20 August - RSS SnapShot! II

White-banded Swallows perching of a tree stump on the bank of Rio Tiputini, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Dongri Kondh Dance from Kalahandi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

frogblog

• Targeting the next generation: National’ ...
  Back in 2011, John Key’s Government headed into the election campaign with National’s plan to build a stronger economy and a brighter future for Kiwi families. The Plan included protecting communities, supporting the primary sector, creating jobs, and protecting the environment. Last Frida ...
• Govt needs to ensure welfare entitlements
  Today there’s been a story all over social media (thanks Tulia Thompson) of Work and income telling women that tampons and sanitary pads are luxuries and they can’t use payment cards to buy them. The Minister has tweeted that this is not the policy at all. This then raises the question why has t ...
• On the GCSB: Letter to the editor (NZ Herald) ...
  From today’s NZ Herald – a letter to the editor from New Zealander of the Year Dame Anne Salmond. Dear Sir, In assessing the Prime Minister’s performance on Campbell Live, rather than admiring the style, it is important to weigh what was said.  He assured New Zealanders that if the G ...
• East Christchurch Schools stand up for themselves
  Recently I visited a school in East Christchurch who are facing a proposal to be merged into the Aranui super school. Avondale School are fighting hard for their survival because they are in the last weeks before the final decision on their future is to be made. They have been told by the Minist ...
• Why are we investing in coal?
  The World Wildlife Fund have today revealed that over $1 billion of New Zealanders’ pension and accident insurance money is invested in companies directly mining for coal, oil, and gas — companies who’s future profitability depends on burning fossil fuels that have to stay in the ground if ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Ecuador scraps plan to save uncontacted tribes ...
  Ecuador's Waorani Indians are related to the uncontacted Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes. All are under great threat from oil exploration in the Yasuni Park. © John Wright/SurvivalEcuador’s President Rafael Correa has scrapped plans to protect the Yasuni National Park, home to two uncontacted ...
• Real 'Avatar' tribe deals fatal blow to Vedant ...
  The Dongria Kondh have overwhelmingly rejected Vedanta's mine in their sacred hills.© Jason Taylor/SurvivalIndia’s Dongria Kondh tribe has overwhelmingly rejected plans by notorious British mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit bauxite mine in their sacred Niyamgiri Hills, in ...
• Brazil – rare footage of uncontacted tribe rel ...
  A hastily-abandoned house of uncontacted Indians, Rio Pardo, Brazil.© SurvivalBrazil’s Indian affairs department, FUNAI, has released rare footage of an uncontacted tribe living in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. It shows a group of nine Indians walking along a forest trail. The men ca ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Montreal startup finds its Groove
  Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
• Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
  It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.
• Editorial: Seeking fairness for all when credi ...
  There is an inherent unfairness in the premium credit card system that penalizes business owners and customers who don't use them.
• Editorial: PQ picks a suspicious time to raise ...
  The PQ government has more pressing matters to attend to than quibbling about the new law governing succession to the British throne.
• Editorial: Rough road ahead for new environmen ...
  Removing the environment minister from the cabinet committee on economic development raises further questions about the Harper government's commitment to environmental protection measures.

Food World Order

• 5 #GMO Myths Busted
  from The Corbett Report: Every year, a greater and greater percentage of our food supply sources back to genetically modified ingredients. Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and the other biotech giants have made GMOs into a multi-billion dollar industry and unsurprisingly have launched one of t ...
• Armored SWAT Raids Farm After Mistaking Tomato ...
  from StoryLeak.com: In a powerful display of the war on drugs, armored SWAT members have reportedly ‘destroyed’ a farm during a marijuana raid that was the result of one officer mistaking tomato plants for a marijuana growing operation.  But perhaps the most important part of t ...
• Interviews w/ Seattle Biodiversity Conference ...
  On today's menu we have audio from the recent Biodiversity Conference in Seattle which features interviews w/ Eric Holt-Giménez of Food First, Kathleen Hallal of Moms Across America, Rachel Linden of GMO Free Arizona, George Kimbrell from the Center for Food Safety, Rachel Hynes of Slow Money ...
• Video: Morgan Spurlock's 'Inside Man' On Medic ...
  from  CNN.com: The premiere episode presents an inside look into the medical marijuana industry as Morgan Spurlock works in a medical marijuana dispensary in California.
• Video - WEED: A Dr. Sanjay Gupta Special
    Also check out Dr. Gupta's interview with CNN's Piers Morgan here

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Eco ...
  Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama.  Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined ...
• 18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Are Ent ...
  You can see it coming, can't you?  The yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries is skyrocketing, the S&P 500 has been down for 9 of the last 11 trading days and troubling economic news is pouring in from all over the planet.  The much anticipated "financial correction" is rapidly approaching, and in ...
• Those That Are Not Preparing For The Coming Ec ...
  The next great economic crisis is rapidly approaching, and most people are going to be totally blindsided by it.  Even though the warning signs are glaringly obvious, most Americans continue to believe that our "leaders" know what they are doing and that everything will be just fine.  But what w ...
• What Is Going To Happen If Interest Rates Cont ...
  If you want to track how close we are to the next financial collapse, there is one number that you need to be watching above all others.  The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries, because it affects thousands of other interest rates in our financial system.  Whe ...
• Egypt Is Descending Into Civil War, But Don&#8 ...
  The largest Islamic nation in the Middle East is on the verge of descending into civil war, the Syrian civil war is starting to spill over into Lebanon, and the worst violence in five years has just hit Iraq, but Barack Obama is way too busy to be bothered with any of that.  Right now, [...]

CASSE

• The Fracking of “The Limits to Growth”
  The contradictions in an oilman's life offer insights into the complexities that come with confronting the limits to growth.
• Getting to the Root of the Problem
  Jason Bradford realized that humanity was sitting in a precarious position of ecological overshoot. His response is downright inspiring.
• Fixing Food and Farming with a True-Cost Economy
  The transition to a steady state economy coincides with the transition to an ecologically sound food system.
• Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation
  If you're curious about what life might be like in a steady state economy, Sam Alexander's Entropia offers some intriguing ideas.
• A Post-Growth Economy in France?
  Heads of state and top economists actively discussing and debating a post-growth economy? Now that's progress!

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• Progressive NC lawmaker resigns over restricti ...
  Image Caption:  North Carolina Sen. Ellie Kinnaird is resigning from the legislature to launch a grassroots effort to ensure state residents have the kind of ID they need to cast ballots under a restrictive new voting law. (Photo via the Ellie ...
• Creating a culture of unionism in the South
  Image Caption:  To build a culture of unionism, solidarity must be non-negotiable, with an attack on any union viewed as an attack on all unions. A union organizer and a third-generation organizer working in the South offer th ...
• Three years after BP, Gulf fishermen struggle ...
  Image Caption:  Louisiana fisherman David Arnesen once hoped to fish the Gulf into his old age. But that was before the BP oil spill disaster devastated the region's fisheries and left his and other fisher families struggling to eke out a ...
• Moral Monday marches on with Dr. King in mind
  Image Caption:  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. (U.S. Information Agency photo.) North Carolina's Moral Monday movement will hold rallies in the state's 13 congressional d ...
• Dream Defenders leave capitol, heading for gov ...
  Image Caption:  Dream Defenders and civil rights leader Julian Bond when he was a student activist. (Dream Defenders photo from Facebook.) Members of the youth civil rights collective left the grounds of the Florida state cap ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

Tech Drive In

• Latest KDE SC 4.11 Released Marking the End of ...
  KDE 4.11 was released few days back. And this latest KDE release has many important characteristics. First off, KDE 4.11 marks the end of Plasma Workspaces 1, part of the KDE SC 4 feature series. Focus of feature development will shift to Plasma Workspaces 2 now, performance improvem ...
• elementary OS Luna Clocks Nearly 100,000 Downl ...
  Most of you here must be familiar with elementary OS. If not, read our detailed review of elementary OS Luna first. eOS is basically an Ubuntu based Linux distro with a razor-sharp focus on user interface, just like the Mac OS. As a matter of fact, many elements of the eOS is indeed inspired f ...
• Youtube-dl: The best tool for downloading YouT ...
  In the earlier days, downloading of YouTube videos in Ubuntu required nothing more than a simple copy and paste action. But those clever hacks won't work in newer versions of Firefox or Chrome. That's were dedicated tools come in. And when it comes to the downloading of YouTube videos in Ubunt ...
• elementary OS Luna Wallpaper App for Android
  Elementary OS Luna final was released just a day ago. As we noted in our earlier elementary OS Luna review, the developers behind the project has a keen attention to detail, which is very visible in the overall styling of the OS. That include the default elementary OS wallpapers. They are the ...
• Bloomberg Pitches in with 80K; Without more Co ...
  Ubuntu Edge fund raising campaign started with a bang. Almost 5 million was raised in the first 48 hours itself! But things have not been very rosy ever since. And understandably so. Even though the campaign smashed through almost all previous records know to the internet, it is still not go ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Visible Origami | Mr. Apocalypse and the Judgm ...
  By Visible Anyway, we might tend to forget that Mr. Apocalypse applies to us all. All of us who share the general space and time frame on this plane, are engaged at some level with the industry of Mr. Apocalypse and Mr. Apocalypse is what one might call ‘dual use’. This should be an ...
• Lead Gardasil developer clears conscience, adm ...
  by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Did you know that one of the lead researchers involved with developing the two available vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil (Merck & Co.) and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline), admitted back in 2009 that the jabs are essentially useless a ...
• Reflections in a Petri Dish | Pretend you&#821 ...
  By Visible I recognize that a lot of people have to cut corners every day, or they have themselves in a situation where others are depending on them and they can be manipulated as a result of that. Most people do not have the autonomy to say what they think in any situation they might […]
• US pick as ambassador to Egypt ran Iraq ‘death ...
  Egyptians are furious over reports about the designation of the US former ambassador to Syria Robert S. Ford as the next American envoy as he allegedly ran “death squads” in Iraq. Global Research, a Canadian website has claimed that Ford ran “death squads” in Iraq when he was political counselor ...
• Smoking Mirrors | The Big Squeeze in De De De ...
  By Visible The Central Banks must come down. The Zionist ‘influence’ must be brought to an abrupt and complete halt without hope of continuance. Hegemony and usury must be made capital crimes. Those who march to their destruction will, as a matter of course, arrive at destruction. Wh ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

• Secrets of Happiness
  Even if it often seems like we live in a rat race that doesn't mean we must be rats. Indeed, most of us have much greater latitude than we realize to be happy, or at least happier than we already are. But don't take my word for it. Cutting edge research suggests simple lifestyle alternatives tha ...
• The Graveyard Shift
  Step back from current events in the Middle East and you can see a further phase in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, coincidentally, at least from one point of view, the U.S. Empire is also entering a phase of decline, a decline from which it may never fully recover it ...
• Syria in Context
  R2P may have met its match in Syria because it's almost impossible to defend the proposition that introducing more weapons and/or troops will make anything better. Aside, however, from the immediate policy question it's worth taking a moment to think about where Syria fits into the continuum of ...
• Whose Future?
  If Susan Crawford is right about the introduction of fast fiber internet being analogous to the introduction of electricity then America is in big trouble — because a lot of other countries are getting fiber before we do. And, I suppose, possibly getting smarter faster, too... Unquestionab ...
• Inspector Chen
  Sometimes we learn more through literature than non-fiction. Sometimes, believe it or not, there's a lot to be learned from police procedurals. Sometimes, also, police procedurals are just plain fun! But there really aren't that many great writers of them — few enough, anyhow, such that if ...

PR News

• Institute for PR issues call for best social s ...
  NEW YORK: The Institute for Public Relations is calling on PR professionals to identify the best social media study from the first half of the year.
• NY christens state health insurance marketplace
  NEW YORK: New York State put an official brand on its healthcare exchange on Tuesday morning: NY State of Health. Ketchum is working with sister Omnicom firm DDB to support the network.
• FlowTraq selects Lewis PR
  WASHINGTON: Network security software provider FlowTraq has selected Lewis PR as its agency partner to lead an integrated campaign in the US.
• CarePatrol names Crosby/Wright partner
  SCOTTSDALE, AZ: Senior housing referral service CarePatrol has named Crosby/Wright as its PR and marketing agency partner of choice.
• Ogilvy launches 'Espresso' offering for startups
  SAN FRANCISCO: Ogilvy Public Relations has launched a service for startups called Espresso, aimed at helping emerging companies tell their brand stories and engage media and potential partners.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Greatest National Security Speeches Never Made
  Before Queen Elizabeth almost announced World War III, Nixon nearly read astronauts their eulogy and Eisenhower all but declared D-Day a failure.
• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Job Posting: Office and Fund Administrator, CP ...
  Position:  Office & Fund Administrator Organization:  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta Ch ...
• Proposed New AEN Environmental Regulatory Caucus
  Initiative:  Proposed Environmental Regulatory Caucus Position:  Caucus Members ...
• Alberta Caribou Action & Range Planning Multi- ...
  Initiative:  Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Cold Lake Caribou Range Position:  Two (2) ENGO Delegates and o ...
• Alberta Caribou Action & Range Planning Multi- ...
  Initiative:  Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Little Smoky & A La Peche Caribou Ranges Position:  Two (2) ...
• North American Partnership for Environmental C ...
  Deadline:  10 Sep 2013 (All day) Organization:  Commission for Environmental Cooperation From the ...

