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English: Aleppo at night, Bab Al-FarajEnglish: Aleppo at night, Bab Al-Faraj (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Aleppo Jdeydeh Christian quarterEnglish: Aleppo Jdeydeh Christian quarter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Horse transport in Aleppo, Syria Fran...English: Horse transport in Aleppo, Syria Français : Cheval utilisé pour le transport à Alep en Syrie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: View of Aleppo from the Citadel, Syri...English: View of Aleppo from the Citadel, Syria Français : Vue d'Alep à partir de la citadelle, Syrie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Omayad Mosque courtyard, with Şadirvans in...The Omayad Mosque courtyard, with Şadirvans in pavilions, in Aleppo, Syria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aleppo International Airport.Aleppo International Airport. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • FP: US heard Syrian calls on gas attack
    U.S. intelligence services overheard a Syrian Defense Ministry official in “panicked phone calls with the leader of a chemical weapons unit” after last week’s deadly chemical attack, Foreign Policy magazine reported Tuesday. “Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east ...
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  • Aleppo Christians Fear Ethnic Cleansing
    It would be very accurate to describe some areas of Aleppo as "Christian," although this by no means implies any sort of self- or outside-imposed segregation or discrimination. Residents of other faiths are found, and get along just fine in those areas. It is just that they are predominantly Chr ...
  • Scotland: Bleak future for youth employment
    Scottish Government claims about marginally better rates disguise a lack of research on patterns of underemployment and insecure working. "It is acknow­ledged that statistics collected at present are far from adequate and almost certainly underestimate precarious forms of working," said Profess ...
  • Taken: Syria's last supply line to Aleppo
    Rebel forces took control of a strategic town in northern Syria Monday, cutting off government forces’ only supply route out of the city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitoring group also said it had obtained a photograph showing the execution of ...

Independent - London

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

  • Departing DHS secretary warns of 'serious' cyb ...
    The departing US Homeland Security Secretary used her farewell speech to warn the nation's leaders of an impending "serious" cyber-attack as well as a natural disaster, the impact of which will dwarf Hurricane Sandy and other disasters in recent memory. Janet Napolitano, after four years at the ...
  • Man killed by Brooklyn Center Police was shot ...
    Attorney hired by girlfriend says four witnesses told him Edmond Fair was killed while handcuffed. Edmond D. Fair was fatally shot in the chest by police during a traffic stop and struggle in Brooklyn Center last week, authorities said Tuesday. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, which is ...
  • Russian adoptee sues over childhood sex abuse
    A woman adopted as a child from Russia and sexually abused by her millionaire adoptive American father who spread video of the abuse online has sued the father and 13 other men under a US law bearing her name, media reported. The woman, adopted from a Russian orphanage in 1998 at the age of fiv ...
  • US soldier sentenced to death for Ft. Hood sho ...
    A United States military jury sentenced an Army psychiatrist to death Wednesday for the 2009 shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas that left 13 people dead and more than 30 wounded, US media reported. The same military jury that convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan last week had only t ...
  • Fukushima radioactive plume to reach US in thr ...
    The radioactive ocean plume from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster will reach the shores of the US within three years from the date of the incident but is likely to be harmless according to new paper in the journal Deep-Sea Research 1. While atmospheric radiation was detected on the US ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hot Shots . . .
    — Just like Peter — iPOLITICS has a post by Michael Harris, “MacKay’s credibility gap: pot, meet kettle” that is a delight. A cheerful read, also with a possible complication for Petey, thanks to a prof at the U of Ottawa. I began to suspect that Peter MacKay was not Reach for the Top ma ...
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  • Reality is relative . . .
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  • The path of progress . . .
    HOW DO YOU GET TO CARNEGIE HALL? Like the old joke goes, practice! Malcolm Gladwell, who brought the term “Outlier” to the public consciousness, has a fascinating article in the New Yorker, “Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule” that is worthy of pondering in a world that uses Atten ...
  • A glowing future . . .
    THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE with DNA, and Martin Lukacs, who posts on the TRUE NORTH blog created by The Guardian, is rightly concerned, with a post, “Kickstarter must not fund biohackers' glow-in-the-dark plants” about what is called biohacking, in this case, a Kickstarter effort to get ...

Media Matters for America

  • Rush Limbaugh Has Heard He Sounds Like Martin ...
    Capitalizing on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Rush Limbaugh claimed he has been told he sounds more like Martin Luther King Jr. than President Barack Obama does. These comments fly in the face of Limbaugh's extensive history of racially divisive comments.Limbaugh Suggeste ...
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch Columnist Pens Falseho ...
    The Richmond Times Dispatch's A. Barton Hinkle attacked Obamacare with several falsehoods in his latest Sunday column by blaming the president for the delays in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ignoring the role of an obstructive Republican majority in the House. ...
  • What WSJ Gets Wrong On The Cause Of Higher Col ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial and a Fox News show of Journal editorial members ignored a major contributor to rising college costs -- state budget cuts to higher education -- while falsely blaming federal financial aid for the cost increase.President Obama Says State Budget ...
  • Fox Injects Race Into Crime That Officials Tel ...
    Fox News has continually injected race into its coverage of the murder of Oklahoma college student Christopher Lane, despite law enforcement's insistence that the crime, allegedly committed by three teens -- two black, one white -- has no ev ...
  • WatchdogVA Prescribes Bad Medicine For Medicai ...
    WatchdogVA, an affiliate of the Koch Brothers funded Franklin Center, promoted unsubstantiated fears in asking legislators to weigh several considerations when determining how to expand Medicaid in Virginia, including fears over the federal government's role and a doctor shortage. The conservati ...

Global Research.ca

  • South Korea President Park Cracks Down on Left ...
    SEOUL/SUWON, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) — The state intelligence agency on Wednesday arrested three officials of a minor progressive party on rare charges of conspiracy to stage a rebellion, prosecutors said. The arrests came just hours after the National Intelligence Service…
  • Commit a War Crime to Cover Up a War Crime? Ph ...
    This is where it all started: The Israeli intelligence front the Debkafile, which is the source of the story that implicated the Assad government and/or its military in the gas attack on East Ghouta and now forms the basis for…
  • Raising Awareness on 9/11 Truth: Changing Opin ...
    As we approach the 12th anniversary of September 11, 2001, a coalition of organizations has started a new global PR campaign to raise awareness of 9/11 truth. Combining an international advertising campaign with a national opinion poll and congressional outreach, …
  • Chemical Weapons in Syria: Media Lies and Prop ...
    Investigative journalist Michel Collon speaks with RT on the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict. Did Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons in Syria? Western leaders already have their answer to that. But their declarations follow the 5 principles…
  • The Neocon March on Damascus
    by Jacob Heilbrunn Here we go again. As Americans prepare to march on Washington, Washington is preparing to march on Damascus. As part of the buildup to war, a chorus of liberal hawks and neoconservatives has issued a new manifesto…

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

  • Beating Back the Rumors: What's Really Happeni ...
    Residents have remained calm during the ordeal but the digital rumor mill has churned anxieties into terrors, sheriff said. The rumours raced across these woodland communities faster than the fire: the Groveland firehouse had burned down; authorities were cutting power lines to force people to ...
  • Boomtown USA: 10 Photos from the Oilfields of ...
    Small communities along the prairies are busting at the seams, and much of the growth is not pretty. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. Follow the trip on Facebook. All ph ...
  • 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 ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Armstrong Energy’s Ram Terminal Could Cost Tax ...
    For Immediate Release:                                              Contact: Hillary Corgey (512) 477-1155 August 28, 2013                                                              hcorgey@citizen.org  AUSTIN, Texas – Armstrong Energy is facing challenges from the market that may threaten the ...
  • Docs demand tighter emissions at coal EFH plants
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Dallas — Today the Dallas County Medical Society filed a petition with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality asking the agency to adopt rules to reduce the pollution from three old coal-fired power plants that contribute disproportionately ...
  • Radioactive Leak at New Jersey Nuclear Plant W ...
    Workers have shut down unit 1 of the Salem Nuclear plant in New Jersey after a leak was detected in the containment building.  An initial investigation determined the leak is coming from packing on a pressurizer spray valve used in the reactor coolant system that was replaced during a refueling ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • The Banality of Occupation
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Yousef Munayyer is Executive Director of the Palestine Center. This policy brief may be used without permission but with proper attribution. Previous Publication Info Previous publi ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • Gulf Council Expected to Approve Initial Resto ...
    (The Times-Picayune) An initial comprehensive plan for restoring the Gulf Coast’s ecosystem and economy is set to face a vote Wednesday in New Orleans by a federal-state council overseeing the spending of likely billions of dollars in ...
  • Japanese Agency Labels Radioactive Leak 'Serious'
    (AP) Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident" on an international scale, and it castigated the plant o ...
  • EU Energy Commissioner Warns Against Germany C ...
    (Reuters) Germany should not introduce cuts to already guaranteed renewable subsidies, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said, adding such a move would seriously hurt investor confidence. Political parties and energy gro ...
  • A Strong Voice for Environmental Action in Lou ...
    (Los Angeles Times) NEW IBERIA, La. — The police asked the right question. "Can you think of anyone who would want to do you harm?" investigators asked Wilma Subra, trying to understand who might have fired a gun at the diminutive gra ...
  • China Power Seen Doubling With Renewables as C ...
    (Bloomberg) China’s generation capacity will more than double to 2030, with half of all new plants powered by renewable energy and coal remaining the most important fuel, analysts said. China may add 1,583 gigawatts of capacity and at ...

