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Tech Drive In

  • Bloomberg Pitches in with 80K; Without more Co ...
    Ubuntu Edge fund raising campaign started with a bang. Almost 5 million was raised in the first 48 hours itself! But things have not been very rosy ever since. And understandably so. Even though the campaign smashed through almost all previous records know to the internet, it is still not go ...
  • Can TOX become the Skype Alternative we all ha ...
    The recent NSA debacle was nothing short of a shocker to many. Government sponsored monitoring of its own citizens has been more widespread than most people thought. And yet, as users, we can't do much about it. Skype, now owned by Microsoft, is a widely-used, and proprietary, video chat and I ...
  • A Fully Free Android based Mobile OS? FSF is A ...
    Android OS is a free and open source piece of software, just like an Ubuntu or a Fedora, no questions about that. But is it devoid of proprietary software entirely? No. Though the OS itself is completely open source, there are always components like drivers and such, which in many of the cases ...
  • MKBHD Explains Ubuntu Edge
    Wondering what MKBHD is all about? They are kind of a YouTube sensation for everything tech related. I was in the process of preparing an "Ubuntu Edge explained" post and then I saw this MKBHD video detailing Ubuntu Edge. And I thought, this is as good as it gets. So here it is, "Ubuntu Ed ...
  • Top 10 Keyboard Apps for Android
    With the kind of customizability Android is capable of, things can get a little overwhelming for an average user who has just bought his first smartphone. There are plenty of app replacements for each and every action. Take launchers for example. From lightweight to the extremely flamboyant ki ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...
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Veterans Today

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electric politics

  • The Graveyard Shift
    Step back from current events in the Middle East and you can see a further phase in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, coincidentally, at least from one point of view, the U.S. Empire is also entering a phase of decline, a decline from which it may never fully recover it ...
  • Syria in Context
    R2P may have met its match in Syria because it's almost impossible to defend the proposition that introducing more weapons and/or troops will make anything better. Aside, however, from the immediate policy question it's worth taking a moment to think about where Syria fits into the continuum of ...
  • Whose Future?
    If Susan Crawford is right about the introduction of fast fiber internet being analogous to the introduction of electricity then America is in big trouble — because a lot of other countries are getting fiber before we do. And, I suppose, possibly getting smarter faster, too... Unquestionab ...
  • Inspector Chen
    Sometimes we learn more through literature than non-fiction. Sometimes, believe it or not, there's a lot to be learned from police procedurals. Sometimes, also, police procedurals are just plain fun! But there really aren't that many great writers of them — few enough, anyhow, such that if ...
  • Après 1947
    The watershed 1947 National Security Act provided a post-war full employment guarantee to the U.S. arms industry. Indeed, it succeeded so well — with no real changes since then in the apparatus it devised — that today U.S. spending for military purposes bears no meaningful relationsh ...

PR News

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Stop NATO

  • War Anniversary: U.S. Guided Missile Warship A ...
    Civil Georgia August 9, 2013 U.S. Warship Arriving in Batumi for 4-Day Port Call USS Bulkeley Tbilisi: U.S. guided-missile destroyer Bulkeley (DDG 84) will arrive on August 10 in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi for a four-day port call. USS Bulkeley, which currently operates in in the U.S. 6t ...
  • New U.S.-Russia Cold War: Winners And Losers
    Global Times August 9, 2013 Winners and losers in Snowden fiasco ==== Everyone knows the competition between China and the US is key to 21st century international relations. But China’s strength still lags far behind that of the US. As China’s comprehensive strategic partner, Russia ...
  • Washington’s Drive For Hegemony Is A Drive To War
    Washington’s Drive For Hegemony Is A Drive To War Paul Craig Roberts It was five years ago that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, who was installed in power by the Washington supported “Rose Revolution,” launched a military invasion of South Ossetia, a break-away province under its ...
  • NATO Troops To Occupy Palestine?
    Al-Monitor August 8, 2013 Is There Role for NATO In Israel-Palestine Peace Process? By Jean-Loup Samaan* ==== During the last decade, NATO has built strong ties at the military-to-military level with Middle Eastern partners under the auspices of the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooper ...
  • Jules Romains: Colloquy on God and war
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jules Romains: Selections on war ==== Jules Romains From Verdun: The Battle (1938) Translated by Gerard Hopkins The Abbé Jean was hurrying because he had just received a message which had caught at his heart-strings. “There&# ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • California: Prisoner Hunger Strike Supporters ...
    Oakland Protestors Released Posted on August 6, 2013 at prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity   Photo of the folks who went to jail yesterday for occupying the State Building in Oakland.  Taken in the wee hours of the AM, right after they got out of Santa Rita Jail. Filed under: Government Repress ...
  • California Prisoner Hunger Strike: Countdown ...
    Day 32 August 8, 2013 — Today is the one-month anniversary of a hunger strike initiated by prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison that quickly spread to other correctional facilities across the state of California. To be precise, it is Day 32 of a month-long period of no solid foods for what are ...
  • Taksim Commune: Gezi Park And The Uprising In ...
    By Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh, Global Uprisings, August 5th, 2013 This short documentary tells the story of the occupation of Gezi Park, the eviction on July 15, 2013, and the protests that have continued in the aftermath. It includes interviews with many participants and footage ...
  • Bomb threats to fuel new repressive terror?
    [In the last few weeks, massive sentiment has grown -=- in the US and worldwide -- against the US government suppression of whistleblowers who are exposing US war crimes.  The hounding and stalking and threats on refugee/expatriat NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and the conviction of US Army w ...
  • BRAZIL: Combative protests during the visit of ...
    [Three videos from Brazil, documenting the massive protests at the corruption and mis-use of State resources for the Pope's visit.  The videos are narrated in Portuguese, and the videos give visual testimony to the ongoing problems of credibility and legitimacy of the Brazilian state, in the fac ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
    Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
  • Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
    I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
  • New Chambers at Teotihuacan
    What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...
  • Tunguska was a Meteorite
    For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

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Oriental Review

  • White House Courts Al-Qaeda from Kabul to Dama ...
    On August 3 the US government issued a new terrorist warning. 22 US foreign missions from Mauritania to Afghanistan are closed, including Israel, the closest ally.  The New York Police Department is on high alert. US citizens are warned of possible terrorist acts in the Middle East, North Africa ...
  • Japan and the Lessons of War
    These days mark the tragic anniversary of the atomic bombing of the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. armed forces, which was carried out at the final stage of World War II. The consequence of this barbaric “experiment” is the fact that it remains only time in the history ...
  • End of Great American Myth
    Human beingsare bestowed by nature with the faculties of intellect and wisdom so that they would not get lost in the sea of lies and aberrations.  The imminent aspiration of people to know the truth has become kind of a remote control mine  which has exploded and put an end to the great myth abo ...
  • Episode 13. Why London presented Hitler with V ...
    Part I Part II The Spanish Civil War officially ended on April 1, 1939.  But by that time Europe was no longer dealing with a mere local conflict, but a war that would engulf the entire continent.  It was time to unleash Hitler so he could do what the British needed him to do – […]
  • Evolving Geopolitics of Indian Ocean: In-depth ...
    While much attention in the Indian Ocean countries is focused on various internal and external issues of respective national importance, the serious issue of the evolving geopolitics of Indian Ocean appears to be neglected. Basically this issue is being caused by the heightening endeavours of US ...

