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Food hut--Patuakhali Town, Bangladesh (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"This December, 1975 photograph depicted an over crowed ferry as it powered itself along Southern Bangladesh’s Meghna River. PHIL images 1191, 3258, 5664, and 12290 through 12367, were supplied by Dr. Michael Schwartz, and capture the epidemiologic-related activities undertaken by healthcare providers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and local Bangladeshi healthcare workers, during their successful attempt to eradicate smallpox." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bangladeshis bathing in Patuakhali Town (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Center for a Livable Future

• CDC Sounds the Alarm—Where Is the FDA?
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a report outlining the dire consequences of antibiotic resistance for public health and the economy. The agency now reports that antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause more than two million serious infections and 23,000 deaths in t ...
• CLF Week in Links: China, Pink Slime, Farm Bil ...
  Debbie Stabenow and the rest of the Senate Agriculture Committee appear to be ignoring the glaring reality that China will get the pork and the American public will get the mess of concentrated waste, intolerable odor, pollution of air, water, and soil and the associated environmental harms of t ...
• Hands On in the Community: Notes from a Dietet ...
  I’m Bernice. I love the first day of school. This week was the start of a new school year at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and as a second-year student in the coordinated Masters of Science in Public Health and Dietetics program in the middle of her dietetic internship, I ...
• CLF Week in Links: Fewer Crops, Fish, and M&Ms
  The Obama administration is seeking $40 million in additional funding for CDC in fiscal year 2014 to address outbreaks—but how likely is a boost of funding at any agency?
• WWF’s Farmed Salmon Certification Initiative: ...
  The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new campaign relating to salmon aquaculture—but if the organization is partnering with corporations, how successful will it really be? WWF’s partnerships with various corporations to foster sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices are part of ...

k2p blog

• Friday 13th, seven sentenced to death and Nare ...
  Yesterday, Seven people were sentenced to death and Narendra Modi was selected the BJP's PM candidate. It was Friday 13th 2013.
• Hurricanes hardly (h)ever happen!
  Hurricanes have been largely absent this year. Arctic Ice is increasing, Antarctic ice is high and breaking records, warming is missing while Carbon dioxide is still increasing -- It must be difficult to believe in the global warming hypothesis -- it requires an abundance of faith and a minimu ...
• Light blogging
  I shall be travelling till the end of next week in foreign parts. Blogging will be necessarily very light.
• Putin’s Nobel among other things
  Vladimir Putin is arranging to be nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize by a "neutral" 3rd party. The nomination will be on the grounds that since he is demonstrably more "peaceful" than a previous laureate (Obama) then his "case" stands proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
• Germans no longer being taken in by Green prop ...
  The Greens are scaring away German voters with their expensive solutions and when they show their eco-dictatorship tendencies by attacking meat-eating and driving cars. Their support has dropped to about 10% with the elections just 2 weeks away.

Left Foot Forward

• Scientists take Mail on Sunday to task over &# ...
  Dr Roz Pidcock of the Carbon Brief has done an exellent job of fisking the Mail on Sunday's latest piece of climate change denial.
• Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
  Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
• Another ‘crackdown’ on benefit fra ...
  Why is the government launching yet another crackdown on benefit fraud when it accounts for just a fraction of the welfare budget?
• Does the left need a new political party?
  Writing in today's Guardian, Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth rejects the idea that there is a need for a new party of the left.
• Lewisham Hospital: Jeremy Hunt must disclose h ...
  It is now over three weeks since Jeremy Hunt appealed against the High Court’s ruling on Lewisham Hospital, and we are still none the wiser as to his grounds of appeal.

Consumerist

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Whistleblogger - GAP

• NSA Spies on International Credit Card, Bankin ...
  Der Spiegel: Follow the Money – NSA Spies On International Payments The latest disclosure from NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden comes from Der Spiegel, which relays that the NSA has set up programs and databases to track “international payments, banking and credit card transaction ...
• Protections Included in Gillibrand's Food Safe ...
  Food Safety News: Senate Bill Would Update Meat and Poultry Inspection Yesterday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Safe Meat and Poultry Act, which would update meat and poultry inspection and increase food safety standards. The bill's provisions provide comprehensive whistleblo ...
• WVU 'American Whistleblower Tour' Stop Feature ...
  On Wednesday, September 18, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) will bring its acclaimed program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, to West Virginia University (WVU). The stop features three prominent environmental whistleblowers, including Rick Piltz ...
• NSA Shared Americans' Data with Israel, Snowde ...
  The Guardian: NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data with Israel The latest release from NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden details how the agency shares raw surveillance data with Israeli officials/agencies without first removing information about US citizens. Ke ...
• NSA Broke Privacy Rules for Years; Most Americ ...
  Washington Post: Declassified Court Documents Highlight NSA Violations in Data Collection for Surveillance Yesterday the Obama administration released over a dozen new declassified documents related to the NSA surveillance programs. At least one of them, a Federal Intelligence Surveillance Co ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

• Piers Morgan Gets Triple-Teamed by Pro-Gun Adv ...
  The Blaze
• Conspiracy Theorists Already Suspect Navy Yard ...
  The National Journal
• Alleged Navy Yard Gunman Held Security Clearance
  The Wall Street Journal
• Suspected shooter is former Navy petty officer ...
  The Hill reports:The FBI named Aaron Alexis, 34, as a gunmen behind the shootings at the Navy's headquarters in Washington. The man who allegedly killed a dozen people Monday morning at the Navy's headquarters had previously served as a member of the Navy. Will Diane Feinstein move to ban al ...
• More bad news for the green lobby: No, frackin ...
  Hot Air

JoNova

• PR Wars: IPCC fights for relevance, halves war ...
  We are over the peak. Years late, the IPCC concedes some territory and wears headlines they must hate (“Global warming is just HALF what we said“, “We got it wrong on warming“), but PR still rules, and in the big game, this will quickly spin to a minor bump. It’s a ...
• Dennis Jensen would be a great science minister
  Dr Dennis Jensen in Parliament Dennis Jensen spoke out about the hype around global-warming as long ago as 2004, when there were almost no politicians (or anyone for that matter) daring to publicly mention any skeptical thoughts. It was so risky. What he said then is still largely true. Jensen o ...
• Finally a Labor guru gets it right – Bil ...
  It’s taken a week, but at least one Labor adviser has finally got a better answer as to why the Labor Party suffered a record loss. As long as Labor “spins” its mistakes, not only does it not learn any lessons, but it gives the public no reason to trust that it has changed. Lab ...
• Monckton on Readfearn: A journalist with a gru ...
  Readfearn’s quiz is one of the most trashy-teenage-smears I’ve seen in print. (Where else but The Guardian?).  Monckton responds to Graham Readfearn’s vacuous attacks on Dennis Jensen M.P. with his trademark withering style. Readfearn had tried to be withering, in a 12 year old ...
• Three cheers for Senate Micro’s
  We have discussed this issue at length on The Senate-Rage! post. I’ve taken those thoughts a bit further in an Op-Ed in The Australian today. There are no comments allowed there so here is a thread for further thoughts and feedback on our new Senate and whether we need to revamp the system ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

• Here You Will Find A Livestream With Nigerian ...
  Our friends over at Modern Farmer kicked off their special Goat Week today, featuring tons of great big stories about urban goat-raising, how to find the best goat for you, and our old friend the spider-goat--and that's just today. Our favorite, though, is this live-streaming goat-cam, showing ...
• 2 Million Americans Annually Get Infections Th ...
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sums up the scene for bacterial infections that should be curable with antibiotics—but aren't. More than two million Americans get sick every year with infections that defy modern antibiotics. At least 23,000 Americans die each year. Such infe ...
• Big Pic: The Sun Like You've Never Seen It Before
  Scientists colorized this image to show the intensity of coronal mass ejections. In this image, the sun reaches out into space with long, super-intense flares of magnetized plasma called coronal mass ejections. When they're directed toward Earth, such ejections may trigger auroras. Especially p ...
• How Imagination Works
  A small new study images the brain's "mental workspace." Look at these shapes for a few seconds. Then close your eyes, and try to imagine how they look. Try to take the mental image of one of them and break the shape into pieces in your mind, or combine it with another shape to make something ...
• How Nicolas Fontaine Is Saving The Internet Fr ...
  Fontaine, an optical engineer at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, has devised a clever way to avoid a data bottleneck. Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's cl ...

Facing South

• Homicides soar in states with 'Stand Your Grou ...
  Image Caption:  A new report documents an increase in homicides in states with controversial Stand Your Ground laws and shows the disproportionate impact they have on African Americans. A new report documents an overall rise i ...
• The Gini is out of the bottle: Why Wall Street ...
  Image Caption:  People protested growing income inequality at a NAACP-led march in North Carolina earlier this year. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) The U.S. has witnessed a sharp climb in income inequality since the 1970s -- and its e ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Promoting the myth of 'sustai ...
  Image Caption:  A mountaintop removal mining site in Central Appalachia. (Photo by Vivian Stockman of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition during a flyover by SouthWings.) A group of prominent Democrats has launched a proj ...
• McCutcheon Supreme Court case could give mone ...
  Image Caption:  As more money pours into politics, the public is losing trust in government. (Photo by Steve Goodyear via Flickr.) The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month in McCutcheon v. FEC, a case t ...
• AFL-CIO resolves to organize the South
  Image Caption:  The AFL-CIO has promised to make increasing union membership in the South a top priority. With workplace organizing efforts in the region already making progress, the AFL-CIO adopted a resolution at its nationa ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Rare solar cycle has cold implications for UK ...
  NASA last week confirmed their prediction that the current solar cycle 24 is likely to be the weakest since 1906. Intriguingly, the current solar cycle shows a striking similarity with solar cycle 5 which was also very weak, with the same double peak as the current cycle, and ran from approximat ...
• Autumn deluge on the way
  The fine spell of late summer weather which has seen temperatures today rise to a new September record of 29.4C at Wattisham in Suffolk (beating their previous record set in 1973) will come to an abrupt end in the next 24 hours, and could lead to localised flooding in places.  It’s a text book b ...
• Summer warmth similar to 1976 in some areas
  Summer (June, July and August) 2013 across the UK has turned out to be the driest, warmest and sunniest since 2006, according to provisional Met Office data.  It’s a huge contrast from the awful weather of last summer which was the wettest for 100 years. More interestingly from a local perspecti ...
• Rest of July & early August outlook
  Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average.  To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record.  Of cou ...
• Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
  July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Third World Solidarity? Petronas Ditches PDVSA
  Just when you thought things could not get worse for Venezuela's economic situation, they do. In recent times, Venezuela has sought to partner with other developing countries for exploiting its energy reserves in the likely belief that they would be more understanding of its political-economic s ...
• Does US Discourage PRC FDI? Uncle Sam Sez No
  This is a follow-up to a recent post about the Chinese food conglomerate Shuanghui International attempting to purchase US pork producer Smithfield. If it pushes through, this deal will be the largest Chinese acquisition of an American firm to date. However, as I mentioned earlier, there are all ...
• Demographic Consequences of US Economic Stagnation
  US Labor Force Participation RateIn development theory, there is thing called the "demographic transition" which argues that birth rates should diminish as a country becomes wealthier and more urbanized. Instead of "spreading their bets" by having many children in the hopes that at least one wil ...
• Spain, 'Russian Galacticos' & Soccer (Un-)Econ ...
  I nearly forgot to make this post as the transfer deadline for trading players has ended, but as they say, better late than never. So, there are two parts to this story dealing with the economics of soccer in relation to the "real economy": Spain's Real Madrid and the dismantling of the "Russian ...
• China: #1 in Shale Gas Reserves, Paltry Production
  Much has been made of the United States growing energy independence as it taps shale gas reserves at home. A salutary effect has been reducing the trade imbalance America is legendary for. However, the US is far from the only country with a lot of shale gas reserves. China purportedly has the mo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• The Percentage Of Americans That Consider Them ...
  Do you consider yourself to be "lower class"?  Most Americans wouldn't dream of thinking that way.  Even at the toughest times of my own life, I always considered myself to be "middle class".  Traditionally, the vast majority of Americans have described themselves as either "middle class" or "wo ...
• 25 Fast Facts About The Federal Reserve &#8211 ...
  As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems.  It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the ...
• They Denied That We Were In A Depression In 19 ...
  The more things change, the more things stay the same.  The Great Depression actually started in 1929, but as you will see below, as late as 1933 the Associated Press was still pumping out lots of news stories with optimistic economic headlines and many Americans still did not believe that we we ...
• Prepare For Tough Times If Your Job Has Anythi ...
  If you have a job that involves building homes, buying homes, selling homes or that is in any way related to the mortgage industry, you might want to start searching for alternate employment.  Seriously.  Interest rates are starting to rise dramatically, and mortgage lenders such as Bank of Amer ...
• How Big Banks Can Steal Your Home From You Eve ...
  Did you know that the big banks have a way to legally steal your house from you even if you don't owe a single penny on your mortgage?  Big banks and hedge funds are buying billions of dollars worth of tax liens from local governments all over the nation, and they are ruthlessly foreclosing on [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

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E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2013-09-05 Barrett Brown to lose his free speech
  In the US, we've increasingly seen attacks on the free press. Now, in the case of Barrett Brown, a journalist who's been jailed for the past year stands to lose his free speech. read more
• 2013-09-03 WikiLeaks to launch criminal invest ...
  Assange lawyer Per E Samuelson has confirmed that a criminal complaint has been filed at 09:44 on Tuesday 3 September 2013 with Swedish police authorities. The complaint concerns the likely unlawful seizure of WikiLeaks property on 27 September 2010, following publication of the Afghan War Diari ...
• 2013-09-01 Detached Reflections on Resignation ...
  Daniel Matthews offers a furtive thought in the context of his resignation on behalf of pure democracy: read more
• 2013-08-22 Manning site launches: Pardon.Bradl ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE David Coombs, chief attorney for WikiLeaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning, announced at a press conference near Ft. Meade, MD, today that he is formally applying for a Presidential Pardon for Bradley Manning. Coombs is seeking Manning's immediate release, or at the v ...
• 2013-08-22 Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 yea ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WikiLeaks whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today, an outrage that flies in the face of America's essential ideals of accountability in government, and which seeks to instill a chilling effect on those who'd dare to expose the United S ...

