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English: Doors from ancient Syrian temples and...English: Doors from ancient Syrian temples and palace in the garden of the Damascus National Museum, Syria (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • US threats widen Syrian rebel faultlines
    "The fight here is more difficult than Iraq. We have the regime, Hezbollah, the Lebanese army, the Shabiha, the Shia mercenaries, Iran, all of them fighting us. And now maybe the Americans. We know how to defeat their air force. We know how to manoeuvre and hide from them. Their number one goal ...
  • Doubts about 'sarin massacre' videos
    A controversy surfaced regarding the doubts expressed by Russian diplomacy regarding the dates of the videos of the slaughter committed in Damascus, on August 21st 2013 [1]. We had noticed that the videos, posted on Majles Rif’s account, were dated August 20th [2]. In an ’’attempt to clarify’ ...
  • Doubts about 'sarin massacre' videos
    .. the author of the account indicated that these videos were posted at 05h00 Universal Time, in other words 07h00 am in Damascus. Knowing that there is a time difference of 9 hours with California, the YouTube clock was still on the 20th of August. However, the shadows in the fourth video, ...
  • Gulf urges intervention to 'rescue' Syrians
    RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council urged the international community Saturday to intervene immediately to "rescue" the Syrian people from their government's "oppression." "The genocide, and grave human rights violations, faced by the Syrian people necessitate an immediate intervention by the i ...
  • US: AIPAC pushes for action in Syria
    The influential pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee will deploy hundreds of activists next week to win support in Congress for military action in Syria, amid an intense White House effort to convince wavering U.S. lawmakers to vote for limited strikes. "We plan a major lobbying e ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 9/11 conspiracy solved: Names, connections, & ...
    Was 9/11 really an Inside Job? After reviewing this documentary, and checking the evidence, I think the answer will be clear to you. Special thanks to Michael C. Ruppert, Mark H. Gaffney, and Kevin Ryan for solving the crimes of 9/11 with their amazing research. This video is a compilation of e ...
  • The 9/11 conspiracy theory explained in under ...
    Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. Transcript and References
  • Big Green is in denial: Naomi in conversation ...
    Canadian author Naomi Klein is so well known for her blade-sharp commentary that it's easy to forget that she is, above all, a first-rate reporter. I got a glimpse into her priorities as I was working on this interview. Klein told me she was worried that some of the things she had said would mak ...
  • New files may detail sex abuse in Scouts
    Minneapolis - Confidential files turned over for a lawsuit set to go to trial in Minnesota may shed new light on the problem of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts of America. The documents were produced in litigation brought against the Boy Scouts and a former scoutmaster, Peter Stibal II, who ...
  • Cricket plague overwhelms Oklahoma towns with ...
    People in Oklahoma are dealing with an infestation of crickets. And while the swarm of the bugs might make your skin crawl, experts say it's completely natural. In Oklahoma towns, it happens every year, and is always a mess. Thousands and thousands of crickets pile up on streets, sidewalks and ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Lessons for Stevie . . .
    1513. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Niccolo Machiavelli finished The Prince, the practical guide to political survival. Because it's practical, it's cogent today: our milieu may change, but our motivational rainbow remains the same. Boston University's BU Today blog has a fine posting by John ...
  • Winter approaches . . .
    THE LEFORTOVO TUNNEL, aka “The Tunnel of Death” runs under the river, and there are leaks. During the summer, you can, as you see in the opening seconds, drive a hot Bimmer at 220 kph through it with no problems. However, winter comes, and the leaking water freezes, and as they say in the collis ...
  • Suckage . . .
    FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY are steadily eroding, it seems, which has prompted Alex Henderson at AlterNet to post “10 Ways America Has Come to Resemble a Banana Republic”. It's a fascist's wish-list come true. In the post-New Deal America of the 1950s and '60s, the idea of the United States becomin ...
  • Warp factor . . .
    SET PHASERS ON STUN: Captain Kirk watches the VMA 2013 Miley Cyrus performance. My, how time brings change. Put your coffee down, then press go. Brilliant.
  • Learning impairment . . .
    UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN AMERICA is turning into an expensive, futile endeavour for the consumer, the student. The rise of “academic capitalism” appears to be the cause, in the opinion of Thomas Frank who has a splendid, insightful essay on a site called The BAFFLER, “Academy Fight Song”. It's a ...

Media Matters for America

  • 24 Distortions About Guns From Wash. Times Edi ...
    Washington Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller's new book, Emily Gets Her Gun: ...But Obama Wants to Take Yours, is filled with falsehoods about the gun debate and promotes the National Rifle Association's conspiracy theory that President Obama is planning to confiscate ...
  • 8 Myths That Media Trackers Wants Inserted In ...
    The Ohio branch of the media watchdog organization Media Trackers pushed for the media to cover at least eight conservative myths about Medicaid that either lack crucial context, have been widely debunked, or originate from conservative think tanks with a history of ...
  • New Hampshire Union Leader Cherry-Picks Covera ...
    A New Hampshire Union Leader editorial promoted inaccurate claims regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including an exaggeration of the effects of the ACA on employee benefits, a false claim on rising premium prices, and a warning that Medicaid expansion would shift costs to hospitals, even ...
  • REPORT: Print Media Shrug Off Economic Inequality
    Over the past three months, major print outlets throughout the country largely failed to discuss rising structural inequality and poverty in the United States while reporting on policies and programs that affect low-income groups.Structural Inequality Largely Absent In News Reports Structural I ...
  • Columbus Dispatch Hypes Obamacare Myths To Att ...
    A Columbus Dispatch editorial attacked parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by regurgitating popular myths and misconceptions, including the falsehood that many companies are cutting workers' hours due to the employer mandate, that young and healthy Americans are choosing to not pay for health ...

Global Research.ca

  • Documentary Movie: September 11 and the New Pe ...
    Global Research brings to the attention of its readers this timely and carefully researched documentary on the September 11 attacks by Italian film director Massimo Mazzuco.  To see the fully indexed film in one page go to luogocomune.net. You can…
  • Today’s Wars and The Folly of World War I
    Any student of history knows that many of the problems the Middle East and Africa are now experiencing stem from the Great Powers having parcelled up the land, drawn borders where none had existed and put into power various friendly…
  • Obama’s “Bombing Credibility&#8221 ...
    There is nothing tragic about the Obama presidency, capable of drawing the analytical talents of a neo-Plutarch or a neo-Gibbon. This is more like a Pirandello farce, a sort of Character in Search of An Author. Candidates to Author are…
  • Liberal Luminaries in Senate Are Swing Votes o ...
    Many senators began this week still uncommitted on whether they’ll vote for attacking Syria. Among the fence-sitters are enough “progressives” to swing the Senate’s decision one way or the other.  That decision is coming soon — maybe as early as…
  • The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Academics Examin ...
    More from the Toronto 9/11 Hearings: This week’s installment of the Global Research New Hour marks the fourth of a five part series highlighting research into the World Trade Center attacks and the need for a renewed investigation. LISTEN TO…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • LA City Council Members Call for Fracking Mora ...
    The measure would outlaw fracking by changing the city's zoning laws. LA City Councilmembers Paul Koretz and Mike Bonin on Wednesday, September 4 called for a fracking moratorium in Los Angeles at a press conference on the steps of City Hall."Oil companies have already begun fracking in t ...
  • Japan Promises Action at Fukushima as 300 Tons ...
    Prime minister Shinzo Abe made a pledge amid growing concern at the scale and complexity of operation. Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has promised to act quickly to address the buildup of huge quantities of contaminated water at theFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.Abe, who recently s ...
  • 6 Ways to Help Avoid the Huge Economic Cost of ...
    How do we pay in advance to defend communities against escalating extreme weather? Americans on the Gulf and East coasts; in Tornado Alley; living in the shadow of Mississippi and Missouri river levees; or threatened by Western wildfires like the one now raging in Yosemite are learning a hars ...
  • How We Can Avoid More Catastrophic Wildfires L ...
    Catastrophic fires are emblematic of our troubled relationship with nature. So far this year, California has had nearly 5,000 wildfires. And of them, there is probably only one you’ve heard of, and that will be spoken of for decades to come: the Rim Fire.The Rim Fire began on August 17 in Stan ...
  • We Are to Blame for Catastrophic Wildfires Lik ...
    Catastrophic fires are emblematic of our troubled relationship with nature. So far this year, California has had nearly 5,000 wildfires. And of them, there is probably only one you’ve heard of, and that will be spoken of for decades to come: the Rim Fire.The Rim Fire began on August 17 in Stan ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin Affordability Summit Saturday, Septembe ...
    Austin Affordability Summit Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, 1pm-4pm St. David’s Episcopal Church, 301 E. 8th   Hosted By:  Liveable City, HousingWorks, Public Citizen Texas, Sustainable Food Center, Austin Creative Alliance To Register – Email your name and telephone to: info@liveablecity.o ...
  • Lamar Smith should hold climate hearings in Texas
    This article written by Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas office, appeared on the editorial page of the San Antonio Express-News on Sept. 2 The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, leaked to media earlier this week, is frighteni ...
  • Armstrong’s RAM terminal could cost taxpayers
    For Immediate Release:                                              Contact: Hillary Corgey (512) 477-1155 August 28, 2013                                                                                 hcorgey@citizen.org AUSTIN, Texas – Armstrong Energy is facing challenges from the market tha ...
  • Armstrong Energy’s Ram Terminal Could Cost Tax ...
    For Immediate Release:                                              Contact: Hillary Corgey (512) 477-1155 August 28, 2013                                                              hcorgey@citizen.org  AUSTIN, Texas – Armstrong Energy is facing challenges from the market that may threaten the ...
  • Docs demand tighter emissions at coal EFH plants
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Dallas — Today the Dallas County Medical Society filed a petition with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality asking the agency to adopt rules to reduce the pollution from three old coal-fired power plants that contribute disproportionately ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Global Peasant Movement Reaffirms Commitment t ...
    Subheadline:  Via Campesina outlines new action plan Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  La Via Campesina, a longtime partner of Grassroots International, is an international ...
  • The Banality of Occupation
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Yousef Munayyer is Executive Director of the Palestine Center. This policy brief may be used without permission but with proper attribution. Previous Publication Info Previous publi ...
  • Rose Edith: From Nun to Peasant Leader to Pers ...
    rose_edith_cropped.jpg Getting to Northwest Haiti takes the strongest of wills and an even sturdier truck or SUV. The roads, all of which somehow lead to Port-au-Prince, amount to nothing more than occasionally paved gravel. You’ll get lost ...
  • 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize Honors Grassroots ...
    Image:  fs_prize_logo.jpg The US Food Sovereignty Alliance announced today their selection for the fifth annual Food Sovereignty Prize. This year’s winners and honorable mentions include peasant organizations and movements that G ...
  • Celebration and song from our Brazilian partners
    Members of the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) showed off their creativity, singing voices and solidarity in a special 30th anniversary message to Grassroots International. In it they recognize what the partnership has meant for them in their struggles in the Amazonian region and throu ...