Stop NATO

• U.S. Marine Corps Officer Sees Georgian Troops ...
  Rustavi 2 August 20, 2013 Rotation in Georgian forces in Afghanistan Georgian military servicemen are leaving for Afghanistan. A farewell ceremony was held at the base area of the IV Infantry Brigade in Vaziani. The Peacekeeping Platoon of 13th Infantry Battalion of I Infantry Brigade of Georgia ...
• Pentagon Chief Advancing Transformation Of ASE ...
  U.S. Department of Defense August 19, 2013 Secretary Hagel Slates Trip to Southeast Asia Hanoi 2010 WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is scheduled to depart Aug. 22 for a four-nation trip to Southeast Asia, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement released today. Little ...
• Georgia, Sweden Discuss EU, NATO Integration
  Trend News Agency August 20, 2013 Georgia, Sweden discuss integration into EU and NATO N. Kirtzkhalia Tbilisi: The issue of Georgia’s integration into the EU and NATO was discussed by Georgia’s Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze during a meeting with the Director of the Institute for S ...
• Baltic: NATO War Games Test Strike Force Near ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations August 19, 2013 Exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013 To Test NATO Response Force Brunssum, the Netherlands: NATO and partner nations will conduct Exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013 in Latvia and in Poland from 2 – 9 November 2013. The event wi ...
• Benjamin Péret: Little song for the maimed
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Benjamin Péret Little song for the maimed (1936) Translated by David Gascoyne Lend me your arm To replace my leg The rats ate it for me At Verdun At Verdun I ate a lot of rats But they didn’t give me back my leg And that’s w ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• California Prisoners’ Supporters: &#822 ...
  For Immediate Release—August 19, 2013 Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Oakland—Supporters of prisoners who are on the 43rd day of hunger strike are expressing outrage at an order signed today by a federal judge allowing strikers to be force fed, disregarding international human rights principle ...
• ‘We are all Trayvon Martin’ mural unveiled at ...
  By Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, Sunday, August 11, 2013 A mural showing a man shooting another man resembling Trayvon Martin in a hoodie was unveiled Friday at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, a local CBS affiliate reported Friday. Miami artist Huong, from Vietnam, released th ...
• ‘We are all Trayvon Martin’ mural unveiled at ...
  By Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times, Sunday, August 11, 2013 A mural showing a man shooting another man resembling Trayvon Martin in a hoodie was unveiled Friday at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, a local CBS affiliate reported Friday. Miami artist Huong, from Vietnam, released th ...
• Bangladeshi Maoists open critical discussion w ...
  [Developments and struggles between revolutionary and revisionist political lines in Nepal, among many who have identified themselves as Maoists (in one sense or another), continue to spark polemics among revolutionaries in South Asia as well as throughout the world.  In this Open Letter from Ma ...
• Bangladeshi Maoists open critical discussion w ...
  [Developments and struggles between revolutionary and revisionist political lines in Nepal, among many who have identified themselves as Maoists (in one sense or another), continue to spark polemics among revolutionaries in South Asia as well as throughout the world.  In this Open Letter from Ma ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• When The Shit Hits The Field
  SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
• Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
  Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
• Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
  I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
• Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
  Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
• New Chambers at Teotihuacan
  What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• Cynthia McKinney Supports ReThink911 Building ...
• Dragon Drags On: China's Slowdown Sends Ripple ...
• Monsanto Baseball: Escaping Accountability in ...
• Mercenaries and Private Security Companies on ...
• Inside Syria: Britain Violates Own Anti-Terror ...

Daily Tech

• Xbox One Titles Confirmed, Indie Dev Platform ...
  Microsoft tries to stoke sales of its upcoming console     
• U.S. Gov't Ask For Your Input on Reforming Cop ...
  Patent reform will take a bit longer to come about     
• Report: 20 Percent of American Adults Don't Ha ...
  The Obama administration is looking for new ways to bring access to the digital divide     
• Tesla's Model S Gets Highest Safety Rating fro ...
  Tesla received a combined rating of 5.4 stars     
• GM Looks to Provide Wireless Smartphone Chargi ...
  GM pushing towards offering wireless power is an option while Toyota has it already     

Oriental Review

• Episode 14. How Adolf Hitler turned to be a “d ...
  Part I As we recall, the promises made to Czechoslovakia by both the West and by Hitler himself would not be valid if that country collapsed.  This meant that in order to ensure a peaceful handover to the Fuhrer, “irreconcilable” conflicts needed to quickly flare up that would lead to a schism.  ...
• The Escalation of the Crisis in Egypt
  The internal political crisis in Egypt is a reflection of the schism in Egyptian society. On 14 August, Egypt’s political forces and army special forces, in accordance with an order given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General, cleared protest camps and barricades in Cair ...
• Episode 14. How Adolf Hitler turned to be a “d ...
  In the previous chapters of the Episodes, we looked at the British policy towards Nazi Germany, which was designed to pit the Fuhrer against Soviet Russia.  To accomplish this, Hitler was provided with substantive economic and political assistance between 1933 and 1939, Germany’s biggest industr ...
• Bandar Bush, ‘Liberator’ of Syria
  Talk about The Comeback Spy. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush (for Dubya he was like family), spectacularly resurfaced after one year in speculation-drenched limbo (was he or was he not dead, following an assassination attempt in July 2012). And he was back in the limelight no less than ...
• Arms and the Elephant (I)
  Archival material of the 1940s shows that the British supplied arms to Tibet and a movie projector to the Dalai Lama and even made vain attempts to send an elephant to him. EDMOND CANDLER’s book The Unveiling of Lhasa(1905) had described Britain’s relationship with Tibet as something akin to “th ...

BlogHer

• What It Feels Like to Have Acupuncture
  I am afflicted with the upper back and neck pain of the sedentary office worker, and I have been for about fifteen years now. In my quest to find relief, I've tried stretches, physical therapy, back strengthening exercises, deep tissue massage, electric stimulation, chiropractic therapy and the ...
• Digital Love Letters
  When I was 14 and began dating my first boyfriend, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was all the rage.  My screen name was a clever play on "Jerseygirl".  In my defense, I had created the name a year earlier, which partially explains my temporary lapse in judgment.Like many people from my ge ...
• Making the Tough Decision to Send My Homeschoo ...
  This month parents throughout America parents are taking their small children out into the yard with adorable letter 'K' signs, snapping pictures and sending them out into the cyber world, capturing for posterity their child's first day of school. In years past, I have simply ignored these pictu ...
• Remembering Elmore Leonard: Leave Out the Part ...
  I heard on NPR this morning that Elmore Leonard passed away and immediately thought of his wonderfully funny -- and simply wonderful -- 10 Tips for Writers. What I didn't know until I read it in his obituary in The New York Times is his path as a writer. Bottom line:His breakthrough novel: #25, ...
• My 5 Favorite Beauty Products
  Here are some of my favorite beauty products. This is not a sponsored post -- these are just the best makeup products that I use! CoverGirl Trublend Liquid Make Up Classic Ivory 410, 1.0-Ounce Bottle, $7.67 I have probably tried every single foundation they stock at CVS. I have never been able ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• The Computer Game That Helps Therapists Chat t ...
        Adolescents with mental health problems are particularly hard for therapists to engage. But a new computer game is providing a healthy conduit for effective communication between them. One of the fundamental principles of modern psychology is ... Related p ...
• Health benefits of cheddar cheese
        Almost everyone loves cheese, and not only does it taste great but it is also very good for you. Almost everyone loves cheese, and not only does it taste great but it is also very good ... Related posts:Health Benefits of Honey and Cinnamon Folk remedies ...
• US Scientists Find That Chemotherapy Boosts Ca ...
      Chemotherapy can damage healthy cells? Say it isn’t so? You don’t need a degree to figure this one out. Poison kills indiscriminately– always has and always will. While damaging healthy cells, chemotherapy also triggers them ... Related posts:Soursop Fruit 100 Fo ...
• Study Shows Fast Food Burgers Can Contain As L ...
        A study recently published in the journal Annals of Diagnostic Pathology determined that some fast food hamburgers may contain as little as 2 % actual meat(1). If that’s the case, what makes up the rest of it? The ... Related posts:8 Interesting Facts abou ...
• University of BC Doctors Expose Vaccination Co ...
        Dr Chris Shaw, from the University of British Colombia’s (UBC)  Department of Ophthalmology, Visual Sciences, Experimental Medicine and Neuroscience published a paper in the Journal Inorganic Biochemistry along with his colleague, Dr.  Lucija Tomljenovic th ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• More hard truths about climate change
  There’s been a a flurry of stories over the last few days about the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reported first through a leaked report obtained by Reuters: Climate scientists are surer than ever that human activity is causing global warming, according ...
• UMWA members approve Patriot Coal deal
  Here’s the news just in tonight: Members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) who work at Patriot Coal operations in West Virginia and Kentucky today ratified a settlement the union reached with the company late last week that makes significant improvements in terms and conditions ...
• Friday roundup, Aug. 16, 2013
  Rescue workers carry the body of a victim out from the site of an accident where a heap of coal collapsed at a coal mine in Sundargarh district, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) west of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state, India, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. At least seven villagers were kille ...
• Another coal miner dies on the job
  Here’s today’s bad news from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, out of Wyoming’s Powder River Basin: Thursday night, Thunder Basin Coal’s Black Thunder Mine reportedly experienced a fatality when a power shovel was traveling up a ramp and rolled back, strikin ...
• UMWA members set to vote on Patriot deal
  It’s a bit day today for miners at Patriot Coal, and for the bankrupt coal company. As Jessica Lilly reports over at West Virginia Public Broadcasting: The United Mine Workers of America is expected to vote today on an agreement between Patriot Coal and the union.  The nation’s large ...

Daniel Miessler

• Why I’m Happy With Apple Releasing a Cheap iPhone
  With large markets it’s a simple fact that high-end players need to have a low-end option in order to avoid giving millions to competitors. BMW just released the 1-series, and Apple is about to release a cheap iPhone. I’m cool with that–I get it–but only if they don&#8217 ...
• Wuffie and Wireless Power
  In Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow wrote about the concept of Whuffie, which is basically a universal reputation currency. Everywhere one goes, they’re displaying their wuffie on them, and others are free to view it. The idea (or part of it at least) is that knowing your t ...
• Future Trends
  Here are some predictions that I think may be useful as seeding for thought on the potential states of the future: The jobs are going away. In the future people will be paid to simply not be violent. They’ll receive sustenance and entertainment credits. Nano-technology will become the futu ...
• The Ritual of Thought
  Within a transparent cage, the small wet bullets strip my flawed self Rushing sound removes the outside world, and ideas trickle like a firehose In here there is promise In here there is art In here there is possibility Invigorated, I emerge a new manRelated Posts:My First Rowing LessonIncreasin ...
• The Difference Between SSD and Flash Hard Drives
  Many are confused by the difference between SSD hard drives and flash hard drives. This should clear it up. Basics SSD stands for Solid State Disk, and it means storage that doesn’t require moving parts. This concept has been around for decades, and originally it was RAM-based, i.e. the st ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• Promoting HEP physics in the U.S.: a poll
  Joseph S. sent me a link to the Symmetry Magazine, Why Particle Physics Matters, that offers you four 1-minute-or-so videos explaining the Americans why HEP physics is worth their money. You may vote for your favorite. I decided not to hide my preferences. This guy from Mississippi is ...
• Three insightful BH information papers
  ...I mean papers on entanglement in quantum gravity theories... Yesterday I discussed a paper on the black hole interior that I considered bad but today there's some better news, namely three papers that are interesting and not self-evidently wrong. Let me begin with Black Holes or Firewa ...
• Bousso's pseudoarguments against \(ER=EPR\), b ...
  ...the vacuum can't be excited only if one assumes that it can't be excited... When I was living my days in the "physics establishment", it was pretty much true that there was a connected theoretical high-energy theoretical physics community including professors, postdocs, and students that ...
• LIGO: improving sensitivity by squeezed states
  Gravitational waves could become visible next year On Friday, SciTechDaily wrote about an interesting recent article in Nature: Improvements to LIGO Detector Will Allow Scientists to ‘Listen’ to Black Holes Forming (SciTechDaily, Daily Galaxy) Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitatio ...
• 95 percent confidence: in HEP vs IPCC
  When I saw some reports about the IPCC's 95 percent "certainty" that the global warming is mostly man-made, I couldn't avoid thinking about the huge difference between hard sciences (such as particle physics) and soft sciences (such as the contemporary climatology). Reuters saw documents sa ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to become dad fo ...
  Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has let his Twitter followers know that his wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, is expecting the couple’s third child in March. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: How Justin Trudeau grew from p ...
• Michael Hastings Death: LA Coroner Completes A ...
  [Ed. Note: We would like to take this time to remind our readers what happens to coroners who stray too far from official story lines: What a coincidence! Breitbart's coroner dead from arsenic poisoning!] by Sophie Schillaci, Hollywood Reporter: UPDATED: The death of the 33-year-old journalist w ...
• Prorogation shows Harper afraid of questions, ...
  Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair said Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament until later this fall shows he is afraid to answer the opposition’s questions. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Harper ...
• Get Your Kids Out Of Public Skool In The US
  by Jeff Berwick, Dollar Vigilante: Imagine your child was on this bus. What would you think? A realistic hijacking complete with SWAT teams and smoke grenades? We’ve spoken often about how “Sending Your Kids To Public School Is Child Abuse“.  But even we were shocked to se ...
• ‘Damn good pilot’ hailed for safe Yellowknife ...
  A Buffalo Airways DC-3 made a hard landing at the Yellowknife airport after the plane’s right engine caught fire shortly after takeoff. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Part of 9/11 plane’s landing gear found in NYC A ...