U N News

• UN marks 50th anniversary of JFK's final addre ...
  Marking the 50th anniversary of the final address to the United Nations by United States President John F. Kennedy today, senior UN officials are expected to reaffirm his strong support for concerted multilateral action to tackle the daunting challenges facing the planet.
• UN expert urges US authorities to focus on chi ...
  A United Nations independent expert today urged federal, state and tribal authorities in the United States to take all necessary measures to ensure the wellbeing and human rights of Veronica, a three-year-old Cherokee child at the centre of a highly contentious custody dispute.
• UN warns of negative effects of Venezuela's wi ...
  The United Nations has expressed concern over Venezuela's withdrawal from the American Human Rights Convention, which enters into force today, and stressed the move could have a negative impact on human rights not just inside the country but also in Latin America as a whole.
• UN experts urge United States to wrap up revie ...
  A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of the United State to finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, an African -American teenager who was shot in 2012 by a neighbourhood watchman in the state of Florida.
• Ban appoints Colombian to head UN-backed commi ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed Iván Velásquez Gómez of Colombia to head the United Nations-backed commission charged with dismantling illegal armed groups and tackling impunity in Guatemala.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Earth Island Journal debate – will immigration ...
  The Autumn 2013 issue of Earth Island Journal offers readers the chance to vote and express their opinions about population and immigration issues. Please read Dave Foreman’s (The Rewilding Institute) essay, “More Immigration = More Americans = Less Wilderness” and David Foster ...
• BLM Plans to Lease Wilderness-Quality Lands in ...
  Recent posts from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance website: As reported this week in the Salt Lake Tribune (8/20/13), The Bureau of Land Management’s November oil and gas lease sale is slated to include scenic, wilderness-quality lands in Utah’s San Rafael Swell, including Eagle Canyon and ...
• Blog 40: Viewing Vail Pass
  Posted: 03 Sep 2013 05:16 PM PDT Vail Pass with Rocky Mountain Wild — August As the closing weeks of TrekWest find me further out and further out of reach than has been thus far, colleagues have offered to blog in my stead. Enjoy the following submission from Rocky Mountain Wild’s Paige Singer… ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The “Ant ...
  Sitting about an earlier Campfire, I spun the tale of how the great eastern forest was hewn down in the 1800s.  Though cutting down the forest seemed to have an unbreakable hold on the national mind, a few Americans called for keeping some forest, and their words were seeds that led to protectio ...
• SPECIAL RALLY FOR WOLVES UPDATE!
        Dear Rally attendees and supporters, Here’s a special update for The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves! that we know you’ll find both helpful and inspiring. The Rally is a week away and we hope to see you there! SPEAKERS Currently there are eleven ...

Asia Sentinel

• Asia's Wild Frontier for Investors
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Brash, undisciplined, promising Mongolia
• Malaysia's PM Capitulates to the Hardliners
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New benefits reward Malays for May 5 election, saddle the economy for the foreseeable future
• South Korea: New Beacon for Refugees
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Accustomed to North Korea escapees, South Korea enacts law to aid refugees
• Red Light, Caution Light: Sex Workers in Asia
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Are SE Asia's karaoke girls deprived of opportunity?
• The Syria Test for Southeast Asia
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The Asia-Pacific, particularly Southeast Asia, might not care about the Syrian civil war, but they should

We Know the Lies

• Alert!... Sarin and VX Agents!!!... U.S. Milit ...
  This is alarming information!!! Everyone everywhere needs to know about these deadly chemical weapons being stored at the Blue Grass Depot in Kentucky. An explosion of these chemical weapons could kill everything in a 35 mile radius! ~ Video read more
• Colorado Flash Floods 'Predicted' ?... Hmmm.. ...
  The torrential rains and walls of water that rushed through stream channels caught many Coloradoans by surprise this week, but disaster scenarios have long foretold the fatal flash floods that tore through Colorado's foothills yesterday and today (September 13). ~ Becky Oskin read more
• Why Americans Are Submitting to the NWO
  Many of us in the alternative media express constant disappointment that so many of our fellow citizens do not fight back against the forces of the NWO. This article will explore the recent journeys of two individuals, Blaine Cooper and myself, in an effort to accurately explain why so many ...
• Leno Trashes Obama... Kenyans Now Say 'He Wasn ...
  Jay Leno’s opening monologue goes after the Obama Administration, even making a “Birther” joke. ~ Video read more
• Disturbing... 1 Out Of 5 American Children Hav ...
  Arkansas is second in the nation with citizens living with “food insecurity”, according to a study released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). ~ Susanne Posel - Video read more

Tarpley

• Sister Agnes Mariam of Syria Analyzes Goutha V ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 16, 2013 Note: – The embedded pdf below starts on p.43 of a large document (~50Mb) » DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT «
• In New York Times, Putin Exposes Goutha Atroci ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio September 14, 2013 [download audio]  
• Putin Labels Goutha Chemical Incident a Rebel ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio August 31, 2013 [download audio]  
• A Massive Campaign of Bribery of Top US Offici ...
  Viktor Titov — NEO (New Eastern Outlook) September 5, 2013 The time is running out, the S day is scheduled on September 9, when the Congress is almost sure to give President Obama a carte blanche on Syria. The closer the date, the more dirty secrets become known by the World… It’s now cle ...
• Stimson, Lovett, Harrison, Bundy, Harriman, Bu ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com September 4, 2013 [download audio]  

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• A Senate Plan to Protect Cancer
• Major Corporations Take Key Steps to Put Consu ...
• New “Chemical Safety” Bill Would Put People at ...
• So-called 'Clean Energy Standard' Protects Pol ...
• Fight Back Against Dirty Energy’s PR Machine

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Lhota on why his 'change' is safer than de Bla ...
• Cuomo and de Blasio cheer a Thompson concession
• After his 'racist' remark, Bloomberg pledges a ...
• Thompson concedes, yielding to de Blasio but b ...
• Six key Thompson supporters switch, after a me ...

Views & News from Norway

• ‘Mentally ill man’ behind airport chaos
  Police in Trondheim said that a man who’s suffering psychiatric problems was the one who called in a bomb threat on Monday morning that shut down Trondheim’s airport at Værnes for more than five hours. The closure severely disrupted the travel plans of as many as 5,000 people. The ai ...
• All smiles after their first session
  All four leaders of the non-socialist parties trying to form a new government in Norway emerged from their first round of preliminary talks on Monday with smiles and at least two agreements in hand: Erna Solberg of the Conservative Party is indeed their candidate for prime minister, and they&#82 ...
• Sigrid’s suspected killer goes on trial
  A 38-year-old man from Sunnmøre with a history of psychiatric problems continued to deny in court on Monday that he had anything to do with the kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne late last summer. Her disappearance set off one of the largest searches in Norwegian hi ...
• Airport evacuated after phone threat
  The main airport serving the central Norwegian city of Trondheim, Værnes Lufthavn, was evacuated Monday morning after a telephone call that was viewed as a threat. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that passengers didn’t initially seem eager to cooperate with the evacuation order. Per ...
• Winning leaders tackle the issues
  HERE’S WHAT’S UP FOR NEGOTIATION: The leaders of the four non-socialist Norwegian parties that collectively won last week’s parliamentary election were sitting down to tough negotiations this week over how they might govern the country. They need to agree on a common platform i ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Of Mice and Men and Chooks
  Some of the motley chook collective A good mate of mine described the chook (chicken) collective here as a “motley collection”. I’m unsure whether this was a compliment and didn’t care to ask. Different breeds of chooks are really valuable though as they all lay eggs during differe ...
• Making Mushroom Growing Sustainable – Part 2, ...
  Following along from the previous article (the set-up) we’ll now cover planting your oyster mushrooms into straw logs. Oysters mushrooms (from the genus Pleurotus) grow on dozens of different materials that we call substrate. Cereal straw is one of the most commonly used materials commerci ...
• Permaculture in the Bahamas
  At the same time as the 36-inch snow storm hit the East Coast of the US in early February, 2013, I found myself standing on an island in the Bahamas. With no way to ‘escape’ I decided to accept my situation and make the best of it. I had been invited to speak at a [...]
• When the Food Forest Comes to Town!
  Starting in early 2014, organizers with the East Feast Coalition of Austin, Texas, USA, and cooperating community members, plan to begin planting the trees, shrubs and smaller plants that will reshape one East Austin park into a food forest. In doing so, they will join other communities around t ...
• Fruits and Nuts: Our Cold-Climate Favorites (M ...
  An excerpt from Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City by Eric Toensmeier with contributions from Jonathan Bates Grapes August is the beginning of our fruit and nut harvest. Since we have little room for fruit and nut trees, we ...

Pointman's

• Know your ultimate enemy : the dream.
  It’s about having an honest conversation. That’s what I’ve come to think blogging is. Yes, you can muck around showing how slick or amusing you are but unless you’re genuinely trying to talk to one or two other human beings out there, who perhaps may only exist in your mi ...
• Phlogiston and Global Warming.
  This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Gracious acceptance of criticism is not a common human trait.  In most scientists it provokes irritation, denial and antagonism.  Among what their admirers call the top climate scientists, dissent seems to provoke ...
• Phlogiston and Global Warming.
  This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Gracious acceptance of criticism is not a common human trait.  In most scientists it provokes irritation, denial and antagonism.  Among what their admirers call the top climate scientists, dissent seems to provoke ...
• Know your enemy : Kamikaze politicians, enviro ...
  Before the final and to my mind the most important article in this series, I thought I’d roll up the remaining parties into one piece, since most of them I’ve already covered in some depth in other articles, the appropriate links to which you’ll find at the bottom of this page. ...
• Know your enemy : Kamikaze politicians, enviro ...
  Before the final and to my mind the most important article in this series, I thought I’d roll up the remaining parties into one piece, since most of them I’ve already covered in some depth in other articles, the appropriate links to which you’ll find at the bottom of this page. ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

• A fish out of water? Science and the World Eco ...
  While the Royal Society President is in Beijing for a series of meetings, another meeting is taking place in Dalian,...
• The great shale debate
                The latest instalment in the UK’s shale gas debate unfolded on Monday at...
• Borgen, Carlsberg and the use of science in policy
    -          How pure are scientists? -          Where is the line between science and policy? -          How can scientists work...
• One small step for Amman
      Jordan is a challenging place to survive and prosper. It has one of the lowest levels of water...
• Births, Deaths and Marriages…
  … is apparently what the UK excels in according to David Willetts. If you’ve been reading our blog, you’ll know...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Scott Bartle on the dirty little secret about ...
  My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Scott Bartle, author of "Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government". Scott claims that the "Australian Government" is now in receivership, having defaulted on repayments of bank loans which are ultimately underwritten by the US Fed ...
• Updates on Syria, the Australian election and ...
  Today's show largely focuses on Syria and we bring you 2 interviews during the course of the show. In the first hour I am joined by John Bursill who outlines his view about Syria and then gives us a breakdown of his view of the Australian political spectrum. This show was recorded before the 2 ...
• Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
  Foreign Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with an epidemic of narci ...
• Susan Lindauer on whistleblowers, Iraq and 9/1 ...
  In the 2nd hour of today's show I'm honoured to introduce Susan Lindauer, a former CIA asset and back channel negotiator who tried in vain to avert the 2003 Iraq war and was incarcerated under the Patriot Act on spurious charges which were later dropped. Susan is a passionate anti-war activist ...
• What’s really going on in Egypt?
  In today's show we take a look at the current turmoil in Egypt and attempt to piece together the puzzle of what is really going and who is really in control. We present some evidence that US sponsored groups such as the Endowment for Democracy had been supporting activist groups which had trig ...

