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Scoop - NZ

  • Nikon d3100
    The Nikon D3100 Digital slr has an easy-to-use and reasonably priced entrance to everything about Digital slrs. This 14.2-megapixel D3100 provides potent capabilities, such as the superior Guide Mode that makes it simple to let loose imaginative possibilities and capture memories using still pic ...
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    100 Dollar Trick although acquiring the resell rights with a product, including an e-book, application, or variety of content articles, won't require a lots of work on account, it is important to remember that you'll have to do some work.
  • Amazon Profit Sniper Review
    Amazon Profit Sniper individuals set targets that will be too high to succeed in, that they're almost organizing issues which can be impossible. Ensure you set goals you may reach in a given long of time, provided the existing assets and capabilities you might have.
  • Paul: We Should Welcome the Saudi Shift
    Why does Saudi Arabia insist that the United States fight its battles? The Saudis are strongly opposed to the governments in Syria and Iran so they expect the U.S. to attack. It is their neighborhood, why don’t they fight their own wars? Israel shares the same position in the region as Saudi Ara ...
  • Syrian Rebels Oppose Peace Talks
    The declaration was signed by 22 mostly Islamist brigades, including Suqour al-Sham, al-Tawhid and Ahfad al-Rasul, which are seenas backed by Qatar, as well as Ahrar al-Sham Brigade, a major rebel force in eastern Syria, and the smaller al-Sahaba Brigades, which operates around Damascus. Seve ...

Independent - London

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  • Judge derails Texas law restricting women's ac ...
    America's abortion wars took a new turn tonight after a district judge in Texas overturned a key portion of a highly controversial new law passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature earlier this year that threatened severely to curtail the access of women in the state to doctors ab ...
  • Pay rise of 7% for top Europe bosses
    The overall pay of Europe’s top executives rose by 6.9 per cent last year, well above the Continent’s average inflation rate, a survey has revealed.     
  • Germaine Greer sells letters to Melbourne Univ ...
    Ever since The Female Eunuch made her a household name, Germaine Greer has been a polarising figure, her strident opinions inspiring thousands of people to put pen to paper. She kept all their letters – even those she consigned to a “nutters’ drawer”. Along with manuscripts, diaries and corresp ...
  • Leaf-tailed gecko, golden-coloured skink and b ...
    On a remote mountain range, in a patch of rainforest isolated for millions of years, Australian scientists have discovered three previously unknown vertebrates, living in a place they are calling “a lost world”.     

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • ADHD for everyone and drugs, too.
    I've seen several pharmaceutical videos about ADHD lately. One started with a cartoon that resembled a "Simpsons" episode. I initially thought it was a gag. It appeared to be a typical presentation about a drug with the usual casual fast-talk about side effects that included death from a stroke. ...
  • Global warming?... Chile hit with worst cold s ...
    Anyone looking to get some delicious Chilean fruit this winter is going to be disappointed, as the worst frost in more than 80 years has damaged 50 million boxes of fruit exports - causing the country to declare a state of emergency in its agricultural sector. The Chilean Fresh Fruit Exporter ...
  • Bigfoot in Maine? 10-foot-tall 'wild man' was ...
    Editor's Note: This story contains passages from newspaper reports 127 years ago that today might be offensive to some readers. The intent is to accurately reproduce the accounts from that time period. Waterville - In the same month the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York in 1886, a h ...
  • Sense of belonging increases meaningfulness of ...
    A new study finds that when social relationships provide an all important sense of belonging, people feel life has more meaning (Lambert et al., 2013). The effect was revealed in one experiment in which participants were asked to close their eyes and think of two people or groups to which they ...
  • Common bias known as 'endowment effect' not pr ...
    Centuries of economic theory have been based on one simple premise: when given a choice between two items, people make the rational decision and select the one they value more. But as with many simple premises, this one has a flaw in that it is demonstrably untrue. The fields of psychology and ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Arctic speculation . . .
    STEVIE'S STEALTH SNOWMOBILE: the Harper concept of the future of Arctic conflict. Now as we know, the CONs are not the sharpest tools in the drawer and the acquisition of equipment for promoting our Arctic presence has been a Stevie problem. And with global warming opening the Arc ...
  • Reefer sanity . . .
    A Uruguayan man smokes cannabis duringa demonstration in Montevideo in May.A senate vote to legalise the drugis expected in November.Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images Uruguay sets priceof legalised cannabis at $1 a gram Uruguay sets price of legalised cannabis at $1 a gram, ...
  • Jesse Staniforth brutally rips Rex Murphy a ne ...
    And a very well-deserved one it is. Rex Murphy's opinion piece isn't just ignorant, it's totally vacuous, the product of someone who literally seems to know nothing about the subject he's railing against. But then, there's the rub. Murphy is educated in the art of the word; not the pro ...
  • Not good . . .
    OUT OF CONTROL: when the RCMP pepper spray unarmed elders. According to Cari-Lee Raven Veilifter, who can be found on Facebook at #‎ElsipogtogStandOff‬: “the elder the RCMP are pepper spraying is our elder Doris Copage of Elsipogtog (short hair/gray jacket). Doris is one of the kindest an ...
  • Stevie and Brazil . . .
     — A protest in Vancouver over our mining operations in Tibet — WHY WOULD STEVIE TARGET BRAZIL? According to Dave Dean at Vice, “75% of the World's Mining Companies Are Based in Canada”. Maybe that's why Stevie wants to know what the Brazilian Ministry of Mines is planning? All ove ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Rushes To Dismiss Top Economists On Impact ...
    Fox News dismissed a survey of 41 economists who indicated that they are less optimistic about growth after the Republican-led government shutdown, saying their concern "is much ado about nothing." But numerous reports show that the shutdown had wide-ranging negative effects on the economy.Econo ...
  • Fox Spins Away Obama's Push On Immigration As ...
    Fox is baselessly accusing President Obama of deliberately trying to distract the public and shift media attention away from problems with the health care rollout by continuing to push Congress to act on immigration reform. However, in the week leading up to his speech, Obama repeatedly urged Co ...
  • REPORT: Immediately After Shutdown Deal, Print ...
    In the week following the end of the 16-day government shutdown, major print media outlets shifted their attention to upcoming bipartisan budget negotiations. This coverage of budget priorities was far more likely to mention the need for deficit and debt reduction than economic&nb ...
  • 49 Stories That The Media's Focus On ACA Glitc ...
    The media has heavily focused on problems faced by the Affordable Care Act website's implementation problems at the expense of stories showing that the exchanges have allowed many people to successfully access affordable health care coverage.Media Focus On Enrollment Problems With ACA Website C ...
  • Watchdog.org Hypes 3 Obamacare Myths To Distor ...
    Right-wing media misinformer Watchdog.org is pushing fabricated myths about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into the media discussion, stoking fears the program will lead to higher premium costs and create incentives for people to avoid m ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Solar Eclipse On November 3 2013 — Hybrid Sola ...
    A hybrid solar eclipse — one that shifts between a total and annular eclipse — will be occurring on November 3, 2013. For those of us in the Eastern part of the Americas the eclipse will be visible Sunday morning, shortly after sunrise, and for those in Africa and Europe, around noon ...
  • Electric Cars & Plug-in Hybrids Seeing Strong ...
    The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Vehicles program recently released an updated version of its rather comprehensive “backgrounder” on electric vehicles — “how much the technology is growing in the country, the opportunities it presents for consumers and autom ...
  • Australian Expedition Discovers ‘Lost World’ – ...
    It would seem to be a rare thing indeed: an expedition to a remote mountain range results in the discovery of an ecological ‘lost world’…but that’s exactly what happened to biologist Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University (Queensland), along with a National Geographic fil ...
  • Vegan Cookies From Pipernilli — Superb!
    I recently had the opportunity to try out some new, vegan cookies from a cookie company based in Brooklyn. Short story: the cookies were delicious. The cookie company is Pipernilli, “The Couture Cookie Company.” Its cookies are made fresh weekly using fresh, organic fruits and vegeta ...
  • Monsanto’s reasons for fighting GMO labeling? ...
    Nope, he didn’t actually say that. But he may. More on Monsanto Washington state’s fight to label GMOs Millions Against Monsanto Label GMOs Monsanto info via Sourcewatch And (if you prefer pretty pictures) my Monsanto cartoons Joe Mohr is a cartoonist for a variety of publications an ...

