28 August - RSS SnapShot! III

O'ahu - Honolulu: Bishop Museum - Hawaiian Hall - Kauhi's Last Stand at Kā'anapali (Photo credit: wallyg)

Organic Consumers.org

• The Other NRA: How the Insidiously Powerful Re ...
  Fast-food workers feed their families on a pittance while the big corporations resist fair pay and sick leave. Click here to read this article
• Shampoos Still Contain Carcinogens, Lawsuit Claims
  An Oakland watchdog group has sued four companies and plans to sue dozens more for allegedly manufacturing or selling shampoos, soaps and other care products without attaching labels warning consumers that they contained high levels of a carcinogen. Click here to read this article
• Food Companies Ante up Against GMO Initiative
  The GMO labeling debate is heating up, with the Grocery Manufacturers Association contributing $1.75 million last Friday to help defeat Initiative 522. Click here to read this article
• Fetal Exposure to Pollutants Produces Childhoo ...
  Have you ever wondered why some infants seem to be naturally heavier than others, even though they may not necessarily be eating more? New research is confirming this may have something to do with a baby's exposure to certain pollutants within the womb.Click here to read this article
• Why Mammography Is Unscientific and Harmful
  Getting a mammogram seems like a "no-brainer." The diagnostic test detects, by emitting allegedly harmless ionizing radiation, breast cancer early, thus it prevents the premature demise of the patient. Yet, many solid scientific facts invalidate these, on the surface, seemingly legitimate, highl ...

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?

Investigate - Breaking News

• Edgy new ‘Murder a Drink’ promo pitches wine a ...
  Edgy new ‘Murder a Drink’ promo pitches wine as health food to young people. Edgy new ‘Murder a Drink’ promo pitches wine as health food to young people
• NZ Govt sitting on secret list of risky Wellin ...
  NZ Govt sitting on secret list of risky Wellington buildings. NZ Govt sitting on secret list of risky Wellington buildings
• TradeMe lifts two year ban on sales of controv ...
  TradeMe lifts two year ban on sales of controversial Kahui book. TradeMe lifts two year ban on sales of controversial Kahui book
• Antarctic ice melting scare cancelled – climat ...
  Antarctic ice melting scare cancelled – climate science study. Antarctic ice melting scare cancelled – climate science study
• Climate change consensus study backfires on re ...
  Climate change consensus study backfires on researchers. Climate change consensus study backfires on researchers

My Care2 Picks

• Science Under Assault
  A scathing expose of the use of prevarication to delude and misinform under the rubric of 'science' Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Spotlight on Junk Science
  I subscribed to the principia scientific email updates Here are selected articles Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• New internet privacy company moving offshore : ...
  Chris Kitze is also the publisher of BeforeItsNews.com This RT interview spotlights the loss of free speech and privacy in America and why it is driving businesses, investments and people to live overseas in more open, free societies. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't &n ...
• Iran Nuclear Threat Debunked; Why All Weapon C ...
  the very concept of Iran building nuclear weapons is unfounded speculation, compounded by wild accusations and window-dressed intelligence by biased nations Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon at ...
  in January, a report from the US government came out discussing the opportunity to do a chemical attack in Syria and BLAME IT ON ASSAD.... Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

• Living in a Genetically Contaminated World
  It seems that the rest of the world is catching up to what a few of us have known for quite some time, and that is, “organic” is not necessarily “organic.” The “organic” status of any product appears to rest solely on the honesty and integrity of the company selling the product, and not on the l ...
• Take Back Your Power – Say NO to Smart Meters!
  It is up to you to protect your home and your rights. Knowledge is power, and together we are a powerful force. Homeowners, experts, doctors, local governments, environmentalists and health organizations around the world are saying NO to “smart” meters.
• Leaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemica ...
  On August 21st, 2013 chemical weapons were used the Syrian conflict yet again. Western powers, the U.S. and France in particular enthusiastically didn't hesitate for even a moment to take advantage of the tragedy, decrying it as a crime against humanity and using it as a springboard to announce ...
• Syria’s Reichstag Moment
  This is what happens to those who say no the central banking cartel.
• Disarm Or Get Out
  If the liberal establishment is not successful in getting us to give up our guns directly, the next strategy is to administratively create gun free zones which dictate where you may possess a gun including in your home.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• N.Y. nuclear plant won't close, owner says
  ShareThisN.Y. nuclear plant won't close, owner says 28 Aug 2013 Factors prompting Entergy Corp. to shut down its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant don't exist at its Indian Point plant here, company officials said. In a related development, a former second in command in security operations at t ...
• NYPD Secretly Designates Mosques as Terrorism ...
  ShareThisNYPD Secretly Designates Mosques as Terrorism Organizations 28 Aug 2013 The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence o ...
• U.S. readies strikes, Syrians prepare for attack
  ShareThisU.S. readies strikes, Syrians prepare for attack 28 Aug 2013 People in Damascus stocked up on supplies on Wednesday and some left homes close to potential targets as U.S. officials sketched out plans for multi-national air strikes on Syria that could last for days. United Nations chemic ...
• Guardians of King's Dream Regroup in Washington
  ShareThisGuardians of King's Dream Regroup in Washington 29 Aug 2013 "The dream is not dead," said Dr. Alveda King, a minister and niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as she walked into the Shiloh Baptist Church here Wednesday morning. "People are proving the dream is not dead. The ...
• Nidal Hasan sentenced to death for Fort Hood s ...
  ShareThisNidal Hasan sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting rampage 28 Aug 2013 Nidal Malik Hasan was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Tex., the worst mass murder at a military installation in U.S. history. Dres ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Monkey Business: Our Broken Army
  20 August 2013 The senior sergeant at the Army’s Warrior Adventure Quest (WAQ) at Fort Hood has been fired after allegedly endangering the lives of Boy Scouts. The accusation comes from a staff member at WAQ who claims that the Army Master Sergeant abused his position while using Army kayaks ...
• Utah beauty queen accused of throwing bombs re ...
  15 August 2013 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-bomb-boys-book-project?c=activity
• The Basis for Safe, Secure, and Effective Glob ...
  13 August 2013 Article written by: Atmospherics Unlimited The following is an excerpt from the Atmospherics Unlimited White Paper titled: Atmospherics in Fragile and Conflict Zones: The Basis for Safe, Secure, and Effective Global Operations. The full white paper will soon be available for down ...
• Lavabit
  09 August 2013 www.lavabit.com
• Jalalabad Urination: Facebook Censorship
    06 August 2013 On Saturday a suicide attack unfolded near the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.  A dozen people were reported killed with another twenty wounded.   Eight of the killed were reported to be children. The next day, 04 August, another bomb explode ...

The Killing Train

• Update: Day 11 consular meeting
  Aug 27, 5:20pm From http://tarekandjohn.com/2013/08/27/day-11-update/ It’s Day 11, and today Tarek and John were able to meet with consular officials for a meeting. Their morale and health continues to be good, which is encouraging. John & Tarek were also given updates about the internationa ...
• NYT on Tarek and John
  Aug 25, 8:50am The NYT mentioned Tarek and John's case in an article about the widening crackdown in Egypt In general, for coverage about Tarek and John, support statements, and updates, please follow tarekandjohn.com. Here at podur.org, we will only be posting updates and statements from the po ...
• Update: CBC interview with our lawyer
  Aug 23, 8:15am A representative from our law firm, Khaled El Shalakany, spoke with the CBC yesterday, summarizing Tarek and John's legal situation and the visit made to them yesterday at Tora prison. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/08/22/canadians-detained-egypt-lawyer-visit.html We cont ...
• Update: We have retained Egyptian counsel, an ...
  12:30pm, August 21/13 We have hired Shalakany Law Office (www.shalakany.com) to represent Tarek and John. One of our lawyers, Adam Khaled El Shalakany, has agreed to speak to media on legal aspects of the case. Our lawyers have confirmed for us that the Film Makers Syndicate has filed a complai ...
• Update: Replying to far-fetched allegations, c ...
  1:30pm, Aug 20/13 Today a district prosecutor in Cairo sent a press release to domestic Egyptian media outlets referring to the detention for 15 days of nine foreigners -- 4 Irish, 2 Syrian, 1 Turkish, and 2 Canadian -- pending investigation into a wide-ranging list of allegations concerning eve ...

treehugger

• Cool corner! Montreal intersection shows how t ...
  Friend of TreeHugger Clarence Eckerson was on vacation in Montréal recently, on what else but a bike ride to get ice cream when he discovered a cool spot at the corner of Fairmount Avenue & Rue Clark.
• U.S. Bike-Sharing Fleet More than Doubles in ...
  The United States is now home to 34 modern bike-sharing programs that allow riders to easily make short trips on two wheels without having to own a bicycle.
• Toyota offering big discount on electric RAV4 ...
  The Toyota RAV4 EV, which unfortunately is only available in small numbers in California, has just become more affordable, at least temporarily.
• The Ugly Animal Preservation Society
  Aesthetically challenged animals need love too.
• Making Fair Trade a Reality
  The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is being negotiated in secret and has major implications for the environment and public health.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burma and the politics of ASEAN slogans
  Burma is confident that it can become a catalyst for change in ASEAN when it takes the chair in 2014, but its domestic strife is likely to dominate the agenda
• Parliament approves plan to accept US$260 mill ...
  The 40-year loan – at a fixed 0.75 percent interest rate – would be used to develop the communications sector and to improve schools.
• NLD plans nationwide youth conference
  Burma’s main opposition party says it plans to convene a nationwide youth conference in December or January to empower a younger generation of political activists to prepare for leadership positions in the future.
• Home deliveries in rural Burma
  Due to a chronic shortage of midwives in Burma, expectant mothers are being put at risk from complications during pregnancy and birth.
• Suu Kyi, Dalai Lama to speak at Czech human ri ...
  Burma's opposition leader and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, both Nobel peace laureates, may meet privately during the forum - a meeting that would most likely anger China.

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climate change may make Greenland greener by 2100
  Climate change could bring about the greening of Greenland by the end of the century, scientists predict.     
• Philippines flooding: torrential monsoon rains ...
  Torrential monsoon rains bring capital Manila to a standstill.     
• Climate change: forecast for 3001: floods and ...
  Climate scientists have concluded that temperatures could jump by up to 9F (5C) and sea levels could rise by up to 2ft 8ins (82cm) by the end of the century, according to a leaked draft of a United Nations report.     
• Climate change: forecast for 2100 is floods an ...
  Climate scientists have concluded that temperatures could jump by up to 9F (5C) and sea levels could rise by up to 2ft 8ins (82cm) by the end of the century, according to a leaked draft of a United Nations report.     
• Communities are still powerless to stop wind farms
  Telegraph View: The Government must add greater weight to its promise to let local people fight their corner     

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- August 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 ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Richie Havens – “Freedom” Freedom. Havens was the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock concert and his performance of Freedom was one of the highlights of the event. He passed away this year and his family went back and scattered his ashes across the Woodstock site. So tonight, kick back and listen ...

