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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 ...
  • Empire Under Obama, Part 3- America’s &# ...
    The Western Mafia Imperial System Obama’s global terror campaign is not only dependent upon his drone assassination program, but increasingly it has come to rely upon the deployment of Special Operations forces in countries all over the world, reportedly between 70 and 120 countries at any ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Adelson-Backed Group Surveys Israeli-Americans ...
    An L.A. based pro-Israel group, the Israeli-American Council (IAC), with the financial support of Sheldon Adelson, has compiled a survey measuring the level of loyalty of Israeli-Americans to Israel and America.  The survey was disseminated to tens of thousands of Israelis living in the U.S., wi ...
  • Christian Zionists to Found University in Isra ...
    Just when I thought I’d brought some of the wackiest, most improbable stories from the soap opera that is latter-day Israel, a new one comes along.  This one is a whopper. Nazareth is the heartland of Israel’s Palestinian community.  It is a town comprising Muslims and Christians liv ...
  • Mossad Infiltrated French Presidential Compute ...
    Glenn Greenwald has published in LeMonde, yet another eye-popping story about the NSA.  But in this case, it turns out the NSA was not the culprit.  Look no farther than the Mossad for the presumably guilty party.  In 2012, during the French presidential elections, which Nicolas Sarkozy would go ...
  • Support My Appearance at Major U.S. University
    I’m delighted that I’ve been invited to speak to the Jewish student community at a major U.S. university.  I’d be participating in a speaker series whose previous participants were some of the major players in the American Jewish community.  Those of you who’ve read my cr ...
  • Saudi Arabia Whines about U.S. Betrayals on Ir ...
    Saudi Arabia  is making known its extreme displeasure with the U.S.’ increasingly moderate, pragmatic approach to conflicts with Syria and Iran.  When the corpulent, oil-besotted sheikhs have a fit of piqué, U.S. presidents are supposed to quake in their boots, lest the spigots be turned o ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Weak Anti-Faculty Union Arguments
    University of Illinois professor Nicholas Burbules’ anti-faculty union arguments are laughable. They are laughable precisely because he ignores the reality of 21st century administration-faculty relationships and what administrations are trying to do to faculty. Burbules thinks that shared ...
  • Hitler the Pig
    Evidently, a pig in 1942 was extra, well, piggish and ate too much. So its owner named it Hitler. And painted the name on it.     
  • Adbusters
    I’ve long thought Adbusters brought out the worst in the left–lazy, self-congratulatory, conspiratorial, lacking a critique of power, relying on clever images rather than articulating an interesting politics. Basically, a love of Adbusters was probably a sign I didn’t need to t ...
  • Repudiate! Refudiate!
    Via Mr. Bogg, Conor Friedersdorf is very concerned about the future of the Democratic Party. During President George W. Bush’s tenure, most Republicans felt that criticizing him would just help Democrats. Only the end of his presidency freed them to see its flaws clearly. Staunch conservat ...
  • Marcia Wallace
    R.I.P. A commenter mentioned this, and like him I had no idea: Producers of “The Simpsons” announced on Saturday that the Edna Krabappel (pronounced crah-BOP-ull) character, who had found happiness in recent seasons with the Simpson family’s neighbor Ned Flanders, would be retired from the serie ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Scientists Present Lake Tahoe Nearshore Evalua ...
    Joint report marks initial collaborative step between the science community and resource management agencies to develop a comprehensive approach for assessing and managing the nearshore ecology and aesthetics of Lake Tahoe. 
  • A new look at air pollution sources and atmosp ...
    New research from DRI provides first thorough analysis of emissions from outdoor cremation rituals in India and Nepal.
  • DRI Open House to Feature Latest Solar Technology
    JoinNV Energy, DRI’s renewable energy experts and research scientists for a Solar Celebration on Saturday, October 5th at DRI’s Renewable Energy Deployment and Display (REDD) Facility for a hands-on tour.
  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
  • Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
    Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

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

Red Ice Creations

  • The Lost Boys: Corey Feldman on Predators and ...
    Corey Feldman has been coming forward over the past few years with details on his life as a child star in Hollywood, and the terrible and tragic fate of other kids in the business, especially his longtime friend and fellow actor Corey Haim. His newest book reveals details that may horrify but no ...
  • Introduction as to How a Voluntary Society Cou ...
    For those of you minarchists who are on demand feeding, this video gives an excellent introduction as to how the only legitimate government services (i.e., security, arbitration, incarceration) might be handled by the free market in a voluntary society. As the creator of the video himself states ...
  • Royal cover up: Police censor Jimmy Savile int ...
    Paedophile Jimmy Savile named the royal family in his bombshell interview with police but any mention of them was removed from the released transcripts. The papers from a 2009 police quiz were released last week following a seven-month battle by the Daily Star Sunday. But the 26 pages – which ex ...
  • ’Lost world’ discovered in remote Australia
    Scientists have found a “lost world” on a remote Australian peninsula that revealed three new species believed to be at least one million years old. The expedition, a collaboration between James Cook University and National Geographic, brought tropical biologist Conrad Hoskin and Harvard Univers ...
  • 300 Million Chinese Men Descended From Just 3 ...
    More than 40 per cent of the Chinese Han population can trace their family tree back to three ‘super-grandfathers’ who lived during the Neolithic era Our understanding of human history is currently undergoing a revolution. The technology that makes this possible is fast and cheap DNA sequencing ...

Not My Tribe

  • Blackfish has a name, it’s TILIKUM. That ...
    Yes, Orcas aren’t fish. “Blackfish” is the translation of a name indigenous peoples gave killer whales, holding them in respectful regard while keeping a traditional safe distance. BLACKFISH is also the title of a new docummentary about how the sea mammals are mistreated by Sea ...
  • 14 yr-old Philip Chism, black, charged as adul ...
    George Zimmerman has nothing on the US justice system. High school freshman Philip Chism is accused of murdering Boston teacher Colleen Ritzer. Though he’s only 14, Chism is being arraigned as an adult. Probably somewhere in America, a district attorney is hoping to prosecute a black juven ...
  • Occupy Denver hits the Terrible Twos!
    LOOK OUT DENVER! There was no birthday cake this year for Occupy Denver, though the second annual #S17 OWS anniversary celebration did not go unmarked. Subgroup offshoots of Denver’s notorietous Occupy deployed themselves with the usual rowdy spirit. Denver Homeless Out Loud, advocates for ...
  • Fuck the Police, say it while you can
    If you’re bleeding from a rollover accident and you’re a black male who’s prompted a white suburbanite to call the police, who arrive and shoot you; if you’re a non-suicidale teen who’s fallen from an overpass, broken your back, only to be tased a dozen times for no ...
  • Springs Democrats hope democracy loses to Stat ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO- International news headlines read “G-20 Summit Overshadowed by Syrian Crisis” but not in Colorado Springs! Here every politically active Democrat was working to defeat a recall of state senate leader John Morse, a democrat though barely. Morse is a duly elected, ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Petition: Join the Now Over 584,000 Others Ask ...
    "The organizers of the Stop Watching Us coalition, which includes over 100 public advocacy groups, are going to present a petition to Congress which has over 570,000 signatures." - Thousands March in D.C. Against NSA Domestic Surveillance SIGN THE PETITION HERE. Related: Read the following ...
  • Grand Theft Auto 5 Mentions Government False F ...
    Published on Oct 26, 2013 GTA 5 Mentions false flag terrorist attacks and government inside jobs... Join the Red Pill Forums: http://www.redpill.boards.net Red Pill on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedPillPhilosophy Follow Me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RedPillTweets Cool ...
  • 9/11 Best Evidence Playlist by ReThink911.org
    Edited from the documentary 9/11 Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out from Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth, in addition to an original clip on WTC 7 Foreknowledge with Dr. Graeme MacQueen, Co-Editor of Journal of 9/11 Studies.   Related: ReThink911 NY Times Billboar ...
  • Noam Chomsky Manufactures 9/11 Consent
     A disappointed person recently asked us about Noam Chomsky´s comments at his 10/15/2013 University of Florida presentation. The offending bit of Chomsky´s lecture in question is about the 9/11 attacks, and the cause for alarm is the display of confusion and blatant denial by the lecturer. ...
  • EPA Whistle-Blower Fired Again
    A recent article by the Environment News Service reminds us all that nothing has changed: The EPA fired Dr. Cate Jenkins in 2010 for exposing EPA´s cover-up of the toxic dust in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in NY. The first responders did their work without sufficient protection because ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Another casualty of ‘progress’: Ayoreo TB epid ...
    Chiri had suffered grave health problems after being forced from his forest home.© SurvivalChiri Etacore, an Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man forced out of his forest home in the name of ‘progress’, has died from a lung disease. He is the latest victim of an epidemic of TB and similar diseases devastati ...
  • Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.© SurvivalOnly weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana to ...
  • Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
    A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...
  • International condemnation of Botswana over Bu ...
    Botswana has been condemned for barring the Bushmen's lawyer ahead of a key court case. He had successfully defended the Bushmen's rights during three previous cases.© SurvivalThe Botswana government has been subject to fierce criticism over its persecution of the Kalahari Bushmen. The ...
  • World Mental Health Day: Suicide epidemic rava ...
    A Guarani girl stands by her road-side shack – endless fields have replaced her tribe's rich forests. Children as young as nine have been committing suicide.© Paul Patrick BorhaugWarning: contains disturbing image. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, Survival International ha ...

