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English: The logo for Apple Computer, now Appl...English: The logo for Apple Computer, now Apple Inc.. The design of the logo started in 1977 designed by Rob Janoff with the rainbow color theme used until 1999 when Apple stopped using the rainbow color theme and used a few different color themes for the same design. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
George Papandreou and Muammar Gaddafi, now it'...George Papandreou and Muammar Gaddafi, now it's only the history. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Syria's President Hafez al-Assad atte...English: Syria's President Hafez al-Assad attending the Steadfastness and Confrontation Summit in Libya in December 1977 / From left to right: Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, Algerian President Houarie Boumedienne, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: TRIPOLI. With leader of the Libyan Re...English: TRIPOLI. With leader of the Libyan Revolution Muammar Gaddafi. Русский: ТРИПОЛИ. С лидером ливийской революции Муамаром Каддафи. Deutsch: Wladimir Putin mit Muammar al-Gaddafi in Tripolis. Suomi: Vladimir Putin Muammar al-Gaddafin kanssa Tripolissa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Oriental Review

  • Revelations of Edward Snowden – Geopolitical I ...
    As a rule the discussions related to what has been revealed by Edward Snowden about US global electronic surveillance boil down to violations of human rights and illegal interference into the private lives of millions in different parts of the world. If it were all about it, then the White House ...
  • The Sectarian War at Hand: Redrawing the Middl ...
    A new era of sectarian violence was born amid the disastrous US invasion and occupation of Iraq. And now, it is spreading. The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet from where I am sitting, but such tranquility hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so- ...
  • Ukraine: Europe’s Partner or Europe’s Puppet?
    As the second  most populous  former Soviet republic, Ukraine has  seemed uncomfortable with its independence since 1991 and less than committed to making it work. The fundamental issue has always been: does the country remain entwined with its larger neighbour Russia or, does it succumb to the ...
  • Nobel Peace Laureate: Syrian people have the r ...
    XIII World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland. October, 2l-23, 2013 Peace in Syria: Speech by Mairead Maguire in Warsaw, Poland. Oct.2013 Dear Friends, In May, 2013 I led a 16 person peace delegation into Syria at the invitation of Mussalaha National Movement in what we witnessed ha ...
  • Gaddafi’s grieving widow’s pleas regarding rem ...
    The widow of assassinated Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Safia Farkash Gaddafi, has made a plea to the world community, finding a place for her voice to be heard on the Voice of Russia. Obviously this is something that may cause certain countries a bit of discomfort, especially as they have beco ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • Sexually Abused Kids Don’t Have to Suffer All ...
    Evidence about the Jonathan Lord YMCA case continues at Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. A number of brave, strong, articulate mothers spoke about discovering their small boys had been abused by Jonathan Lord. Each one is the kind of mother, the ki ...
  • AO is a hero and his mum AN is a hero too
    Today the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard from the amazing mother of a child victim of the child sex offender, Jonathan Lord. AN was the first witness in Case Study 2, which started today, into Lord and the YMCA, which employed, and then promoted him. In ...
  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 2 The N ...
    Many hopes are pinned on the National Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to fill the massive gaps left by the narrow terms of reference of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, and the inadequate time and powers of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. This is th ...
  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...

WL Central

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

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Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • TRI Comments on Proposed Revision to the Nones ...
    The US Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to add the Mexican Gray Wolf subspecies (Canis lupus baileyi) to the list of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.  At the same time FWS is proposing to classify the only wild population of about 75 Mexican wolves as a “nonessent ...
  • TrekWest Blog 44: Thanks for a Successful West ...
    Posted: 22 Oct 2013 10:46 AM PDT “Praying (yes, empiricists, I admit it) for the last few Pronghorn struggling to rejoin their herd divided by a barb-wire fence, and shedding tears of joy (yes, hard-core rationalists, I admit it) when the last one found a way under, and galloped off into the Bit ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Chopping ...
    ©2013 by Dave Foreman Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act and we will mark it with merrymaking and wingdings all over the United States.  The big national celebration will be in Albuquerque in October, and I am most happy that Terry Tempest Williams and I ...
  • Mexico’s president cancels Nevado de Toluca pr ...
    Through a decree, the president canceled the National Park status granted to the Nevado de Toluca, which since 1936 has prohibited any exploitation of the resources of this natural area. http://www.animalpolitico.com/2013/10/epn-cancela-proteccion-al-nevado-de-toluca-otorgada-por-lazaro-cardenas ...
  • Log Yosemite National Park?!
    Received by TRI October 4, 2013 The Federal Government may be shut down, but that hasn’t stopped the House Natural Resources Committee from taking up a radical pro-logging measure for Yosemite National Park, the Ansel Adams Wilderness and other treasures in the Sierra Nevada affected by the mass ...

reference frame

  • Czechoslovakia: 95th anniversary
    We've had another beautiful, summer-like day today. It was the Czech national holiday, an anniversary of the 1918 birth of Czechoslovakia. Slovakia isn't celebrating – I respect that but frankly speaking, I do think that it's a sign of their partial national immaturity. Prof Tomá ...
  • Masterminds of spying against Merkel have to b ...
    In the previous texts about the global spying by the NSA, I was sort of neutral but times are changing. Spiegel and Bild claim to have the testimony of an anonymous NSA official who claims that Angela Merkel's phone was not only eavesdropped between 2002 and 2013 but in 2010, Barack Obama e ...
  • Raju, Papadodimas isolate the reasons why ther ...
    Wonderful new papers refine the black hole complementarity and show that the black hole interior operators are included in the CFT and other descriptions of the bulk while locality holds more exactly than previously thought Kyriakos Papadodimas and Suvrat Raju, two careful and bright resear ...
  • Pan-STARRS1 survey: dark energy up to \(w=-1.1 ...
    Cosmological constant as an explanation of the accelerated expansion under attack Scientific American chose a dramatic title for a 1-week old astro-ph preprint that the astro/physics blogosphere missed: Leading Dark Energy Theory Incompatible with New Measurement (SciAm) Cosmological Co ...
  • UN's new 26 science advisers are not represent ...
    Six days ago, the UN boss Ban Ki-moon announced 26 members of a Scientific Advisory Board for the U.N. that will be hosted by UNESCO: UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board to strengthen connection between science and policy I learned about this news story because Fabiola Gianotti, ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Harley Lawrence’s friends seek answers after s ...
    A funeral for Harley Lawrence, a homeless man who died in a suspicious fire at a Berwick, N.S., bus shelter last week, will be held Wednesday in Kentville. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Berwick asks where RCMP were when Harley ...
  • Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts – Quiet Co ...
    from Jesse’s Café Américain: The metals were quietly today, as the early overnight rally in gold was leaned on most of the afternoon. Let’s see if they get hit tomorrow on the day after option expiration or on an FOMC day on Wednesday when nothing is expected to happen. Prices in the metal ...
  • Europe battered by wind storm that has left 13 ...
    A savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts slashed its way through Britain and western Europe on Monday, felling trees, flooding lowlands, snarling transportation and killing at least 13. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related post ...
  • Overheard At The Water Cooler: Trillion Dollar ...
    by Matt Insley, SilverBearCafe.com: There was a joke flying around the water cooler yesterday. It went something like this… “What if the government were to print a TRILLION dollars a year in stimulus? That’d be crazy, right!” One trillion. Bigger than 2008′s “shock and awe” bailout, and powerful ...
  • VPD officer cleared in 2007 shooting death of ...
    The B.C. Ministry of Justice has announced that no formal criminal charges will be brought against a Vancouver police officer for the shooting death of a 39-year-old mentally ill man in 2007. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Zimme ...

Modern Survivalism

  • The Electric Power Industry Is Preparing For G ...
    The electric power grid is the glass jaw of American industry. It is essential for almost everything. If an adversary lands a knockout blow, it could black out vast areas of the continent for weeks, months or longer; interrupt supplies of water, gasoline, diesel fuel and fresh food; shut down co ...
  • America’s Upside-down Finances Infographic
    It is one thing to accumulate some debt IF there is sufficient growth to substantiate repayment of that debt, but it is quite another to be accumulating debt when there is little or no growth to insure repayment of that debt. Would a bank give a loan to someone who is already ‘underwater&# ...
  • Tomato Sauce from Dehydrated Tomatoes
    A very effective way to preserve and store fresh garden grown tomatoes is to dehydrate them. Here’s one thing you can do with them afterwards during the winter while you crave the fresh taste of homegrown tomatoes… Make tomato sauce!   There really is no right or wrong way to ma ...
  • Run, Hide, Fight
    Surviving an active shooter event The warning signs may vary. But the devastating effects are the same. And unfortunately you need to be prepared for the worst. If you ever find yourself in the middle of an ‘active shooter’ event, your survival may depend on whether or not you have a ...
  • Which State Matches Your Personality?
    Here’s a fun little quiz which may indicate which state of the United States purportedly best matches your personality and attitude. Considering a move? Maybe this will help…   America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude A 13 year study, published i ...