Afro Spear

• Guess who’s coming to dinner with a pois ...
  Last night at ap. 8pm, we were asked to leave the Lone Star Texas Grill at 930 Dixon Road, Etobicoke …Continue reading »
• “Rwanda can still talk to FDLR and move ...
  Franz Fanon in the Wretched of the Earth said, “The last battle of the colonized against the colonizer will often …Continue reading »
• sat’day riddymz
• The Intellectual Guise of Black on Black Hate ...
  Recently a friend was ranting to me about a segment of The O’Reilly Factor he had watched, where a conservative African-American …Continue reading »
• Reading, Writing and Respect.
  In the classroom, Black children can often be treated like second class citizens. I learned the hard way that often …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

• Bergman: Shin Bet’s Project Ulysses Planted Je ...
  Sixty years ago, the Shin Bet devised one of the strangest operations in its history (and the archives are filled with some very strange ones!).  It planted Jewish agents deep undercover inside Palestinian communities.  For 15 years these men became Palestinian: they married Palestinian wives, r ...
• German Report That Israel’s NSA Affirms Syria ...
  I am as skeptical as the next guy about reports like this for obvious reasons.  But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be taken seriously.  The German weekly, Focus, is reporting (here is an English language summary) that a “former Mossad officer” tells them that IDF Unit 8 ...
• IDF Failures in Lebanon Continue
  There have been two recent incidents involving IDF assaults on Lebanese targets which ended in failure.  Given the even greater failures of the 2006 Lebanon war in which Israel lost over 100 civilian and military dead, its soldiers were largely  outmaneuvered by dogged Hezbollah veterans, and mo ...
• Prospect for U.S. Military Intervention in Syr ...
  Pres. Obama and his advisors have begun speaking publicly, albeit in muted terms so far, of the prospect for a Kosovo-style military intervention in Syria to punish Bashir Assad’s government for alleged use of chemical weapons.  The example of Kosovo brings up reminders of the 78-day air w ...
• Iron Dome Fails to Intercept Rockets Fired fro ...
  Yesterday, Lebanese militants fired four rockets from south of Tyre into northern Israel. One landed in Lebanon. Of the remaining three that hit the western Galilee, Iron Dome only intercepted one (Hebrew). That’s a success rate of 33%. Not the 80-85%% the IDF boasts. Here is a further art ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Beer TV
  Hmmm….. Things are looking up for Delaware’s Dogfish Head. Not only were recently voted America’s best craft brewery over at the Daily Meal, there are also murmurs that a sitcom is in the works based on the brewery’s founders, Sam and Mariah Calagione. The show would feature funnyman Ken M ...
• A Metaphor for Conservative America
  Oh dear: A special spirit day at Oral Roberts University took a tragicomical turn last week when a bald eagle released into the school’s Christ Chapel by a professional handler crashed into a window just as students began chanting “USA! USA!” The eagle was unharmed, but many of ...
• Fuck a Duck Dynasty!
  I click on over to Roy’s place every day. I swear to Satan’s testicles, every other post is about “Duck Dynasty.” This is not Roy’s fault: he covers the wingnut beat…and apparently this show is powered by nothing but clean-burning wingnut fap-power. The conser ...
• Black Beauty
  Recently, I enjoyed listening to these two songs: What do they have in common? Well, they are both celebrations of Black beauty. These songs resonate with me a crazy amount. They resonate with me because I’m a woman and I know what it’s like to constantly feel as if your looks are be ...
• America’s Deadliest Job
  I’m sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America’s most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history of worker safety in logging. Sadly, things aren’t always so different today: On August 28 ...

Desert Research Institute

• Nevada researchers collaborate to preserve Lak ...
  From Tahoe's mountaintops to the lake's sandy bottom, scientists from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. Read more...
• New ice core data helps explain Antarctica's l ...
  New, annually resolved ice-core measurements collected from West Antarctica and  partially developed by researchers at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute show warming in Antarctica began approximately 4,000 years earlier than previoulsy suggested. Read more...
• Celebrating DRI’s unique Storm Peak Laboratory
  On Friday, August 9th in Steamboat Springs, Colorado DRI will celebrate nearly $1 million in upgrades and renovations to the Institute’s high-elevation, mountain-top atmospheric sciences lab, and honor Steamboat Ski Resort with DRI’s 2014 President’s Medal.
• Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
  Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
• A new understanding of the North American monsoon
  Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...

Earth Techling

• A Look Into The Nissan Leaf’s Top 15 US Markets
  Nissan offers up some interesting insights into regional sales of its Leaf, giving food for thought for how EVs in general are doing in different markets.
• This Eco-Friendly ‘Homeshell’ Was Built In A D ...
  The cheerful, modern home boast lots of eco-friendly features, changing the myth that affordable homes have to be boring.
• EV Charging Gets Another Solar Powered Solution
  A new solar powered electric car charger includes on-board energy storage and tracks the sun's movements to maximize solar energy potential.
• How Chinese Solar Continues To Get Less Expensive
  Here's how Chinese firms will produce solar for 36 cents per watt.
• New Way To Install Solar With No Holes For Racks
  A Florida company is doing big commercial solar installations without penetrating the roof; instead, it uses sprayed urethane to hold array stands upright.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Claims Chief Denounces BP's 'Uncorroborated' F ...
  The administrator of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement fund has denied BP PLC's latest allegations of potential fraud among members of an appeals panel that reviews claims and involving an employee in a customer center in Alabama.
• Washington University Schooling Attorneys in B ...
  Attorneys at Husch Blackwell have teamed up with the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law to launch a training program for partners that will focus on business strategy and economics, leadership development and client relationships.
• EEOC, Mexican Government Team Up on Worker Rights
  Just because you're an undocumented worker, that doesn't mean you have no civil rights. That's the message from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Mexican government.
• Equatorial Guinea Ordered to Pay Firm For Expenses
  A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday awarded Lanny Davis's lobbying and crisis management firm nearly $160,000 for unpaid expenses incurred while working for the government of Equatorial Guinea.
• Court: Paralyzing Man During Drug Search Viola ...
  Police suspected that a man named Felix Booker was concealing contraband inside his body. They arrested him on a drug charge and later, against his will, a doctor paralyzed him for eight minutes to take a look. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit agreed that the search went too far a ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Wind Turbines Clutter the North German Countryside
  German wind turbines dominate the countryside. Most reach more than 400 feet into the sky, taller than the Statue of Liberty, some stand more than 550 feet high to the top of the blade
• 'The Stage' Announces New Face and New Enterta ...
  During the summer The Stage has been remodeling physically and has also been preparing for their grand fall reopening. The Stage is a restaurant with live performing celebrity impersonators, bands, comedians and more.
• Could a Dark Horse in the New York Mayoral Pri ...
  Quinn, like Mayor Bloomberg, affirms the industry as a valuable source of jobs but critics say the largely foreign carriage drivers are not even legal American workers and lack basic empathy toward their equine charges.
• 'Farmweek' Reports on Corn, Catfish, Bugs and ...
  The TV show 'Farmweek' reports every week on something related to farming, agriculture, local folk, national events and more. This week corn, catfish and bugs are featured.
• US Calls For Restraint Amid Escalating Clashes ...
  Reports say M23 resorting to violence has resulted in civilian casualties, attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO), and significant population displacements.

environment 360

• Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A D ...
  Increasingly common in Europe, municipal “waste-to-energy” incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste. BY NATE SELTENRICH
• Illegal Slash-and-Burn Fires Causing Smog Prob ...
  Skies above Indonesia have been blanketed with smog as wildfires burn throughout its forests. Ignoring Click to enlarge Smog above Indonesia (Photo credit: NASA) environmental laws, companies are using the practice of slash-and-burn to clear land for palm oil plantations. Not only do th ...
• Mexican Gray Wolves Granted Increased Protecti ...
  The U.S. government has agreed to expand the territory where a small population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. can be protected and reintroduced. USFWS Mexican gray wolf Under a pair of agreements with the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish & Wi ...
• Ocean Acidification Could Amplify Global Warmi ...
  The increasing acidification of the world’s oceans caused by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide not only poses a threat to marine creatures, but also could lead to an intensification of planetary warming, according to a new study. A team of U.S., British, and German researchers ...
• On a Remote Island, Lessons In How Ecosystems ...
  Transformed by British sailors in the 19th century, Ascension Island in the South Atlantic has a unique tropical forest consisting almost entirely of alien species. Scientists say that what has happened there challenges some basic assumptions about ecosystems and evolution. BY FRED PEARCE

Red Ice Creations

• Inspectors In Syria Forbidden From Finding Out ...
  The [weapons inspection] team must be able to conduct a full, thorough and unimpeded investigation. However, the team is only mandated to determine if chemical weapons were used, not who used them. In other words, even if it was the rebels who carried out the attack, it will still be used as an ...
• Cancer Patients Screwed Over By UK Cannabis Laws
  Today’s blog is all about weed, or at least the insanity of the British Government who refuse to accept the myriad of scientific evidence that shows cannabis to be a relatively harmless drug if used by responsible adults (especially compared to tobacco, alcohol, caffeine and hard drugs), and tha ...
• Pet-Keeping and Animal Sacrifice as Seen Econ ...
  Pet-keeping and animal sacrifice in antiquity were common practices. How the animals were treated can often be seen archaeologically. By most modern standards, household pets such as cats and dogs are looked at as companion animals. It can be assumed that some people in the past acquired a simil ...
• Monsanto’s Glyphosate: Impacts on Human Health ...
  Scientist Warns of Dire Consequences with Widespread Use The December/January 2010 issue of The Organic & Non-GMO Report featured an interview with Robert Kremer, an adjunct professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri, whose research showed negative environmental im ...
• Medieval Poison Ring Discovered In Bulgaria
  Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ring they believe was used to assassinate rivals during the 14th century. The medieval poison ring was discovered at Cape Kaliakra near the town of Kavarna, along Bulgaria’s northern Black Sea Coast. Researchers who found the ring believe it i ...

Not My Tribe

• If Syria could defend itself would these color ...
  So there’s a little good news as the ambush of Syria gains momentum. It’s unlikely to be true, but let’s indulge ourselves for a mo. It’s being reported that Russia will jump to Syria’s defense by attacking the Saudis, and that Iran would retaliate against Israel. B ...
• No! No War On Syria! Bad Dog of War! Bad Dog! ...
  The carnage in Syria should “shock our conscience” really? It’s fraternity hazing compared to US collateral atrocities. And how simply grotesque for an American statesman to accuse anyone of “moral obscenity”. Is the USG so sure another Maning or Snowden isn’t ...
• UN inspectors find discarded Kuwaiti incubator ...
  IF the bodies in Syrian videos purporting to document a chemical attack aren’t littering hospital floors like so many fictional Kuwaiti incubator babies, we are compelled to ask who unleashed the chemicals? Bashir Assad? The rebels? Our “rebels”? The odds favor us and even our ...
• “In the footsteps of Martin Luther King& ...
  Another million pawn march, to nowhere, commemorating the corporate brand of “MLK” sterilized of instructional efficacy, sanitized of King’s ultimate demands: jobs, economic justice, peace. This weekend’s 50th anniversary of the dream speech was the usual reminder that pr ...
• Florida open season on black teenagers
  George Zimmerman has been found NOT GUILTY of chasing and shooting dead a black teenager for being a “fucking punk”. Now what? George W. Bush got away with murder, he and Zimmerman are peas in the same simian-eyed pod. Yes a Mack Truck might have been as good as a guilty verdict agai ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 911 Truth Graffiti Bombing - WTC7 Awareness
  The next level of 9/11 TRUTH street activism. For a second time, a local news channel has been compelled to explain the collapse of WTC7 to the public, as a direct result of the graffiti. The War on Terror and the loss of civil liberties is the direct result of the false flag 911 attacks. On ...
• Answering Youtube Troll ctcole77's '3 QUESTION ...
  3 QUESTIONS 911 TRUTHERS DON'T WANT YOU TO ASK THEM:  Question: Why did Dr. Steven Jones circumvent the peer review process by not showing his nanothermite paper to the chief editor and printing it without her approval. Answer:  In April 2009, an international team of scientists ...
• Conspiracy theory FAQ, part 1
  Saturday, 10 August 2013 James Rocket   Conspiracy theory FAQ, part 1 When confronted with hard evidence showing government complicity into the september 11th attacks, debunkers and other such apologists will forward a great variety of a-priori arguments that&nbs ...
• Truth and Accountability for TWA Flight 800 Pl ...
  To: Deborah Hersman, Chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) TWA Flight 800 was a commercial 747 aircraft that exploded in midair and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1996. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a missile, or some kind of streaking object, in the sky at the same ...
• Chemical Engineer Mark Basile and Other Profes ...
  To help Mark Basile finish the work he spoke of doing in the video, visit: http://markbasile.org