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Axis of Logic

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

Climate

  • New Method Could Provide Heat Wave Early Warnings
    (Climate Central) Heat waves pose major health and economic problems in the U.S. and around the world. In 2012, a heat wave baked the U.S., shattering temperature records, causing 82 deaths, and withering crops acro ...
  • Town Asks Duke Energy to Cut Its Coal Reliance
    (AP) When the city launched an ambitious plan to slash its carbon footprint, a major obstacle stood in its way: A massive coal-fired plant on the edge of town. After some progress, Ashville decided to take another step — passing a res ...
  • Energy Firms Want Action on Atlantic Drilling
    (Houston Chronicle) Energy industry leaders are fretting that it could be a decade before the federal government allows them to hunt for oil and gas along the East Coast, unless the Obama administration shifts its approach to offshore ...
  • Gulf Oil-Spill Fraud Accusations Hit Alabama O ...
    (BusinessWeek) Ever since its deep-sea well in the Gulf of Mexico blew up in April 2010, killing 11 rig workers and sullying the region's coastline, BP has said it would pay billions to clean up the mess and make victims whole. So far, ...
  • Is Rebuilding Storm-Struck Coastlines Worth th ...
    (NPR) One year ago Tuesday, Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast, devastating shoreline communities from Florida to Maine. Many of these areas have been rebuilt, including the Long Beach boardwalk, about 30 miles outside New Yo ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Netroots Did Not Fail
    It would be easier to understand Jerome Armstrong's argument if he wrote in English because I don't know what he means by "I didnt see Liebermans 2006 win in quite as pinnacle a light at the time" or "I certainly peg the crux of lost movement with the rise of Obamas campaign." The premise of his ...
  • Ted Cruz's Brand of Self-Sufficiency
    You may have heard that Senator Ted Cruz is carried on his wife's Goldman Sachs-provided health insurance policy. What you probably haven't heard is that the policy cost $40,543 in 2009. Austin Frakt used publicly available data to estimate the size of the tax-subsidy Cruz receives from the fe ...
  • It's Not Working
    On the surface, at least, Sen. Ted Cruz appears to agree with Markos Moulitsas that the best way to win midterm elections is to fire up the base. Moderation isn't going to win more seats for the GOP in Congress in 2014, Ted Cruz told Iowa Republicans on Friday. Instead, the junior senator fro ...
  • Nearing the End of the Road
    The more that I inspect the 2014 outlook for sequestration, the more I believe that incumbent lawmakers will take an absolute pounding in the midterms if they don't spend a lot more money. People are going to be furious. Yes, to a large degree, there will be a blame game between the two pa ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Jefferson Beauregard Sessio ...
    Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is opposed to confirming any of President Obama's three nominees to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. When told that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts supported filling the positions back in April, Sen. Sessions was incredulous: Also an advocate o ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Hip-hop stars, grumpy cat, spooky cottages and female hackers – we've got everything in this week's coolest links! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Spectacular Blood-Red Hues of Indonesia’s ...
    Mount Bromo may not be the tallest volcano on Java, but it could well be the most spectacular. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether you enjoy learning about animals, people, civilisations or food, there's bound to be something you'll love in this week's link round up! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Photos of Spiders Battling Dangerous Foes
    We're used to thinking of spiders as the top killers of the minibeast world, but sometimes they meet their match in other creepy-crawlies... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Have a look at our coolest links from around the internet this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • In Fracking, West Virginia Sees a Second Chanc ...
    In Fracking, West Virginia Sees a Second Chance National Journal (blog) The fuel currently faces a dual threat of increasingly cheap natural gas and an unfriendly climate in Washington, where the Obama administration's new rules on mountaintop removal mining have made mine permits much harde ...
  • In Fracking, West Virignia Sees a Second Chanc ...
    In Fracking, West Virignia Sees a Second Chance National Journal (blog) The fuel currently faces a dual threat of increasingly cheap natural gas and an unfriendly climate in Washington, where the Obama administration's new rules on mountaintop removal mining have made mine permits much harde ...
  • Governing By Crisis: GOP's strategy must chang ...
    Governing By Crisis: GOP's strategy must change for government to function The Courier-Journal They wanted to change the future of Medicare. They voted to roll back EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. And of mountaintop-removal mining. And of the Chesapeake Bay. Now, after forcing four natio ...
  • Five for your planner: Sunday, Oct. 27 - Heral ...
    Five for your planner: Sunday, Oct. 27 Herald-Mail Media American Conservation Film Festival features films ranging from an adults-only mountaintop-removal-protest film to a look at plastic debris in the oceans, above. Thursday, Oct. 31, through Sunday, Nov. 3. Five venues in Shepherdstown, W.Va ...
  • Gedicks & Blouin: Crandon Mine victory has les ...
    Gedicks & Blouin: Crandon Mine victory has lessons for today Chippewa Herald This is exactly what happened at Crandon and what is now taking place in the Bad River watershed where Gogebic Taconite (GTac) has proposed a mountaintop removal operation to create the largest open-pit iron mine in ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama May Ban Spying on Heads of Allied States ...
    New York Times: Obama May Ban Spying on Heads of Allied States  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama is poised to order the National Security Agency to stop eavesdropping on the leaders of American allies, administration and Congressional officials said Monday, responding to a ...
  • Obama Admin: Half Of Young Americans Could Buy ...
    Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo: Obama Admin: Half Of Young Americans Could Buy Insurance For $50 Or Less  —  Nearly half of young Americans eligible to buy insurance on HealthCare.gov could pay $50 or less for coverage, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in ...
  • Beleaguered Syrian Christians fear future, inc ...
    Associated Press: Beleaguered Syrian Christians fear future, increasingly targeted by jihadis  —  DAMASCUS, Syria — Sami Amir is used to the deep echoing rumble of the Syrian army artillery pounding rebel positions on the outskirts of Damascus.  It's the thump of mort ...
  • 'The Nation' seeks $120,272 from readers to co ...
    Nicole Levy / Capital New York: ‘The Nation’ seeks $120,272 from readers to cover cost of ‘Tea-Party’ backed postal-rate hikes  —  Photoillustration.  —  The Nation emailed subscribers a note today asking for $120,272 in donations, a hefty ...
  • Obama to Campaign Sunday for McAuliffe in Va. ...
    ABC News: Obama to Campaign Sunday for McAuliffe in Va.  —  President Barack Obama plans to campaign for Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Terry McAuliffe (mih-KAWL'-ihf), on Sunday.  —  A spokesman for McAuliffe's campaign says Obama will join McAul ...

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  • Poet & Photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis On the ...
    With her celebrated autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Inaugural Poet Dr. Maya Angelou broke boundaries as one of the first female African-American writers to put the black experience into words. Over her career, she has written seven autobiographies, several books of poetry a ...
  • N. Korea upgrading main launch site: US think-tank
    Image taken by KCNA on December 12, 2012 shows the Unha-3 rocket lifting off from a launch pad in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province in North KoreaNorth Korea has undertaken major construction work at its main missile launch site, possibly to cater to larger and more mobile weapons, a US t ...
  • Chris Brown assault charge reduced in Washington
    Singer Chris Brown performs onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 20, 2013 in Las VegasSinger Chris Brown and his bodyguard, who both faced a felony assault charge after a weekend altercation, managed to get the charge reduced to a misdemeanor ...
  • Britain to announce Islamic Index on stock exc ...
    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is due to announce a new Islamic Index on the London Stock Exchange which will identift companies that meet traditional Islamic investment principlesPrime Minister David Cameron was on Tuesday to announce a new "Islamic Index" on the London Stock Exchange ...
  • “Hyperbole and a Half”: Identity, Part 1
    Cartoonist and blogger Allie Brosh amassed a huge Internet following for "Hyperbole and a Half," her site that combines uncomfortably true-to-life thoughts with deliberately childlike cartoons. After reading this brief excerpt from her new book, check out the Salon interview with her here.I lik ...

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IntelNews

  • Mysterious website seeks intelligence on Hezbo ...
    Intelligence circles in the Middle East are abuzz with news of a mysterious website that appears to offer substantial financial rewards in exchange for information about alleged members of militant group Hezbollah.
  • US surveillance or Merkel’s phone prompts angr ...
    News of an invasive intelligence-gathering operation by the United States, which allegedly targeted the official communications of German chancellor Angela Merkel, has prompted angry responses from the European Union.
  • News you may have missed #855
    Luxembourg PM survives spy scandal in elections. World War I spy Mata Hari’s birthplace gutted by fire. Russian spy agency seeks to expand internet surveillance.
  • Revealed: NSA spied on millions of French, Mex ...
    The United States has been spying on millions of private telephone communications in France and Mexico, and even managed to hack into the Mexican president’s personal email account, according to media reports from France and Germany.
  • News you may have missed #854 (SIGINT edition)
    Analysis: The NSA's new codebreakers. British ex-minister accuses GCHQ of ignoring surveillance fears. UKUSA treaty countries collecting data for NSA.

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Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Sherrie Questioning All: Obama…. Constan ...
    If there is one theme that has played over and over again in the White House… It is \”Obama is a victim\”. Have you noticed all the scandals, Obama \”never knew about them, was out of the loop\” etc. You will notice Obama is claiming he is constantly left out of any ...
  • We’re one ‘Oops’ away from A ...
    Rupert Cornwell Since then, thanks to diminishing stockpiles and improved safety procedures, such \”incidents\” have been far fewer. But never rule out the human factor. Somehow, for example, in contravention of rules set in place after North Carolina, six cruise missiles fitted with ...
  • Battle of the bulge: US food corporations fuel ...
    By 2030, more than half of Americans could be obese, taxing the nation’s health while costing the country $500 billion in lost economic productivity. The food industry, however, is doing its best to keep the public hooked – no matter what the price. With one out of three adults clinically obese ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Catherine J. Frompovich Vaccinations are becoming more problematic than anyone probably ever would have thought, especially since they are touted as ‘preventive healthcare measures’ and studies indicate that flu vaccines are not effective, including the U.S. CDC admitting, “During years when ...
  • Visible Origami | Soulless Corporate Whores, d ...
    By Visible At any rate, the war out there continues. The ‘appearance’ of the war outside continues. Once we effectively make peace with ourselves, we live in a world of peace, at least in the general perimeters of ourselves. There are exceptions, such as when you’re employed by ...

