogurt and local peaches—to promote healthier snacking.
  • CLF Week in Links: Meat, Fish, Dolphins, and More
    The way to make room for those important fruits and veggies is to cut back or eliminate those burgers and dogs! Starting with Meatless Monday we can rely on that old principle of psychology—inch by inch it’s a cinch, yard by yard it’s real hard.
  • Welcome to the Farm
    I suspected that I might have more nuanced and informed things to say about agriculture if I tried my hand at a little farming myself. I decided to give it a go.
  • Keeping Baltimore on Track with Sewer Upgrades
    Sadly, the City seems not to have made sufficient progress and is now seeking to renegotiate terms of the decree and seek an extension to the 2016 deadline.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Industry's Gas Migration
    A Public Interest Project by Ernst Environmental Services Obtaining data on groundwater contamination caused by the oil and gas industry in Canada is nearly impossible because of confidentiality agreements (non-disclosure or gag orders). Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |  ...
  • Mayflower, Arkansas residents face health prob ...
    "The oil went to the lake," Jarrell said. "But the toxic fumes came to us." Sam Eifling at The Arkansas Times has an excellent report on the Mayflower, Arkansas oil spill. Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 61 Reasons This Is the Most Anti-Environment H ...
    Whats worse than a do-nothing Congress? Its a do-something-bad Congress. Thats what we see today from the House GOP majority... Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Veterans, Share Your Stories
    Huffington Post is presenting a special project on suicide prevention Invisible Casualties If you or someone you know with military service has ever been affected by or considered suicide, we want to hear your story. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-i ...
  • Nine Foods You Should Never Eat Again
    There are a number of specific foods that you will want to avoid in almost every circumstance because they provide virtually no health benefits while posing plenty of health risks. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • Ending the GMO Scourge
    Want to get rid of GMOs? Each of us has to make the decision that we will do at least one thing… eliminate one GMO thing from our lives. That’s it. Just do it. Pick something. Like corn, for instance…
  • The Organic Loophole – Feed Brokers’ Exemption
    Feed brokers exempt from organic certification. Therefore, there is no guarantee that organic feed is not commingled with non-organic feed or contaminated.
  • Back Online!
    Lightning took out my Internet antenna and computer network port on the 7th, and today, the 12th, is the first day we have been back online. Thank you for your patience, and stay tuned for another article due to arrive shortly. If anyone cares to help with the cost of getting Farm Wars back onli ...
  • Civil Disobedience: The Right of Revolution
    We can resist in many ways, but the most effective method of resistance is to not support what we know to be wrong. We must live so that we are a counter friction, not supporting the wrongs that we condemn.
  • Glyphosate, Brain Damaged Babies, and Yakima V ...
    It appears that Yakima, Benton, and Franklin counties just happen to have three things in common – the Yakima River, a noxious weed eradication program using copious amount of Glyphosate for years on both land and in the river, and an increase in anencephaly, which Glyphosate just happens to be ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Egypt crisis: Cairo quiet after deadly crackdown
    ShareThisEgypt crisis: Cairo quiet after deadly crackdown --A curfew was imposed in Cairo and other cities overnight. 15 Aug 2013 The Egyptian capital Cairo is reported quiet after a crackdown on Islamists which left hundreds dead and drew international condemnation. At least 278 people died w ...
  • Baghdad bomb attacks kill at least 14: police
    ShareThisBaghdad bomb attacks kill at least 14: police 15 Aug 2013  Five car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 14 people on Thursday and wounded more than 80, Iraqi police sources said, with one attack close to the capital's "Green Zone" diplomatic complex. One bomb exploded just 200-300 met ...
  • US contractor accused of Abu Ghraib human righ ...
    ShareThisUS contractor accused of Abu Ghraib human rights violations suing former prisoners 14 Aug 2013 After a US federal judge ruled that CACI International, a US corporation, was not culpable for torture allegations at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, lawyers for the defense contractor have filed a ...
  • Bradley Manning apologizes for hurting U.S. on ...
    ShareThisBradley Manning apologizes for hurting U.S. on witness stand 14 Aug 2013 Bradley Manning has taken the stand during his sentencing hearing for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks and has apologized for hurting the United States and others. Manning gave an unsworn statement Wednesda ...
  • Journalist Michael Hastings reportedly working ...
    ShareThisJournalist Michael Hastings reportedly working on story about CIA chief before death 14 Aug 2013 Journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a fiery car crash in June, reportedly had been working on several big stories including one on CIA Director John Brennan before his death. Sa ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Utah beauty queen accused of throwing bombs re ...
    15 August 2013 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-bomb-boys-book-project?c=activity
  • The Basis for Safe, Secure, and Effective Glob ...
    13 August 2013 Article written by: Atmospherics Unlimited The following is an excerpt from the Atmospherics Unlimited White Paper titled: Atmospherics in Fragile and Conflict Zones: The Basis for Safe, Secure, and Effective Global Operations. The full white paper will soon be available for down ...
  • Lavabit
    09 August 2013 www.lavabit.com
  • Jalalabad Urination: Facebook Censorship
      06 August 2013 On Saturday a suicide attack unfolded near the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.  A dozen people were reported killed with another twenty wounded.   Eight of the killed were reported to be children. The next day, 04 August, another bomb explode ...
  • Forgotten Combat Video from Afghanistan
     30 July 2013 Last week the Kopp-Etchells series experienced another revival.  For four years the work has been translated into dozens of languages and seen ‘round the world in hundreds if not thousands of outlets ranging from Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, to the Smithsonian.  A ...

The Killing Train

  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 3, Suzy Harris-B ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This week we have architectural researcher Suzy Harris-Brandts, who studied and worked with the Decolonizing Architecture group in the West Bank. We discuss the limitations of negotiations, design tactics under occu ...
  • A tribute to Trayvon, from Delhi
    Trayvon Martin You forgot your Biblical lessons, Dear boy; God being Light, all Good things are white; And Satan being the prince Of darkness, being born black Is a hopeless mess. Against such black vissicitudes Was a just law found that said To the white killer, “stand your ground.” Onl ...
  • The Zimmerman Verdict and MMA
    Misinformation about martial arts seems to have played a role in the Zimmerman verdict. Because of the mass popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), there is an assumption that people know more about martial arts than they actually do. When the defense asked Zimmerman's MMA (mixe ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    For those in Toronto, I will be doing a little Q/A session at the University of Toronto's Hart House South Dining Room from 6-8pm on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Here's the description: The Future of India's Conflict Zones - Q/A with Justin Podur July 25, 2013, 6-8pm Hart House South Dining Room ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 2, Jon Elmer on ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This week we have Middle East journalist Jon Elmer, and we discuss the Egyptian Revolution, the Syrian Civil War, and the great powers and their designs in the middle east.

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • UN calls for talks in Burma after latest clash ...
    The United Nations has called for dialogue after another violent clash in a camp for dispossessed Rohingya Muslims in western Burma, as its human rights envoy toured the strife-torn area Tuesday
  • After weekend’s clashes, Rohingya pin bl ...
    A village outside of Arakan’s capital Sittwe quickly became the latest focal point of sectarian violence over the weekend as armed police shot into a crowd of Rohingya protestors. Tensions[...]
  • Officials target Rangoon township under new di ...
    Authorities from Rangoon division have issued a new directive in Bahan township mandating that residents, organisations and business owners provide officials with 20 days notice if they are planning to[...]
  • Ministry pledges to work with press council to ...
    Information Minister Aung Kyi said government officials were committed to addressing disputed articles in a controversial media draft bill that was largely panned by the country’s transitional press advisory board late last month
  • Tension boils over in Arakan state
    Attempts to bring stability to Burma’s restive Arakan state could be disintegrating after police opened fire on Rohingya Muslims last week, as tensions in the region continue to rise following[...]

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 1 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Is the Animal World Rebelling Against Humanity? Our world has so many majestic, intelligent, and emotionally evolved animals; arguably, humans are among them. But judging by how we treat these other animals, such as whales or elephants, for example, torturing them, keeping them imprisoned in tin ...
  • BFP Summer 2013 Information Packages
  • Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality
    “Congress needs to use the impeachment power that the Constitution provides and cease being subservient to the lawless executive branch.” Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 1 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Protest Egyptian Bloodbath, End U.S. Aid, Seve ...
    Yesterday’s bloodbath in Cairo in which hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood protesters were mown down in cold blood by security forces in service of the ruling military junta was predicted before it happened. Even the EU and U.S. intermediaries visiting last week warned the junta leaders not to ...
  • Lange Lies, Again
    David Lange and his Israellycool partner in crime, Brian Thomas, have been cooking with gas lately.  Not content merely to shill for Israel, they’ve outdone themselves in a few recent heroic acts of service to the “Jewish fatherland.” Thomas recently tweeted that the IDF should ...
  • Israel Violates Egyptian Sovereignty, Kills Fo ...
    Today, the IDF continued its serial violations of the territorial sovereignty of frontline Arab states as it has for decades. An IAF drone attacked a group of alleged militants preparing to launch missiles into Israel. Four were killed. The site was several miles inside the Egyptian border near ...
  • 4 Israeli Commandos Wounded in Lebanon Landmin ...
    The Daily Star reported yesterday that there was a major explosion on the Israel-Lebanon border in which four IDF soldiers were wounded.  After the Lebanese army investigated, it reported that a likely Israeli patrol had crossed the border for an unspecified purpose and caused the explosion.  Th ...
  • Shin Bet Chief Appoints Top Deputies Competing ...
    As anyone reading this blog knows, what goes on inside the belly of the beast that is the Israeli intelligence apparatus is about as opaque as it can be.  It’s a bit like watching the smoke from the Vatican fireplace to find out when a new pope is named.  All you can do is sit […]