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

  • Something to Chew On
    The Arab League isn't endorsing any kind of military reprisals in Syria, and neither are most Arabs: The vast majority of Arabs are emotionally opposed to any Western military action in the region no matter how humanitarian the cause, and no Arab nation or leader has publicly endorsed such a ...
  • Casual Observation
    I take a special satisfaction whenever I see state-level Republicans have to swallow their own b.s. and pass the Medicaid expansion provided for in the Affordable Care Act. The Michigan Senate even had to break their version of the Hastert Rule to get it done. That's exquisite. Discuss
  • Who To Trust?
    I wish that I was able to believe anyone on this Syria thing, but the truth is that I trust no one anymore. Who has credibility? Syrias ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, added a new level of complexity to the issue on Wednesday, announcing that he had submitted evidence of ...
  • Set a Positive Example
    For obvious reasons, everyone is talking today (on it's 50th anniversary), about Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. But I thought you would enjoy an excerpt from a different speech. This speech was delivered at the National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace in November 1967. Now ...
  • We Have to Do Something, Stupid
    I can't believe how stupid our foreign policy elites really are. I'm not going to argue that they have any good or easy choices, but Jesus: A wide range of officials characterized the action under consideration as limited, perhaps lasting no more than one or two days. The attacks, which are ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Find out what we've been checking out this week in our fabulous link round up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Magic of MFCs: Generating Electricity from ...
    Microbial fuel cells could soon provide us with a green energy source, as well as a supply of clean drinking water This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Pug-Ugly Mugs: The World's Ugliest Dog Contest ...
    None of these dogs are likely to win any prizes for their beauty, but that’s not why they're here. Welcome to 2013’s World's Ugliest Dog Contest. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Dr. Hansen, We Need You at Fukushima and Diabl ...
    Dr. Hansen, We Need You at Fukushima and Diablo Canyon OpEdNews He has courageously engaged in civil disobedience against mountaintop removal and the Keystone Pipeline. Hansen also claims some nuclear expertise, a credential he's used to justify his support for a new generation of Small Modu ...
  • Family files lawsuit to protect Boone cemetery ...
    Family files lawsuit to protect Boone cemetery from mining State Journal The Twilight Surface Mine complex was once owned by Massey Energy and now is owned by Alpha Natural Resources. "This mountaintop removal mine forced people away from their beloved town in the hollers of Boone County,&q ...
  • In referring to CO2 you make the following poi ...
    In referring to CO2 you make the following point in your summary of this post. Energy Collective You mention only CO2. Why do you exclude analysis of the long term impacts of habitat destruction such as the 100,000 square miles in Alberta from extraction of oil from tar sands? And similarly dest ...
  • In global fight against fracking, faith commun ...
    In global fight against fracking, faith community should lead National Catholic Reporter (blog) They held seasonal meetings, and efforts to stop mountaintop removal went forward. Still, what had been a beautiful landscape became hugely deformed. Trees, brush and mounds of soil were pushed and de ...
  • Dr. Hansen, We Need You at Fukushima and Diabl ...
    Dr. Hansen, We Need You at Fukushima and Diablo Canyon CounterPunch He has courageously engaged in civil disobedience against mountaintop removal and the Keystone Pipeline. Hansen also claims some nuclear expertise, a credential he's used to justify his support for a new generation of Small ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S., Allies Prepare to Act as Syria Intellige ...
    Wall Street Journal: U.S., Allies Prepare to Act as Syria Intelligence Mounts  —  Evidence Includes Satellite Images, Intercepted Communications  —  Positions hardened in the international standoff over Syria, as U.S. officials said privately that a flood of prev ...
  • President Obama: 'I Have Not Made a Decision' ...
    PBS NewsHour / Online NewsHour: President Obama: ‘I Have Not Made a Decision’ on Syria  —  President Barack Obama said he had not yet made his decision regarding a U.S. strike on Syria during an interview with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill on the 50th anniversary of t ...
  • THE GREAT LOOPHOLE - As the president mounts t ...
    Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: THE GREAT LOOPHOLE  —  As the president mounts the podium at the Lincoln Memorial today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's speech, we are reminded (ceaselessly) about one thing that Dr. King said in his address: … There it is.&n ...
  • Putin's Silence on Syria Signals Resignation o ...
    Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Putin's Silence on Syria Signals Resignation on Attack  —  MOSCOW — Russia has made its opposition to military intervention in Syria vehemently clear.  The foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warns daily about the risk of an escalati ...
  • Key lawmakers to get Syria chemical weapons br ...
    Yahoo! News: Key lawmakers to get Syria chemical weapons briefing Thursday  —  Key lawmakers will get a classified briefing from the Obama administration on Thursday regarding Syria's alleged slaughter of civilians using chemical weapons last week, two U.S. officials said.

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  • Son by his side, father remembers 'I have a dream'
    People cover themselves with rain-ponchos during the march to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 2013.Fifty years to the day after he heard Martin Luther King Jr declare "I have a dream," Carter McLaughlin has a dream of his own -- to see his son succeed. ...
  • US: 'No avenue forward' on UN Syria resolution
    Opposition fighters, civilians and journalists stand near a United Nations (UN) vehicle as UN arms experts inspect the site where rockets had fallen in Damascus' eastern Ghouta suburb on August 28, 2013.A resolution condemning Syria's alleged poison gas use has stalled in the UN Security Counc ...
  • US: 'No avenue forward' on UN Syria resolution
    Opposition fighters, civilians and journalists stand near a United Nations (UN) vehicle as UN arms experts inspect the site where rockets had fallen in Damascus' eastern Ghouta suburb on August 28, 2013.A resolution condemning Syria's alleged poison gas use has stalled in the UN Security Counc ...
  • GOP’s false new talking point: Feces!
    There was a minor, kind of disgusting sub-plot in the high-profile fight over Texas' strict new anti-abortion law that made Wendy Davis a star: pro-choice activists were accused of bringing jars of feces and urine into the state Capitol.The Texas Department of Public safety said that they had c ...
  • No, a 14-year-old was not “as much in control” ...
    A 14-year-old girl is raped by her 49-year-old high school teacher. As the criminal case drags on, the girl, now 16, kills herself. The teacher pleads guilty and is sentenced to 30 days in jail.In 2008, prosecutors charged Stacey Dean Rambold of Billings Montana with three counts of sexual ...

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IntelNews

  • Israeli intelligence ‘critical’ in US case for ...
    As the United States prepares to make its case in support of military action against the Syrian government, there are reports that Israeli intelligence will be playing “a central role in cementing” Washington’s argument.
  • CIA shuts down office that declassifies histor ...
    The division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency that is responsible for weeding through and declassifying historical materials from the Agency's archives is to close due to the sequester budget cuts.
  • NSA operates ‘secret collection program’ out o ...
    Documents leaked by American intelligence defector Edward Snowden point to the existence of a sizable signals intelligence collection program operating out of dozens of United States embassies and consulates located around the world.
  • US goes after schools that teach how to beat p ...
    The United States government has launched an extensive criminal investigation of companies and individuals who coach job applicants on how to deceive polygraph examiners.
  • Analyst who spied on US for Israel speaks out ...
    A convicted American spy, who is serving a life sentence for betraying American secrets to Israel in the 1980s, has broken his 28-year-long silence by penning an article in an Israeli newspaper.

