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Natural Health News

  • Report Reveals American Healthcare System Coul ...
    By Dr. Mercola I typically do not focus my recommendations on supplements for the simple fact that the vast majority of supplements on the market are synthetic versions that might do more harm than good in the long term. It’s important to keep in mind that there is a major differenc ...
  • Do You Really Need Poo-in-a-Pill?
    By Dr. Mercola Mounting research suggests that supplementing with probiotics (good bacteria) is probably more important than taking a multivitamin, and this is due to the profoundly important role gut bacteria play in your health. Many still fail to recognize that the microbes in your gut in ...
  • How to Cut Your Breast Cancer Risk Naturally
    By Dr. Mercola According to estimates by the American Cancer Society, about 232,300 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, and about 39,600 will die from the disease. Dr. Christine Horner is quite familiar with breast cancer. She began her career as a board certified general- an ...
  • Vitamin D and K2 Work in Tandem to Slow Arteri ...
    By Dr. Mercola As I've discussed on numerous occasions, vitamin D is a critical nutrient for optimal health and is best obtained from sun exposure or a safe tanning bed. However, many are taking oral vitamin D, which may become problematic unless you're also getting sufficient amounts of vi ...
  • Documentary: Grounded
    The Producers of this film are allowing a full and FREE preview through 10/26/2013! Please show your support by pre-ordering a copy of this film! Click HERE to pre-order "Grounded" for only $24.95!By Dr. Mercola The surface of the Earth holds subtle health-boosting energy. All we have to do ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Guest Post: The Truth About Criminal Jurisdict ...
    by Chris Jenks by Chris Jenks [Chris Jenks is an assistant professor of law and directs the criminal justice clinic at the SMU Dedman School of Law. He previously served as Chief of the U.S. Army’s International Law Branch, where he was responsible for the Department of Defense’s foreign crimi ...
  • Book Symposium: Comments on Anupam Chander’s T ...
    by Michael Birnhack by Michael Birnhack [Michael Birnhack is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University] Anupam Chander’s new book, The Electronic Silk Road is an admirable scholarly achievement. Chander draws our—the global community of cyberspace users—attention to the increasing global ...
  • Book Symposium: The Electronic Silk Road by An ...
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week, we are pleased to host a symposium on The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press) by Anupam Chander (UC Davis). The publisher’s description is: On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mount ...
  • Events and Announcements: October 20, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers The Journal of World Investment and Trade (JWIT) is under new editorial responsibility starting with the first issue of 2014. It operates as a double-blind peer-reviewed journal and focuses on the law relating to foreign investment relations in a ...
  • Legally Distinct Corporate Entities and Agency ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Guest commentary here at OJ by Adam N. Steinman (Seton Hall) on the Supreme Court’s oral argument in Daimler AG v. Bauman, along with earlier comments on the case by John Bellinger at Lawfare, have been helpful to me – no expert in civil proc ...

Public News Service

  • Got an Extra Cow? SD Needs Your Help
    Got an Extra Cow? SD Needs Your Help PHOENIX - Can ranchers and farmers in Arizona and other states spare a cow? It's a question being posed on social media, in an effort to get quality animals to beginning and small ranch operations in South Dakota hit by winter storm Atlas. Miles City, Monta ...
  • Veggie Farmer: New Food Safety Rules are an Ov ...
    Veggie Farmer: New Food Safety Rules are an Over-reach PHOENIX – The new Food Safety Modernization Act became law early in 2011 and is now going through an implementation process that includes making new rules for food producers. Tim Huth owns a vegetable farm, and says the proposed new ...
  • Is Toxic Algae in Waters Near You?
    Is Toxic Algae in Waters Near You? PHOENIX – Toxic algae can be found in lakes, ponds and rivers across the country. And according to a recent report by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Resource Media it threatens both habitat and lives. The report looks at reports of toxic al ...
  • Physicians Group: Wood Smoke Worse than Cigarettes
    Physicians Group: Wood Smoke Worse than Cigarettes PHOENIX - Residents in Maricopa County and parts of Pinal County get upset when air quality officials announce a "no burn day." It means no crackling logs in the fireplace on Christmas and New Years Eves. But a doctors' group in neighboring Utah ...
  • Seeds of a Much Smarter Farm Policy Dying in G ...
    Seeds of a Much Smarter Farm Policy Dying in Gridlock PHOENIX - It's the peak of the farmers' market season in Arizona, and tiny federal programs for farmers' markets could grow big results for the state's farmers, communities, seniors and low-income families, if only Congress would pass a new f ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Europe plans 3D printing metal parts for space ...
    The European Space Agency wants to use 3D printing for metal parts, including entire satellites, and is bringing together 28 institutions to help them do it. Not only would there be no waste in creating the parts, they would be much lighter since they won’t need bolts and fasteners. This t ...
  • Tonight We Fight – “Rock Bottom” Official Lyri ...
  • Microsoft will be most valuable company in fiv ...
    Microsoft is way undervalued, has enormous revenues, and expanding businesses, says an asset management firm Longboard Asset Management. The driver for its growth will be dominance in the enterprise cloud, duel boot Android / Windows devices, Office 365, enterprise software, and more. Microsoft ...
  • Cleantech VC investments collapse
    Venture capital investing in cleantech is way down, below 2006 levels. Worse, most of the VC investment is in existing companies with little in new and early-stage companies. The third quarter of 2013 saw the 7th consecutive drop in cleantech venture investing. In Q3 there were 40 deals and $297 ...
  • Ain’t Done Nothing If You Ain’t Been Called A Red
    I’m not a Red, however I love the fighting spirit of this song, presumably written during the glory days of the American Socialist / Communist Left in the 1930′s. “when I was just a little thing I used to love parades with banners, bands and red balloons and maybe lemonade when ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Mother needing to breastfeed charged with cont ...
    Jury duty isn’t most people’s favorite thing, but imagine getting the summons while being a new mother and unable to leave the baby. That was the case for a Lee’s Summit woman whose stand is landing her a court date of her own at the Jackson County Courthouse. Laura Trickle is ...
  • U.S. surveillance leaks “threaten” ...
    TOO F*N BAD GOONS!   (Reuters) – Public disclosures about U.S. government surveillance threaten the ability of police to use powerful new technologies such as drones and mobile license plate readers, a top law enforcement official said on Sunday. The leak of highly classified document ...
  • Families suspect SEAL Team 6 crash was “ ...
    * When reading this we want to keep in mind who the “Taliban” are, and who they work for, etc… And who the Govt / Cops in Kabul are paid by etc… By Propagandist at the Washington (Mooney) Times Questions haunt the families of Extortion 17, the 2011 helicopter mission in A ...
  • Unarmed Couple shot 137 times by Cops in Cleve ...
    When Police tell you they were involved in a “full blown-out firefight” you would think that this referred to both them being shot at by the bad guys as well as shooting back. Not true. Business Insider reports: Cleveland officials are suspending 63 police officers for their roles in a November ...
  • TSA Air Marshall caught taking “Up Skirt ...
    We ask, Do they actually look for these types when hiring for the TSA? This is the Umpteenth incident like this we have reported. Should you trust these creeps with the “naked scan” pics or your wives, mothers, or daughters?   ‘Man, you ought to be ashamed’: Irate gr ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook launches ‘Stories to Share,’ for publ ...
    It seems Facebook has fallen in-step with news publishers, increasing the average referral traffic by 170 percent, according to new research. The social network also announced Monday that it has launched a new tool — Stories...
  • Facebook adds video to mobile app install ads, ...
    Facebook on Monday announced that video is coming to its mobile app ad products. Advertisers can now also bid on ads by cost per acquisition (CPA). More video is slowly seeping its way into Facebook’s mobile...
  • Facebook experiences morning outage; many user ...
    Facebook’s biggest nightmare came true early Monday morning, as the site wasn’t functioning for several users all over the world. While many users reported not being able to post status updates, some couldn’t like, comment or...
  • Google rejoins Facebook Exchange
    Google has decided to rejoin Facebook Exchange, the company announced in a blog post Friday. Google’s DoubleClick Bid Manager will become part of the FBX network, allowing its ad partners to deliver retargeted ads on the...
  • How can Facebook advertisers succeed in Q4 — t ...
    The most important time of the year is coming up for advertisers — the fourth quarter. It’s the holiday season, when many advertisers make their big push to consumers. For Facebook, Q4 can be particularly lucrative...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Obamacare: The big job creator?
    If 5 percent of older workers can quit their jobs because of Obamacare, that would open up 1.2 million jobs for younger workers. That number may prove to be too high, and it certainly would not happen immediately, but in a slow-growing economy, the decision of more older workers to quit could be ...
  • Healthcare Website Bungles
    Our brilliant Obama Administration hired a Canadian tech firm to design and implement the glitch-ridden United States national health care exchange site healthcare.gov.
  • The Road From Here: What About Medicare and So ...
    The posturing has begun. The position taken by Durbin, and apparently by the President as well, is that Republicans must agree to tax increases in return for entitlement cuts. Republicans say they're willing to give up the harmful cuts known as sequestration -- and only those cuts -- in return f ...
  • Let's Get This Class War Started
    The top 1 percent in the United States own 40 percent of the nation's wealth while the bottom 80 percent own only 7 percent. Half of the country is now classified as poor or low-income. The real value of the minimum wage has fallen by $2.77 since 1968. Oligarchs do not believe in self-sacrifice ...
  • Real News
    Wonder what you may have missed for the three weeks that the soap opera of the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis monopolized the news? Here are some clues. This is only a start but hopefully offers some perspective.

Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • Just when you thought it was safe: BP tar san ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago Here they go again.  With sad predictability, BP has once again used funny numbers to calculate the emissions from a tar sands conversion project, and once again a state has let them get away with it.&nbs ...
  • Stabilizing & greening the favelas: Rio's form ...
    Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions, Washington, DC   Rio de Janeiro is one of the best-known cities in the world.  Its spectacular topography and beaches, its music, the world’s most famous pre-Lenten carnival.&nbsp ...
  • Energy Efficiency Firms Lead Worldwide Clean T ...
    Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco The new Global Cleantech 100 list of private companies breaking barriers with their clean technology ideas and executions across the worldwide economy finds that energy efficiency companies not only ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for LEDs - LED Bulbs Access Internet, ...
    Chinese scientists have claimed that Wi-fi connectivity from a LED lightbulb (LiFi) is now a step closer. Li-fi promises to be a cheaper and more energy-efficient technology than existing wireless radio systems.The general availability of LED bulbs and the omnipresence of lighting infrastructure ...
  • Broken Government - Clouds of Dust Still to Settle
    Out of the Washington political chaos of the past few weeks, two overwhelmingly critical questions have yet to be decided. Can a wily President Barack Obama, despite his Administration's repeatedly demonstrated incompetence in both domestic and foreign policy, rescue - by perhaps more constituti ...
  • Palestine on Edge - PLO: Battle for Succession ...
    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 negotiations have served as a catalyst for inc ...
  • Ancient Days - Ancient Syria's Local Sourcing ...
    An archaeologist at the University of Sheffield has found evidence that, contrary to a widely held theory, ancient Syrians made their stone tools locally instead of importing finished tools from Turkey. The discovery, newly published online in Journal of Archaeological Science, has implications ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Netanyahu Warns US Not to ...
    The United States should not ease sanctions against Iran until it can prove that Iran has fully dismantled its nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The warning comes amid reports that the Obama administration is considering offering Iran a chance to recover ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Love-fest is Over--Oprah and Obama No Long ...
    Yesterday the news began to filter out that Oprah Winfrey turned down the President Obama's request  to help him sell Obamacare.  Today we learn why--the two are no longer BFFs. Apparently Oprah was promised tremendous access to the White House, and exclusive material she could ...
  • Obamacare Fail: Healthcare.gov Needs 5,000,000 ...
    Today's New York Times gives the impression that things at the Obamacare website Heathcare.gov may be much worse than "advertised." Apparently the administration spent last week approaching contractors to see if they can fix the site by November first.  Some of the contractors once said the ...
  • A Little Extra Fighting The Liberal Media
    For almost a week I have been contributing to Truth Revolt, the new site from the David Horowitz Freedom Center. It is run by Ben Shapiro of Breitbart fame and describes its mission this way: The media win elections for the left. It’s not the left’s competence in office; leftists have demons ...
  • Sex Scandals From Hillary Clinton's State Depa ...
    This past summer was not a great one for Hillary Clinton's State Department its when we learned she ignored pleas for more security which lead to the death of four Americans in Behghazi, told a lie to the people about a Mohammed video, and then tried to bully her subordinates into silence. ...
  • Another Scientist Warns An Ice Age Is Coming
    In today's Philadelphia Enquirer Frank Wilson discusses the New Book by Geologist E. Kirsten Peters, “The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change” According to Peters Natural climate change is frequent, often extreme, and sometimes rapid. Industrial ...

Wind Watch

  • Bird migration routes coincide with high wind ...
    Where exactly do migratory birds stop on their way across Wyoming? A new study answers that question for the first time, with any eye towards discouraging wind development in those places. Study leader Amy Pocewicz is a landscape ecologist with The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming. She says the res ...
  • Vermont wind farm blows down home values
    GEORGIA, Vt. – Scott and Melodie McLane own 15 acres on the north side of Georgia Mountain. “It’s just the perfect place,” Scott said. Up until last year, they thought of it as their little piece of paradise. “It used to be a quiet, peaceful– the place that we ...
  • Yorkshire Dales wind farm first in Britain to ...
    It is a sight that will cheer campaigners across the land. 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 once ...
  • Despite impending permit denial, First Wind si ...
    By the beginning of August, it was clear the Maine Department of Environmental Protection was going to deny First Wind’s permit application to build the Bowers Mountain wind project, a 16-turbine farm in Carroll Plantation and Kossuth Township in eastern Penobscot County. But that didn’t stop th ...
  • Experts at ISO NE conference: Go slow on renew ...
    Renewable energy and its integration in the power grid took center stage at this year’s annual meeting on the future of the New England system. ISO New England, the regional grid operator, hosted more than 100 top energy regulators, officials and advocates at Boston’s Colonnade Hotel last month. ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Baseline Predictions for the next Sixty Odd Years
    Today I read this article on how the Ocean is dead: how the fish and birds are gone from huge swathes of it.  You should read it. Most people are absolutely shitty system thinkers, they don’t understand break-points: how you get long trends that suddenly break up or down, how self-reinforc ...
  • If there is a default it is because both Obama ...
    I don’t know if there’ll be a debt default.  What I do know is this: if Obama doesn’t want to default he has options. Forget the platinum coin nonsense (though he could if he wanted), Obama can just tell the Treasury to keep on keeping on, and continue selling treasuries.  Ther ...
  • Why The Republicans Shut The Government Down a ...
    HBR has an article by Justin Fox on the government shutdown in Washington in game theory terms.  It’s good as far as it goes, but it amounts to this: It works, they get some of what they want People keep doing what works. Let’s add some more specifics. The article mentions that the f ...
  • (CORRECTED) If the Republican Bill were to Pass…
    Correction: I misread the bill, while the part about the individual mandate is correct, legislators were already going to be forced into the exchanges.  What the bill does is cut staffer subsidies, and most of those staffers are poor.  That’s not something I can support.   legislators ...
  • The Individual Mandate and the Government Shutdown
    Let’s get specific.  The House spending bill linked continued funding to a one year delay of the individual mandate—the requirement that everyone buy insurance.  This is not the same thing as delaying Obamacare, everyone who wanted a policy could still buy one.  While there are subsidies f ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    21st September 2013 – It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that Open Your Eyes News is to be closing down with immediate effect. I would like to especially thank Kim for his technical expertise, my co-founder Collin for helping get it all off the ground 6 years ago, our 3 longe ...
  • Message from Health & Environment Editor, Janet
    My moniker has been the Biochemist. I’m writing this on behalf of the other editors and technical staff involved with Open Your Eyes News. I, personally, have been involved with OYE News since early June 2009. The first time I met with James was on the 9th June. I started posting by 30th of June ...
  • Image of the week – Technology
  • Quote of the week – Einstein on War
    “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”- Einstein
  • Wave of Iraq car bombings kill at least 48 peo ...
    ABC – At least 17 car bombs have exploded across Iraq, killing about 48 people and wounding 130 as sectarian violence continues to surge. The blasts mainly targeted Shiite majority cities and towns. The deadliest violence was in and around the city of Hilla, the predominantly Shiite capita ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Global Hemp Renaissance
    Taranaki hemp farmer John Earney with organic enthusiast HRH Prince Charles Where the people lead, the leaders will follow – Ghandi Nothing honors Ghandi’s vision more stunningly than the citizens movement to legalize marijuana and industrial hemp. At the time former Congressman ...
  • Animal Domestication and Capitalism
    In the past I have tended to dismiss the animal welfare movement as another “feel good” liberal cause that does little to redress human oppression and exploitation. I was wrong. A recent lecture by sociologist David Nibert from Wittenberg University has opened my eyes to ...
  • The Collapse Has Already Started
    “Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment” is an illuminating video (shared by Don Truax at The Ominous Parallels) by Dmitry Orlov, an IT engineer who emigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union at age 12. Orlov is best known for his “Post Soviet Lessons for a Post American Centu ...
  • What Happens to the Dollar When Iran Joins BRICS?
    Iran Seeks to Join BRICS According to the British International Business Times, Iran’s Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri is seeking for Iran to join the BRICS alliance of emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Alishiri made this announcement ...
  • Intestinal Bacteria and Chronic Illness
    (This is the second of 2 posts about a possible link between intestinal bacteria, obesity, and other chronic illnesses.) The most enlightening article I’ve seen about micrbiota (gut bacteria) research is an April 2013 article from Mother Jones. It explores the possibility that insulin re ...