Fooducate

• Feeding Therapy: Determining WHY a Child is a ...
• 9 Foods to Avoid When Pregnant
• Why You Should Take a Short Walk After Eating
• Move Over Brown Rice, Super Duper Red Rice is Here
• 3 Things You Should Know About Pre-Washed Sala ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

• Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
• Euro Krieg! Greece Surrenders to Germany 2013 ...
  By Michael Nevradakis for Truthout In his career as an investigative journalist, economist, and bestselling author -Vultures' Picnic, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast has not been afraid to tackle some of the most powerful names in politics and fina ...
• Billionaires & Ballot Bandits The Movie trailer
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• An Open Letter to Trayvon Martin's Father
  By Greg Palast for Truthout Dear Mr. Martin, I have a 16-year old son. I cannot imagine losing him because some beast decided to play Lone Ranger. And so, with cautious humility, I make this suggestion, this plea. Sue the beast. You must. I understand you are reluctant to launch another painful ...
• The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Y ...
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a cliff. This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged wi ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: Texas, Connecticut, Oklahoma
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. Aug 27, 2013, NBC News: Measles outbreak strikes North Texas Aug 27, 2013, Hartford (CT) Courant: The First 10 Years Of Cash'an's Autism Challenge Aug 27, 2013, News 9 Oklahoma City:...
• Dachel Media Update: Skinny Babies & Toxicity, ...
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. August 27, 2013, WAMC Albany, NY: Dr. Molly Losh, Northwestern University - Birth Weight and Autism August 26, 2013, Carlisle (PA) Sentinel: Doctor: Request for vaccination exemptions 'frequent' WAMC Albany, NY...
• The CDC Buys and Distributes Heavy Metal Mercu ...
  By Jim Thompson The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a division of the United States Public Health Service. According to this 2012 report to congress, the “CDC is dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life...
• Autism from the Sibling Perspective: Sarasota ...
  By Natalie Palumbo I am 19, a first year Motion Design major at Ringling College of Art and Design, and my older brother has low-verbal autism. A little over a week ago, I moved into my college dorm, and so...
• Dachel Media Update: Measles, Myths, Why Not HBOT
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. August 26, 2013, Fox News: Traits of autism seen in some kids with ADHD August 25, 2013, KOMO-TV Seattle: Health officials: Child with measles visited U-District restaurant August 24, 2013, Fredericksburg...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• Living in a Genetically Contaminated World
  It seems that the rest of the world is catching up to what a few of us have known for quite some time, and that is, “organic” is not necessarily “organic.” The “organic” status of any product appears to rest solely on the honesty and integrity of the company selling the product, and not on the l ...
• Take Back Your Power – Say NO to Smart Meters!
  It is up to you to protect your home and your rights. Knowledge is power, and together we are a powerful force. Homeowners, experts, doctors, local governments, environmentalists and health organizations around the world are saying NO to “smart” meters.
• Leaked Documents: U.S. Framed Syria in Chemica ...
  On August 21st, 2013 chemical weapons were used the Syrian conflict yet again. Western powers, the U.S. and France in particular enthusiastically didn't hesitate for even a moment to take advantage of the tragedy, decrying it as a crime against humanity and using it as a springboard to announce ...
• Syria’s Reichstag Moment
  This is what happens to those who say no the central banking cartel.
• Disarm Or Get Out
  If the liberal establishment is not successful in getting us to give up our guns directly, the next strategy is to administratively create gun free zones which dictate where you may possess a gun including in your home.

new geography

• Plan Bay Area: Telling People What to Do
  The San Francisco area’s recently adopted Plan Bay Area may set a new standard for urban planning excess. Plan Bay Area, which covers nearly all of the San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Vallejo and Napa metropolitan areas, was recently adopted by the Metropolitan Transportation Commi ...
• Root Causes of Detroit’s Decline Should Not Go ...
  Recently Detroit, under orders from a state-appointed emergency manager, became the largest U.S. city to go bankrupt. This stirred predictable media speculation about why the city, which at 1.8 million was once America’s 5th-largest, declined in the first place. Much of the coverag ...
• America Hanging in There Better Than Rivals
  To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, and public opinion remains distinctly negative, with nearly half of Americans saying China has already leapfrogged us and nearly 60 per ...
• 125 Years of Skyscrapers
  Skyscrapers have always intrigued me. Perhaps it began with selling almanacs to subscribers on my Oregon Journalpaper route in Corvallis. I have continued to purchase almanacs each year and until recently, the first thing I would do is look in the index for "Buildings, tall” in th ...
• Children and Cities
  Central cities are not likely to regain their former population. However, some of them may have reached an important inflection point—population growth has returned to at least some of the largest (and longest-declining) cities. For example, New York City’s population has increased by ...

water.org

• Blog: A new well in Haiti
  The last week of July, I visited the central plateau of Haiti, to attend an event in the small community of Belanje. With the energy of excitement and ceremony in the air, you could mistake the event for a wedding or church revival, but that's not the case. Instead, we're here to open and dedica ...
• Lakshimi's Water Connection
  Lakshimi lives in the Anna Nagar slum of Hyderabad city. She is 35 years old and has two children. Lakshimi and her husband, like several others in the slum, work as construction laborers.
• Water for Girmawit Alema
  The shortage of safe water has been a critical problem for the people living in the rural village of Kokeb Tsibah (Gradender), located in Wereda Gulo-Mekeda. In the absence of a better option, the community has been drinking water from an unprotected source for a long period of time.
• The Impact of Water Committees
  Drinking water is not free in Haiti. Infrastructure is expensive and in order to ensure long-term sustainability, users must contribute financially in order to support things like administration and ongoing maintenance. The presence of a water committee gives people a voice in creating solutions ...
• Neelamma’s Water Tap
  Neelamma has struggled for years without a water connection at home, suffering from skin conditions contracted through contaminated water and walking long distances to find water sources. At 37, Nelamma is divorced, has a 3 year old daughter, and lives with her parents in Mariyala village, Chama ...

Cryptogon

• Nissan: Multiple Autonomous Drive Vehicle Mode ...
  Via: Nissan: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that the company will be ready with multiple, commercially-viable Autonomous Drive vehicles by 2020. Nissan announced that the company’s engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from ...
• Researcher Controls Colleague’s Finger i ...
  Via: University of Washington: University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher. Using electrical brai ...
• And Now… ‘Israeli Intelligence Int ...
  Oh sure. Via: Guardian: The bulk of evidence proving the Assad regime’s deployment of chemical weapons – which would provide legal grounds essential to justify any western military action – has been provided by Israeli military intelligence, the German magazine Focus has reported. The 8200 ...
• Syrian Rebels Told to Expect Western-Led Strik ...
  I don’t know, so I’ll ask you guys. Read about the Britam Defence hack that occurred back in January and then vote below. My guess is that there’s just about zero chance that such a conversation would be stored anywhere in cleartext. But then again… Here we are. Via: CBC: ...
• Facebook Friends Could Change Your Credit Score
  Via: CNN: Choose your Facebook friends wisely; they could help you get approved — or rejected — for a loan. A handful of tech startups are using social data to determine the risk of lending to people who have a difficult time accessing credit. Traditional lenders rely heavily on cred ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• Cyanothece 51142 : photosynthesis during the d ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130824131517.htm Creating Plants That Make Their Own Fertilizer Aug. 24, 2013 — Since the dawn of agriculture, people have exercised great ingenuity to pump more nitrogen into crop fields. Farmers have planted legumes and plowed the entire & ...
• It’s still unclear “whether, or ho ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826100118.htm Carbon-Sequestering Ocean Plants May Cope With Climate Changes Over the Long Run Aug. 26, 2013 — A year-long experiment on tiny ocean organisms called coccolithophores suggests that the single-celled algae may still be able ...
• Reducing water use could extend aquifer’ ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130826180523.htm Future Water Levels of Crucial Agricultural Aquifer Forecast Aug. 26, 2013 — If current irrigation trends continue, 69 percent of the groundwater stored in the High Plains Aquifer of Kansas will be depleted in 50 years. &#82 ...
• With irrigation Africa could feed the world (E ...
  Read at : http://www.endinghunger.org/en/educate/pump_it_up_africa.html Pump it up, Africa! With irrigation Africa could feed the world This may sound surprising, considering nearly 239 million people on the continent are hungry, but 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land is in &#823 ...
• Is the spineless variety of the prickly pear c ...
  Today, I received an interesting comment on my video : http://www.instructables.com/id/Spineless-Opuntia-to-Combat-Desertification/ Spineless Opuntia to Combat Desertification “This spineless, edible cactus is a very interesting plant for smallholder farmers in the drylands.  Easy to grow ...

News Blaze

• Wind Turbines Clutter the North German Countryside
  German wind turbines dominate the countryside. Most reach more than 400 feet into the sky, taller than the Statue of Liberty, some stand more than 550 feet high to the top of the blade
• 'The Stage' Announces New Face and New Enterta ...
  During the summer The Stage has been remodeling physically and has also been preparing for their grand fall reopening. The Stage is a restaurant with live performing celebrity impersonators, bands, comedians and more.
• Could a Dark Horse in the New York Mayoral Pri ...
  Quinn, like Mayor Bloomberg, affirms the industry as a valuable source of jobs but critics say the largely foreign carriage drivers are not even legal American workers and lack basic empathy toward their equine charges.
• 'Farmweek' Reports on Corn, Catfish, Bugs and ...
  The TV show 'Farmweek' reports every week on something related to farming, agriculture, local folk, national events and more. This week corn, catfish and bugs are featured.
• US Calls For Restraint Amid Escalating Clashes ...
  Reports say M23 resorting to violence has resulted in civilian casualties, attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO), and significant population displacements.

libcom

• Social cleansing in Tower Hamlets: interview w ...
  tower.jpg James Butler interviews Sara, a single-parent in Tower Hamlets, East London, which illustrates the impossible situation especially social housing tenants are being put in, squeezed on both s ...
• A call for an international campaign against c ...
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• Marikana one year later
  Niren Tolsi is, along with Kwanele Sosibo, widely considered to be South African's leading journalist. He has followed many stories of popular resistance, and state repression over the years. On 16 August 2013, the one year anniversary of the Marikana ...
• My adventures with Interpol
  On 22 August 2012, the anti-fascist Pyotr Silaev was arrested in Grenada. He is an activist in anti-governmental protests, and the author of the book “Exodus” (published in Finland, Greece, Italy and Germany), under the pseudonym DJ Stalingrad. ...
• Gas blowout on Total’s Elgin field: letter fro ...
  800px-CromartyOilPlatform.JPG This letter from North Sea oil worker NEIL ROTHNIE, a long-standing trade union activist, was sent today to Reclaim the Power, who together with No Dash For Gas and local ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• The Lessons of the Bonus Army – 1932
  This is a most powerful story – a story largely unknown by the American people.   This sordid part of American history exposes so much truth – truth that is extremely important to understand in today’s world. To the Jewish/Ashkenazi International Banking Cartel (the House of Ro ...
• Mormon Author Denver Snuffer Facing Mormon &#8 ...
  Many people will not think this story such a “big deal” – but they are mistaken, for this story is truly a microcosm of the SATANIC MINDSET currently in charge of the NSA, DHS, and the CIA (as well as most other FedGov operations).   It is the driving force behind the “Sc ...
• Mormonism – the Absolute King of Satan&# ...
  I was born into a devout LDS (Mormon) family on Sept. 28, 1959.   This is what is known in Mormon lingo as “born under the ‘covenant’.   I served as a missionary for two full years in Upstate New York, where I was a mission leader (Assistant to the Mission President, and Zone L ...
• The National Satanic Alliance – (NSA) an ...
  Why is the massive new NSA Data Collection Center being built in Utah?   Cheap electric power?  Nope.   Gullible, trusting, citizenry who don’t question authority?  You’re getting warmer.   It’s doubtful any other local population would be anywhere near as docile about such a f ...
• NSA Atrocities – Part III – Brain ...
  Truth is stranger than fiction, my friends. There is a reason why the massive NSA “Data Collection Center” is located in Utah.   Make no mistake – the NSA is not about keeping America safe.   The truth is, it is without a doubt TARGETING AMERICA for totally tyranny and mass min ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Tom Mulcair, Leader of the Opposition
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with the Leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair to discuss the major political issues facing Canada today and what Mr. Mulcair's party, the NDP, would do differently in Ottawa.
• Father Thomas Rosica
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Father Thomas Rosica to discuss the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the process of electing a new Pope.
• Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater (Feb 9, 2013
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan as he prepares for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
• Mark Burnett, television producer (Feb 2, 2013)
  Peter talks about television, fame and chasing the American Dream with the king of reality TV.
• Chris Hadfield, astronaut (Jan 26, 2013)
  Peter talks to the Canadian Astronaut from his current home in space aboard the International Space Station.