War is a Crime.org

  • On United States Intervention in Syria: Rememb ...
    By Joshua Brollier To those who think the United States should intervene in Syria, Remember this is the same United States which; ·       is still deeply involved in two failed wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan that have lasted for over a decade without co ...
  • The National Institute's Recall of the Drug OBAMA
  • Onion: Experts Point To Long, Glorious History ...
    WASHINGTON—In light of increased pressure on President Obama to order a military strike on Syria, leading historians and military experts on Tuesday simply pointed to the United States’ longstanding and absolutely impeccable record of successful bombing campaigns over the past 60 years. “The rec ...
  • Syria News - Aug 29
      UN Seeks More Time for Syria Chemical Probe Before U.S. Strike - ABC News Russia tells Britain its Syria resolution is premature, Security Council must await inspectors' report  - The Star Online China, Russia Leave Emergency Security Council Meeting On Syria - ITAR-TASS Britai ...
  • What democracy? What rule of law?: Americans O ...
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Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | A-Listing and Im ...
    By Visible The hour is come round at last for the coverslips of fear to be ripped off of the faces and machinations of the evil doers among us. At whatever point it occurs, I imagine a massive and collective sigh of relief when the Chosen Children of Satan are driven into The Pit and […]
  • Israel the one behind the war in Syria: Mark G ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxt8part8l4 Israel the one behind the war in Syria: Mark Glenn – YouTube.
  • Israel the one behind the war in Syria: Mark G ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxt8part8l4 Israel the one behind the war in Syria: Mark Glenn – YouTube.
  • John Kerry’s “Colin Powell moment” – Wor ...
    By Alex Lantier The speech ten years later by Kerry was no less dishonest, no less cynical. Indeed, by comparison, Powell’s presentation was a masterpiece of detail. Kerry’s entire case against the Syrian regime consisted of a general moral denunciation of chemical weapons. Describing “gut-wrenc ...
  • John Kerry’s “Colin Powell moment” – Wor ...
    By Alex Lantier The speech ten years later by Kerry was no less dishonest, no less cynical. Indeed, by comparison, Powell’s presentation was a masterpiece of detail. Kerry’s entire case against the Syrian regime consisted of a general moral denunciation of chemical weapons. Describing “gut-wrenc ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The first question to ask about our war with S ...
    Summary:  It’s a script. Trumped up crisis, heated rhetoric from US leaders, vague plan, violent actions, long-term regrets. Change the names and our wars sound the same. Here are valuable resources explaining the Syrian situation, and the far more important question about the nature of th ...
  • We interrupt our program for a brief announcem ...
    What is the FM website? It is a more-or-less daily article of 1,000 to 1,500 words (extraordinarily long by internet standards). It is articles examining small facets of our world, pieces of large geopolitical issues on the edge of the known. Where there are more questions than answer, more gues ...
  • Status report on the US economy: where we are ...
    Summary:  After a near-recessionary 4th quarter (and the start of the extraordinary QE3), the US economy slowly accelerated during the first two quarters of 2013. Much depends on that growth continuing. With monetary and fiscal policy already running at full throttle, another slump would force u ...
  • Possible political effects of the pause in glo ...
    Summary: Global warming has paused since roughly 1998 (see links in section 10). Part one looked at climate scientists’ estimates of when the pause in global warming will end, with a range from ending now through ending a decade or so in the future. Today we discuss the political consequen ...
  • One of the most important questions we face: h ...
    Summary:  Today we’ll examine climate scientists forecasts for the duration of the current pause in global warming (spoiler: ending now or a or so from now). The duration of the pause in global warming will make no difference to the long-term history of the planet, and probably little diff ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Why the UN Will Still Be Relevant in Syria Des ...
    The Security Council will almost certainly fail to authorize international intervention in Syria. The USA will almost certainly lead an international coalition in a bombing campaign to punish the Assad regime over last week’s chemical weapon attack. That campaign will be technically illega ...
  • No Empire Strikes Back
    AP Images/British Official Photo A story from the Middle East's past to help understand its present: One evening in Cairo, British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson arrived at the royal palace accompanied by the commander of the British army in Egypt and "stalwart military officers armed to the tee ...
  • Here's a Wild Idea About Syria: Make the Case ...
    Now that I think about it, I kind of see how that could happen. You bomb a country, and the next thing you know you are pulled into a war. Good thing we have experts to help us connect the dots.  (Actually, apart from the Onion-esque headline, the contents of this front-page piece from toda ...
  • Let's Avoid the Fog of War
    As the Obama administration considers military action against Syria as retaliation for its alleged use of chemical weapons, it’s important to consider what such strikes could actually accomplish, and at what cost. As I understand them, the two main arguments for strikes are: 1) Having set a red ...
  • The August IAEA Report on Iran: Key Takeaways
    Official photo of Hassan Rouhani, the 7th President of Iran. Iran is continuing to make slow but steady progress on its nuclear program, according to the August 2013 quarterly report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Tehran continues to install more centrifuges, including its se ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Heroes "Without Rank or Wealth or Title or Fame"
    President Obama's speech at the event marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington will almost certainly be remembered as one of his most important. Presidents only get so many opportunities to speak at events like this one, laden with the trappings of civil religion and what we migh ...
  • Daily Meme: Remembering a Dream, 50 Years Later
    On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people assembled on the National Mall to argue for an end to the economic and racial disparities that have been one of the worst legacies of our country's history. Today, people are assembling once more, not only to remember the people who made that summer ...
  • No Empire Strikes Back
    AP Images/British Official Photo A story from the Middle East's past to help understand its present: One evening in Cairo, British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson arrived at the royal palace accompanied by the commander of the British army in Egypt and "stalwart military officers armed t ...
  • It's Alive!
    Back in what if memory serves was early 2011, I ran into a former Prospect writer and now semi-famous person in the lobby of a building near the Capitol where a bunch of TV stations have studios. We began chatting about the Tea Party, and I suggested that once the Republican presidential primar ...
  • Let's Avoid the Fog of War
    As the Obama administration considers military action against Syria as retaliation for its alleged use of chemical weapons, it’s important to consider what such strikes could actually accomplish, and at what cost. As I understand them, the two main arguments for strikes are: 1) Having set a red ...

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

  • Georgia Police Chief Accepts Award from Extrem ...
    Police Chief Lewis Smith of Uvalda, Ga., accepts “Robert E. Lee Award of Duty” from League of the South President Michael Hill. Flying the Georgia Secession flag and the Southern Nationalist Activism flag, about 50 demonstrators took to the streets of tiny Uvalda, Ga., this past Saturday to prot ...
  • ‘War is On,’ Writes DHS Employee Who Operates ...
    The war is on! The smallhats (white so-called jews) have stepped it up. So begins a defiant screed posted this weekend on the Facebook page of War on the Horizon (WOH), the anti-white, anti-LGBT website operated by Ayo Kimathi, a black Department of Homeland Security employee. Kimathi was put on ...
  • White Supremacists Making Bid to Take Over Nor ...
    Editor’s Update: According to a posting yesterday on the hate site Stormfront, longtime white nationalist April Gaede and her husband Mark Harrington also own property in Leith, N.D. Gaede’s post describes the town as a “Lovely Place!!!” Gaede is perhaps best known for promoting the idea of whit ...
  • Nevada Authorities: Possibly More Involved in ...
    Las Vegas authorities may be looking for additional suspects, likely members of the antigovernment  “sovereign citizens” movement, after the arrest this week of a couple allegedly planning to kidnap, jail, torture and kill police officers. Convicted sex offender David Allen Brutsche, 42, and a w ...
  • Time Guest Columnist Uses Falsehood from Racis ...
    John McWhorter, a professor of linguistics at Columbia University and the author of several well-regarded books, often appears on cable television news shows as the black, clear-eyed centrist on issues of race. But in an essay that appeared on the Time magazine website Thursday about young black ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Joint Statement of Muslim Advocates and CCR in ...
    Today, in response to revelations that the NYPD has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:read more
  • Coalition Sues Environmental Protection Agency ...
    A coalition of community, animal welfare and environmental organizations is filing a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency challenging the Agency’s withdrawal of a proposed rule that would have allowed EPA to collect basic information, like locations and animal ...
  • 20-Year Review Shows 40 Percent of America’s T ...
    Washington DC — The Institute for Policy Studies is releasing today a report and a video reviewing the performance of the CEOs who have ranked among America’s 25 highest-paid CEOs in one or more of the past 20 years. The report’s key finding: Nearly 40 percent of the CEOs on th ...
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect People, Wildlife F ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce Clean Air Act standards limiting dangerous pollution from tiny airborne particles like soot. The legal action was taken in response to the agency&rsquo ...
  • Vermont Yankee Shutdown is ‘Good News,’ Sander ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed Entergy Corp.’s decision to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. “I am delighted that Entergy will shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant which has had so many problems in recent years. There is a strong desire on the part of th ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Manning and Snowden: Necessary Heroes
    John Atcheson Most of the debate around Manning and Snowden focuses on what they did and whether they are heroes, traitors, or something in between. (Image: SJSU) And that’s exactly the way our leaders want it.read more
  • Obama Set for Holy Tomahawk War
    Pepe Escobar The ''responsibility to protect'' (R2P) doctrine invoked to legitimize the 2011 war on Libya has just transmogrified into ''responsibility to attack'' (R2A) Syria. Just because the Obama administ ...
  • The Rev King Didn't Dream of Better People; He ...
    Gary Younge
  • An Attack on Syria Will Only Spread the War an ...
    Seumas Milne A victim of an air strike by regime forces on Aleppo is carried away, on August 26 2013. 'Chemical weapons are far from being the greatest threat to Syria’s people. That is the war itself and the death and destruction that has ...
  • War is Obsolete: Don’t Bomb Syria
    Victor Bremson We are about to bomb Syria and we shouldn't.  It is pretty clear that Syria and the Middle East continue to be a mess. There are lots of conflicting issues in play; religion, oil, geopolitical, militarism, historical ...