FourWinds10

  • The WHO Must Release Report on Iraqi Birth Def ...
    Aug. 11, 2013 "The indefinite postponement of the World Health Organisation's report is alarming scientists and activists." (DETROIT) - Large parts of the Middle East are now contaminated with war pollutants. In Iraq, war debris continues to wear away and erode populated cities. Su ...
  • Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico twice as large as ...
    Aug. 12, 2013 Large dead zone in 2013 is partly due to wet spring conditions in the Mississippi watershed, which increased nutrient runoff, triggering algae blooms. The oxygen-depleted dead zone that forms each summer in the Gulf of Mexico has reached 5,840 square miles in size, according to NOA ...
  • EPA goes paramilitary, conducts armed raids wi ...
    Sept. 13, 2013 (NaturalNews) In what is another example of gross regulatory abuse, a squad of Alaska enviro-agents wearing POLICE-emblazoned body armor and dressed in paramilitary garb recently "raided" a small community for the purpose of - wait for it - checking the quality of water. ...
  • Video of Amazon Gold Mining Devastation Goes V ...
    Sept. 27, 2013 Video of illegal gold mining operations that have turned a portion of the Amazon rainforest into a moonscape went viral on Youtube after a popular radio and TV journalist in Peru highlighted the story. Last week Peruvian journalist and politician Güido Lombardi directed his a ...
  • MORE ON THE BP OIL SPILL
    Oct. 18, 2013 David M. Adam, Jr. ADD INTERNATIONAL WASHINGTON, D.C.

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • 7 Stunning Passive Houses That Will Cost Just ...
    It is getting cold here in England, and I’m preparing for the yearly tradeoffs between comfort, carbon emissions and heating bills that are part of living in a house with reasonable but not great insulation. For the 30,000 or so owners of passive houses these compromises are a thing of the past. ...
  • Carbon Pollution Standards and Permits: What's ...
    A lot of people were confused by the Supreme Court’s decision to review one narrow aspect of EPA’s carbon pollution regulations. Some reporters got it right, but others got mixed up by the spin and swirl of certain Washington lawyers on the losing side.read more
  • Reading The Renewable Energy Tea Leaves In Lat ...
    We got all excited when our friends over at the SUN DAY Campaign tipped us off to the latest federal report on newly installed electrical generating capacity in the US, given that the overall picture looks so rosy for renewables. However, the devil is in the details.read more
  • Climate Departure: New Study Projects Timing o ...
    Planning for a sustainable future is obviously made much more difficult when a rapidly changing climate is added to the equation. Planning effective policy and development goals will depend greatly on where we find ourselves in ten, twenty, thirty or fifty years.read more
  • GE White Paper: Age of Gas To Bring Greater Fl ...
    Denser networks for natural gas will contribute to greater flexibility and improved economics, according to a new white paper released by GE. The paper, called the Age of Gas, argues that the expanding network of natural gas infrastructure expected from the gas boom, will enhance the industry.re ...

Rodale News

  • It's Official: Air Pollution Causes Cancer
    Air pollution joins the ranks of asbestos and cigarette smoke as a cancer-causing agent, the World Health Organization recently announced. Calling outdoor air pollution a leading cause of cancer deaths, the organization said it accounted for 220,000 lung cancer deaths throughout the world in 20 ...
  • How to Deal with Your Pet's Food Allergies
    by Jean Hofve, DVM, author of the upcoming book Paleo Dog Food allergies aren't just a human problem. As they have in people, food allergies have been on the rise in pets, turning their dinnertime into an all-out health assault. Pets typically have skin-related or digestion-related symptoms ...
  • 10 Freaky Facts about Your Chicken
    Chicken and egg carton labels would have you believe that our feathered friends grow up roaming amongst blades of green grass and sunshine on family farms with little red barns. While there is a growing movement to bring back that type of animal husbandry, the truth is the overwhelming majority ...
  • The Best Soups for Fall: Autumn Root Vegetable ...
    Love soup? Who doesn't?? For the entire month of October, Rodale News is hosting a "Rodale Soup Club"—we give you a soup recipe on Friday, and then you post your pics, tweaks and tips to our Facebook page on Monday. Each recipe comes to you courtesy of Beatrice Ojakangas, author of Th ...
  • How You Could Get Fracked When Buying Your Nex ...
    Think you can escape dirty natural gas drilling by moving to the suburbs and away from rural areas that are being overrun with wells and drill pads? Think again. According to an investigation by journalists from Reuters, homebuilders and developers that have led the expansion of suburban Americ ...

