Monday, October 21, 2013

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English: Karen J. Greenberg, the Executive Dir...English: Karen J. Greenberg, the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Graffiti on the barrier, reading "Illegal...Graffiti on the barrier, reading "Illegal." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Collectively, the EU is the largest contributo...Collectively, the EU is the largest contributor of foreign aid in the world. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of Israel, the Palestinian territories (We...Map of Israel, the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip), the Golan Heights, and portions of neighbouring countries. Also United Nations deployment areas in countries adjoining Israel or Israeli-held territory, as of January 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Israeli West Bank barrier - North of Meitar, n...Israeli West Bank barrier - North of Meitar, near the southwest corner of the West Bank, in 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Security Barrier between Israel and West Bank/...Security Barrier between Israel and West Bank/Palestine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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An Israel Border Police checkpoint at Jericho'...An Israel Border Police checkpoint at Jericho's southern entrance, 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
West Bank Barrier (Separating Wall)West Bank Barrier (Separating Wall) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: Israel's "Security Fence", ...English: Israel's "Security Fence", "West Bank Barrier", is a solid wall along 5% of it's length. 10 meters high and reinforced concrete. Español: El muro de hormigón supone alrededor del 5% del trazado total de la barrera de separación. Français : La "Barrière de sécurité" construite par Israël en Cisjordanie prend l'aspect d'un mur de 10 mètres de haut constitué de dalles de béton armé sur 5% de son tracé. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Militarised Caterpillar D9 by the West Bank ba...Militarised Caterpillar D9 by the West Bank barrier. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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  • Remembering Dina Goor, graceful human rights r ...
    Few people can say that they changed direction later in life and started an influential human rights organization. Dina Goor didn’t stop at just one. She believed in her ability to change and influence and called on everyone in her world to join her. By Alma Biblash and Libby Lenkinski (Excerpts ...
  • EU: Guidelines won’t stop Israeli entiti ...
    The European Union says that contrary to reports, its new settlement guidelines don’t require Israeli entities to stop operating beyond Green Line. The EU delegation in Israel sent me a response to my item (and the Maariv piece I quoted) regarding changes to the new guidelines on ties with ...
  • Radio Ramallah: The cultural bridge that was
    Between 1949-1967 there was a radio station that united West Bank Palestinians and Jerusalem Jews. It wasn’t interested in propaganda or demagogy, only playing the most popular Western and Arabic music. A brief history of Radio Ramallah and the legacy it leaves behind.  By Niros* Last Satu ...
  • PHOTOS: Settlers attack Palestinian olive pick ...
    Palestinian olive growers and their trees were attacked across the northern West Bank on Sunday, resulting in at least four injuries and the destruction of dozens of trees at the height of the yearly olive harvest. In the village of Burin on Sunday, Palestinian olive pickers and Israeli voluntee ...
  • Meet the Israeli who vows to keep going to jai ...
    Ido Naveh says he will continue to stage non-violent protests outside Israel’s desert detention camp until all the asylum seekers held within it are freed.  By David Sheen Many Israelis may support their government’s efforts to keep non-Jewish asylum seekers from Africa at bay and be ...

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

  • First ever Ubuntu pre-installed touchscreen la ...
    When it comes to Ubuntu pre-installed laptop and desktop offerings, System76 pretty much pioneered the movement. Now they have come up with the first ever touchscreen enabled Ubuntu laptop called Darter UltraThin. It features a 14.1" 1080p full high definition touch display with glossy finish. ...
  • How to check whether the downloaded Ubuntu 13. ...
    Towards the release of a major Ubuntu version, a lot of people writes to us seeking help regarding corrupted ISO image file problem. This can be because of so many reasons. At one point, the default Startup Disk Creator failed every time and I had to rely entirely on UNetBootin for creating ...
  • [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 ...

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 ...

    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

  • Small and Big Pictures: Notes from a Dietetic ...
    I thought that coming to CLF would give me a big picture focus when thinking about improving the food environment. Instead, I got to consider the big and small pictures together.
  • CLF Week in Links: Fall Flurry of Events
    The burden of food safety should not be entirely on the consumers’ shoulders; while we can be expected to use proper, safe meat handling and cooking methods, the agencies charged with protecting our health must play a larger role.
  • New FAO Report on Livestock and Climate Change
    Why is there such a large discrepancy in estimates? One reason is that it depends on whether one is calculating the percentage nationally or globally.
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • Neanderthal’s weren’t vegetarian & ...
    The view that calcified plaque found on Neanderthal teeth came from medicinal plants and vegetables conjuring up visions of a smart, cultured, sensitive race of homo erectus is being challenged. Laura Buck and Chris Stringer believe these remains have a much more violent source. They came from e ...
  • A new, profound insight into “climate ch ...
    International negotiations to mitigate climate change are unlikely to succeed if individual countries' short-term gains are not taken into consideration.
  • How to write good!
    Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
  • The “Backfire Effect” and why Glob ...
    Global warming propononets form an ideological sub-group suffering from the “backfire effect” where corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question. It is the sobering - and depressing - reality that facts (read science) is always subservient to even completely irrationa ...
  • Levitating drops in an ultrasonic field
    Shape oscillation of a levitated drop in an acoustic field

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Snowden to NYT - 'Zero Percent Chance' Russia ...
    New York Times: Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia The New York Times' James Risen has conducted an “extensive interview” with Snowden, in which the whistleblower reveals several key points about his actions. These include: •    He took no secret NSA documents with ...
  • National Security Whistleblowers Coming to FIU ...
    Prominent National Security Whistleblowers Coming to FIU On Oct. 24, GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour will make a stop in Miami at Florida International University (FIU) for a discussion of national security and surveillance issues with two whistleblowers who met last week with Edward Snowden ...
  • Prominent National Security Whistleblowers Com ...
    On Thursday, Oct. 24, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) returns to Florida International University (FIU) to present its acclaimed program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability. The stop will feature prominent national security whistleblowers Thomas Drak ...
  • Greenwald to Create New News Outlet: Daily Whi ...
    Buzzfeed: Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian to Create New News Organization Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to launch a brand new outlet. The split is described as amicable, with Greenwald saying that he’s been presented with “a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no ...
  • Too Big to Jail?
    Editor's Note, from GAP President Louis Clark: Michael Winston is a former executive at Countrywide Financial Corporation who blew the whistle on the company's clearly fraudulent activities that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. A guest on GAP's American Whistleb ...

UK Progressive

  • Ted bin Laden Syndrome
    by Brent Budowsky It is time to coin a phrase to describe the Republican crisis: the GOP, now dominated by a rightist faction that can be called conservatives in name only, suffers from a disease I call Ted bin Laden Syndrome. The phrase “Ted bin Laden” was coined by conservative columnist Kathl ...
  • What a Difference a Year Makes. . . or does it?
    Behind an undistinguished street door not far from Buckingham Palace a small group of dedicated case workers and expert volunteers have given hope to Foreign & Commonwealth veterans from all over the world after they’ve received bad (or no) advice, been baffled by bureaucracy, cut off from m ...
  • The Tea Party Republicans’ Biggest Mistake: Co ...
    by Robert Reich Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama and a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act, has just changed his tune. He now says: “My primary focus is on minimizing risk of insolvency and bankruptcy. There are many paths you can take to get there. Socialized medicine is jus ...
  • What to Expect During the Cease-Fire
    by Robert Reich The war isn’t over. It’s only a cease-fire.  Republicans have agreed to fund the federal government through January 15 and extend the government’s ability to borrow (raise the debt ceiling) through Feb. 7. The two sides have committed themselves to negotiate a long-term budget pl ...
  • Why Giving Republican Bullies a Bloody Nose Is ...
    by Robert Reich Now is the time to lance the boil of Republican extremism once and for all. Since Barack Obama became president, the extremists who have taken over the Republican Party have escalated their demands every time he’s caved, using the entire government of the United States as their b ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Hottest September Ever in records going back 0 ...
    How about some perspective on those alarming headlines:  Thanks to Steve Hunter We are tying ourselves in knots over 150 year old records (or even less) when: These are just short Australian records, not long global ones. Even in the 1800′s Australia recorded heatwaves of 50+ degrees. The ...
  • Antarctic sea ice still at record high — ...
    Whatever happened to polar amplification? The oceans are apparently warming, and yet the sea-ice abounds in the Southern Hemisphere. A new record was set at 19.57 million square kilometers of ice [NSIDC-nrt], around one million more than the usual amount. (Yesterday ice covered 19.11m km2). &#82 ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    For all those other ideas… Rating: 7.8/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 7.8/10 (4 votes cast)
  • CO2 emissions in last 50 years made us $3.5 Tr ...
    Millions of people are alive today because the net emissions of carbon dioxide have increased. These extra emissions have provided essential fertilization for crops around the world. Craig Idso has released a new report calculating that the extra value that the rise in CO2 has produced from 196 ...
  • Smile, there is one less wind farm in the world
    A small win for determined citizens? Dailymail.co.uk: “After blighting the Yorkshire Dales for more than two decades, four giant turbines have been removed from the stunning landscape – the first ever windfarm in Britain to be scrapped. To the delight of residents and walkers there are o ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • The World's Only Galloping Insect Runs Like A ...
    P. endroedyi Smolka et al. Most insects walk with an ambling, tripod gait, keeping at least three legs on the ground while the others move. This type of walk is the most common gait in the animal kingdom. But somewhere along the line, three species of dung beetle decided to break away from ...
  • Video: New Super-Waterproof Material Makes Wat ...
    Is that a rubber ball making its way down a two-by-four? No, it's actually a drop of water hitting a strip of experimental material that's so water-resistant, it makes drops bounce. The video above comes from the work of a team of materials scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in ...
  • An Interactive Map Of The Brain
    Interactive Brain Map Open Colleges Can you point out the small squiggle of gray matter that makes up the brain's motor cortex? Or how about the eye fields, which control visual attention and eye movements? No? Take a look at this handy interactive infographic created by Open Colleges, an A ...
  • Google Street View Can Help Scientists Monitor ...
    Pine Processionary Moth Nests, France J. Rousselet Google Street View could help monitor the spread of invasive species without resorting to labor and time-intensive field work, according to a new study of the pine processionary moth, a pest that destroys pine and cedar trees. Thaumetopoea ...
  • Google Has Added Quantum Physics To 'Minecraft ...
        "Minecraft," the Lego-style, build-your-own-game game, has been the canvas for some awesome projects. (For just one example: this gigantic scientific graphing calculator.) Now Google's Quantum A.I. Lab is taking it in an even weirder direction: quantum physics. The team created a modified v ...

