Wednesday, August 28, 2013

28 August - RSS SnapShot! II

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Viber for Linux is here, a really good Skype A ...
    WhatsApp and Viber are two of the finest and incredibly popular apps out there for Android. WhatsApp is my preferred way of keeping in touch with friends and family. Viber is not so far behind either. Since video and voice call features are also available in Viber, it's a more complete package ...
  • Download Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Wallpapers
    It seems like the whole XMir controversy hasn't affected the continued development of Ubuntu 13.10 after all, not even a little bit. The next Ubuntu 13.10, codenamed "Saucy Salamander", is steaming ahead and is supposed to arrive on date without any delay. Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest ne ...
  • First Ubuntu Phone to Arrive in Early 2014: Ca ...
    Canonical's Ubuntu Edge campaign missed its crowd-sourcing goal by a wide margin. Though 12.8 million USD is still a lot, and is by far the highest ever raised via crowd-sourcing, the intended 32 million goal was still a good 19 million away at the end of 30 days campaign. But I don't consider ...
  • Sony's upcoming Play Station 4 (PS4) is said t ...
    Seems like a vast majority of operating systems out there is running some form of popular open source software underneath with the obvious exception of Windows. Android is pure Linux, and so is Ubuntu, Fedora, Tizen (formerly MeeGO), Firefox OS and the likes. Mac OS is built on Darwin (which s ...
  • Latest KDE SC 4.11 Released Marking the End of ...
    KDE 4.11 was released few days back. And this latest KDE release has many important characteristics. First off, KDE 4.11 marks the end of Plasma Workspaces 1, part of the KDE SC 4 feature series. Focus of feature development will shift to Plasma Workspaces 2 now, performance improvem ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • WWF’s Farmed Salmon Certification Initiative: ...
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new campaign relating to salmon aquaculture—but if the organization is partnering with corporations, how successful will it really be? WWF’s partnerships with various corporations to foster sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices are part of ...
  • Response to Donald Kennedy on Antibiotics in F ...
    For decades, scientists and advocates have called for mandatory restrictions. While other countries have heeded these calls, the FDA has focused on voluntary reform.
  • Food Systems and Patient Care: Notes from a Di ...
    My time with CLF this week allowed me to interact directly with community members as they participated in various aspects of Baltimore City’s food system.
  • CLF Week in Links: Atrazine, Hayes, Deformed F ...
    Big Pharma’s influence on research is especially disturbing as the weakening economy puts further pressure on public entities to seek private funding, through association with companies like Novartis, compromising independence and scientific integrity.
  • We Bought the Farm
    How are young, new farmers supposed to be able to do this?

k2p blog

  • Mathematical turbulence at Ege University, Turkey
    The Mathematics Department at Ege University in Turkey has been having a torrid time. Papers have been retracted and their most prolific Professor, Ahmet Yildirim, has had his PhD revoked.It would seem that Ege University is carrying out some house cleaning but neither the University nor the Int ...
  • Global warming hiatus confirmed – now th ...
    Nature - "Despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual-mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty-first century, challenging the prevailing view that anthropogenic forcing causes climate warming"
  • No cheating!
    Anti-cheating hats designed by the students at Kasetsart University, Bangkok have now been discontinued.
  • Déjà vu! For Iraq read Syria
    For Iraq read Syria. For Bush, Blair, Chirac and Howard read Obama, Cameron, Hollande and Rudd. Even though each of the current four is from the opposing party to that of his predecessor. For WMD read "chemical or nerve gas". Statements by the politicians are absolutely certain" that Assad was r ...
  • Imagined action from one brain converted to ac ...
    “It was both exciting and eerie to watch an imagined action from my brain get translated into actual action by another brain, This was basically a one-way flow of information from my brain to his. The next step is having a more equitable two-way conversation directly between the two brains.”

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • FBI Pilots Solicited Prostitutes, Misused Agen ...
    FireDogLake: FBI Whistleblower Was Allegedly Terminated for Reporting Fraud & Sexual Misconduct Involving Prostitutes Former FBI special agent and GAP client Lt.Col. John Parkinson will bring his whistleblower retaliation claims before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MPSB) this week. Pa ...
  • NSA Workers Spy on Love Interests: Daily Whist ...
    Wall Street Journal: NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests Over the weekend, news emerged that there have been several instances of NSA officers who have wrongly used surveillance programs for personal matters, namely to spy on love interests or former partners. While the article makes clear the ...
  • NSA Bugged UN HQ; Guardian & NYT Collaborate: ...
    Reuters: US Spy Agency Bugged UN Headquarters – Germany’s Spiegel According to a report from Der Spiegel relying on documents from NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA has bugged the UN headquarters in New York. Specifically, the report cited that the European Union and the I ...
  • UK Government Leaking Documents?: Daily Whistl ...
    Guardian: Snowden – UK Government Now Leaking Documents About Itself Overnight, the UK Independent published a story which purportedly details how British intelligence has a secret, Middle-East based “Internet-monitoring station” to collect a slew of digital data for itself and the NSA. The UK ...
  • Reactions to Manning; 'Sensitive Jobs' Ruling ...
    The Guardian: Bradley Manning Given 35-year Prison Term for Passing Files to WikiLeaks Yesterday, a long-awaited sentencing came down for US Army whistleblower Bradley Manning. The former private was handed 35 years in prison as a result of the 20 counts under which he had been found guilty. ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Richard Tol: half Cook’s data still hidd ...
    Richard Tol has been relentlessly polite in pursuing the data through email after email to John Cook, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Professor Max Lu and Professor Daniel Kammen, the journal editor. Tol simply wants the data so he can replicate and check John Cook’s results. Cook et al 2013 ...
  • Clive Hamilton preaches to the believers: tell ...
    The ABC keeps giving us more reasons to say “Privatize the national broadcaster”. Such is the quality of the insights on offer. Clive Hamilton, ethics professor and former Greens candidate, uses most of the alarmist toolbox on the ABC Drum --the name-calling, hypocrisy, and argumentu ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    Two weeks to go… Rating: 7.5/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 7.5/10 (2 votes cast)
  • Are forest fires evil polluters?
    Note the mass emissions in the Amazon and Africa in Sept 2007 The Carbon tracker shows the major CO2 polluters as they splurt out CO2. See the massive plumes of CO2 around the planet. Look at China… watch clusters of coal fired power stations bursting into life only to shut down a month la ...
  • Consensus Police: 101 “motivated” ...
    Skeptics are often accused of being ideologically motivated to find reasons to “deny” the threat posed by man-made Global Disruptification (or whatever it is now called). Which begs the question of what ideology motivated Jo-the-former-Green, along with all the other former believers ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Google Glass: Surgery Tool Of The Future?
    A surgeon transmitted the first Google Glass video of a live surgery to colleagues and med students across town. We've been waiting for a while to figure out what practical uses will come out of Google Glass, besides, of course, making dudes look silly. And aha! A surgeon at The Ohio State Uni ...
  • Researchers Expose Troubling Bias In Forensic ...
    Court psychologists interpret evidence differently depending on who they think hired them. Does your mental health depend on who's paying your psychologist? Clearly not, but a new study has found that psychologists looking at the same evidence will interpret it differently, depending on whom th ...
  • Clues To The Sun's Future In Ancient 'Solar Twin'
    Been there, done that: The chemically similar star is almost 4 billion years older than the Earth's sun Sometimes it's kind of fun to look at a friend's older relatives, to guess how he'll age. In a new study, astronomers have done something like that by examining an 8.2 billion-year-old star f ...
  • Anxious People Prefer More Personal Space
    Because they perceive threats as closer, according to a new study. How close can something get to your face before you blink? That's basically the method scientists use to determine "defensive peripersonal space," the safety bubble of personal space around the body. When something potentially ...
  • Trapped In A Bear Trap And Shot In The Body: T ...
    A wolf--maybe--has bitten a teenaged camper in Minnesota, in what could be the first wolf attack ever recorded in the lower 48 states. This week, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that "a canine believed to be a wolf" attacked a 16-year-old boy on a camping trip in ...

