- Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- Ubuntu Touch Music App is Quite a Performer Al ...
The first Ubuntu Touch powered smartphone is supposed to arrive in the first half of 2014. When you put that into perspective, there's not much time left for Canonical. Ubuntu Touch already got over-the-air update capability among many other essential features. But the eco-system needs further ...
- Top 5 Video Editors for Ubuntu/Linux
Video editing in Linux is a controversial topic. There are a number of video editors for Ubuntu that works quite well. But are they any good for serious movie editing? Perhaps not. But with the arrival of Linux variants from many big-shots such as Lightworks, things are slowly starting to chan ...
- Valve builds and runs all of its source code, ...
Linux and open source software in general are not something meant for just hobbyists anymore (which I don't necessarily consider as a bad thing). It is widely used by multinationals in various forms, Goobuntu by Google and Sony PS4's Orbis OS being perfect examples. But the rise of Linux ...
- Football Manager 2014 for Linux Release Date A ...
This is great news. After the likes of Dota 2, Half Life 2, Portal and Left 4 Dead 2, another massive gaming title is opening its gates for Linux users. Sports Interactive has announced that Football Manager 2014 will be released on October 31 for Windows, Mac and Linux. ...
- Ubuntu Touch adds Support for Over the Air Updates
With the first ever Ubuntu phone touted to arrive in early 2014, Canonical is wasting no time in the development for Ubuntu Touch for smartphones. Currently, the four supported Ubuntu Touch devices include maguro (Galaxy Nexus), mako (Nexus 4), grouper (Nexus 7) and manta (Nexus 10). Anyone us ...
- Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
- Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
- Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher 2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
- IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
- Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
- The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
- Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
- Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole? Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
- What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK. Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
- Want to know about teens and social media from ...
If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...
- Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →
- Aging Behind Bars
[Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
- The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
[originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
- Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
[Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
- U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
- CLF Week in Links: Food Waste, Pathogens, Chic ...
The exploitation made possible by Monsanto's monopoly control is just as ugly when applied to the soybean seed market as it was when applied by the robber barons of a century ago.
- Let’s Stop Treating Our Soil Like Dirt – Part 1
My own love affair with soil began as a child when I spent countless hours making mud pies, digging in the sand, tending the flower beds next to our house.
- CDC Sounds the Alarm—Where Is the FDA?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a report outlining the dire consequences of antibiotic resistance for public health and the economy. The agency now reports that antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause more than two million serious infections and 23,000 deaths in t ...
- CLF Week in Links: China, Pink Slime, Farm Bil ...
Debbie Stabenow and the rest of the Senate Agriculture Committee appear to be ignoring the glaring reality that China will get the pork and the American public will get the mess of concentrated waste, intolerable odor, pollution of air, water, and soil and the associated environmental harms of t ...
- Hands On in the Community: Notes from a Dietet ...
I’m Bernice. I love the first day of school. This week was the start of a new school year at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and as a second-year student in the coordinated Masters of Science in Public Health and Dietetics program in the middle of her dietetic internship, I ...
- When the law is an ass and the law-makers are ...
I am not sure what the legal definition of a "naturally vicious species" might be, but if it includes a horse then the definition is an ass and any judge applying such a definition would be a mule. The law-makers who put such a definition in place would of course then be donkeys.
- “Black hole” vortices in the oceans
Black-hole like vortices in the oceans could help explain how bodies of water and other matter are transported around the oceans. But I expect there are as yet unknown mechanisms (probably connected with tectonics and vulcanism) for the exchange of water between the oceans and the earth's mantle.
- Another fraudster unmasked in Dutch academia: ...
The retired professor of political anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Mart Bax has committed at least 15 years of serious scientific misconduct, forgery and plagiarism itself.
- Move over Nessie! Make way for the Heat Monste ...
Global warmists, the IPCC and the policy makers who have been duped for the last 2 decades are in a state of complete denial. We know the warming is there because our models must be correct. We can't see it, we can't measure it and we don't know how it got to the deep ocean from the surface but ...
- A parasite which makes for fearless mice
Mice infected by the toxoplasma parasite lose their fear of cats, which is good for both cats and the parasite, because the cat gets an easy meal and the parasite gets into the cat's intestinal track, the only place it can sexually reproduce and continue its cycle of infection.
- Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
Look Left, our round up of the day’s politics, will be going out shortly.
- The three issues Labour must focus on at confe ...
Left Foot Forward is at conference this year, and James Bloodworth has looked at what he believes are the three key issues the party needs to focus on.
- Why Thatcher’s children are key to Labour’s future
If Labour is to win in 2015, it will need to win over 25 to 44 year olds.
- Football can no longer be blind to human right ...
By projecting a positive image of themselves in the UK, repressive regimes in the Gulf are bolstering their efforts to stay in power.
- ConDem policies leave local authorities ‘ ...
As the Labour faithful meets in Brighton this week, one of the party’s council leaders has warned that local authority-run services face being 'decimated' the way Thatcher destroyed many nationalised industries in the 1980s.
- Experts Lambast NSA Spying: Daily Whistleblowe ...
MIT Technology Review: Bruce Schneier – NSA Spying is Making Us Less Safe Image via wikimedia user EFF Prominent cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier, who has been working with The Guardian on the disclosures of NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden, gave an interview ...
- NSA Surveillance Deteriorating US Diplomatic T ...
Huffington Post: The NSA Surveillance Destroys Diplomacy and Democracy President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff GAP Executive & International Director Bea Edwards confronts the latest blow to US diplomatic relations and its international reputation when Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff cancel ...
- John Cusack Challenges Holder to Safeguard NSA ...
The Guardian: Will Eric Holder Guarantee NSA Reporters' First Amendment Rights? Image via wikimedia user David Sifry This important and informational op-ed from actor John Cusack criticizes British authorities for their detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda, and the US governmen ...
- GAP Report Educates Whistleblowers & Lawyers a ...
Since the economic collapse began in 2008, GAP has received an influx of banking and financial institution whistleblowers' requests for assistance – including from employees working for contractors providing compliance services – that continue to this day. Allegations include bank officials repe ...
- Snowden Nominated for Prestigious Human Rights ...
Associated Press: NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Nominated for EU Prize Image courtesy of wikimedia user Rama The European Parliament has nominated NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden for the prestigious Sakharov Prize, considered Europe's top human rights award. Among seven finalists, th ...
- When Will Real Climate Action Begin?
This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell So the IPCC will release their every five year report and it will urge governments to stop their dithering and cut emissions… Well whoop de freaking dooo! The planet is sinking and this consensus of a consensus of many government consensuses is a trag ...
- Op Ed: Israeli Response to Rouhani Betrays Its ...
by Sherwood Ross Israel’s mean-spirited response to Iran’s olive branch actually illuminates its own aggressive posture. Along comes Hassan Rouhani, the new Iranian president, and instead of applauding his initiatives to meet with President Obama and resolve outstanding issues by diplomacy, Isra ...
- Tears on the Wall
Words by Glyn Strong Pictures by Ed Dempsi UPDATED: Just days after Manchester soldier Lee Rigby was brutally murdered in Woolwich, London graffiti artist Paul Smith started working on a memorial. Not the traditional kind, with a name carved in marble or etched in bronze, but one increasingly re ...
- How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hos ...
by Marshall Allen ProPublica It seems that every time researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital patient’s death, the numbers come out worse. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous “To Err Is Human” report, which dropped a bombshell on the medical ...
- The Myth of the “Free Market”
How to Make the Economy Work for Us by Robert Reich One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right (and its fathomless think tanks and media outlets) is that the “free market” is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecuri ...
- “Honey, I shrunk the consensus” &# ...
If you are fed up with dismal papers passing peer review and exploiting the good name of science, join us in protest. Christopher Monckton was not content to let John Cook and others get away with a paper where 0.3% becomes 97%, so Monckton is formally asking the journal to retract it — s ...
- Cook’s 97% consensus is a case study of ...
Agnotology is the study of how ignorance grows through repetition of misleading misinformation. You might never have heard of it, but it’s the perfect term for the climate science “debate”. Predictably its use began when those convinced of man-man global warming claimed fossil ...
- An open invitation to Tim Flannery to explain ...
