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Telegraph - Climate Change

  • EU policy on climate change is right even if s ...
    Regardless of whether or not scientists are wrong on global warming, the European Union is pursuing the correct energy policies even if they lead to higher prices, Europe's climate commissioner has said. 
    ( We are right even when we are wrong. There's a faith based statement and a half.  You can be sure logic plays no part in such an announcement. )   
  • Top climate scientists admit global warming fo ...
    Top climate scientists have admitted that their global warming forecasts are wrong and world is not heating at the rate they claimed it was in a key report.     
  • 'Hack the planet to counter climate change,' s ...
    Hacking the planet's climate could buy the world time to develop cleaner sources of energy to counter global warming, one of Britain's most senior scientists has claimed.     
  • Harrison Ford upsets Indonesian government
    Actor accused of subjecting Indonesia's forestry minister a rude interview and "harassing state institutions", during the filming of a climate change documentary.     

ReDress News

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Prophets and Whistleblowers
    I was in shul tonight and frankly I daydream a lot during the parts of the service that are less than inspiring.  I got to thinking about the role of prophets in Jewish tradition.  But not just any prophet.  A specific kind of prophet: one who offers witness to the moral failings of the ruler [& ...
  • Chemical Weapons and Moral Hypocrisy
    While the Syrian regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons is a criminal act if true, and deserving of prosecution before the International Criminal Court–let’s not all become moral hypocrites on the subject.  Most major military powers have chemical weapons.  Some have even use ...
  • NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Data on U.S. Citiz ...
    Glenn Greenwald drops another bombshell today, revealing that the NSA shares vast amounts of unfiltered data with Israeli intelligence. The data is raw, meaning the U.S. doesn’t review it to ensure no information from or about U.S. citizens, or even government officials, is included. That ...
  • Support Tikun Olam
    Today, I received the bill from my webhost, WordPress Engine, for the coming year’s worth of hosting: $990.  Those who know something about hosting will say: “that’s a ton of money.”  True.  But for a site that’s been hacked once and brought down by a DOS attack ano ...
  • Conceding the Inevitable, Obama’s Backs Down
    I have to admit, I thought tonight’s speech was going to go in a different direction: I figured that Obama would essentially concede a temporary defeat, but ask Congress to give him the authority to attack Syria after a certain period of time if it didn’t hand over it chemical weapon ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Fan appreciation day
    This Deadspin story provides as good of an excuse as any to once again enjoy the wit and wisdom of Lee Elia: (Not suitable for younger or more sensitive listeners).     
  • Unreasonableness in Academia, Example 9,710
    Chris Blattman of Columbia University. To be clear, I like Blattman’s work on the internet a lot. But if you are prioritizing blogging and tweeting over graduate students, I’m not sure I can get behind those choices.     
  • Foreign Entanglements: Incredible Commitments
    On the latest Foreign Entanglements, Matt and I discuss issues of reputation and credibility:     
  • Grady Little Is Alive And Managing In Kansas City
    Maybe it’s me, but if a manager’s previous employer was compelled to fire him in mid-September while his team was holding a playoff spot, he’s probably not someone you want managing your team during a pennant race.  If the argument for hiring him is that he’s good with yo ...
  • Today’s #Foxpitch: Racism is over, too!
    Because the new Miss America can’t be a “Real American.” Just look at how brown she is compared to that Miss Kansas!     

Desert Research Institute

  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • A century of human impact on Arctic climate in ...
    New study authored by Canadian and American investigators and published in Nature Scientific Reports indicates that both anthropogenic and natural factors account for Arctic surface temperature variations from 1900 to the present. Read more...
  • Nevada researchers collaborate to preserve Lak ...
    From Tahoe's mountaintops to the lake's sandy bottom, scientists from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. Read more...
  • New ice core data helps explain Antarctica's l ...
    New, annually resolved ice-core measurements collected from West Antarctica and  partially developed by researchers at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute show warming in Antarctica began approximately 4,000 years earlier than previoulsy suggested. Read more...
  • Celebrating DRI’s unique Storm Peak Laboratory
    On Friday, August 9th in Steamboat Springs, Colorado DRI will celebrate nearly $1 million in upgrades and renovations to the Institute’s high-elevation, mountain-top atmospheric sciences lab, and honor Steamboat Ski Resort with DRI’s 2014 President’s Medal.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Raging Battle Over Copyright
    Frank "Peter" Petrella helped World Middleweight champion Jake LaMotta teach actor Robert De Niro how to box for the Academy Award-winning film, Raging Bull. Now Petrella's daughter is taking those fight lessons into a different arena—the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Nation's Judges Appeal to Obama for Help in Bu ...
    In a rare public appeal directed at the White House, the Judicial Conference is asking President Barack Obama to be a forceful voice in favor of increased funding for the judicial branch in impending budget battles.
  • Delaware's the Hot New Venue for Patent Litigation
    Patent case filings in Delaware federal court have spiked this year—1,015 as of September 10, compared with 995 in all of 2012, according to analysis released Monday by Perkins Coie patent litigation partner James Pistorino.
  • Ali's Supreme Court Fight Hits the Screen in N ...
    A new HBO movie about Muhammad Ali's legal battle against the military draft sheds rare cinematic light on the inner workings of the Supreme Court.
  • Firm Objects to Criticisms of its Handling of ...
    A Virginia law firm plans to object to a special master's criticism of its role in the distribution of claims on the $9.6 billion settlement with BP PLC over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • America's Cup Defense, 2013
    Anyone who thought the rules of American football were complex should avoid racing boats at all costs. But this year's action in San Francisco Bay has been exciting even if you don't know your windward from your leeward.
  • Tiwa Community Opposes Prospect of New Hydro E ...
    Both the Tiwa organizations have also claimed that vast areas of Nagaon, Morigaon and Kamrup district will also face disastrous situation whenever excess water is released from the project due to inundation caused by artificial deluge.
  • MPs Call for 'Probe' Into The Massacre At Camp ...
    The speakers in the Westminster conference strongly condemned the appalling Ashraf massacre and said the Iraqi government must be held to account.
  • New Machine to Diagnose TB Within Two Hours
    Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) and also getting to know with accuracy about resistance to one of the two most powerful anti-TB drugs (Rifampicin) is increasingly becoming a reality on the ground.
  • US and Russia Collaborating to Eliminate Syria ...
    In his remarks with with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva in Switzerland, US Secretary of State John Kerry says US and Russia had series of disagreements about the situation in Syria.

environment 360

  • Canadian Scientists Fight Back Against Governm ...
    Recent rules silencing government researchers in Canada are sparking protests in 16 major cities, the Guardian reports. The Harper administration over the past few years has ordered scientists at Canada's National Research Council, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and other government research agenc ...
  • Warmer Ocean Water Is Key Factor in Melting I ...
    Recent research into one of West Antarctica's most rapidly melting glaciers and ice shelves has shown that rising ocean temperatures and a series of channels lacing the underside of NASA Edge of Pine Island ice sheet the shelf are the key factors in the rapid thinning of the shelf and t ...
  • Migration of Trees Is Not Keeping Pace with Wa ...
    Most tree species in the U.S. aren't migrating northward as rapidly as predicted in response to climate change, a new study says. Looking at 65 species across Brian Stansberry Kilmer Forest, North Carolina 31 eastern states, the team found no consistent, northward migration of tree s ...
  • Finding a Better Message onThe Risks of Climat ...
    To overcome polarization on the issue of climate change, Yale professor Dan Kahan says in an interview with e360, scientists and the media need to frame the science in ways that will resonate with the public. A message that makes people feel threatened, he says, simply will not be effective. ...
  • Counterpoint: Scientists Offer A Dissenting Vi ...
    Ecologists Daniel Simberloff, of the University of Tennessee, and Donald Strong, of the University of California, Davis, have written a critical appraisal of a recent Yale Environment 360 article by Fred Pearce about Ascension Island. In their critique, the two scientists contend that Pearce fai ...

Red Ice Creations

  • NASA probe hears "shriek" in space as it leave ...
    A strange, unearthly “shriek” greeted NASA’s Voyager I spacecraft as it became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. A strange rising “howl” was detected by instruments aboard the 36-year-old probe, which has travelled 12 billion miles away from our sun. The sound was transmitte ...
  • Ancient Road Leading to Stonehenge Found
    Scientists have uncovered a portion of an ancient path that may have led to Stonehenge. While dismantling a modern road that runs near Stonehenge, the archaeologists uncovered two ditches found to be remnants of an ancient pathway called the avenue. Archaeologists have known of the avenue and su ...
  • UN determines chemical weapons use in Syria
    If anyone had hopes or illusions that the United Nations report on chemical weapons in Syria would help diffuse global tensions, today’s revelations should shatter those ideas. The UN has announced that the use of chemical weapons is a war crime, and there is overwhelming evidence they were used ...
  • The Most Beautiful Dead: Photographs of Europe ...
    The afterlife is just more elegant for some of us. In a state of repose in churches around Germany, Switzerland, and Austria are these jeweled skeletons ornately decked out for their eternal rest. Yet despite their fascinating garb, they have been almost forgotten. A new book coming out this Oct ...
  • Attenborough: "I believe the Abominable Snowma ...
    The respected naturalist and broadcaster thinks the legendary Yeti could really exist and be living in the Himalayan Mountains David Attenborough believes that the Yeti – or Abominable Snowman – may be real. The world-renowned naturalist and broadcaster says he thinks the creature of Himalayan l ...