Fast Company

  • Disney's New TV Show Will Debut On Tablets, Be ...
    Three–quarters of children are spending an increasing amount of time on smartphones and tablets, including nearly 40% of babies under two years old. So, although it's a first, it's not entirely surprising Disney is bringing "Sheriff Callie's Wild West," a television show debuting November 24th, ...
  • Today's Google Doodle Pays Homage to Edith Head
    The current Google Doodle is decked out in ball gowns, sharp dress suits, and fur–trimmed ruffles in honor of legendary costume designer Edith Head, who would have been 116 today. Over the course of her career, Head racked up 438 film credits and won eight Oscars for her work on The Heiress, Sam ...
  • #Thinspiration And #Underboob Are Now Approved ...
    Rejoice, soft porn– and profanity–loving Instagram users: You now have more hashtags to use to find and label content, thanks to the powers that be at Instagram, who have unbanned several previously banned hashtags. Some quick background: Since Instagram's list of banned hashtags was originally ...
  • Study: 75% Of Kids Under Age 8 Use Mobile Devices
    There's been an explosion of mobile technology use among young children in the past two years, even as overall media exposure is declining. According to a report out today from Common Sense Media, which studies the safe use of media for kids, the percentage of children under eight with access to ...
  • Louis CK Is Better At Self–Promotion Than You
    It is in keeping with Louis CK's no–frills persona that he can't seem to be bothered with traditional advertising. When he released his new HBO special last spring, that tendency manifested itself in a promo that mocked similar promos. Now that this special is available to stream on the comedian ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (October 21-27)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  عن الجيش وإمبراطوريته الاقتص ...
  • Interview: Sarah Kendzior on Open Access in Ac ...
    [The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing's blog. For more information on the publishing world as it relates to pedagogy and knowledge production, follow Tadween Publishing on Facebook and Twitter.] Tadween Publishing ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (October 28)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Sixth Floor Exhibition
    Sixth Floor March 2013 Viennoise Hotel, Cairo, Egypt   Sixth Floor is a group exhibition that investigates concepts of memory in exciting and experimental ways. Egyptian artist and curator Yara Mekawei invited artists working in unconventional media to tackle her proposed theme. For ins ...
  • Multimedia Art Project "My Nineties"
    My Nineties is an art project addressing Egypt's mediascape during the 1990s by tapping into people's collective memory. Egyptian artist Mohamed Allam collected more than 4,000 VHS tapes from different scrap stores, random individuals, and sellers in Cairo's Friday market. He was then able ...

mediagazer

  • "Post-Print" Startup Stateless Media Creates S ...
    Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: “Post-Print” Startup Stateless Media Creates Short, Smart Documentaries For The Web  —  My recent conversation with Stateless Media's Peter Savodnik was a bit discombobulating.  He's had what seems like a successful career in longform jo ...
  • Media Outlets Embrace Conferences as Profits R ...
    Leslie Kaufman / New York Times: Media Outlets Embrace Conferences as Profits Rise  —  Financially struggling media companies are racing to add conferences, festivals and other live events to their business strategy, convinced they can provide a reliable revenue stream and expan ...
  • How Vocativ Mines The "Deep Web" For Storytell ...
    Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company: How Vocativ Mines The “Deep Web” For Storytelling  —  Back in 2012, a group of digital journalists went hunting for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.  They tried to track him using a trove of data—like mercenary chatter found on ...
  • Electricity Use Impedes Aereo's March (Wall St ...
    Wall Street Journal: Electricity Use Impedes Aereo's March  —  Streaming-Video Service Has Other Challenges Besides Broadcasters' Lawsuits  —  Shalini Ramachandran  —  AMOL SHARMA … Aereo Inc.'s upstart TV streaming service has provoked a l ...
  • New U.S. TV network fuses news, satire for you ...
    Reuters: New U.S. TV network fuses news, satire for young Hispanics  —  (Reuters) - On Monday evening, U.S. cable network Fusion will launch with interviews of President Barack Obama and Republican Senator Ted Cruz.  Later that night, four puppets will provide commentary on ...

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World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 10/25/13 - Student Loan Debt Compared to Other ...
    college-education.procon.org - Student Loan Debt Compared to Other Household Debt, 2004-2013 - As of the first quarter of 2013, student loan debt was the second highest household debt at 990 million (or, 0.99 trillion) dollars. However, housing loans remained the highest level o ...
  • 10/25/13 - Will Obamacare Raise Insurance Prem ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Will Obamacare Raise Insurance Premiums? – DEBATED - Read statements from economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Pro), Christine Eibner, an Economist at RAND (Con), Drew Gonshorowski, a Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation (Pro), Presiden ...
  • 10/22/13 - Number of Animals Used for Testing, ...
    animal-testing.procon.org – Number of Animals Used for Testing, by Species – 21,578 cats, 64,930 dogs, 145,895 hamsters and 71,317 primates were used for research, testing, and education in the United States in 2010. See statistics for these and other animals, nationally and by state.
  • 10/22/13 - Should Animals Be Used for Scientif ...
    animal-testing.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing? –  An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Proponents say that animal testing has enabled the developmen ...
  • 10/17/13 - Is Obamacare Financially Burdensome ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Is Obamacare Financially Burdensome for Businesses? - DEBATED Read statements from the International Franchise Association (Pro), US Representative Steny Hoyer (Con), and others.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Underground Heat From Cities Could Help Power ...
    The heat generated by urban areas and their buildings, factories, sewers, and transportation systems could be used to power those cities, according to a new study by German and Swiss researchers. Thermal energy produced by the so-called "urban heat island effect" warms shallow aquifers lying bel ...
  • Above a Whole Foods Market, a Greenhouse Grows ...
    By the end of this year, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, will witness the completion of a cutting-edge partnership in urban agriculture and retail — a 20,000-square-foot rooftop greenhouse built on a Whole Foods Gotham Greens Gotham Greens' existing greenhouse in Brooklyn. supe ...
  • Major Pension Funds Question Long-Term Outlook ...
    Leaders from some of the largest pension funds in the U.S. and the world are concerned about the future profitability of fossil fuel companies, and they have asked those companies to report on their plans for managing a long-term shift toward renewable energy. Managers of 70 major pension funds, ...
  • Electric Vehicle Sales on the Rise in 2013, Ne ...
    By the end of August, 59,000 electric vehicles had been sold in the U.S. this year — more than during all of 2012, a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) shows. Over the past three years, UCS Americans purchased more than 140,000 electric vehicles (EVs), which hav ...
  • The Trillion-Ton Cap: Allocating The World's C ...
    The U.N. climate panel concluded last month that carbon emissions should be capped at a trillion tons, a total the world is rapidly approaching. Now comes the hard part: How will we decide how the remaining emissions are apportioned? BY FRED PEARCE

