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Scoop - NZ

  • Abbot walks a tricky tightrope
    Abbott went further than his predecessors to promise ''total respect for Indonesia's sovereignty, total respect for Indonesia's territorial integrity''. He undertook to do everything possible to discourage and prevent Australia being used ''as a platform for grandstanding'' on the issue of West ...
  • Iran Compromises Israeli Drone Fleet
    Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, operating out of the Bekaa Valley, have so compromised Israel’s drone fleet that it cannot be used for the critical mission Israel has set for them: to disable Iran’s air defenses as preparation for an IAF assault on Iranian targets, including its nuclear program. W ...
  • Churchill’s Poison Gas Stockpile
    It is one of the extraordinary twists and turns of the war in Syria that the alleged use of sarin against civilians in rebel-held districts in Damascus on 21 August should turn out to be to the advantage rather than to the disadvantage of President Bashar al-Assad. The most immediate effect seem ...
  • Fukushima and the Transnationality of Contamin ...
    When Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) was torn apart by several explosions, whether due to technical failings in correspondence with the earthquakes, tsunami or a combination of both, it not only dispersed radioactive contaminant but also exposed the bonds connecting people’s lives with nuc ...
  • OilPrice.com: Syria - the next phase
    Synopsis: Watch now as the original Syrian rebels float back to Assad, who becomes the “savior” of Syria and the only force capable of dealing with the radical, al-Qaeda-linked elements. Analysis: The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is disintegrating quickly, with its original, legitimate rebel member ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Major earthquake would collapse over a thousan ...
    More than 1,000 old concrete buildings in Los Angeles and hundreds more throughout the county may be at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake, according to a Times analysis. By the most conservative estimate, as many as 50 of these buildings in the city alone would be destroyed, exposing tho ...
  • Losing faith: Global financiers look to de-Ame ...
    A US debt default could hit on Thursday, and world leaders are second guessing the dominant role America plays in finance. Regardless of the final decision in Washington, confidence and credibility in the US has already eroded. In an editorial published by the Chinese state-owned press agency ...
  • Building collapse in Colombia's Medellin kills 2
    A 21-story building has collapsed in Colombia's second-largest city, leaving at least two people dead with several others feared missing. The incident occurred in the Colombian city of Medellin on Saturday when construction workers were trying to fix a crack in a load-bearing structure of the b ...
  • Philippines earthquake kills 32, injures 100s
    At least 32 people have been killed and hundreds others injured following a powerful earthquake in central Philippines. A temblor measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck early on Tuesday, crumbling a number of buildings and cracking roads on Bohol Island and the Cebu Island, near Balilihan re ...
  • Typhoon Nari kills five, causes major damage i ...
    Typhoon Nari slammed into central Vietnam early Tuesday killing five people, ripping roofs of homes and damaging roads, state media reported. The storm, which claimed 13 lives in the Philippines over the weekend, tore through the communist country's central region -- from the tourist town of Hu ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Stevie and Brazil . . .
     — A protest in Vancouver over our mining operations in Tibet — WHY WOULD STEVIE TARGET BRAZIL? According to Dave Dean at Vice, “75% of the World's Mining Companies Are Based in Canada”. Maybe that's why Stevie wants to know what the Brazilian Ministry of Mines is planning? All ove ...
  • Dear Stephen,
    You're a goddamned embarrassment. Step down.
  • Foil hat time . . .
    BOOGITY-BOOGITY. “Adolf Hitler -- Agent of Zionism and Freemasonry”. Yup. Really. Must be true, it's on the web. 
  • A natural wonder . . .
    The view from a small window in the wall of the vast Niubizi Tian Keng in the Er Wang Dong cave system, where clouds form inside the huge spaces. Three tiny explorers can be seen negotiating the heavily vegetated floor “The cave so huge it has its own weather system: Explorers dis ...
  • Maher muses . . .
    Bag In — Bag Out BILL MAHER socks it to the Goppers with a delightful post on RSN, “California: Tea Party Free Zone” where he contends that California will pull the Gopper states into the twenty-first century: New Rule: Conservatives who love to brag about American exceptionalism must ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Once Again, Sunday Morning Talk Shows ...
    In the first nine months of 2013, white men dominated the guest lists on the broadcast network Sunday shows and CNN's State of the Union. MSNBC was the only network achieving notable diversity in its guests, particularly on Melissa Harris-Perry's show. Republic ...
  • STUDY: Media Sowed Doubt In Coverage Of UN Cli ...
    A study of coverage of the recent United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that th ...
  • Fox History vs. Actual History: Fox's Shutdown ...
    Fox News' timeline of the ongoing government shutdown cherry-picked dates to omit congressional Republicans' conception and furtherance of the shutdown over their demand to defund or delay the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA or Obamacare).Fox's Shutdown Timeline&nb ...
  • "Default By Another Name:" 5 Economists Who Bu ...
    Right-wing media figures have repeatedly criticized Obama administration officials for claiming that the U.S. will default if the debt ceiling is not raised by October 17, instead claiming the U.S. could prioritize payments to bondholders as a way to avoid default. But economists note ...
  • Fox News Attacks Immigration Rally As A "Polit ...
    Fox News is using falsehoods to discredit an immigration reform rally that took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., claiming that activists were given preferential treatment by the Obama administration to stage their protest while parks remain closed. In fact, the Nati ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Elephants Spontaneously Understand Concept Of ...
    Elephants spontaneously understand the concept of pointing, new research has found — greatly underscoring the great observed similarities between elephant and human cognition. Especially when you consider that while the great apes are all known to make use of the gesture when raised in a c ...
  • How Poverty Impairs Mental Functioning And Pro ...
    Researchers who study poverty have long-recognized that those who live in poverty frequently behave in less capable ways and engage in risky behaviors that both produce additional problems and also exacerbate their poverty status. Previous research on people living in long-term poverty (Shah et ...
  • Lunar Eclipse On October 18 2013 — Penumbral L ...
    On the night of Wednesday October 18, 2013, a penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible to those in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and parts of Asia — with the best show being available to those in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the eastern part of North/South America. A Penumbral lunar ...
  • Wind Turbine Commercial Shows How Wind Turbine ...
    You’ve seen the “like a boss” meme, right? If not, go ahead and catch yourself up a bit. Once you’ve done that, watch this wind turbine commercial* and tell me if wind turbines are not like a boss: Awesome, right? For a little more wind turbine awesomeness, check out thes ...
  • Comet ISON Shining Vibrant Emerald Green In Ne ...
    A beautiful new image of Comet ISON has just come to light — showing the vibrant, almost emerald green color of the comet’s coma. The image was taken with the 0.8-meter Schulman Telescope at the University of Arizona SkyCenter by astrophotographer Adam Block. While Comet ISON is lagg ...

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Axis of Logic

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

Climate

  • Oil Spills Becoming Frequent Hazard for Fisher ...
    (New York Times) Naushad Qureshi, 26, who belongs to an indigenous fishing community in the Uran region of Maharashtra, felt his eyes burning and feet tingling when he settled into his dinghy Tuesday morning. He was looking for crabs, ...
  • Montana Towns Struggle with Oil Boom Cost as D ...
    (Bloomberg) Tractor-trailer trucks carrying oil, water and sand to drilling sites are lined up at one of two stoplights in Fairview, Montana, as the mayor tries to figure out how to squeeze more people into his town. The prairie ...
  • Coal 4-Year Low Lures Utilities Ignoring Climate
    (Bloomberg) Coal is poised to become the most-used fuel for power generators through the rest of this decade, undermining targets for cutting greenhouse gases even as prices rebound from a four-year low. About 434 gigawatts ...
  • French Court Rejects Challenge to Fracking Law
    (Reuters) France's constitutional council rejected on Friday a challenge to a law banning hydraulic fracturing for exploration and production of the country's shale gas and oil. The ruling is a boost for President Francois Hollande, w ...
  • Big Lagoons Could Hold Ohio Fracking Waste
    (Columbus Dispatch) Fracking wastewater lagoons the size of football fields could dot eastern Ohio as state officials draft rules for the storage sites. Oil and gas drillers use the lagoons to store millions of gallons of water contam ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Criminal complaint against Silk Road’s owner
    The criminal complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts."
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.

Booman Tribune

  • Don't Complain About the Size of the Rout
    I see a lot of progressives bitching about the outlines of a deal that hasn't even been finalized, yet. But I don't think they are focused on the right things. There is a real lost opportunity here, and it's a victim of the plan to jam the House Republicans. Basically, the idea is that the Se ...
  • The Rout Begins
    Brian Beutler's analysis mirrors mine, although he puts more focus on the "neo-Confederate fantasists" who seem to have no idea how badly they have been beaten. Noam Scheiber's analysis also mirrors mine, although he adds an interesting wrinkle that I hadn't really considered. McConnell and ...
  • The Real Problem
    Rob Christenson has this mostly correct. [Rep. Renee] Ellmers [R-NC] has a voting record to the right of Michele Bachmann. And she is under fire for being ideologically impure. This is why we have gridlock. Most of the problem is that gerrymandered districts are uncompetitive districts, a ...
  • Overthinking Things
    Joshua Green is correct that the Senate has passed the point of no return and that a single determined senator has the power, by repeatedly refusing to grant their consent to motions, to push us past the Thursday day of default. However, there is a solution to this problem. The reason that ...
  • So Awesome
    Fun to see your name in lights. And I love the teaser (which I didn't write). Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Newmont-Backed Project Faces New Opposition - ...
    Newmont-Backed Project Faces New Opposition DailyFinance Only through modern mining techniques, such as open pit mining, mountaintop removal, and cyanidation can it be economical to mine here again. Environmental concerns have formed the basis of most of the protests against mining projects late ...
  • Newmont-Backed Project Faces New Opposition - ...
    Newmont-Backed Project Faces New Opposition Motley Fool Only through modern mining techniques, such as open pit mining, mountaintop removal, and cyanidation can it be economical to mine here again. Environmental concerns have formed the basis of most of the protests against mining projects latel ...
  • Solutions to the Climate Crisis: Hidden in Pla ...
    Solutions to the Climate Crisis: Hidden in Plain Sight Huffington Post People are using their bodies to block the building of tar sands pipelines, to stop mountaintop removal, to prevent drilling in their communities--both to protect their land, water, and health, and to protect the climate. The ...
  • Album Review | Lissie - Back To Forever - Spea ...
    Album Review | Lissie - Back To Forever Speakers in Code Later, on "Mountaintop Removal," she is clearly bothered by the changing landscape of America: "What's the use in making something new / If all that made us must be ruined." Heavy stuff. Perhaps the most important t ...
  • CD: Lissie - Back to Forever - The Arts Desk
    CD: Lissie - Back to Forever The Arts Desk The poppier tracks don't make enough of her startling vocals, which makes the subtleties of “Mountaintop Removal” a rarity on the album, but it's hard to listen to new single “Sleepwalking” - a pick-yourself-up heartbreak song - and not smile. W ...