Water Privatization

  • Israel benchmark for global desalination, wate ...
    Israel, through its national water authority, is setting a worldwide example for desalination and water reuse technologies, São Paulo state water utility Sabesp (Bovespa: SBSP3,...
  • SMC, K-Water forge Angat JV
    To prepare for the long-delayed closing of the $440.88 million Angat hydropower facility privatization deal, winning bidder Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) has finally inked an agreement with San Miguel Corporation (SMC) last week to firm up their partnership.
  • A choice between fighting for their homes or l ...
    The relocation site for urban poor families living along Road 10, North Harbor is right in the middle of a rice field. The houses are poorly constructed with no electricity, water supply; and there are no livelihood opportunities. By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Benny Azarcon, 63, c ...
  • Doug Vagim to fight Fresno water-rate increase
    Former Fresno County supervisor-turned government watchdog Doug Vagim is fresh off a major role in defeating Measure G, the city of Fresno's proposal to privatize its residential trash pickup.
  • Benton Harbor explores public works privatization
    Benton Harbor officials are considering outsourcing the city's public works services.

Guardian

  • March on Washington: Barack Obama leads 50th a ...
    US president urges crowd to follow Martin Luther King's inspiration to combat racism and act against minority rightsBarack Obama, the first black president of the United States, marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech on Wednesday with a powerful declaration t ...
  • Teenager who gave online advice to victims of ...
    Sinead Taylor, 15, posted video diary about her experience of being attacked for being different but said it was in the pastA 15-year-old schoolgirl who recently posted a video diary giving advice to victims of bullying and speaking of her own experiences of being bullied has been found dead.Sin ...
  • Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to dea ...
    Army psychiatrist could become first US soldier to be executed in more than 50 years for carrying out 2009 attack on Texas baseA military court on Wednesday sentenced Major Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, giving the army psychiatrist a path to the martyrdom he ap ...
  • Professor Steve Field announced as first chief ...
    Role at Care Quality Commission is to inspect and regulate public, private and independent sectors of primary careA former head of the Royal College of GPs has been appointed the first chief inspector of general practice.Professor Steve Field will join the Care Quality Commission (CQC) from NHS ...
  • Police called in over alleged fraud by Serco staff
    Staff working on contract to transport prisoners alleged to have been misleadingly recording prisoners as ready for courtThe justice secretary, Chris Grayling, has called in the City of London police to investigate alleged fraud by Serco staff working on a £285m contract to transport prisoners t ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghan Insurgent Attacks Kill at Least 18
    Insurgent attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 18 people Wednesday, including a U.S. soldier, four police and three civilians who died in an attack on a joint NATO-Afghan military ...
  • Taliban Breach International Base Killing at L ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan ...
  • Seven killed as Afghan Taliban attack NATO base
    At least seven Afghans were killed and 58 got wounded, including children, when Taliban hit a NATO base in Afghanistan's Ghazni province Wednesday, officials said. "The Taliban armed men targeted the compound of NATO-led forces' Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) at 4:15 p.m. in Ghazni city. T ...
  • Afghanistan UN condemns Talibans killing of ci ...
    New York, Aug 28 : The United Nations mission in Afghanistan Tuesday condemned the abduction and killing of six civilians in the western province of ...
  • Afghan interpreter not local enough to secure job
    video An Afghan man who risked his life to help Kiwi troops is being refused work because he's "not local" enough. Raza Khadim spent six years working as an interpreter for the New Zealand Defence Force and New Zealand police in Afghanistan. He moved to New Zealand as part of an ...

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

  • Former White House IP Czar Immediately Jumps S ...
    This was rumored for weeks before the former White House IP czar (technically "Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator") even had announced that she was stepping down from her job, but now it's been confirmed: just weeks after leaving the White House, Victoria Espinel will take over as the ...
  • Manhattan Lasik Threatens Yelp Reviewer For Ca ...
    When will they learn? Yet another company upset by a negative review on Yelp has hired a lawyer to issue a highly questionable legal nastygram threatening a defamation lawsuit if the review wasn't removed. Paul Levy from Public Citizen has the full story of Manhattan Lasik hiring Frederic Abrams ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg Vetoes Veto-Proof Stop And Fri ...
    NY mayor Michael Bloomberg is on his way out, Police Chief Ray Kelly is on the defensive, and stop and frisk is on the ropes, having recently been declared unconstitutional. Kelly and Bloomberg were both very upset by the decision, with Bloomberg himself promising the streets would run red with ...
  • Man Who Raped 14-Year-Old Sentenced To 30 Days ...
    We've seen ridiculous requests and results stemming from the concept of how "mean" the internet is. Recall that Prenda Law wanted all manner of documents sealed because the internet was a cruel, cruel place. To be fair, it isn't like we haven't seen our share of stories about jerks on the web. ...
  • Modest Proposal: Use NSA's Metadata Collection ...
    I've found that I rarely agree with Evgeny Morozov, one of a small group of techno-pessimists who like to blame the world's problems on technology (and, oddly, those who innovate with technology). However, I have to admit that his latest piece on Slate gave me a good laugh. In the tradition of J ...

VacTruth

  • This Pharmaceutical Company Used NSA-Like Tact ...
    Pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline are collecting data posted on popular websites by parents who are concerned about the safety of vaccines.
  • 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.

BroadSnark

  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • U.S. and U.K. under pressure to delay military ...
    The Guardian reports: Britain and the US are under pressure to delay military intervention in Syria after Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, said more time should be allowed for inspections in Damascus. Ban said the inspectors, who are investigating the chemical weapons attack la ...
  • No clear legal basis for an attack on Syria
    The Guardian reports: The United States and its allies are unlikely to build a clear case under international law for a military strike against Syria, and may instead make novel arguments about chemical weapons prohibitions, legal experts have said. Britain is putting forward a resolution to the ...
  • Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani tweets and ret ...
    As UN resumes investigations, President #Rouhani calls on intl community to show #prudence over #Syrian crisis and observe international law — Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) August 28, 2013 #Leader in a meeting with cabinet members now: US #intervention in #Syria or any other country will ...
  • Why Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the U.S. have li ...
    Christopher Dickey writes: With the United States on the verge, once again, of military action in the Middle East, it’s important to look at the Syrian conflict as what it is: the epicenter of a widening regional conflict. The limited U.S. missile strikes expected to punish the regime of Bashar ...
  • Arab League refuses to support military strike ...
    The New York Times reports: The leaders of the Arab world on Tuesday blamed the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people last week, but declined to back a retaliatory military strike, leaving President Obama without the broad regional support he had for his ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Climate Craziness of the Week: Global Warming ...
    Over at Grist, where “burnt out” David Roberts just threw in the towel, the craziness continues with a new alarmist writer: Vanishing ocean smell could also mean fewer clouds By John Upton Next time you’re at the beach take a … Continue reading →
  • When life gives you fracked water, make methan ...
    From the American Chemical Society , an environmentalist’s nightmare. Desalination of drinking water, fracking, and methane hydrates all wrapped up into one positive outcome. Using a form of ‘ice that burns’ to make potable water from oil and gas production … Continue rea ...
  • Clanging of the bells on extreme weather change
    Guest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Our taxpayer funded broadcaster here in Oz, the ABC, has recently aired a scary story in its “science” TV show Catalyst, entitled Climate Extremes. (For the brave, the video and web page plus comments is … Continue reading →
  • The “Hottest” Temperature Game
    Climate Deception: How The “Hottest” Temperature Game Is Played To Offset Prediction Failures Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball  Global temperature is not doing what the “official” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted. Proponents of the claim humans are … Continue reading & ...
  • The WUWT Hot Sheet for Tuesday August 27th, 2013
    Bloomberg news: People Don’t Fear Climate Change Enough   With respect to the science of climate change, many experts regard the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the world’s authoritative institution. A draft summary of its forthcoming report was leaked … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

CFACT

  • As real temperatures subside, the IPCC heats u ...
    peaking at his State of the Union address, President Obama said: “We must do more to combat climate change…It’s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more fr ...
  • Global warming is “cool, man”!
    Much of the kind of idiotic “scientific research” with which the public has been inundated for decades has been the result of the pursuit of funding that involves “professional advancement,” noted [Patrick J.] Michaels, and which is “particularly dependent upon a certain view” — proving that glo ...
  • Who paid for the golden rice eco-attack?
    Activists attacked and destroyed a field of “golden rice” in Pili, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. If Greenpeace and those who follow their lead continue their misanthropic attempts to thwart the scientific development and evaluation of golden rice, they position themselves squarely against t ...
  • EPA: Bungling biofuels buffoonery
    EPA’s primary role is to confirm what was already laid out by statute in terms of annual volumes of biofuels. That so called “renewable fuels schedule” established in 2005 and update in 2007 requires an ever increasing amount of biofuel to be blended into the nation’s fuel supply until the tota ...
  • 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 ...