Beacon

• Hong Kong Bans Shark Fin Soup at Government Fu ...
  Dried shark fins are the key ingredient in shark fin soup. (Photo: Choo Yut Shing)  We have some encouraging news for you out of Hong Kong – the government of Hong Kong announced that it will no longer serve shark fin soup at government functions, and that it will encourage government-fu ...
• Creature Feature: Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  A loggerhead sea turtle. Caption (Photo: Wendell Reed) If you're a fan of sea turtles, you might have heard about the mighty loggerhead sea turtle. Growing 2 to 3 feet long and weighing in at a massive 165–350 pounds, loggerheads are heavier than many people. These reptiles are ...
• New Competition to Track Changing Ocean
  Ocean acidification threatens all marine life, especially colorful corals. (Photo: Oceana) The race is on to develop the world’s best ocean pH sensors! A new competition just launched to improve understanding of one of the ocean’s greatest threats, ocean acidification. XPRIZE, a non-profit t ...
• Congress Targets Fishery Rebuilding Requiremen ...
  (Photo: RPG Master) As Congress returned this week from its month-long recess, the House of Representatives wasted no time in criticizing important conservation provisions of our nation’s foremost fisheries law, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). In a hearing ...
• Oceana Calls on Chefs to Support the SAFE Seaf ...
  Chefs can fight back against seafood fraud. (Photo: Oceana) Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, is calling on chefs and restaurant owners from across the country to sign-on to a letter in support of the Safety and Fraud Enforcement fo ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

• New smartphone enhancements, health help, free ...
  Sony unveiled its high-end lens attachment for mobile phones at the consumer electronics show IFA in Berlin on Sept. 4 .
• Experts at IAEA meet criticize Japan for ongoi ...
  The government Monday came under criticism from some nuclear experts at a briefing held on the sidelines of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's annual assembly over ...
• After decades of growth, South Korea is now a ...
  South Korea is a nation covered by apartments, so much so that from above, it resembles a coast-to-coast game of dominoes. Apartment buildings snake around ...
• Gunman in Navy Yard shooting was in navy reserves
  Aaron Alexis seems a study in contradictions: a former navy reservist, a Defense Department contractor, a convert to Buddhism who was taking an online course ...
• U.N. inspectors’ report confirms chemical weap ...
  Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapons attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• The politics of science
  An NDP MP sets out some principles
• Maclean’s racks up nominations on the pa ...
  And we're thanking you for all of your help
• Maclean’s nominated for eight online pub ...
  Newsroom nominated across platforms, including best website and best tablet edition
• QP at 140 characters
  The NDP takes to Twitter
• John A. could have legally smoked marijuana
  But probably he didn't think to

Making It Count - CCPA

• Pipeline vs. Rail: a red herring
  Ever since the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, there’s a question which constantly comes up with regards to oil transportation. Are we better off transporting oil by rail or using pipelines? That’s in fact a red herring. All the projected pipelines announced by the Canadian oil industry would be insuffici ...
• Jeopardy, Jackpot, or Wheel of (Mis)Fortune?
  It seems all that fuss being kicked up about tuition fees rising faster than inflation, significant levels of student debt, dismal employment prospects for young people, and parents having to postpone retirement to help shoulder some of the burden under which their kids are struggling has not go ...
• Student job market is tighter than a pair of s ...
  For most university students across Canada, this week marks the end of summer and the first full week of fall classes. As CCPA noted on Wednesday, most students celebrated ‘back-to-school’ with tuition increases and higher student debt. However, new data from Statistics Canada suggests that stud ...
• National Household Survey provides blurred loo ...
  This piece first appeared in the Globe and Mail’s online business feature, Economy Lab, here. Two findings stand out in the National Household Survey (NHS) data released Wednesday, both critical in this post-recession era of uncertainty: 1) A quarter of Canadian households spent 30 per cen ...
• Memo to Obama: Canada’s carbon problem IS the ...
  Canada’s Harper-ment is getting increasingly desperate. The quest to double production out of the Alberta tar sands needs new pipelines (or rail). In recent months, we have seen new proposals for pipelines to the west and to the east, amid further delays of the KeystoneXL pipeline to the s ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• Golf a major drain on Coachella Valley water s ...
  “With a total of 124 golf courses, the Coachella Valley has one of the largest concentrations of courses in the nation. The lush fairways set against backdrops of ocher brown mountains have helped make the valley a mecca for the sport. And for half a century, golf has driven the desert’s r ...
• Fukushima radiation readings spike to highest ...
  Radiation readings around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have spiked by more than a fifth to their highest levels, Japan’s nuclear regulator said Wednesday, heightening concerns about the cleanup of the worst atomic disaster in almost three ...
• Massive Aquifer Discovered in Kenya holds 70 Y ...
  “A newly-discovered aquifer in Kenya’s arid Turkana region contains enough water to meet the nation’s needs for the next 70 years. The discovery of the Lotikipi Basin Aquifer was officially announced Wednesday at an international water security meeting of the UN Educational, Sc ...
• Rescuers can’t reach people stranded by ...
  Boulder, Colorado (CNN) — An entire community cut off, firefighters huddled on the side of a mountain after water swept their truck away, and — with rescue helicopters grounded — no way to reach them. This is the scene facing authorities Thursday in Boulder County, Colorado, in ...
• Film History as Urban Mystery: The Case of Chi ...
  Film History as Urban Mystery: The Case of Chinatown, By John Walton Introduction Historians and students of film are familiar with movies based upon historical events and particularly with cinematic representations of those events, which are said to distort, reinterpret, or otherwise alter hist ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• Why would anyone find this surprising
  …Why would anyone find this surprising when our laws are rules are the result of whose palm is greased and how much…? Revealed: State Colleges Giving Wealthy Kids More Financial Aid Than Poor Kids Marian Wang, ProPublica Public universities have gradually shifted their priorities — and a growing ...
• CONSPIRACY
    By Foster Gamble   It is a little-known though well-documented fact that the origin of the campaign to ridicule research into conspiracies was initiated by the CIA in 1967to undermine the credibility of those who questioned the official claims of the Warren Commission regarding the s ...
• odd$ Vega$ is giving the multinational
  …Wonder what odd$ Vega$ is giving the multinational water giant$ have not already scooped up these rights or so will… Discovery: Huge Water Reserve in Kenya Brings Hope to Most Vulnerable By Jodie Gummow, AlterNet A massive aquifer large enough to meet all of Kenya’s water needs for the next 70 ...
• exhort its influence
  …America’s military-industrial-corporate-congressional-cabal has yet to begin to exhort its influence … they want WAR with Syria…     …Syria Crisis Hasn’t Been Magically Resolved — There’s a Lot More Cruel Tricks and War Games Coming Down the Pike   … & ...
• Trojan horse is our government’s
  The Trojan horse is our government’s fear that you and I are aware of the sleight of hand manipulations they perpetrate on us every day and our awareness will lead to us authentically understanding that WE are the power…   The Real Reason The Federal Government Is Coming Around On Marijuana ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Photo essay: India's Western Ghats is a haven ...
  The Western Ghats are a globally recognized repository of biological diversity for our planet. We know very little about most species found here, particularly the ecologically sensitive and spectacularly beautiful 179 amphibians. Astonishingly, 87% of all Western Ghats frogs are endemic and foun ...
• Butchering nature's titans: without the elepha ...
  Africa's elephant poaching crisis doesn't just threaten a species, but imperils one of humanity's most important links to the natural world and even our collective sanity, according to acclaimed photographers and film-makers, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Authors of the book Walking Thunder ...
• Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Mala ...
  Japanese companies are failing to keep illegally logged timber from entering their supply chains, international human rights and environmental watchdog Global Witness said in a report released today. The report links several major Japanese firms to logging companies that are destroying tropical ...
• Protecting predators in the wildest landscape ...
  The Serengeti, the Congo, the Okavango Delta: many of Africa's great wildernesses are household names, however on a continent that never fails to surprise remain vast wild lands practically unknown to the global public. One of these is the Ruaha landscape: covering 51,800 square kilometers (20,0 ...
• A year after devastating attack, security retu ...
  On June 24th of last year, MaiMai Simba rebels, led by an elephant poacher known as Morgan, launched a devastating attack on the headquarters of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The attack, which was reportedly in response to a crack down on poaching and i ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Sheep trials may find therapy for Huntington's
  Scientists are preparing to test a potential therapy for Huntington's disease in sheep that have been genetically modified to carry the mutation that causes the disease.Researchers at the Auckland University Centre for Brain Research...
• Facing up to life with Huntington's disease
  Kimberley Jane Dark has made it clear that she doesn't want to be kept alive with a feeding tube.KJ, as she is known to her family and friends, is just 33 years old, but she has advanced Huntington's disease and has made pragmatic...
• $8m target to devlop brain research strategy
  When patients have a certain kind of brain surgery to treat epilepsy at Auckland City Hospital, some of the tissue, with their consent, is sent over the road to the Auckland University for research.The operation removes part of...
• Personal, revealing memoir exposes Hawking's m ...
  The painful end of Stephen Hawking's first marriage, and the bitter acrimony of his second, have been described in detail by the Cambridge cosmologist for the first time in his autobiography.In a revealing memoir, the world's most...
• Can we survive?
  Some of Britain's finest minds are drawing up a "doomsday list" of catastrophic events that could devastate the world, pose a threat to civilisation and even lead to the extinction of the human species.Leading scholars have established...

The Bovine

• The importance of rural America — differ ...
  From farmer Joel Salatin, August 18, 2013, via the Polyface Farm FB page: Why do we need more farmers? What is the driving force behind USDA policy? In an infuriating epiphany I have yet to metabolize, I found out Wednesday in … Continue reading →
• The importance of rural America — differ ...
  From farmer Joel Salatin, August 18, 2013, via the Polyface Farm FB page: Why do we need more farmers? What is the driving force behind USDA policy? In an infuriating epiphany I have yet to metabolize, I found out Wednesday in … Continue reading →
• Fukushima radiation dangers; 10 foods can help ...
  From Amy Nicole, on Ultraculture: “Japanese officials have just admitted the grim truth that since the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and meltdown, 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have leaked into the Pacific Ocean, plus a huge amount of cesium, … Con ...
• Fukushima radiation dangers; 10 foods can help ...
  From Amy Nicole, on Ultraculture: “Japanese officials have just admitted the grim truth that since the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and meltdown, 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have leaked into the Pacific Ocean, plus a huge amount of cesium, … Con ...
• Should you be able to buy food directly from f ...
  From David E. Gumpert on Waking Times.com “This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Kenosha Teachers' Union Decertified in 63-37% ...
  Common sense won out twice in Wisconsin in the past two weeks. On September 11, Wisconsin Act 10 upheld in another federal court challenge. A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed one of the lawsuits challenging Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill in 2011 that eliminated most collec ...
• CSU Receives 49% in Bavaria State Election; As ...
  CSU soared to an absolute majority in the Bavaria state election. The results look like this +- 0.2% or so. CSU: 48.7% SPD: 20.5% Freie Waehler: 8.7% Die Grünen: 8.5% FDP: 3.2% Others: 10.4% Majority for CSU Freie Waehler is the Bavaria Eurosceptic party and Die Grünen is ...
• Yellen It Is; Gold Soars; Summers Drops Out; Y ...
  Anyone smart enough to withdraw from the race to replace Ben Bernanke as next Fed chairman must have something on the ball, at least temporarily. The Larry Summers' haters got their wish today as Summers withdrew his name from consideration. Summers called president Obama, then issued ...
• 8,500 Sq Ft Home Faces Wrecking Ball to Build ...
  When you have more money than you know what to do with, you tear down your 8,500 square foot home to build a slightly larger 9,095 square foot home. The Star Tribune notes $10M house ready for wrecker. Here is an image. The house is damn ugly, at least in my opinion. C ...
• Software Robots Eliminate 94.7% of Jobs Needed ...
  It used to take 150 to do a space launch. Now it takes 8 thanks to artificial intelligence at the launch site. That is a 94.7% reduction in the number of jobs. The BBC reports Japan launches 'affordable' Epsilon space rocket Japan has launched the first in a new generation of space rocke ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
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• Police Are More Dangerous To the Public Than A ...
  The Sheeple Brutalized & Murdered by Police Psychopaths The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia ...
• An Independent Media Outlet For the People Can ...
  Say NO to Corporate & Dynasty-Foundations Funded Pseudo Alternatives- Support This Solely People-Subsidized Alternative We are two weeks into our quarterly fundraising and over half way there. We have established a four-year track record as a news and multimedia website with integrity that i ...
• De-Manufacturing Consent- The Great Game Goes ...
  Guillermo Jimenez Presents Daniel McAdams On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent Guillermo is joined by the Executive Director of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Mr. Daniel McAdams. Guillermo and Daniel discuss a week of geopolitical chess between the United States, Syri ...
• The New Great Game Round Up- September 15, 2013
  SCO Defies Washington, Cold War Heating Up, Arms Race Reloaded & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia and the Caucasus r ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• SPOTD: Perini Navi Launches the Grace E Superyacht
  Perini Navi’s latest beauty, the 73 meter Azipod-powered Grace E was launched today from their Picchiotti shipyard in La Spezia.  She shares the same hull and super structure design elements that [...]
• Shipping Rates in China Surge to 16-Month High
  The cost of hauling iron ore and coal along China’s coast rose to a 16-month high, adding to signs the nation’s demand is strengthening for the two commodities that generate the most demand for dry-bulk shipping.
• EU Court Rules to Lift Sanctions Against Iran’ ...
  he European Union's efforts to impose economic sanctions on Iran suffered a new setback on Monday when a top court ruled that measures against the Islamic Republic's biggest cargo carrier should be lifted.
• 12 Dead Inside Washington Navy Yard
  UPDATE: 14:30 EST - D.C. Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier has confirmed 12 fatalities, the U.S. Navy reports. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier addressed a crowd of reporters just after noon [...]
• STX Finland to Close Rauma Shipyard
  STX Finland has announced that its Board has unanimously approved a restructuring of the company which will see current operations at the Rauma Shipyard ramped down and functions shifted to the Turku Shipyard.

