Tuesday, October 01, 2013

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Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener Report- Who Is Marc Grossman?
    When Hillary Clinton appointed Marc Grossman as US Special Envoy News coverage of the appointment dutifully noted Grossman’s long career at the State Department and past accomplishments, including his appointment as Career Ambassador by President Bush in 2004 and his Secretary of State Dis ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
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  • Did Putin Quietly Play the Debt Card Over Syria?
    You Play Poker with Vladimir Putin at Your Peril By Ron Holland They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy. They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. If [in America] there is a systemic ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- Free Barrett Brown: ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Kevin Gallagher On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by the director of Free Barrett Brown, Kevin Gallagher. Guillermo and Kevin discuss the case of Barrett Brown, an eccentric author and journalist who caught the attention of the FBI throug ...
  • The New Great Game Round Up- September 29, 2013
    Ukraine: Future EU, NATO Member?!, Armenia Sticks With Russia, CSTO Addresses Terror Threats & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in C ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • New Pew Poll on U.S. Jewish Identity
    The Pew Research: Religion and Public Life Project commissioned a new poll on American Jewish identity  (full report here) and the results are fascinating and chilling at the same time.  Pew decided to take up the task when the Jewish federations, who’d done the last, controversial poll in ...
  • Shabak Nabs Alleged Iranian Spy–Surprise!–Same ...
    The Israeli Shabak announced (Hebrew) with a flourish today that on September 11th it had apprehended an alleged Iranian spy who had been working on behalf of the Iran Revolutionary Guards.  He is Ali Mansuri, 58, a dual Belgian-Iranian citizen.  He went by the name Alex Manas when he entered Is ...
  • Obama Breaks With Bibi on Iranian Uranium Enri ...
    If my friend Larry Cohler-Esses, who’s the assistant editor of the Jewish Forward, is right, Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama have already made a significant and substantive breakthrough in U.S.-Iran relations.  The critical word above is “if.”  Since I respect Larry’s wor ...
  • Phone Call Heard Round the World
    In phone convo, President #Rouhani and President @BarackObama expressed their mutual political #will to rapidly solve the #nuclear issue. — Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) September 27, 2013 There is, of course, the possibility of making too much out of largely symbolic acts when two countries h ...
  • Iran and U.S.: Gathering Momentum for Peace
    The past weeks have seen a remarkable change in both the tone and substance of relations between Iran and the west, particularly the U.S.  It began with Pres. Hassan Rouhani’s Rosh Hashana greeting in early September to the world’s Jews.  Though such a gesture might seem at best symb ...

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

  • Leftier-Than-Thou Comedy Classics
    It can be argued, as some commenters have tried to, that favoring Obama’s refusal to negotiate over the debt ceiling is in some sense a “heighten-the-contradictions” argument. But at a minimum it’s different than the typical one, in that negotiating with Republicans would ...
  • Independent Contractor Fraud
    Great job by IBEW Local 520 in Austin to execute its own undercover investigation of independent contractor fraud among the city’s construction industry. Basically, employers are listing workers as independent contractors to avoid labor law. They then place these workers in dangerous situa ...
  • What is a “Tbogg”?
    My memory is news-cycle-short, so I can honestly say that I don’t know. But apparently now that the government’s shut down, whatever-it-is is now legal again, and putting words on the Interwebs.     
  • Dealing with the crash, Pt. 3
    This post is part of a series. Earlier installments are here and here. The first two posts in this series looked at a school (Iowa) that has dealt with the crash in demand for law school admissions by drastically cutting its class size, and another (American) that has reacted by slashing its adm ...
  • Get Your Visa Occupy Card Here!
    Who else needs an Occupy debit card? Wow. So what the 99% want is a banking structure with the fees made more transparent? There’s a revolution for you! Here’s a defense of the card. It frames itself as “beyond reform versus revolution.” By which we mean not reform or rev ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • A century of human impact on Arctic climate in ...
    New study authored by Canadian and American investigators and published in Nature Scientific Reports indicates that both anthropogenic and natural factors account for Arctic surface temperature variations from 1900 to the present. Read more...
  • Nevada researchers collaborate to preserve Lak ...
    From Tahoe's mountaintops to the lake's sandy bottom, scientists from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin.
  • 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...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Jury Soon to Decide Bellwether Case Against Toyota
    A verdict in the case could serve as a barometer for the rest of the California cases, and for hundreds of personal injury or wrongful death cases across the nation.
  • Split First Circuit Upholds Excess Flood Insur ...
    A federal appeals court has upheld a requirement that homeowners insure their properties against floods in excess of the value of their mortgage balance, but critics drew comfort from the closeness of the outcome.
  • Hard Fight Seen for DOJ Against N.C. Voting Re ...
    The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sued North Carolina over the state's new voting laws in an expansion of federal voter rights enforcement that elections attorneys predict will face even higher hurdles than a similar fight in Texas.
  • 'Dream Team' Says Case Could End Gay Marriage ...
    A lawsuit challenging Virginia's gay marriage and civil union bans may provide the vehicle for a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage—at least that is the hope of the suit's "dream team" of lawyers.
  • Top 10 Cases on Supreme Court Docket for 2013- ...
    The justices face a broad range of issues, ranging from abortion to prayer in public places, campaign finance to affirmative action. Here, at a glance, are 10 of the cases most worth following.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Small Rainforest Predators Are Photographed an ...
    The west African country of Gabon is known for its gorillas, elephants, and other large animal species, but a recent study has shed light on little-known rainforest predators that could face increasing pressure from the View Gallery Laila Bahaa-el-din African civet bushmeat trade. ...
  • Ikea to Sell Home Solar Panels in All British ...
    The Swedish furniture retailer Ikea will begin selling residential solar panels in its 17 UK stores within the next 10 months. The basic package's $9,500 price tag will include 18 panels, installation, maintenance, Elisseeva/Shutterstock design consultation, and energy monitoring. Wit ...
  • Has the U.N. Climate Panel Now Outlived Its Us ...
    Some scientists are saying the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is overly conservative and fails to mention some of the most worrisome possible scenarios. The panel, they contend, is no longer fulfilling its mission of informing policy makers of the risks of globa ...
  • IPCC Scientists Warn of Upper Limit on CO2 Emi ...
    Saying it is 95 percent certain that humans have caused most of the global warming of the last half-century, scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned today that the world can afford to burn about 1 trillion more tons of carbon before facing extreme climate chan ...
    ( I've seen some really funny quips on these claims. The percentage game on warming likelihood cannot be backed up any more than claims to foretell 'warmer climate future' can ...from rise of a trace gas associated with ice ages which is as likely to follow warming as cause it )
  • Major Initiative Announced To Help Curb Elepha ...
    The Clinton Global Initiative and 16 conservation organizations have announced that they are investing $80 million over three years to stem the epidemic of elephant poaching in Africa, which has surged recently Pele Nkumu/WCS Confiscated ivory elephant tusks due to increasing demand for ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Measuring the Scientific Method Against the Wi ...
    "Pseudoscience is defined as a belief or idea, accepted as true, that has not been proven by the scientific method. While science has been invaluable in helping to promote our ever-expanding knowledge of the Universe, it cannot be held as a hard-and-fast rule to determining Truth. In many instan ...
  • Government ‘Shut Down’ Doesn’t Prevent Opening ...
    The so-called “government shut down” and the furloughing of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented the opening of a $2 billion dollar NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop on Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls. As we highlighted yesterday, the sh ...
  • Richard III: a maligned king’s reburial become ...
    The discovery of King Richard III’s bones in a shallow grave started a tug-of-war over where he should be buried. And some now say the design for his tomb is not fit for a monarch. The shallow dirt grave into which King Richard III’s body was hurriedly tossed, and centuries later covered up by a ...
  • The CIA’s Most Highly-Trained Spies Weren’t Ev ...
    As a former trainer reveals, the U.S. government deployed nonhuman operatives—ravens, pigeons, even cats—to spy on cold war adversaries There would be a rustle of oily black feathers as a raven settled on the window ledge of a once-grand apartment building in some Eastern European capital. The b ...
  • There’s No Up or Down in Space? Not So Fast
    Astronomers love to remind us that there’s no up or down in space. Look out into the depths of the universe and you’ll see galaxies floating edge-on, face-on and at every angle in between. Look at planets circling stars within the Milky Way, and their orbits might be oriented in any direction at ...

Not My Tribe

  • Occupy Denver hits the Terrible Twos!
    LOOK OUT DENVER! There was no birthday cake this year for Occupy Denver, though the second annual #S17 OWS anniversary celebration did not go unmarked. Subgroup offshoots of Denver’s notorietous Occupy deployed themselves with the usual rowdy spirit. Denver Homeless Out Loud, advocates for ...
  • Fuck the Police, say it while you can
    If you’re bleeding from a rollover accident and you’re a black male who’s prompted a white suburbanite to call the police, who arrive and shoot you; if you’re a non-suicidale teen who’s fallen from an overpass, broken your back, only to be tased a dozen times for no ...
  • Springs Democrats hope democracy loses to Stat ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO- International news headlines read “G-20 Summit Overshadowed by Syrian Crisis” but not in Colorado Springs! Here every politically active Democrat was working to defeat a recall of state senate leader John Morse, a democrat though barely. Morse is a duly elected, ...
  • What Does Democracy Look Like? Not likely the ...
    I attended Occupy Denver’s forum “What Does Democracy Look Like?” this weekend to hear activist scholars of considerable repute throw in their two cents. The first day was a splendid gathering, except where a curated discussion of intentional community lapsed straight to theolo ...
  • Bored Oklahoma teen murder suspects not bored ...
    Bored Oklahoma teens who shot a random jogger in the back are being tried as adults not juveniles because “it was an adult crime”; though killing while bored seems a juvenile crime by definition. So does immediately confessing a motive, “we were bored,” to the police, it ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • WTC7 - The Stiffener Plates Explained (Invalid ...
    A brief explanation of the relevance and consequences of NISTs failure to include these elements in their analysis of the WTC7 collapse. This is designed to be a brief introduction to the issue. __________________________________ From the analysis above we can clearly see that NIST's hypothe ...
  • Newly Declassified Government Documents: Pre 9 ...
    No one believed al Qaeda, Taliban could pull it off Steve Watson Infowars.com Sept 27, 2013 File this under 9/11 government prior knowledge with the mountains of other examples from the past twelve years. Newly uncovered government documents show that the US government ignored a specific war ...
  • Dallas Observer Article on ReThink911.org Camp ...
    In the article, "Dallas Gets It Very Own 9/11 Truther Billboard on Stemmons Freeway," readers are misinformed that, "The truthers talk about thermite and microspheres -- further evidence, they say, of an explosion. An analysis of the infamous 'red/gray chips' by the American Academy of Forensic ...
  • Tell Congress: Vote NO on Bombing Syria
     https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Tell_Congress_Vote_NO_on_Bombing_Syria/?dXbowebWhy this is importantCongress is considering whether to approve a 2-3 month U.S. air war on Syria. The Win Without War coalition has issued a statement to Congress urging Congress to vote NO on the Syria ...
  • Poll: Majority of Canadians Think Calling the ...
    ReThink911 in Ottawa (bus ads) A new survey by the polling firm YouGov reveals that most Canadians are not opposed to the ads currently appearing in Canadian cities calling for a new investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed into it ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Minister receives daily 'Awáicon' to save Eart ...
    Brazil's Minister of Justice is receiving daily 'Awáicon' photos, such as this one showing internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado supporting the campaign for the Awá. © SurvivalSurvival International is sending Brazil’s Minister of Justice one ‘Awáicon ...
  • Jarawa face year-round threat from 'human safa ...
    Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road which cuts through the their reserve, putting them at risk from diseases to which they have no immunity.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalAs the world marks World Tourism Day, the administration of India’s Andamans is preparing to promote the islands from a sea ...
  • Tourists: Boycott Botswana over treatment of B ...
    Botswana attracts tourists with images of the Kalahari Bushmen, whilst driving them off their lands© www.botswanatourism.co.bwSurvival International is launching a boycott of Botswana tourism on World Tourism Day on Friday, over Botswana’s continuing attempts to force the Bushmen off their ...
  • Celebrations in Maasai land: Tanzanian PM scra ...
    The Maasai are celebrating the return of their land which was threatened by a land grab for conservation. © Survival InternationalMaasai people in Tanzania are celebrating today after the Prime Minister scrapped a plan to take 1,500 square miles from them in the name of conservation. The area, ...
  • Survival's Director attacks Commonwealth for u ...
    Survival's Director Stephen Corry with Bushmen of the central Kalahari. © SurvivalIn a hard-hitting speech to representatives of the Commonwealth this Thursday, Survival’s Director Stephen Corry will argue that countries such as the United Kingdom, Botswana and India are not concerned ...

