Monday, September 09, 2013

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The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

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CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Google's Driverless Cars are using a Lightly C ...
    Only last week we came to know that the upcoming Sony Play Station 4 (PS4) is based out of FreeBSD. And it is a fairly common knowledge that Google uses a modified version of Ubuntu at their workplaces. Now, it seems like Linux is being used at even more unheard of places. Google's driverles ...
  • 0 A.D. Launches Crowdfunding Campaign on Indie ...
    When we wrote about our favorite Real Time Strategy (RTS) games for Linux sometime ago, 0 A.D. was featured right on top. It is a free and open source game which holds a lot of promise. And after nearly 4 years of development, 0 A.D. has just hit version Alpha 14, codenamed "Naukratis". Along ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 Beta 1 Released
    Unity and GNOME Shell have slowly become two of my favorite desktop interfaces, so much that, I just can't stand conventional desktops like XFCE or KDE anymore. I am aware that many of you have a different opinion about the same, but that's just me. And when it comes to GNOME Shell, Ubuntu GNO ...
  • Android Crosses 1 Billion Activations!
    According to a recent study by International Data Corporation (IDC), Android now controls 79.3% of the world-wide smartphone market share, with iOS dropping to just 13.2%. Here is some more good news. Senior Vice President of Chrome and Apps at Google, Sundar Pichai, has revealed that And ...
  • Canonical Kick Starts Ubuntu Touch App Showdow ...
    Ubuntu App Showdown was introduced with much fanfare during the last release cycle. And if you look at the number of apps submitted, it sure looked like a success story. But that's not it if you look at the list in a case by case manner. What happened to those hotshot apps? Are they still thri ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Fewer Crops, Fish, and M&Ms
    The Obama administration is seeking $40 million in additional funding for CDC in fiscal year 2014 to address outbreaks—but how likely is a boost of funding at any agency?
  • WWF’s Farmed Salmon Certification Initiative: ...
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new campaign relating to salmon aquaculture—but if the organization is partnering with corporations, how successful will it really be? WWF’s partnerships with various corporations to foster sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices are part of ...
  • Response to Donald Kennedy on Antibiotics in F ...
    For decades, scientists and advocates have called for mandatory restrictions. While other countries have heeded these calls, the FDA has focused on voluntary reform.
  • Food Systems and Patient Care: Notes from a Di ...
    My time with CLF this week allowed me to interact directly with community members as they participated in various aspects of Baltimore City’s food system.
  • CLF Week in Links: Atrazine, Hayes, Deformed F ...
    Big Pharma’s influence on research is especially disturbing as the weakening economy puts further pressure on public entities to seek private funding, through association with companies like Novartis, compromising independence and scientific integrity.

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Left Foot Forward

  • Kenya votes to leave the International Crimina ...
    Calum Young is studying for a masters in European Law at the University of Leiden, having previously studied both Law and German. Due to the developing crisis in Syria over the use of chemical weapons, it has been suggested in some quarters that one solution could be to refer Assad to the Intern ...
  • Voters fed up with independence obsession
    New survey data has revealed just how out of touch the chattering classes are with public opinion on the issue of Scottish independence.
  • Universal Credit shambles uncovered in new report
    A damning report by the National Audit Office has severely criticised the government's Universal Credit reforms.
  • Lobbying Bill unites Guido Fawkes and 38 Degre ...
    38 Degrees has released a new video about the Government’s proposed Lobbying Bill, which features a range of voices explaining what the bill involves and why it is flawed. One of the people in the video is Paul Staines, or Guido Fawkes, as he is more widely known. The Lobbying Bill is now ...
  • Oops! ‘Green’ parking permit in Ba ...
    Barnet residents entitled to a ‘green’ parking permit for low emission vehicles now have to pay more than people with more environmentally unfriendly cars.

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • NSA Cracks Internet Privacy, Security Safeguar ...
    The Guardian: Revealed – How US and UK Spy Agencies Defeat Internet Privacy and Security The latest explosive disclosure from NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden details how the NSA and British intelligence can circumvent or crack most of the online encryption tools that citizens us ...
  • More on USDA's Flawed Plan, MacLean's Victory: ...
    New York Times: Changes to Poultry Rules are Flawed, Report Says More coverage about the Government Accountability Office report that reveals the USDA's plan to change its poultry inspection protocol is based on incomplete and old data. The proposed plan has several problems, including greatly ...
  • GAO Report Raises Questions Over USDA Poultry ...
    Washington Post: New USDA Poultry Inspection Procedures are Based on Bad Data, Government Report Says A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) states that the data used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support its controversial poultry inspection plan is incomp ...
  • GAP Hails Court Ruling Reaffirming Whistleblow ...
    Late last week, former Federal Air Marshal (FAM) Robert MacLean successfully thwarted an April Department of Justice (DOJ) legal challenge to his Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) victory by a unanimous three-judge panel. In 2003, MacLean successfully warned the media, the public and congressi ...
  • Victory for Former Federal Air Marshal/GAP Cli ...
    CNN: Fired Air Marshal Will Get New Hearing Former TSA federal air marshal and GAP client Robert MacLean will have his case returned to a federal board to determine whether he deserved whistleblower protection, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled. In 2003, MacLean informed the ...

UK Progressive

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

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JoNova

  • Voter crush the carbon tax and corruption &#82 ...
      Tony Abbott announces Australia is open for business again.   Finally Australia steps back from a porkbarrelling party that stood for nothing more than being in power. They broke promises to anyone and everyone with Olympian success. And it was not just the usual politician broken pr ...
  • Australian Election Today (Finally!) Rudd-Gill ...
    Yes I’m having a party. : -) The total seats in the house of Representatives is 150, so when a party gets 76, they win. UPDATE:  7:28 pm Eastern Time (5:28pm in the West, polls are still open): ABC giving 42 seats for Labor, 72 to the Liberals. This election will be called soon.    UP ...
  • Don’t throw your vote away. Australian S ...
    This election everyone is talking preferences. The Senate is a wild-card and no one is game to say how things will pan out. (Antony Green is scathing about our current system). The preference deals were subject to a major networking gambits with much wheeling and dealing behind the scenes. Leon ...
  • Monckton — The bull and the Borg
    Christopher Monckton is very popular in outback Australia isn’t he? For the sake of the farmers I’ve met, it seems only fair to spread a voice telling some more of their stories. (The ABC certainly weren’t too willing to inform Australians about the Thompsons plight or Maxwell ...
  • Coalition wants to stop wasting ARC funds on & ...
    Cut those waste-of-time academic projects? Not a moment too soon. If the Coalition wins the election they want to refocus the Australian Research Council (ARC). The first “wasteful” project mentioned is about adapting to climate change through public art. What a good omen… Some ...

ReNew America

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

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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 ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Autumn deluge on the way
    The fine spell of late summer weather which has seen temperatures today rise to a new September record of 29.4C at Wattisham in Suffolk (beating their previous record set in 1973) will come to an abrupt end in the next 24 hours, and could lead to localised flooding in places.  It’s a text book b ...
  • Summer warmth similar to 1976 in some areas
    Summer (June, July and August) 2013 across the UK has turned out to be the driest, warmest and sunniest since 2006, according to provisional Met Office data.  It’s a huge contrast from the awful weather of last summer which was the wettest for 100 years. More interestingly from a local perspecti ...
  • Rest of July & early August outlook
    Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average.  To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record.  Of cou ...
  • Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
    July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...
  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • China: #1 in Shale Gas Reserves, Paltry Production
    Much has been made of the United States growing energy independence as it taps shale gas reserves at home. A salutary effect has been reducing the trade imbalance America is legendary for. However, the US is far from the only country with a lot of shale gas reserves. China purportedly has the mo ...
  • Is US Suing S&P Payback for Ratings Downgrade?
    In run-of-the-mill stories, there are heroes and villains: I've been in this town so long that back in the city I've been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long, long time. Today, however, we instead have two major baddies duking it out: the US government and credit rating agency Standar ...
  • MEDSploitation: Pol Eco of Cuban Doctor Exports
    A longstanding fixture of Cuba's outreach has been sending physicians to fellow Latin American nations. Witness the still-ongoing Venezuela-Cuba oil-for-doctors scheme: 90,000 barrels per day for 30,000 doctors. Despite its proto-communist economy being in shambles for decades now, Cuba still re ...
  • Can 'Impact Investing' Whitewash JP Morgan Mal ...
    Financial services titan JP Morgan is many things to many people given its vast size. Bank regulators currently know it best for the nefarious activities of the so-called 'London Whale' whose activities have caused the firm billions of dollars in losses. There's also this new controversy over th ...
  • S China Sea: PRC Unwelcomes Philippine President
    All China's hard work building economic ties with Southeast Asia is now in peril: Hot on the heels of the Philippines taking China to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) against China's wishes--the PRC has constantly reiterated that it wants to solve the maritime dispute bil ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN experts urge United States to wrap up revie ...
    A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of the United State to finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, an African -American teenager who was shot in 2012 by a neighbourhood watchman in the state of Florida.
  • Ban appoints Colombian to head UN-backed commi ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed Iván Velásquez Gómez of Colombia to head the United Nations-backed commission charged with dismantling illegal armed groups and tackling impunity in Guatemala.
  • UN envoy tells Security Council overdue polls ...
    The ongoing electoral stalemate in Haiti, already linked to socio-economic grievances, could undermine the political and security situations, the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country said in her first briefing to the Security Council.
  • UN climate change body partners with Latin Ame ...
    The United Nations climate change secretariat has signed an agreement with the Latin American Development Bank to increase participation in clean development projects in the region, it was today announced.
  • UN independent expert calls on US to ban prolo ...
    As nearly 200 inmates in California detention centres approach their fifth consecutive week on hunger strike against cruel, inhuman and degrading prison conditions, a United Nations right expert today urged the Government of the United States to abolish the use of prolonged or indefinite solitar ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • BLM Plans to Lease Wilderness-Quality Lands in ...
    Recent posts from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance website: As reported this week in the Salt Lake Tribune (8/20/13), The Bureau of Land Management’s November oil and gas lease sale is slated to include scenic, wilderness-quality lands in Utah’s San Rafael Swell, including Eagle Canyon and ...
  • Blog 40: Viewing Vail Pass
    Posted: 03 Sep 2013 05:16 PM PDT Vail Pass with Rocky Mountain Wild — August As the closing weeks of TrekWest find me further out and further out of reach than has been thus far, colleagues have offered to blog in my stead. Enjoy the following submission from Rocky Mountain Wild’s Paige Singer… ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The “Ant ...
    Sitting about an earlier Campfire, I spun the tale of how the great eastern forest was hewn down in the 1800s.  Though cutting down the forest seemed to have an unbreakable hold on the national mind, a few Americans called for keeping some forest, and their words were seeds that led to protectio ...
  • SPECIAL RALLY FOR WOLVES UPDATE!
          Dear Rally attendees and supporters, Here’s a special update for The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves! that we know you’ll find both helpful and inspiring. The Rally is a week away and we hope to see you there! SPEAKERS Currently there are eleven ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Buff ...
    Never seen a redder sunrise Never seen a sunset so black Men with guns along the railroad See them coming down the track They killed the Bison by the millions They left them rottin’ on the ground The cries of death and destruction Can’t you hear that awful sound The Buffalo are gone The Buffalo ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Dennis Kucinich... '10 Unproven Claims for War ...
    In the lead-up to the Iraq War, I researched, wrote and circulated a document to members of Congress which explored unanswered questions and refuted President Bush's claim for a cause for war. ~ Dennis Kucinich read more
  • Hacked Emails Exposed!... Is this Proof US Gov ...
      The hoax of a chemical attack by the Assad regime on its people is a plot hatched not merely by the rebels themselves but, rather, by the power-brokers of the United States and the Israeli entity.  Another player in this plot is the UK’s David Cameron regime. ~ Joe Quinn re ...
  • Sarin Gas Attack STAGED?!?... UK - US Backed T ...
    Preamble... US- and UK-supported and supplied terrorists hired both to murder people, including slaughtering them with poison gas, but also to act as crisis actors in order to create the justification for US and UK interventionism on behalf of the Zionist regime. ~ Photos - Video read more
  • False Flag?... November Black Out 'Drill' To D ...
    DHS is stockpiling ammunition, the FEMA Region 3 Alert, the warning from former DHS director, Janet Napolitano about an attack that will happen...  Many already know the U.S. government is planning the November North American Blackout 'drill', to take place on November 13-14, 2013. ~ Sus ...
  • Blackout!... Lights Will Go Out On November 13 ...
    There are very dark storm clouds gathering around the country and North America as a whole. Things are about to get dark, very dark in just a few short weeks. In just over two months, on November 13-14, 2013, the lights are about to go out. Will the lights come back on? It depends on who you ...