Facing South

  • Southern right-wingers wage war against labor
    Image Caption:  Michael Carter, a pro-union worker at Nissan's plant in Canton, Miss. (Photo by Joe Atkins.) The assault on labor in the region is becoming increasingly war-like, but it's not getting much attention from t ...
  • Health care law's future at stake in special c ...
    Image Caption:  Jamie Mayo, Democratic mayor of Monroe, La., is considered likely to make it into a runoff for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District. But can his party turn it back into the Democratic district it appears to be on paper? ...
  • On North Carolina's high court, corruption wor ...
    Image Caption:  A still from an ad by the NC Judicial Coalition supporting the re-election last year of state Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby, who has been asked to recuse himself from hearing a redistricting lawsuit because the group behind ...
  • Viewpoint: AFL-CIO convention repositions unio ...
    Image Caption:  At the AFL-CIO convention in September, participants made puppets representing workers in all sectors, not just those represented by unions. The art reflected the theme of the convention. (Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov via Labor No ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The worsening poverty crisis ...
    Image Caption:  Map from "A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation" by the Southern Education Foundation, October 2013. A new report from the Southern Education Foundation finds that low income stu ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • October - the month of wild weather swings
    By any definition autumn has arrived across the UK, with the first northerly gale of the season along the east coast. Meteorologically, today’s weather is perfectly normal for the time of the year. And along the east coast it’s the most dangerous direction for potential flooding.  Sharp fluctuat ...
  • The IPCC report - is the science settled?
    Last week the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) issued their latest high profile report on the current understanding of climate change.  Their main conclusion is that there can be little doubt that man is responsible for at least half of the rise in global temperatures since the 1 ...
  • Record Antarctic sea ice confounds climate models
    The extent of sea ice in the southern hemisphere continues to cause a headache for climate scientists, with news this week that Antarctic sea ice is now at record levels, based on satellite data which began in the late 1970’s.This is contrary to what climate models had predicted.It’s thought tha ...
  • Fine end to September & more on rare solar cycle
    Fine end to September It’s been an unsettled and often cool September, but the jet stream is on the move northwards in the next few days, allowing high pressure to build across the UK, which will lead us into a very pleasant spell of autumn weather.  At this time of the year, the main forecastin ...
  • Rare solar cycle has cold implications for UK ...
    NASA last week confirmed their prediction that the current solar cycle 24 is likely to be the weakest since 1906. Intriguingly, the current solar cycle shows a striking similarity with solar cycle 5 which was also very weak, with the same double peak as the current cycle, and ran from approximat ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Contrarian Thoughts: Depopulation's Benefits
    The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things - Alfred North Whitehead as quoted by Garrett Hardin in The Tragedy of the Commons While doing research on an environmentally-related issue, it occurred t ...
  • Why are the World's Best Central Bankers All A ...
    Ben Bernanke is the world's leading practitioner of what I call "Jive-A** Central Banking." It involves creating vast negative externalities for others. Easy money policies Stateside have not only led others to justifiably accuse the Fed of beggar-thy-neighbor policies via competitive devaluatio ...
  • Saudi Arabia, Probably the UN's Worst Crybaby
    This must take the cake for the worst tantrum in international relations for the year: Saudi Arabia's movers and shakers have, in recent years, been lobbying hard to become one of the ten rotating members of the UN Security Council. Then, having secured this berth just recently, the country pull ...
  • Japan to Privatize Its Forex Reserve Management?
    Here's an experiment in foreign exchange reserve management that looks interesting. We've heard of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) that invest in non-traditional reserve assets, i.e. those other than sovereign debt of major currency-issuing countries or precious metals alike gold. These SWFs may p ...
  • Lame PRC Exports Can't Stop Ascendant Yuan
    It is fairly common knowledge by now that Chinese economic growth is slowing down from the double-digit to high single-digit range of years gone by. Among other things, weakness in demand in overseas markets has dented its vaunted export machine. The most recent external figures indicate that th ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Another One Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,0 ...
    Did you know that the U.S. national debt has increased by more than a trillion dollars in just over 12 months?  On September 30th, 2012 the U.S. national debt was sitting at $16,066,241,407,385.89.  Today, it is up to $17,075,590,107,963.57.  These numbers come directly from official U.S. govern ...
  • 12 Shocking Clues About What America Will Look ...
    The collapse of American society is accelerating.  For the moment, much of our social decay is being masked by the tremendous level of affluence that we are experiencing.  It has been reported that 4 out of every 5 adults in the United States "struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance ...
  • 9 Signs That China Is Making A Move Against Th ...
    On the global financial stage, China is playing chess while the U.S. is playing checkers, and the Chinese are now accelerating their long-term plan to dethrone the U.S. dollar.  You see, the truth is that China does not plan to allow the U.S. financial system to dominate the world indefinitely.  ...
  • The Coming Food Stamp Riots
    It may not happen this month, or even this year, but food stamp riots are coming to America.  In fact, we got a small preview of the coming food stamp riots this past weekend when a "temporary system failure" caused food stamp cards to stop working in 17 U.S. states.  Within hours, there were "m ...
  • 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 ...
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    Voiceless Victim

  • AO is a hero and his mum AN is a hero too
    Today the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard from the amazing mother of a child victim of the child sex offender, Jonathan Lord. AN was the first witness in Case Study 2, which started today, into Lord and the YMCA, which employed, and then promoted him. In ...
  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 2 The N ...
    Many hopes are pinned on the National Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to fill the massive gaps left by the narrow terms of reference of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, and the inadequate time and powers of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. This is th ...
  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...

WL Central

  • 2013-10-14 Warning: The WikiLeaks Forum can no ...
    Dear user, You are contacted because you are still registered with wikileaks-forum.com. This is to warn you that this website can not be trusted. People joined this forum in the belief that they were becoming members of WikiLeaks' official forum, a place to express and nurture their support. Reg ...
  • Julian Assange & Benedict Cumberbatch: 1st Letter
    Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 From: Julian Assange To: Benedict Cumberbatch Subject: Message from Assange Dear Benedict, Thank you for trying to contact me. It is the first approach by anyone from the DreamWorks production to me or WikiLeaks. My assistants communicated your request to me, and I have ...
  • 2013-09-05 Barrett Brown to lose his free speech
    In the US, we've increasingly seen attacks on the free press. Now, in the case of Barrett Brown, a journalist who's been jailed for the past year stands to lose his free speech. read more
  • 2013-09-03 WikiLeaks to launch criminal invest ...
    Assange lawyer Per E Samuelson has confirmed that a criminal complaint has been filed at 09:44 on Tuesday 3 September 2013 with Swedish police authorities. The complaint concerns the likely unlawful seizure of WikiLeaks property on 27 September 2010, following publication of the Afghan War Diari ...
  • 2013-09-01 Detached Reflections on Resignation ...
    Daniel Matthews offers a furtive thought in the context of his resignation on behalf of pure democracy: read more

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Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Mexico’s president cancels Nevado de Toluca pr ...
    Through a decree, the president canceled the National Park status granted to the Nevado de Toluca, which since 1936 has prohibited any exploitation of the resources of this natural area. http://www.animalpolitico.com/2013/10/epn-cancela-proteccion-al-nevado-de-toluca-otorgada-por-lazaro-cardenas ...
  • Log Yosemite National Park?!
    Received by TRI October 4, 2013 The Federal Government may be shut down, but that hasn’t stopped the House Natural Resources Committee from taking up a radical pro-logging measure for Yosemite National Park, the Ansel Adams Wilderness and other treasures in the Sierra Nevada affected by the mass ...
  • Blog 43: TrekWest in Montana’s Rocky Mountain ...
    Original Post: 04 Oct 2013 09:22 PM PDT “It was warm enough that we left the flies of our tents open (except for Ed, who sleeps under a tarp) and watched the moon, which would be a full harvest moon in just a few days, arc across the sky, keeping our tents bright well into the […]
  • TrekWest Blog 42: Building Community
    Original Post: 30 Sep 2013 10:31 AM PDT One trail stop at a time  Stop by stop, we have begun the task of building a community of support for protecting and connecting a Western Wildway. As TrekWest draws to its finale, please enjoy this guest blog from Wildlands Network’s new Executive Director ...
  • Dave Parsons Talks About Mexican Wolves on Gil ...
    Earth Matters / Dave Parsons on Mexican Wolves Original post:  24 September 2013 on GMCR This week we welcome Nathan Newcomer of New Mexico Wilderness Alliance to the Earth Matters production team.  His first interview is with Dave Parsons – former US FWS / Fish & Wildlife Service Mexican Wo ...

reference frame

  • 2013 TV135: 1 in 14,000 impact in 2032
    NASA's Near Earth Object Program finally has another candidate rock whose Torino scale is positive, even though it's just 1 so far. Its name is 2013 TV135. It's been observed for 9 days or so. During the recent hours, the probability of collision on August 26th, 2032 – Witten's 81st birthda ...
  • Van Kampen, a pro-QM warrior: 1921-2013
    Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen, a Dutch physicist and an uncle of Gerard 't Hooft, died in Nieuwegein two weeks ago, on Sunday, October 6th. He war born in Leiden in 1921 and studied there under Kramers (yes, this Hendrik Anthony one who worked with Bohr on the interactions of electrom ...
  • Tragic elections in Czechia around the corner
    All the TRF readers who have ever said that they were thinking about emigration to Czechia are recommended to immediately abandon the plans, however speculative, because what the elections next Friday and Saturday will bring to the country will be rather catastrophic. Self-described right-w ...
  • HadCRUT4: Decembers cooling by 9 °C per century
    All data refer to the Northern Hemisphere A blog named Sunshine Hours calculated some slopes in a simple case of linear regression: the warming or cooling trends in the last \(7\times 12=84\) months (since September 2006) restricted to each of the 12 months in a year according to HadCRUT4, ...
  • Shut up and calculate, especially if you're a ...
    ...and if you can't calculate, please leave hard science... I was led to see a preprint by a Spanish anti-quantum zealot on steroids called Pablo Echenique-Robba called Shut up and let me think. Or why you should work on the foundations of quantum mechanics as much as you please (August 2 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Mike Duffy’s lawyer says 90K cheque was a deal ...
    Senator Mike Duffy’s living expenses were “cleared from Day 1″ by then Senate majority leader Marjory LeBreton’s office, and when they later became controversial, Duffy was pressured to take a deal from the Prime Minister’s Office, his lawyer tells a news conference ...
  • How Bitcoin Can Help Free Radiohead’s Thom Yor ...
    by Justin, GoldSilverBitcoin: Thom Yorke has no problem telling Spotify to “fuck off” Thom Yorke, Radiohead and Atoms For Peace frontman, has been vocal and active against Spotify, most recently in an interview with Mexican website Sopitas. Yorke is succinct, calling the music service “the last ...
  • Mike Duffy’s lawyer says expenses approved by ...
    Senator Mike Duffy’s living expenses were “cleared from Day 1″ by then Senate majority leader Marjory LeBreton’s office and when they later became controversial, Duffy was pressured to take a deal from the Prime Minister’s Office, his lawyer tells a news conference. ...
  • How To Build Wealth In This Economy: “Rattle S ...
    by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan: In recent years, as the greatest depression has taken hold, we’ve seen double digit wealth destruction in America. With global economic fundamentals signaling further degradation in the system for years to come, it should be clear that we’ll continue to see debt-based ass ...
  • Mike Duffy’s lawyer to address Senate suspension
    A lawyer representing Mike Duffy is expected to discuss key pieces of evidence in the senator’s battle over expenses at a news conference in Ottawa. CBCnews.ca will carry the news conference live at 12:15 p.m. ET. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund ...

Modern Survivalism

  • The Warmest Survival Blanket
    Have you ever wondered what is the best survival blanket to have — either in your car as part of a basic survival kit, or in your home, or in a bug-out bag, etc.? Your answer is here…   Where does the warmth that a blanket provides, come from? Warmth comes from the heat of […]
  • Something Astonishing Is Happening To The Sea- ...
    Image: British Antarctic Survey It’s not melting this Spring. At all. An incredible amount of the Southern Hemisphere is covered with sea-ice right now, and the size of the sea-ice surrounding the Antarctica is spectacular…   The sea-ice abounds in the Southern Hemisphere accord ...
  • How To Make Your Own Dish Soap
    Knowing how to make your own dish soap is not only simple, but it will save you money and enable you to wash dishes while only having one ingredient around the house. It’s another bit of simple prepper knowledge…   …bar soap. (Which can also be used to make your own laundr ...
  • An Earthen Filter For Radioactive Water
    This earthen water filter will effectively remove radioactive particles from water…   All soil is made up of basically three different things – sand, silt, and clay. The different soils found around the United States include different combinations of these three things. For our ...
  • How Are You Prepping For The Worst?
    Preparing for the worst, or prepping in general, is not something that you should do just once in a while…   It’s something that you should get in the habit of thinking about (and/or doing) every day, even for just a little. Many are very busy living their modern lives and it ca ...