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so very, ver ...
    SEK is drives to HIS IN-LAW’S to check something on the Internet before heading to Baton Rouge to reclaim all his worldly possessions from THE AWESOME HISPANIC MOVERS. THE ROAD: I AM FULL OF DEER! SEK: !?! THE ROAD: FULL OF DEER! SEK: !?! THE ROAD: DEER DEER DEER! SEK: SHIT SHIT SHIT! [sla ...
  • Lean In On Me Unpaid Labor
    Yet another unethical and — if state and federal statues mean anything — illegal unpaid internship: Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.org foundation is in hot water after its top editor tried to lean on an unpaid intern. The trouble began when the foundation’s editorial maven Jess ...
  • 1940s Parking
    We need more of these parking contraptions.     
  • Real estate tycoon gives law school $55 millio ...
    Even in the grim context of contemporary American legal education Chapman University’s law school has catastrophic employment numbers. Only 65 of the school’s 178 2012 graduates purportedly had jobs as lawyers (full-time jobs lasting at least a year requiring bar admission) in Februa ...
  • President Shocked To Discover Leading Party Co ...
    Apparently the waaaaahambulance has been called to 1600 Pennsyylvania Avenue: Surprised and irritated to see Senate Democrats touting a preferred candidate for Federal Reserve chairman, White House officials have moved behind the scenes to quash the campaign and are insisting President Barack Ob ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Celebrating DRI’s unique Storm Peak Laboratory
    On Friday, August 9th in Steamboat Springs, Colorado DRI will celebrate nearly $1 million in upgrades and renovations to the Institute’s high-elevation, mountain-top atmospheric sciences lab, and honor Steamboat Ski Resort with DRI’s 2014 President’s Medal.
  • Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
  • A new understanding of the North American monsoon
    Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...
  • Desert Research Institute contributes to ongoi ...
    Using a dust detection device patented by Desert Research Institute scientists, Dr. Vic Etyemezian and George Nikolich have the ability to identify how “Valley Fever,” a devastating fungus called Coccidioides, spreads.
  • Nyssa Perryman, June 2013 Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Nyssa Perryman, a Ph.D. student working in Atmospheric Sciences as a part of the Climate Modeling Team. Her research focus is understanding how global climate models, when transformed and applied to the complex terrain of the Western U.S., characterize atmospheric rivers and their cons ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Airline Lawyers Say DOJ 'Got This One Very Wrong'
    Lawyers for US Airways and American Airlines came out swinging against the Justice Department, holding a conference call with reporters where they vowed to defend their clients' $11 billion merger in court.
  • AGs Fight to Return S&P Litigation to Their Ho ...
    The attorneys general of 15 states are fighting for a return to state courts for lawsuits alleging that Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC issued inflated ratings for mortgage-backed securities leading up to the recession.
  • Sony, Nvidia Recoup Costs of Bad Faith Patent ...
    A Colorado federal judge has ordered computer system maker Biax Corp. to pay nearly $2 million in Sony Corp. and Nvidia Corp.?s legal fees on the ground that Biax acted in bad faith by prolonging a patent case against them.
  • Chapman Law Changes Name Following $55 Million ...
    Chapman University School of Law is being renamed The Dale E. Fowler School of Law following a $55 million donation from its new namesake. Fowler is a real estate developer who made his fortune in residential and industrial real estate development primarily in Orange County, Calif., where Chapma ...
  • Boeing Named as Defendant in Fatal Asiana Airl ...
    The first lawsuits have been filed in federal court in San Francisco against The Boeing Co., manufacturer of the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed on July 6 while landing at San Francisco International Airport.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Plants in U.S. Southwest Moving Higher as Clim ...
    Numerous plant species on a mountain in the southwestern U.S. are migrating to higher elevations as the climate gets warmer and drier, according to a new University of ArizonaAn alligator juniper on Mount Lemmon study. After comparing the results of a recent survey of 27 plants found on Mount ...
  • Interview: Scientists, Aid Experts Prepare for ...
    Harvard University recently sponsored a conference that brought together two groups — climate scientists and humanitarian relief workers — that will undoubtedly be collaborating more closely in the future Jennifer Leaning as natural disasters intensify in a warming world. The woman who was instr ...
  • Bears Using Wildlife Corridors In Canadian Par ...
    Genetic testing has revealed that bears in Canada’s Banff National Park routinely cross the bridges and underpasses along the Trans-Canada Highway, evidence that the ecological corridors provide safe HighwayWilding.orgA grizzly passes through a Banff underpass passage along a busy roadway tha ...
  • Too Many Urban Beehives May Do More Harm Than ...
    A surge in urban beekeeping may be doing more harm than good to honeybee populations, according to UK scientists. As the number of rooftop hives increases in cities worldwide — including London, where there are Matthias Walendy A Berlin beekeeper now 10 hives per square kilometer — two rese ...
  • The War on African Poaching: Is Militarizatio ...
    African countries and private game reserves are waging an increasingly sophisticated arms race against poachers, yet the slaughter of elephants and rhinos continues. Some experts argue that the battle must be joined on a far wider front that targets demand in Asia and judicial dysfunction in Afr ...

Red Ice Creations

  • CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Mic ...
    This week Elise Jordan, wife of famed journalist Michael Hastings, who recently died under suspicious circumstances, corroborated this reporter’s sources that CIA Director, John Brennan was Hastings next exposé project. [...] This new information prompted another round of FOIA/CPRAs and only add ...
  • The Occult Symbolism of the Bronx Zoo
    A hidden body of ancient spiritual wisdom lies encoded in the architecture of the Bronx Zoo in New York City. It was put there by the architects and stonemasons who designed and built the zoo’s central structures at the turn of the last century. This wisdom is akin to the “lost” doctrine of the ...
  • Decoding Mona Lisa: Have archaeologists found ...
    Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, is likely based on Lisa del Giocondo, who lived in Florence at the turn of the 16th century. On Friday, archaeologists cut into the del Giocondo family crypt in hopes of confirming the identity of the Mona Lisa’s model. The most mysterious smile in art hi ...
  • Pump and pray: Tepco might have to pour water ...
    Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe. On April 25, 2011 – one month after the explosi ...
  • Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Isra ...
    In a campaign to improve its image abroad, the Israeli government plans to provide scholarships to hundreds of students at its seven universities in exchange for their making pro-Israel Facebook posts and tweets to foreign audiences. The students making the posts will not reveal online that they ...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Abby Martin Calls Out Rachel Maddow For Painti ...
    JRE #381 - Abby Martin YouTube: http://youtu.be/zbjrwJG54XA?a Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/71782530 #ONNIT http://tinyurl.com/ajd2k38 Abby Martin Calls Out Rachel Maddow For Painting 9/11 Truthers As Potential Terrorist Published on Aug 9, 2013 August 09, 2013 Russia Today News http://MOXN ...
  • 9/11 Truth Teleconference Interview with Chemi ...
    Published on Aug 5, 2013 For further information about Mark Basile's effort and to help out, visit: http://markbasile.org/ For further information about the 9/11 Truth Teleconference, write Ken Freeland at: diogenesquest@gmail.com Visit: houston911truth.net/9-11TruthTeleconfere­nceArc ...
  • Conspiracy Theorists Are Crazy!
    https://www.facebook.com/conspiracypete Related: The Politics of Conspiracy Theory Debunking Myths on Conspiracy Theories Quotes on Conspiracy Theories - Updated Version - Originally Posted in 2008
  • Screw Loose Change Blog on Psychological Study ...
    Pat Curley of Screw Loose Change writes: Psychological Study of Truthers and Debunkers Online Worth a read... I do have an alternate explanation for this observation: We also found that hostility was higher in persuasive arguments made by conventionalists than in those by conspiracists. ...
  • Radio Interviews with Blog Contributor Adam Taylor

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Plans to evict Botswana Bushmen revealed by le ...
    The leaked report details how to evict Ranyane residents who resist relocation, such as sealing their borehole.© Survival InternationalSurvival International has obtained detailed plans for the forced relocation of Bushmen by a local council in western Botswana, despite a recent High Court order ...
  • Survivors of Yanomami massacre speak out 20 ye ...
    Survivors of the Haximu massacre, in which gold-miners killed 16 Yanomami Indians, hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalSurvivors of a gruesome massacre in which sixteen Yanomami Indians were killed at the hands of illegal gold-miners have spoken out twenty yea ...
  • Peru repeals official report on threats to unc ...
    Raya, a Nahua elder. More than half his people were wiped out after their land was opened up for oil exploration, Peru.© Johan WildhagenPeru’s Prime Minister has announced that his government has scrapped an official report warning of the dangers a controversial gas project poses to uncontacted ...
  • Proof of uncontacted Indians is serious blow t ...
    Many of the local Matsés Indians believe the uncontacted Indians are related to their tribe. They strongly reject Pacific Rubiales' work in the proposed reserve. © Christopher PillitzIn an embarrassing blow to Colombian-Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales, the Peruvian government has conf ...
  • Survival celebrates tribes' ingenious skills o ...
    Survival is marking UN Indigenous Day with a gallery featuring tribal peoples' ingenious skills and the threats they face. © Claudia Andujar/SurvivalSurvival International has published a photographic gallery ahead of UN Indigenous Day on August 9, showing some of the extraordinary skills o ...

Greg Palast

  • Euro Krieg! Greece Surrenders to Germany 2013 ...
    By Michael Nevradakis for Truthout In his career as an investigative journalist, economist, and bestselling author -Vultures' Picnic, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast has not been afraid to tackle some of the most powerful names in politics and fina ...
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    Donate so we can complete this important film.
  • An Open Letter to Trayvon Martin's Father
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Dear Mr. Martin, I have a 16-year old son. I cannot imagine losing him because some beast decided to play Lone Ranger. And so, with cautious humility, I make this suggestion, this plea. Sue the beast. You must. I understand you are reluctant to launch another painful ...
  • The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Y ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a cliff. This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged wi ...
  • New York Genitals Fight for Office ... While S ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Go ahead and shoot me. It’s hopeless. My War on Stupid is facing defeat on every front. I open up the New York Times and there’s a page one story about Anthony Weiner, who is now ahead in the race for Mayor of New York. The article is 17 [...]