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Oslo’s Olympic bid draws more fire
    Not even the former sponsor chief for Norway’s largest bank, Jacob Lund, thinks it’s a good idea for Oslo to host the Winter Olympics in 2022, while city officials and Olympic (OL) boosters are being roundly criticized over their promotional strategy, their budgets and how a voter re ...
  • Campaigning, Norwegian style
    PICTURE STORY: The political party booths that popped up in downtown Oslo late this summer have been busy during the past week, as Norwegians wander along the capital’s main boulevard, Karl Johans Gate, and chat with politicians ahead of Monday’s parliamentary election. The scene is ...
  • Solberg ready to finally grip power
    With just a few days left before Norwegian voters cast their ballots, Conservative Party leader and election frontrunner Erna Solberg is ready to grip government power in what she calls a potentially historic election. She insists voters will see real change if the non-socialist bloc wins, even ...
  • SAS puts crisis behind it
    Signs continue that Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has emerged from crisis after it reported strong quarterly results of SEK 1.12 billion this week. An analyst who follows SAS said the profits were a result of the airline’s tough cost-cutting program. “The balance sheet clearly shows th ...
  • Concerns rise over prisoner’s safety in Congo
    Former Norwegian elite soldier Joshua French, convicted of murder in Congo, has been transferred to a cell in Kinshasa that he must share with nine other prisoners after his fellow Norwegian prisoner committed suicide last month. French’s lawyer says he’s worried about French, as off ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course w ...
    Three Weeks To Go – Secure a spot today! Click for larger view The Permaculture Research Institute, Zaytuna Farm’s last Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course for 2013 will start in only three weeks time — Monday the 30th of September, 2013. This PDC course will be t ...
  • Making Mushroom Growing Sustainable – Part 1, ...
    Oyster mushrooms Gourmet mushrooms are an excellent addition to a Permaculture farm. They are nutritious and delicious and they really stand out on your market stall table. Many farmers around the world grow them to add diversity to their produce range and to make use of the shadier areas wher ...
  • Margaret Heffernan: The Dangers of “Willful Bl ...
    Gayla Benefield was just doing her job — until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the U.S. But when she tried to tell people about it, she learned an even more shocking truth: People didn’t want to ...
  • Abbottalypse Now
    Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich. by George Monbiot His views have changed, but don’t expect Tony Abbott to acknowledge this, let alone apologise to Australians for misleading them. In 2009 he maintained that manmade climate change is “absolute crap”. Now he s ...
  • Trojan Horses, Recipes, and Permaculture
    by Toby Hemenway The Transition movement seemed to catch fire right from the beginning, and I confess that its success made me, as a permaculturist, a bit envious. Here was a program for converting to a post-oil society, created by a permaculture teacher using permaculture principles, and it se ...

Pointman's

  • Phlogiston and Global Warming.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Gracious acceptance of criticism is not a common human trait.  In most scientists it provokes irritation, denial and antagonism.  Among what their admirers call the top climate scientists, dissent seems to provoke ...
  • Know your enemy : Kamikaze politicians, enviro ...
    Before the final and to my mind the most important article in this series, I thought I’d roll up the remaining parties into one piece, since most of them I’ve already covered in some depth in other articles, the appropriate links to which you’ll find at the bottom of this page. ...
  • The great global warming con.
    If you want to con serious amounts of money out of other people, you’ve got to sell them a story and the story you sell, comes in one of two basic flavours. The first one is the traditional basis of most confidence tricks and at the end of the day, it revolves about their greed. &#823 ...
  • Know your enemy : the “green” poli ...
    Any time you make an assessment of a situation or a group of people, you have to be aware that it will have a certain shelf life. Things change, situations evolve and new factors appear as time moves on. Of all the groups I’ve looked at in this series, that consideration applies to politic ...
  • A Berlin story : Eva.
    I first met Eva at the bottom of an escalator, late in the evening of a brutal Berlin winter. She was just standing there at the foot of the thing, trying to judge when to take that first frightening step onto it. There was nobody there but us, and I’d the feeling that a few of &#8230 ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
    Foreign Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with an epidemic of narci ...
  • Susan Lindauer on whistleblowers, Iraq and 9/1 ...
    In the 2nd hour of today's show I'm honoured to introduce Susan Lindauer, a former CIA asset and back channel negotiator who tried in vain to avert the 2003 Iraq war and was incarcerated under the Patriot Act on spurious charges which were later dropped. Susan is a passionate anti-war activist ...
  • What’s really going on in Egypt?
    In today's show we take a look at the current turmoil in Egypt and attempt to piece together the puzzle of what is really going and who is really in control. We present some evidence that US sponsored groups such as the Endowment for Democracy had been supporting activist groups which had trig ...
  • The internet revolution: what went wrong? - Part 1
    In the 2nd hour of today's show Josh Jackson and I take you on a journey into the history of the internet with aim of discovering where, why and how this amazing tool of empowerment and communication became a tool for the big brother corporatist state. In the first hour I am joined once again ...
  • TNRA’s mission statement
    In today's show we come clean on the core agenda of this radio broadcast. We are here to quicken the mass awakening which is already taking place around the globe. We are here to amplify the dissent which already exists in many peoples' minds but which does not easily find expression. We are h ...

