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Scoop - NZ

  • Murdoch's Influence on Australian Politics
    In 2007, journalist Ken Auletta spent a great deal of time with Rupert Murdoch while writing a magazine profile of him. Auletta observed that Murdoch was frequently on the phone to his editors and this prompted him to ask: “of all the things in your business empire, what gives you the most pleas ...
  • Sinai the Next Big Jihadist Battle
    Since the birth of the transnational Salafi jihadist movement in Afghanistan during the 1980s, its leaders have refined a strategy based on "swarming." Jihadists tied to or inspired by al-Qaida look for a conflict where locals are fighting a repressive or ineffective regime, preferably one seen ...
  • The Failure of Austerity in Greece
    In early 2010, Greece's staggering deficit/debt problems turned into a major financial crisis when its sovereign debt was downgraded by rating agencies into junk territory, freezing Greece out of international capital markets. On May of that year, Europe and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
  • Trump: Prepare for "financial ruin"
    The United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. That’s according to Donald Trump, who painted a very ugly picture of where this country is headed. Trump made the comments during a recent appearance on Fox News’ “On the Record with Gr ...
  • Meeting Christians driven out of Qusayr
    Ilyas was, he told me, the very last Christian to flee Qusayr. He had been one of just a handful in the town to join the revolution — an odd thing for a Christian to do because the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were and are mostly Sunnis, and the Christians mostly sided with Assad. Still, it didn’t sav ...

Independent - London

  • So, what was it about Oprah Winfrey – black bi ...
    She is one of America’s best-loved television personalities, not to mention one of its richest women: an entertainment mogul, Oscar-nominated actress, celebrated philanthropist and – according to a recent survey by Forbes magazine – the world’s most powerful celebrity. Related StoriesOprah Winf ...
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is 'not a pat ...
    President Barack Obama vowed to launch a review of the openness and transparency of American intelligence surveillance operations and conceded that Edward Snowden, the fugitive in Russia, had triggered a “more rapid and passionate response” to the issue than otherwise would have happened. Relat ...
  • NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden deserves a re ...
    President Barack Obama vowed to launch a review of the openness and transparency of American intelligence surveillance operations and conceded that Edward Snowden, the fugitive in Russia, had triggered a “more rapid and passionate response” to the issue than otherwise would have happened. Relat ...
  • Egypt's generals urged to tighten their grip o ...
    As Egyptians were coming to terms with the chaos and bloodshed that blighted the holy month of Ramadan, a number of the country’s wealthiest businessmen sat down for a dinner of lamb kebabs and stuffed courgettes. Related StoriesKenya airport fire: Two international flights land, as airport see ...
  • Relax ban on pot, says former candidate for Su ...
    The man who almost became the US Surgeon General has come out in favour of legalising marijuana for medical purposes. Related StoriesUpward mobility comes to the favelasOnline 'counsellor' confesses to wife's murder on FacebookSouth Miami 'counsellor' confesses to wife's murder on FacebookNSA wh ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Tsarnaevs 9/11 truthers, not terrorists
    During the past few days, the Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe have published stories citing evidence that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a 9/11 truth supporter. However, they failed to mention the obvious implication: Tsarnaev was an innocent patsy who was framed for a bombing he did not commit. Th ...
  • Declassified: Joint Chiefs approved false flag ...
    A Department of Defense document declassified in 1997 shows that the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces had drafted and approved a plan to attack and kill Americans and to blame it on Cuba. The original document is stored at the National Security Archives at George Washingt ...
  • Halesowen residents driven to distraction by " ...
    Mystified residents in Halesowen are being driven to distraction by a loud banging noise every 30 minutes for 12 hours a day. As well as annoying human residents around Manor Way the constant loud bangs are disturbing pets and wildlife throughout the day. David Taylor contacted the Halesowen N ...
  • Why do we love psychopaths and sociopaths?
    "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreau Let's face it. One of our biggest obstacles to success and/or "happiness" is that all consuming inner sense of what is right and wrong, that complex of ethical and moral pr ...
  • A quadrillion yen and counting - The Japanes ...
    How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen worth? Well, a quadrillion yen is worth approximately 10.5 trillion dollars. It is an amount of money that is larger than the "the economies of Germany, France and the U.K. combined". It is such an astounding amount of debt that it is hard to even get your ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • A cavalcade of Kafka . . .
    LAVABIT IS OFF-LINE FOR NOW. They are-were a pro-privacy email service long used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The owner of Lavabit published a letter you should read, in a WIRED article by Kevin Poulson, “Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Amid Secret Court Battle”. From the sta ...
  • Improvements . . .
    SOME THINGS DO get better. In a Stevie world, it's hard to believe, but just check out the video. Sure is a lot safer to see the-yoooo-esssss-ayyyyy-in-yer-shevrolay these days, in spite of the road rage and the drive-by ordnance. Below, Dina Shore, sixty years ago. The boys were ...
  • It's a copy, right?
    — The original 1959 dry toner Xerox — COPIERS USED TO BE ANALOG, now they are digital. Faster, better, cheaper. Well, ARS TECHNICA has an interesting report, “Confused photocopiers randomly rewriting scanned documents” that shows that sometimes, you might not get copies that are identical ...
  • Firearm fixations . . .
    — Original issue, milled receiver. — IT'S NOT JUST THE N.R.A. and American trailer park slobs who salivate over guns. Guys from other cultures obsess too, which is explored by a post on Tablet, “How Sweet, Smart Kids Under Occupation Come To Worship Militants” by Haroon Shah who states, ...
  • Ralphie nails it . . .
    I've always thought Ralph Nader was somewhat wonky, but this observation of his is a rather incisive summation of the Gopper psychopathy, IMHO. Thanks to Reader Supported News, for giving him the space, with a posting worthy of your contemplation, "Love, Corporate-Style". Mitt Romne ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: NBC News' Olympic Coverage Ignores Con ...
    NBC Sports has pledged to expose Russia's anti-gay "propaganda" law during its exclusive coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Since the law's passage on June 10, however, NBC's news programming has almost completely ignored the controversy surrounding the measure, raising concerns abou ...
  • Upcoming Fox Food Stamp Special Likely To Be M ...
    Fox News will air an hour-long special on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, on August 9 and 11. If history is any indication, Fox's special will be rife with factual inaccuracies and baseless smears intended to demonize a program that provides n ...
  • REPORT: Cable Network Coverage Of Obama Speech ...
    President Obama has given three high-profile speeches in July and August outlining an economic policy agenda for his remaining term in office as part of the White House's attempts to refocus the national media on pressing economic issues. An analysis of live coverage found that these speeches re ...
  • Fox's Opinion Polls On Obamacare Don't Change ...
    Fox News hyped a poll showing that a majority of people think the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, would increase the deficit and raise their taxes and insurance premiums, claiming that these polls debunked what President Obama has said about the law. But nonpartisan estimates have ...
  • Fox's Bolling Cites Repeatedly Debunked Bengha ...
    Fox News host Eric Bolling and Daily Caller senior editor Jamie Weinstein continued Fox's attempt to breathe life back into its manufactured Benghazi scandals by suggesting that issues debunked long ago were still open questions. Claim: There Were Warnings About Threats To Benghazi Consulate An ...

Global Research.ca

  • Seeking Compensation for Vietnamese Agent Oran ...
    Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam, a long time with NO without sufficient remedial action by the U.S. government. One of the most shameful legacies of the American War against Vietnam,…
  • Obama Says He’ll “Reform” NSA Spying … Should ...
    Let’s Look at the Track Record President Obama just announced that he’s making “reforms” to the NSA spying program. Should we believe him? Obama’s claim this week that the government doesn’t spy on Americans is totally false.  Not only is…
  • Examining the Evidence of 9/11: Inside the Tor ...
    This week’s installment of the Global Research New Hour marks the second of a five part series highlighting research into the World Trade Center attacks and the need for a renewed investigation.   LISTEN TO THE SHOW Length (59:23) Click to…
  • Marked Increase in US Military Suicides
    The American Medical Association (AMA) recently released a report identifying the risk factors associated with suicide in current and former United States military personnel. According to this report, the incidence of suicide deaths in the US military began to increase…
  • NSA Reading Content of Americans’ Internationa ...
    Thursday saw yet another revelation in the ongoing exposure of a cluster of unconstitutional surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies of the US government. In a front page article, theNew York Times revealed that…