Not My Tribe

  • Springs Democrats hope democracy loses to Stat ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO- International news headlines read “G-20 Summit Overshadowed by Syrian Crisis” but not in Colorado Springs! Here every politically active Democrat was working to defeat a recall of state senate leader John Morse, a democrat though barely. Morse is a duly elected, ...
  • What Does Democracy Look Like? Not likely the ...
    I attended Occupy Denver’s forum “What Does Democracy Look Like?” this weekend to hear activist scholars of considerable repute throw in their two cents. The first day was a splendid gathering, except where a curated discussion of intentional community lapsed straight to theolo ...
  • Bored Oklahoma teen murder suspects not bored ...
    Bored Oklahoma teens who shot a random jogger in the back are being tried as adults not juveniles because “it was an adult crime”; though killing while bored seems a juvenile crime by definition. So does immediately confessing a motive, “we were bored,” to the police, it ...
  • If Syria could defend itself would these color ...
    So there’s a little good news as the ambush of Syria gains momentum. It’s unlikely to be true, but let’s indulge ourselves for a mo. It’s being reported that Russia will jump to Syria’s defense by attacking the Saudis, and that Iran would retaliate against Israel. B ...
  • No! No War On Syria! Bad Dog of War! Bad Dog! ...
    The carnage in Syria should “shock our conscience” really? It’s fraternity hazing compared to US collateral atrocities. And how simply grotesque for an American statesman to accuse anyone of “moral obscenity”. Is the USG so sure another Maning or Snowden isn’t ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Response to Mechanical Engineer "tfk" at JREF
    By John-Michael Talboo and Scootle Royal Intro - Update to last section coming soon. What follows is a much belated response (due to still totally unresolved formatting difficulties and laziness) to mechanical engineer "tfk" - to counter his responses to John-Michael's post, "One ...
  • ReThink911 in Action - Clarion Pennsylvania
    ReThink911 New York Times Square Billboard. Photo by Scott Star.    9/11 Family Members and 2,000+ Architects and Engineers Ask That You ReThink 9/11      
  • Millette Chip Study Debunked and Buried: RIP
    When Dr. Millette´s preliminary report first saw the light of day in February 2012 - about 18 months ago - the JREF crowd heralded the report as the ultimate debunking of Harrit et al.(2009) who document the discovery of active thermitic chips in the WTC dust. When Rev. Chris Mohr delivered the ...
  • 9/11 Family Members and 2,000+ Architects and ...
    http://rethink911.org http://911debunkers.blogspot.com Thousands Of Victims' Family Members Believe 9/11 Was An Inside Job: http://911blogger.com/news/2006-09-22/thousands-victims-family-members-believe-911-was-inside-job UPDATE: Architects and Engineers For 911 Truth- More than 2000* Buil ...
  • Dave Thomas Pulls Iron Spheres Out Of His Hat
    The James Randi Educational Foundation was allegedly founded to promote critical thinking and to challenge suspected charlatans. A good way to put pseudo-scientists to shame is to ask them to provide valid data that can be published in a journal, or stay silent. But as many have observed, the me ...

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Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • EU beef imports threaten uncontacted Indians
    Yaguarete has bulldozed a new track (labelled 'picada identificada' on this photo) through uncontacted Indians' forest. They plan to clear everything to the right of this track.© GATForest inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay is being destroyed to make way for cattle desti ...
  • Awá: Top human rights watchdog demands answers ...
    The Awá tribe is being driven towards extinction by Brazil's failure to protect its forest. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has demanded answers from the Brazilian government about the plight of the ...
  • Access case dismissed – Final end for Bushman ...
    Botswana's High Court has dealt a blow to the Kalahari Bushmen which could spell the end of the tribe's way of life. © Survival InternationalBotswana’s High Court has thrown out an attempt by the Kalahari Bushmen to gain free access to their ancestral land, raising fears that thi ...
  • 'Private militia' firm ordered to close over G ...
    Gaspem is accused of killing at least two Guarani leaders, including Nísio Gomes© SurvivalBrazil’s Public Prosecutors have called for the closure of a notorious security firm accused of carrying out at least eight brutal attacks on Guarani communities, and of killing at least two of their ...
  • Sámi protest against British mining company
    Sweden's Sámi people are protesting against iron ore mining on their lands.© Johan Sandberg McGuinne/SurvivalSwedish police have broken up a protest by Sámi men and women protesting against iron ore mining in a crucial reindeer herding area in the Swedish Arctic Circle. The Sámi and other ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Review: Top Story Mother Kills Tw ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. TOP STORY: Mother kills two children--one was autistic Sept 14, 2013, ABC 15 Scottsdale, AZ: 2 children found dead in Orange County, California hotel room Sept 15, 2013, ABC 15 Scottsdale,...
  • AofA Science Summary: A Review of Traditional ...
    We would like to thank our friends at AutismOne for providing this paper to Age of Autism and supporting this type of scientific progress A review of traditional and novel treatments for seizures in autism spectrum disorder: findings from a...
  • Tampa Fundraiser for Canary Kids Documentary o ...
    You are cordially invited to ‘A Night Out... For Our Canaries’ to benefit the making of Canary Kids [A Film For Our Children] at Maestro's Restaurant, Straz Center in Tampa, FL. About the Canary Kids Project We are taking seven...
  • CDC Pushes Flu Shots For Disabled: Autism Spea ...
    By Teresa Conrick CDC has a new page freshly out on Friday the 13th. In it, CDC tries to make the case that, “Among the most vulnerable for influenza-related conditions are children with neurologic conditions,” said Anne Schuchat, director of...
  • The End?
    By Cathy Jameson Just when I think I’ve helped everyone I thought I could, I haven’t. Not that it’s my job, or that I get paid to help others; it’s just part of my nature to help, especially when the...

Global BDS Movement

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.

new geography

  • City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most ...
    People care deeply about where they live. If you ever doubt that, remember this: they staged massive protests over a park in Istanbul. Gezi Park near Taksim Square is one of that ancient city’s most beloved spots. So in June, when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to demolish ...
  • Is Portugal Facing a “Shortage Of Japanese"?
    “So, about the slow growth/debt connection: I’ve done a quick and dirty mini-RR for the period 1950-2007 ……focusing only on the G7……and if you look at it, you see that most of the apparent relationship is coming from Italy and Japan……And it’s quite clear from the history tha ...
  • America's True Power In The NAFTA Century
    OK, I get it. Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama we have made complete fools of ourselves on the international stage, outmaneuvered by petty lunatics and crafty kleptocrats like Russia’sVladimir Putin. Some even claim we are witnessing “an erosion of world influence” equal ...
  • The Consequences of Urban Containment
    Recently published research by Brian N. Jansen and Edwin S. Mills represents notable addition to the already rich academic literature that associates more stringent land use regulation with higher house prices. The analysis is unusually comprehensive and its conclusions indicate greater cons ...
  • What Triggers a Civic Turnaround?
    Lots of cities in America are struggling with low population growth and sluggish economies. Poor demographics and economics lead to fiscal problems that result in more people and businesses leaving, perpetuating a downward spiral. Detroit, which recently filed bankruptcy, is an extreme c ...

water.org

  • Water + Toilets = Opportunity
    In rural parts of Assam, women are skilled at weaving cotton garments such as shawls, dresses and hand towels. Most of them weave on a small scale during their free time. With access to water and sanitation facilities in their households, more and more women are coming forward and taking up weav ...
  • Edme's Long Walk
    Three-to-four times a day, Edme hikes nearly an hour round-trip to bring five gallons (about 40lb.) of unsafe water to her mountainous home.
  • A new Pump Ousts Cholera
    Booz Jean-Michel's home of Bayas, Haiti was hit hard by cholera, but sanitation education and a new, clean water source brought health to both his community and his family.
  • A Toilet Brings Opportunity
    Chaudamma and her husband, Gangadhar, run a tea and snacks stall in their village. Chaudamma also makes earthen pots and mud idols of the Hindu God to sell in her shop. As the Hindu festival of Lord Ganesha is round the corner, she has just received a huge contract to make 200-300 idols of diffe ...
  • Blog: A new well in Haiti
    The last week of July, I visited the central plateau of Haiti, to attend an event in the small community of Belanje. With the energy of excitement and ceremony in the air, you could mistake the event for a wedding or church revival, but that's not the case. Instead, we're here to open and dedica ...

Cryptogon

  • Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. ...
    Via: Huntington Post: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War. The ...
  • More Details on Claims SAS Assassinated Diana
    Via: 7News: A former soldier told his wife Princess Diana was murdered by the SAS after they shone a light into her driver’s face, according to reports in the British media. The ex-SAS sergeant, who is only referred to as Soldier N, is reported to have told his then-wife a former member of the e ...
  • Recovery: More Americans Identify Themselves a ...
    Via: Los Angeles Times: Roquemore is among the small but surging share of Americans who identify themselves as “lower class.” Last year, a record 8.4% of Americans put themselves in that category — more than at any other time in the four decades that the question has been asked on th ...
  • Global Credit Situation Worse than Pre-Lehman
    Via: Telegraph: Extreme forms of credit excess across the world have reached or surpassed levels seen shortly before the Lehman crisis five years ago, the Bank for International Settlements has warned. Extreme forms of credit excess across the world have reached or surpassed levels seen shortly ...
  • ‘Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on I ...
    Via: Spiegel: The United States’ NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division. The N ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 [...]

Desertification

  • UNCCD COP11 (IISD)
    Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP11) “A stronger UNCCD for a Land-Degradation Neutral World” 16-27 September 2013 | Windhoek, Namibia http://www.iisd.ca/desert/cop11/ UNCCD COP11 will take place from 16-27 September & ...
  • Vegetation coverage has expanded by 20 percent ...
    Read at : http://www.defence.pk/forums/china-far-east/268923-xinhua-insight-chinas-desertification-reversed-through-constant-efforts.html Xinhua Insight: China’s desertification reversed through constant efforts KUBUQI, Inner Mongolia, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — After prolonged efforts, deser ...
  • Arab countries and China about curbing deserti ...
    VIDEO : Google Alerts – desertification http://youtu.be/BQfMrRNjO9I China and Arab Countries – Curbing Desertification (CNC World)
  • Land degradation is a “critical” issue with hu ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.rtcc.org/2013/09/15/un-targets-global-land-degradation-deal-in-2015/ UN targets global land degradation deal in 2015 UNCCD chief Luc Gnacadja says land degradation is now a “critical” issue with huge economic and social implications - By ...
  • The DeSurvey desertification surveillance syst ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://phys.org/news/2013-09-desertification.html Is desertification on the increase? Fighting desertification will require a better understanding of its drivers of this process, with a little help from a new tool to study how dry regions evolve. & ...