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine and Primary Ovar ...
    Am J Reprod Immunol. 2013 Jul 31. doi: 10.1111/aji.12151. [Epub ahead of print] Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine and Primary Ovarian Failure: Another Facet of the Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants. Colafrancesco S, Perricone C, Tomljenovic L, Shoenfeld Y. Source Zabludowicz...
  • Voices for Vaccines III: The Opinions and Sile ...
    By John Stone Following two articles on the organization Voices for Vaccine and its two leading advocates Dorit Reiss and Karen Ernst . John Stone (UK Editor of Age of Autism) had the opportunity for a detailed exchange of views...
  • Dachel Media Update: Slate Hate, HPV Vax & Ear ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. August 13, 2013, Slate.com: Endangering the Herd--The case for suing parents who don't vaccinate their kids-or criminally charging them August 13, 2013, Health Impact News: Study: HPV Vaccine Linked to Premature...
  • His Name Was Ritchey: Autism's Case 3 Offers C ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill RALEIGH, N.C. -- Our search ends here, not far from where it began. No, says Brook Blanton, listed as the "informant" on the death certificate, she can't give us any information. Politely professional, she...
  • Dachel Media Update: Induced Labor, Vaccine De ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. August 13, 2013, TIME: Induced Labor Linked to Higher Autism Risk August 12, 2013, Los Angeles Times: Vaccine debate: The conspiracy theorists vs. reality TIME "Artificially stimulating labor is associated with...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Ending the GMO Scourge
    Want to get rid of GMOs? Each of us has to make the decision that we will do at least one thing… eliminate one GMO thing from our lives. That’s it. Just do it. Pick something. Like corn, for instance…
  • The Organic Loophole – Feed Brokers’ Exemption
    Feed brokers exempt from organic certification. Therefore, there is no guarantee that organic feed is not commingled with non-organic feed or contaminated.
  • Back Online!
    Lightning took out my Internet antenna and computer network port on the 7th, and today, the 12th, is the first day we have been back online. Thank you for your patience, and stay tuned for another article due to arrive shortly. If anyone cares to help with the cost of getting Farm Wars back onli ...
  • Civil Disobedience: The Right of Revolution
    We can resist in many ways, but the most effective method of resistance is to not support what we know to be wrong. We must live so that we are a counter friction, not supporting the wrongs that we condemn.
  • Glyphosate, Brain Damaged Babies, and Yakima V ...
    It appears that Yakima, Benton, and Franklin counties just happen to have three things in common – the Yakima River, a noxious weed eradication program using copious amount of Glyphosate for years on both land and in the river, and an increase in anencephaly, which Glyphosate just happens to be ...

new geography

  • Major Metropolitan Areas in Europe
    Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Commission (European Union) now designates metropolitan areas (Note) for the European Union (EU) and the European Three Trade Association (EFTA). The EU has 28 members, having just added Croatia, while the EFTA has 4 members. According to the ...
  • Young Tech Tycoons Pushing Left Coast Ahead Of ...
    There are two deep-blue regions that are critical to the Obama administration: the Northeast and the coastal region between San Jose and Seattle that truly deserves the moniker of the Left Coast. They dominate the Democratic donor list, and provide the administration with most of its appoi ...
  • Is the Census Bureau On Track For Another Esti ...
    When the 2010 Census results were released, a number of big cities had populations that were very off from what would have been expected based on the Census Bureau’s previous annual estimates of the population – sometimes grossly so.  Some of these were related to cities that had chall ...
  • Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs
    For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increasingly, the one-time folk heroes are beginning to appear more like a digital version of President George W. Bush's “axis of ev ...
  • Can Kamaishi, Japan Recover From the Tsunami?
    KAMAISHI, Japan - Two years after the disastrous 2011 earthquake and tsunami, most of the debris from the deluge has been cleared away in this small city on the northern edge of Japan’s tsunami coast. The cars and vans once piled on top of each other like some kind of apocalyptic traffic jam hav ...

water.org

  • Water for Girmawit Alema
    The shortage of safe water has been a critical problem for the people living in the rural village of Kokeb Tsibah (Gradender), located in Wereda Gulo-Mekeda. In the absence of a better option, the community has been drinking water from an unprotected source for a long period of time.
  • The Impact of Water Committees
    Drinking water is not free in Haiti. Infrastructure is expensive and in order to ensure long-term sustainability, users must contribute financially in order to support things like administration and ongoing maintenance. The presence of a water committee gives people a voice in creating solutions ...
  • Neelamma’s Water Tap
    Neelamma has struggled for years without a water connection at home, suffering from skin conditions contracted through contaminated water and walking long distances to find water sources. At 37, Nelamma is divorced, has a 3 year old daughter, and lives with her parents in Mariyala village, Chama ...
  • A Water Connection for Siddamma
    Siddamma lives with her husband and a daughter in the Mysore district of Karnataka. Her family consumed water from the public tap for several years. On some days, they would get enough water, but on most days the water was not sufficient for consumption. Siddamma and her daughter would wait for ...
  • A Well Inauguration
    The people of Pot 15 applaud with the joy for the well [that they now have] after three months of training to ensure that the well has a future. For several years residents had to go to neighboring communities for a drop of water. During the [well] inauguration ceremony one of the members of the ...

Cryptogon

  • Intel’s New Optical Server Interconnect: ...
    Via: PC World: Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centers. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a “next-generation optical connector” that could be ...
  • Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought
    Via: MIT News: Information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression — also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation. Since 1948, when the paper that created information theory first appeared, most information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes ...
  • Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Nor ...
    Via: Scientific American: There seems to be a simple way to instantly increase a person’s level of general knowledge. Psychologists Ulrich Weger and Stephen Loughnan recently asked two groups of people to answer questions. People in one group were told that before each question, the answer would ...
  • Google: If You Use Gmail, You Have ‘No L ...
    Via: Business Insider: If you happen to be one of the 400 million people who use Google’s Gmail service for sending and receiving emails, you shouldn’t have any expectation of privacy, according to a court briefing obtained by the Consumer Watchdog website. In a motion filed last mon ...
  • More Fast and Furious Guns Surface at Crime Sc ...
    Via: CBS: Three more weapons from Fast and Furious have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico, CBS News has learned, as the toll from the controversial federal operation grows. According to Justice Department tracing documents obtained by CBS News, all three guns are WASR-10 762-caliber Romanian r ...

The Economic Collapse

  • If This Guy Is What The Future Of America Look ...
    Should taxpayer dollars be used to buy sushi and lobster for a young man whose future plans consist entirely of surfing and partying as much as he possibly can?  When I first saw the video that I am about to share with you, I was absolutely floored.  Recently, Fox News interviewed a self-describ ...
  • This Is The Biggest Cluster Of Hindenburg Omen ...
    Are we heading for a major stock market decline?  Warnings about a crash of the financial markets are quite common these days, and usually they don't materialize.  But this time may be different.  A number of top analysts are pointing out the fact that the biggest cluster of "Hindenburg Omens" h ...
  • They Are Systematically Destroying Our Indepen ...
    The percentage of Americans that are economically independent has dropped to a stunningly low level.  In order to be economically independent, you have got to be able to take care of yourself without any assistance from anyone else.  Unless you are independently wealthy, that means that you eith ...
  • Why Are So Many People Choosing To Leave The U ...
    Have things gotten so bad that it is time to leave the United States for good?  That is a question that a lot of Americans are dealing with these days, and an increasing number of them are choosing to leave the country of their birth permanently.  Some are doing it for tax reasons, some are [...]
  • Are These The Last Days Of The U.S. Marine Corps?
    Are the current personnel cuts the beginning of the end for the U.S. Marines?  Could these actually be the last days of the U.S. Marine Corps?  A decade ago, such a notion would have been absolutely unthinkable, but times have changed.  The Marine Corps was already in the process of drawing down ...

Desertification

  • Partnership agreement to combat desertificatio ...
    Read at : http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/dubai-positioning-itself-a-a-unccd-hub-in-the-gcc-region-1.1219683 Dubai positioning itself as a UNCCD hub in the GCC region =================================================================================== MY NEW EXPERIMENTAL KITCHEN GAR ...
  • Neem (Azadirachta indica) : The “miracle ...
    Read at : http://www.dw.de/using-neem-trees-to-combat-desertification/a-17016776 Global Ideas Using neem trees to combat desertification It requires little water, grows fast and lays deep root – we’re referring to the neem. An intiative to plant the “miracle” trees in Per ...
  • A rice plant with deeper roots that can sustai ...
    Read at : http://www.france24.com/en/20130804-roots-breakthrough-drought-resistant-rice Roots breakthrough for drought-resistant rice AFP – Japanese biotechnologists on Sunday said they had developed a rice plant with deeper roots that can sustain high yields in droughts that wipe out conv ...
  • Optimising land management programmes to reap ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812154228.htm Soil Biodiversity Will Be Crucial to Future Land Management and Response to Climate Change Aug. 12, 2013 — Research by scientists at The University of Manchester and Lancaster shows maintaining healthy soil biodiversity can ...
  • Protein That Helps Plants Tolerate Drought (Sc ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812154904.htm Protein That Helps Plants Tolerate Drought, Flooding, Other Stresses Discovered Aug. 12, 2013 — A team including Dartmouth researchers has uncovered a protein that plays a vital role in how plant roots use water and nutrient ...