Energy Collective

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• The Subterfuge of Syrian Chemical Weapons
  By Nicola Nasser* The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on this August 26 removed the sword of the alleged Syrian chemical weapons from its sheath and let the snow ball of this subterfuge for a military aggression on Syria roll unchecked, raising the stakes from asking whether “it will h ...
• John Kerry's Colin Powell Moment
  by Stephen Lendman All wars are based on lies. Truth prevents them from being waged. America hasn't waged a legal one since WW II. What's now ongoing bears eerie resemblance to events preceding Bush's Iraq war. Waging them requires pretexts to do so. When none exists, they're inven ...
• Cheerleading War
  by Stephen Lendman When America goes to war or plans one, media scoundrels march in lockstep. Might justifies right. Imperial priorities are suppressed. Wars of aggression are called liberating ones. Bombs away is called humanitarian intervention. Nations are destroyed to free them. Plun ...
• Prince Bandar and Zionist lobby partnering to ...
  Franklin Lamb Tehran The Bandar-Zionist lobby collaboration, currently the cocktail party talk of many in Washington, is not a case of strange bedfellows given three decades of mutual cooperation which started during Prince Bandar’s long tenure as Saudi ambassador in Washington. Based ...
• War on Syria Looms
  by Stephen Lendman Russia's gone all out to prevent it. Best efforts aren't working. Last Wednesday's false flag explains. It's pretext for waging war. Dmitry Rogozin is Moscow's former NATO envoy. He's currently Deputy Prime Minister. He said belligerent Western powers treat Muslim ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Doctors and MacLean's team up in Winnipeg ...
  Doctors are demonstrating their ethical duty to patients by working towards a society in which everyone has an opportunity to lead a healthy life. Last winter, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and MacLean’s magazine hosted a series of town hall meetings, including one at the Winnipeg Art G ...
• Join CCPA-NS (and Karl Marx) for a special fal ...
  Join CCPA's Nova Scotia Office for a very special fall fundraiser. This year's event features Cape Breton's George MacKenzie performing as Karl Marx (returning to defend his life and his work) in the Howard Zinn play, Marx in Soho. Tickets to the event include a savoury Italian meal, and admiss ...
• Affordable Housing in Winnipeg
  Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in discussion of housing, and a broader awareness that something needs to chan ...
• CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
  On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...
• CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
  On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• No, a 14-year-old was not “as much in co ...
  A judge has apologized for his comments about a teen rape victim who committed suicide, but the words still sting
• Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death
  Nidal Hasan killed 13 people on the Texas military base in 2009 shooting rampage
• Kitchen spices found to be a major source of s ...
  A new USDA report traces food poisoning to imported spices
• Zimmerman’s wife guilty of perjury
  The wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter had falsely told the court her family was indigent
• Over half requests for Facebook user data came ...
  Facebook report: U.S. made up to 12,000 requests for information on 20,000-plus individuals in six months

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Carbon Dioxide Problem Worsens
  Introduction This is the 6th and final installment in a series that examines data from the 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP The US is the Gassiest ...
• King Coal Gets Fatter, While The US Goes on a Diet
  Introduction This is the 5th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Next week’s installment will be on carbon dioxide emissions, and that will wrap up the series. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Upd ...
• The Gassiest Country
  Introduction This is the 4th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP Today’s ...
• The State of Oil According to BP
  This is the 3rd installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts - Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 and Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on renewables. This post delves into ...
• Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013
  This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower and geothermal power. Some of the ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Code Club World
  Comments:Great collection of resources for anyone interested in starting an after-school programming club for kids in upper elementary. Lesson plans, student tasks, much more! - Randy RodgersTags: programming, code, coding, elementary, edtechby: Randy Rodgers
• Homeschool Conference Webinar Resources : Corn ...
  Tags: resources;, citizen, scientistby: Jackie Gerstein
• Free Technology for Teachers: Active Textbook ...
  Tags: freetech4teachers, textbook, multimedia, documents, techbooksby: Dean Mantz
• The Step-By-Step iPad Workflow For Teachers - ...
  Tags: iPad, workflow, googledrive, edudemic, sharedfilesby: Dean Mantz
• 170 Online Ebooks for Young Kids | mattBgomez
  Tags: online, ebooks, kids, mattgomez, elementaryby: Dean Mantz

Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Information Liberation

• Police Harass Man at His Home For Filming
  HonorYourOath gets harassed by police at his home and threatened with jail for filming some corrections officers on the side of the road down the street from his house. Rather than give into their intimidation, he responds by asking for the cops' ...
• Police Punch Pregnant Woman & Bodyslam Her Fac ...
  ROCHESTER, NY -- An officer for the Rochester Police Department was recorded on video getting punching a pregnant woman in the back of the head and a body-slamming her face first into a sidewalk. The woman was yelling loudly and not complying wi...
• We're All Edward Snowden Now
  In the last several days, I've had three phone conversations with friends * completely normal people who have their wits about them * during which they have declined to say something for fear of government surveillance. They will be talking normally ...
• This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
  Two Texas cops lose their jobs, a California jail guard gets busted at the playground, a Tennessee sheriff's lieutenant cops to slinging pain pills, and an Arizona Customs officer is headed for the pen. Let's get to it: In Blue Mound, Texas, one B...
• John Kerry Says Ignore ALL Syria-Related Consp ...
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Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Unrepresentative Swill
  I said the other day I’d have more to say about Senate voting, and why I believe it has descended into an undemocratic farce. The Australian Senate is an artefact of our history. Our founding fathers in the 1890s, looking … Continue reading →
• Coasting Home
  If there was any justice, this election would already be long over. Having initially announced the election date back in January, Julia Gillard, and more latterly Kevin Rudd, have been determined to subject the nation to the political equivalent of … Continue reading →
• Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
  Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →
• No Big Deal
  Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
  This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

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

Just World News

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frogblog

• Fairness at Work – Why union members are rallying
    Today I attended the Auckland rally organised by trade unions in response to the latest moves from the government to drive down wages. Union members from the both the traditional white collar and blue collar industries – from the Public Service Association and the teachers unions to the S ...
• New tools in politics – thoughts on soci ...
  Politics has been around for thousands of years but new technologies are changing the climate of politics and helping make it a better place. As a young MP, I’ve embraced digital tools as part of my work and I‘m privileged to have a front-row seat in how it’s affecting politics.
• The elephant in the room
  On Monday I attended the powhiri and opening morning of the hearing for the proposed Mangatawhiri Coal Mine at the Mangatangi Marae. The hearing is between Glencoal (subsidiary of Fonterra) and the tangata whenua, local residents, Auckland Coal Action, Coal Action Network, the Green Party and ot ...
• Government for the Boys 2
  Yesterday I asked John Key what preparations the Government is making to respond to equal pay claims based on the 1972 Equal pay Act following the Employment Court’s decision last week? The decision, as we all know, is hugely significant for women. It means they can go to court to sue over claim ...
• Fair offer needed for Quake Outcasts and owner ...
  The recent High Court ruling that found that the Government’s offer to purchase uninsured properties and vacant land in quake-affected parts of Christchurch was not done according to the law is a huge breakthrough for a group of red-zone land owners. They have felt so alienated and disenfranchis ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

• IC 406: Ben Affleck & #TheAvengersInitiative
  Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips is a guest Kriss talking coaching Jury Duty Ben Affleck is Batman The Wolverine Broke Rod People who can’t complain about Ben Affleck as Batman Why Zach Snyder has more pressure than Affleck The problem with movie critics Episode 3 is the best Star Wars Film ...
• IC 405: Twitter Nuclear War
  Amish Mafia and bad “reality TV shows” X-Files wasn’t that good Slander Wars on Twitter The lack of a nuclear deterrent on Twitter Accepting the consequences of entering into a Mutual Assured Destruction slander war Stop asking about Scott Adkins as Batman Kriss & Kev deba ...
• IC 404: Kev’s True Baltimorean Stories
  Batman casting rumors The Flash TV Show Celebrities who did cartoon voices Sentinel or Dyson Vacuum cleaner Fox messing up comic book movies Kev True Baltimorean Stories Christian rap Share with your friends:
• IC 403: ‘Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute’ & Other ...
  The Wolverine & Fox trying to do comic book movies The Venture Brothers Gina Carano as Wonder Woman Harry Belafonte & Jay Z Social activism and black celebrities Stop blaming black people for issues affecting the black community Don Lemon and his 5 stupid tips Share with your friends:
• IC 402: Nolan’s Back
  Kriss is really excited about SDCC news Kriss goes off on nerds Kev tries to steal a man’s girlfriend…then embarrasses the dude in front of her A man that is really bad at parallel parking The horrible Gladiator 2 script Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Fossil fuels are more than just a bad habit
  While my blog so far this year has shown how clear the case for fighting climate change is, our financial dependence on fossil fuels makes this difficult. But now divestment campaigns might be giving us a way to start untangling this sticky web.
• Continuing the fight for CO2 monitoring
  Despite making critical measurements revealing how CO2 is increasing, and how it moves through nature, the tracking efforts Dave Keeling started have usually been struggling for cash, and still do today.
• Continuing the fight for CO2 monitoring
  Despite making critical measurements revealing how CO2 is increasing, and how it moves through nature, the tracking efforts Dave Keeling started have usually been struggling for cash, and still do today.
• What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
  Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.
• What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
  Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.

e!Science News

• 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, ga ...
• Milky Way gas cloud causes multiple images of ...
  For the first time, astronomers have seen the image of a distant quasar split into multiple images by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Such events were predicted as early as 1970, but the first evidence for one now has come from the National Science Foundation's ...
• Researchers aim to use light -- not electric j ...
  When a beating heart slips into an irregular, life-threatening rhythm, the treatment is well known: deliver a burst of electric current from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But because the electricity itself can cause pain, tissue damage and other serious side-effects, a Johns Hopkins-led research ...
• Woodland salamanders indicators of forest ecos ...
  Woodland salamanders are a viable indicator of forest ecosystem recovery, according to researchers from the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station. read more
• Magnetic charge crystals imaged in artificial ...
  A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the study of a relatively new class of frustrated artificial magnetic materials-by-design known as &qu ...

unEarthed

• Govt. Loses Letters, So Let's Write Back for C ...
  Save Appalachia's streams from mountaintop removal mining Activists march by the White House in September 2012. (Chris Jordan-Bloch) We are sorry to hear ...
• Governor Reading From Polluter’s Script
  Industry, Colorado Gov. agree: drilling opponents are probably hypocrites A refinery in Denver, CO. (NREL) The oil and gas industry in Colorado has a new scri ...
• Let The River Flow - Judge Grants Salmon a Cha ...
  Corporate giants lose court battle over Klamath/Trinity rivers water A chinook salmon. (Spappy Jones / Creative Commons) There are few victories sweeter and m ...
• More Wild Bison Return Home To Montana
  Native Americans welcome animals back to where they once belonged Two of the first wild bison born last spring. (Bill Campbell) Some extra thunder rumbled int ...
• In The Spotlight: The Town That Beat Fracking
  Dryden, NY featured on national television Dryden resident Deborah Cipolla-Dennis shared her story on MSNBC. (Photo courtesy of Mary Ann Sumner) The town of D ...