Greg Palast

  • Karl Rove’s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice
    By Greg Palast. Updated from the original article published on TheMudflats.net Note from TheMudflats.net: In 2011 Karl Rove wrote a column called “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” - Rove was betting on North Carolina to be a swing state for the Republicans... Romney took the state but to Rov ...
  • Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears.  Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns ...
  • Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
  • Euro Krieg! Greece Surrenders to Germany 2013 ...
    By Michael Nevradakis for Truthout In his career as an investigative journalist, economist, and bestselling author -Vultures' Picnic, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast has not been afraid to tackle some of the most powerful names in politics and fina ...
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How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Review: Ethics of Surgical Altera ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and see the links to the articles after the jump. Oct 1, 2013, The Olympian (Olympia, WA): Get facts on vaccinations to protect kids, others Sept 30, 2013, International Business Times: Surgery To Stop...
  • Dachel Media Review: SIDS, Seizures, Celebs
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and link to the stories below the jump. Sept 30, 2013, 1011 HD TV, Lincoln, NE: Autism Speaks Walk At Haymarket Park Sept 29, 2013, St. Louis (MO) Post Dispatch: The vaccination debate Sept...
  • Older Adults in Scotland As Elusive as Nessie
    Emily Willingham (Forbes) eagerly told us her views on adults with autism on Sept 25, 2013 in an article titled, Where Are All The Older Autistic People? Scotland, For Example. She had the evidence that disproves the idea of a...
  • Round 2: CDCs Poul Thorsen Lying in Plain Sight
    By John Gilmore A US government-financed research group in Denmark lied about the role of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in causing autism in a highly-publicized and influential study, Autism Rate Among Danish Children Reported in A Population...
  • Hollywood Night! Taylor Hawkins Headlines Bene ...
    By Dan Olmsted "We're the fun part," Taylor Hawkins said at Saturday Night's benefit concert in Hollywood for Age of Autism and Generation Rescue. "But we know why we're here." And oh, the fun part! Hawkins and his two Chevy...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Exposing the Hazardous Waste Poisoning of a Nation
    The population, MP’s, mayors and councilors when armed with all this evidence of harm, must demand an immediate irrevocable ban on all ‘water fluoridation schemes’. The evidence of harm in this report is the tip of the iceberg.
  • The Return of the Indigenous Gene: Why We Need ...
    A sweet spot between Digital Age life and our indigenous selves might play a major role in saving humanity.
  • Mounting evidence that GMO crops can cause inf ...
    There are increasing reports of glyphosate and glyphosate formulations causing sexual dysfunction, low birth weight, fewer births, sterility, and birth defects in lab and farm animals, and humans.
  • Dr. Huber: GMOs & Glyphosate Global Impact of ...
    This is a must see video where Dr. Huber spells out the exact hazards we are facing regarding uncontrolled horizontal transfer of genetically engineered material, and the effects of Glyphosate on reproductive health and the entire future of the human race.
  • Congress Moves To Outlaw the Alternative Media
    The alternative media is having a dramatic impact on the worldview of the country, so much so, that the US Senate is legislating against the only objective media left in the country.

new geography

  • Canada: Suburban, Automobile Oriented Nation
    Canada is even more a suburban nation than generally thought, according to new research that digs deeper than the usual core city versus suburbs distinctions. Researchers at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario have announced groundbreaking research that disaggregates 33 census metropolit ...
  • Democratic "Upstairs-Downstairs" Coalition at Risk
    Michael Bloomberg's passing from New York City Hall, and his likely replacement as mayor by a fire-breathing populist Democrat, Bill de Blasio, marks a historic shift, not just in urban politics but, potentially, also national politics. For 20 years, under first Rudy Giuliani and then Bl ...
  • The Promise and the Peril of Rust Belt Chic
    What do you do when you’re a post-industrial city fallen on hard times? There’s a sort of default answer in the marketplace that I’ll call for want of a better term the “Standard Model.” The Standard Model more or less tells cities to try to be more like Portland. T ...
  • America's Fastest-Growing Counties: The 'Burbs ...
    For nearly a half century, the death of suburbs and exurbs has been prophesied by pundits, urban real-estate interests and their media allies, and they ratcheted up the volume after the housing crash of 2007. The urban periphery was destined to become “the next slums,” Christopher Le ...
  • Cincinnati: Bridging Downtown and the Suburbs
    One of the most contentious under-the-radar mayoral races heated up in Cincinnati on September 10th, with former city council representative John Cranley surging to a huge 55%-37% primary victory over previously presumed frontrunner Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. The primary eliminates minor candida ...

water.org

  • $79 and 45 days later
    In the villages in India, women of all age groups fetch water for their household consumption. Despite her growing age, Siddamma continues to fetch water. She is 53 years old and lives in Karnataka, India.
  • Building a Better Future
    Every single day, an unsafe, open-air water point serves about 7,500 people living in the mountains surrounding Corail Thor, Haiti. Now, thanks to the generous support of the Cartier Charitable Foundation, our local partner ASSODLO has begun building a simple, but transformative, gravity-fed, sp ...
  • Making Toilets Affordable
    Shanti, from Katihar, Bihar did not have a toilet at her house and used to go to the railway tracks for open defection. It always seemed awkward to defecate in open; especially when there were trains passing through, however, due to financial constraints they could never construct a toilet in th ...
  • Making Good Hygiene Fun
    Teaching kids in India to practice good hygiene can be a tricky subject, but our in-country partners have found ways to make education fun: silly skits, contests, and fun sing-alongs like the one seen in this video.
  • Water + Toilets = Opportunity
    In rural parts of Assam, women are skilled at weaving cotton garments such as shawls, dresses and hand towels. Most of them weave on a small scale during their free time. With access to water and sanitation facilities in their households, more and more women are coming forward and taking up weav ...

Cryptogon

  • The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act
    Via: Vote Hemp: Vote Hemp and the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), the nation’s leading hemp grassroots advocacy organization and industry trade group, respectively, each working to revitalize industrial hemp production and processing in the U.S., are excited to report that Governor Jerr ...
  • Mystery Parachuters Dressed in Black Land in L ...
    [???] Via: NBC: Police are looking for a pair of parachuters wearing black suits and helmets who landed near the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan early Monday, Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The parachuters landed on the sidewalk at about 3 a.m. near the Goldman Sachs building on West St ...
  • Student Loan Defaults Hit Highest Default Rate ...
    Via: Bloomberg: About one in seven borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans, showing how former students are buckling under higher-education costs in a weak economy. The default rate, for the first three years that students are required to make payments, was 14.7 percent, up from 13.4 ...
  • Navy Research Blimp Hovering Over Maryland
    [???] Via: CBS: The U.S. Navy research laboratory says the blimp is a government research airship conducting aerial mapping, and that the MZ-3A lighter than air blimp began roaming above the D.C. area on Sept. 21 and can remain stationary for more than 12 hours. The blimp is mapping in the fligh ...
  • Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion by Bankrupt ...
    [???] Via: Telegraph: Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their “stolen” money — such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend. Carried out in August, the apparently outlandish army exercise was based on the ...

The Economic Collapse

  • World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals H ...
    Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years.  In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel.  She was in a unique position to [...]
  • Oxford Professors: Robots And Computers Could ...
    What are human workers going to do when super-intelligent robots and computers are better than us at doing everything?  That is one of the questions that a new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr. Michael Osborne of Oxford University sought to address, and what they concluded was that 47 percent of al ...
  • Thanks To Obamacare, Employer-Based Health Ins ...
    Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, and when it comes to health care he has definitely kept his promise.  Thanks to Obamacare, health care spending is up, health insurance premiums are up, the number of hours Americans are working is down and employer-based health insurance ...
  • $5.25 Million For Senate Hair Care And 21 Othe ...
    If you want to live the high life, you don't have to become a rap star, a professional athlete or a Wall Street banker.  All it really takes is winning an election.  Right now, more than half of all the members of Congress are millionaires, and most of them leave "public service" far wealthier t ...
  • Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starti ...
    Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again.  In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world.  As you will read about below, private pension funds were just r ...