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TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • CEO Note: Great News for European Fisheries
    (Photo: Oceana / Carlos Minguell) I have some wonderful news out of our European offices that I’d like to share with you. Last Wednesday, the European Parliament took a tremendous step forward in restoring the health of our oceans and our fisheries. They voted to significantly limit harmful s ...
  • Creature Feature: The (Most Uncommon) Common O ...
    Photo: © OCEANA Carlos Minguell When it comes to sea creatures with superhero powers, the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) might take the cake: with jaw-dropping camouflage abilities, ink, and incomparable intelligence, the octopus is every marine biologist’s dream (and every prey species’ n ...
  • Reservations For 9 Billion, Please
    (Photo: Brant Shenkarow) “Imagine a world in which seafood is the world’s most-eaten protein.” In this excerpt from The Perfect Protein, published in the recent issue of Oceana magazine, Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless and Suzannah Evans explore how seafood is the key to feeding our growing world.
  • Supporter Spotlight: Mitzi Gaskins
    (Photo: Oceana) In each issue of Oceana magazine, we sit down with one of Oceana’s many supporters to learn why they are passionate about the oceans. In the most recent issue, we chatted with Mitzi Gaskins, vice president and global brand manager for JW Marriot Hotels and Resorts. Read an exc ...
  • Ask Dr. Pauly: What are distant-water fishing ...
    (Photo: Oceana / Juan Cuetos)  Maximum sustainable yield, bycatch and discards, exclusive economic zones, essential fish habitat. If you’ve ever read one of these terms and wondered what it meant, you’re in luck. In each issue of Oceana magazine, fisheries scientist and Oceana board ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Wordsmithing 80,000 Jobs
    The recent federal throne speech stated, “The Government will soon complete negotiations on a comprehensive economic and trade agreement with the European Union [CETA]. This agreement has the potential to create 80,000 new Canadian jobs.” There has since been a subtle but important shift in the ...
  • LNG: BC’s Quest for a New Staple Industry
    I have a post as part of a new series from the Progressive Economics Forum celebrating 50 years of Mel Watkins’ publication of “A Staple Theory of Economic Growth.” Watkins’ piece follows the insight of Harold Innis to develop an understanding of economic growth uniquely ...
  • Canada’s Trade Deficit with the EU Doubles
    On Wednesday’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange (video), I debunked the claim that the trade deal between Canada and the European Union (EU) will create 80,000 Canadian jobs. The conservative panelists did not even try to defend this figure. As Jim Stanford has previously explained, the government’s ...
  • Hard on Families, Light on Crime: Some Thought ...
    The Throne Speech had a lot to say about Canadian families. The Government promised to make “the right choices” for Canadian families. Just like the choices it has made so far. The Government promised safety and security for Canadian families. Not to mention lower cable bills. How do those promi ...
  • When a Lower Unemployment Rate is Bad News
    Today, Statistics Canada reported an unemployment rate of 6.9% for September. One might have expected Canada’s unemployment rate falling below 7% for the first time since 2008 to be cause for celebration. But as Statistics Canada noted, the decline in official unemployment reflected youth droppi ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Fukushima Water Radiation Doubles Overnight
    “Water radiation levels at Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant more than doubled in the span of one night to levels 14,000 times the maximum level for safe drinking water, owner TEPCO admitted Thursday, setting new records for drainage ditch contamination as toxic spills and heavy rains conti ...
  • India, China ink key accord on river information
    “The Memorandum of Understanding on trans-border rivers was inked after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in the Great Hall of the People here. According to sources, the agreement is a “major diplomatic achievement” as it is the first ti ...
  • Conflicts Over Water Rise in Tanzania
    “Conflicts over water are increasing in the sprawling Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania as farmers and herders jostle for dwindling water resources in the face of climate change. Over the past decade, Maasai pastoralists from the northern areas of Moshi and Arusha have been stre ...
  • Residents Living on Citarum Riverbank Request ...
    “The residents living there are willing to be controlled as long as the government relocates them to somewhere else. Chief of RW 01 Cideng, Dadang Suherman, said that the residents hope the government would relocate them if theirbuildings were demolished. But, the relocation place must be ...
  • Town’s water source gone after 7.2-maagnitude ...
    “The spring that residents of eight of this town’s 11 villages depend on for their drinking water dried up following Tuesday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Bohol province and other parts of the Visayas and Mindanao. The disappearance in the aftermath of the tremor of water at the Mapu ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • …You just might choose to watch and dete ...
    …You just might choose to watch and determine for yourself…   Top 5 Conspiracy Theories That Are True! 10-27-2013  •  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd1MgToetNM Abby Martin speaks with BTS producer Manuel Rapalo about a few of the most shocking US government conspiracies that tur ...
  • there is NO exception…
    …We are as healthy as what we choose to consume … there is NO exception…  A recent CDC report confirms a link between the routine use of antibiotics for livestock and growing bacterial resistance, Amy Lansky takes a look at alternative methods to antibiotic treatment; Truthout’s own L ...
  • …There is NO honor in this form of KILLI ...
    …There is NO honor in this form of KILLING …       Failures and Lies of U.S. Drone Policy Exposed in New Film and Human Rights Reports   Jodie Gummow, AlterNet Also, Congressman Grayson is holding historical hearings with Pakistani drone victims in Washington this week. READ ...
  • make sure their “killer-boy-toys” ...
    …the odd$ are astronomical Vega$ is giving on what shenanigans America’s military industrial corporate congressional cabal will attempt to make sure their “killer-boy-toys” are fully funded and ready to us in their next war…    Sequestration resignation sets in By: Philip Ewing &# ...
  • IF that is all this “black-box” does
    …IF that is all this “black-box” does and the funds were legitimately applied it could have some merit…   A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue 10-27-2013  •  Los Angeles Times The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Gold mining in the Amazon rainforest surges 400%
    The extent of gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has surged 400 percent since 1999 due to rocketing gold prices, wreaking havoc on forests and devastating local rivers, finds a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The assessment, led by Greg Asner of ...
  • Armored giant turns out to be vital ecosystem ...
    The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is not called a giant for nothing: it weighs as much as a large dog and grows longer than the world's biggest tortoise. However, despite its gigantism, many people in its range—from the Amazon to the Pantanal—don't even know it exists or belie ...
  • Yeti may be undescribed bear species
    The purported Yeti, an ape-like creature that walks upright and roams the remote Himalayas, may in fact be an ancient polar bear species, according to new DNA research by Bryan Sykes with Oxford University. Sykes subjected two hairs from what locals say belonged to the elusive Yeti only to disco ...
  • The palm oil debate: can the world's most prod ...
    On Thursday, 17 October 2013 Mongabay.com and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) co-hosted a discussion on environmental issues related to palm oil. The discussion involved representatives from WWF, Greenpeace and the RSPO. Mongabay.com Founder Rhett A. Butler served as the moderator.
  • Art, education, and health: holistic conservat ...
    It's unlikely conservation organizations can survive if they are unwilling to embrace change: as an endeavor, conservation requires not just longterm planning, but also an ability to move proactively and fluidly to protect species and safeguard ecosystems. Environmental and education NGO, the Ar ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • New projects to receive funding from Marsden Fund
    Kiwi research investigating links between zinc and autism is one of more than 100 projects awarded nearly $60 million in funding under the just-announced Marsden Fund for the next three years.The autism research, awarded $740,000,...
  • The long fight to preserve planet Earth
    So, will it end with a whimper or a bang? Paul Ehrlich, the American scientist who first scared the pants off the world with his alarmist 1968 book, The Population Bomb , is ringing the bell again about the fate of the planet. Back...
  • Dolphin technique gives blind new view of world
    A Kiwi invention is helping the blind to see - virtually.Using ultrasound technology, the prototype allows its visually-impaired users to perceive the world around them - and hear an object before they touch it.Successfully trialled...
  • Brain cleans itself when we sleep
    A good night's sleep may be the key to preventing brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, a study has found.The research, published in the journal Science , found the brain's cleaning activities increased 10-fold during sleep, helping...
  • Why do we daydream?
    The frequency with which we daydream suggests it is not only normal, but an essential part of life. In fact, the capacity to daydream may hold an evolutionary adaptive value that sets us apart from other animals and enables us to...

The Bovine

  • Food safety & the politics of cheap food
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “I was explaining to a friend yesterday that the federal government in the form of the U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to allow a multibillion-dollar food corporation to sell product, even … Continue reading →
  • I was a teenage GMO-labeling activist
    Toronto’s Rachel Parent is now blogging on the Huffington Post: “Hi, my name is Rachel Parent. I’m 14 years old and just started high school in Toronto. When I was 12 years old, I saw how GMOs were negatively impacting … Continue reading →
  • I was a teenage GMO-labeling activist
    Toronto’s Rachel Parent is now blogging on the Huffington Post: “Hi, my name is Rachel Parent. I’m 14 years old and just started high school in Toronto. When I was 12 years old, I saw how GMOs were negatively impacting … Continue reading →
  • Underground trade in raw breast milk?
    Yet another demographic that has their own reasons for trading in raw milk, nevermind that it’s of human instead of bovine origin: From Katie Drummond, on The Verge: For new parents, there’s no avoiding the adage that “breast is best.” … Continue reading →
  • Underground trade in raw breast milk?
    Yet another demographic that has their own reasons for trading in raw milk, nevermind that it’s of human instead of bovine origin: From Katie Drummond, on The Verge: For new parents, there’s no avoiding the adage that “breast is best.” … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Food Inflation in India Hits 18.4%; RBI Expect ...
    As food inflation in India soars out of sight, Yahoo! Finance reports India expected to raise interest rates, roll back rupee support India's central bank is expected to raise policy interest rates for the second time in as many months on Tuesday to fight stubbornly high inflation, while ...
  • Expect to Be Paid in Spain? This Year? By the ...
    Here's an interesting post about service providers in Spain, owed money and interest by the government. Via translation from Cinco Dias, please consider Providers Who Want Payment This Year Have to Accept a Haircut The Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs gave the green light to the la ...
  • NSA Monitored 60 Million Phone Calls in Spain; ...
    Is there anything the NSA is not monitoring? That's the question of the day as I note the Financial Times article NSA monitored 60m phone calls in Spain, say media The US National Security Agency secretly monitored as many as 60m phone calls in Spain in just one month, Spanish media r ...
  • Pettis: "Abenomics Likely to Fail in Medium Te ...
    Michael Pettis, at China Financial Markets, discusses Abenomics, Japan's shrinking (for now) current account surplus, debt, and interest rates in an interesting email. From Pettis ... Abenomics in Japan is likely to put upward pressure on the national savings rate in Japan (but not necessa ...
  • 4th and 1st Amendments Under Fire; "Everyone S ...
    The way to stop media reporting of NSA is simple: Shut down the agency entirely. It is too big, too bloated, and too useless. It spies on friends and foes alike. And when you tap the phones of 35 heads of state, including Angela Merkel, it's pretty damn hard to make the case that US spying is ab ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Stevie Ray Vaughan – Superstition The Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick this week is all about guitar playing and some rockin’ blues. The song is Superstition and performing it is one of the most accomplished guitar players ever…Stevie Ray Vaughan. This sentence from a b ...
  • NSA Spying Scandal, TTIP and German Collaborators
    Germany Ruled by the Atlantik-Brücke While Germany’s two largest parties, the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU /CSU) led by Angela Merkel and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), are negotiating terms to form a so-called “grand coalition” for the third time in history, one major policy i ...
  • Podcast Show #116-Anwar al-Awlaki: An Agent of ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Chris Farrell In this riveting and bold episode we are joined by Chris Farrell to discuss the severely classified status of assassinated terror agent Anwar al-Awlaki as an agent of the United States government. Mr. Farrell delves into Judicial Watch investigations ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • U.S. Coast Guard Searching for Missing Crewmem ...
    The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that Coast Guard crews and offshore supply vessels are searching for a crewmember reported missing from a platform 55 miles south of Freshwater Bayou in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
  • Collision Closes Germany’s Kiel Canal
    A collision between a cargo ship and a LPG carrier early Monday morning has closed Germany's Kiel Canal, leaving the cargo ship heavily listing and leaking diesel into the busy waterway.
  • Severe Storm Batters Britain and Netherlands
    A strong storm battered Britain and the Netherlands on Monday, killing three people, cutting power and forcing hundreds of plane and train cancellations as it moved on across mainland Europe.
  • Hurricane Sandy: October 28, 2012 Dawn to Dusk ...
    This week mark's the 1 Year Anniversary of "Superstorm Sandy" and to commemorate we'll be taking a look back at some our best coverage from the historic weather event.
  • Qatargas says LNG Market to Hinge on Long-Term ...
    Oct 28 (Reuters) – Qatargas and other producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will continue to make project decisions based on long-term demand and sales rather than any developing spot [...]