BlogHer

  • VIDEO: Relive a Little of BlogHer '13 with Our ...
    Happy Friday! Our BlogHer '13 official conference videos are live! We know that both those who attended and those who couldn't make it love to watch these, so we're thrilled to put them here for your viewing pleasure! Would you like to relive a little of BlogHer '13 with me? Okay, let's go. On ...
  • Pumping in the Parking Garage: Breastfeeding a ...
    Right from the start, Alexis was a breastfed baby. I was home with her for essentially the first six months of her life. While I sometimes wanted to use her head as a hockey puck in those early days when latching felt like an alligator clamping down, we really didn't have any major problems. She ...
  • 7 Ways to Save Money on School Supplies
    It's the most exciting time of the year for bargain shoppers who have kids in school (or for anyone who likes cheap office supplies). For some people, school supply shopping is a big, fun, traditional spending spree. It was for my mom and me. But I’ve made this time of year into a big, fun, trad ...
  • Taking Summer Shorts From Casual to Dressy
    It's time for some seasonal closet -- and outfit -- revamping, this time with shorts. Summer shorts have become a staple in my wardrobe. They're a great basic piece, usually easy to care for, and, most importantly, they're versatile! You'll typically see me sporting a pair of shorts as part of ...
  • Bless Your Heart: A Defeated Mom in the Shoe Aisle
    Bless your heart. Thats what a lady told me today in Target while my youngest was on the ground screaming on top of her lungs. She too was a mom of younger kids probably around 6 years of age. It all started with a stupid cart. I no longer like carts. I dislike carts now or maybe dislike is too ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On Wha ...
          We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being ... Related posts:Why Skipping Breakfast Might Raise Risk Of Heart ...
  • Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of ho ...
          To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against “luxury foods” like ... Related posts:Study Link ...
  • FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cance ...
    After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal ... Related posts:How Much Arsenic Is Safe In Apple Juice? FDA ...
  • Climate change linked to violent behaviour
          Study shows that even a small increase in average temperatures or unusual weather can spark violent behavior. Bring on the cool weather – climate change is predicted to cause extreme weather, more intense storms, more frequent floods and ... Related posts: ...
  • EPA to American People: ‘Let Them Eat Monsanto ...
            The EPA, whose mission is to “to protect human health and the environment,” has approved Monsanto’s request to allow levels of glyphosate (Roundup) contamination in your food up to a million times higher than have been found ... Related posts:Monsan ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Aug. 9, 2013
    In this photo taken on Thursday, June 13, 2013, a worker repairs a drag line bucket used to dig coal in the nearby Bowen Basin at a workshop in Mackay city, Queensland state, Australia. Falling coal prices have hastened the closure of some financially marginal mines in the basin and shed thousan ...
  • Sen. Boxer opposes Rep. McKinley’s coal ...
    This just in from the office of Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.: In a letter sent today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, wrote to Senate colleagues about the serious impact of passing H.R. 2218 ...
  • 1 dead, 2 hurt in Kentucky coalfields
    Here’s the sad news out of Kentucky, via WFP’s Erica Peterson: Fifty-six year old Lenny D. Gilliam of Appalachia, Virginia died this afternoon at the Huff Creek Mine in Harlan County. The mine is operated by Lone Mountain Processing, a subsidiary of Arch Coal. The Kentucky Office of ...
  • UMWA echoes Rockefeller’s call for mine ...
    Here’s the statement just issued by the United Mine Workers of America and union President Cecil Roberts: In the wake of a strongly-worded letter sent by U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) to President Barack Obama regarding the lack of progress on important mine safety and health regula ...
  • Will President Obama act on mine health and sa ...
    President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial for the victims of the Upper Branch Mine explosion at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) It’s been more than three years since President Obama came to West Virginia ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Can’t Wait to See “The Wind Rises”
    A SOMBRE exploration of love, responsibility and death, “Kaze Tachinu” (“The Wind Rises”) is being described as Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated film for adults. After half a lifetime making exquisite fantasy films for children, such as “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away”, Mr Miyazaki, now 72 ...
  • Determinism + Randomness = Freedom?
    We all understand that there’s no free will in a deterministic universe, right? And we all understand that randomness doesn’t give one freedom, right? So how in the hell, if you’ll pardon my surprise, would adding determinism and randomness result in freedom? So we have a mecha ...
  • Time, Memory, and Learning
    When, as an adult, you look back at your childhood experiences, they appear to unfold in slow motion probably because the sheer number of them gives you the impression that they must have taken forever to acquire. So when you recall the summer vacation when you first learned to swim or row a boa ...
  • Quality is Subtle
    Image from clomailendesign.deviantart.com I’ve spent the last week or so in Vegas, and I’ve finally crystalized a thought I’ve had for a while now. In short, most quality things in life seem to be subtle and balanced rather than one-dimentional or overpowering. Let that simmer ...
  • iOS vs. Android Security
    I’ve just put up my latest post for the HP Application Security Blog, titled: 2 Reasons iOS is More Secure Than Android. I think the first point is the most important, i.e. marketshare. Second to that is the platform security itself, which is both more variable and less important overall. ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Skyrmions could make hard disks 100 times smaller
    Nature's Ron Cowen reviewed a technical paper in Nature that is one month old, Writing and Deleting Single Magnetic Skyrmions (Niklas Romming and 7 co-authors from Hamburg). See also reviews in Gizmodo and those via Google News. Thanks to Viktor K. for the link. Skyrmions, some to ...
  • Some hysteria about Czech politics in the media
    The Czech media hype some articles, especially in the German-speaking media such as Die Presse, as evidence that everyone thinks that we have become a banana republic. The president has become a king, we're becoming a Putin-style democracy, and so on. A new Bloomberg article talks about a paraly ...
  • SUSY, a scapegoat: different kinds of belief
    ...much of the anti-SUSY propaganda is unbelievable... One week ago, I argued that it is totally inappropriate to use the adjective "speculative" for theoretical frameworks such as supersymmetry. It's a topic that's being discussed at many places which is why now, one week later, I wil ...
  • Ostragene: realtime evolution in a dirty city
    Ostrava, an industrial hub in the Northeast of the Czech Republic, is the country's third largest city (300,000). It's full of coal mines and steel mills. ArcelorMittal is the world's largest steel producer and bought a major facility there. The air contains products of a chemical plant and some ...
  • CATO: against all public funding of science
    Terence Kealey, a clinical biochemist at a private university (of Buckingham), wrote the lead essay for the new issue of the libertarian CATO Institute's magazine, The Case against Public Science (CATO Unbound) His text is deeply provocative yet insightful but ultimately wrong at many levels ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • U.S. to reopen 18 diplomatic missions after te ...
    The U.S. State Department says 18 of the 19 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa that have been closed because of a terrorist threat will reopen on Sunday or Monday. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Ottawa t ...
  • Paul Hellyer: World’s Highest Ranking Alien Be ...
    by motherboardtv, via The Victory Report: Paul Hellyer recently stirred up global controversy when he testified before a half-dozen former US representatives that aliens exist. As Canada’s former Minister of Defence, Hellyer is the first and only cabinet-ranking official from a G8 nation to publ ...
  • Film Review: Elysium
    A sci-fi fairy tale strong on style and short on sophistication, says Eli Glasner CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: FILM REVIEW: Blue Jasmine Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett as a delusional,... Canadian film, ...
  • NRA News Video Exposes Cal-DOJ’s Gun Confiscat ...
    by Ginny Simone, AmmoLand: After the success of its first video revealing some truths about the value of the California DOJ’s Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS) program, Ginny Simone and NRA News have released a follow-up video containing an extended interview with former DOJ Special Agent, ...
  • Deadline nears on CIBC decision to cut Aeropla ...
    The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has until midnight Friday to decide whether it will sever its decades-long ties with the Aeroplan rewards program or match a competing offer from TD Bank, which is vying to replace CIBC’s Aerogold card with its own loyalty-point-accruing credit card. ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Shop Smart
    This may sound very basic, and it is, but if you shop smart, ANYONE can start prepping, no matter how little money that you may have…   The prime benefit of shopping smart is saving money. When you save money, you can choose to apply the savings towards other things, including general ...
  • How To Get Your Wife and Kids to Prep
    Guest Post: by Clinton Crafts The greatest challenge I’ve faced as a prepper has been how to include my wife and four children in my preparation efforts. My wife and 9-year-old daughter are not particularly interested and my 3-year-old–well, he’s 3. On the other hand, my 11 and ...
  • Things To Keep On You For Emergency
    The most useful survival tool is the one that you have with you when you need to survive. So, having said that, what do you have with you, right now, on your person? Or, what should you have on you, right now?   We often talk about the preps and supplies that we should have [...]
  • 10 Essential Items in a Survival Kit
    Here is a list of 10 essential items which you might choose as a minimum to start with in any survival kit. Build from there depending on your survival kit place and purpose. Here’s some advice I recently read and concur with… When deciding what to include in a survival kit, first th ...
  • The Human Population Timeline Screams Disaster
    graph source: Dr. William Stanton This graph of the human population timeline should send chills up and down your spine… and with regards to survival preparedness, it really says it all. What does it tell us? Here’s what…   The fact that there are so many of us today, is n ...

Fast Company

  • An All-In-One Digital Clock And iPhone Charger
    With two built-in USB ports, this sleek LED clock simplifies your nightstand. Bedside gadgets tend to come in disparate parts: You have an alarm clock on your phone, but then where did you leave your charger? Or perhaps your phone is perfectly juiced up, but when you wake up to get water i ...
  • Tapping Mother Nature To Build Better Robotic ...
    Today’s robots use basic infrared sensors to navigate around obstacles (think Roomba), but tomorrow’s contraptions will have far better sensory organs, inspired by the best examples in nature. Here’s a look at the weird experiments harnessing insects, animals and fungi that are ...
  • How To Rid The Developing World Of Deadly Bact ...
    By making water boil at much lower temperatures, scientists are using steam generated by the sun as a way sanitize things in places where unclean conditions often lead to disease and death. Up to 2.5 billion people lack access to proper sanitation. They use "flying toilets" to dispose of e ...
  • A Minimalist Periodic Table, Built From Dots
    The familiar chart of elements is highly functional but a touch ugly. This minimalist makeover is a gorgeous (if not practical) alternative. The periodic table may be one of the greatest accomplishments in information visualization. Its simple approach--lining and layering atoms by number ...
  • Obama Wants To Reform NSA Surveillance Programs
    The president wants to ensure there is an adversarial voice involved in FISA court proceedings, and said he plans to work with Congress to reform the part of the Patriot Act that deals with phone data records. At a news conference on Friday, President Obama said he was making plans to impr ...