Greg Palast

  • Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana. Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law.  The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Jud ...
  • Vultures and Voter Rustlers Palast Investigate ...
    Out this November! Get Palast's brand new DVD of his documentary investigations for BBC and Democracy Now! Watch 90 minutes of hard-hitting reports by Palast at his best. Reports include: - Election 2012 - Ohio Ballots - Mitt Romney's Auto Bailout Bonanza - DR Congo Vulture Threat - Vultures Pic ...
  • Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
  • The Golden Dawn Murder Case Larry Summers and ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi.  But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife:  The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a p ...
  • Karl Rove’s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice
    By Greg Palast. Updated from the original article published on TheMudflats.net Note from TheMudflats.net: In 2011 Karl Rove wrote a column called “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” - Rove was betting on North Carolina to be a swing state for the Republicans... Romney took the state but to Rov ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • IACC Question 1 Planning Group (Diagnosis and ...
    Reminder: Upcoming Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee-Related Meetings Please join us for the following upcoming IACC-related conference calls and workshop. On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - the IACC Question 1 Planning Group (Diagnosis and Screening) will be having a conference call...
  • Umpteenth Vaccines/Autism Study from Defective ...
    By John Stone The latest study to decry a connection between vaccines and autism was launched the week before last by the on-line journal BMJ Open, an off-shoot of British Medical Journal. The lead author of the study is none...
  • Dachel Media Review: A Life Without Words is OK?
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Oct 27, 2013, Newsmax: Issa: Obama Needs to Fire Officials Over Obamacare Failure (Face the Nation) Oct 27, 2013, NJ.com: Trenton's parents of special needs children struggle...
  • Vaccination Sales Contest at CVS "High Budget ...
    If you've ever doubted that vaccinations are profit center with goals and incentives - here's your proof. Can you imagine this chart for heart medications? Or for pain killers? Vaccines are outside of medicine - they are liability free profit...
  • Cathy Jameson on Bullying and Vaccination
    Age of Autism’s Cathy Jameson as Special Guest on the Know Your Rights Hour Radio Show with Dr. Mayer Eisenstein and Attorney Alan Young I was taken aback when I received an email from Dr. Mayer Eisenstein last Monday morning....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

new geography

  • Underemployment in America
    The nation’s lackluster economic performance continues to be a concern. This is evident in stubbornly high unemployment rates (See: Suburban and Urban Core Poverty: 2012 Special Report),which continue to be well above historic norms. There is another indicator, which may be even more i ...
  • Fixing California: The Green Gentry’s Class Wa ...
    Historically, progressives were seen as partisans for the people, eager to help the working and middle classes achieve upward mobility even at expense of the ultrarich. But in California, and much of the country, progressivism has morphed into a political movement that, more often than n ...
  • Bridges Boondoggle, Portland Edition
    A couple weeks ago I outlined how the Ohio River Bridges Project in Louisville had gone from tragedy to farce. Basically none of the traffic assumptions from the Environmental Impact Statements that got the project approved are true anymore. According to the investment grade toll study recently ...
  • The Cities Creating The Most Middle-Class Jobs
    Perhaps nothing is as critical to America’s future as the trajectory of the middle class and improving the prospects for upward mobility. With middle-class incomes stagnant or falling, we need to find a way to generate jobs for Americans who, though eager to work and willing to be trained, ...
  • Cities and Sustainability: Is Intensification ...
    This post examines the idea that we can promote sustainability by increasing the densities of large cities around their centres.  This compact city paradigm presumes that we can reshape the consumption of citizens in environmentally benign ways by reshaping the cities they live in.   The sustai ...

water.org

  • Empowering 500,000 for safe water
    The Caterpillar Foundation expands partnership with new commitment to Water.org. Through this remarkable partnership we will accelerate our impact significantly and empower nearly 500,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation.
  • Cooking with Water
    Clean water isn't just the cornerstone of life, it's the foundation of a healthy, delicious meal.
  • $79 and 45 days later
    In the villages in India, women of all age groups fetch water for their household consumption. Despite her growing age, Siddamma continues to fetch water. She is 53 years old and lives in Karnataka, India.
  • Building a Better Future
    Every single day, an unsafe, open-air water point serves about 7,500 people living in the mountains surrounding Corail Thor, Haiti. Now, thanks to the generous support of the Cartier Charitable Foundation, our local partner ASSODLO has begun building a simple, but transformative, gravity-fed, sp ...
  • Making Toilets Affordable
    Shanti, from Katihar, Bihar did not have a toilet at her house and used to go to the railway tracks for open defection. It always seemed awkward to defecate in open; especially when there were trains passing through, however, due to financial constraints they could never construct a toilet in th ...

Cryptogon

  • Food Stamp Cut Hits Friday
    Via: NPR: Poor families across the country will have a harder time stretching their food budgets after Friday, as stimulus funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) automatically expires. The 13.6 percent boost in SNAP benefits the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in ...
  • Keeping Blood Sugar Low May Protect Memory
    Via: NPR: There’s a growing body of evidence linking elevated blood sugar to memory problems. … Study author Agnes Floel of Charite University Medicine in Berlin says there may be a couple of things at play. It’s possible that blood vessel effects can damage memory. “Elev ...
  • Siri, Have Those People Killed
    Via: GQ: In 2011, Air Force psychologists completed a mental-health survey of 600 combat drone operators. Forty-two percent of drone crews reported moderate to high stress, and 20 percent reported emotional exhaustion or burnout. The study’s authors attributed their dire results, in part, to “ex ...
  • Electric Utility Executives Worry About Solar ...
    Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Sitting on a rooftop, soaking up sun, the humble solar panel may not look like a threat to a multibillion-dollar industry. But some electric utility executives say it is. They even have a name for the nightmare scenario solar could create – the “death sp ...
  • U.S. Banks Told to be Prepared for 30-Day Crisis
    Via: Irish Independent: The biggest US banks would be required to hold enough easily sold assets to survive a 30-day credit drought under proposed new Federal Reserve liquidity rules. The Federal Reserve liquidity coverage ratio proposal, approved unanimously at a meeting in Washington, goes fur ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty I ...
    Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs?  Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless?  Anyone that uses the term "economic recovery" to describe what is happening in the Unit ...
  • Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In Ameri ...
    If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country.  All over America, crime is on the rise.  According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and prope ...
  • The Growing Rift With Saudi Arabia Threatens T ...
    The number one American export is U.S. dollars.  It is paper currency that is backed up by absolutely nothing, but the rest of the world has been using it to trade with one another and so there is tremendous global demand for our dollars.  The linchpin of this system is the petrodollar.  For dec ...
  • The U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Is At ...
    The percentage of Americans that are participating in the labor force is the lowest that it has been in 35 years.  During the 70s, 80s and 90s, the labor force participation rate consistently rose as large numbers of women entered the workforce.  It peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000, and just ...
  • Another One Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,0 ...
    Did you know that the U.S. national debt has increased by more than a trillion dollars in just over 12 months?  On September 30th, 2012 the U.S. national debt was sitting at $16,066,241,407,385.89.  Today, it is up to $17,075,590,107,963.57.  These numbers come directly from official U.S. govern ...