News Blaze

  • America's Cup Defense, 2013
    Anyone who thought the rules of American football were complex should avoid racing boats at all costs. But this year's action in San Francisco Bay has been exciting even if you don't know your windward from your leeward.
  • Tiwa Community Opposes Prospect of New Hydro E ...
    Both the Tiwa organizations have also claimed that vast areas of Nagaon, Morigaon and Kamrup district will also face disastrous situation whenever excess water is released from the project due to inundation caused by artificial deluge.
  • MPs Call for 'Probe' Into The Massacre At Camp ...
    The speakers in the Westminster conference strongly condemned the appalling Ashraf massacre and said the Iraqi government must be held to account.
  • New Machine to Diagnose TB Within Two Hours
    Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) and also getting to know with accuracy about resistance to one of the two most powerful anti-TB drugs (Rifampicin) is increasingly becoming a reality on the ground.
  • US and Russia Collaborating to Eliminate Syria ...
    In his remarks with with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva in Switzerland, US Secretary of State John Kerry says US and Russia had series of disagreements about the situation in Syria.

libcom

  • Belarusian anarchist political prisoner Aliaks ...
    He will be under police supervision for 6 months after the release. Aliaksandr Frantskevich, who served his term in correctional colony No. 22 in Ivatsevichy, was released early in the morningof 3rd of September. His mother and activists of opposition or ...
  • Workers almost killed by capitalist
    robotnikgrojec.JPG News about a worker who was almost killed just because he wanted his money. read more
  • Cops raid home of leading Roma/Traveller activist
    11_grattan_puxon.jpg Police have raided the Essex home of traveller activist Grattan Puxon. read more
  • Toward an Anarchist Policy on Syria
    Bakunin-quote-in-Syrian_i-am-truly-free-when-all-human-beings-men-and-women-are-equally-free-300x152.jpg Given the centrality of Syria to global politics, it is essential that anarchists understand wh ...
  • Hundreds of anti-fascists arrested at EDL march
    AFN01.jpg Nearly 300 anti-fascists were arrested on Saturday following attempts to prevent the far-right English Defence League (EDL) from marching in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...
  • When Irish Eyes are Smiling
    Don’t mess with the Irish – the PURE BLOOD of Israel – Mr. Obama!! (They are the TRUE ISRAELITES, not the phony KHAZARS whose backsides you have been kissing since 2008). Listen to the auburn-haired, blue-eyed Ms. Clare Daly, in her righteous indignation take a pound of flesh f ...
  • The Agenda of “Education” in Ameri ...
    Imagine for a minute that you have critical “insider” information that would allow you to absolutely corner a vital world stock market.  You make your move, and as a result you amass incredible wealth and power.   Over the next century, your sons, cousins, and “elite” blo ...
  • Snowden Files Round Two
    What about the Encryption Keys to the World’s Nuclear Launch Codes? Can they be cracked too?? — Ott   Snowden Files: NSA Holds Keys to Most Web Encryption   By James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK   6 September 13       S and Britis ...
  • The Lessons of the Bonus Army – 1932
    This is a most powerful story – a story largely unknown by the American people.   This sordid part of American history exposes so much truth – truth that is extremely important to understand in today’s world. To the Jewish/Ashkenazi International Banking Cartel (the House of Ro ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Addressing Misleading Claims of Arctic Sea Ice ...
    There have been many claims brought to my attention this week alleging the “final nail in the coffin” of anthropogenic global warming – the same nail that’s been fumbled around by deniers and the unfortunately misled for decades now.
  • US Navy Triples Funding For Clean Energy In Hawaii
    The US Navy has just pumped $30 million into the Energy Excelerator, a funding agency for renewable energy start-ups in Hawaii. Even at that modest initial funding level, the program has raised private sector follow-on investments totaling more than $38 million.
  • Conflict Could Be Good for Energy Investors: I ...
    Marin Katusa is the chief investment strategist for the energy division of Casey Research. A regular part of his due diligence process for Casey Research includes property tours, visiting hundreds of mining and energy producing and exploration projects all around the world.
  • Alberta's New Wetland Policy Gives a Pass to T ...
    The people of Alberta have sought a policy to protect its valuable wetlands from degradation by the tar sands industry. Over the past eight years, tar sands development has destroyed numerous wetlands in Alberta’s boreal forest, one of North America’s carbon storehouses.
  • Remembering the Contributions of Ronald Coase
    On September 2nd, Ronald Coase, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Chicago Law School, Nobel laureate, and principal creator of the academic field of law and economics, passed away at the age of 102.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Obamacare Rips Off Americans
    by Stephen Lendman Earlier articles called it a scam. It's a healthcare rationing scheme. It's a boon to predatory providers. It's a plan to enrich insurers, drug companies, and large hospital chains. It's market-based for profit. It lets providers escalate costs. It's regulation light. ...
  • Ban Ki-moon: Imperial Tool
    by Stephen Lendman UN Secretary-Generals pledge to uphold UN Charter provisions. Under Chapter XV, Article 100, they're mandated "not (to) seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority external to the Organization." "Each Member of the United Nations undertake ...
  • UN Chemical Weapons Report, Ban Ki-moon ... an ...
    Michael Collins The United Nations weapons inspectors report on the August 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus has become a propaganda festival for the Western powers, including the United States. Since the U.S. and Russia reached their deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons stockpi ...
  • Consensus 9/11: New Truths Dispelling Old Lies
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article explained the following: Consensus 9/11 seeks "best evidence" proof. It does so to dispel official story falsehoods. It's founded on: "(1) The opinions of respected authorities, based on professional experience, descriptive studies, and reports ...
  • Priority One: Stopping Obama's Rage for War
    by Stephen Lendman He's a dangerous sociopath. He exhibits psychopathic characteristics. Psychiatrist Robert Hare says these people are "often charming." At the same time, they exhibit "a stunning lack of conscience." They prioritize self-gratification. They do it at the expense of other ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Participate in our study on alternative media ...
    Are you concerned about climate change? Researchers with Simon Fraser University and the CCPA are looking for people to participate in a study called “Alternative Media and Climate Change.” Participants will be entered into a draw for a chance to win $100 if they choose to participate in a gro ...
  • Is tuition affordable in your province?
    A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and ranks the provinces on affordabil ...
  • Research that makes a difference in the lives ...
    We are proud to introduce CCPA’s exciting new initiative: Making Women Count—research that makes a difference in the lives of women in Canada. Headed by CCPA Research Associate, Kate McInturff, this project will help us to produce essential research and analysis of the barriers to achieving gend ...
  • Pre-order our new book on young workers, union ...
    Later this month, CCPA's Education Project will be launching a new book, From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement, by Nora Loreto. The book seeks to explain unionization to a younger generation, and covers a lot of ground, including: the benefits and responsibilities of unio ...
  • Join Seth and the CCPA at the Walk for Reconci ...
    September 16-22 is Reconciliation Week in Vancouver, wrapping up with the Walk for Reconciliation on Sunday the 22nd. BC Director Seth Klein and other CCPA staff will be joining the walk, and we'd love to have a group of CCPA members and friends walking with us. Please meet us outside the doors ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • What Happened to Advanced Biofuels? Let Me Explain
    Ask and Ye Shall Receive Last week, The Economist posed the following question: “What happened to biofuels?” The biofuels in question are so-called second generation biofuels that are produced from trees, grasses, algae, — in general, feedstocks that don’t also have a use as food. The appe ...
  • Prepare for the Chinese Energy Juggernaut
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released its International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013). While the EIA doesn’t have a sterling track record for predictions, many organizations make decisions at least partially based on EIA projections. Therefore the organization’s forecasts ...
  • The Carbon Dioxide Problem Worsens
    Introduction This is the 6th and final installment in a series that examines data from the 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP The US is the Gassiest ...
  • King Coal Gets Fatter, While The US Goes on a Diet
    Introduction This is the 5th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Next week’s installment will be on carbon dioxide emissions, and that will wrap up the series. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Upd ...
  • The Gassiest Country
    Introduction This is the 4th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP Today’s ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Video: NYPD Open Fire Into Crowd Of People In ...
    NYPD goons shot two innocent women in their attempt to kill an unarmed man they thought was reaching for a gun. In a previous shooting a few months back NYPD goons shot seven innocent bystanders in order to kill one man. Mayor Bloomberg said the ...
  • The Man In Charge Of The NSA Modeled His Offic ...
    Privacy: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the NSA, as it enters every computer and pries whatever data can be stolen and recorded in perpetuity. Its ongoing mission: to explore the internet and all TCP/IP packets, to seek out new emails,...
  • All Government Policies Succeed in the Long Run
    A crazy claim you are probably thinking after reading my title. After all, *failed policies* are a staple of discussions and debates about government actions in the United States. Everybody, regardless of political preferences, has a list of what he ...
  • Mackala Ross and Delores Epps
    Former Memphis police officer Alex Beard was speeding to a call with no siren when he rammed into a car, killing 13-year-old Mackala Ross and her mother, Delores Epps, age 53. Mackala*s father, Michael Ross, was severely injured, but survived the cr...
  • California Volunteer Marijuana Eradicator Fall ...
    A volunteer for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife fell out of a helicopter and died while authorities were conducting a marijuana eradication effort in Tulare County Thursday. Shane Krogen becomes the 29th person to die in US domestic dr...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The New, Libertarian Conscience Of the Senate
    I said the other week that I agreed with Paul Keating’s famous denunciation of the Senate as “unrepresentative swill”. It’s now looking highly likely that, due to complicated preference deals which few voters understood or were even aware of, six … Continue reading ...
  • Clean Up Australia Day
    Today’s the day. After six years of Labor incompetence and obsession with leadership battles, Machiavellian sub-plots, the best-forgotten Gillard Experiment, and the finale of Rudd Redux, Australians today will finally have their chance to go to the polls and cast … Continue reading ...
  • Unrepresentative Swill
    I said the other day I’d have more to say about Senate voting, and why I believe it has descended into an undemocratic farce. The Australian Senate is an artefact of our history. Our founding fathers in the 1890s, looking … Continue reading →
  • Coasting Home
    If there was any justice, this election would already be long over. Having initially announced the election date back in January, Julia Gillard, and more latterly Kevin Rudd, have been determined to subject the nation to the political equivalent of … Continue reading →
  • Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
    Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • Rooftop solar panels can be problematic for fi ...
    Firefighters in New Jersey were unable to get on the roof to battle a major fire at a distribution center, due to electrocution concerns from rooftop solar panels. Instead of being able to battle the flames from the roof they were forced to do so from afar, and the entire structure was lost. Sol ...
  • How Detroit went broke. It didn’t have to happen
    The Detroit Free Press (a mainstream newspaper) has a sobering in depth look at why their beloved city is bankrupt. It’s the usual culprits. Politicians who spent recklessly, took on huge debt, gave themselves and public workers huge pensions, and hired more and more employees. Wall Street ...
  • The frightening truth: Those running NSA are t ...
    Snowden was a sysadmin. He took documents. The NSA solution is to fire 90% of sysadmins and replace them with software. Gosh, that means crackers only need to breach one piece of software to get access to everything. And who will write that software, test it, and then monitor it? NSA doesn&#8217 ...
  • NSA spies on international credit card transac ...
    The voracious spy agency that is NSA continues to break laws it doesn’t like and ignore international friendships and relationships. All it wants is more data. If you believe they are doing this to prevent terrorism, I got a nice bridge for sale. NSA is a monster determined to watch everyt ...
  • Noogies from Putin