Desertification

  • How the almighty dollar is killing any hope of ...
    Read at : http://www.ecopedia.com/environment/ecuador-selling-off-rainforest-to-chinese-oil-companies/ Ecuador Selling Off Rainforest to Chinese Oil Companies by Ken Sleight 2012, the Ecuadorian government had been publicly opposed to opening up oil drilling in the pristine rainforests of Easter ...
  • Artificial sand-control measures designed to h ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927092352.htm Greater Desertification Control Using Sand Trap Simulations Sep. 27, 2013 — A new simulation will help improve artificial sand-control measures designed to help combat desertification In ...
  • The potential impacts of climate change and de ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2_17 Global Climate Change, Desertification, and Its Consequences in Turkey and the Middle East Hasan Bayram M.D., Ph.D., Ayşe Bilge Öztürk M.D. Purchase on Springer.com : $29.95 / €24.95 / £ ...
  • UNCCD COP11 : several major breakthroughs (Goo ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://en.starafrica.com/news/un-desertification-confab-ends-in-windhoek.html UN desertification confab ends in Windhoek The 11th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (COP11) has ended in Windhoek, ...
  • Helping crops use less nitrogen (Science Daily)
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130927183314.htm First Step to Reduce Plant Need for Nitrogen Fertilizer Uncovered Sep. 27, 2013 — Nitrogen fertilizer costs U.S. farmers approximately $8 billion each year, and excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams, dam ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Airstrikes Threat On Syria! Third World War? N ...
    577319_255469284567025_657820563_n.jpg http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/airstrikes-threat-on-syria-third-world-war-no-war-but-the-class-war/ http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/wp-content/upload ...
  • Left Wing Student Union Activist in Ukraine At ...
    On September 11, another activist of left wing student union “Direct Action” was attacked by a fascist paramilitary group with their faces covered. The attack happened in a public place in the city centre, near the subway station. The activist was not ro ...
  • Greece: Anti-fascist rapper stabbed to death b ...
    13000_229865670502310_812389109_n.jpg Greece: Anti-fascist rapper and metal worker was stabbed to death by 25 neonazis on the night of Tuesday 17 September in the Keratsini area of Piraeus. ...
  • Response by a Syrian anarchist to the First of ...
    Syria.jpg A Syrian anarchist responds to Toward an anarchist policy on Syria by the First of May Anarchist Alliance, largely correcting misconceptions and historical inaccuracies in the document. ...
  • Abahlali baseMjondolo organise march of thousa ...
    red two.jpg This article is from the mainstream press in South Africa. But it gives a good enough account of the large protest (thousands of people) that Abahlali baseMjondolo were able to organise in ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed every goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY         &#16 ...
  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...
  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...
  • When Irish Eyes are Smiling
    Don’t mess with the Irish – the PURE BLOOD of Israel – Mr. Obama!! (They are the TRUE ISRAELITES, not the phony KHAZARS whose backsides you have been kissing since 2008). Listen to the auburn-haired, blue-eyed Ms. Clare Daly, in her righteous indignation take a pound of flesh f ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Government Shutdown Damages U.S. Energy Innovation
    The federal government has officially shutdown as of midnight, October 1st 2013. While coverage of the shutdown will focus on the political circus that is fueling it and the thousands furloughed from their jobs, it is also important to note that it’s directly impacting America’s overall energy i ...
  • Loads of Good, Clean Biogasoline From a Dirty ...
    A team of scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has been tweaking the metabolic pathway of the notorious bacteria Escherichia coli to make it squeeze out gasoline. If you’re thinking that’s been done before, well, not exactly.read more
  • Time to Look Hard at PV Soft Costs
    I recently wrote about the rising issue of compliance costs in solar installations and added some recent statistics based on my intuition and a few discussions, but it prompted me to conduct a survey to collect some new, more up to date data.read more
  • IPCC Prognosis: 9°F Warming For US, Faster Sea ...
    Perhaps the best way to think about the IPCC, which has issued a summary of its latest report reviewing the state of climate science, is as a super-cautious team of brilliant diagnosticians and specialists who, like many doctors, aren’t the greatest communicators.read more
  • California's Cap-and-Trade Market Still Needs ...
    The California Air Resources Board has issued proposed changes to their policy on price containment, which the Board will consider at their October meeting. While they are a step in the right direction, they don’t go far enough to address the fundamental risk to the market.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Great Shake Out: Earthquake Preparedness
    By Rady Ananda Last Tuesday, a magnitude 7.7 Mw earthquake in Southwest Pakistan killed at least 515 people and left tens of thousands homeless. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 Mw earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, spawning a series of tsunami waves that reached up to 135 feet in height. Over ...
  • Republicans on Crack, Democrats Forget their Job
    Michael Collins There can be no doubt that we are ruled by fools. But, fools on crack are simply unacceptable. That's what we have. The Republican's aren't just difficult. They're not just blinded by their principles. They're not just passionate to the point of total unreason. They are al ...
  • Netanyahu in Washington
    by Stephen Lendman Haaretz published a live blog Tel Aviv time. At 6:20 PM, protesters outside the White House chanted: "Arrest Bibi. He is a war criminal. No war on Iran. Free free Palestine." At 6:18PM, Netanyahu arrived at the White House. He and Obama met. Reports said Obama told him ...
  • What a Way to Run the Country
    by Stephen Lendman Americans get the best democracy money can buy. The best, brightest and most honorable are excluded. Rare exceptions prove the rule. Washington is dysfunctional, out-of-control, corrupt, lawless and self-serving. Miscreants infest the nation's capital. They do so like c ...
  • NSA: Rogue Spying Writ Large
    by Stephen Lendman No nation in human history ever harmed more millions of people more grievously than America. None ever did it more deceptively. None did under the guise of promoting democratic values. None claimed more disingenous nobel intentions. None expressed more support for huma ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Armine Yalnizyan talks post-crisis economy on ...
    It's been five years since big Wall Street investment banks threw the global economy into a tailspin. On Wednesday’s episode of The Agenda, CCPA’s Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan, Don Drummond, and others examine what has and hasn't changed since the collapse, and what is next on the economic ...
  • Lester Brown in Vancouver Nov 9: The New Geopo ...
    World-renowned author and environmentalist Lester R Brown will speak in Vancouver at a fundraiser for our BC Office's Climate Justice Project. More information and secure online ticket sales: policyalternatives.ca/lester-brown
  • Blackberry: The Rollercoaster Ride That's ...
    The news that Blackberry could soon be bought up by Fairfax is an interesting twist in the Canadian tech darling's ongoing saga, and a faint light at the end of the tunnel for Ontario's economy, and for the Waterloo region in particular.  The proposed "take-under" just might stop the bleed that ...
  • Interview with Erika Shaker on university affo ...
    Radio Canada International recently interviewed Erika Shaker, Director of CCPA's Education Project, about her recent report, Degrees of Uncertainty: Navigating the changing terrain of university finance. In the interview, Shaker addresses the report findings, who is making decisions about tuitio ...
  • Province increases RentAid, but is it enough?
    In August 2013, the Province of Manitoba introduced changes to its RentAid Program.  Is it enough?

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Government Mandated Spending: A Lesson in Wast ...
    The EPAct forced the DOE to spend money on what essentially amounted to the least stupid ideas, writes Robert Rapier. In many cases it was recognized that there was little chance of success, but the money had to be spent.
  • Nonrenewable Renewables?
    The Energy Experts Reconvene at the WSJ Generally when I find myself having to write a follow-up post to something I wrote, it’s because I obviously didn’t make my points clearly enough. I found this to be the case during a lively Twitter discussion following my latest contribution t ...
  • The Hydrogen Economy Revisited
    Some readers are aware that I am presently in Arizona working on a project. At some point I will write an in-depth article about the things I am working on, but today I want to pull the curtain back just a bit. In a series of articles in 2010, I wrote about methanol’s potential as an alter ...
  • What Happened to Advanced Biofuels? Let Me Explain
    Ask and Ye Shall Receive Last week, The Economist posed the following question: “What happened to biofuels?” The biofuels in question are so-called second generation biofuels that are produced from trees, grasses, algae, — in general, feedstocks that don’t also have a use as food. The appe ...
  • Prepare for the Chinese Energy Juggernaut
    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released its International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013). While the EIA doesn’t have a sterling track record for predictions, many organizations make decisions at least partially based on EIA projections. Therefore the organization’s forecasts ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Big announcemet today : welcome @OpenEduEu adi ...
    Tags: OpenEduEu, mooc, elearningby: LUCIAN DUMA
  • Form+ - Create easy forms; easily
    Tags: Very, useful, tool, allows, users, to, create, Forms, that, will, accept, uploaded, files, (e.g., a, job, applicant, can, upload, resume, through, the, application)., educational technology, technology, google, tools, form, Google Drive, Google Forms, file uploadby: Randy Rodgers
  • Apps for Multiple Intelligences
    Tags: apps, ipad, multipleintelligences, educationby: Dean Mantz
  • Apps for Bloom's Taxonomy
    Tags: apps, bloomstaxonomy, ipad, technologyby: Dean Mantz
  • Editorially
    Comments:Editorially has me thinking of sites like Titan Pad, Type WIth Me, Zoho, and Google Docs.  - Dean MantzTags: web2.0, writing, tools, collaboration, publishingby: Dean Mantz

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Jury Rejects Police Story and Awards Chicago M ...
    From ThinkProgress: Seven years ago John Collins was charged with aggravated battery of a police officer, a felony in Illinois. He was sent to a Cook County jail and bond was set at $75,000, which he could not pay. The jail was overcrowded, so Coll...
  • The Standing Army Marches On
    When the Constitution*s Framers adopted the 3rd Amendment, prohibiting the peacetime quartering of soldiers, they had fresh on their minds the experience of the British occupation of Boston, the use of armed enforcers to conduct searches without trad...
  • Luke Rudkowski Talks to Piers Morgan about Con ...
    In this video Luke Rudkowski randomly see's CNN's Piers Morgan walking down the street in NYC and decides to do an impromptu interview. The interview starts off on an interesting note when conspiracies are brought up and Piers with his staff decide...
  • Two More Drug War Deaths
    A Texas marijuana grower and a California man who might have been a drug dealer were killed by police in separate incidents last week. The two men become the 31st and 32nd persons killed in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year...
  • Adam Kokesh's defense fund stolen while in jai ...
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Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
  • DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
    James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.
  • The New, Libertarian Conscience Of the Senate
    I said the other week that I agreed with Paul Keating’s famous denunciation of the Senate as “unrepresentative swill”. It’s now looking highly likely that, due to complicated preference deals which few voters understood or were even aware of, six … Continue reading ...
  • Clean Up Australia Day
    Today’s the day. After six years of Labor incompetence and obsession with leadership battles, Machiavellian sub-plots, the best-forgotten Gillard Experiment, and the finale of Rudd Redux, Australians today will finally have their chance to go to the polls and cast … Continue reading ...
  • Unrepresentative Swill
    I said the other day I’d have more to say about Senate voting, and why I believe it has descended into an undemocratic farce. The Australian Senate is an artefact of our history. Our founding fathers in the 1890s, looking … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • A poker player’s analysis of the shutdown
  • Former NSA contractor designs surveillance-pro ...
    To paraphrase John Gilmore, the internet treats surveillance as damage and routes around it. These surveillance-proof fonts have been carefully designed and tested, and cannot be read by high-end OCR readers. Sang Mun’s response was more direct — the Korean designer has created four ...
  • No Agenda 552. Thrill to Dianne Feinstein admi ...
    Listen to No Agenda 552 as Dianne Feinstein blunders into saying NSA does indeed work with big providers to do upstream interception of Internet data. That she is a clueless moron is apparent from her referring to the “Internet background” not the “Internet backbone.”
  • The Witness Wore Red. Rebecca Musser. Escape f ...
    Rebecca Musser escaped from the noxious FLDS polygamist cult and her testimony was instrumental in helping convict cult leader Warren Jeffs and others. She wrote The Witness Wore Red – The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamist Cult Leaders to Justice. FLDS members are not allowed to wear red cl ...
  • Green collar jobs and drones that help farmers
    Home-grown technology creates green collar local jobs and helps communities become resilient and self-sufficient. John Robb profiles a low-cost drone that monitors soil conditions so farmers can take corrective action before crops are affected. The drone was created locally and costs less than $ ...

Just World News

Empty newsfeed.

frogblog

  • The Great White Butterfly effect
    This National Government is far too lax on biosecurity. I was reminded once again of this on my visit to Nelson yesterday to find out about how the eradication programme of the Great White Butterfly (GWB) is progressing. This voracious pest was found a few years ago for the first time in New Zea ...
  • Open Streets Christchurch a Success
    Christchurch’s recent Open Streets Cyclovia event was a wonderful success.  Central city streets were closed to cars for a day last Sunday, transforming them into a safe haven for cyclists and pedestrians. Residents of all ages took to the central streets on a variety of non-motorised wheeled co ...
  • Vanuatu makes stand for West Papua at UN
    This week the Prime Minister of Vanuatu Moana Carcasses has spoken at the United Nations about the plight of West Papua and called for a UN investigator to report into abuses in West Papua. This is a landmark moment for the people whose on-going suffering has been ignored for so long. The United ...
  • Prime Minister’s Statement to the UN: B-, Five ...
    The Prime Minister delivered New Zealand’s statement to the UN General Assembly this morning (NZ time). After five years the process of transforming Key-thought into institutionalised respectability is nearing completion.  The speech was clearly an MFAT draft – individual flair being automatical ...
  • Tonight my mate goes to sleep in a Russian jail
    To Haussey, and the dozen other activists unjustly behind bars: kia kaha. We’re with you all the way.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • IC 410: Phone Wars
    GTA V What might be in store for us in GTA Online and possible dlc Next gen systems The Iphone 5c At what point do we not need a faster phone? Droid vs Iphone….who cares? Kanye is right………..and an asshole Share with your friends:
  • IC 409: Jesus Smash
    GTA V is the game of the year….period Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson Russell Simmons rewrites history on the the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Video Hollywood isn’t starving for creativity Passion of the Christ wasn’t a good movie Are there any movies that shouldn’t be remad ...
  • IC 408: The Can’t U Niggas Troll Convention
    Phenom from Where’s My 40 Acres is a guest Why Kriss doesn’t Hookah Kev’s story of the bitter bitch at work The Cult of Rod and why some nigga’s just suck at podcasting Rules for Podcasting #SoftC and their Cunt Convention Just being a shitty person with a shitty characte ...
  • IC 407: Replies Very Selectively
    Phenom making White people uncomfortable at fight parties Twerking being associated with low income black women The dumb bitch who said teachers raping 14 year olds isn’t that bad Kev’s fumble on the goal line Kriss & OkCupid rejection Dave Chappelle’s “melt down&#82 ...
  • IC 406: Ben Affleck & #TheAvengersInitiative
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips is a guest Kriss talking coaching Jury Duty Ben Affleck is Batman The Wolverine Broke Rod People who can’t complain about Ben Affleck as Batman Why Zach Snyder has more pressure than Affleck The problem with movie critics Episode 3 is the best Star Wars Film ...

