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IRAN'S NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM

Part V: From the United States Offering Iran Uranium Enrichment Technology to Suggestions for Creating Catastrophic Industrial Failure

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Scoop - NZ

  • Case Study: “The Syrian Resistance,” a Pro-Ass ...
    .. by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi for Syria Comment Much has been written of the variety of factions and fragmentation on the rebel side of the Syrian civil war, but comparatively little analysis exists of the various pro-Assad militias, commonly known as shabiha, who as Aron Lund notes can be Sun ...
  • The Looming Risk from Derivatives
    Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status und ...
  • Rudd saved Labour, poll shows.
    Labor would have been reduced to a parliamentary rump worse than in the Whitlam defeat of 1975 had it not replaced Julia Gillard with Kevin Rudd as prime minister, according to leaked internal polling. Mr Rudd saved Labor at least 15 seats, including those of enemies Wayne Swan, Warren Snowdon ...
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  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Nationalities of Kenya shopping mall gunmen un ...
    One of the Islamist militants wore a white turban, witnesses said, while others wore black head scarves. Most were in civilian clothes, but a few wore camouflage fatigues. Some carried sophisticated machine guns, and others wielded the AK-47 rifles widely used by African insurgents. Most of the ...
  • Coincidence? Pressure piles on Obama to strike ...
    Some lawmakers and analysts in the United States are urging President Obama to launch strikes against al-Shabaab with the aim of preventing more terror attacks in Kenya and possibly the United States. ''We're talking about very significant terrorist groups here which are showing a capacity to a ...
  • Congressional Nazi Mike Rogers wants to "kill ...
    A look back... Here's an idiot Congressman and former FBI agent calling for the state murder of Bradley Manning. What did Bradley Manning do? He released video that documented a war crime. Let's remember what happened here. A helicopter attack ship hovered over a group of unarmed men, includ ...
  • College students: Psychiatry targets them for ...
    Send your child to college, and watch him earn a mental-disorder diagnosis. What better target-rich environment for pharma/psychiatry to exploit than colleges? Constantly renewing enrollments of the young and vulnerable, under pressure to perform academically, away from home for the first time ...
  • Rising food prices causing stress in 41% of UK ...
    Rising food prices are causing stress for four in 10 consumers, while a third say they are struggling to feed themselves or their family. Almost eight in 10 shoppers (78%) are concerned about the increasing cost of food, with almost half (45%) spending a larger proportion of their available inc ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Something of value . . .
    MONEY IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE IT IS. You believe that new plastic twenty is worth twenty dollars and so does the beer store. Properly, that twenty is termed Fiat money, its value is decreed by the issuing authority. There are lumps, but these currency systems work reasonably well world wide ...
  • Time to communicate . . .
    CALL YOUR MP or write or e-mail, or do all three. According to Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada who has a post on TSS, aka TAR SANDS SOLUTIONS NETWORK you should check out, then get hold of your worthy MP. “Tar Sands spills – Over 1.5 million litres and still spilling!!” shows the callous ...
  • Think about it . . .
    Toxoplasma gondii THE ATLANTIC has a fascinating article on how parasites can change how you think and react. No foolin’, they have found that infected people have more car accidents, for example. “How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy”, by Kathleen McAuliffe looks at the research of a Cze ...
  • The most dangerous job in the world ...
    Police officer in Afghanistan ... if you're a woman. Doesn't concern Steve. He's too busy. Not drinking alcohol. Keeping dope away from your kids. Telling us that Syria's use of poison gas is "unprecedented" ... because he's never heard of the Great War or the Nazi gas chambers of the 2nd Wo ...
  • Right under Pookie's upturned nose
    Jeez, Christy! Maybe you can tell us from your waitress days how a major hotel, just a few feet away from you totally unnecessary, high-end, downtown, taxpayer-funded office (that is neither in the capital of the province nor anywhere near your riding), can even think of getting away with this. ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media Push Back Against Absurd Fact-Check Of G ...
    Media outlets are ramping up their pushback against a highly questionable PolitiFact Virginia analysis of the proposed elimination of no-fault divorce law supported by Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia and favorite of "father's rights" groups.PolitiFact ...
  • Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau Fabricates Quote ...
    Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau fabricated a quote attributed to the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) to attack Medicaid expansion in the state while peddling other anti-expansion myths.Watchdog.org Pushed NCPA Claim That Uninsured Virginians Buy Private Insurance Watchdog.org: ...
  • Richmond Times-Dispatch Advances Irrational Ob ...
    The Richmond-Times Dispatch hyped a concern that "nobody will check" to ensure that people who request subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are actually qualified to do so, despite several safeguards and penalties in place designed to prevent fraud.Richmond-Times Dispatch Claims "Nobody ...
  • Fox Pushes Dishonest Claims To Defend GOP's Fo ...
    On September 19, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican plan to cut $39 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Fox News defended the GOP's cuts -- which would result in nearly 4 million Americans losing or seeing a reduction in their benefit ...
  • The Fox Civil War Over Republicans' Obamacare ...
    In recent weeks, Fox News' conservative hosts and contributors have clashed over the Republican strategy to defund Obamacare by threatening to shut down the government. Some Fox personalities have said the strategy is "the right thing to do" and "anything less is a betrayal"& ...

Global Research.ca

  • Peasant Farming, Food Security and Agroecology
    GRAIN | La Vía Campesina | ETC Group Media release La Vía Campesina, GRAIN and ETC welcome a new UNCTAD report which states that farming in rich and poor nations alike should shift from monoculture towards greater varieties of crops,…
  • Nothing Sexier Than the Status Quo: Germany’s ...
    The Hofbräuhauses were packed to capacity this past weekend, as Germans congregated en mass in anticipation, as Bayern Munich joined Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga, thanks to a 4-0 route over Schalke Saturday evening. Yes, Germans seem…
  • Afghanistan and Iraq: America’s Six Tril ...
    by Sabir Shah The decade-long American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would end up costing as much as $6 trillion, the equivalent of $75,000 for every American household, calculates the prestigious Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Remember, when President…
  • No More War for Israel? The People Against the ...
    The past ten days have seen what could be the start of an historic turning point away from endless war in the Middle East.  Public opinion in the United States, in harmony with the majority of people in the world,…
  • Legacy of the “Arab Spring”: Egypt ...
      By Felix Imonti |     Three years has seen the overturn of two government, the deaths of thousands of people and the destruction of much of the Egyptian economy.  In the end, the mobs have changed nothing, except…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • Greenpeace Activists May Be Charged with Terro ...
    Activists trying to stop the work of an oil rig in Arctic waters are being held on board at gunpoint. Jumping from helicopters and slithering down ropes, more than a dozen armed Russian coastguard workers boarded a Greenpeace ship and took custody of the activists on board, to stop them from ...
  • Fukushima Operator Dumps 1,000 Tons of Pollute ...
    The rain from typhoon Man-yi lashed near the broken plant, swamping enclosure walls around clusters of water tanks containing toxic water that was used to cool broken reactors. The operator of the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it dumped more than 1,000 tons of polluted wate ...
  • 5 Things You Should Know About Colorado's '1,0 ...
    Boulder may record more rainfall this past week than it usually gets in a year. Colorado’s Front Range has been ravaged by heavy rain and flooding since last week, with 15 counties now impacted: Boulder, El Paso, Larimer, Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Fremont, Jefferson, L ...
  • What We Can Learn from the Deadly Boulder Floods
    We can keep arguing whether the devastating still–unfolding flood in Colorado was caused (or amplified) by climate change (or not) or we could get serious about addressing the climate crisis. On Thursday as I was reading about war and peace, headlines about a flash flood in Boulder kept arriv ...
  • California Poised to Enact Dangerous Fracking Bill
    A bill that started out aimed at protecting Californians from fracking veered off course. Sacramento -- Senate Bill 4, a controversial bill sponsored by Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) that opponents say would clear a path to increased fracking, passed the California Legislature on Wedne ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Groups Protest Permit for Louisiana Coal Terminal
    PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana (Sept. 18) – Community and environmental organizations lodged a formal protest against the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’s recent permit for a coal export terminal in the already polluted Plaquemines Parish corridor. In a letter sent to LDNR Secretary St ...
  • Draw the Line – Saturday, September 21, 2013 – ...
    This coming weekend is a busy one for folks concerned about a variety of issues around climate change and eminent domain focusing around the Texas leg of the Keystone XL and other tar sands pipelines. Saturday, September 21, 2013 is a national day of action, some of the events happening in Texas ...
  • Western wildfires expected to double by 2050
    Climate change will dramatically alter wildfire patterns in the western United States before the century ends, studies show. According to a new study of future wildfire activity and smoke pollution “Ensemble projections of wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations over the wester ...
  • CPS Energy must meet demands before raising rates
    SAN ANTONIO – The newly formed Re-Energize San Antonio Coalition called on CPS Energy to meet a set of conditions before following through with an October rate hike. Describing the hike as an increase that will “unfairly burden residential taxpayers,” coalition members called on CPS to take step ...
  • San Antonio coalition demands CPS action
    The newly formed Re-Energize San Antonio Coalition put its opposition to CPS’s proposed rate hike on the record during a Sept. 9 citizen’s input meeting. Coalition representatives presented the utility with a plan of action that they want addressed before an increase goes into effect ...

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Grassroots

  • Bid on Unique Items -- Grassroots Internationa ...
    mv_exterior.jpeg As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations, Grassroots International is holding an online auction. Thanks to generous donors, we have a variety of unique items that our supporters can bid on. read more
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky
    Subheadline:  Panel of global leaders discuss: Women, social movements and the power of partnership Image:  merged_wmw-lvc_logos.jpg When: Saturday, September ...
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky Panel of glo ...
    Boston-based Grassroots International will present a panel featuring leaders of some of the world’s most powerful and promising social movements at a special event on September 28. Date and Time:  September 28, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm ...
  • Defending Indigenous Territories and Waters in ...
    copinh_sign.jpg Whether it’s life imitating art or the other way around, the assault so dramatically captured in the Hollywood blockbuster film Avatar (2009) is not pure fiction. The reality is that countries and corporations that are hell- ...
  • No to the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
    Subheadline:  To confront the climate emergency we need to dismantle the WTO and the free trade regime Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  This statement was written and signe ...