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frogblog

  • A regional perspective on the proposed RMA changes
    Guest Post by Cath Gilmour, Councillor, Queenstown Lakes District Council. I haven’t written to Winston Peters before but I wrote to him last week to encourage New Zealand First to join the Greens, Labour, United Future and the Maori Party in opposing National’s changes to the heart of our envir ...
  • Ugly fish and seabed mining
    In fishy news this week. First up, my favourite fish the Blobfish was officially voted the ugliest fish in the world. And fair enough too. I used him as an example a few years back at an event at Parliament as part of the deep sea bottom trawling campaign to demonstrate that New Zealand was [&#8 ...
  • NZ Committed to UN Action Only: Congratulatio ...
    There is one good thing to come out of the Syria crisis – at least as far as NZ policy is concerned. New Zealand is on the record as explicitly opposing any military action without UN Security Council authorisation. Back in February 2012, I asked an Oral Question of the Foreign Minister on this ...
  • Sir Geoffrey Palmer on what’s wrong with Natio ...
    The NZ Fish and Game Council recently asked former Environment Minister and RMA architect Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC to analyse the Government’s proposed changes to the Resource Management Act, one of our most important environmental laws.  Sir Geoffrey’s 65 page report is well worth reading. We hop ...
  • Select committee supports PCE’s call for a mor ...
    In my office at Parliament I have a beautiful ceramic longfin eel or tuna made by Sam Ludden of Sticky Fingers Pottery. It is a constant reminder that we need to do much more to protect longfin eels. Parliament’s Local Government and Environment select committee took a small step in that directi ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • IC 408: The Can’t U Niggas Troll Convention
    Phenom from Where’s My 40 Acres is a guest Why Kriss doesn’t Hookah Kev’s story of the bitter bitch at work The Cult of Rod and why some nigga’s just suck at podcasting Rules for Podcasting #SoftC and their Cunt Convention Just being a shitty person with a shitty characte ...
  • IC 407: Replies Very Selectively
    Phenom making White people uncomfortable at fight parties Twerking being associated with low income black women The dumb bitch who said teachers raping 14 year olds isn’t that bad Kev’s fumble on the goal line Kriss & OkCupid rejection Dave Chappelle’s “melt down&#82 ...
  • IC 406: Ben Affleck & #TheAvengersInitiative
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips is a guest Kriss talking coaching Jury Duty Ben Affleck is Batman The Wolverine Broke Rod People who can’t complain about Ben Affleck as Batman Why Zach Snyder has more pressure than Affleck The problem with movie critics Episode 3 is the best Star Wars Film ...
  • IC 405: Twitter Nuclear War
    Amish Mafia and bad “reality TV shows” X-Files wasn’t that good Slander Wars on Twitter The lack of a nuclear deterrent on Twitter Accepting the consequences of entering into a Mutual Assured Destruction slander war Stop asking about Scott Adkins as Batman Kriss & Kev deba ...
  • IC 404: Kev’s True Baltimorean Stories
    Batman casting rumors The Flash TV Show Celebrities who did cartoon voices Sentinel or Dyson Vacuum cleaner Fox messing up comic book movies Kev True Baltimorean Stories Christian rap Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • CO2 for oil swap brings carbon capture viabili ...
    Pumping CO2 from coal power stations to free more oil from old fields can stop large amounts of the greenhouse gas entering the air and make money, models from Carey King and colleagues at University of Texas at Austin suggest.
  • Does lower home energy use mean England and Wa ...
    Average household energy consumption in the two countries fell by a quarter between 2005 and 2011 thanks largely to simple personal actions, showing that what we do can impact greenhouse gas emissions and therefore climate change.
  • Bouncing lasers off satellites backs faster Gr ...
    Kosuke Heki from Hokkaido University and Koji Matsuo from Kyoto University in Japan have doubled the duration of gravity based measurements of ice loss from Greenland, providing more evidence that this process is speeding up.
  • Fossil fuels are more than just a bad habit
    While my blog so far this year has shown how clear the case for fighting climate change is, our financial dependence on fossil fuels makes this difficult. But now divestment campaigns might be giving us a way to start untangling this sticky web.
  • Continuing the fight for CO2 monitoring
    Despite making critical measurements revealing how CO2 is increasing, and how it moves through nature, the tracking efforts Dave Keeling started have usually been struggling for cash, and still do today.

e!Science News

  • SF State researchers steer light in new directions
    A team of researchers led by San Francisco State University's Weining Man is the first to build and demonstrate the ability of two-dimensional disordered photonic band gap material, designed to be a platform to control light in unprecedented ways. read more
  • Dartmouth researchers discover how and where i ...
    Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other incredibly diverse behaviors? read more
  • New insights solve 300-year-old problem: The d ...
    Scientists at the University of Leeds have solved a 300-year-old riddle about which direction the centre of Earth spins. read more
  • Invention jet prints nanostructures with self- ...
    A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines top-down advanced ink-jet printing technology with a bottom-up approach that involves self-assembling block copo ...
  • Sensors allow for efficient irrigation, give g ...
    As water use and runoff regulations become more stringent and concerns about dwindling water supplies become more of an issue, finding ways to increase the efficiency of water use for horticultural operations is crucial. A new study contains answers that can help horticultural growers address re ...

unEarthed

  • Shell’s Hell Continues
    $1.1 million fine for polluting the Arctic air The climate impacts of drilling in the Arctic are enormous. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) The Enviro ...
  • My Window Seat To America The Threatened
    High above this great nation, you can see the struggles we face An airplane passes over Desolation Canyon, UT. (Ecoflight) “If you want to see the pla ...
  • Never Say Die in the Fight For Clean Water
    Power plants dump pollution into our water, but that could soon change Patricia Schuba of Missouri. (Matt Roth) Earlier this summer, I was talking to a collea ...
  • Watching Our National Parks Fade From View
    Haze from coal-fired power plants obscures our greatest national treasures How much of Yosemite Valley will you be able to see on your next visit? (Chrissy Pepino / Earthjustice) ...
  • Airlines Ranked by Amount of Fuel Used
    Report shows need to reign in the most-polluting gas guzzlers The airline industry as a whole simply can’t be trusted to voluntarily improve its fuel efficiency. (house.gov) ...

Brave New Climate

  • Willacy’s Fukushima
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s “Drum” websit ...
  • MIT Climate CoLab update – the result?
    This is an update to this recent BNC post: MIT competition update – 3 days left, votes needed! ———- Guest Post by Ron Gester M.D. The Treasurer of SCGI, Ron is a retired emergency physician and geologist, who is a passionate about solving the climate change problem. Votin ...
  • MIT competition update – 3 days left, vo ...
    Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really counts. The winner will get in front of potential implementers at the Crowds & Climate Con ...
  • Vote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presente ...
    Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab at MIT. If Tom’s pitch garners the most votes, the push to get the first PRISM bui ...
  • Nuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste ...
    This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the series by discussing why nuclear waste is such a valuable resource and also cleans up a few relat ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Detroit’s Dictator Manager Shuts Down Po ...
    With no warning, Detroit intentionally turned off power to thousands. The Dictator’s crew is making excuses, but all those people were stranded so he could make a point. He needs to privatize electricity so the citizens can be more effectively robbed by the 1%’ers he works for. The c ...
  • Cruz, Jesse Helms Was A Racist Slimeball
    Dear Ted Cruz. Jesse Helms was one of the worst, sickest, most racist piles of human feces ever to walk the halls of our government. To say anything nice about this former Senator, who’s racism, and sickness was legendary, means you are just as sick as him. Helms is burning in hell right n ...
  • Egypt – We Are Sorry
    Dear People of Egypt: I as a concerned American Citizen, apologize for any insults, or other stupid or condescending statements the 3 US congresspeople visiting your country may have babbled. Please do not take anything they said personally. Congresspersons King, Bachman, and Gohmert represent t ...
  • Remember 9-11
    Both Bill Clinton and Al Gore are on record stating the number one thing they told Bush to worry about was attacks by Al-Qaida. What did Bush and Cheney do to protect America? Not one damn thing. Just ask Richard Clarke who quit because the administration wouldn’t do anything. Then warning ...
  • 9-11 Never Forget
    So how many in your face, we are about to be attacked warnings did Bush ignore? Hundreds? Thousands? To put things in perspective, if Al Gore was president, and ignored thousands of warnings, and didn’t lift a finger to protect America, the Republicans would have hung him on the White Hous ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Reflections on one state from the West Bank
    The first time I went to my current sublease in Bethlehem, I noticed something strange on the floor — the Star of David. When I moved into the place and looked closer at the pattern, I noticed a menorah. Here I was, in the heart of a Palestinian city, and the floor was “Jewish.” My [...]
  • Delaying EU settlement rules ‘reinforces ...
    The EU’s settlement guidelines, if implemented, could be the first step in showing Israel that there are consequences for its occupation and illegal settlement building, and actually push both sides toward a resolution to the conflict. Since the EU announced new guidelines regarding its ac ...
  • Israel’s High Court nixes law allowing d ...
    Court orders the state to begin releasing more than 1,700 prisoners immediately. In a landmark ruling, a special nine-justice panel of the High Court of Justice decided to strike down the amendment to Israel’s infamous anti-infiltration bill, which allowed the state to hold African asylum seeker ...
  • Book review: ‘What Do You Buy the Childr ...
    NEW YORK– Twelve years ago, David Harris-Gershon’s young wife, Jamie, was having lunch at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Frank Sinatra cafeteria when a remote controlled bomb exploded near their table, killing two of their friends. All told, the bomb killed nine people an ...
  • ‘Palestinians are losing their right to Jerusalem’
    +972 speaks with Yudith Oppenheimer, executive director of Israeli NGO Ir Amim, about the possibility of two national capitals in a shared Jerusalem and how the city should or could be divided between Israelis and Palestinians. Sitting in her West Jerusalem office, above the traffic on King Geor ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Auto Draft
  • Time magazine hides Putin’s success from ...
    By Neil Monro Putin seemingly headed off a U.S. airstrike on his Syrian ally, while Obama, after extensive public agonizing, has seemingly agreed to token compliance with a weapons inspection regime. The foreign-policy fumble prompted anger, embarrassment and amazement among professionals in the ...
  • Untouchable: Government Gives Monsanto the Go- ...
    By Daisy Luther FY14 Continuing Resolution (CR) spending bill is soon to be on the table in the Senate, and hidden in this bill is a continuance of the controversial “Monsanto Protection Act” that was passed 6 months ago (HR 933) amidst enormous public outcry. It probably won’t come as much of a ...
  • Activist Post: Breaking: US Navy Yard shooting ...
    Jon Rappoport Activist Post I’ve covered a number of mass shootings. Assuming the people arrested or killed had anything to do with them, one of the top questions is: was the shooter on psychiatric meds? The mainstream press doesn’t push for answers. It’s a vital question. In school shootings, w ...
  • ▶ Conspiracy to Tell the Truth | Interview wit ...
      ▶ Conspiracy to Tell the Truth | Interview with Lance deHaven-Smith – YouTube.