Climate

  • Fracking Near $14 Mil Homes Aids Case for U.K. ...
    (Bloomberg) Property developer Julie Wilde says the fracking of an oil field under her beach-side villa on England's south coast has done nothing to hurt the value of the 9 million-pound ($14 million) home. Oil exploration hasn’t ...
  • Fracking Limits for Va. Forest Ignite Debate o ...
    (Bloomberg) A proposal to restrict natural gas production in a Virginia national forest has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether drilling endangers water—in this case water used by millions of people in the Washingt ...
  • Shell to Negotiate with Nigerians over Oil Spi ...
    (Reuters) Compensation talks will begin in Nigeria on Monday between lawyers for Royal Dutch Shell and for 15,000 Nigerian villagers who say their livelihoods were destroyed by oil spills from pipelines operated by the compan ...
  • Why Is Oil Leaving Tanks in Cushing, Okla. So ...
    (BusinessWeek) In the last two months, traders and oil companies have been moving their crude oil out of the giant tanks in Cushing, Okla., faster than at any time in recent memory. Since late June, crude inventories at the country's b ...
  • Rail Will Be a Lasting Competitor Against Pipe ...
    (Houston Chronicle) The transport of crude by rail will become a permanent option for moving domestic oil to coastal refineries, even as pipeline construction catches up with the U.S. oil boom, according to an EY Oil & Gas report r ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    Max Ehrenfreund makes a good point that the people, through their representatives, have twice rejected the kind of decryption activities the NSA has been conducting, and they just went ahead and did them anyway. Discuss
  • What ACORN Did
    People probably know that ACORN registered people to vote, but that's about all they know about the former community organization. Registering voters was never more than a sideline. They actually contracted the whole thing out to PROJECT VOTE. The main thing ACORN did was fight back against t ...
  • Thinking Too Hard
    Democrats can't concern themselves with how opposing strikes against Syria might harm the president. Nothing harms a president more than embroiling this country in a foreign conflict that we cannot resolve satisfactorily. It's a mistake to think too hard about what a 'no' vote will mean for th ...
  • Personal Day
    As odd as it sounds after eight years, today I need to take a "personal day," Sometimes, a higher order calls. While I am away, I would be very grateful if some of you would make a contribution toward the upkeep of the site. Things are about the get very interesting and contentious in this co ...
  • Why Progressives are Balking
    The administration's argument for limited punitive strikes against Syria to uphold an international norm against the use of chemical weapons is destined to fail with progressives. But this fact is largely unrelated to the merits of that argument. Were the administration to actually convince pr ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Stunning Aerial Attack: Peregrine Falcon Snatc ...
    In this amazing sequence of photographs, we witness a gripping scene, as a peregrine falcon pursues, catches and proceeds to feast on her willet prey. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Find out what we've been checking out this week in our fabulous link round up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Magic of MFCs: Generating Electricity from ...
    Microbial fuel cells could soon provide us with a green energy source, as well as a supply of clean drinking water This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Pug-Ugly Mugs: The World's Ugliest Dog Contest ...
    None of these dogs are likely to win any prizes for their beauty, but that’s not why they're here. Welcome to 2013’s World's Ugliest Dog Contest. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Thorny Effects of Male Labor Migration on ...
    Men in Nepal migrate to other countries to help earn money for their families, but their movements and actions can have thorny consequences. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Environmental issues should still be a concern ...
    Environmental issues should still be a concern Daily Athenaeum This has contributed to the prevalence of mountaintop removal and horizontal drilling. These techniques are dangerous and especially concerning to people trying to preserve West Virginia's environment. These two particular approa ...
  • Direct action on Line 9: Moving beyond Keyston ...
    Direct action on Line 9: Moving beyond Keystone and Northern Gateway rabble.ca In all of our work we need to broadly engage fossil fuels and the climate not only the specifics of a given project that we are opposing, whether it be fracking wells in Western Pennsylvania, a coal export terminal on ...
  • Al Gedicks: It's GTAC, not mine protesters, wh ...
    Al Gedicks: It's GTAC, not mine protesters, who are eco-terrorists Capital Times (blog) One protester who has been charged with robbery by force or an out-of-state coal-mining conglomerate whose mountain top removal operation will create massive piles of toxic mine waste that will destroy th ...
  • Wendell Berry: EPA's duty to limit the Party o ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Wendell Berry: EPA's duty to limit the Party of Coal Lexington Herald Leader This Party knows that it's greatest ecological accomplishment is the mining technique known as mountaintop removal, which is always accompanied by valley fills. From an ecological point o ...
  • CV Moore:Blair Mountain offers lessons for the ...
    CV Moore:Blair Mountain offers lessons for the future Charleston Gazette These days, one threat takes the shape of an extreme form of surface mining known as mountaintop removal. Two companies -- Arch Coal and Alpha Resources -- now own the mineral rights to the Blair Mountain Battlefield and th ...

Memeorandum

  • Kennedy journal full of mistresses and Catholi ...
    New York Post: Kennedy journal full of mistresses and Catholic guilt  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grappled with what he called his biggest defect — “my lust demons” — while keeping a scorecard of more than two dozen conquests, according to his secret diary.& ...
  • Kerry says Saudi Arabia has agreed to support ...
    Karen DeYoung / Washington Post: Kerry says Saudi Arabia has agreed to support military strike against Syria  —  LONDON — The Obama administration picked up new international endorsements Sunday for a military strike against Syria as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied ...
  • Pulling the Curtain Back on Syria (Nicholas D. ...
    Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times: Pulling the Curtain Back on Syria  —  WHEN I was a law student in 1982, I escaped torts by backpacking through Syria and taking a public bus to Hama, where the government had suppressed a rebellion by massacring some 20,000 people.  &md ...
  • Elizabeth Warren assails Supreme Court as too ...
    Alexander Burns / Politico: Elizabeth Warren assails Supreme Court as too far right  —  LOS ANGELES - Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denounced the United States Supreme Court on Sunday as a right-wing panel that serves the interests of c ...
  • Uphill battle for Obama: Where Congress stands ...
    USA Today: Uphill battle for Obama: Where Congress stands on Syria  —  President Obama faces a daunting battle to win congressional authorization for a military strike on Syria, a USA TODAY Network survey finds.  But a large number of undecideds may be open to persuasion.&n ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Myanmar
    Monday, September 9, 2013 03:28:34 UTC Monday, September 9, 2013 09:58:34 AM at epicenterDepth: 23.20 km (14.42 mi)
  • M 5.2, Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan
    Sunday, September 8, 2013 17:30:20 UTC Sunday, September 8, 2013 10:00:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 211.60 km (131.48 mi)
  • M 5.0, Mindanao, Philippines
    Sunday, September 8, 2013 09:27:19 UTC Sunday, September 8, 2013 05:27:19 PM at epicenterDepth: 96.10 km (59.71 mi)
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  • M 5.0, Crete, Greece
    Sunday, September 8, 2013 04:59:29 UTC Sunday, September 8, 2013 07:59:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 4.90 km (3.04 mi)

Daily Censored

  • AIPAC Lobbies for War on Syria
    Previous articles discussed the Israeli Lobby’s rage for war on Syria. AIPAC and 50 other Zionist organizations endorse it. They threaten world peace. They want […](Visited 6 times, 6 visits today)The post AIPAC Lobbies for War on Syria appeared first on DailyCensored.com - Breaking ...
  • Wikileaks reveals a private network of over 92 ...
    The following was gleaned from the pages of El Telegrafo, September 5, 2013 — an Ecuadorian newspaper.  Introduction Spy Files 3 The Spy Files #3 […](Visited 1,584 times, 1,221 visits today)The post Wikileaks reveals a private network of over 92 companies engaged in full spectrum glo ...
  • Wikileaks reveals a private network of over 92 ...
  • Obama Making More Enemies Than Friends
    US interventionism is increasingly unpopular. Obama hoped G20 leaders would back his Syrian attack plan. He learned otherwise. He met stiff opposition. Belligerence is increasingly […](Visited 35 times, 28 visits today)The post Obama Making More Enemies Than Friends appeared first on Daily ...
  • Obama Making More Enemies Than Friends