Beacon

  • The Washington Post urges BOEM to wait on seis ...
    If you know new information is coming about a dangerous practice, you should wait to get that information before deciding what to do, right? This is exactly what today's Washington Post editorial calls for, and they're right.
  • Creature Feature: Lionfish
    Up close and personal with a lionfish. (Photo: Kjeld Friis)   It’s venomous, voracious, and taking over reefs across the western Atlantic.
  • Pacific Expedition Featured on Local Oregon News
    The expedition team poses with the underwater ROV. (Photo: Oceana)   Great news from our Pacific expedition team! On September 3 the local Portland station KGW featured the expedition on the evening news. This August, Oceana set sail to document deep sea corals and sponges off the rugg ...
  • Offshore Wind Development Expands Along Virgin ...
    Offshore wind turbines can help stop deadly drilling disasters like the 2010 Gulf Oilspill. (Photo: phault)    We have some exciting news to share on our efforts to promote renewable energy: today the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) leased almost 113,000 acre ...
  • Whales Get Sunburns, Too
    Sperm whales can develop sunburn-like blisters when swimming near the surface. (Photo: Paul Richards)   If you head to the beach without sunscreen, you’ll probably return home with a scarlet, painful sunburn. That’s because you’ve exposed your skin to several hours of UV rays, which dam ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Part-Time Growth in a “Hamster Wheel” Job Market
    Today, Statistics Canada reported that employment increased in August, although two-thirds of the additional jobs were part-time positions. The part-time rate rose to 19%, its highest level in more than a year. Job growth has also been “part-time” in the sense that only a few months this year ha ...
  • Lowering Our Standards
    The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle ...
  • EI, Self-Insurance or Three-Card Monte?
    Monte Solberg, the former Conservative cabinet minister responsible for Employment Insurance, proposed to eliminate the program in a recent Sun Media column: An alternative would be to self-insure. Employee and employer premiums would accumulate in an account in each worker’s name. Including int ...
  • $6,000 revenue shortfall per annum for workers
    We are told that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed. Put like that, it sounds like a truism. We can still ask whether the wealth created is indeed redistributed in the end. That’s the question to which IRIS wanted to find an answer in its latest notice. IRIS compared the ...
  • GDP: Consumers to the Rescue
    Following positive GDP numbers in April and May, Statistics Canada reported today that a sharp drop in June dragged Canada’s economic growth to a mediocre pace of 0.4% for the second quarter. June’s declines in manufacturing and resource extraction did further damage to industries that had decli ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • 5 Years After Being Covered With Water, Chines ...
    “It’s been a long time since the people who lived in rural Xuanping saw their little town, which was flooded by a powerful earthquake in 2008. But thanks to a steep drop in water levels, parts of their village in China’s Sichuan Province are visible again, from homes and busine ...
  • German Sun Beats Swiss Water
    “The energy source that covers 55 percent of the country’s energy supply faces drastically reduced profitability, as electricity prices have sunk 20 percent again compared to the preceding year. In the light of this market environment, the biggest Swiss energy producers Alpiq, Axpo, BKW an ...
  • The Struggle Over Riverbed Mining in India
    “One specific use of  rivers landmasses has increased manifold in India over the last few decades. Mining of sand, gravel, stones and boulders from riverbeds and riverbanks across the country has seen an unprecedented rise. Each day truckloads of sand and gravel are extracted for a variety ...
  • Where Did the Water Go? Busting 5 Myths About ...
    “The extreme low levels earlier this year left many asking, “Where did the water go?” The answer is that it simply evaporated. The surface of the Great Lakes acts like an enormous evaporating pan under the right conditions. As explained in a previous post, the lack of ice cover in 2011-12 ...
  • California water wars: Big fish eat little fish
    “Californians may get to vote on yet another massive, multi-billion dollar water bond in 2014, and what it will pay for is still being put through the Sacramento sausage grinder. But remarks earlier this month at a “water summit” in Fresno may show some of the handwriting on the wall. Most ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • America’s hands are bloody
    America’s hands are bloody in Syria’s civil war … we are NOT honorable in our tirade about chemical weapons … we are in fact hypocrites…     America Has Fueled the Bloody Civil War in Syria America has undermined opportunities for ceasefire in Syria and a peaceful political transi ...
  • I trust this is true and will find success in ...
    …I trust this is true and will find success in humans … it would be a blessing…   Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection 09-05-2013  •  http://www.abc.net.au   …  US researchers have found a way to reverse Down syndrome in newborn lab mice by i ...
  • Do not give into fear … We have the abil ...
    Do not give into fear … We have the ability to direct what we allow any agency to do … we have only to choose to exercise the legitimate and authentic power we possess…   Where Will FEMA Take Your Children? www.thecommonsenseshow.com   …     What will FEMA do with y ...
  • you are cracked
      New Snowden revelation: In case you hadn’t already guessed, the NSA can crack most of your encrypted data too 9/5/2013 6:41:06 PM  Allahpundit   …  Can something qualify as bombshell news if everyone already assumed it was true without quite knowing for a fact that it ...
  • this is asinine
    …this is asinine if Middle East Oil Sheiks want to unset Syria’s Assad then let them it’s not our war … what kind of “stupid” does John Kerry think Americans are … please don’t tell me ‘we’ are buying this crap…?   Kerry Tells Congress That Oil Sheiks Will Pay US for War to Unseat […]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Agribusiness project leaves indigenous communi ...
    Land grabs and environmental destruction linked to an agricultural megaproject in Indonesia’s Papua province are devastating indigenous communities and causing severe food shortages in some areas, alleges a coalition of NGOs. Agro-industrial development in Papua has left indigenous communi ...
  • Palm oil now biggest cause of deforestation in ...
    Conversion of forests for palm oil production now appears to be the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, accounting for roughly a quarter of forest loss between 2009 and 2011, asserts a new Greenpeace report that accuses the sector's main certification standard of failing to stop ...
  • Trinidad and Tobago: a biodiversity hotspot ov ...
    The two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean (just off the coast of Venezuela) may be smaller than Delaware, but it has had an outsized role in the history of rainforest conservation as well as our understanding of tropical ecology. Home to an astounding number of tropical ecosy ...
  • Bad feedback: ocean acidification to worsen gl ...
    As if ocean acidification and climate change weren't troubling enough (both of which are caused by still-rising carbon emissions), new research published in Nature finds that ocean acidification will eventually exacerbate global warming, further raising the Earth's temperature.
  • Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, env ...
    In a patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, a 28-year-old in jeans and tall rubber boots snubs out his cigarette and pulls a headlamp over his short black hair. Standing under a tarp, he flicks the light on and leans over the entrance of a narrow shaft lined with wooden planks that he and othe ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Unlocking the secrets of our brains
    Within moments of sitting down in his office, Professor Richard Faull whips out a human brain, places it on the desk between us and announces, "Here it is," in the manner of someone displaying their most-prized possession. And that...
  • Twenty of life's questions
    1. What is the universe made of? Astronomers face an embarrassing conundrum: they don't know what 95 per cent of the universe is made of. Atoms, which form everything we see around us, only account for a measly 5 per cen
  • Closing ozone hole may heat up Antarctica - re ...
    The ozone hole over New Zealand is closing, but it may warm up Antarctica which could then affect the West Coast and Canterbury Plains, a university researcher says.Dr Adrian McDonald, from Canterbury University's Physics and Astronomy...
  • Axemen a cut above in manly stakes
    Chopping wood has always been seen as one of the more "manly"' endeavours, but now researchers may be able to prove it.University of California scientists have discovered the testosterone levels of men spike when chopping wood -...
  • Giant squid filmed in own habitat
    A deep-sea search for giant squid has captured the world's first video footage of the mysterious creature in its habitat. The expedition that was a decade in the making involved two New Zealanders.Auckland Museum's collection manager,...

The Bovine

  • Fukushima radiation dangers; 10 foods can help ...
    From Amy Nicole, on Ultraculture: “Japanese officials have just admitted the grim truth that since the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and meltdown, 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have leaked into the Pacific Ocean, plus a huge amount of cesium, … Con ...
  • Should you be able to buy food directly from f ...
    From David E. Gumpert on Waking Times.com “This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the … Continue reading →
  • Bayer sues European governments over ban on pe ...
    From Sum of Us: “Bayer has just sued the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban only months ago — and we … Continue reading →
  • Violent behaviour a result of poor diet?
    From Kimberly Hartke at the Weston A. Price Foundation: WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2013– GlobeNewswire — Deficiencies of vitamins A, D, K, B1, B3, B6, B12 and folate, and of minerals iodine, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, chromium and manganese can … Continue reading →
  • State interference in parenting choices?
    A word to the wise from Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist: “Warning to all parents who make healthy homemade baby formula for their children instead of feeding them toxic, GMO laced commercial formula. DON’T tell a conventionally minded doctor about … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • "If Americans Could Read Classified Documents ...
    Here's a quartet of interesting tweets from House of Representative member Justin Amash Republican from Michigan. Tweet #1: If Americans could read classified docs, they'd be even more against Syria action. Obama admn's public statements are misleading at best. Tweet #2: Attended another ...
  • US Economic Activity Poised to Soar?
    Is economic activity in the US about head to the next level higher? If you think so, please consider a chart from my friend "BC": Weekly real year-over-year growth of bank lending per capita and real final sales per capita. Growth in Bank Lending Per Capita (Black), Real Final Sales Per Cap ...
  • Hate Your Commute Now? It's Going to Get Worse
    Liz and I traveled this past Labor Day weekend. We drove from Crystal Lake, Illinois to a golf resort in Manistee, Michigan. Traffic was bad in the Chicago area as expected, but exceptionally slow traffic continued all the way through Indiana, and even into Michigan, all along I-94 until we ...
  • End of U.S. Imperium—Finally!? Obama About to ...
    The coalition of the willing is now down to the US alone as France now wants to wait for more data on alleged gas usage. Yet, President  Obama rejects G20 pressure to abandon Syria air strike plan. Obama Plans Full Court Press  Inquiring minds note that Obama plans a 'full-c ...
  • The Dick Cheney-Syria Oil Connection
    It appears there may be some energy sources in Syria that I was unaware of previously. They are in the Golan Heights area of Syria, now occupied by Israel. Dick Cheney is in the picture. Please consider Cheney-Linked Company to Drill in Occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli government a ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Updated BFP Report- ProPublica Threatens BFP, ...
    It is $37 Million Not $26 Million! And Check Out ProPublica’s List of Sugar Daddies & Partners! Ladies and gentleman, in less than an hour after our report on ProPublica tax forms, their $26 Million-dollar budget and untraceable (at least not easily traceable) corporates and foundations fund ...
  • ProPublica Exposed: A Pseudo Alternative with ...
    Cryptome Documents Reveal the Wall Street-Founded & Establishment-Funded Pseudo “Alternative” ProPublica Update & Notes-Here is what you can do to show your power (People Power): After reading this article and reviewing the official documents, if you believe ProPublica has taken your mo ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- September 8, 2013
    China’s Quest for Gas in Eurasia, Pipelines- Pakistan & the SCO, Terrorist State Georgia & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profit ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Soft Lipa- “Winter Sweet” This will be the second appearance of Taiwanese underground rapper Soft Lipa on the BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast Music Pick. This time around the song is Winter Sweet. I love this Hip Hop with jazz undertones and there is nothing better to “sooth the beast” ...
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bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Zarif urges region to prevent Syria war
    Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged all regional countries to make efforts to prevent the outbreak of war against Syria and growth of extremism in the region.
  • Iran short to go on Italian screen
    Iranian short screen production This Road Is Beautiful is scheduled to contend for awards at the 64th FilmVideo Montecatini international short film festival in Italy.
  • US states where most people go hungry
    An estimated 14.5 million American households had difficulty providing enough food for their families last year, according to a recent government report.
  • ‘Al-Nusra making chemical arms’ in Syria
    A report says the foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria have been making chemical weapons in the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
  • ‘PKK stops pullout from Turkey’
    The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has stopped withdrawing its fighters from Turkey due to what it called the inaction of Ankara over peace process, a report says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • Obama with Israel and Against the World
    As President Obama announces plans for another war, adding Syria to the recent and ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, and elsewhere, a profound gap has emerged between the highly militarized state and US public opinion. A Reuters/IPSOS poll taken August 19-23 (2013) revealed that 6 ...
  • The Bankster Rally
    Ellen Hodgson Brown, a West Coast writer with a law degree, or perhaps more accurately, an attorney who likes to write in order to right, is one of the few people around who talks sense about banksters in general, central banking in particular, and the international excuse for both that prevails ...
  • Striking Russia through Syria
    We’re witnessing the last grotesque convulsions of a dying empire. As it threatens humanity with annihilation, it’s also nauseating the still sane among us with an unending farce, as in the hypocrite Kerry declaring, “this is not the time to be silent spectators to slaughter,” but John, you lyin ...
  • Munich, Syria, and Intervention
    Historical analogies can be effective tools to command attention. They can also be grotesque fabrications and dangerous distortions. Each historical event has its own locale of development, its own forces, and distinctiveness. Analogy, for that reasons, can only be suggestive, never conclusive. ...
  • Raghead the Fiendly Neighborhood Terrorist: In ...
    Whoever smelt it, dealt it…  