Jadaliyya

  • Maghreb Media Roundup (August 9)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • Migrants in Morocco: 'Go Home or Face Death'
    On 28 June, Moroccan human rights associations Association lumière sur l’émigration clandestine au Maghreb (ALECMA), Groupe antiraciste d’accompagnement et de défense des étrangers et migrants (GADEM), Association marocaine des droits de l’Homme (AMDH), and Forum des alternatives Maroc (FMAS) la ...
  • The Tahrir Documents: Assembling the Egyptian ...
    [The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook and Twitter.] Tadween recently i ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (August 9)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mo ...
  • Mahmoud Darwish: Iraq's Night is Long
    [Today marks the fifth anniversary of Mahmoud Darwish’s death]   Iraq’s Night is Long Mahmoud Darwish [For Saadi Youssef]   Iraq, Iraq is blood the sun cannot dry The sun is God’s widow above Iraq The murdered Iraqi says to those standing at the bridge: Good Morning, I am stil ...

mediagazer

  • Twitter #music app gets new ways to discover a ...
    Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Twitter #music app gets new ways to discover artists, scans iPhone library for personalized recommendations  —  Twitter updated its Twitter #music iPhone app today with several new ways to discover new artists in addition to personalized recommendations ba ...
  • SpinMedia puts A.J. Daulerio in charge of its ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: SpinMedia puts A.J. Daulerio in charge of its music and entertainment properties  —  A.J. Daulerio tells Jason Whitlock he will be an editorial director at SpinMedia.  Among his charges, he says: Spin, Vibe, Celebuzz, The Frisky.  —&nbsp ...
  • Google rolls out digital textbooks, to buy and ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM: Google rolls out digital textbooks, to buy and rent — but students should shop around  —  Google has launched a digital textbooks section of Books on Google Play in the U.S., as promised.  The textbooks are available through the Play websit ...
  • AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fires Employee for Takin ...
    Sam Biddle / Valleywag: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fires Employee for Taking His Picture  —  Things are a little tense over at AOL, with hundreds of Patch staffers facing layoffs as the hyperlocal news service continues to slide.  And it's not just them: during a meeting about t ...
  • BBC calls in auditors to widen search for impr ...
    Mark Sweney / Guardian: BBC calls in auditors to widen search for improper executive payoffs  —  BBC director general Tony Hall appoints KPMG to investigate potentially improper payoffs to senior BBC executives  —  Tony Hall, the BBC director general, has called ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/8/13 - Historical Timeline
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - Historical Timeline: A History of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in Sports from Ancient Greece to Present - Our updated timeline on the history of sports and drugs includes events from 776 BC when the Ancient Greeks used PEDs during the original Olympic Games to t ...
  • 8/8/13 - Are There Any Exemptions to the Obama ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Are There Any Exemptions to the Obamacare Requirement That Health Insurance Policies Cover Birth Control? - YES
  • 8/8/13 - What Are the Different Methods of Sol ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - What Are the Different Methods of Solar Power Generation? - Read our updated question and learn about the different ways to generate solar power including photovoltaic (PV) cells, passive solar, solar thermal, and concentrating solar power.
  • 8/6/13 - Does Lowering the Federal Corporate I ...
    corporatetax.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Does Lowering the Federal Corporate Income Tax Rate Create Jobs? - Read pro and con statements from US Senator Orrin Hatch (pro), billionaire investor Warren Buffet (con), the Simpson-Bowles Commission (pro), the Congressional Budget Office (co ...
  • 8/5/13 - MLB suspends 13 players for violating ...
    sportsanddrugs.procon.org - MLB suspends 13 players for violating league drug policy - 12 players were suspended for 50 games in connection with the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic alleged to have provided performance enhancing drugs. The Yankees' Alex Rodriguez was banned through the 2014 sea ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Mapping of Monarch Butterfly Migration Yields ...
    A comprehensive mapping of the North American migration patterns of the iconic monarch butterfly could help preserve a species threatened by loss of habitat and food sources, a team of international Wikimedia Commons A monarch butterfly researchers says. In a study conducted across 17 U.S. sta ...
  • Conventional Hybrids Still Better for Climate ...
    Conventional gas-powered hybrid vehicles are still better for the climate than all-electric cars in most U.S. states, in part because these states still rely heavily on fossil fuels to produce electricity, according to a new report. In 39 states, high-efficiency hybrids, such as the Click to en ...
  • Recycling’s ‘Final Frontier’: The Composting o ...
    A move by New York City to begin collecting food scraps and other organic waste is just the latest example of expanding efforts by municipalities worldwide to recycle large quantities of unused food and slash the amount of material sent to landfills. BY DAVE LEVITAN
  • Mimicking Cactus Design, Scientists Devise Oil ...
    Chinese researchers have developed a method of removing oil from polluted water using tiny barbed spikes that mimic the natural design of a cactus. Wikimedia Commons The cactus opuntia microdasys Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the Beijing-based researchers describe how arrays of ...
  • Timelapse Map Illustrates Rapid Growth of U.S. ...
    The U.S. installed more than 13 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2012, nearly doubling the amount of wind power installations added in 2011 and pushing the Click to enlarge Department of EnergyWind energy projects in the U.S., 1992-2012 total capacity connected to the grid nationally to ...

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Egypt Blockades Gaza
    Hamas has finally admitted that it is the Egyptians, and not Israel, who have turned the Gaza Strip into a "big prison." Ghazi Hamad, a senior official with the Hamas-controlled foreign ministry, was quoted this week as saying that the Gaza Strip has
  • Pakistan: Giving Away Babies on Television
    In Pakistan, a country beset by problems of violence, poverty and illiteracy, a famous anchorman, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, a religious Muslim as well as a local sex symbol, hosts a "The Price is Right" type of show, call "Gift from God". During Ramadan, it
  • Gatestone Weekly Roundup
    The media often refuse to report what they don't want us to know -- Here, from the past week, are just a few of Gatestone's offerings: Now that Egypt has finally not only blockaded Gaza, but admitted it, as Khaled Abu Toameh asks: where are the
  • Europe: Ramadan Wrap-Up, 2013
    Muslims across Europe are marking the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month which, in accordance with the lunar calendar, this year fell between July and August. Ramadan was a major topic for public discussion, and the month-long holiday received heavy
  • How the EU Empowers Hezbollah's "Military Wing"
    In July, after lobbying led by the UK and Dutch governments, the European Union placed the "military wing" of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah on the terror blacklist. The designation does not apply, however, to Hezbollah's