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • NASA Crashes Helicopter – On Purpose
    NASA, which has been launching objects into space for decades, on Wednesday did things a little differently. It purposely crashed a 45-foot long (14-meter) helicopter fuselage from a height of about 30 feet (9 meters) to learn about safety.     
  • Russia to Make 2 Soyuz Launches From Kourou in ...
    Two launches of Russian Soyuz rockets will be made from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana before the end of the current year and four next year, French Space Agency head Jean-Yves Le Gall told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.     
  • Japan Set for Launch of New Carrier Rocket Epsilon
    Japan is set to launch on Tuesday its new light-class Epsilon carrier rocket with a scientific research satellite, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said.     
  • 3 Senior Managers Fired Over Proton-M Crash
    Three senior managers at Russia’s Khrunichev space company were dismissed over a Proton-M space rocket’s crash last month, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Friday.     
  • 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.     

Natural Health News

  • Why Coke is a Joke—New Ad Campaign Defends Asp ...
    By Dr. Mercola Earlier this year, Coca-Cola Company rolled out an ad campaign encouraging people to unite in the fight against obesity. The irony of the situation was not lost on most people however, and the ads drew fire from consumers, consumer advocates and obesity experts1,2 alike. Afte ...
  • How Sugar Can Become Toxic
    By Dr. Mercola Mice fed a diet containing 25 percent sugar – the equivalent of three cans of soda daily – were twice as likely to die as mice fed a similar diet without sugar. 1 Such was the finding of a new 58-week University of Utah study, which once again highlights the early ...
  • New 3D Mammograms May Triple Your Radiation Ex ...
    By Dr. Mercola Breast cancer has become big business, and routine mammography is one of its primary profit centers. While mammograms are touted as the best way to prevent breast cancer death, studies suggest otherwise. The fact that you are reading this article gives you an enormous advanta ...
  • Will Second Trial End in Jail for Peaceful Farmer?
    By Dr. Mercola State regulatory agencies are increasingly targeting and prosecuting peaceful farmers who provide fresh, healthful food to ready and willing co-op members. Said one buying club member regarding Alvin Schlangen, one of the latest farmers to face charges:1 “It is downrig ...
  • Did You Know that Viruses are Saving Your Life ...
    By Dr. Mercola You’ve lived in an invisible sea of microbes from the moment you were born, breathing them, swallowing them, and harboring them on your skin. More than 90 percent of the DNA in your body is not yours, but actually belongs to these microbes. In order for you to stay h ...

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

  • Non-Syria News: Update on that Philippines-Chi ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve been distracted the last few days by all this Syria stuff (and a nasty case of poison ivy), so I neglected to keep up with the latest on that Philippines-China UNCLOS arbitration now seated at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.  Luckily, Luke ...
  • “I Have a Dream”
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford http://youtu.be/HRIF4_WzU1w Fifty years ago today, on the morning of August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King looked out from his suite at the Willard Hotel as crowds began mulling around the Washington monument. He had stayed up until four in the morning drafting an ...
  • International Law on Twitter (Looking for Foll ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Just a note to highlight OJ’s Twitter feed, which you can find here.  We link to posts on the blog, but there’s added content in the form of pointers to other items that might be of interest to OJ readers. For those of you that haven’t taken up t ...
  • International Law on Twitter (Looking for Foll ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Just a note to highlight OJ’s Twitter feed, which you can find here.  We link to posts on the blog, but there’s added content in the form of pointers to other items that might be of interest to OJ readers. For those of you that haven’t taken up t ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 28, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey On the day we mark 100 years of the Peace Palace in The Hague, the US and its allies are readying for a military intervention in Syria with Australia saying it would back military action, even without a Security Council resolution. Action may come within day ...

Public News Service

  • A "Less Risky" Approach to Retirement Savings?
    A "Less Risky" Approach to Retirement Savings? PHOENIX - Many people aren't saving enough for retirement, and even those who are saw their savings take alarming dips during the recession. Now, a new report calls the traditional IRA and 401(k) plans inefficient and risky - and suggests a differe ...
  • MADD 'Glad' About Crackdown on Drunk Driving
    MADD 'Glad' About Crackdown on Drunk Driving PHOENIX - You might think an organization called "MADD" doesn't have much to be glad about, but more police on the streets through this holiday weekend is certainly one thing that has them pleased. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving national p ...
  • Analysis: Health Insurance Will Be More Afford ...
    Analysis: Health Insurance Will Be More Affordable for Many PHOENIX - With sign-up for coverage under health-care reform just around the corner, a new report finds the marketplaces will make coverage more affordable for many Americans. The analysis was completed by Jon Bailey, the director of ru ...
  • Arizona Among Top Ten States for Vehicle-Cause ...
    Arizona Among Top Ten States for Vehicle-Caused Power Outages PHOENIX – Arizona had 48 major power outages last year, according to the Eaton Corporation, which tracks this information. Most of Arizona's outages were storm-related, but the state also tied for ninth among the states for ve ...
  • Shareholders to Tyson Foods: Outdated Practice ...
    Shareholders to Tyson Foods: Outdated Practices with Pigs Won’t Fly PHOENIX, Ariz. - In a proposal to Tyson Foods, shareholders are asking the company - one of the world's largest meat and poultry producers - to find a little empathy when it comes to the pigs it uses for pork production. T ...

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 ...
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  • 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

  • Best three word antiwar slogan ever, “Kill for ...
    http://youtu.be/JvA1bKLQtbM Watching Tuli Kupferberg in the video cavorting around the streets of NYC in the 1960′s with a gun sadly shows how humorous, rigid, and repressive our country has become. A lighthearted piece of street theatre like that would be greeted now by NYPD with SWAT tea ...
  • And it’s 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for? Sy ...
    Hey, let’s bomb another country because we think they did something heinous, even if we can’t prove it and it could trigger a regional conflict. Even more crucially, let’s have no discernable plan or exit strategy except for needing to blow something up to prove our Exceptional ...
  • Pentagon awards $7 billion solar power project
    This contract, a massive $7 billion deal to supply solar energy “from renewable and alternative energy production facilities that are designed, financed, constructed, operated and maintained by private sector entities,” involves some 22 separate companies. Taking the form of a multip ...
  • Mad rush to war based on flimsy evidence in Syria
    Bombing may commence as early as Thursday. Maybe the US will even release their supposed evidence by then. Assad is a thug. So are many / most of the rebels. Sending guns and money to them seems singularly stupid and short-sighted. There’s a huge difference here between this and previous & ...
  • Breaking: Entergy shutting down Vermont Yankee ...
    The aging Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is way past its recommended lifetime. There have been continuing protests calling for it to be shut. William Boardman has written a series of articles about it here at Polizeros. In a surprise announcement, Entergy says the plant will operate until 4th quar ...

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

  • 50 Years Later – West Defiles Martin Lut ...
    Legendary equality, justice, and peace activist who championed character over the color of one’s skin is compared with warmongering corporate servant Obama … because of the color of his skin. August 28, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) – The differences between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
  • Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in his own words
    Response from many in the west (Oceania) HE’S LYING. We are in the habit of hearing all sides…..   TND Media Context Review / By Eric Dubin / Western nations are laying a media campaign and military logistics for a potential attack against Syria.  As the drumbeat of war sounds, ...
  • SAD: How America Reacted: Miley Cyrus VS Syria
    DISNEY STRIKES AGAIN! THANKS to Ben Swann When the Ben Swann team has conference calls we certainly do not discuss pop culture. However, after watching the Miley Cyrus video pop up in my Facebook news-feed multiple times I said to myself, “What the hell, watch it.” After regaining composure from ...
  • Holder pressed on U.S. drug agency use of hidd ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eight Democratic senators and congressmen have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to answer questions about a Reuters report that the National Security Agency supplies the Drug Enforcement Administration with intelligence information used to make non-terrorism cases ...
  • Navy (US / UK) ready to launch first strike on ...
    Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against his own people.   London Telegraph Royal Navy vessels are being readied to take ...