Tim Flannery. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Dear Tim, Now that the government funded golden platform is gone, you say you will “not be silenced. ” Bravo, I say. Perhaps I can help? When I didn’t want to be silenced five years ago, I set up my own blog. I got no government grants. An ...
- Saturday Unthreaded
For James… Rating: 6.6/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 6.6/10 (7 votes cast)
- More media pressure finally forcing the IPCC t ...
The race in the media continues: The UK Daily Mail (again), The Spectator, The UK Express. The headlines the IPCC must hate just keep coming, now in major newspapers and magazines. Finally, maybe, some of the media is starting to get it. At last also the IPCC is feeling the pressure to explain ...
- Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
- From preserving liberty to destroying it
(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
- Building the free-market case against big business
(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
- New hope for life worldwide
(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
- Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
- 5 Awesome Photos Of Wild Animals In Action
Winners from the Zoological Society of London's Animal Photography Prize 2013. Can the world ever have too many beautifully composed photographs of wildlife? Only correct answer: never ever. So without further ado, here are the winning images from the Zoological Society of London's second annu ...
- FYI: Why Do I Poop More When I Have My Period?
I mean, it's not just me, right? The answer is prostaglandins. These are the chemical signals girls' and women's bodies make and send to the uterus to tell it to contract, thus expelling the uterine lining at the end of the menstrual cycle. Prostaglandins aren't super picky about whom they talk ...
- 7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings
Studies of the human body made by the intrepid scientists of the 1500s through the 1700s
- 7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings
Studies of the human body made by the intrepid scientists of the 1500s through the 1700s Medicine in the Middle Ages wasn't the greatest: the leeches, the dirt, that whole four-humors thing. And yet physicians from all over the world made heroic efforts to develop and share their knowledge. Her ...
- Are Acid Flashbacks A Myth?
Flashbacks do occur, but very rarely. Reports of drug-induced flashbacks have existed since the 1950s. Though the term "flashback" wasn't used specifically until 1969, as early as 1954 scientists noticed LSD users complaining of a reoccurrence of an LSD-like state long after the drug's effects ...
- 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 ...
- Fine end to September & more on rare solar cycle
Fine end to September It’s been an unsettled and often cool September, but the jet stream is on the move northwards in the next few days, allowing high pressure to build across the UK, which will lead us into a very pleasant spell of autumn weather. At this time of the year, the main forecastin ...
- Rare solar cycle has cold implications for UK ...
NASA last week confirmed their prediction that the current solar cycle 24 is likely to be the weakest since 1906. Intriguingly, the current solar cycle shows a striking similarity with solar cycle 5 which was also very weak, with the same double peak as the current cycle, and ran from approximat ...
- Autumn deluge on the way
The fine spell of late summer weather which has seen temperatures today rise to a new September record of 29.4C at Wattisham in Suffolk (beating their previous record set in 1973) will come to an abrupt end in the next 24 hours, and could lead to localised flooding in places. It’s a text book b ...
- Summer warmth similar to 1976 in some areas
Summer (June, July and August) 2013 across the UK has turned out to be the driest, warmest and sunniest since 2006, according to provisional Met Office data. It’s a huge contrast from the awful weather of last summer which was the wettest for 100 years. More interestingly from a local perspecti ...
- Rest of July & early August outlook
Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average. To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record. Of cou ...
- US Now Sends More Immigrants to Mexico
What would Cheech and Chong do about the United States now sending more migrants to Mexico than Mexico sends to the United States? That comedy act is stuck in a time warp where the supposedly backward Mexico always sends its unwashed masses to the United States in search of employment. So are to ...
- Venezuela Nationalizes Toilet Paper Factory
"I am MADURO", etc., etc.[NOTE: For those unfamiliar with the "Beavis and Butt-head" reference, see here.] If this is an example of socialists taking over the "commanding heights" of the economy, I am at a complete loss for words. To me at least, toilet paper manufacturing as a strategic sect ...
- Cola's Final Frontier: Coke v Pepsi in Myanmar
He thought he was the King of America Where they pour Coca-Cola like vintage wine In 1986 Elvis Costello penned the lyrics above to the first song of his album King of America, "Brilliant Mistake." I thought it was pretty crafty way back when, but even then, the snobbery against drinking carbon ...
- The Tricky Business of Catering to PRC Tourists
Since I am currently writing up some tourism-related research, two recent articles about the global industry catering to Chinese travelers caught my eye. While there is some debate going on as to whether tourism is the world's largest industry, we can safely conclude that it is a very large one. ...
- Can Brazil Escape Abusive, US-Centric Internet?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton Think of Barack Obama as the cyber-equivalent of Bashar al-Assad. Just as Assad does not own up to his chemical-attacking ways, so does Obama not own up to his Internet-abusing ways. All his pleas for "Internet Freedom" as they turn out, are mean ...
- 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 ...
- A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 2 The N ...
Many hopes are pinned on the National Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to fill the massive gaps left by the narrow terms of reference of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, and the inadequate time and powers of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. This is th ...
- A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
- US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
- Song of Lying Bishops
To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
- Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...
- 2013-09-05 Barrett Brown to lose his free speech
In the US, we've increasingly seen attacks on the free press. Now, in the case of Barrett Brown, a journalist who's been jailed for the past year stands to lose his free speech. read more
- 2013-09-03 WikiLeaks to launch criminal invest ...
Assange lawyer Per E Samuelson has confirmed that a criminal complaint has been filed at 09:44 on Tuesday 3 September 2013 with Swedish police authorities. The complaint concerns the likely unlawful seizure of WikiLeaks property on 27 September 2010, following publication of the Afghan War Diari ...
- 2013-09-01 Detached Reflections on Resignation ...
Daniel Matthews offers a furtive thought in the context of his resignation on behalf of pure democracy: read more
- 2013-08-22 Manning site launches: Pardon.Bradl ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE David Coombs, chief attorney for WikiLeaks whistle-blower Pfc. Bradley Manning, announced at a press conference near Ft. Meade, MD, today that he is formally applying for a Presidential Pardon for Bradley Manning. Coombs is seeking Manning's immediate release, or at the v ...
- 2013-08-22 Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 yea ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WikiLeaks whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today, an outrage that flies in the face of America's essential ideals of accountability in government, and which seeks to instill a chilling effect on those who'd dare to expose the United S ...
- Ark of Return': Telling the stories of 15 mill ...
A Manhattan-based architect of Haitian descent was today announced as the winner of an international competition to design a memorial that will be permanently on display at United Nations Headquarters in New York to honour victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
- Ban discusses development goals with leaders o ...
Amidst the 1,000 days of accelerated action to reach the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with leaders of two Latin American countries to discuss ways to speed up progress.
- Ban offers condolences, UN assistance as hurri ...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his sadness at the loss of life and damage in Mexico caused by Hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel, and offered the assistance of the United Nations.
- UNESCO chief denounces killing of Colombian ra ...
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the recent killing of radio host Édison Alberto Molina in the town of Puerto Berrio in Colombia.
- UN marks 50th anniversary of JFK's final addre ...
Marking the 50th anniversary of the final address to the United Nations by United States President John F. Kennedy today, senior UN officials are expected to reaffirm his strong support for concerted multilateral action to tackle the daunting challenges facing the planet.
- Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
- Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
- Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
- Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
- September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.
- Save the Lobo! Wolves Need You on October 4
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to strip gray wolves’ endangered species protections and make other changes that threaten the recovery and survival of Mexican gray wolves. On October 4, 2013 the USFWS will hold its only public hearing on both of these destructive proposals in Albu ...
- TrekWest Blog 41: Montana Wilderness Up-close ...
Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:03 PM PDT 30 years of protection frame our hike through the Lee Metcalf Wilderness: late August As I am again far from contact entering Glacier National Park, please enjoy the following submission from Lance Craighead, Executive Director of Craighead Institute – JD A ...
- FATE OF MEXICAN GRAY WOLVES TO BE DECIDED BY U ...
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is currently proposing to remove all gray wolves (Canis lupus), except the Mexican gray wolf subspecies (Canis lupus baileyi), from the endangered species list. At the same time they are revising the rules that guide recovery of the only wild population of Mexic ...
- Earth Island Journal debate – will immigration ...
The Autumn 2013 issue of Earth Island Journal offers readers the chance to vote and express their opinions about population and immigration issues. Please read Dave Foreman’s (The Rewilding Institute) essay, “More Immigration = More Americans = Less Wilderness” and David Foster ...