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Obama, Assad go head-to-head in US interview duel
    Heavily damaged buildings are shown in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 8, 2013. Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-Assad will go head-to-head in dueling US television interviews, as a crucial week dawns for the US leader's push for air Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-A ...
  • Obama, Assad go head-to-head in US interview duel
    Heavily damaged buildings are shown in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 8, 2013. Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-Assad will go head-to-head in dueling US television interviews, as a crucial week dawns for the US leader's push for air Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-A ...
  • Obama, Assad go head-to-head in US interview duel
    Heavily damaged buildings are shown in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 8, 2013. Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-Assad will go head-to-head in dueling US television interviews, as a crucial week dawns for the US leader's push for air Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-A ...
  • 14 hurt as plane skids off runway in Bangkok
    A Thai Airways plane has its logo and name covered up after it skidded off the runway at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on September 9, 2013. The plane skidded after the landing gear malfunctioned, slightly injuring more than a dozen passen A Thai Airways plane skidded off the r ...
  • Muslim rebel attack shuts down Philippine city
    A police sniper gets into position to confront MNLF rebels in Zamboanga City in the Philippines on September 9, 2013. A group of 100 rebels arrived by boat and took 20 civilians hostage, shooting dead a soldier and wounding six others.A group of 100 heavily-armed Muslim rebels opposed to peace ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Dissident playwright assassinated with poison ...
    This past Sunday marked 35 years since the assassination with a poisoned umbrella pellet of Bulgarian literary icon and political dissident Georgi Markov.
  • NSA ‘broke, circumvented Internet encryp ...
    The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has been able to crack or get around basic encryption standards used daily by hundreds of millions of Internet users, according to newly leaked documents.
  • News you may have missed #850 (Syria edition)
    FBI sharpens scrutiny of Syrians in US. French spies provide details Syrian chemical weapons program. Ex-CIA WMD Counterterrorism Unit chief on Syria.
  • US spy agencies probed job seekers with links ...
    One in five applicants for jobs in American intelligence agencies, who were rejected due to questionable backgrounds, were found to have connections with foreign intelligence or militant groups, including al-Qaeda.
  • Announcement: Calling All Undergraduate Studen ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The academic study of security and intelligence used to be seen as a strictly graduate-level preoccupation. Today, however, it is routinely encountered in undergraduate curricula and constitutes one of the fastest growing programs in political sci ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Lee Syria Resolution to Hold Assad Regime Acco ...
    Support Forceful Diplomacy, Not Military Force Dear Colleague: I write to urge your support for my proposal which lays out non-military options the United States can pursue, in partnership with the international community, that is consistent with law and would hold perpetrators accountable for h ...
  • Syria News - Sep 9
      White House: “Common-Sense Test” And Not “Irrefutable, Beyond-a-Reasonable-Doubt Evidence” Hold Assad Responsible (VIDEO) - Slate Lingering doubts remain over Syria chemical attack, the public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence produced by U.S. intelligence -  AP ...
  • Military Cancer
  • White House lies to launch the next illegal wa ...
    By Dave Lindorff  The Obama administration’s campaign for war against Syria is so flagrantly wrong, so ill-advised and so illegal, that it is making a fool of both the president and his secretary of state, John Kerry. read more
  • Obama Plans Shock and Awe Madness on Syria
      Obama Intends Shock and Awe Madness on Syria   by Stephen Lendman   Overwhelming support for peaceful conflict resolution at home and abroad opposes him. It doesn't matter. He plans devastating strikes on Syria.   He ordered an expanded hit list. He wants more targets struc ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Visible Origami | The Cosmic Brooming Process ...
    By Visible One of the things people do when they don’t know is… speculate. This, of course, is never a good idea because… it’s ‘speculative’. You don’t have to speculate though, all you have to do is apply the Hermes Trismegistus rule, “as above, so belo ...
  • Guy Calls for John McCain to be Arrested and T ...
    Guy Calls for John McCain to be Arrested and Tried for Treason – YouTube.
  • Gen Martin Dempsey Warns Not To Strike Syria: ...
    by Maggie • September 2, 2013 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey has told Obama that a strike on Syria will end in involvement with Iran and Russia. Dempsey described military intervention in Syria as a fool’s errand. Estimating that action could cost the $1 billion a m ...
  • These False Flags Were Used To Start A War | Z ...
    by Tyler Durden Just in case one’s history textbook had a few extra pages ripped out, this may be a good time to recall just how far one’s government is willing to go to start a war under false pretenses. Below is a partial list of some of the documented “false flag” even ...
  • » Report: China Sends Warships to Coast of Syr ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 5, 2013 China has reportedly sent warships to the coast of Syria to “observe” the actions of US and Russian ships as tensions build in preparation for a potential military strike on Syria which could come as soon as next week. Image: Jinggangshan Warship ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The debate about Syria reminds us that a cat c ...
    Summary: The debate about Syria shows the weak state of The Republic, the power of the forces building a New America, and the need for urgent action by the American people. We laugh at the antics of the war party, but they seem likely to have the last laugh (again). “We shall not enter int ...
  • A weekend moment to reflect on the course of t ...
    Summary: The monthly employment report provides the opportunity to look at the New America being built on the ruins of the own. While seldom remarked, it clearly appears in the data. Also, we take a moment to reflect on the purpose and operation of the FM website. “Big industry constantly ...
  • About today’s jobs report: mixed news. N ...
    Summary: The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. In fact the trend of growth remains the real story, with the US economy near stall speed — supported onl ...
  • Look at the economy to see why today’s j ...
    Summary: A quick look at the US economy, showing why today’s jobs report is so important. It will be a major factor determining if the Fed starts the taper this month. A wrong decision could have unpleasant consequences for not just the US economy, but for the world. Making a right decisio ...
  • What could go wrong if we attack Syria?
    Summary: Lost amidst the details and blather about our proposed attack on Syria is the possibility that we might get hurt. More accurately, that our grand strategy makes a severe defeat highly likely. If not in this crises, then in one of the future crises our policies seek out — and even ...

The Progressive Realist

  • The Best Result From Congress: A 'No' Vote on ...
    One week ago at exactly this time -- it seems like a year -- the political world was on waning-moments countdown for the expected U.S. strike on Syria. Then about an hour later, President Obama took the surprising and highly welcome step of saying he would request approval from Congress.  Let ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Syria, al-Qaeda Retalia ...
    Colleen McCain Nelson, “Obama’s Curbs on Executive Power Draw Fire,” Wall Street Journal, September 5, 2013. A senior administration official said that while the new drone-strike policy does rein in executive authority, the NSA and Syria proposals weren’t a reduction of power but an effort ...
  • Iraq Is Still Burning
    In the debate over whether we should bomb Syria, a name has come up that we hadn't heard in a while: Iraq. There are all kinds of overly simplistic comparisons you could make between 2003 and 2013, but they really are nothing alike, most particularly in that George Bush wanted and got a great bi ...
  • Top of the Morning: Peace Talks May Resume in ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Peace Talks May Resume in DR Congo Some cautious optimism is in order. “Rebels from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 movement said Thursday they will resume peace talks with the government of the violence-hit country, agreeing to a demand from leaders of ...
  • Reassessing the Washington Consensuses (Consen ...
    Last month, colleagues and I spent a week in Brazil in an effort to take the pulse of Brazil's foreign policy community. The intensive itinerary was arranged with the help of leading think tank CEBRI and included senior and very senior officials.  Our conversations were pretty wide-ranging, tr ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: The Stupidest Things Said on Syria ...
    It's been quite a week for talking about Syria, which means that politicians and pundits have taken advantage, as they always do, of the ample opportunity to say the wrong thing.  Senator John McCain gets a special award for saying so many conflicting and confusing things about his position on ...
  • Your New Robot Colleague Has Been Programmed t ...
    As robots move into more and more workplaces in the coming decades—not just high-tech manufacturing but eventually everything from hospitals to supermarkets—one of the big challenges employers will face is making their carbon-based workforce comfortable with the new arrivals. That's the topic o ...
  • How To Get Single-Payer Health Care, and More!
    Based on Congressional Republicans’ apparently overwhelming opposition to President Obama’s proposal to strike Syrian military facilities in retaliation for the government’s use of chemical weapons, a new way to enact progressive legislation in the United States has become apparent. When he ret ...
  • Iraq Is Still Burning
    In the debate over whether we should bomb Syria, a name has come up that we hadn't heard in a while: Iraq. There are all kinds of overly simplistic comparisons you could make between 2003 and 2013, but they really are nothing alike, most particularly in that George Bush wanted and got a great b ...
  • The Fundamental Problem with the Argument for ...
    Nicholas Kristof has a column that exemplifies why the case for bombing Syria is so unconvincing. There's a fundamental bait-and-switch at the heart of the article, using the (uncontested) fact that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a monstrous tyrant to skate over the question of what exactl ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Barbara Coe, Racist Nativist Leader, Dies in C ...
    Barbara Coe, the vitriolic California racist who regularly called undocumented immigrants “savages” and once claimed that these “barbarians” were busily “cutting off heads and appendages of blind, white, disabled gringos,” has died. Although she was widely known for statements like those, especi ...
  • Leith Revelations Spark Battle Between White S ...
    Two weeks ago, Hatewatch revealed that longtime white supremacist Craig Cobb was buying up properties in the small town of Leith, N.D., in the hope of creating a white homeland. You might think that fellow white supremacists since then would jump to defend Cobb, who was actually trying to do som ...
  • Racist Gang Member Draws Lengthy Sentence in F ...
    A white supremacist and career criminal who sent threatening letters laced with fake anthrax powder to a federal judge and a prosecutor in Arkansas will have a lot of time in the coming decades to think over his many misdeeds. LeRoy Shawn Selsor, who claims to be a member of the Aryan Brotherhoo ...
  • Discredited Regnerus Study Touted in Push for ...
    One thing you can pretty much count on is the willingness of anti-gay propagandists to drag out every pseudoscientific and discredited study that alleges LGBT people are dangerous to children or others. That’s what’s happening in Russia. Lawmaker Andrei Zhuravlyov introduced legislation today in ...
  • Former Racist Student Leader Moves Into Neo-Nazism
    A little over a year ago, Matthew Heimbach was annoying fellow students at Towson University with juvenile stunts like chalking “White Pride” and “White Guilt is Over” on sidewalks of the Maryland campus. But in the last few months, since graduating at the end of the spring semester, Heimbach ha ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS) ...
    MI CATS took to the water in a flotilla to confront Enbridge at their destruction site which undercuts the Grand River. Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans “Kalamazoo Hates Tar Sands Too” to remind the public of the destruction caused by Enbridge’s spill in 2010 which ...
  • Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS) ...
    MI CATS took to the water in a flotilla to confront Enbridge at their destruction site which undercuts the Grand River. Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans “Kalamazoo Hates Tar Sands Too” to remind the public of the destruction caused by Enbridge’s spill in 2010 which ...
  • Stop and Frisk Attorneys Urge Court to Reject ...
    Today, in Floyd v. City of New York, a federal class action lawsuit that successfully challenged the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, LLP and Covington & Burling, ...
  • Stop and Frisk Attorneys Urge Court to Reject ...
    Today, in Floyd v. City of New York, a federal class action lawsuit that successfully challenged the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, LLP and Covington & Burling, ...
  • Post 9-11 Veterans Oppose U.S. Military Strike ...
    In the wake of a horrific attack on Syrian civilians, President Obama and a bipartisan team of hawkish congress members are rushing the US towards military intervention in Syria. The post 9/11 veterans who make up Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) remember all too well the lead up to wars tha ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The US Has Little Credibility Left: Syria Won' ...
    Gary Younge 'I created Transjordan," Winston Churchill once boasted, "with a stroke of a pen one Sunday afternoon in Cairo." Take a look at what remains of Jordan 90 years later and you can see how.read more
  • Turning the Table on the Trackers: Wikileaks S ...
    Pratap Chatterjee What was Mostapha Maanna of Hacking Team, an Italian surveillance company, doing on his three trips to Saudi Arabia in the last year? A new data trove from WikiLeaks reveals travel details for salesmen like Maanna who hawk ...
  • New NOAA Report Confirms Climate Change Is Int ...
    Frances Beinecke When an extreme heat wave blasted the country last summer, I grew concerned about my father’s health.  Medical experts say hot weather takes the heaviest toll on senior citizens, and I knew my father would have a ...
  • Syria: March to Disaster
    Eric Margolis Recalling the massacres and destruction during the 1820’s Greek war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, then Victor Hugo wrote, “the Turks have passed by here – All is in ruins and mourning.”REUTER ...
  • The Ultimate Loaded Question: What’s for Dinner?
    Frida Berrigan Right now, my son is grinding stale Cheerios into a fine powder with the bottom of his sippy cup. He is also mushing banana into water he has poured on his tray to make a nice pudding that he will no doubt pour on the floor. ...