Fast Company

  • A Modern Update Of The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid
    In the pantheon of architectural forms, few carry the sense of timelessness and grandeur of the pyramid, forever associated with the great ones of Egypt. But the most colossal structures of antiquity were also essentially useless monuments: massive tombs to long–dead forgotten rulers who c ...
  • Government Responds To Criticism Of Healthcare ...
    A devastating critique of the construction and subsequent testing of the Healthcare.gov website––the gloomy portal through which all U.S. citizens who may be eligible for Obamacare must pass––has garnered an official response. On the Digital Strategy blog belonging to the ...
  • Your Future Energy Drink Will Blow Your Hair B ...
    The rise of questionably safe ultra–caffeinated food products has triggered the FDA in recent months to examine whether it really makes sense to stick the stimulant in "non–traditional" products like energy drinks and gum. ChromaDex, a company that makes and licenses intellectual pro ...
  • How Everyday Ergonomics Shape Your Behavior
    One of Darwin's greatest insights came at the end of his 1872 work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. "The free expression by outward signs of an emotion intensifies it," he wrote. Darwin simply meant that emotion and expression cut both ways: you can thrust out your chest becau ...
  • What To Expect At Tomorrow's Apple Event
    If you hadn't already marked it in your diary, tomorrow is another day for Apple to show off some new gear. It comes less than two months after the last event, which saw, of course, the new iPhone 5S and 5C, both of which performed more than admirably on the sales front on their release. With "a ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (October 14-20)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. الجنرال الفاشل والجماعة الفاشية.. ...
  • What Is a Democratization Package Good For?
    Since at least the summer of 2009, we have been faced with a periodically interrupted negotiation process between the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) government and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, to find a political and constitutional solution to end the thirty-year-old war. Most recently, in ...
  • مشروع قانون تنظيم التظاهر... مشروع موت أمل التغيير
     في مارس 2012، انتشرت أنباء عن تقديم الإخوان المسلمين مشروع قانون بخصوص "تنظيم الحق في التظاهر" إلى مجلس الشعب المنحل في مايو من العام ذاته، وهو الأمر الذي قوبل برفض وعاصفة من النقد من جانب الحركات والأحزاب السياسية والساسة المناهضين للإخوان، إضافةً لبعض ممن حُ ...
  • Covering One's Back: An Exhibition Curated by ...
    Covering One's back May 2013 Gezira Art Center in Cairo, Egypt   In this interview filmed at Cairo’s Gezira Art Center, curators Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis discuss the inspiration behind their group show, Covering One’s Back, which featured an international lineup of artists. Through i ...
  • Made in Lebanon: An Exhibition by Marwa El Shazly
    Made in Lebanon An exhibition by Marwa El Shazly September 2013 Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt   In this recent interview conducted at Mashrabia Gallery during the opening of her solo exhibition, Egyptian artist Marwa El Shazly explains the concept behind her latest series, which take ...

mediagazer

  • Netflix now has more paying subscribers than H ...
    Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: Netflix now has more paying subscribers than HBO in the United States  —  Netflix just reported that its streaming video service had 29.93 million paying subscribers in the United States at the end of September.  That surpasses, for the first tim ...
  • Netflix's Q3 Beats Analyst Estimates With 1.3M ...
    Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: Netflix's Q3 Beats Analyst Estimates With 1.3M New Domestic Subscribers, $0.52 Earnings Per Share  —  Netflix's third-quarter earnings report just came out, with the company beating analyst expectations on higher-than-expected subscriber numbers.  ...
  • Associated Press Fires Journalists Over Errone ...
    Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Associated Press Fires Journalists Over Erroneous Terry McAuliffe Report  —  NEW YORK — The Associated Press has fired a reporter and editor over an erroneous Oct. 9 report that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe lied ...
  • BuzzFeed Hires Pulitzer Winner to Head Investi ...
    Leslie Kaufman / New York Times: BuzzFeed Hires Pulitzer Winner to Head Investigative Unit  —  BuzzFeed, the media Web site focused on viral content, announced on Monday that it was again expanding its reporting staff, this time to introduce an investigative unit.  A new te ...
  • Facebook Woos Media Companies With Tool to Pos ...
    Brian Womack / Bloomberg: Facebook Woos Media Companies With Tool to Post Stories  —  Facebook Inc. is testing a feature to simplify how media companies find content to post on its service, stepping up efforts against Twitter Inc. for driving traffic to news providers.  &md ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • Federer Opens Swiss Indoors Event With Victory
    BASEL, Switzerland — Roger Federer won in the first round at his hometown Swiss Indoors event Monday, beating Adrian Mannarino of France 6-4, 6-2. Federer swept the final five games against the 60th-ranked Mannarino to win in 1 hour, 12 minutes. Hampered by back injuries in a difficult season, F ...
  • Arsene Wenger says Arsenal better since last B ...
    Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says that the Gunners are a better side since they last played Borussia Dortmund two years ago in the Champions League. They were both in the same group in 2011 with Arsenal drawing in the Westfalenstadio ...
  • Updated: Kelly Clarkson marries Brandon Black ...
    Kelly Clarkson has married her fiancé Brandon Blackstock. The pair tied the knot yesterday (October 20) at Blackberry Farm, a luxury resort in the Smoky Mountains in Walland, Tennessee. © Kelly Clarkson/archetypestudiosinc Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock © Kelly Clarkson/archetyp ...
  • Samsung, other Korean firms are no competitors ...
    Canon does not see any competition from Korean companies such as Samsung, as it believes it has more patents for products such as digital cameras and printers. In such product lines, the competition is only among Japanese companies, Canon feels. In the core technologies for products such as copi ...
  • Oprah Winfrey gave ‘clear no’ to selling Obamacare
    Washington, October 21: Oprah Winfrey refused an invitation to the White House and the opportunity to join a host of celebrities to sell Obamacare last summer. Valerie Jarrett, the president’s pointwoman, invited the Queen of All Media to join celebrities, including Amy Poehler, Jennifer Hudson ...

no frakking consensus

  • Think You Know Greenpeace? Look Again
    An urgent public health crisis exists. An effective, humanitarian response is available. But rather than pitching in and helping to save lives, Greenpeace is attacking the aid workers.
  • Fake Nobel Laureates & the White House
    What happens to people who claim to be Peace Prize winners even though they aren't? They get a job at the White House.
  • Official Launch of FakeNobelLaureates.com
    Michael Mann's boss at Penn State University - Dean William Easterling - falsely claims to be a Nobel laureate on his CV.
  • The IPCC Report as Ink Blot Test
    What do Greenpeace and the Natural History Museum have in common? They both employ people with impaired reading comprehension skills.
  • Canadian Thanksgiving
    I'm feeling especially grateful for a recent book review in the Tuscon Citizen - and for the ones left by readers on Amazon.com and it's related websites.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 10/17/13 - Is Obamacare Financially Burdensome ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Is Obamacare Financially Burdensome for Businesses? - DEBATED Read statements from the International Franchise Association (Pro), US Representative Steny Hoyer (Con), and others.
  • 10/17/13 - Will Obamacare Lead to a Decline in ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Will Obamacare Lead to a Decline in Employment-Based Health Insurance? - DEBATED Read statements from the US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee (Pro), Ezra Klein, Columnist at the Washington Post (Con), and others.
  • 10/17/13 - Will the Health Insurance Exchanges ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Will the Health Insurance Exchanges Benefit Consumers? - DEBATED Read statements from the US Department of Health and Human Services (Pro), Avik Roy, the Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute (Con), and others.
  • 10/17/13 - Will Obamacare Decrease the Federal ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Will Obamacare Decrease the Federal Deficit? - DEBATED See a summary chart of estimates and read statements from the Congressional Budget Office (Pro), and the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office under George W. Bush (Con), among many others.
  • 10/17/13 - Can States Set up Their Own Single- ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Can States Set up Their Own Single-Payer Health Care Systems under Obamacare? - YES Read statements from Public Citizen, the Co-Director of It's Our Economy, and a Research Associate at the Center for Health Policy at Stanford.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • French Utility Company Agrees to Build Major N ...
    The British government and the French state-controlled utility company, EDF Group, have agreed to build the U.K.'s first nuclear power plant in a generation. The new plant, to be built at Hinkley Point in southwest England, is part of the British government's ongoing efforts to cut carbon emissi ...
  • Rising Waters: How Fast and How Far Will Sea L ...
    Although the latest U.N. climate report significantly increases its projections for sea level rise this century, some scientists warn even those estimates are overly conservative. But one thing is certain: Predicting sea level rise far into the future is a very tricky task. BY NICOLA JONES
  • Austrian Team Wins U.S. Department of Energy S ...
    Employing creative ventilation and natural wood, a team from Austria won the 2013 Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition for solar houses sponsored by U.S. Click to Enlarge Solar Decathlon Team Austria Department of Energy. The winning design features large living spaces with nat ...
  • Climate-Related Disasters Will Keep Impoverish ...
    Extreme weather events driven by climate change will exacerbate poverty in regions where people are already among the world's poorest, according to a study by the U.K.'s Overseas Development Institute. Where disasters TheHumanitarianCoaliton.ca Floods in Mozambique such as drought are com ...
  • Photo Essay: Focusing a Lens on China's Enviro ...
    Sean Gallagher Photographer Sean Gallagher has lived and worked in China for seven years, visiting nearly all of its provinces as he documents the country’s daunting ecological problems and its widely varied landscapes. In a Yale Environment 360 photo essay, the Beijing-based photojournali ...

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Britain: Scandal-Plagued Muslim School "Dysfun ...
    A taxpayer-funded Muslim school in England that was recently exposed for operating according to Islamic Sharia law has been condemned by government inspectors as being "dysfunctional" and "in chaos." Ofsted, the official agency for inspecting British
  • Islamists Target Islamists
    A couple of years ago, in fascinating debate in New York, the title of which was "Islam Is a Religion of Peace," the great Ayaan Hirsi Ali was on my side; and against us were two distinguished reformist Muslims of great charm, intelligence and
  • Turkey: A House Divided
    There is no doubt that the Gezi Park demonstrations in May and June, which spread to most of Turkey, represent a seismic change in Turkish society and have opened up fault lines which earlier may not have been apparent. What began as a demonstration
  • PLO: Battle for Succession Has Begun
    Over the past few months, a succession battle has been quietly raging in the Palestinian Authority [PA]. This behind-the-scenes battle is continuing even as the PA leadership conducts secret peace talks with Israel. In fact, the U.S.-sponsored peace
  • Reversing a Weak Defense
    The U.S. national defense is in jeopardy. So long as important military capabilities are cut to meet arbitrary budget reduction targets, and so long as there is not some long-term budget-and-strategy agreement, the U.S. Department of Defense -- and