Climate

  • Santa Monica Bets on Electric Cars, but Consum ...
    (New York Times) It would seem to be a good time to own an electric car in Santa Monica. From the charging stations dotted around town to the dedicated public parking spaces — all provided at no cost by the city — Santa Monica has ro ...
  • Old Business Models Holding Back Clean-Energy ...
    (Midwest Energy News) While cost and technological barriers are commonly seen as the primary factors holding back clean energy, a new report says outdated utility business models are the real culprit. The report, dubbed America's ...
  • Money Flowing to Build Pipelines
    (Houston Chronicle) Pipeline operators have been roaring into public markets in search of badly needed capital, diving into an untapped money pool as the country grapples with a lack of energy transportation infrastructure. Yield-star ...
  • Oil Railway to Prince Rupert Could Carry North ...
    (CP) CN Rail, at the urging of Chinese-owned Nexen Inc., is considering shipping Alberta bitumen to Prince Rupert, B.C., by rail in quantities matching the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, documents show. Internal memos obtain ...
  • Federal Standards Needed for Safe Arctic Drill ...
    (Houston Chronicle) Hunting for offshore oil in remote and unforgiving Arctic waters requires vessels capable of withstanding crushing blows from icebergs, a nearby stash of emergency equipment and other specialized resources, accordin ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Government By Kludge
    While reading Steven Teles's long tome on kludgeocracy in National Affairs, I was reminded of what a Philadelphia congressman once told me in confidence. He told me that he favored the introduction of gambling in Pennsylvania because it is a painless way to raise revenue. The congressman told ...
  • Now, That's Conceited
    I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey where "Yale Sucks" t-shirts were ubiquitous precisely because there was no argument that Harvard was the country's premier university and the only debate was over which institution deserved the position of number two. Sometimes people would acknowledge that St ...
  • The Bloom is Off the Rose
    [Also appearing at the Washington Monthly] On the one hand, Javier Hernandez's piece on Bill de Blasio in the New York Times appears to be factual. On the other hand, it reads like a real hatchet job. Sometimes, I guess, the truth hurts. Or, at least, the truth has the potential to hurt. ...
  • Potential to Reshuffle Congress
    As we embark on a week of shutdown/debt ceiling negotiations, it is helpful to read Paul Kane's roadmap in the Washington Post. He has Harry Reid passing the Senate's version of the Continuing Resolution around dinner time on Sunday the 29th, barely more than 24 hours before the government runs ...
  • When Will Boehner Cave?
    Jonathan Bernstein, at The American Prospect, tries to game out how the politics will unfold after a hypothetical government shutdown, but he ultimately decides that a shutdown is unlikely. Because we're dealing with both a potential shutdown and a crisis over raising the debt ceiling, I think ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Have a look at our coolest links from around the internet this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Reusable Toilet Paper: Handy Solution or Big P ...
    If talk turns to whether we should be reusing toilet paper, some get a bit grossed-out. Still, do the pros of reusable toilet paper outweigh the cons? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Dive into our pick of this week's coolest links and pics from around the web. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stunning Aerial Attack: Peregrine Falcon Snatc ...
    In this amazing sequence of photographs, we witness a gripping scene, as a peregrine falcon pursues, catches and proceeds to feast on her willet prey. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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    Find out what we've been checking out this week in our fabulous link round up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Rihanna's Instagram Photo With Slow Loris Lead ...
    Rihanna's Instagram Photo With Slow Loris Leads Police To Smugglers Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. A huge step in facing devastating reality - In ...
    San Francisco Chronicle A huge step in facing devastating reality Inquirer.net “Mining of coal, especially mountaintop removal, causes additional environmental damage and human suffering. It is time for all the coal plants to be closed, indeed, averting climate disasters demands that all coal em ...
  • GET OUT AND DO IT: Your three-day forecast - M ...
    GET OUT AND DO IT: Your three-day forecast Moscow-Pullman Daily News Moving Mountains: Impacts of Coal Mining in Appalachia - Elaine Alvey, a native of Kentucky, will give a presentation on "Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia" 7-8:30 p.m. in Room 103, Menard Law Building at ...
  • Commentary: Coal removal reclaims the American ...
    Commentary: Coal removal reclaims the American dream Towerlight Last Thursday night, TU hosted a panel discussion on the economic, social and ecological consequences of mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. The panelists talked about how coal sludge was pumped into abandoned mines, w ...
  • Healthy Great Tasting Food For Everybody: The ...
    Healthy Great Tasting Food For Everybody: The Passionate Work of Colin and ... OpEdNews We call for an end to mountaintop removal, forest devastation, and acidic oceans eating away at their coral. We are helping one another to reclaim our intrinsic power"power to which we have been blinded ...

Memeorandum

  • I Quit Teach for America (Olivia Blanchard/The ...
    Olivia Blanchard / The Atlantic Online: I Quit Teach for America  —  Five weeks of training was not enough to prepare me for a room of 20 unruly elementary-schoolers. … The phrase closing the achievement gap is the cornerstone of TFA's general philosophy, public-relations ...
  • Obama selfish, stubborn on health care: Column ...
    Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today: Obama selfish, stubborn on health care: Column  —  The majority of Americans don't want the flawed ObamaCare, so why is the president pushing it?  —  CONNECT  —  So the Republican-controlled House of Representati ...
  • SAS hero of the mall massacre: Off duty soldie ...
    Daily Mail: SAS hero of the mall massacre: Off duty soldier with a handgun saved 100 lives as terrorists ran amok  —  An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.  —  The soldie ...
  • Senate GOP Prepares to Shoot Down Cruz's Obama ...
    Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest Deliberative Body: Senate GOP Prepares to Shoot Down Cruz's Obamacare Strategy  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and many of his rank and file are poised to cast votes this week that will effectively rebuke Sen. Ted Cruz's effort ...
  • Obama: I Haven't Had A Cigarette In Six Years ...
    Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed: Obama: I Haven't Had A Cigarette In Six Years Because I'm Scared Of My Wife  —  The president gives a different quit date than the one the first lady has given.  —  View Video ›  —  President Obama got caught on ...

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  • Gov't shutdown won't cut flood aid to Colorado ...
    This official photograph released on Twitter by the office of US Vice President Joe Biden shows Biden speaking at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Recovery Center on September 23, 2013 in Greeley, Colorado.Vice President Joe Biden visited flood-stricken Colorado on Monday, and ...
  • Sikh professor who wrote on US hate crimes ass ...
    Members of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin attend a vigil to mark the one-year anniversary of a shooting at the temple, August 5, 2013 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.A Sikh professor at Columbia University who had written about hate crimes against the community said Monday he became a victim himself dur ...
  • Former FBI agent pleads guilty in AP leak case
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation crest on August 3, 2007 in Washington, DC.A former FBI agent is pleading guilty to charges he leaked secrets to journalists about a failed Al-Qaeda plot in a case marked by the controversial seizure of reporters' phone records, US prosecutors said Monday.The ...
  • Former FBI agent pleads guilty in AP leak case
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation crest on August 3, 2007 in Washington, DC.A former FBI agent is pleading guilty to charges he leaked secrets to journalists about a failed Al-Qaeda plot in a case marked by the controversial seizure of reporters' phone records, US prosecutors said Monday.The ...
  • US seeks details on Muslim Brotherhood ban
    Supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi protest on September 20, 2013 in Alexandria.The United States said Monday it was seeking further details after an Egyptian court banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets seized."The details of this decision remain unclea ...

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  • Syria News - Sep 24
      Syria's Assad vows compliance with chemical weapons deal, blasts U.S. over threat of force - latimes.com VIDEO: Syria's Bashar al-Assad condemns US over 'war' threat - YouTube Lavrov: US pressuring Russia into passing UN resolution on Syria allowing military force - RT News Russia R ...
  • CODEPINK Crashes Congressional Drone Party, 9- ...
  • Listen to Marcy Winograd, Guest-Hosting for Li ...
    Which Aired Today, Monday, September 23rd, 7:00 AM at KPFK Archives: http://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_130923_070004ctd.MP3 It might take a few minutes to download. - KPFK 90.7 FM Radio - www.kpfk.org Don't miss Marcy's incredibly right-on opening about the use of chemical weapons by the United ...
  • A Tale of Two Congress Members
    In 2010 in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, many people who prioritize peace over war probably voted for Democrat Tom Perriello over Republican Robert Hurt.  I know many who did just that. Here's what Congressman Hurt said on Tuesday about Syria: "I have repeatedly stated ... that b ...
  • After decades US still has huge poison gas sta ...
    By Dave Lindorff   The US is demanding, in negotiations at the UN, that all Syrian chemical weapons, stocks and production facilities be eliminated by June 30 of next year. This has an element of hypocrisy, because the US itself has been incredibly slow about eliminating its own stocks of c ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Iran says they’ve decoded downed CIA drone
    Iranian officials say they have successfully hacked the Central Intelligence Agency drone that the United States lost possession of nearly two years ago near the city of Kashmar. Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander general of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, told the ...
  • Washington Navy Yard Shooter Was At The Boston ...
    Can this explain why Alexis had to be eliminated? (Before It’s News) The above picture is that of Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis.  Mr. Alexis killed 12 people and wounded 10 others before police shot and killed him. Compare that picture above with this picture below.  Look in th ...
  • UK Man Wins Court Case Against BBC For 9-11 WT ...
    Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was no ...
  • 51 UN Countries Vote to Keep Israel’s Nuclear ...
    By 21wire With all of the 24/7 righteous indignation about weapons of mass destruction in Syria and call for ‘compliance with international norms’, the mainstream media barely mentioned this week’s UN vote on whether or not Israel should enter the international community by allowing nuclear weap ...
  • The iPhone’s Fingerprint Sensor Has Alre ...
    John Herrman BuzzFeed Staff A European hacker group has announced a simple, replicable method for spoofing Apple’s TouchID fingerprint authentication system. “A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s sec ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • We are the attackers in the Clash of Civilizat ...
    Summary:  The world is wracked by a clash of civilizations. America is the aggressor. Those who oppose us are on the defensive. America is winning, with eventual victory almost certain. Second in a series, an updated version of posts from June 2008. Contents of this series (a)  How I learned to ...
  • A harsh clear look at the history of the Repub ...
    Summary: Understanding the roots of our dysfunctional political system requires shining a harsh light on the institutions that run the system. This post looks at the Grand Old Party, born fighting against slavery — and a sad history in the 20th Century. Contents The GOP’s great betra ...
  • Do you look at our economy and see a world of ...
    Summary: Among the many goals for the FM website, two are perhaps the most important.  First, we are too often lost in the now. Buried in the daily multimedia tide we lose sight of our track — the trend of events, which we see only by frequently looking backward along the path. I believe t ...
  • Different answers to your questions about the ...
    Summary: We have now had a 24 hour avalanche of analysis about the Fed’s decision not to taper. Most technically accurate, as economic news often is. But myopic, as news coverage usually is. Today’s post gives a wider perspective on this decision, putting it in the content of the Gre ...
  • Government economic stimulus is powerful medic ...
    Summary:  Today America passed an important fork in the road, an easy exit from the massive monetary stimulus running since the crash. If the economy continues it slow growth (well below the 2% stall speed) today might have been the last opportunity for an easy exit. Today also demonstrated the ...