Brave New Climate

• MIT competition update – 3 days left, vo ...
  Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really counts. The winner will get in front of potential implementers at the Crowds & Climate Con ...
• Vote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presente ...
  Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab at MIT. If Tom’s pitch garners the most votes, the push to get the first PRISM bui ...
• Nuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste ...
  This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the series by discussing why nuclear waste is such a valuable resource and also cleans up a few relat ...
• Nuclear Waste Part 3: Case studies
  This is the third in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1 and Part 2. Case studies in waste disposal Finland’s nuclear waste repository For many, I suspect the most compelling evide ...
• Nuclear Waste Part 2: The nuts and bolts of waste
  This is the second in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Click here for Part 1. What’s special about nuclear waste? In Part I, we found that radioactive decay in the earth’s crust is continuou ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• WATCH: Soldiers on patrol dance at Palestinian ...
  One of the more bizarre incidents of the year: two soldiers in Hebron entered a Palestinian wedding while on patrol – apparently they heard the sound of PSY’s “Gangnam Style” from outside - and started dancing with the crowd, which seemed to enjoy the spectacle. After the ...
• How Netanyahu can match Abbas’s commitme ...
  While the Palestinian president is renouncing the Palestinian right of return on Israeli television, Israel’s prime minister is announcing new settlement construction. Instead of playing to his own political base, Netanyahu could have his Sadat moment. By Aaron Magid Meeting with a delegat ...
• As Syria strike looms, Israeli embassy plays u ...
  New and old media has gone abuzz with news that a U.S. strike on Syria could come as early as Thursday. And just as Israel’s cabinet ordered a ”limited” call up of reservist soldiers, a map outlining all the threats Israel faces suddenly popped up in my social media feed, court ...
• A day of ‘law enforcement’: Upheav ...
  In the past 48 hours Israeli police have raided the renewed Palestinian villages of Iqrit and al-Araqib, banished Al-Araqib residents from their homes and tried to shut down a Tel Aviv café that serves as a hub for activists and the municipal opposition. Just two weeks ago the displaced Palestin ...
• Following right-wing attacks, museum seeks to ...
  Tel Aviv’s Eretz Israel Museum has been under increasing pressure to cancel Zochrot’s second international conference. Recently, the museum presented new conditions to the organizers, including paying for increased security and changing the wording on the event invitation. An international ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

• the new marianne stamps | the France zone at a ...
  With a new presidential term, this time with a socialist president - Francois Hollande, comes a new design of the basic definitive stamps.
• la vuelta a espana, 2013 - race to the summits ...
  With over half the stages ending on a summit, the 2013 Vuelta again is a climber's paradise. No wonder there's no Froome or Wiggins.
• on debt and politics | politics at abelard.org
  Paying off debt is not simple, but then the world is not simple.
• balance and poise, if not beauty | fun news at ...
  Training, study and perseverance, as well as physical control and concentration.
• abelard.org service announcemment
  abelard and yaks are moving to a new permanent terrain. During the process of wiring a new electronic space-yurt, abelard will be providing a very intermittent service.

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

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electric politics

• Rising Inequality
  It's becoming the age of the American Banana Republic. We haven't gotten there yet but we're heading straight for it and it's close. We should be ashamed. But parsing the policy that surrounds inequality gets complicated. Tim Noah has thus done a tremendous service by collecting the threads in h ...
• Secrets of Happiness
  Even if it often seems like we live in a rat race that doesn't mean we must be rats. Indeed, most of us have much greater latitude than we realize to be happy, or at least happier than we already are. But don't take my word for it. Cutting edge research suggests simple lifestyle alternatives tha ...
• The Graveyard Shift
  Step back from current events in the Middle East and you can see a further phase in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, coincidentally, at least from one point of view, the U.S. Empire is also entering a phase of decline, a decline from which it may never fully recover it ...
• Syria in Context
  R2P may have met its match in Syria because it's almost impossible to defend the proposition that introducing more weapons and/or troops will make anything better. Aside, however, from the immediate policy question it's worth taking a moment to think about where Syria fits into the continuum of ...
• Whose Future?
  If Susan Crawford is right about the introduction of fast fiber internet being analogous to the introduction of electricity then America is in big trouble — because a lot of other countries are getting fiber before we do. And, I suppose, possibly getting smarter faster, too... Unquestionab ...

PR News

• Tough Mudder issues first global RFP
  The military-style obstacle course event series, which raises money to help wounded veterans, is looking for a global PR AOR as it continues its international expansion.
• VA awards two healthcare contracts to Barbaricum
  The Department of Veterans Affairs has given two contracts to the DC-based firm for campaigns targeting healthcare professionals.
• DVL Public Relations & Advertising promotes two
  NASHVILLE, TN: DVL Public Relations & Advertising has promoted Betsy Edgeworth and Courtney Eller to VP.
• Ikea brings on APCO as corporate comms AOR
  The Swedish retailer has picked APCO Worldwide to handle corporate communications after a review. Lippe Taylor was the incumbent.
• Ballmer successor must clearly define Microsoft
  Technology communications leaders say Microsoft's next CEO must clearly define the company's vision for both internal and external audiences, meaning communications will be key.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Casino volunteers still needed
  Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
• Deadline Extended — Call for Delegates: Non-Po ...
  Initiative:  Non-Point Source Air Emissions Workshop Position:  ENGO Delegates ...
• Job Posting: Office and Fund Administrator, CP ...
  Position:  Office & Fund Administrator Organization:  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta Ch ...
• Proposed New AEN Environmental Regulatory Caucus
  Initiative:  Proposed Environmental Regulatory Caucus Position:  Caucus Members ...
• Alberta Caribou Action & Range Planning Multi- ...
  Initiative:  Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Cold Lake Caribou Range Position:  Two (2) ENGO Delegates and o ...

Stop NATO

• U.S. Military Intervention In Syria Means Worl ...
  National Catholic Register August 28, 2013 U.S. Military Action in Syria Could Spark World War, Syrian Bishop Warns By CNA/EWTN NEWS ALEPPO, Syria: A Catholic bishop in Aleppo has warned that U.S. and foreign military action in the war-torn country could ignite a global war, making the “tragic s ...
• Missile Strikes On Syria: Recipe For World War ...
  Daily Bhaskar August 28, 2013 Syrian missile strikes a recipe of World War III? Damascus: A missile strike on Syria will have serious consequences on the entire region. US President Barack Obama is planning a limited two-day strike on Damascus as a punishment for the chemical weapon attack, alle ...
• U.S. Attack On Syria May Cause World War III: ...
  Voice of Russia August 28, 2013 US attack on Syria may cause WWIII – Rick Rozoff AUDIO Part I: Attack on Syria will cause regional conflagration – Rick Rozoff If the West is allowed to launch military aggression in Syria, using any pretext, Iran, Russia and China and the few remaining coun ...
• China, Russia Leave Emergency Security Council ...
  Itar-Tass August 28, 2013 Russia, China leave UN SC meeting on Syria after its end, no demarche UNITED NATIONS: The permanent representatives of Russia and China to the United Nations left the closed meeting of the Security Council on Syria after its end, there was no demarche, the Russian Perma ...
• Russia: West Waging War Of Civilizations Over ...
  Xinhua News Agency August 26, 2013 Russia sees risk of “war of civilizations” in Syria MOSCOW: Moscow hoped a “war of civilizations” in Syria could be avoided, despite the fact Western powers had been moving along that path, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Mon ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• Nehru U. Students/Cultural Activists branded & ...
  [Political protests and cultural expressions of oppoosition to the repressive and undemocratic Indian state continue to grow, and the States' response continues to be: slander the opposition, call all activists "Naxals" or "Maoists", and round them up for some combination of interrogation, tortu ...
• All Who Oppose War Crimes: “We Are Brad ...
  ————————————–   Statement of the Center for Constitutional Rights: He Should Never Have Been Prosecuted August 21, 2013 – Today, in response to the sentencing of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Center for Constitutional ...
• All Who Oppose War Crimes: “We Are Brad ...
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• Statement by Bradley Manning: On Being Sentenced
  by Bradley Manning August 21, 2013 The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country ...
• Statement by Bradley Manning: On Being Sentenced
  by Bradley Manning August 21, 2013 The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• War Propaganda and Media Lies within the Syria ...
• Syria: Only Rebels Benefit from Recent Chemica ...
• Egyptian Blood on Hands of US Government
• Cynthia McKinney Supports ReThink911 Building ...
• Dragon Drags On: China's Slowdown Sends Ripple ...

Daily Tech

• Hacking the Gibson: 24 YO Scored Root on Natio ...
  Defendant also sold access to Domino's Pizza domain and other targets; enters plea deal with feds     
• Nintendo Announces Tablet-Like "2DS," Cuts Wii ...
  The 2DS will be available October 12 for $129.99 USD     
• Vermont's Only Nuclear Plant Becomes Fifth Rea ...
  America's aging nuclear is headed to the retirement home     
• Nissan to Offer Autonomous Vehicles by 2020
  The plan is to make them widely available and affordable by that time     
• Judge Proposes External Monitor in Apple eBook ...
  Apple said this would be "extremely costly and burdensome"     

Oriental Review

• Familiar twaddle precedes US military assault ...
  Dangerous, yet very familiar “Iraq-esque” twaddle has dominated the headlines ahead of a clearly premeditated military attack against Syria: “The Obama administration believes that US intelligence has established…” “…could intervene to stop Syria using s ...
• Syria: In War We Trust
  It’s been ten years since the alliance forces launched a military campaign against Iraq, the official excuse for it was a Washington fabricated claim that this country produced weapons of mass destruction. It seems that the United States supported by the “tacticians” in the Great Britain and Fra ...
• US Indicts Itself in Anti-Syrian Chemical Plot
  I watched with utter astonishment how quickly the West and the Obama regime moved to put wind into the sails of the totally bogus claims of the Syrian army using nerve gas on its own people in the Damascus suburbs when the effectiveness of its traditional counter insurgency operations have been ...
• Let us learn the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan, ...
  ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an Open Letter sent yesterday by the Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire to Rt. Hon. William Hague, British Foreign Minister, and M. Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister, to stop calling for military action against Syria which, she said, will only lead the Middle Ea ...
• “I Am Sorry That It Has Come to This&#82 ...
  Daniel Somers was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was part of Task Force Lightning, an intelligence unit. In 2004-2005, he was mainly assigned to a Tactical Human-Intelligence Team (THT) in Baghdad, Iraq, where he ran more than 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a ...