TPM Cafe

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

  • New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Grou ...
    While the findings are far from conclusive, the study provides further evidence tying fracking to arsenic contamination. A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fr ...
  • Fracking the Commons: Why Your Public Lands Ar ...
    A significant amount of fracked wells are currently drilled on federal lands—that is, public land, our national commons. As a Forest Supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s, I put a 15-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. I made this controvers ...
  • The Climate Time Bomb That Will Cost Us $60 Tr ...
    Obama in the US, and Harper in Canada, are turning North America into a petro–imperial and petro–despot continent. This doesn't bode well for solving the climate crisis. On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arc ...
  • Methane: The Climate Time Bomb That Will Cost ...
    Obama in the US, and Harper in Canada, are turning North America into a petro–imperial and petro–despot continent. This doesn't bode well for solving the climate crisis. On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arc ...
  • Fossil Fuels’ Deadly Summer and the Growing Re ...
    Disaster after disaster has plagued the fossil fuel industry, just as pressure is mounting to end its dominance. Editor’s Note: Tara Lohan is traveling across North America documenting communities impacted by energy development for a new AlterNet project, Hitting Home. Follow the trip on Faceb ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • In the U.S., proximity to a pipeline is at you ...
    In a report by TruthOut, Mike Ludwig tells how federal regulators have failed to enforce pipeline safety despite spills and deadly accidents.  Each year more than 250 significant pipeline accidents cause explosions, pollution, property damage, injury and death across the country.  Since 2006, 96 ...
  • Solar a Shining Opportunity for Austin – Solar ...
    Business leaders, environmentalists and low income advocates are behind a push to get Austin to increase its solar energy goal to 400 megawatts by 2020 and expand solar programs to meet that goal. A diverse group of community leaders appointed to the Local Solar Advisory Committee (LSAC) by City ...
  • Many Texas Towns Still in a Water Crisis
    In the midst of the 2013 Texas drought, many towns and communities have suffered disastrous blows, either completely running out of water or coming close enough to warrent desperate measures. Some of have made significant headlines, including Spicewood Beach, Barnhart and Brownwood. According to ...
  • The Potential Boom in East Texas Geothermal Energy
    Texas is a state that is abundant with clean and renewable sources of energy. From the booming wind industry, to the emerging solar sector, Texas is primed to be a clean energy leader. And now thanks to the SMU Geothermal Laboratory, Texans have one more reason to go green. Research from SMU has ...
  • Presidential Executive Order — To Improve Chem ...
    A few months after the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at increasing safety and oversight at chemical plants across the country. We challenge the state of Texas to go further over the interim session to insure communities hav ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 'Telekinesis' blamed for Turkish suicides
    Authorities investigating four suspicious suicides have reported 'death by telekinesis' as a possibility. The bizarre verdict stems from the work of n...
  • Father and son lived in jungle for 40 years
    The two men fled in to the jungles of Vietnam after their family members were killed during the war. Having survived in the wilds for four decades, bo...
  • Is yawning contagious to dogs ?
    New research suggests that dogs can sense fatigue and are able to join humans in bouts of yawning. Yawning is often considered to be contagious - when...
  • New Zealand UFO lands in middle of road
    Mechanic Matthew Robert was 'freaked out' when he encountered a strange object in the middle of the road. The incident took place at around 8:45pm in ...
  • Sun's magnetic field is about to flip
    NASA believes that the Sun's magnetic field will soon undergo a significant but harmless change. It might sound worrying but the Sun's magnetic field ...

Grassroots

  • Celebration and song from our Brazilian partners
    Members of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) showed off their creativity, singing voices and solidarity in a special 30th anniversary message to Grassroots International. In it they recognize what the partnership has meant for them in their struggles in the Amazonian region and throu ...
  • The Story of Manal Abu Shalouf
    Subheadline:  One Palestinian girl's experience since Operation Cast Lead radish_girl.jpg Here in the office of Grassroots International hang many pictures of our part ...
  • Communities to President Obama: US Government ...
    leonardo_mab_with_cindy_ggj_and_sara_at_scottsdale_action.jpg President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan before an audience of college students at Georgetown University on June 25,  Countless young people, environmental acti ...
  • General Strike in Brazil: Social Movements Lea ...
    1039557_495414877203336_21934416_o.jpg Millions of Brazilians are marching today (July 11) in another demonstration of the vitality of national social movements. The demonstrations taking place in different major cities across the country f ...
  • Grassroots International to honor the World Ma ...
    Subheadline:  30th Anniversary Event celebrates extradinary partnership for social change Image:  invitation_cover_image.jpg Grassroots International is honoring ...

Climate

  • Republicans Rake in Cash from Oil and Gas Indu ...
    (The Hill) The oil and gas industry has donated overwhelmingly to Republicans for the 2014 election cycle through various political action committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. GOP candidates snagged 85 percent ...
  • Kentucky Education Officials OK New Science St ...
    (WFPL News) The Kentucky Board of Education on Thursday rejected that public opposition and approved a final report from the education department on the new science standards. Some people were concerned about teaching students evoluti ...
  • 10 Accused of Stealing From BP Oil Spill Fund ...
    (AP) State officials say 10 people accused of filing fraudulent BP oil spill compensation claims have been indicted. Attorney General Luther Strange said Thursday that the defendants are accused of creating and submitting fraudulent d ...
  • Colorado Fracking Stresses Regulators as Permi ...
    (Bloomberg) New rules governing oil and gas extraction in Colorado may increase the review period for permits and add to a backlog of well applications as energy exploration proceeds at a pace to eclipse last year’s record. The new re ...
  • Obama Falling Short on Exports, but Fuel Shipm ...
    (Houston Chronicle) It's doubtful that President Barack Obama will reach his ambitious goal of doubling U.S. exports between 2010 and 2015. U.S. exports totaled $1.6 trillion in 2009 and rose by just $600 billion over the next three y ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Let Canada Do the Olympics
    Russia is so corrupt that they have managed to imprison so many entrepreneurs on trumped up charges that they are now considering a partial amnesty as a stimulus program. Basically, the police will offer to put competitors out of business for a fee and then they'll arrest innocent business owne ...
  • Serious Question
    What is the world's best breakfast? Discuss
  • Durbin and ALEC
    Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois used publicly available records to discern which organizations and corporations are funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and then he sent letters to those organizations and corporations inquiring about whether or not they agree wi ...
  • ¿Parle usted ingles?
    Obama made a factual error during his press conference today. It comes at the end of this snippet. Now, I think the really interesting question is why it is that my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail. Their numbe ...
  • Could Old People Give the Gavel to Pelosi?
    The results are from a partisan Democracy Corps poll, so apply all appropriate caveats, but... Theres something going on with seniors: It is now strikingly clear that they have turned sharply against the GOP. This is apparent in seniors party affiliation and vote intention, in their views on ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Abandoned Poison Gas Plant of Okunoshima I ...
    This idyllic island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea was once home to a chemical weapons plant responsible for the deaths of thousands. Now bunny rabbits roam free here. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Here's our pick of the coolest links to be found on the interwebs this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Abandoned Soviet Nuclear Arsenal Gouged In ...
    When Cold War USSR stockpiled nuclear weapons they needed places to assemble and store them. This abandoned underground facility was one such place. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Check out our pick of this week's coolest links: we've got cat cafes, funky libraries, crazy animals, Harry Potter, and toilets! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Almighty Blast: The Massive Explosion of a Kaz ...
    We are so accustomed to using gas that we often forget what a dangerously flammable liquid it is; the explosion of this tanker truck was a sobering reminder of its power. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • James River Coal posts 2Q profit on debt excha ...
    James River Coal posts 2Q profit on debt exchange State Journal HUNTINGTON, WV (AP) — Environmental groups are suing Fola Coal Co. again for runoff from a mountaintop removal mine site that they say is contaminating West Virginia streams. HUNTINGTON, WV (AP) — Environmental groups are suing Fola ...
  • Norman Reedus, 'Walking Dead' Star, Urges US B ...
    Norman Reedus, 'Walking Dead' Star, Urges US Ban On Animal Testing For ... Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. Coal Forum scheduled for Wheeling - State Journal
    Coal Forum scheduled for Wheeling State Journal HUNTINGTON, WV (AP) — Environmental groups are suing Fola Coal Co. again for runoff from a mountaintop removal mine site that they say is contaminating West Virginia streams. HUNTINGTON, WV (AP) — Environmental groups are suing Fola Coal Co. and m ...
  • Plan to drill near Cameron school raises conce ...
    Plan to drill near Cameron school raises concerns State Journal HUNTINGTON, WV (AP) — Environmental groups are suing Fola Coal Co. again for runoff from a mountaintop removal mine site that they say is contaminating West Virginia streams. HUNTINGTON, WV (AP) — Environmental groups are suing Fola ...
  • These lawmakers ignore the damage from King Co ...
    These lawmakers ignore the damage from King Coal and the environmental ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette ... affected by longwall mining (ongoing), the older slag piles, patch towns, acid mine drainage, abandoned tipples and shafts, the horrendous practice of mountaintop removal, disabled miners who s ...

Memeorandum

  • Fox News Poll: Majority calls implementation o ...
    Dana Blanton / Fox News: Fox News Poll: Majority calls implementation of ObamaCare ‘a joke’  —  Majorities of Americans think the new health care law is going to increase their medical costs and their taxes — and add to the federal deficit as well.  Those ...
  • Obama to Unveil New Plans for Surveillance Tra ...
    Wall Street Journal: Obama to Unveil New Plans for Surveillance Transparency  —  President Could Also Address Terrorism Threat, Russian Relations  —  By - JARED A. FAVOLE And - PETER NICHOLAS  —  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is set to a ...
  • Reid raises race in discussing GOP opposition ...
    Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Reid raises race in discussing GOP opposition to Obama's agenda  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday said he hoped GOP opposition to President Obama was not based on his race.  —  Reid made the comments in response t ...
  • TOP 10 QUESTIONS JOURNALISTS WON'T ASK PRESIDE ...
    Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM: TOP 10 QUESTIONS JOURNALISTS WON'T ASK PRESIDENT OBAMA AT PRESS CONFERENCE  —  President Barack Obama rarely makes himself available to the mainstream media.  They adore him anyway.  At rare press conferences, such as the one scheduled f ...
  • Seniors Leaving The GOP And It's About Time (J ...
    John Amato / Crooks and Liars: Seniors Leaving The GOP And It's About Time  —  Why, it seems like just yesterday that the GOP could count on the seniors!  —  I'm sure you've heard about this, but if you haven't this is really big news.  I've openly wondered ...