Urban Survival

  • Truth or Tuesdayquences
    You know what happens tomorrow, right?  The Labor Department is scheduled to release the long-delayed employment situation report which was stalled by the government shutdown, although we’re still mystified why 83% of government couldn’t have just kept going better, but don’t get me started ...
  • Coping: Whether Winter?
    Our long-time reader Ray H is getting a bit concerned about the lack of “real” Fall just yet and he wonders just what the heck is going on in the upper Midwest… First up, saw in the local paper that this weekend will mark the annual pilgrimage of nature lovers, to the Brown County (Indiana) Stat ...
  • Weekend Reflections: Life, Making Sense
    As I was sitting in my office this morning, going through tons of work and trying to process the impossible complexity of trying to figure out when/if to ever retire, how/when to sign up for Medicare and how/which Part B provider to pick –should I live that long – the phone rang. Daughter #2 (Al ...
  • For Peoplenomics Subscribers: Where To from Here?
    The market this week put on a very impressive rally, but as our little exercise in developing a simple trading system seems to be hinting, all the hoopla this week about “solving” the crisis (which is spelled similar to circus) hasn’t really fixed much of anything.  This c ...
  • 72 Day Timer: Too Big to Bail, Too Big to Fail
    ‘Come Watson, you must see this!” “See what, old man?” “Behold the difficulty in  which the Moriarty administration now finds itself!  After a shameless charade of a shutdown, to they now risk interference with high-level trading models by reports economic data due some weeks back, or ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • GERALD CELENTE - Financial Survival Radio - Oc ...
    Gerald Celente discusses the ACA and Debt Limit Ceiling. Gerald Celente The Martial Artist of Trend Forecasting —The purpose of trend forecasting is to provide insights and directions in anticipation of what the future may bring – and to... [[ This is a content sum ...
  • Ron Paul Texas Straight Talk 10-21-2013 ~ Debt ...
    Debt Ceiling Deal: DC Wins, Americans Lose Washington, DC, Wall Street, and central bankers around the world rejoiced this week as Congress came to an agreement to end the government shutdown and lift the debt ceiling. The latest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http ...
  • Banking 101: Most People Are Still Dangerously ...
    Despite all the signs of a massive global banking default/disaster ahead, people in Western nations remain blissfully unaware and inexplicably are not preparing at all for massive shocks to the fiat currency system. Visit... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://Finan ...
  • EBT Food Stamp System Crash: "How Am I Going t ...
    The Electronic Benefits Transfer system responsible for providing 50,000,000 Americans the means to put food on the table has crashed last week. The outage is reportedly affecting at least sixteen states. "I believe that banking institutions are... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes - U.S. Ha ...
    Karen Hudes-U.S. Has to Come Around to the Rule of Law Whistleblower Karen Hudes says, "The U.S. has to come around to the rule of law. . . . and we are on track with a 95% likelihood, and that is why I think the dollar is not going to tank." ... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Petcoke Piles: We should all stand up for Chic ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois As Commissioner for the Environment for the City of Chicago back in the 90’s, I spent a lot of time dealing with issues on the Southeast Side. It is a mix of highly diverse n ...
  • "Those who doubt the existence of global warmi ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. I received the following email from Will Hadley, an eighth grader who wants to help spread the word on climate change. He believes that the slogan quoted in the title of this po ...
  • India Focus: Pivotal Opportunity in Bangkok to ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco This week in Bangkok, India has the key opportunity to join other parties to the Montreal Protocol to make progress toward a global phase down of the super-potent heat-trapping chemicals known as hydrof ...
  • How Did They Do That?! Environmental Leadersh ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA One summer night in 1971 in Riverside, California, when I was still in high school, I learned to drive a stick shift in a Volkswagen beetle, fearlessly loaned to me for that purpose ...
  • Cutting Energy Waste By Running Buildings Better
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC    Most people know that upgrading light fixtures and windows can reduce energy waste in office buildings, but even the experts may be surprised to learn just how m ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Pentagon to sell bunker busters, cruise missil ...
    The Pentagon plans to sell $10.8 billion worth of advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The hardware includes bunker buster bombs and cruise missiles. The planned deal includes shipping 1,000 GBU-39/B bombs to Saudi Arabia and 5,000 to the UAE, AFP reports. They have ai ...
  • Report: Israel mulls destroying missiles trans ...
    Israel has information on the location of long-range missiles transferred from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon and is considering taking military action to destroy the weapons, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Friday. The paper, quoting an Israeli security source close to Defense Minister M ...
  • Lawyer for family of mother killed in White Ho ...
    Eric Sanders, lawyer for the family of 34-year-old Connecticut mother Miriam Carey who was fatally shot by law enforcement in early October near the White House, was arrested Tuesday. He is being held on a $181,666.66 bond and was ordered by a judge to pay an additional $1,000 for every day he r ...
  • Saudis reject Security Council seat to protest ...
    Elected as one of the Security Council’s 10 nonpermanent members, Saudi Arabia rejected the seat in protest of the UN body’s failure to solve the Syrian issue and other Middle East crises, including the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Riyadh’s action was a vote of no-confidence in the permanent me ...
  • Shocking Travel Alert Warns US Cops Are On “Un ...
    A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the Federal Assembly (FA) is urging a new law be passed giving to all Russians traveling to the United States a “warning” that American police officers have entered upon an“unprecedented killing spree” that in the past decad ...

Daily Dose

  • Social collaboration service Solaborate launch ...
    Solaborate is publicly launching the beta version of its hybrid social networking and collaboration service for tech professionals. The company has also released an Android app. The startup bills its... Keep reading →
  • Five ways to prepare your app for a supercharg ...
    Nik Fletcher is a product manager at Realmac Software, a small, award-winning independent iOS and OS X development studio behind Clear, Ember, and Rapidweaver. He is also a contibutor to the Realmac Software blog.  The big day... Keep reading →
  • Kickstarter passes 50,000 successfully funded ...
    Crowdsourcing site Kickstarter today revealed it has hit a new milestone: over 50,000 successfully funded projects. The company, which launched in April 2009, could not have pulled it off without... Keep reading →
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    Adblock Plus already blocks all Facebook ads, including sponsored stories, page post ads, standard ads, promoted posts, and so on. Starting today however, the service is taking its blocking powers... Keep reading →
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    Facebook has released two new mobile app install ad capabilities to help improve install rates for advertisers. App developers can incorporate video creative right into the ad and also take... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Melbourne film premiere: Two Degrees
    Beyond Zero Emissions will host the Melbourne premiere screening of newly released climate change documentary Two Degrees on November 6, and we would love for you to join us! Power station, Port Augusta, with Flinders Ranges in background. Image: http://twodegreesmovie.com 6.30-8.30pm, Wednesda ...
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  • Fossil fuel billions better invested in zero e ...
    MEDIA RELEASE, Beyond Zero Emissions, 16 October 2013 Billions of dollars currently invested in fossil fuel industries can and should be withdrawn and re-invested in zero emissions technology immediately. This is the message Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero ...
  • Bring on the climate solutions!
    After 20 years working on climate change in various roles from research to government to international organisations, my experiences have taught me that to be effective in the change agenda we need to be starting from the point of where we need to be in ten years time, and looking back to th ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • The palm oil debate: can the most productive o ...
    On Thursday, 17 October 2013 Mongabay.com and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) co-hosted a discussion on environmental issues related to palm oil. The discussion involved representatives from WWF, Greenpeace and the RSPO. Mongabay.com Founder Rhett A. Butler served as the moderator.
  • Art, education, and health: holistic conservat ...
    It's unlikely conservation organizations can survive if they are unwilling to embrace change: as an endeavor, conservation requires not just longterm planning, but also an ability to move proactively and fluidly to protect species and safeguard ecosystems. Environmental and education NGO, the Ar ...
  • Yeti may be undescribed bear species
    The purported Yeti, an ape-like creature that walks upright and roams the remote Himalayas, may in fact be an ancient polar bear species, according to new DNA research by Bryan Sykes with Oxford University. Sykes subjected two hairs from what locals say belonged to the elusive Yeti only to disco ...
  • Another 'sea-serpent' oarfish washes up in Cal ...
    Another sea-serpent-like oarfish has been found dead along the coast in Southern California
  • Honey badgers and more: camera traps reveal we ...
    Gabon is home to some big meat-eaters including leopards, spotted hyenas, and African wild dogs, but a new study focuses on the country's lesser-known species with an appetite for flesh. For the first time, researchers surveyed Gabon's small carnivores, including 12 species from the honey badger ...

Sierra Express

  • Equatorial Guinea First Lady Proclaim Mother A ...
    New York City, New York – In the ongoing celebration of the country’s 45th Anniversary of their Independence from Spain, South African Arts International is pleased to announce that Mrs. Constancia Mangue Nsue de Obiang, First Lady of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea has been proclaimed “Mother ...
  • Event: FIFA hosts Performance program with SLFA
    DATE: 22nd – 29th October The event will be climaxed with a match between Leone Stars home based versus RSLAF Venue:  Football Academy Kingtom Time: 4:30pm Cost: FREE Date 27th October Come and support Leone Stars Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news! Related item ...
  • Ghana to acquire military aircrafts from Spain
    The government is to acquire additional multi-purpose military aircraft from Air Bus Military of Spain to boost Ghana’s air services support operations at the United Nations-led mission in Mali. The Ghana Air Force recently won a UN air services contract to operate a UN aviation unit in Mali in ...
  • British Minister meets President Koroma
    FREETOWN: President Ernest Bai Koroma received the British Minister for Africa, Mr. Mark Simmonds (in photo) at State House in Freetown, during a courtesy call. President Koroma thanked the British government for the support given to Sierra Leone during the difficult days, and disclosed that gov ...
  • ACC Opens Sub-Regional Office In Kono
    In testament of its resolve to take the national fight against graft to every corner of Sierra Leone, the ACC on Thursday 17th October, 2013 officially commissioned the sub-regional office in Koidu City, Kono District.   (Photo: Attorney General and Minister of Justice Franklyn Bai Kargbo) The o ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Crafar buyer bids for South Island farms
    Shanghai Pengxin, which bought the Crafar family farms in a controversial deal last year, and the Synlait founders are offering $85.7 million to buy South Island dairy farmer Synlait Farms.SFL Holdings, a joint venture between Pengxin...
  • Fonterra's botulism scandal 'gift' to China Govt
    Fonterra's botulism scandal was one of the "greatest gifts" the company could have given to a Chinese Government that's focused on rebuilding its domestic dairy industry, according to a visiting foreign correspondent.Jamil Anderlini,...
  • Danone says botulism scare cost it $500m
    French food giant Danone says it will lose more than half a billion dollars in sales in the current financial year as a result of Fonterra's botulism false alarm.The Paris-based company's infant formula products were recalled...
  • Formula exporter slams Govt help for China trip
    An infant formula exporter has slammed the service a taxpayer-funded business support centre in Shanghai provided to a delegation of New Zealand companies.Members of the NZ Infant Formula Exporters Association - led by the group's...
  • NZ firms not seen as 'special' in China
    New Zealand businesses need to wake up to reality that they are not viewed as being particularly "special" in the Chinese market, says Beijing-based Kiwi businessman David Mahon.Addressing the China Business Summit in Auckland this...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Obamacare's Exchanges are Still Broken, and Ob ...
    Three weeks after the deeply troubled launch of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges, President Obama gave a speech responding to some of the problems that have plagued the government-run online enrollment system. The most revealing thing about it was what he didn’t say.  Obama ...
  • Poll: More Than Half of Americans Believe GOP- ...
    A CNN/ ORC International survey, conducted Oct.18-20, shows that 54 percent of Americans think that GOP control of the House of Representatives is bad for the U.S., an 11 point increase since December. The same survey also shows that 63 percent of Americans think Speaker John Boehne ...
  • NSA Revelations Monkeywrench Police Surveillan ...
    As it turns out, Edward Snowden's revelations to the world about NSA surveillance of phone calls, email, text messages and any other kind of electronic communications have given more than the agency's own employees a sad. Awww. Police departments are upset, too, that  the cat is ou ...
  • Bitcoin: Apparently Valued for Much More Than ...
    As the private digital currency Bitcoin rose to prominence, it could not escape having its reputation tied in with the now-shuttered-by-the-Feds darkwebsite Silk Road, which scared many people because it allowed peaceful and satisfying transactions involving mostly things that some g ...
  • Parsing the Benefits of Climate Change
    Over at the Spectator, Rational Optimist Matt Ridley has a fascinating article, "Why Climate Change is Good for the World," that looks at data regarding both the costs and benefits man-made global warming. He finds that the benefits outweigh the costs for most of this century befor ...