Press TV

  • Storm kills 13 in northern Europe
    A powerful storm with hurricane-force winds has battered northern Europe, killing at least 13 people, cutting power and causing widespread traffic disruptions.
  • Obama may ban spying on allied leaders
    US President Barack Obama may consider banning spying effort on heads of allied states, a report says, as anger growing in the world after revelations that the National Security Agency had tapped phone calls of 35 world leaders.
  • US drone victims to appear in Congress
    A Pakistani school teacher, who lost his family members in a US drone attack last year, will testify before US Congress along with his children on how US drone attacks in their country are taking the lives of innocent civilians.
  • ‘Aussies leave Afghanistan before Xmas’
    Australian prime minister has announced the withdrawal of more than 1,000 troops from Afghanistan before Christmas, during his surprise visit to the war-torn country.
  • EU considering sanctions on US
    The European Union is considering a possible imposition of sanctions on the United States as a response to Washington’s massive spying activities on its closest European allies.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Africa and its Diaspora
    How connected are we?  Take the survey and share your thoughts! I recently watched the African Day parade which traveled down my street in Harlem, and attended the festival in Marcus Garvey park. It was a paradoxical experience for me. On one hand, it felt familiar, and I felt connected. I saw f ...
  • Date Night
    It’s Friday night and I am on a date. Yeah! Don’t get me wrong most people who are on a date are probably having dinner and taking in a movie.  Guess what y’all?  My date night is me sitting on a computer while my date watches old boxing matches on cable.  But I am a […]
  • My Color Conundrum
    As I write this I am sitting under a hooded dryer, 10 minutes into a 40 minute process involving 2 steps and 3 chemical mixtures to achieve one result: hide my gray hair. To be a successful magician I have to do this every 4 weeks and I am not alone; I am a hairstylist […]
  • MAAT Alumna Awarded Cornell University’s ...
    Sarah Chalmers graduated from the CUNY SPS MA in Applied Theatre program in 2010. In 2012 she started her own company, Civic Ensemble, and was recently awarded the Civic Leader Fellowship from the Cornell University Public Service Center. She will teach applied theatre techniques to Cornell stud ...
  • #FindYourReason

Dissident Voice

  • How a Little Bed Bug of Pro-Corporate Anything ...
    Ahh, the beauty of our screen-screed – how the world is just loving being tethered to junk, screen birds, those angry little apps, the You Tube generation, everyone is connected, nothing is more important than Tweets, Texts and Triumphant Trilogies of Self-Aggrandizement on Flickr. What a pathet ...
  • Fukushima Brings New Agenda For Renewables
    The Fukushima nuclear disaster is getting worse by the day, poisoning the Pacific Ocean and threatening a nuclear holocaust of some unknown dimension. You will not outlive this disaster. This is a question that transcends being anti-nuclear. The fate of the earth is at stake here and the whole w ...
  • Where Does the USA Unequivocally Stand on Isra ...
    The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. – Art. 49, Fourth Geneva Convention American news agencies (AP, Reuters, any major news organization or outlet) in reference to Israeli settlements (which could more accura ...
  • Neoliberalizing the Nominal Left
    This past week may come to be seen as a watershed moment in the NDP’s capitulation to neoliberal capitalism. The nominally social democratic party effectively supported a major corporate ‘trade’ accord all the while opposing an International Monetary Fund call for a more progre ...
  • The Climate Change Bug
    It’s all too customary for those analyzing the crises humanity faces to associate climate change, aka global warming, with whatever proximate cause they postulate for our imminent demise. John Tirman, for instance, in his book 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World lists as the first wa ...

Nick Turse

  • With a few salvaged belongings in the backgrou ...
    With a few salvaged belongings in the background, a Vietnamese woman carries a baby and pulls her daughter away as their home erupts in flames in July 1963. The woman and children may have been left behind so as not to slow other villagers escaping into the jungle. (AP Photo/Horst Faas) #
  • A rave review of Ann Jones’ new book, They Wer ...
    A rave review of Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars by David Swanson. I’m proud to have had a small role in bringing this book into being and urge you pick up a copy. It’s an absolutely amazing piece of reporting that takes you from the front lin ...
  • projectrenew:Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (August ...
    projectrenew: Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (August 1, 2013) – It was a narrow escape for villagers of Dai Hao yesterday when a piece of postwar ordnance suddenly exploded at noon in the middle of a rice field. Farmers who had been working there minutes before had gone home for lunch. The accident i ...
  • Confessions of an American Drone OperatorNot ...
    Confessions of an American Drone Operator Not exactly groundbreaking but worth reading nonetheless.  Here’s a taste: Airman First Class Brandon Bryant stared at the scene, unblinking in the white-hot clarity of infrared. He recalls it even now, years later, burned into his memory like a photo ...
  • For America, Life Was Cheap in Vietnam
    For America, Life Was Cheap in Vietnam: historyethicscenter: Nick Turse, graduate of the Center,...

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Newswise

  • High Blood Sugar Makes Alzheimer's Plaque More ...
    High blood-sugar levels, such as those linked with Type 2 diabetes, make beta amyloid protein associated with Alzheimer's disease dramatically more toxic to cells lining blood vessels in the brain, according to a new Tulane University study published in latest issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's ...
  • A Potential New Class of Fast-Acting Antidepre ...
    More than 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants, but these medications can take weeks--and for some patients, months--before they begin to alleviate symptoms. Now, scientists from the University of Chicago have discovered that selectively blocking a serotonin receptor subtype induces fast-actin ...
  • Researchers Examine Increased Emergency Depart ...
    Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences found that outpatient emergency department encounters could reimburse considerably more after implementation of the insurance coverage expansions of the Affordable Care Act.
  • Teens with Chronic Illnesses Find It Hard to S ...
    Teens with a variety of chronic illnesses report facing similar barriers to taking their medications, according to a new review in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
  • UT Dallas Study Shows Experts' Attitudes Influ ...
    Children are more apt to believe a nice, non-expert than a mean expert according to researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas. In the study published in Developmental Science, the authors examine how preschoolers decide whom to believe when provided with two conflicting pieces of informat ...

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • Kansas Secretary of State Uncovers Massive Vot ...
    Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been getting absolutely creamed by the state press for his proposal to create a two-tiered voting system if his lawsuit against the federal government to make voter registration more difficult fails. Submitted by John C. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • FOCUS: William Boardman | A Revolution Led By ...
    "When the over-dressed, neatly bearded Paxman challenges the under-dressed, shaggy Brand about his 'credentials,' Paxman is both quietly bullying and committing a basic logical fallacy: basing his argument on authority, rather than facts." Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Facebook May Join Forces With Police to Thwart ...
    Now it seems police officers want to find ways to obstruct protests, and they will likely do so with Facebooks help. RT reports: Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Robert Reich | While Republicans Plot New Ways ...
    "So why are today's Republicans so upset with an Act they designed and their patrons adore? Because it's the signature achievement of the Obama administration." Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Lies that Will Kills America
    a trademark of Rupert Murdochs right-wing media empire. There was Uncle Sam, brandishing a revolver and wearing a burglars mask. UNCLE SCAM, the headline shouted. US robs bank of $13 billion.Say what? Pure whitewash, and Murdochs minions know it. Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov& ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Eye Disease Sweeps Pacific Islands
    For generations, eye diseases have taken their toll on Pacific Island peoples. Now the first nationwide survey in the Solomon Islands of Trachoma, which can lead to irreversible blindness by early adulthood, is revealing the silent penetration of this disease in widely dispersed Melanesian rural ...
  • Swiss Knife Sharpened to Cut Bosses’ Pay
    Swiss voters will decide Nov. 24 on introducing a salary cap that would limit the wage spread in companies to 1:12. The economic lobby is nervous – success for the proposal in the referendum is not as unrealistic as once expected. It wasn’t just the smallholders in the Swiss multinat ...
  • U.S. Jews Less Hawkish on Iran
    Despite renewed calls in Congress for increasing pressure on Iran, support for a U.S. attack against the Islamic Republic has declined markedly over the past year, according to the latest in an annual series of polls carried out by the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Asked whether they would su ...
  • U.N. Will Censure Illegal Spying, But Not U.S.
    When the 193-member General Assembly adopts a resolution next month censuring the illegal electronic surveillance of governments and world leaders by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the U.N.’s highest policy-making body will spare the United States from public condemnation despite its c ...
  • Ecuador-Colombia Settlement Won’t End Spraying
    The secrecy surrounding a friendly settlement in a case that Ecuador brought against Colombia in the International Court of Justice for damage caused by anti-drug spraying along the border has further angered those affected by the fumigation. Ecuador dropped the lawsuit filed in 2008 in The Hagu ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Mahmoud Ostad Mohammad dies of shortage of can ...
    Summary: On Thursday, one of the most renowned Iranian playwrights and directors passed away after fighting with liver cancer for more than two years. Mahmud Ostad Mohammad is very well known for his creative plays during decades of working in theater. source: Press TVread more
  • Crying Wolf Over Iran
    Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to convince the audience in both the United States and Europe that new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is a "wolf in sheep’s clothing" intent on beguiling the west with empty promises while proceeding full speed with a nuclea ...
  • With Goodwill and Determination, Iran-US Rappr ...
    Summary: "My message is that the American people have paid attention to, and look on with great interest, the changes that are taking place in Iran and I believe and try to respond in ways that are positive that the American government is certainly discouraging any more sanctions being applie ...
  • The road to finalizing a nuclear deal with Iran
    Summary: Potential for historic agreement depends on Obama's will to resist pro-Israel hawks and end sanctions source: Aljazeeraread more
  • J O I N T S T A T E M E N T : following the ...
    Summary: The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif made today the following statement: source: EU External Actionread more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Depression caused by vitamin D deficiency, res ...
    In another finding extolling its benefits, new research indicates that reversing vitamin D deficiency in women has a substantially positive effect on treating depression. Results of the study, which were presented in late June at the Endocrine Society's 94th Annual...
  • Anonymous supporters to march on Washington No ...
    For a candidate who promised to bring America's warring political factions together, Barack Obama's government sure does generate a lot of protesting. One demonstration being planned for Nov. 5 will feature people associated with Anonymous, a loose confederation of...
  • After assaulting soda sizes, Bloomberg now wan ...
    New York City voters have certainly trended liberally over the past few decades, but they've never been much for totalitarianism - so it's really difficult to figure out how they managed to elect a guy like Michael Bloomberg a couple of times, given his authoritarian...
  • The many health benefits of Fall's healthy harvest
    With the cooler temperatures, changing leaves, and the holidays in full swing it is time to bring fall's healthy harvest to the table. Many of the foods typically grown in the fall season are packed with nutrients. However, we may need to find alternative ways to enjoy...
  • Chimps call out audible alarms in tactical con ...
    New research shows that chimps share more human qualities that previously known, including using audible sounds and alarms when it is tactically necessary. According to top research news site Futurity, researchers from the University of York, in England, "say the...