Simple Climate

  • The joker who brought climate science out of t ...
    Drawn to a lifelong career of research and pranks at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory by a friend, Wally Broecker confirmed that changes in the Earth’s orbit paced ice ages, and foresaw the global warming that has gone on since 1975.
  • Enhanced fingerprinting strengthens evidence f ...
    Ben Santer from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s use of warming near the Earth’s surface and cooling higher in the atmosphere as evidence of humans’ effect on climate saw critics demand he be fired. Now he’s back with new data showing “natural causes alone are extremely unlikely to expla ...
  • CO2 for oil swap brings carbon capture viabili ...
    Pumping CO2 from coal power stations to free more oil from old fields can stop large amounts of the greenhouse gas entering the air and make money, models from Carey King and colleagues at University of Texas at Austin suggest.
  • Does lower home energy use mean England and Wa ...
    Average household energy consumption in the two countries fell by a quarter between 2005 and 2011 thanks largely to simple personal actions, showing that what we do can impact greenhouse gas emissions and therefore climate change.
  • Bouncing lasers off satellites backs faster Gr ...
    Kosuke Heki from Hokkaido University and Koji Matsuo from Kyoto University in Japan have doubled the duration of gravity based measurements of ice loss from Greenland, providing more evidence that this process is speeding up.

e!Science News

  • Rensselaer researchers propose new theory to e ...
    A new look at the early solar system introduces an alternative to a long-taught, but largely discredited, theory that seeks to explain how biomolecules were once able to form inside of asteroids. In place of the outdated theory, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute propose a new theor ...
  • Alternative to antibiotics
    As they destroy bacteria very efficiently, plasmas constitute an alternative to chemical disinfectants and potentially to antibiotics, as well. How they achieve this effect has been investigated by biologists, plasma physicists and chemists at the Ruhr-Universität (RUB). Cold atmospheric-pr ...
  • Solar power's future brawl
    A trio of researchers at North Dakota State University and the University of South Dakota have turned to computer modeling to help decide which of two competing materials should get its day in the sun as the nanoscale energy-harvesting technology of future solar panels -- quantum dots or nanowir ...
  • Caribou may be indirectly affected by sea-ice ...
    Melting sea ice in the Arctic may be leading, indirectly, to fewer caribou calf births and higher calf mortality in Greenland, according to scientists at Penn State University. Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked ...
  • Researchers identify traffic cop for meiosis-- ...
    Researchers at New York University and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have identified the mechanism that plays "traffic cop" in meiosis -- the process of cell division required in reproduction. Their findings, which appear in the journal eLife, shed new light on fertil ...

unEarthed

  • Govt. Shuts Down Fishing, Birding, Hunting
    National wildlife refuges closed until funding is restored National parks, like refuges and other public lands, are closed during the government shutdown. (National Parks Conservation Assoc ...
  • AZM Reign of Poisoning Ends
    More than 10 years of court fights rids fields of deadly pesticide Blueberries were among the crops that saw the last remaining uses of the pesticide AZM. (Braker / Flickr) ...
  • Costs of Coal Exports, Part I: Lorraine Ortega ...
    "As a nurse, I see the first-hand impacts of coal dust and air pollution ..." Lorraine Ortega lives near the Lamberts Point coal export facility in Norfolk. (Chesapeake Climate Ac ...
  • We Cause Climate Change, We Can Stop It
    U.N. report asserts that humans are responsible for global warming Superstorm Sandy batters the East Coast, on Oct. 29, 2012. (NASA GOES Project) The good new ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Penn. Latinos Endure Toxic Neighbor
    Hazelton coal ash and intolerance create poisonous stew Proximity and exposure to coal ash poses many risks. In northeast Pennsylvania, about an hour northwe ...

Brave New Climate

  • ‘Pandora’s Promise’ document ...
    For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Cinema Ventures website, here. I’ve been involved with the movie, in various small ways, for the last few y ...
  • Willacy’s Fukushima
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s “Drum” websit ...
  • MIT Climate CoLab update – the result?
    This is an update to this recent BNC post: MIT competition update – 3 days left, votes needed! ———- Guest Post by Ron Gester M.D. The Treasurer of SCGI, Ron is a retired emergency physician and geologist, who is a passionate about solving the climate change problem. Votin ...
  • MIT competition update – 3 days left, vo ...
    Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really counts. The winner will get in front of potential implementers at the Crowds & Climate Con ...
  • Vote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presente ...
    Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab at MIT. If Tom’s pitch garners the most votes, the push to get the first PRISM bui ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Cisco Systems Doubles CEO Pay And Lays Off Tho ...
    Cisco Systems gave CEO John Chambers a 10 million dollar raise, after cutting 4,000 jobs to cut down on expenses. Ever wonder what exactly is wrong with our country? Is there a better example of the 1% reaping their reward, while throwing the rest of us under the bus. And we allow it…. Joh ...
  • Drinking Heavy GOP?
    It seems a whole lot of drinking was going on this evening in the halls of congress. Maybe that explains what happened. The Republicans want another government shutdown, and they are partying like it is 1995. Paaaarrrrrty!!! We’re gonna party like it’s 1995. Maybe them all being drun ...
  • Call Your Congressperson
    Spent all morning asking Republican staffmembers how a shutdown will help my family. They aren’t able to answer that question. Please call your congress critter. Tell them how much you want to see them thrown out of office, or pay for their crimes.
  • Condilizza Rice Commercial For The NFL?
    I almost blew my cookies. Seeing Condi Rice doing a commercial about the Super Bowl. Condi, in a perfect world, you Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the rest of the mushroom cloud gang would have already been hung for treason, if not negilgence. Please NFL, I would rather see a commercial with Charles Ma ...
  • No Obamacare Means Insurance Company Death Panels
    If you don’t know already, Obamacare has provisions that keep insurance companies from cancelling your policy when you get sick. It also makes them spend 80% of the money they get from premiums on actually caring for sick people, instead of payouts to stockholders, or executive bonuses. No ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • City council campaign calls to ‘Judaize Jerusalem’
    Likud MK Rivlin calls for criminal investigation into settler’s municipal election slogan. Previous campaigns warned of Arabs ‘terrorizing’ Jewish girls. By Mairav Zonszein and Michael Omer-Man A list of candidates running in the upcoming Jerusalem municipal elections is vying for (Jewish) votes ...
  • The consequences of a culture of lies
    The IDF used to take pride in reporting the truth. Nothing good has happened since it stopped. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Sometime, quite a long time ago, the IDF used to proudly claim that its troops reported the truth, and that this was the secret of its success. Officers boasted th ...
  • The man who sold the world: Dr. Erekat is back
    The sad but true story of chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat. Can the hero of the Palestine Papers survive another round of peace talks?  By Hakim Bishara There was a time, back in the 1990s, when inveterate Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat was on top of his game. Confident, eloq ...
  • If this isn’t apartheid, then what is it?
    We do not need to find identical practices to those prevailing in pre-1994 South Africa in order to determine whether apartheid exists elsewhere. By Ran Greenstein For a few years now, opinion pieces and articles in the South African and Israeli press have shown confusion regarding the meaning o ...
  • Political solution or not, the bottom line is ...
    The military law applied to Palestinians must provide rights and protections no less favorable than those afforded to Israeli citizens living in the settlements. By Gerard Horton Last month, Israeli housing minister Uri Ariel announced the approval of 1,200 more houses for settlers in East Jerus ...

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

  • Android overtakes iOS for the first time in th ...
    The epic Android story keeps getting better. Android OS has been dominating the smartphone scene in a spectacular fashion (almost 80-20 in favor of Android lately) for sometime now. Tablets market was not an easy one to crack either. Apple's domination of this segment was near perfect. But wit ...
  • Steam (and Linux) coming to your living rooms ...
    Steam based hardware for living rooms was widely being speculated ever since the arrival of Steam for Linux client. All speculations can finally be laid to rest. Steam hardware is real and will be based on SteamOS, which in-turn is basically a heavily modified Linux distro. And the new hardwar ...
  • Ubuntu Touch Music App is Quite a Performer Al ...
    The first Ubuntu Touch powered smartphone is supposed to arrive in the first half of 2014. When you put that into perspective, there's not much time left for Canonical. Ubuntu Touch already got over-the-air update capability among many other essential features. But the eco-system needs further ...
  • Top 5 Video Editors for Ubuntu/Linux
    Video editing in Linux is a controversial topic. There are a number of video editors for Ubuntu that works quite well. But are they any good for serious movie editing? Perhaps not. But with the arrival of Linux variants from many big-shots such as Lightworks, things are slowly starting to chan ...
  • Valve builds and runs all of its source code, ...
    Linux and open source software in general are not something meant for just hobbyists anymore (which I don't necessarily consider as a bad thing). It is widely used by multinationals in various forms, Goobuntu by Google and Sony PS4's Orbis OS being perfect examples. But the rise of Linux ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
    Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
    by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →
  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Ancient humans coped with massive climate chan ...
    The period from before the last interglacial, the Eemian and through to the current interglacial in the Holocene has seen the rise of Anatomically Modern Humans and starting from Africa, the peopling of the world. Anatomically modern humans make their appearance in Africa during an even earlier ...
  • An oblique view of the looming US government s ...
    It is not the role of an opposition to lie down in front of the ruling party. It's job is to oppose. That is the fundamental of the "check and balance" of a two party system. It is the job of the ruling party to do as much as necessary in compromising with the opposition to be able to govern - n ...
  • In the Mediterranean temperatures indicate lon ...
    An exactly dated time series of almost 900 year length was established, exhibiting the medieval warm period, the little ice age between the 16th and 19th century as well as the transition into the modern warm phase. The modern warming trend cannot be found in the new chronology. In the Mediterra ...
  • 2013 monsoon begins withdrawal across India &# ...
    The monsoon is now withdrawing - perhaps a week or so behind its normal schedule (which means that some precipitation will continue to occur in Central India after the official season is over). Crop yields are expected to be at record levels after this good monsoon.
  • Commemorating the escape from Nazi-occupied De ...
    The Öresund Bridge connecting Copenhagen with Malmö will be lit up on Tuesday night to commemorate the escape of 7,800 Jews from occupied Denmark to Sweden. One of those who escaped was Nils Bohr.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Reads Statement from Snowden at EU Parliam ...
    New York Times: Message Said to be from Edward Snowden Read to European Parliament Rights Panel Yesterday, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, along with GAP clients and NSA whistleblowers Tom Drake and J. Kirk Wiebe, testified to a committee of the European Parl ...
  • European Parliament Names Snowden a Finalist f ...
    The European Parliament (EP) has named former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden a 2013 finalist for its prestigious international human rights award, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Given to individuals who have distinguished themselves for outstanding contribu ...
  • NSA Whistleblower J. Kirk Wiebe Testifies Befo ...
    GAP client and NSA whistleblower J. Kirk Wiebe testified before the EU Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) which has opened on inquiry into the impact of NSA surveillance on EU citizens. The session was recorded on September 30, 2013. Please find a video of Wiebe's testimony below: ...
  • GAP National Security & Human Rights Director ...
    Earlier today, the European Parliament heard from Government Accountability Project (GAP) National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack as part of its ongoing investigation into spying efforts by the United States and EU countries. Radack read from two prepared statements, the fi ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake Addresses Europ ...
    Earlier today, former National Security Agency (NSA) Senior Executive Thomas Drake addressed a special Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) created by the European Parliament to investigate spying efforts by the United States and EU countries. Addressing specially-appointed Members of the European P ...