Global Insights

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

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Are our film heroes leading us to the future, ...
    Summary:  A people’s myths reveal much about them. Today we look at our myths as shown by Hollywood on the big screens. It shows a people with powerful fantasies, but they point to a dead end instead of a viable future. “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” — ...
  • The great monetary experiment enters a new pha ...
    Summary:  We have begun a critical phase in the great monetary experiment. We know that we should stop, but our leaders fear the resulting economic shock. They fear to stop, fear to continue. There is a clear model describing this process, but one too disturbing for most people to accept. The de ...
  • America sees the world through a glass, darkly ...
    Summery: Much of the work on the FM website examines minutiae for clues and insights about the wider world.  Today we look at this strange but revealing article (revealing about us). It suggests what where we have gone wrong, and how we can still return to a better path. . “Elites’ strange ...
  • The Republicans are winning, leaders in the bu ...
    Summary: Many people believe the American political system has become some combination of rigid, dysfunctional, perhaps even stupid. All of these are false. The US political system is alive and evolving rapidly, as a New America rises on the ashes of the Republic-that-once-was, built to the desi ...
  • Will 21st Century USA have a surprise boom, as ...
    Summary:  Today we have an essay by Andrew Odlyzko, one of the top polymaths and futurists writing today. He reminds us of the difficulty in accurately predicting the future, and the peril of relying on past successes to solve our problems. The industrial revolution relieved the UK’s crush ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Drone Strike Survivors Prepare to Tell Congres ...
    Nabeela Rehman shows her injuries from a drone strike in a still from the film “Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars” CREDIT: Brave New Films WASHINGTON, DC — “What are you drawing?” I ask through the interpreter. Shyly, the nine year-old girl in the headscarf sitt ...
  • Evidence that the Humanitarian Crisis in the C ...
    Last week, we posited that the Central African Republic was arguably the most forgotten humanitarian emergency on the planet; or, at least it was the one with the weakest response relative to the urgency of the crisis. The latest “situation report” from the UN’s Office for the Coordination ...
  • Top of the Morning: Deadly Floods in India
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Deadly Floods in Eastern India A least 48 people died as the result of flooding in eastern India. “Torrential rains have claimed as many as 48 lives in eastern India, which this month saw the worst cyclone to hit the country in over a decade, the Press Trust of In ...
  • Week Ahead Oct. 28-Nov. 2: Iran’s nuclear prog ...
    This bulletin highlights significant events in the world of arms control in the coming week, as compiled by staff and friends of the Arms Control Association. (Send your suggestions for events to be covered here.) - the Editors at Arms Control Today Iran Resumes IAEA Talks on Oct. 28 As Iran neg ...
  • Top of the Morning: Pirates in the Gulf of Gui ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea Abduct American Sailors As regular DAWNS Readers will no doubt know, piracy off the west coast of Africa has been a growing concern for the past couple of years. This incident may finally put the issue on America’s radar.  “The United S ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: Looking Back at Hurricane Sandy, a ...
    Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy smashing the tri-state area, and many news outlets and locals are marking the occasion by looking atwhat's still broken, and who saved New York and New Jersey from suffering even more than it did. After a fractious battle, Congress appr ...
  • Why Do Women Do Market Work?
    Super-misogynist Gavin McInnes of Vice fame unleashed an odd hyper-masculinist performance on HuffPo Live last week, complaining, among other things, about working women. McInnes apparently thinks feminism is to blame for women becoming unhappy corporate strivers, instead of domesticated homeke ...
  • The Biggest Design Flaw in Healthcare.gov
    In my column today, I argue that the Healthcare.gov disaster has its roots in the government-contracting system, where big projects that go past deadline and over budget is standard operating procedure. There is one particular design flaw, however, that I didn't get a chance to discuss there bu ...
  • The Next Battle at the Fed
    AP Images/Pablo Martinez Monsivais With the Administration’s stunning decision to name Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve, at least one major government institution will weigh in strongly on the side of economic recovery, right? Well, maybe. First, of course, Yellen has to be co ...
  • Lou Reed's Incorrigible Genius
      AP Images/ Peter Brooker/REX After Bob Dylan, and notwithstanding Brian Wilson and the Motown team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Lou Reed was arguably the greatest and most influential American songwriter of the 1960s. Though his growing cult would attain mainstream recognition in the e ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Suspect in Missouri Abortion Clinic Arson Now ...
    A suspect arrested this month for twice attempting to burn down a Joplin, Mo., abortion clinic now has been implicated in last year’s firebombing that destroyed a mosque in the same community. Jedediah Stout, 29, an Iraq war veteran who described himself as “sort of homeless,” was charged last w ...
  • Documentary Preview Critical of Alaska Militia ...
    A documentary project that is currently faring well in the competition for the reality TV show Pursuit of Truth – a program on Glenn Beck’s Blaze TV network – purports to be about investigating the “truth” about the arrests and convictions of Alaska militia leader Schaeffer Cox and several of hi ...
  • Leaders Change at New Black Panther Party, But ...
                      Hashim Nzinga The New Black Panther Party (NBPP) has a new head hater. The virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization announced last week that its leader, Malik Zulu Shabazz, was stepping down and would be replaced by chief of staff, Hashim Nzinga. In making the announceme ...
  • Pioneer Fund Assets Divided; New Leadership Ap ...
    In October 2012, Jean-Philippe Rushton, a Canadian psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer. At the time of his death, Rushton was running the Pioneer Fund, a grant-making entity founded in the 1930s by Americans with Nazi sympathies. I ...
  • City Council Meeting in Leith, N.D., Disrupted ...
    A white supremacist who moved to the tiny North Dakota town of Leith two weeks ago was forcibly removed from a city council meeting last weekend after he arrived drunk and began confronting town residents. Law enforcement officers were called to remove Kynan Dutton, 29, last Friday as officials ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Court Protects Abortion Access for Most Women ...
    After a three day trial, a federal court today permanently struck down one provision of a recently enacted law that would have made abortion services for one-third of women in Texas virtually impossible to access. While U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel blocked implementation of a requirement ...
  • EWG's “Dirty Dozen” List of Hormone-Disrupting ...
    The Environmental Working Group and the Keep A Breast Foundation today released a guide to educate consumers about some of the most problematic hormone-altering chemicals that people are routinely exposed to.read more
  • U.S. Chamber Contributors Almost Completely Se ...
    Twenty-four corporations that voluntarily disclosed information about their donations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce gave the trade association $6.5 million in non-tax-deductible contributions last year, which is significant because that money can be used to influence elections. This money repr ...
  • New York City Council Bill Would Help Stem Hig ...
    At 10 a.m. today, the New York City Council Committee on Economic Development will hold a hearing on bill 1169-2013, which would set worker training and transparency requirements for certain city development projects receiving city financial assistance. Keith Wrightson, worker safety and health ...
  • Inter-American Commission Calls for Closure of ...
    The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appeared in a hearing convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, Commission) to demand that the United States immediately close the detention center at the United States Nav ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Obama, Congress Owe Snowden Thanks, and a Pardon
    Robert Scheer Now we know that even the president needs leaks from Edward Snowden to be fully informed about the dastardly acts of his own top spy agency.read more
  • Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the ...
    Robin Broad John Cavanagh
  • Occupy Sandy: One Year Later
    Allison Kilkenny St. Jacobi Church Occupy Sandy distribution center, Brooklyn. (Flickr/occupy617)Superstorm Sandy destroyed large swathes of New York City's Rockaway Peninsula last October, and in the storm's wake, it immediately be ...
  • After Sandy: New York's 'Perfect Storm' of Ine ...
    Maya Wiley Destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. (Photograph: Julie Hau/Julie Hau/Demotix/Corbis)Sebastian Junger's 1997 book, The Perfect Storm, tells the sad tale of a crew aboard a sword-fishing vessel who, needing to earn more cas ...
  • Lou Reed’s Politics
    John Nichols Lou Reed speaking at SXSW in 2008. (Licensed through Creative Commons. Courtesy of Flickr user Nikolai36.)Lou Reed, who has died at age 71, will be rightly remembered for creating a canon that was groundbreaking in the scope of ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Energy firms raised prices despite drop in who ...
    Energy firms face MPs as profit per household doubled in past year from £45 to £95, while wholesale costs increased by £10Some of Britain's big six energy companies have seen their wholesale electricity costs fall over the last three years while still putting up prices for millions of households ...
  • Jeep crash in China's Tiananmen Square leaves ...
    Tourists and police among dozens injured as vehicle hits crowd and bursts into flames outside Forbidden City in BeijingFive people were killed and dozens injured when a jeep ploughed through a crowd, crashed and caught fire in Tiananmen Square, central Beijing, the site of a bloody crackdown on ...
  • Sharon Shoesmith agrees unfair dismissal payout
    Former Haringey council children's services director sacked in wake of Baby P controversy settles caseSharon Shoesmith , the former Haringey council children's services director sacked in the wake of the controversy surrounding the death of Baby P, has agreed a settlement for unfair dismissal wi ...
  • HS2 pressure builds on Labour
    Coalition intensifies push for Labour to clarify stance on high-speed railway saying infrastructure needs cross-party supportEd Miliband and Ed Balls are to be challenged by the government to offer clear support for Britain's proposed high-speed rail line by March or risk the cancellation of the ...
  • Former driver for BBC personalities found dead ...
    David Smith had been accused of abusing a 12-year-old boy after investigation prompted by Jimmy Savile caseA former driver for BBC personalities was found dead at his home on Monday after failing to appear in court, where he was due to stand trial for allegedly abusing a 12-year-old boy in 1984. ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • UN mission slams deadly attack in Afghanistan
    UN mission slams deadly attack in Afghanistan 2013-10-28 22:23:37 UN mission slams deadly attack in Afghanistan UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemned Monday an attack in Afghanistan which killed 19 civilians, calling for an ...
  • Indian firms to renegotiate $10.8 billion iron ...
    KABUL | Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:59am EDT KABUL (Reuters) - A consortium of Indian companies led by Steel Authority of India are seeking to renegotiate the terms of an iron ore deal in Afghanistan worth up to $10.8 billion, a senior official at the Ministry of Mines told Reuters on Tuesday. ...
  • Tony Abbott tells troops Australias Afghan war ...
    Australia's prime minister, Tony Abbott, makes his first visit to Afghanistan to confirm Australia's frontline fighting role will be over by Christmas. He tells troops that Australia will leave neither in victory nor defeat, and that its contribution has been 'worth ...
  • Australias war in Afghanistan over PM
    Tony Abbott declared Australia's longest war at an end during a surprise visit to Afghanistan, with more than 1,000 troops to return home before Christmas in a "bitter-sweet" withdrawal. "Australia's longest war is ending, not with victory, not with defeat, but with, we ...
  • Neither victory nor defeat in Afghanistan Abbott
    Mr Abbott arrived at Tarin Kowt under tight security for a recognition ceremony to mark the end of Australia's involvement in the war that has seen the loss of 40 Australian soldiers over more than a decade. Mr Abbott told a large crowd of soldiers, while he believes the war is ending wi ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Update-Securities and Exchange Commission Whis ...
     The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the&nbsp ...
  • National Park Service Whistleblower Settles Case
    A whistleblower at the National Park Service, Robert Danno, has settled his whistleblower retaliation case.  Mr. Danno, a decorated 30-year Park Ranger, had his career stunted after objecting to the destruction of tress just to give Redskins owner Dan Snyder a better view of the Potomac Riv ...
  • Federal Court Holds Internal Whistleblowers Pr ...
    In a well-reasoned decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts held that an employee of the New England Investment & Retirement Group, who complained to his employer's internal compliance department regarding potential securities violations, was fully protected under ...
  • British Government Considering Whistleblower R ...
    According to an October 10, 2013, article in The New York Times, the British government is now considering creating a reward system for whistleblowers, similar to those in the U.S. The article states: “Britain’s government will “consider the case for incentivizing whistle-blo ...
  • Firing Squad Photo Sends Chilling Message to A ...
    The Washington Times reported this morning that an online training manual for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives contains a photo of a firing squad, leading to the suggestion federal agents could face a firing squad for leaking government secrets. Stephen Kohn, executive dir ...