Threat Level

  • Forget About Google: MPAA Reveals Places to Sc ...
    The Motion Picture Association of America is always quick to swipe at Google for pointing to a plethora of pirate sites and torrent files via its popular search engine. Yet a month after the Hollywood studios released a study criticizing ...     
  • Why Criminalizing Revenge Porn Is Not a Good Idea
    We do not need to choose between the internet and women, or between free speech and feminism. These are false and unnecessary dichotomies. Refusing to criminalize revenge porn would not make us misogynists.     
  • The Exclusive Inside Story of the Boston Bomb ...
    Two explosions. Hundreds of injuries. A sea of backpacks to search by hand. An inside look at the worst day in the life of the Boston bomb squad.     
  • 7 Eastern Europeans Indicted in Multimillion-D ...
    Six Romanians and one Albanian have been indicted on allegations that they operated a multimillion-dollar cyber fraud scheme selling nonexistent cars, boats and other high-value items through eBay and other sites.     
  • Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required fo ...
    An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target's vehicle? The Third Circuit Court ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • NBC News Fawns over Walmart's Alice Walton
    This weekend, NBC News offered viewers a heartwarming portrait of Alice Walton and the Crystal Bridges art museum she opened two years ago in Bentonville, Arkansas. Heartwarming, that is, until you recall more about the woman behind the $1.2 billion complex and its $500 million collection of Am ...
  • CBS News Warns Obamacare Medicaid Enrollment P ...
    To be sure, the launch of the Affordable Care Act's new insurance marketplaces has been plagued by a variety of problems. But in its Friday segment titled "Medicaid enrollment spike a threat to Obamacare structure?" CBS News highlighted an issue that isn't a problem at all. While several states ...
  • Paul Ryan's Secret Love Affair with Obamacare
    The Affordable Care Act, Republicans and their right-wing water carriers warn, is the worst thing to happen to America since slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act. But for Congressional Republicans in general and Paul Ryan in particular, Obamacare also happens to be the love that dare not speak it ...
  • Your Health Plan Changing? Employers, Insurers ...
    During a June 23, 2009 press conference, President Obama made a very specific promise about what would become the Affordable Care Act the following March. "When I say if you have your plan and you like it," Obama explained, "what I'm saying is the government is not going to make you change plan ...
  • Right to Life Chapters Sue to Prevent Medicaid ...
    Conservatives, the joke goes, believe life begins at conception and ends at birth. Now, anti-abortion forces and their Republican allies in Ohio are doing their best to show that jest is true. As the Columbus Dispatch reported Tuesday, a group of Republican state legislators is suing to prevent ...

Global Research.ca

  • Damascus Violence Part of US “Negotiatio ...
    The US is determined to strengthen the hand of the Syrian rebel forces in advance of any peace talks in order to change the alignment of forces. The recent violence could be part of that strategy, Brian Becker, Director of Answer Coalition, told RT.
  • Lawyers Advise Toronto Police Chief to Arrest ...
    Arrest, investigation and prosecution of torture suspect Richard Cheney Richard Cheney, former Vice President of the United States of America is scheduled to speak in Toronto Ontario on 31 October 2013 at the Toronto Global Forum, hosted by the International…
  • Dick Cheney: Bar Him From Canada or Arrest Him ...
    Lawyers Against the War (LAW) is writing to inform you that Richard (Dick) Cheney, former Vice-President of the United States of America, is scheduled to speak at the Toronto Global Forum on October 30-31st 2013 at the Metro Toronto Convention…
  • Damage Accumulating after US Loses Trust over ...
    The White House is at a loss as it not only depended on espionage in formulating its policies, but also nobody can trust its word anymore, former US Senate foreign policy analyst James Petras told RT. The latest news on monitoring of phone calls in France, and probably German Chancellor Angel ...
  • El FMI vuelve a cargar con recetas que provoca ...
    Pocos días antes de la Asamblea general anual del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y del Banco mundial que ha tenido lugar del 11 al 13 de octubre de 2013 en Washington, el FMI ha vuelto a la carga. Concretamente en…

TPM Cafe

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

  • A Year Since Superstorm Sandy, Disaster Is Far ...
    No one can stop the next superstorm, mega wildfire, or 1,000-year flood. But we can get behind stopping the pollution that's disrupting our climate. A year has passed since Sandy, the second-costliest storm in U.S. history, slammed into the Eastern Seaboard, causing $65 billion in damage ...
  • Governor Jerry Brown’s 10 Worst Environmental ...
    The governor failed to show up for an environmental award after outrage from environmentalists, indigenous leaders and labor activists who exposed Brown's abysmal environmental record. On October 17, Governor Brown failed to show up to receive a “Right Stuff” environmental award from the ...
  • Goodbye Free Press? As Europe Erupts Over US S ...
    With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of a press freedom is crushed. The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope. That all changed this week as both Germany and France exploded with anger ove ...
  • More Than 15 Million Americans Now Live Within ...
    America will have a million new oil and gas wells drilled over the next few decades and it’s likely many of those wells could end up in Americans’ backyards. The natural gas boom has led to an “unprecedented industrialization” of many Americans’ backyards, an analysis from the Wall Street Jour ...
  • No Matter Where You Live in the US, Expect Cli ...
    Get ready for more super droughts, epic floods, and a whiplash of both, depending on where you live. Rising temperatures and shifting, capricious precipitation patterns are affecting where, when, and how much water fills America’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, and how water is absorbed to rep ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin Solar Victories
    Many of you probably remember our concern when Austin Energy proposed slashing the solar budget by 42% for fiscal year 2014 – which we’re now in. But public outcry and our meetings with Austin City Council members made a difference. The budget was fully restored and we can expect to ...
  • Austin Prescription Drug Take-Back – keep them ...
    If you have old medicine taking up your cabinet space, mark Saturday on you calendar for the City of Austin’s  “drug take-back day” where residents can anonymously drop off any prescription drugs they want to throw away. Representatives from Austin Police Department and the Dru ...
  • A Missed Opportunity for Cleaner Air in Texas
    Instead of taking action to clean Texas air, as requested by the Dallas County Medical Society, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Chairman Bryan Shaw and Commissioner Toby Baker voted today to deny the petition for rulemaking and further postpone needed air quality improvements fo ...
  • World Health Organization says air pollution c ...
    The Associated Press is reporting that the World Health Organization (WHO) is declaring – what many of us who spend our days in traffic choking on smog or who live near a power plant or other industrial facility have long suspected but now has finally been scientifically validated – ...
  • Public Citizen & Sierra Club Call for Action t ...
    Energy Future Holdings $1 Billion Bonding for Texas Mines Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test An exclusive report from Public Citizen and Sierra Club reveals that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) and its subsidiaries have not set aside cash or real assets to cover the $1.01 billion cost of cleaning up its s ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • The Real Food Prize and Protests Against Monsa ...
    monsanto-march_against_monsanto10-12-13.jpg In Des Moines Iowa last week, in a stunning example of irony three genetic engineers were given the World Food Prize. The award winners are major developers of the now 20-year-old science and ...
  • Mexican Tribunal Suspends All Genetically Modi ...
    Subheadline:  Small Farmers Claim Historic Victory for the Movement against GMO Corn in Mexico mexico-corn_seeds_in_hands.jpg In an unprecedented move last week, a Federa ...
  • Messages from Grassroots International Partner ...
    Throughout the year, leaders in the movement for land and water rights and struggles for food sovereignty have sent video congratulations to Grassroots International on the occasion of our 30th Anniversary. The compilation below is just some of them. We thank our partners and allies fo ...
  • Celebrating Internationalism between Peoples
    Subheadline:  Dessalines Brigade Wins the US Food Sovereignty Prize Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Beverly Bell is the Coordinator of Other Worlds and more than a dozen i ...
  • The Sound of the Drone – Testimonial from a su ...
    palestine-najwa_alyan_abu_daqqa.jpg The narrative below is the first in a series of three stories documented by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner since 1996.read more