Modern Survivalism

• 3 Weeks After The Blackout, Man’s New Vi ...
  Jake had been taking up the rear while Chester about 200 yards ahead had been setting the pace while out on patrol. Ever since the blackout had sent the world tumbling into chaos, their small rural community had banded together for protection and resources once they had realized the power wasn&# ...
• When The Dollar Is No Longer A Reserve Currency
  I believe the U.S. is in the midst of a major currency collapse, and a huge change in our normal way of life. The following is a list of startling notes that I wrote, as well as statements credited to Stansberry Research while I watched a video related to their newsletter back in 2011. The […]
• The Power Companies Next Disaster
  10 years ago, the lights went out across much of the Northeastern United States and also parts of Canada. It was the biggest blackout in American history, all triggered by a sagging power line in Ohio. The last thing that took down a big part of the power grid was Superstorm Sandy. But when powe ...
• A Canadian’s Perspective On Security Wit ...
  The following message if from “Just Another Canadian” who happened to comment on a Modern Survival Blog article with some very salient points regarding security and situational awareness. Enough so that I’ve posted it separately for your benefit. I will comment further after hi ...
• Residential Security And Safety
  The most serious obstacle to personal safety is an attitude of complacency. “It can’t happen to me.” It is dangerous thinking. A criminal attack against you or your family can take place at anyone’s home, as can a fire or other disaster. However, you can influence what ha ...

Fast Company

• Hoop Dreams: The Beautiful Ruins Of Basketball ...
  A Paris-based photographer shows the character and heartbreak in the post-game of basketball hoops. Few things say neglect quite like an unhinged, bent up, rusty-peely netless basketball hoop. It’s a sad sight, often evoking more than its own decay. The weathering, though, does hold ...
• Eerie Reenactment of Trayvon Martin Shooting U ...
  A chilling PSA from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence features a reenactment of the night Trayvon Martin was killed--set to actual 9-1-1 calls. Nobody besides George Zimmerman may ever know exactly what happened the night that he shot and killed an unarmed Trayvon Martin in 2012. The crea ...
• Six iPad Magazines That Are Changing The Publi ...
  Remember when the iPad was supposed to save publishing? For all the hype of the tablet revolution and its impact on the industry, most digital magazines are still growing into the form factor. Far too often, tablet mags are simply regurgitated copies of the print edition served up as clunky, glo ...
• Condé Nast Cuts Deal With Amazon To Turn Magaz ...
  Condé Nast has struck a deal with Amazon that will give the Vogue, Vanity Fair, and New Yorker publisher access to 200 million potential new subscribers who are already spending money shopping on Amazon, according to a Reuters exclusive. The deal, the first of its kind, will allow Cond&ea ...
• No Time for Coffee? Spray Caffeine On Your Skin
  Caffeine is America's favorite drug, bar none. And while we've extolled the culinary and social aspects of coffee over the years, sometimes people don't have time for a leisurely cup of joe and just want a quick fix. Today Ben Yu, 21, one of Peter Thiel's 20 Under 20 fellows, and his partner D ...

Jadaliyya

• Turkey Media Roundup (August 20)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
• Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (August 20)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
• Press Freedoms: More of the Same
  Report shows press freedom violations today are a stronger and redirected version of Morsi’s policies. In the lead up to the 30 June protests that eventually led to the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi, the government issued warnings it would shut down private satellite channe ...
• First Brotherhood Official Statement On Suprem ...
  Brotherhood spokesman publishes on his Facebook page the first official statement on the arrest of their Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei. In their first official statement since the arrest of their Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie on Monday, Muslim Brotherhood Spokesperson Ahmed Aref says his arrest was ...
• Beyond The Voice of Battle
  No matter how many times you witness it, the transformation is still a dizzying one. Kiosks that once vended chocolate and cigarettes, deployed as a gunman’s shield. Shop window shutters framing sugar-sopped cakes or risqué clothes mannequins, now the roughage of a street barricade and ...

mediagazer

• Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an ...
  Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Is Google Ready to Buy Its Way Into TV With an NFL Deal?  —  Here's a fun combination to ponder: The world's most powerful media company and America's most popular sport.  —  That could happen if Google buys the rights to the NFL's Sunda ...
• New Revelations Detail How The NSA Scans 75% O ...
  Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: New Revelations Detail How The NSA Scans 75% Of The Internet Through Telco Partnerships  —  Today the Wall Street Journal reported the existence of several NSA programs that were either previously unknown, or little was known about.  Meet Blarney, ...
• Al Jazeera hints at new online programming for ...
  Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: Al Jazeera hints at new online programming for cord cutters and cable hold-outs  —  Al Jazeera launched its U.S. cable network Tuesday, but a significant part of its potential audience couldn't tune in: Viewers used to watching Al Jazeera's internationa ...
• AT&T Sued Over Refusal to Carry Al Jazeera Cab ...
  Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: AT&T Sued Over Refusal to Carry Al Jazeera Cable Network  —  AT&T Inc. (T:US), the largest U.S. phone company, was sued by Al Jazeera for refusing to carry the Qatar-based broadcaster's new U.S. cable-news channel as part of its pay-television ser ...
• British Newspaper Has Advantages in Battle Wit ...
  Steven Erlanger / New York Times: British Newspaper Has Advantages in Battle With Government Over Secrets  —  LONDON — Alan Rusbridger, the mop-haired, soft-spoken editor of The Guardian newspaper, finds himself in a shadowy battle with the British government over purloine ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Barcelona's Ibrahim Afellay is set to hav ...
  Last Match: Sun 18 Aug, Spanish Primera BBVA Barcelona 7-0 Levante Match Report Next: Sun 25 Aug, Spanish Primera BBVA Malaga 20:00 Barcelona Match Area Barcelona's Ibrahim Afellay is set to have thigh surgery Last Updated: August 20, 2013 4:57pm 0 Ibrahim Afellay: Set for thigh surger ...
• Adlington relieved to keep medals
  Swimming star Rebecca Adlington has thanked fans for their concern after she tweeted that she feared her Olympic medals had been stolen during a break-in at her home. The double Olympic champion tweeted that she was "shaking" and "in absolute pieces" after receiving the news of the break-in ...
• Oscar Pistorius discusses settlement with ...
  Oscar Pistorius' lawyers have approached the family of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he is accused of murdering, hoping to negotiate an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit separate from the criminal case the athlete faces. Both sides confirmed the talks to South African media outlets but ...
• Cissokho completes Liverpool move
  Liverpool have announced the signing of Valencia defender Aly Cissokho on a season-long loan, subject to completion of paperwork. The 25-year-old has been training with the Reds after undergoing a medical early this week. Cissokho told the club's website, www.liverpoolfc.com: "I feel extreme ...
• Michael Palin to play God in 'Spamalot' f ...
  Michael Palin will appear as God for a week in the West End's Spamalot. The Monty Python star will continue the 'Summer of Spamalot Charity Gods' when he plays the role on-screen at The Playhouse Theatre in...

no frakking consensus

• See You in September
  The (fully-searchable) electronic version of my book, The Delinquent Teenager, will soon cost $7.99 rather than $4.99. This is the only book-length evaluation of the IPCC by an independent journalist. The IPCC will release Part 1 of its new climate assessment in late September.
• What Would a Bad Job Look Like?
  A US official recently called Rajendra Pachauri's leadership of the world's most important climate body 'extraordinary.' But 'inadequate' and 'inexcusable' are more appropriate.
• The IPCC, UFOs & Pseudoscience
  The head of the IPCC has written a novel in which the central character is infatuated with pseudoscience and in which UFO enthusiast Shirley MacLaine is presented as credible. The final installment of the Nobel Laureate Summer Reading series.
• Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 4
  Girl spurns boy, marries someone else, and is anally raped on her honeymoon. Girl comes crawling back to boy, begging for forgiveness, and pleading for one more chance.
• Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 3
  There's nothing wrong with writing a sex-saturated novel. But IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri says this book is "all about spirituality."

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 8/20/13 - New Jersey bans "conversion therapy" ...
  borngay.procon.org – New Jersey bans "conversion therapy" for minors – Republican Governor Chris Christie signed the bill into law on Aug. 19, 2013, prohibiting therapy intended to change gay minors' sexual orientation.
• 8/19/13 - Historical Timeline: History of the ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of the Death Penalty - Our updated timeline on the history of the death penalty includes events from the Code of Hammurabi in 1700s B.C. to Maryland’s repeal of the death penalty on May 2, 2013.
• 8/16/13 - Historical Timeline: A History of th ...
  aclu.procon.org – Historical Timeline: A History of the ACLU from 1915 to Present - Our updated timeline on the history of the ACLU includes events from its origins in 1915 as an organization to protect the First Amendment rights of World War I protestors to its 2013 lawsuit over the US drone pr ...
• 8/15/13 - Is Prostitution a Victimless Crime?
  prostitution.procon.org – UPDATED: Is Prostitution a Victimless Crime? – Read our updated question including pros and cons from academics, activists, and charitable organizations.
• 8/14/13 - Under Obamacare, Are Members of Cong ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Under Obamacare, Are Members of Congress Required to Choose from the Same Set of Available Health Insurance Plans as Everyone Else? - YES - On Aug. 7, 2013, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a rule to implement Obamacare’s requirement that members o ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• UK man jailed over fake bomb detectors
  A British businessman who made fake bomb detectors has been jailed for seven years.
• Reports US cut off aid to Egypt false - White ...
  Media reports suggesting the US has cut off aid to Egypt are not accurate.
• Person in custody after shot fired near school
  One person in custody after a gunshot was fired near an Atlanta-area school.
• Japan nuclear plant leaks tonnes of highly rad ...
  Contaminated water is leaking from a storage tank at Fukushima nuclear plant.
• Musharraf arrest over Bhutto death likely to a ...
  It's feared the indictment of former Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf will cause resentment in the army.

environment 360

• Google ‘Street View’ Will Document Changes to ...
  Marine biologists are teaming up with Google to photograph detailed 360-degree panoramas of coral reefs around the globe. Using technology similar to Click to enlarge Google Google takes Street View to coral reefs. Google’s Street View feature, users will be able to survey coral reefs m ...
• Future Flood Losses Could Increase Ten Times b ...
  The rapid growth of the world’s coastal cities, coupled with sea level rise and land subsidence, could mean that flood losses in major metropolitan areas could rise from Click to enlarge Stephane Hallegatte, et al/Cities facing increased risk $6 billion in 2005 to more than $60 billion in 20 ...
• Bringing Back the Night: The Fight Against Lig ...
  As evidence mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet. BY PAUL BOGARD
• Ecuador Abandons Moratorium on Oil Drilling in ...
  The Ecuadorian government has abandoned its moratorium on oil drilling in Yasuni National Park as a proposal to protect the park with the help of international donations fell apart. In a nationally televised speech, President Rafael Correa blamed the failure of the ambitious conservation plan on ...
• 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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issue ...
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• Fracking Canada - INDUSTRY'S GAS MIGRATION
  Brief Review of Threats to Canada's Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing Tags: canada industry gas hydrofracking ...
• Toxic Environmental Bio Terrain
  Corexit and the Gulf of Mexico : environmental horror and WMD
• My Library for greenhouse gases
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• State of the Beach - Beachapedia
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Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Al Jazeera America’s Launch: Another Exc ...
  The conservative media has seen the channel's launch today as an opportunity to spread fact-free Islamophobia.
• The Hindutva Sangh Parivar Groups Inspired Bud ...
  Extremists feeding off of one another.
• Swedes don headscarves to support Muslim victim
  Swedish women from various faiths have posted pictures of themselves online wearing hijabs to show solidarity with a Muslim woman who was attacked in a Stockholm suburb for wearing one.
• Resurgent Danish People’s Party to Targe ...
  A poll has pushed the DPP above 20% for the first time. If that translates into votes Islam and immigration will be in the news for years to come.
• Rios and Gaffney Approve Egypt Massacre, Oppos ...
  Rios & Gaffney "grateful" to Egyptian military, say 1st Amendment doesn't apply to Muslims.

Energy News

• Anonymous Official: Tank at Fukushima may have ...
• Japan Times: Fukushima Daiichi radioactive wat ...
• Tokyo Professor: Ground beneath Fukushima reac ...
• Expert: Land under Fukushima reactor buildings ...
• Study shows Fukushima nuclear pollution becomi ...

