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Scoop - NZ

  • CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
    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 and British involvement in Mosaddeq's ouster has l ...
  • Specialized Services by Accounting Firms
    There are many accounting firms in the market from small private firms to Big Four companies that prove comprehensive accounting support to businesses. They all offer record keeping services along with professional accounting services. Few firms offer a broad range of financial and accounting s ...
  • Turnover Costs 200% of Employee Salary and Time
    The most, misconstrued and misplaced costs in most organizations–the Employee Turnover, can give sleepless nights to both top management and HR professionals. The Society for Human Resource Management says, to replace a $8/ hour employee it costs $3,500 which includes-interviewing, hiring, trai ...
  • Mandeno: Open letter to John Key
    First, you have passed several new laws which remove the rights of citizens to appeal to the Judiciary in cases where they feel they are unfairly treated under the law. Examples include the Public Health and Disability Amendment Act, and legislation which prohibits legal challenges to the High C ...
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Independent - London

  • Angela Merkel’s visit to Dachau (and beer tent ...
    Chancellor Angela Merkel has ignited a furious political row by becoming the first post-war German leader to visit the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau and then went on to address a campaign rally for her conservative party in a noisy beer tent at a nearby fair.      ...
  • Now Mohamed ElBaradei faces the wrath of Egypt ...
    Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate who quit the Egyptian cabinet in protest over last week’s bloodshed, faces being hauled before the courts after being accused of a “betrayal  of trust”.     
  • China’s trial of the century... but the fate o ...
    He was once a rising star of China’s Communist Party, celebrated for his advocacy of Maoist policies and even touted as a contender to join the elite cadre within the party’s politburo Standing Committee.     
  • A life of torture, starvation and executions: ...
    A mother made to kill her own baby. Starving children forced to eat live rats and frogs. Public executions. Torture. Mutilation. These are just a few of the horrific yet routine occurrences in North Korea’s prison camps, according to two former inmates who testified today before a United Nation ...
  • Egyptian activists in search of middle way for ...
    Khalid Abdalla is optimistic. In the wake of the worst mass killings Egypt has known in its modern history, he appears to be one of the few to remain so. As Cairo suffocates under a night-time curfew, and Egyptians count their massacres, there are plenty of reasons to worry about the fate of thi ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Feeling safer yet? TSA to purchase 3.5 million ...
    The Transportation Security Administration is set to purchase 3.5 million .357 SIG caliber bullets, enough for its agents to fire 9,400 rounds a day, every day of the year. According to a solicitation issued by the agency on August 16, the TSA is looking to buy "3,454,000 rounds of .347 SIG Cal ...
  • New York woman whose testimony as a child jail ...
    Nearly 16 years after a New York man was jailed for raping his 9-year-old daughter, that victim has publicly come forward admitting that she lied all along. Chaneya Kelly, now 24, says the graphic stories she told about her father that sentenced him to 20-to-40 years in prison were never true. ...
  • Pacific herring in Canada bleeding from eyebal ...
    The Globe and Mail, Aug 13, 2013 Independent fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about a disease she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to hemorrhage. [...] "Two days ago I did a beach seine on Malcolm Island [near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Isla ...
  • Astronomer captures incredible footage of noct ...
    Maciej Winiarczyk, 41, captured the images in Caithness, Scotland Noctilucent, or 'night-shining', clouds are normally too faint to be seenHalf way through the video the clouds are joined by a spectacular auroraA stunning time-lapse video of a rare celestial show has been captured dancing across ...
  • Gulf spill sampling questioned
    An analysis of water, sediment and seafood samples taken in 2010 during and after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has found higher contamination levels in some cases than previous studies by federal agencies did, casting doubt on some of the earlier sampling methods. The lead author, Paul W ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Lies with a tee-emm . . .
    REALLY. From Michele Bachmann's Facebook page “Christians For Michele Bachmann”, an oeuvre apparently paid for by Christians for Michele Bachmann™. Love the tee-emm. The FB slogan is “Changing lives, one BachFann™ at a time”. More tee-emm.
  • If you haven't seen it . . .
    GO GET A COPY of “Iron Sky”. It's about a Nazi Flying Saucer invasion from the dark side of the Moon. At least, that's what the trailers show.Set in 2018, it is actually a sizzling satire on the GOP and US presidential politics. Ya gotta see it, I don't want to tell you any more, bec ...
  • Boldly go . . .
  • Paper bag time . . .
    MAYOR FORD BECOMES a world-wide joke. Here's the latest on YouTube, titled “Rob Ford's drunk Greek life, and the Toronto mayor's trip to jail”. done by an outfit called Taiwan Animation. The people who posted have some acerbic comments to go with it. Click on the link to read the whole epistle ...
  • Old Fort Mac . . .
    AS SEEN BY Corin Raymond, the Stevie Paradise, where any job is a good job — just ask the hookers.

Media Matters for America

  • Union-Leader Smears Planned Parenthood For Rec ...
    A New Hampshire Union Leader editorial attacked Planned Parenthood for receiving "navigator grants" to help Americans enroll in health insurance, claiming the organization's "core business includes abortion-on-demand" and quoted a source questioning whether the group should receive these funds.& ...
  • "Free Agent" Bill Kristol Now Available To Mis ...
    Weekly Standard editor William Kristol announced he no longer has an exclusive contract with Fox News and is now "free to inflict my insights on viewers of the other networks as well." Over the past decade, Kristol's "insights" have included horribly inaccurate predictions about the Ir ...
  • Right-Wing Media Continue To Fail "Statistics ...
    Right-wing media repeatedly argue that increased turnout of voters of color demonstrates that strict voter ID requirements do not cause voter suppression, a relationship that experts note is a basic confusion of correlation with causation.Right-Wing Media Use Rising Turnout As Proof That Voter I ...
  • Right-Wing Media Build Faulty Case That Obama ...
    Right-wing media have attempted to manufacture the claim that President Obama is abusing executive power by delaying implementation of the health care law's employer mandate and directing federal prosecutors to avoid maximum drug sentences in some cases, despite the legality of both practices.Ri ...
  • "The Biggest Con In The World": Fox News React ...
    Fox News launched a smear campaign against a historic California law that would allow transgender public school students to have access to school facilities and athletic teams that match their gender identity. The network peddled a number of myths about the measure, adding to Fox's long history ...

Global Research.ca

  • Fracking – Britain’s Next Revolution
    ‘Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner At long last Britain is discussing and objecting to fracking – or we would be if the general public had access to accurate…
  • The Threat of War and the Chance for Peace on ...
    Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark delivers an address on the threat of war in the Asia-Pacific at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on August 1, 2013. The speech is part of a series of events held in Pyongyang,…
  • U.S. Tax Dollars Continue to Fund Egyptian Mil ...
    On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Brian Becker, national coordinator with the ANSWER Coalition about the roots of the violence in Egypt, and how US tax dollars continue to fund the Egyptian military despite hollow…
  • CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
    Documents Provide New Details on Mosaddeq Overthrow and Its Aftermath National Security Archive Calls for Release of Remaining Classified Record National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 435 Posted – August 19, 2013 Edited by Malcolm Byrne For more information…
  • A Message to Obama: End All U.S. Aid to the Eg ...
    The following statement was presented by Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14 in response to the massacre in Egypt. The ANSWER Coalition condemns the massacres carried out by…