News Blaze

libcom

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • NSA Atrocities – Part III – Brain ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, my friends. There is a reason why the massive NSA “Data Collection Center” is located in Utah.   Make no mistake – the NSA is not about keeping America safe.   The truth is, it is without a doubt TARGETING AMERICA for totally tyranny and mass min ...
  • NSA Attrocities Part II
    Keep in mind this is OLD (at least 15 years) technology.   Add to this eavesdropping technology, then Voice 2 Skull satellite microwave capabilities,  —- well you should be able to get the picture (no pun intended) what domestic drones are now capable of doing. Can you see why I, A. True O ...
  • Please – Call me a Christian Patriot!
    Please call me a Christian Patriot.   I did no work to earn that – but Jesus did it all for me.  
  • NSA Attrocities – THE FULL STORY BEHIND ...
    Ok, friends.  I haven’t wanted to tread on this ground simply because it has been my experience that it is well beyond the scope of most people to comprehend, even though it is all completely true.   Furthermore, nothing will label you a “crackpot conspiracy nut” by the “ ...
  • Glen Beck’s Latest Lying Insanity
    Beck is flat out Crazy as Bat Guana piled in a dark cave!   Typical Zionist Mormon propagandist – spewing false rhetoric while promoting a clear RELIGIOUS FRAUD that is deceitful in every conceivable way.    That FRAUD is modern-day “Jews” falsely laying claim to being the lite ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Obama Appoints Spy Chief to Head NSA Investigation
    by Stephen Lendman You can't make this stuff up. It sounds like a bad film plot. The fix is in. Obama's reform assures business as usual. His promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. He says one thing. He does another. It happens every time. He broke every major promise made. He's ...
  • 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 did illegitimately. His supporters want him reinstated. They ...
  • 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's self-destructive. Today's super-weapons make the ...
  • Orwellian Smart Grid Exposé to air Sept. 5
    By Rady Ananda Activist Post A single smart meter measuring a home’s electricity usage, by appliance, emits radiation 100 times higher than the level internationally recognized as “extreme concern” and 450 times higher than a cell phone. These are but two of the facts presen ...
  • My Favorite Dog Tricks - Blocked by YouTube
    Just two days ago, on August 10, 2013, I published the article “They Lived" at Sandy Hook. They Live is a movie about a nameless, unemployed drifter referred to as “Nada” (Roddy Piper), who discovers a special pair of sunglasses that allows him to see an alternate reality of ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Join CCPA-NS (and Karl Marx) for a special fal ...
    Join CCPA's Nova Scotia Office for a very special fall fundraiser. This year's event features Cape Breton's George MacKenzie performing as Karl Marx (returning to defend his life and his work) in the Howard Zinn play, Marx in Soho. Tickets to the event include a savoury Italian meal, and admiss ...
  • Affordable Housing in Winnipeg
    Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in discussion of housing, and a broader awareness that something needs to chan ...
  • CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...
  • CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...
  • Applications open for the Next Up youth leader ...
    Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA co-hosts for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32, in Vancouver, Edmonto ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
  • Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
    "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Gassiest Country
    Introduction This is the 4th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP Today’s ...
  • The State of Oil According to BP
    This is the 3rd installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts - Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 and Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on renewables. This post delves into ...
  • Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013
    This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower and geothermal power. Some of the ...
  • Renewable Energy Status Update 2013
    Today I begin a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Because the past two posts have dealt with the Keystone XL pipeline project, I thought it would be a good change of pace to kick off this series by looking at the current global picture of rene ...
  • Protecting a Drowning Man from Sunburn
    There is lots of extrapolating, and emphasis on the potential for burning all of Alberta's oil sands. Yet all of the extrapolating in the world, writes Robert Rapier, doesn't take away from the fact that oil -- over the course of the next century or more -- will make a relatively insignificant c ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Two weeks ahead of Microsoft-Motorola jury tri ...
    Although Judge Robart largely agreed with Motorola that attorneys' fees were not recoverable in breach of contract cases - and that, under Washington law, Microsoft had not shown that any exceptions to the "American Rule" applied - he still nonetheless denied Motorola's motion. Judge Robart agr ...
  • Academic Papers and Articles (Standard Essenti ...
    Over the last decade, many, many pages have been dedicated to the topic of standard-essential patents in various academic papers and journal articles. This page includes links to a variety of papers that we have found to be interesting or otherwise noteworthy. [PJ: Note excerpts from Interpreti ...
  • Conservatives want patent reform. Thats new.
    The [Manhattan Institute] study directs particular ire at patents on software. "Litigation over software patents has became a drag, not a boon, to technological innovation," the study notes in its opening paragraph. The study argues that "software patents are hard to define, enabling aggressive ...
  • For Jeff Bezos, a new frontier
    Of Bezos's purchase of The Post, Kaphan said: "It makes me feel quite nauseous. I'd hate to see the newspaper converted into a corporate libertarian mouthpiece."Paul Davis... pointed to a comment he had made on a Web site defending Bezos's interest in the newspaper. "If anyone really thinks tha ...
  • Why Ubuntus creator still invests his fortune ...
    "In my mind the scope of the opportunity has grown and with it my willingness to invest," he said. "I'm interested in the type of disruption, in the idea that at some future date you could have an app running on your phone, that app could be an Ubuntu app, you could dock that app to a big screen ...

WideShut

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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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Public Works Protection Act Strikes Again
    Eight Arrested at Swamp Line 9 Courtroom Solidarity Action This story is developing. UPDATE (10:05pm): The first arrestee has been release ...
  • Austerity chokes Canada’s down-and-out as Harp ...
    By Nick Fillmore The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past seven years have come home to roost as millions of Canadians, depressed and without hop ...
  • Police Harassment and Intimidation of George S ...
    Battle over Seaton House and Gentrification Picks Up We are writing this statement as residents of 311 George Street, a collective house situated in Toronto's downtown east. Ove ...
  • Nova Scotia Government with Frack Waste Broker ...
    One of the most persistent questions that NOFRAC has raised is what happened to the missing 4 million litres of fracking wastewater for which there is documentation that approximately 3 million of it was transported out of one of the Kenne ...
  • Photo essay of the August 13 Justice for Sammy ...
    from the Facebook event call out:  Rally at Yonge Dundas Square at 12pm. Marching down to the Toronto Police Services Board Meeting at 40 College Street for 1pm.  Join us as we mourn the death of Sammy Yatim, Toronto&#3 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Summertime - blogger's rest
    David Seaton's News Links   The endless south Europe August is well underway and I am "busy" sleeping off a a very hard year, which seems to be ending better than I expected. Before it's over I may even get a little beach in, who knows? I probably wont post much of anything till mid-Septem ...
  • Support the fast food workers strike!
    David Seaton's News LinksHundreds of fast food workers in seven cities across the U.S. walked out on their jobs Monday demanding a “living wage,” or double what many are making now. More strikes are expected this week in what’s become one of the biggest pushes to organize the industry’s histori ...
  • Whither Weiner's Weeny?
    David Seaton's News LinksAsked how he would explain the incidents to his son, Weiner said "First of all, the kid's going to grow up in Gracie Mansion. So I'm going to say, 'Kid, don't complain.'" Huffington PostThe saga of Anthony Weiner is beyond caricature. What redeeming feature does this poo ...
  • The "North Korean Propaganda" film: a discussion
    David Seaton's News LinksA YouTube video purported to be a leaked North Korean propaganda film has been making the Internet rounds. The film, which has been called scarily accurate, criticizes Western capitalism, consumerism and celebrity culture. Update: The clip is actually from a 2012 documen ...
  • Snowden... what if?
    David Seaton's News LinksDisclaimer: I would start off by saying that whoever or whatever Edward Snowden is, I believe that he has performed an important and useful service to America and to the world by revealing the extent of the National Security Agency's spying programs.  This universal ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • John Boehner is Basically Running a Summer Cam ...
    Robert Costa's behind-the-scenes look at the Republican House leadership is interesting primarily for the way it shows how John Boehner deals with his caucus these days. In a nutshell, he has to treat them like very small, very volatile children who can't be reasoned with and have to be consta ...
  • Personal Injury Report Follow-Up
    I just got back from a follow-up visit with the orthopedist, and I know you're all eager for news. Going in, I figured that I'd end up with a cast on my left elbow for sure, but I was hoping that they'd give me a walking boot for my right ankle and not make me wear anything permanent. But i ...
  • "Relevance" Joins "Imminence" and "Is" in Pant ...
    Jeffrey Rosen says that the Obama administration's white paper defending the NSA's surveillance programs is "flimsy and weak": The White Paper, released on August 9, is surprisingly mostly in the lameness of its effort to justify what it calls “Bulk Collection of Telephony Metadata ...
  • Deregulation May Not Have Been a Boon For Airl ...
    The LA Times opines this morning on the Obama administration's decision to block a merger between American Airlines and US Airways: The best illustration of the virtues of deregulation may be the U.S. airline industry, which Congress liberated from most nonsafety-related rules in 1978. T ...
  • Feds Let Whale Off the Hook, Settle for Minnow ...
    Good news! We're getting criminal charges in the "London Whale" case: Prosecutors are expected to charge Javier Martin-Artajo, a Spaniard who led the team that made the disastrous trades, and Julien Grout, a Frenchman responsible for recording and distributing daily values on the group's ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 405: Twitter Nuclear War
    Amish Mafia and bad “reality TV shows” X-Files wasn’t that good Slander Wars on Twitter The lack of a nuclear deterrent on Twitter Accepting the consequences of entering into a Mutual Assured Destruction slander war Stop asking about Scott Adkins as Batman Kriss & Kev deba ...
  • IC 404: Kev’s True Baltimorean Stories
    Batman casting rumors The Flash TV Show Celebrities who did cartoon voices Sentinel or Dyson Vacuum cleaner Fox messing up comic book movies Kev True Baltimorean Stories Christian rap Share with your friends:
  • IC 403: ‘Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute’ & Other ...
    The Wolverine & Fox trying to do comic book movies The Venture Brothers Gina Carano as Wonder Woman Harry Belafonte & Jay Z Social activism and black celebrities Stop blaming black people for issues affecting the black community Don Lemon and his 5 stupid tips Share with your friends:
  • IC 402: Nolan’s Back
    Kriss is really excited about SDCC news Kriss goes off on nerds Kev tries to steal a man’s girlfriend…then embarrasses the dude in front of her A man that is really bad at parallel parking The horrible Gladiator 2 script Share with your friends:
  • IC 401: Distraction
    Most people are aware of how rough this week has been so this show is Kriss, Kev & Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips trying to have a show focused on the more fun things in life. Random topics and reading back some listener emails. Also Kriss recorded his thoughts earlier in the day [...]