Press TV

• Gaza students protest Rafah closure
  Dozens of students in the Gaza Strip have staged a demonstration outside the closed gate of Rafah crossing with Egypt, demanding the reopening of the gateway.
• Alleged US Navy Yard shooter identified
  US law enforcement officials have identified the dead gunman, who killed twelve people and injured at least a dozen others at the Washington Navy Yard.
• Iran, S Korea ink capital markets pact
  The Islamic Republic of Iran and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to further cement trade ties and facilitate interaction between their capital markets.
• Deadly fungal disease may spread in US
  The Pacific Northwest - a region known for stunning natural vistas and a love of outdoor recreation - is also home to a deadly fungal disease that's spread through the air, according to public health officials.
• ‘Syria CW elimination won’t please US’
  An Iranian legislator says Washington will not be satisfied with the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles, describing the US-Russia deal on destroying the Arab country's chemical arsenal as “non-binding.”

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• From The Classroom to The School Bus
  The following was submitted by Brandon M. Chiwaya (Murphy Institute ’13):   After graduating from SPS in June, I reached out to Tanya Fields for a bit of career advice. Tanya (who you may remember from my last blog post was the commencement speaker at the spring 2013 SPS graduation ceremon ...
• An Evening With the Bus
• Viewing Videos in Blackboard and Digication Us ...
  Now that the fall semester has begun, some students have reported issues accessing content in their Blackboard course site and have reached out to the Help Desk to ask which browser is best for use with Blackboard. Firefox is SPS’s preferred browser; however, the most recent release of Fir ...
• Welcome Back, CUNY SPS!
  Welcome back students! Remember, classes will be held in our new space at 119 W. 31st Street, but administrative offices will remain at 101 W. 31st Street until later this fall. Here’s a listing of current office locations and contact information.  Enjoy the semester!
• #FindYourReason

Dissident Voice

• Urban Trap Lines
  Urban trapper Starts early Picking up beverage cans From garbage cans (urban traps) Heads to the supermarket parking lot Standing proud Like his ancestors looking over the prairie At the buffalo (before they were made extinct) He sees four lone carts Worth a quarter a piece He rounds them up and ...
• The CIA, the Media, and Black Propaganda
  As soon as Kevin Drum at Mother Jones absolved the CIA of spewing poison gas as a provocation, many on the Liberal Left cautiously threw their weight behind Obama and the thrill of waging a punitive war on Syria. “Perhaps regime change is a good idea,” Tom Hayden speculated in The Nation. Left p ...
• Andy Warhol Halloween: “There’s a ...
  Labels Scare the GE Crap Outta Bayer, Monsanto, et al We had a gathering —  public meeting — in Ellensburg, WA, looking at the known and projected  impacts of genetically engineered crops. The Washington State supporters are looking to garner more support for an initiative on the upc ...
• Syria: Has Obama Forsaken the Insurgency?
  Current events surrounding the Syrian conflict appear to be on the brink of a partial agreement toward peace. Brokered by the United States and Russia, the new quick-fire round of talks in Geneva between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov have been promote ...
• Canada: Hypocrites ‘R Us
  Somewhere in the Lester B. Pearson Building, Canada’s foreign affairs headquarters, must be a meeting room with the inscription “The World Should Do as We Say, Not As We Do” or perhaps “Hypocrites ‘R Us.” With the Obama administration beating the war drums, Canadian officials are demanding a res ...

Nick Turse

• INDIA-BIHAR-TRAIN ACCIDENT-DEATHBIHAR, Aug. 1 ...
  INDIA-BIHAR-TRAIN ACCIDENT-DEATH BIHAR, Aug. 19, 2013 (Xinhua) — People gather around bodies after the Rajya Rani Express train ran over some people at a crowded station in Dhamara Ghat at Khagaria district in Bihar, India, Aug. 19, 2013. Some 37 people, including several women and children, we ...
• Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamme ...
  Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi gather in Helwan Area. © Nameer Galal/NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Corbis
• "Britain was facing intense pressure on Monday ...
  “Britain was facing intense pressure on Monday to give a detailed explanation of the decision...
• "The United States has now lost the opportunit ...
  “The United States has now lost the opportunity for a summit conference with the leaders of...
• In early August 1967, I arrived in I Corps, th ...
  In early August 1967, I arrived in I Corps, the northernmost district of American military operations in what was then South Vietnam.  I was there to report for the New Yorker on the “air war.” The phrase was a misnomer.  The Vietnamese foe, of course, had no assets in the air in the South, and ...

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Newswise

• Financial Incentives Motivate Sedentary Adults ...
  A review study published today finds that financial incentives -as modest as $5 per week - can increase the amount of exercise people do.
• Lifestyle Changes May Lengthen Telomeres, A Me ...
  A small pilot study shows for the first time that changes in diet, exercise, stress management and social support may result in longer telomeres, the parts of chromosomes that affect aging.
• Young Women with Breast Cancer Often Overestim ...
  A survey of young women with breast cancer found that many often overestimate the odds that cancer will occur in their other, healthy breast, and decide to have the healthy breast surgically removed even though most understood that removing both breasts does not extend their survival.
• Loyola Helps Couples Improve Sex Life through Yoga
  Partner yoga may help couples who are struggling with sexual dysfunction, according to sexual wellness experts at Loyola University Health System (LUHS).
• Rensselaer Researchers Create Accurate Compute ...
  A computational model developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the first to accurately simulate the complex twists of a short sequence of RNA as it folds into a critical hairpin structure known as a "tetraloop."

Metanoia

• Psywar screened on Free Speech TV on MLK day
  https://www.freespeech.org/tv-schedule/day/2013-01-22T00–2013-01-22T23?timezone=MST
• Rise Like Lions screened at Digital Film Festi ...
• Rise LIke Lions screened at Seoul Independent ...
  http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Seoul_Independent_Film_Festival/
• Lifting the Veil screened at Peace and Justice ...
  http://www.peaceandjusticefilms.org/2012fall/index.html
• American Empire: the Feature Film
  Scott Noble’s “The Power Principle” American Empire: the Feature Film by RON JACOBS Counterpunch Discussing the nature of the US Empire and how it got to where it is today with most US residents is always a challenge. Recommending books explaining it is equally so. This is espe ...

Jae's News

• John F. Kennedy Assassination Flight
  From noon to dusk on November 22, 1963, history went dark, locked inside the closed and crowded cabin of Air Force One. Fifty years later, what happened after JFK died has fully come to light. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
• At least 9 dead in Navy Yard shooting; two pos ...
  Tim Jirus, a Navy commander who works in Building 197, said that as he was evacuating the building he saw a co-worker who had been shot getting into a police car, and heard more shots fired from inside his workplace. Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics & Gov't  |   Not ...
• How Weird Christian Right Beliefs Impact America
  Does it really matter that America is home to a bunch of religious fanatics who constantly spin lurid and offensive ideas about how the world works? ... the inevitable fundamentalist wankery ... Submitted by Lynn Squance to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
• Secret Quarter-Billion-Dollar Koch Brothers Po ...
  It [Politico] has unmasked a previously unknown political money laundering operation, set up by the energy billionaires and libertarian Koch brothers, that raised $256 million and secretly spent almost all of it last year against Democrats. Submitted by Lynn Squance to US Politics & Gov' ...
• GIVE KIDS IN AFGHANISTAN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LI ...
  Speak out for ending the war in Afghanistan! Please sign Petition! Thank you Timothy Submitted by Timothy Spurlin to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• Proposed Global Accord Called a Disaster for P ...
  Nearly 350 international civil society organisations are urging countries taking part in new negotiations towards an agreement on “trade in services” to abandon the effort, warning that the accord would negatively impact on universal access to and national regulation of public services. Trade re ...
• U.N. Team Confirms Syria Chemical Attack but N ...
  After an intense investigation of the military attack on civilians in Syria last month, a U.N. team of arms inspectors has reached a predictable conclusion: the deadly attack had all the trappings of the widespread use of chemical weapons. But the team left an equally important question unanswer ...
• “The Oil Is Ours” – But Its Secrets Are the NSA’s
  Reported U.S. spying on Brazil’s Petrobras oil firm revived the controversy over opening up the company, a symbol of Brazilian sovereignty since the 1950s, to foreign investment. “The oil is ours” was the cry that arose with the discovery of oil and gas during the government of Getulio Vargas (1 ...
• Top Afghan Female Police Officer Gunned Down
  A top policewoman in southern Afghanistan has died after being shot by unknown attackers, months after her predecessor was also slain in similar circumstances. Sub-Inspector Negara, who like many Afghans goes by one name, was buying grass for her lambs outside her home on Sunday 15 when two gunm ...
• Argentina’s Imports Climb Despite State ...
  To maintain its trade surplus, Argentina continues to control imports – a strategy that has bolstered its national industry but is questioned by importers, partners in the Mercosur trade bloc, and rich countries. “What we have in Argentina today is a war to protect employment, which is why trade ...

My AntiWar

• Mali Reconciliation on Track Despite Protests, ...
• Suicide Bomber Kills Three Police in Russia&#8 ...
• Kenya Cases Stir African Backlash Against ICC
• Somalia ‘New Deal’: EU Pledge at B ...
• Nine Egyptian Policemen Wounded in Sinai Blast

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• American Style: Chemical Hypocrisy
  Summary: chemical bombing of SardashtIn a perfect world, Mr. Obama would have appeared in front of the cameras and would tell the world that the recent declassified documents show that we had made a terrible error. We supported a regime that used weapons of mass destruction and helped that re ...
• The silent military coup that took over Washington
  Summary: On my wall is the Daily Express front page of September 5 1945 and the words: "I write this as a warning to the world." So began Wilfred Burchett's report from Hiroshima. It was the scoop of the century. For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burche ...
• Iran welcomes Russia proposal for Syria
  Summary: Iran has welcomed Russia’s proposal to Syria to put its chemical stockpile under international control in order to avoid “militarism in the region.” source: PressTVread more
• To resolve the Syria crisis, the US must negot ...
  Summary: Civil war in Syria, coupled with the emergence of a relatively moderate new government in Tehran, makes this an ideal time for the United States to reconsider its self-defeating diplomatic boycott of Iran. Admitting Iran into the Syrian peace process might improve the prospects for ...
• Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria
  Summary: Secretary of State John Kerry made the case to Congress this week, but the questions not asked and the answers not given speak volumes. In the lead-up to the Iraq War, I researched, wrote and circulated a document to members of Congress which explored unanswered questions and refuted ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Milky Way's Galactic Center --The Site of a Co ...
    There is growing evidence that several million years ago the galactic center was the site of violent cosmic events. A team of assistant professors – Kelly Holley-Bockelmann at Vanderbilt and Tamara Bogdanović at Georgia Institute of Technology – came up with an explanation that fits ...
• New Extraterrestrial Sources Discovered for th ...
             Researchers have found a process that provides another piece to the puzzle of how life was kick-started on Earth, after a period of time between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the planet had been bombarded by comets and meteorites.  The team from Imperial College London ...
• Image of the Day: Colossal Spiral Star 14-Bill ...
                The discovery of a star with spiral arms in 2011 startled researchers using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. The star, SAO 206462, is more than four hundred light years from Earth in the constellation Lupus, the wolf. Two spiral arms, acquired by the Subaru Telescope and i ...
• EcoAlert: "Warming Oceans Undermining Antarcti ...
      For five years, a scientific expedition tried reaching Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in a remote, wind-ridden corner of Antarctica. The obstacles to get to the ice shelf were extreme, but the science goal was simple: to measure how fast the sea was melting the 37-mile long ice to ...
• Mystery of Massive Red Galaxies Hidden in the ...
        "We think there are more of these red nuggets, or compact galaxies, hidden in the universe, waiting to be discovered," says Ho Seong Hwang of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope spotted unusually small galaxies densely packed with red star ...