TPM Cafe

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

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

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Community and activists protest permit for Pla ...
    Residents and environmental activists in Plaquemines Parish, LA, filled the community center auditorium during Wednesday night’s permit hearing for the RAM coal export terminal proposed for the Lower Mississippi River just outside New Orleans. Plaquemines Parish, a long strip of wetlands and sma ...
  • Double Standards in Texas Water Law
    Double Standards in Texas Water Law Under Texas Water Code, there is a double standard between groundwater and surface water. Groundwater is generally the property of the landowner as long as it is on private property, while surface water is property of the state. The Water Code Section 35.002 d ...
  • U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, Climate Denier
    Today, I had the privilege of addressing citizens in San Antonio, Texas that attended the Organizing for Action Climate Change Event at Congressman Lamar Smith’s office.  Here is a transcript of my speech: “Congressman Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, has recen ...
  • In the U.S., proximity to a pipeline is at you ...
    In a report by TruthOut, Mike Ludwig tells how federal regulators have failed to enforce pipeline safety despite spills and deadly accidents.  Each year more than 250 significant pipeline accidents cause explosions, pollution, property damage, injury and death across the country.  Since 2006, 96 ...
  • Solar a Shining Opportunity for Austin – Solar ...
    Business leaders, environmentalists and low income advocates are behind a push to get Austin to increase its solar energy goal to 400 megawatts by 2020 and expand solar programs to meet that goal. A diverse group of community leaders appointed to the Local Solar Advisory Committee (LSAC) by City ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Neb. Nuclear Plant Must Prove It Is Safe Befor ...
    (AP) The troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant is slowly moving closer to restarting, but federal regulators say the utility still must prove the plant is safe before they'll consider it. Later this month, the Omaha Public Power D ...
  • Build Stronger Homes to Withstand Worsening St ...
    (Guardian) A taskforce created by President Obama in the wake of superstorm Sandy has issued a report with 69 policy initiatives centered around one major recommendation: to construct stronger buildings in anticipation of more extreme ...
  • No Clear Link Between Arctic Warming and Our E ...
    (Washington Post) Is the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice, spurred by manmade global warming, making the  weather where we live more extreme?  Several recent studies have made this claim. But a new study fin ...
  • Kenya To Become East Africa's First Oil Exporter
    (Bloomberg News) Kenya is headed to become the first oil exporter in East Africa, moving in less than five years from being a have-not nation to the regional leader in cutting reliance on energy suppliers such as Royal D ...
  • TransCanada Launches $4.5B Lawsuit Against Riv ...
    (CBC News) TransCanada Corp. has launched a $4.5-billion lawsuit against rival Enbridge Inc. over a proposed 27-kilometre natural gas pipeline near Toronto that the companies had planned to develop. The dispute comes am ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Logic, How Does it Work?
    If I understand the Birther Controversy correctly, the problem was that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore could not be the president of the United States because he wasn't a "natural born" citizen. His birth certificate that claimed he was born in a Honolulu hospital is a fake. Ok ...
  • What's the Matter With Maine?
    I don't know what is going on in Maine. I remember that there were shenanigans involving Mitt Romney snagging Ron Paul's delegates, and I know that their governor is a certified lunatic. But now it looks like a lot of fairly prominent party members are fleeing the GOP in frustration. The thin ...
  • Lamar! Gets a Challenger
    There's no perfect way to evaluate how a senator votes, but one metric I like is Progressive Punch's Progressive Score vs. State Tilt. What this rating attempts to do is to compare the progressivism of members compared to what you'd expect considering what state they represent. Based on that, ...
  • This is How You Kill a Party
    Another canary in the coal mine. The co-chairman of the Polk County, Iowa GOP has resigned because he doesn't want to be associated with Rep. Steve King's racist remarks and he's tired of all the anti-climate change idiocy and stupid remarks about guns. He said that the party is being led by t ...
  • Casual Observation
    I don't know if I hate the pro-Greenwald or anti-Greenwald forces more. I just know that I actively dislike them both. And I don't care if they quote me accurately. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Thorny Effects of Male Labor Migration on ...
    Men in Nepal migrate to other countries to help earn money for their families, but their movements and actions can have thorny consequences. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Abandoned Poison Gas Plant of Okunoshima I ...
    This idyllic island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea was once home to a chemical weapons plant responsible for the deaths of thousands. Now bunny rabbits roam free here. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Here's our pick of the coolest links to be found on the interwebs this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Abandoned Soviet Nuclear Arsenal Gouged In ...
    When Cold War USSR stockpiled nuclear weapons they needed places to assemble and store them. This abandoned underground facility was one such place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Check out our pick of this week's coolest links: we've got cat cafes, funky libraries, crazy animals, Harry Potter, and toilets! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • California Puts Rice Cultivation Protocol On I ...
    California Puts Rice Cultivation Protocol On Ice Ecosystem Marketplace In addition, the organization praised the ARB's exclusion of mountaintop removal mines from the list of eligible projects, but said the inclusion of active mines presented serious environmental concerns. The ARB staff pro ...
  • Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller ...
    NEWS.GNOM.ES Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 NEWS.GNOM.ES Conlan's story allows for extensive dialogues that document the environmental effects of mountaintop-removal mining and the mining company's economic hold over the local population — though to call them ...
  • Expressway will cause mountaintop removal - Ro ...
    Expressway will cause mountaintop removal Roanoke Times Expressway will cause mountaintop removal. The plan of the Virginia Department of Transportation and coal companies to fast-track approval of the Coalfields Expressway is a way to give the green light to increasing mountaintop removal minin ...
  • A Movement for a New Planet - The Nation.
    The Nation. A Movement for a New Planet The Nation. ... coal-fired power plants, fought the oil industry to a draw on the Keystone pipeline, convinced a wide swath of American institutions to divest themselves of their fossil fuel stocks and challenged practices like mountaintop-removal coal min ...
  • How A Leaderless Climate Change Movement Can S ...
    Mother Jones How A Leaderless Climate Change Movement Can Survive Mother Jones ... coal-fired power plants, fought the oil industry to a draw on the Keystone pipeline, convinced a wide swath of American institutions to divest themselves of their fossil fuel stocks, and challenged practices like ...

Memeorandum

  • Cruz, Paul, Rubio and Walker to attend Iowa go ...
    Erin McPike / CNN: Cruz, Paul, Rubio and Walker to attend Iowa gov.'s D.C. fundraiser  —  Washington (CNN) - A quartet of Republicans said to be eyeing 2016 presidential bids will get a chance next month to see how the competition is romancing the influential governor of Iowa.
  • White House denies report of U.S. cutting mone ...
    Corky Siemaszko / NY Daily News: White House denies report of U.S. cutting monetary support to Egypt  —  A spokesman for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who heads the appropriations state and foreign-operations subcommittee, told the Daily Beast that the Obama Administration is 'tem ...
  • David Miranda's lawyers threaten legal action ...
    Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: David Miranda's lawyers threaten legal action over ‘unlawful’ detention  —  Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald seeks return of equipment seized during nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow  —  Lawyers for the partn ...
  • Immigration Reformers, Wake the F' Up! (Josh M ...
    Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: Immigration Reformers, Wake the F' Up!  —  I get that it's difficult for immigration reformers to see and accept the writing on the wall — that reform is likely dead in this Congress.  It's incredibly important for the country as w ...
  • Goodbye for now - So as not to bury the lede, ...
    David Roberts / Grist: Goodbye for now  —  So as not to bury the lede, let me begin with the big news: I'm taking a year off.  —  As of Labor Day weekend, I am going underground.  I won't be writing for Grist (or anyone else); I won't be reading or respondin ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea
    Tuesday, August 20, 2013 21:18:00 UTC Wednesday, August 21, 2013 07:18:00 AM at epicenterDepth: 68.10 km (42.32 mi)
  • M 5.5, Antofagasta, Chile
    Monday, August 19, 2013 19:39:45 UTC Monday, August 19, 2013 03:39:45 PM at epicenterDepth: 111.70 km (69.41 mi)
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  • M 5.3, Mindanao, Philippines
    Sunday, August 18, 2013 22:34:29 UTC Monday, August 19, 2013 06:34:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 380.80 km (236.62 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
    Sunday, August 18, 2013 21:27:01 UTC Monday, August 19, 2013 09:27:01 AM at epicenterDepth: 65.30 km (40.58 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Obama meets top aides on Egypt funding
    An Egyptian man walks on Tahrir Square, after it has been partially reopened to traffic on August 20, 2013 in the Egyptian capital Cairo. President Barack Obama will meet with national security aides Tuesday to discuss the future of US aid to Egypt in thePresident Barack Obama gathered top aid ...
  • UN-Arab League envoy skipping US-Russia Syria ...
    UN peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi attends a press conference on June 25, 2013 at the United Nations office in Geneva. UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi will not take part in crunch talks next week between Russian and US officials on a long-delayed Syria peace conUN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi wi ...
  • Egypt Brotherhood could go back underground to ...
    A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and of ousted president Mohamed Morsi takes cover during clashes with security officers clsoe to Cairo's Ramses Square, on August 16, 2013.A campaign of repression by Egypt's government against the Muslim Brotherhood could force the group back into the sha ...
  • US slams Erdogan claim on Morsi ouster
    Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech during a meeting at his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party headquarters in Ankara, on August 20, 2013. The White House on Tuesday condemned Erdogan's claim that Israel had a role inThe White House on Tuesday condemned Tu ...
  • Briton jailed for fake bomb detectors
    This picture taken on March 2, 2010 shows a Thai soldier using a GT200 detector as he patrols the streets of Yala, in Thailand's restive south. A British businessman who sold fake bomb detectors worldwide was jailed for seven years on Tuesday, with his juA British conman who sold fake bomb det ...