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  • US to reopen Mideast embassies except Yemen on ...
    A police trooper inspects a vehicle at the entrance of the Sanaa International Airport on August 7, 2013. The United States said Friday it would reopen all of the embassies it shut this week except the one in Yemen, after re-assessing the Al-Qaeda threat.The United States said Friday it would ...
  • Young, black and shot in the head
    A few months before he was shot in the head, Marshall Coulter passed me in the hallway.“Ms. Selker! Remember how otters hold hands when they sleep?”Of course I did. I was the one who had told him about otters, one afternoon in the fall. I’d run into him after class and notice ...
  • How MTV forced rock stars to be sexy
    Last week marked the anniversary of the premiere of MTV. Thirty-two years ago, the footage of a rocket blasting off into space, an astronaut walking on the moon and a voice saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock ‘n’ roll” launched the first 24-hour music channel, heraldin ...
  • Bob Odenkirk: “I still find a lot of humor” in ...
    Bob Odenkirk has had a serious year.The actor, who will continue his role as corrupt lawyer Saul Goodman in "Breaking Bad" when the AMC series returns Aug. 11, is currently on the big screen in "The Spectacular Now," a carefully drawn portrait of a teen alcoholic (Miles Teller) who falls in lov ...
  • “Breaking Bad” fan theory circulating — does W ...
    Take this theory being circulated by "Breaking Bad" fans with a grain of salt -- after all, on "Mad Men," the theory that Megan would end up murdered like Sharon Tate ended up flat wrong.But BuzzFeed has pulled from a fan forum a wild theory about Walt's next act as the series moves towards its ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #848
    UK officials saw 'communist spies' in Japan in 1983. 'Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground' during Benghazi attack. Australians call for national debate on privatization of intelligence.
  • Analysis: Why were Western embassies evacuated ...
    American and British embassies in Yemeni capital Sana’a were evacuated on Tuesday, soon after the United States closed 19 of its diplomatic representations in the Middle East and North Africa due to fears of a pending terrorist attack. But why exactly did the evacuations of diplomatic personnel ...
  • High-level US-Russia meeting to go ahead despi ...
    Senior United States officials will hold high-level talks with their Russian counterparts later this week, despite Moscow’s decision to grant asylum to an American intelligence defector.
  • Snowden leaks reveal GCHQ’s reliance on NSA mo ...
    Information provided by American defector and former intelligence insider Edward Snowden shows that Britain’s signals intelligence agency is very much the junior partner in an uneven relationship with its American counterpart.
  • Germany ends spy treaty with US, UK, in respon ...
    The German government has announced the termination of a Cold-War era surveillance cooperation treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom in response to revelations made by American defector Edward Snowden.

War is a Crime.org

  • Pelican Bay Hunger Striking for Justice
      Anti-American Sentiment in Egypt by Stephen Lendman read more
  • Bahrain: Tension, repression escalate ahead of ...
    As the Day of Tamarrud (rebellion) approaches the Alkhalifa regime becomes more frustrated, aggressive and disoriented. The latest of its irrational and illegitimate acts is the dictator’s decree to punish those who take part in peaceful protests. One day after meeting David Cameron in London (o ...
  • Confronting the latest attack on our privacy a ...
    By Alfredo Lopez The term "collateral damage" is most frequently applied to the "non-targeted" death and destruction brought by bombs and guns. But it seems that our government, the master of collateral damage, is now doing it in "non-violent" ways. Take the recent situation at Lavabit. read more
  • Engineering Potential Disaster in Syria
      Engineering Potential Disaster in Syria   by Stephen Lendman   The old saying goes be careful what you wish for. You may get more than you bargained for. Washington's wars often don't turn out as planned.   Middle East, North African, Eurasian countries are embroiled in con ...
  • Temper Tantrum Politics
      Temper Tantrum Politics   by Stephen Lendman   On August 7, Obama cancelled a long-planned Moscow summit. He and Vladimir Putin planned meeting in early September. A previous article explained.   read more

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Oliver Stone’s Son Says 9/11 Was an ‘Inside Jo ...
    Sharona Schwartz Hollywood director Oliver Stone’s son Sean made news last year when he said he’d converted to Islam on Valentine’s Day while working on a film in Iran and that he believed then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was “misunderstood.” Now the 28-ye ...
  • Activist Post: Globalist Agenda Rolling At Sup ...
    Bernie Suarez Activist Post There is a strange feeling in the air. It’s happening all across America, no really! People everywhere are being pushed to make critical decisions about their perception of the world they now live in. The speed of events is being artificially manipulated by the global ...
  • Associated Press retracts bogus North Pole lak ...
    The Associated Press issued a formal retraction of a photo it published that claimed to show that a large lake had formed at the North Pole due to global warming. In its retraction, the AP admitted that not only was the “lake” simply a small melt-pond but that it was natural, not due to global [ ...
  • Scientists Explain Why HPV Vaccines Are Unsafe
    There is no evidence that Gardasil or Cervarix can prevent cancer better than a decent screening program. There is strong evidence that they can produce severe and life-threatening harm. This report by 4 scientists documents how science has been corrupted & misused to promote these life-deva ...
  • ▶ Make Mine Freedom (1948) – YouTube
    ▶ Make Mine Freedom (1948) – YouTube.

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The government strikes again, but finds yet an ...
    Summary:  As the Second Republic fades away, the Constitution abandoned, the government grows more powerful and bolder. As we see in its latest strike against Edward Snowden. But this time something strange happened. They came up against yet another American. A real American, willing to fight fo ...
  • Watch our world warm! What was the weather lik ...
    Summary:  One of the great oddities of the 21st C America is our allergy to data about vital issues while being buried in “news”. For example, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan with little care or information about what we’d face. The public fears al Qaeda while knowing little ab ...
  • A look at al Qaeda, the long war — and us
    Summary: With the newest terror alert, it’s timely to review what we know about al Qaeda. What kind of organization is AQ? How are they fighting us? Here is a brief summary (quickly written), giving one perspective on these things. We are in war, a war of choice, a war we’re fighting ...
  • A vision of a perilious future for us all, and ...
    Summary: Today we take a quick look at our terrifying future. Or at least the future painted in the news media to terrify us. It need not do so. We can gain perspective and confidence from our past, and take reasonable precautions for the future. . Contents We are the cause of New America Past [ ...
  • How strong is the US economy? Let’s look ...
    Summary:  The previous post about the economy examined the odds of recession. Today’s let’s take a more granular look at the economy.  In the first half of the year the US economy expanded (GDP) at 1.4% (SAAR). Faster than Q4 (near-zero), but well below the 2% stall speed. Yet most e ...