TechDirt

  • David Cameron Working To Stop UK Press From Pu ...
    It looks like Glenn Greenwald picked the right time to leave the UK's The Guardian newspaper. Last week, we noted that David Cameron was pushing for an investigation into the paper for publishing stories based on Ed Snowden's leaks, and now Cameron is going even further in his attempt to stomp o ...
  • How NSA Spying On Angela Merkel May Scuttle TA ...
    There's been plenty of attention paid to the news of the past week or so about the NSA spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. While some still insist this is no big deal, the eventual consequences could be a very big deal. First off, remember that it was just a few months ago ...
  • DailyDirt: The Curse Of Oil
    Having huge oil reserves can be an economic curse for a developing country. The natural-resource curse often produces oil-rich nations that are ruled by dictators and are so reliant on petroleum that its economic growth is hindered because all other industries are neglected. The prediction of th ...
  • Crowdsourcing Journalistic Pressure On Congres ...
    A few weeks ago, we were among many who were stunned to hear the story of On the Media producer Sarah Abdurrahman on the show about how she, her family, and a bunch of friends were all detained at the Canadian/American border by US Customs and Border Patrol agents (CBP) in two different location ...
  • If All These Countries Are So Outraged By Reve ...
    Glenn Greenwald makes some really good points in a Guardian column (one of his last) discussing the reactions to the latest revelations about the NSA surveillance on citizens and (mainly) top politicians in other countries. The key one being, if these countries are really so outraged by these re ...

VacTruth

  • 7 Most Disgusting Ingredients Used to Make Vac ...
    The production of vaccines uses many disgusting ingredients. Additionally, the components used during the manufacturing process may violate your personal, religious, or ethical beliefs.
  • NYC Mayor is Calling a Meeting to Force Vaccin ...
    If you thought things in the world of vaccines could not get any worse, then you were wrong. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City has called for a public hearing recommending that all children under the age of five whose parents want them to attend day care facilities be vaccinated.
  • Seven Year-Old Vaccine-Injured Boy Refused Com ...
    On September 25, 2013, the Daily Mail reported that seven year-old Josh Hadfield had been refused compensation by the UK government, despite being left with severe narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine in 2010.
  • Little Girl Unable to Attend School Because Ju ...
    A little girl who has adverse reactions to vaccines is denied vaccine exemptions and access to school.
  • How Pharmaceutical Companies Hide the Dangers ...
    A 1:50 rate of autism in the United States, increasing autoimmune disorders, seizures, allergies and many other illnesses and disorders. Despite all this, your pediatrician, health officials, governments and pharmaceutical companies proclaim that vaccines are very safe. Did you ever wonder how t ...

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • US Sponsored Genocide in Guatemala: Amnesty fo ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS Sponsored Genocide in Guatemala: Amnesty for Dictator? | Think Tank Russia Todayyoutube.com : Abby Martin speaks to Jamila Aisha Brown, global strategist with HUE Global about Guatemala’s constitutional court ...
  • Stop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US history hits DC Russia Todayyoutube.com Crowds are flooding Capitol Hill in Washington DC, venting their fury against the NSA’s sweeping surveillance practices. The organ ...
  • An Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAn Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence dissidentvoice.orgBy Finian Cunningham An Angel Song for peace and an end to violence against children. “War violates every right of a child — the right to life, t ...
  • ‘Scary you could be jailed for running compute ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comScary you could be jailed for running computer service CryptoSeal co-founder RT.com In August, the highly-encrypted email service Lavabit reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden went offline after it was ordered by a ...
  • Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police F ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comLeaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police For Gun Confiscations and Martial Law Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com October 26, 2013 A MP in the U.S. Army leaked this video of a briefing with FEMA officials who openly discuss ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Russell’s Brand New Revolution + Chris H ...
    Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges Dennis Trainor, Jr  on Oct 26, 2013 While watching Russell Brand’s BBC interview, it is not hard to imagine two families in Middle America, neighbors, watching separately in the comfort of their own homes as Russell Brand does his bit and each nod in lonel ...
  • Stop Watching Us Rally: Americans Demand End T ...
    Dandelion Salad Americans demand end to NSA spying program PressTV on Oct 26, 2013 The United States’ massive spying program which was leaked by National Security Agency whistle blower Edward Snowden has prompted Americans to take to the streets . The protest was one of the largest in the ...
  • Andy Lopez: The Killing of an Innocent Child b ...
    by Shepherd Bliss Writer, Dandelion Salad Sonoma County, California October 26, 2013 Another child has been killed. Andy Lopez was playing with a toy on Oct. 22 near his home in a Latino community in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Northern California. A sheriff’s deputy pulled the trigger and hit th ...
  • An Injunction Against the Truth by Walter Brasch
    by Walter Brasch Writer, Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com October 26, 2013 Monday morning, Oct. 21, 2013. Vera Scroggins, a retired real estate agent and nurse’s aide, was in Common Pleas Court for Susquehanna County, Pa., to explain why a temporary injunction should not be issued against he ...
  • Bahrain Regime Waging War On Its Own People by ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV October 26, 2013 The US-backed Bahraini regime is mounting an undeclared, merciless war on the majority Shia population of the tiny Persian Gulf island. Yet, this systematic crime against humanity is proceeding wit ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Sun Straight Up Exploding All the Time This We ...
    Our local star was active all weekend long, producing three of the most intense solar flares possible in two days.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Sunrise on Mercury
    Another day, another beautiful view of Mercury's horizon. In this scene, which was acquired looking from the shadows toward the sunlit side of the planet, a 120-km (75 mi.) impact crater stands out near the center. Emanating from this unnamed ...     
  • CAPTCHA Busted? AI Company Claims Break of Int ...
    A software company called Vicarious claims to have created a computer algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA with greater than 90% accuracy. If it's been broken, the entire Internet should probably start transitioning to a new security system. But there would ...     
  • Interactive Coral Reef Panoramas Will Make You ...
    You will want to dive into your computer when you see these coral reef panoramas, some of which have been rendered as 360-degree interactive images.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Pandora’s Cluster
    A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster, have pieced together the cluster’s complex and violent history using telescopes in space and on the ground, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...   &nb ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
    t is assumed almost universally that there are two options for cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
    At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Moshé-Machover: DeZionization – strategic cons ...
    As [the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palest ...
    Fouzi’s work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian journalist/author/poet/activist Fo ...
    Journalist Magda Abu Fadil remembers Palestinian activist Fouzi El-Asmar who died last month in the Washington DC area. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Union and third party leaders not fighting, no ...
    On Monday workers from the Port of Oakland Truckers Association went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions. They were joined by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and their action closed one of the terminals. Their demands are fairly modest: an e ...
  • Streaming music services: not cannibalizing CD ...
    Earlier this week David Byrne added his entry to the “artist foresees imminent end of music” category. In the last couple years these articles have focused on how streaming services are supposedly destroying the ability of artists to support themselves with their music. They are us ...
  • On supporting the Naked Capitalism fundraiser
    On Saturday Yves Smith kicked off her annual fundraiser for Naked Capitalism (NC). If you aren’t familiar with NC, there are few sites like it - ones that go against the prevailing currents of Internet convention.Fifteen years ago just having such a site was an accomplishment. As more pe ...
  • Coming Saturday, October 12th: Music for the M ...
    On Saturday, October 12th there will be a concert at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky to raise money to help fight mountaintop removal coal mining. Details on the Music for the Mountains 2 concert and its accompanying compilation album are here. It is supported by Ohio Citizen Action ( ...
  • The incredible shrinking Internet
    A couple of weeks ago, Yves Smith’s link roundup included a McClatchy piece about consumers dropping cable TV. She remarked: “Trust me, when you seem more consumers ditching cable, you’ll see the pipeline providers start charging based on how much you download a month.” ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • World Food Day: Cook Organic, Not the Planet
    “Here's the single most important thing you need to know about the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report: It's not too late. We still have time to do something about climate disruption. The best estimate from the best science is that we can limit warming from human-caused carbo ...
  • Purified Ingredients Derived from GM Crops Are ...
    There is evidence that refined soy oil derived from genetically modified soybeans contains glyphosate residues. In fact, the refined oils have a higher concentration of glyphosate than the crude oil.Click here to read this article
  • How We Can Stop Big Oil in Its Tracks and Keep ...
    Here's a way to stop the global reach of Big Oil, hasten the transition to clean energy, and keep coal and tar sands deposits where they belong - in the ground. Click here to read this article
  • How the Government’s Vaccine Policy Is Infecte ...
    Annually we receive warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an impending influenza epidemic. Each year the CDC recommends the influenza vaccine. Are the warnings justified? Is the advice that the CDC provides appropriate and supported by scientific findings?Click he ...
  • Fatal Flaws in Federal Nutrition Guidelines Pr ...
    According to a new study by the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, 40 years of the NHANES American nutrition research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be completely invalid.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • DAWNS Digest
    News to the Aid, Development and Humanitarian Community The Development and Aid World News Service (DAWNS) is a social enterprise for people who care about ideas, places and events off the radar of the mainstream press. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Not ...
  • Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, ...
    Despite at least $1.75 million in bribes said to have been paid the company around the globe, nobody will go to jai.l In 2010 the company settled an SEC fraud suit for $25 million.... wildly insecure and often inaccurate voting systems and tabulators Submitted by John Farnham to World  |&n ...
  • The IPCC Exposed
    The Corbett Report : includes many links to previous podcasts and sources cited including cap and trade links to oil industry promoting carbon taxes Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • U.S. Has Been "Torturing" Iran for 60 Years
    Begin with a military coup In 1979, the U.S. almost immediately turned to supporting Saddam Hussein in an assault against Iran, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iranians Why the Mafia principle.They overthrew a tyrant that the United States imposed Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Public "Education" has become indoctrination a ...
    School is about memorizing what you are told short term and repeating it. his is for the work force the most important quality in a worker bee actually is obedience. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • Dam Removal: Fish or Foul on the Klamath River
    The Department of Interior plans to destroy four dams on the Klamath River in Northern California and Southern Oregon so salmon can swim further than 180 miles up the river. But these dams provide water and flood protection to thousands of humans who also live along the river. Clean energy from ...
  • The Next Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ Will Be ...
    Over the years, many rural residents have been frustrated by federal environmental laws restricting logging and other forestry activities. The timber industry is dead. The mining industry is dead. The entire region is being deindustrialized and many residents and local leaders have stated that b ...
  • How Much Mercury Escapes From Broken CFL Light ...
    Readings taken from broken CFL bulbs indicate extremely high toxic levels of mercury.
  • GMO Ban Moving Ahead in Josephine County, Oregon
    Despite the state of Oregon's attempt to preempt local regulation of agriculture, Josephine County pushes ahead with initiative to ban planting of GMOs.
  • Report: High Levels of Glyphosate in Argentina ...
    The samples were analysed in a laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires.The results showed a surprisingly high content of residue of up to almost 100mg /kg.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Huge Electric Grid Failure Drill Scheduled for ...
    ShareThisHeads up! From the 'people' who brought you 9/11, Aurora, Sandy Hook, and miscellaneous minor false flags: Huge Electric Grid Failure Drill Scheduled for 13 -14 November 2013 --NERC will host GridEx 2013 on 13-14 November 2013 --North American wide distributed-play exercise --Executive ...
  • Obama 'knew and approved' NSA spying on Chance ...
    ShareThisObama 'knew and approved' NSA spying on Chancellor Merkel - report 28 Oct 2013 President Obama was aware of NSA spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2010, German media have revealed. An NSA spokeswoman later denied the allegations. According to German Bild am Sonntag newspap ...
  • U.K. may punish publication of NSA leaks
    ShareThisU.K. may punish publication of NSA leaks 28 Oct 2013 British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday his government was likely to act to stop newspapers publishing what he called damaging leaks from former U.S. intelligence operative Edward Snowden unless they began to behave mor ...
  • Judge rules controversial Texas abortion law u ...
    ShareThisJudge rules controversial Texas abortion law unconstitutional 28 Oct 2013 New abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature are unconstitutional and will not take effect as scheduled on Tuesday, a federal judge has ruled. District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday that the regulatio ...
  • Police dog bites student during simulated drug ...
    ShareThisPolice dog bites student during simulated drug raid 21 Oct 2013 An 11-year-old male student has been treated for "minor injuries" sustained following a bite from a Brazil Police Department K-9 officer at the Red Ribbon Awareness week kick-off event at the Clay County Courthouse Thursday ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mini wind turbine generates power in light win ...
    An innovative new design in wind turbines is being tested and is aimed at the home or small business market. Designed to be inconspicuous, the Dragonfly can produce electricity even in very light winds. Also, big wind turbines can afford electronics or special designs that shut down the turbine ...
  • Healthcare.gov vulnerable to hacking, say John ...
    John McAfee may be a bit of a loon. However he’s quite correct in saying the sloppy structure of healthcar.gov will lead to identity theft. And check the dumbfoundingly stupid response by HHS to Mother Jones asking about clickjacking. HHS promises to investigate after it happens. This of c ...
  • Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW), an introduction
    Small Wars Journal has an excellent explanation of 4GW by retired Marine Corps Colonel Gary Anderson. You may be startled by his final conclusion. Briefly and I’m no expert, 4GW is asymmetric warfare in which a much smaller adversary sometimes defeats a much more powerful one. Our wars and ...
  • Hitler finds out about Obamacare Exchange Problems
  • Solar thermal plant produces power 24/7 for 36 ...
    The Gemasolar solar thermal plant in Spain uses molten salt to store excess heat from the sun to power turbines at night. It recently produced electricity day and night for a record-breaking 36 days. Solar thermal uses heliostatic mirrors to reflect the heat of the sun to a central tower to heat ...