The Progressive Realist

  • 5 Stories to Follow During UN Week
    The 68th General Assembly swings into full gear as hundreds of world leaders descend on New York for the annual confab. Here are five stories that will drive diplomacy during the United Nations General Assembly meeting this week. 1) How Do You Say “Constructive Engagement” in Persian? What a dif ...
  • The Strategy that Dare Not Speak Its Name
    As the past weeks of debate over action in Syria have shown, it’s nearly impossible to discuss U.S. policy toward the Middle East without discussing Iran, and concerns over the possibility that it could obtain a nuclear weapon. Over the past three decades, the U.S. approach to the region has bee ...
  • The Week Ahead, Sept. 21-28
    Obama, Rouhani to Speak at UN on Sept. 25 Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani has launched a charm offensive that opens new possibilities for the stalled talks relating to Iran’s nuclear program. Those talks, between Iran and the United States and its P5+1 partners are expected to r ...
  • Top of the Morning: Scores Killed in Latest Bo ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Nigeria: Scores Killed in Brazen Boko Haram Attack The long festering conflict took a turn for the worse. “At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials. Disguised ...
  • Top of the Morning: ICC Case Against Kenyan Le ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest The ICC Case Against Kenyan Leaders is Sort of Crumbling Witnesses are not showing up to testify against Kenya’s deputy prime minister William Ruto. “The start of Ruto’s trial on Sep. 10 was delayed due to the absence of a key prosecution witness from the Rift Valle ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Real Origin of "Clinton Fatigue"
    This week sees two big articles about the Clintons, one on Hillary in New York magazine, and one on the Clinton Global Initiative (but also about Hillary) in The New Republic. So it isn't too surprising to see Salon's Joan Walsh pen an article titled, "I have Clinton fatigue—and it's not even 2 ...
  • The Arbitrary Nature of Media Attention
    Do you have an opinion about John Boozman? How about Joe Donnelly? Any strong feelings about John Hoeven? Or Jim Risch? I'm guessing that you haven't heard of them, or if you have, you certainly know almost nothing about them. To most Americans they might as well be infielders for a double-A ba ...
  • If New York Didn’t Have One of the Best System ...
    Last week, we talked about the role that outside spending played in the New York City Council race and how of the 20 candidates Jobs for New York supported, 16 won. However, as Mark Schmitt at The New Republic pointed out, over half of the candidates Jobs for New York supported also had the sup ...
  • Can Republicans Buck the Tea Party?
    AP Photo/Harry Hamburg Since the Tea Party emerged following President Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, Republican governors have frequently been the faces of some of the most extreme policies in recent political memory. Even before her infamous “finger point” at the president, Arizona’ ...
  • The Strategy that Dare Not Speak Its Name
    As the past weeks of debate over action in Syria have shown, it’s nearly impossible to discuss U.S. policy toward the Middle East without discussing Iran, and concerns over the possibility that it could obtain a nuclear weapon. Over the past three decades, the U.S. approach to the region has be ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Hundreds Flock to North Dakota to Protest Plan ...
    An estimated 400 people gathered in the tiny town of Leith, North Dakota, this past weekend to denounce white supremacist Craig Cobb’s plans to buy enough property and recruit enough fellow racists to take over the local government and establish an all-white enclave. “We will be here again and a ...
  • Columbia University Professor, a Sikh Physicia ...
    Shortly after a white supremacist stormed into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and killed six worshipers last year, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, a Sikh-American physician and assistant professor of international affairs at Columbia University, co-wrote a column for The New York Times noting the “long history ...
  • Mother of Molestation Victim Furious at Plea D ...
    The mother of a young girl who claims she was molested by former Minuteman leader Chris Simcox says she’s outraged about a 10-year prison sentence being offered by Arizona prosecutors. She’s raising questions about the handling of the case by Maricopa County Prosecutor Bill Montgomery’s office. ...
  • Militia-leading Pennsylvania Police Chief Slat ...
    Everyone’s favorite “libtard”-hating, potty-mouthed police chief is about to lose his job – but not without a few last jabs before he loses the limelight that has made him something a celebrity in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. The borough council of Gilberton, Pa., voted 6-1 on Thursday ...
  • Teen Bomb-Maker Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charg ...
    A self-styled militia leader in Nevada who set off homemade bombs in the Arizona desert and bragged about wanting “to go to a nursery school and use kids for target practice” has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms violation. Steven Matthew Fernandes, 19, who said he was a member of the Souther ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Civil Rights Groups Ask New Mexico Supreme Cou ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of New Mexico, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the law firm of Sutin, Thayer & Browne APC, and other New Mexico attorneys are filing a brief with the New Mexico State Supreme Court today on behalf of six couples seeking the freedom ...
  • Maine Drone Peace Walk
    Peace activists from Maine and beyond will walk through large portions of our state from October 10-19 in order to bring the issue of drone surveillance at home and drone killing overseas to the public’s attention.  The walk will begin in Limestone in Aroostook County and end in Bath. ...
  • Protesters Demand Transparency for the Trans-P ...
    This afternoon, protesters concerned about the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) covered the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with banners calling for a democratic process and a release of the treaty’s text. The group, which included members of FlushTheTPP.org, CODEPINK, Veter ...
  • A Hotter World Is a Hungrier World Warns Oxfam ...
    Climate change will leave families caught in a vicious spiral of falling incomes, rising food prices, and declining quality of food, leading to a devastating impact on the health of millions, Oxfam warns today.read more
  • Americans Have a Simple Message for EPA: No To ...
    Power plants, particularly coal-burning power plants, are the largest polluters of our nation’s waters, discharging more than 5 billion pounds of toxic contaminants into the nation’s rivers, lakes, and streams every year – more than the next nine top-polluting industries combin ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Reefer Madness Continues: Half Ounce of Pot Ge ...
    Bill Quigley While Colorado and Washington have de-criminalized recreational use of marijuana and twenty states allow use for medical purposes, a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison in New Orleans criminal court for posses ...
  • The Media's Complicity in Cutting Social Secur ...
    Dean Baker New projections show that Medicare will be much less costly than previously thought. (Photo: Gallo/Getty)Most people in the United States have probably heard about the Wall Street efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare.read more
  • The American Dream Has Become a Burden for Most
    Gary Younge 'Since 1977 people have consistently believed their financial situation will improve next year even when previous years have consistently been worse.' (Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images)The final chapter of America' ...
  • The Oil & Gas Industry's Fractured Fairy Tales
    Elliott Negin What if I told you that a recent study found that relatively new, unconventional ways to produce oil and gas--horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking"--added an average of $1,200 to U.S. household ...
  • NSA Stories from Around the World
    Glenn Greenwald I'm still working at trying to get the next set of NSA stories published. That, combined with a rapidly approaching book deadline, will make non-NSA-article postings difficult for the next couple of weeks.read more

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Kenyan security forces claim upper hand agains ...
    Increased levels of international support promised to help end siege after fierce fighting left at least 62 people deadThe siege at the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi appeared to be drawing to a close as Kenyan security forces were in the final stages of flushing out the multinational group ...
  • Britain to give £1bn to fight Aids, tuberculos ...
    Justine Greening says Britain's contribution will save a life every three minutesBritain is to give £1bn over three years to The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Justine Greening has announced at the United Nations in New York.The international development secretary said the ...
  • Yemen leak: former FBI man admits passing info ...
    Donald Sachtleben says he will plead guilty to passing on secret information in case that led to outcry over media freedomA former FBI explosives expert said on Monday he would plead guilty to revealing secret information for an Associated Press story about a US intelligence operation in Yemen i ...
  • Olympic medal mining firm Rio Tinto faces air ...
    British mining company that provided gold, silver and bronze for London 2012 Olympics sued over claims of 'illegal air pollution'The British mining company that provided the gold, silver and bronze for London 2012 Olympic medals is being sued over claims of "illegal air pollution" at the open pi ...
  • Stephen Fry joins demand to end NSA and GCHQ m ...
    Whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations lead to petition signed by free speech groups and high-profile writersStephen Fry will join 40 free speech groups and other high-profile authors and artists on Tuesday to demand an end to the mass surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowde ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
    The Department of Defense has identified 2,258 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans ...
  • Church bombing spurs Pakistan to give up on Ta ...
    ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called off plans for unconditional peace talks with terrorists after a series of deadly attacks that culminated in Sunday's suicide bombing of a church, which killed 83 ...
  • Afghan interpreter in danger of having US visa ...
    Janis Shinwary (foreground) was granted U.S. visa status earlier this month for his assistance to military forces in Afghanistan -- but now his status is under review and he has been left a potential target of Taliban ...
  • Soldier Returns From Afghanistan Surprises Kids
    The class was doing a concentration exercise, and Corey was so focused on his teacher, he didn't even turn to see who tapped him on the shoulder until his teacher told him it was okay to look. When he realized it was his father, he jumped into his arms and held onto him. "I missed yo ...
  • Clashes bombings kill nearly 30 injure others ...
    Clashes and bombings across Afghanistan Monday killed almost 30 people, most of them militants, authorities in Kabul said. Several other people were injured in the conflicts in at least three ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Court Ruling Major Setback For National Securi ...
     "Hundreds of Thousands" of Federal Employees Lose Civil Service Rights Washington, D.C. August 20, 2013. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling today potentially stripping "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees rights under civil servic ...
  • NWC's David Colapinto Featured on Program Disc ...
    NWC General Counsel David Colapinto appeared on The Firm, a show on CNBC-TV18 (India).  The Firm produced an in depth segment explaining the SEC's Whistleblower Policy. Mr. Colapinto shared his expertise in this informational program. 
  • Updated Securities and Exchange Commission Whi ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Senate Establishes "National Whistleblower App ...
    Yesterday, by an unanimous resolution the U.S. Senate declared July 30, 2013 as "National Whistleblower Appreciation Day." The National Whistleblowers Center strongly supports the Senate's historic action and calls on every American reflect upon the tremendous contributions whistlebl ...
  • Washington Journal: Stephen Kohn on the Mannin ...
    Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center discusses the military court's decision to refuse to find Bradley Manning guilty of "aiding the enemy" for information given to WikiLeaks. He also discusses federal laws that cover whistleblowers. Bradley Manning Verdict and Trea ...