- BLM Plans to Lease Wilderness-Quality Lands in ...
Recent posts from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance website: As reported this week in the Salt Lake Tribune (8/20/13), The Bureau of Land Management’s November oil and gas lease sale is slated to include scenic, wilderness-quality lands in Utah’s San Rafael Swell, including Eagle Canyon and ...
- Leaked IPCC report, summary, June 2013 version
The summary for policymakers will be officially out on Friday but the nearly final version completed in June 2013 had been leaked – some people say that it was leaked deliberately to prepare the obedient alarmist inkspillers in the media to make their hype easier. Long after these journalis ...
- Anniversary of Lambert who proved that \(\pi\) ...
Tomorrow, we commemorate the death of Swiss mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert (26 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) who left school when he was 12, remained creative, and when Frederick II of Prussia asked him in what science Lambert was best at, he humbly answered "All". So the king sponsore ...
- Should down-to-earth citizens fund high-brow s ...
My short answer is No. Several days ago, we had an exchange with Lucretius who was arguing that to honestly explain that the ordinary people won't enjoy any applications from the string-theory-like research and they won't even be able to understand the evidence that the theory is right (whi ...
- Czech president talks about rodents in EU politics
Czech president Miloš Zeman gave an interview to the Financial Times, Czech president takes swipe at Europe’s ‘great mice’ and it's an example of the funny events that improve my mood (which was already pretty good to start with) – a part of the reasons why I voted for him in the presidentia ...
- IPCC AR5 WG1: preemptive indoctrination
Alarmist journalists already know how everyone will react and should react to an unknown report The almost final draft of the IPCC AR5 WG1 [physical basis] report will be handed to politicians tomorrow in Stockholm. It's my understanding that minor details may still change in the text, unde ...
- Ben Johnson: catching up with a fallen hero
CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault looks at the culture of sports doping 25 years after Ben Johnson’s positive drug test at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Paulina Gretzky and golfer Dustin Johnson ...
- Fmr. US Marine Redefines Patriotism – Intervie ...
from breakingtheset: Abby Martin speaks with former US marine, Ken O’Keefe, about Syria war hypocrisy, Israel’s non-compliance with the International Chemical Weapons Convention, and the dangers of being labeled un-American for questioning government narratives. SGTreport – The ...
- Fmr. US Marine Redefines Patriotism – Intervie ...
from breakingtheset: Abby Martin speaks with former US marine, Ken O’Keefe, about Syria war hypocrisy, Israel’s non-compliance with the International Chemical Weapons Convention, and the dangers of being labeled un-American for questioning government narratives. SGTreport – The ...
- Wireless spectrum auction won’t include foreig ...
Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications and Quebecor’s Vidéotron are among the prominent telecommunications companies that have put down a deposit to take part in Canada’s wireless spectrum auction in January. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund m ...
- Hidden camera found in Vancouver restaurant wa ...
An arrest warrant has been issued for the co-owner of a closed Vancouver eatery after staff say a hidden camera was found in the restaurant’s only bathroom. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Rare Arctic wildlife scenes caught ...
- Home Crime Prevention with Outdoor Motion Light
Crime Prevention for Home - Step One Prevent night-time robbery, theft, and burglary with their fundamental enemy, an outdoor motion sensor light. It’s a simple deterrent, but effective. Motion Sensor lights are your first defense against crime at your home property. Outdoor motion ...
- How Much Is 1 Trillion Dollars
Have you ever really grasped how much 1-Trillion dollars actually is? Our (USA) national debt is $17-Trillion, our unfunded liabilities are $125-Trillion… it’s so mind-boggling – but how much is it really? What’s there to reference so that we can comprehend its magnitude? ...
- 4 Ways How To Tell If A Dented Can Is Safe
This dented can is likely unsafe (dented seams) Some dented cans of food are unsafe and should be discarded, but you may be surprised to discover that most are perfectly safe. Here’s how to tell if a dented can of food is safe to use… By knowing how to tell the difference betw ...
- DHS Now Testing Latest Facial Recognition Tracking
The federal government will soon be scanning for [YOU?] via a new surveillance system that will scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces up to 300-feet away. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will test its crowd-scanning facial recognition system, known as the Biometri ...
- Parent Arrested At School Meeting For Speaking ...
“Parental frustration was mounting as our questions were still going unanswered.” One parent, Robert Small, decided to stand up to the panel and get some answers… “Parents, take control. We’re sick of this. This is not a CNN political game. This is a public town ha ...
- Fast Company's Guide To The Generation Flux Co ...
The cost of college tuition has risen faster than nearly any other good or service in America for more than three decades. A bachelor's degree at New York University, the most expensive university in the country, will now set you back $244,000. The average student loan borrower pays much less bu ...
- Font Fail: Pepsi Teams Up With Rape?
It's hard to imagine an advertising error greater than this one: Pepsi partnered with Japanese clothing company BAPE (A Bathing Ape) to cross–brand Pepsi and BAPE's sub–brand Aape. Unfortunately, a poor choice in typeface choice ensued, and the Aape "A" ended up looking a whole lot l ...
- Emoji Major No. 7: The Best Moments Of The Emm ...
In the name of Emoji Major, I watched my first–ever awards show last night: the Emmys. I figured if I'm covering television like Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights in little people, might as well catch the industry stars up there thanking the little people. The evening really had more in ...
- Faking A Five–Star Review Could Cost You A Lot ...
Giving your one–star company a five–star review could cost you dearly. According to the New York Times, New York regulators have announced that 19 companies are paying $350,000 in penalties for posting misleading and fake reviews on sites like Yelp, CitySearch, and Google. Investigat ...
- Kickstarting: A Gorgeous Chess Set Of Famous A ...
The Staunton chess set has been the worldwide standard for the game for more than 160 years. Named after English chess master Howard Staunton, who signed and numbered the first 500 sets, these are generally the same pieces you, me, and Bobby Fischer grew up playing with. And it's probable that t ...
- ملف من الأرشيف: سميرة عزام
["ملف من الأرشيف" هي سلسة تقوم "جدلية" بنشرها بالعربية والإنجليزية بالتعاون مع جريدة ”السفير“ اللبنانية. الملفات ستكون لشخصيات أيقونية تركت أثراً عميقاً في الحقل السياسي والثقافي في العالم العربي.] الاسم: سميرة الشهرة: عزام تاريخ الولادة: 1927 ت ...
- Rojava's Political Structure
In 1990 Osman Sebrî wanted to pick himself up from his sickbed in Damascus to greet his guest standing. He was eighty-five years old, and in no condition to walk. His guest, Abdullah Öcalan, leaned toward his bed, embraced and saluted him. Arrested along with his uncle during the Sheikh Said ...
- Egypt Court Bans Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood and its NGO banned by a court in Cairo, leaving Islamist group with no legal status. A court in Cairo has banned "all activities" by the Muslim Brotherhood. The ruling on Monday applies to the group, its NGO and "any organization derived from it," judges ...
- From Reagan to Obama: Secrecy and Covert Opera ...
Ronald Reagan was the first American president to put “terrorism” at the heart of his foreign policy discourse. During his first term, Reagan did so mostly in reference to conflicts in Central America. In El Salvador, his administration presented US military aid as necessary to help the Salvador ...
- L'armée égyptienne et la révolution de 2011
L'armée égyptienne s'est imposée comme l'un des acteurs les plus puissants et les plus influents depuis la fondation de l'Etat égyptien moderne. Malgré cela, depuis les années soixante-dix, peu de recherches ont cherché à contextualiser et à historiciser l'institution militaire, alors même qu'el ...
- The Hub of the Twitterverse: The Boston Globe ...
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: The Hub of the Twitterverse: The Boston Globe has built a localized, tweet-powered news aggregator — In the Boston area, the passing of a Dunkin Donuts franchise is news. So are the finer points of Tom Brady's hair. But in this ...
- Memo #3 to Jeff - Data & User Profiling for Th ...
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: Memo #3 to Jeff — Data & User Profiling for The Washington Post — For customer-related technologies, the financial and intellectual backing of Jeff Bezos, and his Amazon experience can give The Post a huge competitive adv ...
- NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imaginat ...