Memeorandum

  • Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at ...
    Matt Fuller / Roll Call: Ted Cruz, House Republicans Meet in Secret at Tortilla Coast  —  Sen. Ted Cruz met with roughly 15 to 20 House Republicans for around two hours late Monday night at the Capitol Hill watering hole Tortilla Coast.  —  The group appeared to ...
  • US Army defines Christian ministry as 'domesti ...
    Todd Starnes / Fox News: US Army defines Christian ministry as ‘domestic hate group’  —  Several dozen U.S. Army active duty and reserve troops were told last week that the American Family Association, a well-respected Christian ministry, should be classified as a do ...
  • Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice P ...
    Josh Rosenstock / Apple: Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores  —  Apple® today announced that Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, will be joining Apple in a newly created position, as a senior vice president and member of our execu ...
  • The NSA's problem? Too much data. (Washington ...
    Washington Post: The NSA's problem?  Too much data.  —  The National Security Agency's Special Source Operations branch manages “partnerships” in which U.S. and foreign telecommunications companies allow the NSA to use their facilities to intercept phone calls, ...
  • The NSA's Watchfulness Protects America (Diann ...
    Dianne Feinstein / Wall Street Journal: The NSA's Watchfulness Protects America  —  If today's call-records program had been in place in before 9/11, the terrorist attacks likely would have been prevented.  —  Since it was exposed in June by leaker Edward Snowden ...

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  • Daisy and Melinda Coleman: More victims came f ...
    Daisy Coleman appeared on CNN's "Erin Burnett Out Front" on Monday night to share more about her alleged assault by a 17-year-old high school football player with powerful political connections, and the harassment from her peers she experienced after she reported the crime to the police.Daisy's ...
  • How fast food poverty costs American taxpayers ...
    Twin studies released at noon Tuesday estimate that the majority of families of front-line fast food workers use public assistance, at a taxpayer cost of nearly $7 billion a year, while seven publicly-traded fast food corporations made $7.4 billion in profit last year.The first study finds that ...
  • Azerbaijani suspect in Moscow riots murder det ...
    A police officer guards a vandalised street, the site of mass rioting in the southern Biryulyovo district of southern Moscow, late on October 13, 2013Russia on Tuesday detained an Azerbaijani citizen suspected of stabbing to death a Muscovite in an attack that sparked some of the country's wor ...
  • Edward Snowden’s unintended Internet revolution
    How's this for some doubled-barreled Edward Snowden NSA irony? The massive U.S. government surveillance overreach into all nooks and crannies of the Internet may end up undermining American control over the Internet. But despite the fact that a weakening of U.S authority over cyberspace is exac ...
  • Kenan Thompson: “SNL” lacks diversity because ...
    Just a few weeks into its 39th season, another "Saturday Night Live" cast member has publicly criticized the show's lack of racial diversity. In an interview with TVGuide, Kenan Thompson revealed that he doesn't know how the show will portray female characters of color because "we just haven't ...

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IntelNews

  • KGB ‘ran two Australian politicians as agents’ ...
    Soviet intelligence recruited and ran at least two Australian elected politicians as agents for the USSR in the 1970s, according to a confidential account authored by an Australian counterintelligence officer.
  • Medical review article considers Arafat poison ...
    The publication of a peer reviewed article in one of the world’s leading medical journals has reinforced the possibility that the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have died of poisoning.
  • The story of a suspected KGB mole who shook th ...
    Readers of this blog will know about the infamous case of James Jesus Angleton, who headed the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from the 1950s to the 1970s, and led the biggest mole hunt in the Agency’s history. David Wise, author of several intelligence-related ...
  • News you may have missed #853
    Meltdowns hobble NSA data center. Uganda expels Sudan diplomat accused of spying. FBI accused of using no-fly list to recruit informants.
  • Brazil accuses Canada of economic espionage
    The Brazilian government has demanded that Canada explain the role of its intelligence services in “unacceptable” incidents of espionage, which targeted the Latin American country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy.

War is a Crime.org

  • If Hitler Didn't Exist the Pentagon Would Have ...
    When video of the October 14th edition of Thom Hartmann's TV show appears online (here) it will include him asking me to justify not attacking Hitler.  Thom has asked me this repeatedly during multiple appearances on his show, each time a little differently, and each time provocatively.&nbs ...
  • Rob Crawford - "War, Morality, and Legitimacy"
  • Jeju Island-Tragic Destruction of Pristine Mar ...
    America’s Destructive Pivot to Asia By Ann Wright Two years ago when I visited Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea, the one-half mile ancient, solid volcanic slab of a spiritual and cultural rock known as Gureombi was still intact.  The marine environment that had made Jeju Is ...
  • Shot down like a dog: Why We Should Not Forget ...
    By John Grant   For the past week I’ve been talking with anyone I could shoehorn about the shooting death of Miriam Carey on the streets of Washington DC. As with any homicide -- and that’s how it would be classified for the autopsy -- there are differing opinions and mitigating circumstanc ...
  • Syria News - Oct 15
      Jihadists in Syria behind kidnapping of ICRC workers, NGO says - AFP Islamist militants destroy Sufi shrine in eastern Syria - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page Two suicide car bombs explode in central Damascus: SANA - THE DAILY STAR VIDEO: Moments Before the Two Suicide Bombings D ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • The Vaccine Coverup: 30 Years of Secret Offici ...
    By Child Health Safety An extraordinary new paper [March 2012] published by a courageous doctor and investigative medical researcher has dug the dirt on 30 years of secret official transcripts of meetings of UK government vaccine committees and the supposedly independent medical “experts” sittin ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    A novel device that uses only sunlight and wastewater to produce hydrogen gas could provide a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment. A research team led by Yat Li, associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, developed t ...
  • Lew’s Testimony on Debt Mirrors SEC’s De ...
    By Terence P. Jeffrey When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testified in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, urging Congress to enact a new law allowing the administration to increase the federal debt, his description of how the Treasury handles that debt mirrored the Securities and Exchange C ...
  • Science utterly abandoned in UN climate change ...
    by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) If you\’re still a fan of Al Gore and believe his \”campaign\” against global warming is truly substantive and real, well, this story should convince you once and for all that, when it comes to climate change, he\’s nothing more than a lot of ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | A World of Flaming Shit and ...
    By Visible It’s not just the physical shit that is increasing by thousands of tons a day. It’s the other kinds of shit that make the very air we breathe flammable. I’m talking about all the people talking shit. Even the President of the United States talks shit all day long. so ...

Global Insights

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

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The IPCC rebukes the climate doomsters. Will w ...
    Summary:  One of the major themes of the FM website is that The End of The World Will Not Occur as Scheduled.  Publication of the new IPCC report sparked yet another round of doomsterism, quite unrelated to its contents. Today we look at the IPCC’s description of the climate science consen ...
  • The Million Vet March, a typical peasants&#821 ...
    Summary:  The Million Vet March is typical citizen activism in America, much like the Occupy movement’s street parties. Naive, weak leadership. Poorly conceived goals (the GOP, not Obama, shut down the government). Delusional thinking about the breath of their appeal (“million man&#8 ...
  • The 21st century’s fiercest conflicts ar ...
    Summary: One fascinating aspect of globalization is reading descriptions of social dynamics in China or Pakistan, and realizing that this applies as well to America. It is one world. That’s good news, giving us a wider range of solutions to learn from — and even borrow. Also, seeing ...
  • We cannot defeat al Qaeda unless we understand ...
    Summary: Forged by our intervention into Afghanistan against the USSR, al Qaida senior US government officials ignored it until 9-11. Then the name Al Qaeda became a totem for the American people, hated other. It’s mention the equivalent of waving the bloody shirt, the stop button on our b ...
  • The Oath Keepers want to give America its own ...
    Summary: The Right wing of America is active on all fronts: shutting down abortion, disenfranchising voters, and holding America’s credit rating hostage. Now we add to that list something small, but disturbing and with the potential to grow explosively: the Oath Keepers, one of the many mi ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Top of the Morning: Deadly Quake Hits The Phil ...
    Top Stories from DAWNS Digest  Deadly Quake Hits the Philippines Magnitude 7.0 “A powerful earthquake violently shook the central Philippines on Tuesday morning, killing at least 32 people, injuring hundreds and smashing one of the country’s oldest churches, officials said. The earthquake was ce ...
  • Israel’s Prime Minster Rejects Idea of Direct ...
    CREDIT: France24 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday ruled out the possibility of any direct talks with Iran’s new president over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, which Netanyahu maintains is aimed at developing nuclear weapons, saying, “You don’t ...
  • Top of the Morning: Red Cross/Red Crescent Wor ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Seven Aid Workers Abducted in Syria The ICRC and Syrian Red Crescent was the target in Idlib province. “Gunmen waylaid a humanitarian convoy in northern Syria on Sunday and abducted seven people working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the aid grou ...
  • Words of Mass Destruction in the Syria Debate
    Note: This is a guest post by Ty Solomon, Lecturer at the University of Glasgow Even though the war in Syria has been raging for the past two years, much of the global outrage that we now see has only erupted with the recent reports about Bashar al Assad’s government attacking civilians with che ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Special Operations Raid ...
    Hearing to consider the nominations of Mr. Michael D. Lumpkin, Honorable Jamie M. Morin, and Honorable Jo Ann Rooney, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, October 10, 2013. Lumpkin: We’re not going to be able to kill our way to victory. One at a time, doing one-eaches… I would argue [a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Coverage of 2012 Campaign Disappointingly Unbiased
    Everybody thinks the media are biased against their side, and conservatives are particularly likely to believe it. They themselves would say "That's because it's true!", but the real reason is that the complaint of liberal bias is one that conservatives hear all the time from all of their media ...
  • Daily Meme: Crazy Soundbites While You Were Sl ...
    Although there may have been little news about ending the shutdown over the weekend, Tea Party Republicans managed to fill the empty space with plenty of crazy soundbites. For those of you who blissfully managed to stay away from the crazy, here's a small sample of what you missed. Ben Carson:  ...
  • Values Voter 2013: War, War, Everywhere, and N ...
    AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana When Senator Rand Paul took the stage at last weekend's Values Voter Summit, it was clear he needed to up the stakes. Alongside a handful of other 2016 presidential contenders, Paul was auditioning for the far-right’s support in a speech to the annual conferen ...
  • The GOP Craziness You Missed over the Weekend
    We're at kind of a weird point in the shutdown/default crisis. Everyone knows Republicans have lost; it's just a matter of working out the details of how we get out of this mess. The sane ones are trying to come up with some sort of agreement that will end the crisis before any further damage i ...
  • Blurred Lines at the Border
    AP Images/Matt Rourke Last year, during the height of the “religious freedom” fracas over the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraception-coverage requirement, three Catholic laywomen made the church’s case to an audience at the Catholic Information Center (CIC) in downtown Washington, D ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Suspected Neo-Nazi Shot Dead After Wounding Tw ...
    What happened early Friday morning in a small Missouri town just outside of St. Louis sounds like the plotline for a violent R-rated movie: A police shootout in a basement with a suspected neo-Nazi with a rap sheet for drug possession and petty crime … two deputies wounded … a heavily armed susp ...
  • Trial Set for Sovereign ‘Elder’ in New York Ac ...
    A federal trial is slated to begin this week in Albany, N.Y., for an orthodontist long considered an “elder” in the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement and who now faces charges of filing bogus tax returns between 2007 and 2010 in an effort to collect millions in refunds. Glenn Richard ...
  • Rep. Randy Forbes Cancels Appearance at Hate G ...
    Rep. Randy Forbes of Virginia cancelled his planned appearance today at the Values Voter Summit. Forbes was set to headline a fundraising luncheon for the American Family Association (AFA), the anti-gay hate group that helps bankroll the conference. Forbes’ decision came in the wake of a petitio ...
  • Conspiracy-Mongering Organizer of DC Trucker P ...
    Those angry right-wing truckers are still promising that at least 3,000 of their number will be showing up in Washington, D.C., this weekend to bring traffic along the Beltway to a grinding halt as part of a protest of what organizers call “the blatant disregard of our Constitution.” It’s not so ...
  • The Curious Timing of Louisiana Gov. Jindal&#8 ...
    As recently as Sept. 26, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was listed as a confirmed speaker for this afternoon at the Values Voter Summit – the annual religious-right conference hosted by prominent anti-LGBT hate groups like the Family Research Council (FRC) and American Family Association. But on th ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Chevron Retaliation Trial Opens Against Victim ...
    Tomorrow (Tuesday) Ecuadorian villagers from the Amazon rainforest region ravaged by Chevron's oil contamination will join supporters for a large rally in Foley Square across from the courthouse where a trial will open in the California-based oil giant's retaliatory RICO lawsuit against ...
  • Complaint Filed Over UK Spying on Libyan Tortu ...
    Two Libyan families who were kidnapped and ‘rendered’ to Gaddafi’s prisons by British intelligence have filed a complaint over GCHQ’s eavesdropping on their legal communications.read more
  • 350.org and Partners Launch Fossil Free Europe ...
    Starting October 27 and going through November 1, acclaimed author, activist, and co-founder of the international climate campaign 350.org – Bill McKibben – will lead the Fossil Free Europe Tour accompanied by other movement leaders, including Greenpeace International’s executi ...
  • Civil Liberties Groups from 10 Countries Launc ...
    In response to increasing restrictions on personal freedoms and civil protest, national human rights organizations from 10 countries this week launched the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO). They also released “Take Back the Streets: Repression and Criminalizat ...
  • Civil Liberties Groups from 10 Countries Launc ...
    In response to increasing restrictions on personal freedoms and civil protest, national human rights organizations from 10 countries this week launched the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO). They also released “Take Back the Streets: Repression and Criminalizat ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • In Photos: The Oil Spill North Dakota Tried to ...
    Phil Radford On September 29th, Steve Jensen, a farmer in northwest North Dakota, discovered crude oil "spewing and bubbling 6 inches high" out on his field while he was harvesting wheat. The spewing oil came from a break in Tesor ...
  • 2013 Resembles 1927, A Terrifying Year
    Heather Mallick I don’t know why you all seem to think it’s 2013. Clearly it is 1927. I just read Bill Bryson’s book on the American summer of that year — the glorious writer has an astonishing knack for narrative ev ...
  • 2013 Resembles 1927, A Terrifying Year
    Heather Mallick I don’t know why you all seem to think it’s 2013. Clearly it is 1927. I just read Bill Bryson’s book on the American summer of that year — the glorious writer has an astonishing knack for narrative ev ...
  • Acting with Impunity: The Case of General Ele ...
    Lawrence Wittner Can the world’s biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric (GE) -- the eighth largest U.S. corporation, with $146.9 billion in sales and $13.6 billion in profits in 2012 -- the answer ap ...
  • Acting with Impunity: The Case of General Ele ...
    Lawrence Wittner Can the world’s biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric (GE) -- the eighth largest U.S. corporation, with $146.9 billion in sales and $13.6 billion in profits in 2012 -- the answer ap ...