Water Privatization

  • MWSS wants $40-M revenue sharing for Angat
    A revenue sharing scheme that will enjoin Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) to pay $40 million (approximately P1.8 billion) annually for the electricity output from Angat plant auxiliary units 4 and 5 has been proposed by the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System.
  • Pines to outsource utilities department, consi ...
    The city is outsourcing more of its services in a move that could save residents money but cost workers their jobs.        
  • FDA: Rice is safe, despite small levels of arsenic
    The Food and Drug Administration says consumers shouldn't worry too much about levels of arsenic in rice - but should vary their diets just in case.
  • American States Water Company 14.1% Dividend I ...
    American States Water Company reminded shareholders that a 14.1% increase in its third quarter cash dividend from $0.355 per share to $0.405 per share and the two-for-one stock split became effective yesterday, September 3, 2013.
  • Water firm to build 2 treatment plants
    THE Zamboanga City Water District (ZCWD) announced that it will establish two new water treatment facilities in anticipation of the continued increase of water concessionaires. "Our capacity of producing water is very much lacking,” said ZCWD General Manager Leonardo Rey Vasquez in a dialog ...

Guardian

  • Rising growth and Olympics win give Japan a do ...
    New data shows Japan's GDP grew by a chunky 3.8% on annualised basis in last quarter, revised up from 2.6%, in latest sign that world economic recovery is on trackGraeme Wearden
  • Thai Airways plane skids off runway in Bangkok
    Fourteen passengers injured after landing gear malfunction causes Airbus A330-300 to overrun at Suvarnabhumi airportA Thai Airways plane carrying more than 280 people skidded off the runway while landing at Bangkok's main airport, injuring 14 passengers, according to the airline.After the accide ...
  • Ed Miliband vows to get tough on zero-hours co ...
    Labour's crackdown, marked in address to TUC, comes as UK languishes near bottom of G20 pay leagueEd Miliband will put forward plans on Tuesday to outlaw the exploitative use of zero-hours contracts, as new figures show Britain has suffered the second biggest fall in wages of any G20 country sin ...
  • Indian sectarian clashes spread
    Further areas gripped by Hindu-Muslim riots that have left 28 dead in Muzaffarnagar and many more missing, say policeSectarian violence is spreading across northern India, despite an army-enforced curfew put in place after deadly weekend clashes between Hindus and Muslims.Gunfire and street batt ...
  • Hague and Kerry to discuss Syria as poll shows ...
    Foreign secretary and US Secretary of State to discuss delaying any attack on Syria until after UN security council considerationUS Secretary of State John Kerry and the foreign secretary, William Hague, are expected to discuss the possibility of the US postponing any attack on Syria until after ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • India concerned over killing of Indian writer ...
    Crime News: India"s Rajya Sabha today expressed concern over the brutal killing of Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee in Afghanistan by Taliban militants. Deputy Chairman P J Kurien said it was a very unfortunate incident. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla said Minister ...
  • Amnesty fights for SA man in Afghan jail
    Cape Town - Amnesty International has demanded the release from Afghanistan of a South African who remains behind bars two-and-a-half years after he should have been ...
  • Fort Eustis soldiers return from Afghanistan t ...
    During the deployment, three of the company's soldiers were killed in the line of duty. Sgt. Caryn Nouv and Staff Sgt. Eric T. Lawson were killed in July when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. Staff Sgt. Justin R. Johnson was killed ...
  • Afghan Christian Converts Should Be Executed A ...
    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on March 25, 2013 (AP Photo/Jason Reed, File) (CNSNews.com) - Fifteen months ahead of the planned withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan, an anti-Christian hate campaign involving several leading Afgh ...
  • Suicide bombing rocks Afghan town 2 attackers ...
    A suicide bomber blew himself up on Monday in the Taliban birthplace of the Panjwai district in the southern Kandahar province, 450 km south of Kabul, in an incident that led to the death of the two attackers, district governor Fazal Mohammad said. "Two suicide bombers attempted to enter the dis ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Well, this week goes to the comedians, hands down. Funny votes soared past Insightful votes, and several of the top funny comments are ranked highly on the insightful side despite having far fewer votes there, since competition was apparently thin. But the insight we got was still good, and so ...
  • Fogbugzd's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    By J. Evan Noynaert, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Missouri Western State University This was a short week at Techdirt thanks to the Labor Day holiday in the United States.   Even though it was a short week, we may eventually see it as a pivotal week in the emerging NSA r ...
  • Awesome Stuff: More Crowdfunding Attempts At P ...
    Back in July, we did one of our weekly awesome stuff crowdfunding posts about a variety of new crowdfunding projects designed to keep communications and activites online private and away from snooping governments. That was only a month into the NSA revelations. Last month, we wrote about a few m ...
  • Wouldn't It Be Something If We Had A President ...
    Dan Gillmor has an absolutely fantastic "wishful thinking" speech he'd love to see from a future Presidential candidate, one in which liberty takes a front seat, rather than is seen as something that needs to be chipped away. Go read the whole thing, but here's a snippet to suck you in: When pe ...
  • How The NSA's Overreach Will Make The NSA's Jo ...
    The ACLU has a good discussion of how the NSA's massive grab of so much data is going to come back and bite the NSA, not just because its efforts are likely to be at least somewhat restricted by Congress, but because the overreach is so egregious and so extreme, that the "happy accident" that ma ...

VacTruth

  • New Minnesota State Law Bans Cancer-Causing Fo ...
    Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota have banned formaldehyde from children’s products. Sadly, vaccines are excluded from this ban.
  • These Weird New Tricks Are Being Used to Vacci ...
    A recent report has stated the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has plowed $100,000 into the development of small pink and blue silicon bracelets to remind mothers that is time for their child to be vaccinated. These are just some of the tricks being used to vaccinate your children.
  • Baby A’s Parents Speak Out Publicly On Radio F ...
    Recently, Baby A’s parents spoke publicly for the first time about their daughter's tragic death and their own forthcoming murder trial on Faridinkum Radio, when host Leon Pitard interviewed them along with VacTruth journalist Christina England and retired police sergeant Chris Savage.
  • This Pharmaceutical Company Used NSA-Like Tact ...
    Pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline are collecting data posted on popular websites by parents who are concerned about the safety of vaccines.
  • Five Month-Old Baby Dies Just Days After 8 Vac ...
    Parents in South Africa are facing life in prison for the murder of their baby girl who died just days after receiving 8 routine vaccinations.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The folly of the false flag brigade
    In the rather pretentious form of a “memorandum” for “the president”, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes: There is a growing body of evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its supporters — providing a stron ...
  • In Syria, the best solution is a negotiated peace
    Rory Stewart writes: Like hundreds of thousands of civilians, soldiers, contractors, UN and charity-staff, I have worked in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 20 years. I was in favour of the Prime Minister’s humanitarian motion on Syria but against a deeper intervention. I find ...
  • Why America’s veteran generals are ambivalent ...
    Mark Perry writes: When asked by Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) during Senate testimony on Tuesday what the United States is “seeking” in Syria, Gen. Martin Dempsey had nothing to say. “I can’t answer that, what we’re seeking,” he replied. Secretary of State John K ...
  • Diplomacy is the best way to intervene in Syria
    By Max Weiss, Princeton University “Every time the Syrians mourn a martyr another martyr falls, and that’s the way funerals drag along behind them…more funerals.” So wrote Samar Yazbek in her diaries of the Syrian revolution that I translated from the Arabic. The specter of greater violence and ...
  • Rebels ‘too disorganised’ to take over after a ...
    The Telegraph reports: The two-year-old uprising against the Damascus regime has broken down into countless battlefields fought over by a “vast array” of different rebel groups. Rebel fighters may be able to make local gains behind a barrage of missile strikes, but are unlikely to overthrow Assa ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    The Week That Was: 2013-09-07 (September 7, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard … C ...
  • The Call Of The Running Tide
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I spent the afternoon in the port city of Liverpool, walking the docks. Here’s the view from one point, a panorama running from sunshine on the right and grading into rain on the left, looking … Continue reading →
  • The Climate-Grain Production Relationship Quan ...
    Guest essay by David Archibald There is now consensus that the Sun has now entered a quiet period. The first paper from the solar physics community predicting the current quiet period was Schatten and Tobiska’s 2003 paper “Solar Activity Heading … Continue reading →
  • A Curious Climate Analogy – Badly Report ...
    Guest essay by Kip Hansen, St Thomas, USVI The AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY just published a Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society titled: EXPLAINING EXTREME EVENTS OF 2012 FROM A CLIMATE PERSPECTIVE edited by Thomas C. Peterson, … Continue reading &# ...
  • Quote of the Week, down under edition
    Many Australians are celebrating the win of Tony Abbott and his coalition government as a vote by the populace against the much hated Carbon Tax ramrodded by former prime minister Julia Gillard. David Elder of Australia, commenting on this event … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • GBacteria from Lean Humans Can Slim Obese Mice
    Graduate student Vanessa Ridaura and colleagues at the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the September 6 issue of Science that mice lacking bacterial colonies of their own that received gut bacteria from obese humans put on mo ...
  • Brain circuit can tune anxiety
    Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective and have unwanted side effects. To develop bett ...
  • Miniature brains grown in test tubes – a new p ...
    Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a “tool” that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. Just a few millimetres across, the “cerebral organoid ...
  • Could the triple whammy technique that beat HI ...
    The key development that has transformed scientists’ strategy for battling cancer has been the recent discovery that tumours are far more genetically complex than previously realised. “By analysing cancer tissue samples from patients we have found there is an enormous genetic differe ...
  • The incredible beauty in the life of cells
    The incredible beauty in the life of cells – YouTube.