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 ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • United States' UN Hatred vs Seafarers' Rights
    The [UN] Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference - John Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN 2005-2006 How much has US thinking changed about prospects for international cooperation, multilateralism and all that good stuff about b ...
  • LDC Currency Free-Fall: Party Like It's 1997?
    I was dreaming when I wrote this; forgive me if it goes astray. But when I woke up this morning and watched the Bloomberg channel, I could have sworn it was judgment day. Having lived through the 1997 Asian financial crisis while working as a banker (of all things), I have a heightened sensitivi ...
  • U R in Trouble: Brazilian Forex Intervention
     Here's another victim of the so-called "taper" of Federal Reserve purchases of US Treasuries worth $85 billion a month or so. To make a long story short, rising interest rates Stateside in expectation of less American bond market intervention from the Fed are causing those who've invested ...
  • Obstacles to the Global Mobile Banking Era
    In many parts of the developing world, mobile banking or "m-banking" has largely supplanted conventional banking as the primary interface of customers with the financial system. For starters, many of the poor cannot meet minimums to open bank accounts. And, even if they did, bank branches are of ...
  • Screw Panama; Chinese & $40B 'Nicaragua Canal'
    It's been a long time since we've had a video feature, but now is as good a time as any. Recently, a young Chinese telecoms magnate came to an arrangement with the (rather impoverished) Nicaraguan government to develop a Panama Canal alternative slicing through that Central American republic: ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Will War With Syria Cause The Price Of Oil To ...
    Are you ready to pay four, five or possibly even six dollars for a gallon of gasoline?  War has consequences, and a conflict with Syria has the potential to escalate wildly out of control very rapidly.  The Obama administration is pledging that the upcoming attack on Syria will be "brief and lim ...
  • 22 Reasons Why Starting World War 3 In The Mid ...
    While most of the country is obsessing over Miley Cyrus, the Obama administration is preparing a military attack against Syria which has the potential of starting World War 3.  In fact, it is being reported that cruise missile strikes could begin "as early as Thursday".  The Obama administration ...
  • It Is Illegal To Feed The Homeless In Cities A ...
    What would you do if a police officer threatened to arrest you for trying to share a sandwich with a desperately hungry homeless woman that really needed it?  Such a notion sounds absolutely bizarre, but this is actually happening in major cities all over the United States.  More than 50 large U ...
  • 15 Signs That Obama Has Already Made The Decis ...
    The Obama administration seems absolutely determined to help radical Islamic jihadists that have beheaded Christians, that have massacred entire Christian villages, and that have pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda topple the Assad regime and take over Syria.  Yes, the Assad regime is horrible, but if t ...
  • They Actually Expect Us To Have Faith In These ...
    What in the world is happening to our financial markets?  Trading on the Nasdaq was halted on Thursday for more than 3 hours, and the only formal explanation that we got was that it was a "technical issue".  On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs made thousands of "erroneous trades" that are now being cancel ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-08-22 Manning site launches: Pardon.Bradl ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE David Coombs, chief attorney for WikiLeaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning, announced at a press conference near Ft. Meade, MD, today that he is formally applying for a Presidential Pardon for Bradley Manning. Coombs is seeking Manning's immediate release, or at the v ...
  • 2013-08-22 Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 yea ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WikiLeaks whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today, an outrage that flies in the face of America's essential ideals of accountability in government, and which seeks to instill a chilling effect on those who'd dare to expose the United S ...
  • 2013-08-31 Manning: 35 years
    Ft Meade: Colonel Denise Lind sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 years prison. read more
  • 2013-08-21 Manning lawyer to address sentence
    What: David Coombs to give statement and take questions When: 3 hours after court closes following sentencing tomorrow, approximately 1:30 PM Where: The Hotel at Arundel Preserve, 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd, Hanover, MD 21076 Notes: Free parking in the hotel's parking structure, 2nd Floor Confer ...
  • 2013-08-17 Sam Adams statement on award to Snowden
    The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence gave the 2013 award for 'truth telling' to Edward Snowden. Following is their official statement. read more

U N News

  • UN envoy tells Security Council overdue polls ...
    The ongoing electoral stalemate in Haiti, already linked to socio-economic grievances, could undermine the political and security situations, the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country said in her first briefing to the Security Council.
  • UN climate change body partners with Latin Ame ...
    The United Nations climate change secretariat has signed an agreement with the Latin American Development Bank to increase participation in clean development projects in the region, it was today announced.
  • UN independent expert calls on US to ban prolo ...
    As nearly 200 inmates in California detention centres approach their fifth consecutive week on hunger strike against cruel, inhuman and degrading prison conditions, a United Nations right expert today urged the Government of the United States to abolish the use of prolonged or indefinite solitar ...
  • School meal programmes benefit children, suppo ...
    School feeding programmes in Latin America are having a positive impact on children's well-being and are fostering local development when food is sourced from family fa
  • On International Day, UNESCO urges greater eff ...
    Marking the anniversary of the first successful slave uprising in the Western hemisphere, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today that telling the story of the slave trade was a crucial way to pay tribute to the freedom fighters and &# ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Buff ...
    Never seen a redder sunrise Never seen a sunset so black Men with guns along the railroad See them coming down the track They killed the Bison by the millions They left them rottin’ on the ground The cries of death and destruction Can’t you hear that awful sound The Buffalo are gone The Buffalo ...
  • TrekWest Blog 39: Crafting a Wild Mosaic in th ...
    Posted: 21 Aug 2013 08:50 AM PDT Side trip to northern New Mexico, late June “It’s a sad irony, but one we need to acknowledge for the birds, that we have so upset Western hydrology that some of the only remaining riparian and wetland habitats for native species are artificial, like marshes behi ...
  • American Bird Conservancy Job Notice – Interna ...
    American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to develop and direct bird conservation programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.  This International Conservation Program Office will focus his/her work on one or more of th ...
  • The Spine of the Continent – The Race to Save ...
    Please see the upcoming dates for slide presentations and talks by Mary Ellen Hannibal. Her book, The Spine of the Continent, has just been released in paperback with a new subtitle:  The Race to Save America’s Last, Best Wilderness .                 Augus ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Oh, Give ...
    ©2013 by Dave Foreman The United States has been the world’s leader in the on-the-ground designation of protected areas—National Parks, Wilderness Areas, Wildlife Refuges, Wild & Scenic Rivers, National Monuments, National Forests, and other kinds and degrees of wild havens.  The key reason ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Mass Military Movement in New Orleans
    What do ‘the powers that be’ know that the rest of America DOESN’T know? They’re obviously preparing for something huge... ~ Video read more
  • A Google Search Reveals 4,000 White UN Vans Pa ...
    There are 4,000 white vans sitting on an airport runway in Florida. They can be viewed right now with Google maps. ~ Photos read more
  • Martial Law Vehicles Hidden In Kentucky?
    Can anyone from the military identify what type of vehicles these are that have been moved into the former Blue Grass Military Facility Near Lexington Kentucky? According to this YouTuber the vehicles were being moved there in early 2011. There appears to be over 1000 vehicles in all, grouped ...
  • Is This Document The UN 'Smoking Gun'?... The ...
    As the below document reveals, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) has convened a Disarmament Commission - tasked with solving the dilemma standing in the way of the global implementation of Agenda 21- namely the estimated 500 million weapons currently in the hands of A ...
  • 91% of Americans Adamantly Oppose War With Syria!
    Rogue government moves toward war despite American’s opposition. What better way to lift the veil of distraction from the government’s recently exposed domestic spy program than a brand new war? ~ Julie Wilson read more

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Students get new champion abroad
    Vibeke Munthe-Kaas took over this month as boss at the Association for Norwegian Students Abroad (ANSA). As the students’ top lobbyist, two of her top priorities are to secure first-year funding for  Norwegian students in the US, and to change current regulations to secure authorization fo ...
  • Legal, academic ‘pioneer’ dies
    Norway’s academic and legal professionals were among those mourning the death this week of Lucy Smith, who could claim many “firsts” in Norway for the degrees and high-ranking positions she held. Smith died after a lengthy illness on Tuesday, age 78. When she started to study l ...
  • Disgraced mayor still wants to fight to clear ...
    Rune Øygard, the former Labour Party mayor who was convicted of sexually assaulting a young teenaged girl, expressed disappointment on Wednesday when told that Norway’s highest court had rejected his appeal. It will, however, evaluate the length of his prison term. An appeals court sentenc ...
  • Youth welfare benefits under fire
    Labour Minister Anniken Huitfeldt is evaluating changes in the welfare benefits available for young Norwegians, after state broadcaster NRK reported that for many, it’s more profitable to collect benefits than to get a job. Around 28,000 persons under age 30 currently collect what’s ...
  • Oil prices soar over Syrian crisis
    Norwegians woke up to a sharp rise in oil prices on Wednesday, after traders reacted to the potential for a western military strike on the Syrian government. North Sea crude was trading at around USD 117 per barrel, up from USD 110 on Tuesday, but that’s not necessarily good news for the N ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Dezhou Solar City (China)
    For one day only we were able to make a stop in Dezhou, one of China’s famed ‘Solar Cities.’ As a bright and cheery advertisement explained, "Just like the Silicon Valley, this is the Solar Valley." The ad was remarkable for several reasons. First, China’s economic deve ...
  • Permaculture Voices Mega-Conference Early Bird ...
    We wanted to remind everyone that the March 13-16, 2014 Permaculture Voices Conference (in Temecula, CA, between San Diego and LA) early-bird discount deadline for tickets is this Saturday, August 31st, 2013. Register before the deadline and save a few hundred dollars. Come out and see our own ...
  • Festival Culture – The Importance of Ritual an ...
    Festival culture dates back to the very beginnings of our human existence. Originally a pilgrimage for shared belief, it is also the practice of creating a sacred space or spaces that embody a certain paradigm. The popularity and longevity of such an activity makes it evident that in human cultu ...
  • The Living Earth Festival (Mullumbimby, NSW, A ...
    A seed to plant in the ground and the mind If there is going to be a revolution, it must be a revolution of consciousness, so the saying goes. Fortunately, these words are slowly becoming a realisation as many conscious communities across Australia and abroad come together to make a change. Amo ...
  • The Planet Fund: Crowdfunding the Restoration ...
    The Planet Fund is the first online global fundraiser created to assist projects the world over with the regeneration of our environment and communities. The Planet Fund has developed an entity of action — where we have the power to act globally as well as locally. We have developed this ...