Water Privatization

  • BDO may lend $450M to K-Water
    Daegu, South Korea – The investment lending arm of Banco de Oro is ready to extend loans of up to $450 million to Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) if it finally takes serious steps in closing the privatization transaction for the 218-megawatt Angat hydropower facility. In an interview ...
  • Parties promise Bijli, Sadak and Pani as basic ...
    Politicos Sanjay Nirupam of Congress, Prakash Javadekar of BJP, and Mohammed Salim of Left shared their concerns over the grim situation of power, roads and water in the country. Speaking at Bharat Bhagya Vidhata 'India Ka Agenda' show to be aired today@ Zee News at 10 pm, they collectiv ...
  • Petilla wants JCPC to decide on Agus plants’ p ...
    The privatization fate of the Agus hydropower complex in Mindanao will be placed again in the hands of the Joint Congressional Power Commission (JCPC), the legislative oversight body which oversees the privatization of the country’s power assets.That was the stand sounded off by Energy Secretary ...
  • Mount Jewett taking closer look at selling wat ...
    MOUNT JEWETT — While still weighing their options, Mount Jewett officials are beginning to take a closer and more serious look at selling the water department to a private entity.
  • Angat privatization won’t meet yearend closing
    The privatization of the 218-megawatt Angat hydropower complex is in ‘troubled waters’ anew, with Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) formally informing government that it cannot meet its committed financial closing by yearend.This development was formally communicated to Power Sector As ...

Guardian

  • Birmingham branded 'national disgrace' for chi ...
    Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw singles out city for criticism as child protection at one in seven councils is judged inadequateVulnerable children are being let down by councils with ineffective and incompetent leadership, according to the Ofsted chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, who singl ...
  • Police launch murder inquiry after bodies foun ...
    Police believe remains found in back garden of semi-detached house after tipoff are those of William and Patricia WycherleyPolice have launched a murder inquiry after the remains of two people were unearthed in the back garden of a house in a quiet cul-de-sac.The bodies were uncovered by officer ...
  • More Britons estimated to be vCJD carriers tha ...
    Around 24,000 people in UK now thought to be carrying rogue protein that can cause human form of 'mad cow disease' Doctors have raised their estimate of the number of Britons infected with the abnormal protein that causes variant CJD, the human form of "mad cow disease", after a survey of medica ...
  • Haribo sweet king Hans Riegel dies at 90
    German whose name literally helped define Haribo built sweets including gummy bears and Starmix into a worldwide brandHans Riegel, the man behind Germany's Haribo confectionery and much-loved gummy bears, has died aged 90 from heart failure, his office has said.Riegel spent almost 70 years at th ...
  • Plebgate: officers will not face disciplinary ...
    Theresa May joins IPCC in criticising failure to discipline officers accused of lying about meeting with Andrew MitchellThree police officers whose "honesty and integrity" have been questioned by the police watchdog will not face disciplinary action over allegations that they lied to try and dis ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • U.S. reluctance to act against Pakistan a majo ...
    The proposed Bilateral Security Agreement to determine extent of U.S. and allied forces and their role in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO forces at the end of 2014 is stuck because of Washington's reluctance to commit to coming to the defence of Afghanistan in case of external aggressio ...
  • Blast Kills Afghan Official
    Afghan officials say a bomb blast has killed the governor of the province of Logar, in the eastern part of the country. A Logar official said Governor Arsala Jamal was giving a speech at a mosque on Tuesday to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha when a bomb went off, killing Jamal and wo ...
  • Governor of eastern Afghan province killed in ...
    A bomb planted inside a mosque killed the governor of Afghanistan's eastern Logar province as he was delivering a speech Tuesday morning to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, officials said.The explosion at the main mosque in the provincial capital of Puli Alam killed Governor Arsallah ...
  • Afghan mosque bomb kills governor of Logar pro ...
    Afghanistan 's east has killed the governor of Logar province.Police said the explosion took place as Arsallah Jamal was delivering a speech on Tuesday morning to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid.The governor's spokesman, Din Mohammad Darwesh, said the bombing took place at the main mosq ...
  • Afghan provincial governor among several kille ...
    KABUL, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The provincial governor Arsala Jamal of eastern Afghan province of Logar was killed Tuesday morning in a mosque explosion, reported local TV channel Tolo News. "Governor Arsala Jamal was leaving the mosque following the Eid prayers. But he was killed after an exp ...

Futurismic

  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Proposed New York Law Provides Rewards and Pro ...
    Pending legislation in New York State would provide protection and compensation for whistleblowers who provide original information about violations of banking, insurance, and financial services laws to the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”).    Bi ...
  • SOX Whistleblower Awarded $1.9 Million
    OSHA has ordered Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. to pay $1.9 million to its former chief financial officer who was fired for reporting conduct he believed was detrimental to the company's shareholders. OSHA's investigation found that the company violated the whistleblower provisions of the Sarban ...
  • SEC Pays $14 Million Award to Whistleblower
    On October 1, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an award of more than $14 million to a whistleblower whose information led to an SEC enforcement action that recovered substantial investor funds.  The award is the largest made by the SEC’s whistleblower program to ...
  • Retirement Home Whistleblower Awarded Back Pay
    The retirement home whistleblower I blogged about in January has been awarded $20,000 in back pay. On September 24, 2013, a federal court ordered S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford, OH, to pay a former resident m ...
  • WHERE WE STAND ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S "POLICY DI ...
    Presidential Policy Directive 19 is a Directive that creates administrative procedures “protecting” employee-whistleblowers who work for U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA, DNI and the Defense Intelligence Agency. When first announced by President Obama in late 2 ...

TechDirt

  • Russia Plans To Launch Sputnik Again -- This T ...
    Techdirt has been reporting for a while the efforts of the Russian government to bring the Internet there under control. It now seems that it is taking a new approach: as well as banning or criminalizing activities it doesn't like, it wants to compete with them directly. Specifically, it plans ...
  • London School Of Economics Wants To Crowdsourc ...
    We've written a few times about the attempt in Iceland to crowdsource a new Constitution. While that's had some political troubles, despite widespread public support, it seems others are taking note. The folks over at the London School of Economics recently decided it might be a fun thought expe ...
  • NSA Collects Email Contact Lists, Instant Mess ...
    The Washington Post is out with the latest revelations from the Snowden leaks and it shows that the NSA relies on foreign telcos and "allied" intelligence agencies to scoop up data on email contact lists and instant messaging buddy lists to help build its giant database of connections. Remember ...
  • DailyDirt: No More Classes, No More Books...
    The field of education is looking ripe for disruption as "distance learning" becomes more and more practical with internet connections and algorithmic grading systems. There are still plenty of bugs to be worked out for digital education, but it's coming. (And famous dropouts from Steve Jobs to ...
  • Welcome To The Danger Zone: An App For Not Get ...
    I suppose if you wanted to, you could make a big list of things that prove this world we live in leaves much to be desired. Flip on the news and you'll understand how government is broken. Ride public transportation in any major city and you'll lose faith in most of humanity by the time you rea ...

VacTruth

  • Seven Year-Old Vaccine-Injured Boy Refused Com ...
    On September 25, 2013, the Daily Mail reported that seven year-old Josh Hadfield had been refused compensation by the UK government, despite being left with severe narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine in 2010.
  • Little Girl Unable to Attend School Because Ju ...
    A little girl who has adverse reactions to vaccines is denied vaccine exemptions and access to school.
  • How Pharmaceutical Companies Hide the Dangers ...
    A 1:50 rate of autism in the United States, increasing autoimmune disorders, seizures, allergies and many other illnesses and disorders. Despite all this, your pediatrician, health officials, governments and pharmaceutical companies proclaim that vaccines are very safe. Did you ever wonder how t ...
  • Have All Your Staff Vaccinated and We Will Giv ...
    According to MK News, the UK Government has decided there is more than one way to force hospital staff into receiving this year’s flu vaccine. Knowing that many hospitals are struggling financially, the government has decided to turn their hand to bribery.
  • Blood Donations are Potential Biohazard from T ...
    The huge wave of serious adverse conditions after Gardasil vaccination has caused deep concern across the world. However, the suffering may not only be limited to those who are vaccinated. Blood donated from individuals vaccinated with Gardasil may have horrific consequences for the recipients’ ...