Veterans Today

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electric politics

  • Wrong Turn
    The notion that America can fix politics in the Middle East or anywhere else is laughable. It won't happen through our good example, and especially not through war. Unless, that is, we were prepared to take over the government of Bamboozlestan and occupy the place for several generations, which ...
  • But For The Intercept
    In September 2009, Najibullah Zazi — a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Afghanistan — loaded his car in Aurora, Colorado, drove to New York City, and prepared to blow himself up in the subway system. Trained in Pakistan by al-Qaeda, Zazi had used simple, readily avai ...
  • American “Democracy” In Perspective
    America has many of the vestments of democracy but, in truth, not so much of the substance. Compared to advanced democracies abroad we're in a category by ourselves. What's possibly the most peculiar thing of all is that we're so unaware of how very, very different we are, or why that's the case ...
  • Rising Inequality
    It's becoming the age of the American Banana Republic. We haven't gotten there yet but we're heading straight for it and it's close. We should be ashamed. But parsing the policy that surrounds inequality gets complicated. Tim Noah has thus done a tremendous service by collecting the threads in h ...
  • Secrets of Happiness
    Even if it often seems like we live in a rat race that doesn't mean we must be rats. Indeed, most of us have much greater latitude than we realize to be happy, or at least happier than we already are. But don't take my word for it. Cutting edge research suggests simple lifestyle alternatives tha ...

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • NATO Holds Mutlnational Military Exercises In ...
    LETA September 16, 2013 NATO exercise ”Steadfast Pyramid 2013” to be conducted in Latvia next week RIGA: On Monday, September 16, the NATO exercise ”Steadfast Pyramid 2013” will begin at the Latvian National Defense Academy, where 27 high-ranking officers from 16 NATO and ...
  • Asia-Pacific: Pentagon Launches Long-Range Int ...
    Missile Defense Agency September 13, 2013 Successful Missile Defense Test Against Multiple Targets The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, and U.S. Pacific Command, in co ...
  • Arnold Zweig: Reason is the highest patriotism ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arnold Zweig: Selections on war ==== Arnold Zweig From Young Woman of 1914 (1931) Translated by Eric Sutton “For nearly fifty years I have admired our Prussians, and thought a soldier’s tunic the finest wear in the worl ...
  • NATO Military Committee Discusses Operations I ...
    Xinhua News Agency September 15,2013 NATO Military Committee Conference held in Budapest BUDAPEST: The weekend meeting of NATO’s Military Committee, the organization’s top decision-making body, was held in Budapest on Saturday, with a focus on topical issues such as the Middle East a ...
  • Ernest Hemingway: “Down with the officer ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Ernest Hemingway: Selections on war ==== Ernest Hemingway From A Farewell to Arms (1929) “What will you do about him, Tenente?” “I don’t know.” “Can&#821 ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Press Conference Condemning the Attack on Prof ...
    (Press Note circulated in the Press Conference held on the 14th of September in Professor GN Saibaba’s house along with the report on proceedings) On Thursday, 12 September 2013, a 50 strong police contingent drawn from the Maharashtra Police Force, the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Maurice ...
  • Arundhati Roy: “GN Saibaba is Being Tar ...
    GN Saibaba is a joint secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) and the convenor of several forums against Operation Greenhunt and the persecution of adivasis and tribal people in Central India. He teaches English at a DU college. by Ushinor Majumdar, Tehelka September 13, 2013 Click ...
  • College Students Chase David Petraeus and Shou ...
    Recent video shows former CIA director David Petraeus being chased down a New York City street by student activists at the City University of New York. by Andrew Kirel, Mediaite     September 11th, 2013 As BusinessInsider reported, Petraeus was on the way to teaching his first class at CUNY’s ho ...
  • College Students Chase David Petraeus and Shou ...
    Recent video shows former CIA director David Petraeus being chased down a New York City street by student activists at the City University of New York. by Andrew Kirel, Mediaite     September 11th, 2013 As BusinessInsider reported, Petraeus was on the way to teaching his first class at CUNY’s ho ...
  • India: “Condemn the Arbitrary Raid of t ...
    Press Release By Committee For The Release Of Political Prisoners, 13 Sep 2013 Condemn The Criminal Designs Of The Joint Intelligence-Special Cell-Gadchiroli Police Combine To Implicate Prof. GN Saibaba Along with The False Charges Framed Against Hem Mishra, A JNU Student! In an unprecedented ac ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Who is Washington’s protégé for Syria?
    Despite the breakthrough agreement on the Syrian peace process reached in Geneva between Russian and American Foreign Ministers, the US administration did not give up its plans to oust President Assad and is still supporting the militants in Syria. Speaking in Paris today after the talks with Fr ...
  • Putin’s note of caution reaches US
    Putin’s op-ed on the Syrian conflict for the New York Times on Thursday shows that the Russian government is paying close attention to and is deeply concerned with the political debate over Syria in the US. It also shows that the Russian government, contrary to how it is often portrayed by the W ...
  • A Plea for Caution From Russia
    Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other du ...
  • Getting to the bottom of the rebels’ chemical ...
    There is little doubt that Syrian rebels, including the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Jabhat Al Nusra, have been in possession of chemical weapons in Syria and have used these weapons against civilians and Syrian government forces. The U.S. intelligence that Syrian forces used chemical weapons has, ac ...
  • Putin: Attack on Syria would be an act of aggr ...
    In his Sept. 3 interview with Channel One and the Associated Press, President Putin produced a statement regarding the situation in Syria, which instantly reinstated Russia as an ethical and legal leader within the global community. In that interview, Vladimir Putin clearly and unambiguously def ...

BlogHer

  • Top 10 Lessons from a Decade of Parenting
    This summer, our oldest daughter, Ava, turned ten. That means I’ve officially been a parent for ten years. With a decade of parenting lessons under my belt, I now qualify as a parenting expert. At least in my own mind. Some lessons I've learned the hard way, like how it's not a good idea to give ...
  • BlogHer Master Class: Harness the Power of Pin ...
    Segment 1: Take our Master Class on Pinterest best practices. In early 2012, all of us at BlogHer saw that Pinterest was becoming a powerhouse tool for the blogs in the BlogHer Publishing Network. A short time after our bloggers had adopted it, Pinterest supplanted Facebook and Twitter and be ...
  • Hairy McTalksalot & the First Bikini Wax
    The amount of time women must spend in awkward positions at the mercy of other women, just for aesthetics and relaxation, is mind-boggling. Head full of foil in front of the hair stylist. Lying naked in front of the masseuse. Feet in the hands of a kneeling pedicurist. Boldly without makeup in f ...
  • Global Female Condom Day
    September 16, 2013 marks the second annual Global Female Condom Day, a day designed to bring awareness to a safe, effective barrier method of protection against pregnancy and sexual transmission of diseases and infections.Female condoms have been on the market for many years and, despite efforts ...
  • The Difference Between a Child-Free Vacation a ...
    I recently had the opportunity* to go on a 3-night vacation with my husband to Las Vegas. *By opportunity, I mean I was sure to mention to my parents on a daily basis how tired I was, how much I would love to spend some time with my husband where we could go out for late dinners and sleep in th ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • 5 reasons to re-think using your microwave
            Microwave defines functionality at its best. You just put the food in it, program the time needed, and in the blink of an eye you have a meal. Microwaves have become a predominant device in many ... Related posts:Why Did Russia Ban The Use Of Microw ...
  • Chronic inflammation juice
          inflammation is the body’s response to an infection or an injury. There are 2 types of inflammation: Chronic and acute. Chronic inflammation tends to be persistent. It has been linked to conditions as serious as asthma, heart disease, ... Related posts:Car ...
  • Whooping cough reaches epidemic level in Texas
            Whooping cough has reached epidemic proportions in Texas with nearly 2,000 cases reported so far this year, including two infants who died, according to health officials. The children were too young to receive the whooping cough ... Related posts:BP ...
  • Is milk good for you?
            Cow’s milk has been consumed for thousands of years, and has been touted as a healthy drink for strong bones and teeth, among many other benefits. Ever since we were kids, most of our parents made ... Related posts:Saturated Fat Tied to Sinking Sper ...
  • Cilantro: More Than An Herb, It Can Purify Wat ...
              The next time you find yourself facing some questionable drinking water, look for some cilantro. At least that’s what a team of U.S. and Mexican researchers made up of undergraduate students suggest. The research team, lead by ... Related pos ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Sept. 13, 2013
    The Sufco Mine White Team rescues a trapped miner during the National Coal Mine Rescue Competition at the the Greater Columbus Convention Center on Sept. 11, 2013. Teams are judged by government officials and have 75 minutes to complete a series of rescue tasks throughout the course. (AP Photo / ...
  • What’s next in the Upper Big Branch crim ...
    When U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin stood before the local media Tuesday afternoon for a brief press conference following the sentencing of former Massey official David C. Hughart, the first question was pretty predictable. I didn’t write down the exact wording, but it was something to this e ...
  • EPA rules: Change closing in on the coalfields
    There’s been a flurry of coverage over the last day or so about how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is nearing completion of and is getting ready to issue its final rule on carbon dioxide emissions from new coal-fired power plants. Best I can tell, the first of this new round of s ...
  • Study: Damage from mountaintop removal mining ...
    There’s a new study out today that presents the first real effort to compare the environmental damage from mountaintop removal mining to the energy benefits from the coal that’s produced. Here’s what’s reported in the press release from Duke University: To meet current U. ...
  • Patriot to close Logan operations
    Here’s the announcement made yesterday by Patriot Coal: Patriot Coal Corporation today announced plans to idle its Logan County complex located near Man, West Virginia, reducing thermal coal production by approximately two million annual tons.  Pursuant to the WARN Act, the Company gave 60 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Perhaps the Most Terrifying Book in a While
    But Command and Control will leave readers of any age with a deep unease about our ability—to say nothing of, say, Pakistan’s—to handle these weapons safely. Schlosser wrote the book in the hope of reviving America’s long-dormant debate about "the most dangerous machines ever inv ...
  • Thoughts on Technology to Avoid Texting and Dr ...
    As I was passing a couple of wrecks on the 101 yesterday I had an idea about how to prevent texting and driving. In sum, the sender of a text should be notified that the recipient is driving, and various options should come into effect as a result. Mobile device operating systems should have som ...
  • 3 Minute Movie on Selflessness Makes Hollywood ...
    Perfectly executed. Very powerful. More from this group please.Related Posts:Dinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About ObamaOn Failure and SuccessBike ParkourThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Homebuilt Solar Death RayStellar Dance RoutineKirk Pitches CommodoreNASA’s “We ...
  • How to Fix Intermittent Airplay Cutout Issues
    If you’re having issues with your Airplay where it intermittently cuts out in the middle of songs and then turns back on, here’s a fix that will probably take care of it: Configure your wireless networks to use the the 5Ghz band, and have all your Airplay systems connect to the 5Ghz ...
  • What Obama Should Say About Syria
    Here’s what Obama should say at this point about Syria: My statement earlier this year about the use of chemical weapons being a red line remains true. This activity cannot be accepted by any nation, or league of nations, that considers itself morally responsible. That being said, there ha ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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  • Organized bullying against Larry Summers, Rebe ...
    When I woke up today, I opened (a dozen of mails including) a mail from Gene who informed me that Larry Summers became a victim of the political correctness again. He withdrew himself from Fed consideration by sending a letter to Barack Obama that said: I have reluctantly concluded that any po ...
  • Klein and Gell-Mann: birthdays
    Today, we celebrate the birthdays of two true heroes of physics, at least according to the hitparades administered by your humble correspondent. Oskar Klein belongs to the history textbooks but Murray Gell-Mann is happily with us. Congratulations! Oskar Klein Oskar Benjamin Klein was b ...
  • When 99.99% of people don't work, is it communism?
    Sean Carroll promotes a quote by Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983, an American futurist/philosopher) that promotes a society in which technology allows a vast majority of people avoid any work: We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact t ...
  • IPCC AR5 will reduce sensitivity by 30% or so
    In two weeks, one third of the remaining traces of the climate hysteria will evaporate within a day Matt Ridley wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal (and Anthony Watts' blog) where some information about the upcoming IPCC report is leaked. Image courtesy of CartoonbyJosh. ...
  • Feynman lectures on physics: Volume I now free
    Some kind folks at Caltech have made the legendary 1964 Feynman Lectures on Physics (book by Feynman, Leighton, Sands) available online for free. Well, so far, you may only read Volume I but Volumes II and III should be added in a foreseeable future. The mathematics is typed u ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • U.S. navy yard shooter ID’d as Aaron Alexis
    A 34-year-old gunman opens fire at the Washington Navy Yard in a shooting that left 13 people dead at the busy military complex not far from the White House. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: U.S. navy yard shooter ID’d as Aa ...
  • Out of This World
    by Andy Hoffman, MilesFranklin.com: I have long been a devoted “Trekkie”; not so much regarding the original series – although I have a great deal of respect for it – but two of the four television “sequels.”  I could never get in to Deep Space Nine or the lesser known, and newest of the fo ...
  • Costa Concordia salvage operation underway off ...
    Engineers succeed in wresting the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia from an Italian reef where the cruise ship has been embedded since it capsized in January 2012, an anxiously awaited operation that has never been attempted before on such a huge liner. CBC | Top Stories News I fund C ...
  • War Dividend: US arms firms ready to cash in i ...
    from Russia Today: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Why Was Syria Attacked? by Stephen Lendman, SJLendman.Blogspot.com: On April 6, 2009, Seymour Hersh... Is Indiana Ready for C ...
  • U.S. navy yard shooter ID’d as Aaron Alexis
    A 34-year-old gunman opens fire at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington in a shooting that left 13 people dead at the busy military installation not far from the U.S. Capitol and the White House. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: U.S. ...