The Progressive Realist

  • US and Iran Cautious about Direct Talks
    Iran’s president may have changed, but the leadership’s reticence about talking one-on-one with the United States continues – along with U.S. reluctance to recognize Iran’s quasi-representative government as legitimate. read more
  • Neocons vs. Non-Interventionists: Let the Game ...
    AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Senators Rand Paul and John McCain The intraparty fight among Republicans over foreign policy escalated further this week when former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that it was time to take stock of failed U.S. military interventions ov ...
  • Top of the Morning: Huge Breakthrough in Quest ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Huge Breakthrough in Quest for Malaria Vaccine Very encouraging news out of the US National Institutes of Health. “More than three dozen volunteers received multiple, intravenous doses of a vaccine produced with a weakened form of the disease, scientists from the Na ...
  • The EU's Future: I Would Not Start from Here
    There is a hoary old Irish joke that gets quoted far too often at conferences I attend. An American tourist is lost in the Irish countryside (the lost Yank is always in Ireland) and asks a farmer directions to Dublin. “Well,” says the farmer. “I would not start from here.” Much the same can be ...
  • Guest Post: What Happens When “Foreign Fighter ...
    Julia Trehu is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the civil war rages in Syria, the arrival of foreign combatants in the region has become a troubling characteristic of the opposition forces battling President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. European ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Rand Paul Doesn't Know What He's Talking About ...
    Blazing Republican supernova, Rand Paul, is emerging as the most media coverage-getting potential 2016 candidate, and while there's a good chance he'll end up being that year's Michele Bachmann, there is one thing he keeps repeating that requires a little clarification. It's become one of those ...
  • Just How Bad Will the Florida Voter Purge Be?
    Flickr/Erik Hersman It’s no surprise that Florida’s decision to once again try to scrub the voter rolls of noncitizens has prompted an outcry from voting-rights advocates and local elections administrators. While no names have yet been removed, letters went out to elections supervisors ...
  • Against Douthat on Abortion Restrictions, Roun ...
    Ross Douthat has a thoughtful response to two critiques—one from me at the Prospect and another from Katha Pollitt at The Nation—of his recent column on European abortion policy. It would help to clarify some of the empirical issues that are central to our disagreement. I'll leave it to Pollitt ...
  • Neocons vs. Non-Interventionists: Let the Game ...
    AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Senators Rand Paul and John McCain The intraparty fight among Republicans over foreign policy escalated further this week when former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that it was time to take stock of failed U.S. military in ...
  • Crazy Is as Crazy Does
    Four years ago, Democratic representatives went home for the August recess and found themselves under assault from angry Tea Partiers, who took over town meetings with shouting and fist-shaking over the Affordable Care Act in particular, and more generally, the theft of their country by the for ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Neo-Nazi Skinheads Sentenced in N.J. Hate Crim ...
    Two members of a white supremacist group called the Aryan Terror Brigade, one of them a native of Slovakia, were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their New Year’s Eve 2011 hate crime attack on two Egyptians in New Jersey. U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano, decrying the men’s “blatant acts of r ...
  • Members of New Skinhead Gang Accused in Two States
    Die Auserwählten, a little-known racist skinhead gang in Nebraska and several other states, is less than a year old. But in the last few days, the crew has been making a name for itself – in mayhem and murder separated by more than a thousand miles. In a small college city in south-central Nebra ...
  • White Student Unions: White Nationalist Minor ...
    Patrick Sharp started “White Student Union” at Georgia State University Matthew Heimbach created quite a stir at Towson University in Baltimore when he created his “White Student Union” last year and proceeded to launch night patrols to keep students safe from black-on-white crime. N ...
  • Militia-Leading Penn. Police Chief Suspended A ...
    Video: Mark Kessler rants on YouTube The police chief of a tiny borough in Pennsylvania’s coal country, who also heads a militia formed to oppose any new federal gun control measures, has been suspended for 30 days after he posted a series of profanity-laced videos to YouTube in which he angrily ...
  • Michigan State House Candidate is Hard-Line An ...
    Gary Glenn leads of one of the nation’s most vicious anti-gay hate groups Gary Glenn, who announced earlier this week that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the 98th district of the Michigan House of Representatives, says nothing whatsoever about LGBT people on his campaign website. Bu ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down to Avoid “ ...
    Boing Boing reports: “Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail?read more
  • Demand Progress Renews Calls for Firing of Pro ...
    In light of information about prosecutors' motives that was disclosed in MIT's recent report (page 68) on the prosecution of activist Aaron Swartz, Demand Progress has renewed its calls for the firing of United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Hey ...
  • Student Loan Law Raises College Costs, Sanders ...
    U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said legislation that President Barack Obama signed today will let college borrowing costs balloon. “This legislation is going to make an already bad situation of student indebtedness even worse,” said Sanders, a member of the Senate education committee. He s ...
  • Keystone XL Controversy: Investigation Reveals ...
    Yet another scandal surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline surfaced today: Media are reporting that an investigation by the Interior Department’s inspector general has found that agency scientists were improperly retaliated against after blowing the whistle on flaws with a map of American bu ...
  • Top Wolf Experts Excluded from Scientific Revi ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week disqualified many of the nation’s leading wolf researchers from participating in the scientific peer review of the agency’s proposal to end federal protections for gray wolves across most of the lower 48 states.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Email Service Used by Snowden Shuts Itself Dow ...
    Glenn Greenwald A Texas-based encrypted email service recently revealed to be used by Edward Snowden - Lavabit -
  • Tar Sands Hell in Detroit
    Margaret Kimberley “It isn’t hard to figure out why Detroit was chosen as the location.”read more
  • Spending is Not Growth: The Case Against GDP
    Michael Faul Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley meets with GPI representatives, by Tom Nappi at Annapolis, Maryland (Photo: Flickr)Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a measure of final market value of goods/services produced by a country in a s ...
  • Who’s Lying to Whom? Duncan, Bloomberg, and th ...
    Jim Horn Yesterday Mike Bloomberg called the new test score basement that all NY schools have rushed into “very good news,” and he blamed the media for noticing that it was happening.read more
  • The Voice of Poverty Congrees Doesn't Want to Hear
    Greg Kaufmann Congressman Paul Ryan recently said that Republicans “don’t have a full-fledged” plan to fight poverty “because we need to do more listening to people who are in the trenches fighting poverty.”rea ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Belfast police attacked during clashes with lo ...
    PSNI officers in riot shields and body armour bombarded with bricks, stones, fireworks and smoke bombs amid protestsBelfast's main shopping district was turned into a battlefield last night as thousands of loyalists clashed with riot police to prevent a republican dissident rally passing down th ...
  • Labour must shout louder or risk election defe ...
    Shadow health secretary says time is running out for coherent Labour challenge to the coalitionLabour's leadership must put its cards on the table before next spring and produce a set of policies which define the party or risk defeat at the next general election, the shadow health secretary, And ...
  • Apple iPhone patent violated by Samsung, US tr ...
    ITC ruling comes as Apple asks court to force Samsung to stop using iPhone features in violation of its patentsSamsung violated two of Apple's iPhone patents and must end US import of some of its products, the top US trade court ruled Friday as the smartphone giants clashed once more in court.In ...
  • Obama touts NSA surveillance reforms to quell ...
    President to work with Congress to reform NSA's Fisa court and Patriot Act but made clear that mass surveillance would continueBarack Obama announced the first public review of US surveillance programs since 9/11 on Friday, in what amounts to the president's first concession that the mounting pu ...
  • Police investigate 169 staff over predatory se ...
    High-level meeting held to address issue of officers and support staff abusing positions to prey on public, including crime victimsPolice forces are being ordered to face up to corruption by officers who commit sexual offences against vulnerable women and young people as figures obtained by the ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • 200 militants killed in eastern Afghanistan Af ...
    Military officials reported Friday approximately 200 militants, mostly foreigners, were killed during operations in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province. Defense ministry spokesman ...
  • Historical Photos of a Bygone Age in Afghanistan
    He remained abroad from his homeland until 2002, when he returned to a very different nation than the one he remembered. He is now the president of San Jose State University, but for the past several years has been collecting and publishing pictures of the Afghanistan he once knew on the intern ...
  • Three Chinese Citizens Killed In Afghanistan
    The Chinese Embassy in Kabul says three Chinese citizens have been killed in the Afghan capital, while another two remain missing. The embassy said in a statement that the incident took place in an apartment building in Kabul. It said the unidentified Chinese citizens were deliberately tar ...
  • Chinas Embassy to Afghanistan Informs the Deat ...
    Kabul, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Three Chinese citizens died and two are missing since Thursday in this capital, informed sources of the Chinese diplomatic mission. In a communique, the Chinese embassy noted this crime occurred in an apartment building in Kabul. China's diplomatic mission asked ...
  • Manning sentencing witness says leaks put enti ...
    A Pentagon official says the classified information that Army Pfc. Bradley Manning disclosed through WikiLeaks put entire Afghan villages at risk of harm from the Taliban. Navy Rear Adm. Kevin Donegan testified Friday at the soldier's sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. Mannin ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Senate Establishes "National Whistleblower App ...
    Yesterday, by an unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day." The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate's historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistlebl ...
  • Washington Journal: Stephen Kohn on the Mannin ...
    Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center discusses the military court's decision to refuse to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy" for information given to WikiLeaks. He also discusses federal laws that cover whistleblowers. Bradley Manning Verdict and Trea ...
  • National Whistleblowers Center Issues Statemen ...
    National Whistleblowers Center's Statement on Manning Verdict Washington, D.C. July 30, 2013. The National Whistleblowers Center issued a statement expressing relief that the military court today refused to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy."  The char ...
  • Action Alert: Tell President Obama to Stop Pro ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center issued the following Action Alert today: Today, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a resolution establishing July 30, 2013 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. This resolution marks an historic achievement in trying to change the workplace culture ...

TechDirt

  • DOJ: There's No Expectation Of Privacy In Your ...
    Following our post on the NSA's document defending its surveillance programs, let's look more closely at the Justice Department's "white paper" explaining the legal rationale for scooping up all of the metadata on every phone call under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, also known as the "business ...
  • DailyDirt: Correlations Over Breakfast
    We've pointed out dietary studies before that suggest calories from different foods aren't the same and that when you eat could be as important as what you eat. But how about focusing just on one meal: breakfast. Should you eat a big breakfast? Is it bad to skip breakfast? Here are just some par ...
  • NSA Tries To Justify Its Surveillance Programs ...
    As President Obama was laying out his "plan" in response to the public's concerns over NSA spying, both the DOJ and the NSA released some documents defending the various programs. I would imagine it will surprise none of you that these documents are chock full of hilarious and misleading claims. ...
  • DOJ Agrees To Release Redacted Court Ruling Ab ...
    You may recall that last year it was revealed that the FISA court (FISC) had determined that certain searches by the NSA under the section 702 program of the FISA Amendments Act were unconstitutional under the 4th Amendment. As we noted just this morning, it appears that the NSA's justification ...
  • Obama's Simply Wrong: Whistleblower Protection ...
    During the Q&A portion of today's President Obama press conference, reporter Chuck Todd asked Obama about Ed Snowden and whether he was a "patriot," after Obama announced some reforms and even directly made clear that those who support civil liberties and greater transparency "love their co ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Snowden initiates review of U.S. surveillance ...
    “I called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr. Snowden made these leaks,” President Obama claimed today in a press conference at the White House. Oh really? Was this in a classified memo? Was it going to be a secret review whose findings would never be made ...
  • New York Times calls on Congress to outlaw mas ...
    The New York Times Editorial Board: It was bad enough in 2008 when Congress allowed the agency to spy without a warrant on e-mails and text messages between Americans and foreign targets of an investigation. That already strained the Fourth Amendment’s protections against illegal searches, but l ...
  • Police state: After Lavabit, Silent Circle als ...
    IDG News Service reports: Silent Circle also shuttered its encrypted email service a few hours after Lavabit shut down citing an ongoing legal battle. “We see the writing the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now,” Silent Circle wrote in a blog post on Fri ...
  • What it means to be an NSA ‘target’: New infor ...
    Electronic Frontier Foundation: An important New York Times investigation from today [Thursday] reporting that the NSA “is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and text communications into and out of the country,” coupled with leaked documents published by the ...
  • NSA closes security loophole. Employees must n ...
    David Sanger, the NSA’s representative at the New York Times, recently reported that in order to prevent the emergence of another Snowden, the agency is imposing a “two-man rule” on system administrators, or what one might call a peer-policing policy so that these guys don&#821 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Europe bails on green energy
    Dr. Benny Peiser at The Australian: Europe pulls the plug on its green future Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green energy crisis, an economic and political debacle that is entirely self-inflicted. The mainstream media, which used to … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – fracktional thinking
    In the U.K. there is a big ridiculous row over this well concealed gas well in Balcombe, that the Balcombe Parish Council didn’t even object to when Cuadrilla’s application for planning permission to drill for shale gas went before them. … Continue reading →
  • Breaking News! Seventh First Climate Refugees ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, my heart fell when I saw the recent BBC article which proudly proclaimed that the people of Kivalina were slated to become “America’s first climate change refugees” … Figure 1. The Alaskan native village … Continue reading →
  • The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 9th, 2013
    The populist notion that all climate sceptics are either in the pay of oil barons or are right-wing ideologues, as is suggested for example by studies such as Oreskes and Conway (2011), cannot be sustained. Mike Hulme, in his new … Continue reading →
  • According to this DMI temperature plot, the hi ...
    The daily mean temp 80 -90 degrees North has remained below climatological normal for more than 120 days, and has now dropped below freezing  Normally, we don’t see this sort of drop until early to mid September. I’m surprised to … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Disease laughs at researchers
    Disease laughs at researchers. In this highly-unusual image, beta-catenin (green) was monitored moving into the nucleus, the round shape in the centre. The dark patches in the nucleus that bear an uncanny resemblance to a smiley face, with eyes and a mouth, are actually parts of the nucleus wher ...
  • ▶ How brains see
    ▶ How brains see – YouTube.
  • Researchers reveal how the brain keeps eyes on ...
    “Are we there yet?” As anyone who has traveled with young children knows, maintaining focus on distant goals can be a challenge. A new study from MIT suggests how the brain achieves this task, and indicates that the neurotransmitter dopamine may signal the value of long-term rewards. The finding ...
  • ▶ Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body
    ▶ Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body – YouTube.
  • World’s first lab-grown burger is eaten ...
    Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty. One food expert said it was “close to meat, but not that juicy” and another said it tasted like a real burger. Researchers say the technolog ...