Pointman's

  • The great global warming con.
    If you want to con serious amounts of money out of other people, you’ve got to sell them a story and the story you sell, comes in one of two basic flavours. The first one is the traditional basis of most confidence tricks and at the end of the day, it revolves about their greed. &#823 ...
  • Know your enemy : the “green” poli ...
    Any time you make an assessment of a situation or a group of people, you have to be aware that it will have a certain shelf life. Things change, situations evolve and new factors appear as time moves on. Of all the groups I’ve looked at in this series, that consideration applies to politic ...
  • A Berlin story : Eva.
    I first met Eva at the bottom of an escalator, late in the evening of a brutal Berlin winter. She was just standing there at the foot of the thing, trying to judge when to take that first frightening step onto it. There was nobody there but us, and I’d the feeling that a few of &#8230 ...
  • Why would anyone believe a single word coming ...
    One of the climate alarmist’s standard responses to any criticism of the theory of global warming is that unless the person is a climate scientist themselves, the point being made is from a position of ignorance and can therefore be ignored. As with most propaganda designed to silence any ...
  • A quarter of a million pages later.
    The pages read counter on this blog is closing in on 250,000, so it seems to be a natural review point. The blog came out of an extended discussion with some friends that occurred at the height of climate hysteria. We could all see the damage it was doing but for them it was an … Read ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • What’s really going on in Egypt?
    In today's show we take a look at the current turmoil in Egypt and attempt to piece together the puzzle of what is really going and who is really in control. We present some evidence that US sponsored groups such as the Endowment for Democracy had been supporting activist groups which had trig ...
  • The internet revolution: what went wrong? - Part 1
    In the 2nd hour of today's show Josh Jackson and I take you on a journey into the history of the internet with aim of discovering where, why and how this amazing tool of empowerment and communication became a tool for the big brother corporatist state. In the first hour I am joined once again ...
  • TNRA’s mission statement
    In today's show we come clean on the core agenda of this radio broadcast. We are here to quicken the mass awakening which is already taking place around the globe. We are here to amplify the dissent which already exists in many peoples' minds but which does not easily find expression. We are h ...
  • The elephant in the room: it’s immigrati ...
    Both sides of Australian politics are once again playing the game of "getting tough on people smugglers", taking turns to sound more aggressive, ruthless and brutal in turning back boats filled with people less fortunate than ourselves. Tony Abbott has declared a "national emergency" and plans ...
  • A heart to heart talk with Fair Dinkum Leon - ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Leon Pittard, host of Fair Dinkum Radio, a show which lifts the lid on the sordid mess of corruption, propaganda and disinformation which characterizes Australian public discourse on virtually any topic. During the show we go through issues of the da ...

Beacon

  • Second-Biggest Shark-Catching Country in World ...
    This 2010 map shows the top 20 countries annual shark catch worldwide. India, ranking #2, has moved to ban shark finning throughout the country and its waters. l Image: FAO Fisheries Department This news is big, and we are absolutely thrilled to share it with you – India has moved to outlaw t ...
  • Notes from the Pacific Expedition -- August 26 ...
    Expedition crew members work to deploy the ROV in the waters of Heceta Bank August 26, 2013 Heceta Bank We didn’t know what we might find in the Heceta Bank region off the central Oregon coast.  It is one of the largest reef complexes off the Pacific Northwest coast, once nominated to b ...
  • Notes from the Pacific Expedition -- August 25 ...
    Expedition crew member Ben Enticknap deploys our remotely operated vehicle (ROV) into the water August 25, 2013 Daisy to North Heceta Bank Today we completed two dives on the north/northwest slope of Daisy Bank. Seven hundred feet below the surface we saw small red gorgonian corals attached ...
  • Notes from the Pacific Expedition -- August 24 ...
    Rockfish nestle down, tucked away inside barrel sponges as if snuggled in a sleeping bag for the night. August 24, 2013 Daisy Bank We faced some new challenges today and took some new risks. We made our deepest dive yet with the ROV to 1,170 feet.  We also did our first night dive.&nbsp ...
  • Notes from the Pacific Expedition -- August 23 ...
    A peek into "echinoderm heaven" August 23, 2013 Siletz Hotspot We spent the night last night drifting aboard the Miss Linda, forty miles offshore.  The seas stayed calm and we were rocked to sleep by a gentle ocean swell.  This morning we dove on an area we’ve named the “Siletz Hot ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • P3 or No Federal Funding: A Third Option for R ...
    The Queen City’s water debate has boiled over since I last blogged about it. City Council decided to build a new wastewater-treatment facility as a public-private partnership (P3), but a group of concerned citizens gathered 24,000 signatures to force a referendum on whether to “publicly finance, ...
  • Leaving Children out in the Cold
    Apparently people get all subjective when they talk about children. Thank goodness we have economists. Not those crazy “social welfare” people who are “lobbying the state for more resources for families with children.” Real economists. With real facts. Economists like Christopher Sarlo, from the ...
  • Inflation Eats Up Three-Quarters of Wage Gains
    Today, Statistics Canada reported an annual inflation rate of 1.3% for July. By comparison, it reports that the average hourly wage rose by 1.8% between July 2012 and July 2013. In other words, even anemic inflation is eating up nearly three-quarters of wage increases. On average, Canadian worke ...
  • The Risky Business of Risk Transfer
    Perhaps the most ubiquitous justification for the P3 model is the notion of “risk transfer.” The City of Regina’s argument for the P3 wastewater treatment plant borrows heavily on this argument, regularly touting the transfer of risk from the public to the private sector as a p ...
  • Stealth Ski-Doos and the price of milk: What d ...
    Remember that uncle who gave you a remote control car for Christmas and then played with it himself all day? Not that you wanted a remote control car. But still, who was that present for anyway? Well, Prime Minister Harper is up north again and he’s got a wicked stealth snowmobile and a big bag ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • The Struggle Over Riverbed Mining in India
    “One specific use of  rivers landmasses has increased manifold in India over the last few decades. Mining of sand, gravel, stones and boulders from riverbeds and riverbanks across the country has seen an unprecedented rise. Each day truckloads of sand and gravel are extracted for a variety ...
  • Where Did the Water Go? Busting 5 Myths About ...
    “The extreme low levels earlier this year left many asking, “Where did the water go?” The answer is that it simply evaporated. The surface of the Great Lakes acts like an enormous evaporating pan under the right conditions. As explained in a previous post, the lack of ice cover in 2011-12 ...
  • California water wars: Big fish eat little fish
    “Californians may get to vote on yet another massive, multi-billion dollar water bond in 2014, and what it will pay for is still being put through the Sacramento sausage grinder. But remarks earlier this month at a “water summit” in Fresno may show some of the handwriting on the wall. Most ...
  • Yosemite Wildfire Closing In On San Francisco& ...
    “Crews were finally gaining ground by late Monday on a massive wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park as officials also expressed optimism that no water or power disruptions would come from the blaze burning along the shores of the main reservoir that supplies San Francisco. While th ...
  • Iran’s Water Woes More Worrying than War
    “Iran’s population of 75 million faces chronic water shortages, according to a recent story published in Al Monitor. Not only have three of its major lakes dried up, including Lake Orumieh, the tragic devastation of which we have covered several times, Lake Haman, and Lake Bakhtegan, but c ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • YEA … IT’S CALLED “SPIN”
    …YEA … IT’S CALLED “SPIN” AND PASSES TODAY FOR AUTHENTIC NEWS REPORTING…   Left, right invoke King to their own ends By: James Hohmann   ….  From gun control to statehood, everyone wants a piece of the commemoration action. more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/right-le ...
  • gone is refer madness
    ….Refer madness has come and is now gone … get over it … what you really believe ‘big-pharma’ wants you be able to control for yourself what you put into your body…? …Marijuana Reforms Continue to Sweep the Nation at a Blistering Pace  …2013 has been an extremely busy year at the state leve ...
  • abyss from no return
    “Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” -Thomas Jefferson   The NSA: "The Abyss From Which There Is No Return" John W. Whitehead, The ...
  • Only way this happens
    …Only way this happens is if Wall $treet and its puppet$ make $$$ and “we” get $crewed… Can Bitcoin make a good first impression with top federal agencies? By Brian Fung   It could be the virtual currency’s biggest moment yet in Washington. Bitcoin advocates are meeting with a handful of fe ...
  • but only if you can survive
    …OK… but only if you can survive on “third-world-wages” and living conditions…     Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Bad feedback: ocean acidification to worsen gl ...
    As if ocean acidification and climate change weren't troubling enough (both of which are caused by still-rising carbon emissions), new research published in Nature finds that ocean acidification will eventually exacerbate global warming, further raising the Earth's temperature.
  • Ground zero for endangered species: new progra ...
    Organizations within the international conservation community are joining forces to minimize impending extinctions in Southeast Asia, where habitat loss, trade and hunting have contributed to a dramatic decline in wildlife. The coalition is aptly named ASAP, or the Asian Species Action Partnership.
  • Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hid ...
    While the olinguito looks like a wild, tree-climbing teddy bear with a cat's tail, it's actually the world's newest mammalian carnivore. The remarkable discovery—the first mammal carnivore uncovered in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s—was found in the lush cloud forests of the ...
  • Trinidad and Tobago: a biodiversity hotspot ov ...
    The two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean (just off the coast of Venezuela) may be smaller than Delaware, but it has had an outsized role in the history of rainforest conservation as well as our understanding of tropical ecology. Home to an astounding number of tropical ecosy ...
  • Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extin ...
    In a large room that used to house aquatic mammals at the Minnesota Zoo, Erik Runquist holds up a vial and says, 'Here are its eggs.' I peer inside and see small specks, pale with a dot of brown at the top; they look like a single grain of cous cous or quinoa. Runquist explains that the brown on ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Axemen a cut above in manly stakes
    Chopping wood has always been seen as one of the more "manly"' endeavours, but now researchers may be able to prove it.University of California scientists have discovered the testosterone levels of men spike when chopping wood -...
  • Giant squid filmed in own habitat
    A deep-sea search for giant squid has captured the world's first video footage of the mysterious creature in its habitat. The expedition that was a decade in the making involved two New Zealanders.Auckland Museum's collection manager,...
  • Christopher Loeak: Low lying atolls appeal to ...
    In the Pacific, we have always looked to Australia and New Zealand as our partners. On climate change, we need them to be leaders.There is no disputing the significant threat posed by climate change to our Pacific region. This month's...
  • CBD air given a health check
    Scientists are keen to discover what effect the hustle and bustle of downtown Auckland has on those who walk its streets every day.A two-week survey, now under way, will eventually reveal how traffic affects sound and air quality...
  • Tremors on path down country, say scientists
    A sequence of quakes rattling the centre of the country appears to be shifting down the South Island and away from Wellington.But those in the capital are expected to feel aftershocks for some time yet and there is still a reasonable...