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

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

  • Report: Facebook auto-play video ads won’t sho ...
    As Facebook advertisers everywhere gear up for what could be a very lucrative holiday season, there’s one hotly-debated ad format they won’t be able to try — the auto-play video ad. According to AllThingsD, these controversial...
  • Top 25 Facebook pages: India
    India is one of the fastest-growing regions in terms of Facebook membership. Wondering what pages Indian users like the most? PageData has the answers. India represents the highest concentration of likes on Facebook’s most-liked page: Facebook...
  • Adobe: Facebook CTR, engagement up greatly in Q3
    Add Adobe to the agencies showing that Facebook’s advertising methods have been truly efficient lately. Adobe, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, reported that among its clients in Q3, engagement on Facebook ads is up 115...
  • 3Q Digital: Facebook’s unpublished post ads, b ...
    Several agencies are predicting a highly positive third quarter report from Facebook. While we won’t know exactly how the social network performed financially until Oct. 30, digital marketing agency 3Q Digital feels that Facebook had quite...
  • Facebook platform news: PMD Adquant offers sup ...
    Facebook recently announced mobile engagement ads, video app install ads and the ability to bid on ads using cost per action. Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Adquant (formerly Adotomi) is staying right with the social network, announcing...

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

  • Pumpkin Politics and More
    I spent a bit of time in at the Sycamore Illinois Pumpkin Festival. There was some great creativity, mostly by kids under 12, with more or less parental help. Here is a sampling of the hundreds of pumpkin works of art.
  • Robert Stone must film Fukushima now, before J ...
    We are in desperate need of documentary filmmakers at Fukushima. The Japanese government is about to pass a national censorship law clearly meant to make it impossible to know what's going on there.
  • Stephen Colbert and John Stewart Have Destroye ...
    Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert satire, Colbert Report, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart Satire, Satire, Comedy, Stephen Colbert and John Stewart Have Destroyed Satire , Chris Hedges, Acronym TV, Dennis Trainor Jr,
  • Russell Brand, Lloyd Dobler, and Finding Your ...
    While watching Russell Brand's BBC interview, it is not hard to imagine two families in Middle America, neighbors, watching separately in the comfort of their own homes as Russell Brand does his bit and each nod in lonely agreement. "Yes!", they are likely to say- "this Russell Brand fellow is r ...
  • Big Brother's New Crystal Ball: Washington Dev ...
    This initiative involves academics working at the behest of a research branch of the NSA who are using US government-collected online data to actually predict future events, such as political protests, pandemics, and economic crises--with a focus on Latin America.

Switchboard

  • Pacific States Aren't Waiting for Congress to ...
    Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento Note: I will update this after the announcement (hopefully by 4:30 p.m. PT). This afternoon, the governors of California, Oregon, Washington, and the premier of ...
  • Another Vampire Unhooked!
    Pierre Delforge, Director, High Tech Sector Energy Efficiency, San Francisco I killed another vampire in my home this weekend. I am talking about energy vampires. And my latest victim is my 9-year old cordless phone system. I was fed up with having ...
  • Marfa Dialogues, Maya Lin, and Me: How Artists ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City I spend my days calling on lawmakers, community leaders, and concerned citizens to address the threat of climate change. Many of these conversations are fruitful, but there are times when field note ...
  • Fracking Bad Deal for North Carolina
    Luis Martinez, Senior Attorney, Energy and Transportation Program, Asheville, North Carolina   The oil and gas industry is pushing the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking , on states around the country.  In tho ...
  • Architecture, public responsibility, and the a ...
    Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions, Washington, DC     I’ve been mulling this one for a few days.  I seem to know a lot of people who do a lot of complaining about the architecture profession, particularly it ...

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

  • Book Review - A Comprehensive Surveys of Films ...
    In this first comprehensive survey of films about war in the post-Vietnam era, Patricia Keeton and Peter Scheckner identify a significant shift in Hollywood away from the celebration of military prowess and pseudo-democratic values.  No longer do films simply embrace the familiar combat sto ...
  • The Digital Edge - Historic Demonstration Prov ...
    In the early morning hours of Oct. 18, NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) made history, transmitting data from lunar orbit to Earth at a rate of 622 Megabits-per-second (Mbps). That download rate is more than six times faster than previous state-of-the-art radio systems flow ...
  • The US and Pakistan - Divided They Stand
    Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Washington and his meeting with President Barack Obama reopened lines of communication broken over the last few years by drones and commando raids. The atmospherics were good; the two had a longer than planned one-on-one. But the visit produced no breakthro ...
  • Broken Government - An Emerging Nightmare: The ...
    Ask a U.S. senior intelligence officer what is his recurring nightmare: what is it that wakes him at 3 am trembling in uncontrollable anxiety? In a public place, where he is likely to be quoted, he is almost certain to answer: a terrorist with a nuclear weapon. And that’s true enough. Ever sin ...
  • Inside Politics - Business Groups Assail Polit ...
    Three of the nation's most prominent trade associations are striking back at a corporate disclosure study that concludes large companies are increasingly more transparent about their politicking.In a letter dated Oct. 17, obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, the groups slams the CPA-Zick ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Consensus Grows Among UN States For Greater ...
    Key members of the United Nations – including some of Washington’s closest allies – broke with a decade of tradition on Friday when they endorsed calls for greater transparency over drone civilian deaths. The European Union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland were joined by the Russian Federatio ...
  • Can Obama Ever Stand Up To The Oil Industry? B ...
    If the president were to become the first world leader to block a big energy project on the grounds of its effects on climate, it might help dramatically reset the international negotiations that he allowed to go aground at Copenhagen in 2009 -- the biggest foreign policy failure of his first te ...
  • In Spain, NSA Intercepted 60 Million Phone Cal ...
    In a single month in 2012, the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted some 60 million phone calls in Spain. This revelation has been made by Spanish daily The World. The daily cited leaked documents from Edward Snowden
  • PKK Leader Öcalan Hands Over Legacy To Leftist ...
    Kurdish movement and Turkish leftists are joining together. A congress is now being held in Turkey to carry forward the unity. Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has declared the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) - an umbrella party encompassing the P ...
  • How Come Uri Avnery Knows So Little About Isra ...
    Yes, I know. Uri Avnery has achieved many great things as a journalist and a peace activist. He has probably done more to educate people around the world about the terrible situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and for longer, than any other single human being. And, to boot, he's ce ...

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

  • NBC Reporting Obama Knew Three Years Ago 7-11 ...
    NBC is reporting that while President Obama was traveling the country telling Americans that  they could keep their health care plans. He already knew that millions of Americans were going to get  cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare. The Obama administrati ...
  • PolitiFact's Review of Obama's "Keep Your Insu ...
    PolitiFact is is a project of the Tampa Bay Times whose mission is to find the truth in what is said by and said about our political leaders. Today they took on the President's promise "If you're one of the more t ...
  • It's Official: Marco Rubio Is Running For Pres ...
    Today Senator Marco Rubio's office announced that he is backing away from the Senate comprehensive immigration bill which he helped to write and throwing his supported  behind the House of Representatives strategy which abandons the quest for a comprehensive immigration legislation and at ...
  • Obama Not Knowing About Merkel Spying is a Ver ...
    There is a difference of facts in the reports regarding the United States bugging of  German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone. German media reports President Barack Obama was  briefed by NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander on the program in 2010 and did not stop it. On the other ...
  • Fourteen Examples of Liberal Media Bias and St ...
    On Thursday we published the scary 13, thirteen cases of media bias which occurred in three days.  Since that feature  was very well received, we are doing it again. Below are 14 more examples of media bias and stupid politician tricks written by yours truly and published at TrueRevolt ...