Modern Survivalism

  • How To Make a Solar Still
    A solar still will provide you with 100% pure water, and will not require purification or boiling prior to drinking. The solar still technique will work just about anywhere, provided that there is enough sunlight to assist the process. Here are simple instructions how to build a solar still to e ...
  • 20 Other Uses For Soap
    To chemists, soap is what you get when you boil down the sodium salts of fatty acids. To us, it’s just soap, known mostly for removing dirt from grimy hands. Here are a few other uses for soap…   Lubricate nails, screws, and saw blades: Soap on metal helps it go through wood mor ...
  • You Are Elected To Represent Us, Not Dictate To Us
    Total Recall: Two state senators, John Morse (D) and Angela Giron (D), are out of a job. Residents in Colorado “did the impossible” after they were fed up with being shut out of the legislative process. They recalled two of their senators… The power of grassroots made history i ...
  • Comet ISON To Reign Down Fire In January 2014?
    Scientists are calling it the comet of the century. Newly discovered comet ISON is due to make its spectacular appearance beginning November 2013 as it begins its close approach and whiplash around the sun. It’s what happens afterwards that could be a problem…   Image: space.com ...
  • Arctic Ice Expands 1 Million Square Miles In 1 ...
    Image Source: Ottawa University Nearly one-million square miles of more ice has frozen at the North Pole this year compared with the same time last year. The question is… Is an increase of 60% more ice in 1 year a sign of things to come?   2013 Artic sea ice is up 60% from last […]

Fast Company

  • 3 New Ways Brands Can Reach Today's Consumer
    Culture is always changing, but in the age of apps, Kickstarter, and 3–D printing, the definition of a consumer is shifting, and so the definition of a brand must shift along with it. Recently, international brand consultancy Wolff Olins and Flamingo published a report explaining how to na ...
  • The Devastating Floods In Colorado And How You ...
    Last week, torrential walls of water slammed eastern Colorado, inundating highways, homes, and leveling some 30 bridges. The most recent death toll has listed seven people lost in the flood, and hundreds (at one point estimated more than a thousand) remain missing. On Saturday, President Obama d ...
  • Soma, The World's Most Beautiful Water Filter, ...
    The Soma water filter was born out of an embarrassing moment. Founder Mike Del Ponte was hosting a dinner party at his San Francisco home for some design industry types. When he reached for the filtered water in his refrigerator, he stopped short. "All I had was a cheap plastic pitcher with thos ...
  • Reddit's /findnavyyardshooters Mocks Online Vi ...
    Today a series of fatal shootings at the Washington Navy Yard left at least 12 dead, including one suspected gunmen, according to D.C. police. In response to the shootings, several Redditors started discussion threads under the newly created (and quickly deleted) "/findnavyyardshooters" subreddi ...
  • Infographic: What Amazon Users Are Buying On Vinyl
    For those who think vinyl records are an anachronism in today's society, think again. Amazon says vinyl is the fastest–growing music medium for the company––and sales are up 745% since 2008. What can we attribute this to? Hipsters? Parents? Amazon points to AutoRip, a feature t ...

Jadaliyya

  • Exercises in Collective Reading: A Workshop by ...
    Exercises in collective reading  A workshop by Marwa Arsanios  January 2013 Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) Cairo, Egypt   Participants in this workshop at Cairo’s Contemporary Image Collective were invited to re-read and reflect on copies of the Arab cultural magazine a ...
  • Baris sureclerinin sorunlari ve cozum yollari
    Barış süreçlerinin sorunları ve çözüm yolları Türkiye’de çözüm sürecinin ilk gününden beri karşılaştığımız en önemli sorun yasal çerçeve yokluğudur. Oysa dünyada 1990dan bugüne devletlerin PKK türü örgütlerle yaptığı 600’e yakın anlaşma vardır Bugünlerde barış --ya da içinde yer alan siyasi a ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (September 9-15)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Sleeping with the Enemy: The G ...
  • Exhibition of Collage Workshop by Hany Rashed
    Exhibition of collage workshop led by Hany Rashed  August 2013  Darb 1718 for Contemporary Art Cairo, Egypt   This exhibition at Darb 1718 presents the work of ten artists who took part in a collage workshop led by Egyptian artist Hany Rashed. Through the workshop, Rashed enc ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (September 16)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...

mediagazer

  • Iranians Gain Access to Facebook and Twitter ( ...
    Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times: Iranians Gain Access to Facebook and Twitter  —  TEHRAN — Internet users in Iran were surprised on Monday to find that they could access Facebook and Twitter without having to evade the government's firewall, which had blocked direct acces ...
  • News outlets often stumble in quest for speed ...
    Paul Farhi / Washington Post: News outlets often stumble in quest for speed and accuracy  —  So much was misreported in the first few hours after the shooting rampage at Washington's Navy Yard.  —  Initial reports said that as many as three gunmen were involved.& ...
  • Former journalists win Liberal, NDP nomination ...
    Toronto Star: Former journalists win Liberal, NDP nominations in Toronto Centre  —  Toronto, no stranger to newspaper wars, now has a whole new kind of media war looming in the Toronto Centre byelection — the battle of the former journalists.  On Sunday afternoon, onl ...
  • Navy Yard shooting: CNN really, really cautiou ...
    Erik Wemple: Navy Yard shooting: CNN really, really cautious on ID'ing suspect  —  It was 3:54:15 p.m. CNN host Brooke Baldwin was talking with security expert Anthony Roman about how the authorities dealt with the suspect in today's Navy Yard shooting.  She cut off her gue ...
  • Is Al Jazeera America Simply CNN, Minus Wolf B ...
    Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer / FP Passport: Is Al Jazeera America Simply CNN, Minus Wolf Blitzer?  —  It's been just under a month since Al Jazeera America first hit the airwaves, and what a month it's been — with the Syria story lurching from seemingly imminent U.S. strikes to a ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • Revealed: How Cristiano Ronaldo landed re ...
    The Portugal international is to be paid a basic weekly salary of £338,000 after signing a five-year contract on Sunday, making him the best paid player in the history of football SPECIAL REPORT By Duncan Castles Cristiano Ronaldo's new Real Madrid contract makes him not only the best paid f ...
  • Katy Perry Calls Out Rihanna: 'We All Kno ...
    Katy Perry and Rihanna may have burned through men, but when it comes to each other, they found love. The best friends and singers haven't been shy about expressing their friendship, hugging, giggling and fondling each other during award shows and on the red carpet. So it's no surprise that ...
  • Google Has Ambitious Plans To Tear Down T ...
    Google CEO Larry Page. See Also Google's moving the chains once again as it bares down for its next big moonshot project: to blow up the language barrier. Spiegel reports on some ambitious new plans for the Google Translate team to develop a voice-enabled universal translator. Just like some ...
  • Arrested prelate tells magistrates of sec ...
    Catholic Church Reuters September 16, 2013 - 15:48 By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican department in charge of paying salaries and managing real estate acted improperly as a parallel bank, providing accounts to outsiders, an arrested prelate who worked there for 22 years has told ...
  • Matt Kenseth wins opening Chase race at C ...
    JOLIET, Ill. — Matt Kenseth pulled away from teammate Kyle Busch to win the opening race in the Chase for Sprint Cup championship. The steely win by the top seed in the Chase helped restore a sense of normalcy at the end of a week that saw NASCAR fighting the biggest credibility crisis ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 9/16/13 - How Educators Use ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - – How Educators Use ProCon.org – See the lesson plans, resource lists, and teaching strategies used by educators in over 4,000 schools to incorporate ProCon.org into their classrooms and libraries. Our updated resource lets you search by country, state, school, or subject.
  • 9/13/13 - ProCon.org and Pivot.tv Join Forces ...
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org and Pivot.tv Join Forces on Critical Thinking Campaign - Pivot TV, a new television network from Participant Media, selects ProCon.org as its exclusive alliance to promote critical thinking by providing research around the social issues explored in the new TV s ...
  • 9/12/13 - Historical Timeline: Electronic Voti ...
    votingmachines.procon.org  - Historical Timeline: Electronic Voting Machines and Related Voting Technology - Our updated timeline featuring the history of voting machines spans events from Victoria, Australia being the first place to use uniform official ballots in 1856 to New York City bri ...
  • 9/11/13 - Does Obamacare Place Limits on Out-o ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Does Obamacare Place Limits on Out-of-Pocket Charges (Co-Payments and Deductibles) That Insurance Policies Can Collect? – YES
  • 9/9/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Illeg ...
    immigration.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Illegal Immigration to the United States - Our updated timeline featuring the history of illegal immigration to the United States spans events from English settlers arriving in 1607 to the opening of Ellis Island in 1892 to the inclusion ...