The Bovine

  • Wall Street turning against Monsanto?
    From Ultraculture.org “Monsanto stock being dropped from hedge funds; are the markets reacting to public outrage over Monsanto’s policies? While consumer groups and activists have been expressing outrage against the agribusiness giant Monsanto, the markets have been reacting—the massive pu ...
  • Paleo diet getting ink in Toronto paper
    From Carola Vyhnak on theStar.ca “One can only guess what a cavewoman would have taken to a potluck party some 2 million years ago. But Jennifer Bruer, who’s committed to eating the way our primal ancestors did, shows up with almond-flour … Continue reading →
  • Alvin Schlangen convicted by a jury following ...
    From Farm to Consumer Legal Defense: Stearns County, Minnesota—(August 5, 2013)—Peaceful farmer, Alvin Schlangen, faces five criminal charges with a possible penalty of up to 15 months imprisonment and $5,000 in fines at his trial slated to run August 13-15, … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk legislation vetoed in Maine
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Any politician worth his or her salt is good at charades–you know, the game where you pretend you are something that you’re not. Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has given a masterful … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • War of "Non-Intervention"
    The ludicrous headline of the month goes to Financial Times writer Richard McGregor who claims Barack Obama marshals his forces for war of non-intervention in Syria. All official US statements, be they on the record or in behind-the-scenes briefings, are peppered with words such as “limite ...
  • Currency Lessons: Think a Sinking Currency is ...
    Currency Lessons Brazil learned a currency lesson first, now India. Is Australia next? Japan? The lesson I am talking about is the widely held misconception that a sinking currency will make manufacturers more competitive and thus help the economy. A friend from Australia emailed ...
  • Is Obama Another Bush Clone? Another Nixon Clone?
    Case For Nixon Guardian writer Jeff Jarvis says As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama. I voted for Obama reluctantly, but never did I imagine he would become another Richard Nixon.   What are you thinking, Mr President? Is this really the legacy you want fo ...
  • China Warns US About Cutting Tapering Too Soon ...
    The focus for the entirely useless upcoming G20 meeting is fear over US tapering, capital flight, and liquidity. Reuters reports Ahead of G20, China urges caution in Fed policy tapering. The U.S. Federal Reserve must consider when and how fast it unwinds its economic stimulus to avoid ...
  • Gold, France, a Currency Crisis, and Other Things
    Here is an interview I did with Fabrice Drouin Ristori at GoldBroker regarding gold, France, and other topics that I would like to share. Fabrice Drouin Ristori: Mish, you write a lot of commentaries about the European economic crisis, going from bad to worse. For instance Portuguese Bond Y ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 2 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • BFP Syria Report- Satellite Imagery Proves Syr ...
    Ayssar Midani, a French Syrian citizen and political activist, joins us from Damascus to talk about the latest developments in Syria. We talk about the history of the terrorist jihadi insurgency in the country and their prior use of chemical weapons, the latest attack and claims of satellite evi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 2 ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Syria: Another Western War Crime in the Making
    The West Knows Only One Rule- “Might is Right!” Washington and its British and French puppet governments are poised to yet again reveal their criminality. The image of the West as War Criminal is not a propaganda image created by the West’s enemies, but the portrait that the West has painted of ...
  • The Orphaning of the Arabs: A Brief Look Back ...
    “A Misguided Preacher with No Faith in His Own Sermons” By Mark Mondalek The last few years of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s life, he took to repeating a saying over and over again, not silently to himself in prayer, but right out loud for anyone to hear. “People like me,” he’d tell his compatriots, “do ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Nigerian Navy Kills 6 Pirates in Latest Crackdown
    Nigeria’s navy killed six pirates and injured one other in a gun battle late Sunday off the coast of Calabar in Nigerian and Cameroonian waters.
  • Filipino Sailor Killed on Board J.J. Ugland Bu ...
    This past Saturday a Filipino sailor on board the J.J. Ugland-owned bulk carrier MV Favorita was killed while cleaning one of the vessels cargo holds. According to a statement J.J. [...]
  • Batista Quits As LLX Chairman
    Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista quit as chairman of Brazilian port operator LLX Logística SA on Wednesday, after agreeing to sell control of the company to U.S. investment firm EIG Global Energy Partners LLC earlier this month.
  • SPOTD: Subtech Continues Fuel Removal from MV ...
    Durban-based salvage company Subtech released the following photos of the salvage operation they are currently conducting off Richards Bay, South Africa involving the bulk carrier, MV Smart. The salvors are [...]
  • Jim Rogers: “When the Sea of Money Ends, it is ...
    Jim Rogers is seriously concerned about the impact of continual and expansive monetary policy coordinated by central banks around the globe. We have even seen the Chinese central bank conduct [...]

Press TV

  • Zarif, European FMs discuss Syria
    Iran’s foreign minister has discussed the latest developments regarding Syria with his counterparts in different countries, rejecting a possible military action against the Arab state.
  • UK PM office faces anti-Syria-war rally
    Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators rallied outside the British Prime Minister’s office on Wednesday to protest against a potential military attack on Syria.
  • Iran, Russia reject use of chemical arms
    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have ruled out the use of chemical weapons as unacceptable, stressing the need for a political solution to the crisis in Syria.
  • US-led soldier killed in W Afghanistan
    At least one foreign soldier serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in an attack carried out by militants in western Afghanistan.
  • UK not to wait for UN mandate on Syria
    British Prime Minister David Cameron says his government will not wait for a UN mandate to launch an attack on Syria aimed at weakening the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Welcome Back, CUNY SPS!
    Welcome back students! Remember, classes will be held in our new space at 119 W. 31st Street, but administrative offices will remain at 101 W. 31st Street until later this fall. Here’s a listing of current office locations and contact information.  Enjoy the semester!
  • #FindYourReason
  • Combat censorship with ‘PirateBrowser’
    The Pirate Bay recently celebrated their 10th birthday this past Saturday by announcing a new gift for internet users — PirateBrowser: “a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible.” screenshot via th ...
  • 25 Apps You’ll Need to Survive College
    25 Apps You’ll Need to Survive College Mashable’s Sarah Ang annotated a list of 25 apps designed to support academic success. My personal favorite is SelfControl. The app allows users to block websites for a designated period of time, making it impossible, for example, to scroll through yo ...
  • Featured Student: Idalia Reyes
    Idalia Reyes is a current student here at The CUNY School of Professional Studies, studying in the Online Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media. Academic Advisor, Johanna Rodriguez recently had the chance to ask Idalia a few questions about her goals and motivation for pursuing higher edu ...