Wind Watch

  • EverPower drops New York wind farm plans
    ALLEGANY, N.Y. – A company proposing to construct more than 100 utility-scale wind turbines in Champaign County has dropped plans to build a similar installation in western New York, according to the Buffalo News. EverPower Holdings, a Pittsburgh-based maker of utility-grade wind turbines, ...
  • Wellfleet wildlife sanctuary wind turbine prop ...
    Mass. Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary will request that the Wellfleet Zoning Board of Appeals, when it meets on Thursday, Nov. 21, at the senior center, allow Mass. Audubon to withdraw without prejudice its request for a special permit to install a wind turbine at the sanctuary. Forma ...
  • Lights off in Ocotillo: outage raises question ...
    Wind turbines in Ocotillo went offline on October 21 for several days due to SDG&E maintenance on Sunrise Powerlink, according to Matt Dallas with Pattern Energy. Flashing red lights on the turbines that normally warn aircraft of the 500-foot-tall structures have also been dark, raising ques ...
  • Another local wind project bites the dust
    STEWARTVILLE — After years of planning and preliminary development, a second ambitious wind project in southeastern Minnesota has come to an unceremonious end. The High Country Energy wind project developed by National Wind, a subsidiary of India-based Trishe Renewable Energy Solutions, sent a l ...
  • Champaign wind farm tax break battle looms
    URBANA — Developers of a Champaign County wind farm said they’re preparing to seek a special tax treatment from the state and county commissioners that would bring millions in new revenue into the county. But some local officials said unanswered questions remain, and opponents argued the tax tre ...

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

  • Code for journalists, or why journalists shoul ...
    Friday I was visiting the Center for Collaborative Journalism, and I watched director Tim Regan-Porter teaching a class called Hacking the Media. In it, about 12 students were learning to do something with Ruby on Rails. Some of the students were journalism majors. Others were from engineering o ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • NC Moral Monday activists call on governor to ...
    Image Caption:  Rev. Dr. William Barber of the NC NAACP speaking at a June 2013 Moral Monday rally at the state legislature. He and other movement leaders are circulating an open letter asking Gov. Pat McCrory to convene a "Special Redempt ...
  • The outsourcing customer is always wrong
    Image Caption:  Users have reported big problems with the Healthcare.gov website, but the private companies that got paid billions to build the site deny any responsibility for causing them. Representatives of companies that g ...
  • Don Yelton not so out of step with GOP on NC v ...
    Image Caption:  Former North Carolina GOP precinct chair Don Yelton stirred controversy with his racially charged interview on The Daily show about the state's voter ID law, but are his views on the law really out of line with the party&#0 ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: NC tries to patch frayed soci ...
    Image Caption:  Turnip greens are delicious and nutritious, but are they a solution to North Carolina's worsening poverty crisis? (Photo by Sue Sturgis.) Saying they hope to ease the pain from the federal government shutd ...
  • NC heads down scandal-plagued economic develop ...
    Image Caption:  North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, Gov. Pat McCrory, and Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker at an April 2013 press conference announcing the launch of the state's Partnership for Prosperity. Such public-pr ...

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

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Ian Welsh

  • Jerome Armstrong on the Failure of the Netroots
    (This a comment elevated from my post on the failure of the progressive blog movement.  It is written by Jerome Armstrong, not by me. Jerome was the founder of MyDD (Kos’s Blogfather) and co-author of Crashing the Gates, among other things- Ian) by Jerome Armstrong I didn’t see Lieberman’s ...
  • A brief note on why the progressive blog movem ...
    In the early 2000s progressive blogging seemed like a big deal.  At the first Yearly Kos, as it was called then, big name politicians came and kissed our ass.  We were covered by major newspaper and TV outlets.  Etc… Today, we are nothing. The reason is simple: we could not elect enough of ...
  • An Old Gypsy Story
    In my twenties my landlord was an old German, Peter.  He had been a teenager during world War II, and liked to tell stories of his experiences. One of his stories was about Gypsies. Peter said, and I believed, that his family had been opposed to the Nazis. His father was a VP in Siemens [...]
  • 44 Explicit Points on Creating a Better World
    1) Ideology is key.  If you like (or were horrified by) my Baseline Predictions post, understand that the next two posts on ideology were about the solution.  Our decisions about what to do are virtually always ideological.  You cannot think about any complex subject without ideology, without id ...
  • How to Create a Viable Ideology
    The most important question about any ideology or social structure are these.  Does it win?  Can it defend itself? Hunter-gathering, if the land-capacity isn’t close to carrying capacity, is usually a pretty good way to live.  What we see in the archeological record is that when the land g ...

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

  • International roaming charges set to cras ...
    NEW DELHI: International roaming rates are headed south with Vodafone, the country's second largest mobile operator, slashing charges for pre- and post-paid customers by up to 78% for calls and 95% for data. Although other operators did not...
  • Gardening as good as exercise in cutting ...
    Study of almost 4,000 people shows regular gardening or DIY can prolong life by as much as 30% in 60-plus age group Daily activities such as DIY or gardening may prolong life by up to 30% in the 60+ age group, a report published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed. Photograph: I ...
  • Why is American politics so dysfunctional ...
    29 October 2013 Last updated at 00:18 GMT Earlier this month the US federal government began a partial shutdown after the Republican-led House of Representatives attempted to delay President Barack Obama's healthcare reform - dubbed Obamacare - as a condition for passing a new budget. The BB ...
  • Chemical weapons watchdog says Syria decl ...
    UNITED NATIONS — The chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog says Syria has declared 41 facilities at 23 chemical sites where it stored approximately 1,300 tons of chemical precursors and agents and 1,230 unfilled munitions. Ahmet Uzumcu said in his first report to the Security C ...
  • Obama's big lie
    "All we've been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it.... I'm infuriated because I was lied to," one woman told this newspaper, as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of Obamacare. And that lie look ...

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

  • Screens, Screens, Screens: The Worrying Childh ...
    (Photo: Paul Mayne/Flickr/Creative Commons License)That children in the U.S., from newborns to 8-year-olds, are spending less time in front of traditional television and computer screens than they were two years ago is the good news found in a new report released Monday. ...
  • Screens, Screens, Screens: The Worrying Childh ...
    (Photo: Paul Mayne/Flickr/Creative Commons License)That children in the U.S., from newborns to 8-year-olds, are spending less time in front of traditional television and computer screens than they were two years ago is the good news found in a new report released Monday. ...
  • Judge Strikes Down Key Provision of Texas Anti ...
    (Photo: Jana Birchum)In what reproductive justice advocates are hailing as a partial victory, a federal court struck down Monday a provision of the controversial Texas HB 2 anti-choice law that would have made abortion inaccessible for a third of all Texas women. Yet the ruling upheld the bill&# ...
  • Judge Strikes Down Key Provision of Texas Anti ...
    (Photo: Jana Birchum)In what reproductive justice advocates are hailing as a partial victory, a federal court struck down Monday a provision of the controversial Texas HB 2 anti-choice law that would have made abortion inaccessible for a third of all Texas women. Yet the ruling upheld the bill&# ...
  • With JPMorgan Under Spotlight, Growing Calls t ...
    While JPMorgan Chase's $13 billion settlement for its "shady practices that five years ago helped trigger the financial meltdown, including manipulating mortgages and sending millions of Americans into bankruptcy or foreclosure" has gained attention for its record amount, a number ...

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

  • World Change Starts in Your Neighborhood
    A liberated lawn Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not - Dr Seuss Through the re-localization movement people are taking back power from corporations and reconnecting with nature and other human beings. An inspiring film from Australia des ...
  • "I Will Not Be Pushed, Filed, Stamped, Indexed ...
    Debriefed or Numbered" The Prisoner - starring Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 The Prisoner is a prophetic Owellian series from 1967 about dissident and whistleblowing spies who are punished by being sent to a remote village from which they can never escape. The late creator, producer, and sta ...
  • Fast Food Restaurants Cost Taxpayers Nearly $8 ...
    Why Are We Subsidizing Profitable Corporations? Over the past few days, the corporate media has been trumpeting September’s “low” 7.2% unemployment rate. For the most part, the mainstream media fails to report that joblessness has only decreased 0.1% since August. Or that ...
  • Teen Pregnancy: Do Your Part
    Skyrocketing population growth is one of the most serious threats to the fragile biosphere that supports human existence. Fertility rates in most of the industrialized world have slowed dramatically over the last decade. Except for the US. Thanks to high rates of teen pregnancy (the highes ...
  • 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 ...

FourWinds10

  • Take Back Your Power Official Trailer
    June 25, 2013 The "Smart" Meter Scam Take Back Your Power is a historic community-funded film which exposes the technocratic "smart meter" agenda, by which corporations are currently attempting to quietly assert the basis for further control in the lives and homes of the worl ...
  • STUDY LINKS FRACKING WITH METHANE-CONTAMINATED ...
    FW:  July 25, 2013 (Published June 23, 2013) Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s common elsewhere, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells ...
  • Singapore smoke hits life-threatening levels, ...
    June 21, 2013 Singapore health officials have warned that air pollution is at hazardous, record-high levels due to peatland wildfires in neighboring Indonesia. In a bid to quell a diplomatic row, Jakarta has sent helicopters to ‘seed’ rainclouds over the blaze. Smoke from the raging ...
  • Offshore Fracking Uproar Grows in California I ...
    Aug. 22, 2013 n the three weeks since a Truthout investigation revealed that federal regulators have approved at least two hydraulic fracturing operations in federal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel since 2009, a state commission has launched an investigation into the practice, California law ...
  • Study links fracking with methane-contaminated ...
    June 26, 2013 Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s common elsewhere, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells across northeastern Pennsylvania and ...