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

  • Study: Facebook’s market share in mobile ad re ...
    Though Google is still the king of mobile ad revenue, Facebook is gaining influence. A new report by eMarketer shows that Facebook is gaining ground. Projections through 2013 show that Google holds 53.17 percent of the...
  • Mark Zuckerberg to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt ...
    Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage once again at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Sept. 11. Zuckerberg spoke at last year’s Disrupt event about mobile, the company’s initial public offering, and its...
  • 3 end-of-summer Facebook contest app ideas
    Before all your attention drifts to the fall and winter holidays, take advantage of the waning days of summer and offer your fans a chance to win something before the season comes to an end. With...
  • Facebook SPMD Brand Networks partners with Pla ...
    Weather affects the way people shop and dine, which sounds odd until you think about it. The state of the skies often steers us to buy and eat a certain way: Scarves and hot cocoa on...
  • Facebook opens up promotions policy; third-par ...
    Another step in its simplification process, Facebook is making it easier for pages to run promotions or contests, by removing the requirement to go through a third-party app. Facebook page admins can now create a promotion...

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 Dream, Revisited
    What has happened in the years since these powerful words were spoken can be debated forever. Whether the dream lives on, was fulfilled, or turned into a nightmare (as Dr. King often asserted before his assassination) does not diminish the message that resonated with people all over the world.
  • Postcard from the End of America: Trenton
    With its compact layout, Trenton is very walkable, though one must watch out for bullets, knives and cars careening out of control after their drivers had been shot dead. With four more months to go, Trenton has already tied its all-time record of 31 murders for an entire year.
  • What democracy? What rule of law?: Americans O ...
    Against logic, public sentiment and the law, the Obama administration and warmongers in Congress are preparing for yet another great war crime, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
  • Bombing Syria Would Make US Pilots "Al-Qaeda's ...
    While US Secretary of State John Kerry has pointed to "undeniable" evidence of Assad's involvement in the chemical attack in Damascus, and White House spokesman Jay Carney has accused Assad of violating "an international standard," a number of US lawmakers have questioned spoken military strikes ...
  • 50 Years Later, It's Time to Stop Paying Lip S ...
    Fifty years after King gave voice to his dream, America is still plagued with wars, government surveillance, and a military-industrial complex that feeds a national diet of warmongering. And King, once a charismatic leader and voice of authority, has been memorialized in death to such an extent ...

Switchboard

  • EPA Hears Unanimous Message from the People of ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Senior Policy Analyst, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Never have I attended a public hearing where everyone agreed.  But that is exactly what happened yesterday in Dillingham, Alaska where over 200 peop ...
  • Colorado: It's time to put clean air and child ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Last week the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment delayed consideration of important new clean air rules that are essential to rein in dangerous ozone being generated ...
  • Climate Change and the Importance of Dr. King' ...
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, delivering a powerful call for freedom and equality that still resonates de ...
  • Electric Cars Rising in the South
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco With climate changed-fueled wildfires raging in the West, the cost of unabated climate change is becoming increasingly clear. To avoid even worse outcomes, we need to move to clean en ...
  • California Communities Spend Nearly $500M Annu ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco Today, NRDC’s plastic pollution team released a new report showing that California communities are spending nearly half a billion dollars annually in preventing trash from polluting t ...

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

  • Broken Bookselling - Barnes & Noble's CEo Dump ...
    Mitchell Klipper, the CEO of Barnes & Noble's retail group, which includes its bookstores but not its Nook unit, sold about 67% of his shares of the company, according to an SEC filing late Monday. Klipper sold a total of about 400,996 shares for between $13.99 and $14.53 per share ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Combating Concussions
    In the United States there are millions of sports related concussions each year, but many go undiagnosed because for some athletes, the fear of being benched trumps the fear of permanent brain damage, and there is no objective test available to accurately diagnose concussions on the sidelines. R ...
  • Israel on Edge - Gas Mask Supply Limited Due t ...
    Members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, pointed to budget cuts Wednesday as the reason why 40% of the country’s population has been left without access to gas masks, as Israelis scramble to prepare for potential retaliation by Syria if the U.S. moves forward with an expected attack on t ...
  • Cities on Edge - Wanted: A Modern, Global Mayor
    New York’s upcoming mayoral election is a pivotal one, and not just because Mayor Bloomberg is leaving office after 12 intense years. This election also coincides with a remarkable shift in power and leadership in the country as a whole, which is radically altering and elevating the role and r ...
  • Broken Government - Veterans Affairs, Defense ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system between the two departments — leaving veterans’ disability claims to continue piling up in paper ...

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

  • Mr. President: The High Holidays Are About Per ...
    Sometime just before we light the first candles of Rosh Hashanah next Wednesday at sundown, President Obama will send his holiday message to the Jewish community. Giving credit where credit's due, the President’s words are usually pretty appropriate.  He will talk about charity and int ...
  • The History of Union Violence: It's In Their ...
    While exploiting the battle between the governor and public employees in Wisconsin, frequent White House visitor, AFL-CIO Chief Richard Trumpka tried to resuscitate the critically ill labor movement by setting up the entire conservative movement as the “enemy." Trumpka argues that the national ...
  • Why The US Should STAY OUT OF SYRIA!!
    Ever since President al-Assad fired nerve gas at his own people over a week ago the debate has been raging regarding should the US "punish" Assad for attacking his own people with chemical weapons? Some have skipped the question and moved straight to should President Obama get approval ...
  • California Bill Would Allow Non-Doctors To Per ...
    According to Hilary Clinton, it takes a village to raise a child, but if California gets its way almost anyone will be able to kill one. Perhaps not anyone, but a bill that passed the California Senate will allow nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants could perfor ...
  • California Bill Would Allow Non-Doctors To Per ...
    According to Hilary Clinton, it takes a village to raise a child, but if California gets its way almost anyone will be able to kill one. Perhaps not anyone, but a bill that passed the California Senate will allow nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants could perfor ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm owner’s inability to refinance debt ...
    Northeast Wind, the joint venture between First Wind and Emera that now owns five wind farms in Maine, has postponed efforts to refinance $385 million in debt because of unfavorable market conditions. The move, while not highly unusual, has some industry watchers asking whether the market is sou ...
  • Wind turbine north of Hamby catches fire, star ...
    HAMBY, Texas – A wind turbine north of Hamby sparked a small grass fire after going up in flames. Firefighters estimate the grass fire to be six to eight acres. The fire started around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The turbine is on Highway 351 north of town. Firefighters from Hamby, Abilene, and Alb ...
  • UN ruling puts future of wind farms in Britain ...
    Plans for future wind farms in Britain could be in jeopardy after a United Nations legal tribunal ruled that the UK Government acted illegally by denying the public decision-making powers over their approval and the “necessary information” over their benefits or adverse effects. The new ruling, ...
  • Piedmont City Council approves lawsuit against ...
    PIEDMONT – The Piedmont City Council voted Monday night to take legal action against two energy companies trying to build a wind farm near the fast-growing city in Canadian County, the latest development in a fight that has already resulted in the ouster of one elected official. The council also ...
  • Legislative committee to examine wind farm tax ...
    Oregon lawmakers plan to take another look at a series of tax credits issued to an eastern Oregon wind farm. Legislators will hold a hearing to examine the project. The renewable energy tax credit program was already controversial because lawmakers hadn’t expected such an enormous response ...

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

  • Defending the voting rights of black students ...
    Image Caption:  Voter suppression efforts have targeted students at historically black colleges in Texas and North Carolina. With events underway to commemorate a historic march for voting rights, legal battles are unfolding i ...
  • Old-fashioned American hypocrisy: The NAACP pa ...
    Image Caption:  You've got to give Walmart credit for its audacity. The NAACP partners with Nissan, which is fighting union organizing efforts at plants in Mississippi and Tennessee? What would Martin Luther King Jr. and ...
  • The growing fight against voting restrictions ...
    Image Caption:  Texas' voter ID law is facing a challenge from the U.S. Justice Department. (Photo by Brentin Mock.) North Carolina has been grabbing national headlines for its efforts to restrict access to the franchise, ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the NC GOP's attack on s ...
    Image Caption:  North Carolina Republicans are taking steps to make it more difficult for college students to vote and run for office -- but students are not taking the attacks on their rights sitting down. (Photo by Sue Sturgis.) ...
  • Claiming and teaching the 1963 March on Washington
    Image Caption:  Too often forgotten in remembrances of the 1963 March on Washington was that it sought not only civil rights for African Americans but also jobs. As the 50th anniversary of the historic march nears, there are a ...