Simple Climate

  • What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
    Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.
  • What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
    Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.
  • Climate change can make us more violent
    Economists from University of California, Berkeley, say projected 2°C warming could increase the rate of civil wars by over 50% in many parts of the world
  • Climate change can make us more violent
    Economists from University of California, Berkeley, say projected 2°C warming could increase the rate of civil wars by over 50% in many parts of the world
  • How a beer bottle helped reveal rapid past cli ...
    University of Copenhagen’s Willi Dansgaard's method for linking rainfall to temperature grew from a simple back garden experiment to a way to decipher Earth’s climate history from kilometre-long cylinders of ice.

e!Science News

  • Try clapping your wet hands; a physics lesson ...
    Sunny Jung continues to redefine the views on the laws of physics, and in doing so, impacts the research on topics as varied as drug delivery methods to fuel efficiency. read more
  • Dragonflies can see by switching 'on' and 'off'
    Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered a novel and complex visual circuit in a dragonfly's brain that could one day help to improve vision systems for robots. read more
  • Characteristics of family killers revealed by ...
    Of all the dark forms that murder can take, the slaying of a family by the father is one of the most tragic and the least understood. This first ever study of British 'family annihilators', published in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, has analysed three decades of cases and reveals four ...
  • Astronomers show galaxies had 'mature' shapes ...
    Studying the evolution and anatomy of galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by doctoral candidate BoMee Lee and her advisor Mauro Giavalisco at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier ...
  • Visualized heartbeat can trigger 'out-of-body ...
    A visual projection of human heartbeats can be used to generate an "out-of-body experience," according to new research to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The findings could inform new kinds of treatment for people with self ...

unEarthed

  • As Coal Exports, Its Dark Legacy Stays Home
    Earthjustice challenges industry plans to increase world market Companies are eyeing overseas markets for America's coal. (Aleksey Stemmer / Shutterstock) The ...
  • TIME Magazine Envisions a World Without Honeybees
    Spoiler: It's not a world anyone wants to live in TIME Magazine's cover this week depicts a single bee, its wings flapping in frenzied motion on a stark bla ...
  • Water Advocates Urge Action By The EPA
    Regulators get an earful from a roomful of citizens about coal plant pollution Power plant water discharges are filled with toxic pollution.  (EPA) Gathe ...
  • Kids Speak Up On Fracking
    The oil and gas industry's worst nightmare, apparently A Pennsylvania family's spring became flammable after a Marcellus well was drilled on their property. (© J.B.Pribanic) ...
  • As Wildlife Dies, Outrage Mounts Over Florida ...
    EPA turns back on stopping killer goo that chokes waterways, coastline Thousands of residents gathered in Stuart, FL to protest the government's coddling of polluters. (Justin Parsons) ...

Brave New Climate

  • Vote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presente ...
    Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab at MIT. If Tom’s pitch garners the most votes, the push to get the first PRISM bui ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste ...
    This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the series by discussing why nuclear waste is such a valuable resource and also cleans up a few relat ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 3: Case studies
    This is the third in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1 and Part 2. Case studies in waste disposal Finland’s nuclear waste repository For many, I suspect the most compelling evide ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 2: The nuts and bolts of waste
    This is the second in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Click here for Part 1. What’s special about nuclear waste? In Part I, we found that radioactive decay in the earth’s crust is continuou ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 1: The elephant (shrew) in ...
    This is the first in a four part series on nuclear waste which will run on BraveNewClimate.com over the next four days. Geoff Russell, August 2013 (Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

+972

  • Palestinians celebrate anniversary of return t ...
    The displaced members of the village of Iqrit marked one year since their groundbreaking direct action: the return of the village youth to the village, the revival of its traditions and the strengthening of their hold on the land. Although they are now celebrating with friends and supporters, th ...
  • From prisoner releases to West Bank protests: ...
    This week: The release of pre-Oslo Palestinian prisoners, Eid at the sea, the return to villages destroyed in the Nakba, and weekly demonstrations against the occupation.     See more photos: Released Palestinian prisoners arrive home to West Bank      
  • The Cairo massacre and winner-takes-all politics
    In one of the more insightful comments on the Egyptian military coup, The New Yorker’s George Packer wrote back in July on the political culture of “winner takes all” that dominates the country in the post-Mubarak era. Islamists and secular-minded Egyptians regard one another as obstacles to pow ...
  • How the ‘stop and frisk’ ruling he ...
    On Monday, a federal judge in New York ruled against the New York City Police Department’s “stop and frisk” practice (a policy not limited of course to New York). The judge found that the practice, as it has been applied, violates the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs. Why does this matter ...
  • Tel Aviv to Lake Wobegon: Insights on ego
    Where a Colombian reporter helps me get a picture with one of my favorite artists. Well, the Twin Cities are turning out to be as charming as a metropolitan slab of concrete can get. The food’s not too bad (let’s face it, it ain’t New York), the people are the nicest I’ve met, ever (!) [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Tasmania's giants protected forever
    Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water, Mark Butler, today took the final step for the protection of Tasmania's Giant Trees and Tall Eucalypt Forests under Australian law.
  • A bright future ahead for FluoroCycle
    Lighting Council Australia has officially taken on responsibility for the FluoroCycle scheme, which aims to reduce the amount of harmful mercury entering the environment from the disposal of waste mercury-containing lamps.
  • Statement - Venture Minerals
    I have granted Venture Minerals approval to proceed with their proposed Riley Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) Hematite Mine in north-western Tasmania for which a mining lease has been issued by the Tasmanian Government.
  • Local growers celebrate $3.3 Million McLaren V ...
    Up to 726 megalitres a year of precious drinking water will be saved in McLaren Vale, with the recent completion of a recycled stormwater plant in the region.
  • A '300 billion litre drink' for the River Murray
    Around 300 billion litres of Commonwealth environmental water will flow into the River Murray Valley in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia over the next seven months, helping rejuvenate natural assets like the Lower Lakes in South Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • The whole chain of events: CLF meets CTY
    The Center for Talented Youth is another great partner of the Center for a Livable Future and we are thrilled to have had such a successful first collaboration.
  • Trying New Things: Notes from a Dietetic Intern
    Together we set up a taste test at the store—handing out cups of frozen yogurt and local peaches—to promote healthier snacking.
  • CLF Week in Links: Meat, Fish, Dolphins, and More
    The way to make room for those important fruits and veggies is to cut back or eliminate those burgers and dogs! Starting with Meatless Monday we can rely on that old principle of psychology—inch by inch it’s a cinch, yard by yard it’s real hard.
  • Welcome to the Farm
    I suspected that I might have more nuanced and informed things to say about agriculture if I tried my hand at a little farming myself. I decided to give it a go.
  • Keeping Baltimore on Track with Sewer Upgrades
    Sadly, the City seems not to have made sufficient progress and is now seeking to renegotiate terms of the decree and seek an extension to the 2016 deadline.

k2p blog

  • Religion, democracies and the “restraint ...
    The Arab Springs will not lead to any real "democracies" in the Middle East and North Africa as long as inherently self-contradictory "religious parties" are around. For there is no religious party - in any country - which would accept that the laws of man could override the imaginary laws of th ...
  • Observer’s political correspondent caugh ...
    Andrew Rawnsley, according to his Guardian profile, is the Observer's award-winning chief political commentator. He is also a critically acclaimed broadcaster and author. But - and in the best tradition of Johann Hari's techniques and ethics - he is not above lifting text from others when it su ...
  • Observer’s political correspondent caugh ...
    Andrew Rawnsley, according to his Guardian profile, is the Observer's award-winning chief political commentator. He is also a critically acclaimed broadcaster and author. But - and in the best tradition of Johann Hari's techniques and ethics - he is not above lifting text from others when it su ...
  • Young coral reefs will be unaffected by any oc ...
    A new paper shows that the hypothesised catastrophic scenarios about ocean "acidification" (more correctly - a reduction of alkanity) and the consequent effects on coral reefs are little more than fantasy because they find that "there will be no direct ecological effects of ocean acidification o ...
  • Young coral reefs will be unaffected by any oc ...
    A new paper shows that the hypothesised catastrophic scenarios about ocean "acidification" (more correctly - a reduction of alkanity) and the consequent effects on coral reefs are little more than fantasy because they find that "there will be no direct ecological effects of ocean acidification o ...

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • White House – Clapper Will Not Lead NSA Review ...
    Guardian: White House Insists James Clapper Will Not Lead NSA Surveillance Review Yesterday, White House officials stated that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will neither lead nor choose the members of a panel that will review NSA surveillance, contrary to implications made by ...
  • Document Withheld from Representatives Before ...
    The Guardian: Intelligence Committee Withheld Key File Before Critical NSA Vote, Amash Claims House Republican Justin Amash (MI), who led the effort to defund the NSA surveillance programs last month, has indicated that members of the House Intelligence Committee “never allowed legislators out ...
  • Assange, NYT Respond to Obama's Snowden Commen ...
    NPR: Transcript – President Obama’s News Conference President Obama gave a news conference on the disclosures of NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden and his thoughts on the NSA programs moving forward. He also announced four steps that his administration plans to take to “improve” tr ...
  • NSA Lambasted for Cross-Border Communication C ...
    New York Times: Breaking Through Limits on Spying This strongly worded, lead-masthead editorial from the New York Times lambasts the NSA for going “far beyond what Congress authorized” in terms of data collection as a response to the same news outlet’s story yesterday showing that the agency “ ...
  • Snowden Honored with 2013 Whistleblower Prize ...
    In a move that further cements Edward Snowden's credentials as a whistleblower in the eyes of the world, he has been awarded the 2013 Whistleblower Prize by a coalition which includes Transparency International Germany. The 2013 award is particularly significant as it marks the first year of in ...

UK Progressive

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

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JoNova

  • Schwarzenegger on ‘deniers’: Strap them to a t ...
    Arnold Schwarzenegger uses all his best scientific reasoning to wow the crowd at the annual National Clean Energy Summit on Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nevada: Speaking of greenhouse gas deniers: “Strap some conservative-thinking people to a tailpipe for an hour and then they will agree it’s a polluta ...
  • Climate Models cannot explain why global warmi ...
    Finally climate scientists are starting to ask how the models need to change in order to fit the data. Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita and authors in Germany pointedly acknowledge that even at the 2% confidence level the model predictions don’t match reality. The fact is, the model simulat ...
  • NASA Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham says t ...
    Donn F. Eisele, Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Walter Cunningham. Walter Cunningham is a fighter pilot and a physicist and was the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. In a 263 hour mission in October 1968 the three astronauts covered four and a half million miles. Over forty years later, he ...
  • Crazy economics: Spend $10 billion and rescue ...
    It just shows how dry Australia is and how pathetic we are with water. Australia’s largest river ends in an artificial dam full of feral European Carp. Lobbyists are campaigning hard (and successfully) to take water from upstream farmers to restore the flow. According to Jennifer Marohasy, ...
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ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • New Clues To How We Remember Dreams
    A new study suggests that there are distinct differences in brain function between people who remember their dreams and those who don't. This morning, I woke up with a very strong memory of staging a political coup in my sleep. Why I happened to remember my dream so vividly when I woke up, it' ...
  • Big Pic: Dwarf Galaxy Collides With Big Spiral ...
    NASA noticed a cloud of six-million-degree gas and was like, what? (We're paraphrasing.) NASA's Chandra x-ray observatory picked up something odd and powerful in a galaxy far, far away: an event almost like a sonic boom that triggered an enormous release of superheated gas. NASA thinks the boom ...
  • Rare New Video Captures Isolated Amazon Tribe
    A quick glimpse of the Kawahira people By Brazilian law, no one but a select few government workers is allowed to trespass on the land of the Kawahira, a tiny community of nomads that lives in the Amazon. They're one of the country's uncontacted peoples, indigenous groups that live in isolation ...
  • How Geeks Have Evolved Over Time [Infographic]
    Where Star Wars and Star Trek geeks share common ground. Hundreds of years ago, the term geek wasn't as benign as it is today (high fives all around, gang). In 18th-century Austria-Hungary it was synonymous with freak--literally, used as the word for circus performers. Now, at worst, it's used ...
  • Scientists Achieve On-Demand Quantum Teleporta ...
    Quantum teleportation, more reliable than ever before, at greater distances than ever before. Quantum teleportation has taken another step forward, thanks to two complimentary experiments, one from ETH Zurich and one from the University of Tokyo. The researchers have demonstrated the most relia ...