Desertification

  • Bridging climate change and food security (IFAD)
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/10/one-yearafter-high-level-panel-of.html How does climate change alter the way we manage agriculture for food security? One year after the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) published a report on Food Security and Climate ...
  • Thousands of women on Sudan reviving the tradi ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/10/empowering-rural-women-gum-arabic.html Empowering rural women: the Gum Arabic Project in Sudan by Ibrahim Hamad 42 year-old Halima Agib lives in the remote Sudanese village of Demira, some 900 km from the capital, Khartoum. Demira’s climate is harsh, ...
  • Small farmers need new technologies, adapted t ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/10/how-to-feed-world_24.html How to feed the world by Kevin Cleaver Associate Vice-President, IFAD I am glad to see small farmers getting their due as key players in world food security in Mark Bittman’s article entitled “How to feed … Continue rea ...
  • The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Green Pro ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/10/the-dam-that-may-damn-egypts-future/ The Dam that May Damn Egypt’s Future  by Karin Kloosterman In a strange and surprising twist, Egypt says it will consider participating with its neighbour Ethiopia in the construction of the Renaissance Dam, a pro ...
  • Is the European demand for biofuels to blame f ...
    Read at : http://www.iied.org/land-grabbing-africa-biofuels-are-not-hook?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28IIED+Blog%29 ‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook Land investment in Africa is growing driven by rises in global food prices ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Russian demonstrator sent for psychiatric "tre ...
    bolotnaya.JPG MARIA C., a Russian activist, comments on the sentencing of Mikhail Kosenko, who was arrested at one of last year’s demonstrations. To find out more, come to the meeting at 5.0 pm, Satur ...
  • Who can ride the garment tiger?
    RMG_roadblock-for min_wage-Sep2013-Dhaka.jpg On Saturday September 21st there began a 10 day mass agitation by Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment(RMG) workers demanding a 170% increase in their minimum wa ...
  • Another Abahlali baseMjondolo activist murdere ...
    Nqobile Nzuza, 17 years, old was shot dead by the police yesterday morning on a road blockade. She was shot in the back, twice. This is the statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo. read more
  • Joint declaration for an inclusive and anti-ra ...
    stopracism.gif Words like shock and horror do not do enough to express our disgust before the hate crime perpetrated Saturday afternoon against the Chicoutimi Mosque. We who are active every day teari ...
  • Airstrikes Threat On Syria! Third World War? N ...
    577319_255469284567025_657820563_n.jpg http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/airstrikes-threat-on-syria-third-world-war-no-war-but-the-class-war/ http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/wp-content/upload ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed every goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY         &#16 ...
  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Israeli Responsibility for Hacking Millions of ...
    by Stephen Lendman Mossad's credentials are notorious. They're well known. It's expertise is acknowledged. Its rap sheet is longstanding and nefarious. Its tactics include targeted assassinations, satellite, drone and other type spying, hacking and espionage expertise, computer viruses, ot ...
  • Consumers Abandoning Healthcare.gov
    by Stephen Lendman Can you blame them? According to Digital Trends (DT), "more than $500 million" was spent creating "the digital equivalent of a rock." DT's source is the General Accounting Office (GAO). Most spending went for contracts, saying: "CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
  • Israel Avoids Human Rights Scrutiny
    by Stephen Lendman Israel is one of the world's most egregious human rights abusers. Palestinians endure ruthless repression. So do Arab citizens. Jews supporting fundamental freedoms for everyone are targeted. Equity and justice in Israel and Occupied Palestine are verboten. Israel is n ...
  • Obamacare Fallout
    by Stephen Lendman Obama's signature program is rife with inequities. It makes a dysfunctional system worse. It rations healthcare. It's unaffordable. It leaves millions uninsured. It leaves millions more underinsured. It compromises privacy. A little noticed disclaimer states: "You have ...
  • NSA Spying on World Leaders
    by Stephen Lendman On October 24, London's Guardian headlined "NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts," saying: Snowden released documents revealed it. "An official in another US government department" gave NSA over 200 private phone numbers. Thi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Bruce Campbell discusses the Lac-Mégantic rail ...
    On Tuesday, October 23, CCPA’s Executive Director, Bruce Campbell appeared on the Business News Network (BNN) to discuss the findings of his new report The Lac-Mégantic Disaster: Where Does the Buck Stop? Campbell says the rail disaster was an accident waiting to happen, and speaks to the whethe ...
  • Harsh lessons from Lac-Mégantic
    A new study, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell, examines the root causes of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, Canada's deadliest rail disaster in almost 150 years. According to the study, the evidence to date points to a flawed regulatory system, cost-cutting corporate behavior that jeopardized ...
  • Watch CCPA Saskatchewan's presentation of ...
    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presented a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page reflects on his tenure as the first PBO in Canada and the identifies the obstacles ...
  • Pete Hudson, weighs in on seniors and educatio ...
    See latest Fast Facts published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 17.
  • Join us for Ed Finn's book launch and ret ...
    He's the brains behind the CCPA Monitor. He's a true legend. It’s hard to believe, but Ed Finn will be retiring next spring. Join us Thursday, November 21st in Ottawa, as we celebrate Ed’s eventful career and the release of his long-awaited memoirs.  For details about the book launch and for ti ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
  • Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
    "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
  • Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
    When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Lasting Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo
    Forty years ago Americans got a wake up call on energy security. As Robert Rapier explains, the energy policy decisions that were made in response to the crisis have a lasting impact today.
  • The Ice That Burns
    Methane hydrates are a huge natural gas resource, but are they worth the environmental risk?
  • Why Gasoline Prices are Falling
    Fall is always a welcome change of pace for most people after a long, hot summer. Not only from the temperatures, but fall almost always brings relief at the gasoline pump. Robert Rapier explains.
  • Government Mandated Spending: A Lesson in Wast ...
    The EPAct forced the DOE to spend money on what essentially amounted to the least stupid ideas, writes Robert Rapier. In many cases it was recognized that there was little chance of success, but the money had to be spent.
  • Nonrenewable Renewables?
    The Energy Experts Reconvene at the WSJ Generally when I find myself having to write a follow-up post to something I wrote, it’s because I obviously didn’t make my points clearly enough. I found this to be the case during a lively Twitter discussion following my latest contribution t ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • We Lie To You Because You'd Be Angry If You Kn ...
    Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino gave Fox News' Shepard Smith a bizarre interview today which managed to encompass all that is wrong with the government and the criminals who rule us through it. After saying she doesn't "get" the outrag...
  • "Qualified Immunity": A License to Commit Crim ...
    Beaten twice, then arrested: Shannon Kanda displays handiwork of the cops who "protected and served" her. Two times on the same night, Shannon Kanda was severely beaten by two male strangers. The first pair of assailants gave her a bloody lip and ...
  • The Website is Fixable, Obamacare Isn't
    Since Obamacare made its debut, discussions have focused on Ted Cruz' efforts to defund the law and the shockingly bad functionality of the Website itself. Fortunately for Obama, polling indicates that Senator Cruz has lost, at least for now, the bat...
  • Innocent Citizens Held At Gunpoint in Terrifyi ...
    An innocent citizen stares down the barrel of a rifle while driving down the street. (Source: AP/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton) ROSEVILLE, CA *Innocent citizens traveling down public streets had a terrifying experience when they were forc...
  • Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Inter ...
    One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. But where to start? The bad news is: if you're being perso...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
  • DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
    James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.
  • The New, Libertarian Conscience Of the Senate
    I said the other week that I agreed with Paul Keating’s famous denunciation of the Senate as “unrepresentative swill”. It’s now looking highly likely that, due to complicated preference deals which few voters understood or were even aware of, six … Continue reading ...
  • Clean Up Australia Day
    Today’s the day. After six years of Labor incompetence and obsession with leadership battles, Machiavellian sub-plots, the best-forgotten Gillard Experiment, and the finale of Rudd Redux, Australians today will finally have their chance to go to the polls and cast … Continue reading ...
  • Unrepresentative Swill
    I said the other day I’d have more to say about Senate voting, and why I believe it has descended into an undemocratic farce. The Australian Senate is an artefact of our history. Our founding fathers in the 1890s, looking … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