CFACT

  • Noon: Tie Syria support to boosting domestic o ...
    Energy is a big part of the entire Middle East discussion. Many people believe that if the U.S. were not dependent on OPEC oil, we’d have no involvement in the centuries-old tribal conflicts. Any vote for the President’s plan should be tied to decreasing dependence, increasing independence—or, m ...
  • Time to shed some light on phony federal &#822 ...
    With so many federal reports containing no data – only conclusions put forth by another scientist – there is no way to debate, debunk, or disprove the underlying facts. It’s almost impossible even to get court orders to track down and disclose the data, if Freedom of Information Act requests are ...
  • “Stop stalling on climate change” ...
    Climate alarmists are trying to sucker, snooker, and stampede us into taking “immediate action” on job- and economy-strangling taxes and restrictions, before more people catch on to what’s really happening. This protection racket is one more example of passing a law, so that we can find out what ...
  • Reid, Obama Yucca-ing up U.S. nuclear waste di ...
    “The President may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections,” said Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, who wrote the majority (2 to 1) opinion. “It is no overstatement to say that our constitutional system of separation of powers would be significantly a ...
  • History shows hurricanes are natural. Hyping ...
    NOAA assembled 11,967 tropical storm tracks from 1842 to 2012, illustrating that hurricanes are natural and always have been. Preparing for hurricanes is prudent. Hyping them to push the global warming agenda is propaganda.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • Composting Made Easy—Even for City Dwellers
    By Dr. Mercola Do you compost? If the answer is no, then maybe you believe it’s too complicated or time consuming, or too smelly—or perhaps you think you lack a suitable place to do it. I have been composting for the past two years now and have learned how to refine the process. ...
  • Broccoli-Based Medicine—A Potent Tool Against ...
    By Dr. Mercola Science has proven time and again that Mother Nature is the best physician, and food is the best medicine. Broccoli, for example—and to an even greater degree, broccoli sprouts—have been repeatedly shown to be one of nature's most valuable health-promoting foods, ca ...
  • More Communities Succeed in Eliminating Water ...
    By Dr. Mercola After generations of misleading propaganda about the benefits of water fluoridation, the truth is finally getting some traction. According to the former EPA risk assessment scientist, Dr. William Hirzy, water fluoridation still remains a government policy because of &ldquo ...
  • King Corn—The Subsidized Crop That Drives Our ...
    By Dr. Mercola The United States is the number one per capita consumer of corn in the world. As expounded in books like The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, high-fructose corn syrup and other corn-derivatives work their way into nearly every kind of processed food on the market. In the ...
  • Researcher Files Lawsuit vs. FDA After His Pet ...
    By Dr. Mercola In 2009, Dr. Fred Kummerow, who has studied heart disease for more than 60 years, filed a citizen petition with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for a ban on synthetic trans fats.1 In the petition, he noted that heart disease is often the result of trans fat d ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Anyone Else Wistful for the Good Old Days, in ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro You never know, President Obama might turn things around. On the other hand, things sound bad on the Hill. The Administration would have to run the table to get a yes-vote from both houses of Congress (it’s uphill even in the Senate). It may not be too early ...
  • TEDxHagueAcademy: September 9
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen For a number of years now, I’ve enjoyed watching TED talks  and TEDx events on a variety of subjects in the realms of science, design, and society. TED may be an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but TED talks already go well beyond those ...
  • Events and Announcements: September 8, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers A workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law will take place at the London School of Economics on May 16, 2014. The aim of this workshop is to help bring contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a n ...
  • Can the General Assembly Provide a Way Around ...
    by Julian Ku As Samantha Power (the new U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) demands unilateral action and rages against the deadlocked Security Council, it is worth thinking again about the odd structure of the UNSC and its veto power for P-5 members.  In this light, I would point our readers to an i ...
  • Obama’s Bizarre New Theory of Customary Intern ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As readers of the blog no doubt know, Syria is is one of seven states that have not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). (The others are Angola, Egypt, Israel, Myanmar, North Korea, and South Sudan.) To consider Syria’s use of chemical w ...

Public News Service

  • Minimum Wage Myths – Who in Arizona Need ...
    Minimum Wage Myths – Who in Arizona Needs a Raise? PHOENIX – Fast-food workers are agitating for a raise and some in Congress are pressing to increase the minimum wage. But what would the actual economic impact be of a boost for the lowest-paid workers? Critics charge that raisin ...
  • Smart Meters: Creating New Vulnerabilities?
    Smart Meters: Creating New Vulnerabilities? PHOENIX, Ariz. - Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of Arizona residents have received new wireless digital devices from their power companies known as "smart meters." They transmit information about energy use to the utility, and they are ...
  • New Safety Regulations Could Root Out Local Food
    New Safety Regulations Could Root Out Local Food PHOENIX - The landscape of Arizona's farming industry could change if new food-safety regulations take effect. The changes come as a result of the Food Safety Modernization Act that the federal Food and Drug Administration says will prevent almos ...
  • AZ Food Banks Prepare for SNAP Fallout
    AZ Food Banks Prepare for SNAP Fallout PHOENIX - Starting in November, two months away, 1.1 million people in Arizona will have less money to spend on groceries. Funding for SNAP benefits, more commonly known as food stamps, is decreasing as a result of the expiration of the federal American Rec ...
  • Stories of Immigration and Deportation – ...
    Stories of Immigration and Deportation – Leticia PHOENIX – Behind all the immigration debates and statistics are real people, including men and women who stay in abusive relationships because they're afraid of being deported. Leticia Reta used to be one of those women, but not any m ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Iggy & The Stooges. San Jose Sep. 28. C2SV
    I’ve been a Stooges fan since their first album came out. Now I finally get to see them live in San Jose Sept. 28 at the C2SV Technology Conference and Music Festival. With James Williamson, now an electrical engineer who will be giving a keynote speech at the tech part of C2SV and Mike Wa ...
  • 3D printed skateboard
    Designer Sam Abbott is recreating the limits and the paradigm of creating a new skateboard. Instead of the traditional subtractive process using a maplewood structure with a plastic coating for the board, Sam went all out with the additive approach and created a 3D printed deck. 3D printed surfb ...
  • War, Obama-style
  • Dreams That Die: Misadventures In Hollywood, b ...
    In Dreams That Die, John Wight describes his move from Scotland to Hollywood in 2000 hoping to make it as a screenwriter, working as an extra, double, and security to pay the rent. He soon crashed up against the vicious Hollywood caste system and its often ritualized and systematic abuse. Those ...
  • Cats on a treadmill

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • WAR ON SYRIA; US Supported Chemical Weapons Ga ...
    September 7, 2013 (AE) – The multiple uses of Chemical Weapons in Syria have ALL been committed by NATO’s Free Syrian Army (FSA) terrorist mercenaries, also known as Al Qaeda… the estimated 100,000 killed and the 2 million refugees are entirely the fault of the very same people who a ...
  • Iran Back in the NWO Crosshairs – Spurio ...
    We haven’t even finished Syria and already we are setting up Iran (again) – Curious question for y’all? If you were Iran, and being threatened every other week… Wouldn’t you do everything you could to protect yourself? (Shoe on other foot) Most Iranians I know despi ...
  • Syria, War Criminal Obama, & Perpetual U.S. Wars
      Published in Issue 527 of The Black Commentator on September 5, 2013 By Larry Pinkney “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is ...
  • THE JACK BLOOD SHOW / Podcast #4 2013 – ...
    We had to hurry and get this out. Part 1 coming tomorrow with news commentary and karma for our great supporters! stay tuned! Jack welcomes our longtime friend, and contributor Greg Palast. Discussion ranges from the new secret documents that Greg acquired detailing massive financial scams perpe ...
  • Rush Limpbaugh: What if Al Qaeda is ‘Framing’ ...
    Plausible Deniability? If global intelligence get caught – er ok they have already been caught, but here is a way to win regardless! Endless info that we are sponsoring “Al CIA Duh” aka Al Nusra in Syria… still leads to the usual suspects! Who Benefits indeed El LushBo! H ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Top 25 Facebook apps: September 2013
    So you know that King’s Candy Crush Saga is the top Facebook app (and by a wide margin), but what other apps are popular among Facebook users? King also has the No. 2 Facebook app in...
  • Citing user experience concerns, Facebook repo ...
    It’s no secret that Facebook is planning to add auto-play video ads to the News Feed at some point. However, as the company tries to find the balance between profit and user experience, this ad product...
  • Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos buzzing on Face ...
    As the National Football League season kicks off tonight, it appears that more Facebook users are posting about star quarterback Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos than their opponent, defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens. Facebook...
  • Parse launches analytics tool, background jobs ...
    Parse, the Facebook-owned app development platform, held its first Developer Day conference in San Francisco Thursday, and the company launched some key new products at the event. Developers utilizing Parse can now schedule recurring tasks within...
  • Facebook PMD Hearsay Social raises $30M in Ser ...
    Hearsay Social, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in pages and apps, announced Thursday that the company has raised $30 million in Series C funding, led by existing investors Sequoia Capital and NEA. This brings the company’s...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Dead Bodies They Won't Show Us Pictures Of
    In a last gasp attempt to try to inflame the American people and its Congress into our own irrational act of international murder in Syria, the administration has flooded our media with pictures of dead bodies. Do they really think all they have to do is show us some bodies lined up in burial s ...
  • Mission Congo: Exposing Pat Robertson's Fraud ...
    Mission Congo: it's the film that might finally make Pat Robertson accountable for his fraudulent use of Operation Blessing in the Rwandan genocide.
  • Kaiser Obama - From WWI to WWIII
    This article discusses Barack Obama's foreign policy, compares the present rush to war with Syria to the lead up to World War I, and considers the possibility of nuclear war, among other things
  • Creating Effective Regulation is the Imperativ ...
    The only positive aspect of the public contest to pick a successor for Ben Bernanke that the White House has inexplicably sparked is that economists are acknowledging that the next head of the Fed must act to create (not "restore") effective regulation by the agency. It is long past time to have ...
  • Labor continues to suffer in this recovery; bu ...
    Over the years CEO compensation has been rising relative to worker compensation. The reasons include the weakness of unions, reductions in top marginal tax rates, failure to enforce antitrust laws, and a stagnant minimum wage. The difference between worker and CEO compensation is also the result ...