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Internet Privacy Killing Bills
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comInternet Privacy Killing Bills By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Internet Privacy, Killing Bills via HostGator View the original article at Washingtons BlogCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Jim Rogers: US is exceptional…it’s largest deb ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJim Rogers: US is exceptional…it’s largest debt nation in the world! RT October 15, 2013 There may be progress in US over the government shutdown and debt ceiling, but it’s not all good. The deal being talked about n ...
  • Hidden Messages in New $100 Dollar Bill?
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHidden Messages in New $100 Dollar Bill? Video blogger claims new note contains chilling images of future nuclear attack on U.S. Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com October 15, 2013 A video blogger claims that there are h ...
  • “I am Israeli”
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“I am Israeli” dissidentvoice.orgBy Jonathan Cook Israel is almost certainly the only country that deceives the global community every time one of its citizens crosses an international border. It does so because the passpo ...
  • Japan’s ‘Fukuppy’ firm rethinks mascot after F ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJapan’s ‘Fukuppy’ firm rethinks mascot after Fukushima misunderstanding RT.com Over the weekend, English-language media incorrectly reported that the egg-shaped mascot with blue wings was linked to the stricken nuclear pow ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Empire Under Obama, Part 2: Barack Obama’s Glo ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Writer, Dandelion Salad andrewgavinmarshall.com Originally published on The Hampton Institute October 14, 2013 Under the administration of Barack Obama, America is waging a global terror campaign through the use of drones, killing thousands of people, committing endless ...
  • American Exceptionalism: Monopoly on Democracy?
    Dandelion Salad Featuring Chris Hedges and Gareth Porter. RT on Oct 14, 2013 What is American exceptionalism? Where does the US’s world monopoly on democracy come from? How does the US give itself license to do as it pleases? “Exceptionalism” is a film by RT correspondent Aniss ...
  • Howard Zinn: Columbus, the Indians, and Human ...
    It’s that time of the year again. In case you missed reading this, here it is again. by Howard Zinn Writer, Dandelion Salad October 12, 2009 An excerpt from A People’s History of the United States. Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages on ...
  • Watch the Shocking New Animated Film About the ...
    by Andy Worthington Writer, Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk October 13, 2013 Below is a powerful new animated film, six minutes in length, which tells the story of the hunger strike at Guantánamo that began in February, and involved the majority of the 164 prisoners still held over the ...
  • NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold Wo ...
    by Rick Rozoff Writer, Dandelion Salad Stop NATO October 12, 2013 One of the most significant developments of the post-Cold War era, and certainly the most ominous, is the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military bloc created by the United States during the gen ...

Your New Reality

  • China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
    By Darryl Mason Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous 'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very popular. But not so very accurate: In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...
  • "China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
    Image via this great Joblo story  China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come and work for his studio. The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Grou ...
  • Kurt Cobain's Mad Bad Dream
    In the weeks leading up to the September 1993 release of Nirvana's In Utero album (title taken from a poem by his wife Courtney Love), Kurt Cobain explained what the Nevermind fame circus had done to his sleeping mind movies. "In my dreams, there's always this apocalyptic war going on between ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hokusai Crater
    This dramatic image features Hokusai in the foreground, famous for its extensive set of rays, some of which extend for over a thousand kilometers across Mercury's surface. The extensive, bright rays indicate that Hokusai is one of the youngest large ...     
  • How Quantum Computers and Machine Learning Wil ...
    Big data is overwhelming nearly every field of science. But in order to handle it, we will also need to make advancements in how we process this data deluge. As computers approach the limits of Moore's Law, what new algorithms ...     
  • Arafat and Polonium Poisoning: A Sort-of Update
    On Friday, the news network Al Jazeera made an announcement:  the British medical journal, The Lancet, was now supporting the theory that the deceased Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, had died of polonium-210 poisoning. According to the report, independent scientists had reviewed earlier ... & ...
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hot Young Filaments
    Filaments stream from nebula N44C, a region of glowing hydrogen gas around an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star responsible for illuminating the nebula is unusually hot. Typically, the most massive stars have maximum temperatures ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hebes Chasma
    This mosaic of Hebes Chasma is composed of eight single images taken with the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express, corresponding to orbits 360 (2 May 2004), 2149 (16 September 2005), 3217 (12 July 2006), 5142 (3 January 2008), ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
    At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Moshé-Machover: DeZionization – strategic cons ...
    As [the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palest ...
    Fouzi’s work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian journalist/author/poet/activist Fo ...
    Journalist Magda Abu Fadil remembers Palestinian activist Fouzi El-Asmar who died last month in the Washington DC area. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Fouzi El-Asmar: Al-Ard – the seed of the Pales ...
    Fouzi El-Asmar discusses Al-Ard (The Land), a political organization he helped found in Palestine during the late 1950s whose history and perspective have been marginalized if not largely absented... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • On supporting the Naked Capitalism fundraiser
    On Saturday Yves Smith kicked off her annual fundraiser for Naked Capitalism (NC). If you aren’t familiar with NC, there are few sites like it - ones that go against the prevailing currents of Internet convention.Fifteen years ago just having such a site was an accomplishment. As more pe ...
  • Coming Saturday, October 12th: Music for the M ...
    On Saturday, October 12th there will be a concert at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky to raise money to help fight mountaintop removal coal mining. Details on the Music for the Mountains 2 concert and its accompanying compilation album are here. It is supported by Ohio Citizen Action ( ...
  • The incredible shrinking Internet
    A couple of weeks ago, Yves Smith’s link roundup included a McClatchy piece about consumers dropping cable TV. She remarked: “Trust me, when you seem more consumers ditching cable, you’ll see the pipeline providers start charging based on how much you download a month.” ...
  • Is football on a glide path to obscurity?
    This post argues football may be about to experience a long, slow decline in popularity. First, two disclosures about why I may be predisposed to believing this - and one very important point of emphasis. Disclosures: 1) I am a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan, and since they returned to the NFL ...
  • 18th century political thinking in the 21st
    In 2006 Matthew Yglesias posted “The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics” at the now-defunct site TPM Café. He wrote how he enjoyed reading Green Lantern comic books and briefly explained how the power rings from the series worked, then added:But a lot of people seem to think that A ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Monsanto Pours Millions Into GMO-Labeling Fight
    We're now only weeks away from the next big GMO-labeling vote in the United States; this time in Washington State, where citizens will cast their votes for the people's initiative 522, "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act," on November 5.Click here to read this article
  • Global 'March Against Monsanto' Rallies Activists
    Protesters calling for the permanent boycott of genetically modified organisms marched in dozens of countries Saturday Click here to read this article
  • The Power of Peppermint: 21 Health Benefits Re ...
    As we approach the season of candy canes and peppermints, it's a perfect time to pay homage to the medicinal herb that gives these winter treats their flavor: peppermint.Click here to read this article
  • The Rich Benefits of Eating Chocolate
    New research has emerged proving that chocolate is good not only for the soul, but for your mind and body as well.Click here to read this article
  • Open Letter from Organic Leader Jim Riddle: Wh ...
    I have been involved in the organic sector since the early 1980's as a producer, inspector, trainer, policy specialist, outreach coordinator, grant program administrator, activist and eater- as well as serving on the National Organic Standards Board. I have been a member of the Organic Trade Ass ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Salmonella, Monsanto, Catfi ...
    Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella. Last week I wrote that the federal government shutdown, in shuttering the CDC, would provide fertile ground for pathogens—and here we are, one week later, and at least 278 people nationwide have been sickened by a Salmonella outbreak in chicken. According to this ...
  • The Shutdown, the FDA, Antibiotics, and More
    It’s disturbing to me that the mutinous tantrum over Obamacare will affect the health of so many by disturbing operations at WIC and the Veterans Administration, but I am thankful that we can partially fulfill the right to food through SNAP and the federal school lunch program, at least through ...
  • Reconsidering Retail Store Eligibility in SNAP ...
    How could SNAP leverage this existing network of stores to increase access to more nutritious foods? After all, SNAP exists to improve the nutrition of low-income households.
  • Antibiotic Resistance: How Industrial Agricult ...
    The science is clear, and the only real debate over antibiotic misuse in food animal production is a policy debate over what should be done to end it. But the Alliance has pressed on.
  • The Nutritional Environment: Notes from a Diet ...
    I had the opportunity to step out of the hospital and interact with the Baltimore food system, which shapes the nutritional environment of our patients.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The IPCC Exposed
    The Corbett Report : includes many links to previous podcasts and sources cited including cap and trade links to oil industry promoting carbon taxes Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. Has Been "Torturing" Iran for 60 Years
    Begin with a military coup In 1979, the U.S. almost immediately turned to supporting Saddam Hussein in an assault against Iran, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iranians Why the Mafia principle.They overthrew a tyrant that the United States imposed Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Public "Education" has become indoctrination a ...
    School is about memorizing what you are told short term and repeating it. his is for the work force the most important quality in a worker bee actually is obedience. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Waste Heat Recovery Device Can Increase Car Mi ...
    Physicists at the University of Houstons physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovative waste heat recovery device that can increase car mileage by 5%. Submitted by Alex Clark to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • A Lesson Learned
    Melissa M.H This story brought tears to my eyes - Although my kids are considerate and thankful most times - I'm sure they would have benefited even more so with a lesson like this Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Ex-San Diego Mayor Filner charged with false i ...
    ShareThisEx-San Diego Mayor Filner charged with false imprisonment, battery 15 Oct 2013 Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who left office in a scandal over allegations of sexual harassment, has been charged with one felony count of false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery, San D ...
  • Non-disclosure required for Sandy Hook School crew
    ShareThisNon-disclosure required for Sandy Hook School crew 14 Oct 2013 Contractors involved in the demolition of the Sandy Hook Elementary School are being required to sign confidentiality agreements that prohibit them from publicly discussing the site, taking photographs or disclosing inform ...
  • Public access barred at Sandy Hook Elementary ...
    ShareThisPublic access barred at Sandy Hook Elementary School demolition 15 Oct 2013 Contractors demolishing Sandy Hook Elementary School are being required to sign confidentiality agreements forbidding public discussion of the site, photographs or disclosure of any information about the buildin ...
  • Bomb attack near Afghan capital kills influent ...
    ShareThisBomb attack near Afghan capital kills influential governor 15 Oct 2013 A bomb attack on a mosque in Afghanistan killed the governor of a province south of the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday as he was making an address on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, officials said. Ar ...
  • Strong typhoon heads for Japan and Fukushima n ...
    ShareThisStrong typhoon heads for Japan and Fukushima nuclear plant 15 Oct 2013 A powerful typhoon was closing in on Japan on Tuesday, on a path that will take it toward the precarious Fukushima nuclear power plant. Typhoon Wipha, packing winds of up to 144 kilometres per hour near its centre, ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Afghanistan: A Bigger Monster
    10 October 2013 Just months ago Pentagon officials dismissed the idea of a total pullout from Afghanistan.  Today we are on the verge of ending negotiations on our future there, leading to the “zero option.”  Total withdrawal. If we execute a zero option, this is my basic worst-cas ...
  • Federal Government Explains Failure Effects to ...
    03 October 2013
  • Marine Statement on Bastion Attack
    01 October 2013 Commandant Announces Decision in Afghanistan Attack Investigation HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS, Washington, D.C. - The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen James F. Amos, has concluded that  two high-ranking Marine commanders must be held accountable for the consequences of la ...
  • Army Times: Fort Hood soldiers can face UCMJ i ...
    24 September 2013 According to the Army Times and many other publications, soldiers from Fort Hood are turning many Texans against them.  The base commander has finally put his boot down as a direct result of one Master Sergeant CJ Grisham who has been staging armed confrontations with pol ...
  • Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
    02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...