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

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Calling all Writers and Artists!
    Submit a pitch or your portfolio to The Dominion Yellowing leaves and even the first dustings of snow are upon us (well, some of us), but that doesn't mean we're heading to our winter hideouts or going the way of the bears. On the c ...
  • Des reproductions disponibles au bénéfice de l ...
    Ce n'était pas l'intention première mais suite aux demandes insistantes, Fanny Aishaa, artiste muraliste et grafitteuse montréalaise, met en vente des reproductions de sa peinture de la célèbre photo d'une résistante se tenant devant la ligne de la GRC lors du raid contre le blocage ...
  • Denis Coderre a joué un rôle clé dans la destr ...
    Maintenant candidat à la mairie de Montréal, le député libéral est intervenu pour le coup d'État et la violente campagne de répression ...
  • Denis Coderre Played Key Role in Destruction o ...
    Now a candidate for Mayor of Montreal, Liberal MP ran interference for coup d'état, campaign of violent repression ...
  • North End Matters will develop first community ...
    Legacy of oppression and discrimination continues to shape lives of North End residents, says project lead K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - The North End Matters project is entering i ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...
  • Obama, the Asperger president?
    David Seaton's News Links Something that has always fascinated me is how Barack Obama ever got into politics in the first place. As we have seen on many occasions, but most clearly during the shutdown, he seems to be lacking the basic tools of  common and garden variety politics: he is t ...
  • USA: the twerking hegemon
    Twerking: The act of moving/ shaking ones ass/buns/bottom/buttocks/bum-bum in a circular, up-and-down, and side-to-side motion. Urban Dictionary Congress capped off a tense and exhausting day Wednesday with back-to-back House and Senate votes on legislation to re-open the shuttered government ...
  • Making sense (dollars and cents) of so much in ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI think we can be almost grateful for the idiotic crisis in Washington, which even with its possibility of a default which may do heavy damage to the world's economy, is giving us an ample warning of a far greater crisis looming in the foreseeable future, a crisis of dem ...
  • The magnificent quest for Shinola (updated)
    David Seaton's News LinksThis is a revised version of something I wrote a couple of years ago, which I felt that, with a few minor changes, would be more timely today than when I first wrote it. In American-Speak someone of little understanding is said to be unable to distinguish between excreme ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: No More Heinz For You, Minne ...
    From Lydia DePillis, after reporting the news that McDonald's will no longer serve Heinz ketchup in its restaurants: U.S. burger eaters probably won't notice much of a difference, since McDonald's was only using Heinz ketchup in its Minneapolis and Pittsburgh markets; the rest is private ...
  • Do Auto Body Shops Routinely Screw the Disabled?
    Via Andrew Sullivan, today brings news that auto body shops discriminate against people with disabilities. John List and Uri Gneezy recruited a group of men to get quotes for fixing a small ding in the side, and it turns out that if the men were in wheelchairs they got quotes that were about 3 ...
  • Winning Elections is Good, But How Will Republ ...
    Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru have a timid—but lengthy!—piece in National Review today that takes to task the purists in the Republican Party who think that the road to victory is always and everywhere to demand more confrontation, more obduracy, and more loyalty to the one true ca ...
  • The Great Medicaid Transfer From Red States to ...
    Don Taylor takes a quick look at how much money red states are giving up by refusing to participate in Obamacare's Medicaid expansion: According to an analysis I have done using Kaiser Family Foundation data—in 2016 alone—the 24 expanding states will receive $30.3 Billio ...
  • Sigh. Benghazi Again?
    I watched Lara Logan's 60 Minutes report on Benghazi last night, and when it was over I had two thoughts: That took a year of reporting? Did you just outsource the whole script to the Republican National Committee? Honestly, there was just nothing there. Andy Wood and Gregory Hicks h ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Another casualty of ‘progress’: Ayoreo TB epid ...
    Chiri had suffered grave health problems after being forced from his forest home.© SurvivalChiri Etacore, an Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man forced out of his forest home in the name of ‘progress’, has died from a lung disease. He is the latest victim of an epidemic of TB and similar diseases devastati ...
  • Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.© SurvivalOnly weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana to ...
  • Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
    A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...
  • International condemnation of Botswana over Bu ...
    Botswana has been condemned for barring the Bushmen's lawyer ahead of a key court case. He had successfully defended the Bushmen's rights during three previous cases.© SurvivalThe Botswana government has been subject to fierce criticism over its persecution of the Kalahari Bushmen. The ...
  • World Mental Health Day: Suicide epidemic rava ...
    A Guarani girl stands by her road-side shack – endless fields have replaced her tribe's rich forests. Children as young as nine have been committing suicide.© Paul Patrick BorhaugWarning: contains disturbing image. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10th, Survival International ha ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • #YesOn522: #GMO food fight brings in big bucks ...
    from america.aljazeera.com: A bitter fight in Washington state over whether to label foods with ingredients that have been genetically modified has attracted tens of millions of dollars in spending, more than $27 million if you add the funds of both sides together. The amount of cash and other d ...
  • #Ohio, #WestVirginia Residents Sue @DuPont_New ...
    from ap.org: Nine Ohio and West Virginia residents who have cancer and other diseases have filed federal lawsuits this month against chemical giant DuPont, alleging the company knowingly contaminated drinking-water supplies with a chemical used by one of its plants. The lawsuits, filed Oct. 8 an ...
  • No #Tsunami Danger to US After 7.3 #Japan #Ear ...
    from orovillemr.com: The National Tsunami Warning Center says there is no tsunami danger for Hawaii, Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California following a powerful earthquake off Japan's east coast. The center says the evaluation is based on information about the quake and hist ...
  • For First Time, #FDA Addresses Pet Food Safety
    from cnn.com: For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to make animal feed and pet food sold in the United States safer. A new proposed rule issued Friday aims to protect all animal foods from disease-causing bacteria, chemicals and other contaminants.
  • #FDA Urging Tighter Rein on #Painkillers
    from nytimes.com: The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, changes that are expected to take place as early as next year. The move, which represents a major policy shift, follows a decade-long ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty I ...
    Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs?  Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless?  Anyone that uses the term "economic recovery" to describe what is happening in the Unit ...
  • Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In Ameri ...
    If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country.  All over America, crime is on the rise.  According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and prope ...
  • The Growing Rift With Saudi Arabia Threatens T ...
    The number one American export is U.S. dollars.  It is paper currency that is backed up by absolutely nothing, but the rest of the world has been using it to trade with one another and so there is tremendous global demand for our dollars.  The linchpin of this system is the petrodollar.  For dec ...
  • The U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Is At ...
    The percentage of Americans that are participating in the labor force is the lowest that it has been in 35 years.  During the 70s, 80s and 90s, the labor force participation rate consistently rose as large numbers of women entered the workforce.  It peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000, and just ...
  • Another One Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,0 ...
    Did you know that the U.S. national debt has increased by more than a trillion dollars in just over 12 months?  On September 30th, 2012 the U.S. national debt was sitting at $16,066,241,407,385.89.  Today, it is up to $17,075,590,107,963.57.  These numbers come directly from official U.S. govern ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

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

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electric politics

  • The Coming Democratic Revolution
    Every journey starts with a single step. So, too, every revolution starts with a single idea, that justice requires a new social covenant. A revolution is about health care, but it's not about health care. It's about nuclear disarmament, but not about nuclear disarmament. It's about protecting t ...
  • A Constitutional Crisis
    The budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's elusive: this crisis has been b ...
  • Hostage Negotiations 101
    They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...
  • Legal Realities
    If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...
  • Inspector O
    It's not so easy to balance the curiosity of a child with the cynicism of a policeman, or a secret agent. But Inspector O, of North Korea, manages to look for things where others dare not go. And finds his answers. A deeply satisfying literary figure, O also helps us look into the mirror at ours ...

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Stop NATO

  • NATO Readies Article Five War Games In The Baltic
    Russian Information Agency Novosti October 28, 2013 Estonia Sends Over 130 Servicemen to NATO Drills in Poland TALLINN, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – More than 130 Estonian servicemen flew to Poland Monday morning to take part in a NATO exercise, Estonia’s defense high command said. About 6,000 ser ...
  • France To Assume Command Of NATO Global Strike ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization October 25, 2013 Rapid Reaction Corps France gears up for new tasks Next year’s rotation of the command of the land component of the NATO Response Force (NRF) will be assumed by Headquarters Rapid Reaction Corps – France. It just completed a series of dem ...
  • Arnold Zweig: War of all against all, jaded mu ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arnold Zweig: Selections on war ==== Arnold Zweig From Education Before Verdun (1935) Translated by Eric Sutton “I call everything good that prolongs my life and destroys my enemy,” said Kroysing shortly, carefully elec ...
  • Georgian Defense Chief Meets With NATO Militar ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia October 25, 2013 Meeting with Chairman of NATO Military Committee Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakli Alasania met with the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Knud Bartels. The meeting was held within the frames of the visit of Defence Minister in Br ...
  • Ignazio Silone: Resorting to the bloody divers ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Ignazio Silone: War with today’s hereditary enemy ==== Ignazio Silone From Bread and Wine (1936) Translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher The train stopped at every little station and more conscripts got in. Nearly all of them ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Panel Discussion on Privacy Issues After Film ...
    Tomorrow evening – Tuesday, Oct. 29 – there will be a screening in Washington, DC of the new documentary Terms and Conditions May Apply, which looks at how government and corporate surveillance are undermining fundamental privacy rights. The event will be hosted by Congressman Justin Amash (R-M ...
  • Radack Relays Snowden’s Statement to Thousands ...
    This past Saturday, thousands of people protested massive, unconstitutional National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance in Washington, DC. Among the speakers at the rally were GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, who relayed a statement that NSA surveillance whistle ...
  • Thousands Protest Against Surveillance; Radack ...
    The Guardian: Thousands Gather in Washington for Anti-NSA 'Stop Watching Us' Rally Before thousands at the "Stop Watching Us" rally on Saturday in Washington DC, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack relayed a statement that National Security Agency (NSA) surveilla ...
  • Snowden Statement to be Read at October 26th P ...
    A coalition named "Stop Watching Us," made up of over 100 public advocacy groups, is organizing "The Rally Against Mass Surveillance" planned for Saturday, October 26, 2013 and meeting in front of Union Station in Washington, DC. Among the speakers will be Government Accountability Project (GAP) ...
  • DC Protest Tomorrow – End NSA Surveillance!
    Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 26, the Stop Watching Us coalition is organizing a large protest in Washington, DC, demanding that the federal government stop the NSA's massive phone and Internet surveillance programs. A group of whistleblowers, activists, researchers and congressional representatives ...