BlogHer

• Join the BlogHer Visionaries Panel!
  Do you know about the BlogHer Visionaries? It's a powerful group of 4600 articulate women who have strong opinions about everything from social media to consumer electronics to brands and products. Visionaries who opt into the program, have an opportunity to participate in the following: Produc ...
• Dear PTO, I'm Just Not That Into You
  Dear Mouthy Housewives, How can I get out of volunteering at my daughter's school without making anyone upset? Signed, Hell, No, PTO! _____________________________ Credit: elmsdweb. Dear Hell, No, PTO! Ha ha ha! Oh, man! Sorry, but I just need to sit down for a sec after reading your que ...
• Health Salad: a Roundup of Health News
  In the past two days, I've bookmarked a lot of interesting health-related articles.  They run the gamut from the brain to weight to cancer... in other words, a holistic health salad looking at all parts of the human body. Meditation LifeHacker takes a look at what happens to your brain wh ...
• How a Disney Princess Taught Me a Lesson About ...
  For a year we talked about it. We were going to meet the princesses at Disneyland just like last year. Maybe we would see Cinderella this time! Last year we met Ariel, Belle, and Princess Tiana. My little two-and-a-half-year-old Lola shyly walked up to Princess Tiana as she knelt down to greet ...
• 4 Keys to Simple, Beautiful Kitchen Entertaining
  I used to have a lot of anxiety about entertaining.  Having people over meant at least a day, if not two, of intense work and preparation. I don't know if I read too much Martha, but a dinner party was a BIG DEAL. First there was planning a menu and shopping. Then I had to clean the house, inclu ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Kidney Donor May Have Passed On Skin Cancer
        A case report provides the “first convincing evidence” for a direct donor contribution to a kidney recipient’s skin squamous cell carcinoma. Skin tumor cells with the donor genotype were found in the kidney recipient, reported Anne Janin, . ...
• 5 Herbal Teas to Have on Hand
          Because nature offers a plethora of medicinal plants, why not have ready-to-use teas on hand? With ranging benefits and rarely ever any side effects, teas are great aids for everything from a headache or inability ... Related posts:The Tulsi Plant C ...
• Illegal GMO Corn Expelled Over a Decade Ago Co ...
        According to a breaking study published in the journal, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, StarLink™ maize made by Aventis CropScience and later bought out by Bayer has infiltrated numerous Saudi Arabian crops. StarLink™ is a controversial GMO ... Rel ...
• All GMO approvals in Brazil are illegal, says ...
        It may not come as much of a surprise to our regular readers, but the biotechnology industry as we currently know it is intrinsically corrupt. And a government official-turned-whistleblower from Brazil recently admitted in a ... Related posts:Farmer Sues M ...
• 15 Foods that Kill Belly Fat Fast
            Take a look at these 15 foods that can actually help to reduce that stubborn belly fat:   1) Avocados: loaded with two nutrients that are KEY to killing belly fat: hunger-crushing fibre (11 – 17g per avocado) and ... Related posts: ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Why coal miners die on the job
  Today, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration made public the report of its investigation into the Feb. 7 death of a miner at Metinvest Group’s Affinity Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. MSHA investigators concluded: The accident occurred because the mine level West side landing gate s ...
• Earthjustice urges more letters to OSMRE
  The folks at Earthjustice have issued a response to the loss by Interior Department officials of more than 18,000 public comments on the Bush administration’s 2008 rewrite of the federal stream “buffer zone” rule … basically, the group is urging its supporters to “k ...
• OSMRE loses 18,000 public comments on stream rule
  Here’s the news that the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement waited until after the close of business on Friday to put out: The agency lost “two or three boxes” — I guess they’re not sure which — containing more than 18,000 public comment ...
• Judge defers to Corps in Ky. strip-mining case
  On the heels of last week’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers here in West Virginia, there was a ruling out of federal court in Kentucky on Friday that was less promising for opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining. In the Kentucky case, U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Ru ...
• Still more inaction on mine safety in W.Va.
  It was pretty interesting last week listening to one of West Virginia’s mine safety inspectors lament the lack of any state regulations that would have allowed him to require life-saving equipment be installed at the Affinity Mine before someone got killed. McKennis Browning, an inspector ...

Daniel Miessler

• Married 66 years, Ohio Couple Dies on Same Day
  After their father died, the Knapke children surrounded their mother — who was not lucid — and told her, "Dad’s up there waiting. They got the card game going and it’s time you got up there. Don’t stick around for us," Ted Knapke said.Ruth Knapke died that n ...
• Why People Hate Skyler from Breaking Bad
  First, there will be spoilers. … Note: If you’re wondering why I’m writing about a TV show, it’s because Breaking Bad is good art, and good art can teach us about life. … Evidently, people really hate Skyler’s character on Breaking Bad. I mean, they really hat ...
• Pale Blue Dot Animation
  Related Posts:Sam Harris on the Joe Rogan ShowMemoto Begins What Will Become LifecastingMichael Smith @rybolov DDoS TalkLandscapes, by Garry TanDODOCASEA Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISSA New Way of Thinking About Fear | TEDThe Happy Secret to Better Work | TEDEvil EvangelistsQwik ...
• Hyphens vs. Dashes
  I have a bad habit of using double hyphens as dashes. I am stopping that immediately. Hyphens Hyphens are for joining words together. There were thirty-five of them out there. Dashes A dash is generally for a pause, and is often used as a replacement for parenthesis. I doubt I’d be going&# ...
• The Irony of Opposing Government Programs
  Many are vehemently opposed to government social programs, with supposedly good reasons. They complain about inefficiency, but most importantly they claim that it’s a moral offense to ask one person to pay for services that go to someone else. It’s sad to see good people take such a ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• Imagine that the Universe is not expanding
  Wetterich's cosmon claimed to be an alternative to the Big Bang singularity, inflation, and the recent apparent expansion Image: NASA/JPL–Caltech... Most papers trying to replace the usual cosmological concepts such as dark matter and dark energy by something entirely different m ...
• 11-year-old quantum physicist enters a Texas c ...
  Mr Carson Huey-You is a 11 years old boy who plays the piano and speaks Mandarin fluently. On 9/11/2001, the 75-pound, 4-foot-7 boy who finds calculus relaxing (basketball is OK, too) wasn't born yet but he wants to become a quantum physicist. And as Fox News, TCU 360, Statesman, and ...
• Light dark matter in NMSSM and non-diagonaliza ...
  I want to mention two new papers today. First, Jonathan Kozaczuk and Stefano Profumo of Santa Cruz discuss the possibility to embed the very light, sub-\(10\GeV\) dark matter particle (indicated by some of the direct search experiments) to the Next to Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model ( ...
• Getting ready for a war against Syria
  ...robust Czechoslovak weapons unlikely to resist for too long... The civil war in Syria sucks, like most civil wars. The rebels aren't saints (and Russia accused them of using sarin gas a month ago) but it's the Syrian government that may be expected to behave more responsibly. Given the s ...
• Thiel-Kasparov debates
  If you have 52 minutes, you may want to watch this video full of intelligent enough debates between the renowned chess player Garry Kasparov (a chronic world ex-champion and a sort of a political activist in Russia) and the renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel (the founder of PayPal, the firs ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death
  A jury has sentenced U.S. army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death A jur ...
• Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death
  A jury has sentenced U.S. army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death A jur ...
• Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death
  A jury has sentenced U.S. army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan sentenced to death A jur ...
• Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of ...
  Death Squads in Iraq and Syria. The Historical Roots of US-NATO’s Covert War on Syria by Prof. James Petras, Global Research: The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support ...
• Rob Ford on pot: ‘I’ve smoked a lot’
  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford laughed as he told reporters Wednesday that he has smoked “a lot” of marijuana. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Rob Ford fired as Don Bosco Eagles head coach The Toronto Catholic District School ...

Modern Survivalism

• Is All Wheat The Same?
  Wheat is one of the staple foods that preppers keep in their food storage and is the most common grain consumed in the United States. One reason that it is chosen for emergency food storage is because wheat will ‘keep’ for a very long time if stored properly (decades). The ‘goo ...
• Psychological Preparations For Nuclear War
  Image: WikiHow The immediate psychological effects of thermonuclear explosions, surface bursts of nuclear weapons that suck millions of tons of pulverized and radioactive earth into the air, will for most be terror…   Peoples’ reactions will be stunned terror, confusion and pani ...
• Are Missiles About To Fly?
  Despite the fact that only 9% of Americans are in favor of a United States strike on Syria, it appears with near certainty that the U.S. has coiled and is about to strike. I have a bad feeling about this…   Even less than the approval rating of Congress itself ( which is 15%), only [& ...
• Paul Revere Was A Terrorist
  …at least according to the Department of Defense. A Department of Defense training manual obtained by a conservative watchdog group, JudicialWatch.org, points to the original American colonists as examples of an extremist movement. If the Department of Defense has its way, historical figur ...
• 12 Lifesaving Canning Rules
  When it is time to preserve your garden bounty, or when taking advantage of food sales, or a time of year when purchasing certain foods are fresh and plentiful, an excellent method of food preservation is ‘canning’. Before you fire up your stove and clean the dust off your canning ja ...

Fast Company

• Wieden + Kennedy Displays Workers In A Pop Art ...
  In a wry pop-up installation at Wieden + Kennedy London, real people go about real work within an optical illusion. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live in a cartoon? The London office of advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy commissioned graphic artist Emily Forgot and instal ...
• The Brave (And Profitable) New World Of Curati ...
  A small music agency from Portland Oregon, Marmoset is quickly becoming part of the solution for many independent bands trying to actually make money off their music. The problem many bands are running into is that despite substantial plays on Spotify or decent album sales, they still aren't abl ...
• Video: An Animated Explanation Of Why Music Ma ...
  The latest simple and clever video from AsapScience illustrates the happiness-generating power of music. This animation by AsapScience (no relation to rappers A$AP Mob) uses props like bananas, apes drawn in Sharpie, condoms, steaks, and lotto tickets to demonstrate the basic chemistry of ...
• Infographic: What Does Your Handwriting Say Ab ...
  Personality revealed through penmanship--look out for the loops and lines of a new coworker or love interest. Graphology--the study of handwriting--has long been considered a pseudoscience, in the same family as phrenology (in which a lumpy forehead could mean you’re a psychopath) an ...
• Zite's Personalized News App Comes To Google Glass
  Mark Johnson is possibly the only person in the world who has gone through two pairs of Google Glass in five weeks. (He chalks up the loss of his first pair to an unfortunate brunch incident.) During a recent interview with Fast Company, the CEO of personalized news app Zite was staring into the ...

Jadaliyya

• Turkey Media Roundup (August 28)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
• Egypt News Update (28 August 2013)
   [This is a collection of news updates on Egypt compiled from multiple sources by the editors.]   Shater’s Son Arrested in Dawn Raid Saad Khairat al-Shater, the twenty-three-year-old son of the Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy leader, was arrested from his home in Nasr City in a dawn rai ...
• Ahmed Maher Faces Charges of Espionage
  Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat has ordered the Emergency State Security Prosecution Office to investigate a complaint of espionage lodged against April 6 head Ahmed Maher. The complaint was lodged by head of the National Accord Party, Abdel-Aziz Fahmy who alleges that Maher described the eve ...
• Egypt Prosecution Arbitrarily Extends Detentio ...
  The Front for Defence of Egyptian Protesters accuses Egyptian Prosecution of 'arbitrarily extending detentions and limiting access to lawyers for pro-Morsi protesters'. On Wednesday, the Front for Defense of Egyptian Protesters (FDEP)–a group of Egyptian NGOs and activists providing legal suppo ...
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mediagazer

• BuzzFeed has a Medium problem (Hamish McKenzie ...
  Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: BuzzFeed has a Medium problem  —  BuzzFeed ought to thank anti-abortion group Personhood USA, which has exposed a serious flaw in the upstart publication's system.  With a BuzzFeedalicious listicle detailing why Planned Parenthood is the work o ...
• Here's why you still might not be able to reac ...
  Brian Fung / The Switch: Here's why you still might not be able to reach nytimes.com  —  By Andrea Peterson and Timothy B. Lee, Published: August 28 at 7:23 pm  —  Can you access the New York Times website at nytimes.com yet?  For many internet users, includ ...
• MPAA: Piracy Hub Hotfile Found Liable for Copy ...
  Ted Johnson / Variety: MPAA: Piracy Hub Hotfile Found Liable for Copyright Infringement  —  Cyberlocker Hotfile has been found liable for copyright infringement for housing movies and TV shows on its site, the MPAA said on Wednesday.  —  The decision from the U.S ...
• Hacked New York Times' website mostly restored ...
  Samantha Bomkamp / Chicago Tribune: Hacked New York Times' website mostly restored  —  Access to the New York Times website has been mostly restored a day after hackers claimed credit for taking over the domain and preventing visitors from accessing news stories for most of the ...
• Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video ...
  Lucas Shaw / The Wrap: Press+ Launches a Service to Make Online Video Profitable (Exclusive)  —  You can start by watching the Microsoft anti-trust trial, but shows from major entertainment companies could be next  —  Press+, which provides paywalls for the websi ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

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

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 8/27/13 - Historical Timeline: History of the ...
  borngay.procon.org – Historical Timeline: History of the Born Gay Debate & Theories of Sexual Orientation – Our updated timeline includes entries ranging from accounts of same-sex relations in ancient Greece to New Jersey banning "conversion therapy" on Aug. 19, 2013.
• 8/26/13 - Is Free Preventive Care Required und ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Is Free Preventive Care Required under Obamacare? – YES - Since Sep. 23, 2010, insurance companies have been required to cover preventive care procedures without charging their customers. See the list of covered procedures and other related information.
• 8/26/13 - Is Free Preventive Care Required und ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Is Free Preventive Care Required under Obamacare? – YES - Since Sep. 23, 2010, insurance companies have been required to cover preventive care procedures without charging their customers. See the list of covered procedures and other related information.
• 8/23/13 - Does Legal Prostitution Lead to Huma ...
  prostitution.procon.org – Does Legal Prostitution Lead to Human Trafficking and Slavery? – Read our updated question with statements from a group of German economists (pro), a South African sex workers group (con), the US State Department (pro), the Economist magazine (con), and other academics, ...
• 8/23/13 - Does Legal Prostitution Lead to Huma ...
  prostitution.procon.org – Does Legal Prostitution Lead to Human Trafficking and Slavery? – Read our updated question with statements from a group of German economists (pro), a South African sex workers group (con), the US State Department (pro), the Economist magazine (con), and other academics, ...