TechDirt

  • Another Day, Another Loss For Broadcasters In ...
    Just last week, we noted that a court in NY had rejected an attempt by ABC and CBS to shut down DISH's AutoHopper offering that helps users automatically skip commercials (along with their PrimeTime AnyTime feature that automatically records prime time network TV). That came after a ruling in Ca ...
  • DailyDirt: What's A Good Lifespan?
    There's an Isaac Asimov quote: "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." But if there really were accurate predictions for a person's lifespan, how would people change? Maybe medical science is on the verge of creating a pharmaceutical sol ...
  • Court Fines Patch Editor $300 Per Day For Not ...
    The war on journalism isn't coming from just the federal government. Over in Illinois, a judge has fined Joseph Hosey, an editor for the AOL-owned hyperlocal news site, Patch, $1,000 plus court costs, plus $300 per day for refusing to reveal his sources on a certain story. This is pretty importa ...
  • Spain Ratchets Up Anti-Piracy Laws To Even Mor ...
    If you may recall, for a while, Spain had some of the most reasonable copyright laws around. The country properly recognized that it didn't make sense to blame service providers for the actions of their users, rejecting lawsuits against a number of online services. Of course, this pissed off the ...
  • NSA Complains That It Has To Spend Time Closin ...
    NPR has a slightly bizarre article claiming that the effects of the Snowden leaks "aren't what he intended." Except the article doesn't really suggest that at all. It does focus on how the NSA is now spending a ton of time trying to figure out how to prevent future leaks, but that's to be expect ...

VacTruth

  • Have All Your Staff Vaccinated and We Will Giv ...
    According to MK News, the UK Government has decided there is more than one way to force hospital staff into receiving this year’s flu vaccine. Knowing that many hospitals are struggling financially, the government has decided to turn their hand to bribery.
  • Blood Donations are Potential Biohazard from T ...
    The huge wave of serious adverse conditions after Gardasil vaccination has caused deep concern across the world. However, the suffering may not only be limited to those who are vaccinated. Blood donated from individuals vaccinated with Gardasil may have horrific consequences for the recipients’ ...
  • New Minnesota State Law Bans Cancer-Causing Fo ...
    Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota have banned formaldehyde from children’s products. Sadly, vaccines are excluded from this ban.
  • These Weird New Tricks Are Being Used to Vacci ...
    A recent report has stated the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has plowed $100,000 into the development of small pink and blue silicon bracelets to remind mothers that is time for their child to be vaccinated. These are just some of the tricks being used to vaccinate your children.
  • Baby A’s Parents Speak Out Publicly On Radio F ...
    Recently, Baby A’s parents spoke publicly for the first time about their daughter's tragic death and their own forthcoming murder trial on Faridinkum Radio, when host Leon Pitard interviewed them along with VacTruth journalist Christina England and retired police sergeant Chris Savage.

BroadSnark

  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The Iranian general ‘running the war’ in Syria
    In the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins has a 10,000 word profile of Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of a branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard called the Quds Force, thousands of whose members are now fighting in Syria. It’s worth reading the whole article, but I’ve picked ...
  • Al Shabaab attack in Kenya
    Jamal Osman, a Somali-born reporter for Channel 4 News in the UK says that his sources say that “some or most” of the attackers in this weekend’s attack on Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi are “Western passport holders”. Channel 4 News reports: Striking at the hear ...
  • Israel steps up campaign against U.S.-Iranian ...
    The New York Times reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, stepping up his effort to blunt a diplomatic offensive by Iran, plans to warn the United Nations next week that a nuclear deal with the Iranian government could be a trap similar to one set by North Korea eight years ago, a ...
  • Give Iran a chance
    Hooman Majd writes: What is striking about traveling to Iran these days, less than a couple of months since the inauguration President Hassan Rouhani, is how little seems to have changed since the latter years of the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was perhaps the most destructive force i ...
  • Yahya Ababneh, source of Mint Press chemical w ...
    Yahya Ababneh, source of a report which alleged that Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan was responsible for the chemical weapons attack outside Damascus on August 21, now appears to be a fraud operating under multiple names using a fake work history and comes from Russia. Brian Whitaker writes: Acco ...

Watts Up With That?

  • An impartial look at global warming…
    Guest essay by M.S.Hodgart (Visiting Reader Surrey Space Centre University of Surrey) The figure presented here is a new graph of the story of global warming – and cooling. The graph makes no predictions and should be used only to … Continue reading →
  • Catching My Breath
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I thought I’d write about something a bit different, still about science, but of another kind. When I was sixty-three, I had the curious experience of getting my heart and lungs and all tested to … Continue reading →
  • A new use for those old AOL discs we have accu ...
    From The Optical Society and the “so crazy it just might work” department comes this curiosity: Spinning CDs to Clean Sewage Water Scientists find a potential new use for old music CDs: coating disks in photocatalytic compounds and spinning them … Continue reading →
  • Social Good Summit turns to hatefest – A ...
    The “Social Good” summit in NYC going on today bills itself as: A three-day conference where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. The Social Good Summit is a three-day conference where big ideas meet new media to … Continue reading →
  • Access: The “leaked” IPCC AR5 draf ...
    For weeks, this document has been put in the hands of most every journalist that writes about climate issues, and many articles have been written about its contents. Given that much of the work done in it was publicly funded … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...
  • ▶ Atherosclerosis
    This 3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack myocardial infarction from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the endothelial arterial wall, ...
  • Development of a fly embryo in real time
    Development of a fly embryo in real time – YouTube.
  • GBacteria from Lean Humans Can Slim Obese Mice
    Graduate student Vanessa Ridaura and colleagues at the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the September 6 issue of Science that mice lacking bacterial colonies of their own that received gut bacteria from obese humans put on mo ...
  • Brain circuit can tune anxiety
    Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective and have unwanted side effects. To develop bett ...

CFACT

  • Obama’s war on energy is NOT “unbe ...
    Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging.   Fracking News The unusual collaboration of the ...
  • Taking cancer to the mat: 2013 updates in courage
    Ben’s Code was simple. Survive. Think of cancer as normal, and just live your life. Never cry, complain, show pain or fear. Never question your superior ability to survive, or let cancer make you sad or jealous. His code may not work for everyone. It certainly didn’t work all the time for Ben. ...
  • EPA’s McCarthy admits regs are for show, ...
    Pompeo: You bet. And on your website you have 26 indicators used for tracking climate change. They identify various impacts of climate change. So you would believe that the purpose of these rules is to impact those 26 indicators, right? So you put a good greenhouse gas regulation in place, you’l ...
  • Can a victorious Merkel spell energy reform wi ...
    Will a newly empowered Merkel be able to finally grapple realistically with Germany's energy needs? Can she assemble a coalition which is able to do so?
  • 75 years ago: The great hurricane of 1938
    Are you tired of the global warming people talking as if history just started yesterday? They hype Katrina, Sandy and any rough weather which comes our way. Natural tragedies are.... NATURAL. 75 years ago this weekend, nature sucker-punched the Northeast.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Soyuz Launch Causes New Delay to US Cargo Ship ...
    For the second time in 24 hours, NASA and private commercial US rocket company Orbital Sciences on Monday pushed back the docking of Orbital's Cygnus cargo spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS), this time to allow a Soyuz spacecraft to carry new crew members to the space station. ...
  • Apple Founder Steve Jobs’ Home Eyed as Landmark
    The California home computer revolutionary Steve Jobs grew up in and where he built the first Apple computer could be designated a historical site by local officials set to discuss the matter Monday.     
  • Russian, US Scientists Urge Further Research U ...
    Russian and US scientists, who took part in biological experiments on board Russia’s Bion-M1 satellite in spring, have called on respective space authorities to ensure the continuation of research under this project.     
  • Russian Parliament Gives Approval for State to ...
    A bill to hand over control of research institutions in Russia from the country’s Academy of Sciences to the federal government was approved on Wednesday in the federal parliament despite vehement objections from the scientific community.     
  • NASA Launches US Commercial Rocket to ISS
    A rocket and spacecraft developed by a private US company blasted off from a NASA launch pad Wednesday morning on a mission to deliver about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).     