Switchboard

  • World Water Week - Water Cooperation, Building ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. I spent the last week in Stockholm, Sweden at World Water Week, an international water conference held annually in Stockholm which brings together a wide ranging group of individuals from dozens of countri ...
  • Home Rule Heads to the High Court: NY's Court ...
    Daniel Raichel, Project Attorney, New York Last week, New York’s highest court (the New York Court of Appeals) agreed to hear the industry appeals of two decisions issued by the New York Appellate Division this past spring in the Dryden and Mi ...
  • Clearing the Air: Chicago's Condominium Commun ...
    Rebecca Stanfield, Deputy Director for Policy, Midwest Program, Chicago Back in late July, a dozen Chicago aldermen moved to defer the vote on the Chicago Energy Use Benchmarking Ordinance for six weeks, citing the need to inform themselve ...
  • Record Sales of Electric Cars Drives Revival o ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco With sales of electric and other fuel-efficient cars hitting new highs in the U.S., the timing for DOE to restart its auto retooling program couldn’t be better. E ...
  • India Moves Towards Phase-Down of HFCs at G20 ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Blog by Bhaskar Deol, NRDC India Representative Earlier today in Saint Petersburg, world leaders participating at the G20 summit made significant progress to protect the climate by moving a step close ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Medicine - Gut Bacteria Might Cont ...
    New scientific evidence suggests what or how much we eat isn’t the only factor affecting our weight. The microbes living in our intestines matter, too.The results of this new study raise the possibility that probiotic bacteria may someday be added to diet and exercise to help fight obesity.In ...
  • Christians Flee as Islamist Extremists Capture ...
    Rebel groups, including a branch of al-Qaeda, have taken control of Maaloula, one of the few remaining villages where the language spoken by Christ is still in use, residents and activists reported. “Our army, the Syrian army, has failed us,� said Sister Antoinette, a nun from Maaloula. “W ...
  • Oil Addiction - Keystone Pipeline Foe Steyer L ...
    Billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer is launching a four-part, $1 million ad buy that attacks the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.The former hedge fund chief’s first ad, slated to run during today’s political talk shows, alleges Keystone wouldn’t help the U.S. because the ...
  • After the Holocaust - New Holocaust Study Says ...
    Perhaps the most memorable words about struggle and resilience come from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." A surprising new study looking at World War II appears to draw the same conclusion, saying male survivors of the Jewish Holocaust lived longe ...
  • Obama's Second Term - U.S. Credibility on Iran ...
    American officials like to say that Iran's defiance of international demands that it limit its nuclear activities, its support for terrorism, and the like have led to Tehran's growing isolation. Iranian regime officials see things differently. The Iranian regime has a strategy in the Middle East ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The "Nation" Uses LaRouche Nut-Job To Blame Ob ...
    According to The Nation, Obama's push for a war on Syria is all about Israel and the "Israel Lobby" The dirty little not-so-secret behind President Obama’s much-lobbied-for, illegal and strategically incompetent war against Syria is that it’s not about Syria at all. It’s about Iran—and Is ...
  • JEWISH MOTHER SWEATER ALERT!!! Both Ice Caps S ...
    Last month we reported the growing number of scientists warning that the earth was heading toward an ice age (something that made Al Gore very sad). Today's UK Daily Mail gives more evidence that would have made my mother, of blessed memory issue a major Jewish Mother Sweater Alert because th ...
  • JEWISH MOTHER SWEATER ALERT!!! Both Ice Caps S ...
    Last month we reported the growing number of scientists warning that the earth was heading toward an ice age (something that made Al Gore very sad). Today's UK Daily Mail gives more evidence that would have made my mother, of blessed memory issue a major Jewish Mother Sweater Alert because th ...
  • NEW REVELATION!! NSA Can Tap Into Your Smart P ...
    Brony's beware, the NSA knows all about those My Little Pony apps on your smart phone. German Magazine Der Spiegel  has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the smartphone devices using iPhone,  Android as ...
  • NEW REVELATION!! NSA Can Tap Into Your Smart P ...
    Brony's beware, the NSA knows all about those My Little Pony apps on your smart phone. German Magazine Der Spiegel  has learned from internal NSA documents that the US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the smartphone devices using iPhone,  Android as ...

Wind Watch

  • Troubled wind project target of FBI scrutiny, ...
    ZUMBROTA — The New Era wind project appears likely to have its state-issued permits revoked this fall after missing two deadlines that required it to either begin construction or surrender its permits by Aug. 23, according to a Minnesota Public Utilities spokesperson. That course of action could ...
  • Prairie Breeze Wind Farm fight headed to court ...
    TIPTON – The battle over the Prairie Breeze Wind Farm in northwestern Tipton County will be continued in court as developer juwi Wind attempts to modify the conditions imposed on the project. Attorneys for juwi Wind and leaseholders in the area of the proposed Prairie Breeze Wind Farm contend th ...
  • French court rejects planned wind farm near Mo ...
    A French court has ruled against a decision to set up a wind farm off the picturesque northern abbey island of Mont Saint Michel which could threaten the site’s UNESCO World Heritage status, a lawyer said Thursday. A local environment and landscape group and the owners of a nearby chateau ...
  • Wind farm owner’s inability to refinance debt ...
    Northeast Wind, the joint venture between First Wind and Emera that now owns five wind farms in Maine, has postponed efforts to refinance $385 million in debt because of unfavorable market conditions. The move, while not highly unusual, has some industry watchers asking whether the market is sou ...
  • Wind turbine north of Hamby catches fire, star ...
    HAMBY, Texas – A wind turbine north of Hamby sparked a small grass fire after going up in flames. Firefighters estimate the grass fire to be six to eight acres. The fire started around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The turbine is on Highway 351 north of town. Firefighters from Hamby, Abilene, and Alb ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Debunking conservative myths about poverty
    Image Caption:  A new report from the conservative Cato Institute uses a flawed analysis to conclude that public assistance benefits are so generous that they discourage people from working. A flawed Cato study claims that "we ...
  • NC students organize against voter suppression
    Image Caption:  Students and their allies spoke at a press conference outside the N.C. State Board of Elections before a Sept. 3 hearing on the challenge to Elizabeth City State University student Montravias King's bid for a local city cou ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Forced fracking for North Car ...
    Image Caption:  (Image from a Rural Advancement Foundation International slide presentation, available at www.rafiusa.org.) An official state study group is recommending that North Carolina be given the power to compel non-con ...
  • To dodge law, high-cost lender offers cash for ...
    Image Caption:  TitleMax, one of the fastest growing high-cost lenders in the country, has found a way around laws passed by several Texas cities: offer an initial loan at zero percent interest. (Photo by Randy von Liski via Flickr.) ...
  • Under siege by tar sands, Gulf Coast 'draws th ...
    Image Caption:  For more information about the Sept. 21 action, visit 350.org. People from across the Gulf Coast will join in a national action on Sept. 21 calling on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline and the ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Late nineteenth and early 20th century intelle ...
    I want to get some notes down on the reasons for certain literary tropes and intellectual beliefs in the late 19th and early 20th century.  The difference in how our ancestors thought about the world really smacks you in the face if you read 19th and pre-WWII fiction.  This is true from pulp fic ...
  • Putin Stings America
    I bring to your attention these two beauties: “We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn’t been completed. We have suspended it for now. But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international ...
  • The intolerance of genius
    One of the reasons, today, that we have such mediocre progress on important issues, is the unwillingness to put up with geniuses who don’t have “soft skills”, aka. who don’t play well with others. (Obligatory note, this isn’t a post about me.)  There is this odd bel ...
  • Twain’s War Prayer
    (note that it was rejected for publication during his lifetime. The truly important writings often are or sell atrociously.) The War Prayer By Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism ...
  • The difference between Obama going to war with ...
    is that Bush had more respect for the UN, and more respect for Congress, getting from both something which could at least be called approval. Obama isn’t even bothering. The similarity is that both wars appear to be based on lies: Iraq had no WMD (and was not involved in 9/11), and it is h ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Can’t lose weight? It’s all about ...
    News.com.au – Desperate to lose weight and wondering why you just can’t shed those kilos? It might not be your fault. And the thing holding you back might be a whole lot smaller than you think. While the food you consume obviously plays a part, America’s Associated Press report ...
  • And now it’s global COOLING! Record retu ...
    Daily Mail – A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent. The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-f ...
  • Stripped, bound and shot in the head: Horrifyi ...
    Mail Online – Video footage has emerged which shows the moment seven of President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian soldiers are executed on camera by rebels fighting to overthrow the regime. The soldiers are stripped, bound and pushed to the ground where a number of rebels stand over them po ...
  • NSA can track smartphone data by breaking thro ...
    Daily Mail – The NSA is able to crack protective measures on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users’ data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in German news weekly Der Spiegel. The magazine cited internal documents from the U.S.’ Nationa ...
  • Cyprus bailout imminent after tumultuous vote
    DW – Cyprus has approved financial reforms required to receive the next tranche of its bailout program. The government needed two votes in parliament to overcome resistance by the opposition following a stormy debate.  The Cypriot parliament had approved key financial legislation aimed at ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Leaving AC Milan has given me World Cup h ...
    The forward believes that leaving Italy has given him the chance to play regular first team football and to establish himself in the national team £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = COR Draw NAU £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = COR Draw NAU £5 £10 £20 ...
  • Film industry is an insecure place: Kanga ...
    Mumbai, Sep 8: Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has no film background, says the film industry is not a secure...
  • Cabinet note on Telangana awaiting politi ...
    NEW DELHI: Home ministry has prepared the note for creation of Telangana state and it will be presented before the Union Cabinet once Congress president Sonia Gandhi returns from the US and it gets a "political clearance". Following a directive from home minister Sushilkumar...
  • J&K's financial status grim: Omar Abdulla ...
    JAMMU: Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir has a total annual income of only Rs 6,500 crore from all sources, chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday said the present fiscal status of the state is grim. "The present financial status of the state is grim. We have a total annual income of...
  • 2nd ODI: Clarke's ton helps Australia pos ...
    Australia captain Michael Clarke's century was the cornerstone of his side's 315 for seven against England in the second one-day international at Manchester's Old Trafford on Sunday. Scorecard Clarke's 105, only his eight hundred in 229 matches at this level, came on the same ground where ju ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • NATO Strike Kills up to 15 in War-Torn Afghanistan
    A NATO airstrike in Afghanistan killed up to 15 people on Sunday, Afghan officials announced, adding that at least nine of them were civilians, including four women and four children.Map showing Kunar province where at least ten civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike on a pickup truck ca ...
  • As White House War Call Floods Airwaves, 100,0 ...
    Vatican peace vigil for Syria, Saturday (Tony Gentile/Reuters)Up to 100,000 peopled rallied in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for a four-hour peace vigil late Saturday, urging U.S. and world leaders to choose a path of peace rather than war to resolve the current conflict in Syria. ...
  • As White House War Call Floods Airwaves, 100,0 ...
    Vatican peace vigil for Syria, Saturday (Tony Gentile/Reuters)Up to 100,000 peopled rallied in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for a four-hour peace vigil late Saturday, urging U.S. and world leaders to choose a path of peace rather than war to resolve the current conflict in Syria. ...
  • The Flip Side Of Obama’s Keystone XL Delay
    While President Obama made a big deal out of delaying the northern half of the Keystone pipeline’s construction, he compensated by signing an executive order to expedite similar infrastructure projects everywhere else. (Photo/Matt Wansley via Flickr)Large segments of the environmental movement d ...
  • The Flip Side Of Obama’s Keystone XL Delay
    While President Obama made a big deal out of delaying the northern half of the Keystone pipeline’s construction, he compensated by signing an executive order to expedite similar infrastructure projects everywhere else. (Photo/Matt Wansley via Flickr)Large segments of the environmental movement d ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The McDonald's Strikes: US vs New Zealand
    US fast food workers celebrated Labor Day this year with a series of rolling strikes in 60 cities. The McDonald’s strikes, organized by Fast Food Forward, first started in New York City last November and gradually spread across the country. The movement to unionize McDonald’s i ...
  • A Listening Session on Syria
    Here’s the response I got from Rep Jim McDermott to my email on Syria: Dear Friends, In the past week, I have received hundreds of calls from constituents about a possible military action in Syria. It’s a serious issue that deserves a public debate, and while I have heard from ...
  • Spying on Americans: the Ugly History
      The Origins of the US Police State While the majority of Americans were stunned and outraged at Edward Snowden’s revelations that the government was secretly monitoring their phone calls and emails, the US government has been systematically spying on law abiding citiz ...
  • "We Didn't Know They Were Chemical Weaponns"
    In War, Truth is the First Casualty Everyone, even Obama, knows Assad would have to be psychotic to launch a chemicals weapons attack with UN inspectors only miles a way.  The whole world knows the CIA has been training rebel fighters (it’s not a secret when you read it in the Wa ...
  • Obama Quietly Legalizes Marijuana
      Justice Department Agrees Not to Challenge State Marijuana Laws According to Yahoo News, the Obama administration quietly legalized marijuana use last week – at least in states with medical and recreational marijuana laws. In an abrupt about face, Deputy Attorney General Ja ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Update on "Highly Radioactive" Water Leaks at ...
    The media frenzy about the detection of water leaks from the vast tank farm that Tokyo Electric Power Company has been forced to build to store water used to cool the three damaged cores at their Fukushima Daiichi power station continues to sizzle.
  • Record Sales of Electric Cars Drives Revival o ...
    With sales of electric and other fuel-efficient cars hitting new highs in the U.S., the timing for DOE to restart its auto retooling program couldn’t be better. The auto retooling loan program can put the U.S. auto industry in the best possible position to compete.
  • Ex Post Evaluation of the Empire State Buildin ...
    The Empire State Building is the tallest and most well-known building in the United States to have received LEED certification. The certification was part of a massive retrofit of the New York City building undertaken between 2009 and 2011.
  • Kenya Plans To Build Wind Energy Program
    The Kenyan government is planning to scale up its wind power programme in the near future, attempting to increase interest in wind power investment. A Kenyan governmental delegation has been visiting countries such as Germany and Denmark
  • Nest Labs and Sunrun Pair Smart Thermostats Wi ...
    Two of the Bay Area's top clean energy companies -- Nest and Sunrun -- have joined forces in a marketing campaign to pair smart thermostats with solar. The two companies are hoping they can leverage the "cool" factor of each other's brands and entice more customers.