CFACT

  • Walt Cunningham: Restore climate science integ ...
    NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused [anthropogenic] global warming [AGW]. Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science. Advoc ...
  • Heidi Ho!
    Dr. Cullen knows about longer climate cycling. She is an expert on the long, natural 1,500-year climate cycle that gave us the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warming, and more than 600 previous warming/cooling cycles over the past 1 million years. In fact, Dr. Cullen studied the sediments that a ...
  • CFACT’s new billboard exposes global war ...
    In a moment of refreshing candor, the co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group III told the truth about the global warming scare. The real point, according to Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, is to "redistribute the world's wealth."
  • Fracking yields trillions in benefits!
    According to the U.S. Department of Energy, fracking requires just 0.6 to 5.8 gallons of water per million Btu of energy produced. By comparison, “renewable” and “sustainable” corn-based ethanol requires 2,510 to 29,100 gallons per million Btu of usable energy – and biodiesel from soybeans consu ...
  • Sea-coasting to bankruptcy
    Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, the former chair of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden, acknowledges that “sea level was indeed rising from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year (mm/y).... A recent paper ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • US Online Fashion Boutique Shopbop Launches Ru ...
    Shopbop, a leading online US fashion boutique, has launched a Russian language website as part of a drive to expand its customer base in the former Soviet Union, the company announced this week.     
  • Russian Arms Dealer Bout's Associate to Repres ...
    A Syrian-born associate of notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said Thursday that he would represent himself at his upcoming trial in New York on charges that he conspired to buy planes to move weapons to the world's bloodiest conflicts.     
  • Ukrainian Fraudster in $5 Million Cyber Scam S ...
    A Ukrainian man labeled by US authorities as “one of the premier vendors of stolen credit card data in the world” has been sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison, the New York County District Attorney’s Office announced in a statement this week.     
  • Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Docks with Space Station
    A Japanese cargo freighter docked with the International Space Station on Friday, NASA said.     
  • 26 Russians Injured in Thai Bus Crash
    Twenty-six Russian tourists were injured, three of them seriously, when a bus went out of control and overturned in western Thailand, local media reported Friday.     

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Emerging Voices: Piracy vs. Core Crimes–Asses ...
    by Marta Bo [Marta Bo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Genova, Italy and a member of the Peace and Justice Initiative. She wrote this post while she was a Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law] Over the past few years, several proposals have bee ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 8, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Tensions are escalating at the India-Pakistan border region of Kashmir, with India for the first time directly accusing Pakistan’s army of involvement in an ambush that killed five Indian soldiers, and Pakistan’s military accusing Indian forces o ...
  • Emerging Voices: Limits to R2P–Lessons from th ...
    by Aqsa Mahmud [Aqsa Mahmud graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and currently practices as a government attorney in Washington, DC] The international community’s application (or nonapplication) of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to the recent Arab conflicts highlights notable ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 7, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Two Pakistani soldiers were wounded in an exchange of fire with Indian troops along the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir in the latest flare-up of tensions. The Leiden Law Blog has published an analysis on the Guatemalan genocide case against former pres ...
  • Emerging Voices: Together Again? Customary Law ...
    by Robert Clarke [Robert Charles Clarke is a Research Associate at the Supreme Court of Western Australia] It could as well be said that Darré, for example, is guilty of murder of numerous people in the occupied portion of Russia, because, as Minister of Food, he had charge of the Food Estate ...

Public News Service

  • Online Tool Calculates Affordable Care Options
    Online Tool Calculates Affordable Care Options PHOENIX – Specific information about available options under the Affordable Care Act is only a few clicks away on a new website. AARP expects its Health Law Answers tool will help people cut through the clutter about the health care law. Cy ...
  • New Survey: Back to School = Big Spending for ...
    New Survey: Back to School = Big Spending for Teachers PHOENIX, Ariz. - As the new school year begins in Arizona, public school teachers are spending ever higher amounts on basic classroom supplies. A new national survey has found that teachers spend an average of nearly $500 a year out-of-pocke ...
  • Rating Child Care Like Hotels & Restaurants
    Rating Child Care Like Hotels & Restaurants PHOENIX - People dine at five-star restaurants or watch movies given four stars by reviewers. Now, there's a nationwide shift under way to provide similar guidelines for parents looking for a quality preschool or child care. Nearly every state now is ...
  • Suit Claims EPA Failing to Protect Kids from P ...
    Suit Claims EPA Failing to Protect Kids from Pesticide Drift PHOENIX - The Environmental Protection Agency is being taken to court over claims that it's failing when it comes to protecting children from crop-dusting pesticide drift. According to Linda Wells, associate organizing director with ...
  • Top Consumer Complaint: Car Problems
    Top Consumer Complaint: Car Problems PHOENIX – It's one of your biggest purchases, and it could be your biggest headache. The Consumer Federation of America reports that auto issues are the top consumer complaint for 2012. Susan Grant, CFA director of consumer protection, says false ad ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Encrypted email service Silent Circle won’t co ...
    Tech journalist and uber-geek Robert Scoble comments on Facebook about encrypted email services like Silent Circle closing rather than comply with NSA thugs. Scoble originally thought NSA surveillance was ok and has made a complete change. One reason so many read him is because he works his view ...
  • Cowboy Jack Clement, a true music legend, passes
    Among a zillion other things, Cowboy Jack Clement was the engineer at Sun Records who got inspired when Jerry Lee Lewis and other musicians were jamming, started mixing on the fly, and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On” was recorded in one take. He was beyond a legend. From his web ...
  • Is JPMorgan a bank or a criminal enterprise?
    So far, no high level banksters have gone to prison for their roles in the financial fraud and collapse. Thousands of bankers went to prison during the S&L scandal of the 1980′s. The feds are finally making noises about filing criminal charges. But these must be against people and not ...
  • Fukushima radioactive water disaster is way wo ...
    Radioactive water is bubbling up to the surface at Fukushima and into the ocean . This is because the deranged criminals at TEPCO, instead of solving the problem, pumped radioactive water underground. The ground soil is now waterlogged. Reactor buildings are already tilting and sinking. Wait, it ...
  • KT Tunstall – Black Horse & The Cherry Tree
    Not only is KT Tunstall an amazing singer, watch how she uses electronics to create her own harmony and backup singing as she is performing. This was her breakout performance on ‘Later… with Jools Holland” in 2004.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE! &#8220 ...
  • Are we at War with Yemen? We just bombed them& ...
    Remember the days when we knew we were at war? When we declared wars through a Congressional vote? Not that this makes a war right…. But the O’Bomba Admin has taken war to a new level by not having “Wars”. Is this supposed to pacify the Democrat base who have anti war bum ...
  • Children given lifelong ban on talking about f ...
    Two young children in Pennsylvania were banned from talking about fracking for the rest of their lives under a gag order imposed under a settlement reached by their parents with a leading oil and gas company. The sweeping gag order was imposed under a $750,000 settlement between the Hallowich fa ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – August 5 2013
    PODCAST 2013 #1: The Live show is done, and the this podcast pretty much follows the old formula. (As we continue to publish a weekly podcast, you will notice subtle production and format changes… some not so subtle) On this edition Jack Blood covers breaking news and info from the week of ...
  • Federal Agents, Under Eric Holder, Caught Usin ...
    The DEA, FBI, CIA, and BATFE have been repeatedly caught aiding, abetting, and even creating drug cartels, and “terrorists”(Fast & Furious just the tip of the iceberg ala Iran Contra scandal)….  What is happening here, is a akin to your local crack dealer, and violent stree ...

The Air Vent

  • Climate Science – A Field of Dreams
    Real Climate is still trying to communicate the message that climate science needs to communicate better, never realizing that the content of their message is their problem.  I mean, the first link on their page is to a Richard Alley presentation, where he flat says that there is no reason to ad ...
  • Regulatory Creep
    The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is one of the largest and most draconian governmental organizations on the planet.  Under Obama, it has also become one of the most powerful.   The ability to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, being one of the chief new results of Obama’s ...
  • Time Travel
    Well, I’m not really interested in replacing coal plants as our eco-nazi climate science community would have us do, but there are a bunch of forms of nuclear power which are viable replacements and this one is fairly interesting to me.   A smaller modular plant produced in a factory using ...
  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...
  • NSA – Balancing the Risk
    The NSA has been tracking details of every pone call and email by every American for years.   I have no doubt that this is the case.  Yes, this is in violation of the fourth amendment which states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreas ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Determining the lifespan of a Facebook post
    Facebook recently revealed that readers can see a potential of 1,500 posts from friends, pages and people they’re following in News Feed, and prior to changes in the News Feed algorithm, people only saw about 57...
  • Facebook playing with trending topics — how ca ...
    Shortly after Facebook borrowed from Twitter (and Instagram) by making hashtags clickable on the site, industry leaders and other Facebook marketers wondered when Facebook would import another Twitter staple: trending topics. According to AllThingsD, Facebook is...
  • Bye, bye SEO? Make Facebook optimization, Stor ...
    On Tuesday, Facebook announced it has rolled out changes to the site’s News Feed algorithm. If you’re serious about increasing engagement with Facebook, these are 2 concepts you need to learn now. With all of the...
  • Instagram 4.1: more video capabilities, import ...
    In the first major update for Instagram since the company added video capabilities, Instagram is bringing video to more devices and allowing users to upload videos from their phone and post them. Just like how users...
  • Facebook tests link preview in desktop chat boxes
    Facebook is apparently testing a new addition to desktop chat boxes: link previews. Now, just like when a user shares a link to their News Feed or on a page, they can remove the URL from...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Holder Says the Obvious--the Drug War is a war ...
    The scuttlebutt is that Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to say what has long been obvious to anyone who has the faintest notion about how the wildly failed, flawed war on drugs has been waged for three decades. The obvious is that the war on drugs has been a ruthless, relentless and naked ...
  • DREAM 9 Story -- Two Parts
    The cynic might suspect that the Dream 9 were released because they'll be less of a problem for the government scattered to their homes around the country than they were inside where they were organizing, protesting, gathering stories of other detainees, and shining some light on one of the dark ...
  • Vows of "Occupation Until Martyrdom'
    Jihadists are entering Syria at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA, and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal locales for setting up bases across Syria.
  • Edward Snowden Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant
    Thanks to the sobering revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the world has been given a glimpse of the abuse of power (and trust) that our governments have breached. Indeed, the gravity of this "hijacking of humanity" is a crime against "life" itself.
  • Life May Be A Consistent Challenge, But That Is OK
    Facing life's challenges despite the feeling of failure or loss. It just may pay off in the long run.