Mercury Rising

  • The return of Walkergate?
    Francis Schmitz has been appointed as a special prosecutor to examine possible electoral misdeeds in Wisconsin.
  • Another reason to be embarrassed about our Sta ...
    State Dept. briefing 10/18 by Jen Psaki: QUESTION: What is the U.S. Government’s stance on the Japanese official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine [the Imperial Shrine, which commemorates (among many others) war criminals from WW II]? MS. PSAKI: Well, we’ve obviously seen, of course, those reports. T ...
  • Ah, nostalgia
    Andrés Cala, Consortium News: In Galicia, an area in Spain’s northwest, the mayor of another town under Popular Party rule proudly showcases in his office a picture of fascist dictator Francisco Franco. The mayor also plays the fascist anthem to anyone who will listen. Yet, he has faced no offic ...
  • Real Wikileaks film (Mediastan) Netcast starti ...
    See here for details. Also available for (pay) download. TODAY (Thursday 17 October) WikiLeaks and Sixteen Films are proud to announce the US/Canada release of MEDIASTAN – the WikiLeaks road movie. … US and Canadian audiences will be able to watch MEDIASTAN online for free during an exclus ...
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Reality Sandwich

  • The Clock is Ticking
    US scientist Steve Horvath has discovered a DNA-based internal body clock that measures the biological age of our tissues and organs. Understanding how this mechanism works can help researchers understand the aging process, and may even offer insight on how to slow it down. read more
  • Preparing a Proper Ayahuasca Brew
      The following is excerpted from Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon, published by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • The Future Starts Here
    We're very excited to share our new series, The Future Starts Here, with all of you! All 8 episodes are live online now for your viewing, so you can watch them all back-to-back if you'd like. We know people talk about “binge” watching but we prefer to call it “feasting.” read more
  • Sex in the News
    Sexual violence and the youth of America, male animals who die for sex, American Apparel's period power, sex after breast cancer, and more in this week's update. read more
  • Astrology at the Edge of Consciousness
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Desertification

  • When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
    Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Karunyu’s husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of cent ...
  • U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered ...
    The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer. On Mar. 1, the New York Times announced it was discontinuing the Green Blog that tracked environmental and energy news. In January, the paper had dismantled its three-year-old environment pod. This year, too, ...
  • The Coming Plague
    A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world’s tropical regions. By mid-century no place on the planet will be unaffected, ...
  • Small Island Economies Battered by Erratic Weather
    Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered. At the age of 19, he built and operated his own greenhouse on his father’s farm in Dominica, planting lettuce, sweet peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers. “It was very lucrative and I actually made money,” said Wallace, now a grad ...
  • How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times
    What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines? Such are the topics of conversation at the 23rd annual co ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • Qatar upholds poet's 15-year sentence
    A court in Qatar has upheld a 15-year jail term given to a poet convicted of incitement against the regime.
  • 'US must dump Israel to regain image'
    The US must root out Israel’s dominance over Washington’s power structure and the regime’s catastrophic scenarios across the world, in order to restore its globally tarnished reputation, a political analyst writes at Press TV website.
  • EU urges Israel to end settlements
    The European Union has called on Israel to stop building settlement units in the occupied West Bank, saying the move impends Israeli-Palestinian talks.
  • Four rockets hit Lebanon’s Hermel
    Four rockets have landed on the outskirts of Lebanon’s border city of Hermel, but there have been no immediate reports on casualties, Press TV reports.
  • ‘Syrian refugees in Turkey exceed 600k’
    Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) says the number of Syrian refugees in the country has surpassed 600,000.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Flu attacks immune memory cells
    Scientists at the Whitehead Institute in the US have made a step forward in understanding why the flu virus is so deadly. And they've done it in a very clever way. When we're infected by the influenz...
  • Could the yeti be a bear?
    Much to the disappointment of cryptozoology fans everywhere - that's the study of 'hidden' animals such as Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster - a scientist from Oxford University is claiming that the l...
  • What does sleep do?
    The fundamental role of sleep might be to flush the brain of more than just unwanted thoughts, scientists have concluded. Despite decades of effort, and clear evidence that a lack of sleep is fatal ...
  • Fossilised mosquito meal
    Blood from the last meal consumed by a mosquito 46 million years ago has been identified inside a fossilised mosquito found in Montana. Writing in PNAS, Dale Greenwalt and his colleagues at Washin...
  • Invasive Species
    It's official: the UK has a slug problem. This week, researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich asked the public for help to help them track down the Spanish slug, a rapidly reproducing invasi...

    Care2 - Environment

  • Smiling harbor seal - Smiling animals: The hap ...
    Share a smile Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Guitar Playing Dog 2 Toy Poodle MOCHA : Video ...
    I'm getting better by the day. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stop the Superstorms Harming Plover Habitat ! ...
    Help protect crucial habitat for piping plovers by editing and sending a message to President Obama, urging him to implement limits on carbon pollution from coal-burning power plants. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Republican Code of Conduct
    A humorous take on the Decalogue from the perspective of Republican Supply-side Jesus. The animated graphic probably won't show here. Click through. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cups - Tap Dance - Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfec ...
    This is a favorite of mine. Hope you enjoy it. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Supreme Court Will Hear Case On Executions And ...
    The standard by which a person is judged to be mentally competent enough to face execution for a crime will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed Monday to hear a Florida case revolving around that issue. Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note ...
  • Chinese City Of 11 Million Paralyzed By Off-Th ...
    Students got a smog day, traffic was slowed and the airport was shut down because of the thick smog that developed in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin, home of 11 million people. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Oil and gas train runs off tracks, explodes in ...
    Another train loaded with fossil fuels derailed in Canada over the weekend, triggering explosions and fueling a big fire and evacuations. Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Keystone XL Pipeline Could Yield $100 Billion ...
    Please read and SHARE. Submitted by Laura H. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Nevada School Shooting Update: 2 dead, 2 hurt ...
    A student at Sparks Middle School shot and killed a teacher and wounded two other students Monday morning before fatally turning the gun on himself, police said. Angela Rambo, spokeswoman for Renown Regional Medical Center, said the two shooting victims - Submitted by Caree C. to Society & C ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • The Back and Forth Over the Shutdown – G ...
    The Back and Forth Over the Shutdown – Graphic – NYTimes.com. Filed under: Government
  • October 8, 2013 Public Policy Polling on Congress
    www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2013/PPP_Release_CONGRESS_108.pdf. Filed under: Government
  • Department of Health and Human Services Market ...
    aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2013/MarketplacePremiums/ib_premiumslandscape.pdf. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, News and politics Tagged: ACA, HHS, Marketplace Premiums, Obamacare, PPACA
  • TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster a ...
    TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster against Obamacare | The Washington Post. Filed under: News and politics
  • Health Plan Rates for State of Illinois
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2013 Governor Quinn Announces Health Plan Rates are 25 Percent Below HHS Estimates 95 Percent of Illinois Residents will have Access to at Least 34 Plans Rates Will Be as Low as $120 Per Month … Continue reading →

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Iran Nuclear Deal May Have its Beginnings in G ...
    Talks between Iran and world powers known as the P5+1 over Iran’s nuclear programme wrapped up here Wednesday with expressions of encouragement and hope, a commitment to reconvene in just three weeks, and several welcomed “firsts”. Officials remained determinedly mum Wednesday about the much sou ...
  • When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
    Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Karunyu’s husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of cent ...
  • Activists Struggle to Recover Human Rights Arc ...
    Some 50,000 files on crimes against humanity are languishing in an undisclosed location in El Salvador, prey to damp and the ravages of time, while activists and lawyers frantically try to regain control over them. Without prior warning, on Sept. 30 the Catholic Church suddenly closed the office ...
  • Grief Veils Eid for Syrian Refugees
    This week the Islamic world marks one of its holiest holidays, Eid al-Adha – honouring Ibrahim’s commitment to sacrifice his first-born son to Allah. The festival involves large family gatherings, bountiful lunches and generous gift giving. While most are celebrating, despair is palpable a ...
  • Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net
    With the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised as a stubborn underlying obstacle to development. In recent decades, despite steady economic growth, inequality has risen in mo ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The road to finalizing a nuclear deal with Iran
    Summary: Potential for historic agreement depends on Obama's will to resist pro-Israel hawks and end sanctions source: Aljazeeraread more
  • J O I N T S T A T E M E N T : following the ...
    Summary: The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif made today the following statement: source: EU External Actionread more
  • Will Obama Blow His Diplomatic Opportunity wit ...
    Summary: President Rohani and Dr. Zarif have articulated a model for resolving the nuclear issue whereby the United States and the West would recognize Iran’s nuclear rights in exchange for greater transparency surrounding Iran’s nuclear activities (e.g., the Islamic Republic could ratify and ...
  • Remove all sanctions against Iranian people!
    Summary: The comprehensive US/EU sanctions attacking the lifeline of Iranian economy is a criminal war of choice against the Iranian population. Far from the claims of sanctions as diplomacy aimed at the resolution of the conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, sanctions are inflicting, both ...
  • Don't Get Your Hopes Up: Obama’s duplicitous ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and historian, discusses the Obama administration’s duplicitous and reactionary Iran policy; why even Netanyahu’s biggest fans are getting tired of his inflammatory rhetoric; and the great opportunity for US-Iran reconciliation w ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • A Mirror of Mars' Life? "Ancient Waters Discov ...
      The ancient, 2.7 billion-year-old rocks of the Canadian Shield contains abundant chemicals that microbes can use as energy in the absence of sunlight-driven photosynthesis. Much like large regions of Mars, says Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a geochemist in University of Tortonto's Depart ...
  • Habitable Alien Planets: "Distance from Star D ...
        One key factor in maintaining a liquid water biosphere on a planet over billions of years is its distance from the Sun, or whatever star it may be orbiting. If it is in too close, then, like Venus, its oceans will boil away. At too great a distance a water world will at best have ...
  • Is 21st-Century Technology Too Primitive to De ...
                  Some of the world's leading astronomers -- including Great Britain's astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees -- believe aliens, rather than using different radio waves or visible light to signal, may be using an entirely different communication medium such as ghostly neutrino ...
  • "Microbial Dark Matter" --The Invisible Infras ...
                         Is space really the final frontier, or are the greatest mysteries closer to home? In cosmology, dark matter is said to account for the majority of mass in the universe, however its presence is inferred by indirect effects rather than detected through telescopes. ...
  • "30 Supernovas Per Second in the Universe" (We ...
                    While there is, on average, only one supernova per galaxy per century, there is something on the order of 100 billion galaxies in the observable Universe. Taking 10 billion years for the age of the Universe (it's actually 13.7 billion, but stars didn't form for the fir ...