Dominic Rushe / Guardian: NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imagination - Alan Rusbridger — Guardian editor says depth of NSA surveillance programs greatly exceed anything the 1984 author could have imagined — The potential of the surveillance state goes ...
- To "save NSFWCORP", founder publicly solicits ...
Paul Carr / PandoDaily: To “save NSFWCORP”, founder publicly solicits investors on first day of loosened SEC rules — A change in fundraising law, but is there still time to save NSFWCORP from a forced pivot? — You've seen it, of course. &ldq ...
- Apple TV update is back after being pulled for ...
Dara Kerr / CNET: Apple TV update is back after being pulled for technical issues — After downloading a software update last week, some Apple TV users reported losing device functionality as well as stored content. Apple has revamped the update, which now again available ...
- 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...
- Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
- 10 Best British Open Performances
Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
- Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- National Parks at Risk: Photos
National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
- Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
- 9/20/13 - 241 Books Citing ProCon.org
www.procon.org - - 241 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added another 40 books to the list of published texts citing ProCon.org research. Some of the authors who used ProCon.org in their works include Glenn Beck, Mark Bittman, Newt Gingrich, Stefan Halper, Dick Morris, Condoleezza Rice, Michael S ...
- 9/19/13 - Are Cell Phones Safe?
cellphones.procon.org – Are Cell Phones Safe? – The FCC, FDA, and peer-reviewed studies say there is no scientific evidence proving that cell phones cause health problems, while other peer-reviewed studies show cell phones may cause tumor growth, DNA damage, and decreased fertility. Hundred ...
- 9/18/13 - Gay Marriage Timeline: History of th ...
gaymarriage.procon.org – Gay Marriage Timeline: History of the Same-Sex Marriage Debate – Our updated timeline featuring the history of the same-sex marriage debate includes entries ranging from a gay couple applying for a marriage license on May 18, 1970 to Massachusetts becoming the first stat ...
- 9/16/13 - How Educators Use ProCon.org
www.procon.org - – How Educators Use ProCon.org – See the lesson plans, resource lists, and teaching strategies used by educators in over 4,000 schools to incorporate ProCon.org into their classrooms and libraries. Our updated resource lets you search by country, state, school, or subject.
- 9/13/13 - ProCon.org and Pivot.tv Join Forces ...
www.procon.org - - ProCon.org and Pivot.tv Join Forces on Critical Thinking Campaign - Pivot TV, a new television network from Participant Media, selects ProCon.org as its exclusive alliance to promote critical thinking by providing research around the social issues explored in the new TV s ...
- Cleaner Air from Curbing CO2 Emissions Would S ...
Gains in air quality that would come from reducing greenhouse gas emissions could save up to three million lives per year by 2100, according to U.S. researchers. Their findings, published in Nature Climate Change, come ahead of an important interim report by the Click to enlarge Nature C ...
- Will Offshore Wind Finally Take Off on U.S. Ea ...
After years of delays and legal battles, several offshore wind projects seem poised to be launched off the U.S. East Coast. But the lack of stable government incentives and tax credits may continue to hobble an industry that already has a strong foothold in Europe. BY DAVE LEVITAN
- U.S. Places CO2 Limits On New Coal-Fired Power ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will for the first time begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions from new coal- and natural gas-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, EPA Adminstrator Gina McCarthy announced. Speaking in Washington, McCarthy said, “Climate change is real, human ac ...
- Poaching Pangolins: An Obscure Creature Faces ...
The pangolin does not make headlines the way elephants or rhinos do. But the survival of this uncharismatic, armor-plated animal is being threatened by a gruesome trade in its meat and its scales. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
- Climate Change Reporting Focuses on Disasters ...
Nearly 80 percent of news articles about climate change either warn of current or future disaster scenarios related to global warming, or contain discussions about the uncertainty of climate science, an Oxford study of 350 news articles from 2007 to 2012 has found. Fewer than two percent of the ...
- NOconsensus.org - Global warming info you dese ...
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- Science Under Assault
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- West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issue ...
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- Fracking Canada - INDUSTRY'S GAS MIGRATION
Brief Review of Threats to Canada's Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing Tags: canada industry gas hydrofracking ...
- Toxic Environmental Bio Terrain
Corexit and the Gulf of Mexico : environmental horror and WMD
- Favorite "Key Issue" Fizzles Out
With the civil war in Syria grinding through its third year, Egypt descended into ethnic and inter-religious barbarism, and the American Secretary of State reduced to promising "unbelievably small" action by the world's only super-power, it is hard to
- Iran's Disinformation War
Since 1979, agents of the Iranian regime have been linked to the killing of 162 political dissidents in Geneva, Rome, Istanbul, Paris, Berlin and Oslo, to name but a few places. Today, although Tehran's leaders are apparently still not averse to
- Europe: Anti-Israel or Anti-Semitic?
A group of former European leaders have called on the European Union not to ease or delay the implementation of new rules that would prohibit the EU from funding Israeli institutions based or operating anywhere beyond the Green Line, including eastern
- Does Jordan Want Palestinians In Control of Th ...
Palestinian Authority Pesident Mahmoud Abbas says that the Palestinians will not accept any Israeli presence along the border between a future Palestinian state and Jordan. But the question is whether Jordan really wants to have Palestinians on its
- Limited Funds Only for Places Acting Most Resp ...
In matters the media may have not reported on this week, just in case you missed it, were thoughts from Timon Dias on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency [UNRWA], whose support of the Palestinians not only enables the continuance of an education
- Greenspan on Forecasting and Futuring?
Although we’re still on the road up in the Pacific Northwest, this promises to be a very critical week for markets on a number of accounts. One of which is the supposed “critical period” just ahead which former Fed boss Alan Greenspan seems to hint at per reviews of his new book The Map an ...
- Coping: You Is What You Eats
A couple of people ask wondered “How come you’re not ranting and raving about the Monsanto case which is about to go to the US Supreme Court?” Oh…you mean stories like this one, over here? Gosh, I have a whole notebook full of excuses, none of which you’d care about. But the main reason is ...
- On Peoplenomics Today: The Odds Change on "Cli ...
Out here on the road, as we’ve been traveling about for the past week, it’s become apparent that something is going on with climate, but what – exactly – is not clear. In part of Texas, the drought continued until Friday, and for sure driving by Chaco Canyon’s ...
- Currency-Driven Markets, II
In yesterday’s suppository….er…making that repository…on stock market trading, we arrived at some interesting numbers about how the US/EU exchange rate really does have something to do with market levels here in the US. So let’s see where things could pencil out: Remembering, of cour ...
- Coping: Friday at the Wujo
Before we left for the Pacific Northwest, Elaine and I has a “shared Wujo” moment about two weeks back that I’ve been meaning to mention to you. It started simply enough: As you’ll remember, I have gotten seriously into sour dough bread-making of late and I’d done a starter off Alask ...
- GERALD CELENTE : Low Interest Rates & Stimulus ...
Gerald Celente on the Curtis Sliwa Show 09/20/13 Gerald Celente The Trends Research ... [[ This is a content summary o ...
- Infowars Nightly News: Monday (9-23-13) Mike V ...
On The September 23, 2013 Broadcast Of The Infowars Nightly News, David Knight Hosts & We Interview Mike Vilardy, IRS Agent & Tax Professional. News Covered:Saudi Arabia Threatens to "End Career" of AP Reporter Over Chemical Weapons... [[ This is a content summary only ...
- JEROME CORSI ~ Obama Linked to Kenya Mall Mas ...
Alex Jones is joined via Skype by Reporter and Author Dr. Jerome Corsi to discuss the updates coming out of Kenya involving the Muslim Brotherhood, their involvement in attacks and how it is connected to Obama. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- Obama and The Kenya Terror Attack
Alex covers the latest on the terrorist attack inside a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, allegedly perpetrated by the Somalia Islamic group, al-Shabaab. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or ...
- NWO and the United States: biometrics, domesti ...
The real criminals are on Wall Street. That's why people are brainwashed into thinking only poor people commit crimes. Poor people are just policed more, that's it. If cops didn't spend all their time harassing the poor, the jails would be filled... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
- STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
Our uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made me write ...
- WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
While it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic. In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not pull ...
- WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
- CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
- BODY HOSTAGE
A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
- 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 ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
- CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
- ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading U ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
- Worst of the Month – February 2013
This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner. There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force. If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...