Dissident Voice

  • Public Schools Still “Separate and Unequ ...
    Educator and activist Brian Jones: Obama admin. promoting privatization, competition and attacking unions instead of aiming for universal access to quality public education.
  • Syria: Obama’s Pretext for War?
    It seems many have forgotten the last two-and-a-half years of western sabre-rattling and covert military aggression against the Syrian state. It is worth reiterating that without the vast amount of military, financial, and diplomatic largesse the west and their regional clients have thrown at th ...
  • Corporate Charades
    I wrote a few years ago that corporate social responsibility (CSR) “is mostly a façade — to divert the public’s eye from corporate misdeeds and corporate welfare.”1 Not that there is much of a difference in the meaning of the two nouns, but I write here that CSR is also a charade, the pret ...
  • What to Think About Burma?
    “The Nationalists Now Wear Panties”. This sentence was grafittied onto a wall on a major artery, a street called Baho Lam, never used by tour buses and mostly unknown to expats and tourists. Yet, Baho Lam, which stretches from near downtown Yangon all the way to the outskirts of Rangoon alongsid ...
  • Obama Constituency Overwhelmingly Supports War ...
    Despite a Reuters/Ipsos poll showing that only 9% of Americans support military intervention in Syria, the White House today assured the public that a more recent and reliable poll leaves no doubt that the President’s constituency favors war. The poll was conducted by Defense Industries Systems ...

Nick Turse

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Newswise

  • Fast Food Advertising to Children
    Fast food TV commercials aimed at children 2-11 years old did not comply with self-imposed guidelines organized through the Better Business Bureau (BBB) during a one-year study period, according to Dartmouth researchers who published their findings today with PLOS ONE.
  • A Major Cause of Age-Related Memory Loss Ident ...
    A team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in the hippocampus is a significant contributor to age-related memory loss and that this form of memory loss is reversible. The findings were p ...
  • University of Maryland Pharmacy Researchers De ...
    A recent Institute of Medicine report indicates that 116-million Americans live with some form of chronic pain. Historically, chemists have developed drugs aimed at just one biological target. Two drugs used together may metabolize differently or present other issues. This new drug, named UMB ...
  • ORNL-Grown Oxygen 'Sponge' Presents Path to Be ...
    Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new oxygen "sponge" that can easily absorb or shed oxygen atoms at low temperatures. Materials with these novel characteristics would be useful in devices such as rechargeable batteries, sensors, gas converte ...
  • School-Age Drinking Increases Breast Cancer Ri ...
    ​ For every daily drink a girl or woman consumes before motherhood, she increases her lifetime risk of breast cancer by 13 percent, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • March on Washington organizers look back
    Recollections of some of those who helped make the massive March on Washington happen 50 years ago. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CONFIRMED: US Claims Against Syria - There is ...
    The Wall Street Journal has confirmed what many suspected, that the West's so-called "evidence" of the latest alleged "chemical attacks" in Syria, pinned on the Syrian government are fabrications spun up from the West's own dubious intelligence agencies. Submitted by Jason S. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Freedom Rider: American Hell for Syria
    "With the imminent attack on Syria,we once again have the United States doing its usual dirty work with the help of their hand maidens in the corporate media." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Dog Days of Summer
    Because you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cant fool most white folks on the subject of racism. We wrote the book on that subject, and so long as there are sources of the truth like Fox News a Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics &amp ...
  • As Strikes on Syria Loom, Is U.S. Ignoring a D ...
    "There is no military solution," says Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies. "Extra assaults from the United States are going to make the situation worse, put Syrian civilians at greater risk, and not provide protection." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  | ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Zimbabwe Sails Close to Economic Rocks
    For President Robert Mugabe to defeat the opposition in the Jul. 31 election by hook or by crook may have been a walk in the park, but beating the economic crisis will be another matter. The stock market fell 11 percent the day he was sworn in, the biggest fall in a day since 2009. […]
  • U.S. Neocon Hawks Take Flight Over Syria
    In an echo of the tactics they used to promote U.S. intervention in the Balkans, Iraq and Libya, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives published a letter Tuesday urging President Barack Obama to go far beyond limited military strikes against Syria in retaliation for its government’s alleg ...
  • In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail ...
    After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the U.N. to call off its investigation. The administrat ...
  • U.S. Court Ruling Boosts Vulture Funds at Deve ...
    A recent U.S. court ruling over a fight between Argentina and its creditors on Wall Street will increase global poverty by making it easier for “vulture funds” to seize the assets of indebted nations, according to anti-debt campaigners who are urging the U.S. government to overturn t ...
  • Nuclear Test Moratorium Threatened by North Ko ...
    When the United Nations commemorates the International Day Against Nuclear Tests later this week, the lingering question in the minds of most anti-nuclear activists is whether or not the existing moratorium on testing will continue to be honoured – or occasionally violated with impunity. J ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Emergency protest: No attack on Syria
    Summary: London: Downing Street, 5—7pm, Wednesday 28th August Britain, France and the US are committing to another disastrous military intervention. Apart from the inevitable casualties, any attack on Syria can only inflame an already disastrous civil war and would risk pulling in regional ...
  • CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Ga ...
    Summary: chemical bombing victimsThe U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating th ...
  • Latest attack in Syria should not be used as a ...
    Summary: The latest horrific casualties in Syria, suspected of being the result of a chemical weapons attack, have been the occasion for a new round of demands for western intervention in the country. source: Stop the War Coalitionread more
  • Iran and Iraq: Déjà Vu All Over Again
    Summary: The economic sanctions choking Iran today should remind us of a similar situation in Iraq. After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council imposed the most severe sanctions in the history of global governance. Nearly every country in the world was prohibi ...
  • The Next Rounds of Nuclear Talks with Iran and ...
    Summary: It seems ever clearer that Iran and the P5+1 are headed toward new rounds of nuclear talks this fall. For those thinking through the prospects for these negotiations and their larger strategic ramifications, a couple of recent interviews published in Iran Review provide important in ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Ceres --The Dwarf-Water Planet Unique in the S ...
                  Ceres, which orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is a unique body in the Solar System, bearing many similarities to Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, both considered to be potential sources for harboring life. In March of 2015, NAS ...
  • Does Our Solar System Exist in a Region of the ...
        Many of our greatest scientists have been asking why does the universe appear to fe "fine-tuned" for life? The logic behind this question, sometimes known as the anthropic principle, says that's why we are here today, able to study the universe and learn about its laws. But if an ...
  • Carbon-12 --Does Its Creation in Stars Suggest ...
                    Is the Universe fine-tuned for life? A team of physicists have looked at the conditions necessary to the formation of carbon and oxygen two elements in the universe that are the foundation of life as we currently know it. They’ve found that when it comes to supporting ...
  • Permian Mass Extinction Paved Way for the Rise ...
        The first mammals arose in the Triassic period, more than 225 million years ago, including small shrew-like animals such as Morganucodon from England, Megazostrodon from South Africa and Bienotherium from China. They had differentiated teeth (incisors, canines, molars) and lar ...
  • Zeta Puppis --"A Monster Star Recyling the Cosmos"
                   Massive stars like Zeta Puppis are relatively rare, but play a very important role in recycling materials in the Universe. They burn their nuclear fuel much more rapidly than stars like the Sun, living only for millions of years before exploding as a supernova and ret ...

Natural News

  • DHS employee who buys guns and ammo for feds a ...
    Are you ready for the coming race war? As goofy as that sounds, at least one African American is. And what's more, he works for you. Department of Homeland Security employee Ayo Kimathi, who ironically is in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for U.S. Immigration...
  • Heal your candida infection with these five po ...
    In a society addicted to sugars, grains, dairy and alcohol, it becomes very difficult to treat the widespread digestive diseases occurring in North America. Add in a tainted and low nutrient food supply; antibiotics and prescriptions; heavy metal intake through dental...
  • How bad is the U.S. economy? Thieves now steal ...
    The U.S. economy - the national unemployment rate is at 7.6 percent and the number of people too discouraged to even look for work is at historical highs - is continuing to flounder, and it's driving some people to turn to rather unconventional ways to make a little...
  • Ward off cancer with super-nutrient lycopene: ...
    Men who like pizza, pasta with red sauce, and lasagna have a new excuse to eat more of those dishes upon discovering that lycopene in tomato sauce promotes prostate health. This news has been around for some time. Recent testing with lycopene from mostly tomato or...
  • Three reasons to drink less alcohol
    We all know that drinking alcohol to excess leads to problems both emotionally and physically. It can even affect your life with your family and your work. Here are three valid reasons to drink less alcohol:WeightAlcohol, when broken down by the digestive...