Natural News

  • Healthcare.gov running on 'Hope and Change' as ...
    More than two weeks after the hoax launch of the fake "shell" website Healthcare.gov which did not function, the Obama administration has announced plans to bring in real programmers and attempt to build an online federal health exchange site that actually functions...
  • Woozy woman nearly passes out behind Obama as ...
    There is a point where the Orwellian theater of bad government reaches such a comical threshold of absurdity that even the actors can't keep up appearances. Today at the Rose Garden, Obama lined up a roster of window-dressing stand-ins to create the impression of solidarity...
  • Pranayama and the scientific inquiry into breath
    We breathe without giving it a second thought and take this particular bodily function completely for granted. Yet, scientists are now telling us that giving each breath a thought might actually lead us to a place of deep and lasting happiness and health. According to...
  • Status quo health care finally begins to embra ...
    Recent scientific research has revealed an ever increasing amount of evidence of the wonderfully beneficial effects of meditation. Research has shown that meditation reduces stress, blood pressure and pain, improves attention span and the ability to focus and may even...
  • Oolong tea: Why it's good for you
    Oolong tea is a tea that is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. The word "oolong" is Chinese and roughly translates to "black dragon." Oolong tea is also a remarkably healthy brand of tea. There are many different kinds of oolong tea, ranging from fruity...

Threat Level

  • Inside Julian Assange’s Alleged Plot to Steal ...
    The time: January 2011. The location: Ellingham Hall, an elegant mansion northeast of London. The scene: Julian Assange sits in front of a fire, entertaining a visitor from America. The conversation is light at first, but as it turns serious, ...     
  • Feds Sued for Hiding NSA Spying From Terror De ...
    Five years after Congress authorized warrantless electronic spying, the President Barack Obama administration has never divulged to a single defendant that they were the target of this type of phone or email surveillance -- despite lawmakers' claims the snooping has ...     
  • MPAA Claims Victory as File-Sharing Service Is ...
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt, which the courts have declared a massive copyright scofflaw, is shutting down to settle a long-running lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America, according to court records.     
  • Researchers Uncover Holes That Open Power Stat ...
    A pair of researchers have uncovered more than two dozen vulnerabilities in products used in critical infrastructure systems that would allow attackers to crash or hijack the servers controlling electric substations and water systems.     
  • Schneier: Strategies for Designing and Defendi ...
    What the NSA wants is to be able to read encrypted information in as close to real-time as possible. It wants backdoors, just like the cybercriminals and less benevolent governments do. And we have to figure out how to make ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • How Democrats Helped Republicans Save BushCare
    President Obama held a public event on Monday to address the serious problems plaguing the federal online health care exchange serving the 34 states which refused to create their own. Echoing former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pronouncement that the web site difficulties are "unacceptable," Obama in ...
  • The Republican Coup of 2013
    On April 7, 2009--less than three months after Barack Obama first took the oath of office--the Daily Show's Jon Stewart perfectly summed up the red-hot, right-wing rage that hasn't cooled since. "I think," Stewart explained to frothing at the mouth Tea Party supporters, "you might be confusing ...
  • Tea Party is Completely Wrong about Shrinking ...
    This most miserable of weeks for the Tea Party did offer one ray of sunshine for the GOP's hardest of the hardliners. They rejoiced at the findings of an analysis by Yale professor Dan Kahan which revealed that Tea Baggers "appear to be slightly, but solidly more scientifically literate than non ...
  • Shutdown Losers Include Catholic Bishops
    While Stephen Colbert was roasting Cardinal Timothy Dolan at Thursday's Al Smith Dinner in New York, the organization Dolan heads was quietly confessing that it got burned by the Republican Party's hostage-taking of the federal government and U.S. debt ceiling. In the opening paragraph its pres ...
  • Benedict Boehner
    From the moment he first picked up the Speaker's gavel, the choice before John Boehner was a simple one. He could betray the far-right Tea Party extremists whose support for him was always tenuous or he could betray his country. When it came to his party's debt ceiling blackmail--which Senate ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Great Nothingness of Libya, Two Years Afte ...
    The notion of a “Libya” has ceased to have any meaningful practical application. As a concept that either refers to some degree of national unity, an imagined community, sovereignty, or the exercise of authority by a state over the territory…
  • NSA Busted Conducting Industrial Espionage In ...
    U.S. Conducts Industrial Espionage Globally   France’s largest English-language newspaper – The Local – reports:   Le Monde said the documents gave grounds to think the NSA targeted not only people suspected of being involved in terrorism but also high-profile…
  • The Militarization of the Police. Are We Livin ...
    by Amiya Fernando  Are we living in a police state? - There has been a 4000% increase in “no knock,” militarily-armed swat team raids over the past thirty years. - Mid 80′s: 2,000-3,000 raids per year - Present day: 80,000…
  • “The War is Worth Waging”: Afghani ...
    The war on Afghanistan is a profit driven "resource war".
  • Who Owns The Federal Reserve?
    “Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and…

TPM Cafe

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

  • No Matter Where You Live in the US, Expect Cli ...
    Get ready for more super droughts, epic floods, and a whiplash of both, depending on where you live. Rising temperatures and shifting, capricious precipitation patterns are affecting where, when, and how much water fills America’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, and how water is absorbed to rep ...
  • The Time Is Now: Why I'm Joining the Global Fr ...
    Oil and gas development is polluting our water and air, heating the planet and delaying the development of clean energy. On Saturday a global movement will unite against it. Editor's Note: On Saturday, October 19 you can join the Global Frackdown by participating in an event near you or starti ...
  • Disaster Spiraling Out of Control at Fukushima ...
    Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water are pouring into the Pacific Ocean, dousing workers along the way. Huge, flimsy tanks are leaking untold tons of highly radioactive fluids. Japan’s pro-nuclear Prime Minister has finally asked for global help at Fukushima. It probably hasn’t hu ...
  • Disturbing: Dangerous Amounts of Radiation Det ...
    Two new reports reveal the threats posed by fracking. Last week new concerns came to light regarding the treatment and disposal of fracking wastewater. First a report by Environment America shows that as fracking expands across the US, the sheer amount of wastewater produced in 17 shale state ...
  • One Man's Clever Idea to Fight Frackers and Sa ...
    He did more than just act against fracking when he became the first private property owner in the United States to use a deed easement recognizing the Rights of Nature. When J. Stephen Cleghorn realized that Paradise Gardens and Farm, his certified-organic farm in Pennsylvania that sits above ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • World Health Organization says air pollution c ...
    The Associated Press is reporting that the World Health Organization (WHO) is declaring – what many of us who spend our days in traffic choking on smog or who live near a power plant or other industrial facility have long suspected but now has finally been scientifically validated – ...
  • Public Citizen & Sierra Club Call for Action t ...
    Energy Future Holdings $1 Billion Bonding for Texas Mines Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test An exclusive report from Public Citizen and Sierra Club reveals that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) and its subsidiaries have not set aside cash or real assets to cover the $1.01 billion cost of cleaning up its s ...
  • Climate-Com: Climate Change Communications Fro ...
    Our climate is changing and action is desperately needed, but that message is not getting through to to many of our leaders. Climate-Com will explore how the media can better present current climate science so that the public and our leaders will be convinced to act. What: A panel discussion on ...
  • EPA to hold public events in 11 cities on thei ...
    The public will soon get a chance to present ideas and feedback to EPA officials on the agency’s plan to require existing power plants to cut their carbon emissions. The agency will hold a series of 11 public events around the country over the next two months, the agency announced today. The EPA ...
  • A Capital Area Symposium on Climate Resilience ...
    When:   October 4, 2013 Where:  LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin Central Texas Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies: A Capital Area Symposium. This one-day conference will bring Capital Area stakeholders together to identify and assess the shared challenges ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Celebrating Internationalism between Peoples
    Subheadline:  Dessalines Brigade Wins the US Food Sovereignty Prize Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Beverly Bell is the Coordinator of Other Worlds and more than a dozen i ...
  • The Sound of the Drone – Testimonial from a su ...
    palestine-najwa_alyan_abu_daqqa.jpg The narrative below is the first in a series of three stories documented by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner since 1996.read more
  • When Peasant Movements Unite...
    g4-dessalines_brigade.jpg Strength through unity. That is the motto on the Haitian flag, and it is being played out now in a new collaboration among the country’s leading social movements. Each of the four largest Haitian peasant movement ...
  • Palestinian Human Rights Defender Receives the ...
    rajisourani.jpg It is with tremendous pride and admiration that Grassroots International shares the news that Raji Sourani, director of our partner the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), has won the 2013 Right Livelihood Award, oft ...
  • New UN Report says: It's Time for Action on Pe ...
    unctad_cover.jpg A new UN report brings urgency and insights into the current food system – and touches upon the hot button question that is increasingly on people’s minds around the world:  Is industrial food safe – either for pe ...

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • David Brock, the Whitey Tape and Hillary
    Word out today that Media Matter founder, David Brock, is putting out an e-book hoping to defend Hillary Clinton’s indefensible failure on Benghazi: Media Matters founder and Hillary Clinton ally David Brock has co-authored a 90-page e-book called “The Benghazi Hoax,” a tome intended as a ...
  • Valerie Plame’s Blowback
    My young old friend, Valerie Plame Wilson, has started a new career as a writer of thriller fiction and, from early reports, she has hit the proverbial home-run. Her book, BLOWBACK, out does Vince Flynn’s CIA character, Mitch Rapp (remember, I helped Vince develop that character) and does ...
  • Washington’s Political Theater Ignores World R ...
    Americans need to grow the fuck up. I am not talking about any particular issue, rather I am frustrated by the clear evidence that the vast majority of the American public and our political leaders persist in lying about reality. It is not just Obama. This sickness crosses party lines and the sy ...
  • Yes, The Tea Party is Right to Fight
    America is on the brink of a genuine health care disaster. Whatever good intentions may have motivated Barack Obama and his crew in pushing forward the ironically named, Affordable Care Act, the chickens are coming home to roost and the vast majority of voting Americans are going to be pissed. T ...
  • Veterans Take Back the War Memorials
    Under the leadership of Special Operations Speaks (a group I am part of), thousands of men and women gathered this morning at the World War II memorial and opened it up for all Americans. This was put together at the last minute. Although hyped as the “Million Vets March,” the realit ...

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 ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Local cell phone spying KingFish stonewall: Mi ...
    It's been dawning on Americans this year that their everyday electronic devices are used by law enforcement for investigations. However the lawmen and the county attorneys are withholding the policy information about the Harris Corporation Kingfish system which is a device that can alter the ...
  • "Capital Shield 2014": Military Defense Suppor ...
    The US government runs a lot of exercises, which usually happens for ordinary training reasons. On the other hand, many researchers of geopolitics and covert politics note that exercises serve other geopolitical purposes -- for example demonstrating a military alliance with an ally state in fron ...
  • Sheriff Stanek lied on Minnesota Public Radio ...
    Super quick note: Sheriff Stanek lied on Minnesota Public Radio this morning claiming that tons of people are intoxicated on marijuana when they commit violent crimes - a dramatic distortion of yesterday's Stanek Star Tribune op-ed saying more than 50% of people booked at Hennepin Co Jail test p ...
  • Occupy Boulder Flood Relief gets rolling as oi ...
    The good news is that people are organizing for flood relief in Colorado along the proven lines of previous efforts at Occupy Sandy. URLZ: #boulderflood relief :: Boulder Flood Relief - Get help & get involved First meeting 28 mins video: Boulder Flood Relief - Orientation Meeting - YouTube ...
  • Leon Trotsky discusses Freemasonry as inspirat ...
    Poppa Karl makes the Sign of the Itchy Belly Here is an interesting angle which I just found. The connection between Freemasonry and Communism is debatable but a favorite of conspiracy cats, full of ironic twists. While Trotsky talks about how Freemasons in different areas formed a revolutionary ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Texas Republican Judge Switches Party, Denounc ...
    GOP now known for "pettiness and bigotry." A Republican Judge from San Antonio, Texas, has announced he is quitting the GOP and will seek re-election as a Democrat, saying that he can no longer be part of political party whose identity is based on hate, bigotry and destrying people’s ...
  • Police Throw Man in Jail After Mistaking Jolly ...
    Drug War inspired police work at its best. For any New Yorker that still needs convincing of how essential stop-and-frisk tactics are to keeping them safe, some intrepid NYPD police work has taken hard candies off the street. According to a lawsuit brought against the NYPD by Love Olatunjiojo ...
  • Koch Brothers Could Earn $100 Billion in Tar S ...
    KXL will create a cash cow on steroids for the Kochs. Authors of a 40-page report by the liberal think-tank International Forum on Globalization have concluded that the billionaire duo, David and Charles Koch, stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits from their holdings in the tar sand ...
  • AFL-CIO Head to Democrats: Cut Social Security ...
    Richard Trumka's blunt remarks were made Monday to a conference for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. A leading labor union is bluntly telling Democrats that if they try to reduce Social Security or Medicare, the union would go after them electorally. The Huffingt ...
  • Florida High School Named After KKK Founder -- ...
    One Jacksonville resident launched a Change.org petition that has so far garnered over 150,000 signatures, asking the Duval County School Board to change the name.  Nathan B. Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida, home to the fighting Confederate Rebels, is named after a former Ku Klux ...