Truth About Our World

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environment 360

  • Canadian Scientists Fight Back Against Governm ...
    Recent rules silencing government researchers in Canada are sparking protests in 16 major cities, the Guardian reports. The Harper administration over the past few years has ordered scientists at Canada's National Research Council, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and other government research agenc ...
  • Warmer Ocean Water Is Key Factor in Melting I ...
    Recent research into one of West Antarctica's most rapidly melting glaciers and ice shelves has shown that rising ocean temperatures and a series of channels lacing the underside of NASA Edge of Pine Island ice sheet the shelf are the key factors in the rapid thinning of the shelf and t ...
  • Migration of Trees Is Not Keeping Pace with Wa ...
    Most tree species in the U.S. aren't migrating northward as rapidly as predicted in response to climate change, a new study says. Looking at 65 species across Brian Stansberry Kilmer Forest, North Carolina 31 eastern states, the team found no consistent, northward migration of tree s ...
  • Finding a Better Message onThe Risks of Climat ...
    To overcome polarization on the issue of climate change, Yale professor Dan Kahan says in an interview with e360, scientists and the media need to frame the science in ways that will resonate with the public. A message that makes people feel threatened, he says, simply will not be effective. ...
  • Counterpoint: Scientists Offer A Dissenting Vi ...
    Ecologists Daniel Simberloff, of the University of Tennessee, and Donald Strong, of the University of California, Davis, have written a critical appraisal of a recent Yale Environment 360 article by Fred Pearce about Ascension Island. In their critique, the two scientists contend that Pearce fai ...

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Daily Beast

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Hudson New York

  • Hatred of Jews
    No matter how hard or how often we Muslims try, we are never able finally to end the connection our lives seem to have with the lives of the Jews. Watching Arab and Islamic television, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, brings the viewer to the
  • Jew Hatred Officially Backed by Belgium
    Shockingly, in Belgium, history lessons about Nazism and the Holocaust are currently being used to infuse children with hatred against Israel. The Belgian Ministry of Education funds an organization, the Special Committee for Remembrance Education (BCH),
  • Spain: Jihadists Threaten Catalonia over Burqa Ban
    A jihadist group affiliated with Al Qaeda has threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain that is home to the largest concentration of radical Islamists in Europe. The threats were issued by a group
  • Gatestone Weekly Roundup
    Just in case you missed these on the website this week, here are a few items of particular interest: The West's preoccupation with its own moral scruples over Syria is a great way to keep itself from noticing Iran's "whirring centifuges," Douglas Murray
  • "Tired of War"
    What does it mean for a nation to be "tired of war"? Those were the words that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry used the in a major statement on Syria a fortnight ago and they were reiterated this week by President Barack Obama. "Now, we know that

Urban Survival

  • Wealth Inequality is doing Fine, Thank-you
    The gap between the upper income types, and lower income regular folks, is now at extremes not seen since the last depression, according to this AP report out this morning. I’ll save you the preacher-length sermon on this, except to say “What did you expect?” The fact is that America has a probl ...
  • Coping: Travel Notes
    According to my schedule, we should be pulling out of the hotel here in Grand Junction, CO in about three and a half minutes from now and this morning I figure to catch up on a little snooze time as Elaine drives us up toward Boise which is where we’ll be spending tonight. Saturday’s drive from ...
  • Peoplenomics Update: Living Through the Turn
    A reader asked me a while back “My favor then, is to ask if you would write a commentary or short report on your macro insight of their chapter 11 on Preparing for the Fourth Turning in both an economic and social commentary, and where we might be historically speaking, in that turning ?&# ...
  • Triskamarketphobia?
    You gotta love it when the market has just run into overhead resistance in the S&P 1,686 level and just can’t seem to get enough traction, and then looks like it will fall back.  You see, because the S&P and the Dow have not been able to punch through the old highs set on August 5th ...
  • Coping: With an Amazing UFO Experience
    This is one a buddy of mine has been sitting on for a good while…since when it happened it was one of the most disturbing things ever is this fellow’s life.  It involves a very good daylight UFO sighting and his report (and accompanying sketch, with the object sketched in just to the size h ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • Washington Shooting ~ The False Flag To Remove ...
    The False Flag To Remove The 2nd Amendment -- Episode 164 The UN Arms treaty and gun bill are pending in the senate. The President has created the Executive Orders to support these bills. They have been pending waiting for an event to push them... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
  • Senator Elizabeth Warren Admitts "Summers" Not ...
     From nbc.com. Sept 16, 2013. MSNBC Morning Joe Interview. Senator Elizabeth Warren. The real debt of the US is not only the IOU it puts out but the printing of the trillion of dollars which the US government used to finance itself... [[ This is a content summary ...
  • Infowars Nightly News for Monday, September 16 ...
    Monday: The Nightly News. Active Shooter In D.C. Dominates Today's News Coverage, Providing Another Opportunity For The Anti-Gun Obama Regime To Make A Move On Your Legally Owned Firearms: On The September 16, 2013 Broadcast Of The Infowars... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Henry Kissinger interview
    liar, liar...once you are aware of the agenda it is so clear this guy is grade A bullshitter...23 secs he talks about "doing what is best for American Security"...lol!!!....doing what is best to supress people`s freedom and rights...doing what is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • The Alex Jones Show: Navy Yard Shooting : Mond ...
    The Alex Jones Show:(VIDEO Commercial Free) Monday September 16 2013: Navy Yard Shooting Washington Navy Yard Shooting Alex interviews Ed Asner, Terry Holcomb & Rachel Malone 09/16/2013 On this Monday, September 16 edition of the Alex... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Radical Chic

  • WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
    Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
  • CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
    I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
  • MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
    Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Anglo American Dumps the Pebble Mine
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA Today Anglo American, a 50 percent partner in the Pebble Limited Partnership, announced that it is withdrawing from Pebble Mine – a giant gold and copper mine proposed at the h ...
  • Clean Energy Research, Development, and Demons ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco The California Legislature just voted to establish a $162 million annual clean energy research, development, and demonstration program, allowing the newly minted Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) ...
  • Americans Tell EPA Loud and Clear: Stop Pebble ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Senior Policy Analyst, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California BOOM!  The comments to EPA are in, and the numbers are incredible. Hundreds of thousands of Americans spoke up and said “NO” t ...
  • Senate Must Reject Climate-Deniers' Latest Gam ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. The Senate’s climate-change deniers are trying a new gambit to block the president’s Climate Change Action Plan.  At a time when the real costs of clima ...
  • Doubting Valero in Benicia
    Brant Olson, Campaign Manager, San Francisco Last week, Valero’s stock dropped nearly four percent after the company announced that construction of its planned crude-by-rail terminal at its Benicia, CA refinery would be delayed by more than a ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Putin Authorizes Atomic First Strike Against U ...
    A truly grim Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today warns that President Putin has “pre-authorized” the newly established Mediterranean Fleet use of atomic weapons to be fired against United States Naval assests in the event that CIA-backed al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria ...
  • Truth of US-Russia Confrontation
    Aggression was over the Moment those Two Missiles were Fired A well informed diplomatic source told As-Safir newspaper that “the US war on Syria had started and ended the moment those two ballistic missiles were fired, leaving inconsistent information, as Israel denied and Russia confirmed, unti ...
  • Six UK warships cross Suez Canal into Red Sea
    Six British warships on Tuesday crossed Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Red Sea, according to sources at the Suez Canal Authority. The vessels, which included an aircraft carrier, a frigate and a dock-landing ship, passed from the Mediterranean Sea into the Red Sea on Tuesday. They had been pa ...
  • Russia’s ‘carrier-killer’ Moskva enters Medite ...
    Russia’s Moskva missile cruiser, dubbed a “carrier-killer” by NATO, has passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and is now heading toward the eastern Mediterranean to assume command of the Russian naval force there. The Russian Navy said in a statement that the Moskva cruiser passed through the ...
  • US Deploys Nukes for War
    “Solid evidence from within the intelligence community confirms that the US, Britain and France knew of the August 21 Sarin attacks in advance. More evidence, including intercepted emails, show that top Pentagon intelligence officials were actively involved in planning the attacks.” Few are awar ...