- Lavrov: US pressuring Russia into passing UN r ...
The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, in exchange for American support of Syria’s accession to OPCW. “Our American partners are starting to blackmail us: ‘If Russia does not su ...
- Putin Authorizes Atomic First Strike Against U ...
A truly grim Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today warns that President Putin has “pre-authorized” the newly established Mediterranean Fleet use of atomic weapons to be fired against United States Naval assests in the event that CIA-backed al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria ...
- Truth of US-Russia Confrontation
Aggression was over the Moment those Two Missiles were Fired A well informed diplomatic source told As-Safir newspaper that “the US war on Syria had started and ended the moment those two ballistic missiles were fired, leaving inconsistent information, as Israel denied and Russia confirmed, unti ...
- Six UK warships cross Suez Canal into Red Sea
Six British warships on Tuesday crossed Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Red Sea, according to sources at the Suez Canal Authority. The vessels, which included an aircraft carrier, a frigate and a dock-landing ship, passed from the Mediterranean Sea into the Red Sea on Tuesday. They had been pa ...
- Russia’s ‘carrier-killer’ Moskva enters Medite ...
Russia’s Moskva missile cruiser, dubbed a “carrier-killer” by NATO, has passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and is now heading toward the eastern Mediterranean to assume command of the Russian naval force there. The Russian Navy said in a statement that the Moskva cruiser passed through the ...
- Local one-hour delivery service eBay Now is co ...
eBay is making considerable noise today about its new in-store pick up service Click & Collect in the UK, but in the midst of the announcement was arguably an even... Keep reading →
- eBay unveils Click & Collect service in the UK ...
eBay is already known as the leading marketplace for amateur online resellers, but now the company is looking to brick-and-mortar retailers as its next big driver for growth in the... Keep reading →
- China’s Xiaomi sells 10 million units of ...
The appetite of the Chinese for smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi’s devices has been voracious. The company just announced via Twitter that the total sales of its flagship Android-based smartphone Mi-2, and its variants Mi-2S... Keep reading →
- Messaging service Line gets updated with video ...
Japanese messaging service Line is moving beyond just texts and stickers to include video features, as it continues introducing new (and more creative) ways of communicating in its march to... Keep reading →
- China’s Alibaba goes global with its eBa ...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has officially made a move to go global by launching its Taobao marketplace in Singapore, seeking to make its mark in Southeast Asia after using Hong Kong and... Keep reading →
- No more denying we can act on climate
During the recent Federal election campaign, BZE received a call from a climate skeptic, inviting us to participate in a debate on climate change. The caller was cagey, she wouldn't even give us her name or affiliation. How did we respond? We politely declined: there is no longer a debate to be ...
- Time to ditch the redundant gas network
By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
- How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...
- Big emissions cuts possible at home, study finds
By Peter Hannam. Sydney Morning Herald Australia's homes could slash their carbon emissions by half and eliminate their use of gas by investing in efficient electrical appliances now on the market, according to a clean energy advocacy group. Jointly published with the Melbourne Energy Institu ...
- Hundreds launch Zero Carbon Buildings Plan
Australia's buildings could halve their energy use within a decade, to make a major contribution to reducing the nation's carbon emissions – and save money on energy bills in the long run as well. A large crowd packed out an auditorium at Melbourne University to hear this message at the la ...
- Investors risk billions by overlooking potenti ...
Land conflicts pose a serious – and often overlooked – risk to development projects in emerging market economies, warns a new report. Indigenous communities have claims to nearly one third of all land granted in commercial land concessions in 12 countries analyzed in the study, a sit ...
- President's pledge to ban commercial fishing a ...
In 2010 President Anote Tong of Kiribati made a historic pledge, committing to protect the waters around his island nation in a massive marine protected area. He said the gesture represented Kiribati’s contribution to protecting the environment and he urged industrial countries to do the s ...
- Featured video: music video honoring wildlife ...
Located in the southwestern corner of India, the state of Karnataka is celebrated for its stunning biodiversity. In order to honor the natural beauty of the region, wildlife photographer and filmmaker Amoghavarsha and Bangalore based musician Ricky Kej have teamed up to create a music video high ...
- Rihanna poses with endangered primate stolen f ...
On Friday R&B singer, Rihanna, posed in Thailand with a slow loris, an endangered primate that is often illegally touted on the streets of Southeast Asia by pet dealers. The picture, which the celebrity shared on instagram, went viral, and over the weekend Thai police arrested two men—one ...
- Not far from Rome, Italy's distinct bear faces ...
The Marsican brown bear is on the brink of extinction. Despite authorities spending millions of Euros on its conservation, high human-caused mortality is menacing the survival of this distinct subspecies. The Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) is only found in the Italy's Central Apen ...
- Divine Banquet Hall is a showcase in Dallas Fo ...
Dallas, Texas: September 23, 2013. The demand for banquet halls to host parties, banquets, receptions and many more events is becoming increasingly important for the Sierra Leone community in Dallas Fort Worth metropolis. There are many competing facilities within the African community to lease ...
- Sierra Leonean to co-chair Education Crisis co ...
Sierra Leonean born Chernor Bah who is currently serving as the Global Youth Rep on the UN Secretary General’s Global Initiative on Education has been asked to co-chair a Youth Education Crisis Committee to aid Syrian refugee children. According to a Press Release issued at the UN at the s ...
- As one legend bows out, another steps in to “R ...
It may appear to some that Sierra Leone football is at a cross road and to some that the game loved by all and sundry is self-destroying and heading for destruction. To the short sighted and myopic, that’s just how it seems because of the darkness they have been shrouded by and the fallacies th ...
- Sierra Leone: Sunergy Awaits Approval for Pamp ...
Sunergy Awaits Approval on Pampana Exploration License and Initiates Cash Flow Business Providing Mining Support Services with Existing Equipment and Enters into a Partnership with ATA Systems of Orlando, Fla. to Provide Affordable Manufactured Housing Throughout Africa SCOTTSDALE, AZ–(Mar ...
- World Bank Group to Invest $700 Million by 201 ...
NEW YORK CITY, September 23, 2013 — Today at the United Nations, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will announce that the Bank Group projects at least $700 million in financing through the end of 2015 to help developing countries reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for women and ...
- Fonterra result set to miss forecast
Fonterra's annual earnings look set to fall short of its prospectus forecasts when the company reports its result for the July 31 financial year tomorrow.The result, which will not capture the costs involved in August botulism scare...
- Where there's muck there's brass and app
Spreading effluent on dairy farms is set to become a lot more high-tech thanks to smartphone-based technology now available for New Zealand farmers.The new Dairy Effluent Spreading Calculator app can be used to calculate nutrient...
- China milk scare 'needs big PR drive'
Exporters say many Chinese consumers remain unaware that Fonterra's botulism scare was a false alarm and a hard-hitting public relations campaign is needed to get that message across.Local companies are losing up to $2 million in...
- Dairy prices up 0.3pc overnight (+graphic)
Prices of dairy products rose in the latest overnight dairy auction while volumes continued to fall from record levels reached last month.The GDT Price Index, previously known as the GDT-TWI Price Index, rose 0.3 per cent compared...
- $2m to fix botulism scare damage
Trade Minister Tim Groser says New Zealand is partway through a process of restoring its reputation in the world as a safe food producer after Fonterra's whey product contamination scare and subsequent product recall last month.Groser,...
- Students Suspended For Playing With Pellet Gun ...
WAVY, the NBC affiliate in Hampton Roads, Virginia asks “has zero tolerance gone too far?” as it reports this story: A suspended seventh grade Virginia Beach student will find out soon if he is expelled for the rest of the year for shooting an airsoft gun. Like thousands of o ...
- Wealthy Chinese Are Invading Americans’ Wombs. ...
The giant gap between the rich and the poor is not just a phenomenon for Western capitalist countries, despite what some progressives would have us believe. Imagine being a poor person in China, confined to one child under the country’s restrictive centrally planned economy, and take ...
- Jacob Sullum on Rand Paul's Fight to End Manda ...
Toward the end of a hearing at which the Senate Judiciary Committee heard about the jaw-dropping injustices caused by mandatory minimum sentences, John Cornyn sounded a note of caution. "We have to be careful not to legislate by anecdote," said the Republican senator from Texas. Yet ...