UK Progressive

  • The Willie Horton Ad 25 Years Later
    by David A. Love Twenty-five years later, the infamous Willie Horton ad continues to make its impact on American politics. The 1988 campaign ad was waged by then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in his presidential run against Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.  As depicted in the TV commercial, ...
  • Is Healthcare.gov Turning the Corner? Not So Fast
    by Charles Ornstein ProPublica In some ways, the Affordable Care Act seemed to catch a break last week. Republicans in Congress failed in their attempts to repeal the law or delay its implementation. At the same time, consumers and journalists began reporting success — after many failed attempts ...
  • A Tale of Two Obamacares: Which Is Right?
    by Charles Ornstein ProPublica This weekend, I read two very different takes on the three-week-old Healthcare.gov health insurance marketplace. One was hopeful; the other decidedly not. Both are worth your time. Writing for the National Review, Yuval Levin explains that he spoke to several longt ...
  • How a Law Becomes a Bill: Tea Party Civics
    by Tina Dupuy The President of the United States signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also referred to as ObamaCare, on March 23, 2010. It then became a law. In March 2012, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to ObamaCare, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. On June 28, 201 ...
  • Ted bin Laden Syndrome
    by Brent Budowsky It is time to coin a phrase to describe the Republican crisis: the GOP, now dominated by a rightist faction that can be called conservatives in name only, suffers from a disease I call Ted bin Laden Syndrome. The phrase “Ted bin Laden” was coined by conservative columnist Kathl ...

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JoNova

  • Bill McKibben says wind is cheap as coal. Jo N ...
    Bill McKibben wants to stop a mine in Australia because it might affect the weather. He says wind power is as affordable as coal. The Australian, Friday Oct 25:   “… we’ve reached the point where alternatives have become realistic.Wind power is now as affordable as coal-fired p ...
  • Nearly $1 billion a day to change the climate& ...
    Here’s a stark statistic that came out last week in a new report: The Climate Industry draws in nearly $1 billion dollars a day. But here’s an ominous combination:  …  it openly admits that taxpayer money is its “engine-room”. Reading between the lines below, this ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    A favourite rock pool of mine. My photo.     Rating: 9.5/10 (21 votes cast) Rating: 9.5/10 (21 votes cast)
  • Catalyst says consensus wrong on cholesterol & ...
    On the ABC program Catalyst this week, Dr Maryanne Demasi slayed a few dietary myths–like, cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart disease. She described how medical science was distorted for decades by the influence of money, and how one key researcher networked his way to the top of an ...
  • UK Government hides its own graphic comparing ...
    Is this a 2013 Streisand-Effect finalist? The UK has decided to build its first new nuclear power plant in 20 years. The UK Department of Energy & Climate Change posted this graphic below in a News Story probably to help justify why it really did make sense to go nuclear rather than renewabl ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Pollinating Bees Are The Pesticide Deliverymen ...
    Pollinating Bee PiccoloNamek via Wikimedia Commons Here's another reason to pay attention to dwindling bee populations: Bees might be the organic pesticide spreaders of the future. While they go to work pollinating our crops, bees could simultaneously bring natural microbial pest control ag ...
  • Why Babies In Arabic-Speaking Households Learn ...
    One, Two Photo by David Barner, UC San Diego Language and Development Lab Don't tell that hyper-competitive parent friend of yours. English-speaking toddlers learn the idea of the number one faster than Japanese- and Chinese-speaking kids, while Slovenian-speaking babies learn "two" sooner ...
  • The Mathematics Of Throwing A Curveball
    Adam Wainwright Dirk Hansen via Wikimedia Commons The World Series is happening right now, which means: computational fluid dynamics! The direction of, say, a curveball is essentially a physics problem: a pitcher applies forces to the ball, like top spin, then releases, and the result's cal ...
  • WHISK(E)Y MAP [SPONSORED ARTICLE]
    Glenfiddich® Glenfiddich® We owe Bronze-Age Mesopotamia a lot. They gave us one of the first alphabets, code of law, and the first recorded beer recipe. They also gave us the first standardized, accurately surveyed maps. Before maps, knowledge of a place was purely subjective and experiential ...
  • FYI: Why Do Leaves Turn Different Colors?
    Leaves imagedepotpro/Getty Images Leaves are loaded with chlorophyll, which makes them green. But all green plants also carry a set of chemicals called carotenoids. On their own, these look yellow or orange—carotenoids give color to corn and carrots, for example—but they’re invisible beneat ...

Facing South

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Real risk of a Maunder minimum 'Little Ice Age ...
    It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK and Europe were often severe. The severe cold went hand in hand with an exceptionally inactive sun, and was called the Maunder solar minimum. Now a leading scientist from Reading Universi ...
  • October - the month of wild weather swings
    By any definition autumn has arrived across the UK, with the first northerly gale of the season along the east coast. Meteorologically, today’s weather is perfectly normal for the time of the year. And along the east coast it’s the most dangerous direction for potential flooding.  Sharp fluctuat ...
  • The IPCC report - is the science settled?
    Last week the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) issued their latest high profile report on the current understanding of climate change.  Their main conclusion is that there can be little doubt that man is responsible for at least half of the rise in global temperatures since the 1 ...
  • Record Antarctic sea ice confounds climate models
    The extent of sea ice in the southern hemisphere continues to cause a headache for climate scientists, with news this week that Antarctic sea ice is now at record levels, based on satellite data which began in the late 1970’s.This is contrary to what climate models had predicted.It’s thought tha ...
  • Fine end to September & more on rare solar cycle
    Fine end to September It’s been an unsettled and often cool September, but the jet stream is on the move northwards in the next few days, allowing high pressure to build across the UK, which will lead us into a very pleasant spell of autumn weather.  At this time of the year, the main forecastin ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Post-Crisis, What are the World's Safest Banks?
    Your initial reaction will likely be the same as mine: Who are these guys?  After years dabbling in own-account speculation, derivatives and other get-rich-quick schemes, the stalwarts from days gone by are no longer on this list. Deutsche Bank? You must be joking. American money center ban ...
  • China's 'Maritime Silk Road' as a Hegemonic Pr ...
     The wrangling over both the US government shutdown and the debt ceiling caused Barack Obama to cancel his attendance at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) shindig being held this year in Bali, Indonesia. So he stayed at home to deal with a localized insurrection led by an ...
  • Hong Kong, World's Freest Economy 42 Years Run ...
    I guess some things in life are inevitable: Canada's Fraser Institute, watchdog of economic freedom the world over, has designated the special administrative region (formerly a crown colony) of Hong Kong the world's freest economy for a 42nd consecutive year.  This matter is of special inte ...
  • Contrarian Thoughts: Depopulation's Benefits
    The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things - Alfred North Whitehead as quoted by Garrett Hardin in The Tragedy of the Commons While doing research on an environmentally-related issue, it occurred t ...
  • Why are the World's Best Central Bankers All A ...
    Ben Bernanke is the world's leading practitioner of what I call "Jive-A** Central Banking." It involves creating vast negative externalities for others. Easy money policies Stateside have not only led others to justifiably accuse the Fed of beggar-thy-neighbor policies via competitive devaluatio ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty I ...
    Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs?  Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless?  Anyone that uses the term "economic recovery" to describe what is happening in the Unit ...
  • Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In Ameri ...
    If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country.  All over America, crime is on the rise.  According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and prope ...
  • The Growing Rift With Saudi Arabia Threatens T ...
    The number one American export is U.S. dollars.  It is paper currency that is backed up by absolutely nothing, but the rest of the world has been using it to trade with one another and so there is tremendous global demand for our dollars.  The linchpin of this system is the petrodollar.  For dec ...
  • The U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Is At ...
    The percentage of Americans that are participating in the labor force is the lowest that it has been in 35 years.  During the 70s, 80s and 90s, the labor force participation rate consistently rose as large numbers of women entered the workforce.  It peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000, and just ...
  • Another One Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,0 ...
    Did you know that the U.S. national debt has increased by more than a trillion dollars in just over 12 months?  On September 30th, 2012 the U.S. national debt was sitting at $16,066,241,407,385.89.  Today, it is up to $17,075,590,107,963.57.  These numbers come directly from official U.S. govern ...