Natural Health News

  • No Good Farms―No Good Food: Tell the FDA to Ba ...
    By Dr. Mercola The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act was enacted in 2011 as a supposed way to ‘better protect public health by strengthening the safety of the food system.’ The Act came in response to a rash of recent deadly foodborne-dis ...
  • Exclusive: Has GMO Alfalfa Already Contaminate ...
    By Dr. Mercola Despite a strong and vocal opposition, genetically engineered (GE) Roundup-resistant alfalfa was approved in late 2011. At the time, many environmental- and organic experts spoke out against it, warning that its approval could be devastating not just for the environment in gene ...
  • Beat Back Cold and Flus with... Garlic!
    By Dr. Mercola If you want a simple way to increase the disease-fighting power of your meals, be generous with your use of high-quality herbs and spices. This applies year-round, but as cold and flu season nears, you may want to consider spicing things up more than you might normally. There ...
  • How to Improve Your Chances of Surviving a Lig ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you’re ever caught outdoors with a thunderstorm approaching, what should you do to stay safe? Obviously, you should head indoors if that’s at all possible, but if not, please, resist the temptation to hide under a tree. Trees are typically the tallest objects ar ...
  • High-Performance Agriculture Can Increase Your ...
    Click HERE to view the entire interview!By Dr. Mercola High-performance agriculture is one of my new passions, and my goal is to provide you with information on how to maximize the time, effort, and energy you’re investing in growing your garden. This new passion is turning into som ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Reply to Goodman Re: War/Not War with Al-Qaeda
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Ryan has a fascinating but problematic post today at Just Security in which he takes international-law scholars to task for opportunistically flip-flopping on whether the US is involved in an armed conflict with al-Qaeda. Here is the crux of his argument ...
  • Lower Courts Narrowly Interpret Kiobel
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford It’s been over five months since the Supreme Court rendered its landmark decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. A quick review of lower court decisions suggests that Kiobel marks the end of the Filartiga revolution in the United States. The most sign ...
  • Welcome to the Blogosphere, Just Security!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Just Security is officially up and running. The lineup of contributors is amazing: the Editors-in-Chief are Steve Vladeck and Ryan Goodman; the Executive Editors are Mary deRosa, the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer, Fionnuala Ni Aolian, and Beth Van Schaack; ...
  • Bashir Calls Everyone’s Bluff, Says He is Comi ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Wow! I kind of assumed all the posturing and tough talk from U.S. and ICC officials would scare off Sudan’s President Bashir from visiting NY next week to address the UN General Assembly.  But it appears he really is coming. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bas ...
  • Events and Announcements: September 22, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The Honourable Justice Dalveer Bhandari – one of India’s most distinguished jurists – will visit York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School from September 22 to 26. RSVP to events can be found here and here. The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (“VJEL&#82 ...

Public News Service

  • Obamacare Support Campaign Kicks Off in Arizona
    Obamacare Support Campaign Kicks Off in Arizona PHOENIX - The sign-up period for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, starts next week. The Arizona branch of Organizing for Action has opened a campaign to encourage enrollment and counter what they say is misinformation being spread about the h ...
  • Teen Birth Rates Down, But is Every AZ Teen Ge ...
    Teen Birth Rates Down, But is Every AZ Teen Getting Facts? PHOENIX - Teen birth rates in Arizona and around the country have dropped to historic lows, according to new CDC figures. In Arizona, today's teen birth rate is down nearly 40 percent since 2001, but is still among the highest in the nat ...
  • "Healthy Forests" Bill Raises Concerns
    "Healthy Forests" Bill Raises Concerns PHOENIX – It might save the government some money, but it won't do anything to quell the controversy over logging in the national forests. That's what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says in a report about a plan to more than double timber har ...
  • Next Threat to Internet: Fast Lanes for $ome?
    Next Threat to Internet: Fast Lanes for $ome? PHOENIX, Ariz. - A federal appeals court heard arguments last week from Internet service provider Verizon, which would benefit if it and other providers could start charging fees to content providers to reach some customers through faster speeds. In ...
  • Campaign Launched for Arizona Marriage Equality
    Campaign Launched for Arizona Marriage Equality PHOENIX - It's only an educational campaign for now, but supporters of marriage equality say their effort launched Tuesday may lead to a 2016 ballot measure to legalize same-sex marriage. The campaign is called "Why Marriage Matters Arizona." Nel ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Lords of Altamont – Save Me (From Myself)
  • R’uh R’oh. OWS Rolling Jubilee got some ‘splai ...
    Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, who has often defended and praised Occupy Wall Street, slams their Rolling Jubilee project over lack of transparency and an apparent refusal to account for the $617,000 it raised to pay off consumer debt. There has been no news on the Rolling Jubilee site in month ...
  • JPL climatologist on California’s future and water
    JPL Climatologist Bill Patzert has some fascinating observations about water in California. Here’s a few excerpts. Read the whole interview. In Southern California and L.A., the average rainfall is 15 inches a year. That supplies enough water for about 5 million people, but right now there ...
  • Activists in Uganda oppose GMO bananas
    GMO bananas are resistant to diseases decimating banana crops in Uganda, where it is a major food. The real problem with GMO crops is restrictions put on them by the vendor, who require repurchasing the seeds for each planting. Poorer farmers may not be able to afford the seeds. These particular ...
  • JPMorgan to refund $309 million for illegal cr ...
    Does the Obama Administration EVER file criminal charges against the big banks? How many more times will JPMorgan pay fines and avoid criminal indictment? But then Obama and JPM CEO Jamie Dimon go way back. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced today that JPMorgan Chase must refund ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Abby Martin Outs POS Judge That Ordered Abu Gh ...
  • Activists Hang Four Anti-TPP Banners on U.S. T ...
      On September 23rd, Social Justice activists hung four huge anti-Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP), banners on the U.S. Office of Trade Representative building in Washington, D.C. None of the activists were arrested, although one, Tighe Barry, was detained briefly during the demonstration, ...
  • Florida college to offer masters degree in Dro ...
    “Son… What do you want to be when you grow up?”   Secured inside a room you need a U.S. passport to enter is a modern arcade of war machines. ‘It looks like a gamer’s paradise: A comfortable tan leather captain’s chair sits behind four computer monitors, an airplane ...
  • Meanwhile, as the War in Syria gets put on hol ...
    US military to hit targets in Kenya, other African states – Report 23 Sep 2013 The United States is reportedly preparing a list of targets for possible military strikes in Kenya and some other African countries. Former US general Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli said the strik ...
  • U.S. infrastructure boom in Afghanistan: $37 m ...
    U.S. general sees problems, progress in developing Afghan air force The U.S.-led effort to train the Afghan air force faces big challenges ranging from security threats to possible repercussions from a new review of infrastructure and equipment projects, the U.S. general in charge said. “T ...

The Air Vent

  • Weaponized “Science”
    I don’t have much time today unfortunately, but there was a minor kerfuffel in the news about a study (a term very loosely used) which according to the media reporters (also loosely used)  shows that Fox news watchers are being tricked by Fox into “distrust” of climate scientis ...
  • Climate Science – A Field of Dreams
    Real Climate is still trying to communicate the message that climate science needs to communicate better, never realizing that the content of their message is their problem.  I mean, the first link on their page is to a Richard Alley presentation, where he flat says that there is no reason to ad ...
  • Regulatory Creep
    The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is one of the largest and most draconian governmental organizations on the planet.  Under Obama, it has also become one of the most powerful.   The ability to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, being one of the chief new results of Obama’s ...
  • Time Travel
    Well, I’m not really interested in replacing coal plants as our eco-nazi climate science community would have us do, but there are a bunch of forms of nuclear power which are viable replacements and this one is fairly interesting to me.   A smaller modular plant produced in a factory using ...
  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook rolling out ‘Autofill with Facebook’ ...
    Earlier this year, news broke that Facebook was testing a mobile payments platform that would allow users to log in for e-commerce transactions using the social network. If you had purchased an in-game credit or a...
  • Insidious, Wizard of Oz buzz on Facebook, at t ...
    While Prisoners may have been the highest-grossing film this weekend at the box office, most Facebook users are talking about Insidious: Chapter 2 and the re-release of The Wizard of Oz for IMAX in 3D. The...
  • Businesses should proceed with caution when us ...
    Photos and images posted on social media websites attract more attention from viewers than anything else. And these images tend to encourage more likes, more comments and more shares than a basic text update or announcement....
  • One small change in your ad, one giant leap fo ...
    Facebook marketing is a vital part of any social advertising strategy, and is critical to building a valuable fan base. The deluge of information on best practices, tips and trends can be overwhelming – but equally...
  • Facebook to lose Engineering and Products VP G ...
    According to AllThingsD, Facebook’s Engineering and Products Vice President, Greg Badros, will leave the company in a few weeks. Badros, who has been with Facebook for four years, confirmed his departure in a statement: I’m grateful...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The support of anti-choice candidates by brand ...
    Anti-abortion absolutists like Americans United for Life (AUL), along with yahooing legislators who serve them, are exultant: "We're winning everything!" they exclaim. A two-legged ego like Rick Perry has even calculated that he can ride the women-bashing wave all the way to the White House in 2016.
  • Fifty Years after the August 28, 1963, March o ...
    Over the past fifty years Americans have forgotten the main objective of the March on Washington. A new book by Professor William Jones restores that forgotten history.
  • Modern Conservatism, or: Who Says That We're O ...
    When attacking a political movement, you must start at the beginning and then cut the foundation out from under it. So let it be with Modern Conservatism. And with Dr. Russell Kirk and his book THE CONSERVATIVE MIND. The book was the intellectual foundation of Modern Conservatism, praised by Rea ...
  • Bye-Bye, Miss American Pie . . .
    There's no chicken in everyone's pot, and it's not morning in America, either. Feels more like permanent midnight is approaching. With thousands of Americans driven into poverty each month, there is a moral imperative to stop this. Sooner or later, we will all become the 99%.
  • Emotional Labor In the Workplace: A Prelude fo ...
    The pattern is fairly clear for those who are paying attention. The recent rash of mass killings in the past 15 years seem to be predominately committed by young, white, middle-class males living in mental isolation and painted as "outcasts," many having a history of early childhood trauma. Rout ...