Threat Level

  • White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry A ...
    Victoria Espinel, the nation's first copyright czar, who enjoyed a cozy relationship with intellectual-property rights holders, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies global governments on behalf of the software industry. Espinel resigned two weeks ago ...  &nbs ...
  • Codefellas: Decrypting a North Korean Telegram ...
    Hot on the trail of a devastating computer virus, Topple and Winter burn the midnight oil. Are the North Koreans sending encrypted telegrams, or has Kim Jong-un taken up beat poetry?     
  • Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling FBI Access to ...
    A 24-year-old Pennsylvania hacker pleaded guilty today to accusations he tried to sell access to Energy Department supercomputers he unlawfully accessed.     
  • ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ Takes Down the New Yo ...
    Hacktivists loyal to Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad have taken over the New York Times' web address to broadcast a circa-1998-style defacement message, "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army."     
  • Facebook Gave 38K Users’ Data to Governments i ...
    Facebook divulged to governments data on about 38,000 users worldwide in the first six months of 2013, the social-networking site announced today. The figures, released in its first report detailing such affairs globally, highlights that the United States led the ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Speaker Boehner, Go F@*k Yourself
    During the tense final days leading up to the deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had some sharp words for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Just steps outside the Oval Office, Boehner told Reid, "Go f@*k yourself." In the Speaker's defense, he ...
  • Doctor Rand Paul Prescribes Free Surgeries for ...
    The National Review on Monday offered a heart-warming profile of Ophthalmologist turned Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Dr. Paul, it turns out, has been performing pro bono eye surgeries each year to about 15 low-income people who otherwise could not afford the treatment because, he explained, "I w ...
  • Washington Post Embarrasses Itself on Federal ...
    Since 2011, the federal government has slashed $2.5 trillion from the projected national debt over the next decade. Meanwhile, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reduced its annual deficit forecast for the federal government to $642 billion, about half of the amount it projected w ...
  • The Growing Blue State Advantage
    These are heady days for red state propagandists. After years of leading the nation in poverty, low incomes, poor working conditions, dismal educational performance, awful health care systems, shocking teen birth rates, sky-high divorce rates, bloody gun violence and just about every other meas ...
  • A Stalked B. B is Dead. A is Free.
    The brutal murders this week of Australian student Christopher Lane and World War II hero Delbert Benton have rightly prompted national soul-searching and national shame. But as predictable as the sunset and the force of gravity, the horrors in Oklahoma and Washington also triggered right-wing ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • 367 Pit Bulls Seized
    In one of the largest dog fighting crackdowns, 367 pit bulls were seized by authorities in Alamaba and Georgia. Over $500,000 was also confiscated because it is likely connected with betting on unlawful dog fights.  A network of officials at several levels collaborated on the raids, which took p ...
  • Swedish Engineers Invent ‘Nano Gas’ That ‘Inst ...
    The old saying “fighting fire with fire” may be true or not depending upon the situation, but if someone told you the best way to fight (carbon-based) gas is with another gas, you might raise a skeptical eyebrow or two. But that’s exactly what a Swedish engineering company is c ...
  • One Million Cockroaches Escape
    A farm in Dafeng, China was the site of a greenhouse containing one million or more cockroaches. They were intended for use in traditional Chinese ‘medicine’, because of the belief extracts from them can be healing. However, the greenhouse was damaged and its contents loosed by a sab ...
  • Solar Car For Zimbabwe Pregnant Women Designed ...
    Originally published on Solar Love. Some places clearly don’t have the health or transportation facilities that most of us are accustomed to. Cleantech is increasingly being used to help provide that. In the latest such story, a high school student from Adelaide, Australia, has helped desi ...
  • Online Shopping In Australia — It’s More Eco-f ...
    When we think of “green” or “eco-friendly,” we probably think of things like bikes, solar panels, electric cars, intelligent thermostats, organic food, pinwheels (oh wait, not pinwheels, unfortunately), and so on. But how often do you think about the internet as being eco ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • World Plagued By "Tunnel Vision"
    By @TedFrier The subject of Father Scott's homily on Sunday was "tunnel vision," something our local parish priest knows a lot about since it was not until he was in his twenties and well out of high school that Father Scott finally got his driver's license. "Tunnel vision," said the state troop ...
  • Another Conservative Defection?
    By @TedFrier What? Has Jennifer Rubin, resident Washington Post neoconservative scold, suddenly had a change of heart? Has she had an epiphany and seen the errors of her shrill and demagogic ways? Like so many conservative intellectuals and "RINO" Republican moderates in the past decade has Rubi ...
  • Republicans "Get The Gimmies"
    By @TedFrier The best political book of the summer turned out to be the one I sometimes read as a bedtime story at home -- The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies by the late Stan and Jan Berenstain. "Selfish, greedy cubs can never be happy because you just can't have everything you want all the ti ...
  • Jack Germond's Death Marks Passing of an Era
    By @TedFrier Longtime political journalist Jack Germond died Wednesday at his home in West Virginia. He was 85. Over the half century that Germond covered politics his work appeared in the Gannett papers, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and in the hundreds of papers that carried the five- ...
  • More Empty "Worse Than Watergate" Comparisons
    By @TedFrier George F. Will is fast becoming the Speaker John Boehner of syndicated columnists - an otherwise sensible conservative driven to erratic rhetoric and behavior based on the pressing need to placate the right wing extremists who dominate the Republican base. The latest act of rightest ...

Care 2

  • Animals in Entertainment ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
    With your help, we can expose the abuse, deprivation and suffering inflicted on animals in the name of entertainment. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell Senator De Leon to Require Non-Lead Ammun ...
    California has the opportunity to become a leader in the effort to protect people and wildlife from lead poisoning and you can help make this happen. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
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  • Protect India's Tigers from Harmful Human Acti ...
    Some have theorized that tourism revenue is a potential solution to the dwindling tiger population problem, but critics of this theory have pointed out that even viewing the tigers from a short distance encroaches upon their habitat. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! ...
  • Food Safety in a Time of Festivals, Fairs and ...
    In Canada, August signifies the arrival of the agricultural exhibition. Cities from across the nation celebrate the end of summer with games, concerts, midway rides and, of course, a diverse choice of foods ranging from corn on the cob to cotton candy. Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Wellness ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Barack Obama: Bellicose, Incompetent and Hypocrite
    Barack Obama’s mishandling of all things pertaining to Syria and the Middle East is the most profound failure of any President ever to grace the Oval Office. His actions threaten the very security of this nation and may completely destabilize an already shaky Middle East. And for what? No ...
  • America’s Military Delusions
    We are a pathetic, loathsome, meddlesome nation. We combine exuberant self-indulgence with appalling ignorance of history. Yet, we convince ourselves that we are invincible and that we alone are the arbiters of what is right and wrong. We bring this mentality of hubris to a civil war in Syria, w ...
  • Questions Obama Must Answer on Syria
    My voice is hoarse from screaming at the television. Goddamn the warmongers keen on launching the United States into the midst of another sectarian civil war. Obama and his team of mediocrities are choosing to side with the Sunni extremists. Quite happy and content to ignore the fact that it is ...
  • Barack Obama Ready to Out Bush Bush
    I wonder if the Nobel Committee now realizes how badly Barack Obama duped them. Did not do a goddamn thing and yet got the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, eight years later, Obama is going to try to start a war in Syria, using the pre-text of a highly questionable chemical weapon threat. But Obama&#8217 ...
  • Limbaugh Attacks Obama + Open Thread
    From the Mediate article, “Limbaugh Fires Back at Obama Blaming Him for Congressional Gridlock”: Rush Limbaugh found it more than a little amusing that President Obama name-checked him as one of the biggest roadblocks to Congress getting anything done. The president said in a CNN int ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Documentary 'Our Turn to Dream' Tells Story of ...
    A new short doc depicts the problem of mass incarceration as well as the new movement rising up against it. On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took to the podium to deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech calling for an end to racism and segregation. Fifty years later, another system o ...
  • What The Assault On Whistleblowers Has to Do W ...
    To stop attack on Syria, we must support whistleblowers. Without whistleblowers, the mainline media outlets are more transfixed than ever with telling the official story. And at a time like this, the official story is all about spinning for war on Syria.Every president who wants to launch an ...
  • African American Amputee Assaulted and Mocked ...
    Police forced the man out of his car at gunpoint and assaulted him, he alleges in court. Leroy Duffie sued the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, in Lancaster County Court claiming that police handcuffed and beat him and left him lying on the street for half an hour before finally removing his handcuf ...
  • Majority of Americans Wary Of U.S. Interventio ...
    Reuters' poll shows 60 percent of Americans believe Washington should stay out of the conflict. U.S. forces are preparing to launch strikes on Syria as early as Thursday, according to U.S. officials.  The action comes following the alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus suburbs in ...
  • Could We See Superstorm John Boehner Coming ou ...
    Environmental group petitions to name hurricanes after climate change deniers like Boehner or Marco Rubio. The environmental group petition 350 Action is urging the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to name hurricanes after policy makers who deny climate change.The campaign entitled, “Cl ...