big think

  • What “All Is Lost” Can Teach Us about Living i ...
    Critics are hailing Robert Redford’s performance in the film “All Is Lost” as the best of his career. I see it as much more than a movie-goer’s experience. It’s really a meditation. The name of the character Redford portrays is “Our Man,” and he’s the sole cast member, ...
  • A New Index Tracks Human Slavery Around The World
    What's the Latest Development? Last week saw the launch of the first annual Global Slavery Index, a document that "details the risk and prevalence of slavery in 160 countries" and describes the conditions that are holding an estimated 29.8 million adults and children in bondage. Two of t ...
  • Will Obamacare Fix be the Biggest Hackathon in ...
    There is no doubt that millions of Americans are "looking for quality, affordable health coverage, and want to find it online," as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in a blog post.  The problem, however, is that HHS's own website, HealthCare.gov., is a disaster. ...
  • Ideas are the New American Dream
    The old American Dream that we knew was about home ownership and about moving up in the ranks and about having a good job and finding a better place for yourself in the world.  Idea Entrepreneurship is a different version of that.  It’s not about materialism; it’s about doing good for ot ...
  • The Simple Way to Encourage a Growth Mindset
    Megan Gunnar from the University of Minnesota has studied stress for many years and she finds that stress is when the demands of our life, or expectations of what those demands are, exceed our ability to cope with them.  So expectations is a very important word.  Sometimes we can expect ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
    Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.... At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
    The resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary. Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines. [Cf. ...
  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Energy Efficiency Market Report 2013: Market T ...
    International Energy Agency (available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary; go to library landing page, top left, if prompted for a password. http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/book/9789264206052-en [Oil and Gas Journal]  Energy efficiency markets around the world drew investment of as much as $30 ...
  • Financing Natural Catastrophe Exposure: Issues ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43182.pdf In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a key policy question for Congress is whether the federal government should intervene in U.S. risk transfer markets to ensure the continued availability and affordability of homeowners’ insu ...
  • Mapping Climate Change in European Temperature ...
    Environmental Research Letters (2013, v8 n3 p034031 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034031) / by David A Stainforth, Sandra C Chapman and Nicholas W Watkins http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/3/034031/ Climate change poses challenges for decision makers across society, not just in preparing for the ...
  • Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/#.Ulwq7FAsmRQ [GreenBiz.com]  …Here are seven key findings from the new lPCC report on the state of the science of climate change: 1. It is virtually certain that the planet has warmed since the mid-20th century. A ...
  • A Comparison of CAFE Standards and Actual CAFE ...
    Univ. of Michigan Transportation Research Institute / by Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sival http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/100179 In August 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced the final stand ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Showdown at highway 134
    With some of the only video from behind police lines, subMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment. But the fierce response of the community in defens ...
  • Mi'kmaq Warrior risks losing leg after being s ...
    Internal bleeding went untended for two days due to shock. Elsipogtog, New Brunswick – It has taken three days, but sadly there is now the potential of a very serious injury ar ...
  • Sauvons nos milieux naturels !
    Une manifestation pour la défense des milieux naturels a eu lieu dans les rues de Montréal, ce dimanche 20 octobre, à l'appel de la Coalition Sauvons nos milieux naturels dans le but d'en faire un enjeu électoral. Le desc ...
  • Anti-racism caravan winds its way through Dart ...
    Activists express solidarity with former Leon's employee, highlight systemic racism in Nova Scotia Nine cars carrying anti-racism posters, with horns blaring and lights flashing, slowly wound their way through Dartnouth this Saturday afternoon. Their final destination was the Leon's furn ...
  • Start of Elsipogtog Solidarity March in Vancou ...
    Mi'kmaq, we got your back! Hundreds came out to a rally called the day before to march and voice the unity across all peoples from Coast to Coast to Coast  who wi ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • USA: the twerking hegemon
    Twerking: The act of moving/ shaking ones ass/buns/bottom/buttocks/bum-bum in a circular, up-and-down, and side-to-side motion. Urban Dictionary Congress capped off a tense and exhausting day Wednesday with back-to-back House and Senate votes on legislation to re-open the shuttered government ...
  • Making sense (dollars and cents) of so much in ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI think we can be almost grateful for the idiotic crisis in Washington, which even with its possibility of a default which may do heavy damage to the world's economy, is giving us an ample warning of a far greater crisis looming in the foreseeable future, a crisis of dem ...
  • The magnificent quest for Shinola (updated)
    David Seaton's News LinksThis is a revised version of something I wrote a couple of years ago, which I felt that, with a few minor changes, would be more timely today than when I first wrote it. In American-Speak someone of little understanding is said to be unable to distinguish between excreme ...
  • Washington: insanity made simple
    David Seaton's News Links What is going on in Washington, why are the Republicans in Congress acting in what would appear to be such a suicidal fashion?I think I have found the answer in  Mark Leibovich's "This Town", a book which I have mentioned repeatedly in recent posts.Cutting directly ...
  • Abandon hope all ye who enter here...?
    David Seaton's News LinksDante's Inferno -  "The Thieves" - Gustavo Doré "Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source."—Fareed Zakaria And so we have arrived at the bizarre juncture where it makes more sense for Mr Obama ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Fox News Unleashes Horde of Sock Puppets on an ...
    Every once in a while I get an email from a regular reader insisting that the troll infestation in the comment section is so bad that it can't possibly be organic. Some of these guys have to be paid professionals who are executing a deliberate strategy. I've always poo-poohed this, but maybe I ...
  • Yes, Technology Is Going to Destroy the Middle ...
    I haven't read Tyler Cowen's Average Is Over, but I'm familiar with its basic thesis: smart machines are going to put lots of people out of work over the next few decades, and this is going to substantially increase income inequality. A small number of very smart people will do really wel ...
  • Immigration Reform is Probably Dead
    Dave Weigel reads the tea leaves from Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue this morning, and concludes that the business community isn't going to press for comprehensive immigration reform anytime soon: Donohue's sounding more amenable to the House conservatives' approach to immigra ...
  • Surprise! Obamacare is Actually Fairly Popular
    CNN has a new poll out today, and it shows that people are pretty unhappy with congressional Republicans right now. We already knew this, and I doubt that public irritation will last long, so I'm not all that interested. However, there's something else in the poll that mindful readers have kno ...
  • Happy Birthday to Me
    Happy birthday to me! I'm 55. I think this post just about sums things up. Yesterday the Cardinals ruined my pre-birthday festivities. I hope the Irish are a little more accommodating today. UPDATE: Oh, and happy birthday to Jim Henley and Grover Norquist and Amy Carter too. And especial ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.© SurvivalOnly weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana to ...
  • Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
    A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...
  • International condemnation of Botswana over Bu ...
    Botswana has been condemned for barring the Bushmen's lawyer ahead of a key court case. He had successfully defended the Bushmen's rights during three previous cases.© SurvivalThe Botswana government has been subject to fierce criticism over its persecution of the Kalahari Bushmen. The ...
  • World Mental Health Day: Suicide epidemic rava ...
    A Guarani girl stands by her road-side shack – endless fields have replaced her tribe's rich forests. Children as young as nine have been committing suicide.© Paul Patrick BorhaugWarning: contains disturbing image. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, Survival International ha ...
  • Police arrest Penan as tribe blockades dam site
    Last year the Penan protested at the dam site for 36 days© SCANE/SurvivalTensions are mounting at the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Yesterday police arrested one man and dismantled Penan shelters. More than 100 Penan are currently blockading the dam site. The Penan, whose forest h ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
    The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.

Food World Order

  • #SNAP: Studies Link #FastFood Wages to #Welfare
    from stream.wsj.com: Proponents of boosting low wages strategically shifted their focus to U.S. taxpayers Tuesday, issuing two studies contending the public foots the bill for billions of dollars in public assistance for fast-food workers. The companion studies, issued by the National Employment ...
  • Man recalls eating squirrels to survive alone ...
    from latimes.com: A day after he was carried out of the Mendocino National Forest -- having survived nearly three weeks on his own -- 72-year-old Gene Penaflor described how "it all went dead" after falling down a canyon. He had separated from his deer hunting partner deep in the forest on ...
  • College Study Says #Oreos Addictive As Drugs
    from foxnews.com: If you’ve ever been unable to stop yourself from eating too many Oreo cookies it may not be your fault--a new college study says one of America’s favorite desserts is just as addictive as drugs in lab rats. The study by students at Connecticut College found that when the rats a ...
  • Sights and Sounds from @BeesAndSeedsPDX
    There were more March(es) Against Monsanto all around the world last weekend, but here in Portland, Oregon, organizers put down the protest signs and set up booths with bands, brochures and brother/sisterhood for a solutions-based event called the Bees And Seeds Festival. This short compilation ...
  • Interview w/ Keith McHenry of @FoodNotBombs
    Ahead of the upcoming 'World Food Day,' we're joined by Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, to talk about the 'magic of thinking' and the ongoing effort to hide the hungry masses in America - while our shutdown government tries to cut food stamps and even stop you from giving away food. ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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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The Talking Clock

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

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 ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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Case About Bird Flu

  • THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
    GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
  • THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
    GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Millions Wrongly Treated for ‘Cancer,&#8 ...
    By: Sayer Ji, Founder Millions Wrongly Treated for \’Cancer,\’ National Cancer Institute Panel Confirms What this means is that not only are millions of screen-detected abnormalities not \’cancer\’ in the first place but even those which can be considered fast-growing are ...
  • Case Study: U.S. Military Killed 130,000 Peopl ...
    By Shepard Ambellas | October 20, 2013 | 2:43am EST | Editorial Words can’t describe the pain and suffering endured by survivors of the tragic 12-year wave of terror unleashed by the U.S. Government. Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the ...
  • Obamacare levies fines on non-profit hospitals ...
    from Daily Caller: Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare. A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new ...
  • ‘We say no to shale gas’: World unites against ...
    Activists from 26 countries participated in around 250 protests on Saturday to demonstrate against fracking technologies, which they say contaminate groundwater and hasten climate change. Global Frackdown, an annual event that takes place on October 19, targets fracking – a process used to extra ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Catherine J. Frompovich The study that showed vaccines were responsible for causing autism-associated or autism-like symptoms from mercury in vaccines was done by CDC epidemiologist Tom Verstraeten using the CDC\’s massive Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) and presented at the Simpsonwood C ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

  • A Constitutional Crisis
    The budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's elusive: this crisis has been b ...
  • Hostage Negotiations 101
    They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...
  • Legal Realities
    If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...
  • Inspector O
    It's not so easy to balance the curiosity of a child with the cynicism of a policeman, or a secret agent. But Inspector O, of North Korea, manages to look for things where others dare not go. And finds his answers. A deeply satisfying literary figure, O also helps us look into the mirror at ours ...
  • Purge the Generals
    It's rare for an officer still in uniform to become a whistleblower. LTC Daniel L. Davis earned his bones reporting publicly the results of his investigations into how things are failing in Afghanistan. Now, refocused on a bigger picture, Danny is calling for a purge of high level military brass ...

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Stop NATO

  • Lithuania: NATO Opens New Headquarters For Bal ...
    Lithuania Tribune October 21, 2013 New headquarters of NATO’s Air Policing mission opened in Šiauliai Air Base On 18 October a new headquarters building was opened at Šiauliai Air Base of the Lithuanian Air Force for NATO’s Air Policing mission in the Baltic States, the Ministry of National Defe ...
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: When the rich fight the rich ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jean-Paul Sartre From The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) Translated by Kitty Black ARCHBISHOP: No, no! No details! Especially, no details. A victory described in detail is indistinguishable from a defeat… *** THE WOMAN: Nasti! Nas ...
  • Enhanced Integration: NATO Warships Dock In Fi ...
    Finnish Broadcasting Company/YLE News October 19, 2012 Watch: NATO anti-mine vessels on show Six anti-mine vessels from the military alliance NATO docked in Helsinki this weekend. Members of the public were able to board the vessels for a close-up view. The mine-seekers hail from the Netherlands ...
  • Erich Maria Remarque: The war has ruined us fo ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Erich Maria Remarque: Selections on war ==== Erich Maria Remarque From All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) Translated by A.W. Wheen These first minutes with the mask decide between life and death: is it air-tight? I remember the ...
  • Interview: Time To Look At Human Dimension As ...
    Press TV October 19, 2013 US troops pullout misnomer: Rozoff Interview with Rick Rozoff Video Press TV has conducted an interview with Rick Rozoff, from Stop NATO International Network, from Chicago, over the United States calling for legal immunity for any US soldiers left in Afghanistan beyond ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

  • Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones
    JG Vibes | The Obama administration finally admits that their drone program has targeted US citizens.The post Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids ...
    Cassius Methyl | Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? The post Department of ...
  • JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffin ...
    author | An interesting controversy over the JFK assassination has erupted at the Huffington Post.The post JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffington Post appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump
    Cop Block | Long story short, the supervisor showed up and made the cop give me back my pump. The ambulance showed up and I went with them because I was then bleeding where the port is.The post Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can ...
    Andrew Puhanic | An exciting and new water treatment breakthrough has been announced that will now make the removal of fluoride from the drinking water supplies of the world’s poorest people more affordable than ever.The post Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can Be Used To Remove ...