UK Progressive

  • Why Obama and the Democrats Shouldn’t Negotiat ...
    by Robert Reich As a child I was bullied by bigger boys who threatened to beat me up if I didn’t give them what they wanted. But every time I gave in to their demands their subsequent demands grew larger. First they wanted the change in my pocket. Next it was the dessert in my […]
  • Fact Checking Raffy “Ted” Cruz’s Meet the Pres ...
    by GottaLaff ThePoliticalCarnival.net Earlier today, Paddy posted Video- Meet The Press: David Gregory Thumps Ted Cruz-’You Haven’t Moved Anybody.’ In that video clip, Raffy Cruz did what he does best: lie. It was way too easy to fact check him, but for those who don’t ha ...
  • Shutdown Day! Blame Ted Cruz, David Gregory an ...
    by Denis G. Campbell This is The Monday Line I am disgusted that NBC News and Meet the Press GAVE a freshman Tea Party US Senator lunatic their entire show (on the eve of a shutdown his party created) to strap a bomb to his chest and threaten to pull the pin on live telly. […]
  • Stick This in Your Fossil Fuel Pipe and Smoke It!
    by Robert Hunziker California leads the way to a fossil fuel-less world. PRESS RELEASE:  NIPTON, Calif. –Sept. 24, 2013- “Today it was announced that the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System produced its first output of energy when unit 1 station was synchronized to the power grid for the fi ...
  • Miliband’s Weirdness Deficit: Media Framing v ...
    by Dr. Dario Llinares Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband has an image problem. Or so we’re told by, well, everyone. It’s not just right-wing commentators like The Spectator’s Sebastian Payne, who calls him “weak, weird and out of his depth” or The Independent’s John Rentoul who goes for the s ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Seeking stories from schools and the new curri ...
    Have you or your children challenged a teacher about something scientific? Were you treated fairly? Are you a teacher – if so, what are your thoughts on the new curriculum? I would like to find out more about what is happening in our schools. I’m considering the new National Australi ...
  • IPCC in denial. “Just-so” excuses ...
    In answer to the excuse du jour: “The Ocean ate my Global Warming”. Now that the plateau in temperatures has lasted for 15 years, everyone, even IPCC lead authors, can see the “90% certain” models were 98% wrong. So the IPCC now claims the heat went into the deep abyss, w ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    We could discuss that 95%-certain sermon from yon IPCC… Rating: 8.9/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 8.9/10 (7 votes cast)
  • Michael Brown, astronomer, says science is not ...
    Michael Brown, recipient of taxpayer funds for astronomy, tells us that science is not about debate because the public are not smart enough to judge the winner. He doesn’t list any evidence to support his faith in climate models (he’s just part of the herd following the consensus pac ...
  • Plants suck half the CO2 out of the air around ...
    A paper that is nearly 60 years old shows us just how intrinsically important CO2 is to life. An acre of corn is a living machine drawing CO2 from the air around it. In windless conditions, CO2 concentrations over a cornfield build up each night as CO2 diffuses from higher air and the organic ma ...

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...

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Complete Guide To Beer Ever [Infographic]
    The Magnificent Multitude of Beer Pop Chart Lab The artists at Pop Chart Lab, who've created gorgeous visualizations of everything from classic Nintendo games to bicycles, are tackling beer. A lot of beer. The Magnificent Multitude of Beer Pop Chart Lab Pop ...
  • Google Honors The Yosemite National Park (Whic ...
    Google Yosemite Today's Google Doodle is about Yosemite National Park. The third national park in the US, Yosemite covers nearly 1,200 square miles of northern California, and is one of the most iconic parks in the entire system, filled with redwood sequoias, spectacular waterfalls, and ...
  • The Top U.S. Dog Breeds [Infographic]
    See Spot CountryStyle Photography/Getty Images Yellow - Labrador retriever 14% Yellow/Orange - German shepherd 8% Orange - Golden retriever 5% Orange/Red - Beagle 5% Red - Bulldog 4% Blue- Other 64% This article originally appeared in the October 2013 issue of ...
  • The Different Ways Men And Women Talk On Facebook
    Women's Words Schwartz et al. Ugh, how stereotypical can we be? In a study of the different words used by various demographics of Facebook users in their status updates, women talked most about shopping and their hair, while men posted about sports, video games and war.  This ...
  • Congress Just Furloughed The Mars Rover Curios ...
    Curiosity NASA Happy 55th anniversary, NASA! Here's what you're getting as a present: screwed. Congress failed to come up with a budget agreement by midnight last night, so now all "non-essential" services are being cut. Guess what's "non-essential"? Science! All of the scienc ...

Facing South

  • What the feds' voting rights lawsuit could mea ...
    Image Caption:  Under Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, 40 of North Carolina's 100 counties were subject to federal preclearance of any election law changes. But if the Department of Justice's lawsuit against the state's new ...
  • Corporate watchdogs call for ouster of BP CEO
    Image Caption:  Activists have launched a petition calling on BP to fire CEO Bob Dudley, accusing him of trying to avoid meeting the company's obligations to the Gulf Coast. As the second phase of the BP civil trial got u ...
  • DOJ reportedly will sue NC over voter ID law
    Image Caption:  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will reportedly take action against North Carolina's restrictive new voting law. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce today in North Carolina that he ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The strange politics of South ...
    Image Caption:  U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) led the effort to make cuts to the food stamp program -- even though one in eight residents of his state rely on it. A record number of Americans receive food stam ...
  • Bank of America ordered to pay $2.2 million fo ...
    Image Caption:  A Department of Labor audit found that Bank of America applied different standards to black and white job applicants at its offices in Charlotte, N.C. (Photo by Brian Katt via Wikipedia.) The North Carolina-bas ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Record Antarctic sea ice confounds climate models
    The extent of sea ice in the southern hemisphere continues to cause a headache for climate scientists, with news this week that Antarctic sea ice is now at record levels, based on satellite data which began in the late 1970’s.This is contrary to what climate models had predicted.It’s thought tha ...
  • Fine end to September & more on rare solar cycle
    Fine end to September It’s been an unsettled and often cool September, but the jet stream is on the move northwards in the next few days, allowing high pressure to build across the UK, which will lead us into a very pleasant spell of autumn weather.  At this time of the year, the main forecastin ...
  • Rare solar cycle has cold implications for UK ...
    NASA last week confirmed their prediction that the current solar cycle 24 is likely to be the weakest since 1906. Intriguingly, the current solar cycle shows a striking similarity with solar cycle 5 which was also very weak, with the same double peak as the current cycle, and ran from approximat ...
  • Autumn deluge on the way
    The fine spell of late summer weather which has seen temperatures today rise to a new September record of 29.4C at Wattisham in Suffolk (beating their previous record set in 1973) will come to an abrupt end in the next 24 hours, and could lead to localised flooding in places.  It’s a text book b ...
  • Summer warmth similar to 1976 in some areas
    Summer (June, July and August) 2013 across the UK has turned out to be the driest, warmest and sunniest since 2006, according to provisional Met Office data.  It’s a huge contrast from the awful weather of last summer which was the wettest for 100 years. More interestingly from a local perspecti ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Vaporware 3.0? Shanghai Free Trade Zone
    In technology-related industries, the term "vaporware" is used for hardware or software that is all hype and no substance. Either the announced products do not even materialize, or if they do, their features are far less impressive than promised. For our purposes, consider them as "vaporware 1.0 ...
  • East / Southeast Asia's Demographic Bifurcation
    There's are always interesting demographic discussions about the "West and the Rest," but there are also interesting demographic variations within regions.Take the Asia-Pacific: While Japan is emblematic of the problems with a shrinking population, it will soon be joined in that situation by a n ...
  • Rousseff+Lula Double Act Unloads on US Net Spying
    Cybersecurity is not an end unto itself; it is instead an obligation that our governments and societies must take on willingly, to ensure that innovation continues to flourish, drive markets, and improve lives. - Barack Obama [really] It's been a busy time for followers of Internet governance ...
  • Make a Killing? US FTAs and Big Tobacco
    There is a debate surrounding the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership expansion about whether participants' policies aimed at curbing tobacco use will be dismantled in the name of free trade. Large American tobacco companies--collectively known as "Big Tobacco"--have certainly not shied away from ...
  • Singapore Needlessly Discriminates Against Expats
    The cute (and very rare) Singapore babyHere's another interesting feature about the politics of migration being waged right here in Southeast Asia. One of the reasons why the People's Action Party of (PAP) Singapore lost 40% of the popular vote in the 2011 elections is frustration over foreigner ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals H ...
    Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years.  In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel.  She was in a unique position to [...]
  • Oxford Professors: Robots And Computers Could ...
    What are human workers going to do when super-intelligent robots and computers are better than us at doing everything?  That is one of the questions that a new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr. Michael Osborne of Oxford University sought to address, and what they concluded was that 47 percent of al ...
  • Thanks To Obamacare, Employer-Based Health Ins ...
    Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, and when it comes to health care he has definitely kept his promise.  Thanks to Obamacare, health care spending is up, health insurance premiums are up, the number of hours Americans are working is down and employer-based health insurance ...
  • $5.25 Million For Senate Hair Care And 21 Othe ...
    If you want to live the high life, you don't have to become a rap star, a professional athlete or a Wall Street banker.  All it really takes is winning an election.  Right now, more than half of all the members of Congress are millionaires, and most of them leave "public service" far wealthier t ...
  • Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starti ...
    Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again.  In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world.  As you will read about below, private pension funds were just r ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 2 The N ...
    Many hopes are pinned on the National Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to fill the massive gaps left by the narrow terms of reference of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, and the inadequate time and powers of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. This is th ...
  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...

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

  • Time to turn economic, social systems inside o ...
    The time for words and promises is over; the time for action is now, a Dominican Republic minister told the United Nations General Assembly on the final day of its high-level debate, calling for inclusive development and social justice in a post-2015 sustainability agenda.
  • UN urges Dominican Republic to ensure citizens ...
    The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of the Dominican Republic to take all necessary measures to ensure that citizens of Haitian origin are not deprived of their right to nationality in light of a recent court ruling.
  • At UN, Belize chastises rich nations for aband ...
    Developed nations have not honoured their commitments to provide the assistance poor countries need to achieve the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Foreign Minister of Belize told United Nations Member States today, stressing that the future devel ...
  • Nicaragua continues progress on anti-poverty t ...
    In an annual statement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua highlighted his country's progress towards achieving the anti-poverty goals, which is the theme of this year's General Assembly.
  • Global Citizen Festival: Ban, Stevie Wonder an ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined United Nations Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder and an audience of an estimated 60,000 people this weekend to raise their voices to end extreme poverty worldwide, at the second annual Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park.