Care 2

  • Calamity Calling: What if we lost the Amazon?
    The Amazon rainforest is best known for its vibrant wildlife and endless canopy. But it also plays a key role in the worlds climate. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • End Sale of Halloween Costume Mocking Anorexia
    Halloween costume featuring a skeletal form and a tape measure belt, named Anna Rexia. The costume is deliberately designed to mock and trivialize one of the most dangerous and painful psychological disorders in the name of some Halloween fun. Outrage! Submitted by BMutiny TCorporationsEvil to S ...
  • Praise Crackdown on Animal Abuse - ForceChange ...
    The Government in Ontario Canada has decided for the first time in its history to provide funding to help protect animals from abuse, neglect, and to keep dogs out of puppy mills. Submitted by marie J. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Action Alert: Please sign to protect spanish h ...
    protect spanish hunting dogs : to get a federal law who protect them from Cruelty Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION: Veterans Affairs: Support a 90 y ...
    James March is a World War II and Korean War veteran with a Purple Heart he received in WW2 -- but now that he's seriously ill, the VA is refusing to help him. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Waiting for the Muslim Reformation
    Some of you have referenced a discussion on Bill Mahrer’s show, Real Time, last Friday that focused on Muslims versus Christians. On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher clashed with his liberal panel over liberals not being allowed to criticize ...
  • Real Christians Don’t Swear Under, Over or To God
    This post was inspired by some of the breathless news reports from the right, all in an uproar over news that the Air Force Academy: . . . on Friday announced that it will now be optional for cadets to recite “so help me God” at the end of its honor oath. The academy made [...]
  • Speaking of Obama Incompetence, 60 Minutes Tak ...
    CBS Sixty Minutes takes on part of the Benghazi scandal this Sunday. Here’s a preview: Benghazi, and the failure surrounding it, is likely to be the dead albatross around the neck of Hillary Clinton’s anticipated campaign to become the Democrat Presidential nominee. Her efforts to ru ...
  • Obama’s Incompetence Endangers America
    The failure of the rollout of Obamacare is symptomatic of a broader reality that defines Obama’s Presidency–he’s incompetent. There is no other conclusion. The signs have popped up on multiple fronts. Especially in foreign policy. Consider Saudi Arabia. The Saudis, a longstandi ...
  • Democrats Delusional on Obamacare, Republicans ...
    Let’s be very simple and clear about the unfolding debacle surrounding the rollout of Obamacare–this is more than a failure to properly set up a website capable of handling tens of thousands of queries. The fundamental relationship between Doctor and patient is being altered, and not ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...
  • Bitcoin taps $200 again as ecosystem for servi ...
    Prices around $200 USD now, interesting price patterns. Stabilization & slow growth reigned since the woolly early 2013 era. Here: Bitcoin fake fibonacci trend line fun - even in crashes it never broke thru the lowest trend line. It's hard but not impossible to see it below $100 again. I thi ...
  • Local cell phone spying KingFish stonewall: Mi ...
    It's been dawning on Americans this year that their everyday electronic devices are used by law enforcement for investigations. However the lawmen and the county attorneys are withholding the policy information about the Harris Corporation Kingfish system which is a device that can alter the ...
  • "Capital Shield 2014": Military Defense Suppor ...
    The US government runs a lot of exercises, which usually happens for ordinary training reasons. On the other hand, many researchers of geopolitics and covert politics note that exercises serve other geopolitical purposes -- for example demonstrating a military alliance with an ally state in fron ...
  • Sheriff Stanek lied on Minnesota Public Radio ...
    Super quick note: Sheriff Stanek lied on Minnesota Public Radio this morning claiming that tons of people are intoxicated on marijuana when they commit violent crimes - a dramatic distortion of yesterday's Stanek Star Tribune op-ed saying more than 50% of people booked at Hennepin Co Jail test p ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Will Obama Ever Stand Up to the Oil Industry o ...
    To an increasingly disillusioned environmental movement, blocking Keystone looks like Obama's last chance. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on -- and it’s n ...
  • Why Atheists Can’t Be Republicans
    The secular have no place in today's GOP. We atheists like to chastise the religious for their child-like belief in an imaginary friend, but, equally, the time has come for the atheist movement to grow up.It’s understood that the so-called new atheist movement began at the start of the ne ...
  • How Independent Stores are Thriving -- Even in ...
    Despite behemoths like Starbucks and Amazon, the number of independent bookstores, coffeeshops, and other businesses is growing. So we all know that the likes of Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon are killing Main Street businesses, right? It’s certainly partly true. Those retailing behemoths have d ...
  • The Fallacy of the Republican 'Moderate'
    A raft of news coverage points back to the good old days, when Republicans were reasonable. The history is way off. In the New York Times this week, John G. Taft, who is the grandson of Robert Taft, makes his contribution to the growing “Oh, conservatives used to be so moderate, now they’re ju ...
  • 10 Jaw-dropping Absurdities Brought to You By ...
    From lesbian cookies to nuking Iran, this ridiculousness will blow you away. 1.  Kevin Swanson is begging you not to buy those lesbian Girl Scout cookiesHow, you might ask, can a cookie be lesbian? And which one is the most lesbian? Is it the famous chocolate covered Thin Mints, or those scrum ...

Threat Level

  • Forget About Google: MPAA Reveals Places to Sc ...
    The Motion Picture Association of America is always quick to swipe at Google for pointing to a plethora of pirate sites and torrent files via its popular search engine. Yet a month after the Hollywood studios released a study criticizing ...     
  • Why Criminalizing Revenge Porn Is Not a Good Idea
    We do not need to choose between the internet and women, or between free speech and feminism. These are false and unnecessary dichotomies. Refusing to criminalize revenge porn would not make us misogynists.     
  • The Exclusive Inside Story of the Boston Bomb ...
    Two explosions. Hundreds of injuries. A sea of backpacks to search by hand. An inside look at the worst day in the life of the Boston bomb squad.     
  • 7 Eastern Europeans Indicted in Multimillion-D ...
    Six Romanians and one Albanian have been indicted on allegations that they operated a multimillion-dollar cyber fraud scheme selling nonexistent cars, boats and other high-value items through eBay and other sites.     
  • Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required fo ...
    An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target's vehicle? The Third Circuit Court ...     

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Food: A Contact Sport or Something to be Savored
    After litigating foodborne illness lawsuits for 20 years, food has become a “contact sport,” much like football, or for the rest of the world, soccer.  Whether it is dining at... Continue Reading
  • A Bunch of Listeria Recalls – Are there Illnesses?
    On October 22, 2013, the FDA reported that Reser’s Fine Foods of Beaverton, OR was recalling approximately 109,000 cases of refrigerated ready-to-eat products because it may be contaminated with Listeria... Continue Reading
  • If I were the Chairman of Foster Farms
    I would chop of the head (fire) young Mr. Foster, or at least clip his beak (find a different spokesperson), despite being the president of the company founded by his... Continue Reading
  • E. coli Outbreak at Dehn’s Pumpkins
    Well, it is that time of the year – Pumpkin Patches and Petting small animals. Three Minnesota residents have become ill with confirmed E. coli O157:H7 infections after contact with... Continue Reading
  • New Bishop hands out more than Communion
    The Fargo Catholic Diocese’s new bishop, John Folda, may have exposed hundreds of church members to the hepatitis A virus in late September and early October. The state Health Department... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2014 BMW i3
    Filed under: Hatchback, BMW, First Drives, Electric We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new ...
  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesDelivering On Promises The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid should surprise no one. Its look is something we've seen since the non-hybrid versions went on sale last year. Its powertrain, mostly, we are familiar with from the already-on-sale Accord Pl ...
  • Report: Fisker's remains on the auction block ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Fisker, Electric How will a federal government that is partially shut down sell an automaker that is all-but-shut-down? We'll find out Friday when the Department of Energy starts an auction for what is left of Fisker's assets, according to TheDetroitBure ...
  • Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
    Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Pt. 2 of Yves Smith on $13B JPMorgan Settlemen ...
    In part two of our interview with financial analyst and writer Yves Smith, we look at who wins and losses with the JPMorgan Chase settlement. While the New York Post accused the Obama administration of "robbing" JPMorgan, Smith breaks down how much the nation's largest bank will actually have ...
  • Pt. 2 of Yves Smith on $13B JPMorgan Settlemen ...
    In part two of our interview with financial analyst and writer Yves Smith, we look at who wins and loses with the JPMorgan Chase settlement. While the New York Post accused the Obama administration of "robbing" JPMorgan, Smith breaks down how much the nation's largest bank will actually have to ...
  • Police Brutality, Mental Illness and ‘The Memp ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Elsa Cruz filed a federal lawsuit in New York this week, months after police shot her husband dead. Last May, Cruz called 911 asking for help with her husband, Samuel. She feared he hadn’t taken his medication while she was on vacation in her native cou ...
  • Police Brutality, Mental Illness and ‘The Memp ...
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Elsa Cruz filed a federal lawsuit in New York this week, months after police shot her husband dead. Last May, Cruz called 911 asking for help with her husband, Samuel. She feared he hadn’t taken his medication while she was on vacation in her native coun ...
  • CREDO Members: Cast Your Vote for Democracy Now!
    This year, CREDO members can vote on how to distribute 2013 donations funding — and how much we get depends on you. The more votes we receive, the greater our share of funding. Now, more than ever, Democracy Now! needs your help! Voting is easy. Just go to this page and select Demo ...

Solari

  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – ...
    **Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!** Challenge #2 Legality By Catherine Austin Fitts A significant portion of federal government spending operates in violation of the laws governin ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 10.27.13
  • Geopolitical – Week of 10.27.13
    Barack Obama ‘Approved Tapping Angela Merkel’s Phone 3 Years Ago’ The Telegraph | 27 October 2013 President Barack Obama was dragged into the trans-Atlantic spying row after it was claimed he personally authorised the monitoring… The End of Hypocrisy Foreign Affai ...
  • Science & Technology – Week of 10.27.13
    Mozilla Lightbeam for Firefox: NSA Spying Row Leads Firm to Expose Who’s Watching While You Surf Belfast Telegraph | 24 October 2013 Mozilla’s Lightbeam for Firefox, a download produced by the US free software…
  • Food & Health – Week of 10.27.13
    Karl Denninger: Obama Care Could Implode Before the End of the Year YouTube | 22 October 2013 Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org says Obama Care is destined to be a disaster…

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • LG Unveils G Flex Curved Smartphone that Self- ...
    Korean smartphone maker LG has finally announced a phone that promises to free us from the horrors of scratched smartphone screens. One of the world’s first curved smartphones, the G Flex innovates one step further by offering self-healing, protective coating.     
  • Umea’s Spectacular Ice Block Sculptures Bring ...
    Throughout the Caught by Umea exhibitions artists will create impermanent ice sculptures all over Europe. Giant blocks of ice will be placed in strategic locations around each city the exhibition visits, expressing a kind of message - a frozen note, a sculpture,     
  • Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Selected to Design ...
    Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill's design for the Astana World Expo 2017 will cover 173 hectares in the Esil district of the city. It consists of a central exhibition center surrounded by housing projects, education and health-care facilities, shopping centers,     
  • Win a Kilo Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Worth $399 in ...
    Heads up Inhabitants! Halloween is just one week away, and to encourage all our readers to come up with creative DIY costumes we're thrilled to launch our 2013 Green Halloween Costume Contest! We're asking you to ditch the big box stores and cheesy pre-packaged     
  • Turkey Unveils the World’s First Intercontinen ...
    The ambitious idea to link Europe and Asia via a sea tunnel was first conceived in 1860 by a sultan of the Ottoman Empire, but Abdoul Medjid lacked the technology and funds to turn the idea into reality. In 2004, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who     