- Obama Recommends a 'Transformation' That Guts ...
Speaking at yesterday's memorial service for the 12 people murdered at the Washington Navy Yard last week, President Obama dared Americans to "care enough" to do something about gun violence. Exactly what we are supposed to do was far from clear, however: These families have end ...
- Matt Welch Discusses 'Government Shutdown' and ...
On Saturday, Sept. 21, I appeared on MSNBC's afternoon programming to discuss the Republican strategies to defund Obamacare, the looming end to the federal government's fiscal year, the GOP divide over philosophy and tactics, and the prospects for successful foreign policy vis-a-vis ...
- The patter of little lawsuits
Curt Anderson of AP reports at HuffPo that Chiquita is facing lawsuits over its payments to a right-wing Colombian death squad, the AUC. Chiquita has admitted to paying $1.7 M to the AUC, which it called blackmail, and pled guilty to assisting terrorists. It is now facing civil actions in Florid ...
- My response to a Daily Kos rah-rah about how D ...
It wasn’t an important thread. It had four comments and five recommendations. It was clearly written by someone with a young, good heart. But it annoyed me enough to respond. Here, edited, is what the post said: There is a great diary on ACA where the writer shares his/her experience findi ...
- Friday Cat Blogging
- If you really want to know what the Founders s ...
The National Archives has made it possible: see here. John Adams to Abigail Adams Phyladelphia Octr. 9. 1774 My Dear I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond Expression. This Assembly is like no other that ever existed. Every Man in it is a grea ...
- DeLay Walks
In one of the longest miscarriages of justice, a Texas appeals court decided that the evidence that Tom DeLay laundered corporate cash into Texas state campaigns was insufficient. He is a free man. It’s stuff like this that makes it clear how corrupt our courts are. I would not be a bit su ...
- Trinidad’s Farmers Outpaced by Climate C ...
Dalchan Singh, a root crop farmer and board member of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, says the past year has seen drastic changes in the weather of this twin-island Caribbean nation. Normally, the rainy season starts in June and continues during the months of July and August, he ...
- Dwindling Water Supplies Make Every Drop Count
Drought and chronic water shortages played a significant role in sparking Syria’s civil war and in unrest throughout much of the Middle East, water experts now believe. Around the world, water demand already exceeds supply in regions with more than 40 percent of the world’s populatio ...
- Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.’s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world’s most critical finite resources. Current and past ...
- OP-ED: Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
Agriculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural system is becoming more out of sync with the clima ...
- ‘Deserts Can Save Forests’
It may take development of the deserts to save forests, say experts, who stress that desert ecology needs to be preserved and enhanced. “When the time comes that we have to let our forests survive to retain their ecosystem services, eyes would turn for food security and livelihoods to the huge l ...
- $ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
I wonder what the people in poor countries think when they see the sheikdoms throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock which ...
- Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
In my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours. Yeh, I know ... that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the niceties of comfort we have become. Even six hours was hard to take. There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I ...
- Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Cana ...
Complaints pile up over airport border guardsReports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents "Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed complaints about rude treatment and harassment by Canada Border Services ...
- Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
It turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also ...
- The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
Last week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so ...
- ‘Russia won’t surrender to US on Syria’
A US political commentator says Russia will never agree with US military intervention in Syria which he believes is a tactic to take the spotlight off its crumbling economy.
- Israeli forces clash with Palestinians
The Israeli regime forces have clashed with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) as troops hunted for the suspected killer of an Israeli soldier.
- 23 more Iraqis die in bomb attacks
Three separate bomb attacks have killed at least 23 people and injured dozens more in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to Iraqi security sources.
- Nasrallah denies receiving Syria CW
Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has rejected claims that the resistance movement has received chemical weapons from Syria.
- 15 killed in blast at Iraqi funeral
At least 15 people have been killed and 30 others injured in a bomb attack targeting a funeral in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.
- The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
- Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
- Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
- Presentation to the National Economists Club
Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
- Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
- Getting programming into schools
The internet search giant Google has teamed up with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to encourage more children to start programming computers from an earlier age. Last year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation l...
- Mars's missing methane
The latest of NASA's rovers to explore the red planet Mars has suggested its less likely than previously thought that microbial life may be lurking beneath the planet's surface. The Curiosity rover t...
- Healthy living reverses ageing
Lifestyle changes, including a healthy diet, moderate exercise and stress management, reversed genetic markers of human ageing, a new study has shown. Thirty five older men were randomised to act ei...
- Decoy molecule stops dwarfism
A decoy molecule that blocks the growth-arresting process that leads to dwarfism has been developed by French researchers. Dwarfism, known medically as achondroplasia, is a rare genetic disorder. Su...
- Shaping social interactions
Could stimulation-filled environments encourage individualistic behaviour and break down community social interactions? A new study combines disco lights and maths to find out........
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- Take Action: Help Expand Social Security
It's time to expand Social Security, not cut it. That's why Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, D-CA, just introduced the Strengthening Social Security Act, H.R. 3118, in the House of Representatives. Submitted by JL A. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | &nb ...
- Romania's Powder Keg: Mine Project Launches Pr ...
The Rosia Montana mine in Romania is currently one of Europe's most controversial projects. Plans by Bucharest to push through approval for the large-scale mining that would eliminate an entire town have sparked mass protests. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note- ...
- Finally Someone Stands Up To American Farmers ...
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- TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the EPA to Investig ...
The EPA is supposed to protect American citizens from threats like fracking, not bow to the oil and gas industry. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Six million Americans will pay less than $100/ ...
More bad news for House Speaker John Boehner, who thinks that the premium rate shock people are going to experience in the first few weeks of Obamacare enrollment will strengthen his hand in holding the debt ceiling hike hostage for a delay in Obamcare. Submitted by JL A. to Health & Wellness ...
- Reality Check: Get Ready For The Gas Collapse
The numbers dont liebut politicians and industry bigwigs do. While pundits still wax poetic about an era of American energy independence, Bill Powers sees productivity plummeting in almost every major shale play. Submitted by Brian M. to Business | Note-it! |   ...
- Northeast Florida Eagle Nest Cam Starring "Ro ...
Beginning October 1, 2013, the American Eagle Foundation (AEF) will provide "live streaming" from a wild eagle nest located near the NE coast of Florida. The nest is located about 80' up in a "Slash Pine" tree, and was built by the resident eagles... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Animals &nb ...
- The inconvenient truth about greenwashing
A discussion initiated by activist, author and filmmaker Naomi Klein has raised important questions for the environmental movement, from the character of mainstream groups to the strategies of the left. Submitted by Brian M. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a ...
- U.S. backs brutal Egyptian military regime
Armed to the teeth by the U.S., the Egyptian military regime under General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is brutally attacking not only the Muslim Brotherhood, but also a wide range of progressive groups and individuals, including striking workers, journalists,etc Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics &am ...
- Asian Carp Starting to Sound Like Comic Book S ...
"We'd never seen anything like this before," Goforth said. He said the adaptations remind him of the "Jurassic Park" line, "Life finds a way," Submitted by Judy C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Obamacare Myths
Obamacare Myths. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured, News and politics Tagged: Elections 2014, Fact Check, Myths, Obamacare, PPACA
- U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Filed under: Government, International, News and politics, U.S. Military, War Tagged: Sarin Gas Victims, Syria, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Video
- Former President Bill Clinton Explains the Aff ...
Former President Bill Clinton Explains the Affordable Care Act | The White House. Filed under: Economy, Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured
- Law Enforcement at its Worse
Jackson County Mississippi Sheriff, James Michael Byrd, A/K/A Mike Byrd, was indicted Thursday, August 29, 2013 on Multi-Count Indictment 2013-10,516 (3) of 31 counts of wrongdoing as follows: CHARGE NUMBER OF COUNTS Embezzlement 10 Fraud 10 Hindering Prosecution in the … Continue reading ...
- Texas ID Complaint filed by U.S. Department of ...
www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/7472013822155117860058.pdf. Filed under: Government Tagged: DOJ Case 2:13-cv-00263, Texas ID complaint, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Elections
- Nairobi Attack Exposes Flawed U.S. Terror Policies
In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region. As the number of victims rises to 62 in an armed siege that has held dozens of people hostage in a major mall ...