Hudson New York

• Spain's New "Fornicators"
  Public prosecutors in Spain have dropped charges of "advocating gender violence" against a Muslim cleric who, on April 2013, preached a two-hour sermon in Spanish, entitled "The Queens of Islam," during which he made a number of pronouncements about the
• South America Goes Nuclear: Now Brazil
  Brazil, a party to the Non Proliferation Treaty, is reportedly planning to develop indigenously a nuclear-propulsion system: the nation's first submarine is expected to be operational by 2017; its first nuclear submarine by 2023.[1] If Brazil develops a
• Palestinians Accuse Peace Negotiators of Treason
  At the request of the Palestinian Authority leadership, the first round of peace talks with Israel, which was launched in Jerusalem on August 14, was held away from the media spotlight. The Palestinian Authority leadership requested that no journalist or
• Denmark Bans Meatballs to Accommodate Muslims
  One of the largest hospitals in Denmark has admitted to serving only halal beef -- meat that is slaughtered in accordance with strict Islamic guidelines -- to all of its patients regardless of whether or not they are Muslim. The revelation that Danes are
• As Egypt Nears Civil War, Israel on High Alert
  The dramatic escalation in Egypt's domestic conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military is being accompanied by an upsurge in the activities of jihadi organizations in the Sinai Peninsula. Since Morsi's ouster, extremist Salafi and jihadi

Urban Survival

• The Saudis Double Down
  Sorry if this begins to sound like one of our Peoplenomics reports, but  lot of people can benefit (and maybe hold on to some of their retirement dough) by understanding the Big Picture in global geopolitics and so this morning we focus on that before we get into specific headline-chasing. ...
• Coping: Wujo or “Big Data”
  Here’s an interesting story to get the kinks out from between the ears this morning: Dear Mr Ure, I have been a long time reader.  Something odd happened today.  My house phone rang and I ignored it.  Then my cell phone rang.  The person asked for Valeria Brooks.  She sa ...
• The Story Being Missed Is….
  The fear-mongering headlines are back:  al Qaeda this (threats to bomb trained in Europe) and al Qaeda that (urges attacks on US diplomats) .  And then we can toss in the dead of Egypt this weekend, worries that oil and gas routes could become “iffy”, and then there’s the matter of the ...
• Coping: I Wiskerman
  Back almost 30-years ago my kids got me an electric razor for Christmas and it’s been doing a reasonably good job of keeping my face mowed ever since.  Except that recently – maybe it’s from looking in the mirror too long – I’ve begun to find fault with what I see.  I choose to blame t ...
• Prospects and Productivity
  Well, let’s try this again…  The US markets had a bad case of news-granola induced runs yesterday, dropping 225-points on the Dow and putting our current short trade decidedly in the black, but as Peoplenomics readers know, the trading model still says “Long!”  Confusing times these ar ...

Trends & Forecasts

• Mike Mish Shedlock ~ Hedging Emerging Market V ...
  The Fed money is pouring -- right back into the US. Over the last few years, Bernanke's cheap quantitative easing money flowed outward into developing countries. But countries such as India, Indonesia and Thailand have seen currency devaluation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Countdown to Financial Collapse ~ G. Edward Gr ...
  Stefan Molyneux and G. Edward Griffin discuss the basics of the central banking scheme, past examples of honest banking, theft through inflation, monetarily enabling the military industrial complex, false patriotism and how long it will be until the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• Bankruptcy of America ~ Prophecy in The News
  We are, as a nation, truly already bankrupt...like us ordinary folks ("OF")...we run that credit as far as it will go, till we need to see an attorney. The government unlike us OF's can print money based on the OF's future productivity and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• War on Whistelblowers ~ British Government for ...
  The British government has given the Guardian newspaper an ultimatum: delete all data on Edward Snowden's leaks or risk getting shut down. A few months ago, Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald revealed the NSA's massive surveillance program through... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Glenn Greenwald ~ POLICE STATE UK Government S ...
  The British government's attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications. Just a day after Glenn Greenwald's partner was detained at Heathrow airport, The Guardian's... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

• AB32 Opponents Try to S-"CARE" California
  Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Longtime opponents to California’s clean energy laws are at it again, this time under a new banner group called Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy (“CARE”) that is linked t ...
• Federal Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Plan Can Be ...
  Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago On Monday President Obama’s administration released its Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy, a 69-point plan that could serve as the template for post-disaster rebuilding efforts in the future and migh ...
• The Changing Climate For Flood Insurance
  Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago This is the second in a short series on the National Flood Insurance Program, some of its failings, and how it might better support preparations for our climate future. A version of this post appeared on Liv ...
• New Poll: Strong Concerns about Fracking in Ca ...
  Victoria Rome, California Legislative Director, San Francisco and Sacramento Fracking is already underway in California, with no regulations in place. Yet, recent polls consistently show widespread concern amongst Californians about the impacts ...
• Take Action: Tell the EPA to Stop Delaying & I ...
  Becky Hammer, Project Attorney, Water Program, Washington, DC Today people and organizations across the country, including NRDC, are gathering together to express their support for better federal clean water protections.  This summer’s i ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• Turkey has evidence that Israel was behind Egy ...
  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that Israel was behind the July 3 military coup in Egypt, adding that Ankara has evidence as to the country’s involvement in President Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow. “Now the West starts to say democracy is not the ballot box or not only the box but we ...
• Israeli DM Urges US War in Syria, Announces Ne ...
  With the ongoing civil war in Syria getting more and more complicated by the minute, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has issued a public call for US military involvement, saying it was vital for the US to stop Assad from retaining power. Ya’alon went on to announce a new “axis of evil,” w ...
• Egypt vows lethal response ahead of nationwide ...
  The bloodiest in decade’s violence in Egypt has been condemned by the UN Security Council. Meanwhile Egyptian law enforcement has been ordered to use deadly force to prevent further riots as the Muslim Brotherhood is bracing for a “March of Anger.” “The view of council members is that it is impo ...
• Fidel Castro celebrates 87th anniversary after ...
  The Cubans have celebrated the 87th anniversary of their national leader Fidel Castro. The legendary revolutionary himself preferred to spend the day with his friends and relatives. Festivities, concerts and sporting events were conducted all over the island. In Havana, the XXIII Art Fair was op ...
• BREAKING: Putin puts all Russian military faci ...
  Sources told Egypt Independent that Russian President Vladimir Putin called for an extraordinary session at the Russian Kremlin to discuss the situation in Egypt and take the necessary steps to put the Russian military facilities “at the Egyptian military’s disposal”. Putin wil ...

Daily Dose

• Facebook brings Android SDK level with iOS aft ...
  Facebook’s SDK for Android has undergone a “major update”, bringing with it several key improvements for developers. Included in this release is native Share Dialog and Object API support, a... Keep reading →
• AdAge: iTunes Radio to launch in September wit ...
  iTunes Radio is officially slated to debut later this year, but many expect it to arrive next month along with Apple’s latest iPhone lineup refresh. A report from Ad Age... Keep reading →
• 4 million users on, Contacts+ takes its popula ...
  Contacts+, the Palo Alto-based company behind the popular Android app of the same name, has launched its popular contacts app for iPhone. Following its relaunch on Android six months ago... Keep reading →
• Radical.FM launches an iOS app to take on Spot ...
  The online music streaming service Radical.FM has launched an iOS app, marking the company’s first foray into native app streaming. More importantly, it differentiates itself from others in the market by offering... Keep reading →
• Plants vs. Zombies 2 racks up 16m downloads on ...
  Plants vs. Zombies 2, the long-awaited sequel to PopCap Games’ incredibly popular tower defense title, has hit 16 million downloads worldwide in its opening week. Electronic Arts is calling it... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Time to ditch the redundant gas network
  By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
• How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
  By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...
• Big emissions cuts possible at home, study finds
  By Peter Hannam. Sydney Morning Herald Australia's homes could slash their carbon emissions by half and eliminate their use of gas by investing in efficient electrical appliances now on the market, according to a clean energy advocacy group. Jointly published with the Melbourne Energy Institu ...
• Hundreds launch Zero Carbon Buildings Plan
  Australia's buildings could halve their energy use within a decade, to make a major contribution to reducing the nation's carbon emissions – and save money on energy bills in the long run as well. A large crowd packed out an auditorium at Melbourne University to hear this message at the la ...
• A plan to fix Australia's buildings
  The first comprehensive, nationwide plan to fix Australia's buildings' energy use and greenhouse impact is to be launched this week at Melbourne University. The Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan – a joint project of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions and The University of ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Google Earth presents fish-eye view of coral reefs
  You can now visit up-close and personal some of the world's most imperiled ecosystems on Google Earth: coral reefs. The Google team is working with scientists to provide 360 degree panoramas, similar to Google street-view, to give armchair ecologists a chance to experience the most biodiverse ec ...
• Safeguarding nine priority areas could protect ...
  Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recently developed a list of “Priority Primate Areas” to save Tanzania’s many primate species from extinction. A hub of unique and endangered primates, Tanzania is widely considered to be the most important mainland co ...
• Six smugglers sentenced to jail time over pang ...
  Six men have been sentenced to a year in jail after being convicted of smuggling 150 pangolins in peninsular Malaysia, reports Annamiticus. The men were also given fines totaling over $100,000.
• Climate change killing harp seal pups
  As sea ice levels continue to decline in the northern hemisphere, scientists are observing an unsettling trend in harp seal young mortalities regardless of juvenile fitness. While a recent study found that in harp seal breeding regions ice cover decreased by up to 6% a decade from 1979 on, a fol ...
• Humanity consumes this year's resources 133 da ...
  Today is Earth Overshoot Day, according to the Global Footprint Network and WWF's Living Planet Report, which means the seven billion people on Earth have consumed the globe's renewable resources for the year. In other words for the next 133 days humanity will be accumulating ecological debt by ...

Sierra Express

• Sierra Leoneans Must Not Settle For Mediocrity!
  Weekly Message From Mohamed K Mansaray As Sierra Leoneans, we must not settle for mediocrity, indigence and poorness. Today, I want to talk with you about my vision to prioritize education if elected president in 2017/18. Education is the new currency by which nations keep competitive and grow. ...
• When Will Their Voices Be Heard?
  A picture keeps coming to my mind. It’s a picture of our Sierra Leonean compatriots who have resorted to finding their survival on the streets of Freetown and other big towns and cities. They sit, stand and/or walk all over the place. They beg for survival. They beg anybody and everybody who com ...
• No place like home – Africa’s skilled labour r ...
  Mariam Koné left Canada five years ago to start a business consulting firm in Bamako, the capital of Mali. As her client base grew steadily, earnings from her company, Koné Conseil, also increased. Business has been great, she says. Although her previous job as an industrial engineer at a consul ...
• 20 entrepreneurs to showcase clean technology ...
  On the 15 – 16 October 2013, 20 entrepreneurs will be presenting a business case for investment at Viridis Africa. Among them will be Ben van Rooyen, CEO, ZEO Africa Zeo Africa was established in 2013 in order to commercialise ZeoForm, a patented product developed by Zeo IP, an Australian compan ...
• Transport & Aviation Minister Balogun Koroma V ...
  Sierra Leone’s Transport and Aviation Minister Hon. Leonard Balogun “Logus” Koroma has on Thursday August 8 2013, met with some members of the World Bank Africa Region in charge of Sustainable Development Department, headed by Jamal Saghir at 1818 H Street North West Washington DC USA, and held ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Dairy prices up 2.3pc in latest auction (+graphic)
  Prices of dairy products gained in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction and the volume sold remained at elevated level for a second sale, suggesting overseas buyers aren't fazed by elevated nitrate levels in Westland Milk's...
• Fran O'Sullivan: Spierings leads charge of change
  Fonterra boss Theo Spierings has consolidated his powerbase at the dairy co-operative with chairman John Wilson's emailed statement to shareholders that the board has confidence in the way the chief executive is handling the tainted...
• Reputation will return: economist
  The contamination scares that have hit New Zealand's two biggest dairy co-operatives this month will cause Chinese consumers to "think twice" about shelling out cash on expensive imported milk products, says ANZ's chief China economist...
• Ministry mulling closer tabs on dairy
  The Ministry for Primary Industries says it is exploring interim measures to strengthen consumer assurances about dairy production after the recent food contamination scares.The ministry's move follows an announcement on Monday...
• NZ food reputation will be restored, says Chin ...
  The contamination scares that have hit New Zealand's two biggest dairy co-operatives this month will cause Chinese consumers to "think twice" about shelling out cash on expensive imported milk products, says ANZ's...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Ed Krayewski on Lupe Fiasco at the Libertarian ...
  I have an article up at the Libertarian Republic on the often controversial rapper Lupe Fiasco’s response to Kendrick Lamar’s “Control” verse that came via a tweet at the president. An excerpt: Fiasco is no stranger to controversy and holding views that may not be typical of mains ...
• Jesse Walker on the Leak Scare
  The most significant sorts of political paranoia, Jesse Walker writes, are the kinds that catch on with people inside the halls of power, not the folks on the outside looking in. The latest example is a crackdown on leaks that has the government crippled by a fear of its own employee ...
• Obamacare Quirk Punishes Families for Employer ...
  A quirk in Obamacare means that many families will be better off if their employers don't offer healthcare and they get taxpayer-subsidized policies through health exchanges instead. Hmmm. The British government is standing by its decision to detain David Miranda because...ter ...
• Silk Road Proprietor Says Libertarian Mission ...
  Like the literary pirate captain from whom he borrowed his name, Silk Road proprietor Dread Pirate Roberts is the successor to the actual founder of a criminal enterprise — although, in the real world case, it's the victimless activity of peddling forbidden intoxicants and other ill ...
• Canadian Police Chiefs Want to Fine Marijuana ...
  The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police wants more “enforcement options” on possession of cannabis, according to the National Post, which reports that in a resolution the chiefs calls for the option of fining people so that they would not have to “turn a blind eye or lay charg ...