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

  • TrekWest Blog 42: Building Community
    Original Post: 30 Sep 2013 10:31 AM PDT One trail stop at a time  Stop by stop, we have begun the task of building a community of support for protecting and connecting a Western Wildway. As TrekWest draws to its finale, please enjoy this guest blog from Wildlands Network’s new Executive Director ...
  • Dave Parsons Talks About Mexican Wolves on Gil ...
    Earth Matters / Dave Parsons on Mexican Wolves Original post:  24 September 2013 on GMCR This week we welcome Nathan Newcomer of New Mexico Wilderness Alliance to the Earth Matters production team.  His first interview is with Dave Parsons – former US FWS / Fish & Wildlife Service Mexican Wo ...
  • Save the Lobo! Wolves Need You on October 4
    The US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to strip gray wolves’ endangered species protections and make other changes that threaten the recovery and survival of Mexican gray wolves.  On October 4, 2013 the USFWS will hold its only public hearing on both of these destructive proposals in Albu ...
  • TrekWest Blog 41: Montana Wilderness Up-close ...
    Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:03 PM PDT 30 years of protection frame our hike through the Lee Metcalf Wilderness: late August As I am again far from contact entering Glacier National Park, please enjoy the following submission from Lance Craighead, Executive Director of Craighead Institute – JD A ...
  • FATE OF MEXICAN GRAY WOLVES TO BE DECIDED BY U ...
    The US Fish and Wildlife Service is currently proposing to remove all gray wolves (Canis lupus), except the Mexican gray wolf subspecies (Canis lupus baileyi), from the endangered species list.  At the same time they are revising the rules that guide recovery of the only wild population of Mexic ...

reference frame

  • APS prizes: Moore; Kosower, Dixon, Bern; Volov ...
    Due to its unprofessional activities in the climate debate, I am not exactly a fan of the American Physical Society. But let me mention the new winners of some of its prizes that were announced today. The 2014 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics goes to Greg Moore (whom ...
  • CMS: \(2.5\)-\(\sigma\) excess in top+Higgs pr ...
    The CMS experiment just released a new paper which I mention because it explicitly claims an excess, unlike the overwhelming majority of papers that agree with the Standard Model almost perfectly: Search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks in multilepton ...
  • Partial U.S. government shutdown
    There may be two looming "U.S. government dysfunction" stories coming this month. The first one is the partial government shutdown. Unless some fix appears within hours, and it seems more likely than not now that no fix is coming, the U.S. government will have to tell about 1/3 of its 2 mil ...
  • Bohr's dramatic escape: 70 years ago
    Exactly 70 years ago, on September 29th, 1943, the Danish underground movement received the message. Brothers Niels and Harald Bohr – who had a Jewish mother but that wasn't the only sin – would have to be arrested and transferred to Germany. So far, Bohr would be often invited to emi ...
  • Accelerator inside a bumblebee
    Californian and Colorado experts finally began to build it: early successes Particle accelerators at the energy frontier are large and expensive. Yesterday, Google Maps revealed its StreetView visualization of the LHC tunnels and detectors. Those readers who have walked through the whole 27 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • U.S. government shutdown: Obama says it’s thre ...
    U.S. President Barack Obama said on the first day of a partial federal government shutdown that House Republicans are on an “ideological crusade” against his health-care law, and called on them to stop holding the economy hostage. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax do ...
  • U.S. government shutdown: Obama says it’s thre ...
    U.S. President Barack Obama said on the first day of a partial federal government shutdown that House Republicans are on an “ideological crusade” against his health-care law, and called on them to stop holding the economy hostage. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax do ...
  • Harry Dent’s Economic Predictions for 2014
    from The Victory Report: Harry Dent speaks with Stansberry radio to deliver his economic predictions for the year ahead, 2014. SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Is Harry Reid Smar ...
  • Group seeks to make O Canada’s English lyrics ...
    A group of notable Canadian women is launching a campaign for gender-neutral language in the English lyrics of O Canada. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Topless women march in Vancouver for gender equality More than 50 women marc ...
  • Confirmed: Electronic Harassment & Smart Meter ...
    from TheAlexJonesChannel: The FBI stated today that Aaron Alexis left an electronic document that repeated what he had written on his gun that he believed was being electronically harassed by the government. They dismissed the idea as delusional. We look at the decades of government research by ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Top 20 Foods Wasted
    Currently, in the U.S., almost half of our food — 40 percent of what we grow — ends up in the garbage, according to an NRDC.org report, and globally food waste is to 50% according to a report from FAO.org. The following is a list of the top 20 types of food, making up avoidable […]
  • As I Type This…
    As I type this from my folding chair while sitting under the awning looking out over thousands of acres of reds and yellows of Autumn mixed with the greens of spruce and pine, across the peaks and notches of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I am awestruck by its be ...
  • Foreign Held Agricultural Land In The United S ...
    One way that foreigners are divesting their shrinking dollars is to buy agricultural land in the United States. While their overall holdings of all U.S. land is not vast by percentage (yet), the number of acres they own may be startling to you…   Foreign investors hold an interest in ...
  • All 4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Are Riding, R ...
    All four horsemen of the apocalypse – they are galloping right now on the planet. The four riders are seen as symbolizing Conquest, War, Famine, and Death; and are perhaps harbingers of an apocalypse unfolding…   “Before the Illuminati’s NWO completely kicks in, plan ...
  • Uses For Duck Tape
    One prep with literally thousands of uses is Duck Tape, a miracle tape created during World War II when the US military needed a flexible, durable, waterproof tape to use making repairs in the field. The GIs called it “duck tape” because it was waterproof, like a duck’s back. It has countless us ...

Fast Company

  • What Obamacare Means for the Startup Founder, ...
    The Affordable Care Act gives "lean startup" a whole new meaning. The Affordable Care Act brings with it good news for members of Generation Flux. The ability to access subsidized health care on the open market lowers the risk for people co ...
  • Hailo's NYC E-Hailing App Now Supports Instant ...
    The taxi e-hailing app Hailo now allows NYC passengers to pay for their rides without cash or credit cards--just step out of the cab. Now that NYC's yearlong e-hail pilot program has been underway for about six months, the e-hailing app Hai ...
  • I Discovered A Glitch In Yahoo's Security And ...
    Security experts alerted Yahoo's Security Team to vulnerabilities that could compromise any @yahoo.com email account. In return, they got $12.50 to spend at the company store. Let's say you're dying to get your hands on that Yahoo-branded i ...
  • These Intelligent Glasses Can Translate Text F ...
    Traveling abroad? These goggles might help you read a foreign menu. A Japanese mobile firm has been showing off an early prototype of its Intelligent Glasses, and they could come in handy if you plan on traveling abroad. Seen at consumer e ...
  • Delta Airlines Is Replacing Flight Bags With.. ...
    In a major coup for Microsoft, Delta is purchasing up to 11,000 Surface 2 tablets to replace pilots' flight bags. In a major sales coup for Microsoft, Delta Airlines announced plans to replace pilots' flight bags with Surface 2 tablets. Up ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Pursuit of Heroes in Palestinian Cinema: A ...
    ["When I Saw You" is being screened at the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival this week. The next showing is Thursday 3 October 2013 at 8:30 PM at the Goethe Institute.] Where do young Palestinians today look for real heroes—individuals who are brave and noble and inspire othe ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (October 1)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Turkey Media Roundup (October 1)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
  • Cairo Contemporary Dance Center Student Perfor ...
    Cairo Contemporary Dance Center Student Performance 17 April 2013 Hal Badeel Arts Festival Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt   In 2012, Egyptian choreographer and dancer Karima Mansour began a professional training program at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center, where she ...
  • A Scenography Workshop by Hussein Baydoun
    A Scenography workshop by Hussein Baydoun 8-16 September 2013 Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt   Hussein Baydoun is a Lebanese artist, architect, and scenographer who is known for his unique approach to set design. Baydoun frequently participates in the creation and development of performan ...

mediagazer

  • Thomson Reuters to Review Business Units (Wall ...
    Wall Street Journal: Thomson Reuters to Review Business Units  —  Thomson Reuters Inc. plans a fresh review of the company's business units, in the latest sign the data provider is looking for ways to respond to weak demand from its financial services clients.  —&nbsp ...
  • The future of the Washington Post Co. without ...
    Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post: The future of the Washington Post Co. without its flagship newspaper  —  The sale of the Washington Post newspaper Tuesday marked an emotional milestone for its former parent company, whose future long ago stopped revolving around its flagship pu ...
  • The Washington Post closes sale to Amazon foun ...
    Paul Farhi / Washington Post: The Washington Post closes sale to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos  —  Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post on Tuesday, officially ending 80 years of local control of the newspaper ...
  • Daily Beast's John Avlon rallies troops as rou ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Daily Beast's John Avlon rallies troops as roughly 20 colleagues lose their jobs  —  On the first day of its new life without Newsweek, Daily Beast executive editor John Avlon rallied the troops with an afternoon memo full of good news, like a 36-p ...
  • Did leaks alert al Qaida leaders they were bei ...
    McClatchy Washington Bureau: Did leaks alert al Qaida leaders they were being monitored?  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. government-ordered closure of 19 U.S. diplomatic facilities in August has prompted a new controversy, this one about whether news reports at the time alerted ...