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 ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Only in Hong Kong: Designer Handbags as Collateral
    It's been such a long time since we've had a luxury goods feature, so here's one: Anyone who has been known to Asia knows the social pecking order here among cosmopolitan (small-c, that is) women has something to do with carrying designer handbags. Mainland China is becoming a large and lucrativ ...
  • House Demolitions, or the Detroitification of ...
    A chair is still a chair Even when there's no one sittin' there But a chair is not a house And a house is not a home When there's no one there to hold you tight And no one there you can kiss goodnight... As the late Luther Vandross explained, a house is not a home. Unoccupied houses--whether de ...
  • Depopulation, or the Detroitification of Japan
    There is a spectre haunting the developed world--the spectre of Detroitification. (Take that, Marx and Engels!) It involves depopulation and industrial hollowing out destroying the tax base of locales barely able to provide basic public services. Aside from the highly questionable logic of Japan ...
  • If I Were On Drugs, I'd Do Ratings Like Moodys
    So, just how "moody" is Moodys? For reasons I'll explain, it makes me want to take large amounts of hallucinogens to acquire their "expertise." The global financial crisis revealed that, if anything, major credit rating agencies are not trustworthy. Conflicts of interest and plain negligence abo ...
  • Screw Panama; Chinese & $40B 'Nicaragua Canal'
    It's been a long time since we've had a video feature, but now is as good a time as any. Recently, a young Chinese telecoms magnate came to an arrangement with the (rather impoverished) Nicaraguan government to develop a Panama Canal alternative slicing through that Central American republic: ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • If This Guy Is What The Future Of America Look ...
    Should taxpayer dollars be used to buy sushi and lobster for a young man whose future plans consist entirely of surfing and partying as much as he possibly can?  When I first saw the video that I am about to share with you, I was absolutely floored.  Recently, Fox News interviewed a self-describ ...
  • This Is The Biggest Cluster Of Hindenburg Omen ...
    Are we heading for a major stock market decline?  Warnings about a crash of the financial markets are quite common these days, and usually they don't materialize.  But this time may be different.  A number of top analysts are pointing out the fact that the biggest cluster of "Hindenburg Omens" h ...
  • They Are Systematically Destroying Our Indepen ...
    The percentage of Americans that are economically independent has dropped to a stunningly low level.  In order to be economically independent, you have got to be able to take care of yourself without any assistance from anyone else.  Unless you are independently wealthy, that means that you eith ...
  • Why Are So Many People Choosing To Leave The U ...
    Have things gotten so bad that it is time to leave the United States for good?  That is a question that a lot of Americans are dealing with these days, and an increasing number of them are choosing to leave the country of their birth permanently.  Some are doing it for tax reasons, some are [...]
  • Are These The Last Days Of The U.S. Marine Corps?
    Are the current personnel cuts the beginning of the end for the U.S. Marines?  Could these actually be the last days of the U.S. Marine Corps?  A decade ago, such a notion would have been absolutely unthinkable, but times have changed.  The Marine Corps was already in the process of drawing down ...

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...
  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...

WL Central

  • 2013-08-14 WikiLeaks Response to Manning Statement
    Today Bradley Manning reportedly made a statement of remorse in a sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning's statement comes towards the end of a court martial trial pursued with unprecedented prosecutorial zeal. read more
  • 2013-08-12 Announcing the Snowden Defence Fund
    Edward Snowden has been selected as the first source to be aided by the new Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund. The JSPDF is administered by Derek Rothera & Company Charted Accountants of the United Kingdom. Details of how you can donate follow. read more
  • 2013-08-10 Statement from Julian Assange in re ...
    On Friday 9 August 2013, US President Barack Obama addressed the world through a live feed at the White House website. Several topics were discussed, but the main topic - the obvious reason for the address - was of course the revelations about illegal NSA surveillance programmes. Today Julian As ...
  • 2013-08-03 Sunday in DC: Cornel West, Chris He ...
    When: Sunday, August 4, 2013 from 3 to 5:30pm Where: Friends Meeting House of DC, 2111 Florida Ave, NW, Washington DC (Enter via Phelps Street gate) read more
  • 2013-08-03 Sunday in DC: Cornel West, Chris He ...
    When: Sunday, August 4, 2013 from 3 to 5:30pm Where: Friends Meeting House of DC 2111 Florida Ave, NW, Washington DC read more

U N News

  • Latest killing raises UN concern about safety ...
    The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today voiced concern about the safety of journalists in Guatemala following the killing of a veteran radio personality in Zacapa.
  • Ban appoints Dutch national to head UN humanit ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Peter de Clercq of the Netherlands to the top United Nations humanitarian coordination position in Haiti.
  • Colombia grew less coca in 2012, UN survey rep ...
    Coca cultivation in Colombia, one of the world&#39s largest producers along with Bolivia and Peru, fell by a quarter in 2012, according to a new survey presented today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government.
  • In meeting with UN chief, South American natio ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with a group of South American foreign ministers who voiced their concern to the United Nations chief about reported large-scale surveillance programmes.
  • Coca crop cultivation declines for second stra ...
    Coca crop cultivation continued to decline in Bolivia for a second straight year in 2012, according to a new survey presented today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • American Bird Conservancy Job Notice – Interna ...
    American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to develop and direct bird conservation programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.  This International Conservation Program Office will focus his/her work on one or more of th ...
  • The Spine of the Continent – The Race to Save ...
    Please see the upcoming dates for slide presentations and talks by Mary Ellen Hannibal. Her book, The Spine of the Continent, has just been released in paperback with a new subtitle:  The Race to Save America’s Last, Best Wilderness .                 Augus ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Oh, Give ...
    ©2013 by Dave Foreman The United States has been the world’s leader in the on-the-ground designation of protected areas—National Parks, Wilderness Areas, Wildlife Refuges, Wild & Scenic Rivers, National Monuments, National Forests, and other kinds and degrees of wild havens.  The key reason ...
  • George Monbiot: Why humans should back off and ...
    George Monbiot: Why humans should back off and let nature heal itself – Technology & Science – CBC News 2013-08-04 Reposting of original article:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/08/02/f-sunday-edition-george-monbiot-environment.html It’s not uncommon for people to l ...
  • Job Notice: Wind Campaign Coordinator
    American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to address the impacts of wind development on birds. ABC supports wind power when it is bird-smart, and believes that birds and wind power can co-exist. Bird-smart wind power em ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Beware! The Chinese Are Coming…
    Meet your new boss!... The Chinese are buying large businesses enabling China to dominate 1000s Of U.S. communities! Your next employer may very well be... China! ~ Michael Snyder read more
  • OMG!... The Shocking Information You Provide E ...
    If you ever used your cell phone to take pictures, you will be absolutely shocked by the private information you exposed! ~ Video read more
  • Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Clearly Shows How ...
    Have you ever seen the movie 'Idiocracy'?  It is a movie about an 'average American' that wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the 'dumbed down' society that is surrounding him.  Unfortunately, that film is a very accurat ...
  • Proof... 18 Unknown Facts Proving Guns Make Us ...
    The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control.  Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer.  In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have.  In ot ...
  • Obama WILL Sign UN Gun Treaty While Congress I ...
    You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth. Jay Carney said Obama will sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty “before the end of August…We believe it’s in the interest of the United States.” This is very strategic timing considering Congress is on a 5 week vacation lasting thru the month of August! rea ...

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Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

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Views & News from Norway

  • Here are the campaign issues
    NEWS ANALYSIS: As Norway’s parliamentary election campaign clicks into high gear, much of the local media attention has been on how the parties stand in the polls and how they might cooperate to form a government. That’s overshadowed many of the actual issues at stake, so it’s ...
  • Poor Internet coverage hits tourism
    The Norwegian government has invested billions expanding the country’s Internet accessibility but not all areas are covered yet. Some mountain tourist areas are in despair, because businesses and their customers lack quick and reliable Internet connections. Among them is Oldedalen, where t ...
  • New Storting may be more pro-EU
    Around half of the politicians expected to be elected to the next Parliament (Storting) on September 9 would either like to see Norway join the European Union (EU) or go along with EU directives, according to a new survey conducted for the organization that continues to oppose EU membership, Nei ...
  • Carlsen rakes in more sponsors
    Norwegian chess champion Magnus Carlsen is about to head for India to prepare for the World Championships in November, but not without lots of help. In addition to dietary assistance, Carlsen has pocketed new sponsorship that can earn him another NOK 6 million this year alone. Newspaper Dagens N ...
  • Sweden beats Norway, again
    Sweden’s national football team beat Norway’s on home turf in Stockholm Wednesday night, after Swedish superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic proved every bit as tough as the Norwegians had feared. He scored three times in a match that ended in Sweden’s favour 4-2. “Zlatan is in a ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Chikukwa Permaculture Project (Zimbabwe) – ...
    So we were saying, now what are we going to do? So we worked very hard. – Jessica Chibharo Introduction In ten years of field trips and working with students on food security and sustainable agriculture projects in South and South Eastern Africa, the project of the Chikukwa villages ...
  • Supporting the Spread of Zimbabwe Permaculture
    In February 2012 we ran a story here at PRI about a film being made about a fantastic permaculture project in Zimbabwe. It was about a community called Chikukwa where permaculture has naturalized itself and over 22 years has moved a community of 7000 people from hunger and malnutrition to abun ...
  • DDT 2.0
    We’re just beginning to understand the wider impacts of neonicotinoids. by George Monbiot A dead pike on the River Kennet. Photograph: Adrian Arbib/Alamy It’s the new DDT: a class of poisons licensed for widespread use before they had been properly tested, which are now ripping the natural ...
  • Genes Not Eligible for Patents
    US supreme court’s final ruling on breast cancer gene patents should apply to all other gene patents, especially on deadly viruses such as the recent Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome virus. by Prof Peter Saunders Gene patents bad for science and bad for health Genes in humans and other ...
  • It’s a Forest, You Just Can’t See It
    An aerial view of a goat farm in the desert outside Dubai, a landscape that would benefit from Tony Rinaudo’s farmer-managed natural regeneration technique. Courtesy Mayang. Tony Rinaudo has an astonishing theory about the vast and apparently lifeless desert wastes of the UAE ...