Natural News

• Cattail: Learn how to harvest and utilize this ...
  One of the most common wild plants found throughout the world, cattail, is astoundingly versatile. So much so that it can make the difference between life and death if one is lost in the wilderness or when food is in short supply. But this humble plant is also extremely...
• New DPP-4 diabetes drugs linked to heart failure
  Despite laughable attempts by the mainstream media to spin the study in a positive light, new research out of Massachusetts has confirmed that the novel dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) class of diabetes drugs can increase users' risk of developing heart failure. According...
• Chocolate may prevent memory loss and Alzheime ...
  There is little doubt that the gradual decline in memory and cognitive function that can be the first signs of impending dementia and Alzheimer's disease is one of the most serious health problems facing millions of aging adults in most western societies. What is even...
• TSA officers arrested by police for dealing in ...
  Whether it's because of poor vetting, extremely low standards, substandard pay or a combination of all these elements and others, the Transportation Security Administration has become little more than a criminal laughing stock. Born from the USA Patriot Act with the...
• Boost wellness by receiving the healing energy ...
  Recent studies are highlighting the myriad of benefits of spending time connected to the earth. Humans, it would seem, are designed to stay in touch with the free and ever-present healing energy of the earth's surface. Simply walking outside barefoot can improve sleep...

Threat Level

• Secret Spy Court Demands Surveillance Transpar ...
  The secret spy court at the center of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks today ordered the government to begin declassifying its opinions involving the Patriot Act -- opinions that have forced the nation's telephone carriers to divulge calling metadata on ...     
• FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Ma ...
  It wasn't ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed ...     
• Kim Dotcom’s Mega-Lawsuit Could Make Him a Mul ...
  File-sharing tycoon Kim Dotcom has a plan to become a multi-millionaire again: He’s filed a seven-figure lawsuit against the New Zealand government over the spectacular 2012 assault on his mansion, and the electronic spying that preceded it.     
• 6 Whopping Government Misstatements About NSA ...
  Whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA spying have set off a fierce global debate about security and privacy in the internet age. The revelations of the United States performing mass surveillance on an international scale have also unleashed an avalanche ...     
• If You Use Apple’s Fingerprint Sensor, You Mig ...
  While there’s a great deal of discussion around the pros and cons of fingerprint authentication since Apple's announcement this week, no one’s focusing on the legal effects of moving from PINs to fingerprints. It might mean we can't 'take the ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

• Medicare Drug Plan Polling Suggests Bright Fut ...
  Two new polls from Pew Research and NBC News/Wall Street are predictably prompting two very different reactions among supporters and foes of the Affordable Care Act. While the Washington Post's Sarah Kliff laments, "Americans are very, very confused about the Obamacare," Patrick Brennan of the ...
• Boehner Whitewashes GOP's Debt Ceiling History
  This week, House Speaker John Boehner turned to a new sleight of hand trick in his latest effort to extract draconian spending cuts as the Republicans' price for raising the U.S. debt ceiling. Citing five examples from the past, the Speaker's "Fact Sheet" claimed that "Coupling efforts to reduce ...
• Boehner, Cantor and McConnell Raised Debt Ceil ...
  With the federal government set to hit the limit of its borrowing authority as early as mid-October, Republicans are once again threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage. As the National Review described the latest ransom demand from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, "To increase the debt c ...
• GOP, Media Forget Bush's Medicare Navigators
  In their latest effort to abort the Affordable Care Act, Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the states are targeting the "Obamacare navigators," the dozens of community groups, hospitals, charities and universities receiving a combined $67 million in federal grants to provide outreach, customer ...
• Mississippi Makes the Case for Boosting IRS Budget
  For months, Republicans have been waging a new war on the IRS. Echoing their successful gutting of the Internal Revenue Service back in the 1990's, GOP leaders have been calling the agency "the new Gestapo" and demanding its budget be slashed by a quarter. But with a "tax gap" already nearing ...

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Consortium News

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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

• Dung Beetle Navigation, Mouse Heart Patient Op ...
  Coming a bit late this year, Improbable Research officially announced its 2013 list of Ig Nobel Prize winners on September 12 in its typically raucous fashion. Awarded annually for the past 23 years (with each new year being its “First Annual”), the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded to &#8 ...
• Shutter 1.2% Of Power Plants, Cut Carbon Costs ...
  The nation’s most-polluting power plant, Georgia Power Company’s Plant Scherer in Juliette, Georgia, emits more carbon dioxide than all of Maine’s energy emissions. Here’s more from Environment America: On September 10, the Environment America Research & Policy Center, an indepen ...
• Albert Einstein’s Environmental Quotes
  Albert Einstein was one of the world’s greatest thinkers and some have compared his general outlook on life to the Buddha’s. Ahimsa, or the principle of not injuring life forms, seems to apply to Einstein’s great sense of wonder and appreciation for all the phenomena of life. B ...
• BlobFish Declared ‘World’s Ugliest Animal’ To ...
  When it comes to conservation of rare and endangered animals, conservation groups and institutions tend to favor the more handsome species as emblems of their causes. This is understandable, we like looking at cute animals (and babies). Arguably, this “cuteness factor” is what makes ...
• How Hot Tapping And Line Stopping Could Save Y ...
  This is a sponsored article. Do we publish sponsored content that we don’t think is worth a read? Nope. But feel free to judge us if you think we should donate our time without making a living wage. And enjoy the interesting article, below! Hot tapping is the process by which specialised t ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Thirty New Municipal Wastewater Projects Per W ...
  Thirty New Municipal Wastewater Projects Per Week In North America There are more than 30 new munici
• DEP Hosts Meetings To Discuss Next Phase of St ...
  STUART– On Aug. 21, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection hosted a public meeting befor
• Gov. Scott Announces $40 Million Commitment to ...
  MARTIN COUNTY – Today, Governor Rick Scott, along with several members of the Florida Legislature, a
• WATER THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
  People are always saying to me things like…”You look just like your daughter. How do you
• Eco-Friendly Cruises- A Report Card
  As you all probably already know, I’m a huge fan of cruises. I’ve only been on Princess

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 12, 2013 Image by codep
• Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 11, 2013 Image by jim
• The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of ...
  Image by LividFiction via Flickr by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, Engla
• Gareth Porter: Afghan war, dead weight around ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 12, 2013 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• America's Indefinitely Detained + Close GITMO ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 11, 2013 Ima

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 ...

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Care 2

• Chained Outside, Neglected for 6 Years ~ Pl ...
  Reposting because Soldier Boy is still in need of a forever home. AND NOW, 7500 SHARES LATER, HE STILL WAITS- Submitted by Nicole W. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• TAKE ACTION NOW! MCDONALD'S: PAY YOUR WOR ...
  Right now, the vast majority of your employees make less than $16,000 per year. No one can live on that amount, much less raise a family Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Seeds of Conflict Sprout in the Balkans
  According experts from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Belgrade University, indigenous fruit and vegetable species in the Balkans have lost the battle against the big international seed-producing companies. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |&n ...
• Cyanobacteria: This Stealth Poison Could Kill ...
  A Jack Russell Terrier in East Hampton, New York, decided to have a drink from a pond while he was enjoying an outing with his family. Tragically, later in the day he began having convulsions and died Submitted by Carrie B. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
• Guinea Pigs Fighting For Cucumber (Cute Video!)
  Cute baby guinea pigs fight for cucumber. Very funny video with these animals. Funny baby guinea pigs fighting for cucumber. Submitted by Barb Knight to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Eyes Wide Shut
• Do Syrian Rebels Have Sarin?
• Labor Leaders, Obamacare, and the Fate of the ...
• Syria is an epic victory for the SuperPower of ...
• Is Dithering Always Bad? Trust and Verify and ...

Paul Krugman

• The Political Economy of Bloombergism
  New York is not America.
• In Front of Their Noses
  On learning nothing from events.
• Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothing ...
  It's a wonderful life.
• Slackers at the Fed
  How depressed is the economy?
• Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
  Life as a failed plutocrat ain't bad.

No Quarter

• UN Set to Release Report on Chemical Casualtie ...
  If you are hoping for a damning indictment of Bashir Assad and the Syrian military in today’s UN report on the chemical casualties that the Obama folks insisted was a deliberate Sarin gas attack by the Syrian Government, be prepared to be disappointed. The chemical that was used was not mi ...
• Obama and Kerry Declare Victory in the Ruins o ...
  After much posturing, pouting, and empty threats, Obama and Kerry have signed on to a Russian proposal that makes Syria a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention and preserves Syria’s ability to wage war against Islamic jihadists. But make no mistake–Obama and Kerry will be taki ...
• Russia Saving America From Disaster
  Count me as a fan and supporter of Vladimir Putin. He is doing the right thing vis-a-vis Syria while President Barack Obama, wrapping himself in the bodies of dead children, is trying desperately to bamboozle America and the world and manufacture a reason to start a war in Syria. Fact of the mat ...
• Obama, Serial Bungler in Syria
  Each passing day brings a new humiliation to Barack Obama and America as our witless, naif of a leader stumbles around the middle east like a blind man in a minefield. Vladimir Putin, apparently channeling a Jewish heritage in honor of Yom Kippur, penned an op-ed in the NY Times that is the embo ...
• Remembering 9-11
  This piece first appeared on 11 September 2009. I think it is still relevant. Since then we must add the attack of 9-11-2012 on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. That one, entirely preventable, is on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They tried desperately to disavow any responsibility for failing ...

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

• Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death
  Jamaat-e-Islami's Assistant Secretary General ordered to be hanged after prosecution challenged his life sentence.
• Al-Qaeda leader issues jihad guidelines
  Ayman al-Zawahri deems Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq suitable and endorses conflicts in Russia, India and China.
• US names Navy base shooting suspect
  Officials say alleged gunman among 13 dead was a former military serviceman, as police search for 'person of interest'.
• Costa Concordia salvage operation completed
  Head of Italy's Civil Protection Authority confirms successful recovery of wrecked cruise liner stuck in Giglio island.
• Vote counting under way in Rwanda polls
  President Kagame's coalition expected to win by large margin, after voting for new parliament passes off peacefully.