The Killing Train

  • tarekandjohn.com
    When Tarek and John were arrested on August 16, we were taken by surprise. We used whatever tools we had to hand to get the message out. As their emergency contact, I used my own blog and my own twitter handle, and became one of their official spokespeople. In the intervening 50 days, we set up ...
  • Tarek and John are free
    Oct 6/13 Tarek and John are out of jail. Thank you to everyone who followed, supported, wrote letters, helped, worked, and kept going when this thing ended up going so much longer than we thought it would. read more
  • Tarek and John end hunger strike
    Oct 2/13, 8pm We learned today that Tarek and John have ended their hunger strike. They have resumed eating solid food under medical supervision. They saw a doctor, as well as staff from the Canadian Embassy, today. Tarek and John commenced their hunger strike on September 16, a month after the ...
  • Tarek and John Update: Time to close the loophole
    Oct 1/13, 10pm Time to close the loophole read more
  • PM Stephen Harper calls for immediate release
    Sept 29, 10:20pm The families of Tarek and John are pleased to see Prime Minister Stephen Harper's statement that Tarek and John should be released immediately.

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Fifteen Minutes an American President
    Obama is Preparing for Even More Deadly Wars Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups an ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- Blackout: The Media and ...
    In June 2003, then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller learnt Valerie Plame’s name along with journalists like Robert Novak and Bob Woodward. From July 2005 to October 2005, Miller spent 85 days in jail for not revealing her sources on Plame to Patrick Fitzgerald’s grand jury inves ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Whatever Became Of Western Civilization?
    A Total Collapse of Economic & Government Morality Not that long ago government and free market proponents were at sword’s point, but no more. With little left in the private sector to rip off, the financial gangsters have turned to the public sector and put to work for them the free market ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent-The New Media Revolut ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Abby Martin On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by the founder and editor of Media Roots and host of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin. Guillermo and Abby discuss a wide variety of issues and news stories, focusing on the psychological and soci ...

Afro Spear

  • Sunday Inspirations
    Africa’s First Female Airline Captain  – Capt. Irene Koki Mutungi                          Click on image for story
  • From Mis-education to Self-education: Taking R ...
    “Currently, it is the schools that are majorly responsible for socializing, instilling values, moralizing and instructing Black learners. I believe …Continue reading »
  • sat’day riddymz
    5 of The Greatest Socially Conscious African Musicians…EVER!                             Click on image below
  • Eurocentric Brainwash: WE simply don’t need YO ...
    Piggybacking on my recent article “Eurocentric Brainwash: The Bain Of Black Existence In North America” I want to extend further …Continue reading »
  • Eurocentric Brainwash: The Bain Of Black Exist ...
    As a Canadian following the US “Shutdown of non-essential Government” or the forced furlough of government employees, It’s been a …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Iran Hacks Azerbaijan’s Israeli-Made Drone Fleet
    The Israeli source who conveyed to me the crisis in Israel’s drone fleet has added that the Iranians have hacked Azerbaijan’s Israeli-made drone fleet as well: Using [a nearly identical drone] to the fallen Hermes 450, several months ago IAF…drones also failed in Azerbaijan.  [ ...
  • Iranian Sabotage Compromises Entire Israeli Dr ...
    A few days ago, I published two different reports: one on Israeli war games simulating an attack on Iran; the second on Iranian sabotaging of four Israeli drones over the past two years.  Tonight’s post will draw those two reports together in some quite amazing and disturbing ways. Regular ...
  • Israel’s Empty Threats Against Iran
    Israel’s Air Force regularly trains for attacking Iran.  I’ve written several posts about previous war games exercises in Greece and Romania.  The latter in 2004 ended in a helicopter crash during an exercise in which the IAF was simulating flight and landings at very high altitude.  ...
  • Israeli Drones Fallin’ from the Skies Like Fli ...
    Israeli media have announced that the IAF has “lost” (Hebrew and English) yet another of its advanced drones, the Hermes-450, one of the most advanced of its fleet.  This marks the third vehicle lost in a similar manner in the past six months.  A fourth drone was “lost” t ...
  • Israel and Egypt’s Junta, Birds of a Feather
    The NY Times published a strange story today.  It recounts that Israel expressed dismay at Obama’s cut-off of military aid to Egypt in light of the military junta’s massacre of hundreds of unarmed Muslim Brotherhood protesters over the past month, including 55 in the past few days.  ...

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

  • Today In Moral Panics
    A young woman gets suspended and stripped of her volleyball captaincy under “zero tolerance” rules on drinking…even though she was not in fact drinking and was there to give an inebriated friend a ride. Apparently, the right thing to do would have been…to let her friend d ...
  • (Late) Sunday Book Review: Global Air Power
    Global Air Power, edited by John Andreas Olsen, is a collection of nine essays on the international development of military aviation.  Six of these essays concentrate on nations (United Kingdom, United States, Israel, Russia, India, and China), and three on regions (Asia-Pacific, Latin America, ...
  • Ted Cruz: A Greater Embarassment to Alberta th ...
    More on Republicans very upset that the Republican shutdown is causing the government to be shut down. On the broader logic of Republican extortion, I like Krugman’s metaphor: So you have this neighbor who has been making your life hell. First he tied you up with a spurious lawsuit; you’re ...
  • The Failed Implementation of the ACA is a Seri ...
    Yes, the fact that the opposition party is determined to sabotage it is a serious problem. Yes, there are genuinely difficult challenges involved, and hopefully we won’t be hearing any more from instant amateur health policy experts who assure us that Harry Reid was an idiot for not having ...
  • Entertainingly Pompous Moments in Self-Refutation
    There are multiple ways to indirectly inform people that your arguments are terrible, and Niall Ferguson avails himself of all of them. For example, attacking people by comparing cvs rather than addressing their arguments. The thing is, arguments like “inflation is really over 10% per annu ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Open House to Feature Latest Solar Technology
    JoinNV Energy, DRI’s renewable energy experts and research scientists for a Solar Celebration on Saturday, October 5th at DRI’s Renewable Energy Deployment and Display (REDD) Facility for a hands-on tour.
  • 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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Seven Best Law School Mentions in Congress Thi ...
    In remarks on the House and Senate floors, members of Congress this year brought up law school in a variety of ways. Here are the seven best mentions this year, as reported in the Congressional Record.
  • Judge Asked to Trim Victim Statements in Bulge ...
    Lawyers for accused mobster James ?Whitey? Bulger and the Boston U.S. Attorney?s Office are facing off about whether victims of crimes for which he was acquitted should be allowed to speak out during his sentencing hearing next month.
  • UT Wins Race-Bias Case Filed by Former Law Sch ...
    The University of Texas School of Law has prevailed on appeal in a racial-discrimination lawsuit brought against a former staffer who was fired in 2010.
  • Chevron v. Donziger: A Dickensian Cheat Sheet
    Twenty years of litigation. A $19 billion judgment. Sixty law firms and 2000 legal professionals — and that's just on one side. Chevron in Ecuador can plausibly claim to be the messiest case since Jarndyce sued Jarndyce.
  • In-House Counsel Profile: Hillshire Brands Co. ...
    Before joining Hillshire, Kent Magill was Hostess Brands Inc.'s general counsel. He helped guide Hostess through its first bankruptcy in 2009 and left after it filed its second bankruptcy, in 2011.

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

  • Million Vet March on the Memorials Draws Crowd ...
    Several thousand veterans, tea party activists and truckers began a demonstration early Sunday morning at the World War II Memorial in Washington.
  • Somalia Mourns Death Renowned Sports Volunteer
    The late Ali was known for his great role in the promotion of Somali sports and in particularly basketball and athletics. According to the Somali Olympic committee the Late Ali had lent a forceful commitment in the development of Somali sports
  • Does The Israeli - Egypt Relationship Balance ...
    According to the New York Times, 'one Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate diplomacy involved, warned that the implications of punitive cuts in Egypt's aid could go far beyond the issue of Israeli-Egypti
  • Actress Jamie McCall Living The High Life
    Like many tales of Hollywood, all that glitters isn't gold, at least that is what Jamie learned during her rise and fall and rise again. Her tale could almost be an E True Hollywood Story.
  • International Day of The Girl: US Reaffirms Co ...
    According to Secretary Kerry, with the efforts of number of global partnerships and programs led by the State Department, like TechGirls and NeXXt Scholars and great USAID programs like Safe Schools, they have made important progress.

environment 360

  • World Oceans Are in Worse Condition than Previ ...
    The world's oceans are deteriorating more rapidly than scientists had thought due to rising carbon dioxide levels and associated warming, according to a new analysis by European scientists. By many indicators, ocean conditions are even worse than outlined last USGS/Wikimedia Sea butterfly ...
  • The Ambitious Restoration of An Undammed Weste ...
    With the dismantling of two dams on Washington state’s Elwha River, the world’s largest dam removal project is almost complete. Now, in one of the most extensive U.S. ecological restorations ever attempted, efforts are underway to revive one of the Pacific Northwest’s great salmon rivers. BY C ...
  • Nitrogen from Agricultural Fertilizers Threate ...
    Ammonia emissions from agricultural fertilizers are threatening sensitive ecosystems in U.S. national parks, a study led by Harvard researchers has found. Thirty-eight national parks are seeing nitrogen deposition levels at or above the threshold for ecological damage, rskoon/Flickr Great ...
  • Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Are Laggin ...
    Major projects aiming at capturing and burying carbon dioxide underground have slowed worldwide, according to a study by the Global CCS Institute in Australia. Despite the common view among experts that carbon CO2CRC Otway CCS project, Victoria, Australia capture and storage (CCS) technol ...
  • In Japan, Captive Breeding May Help Save the W ...
    As eel populations plummet worldwide, Japanese scientists are racing to solve a major challenge for aquaculture — how to replicate the life cycle of eels in captivity and commercially produce a fish that is a prized delicacy on Asian dinner tables. BY WINIFRED BIRD

Red Ice Creations

  • The Iron Man cometh: US Army commissions ’TALO ...
    As if inspired by Marvel Comics itself, the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has commissioned a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS for short, which will likely contain liquid armor, a substance that is being developed at MIT... The material can change from liquid to solid in millis ...
  • "You Should Have Expected U.S.": Series of Att ...
    The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward after the third in a series of power grid attacks in Arkansas left 10,000 residents without power over the weekend. The attacks began back in September: In the early morning hours of September 29, 2013, officials with Entergy Arkansas reported a fire at its K ...
  • Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years
    Shaken, scorched and boiled in its own juices, this 4000-year-old human brain has been through a lot. It may look like nothing more than a bit of burnt log, but it is one of the oldest brains ever found. Its discovery, and the story now being pieced together of its owner’s last hours, offers the ...
  • Beer In Space: Brewery Will Fly to Space Station
    In a couple of months, the astronauts on the International Space Station will help make a cosmic brew, courtesy of a sixth grader from Colorado. Eleven-year-old Michal Bodzianowski’s microbrewery experiment, designed to test the effects of making beer in space, has won a trip to the space statio ...
  • Sticks and stones: Brain releases natural pain ...
    “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” goes the playground rhyme that’s supposed to help children endure taunts from classmates. But a new study suggests that there’s more going on inside our brains when someone snubs us – and that the brain may have its own way of ...