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IntelNews

  • Document confirms CIA role in 1953 Iran coup
    The coup, which reinstated the Shah at the helm of Iran’s government, is believed to have been planned and executed by Britain’s MI6 in cooperation with the CIA. This, however, has never been publicly acknowledged by the CIA. This policy of silence, however, appears to have changed this week, af ...
  • Report reveals secret US-India Cold War collab ...
    During much of the Cold War, India enjoyed a close diplomatic and military relationship with the Soviet Union. But a newly declassified document reveals that the South Asian country allowed the United States to spy on the Soviets using its airspace.
  • New Snowden leaks reveal thousands of NSA priv ...
    New documents leaked by an American intelligence defector reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) violated privacy protections nearly 3,000 times in 2012, many of them under an interception program that was later ruled unconstitutional.
  • Germany plans to limit NSA’s access to E ...
    The government of Germany plans to implement a series of measures designed to limit America’s access to European communications, according to senior German cabinet officials.
  • CIA kept file on American academic Noam Chomsk ...
    A 1970 communiqué between two United States government agencies appears to show that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) kept a file on the iconic American linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria/Egypt News - Aug 21
      Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie arrested, set to face trial Sunday - latimes.com Egypt’s Brotherhood says struggle will remain nonviolent, not to take up arms in response to the arrest of the group’s leader - The Washington Post VIDEO: footage of Badie after his arrest - ...
  • Obama DOJ Asks Court to Grant Immunity to Geor ...
    By Inder Comar SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., (Aug. 20, 2013) — In court papers filed today (PDF), the United States Department of Justice requested that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz be granted procedural immunity in a case alleg ...
  • Because of Bradley Manning, We Know
    by Debra Sweet         The judge's verdict in Bradley Manning's case, which was outrageous, came quickly after the guilt phase of the court martial. Bradley admitted breaking some laws in the service of greater good; exposing systemic, widespread abuse, mu ...
  • March on Washington Against War
    Click here for a downloadable set of commemorative posters for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Please join United for Peace and Justice in commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington on August 24th in our nation’s capital. We need a strong peac ...
  • Israel Behind Egypt's Coup?
      Israel Behind Egypt's Coup?   by Stephen Lendman   Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames Israel for ousting Morsi. It wouldn't surprise. He claims he has proof. More on that below.   He's the last one to point fingers. He rules repressively. He's more despot t ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Two proposals for dealing with the robot revol ...
    Summary: Slowly people see the robot revolution coming, when automation does to jobs in services what it did to farming and manufacturing. We’re in the first phase, delusional confidence about the effects — so we see not need to prepare. So we idly dream away the time available to pr ...
  • Our deeds in Egypt show the darkness & folly o ...
    Summary: Yet again America finds it necessary to overthrow another elected government, earning the hatred of its people and the scorn of others disgusted by our hypocrisy. As usual, the neocons in the chorus urge us to war.  Our strategy is the anti-Boyd: add to and empower our enemies, discoura ...
  • The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature (SAT)
    Summary: The two-centuries long warming of the Earth’s surface (~1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880) might become one of the most important trends of the 21st century. But, like so many aspects of science, it is a complex phenomenon inadequately understood by the public — and poorly explain ...
  • Orson Scott Card and the Dark Side of “E ...
    Summary: The trailer for “Ender’s Game” brings this interesting book to the attention of a wider audience. Rightly so, as it’s themes are important to today’s America. Dark themes, evoking aspects of ourselves we prefer to hide (as popular art so often does). This i ...
  • The second step to reforming America (the most ...
    Summary:  The most frequent request by readers is for solutions. How can we reform America? This is another in a series of posts attempting an answer. Today we consider what kind of organization might accomplish so great a goal, and what tactics it should use. Links to other posts in this series ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Egypt: It’s Time to Call in the ICC
    Nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the last week in Egypt. There have been at least three massacres of pro-Morsi supporters perpetrated by security forces. Everyday brings news of more killings, more massacres. Soldiers are storming Mosques;  thugs are storming Coptic Churches. Egypt is tur ...
  • Top of the Morning: 20,000 Refugees Flee Syria ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest 20,000 Syrian Refugees Pour into Iraq Over the Weekend It wasn’t too long ago that refugees flowed in the other direction. “More than 20,000 Syrian refugees have entered northern Iraq since Thursday in one of the largest crossings in the more than two-year-old confl ...
  • Top of the Morning: World Humanitarian Day
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Today is the 10th Anniversary of Bombing of the UN’s HQ in Baghdad On August 19 2003, a terrorist group bombed the UN headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22 people including the United Nations’ Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello. Incidentally, ...
  • US’ Turn to Show Its Political Determination
    An exclusive interview with Dr. Javad Zarif, the newly appointed Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran In this exclusive interview by the pro-Rohani website irdiplomacy.ir, Javad Zarif, the new foreign minister of Iran, lays out his strategy. The interview is short and speaks for itse ...
  • What Can the UN Do About Egypt?
    The Security Council convened last night in for an emergency meeting on Egypt. Members were briefed by Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson, a longtime international troubleshooter. After the meeting, the council unanimously urged “maximum restraint.” So far, it looks like this dire ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Paul LePage's Kanye Moment
    Eight years ago, during a star-studded telethon to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West looked into the camera and said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." It was a little unfair—nothing in Bush's public life suggested any animus toward black people, and you could ma ...
  • Why the Republican Obamacare Strategy Fell Apart
    After President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, conservative writer David Frum, who had been a speechwriter for George W. Bush, chided his compatriots for the strategy they had employed in opposing it. Had they worked with Obama on a compromise, he argued, the result could have been a mor ...
  • The High Probability of Being Poor
    Late last month, the Associated Press ran a report about economic insecurity that managed to gain some traction in certain parts of the political internet, and since then, again and again in certain relevant debates. The statistical bomb dropped in the first sentence of the report really says i ...
  • Ted Cruz, 100 Percent American
    I've decided, after many painful hours of reflection, to come out of the closet. I hope when I've told you my secret you won't think less of me, and remember that our shared humanity provides us with bonds that should be secure enough to overcome the repulsion you might feel at learning who I r ...
  • Ed Davis's Minority Report
    AP Photo/Matt Rourke When two homemade bombs derailed the Boston Marathon on April 15, longtime Mayor Thomas Menino was laid up in Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recovering from his latest setback in a string of recent ailments. The mayor of two decades immediately checked out of critic ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Ron Paul, Birch President to Speak at Anti-Sem ...
    Beyond the obvious, what do a far-right Italian politician, the president of the John Birch Society and former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul have in common? In early September, the men are all scheduled to speak – along with a lengthy list of archconservative clergy, lawyers and academics – at a conference ...
  • Federal Judge Strikes Down Oklahoma’s Anti-Sha ...
    A federal judge in Oklahoma last week ruled that a voter-approved constitutional amendment, meant to prevent the imposition of Islamic religious law in the state’s courts, violated the U.S. constitution’s guarantee of freedom of religion. Chief District Judge Vicki Miles LaGrange said Thursday t ...
  • Judge Clears Path for Groundbreaking Lawsuit a ...
    U.S. District Court Judge Michael Posner cleared the path on Wednesday for a groundbreaking lawsuit to proceed against Scott Lively. Lively, president of the virulently anti-gay Abiding Truth Ministries, is being sued by the LGBT rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMU) for his pivotal role i ...
  • Execution Date Set for Infamous Racist Serial ...
    After 33 years in prison, Joseph Paul Franklin, one of the most notorious and prolific racist serial killers of modern times, now has a date with the executioner. The Missouri State Supreme Court yesterday ordered that Franklin be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 20, almost 36 years after he ...
  • Neo-Nazi Skinheads Sentenced in N.J. Hate Crim ...
    Two members of a white supremacist group called the Aryan Terror Brigade, one of them a native of Slovakia, were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their New Year’s Eve 2011 hate crime attack on two Egyptians in New Jersey. U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano, decrying the men’s “blatant acts of r ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Court Ruling Major Setback For National Securi ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling today potentially stripping "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees rights under civil service law.  The ruling, in Kaplan v. Conyers, held that federal workers in "sensitive" positions could be unila ...
  • ACLU Challenges Oklahoma State Capitol Ten Co ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation filed a lawsuit late yesterday on behalf of several Oklahomans challenging the constitutionality of the state's Ten Commandments Monument. "The monument's placement at the Capitol has created a more divisive and ...
  • Guantanamo Authorities Block Solzhenitsyn’s ‘G ...
    Authorities at Guantanamo Bay have blocked delivery of one of the most influential books written on the Soviet system of prison camps, known as ‘gulags.’   The legal team for Shaker Aamer, a British resident who has been detained in Guantanamo without charge or trial for 11 ye ...
  • LGBT Rights Organizations Issue Open Letter in ...
    A coalition of national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations, led the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, today issued the following open letter: An Open Letter in Support of 50th Anniversary of March on Washington Over the past year, our community has celebrated t ...
  • Recreation and Conservation Groups Challenge U ...
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Common Dreams-Views