FRS

  • Paris sees second day of mass student protests ...
    Published time: October 18, 2013, RT Thousands of French teenagers protested for the second day over the public deportation of an Albanian-Kosovar girl and an Armenian student. The issue caused disruption in 50 schools across France. Teenagers clashed with police, who used tear gas against the h ...
  • Chile: Indigenous groups mark Columbus Day wi ...
    October 13, 2013, Al Jazeera Protesters clashed with police in Chile’s capital Saturday during an anti-Columbus Day march organized by Indigenous groups, with activists calling for the return of ancestral lands and the right to self-determination on the 521-year anniversary of the arrival of Chr ...
  • Testimony on Solitary, the Routine of Torture: ...
    “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”  ― Nelson Mandela Video of the Joint Informational Hearing on Segregation Policies in California Prisons in the California ...
  • Protesters chain themselves at profiteering Ar ...
    TODAY in ELOY: #Not1More #Shutdown Ice Protest Latino Rebels Latino Rebels Published on Oct 14, 2013 Today at the Eloy Detention Center, protesters called for an end to deportations and a push to shutdown ICE. October 14, 2013–Just now, protestors chained themselves in front of the Eloy De ...
  • Massive Indigenous Rights Movement Launches Ac ...
    October 3, 2013 |  Amazon Watch Massive Indigenous Rights Movement Launches Across Brazil Written by Amazon Watch Thursday, 03 October 2013 07:06 Brasilia, Brazil – Hundreds of indigenous peoples representing Brazil’s native communities converged on government buildings in the nation& ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
    Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...
  • When The Shit Hits The Field
    SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
  • Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
    Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
  • Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
    I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The snipers of Black October
    Twenty years ago Boris Yeltsin’s army and elected Russian parliamentarians clashed in Moscow, resulting in hundreds, even thousands, of casualties. Investigations now suggest the bloodbath was sparked by snipers, some of who were perched on the roof of the American embassy. _____________________ ...
  • The War on Terrorism … or Whatever
    “U.S. hopes of winning more influence over Syria’s divided rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed political opposition coalition and announced the formation of an alliance dedicated to creating an Islamist state. The al-Qaeda-affiliate ...
  • Russia, Syria and the Decline of American Hegemony
    First, the good news. American hegemony is over. The bully has been subdued. We cleared the Cape of Good Hope, symbolically speaking, in September 2013. With the Syrian crisis, the world has passed a key forking of modern history. It was touch and go, just as risky as the Cuban missile crisis of ...
  • Why Russia should care about the Russian World
    The 23rd Economic Forum in Poland was a unique opportunity to understand the nature and causes of Russian influence around the world Is the “Russian World” a global cultural and social phenomenon? Does it unite people, who regardless of their nationality, consider themselves Russian, identify wi ...
  • The consequences of Resolution 2118
    Although the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, loudly praised himself for the vote on Resolution 2118 concerning chemical weapons in Syria, this text marks both the victory of Russia and that of President Bashar al -Assad. The vote carries within itself two consequences that permanently r ...

BlogHer

  • The Good Wife is Getting GOOD
    Are you watching The Good Wife? If not, I don't know why not, and I don't understand why it fares so poorly on cancellation indices.  It's among the best shows , is a constant delight because of their genius guest casting choices (hello Carrie Preston), and features some of the strongest an ...
  • Modern Day Wet Nursing: Should We Judge Moms W ...
    I was one of those lucky mothers. Well, I was lucky once I figured out how to deal with, pump, and then store my oversupply of milk. At first I felt truly cursed, as I had enough breastmilk for triplets, a letdown strong enough to hit a target across the room. I would wake up after two hours of ...
  • Meatless Monday: Roasted Butternut Squash and ...
    Last week I shared my longtime affection for butternut squash, and I guess I still have squash on the brain because the Meatless Monday recipe that caught my eye this week is Roasted Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchiladas from Reluctant Entertainer. Sandy serves this with a green salad and ...
  • Announcing the BlogHer Food '14 Call for Ideas!
    Today we invite you to share your ideas for sessions and speakers at BlogHer Food '14 -- the Call for Ideas is now open! This call for ideas will remain open for two weeks -- from today until midnight Pacific on Monday, Novemeber 4th. BlogHer Food '14 in Miami, FL takes place over May 16 & 1 ...
  • Join Our BlogHer PRO Google Hangout with Guy K ...
    Brought to you by Motorola. Join BlogHer Co-Founder and COO, Elisa Camahort Page, on Google+ as she interviews Guy Kawasaki. We'll be talking about his shift to being an Android-loving evangelist, and digging into the MotoX in all its customizable glory. When: TODAY! At 11am PDT Where: Sign ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Revolutionary 3-D printed cast could be the fu ...
        Called the Cortex Cast, the cast uses a honeycomb structure rather than a solid block of plaster to protect the body while being lighter and more comfortable than the traditional model, the New Zealand inventor ... Related posts:3D-Printed Toothbrush Cleans All Y ...
  • Man with Stage 3 Colon Cancer Refuses Chemothe ...
            Chris Wark shares his short and powerful story of how he refused chemotherapy and survived stage 3 colon cancer. Chris was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2003, at only 26 years of age. Against ... Related posts:Study Links Dietary Glycemic L ...
  • Why Medicine Won’t Allow Cancer to Be Cured
              Imagine a commercial plane crashed and there were some fatalities involved. You can be sure that would make the headline of every major newspaper. Well, we have the equivalent of 8-10 planes crashing EVERY DAY ... Related posts:Cancer is fina ...
  • 21 Foods That Help Reduce Pain and Inflammation
                1. Ginger Ginger is one of the best pain killers in the world having analgesic properties like the popular ibuprofen, only better. It contains a quartet, gingerols, paradols, shogaols, and zingerone which are active ingredients to reduce ...
  • Sleep ‘Detoxes’ The Brain, New Res ...
              When you sleep, your brain undergoes a mop-up process that removes waste products linked to Alzheimer’s and dementia, according to new research published yesterday in the online version of Science. A team of researchers at the University ... ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • For Central Appalachian coal, bad news continues
    The bad news just keeps coming for the Appalachian coal industry. First, there was this report from the Columbus Dispatch: American Electric Power Company Inc. CEO Nick Akins shared his vision for where the Columbus-based utility is headed Wednesday, and his priority list didn’t include coal, AE ...
  • Friday roundup, Oct. 18, 2013
    A front end loader dumps coal into a hauler, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, at a mining operation at the Navajo Mine in Fruitland, N.M. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Jon Austria) Earlier this week, Bill Estep over at the Herald-Leader in Lexington had the latest on the efforts by a growing number of folk ...
  • Shutdown over: MSHA is back on the job
    Now that the Republican shutdown of the federal government is over, visitors this afternoon to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s website were greeted this this message: The Mine Safety and Health Administration is open and MSHA welcomes back its employees. I’m told tha ...
  • What if Murray buys CONSOL’s W.Va. mines?
    It seems like a lot of folks in the coal and energy media are pretty convinced that Murray Energy is getting ready to buy most of CONSOL Energy’s West Virginia coal-mining operations.  We’ve seen stories so far this week from Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, and the Pittsburg ...
  • Mining for victory: UMWA’s Patriot fight ...
    There’s an interesting piece out from the American Prospect by influential columnist Harold Meyerson that rightly praises the United Mine Workers of America for the success it’s had so far in its campaign for justice for the retirees at Patriot Coal. It starts out like this: The stor ...