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World News - Top Stories

  • Manchester City duo Aguero & Silva passed ...
    The Argentine striker and Spanish playmaker, both of whom missed Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Aston Villa, could return to the starting line-up against the Champions League holders £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = MNC Draw BAY £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = MNC Draw ...
  • Congress plunges nation into government s ...
    WASHINGTON — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs a ...
  • Pentagon chief says shutdown hurts US cre ...
    The US government shutdown will undermine American credibility abroad and lead allies to question its commitment to treaty obligations, the US defence chief warned on Tuesday as he prepared to put 400,000 civilian workers on unpaid leave. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was visiting South ...
  • UN: Nearly 1,000 Iraqis killed in Septemb ...
    BAGHDAD (AP) — Nearly 1,000 Iraqis were killed in September, one of the highest monthly death tolls in years, the U.N. said Tuesday, giving a somber figure that reflects the militants' determination to rekindle large-scale sectarian conflict. Iraq is going through its worst surge in violence ...
  • Omar orders judicial probe into Shopian f ...
    Tweet Srinagar, Oct 1 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Tuesday a judicial probe was being ordered into the killing of four civilians by the CRPF Sep 7. Abdullah was replying to a two-hour debate in the assembly over the firing by the Central Reserve Police Force in ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 9/30/13 - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Is a Coll ...
    college-education.procon.org NEW ProCon.org Website! -  Is a College Education Worth It? - Our 48th website explores the pros and cons in the debate over college education. Proponents of college education say that college is worth it because college graduates have higher employment rates, ...
  • 9/27/13 - New Jersey Becomes 14th State to Leg ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – New Jersey Becomes 14th State to Legalize Gay Marriage – The State Superior Court decision is the first court ruling that a state must allow same-sex marriage on the basis of the US Supreme Court decision that struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA ...
  • 9/20/13 - 241 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 241 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added another 40 books to the list of published texts citing ProCon.org research. Some of the authors who used ProCon.org in their works include Glenn Beck, Mark Bittman, Newt Gingrich, Stefan Halper, Dick Morris, Condoleezza Rice, Michael S ...
  • 9/20/13 - 241 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 241 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added another 40 books to the list of published texts citing ProCon.org research. Some of the authors who used ProCon.org in their works include Glenn Beck, Mark Bittman, Newt Gingrich, Stefan Halper, Dick Morris, Condoleezza Rice, Michael S ...
  • 9/19/13 - Are Cell Phones Safe?
    cellphones.procon.org – Are Cell Phones Safe? – The FCC, FDA, and peer-reviewed studies say there is no scientific evidence proving that cell phones cause health problems, while other peer-reviewed studies show cell phones may cause tumor growth, DNA damage, and decreased fertility. Hundred ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Small Rainforest Predators Are Photographed an ...
    The west African country of Gabon is known for its gorillas, elephants, and other large animal species, but a recent study has shed light on little-known rainforest predators that could face increasing pressure from the View Gallery Laila Bahaa-el-din African civet bushmeat trade. ...
  • Ikea to Sell Home Solar Panels in All British ...
    The Swedish furniture retailer Ikea will begin selling residential solar panels in its 17 UK stores within the next 10 months. The basic package's $9,500 price tag will include 18 panels, installation, maintenance, Elisseeva/Shutterstock design consultation, and energy monitoring. Wit ...
  • Has the U.N. Climate Panel Now Outlived Its Us ...
    Some scientists are saying the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is overly conservative and fails to mention some of the most worrisome possible scenarios. The panel, they contend, is no longer fulfilling its mission of informing policy makers of the risks of globa ...
  • IPCC Scientists Warn of Upper Limit on CO2 Emi ...
    Saying it is 95 percent certain that humans have caused most of the global warming of the last half-century, scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned today that the world can afford to burn about 1 trillion more tons of carbon before facing extreme climate chan ...
  • Major Initiative Announced To Help Curb Elepha ...
    The Clinton Global Initiative and 16 conservation organizations have announced that they are investing $80 million over three years to stem the epidemic of elephant poaching in Africa, which has surged recently Pele Nkumu/WCS Confiscated ivory elephant tusks due to increasing demand for ...

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Hudson New York

  • Pretending the Problem Is Not There
    Is it ever acceptable to tell a lie? If you believe the answer is "no" then this is an area in which you disagree with our political class. The recent terror attack in Kenya -- and the reaction to it -- is only the latest evidence. When it comes to the
  • The Unpredicted Consequences of the German Ele ...
    The German elections had two important consequences, one predicted, the other one unpredicted. As expected, the number of Islamic members of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, has increased. The Christian-Democrat CDU of Chancellor Angela Merkel now
  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Christians in Egypt
    Iskander Toss, who had lived all his life in the town of Delga in Upper Egypt, last week was kidnapped, severely beaten, and dragged on the dirt roads of the village until his spirit left him. His crime? As in the Kenya mall massacre last week, he was a
  • Al Qaeda Quickly Constructing Main Mideast Bas ...
    Al Qaeda is quickly constructing its main regional Middle East base in Syria, from where it plans to export terrorism and Islamic radicalism to neighboring states, then to the West, a new report released by an Israeli security research institute warned.
  • How Much for a Nuclear Deterrent?
    Although the U.S. spends $16 billion to fund the Department of Defense portion of U.S. nuclear deterrent, as Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter remarked at the Aspen Security Forum on July 18, 2013, he also noted that the US nuclear deterrent is a

Urban Survival

  • Special Note: Don’t Look Now, But…
    I told you recently to expect a $30-$50 beat down in the price of gold in  this timeframe. Drop under $1,300, yada, yada… If you look at the chart above, which was showing gold at Kitco being quoted as down $35.70, I think I get to take a bow about here… … Continue readi ...
  • Obamacare & Shutdown: Our Country is Crazy&#82 ...
    There are two general schools of thought when it comes to markets:  One is that markets are perfect and that they reflect all known information at every instant, and thus, properly discount everything including the future down to a gnat’s behind.  Nice theory. The second view is that m ...
  • Coping: Tuesday at the Wujo – Remedial J ...
    (Amarillo, TX) Back to the front lines of Science then, as we try to figure out the strange and unusual stuff that goes on in Life…like this from reader Jim… Hey George, I’m a long time reader, enjoy your columns and appreciate the informative links. I wanted to share a Wujo moment I had a ...
  • Here’s How “Head & Shoulders&#8221 ...
    With the Dow set to collapse down a hundred or more, think of this as a sore shoulder at that. No, this is NOT a discussion of a shampoo, but a lot of the bulls are about to get a little cleaning when the markets open this morning because of how things lined up in the pre-open. Even if you don’t ...
  • Coping: A Man’s Home Is His Castle&#823 ...
    (Near Weston, CO)  OK, you’ve heard the term before “A Man’s Home Is His Castle!”  All sounds good, but the courts have continued to water it down (the legal notion of home as a as one’s inviolable castle) , yada, yada, yada…but what happens someone actually starts to dream about build ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • The Alex Jones Show : Stewart Rhodes, Max Kei ...
    Government shutdown; Obamacare nightmare begins Date: 10/01/2013 On the Tuesday, Oct. 1 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, Alex examines how the government shutdown barely affects most peoples' daily lives, and explains why the widespread... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http ...
  • Kevin Annett - Truth Warrior - 09-15-13 - Inte ...
    Kevin Annett on Truth Warrior with David Whitehead. Recorded on September 15th, 2013. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews.com for full ...
  • Barack Obama: "The Divider In Chief." His Fasc ...
    Barack Obama: "The Divider In Chief." His Fascist Agenda. By Gregory Mannarino Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews.com for full links, oth ...
  • America's Largest Gun Shop Abruptly Dropped by ...
    Cam Edwards talks to Larry Hyatt from Hyatt Guns in Charlotte, NC Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, a ...
  • Promise & Perils of AI - Coast to Coast Am - ...
    Promise & Perils of AI - September 30 2013 - Coast to Coast Am - C2CAM Date: 09-30-2013 About the show: Inspired by his interviews with inventor Ray Kurzweil, roboticist Rodney Brooks, and sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke, author James Barrat... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Radical Chic

  • STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
    Our uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made me write ...
  • WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
    While it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic. In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not pull ...
  • WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
    Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
  • CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
    I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]

NRDC Switchboard

  • Despite Chaos, Department of Energy Moves Forw ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York Today the Department of Energy (DOE) took an important step forward by issuing a proposed rule on energy efficiency standards for furnace fans.  If made final after public comment, this ini ...
  • Millennials, Mobility, and Multi-Modality
    Lucian Go, Program Assistant, Transportation, San Francisco It no longer takes a transportation planner to see the shift occurring in the travel habits of the millennial generation, which is the largest and most diverse in American history. We&rsquo ...
  • Update: more than 40 oil and gas spills relate ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. According to recent news reports, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has documented 42 oil and gas-related spills caused by the massive Colorado flooding in September--and has ...
  • All Eyes on Wolves - and the US Fish and Wildl ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC  In August, the Fish and Wildlife Service made news by trying to exclude certain scientists from peer reviewing their proposed rule  removing endangered species protections for wolves across ...
  • September 2013 Legislative Threats to the Enda ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC With much of this month’s focus on whether and how to fund the government, there wasn’t a whole lot going on in Congress regarding endangered species. However, Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) did fil ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Russian warships cross Turkish straits 62 times
    Russian warships have crossed the Bosphorus Strait 62 times since the beginning of this year. Landing ship Kaliningrad used the strait 11 times, amid the high tension in the eastern Mediterranean, while another landing ship, the Azov, crossed eight times. Russian missile cruiser Moskva crossed t ...
  • Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com Says the ...
    Trends researcher Gerald Celente says President Obama’s handling of the Syrian conflict deeply damaged his credibility. Celente predicts, “If America goes to war with Syria and Iran, it’s the beginning of WWIII–dirty bombs, suitcase size nukes, weapons of mass destruction. It’s hell on earth.” G ...
  • CNN Fakes Translation of Iran President Rouhan ...
    American news channel CNN fabricated the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to the network’s question about the Holocaust. The CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday but the news channel added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked hi ...
  • UN Security Council unanimously adopts Syria r ...
    The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution outlining the details of taking under international control and ultimately destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal. “Today’s historic resolution is the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time,” UN Secretary-General Ban ...
  • British government report: Adding fluoride to ...
    Around six million people currently have fluoridated water in England, in areas where councils have opted into the scheme. A report found that where fluoride has been added to water, such as Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire where supplies have been treated for decades, fewer children needed fillings. ...

Daily Dose

  • Here are the 8 startups that pitched today in ...
    As usual at The Next Web’s conferences, our Startup Rally is a highlight of the program at our USA event. Today saw the first eight startups pitch their wares in... Keep reading →
  • Watch this: Google Docs can automatically gene ...
    Did you know that Google Docs has support for QR codes built-in? That’s right, if you know the right function, the Spreadsheets app can generate QR codes with whatever inputs... Keep reading →
  • DIY website builder Wix.com files for its $100 ...
    Do-it-yourself website production platform Wix.com has filed a registration statement with the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its IPO. It plans on trading shares on the New York Stock... Keep reading →
  • Facebook lets developers customize their mobil ...
    Facebook is sprucing up its mobile app install ads by adding more customizable actions for developers as it seeks to boost user engagement and discovery. Starting today, developers can take... Keep reading →
  • “Crowdfunding for babies”: Glow se ...
    Healthcare startup Glow has selected the first group of women to participate in its Glow First fertility treatment fund. The aim of this program is to support hopeful mothers and help... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • No more denying we can act on climate
    During the recent Federal election campaign, BZE received a call from a climate skeptic, inviting us to participate in a debate on climate change. The caller was cagey, she wouldn't even give us her name or affiliation. How did we respond? We politely declined: there is no longer a debate to be ...
  • Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes a new CEO
    It is our pleasure to announce that after a long and exhaustive search we are finally able to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer - Dr Stephen Bygrave.  Stephen will be commencing as CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions on Monday the 9th of September 2013. Stephen has worked ...
  • Time to ditch the redundant gas network
    By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
  • How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
    By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...
  • Big emissions cuts possible at home, study finds
    By Peter Hannam. Sydney Morning Herald Australia's homes could slash their carbon emissions by half and eliminate their use of gas by investing in efficient electrical appliances now on the market, according to a clean energy advocacy group. Jointly published with the Melbourne Energy Institu ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Wildlife in Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve suffers ...
    The Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in southern India acts as a conduit between the biodiversity-rich Western Ghats, a mountain range parallel to the western coast of India and its eastern counterpart, the Eastern Ghats. Established in 1986 by Government of India, the 5,520 square kilometer reserve w ...
  • Bornean elephant meets palm oil: saving the wo ...
    In a country where most conservationists are still foreigners—either European or American—Nurzahafarina Othman stands out: not only is she Malaysian, a Muslim, and a mother of a young daughter, but she's rapidly becoming a top researcher and champion for the world's smallest elephant ...
  • Clock is ticking on fossil fuels: for first ti ...
    The world's leading climate scientists have set out in detail for the first time how much more carbon dioxide humans can pour into the atmosphere without triggering dangerous levels of climate change—and concluded that more than half of that global allowance has been used up.
  • Coal railway could cause 'ecological disaster' ...
    Activists have urged the Indonesian government to cancel or reassess plans to build a 148-kilometer coal railway in Indonesian Borneo, claiming the project will be an 'ecological disaster' that will destroy watersheds and lead to increased coal exploitation in the region, threatening ecosystems ...
  • Climate change pushing tropical trees upslope ...
    Tropical tree communities are moving up mountainsides to cooler habitats as temperatures rise, a new study in Global Change Biology has found. By examining the tree species present in ten one-hectare plots at various intervals over a decade, researchers found that the proportion of lowland speci ...