- Speculation over Iran-U.S. Détente Continues Apace
On the eve of a possible – if seemingly accidental – encounter between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the corridors of the U.N. Secretariat building Tuesday, speculation over the possibility of détente between Washington and Tehran has become rampant. A serie ...
- Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here. Evidence shows that without more land under local control, our ability to tackle climate change, fight poverty, increase food availability and preserve cu ...
- Kenya Forces Mount Assault to End Mall Siege
Heavy and sustained gunfire has been heard from the Nairobi mall where the Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamist rebel group Al Shabab are holed up, holding an unknown number of civilians hostage. Two Al Shabab fighters have been killed in the ongoing military raid to end the standoff and nearly all h ...
- Gambia Media Crackdown Continues
In this column David Kode, a Policy and Advocacy Officer at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, writes that Gambian President Yahya Jammeh must be held to account for his dismal human rights record.
- US-Iran talks are an opportunity for reconcili ...
Summary: Barack Obama should stop threatening Iran with force, and recognise that its leaders do not respond well to intimidation source: The Guardianread more
- Iran’s ‘Constructive Engagement’ Undermines Is ...
Summary: In anticipation of his first trip to the United Nations General Assembly as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani is making it increasingly difficult for American and Israeli propaganda against Iran to continue to work. source: Wide Sleep in Americaread more
- Can Washington Reciprocate Iran’s “Constructiv ...
Summary: As New York prepares for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, the volume of Western media speculation about the prospects for a U.S.-Iranian diplomatic breakthrough is mounting to impressive levels. Predictably, much of this speculation amounts to lit ...
- Why Iran seeks constructive engagement
Summary: Three months ago, my platform of “prudence and hope” gained a broad, popular mandate. Iranians embraced my approach to domestic and international affairs because they saw it as long overdue. I’m committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constr ...
- Noam Chomsky: U.S. Has Been "Torturing" Iran f ...
Summary: Well, what’s the crucial fact about Iran, which we should begin with, is that for the past 60 years, not a day has passed in which the U.S. has not been torturing Iranians. That’s 60 years, right now. Began with a military coup, which overthrew the parliamentary regime in 1953, insta ...
- Piers Morgan offered $1 million to survive 1,0 ...
Piers Morgan has been offered $1 million if he will agree to be injected with 1,000 off-the-shelf vaccine shots within a two-week period. The offer was made late last week by Alex Jones of Infowars.com and stemmed from a spirited conversation he was sharing with the...
- Obama secretly reversed NSA surveillance restr ...
Maybe you don't remember - after all, it's been about five years now - but once upon a time, Dear Leader Barack Obama promised to have the most transparent, open government in U.S. history. The number of times that Obama has proven this to be a lie is too high to...
- Physicians are being swallowed up by hospitals ...
A recent article in USA Today tells the story of a local, independent medical practitioner who, after 27 years of private practice, was forced to accept a buy-out by Greenville Health System of South Carolina. "I didn't want to be bought. I wanted my independence," Dr...
- Mainstream media hoaxed by Jimmy Kimmel's stag ...
In the aftermath of a nation that was gripped by former Disney child star Miley Cyrus' prime time twerking shocker at the MTV Video Music Awards, the media was again hoaxed by a false event that it covered as real. A viral YouTube video featuring a girl who falls...
- Treating hair problems with ginger
Ginger is historically considered one of nature's true wonders. Other than being a very delectable spice, it is known to have a long list of health benefits. It is used to treat conditions ranging from nausea to heart problems. But not a lot of people know that ginger...
- NBC's Chuck Todd Commits Act of Journalism
For the past week, NBC News correspondent Chuck Todd endured withering criticism for suggesting it is not the media's job to expose Republican lies about the Affordable Care Act or, for that matter, anything else. But despite his assertion that the reporter's function is not to seek the objecti ...
- 10 Things John Boehner Doesn't Want You to Kno ...
So it's come down to this. Once again kowtowing to the most extreme members of his Republican Party, House Speaker John Boehner is willing to shut down the federal government and trigger a global economic meltdown, all in the GOP's quixotic quest to defund, delay or otherwise damage Obamacare. ...
- GOP Blocks Health Insurance for 11 Million in 2014
By 2022, the Affordable Care Act is forecast to enable roughly 30 million uninsured people to obtain health insurance. But according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), that expansion of coverage will progress much more slowly than the agency forecast just ...
- Bush Tax Cuts Still Driving Up U.S. Debt
In its latest forecast, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) once again confirmed that the United States does not face a near-term debt problem. Over the next few years, annual budget deficits will continue to fall in both dollar terms and as a percentage of the U.S. economy. Over the next de ...
- Boehner Admits U.S. Has No Immediate Debt Crisis
In a rare moment of agreement with President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner in March admitted that "we have no immediate debt crisis." But despite Tuesday's analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing that the near and mid-term U.S. debt picture has improved over the last six ...
- New NASA Map Shows Where You Are Most Likely T ...
Each year millions of premature deaths world-wide result from various forms of air pollution. According to a new atmospheric pollution model designed by earth scientist Jason West of the University of North Carolina (data from which informs the NASA map shown above), some 2.1 million deaths per ...
- Black Dragonfish — Deep-Sea Fish Facts, Pictur ...
The black dragonfish — Idiacanthus atlanticus — is a rather strange-looking, long and slender fish that lives in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic waters of the world’s oceans, typically being found at depths of between 5000-7000 feet. Among the species more notable qualities ar ...
- Leaked Details From the Upcoming 5th IPCC Repo ...
This past June, leaked details from the soon-to-be-released UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th report started circulating around the web, and more recently, began appearing in major print outlets like the Wall St Journal. The leaked details include observations that the rate ...
- Asteroid 2013 RZ53 — Asteroid Relative Of This ...
Asteroid 2013 RZ53 — a small asteroid from the Apollo family of near-Earth asteroids, a relative of the meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year — passed within only about 148,000 miles of the Earth last night. The tiny asteroid — only three to ten feet across — ...
- Prawn Nebula — Sharpest Picture Ever Taken Of ...
The Prawn Nebula — an enormous star-birthing nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius — has been beautifully captured in a new image taken by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The striking new image is very likely the sharpest image ever taken of ...
- Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
- CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
- UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
- The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
- Al Shabab Hysteria and Assault Rifles in Kenya
Funny, isn’t it? You don’t hear Piers Morgan or the other anti-gun nuts up decrying the ready availability of actual assault rifles in East Africa. The attack on Saturday on a upscale Mall in Nairobi was a nifty reminder that Islamic radicals are still alive and well and capable of m ...
- America the Perverse
America is headed for disaster. We have lost our way and are engaged in self-delusion on a massive scale. Consider the following: We celebrate a soaring stock market even thought the actual economic facts show low economic growth and a shrinking work force. The stock market ticked up in response ...
- The Benghazi Coverup
Yesterday’s hearing in the House on Benghazi exposed the shame of the ironically named, Accountability Review Board aka ARB on Benghazi. Here’s Sharyl Attkisson’s report: What the hearing made clear is that there was zero accountability. Moreover, this was an inside job under t ...
- Yes, the UN is Lying About the Syrian Chemical ...
I strongly encourage you to read for yourself the bullshit report issued by the United Nations on chemical weapons in Syria. Here’s the link. Now, I want you to look at a piece written by Robert Parry at Consortium News. Mr. Parry actually is too charitable. The UN report is a complete hac ...
- Syria’s Al Nusra Rebels and Chemical Weapons
Despite the frantic efforts of the Obama Administration, the Brits, the French, the Turks and the Saudis to indict Bashir Assad for the chemical attack on the 21st of August, there is strong and compelling evidence that the incident that day was the result of one faction of rebels targeting anot ...
- 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 ...
- Military Service, Not Buddhist Meditation Offe ...
To blame meditation by Thai Buddhist practitioners for the shooting is a cheap trick aimed at diverting public attention from the home-grown causes of gun violence. BANGKOK, Thailand – As media pundits scrounge through Aaron Alexis’s background for clues to the uncontrolled fit of rage that le ...
- I Got Priced out of New York
I never thought I'd leave, but the city I once loved is now unaffordable for middle-class families like mine. I realized I might need to leave New York when I became envious of every friend who’d managed to escape. A Swiss friend moved back to Lucerne with her American husband and New Yor ...