BlogHer

  • Intervention Needed: I've Become the Rainbow L ...
    Tooth fairy, move over. There's a new fairy in town. This one weaves and hooks like a boss and turns frowns upside down. She fixes flawed Rainbow Loom bracelets as little ones shuffle off to bed and slips them on their teeny wrists as they sleep. Okay, actually I've only done that once but I hav ...
  • Blackface, Crazy Eyes and Other Racist Costume ...
    Halloween. It’s from the devil, I tell ya. How else can you explain the complete lack of any kind of judgment, consideration or even common sense involved in some of the racist costumes we’re seeing this year? Take this widely circulated photo of two white teenagers dressed up as Trayvon Mar ...
  • Why I Like Being a Small Blog
    I haven't been posting a whole lot. But that's okay. I can do that. We don't like to but sometimes we just can't help comparing ourselves to those blogs that earn money, have thousands of page views per day, get a ga-zillion comments or boatloads of free stuff. That is all well and good, but ...
  • 6 Ways to Get the Most Out of NaBloPoMo This N ...
    Maybe you're looking to sharpen your writing/photography/video skills by posting every day this month. Maybe you're trying to grow your blog audience. Maybe you just want to see if you can do it. Whatever you're looking to get out of National Blog Posting Month, we have tips to help you win at i ...
  • Just 3 Ingredients: No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
    These cookies have to be the easiest cookies that I've ever made!  As you all know, I'm somewhat of a lazy cook.  I just don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, especially when a snack craving hits.  So when I can have a healthy dessert and it takes no effort, I'm comple ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Replacing Chemical Pesticides With Natural Ant ...
    An Israeli agro-tech company has come up with a novel solution to diminish the use of chemical pesticides on fruits and vegetables: Spray them with pest-fighting vegetable oils! Tamar-Tech, by the company Agro Shelef, is a plant ... Related posts:Short-Term Exposure to Essentia ...
  • Girl Guides Scout Started Campaign to Remove G ...
          Victoria Girl Guide is refusing to sell any Girl Guide cookies. Nine-year-old Maya Fischer and her mother Linda Cirella believe the cookies may be unhealthy and unsafe because they contain Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) ingredients. Those ingredients ar ...
  • 10 Ways to Get Arsenic Out of Your (and Your K ...
                Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports came out on the same day last week, reminding ... Related posts:How ...
  • What Most Doctors Won’t Tell You About Colds a ...
    The next time you experience a cold or the flu, remember this: rather than take conventional drugs to suppress uncomfortable symptoms, it’s better for your health to allow the cold or flu to run its ... Related posts:Probiotics Improve Symptoms of the Common Cold If you have k ...
  • Scary Ingredients Used in Bread Manufacturing
                Bread was a big part of our childhood. Toast with butter for breakfast, bakery-fresh bagels and croissants, sandwiches on white bread for lunch—some form of bread accompanied each meal. Whatever the shape or size, though, ... Related p ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Ky. leaders announce coalfield economic summit
    Here’s some news from the folks at the Herald-Leader in Lexington: Stung by the loss of nearly 6,000 coal jobs in Eastern Kentucky since mid-2011, Democrat Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers announced Monday a summit to come up with ideas to improve the region’s c ...
  • Murray confirms purchase of CONSOL mines
    We wrote about two weeks ago regarding the widespread speculation that Murray Energy was going to buy CONSOL Energy’s major coal operations in Northern West Virginia, and this morning that deal was made official. The first thing I saw was Pittsburgh-based CONSOL’s statement saying: C ...
  • Friday roundup, Oct. 25, 2013
    A Norfolk Southern Railroad train pulls transport cars full of coal near  Goodfield, Ill., on Oct. 9, 2012.   (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) Earlier this week, the Center for American Progress had an interesting report about the coal industry’s focus on the export market. It was headlined Big Coa ...
  • Don Blankenship speaks – but not a lot o ...
    The last time former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship made headlines speaking at a meeting of the Tug Valley Mining Institute, it was November 2008.  Most of us had never heard of the Upper Big Branch Mine, and 29 families were not missing a father, husband, brother or son. In that speech, as h ...
  • MSHA issues first POV notices under new rule
    Here’s the word just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today that three mining operations have been put on notice of a pattern of violations of mandatory health or safety standards under Se ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Is Twitter Replacing Blog Comments?
    I just turned off comments on my blog. There are many reasons, but I think they’re best summarized by Matt Gemmell. Here are his big ones: Relatively little interaction these days High burden on the blogger I’ll add three more: It slows the site down Much interaction is spam Twitter ...
  • Site Updates
    I’m doing some site speed updates via the following changes. I’ve implemented Google’s PageSpeed service, which is basically a reverse proxy / CDN. This required that I go back to using a “www” hostname in my URLs, but I was thinking of doing that anyway. I’ve ...
  • The Dating Power Flip at Age 30
    Talking to many women like her, it’s intriguing how many look back on past relationships where they let good men get away because they weren’t ready. American journalist Kate Bolick wrote recently in The Atlantic about breaking off her three-year relationship with a man she described ...
  • Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
    Over on Hacker News there’s a story running about why it’s not a good idea to run SSH on an alternative port. He’s wrong. Let’s take his points one by one: He starts by blasting security by obscurity, which is a favorite red herring for people who almost understand the to ...
  • Square Cash > PayPal
    If you’ve not yet heard about Square Cash, you should right that ship immediately. Most use PayPal to send money to friends, but as of Square Cash launch day I now use Square instead. Here are a couple of reasons I’m switching: Simplicity: you simply email the recipient some money, a ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Embattled minister aims to cut prices
    Norway’s new government minister in charge of agriculture and food claims that her most important job is to clear the way for better selection and lower prices in Norwegian grocery stores. Sylvi Listhaug repeated this week that she’s intent on riding out a storm of criticism around h ...
  • Norway seeks rail cooperation with Sweden
    The new conservative Norwegian government is launching an effort to work with their Swedish counterparts on improving rail transport and train lines, especially between Oslo and Göteborg (Gothenburg). Transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen from the Progress Party told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) ...
  • Consular corps turns 40
    Corps Consulaire de Norvége, the organization representing all foreign consuls in Norway, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week with a seminar and traditional  ball. The occasion will allow the consuls to dress up in full regalia, with any royal decorations they may have. “We can&# ...
  • Spy news can sour Russian relations
    As revelations of US spying continue to leak out of documents distributed by defected American Edward Snowden, some of them may cause conflicts for Norway’s relations with neighbouring Russia. The Washington Post has reported that the US has been warning allies who’ve cooperated with ...
  • ‘Pulpit Rock’ draws record visitors
    Norway’s famed high rocky plateau known as Preikestolen (The Pulpit Rock) has attracted a record number of visitors so far this year, up more than 20 percent over last year. Debate continues over safety, though, and over how many visitors the landmark can accommodate. Newspaper Stavanger A ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Geoff Lawton’s Online Permaculture Design Cour ...
    Earlier this year, Geoff Lawton ran one of the biggest online Permaculture Design Courses. It ran for 12 weeks and featured content not normally shown in an average PDC course. What was it like? Is it worth doing and will students gain any lasting benefit from signing up with Geoff to do a PDC? ...
  • Moves Towards Sustainability in Shanghai
    Shanghai was an amazing city with an incredible energy of opportunity. My only wish was to stay a little longer. I found it difficult to get in touch with a lot of experts in Shanghai. A part of me feels burned that so few bothered to return my numerous calls and emails, but then again... Read ...
  • Breach of Trust
    Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking. by George Monbiot “It’s not for me to judge the relative merits of fracking versus wind turbines.” So said Dame Helen Ghosh, the National Trust’s new director-general. To this there are two obvious responses. ...
  • Permaculture in Cuba – An Interview With Ron B ...
    Recently I had the privilege of interviewing Ron Berezan, aka The Urban Farmer, who was one of the first people in Alberta to get permaculture kick-started. Ron has been teaching and running permaculture tours in Cuba now for many years and has a very unique perspective on Cuba, permaculture, an ...
  • Want to Help Build an Earthship? (December 7 – ...
    A couple of months ago I wrote about the ecovillage project that I am involved in, a project that is based on the vision of radical simplicity expressed in Entropia. I am uber excited to announce that our first build for the ecovillage is going to be an Earthship-inspired ‘mini-ship’, taking pla ...

Pointman's

  • The Climate Wars and agent Deep Woolabra Wonga.
    I think it’s about time I finally told you I’m running an asset deeply embedded inside Big Green. Running is probably the wrong word; it’s more a partnership by now. They operate under the codename I gave them of Deep Woolabra Wonga, not only because they’re submerged dee ...
  • Russia 3, Greenpeace 2.
    I like the Russians. You spend enough time studying a foreign people, you sort of fall in love with them, because that’s the beginning of understanding them and their country in any real sense. The accent is on liking the people rather than the leadership, who’re what you’re su ...
  • Climate Prat of the Year award 2013.
    How quickly time flies. It seems but twelve months since we last ran the competition but I suppose as we grow older, time appears to pass more rapidly. Sweet bird of youth etc etc. Anyway, a recent address by the almost beatified Bob Geldorf to a bunch of stunned school kids telling them that th ...
  • Russia 2, Greenpeace 1.
    One of my simple pleasures in life is to spend an occasional evening watching a good sporting event with friends. We all come clinking along with whatever booze we prefer and a few emergency nibbles. It’s usually an evening of decent sport, a little too much to drink and giving each other ...
  • In the aftermath of AR5.
    AR5 or the fifth Assessment Report on global warming was published last week, amid a fair amount of fanfare but nothing compared to what it would have been like in the glory years of climate alarmism. Everyone has had their say on it by now but I thought it worth adding my own thoughts. What&#16 ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...
  • Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the gay ...
  • RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
    From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
  • Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
    The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Malaysia: The Word "Allah" Only For Muslims
    In possibly the first time ever in the world's history of religion, members of a monotheist institution objected to another monotheist groups' using the same name for God that they use, as Malaysia's appellate court ruled on October 14th that
  • EU Proposal to Monitor "Intolerant" Citizens
    While European leaders are busy expressing public indignation over reports of American espionage operations in the European Union, the European Parliament is quietly considering a proposal that calls for the direct surveillance of any EU citizen
  • Iran's Terror Entity in Lebanon
    In the chaotic Middle East, every day brings new strategic changes and brutal instances of violence, the one thing that has remained constant is Iran's continuing construction of a military-terrorist missile base in Lebanon. Through its Shi'ite Lebanese
  • Egypt's Challenge: Writing a New Constitution
    As Egyptians wait for the constituent assembly to produce the country's new foundational document, the world can only speculate as to how well the new draft will distinguish Egypt's future from its past. Article 2 of Sadat's 1971 constitution is the
  • Straightening the Dog's Tail
    This is the season for pilgrimages to Mecca and the Feast of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha), but the Arab world is occupied instead with internecine murder and bloodletting. As the Arab states come apart at the seams, gangs with no respect for human life