  • Will the American Right Kill Us All?
    Robert Parry A view of Hurrican Sandy from space. (Image via NASA satellite)It is a touchstone of the American Right that the Framers drafted the U.S.read more
  • Miranda's Rights: How Europe Can Learn from La ...
    Mark Weisbrot Glenn Greenwald, left, with David Miranda, who was held for nine hours at Heathrow under schedule 7 of Britain's terror laws. (Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)With a few exceptions, most of Europe hasn't had an indepen ...
  • When the State Attacks Journalism
    Peter Hart Glenn Greenwald (centre) looks on as his partner David Miranda (right) talks with the media after arriving at Rio de Janeiro's international airport following his detention at Heathrow. (Photograph: RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS)On Augu ...
  • Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washin ...
    Bill Fletcher Jr. (Photo: Zinn Education Project)August 28 will mark the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, this m ...
  • Dear Chris Hayes: Good Job. Now Let’s Get Real.
    Wen Stephenson (Image: Courtesy of msnbc.com)Dear Chris,read more

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • UK government promoted fake bomb detectors
    Three departments found to have backed Kent businessman's fraudulent scheme to sell 'useless' detection equipmentThree British government departments and agencies promoted the international sale of fake bomb detectors which are thought to have cost lives, despite a Whitehall-wide warning they we ...
  • Sharp rise in number of children adopted as pr ...
    There were 5,206 adoptions in 2012, up from 4,740 in 2011 – but there are concerns that long-term trends continueThere has been a sharp rise in the number of children being adopted, with last year showing the largest annual increase in 15 years, official figures show.According to the Office for ...
  • Minister fails to back call for crackdown on ' ...
    Communities minister Don Foster dashes hopes for government support for minimum space standards for new homesCommunities minister Don Foster on Tuesday failed to back calls for a crackdown on "rabbit hutch" house building which has seen the size of new homes shrink by almost half since the 1920s ...
  • Alan Rusbridger: I would rather destroy the co ...
    The Guardian's editor reveals why and how the newspaper destroyed computer hard drives containing copies of some of the secret files leaked by Edward SnowdenAlan RusbridgerJulian BorgerMustafa KhaliliLaurence Topham
  • Football match allows Afghanistan to forget it ...
    Afghan fans go wild at victory over Pakistan, the first international football match played in capital in a decadeThe delirious crowd cheered almost everything, even a throw-in. It was the first international football game played in the Afghan capital for a decade and the few thousand people luc ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. soldier wife laughed about Afghan killing ...
    In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales stands in a military courtroom in June as his wife Kari Bales looks on. Bales pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder, stemming from a pre-dawn attack on two villages in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan on March, 2012. (Peter Millet ...
  • Soldier convicted of massacring 16 Afghan civi ...
    Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, left, and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance are seen in a sketch from January 17, 2013, as Bales is arraigned on 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. ...
  • Corruption fighter Afghan woman rights group f ...
    VANCOUVER - An international human rights group, an Indian corruption fighter and a campaigner for Afghan women's rights are the finalists for a $100,000 human-rights prize to be handed out by the University of British Columbia's law school. It is the inaugural Allard Prize for Intern ...
  • Pakistan’s Leader Says He’s Open to Talks With ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- In his first televised policy speech to the country since assuming office in June, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday hinted at his government's inclination to hold talks with Taliban militants even while maintaining the option of military action against ...
  • Kabul fever ahead of Afghan-Pakistan clash
    KABUL (AFP) - Football fans in Afghanistan on Tuesday eagerly awaited the country's first home international in ten years, with their team set to take on neighbouring arch-rivals Pakistan in Kabul.The "friendship match" at the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) stadium has igni ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Court Ruling Major Setback For National Securi ...
     "Hundreds of Thousands" of Federal Employees Lose Civil Service Rights Washington, D.C. August 20, 2013. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling today potentially stripping "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees rights under civil servic ...
  • NWC's David Colapinto Featured on Program Disc ...
    NWC General Counsel David Colapinto appeared on The Firm, a show on CNBC-TV18 (India).  The Firm produced an in depth segment explaining the SEC's Whistleblower Policy. Mr. Colapinto shared his expertise in this informational program. 
  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Senate Establishes "National Whistleblower App ...
    Yesterday, by an unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day." The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate's historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistlebl ...
  • Washington Journal: Stephen Kohn on the Mannin ...
    Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center discusses the military court's decision to refuse to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy" for information given to WikiLeaks. He also discusses federal laws that cover whistleblowers. Bradley Manning Verdict and Trea ...

TechDirt

  • Miranda To Take Legal Action Against UK, Deman ...
    With the UK government now defending its actions in detaining Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, by abusing an anti-terrorist law, Miranda is now poised to fight back. His lawyers have contacted the government demanding the return of the electronics they confiscated (stole) from him, and ...
  • NYPD Chief Says Ending Stop And Frisk Will 'Hu ...
    We've all heard Bloomberg's defense of the NYPD's officially unconstitutional stop and frisk program. Basically, the mayor claims that without being able to harass thousands of minorities a year (88% of whom are never charged, detained or given a summons), the city will immediately fall prey to ...
  • A Tale Of Two Hit Songs Inspired By Past Hits. ...
    There were two very interesting stories last week concerning hit songs allegedly "inspired" by hits from previous decades, but the stories are quite different. First up, was the news that Robin Thicke (along with Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris Jr.), whose song Blurred Lines appears to be ...
  • UK Home Office Says Miranda's Detention 'Fully ...
    For all the claims that the nine-hour detention of David Miranda was going to be "looked into," the Home Office seems to have already arrived at its conclusion: completely justified. A Home Office spokesperson said: "The government and the police have a duty to protect the public and our natio ...
  • Stuxnet Leaks Came From Administration Itself
    It was pointed out towards the end of June that the Justice Department was investigating the "leaks" that led to David E. Sanger's book on the Stuxnet virus, along with a widely-read New York Times article that preceded it. At that time, indications were given that the target of the investigati ...

VacTruth

  • Five Month-Old Baby Dies Just Days After 8 Vac ...
    Parents in South Africa are facing life in prison for the murder of their baby girl who died just days after receiving 8 routine vaccinations.
  • HPV Vaccines Can Kill And They Do!
    On every packet of cigarettes sold, there is a warning, Smoking Kills, to deter people from damaging their health by smoking. Governments around the world decided to put this warning on every packet of cigarettes due to the high death rate caused by the toxic effects of nicotine and other additi ...
  • Dear Doctor, Do You Really Know What Vaccines ...
    Doctor, you strongly recommend vaccines, so you should surely be able to tell us about the ingredients. No doubt you have studied the product information, so what is your opinion about secret and unknown substances in vaccines?
  • New Information Dissolves Illusions About Vacc ...
    There’s a new book out. It’s called Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History. The biggest illusion is quite simple and is the basis for the entire book and what the book ultimately proves.
  • International Day of Peace Manipulated to Prom ...
    United Nations International Day of Peace is a day of ceasefire, both personal and political. Last year the day was ambushed and used to promote and distribution of vaccines to children in developing countries.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The whistleblower’s mad moral courage
    Christopher Yates writes: You’ve got to be a little sick in the head to take a moral stand. Even more so if you’ve done it without financial or personal reward, or expectation of acknowledgement or acclaim. That, it seems, is the tacit consensus at Bradley Manning’s court marti ...
  • The Guardian and the constraints of state cens ...
    When the editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, published an op-ed yesterday on the arrest of Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda at Heathrow airport on Sunday, Rusbridger waited until paragraph nine before describing the heavy-handed response of the British government to the Snowden ...
  • David Cameron had advance warning of Miranda d ...
    The Guardian reports: David Cameron has been drawn into the controversy over the treatment of David Miranda after Downing Street confirmed that the prime minister was given advanced notice that police planned to detain the partner of Glenn Greenwald at Heathrow airport. As the Home Office launch ...
  • David Miranda’s arrest proves how sinister the ...
    Nick Cohen writes: The detention of David Miranda at Heathrow is a clarifying moment that reveals how far Britain has changed for the worse. Nearly everyone suspects the Met [Metropolitan police] held Miranda on trumped up charges because the police, at the behest of the Americans, wanted to int ...
  • Obama’s quiet move to limit intelligence oversight
    Politico reports: The White House dismissed the bulk of President Barack Obama’s premier panel of outside intelligence advisers earlier this year, leaving the blue-ribbon commission largely vacant as the public furor built over the National Security Agency’s widespread tracking of Americans’ tel ...