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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • The difference between Obama going to war with ...
    is that Bush had more respect for the UN, and more respect for Congress, getting from both something which could at least be called approval. Obama isn’t even bothering. The similarity is that both wars appear to be based on lies: Iraq had no WMD (and was not involved in 9/11), and it is h ...
  • The Real Reason the US and UK will attack Syria
    is not because Syria used chemical weapons, since the UK says that even if the UN team does not find evidence the Syrian government used chemical weapons they may attack anyway. There is no reason why the Syrian government would use chemical weapons in any case, they have nothing to gain and eve ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Chinese boy has eyes gouged out in attack, tho ...
    ABC – A six-year-old boy in China has reportedly had his eyes gouged out, blinding him for life, in a gruesome attack that may have been carried out by a ruthless organ trafficker. Local media reports family members found the boy covered in blood some three to four hours after he went miss ...
  • US Treasury to reach debt ceiling in mid-October
    BBC – The US government will reach its debt limit by mid-October unless Congress acts quickly, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has warned.  The debt ceiling was last raised in January. The government can no longer borrow if it is reached.  Mr Lew said that in such a case it will be unable to m ...
  • Australia – Greens call for online priva ...
    Guardian – The Greens have called for a major overhaul of laws governing the private information the government is allowed to collect and share with other countries in the wake of the Edward Snowden case. It is expected to be the only online privacy policy of the 2013 election campaign. Th ...
  • Facebook says it received 546 data requests fr ...
    ABC – Facebook has revealed it received 546 requests from Australian authorities for information about its users in the first six months of this year. In a statement, the company’s general counsel Colin Stretch said the data requests related to 601 Facebook users. The statement says ...
  • Saudi Arabia makes domestic abuse a crime
    NDTV – In a landmark move, Saudi Arabia has passed a law that makes committing domestic abuse a crime. The Saudi cabinet on Monday passed the law, which also provides for treatment and shelter to victims of domestic crime, the Arab News reported on Tuesday. Earlier, police treated violence ...

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

  • US Military Jury Sentences Fort Hood Shooter t ...
    A U.S. military jury has sentenced an Army psychiatrist to death for intentionally killing 13 fellow soldiers in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. The jury of 13 officers deliberated a short time Wednesday before handing Major Nidal Hasan, an American-born Muslim, the death sentence ...
  • Fort Hood killer Hasan sentenced to death
    Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has been sentenced to death for the killing of 13 people in 2009 at a Texas military base. The jury took just over two hours on Wednesday to decide on the former army psychiatrist’s fate. Prosecutors had called for the death penalty in their closing arguments, argui ...
  • US stocks up overnight
    The US stock market edged higher overnight despite continued focus from investors on the likelihood of a US-led attack on Syria. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 68 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14,844 in early afternoon trading. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained nine points, or 0.5 perce ...
  • NE floods affect Sino-Russia border trade
    HARBIN, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The recent floods and rainstorms in China's northeast regions have hit trade with Russia. The floods, which have so far claimed 85 lives and left 105 missing, are the worst floods to hit the region in more than a decade, and have prompted the closure of six river port ...
  • Does Racism Function at Levels of Economic Dis ...
    Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Trayvon Martin could not have been Barack Obama thirty-five years ago, especially since he wasn't born into a highly educated and privileged family with parents attending elite universities. And unlike President Obama, neither did he live in both bl ...

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

  • As Rim Fire Continues to Rage, Calls to 'Conne ...
    Photo: USFS-Mike McMillanThe historic Rim Fire continues to blaze in California for a 12th day on Wednesday, threatening San Francisco's drinking water, triggering emergency a read more
  • Calls for Dignity Grow as Low-Wage Workers Gea ...
    New York City fast-food workers on strike July 2013 (Flickr Creative Commons/mtume_soul)Fast-food and retail workers across the U.S. are gearing up for a one-day nationwide strike Thursday expected to be even bigger than the last, as the tide of people demanding an end to poverty wages continues ...
  • In Syria, Obama's Calculations Reveal Stupidit ...
    Does the planned US/NATO attack on Syria serve a larger strategic goal than simply "saving political face"? Perhaps not, but that doesn't make it any less stupid, illegal, immoral, or repugnant. (AFP Photo/Chad R. Erdmann)With the U.S. ...
  • Teacher Uprisings in Mexico a Lesson in Defend ...
    (Photo: Reuters)Thousands of striking public school teachers in Mexico have shut down Congress, blocked traffic and paralyzed the heart of Mexico City to protest a draconian "education reform" package aimed at curtailing union power and privatizing Mexico's already ravaged public e ...
  • US Strikes on Syria Loom Large
    Despite still having no concrete evidence the Bashar al-Assad regime used chemical weapons and no clearly defined goals, the US appears on the cusp of striking Syria within days, if not hours. Analysts are predicting a two-day strike that could begin as early as Thursday, and Defense Secretary C ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Saving Philadelphia Schools Through Tax Reform
    Adopting a Land Value Tax Like Pittsburgh I have been extremely impressed to see Philadelphia’s students, teachers, parents and churches organizing at the grassroots level. Their demand? That Republican governor Tom Corbett restore $629 million he cut from the school district budget (to ...
  • A Roadmap to Redesigning Civilization
    This is my second post about the origins of the Agricultural Revolution. As you can see, Hemenway has a somewhat different take on it than Ronald White. He also weighs in on the all-important question of whether organic agriculture can produce sufficient food to feed a global population o ...
  • Collapse: Revisiting the Adam and Eve Myth
      A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright (2004 Caroll and Graf) Book Review The theme of A Short History of Progress is social collapse. In it, Canadian historical archeologist Ronald Wright summarizes humankind’s biological and cultural evolution, as well as tracing the ...
  • Still Poisoning Ourselves Daily
    In May 2013, Britain’s the British Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) recommended that pregnant and nursing women MINIMIZE OR ELIMINATE  their use of canned and plastic wrapped food and commercial household and beauty products. Thus in addition to avoiding ...
  • The Pain of Lost Innocence
      The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna (Grove Press 2002) Book Review The overarching theme of journalist Aminatta Forna’s memoir Devil that Danced on the Water is that of innocence lost – specifically discovering a society you believed ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Ocean Acidification May Amplify Global Warming ...
    Ocean acidification may speed up total warming this century as much as 0.9°F, a new study finds. This amplifying feedback is not to be found in the IPCC climate report — one more reason it provides an instantly out of date lowball estimate of future warming.
  • How Anti-Fracking Activists Deny Science: Well ...
    The activist talking point on well casing failures is not based on science or hard data. It is purely a manufactured story line; a series of misleading or outright false claims designed to instill doubt in the public’s mind about the safety of shale development.
  • Solar Panels (and Energy Efficiency) at the Wh ...
    The Washington Post recently reported that solar panels are being installed on the White House roof. Or, more accurately, re-installed. Jimmy Carter installed a solar thermal system on this roof back in 1979. This was quickly removed by the next tenant, Ronald Reagan.
  • Lessons From the Beginning of the End of Ameri ...
    Looking at some lessons from the coal industry's failures in the U.S. market. An industry that dominated a large portion of the energy landscape is now struggling to slow an inevitable decline. What caused this and, importantly, what can others learn from the coal industry's decline.
  • On Energy Subsidies and Externalities
    Energy subsidization is an area of intense debate simply because it artificially promotes some technologies over others. This article will discuss two kinds of energy subsidies: direct (government support) and indirect (neglected external costs).

Rodale News

  • 5 Shocking Chemical Industry Secrets
    A few years ago, filmmaker Ed Brown brought a glass of ice water to his lips and for the first time in his life, took a moment to think about what else might be in that glass. "It tasted like it was straight out of a swimming pool. I thought, 'Does this even smell right?'" Then, when his wife e ...
  • Why Everyone with Kids Should Care about Envir ...
    This post originally appeared on Healthy Child Healthy World, a nonprofit devoted to improving children's environmental health. In honor of the publication of her new book, The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, we asked author Kate Davies to answer the following questions fro ...
  • Are You a High-Functioning Addict?
    by Harry Haroutunian, MD, physician director of professional and residential programs at the Betty Ford Center and author of the new book Being Sober Dave, an esteemed surgeon on the East Coast, self-prescribed some opioids to relieve his shoulder pain. The pills helped the discomfort, and they ...
  • Why Supplements Are Bad for Your Brain
    Multivitamins are supposed to do a body good. In one little capsule, they contain every nutrient your body needs to function—a "complete" pill you need to take just "Once a Day"! But that old adage "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" holds particula ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • From Eyeglass Frames To Earthquake-Resistant B ...
    What's the Latest Development? Civil engineer M. Saiid Saiidi and his team at the University of Nevada-Reno have created a composite material that they claim can make bridges stronger and more durable than traditional steel and concrete. The main ingredient is nickel titanium, which is u ...
  • Literally the Worst Definition of a Word Ever
    Ours is a cultural and linguistic moment obsessed with irony. For just that reason, people need to stop using the word 'literally' to mean 'figuratively'. I am not the first to say this. Yet the point failed to sink in. Worse, prompted by the addition of the non-literal sense of 'literal ...
  • The Big Surprise in Obama’s Speech on the Anni ...
    President Obama gave a stirring speech today in Washington, D.C. He reflected on those who marched 50 years ago today. He praised the “brilliance” of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. He highlighted today’s heroes who are keeping King’s “flame” alive. He called attention to the persistent ...
  • Two Ways Neuroscience Will Impact the Law
    When it comes to neuroscience and the law, there are two main topics of interest.  One of them is the topic of free will.  And that is the question, if somebody, say with a brain tumor in the frontal lobe that we know is associated with areas involving judgment, is that person as responsible for ...
  • Can You Get Beyond What Anyone Else Has Done?
    There’s some really good advice that I’ve never followed.  And that good advice is to focus on something that you’re really good at, better than everybody else at, and really put lots of focus on it because the world tends to reward specialists.  The world tends not to reward as much people who ...