Threat Level

  • White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry A ...
    Victoria Espinel, the nation's first copyright czar, who enjoyed a cozy relationship with intellectual-property rights holders, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies global governments on behalf of the software industry. Espinel resigned two weeks ago ...  &nbs ...
  • Codefellas: Decrypting a North Korean Telegram ...
    Hot on the trail of a devastating computer virus, Topple and Winter burn the midnight oil. Are the North Koreans sending encrypted telegrams, or has Kim Jong-un taken up beat poetry?     
  • Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling FBI Access to ...
    A 24-year-old Pennsylvania hacker pleaded guilty today to accusations he tried to sell access to Energy Department supercomputers he unlawfully accessed.     
  • ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ Takes Down the New Yo ...
    Hacktivists loyal to Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad have taken over the New York Times' web address to broadcast a circa-1998-style defacement message, "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army."     
  • Facebook Gave 38K Users’ Data to Governments i ...
    Facebook divulged to governments data on about 38,000 users worldwide in the first six months of 2013, the social-networking site announced today. The figures, released in its first report detailing such affairs globally, highlights that the United States led the ...     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • FDA: Cause of 2/3 of Cyclospora Illnesses Uncl ...
    I was struck in reading (at 3:25 AM) the FDA’s update of the Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened nearly 650 in 22 states this summer, that we still do not... Continue Reading
  • 125 Salmonella Infantis, Lille, Newport, or Mb ...
    A total of 125 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Lille, Salmonella Newport, or Salmonella Mbandaka have been reported from 26 states. The number of ill... Continue Reading
  • Maple Bacon Jam Cause of Cronut Burger Staphyl ...
    Toronto’s public health department says a food poisoning outbreak at the Canadian National Exhibition was caused by a contaminated topping put on cronut burgers. An investigation into the outbreak that... Continue Reading
  • Barbecued Marmont Link in Bubonic Plague Outbreak
    Last week it was Guinea Pigs causing Salmonella in Minneapolis and this week Russian Health officials fear an outbreak of bubonic plague in central Asia after a teenage boy died... Continue Reading
  • Subscribe to Marler Blog and get “Poisoned”
    I bought 250 of the books in paperback for a conference that I recently spoke at to give away, but the books arrived late.  I now have them sitting in... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Pt 2: 50 Years After March on Washington, Litt ...
    As part of today's national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we continue our discussion with Associate Producer Richard Kaplan of the rarely seen Oscar-nominated documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, King: A Filmed Record.. ...
  • After Decades of Protests, Vermont Yankee Nucl ...
    Entergy announced plans to day to close and decommission the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, Vermont, by the end of 2014. The site has been the target of protests for decades. In 2010, the Vermont Senate voted against a measure that would have authorized a state board to grant V ...
  • EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: CA Prisoner Todd Ashker on Hi ...
    On Friday we aired part of an audio recording of Todd Ashker, one of 79 prisoners on hunger strike in California since July 8. In this extended audio , he describes how he evolved from violence to a peaceful hunger-strike protest to call for better conditions. Ashker went to prison at age ...
  • WATCH: Full Extended Interview With Manning's ...
    Watch the complete interview conducted Wednesday by independent journalist Alexa O'Brien with Pfc. Bradley Manning's attorney, David Coombs–his first time speaking to the media after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, and ahead of Manning's gender transition announcement Thursda ...
  • Manning Wronged AND Miranda's Rights
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people,” wrote the late historian Howard Zinn, author of “A People’s History of the United States.” These words were included in a statement by Pfc. Bradley Manning, read by his d ...

Solari

  • No News, Just More Coincidences
    Photo Credit: The Guardian By Catherine Austin Fitts Quelle Surprise! Cyprus is needed to stage fighter planes for a war in Syria. And what do we think this has to do with the recent economic hit on Cyprus? After all Egypt is not being compliant. Imagine what Cyrpus would have said [...]
  • Study: To The Human Brain, Me Is We
    By David DiSalvo A new study from University of Virginia researchers supports a finding that’s been gaining science-fueled momentum in recent years: the human brain is wired to connect with others so strongly that it experiences what they experience as if it’s happening to us. This would seem t ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ~Matthew 18:15
  • Zombie Attack at Solari!
    By The Solari Team Zombies attacked The Solari Report last Thursday. Though rather than attacking our physical brains for a meaty delicacy, they attacked our intellectual minds. Last thursday, 20 minutes into Catherine’s live Money & Markets report something dire happened. Our webpag ...
  • US Ready to Launch Syria Strike, Says Chuck Hagel
    By BBC News American forces are “ready” to launch strikes on Syria if President Barack Obama chooses to order an attack, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says. “We have moved assets in place to be able to fulfill and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take,&#8 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Bizarre Chinese Temple Discovered Atop a 21-St ...
    A Chinese microblogger recently noticed a curious architectural object built upon the roof of a housing complex in Shenzhen. A mysterious temple has been sitting atop the 21-story luxury apartment building in Nanfang district of Shenzhen for at least three     
  • Enter the BAND-AID® “Stuck On Me” Jingle Conte ...
    Calling all Inhabi-parents! Ever hear your child sing brand jingles around the house, only to you find yourself singing them too? Well, now your kid has a chance to show off his or her talent for belting out catchy tunes in the BAND-AID® "Stuck On Me" Sing-Along     
  • Leonardo Criolani’s Broken Cymbal Lamps Will B ...
    From music to light—Leonardo Criolani turns broken drum cymbals into sweet pendant and wall lamps. The lamps come in different sizes depending on what's around—all the cymbals are reclaimed—and can be used with any energy efficient bulb. You can see     
  • Win One of Three Voltaic Solar Backpacks Stuff ...
    Enter Inhabitat's 2013 Back to School Contest! We can't believe how fast summer flew by - but now that fall is on the horizon it's time to start getting ready for a green school year - and Inhabitat is here to help with our 2013 Back to School Contest! This     
  • Infographic: Lighting Up Your House In a Way T ...
    Lighting is one of the most important elements of creating a comfortable space that you, your family and your friends want to inhabit. But thinking about lighting for different rooms of a house calls for careful planning and a basic understanding of aesthetics.     

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Russia warns US of ‘extremely dangerous’ fallo ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the United States against the ‘extremely dangerous consequences’ of military action against Syria
  • Massive Transport of Tanks in New Orleans
    Massive Transport of Tanks in New Orleans on the Huey P Long Bridge over the Mississippi River in Jefferson Parisha A massive transport of Tanks was spotted in New Orleans on the Huey P Long Bridge, which goes over the Mississippi River. The Google Coordinates are available on Google Maps – H ...
  • In Your Face Miley Cyrus Soft Porn As Obama Pr ...
    Is it a coincidence that the establishment’s “entertainment” media has dwelled on the girl-next-door suddenly transformed into a grotesque slut as the Obama administration prepares the wallop Syria with cruise missiles
  • Obama Pushes Nations Into World War 3
    The plunge into taking military action on Syria is not just reminiscent of Iraq, but is representative of Obama’s continued hot war against Russia that has gone from proxy to direct over the last several days
  • Hypocrite Central: U.S., Britain and Israel ha ...
    Those condemning Syria have themselves recently used chemical weapons. We condemn all use of chemical weapons. Hypocrite Central U.S Britain and Israel have Used Chemical Weapons within the Last 10 Years U.S. sprayed Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. But the U.S. used chemical weapo ...

Andy Worthington

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

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • Automatically Organize Downloaded Files on You ...
    The downloads folder on a Mac can get pretty messy, but MacWorld shows off an automator script that automatically keeps that folder organized and clean. Read more...     
  • Why You Think the Other Line Always Moves Fast ...
    Whether you're standing in line at the grocery store or you're trying to navigate through traffic, it seems like the other line is always moving faster than yours. BBC Future explains that it has something to do with what we call illusory correlation. Read more...     
  • Hacker Challenge: Hack Something Using Prescri ...
    Welcome to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That gives you a few days to think about it and a whole weekend to work it up. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will be featured ri ...
  • I'm Nick Gray, Founder of Museum Hack, and Thi ...
    If you've ever taken a museum tour, you know that they can be pretty dull. Nick Gray is out to change that. As the founder of Museum Hack, Nick leads groups through New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in what he describes as "highly interactive, subversive, fun, non-traditional museum tour ...
  • Enable the Hidden "Keep Both" Button When Copy ...
    When you drag files into a folder, OS X looks for files with the same name and asks you if you want to replace them or skip those files. If you want to keep all the files, though—old and new—this lesser-known shortcut will help.Read more...     

Water Wars

  • Water wars: WUC incurs FCC councillors' wrath
    FRANCISTOWN: Councillors here have blasted the snail's pace approach taken by the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) in solving the water crisis in the city. One councillor, however, deviated from the stance taken by most his colleagues.
  • Water fight continues at Chico forum
    Water wars are expensive and most often fruitless, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi said he is willing to throw down the gauntlet to stop the governor's plan to build two underground tunnels that he believes have the potential to suck the Sacramento...
  • Garamendi wants to defend Sacramento River
    Water wars are expensive and most often fruitless, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi said he is willing to throw down the gauntlet to stop the governor's plan to build two underground tunnels that he believes have the potential to suck the Sacramento...
  • Sacramento is right to join the water wars
    Re "Capital steps up Delta battle" (The Public Eye, Aug. 25): I applaud Sacramento city of
  • Apalachicola Water Wars: A Battle Between Geor ...
    On a hot Tuesday in mid-August, residents of Apalachicola, Fla., gathered outside the county courthouse, where a banner over the entrance read in capital letters “Save the last great bay!” Some carried signs with messages like “Save our river!” and “Congress must act!” In a packed room inside, t ...