Pointman's

  • A Berlin story : Eva.
    I first met Eva at the bottom of an escalator, late in the evening of a brutal Berlin winter. She was just standing there at the foot of the thing, trying to judge when to take that first frightening step onto it. There was nobody there but us, and I’d the feeling that a few of &#8230 ...
  • Why would anyone believe a single word coming ...
    One of the climate alarmist’s standard responses to any criticism of the theory of global warming is that unless the person is a climate scientist themselves, the point being made is from a position of ignorance and can therefore be ignored. As with most propaganda designed to silence any ...
  • A quarter of a million pages later.
    The pages read counter on this blog is closing in on 250,000, so it seems to be a natural review point. The blog came out of an extended discussion with some friends that occurred at the height of climate hysteria. We could all see the damage it was doing but for them it was an … Read ...
  • Know your enemy: the establishment journalist.
    The origins of journalism go back a long way. For most of agrarian history, there were individuals who travelled from settlement to settlement, mainly trading goods but part of what they did was bring the news of what was happening in those distant lands twenty or more miles away. Beyond the new ...
  • Know your enemy: the environmental regulator.
    If you work in an industry and gain a reputation for being one of the more knowledgeable people knocking around in it, you’ll eventually be asked to attend external meetings to discuss things like standards or simply to represent the particular sector you are working in. They’re usua ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
    The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...
  • Dream Defenders Florida Take Over Enters Week ...
    Packed into the small reception area of the Florida Governor’s office in Tallahassee, a couple dozen determined Dream Defenders conducted a people’s hearing on racial profiling.  Black and brown college and high school youth took turns giving compelling testimony of being profiled at school ...
  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...
  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • TNRA’s mission statement
    In today's show we come clean on the core agenda of this radio broadcast. We are here to quicken the mass awakening which is already taking place around the globe. We are here to amplify the dissent which already exists in many peoples' minds but which does not easily find expression. We are h ...
  • The elephant in the room: it’s immigrati ...
    Both sides of Australian politics are once again playing the game of "getting tough on people smugglers", taking turns to sound more aggressive, ruthless and brutal in turning back boats filled with people less fortunate than ourselves. Tony Abbott has declared a "national emergency" and plans ...
  • A heart to heart talk with Fair Dinkum Leon - ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Leon Pittard, host of Fair Dinkum Radio, a show which lifts the lid on the sordid mess of corruption, propaganda and disinformation which characterizes Australian public discourse on virtually any topic. During the show we go through issues of the da ...
  • Craig Isherwood outlines plans for a Cyprus st ...
    Craig Isherwood is the National Secretary of the Citizen's Electoral Council (CEC). The CEC recently launched a petition to the Commonwealth Parliament, calling for immediate legislation to enact a Glass-Steagall-style banking separation in Australia, to protect deposits and essential banking se ...
  • The psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks
    As the psywar against Edward Snowden and Wikileaks steps up I want to offer my perspective on some aspects of the situation. Firstly, we have to recognise that in situations where the powers that be are powerless to directly control outcomes, they often resort to indirect means, specifically: ...

Beacon

  • The 2013 Ranger Expedition Has Set Sail!
    © OCEANA / Carlos Minguell This post comes to us from our Communications Officer in Brussels, Belgium, Angela Pauly, as the Oceana Ranger sets sail to explore the Mediterranean.  Less than two months after our successful coastal expedition in the Baltic ended, we’ve sent out another tea ...
  • Bien Hecho! Costa Rica Bans Shrimp Trawl Nets
    This image shows how trawl nets effectively "bulldoze" the sea floor, destroying centuries' old coral formations and catching anything in their path.  We are excited to share some great news out of our international offices – Costa Rica has banned the use of trawl nets to catch shrimp th ...
  • Government Officials, and Sea Turtles
    © OCEANA / Carlos Minguell This post comes to us from our Oceana offices in Europe. Click here to read the post in the original Spanish version.  August 7, 2013 In an event attended by José Ramón Bauzá, the President of the government of the Balearic Islands, and Gabriel Company, ...
  • Marine Life Responding Faster than Land Animal ...
    Look out, Santa: Study shows that warming ocean temperatures are driving marine species to migrate closer and closer to the poles. l Photo: Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, US-Navy Marine life is on the move. A groundbreaking study shows that over the last several decades as a result of war ...
  • Seafood Fraud Could Cost Consumers Hundreds Ev ...

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Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • What’s a Point of Corporate Tax Worth?
    Tom Mulcair’s recently reiterated unwillingness to raise personal tax rates puts the spotlight on corporate taxes. But how much revenue is at stake? Three and a half years ago, I posted a fiscal breakdown of Harper’s corporate tax cuts and how much revenue could be retained by stopping or revers ...
  • Can Democracy save Victoria and Favour?
    Today marks the National Day of Action for Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi, the two University of Regina students that have spent the past 14 months in sanctuary to avoid deportation. Both students made the honest mistake of working at a local Wal-Mart for two weeks, thereby violating the terms o ...
  • Austerity Bites? Public-Sector Implosion Hits ...
    Statistics Canada reported a loss of 39,000 jobs in July, even as Canada’s working-age population grew by 39,000. As a result, unemployment rose and many Canadians withdrew from the labour market altogether. The decline reflected a loss of 74,000 public-sector jobs, which was only partly offset ...
  • Saskatchewan Budget Saved by Falling Loonie
    Following last week’s troubling news about potash, the Saskatchewan government released its first-quarter financial report today. The headline seems to be “Oil Keeps Budget in Black”, with a forecast increase in oil revenue more than offsetting a forecast decline in potash and other revenues. Bu ...
  • City of Regina, Show us your Math!
    In the continuing cavalcade of P3 proponents adorning the Leader Post’s opinion page, today’s edition comes to us from the champion privatizers at the Fraser Institute. Thankfully, authors Hugh MacIntyre and Charles Lamman promise to clarify three facts about P3s that will clear up a ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Texas towns run out of water due to fracking
    “Across the south-west, residents of small communities like Barnhart [Texas] are confronting the reality that something as basic as running water, as unthinking as turning on a tap, can no longer be taken for granted. Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry’s ou ...
  • The Complications Of Getting Running Water In ...
    “Four enormous water tanks sit high on a hill in the West Bank. These hold the lifeblood for Rawabi, the first planned, privately developed Palestinian community, about 25 miles north of Jerusalem. After five years, the first neighborhood is nearly built. But developer Bashar al-Masri is w ...
  • China and India ‘Water Grab’ Dams Put Ecology ...
    “New academic research shows that India, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan are engaged in a huge “water grab” in the Himalayas, as they seek new sources of electricity to power their economies. Taken together, the countries have plans for more than 400 hydro dams which, if built, could together p ...
  • This Sinkhole Sucked Down 11 Barges Like They ...
    “Lake Peigneur, the site of one of the state’s most spectacular industrial disasters in 1980, kept coming up in my conversations with residents of Bayou Corne, the Cajun community in south Louisiana that has been evacuated for more than a year due to a massive, mining-induced sinkhol ...
  • Iraq’s Newly Protected Marshes a Huge Conserva ...
    “Once the third largest wetland in the world, according to ENS,  the central marshes of Iraq were systematically drained during Saddam Hussein’s reign and nearly 100 percent of the land was usurped by development projects. In addition to ruining an incredibly unique ecosystem, the devastat ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • frankly I cannot think of any government agenc ...
    …Who do “we” ask this question of …frankly I cannot think of any government agency I trust to give you and me unbiased – unadulterated – truth … can you…?   How Many Americans Are Rotting in Prison Because of Secret Evidence Collected by Spy Agencies? By Andrew O’Hehir, Salon b ….The ...
  • …there’s really only … ONE & ...
    …there’s really only … ONE … he who has the gold rule$… The Fix’s 5 immutable rules of politics THE FIX | The Fix spends a lot of time thinking about politics. Maybe too much time. We have used it to develop a handful of immutable political rules that govern this world. » Read f ...
  • …please don’t tell me you ever bou ...
    …please don’t tell me you ever bought into the terrorism propaganda…?   It Was Never About Terrorism 08-11-2013  •  Jonathan Turley … there is a lucrative and successful use of the NSA’s collection of all communications – the Drug War. A secretive unit of the U.S. Drug Enforcement ...
  • need to make someone the “bogeyman&#8221 ...
    …our government and its corporate owners need to make someone the “bogeyman” of the day and they need to keep changing the target or we will finally get wise to their game… Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?   By Digby, Hullabaloo Has "terr ...
  • …One would certainly hope it is unconsti ...
    …One would certainly hope it is unconstitutional… Stop-and-Frisk Policy in New York City Violated Rights, Judge Rules In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration’s crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Depa ...