Rodale News

  • 4 Strange Reasons You're in Excruciating Pain
    Got kidney stones? You're not alone. The tiny, jagged orbs that form in your kidneys and cause blinding pain on their journey downward have become a more common health complaint than heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, according to figures released in 2012 by researchers at the University of C ...
  • The 5 Worst Ingredients in Pet Food
    by Jean Hofve, DVM, author of the upcoming book Paleo Dog You may not realize it, but pet food is made primarily from leftovers from human food production, such as animal products that are unwanted or are condemned for human consumption. The type and quality of pet food ingredients can vary w ...
  • 9 Sneaky Sources of GMOs
    If you're trying to avoid foods with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you probably already keep a sharp eye out for foods made from corn, canola, and soy, all of which have had bacteria or genes inserted into their DNA to either produce or resist toxic pesticides. A lot of GMO foods are o ...
  • Five Ways to Clear Brain Fog
    by integrative medicine expert Isaac Eliaz, MD founder of the Amitabha Clinic & Healing Center in Sebastopol, California We've all experienced those moments from time to time—forgotten a name, had a hazy memory, misplaced our keys. After all, in today's age of multitasking madness, it's eas ...
  • Cook with Your Kids, Create Family Memories
    by Reed Alexander, author of the new kid-friendly cookbook KewlBites: 100 Nutritious, Delicious, and Family-Friendly Dishes In my family, travel has always been the heart and soul of "spare time." Our favorite way to bond together, get to know each other a little better, and let off s ...

big think

  • Find Your Identity
    Guest post by Jill Janes.  I believe that searching for one’s identity is human nature.  Though many recall periods of soul searching and identity crisis in adolescence, I think that finding an identity is not simply a growing pain that can be left behind.  Throughout our lives we contin ...
  • Millennials Will Change Corporate America Comp ...
    The office of the future is not going to look anything like the office of today. "Everyone’s going to be working on their own terms," says Dan Schawbel, author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success. In order to attract Millennials, companies will need to change their culture. Tha ...
  • Is This the First “Honest” Bible?
    As Penn Jillette said right here on BigThink.com, “Reading the Bible (or the Koran, or the Torah) will make you an atheist.” Of course, just reading the Bible itself—all 66 canonical books (more in some versions)—is something few even attempt. Growing up Catholic, I went with the flow and took i ...
  • How to Have it All and Be Happy? Re-imagine "All."
    What's the Latest Development? Each celebrity or political fall from grace seems to be a lesson in which the figure of Icarus looms large. Or as writer Delia Ephron puts it, having it all is statistically impossible because "every single choice you make narrows your choices (the choices ...
  • The New York City Mayoral Race: A Voting Syste ...
    As I walked around New York City today, I spotted a poster advertising British soccer—the poster read, “Keep Calm and Pick a Side”—and I immediately had an epiphany about modern politics.  Like the narratives of modern sports, which are built on archaic war metaphors (“offense” vs. “defe ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
    Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.... At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...
  • The NSA Reveals That It Does 20 Million Databa ...
    As we noted earlier today, the NSA's two key "defenses" of the thousands of abuses and violations of the law that recently came out thanks to a leaked document are that there wasn't "intent" to abuse the system (we had no idea that made illegal things legal...) and, second, that it was such a sm ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Silver’s gold standards for stats
    Nate Silver’s Statistical Standards: Statistics aren’t just numbers Data requires context Correlation is not causation The average is still the most useful statistical tool ever invented Human intuition can often cause errors when it comes to making statistical judgments and inferenc ...
  • Could rhyming save the world?
    Could a rhyming comic book help save the world? The Universe Verse is an illustrated, rhyming ode to science that appeals to the child in anyone, and it’s raising money on Kickstarter.com until Sept 29th. Fun-loving authos and illustrator James Lu Dunbar has just launched a fundraising cam ...
  • Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
    Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...
  • Earth calling Cassini
    People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images. ...
  • Sciencebase FeedMyReads Q&A #DBQuestions
    The excellent author-reader twitter community hosted by FeedMyReads (aka Fraser Stoopman), put out a call for questions from twitter users for me, sciencebase, this week. Fraser has been sharing my answers to the intriguing and amusing questions in a spate of tweets, but I thought I’d post ...