Watts Up With That?

  • When somebody hits you with that new ‘IP ...
    People send me stuff. The IPCC has announced (via a “leak” campaign only to selected media outlets, such as Reuters, NYT, WaPo) that they are now 95% certain. From Reuters: Drafts seen by Reuters of the study by the U.N. … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the week …about that 97% consensus
    For those that have heard about that claimed “97% consensus” on global warming from John Cook and the SkS Kidz, here is a thought from the oldie but goodie department: Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as … Continue reading →
  • A new paper pushes back on the ‘Arctic a ...
    There has been much worry that extreme weather is the result of changes in the Arctic. For example:  Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, 25 January 2012. The “Arctic Paradox” was coined during recent winters when speculations arose that the dramatic changes … Continue reading ...
  • The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 20th, 2013
    Bill McKibben thinks Al Gore has been ‘diminished’ by skeptics: We actually had a charismatic leader in Al Gore, but he was almost the exception that proved the rule. For one thing, a politician makes a problematic leader for a … Continue reading →
  • IPCC caught out with an old, known, and uncorr ...
    Spot the error. The IPCC can’t. Story submitted to WUWT by Tony Thomas Leaked reports of the Fifth IPCC Report, due next month, say the IPCC experts are now 95% sure that human activities and emissions are the main cause … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • ▶ High Cholesterol
    This 3D medical animation explains hyperlipidemia, commonly known as “high cholesterol.” The animation includes common diet and lifestyle treatments as well as cholesterol-lowering medications. The animation includes both LDL, what is called “bad” cholesterol, and HDL, or ...
  • The quest to understand consciousness
    Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness — that is a marvelous fact — but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self. via ▶ Antonio Damasio: The quest to unders ...
  • Disease laughs at researchers
    Disease laughs at researchers. In this highly-unusual image, beta-catenin (green) was monitored moving into the nucleus, the round shape in the centre. The dark patches in the nucleus that bear an uncanny resemblance to a smiley face, with eyes and a mouth, are actually parts of the nucleus wher ...
  • ▶ How brains see
    ▶ How brains see – YouTube.
  • Researchers reveal how the brain keeps eyes on ...
    “Are we there yet?” As anyone who has traveled with young children knows, maintaining focus on distant goals can be a challenge. A new study from MIT suggests how the brain achieves this task, and indicates that the neurotransmitter dopamine may signal the value of long-term rewards. The finding ...

CFACT

  • Environmentalists want you powerless
    With nearly 300 power plants scheduled to be shut down in the next few years, and with environmentalists both opposing any form of electricity generation that is effective, efficient, and economical and to mining the raw materials needed to build the wind turbines, solar arrays and other "renewa ...
  • Genetic modification: an ancient practice move ...
    It’s important to remember that virtually all of the domestic plant foods the world depends upon for survival are products of deliberate genetic alteration. Included are hardier grains, larger fruits, and pest-resistant vegetables enjoyed everywhere. For example, about 90% of wheat now grown in ...
  • Time to praise CO2 — the miracle gas!
    The more CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description – and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae an ...
  • Not so bright lights
    “Renewable energy” is a deliberate false labeling strategy, designed to curry favor with trendy urbanites who are ignorant about energy and economic reality. The real cost to U.S. economic growth, jobs and living standards from following the Green Brick Road to ecological paradise is equally bey ...
  • Europeans learning the hard truth about wind a ...
    Since 2009 American taxpayers have shelled out $14 billion in cash payments to solar, wind and other renewable energy project developers. This includes $9.2 billion to 748 small and large wind projects, and $2.7 billion to more than 44,000 solar projects, which will add just 48 terawatt- hours o ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Int’l Space Agencies Outline Steps to Take Hum ...
    A consortium of 12 space agencies, including NASA and Roscosmos, on Tuesday released a blueprint for future space exploration, which proposes using the International Space Station (ISS) as a stepping stone for sending human missions deeper into space, including to Mars.     
  • NASA’s Newest Astronauts Discuss Having ‘The R ...
    NASA on Tuesday welcomed its newest astronauts – four men and four women who grew up on farms, military bases and in suburbia across the country, studied “hard science” in college, and have a wide range of professional experience from researching penguins in Antarctica to flying US fighter jets. ...
  • NASA Astronaut Spots Russian ‘UFO’ Near Space ...
    A NASA astronaut reported an unidentified flying object outside the International Space Station (ISS), which was later identified as an antenna shield from the ISS’ Russian module.     
  • Chelyabinsk Meteorite Plume Lingered for Month ...
    The plume from a meteorite that exploded over Russia in February lingered in the atmosphere for months, US space agency NASA reported in a new study, producing a phenomenon with overtones of climate-changing natural disasters or a “nuclear winter.”     
  • NASA Gives Up on Fixing Planet-Hunting Kepler ...
    NASA said Thursday it is giving up on trying to fix its $600-million planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which was crippled by an equipment failure three months ago, but insisted there is still plenty of life left in the “spectacularly successful” mission.     

Natural Health News

  • The Definition of “Cancer” May Be Narrowed to ...
    By Dr. Mercola Nearly two million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year, and one in three will face a cancer diagnosis at some time in their lives. Yet despite massive technological advances over the past half-century, Western medicine is still at a loss for how to rein in its preval ...
  • Why Is a Major Clothing Retailer Selling Fake ...
    By Dr. Mercola Swedish fashion giant H&M has been making headlines for their strides toward sustainability, and were named the biggest user of organic cotton worldwide in both 2010 and 2011.1 With 2,900 stores in 49 markets, H&M is certainly poised to make real changes in the garment ...
  • DHA Linked to Intelligence in Children
    By Dr. Mercola If you want your child to reach his or her maximum intellectual potential, the research is clear that plentiful intake of the omega-3 fat DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is essential. In the US, most kids get hardly any of this healthful fat, found primarily in seafood, in their di ...
  • The Unhealthiest of “Health Foods”
    By Dr. Mercola If you grew up believing the best way to start your day was a bowl of cereal, a piece of whole wheat toast smeared with margarine, and a glass of orange juice, you’re in good company. If your health is ailing and you’re reading this, chances are your lack of pro ...
  • The Fourth Phase of Water - What You Don’t Kno ...
    By Dr. Mercola Water is clearly one of the most important factors for your health—especially when you consider that your body actually consists of over 99 percent water molecules! I sincerely believe water is a really underappreciated part of the equation of optimal health. I’v ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • David Kaye on “Stealth Multilateralism”
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen The new issue of Foreign Affairs has an article by David Kaye, entitled “Stealth Multilateralism.” He begins the piece by describing the point of view of the “sovereigntists,” (often conservative Republicans) who view treaty-making as a t ...
  • Fish Fight! Faroe Islands Will Take the Europ ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Faroe Islands has announced it has filed a referred the European Union to arbitration under the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea.  Apparently, it is a dispute over herring. “The Faroe Islands have today referred the use of threats of coercive economic measures ...
  • Emerging Voices: The Joint Obligation to Prote ...
    by Laura Salvadego [Laura Salvadego is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara. This work has been developed during a research stay at the New York University School of Law - Center for Research in Crime and Justice, funded by Unicredit bank and by 5 per thousand ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he was “deeply disturbed” by the deaths in custody of 37 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and condemned an ambush by Islamist militants that killed 25 Egyptian policemen. A leading di ...
  • The Specific-Direction Requirement Would Not H ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller Criticism of the specific-direction requirement endorsed by the ICTY Appeals Chamber in Perišić has officially jumped the shark. According to James Stewart, the requirement would have required the British military court in Hamburg to acquit the two German businessmen who pr ...