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Newswise

  • ACR, SBI Statement on Cancer Study: More Breas ...
    A new analysis published online Sept. 9 in Cancer confirms the need for greater use of annual mammography in women ages 40-49 as recommended by the American Cancer Society, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), American College of Radiology and Society of Breast Imaging f ...
  • Wireless Network Detects Falls by the Elderly
    University of Utah electrical engineers have developed a network of wireless sensors that can detect a person falling. This monitoring technology could be linked to a service that would call emergency help for the elderly without requiring them to wear monitoring devices.
  • Henry Ford's Ideas May Cut the Cost and Speed ...
    Ideas that Henry Ford taught a century ago about the advantages of continuous mass production are finding their way into the manufacture of one of the few remaining products still made batch-wise: the billions of tablets, capsules and other forms of medicine that people take each year. That was ...
  • Science Supporting Abundant, Nourishing Food f ...
    The diets of people in North America shed almost 1.5 billion pounds of unhealthy saturated and trans fat over the last six years thanks to a new phase in the agricultural revolution, an expert said here today. In an interview before his address at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the A ...
  • A New Approach to Early Diagnosis of Influenza
    A new technology is showing promise as the basis for a home test to diagnose influenza quickly, before the window for taking antiviral drugs slams shut and sick people spread the virus to others, scientists reported here today. In a presentation at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the ...

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Jae's News

  • The US Government Stands Revealed to the World ...
    Does the American public have the strength of character to face the fact that the US government stands before the entire world revealed as a collection of war criminals who lie every time that they open their mouth? Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't  |   Not ...
  • The 1 percent played Tea Party for suckers
    When the super-rich feel threatened, they foment grass-roots uprising on their behalf. Here's why it always works Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PETITION - Diplomacy and Aid for Syria, Not Mi ...
    Send a message to your members of Congress calling for peace not war on Syria! Plea with Obama and Congress to seek an immediate ceasefire, begin regional peace talks and provide humanitarian aid to the over 2 million refugees fleeing the violence... Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Why the Voting Rights Act Must be Restored
    See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • US threats of Syria war a distraction
    It becomes more and more apparent that humanitarian invasion, if it is going to happen, will be about Qatars gas pipeline to Europe, Former Vice President Dick Cheneys drilling license near the Golan Heights and struggle over Lebanons offshore gas. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Immigration Key in Norway Election
    On a sunny day at the end of August, the popular Karl Johans pedestrian street in Oslo pulsed with folk music as three young women and a man played stringed instruments and belted out English and Norwegian lyrics. A few steps away, in front of brightly coloured pavilions, other young people hand ...
  • Syria Crisis Yet to Derail Iran Nuclear Talks
    Even with potential U.S. strikes against Iranian ally Syria looming, Washington and Tehran appear to be preparing for the resumption of nuclear talks. U.S. foreign policy analysts have been bustling since the Aug. 4 inauguration of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, who may have ushered in a new e ...
  • U.S. Immigration Officials Tighten Rules for S ...
    U.S. officials on Wednesday issued strict new guidelines on the use of solitary confinement for detainees being held on immigration charges, the first federal policy decision following a strengthened public debate on the country’s unprecedented dependence on “segregated housing”. In a stark turn ...
  • U.N. Chief Eyes Eight Holdouts in Nuke Test Ba ...
    A group of about 20 “eminent persons” is to be tasked with an unenviable job: convince eight recalcitrant countries to join the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The eight holdouts – China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and the United States &#82 ...
  • Syria Strike Set to Overshadow G20 Summit
    World leaders from G20 are meeting in St Petersburg, Russia, amid sharp differences over possible U.S. military action against Syria in response to what the U.S. administration calls a deadly chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government. Thursday’s summit comes hours after a U.S. Senat ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • To resolve the Syria crisis, the US must negot ...
    Summary: Civil war in Syria, coupled with the emergence of a relatively moderate new government in Tehran, makes this an ideal time for the United States to reconsider its self-defeating diplomatic boycott of Iran. Admitting Iran into the Syrian peace process might improve the prospects for ...
  • Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria
    Summary: Secretary of State John Kerry made the case to Congress this week, but the questions not asked and the answers not given speak volumes. In the lead-up to the Iraq War, I researched, wrote and circulated a document to members of Congress which explored unanswered questions and refuted ...
  • Stopping Barry O'Bomber's Rush to War
    Summary: Voices of reason and experience have urged the proper path away from the metastasizing war that is plaguing Syria. As proposed by former President, Jimmy Carter, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and other seasoned diplomats and retired military, vigorous leadership by you is needed ...
  • Veteran Intelligence Professionals Warn Obama ...
    Summary: Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts th ...
  • Three steps to stop war on Syria
    Summary: The US administration has today announced it is prepared to attack Syria without UN backing. If the attack goes ahead it could trigger a catastrophic regional war. But Obama is facing big problems at home and abroad. Polling suggests that the Senate is divided and the House of Repre ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Quantum Gravity --The Missing Theory to Under ...
                 Present-day physics cannot describe what happened in the Big Bang. Quantum theory and the theory of relativity fail in this almost infinitely dense and hot primal state of the universe. Only an all-encompassing theory of quantum gravity which unifies these two fundamental ...
  • Image of the Day: The Ice-Bound Beauty of Mar' ...
        The colossal white swirl in the middle is Mars’ permanent southern polar ice cap. It mostly consists of water ice, like the poles here on Earth. In the winter, as temperatures fall to around -153 Celsius (-243 F), carbon dioxide freezes, forming a few-meter-deep layer of dry ice. ...
  • Alaska's Great Kobuk Sand Dunes Mirror Those o ...
      A team of scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has demonstrated that frozen water in the form of snow or frost can melt to form debris flows on sunward-facing slopes of sand dunes in the Alaskan arctic at air temperatures significantly below the melting point of water ...
  • New Discovery Helps Map Earth's 250-Million-Ye ...
                A new discovery that the particles streaming into the solar system from interstellar space have likely changed direction over the last 40 years helps scientists map our location within the Milky Way galaxy. The finding is crucial for understanding our place in the cosmos thr ...
  • Super-Earth 40 Light-Years from Our Solar Syst ...
                A Japanese research team of astronomers and planetary scientists has focused their efforts on investigating the atmospheric features of one super-Earth, GJ 1214 b, which is located 40 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, northwest of the center of our Mi ...

Natural News

  • Monsanto leading super-secret 'above Congress' ...
    It's called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), and it's a super secret trade pact being negotiated completely outside of law, with no congressional authority but with the aim of forcing nations around the world to ban GMO labeling, embrace Monsanto's GMO crops and...
  • How do you eat cancer?
    Just as our lungs need clean oxygen to thrive, our cells do as well, yet day in and day out we feed our cells with synthetic and chemically altered food that slowly suffocates these cells until they mutate, and then the mutations multiply uncontrollably and turn to attack...
  • Secrets of Longevity Yoga
    There actually is a Fountain of Youth. We do not, however, have to trek into some deep Amazonian forest to find it. The living spring of bodily rejuvenation is located in the human body itself. Contemporary hatha yoga practice is intended to serve the balance and...
  • Three incredibly healthy reasons to eat the 'f ...
    The ancient Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs considered cacao (ka-cow) a source of power. The scientific name for the cacao (or cocoa) bean is Theobroma cacao, which literally translates as "Food of the Gods". Raw chocolate or cacao is the unprocessed seed or bean form of...
  • Probiotics taken during pregnancy decrease ris ...
    Probiotics stimulate the growth of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines and the gut. A new analysis encourages pregnant mothers to take probiotics during pregnancy to help lower the risk of allergies in their kids. The good bacteria balance in a mother's gut is...

Threat Level

  • NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech ...
    Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by staffers at the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. ...    &nb ...
  • NSA’s Decade-Long Plan to Undermine Encryption ...
    It was only a matter of time before we heard that the NSA had managed to thwart much of the encryption that protects communications conducted over the phone and internet, but new revelations show the extent to which the agency, ...     
  • Patriot Act Author Says NSA Is Abusing Spy Law
    Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) quickly ushered in the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the September 2001 terror attacks. But the author of the act, which greatly expanded the government's spy powers, says the National Security Agency is abusing ...     
  • Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Got More Def ...
    Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike received, on average, 83 percent more campaign financing from defense contractors than lawmakers voting against war, according to an analysis of campaign finance data.     
  • Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email
    In the wake Edward Snowden's release of National Security Agency internal documents showing the United States is hijacking e-mail upstream, a slew of developers have jumped on the encryption bandwagon toward the goal building infallible end-to-end encryption, with the goal ...     ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mississippi Makes the Case for Boosting IRS Budget
    For months, Republicans have been waging a new war on the IRS. Echoing their successful gutting of the Internal Revenue Service back in the 1990's, GOP leaders have been calling the agency "the new Gestapo" and demanding its budget be slashed by a quarter. But with a "tax gap" already nearing ...
  • Rubio Demands Halt to $9 Million Obamacare Ad ...
    This week, the Republican crusade to undermine the Affordable Care Act went from the ridiculous to the sublime. Florida Senator and 2016 GOP White House hopeful Marco Rubio sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding a halt to an $8.7 million, 16-city ad camp ...
  • Study Debunks Myth of Doctors Fleeing Medicare
    The claim has become a staple of Republican efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act and transform Medicare into a system in which future elderly receive vouchers to purchase health insurance in the private market. "We are starting to see physicians turn away from taking patients who are on ...
  • Despite Bungling Bush's Medicare Drug Rollout, ...
    In October, uninsured Americans will begin the process of selecting from health insurance plans offered in online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. While 16, mostly Democratic states are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure their success, in the rest Republicans natio ...
  • Congress Would OK Obama Strikes Against Iran, ...
    As Congress debates authorizing U.S. military strikes against Syria, it's worth remembering that President Obama has painted himself into a box with not one, but two red lines. After all, Obama didn't just casually announce that "a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical we ...