Truth About Our World

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

TVNZ

• California wildfire heads deeper into Yosemite
  A massive wildfire has closed a second key route into Yosemite National Park.
• Steve Marshall: 'It ain't over until the fat l ...
  I've been invited to a black tie charity dinner tonight. Attending will be former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
• Death sentence for Fort Hood killer
  A military jury has sentenced US Army Major Nidal Hasan to death by lethal injection for killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas.
• 50 years on: King's dream remains elusive - ac ...
  Thousands of marchers have gathered to commemorate "I have a dream" speech.
• 'It's time UN shouldered its responsibilities ...
  Britain is seeking authorisation from the UN to take military action against Syria.

environment 360

• Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A D ...
  Increasingly common in Europe, municipal “waste-to-energy” incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste. BY NATE SELTENRICH
• Illegal Slash-and-Burn Fires Causing Smog Prob ...
  Skies above Indonesia have been blanketed with smog as wildfires burn throughout its forests. Ignoring Click to enlarge Smog above Indonesia (Photo credit: NASA) environmental laws, companies are using the practice of slash-and-burn to clear land for palm oil plantations. Not only do th ...
• Mexican Gray Wolves Granted Increased Protecti ...
  The U.S. government has agreed to expand the territory where a small population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. can be protected and reintroduced. USFWS Mexican gray wolf Under a pair of agreements with the non-profit Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish & Wi ...
• Ocean Acidification Could Amplify Global Warmi ...
  The increasing acidification of the world’s oceans caused by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide not only poses a threat to marine creatures, but also could lead to an intensification of planetary warming, according to a new study. A team of U.S., British, and German researchers ...
• On a Remote Island, Lessons In How Ecosystems ...
  Transformed by British sailors in the 19th century, Ascension Island in the South Atlantic has a unique tropical forest consisting almost entirely of alien species. Scientists say that what has happened there challenges some basic assumptions about ecosystems and evolution. BY FRED PEARCE

oldephartte/Diigo

• Science Under Assault
  Tags: assault science Post Normal Science
• West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issue ...
  Tags: native news environmental world
• Fracking Canada - INDUSTRY'S GAS MIGRATION
  Brief Review of Threats to Canada's Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing Tags: canada industry gas hydrofracking ...
• Toxic Environmental Bio Terrain
  Corexit and the Gulf of Mexico : environmental horror and WMD
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Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• NYPD: Mosques are Terrorist Groups
  There is no area of Muslim life, from mosque worship to weddings that the NYPD has not invaded.
• French Girl Attempts Suicide After ‘Veil Attack’
  A French teenager has attempted suicide after reportedly being assaulted by skinheads for wearing the Muslim veil.
• Islamic Center of Burlington Sign Vandalized
  Hatemongers attempt to make their presence known in Burlington, Massachusetts.
• North Carolina Gov. Pat McCory “Declines ...
  North Carolina became the seventh state to prohibit its judges from considering Islamic law after Gov. Pat McCrory allowed the bill to become law without formally signing it.
• At The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston-Area Muslim ...
  A selection of rare and ancient Quran pages are on display at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts right now.

Energy News

• Underground water just 4 inches from surface b ...
• Popular Mechanics: Contaminated water threaten ...
• “Big Problem”: Cracked floors in Fukushima rea ...
• Newspaper: Nations across Pacific are fearing ...
• Gundersen: Radioactive plume to impact West Co ...

Hudson New York

• The Palestinian Authority's "Israeli Affairs C ...
  Instead of preparing Palestinians for peace with Israel, the Palestinian Authority leadership has decided to focus its efforts on winning the support of the Israeli public for a peaceful settlement based on the two-state solution. In the context of its
• Who Should Clean Up the Mess?
  Many people repeatedly ask why "the West" -- meaning European countries, the European Union and the United States -- sits by idly and does not lift a finger to intervene to end the war crimes and crimes against humanity now being committed against Arab
• German Elections: More EU, More Islam
  The German general elections next month will decide the future of Europe's largest nation and economic powerhouse. The elections are likely to be close. Left and Right are almost equally large blocs in Germany. A recent poll gave the Christian-Democrat
• Britain: Muslim TV Hate Preachers "Inciting Mu ...
  An Islamic television channel has been hit with a hefty fine after a Muslim hate preacher told viewers, live on air, that it was the duty of all Muslims to murder anyone who shows disrespect for the Prophet Mohammed. Noor TV, a British-based Satellite
• Destroying Islam's Holiest Shrine for Assad?
  In mid-August, the Muslim world was shocked when Fayez Shukr Sraha, regional head of the Ba'ath Party in Lebanon, declared in an interview with the Lebanese OTV television channel that he would be willing to "destroy the Ka'bah for the sake of Bashar

Urban Survival

• The Nerve Gas Questions Linger But Evidence Builds
  Further to this morning’s subscriber report, where we found some interesting archival data regarding past allegations of a “false flag “ nature regarding nerve gas use by parties in Syria, we have continued to dig around and (helped by a tip from reader DC) came across an article that seems to p ...
• False Flag Evidence and A Family Feud on &#821 ...
  My brother in law announced to Elaine recently that “There is no ‘Peak Oil’and went on to explain how we have oil coming out of our ears and on thing ledto another and next thing you know, I was biting my tongue and slinking out thedoor toward my office because I wanted to write a rather lengthy ...
• Housing Report: Welcome to 2004
  As promised, here’s the latest look at the nation’s housing picture in the Case-Shiller/ S&P Monthly housing data: New York, August 27, 2013 – Data through June 2013, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. hom ...
• War to Cover Financial Collapse?
  This morning’s cheery thought (and discussion of the Blame Game) from your favorite East Texas nutter out in the boonies centers on the idea that as the approaching breakdown of economic order sneaks up on the Cyprus-like public, the more desperate officialdom will become for something, hell any ...
• Coping: End Times Libretto
  I suppose we should just slide into this morning’s deeper thinking topic slowly since there’s a lot of moving pieces to it.  With WW IV in the wings over Syria, since the Cold War might be scored as WW III, we have a number reader inputs this morning which are pretty interesting, starting w ...

Trends & Forecasts

• URGENT WW3 UPDATE - Russia & China Walk Out Of ...
  UN deadlocked on Syria resolution Hour-long Security Council discussion ends with no plans to vote on British resolution to allow military action. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middlee... The permanent members of the United Nations Security... [[ This is a content summa ...
• The Alex Jones Show: Marc Morano, Anthony Gucc ...
  The Alex Jones Show:(VIDEO Commercial Free) Wednesday August 28 2013: Marc Morano, Anthony Gucciardi Consequences of War With Syria 08/28/2013 On this Wednesday, August 28 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show, Alex continues to break down the... [[ This is a content summary o ...
• Chris Ryan Former SAS sniper: Syrian conflict ...
  Former SAS sniper Chris Ryan explains to naive & ignorant BBC reporter the futility of going to war in Syria. He outlines how this is not like other recent conflicts because Syria has the backing of Russia and China making this situation a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit htt ...
• Robert Bauval ~ Mysteries of the Giza Pyramids ...
  Engineer and rogue Egyptologist Robert Bauval discussed his extensive research on the mysteries of the Giza Pyramids, and ancient Egypt. We should look outside the box of conventional Egyptology when studying monuments such as the Great Pyramid--... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• Indoctrination not Education ~ Mind Control in ...
  State Of Mind delves into the abyss to expose the true agendas at work. This film reveals the secret manipulations at work and provides shocking and suppressed historical and current examples. From the ancient roots of the control of human behavior... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• China hit by ‘biggest ever’ cyber-attack
  China has said it has suffered its “biggest ever” cyber-attack, causing many websites based in the country to go temporarily offline. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was said to have targeted servers responsible for sites with a “.cn” domain name. The coun ...
• Chuck Hagel: No U.N. approval needed for Syria ...
  The United States does not need the permission of the United Nations or any other international body for a military strike against Syria to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons against civilians, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday. “No nation, no group of nations is bound by only on ...
• Iran threatens missile attack against US Navy ...
  Iran’s Revolutionary Guard-controlled Fars news agency cited a regime expert in saying, “If US ships intervene in Syria they must expect precision-striking ‘Iskandar’ ballistic missiles and ‘SCUD’ anti-ship missiles, and there is no weapon on US ships that can neutralize these anti-ship missiles ...
• Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arab ...
  A grim “urgent action memorandum” issued today from the office of President Putin to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is ordering a“massive military strike” against Saudi Arabia in the event that the West attacks Syria. According to Kremlin sources familiar with this extraordinary “war ...
• Russia says West acting in Muslim world like ‘ ...
  Western countries are behaving in the Islamic world like a “monkey with a grenade,” a Russian deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, as the United States and its allies mull the use of force against Syria. “The West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade ...

Daily Dose

• NASA is testing rocket parts made from laser 3 ...
  By now you’ve probably heard the hullabaloo around 3D printed guns, but NASA is cranking up the heat even more with its laser 3D printed rocket parts, as noted by... Keep reading →
• Three finally unveils 4G rollout plans: The st ...
  Mobile operator Three has finally unveiled its rollout schedule and pricing details for its impending 4G launch, setting the stage for the real 4G battle in the UK to begin.... Keep reading →
• Yahoo unleashes mobile redesign across Mail, H ...
  On the heels of Tuesday’s revamp of seven of its desktop Web properties, Yahoo is releasing a new mobile look across many of its products, including Mail, Finance, Homepage, Search,... Keep reading →
• 10 iOS 7 parallax wallpapers for you, this tim ...
  Editors Note: This is a guest post by Dan Bakes (Twitter), who previously contributed 20 parallax iOS 7 wallpapers for the iPhone 5 and as so many of requested iPad... Keep reading →
• Intel wants you to beta test its upcoming faci ...
  Intel is gearing up to release a Pocket Avatars app for iOS and Android that harnesses facial recognition technology to let users send messages through 3D avatars, and it could... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes a new CEO
  It is our pleasure to announce that after a long and exhaustive search we are finally able to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer - Dr Stephen Bygrave.  Stephen will be commencing as CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions on Monday the 9th of September 2013. Stephen has worked ...
• Time to ditch the redundant gas network
  By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
• How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
  By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...
• Big emissions cuts possible at home, study finds
  By Peter Hannam. Sydney Morning Herald Australia's homes could slash their carbon emissions by half and eliminate their use of gas by investing in efficient electrical appliances now on the market, according to a clean energy advocacy group. Jointly published with the Melbourne Energy Institu ...
• Hundreds launch Zero Carbon Buildings Plan
  Australia's buildings could halve their energy use within a decade, to make a major contribution to reducing the nation's carbon emissions – and save money on energy bills in the long run as well. A large crowd packed out an auditorium at Melbourne University to hear this message at the la ...