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

  • FLASHBACK - 9/11 Truth Music Video: Scorpions ...
    Here is the first YouTube video I ever put together back from 2008.
  • Learn History with Philip Zelikow!
    As Philip Zelikow prepares to teach an online history course, we peel back the layers of propaganda from the former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. From cover up to predictive programming, we examine the ways that Zelikow helped to shape (and write) the history he's now teaching. ...
  • 9/11 Truth Debunking 911myths.com WTC Molten S ...
    Published on Oct 12, 2013 Eric Lawyer FF for 9/11 Truth well-argumented Version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADygllD35t0 9/11 Everything is Missing, MSM Fraud by the ton! Major 9/11 Oddities Review 2013 http://beforeitsnews.com/9-11-and-ground-zero/2013/10/911-busting-jim-fetzer-i- ...
  • 9/11 Truth Caller on The Breakfast Buzz 98.9FM
    http://rethink911.org
  • Open Letter to New York Media Personnel
    John-Michael Talboo recently posted an article that is a call to action to partake in a grass-roots effort where people like you contact chosen media outlets in New York to support the ReThink9/11 campaign. The article provides all the necessary instructions for writing your own letter, includin ...

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

  • Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
    A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...
  • International condemnation of Botswana over Bu ...
    Botswana has been condemned for barring the Bushmen's lawyer ahead of a key court case. He had successfully defended the Bushmen's rights during three previous cases.© SurvivalThe Botswana government has been subject to fierce criticism over its persecution of the Kalahari Bushmen. The ...
  • World Mental Health Day: Suicide epidemic rava ...
    A Guarani girl stands by her road-side shack – endless fields have replaced her tribe's rich forests. Children as young as nine have been committing suicide.© Paul Patrick BorhaugWarning: contains disturbing image. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, Survival International ha ...
  • Police arrest Penan as tribe blockades dam site
    Last year the Penan protested at the dam site for 36 days© SCANE/SurvivalTensions are mounting at the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Yesterday police arrested one man and dismantled Penan shelters. More than 100 Penan are currently blockading the dam site. The Penan, whose forest h ...
  • Worldwide protests demand stop to Brazil's ass ...
    Vocal protests were held in London today against Brazil's assault on indigenous rights. © SurvivalSupporters of human rights organization Survival International held a vocal protest outside the Brazilian embassy in London today in support of thousands of indigenous demonstrators in Brazil r ...

Greg Palast

  • The Golden Dawn Murder Case Larry Summers and ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi.  But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife:  The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a p ...
  • 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 ...

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: Autism's Forever Children ...
    By Anne Dachel It seems that the mainstream media intends to talk about the needs of adults with autism in the same apathetic way they do about children. October 9, 2010, New York Times: The Architecture of Autism "Here is...
  • Uncertainty as High Court Judge Rules Two Brit ...
    By John Stone Last week a High Court judge in the United Kingdom, Mrs Justice Theis, ruled that two sisters aged 15 and 11 should be given MMR vaccine against their will and that of their mother, after an application...
  • Winners: Enhansa Taste-Free Curcumin Supplemen ...
    Three winners of either the powder or capsule form of Enhansa Curcumin supplement from Lee Silsby are Lauren Harris, Joe P and Dave Kornbleth. I'm sending you each an email so you can contact LS for your shipment. CONGRATS! The...
  • CHOP Says NO CHOCKS! Philadelphia Hospital Dis ...
    By Eubie Quinoles CHOP, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, just sent out an announcement via their blog – “Cornerstone, Where Science and Medicine Converge:” Children’s Hospital First in Nation to Disallow Use of Dietary Supplements Maybe that blog should be...
  • Avonte Oquendo, 14, Preverbal Autism, Missing ...
    We've been following and updating the Avonte Oquendo story on our FB and Twitter feeds. In case you have not heard, Avonte eloped from his school in Queens, New York and has not been seen since the 4th.. His family...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

new geography

  • Shenzhen II?: The New Shanghai Financial Free ...
    Less than 35 years ago, China established its first special economic zone in Shenzhen, a prefecture (Note) bordering Hong Kong. This model is about to be expanded with the establishment of a new financially oriented free-trade zone in Shanghai, which could prove a major breakthrough in that ...
  • Cashing in on So Cal Culture
    Southern California has always been an invented place. Without a major river, a natural port or even remotely adequate water, the region has always thrived on reinventing itself – from cow town to agricultural hub to oil city, Tinsel Town and the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Today, the need fo ...
  • Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs
    With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech elite, who don’t need to produce much in the way of profits to be showered with investor cash.  Libertarians will celebr ...
  • Viewing McJobs From the Flip Side
    The headline read, “We Have Become a Nation of Hamburger Flippers: Dan Alpert Breaks Down the Jobs Report.” Seems that Alpert, the managing partner of New York investment bank Westwood Capital, LLC, was unhappy that most of the jobs created in July were for low-wage workers. Albert wasn’t alon ...
  • Exporting Metros
    If there’s one thing that people of pretty much every political persuasion agree on, it’s the need to boost exports. This is true not just at the national level, but also the local one. The balance of world population and economic growth is outside the United States. McKinsey esti ...

water.org

  • Cooking with Water
    Clean water isn't just the cornerstone of life, it's the foundation of a healthy, delicious meal.
  • $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.

Cryptogon

  • Louisiana Walmart Shelves Cleared Out After EB ...
    Via: KSLA: Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits. The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numero ...
  • NSA Collects Millions of E-mail Address Books ...
    Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former ...
  • Arizona Solar Plant Keeps Producing Electricit ...
    Via: PhysOrg: Abengoa’s Solana plant in the desert near Gila Bend, Arizona, passed commercial testing this week The 280-megawatt Solana solar thermal power plant producing electricity without direct sunlight made the announcement on Wednesday. Abengoa said Wednesday that the facility, abou ...
  • Radiation Experts Confirm Polonium on Arafat&# ...
    Via: AFP: Swiss radiation experts have confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat which “support the possibility” the veteran Palestinian leader was poisoned. In a report published by The Lancet at the weekend, the team provide scientific details to med ...
  • U.S. Intelligence Assets Present During Tortur ...
    How this appeared on Fox News is a mystery to me, but it’s worth saving. Via: Fox News (mirror): The details of the case are not new. However, those involved in investigating the case, have until now remained silent about the role U.S. intelligence assets played in Camarena’s capture and Q ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 22 Reasons To Be Concerned About The U.S. Econ ...
    Are we on the verge of another major economic downturn?  In recent weeks, most of the focus has been on our politicians in Washington, but there are lots of other reasons to be deeply alarmed about the economy as well.  Economic confidence is down, retail sales figures are disappointing, job cut ...
  • Power Mad Obama Offers Two Choices: Unconditio ...
    Barack Obama is warning that if he does not get everything that he wants that he will force the U.S. government into a devastating debt default which will cripple the entire global economy.  In essence, Obama has become so power mad that he is actually willing to take the entire planet hostage i ...
  • Extreme Hypocrisy! Obama Orders Federal Worker ...
    Why would the president of the United States try to purposely hurt the American people?  Well, in 2013 this is done in order to score political points and force the opposition in to doing what you want them to do.  A few days ago, an angry Park Service ranger publicly admitted that he and his [...]
  • 12 Very Ominous Warnings About What A U.S. Deb ...
    A U.S. debt default that lasts for more than a couple of days could potentially cause a financial crash unlike anything that the world has ever seen before.  If the U.S. government purposely wanted to damage the global financial system, the best way that they could do that would be to default on ...
  • 30 Statistics About Americans Under The Age Of ...
    Why are young people in America so frustrated these days?  You are about to find out.  Most young adults started out having faith in the system.  They worked hard, they got good grades, they stayed out of trouble and many of them went on to college.  But when their educations where over, they di ...

Desertification

  • Water for health, food security and economic p ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46214&Cr=water&Cr1=#.UlktGFBMig0 Water holds key to sustainable development, UN chief tells Budapest summit Water holds the key to sustainable development. We need it for health, food security and economic progress. Yet, each year br ...
  • Greater ambition and coherence to global effor ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/global-efforts-to-tackle-poverty-and-climate-change-must-come-together/ Global efforts to tackle poverty and climate change must come together by Manish Bapna When the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, takes the floor of the UN General Assembly next week, he wi ...
  • Innovations that help smallholder farmers grow ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/picture/feature.php?a=3077 Nourishing communities Integrated approach About 825 million people in the developing world are undernourished. Innovations that help smallholder farmers grow more nutritious and diverse food can help change this, but an integrated a ...
  • People with disabilities and their families to ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=3095 Inclusion and survival in the backyards of Niger “Before I had this garden I was always at home, but now I come and work,” Oumou Moussa enthuses. Oumou hasn’t been able to walk since she contracted … Continue ...
  • Demonstration gardens in schools that catered ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=3097 Making urban agriculture inclusive Despite growing awareness that agriculture in urban areas has significant implications for income generation, food security and nutrition, little is known about the opportunities people with disabil ...

News Blaze

  • Million Vet March on the Memorials Draws Crowd ...
    Several thousand veterans, tea party activists and truckers began a demonstration early Sunday morning at the World War II Memorial in Washington.
  • Somalia Mourns Death Renowned Sports Volunteer
    The late Ali was known for his great role in the promotion of Somali sports and in particularly basketball and athletics. According to the Somali Olympic committee the Late Ali had lent a forceful commitment in the development of Somali sports
  • Does The Israeli - Egypt Relationship Balance ...
    According to the New York Times, 'one Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate diplomacy involved, warned that the implications of punitive cuts in Egypt's aid could go far beyond the issue of Israeli-Egypti
  • Actress Jamie McCall Living The High Life
    Like many tales of Hollywood, all that glitters isn't gold, at least that is what Jamie learned during her rise and fall and rise again. Her tale could almost be an E True Hollywood Story.
  • International Day of The Girl: US Reaffirms Co ...
    According to Secretary Kerry, with the efforts of number of global partnerships and programs led by the State Department, like TechGirls and NeXXt Scholars and great USAID programs like Safe Schools, they have made important progress.

libcom

  • Who can ride the garment tiger?
    RMG_roadblock-for min_wage-Sep2013-Dhaka.jpg On Saturday September 21st there began a 10 day mass agitation by Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment(RMG) workers demanding a 170% increase in their minimum wa ...
  • Another Abahlali baseMjondolo activist murdere ...
    Nqobile Nzuza, 17 years, old was shot dead by the police yesterday morning on a road blockade. She was shot in the back, twice. This is the statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo. read more
  • Joint declaration for an inclusive and anti-ra ...
    stopracism.gif Words like shock and horror do not do enough to express our disgust before the hate crime perpetrated Saturday afternoon against the Chicoutimi Mosque. We who are active every day teari ...
  • 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 ...