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police F ...
    Infowars has confirmed the identity and authenticity of the source of the video below as a member of the U.S. Army military police in Arizona
  • The Artificial Womb Is Born And The World of t ...
    ”One by one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution poured . . . and already the bottle had passed on through an opening in the wall, slowly on into the Social Predestinati ...
  • Meet the 72 Types Of Americans That Are Consid ...
    Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit ...
  • The Next Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ Will Be ...
    As I have highlighted before, there are three distinct stages of revolution. The 15 counties comprising Northern California have entered stage two on the path to revolution, namely, the civil disobedience stage. And two of the counties have entered the civil disobedience phase with a vengeance a ...
  • Your Life Depends on Literally Taking Your Mon ...
    Your life depends on whether you begin to take your assets out the bank and begin to purchase life sustaining supplies.You need to start this process, today, in accordance with the principles I laid out in a previous article

Andy Worthington

  • Torture: The Elephant in the Room at Guantánam ...
    For seven and a half years now, I have watched as the United States has tried and failed to make its trial system at Guantánamo — the military commissions — function in a way that has any kind of legitimacy. That, however, is impossible, because the trials involve made-up war crimes, ...
  • Will Appeals Court Judges Rule that Force-Feed ...
    Last week, a panel of three appeals court judges in Washington D.C. (in the D.C. Circuit Court) heard an appeal from three Guantánamo prisoners — including the last British resident, Shaker Aamer — asking them to order the government to end the force-feeding of prisoners, and two of the th ...
  • Lies and Injustice: Canada’s Ongoing Mis ...
    Last week, in a court in Edmonton, Justice John Rooke, responding to a habeas corpus petition submitted in September by former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr, issued a ruling ordering him to remain in a maximum security federal prison rather than being moved to a provincial prison, “limiti ...
  • 150 Days of the GTMO Clock: Despite Obama&#821 ...
    Today the GTMO Clock, an initiative launched by the “Close Guantánamo” campaign in August, marks a sad anniversary — 150 days since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo who were cleared for release by an inter-agency task force he appointed whe ...
  • How the Egyptian Media Has Reported the Story ...
    Last week I reported the story of Tariq al-Sawah, the last Egyptian prisoner in Guantánamo, whose lawyers are seeking his release because “his health is too poor for him to pose any kind of threat.” Al-Sawah (also identified as Tarek El-Sawah), an explosives expert for al-Qaeda who became disill ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • Broken Wheels, Safari Tabs, and Inaccessible T ...
    Readers offer their best tips for fixing broken luggage wheels on the fly, bookmarking all open tabs in Safari, and fooling inaccessible thermostats.Read more...     
  • RAVPower 5-in-1 Is a Wireless Drive, Card Read ...
    You can buy a wireless hard drive, card reader, battery, hotspot, and NAS streaming file server as five separate products or you can get them in one minimal rectangular with the RavPower 5-in-1. While you make some sacrifices when you combine functions, the device offers quite a bit of functiona ...
  • How to Plant Ideas in Someone's Mind
    If you've ever been convinced by a salesperson that you truly wanted a product, done something too instinctively, or made choices that seemed entirely out of character, then you've had an idea planted in your mind. Here's how it's done. Read more...     
  • Should texting and driving be illegal?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more ...
  • Gizmodo It's Going to Be a Whole Lot Easier to ...
    Gizmodo It's Going to Be a Whole Lot Easier to Get Google Glass Soon | io9 Original Star Wars Gag Reel is the best thing you'll see all week | Jalopnik What To Do When Your Electric Car Catches On Fire: An Explainer | Jezebel Jock Culture Isn't Rape Culture When Women Are Playing SportsRead more ...

Water Wars

  • Georgia names legal team in U.S. Supreme Court ...
    Three Washington-based attorneys will lead Georgia’s defense against Florida in a water use lawsuit filed in the U.
  • Georgia Appoints Lawyers in Water Wars Dispute
    Georgia officials have appointed lawyers to handle a legal dispute with Florida over regional water rights.
  • Water Wars
    ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's state government is considering investing in a reservoir that could send water downstream during dry spells into a lake at the center of a three-state dispute. Governor Nathan Deal's administration is weighing a request from Hall County to invest $14. ...
  • AP bifurcation will lead to water wars, unempl ...
    The proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh will lead to severe water shortage and more demands for the formation of smaller States, according to Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, President, YSR Congress Party.
  • Ex-Florida litigator: Lawsuits won’t solve wat ...
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The Wonk Room

  • Here Is What’s Wrong With That Story About Oba ...
    The report sounds ominous until you consider that the naturally high turnover rate associated with the individual market means that it's highly unlikely that individuals would still be enrolled in plans from 2010 in 2014. The administration admitted as much three years ago. The post Here Is What ...
  • California, Oregon, Washington, And British Co ...
    53 million people living in what would be the world’s fifth-largest economy will now be participating in a “far-reaching strategic alignment to combat climate change and promote clean energy.”The post California, Oregon, Washington, And British Columbia Agree To Cooperate On Reducing Carbon Poll ...
  • Britain Cuts Environment Staff As BBC Comes Un ...
    Just days before the country was buffeted by hurricane-force winds, rain and flooding, Britain announced that it will cut 15 percent of its Environment Agency staff, the country’s agency responsible for issuing things like flood reports.The post Britain Cuts Environment Staff As BBC Comes Under ...
  • Why Can’t Brent Musburger Stop Ogling Katherin ...
    ESPN's Brent Musburger creepily returns to the subject that got him in trouble once this year.The post Why Can’t Brent Musburger Stop Ogling Katherine Web From The Broadcast Booth? appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Two Reasons Why That Texas Abortion Decision I ...
    Texas cannot ban abortion. But they can effectively punish women by making them endure unnecessary pain, hardship or invasiveness before they can exercise their right to choose.The post Two Reasons Why That Texas Abortion Decision Is Nothing For The Pro-Choice Community To Celebrate appeared fir ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Belling the Cat
    Once upon a time, there was a group of human malcontents. Very idealistic malcontents. They championed such things as social justice, human equality, environmental sustainability, individual freedom and world peace. But their lives were made miserable by THE SYSTEM. The System was controlled by ...
  • The Ungovernable
    Yesterday, I posted another picture of this same banner: Today, I just thought about what it means. What do these people do day-to-day? How truly "ungovernable" are they? Do they ever access public services? Do they ever obey laws? I'm bitter. I'm a bitter broken man. Lately, my ire is dir ...
  • Anarchist Fantasies
    I once knew an anarchist. Nice guy. Very intense. He started an anarchist discussion circle. He was really stoked about how these high school kids were getting radicalized by walking the picket-line with their teachers. There was him (mid-twenties), me (late-twenties), a 19-year old dude, an 18 ...
  • African Immigrants
    So, in my line of work, I've ended up working with co-workers who are African immigrants. This is really a new one on me. In retrospect, it's not all that amazing. I've heard of Somali refugees, and Eritreans, ... and there've been a couple of cabbies from the Sudan come to think of it. But in ...
  • Jim Flaherty on First Nations Protests
    Canada's incompetent finance minister, the gnomish Jim Flaherty, warned that a nation-wide campaign of blockades would negatively impact his delusions about Canada's economic growth. (The story is at "Stun New" who I won't give links to.) Flaherty also warned the First Nations themselves that th ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Obama may ban spying on heads of allied states ...
    The New York Times reports: 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 deepening diplomatic crisis over reports that the agency had for years targ ...
  • Alexander did not ‘discuss’ Merkel surveillanc ...
    I think the main thing I want to emphasize is I don’t have an interest and the people at the NSA don’t have an interest in doing anything other than making sure that where we can prevent a terrorist attack, where we can get information ahead of time, that we’re able to carry ou ...
  • Barack Obama: a disengaged president
    For Barack Obama, the turning point in the 2008 presidential election came as a gift, courtesy of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. While his opponent, Sen. John McCain, reacted to the crisis like a headless chicken, Obama emerged as the man who looked like a cool and competent economic manager & ...
  • What did the president know and when did he kn ...
    I haven’t evolved in my assessment of the actual [surveillance] programs. I consistently have said that when I came into office I evaluated them. — President Obama, August 2013. The Wall Street Journal reports: The National Security Agency ended a program used to spy on German Chance ...
  • Could Merkel have been spied on without Obama’ ...
    Der Spiegel reports: Among the politically decisive questions is whether the spying was authorized from the top: from the US president. If the data is accurate, the operation was authorized under former President George W. Bush and his NSA chief, Michael Hayden. But it would have had to be repea ...

Watts Up With That?

  • IPCC Adjusts Model-Predicted Near-Term Warming ...
    This is another post that illustrates and discusses just how poorly climate models simulate one of the most important climate variables: global surface temperatures. I’ve included a copy of this post in pdf format, linked at the end, for readers … Continue reading →
  • Sat imagery of Bushfires in New South Wales, A ...
    From NASA: NASA’s Terra satellite detected dozens of bushfires continued raging in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney. Sydney is the state capital and the most populated city in Australia. According to CNN, emergency managers in … Continue reading →
  • The big stink 93.9 million years ago – b ...
    From the University of California – Riverside , and the department of sulfurous odors, comes this “it must be carbon dioxide” moment: “Also associated with this event are high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to … Continue reading →
  • The UK Saint Jude’s Day Storm – ju ...
    By Paul Homewood It has been variously described as “The Storm of the Century”, “Unprecedented”, “Superstorm” and “A repeat of 1987”. I refer, of course, to the St. Jude storm that passed through early this morning  and is now headed … Continue reading →
  • Solar spectral irradiance, UV, and declining s ...
    Since Paul Hudson has made a bold claim at the BBC related to a recent interview with solar scientist Mike Lockwood: BBC – Real risk of a Maunder minimum ‘Little Ice Age’, I thought it appropriate to share this recent communications … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...
  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...
  • ▶ Atherosclerosis
    This 3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack myocardial infarction from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the endothelial arterial wall, ...