Urban Survival

  • Our Favorite Golfer
    … is, of course, Fearless Leader himself, who is heading to Martha’s Vineyard, reports USA Today, for a week or rest and relaxation.  Hallelujah.  As you may expect, he’s being widely criticized for taking the time off.  But, around here, we take a more thoughtful view of things:& ...
  • Coping: The WuJo Detective
    Thursday morning, we recounted one of our Wujo tales, wherein a reader reported on the case of mysterious sandals that seem to have gone walking about on their own.  At the end of the column the WjD (wujo detective degree abbreviation) asked a number of questions which might lead directly t ...
  • A Modest Rally, But Then What?
    Ure’s truly did not win the PowerBall last night, and if you have time to read this, neither did you by the looks of it, although a number of lucky people did.  Turns out the winners included one in Minnesota and two in New Joisey. (sic) The good news, such as it is, may be that there’s ano ...
  • A Modest Rally, But Then What?
    Ure’s truly did not win the PowerBall last night, and if you have time to read this, neither did you by the looks of it, although a number of lucky people did.  Turns out the winners included one in Minnesota and two in New Joisey. (sic) The good news, such as it is, may be that there’s ano ...
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo
    I love it when wujo stories start to pile up in the inbox.  Assuming you know that “wujo” stories are more reliable than regular woo-woo stories, since they are gathered here from first-hand reports, rather than thrice-told-tales, I should explain that our fascination is with their existenc ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • Gerald Celente Trends In The News ~ National I ...
    They are lowering the price of gold because someone is planning to by it at at lower price. And then the price will go sky high. In 1930 they crashed the economy so that they could buy as much as possible at the lowest price. There will be no big... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • John Stossel Currency Devaluation and the Bitcoin
    Economists Ben Powell (Texas Tech) and Jeffrey Tucker (Laissez-faire Books) discuss the clever methods politicians have used to devalue money instead of making citizens pay more tax up front. Gold is not an investment, it's money. it's... [[ This is a content summary ...
  • The Iran Deception – By Jason Liosatos
    It is amazing how it is perceived that Iran is not responsible enough to have nuclear weapons, with its virtually squeaky clean track record, and their religious haram, constituting WMD’s and nuclear weapons as a sin. Iran is angelic compared to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Is Money Destroying Us, Or Is It Us The People ...
    ‘When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money’. It is very hard to argue against the fact that money is destroying us individually, both physically,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit htt ...
  • Killer Robots ~ The Dangerous Future of Warfare
    BAN KILLER ROBOTS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Next there will be a staged event where these drones/bots will have to be used on our soil....the U.S. Government doesn't pay DARPA, Boston Dynamics billions of dollars a year to test uniforms. These... [[ This is a content summary o ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Ginkgo Residential: Living Up to Its Resilient ...
    Lauren Kubiak, Energy Fellow, New York Editor’s note: this is a guest post from 2013 Stanback Intern Hannah Matschek. One way to achieve success in today’s real estate sector is to simultaneously deliver economic, environmental, and soc ...
  • Miami and EPA Ignore Climate Impacts
    Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago The EPA recently signed off on a $1.6 billion settlement to repair Miami-Dade County’s sewer infrastructure, including rebuilding the county’s oldest and largest sewage treatment plants.  Th ...
  • India Green News: PM Singh calls for India to ...
    Kristina Johnson, Program Assistant, Food and Agriculture, India Initiative, Urban, San Francisco August 1st-8th, 2013 India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change India need ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • President Carter, General Powell Plead For Rus ...
    A stunning Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that two of the United States highest ranking military generals delivered a “personal plea” to President Putin from retired four-star general and former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the ...
  • Intercepted al Qaeda message led to shuttering ...
    An intercepted message among senior al Qaeda operatives in the last several days raised alarm bells that led to the closing of embassies and consulates Sunday across the Middle East and North Africa, CNN has learned. CNN has agreed to a request from an Obama administration official not to publis ...
  • US ready to destroy Syrian air forces with 3 s ...
    The United States is able to destroy the Syrian air forces with the help of only three warships and 24 drones, a member of the US Institute for the Study of War, Christopher Harmer, says. This will prevent the Syrian air forces from being used against civilians and the rebels. According to the e ...
  • Unexplained, conflicting US global terror warn ...
    Saturday night Aug. 3, the global warnings issued last week by the US State Department and Interpol against terrorist attacks covering almost the entire Muslim world, suddenly reached the American homeland. Sunday morning, Aug. 4, as US missions closed in 22 countries, including Egypt and Israel ...
  • A ‘Perfect Storm’ Could Cause A Collapse In Oi ...
    Deutsche Bank strategists Rocky Fishman, Salil Aggarwal, and Lon Parisi are out with a note warning clients that a “perfect storm” of structural, demand, and supply-driven factors could conspire to cause a “major pullback” in oil prices, with the potential to derail the rally in the U.S. stock m ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Hundreds launch Zero Carbon Buildings Plan
    Australia's buildings could halve their energy use within a decade, to make a major contribution to reducing the nation's carbon emissions – and save money on energy bills in the long run as well. A large crowd packed out an auditorium at Melbourne University to hear this message at the la ...
  • A plan to fix Australia's buildings
    The first comprehensive, nationwide plan to fix Australia's buildings' energy use and greenhouse impact is to be launched this week at Melbourne University. The Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan – a joint project of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions and The University of ...
  • It's time to start limiting the gas industry
    Gas industry campaign omits gas price hike July 29 2013 Australians should stand with the farmers who are stopping coal-seam gas developments, not the gas companies who stand to gain, according to a leading climate solutions and technology think-tank. “It's time to start placing more limits on ...
  • It's time to launch the Zero Carbon Australia ...
      Launches in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne: Thursday, 8 August, 6:30PM at The Spot Basement Theatre, Melbourne University, 198 Berkely St Carlton. Click here to book Melbourne seats. Brisbane: Monday, 12 August, from 6PM at C Block Auditorium C1411, Southbank TAFE, 66 Ernest St S ...
  • Is climate action working?
    With the first year of the carbon price just over, we've seen a lot of commentary and hyperbole from all sides. Fortunately some facts are also available. Emissions have fallen. Prices have not skyrocketed and the sky has not fallen in. Case closed? Jenny Riesz and Roger Dargaville have written ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Does size matter (for lemur smarts, that is)?
    Does size matter? When referring to primate brain size and its relation to social intelligence, scientists at Duke University do not think the answer is a simple yes or no. In the past, scientists have correlated large brain size to large group size. However, in a new study published in PLoS ONE ...
  • Survey in controversial palm oil concession fi ...
    A biological survey of forests slated for destruction for a palm oil project in Cameroon has uncovered 23 species of large mammals, including the world's most endangered chimpanzee subspecies, the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti). The project in question, operated by U.S.-ba ...
  • First of its kind rescue and release for sloth ...
    For a young wild sloth bear who found himself amidst a panic-stricken village in India, rescue was fortunately, and surprisingly, close at hand. In a one-of-a-kind heartwarming story, a team from Wildlife SOS (WSOS) India – a conservation and welfare NGO – successfully rescued, treat ...
  • Climate change scattering marine species
    Rising ocean temperatures are rearranging the biological make-up of our oceans, pushing species towards the poles by 7kms every year, as they chase the climates they can survive in, according to new research. The study, conducted by a working group of scientists from 17 different institutions, g ...
  • $20,000 grant for reporting on the next big id ...
    Today Mongabay's non-profit arm launched a new journalism program that funds in-depth or investigative reporting on key environmental topics. The first reporting opportunity under the Special Reporting Initiatives program asks: what is the next big idea in tropical biodiversity conservation? The ...

Sierra Express

  • Redi Tlhabi talks fracking on South 2 North
    This Friday on Al Jazeera’s global talk show South 2 North, Redi Tlhabi will discuss shale gas: either the equivalent of finding gold for the first time or an environmental and health hazard, depending on which of her guests you ask.  (Photo: Redi Tihabi) “Are we at the edge of a revolution as b ...
  • Happy Eid-Al-Fitr
    Sierra Express Media sends best wishes to HE President Ernest Bai Koroma, the Government of Sierra Leone, and our Muslim readers, for a Happy Eid-Al-Fitr. Eid Mubarak May we all together experience peace in the coming year. Stay with SIerra Express Media, for your trusted place in news! Related ...
  • Saudi Imam prays for Sierra Leone
    One of the most renowned Imams in Saudi Arabia has prayed for sustainable peace and development in Sierra Leone. His Eminence Sheikh Adel Ben Salim Kalbani offered prayers for the entire African continent and made repeated and special supplications for Sierra Leone in particular. The highly &#82 ...
  • Japan and WFP launch innovative projects in Gh ...
    FREETOWN–The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$1.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan. The funds will be used to launch innovative nutrition projects in Ghana and Sierra Leone, as part of Japan and WFP’s expanded partnership to scale-up joint nutrition ...
  • “Sierra Leone’s Growth Rate is one of The Envy ...
    Delta’s Senior Vice President Perry A. Cantarutti in charge of Europe, Middle East and Africa has described Sierra Leone’s growth rate as “one of the envy of the world”.  (Photo: R – Govt Spokesman- Min. of Info & Communications Alhaji Alpha Kanu, Min of Transport & Aviation Hon. B ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Chinese look at own industry
    Chinese consumers haven't been mincing their words over the Fonterra botulism debacle this week.Take one Chinese mother who told the state-run CCTV network, bluntly, that "imported milk products are not safe any more".She then...
  • Unofficial formula trade 'ticking bomb'
    Questions remain over the status of potentially contaminated Karicare infant formula sold through unofficial channels in China, despite Fonterra's assertions that all products affected by its botulism scare have been contained.Four...
  • Fonterra sent schoolgirls potentially contamin ...
    Fonterra has admitted sending Palmerston North Girls' High School a potentially contaminated whey protein concentrate after it was requested for use in a science project.The dairy company this afternoon revealed it sent 12kg of...
  • Bryce Edwards: Political round-up: The best of ...
    The big political issues of the week have been the Fonterra contamination scandal (which I covered here ) and the ongoing state surveillance of the media (covered
  • Fonterra chiefs get 'frank and thorough' grilling
    Fonterra executives have emerged from meeting at the Beehive with Government ministers, saying it had been a "frank and thorough" discussion but the Government has made it clear Fonterra will not escape a more intensive probe by relying...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • DOJ to Release Details on Time FISA Court Caug ...
    At today’s press conference, President Barack Obama, trying to play all sides, insisted that the government’s oversight of the National Security Agency’s all above the board and works perfectly, though he magnanimously understands that we might be suspicious and also worry that fut ...
  • Chicago Opens First Marijuana Clinic, Despite ...
    Illinois' first medical marijuana clinic opened in Chicago on Wednesday. Although Chicagoans lined up outside, no one left with a dime bag or even a prescription. The clinic is called Good Intentions LLC, and is operated by Dr. Brian Murray, a general practice physician, and Tammy J ...
  • Obama's Weak Defense of Obamacare
    Asked at a press conference today to discuss concerns about whether his administration has the authority to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate, President Obama declined to explain his administration’s authority and instead to simply assert it. But not before casting blame on Republic ...
  • Global Attitudes Toward the US Back to 2002 Levels
    According to the Pew Research Center global attitudes towards the U.S. are back to where they were in 2002. However, this renewed positive attitude is expected to decline thanks to American foreign policy in the Middle East. From CNBC: Favorable global feelings toward the United ...
  • President Obama Claims He Was Totally Moving F ...
    At today’s excruciatingly bullshit-laden press conference, President Obama said he extended protections to whistleblowers before Edward Snowden leaked the NSA’s surveillance operations to the press, so Snowden should’ve used the appropriate channels to lodge a complaint. Later he cl ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • The RNC Wants To Hide Its Primary Clown Car
    Alex Pareene figures it out: Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee, has told NBC and CNN that they will not be allowed to have any Republican presidential debates in 2016 if they go ahead and air planned films about Hillary Clinton, who will likely be the front-runner for ...
  • In memory of Hiroshima
    For everyone who has made the pilgrimage The domed temple beneath the blast Is a wailing wall for those whose humanity survived. Who can ever forget the keening moans Of the little children who walk through the museum, Not knowing what what they see, But knowing Abaddon instinctively. Let the ge ...
  • Civil asset forfeiture: evading due process
    Jo6Pac posted a link on the abuse of civil asset forfeiture in comments. Via Mikey at DK, I found this piece by Sarah Stillman: On a bright Thursday afternoon in 2007, Jennifer Boatright, a waitress at a Houston bar-and-grill, drove with her two young sons and her boyfriend, Ron Henderson, on U. ...
  • “Journalists” for hire: Groundswel ...
    This came out ten days ago, but I missed it. Fortunately, so far the “journalists” are people recognized as being flagrant partisans. But having anyone in media collaborating with politicians to message is remarkable. The involvement of Judicial Watch, a tax-exempt group, in strategy ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
      In this week's sex in the news: gay rights and the Olympics in Russia, the trailer for First Comes Love, a new documentary on single motherhood, sexual edging, what Detroit's declaration of bankruptcy has to do with a giant Crisco can, and the case for sex with mythical creature ...
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  • Your Soul is Calling
    Discover why you are here and how to achieve your soul calling. Join host Itzhak Beery and guests for the live, interactive webinar, "Shamanic Paths to Your Life Purpose: Hand Analysis, Numerology, Astrology, and the Mayan Naguals," for 5 weekly sessions, starting September 11. rea ...
  • Marijuana Treats Young Girl's Severe Seizures
    One of the most striking societal progressions we've seen in the 21st century is the changing attitude towards marijuana, a substance long vilified by the government and media, a time dubbed as Reefer Madness. read more
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Desertification