Switchboard

  • Incentives can Ensure Electric Cars are Afford ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco By signing AB8 (Perea) and SB359 (Corbett), Governor Brown has a critical opportunity to make electric cars affordable for all, cut air pollution, and boost the economy.  These bills ...
  • Joy Covey Leaves Behind a Legacy of Passionate ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The entire NRDC family is devastated by the tragic loss of our beloved trustee, Joy Covey. Joy was an extraordinary businesswoman, adventurer, friend, and mother whose passion and intelligence will ...
  • Thousands Draw the Line, call on President Oba ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. This weekend, thousands of people came together in more than 200 Draw the Line events across 49 states to call on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The overall event was organiz ...
  • Pennsylvania Climate Impacts Report: Over a Ye ...
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In our analysis last year of how all 50 states are preparing for the impacts of a rapidly changing climate, we ranked Pennsylvania among the leading states in the country when it comes to climate prep ...
  • EPA Acts to Protect Future Generations
    Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Director, La Onda Verde de NRDC, San Francisco This past June, President Obama brought a smile to my face when he unveiled his plan to tackle climate change. He laid out a clear plan to solve the problem in a way ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Medicine - Direct Measurement of S ...
    Researchers have made an exciting breakthrough – developing a first-of-its-kind imaging tool to examine myelin damage in multiple sclerosis (MS). An extremely difficult disease to diagnose, the tool will help physicians diagnose patients earlier, monitor the disease’s progression, and evalua ...
  • The Edge of Climate Change - Walk to Mali: Nig ...
    Activists in Nigeria say security in West Africa is directly related to the region’s ability to adapt to climate change. To raise awareness, an environmental group called 'Walk to Mali' is planning a 3,400 kilometer trek from Nigeria to Mali.Climate change is affecting West Africa, where most ...
  • Broken Healthcare - Conservative Health Care R ...
    It has been another rough year for Obamacare. Implementing the main components of President Obama's signature health-care law in time for a January 2014 rollout date remains a struggle. A majority of state governments continue to resist the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid, and only a ...
  • Islam on Edge - Wave of Islamic Mass Murder St ...
    While Islamist terror groups attacked targets in Kenya, Yemen and Iraq over the weekend, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for two suicide bombers killing upwards of 75 Pakistani Christians as they left church services on Sunday. "The double-suicide bombing outside a Catholic church [ ...
  • Pakistan on Edge - Pakistan's Christian Minori ...
    The ancestors of most Pakistani Christians were oppressed, low-caste Hindus who converted to Christianity in the 1800s when European evangelists spread the Christian gospel on the subcontinent under British colonial rule. In the 21st century, Pakistani Christians face discrimination from th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Feels He's In Danger ...
    Edward Snowden the NSA leaker sent word through his attorney that even though he is living under protective guard in the repressive regime of Russia he feels he's in danger and when he does leave his lair he goes out he goes out in disguise.  According to the Snowden's lawyer Anatoly ...
  • The Media is Drinking the "Moderate Iran Kool ...
    By Barry Rubin I have never understood why anyone expected any U.S. action on Iran's nuclear program. Basically there was never any chance the U.S. would undertake any armed action or allow Israel to do so. That may be a good idea, and it may have been inevitable. But the ...
  • New Poll-Public Would Blame Obama For Shutdown ...
    The doom and gloom of the mainstream media and the GOP establishment may be overstated.  In a new poll Pew research reports that in the unlikely event of a government shutdown 39% of the public would blame the GOP, 36% would blame Obama, and 17% would blame both sides. Back in 1995 whe ...
  • Head Of IRS Department Targeting Teaparty: Loi ...
    One of the people responsible for the IRS targeting of Teaparty groups, Lois Lerner has "retired" according to a release issued by the Internal Revenue service. Lerner, the tax agency’s former director of exempt organizations, was placed on paid administrative leave (which is a fancy term for p ...
  • Coincidence? Illegal Immigration is On The Ris ...
    A report from Pew research confirms that the number of Illegal Immigrants Criminally Trespassing Aliens is once again on the the rise, edging up from 11.3 million in 2009 to 11.7 million last year (note in the graph below the term unauthorized immigrant means a person who committed a crime by th ...

Wind Watch

  • A setback for wind farms
    An airplane that never takes off. A diesel truck idling. An interstate highway. Tennis shoes thumping in a dryer. That’s how several Vermilion County residents who live in the California Ridge wind project describe the various noises from wind turbines near their homes. “Sometimes it ...
  • Operator says dozens of endangered bats could ...
    CHARLESTON — The operator of a southern West Virginia wind farm estimates that several dozen endangered bats could be killed by flying into turbine blades during a 25-year period, according to a federal review of the risks to the flying mammals. The estimated death toll comes as Beech Ridge Ener ...
  • Tribes lead fight against eagle ‘take&#8 ...
    American Indian tribes have emerged as vocal opponents of an Obama administration plan to allow wind farms to harm or kill a limited number of eagles. From the Osage Nation of northern Oklahoma to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, tribes are urging the Fish and Wildlife Service to abandon plans to perm ...
  • Planners rule some Lake Michigan Energy Park w ...
    Long-time Lake Winds Energy Park critic Evelyn Bergaila had urged the commission take that literal interpretation of “though shall” rule in violation if there was an exceedance of 45 dba. She said in 2003, during a planning commission meeting, she had been told if there was a violation the turbi ...
  • Federal biologists tally eagle deaths at US wi ...
    Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists. The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nation’s growi ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Aggregation and curation in journalism
    About two months ago, I had to explain the concept and use of aggregation in online journalism to a group of journalists (mostly editors) in Vietnam. I found most of my material in this blog post by Steve Buttry — and in fact, much of what you need to know is in his headline: Link, attribu ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use Hoo ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: I ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...