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Vicious Cycle: Extreme Climate Events Release ...
    That is almost one third of global CO2 emissions per year.The post Vicious Cycle: Extreme Climate Events Release 11 Billion Tons Of CO2 Into The Air Every Year appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
  • 7,386 Times
    We know that the GOP will do nearly anything to deny millions of Americans the security of quality, affordable health care. Nevertheless, even we were surprised to discover that House Republicans have collectively voted to repeal Obamacare a whopping 7,386 times.The post 7,386 Times appeared fir ...
  • ‘Solar Gardens’ Put Clean Energy Within Reach ...
    Community Solar Garden programs are a great way to use communally-owned solar installations to make clean energy more affordable for lower-income Americans.The post ‘Solar Gardens’ Put Clean Energy Within Reach Of Low-Income Families appeared first on ThinkProgress.   &nbsp ...
  • Truth Bomb: Chief Opponent Of Senate Immigrati ...
    The conservative senator undermines the chief criticism levied against the Senate immigration bill while speaking at a town hall in Rep. Steve King's (R-IA) district. The post Truth Bomb: Chief Opponent Of Senate Immigration Bill Admits It’s Not Amnesty appeared first on ThinkProgress. &nb ...
  • How Vaccinating Babies Against Contagious Infe ...
    New data from the CDC shows that giving infants a vaccine for a stomach bug has ended up nearly eliminating the infection in older kids and young adults, too.The post How Vaccinating Babies Against Contagious Infections Can End Up Protecting The Whole Family appeared first on ThinkProgress. &nbs ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Miley Cyrus MTV MVA-2013
    Long-time readers of this site know about my utter fascination for the cultural enigma that is Miley Cyrus. Well, all I could say about the Pop Princess's performance at this year's Music Video Awards is said here at The Onion: So, as managing editor of CNN.com, I want our readers to know this: ...
  • Reply to Karen
    Karen provided a thoughtful comment yesterday: Okay. I have been out showing the Rocky Mountains and some of my favourite BC places to my New Brunswick family for the last while, and, frankly, ignoring the situation. I spent the last few years with a great group of people trying to keep ...
  • The People's Right to Go Ape-Shit
    Ahem. I have about ten people who comment sporadically at this blog. I've had one anonymous commenter comment on my plan to have toppled harper. One person. This is why we can't have nice things people. Because we're captivated by the ease of internet bitching, with the more ambitious of us wed ...
  • Don't Everybody Comment at Once ...
    So, I typed a plan ... competing (perhaps) with all the other plans to do something about harper's desecration of our democracy and our human rights ... and I'd like some feedback please. It's the previous four posts. Maybe it's the most asinine plan in the world. Maybe it's realistic, when al ...
  • My Plan (Part the Fourth)
     So, in Parts One & Two I made the case for harper's illegitimacy and why we are [were] therefore justified and even obligated  to force him to resign. Part Three outlined the process of grass-roots outreach and organizing to build the movement necessary to force the government to ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Acne: 10 Natural Options
    It’s no consolation whatsoever to know that acne is one of the most common skin conditions. It affects 80% of people between the ages of 11 and 30 years of age, usually on the face, back and chest. It is most common for girls between 14 and 17 and boys between 16 and 19 but [...]
  • What does your eye color say about your health?
    Iridologists have said that there are only two basic colors for the iris – blue and brown. Perhaps this was so, but now there has been so much intermarriage of races in the world that we likely have a genetic mix of colors. Of course, we usually see the basically blue or brown iris, but [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-25-13
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...
  • Make your own organic sunscreen!
    There are no hidden “nasties” or chemicals which can poison your body. Instead, these are organic and gentle and will not harm your skin. They are also easy to get hold of, and just in case you were wondering, because the recipe contains zinc oxide at 12 per cent, this means the sun cream will [...]
  • Evidence suggests that up to 90 percent of can ...
    The vast majority of the published scientific literature on cancer and cancer research is inherently flawed and non-reproducible, reveals a new review published online in the journal Nature. Researchers C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis found that a mere 11 percent of 53 papers on cancer published i ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Obama Administration Copies Bush’s Sidelining ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comObama Administration Copies Bush’s Sidelining of Weapons Inspectors In Iraq By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Debunking U.S. Claims about UN Weapons Inspections In Syria One of John Kerry’s main arguments ...
  • Chems in Syria: Cause for invasion or regime&# ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRTyoutube.com The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, says there’s evidence suggesting that some kind of chemical substance was used in an attack near Damascus a week ago – but that there’s ...
  • Syrians Scramble to Hide From Obama’s Humanita ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“Every neighborhood has some government target. Where do we hide?” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com August 28, 2013 Despite the US and Britain justifying an imminent attack on Syria in the name of “ ...
  • Syria: US Aided Terrorists in Chemical Attack, ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAnthony Gucciardi Prison Planet.com August 28, 2013 In an explosive declaration, Syria’s deputy foreign minister has now come out on record in declaring that the US, Britain, and France were instrumental in aiding ...
  • WW3? Syrian, Iranian Officials Say Israel Will ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNetanyahu calls up reserve forces; Huge US military build up in Qatar; Russia evacuates citizens from Syria Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Aug 28, 2013 Senior Syrian and Iranian officials have again warned that should the ...

Dandelion Salad

  • In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail ...
    by Gareth Porter Writer, Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Washington August 27, 2013 After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday ...
  • Exclusive: We Need More Brave Americans Like S ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) August 27, 2013 Besides the obvious fact that Sean Penn is one of the greatest and most serious actors of our time, pulling off the most risky roles, he happens also to be one of America’s m ...
  • Ralph Nader: It’s Easy To Be Resilient W ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader The Public on Aug 22, 2013 see Ralph Nader: A Society That Has More Justice Is A Society That Needs Less Charity It’s Your Sole Decision, President Obama by Ralph Nader + Bernie Sanders: The Minimum Wage Fascism USA: Corporatizing National Security by Ralph Nader ...
  • Probably Possible: A Simple Poem for a Big Pro ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Writer, Dandelion Salad andrewgavinmarshall.com August 27, 2013 Andrew Gavin Marshall on Aug 26, 2013 Andrew Gavin Marshall is an independent researcher and writer based in Montreal, Canada. He has been published in Dandelion Salad, AlterNet, CounterPunch, Occupy.com, Tr ...
  • Cindy Sheehan Formally Launches Campaign for C ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Writer, Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog August 26, 2013 I am here on the steps of the capitol building to announce that I am running for governor of California in 2014 with the Peace and Freedom Party. One of the goals of this campaign is to break the stranglehold o ...

Your New Reality

  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...
  • No title
     Deadwood Actor Kevin Spacey lists 17 groundbreaking, thrillmaking TV shows he thinks everyone should watch. I'm way behind on these... The Sopranos, Rescue Me, Weeds, Homeland, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, Oz, The Wire, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad ...
  • Wanna Live The McMerican Dream
    I don't have a McDonalds related story to go with all this, just wanted to run some amazing related, and historic, photos. (source) Has the design used for this first US McDonalds drive-in resturantt, at San Bernadino, California, in 1948, ever been bettered? All style.   Early McD ...
  • Our Name Is Bonds, James Bonds
     Lee Tamahori (Once Werev Warriors), the director of Die Another Day, had a fascinating idea about what was really going on in the James Bond movies: "My idea was basically that there have been several Bonds. It's just a prefix and a code name Even James Bond is not the guy's name. "That' ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Additional planks for the platform
    On Monday lambert posted a call for a re-formulated 12-word platform; Tuesday I responded with what I tentatively called the Bumper Sticker Platform (BSP). These may be two slightly different things though. My goal is to create a campaign slogan - something that easily fits on a sign or bumper ...
  • Bumper Sticker Platform, 2013 edition
    On a Saturday morning a few years ago I dashed off a quick caffeine-fueled post that tried to formulate a simple but substantive platform for the left. It was partially a reaction to the prior couple years of conservative rhetoric. During the 2008 campaign the right insisted Barack Obama was a ...
  • Summer vacation
    Taking the week off. Back next week!
  • US tech companies hamstrung by US surveillance
    About two and a half years ago I posted on the danger of the US turning into a tech pariah over its data collection policies. At the time I thought the main sticking points would be foreign governments’ concerns about their own confidential data being sent abroad, and objections to privac ...
  • Don't Frack Ohio starting this weekend: three ...
    Activists across Ohio are preparing for a weekend of activities in the northeast part of the state. On Saturday and Sunday, July 27th and 28th, at the First Congregational Church in Ravenna, there will be two days of trainings designed to give us the tools we can use to build a powerful movemen ...

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