  • Fight Against Drought Is Grounds for Political ...
    The decisions taken by the Brazilian government in the fight against drought in the country’s semiarid Northeast are an example of the disconnect between politicians and the citizens, which triggered an unexpected wave of protests in June. Even though the centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff ...
  • First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
    Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country’s forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation. Burkina’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas and the ...
  • Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
    As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia a ...
    Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning. “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • US, Russia to meet on Geneva 2 talks
    US and Russian officials have agreed on the need to organize a Syrian peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible to end the two-year-old conflict in the Arab country, the Russian foreign minister says.
  • Activist barred from flight to Bahrain
    A prominent Bahraini rights activist has been barred from a flight to her homeland, Bahrain, as the Persian Gulf nation is preparing for a major anti-regime protest.
  • Turkey advises citizens to leave Lebanon
    Turkey has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon following the abduction of two pilots working for the Turkish Airlines in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
  • Turkey calls for democracy in Egypt
    Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called for the engagement of all parties in Egypt’s political process and an end to violence in the North African country.
  • Two blasts kill 11 near Iraq's Ramadi
    At least 11 people have been killed in two explosions near the central Iraqi city of Ramadi in the latest strike by militants seeking to destabilize the country.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

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Care2 - Environment

  • Demand City Take Animal Abuse Seriously ! PLEA ...
    Baltimores Anti-Animal Abuse commission was created after a pit bull was soaked with gasoline and set on fire in West Baltimore. The commission has been working very hard for years to curb animal abuse in Baltimore, but the government has shown little Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Demand Justice for Disabled Woman Left to Die ...
    A severely autistic woman was left in the back of a facility vehicle for five hours before she was found, dehydrated and unconscious, by the staff manager. Please urge the authorities to quickly find and punish whoever left that poor women to die. Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture ...
  • Punish Man for Keeping Dogs in Disgusting Cond ...
    Punish Richard Pilicer for keeping over 100 dogs in unsanitary and filthy conditions Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protect Lake Tahoe from Nevada's Damaging Dema ...
    Forty years ago, Lake Tahoe was being harmed by poorly planned development and urban pollution. An agreement between California and Nevada, called the Bi-State Compact, was created to bring better regional planning to Tahoe. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbsp ...
  • Nepal sees tiger population go up by 63% since ...
    The number of wild tigers living in Nepal has increased by 63% to 198 since 2009, a government survey has shown. The survey, which was carried out between February and June, assessed the Bengal tiger population across a 600-mile stretch in Nepal and India Submitted by Olga S. to Animals  | ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Shoppers Can Pick Up Food Safety Clues at Farm ...
    This is National Farmers Market Week, and with a bounty of freshly harvested food now available from local farms, people are flocking to the markets for all sorts of reasons. Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Judge orders bond posted in horse slaughter case
    A federal magistrate on Thursday ordered animal rights groups that won a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter to post a bond of nearly $500,000 as they continue their legal fight. Submitted by Carrie B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Answers To Any Cat Question!
    Got a question? Post it. Know an answer? Share it. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • You Guys, Maru Has a New Roommate!
    A new kitten is in the Maru house, and our little wonder cat is in full joy mode. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The week in wildlife in pictures
    Endangered hen harriers, fledgling swallows and glow-in-the dark scorpions feature in this week's pick of images from the natural world Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Congressional Budget Office – Monthly Bu ...
    www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44495-MBR.pdf. Filed under: News and politics
  • Attention Veterans – New Ruling Effectiv ...
    Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 145 (Monday, July 29, 2013). Note from:  Administrator Effective Monday, July 29, 2013, Veterans will be able to access VA records previously withheld.  Until now, VA personnel have had the final say on whether or … Continue reading →
  • FBI — Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to De ...
    FBI — Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to Destruction of Evidence in Connection with Deepwater Horizon Tragedy. Filed under: Government Tagged: Deepwater Horizon, destruction of evidence, FBI, guilty, Halliburton
  • Summary of IRS, April 5, 2013, Notice of Propo ...
    www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/summary-irs-rule.pdf. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured
  • New Recalls from the (ODI) Office of the Natio ...
    Please click on the following NHTSA Campaign ID links to view the recall information. NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 13V300 Manufacturer : Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. Make / Model Years : MITSUBISHI / 2013 Subject : Strut Stabilizer May … Continue reading →

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Slum Farmers Rise Above the Sewers
    Tucked deep in Kenya’s sprawling Kibera slum is the shanty that Alice Atieno calls home. It is just one among many small, badly-lit shacks built close together in this crowded slum where an estimated one million people live on about 400 hectares. But right on her doorstep stalks of green leafy v ...
  • Taliban Fights Missing Trousers
    A new Taliban fashion directive to men has created surprise and drawn opposition. Orders to men to wear the loose traditional dress rather than trousers have been challenged on the grounds that men in the northwest of Pakistan do not wear trousers in the first place. The Taliban have long demand ...
  • Part of Indian Heritage Site Bulldozed for a Road
    The village of Hampi located in India’s southern state of Karnataka has long been an attraction for tourists from all over the world. Modern-day Hampi is now home to the ruins of what was the last capital of the Vijayanagar kingdom. The Group of Monuments in Hampi has been declared a World ...
  • Even Death Feels Weight of Crisis in Spain
    Even in death, people in Spain cannot escape the economic crisis. Funeral services carry the highest VAT (value added tax) rate, alongside entertainment like nightclubs, and luxury products. “I paid over 7,000 euros (9,300 dollars) for my husband’s funeral, and it was a simple service, with one ...
  • Cameroonians See REDD
    Uncertainty over property rights and access to forest land is potentially a major stumbling block for implementing the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in Cameroon. In Adjab, an indigenous village in the southern region of Ca ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Debunking Iran Nuke Lies
    Summary: Nuclear physicist Yousaf Butt discusses the Wall Street Journal’s fearmongering on Iran’s nuclear program; why the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty needs replacing; how Iran’s moderate President Rouhani is frustrating the neoconservatives; and the obvious outlines of a US-Iran nuclea ...
  • Indictment of Iran for ’94 Terror Bombing Reli ...
    Summary: Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman based his 2006 warrant for the arrest of top Iranian officials in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 on the claims of representatives of the armed Iranian opposition Mujahedin E Khalq (MEK), the full text of the docume ...
  • America’s Iran Policy, the Undermining of Inte ...
    Summary: Determination to compel Iran’s surrender prompts ever more assiduous efforts by America and its partners to coerce other states into helping them press Tehran. In the process, Western powers violate basic principles of the rules-based regimes governing key dimensions of internation ...
  • AIPAC's Push To Scuttle Iran Diplomacy
    Summary: Observers of America's Iran policy might be forgiven for doubting the sincerity of those Washington hawks who constantly plea that they both support the Iranian people and hope to avoid launching a war against them. That's because the hawks—in the think tank and lobbying worlds, and ...
  • Rohani’s Inauguration, Iran’s Political System ...
    Summary: As Hassan Rouhani approaches his inauguration this weekend, there is self-referential optimism in Western policy circles about what his accession might portend. A substantial quorum in these circles sees Rouhani as perhaps someone with whom the West-to recall Margaret Thatcher's 1984 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Beyond the Higgs Boson" --World's Physicists ...
    Despite the discovery of the existence of the Higgs Boson on July 4, 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, puzzling questions about the nature of the universe remain unanswered. For example, the essential properties of neutrinos are still a mystery. And dark matter and dark en ...
  • Image of the Day: Light from Ancient Galaxies ...
        Astronomers using Herschel have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies (Chandra image above) may be influenced by the massive black holes at their hearts. This helps explain the link between the size of the central bulges of galaxies and the m ...
  • Origin of Magellanic Stream that Wraps Halfwa ...
        Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have solved the 40-year-old mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around the Milky Way. New Hubble observations reveal that most of this stream was stripped from the Sma ...
  • Image of the Day: Cosmic Cloud With Water Vapo ...
        Astronomers studying data from the recently terminated Herschel Space Telescope discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, within a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like star. Water, essential to life on Ea ...
  • Relic Afterglow of Big Bang Yields Intriguing ...
      To understand the mysteries of our universe, scientists are trying to go back as far they can to the Big Bang. A new analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation data by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has taken the furthest look ...