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’ ...
  • 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 ever 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
  • 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • New Guidelines Spur India's Solar Mission, But ...
    India’s solar energy market is heating up this month as the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy releases its Phase 2 guidelines that will govern the next batch of solar energy project bids for funding through the National Solar Mission.read more
  • Illustrating How the Keystone Pipeline Fails t ...
    The fact are clear: The Keystone XL pipeline fails President Obama's climate test. The pipeline significantly exacerbates the problem of carbon pollution. It is not in the national interest, and its Presidential Permit should be denied.read more
  • Turning Small Modular Reactor Concepts Into Re ...
    In the past half dozen years, the term “small modular reactor” has entered the nuclear energy lexicon. Numerous projects have been initiated to develop various concepts, all aimed at producing nuclear reactor based power plants that are small enough to be built in a factory setting.read more
  • Climate Science for Beginners
    Does it infuriate you when people conflate measurements of carbon and carbon dioxide? Do you know your equilibrium climate sensitivity from your transient climate response? How about the relative importance of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and black carbon in terms of radiative forcing?read more
  • Why Are IEA Renewables Growth Projections So M ...
    The IEA has greatly underestimated the growth of renewables for some years now. This illustrates how important it is to allow for unexpected outcomes if policy design is to be robust, as even well informed projections can be very different from the subsequent out-turn.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • François Hollande’s Missteps put Fr ...
    Franklin Lamb Beirut In modern times, France has done far better diplomatically when it has advocated against impetuous military involvement in the internal affairs of other countries. French standing in international politics has been highest when its government was cautious about its milit ...
  • Haitian Cholera Victims Sue for Redress
    by Stephen Lendman Long-suffering Haitians know adversity and anguish as well as anyone. Except briefly after their 1804 revolution and under Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they've been denied legitimate governance, freedom, equity and justice. For over 500 years, they've suffered hugely. They ...
  • Obama's War on Press Freedom
    by Stephen Lendman Free and open expression is our most fundamental right. Without it all others are endangered. Candidate Obama promised transparency, accountability, and reform. He called sunlight "the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse." He said whistleblowing re ...
  • Tea Party Terrorists
    Joel S. Hirschhorn By now all conscious people have seen how American Tea Party Republicans, especially those in the House of Representatives and Senate, are widely seen as radical, unreasonable, mad, stupid, extreme, anarchists, delusional and worse. My view is that the best and most usef ...
  • Israeli Factor in Syrian Conflict Unveiled
    By Nicola Nasser** More than two and a half years on, Israel’s purported neutrality in the Syrian conflict and the United State’s fanfare rhetoric urging a “regime change” in Damascus were abruptly cut short to unveil that the Israeli factor has been all throughout the c ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Join us for Ed Finn's book launch and ret ...
    He's the brains behind the CCPA Monitor. He's a true legend. It’s hard to believe, but Ed Finn will be retiring next spring. Join us Thursday, November 21st in Ottawa, as we celebrate Ed’s eventful career and the release of his long-awaited memoirs.  For details about the book launch and for ti ...
  • Making the case for postal banking in Canada
    A new CCPA study finds that the traditional financial banking sector is not meeting the needs of all Canadians. According to the study there are many Canadians in large regions of the country not served by banking institutions, and an estimated 3% to 15% of Canadians do not have a bank account. ...
  • Toronto's "Hot Jobs" or McJobs?
  • Fundraiser for Next Up Ottawa
    Next Up, a leadership program for young social and environmental advocates co-hosted by CCPA, is holding a fundraiser in Ottawa on Thursday, October 10 at 6pm at 3-340 Metcalfe Street. 
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why Gasoline Prices are Falling
    Fall is always a welcome change of pace for most people after a long, hot summer. Not only from the temperatures, but fall almost always brings relief at the gasoline pump. Robert Rapier explains.
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Deputies Raid Home For 'Smelling Like Meth Lab ...
    A Los Angeles County Sheriff*s deputy smelled what he thought was the scent of a meth lab coming from 80-year-old Eugene Mallory's home in Littlerock. The deputy's subjective olfactory sensations were apparently enough "probably cause" for a judge t...
  • Civilian Oversight
    From the Washington Post: Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler regularly ordered state troopers assigned to drive him to turn on the lights and sirens on the way to routine appointments, directing them to speed, run red lights and bypass tra...
  • Meet Donald Miller, "Un-Person"
    In the totalitarian lexicon invented by George Orwell, there is no more frightening term than *un-person.* That expression described a living human being of whom the State took no official notice, and who had no rights the government would recognize....
  • We May be "Sheep," but Cops Aren't Good Shepherds
    Referring to a recent incident in which an Oregon traffic stop led to a shootout in which the driver died, a police officer opined: *If sheep continue to disobey orders we will have much more of this.* He also referred wistfully to the days before *d...
  • Female NYPD Officer Tells Ice Cream Man to "Bl ...
    From YouTube: This video was taken in the summer of 2013 by a vendor who is a member of the Street Vendor Project. Fearing retaliation from the NYPD once this video is made public, he wishes to remain anonymous. The vendor, who sells ice cre...

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

  • Denial in the face of debt default. What debt ...
    Why is surrender so often the President’s first option?  Debt ceiling?  What debt ceiling?  That’s a unicorn in Congress’s garden! For all the talk about the United States approaching a catastrophic debt ceiling and subsequent unprecedented but exceptional default that would have unpredictable b ...
  • How drug cartels launder money, manipulate sto ...
    This sobering report from Chatham House details the various ways DTOs (Drug Trafficking Organizations) launder money, manipulate stock prices, and turn dirty money into minty fresh clean money. Drug cartels have multitudes of businesses, some of which may have legitimate income. Invoices and con ...
  • Solar Decathlon. Net Zero House stays at 70 wh ...
    Heating costs are expensive in New England. Students at Norwich University in Vermont have designed an affordable 2 bedroom 1 bath home with net zero energy use that will stay at 70 degrees even if it’s minus 20 outside. Wow. The Solar Decathlon features homes designed and built by college ...
  • African inventor creates 3D printer from e-was ...
    Kodjo Afate Gnikou of Togo built a functional 3D printer out of electronic waste and discarded parts for $100, crowdfunded with just $4,000. He wants to inspire young Africans to create, saying “My dream is to give young people hope and to show that Africa, too, has its place on the global ...
  • It’s official. Our politicians are irresponsib ...
    Congress is waiting to see what the markets will do, hoping it will drop off a cliff so the other side will be forced to cave. Yes, they really are that self-absorbed and selfish. They are literally trying to sleaze their way to short-term political gain and don’t care what catastrophes ha ...

Just World News

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frogblog

  • Frackers sue Canada – another reason to ...
    If you were wondering about why environmentalists are so concerned about the so-called trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, have a look what is happening in Canada.
  • Roses are red … but where are those violets from?
    3 News had an interesting story on about flower growers calling for country of origin labelling on flowers in New Zealand. We have long been calling for country of origin labelling on food and it is interesting to hear yet another industry saying that they are struggling against cheap imports. T ...
  • NZ laws and global surveillance
    This is a pretty interesting time for New Zealand to be dramatically changing our surveillance laws. The Key Government has chosen (albeit somewhat forced to after the Kim Dotcom saga) to make significant changes to the GCSB and TICS bills at the same time as serious global conversations continu ...
  • TICS and you
    This week I’ve been on a bit of a theme, writing about how the TICS bill will impact NZ’s IT sector and the parts of the bill that have upset internet’s biggest companies. Today I want to bring it back to what this bill means for you, me, and the rest of New Zealand – […]
  • Two smart measures to make our Reserve Bank fi ...
    The Treasury released papers last week recommending that the Reserve Bank move towards a committee structure for making future decisions on the Official Cash Rate (OCR). New Zealand is now alone in relying on a single person – the Reserve Bank Governor – to set the OCR. No other country in the d ...

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 411: #NeverForget Travis the Chimp
    The NFL and Breast Cancer Awareness Going overboard with Breast Cancer Awareness month The Government Shutdown Just how dumb Republicans are Obamacare vs Affordable Care Act Fuck George Zimmerman’s wife Woman 0 Tiger 1 GTA Online Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • If we pass safe climate limits, it’s a long wa ...
    If we want to get back to pre-warming levels once greenhouse gases and temperatures have peaked, we’d have to take more CO2 out of the air than we originally emitted, Andrew MacDougall from the University of Victoria, Canada, has shown.
  • How ocean data helped reveal the climate beast
    Prompted by findings of abrupt temperature changes in history to describe climate as an ‘angry beast’ Wally Broecker has more recently helped establish efforts to calm it down by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it.
  • How ocean data helped reveal the climate beast
    Prompted by findings of abrupt temperature changes in history to describe climate as an ‘angry beast’ Wally Broecker has more recently helped establish efforts to calm it down by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it.
  • 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.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Young apes manage emotions like humans
    Researchers studying young bonobos in an African sanctuary have discovered striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and that of children, suggesting these great apes regulate their emotions in a human-like way. This is important to human evolutionary history because ...
  • A blueprint for restoring touch with a prosthe ...
    New research at the University of Chicago is laying the groundwork for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that one day could convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct interface with the brain. read more
  • Sex over survival: Reproductive trait in fish ...
    New research on the reproductive habits of zebrafish offers an explanation as to why some animals' bodies repair tissues. The research team previously noticed that male zebrafish regenerate their pectoral fins poorly, as compared to females. Their latest findings, publishing in the October 14 is ...
  • The role of 'master regulators' in gene mutati ...
    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new way to parse and understand how special proteins called "master regulators" read the genome, and consequently turn genes on and off. read more
  • Predators vs. alien: European shrimps win pred ...
    A shrimp from America has been invading Europe's rivers and lakes for several decades, but something seems to be preventing this colonist from becoming numerous and problematic, like so many other invaders -- such as the Californian grey squirrel and American crayfish. Could the resident Europea ...

unEarthed

  • Protecting Coral’s Protectors
    Court decision helps keep Caribbean coral reefs alive Parrotfish are being fished to dangerously low levels. (NPS) If you tried to invent the perfect caretake ...
  • Getting Our Nation's New Climate Rules Right
    Strong power plant carbon limits are critical for tackling climate change EPA is now taking the next step to control pollution from new power plants. (Calin Tatu / Shutterstock) ...
  • Costs of Coal Exports, Part III: Margaret Fox ...
    "It scares me to think that more coal will be exported from this facility." Coal dust and soot coats Fox's property inside and out. (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) ...
  • What It Means To Live by a Carbon Budget
    For our economy and communities, must live by the budget Mountaintop removal mining is devastating communities in Appalachia. The drive to drill and mine anywhere, by whatever extreme mean ...
  • EPA Sued Over Outdoor Heaters Spewing Soot
    Health issues growing as wood furnaces become more commonplace Outdoor wood furnaces for sale in Delaware. (Samuel Houchins) Many Americans looking to es ...