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TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • World Rhino Day is September 22! #worldrhinoday
    On September 22, 2013, the fourth annual World Rhino Day will be celebrated with special events organized both online and offline by zoos, NGOs, conservancies, schools, businesses, and concerned citizens. This year, the big day falls on a Sunday, which has prompted some celebrants to include Sat ...
  • 5,500 Dog Portraits Draw Attention To Shelter Dogs
    Mark Barone is a visual artist and dog enthusiast. He has enjoyed the companionship of dogs for many years, and decided to use his artistry to show appreciation for canines while drawing attention to the plight of dogs in shelters that are constantly being euthanized. He is painting thousands of ...
  • Over 100 Dogs Seized From Breeder
    The Montreal SPCA and Quebec government seized over 100 dogs and puppies from a commercial breeding facility. These establishments are also sometimes called puppy mills. An e-mail from Humane Society International said, “The dogs and puppies were housed in barren, metal cages and denied th ...
  • 727-Pound Alligator Killed in Mississippi
    Dustin Bockman caught and killed a very large alligator over the weekend with some friends. He shot the thirteen foot creature with a bow and arrow, in Mississippi’s first statewide official alligator hunt. It was a record-setting catch, but this seems to be sort of a sad accomplishment, b ...
  • Declining And Misused Federal Fire Dollars: Th ...
    “Monster” fire consumes almost 10% of Yosemite National Park, August-September 2013 (Photo: U.S. Forest Service) Annual costs of fighting wildfires have grown exponentially over the past decade. They now surpass the value of resources reclaimed. The Rim Fire burning in and near Yosem ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

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Care 2

  • "Bring What You Want, Take What You Want"
    Disillusioned with an economy that promotes individualism and ruthless consumption, thousands of people in Argentina are giving things away in street markets, organising car pools with strangers or offering free accommodation to travellers from abroad. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat  |&n ...
  • Horror of Red Lobster waitress as she collects ...
    When the time came to pay the check, Miss Jenkins, who is training to be a nurse, found the racist insult written on the couple's receipt. The couple had racked up a $45 bill for the afternoon meal. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • On the frontline of China's animal welfare war
    There are few hardcore career activists fighting against Chinas dog meat trade. Instead, loosely organized groups of IT workers, rogue police officers and elderly dog shelter owners are slowly working for change. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Watch This Adorable Mini Pig Get a Belly Rub - Aww
    We all need a good rub now and then Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The US Government Stands Revealed to the World ...
    Does the American public have the strength of character to face the fact that the US government stands before the entire world revealed as a collection of war criminals who lie every time that they open their mouth? Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't  |   Not ...

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Are You Ready to Go to War for Bibi Netanyahu ...
    Strange bedfellows indeed. Bibi Netanyahu, with the full throated backing of the American Israeli Political Action Committee, and the Saudis have mounted an impressive, coordinated effort to push the United States into moving against Syria as a means of weakening Iran. Important to note, key Isr ...
  • Syria and Randy
    Syria and the US – Another Take 2003. Russia upset with the US since we blew up their Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline, a crude oil pipeline from the Kirkuk oil field in Iraq to the Syrian port of Baniyas Whoops. During our invasion we hit your pipey. Oh, so sorry. The pipeline was to be reconstruc ...
  • A VIPS MESSAGE FOR OBAMA, AMERICA AND THE WORLD
    The following was drafted today and is being posted at http://consortiumnews.com. Signatories, so far, include the following patriots who stand under the umbrella of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Thomas Drake, Senior Executive, NSA (former) Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Office ...
  • Obama and Kerry Are Lying About Syria
    Barack Obama and John Kerry are lying about what has happened in Syria. Yes, I have a record of doing this. Friends on the inside of the CIA warned me back in May of 2003 that the intel on Iraq was cooked and the American people were being fed a lie. Unfortunately, I learned this [...]
  • Obama’s Red Line Amnesia
    The chutzpah of this asshole is genuinely breathtaking. He insists that he set no “Red Line” with respect to Syria. Horseshit!! Don’t take my word for it, simply hold Obama accountable for his own idiotic rantings: But, Barack hopes you forgot he said that. He was pandering tod ...

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 ...

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • New data mining revelations, DEA drawn in quic ...
    It's a pretty woolly political scene right now & wanted to slam up some docs leading different directions on this. At least the damn narrative is moving along. More or less we're looking at the merging of criminal investigations with direct military signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology r ...
  • More note on impending Syria Fail! Dempsey vs ...
    Ugh, the Syria scenario is really dispiriting but I think much of the western political leadership may finally be backing down from another round of interventionism - let's hope! Here are a bunch of new notes - take em all with a grain of salt, and may they hopefully shed a bit of light on matte ...
  • Google State Network Operations: Google Eric S ...
    Date 2011-02-09 15:05:19 From burton@stratfor.com To secure@stratfor.com Others MessageId: <4d529f1f .30708="" stratfor.com=""> InReplyTo: 2045570843-1297258457-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-421530589-@bda877.bisx.prod.on.blackberry Text ** Cohen had dinner in Cairo t ...
  • Nasty situation in Crystal with police officer ...
    The mayor of the City of Crystal locked the doors on locals & people speaking out against improper actions by city executive officials against two local police officers. Our friends at Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB) have been organizing around the case. I heard that vide ...
  • Simcity has a rough launch for Mac but hey it' ...
    Electronic Arts recently released the new SimCity for Mac and there have been a bunch of snags for the long-awaited title. Anyway here are some FAQs. Simcity players are looking at a bunch of different approaches to simulating the quanta of city life than SimCity 4 -- and there is more realism t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Shady PR Operatives, Pro-Israel Ties, Anti-Cas ...
    Inside the shilling operation for intervention in the nation's capitol. During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria on September 3, Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain both cited a Wall Street Journal editorial by Elizabeth O’Bagy to support their asse ...
  • How Bill de Blasio is Making History in the Ne ...
    NYC Democratic Primary voters appear to be taking the steps to make de Blasio the first Democratic mayor in New York in 20 years. So, what is going on in New York City? What explains the rapid ascent to the top of the Democratic primary polling heap by Bill de Blasio, NYC’s Public Advocate? Is ...
  • Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria
    Here are some key questions which President Obama has yet to answer in the call for congressional approval for war against Syria. In the lead-up to the Iraq War, I researched, wrote and circulated a document to members of Congress which explored unanswered questions and refuted President Bush' ...
  • Let's End the Pledge of Allegiance in Schools
    One Atheist couple is challenging the "under God" portion — but let's throw the whole strange ritual out. Just in time for back to school: In Massachusetts this week, a venerable classroom tradition is facing a high court challenge. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is currentl ...
  • 7 Instances of All-Out, Mean-Spirited, Right-W ...
    A Christian radio host says he’s happy to attend same-sex marriages as long as the grooms are told they deserve to die. 1. Texas GOP Candidate: Texas Can Be Its Own ‘Island Nation’ Barry Smitherman, aspiring attorney general for the Lone-Star state, thinks Texas is prepared to become its own i ...

Threat Level

  • NSA Revelations Cast Doubt on the Entire Tech ...
    Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by staffers at the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. ...    &nb ...
  • NSA’s Decade-Long Plan to Undermine Encryption ...
    It was only a matter of time before we heard that the NSA had managed to thwart much of the encryption that protects communications conducted over the phone and internet, but new revelations show the extent to which the agency, ...     
  • Patriot Act Author Says NSA Is Abusing Spy Law
    Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) quickly ushered in the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the September 2001 terror attacks. But the author of the act, which greatly expanded the government's spy powers, says the National Security Agency is abusing ...     
  • Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Got More Def ...
    Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike received, on average, 83 percent more campaign financing from defense contractors than lawmakers voting against war, according to an analysis of campaign finance data.     
  • Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email
    In the wake Edward Snowden's release of National Security Agency internal documents showing the United States is hijacking e-mail upstream, a slew of developers have jumped on the encryption bandwagon toward the goal building infallible end-to-end encryption, with the goal ...     ...