Popular Technology

  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" f ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
    "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Skeptical Science In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned in at least 65 discussion ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinct ...
    The world's species are in worse trouble than widely-assumed, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which reevaluates how scientists estimate extinction rates. The new model takes into account the impact of forest fragmentation on extinction rate ...
  • Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving t ...
    Landlocked in the navel of South America, the forests, wetlands and savannahs of Paraguay boast rich biodiversity and endemic species, yet the unique landscapes of Paraguay also face increasing threats, primarily from agricultural expansion. Controlled burns and clear cutting have become common ...
  • Scientists discover new flying mammal in bushm ...
    The bushmeat markets of Lao PDR (Laos) are filled with racks of wild game harvested both legally and illegally from the surrounding landscapes. While these meat markets certainly provide local protein to patrons, for wildlife biologists they offer something more. These bizarre zoological exhibit ...
  • The hidden Caribbean: sustainable tourism arri ...
    Finding true ecotourism companies isn't easy. While the tourism industry worldwide has latched onto the term 'ecotourism,' in many cases it's more propaganda than reality. Especially in heavily-touristed areas—like the Caribbean Islands—it's difficult to find efforts that are actuall ...
  • Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries
    Deforestation has fallen in Congo Basin countries over the past decade despite a sharp increase in the rate of forest clearing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B as part of a set of 18 papers on the ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Cat hair database helps catch killer
    Fingerprints are not the only thing that killers can leave behind - add cat hair to that list.A British university said that its DNA database of British felines helped convict a man of manslaughter, illustrating how the genetic...
  • Severe East Cape quake alert a false alarm
    Reports of a strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake on the East Cape this afternoon were incorrect, and were the result of a magnitude-6 earthquake some distance from New Zealand.GNS reported that a magnitude 6.1 quake struck southwest...
  • Deborah Hill Cone: Claude's autistic and I lov ...
    There's a saying in autism circles that a worried mother does better research than the FBI. This may be doubly true of my sister, Rosamund Hill.She is the mother of an autistic child, but she is also a neurologist, with a research...
  • Callaghan Innovation quits telescope contract
    The government's new innovation agency has begun culling commercial activity that either doesn't fit its future operations or is judged to be unsustainable.That's led to the cancellation of a contract by KiwiStar, a highly specialised...
  • Q&A: The science of growing a hamburger
    At a public tasting in London Dutch scientists served a single hamburger made from cow stem cells. Here are some questions and answers about the science behind the revolutionary patty, how it could help combat climate change and what...

The Bovine

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

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Interested In Buying Gold? Why Wait?
    The title of this post is a play on the Yahoo! Finance video Wait for Further Pullback in which Jeff Macke asked Options Monster founder Jon Najarian if this rally was the "real deal". Najarian says gold is looking good so far but it's still locked in a range. Where others see resistance i ...
  • Mortgage Applications Decline 13th Time in 15 ...
    Here are a couple of charts courtesy of Bankrate. The annotations are mine. 15-Year Fixed Rate Mortgages 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgages Explaining the Rebound in Housing If you are looking for what fueled the rebound in home sales and the increase in home prices, lo ...
  • Egypt Police Storm Pro-Mursi Camps; Deadly Cla ...
    Violence in Egypt took a turn for the worse as Police Storm Pro-Mursi Camps. Egypt’s security forces stormed two sit-ins in Cairo where Islamist supporters of former President Mohamed Mursi have been protesting his overthrow. Bursts of gunfire rang out, and reports of casualties varied wid ...
  • Tale of Colours, All in Denial; Assessing Merk ...
    The German federal election is on September 22, just over a month away. Merkel's CDU/CSU party will without a doubt receive the most votes. However, winning is not what matters unless there is an outright majority and CDU/CSU is not close to a majority. The next chancellor will be the one w ...
  • Treasury Yields Rise Following .2% Rise in Ret ...
    The Census Bureau reports retail sales rose for a fourth consecutive month, up 0.2% in July. Retail sales missed economist expectations of a 0.3% rise, but June month was revised up. Retail Sales vs. Previous Months July 2013 Retail Sales vs. July 2012 I am not sure h ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 1 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Is the Animal World Rebelling Against Humanity? Our world has so many majestic, intelligent, and emotionally evolved animals; arguably, humans are among them. But judging by how we treat these other animals, such as whales or elephants, for example, torturing them, keeping them imprisoned in tin ...
  • BFP Summer 2013 Information Packages
  • Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality
    “Congress needs to use the impeachment power that the Constitution provides and cease being subservient to the lawless executive branch.” Americans will soon be locked into an unaccountable police state unless US Representatives and Senators find the courage to ask questions and to sanction the ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 1 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Iran Detains Tanker Carrying Iraqi Crude To India
    By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (Reuters) – An Indian ship carrying Iraqi crude has been detained by Iran in its territorial waters due to pollution concerns, the head [...]
  • Seadrill Seeks Partner In North Atlantic Drilling
    OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Seadrill, the world’s biggest gas and oil rig company by market capitalisation, is to sell part of its North Atlantic Drilling subsidiary to take on [...]
  • Barrel of a Gun, circa 1937
    This image, courtesy of the U.S Navy Heritage and History Command, was taken in 1937 at the “Big Gun Shop” in the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. On 14 August 1886, [...]
  • Petrobras-Contracted OSV Sinks Off Brazil
    Petrobas has confirmed that a 68-meter OSV providing support to one of its rigs caught fire and sank last week off the coast of Brazil.
  • VADM Brian Salerno to Assume Top Position at BSEE
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today named former Vice Admiral Brian Salerno as the Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which provides federal [...]

Press TV

  • Merkel backs UK Tory on EU reform
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has supported British eurosceptic Tory MPs’ plans to give back European Union (EU) powers to member states.
  • Syria says to cooperate with UN team
    The Syrian government says it is ready to cooperate with a UN team of chemical weapons inspectors in its mission to investigate allegations of use of chemical weapons.
  • Majlis reviews Zanganeh qualifications
    Iranian legislators have discussed the qualifications of President Hassan Rouhani’s proposed oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, in a heated debate.
  • Iran MPs urge end to Egypt unrest
    Iranian legislators have denounced the unrelenting violence in Egypt, calling on Egyptian elites, scholars, intellectuals and religious figures to take measures to end the turmoil in the Arab country.
  • Brotherhood calls for mass Cairo march
    Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called for a mass protest march in Cairo as the death toll from the military’s recent deadly clampdown on supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, surpasses 500.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Combat censorship with ‘PirateBrowser’
    The Pirate Bay recently celebrated their 10th birthday this past Saturday by announcing a new gift for internet users — PirateBrowser: “a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible.” screenshot via th ...
  • 25 Apps You’ll Need to Survive College
    25 Apps You’ll Need to Survive College Mashable’s Sarah Ang annotated a list of 25 apps designed to support academic success. My personal favorite is SelfControl. The app allows users to block websites for a designated period of time, making it impossible, for example, to scroll through yo ...
  • Featured Student: Idalia Reyes
    Idalia Reyes is a current student here at The CUNY School of Professional Studies, studying in the Online Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media. Academic Advisor, Johanna Rodriguez recently had the chance to ask Idalia a few questions about her goals and motivation for pursuing higher edu ...
  • M.A. in Applied Theatre: Reminiscence Theatre ...
    During the current summer session, eight students in Tony Goode’s course “Creating Meaning through Community Drama” have conducted life history interviews with New York City seniors, ranging from members of SAGE, the nation’s first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender S ...
  • From SPS to Singapore
    Claire Yang is a 2011 graduate of the CUNY School of Professional Studies MA in Applied Theatre program. She recently took a moment to send us this update: In September 2012, I moved back to Singapore after three years in New York City. I was sad to leave a wonderful community of theatre practit ...

Dissident Voice

  • Probably Possible: A Simple Poem for a Big Problem
    I would like to weave you a tale of modern humanity, That great and wonderful monstrous calamity, With its global institutionalization of insanity, Aiming for maximization of profitability, Control over everything, and everything as property, War on the Natural world, and all of its majesty, Cre ...
  • How Big Is Too Big?
    “The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.”   —-  Jaime Lerner, former mayor Curitiba, Brazil ; architect; urbanist Preamble I’ve done this bef ...
  • ¡Vieques Resiste!
    Vieques is a small Caribbean island that boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It is home to generations of men and women, who survive from the bounty of the ocean and the land. It is also the stomping ground to thousands of feral horses. Vieques is a municipality of what is [& ...
  • Postcard from the End of America: Cherry Hill
    If the American Dream can be reduced to a single object, it is the suburban home, with its front yard, back yard and two car garage. This residence must not share a wall, ceiling or floor with any neighbor, a living arrangement highly unusual worldwide, but that’s why it’s called the American Dr ...
  • Consular Non-Assistance: The Demon of Australi ...
    It is about time that the Australian Parliament consider having a viable foreign affairs department or abolish it altogether.  Affairs might as well be relocated to Washington, D.C. The libertarians would have a point were they to assert that claim.  A government that does nothing for its citize ...

Nick Turse

Sources

Newswise

  • Galaxies Had 'Mature' Shapes 11.5 Billion Year ...
    An international team of astronomers led by BoMee Lee has established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, about 11.5 billion years ago. "Finding them this far back in time is a significant discovery," says lead author Lee. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal.
  • Current Therapies Less Effective than Expected ...
    A large multicenter study has found that current non-invasive techniques for respiratory support are less effective than widely assumed, in reducing the incidence of severe lung injury in very premature infants.
  • Study Debunks Controversial MS Theory
    The research found no evidence of abnormalities in the internal jugular or vertebral veins or in the deep cerebral veins of any of 100 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with 100 people who had no history of any neurological condition.
  • Researchers Debunk Myth of"Right-Brained" and ...
    Newly released research findings from University of Utah neuroscientists assert that there is no evidence within brain imaging that indicates some people are right-brained or left-brained. For years in popular culture, the terms left-brained and right-brained have come to refer to personality ...
  • Many Neurologists Unaware of Safety Risks Rela ...
    A study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that a fifth of U.S. neurologists appear unaware of serious drug safety risks associated with various anti-epilepsy drugs, potentially jeopardizing the health of patients who could be just as effectively treated with safer alternative medications.

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Jae's News

  • Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is In ...
    The only question is how quickly will we make the transition. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACLU of California Vote NO on SB 397.
    As early as next week, the California Assembly will vote on a bill (SB 397), which would allow the California DMV to distribute new driver's licenses "enhanced" with tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification thanks to Homeland Security who Submitted by Candy L. to US Politics &am ...
  • Can We Trust Big Brother?
    Recent statements from the administration about domestic spying programs were designed to ease public fears. They shouldn't. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Preparing For Revolt
    NSA Prism is partially motivated by fears that climate change and energy crises could lead to anti-government activism. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Five Myths Used By The Administration to Justi ...
    Robert Greenwald debunks the government propaganda and exposes the truth. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
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