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

  • America’s Wealthy Have 50 Trillion In As ...
    That’s right. The wealthy in America have enough money to pay off our entire national debt, and they wouldn’t even miss the money. So when we go to war over the “budget” and “sequestration” remember. It is all a smokescreen. The GOP is fighting to the death to ...
  • Robert Reich Says It All
    Reich: “Now is the time to lance the boil of Republican extremism once and for all. ” Read Entire Article…
  • This Could Be The End Of The GOP
    Great article on the New Republic. The Last Days of the GOP We could be witnessing the death throes of the Republican Party Article… A lot spelled out of the power centers of yesterday’s GOP and today’s lunatic fringe, and “establishment” Republicans. Very good read!
  • Rumors – Tea Party Splitting From Republ ...
    Puhleeeeez. Go for it! I am sure the corporate ties of “mainstream” Republicans do not sit well with teabaggers. Paying taxes just to have them all go to corporate welfare has to piss off a few of these anti-government “gonna blow things up” tea party freaks. Please, take ...
  • Government Shutdown 100% Fault Of Republicans ...
    Since they changed the rules there would not be a vote to keep the government in operation. – Read More… – Now let’s stop pretending the Democrats are to blame in any way.

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

  • How Israel increases its odds of international ...
    When the criminal records of IDF war criminals are expunged, the government puts them in danger of being tried abroad. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Last week Yesh Din published a new report,”Lacuna: War Crimes in Israeli Law and Court Martial Rulings.” It deals with the way ...
  • Resource: War crimes in Israeli law
    Israel has not yet enacted a law defining war crimes, and the military courts judge soldiers who violate the rules of law according to “regular” offenses. Yesh Din’s new report presents the need for Israeli legislation on this subject. The approach currently applied in Israel argues that o ...
  • Hooray, we brought the Iranian people to their ...
    With nuclear talks resuming Tuesday, the happy consensus is that the sanctions have forced Iran’s regime to blink. But hardly anyone wants to think about the effect they’ve had on the country’s 80 million people.   If you Google “bringing the Iranian economy to its knees, ...
  • From Italy to Israel/Palestine: Activists shar ...
    Since 1994, activists in the Italy’s Susa Valley have been engaged in a popular struggle against government plans to build a 57 kilometer high-speed railway. On a trip to the West Bank, the Susa Valley activists came to better understand life under Israeli occupation, and came away with ne ...
  • Eritrean refugees gather to mourn victims of L ...
    Eritrean refugees gathered Saturday in south Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Park to mourn and honor the victims of the Lampedusa shipwreck. Over 100 victims, all African refugees, died after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, on October 3. About 150 othe ...

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

  • [How to] Spotify 0.9.4 for Linux Released with ...
    Spotify for Linux has released its latest version, Spotify 0.9.4, with new media key support along with a host of other improvements. Though Spotify is still not available in many countries, it is an immensely popular music streaming service with nearly 20 million active users as of December 2 ...
  • 5 Easy Ways to Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu
    Be it Ubuntu or any other platform, one thing I learned over the years is the fact that people like to download their favorite YouTube videos and would want to keep a local copy of it no matter how hard it is. Luckily, there are plenty of tools to do this in Ubuntu without any hassles. Here, w ...
  • Ubuntu Spotted on Merc's Driverless Research C ...
    Google's now-famous driverless cars initiative seems to have kick-started a new kind of war. Various manufacturers are fighting tooth and nail to bring the most advanced driverless car technology to the market as fast as they can. But what's even more intriguing to me was the presence of Ubu ...
  • French Armed Forces Switches 37,000 PCs to Ubu ...
    The capabilities of Ubuntu OS is known well outside its enthusiast circles. The recent discovery of Ubuntu OS at the heart of Google's driverless cars is a perfect example. And that is not an isolated case either. Seems like the branch of French Armed Forces in charge of public safety is ...
  • Ubuntu Touch App Showdown 2013 Winners Announced
    Ubuntu App Showdown contest was a huge success last year. Though the inactivity or the lack of continued development of many important apps raised some questions about the contest's real value, it was still quite an achievement by any stretch. This year's contest was dedicated to Ubuntu Touc ...

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

  • CLF Week in Links: Salmonella, Monsanto, Catfi ...
    Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella. Last week I wrote that the federal government shutdown, in shuttering the CDC, would provide fertile ground for pathogens—and here we are, one week later, and at least 278 people nationwide have been sickened by a Salmonella outbreak in chicken. According to this ...
  • The Shutdown, the FDA, Antibiotics, and More
    It’s disturbing to me that the mutinous tantrum over Obamacare will affect the health of so many by disturbing operations at WIC and the Veterans Administration, but I am thankful that we can partially fulfill the right to food through SNAP and the federal school lunch program, at least through ...
  • Reconsidering Retail Store Eligibility in SNAP ...
    How could SNAP leverage this existing network of stores to increase access to more nutritious foods? After all, SNAP exists to improve the nutrition of low-income households.
  • Antibiotic Resistance: How Industrial Agricult ...
    The science is clear, and the only real debate over antibiotic misuse in food animal production is a policy debate over what should be done to end it. But the Alliance has pressed on.
  • The Nutritional Environment: Notes from a Diet ...
    I had the opportunity to step out of the hospital and interact with the Baltimore food system, which shapes the nutritional environment of our patients.

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  • NY Fed Fired Examiner Who Took on Goldman
    by Jake Bernstein ProPublica A version of this story was co-published with The Washington Post. In the spring of 2012, a senior examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York determined that Goldman Sachs had a problem. Under a Fed mandate, the investment banking behemoth was expected to hav ...
  • Heritage Foundation: The Group Who Cried Indiv ...
    by Tina Dupuy TinaDupuy.com “[The Bush Tax Cuts] produced a more growth-oriented tax policy for the long term, helping the economy to weather current storms arising in the housing and capital markets,” wrote J.D. Foster Ph.D. for the Heritage Foundation’s site under the title “Make the Tax Cuts ...
  • Spinning Out Kilowatts
    by Robert Hunziker The dawning of a brave new world order of all-powerful, robust energy may be right around the corner, and it’s a game changer. Solar-power may be on the brink of an incredible discovery so thrilling it nearly takes one’s breath away! Indeed, this new solar blockbuster may solv ...
  • The Matthew Shepard We Don’t Know
    Rev. Irene Monroe There are numerous hagiographies on the Matthew Shepard murder. Twenty years after Shepard’s murder, they’re being challenged. Are we ready for the tale investigative journalist Stephen Jimenez, himself gay, spins? I had the pleasure of meeting him at his book reading in the Ha ...
  • Tea Party’s 15 Minutes of Fame Finally Over?
    by Brent Budowsky The Hill Magazine My warnings from two recent columns, one labeling House Republicans the Banana Republicans, the other warning that the far right will doom the GOP, have come true. Public approval has collapsed for the Republican Party, the Tea Party, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ...

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  • Melting glacier in Alaska reveals ancient rema ...
    Glaciers that tore trees in half and then froze the stumps are receding again in Alaska to reveal those old remnants of a warmer era. I like these little “concrete” anecdotes, though their true meaning depends on exactly how old these remains are, and whether that timing correlates w ...
  • The story of one of the largest private wagers ...
    Commenters often ask us if I am prepared to make a bet and put “your money where your mouth is.” The answer is: been there — done that. We (as in David Evans and I) already have and a long time ago. As far as I know, it’s one of the largest private bets going on the clima ...
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  • Scafetta 2013: Simple solar astronomical model ...
    Nicola Scafetta has a new paper (in long line of papers) on a semi-empirical model which has a better fit than Global Circulation Models (CGM) favored by the IPCC. We ought be careful not to read too much into it, but nor to ignore the message in it about the grand failure of the GCM’s. Sc ...
  • ABC parody: I’m so over your ALPBC parti ...
    ” I’m over and over tryin’ to excuse your point of view I’m over and over Your slant and bias too I’m over and over being treated like a fool And I’m over and over continually funding you..” “When it’s over you’ll discover What a free ...

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    Soaring renewable energy costs set to stoke German energy debate
    Financial Times
    Germany's four network operators revealed on Tuesday that the annual cost to support German renewable energy feed-in tariffs is set to rise to €23.6bn in 2014, from €20.4bn this year. The surcharge added to German electricity bills to cover the cost of ...
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    Renewable Fuel Standard Needs to Be Modified, Not Repealed, Experts Say
    Science Daily (press release)
    Oct. 15, 2013 — Congress should minimally modify -- and not, as petroleum-related interests have increasingly lobbied for, repeal -- the Renewable Fuel Standard, the most comprehensive renewable energy policy in the U.S., according to a new paper from ...
    Chile Doubles Renewable-Energy Goal to 20% to Spark New Projects
    Bloomberg
    Chile doubled its renewable-energy target and may solicit competitive bids in 2015 for contracts to sell electricity as the South American nation seeks to spur investment in new power plants and curb its reliance on imported fossil fuels. Utilities ...
    Renewable Energy Patents Booming
    CleanTechnica
    renewable energy patents The number of patents issued for renewable-energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, according to new research from MIT and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). The study shows that investments in research and ...
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    Tacoma shoreline master program gains Ecology approval
    Access Washington
    Tacoma's program will guide future development along approximately 46 miles of shoreline including Commencement Bay, the Tacoma Narrows and portions of the Puyallup River, Hylebos Creek and Wapato Lake. Sally Toteff, director of Ecology's southwest ...
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    The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's fragile ecology
    89.3 KPCC
    Take Two for October 15, 2013 · The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's fragile ecology. Amy Quinton, Capital Public Radio | Take Two | October 15th, 2013, 9:08am. Delta. Amy Quinton. UC Davis researchers pull minnow traps from waters of Suisun Marsh in ...
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    Influential Ecology Think Tank Survives With New Focus
    Science Now
    Few institutions have had as big an impact on ecology in recent years as the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) of the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara. Its innovative model of collaboration and pulling together ...
    LETTER: Wolf hunt hurts state ecology
    Superior Telegram
    LETTER: Wolf hunt hurts state ecology. As noted by Terrell Boettcher of the Sawyer County Records on Sept. 11, five out of six farmers in the area of Sawyer County see evidence of wolves but have no depredations due to tried and true responsible ...
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    How The Water Bench 'Sofa' Is Helping Address Tight Water Supplies (PHOTOS)
    Huffington Post
    The form: Modular outdoor seating for the masses (the prototypes were rolled out in public spaces in one of the most populated city in India -- Mumbai); the function: helping to make the city's parks and public spaces independent from district water ...
    Moses Parts Water in Venice Floodgates Test
    Discovery News
    Officially called the Experimental Electromechanical Module or MOSE, the project has become known as “Moses” for its sea-parting functionality. On Saturday, four of the system's new floodgates were raised during a public test and successfully blocked ...
    Siemens to sell water tech unit to private equity group -sources
    Reuters
    AEA Investors in advanced talks to buy water unit -sources. * Siemens in advanced talks with Triton on postal unit -sources. * Receives final bids for wiring accessories unit -sources. FRANKFURT, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Siemens AG is in advanced talks to ...
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    WARNING: Drinking Water Threatened
    The Weather Channel
    TOLEDO, Ohio — Toxins from blobs of algae on western Lake Erie are infiltrating water treatment plants along the shoreline, forcing cities to spend a lot more money to make sure their drinking water is safe. It got so bad last month that one township ...
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