Urban Survival

  • Market Madness Week
    As we brained out with Robin Landry (and which was described for Peoplenomics subscribers) the market is at a critical juncture between now and a week hence. Not only are there all kinds of astrologically significant events, but there will also be a flood of data, much of it delayed from earlier ...
  • Coping: Ah, Monday at the WuJo
    Sometimes, its almost as though some kind of “cosmic censor” wants me to post a report that comes in of something seriously off in the WuJo Department at some other time, other than when it arrives. This following story definitely fits into this category.  That’s because when I was going to ...
  • Peoplenomics: 2 Days in Branson: A Surprising ...
    It’s been quite a busy past three days – but this morning I’ll do my best to sum up what the future could looks like based on a new pet theory of mine (Bullecules and Bearecules) and the hard Elliot Waves counts of Robin Landry.  I think you’ll be surprised by the ou ...
  • What is a BF?
    I’ve been debating overnight whether to mention this, and Grady may (or may not)_ post some of this over at the www.nostracodeus.com website.  But the term BF has been showing up in our various scans of the web and it’s not clear whether there has been an outbreak of new “boy friend” or whe ...
  • Coping: Effects of George-rograde
    I am pleased to report, first off, that Elaine is almost back to her normal self.  So, too, is the computer which had lost its power supply…so most things are back to whatever it is that passes for normal, anymore. Thanks to the readers who sent in explanations of WHY everything seemed to b ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • America has not yet seen the real fallout fro ...
    Investing Amid the NSA Fallout - FTMDaily : Jerry believes that America has not yet seen the real fallout from the NSA. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or ...
  • Fast Food Chains Cost Taxpayers Big
    "The fast-food industry is one of the nation's largest employers of low and minimum wage workers. According to one group, often the industry workers' pay is not enough and many turn to government programs for assistance. According to the National... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Anti Counterfeiting Trade Act ~ Lauren Weinstein
    Biography: Lauren Weinstein is one of the "old" men of the Internet. He created the PRIVACY Forum in 1992, and has been involved with Internet and other technology issues for well over 25 years, starting in the early 1970's at the first site... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Spain Joins France, Germany As Targets Of NSA ...
    Spain summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to discuss allegations of spying on Spanish citizens that it said could break the climate of trust between the two countries if proved true. Earlier, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo said the NSA had... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • American Blackout Just Aired And Now Here Come ...
    Greece is going after the people's pensions and they are tired of being blackmailed by the central banks austerity program. Germany's poverty rises and Spaniards are leaving the country to find work. The western economy is starting to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Post-Sandy Floodplain Buyout Programs Are Taki ...
    Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY Slowly but surely, the Cuomo Administration has been advancing an historic initiative that offers economic incentives to residential property owners around the state if they are w ...
  • Mixed Signals and Missed Opportunities as Indi ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. After a summer of diplomatic progress at the level of presidents and prime ministers, expectations were high that countries would launch negotiations on phasing down the ...
  • UPDATE-- Pacific States and British Columbia A ...
    Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento California Gov. Jerry Brown is known to talk about being from pioneering stock. Today, he and the governors of Oregon and Washington, along with the premier of British ...
  • Another Vampire Unhooked!
    Pierre Delforge, Director, High Tech Sector Energy Efficiency, San Francisco I killed another vampire in my home this weekend. I am talking about energy vampires. And my latest victim is my 9-year old cordless phone system. I was fed up with having ...
  • Marfa Dialogues, Maya Lin, and Me: How Artists ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City I spend my days calling on lawmakers, community leaders, and concerned citizens to address the threat of climate change. Many of these conversations are fruitful, but there are times when field note ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • US warships to remain off Syria coast, reports say
    The US Navy is reportedly set to keep some warships off the coast of Syria, although chances of a military strike against the Arab country have grown slim. US Navy officials announced that only two of the Nimitz strike group ships will leave the Mediterranean waters in the next few weeks, while ...
  • Cynical German Ambassador confesses: “Now that ...
    The German ambassador in Athens Wolfgang Dold,  spoke of investments planned to take place in Greece by German companies. When will they invest? After the EU, IMF and others directed entirely from Berlin, are finished looting everything in our country. Then the Germans and other foreign entities ...
  • The Red Cross Scam
    The International Red Cross is an Elite-controlled front organization whose true purpose is the complete opposite from its stated purpose. The moment a ‘natural’ disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake or the Japanese Tsunami occurs; the Red Cross floods the airwav ...
  • 30 million living in slavery worldwide: WFF report
    A report by an international foundation on modern slavery has revealed that nearly 30 million people are enslaved across the globe. The index released by the Walk Free Foundation (WFF) on Thursday said the slaves are either trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labor, fall victims to debt ...
  • Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
    Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey home on a Tokyo back street. Her first name means “love” in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix. Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Quee ...

Daily Dose

  • Buffer confirms hackers stole users’ Twi ...
    Users of Buffer — the tool that allows you to schedule your social media across timezones — faced a nasty surprise when Buffer was hacked over the weekend and the service began... Keep reading →
  • You can download Firefox 25 for Windows, Mac, ...
    Firefox 25 is due to officially launch on Tuesday, but you can grab the desktop version right now. Download links for Windows, Mac, and Linux are available on Mozilla’s servers... Keep reading →
  • Attachments.me shutting down its Gmail file sh ...
    Attachments.me has just announced that it will be shutting down its service, effective November 11. The company has not cited a reason for the move. However, it did say that... Keep reading →
  • Wind Mobile launches Nexus 5 pre-registration ...
    The Nexus 5 isn’t available for purchase yet — or has even officially been announced, for that matter, but Canadian carrier Wind Mobile has put up a pre-registration screen on... Keep reading →
  • Here’s to the next billion: Apple’ ...
    On the heels of Apple’s Q4 FY2013 earnings report, the company saw more revenue coming from the Americas. But if you look at the year-over-year percentage changes, much of it... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Melbourne film premiere: Two Degrees
    Beyond Zero Emissions will host the Melbourne premiere screening of newly released climate change documentary Two Degrees on November 6, and we would love for you to join us! Power station, Port Augusta, with Flinders Ranges in background. Image: http://twodegreesmovie.com 6.30-8.30pm, Wednesda ...
  • Fossil fuel billions better invested in zero e ...
    MEDIA RELEASE, Beyond Zero Emissions, 16 October 2013 Billions of dollars currently invested in fossil fuel industries can and should be withdrawn and re-invested in zero emissions technology immediately. This is the message Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero ...
  • Bring on the climate solutions!
    After 20 years working on climate change in various roles from research to government to international organisations, my experiences have taught me that to be effective in the change agenda we need to be starting from the point of where we need to be in ten years time, and looking back to th ...
  • No more denying we can act on climate
    During the recent Federal election campaign, BZE received a call from a climate skeptic, inviting us to participate in a debate on climate change. The caller was cagey, she wouldn't even give us her name or affiliation. How did we respond? We politely declined: there is no longer a debate to be ...
  • Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes a new CEO
    It is our pleasure to announce that after a long and exhaustive search we are finally able to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer - Dr Stephen Bygrave.  Stephen will be commencing as CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions on Monday the 9th of September 2013. Stephen has worked ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • With training, local communities can accuratel ...
    Provided two to three days of training, forest communities can accurately and cost-effectively measure biomass and other data needed to assess REDD+ projects, finds a new study published in the journal Ecology and Society.
  • America's growing inequality helped scuttle th ...
    The link between good economic policy and climate change mitigation is instigated by policies such as the triple-bottom line, carbon limitations, and pro-environmental legislation. However, economic inequality is a little explored piece of the successful fight against climate change. For climate ...
  • First study of little-known mammal reveals cli ...
    One of the world's least-known flying foxes could face extinction by rising seas and changing precipitation patterns due to global warming, according to a new study in Zookeys. The research, headed by Donald Buden with the College of Micronesia, is the first in-depth study of the resident bats o ...
  • 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 ...
  • New to science: 2 lizards, 1 frog discovered o ...
    Researchers from James Cook University and National Geographic discovered three new herp species — a cryptic leaf-tail gecko, a colorful skink, and a frog — during an expedition to northeastern Australia. The species are described in three papers published in October in the journal Z ...