Natural News

  • Dolphins granted personhood by government of India
    Dolphins have been granted "non-human personhood" status by the government of India, making India the first nation in the world to recognize the unique intelligence and self-awareness of the cetacean order (a class of aquatic mammals). The decision was announced by...
  • FAA warns: Don't shoot down drones
    In response to a small Colorado town's proposal to place a bounty on drones, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning that anyone who shoots down an unmanned aerial vehicle risks fines and jail time. Drones "hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons...
  • Activating your third eye
    Called the third eye, the sixth chakra, and the pineal gland, this particular part of your body is extremely important. Each of the chakras vibrates at its own frequency, so the key to activating the third eye is to achieve the right vibrations that will create a magnetic...
  • Mobile propaganda: California government blast ...
    There will be some who think it's a great idea and an improvement to public safety (the old "it's for your own good" argument), but it is something that has sinister implications: Sending out "alerts" over your cell phone, which is a technique critics say is a huge privacy...
  • Treat your stretch marks with these effective ...
    Despite their harmlessness, stretch marks are never pleasant to have. Aside from the 'weight gain' stigma attached to them, these white or light purple scars - caused by rapid stretching of the skin - are unsightly, and their presence often discourages otherwise confident...

Threat Level

  • Obama Unveils Surveillance Reform Steps; Insis ...
    Forced by recent leaks to respond to criticism that the government is exploiting legal loopholes to conduct widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens, President Barack Obama publicly acknowledged today that the government needs to be more transparent about its surveillance activities. ...  & ...
  • Ukrainian Carder in $5 Million Ring Sentenced ...
    Ukrainian carder Egor Shevelev (aka Eskalibur) who operated a gang that authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group has been sentenced to about 14-40 years in state prison following a 10-week trial in New York.     
  • Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Ami ...
    A nearly 10-year-old pro-privacy Texas email service long used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden abruptly shut down today, alluding in a statement to a secret U.S. court battle that it's been fighting for six weeks, and has so far lost.     
  • Why Everyone Is Pissed Off About Google Chrome ...
    There's much gnashing of teeth today over the discovery that Google Chrome lets you -- or anyone using your computer -- see the plaintext web passwords stored by your browser. But Google is thinking like a security architect, and from ...    
  • Twitter’s Killer New Two-Factor Solution Kicks ...
    When Twitter rolled out two factor authentication back in May, it hinted that the SMS authentication would be merely a first step in a more robust security solution. Today, WIRED got a better look at the company’s just-announced new system ...    

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Texas Refuses to Enforce Obamacare Insurance R ...
    They say everything is bigger in Texas. That's certainly the case when it comes to the mega-failure that is the Lone Star State's 46th ranked health care system. Six million people or 24 percent of all Texans--and 30 percent of those ages 18 to 64--have no health insurance. Twenty-two Texas c ...
  • CNN Debt Monger Erin Burnett Still Wrong on S& ...
    On Tuesday night, CNN Out Front host Erin Burnett officially joined the ranks of Barack Obama's inquisitors with her special, "The Truth about Benghazi." But for two years, she's been serving as the network's fear-monger about the U.S. national debt. "It has been 730 days since the U.S. lost i ...
  • Intensity vs. Propensity in the Battle for Abo ...
    In recent weeks, pollsters and pundits have been wrestling with a seeming contradiction at the heart of the country's abortion debate. On the one hand, the United States is a pro-choice nation, with consistent majorities of Americans voicing the belief for two decades that abortion should be le ...
  • Feds Send Dead Farmers Checks, Not Estate Tax ...
    For the first time in years, passage of the farm bill is producing conflict and controversy on Capitol Hill. But even as House Republicans demand $20 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would remove five million people from the food stamp rolls, the Gove ...
  • Marco Rubio Doubles Down on Obamacare Defundin ...
    Florida Senator and obvious 2016 GOP White House hopeful Marco Rubio used a Fox News op-ed last Thursday to publish one of the most comical acts of budgetary extortion in recent memory. Demanding that Congress shutter the federal government rather than pay for the implementation of the Affordabl ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Zoos To Close In Costa Rica
    “No Cages” is the new policy on zoo animals in Costa Rica.  Animals at the Simon Bolivar Zoo will be released or taken to sanctuaries. The zoo will be changed dramatically into a botanical garden and the Santa Ana Conservation Center will be made into a park. Environment Minister Ren ...
  • Global Meditation (Crowdfund It?)
    I’m a huge fan of meditation, but mostly of a truly spiritual nature. Nonetheless, meditation aimed at calming yourself down a bit, bringing more peace to your life, and even helping the world is still good. Many studies have found meditation to be useful for those aims. A new crowdfunding ...
  • Colbert Cracks Jokes At North Pole Turning Int ...
    We reported recently on the North Pole melting, turning into a bloody freakin’ lake. Well, the often hilarious (if a bit confused) Stephen Colbert recently cracked a number of awesome jokes about the actually quite disheartening story. Of course, this isn’t the first time Colbert too ...
  • BMW’s 1st Electric Car — BMW i3
    After years of development and countless teasers, the commercial-production BMW i3 has finally been unveiled. The BMW i3 electric car was simultaneously unveiled in London, New York, and Beijing yesterday. The unveiling took place “exactly two years after the BMW i3 Concept was presen ...
  • Chevy Spark EV Review: Lovin’ It!
    Originally published on EV Obsessiona>: With EV sales increasing, more affordable models are starting to come into the marketplace. GM, in a bid to cash in on this market, recently released the Chevy Spark EV. In limited release, in California and Oregon, the five door compact car (aft ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Moderate Republicans Still In Denial About The ...
    By @TedFrier Mickey Edwards steals a page from those early Progressives who believed the cure for democracy was more democracy when the former Republican Oklahoma Congressman urges voters to take charge of American politics and abandon what he calls our corrupt and dysfunctional two-party system ...
  • Republic or Empire?
    By @TedFrier Who'd have thought that US contractors would need to import millions of tons of sand into Iraq where, as the New York Times quipped, the ratio of sand to water in that desert country is around 10 to 1. The problem, as the Third Army's Maj. Gen. Phillip E. McGhee explained at the tim ...
  • Right Wing Race-baiting Continues
    By @TedFrier To this day, Bill O'Reilly steadfastly refuses to accept even a morsel of responsibility for the role his relentless and reckless demagoguing of Dr. George Tiller as "Tiller the Baby Killer" almost certainly played in the murder of the medical director of Wichita's Women's Health Ca ...
  • He's spoilin' for a fight...
    By @BginKC On Wednesday I "climbed back up on the horse" so to speak and covered my first political event since last fall, when I had a vertebral aneurysm dissect and try to kill me. The road to recovery has been a long one and I'm not there yet but when the President of the United States is spe ...
  • The GOP's Impossible Climb on Race
    By @TedFrier I am no big fan of Kirsten Powers. She is one of those right-of-center nominal "Democrats" who Fox News likes to hire as a "political analyst" so that Roger Ailes' right wing propaganda machine can bask in the patina of bi-partisan respectability and credibility. But in today's Dail ...