Groklaw

  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...
  • The NSA Reveals That It Does 20 Million Databa ...
    As we noted earlier today, the NSA's two key "defenses" of the thousands of abuses and violations of the law that recently came out thanks to a leaked document are that there wasn't "intent" to abuse the system (we had no idea that made illegal things legal...) and, second, that it was such a sm ...
  • FRAND licensing, chip suppliers, and interplay ...
    As to what is addressed in Motorola's letter, there are three particular issues: (1) the applicability of patent exhaustion; (2) the ability of Motorola to require a "defensive suspension" clause in a license with Marvell; and (3) Microsoft's standing to allege a RAND breach based on Motorola's ...
  • David Miranda detention: a betrayal of trust a ...
    The detention of Mr Miranda subverts the benefit of the doubt that liberal democracies ask for when they arm themselves against terrorism. States pass anti-terror laws that grant exceptional powers on the strict understanding that terror poses exceptional threats and that such powers will be use ...
  • U.K. government thought destroying Guardian ha ...
    In a remarkable post, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger describes how the British government raided the Guardian's offices in order to destroy hard drives containing information provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The British government had been pressuring the Guardian to return or destroy the ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
    Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...
  • Earth calling Cassini
    People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images. ...
  • Sciencebase FeedMyReads Q&A #DBQuestions
    The excellent author-reader twitter community hosted by FeedMyReads (aka Fraser Stoopman), put out a call for questions from twitter users for me, sciencebase, this week. Fraser has been sharing my answers to the intriguing and amusing questions in a spate of tweets, but I thought I’d post ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • State-dependent Climate Sensitivity in Past Wa ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (August 27, 2013 v110 n35 p14162-14167; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1303365110 ) / by  Rodrigo Caballeroa and Matthew Huber http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.short Projections of future climate depend critically on refined estimates of climate sensiti ...
  • Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; ...
    US Fish and Wildlife Service | US NOAA (50 CFR Part 424) http://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/20130820%20424_19_final%20e-version%20to%20OFR.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd]  The Interior Department late last week finalized a rule to determine how and when it ...
  • Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Asses ...
    National Renewable Technology Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/2283.html [From Press Release]  A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive ...
  • Green Sports Resource Directory
    US EPA http://www2.epa.gov/green-sports [Press Release] The U. S. Environmental Protection agency (EPA) is unveiling a new online Green Sports Resource Directory that can help teams, venues, and leagues save money and reduce carbon pollution through increased energy efficiency, a key part of Pre ...
  • Health Issues and Concerns Related to Unconven ...
    SWPA Environmental Health Project http://www.environmentalhealthproject.org/ The National Research Council recently convened experts, including EHP’s toxicologist David Brown, to examine the Public Health Risks of Shale Gas Development.  Here is the Agenda and accompanying Power Points and the v ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Walking the Walk
    Event aims to heal land and bolster spirits FORT MCMURRAY, AB—In the heart of Canada’s oil country, the booming town of Fort M ...
  • Vikki Law on Transformative Justice
    Pursuits for justice without the cops or the courts With annual events taking place such as Prisoner Justice Day on August 10th, and Prisoner Justice Week in Montreal it is clear that people want tangible alternatives to prisons, legal syst ...
  • A human peace symbol for disarmament and the ...
    Halifax says goodbye to long-time peace activist Tamara Lorincz A bleary-eyed Tamara Lorincz w ...
  • A human peace symbol for disarmament and the ...
    Halifax says goodbye to long-time peace activist Tamara Lorincz A bleary-eyed Tamara Lorincz w ...
  • Thinking caps on: We're looking for news pitch ...
    Deadline is Sept. 1 at midnight Fall back? Never. We're only moving forward. From transgender legal documentation in Quebec, to fighting for the preservation of Indigenous land in Saskatchewan, to bee-killing pesticides country-wide: Ou ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Are Charter Schools Successful Because They Ma ...
    Motoko Rich writes in the New York Times that charter school teachers tend to turn over pretty quickly. The average charter teacher has only a few years of experience, compared to 14 in traditional public schools. However, even though everyone agrees that teachers with five-plus years of exper ...
  • Nearly 100 Representatives Now Asking Obama to ...
    Rep. Scott Rigell (R–Virginia) reports that as of a few minutes ago his letter urging President Obama to consult Congress before launching an attack on Syria is "Inching...toward...100... 81 Republicans and 16 Democrats have signed on to our letter so far..." That's good. But I sure wish ...
  • Which Economic Models Are Más Macho?
    A few days ago Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain wrote an op-ed titled "What Is Economics Good For?" In a nutshell, their answer was "not much." Paul Krugman begs to disagree: Rosenberg and Curtain completely misunderstand what’s been going on at the Fed. They also misunderstand the ...
  • How a Giant Arrow Gets You to Eat More Fruits ...
    From the things-I-did-not-know file: “In retail, the customer tends to go to the right,” said Tim Taylor, the produce director for Lowe’s, Pay and Save, a regional grocery chain that let the scientists in to experiment with their arrows and mirrors. “But I watched ...
  • Fidel Castro Says Edward Snowden is a Hero
    Some people like to gossip about Miley Cyrus. I prefer gossip about Fidel Castro. Today he responds to the suggestion that Cuba caved in to pressure from the U.S. and told Russia that it would refuse to let an Aeroflot flight land in Havana if Edward Snowden were onboard: "It is obvious ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • In pictures: Tribal festivals showcase human d ...
    Brazil's Enawene Nawe gather outside haiti, the house of sacred flutes, to celebrate their four-month long Yãkwa fishing ritual. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs thousands of revelers bask in the sun at Nevada’s Burning Man festival, and London’s streets recover from thousands more dan ...
  • Fire devastates roadside camp where Brazilian ...
    A fire has devastated the Guarani's roadside camp in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. © Spensy Pimentel/SurvivalA fire has raged through a Guarani roadside camp, forcing the Indians to flee as their shelters were razed to the ground, their food supplies destroyed and their possess ...
  • Uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe filmed in close ...
    The photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera© D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.orgUncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians have been sighted on riverbanks in Peru’s remote south-east Amazon on three consecutive occasions. The encounters were filmed by a member of the lo ...
  • Venezuelan indigenous organizations express ‘d ...
    Yanomami Indians hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives killed in the Haximu massacre© C Zacquini/ SurvivalThe Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of Amazonas State (COIAM) in Venezuela, and the Venezuelan Yanomami organization Horonami have released a declaration marking the 20t ...
  • Ecuador scraps plan to save uncontacted tribes ...
    Ecuador's Waorani Indians are related to the uncontacted Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes. All are under great threat from oil exploration in the Yasuni Park. © John Wright/SurvivalEcuador’s President Rafael Correa has scrapped plans to protect the Yasuni National Park, home to two uncontacted ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Pakistan: Mass mortality of fish at Karachi Port
    from sott.com: Another case of fish mortality, mainly consisting of grey mullets surfaced within Karachi Port extending between Bab Island and Chinna Creek. This is the second such case in the month of August 2013, in which a huge quantity fish have died. This mortality was attribute ...
  • How Gardening Will Phase Out The Welfare State
    from realfarmacy.com: A recent study was conducted, state by state, of the monetary value of welfare benefits for a mother with two children. They found that in New York benefits would be around $38,000, the seventh highest in the nation. The study explains the comparison of suc ...
  • Government’s War Against the Citizens: Farmers ...
    Farmers in America are increasingly being subject to fines or even prison sentences for selling food directly to customers. from Intellihub.com: The US government is now acting as if The Constitution never existed, as they kill with impunity, arrest peaceful farmers, and ensure their d ...
  • Researchers create kit to diagnose new strains ...
    from japantimes.com: A team of researchers at an Osaka University institute said Tuesday they have developed a kit that can diagnose infection with new strains of flu in about 5 minutes through the identification of genes and proteins in the virus. Although the university’s Institut ...
  • 5 #GMO Myths Busted
    from The Corbett Report: Every year, a greater and greater percentage of our food supply sources back to genetically modified ingredients. Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and the other biotech giants have made GMOs into a multi-billion dollar industry and unsurprisingly have launched one of t ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

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