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

  • Shale Projects Lagging in Eastern Europe
    “Shale perspectives” in Eastern Europe are challenged by the delaying tactics of major industry players. Media coverage of shale gas development is positive but in Lithuania and Poland global oil and gas companies one by one drop bids to explore.read more
  • Foggy Notions of Climate Change
    It is mind blowing that the world’s financial capitals, most of which exist at sea level, so willfully finance the extraction and refinement of the instruments of their own demise while at the same time beggaring the only approaches that have demonstrated potential to safeguard them.read more
  • Record Year Blows United Kingdom Small Wind En ...
    2012 turned out to be a huge year for small wind in the United Kingdom, as the industry nearly doubled in size to pass £105 million in total value. The record year of installations is creating economic tailwinds for the UK’s green economy and a more resilient energy system.read more
  • Blowout Exposes Gaps in Federal and State Over ...
    A New Mexico oil well owned by Parko Oil LLC recently experienced a blowout, resulting in a spill of more than 8,400 gallons. The blowout occurred when a nearby well owned by Encana was being hydraulically fractured and the fracturing fluids intersected the Parko well. read more
  • Energy Innovation in the States: From Energy S ...
    Some say that the US should focus on innovation to create new clean energy technologies, rather than relying entirely on existing technologies like solar PV and land-based wind. They are right. But such criticism overlooks the powerful clean energy innovation that is supported by states.read more

Rodale News

  • The 9 Best Gluten-Free Foods for Runners
    Considering that "gluten free" has become the healthy diet du jour, a lot of athletes probably wonder if giving up gluten, a problematic protein found in wheat, barley, and rye, can help them work harder and last longer. Are gluten-free foods the best foods for runners? There's no sc ...
  • Mercury: Banned from Everything Except Your Ma ...
    A few weeks ago, world leaders convened in Japan to deal with the very serious threat of mercury in the environment. And while the convention went a long way toward eliminating mercury from the largest and most polluting industrial sources, delegates decided to continue allowing its use in masc ...
  • Maria Rodale & Marion Nestle: The Politics of ...
    Politicians in Washington may bicker back and forth about issues that don’t seem all that immediately relevant to your daily life, but their decisions do trickle down to you—three times a day, every time you sit down for a meal. Your dinner plate (and your cereal bowl and your lunch box) are ru ...
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big think

  • Religious organisations should learn what resp ...
    South Africa's best satirical cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro), is in hot water for depicting the Hindu god Ganesh in a cartoon. As usual, those who worship said god are demanding respect for religious beliefs (presumably their beliefs, not all religious beliefs). Just consider ...
  • Sloppy Science Jargon Gets Nobel
    "Economics is harder than physics." That’s Justin Fox commenting on this year’s “Economic Sciences” Nobels. Two of the winners, Fama and Shiller, have seemingly opposing views on markets, and coverage of that issue can clarify what economics does. We aren’t as well behaved as atoms. And markets ...
  • Neuroscientists Inch Closer to Seeing Your Dreams
    Brain decoding is the technique by which neuroscientists are able to decipher what a person is experiencing during a dream. Researchers are using MRI scans to detect subtle patterns of activity.  The Nature video below depicts three different uses of brain decoding, "including a virtual ...
  • We Don't Have to Wait for Driverless Cars to F ...
    How is most traffic caused? It's not from car accidents, as one might expect. Rather, most traffic is the result of extremely subtle changes in the flow of traffic, caused, for instance, be drivers speeding up or slowing down ever so slightly. This has a ripple effect. That is why you ha ...
  • How Bright Will Comet ISON Be? A Look Back to 1680
    At the end of next month, Comet ISON is expected to be at its brightest, when it is nearest to the Sun. Still, no one knows exactly what it will look like. And so, to provide a hint, NASA dug up the image above, which is Comet Kirch, the Great Comet of 1680 that is pictured above a crowd of ... ...

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

  • Move closer…what if the Moon…
    …were as close to the Earth as the International Space Station (ISS). Gravitational and tidal effects aside, this is a nice photorealistic animation to show the night during the day. And, then…what if the Earth had rings like Saturn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz5Q2rGQtQ Move c ...
  • News from the Squares – Book review
    In Robert Llewellyn’s eagerly awaited sequel to News From Gardenia, erstwhile engineer Gavin Meckler is trying to get back to the present in his Youneec aircraft, but something is amiss. He soon realises he has travelled sideways through time to another possible future, as unlike his visit to 22 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • The Global Status of CCS
    Global CCS Institute http://bit.ly/1hFfbod [Yale Environment 360]  Major projects aiming at capturing and burying carbon dioxide underground have slowed worldwide, according to a study by the Global CCS Institute in Australia. Despite the common view among experts that carbon capture and storage ...
  • The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Backgr ...
    Congressional Research Service http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads//assets/crs/R43249.pdf The Great Lakes ecosystem is recognized by many as an international natural resource that has been altered by human activities and climate variability. These alterations have led to degraded w ...
  • US EPA Releases Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its third year of greenhouse gas data detailing carbon pollution emissions and trends broken down by industrial sector, greenhouse gas, geographic region, and individual facility. The data, req ...
  • Biotic and Human Vulnerability to Projected Ch ...
    PLOs Biology (2013, v11 n10 e1001682. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001682)  / by Camilo Mora, et al. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001682 [Author summary]  Climate change caused by human activity could damage biological and social systems. Here we gathered ...
  • Energy Efficiency Performance Standards: The C ...
    Consumer Federation of America http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/Energy_Efficiency_Performance_Standards_Report.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Daniel Cusick, sub. req'd]  Homeowners and businesses could cut energy costs by almost $1,000 annually if more appliances ranging from heating and coo ...

frogblog

  • Fonterra – join the dots to combat climate change
    On Labour Day the holiday traffic on State Highway 2 got a free education from our roadside rally against the Fonterra coal mine at Mangatawhiri. This event was organised by “Auckland Coal Action” so I drove over from Thames with Jeanette Fitzsimons and other locals to support the ef ...
  • Transport and social equity: Part 1
    This is a cross post from The Daily Blog, where it was originally published Tuesday 22 October. Transport is often the third largest item of expenditure for a household. It is on average between 10-15% of the household budget, surpassed only by food and shelter. But it can be higher for low- and ...
  • Asian Human Rights Commission report on genoci ...
    A new report released by Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission is a damning indictment of the historical role of both the Indonesian and Australian Governments in West Papua. The report shows a consistent pattern of state killings, actual massacres and attacks on communities over the las ...
  • Have your say on two important tertiary educat ...
    The Government is in the middle of consulting on two really important documents relating to the tertiary education sector in New Zealand. The first is the Tertiary Education Strategy, which outlines the Government’s strategic direction for the next five years (2014-2019). The second is on the Go ...
  • What do we value?
    What matters to us? What work do we value, and how do we recognise that value? Many metrics are used; job satisfaction surveys, opinion polling, endless Buzzfeed lists, but inevitably it seems we gravitate to that universal measure – remuneration.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • IC 413: The Golden Rule: Don’t Be a Dick
    Killing Time on Netflix Batman Arkham Origins Happy “Dress up as another race in an offensive manner and then claim you had no idea it was offensive even though it is blatantly obvious it was offensive” Month Owning up to being offensive How stupid you have to be to do a racist costu ...
  • IC 412: For Colored Boys Who Listen to Drake ...
    Pacific Rim Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm NYCC They Live and the most awesome bad fight of all time Bedazzled dildos SNL and lack of black women talent Adrian Peterson is actually a good father King Kendrick Rap God Drake gets emotional….again Skinny jeans music Drake Slander Share with ...
  • IC 411: #NeverForget Travis the Chimp
    The NFL and Breast Cancer Awareness Going overboard with Breast Cancer Awareness month The Government Shutdown Just how dumb Republicans are Obamacare vs Affordable Care Act Fuck George Zimmerman’s wife Woman 0 Tiger 1 GTA Online Share with your friends:
  • IC 410: Phone Wars
    GTA V What might be in store for us in GTA Online and possible dlc Next gen systems The Iphone 5c At what point do we not need a faster phone? Droid vs Iphone….who cares? Kanye is right………..and an asshole Share with your friends:
  • IC 409: Jesus Smash
    GTA V is the game of the year….period Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson Russell Simmons rewrites history on the the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Video Hollywood isn’t starving for creativity Passion of the Christ wasn’t a good movie Are there any movies that shouldn’t be remad ...

Simple Climate

  • Tundra plants show modern temperatures unmatch ...
    As plants preserved under glaciers for at least 44,000 years are revealed in surprising abundance, Gifford Miller from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team have used them to show how far beyond natural patterns the warming humans have driven is.
  • Tundra plants show modern temperatures unmatch ...
    As plants preserved under glaciers for at least 44,000 years are revealed in surprising abundance, Gifford Miller from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team have used them to show how far beyond natural patterns the warming humans have driven is.
  • Braving African piracy reveals abrupt rainfall ...
    After Peter deMenocal avoided harm extracting sediment cores in dangerous waters off the Somali coast, Jessica Tierney has painstakingly used them to show century-scale climate transitions in the area.
  • Braving African piracy reveals abrupt rainfall ...
    After Peter deMenocal avoided harm extracting sediment cores in dangerous waters off the Somali coast, Jessica Tierney has painstakingly used them to show century-scale climate transitions in the area.
  • If we pass safe climate limits, it’s a long wa ...
    If we want to get back to pre-warming levels once greenhouse gases and temperatures have peaked, we’d have to take more CO2 out of the air than we originally emitted, Andrew MacDougall from the University of Victoria, Canada, has shown.