RFF Library

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

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Call Mr. Robeson: A life, with songs
    A conversation with writer and actor Tayo Aluko An autobiography of Frederick Douglass, tomes in African History, and McCarthy-era newsprint playbills are scattered across a black box theatre space in North End Halifax. Paul Robeson hobbles ...
  • Call Mr. Robeson: A life, with songs
    A conversation with writer and actor Tayo Aluko An autobiography of Frederick Douglass, tomes in African History, and McCarthy-era newsprint playbills are scattered across a black box theatre space in North End Halifax. Paul Robeson hobbles ...
  • Pro-rape chant symptomatic of endemic sexism o ...
    Interview with Dr. Wilma van der Veen, lecturer on Social Power Relations at SMU K'jiputktuk (Halifax) - Revelations continue to surface from St. Mary's University that show that the pro-rape chant recently made public via a CBC art ...
  • Pro-rape chant symptomatic of endemic sexism o ...
    Interview with Dr. Wilma van der Veen, lecturer on Social Power Relations at SMU K'jiputktuk (Halifax) - Revelations continue to surface from St. Mary's University that show that the pro-rape chant recently made public via a CBC art ...
  • A Day in Front-line Health Promotion- Part 1: ...
    Food Security & Feed Nova Scotia Having enough nutritious food to eat is an essential human need and a ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Summertime - blogger's rest
    David Seaton's News Links   The endless south Europe August is well underway and I am "busy" sleeping off a a very hard year, which seems to be ending better than I expected. Before it's over I may even get a little beach in, who knows? I probably wont post much of anything till mid-Septem ...
  • Support the fast food workers strike!
    David Seaton's News LinksHundreds of fast food workers in seven cities across the U.S. walked out on their jobs Monday demanding a “living wage,” or double what many are making now. More strikes are expected this week in what’s become one of the biggest pushes to organize the industry’s histori ...
  • Whither Weiner's Weeny?
    David Seaton's News LinksAsked how he would explain the incidents to his son, Weiner said "First of all, the kid's going to grow up in Gracie Mansion. So I'm going to say, 'Kid, don't complain.'" Huffington PostThe saga of Anthony Weiner is beyond caricature. What redeeming feature does this poo ...
  • The "North Korean Propaganda" film: a discussion
    David Seaton's News LinksA YouTube video purported to be a leaked North Korean propaganda film has been making the Internet rounds. The film, which has been called scarily accurate, criticizes Western capitalism, consumerism and celebrity culture. Update: The clip is actually from a 2012 documen ...
  • Snowden... what if?
    David Seaton's News LinksDisclaimer: I would start off by saying that whoever or whatever Edward Snowden is, I believe that he has performed an important and useful service to America and to the world by revealing the extent of the National Security Agency's spying programs.  This universal ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Court Decision Allows NSA to Search its Databa ...
    Ellen Nakashima has an oddly downplayed story in the Washington Post today. As we all know, the NSA collects massive amounts of both domestic and foreign communications, which it stores for years. It's allowed to search this database, but under the Bush administration they could only search fo ...
  • Where Do Millennials Shop For Food?
    The LA Times has an interesting story today about supermarket automation that's worth a read if you're interested in such things. Among other things, I learned what those Powerballish-looking TV screens in my local Albertsons are all about.1But there was also this: Grocery stores especia ...
  • Obama Executing "Full Court Press" on Syria
    Reuters reports: President Barack Obama will give interviews on Monday to the three network news anchors, as well as to anchors from PBS, CNN, and Fox, more evidence of a "full court press" strategy ahead of pivotal congressional votes on military strikes in Syria. Has Obama ever en ...
  • Google Redoubles Effort to Thwart NSA Surveillance
    The Washington Post reports today on the first of what I assume will be many announcements from tech companies worldwide: Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence ...
  • In Which I Muddy the Waters on the Edward Snow ...
    Earlier today, in a post about the latest Edward Snowden leak, I wrote that "I'm a lot less certain that this one should have seen the light of day." After some further thought and conversation, I'm now a lot less certain I should have said that. Here's the problem. The Guardian and New Yor ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • 'Private militia' firm ordered to close over G ...
    Gaspem is accused of killing at least two Guarani leaders, including Nísio Gomes© SurvivalBrazil’s Public Prosecutors have called for the closure of a notorious security firm accused of carrying out at least eight brutal attacks on Guarani communities, and of killing at least two of their ...
  • Sámi protest against British mining company
    Sweden's Sámi people are protesting against iron ore mining on their lands.© Johan Sandberg McGuinne/SurvivalSwedish police have broken up a protest by Sámi men and women protesting against iron ore mining in a crucial reindeer herding area in the Swedish Arctic Circle. The Sámi and other ...
  • ‘We’ll fight against oil exploration’, Brazili ...
    The Matís and other tribes of Brazil's Javari Valley are speaking out against oil exploration around their forest.© © Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazilian Indians have stated that they will not accept oil exploration on or near their lands, that they will ‘fight against the National Petroleum Age ...
  • In pictures: Tribal festivals showcase human d ...
    Brazil's Enawene Nawe gather outside haiti, the house of sacred flutes, to celebrate their four-month long Yãkwa fishing ritual. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs thousands of revelers bask in the sun at Nevada’s Burning Man festival, and London’s streets recover from thousands more dan ...
  • Fire devastates roadside camp where Brazilian ...
    A fire has devastated the Guarani's roadside camp in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. © Spensy Pimentel/SurvivalA fire has raged through a Guarani roadside camp, forcing the Indians to flee as their shelters were razed to the ground, their food supplies destroyed and their possess ...

Montreal Gazette

  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.
  • Editorial: Seeking fairness for all when credi ...
    There is an inherent unfairness in the premium credit card system that penalizes business owners and customers who don't use them.

Food World Order

  • China Mulls Transgenic Food Standard
    It’s China vs. China in Genetically Modified Food Fight from globaltimes.cn: China is mulling over a national standard on using transgenic technology in agriculture in an effort to safeguard food safety, Vice Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun, told the Global Times Tuesday, without giving a spec ...
  • "Dow Chemical Resort Menu" Poem by Erik Moshe
    One of our editors over on Holy Hexes got a poem published recently on the Project Agent Orange site!: Agent marmalade rarely quenches thirst our Advisor of Native Beverages recommends trying the lemongrass mortar, or the ginger hollow tips Saigon cinnamon tear gas beads the chili, ...
  • #GMO corn banned decade ago found in Saudi Arabia
    from RT.com: The Saudi Arabian food chain has been widely contaminated with GM ingredients, according to a new study. The findings include controversial StarLink maize banned for human consumption in the US over ten years ago. The study published in the journ ...
  • #NewWorldNextWeek: Syrians in capital hoard fo ...
    from reuters.com: Syrians in the capital Damascus are racing against time to prepare for a foreign strike, with many hoarding supplies and others scrambling to find accommodation further away from potential military targets. In a city where dozens of military sites are mixed i ...
  • Pakistan: Mass mortality of fish at Karachi Port
    from sott.com: Another case of fish mortality, mainly consisting of grey mullets surfaced within Karachi Port extending between Bab Island and Chinna Creek. This is the second such case in the month of August 2013, in which a huge quantity fish have died. This mortality was attribute ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Number Of Private Sector Jobs Fell By 278, ...
    Have you heard about the "wonderful" employment numbers that were just released?  Last month, the unemployment rate declined to 7.3 percent.  Somehow this happened even though the percentage of working age Americans with a job actually declined and the number of private sector workers fell by 27 ...
  • Who Is Going To Buy Our Debt If This War Cause ...
    Can the U.S. really afford to greatly anger the rest of the world when they are the ones that are paying our bills?  What is going to happen if China, Russia and many other large nations stop buying our debt and start rapidly dumping U.S. debt that they already own?  If the United States is [...]
  • Is The United States Going To Go To War With S ...
    Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria?  Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria?  Of course.  Qatar wants to install a puppet regim ...
  • Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Adva ...
    Russia has sold Syria highly advanced rocket launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles.  In fact, the P-800 Yakhont anti-ship missiles that Russia has equipped Syria with are the most advanced anti-ship missiles that Russia has.  When the United States strikes Syria, they might be ...
  • The U.S. Military Does Not Want To Fight For A ...
    Why is the Obama administration so determined to have the U.S. military help al-Qaeda win the civil war in Syria?  Why are we being told that the U.S. has "no choice" but to help rabid jihadist terrorists that are slaughtering entire Christian villages, brutally raping Christian women and joyful ...

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    SPC: Renewable Energy Project for FSM, Palau, Marshall's Gets Major Boost ...
    Pacific News Center
    Guam - A major renewable energy and energy efficiency project, the North Pacific Renewable Energy Efficiency Project, or North-REP, for the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic of Palau (Palau) and Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) was ...
    Renewable Energy Entrepreneur Li Hejun Is China's Latest Billionaire
    Forbes
    Li Hejun, one of China's most successful renewable energy entrepreneurs, has formally entered the ranks of the world's billionaires after a big run-up in the shares of his Hong Kong-listed solar energy arm. Shares in Hanergy Solar Group rose by 1.2% on ...
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    Renewable Energy Generation Sells 12MW Goonhilly Wind Farm for GBP25.1 ...
    4-traders (press release)
    LONDON--Renewable Energy Generation Ltd (>> Renewable Energy Generation Ltd.), said Monday it has sold its 12 mega watts or MW operational wind farm at Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall to a fund managed by BlackRock, for a total consideration of 25.1 ...
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    Here's How Much Your State Cares About Climate Change [MAP]
    Business Insider
    The map below, courtesy of AllianceBernstein, will give you an idea as it shows renewable energy portfolio targets across the country. States invest in renewables to decrease their carbon output and their dependence on oil, coal, and natural gas. In ...
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    Ecology: As Data Flow, Scientists Advocate for Quality Control
    Science Daily (press release)
    Aug. 6, 2013 — As sensor networks revolutionize ecological data collection by making it possible to collect high frequency information from remote areas in real time, scientists with the U.S. Forest Service are advocating for automated quality control ...
    1200 students expected at Sioux City river ecology lesson
    Sioux City Journal
    The programs target land-based ecology, alternative fuels, water quality and histories of the Missouri River and Sioux City. "I will demonstrate how water runs off surfaces -- from grass, crops, black dirt and cement," said Jerry Sindt, Woodbury County ...
    Urban Ecology opening draws VIPs, crowds
    San Antonio Express
    The crowd Saturday grew to hundreds — from teenage snake handlers to kids dragging dogs on leashes to well-satisfied elected officials — for the grand opening of the newest showpiece in the city's park system. All earth tones, stained wood and dark ...
    US Ecology Appoints Jeffrey Feeler to Its Board of Directors
    Marketwire (press release)
    BOISE, ID--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2013) - US Ecology, Inc. (the "Company") ( NASDAQ : ECOL), a leading North American provider of radioactive, hazardous, PCB and non-hazardous industrial waste management and recycling services, today announced the ...
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    New water ski lake causes concern
    KXAN.com
    Water levels at Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan are sinking to lows not seen since the 1950's. The fun and entertainment on those lakes are also disappearing just as fast as the water. Yet in a remote area in southeast Travis County about five miles from ...
    UN Water Mandate Receives Key Endorsement
    Voice of America
    Olam International, a leading global processor of food ingredients with agricultural projects in Africa, has publicly endorsed the c-e-o water mandate of the u-n global compact. The mandate is a public-private initiative that helps companies develop ...
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    Global Water Center
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    The idea is to create a shared space for established water-engineering companies, which will set up labs alongside university scientists, grad students and a new generation of start-ups. If they get the synergies right, the cross-pollination is meant ...
    Water troubles continue for Dos Palos residents
    ABC30.com
    Inside the Dos Palos Water Treatment Plant, crews are hard at work fixing the problem. The exact problem requires a very technical explanation, but Police Chief Barry Mann said the issue is the system can't filter the water properly. "We're not able to ...
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