Threat Level

  • Inside Julian Assange’s Alleged Plot to Steal ...
    The time: January 2011. The location: Ellingham Hall, an elegant mansion northeast of London. The scene: Julian Assange sits in front of a fire, entertaining a visitor from America. The conversation is light at first, but as it turns serious, ...     
  • Feds Sued for Hiding NSA Spying From Terror De ...
    Five years after Congress authorized warrantless electronic spying, the President Barack Obama administration has never divulged to a single defendant that they were the target of this type of phone or email surveillance -- despite lawmakers' claims the snooping has ...     
  • MPAA Claims Victory as File-Sharing Service Is ...
    The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt, which the courts have declared a massive copyright scofflaw, is shutting down to settle a long-running lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America, according to court records.     
  • Researchers Uncover Holes That Open Power Stat ...
    A pair of researchers have uncovered more than two dozen vulnerabilities in products used in critical infrastructure systems that would allow attackers to crash or hijack the servers controlling electric substations and water systems.     
  • Schneier: Strategies for Designing and Defendi ...
    What the NSA wants is to be able to read encrypted information in as close to real-time as possible. It wants backdoors, just like the cybercriminals and less benevolent governments do. And we have to figure out how to make ...     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Foster Farms Salmonella Chicken has Likely Sic ...
    And, still no recall? Outbreak No. 1:  From May 2012 to April 2013 the CDC reported a total of 134 individuals infected with an outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg from... Continue Reading
  • Almost Out of Africa
    I had a great time at the Food Safety Network Food Safety Conference and had some time to see some of the locals at the Ivory Tree Game Lodge.  ... Continue Reading
  • Costco Recalls More Undercooked or Cross-Conta ...
    Costco’s El Camino Real store in San Francisco, Calif., is recalling an additional 14,093 units of rotisserie chicken products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella, the U.S.... Continue Reading
  • Foster Farms Chicken Poisons 338 with Salmonel ...
    As of October 17, 2013, a total of 338 persons infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 20 states and Puerto Rico. 40% of ill... Continue Reading
  • Poison a Dozen with E. coli and make the Miche ...
    Food Safety News reports that Burma Superstar, a popular San Francisco restaurant that voluntarily closed over Labor Day weekend following an E. coli outbreak in mid-August, has snagged a coveted... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesDelivering On Promises The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid should surprise no one. Its look is something we've seen since the non-hybrid versions went on sale last year. Its powertrain, mostly, we are familiar with from the already-on-sale Accord Pl ...
  • Report: Fisker's remains on the auction block ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Fisker, Electric How will a federal government that is partially shut down sell an automaker that is all-but-shut-down? We'll find out Friday when the Department of Energy starts an auction for what is left of Fisker's assets, according to TheDetroitBure ...
  • Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
    Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • MONDAY: Rep. Luis Gutierrez on Immigration Ref ...
    On Monday we'll speak with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who says Congress has enough votes to pass comprehensive immigration reform by the end of the year. In the meantime, read a chapter of his new memoir, "Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill." Excerpted from Sti ...
  • MONDAY: Rep. Luis Gutierrez on Immigration Ref ...
    On Monday we'll speak with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who says Congress has enough votes to pass comprehensive immigration reform by the end of the year. In the meantime, read a chapter of his new memoir, "Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill." Excerpted from Sti ...
  • Oil, Azerbaijan and the Strange Case of Rick B ...
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Oil is the source of so much pain in the world. Around the globe, wherever oil is extracted, people suffer a constellation of injuries, from coups and dictatorship to pollution, displacement and death. Pipelines leak, refineries explode, tankers break up ...
  • Oil, Azerbaijan and the Strange Case of Rick B ...
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Oil is the source of so much pain in the world. Around the globe, wherever oil is extracted, people suffer a constellation of injuries, from coups and dictatorship to pollution, displacement and death. Pipelines leak, refineries explode, tankers break up ...
  • Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan “We apologize for the inconvenience. The Marketplace is currently undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance and will be back up Monday 10/7/3013.” You read it right, 3013. That was the message on the homepage of the New York state health insurance exchan ...

Solari

  • Money & Markets – Week of 10.20.13
    JPMorgan Close to $13 Billion Mortgage Settlement Yahoo! Finance | 19 October 2013 JPMorgan Chase, eager to put a raft of mortgage-securities litigation behind it… Median Wealth Increases, But U.S. Still Stuck at #27 in World Angry Bear | 18 October 2013 The new Global Wealth ...
  • Precious Metals – Week of 10.20.13
    China’s London-Zurich-Hong Kong Gold Conduit — a Major Financial Coup D’etat USA Gold | 18 October 2013 The United Kingdom’s gold exports to Switzerland jumped from 85 tonnes to 1,016 tonnes…
  • Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10. ...
    U.S. Housing Regulators Seek Over $6 Billion from BofA: FT Yahoo! Finance | 20 October 2013 U.S. housing regulators are looking to fine Bank of America more than $6 billion…
  • Geopolitical – Week of 10.20.13
    Texas’ New Voter ID Laws May Roll Back Women’s Voting Rights Reader Supported News | 20 October 2013 Texas, beneath the radar of higher-profile national races, will hold elections this fall… Cheney Said He Disabled Heart Device to Avoid Terrorist Threats Bloomberg &#124 ...
  • Science & Technology – Week of 10.20.13
    It’s Stronger Than Steel and Paper Thin, but Graphene Isn’t Living Up to Its Promise Quartz | 15 October 2013 If the film classic The Graduate were being made today… Huawei Proposes Independent Cybersecurity Testing Labs Information Week | 18 October 2013 Independent bodies w ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Roosegaarde’s Crystal LED Lights Can be Rearra ...
    The gorgeous installation lit up a darkened gallery at the former Philips Physics Laboratory during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven - a place significant for its role in the production of traditional lightbulbs throughout history. Roosegaarde created thousands     
  • Over 300 Elephants Killed After Poachers Dump ...
    A few weeks ago Inhabitat wrote about three men who had been arrested in Zimbabwe for killing 81 elephants by pouring cyanide into the elephant's drinking water. Now, the death toll has risen to include over 300 dead elephants, in addition to a variety of     
  • World’s Largest Pumpkin Gets Transformed into ...
    Feed me, Seymour! Gourd carver extraordinaire Ray Villafane returned to the New York Botanical Garden this year to transform the world's largest pumpkin into a scene right from Little Shop of Horrors. Our editor-in-chief Jill Fehrenbacher and reporter Lori     
  • Boy Scout Leaders Destroy 200 Million Year-Old ...
    In the running for today's "humans are the dumbest species" award are three Boy Scout leaders from Utah. During a recent church camping trip in Goblin Valley State Park, a place known for unique red rock formations known as "goblins," the men took it upon     
  • Britain Breaks Ground On First New Nuclear Pow ...
    The Fukushima nuclear power plant remains a toxic disaster more than two years after an earthquake and tsunami struck coastal Japan. While damages to local residents and the environment are still being discovered, the 2011 catastrophe did compel the rest of     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Flaming Star
    This spectacular image of the star AE Aurigae and its surrounding nebulosity was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer, AE Aurigae ...     
  • Battling Space Junk With a Tractor Beam of Sta ...
    The growing problem of space junk around Earth could be cleaned up in part using the same forces that shock you when you rub your socks against the carpet. By shooting space debris with an electron beam, a charged spacecraft ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Bright Galactic ...
    This detailed view shows the central parts of the nearby active galaxy NGC 1433. The dim blue background image, showing the central dust lanes of this galaxy, comes from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The colored structures near the center ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Saturn From Above
    This portrait looking down on Saturn and its rings was created from images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Oct. 10, 2013. It was made by amateur image processor and Cassini fan Gordan Ugarkovic. This image has not been geometrically ...     
  • Watch Live: Partial Lunar Eclipse Darkens Moon ...
    Tonight there is a special double astronomy feature going on from the Slooh Space Camera. First, a partial lunar eclipse will create unusual shading across the moon's surface. Then, Slooh will train its telescopes on Mars, where comet ISON should ...     

PakAlert

  • Coming Soon: Microchips In All Americans For O ...
    Americans are apprehensive about a stipulation included in the Affordable Care Act which implies the future role of microchips in the world of health care. NBC aired a news special focusing on the new technology. The report highlights advancements in the realm of biotechnology, not only in th ...
  • Unmasking Barack Obama’s Master
    Wow, friends, this has been a week of attacks on the American people like none other. If Barack Hussein Obama and his criminal administration are not being exposed for more crimes that the IRS committed against the American people (targeting of conservative groups, tea parties, churches, etc.), ...
  • FEMA Regions 2 & 3 Kill Switch Test? East Coas ...
    Internet traffic across much of the East Coast went down on Saturday after a switch supposedly failed. From Brooklyn to Philadelphia, internet users were unable to access the internet or had extremely slow internet speeds. Was this another internet kill switch test? Much of FEMA Regions 2 & ...
  • What Really Happened When the House Stenograph ...
    Truthstream Media The House stenographer Diane Reidy was pulled off the floor after an outburst about how the Constitution was written by Freemasons, you cannot serve two masters and this is not one nation under God (read the first article covering the basics here). Now check out the video above ...
  • Meet the Google executive who plans to cheat death
    Google engineering director and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes we are close to realizing everlasting life and is dead-set on getting us there. The inventor and noted author believes the key to such a scientific breakthrough is a system of ‘bridges’ that enable the body to move from strength t ...