Public News Service

  • How to Get the Kids to Clean their Rooms
    How to Get the Kids to Clean their Rooms PHOENIX - If getting your children to clean their rooms is a constant battle, take solace in knowing you are not alone. According to parent educator Kelly Bartlett, it's a common struggle in families, and while parents should have expectations, they also ...
  • Report: Pedestrian Fatalities Up Nationwide, A ...
    Report: Pedestrian Fatalities Up Nationwide, Above Average in AZ PHOENIX - It's more dangerous to be a pedestrian in Arizona than in many other states. A new report from the federal Department of Transportation finds nearly 18 percent of traffic fatalities in Arizona involved pedestrians, compar ...
  • Little Celebration of Deferred Action Annivers ...
    Little Celebration of Deferred Action Anniversary by AZ Dreamers PHOENIX - It's been a year since President Obama ordered creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which grants legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. Some 15,000 Ari ...
  • Latino Youths Take Colorado River Message to C ...
    Latino Youths Take Colorado River Message to Congress PHOENIX - Latino students are bringing the plight of the Colorado River to Capitol Hill. Eighteen Latino high school students from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico are starting a weeklong rafting trip through the Grand Canyon today, ...
  • Seeing Red Over Planned Running of the Bulls
    Seeing Red Over Planned Running of the Bulls PHOENIX - Concerns are being raised across the nation as a series of events patterned after the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, is being planned for ten cities around the U.S. It's called the "Great Bull Run" and it's billed as an exciting e ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hybrid offshore wind turbine and current power
    Now this is different! A three blade vertical offshore wind turbine combined with an underwater current turbine. It’ll be tested soon in Japan. This isn’t wave or tidal power, it’s current power. Has this ever be done before? Plus, the underwater turbine can power the wind turb ...
  • 14% of Americans receive food stamps
    What strikes me as a Utah resident is that nearly 10% of Utah’s 2.8 million residents are on food stamps (and federally mandated cuts are coming) And yet Utah has one of the lowest food stamp usage rates in the country. Mississippi heads the list with 20.6%, followed by Oregon with 20%. Th ...
  • British Intelligence is as clueless about comp ...
    Wait? Isn’t NSA supposed to be the galactic champions when it comes to computers? Well, actually no, they aren’t. Neither are the Brits. Both are indeed quite skilled at coming on like B-movie heavies, making menacing noises, and being generally thuggish. But when it comes to having ...
  • 3D printing spinal implants a success in China
    A Chinese doctor has successfully 3D printed spinal implants and used dozens of them in 50 patients with no “undesirable side effects or adverse results.” “In the past we used clinical titanium mesh, but with the growth of bone, titanium mesh could easily stick into the bone an ...
  • GRID by Binary Thumb, Create shareable grids f ...
    GRID by Binary Thumb is a neat new iPhone app where you create sharable spreadsheet-like grids. Instead of numbers, you add images, contacts, map, and text. This makes it a great tool for collaboration, making lists and plans, etc. It’s easy to use and quite intuitive. Facebook Twitter Website

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • McGinn, CeaseFire launch ‘Gun Free Zone& ...
    Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is partnering with Washington CeaseFire to launch a new program designed to help local businesses become “Gun Free Zones.” Businesses will be able to opt into the program by visiting www.washingtonceasefire.org, signing the pledge to participate, and placing a “Gun Free ...
  • U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border
    One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspect ...
  • CIA finally admits it masterminded Iran’s 1953 ...
    On the 60th anniversary of the 1953 military coup in Iran that overthrew the government of radical nationalist Mohammad Mossadegh, the US has declassified documents detailing how the CIA’s secret operation brought the country’s Shah back to power. “American and British involvement in Mossadegh’s ...
  • Yatim family ‘relieved’ officer fa ...
    The family of Sammy Yatim expressed relief today that a Toronto police officer is facing a charge of second-degree murder, following the fatal shooting of the 18-year-old on a streetcar last month. A statement issued Monday from Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit — the province’s police ...
  • Glenn Danzig: Democrats are fascists disguised ...
    Photo courtesy of the artist City Pages MN By Kory Grow Fri., Aug. 16 2013 The name Glenn Danzig has lived in metal and punk fans’ vocabularies since 1977, when he started the legendary horror-punk group Misfits. But to music fans who didn’t dwell in the underground, Danzig became Da ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook allows page admins to monitor competi ...
    Facebook is apparently testing a new way for page owners to keep tabs on competing pages. Some admins are seeing a “Pages to Watch” module in the dashboard, allowing them to select five pages. Facebook will...
  • Facebook updates Android SDK, adds Share Dialo ...
    Facebook is working hard to improve experiences on Android devices, as the company recently released an update to its Android Software Development Kit (SDK). This update will bring the native Share Dialog to Android, as well...
  • Which NFL teams are winning the Facebook battle?
    As National Football League teams prepare for the 2013 season, it’s time to look at how they look — on Facebook. Teams with historically large fanbases (Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers) are also among...
  • Facebook testing ‘More People to Follow’ prompt
    Facebook is trying to promote users to follow more. According to sister site AllFacebook, the site is testing a prompt that shows similar people to follow when a user opts to follow someone on Facebook. AllFacebook...
  • Infographic: Facebook ads becoming more effect ...
    Kenshoo Social, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, recently examined the performance of Facebook ads among its clients. The company found that from Q1 to Q2 2013, clicks have increased 16.4 percent, conversions have gone up...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Moment the U.S. Ended Iran's Brief Experim ...
    The U.S. government at the time of the coup easily had manipulated Western media into denigrating Mossadegh as intemperate, unstable and an otherwise unreliable ally in the Cold War, but the real motivation for hijacking Iran's history was Mossadegh's move to nationalize Western-controlled oil a ...
  • When the State Attacks Journalism
    The stories described here, taken together, represent a direct attack on news gathering. This should outrage every single journalist, and anyone who believes in freedom of expression.
  • Greenwald Partner Sues Home Office As UK Defen ...
    David Miranda, the partner of US journalist Glenn Greenwald, was questioned for nine hours in London's Heathrow airport on Sunday under Schedule 7 of the UK's anti-terrorism law. Miranda's lawyer, Gwendolen Morgan, said her client was seeking a judicial review of the legal basis for his detentio ...
  • Not Too Big to Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wal ...
    If we the people are to take back our power from Wall Street and the corporatocracy. We need a mass movement, coordinated action, and leaders who can organize it. Eliot Spitzer is one of the few people in a position to play that role who have the experience, vision and courage to carry it through.
  • ACLU Reveals FBI Hacking Contractors
    CorpWatch: ACLU Reveals FBI Hacking Contractors. James Bimen Associates of Virginia and Harris Corporation of Florida have contracts with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to hack into computers and phones of surveillance targets, according to Chris Soghoian, principal technologist ...