Facing South

  • How slavery continues to shape Southern politics
    Image Caption:  The slave population, shown in the above map based on the 1860 census, was concentrated in counties where cotton plantations dominated the local economy. Whites in these areas today express more racial resentment and are more li ...
  • VOICES: Tony Hayward got his life back, now ho ...
    Image Caption:  Florida fisherman Joey Yerkes remains too ill to work due to chemical exposures from the BP spill. (Photo via Bridge the Gulf.) Joey Yerkes was a fisherman in Florida when the BP oil disaster occurred, and he a ...
  • Private prisons lock in profits with lockup quotas
    Image Caption:  (Graphic from In the Public Interest.) As U.S. incarceration rates fall, private prison companies are taking steps to guarantee profits with contracts requiring states to either meet prison occupancy quotas or ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will dark money lift Gov. McC ...
    Image Caption:  A political nonprofit that does not have to disclose its donors is running TV ads to boost North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's agenda. A private political nonprofit that does not have to publicly disclose it ...
  • Corporate sponsorship of Rick Perry's partisan ...
    Image Caption:  Texas Gov. Rick Perry is trying to steal jobs from other states, and he's being aided and abetted by major corporations. The Republican governor is traveling to states led by Democrats in an effort to lure ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Let’s talk American public responsibility for ...
    I recently read a Guardian piece on Gitmo.  Here’s an excerpt: Gen Miller suggests reorganising the prisons so that the guards help the interrogators “set the conditions for … successful interrogation”. It was following his visit that torture and humiliation by the guards ...
  • Historical cancer indidence rates controlled f ...
    Anyone know a source for this data?  It would be much appreciated. Every source I find goes on about how increased cancer rates are largely because “we live longer”.  That’s clearly part of it, but how much?  Same thing with heart disease, anyone have that data?
  • Shorter Federal Reserve: The Economy Breathes ...
    That’s what the decision to continue Quantitative Easing 3 (QE3), the purchase of 85 billion dollars of treasuries and mortgage backed securities a month, is an admission of. It is also a way of not causing Brazil and India’s currencies to crash out, which just the suggestion of a re ...
  • Emptywheel is fundraising
    The blog does good work, and Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) does work that is simply not found anywhere else, in depth analysis no one else does.  If you can afford to give (never give if your own food or rent is iffy), please consider doing so. (Fundraising post).
  • Late nineteenth and early 20th century intelle ...
    I want to get some notes down on the reasons for certain literary tropes and intellectual beliefs in the late 19th and early 20th century.  The difference in how our ancestors thought about the world really smacks you in the face if you read 19th and pre-WWII fiction.  This is true from pulp fic ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    21st September 2013 – It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that Open Your Eyes News is to be closing down with immediate effect. I would like to especially thank Kim for his technical expertise, my co-founder Collin for helping get it all off the ground 6 years ago, our 3 longe ...
  • Message from Health & Environment Editor, Janet
    My moniker has been the Biochemist. I’m writing this on behalf of the other editors and technical staff involved with Open Your Eyes News. I, personally, have been involved with OYE News since early June 2009. The first time I met with James was on the 9th June. I started posting by 30th of June ...
  • Image of the week – Technology
  • Quote of the week – Einstein on War
    “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”- Einstein
  • Wave of Iraq car bombings kill at least 48 peo ...
    ABC – At least 17 car bombs have exploded across Iraq, killing about 48 people and wounding 130 as sectarian violence continues to surge. The blasts mainly targeted Shiite majority cities and towns. The deadliest violence was in and around the city of Hilla, the predominantly Shiite capita ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • We'll maintain Belfast to London route, s ...
    INTERNATIONAL Airlines Group chief executive Willie Walsh has reiterated the company's commitment to the Belfast City Airport to London Heathrow route. Mr Walsh said its airline British Airways has outperformed expectations and stood up to competition from Aer Lingus on the shuttle service s ...
  • Two Pune colleges offer professional cour ...
    PUNE: The Ness Wadia College of Commerce and the Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce have tied up with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for a professional course in accountancy, which will be internationally recognised and will be...
  • BAR Team Apprises EU Diplomats Of Kashmir ...
    Srinagar: A delegation of the J&K High Court Bar Association, headed by Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, met a visiting diplomatic team from the European Union here today. The members of the delegations had a frank discussion with the Ambassadors of the European Union and they apprised them o ...
  • Pune Municipal Corporation to buy helmets ...
    PUNE: To make fire fighters in the city better equipped at work, the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) standing committee on Monday approved the procurement of as many as 300 firefighting helmets. These helmets will not only be helpful during fire disasters, but will also come handy...
  • Traffic police revise Fergusson College r ...
    PUNE: The traffic police on Monday announced some changes in the no-parking restrictions for the right side of the Fergusson College road stretch, starting from Goodluck chowk. In the revised plan, to be implemented on a trial basis for a period of 15 days, parking of...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • Humanity's Heating of Planet is Planting Seeds ...
    Pregnant mother Salma faces food shortages due to flooding in her village, Char Atra, in Bangladesh. (Photo: Dan Chung)It is nearly a cliché to declare that the failure of the world's governments to respond to the repeated warnings by scientists and environmentalists about the perils ...
  • "Rattled" by Prospects of US/Iran Talks, Israe ...
  • 'Flush the TPP!': Protesters Scale Trade Build ...
    (Photo provided by protest organizers)Protesters scaled the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday and dropped banners calling for greater transparency and an end to "corporatocracy" over the ongoing and secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement currently in the wo ...
  • Ecological 'Wake-Up' Call Counters Corporate-F ...
    (Photo: Ivan Muñoz/Oxfam/cc/flickr)The world needs to "wake up before it is too late" and usher in a paradigm shift in agriculture that moves away from industrial agriculture in favor of “mosaics of sustainable regenerative production system" that favor small-scale farmers a ...
  • Counter-Revolution Continues as Egyptian Court ...
    A protester holds a picture of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in central Khartoum on July 8. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters)An Egyptian court officially banned the Muslim Brotherhood from all operations across the country including a freeze on all of the organization's assets an ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Al Qaeda Surges Ahead in Syria
       Rebels Decide to Fight Each Other  While the major powers behind the proxy civil war in Syria go through the motions of working out a diplomatic solution, rebel forces have begun fighting each other, rather than the Assad regime. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants from ...
  • Let Them Go, Mr Putin
    When it suits their purposes, Russia seems to have the same propensity as the US to thumb their nose at international law. Two weeks ago, Putin acquired immense international stature and prestige by halting the imminent threat of US missile strikes in Syria. Now he seems to have squandered ...
  • A Novel Bipartisan Solution to the Economic Crisis
    Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle Walter Rybeck 2011 Book Review What if there were a single, simple solution to the current credit/debt crisis? What if mere tax reform could end the recession, repay public debt, and reverse growing income inequality? What if this tax could also e ...
  • How Whales Become Toxic Waste
    Trashed: No Place for Waste Candida Brady 2013   Film Review Narrated by British actor Jeremy Irons, the main theme of the new documentary Trashed: No Place for Waste  is the major health danger posed by the 7 billion tons of garbage we discard every year. The film focuses primaril ...
  • The Role of Foreign Banks in US History
    Stuff They Forgot to Teach in High School The Money Masters Ben Still 1996 Film Review   Produced twelve years before the 2008 economic collapse, The Money Masters provides a comprehensive outline of the role of the international banking cartel in hijacking America’s so-called ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Road to Daegu Series: Energy Growth in the Mid ...
    Our most recent “Road to Daegu” round table discussion took place in Abu Dhabi, where the panel debated energy trends in the Middle East, such as increasing energy demand, consumption, efficiency, renewable sources, oil and gas exports, and training of local personnel.
  • Part 2: The Mad Scientists at the Department o ...
    The National Laboratories have a storied history and presence in the energy innovation space. They have evolved over time to conduct “big science” to address leading national missions and solve complex societal problems, and their work in clean energy is no different.
  • US Nuclear Energy Plant Performance August 2013
    I realize that I may be accused of cherry-picking a particularly good month for US nuclear power plants, but I wanted to share something that helps to explain why I am so darned enthusiastic about nuclear energy’s potential to improve the human condition.
  • Colorado Flooding: How Fantasy Becomes Fact
    The flooding in Colorado has wreaked tremendous devastation, and by one estimate the costs will total about $2 billion. There are still some people remain unaccounted for and it will be many months if not longer before the Front Range recovers.
  • FAQ: What Is This New EPA Carbon Pollution Sta ...
    We have an obligation to protect future generations from the costs and risks of climate change. It's the most pressing environmental challenge of our time. It's already imposing large and growing costs on our country. It's putting our future at risk.

Rodale News

  • New Bill Would Finally Define "Natural" Food L ...
    Sick of trying to figure out whether "natural" foods are, in fact, made from ingredients you can find in nature and not ones that started life in a lab and trying to read impossibly small Ingredients lists? So is Congress, apparently. Congressman Frank Pallone (D–N.J.) and Congresswom ...
  • Dinner and the Dead Zone
    By Philippe Cousteau, Jr, cofounder and president of EarthEcho International When we look at big environmental problems, sometimes it's difficult to find ourselves in the equation. Not many of us have a melting icecap in our backyard or a degraded rain forest down the street. Many of us struggl ...
  • What's Fueling the Spread of This Deadly Fungus?
    Thankfully, Crytococcus gattii is extremely rare. Since 2010, just 40 people in the United States have died as a result of infections caused by the fungus. But it appears the fungal infections' range is expanding. When it does strike and sicken, the consequences of infection from C. gattii can ...
  • The New MRSA Threat Near Your Home
    What causes MRSA? We know it's a drug-resistant bacterium, one not easily killed off by antibiotics. But where, exactly, are people coming into contact with this nasty pathogen that's responsible for nearly 80,000 infections a year? Previously more prevalent in hospitals, increasingly, MRSA is ...
  • This Week's Pickings: Vegan "Eggs," Fracking a ...
    Flooding and fracking in Colorado—a double disaster. (Rolling Stone) Fitter kids remember more and score better on tests—can we please bring back Phys Ed? (NYTimes.com Well blog) DIY trick: Put (organic!) cornstarch in your beauty products to mattify them. (Into The Gloss) Are the new vegan "eg ...

big think

  • Always Late and Over Budget? How to Stop Under ...
    ClearerThinking.org helps individuals hone their decision making skills and avoid common thinking traps. Our suite of free, online courses, which are now available in association with Big Think Mentor, will teach you useful skills that you can immediately apply in your life ... Read More
  • Wealthy Chinese Seek American-Born "Designer B ...
    What's the Latest Development? A growing number of wealthy Chinese couples are turning to agencies to help match them with an American-born surrogate, who will carry and eventually bear a child on American soil. When that child, a natural-born citizen, turns 21, they can apply for perman ...
  • Do We Show Our Real Selves While Sleeping?
    “Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed/ The dear repose for limbs with travel tired,” William Shakespeare writes in his Sonnet 27. “But then begins a journey in my head/ To work my mind, when body’s work’s expir’d.” Shakespeare knew well that the mind took a journey when the body’s trek through ...
  • 625 - Gingers of the World, Unite!
    "All hail! The red, orange and pale!", "Ginger and proud!" and "It gets redder": those were some of the slogans on display across Edinburgh on 10 August 2013, in what was probably the world's first Ginger Pride parade. The march, part of the Edinburgh Fringe festival, was organised by co ...
  • In Peru, Government-Approved Mass Weddings Are ...
    What's the Latest Development? Officials in a growing number of cities and towns across Peru are promoting the benefits and virtues of being married by staging collective weddings involving as many as hundreds of couples at once. In one town, San Juan de Miraflores, nearly 170 couples we ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
    Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.... At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
    The resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary. Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines. [Cf. ...
  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Bohemian Gravity
    As they say on teh interwebz: What’s not to like? Bohemian Rhapsody, a capella, string theory and quanta! “I guess Einstein’s theory wasn’t complete at aaallll!” – solo by Albert Sockpuppet. 15,300 views when I posted…let’s see if we can at least g ...
  • New endocrine disruptor found in bottled water
    Chemistry World commissioned me to report on this new EDC and used a short version of my story. Here’s the full pre-edit. German researchers have used a combination of bioassay work and high-resolution mass spectrometry to pin down the source of endrocrine-disrupting behaviour in 18 bottle ...
  • Silver’s gold standards for stats
    Nate Silver’s Statistical Standards: Statistics aren’t just numbers Data requires context Correlation is not causation The average is still the most useful statistical tool ever invented Human intuition can often cause errors when it comes to making statistical judgments and inferenc ...
  • Could rhyming save the world?
    Could a rhyming comic book help save the world? The Universe Verse is an illustrated, rhyming ode to science that appeals to the child in anyone, and it’s raising money on Kickstarter.com until Sept 29th. Fun-loving authos and illustrator James Lu Dunbar has just launched a fundraising cam ...
  • Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
    Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...

RFF Library

  • Organizational and Institutional Issues in Cli ...
    International Food Policy Research Institute / by Catherine Ragasa, et al. http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01279.pdf [From Press Release]  This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional is ...
  • Wind Turbines Do Not Affect US Residential Pro ...
    A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values in the United States / by Ben Hoen, et al. US DOE, Berkeley National Laboratory http://emp.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-6362e.pdf [From Press Release] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkele ...
  • State-dependent Climate Sensitivity in Past Wa ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (August 27, 2013 v110 n35 p14162-14167; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1303365110 ) / by  Rodrigo Caballeroa and Matthew Huber http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.short Projections of future climate depend critically on refined estimates of climate sensiti ...
  • Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; ...
    US Fish and Wildlife Service | US NOAA (50 CFR Part 424) http://www.fws.gov/endangered/improving_ESA/20130820%20424_19_final%20e-version%20to%20OFR.pdf [From a Greenwire article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd]  The Interior Department late last week finalized a rule to determine how and when it ...
  • Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Asses ...
    National Renewable Technology Laboratory http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/2283.html [From Press Release]  A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive ...