Switchboard

  • This Week in Whales: Good job, NMFS (National ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week (or close to it): Over the years, I've taken issue with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on a variety of issues (see, for exam ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile needs more tre ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.   August 4-9, 2013 Chile Endesa Chile, owner of t ...
  • CalRecycle Data Confirm: Gregory Canyon Landfi ...
    Giulia C.S. Good Stefani, Project Attorney, Marine Mammal and Southern California Ecosystems Projects, Santa Monica (Credit: NRDC) Developers have spent decades and tens of millions of dollars fighting to build a dump in pristine Gregory Canyon.& ...
  • NRA's Enemy List Misses the Mark: Should Be Fi ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica It seems that a gaggle of zoos, conservation groups and NRDC have somehow landed on the National Rifle Association's latest "enemies list" over what they perceive as a threat to access to ammunition. ...
  • Department of Energy Commits to Unleashing Del ...
    Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, San Francisco, CA A coalition of 10 states and the City of New York announced today that the Department of Energy has committed to push forward four delayed energy efficiency standards that could save utility ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Islam's War Against Judaism - Acid Attack on T ...
    Two girls who were the victims of a devastating acid attack on the island of Zanzibar Wednesday may have been targeted because they were Jewish, friends of the pair told police, the UK’s The Daily Mail reported. The British teenagers suffered painful burns when acid was thrown in their faces a ...
  • Book Review - Boilerplate Presentation of Libe ...
    I'm a sucker for lecture series books. For many years, Harvard University Press has published the William E. Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, which have included wonderful titles like Lawrence Levine's Highbrow/Lowbrow (1988), Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country (1998), ...
  • The Way We Are - South Africa Marks National W ...
    Friday, August 9th, is National Women’s Day in South Africa. It commemorates the 1956 march by 20-thousand women against the country’s apartheid era pass laws. The laws severely restricted travel by non-whites and segregated society. The only surviving leader of that march remembers the stru ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - US Orders Diplomats Ou ...
    The United States has ordered the evacuation of its consulate in the eastern Pakistani city Lahore because of what it calls “specific threats.� The State Department also issued a new travel warning urging all U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel to Pakistan. Meghan Gregonis, spokeswom ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syrians Find Innovative ...
    Since the conflict in Syria began more than two years ago, the country has intermittently plunged into cyber-darkness. But activists in Europe and in Syria are using innovative means to stay online and to stay in touch with loved ones. Since the civil war began, the nation's weak communications ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Conflicting Reports About Sinai Attack--Proof ...
     The Associated Press issued the shocking report this afternoon. In reaction to a terrorist threat from the Sinai Desert against the Israeli city of Eilat, Israel launched a drone attack which killed five terrorists and and destroyed a rocket launcher in the Egyptian territory. The shockin ...
  • Is Anthony Weiner Starting To Crack Under the ...
    Based on his online behavior it is clear that Anthony Weiner has "issues." In recent weeks his campaign has imploded because of revelations about his continual sexting with multiple women. Things began to get eerier earlier this week when the former congressman appeared at an AARP forum and call ...
  • NOT JUST SEX: Spitzer Was Being Investigated F ...
    It's been more than five years since New York State Governor Elliot Spitzer announced he was resigning the office because he got caught going to hookers. Along with the salacious details and the jokes about client #9 and the former Gov. wearing black socks during his trysts, there were re ...
  • "The Street Was Covered with Blood and Bodies" ...
    Twelve years ago Palestinians blew up a pizza place in the heart of Jerusalem.  One month later, other Islamist terrorists blew up the World Trade Centers in NY, the Pentagon Building in Washington DC, and were foiled in their attempt to destroy the Capital building by the brave passenger ...
  • The IRS Never Stopped They're STILL TARGETING ...
    Arrogance, its the only way to explain it. Three months ago we first found out that the IRS had been targeting teaparty and other conservative organizations, today we found out despite the anger and protests from both sides of the aisle the IRS is still targeting conservative organizations. ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind company apologises for screeching turbines
    The operator of a wind farm in Cape Bridgewater has issued a dramatic apology after residents spent nearly a year complaining about high-pitched screeching coming from the turbines. Pacific Hydro says it is “embarrassed” over the technical fault that was first alluded to by residents in Septembe ...
  • Falmouth Board of Health will endorse turbine bill
    Falmouth Board of Health on Monday last week voted to support a bill currently under discussion in the House of Representatives. The bill, filed by State Representative Sarah K. Peake (D-Provincetown), and sponsored by nine other legislators, including known environmentalists in the State House, ...
  • Maine environmental commissioner denies First ...
    AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection on Monday officially denied First Wind’s application to build a 16-turbine wind farm on Bowers Mountain in eastern Penobscot County. In a letter signed by DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho, the department rejected the proposed wind farm beca ...
  • Baldwin County wind farm ban passes
    The Baldwin County Commission effectively put the brakes on a company’s plan to put large wind turbines in the county by passing an ordinance Tuesday than bans wind farms. The commission unanimously voted to pass two ordinances that ban large wind turbines and wind farms in Baldwin County. ...
  • State’s $10 million turbines in Gardner ...
    Wind turbines are popping up all across the state. They are touted as a cleaner solution to our energy needs, but WBZ-TV has discovered some turbines that haven’t produced much electricity and they’re costing taxpayers a bundle. From his pumpkin patch, Bill Foster has had a front-row seat to the ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • In denial about its racism, Texas fights precl ...
    Image Caption:  Engaged in a legal battle over findings its new political district maps are racially discriminatory, Texas argues its behavior isn't flagrant enough to be of any concern to federal authorities. Facing a le ...
  • Students find their cause in the UAW for Nissa ...
    Image Caption:  Hayat Mohamed is one of the college students helping workers form a union at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss. (Photo by Joe Atkins.) College students from across the South are playing a key role in helping wor ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Killer goo imperils Florida w ...
    Image Caption:  The algae bloom that clogged Florida's Santa Fe River last year. (Photo by John Moran via Earthjustice) Toxic algae is choking Florida rivers and estuaries, killing animals, sickening people, and costing b ...
  • The racist history of voter challenge provisio ...
    Image Caption:  The Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina has been behind voter challenges that have disproportionately targeted people of color. The broad election changes bill passed by the North Carolina legislature and ...
  • Louisiana coastal damages lawsuit provokes wra ...
    Image Caption:  A lawsuit by a regional Louisiana flood protection authority seeks to force oil, gas and pipeline companies to fill in canals they've cut into the state's coastal wetlands and pay for the damage they've caused. Th ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Because you all come here because of my taste ...
    some fiddle music:
  • Why Jeff Bezos Purchased the Washington Post
    Newspapers don’t make much money any more (though in the 90s they made returns in the teens regularly.)  What they do still have, though, is influence and power.  Even though newspapers don’t have the reach television does, they determine the stories of the day—they control the news ...
  • Bin Laden’s insights and the Egyptian Coup
    This is the sort of post that makes people mad, but in light of what’s happening in Egypt it’s necessary to talk about bin Laden. Most people who hate bin Laden have never read read his writings.  They’re quite extensive, and they’ll reward your time in reading them. (Obl ...
  • Snowden, Manning and the role of government se ...
    I’ve stayed out of the Manning and Snowden imbroglio because most of what needs to be said is being said by other people. However there is one issue that is not being made clear enough, but which under-girds all the arguments about their acts: the role of government. Think of there as bein ...
  • Employment and Economic situation in a nutshell
    1) In absolute terms there are still less jobs than before the recession.  In absolute terms.  As a percentage of the population, it will not recover in 10 years, which is what I said the moment that Obama announced his stimulus plan. This is the worst recovery, in absolute and relative terms, i ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • RBA Lowers Growth Outlook as Economy Transitio ...
    Bloomberg – The Reserve Bank of Australia lowered its growth outlook as the economy transitions from mining investment, a process that may be aided by the currency falling further from its still “high level.”   “The forecast for Australian GDP continues to embody a transition in the driver ...
  • Reporter who Investigates Corruption Aarrested ...
    RSF – Reporters Without Borders questions award-winning investigative reporter Vo Thanh Tung’s arrest in the southern province of Dong Nai on 7 August for suspected corruption. Two people who had assisted Tung in previous investigations into highway police corruption, identified only as Ta ...
  • Psoriasis Raises Risk of Other Ailments
    MedPage Today – Patients with psoriasis had an increased risk of multiple comorbid conditions affecting most major organ systems, including the lungs, liver, kidneys, and cardiovascular system, a large cross-sectional study showed. The magnitude of comorbidity ranged from about a 10% incre ...
  • Australia: Board cracks down on chiropractors ...
    ABC – The governing body for chiropractors has moved to ban practitioners from giving unbalanced advice when it comes to vaccinations. After pressure from medical authorities, the Chiropractic Board has decided to crack down on unscientific practices. Read article
  • Sochi Olympics: Rogge (IOC) asks Russia to cla ...
    BBC – The head of the International Olympic Committee has asked Russia to explain how its new law on gay propaganda might affect next year’s winter games. Jacques Rogge said in Moscow that Russian written reassurances over the Winter Olympics needed clarification. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Van bought at US government auction 'had ...
    A Mexican family says that a van bought at a US government auction came with an unwanted extra: an undiscovered package of cocaine beneath the dashboard. The 2004 Toyota Sienna bought at a US government auction and Julio Cesar Moreno (top) and Sergio Alejandro Torres Photo: AP 10:04AM BST 09 ...
  • Kolkata celebrates Eid with fervour
    Kolkata: Muslims across Kolkata gathered at the city's principal mosque, Nakhoda Masjid, since early morning to offer prayers and greet each other on Eid al-Fitr Friday. The festival marked...
  • Melons can transfer pathogenic germs (Fed ...
    (Source: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Melons can transfer pathogenic germs 22/2013, 09.08.2013 The BfR recommends to keep melons refrigerated or to consume them soon after preparation Melons are popular due to their sweet, juicy and soft flesh. In summer especially, consumers are f ...
  • Arsenal drawn against Fenerbahce for Cham ...
    Elsewhere, SPL champions Celtic will face Shakhtar Karagandy of Kazakhstan after overcoming Elfsborg 1-0 in the third qualifying round Arsenal have been drawn against Fenerbahce as they bid for a place in the Champions League group stage. More to follow... Sign up with William Hill for a fre ...
  • A Social History of Wiretaps
    Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • My Identity Crisis
    Who me? A Politician? After about a week of sleepless nights, I recently agreed to stand (in New Zealand. you “stand” for office) as a Green Party candidate for Taranaki District Health Board (DHB). Does this mean I’m a politician now? I sure hope not. For most of my life ...
  • Can World War III Be Prevented?
    With the 2012 elections out of the way, the US edges ever closer to war with Iran. China and Russia have clearly indicated they will support Iran if it is attacked by Israel or the US. Both are nuclear powers. Thus there is no longer any question where or when World War III is likely to s ...
  • It's Official: US Funding Taliban and Al Qaeda
      At Least 43 Reconstruction Contracts Going to Terrorist Groups It’s extremely ironic for the US State Department to be issuing travel alerts for US citizens in the Middle East and North Africa the same week we learn that the Pentagon is contracting with Al Qaeda and ...
  • Sarah Palin and Alaska's Resource-Based LVT
    photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/charkes/ The Traumatised Society: How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation By Fred Harrison Book Review – Part III (This is the third of 3-part review of Fred Harrison’s The Traumatised Society. Part III relates to the potential fo ...
  • The Trauma of Cultural Genocide
    From http://www.progress.org/books/george.htm The Traumatised Society: How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation By Fred Harrison Book Review - Part II (This is the second part of 3-part review of  Fred Harrison's The Traumatised Society. Part II relates to the trauma and "cheat ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Cheers and Jeers: Reality and the EPA
    Kudos to the EPA for deciding to give the oil and natural gas industry more time to install emissions controls on storage tanks. Phasing in the deadline for controls on volatile organic compounds emitted by storage tanks instead of the original deadline is encouraging.
  • US Innovation: Top States For Solar Energy
    NerdWallet have compiled the top 5 states in the US for residential solar energy, according to four specific criteria. Top of the pile was California, thanks to a sunny location, the pioneering of solar energy leasing, and great cash-back incentives.
  • Study: Methane Leakage From Gas Fields Guts Cl ...
    A major new study in Geophysical Research Letters by 19 researchers — primarily from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) — suggests natural gas may be more of gangplank than a bridge.
  • Energy Finance: Reduce Risk, Increase Clean Energy
    The Clean Energy and Bond Finance Initiative released a paper about state and city level innovations in clean energy finance, especially the new creative uses of bonds to support clean energy. It makes a simple point: to make the old new again is the future of clean energy finance.
  • Is New York's 'Greenest' Tower Really Toxic?
    When it comes to the energy debate, knowing the facts is key to justifying where you stand. But so many articles that I read exaggerate, misinform and pick and choose convenient facts to make their arguments it makes me wonder if people still do real research.