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

• Encouraging Results Seen in First Nationwide L ...
  A nationwide look at natural gas emissions from fracking operations finds much less leakage than industry critics claim.
• An Ecologist Explains His Contested View of Pl ...
  An embattled ecologist defends his upbeat view of a human-dominated Earth.
• From the Fire Hose: Warming Slowdown, Deep-Oce ...
  An in-depth analysis of the recent slowdown in global warming finds lots of theories and few firm facts.
• A Hurricane Brews After Silent First Half to t ...
  Forecasters predict that Hurricane Humberto will end the 2013 hurricane drought.
• Can Storytelling Be Factual and Effective?
  A scientist explores ways to communicate factually and effectively with a Hollywood script doctor and an improv star.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Occupy Boulder Flood Relief gets rolling as oi ...
  The good news is that people are organizing for flood relief in Colorado along the proven lines of previous efforts at Occupy Sandy. URLZ: #boulderflood relief :: Boulder Flood Relief - Get help & get involved First meeting 28 mins video: Boulder Flood Relief - Orientation Meeting - YouTube ...
• Leon Trotsky discusses Freemasonry as inspirat ...
  Poppa Karl makes the Sign of the Itchy Belly Here is an interesting angle which I just found. The connection between Freemasonry and Communism is debatable but a favorite of conspiracy cats, full of ironic twists. While Trotsky talks about how Freemasons in different areas formed a revolutionary ...
• Terrible proposed shield law spells doom for j ...
  Here is some horrible news. I am inquiring further since of course it's people like me that this is intended to chill and/or enable grand juries to throw in prison without charges…. I have put in inquiries with MN Sens. Klobuchar and Franken offices to determine if they believe reporters should ...
• Exclusive New Court Docs: Oklahoma City Truth ...
  Here is something kind of nifty - just got the latest court filings from an investigation into Oklahoma City bombing now approved by a judge to move forward in federal court against the CIA and FBI. The crux of it is missing videotapes, a recurring problem in major terror incidents -- anyone rem ...
• CIA Revolving Door Resistance: Petraeus called ...
  One axiom of the Interwebs research world is that the CIA is Wall Street and Wall Street is the CIA. This reflects many key dynamics, a personal favorite example is laundering of drug money through Wall Street for the benefit of CIA proxies in the "war on drugs". Anyway a big Wall Street leverag ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• I Hope Syria Will Not Suffer Western Intervent ...
  On 24 March, 1999 the first air-raid sirens went off.  None of my friends in Belgrade believed that the west would bomb us. They considered themselves modern big-city Europeans, but my father thought otherwise. He was a second world war veteran, and during his lifetime he had stockpiled food, ...
• Alex Jones Instantly Comes Up With Absurd Cons ...
  A false flag operation by disguised government agents?  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speculated that the attack on the Washington Navy Yard may have been a false flag operation committed by disguised government agents in pursuit of some obscure goal to restrict liberty. Despite Jones' far-fe ...
• Dash Cam Video Shows Florida Police Busting Up ...
  The police brutality victim's attorney said a lawsuit would go after the police for the incident. Shocking video taken from a police car’s dashboard shows cops in Florida slamming a woman onto the car and the pavement. The police broke her orbital bone and her eye was swelled shut--all be ...
• 10 Best Pieces of Porn on Reddit
  Here are 10 subreddits that reflect the range of what good porn can be — sexy, educational, hilarious and, sometimes, just really weird. The following article first appeared on Salon.com. I’ve already brought you the best of Tumblr and Vine porn – and, as you can imagine, no one clicked on tho ...
• UPDATED: 13 People Dead at D.C. Navy Yard, Sho ...
  D.C. police say the shooter opened fire inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters Update: Officials have identified 34-year-old Aaron Alexis as the shooter. According to the New York Times, Alexis was a full-time Navy reservist between May 2007 and January 2011. An AR-15 assault rifle, ...

Threat Level

• Secret Spy Court Demands Surveillance Transpar ...
  The secret spy court at the center of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks today ordered the government to begin declassifying its opinions involving the Patriot Act -- opinions that have forced the nation's telephone carriers to divulge calling metadata on ...     
• FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Ma ...
  It wasn't ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed ...     
• Kim Dotcom’s Mega-Lawsuit Could Make Him a Mul ...
  File-sharing tycoon Kim Dotcom has a plan to become a multi-millionaire again: He’s filed a seven-figure lawsuit against the New Zealand government over the spectacular 2012 assault on his mansion, and the electronic spying that preceded it.     
• 6 Whopping Government Misstatements About NSA ...
  Whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA spying have set off a fierce global debate about security and privacy in the internet age. The revelations of the United States performing mass surveillance on an international scale have also unleashed an avalanche ...     
• If You Use Apple’s Fingerprint Sensor, You Mig ...
  While there’s a great deal of discussion around the pros and cons of fingerprint authentication since Apple's announcement this week, no one’s focusing on the legal effects of moving from PINs to fingerprints. It might mean we can't 'take the ...     

Equality Trust

• UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
  The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
• The Spirit Level Documentary Film
  We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
• 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

• When your Legal Strategy is Death
  Just over two years ago the CDC announced that a Listeria outbreak was linked to “Rocky Ford” cantaloupe grown in Colorado. Mary Montour died over this past weekend.  She was... Continue Reading
• What’s up with Watercress?
  According to Barfblog, the UK Food Standards Agency has identified at least 19 people sick with E. coli O157:H7 linked to UK watercress. Sainsbury’s has recalled all watercress containing products... Continue Reading
• Has Chobani Yogurt with the Mold, Mucor Circin ...
  USA Today reports that the recent recall of Chobani Greek yogurt caused by the mold, Mucor Circinelloides, brought new attention to the issue of mold that develops in food, when it’s harmful... Continue Reading
• Burma E. coli Case Count: 12 Sick, 5 Hospitali ...
  The San Francisco Department of Public Health released an update on Friday to the Burma Superstar E. coli outbreak that occurred around August 16. Health officials now believe 12 people... Continue Reading
• Beef Tongue E. coli Recall
  National Beef Packing Company, a Dodge City, Kan., establishment, is recalling approximately 690 pounds of beef tongue root filet products that may be contaminated with E. coliO157:H7, the U.S. Department of... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

• Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
  Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...
• 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 ...

Camera Obscura

• No title
• 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!

• Kerry, Kissinger and the Other Sept. 11
  By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan As President Barack Obama’s attack on Syria appears to have been delayed for the moment, it is remarkable that Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting, on Sept. 11, with one of his predecessors, Henry Kissinger, reportedly to discuss strategy on forthco ...
• Interview with Forensic Expert Who Confirmed C ...
  Amy Goodman traveled to Spain in 2012 and interviewed Francisco Exteberria, the forensic specialist who exhumed the bodies of ousted President Salvador Allende and singer Víctor Jara to determine the nature of their deaths. "He ended up with a single bullet wound through the back of the head, a ...
• Noam Chomsky: U.S. Has Been "Torturing" Iran f ...
  In this web-only exclusive, MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky talks about the past 60 years of U.S.-Iranian relations since the 1953 coup organized by the CIA . "The crucial fact about Iran, which we should begin with, is that for the past 60 years not a day has passed in which the U.S. ha ...
• Interview with Chilean Judge Who First Prosecu ...
  Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman interviews Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán, who in 1999 become the first to prosecute Augusto Pinochet for crimes he oversaw during his 17-year dictatorship that began with the U.S.-backed coup of 1973. Guzmán recalls how, "I was at the top of my career and I had received ...
• Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán Who Charged Pinochet ...
  In 1999 Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán surprised many when he formally charged General Augusto Pinochet with kidnapping and placed him under house arrest. The charges stemmed from Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship that followed a U.S.-backed coup on Sept. 11, 1973. Guzmán was known as a conservative, ...

Solari

• Naval Sea Systems Command
  By Wikipedia The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the United States Navy’s five “systems commands,” or materiel (not to be confused with “material”) organizations. NAVSEA consists of four shipyards, nine “warfare centers” (two unders ...
• Money & Markets – Week of 09.15.13
  Dow Jones Reshuffles Index to Add Goldman, Kick Out Bank of America Bloomberg Businessweek | 10 September 2013 The Dow Jones industrial average, the 30-company index that for many Americans is synonymous with the stock market…
• Geopolitical – Week of 09.15.13
  Chart of the Day – Government to Workers: You’re Fired! Pragmatic Capitalism | 12 September 2013 One of the more interesting things during the recent recovery is that it has occurred almost entirely without aid from government employment…
• Science & Technology – Week of 09.15.13
  Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization MIT Technology Review | 12 September 2013 Oxford researchers say that 45 percent of America’s occupations will be automated within the next 20 years…
• Food & Health – Week of 09.15.13
  Exclusive Preview: Tonight’s Doomsday Castle To Spotlight Food Forests Off the Grid News | 10 September 2013 The third episode of National Geographic’s Doomsday Castle is full of cringe-worthy moments…

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

• INFOGRAPHIC: NH Hotels Cut Energy Used for Lig ...
  Philips recently reduced the energy consumption of lighting at NH Hotels by 80% by fitting 600 hotel rooms across Europe with 23,500 LED lamps. The lamps are rated to last for up to 45,000 hours, which significantly reduces maintenance costs associated with     
• Adelaide Green Cultural Hub Comes Complete Wit ...
  Due to the relocation of the existing Royal Adelaide Hospital, the South Australian government called for an international competition to take a fresh look at how the existing hospital site could be used. Esan Rahmani collaborated with little Big Design Lab     
• RFID-Controlled Pinch Power Strip Switches Off ...
  The vast majority of us aren't always too quick to turn off our devices every time we leave our desks or walk out of a room. Instead, computer monitors, printers, lamps and the like are either left switched on or on standby, sapping power and wasting money.     
• Bosso Fataka Turns Trash into Playful Art Inst ...
  The group has been collaborating since 2011 and their portfolio of waste artwork already includes an ambitious car hull suspended using 70 rolls of cling wrap between two walls. Lengths of plastic are common to their work: other sculptures they have constructed     
• Dodecado’s Dazzling Light Blocks Let You Creat ...
  Montreal-based Dodecado has created a playful set of sculptural light blocks that can be stacked to create practically any shape you can imagine. The blocks are lit by low-energy LED lights, and they snap together to form gravity-defying arches, towers, and     

WIRED Magazine | Science

• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Dumbbell Nebula
  The Dumbbell Nebula -- also known as Messier 27 or NGC 6853 -- is a typical planetary nebula and is located in the constellation Vulpecula (The Fox). The distance is rather uncertain, but is believed to be around 1200 light-years. ...     
• Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its ...
  Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend. The event, though not unprecedented, is odd considering that our local star has just passed what is supposed to be the peak of its solar cycle, when activity is at ...     
• Factory Food From Above: Satellite Images of I ...
  Seen from a satellite, an industrial feedlot has a sort of abstract beauty. The juxtaposition of dull and bright colors, of organic and rigid geometries, initially obscure the subject. Then comes the realization: that’s where our food comes from. Such ...     
• Beetle Andy Rooney, George Washington Moth: 8 ...
  Researchers at the National Wildlife Federation are a serious bunch, spending their days saving animals and educating the public and studying pressing scientific questions — when, that is, they're not deciding which beetle species looks like Gilbert Godfrey.     
• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Former Martian I ...
  Aram Chaos, the lumpy, bumpy floor of an ancient impact crater on Mars, formed as a result of catastrophic melting and outflow of a buried ice lake. A new study combines observations from satellite photos of the 280-kilometer-wide and 4-kilometer-deep ...     

PakAlert

• Obama Says U.S. Prepared to Strike Iran
  President Obama declared Sunday that the United States is still prepared to act militarily to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons despite the decision to pursue a diplomatic deal and not strike Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons
• Sen. Lindsey Graham to Congress: ‘Let’s Just B ...
  Forget Syria; Lindsey Graham is going straight for Iran. The Republican Senator from South Carolina announced on Saturday that he is going to officially approach Congress to seek military authorization for a strike on Iran to destroy the nation’s nuclear program
• McCain on Syrian Deal: ‘I Think It’s a Loser’
  Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) said he was very skeptical of the deal struck between the U.S. and Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons Sunday on Meet The Press, calling it a “loser” because it depended too much on the Russians acting in good faith
• NY Times Sets Up Putin Peace Plan For Failure
  Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia, right, shook hands on Saturday after making statements following meetings regarding Syria in Geneva. NY Times: U.S. and Russia Reach Deal to Destroy Syria’s Chemical Arms
• Obama welcomes Syria chemical weapons deal but ...
  President Barack Obama has welcomed an agreement to disarm Syria of its chemical arsenal as an "important, concrete" step that could prevent the weapons from being used elsewhere in the world. However, he also signalled that he was still prepared to launch military strikes if the disarmament pla ...

Andy Worthington

• Quarterly Fundraiser: Please Help Me Raise $25 ...
  Please support my work! Dear friends and supporters, It’s that time of the year again. Every three months, I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my ongoing work on Guantánamo and the 164 men still held there. Please click on the “Donate” button above if you can h ...
• Tom Wilner: President Obama Could Close Guantá ...
  The following article was published yesterday on the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates ...
• Ahmed Zuhair, Long-Term Former Hunger Striker ...
  Last week I published an article, “Meet the Guantánamo Prisoner Who Wants to be Prosecuted Rather than Rot in Legal Limbo,” about Sufyian Barhoumi, an Algerian prisoner, following up on an article written by Jess Bravin for the Wall Street Journal and published in July. As I explaine ...
• Disgusting Tory Britain: UN Housing Expert Att ...
  Well, what a lovely place Britain is these days. For the last two weeks, Raquel Rolnik, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on housing, has been visiting the UK to “monitor and promote the realisation of the right to adequate housing,” visiting London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast a ...
• Read My First Article for Al-Jazeera Calling f ...
  Dear friends, I do hope you have time to read my first article for Al-Jazeera English, “It’s time to end the injustice of Guantánamo and Bagram,” in which, the day after the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I run through the story of America’s dreadful innovations in ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• New endocrine disruptor found in bottled water
  Chemistry World commissioned me to report on this new EDC and used a short version of my story. Here’s the full pre-edit. German researchers have used a combination of bioassay work and high-resolution mass spectrometry to pin down the source of endrocrine-disrupting behaviour in 18 bottle ...
• Silver’s gold standards for stats
  Nate Silver’s Statistical Standards: Statistics aren’t just numbers Data requires context Correlation is not causation The average is still the most useful statistical tool ever invented Human intuition can often cause errors when it comes to making statistical judgments and inferenc ...
• Could rhyming save the world?
  Could a rhyming comic book help save the world? The Universe Verse is an illustrated, rhyming ode to science that appeals to the child in anyone, and it’s raising money on Kickstarter.com until Sept 29th. Fun-loving author and illustrator James Lu Dunbar has just launched a fundraising cam ...
• Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
  Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...
• Earth calling Cassini
  People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images. ...