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Florida’s Big Tim’s BBQ Linked to Salmonella I ...
    According to health inspection records published by the Florida Department of Business Professional Regulation, Big Tim’s BBQ, located at 530 S 34th St. in St. Petersburg, was closed, with an... Continue Reading
  • Chobani Mold, Mucor circinelloides, Not a Risk ...
    I am sure that is true, but the way Chobani has dribbled out information over the past week, does understandably raise red flags for consumers. According to the AP, yogurt... Continue Reading
  • Chobani, here is the difference between a Reca ...
    According to the FDA, recalls are actions taken by a firm to remove a product from the market. Recalls may be conducted on a firm’s own initiative, by FDA request,... Continue Reading
  • Chobani FINALLY Recalls Its Greek Yogurt
    This probably ranks near the top in a mismanaged recall/market withdraw/PR disaster that I have seen in 20 years. According to a press release on the FDA website, Chobani has... Continue Reading
  • Hepatitis A Outbreak Hits 161
    As of September 3, 2013, 161 people have been confirmed to have become ill from hepatitis A after eating ‘Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend’ in 10 states: Arizona (23), California... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • U.S.-Russian Tensions Heighten over Syria; Roo ...
    Part two of our conversation with Wall Street Journal national security correspondent Adam Entous. He discusses his latest article, "U.S. Decided Not to Horse-Trade with Russia on Assad." Entous writes: "President Barack Obama's 15 seconds of face time with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ...
  • Obama and Putin: Time For Diplomacy on Syria
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “Never has the use of violence brought peace in its wake. War begets war, violence begets violence.” So said Pope Francis, addressing the crowd on Sunday in the Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Square. He was speaking about the crisis in Syria, as President Bar ...
  • Watch Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "All in With Chri ...
    Watch MSNBC's Chris Hayes talk about the liberal interventionist argument for military action in Syria, with Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!," former Congressman Tom Perriello, and Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Part 1: The Liberal C ...
  • Broadcaster David Frost, 74, Dies; Watch Ron H ...
    British broadcasting legend David Frost has died at the age of 74. In 1977 he conducted a series of historic interviews with former president Richard Nixon who had resigned three years earlier. For the first time Nixon apologized for the bugging of Democratic rivals at Washington's Watergate bu ...
  • Nuclear's Demise, From Fukushima to Vermont
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Welcome to the nuclear renaissance. Entergy Corp., one of the largest nuclear-power producers in the United States, issued a surprise press release Tuesday, saying it plans "to close and decommission its Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sa ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This week on The Solari Report, we will post my interview with Franklin Sanders of  the The Moneychanger about events in the precious metals market. Precious metals investors are weary from a long consolidation in gold and silver prices from 2011 highs. Even as pawn sh ...
  • Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues ...
    Related Reading: Johnny Cash on Wikipedia Johnny Cash’s Official Website
  • Just a Taste – Your Best
  • Movie Review: Moon Rising and Moon Views
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Last night I had the opportunity to watch Jose Escamilla’s fascinating movies on the moon, drawing from significant footage from the NASA archives. I recommend these to you, particularly if you are interested in considering possible reasons why trillions continue ...
  • Will There Be a False Flag Event This Fall?
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I was born in 1950. I can not remember a time when there was not some covert operation blowing things up financially or physically or energetically someplace in the world. These operations are getting more obvious. And certainly, bigger ones are happening closer to ho ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • FENG SHUI 101: Getting Started with the Basics
    Image via Shutterstock Feng shui is an ancient Asian art of placement developed thousands of years ago. Feng shui seeks to enhance and improve the flow of energy through your environment, to maximize the positive potential for your life. It is a truly holistic     
  • Samsung’s Android-Powered ‘Galaxy Gear’ Smartw ...
    Remember back in the early 2000's when cell phone companies were racing to see who could create the smallest phone, even though we weren't really sure why? The electronics industry's sudden obsession with smartwatches feels strangely reminiscent of that time.     
  • MIT Develops Advanced Fog Harvesting Material ...
    Fog photo from Shutterstock Plants and certain animals like the fog beetle can survive in very arid regions because they've developed ways of absorbing minute amounts of water from the atmosphere. Learning from their example allowed us to develop fog harvesting     
  • Heart of the District is an Innovative Hotel L ...
    The Heart of the District welcomes visitors with a new type of space that encourages curious tourists and locals to come in and explore. Rather than a private, guests-only model that most hotels are designed around, ZA’s structure is open to the public,     
  • BOOK REVIEW: Land/Art New Mexico
    If you're interested in art that uses nature as its medium, there's no better place to get your fill than Land/Art New Mexico. The event may be over but the gathering was commemorated with this vibrant book by the same name. Written by Lucy Lippard, William     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Into the Wild: Tracking Rescued Harbor Seal Pu ...
    Four small seals are crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, safely strapped into the truck in front of us. Tucked inside their crates, the quartet – three harbor seals and an elephant seal – are on a journey back to their ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Horsehead Nebula ...
    Stunning new view from ESA’s Herschel space observatory of the iconic Horsehead Nebula in the context of its surroundings. The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 250 microns (red), and covers ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Saturn Storm Cir ...
    The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This picture, captured on Feb. 25, 2011, was taken about 12 weeks after the storm ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Bagging Black Holes
    NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the length of a school bus, is the first telescope capable of focusing the highest-energy X-ray ...    &nbsp ...
  • Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Proble ...
    The private shuttle buses from the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, and others are virtually (and arguably physically) dividing the city. Looking at this issue through maps can give us, if not answers, at least some talking points and objects ...     

PakAlert

  • Obama Admits Public Doesn’t Want War, But Says ...
    Obama recognizes that a war with Syria will be unpopular with the American people, but says that it is not their decision to make The popular myth in America and most modern democracies is that the general population decides on important issues that effect their lives. However the reality is ...
  • US could find itself at war with Russia over S ...
    The United States speaks of teaching Syria a lesson to hold it accountable for what it claims is chemical weapons use by the administration of Bashar al-Assad. Why isn’t there a case for America to be held accountable for the WMD’s it has used in over half a century?
  • Nightmare: Senate Votes on Aiding Al-Qaeda on ...
    The Senate now plans to vote to authorize Barack Obama to use U.S. military force in Syria on Wednesday. That is, Sept. 11. Surely God is a comedian playing to an audience with no sense of humor. The perverse horror
  • The West Dethroned
    “The European race’s last three hundred years of evolutionary progress have all come down to nothing but four words: selfishness, slaughter, shamelessness and corruption.” Yan Fu It only took the rest of the world 300 years to catch on to the evil that masquerades as “western civilization,” o ...
  • Congress Members Who Have Seen Classified Evid ...
    Classified Syria Intelligence Fails to Prove Assad Used Chemical Weapons The administration’s public case for chemical weapons use by the Syrian government is extremely weak, and former high-level intelligence officers say that publicly-available information proves that the Syrian government ...

Andy Worthington

  • Meet the Guantánamo Prisoner Who Wants to be P ...
    Throughout the spring and summer, while the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo raged, taking up most of my attention, as I reported prisoners’ accounts, and campaigned to get President Obama to release the 86 prisoners cleared for release in January 2010 by his own inter-agency Guantá ...
  • Video: Al-Jazeera’s Powerful and Importa ...
    After seven and a half years of researching and writing about the prisoners held in the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, it’s always refreshing to hear from former prisoners — and, in many cases, to see their faces and hear their voices for the very first time. T ...
  • Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Released ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • GTMO Clock: 100 Days Since President Obama Pro ...
    Getting men released from Guantánamo has become more difficult than getting blood out of a stone, even though over half of the 164 men still held were approved for release in January 2010 by President Obama’s high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force. Please visit, like, share ...
  • I’m on Holiday for Two Weeks: Please Kee ...
    Click on the image to visit the GTMO Clock website and see how many days it has been since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo, and how many men have been freed. I’m away with my family to Sicily for two sun-drenched weeks of rest and relaxation — a ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • Luxuries are a Weakness, So Indulge Yourself R ...
    Whether it's expensive computers, nice cars, or meals at five star restaurants, everyone has a weakness for something expensive. While it's okay to indulge ourselves every now and then, it's important to treat these splurges as a personal weaknesses, and work to minimize their prevalence.Read m ...
  • Typeform Creates Attractive Online Surveys for ...
    If you need to poll a big group of people, Typeform offers an intuitive interface and a ton of options, all for free.Read more...     
  • "I'm looking for a good cross platform checkli ...
    I'm looking for a good cross platform checklist application.Anyone out there with experience mounting a flat panel ceiling mount upside down to the top of an entertainment center?I've been trying to play old PC games lately. Almost all of them are not able to install on my 64-bit computer. I ne ...
  • Bring Water Bottle Caps into Concerts To Prote ...
    Most concert venues and sporting events are happy to sell you an overpriced bottle of water, but some of them will take off the cap and throw it in the trash.Read more...     
  • Apply the 80/20 Rule to Creating and Nurturing ...
    You've probably heard of the Pareto Principle: 80% of consequences stem from 20% of causes. When it comes to networking and meeting people though, the same ratio can help you nurture existing relationships, and create new ones.Read more...     

Water Wars

  • Pinellas County is a delinquent taxpayer, Pasc ...
    The water wars between Pasco and Pinellas counties may be ancient history, but a new fight is brewing — this time, over property taxes.
  • Paula Dockery: Florida’s water wars
    Water issues are back in the news. Florida elected officials are once again vowing to take action and to provide funding for water-related issues.
  • Water wars: WUC incurs FCC councillors' wrath
    FRANCISTOWN: Councillors here have blasted the snail's pace approach taken by the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) in solving the water crisis in the city. One councillor, however, deviated from the stance taken by most his colleagues.
  • Water fight continues at Chico forum
    Water wars are expensive and most often fruitless, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi said he is willing to throw down the gauntlet to stop the governor's plan to build two underground tunnels that he believes have the potential to suck the Sacramento...
  • Garamendi wants to defend Sacramento River
    Water wars are expensive and most often fruitless, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi said he is willing to throw down the gauntlet to stop the governor's plan to build two underground tunnels that he believes have the potential to suck the Sacramento...