Rodale News

  • Why the Planet is Heating Up
    Following is an excerpt from Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health—and How We Can Save Ourselves by Linda Marsa For more than 100 years, scientists had cautioned that burning fossil fuels like coal and oil would cause global warming because it adds enormous amounts of carbon dioxide ...
  • The Truth about Food Additives
    by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in the department of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of Eat Drink Vote I was invited to write the editorial to accompany a study published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine looking at the highly ...
  • 3 Incredible, Healthy Zucchini Recipes from Th ...
    Zucchini—it's like a plant on steroids. Plant one and you can practically feed your entire neighborhood with the vegetables it produces. In fact, zucchini is so prolific, it's garnered its own holiday. Every August 8th, gardeners around the U.S. celebrate "Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Nei ...
  • The Surprising Filth You Inhale When It's Hot
    Summertime and the livin' is easy, right? Time to get outside and take a deep breath of…filthy air. 2012 was the hottest year on record, and climatologists watched heat records fall right and left. And while you may have noticed daffodils blooming in February or stayed glued to your TV watchin ...
  • Your Child's Anxiety Trigger: Canned Soup?
    In baseball, it's three strikes and you're out. That doesn't seem to be the case for bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical that acts like estrogen and tampers with the body's normal hormone functioning. In study after study, researchers have been implicating the common chemical in the growing prevala ...

big think

  • New York Drivers: Pay State Taxes Or Lose Your ...
    What's the Latest Development? Starting this week, New Yorkers who owe more than $10,000 in back state taxes began receiving notices from the government stating that their driver's license will be suspended if they don't pay them within a specific time period. The first notice gives them ...
  • How Many Forms Does It Take To Put a Kid on a ...
    How many forms does it take to put a kid on a bus to summer camp? I’m a fan of civil juries as informal vehicles for wealth redistribution and justice, so I’m not one to jump on the “First, Kill all the Lawyers” bandwagon. But each and every day, they manage to diminish the quality of my ...
  • Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
    This graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). Over 1,400 asteroids that we no about are considered hazardous because they follow orbits that pass close to the Earth's orbit.  More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is at: http://ww ...
  • Excess is Not a Modern Problem
    Consider the story of the wealthy New York banker and the Greek fisherman. While vacationing in Greece, the banker meets a Greek fisherman and asks him how long it takes him to catch his fish. "Only a little while," the fisherman says. The banker responds: “So how do you spend the rest o ...
  • Shepard Fairey Backs 'Stampede' to Get Money O ...
    Shepard Fairey, the graphic artist behind the iconic Obama "HOPE" poster and the OBEY Giant, has given his stamp of approval to the Stamp Stampede - a campaign to stamp dollar bills with messages like "Not To Be Used For Bribing Politicians." The Stampede is part of a movement pushing fo ...

Information Liberation

  • Deputies Climb Through Window Into Couple's Ho ...
    A Warrington, Florida couple was asleep in their bed when a group of Escambia County sheriff's deputies climbed into their home without a warrant, held them at gunpoint, cursed at them, threw a woman to the ground, cuffed them, then entered their b...
  • Man Photographing Phoenix Courthouse Gets Swar ...
    Another man who went out to "test" whether or not the local police would uphold his right to film got his answer swiftly after photographing a federal courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona. A police helicopter shined a floodlight on him from the sky...
  • "Parallel Construction": Government Term for L ...
    President Obama pledged to create *...an unprecedented level of openness in Government...* and to *... work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration.* With all the recent reve...
  • Syracuse Police Taser a Disabled Man for Stand ...
    SYRACUSE, NY -- Police used a taser to electric shock a disabled man because he was standing on a bus, as he always does. The man prefers standing because of his spinal injuries, which make it uncomfortable for him to sit. Brad Hulett says he ...
  • Former NSA Boss Calls Snowden's Supporters Int ...
    Some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's Skynet surveillance programs and other forms of cyber-overreach have one thing in common: they continue to belittle their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners who exist solel...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
    Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →
  • No Big Deal
    Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
    This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →
  • Libel, Reputation and Thin Air
    This isn’t something I had planned to discuss any time soon, but recent headlines in Australia have pushed it to the head of the queue. If you don’t follow Australian politics closely, you may have missed the recent news that … Continue reading →
  • The Lemmings And The Cliff
    Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. We’re now down to just 99 days until the Federal election. And for 99% of the Australian community, it just can’t come quickly enough. For those planning to vote for the coalition, it’s a … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Fifty ways to pack your circles
    Squaring the circle is but one futile endeavour akin to squeezing a round peg into a square hole. But there are many improbable problems that humanity seeks to solve and with the advent of supercomputers and so-called “big data” it seems that perhaps no problem is now off-limits. Unf ...
  • Pale Blue Dot 2.1
    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
  • Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
    Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
  • Satisfying your curiosity
    Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...

RFF Library

  • The State of the Climate in 2012
    US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The State of the Climate in 2012 is a supplement to the August 2013 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS Vol. 94, No. 8). http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2012.php A new massive federal study says ...
  • Electric Vehicle Grid Integration in the U.S., ...
    MJ Bradley & Associates for The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and the  International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) http://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EVpolicies_final_July11.pdf [Green Car Congress] A recently published paper by M.J. Bradley & Associates, ...
  • Charged Up: Southern California Edison’s Key L ...
    Southern California Edison (SCE) http://bit.ly/17GTbWK [PDF]http://bit.ly/11IiWFl [Press Release] [Green Car Congress]  Southern California Edison (SCE) released a white paper summarizing learnings from its Electric Vehicle (EV) readiness program. The paper…shares information based on cust ...
  • Land-Use Requirements for Solar Power Plants ...
    US National Renewable Technology Laboratory / by Sean Ong, et al. http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56290.pdf [From an E&E News PM article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd]  The NREL report found that a large photovoltaic (PV) plant that provides all the electricity for 1,000 homes would require 3 ...
  • Censored EPA Presentation on Groundwater Pollu ...
    Isotech — Stable Isotope Analysis: Determining the Origin of Methane and its Effect on the Aquifer http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/08/05/censored-epa-pennsylvania-fracking-water-contamination-presentation-published-first-time http://desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Dimock%20re ...