Common Dreams -News

• Obama Admits: Top One Percent Is Winning, Poor ...
  President Barack Obama (Photo: Alexander Vilf/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)Five years after the financial collapse, President Obama admitted Sunday that his administration has overseen a deepening gulf between rich and poor, with 95 percent of all income gains going to the top one percent ...
• Obama Admits: Top One Percent Is Winning, Poor ...
  President Barack Obama (Photo: Alexander Vilf/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)Five years after the financial collapse, President Obama admitted Sunday that his administration has overseen a deepening gulf between rich and poor, with 95 percent of all income gains going to the top one percent ...
• Typhoon Forces Dumping of Radioactive Water at ...
  As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster. ...
• Typhoon Forces Dumping of Radioactive Water at ...
  As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster. ...
• US Maintains Threat of War as UN Confirms Sari ...
  Professor Ake Sellstrom, head of the UN chemical weapons investigation in Syria, handing over the report on the Al-Ghouta massacre to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday Sept. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/United Nations, Paulo Filgueiras) UPDATED (3:05 PM EST): ...

Lifehacker

• Bookend Your Week for Productivity with These ...
  Mondays suck, and Fridays always seem to be a waiting game for the weekend. Reader and Hackerspace author Fred Castagnac has a few recommendations for boosting your productivity—all week long—with these two days as "bookends."Read more...     
• Would you sacrifice features for reliability i ...
  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 ...
• Show Us Your Shaving Kit
  Getting a really good shave is something of an art. It's also a personal thing. What works well for you might not work well for others. But we have to admit, keeping a good shaving kit appeals to the life hackers in us and evokes a sense of nostalgia, as well. No matter what you're using, we'd ...
• The City Explorer Go Bag
  When your life moves throughout the city, you might need to take a lot with you. Reader MinuteDreamer put together a compact go bag filled with tons of useful stuff.Read more...     
• The Best Web Browser for iPhone
  While mobile Safari does most of what you'd need from a smartphone web browser, and there are many alternatives that fill in the gaps, we prefer Chrome. Google's browser offers excellent features, synchronization, and simplicity at no cost.Read more...     

Water Wars

• Fitch Affirms Cobb County-Marietta Water Autho ...
  Fitch Ratings affirms the rating on the following Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority, Georgia's outstanding bonds:
• Water wars
  It is a matter of great concern that around 780 million people around the world do not have access to potable water.
• Pinellas County is a delinquent taxpayer, Pasc ...
  The water wars between Pasco and Pinellas counties may be ancient history, but a new fight is brewing — this time, over property taxes.
• Paula Dockery: Florida’s water wars
  Water issues are back in the news. Florida elected officials are once again vowing to take action and to provide funding for water-related issues.
• Water wars: WUC incurs FCC councillors' wrath
  FRANCISTOWN: Councillors here have blasted the snail's pace approach taken by the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) in solving the water crisis in the city. One councillor, however, deviated from the stance taken by most his colleagues.

WordPress | Economics

• The Difference Between an Inconvenience and a ...
  It was a morning like any other. I dragged my carcass out of bed (I’m not a morning person
• Overpopulation isn't the problem
  Ronald Bailey of Reason highlights an encouraging opinion piece in the New York Times that argues ag
• Income Distribution & You
  The monumental shift in income, population, and home values in Peoria. What was once a “vibran
• Philosophy that Kills...
  Russian kills acquaintance at pub after arguing about Philosopher Immanuel Kant. At first glance thi
• GRAVE ISSUES:
  Well since this blog is going through a transition, Im expecting to change from our frivilious topic

Electronic Intifada

• Brooklyn College battle reveals hidden agenda ...
  Max Blumenthal New York City 12 February 2013 Why are J Street leaders afraid to debate Palestinians advocating a boycott of Israel?
• Biased new study skirts around racism in Israe ...
  Nurit Peled-Elhanan 12 February 2013 Western academics get offended when Palestinians use terms like “colonialism.”
• "I was determined to live with dignity," says ...
  Rami Almeghari Rafah 11 February 2013 Prisoner’s daughter recalls pain of not having her father around on her wedding day.
• Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boyc ...
  Eva Bartlett Gaza Strip 11 February 2013 Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.
• "Gaza is a Bantustan": author Samah Sabawi int ...
  Joe Catron Gaza City 10 February 2013 Playwright and political analyst visits Gaza after 17-year absence.

The Wonk Room

• California Republican Leaders Who Once Voted A ...
  A group of Republican California legislators with a mixed history on immigration reform sent a letter to Congress urging the House to pass reform by the end of the year.The post California Republican Leaders Who Once Voted Against Immigrant Rights, Now Demand Citizenship Pathway appeared first o ...
• NY Times Says Earth Has Unlimited Carrying Cap ...
  In a collective act of media irresponsibility, the New York Times and Washington Post have joined the Wall Street Journal in publishing "don't worry, be happy" articles days before the big UN climate science report will say quite the opposite. The post NY Times Says Earth Has Unlimited Carrying ...
• PHOTOS: The Deadly Toll Of Colorado’s ‘Biblica ...
  The largest airlift operation since Hurricane Katrina is underway as the state braced for more rain on Monday.The post PHOTOS: The Deadly Toll Of Colorado’s ‘Biblical’ Flood, So Far appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
• After Initially Refusing Obamacare’s Medicaid ...
  Tom Corbett (R-PA) becomes the 10th GOP governor to embrace some form of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. If his plan is approved, it could extend health insurance to over 500,000 low-income Pennsylvanians.The post After Initially Refusing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, Pennsylvania’ ...
• On Game Day, Dallas Cowboys Stadium Uses More ...
  How world leaders are trying to fix the problem The post On Game Day, Dallas Cowboys Stadium Uses More Energy Than Liberia appeared first on ThinkProgress.     

thwap's schoolyard

• The Sickening Stupidity of Obama Fans
   "Driftglass" is at it again. In this case, he's apparently elaborating on something that Digby said. Well, let's take care of Digby first. I don't know why it's so important for people to believe that the president is a Jedi Master but he clearly isn't. However he is willing to change cou ...
• The Thoroughly Depressing State of Canadian De ...
  Both the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party have presided over the torture of Canadian citizens. Torture was widespread in Afghanistan. Everyone knows this. But the thing about crimes against humanity (it appears) is that they're not really that big a deal. It seems that you can even witne ...
• DARK
  The thing about Tim and Eric is that they present failure so gut-wrenchingly real that you have to admire their artistry. The failure looks so real, but it isn't, because no two guys could fail so convincingly is so many different ways. All that having been said, the following two characters are ...
• Protecting Mayor Stupid
   So Toronto's incompetent buffoon of a crack-head continues to get protection from facing the consequences of his criminal hypocrisy: The Crown recently provided lawyers for the media (reporters are not yet allowed to see the material, or report it) with an 119-page police document, of wh ...
• The Stuff You Find Out On The Inter-Toobz!
  Here's excerpts from a 1978 season of "The Dating Game" where one of the eligible bachelors would later be found to have been a prolific serial killer: Here's what Wikipedia has to say about that: In 1978, despite his status as a convicted rapist and registered sex offender, Alcala was accepte ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• NDP endorses ICAN nuclear weapons ban!
  New Democrats support a comprehensive nuclear weapons convention for Canada.
• No war on Syria! Send your letter to the editor
  If you oppose war, then now is the time to take action. Please write to the editor of your local newspaper, voicing your opposition to an assault on Syria.
• Asian pivot advocated for RCN
  A number of Canadian defence analysts are advocating that the Royal Canadian Navy shift its focus from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to counter the growing power of China's naval forces.
• Why it’s the moment for diplomacy in Syria
  Steven Staples in Now Magazine on why diplomacy is needed in Syria, and how Canada can take action.
• What should be done about the Syrian civil war?
  How should the world respond to the unfolding events in Syria? What can Canada do?

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-13-13
  Today, Kevin explains how every single person in America is technically breaking the law and how the IRS could take advantage of it. Plus, the author of Undateable, Anne Coyle, stops by to reveal the secret list of over 311 things that perfectly eligible guys manage to wear, say, or do to make t ...
• Boost & Strengthen Your Immune System
  There are certain products that I endorse and recommend for anti-aging.  There are certain products that I endorse and recommend to change the way you think. And there are certain products that I travel with all the time. I always, always have Silver Hydrosol with me. I also pack Royal Velvet an ...
• You Are What You Eat
  Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel, your energy, your sleep, your skin, and your digestion.  So, a lot of people come up to me and ask, “Kevin, what should I eat? What do YOU eat?” The simplest answer is number one; always avoid high fructose corn [...]
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-3-13
  Today, Kevin goes into why the government has banned him from every Fox News network, every Disney owned television station and even USA Today & TIME Magazine! Get the latest news you won’t hear from those news sources! 100% of Non-Organic Chickens Carry Deadly Bacteria Secrets to Boost Your ...
• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-13
  Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Syria – Problems Remain
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSyria – Problems Remain “Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of US Naval Operations, was evacuated from his residence at the Navy Yard complex shortly after the first report of shots fired…” A ...
• Top Comments on CNN Navy Yard Shooting Coverag ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTop Comments on CNN Navy Yard Shooting Coverage Already Calling for Complete Gun Ban Frenzied readers already begin calls to disarm America following shooting in gun free zone DC Anthony Gucciardi Prison Planet.com Septe ...
• Legacy of US Empire: Worthless dollars, garbag ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comLegacy of US Empire: Worthless dollars, garbage & Prozac addiction youtube.com Watch the full Keiser Report E498 on Tuesday! In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, discuss economic espion ...
• Andy Warhol Halloween: “There’s a Franken-Fly ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAndy Warhol Halloween: “There’s a Franken-Fly in my Fish-Gene Tomato Soup and I Can’t Get Up!” dissidentvoice.orgBy Paul Haeder We had a gathering — public meeting — in Ellensburg, WA, looking at the known an ...
• Continually Updated: 12 Dead In Mass Shooting ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comContinually Updated: 12 Dead In Mass Shooting at Navy Yard; Gunman Identified as Aaron Alexis Multiple victims shot in ‘gun free zone’ Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com September 16, 2013 Police can't ...

Dandelion Salad

• Despite All Our Rage, We Are Still Just Debt S ...
  Dandelion Salad by David DeGraw EvolveSociety September 17, 2013 It’s been two years since years of hard work, dedication and frustration finally erupted into mass protests that swept across the globe on an unprecedented scale, and briefly awakened the propagandized masses. Our unjust economic s ...
• Shooting at Washington DC Navy Yard Leaves Sev ...
  Dandelion Salad RT on Sep 16, 2013 As many as 12 people have been wounded, and an unconfirmed number killed, following a Monday morning outburst at Washington Navy Yard near downtown DC. Police have sealed off the area, but shooters reportedly remain at large. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES: http://on.rt.c ...
• E is for Earned Income by Michael Hudson
  by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com September 16, 2013 Part E in the Insider’s Economic Dictionary. Earned income: Wages or profits earned by labor or capital for their role in producing goods and services. As such, earned income excludes economic rent and interest, whic ...
• Huge Thanks to All the Flickr Photographers wi ...
  by Lo editor, Dandelion Salad September 15, 2013 Truly a huge thank you to all the photographers on Flickr with Creative Commons licenses on their photos. The photos add of course, a visual aspect to the blog posts but I use them for editorial reasons, too. Readers, please click the photos from ...
• Obama: Crowding Out America by Ralph Nader
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page September 13, 2013 Short of an ongoing hot war, the imbroglio over the proposed bombing of Syria has occupied the precious time of President Obama, and therefore the mass media, unlike anything else on his plate. Moreover, it portends absorbing much ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Dumbbell Nebula
  The Dumbbell Nebula -- also known as Messier 27 or NGC 6853 -- is a typical planetary nebula and is located in the constellation Vulpecula (The Fox). The distance is rather uncertain, but is believed to be around 1200 light-years. ...     
• Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its ...
  Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend. The event, though not unprecedented, is odd considering that our local star has just passed what is supposed to be the peak of its solar cycle, when activity is at ...     
• Factory Food From Above: Satellite Images of I ...
  Seen from a satellite, an industrial feedlot has a sort of abstract beauty. The juxtaposition of dull and bright colors, of organic and rigid geometries, initially obscure the subject. Then comes the realization: that’s where our food comes from. Such ...     
• Beetle Andy Rooney, George Washington Moth: 8 ...
  Researchers at the National Wildlife Federation are a serious bunch, spending their days saving animals and educating the public and studying pressing scientific questions — when, that is, they're not deciding which beetle species looks like Gilbert Godfrey.     
• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Former Martian I ...
  Aram Chaos, the lumpy, bumpy floor of an ancient impact crater on Mars, formed as a result of catastrophic melting and outflow of a buried ice lake. A new study combines observations from satellite photos of the 280-kilometer-wide and 4-kilometer-deep ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: Why the Israel-Palestine ‘negoti ...
  The negotiations provide a cover for Israel's takeover of the territories it wishes to control and should spare the United States some further embarrassment at the UN. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go ...
• Noam Chomsky weighs in on Syria strike
  "As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Noam Chomsky: Israel’s West Bank plans will le ...
  One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will be reached, or there will be a "shift to a nearly inevitable outcome of the one remaining reality -- a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Assaf Kfoury: The background to the July 3, 20 ...
  The greatest illusion about the cataclysmic events shaking Egypt is that, during the truncated one-year presidency of Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian military had been forced to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• IOA status update
  After nearly five years of operation, the IOA website is suspending regular content uploads. Having started immediately after Israel’s attack on Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009, the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