Daniel Miessler

  • How Does Getting Hacked Actually Affect Compan ...
    I think we may be about to see a major shift in Information Security—one which will come in the form of corporate business leaders—quite suddenly and dramatically—caring less about the prospect of being hacked. Let me talk you through the idea. The source of infosec budgets I t ...
  • VIM: Toggle Settings with the Exclamation Point
    One quick tip for vim users out there: you can toggle a setting by appending the ! to it. So: nnormap n set:number! Then just hit n to toggle line numbers (or whatever the setting) off and on.Related Posts:Upgraded to Vim 7.4Changing Your Server Headers Using Varn ...
  • Most People Don’t Know What Irony Is
    “A couple weeks ago he posted this thing saying he really loved the Dexter series finale, but it was weird—he kept calling the episode ‘great’ while detailing all of its flaws,” said reader Ryan Zalch, explaining his initial puzzlement with Edo’s sarcasm. “Then suddenly it hit me: This guy didn’ ...
  • Butterick’s Typography Book is a Thing of Beauty
    I’m going through Butterick’s Typography Book again, and I’m noticing a feeling that’s similar to admiring a perfect workspace, or even doing amateur astronomy. It’s about an effort towards perfection, with keen focus on the experience of all involved. I think it&#8 ...
  • Hostname Naming Conventions
    The idea is to come up with some kind of category, so that people have something to remember all the names by. Some categories: Geographical (countries, cities, parks, rivers, lakes, streets), I’ve always been a greek/latin names guy myself, but the most important thing to me has been keep ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Enough engineers arriving
    Norway’s shortage of engineers seems to be flattening out. Around 4,200 engineers have arrived or been recruited from abroad just in the last two years, according to new figures from state statistics bureau SSB, and pay growth is slowing as well. Knut Sunde of trade association Norsk Indus ...
  • Enough engineers arriving
    Norway’s shortage of engineers seems to be flattening out. Around 4,200 engineers have arrived or been recruited from abroad just in the last two years, according to new figures from state statistics bureau SSB, and pay growth is slowing as well. Knut Sunde of trade association Norsk Indus ...
  • Alex Sushi won in court
    Alex Sushi, one of Oslo’s most highly rated restaurants, won’t lose its lease at the fashionable Tjuvholmen waterfront complex. Its landlords won a court battle sparked by another restaurant tenant, which didn’t want competition from Alex. High-end Asian restaurant Hanami belie ...
  • Alex Sushi won in court
    Alex Sushi, one of Oslo’s most highly rated restaurants, won’t lose its lease at the fashionable Tjuvholmen waterfront complex. Its landlords won a court battle sparked by another restaurant tenant, which didn’t want competition from Alex. High-end Asian restaurant Hanami belie ...
  • Troubled hospital’s boss checks out
    Hulda Gunnlaugsdottir admitted this week that she lacked support from the board of Akershus University Hospital, known as Ahus, and thus had little choice but to quit. Her exit, over a lost effort to get nurses to work more weekends, is the latest act in a long-running drama. The hospital in Lør ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Pseudo-grains for Lesotho – Permaculture Desig ...
    Quinoa This year’s very dry autumn, winter and spring in Lesotho is ringing alarm bells throughout the country. The capital city, Maseru, is down to a very limited supply of potable water. There is no significant rainfall forecast until the summer season, December / February. Last year’s grain c ...
  • Thinking Like a Forest
    Why do conservation groups help to keep our wildlife in a state of extreme depletion? by George Monbiot I returned from the meetings filled with amazement, and the stirrings of a hope which has been all too rare in recent years. First, at the launch of Rewilding Europe’s Wildlife Comeback report ...
  • Permaculture Making Further Inroads into China
    Major PDC at Fuzhou, mainland China, marks an important step for permaculture making inroads into China. by Robyn Francis Fuzhou, a city near the coast of southern China, has seen a flurry of a decade or so of rapid development. It is evident in the glass and concrete forests of tower blocks &#8 ...
  • Syria Back-Story, Part I: Internal Displacemen ...
    Editor’s Note: Some time ago I asked one of my permaculture contacts in Syria if they could give us some reports, with their particular on-the-ground views on the ongoing crisis there. I did so in the hope of our gaining a more rounded back-story viewpoint. With the mainstream media largel ...
  • Joel Salatin Semester – Pastured Poultry Lesso ...
    Watch Joel Salatin’s priceless 30-minute poultry lesson — and find out how he runs his infamous egg-mobiles. It’s only available until Sunday at noon (MT), so check it out now!

Pointman's

  • Russia 3, Greenpeace 2.
    I like the Russians. You spend enough time studying a foreign people, you sort of fall in love with them, because that’s the beginning of understanding them and their country in any real sense. The accent is on liking the people rather than the leadership, who’re what you’re su ...
  • Climate Prat of the Year award 2013.
    How quickly time flies. It seems but twelve months since we last ran the competition but I suppose as we grow older, time appears to pass more rapidly. Sweet bird of youth etc etc. Anyway, a recent address by the almost beatified Bob Geldorf to a bunch of stunned school kids telling them that th ...
  • Russia 2, Greenpeace 1.
    One of my simple pleasures in life is to spend an occasional evening watching a good sporting event with friends. We all come clinking along with whatever booze we prefer and a few emergency nibbles. It’s usually an evening of decent sport, a little too much to drink and giving each other ...
  • In the aftermath of AR5.
    AR5 or the fifth Assessment Report on global warming was published last week, amid a fair amount of fanfare but nothing compared to what it would have been like in the glory years of climate alarmism. Everyone has had their say on it by now but I thought it worth adding my own thoughts. What&#16 ...
  • Alice and the unicorn.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— ALICE AND THE UNICORN By Louis Karrol. Alice was almost asleep when the green rabbit wearing an unfortunate waistcoat ran past her. She didn’t notice at first that he was green because he was peering at his fob wat ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
    From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
  • Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
    The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...
  • Dream Defenders Florida Take Over Enters Week ...
    Packed into the small reception area of the Florida Governor’s office in Tallahassee, a couple dozen determined Dream Defenders conducted a people’s hearing on racial profiling.  Black and brown college and high school youth took turns giving compelling testimony of being profiled at school ...
  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Kevin P Miller: Letters From Generation Rx - P ...
    In today's show we bring you an exclusive interview with filmmaker Kevin P. Miller in which he discusses his latest film project.  Letters From Generation Rx is a sequel to the shocking expose of the lethal effects of Psycho-Pharmaceutical drugs, Generation Rx, which was released in 2008. ...
  • Western anti-Syrian propaganda analysed and ex ...
    Today's show focuses once again on Syria. We analyse and highlight the issues in the Syrian crisis and remark upon the inability or unwillingness of corporate media to give any credence to the possibility that the chemical weapons attacks in Syria were false flag provocations designed specifical ...
  • Scott Bartle on the dirty little secret about ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Scott Bartle, author of "Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government". Scott claims that the "Australian Government" is now in receivership, having defaulted on repayments of bank loans which are ultimately underwritten by the US Fed ...
  • Updates on Syria, the Australian election and ...
    Today's show largely focuses on Syria and we bring you 2 interviews during the course of the show. In the first hour I am joined by John Bursill who outlines his view about Syria and then gives us a breakdown of his view of the Australian political spectrum. This show was recorded before the 2 ...
  • Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
    Foreign Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with an epidemic of narci ...

Beacon

  • Ask Dr. Pauly: What are distant-water fishing ...
    (Photo: Oceana / Juan Cuetos)  Maximum sustainable yield, bycatch and discards, exclusive economic zones, essential fish habitat. If you’ve ever read one of these terms and wondered what it meant, you’re in luck. In each issue of Oceana magazine, fisheries scientist and Oceana board ...
  • CEO Note: The Government Shutdown and the Oceans
    (Photo: Oceana / Carlos Suarez) After 16 days Congress has finally ended the government shutdown. But while thousands of workers are able to return to work, our oceans will continue to suffer from Congress's misguided bickering. Yesterday I partnered with actor and ocean activist Ted Da ...
  • Wild Ratios: Why eating wild salmon is better ...
    Wild salmon are the better choice for the oceans. (Photo: Reno Tahoe) After we posted our blog, “The Washington Post is Wrong About Farmed Salmon," we got a lot of questions about wild salmon feed ratio versus the feed ratio for farmed salmon. One commentator even suggested that because ...
  • World Food Day – Save the Oceans, Feed the World
    (Photo: Oceana / Carlos Suarez) October 16 is World Food Day, dedicated to ending hunger across the globe. Here at Oceana, we think a lot about food security and sustainability, because the oceans will play a critical role in feeding our growing world. 
  • A Perfect Recipe for National Seafood Month
    (Photo: Swamibu) October is National Seafood Month, and we have a warm, rich shellfish dish that's perfect for the cool fall evenings. We featured Chef April Bloomfield's delicious recipe "Oyster Pan Roast with Tarragon Toasts" in the recent issuse of Oceana magazine. Read ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