Just World News

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frogblog

  • Disability issues and the media
    As someone with a disability who has to deal with the media on a regular basis, I found the latest report by the  Convention Coalition Monitoring Group very interesting. The time period the report covered was 2012. Note: The full report is available by clicking here: It looks at how the media in ...
  • No time for climate change – we’ve ...
    It may beggar belief, but perhaps it was inevitable. The NZ Government does not have the time to tackle climate change.  It’s focused on milk damage-control.  And it can only do one thing at a time. Last week, the PM’s chief scientific adviser released a report on climate change – its impact on ...
  • Parliament needs to curb gambling harm
    Te Ururoa Flavell’s Gambling (Gambling Harm reduction) Amendment Bill should be going through some of its latter stages in the House this week.  Sadly the Green Party is no longer supporting this legislation due to some pretty massive changes that were made at the select committee stage. The aim ...
  • Family carers, discrimination and the law
    Earlier this year, the Government forced a Bill through the House as part of the Budget which discriminates against citizens wishing to challenge on human rights issues, specifically issues around disability and family care. The Bill was a response to the successful court actions against the Min ...
  • Future proofing social housing
    Social housing is an important means for providing affordable housing for those who are not able to afford private housing and fills a fundamental human right. Currently there is a serious lack of accessible housing for disabled people or older people with mobility impairments, forcing people in ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Peru repeals official report on threats to unc ...
    Raya, a Nahua elder. More than half his people were wiped out after their land was opened up for oil exploration, Peru.© Johan WildhagenPeru’s Prime Minister has announced that his government has scrapped an official report warning of the dangers a controversial gas project poses to uncontacted ...
  • Proof of uncontacted Indians is serious blow t ...
    Many of the local Matsés Indians believe the uncontacted Indians are related to their tribe. They strongly reject Pacific Rubiales' work in the proposed reserve. © Christopher PillitzIn an embarrassing blow to Colombian-Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales, the Peruvian government has conf ...
  • Survival celebrates tribes' ingenious skills o ...
    Survival is marking UN Indigenous Day with a gallery featuring tribal peoples' ingenious skills and the threats they face. © Claudia Andujar/SurvivalSurvival International has published a photographic gallery ahead of UN Indigenous Day on August 9, showing some of the extraordinary skills o ...
  • Peruvian ministers resign over Amazon gas project
    The expansion of the Camisea gas project threatens the lives of highly vulnerable uncontacted and isolated Indians, such as the Nanti.© Survival InternationalAt least three ministers have resigned in Peru, amidst increasing pressure to approve a controversial gas project in the Amazon. The plan ...
  • Mining firm fined for ruining Aboriginal sacre ...
    The site, known as 'Two Women Sitting Down', has been desecrated by a mining firm© Aboriginal Areas Protection AuthorityAn Australian mining company has been fined for desecrating an Aboriginal sacred site, in a landmark judgment. It is believed to be the first successful prosecution ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Test-Tube Burger Served Up For First Time
    from skynews.com: The world's first test-tube burger, costing a whopping £250,000 to produce, has been unveiled in London. ...
  • As Cost of Importing Food Soars, Jamaica Turns ...
    from nytimes.com: The scent of coconut oil and fiery jerk spice blows through kitchens across this green island, but as the country’s food imports have become a billion-dollar threat to finances and health, Jamaica has taken on a bold new strategy: make farming patriotic and ubiquitous, ...
  • Ban imported milk powder, Sri Lankan doctors u ...
    from asianewsnet.net: Sri Lanka's Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) assistant secretary Dr. Nalin Ariyarathne yesterday said that the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) of Sri Lanka has tested samples of imported milk powder and found that they contain dicyanamide (DCD), ...
  • Internal EPA Report Conflicts with Agency’s St ...
    from allgov.com: Officially, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said last year that the drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania, was not contaminated by natural gas extraction involving hydraulic fracturing (fracking). However, an internal EPA document obtained by the media ...
  • US Military and #Monsanto Now Actively Engaged ...
    from naturalblaze.com: The word is out and the scientific bodies of manipulation can no longer contain the growing resistance against GMO. The more corrupt studies that attempt to find no harm in the consumption of genetically modified foods, the more an increasingly aware public is gr ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • During The Best Period Of Economic Growth In U ...
    How would America ever survive without the central planners in the Obama administration and at the Federal Reserve?  What in the world would we do if there was no income tax and no IRS?  Could the U.S. economy possibly keep from collapsing under such circumstances?  The mainstream media would ha ...
  • The Rise Of The Bear: 18 Signs That Russia Is ...
    The Russian Bear is stronger and more powerful than it has ever been before.  Sadly, most Americans don't understand this.  They still think of Russia as an "ex-superpower" that was rendered almost irrelevant when the Cold War ended.  And yes, when the Cold War ended Russia was in rough shape.  ...
  • 11 Examples Of The Escalating Crime And Violen ...
    Even though the United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the world by a very wide margin, hundreds of communities all over America are being overwhelmed by crime and violence.  For many years, violent crime had actually decreased in the United S ...
  • Billionaire Issues Chilling Warning About Inte ...
    Will rapidly rising interest rates rip through the U.S. financial system like a giant lawnmower blade?  Yes, the U.S. economy survived much higher interest rates in the past, but at that time there were not hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of interest rate derivatives hanging over our fina ...
  • 40 Percent Of U.S. Workers Make Less Than What ...
    Are American workers paid enough?  That is a topic that is endlessly debated all across this great land of ours.  Unfortunately, what pretty much everyone can agree on is that American workers are not making as much as they used to after you account for inflation.  Back in 1968, the minimum wage ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • In denial about its racism, Texas fights precl ...
    Image Caption:  Engaged in a legal battle over findings its new political district maps are racially discriminatory, Texas argues its behavior isn't flagrant enough to be of any concern to federal authorities. Facing a le ...
  • Students find their cause in the UAW for Nissa ...
    Image Caption:  Hayat Mohamed is one of the college students helping workers form a union at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss. (Photo by Joe Atkins.) College students from across the South are playing a key role in helping wor ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Killer goo imperils Florida w ...
    Image Caption:  The algae bloom that clogged Florida's Santa Fe River last year. (Photo by John Moran via Earthjustice) Toxic algae is choking Florida rivers and estuaries, killing animals, sickening people, and costing b ...
  • The racist history of voter challenge provisio ...
    Image Caption:  The Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina has been behind voter challenges that have disproportionately targeted people of color. The broad election changes bill passed by the North Carolina legislature and ...
  • Louisiana coastal damages lawsuit provokes wra ...
    Image Caption:  A lawsuit by a regional Louisiana flood protection authority seeks to force oil, gas and pipeline companies to fill in canals they've cut into the state's coastal wetlands and pay for the damage they've caused. Th ...

CenterLine

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

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    State renewable-energy laws turn out to be incredibly hard to repeal
    Washington Post
    With Congress deadlocked, a huge chunk of the action on clean energy in the United States is happening at the state level. Some 29 states and Washington D.C. have renewable standards requiring utilities to get a chunk of their power from sources like ...
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    Why the Renewable Energy Era is Doomed
    Mother Jones
    When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems. Most of us believe (or want to believe) that the second carbon era, the Age of Oil, will soon be superseded by the Age of Renewables, just as oil had long since ...
    Big data is giving China an edge in renewable energy production
    Quartz
    Imagine getting a report that predicts weather conditions right outside your front door every 15 minutes. That's happening in China, at least on wind farms where IBM is deploying technology that crunches gargantuan data flows from sensors, satellites ...
    Leaders renew debate about renewable fuels
    West Central Tribune
    Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson reminded those at Farmfest this week that years ago the Minnesota Legislature voted to mandate that gasoline sold in the state contain 10 percent ethanol, a corn-based fuel that has since expanded ...
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    Billionaire Found “One of the Greatest Inventions for Ecology in the World” on ...
    Yahoo! Finance (blog)
    'Shark Tank' -- not to be confused with 'Shark Week' or 'Sharknado' or 'Sharknado 2: The Second One' -- has a new guest shark this upcoming season. It's billionaire entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria. JP, as he's known to many, is the man behind Paul ...
    Parties for the Good of the 'Ecology'
    Wall Street Journal
    These events are "important to the ecology," said Bill Bragin, director of public programming for Lincoln Center, who often draws on performers and curators from such underground spaces for his programs at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. He first met Ms ...
    Kinnaur road-widening work threat to ecology, lives
    Hindustan Times
    Besides the threat from landslides after the recent rain and snow in tribal district of Kinnaur, villagers of Rarang has a problem to grapple with that has caused environmental damage which, in turn, has affected their lives. The "indiscriminate ...
    Retired UW Professor Wins International Cash Prize For Ecology Work
    KUOW News and Information
    “It basically jump-started ecology from a descriptive science, with a lot of work cataloging what's in nature, to an experimental science. The odd thing is, this all started with a rather obvious, time-consuming experimental removal of starfish from a ...
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    'Walking the Water' in the Everglades
    New York Times
    Corey Perrine for The New York Times. An anhinga bird dries its wings. But follow the path beyond the trail, and the water becomes a murky swamp crawling with formidable spiders, a variety of snakes, congregations of alligators and, occasionally, panthers.
    Hungarian Roma queue for water in heatwave after pumps shut down
    Reuters
    OZD, Hungary (Reuters) - Thousands of Roma have been queueing in a Hungarian town for water during a record heatwave after their mayor shut down many of the public pumps on which the impoverished community depends. With temperatures peaking at ...
    Contra Costa Water District approves new grazing leases despite objections ...
    San Jose Mercury News
    CONCORD -- Despite strong opposition from several longtime area ranchers, Contra Costa's largest water district agreed last week to move forward with new grazing lease agreements for several pieces of land bordering Contra Costa, Alameda and San ...
    Fukushima power plant begins pumping contaminated water
    NBCNews.com
    Two and a half years after the earthquake and tsunami devastated northern Japan, the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima has remained a danger to the environment as the plant's water runs downhill into the ocean. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
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