- Robert Reich: We Can Save the Economy If We Ge ...
New documentary "Inequality for All," starring Reich explains how to fix America's income inequality. It’s one of the central issues of our time. It spawned both the Tea Party and the Occupy movements. It has the potential to deeply sabotage our economy. And, argues former U.S. ...
- 20 White Males from the Power Elite Who Belong ...
A hodge podge of corporate conservatives and moderates, right-wing reactionaries and racists and lunatic libertarians. Out of 300 million Americans, a few thousand wield disproportionate economic and political influence because of their positions at the pinnacle of America's corporate and medi ...
- New York Times’ Hit Piece on Bill de Blasio Ma ...
A totally non-shocking look at mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio's activist past makes him... more sympathetic. The New York Times dropped a bombshell last night: As a young man, Democratic nominee for mayor of New York Bill de Blasio was… pretty left-wing. And he supported the Sandinistas ...
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
- An American Suicide Terrorist
William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
- Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...
- First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
- Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
- Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
- First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
- VIDEO TIMELINE: Democracy Now! Reports on the ...
FBY.showTab({id: '1695', position: 'right', color: '#3F2E2B'}); Use this interactive timeline to watch our reports on the case of Troy Anthony Davis , including interviews with his longtime advocate and older sister, Martina Correia, and our 6-hour broadcast when Georgia exe ...
- READ: New Book, "I Am Troy Davis," Published o ...
Read part of the new book, "I Am Troy Davis," and watch Democracy Now! Friday for a special broadcast on the second anniversary of his execution with his sister, Kimberly Davis, the NAACP's Ben Jealous, and activist Jen Marlowe. The new book is co-authored by Jen Marlowe and Troy's sister ...
- Americans Say No to Another Middle East War
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The likelihood of peace in Syria remains distant, as the civil war there rages on. But the grim prospect of a U.S. strike has been forestalled, if only temporarily, preventing a catastrophic deepening of the crisis there. The American people stood up for ...
- READ: Excerpt from Bill McKibben's New Book "O ...
Author, activist and write Bill McKibben of 350.org will join us Wednesday on Democracy Now! ahead of a nationwide protests to "Draw the Line on Keystone XL." We will also discuss the unprecedented flooding in Colorado. Below you can read an excerpt from his new book, "Oil and Honey: The Edu ...
- "A Stain on the Legacy of Birmingham": 1963 Ch ...
Part two of our conversation with Sarah Collins Rudolph, who is often referred to as the "fifth victim" of the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Rudolph's sister, Addie Mae Collins, was killed along with three other young girls. Collins Rudolph was ...
- U.S. Startups Freed to Solicit Funds Fight SEC ...
By Dave Michaels Startup companies that celebrated the passage of a U.S. law allowing them to solicit investors more openly say regulators may undercut that move by requiring detailed disclosures of their fundraising. An 80-year-old ban on advertising private investments ends today, allowing bus ...
- Thank You, Blackberry
By Catherine Austin Fitts Blackberry held out for a long time. However, successfully catering to business and investment professionals meant their data flow was much too valuable. There was no way the intelligence agencies were going to tolerate them maintaining government invasion free private ...
- Requiem for a Whistleblower
By Chris Floyd A former colleague of mine died recently, although I didn’t know he had been my colleague until I read his obituary in the New York Times last month — six months after his obscure and unmarked death in the small East Tennessee town where I’d worked as a reporter ...
- Snowden Leak Suggests UK Was Spying on Belgian ...
By Jon Fingas When Belgian prosecutors suggested that Belgacom was the target of foreign espionage, many blamed the NSA — it has a history of snooping on other countries, after all. Those accusations may have been off the mark, however. Der Spiegel has revealed documents leaked by Edward S ...
- Our Chat With Jeremy Grantham
By Ian Salisbury Jeremy Grantham’s got a track record that’s impossible to ignore—he called the Internet bubble, then the housing bubble. While moves like those have earned the famed forecaster the nickname “perma-bear,” in early 2009 he also told clients at GMO, his $10 ...
- Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
- Cardboard Glasses and Toilet Brush Lamps Amuse ...
Experiments in lighting were especially striking at Designersblock, with designer Natalie Simpson crafting lamps out of everyday items like whisks, household brushes and hangers. WALTERWORKs transformed plastic water bottles and discarded lightbulbs into innovative
- Study Finds Renewable Energy is Cheaper than C ...
Photo via Shutterstock A new study reveals that wind farms are less costly than new coal-fired plants, and cost about the same, if not less, than new natural gas plants. It sounds pretty extraordinary, but if one looks at the cost of warming and health
- Lava Mae is Retrofitting Public Buses Into Mob ...
The UN and the World Health Organization define access to water and sanitation as a basic human right, yet many homeless go without. In San Francisco alone, there are 16 public showers for the 3,100+ men, women and children who make the streets their home.
- 1920′s Grocery Store Renovated Into an Energy- ...
The former grocery store had been used as office space until the owners bought it and decided to turn it into a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home. Located on Williams Street in an area that was once an industrial district (but is now devoted to the arts), the building
- Lanefab Design/Build Constructs a Beautiful So ...
The Dumfries St. house by Lanefab Design/Build is now Vancouver's highest scoring home under the Energuide energy efficiency rating system! The solar-powered laneway house was built by a young family in the rear yard of their parent’s existing Vancouver
- 10 Drugs That May Cause Memory Loss
For a long time doctors dismissed forgetfulness and mental confusion as a normal part of aging. But scientists now know that memory loss as you get older is by no means inevitable. Indeed, the brain can grow new brain cells and reshape their connections throughout life
- 10 Health Benefits Of Avocados
Including avocado with your meals may help you feel fuller for longer and reduce the urge for overweight adults to eat more, according to new research just released on the consumption of avocados. Researchers at Loma Linda University investigated whether adding fresh avocado to a midday meal ...
- Understand the Globalization of Poverty and th ...
In the expanded second edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of wome ...
- Larry Pratt to Bashir: ‘Do You Have Any Remors ...
Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt asks MSNBC’s Martin Bashir “Do you have any remorse for those that were killed in your gun-free zone? “Do you have any remorse for the parents and the family who are suffering and the grief they are going through?”
- Are Fascists Designating Free Speech Zones On ...
Free speech apparently isn't a guaranteed right but a right only designated to certain areas on college campuses. And it must be "scheduled" ahead of time. At Modesto Junior College on Constitution Day, a student was forbidden from passing out copies of the Constitution in non designated free sp ...
- Book and Video: Ahmed Errachidi, The Cook Who ...
In the busy months in spring, when the prisoners at Guantánamo forced the world to remember their plight by embarking on a prison-wide hunger strike, I was so busy covering developments, reporting the prisoners’ stories, and campaigning for President Obama to take decisive action that I mi ...
- Andy Worthington Joins Film-Makers and Authors ...
Are you a film-maker and an anti-torture activist? If so, then a video contest, for which I’m a judge, will be of interest to you. The Tackling Torture Video Contest, launched in Minneapolis on June 30 by by Tackling Torture at the Top, a committee of WAMM (Women Against Military Madness), ...
- Petition and Protest: Stop This Callous Govern ...
Please sign the petition to the British government to end the “War on Welfare,” which currently has over 55,000 signatures but needs 100,000 to be eligible for a Parliamentary debate, and, if you can, come to the ’10,000 Cuts & Counting’ protest in Parliament Square o ...
- It’s Omar Khadr’s 27th Birthday: H ...
Today is the 27th birthday of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who has been imprisoned since he was 15 years old — in Guantánamo for ten years, and, since the end of September last year, in Canada. Khadr’s return to Canada followed a monstrous travesty of justice in the US. Under the ...
- Quarterly Fundraiser Day Three: Still Seeking ...
Please support my work! It’s the third day of my quarterly fundraiser in which I ask you, my readers and supporters, to donate to support my work as an independent journalist, researching, writing about, and campaigning to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. I’m seeking $2500 t ...
- 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 author and illustrator James Lu Dunbar has just launched a fundraising cam ...
- Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...
English: Carey asked me to replace the photo I had recently posted on his behalf with this copy which he feels is more balanced. He agrees to license it under "Attribution ShareAlike 3.0". (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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