Care 2

  • Demand City Take Animal Abuse Seriously ! PLEA ...
    Baltimores Anti-Animal Abuse commission was created after a pit bull was soaked with gasoline and set on fire in West Baltimore. The commission has been working very hard for years to curb animal abuse in Baltimore, but the government has shown little Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&nbs ...
  • Demand Justice for Disabled Woman Left to Die ...
    A severely autistic woman was left in the back of a facility vehicle for five hours before she was found, dehydrated and unconscious, by the staff manager. Please urge the authorities to quickly find and punish whoever left that poor women to die. Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture ...
  • Punish Man for Keeping Dogs in Disgusting Cond ...
    Punish Richard Pilicer for keeping over 100 dogs in unsanitary and filthy conditions Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Protect Lake Tahoe from Nevada's Damaging Dema ...
    Forty years ago, Lake Tahoe was being harmed by poorly planned development and urban pollution. An agreement between California and Nevada, called the Bi-State Compact, was created to bring better regional planning to Tahoe. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbsp ...
  • Nepal sees tiger population go up by 63% since ...
    The number of wild tigers living in Nepal has increased by 63% to 198 since 2009, a government survey has shown. The survey, which was carried out between February and June, assessed the Bengal tiger population across a 600-mile stretch in Nepal and India Submitted by Olga S. to Animals  | ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • CIA Under the Control of the Insane
    Having read the lastest pronouncement by the soon to be retired Deputy Director of the CIA, there is no other possible conclusion–these people are certifiably insane. Mike Morrell offered up the following as his “keen” analysis: The second-in-command of the Central Intelligence ...
  • Al Qaeda’s Terrorist Rampage
    If you are waiting for the Al Qaeda terrorist offensive, stop waiting. It is here. But it is not in focused in the 22 countries where Barack Obama, choosing the route of a coward, shuttered US Embassies. Nope. It is in Iraq: The United Nations said Thursday that July was Iraq’s deadliest month i ...
  • America, Land of Idiots
    What follows below is claimed to be the work of Jeff Foxworthy. It is not. Perhaps he wishes he did pen it. According to SNOPES, this is the work of Fritz Edmunds at Politically True. God Bless him! I attended ZumFest in Stuttgart, Germany last Saturday. Had a break after work. 10,000 people wal ...
  • Trump Emotes on Fox (Open Thread)
    From an article from Mediate titled, “Trump On Fox: If Charlie Rangel Can Say ‘Cracker,’ Then Paula Deen Should Be Able To Say The ‘N-Word’”: Donald Trump compared Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) to Paula Deen this morning. Rangel’s recent rant against tea party “crackers” was just one of ...
  • More Government Inspired Terror Fearmongering
    Time to throw the bullshit flag. The Obama Administration, apparently envious of the skill of the Bush Administration in using the threat of terrorism to fuel the fears of citizenry, is out with its own dire warnings and drastic actions: The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the contin ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • University of Minnesota to test new Light Rail ...
    This is sort of cool. Went out to U students just recently. I am hoping the Green Line is activated ASAP!! Still moar cables to install in downtown St Paul dangit. On with the show! From: Vice President Pam Wheelock Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM Good aftern ...
  • Massive Minnesota Tar Sands Enbridge Line 67 c ...
    Set yr hashtags for #fearlessSummer #summerheat cause it's on! Enbridge is a Canadian corporation trying to nail down a disastrous and indeed genocidal tar sands pipeline from Alberta Canada. This would be bigger than the infamous Keystone XL. Great starting article based on latest events: Clima ...
  • Money Warz: Emperor Pipeline, Darth Banker, Lu ...
    Here is a fun art project against the evil Trans Pacific Partnership treaty of Doom! Please pass the word or a couple bucks for Money Warz, a street art performance getting the Occupy Wall Street band back together on the 2nd anniversary, Sept 17 2013 - the goal is $1000 or moar... If they can g ...
  • VIDEO: Minneapolis Rally #Justice4Trayvon #Jus ...
    Here is live video from #justice4trayvon #justice4terrance rally Sat night ~12:30AM in Downtown Minneapolis >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RyjuazWlik&feature=youtu.be (creative commons - interview w Mel Reeves!) - several FB events for Monday >> https://www.facebook.com/event ...
  • Canadian First Nations - Shut Down the Tar San ...
    A network of direct action camps - and indeed a network of networks - continues to spread across North America uniting Natives, First Nations, meddling kids, even ranchers and activists vs corporate exploitation. Mercenaries have appeared in northern Wisconsin to protect dangerous & widely o ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • White People’s Racial Discomfort
    It's the overwhelming motivation behind those opposing a path to citizenship for millions of aspiring Americans.  Mark Zuckerberg spoke out yesterday in support of immigration reform, along with other leaders in the tech and business industries. The day before, a major evangelical Christi ...
  • Are Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks Winning?
    Are Americans becoming more concerned that government 'anti-terror' programs are actually restricting civil liberties? "It is a slap in the face of all Americans," said Senator John McCain (R - AZ), referring to Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden. He demanded that th ...
  • Why Do the People Raising Our Children Earn Po ...
    Women who care for poor kids are often mothers living in poverty themselves.  The following article first appeared on the  Nation.com. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for their email newsletters  here.Shanita Hargrove lives in a sunny second-floor apartment in Newark, New Jerse ...
  • Hypocrite in Chief? 5 Limits on NSA Spying tha ...
    What a difference 5 years makes. When the House of Representatives recently considered an amendment that would have dismantled the NSA’s bulk phone records collection program, the White House swiftly condemned the measure. But only five years ago, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. was part of a group ...
  • What Mainstream Culture Hides About Sex, Women ...
    Girls are often raised more conservatively and are socially conditioned to set limitations on sexual activity. This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission.Sexual pleasure is not a one-way street.If you are a woman who has had one, two, or any number of sex ...

Threat Level

  • Obama Unveils Surveillance Reform Steps; Insis ...
    Forced by recent leaks to respond to criticism that the government is exploiting legal loopholes to conduct widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens, President Barack Obama publicly acknowledged today that the government needs to be more transparent about its surveillance activities. ...  & ...
  • Ukrainian Carder in $5 Million Ring Sentenced ...
    Ukrainian carder Egor Shevelev (aka Eskalibur) who operated a gang that authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group has been sentenced to about 14-40 years in state prison following a 10-week trial in New York.     
  • Edward Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down Ami ...
    A nearly 10-year-old pro-privacy Texas email service long used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden abruptly shut down today, alluding in a statement to a secret U.S. court battle that it's been fighting for six weeks, and has so far lost.     
  • Why Everyone Is Pissed Off About Google Chrome ...
    There's much gnashing of teeth today over the discovery that Google Chrome lets you -- or anyone using your computer -- see the plaintext web passwords stored by your browser. But Google is thinking like a security architect, and from ...    
  • Twitter’s Killer New Two-Factor Solution Kicks ...
    When Twitter rolled out two factor authentication back in May, it hinted that the SMS authentication would be merely a first step in a more robust security solution. Today, WIRED got a better look at the company’s just-announced new system ...    

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Texas has more Cyclospora cases and does not k ...
    As of August 8, 2013 (5pm EDT), CDC has been notified of 514 cases of Cyclospora infection from the following 17 states: Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,... Continue Reading
  • Once Again, Reason to Give Food Workers Hepati ...
    As I have said on one too many occasion: “Worker vaccinations are not just an investment in employee and customer health, but in the health of the business too.” And,... Continue Reading
  • E. coli O157:H7 Hits Arizona Hard
    Maricopa County health officials are investigating a bloody diarrhea outbreak in the West Valley they say are linked to Federico’s Mexican Restaurant in Litchfield Park. The Maricopa County Department of... Continue Reading
  • Hey, Walmart and Kroger – Palmer and Stevens L ...
    A few days ago I posted the story about two Listeria Cantaloupe Victims of Walmart and Kroger dieing within days of each other and being buried with in feet.  Here... Continue Reading
  • Texas Ahead of Iowa in Cyclospora Sweepstakes
    A total of 466 cases of Cyclospora infection have been reported from 16 states and 1 city. The number of cases identified in each area is as follows: Texas (157),... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WATCH: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman on MSNBC's ...
    Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on MSNBC's “Melissa Harris-Perry” show this Saturday, August 10th from 10am-noon ET. She will discuss the upcoming 50th anniversary of the March on Washington; Jeff Bezos' purchase of The Washington Post and more.
  • Pete Seeger & Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons on Fr ...
    An extended web-only discussion with two elders, the legendary folk singer Pete Seeger and Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons. They are in New York City today to greet hundreds of Native Americans and their allies who have paddled more than a hundred miles down the Hudson River to commemorate the 400th ...
  • Suggested Vacation Reading for President Obama ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan As the Obama family heads to their annual summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, perhaps the president should take along a copy of "Catch-22" for some beach reading. Joseph Heller's classic, satirical antiwar novel, published in 1961 and based on his exper ...
  • Cable Companies Urged to Make Public Access Te ...
    Many cable companies refuse to list the titles of shows that air on public access television stations in their on-screen guides. Now media activists are pushing for the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to intervene. In 2010, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Communica ...
  • Glenn Greenwald on How Secretive DEA Unit Ille ...
    Journalist Glenn Greenwald responds to a report by Reuters about how a secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is covering up its use of intelligence intercepts, wiretaps to help launch criminal investigations of Americans. "It’s a full-frontal assault on the Fourth, Fifth and Sixt ...

Solari

  • Fleetwood Mac – “Landslide”
    Related Reading: Fleetwood Mac’s Official Website Fleetwood Mac on Wikipedia
  • Five Whopping Big Lies About State and Local P ...
    [CAF Note: The leaders of the financial coup are now waging war on state and local pension funds. They want to lower the boom on retirees, direct the flow of these assets and related fees and make privatization of state and local functions easier and more profitable. Don't believe what you read. ...
  • A Health-Insurance Criminal Pleads His Case
    By James L. Payne If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want it. And I will refuse to buy it even though I can afford it. Before they lead me to the cells, perhaps the prisoner may be allowed to say a [...]
  • Fukushima Leak: Japan Government ‘To Tak ...
    By BBC News On Wednesday, a government official said up to 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water may be flowing into the sea every day. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government would take “firm measures” to contain the leak. One proposal being considered is to freeze the grou ...
  • We Aren’t the World
    Photo Credit: Mark McGinnis By Ethan Watters In the summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live north of Machu Picchu in the Amazon basin. The Machiguenga had ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • NREL Uses Corning’s Flexible Willow Glass to D ...
    The US department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently announced that it using Corning's thin, flexible Willow Glass to develop thin-film cadmium telluride photovoltaic cells. By using Willow Glass as a flexible substrate, the     
  • The Yupik Lamp is Made from Lightweight Styrof ...
    Whether it is chasing jobs, pursuing relationships, or simply searching for cheaper rent, American do a lot of moving between residences. Almost every single possession has to at some point be packages, wrapped, and boxed in order to be transferred to its     
  • Endless Stair Installation Outside Tate Modern ...
    The surreal Endless Stair installation is a hardwood structure designed for this year’s London Design Festival. Commissioned by AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council) and designed in collaboration with dRMM de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects and Arup, the     
  • DIY: How to Make Garden Faerie Houses, Pixie T ...
    What You'll Need: Sketch pad or blank paper Pencil Base structure (empty plastic drink bottles work well, as do aluminum cans) Cutting implements (scissors for plastic, metal shears for cans) Natural materials (pebbles, bark, twigs, leaves, pine     
  • Avis Magica Tower for Miami Boasts a 120 Meter ...
    Bucharest-based studio Armarada just unveiled Avis Magica - a conceptual vertical tower for Miami that boasts a 120 meter-tall aquarium and energy-generating "feathers," among many other zany features. An artificial "ecosystem" is stacked within the stylized     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Multi-Loops on Sun
    Several active regions embedded in the Sun's surface began to rotate into view, showing off an array of loops and magnetic connections (July 31 - Aug. 1, 2013). Particles spinning along the magnetic field lines reveal the connecting loops and ...     
  • Perseid Meteor Shower Will Flare This Weekend
    The sky will be lit up this weekend with bright and numerous fireballs as the Perseid meteor shower peaks the nights of Aug. 11 - 12 and 12 - 13.     
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Magellanic Strea ...
    Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have solved the 40-year-old mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around the Milky Way. New Hubble observations reveal that most of this stream ...    
  • The Most Bonkers Scientific Theories (Almost) ...
    In this gallery we present to you the silliest of the silly scientific theories, some of which you’ll no doubt recognize because for whatever reason people refuse to give up on them. So remember, there are no dumb theories, just ...    
  • Perplexing Spike in Bottlenose Dolphin Deaths ...
    Since the beginning of July, more than 100 dolphins have washed up dead along the U.S. east coast, from New York to Virginia. No one knows why, or whether the deaths are related to one another.    