e!Science News

  • The people's choice: Americans would pay to he ...
    Americans place high value on butterfly royalty. A recent study suggests they are willing to support monarch butterfly conservation at high levels, up to about 6 ½ billion dollars if extrapolated to all U.S. households. read more
  • GVSU study on gender: Who counts as a man and ...
    Gender is no longer determined solely by biological factors, according to a new study by a Grand Valley State University researcher whose article, "Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System," was recently ...
  • UCSB researcher documents the enduring contami ...
    An unintended legacy of California's gold rush, which began in 1848, endures today in the form of mercury-laden sediment. New research by Michael Singer, associate researcher at UC Santa Barbara's Earth Research Institute, shows that sediment-absorbed mercury is being transported by major floods ...
  • Study challenges soil testing for potassium an ...
    In the chemical age of agriculture that began in the 1960s, potassium chloride (KCl), the common salt often referred to as potash, is widely used as a major fertilizer in the Corn Belt without regard to the huge soil reserves that were once recognized for their fundamental importance to soil fer ...
  • Local communities produce high-quality forest ...
    As global forest and climate experts gather at the Oslo REDD Exchange 2013 to ramp up international efforts to protect carbon-storing forests in the developing world, a recent study by researchers at the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and European and Southeast Asian institution ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Dear Patty Murray
    So Patty,  you are “negotiating” with Paul Ryan are you? Here is your new message. If the wealthy paid taxes at the rate of the middle class, and corporations weren’t allowed to stash their profits overseas, we wouldn’t have a deficit. There is no need to screw the elderl ...
  • The Best Ted Cruz Blog Post Ever!
    From bayside on Raw Story: “Keep up the hate Cruz and soon republicans will be small enough to drown in a bathtub.” From Raw StoryArticle “Cruz lashes out at Senate GOP over shutdown failure”….. Personally I don’t thing “approval” for Republicans w ...
  • So The Tea Party Is Racist – Duh
    Why is it that only Congressman Alan Grayson is pointing out this simple fact? Grayson Stands Behind Statement… I am sure there is one or two Teabaggers that aren’t racist to the core. At least I am pretty sure. I am sure they hate President Obama simply because he is a Socialist, Ke ...
  • Just Say It – Republicans Serve Satan
    There is not one single thing the Republican Party stands for, or works to accomplish that Jesus Christ would approve of. Not one single thing. Nada. Zip. What Jesus taught was pretty simple. Take care of the poor. Feed the hungry. Heal the sick. You got it. Today’s Republicans work overti ...
  • I Heard A New Term Today
    On the Alan Grayson appreciation blog on Democratic Underground. The term is TeaKlan. Thought I would share this new word with my friends.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Israel’s twisted logic in keeping EU leg ...
    Israel says allowing organizations to visit Gaza inherently ‘strengthens Hamas,’ even when no visits with Hamas officials are planned. Couldn’t the same logic be used to argue for a boycott of Israel, considering Israel’s occupation regime? Israel blocked a European Parli ...
  • Yom Kippur War holds lessons for Netanyahu&#82 ...
    Netanyahu appears more and more confident that Iran’s stated intentions are not its true intentions. Instead of making parallels to WWII, he should take some lessons from the overconfident, and ultimately catastrophic intelligence assessments that preceded the Yom Kippur War. By Shemuel Me ...
  • What’s behind Israel’s biggest eco ...
    The period of Israel’s history that by far saw the largest economic growth, more than any other, was the six years following the Six Day War. And what agricultural, industrial, or hi-tech breakthroughs took place around 1967-1973? None worthy of mention. More than any other single factor, ...
  • The world’s only ethnic time zone
    For the past month, the Holy Land was the only place in the world where time zones are delineated not by geography but by ethnography.  As of this morning, for the first time in a month, all the residents of the Holy Land are living in the same time zone. In late September, the Palestinian Autho ...
  • Jewish anti-miscegenation groups distribute ra ...
    I have recently reported on a few instances in which two Jewish anti-miscegenation groups  - Lehava and Yad L’Achim – have been actively operating to thwart contact between Jews and Arabs. Lehava, which runs a hotline encouraging callers to inform on Jewish-Arab couples, was reported ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Lightbeam: A brilliant Firefox extension that ...
    Lightbeam is a Firefox extension that debuted as Collusion in 2011 and created by Mozilla software developer Atul Varma as an experimental add-on to visualize browsing behavior and data collection on the web. Watch this highly rated TED talk where Mozilla's Gary Kovacs introduces the Collusion ...
  • First ever Ubuntu pre-installed touchscreen la ...
    When it comes to Ubuntu pre-installed laptop and desktop offerings, System76 pretty much pioneered the movement. Now they have come up with the first ever touchscreen enabled Ubuntu laptop called Darter UltraThin. It features a 14.1" 1080p full high definition touch display with glossy finish. ...
  • How to check whether the downloaded Ubuntu 13. ...
    Towards the release of a major Ubuntu version, a lot of people writes to us seeking help regarding corrupted ISO image file problem. This can be because of so many reasons. At one point, the default Startup Disk Creator failed every time and I had to rely entirely on UNetBootin for creating ...
  • [How to] Spotify 0.9.4 for Linux Released with ...
    Spotify for Linux has released its latest version, Spotify 0.9.4, with new media key support along with a host of other improvements. Though Spotify is still not available in many countries, it is an immensely popular music streaming service with nearly 20 million active users as of December 2 ...
  • 5 Easy Ways to Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu
    Be it Ubuntu or any other platform, one thing I learned over the years is the fact that people like to download their favorite YouTube videos and would want to keep a local copy of it no matter how hard it is. Luckily, there are plenty of tools to do this in Ubuntu without any hassles. Here, w ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
    Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • No Woman, No Drive
    Saudi Arabia: No Woman, No drive!!!
  • Probability of Maunder-like minimum increases
    The possibility of a new Maunder minimum has increased from less than 10% just a few years ago to 25-30%.
  • UK maintains a stiff upper lip as the great St ...
    Well the St. Jude's storm came and went. "At least 5 wet, shattered, leaves, are lying haphazardly across my back garden, creating a biblical scene of leaf-chaos."
  • Fear of nuclear radiation is much worse than t ...
    After the Fukushima nuclear accident following the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011, "No radiation-related deaths or acute effects have been observed among nearly 25,000 workers (including TEPCO employees and contractors) involved at the accident site". It was the earthquake and tsuna ...
  • Winter time is here again – but “c ...
    We are surrounded by cycles. Without periodicity and cycles we would have no concept of time. The only man-made repeating period that seems to have no corresponding cycle in the natural world is the weekly 7-day cycle. Almost every cycle we discover seems to impact our weather and our climate. B ...

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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

  • Chile: Police Special Forces Evict Mapuche Com ...
    By Felipe Cordero • Oct 21, 2013   “Welcome to the Temucuicui Autonomous Community” Photo by Donmatas1 on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) In the early morning of Wednesday, October 9, riot police and members of the Group of Special Operations (GOPE in Spanish), an elite, special unit of the Chilea ...
  • Chile: Police Special Forces Evict Mapuche Com ...
    By Felipe Cordero • Oct 21, 2013   “Welcome to the Temucuicui Autonomous Community” Photo by Donmatas1 on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) In the early morning of Wednesday, October 9, riot police and members of the Group of Special Operations (GOPE in Spanish), an elite, special unit of the Chilea ...
  • “Senior” Imperialist’s Arrog ...
    France and Mexico Angry With N.S.A. By Brandon Cottrell Impunity Watch Reporter, North America WASHINGTON, D.C., United States – As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in France today, Le Monde, an authoritative newspaper, published a report based on the secret documents leaked by Edward ...
  • “Senior” Imperialist’s Arrog ...
    France and Mexico Angry With N.S.A. By Brandon Cottrell Impunity Watch Reporter, North America WASHINGTON, D.C., United States – As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in France today, Le Monde, an authoritative newspaper, published a report based on the secret documents leaked by Edward ...
  • Reparations for Slavery: A Just Demand, Consta ...
    [In the systems whose wealth and power is rooted in historic plunder, enslavement, displacement and extermination, the demand for reparations ("to repair the damage") is routinely dismissed and denounced by bourgeois media and law -- as "unreasonable" or "unrealistic," at best, or, more commonly ...

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

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2012 Blog

  • Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
    I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
  • 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 ...

    To Do

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    Renewable Energy in Spain Is Taking a Beating
    New York Times
    MADRID — Years of disastrous policies, coupled with the economic crisis, have recast renewable energy in Spain. Once touted as the embodiment of progress, wealth and sustainability, the industry is now seen as an unwanted and costly extravagance.
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    Filling the Gaps in the Flow of Renewable Energy
    New York Times
    SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest problem with solar panels and wind turbines is that they do not produce energy all the time. So what is the solution? Batteries. And other technologies that store energy to be released when it is needed. As renewable energy ...
    Germany's Renewable Energy Subsidies Could Threaten Economic Growth
    Forbes
    The first report considered the potential impact of Germany's renewable energy policies on future economic growth, especially whether rising electric power prices would reduce exports from energy-intensive industries in Germany. Germany's energy policy ...
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    Innovation in renewable-energy technologies is booming
    MIT News
    The number of patents issued for renewable-energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, according to new research from MIT and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). The study shows that investments in research and development, as well as in the ...
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    US Ecology Beats Big on Bottom Line
    Motley Fool
    Hazardous waste management specialist US Ecology (NASDAQ: ECOL ) is cleaning up as strong results in its treatment and disposal business sees increased demand. The company reported third-quarter results, showing that it posted total revenue of $53.1 ...
    New Book Details Benedict XVI's Love for Nature, Ecology
    Aleteia
    A new book collecting Benedict XVI's speeches on ecology and man's relationship with nature reveals his love and concern for nature and animals, according to the emeritus Pope's once-private secretary. “In the book, Benedict writes that man, if he is ...
    What is Ecology and why is it important?
    Pitchcare (press release)
    I don't think anyone would disagree when I say that there has never been a more important time to focus on ecology and to minimise the carbon footprint we leave for our children to inherit. Far too much valuable land, which has provided natural ...
    Ecology lab studies birds to deter airfield accidents
    Aiken Standard
    The University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory is working on an acoustic hailing device to disperse birds from unwanted locations. Professors began the project this summer. Their efforts are to protect airfield environments from bird ...
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    Insight: US Congress finds cure for gridlock in water
    Reuters
    Whatever the jargon, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act was a reminder of the allure of traditional home-district spending and its healing power in an age of division. The bill included projects that would benefit about half of the state ...
    Making fire from water
    euronews
    A portable device that makes fire from water has been developed within a European research project. It doesn't use flammable gases, it produces its own fuel as needed. Andrew Ellis, a research technologist with ITM Power, explained: “This is an ...
    Danone-Backed Project Provides Water at Cost to Cambodia
    Bloomberg
    As pilot work on the water-purification units in Mexico and Paraguay followed, actor Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org, stumped for clean water, traveling to Bangalore and elsewhere in India in August to meet with microfinance groups on loans to ...
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    1 year later, Superstorm Sandy survivors to light up shore along water's edge
    Fox News
    NEW YORK – Superstorm Sandy survivors are keeping vigil along the water's edge one year after the devastating storm flooded hundreds of miles of coastline and destroyed whole communities. People will pay their respects on Tuesday to the people that ...
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