Mercury Rising

• NSA wiretapping kills Groklaw
  gjohnsit has a writeup here. I read it here, from Charles Arthur of the Guardian: The award-winning legal analysis site Groklaw is shutting because its founder says that “there is no way” to continue to run it without using secure email – and that the threat of NSA spying means ...
• Spy for us or go to jail
  The next escalation in the US government’s determination to make itself odious to all mankind appears to have arrived as an order to Lavabit to spy on its customers or go to jail (Mike Masnick, Techdirt, via martini at dk) The founder of Lavabit received a court order, whose nature he cann ...
• Clockwork Orange in the Scott Trust’s ba ...
  Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian (via Little, DK): A little over two months ago I was contacted by a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister. There followed two meetings in which he demanded the return or destruction of all the material we were working ...
• Clockwork Orange in the Scott Paper Trust&#821 ...
  Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian (via Little, DK): A little over two months ago I was contacted by a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister. There followed two meetings in which he demanded the return or destruction of all the material we were working ...
• A Paper Bird
  Just found a writer whose thoughts are worth reading: http://paper-bird.net/2013/08/16/stoli-and-sympathy-and-the-new-lgbt-public-sphere-what-to-do-about-russia/ http://paper-bird.net/2013/08/17/the-killing-days/ http://paper-bird.net/things-i-wrote/ Just go and read.

Reality Sandwich

• A Real Answer for the Environmental Crisis: Co ...
    I was at the local 'feed and seed' store the other day to get supplies, and struck up a conversation with the owner. He is a calm, thoughtful, conservative rural Virginian. He was talking about the weather, about how things have changed. They used to say that when the bumble bee ...
• Sex in the News
  In this week's sex in the news, a gay couple gets Rosa Parks treatment on a bus. Sex objects. Google Glass Porn. Gay Muslims in Turkey and is sex with a robot considered cheating? Gay couple asked to sit in back of bus gets an apology. (NPR) read more
• Masonry and the Mysteries of Eleusis Revisited ...
    In my article Masonry and the Mysteries of Eleusis [1], I explained that Freemasonry has been described as a continuation of the various Mystery cults which flourished in ancient Rome, Egypt, Persia, and especially Greece before they were indiscriminately suppressed in favor of the ne ...
• Dolphins Remember Friends For Decades
  Emerging research shows that dolphins have the ability to remember one another's signature call for at least 20 years. This talent may even surpass humans' proficiency to remember one another based on appearance alone. read more
• Why You’re Here: Life Purpose and Life Lessons
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Desertification

• Mining Industry Plans Massive Use of Seawater ...
  The arid climate in northern Chile has forced mining companies to seek out new sources of water. The main source is seawater from the Pacific Ocean, whose use is expected to increase significantly in the coming decade despite the high costs of extraction and transport. The vast northern region o ...
• Fight Against Drought Is Grounds for Political ...
  The decisions taken by the Brazilian government in the fight against drought in the country’s semiarid Northeast are an example of the disconnect between politicians and the citizens, which triggered an unexpected wave of protests in June. Even though the centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff ...
• First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
  Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country’s forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation. Burkina’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas and the ...
• Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
  As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
• Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
  The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• ‘Riyadh destabilizes Mideast to survive’
  Saudi Arabia has been spreading extremism across the Middle East and interfering in the internal affairs of the regional countries in a bid to guarantee its own survival, a political analyst tells Press TV.
• Mortar shells wound 7 in Syria
  At least seven people, including a woman, have been wounded in Syria after foreign-backed militants fired mortar shells at civilian areas in a number of neighborhoods of the capital, Damascus.
• Saudi guards kill Yemeni tribesman
  Saudi forces have reportedly shot and killed a Yemeni tribesman and injured another along the border between the two neighboring countries.
• Syria Army seizes most of Latakia
  Syrian army has taken back most of the coastal province of Latakia, killing scores of foreign-backed militants.
• Yemen voices support for Egypt govt.
  Yemen has expressed its full support for the Egyptian interim government, saying Egypt’s leadership can “overcome the chaos” in the North African country.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Quick Fire Science: Meteors
  Star gazers have been peering at the night sky all this week looking for shooting stars, as the annual Perseid meteor shower has reached its peak. But what are shooting stars, and what's the best wa...
• Forensic archaeology
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• Invisibility with squid skin
  Using a protein from colour-changing squids, US scientists have created a coating that reflects infrared and lets objects mimic the infrared signature of their surroundings. The developers of the co...
• Coarticulation in piano playing
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• Are black holes magnetic?
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Care2 - Environment

• Organic Farmer Convicted for Food-Related Viol ...
  The same Minnesota farmer acquitted in Minneapolis this past December for raw milk-related violations was convicted last week in St. Cloud for a related list of offenses. Alvin Schlangen of Freeport and his Freedom Farms Co-op did not fare anywhere near.. Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Welln ...
• USDA: New York Times Article Misrepresented IT ...
  The story of a two-day computer system failure within the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month has been exaggerated by The New York Times and does not accurately represent the state of meat inspection during system downtime... Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Wellness  |&nbs ...
• Vincent And Heidi Giesegh's Neighbors Demand R ...
  So much for being neighborly. A handicap ramp outside of a Fountain, Colorado home is stirring up tensions after neighbors began complaining the ramp could hurt their home value. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Bo gets a buddy at the White House
  A new member of the first family arrived at the White House on Monday a puppy named Sunny. First lady Michelle Obama tweeted a picture announcement and a White House blog post also introduced America to the female pup, who is a little over one year old. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & C ...
• Boycott 2017 UIA World Congress of Architects ...
  You have the power to make a difference for these poor animals who are forced to endure the most agonizing and unimaginable suffering. Would you please stand by these animals today and be their voice? Submitted by Teresa Wlosowicz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

• Take Action: Show Your Support For Bradley Man ...
  Following the sentencing, please join in protests demanding that the US government Free Bradley Manning, and help build a sustained movement to make sure that happens. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Take Action: #TPPTuesday: Say "Yes!" To Transp ...
  Click through the article to sign the petition to "tell President Obama that the people demand transparency and a democratic process for the Trans-Pacific Partnership." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Sarah Palin Applies For Astronaut Position At NASA
  Sarah Palin along with two other people recently applied for an astronaut position at NASA. Many people over the years had told her she was a "space case", indicating to Sarah that she must have the right qualifications to be an astronaut. Submitted by AntiTeapublican Progressive News to Offbea ...
• What Ted Cruz actually needs to do to renounce ...
  Unfortunately for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, you cant just say you renounce your Canadian citizenship. Its not like bankruptcy on The Office. According to the Canadian government, there are 6 steps to prove eligibility for renouncing ones citizenship. Submitted by Dale O. to US Politics & Gov&#3 ...
• Minnesota: Enbridge Meets with Community on Pr ...
  The existing Enbridge mainline stretches along a northerly route! The proposed Sandpiper Project would bring nearly 610 miles of pipeline to Superior along a southern route Construction for the new Sandpiper Pipeline could begin in late 2014 Submitted by Roxy H. to Environment  |  & ...

Articles and Answers 2011

• Do you realize it’s Your Tax Dollars They are ...
  Opinion by Patricia L Johnson The following thirteen Attorneys General sent an 8-page letter on August 14, 2013 to Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Personally, I love the last paragraph of the letter “We appreciate your … Continue reading →
• Recall notice from NHTSA’s Office of Def ...
  Please click on the following NHTSA Campaign ID links to view the recall information. NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 13V357 Manufacturer : Outdoors RV Manufacturing Make / Model Years : BLACK STONE / 2014 CREEK SIDE / 2013-2014 TIMBER RIDGE … Continue reading →
• Happy Birthday
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• FBI — FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week ...
  FBI — FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending August 9, 2013. Filed under: News and politics, Safety and Security Tagged: FBI Top 10 News Stories
• U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Pl ...
  U.S. Condemns Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Pledges to Help Combat al Qaeda Press StatementJen Psaki Washington, DC August 10, 2013 Filed under: News and politics

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Somali Officials Back Terrorists Against Aid
  Foreign aid workers are increasingly becoming targets of corrupt officials within the Somali government and the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab. “The government is laden with corrupt officials and allied clan militias that are determined to use them [aid workers] for their own interests,” po ...
• No Place for Gays in Yemen
  As he gets ready to go to a café in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, Husam tucks his long tresses inside a hood before getting into the back of his friend’s car. “Still problematic,” his friend tells him, assessing him in the rear view mirror. Husam pushes his hair further inside. A short drive ahead, th ...
• Kashmiri Farmers Unprepared for Drought
  Zareena Bano has had to skip school 17 times this year to help out on her family’s farm in Tangchekh village in the northern Indian state of Kashmir. Her teachers say she has the potential to be a brilliant student, but warn that if she keeps missing school she will not go far. Never before [&#8 ...
• Obama Cancels Joint Exercises with Egypt
  One day after the killing by the Egyptian army and security forces of hundreds of civilian protestors, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced the cancellation of joint U.S.-Egyptian military exercises scheduled for September. Cancellation of the biannual Operation Bright Star marked the ...
• Building the Future Enterprise by Enterprise i ...
  Women and young people are central players in dozens of small businesses and environmental protection plans that are changing the lives of poor rural families in the Andes highlands of southern Peru. The initiatives are financed by the government programme Sierra Sur and the International Fund f ...

My AntiWar

• Afghan Attorney General Fired for Attending Ta ...
• Libyans Fear Standoff Between Muslim Brotherho ...
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Sustained Gunshot Wounds to ...
• David Miranda’s Lawyers Threaten Legal A ...
• Afghanistan’s Circus Gives Children Fun ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• The Next Rounds of Nuclear Talks with Iran and ...
  Summary: It seems ever clearer that Iran and the P5+1 are headed toward new rounds of nuclear talks this fall. For those thinking through the prospects for these negotiations and their larger strategic ramifications, a couple of recent interviews published in Iran Review provide important in ...
• CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
  Summary: Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013 – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States' role in the controversial operation. American an ...
• Fallouts of Iran Sanctions
  Summary: Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani has promised to ease the tensions surrounding the international relations of his country. In line with the will of the majority of Iranians, the issue of economic sanctions – weighing heavily on the latter’s day-to-day life – will be a key to that ...
• US Needs More Forthcoming Approach to Iran: Report
  Summary: With the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, the United States should take a more flexible approach toward Tehran to increase the chances of a successful resolution of the latter’s nuclear programme, according to a new report by the Brussels-based International Cris ...
• Washington Ready to Repeat Past Mistakes in Nu ...
  Summary: There’s a temptation in the West to see Rohani’s election, to look at him, look at his record, look at his experience in the West, his fluency in English, all of this, [and] to see him as, in effect, a kind of Iranian Gorbachev—someone who is going to turn Iranian foreign policy on i ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Monster Galaxy One Million Light Years Wide Wi ...
                                     In the fall of 2012, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained a remarkable new view of a monster elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen before. Spanning a little over one million light-years, the galaxy is about ten ...
• "Laser Light May Signal Presence of an Alien G ...
      Concentrated laser light in the universe may singal the presence of a technological civilizations that might be living on distant planets or in a spacecraft nearby. “Think about humanity 300 hundred years from now,” he said. “Suppose we set up a colony on another planet … the mos ...
• 200 Billion Free-Floating Starless Planets Roa ...
    Astronomers observing the Rosette Nebula, a huge cloud of gas and dust 4600 light years from Earth in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn), have found that tiny, round, dark clouds called globulettes have the right characteristics to form free-floating planets with no parent st ...
• Fiery 'Lava-World' Alien Planet Discovered
               Researchers at MIT have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected. The planet is extremely close to its star — its orbital radius is only about three times th ...
• "The Universe is Shrinking" --Bold New Theory ...
                   The most widely accepted theory of the universe is based on the notion that the world started with a big bang, and has been expanding ever since. But, in a radical new view, the Universe in not expanding according to a Christof Wetterich, a theoretical physicist at th ...

Natural News

• Ron Finley, guerilla gardener of South Central ...
  Today Natural News issues its first "Natural American Heroes" award to Ron Finley, the "guerilla gardener" of South Central LA and founder of LA Green Grounds. Ron Finley is a brilliant, inspiring, hands-on visionary who is unleashing the transformative power of ...
• Tiny group of proteins alerts the immune syste ...
  A recent study published in the Journal of Immunology, reported by Prof. Yoel Kloog of Tel Aviv University's Department of Neurobiology, along with Dr. Itamar Goldstein of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sheba Medical Center and their students Helly Vernitsky...
• Six steps to beating chronic fatigue with natu ...
  For millions of Americans, it is a daily struggle just to get out of bed in the morning, let alone conjure up the energy and drive necessary to fulfill their regular duties and responsibilities. And while the individual root causes of chronic fatigue tend to vary, there...
• The real Bloomberg agenda unfolds: Fingerprint ...
  Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City, has yet to meet a constitutional right he didn't try to circumvent. His latest proposal - as always, in the name of public safety - is no different. He wants to fingerprint all poor people, just for the sake...
• Research shows that sage can help preserve or ...
  Sage, scientifically known as Salvia officinalis, comes from the latin word salvere which basically means to be saved. During the 10th century, Arab physicians thought sage promoted immortality, while in the 14th century, Europeans would use it to protect themselves...