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• 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.
• Indonesian group vows to map 30 million hectar ...
  An indigenous peoples’ rights group has vowed to map millions of hectares of customary land in Indonesia, an ambitious target it hopes will help protect indigenous forests from encroachment by palm oil and pulp and paper concessions.
• Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast o ...
  An assortment of marine animals and birds reside along the black volcanic sand beaches of Guatemala’s Pacific coast, but lately both residents and visitors on the southeast beaches of the country have observed a tragic event – the stranding of dead sea turtles. Eighty dead sea turtle ...
• 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.
• Smuggler who illegally traded 500 chimps gets ...
  Wildlife smuggler, Ousame Diallo, who has admitted to illegally trafficking 500 endangered chimpanzees out of the Republic of Guinea, was sentenced to a year in prison in the West African country reports WWF. The arrest and charge was supported by INTERPOL and to anti-wildlife trafficking local ...

Sierra Express

• Sierra Leone: The third worst country to be bo ...
  State of the World’s Mothers Index 2013 The latest Index by Save the Children, “Surviving the First Day- State of the world’s mothers 2013″ has shamefully ranked Sierra Leone third in the bottom 10 amongst the worst countries in the world to be born a child and to be a mo ...
• High Court acquits Bernard T.M. Dugba on corru ...
  The Honorable Justice J.B. Katutsi of the High Court of Sierra Leone acquitted and discharged Mr. Bernard T.M. Dugba on corruption charges brought against him by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Mr. Dugba, who is the Planning Coordinator of the Directorate of Planning and Information at the ...
• London Mining Operations floods Marampha and M ...
  With flooded roads and communities and poverty stricken faces even though they toil in wealth, the sad history of mining in the country is looming once more at Marampha and Maforki Chiefdoms in the Portloko district where London Mining recommenced the search for hematite iron ore on 11 February ...
• 35 Years for full implementation of Agenda for ...
  Deputy Info & Communications Min. Hon. Theo Nicol Sierra Leone’s Deputy Information and communications Minister Hon. Theo Nicol has said “it will take governments a period of thirty five years (35years) to fully and effectually implement the Agenda for prosperity. Speaking to African America ...
• Sierra Leone, a nation turned into investors’ ...
  Sierra Leone remains at a transformational vintage, thanks to our readiness for this as a people. From once a country in an era of war, political instability, a corruption-ridden nation  to one  that did not only drive towards change some five years ago, as was clearly defined in the ‘change age ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Fonterra units rally on false alarm news
  The price of Fonterra's NZX-listed units rallied by 22c or 3.2 per cent to $7.10 this morning after the company said its food contamination incident had proven to be a false alarm.At $7.10 the units - which give investors...
• Botulism botch-up: Nutricia ponders legal action
  Baby formula maker Nutricia says it still considering whether to take legal action over the Fonterra botulism scare.Nutricia was hit hard by the false alarm when it had to recall all of its Karicare Stage 1 new baby formula and...
• Mother will stay with replacement brand formula
  When Nutricia's Karicare infant formula was recalled, Auckland mother Hayley Nieuwoudt vowed never to feed her 7-month-old son, Eric, the brand again.She switched to Singapore-produced formula brand S-26 and - despite yesterday's...
• Liam Dann: Botulism scare shows we need to lif ...
  Fonterra chief executive Theo Speirings concedes lessons must be learned from this botulism scare.You would hope so because it has been a debacle and yesterday's news won't magically undo all the damage done in key markets like...
• Sighs of relief but test regime questioned
  The false alarm over Fonterra's botulism scare in some of its whey concentrate product has resulted in a relieved food industry but prompted questions about how testing could have failed on such an epic scale.Opposition parties...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Matthew Feeney Discusses Syria and Interventio ...
  At 7:30pm ET I will be on the Jerry Doyle show to discuss the situation in Syria and the increasingly likely U.S. intervention. Listen live here. Below are some recent blog posts from Reason.com on Syria: Peter Suderman wrote a list of eight reasons not to go to war in Syria.  N ...
• See Jesse Walker, Sam Tanenhaus, and Gene Heal ...
  On September 11, I'll be speaking about my most recent book at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.; Sam Tanenhaus of The New York Times will provide additional comments, and Cato's Gene Healy will moderate. Here's the official description of the event: In the conventional wi ...
• What is President Obama Thinking About With a ...
  For more than two years, Syria has been embroiled in a civil war. It began when the long-time regime of Bashar Assad (handed down to him from his Ba’athist father, Hafez Assad) tried to quell uprisings in the country pinned to the Arab Spring and spiraled into a full-fledged armed co ...
• Angry Bird John McCain Wants You All to Shut t ...
  Sen. John McCain is in angry bird mode again. Now he thinks there’s some sort of security issue with this open discussion of how the United States might strike Syria. From The Hill: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday expressed outrage over leaks related to possible air stri ...
• How Does the US Know the Assad Regime Used Che ...
  A few days ago Secretary of State John Kerry said that the U.S. believes that chemical weapons were used last week in an attack near Damascus. Given that the United Nations inspectors have yet to release the results of their examination of the sites of the suspected chemical attack ...

Mercury Rising

• On what basis are we rushing to war?
  Noah Schachtman of Foreign Policy, a neo-con lite source, is reporting that: Last Wednesday, in the hours after a horrific chemical attack east of Damascus, an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers fo ...
• “Strong, Concrete Suspicions” Syrian Reb ...
  Back in May, UN official Carla del Ponte told Swiss television that there were “strong, concrete suspicions” that the Syrian rebels used a chemical weapon, sarin nerve gas, in their Saudi-backed fight to topple the Assad régime: In an interview with Swiss-Italian TV on Sunday, Ms Del ...
• New York City goes Stasi. Will the US?
  This is not a new story, but new information has significantly changed its interpretation. I wish it were an exaggeration to say that New York City has gone to a level of surveillance that compares with the Stasi. Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, writing in New York Magazine make that case: The act ...
• Twin Cities Media Scooped Again: Sovereign Cit ...
  I was just thinking the other day that if I had depended solely on the local mainstream media (what Sally Jo Sorensen over at Bluestem Prairie calls the “rocking chair media”) for my news of my own state, I never would have known that Rod Grams’ aide Peter Hong was called &#822 ...
• Costs Of Solar Versus Costs Of Wars For Oil An ...
  Putting it in perspective. Click through to read. It’s well worth it.

Reality Sandwich

• EFT for Physical Symptoms of Grief
    Have you ever had a nagging sinus or chest condition that wouldn't go away following a significant loss? After getting divorced and remarried I went out with my second wife to the movies in a drafty theater. When we got home I felt like I was coming down with a cold, so I used all t ...
• Sex in the News
  California passes a law for transgender students, Germany acknowledges a third gender for newborns, one woman's experience with arranged marriage, one sexy video for testicular cancer, and more in this week's update.  California passes historic law for transgender students. (ABCNew ...
• Spark: A Burning Man Story
  The most important thing that I can say about Spark: A Burning Man Story, is that after I’d lost the motivation to burn from nine years in a row on the playa, watching Spark brought it back. The second most important thing is that the film is funny, the way anything related to Burning Man shou ...
• Help Peter Gorman
    As many of you know my good friend Peter Gorman got bit really bad by a jungle bug this summer. He picked up three different staph infections and damn near lost his leg. If it got any worse he would've lost his life, as this flesh-eating bacteria would've ate right thru him. ...
• Brain Implant Records and Stimulates
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Desertification

• OP-ED: Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
  Agriculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural system is becoming more out of sync with the clima ...
• ‘Deserts Can Save Forests’
  It may take development of the deserts to save forests, say experts, who stress that desert ecology needs to be preserved and enhanced. “When the time comes that we have to let our forests survive to retain their ecosystem services, eyes would turn for food security and livelihoods to the huge l ...
• Mining Industry Plans Massive Use of Seawater ...
  The arid climate in northern Chile has forced mining companies to seek out new sources of water. The main source is seawater from the Pacific Ocean, whose use is expected to increase significantly in the coming decade despite the high costs of extraction and transport. The vast northern region o ...
• Fight Against Drought Is Grounds for Political ...
  The decisions taken by the Brazilian government in the fight against drought in the country’s semiarid Northeast are an example of the disconnect between politicians and the citizens, which triggered an unexpected wave of protests in June. Even though the centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff ...
• First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
  Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country’s forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation. Burkina’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas and the ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• 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.
• 'West undermining UN chemical probe'
  Syria ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari has accused the US and its allies of trying to undermine a UN investigation into the use of chemical weapons in his country.
• ‘Military drill held in northern Israel’
  The Israeli military has staged a maneuver at a northern airport amid reports of a possible military intervention in the violence-stricken Syria, Israeli media say.
• 'Chem. arms use cannot go unanswered'
  Head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria cannot go unanswered.
• 'Too early for UN resolution on Syria'
  Russia says it is too early for a UN resolution on Syria, noting that the Security Council should wait until the UN inspectors present their report on the alleged chemical attack in the Arab country.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Quick Fire Science: Hyperloop Trains
  US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk is not a man who's lacking ambition in life. His company Space-X has already built rockets which compete with those used by NASA and the European Space Agency, and la...
• Searches for Arsenic Contaminated Water
  Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a problem that affects about 140 million people around the world. Now researchers have developed a model that can predict the location of high-risk contaminatio...
• New model for Schizophrenia
  Schizophrenia is a serious, debilitating mental illness, but is poorly understood. Most treatments work on the basis that it is cause by a dysfunction in a particular neurotransmitter system in the br...
• Can glucose control our will power?
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• Quick Fire Science: Meteors
  Star gazers have been peering at the night sky all this week looking for shooting stars, as the annual Perseid meteor shower has reached its peak. But what are shooting stars, and what's the best wa...

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• 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
• Dog Plays Simon Says
  Great game Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• 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 ...

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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! ...
• 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
• 4-Month-Old Puppy Gets the Gift of Sight VIDEO
  In a heartwarming and touching story, a 4-month-old puppy, Danny, was given the gift of sight. Once blind from juvenile cataracts, now Danny is bouncing and bounding along like any other puppy, full of energy, excitement and curiosity. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note- ...
• End Exploration for Natural Gas ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
  Recently two natural gas rigs drilling in the Gulf of Mexico have caught fire. Despite the fact that there are clean energy alternatives, companies are still drilling for fossil fuel and ruining our ecosystem. Demand Obama put an end to exploration for na Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nb ...

Articles and Answers 2011

• Texas ID Complaint filed by U.S. Department of ...
  www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/7472013822155117860058.pdf. Filed under: Government Tagged: DOJ Case 2:13-cv-00263, Texas ID complaint, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Elections
• Uninsured? Join the millions who will sign up ...
  Uninsured? Join the millions who will sign up for coverage. Filed under: News and politics Tagged: PPACA, U.S. Healthcare
• Do you realize it’s Your Tax Dollars They are ...
  Opinion by Patricia L Johnson The following thirteen Attorneys General sent an 8-page letter on August 14, 2013 to Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Personally, I love the last paragraph of the letter “We appreciate your … Continue reading →
• Recall notice from NHTSA’s Office of Def ...
  Please click on the following NHTSA Campaign ID links to view the recall information. NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 13V357 Manufacturer : Outdoors RV Manufacturing Make / Model Years : BLACK STONE / 2014 CREEK SIDE / 2013-2014 TIMBER RIDGE … Continue reading →
• Happy Birthday
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