  • America’s reckless financial policy
    The U.S. pattern of decision making (or nondecision making) on debt deadlines has already created additional risk and will surely be reflected in upward pressure ...
  • For the GOP to survive, the tea party must die
    Tea party supporters think they are fighting for America's Republican soul. If they win, they will drive the party so far from the middle that ...
  • India’s turn toward ASEAN gains momentum
    India's "Look East" policy was again in focus as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Brunei and Indonesia to boost his nation's profile in a ...
  • Nobel committee overlooks beguiling reality of ...
    The Flat Earth Society has all but disappeared, but the Nobel Prize Committee for Economic Sciences would have us believe that the efficient-market hypothesis is ...
  • U.S. deal is made
    It is reflective of the mindset in Washington that the budget sequester — a solution that was intended to be punishment for lawmakers' failure to ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • LNG: BC’s Quest for a New Staple Industry
    I have a post as part of a new series from the Progressive Economics Forum celebrating 50 years of Mel Watkins’ publication of “A Staple Theory of Economic Growth.” Watkins’ piece follows the insight of Harold Innis to develop an understanding of economic growth uniquely ...
  • Canada’s Trade Deficit with the EU Doubles
    On Wednesday’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange (video), I debunked the claim that the trade deal between Canada and the European Union (EU) will create 80,000 Canadian jobs. The conservative panelists did not even try to defend this figure. As Jim Stanford has previously explained, the government’s ...
  • Hard on Families, Light on Crime: Some Thought ...
    The Throne Speech had a lot to say about Canadian families. The Government promised to make “the right choices” for Canadian families. Just like the choices it has made so far. The Government promised safety and security for Canadian families. Not to mention lower cable bills. How do those promi ...
  • When a Lower Unemployment Rate is Bad News
    Today, Statistics Canada reported an unemployment rate of 6.9% for September. One might have expected Canada’s unemployment rate falling below 7% for the first time since 2008 to be cause for celebration. But as Statistics Canada noted, the decline in official unemployment reflected youth droppi ...
  • Québec’s Economic Plan: Putting Jobs First?
    The Québec government recently issued its new economic policy, “Putting Jobs First”. The Premier and her Finance Minister have realized that the long-awaited acceleration of economic growth still has not arrived. Hence, they have presented a stimulation plan meant to reinvigorate Québec’s econom ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Town’s water source gone after 7.2-maagnitude ...
    “The spring that residents of eight of this town’s 11 villages depend on for their drinking water dried up following Tuesday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Bohol province and other parts of the Visayas and Mindanao. The disappearance in the aftermath of the tremor of water at the Mapu ...
  • Spain’s Desalination Ambitions Unravel
    “In the arid Spanish Mediterranean city of Torrevieja, Europe’s biggest desalination plant stands idle six years after construction began. The plant is finished; it just needs a power hookup to operate at full capacity. But it has few buyers for its water and would cost too much to run. It ...
  • Argentina Blindly Exploiting Groundwater
    “According to the Environmental Atlas of Buenos Aires, the depth of the Puelches aquifer ranges from 40 to 120 metres, and it supplies 9,900 cubic metres of water a day. It is located between the Pampeano aquifer, which is closer to the surface, and the deeper Paraná aquifer, whose water i ...
  • The Ambitious Restoration of An Undammed West ...
    “The remains of the Glines Canyon Dam are located 13 river miles from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the passage from the Pacific Ocean to Puget Sound. Eight miles downstream, the Elwha dam — built a century ago without accommodation for fish passage and long reviled by Native Americans and f ...
  • Disaster Spiraling Out of Control at Fukushima ...
    “Japan’s pro-nuclear Prime Minister has finally asked for global help at Fukushima. It probably hasn’t hurt that more than 100,000 people have  signed petitions calling for a global takeover; more than 8,000 have viewed a  new YouTube on it. Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • it will not be more war
    …When this reality actually sinks in the resultant shift in paradigm will be swift … NO … it will not be more war…   The Business of America Is War William Astore, Tom Dispatch No wonder our leaders tell us not to worry our little heads about our wars — just support those troops, go [ ...
  • only thing preventing us
    …this is only true if we continue to allow the Federal Reserve System – a privately owned corporation to control our money … $$$ … when “we” choose to exercise control over our $$$ this paradigm changes immediately … the only thing preventing us from exercising this legitimate control is fear… & ...
  • What is their end game … what do they ge ...
    …What is their end game … what do they get out of this action…?   Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans By Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress These billionaire industrialists are pressuring states to deny health coverage to the people who need i ...
  • it is a challenge…
    …YES … it is past time … but … Arizona appears to cling its “red meat” diet … it will take an unprecedented awakening to bring this about … it is not impossible … though it is a challenge…   Filed under: Blogroll
  • APS is NOT a public utility
    …there are likely some who can recall a TV show from yesteryears titled … What’s My Line … wherein a panel attempted to discover who or what was “real” … these articles appearing in the Sunday issue of the Arizona Republic suggest we need to thoroughly contemplate who and what is APS … as it [&# ...

Popular Technology

  • Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
    It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
  • Who is Willis Eschenbach?
    As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
  • 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
    "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • 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 ...
  • Mammal-watching: one man's obsession to see th ...
    There are more than 5,000 different mammal species across the globe, but with this number being dwarfed by the 10,000 bird species, it is little wonder that bird-watching has become the most common wildlife watching hobby in the world. While there are thousands of websites dedicated to ornitholo ...
  • Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: prac ...
    Nicaragua is a nation still suffering from deep poverty, a free-flowing drug trade, and festering war-wounds after decades of internecine fighting. However, like any country that has been largely defined by its conflicts, Nicaragua possesses surprises that overturn conventional wisdom. Not the l ...
  • 'Yet another wakeup call': global warming is h ...
    Human actions are responsible for warming the Earth, reconfirms the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, the first mammoth report on the physical science of climate change issued in seven years. Scientists now say they are 95-100 percent certain that ...
  • Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate ...
    The attention paid to charismatic popular primates—such as gorillas, chimps, orangutans, lion tamarins, and even some lemurs—could make one suppose that conservationists have the protection of our closest relatives well in hand; the astounding fact that no primate species is known to ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Where there is smoke ...
    New Zealand scientists have unearthed what may be a main reason nicotine replacement therapy is not a failsafe cure for tobacco addiction.The standard view is that nicotine is the chemical that hooks people into smoking tobacco,...
  • Skull throws story of human evolution into dis ...
    A stunningly well-preserved skull from 1.8 million years ago offers new evidence that early man was a single species with a vast array of different looks, researchers said.With a tiny brain about a third the size of a modern human's,...
  • Our friends in need
    "It's just amazing - if you talk to people about dolphins their eyes light up," says Raewyn Peart, author of a new book exploring our relationship with dolphins. "There's a sense of joy and delight that we don't see with any old animal....
  • Human yawns are contagious for chimpanzees - study
    Human yawns are contagious for chimpanzees but, like children, this only happens among apes that have grown beyond infancy, scientists has found.Playing with a researcher, orphaned young chimps aged between five and eight years...
  • DNA links Abominable Snowman to ancient polar bear
    A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the Abominable Snowman - the elusive ape-like creature of the Himalayas. He thinks it's a bear.DNA analysis conducted by Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes...