Daily Dose

  • Microsoft introduces new contextual search fea ...
    Microsoft is making significant changes to its Bing search service after it announced a new refreshed homepage, new logo and the addition of two new features: Glance and Page Zero. The most obvious... Keep reading →
  • Should you purchase the iPhone 5s and 5c on AT ...
    As the four major US carriers get ready to sell Apple’s new iPhones on Friday, we took a look at their respective monthly plans to see how much the handsets... Keep reading →
  • Uber adds ETA and live map sharing feature to ...
    Instead of making smart (or stupid) guesses about your estimated time of arrival (ETA) whenever you’re caught in a moving car on your way to meet your friends, private car... Keep reading →
  • Apple’s first iPhone 5c TV ad focuses on ...
    Last week Apple unveiled two new devices, the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c, the latter of which is notable for being the first Apple device to sport a plastic... Keep reading →
  • Spammers are back on Twitter, and this time th ...
    Twitter users are finding themselves dealing with a new, but ambiguous onslaught from spammers. But instead of directly getting your attention with a mention or a direct message, they’re hoping... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Which ecosystems are most vulnerable to climat ...
    New research highlights the world's most (and least) vulnerable ecosystems to climate change. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, is the first to combine anticipated climatic impacts with how degraded the ecosystem is due to human impacts, creating what scientists hope is a more accur ...
  • The case against Ecuador’s claims of 'lo ...
    Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa recently announced to the world that he was ending the 6-year initiative aimed at avoiding oil drilling in a critical piece of the Amazon, the ITT Block of Yasuní National Park. In the speech, and the accompanying Decree, the President emphasized that ...
  • New campaign celebrates the world's 'ugliest' ...
    The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus), a species that lives at great depths and is rarely seen but resembles a marine Jabba the Hut, has been voted the world's ugliest animal.
  • 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 ...
  • Tools against climate change: carbon tax and c ...
    Climate-conscious folk agree that atmospheric carbon concentration is a key greenhouse gas and a large factor in global climate change. However, there are discrepancies in the methods chosen to address the problem. Some say that carbon emissions should be banned. Some say fossil fuels should be ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leoneans in Boston USA sympathize with ...
    “No amount of money and gifts would bring their lives. But we really appreciated the kind hearts our brothers and sisters in America have shown to us…” said Hawa Kallon, sister to the late Abu Kallon. The late Abu Kallon was among the six people that lost their lives during the landslide which l ...
  • Faith Okrafo-Smart receives BEFFTA Humanitaria ...
    Black Entertainment, Film, Fashion, Television and Arts (BEFFTA) awards has honoured the wonderful personality Faith Okrafo-Smart (in photo) with a special honorary award BEFFTA HUMANITARIAN AWARD. Faith Okrafo-Smart is a Social Policy and Sociology graduate, a mother of one, writer, a PR consul ...
  • Fasting reflections
    As I sit here fasting and praying for Syria and the Middle East in response to Pope Francis’ call, my thoughts are on two things: the experience I had in Jordan, and what it was like growing up in the apartheid state of South Africa. Last week I was training a group of Young Peace [...]
  • Equipping Civil Society Practitioners to Influ ...
    Accra, Ghana – Cousin Zilala, Executive Director of Amnesty International, Zimbabwe, describes policy advocacy as the core business of his organisation. He took part in a three – day training on Introduction to Policy Advocacy organised by the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) in ...
  • TSE Foundation assists vulnerable children
    Thou Shall Eat foundation (TSE), a community based organization registered and incorporated with the Department of Treasury-Internal Revenue Services (IRS) of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States of America as a state corporation, has been formed in Sierra Leone. The Foundation was establ ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • $2m to fix botulism scare damage
    Trade Minister Tim Groser says New Zealand is partway through a process of restoring its reputation in the world as a safe food producer after Fonterra's whey product contamination scare and subsequent product recall last month.Groser,...
  • SMEs caught by food scare get $2m fund
    A $2 million market recovery fund has been set up by the Government for small to medium-sized exporting companies affected by the Fonterra whey protein scare and subsequent product recall.The fund was aimed at those companies who...
  • NZ-linked Chinese dairy firms rank highly
    Chinese dairy companies Yili and Mengniu - both of which will soon have factories in New Zealand - now rate among the top 15 of the world's biggest dairy companies in terms of turnover, rural lending specialist Rabobank said.Rabobank...
  • Dick Wilkins: Fonterra fiasco very Mickey Mouse
    There is an old joke about an Arabian king asking his son what he wanted for his birthday. Somewhat surprised when his son asked only for a Mickey Mouse outfit, he bought him New Zealand.Sadly, the ongoing revelations in the clostridium...
  • A2 gets ready to launch baby formula
    The residual impact of Fonterra's botulism false alarm may prove beneficial for alternative milk firm A2 Corporation as the company launches its infant formula brand in the New Zealand market, says one of its top executives.Peter...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Feds Citing Thousands for Bringing Pot into Na ...
    Even if you no longer have to hide your pot in Washington State or Colorado, definitely don’t bring your stash into a national park there. Technically you’re not supposed to be smoking in public anyway, even where it has been legalized. But my point, or rather the Associated Press’s ...
  • Ira Stoll on Obama’s Troubles Replacing Bernan ...
    The public search for a successor to Federal Reserve head Ben Bernanke is being described as an embarrassment to President Obama. But in a strange way, the contest — something like the economic version of a cross between the Pillsbury Bake-Off and the Miss America contest — only high ...
  • 12 Dead in Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Floo ...
    The death toll in the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard has risen to 12. Up to three shooters may have been involved. At least one, identified as Aaron Alexis, was killed by police. More than 1,200 people were unaccounted for in massive flooding that continues in Colorado. ...
  • Time Magazine's "America's Weak and W ...
    Time magazine featured a critique of the United States' foreign policy and an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the cover of its September 16th edition. American readers did not see the critique, which ran throughout the rest of the world. The U.S. edition focused instead ...
  • Cop Shoots Accident Victim and Is Quickly Char ...
    What does it take for a cop to face criminal charges after killing an unarmed man? A North Carolina case promises to provide at least one answer. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Randall Kerrick shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell early Saturday morning, and by the end of the day ...

Mercury Rising

  • File This Under: “Please Don’t Thr ...
    Greg Sargent points out something important: Republicans and conservatives constantly justify either their repeated votes to repeal the law, or their threats of destructive confrontations to defund or delay it, by citing public dissatisfaction with it as proof the public supports their efforts. ...
  • File This Under “When Thieves Fall Out, ...
    Over at FDL, the incomparable Peterr brings the following to our attention: The Republican party holds a veto-proof majority of seats in both houses of the Missouri state legislature, but they discovered this past week that “veto-proof” means you have to keep your whole caucus together. After we ...
  • Wonders of the World
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Working where the sun don’t shine
    Canadian musical comedy duo Bowser and Blue: http://biggeekdad.com/2013/06/the-colorectal-surgeon-song/

Reality Sandwich

  • RAM:ELL:ZEE: Gothic Futurist
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  • Ecstatic Quest
    Join host Albert Villoldo for the live, interactive video course, "Shamanic Ecstasy: The Great Vision Quest," and learn the ancient techniques used by shamans across the globe to reach unity consciousness and heal yourself. read more
  • Sex in the News
    Meet the "no pill, no problem" generation, a police officer on his gender creative son, Fifty Shades of Dismay, embracing herpes and more HIV in porn, and more in this week's update.read more
  • Bombs, Badguys, and the Brink of Peace
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  • Oral Hearing
    It's hard to imagine hearing from any place that's not your ears. But Gardiner's frogs, one of the smallest frogs, do just that. Even without an eardrum, they can croak and hear other frogs. A team of scientists led by Renaud Boistel from CNRS and University of Poitiers used X-ray ...

Desertification

  • Dwindling Water Supplies Make Every Drop Count
    Drought and chronic water shortages played a significant role in sparking Syria’s civil war and in unrest throughout much of the Middle East, water experts now believe. Around the world, water demand already exceeds supply in regions with more than 40 percent of the world’s populatio ...
  • Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
    When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.’s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world’s most critical finite resources. Current and past ...
  • OP-ED: Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
    Agriculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural system is becoming more out of sync with the clima ...
  • ‘Deserts Can Save Forests’
    It may take development of the deserts to save forests, say experts, who stress that desert ecology needs to be preserved and enhanced. “When the time comes that we have to let our forests survive to retain their ecosystem services, eyes would turn for food security and livelihoods to the huge l ...
  • Mining Industry Plans Massive Use of Seawater ...
    The arid climate in northern Chile has forced mining companies to seek out new sources of water. The main source is seawater from the Pacific Ocean, whose use is expected to increase significantly in the coming decade despite the high costs of extraction and transport. The vast northern region o ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • Syria confirms helicopter downing
    The Syrian army has confirmed that Turkish warplanes have shot down a Syrian military helicopter.
  • UN urges accountability on Syria CW use
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the use of chemical weapons in last month’s attack in Syria and demanded the perpetrators of the deadly attack be brought to justice.
  • Brazil urges UNSC to end Syria arms flow
    Brazil has urged the United Nations Security Council to order an immediate end to the inflow of arms into Syria from abroad.
  • ‘No word said about Israel, US N-arms’
    An American author says both the United States and Israel maintain “formidable nuclear, chemical and biological weapons arsenals” but not a single word is said about their arms, Press TV reports.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Gearing up to jump: insect leg cogs
    A species of insect that employs gears on its back legs to coordinate its leaping movements has been described by Cambridge scientists. Using high-speed camera footage running at over 7000 frames pe...
  • Stem cells made in situ
    Mature tissues can be re-programmed in-situ to produce stem cells, scientists have shown for the first time. The concept of re-programming adult cells to switch them from a specialised state to an u...
  • Combining disco paint and maths
    Analysing mouse behaviour using disco lights and a new mathematical model. Published in the journal elife, Prof. Alon Chen and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute, Israel, present a new method for a...
  • Testicular size a parental predictor?
    Men with smaller testicles tend to be more involved as fathers, a new study suggests. It's not yet known if ball size could be used to pre-emptively predict parenting skills though. Published this we...
  • Stem cells made in situ
    Mature tissues can be re-programmed in-situ to produce stem cells, scientists have shown for the first time. The concept of re-programming adult cells to switch them from a specialised state to an u...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Take Action: Midwest Action Against Drones (MA ...
    Join others from across the Midwest for a protest in Chicago to oppose drone warfare and surveillance Submitted by Brian M. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Take Action: Converge on DC to stop the TPP!
    Please join representatives from the environmental, labor, family farm, faith, consumer, public health and other social justice movements for a lunch-hour rally that lets TPP negotiators know that people are watching and will hold them accountable. Submitted by Brian M. to Society & Culture ...
  • Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
    This week the House could pass a Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59) that contains the same Monsanto Protection Act that it passed last spring! While the previous continuing resolution was scheduled to expire on September 30th, the new resolution contains Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle ...
  • The Same Type Of Gun Was Used In The Navy Yard ...
    This is an AR-15-style semi-automatic assault weapon. Currently there are no federal restrictions on owning one. Since 2012, the AR-15-style assault rifle has been involved in seven different large-scale shootings. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it! &nb ...
  • 10 Truths that Should Be Said at This Weeks Ho ...
    This Wednesday, September 18, the House Energy and Power Subcommittee will conduct a long-overdue hearing on climate change. It is unfortunately not to seek scientific facts from reputable institutions, such as the National Academy of Sciences, the... Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Obamacare Myths
    Obamacare Myths. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured, News and politics Tagged: Elections 2014, Fact Check, Myths, Obamacare, PPACA
  • U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
    U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Filed under: Government, International, News and politics, U.S. Military, War Tagged: Sarin Gas Victims, Syria, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Video
  • Former President Bill Clinton Explains the Aff ...
    Former President Bill Clinton Explains the Affordable Care Act | The White House. Filed under: Economy, Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured
  • Texas ID Complaint filed by U.S. Department of ...
    www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/7472013822155117860058.pdf. Filed under: Government Tagged: DOJ Case 2:13-cv-00263, Texas ID complaint, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Elections
  • Uninsured? Join the millions who will sign up ...
    Uninsured? Join the millions who will sign up for coverage. Filed under: News and politics Tagged: PPACA, U.S. Healthcare
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