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Die-In Greets Pipeline Pushers
    COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Anti-pipeline activists held a hastily prepared noonhour die-in in downtown Vancouver today to 'welcome' federal government reps here to talk to First Nations leadership about pipelines plans. While First Nations leaders were inside likely repeating their points ...
  • No Consent No Pipelines
    Rising Tide Vancouver: Coast Salish Territories, hung a 30 foot banner saying No Consent No Pipelines off the Trans-Canada Highway today during a “consultation” meeting called by the Harper government between First Nations leaders and government representatives. Energy Minister ...
  • Truth & Reconciliation March Pours Through Dow ...
    COAST SALISH TERRITORY -  A torrential downpour couldn't dampen the spirits of an estimated 70,000 people who joined the March for Reconciliation today. The Sunday march wrapped up the five-day long Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) event designed as a fact-finding process on ...
  • Book Review: Turn Us Again, by Charlotte R. Mendel
    - Published by Roseway - Paperback ISBN: 9781552665701 - Paperback Price: $20.95 - Pages 336 - Available: October 2013   Charlotte R. Mendel's Turn Us Again chronicles the story of Gabriel Golden who upon returning to London to vi ...
  • How special needs cuts affect people with dis ...
    A personal account: “I felt abused and discriminated by the ESIA programme” Many people who rely on income assistance in Nova Scotia have had their special needs allowances cut. Thes ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Writing opinion in turbulent times
    David Seaton's News LinksHard times for a columnist with deadlines to meet. Everything is in the air, variables multiply dizzily.Handicapping the Middle East, more than ever, is mug's game. Years on, Obama is still an enigma wrapped in a candy bar wrapper, Putin... what does he want? Who is Angi ...
  • Chutzpah, thy name is Putin
    David Seaton's News Links "We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." Vladimir Putin "What a crazy world we are living in when Russia sounds more sane and responsible than our own government on a serious international crisis. ...
  • Obama's war - II
    David Seaton's News LinksWhat I think distinguishes Obama from all the presidents in my lifetime, (I’m 69) is his lack of any previous experience of leadership.Even lackluster performers such as Bush II and Carter had been governors of important states. Ronald Reagan had been two term governor o ...
  • Obama's War
    David Seaton's News Links Everything about "Obama's War" is like a bad dream after a heavy meal or some sort of zombie film. It all reeks of decadence and idiocy. So stupid that I have problems writing about it.They say that history repeats itself. I said that this was all like "a bad dre ...
  • Summertime - blogger's rest
    David Seaton's News Links   The endless south Europe August is well underway and I am "busy" sleeping off a a very hard year, which seems to be ending better than I expected. Before it's over I may even get a little beach in, who knows? I probably wont post much of anything till mid-Septem ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Why Do Humans Get Motion Sickness?
    The New York Times reports on a researcher who thinks the traditional explanation for motion sickness is all wet: For decades now, [Thomas] Stoffregen, 56, director of the university’s Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has been amassing evidence in support of a surprisi ...
  • “Ted? Oh yeah, immense a*#hole.”
    Josh Marshall was at Princeton at the same time as Ted Cruz, but doesn't remember anything about him. After Cruz won his Senate election last year, he decided to try to refresh his memory: So I started getting in touch with a lot of old friends and asking whether they remembered Ted. It ...
  • Americans Claim to be Equally Divided on Who t ...
    According to Pew, the public will blame Republicans and President Obama about equally if there's a government shutdown. I suppose this is good news for Republicans, though I'd be really interested in seeing the party breakdown on this question, since I'll bet it's basically a proxy for party a ...
  • The Economy Is Pretty Hard to Understand These ...
    Tyler Cowen is perplexed by the size of the market reaction to the Fed's announcement that QE3 will continue along its present path for the foreseeable future instead of being tapered down. After all, the difference between taper and non-taper is only a few tens of billions of dollars of bond ...
  • The Public Is Massively Opposed to Shutting Do ...
    The public is generally opposed to defunding Obamacare, but it's a close call. However, when the question is whether it's worth shutting down the government in order to defund Obamacare, it's not a close call at all according to a new CNBC poll: Opposition to defunding increases sharply ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Evidence of Yanomami ‘violence’ relies on fals ...
    Survival's Director has demolished Napoleon Chagnon's claims that the Yanomami are 'fierce' and violent in a new paper.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new paper by Survival International Director, Stephen Corry, exposes serious flaws behind the long-standing claims that the Yanomami ...
  • Brazil: Female chief leads re-occupation of an ...
    The Guarani Apy Ka'y community has returned to its ancestral land currently occupied by a sugar cane plantation, amidst threats of death by gunmen.© Tonico Benites/SurvivalGuarani Indians have carried out a courageous ‘retomada’ (re-occupation) of the sugar cane plantation that ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
    The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.

Food World Order

  • David Attenborough says sending food to famine ...
    from independent.co.uk:  Sir David Attenborough (pictured) has attacked the idea of sending food aid to countries enduring famine as “barmy” and has urged for more debate about population control, it has been reported. The natural history broadcaster warned that the w ...
  • CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post- ...
    from wired.com: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms, ranking them by the number of illnesses and deaths they cause each year and outlining urgent steps th ...
  • Just What The Doctor Ordered: Med Students Tea ...
    from npr.org: For the past few weeks, the culinary arts students at University in Providence, R.I., have been working with some less-than-seasoned sous chefs. One of them, Clinton Piper, may look like a pro in his chef's whites, but he's struggling to work a whisk through some bat ...
  • Raw Garlic Consumption Can Cut Lung Cancer Ris ...
    from naturalsociety.com: A new study out of China has remarkable findings in regards to lung cancer prevention. Lung cancer was responsible for the deaths of 158,081 people in the U.S. in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention, above treatment, is cru ...
  • Food allergies cost U.S. $25 billion a year
    from cbsnews.com/: Families with a child with food allergies know keeping their kids safe can be costly, especially when it comes to medical treatment and missed work in the event of an incident. A new study puts a number on those costs across the United States: $25 billion a year. Researc ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Ordinary Americans Talk About The Economic ...
    There are hundreds of formerly prosperous communities all over America that are being steadily transformed into rotting, decaying hellholes.  The good paying middle class jobs that once supported those communities are long gone, and they have been replaced with low paying service jobs if they ha ...
  • Quantitative Easing Worked For The Weimar Repu ...
    There is a reason why every fiat currency in the history of the world has eventually failed.  At some point, those issuing fiat currencies always find themselves giving in to the temptation to wildly print more money.  Sometimes, the motivation for doing this is good.  When an economy is really ...
  • Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before
    The too big to fail banks are now much, much larger than they were the last time they caused so much trouble.  The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years.  Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that ...
  • Janet Yellen: What A Horrifying Choice For Fed ...
    Are you ready for Janet Yellen?  Wall Street wants her, the mainstream media wants her and it appears that her confirmation would be a slam dunk.  She would be the first woman ever to chair the Federal Reserve, and her philosophy is that a little bit of inflation is actually good for an economy. ...
  • Median Household Income Has Fallen For FIVE YE ...
    If the economy is getting better, then why do incomes keep falling?  According to a shocking new report that was just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income (adjusted for inflation) has declined for five years in a row.  This has happened even though the federal government h ...

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    renewable recycling conservation
    CAG plans performance audit of renewableenergy sector
    Economic Times
    "Keeping in view the tremendous growth potential of renewable energy and its growing importance for our economy... my office plans to undertake an all India performance audit of the new and renewable energy sector in the near future", Comptroller and ...
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    Why Most 'Renewable' Energy Sources Aren't Really Renewable
    Wall Street Journal (blog)
    What is the single biggest misconception people have about renewable energy in the U.S.? And why do you think they have this misconception? ROBERT RAPIER: I believe the single biggest misconception is the extent to which most of our “renewable” ...
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    The Day South Africa Got Renewable Energy On the Grid
    AllAfrica.com
    In a historic moment earlier this month, the 312 000-panel Kalkbult Solar PV plant in Kimberley became the first independentrenewable producer to be built, completed and get connected to the grid in South Africa. When the project officially starts ...
    Six Myths About Renewable Energy
    Wall Street Journal
    So, we set out to look at a few persistent myths or beliefs held by both supporters and critics of renewable energy. We've focused largely on wind and solar power, in part because they've shown explosive growth in recent years but also because they are ...
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    Ruth Patrick, ecology pioneer, dies at 105
    Washington Post
    Ruth Patrick, whose studies of freshwaterecology in the 1930s helped galvanize the later environmental movement and whose success in a profession dominated by men charted a course for other female scientists, died Sept. 23 at a retirement community in ...
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    USA: Ecology Seeks Comments on Gold Bar Shoreline Program
    Dredging Today
    The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking public comment on Gold Bar's proposed update to its shoreline master program. The draft shoreline program update will guide construction and development along the city's 4.8 miles of shorelines along May ...
    Ecology picks apart East Monroe draft study
    Snohomish County Tribune
    By JESSICA SPARKS Published Sept. 25, 2013. Ecology picks apart East Monroe draft study. Final study expected this week. MONROE - The state Department of Ecologyhas pointed out major flaws in the East Monroe comprehensive plan amendment draft ...
    Pope returns to social gospel, stressing jobs and ecology
    National Catholic Reporter (blog)
    Rome – On his second Italian trip outside Rome, Pope Francis today visited the island of Sardinia, reinforcing his image as a pope of the social gospel by stressing the importance of jobs and environmental protection. “If there's to be authentic ...
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    Arsenic Contamination Threatens Water in Hanoi
    New York Times
    Arsenic-laden sediment that washed down from the Himalayas eons ago underlies vast stretches of Asia, from Pakistan to China. When it gets into underground aquifers, as has happened in Bangladesh, it can contaminate public water supplies and cause ...
    Water on Mars: Curiosity rover uncovers a flood of evidence
    CBS News
    Water, water everywhere, and some of it fit to drink. That's the picture of ancient Mars that has emerged during the past few months thanks to discoveries by NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the Red Planet since touching down inside ...
    E. coli forces boil-water order for thousands
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    June Swallow of the Rhode Island Department of Health answers questions about the boil water order in the Kent CountyWater Authority service area. June Swallow of the Rhode Island Department of Health answers questions about the boil water order in ...
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    Fort Worth To Hold Public Meeting About Privatizing Water Department
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