PakAlert

  • DHS Extinguishes 197 Million People’s 4th Amen ...
    Constitution Free Zones are what The Department of Homeland Security has established. The federal agency isn’t really securing the borders, but they are extinguishing the Fourth Amendment rights of nearly 197 million American citizens within 100 miles of the border….and the ocean
  • Drills, Props and Propaganda Predicting Large ...
    A government-created fear designed to enlist public support for controls, legislation, rules and regulation increasing government power, while reducing individual rights, is called a False Flag Event (FFE). The fear is usually something quite dramatic, like the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the dec ...
  • Exclusive Interview With Extortion 17 SEAL’s F ...
    Before there was Benghazi, there was Extortion 17, which was the Chinook helicopter that was shot down by the Taliban. All 38 people aboard, including 17 Navy SEALs and seven Afghan National Army commandos, were killed. Among the dead was Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn. Tomorrow, August 6 will mark the ...
  • Disturbing Eyewitness Video Captures Calif. Of ...
    CBS Los Angeles also provided the video to the Santa Ana Police Department. Cpl. Anthony Bertagna of the Santa Ana Police Department said he was unable to comment on the part of the video when the officer shot the suspect. At a Wednesday press conference, Santa Ana interim Police Chief Carlos ...
  • The Illuminati Capital ASTANA Kazakhstan
    Astana is the first capital being built in the 21st century and it perfectly represents where the world is headed. It is truly one man’s vision: Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan (yes Borat’s country, I know). Backed by billions of petrodollars, the city is being built from scra ...

Andy Worthington

  • GTMO Clock Launched, 75 Days Since Obama&#8217 ...
    Please click on the “GTMO Clock” image to visit the website and see how many days it has been since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo, and how many men have been freed. Today, the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, Witness Against Torture an ...
  • Shaker Aamer and Other Guantánamo Prisoners Ca ...
    On June 30, as I reported here, lawyers for four prisoners in Guantánamo — Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha, both Algerians, and Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Syrian — filed a motion with the District Court in Washington D.C., asking a jud ...
  • Video: Culture of Impunity Part Two – An ...
    Six weeks ago, on June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, initiated by the United Nations in 1997, on the 10th anniversary of the the day that the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force, I posted the fi ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Bradley ...
    On Wednesday evening, I spoke to RT about the verdict in the trial by court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, following his conviction on 20 charges, including espionage and theft, which was announced by the judge in his case, Army Col. Denise Lind, on Monday. My five-minute interview is availabl ...
  • Photos: Victory for the Save Lewisham Hospital ...
    Victory for the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, a set on Flickr. Here are my photos from yesterday’s celebrations by campaigners for Lewisham Hospital — myself included — outside the High Court, and then outside Lewisham Hospital, following a spectacular victory in the High Co ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • Learn to Lead a Frugal (But Not Frustrating) L ...
    Frugality can ease strained finances but it can also lead to a frustrating and limited lifestyle. With the right tricks, however, you can find a happy medium to create a thrifty and pleasant existence. Read more...     
  • Book a Doctor's Appointment at 8:00 AM or 1:00 ...
    Few people love a visit to the doctor and wait times make matters worse. The solution? According to redditor bartmycbartbart, who once worked in a doctor's office, you just need to pick the right time.Read more...     
  • Is not having a degree a roadblock to career a ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more ...
  • Bake Easy Homemade Dog Treats with Flour and B ...
    Dog treats can get expensive, but you can create your own on the cheap with a very simple recipe that only requires two ingredients: flour and pureed baby food.Read more...     
  • How Can I Find a Lost Device When It's in Sile ...
    Misplace your phone in your own home but it's on silent mode? Lose a quiet tablet, but have no "Find My Device" app installed? There are a few ways to find your Wi-Fi enabled device if it's lost inside your sprawling abode. The Super Users at Stack Exchange provide some tips. Read more.. ...

Water Wars

  • Water wars break out in India
    The monsoon is late, the wells are running dry and in the teeming city of Bhopal, water supply is now a deadly issue. Gethin Chamberlain reports It was a little after 8pm when the water started flowing through the pipe running beneath the dirt streets of Bhopal's Sanjay Nagar slum. After day ...
  • Shaping Our Future: McCarty Ranch turf fight c ...
    The water wars between St. Lucie County and Port St. Lucie over the McCarty Ranch annexation are heating up. Click here to read the latest development.
  • Wolsey’s watery warfare
    community’s festivities. The object, similar to a tug of war, is to advance the marker to the other team’s area. The winning teams, taking first, second and third, were all of Hitchcock. Members included Justin Boomsma, Cody Stahl, Victor Hoelzel and Nic Hoelzel.
  • Many People Still Take Water for Granted Repor ...
    Sharon Kleyne predicts increasing global water wars and shortages. (PRWeb August 06, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb10999739.htm
  • Westlands Water District backs $14B tunnel plan
    The Westlands Water District, which supplies water for 600,000 acres of crops in California's Central Valley, has for years made its presence known in the state's water wars.

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The Wonk Room

  • Goldman Sachs Finds ‘Window For Profitable Inv ...
    The U.S.-based multinational investment bank has some sobering findings for the dirtiest fossil fuel.The post Goldman Sachs Finds ‘Window For Profitable Investment In Coal Mining Is Closing’, Ditto For Coal Exports appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
  • BP CEO Says He’s Done Paying For The Deepwater ...
    BP's chief balked at the amount the company owes for the worst oil disaster in American history. The post BP CEO Says He’s Done Paying For The Deepwater Horizon Disaster appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
  • Under Fire For Exploiting College Athletes, NC ...
    Amid controversy, the NCAA will no longer be involved in the selling of player jerseys or other team-specific merchandise. But that probably doesn't mean much.The post Under Fire For Exploiting College Athletes, NCAA Will No Longer Sell Jerseys On Its Web Site appeared first on ThinkProgress. &n ...
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    In a debate with the Log Cabin Republicans, a spokesperson for the National Organization for Marriage attempts to use a comparison to slavery to justify campaigns against marriage equality and same-sex adoption.The post NOM: Marriage Equality Treats ‘Mothers Like Slaves And Children Like C ...
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    This year, Georgia lawmakers didn't have enough votes to pass a measure banning state employees from using their insurance plans to cover abortion. But now that the legislative session is over, state officials are working behind the scenes to enact that ban anyway.The post Georgia Officials Are ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "The Human Spirit Can Never Be Vanquished!"
       Well, to the extent that "the human spirit" is just a concept, that statement is true. Obviously though, since it's just a concept, it can't do much of anything. The individual human spirit? I can get a handle on that. It's somebody's optimism and will to survive and triumph. Tha ...
  • Farting in a Hurricane
    Just pointing out that Canadian progressives have been "mobilized" against the Alberta Tar Sands for over a decade now. To zero effect. Just like successive Liberal and Conservative governments managed to defile our democracy and our reputation in Afghanistan for over a decade while we were comp ...
  • OUR Future
    And the Canadian Left's response will be to blog about it. Form a facebook page to "organize" a bitch-fest. Circulate a petition. And, finally, to bring out the big guns: Get a bunch of young and old hippies out into the streets to face the cops like lambs to the slaughter. Pure fucking geni ...
  • Hey! It's Eric Margolis!
    A while ago, I wrote a post about state-sanctioned thuggery and murder in Canada and Iran. Essentially my point was that letting Robert Dziekanski's RCMP murder-squad avoid penalties for his death was going to put us on the fast downhill slide to our becoming like countries such as Iran, where, ...
  • Organize! Educate! RESIST!
    "Organize" - Kind of hard to do when your game plan is to do nothing but mill around in disgruntled confusion. (I wish I was more gruntled.) "Educate" - We tend to do a decent job of this actually. "Resist" - This, not so much. At all. (See "Organize.")

Science Express

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

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