Andy Worthington

  • How the Egyptian Media Has Reported the Story ...
    Last week I reported the story of Tariq al-Sawah, the last Egyptian prisoner in Guantánamo, whose lawyers are seeking his release because “his health is too poor for him to pose any kind of threat.” Al-Sawah (also identified as Tarek El-Sawah), an explosives expert for al-Qaeda who became disill ...
  • An Interview with Guantánamo Expert Andy Worth ...
    Recently, I was interviewed by a young Spanish journalist, Francisco Castañón, for The Prisma, an online multicultural newspaper. The interview is here, and in it I explained how I came to write about Guantánamo, for my book The Guantánamo Files, and I also ran through aspects of the story of Gu ...
  • Although Two Men Weigh 75 Pounds or Less, Guan ...
    For six months, Guantánamo managed to be in the news on a regular basis, as a prison-wide hunger strike succeeded in pricking the consciences of the mainstream media. Unfortunately, since the numbers of those involved fell (from 106 on July 10 to 53 a month later), the media largely moved on. At ...
  • Today, As Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Seek Reli ...
    Today, at 11 am Eastern time (4 pm GMT), lawyers for three prisoners still held at Guantánamo Bay — including the last British resident, Shaker Aamer — will ask the appeals court in Washington D.C. to order the government to end the force-feeding of prisoners, denounced by the World ...
  • Lawyers Seek Release from Guantánamo of Tariq ...
    Two weeks ago, when lawyers in the US Justice Department decided — for the first time — not to contest the habeas corpus petition of a prisoner in Guantánamo, it was a cause for celebration. The man in question, Ibrahim Idris, a Sudanese man in his early 50s, is severely mentally ill ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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Sciencebase

  • Designing out desire for sustainable life
    We’ve got it all wrong, it seems. We invest millions in recycling centres, refuse sorting facilities, and in some parts of the world in assimilating every last scrap of metal, plastic, glass and feeding it back into the system as usable source materials whether that’s for plastics re ...
  • Amygdalin – anticancer “vitamin” B17
    Amygdalin the so-called safe and natural anticancer vitamin B17, is none of those things. It is not a vitamin in any sense of the word. It has no anticancer properties. It is poisonous. The compound, formula C20H27NO11, is a glycoside initially isolated from the seeds of the tree Prunus dulcis i ...
  • Stay safe legally, moderate your comments
    I’ve always moderated comments on my blogs. I own the blogs, I’m an independent science journalist, no blog “network” safety net for me, so why wouldn’t I? I treat the comments section like a letters editor at a newspaper would. All legitimate comments are posted, a ...
  • Big Bang Theory
    There’s lots of discussion right now about the so-called “God particle“, the Higgs boson, the notion of a time before time. There are those who worry about what triggered the Big Bang, whether we live in a universal hologram akin to the “world” that exists beneath t ...
  • Elemental discoveries – Hipsterium
    Back in the day (well 1995) I created one of the first chemistry websites – Elemental Discoveries – it was a spinoff of my news column for the RSC’s young chemists’ print magazine New Elements (a name I coined to replace the old Gas Jar). Anyway, Elemental Discoveries was ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Thousands Demand Release of Angola 3 Inmate 'C ...
    Supporters of Albert Woodfox rally for his release (Photo: Advocate staff photo MARK BALLARD)Although he has been locked in solitary for four decades, Albert Woodfox's demands for freedom reached the front steps of the Louisiana Capitol building Monday, where Amnesty International delivered ...
  • Toxic Overflow of Thousands of Fukushima Tanks ...
    An aerial photograph of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant taken on Sunday, October 20, 2013 after heavy rainfall caused radioactive water to overflow storage tanks (bottom). (Photo: File/ Reuters)Highly radioactive water crested the walls of some 1,000 storage tanks at Japan's Fukush ...
  • Absent Progressive Uproar, Social Security and ...
    From left: Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and President Obama. Are these the people who will agree to cut Social Security and Medicare? (Photo: WhiteHouse.gov)If U.S. citizens are increasingly concerned that the Democratic Party is no longer willing to fight off the right-w ...
  • Climate Youth to Fossil Fuel Financiers: 'Fund ...
  • 'Dirty, Destructive, Damaging': Critics Slam U ...
    A worker walks past a gas circulator in the turbine hall inside EDF Energy's Hinkley Point B Nuclear Power Station in Bridgwater, southwest England December 13, 2012 (Photo: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett)The British government has given the green light for a nuclear plant that is set to be the first ...

Lifehacker

  • Tunebox Organizes and Streams Your Dropbox Mus ...
    iOS: We're fans of using Dropbox to store your music files, but the official Dropbox apps don't exactly make great audio players. Tunebox is an app that does just that and makes your Dropbox a viable place for cloud music storage. Read more...     
  • How to Use Your Smartphone to Get Better Pictu ...
    Most people just use the camera in their smartphone out of sheer convenience, but some of us prefer the superior image quality of a standalone camera. Can’t decide between the two? There is a middle ground: with a few apps, tips, and techniques, your smartphone can connect to your camera to shoo ...
  • When to Use Quickoffice vs Google Drive
    Recently, Google released a revamped version of Quickoffice for free to the Play Store. Now the company has two office suites with nearly identical interfaces. Which one should you use? Productivity blog Make Tech Easier attempted to answer that question.Read more...     
  • Proper Menubar Brings Back Google's Trusty Bla ...
    Chrome/Firefox: Google got rid of the black navigation bar again. Many users feel that the new app launcher is a sub-par replacement. Thankfully, Proper Menubar brings it back with a vengeance.Read more...     
  • Malwarebytes for Android Kills Malware, Protec ...
    Android: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a great tool for removing trojans, worms, and other malware from your Windows computer, but now it's made the jump to Android. It still offers robust malware protection, but it goes further to protect your privacy from apps with overreaching permissions or o ...

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The Wonk Room

  • Al Gore: Divest Now From ‘Sub-Prime&#821 ...
    On Tuesday, at 2pm EDT, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project will kick off a live-stream, multimedia event. It will explore how we are all already paying the cost of carbon pollution -- and what we can do about it.The post Al Gore: Divest Now From ‘Sub-Prime’ Coal And Oil Companies Befo ...
  • 14 Down, 36 To Go
    Following a ruling by the state’s highest court last week, marriage equality came to New Jersey this morning at 12:01 a.m.The post 14 Down, 36 To Go appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Ohio Will Expand Medicaid Under Obamacare, Ext ...
    Ohio joins the growing number of GOP-led states agreeing to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.The post Ohio Will Expand Medicaid Under Obamacare, Extending Health Coverage To Nearly 300,000 Residents appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Obama Administration: Obamacare Will Meet Enro ...
    Senior administration officials expressed confidence that the public's enthusiasm for obtaining health carecoverage and the alternative pathways for signing-up for insurance will ensure that the law is successful.The post Obama Administration: Obamacare Will Meet Enrollment Targets Despite Websi ...
  • Are Traditional Gender Roles Destroying Japan?
    Why Japan's survival just might depend on women's reproductive freedom.The post Are Traditional Gender Roles Destroying Japan? appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • harper the Gutless Coward
    It's one of the sickening puke's most revealing traits; his cowardice. Proroguing Parliament, squeezing out a tepid throne speech, leaving the country the very next day to continue hiding from the Senate scandal, and then ordering a military assault on the First Nations as well. What a disgusti ...
  • What Can Be Done About RCMP Attacking First Na ...
    What can be done, by us, against the RCMP's hyper-militaristic bullshit against unarmed First Nations protesters? The Elsipogtog people were trying to stop the land destroying obscenity of "fracking" from poisoning their water and fouling their air. If this ecocidal behaviour isn't stopped dead ...
  • Down is Up
     Lotta talk and writing about harper's throne speech yesterday. A prime minister who holds Parliament in contempt, and we're talking about his latest effort to re-brand his party of corporate fraudsters, torturers, rapists and closet-cases, as if he's a genuine democratic politician. The he ...
  • Ah, fuck it ...
    Here's a video ... ... ah yasss!
  • Chicken-Hawk Scum-Bags
    A good survey of the harpercon's dismal record of hypocrisy and deceit. I can't believe that we didn't force these ugly fuckers from power years ago. Canadian apathy.

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • No scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs
    Sustainable Pulse reports: There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released today by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians. The statement comes in response to recent claims from the GM ...
  • William Astore: War! What is it good for? Prof ...
    It’s no news (and in fact rarely makes it off the inside pages of our newspapers) that the U.S. dominates — one might almost say monopolizes — the global arms market.  In 2011, the last year for which figures are available, U.S. weapons makers tripled their sales to $66.3 ...
  • The phenomenology of a drone strike
    Nasser Hussain writes: Let us then take a closer look at the visual regime of the drone. Let us see what a drone sees (and what it does not). Here is a representative clip, chosen more or less randomly from the many available online. While many commentators worry about the “video-game style warf ...
  • The deadly fury that demonization unleashes
    Katrin Bennhold writes: From a comfortable couch in his London living room, Sean O’Callaghan had been watching the shaky televised images of terrified people running from militants in an upscale mall in Kenya. Some of those inside had been asked their religion. Muslims were spared, non-Muslims e ...
  • NSA hacked Mexican president’s email
    Der Spiegel reports: The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president’s public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico. The Nat ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Paleoscientist: Mann’s recent work was a ‘croc ...
    From the soon to be a Climate Crock of the Week department, Barry Woods writes to me in an email: One of the insights in the climategate emails was perhaps how poisonous Michael Mann’s involvement was, for the niche area … Continue reading →
  • Radiative Forcing, Radiative Feedbacks and Rad ...
    Guest essay by Roger A. Pielke Sr. Main Points 1. The difference in ocean heat content at two different time periods provides the global average radiative imbalance over that time [within the uncertainty of the ocean heat measurements] 2. This … Continue reading →
  • The Oceanic Central Heating Effect
    Guest essay by Philip Mulholland In my previous essay We Must Get Rid of the Carboniferous Warm Period I discussed the role of the polar seas around Antarctica in generating the cold dense oxygenated marine water that dominates the abyssal … Continue reading →
  • Antarctic Sea Ice Didn’t Get The Memo Th ...
    Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts Per the graph above, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has remained above the 1981 – 2010 “normal” range for much of the last … Continue reading →
  • FROM SCIENCE…TO ART…TO HYPOTHETICALS
    The new RCPs are not projections, probabilities, prophecies or pathways – they might possibly be potentialities. Guest essay by Barry Brill The IPCC begins with science: “In sum, a strategy must recognise what is possible. In climate research and modelling, … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...
  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...
  • ▶ Atherosclerosis
    This 3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack myocardial infarction from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the endothelial arterial wall, ...
  • Development of a fly embryo in real time
    Development of a fly embryo in real time – YouTube.

CFACT

  • Life in a climate cataclysm box
    Licking her chops at the possibilities, former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson insisted her agency would need 240,000 new employees (at $100,000 a year and up!) just to administer new CO2 regulations -- tripling or even quadrupling EPA's current size. So of course "climate scientists" will lie, ...
  • No way to run a country
    Dennis Avery chastises The Eocnomist for leading Europeans -- and now the U.S. -- into the Dark Ages of power outages and turned-off lights due to rising costs and shutdowns of conventional energy. German businesses are being choked on expensive power, and the U.K. may try the failed policy of ...
  • Europe: the new dark continent?
    Europe is pushing people into energy poverty and killing industry's ability to compete. Can others learn before it's too late?
  • No way to run a country
    The Economist helped push Britain into the “greenest” carbon policies in the known world. Now, even though the global temperatures haven’t risen for more than 15 years they have created their very own energy crisis.
  • Supreme Court accepts challenge to EPA emissio ...
    Will the Supreme Court apply the constitutional brakes to EPA's emissions regulations while there's still an economy left to regulate?

Ria Novosti Online News

  • White House Says ‘All Nations Spy,’ Vows to Re ...
    The White House brushes off French outrage over a report in Le Monde newspaper that said the US National Security Agency (NSA) had intercepted tens of millions of phone calls made by French citizens, saying “all nations” engage in espionage activities and vowing to review the way it spies on oth ...
  • Main News of October 21
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours     
  • Equipment Destroyed at 14 Syrian Chemical Arms ...
    A team of international experts working on a mission to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons has destroyed critical equipment at 14 sites in the war-torn country, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Monday.     
  • Trendwatcher: Volgograd Terror Attack: Loathin ...
    Perhaps one of the saddest aspects of the suicide bombing in Volgograd this week – assuming we were forced to pick one such aspect – is the amount of young people caught up in it.     
  • Ukrainian Pleads Guilty to Murder, Mosque Atta ...
    A white supremacist Ukrainian student has pleaded guilty to murdering an 82-year-old Muslim man and plotting a terrorist bombing campaign against mosques in central England.     

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