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • India's Untold Story: Solar and Wind Projects ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco As India celebrates its 67th Independence Day this week, the country can also celebrate its clean energy opportunities as solar, wind and other renewable energy projects expand throughout India. This ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Digital Edge - Robot With Human-Like Hands ...
    Robo Sally is a remotely controlled humanoid robot that may one day help law enforcement officials and emergency technicians defuse bombs, patrol large spaces and do guard duty. It was designed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory [APL], outside Washington, D ...
  • Pakistan on Edge - Pakistan’s Musharraf Indi ...
    An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan Tuesday indicted former military leader Pervez Musharraf on charges of conspiring to murder  Benazir Bhutto, the country’s iconic politician who was twice elected as prime minister.The court hearing took place amid extremely tight security in the garris ...
  • The Environment on Edge - Houston Sprawl Leave ...
    Houston, Texas, and its surrounding suburbs are growing fast and sprawling out into natural forest areas that are the habitat for many species of indigenous wildlife. Local leaders as well as environmentalists are seeking some sort of balance between growth and preservation of nature.  But ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Nuclear Facilities as ...
    Nuclear facilities throughout the United States continue to provide inadequate security measures against possible terrorist attacks and threats, especially unauthorized access to -- and removal of --weapons-grade material as well as measures to prevent acts of sabotage that can cause devastating ...
  • Israel and Palestinians - The Triumph of Illusion
    The Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964. Like most revolutionary movements, it wrote a Charter to define its aims and fundamental policies, including:Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and vo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • PA: As Inducement to Talk -US Vowed Israel Wil ...
    Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat was interviewed by one of the territory's radio stations  A-Shams radio stations this morning and said that the only reason they returned to the table was that  US had assured Palestinians in writing that talks would recognize the pre-1967 lin ...
  • Newsbusted: Sen. Feinstein Wants To Define Jou ...
    There is a debate going on in Democratic Party Circles on how to define a Journalist. The ultimate purpose is to intimidate conservative bloggers who have revealed the truth regarding progressive policies and lies.  In an exclusive interview by Newsbusted anchor Jodie Miller (see video b ...
  • Chris Christie Was FOR Gun Control Before He ...
    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.-The Second Amendment to the US Constitution Is it the tremendous weight-loss from his lap-band surgery or is it something else a bit more ...
  • ‘You’re a Stooge and a Frontman!’: Hannity Gue ...
    Chris Phillips, one of the organizers of the Million Muslim March  faced off with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser of American Islamic Forum for Democracy on the Hannity Show tonight. Phillips said the march is not only about supporting “victimized” Muslims in the United States, but also the innocent ...
  • ARROGANCE! Obama Wants New Warrantless Cellph ...
    This is the height of arrogance.  Voters are already complaining about the NSA program, and the series of errors that led to even further intrusions into into our personal information. There is a serious debate going on in this country about how much "surveillance" on Americans is too muc ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbine goes up in flames
    Black smoke was highly visible between Trent and Sweetwater Monday as a wind turbine at the Trent Wind Farm caught fire. Sweetwater Fire Chief Grant Madden said crews from his department and from the Trent Volunteer Fire Department were sent to the location just south of Interstate 20 and east o ...
  • Growing list of Ontario municipalities declare ...
    Enough. Dozens of Ontario municipalities say they don’t want wind turbines. Heavily pushed by the provincial Liberal government, the electricity they produce deeply subsidized by taxpayers, giant wind energy projects have sprouted across rural Ontario – often pitting neighbour agains ...
  • Residents sue over wind farm in Lee County; Ne ...
    DIXON – The battle over a planned wind farm in southwestern Lee County was long expected to end up in the courts. And so it has. On Wednesday, nearly 60 residents filed a lawsuit against the county and Ireland-based Mainstream Renewable Power. Represented by Rockford attorney Rick Porter, the re ...
  • Sharpsville considers wind farm zoning buffer; ...
    SHARPSVILLE — Wind farm opponents want the town of Sharpsville in northwestern Tipton County to create a 2-mile zoning buffer around the city limits. Supporters of the Tipton County Citizens for Responsible Development approached the Sharpsville Town Council with the proposal. Sharpsville curren ...
  • Osage Nation seeks support against eagle kills
    The National Congress of American Indians has joined the Osage Nation in opposing federal actions to permit eagle kills caused by wind industry development on tribal lands without regard for tribal cultural interests and authority. A resent NCAI resolution says authorizing the wind energy projec ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Surveillance States and the End of Freedom
    The detention of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald’s husband has led to much hand wringing.  He was forced to give up the passwords to his phone and his computer, was threatened with jail, and was only allowed to have a lawyer if he chose one of the police’s list.  He was not, of course ...
  • Need help with finding old Bop News Articles ( ...
    I’ve decided, after some prompting, to put together an anthology of my writings.  Unfortunately they’re scattered over multiple blogs and some of those blogs don’t exist any more.  I had assumed this would be relatively easy, using the Wayback machine, but they seem to have mad ...
  • All registered users will have to re-register ...
    Sorry folks, but the amount of registration spam is out of control and one of the things slowing down the blog.  I’m going to purge everyone who doesn’t have at least editor level access tomorrow, and you’ll have to re-register with the new captcha system.  Sorry about this, it ...
  • Why Egypt’s Regime Must Double Down
    There have been more killings in Egypt today of Muslim Brotherhood supporters.  Of particular note is the death of Asmaa al-Beltagi, daughter of a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, Dr. Mohammed al-Beltagi (h/t MFI).  Martial law has been declared, the streets are being cleared, and military gove ...
  • The Beauty of Obama’s Clapper Appointment
    As you’ve probably heard, Obama has appointed James Clapper (the man who lied under oath to Congress about NSA spying) to review NSA spying. I am in awe, few things have impressed me this deeply. This isn’t just a middle finger to everyone to everyone who is against blanket surveilla ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Predictors of suicidal behaviour found in blood
    Nature – People who are intent on taking their own life may not seek counsel or discuss their thoughts with others. Having some ways of predicting the rise of suicidal thoughts could help save at least some of the 1 million people worldwide who die that way every year. “It’s a preventable ...
  • Genetically modified crops pass benefits to weeds
    Nature – A genetic-modification technique used widely to make crops herbicide resistant has been shown to confer advantages on a weedy form of rice, even in the absence of the herbicide. The finding suggests that the effects of such modification have the potential to extend beyond farms an ...
  • UK forced newspaper to destroy files
    Aljazeera – The editor of the Guardian newspaper, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against it unless it either destroyed the classified documents or handed them to Britis ...
  • US – Bloomberg’s Public Housing Fingerpr ...
    CBS – Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest crime-fighting idea had a lot of people riled up on Friday. The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. He said it would be done to make the projects safer. Bloomberg was responding to questions about Federal Ju ...
  • China Set to Become World’s Biggest Net ...
    Global Energy World – China is set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest net oil importer from October, according to US figures, due to a combination of rising Chinese demand and increased US production. Next year, China’s net oil imports will exceed those of the ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • 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...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • '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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Role of Secret US Funding in Egypt's Coup
    State Department Funnels Millions to Anti-Morsi Activists The Obama administration has come under fire for violating Section 508 of the 1999 Foreign Assistance Act by continuing $1.5 billion in military aid to the Egyptian generals who led the coup against Egypt’s democratically elect ...
  • How Land Monopolization Hampers Industry
    photo credit: Renegade98 via photopin cc By Winston Churchill (This is the 2nd half of a speech that Churchill made in Edinburgh on 17 July 1909 in support of the People’s Budget, which the British Parliament enacted later that year. In this section he describes how land monopolizatio ...
  • The Mother of All Monopolies - Part I
    By Winston Churchill [From a Speech Delivered at King's Theatre in Edinburgh on 17 July 1909] It is quite true that land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies - it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monop ...
  • Follow the Money
    Bust of John D Rockefeller Classical Economics as a Stratagem Against Henry George (free link) By Mason Gaffney (2007) Book Review-Part II (In Part I, I discussed how Henry George’s work inspired the Populist and Progressive movements of the early 1900s and how the corporate elite str ...
  • Karl Marx vs Henry George
    photo credit: Felix42 contra la censura via photopin cc  http://homepage.ntlworld.com/janusg/100yrs.htm   Classical Economics as a Stratagem Against Henry George (free link) By Mason Gaffney (2007) Book Review-Part I Why do American school children study the beliefs of a German rad ...

FourWinds10

  • Study links fracking with methane-contaminated ...
    June 26, 2013 Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s common elsewhere, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells across northeastern Pennsylvania and ...
  • Fukushima: Radioactive cesium levels jump 9,00 ...
    July 24, 2013 (NaturalNews) Some of the highest levels of ionizing radiation yet detected since the disaster first occurred were recently recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan, according to shocking new reports. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs the ...
  • Worldwide Air Pollution Deaths Per Year Number ...
    July 22, 2013 Air pollution may be responsible for more than 2 million deaths around the world each year, according to a new study. The study estimated that 2.1 million deaths each year are linked with fine particulate matter, tiny particles that can get deep into the lungs and cause health prob ...
  • Ecosystem and Food Supply Threatened by Gross ...
    June 18, 2013 Research has shown that many pesticides are neurotoxic and can cause disruptions to your neurological system and your brain. The reason why neurotoxins still enjoy widespread use on our food supply is really more about the bottom line for farming operations than it is about the sci ...
  • Zero Emissions Foolishness and Carbon Credit Rot

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Distributive Generation and Nuclear Energy
    Amory Lovins popularized the idea of distributive electrical generation as a foil to the emerging nuclear power industry. Lovins argued that what was needed was not large nuclear generation facilities, but small localized generating facilities that drew their power from nature.
  • California Setting Standards On the California ...
    With roughly as many computers as people in California, we spend a staggering $700 million annually on the electricity needed to power them and their monitors. Imagine how much we could save on our utility bills if they didn’t waste energy even when we’re not using them.
  • New Hydro Energy Laws Could Add 60 GW Of Clean ...
    The one thing everyone working on energy issues in America can agree upon is non-existent energy policy action at the national level. But last week President Obama signed two bills that could boost US renewables generation from an unlikely source: small hydropower.
  • Paying For Climate Change Adaptations And Grid ...
    Climate change adaptation plans to harden our electrical infrastructure will be unavoidable and expensive. The grid needs to be upgraded anyway, and this is a momentous opportunity to re-architect our electrical grid to last another 100 years.
  • On Carbon Taxes and Competition
    The US and China are talking different languages on reducing carbon emissions. In the U.S., the Obama administration is the name of the game on federal action. As for legislation, I would say there’s a snowball’s chance Congress will pass any climate bill. Anybody care to debate?