WordPress | Economics

  • "Dahi Handi" & the many parallels with Ind ...
    It was the 29th of August, a day after people celebrated ‘Krishna Janmashtami’ with gaiety and relig
  • Framework for Everything
    As I said previously, I need a framework to get on with things efficiently – a framework helps make
  • Saving economics from the economists
    Earlier this week, Ronald Coase passed away at 102. Though Coase was a self-decribed “accident
  • Coase
    Ronald Coase, who, arguably, wrote the single most influential (and, without dispute, the single mos
  • Entitlement
    Entitlements. break it down to humans, rather than institutions. the attitude: so offensive, despica

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Bank of America Pays $39 Million To Settle Gen ...
    The firm has now paid $199 million in discrimination settlements in two weeks.The post Bank of America Pays $39 Million To Settle Gender Discrimination Case appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
  • Iowa Debates Permitting Blind People To Carry ...
    Iowa is wrestling with the question of whether people with vision impairments should be restricted from receivin gpermits to carry guns in public.The post Iowa Debates Permitting Blind People To Carry Guns In Public appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
  • White House: U.S. Strike In Syria Could Deter ...
    How the United States responds to Syria’s use of chemical weapons will send a message not just to Syrian President Bashar Assad, but also to Iran on nuclear weapons, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday on Meet the Press. The post White House: U.S. Strike In Syria Could Deter I ...
  • Arab Summer: Warming-Fueled Drought Helped Spa ...
    The drought didn't cause Syria’s civil war, but the failure of the government to respond to it was a big factor in fueling the uprising.The post Arab Summer: Warming-Fueled Drought Helped Spark Syria’s Civil War appeared first on ThinkProgress.     
  • Cruz: Deaths In Syria Are A Distraction From B ...
    Over 100,00 Syrians are dead and the chemical weapons taboo is in jeopardy, but all Cruz wants to talk about is...Benghazi?The post Cruz: Deaths In Syria Are A Distraction From Benghazi Scandal appeared first on ThinkProgress.     

thwap's schoolyard

  • Anti-War Sentiment
    Well, you can describe blow-back against decades of imperialism in the Middle East and adjacent areas as an unprovoked attack based on a medieval hatred for your freedoms. You can invade a country and kill anywhere from 50,000 to a million people (they couldn't be bothered to keep track) becaus ...
  • What the Fuck Evah ...
  • Argle-Bargle
    Hootenany! Holy-fuck! But that so totally sums up my political activism at the moment! (Except I guess that I'd have a maple-leaf emblazoned across my manly chest.)
  • Nothing II
    Hey twap! Didn't you just outline some bitchin' strategy for a campaign to bring down the government? What's with all these videos and whining and shit? Ahem. If you go back to the beginning of that, you'll see that it was to outline a plan that I've abandoned due to my complete inability ...
  • Quality

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Asian pivot advocated for RCN
    A number of Canadian defence analysts are advocating that the Royal Canadian Navy shift its focus from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to counter the growing power of China's naval forces.
  • Why it’s the moment for diplomacy in Syria
    Steven Staples in Now Magazine on why diplomacy is needed in Syria, and how Canada can take action.
  • What should be done about the Syrian civil war?
    How should the world respond to the unfolding events in Syria? What can Canada do?
  • Our documents reveal Air Force’s disrega ...
    Steven Staples says the debate over German drones in Europe raise significant unease about drone safety in Canada. “It’s one thing to be flying a drone over the desert in Afghanistan but it’s something else to fly them over Ottawa or Toronto,” said Staples, adding that a deficiency in civilian ...
  • Sanctions? What sanctions?
    The Harper government has awarded a $400 million contract to SNC-Lavalin PAE Inc. just months after the group’s parent company was banned from bidding on Canadian aid projects due to multiple bribery and corruption scandals.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Congress Charade: Most on Capitol Hill swaying ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCongress Charade: Most on Capitol Hill swaying against Syria war cry youtube.com Warning: Graphic footage! With Barack Obama’s finger firmly on the Syria intervention trigger, U.S. lawmakers will reconvene later on ...
  • No economic espionage? NSA docs show US spied ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNo economic espionage? NSA docs show US spied on Brazil oil giant Petrobras RT.com Brazil’s biggest television network Globo TV reported that the information about the NSA spying on Petroleo Brasileiro SA came from ...
  • Putin Puts The Boot In
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPutin Puts The Boot In RT tells us that the US government did 9 11. RT tells us that al Qaeda works for the US government. RT tells us that the terrorism in Europe and America has been done by the US government. Putin is ...
  • The Hill to the Rescue on Syria? Don’t Hold Yo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Hill to the Rescue on Syria? Don’t Hold Your Breath Antiwar.comTom Engelhardt Sometimes history happens at the moment when no one is looking. On weekends in late August, the president of the United States ought ...
  • U.S. Admits No Imminent Threat from Syria, No ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comU.S. Admits No Imminent Threat from Syria, No Clear Evidence Assad Ordered Chemical Weapons Attack By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Obama Ramps Up War Pitch Even As Basic Arguments Fall by the Wayside Obama is going ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Saru Jayaraman: Why Sustainable Food Must Incl ...
    Dandelion Salad talkingsticktv on Sep 8, 2013 Talk by Saru Jayaraman author of “Behind the Kitchen Door” on “Serving Up Justice: Why Sustainable Food Must Include Sustainable Working Conditions for the People Who Serve Us” given September 7, 2013 at the Community Alliance ...
  • Rivera Sun’s The Dandelion Insurrection ...
    by Guadamour Writer, Dandelion Salad September 6, 2013 The Iron Heel by Jack London published in 1908, arguably the first dystopian novel, describes a totalitarian fascist state in the US which London felt would come to pass by 1913-14. George Orwell acknowledged the influence of The Iron Heel o ...
  • The Biggest Assault on Our Democracy Is Coming ...
    by Fred Branfman Writer, Dandelion Salad originally published on Alternet, September 4, 2013 September 7, 2013 The Executive justifies its actions, like all authoritarian institutions, on the grounds that it is protecting us. We must reverse the tide. “America no longer has a functioning d ...
  • Stopping Barry O’Bomber’s Rush to War by Ralph ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page September 6, 2013 Dear President Obama: Little did your school boy chums in Hawaii, watching you race up and down the basketball court, know how prescient they were when they nicknamed you “Barry O’Bomber”. Little did your fellow Harvard Law Review e ...
  • Rick Rozoff: U.S. Attack On Syria Would Be His ...
    by Rick Rozoff Writer, Dandelion Salad Stop NATO September 6, 2013 John Robles Voice of Russia Recorded on September 3, 2013 September 5, 2013 Statesmen, diplomats, leaders and countries worldwide are condemning the United States for their obtuse and entirely self-serving desire to launch milita ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Into the Wild: Tracking Rescued Harbor Seal Pu ...
    Four small seals are crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, safely strapped into the truck in front of us. Tucked inside their crates, the quartet – three harbor seals and an elephant seal – are on a journey back to their ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Horsehead Nebula ...
    Stunning new view from ESA’s Herschel space observatory of the iconic Horsehead Nebula in the context of its surroundings. The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 250 microns (red), and covers ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Saturn Storm Cir ...
    The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This picture, captured on Feb. 25, 2011, was taken about 12 weeks after the storm ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Bagging Black Holes
    NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the length of a school bus, is the first telescope capable of focusing the highest-energy X-ray ...    &nbsp ...
  • Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Proble ...
    The private shuttle buses from the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, and others are virtually (and arguably physically) dividing the city. Looking at this issue through maps can give us, if not answers, at least some talking points and objects ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Shoddy gun paper excites right wing
    There is new interest in a 2007 study by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser. “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” was published in Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy and has been cited recently on a number of political blogs, message boards, even on a popular ...
  • A brief review of bad reporting
    Ever since Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s first story on NSA surveillance back in June there have been various attempts to discredit him. Most has been garden variety stuff, the kind of thing it’s usually better to ignore lest it get more oxygen. A post by BooMan earlier thi ...
  • Additional planks for the platform
    On Monday lambert posted a call for a re-formulated 12-word platform; Tuesday I responded with what I tentatively called the Bumper Sticker Platform (BSP). These may be two slightly different things though. My goal is to create a campaign slogan - something that easily fits on a sign or bumper ...
  • Bumper Sticker Platform, 2013 edition
    On a Saturday morning a few years ago I dashed off a quick caffeine-fueled post that tried to formulate a simple but substantive platform for the left. It was partially a reaction to the prior couple years of conservative rhetoric. During the 2008 campaign the right insisted Barack Obama was a ...
  • Summer vacation
    Taking the week off. Back next week!