Threat Level

• U.K. Ordered Guardian to Destroy Snowden Files ...
  After NSA insider Edward Snowden absconded with thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents from unsecured NSA servers earlier this year and gave them to the Guardian newspaper, a U.K spy agency forced the paper to destroy hard drives containing copies ...     
• IP Cloaking Violates Computer Fraud and Abuse ...
  A federal judge is ruling that circumventing an IP address blockade to connect to a website is a breach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same law that was being employed to criminally prosecute Aaron Swartz before he ...     
• Security Community Raising Money to Pay Resear ...
  After Facebook refused to pay a security researcher the bug bounty he was hoping to get for a problem he reported with its service, a top security researcher has launched a campaign to pay the researcher money that Facebook denied ...     
• Osama Bin Laden Photo Flap Heading to Supreme ...
  The dispute of whether the Central Intelligence Agency must release as many as 52 images of a dead Osama bin Laden is heading to the Supreme Court. The agency maintains that the pictures are classified, and that releasing them "could ...     
• NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times, Co ...
  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has called for more hearings to examine the government's surveillance tactics following new revelations that staff of the National Security Agency have violated privacy rules thousands of times in their surveillance of U.S. ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

• Beware the Red State Suckers!
  For Republican Obamacare foes hoping for a repeat of 2009's Tea Party days of rage, August 2013 is instead rapidly turning into the summer of their discontent. With its hardliners demanding a government shutdown or a U.S. default over funding for the Affordable Care Act, the Tea Party's big bus ...
• Romney's Boomerang
  For months, Forbes contributor, Manhattan Institute fellow and former Mitt Romney health care advisor Avik Roy has been waging a one-man disinformation campaign against the Affordable Care Act. Now, after enduring a thorough beat down over his warnings about a looming Obamacare "rate shock," Ro ...
• Bogus Study Tries to Scare "Young Invincibles" ...
  Conservative pundits, think tanks and bloggers are cheering a new analysis which claims to show "Why the 'Young Invincibles' Won't Participate in the ObamaCare Exchanges." Even with the Affordable Care Act's subsidies to help uninsured Americans purchase coverage, David Hogberg of the National C ...
• State-Run Exchanges Expand Blue States' Health ...
  From the very beginning, one massive irony has loomed over the Obamacare debate. The elephant in the room? Health care is worst where Republicans poll best. From access to care and insurance coverage to the health of their residents, red states generally produce the most dismal rankings. And ...
• GOP Still Plans to Repeal and Replace Obamacar ...
  With the ink from President Obama's signature on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) barely dry, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in March 2010 declared, "I think the slogan will be 'repeal and replace', 'repeal and replace," adding, "No one that I know in the Republican conference in ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• Will the American Right Kill Us All?
  Exclusive: By wallowing in a world of scientific denial and historical fabrication, the Republican Right and its Tea Party allies have prevented the U.S. government from responding aggressively to the existential emergency from global warming, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry It is a touchst ...
• Why Israel Wants No End to Egypt’s Aid
  The Israeli government and its U.S. lobby are pulling their political levers in Washington to prevent a cutoff of U.S. aid to Egypt in response to the military coup and bloody crackdown on Islamists and backers of ousted President Morsi. But saving the Camp David Accords is not the reason, says ...
• In the Grip of Warfare
  Amid a deepening scientific consensus that human activity is inviting environmental catastrophe, humanity’s continued reliance on warfare to settle disputes is the other incendiary element in the mix for global annihilation, as Lawrence S. Wittner observes. By Lawrence S. Wittner Is the human ra ...
• Did Manning Help Avert War in Iran?
• Citing ‘Terrorism’ to Justify Terror

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Copenhagen’s New Bike-Sharing Program Gonna Be ...
  Originally published on Bikocity. For the next generation of bike-sharing innovations, take a look at Copenhagen and smile. Trains and a bike-sharing program working as one travel option now offer a GPS built into the bike. Not only do you know where to pick up your next connection – you have a ...
• 5 US Cities Have Over 50% Of US Electric Cars
  Electric cars are just getting off the manufacturing lines and into consumers’ hands. I’m convinced they will actually dominate car sales within about a decade. But, for now, they are just entering the market. So, it’s not all that surprising that just 5 US cities are home to o ...
• Germany Crushes Monthly Solar Power Generation ...
  There’s no denying it. Germany is the reigning champion of solar power. It is crushing one solar power record after another… despite being one of the greyest countries in the world. Here’s more on the country’s latest record via CleanTechnica: Germany Breaks Monthly Solar ...
• Tesla Model S = Safest Car Ever Tested
  The Tesla Model S is a wonder car that has wowed auto journalists. Consumer Reports gave it the highest score it has ever given (for any type of car) and the car has won numerous auto awards. Of course, as a 100% electric car, it’s also super green. Now, we also find out that it’s Te ...
• Most Intelligent Bike On The Streets?
  Originally published on Bikocity. Redefining is the catchword for our progressive bicycle landscape. It is not lip service. As part of that, companies are rapidly redefining bicycles, and consumers now have a grand wave of bicycles to choose from. Gliding over and around the entire globe has nev ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Climate change and ... lead poisoning?
  Workers remove lead-contaminated soil from a similar Nigerian village in 2010.Photo: Associated Pres
• The colours of criminal dumping
  I’ve been seeing red very often these days. It started early this year when The Guardian posted a pi
• Hatlem Pond Dredge Meeting - August 11 at 7 p.m.
  Glen Lake Association has developed a plan for dredging Hatlem Pond. The dredge is scheduled for mid
• High-tech farming protecting the environment
  My husband and I were de-cluttering our house a few weekends ago after watching an episode of “Hoard
• Water Report at Pu'ukoholā Heiau NHS
  The brackish waterbody at Pu’ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site in Pōhaukole Gultch, inshore

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 12, 2013 Image by codep
• Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 11, 2013 Image by jim
• The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of ...
  Image by LividFiction via Flickr by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, Engla
• Gareth Porter: Afghan war, dead weight around ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 12, 2013 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• America's Indefinitely Detained + Close GITMO ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 11, 2013 Ima

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

• Jack Germond's Death Marks Passing of an Era
  By @TedFrier Longtime political journalist Jack Germond died Wednesday at his home in West Virginia. He was 85. Over the half century that Germond covered politics his work appeared in the Gannett papers, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and in the hundreds of papers that carried the five- ...
• More Empty "Worse Than Watergate" Comparisons
  By @TedFrier George F. Will is fast becoming the Speaker John Boehner of syndicated columnists - an otherwise sensible conservative driven to erratic rhetoric and behavior based on the pressing need to placate the right wing extremists who dominate the Republican base. The latest act of rightest ...
• "A Community Organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood"
  South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is probably wondering what he has to do to keep the Teahadists happy. He's been a very reliable asshole for the right wing for nearly two full senate terms; but this isn't good enough for the mouth-breathers. He's being challenged in the GOP primary by wing ...
• If heads rolling was a rodeo event...
  By @BginKC ...that other little backwater on the interwebs where I rant and rave about mostly state matters, would have a belt-buckle the size of a dinner plate: The president of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association has resigned after getting flak about a State Fair event in which a rodeo clown ...
• Everyday Little Corporate Scams We Probably Ne ...
  By @TomBales1  Disclaimer: The following is based on information from an unidentified source who requested anonymity on the basis that he was not authorized to speak on any facet of FedEx's operation in the countdown to taking over the US Postal Service and that if we didn't conceal his tru ...

Care 2

• Organic Farmer Convicted for Food-Related Viol ...
  The same Minnesota farmer acquitted in Minneapolis this past December for raw milk-related violations was convicted last week in St. Cloud for a related list of offenses. Alvin Schlangen of Freeport and his Freedom Farms Co-op did not fare anywhere near.. Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Welln ...
• USDA: New York Times Article Misrepresented IT ...
  The story of a two-day computer system failure within the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month has been exaggerated by The New York Times and does not accurately represent the state of meat inspection during system downtime... Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Wellness  |&nbs ...
• Vincent And Heidi Giesegh's Neighbors Demand R ...
  So much for being neighborly. A handicap ramp outside of a Fountain, Colorado home is stirring up tensions after neighbors began complaining the ramp could hurt their home value. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Bo gets a buddy at the White House
  A new member of the first family arrived at the White House on Monday a puppy named Sunny. First lady Michelle Obama tweeted a picture announcement and a White House blog post also introduced America to the female pup, who is a little over one year old. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & C ...
• Boycott 2017 UIA World Congress of Architects ...
  You have the power to make a difference for these poor animals who are forced to endure the most agonizing and unimaginable suffering. Would you please stand by these animals today and be their voice? Submitted by Teresa Wlosowicz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

Smirking Chimp

• $75 Ice Cubes And Other Absurd Things Rich Peo ...
• Are Shoplifting and Parking Violations Less "M ...
• The Moment the U.S. Ended Iran’s Brief Experim ...
• Did Manning Help Avert War in Iran?
• Government Should Not Define What a Reporter i ...

Paul Krugman

• They Can’t Handle The Health Care Truth
  Youth and health are fleeting things.
• Rupee Panic
  Hard to see why.
• Coalmines and Aliens, Again
  A thought experiment encounters the unthinking.
• Keynes, Kalecki, Konczal, etc.
  This post brought to you by the letter K.
• Anna Karenina and the Business Cycle
  Booms are alike, busts differ.

No Quarter

• Muslim Brothers Retreat in the Face of Challenge
  I do not want to give the impression that I am beating up on the rightwing for some misguided and overwrought hysteria about the threat posed by Islamic extremists, but what happened today in Egypt is quite telling and very informative about the real nature of Islamic extremists–they are c ...
• Obama’s Egypt Disaster and Spreading Fear
  The Egyptian military are telling us, not so politely, to shove our policy where the Sun does not shine. They care not a damn about what we think. The Egyptian military has drawn a line in the sand and are not going to surrender or subjugate themselves to Islamic radicals. It is that simple. Pat ...
• Articles Worth Your Time
  Some really terrific pieces of late from around the world. I strongly encourage you to take time to read these. The first does a bang up job of dissecting Barack Obama’s weakness with Putin. Obama’s Putin Policy: Flinch and Retreat Washington and Moscow have a lot to talk about, but ...
• “400 US Missiles in Benghazi?” Poppycock!
  A writer for Breitbart, AWR HAWKIN, came out yesterday with a stupid and misleading piece of hack journalism about US missiles in Benghazi: On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.’s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained ...
• Barack Obama’s Failed Scare Tactics
  George W. Bush did it. And Barack Obama is doing it. What? When the political heat comes on the best diversion is a dire warning of imminent terrorist doom. That’s what we got last week from the Obama Administration. With the enabling help of the most of the media and some of the neo-con R ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

• EU to debate response to Egypt's crisis
  Europe's foreign ministers are set to decide whether to scale back assistance in response to crackdown on protesters.
• Syrian refugees flood into Iraqi Kurdistan
  More than 35,000 people have entered northern Iraq in a matter of days, fleeing civil war.
• FARC accepts partial blame for bloodshed
  Rebel group also calls for truth commission to investigate the "fratricidal conflict" in Colombia.
• UK defends Snowden-linked detention
  Government cites "national security duty" in case of detention of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner.
• Al Jazeera America set for launch
  New York-based channel will start broadcasting live in 48 million homes across the United States.

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

• Could Climate Campaigners’ Focus on Curr ...
  As environmentalists stress current events in calling for action on greenhouse gases, some scientists see a different path toward public engagement.
• A Closer Look at the Technical and Behavioral ...
  A closer look at the technological and mental barriers to action on global warming.
• ‘Liberated Carbon, It’ll Turn Your ...
  Andy Revkin performs his song about humanity's love affair with fossil fuels for a room full of climate scientists and communicators.
• A Nuclear Submariner Challenges a Pro-Nuclear Film
  A former Navy nuclear engineering officer criticizes a film defending nuclear power.
• Is the Internet Good for the Climate?
  An exploration of the role of the Web in fostering, or impeding, public engagement on global warming.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Bezos "saves" Washington Post as Feinstein et ...
  The root of the latest story: Sen. Feinstein During 'Shield' Law Debate: 'Real' Journalists Draw Salaries | Techdirt - Aug 8 2013 EFF: Why Sen. Feinstein Is Wrong About Who’s a “Real Reporter” | Electronic Frontier Foundation - Aug 9 2013 Great summary of the issue: Media Lens - All Journalism I ...
• Urgent letter from San Quentin hunger striker ...
  Hunger strikes are challenging the prison-industrial complex and this particular letter posted hours ago gave me chills. Via a colleague: "Urgent. From a penpal at San Quentin. The main line is (415) 454-1460." _____ I hope this letter finds you doing well. This is just a small note to let you k ...
• Resistance to Illegal Minnesota Vikings Stadiu ...
  With a little luck the Vikings Stadium could be forced to a vote in Minneapolis this November. A petition for writ of mandamus with the District Court in Hennepin County initiated by Doug Mann and supported by several activists asks the court to consider if indeed the way the stadium was "legali ...
• Alcohol comes to Pine Ridge reservation after ...
  It is disappointing to hear that Pine Ridge Reservation voted to resume selling alcohol after so many had fought against it - and this is no doubt pleasant news for the people that profit from the war on drugs, like alcohol companies. I also just saw ads about four new bars opening at Mystic Lak ...
• University of Minnesota to test new Light Rail ...
  This is sort of cool. Went out to U students just recently. I am hoping the Green Line is activated ASAP!! Still moar cables to install in downtown St Paul dangit. On with the show! From: Vice President Pam Wheelock Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM Good aftern ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• What NSA "Transparency" Looks Like
  Take a look at what information about rule violations the agency itself released.  Last week, the Washington Post published an internal audit finding the NSA had violated privacy rules thousands of times in recent years.In response, the spy agency held a rareconference call for the press maint ...
• Las Vegas Man Lived With 132-Pound Scrotum For ...
  Wesley Warren suffered from a condition known as scrotal lymphedema. A resident of Las Vegas lived with the weight of 132 pounds between his legs for four years. 49-year-old Wesley Warren’s scrotum weighed that much because he had a condition known as scrotal lymphedema. He had to have surgery ...
• 4 Reasons America's Still Funding the Egyptian ...
  Why does the U.S. fund Egypt's army as it commits human rights violations? As the Egyptian military brutally cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood over the last week, the question coursing through the U.S. media was what America’s response would be. Would the U.S. cut off aid to Egypt? ...
• Multinationals Are Plotting to Steamroll What' ...
  We've got to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership that's being drawn up in Washington before it becomes law. The giant multinationals are pushing a trade deal that will literally let them bypass our laws. This deal is called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and it is coming at us in ...
• Government Agents Went to the Guardian Offices ...
  The Guardian newspaper's editor says that the British government has tried to intimidate the media outlet into halting their reporting on the National Security Agency. Two officers from a British intelligence agency oversaw the destruction of hard drives at The Guardian newspaper’s office ...