CFACT

  • Do the Math – Count the cash
    Bill McKibben has a new book out called "Do the Math!" This is, of course, new math -- applied to climate science, it means 16 x 0 = 160,000! Or something like that! But his point is simple: we're all gonna die!
  • Sign the petition: Demand affordable energy f ...
    Take action! EPA's new regulations would kill America's abundant supply of affordable coal energy based entirely on over-hyped global warming junk science. We cannot let this stand! Demand President Obama and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy stop their war on affordable American energy now!
  • Fuel loads — not climate change — ...
    While Al Gore and UN climate chief Christina Figueres insist that Austalia's repeal of its oppressive carbon tax is somehow linked to recent forest fires there, the truth -- as documented by CFACT Advisor Dr. David Evans -- is that UN-style forest management policies have left heavy fuel load (f ...
  • Russia reduces charges against Greenpeace from ...
    Russia has amended its piracy charges against thirty detained Greenpeace campaigners. The new charge of hooliganism carries a penalty of up to seven years in prison -- A prospect leaving little room for comfort as temperatures drop in Murmansk.
  • Russian NYET! to Greenpeace’s Dutch appeal
    Russia will boycott Dutch attempts to free Greenpeace's diesel-powered ship and imprisoned campaigners, all of whom await trial for piracy.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russia to Demand Upfront Payment From Ukraine ...
    Russia has piled the pressure on Ukraine with ominous warnings Tuesday that it could begin demanding upfront payment for natural gas deliveries unless outstanding debts are settled.     
  • Russian Defense Researchers Arrested for $15.7 ...
    A former Russian Defense Ministry research institute director and his deputy have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling 500 million rubles ($15.7 million) in state funds, the Investigative Committee said Tuesday.     
  • Investigation into Politkovskaya murder
        
  • Militant, Officer Shot Dead in Russia's N.Cauc ...
    At least one suspected militant and a security forces officer were killed in a shootout in Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus early on Tuesday, officials said.     
  • Trendwatcher: Moscow Is for Writers
    The other day, a famous writer asked me why I came to Moscow. I had trekked across construction mud and broken pavements to see him at the central Moscow radio station where he is hosting a program – and with dark clouds gathering outside and a rainstorm coming in, the question seemed particular ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • What Are The Health Benefits of Apples?
    By Dr. Mercola Apples are the second most popular fruit in the US (bananas are the first),1 with each American eating about 19 pounds a year. 2 Undoubtedly, many of those apples are consumed right now, during the fall, which is peak season for apples in the US. This is one sweet treat that ...
  • Compound Found in Grape Skins Could Help Treat ...
    By Dr. Mercola Resveratrol, a potent antioxidant found in a number of plants, including red grape skins, pomegranate, raw cacao, peanuts, and berries like raspberries and mulberries, is known to have a number of beneficial health effects. The compound is produced by plants to increase their ...
  • How to Combine Foods for Optimal Health
      Click HERE to view the entire interview! Download Interview Transcript By Dr. Mercola Dr. Wayne Pickering is a naturopathic physician on the East Coast of Florida, and was a good friend of fitness legend Jack LaLanne. He gave a beautiful eulogy at Jack’s funeral. A ...
  • Future Doctors Unprepared to Manage Pain
    By Dr. Mercola Chronic pain affects 100 million Americans – that’s more than the number impacted by diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined.1 Most suffering from pain turn to their family physician for help, but many leave the office with nothing more than a prescription for p ...
  • Fatal Flaws in Federal Nutrition Guidelines Pr ...
    By Dr. Mercola According to a new study1 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. The reason for this, the researcher ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The International Law Commission’s 65th Sessio ...
    by Sean D. Murphy [Sean D. Murphy is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission.] For the next two weeks, the Sixth Committee of the U.N. General Assembly will be debat ...
  • On What Basis Can the ICC Silence Ruto?
    by Kevin Jon Heller The Sudan Tribune is reporting that the presiding judge in William Ruto's trial has threatened to have Ruto arrested if he continues to comment publicly on his case: October 2013 (THE HAGUE) – Kenya’s Vice President William Ruto was on Friday warned by the presiding judge i ...
  • Chevron and the Rise of Arbitral Power: An Int ...
    by Michael D. Goldhaber [Michael D. Goldhaber serves as Senior International Correspondent and "The Global Lawyer" columnist for The American Lawyer and the ALM media group. His writes widely on human rights and corporate accountability, international arbitration, and global multiforum dispute ...
  • Does Japan’s Pledge to Shoot Down Chinese Dron ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The government of Japan has issued a new policy authorizing its military to shoot down foreign (read: Chinese) drones that enter the airspace over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. China’s Ministry of Defense has issued a statement sugge ...
  • Events and Announcements: October 27, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Events On November 12, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague will launch the International Crimes Database (ICD). This platform offers a comprehensive database on international crimes adjudicated by national, international and internationalized courts and ...

Public News Service

  • Cancer Survivor: Donating for Research More Im ...
    Cancer Survivor: Donating for Research More Important than Ever PHOENIX - It's been ten years since Kathi Hansen was diagnosed with breast cancer. "People often say, 'Oh, you know, the minute I hear that word "cancer" I think, 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna die.' So a lot of times, people ask me what w ...
  • Who’s “Dismantling” the Amer ...
    Who’s “Dismantling” the American Dream? PHOENIX - Hedrick Smith won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Soviet Union and wrote a best-seller called "The Russians." Now it's America that's under the magnifier wielded by Smith, a former New York Times editor and a correspon ...
  • Asking the Tough Questions to Address Child Ma ...
    Asking the Tough Questions to Address Child Maltreatment PHOENIX – Any child can experience abuse or neglect – and one expert says if this is not addressed, that child’s health and well being later in life will suffer. Dr. Vincent Felitti is the author of a major study on adv ...
  • Expert: Cyber Security Awareness Should Start ...
    Expert: Cyber Security Awareness Should Start Before Age 5 PHOENIX, Ariz. - As the age of children with technology trends to younger and younger, it's said that privacy, bullying protection and online safety should be taught along with the ABCs and 1-2-3s. Ben Halpert is the founder of the nonpr ...
  • Privacy Advocates: “Stop Watching Us”
    Privacy Advocates: “Stop Watching Us” WASHINGTON - Revelations by leakers Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have shown U.S. government agencies such as the National Security Agency may have violated Americans' right to privacy, according to advocates who will march and rally in the n ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • An Army Ranger Gives an on Ground Account of t ...
    DOD Oct 25, 2013 5:45 am - by Stephen Trujillo Edited by Jacob Siegel Stephen Trujillo was a combat medic with the 2d Ranger Battalion during the invasion of Grenada. Here is his first hand account of key moments in the war. Stephen Trujillo was a combat medic with the 2d Ranger Battalion d ...
  • The Trial That Won’t Go Away
    23 October 2013 Written by: Barbara Lawrence Television dramas make trials look deceptively short, succinct, and neatly wrapped in a one hour package with ample time to raid the refrigerator.  They are not. I decided to observe the trial of MSgt CJ Grisham myself. What follows are my rec ...
  • Warning to Judge and Jurors in Grisham Trial
    20 October 2013 Mouse mutilated and published by US soldier on trial: CJ Grisham This week, the trial of CJ Grisham ended in a hung jury.  A source in the courtroom told me that the jury was 5:1 in favor of conviction. A retrial has been set for 18 November 2013. The judge and jury are ...
  • Afghanistan: A Bigger Monster
    10 October 2013 Just months ago Pentagon officials dismissed the idea of a total pullout from Afghanistan.  Today we are on the verge of ending negotiations on our future there, leading to the “zero option.”  Total withdrawal. If we execute a zero option, this is my basic worst-cas ...
  • Federal Government Explains Failure Effects to ...
    03 October 2013

The Killing Train

  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict.
  • Free, Tarek and John
    by Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy Note: this is a rather long article. If you prefer a PDF version, it is linked here. read more
  • Touchwood PR
    As the emergency contact for Tarek and John, I was happy to field media calls and requests. Now the emergency is over, and media are being handled by the most excellent and wonderful Touchwood PR. If you wish to schedule an interview with Tarek and John, pleaes contact Touchwood at press@touchwo ...
  • tarekandjohn.com
    When Tarek and John were arrested on August 16, we were taken by surprise. We used whatever tools we had to hand to get the message out. As their emergency contact, I used my own blog and my own twitter handle, and became one of their official spokespeople. In the intervening 50 days, we set up ...
  • Tarek and John are free
    Oct 6/13 Tarek and John are out of jail. Thank you to everyone who followed, supported, wrote letters, helped, worked, and kept going when this thing ended up going so much longer than we thought it would. read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • It’s a knock out
    With the SEA Games on the horizon, traditional Burmese boxers are calling on the government to do more to promote the sport internationally.
  • Classic car enthusiasts hit Burma roads
    A group of classic car enthusiasts on Monday embarked on a road trip around Burma -- an event organisers hope will help save the country's ageing automobiles from the scrapheap.
  • Arakan displaced running out of food
    Muslims and Buddhists who lost their homes and livelihoods due to conflict in Burma’s Arakan state, are quickly running out of food, the World Food Programme warns.
  • Ye Htut rebukes Shwe Mann over president bid c ...
    Burma’s presidential spokesperson has rebuked parliamentary speaker Shwe Mann for telling a press conference that Thein Sein would not be seeking a second term in office.
  • Thai pharmaceutical company steps up Burma pre ...
    The wholly owned Thai pharmaceutical firm, Mega Lifesciences, is planning to expand its operations in Burma by building a new multi-millon baht warehouse in Rangoon. a Burma expansion with a new warehouse costing 300-600 million baht (US$96,500-193,100) to store pharmaceutical and consumer p ...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

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