The Bovine

  • Rare glimpse into dark arts of policy making a ...
    Contrast the events described in this story to the reception that the raw milk constituency has received over the years at Queen’s Park. Interesting that it was raw milk supporting MPP Randy Hillier who blew the whistle on this bipartisan … Continue reading →
  • Food safety not what it’s really about
    From Off the Grid News: “In its efforts to ensure the safety of food, the US government may actually be ignoring the real problem while shutting down small organic farms. So says the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research … Continue reading →
  • New Zealand to be “Lord of the Seeds”?
    From InvestmentWatchBlog.com: “I was shocked to learn from a friend on the weekend that a new Food Bill is being brought in here in New Zealand.  The new bill will make it a privilege and not a right to grow food. … Continue reading →
  • New Zealand to be “Lord of the Seeds”?
    From InvestmentWatchBlog.com: “I was shocked to learn from a friend on the weekend that a new Food Bill is being brought in here in New Zealand.  The new bill will make it a privilege and not a right to grow food. … Continue reading →
  • Vive la raw milk difference
    From Christian Saretzki via The Biodynamics blog: “Milk was never appealing. It was rather tasteless and a bit too watery, not to mention the fact that it came in a plastic bag on which the words “homogenized” and “pasteurized” were clearly … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Dysfunctional Global Economy; Can Things Get W ...
    Steen Jakobsen, chief economist of Saxo Bank in Denmark, says things are so bad they cannot get worse. Please consider Rediscovering the Price of Money. I’ve been starting my speeches for some time now by saying: “I am the most optimistic I have been in almost thirty years in the market—i ...
  • Growth in Social Security Benefits vs. Wage Growth
    I have an update from reader Tim Wallace on Social Security. Hello Mish I made new Social Security charts that show: Growth in percent from 1967 in average payout per month to those that receive social security Amount of money paid out to those that recieve social security ...
  • "Bubblicious" High End Flipping Up 350%, Overa ...
    Flipping houses went out of fashion around 2008, along with flip phones and sub-prime mortgages. But real estate data shows the practice is on the upswing — among million-dollar homes. At the low end, where flipping might actually make some economic sense, flipping is down. MarketWatch ...
  • J.P. Morgan Reaches $13 Billion Deal with Just ...
    The Wall Street Journal reported today J.P. Morgan Reaches $13 Billion Tentative Deal with Justice Department. However a criminal investigation is not yet closed. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has reached a tentative deal to pay a record $13 billion to the Justice Department to settle a numb ...
  • Illinoisans Beware: "Progressives" Seek Massiv ...
    Illinois "Progressives" (a single word to describe "economically illiterate public union sympathizers") want to pick your pocket once again. The Progressives want to hike the Illinois 2015 top tax rate from 3.75% to a whopping 9%. Moreover the income tax rate will go up on a sliding scale f ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget ...
    “Who are the Beneficiaries of Raising the Debt Ceiling?” U.S. and world political and economic leaders are faced with what they describe as a ‘systemic catastrophe’: the inability to pay global creditors, including domestic and foreign banks, investors and governments, who hold $16.7 trillion in ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The New Great Game Round Up- October 20, 2013
    Clashes & Terror Attack Foiled in Russia, NATO’s South Caucasus Conquest, IMU Targets U.S. Enemies & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemon ...
  • Last Thoughts on Helen Thomas: American Icon & ...
    “Kings, queens & presidents––they were all just people to Helen Thomas” Family, friends and former colleagues of veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas gathered together inside of the National Press Club building in downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday, October 5, 2013 for a memorial ser ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Burning Spear – “Slavery days” Burning Spear was the very first Soothing the Beast BFP Jamiol Music Pick. After 89 weeks, I thought it might be nice to revisit his music. Tonight’s piece is Slavery Days by once again… Burning Spear. The sound quality on this clip seems a lot better t ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Petrobras-Led Consortium Wins Libra Offshore O ...
    By Jeb Blount and Sabrina Lorenzi RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run energy company Petrobras teamed up with European oil majors and Chinese rivals on Monday to [...]
  • Mideast Crude Tanker Rates Up On Firmer Bookings
    By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Crude oil tanker earnings on the major Middle East route stayed firm on Monday helped by positive sentiment and higher bookings in [...]
  • Document Contradicts Indian Government’s Claim ...
    As the media responds to the recent arrest of the vessel MV SEAMAN GUARD OHIO, the predominant headlines report that the armed vessel violated Indian sovereignty by sailing within the country’s 12 nautical mile [...]
  • Shell Prelude FLNG: Samsung Joins Biggest Vess ...
    Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea is building the world’s largest vessel, Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility, a 488 meter, 600,000 dwt vessel that will eventually be moored offshore Australia to [...]
  • P3 Mega-carriers Play Down the Impact of the A ...
    By Gavin van Marle, Apparently wary of igniting the wrath of skeptical shippers or prodding the regulatory bodies, the prospective partners in the P3 alliance seem determined to downplay the [...]

Press TV

  • 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.
  • Obama vows to fix health site glitches
    US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that widespread problems exist with online health insurance marketplace but insisted that the administration will fix the glitches.
  • 'Powers must not miss N-opportunity'
    Head of Iran’s Majlis Research Center Kazem Jalali says Tehran and the six major powers must not lose the opportunity to resolve the nuclear issue.
  • MI6 wants more spies in Afghanistan
    Britain’s intelligence agency MI6 has demanded more spies to be sent to Afghanistan amid concerns that the war-torn country could become an “intelligence vacuum” after British troops’ withdrawal.
  • '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.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Date Night
    It’s Friday night and I am on a date. Yeah! Don’t get me wrong most people who are on a date are probably having dinner and taking in a movie.  Guess what y’all?  My date night is me sitting on a computer while my date watches old boxing matches on cable.  But I am a […]
  • My Color Conundrum
    As I write this I am sitting under a hooded dryer, 10 minutes into a 40 minute process involving 2 steps and 3 chemical mixtures to achieve one result: hide my gray hair. To be a successful magician I have to do this every 4 weeks and I am not alone; I am a hairstylist […]
  • MAAT Alumna Awarded Cornell University’s ...
    Sarah Chalmers graduated from the CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre program in 2010. In 2012 she started her own company, Civic Ensemble, and was recently awarded the Civic Leader Fellowship from the Cornell University Public Service Center. She will teach applied theatre techniques to Cornell stud ...
  • #FindYourReason
  • I’m back
    Hello All, This is my second post. I had to work through the kinks.  Well it’s officially week 5 and although it’s a lot of work but I am actually loving school.  I feel so academically inclined these days.  Tonight I am going to rush home to do some schoolwork and get ready for the ...

Dissident Voice

  • Captain Phillips Doesn’t Explain Why Somali Pi ...
    Captain Phillips is a movie about the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama commercial container ship by Somali pirates. Pirates, one of Americans’ most beloved figures—consider the popularity of the recent Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy—are loathsome savages in this film. They kill their own, ...
  • Western Imperialism
    Recently I read On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, published in 2013 by Pluto Press here in London, and consisting of a series of conversations between Chomsky and the Czech filmmaker, journalist, and author, Andre Vltchek, who is now a naturalized American citizen. Vltchek i ...
  • New Look, Old Ways
    Where is the justice in all this mayhem The genocide is the same, Still happening Different flavors and brands Rebuilt motor & body But at the end of the day The results are the same Indigenous lives are wasted Grinded thru the machine Still to blame Illusionary democracy Window dressings Ma ...
  • Another Nobel Peace Prize – Another Farce?
    The Nobel Peace Prize brings another surprise — or farce — depending on your view. In relatively recent history, there has been Henry Kissinger (1973) architect supreme of murderous assaults on sovereign nations; the United Nations (2001) whose active warmongering or passive, silent ...
  • Was Management to Blame for Employees’ Deaths?
    Two unions—SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 1021 and ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union) Local 1555—went on strike against BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) on Friday, October 18, after a week of marathon bargaining sessions broke down without a settlement. There was a point in negotia ...

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Newswise

  • Shorter Sleep Duration and Poorer Sleep Qualit ...
    New study finds, shorter sleep duration and poorer sleep quality were associated with a greater β-Amyloid burden.
  • Bottle Feeding Associated with Increased Risk ...
    Bottle feeding appears to increase the risk infants will develop hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, and that risk seems to be magnified when mothers are older and have had more than one child, according to a study published by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publ ...
  • Patients Report Doctors Not Telling Them of O ...
    A survey finds that most patients are not being told about the possibility of overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a result of cancer screenings, according to report in a research letter by Odette Wegwarth, Ph.D., and Gerd Gigerenzer, Ph.D., of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berli ...
  • Low Vitamin D Levels Raise Anemia Risk in Children
    Low levels of the "sunshine" vitamin D appear to increase a child's risk of anemia, according to new research led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The study, published online Oct. 10 in the Journal of Pediatrics, is believed to be the first one to extensively explore the ...
  • Contact Lens Discomfort: What Is It, Why Does ...
    Contact lens discomfort may be the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction with, and discontinuation of, contact lens wear throughout the world -- but there is little agreement among vision researchers and eye care professionals about how to define and manage its causes. T the Tear Film & Ocula ...

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Jae's News

  • Bombshell: Syria's 'chemical weapons' turn out ...
    Natural News can now reveal that the Syria chemical weapons narrative being pushed by the White House is an outlandish hoax. Submitted by Elderberry C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTON: President Obama: End Government- ...
    The government should be promoting equal opportunity for all people, regardless of their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, skin color or national origin. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iraq Invasion: 'We Were Looking For Somebody' ...
    Former Bush Official: We Went Into Iraq Because 'We Were Looking For Somebody's Ass To Kick': Report 10/20/2013 - New York Times reporter Peter Baker is out with a new book that reportedly reveals some eyebrow-raising details about the Iraq War. Submitted by James Starowicz to US Politics &am ...
  • Here's one way to stop irresponsible Republica ...
    End the Debt Ceiling! Please sign petition! Thank you Timothy Submitted by Timothy Spurlin to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Investigate Congressional GOP Leaders and Thei ...
    "If two or more persons ... conspire to ... prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States ... they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both." Submitted by Leendert Meyer to US Politics & Gov't  |   No ...
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