Sierra Express

  • At the London Premiere of “Ibu In Sierra Leone ...
    On Friday, 25 October 2013, Maada Bio, the former Head of State and Presidential Candidate of Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) [2012 Elections] joined hundreds of Sierra Leoneans at the Odeon Cinema, Greenwich, London,  for the Premier of the Sierra Leone movie “Ibu in Sierra Leone”. It was a h ...
  • In Sierra Leone NSRPA train staff in RAIS
    The Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority under the Ministry of Energy have started a four days intensive training on Regulatory Authority Information Systems (RAIS) for its technical staff. The training which is part of the authorities’ capacity building program seeks to empower its ...
  • London Mining meets the Parliamentary Oversigh ...
    Freetown- 25 October 2013 – London Mining Management Statement London Mining announced it met yesterday with members of the Serra Leone Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Labour to present documentation related to human resources, payroll and work and residence permits for its expatriate ...
  • Prince Taylor Appeal Judgement Scheduled for 3 ...
    Appeal Judgement in the contempt case of Independent Counsel v. Prince Taylor will be delivered on 30 October 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Freetown time. The judgement will be delivered in The Hague by a three-judge appeal panel consisting of Justice Emmanuel Ayoola (presiding), Justice Renate Winter, and ...
  • ECOWAS trade ministers meet in Senegal
    “Private Sector Is Strategic for Regional Development” says Usman Boie Kamara ECOWAS Ministers of Trade in the ECOWAS Member States over the weekend met at the NOVOTEL Hotel, in the Senegalese capital of Dakar for the Validation of the Draft Regional Strategic Framework and Policy for ECOWAS Pri ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Lift in dairy exports to China narrows NZ trad ...
    The trade gap narrowed last month, propelled by resurgent dairy exports to China.Imports at $4 billion exceeded exports by $200 million but that compares with an average deficit of $769 million over the previous five Septembers....
  • Exports up, imports down as trade deficit shrinks
    New Zealand's trade deficit narrowed more than expected last month as the nation exported more milk powder, butter and cheese while imports fell.The deficit was $199 million in September, down from a revised gap of $1.23 billion...
  • Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: How green - a ...
    Dairy is our largest exporter, dominates our landscape and is our greatest contribution to the diet of the world. In the past we have been justifiably proud of this industry, but the relentless push for increased volume is changing...
  • Crafar buyer bids for South Island farms
    Shanghai Pengxin, which bought the Crafar family farms in a controversial deal last year, and the Synlait founders are offering $85.7 million to buy South Island dairy farmer Synlait Farms.SFL Holdings, a joint venture between Pengxin...
  • Fonterra's botulism scandal 'gift' to China Govt
    Fonterra's botulism scandal was one of the "greatest gifts" the company could have given to a Chinese Government that's focused on rebuilding its domestic dairy industry, according to a visiting foreign correspondent.Jamil Anderlini,...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • OFA Wants to Know What You Know About Obamacare
    Organizing for Action, formerly known as Obama for America and now a 501(c)4, wants to be on the frontlines of pushing Obamacare. Their latest missive includes a request to take a survey about the new healthcare law that includes questions about how well you “would… say you understan ...
  • "Yes, You Can Keep Your Health Plan" or, What ...
    Via the Twitter feed of Matt Cover (and National Review's Jim Geraghty) comes a link to this 2010 blog post by then-Obama special assistant and now CNN Crossfire host Stephane Cutter: Yes, You Can Keep Your Health Plan ...A key point to remember is that while the Act makes many ...
  • Apparently, Secret Surveillance of Powerful Pe ...
    Finally Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been told information that actually made her object to the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance superstructure: It’s being used against powerful and important people! Following the news over the weekend that Germany’ ...
  • If Gallup Says Most Americans Want to Legalize ...
    At the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver last week, many attendees were excited about the recent Gallup poll finding that 58 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana. Writing at The Huffington Post, anti-pot activist Kevin Sabet tries to piss on this pa ...
  • UN Planning “Asteroid Warning Group,” Coordina ...
    The United Nations is making plans for the possibility of a doomsday asteroid. From Scientific American: When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. That, says former astronaut ...

Mercury Rising

  • Avidor Beat MJ’s Mariah Blake’s Ba ...
    Today, Mother Jones readers were breathlessly told by Mariah Blake about a Hot! New! Development! in the twisted saga of Michele Bachmann: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has quietly returned campaign contributions from an ex-con who lured investors for one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US his ...
  • Jim Crow In Israel: Max Blumenthal’s Goliath
    From Truthout’s interview with Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel: Having covered the radical right in this country and attended white nationalist conventions, I was emotionally and psychologically prepared for a lot of the scenes I would witness and the ...
  • Why We Cook: Cooking Destroys Antinutrients
    Something to show to the next raw-food enthusiast you encounter: Antinutrients are found at some level in almost all foods for a variety of reasons. However, their levels are reduced in modern crops, probably as an outcome of the process of domestication.[11] The possibility now exists to elimin ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Remember The Medicare Part D Rollout?
    TPM reminds everyone of the following: A few weeks into the launch of the most sweeping health care reform law in a generation, John Boehner declared that the implementation was a disaster. “The implementation,” the Republican leader said, “has been horrendous. We’ve made ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • Mongolia’s Wild Asses Cornered From All Sides
    Decades of international and local collaboration have brought the Tahki or Asian Wild Horse back from the brink of extinction and reintroduced herds to Mongolia’s Gobi desert and grasslands. However, the country’s other wild equine – the Mongolian Wild Ass or Khulan – is fast disappe ...
  • The United States of Drought
    As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage. By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year – 10 times the amoun ...
  • When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
    Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Karunyu’s husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of cent ...
  • U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered ...
    The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer. On Mar. 1, the New York Times announced it was discontinuing the Green Blog that tracked environmental and energy news. In January, the paper had dismantled its three-year-old environment pod. This year, too, ...
  • The Coming Plague
    A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world’s tropical regions. By mid-century no place on the planet will be unaffected, ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Tissue engineered trachea, 5 years on...
    What happened to the lady given a laboratory-grown trachea 5 years ago? This week, writing in the Lancet, the team who re-grew a replacement windpipe for a woman with severe respiratory complication...
  • Galaxy 700 million years after Big Bang
    The most distant galaxy yet discovered - and dating from just 700 million years after the Big Bang - has been pinpointed by scientists in the US. Dubbed z8_GND_5296, the distant star cluster, spotte...
  • Baldness cure: new follicles formed
    Scientists have made smooth skin turn hairy using a new technique that might ultimately reverse baldness. Baldness can occur as a consequence of ageing, disease, drugs and trauma. At the moment, the...
  • Packing plants with eco energy
    Super energy-rich biofuels could soon be possible because of new research, dramatically reducing the environmental impact of intensive farming. Researchers in the US have grown plants with 170 times ...
  • Flu attacks immune memory cells
    Scientists at the Whitehead Institute in the US have made a step forward in understanding why the flu virus is so deadly. And they've done it in a very clever way. When we're infected by the influenz...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Cancer-causing Chemical Levels Skyrocket in Al ...
    An independent study has found high levels of airborne carcinogens downwind of Alberta's industrial heartland, an area that has come to be known as "cancer alley" for its high rates of rare cancers. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tar Sands In Situ Projects Excluded From Feder ...
    The latest in a series of moves clearing the way for major tar sands expansion, the federal government has announced certain projects will no longer require a federal environmental impact assessment before approval. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Save the Last Intact Habitat for Tigers in Tha ...
    There are fewer than 300 Indochinese tigers remaining in Thailand, and a new dam project threatens one of their last intact habitats. The project would destroy a national park in western Thailand- flooding 8 square miles where tigers are having a success Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbs ...
  • Say NO to Chinese Greyhound Racing Stadiums ! ...
    The Irish Greyhound Board was considering shipping some of its greyhounds to the People's Republic of China so the Chinese can introduce greyhound racing to that country, - but the Irish Department of Agriculture refused to approve the proposal to Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  & ...
  • Canadian Government: Ban the Production of Egg ...
    The battery cages routinely used by egg farmers in Canada are so inhumane they have been banned by the European Union, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the states of California and Michigan. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

  • To Benefit Joe Don Johnson
    Some of you are aware that Mike and I just returned from a three-week trip down South. I stayed in Missouri with my brother, while Mike went on to Arkansas to visit his brother Joe. Joe was just recently diagnosed … Continue reading →
  • Are Monkey’s Capable of down Right Lies?
    By Patricia L Johnson Thursday afternoon during the Congressional hearings on computer glitches in the ACA, Representative Frank Pallone [D-NJ] told Representative Joe Barton [R-TX] the hearing was a “monkey court” after Representative Barton made the totally absurd statement the &#8 ...
  • Are We Looking at a Full Blown Health Care Cri ...
    By Patricia L Johnson Last night I went to bed listening to Dr. Sanjay Gupta grill Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius on the Affordable Care Act computer glitches. This morning I woke up to Republican calls for … Continue reading →
  • The Back and Forth Over the Shutdown – G ...
    The Back and Forth Over the Shutdown – Graphic – NYTimes.com. Filed under: Government
  • October 8, 2013 Public Policy Polling on Congress
    www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2013/PPP_Release_CONGRESS_108.pdf. Filed under: Government
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