Threat Level

• U.K. Ordered Guardian to Destroy Snowden Files ...
  After NSA insider Edward Snowden absconded with thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents from unsecured NSA servers earlier this year and gave them to the Guardian newspaper, a U.K spy agency forced the paper to destroy hard drives containing copies ...     
• IP Cloaking Violates Computer Fraud and Abuse ...
  A federal judge is ruling that circumventing an IP address blockade to connect to a website is a breach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same law that was being employed to criminally prosecute Aaron Swartz before he ...     
• Security Community Raising Money to Pay Resear ...
  After Facebook refused to pay a security researcher the bug bounty he was hoping to get for a problem he reported with its service, a top security researcher has launched a campaign to pay the researcher money that Facebook denied ...     
• Osama Bin Laden Photo Flap Heading to Supreme ...
  The dispute of whether the Central Intelligence Agency must release as many as 52 images of a dead Osama bin Laden is heading to the Supreme Court. The agency maintains that the pictures are classified, and that releasing them "could ...     
• NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times, Co ...
  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has called for more hearings to examine the government's surveillance tactics following new revelations that staff of the National Security Agency have violated privacy rules thousands of times in their surveillance of U.S. ...     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

• Townsend Farms Hepatitis A Update – 159 in 10 ...
  The CDC reports as of August 16, 2013, 159 people have been confirmed to have become ill from hepatitis A after eating ‘Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend’ in 10 states:... Continue Reading
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus Oysters on increase in ...
  The Seattle King County Department of Health reports a saltwater bacteria has sickened more than twice the number of people in King County this summer than typically is reported during... Continue Reading
• What do Cantaloupe and Baseball have in Common?
  At Least Baseball Won’t Kill You. I stopped being a fan of Alex Rodriquez years ago when he left the Mariners, so I was not that particularly bothered when he... Continue Reading
• Cyclospora Case Count Now 594
  As of August 15, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been notified of 576 ill persons with of Cyclospora infection from 19 states: Arkansas, California, Connecticut,... Continue Reading
• Twice Bitten E. coli Victim Tries to Prevent A ...
  KOMO TV Reports about client, Sarah Schacht doing something to protect the public from what she has gone through – twice. Before eating out, it’s pretty common to check online... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• "Stop-and-Frisk": The World According to Questlove
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Hip-hop hit a milestone this week, turning 40 years old. The same week, federal district court Judge Shira Scheindlin, in a 195-page ruling, declared the New York City Police Department's practice of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional. Hip-hop and stop-and-f ...
• Questlove on How He Warned Occupy Wall Street ...
  Some have called Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson the "Paul Revere of Occupy Wall Street" after he tweeted them a warning on the night of November 2011 police raid of Zuccotti Park: "Omg, drivin down south st near #ows. Somethin bout to go down yo, swear I counted 1000 riot gear cops bout to pull sne ...
• Web Exclusive: Questlove on His Memoir, Occupy ...
  Here are some web-only highlights of our interview with hip-hop artist Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, drummer and co-founder of The Roots, the legendary hip-hop group and house band on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He is also a DJ, music scholar and author of the new memoir, "Mo’ Meta Blues: ...
• Questlove of The Roots on His Musical Memoir, ...
  In this Democracy Now! web exclusive, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the drummer for the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, discusses the writing of his new memoir, Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove . The book's title is a riff on the 1990 Spike Lee film about jazz musicians, Mo ...
• Questlove on How Stevie Wonder & "The Cosby Sh ...
  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the drummer for the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, talks about the Cosby Show episode that left an indelible impression on him when he saw it at a young age: a guest appearance by Stevie Wonder, showcasing the art of sampling. AARON MATÉ: Let's stay with S ...

Solari

• In the Fullness of Time
  “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” ~Khalil Gibran By Catherine Austin Fitts The peach trees were planted behind the office in Hickory Valley and in the pasture five years ago. They ...
• Coping: Wujo or “Big Data”
  [CAF Note: IMO, a typical day in the life of having to be a AT&T customer.] By George Ure Here’s an interesting story to get the kinks out from between the ears this morning: Dear Mr Ure, I have been a long time reader. Something odd happened today. My house phone rang [...]
• Kiplinger Calls for Mandatory 401ks
  By Knight Kiplinger There’s no longer any debate over whether working Americans are accumulating enough savings and employer contributions, supplemented by Social Security, to live comfortably in retirement. Indisputably, they are not, and the matter is getting critical. As a result, the d ...
• The House I Live In
  [CAF Note: David Simon, creator of outstanding series The Wire (italics), described the War on Drugs as "a holocaust in slow motion." The House I Live In (italics) is a good overview of the War on Drugs. However, it does fail to mention that the people running the War on Drugs are also growing ...
• MakerBot’s Digitizer Will Go on Sale Nex ...
  By Sean Buckley With UPS’ incoming 3D printing service and the growing availability of consumer-ready kits, printing objects is easier than ever, assuming you actually have something ready to print. If not, don’t fret –MakerBot is on the case, announcing today that its upcomin ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

• Win One of Three Voltaic Solar Backpacks Stuff ...
  Enter Inhabitat's 2013 Back to School Contest! We can't believe how fast summer flew by - but now that fall is on the horizon it's time to start getting ready for a green school year - and Inhabitat is here to help with our 2013 Back to School Contest! This     
• German Fossil-Fuel Utilities Push Back Against ...
  Germany's largest gas, electric, and water utility has threatened to relocate to Turkey if the government continues to push for renewable energy. E.ON reports that its coal and gas-fired plants are currently operating and the situation (for them) only promises     
• Copenhagen Set to Launch World’s Most High-Tec ...
  Copenhagen is getting ready to launch an innovative and efficient new bike-sharing program that will offer bikes with GPS-enabled Android tablets! The new equipment will allow commuters to schedule their travel by bike or by train and know exactly where and     
• Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Gold Dome To Be Pr ...
  This isn’t the first time the historic building has been saved from destruction. In 2001, the building was slated for demolition due to issues ranging from asbestos to a broken HVAC system. The iconic domed roof has also caused problems for previous owners,     
• FABnyc’s 12×12 Pop-Up Project Brings Art to th ...
  FABnyc, in partnership with the World Policy Institute, NYC Parks, and First Street Green, present WPI’s installation of The 12x12 Project at First Park in Manhattan’s East Village. This year's 12x12 features an array of artists from NYC, including Ivy     

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Unusual Whale Stranding Gives Scientists Rare ...
  Twelve hours after it was first reported, a fin whale that had washed up alive on a northern California beach tumbled into its oceanside grave – a large and sandy pit, quickly excavated behind a row of homes. The whale, ...     
• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Wispy Dione
  The famed wispy terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is front and center in this recent Cassini spacecraft image. The "wisps" are fresh fractures on the trailing hemisphere of the moon's icy surface. See PIA10560 to learn more about Dione's wispy terrain.     
• This Headless Ape-Bot Might Be Creepy, But It’ ...
  As part of a competition to design complex robots for search-and-rescue operations, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has unveiled the first video of their ape-like entry, RoboSimian.     
• Male Humpback Whales Attract Mates by Singing ...
  The mournful, curiously repetitious yet ever-changing songs of male humpback whales have long puzzled scientists. Now, scientists report that even sexually immature males join older males in singing, apparently as a way to learn the music and to amplify the ...     
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Orion in Green a ...
  The central region of the Orion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) as seen in the near-infrared by the High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal.     

PakAlert

• Video: The New Common Core Obama Math Standard ...
  Earlier this year President Obama detailed his new educational initiatives aimed at “closing America’s school readiness gap.” As with all things Obama, it seems that “readiness” is yet another doublespeak term that suggests exactly the opposite of the traditional definition. At a recent schoo ...
• Video: SWAT Team Has Real Life Terror Drill On ...
  ROSSFORD, Ohio - A training exercise this Rossford Wednesday morning left students literally hanging on to the edge of their seats. In the scenario: A school bus is en route to an event when suddenly it's hijacked! A camera inside the bus captured the whole thing while an audience of school t ...
• Death, Lies and Mutations: Microwaves Cause Au ...
  “A Radiofrequency Toolkit for Environmental Health Practitioners.” released March 7, 2013, the BC CDC states that “the epidemiological studies of men assessed for infertility were consistent in demonstrating decreased sperm motility associated with increased use of mobile phones” and “biological ...
• Clinton rape rap linked to new pol sex fiends
  With Barack Obama dogged by multiple scandals – from Benghazi to NSA surveillance to rampant IRS abuses – many Americans are asking whether he can make it through his second term. Likewise, with sex scandals in the news – from ex-congressman Anthony Weiner to former New York governor Eliot Sp ...
• Those That Are Not Preparing For The Coming Ec ...
  The next great economic crisis is rapidly approaching, and most people are going to be totally blindsided by it. Even though the warning signs are glaringly obvious, most Americans continue to believe that our "leaders" know what they are doing and that everything will be just fine. But what w ...

Andy Worthington

• I’m on Holiday for Two Weeks: Please Kee ...
  Click on the image to visit the GTMO Clock website and see how many days it has been since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo, and how many men have been freed. I’m away with my family to Sicily for two sun-drenched weeks of rest and relaxation — a ...
• Guantánamo: British Ex-Intelligence Officer On ...
  On Monday, Harry Ferguson, 52, a former officer with MI6, the British intelligence agency, began a week-long hunger strike, as part of the Stand Fast for Justice initiative launched by the legal action charity Reprieve, in support of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay — and, in particular, Sh ...
• Congratulations to John Grisham for Writing ab ...
  In the long and horrendous history of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, it has been noticeable that very few celebrities have challenged the myriad injustices of Guantánamo — the torture; the indefinite detention without charge or trial; the decision by the Bush adm ...
• Endless Injustice: Newly Announced Guantánamo ...
  I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
• Photos: Shaker Aamer Protest in London, and Hi ...
  Shaker Aamer Protest in London, July 18, 2013, a set on Flickr. Now that many people have been wakened to the plight of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, through P.J. Harvey writing a song about him that has sent ripples through the music world, I hope that ongoing efforts t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• A new nova in the sky
  There’s a new “nova” in the sky. Not a supernova, just a nova. But, what is a nova? A classical nova happens in a special kind of tightly-orbiting binary star system: one where a relatively normal star pours a stream of hydrogen onto the surface of a companion white dwarf. When ...
• Fifty ways to pack your circles
  Squaring the circle is but one futile endeavour akin to squeezing a round peg into a square hole. But there are many improbable problems that humanity seeks to solve and with the advent of supercomputers and so-called “big data” it seems that perhaps no problem is now off-limits. Unf ...
• Pale Blue Dot 2.1
  In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
• Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
  Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
• Satisfying your curiosity
  Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...

Common Dreams -News

• 'Ecological Debt Day' Reached: World in Resour ...
  (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/ Michael Cote)Tuesday, August 20 marks an unnerving annual milestone: "Earth Overshoot Day"—when humanity has used up all of the natural resources and waste absorption that the Earth can provide in a year, meaning that human consumption for the rem ...
• NSA Spying Fears Force Another Site to Shut Down
  An award-winning legal and technology news site announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down over fears of email surveillance. read more
• Miranda's Lawyers Threaten UK over 'Flagrant M ...
  Lawyers representing David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who was recently detained by British authorities under the unprecedented interpretation of a terrorism statute while passing through Heathrow Airport, have sent the UK's Home Office a letter demanding an a ...
• Obama Pushes for Warrantless Access to Phone D ...
  Cell phones are evolving to store more personal information (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/Midge Frazel)Amid ongoing controversy over NSA warrantless spying programs, another legal battle exposes the Obama administration's willingness to steamroll civil liberties in the name of "securi ...
• Al Jazeera America to Launch Today
  Al Jazeera America, the U.S. branch of the Qatar-based news network, launches on Tuesday. The new television channel and online news desk will have its headquarters in New York with 12 bureaus across the country, and is set to begin broadcasting to 48 million homes. Al Jazeera America said that ...