Sierra Express

  • Isha Johansen to be honoured in Liechtenstein ...
    For some, greatness is achieved by the work they do and for others greatness comes as predestination or preordination. The latter need not labor or toil, they only need to be strategically positioned when the wind of greatness is blowing. This can be said of the first Female President of the Sie ...
  • Pilgrims warned: “Don’t accept food from stran ...
    A circular has been issued by some Consulates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia warning would-be-pilgrims not to accept food and drink from strangers. The circular was disseminated on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites following a recent incident in Mecca, where several Indian pilgrims ...
  • SLPP UK handing over ceremony
    The SLPP UK/Ireland executive came into office two years ago in a free, fair election.  On Sunday, 29th September 2013 our executive has officially handed over power, staff and all party documents to the council of elders.  The handing over ceremony went on very well in a friendly and brotherly ...
  • Sierra Leone’s Deputy Agriculture Chief sells ...
    The period 26 August to 4 September 2013 was a busy one for the membership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Australia Branch, especially as it marked the arrival of Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Hon Marie Jalloh who was in Perth, Western Australia to attend the annual consultat ...
  • Sierra Leone open for business, says delegatio ...
    NEWARK — With 11 years of civil war and 10 years of rebuilding behind them, Sierra Leone’s government wants to bolster its economy by doing business with the one U.S. state they say has the highest number of expatriates: New Jersey.  Alhaji Alpha Abubakarr Kanu, Sierra Leone Minister of Informat ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices up 2.4pc overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products rose in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, paced by whole and skim milk powder, the biggest products by volume, while overall volumes stabilised.The GDT Price Index, previously known as the GDT-TWI...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Danone compo wrangle escalates
    French dairy company Danone invoked the dispute mechanism in its multimillion-dollar contract with Fonterra after it met Prime Minister John Key in Paris last week to discuss the NZ firm's refusal to stump up major financial damages...
  • Smaller co-ops outdo Fonterra with payouts
    Hokitika dairy co-operative Westland Milk Products and Waikato's Tatua outperformed their far larger competitor, Fonterra, for farmer payouts over the 2012/13 year.Westland Milk, the country's second-biggest co-operative after Fonterra,...
  • Tatua Dairy payout dips - tougher year ahead
    Tatua Co-operative Dairy said it put in a positive performance over 2012/13 but that the current financial year would be much tougher.The tiny Waikato dairy cooperative said its payout for the 2012/13 season just finished would...
  • Fraud accused seek closed hearing
    Fraud accused and failed Crafar farm bidders May Wang and Jack Chen want a two-week hearing in the High Court at Auckland closed to the public.Chen, who is a former director of Natural Dairy Holdings, and Wang were arrested in Hong...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Al-Jazeera America Collects “Shutdown Stories”
    The government partially shut down at midnight after lawmakers couldn’t agree on a deal to keep the federal government funded. Al-Jazeera America, America’s newest cable network, is collecting government shutdown stories, which includes gems like this: I am currently in Korea and ...
  • The Obamacare Shutdown Negotiations That Total ...
    President Barack Obama has repeatedly reiterated that he will not negotiate with Republicans to scale back the Affordable Care Act, so bring on the negotiations! Though he may not be doing so with the approval of the Democrats or the president, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), last seen ...
  • More Government Shutdown, Please
    As Jesse Walker pointed out, approximately 80 percent of federal workers are still on the job, poking and prodding us in the usual fashion on this, the first day of AnarchFest 2013. Arizona Public Radio reports that National Park Service workers have been told to report as usual to ...
  • MSNBC Reporter Quits Obamacare Sign Up Demo Af ...
    Obamacare's bumps and glitches continue in this MSNBC segment, in which one of the network's reporters takes viewers through the process of signing up for health insurance on Maryland's health insurance exchange. Or at least tries, anyway. That's because it doesn't work. She fills i ...
  • Gene Healy: The NSA Is Still Spying on You
    Bad news for pandaphiles: The National Zoo's “PandaCam” will go dark during a government shutdown. However, writes Gene Healy, the federal government’s power to keep an eye on the American people via the NSA will continue to grow — it’s an “essential service,” apparently. View this ...

Mercury Rising

  • Tom Emmer: He’s A Politician! He’ ...
    2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer shows how to get a political ad on TV and get paid for it — by shilling for somebody else’s product at the same time you’re selling yourself. Seriously, he actually did this. Sally Jo Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie has the deets: ...
  • Thumbing through your dossier
    Laura Poitras and James Risen have published a story in the NYT that comes close to saying that the government has a dossier on every citizen (via Bob Swern at DK): Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Am ...
  • The GOP’s #shutdown Insanity
    A collection of links on the subject of the looming GOP-forced government shutdown: – Your False-Equivalence Guide to the Days Ahead, by James Fallows. – Harry Reid to House GOP and their new master, Ted Cruz: Grow up. – Will Obama invoke the 14th Amendment to stop the Republic ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • The NSA has met the enemy, and it is you
    Greenwald: A well-known and highly respected Yemeni anti-drone activist was detained yesterday by UK officials under that country’s “anti-terrorism” law at Gatwick Airport, where he had traveled to speak at an event. Baraa Shiban, the project co-ordinator for the London-based l ...

Reality Sandwich

  • We Are All Explorers of Higher Dimensional Spa ...
    The following is excerpted from Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within, published by R.L.Ranch Press.  At each moment of time—the Now—you stand at the gateway to an infinite number of possible futures in higher dimensional space. This gateway is the Choice Point. read more
  • Talking Kumare
    What's it like to fake being a guru? You can ask Vikram Gandhi during the video webinar, "Kumare: Director Q&A." Watch the hilarious, thought-provoking documentary, and then take part in a discussion with the filmmaker himself. read more
  • Animals Evolve Bigger Brains
    Humans inarguably have the most impact on evolution. With constantly advancing technology, such as antibiotics, and the animals that we eat, we play an integral role in driving evolution. University of Minnesota biologist Emilie C. Snell-Rood offers evidence that suggests that as we chang ...
  • Duped by the Beast of War
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  • Shamanic Ecstasy
    Join Alberto Villoldo for the live interactive video course, "Shamanic Ecstasy: The Great Vision Quest." Learn ancient techniques used by shamans across the globe. This Evolver webinar starts October 9. Click here to learn more.  read more

Desertification

  • OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
    Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already ...
  • Trinidad’s Farmers Outpaced by Climate C ...
    Dalchan Singh, a root crop farmer and board member of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, says the past year has seen drastic changes in the weather of this twin-island Caribbean nation. Normally, the rainy season starts in June and continues during the months of July and August, he ...
  • Dwindling Water Supplies Make Every Drop Count
    Drought and chronic water shortages played a significant role in sparking Syria’s civil war and in unrest throughout much of the Middle East, water experts now believe. Around the world, water demand already exceeds supply in regions with more than 40 percent of the world’s populatio ...
  • Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
    When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.’s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world’s most critical finite resources. Current and past ...
  • OP-ED: Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
    Agriculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural system is becoming more out of sync with the clima ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • New Brain Cells for Parkinson's
    Scientists at Kyoto University are developing an exciting new treatment which might one day provide real hope for sufferers of Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's is a degenerative disease in which the ...
  • No More Needles!
    Researchers have developed a new kind of breathable vaccine, a paper released in the journal Science announced this week. When most of us think of a vaccine, we think of a needle shot in the arm. How...
  • Sea louse with tidal clock
    A 12-hour tide-predicting clock, running inside the brains of small marine crustaceans, has been discovered by UK scientists. Eurydice pulchra is a small speckled sea louse resembling a miniature s...
  • New nose grown on forehead
    Doctors in China have grown a replacement nose on the forehead of a man injured in a car accident. The 22 year old crash victim's own nose was destroyed by infection, which set in after the man was ...
  • Rotating antibiotics stop superbugs
    A new technique to block antibiotic resistance in bacteria has been discovered by scientists in Denmark. With the drug development pipeline at an all-time low, there couldn't really be a worse time f...

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Care2 - Environment

  • UFO mystery tied to launch of trail-blazing rocket
    Strange, glowing orb is seen hovering over a vast stretch of Indian Ocean; it turns out to be fuel released by next-generation rocket launched by SpaceX. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ALERT! Patricia Randolph has been on a Hunger ...
    Why? Thousands of bears have been mercilessly killed in the past few weeks of the Wisconsin bear hunt. I'll continue my strike until at least the end of the bear hunt on Oct. 8. Please send comments of support for Patricia! Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |   Note-it! & ...
  • Activists demand UN bans stoning
    wo months ago, a young mother-of-two was stoned to death by her relatives on the order of a tribal court in Pakistan. Her crime: possession of a mobile phone. Arifa Bibis uncle, cousins and others hurled stones and Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • Kitten refuses to let go of pizza!
    An adorable kitten with a penchant for stealing pizza was caught red-pawed last week when her owner, Chris Drago, shot a short video of the wide-eyed feline clinging to a stolen slice. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION NEEDED Please STOP Triple F Ferret Fa ...
    WHY is best explained with some details of the original investigation that then launched an official, ongoing USDA investigation: "The three-minute video shows ferrets with gaping wounds, internal organs protruding from their rectums, Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Business  |   N ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Tony Makris Hitler Comment: Under Wild Skies H ...
    Under Wild Skies, an NRA-sponsored sports program, came under fierce criticism last week when it aired the episode.News of the episode spread quickly around the Internet, and multiple petitions sprouted up calling for the shows cancellation. Submitted by Brian M. to Animals  |  &nbs ...
  • WATCH: President Obama Rips Republican Shutdow ...
    President Barack Obama sharply rebuked congressional Republicans for shutting down the government over their opposition to the Affordable Care Act, and declared that Congress crisis-to-crisis style of government is not worthy of this country, during... Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & ...
  • Revolutionary Change is Coming: The Corporate ...
    Despite the corporate media blackout about the growing and deepening resistance movement against the increasingly sadistic and brutal Corporate State, people all over the country are finding ways to unite in solidarity at the grassroots level, and... Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Are Republicans So Frantic to Stop Obamacare B ...
    What is it about Obamacare that compels seemingly intelligent people to explode in bubbling spasms of stupid? Are they misinformed? Unable to see past the rage-fueled partisan sweat dripping into their eyes? Or just plain dishonest? Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't  |& ...
  • Health exchanges go live, with a few snags
    This new system will allow millions of Americans to access quality, affordable health care coverage...without underwriting, Someone tell the Republicans to come out; the sky, in fact, did NOT fall. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  & ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Department of Health and Human Services Market ...
    aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/MarketplacePremiums/ib_premiumslandscape.pdf. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, News and politics Tagged: ACA, HHS, Marketplace Premiums, Obamacare, PPACA
  • TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster a ...
    TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster against Obamacare | The Washington Post. Filed under: News and politics
  • Health Plan Rates for State of Illinois
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2013 Governor Quinn Announces Health Plan Rates are 25 Percent Below HHS Estimates 95 Percent of Illinois Residents will have Access to at Least 34 Plans Rates Will Be as Low as $120 Per Month … Continue reading →
  • Obamacare Myths
    Obamacare Myths. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured, News and politics Tagged: Elections 2014, Fact Check, Myths, Obamacare, PPACA
  • U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
    U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Filed under: Government, International, News and politics, U.S. Military, War Tagged: Sarin Gas Victims, Syria, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Video
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