Organic Consumers.org

  • Oops: Illegal Carcinogen Found in Nearly 100 S ...
    You'd think that something you buy at the grocery store and slather on your head would be tested to make sure it won't kill you. Or at least that it wouldn't include a suspected carcinogen banned in at least one state.Click here to read this article
  • Food, Fatherhood, and Fear: "GMO OMG" Transcen ...
    I didn't think I'd like GMO OMG, because it looked like an outrage documentary. You know the type: They're films that ask viewers to pound their fists with righteous indignation at the evil deeds they reveal. My problem with outrage documentaries is that the form pushes directors to overstate th ...
  • Mental Health Problems on the Rise Across the ...
    Depression is a pervasive health issue today. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in 10 American adults report some form of depression. Eleven percent of the US population over the age of 12 is on antidepressant medication.Click here to read this a ...
  • Snowden's Latest Major Leak: the NSA’s Secret ...
    The NSA has secretly and successfully worked to break the widely used technology that is supposed to make it impossible to read intercepted communications. Click here to read this article
  • Fat Chance: Diet Coke Fights Obesity?
    It was laughable when Coca-Cola launched a campaign to fight obesity. And even more laughable when the king of soda’s anti-obesity campaign shifted all the blame for those extra pounds to lack of exercise and chairs (yes, chairs). Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Fewer Crops, Fish, and M&Ms
    The Obama administration is seeking $40 million in additional funding for CDC in fiscal year 2014 to address outbreaks—but how likely is a boost of funding at any agency?
  • WWF’s Farmed Salmon Certification Initiative: ...
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new campaign relating to salmon aquaculture—but if the organization is partnering with corporations, how successful will it really be? WWF’s partnerships with various corporations to foster sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices are part of ...
  • Response to Donald Kennedy on Antibiotics in F ...
    For decades, scientists and advocates have called for mandatory restrictions. While other countries have heeded these calls, the FDA has focused on voluntary reform.
  • Food Systems and Patient Care: Notes from a Di ...
    My time with CLF this week allowed me to interact directly with community members as they participated in various aspects of Baltimore City’s food system.
  • CLF Week in Links: Atrazine, Hayes, Deformed F ...
    Big Pharma’s influence on research is especially disturbing as the weakening economy puts further pressure on public entities to seek private funding, through association with companies like Novartis, compromising independence and scientific integrity.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • fenbeagleblog - Beagle Blog Cartoons
    In which one can find being a 'Denier' can be more fun than you might have thought Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Greg Palast | The Secret End-Game Memo
    In the late 1990s, top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3% unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia Submitted by BMutiny TCorporationsEvil to S ...
  • BREAKING: China Sends Warships & 1000 Marines ...
    China is accusing the U.S. of lying about Syria. They say the U.S. has made a mess of Iraq and Afghanistan. They wrote it was the Rebels that committed the chemical attack and the U.S is ignoring that fact as they want war for political reasons. Submitted by David B. to World  |  &nbs ...
  • Syria:Humanitarian Intervention, International ...
    Last night I listened via my radio to Parliament debating late into the evening as to what, if anything, might be done about becoming involved in military action in Syria. One matter concerned me: legality and what this meant. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |  & ...
  • The Fate of Transgenes in the Human Gut
    1feb2004 Gut microbes that cannot be recovered in artificial culture may acquire and harbor genes from genetically modified plants. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • When the Lights Go Out On November 13, 2013
    Thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. anti-terrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attack and cyber attacks that coul ...
  • Why is the Non-GMO Shopping Guide Sponsored by ...
    Isn't this type of collusion the very thing we should be fighting against instead of supporting? Just sayin'....
  • Where Will FEMA Take Your Children?
    The following paragraphs detail a previous disaster drill, held in Denver, in which the procedures should raise the hair on the back of the neck of all parents.
  • Apocalypse Today – The Four Horsemen
    As a student of Scripture, it has become quite apparent to me that the question of the day is – are we living in Apocalyptic times as envisioned by the writers of ancient texts such as the Bible, or are the series of events that are unfolding as I type just mere coincidences with no connection t ...
  • Bring Food Education Back Infographic
    If we don't start teaching our children how to eat healthy, home-prepared foods, they will grow up dependent on the fast food nation for their meals and not know any better. Is this what we want for future generations?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Taliban bombers hit Afghanistan Wardak intelli ...
    ShareThisTaliban bombers hit Afghanistan Wardak intelligence HQ --Nato air strike kills at least nine civilians 08 Sep 2013 At least four Afghan intelligence staff have been killed after suicide bombers attacked offices of the provincial intelligence department in Wardak. Five suicide bombers ...
  • Obama Administration Denies AP Requests for Sy ...
    ShareThisObama Administration Denies AP Requests for Syria Evidence 08 Sep 2013 The Associated Press ran a skeptical piece Sunday about the Obama administration's public case for military intervention in Syria in response to a reported Aug. 21 chemical attack. The AP's Zeina Karam and Kimberly ...
  • Soldier's claim SAS hit squad 'did kill Prince ...
    ShareThisSoldier's claim SAS hit squad 'did kill Princess Diana' is 'utterly convincing' 05 Sep 2013 An SAS soldier's claims that the elite regiment murdered Princess Diana are "utterly convincing", police have been told. he former sniper's estranged wife has informed Scotland Yard she is comple ...
  • Shark that ate 600 US sailors is 'circling' wa ...
    ShareThisShark that ate 600 US sailors is 'circling' waters off Britain 08 Sep 2013 --Slicing menacingly through the murky water, the huge shark fin unnerved the experienced fishing crew. Although only partially out of the water, it already stood a foot high and was dark grey... The close enc ...
  • Obama administration had restrictions on NSA r ...
    ShareThisObama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011 07 Sep 2013 The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to ...

Daily Loaf

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

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B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • Update on John and Tarek: No decision, no release
    September 5, 11pm Tarek and John had another visit from consulars and from our lawyers yesterday. We have heard more about how they are doing, which continues to be summarized as "good health and high spirits", although they have now been in for about three weeks, entirely at the prosecutor's di ...
  • Update on John and Tarek: Met with prosecutor, ...
    August 30, 8:30am This morning, the district prosecutor in Cairo met with our lawyers, staff from the Canadian Embassy, and John and Tarek. This was the meeting that had been set for Thursday. The prosecutor said his own investigation was continuing and he was waiting for additional information ...
  • Update: Prosecutor did not appear, no hearing ...
    Aug 29, 2013, 11am After waiting the entire day outside the prison, and with curfew approaching, our lawyers had to leave as the prosecutor had not arrived by the end of the day. Tarek and John remain in prison. No word has come about rescheduling their appearance before the prosecutor. No other ...
  • Update: Day 11 consular meeting
    Aug 27, 5:20pm From http://tarekandjohn.com/2013/08/27/day-11-update/ It’s Day 11, and today Tarek and John were able to meet with consular officials for a meeting. Their morale and health continues to be good, which is encouraging. John & Tarek were also given updates about the internationa ...
  • NYT on Tarek and John
    Aug 25, 8:50am The NYT mentioned Tarek and John's case in an article about the widening crackdown in Egypt In general, for coverage about Tarek and John, support statements, and updates, please follow tarekandjohn.com. Here at podur.org, we will only be posting updates and statements from the po ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Comedians enjoy new-found freedom
    There has been an explosion of artistic expression across Burma, and artists and comedians are using the country's reform process as inspiration.
  • Chicken soup, but not for the soul
    Nearly 20 Buddhist devotees who ate chicken and glass-noodle soup before fasting at a local monastery in Irrawaddy division were hospitalised with food poisoning on 4 September.
  • Burma and Japan to boost development ties
    Burma and Japan have agreed to step up cooperation on development projects, with a special focus on tackling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the poverty-stricken country, state media reported on Friday.
  • Business Weekly
    China looks to double trade with ASEAN, stock exchange deadline looms, Fuji Electric launches in Rangoon, and SIM cards on the black market.
  • DVB Debate: Is Burma ready for total press fre ...
    At a time when Burma is navigating its way through a democratic transition, is it appropriate to give the press free reign or should the media be regulated until the country is more stable?

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Updated BFP Report- ProPublica Threatens BFP, ...
    It is $37 Million Not $26 Million! And Check Out ProPublica’s List of Sugar Daddies & Partners! Ladies and gentleman, in less than an hour after our report on ProPublica tax forms, their $26 Million-dollar budget and untraceable (at least not easily traceable) corporates and foundations fund ...
  • ProPublica Exposed: A Pseudo Alternative with ...
    Cryptome Documents Reveal the Wall Street-Founded & Establishment-Funded Pseudo “Alternative” ProPublica Update & Notes-Here is what you can do to show your power (People Power): After reading this article and reviewing the official documents, if you believe ProPublica has taken your mo ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- September 8, 2013
    China’s Quest for Gas in Eurasia, Pipelines- Pakistan & the SCO, Terrorist State Georgia & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profit ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Soft Lipa- “Winter Sweet” This will be the second appearance of Taiwanese underground rapper Soft Lipa on the BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast Music Pick. This time around the song is Winter Sweet. I love this Hip Hop with jazz undertones and there is nothing better to “sooth the beast” ...
  • Jamiol Presents

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Tikun Olam

  • U.S. House Closing in on 218 Votes Opposing Sy ...
    The unthinkable may be about to happen.  As Washington prepares for a series of dramatic debates and votes in the House and Senate for attacking Syria, the NY Times is reporting that opponents are “closing in” on the 218 votes needed to torpedo Obama’s plans.  The paper maintai ...
  • Gallup Poll on Syria Attack: Lowest Support of ...
    Gallup has just released its latest poll tracking U.S. opinion on attacking Syria.  It finds that of the four major U.S. interventions over the past 20 years (Iraq, Afghanistan, Perisan Gulf, Kosovo/Serbia) Barack Obama’s planned assault on Syria has the lowest level of support of any of t ...
  • McCain Plays iPhone Poker While Advocating Tha ...
    I was infuriated by the goading tone of John McCain’s questioning of Obama officials during yesterday’s Senate hearing on military intervention in Syria.  His goal went far beyond supporting such an attack.  He tried to shame Kerry and Hegel into admitting that the U.S. should paraly ...
  • Rosh Hashanah 5773
    Given the fateful events happening right now in Syria and Egypt and the possibility for similar ones happening in Iran later in the year, it seems hollow to wish everyone a peaceful, prosperous New Year. But hope springs eternal and the leaders of the world may surprise us and pull a rabbit out ...
  • Gloves Come Off: Israel Lobby Goes All-In for ...
    Today’s the day I knew was coming.  Despite the fact that Jodi Rudoren mistakenly said that the Lobby would maintain radio-silence about Obama’s plan to strike Syria, I knew she was wrong. And she was.  Today, Obama pulled out all the stops and the Jewish leadership responded: virtua ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Genomania!
    Look, say what you want, Geno Smith JUST WINS FOOTBALL GAMES.     
  • Casualties were spectacularly high in units ad ...
    So this story broke right as I was leaving work, and I didn’t have time to investigate it too deeply — my employers believe in not exploiting my labor, no matter how much I plead to the contrary, the damned communists — but I really am interested in investigating this issue fur ...
  • Arg? Auuugh.
    I know most of you have commented on Scott’s post about about Roy’s post about libertarianism’s attempt to be all things to all people rich, white, and male. But have you looked at the comments at alicublog? There’s a libertarian making lots of “args” in defen ...
  • The Trouble With the Grading on the Curve
    I’m often asked why I don’t believe in grading on the curve, but I’ve never expressed my thoughts as elegantly as Mika LaVaque-Manty does here. I should also note that his book-length treatment of similar issues is very much worth reading if you’re into that sort of thing ...
  • Mongo ™ Brand Pillows
    Since we’re talking design… Have I mentioned lately how much I haaaaaaate home accessories with inane word barf on them? Mongo, who talked you into this?     

Desert Research Institute

  • Nevada researchers collaborate to preserve Lak ...
    From Tahoe's mountaintops to the lake's sandy bottom, scientists from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. Read more...
  • New ice core data helps explain Antarctica's l ...
    New, annually resolved ice-core measurements collected from West Antarctica and  partially developed by researchers at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute show warming in Antarctica began approximately 4,000 years earlier than previoulsy suggested. Read more...
  • Celebrating DRI’s unique Storm Peak Laboratory
    On Friday, August 9th in Steamboat Springs, Colorado DRI will celebrate nearly $1 million in upgrades and renovations to the Institute’s high-elevation, mountain-top atmospheric sciences lab, and honor Steamboat Ski Resort with DRI’s 2014 President’s Medal.
  • Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
  • A new understanding of the North American monsoon
    Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

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