Rodale News

  • Living with Less...Water
    by Linda Marsa, investigative journalist, contributing editor at Discover magazine and author of Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health—And How We Can Save Ourselves. Clean water is the lifeblood of modern society. None of the incredible scientific advances of the 20th century have a ...
  • Your Child's New Healthy Role Model
    Even if you've never heard of Reed Alexander, don't worry. Chances are, your teens and tweens are big fans from his days as Nevel Papperman on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly. These days, though, Reed has abandoned his role as a love-struck Internet fiend and is making waves in the kitchen. Afte ...
  • Is Your Yard Killing Bees?
    Bees are in serious trouble. The tiny little pollinators, that save U.S. farmers billions of dollars in pollination services, are dying off by the thousads—a travesty that has led many a home gardener to plant "bee-friendly" plants in their yards and gardens to provide a refuge for be ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Old Bay Seasoning
    One of my earliest memories of a special party meal was sitting perched on the radiator on the "back" side of the dining room table when I was just a few years old, stuffing myself silly with shrimp boiled in beer. Three decades later, I enjoyed a similar meal, featuring crabs this ti ...
  • Warm Weather's Hidden Threat: Violent Crime
    In 20 years, climatologists predict that the United States will be a mere 1.8ºF warmer than it is today. A small increase, yes, but one that could be accompanied by an increase in murders and domestic abuse and possibly lead to a civil war. Sound a little bit like the plot of The Hunger Games? ...

big think

  • You Might Be Very Surprised to Know Where Your ...
    In DNA USA, I took DNA from volunteers throughout the country and then I analyzed their DNA and then went back where I could to visit them and explain what I’d found.  If I didn't see them personally, then I spoke to them on the phone.  And I always asked them what they expected and how the DNA ...
  • How to Implement New Ideas for a Better Old Age
    As it stands today longer life is not working out – on neither the micro or macro levels. No nation has it right because the scope of the challenge has never been faced before. All nations are aging - so every country will confront the disruptive demographics of an aging society - some sooner th ...
  • Seattle Hempfest: A Weed Wonderland?
    The city of Seattle buzzed with the sound of joints lighting as hundreds of thousands of pot smokers from all over the nation swarmed the city’s annual Hempfest held along the Elliott Bay waterfront in Myrtle-Edwards Park August 16th through the 18th. The world’s largest annual t ...
  • At This Civic Center, The Receptionist Is A Ho ...
    What's the Latest Development? Rather than pay a real person to greet visitors at their new civic center, the local council in the northwest London borough of Brent decided to install a hologram behind the reception desk. When a person enters their question on a touchscreen, "Shanice," p ...
  • We Tell Stories to Become Immortal
    There’s a lot of different techniques that you can employ when using a story.  You can frighten people.  You can surprise people.  You can provoke people.  You can make people sad.  But those are all techniques.  They’re not outcomes.   When I think about the types of stories that I like ...

Information Liberation

  • Yes, We Live in a Communist Country
    Abducted by bounty hunters, imprisoned without cause, denied due process of law, cleared of all charges yet forbidden to go home, scores of innocent men in the Guantanamo Bay gulag have been driven to resist in the only way they can * by staging a hu...
  • Ten Reasons the U.S. Is No Longer the Land of ...
    While each new national-security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don't operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at le...
  • Toronto Cop Charged With Murder in Shooting De ...
    TORONTO * Ontario's police watchdog on Monday charged a Toronto police officer with murder in the shooting death of a young man wielding a knife in an empty streetcar. The shooting last month was caught on video and posted on YouTube, leading to a...
  • UK Gov't Forces Guardian To 'Destroy' Hard Dri ...
    Apparently, the UK government is now hellbent on demonstrating how broadly it will try (and fail) to censor the press these days. By now you've heard that the UK government detained David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's partner, under an anti-terrorism l...
  • Journalist For Time Magazine Announces His Eag ...
    We've already discussed the odd and somewhat sickening way in which certain mainstream journalists have been clearly cheering on the criminalization of investigative journalism, but Time Magazine's Michael Grunwald took it to a new and incredibly dis...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Coasting Home
    If there was any justice, this election would already be long over. Having initially announced the election date back in January, Julia Gillard, and more latterly Kevin Rudd, have been determined to subject the nation to the political equivalent of … Continue reading →
  • Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
    Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →
  • No Big Deal
    Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
    This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →
  • Libel, Reputation and Thin Air
    This isn’t something I had planned to discuss any time soon, but recent headlines in Australia have pushed it to the head of the queue. If you don’t follow Australian politics closely, you may have missed the recent news that … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Dangerous Degrees
    The Climate Institute http://www.climateinstitute.org.au/verve/_resources/TCI_DangerousDegrees.pdf [The Age] In its latest report, the Climate Institute says Australians in particular have a lot to lose from worsening bushfires, droughts, heatwaves and coastal flooding. “Australia is more ...
  • Lessons from Hurricane Isaac: Gulf Coast Coal ...
    Gulf Monitoring Consortium Report http://www.gulfmonitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Isaac.GMC_.Pollution.Report.Final_.1.1.pdf Problems at coal, chemical and oil facilities, many of them preventable, resulted in extremely high levels of air and water pollution during and after Hurricane Isaa ...
  • Overwhelming Risk: Rethinking Flood Insurance ...
    Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/flood-insurance-sea-level-rise.html …We can reform the coastal insurance system to reduce our risks Subsidized insurance rates, the practice of passing through damage and loss costs to taxpayers, ...
  • Reducing Carbon Black and Methane Emissions Pr ...
    Near-term climate mitigation by short-lived forcers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print August 12, 2013; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308470110) / by Steven J. Smith and Andrew Mizrahi http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/09/1308470110.abstract [Abstract] Em ...
  • Indicators of Climate Change in California
    State of California, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) http://oehha.ca.gov/multimedia/epic/2013EnvIndicatorReport.html The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announces the availability of “Indicators of Climate Change in California,” a rep ...

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    Renewable Energy Overpowers ALEC
    BillMoyers.com
    But perhaps the most urgent discussion point was the one surrounding what are known as renewable portfolio standards (RPS) — laws that promote cleaner energy sources to better protect our fragile environment. For the past year, ALEC and its members ...
    Consumers Energy's residential customers could see renewable-energy ...
    MLive.com
    JACKSON, MI – Consumers Energy's residential customers could see a 52-cent surcharge for renewable energy disappear from their bill, but that doesn't mean the cost for being green will go away. The company has proposed eliminating its standalone ...
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    Feds unveil new renewable energy zone along Salton Sea shore
    The Desert Sun
    The federal government has created a new renewable energy zone along the southeast shore of the Salton Sea that could eventually host thousands of megawatts of solar and geothermal energy on previously disturbed lands. The West Chocolate Mountains ...
    No future for fracking: Renewable energy a better bet for corporations
    RT (blog)
    JT: Where you're more likely to get more jobs is in the renewable sector, and one of the things we think has been really missing from this whole debate is government stepping up to the plate. This is the government who said it was going to be the ...
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    Odum School of Ecology to celebrate Eugene P. Odum's centennial
    Online Athens
    The University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology will host a celebration in honor of the 100th birthday of its founder and namesake, Eugene P. Odum, on Sept. 17 from 3-5 p.m. in the ecology building. The event is open to the public, and cake and ice ...
    NSEA launches new program to teach watershed ecology
    TheNewsTribune.com
    Called the Citizen Action Training School, the program will focus on watershed and Puget Sound ecology, as well as civic engagement in legal and regulatory processes that affect the management of resources. That includes efforts in Whatcom County ...
    The Yoga of Ecology: The Garden of Seven Gates
    Huffington Post
    For this reason Vedic ecology teaches that the earth and the cow are to be loved and cared for as mothers. As such, culture -- including the cultivating of land for crops -- is an outward expression of spirituality. As a painting expresses the spirit ...
    Ecology today: Baseball bats and trees
    Wicked Local
    Just recently,Red Sox player, David Ortiz, angered by a strike call by the plate umpire, had a temper tantrum. In a passion of rage, Ortiz attacked the wall of the dugout with a baseball bat. Stuff started flying around, then the bat broke. As a tree ...
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    Tank Has Leaked Tons of Contaminated Water at Japan Nuclear Site
    New York Times (blog)
    TOKYO — Three hundred tons of highly contaminated water has leaked from a storage tank at the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Japan's Pacific coast, its operator said Tuesday, prompting regulators to declare a “radiological release ...
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    Dwindling Colorado River Forces First-Ever Cuts in Lake Powell Water Releases
    The Weather Channel
    More than a dozen years of drought have begun to extract a heavy toll from water supplies in the West, where a report released last week forecast dramatic cuts next year in releases between the two main reservoirs on the Colorado River, the primary ...
    Obamas' New Pet: 5 Facts About the Portuguese Water Dog
    National Geographic
    These dogs, according to the AKC, perform such jobs as guarding property, pulling sleds, and rescuing people and things from water. Most working dogs—Great Danes, Newfoundlands, Bernese mountain dogs, and Siberian huskies, to name a few—are ...
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    Reason behind water tower collapse unknown
    Chicago Tribune
    Three weeks after a water tower fell from the roof of a landmark North Side building, injuring three people, city officials don't know what caused the structure to fall and don't plan to launch an investigation. Officials also will not seek immediate ...
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