• 18th century political thinking in the 21st
  In 2006 Matthew Yglesias posted “The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics” at the now-defunct site TPM Café. He wrote how he enjoyed reading Green Lantern comic books and briefly explained how the power rings from the series worked, then added:But a lot of people seem to think that A ...
• Shoddy gun paper excites right wing
  There is new interest in a 2007 study by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser. “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” was published in Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy and has been cited recently on a number of political blogs, message boards, even on a popular ...
• A brief review of bad reporting
  Ever since Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s first story on NSA surveillance back in June there have been various attempts to discredit him. Most has been garden variety stuff, the kind of thing it’s usually better to ignore lest it get more oxygen. A post by BooMan earlier thi ...
• Additional planks for the platform
  On Monday lambert posted a call for a re-formulated 12-word platform; Tuesday I responded with what I tentatively called the Bumper Sticker Platform (BSP). These may be two slightly different things though. My goal is to create a campaign slogan - something that easily fits on a sign or bumper ...
• Bumper Sticker Platform, 2013 edition
  On a Saturday morning a few years ago I dashed off a quick caffeine-fueled post that tried to formulate a simple but substantive platform for the left. It was partially a reaction to the prior couple years of conservative rhetoric. During the 2008 campaign the right insisted Barack Obama was a ...

Organic Consumers.org

• EPA Okays BPA, Rejects Public's Right-To-Know
  Among several "chemicals of concern" recently removed from a list of proposed regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency, Bisphenol A, a neurotoxin and endocrine disruptor that also damages DNA, has been banned in several other nations and in eleven US states.Click here to read this article
• Opponents of Genetically Modified Foods Assail ...
  Food safety advocates are assailing House Republicans for including a controversial carve-out for biotechnology companies in a government funding bill. Click here to read this article
• Organic Canola Oil; Is That an Oxymoron?
  First of all, if canola oil is processed from rapeseed oil, which is highly toxic to humans, can canola legitimately be labeled "organic," just because the farmers aren't using pesticides or chemical fertilizers? Let's go back to the drawing board on this one and figure this out before we all co ...
• Victories Come in All Sizes
  I was electrified, and my own trajectory in life changed, by the antiwar movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. That experience, those years, mobilized me. They shocked me -- quite literally -- about what my country was capable of. Click here to read this article
• The Fight for Mercury-Free Dentistry Is Now In ...
  Today we begin the third Mercury-free Dentistry Week. We set aside an entire week for three reasons.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• CDC Sounds the Alarm—Where Is the FDA?
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a report outlining the dire consequences of antibiotic resistance for public health and the economy. The agency now reports that antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause more than two million serious infections and 23,000 deaths in t ...
• CLF Week in Links: China, Pink Slime, Farm Bil ...
  Debbie Stabenow and the rest of the Senate Agriculture Committee appear to be ignoring the glaring reality that China will get the pork and the American public will get the mess of concentrated waste, intolerable odor, pollution of air, water, and soil and the associated environmental harms of t ...
• Hands On in the Community: Notes from a Dietet ...
  I’m Bernice. I love the first day of school. This week was the start of a new school year at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and as a second-year student in the coordinated Masters of Science in Public Health and Dietetics program in the middle of her dietetic internship, I ...
• CLF Week in Links: Fewer Crops, Fish, and M&Ms
  The Obama administration is seeking $40 million in additional funding for CDC in fiscal year 2014 to address outbreaks—but how likely is a boost of funding at any agency?
• WWF’s Farmed Salmon Certification Initiative: ...
  The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new campaign relating to salmon aquaculture—but if the organization is partnering with corporations, how successful will it really be? WWF’s partnerships with various corporations to foster sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices are part of ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Email scam hits NZ: We are all Nigerians now
  Email scam hits NZ: We are all Nigerians now.
• Breaking news: leaked IPCC climate report admi ...
  Breaking news: leaked IPCC climate report admits ‘we got it wrong’.
• World’s top atheist Richard Dawkins defends ‘m ...
  World’s top atheist Richard Dawkins defends ‘mild pedophilia’.
• Auckland – The Super (Expensive) City
  Auckland – The Super (Expensive) City.
• Edgy new ‘Murder a Drink’ promo pitches wine a ...
  Edgy new ‘Murder a Drink’ promo pitches wine as health food to young people. Edgy new ‘Murder a Drink’ promo pitches wine as health food to young people

My Care2 Picks

• Public "Education" has become indoctrination a ...
  School is about memorizing what you are told short term and repeating it. his is for the work force the most important quality in a worker bee actually is obedience. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Waste Heat Recovery Device Can Increase Car Mi ...
  Physicists at the University of Houstons physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovative waste heat recovery device that can increase car mileage by 5%. Submitted by Alex Clark to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
• A Lesson Learned
  Melissa M.H This story brought tears to my eyes - Although my kids are considerate and thankful most times - I'm sure they would have benefited even more so with a lesson like this Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Is a Mini-Fukushima Happening in Florida? - Th ...
  Many of us have heard of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which is currently leaking radioactive water into the ground, as well as into the ocean. Less well-known, however, is the crisis happening right now in South Florida... Submitted by Day R. to Environment  |   Note-it! &nbs ...
• Vaccines Uncensored - your right to a critical ...
  The other side of the story Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

• Farmers still Suffering from Bt Resistant Root ...
  New evidence from two Illinois farms shows that even integrated pest management strategies such as crop rotation are unable to stave off the spread of Bt pest resistance to genetically modified (GM) Bt corn.
• GMO Alfalfa – A War of Attrition
  Even GMO-free is not necessarily or will not necessarily be 100% GMO-free when contamination rises to the level that everything living thing is affected.
• CVS Flu Shot Kills 23 Seniors
  Seniors targeted with high dose flu vaccine - death statistics covered up.
• Is This What Martial Law Will Look Like?
  The city of Tallahassee is presently facing a lawsuit involving Christina West, a 44-year-old woman, who was subjected to extreme police brutality and unnecessary use of force by police officers during a standard DUI arrest. Readers should keep in mind that Christina West is 5’6″ and weighs 130 lbs.
• Heirloom Organics Seeds 50% off Entire Line!
  End of summer sale - 50% off all packs of Organic Heirloom seeds.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste in ...
  ShareThisExxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste in Pennsylvania 11 Sep 2013 Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest energy company [terrorist group], was charged with illegally dumping more than 50,000 gallons (189,000 liters) of wastewater at a shale-gas drilling site in Pennsylvania. Exxon ...
• Man arrested in front of White House
  ShareThisMan arrested in front of White House 16 Sep 2013 The Secret Service has arrested a man for tossing firecrackers over a fence at the White House. A federal law enforcement official says the shoeless man was immediately arrested Monday. An Associated Press photographer heard what sounded ...
• Agencies Participate in Homeland Security Exer ...
  ShareThisAgencies Participate in Homeland Security Exercise in Key West --Exercise will be used to see how agencies respond to homeland security-related incident near Key West 16 Sep 2013 (FL) More than a dozen local, state and federal agencies will be participating in a homeland security exerci ...
• US-Russia reach landmark deal on destruction o ...
  ShareThisUS-Russia reach landmark deal on destruction of Syria chemical weapons arsenal 15 Sep 2013 Russia and the United States reached a deal on a framework that will see the destruction or removal of Syria's chemical weapons by mid-2014. Under the plan, the Assad government has one week to h ...
• Suspected Navy Yard gunman was in Reserves at ...
  ShareThisSuspected Navy Yard gunman was in Reserves at Fort Worth base --During his service, Alexis was awarded the National Defense Service Medal and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. 16 Sep 2013 A 34-year-old former Naval reserves officer from Fort Worth – who was once arrested for firin ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
  02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...
• Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
  02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...
• Afghanistan to Syria
  30 August 2013 Before reading my Monday dispatch on Syria, please read this previous dispatch from Afghanistan. British Member of Parliament Adam Holloway is a prominent figure in both. There be Dragons.
• Afghanistan to Syria
  30 August 2013 Before reading my Monday dispatch on Syria, please read this previous dispatch from Afghanistan. British Member of Parliament Adam Holloway is a prominent figure in both. There be Dragons.
• Monkey Business: Our Broken Army
  20 August 2013 The senior sergeant at the Army’s Warrior Adventure Quest (WAQ) at Fort Hood has been fired after allegedly endangering the lives of Boy Scouts. The accusation comes from a staff member at WAQ who claims that the Army Master Sergeant abused his position while using Army kayaks ...

The Killing Train

• Tarek and John are on hunger strike
  Canadians detained in Egypt refuse food to protest the arbitrary nature of their detention September 16, 2013 12:00pm For immediate release – Canadian filmmaker, John Greyson, and emergency room physician, Tarek Loubani, have informed friends and supporters through their Egyptian lawyers that ...
• Update on John and Tarek: Detention extended again
  Sept 15/13, 3pm After a brief meeting in Tora prison, where Canadians John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have been held for the past 30 days, the Cairo district prosecutor, Mohamed Heta, announced today that he would extend their detention period for a further 15 days. Egyptian authorities have not ...
• Update on John and Tarek: No decision, no release
  September 5, 11pm Tarek and John had another visit from consulars and from our lawyers yesterday. We have heard more about how they are doing, which continues to be summarized as "good health and high spirits", although they have now been in for about three weeks, entirely at the prosecutor's di ...
• Update on John and Tarek: Met with prosecutor, ...
  August 30, 8:30am This morning, the district prosecutor in Cairo met with our lawyers, staff from the Canadian Embassy, and John and Tarek. This was the meeting that had been set for Thursday. The prosecutor said his own investigation was continuing and he was waiting for additional information ...
• Update: Prosecutor did not appear, no hearing ...
  Aug 29, 2013, 11am After waiting the entire day outside the prison, and with curfew approaching, our lawyers had to leave as the prosecutor had not arrived by the end of the day. Tarek and John remain in prison. No word has come about rescheduling their appearance before the prosecutor. No other ...

treehugger

• Entire village in India relocates so Nature ca ...
  Humans are skilled at taming the wild, but letting the wild take back over may be our greatest ability of all.
• Modular smartphone concept snaps together like ...
  Could a universal modular smartphone platform give us a sustainable phone for the future?
• Houston's 1.2 million dog problem
  Despite a growing economy, Texas' largest city has a big problem with stray dogs.
• BMW unveils production i8 plug-in hybrid (94 M ...
  BMW's electric vehicle strategy keeps unfolding.
• 100% nuclear free: Japan shuts down its last r ...
  On Monday (Sunday locally), Japan switched off the last of its operating nuclear reactors and became 100% nuclear-free.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• BUSINESS WEEKLY
  This week: Gold price resettles; 'Made in Burma' Nissans on the way; Apple launches in Rangoon; Central Bank considers cutting interest rates; and govt invites tender bids for Kyaukphyu economic zone.
• Burma agrees to let in UN nuclear weapons insp ...
  Burma has reportedly agreed to give UN weapons inspectors wider access to facilities that could be used to develop nuclear technology, according to the world’s leading nuclear watchdog.
• Suu Kyi wishes Burmese to be ‘rich in hope’
  As keynote speaker at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague, Suu Kyi spoke of the difficulties in Burma's path to reform and the need to face them with 'open eyes'.
• President Thein Sein meets 88 Generation leaders
  Burmese President Thein Sein met with leaders of Burma’s pro-democracy 88 Generation Students group for the first time on Sunday in a bid to promote political reform in the former pariah nation.
• China pledges, Burma dredges
  A Chinese company delivered 19 dredgers to Burma on Saturday to help improve the country's waterways.

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