Lifehacker

• The Popup Profile Home Screen
  We treat our home screens as basic app launchers, but there's something to be said for making the space your own. My Color Screen user Amal Cns took this approach to make the above design.Read more...     
• A hacker claims to have gained access to "the ...
  A hacker claims to have gained access to "the entire database of users on Twitter" after leaking the details of 15,000 accounts, but Twitter asserts that "no accounts have been compromised." You can read more here.Read more...     
• Minuum Saves Space On Your Phone With a Tiny, ...
  Part of the problem with smartphones is that the virtual keyboards they all come with take up a lot of screen space. Minuum skirts that problem with a crazy-accurate compressed keyboard.Read more...     
• What Should I Watch Out For When Changing Careers?
  Changing careers is always challenging. It grows even more challenging as you get older. What can you do to help smooth the way with potential employers? Read more...     
• Challenge Winner: Iron Shirts Quickly with a D ...
  In last week's Hacker Challenge, we asked you to share your best laundry hack. We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us how to create a custom template to get through your ironing faster. Read more...     

Water Wars

• Water wars, warriors still changing history in ...
  Drive west to the mountains, the ski resorts and the picturesque towns of the Western Slope, or north to Denver and Wyoming, or east to the sprawling ranches and farms of the high plains, or southwest to New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. You’re not just traveling; you’re visiting ...
• Alabama quiet in new water war outbreak
  By Mary Orndorff Troyan Gannett Washington Bureau -- Florida's decision to sue Georgia over how much water flows downstream from Atlanta into Apalachicola Bay is a sign that negotiations have deteriorated enough to send the water wars back into a courtroom, but - so far - Alabama is on the s ...
• Alabama quiet in new water war case
  Florida's decision to sue Georgia over how much water flows downstream from Atlanta into Apalachicola Bay is a sign that negotiations have deteriorated enough to send the water wars back into a courtroom, but - so far - Alabama is on the sidelines.
• Alabama quiet in new water war outbreak
  By Mary Orndorff Troyan Gannett Washington Bureau -- Florida's decision to sue Georgia over how much water flows downstream from Atlanta into Apalachicola Bay is a sign that negotiations have deteriorated enough to send the water wars back into a courtroom, but - so far - Alabama is on the s ...
• Another costly legal fight looms for Georgia o ...
  Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday warned Florida that Georgia is ready for a new fight over regional water rights and vowed the state “will not roll over.

WordPress | Economics

• Virtual water
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• Obedient Church
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• Even in the US Teachers Pay out of their Pocke ...
  Even in the US Teachers Pay out of their Pocket for their Students*   By Mark Koba   A sec
• Once in a blue moon!
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• Why Lobster Isn't Priced Like Chicken
  In 2005, Maine lobster was selling for almost six dollars a pound wholesale. By 2009, it cost just h

Electronic Intifada

• Brooklyn College battle reveals hidden agenda ...
  Max Blumenthal New York City 12 February 2013 Why are J Street leaders afraid to debate Palestinians advocating a boycott of Israel?
• Biased new study skirts around racism in Israe ...
  Nurit Peled-Elhanan 12 February 2013 Western academics get offended when Palestinians use terms like “colonialism.”
• "I was determined to live with dignity," says ...
  Rami Almeghari Rafah 11 February 2013 Prisoner’s daughter recalls pain of not having her father around on her wedding day.
• Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boyc ...
  Eva Bartlett Gaza Strip 11 February 2013 Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.
• "Gaza is a Bantustan": author Samah Sabawi int ...
  Joe Catron Gaza City 10 February 2013 Playwright and political analyst visits Gaza after 17-year absence.

The Wonk Room

• Burning Down the House
  The party is united in its irrational opposition to the law and its offer of health security to millions of Americans; however, the GOP is now engaged in an all-out civil war over whether or not to shut down the government in a last ditch effort to try and derail the law.The post Burning Down th ...
• Alabama News Site Apologizes For Saying Footba ...
  Sexism is a complicated concept, especially for men.The post Alabama News Site Apologizes For Saying Football Is Confusing ‘Especially For Women’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
• Poll: Four Percent Of Americans Think U.S. Is ...
  The number of Americans who support the drug war is getting lower and lower. The post Poll: Four Percent Of Americans Think U.S. Is Winning The War On Drugs appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
• Colorado And Montana Announce Affordable Insur ...
  The vast majority of Colorado and Montana residents buying their health coverage through an Obamacare marketplace will have more robust benefits than they currently do -- and they'll get government subsidies that can help lower their monthly insurance costs.The post Colorado And Montana Announce ...
• Conservative Groups Plan To Rally Against Boeh ...
  Conservative groups amp up pressure on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to create a special committee to investigate Benghazi. The post Conservative Groups Plan To Rally Against Boehner For Ignoring Benghazi appeared first on ThinkProgress.     

thwap's schoolyard

• My Plan (Part the First)
  I have believed that harper is illegitimate ever since he was found guilty of contempt of Parliament. Even before I knew his majority was stolen (based as it was on election fraud) I believed this. Because the fundamental premise of our pseudo-democracy is that the government gets its authority ...
• So Maybe harper Implodes On His Own and Nothin ...
  harper should have gone down at the hands of an enraged, democratic citizenry. I had a plan, but no resources to carry it through. And the geniuses had no time to even hear me out. I don't think it's because they were too busy with their own plans, because there's been deafening silence from the ...
• Soviet Collectivization
  I'm reading a book. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately. It's got this self-righteous Anglo-American tone to it (Massacres of the First Nations, slavery, two centuries of slavery and mass starvation in India, Africa and elsewhere).  But I've always s ...
• Advanced Culture's Thoughts On Pornography ...
  Nuff said.
• This Is What FULL EMPLOYMENT Looks Like
  ... in case you're wondering: ... Yes! I noticed the sub-texts of racism and misogyny too! This is a great historical artifact!

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Our documents reveal Air Force’s disrega ...
  Steven Staples says the debate over German drones in Europe raise significant unease about drone safety in Canada. “It’s one thing to be flying a drone over the desert in Afghanistan but it’s something else to fly them over Ottawa or Toronto,” said Staples, adding that a deficiency in civilian ...
• Sanctions? What sanctions?
  The Harper government has awarded a $400 million contract to SNC-Lavalin PAE Inc. just months after the group’s parent company was banned from bidding on Canadian aid projects due to multiple bribery and corruption scandals.
• MPs endorse a nuclear weapons ban
  Ceasefire.ca would like to thank all volunteer campaigners across Canada, and to the many MPs who have voiced their support for peace and global nuclear disarmament.
• Harper’s War Lobby is reacting to our campaign
  Last week the head of Canada’s largest defence industry lobby association, Tim Page, challenged us in a 700-word opinion piece published in the Ottawa Citizen. Read our reply.
• Is there a new anti-nuclear movement growing?
  Unprepared to sit and wait while thousands of nuclear weapons remain on full alert, citizens are organizing on every continent to demand their governments establish a convention banning nuclear weapons.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-3-13
  Today, Kevin goes into why the government has banned him from every Fox News network, every Disney owned television station and even USA Today & TIME Magazine! Get the latest news you won’t hear from those news sources! 100% of Non-Organic Chickens Carry Deadly Bacteria Secrets to Boost Your ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-13
  Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...
• My Travel Companion
  Have you ever heard of Trace Minerals? It comes in a little bottle. This stuff is unlike anything you can get anywhere. It comes from this 500 million year old ancient sediment bedrock plant. It’s the most bizarre thing in the world! It’s like compressed plants from the purest time in earth’s hi ...
• Stressed? Clenching your fist may be beneficial…
  When I’m feeling stressed I head outside for a stroll and get some fresh air, but if you’re one of the many people who grab a stress-relieving ball and clench your fists, you’ll be thrilled to hear it may actually be beneficial – and not just for the stress! It is believed the movements activate ...
• Building Self-Esteem the Natural Way: The Hidd ...
  Feeling secure and confident can be a rare commodity. The nature of the human being is to thrive when self-esteem is high. Yet often the solution to the struggles low self-esteem for individuals is to “put a band aid” on the problem. As a human being unfolds through their life, it is necessary t ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• San Diego Craigslist Ad Searches for “Surveill ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCompany specializing in response to “National Security challenges” seeks new employees Julie Wilson Infowars.com August 20, 2013 A recent post on a San Diego Craigslist website advertises the need for motivat ...
• U.S. Health Dept. Offering $30,000 in Cash Pri ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comContest aims to turn young Americans into “death panel” cheerleaders. Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com August 20, 2013 The U.S. Health and Human Services is running an on-line video contest with $30,000 in cash ...
• West Coast of North America to Be Hit Hard by ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.washingtonsblog.comBy WashingtonsBlog Radiation Levels Will Concentrate in Pockets In Baja California and Other West Coast Locations An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to th ...
• White House, Downing Street Had Advance Knowle ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHome Office claims Journalist’s partner had “stolen information” that would “help terrorism” Steve Watson Prison Planet.com August 20, 2013 The Guardian has an interesting splurge of NSA art ...
• Glenn Greenwald’s partner sues Home Offi ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGlenn Greenwald’s partner sues Home Office as UK defends ‘Miranda op’ RT.com   David Miranda (L) speaks to the media at Rio de Janeiro’s International Airport August 19, 2013 (Reuters / Ricar ...

Dandelion Salad

• UK Orders Guardian Hard Drives Destroyed To Ga ...
  Dandelion Salad RussiaToday on Aug 19, 2013 UK authorities reportedly raided the Guardian’s office in London to destroy hard drives in an effort to stop future publications of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. To discuss this, RT talks to lawyer and journalist Eva Golinger. ...
• Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street’s Worst Night ...
  by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com August 19, 2013 Before Eliot Spitzer’s infamous resignation as governor of New York in March 2008, he was one of our fiercest champions against Wall Street corruption, in a state that had some of the toughest legislation for controlling the ba ...
• Government Should Not Define What a Reporter I ...
  by Walter Brasch Writer, Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com August 19, 2013 Sen. Diane Feinstein and a horde of members of Congress of both parties want to decide who is and who isn’t a reporter. Sen. Feinstein says a “real” reporter is a “salaried agent of a media company.” She mentions the u ...
• Eric Holt-Gimenez: Justice Begins With Seeds ( ...
  Dandelion Salad talkingsticktv on Aug 18, 2013 Talk by Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director of Food First – Institute for Food and Development Policy given August 2, 2013 at the Justice Begins With Seeds 2013 International Conference at Seattle First Presbyterian Church in Seattle, WA. se ...
• 36 Pro-Morsi Detainees Killed During Escape At ...
  Dandelion Salad RussiaToday on Aug 19, 2013 Egypt’s government confirms its security forces have killed 36 Muslim Brotherhood supporters that attempted to escape during a prison transfer. Officials claimed the prisoners took an officer hostage, but suffocated when police used tear gas. The ...

Your New Reality

• Our Name Is Bonds, James Bonds
   Lee Tamahori (Once Werev Warriors), the director of Die Another Day, had a fascinating idea about what was really going on in the James Bond movies: "My idea was basically that there have been several Bonds. It's just a prefix and a code name Even James Bond is not the guy's name. "That' ...
• CIA Comes Clean On Area 51 - But Only Enough T ...
  The CIA Comes Clean Clean On 'UFO Central' Area 51, Doesn't Mention UFOs By Darryl Mason From AP: The CIA is acknowledging the existence of Area 51 in newly declassified documents. George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U ...
• The Coolest, Most Fashionable Mug Shot In History
  In 1976, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were partying in New York. The hotel suite got raided, and vice cops found 182 grams, or more than 6.4 ounces, of cannabis. A few days later, David Bowie posed for his mugshot, and remained super cool.  More On Bowie And I ...
• Left-Handed People Know How To Rock History
  By Darryl Mason We left-handed people might only make up 10% of the population, but we sure know how to make our mark on history and the arts. Today, is Left-Handed Peoples Day.  Gee, a whole day for Lefties in a world designed for right handed people!  Aren't we lucky? Famous Lef ...
• Food Mash-Ups Make New Yorkers Seem Even More ...
  Hundreds of Americans, with apparently nothing better to do, have recently been taking to the streets, day after day, to line up for $5 deep-fried croissants (cronuts) and hamburgers with buns made out of ramen noodles (I don't know why). They're called Food MashUps and they're making people go ...

Wired - Science

• Unusual Whale Stranding Gives Scientists Rare ...
  Twelve hours after it was first reported, a fin whale that had washed up alive on a northern California beach tumbled into its oceanside grave – a large and sandy pit, quickly excavated behind a row of homes. The whale, ...     
• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Wispy Dione
  The famed wispy terrain on Saturn's moon Dione is front and center in this recent Cassini spacecraft image. The "wisps" are fresh fractures on the trailing hemisphere of the moon's icy surface. See PIA10560 to learn more about Dione's wispy terrain.     
• This Headless Ape-Bot Might Be Creepy, But It’ ...
  As part of a competition to design complex robots for search-and-rescue operations, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has unveiled the first video of their ape-like entry, RoboSimian.     
• Male Humpback Whales Attract Mates by Singing ...
  The mournful, curiously repetitious yet ever-changing songs of male humpback whales have long puzzled scientists. Now, scientists report that even sexually immature males join older males in singing, apparently as a way to learn the music and to amplify the ...     
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Orion in Green a ...
  The central region of the Orion Nebula (M42, NGC 1976) as seen in the near-infrared by the High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal.     

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

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

Pruning Shears

• Bumper Sticker Platform, 2013 edition
  On a Saturday morning a few years ago I dashed off a quick caffeine-fueled post that tried to formulate a simple but substantive platform for the left. It was partially a reaction to the prior couple years of conservative rhetoric. During the 2008 campaign the right insisted Barack Obama was a ...
• Summer vacation
  Taking the week off. Back next week!
• 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 ...

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