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Scoop - NZ

  • Syrian war on Australian streets
    Ms El-Abbas said Australians were heavily involved in the Syrian conflict although she stressed they were working in a humanitarian capacity, not as fighters. "I've seen heaps of people go after I've come back and a lot of people want to go," she said. "Every day I come across these people and n ...
  • Aleppo stalemate fuels rebel frustration
    “We take a building and then lose it two or three days later, only to take it back the following week,” said Abu Ahmad, whose platoon operates in the Salaheddin and Saif Al-Dawla districts of the devastated city that was once Syria’s commercial capital. “There is no progress. We are not winning ...
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    If you want to buy handbags with wallet then go online to find latest handbags and wallets at best price. Online you can check the latest designs of handbag, purses and wallets. There are lot of online store for shop women accessories at small price.
  • Urlaub mit Kind im Schwarzwald - St Georgen
    Ferien im Schwarzwald. Viele Urlauber lieben den Schwarzwald. Der Schwarzwald ist das perfekte Urlaubsziel. Einzigartige Naturerlebnisse. Spass haben. Tolle Attraktionen besuchen. Hier macht Urlaub mit der ganzen Familie Freude. Ebenfalls bietet der Schwarzwald Wellness Urlaub. Und das 12 Monate ...
  • Urlaub pur im Schwarzwald - Schoenwald
    Ferien mal anders - der Schwarzwald. Aus gutem Grund ist der SChwarzwald so beliebt. Der Schwarzwald ist das perfekte Urlaubsziel. Die Natur geniessen. Zur Ruhe kommen. Tolle Attraktionen besuchen. Hier macht Urlaub mit der ganzen Familie Freude. Auch romantisch zu zweit lohnt sich ein Kurztrip. ...

Independent - London

  • Postcard from... Brussels
    Calling in sick with a hangover or to enjoy unexpected good weather may soon be more difficult in Belgium, where the Government has proposed a law requiring that employees taking a sick day stay at home for a medical check-up.     
  • Iran arrests four on suspicion of nuclear sabotage
    Iran's nuclear chief said on Sunday that authorities arrested four workers in an alleged sabotage plot involving one of the country's nuclear facilities, hinting that authorities were looking at suspected international links such as Israel.     
  • Corruption and censorship cast a shadow over Sochi
    The 2014 Winter Olympics are meant to revitalise the city of Sochi, improve Russia’s image abroad, and become the cornerstone of President Vladimir Putin’s legacy.     
  • 2014 Winter Olympics: Corruption and censorshi ...
    The 2014 Winter Olympics are meant to revitalise the city of Sochi, improve Russia’s image abroad, and become the cornerstone of President Vladimir Putin’s legacy.     
  • No end in sight to shutdown as Boehner blames ...
    Almost a week into America’s government shutdown, positions seemed only to harden yesterday as the Republican house speaker, John Boehner, refused to rule out the stand-off over the federal budget spilling over into negotiations on the debt ceiling, again raising the spectre of America defaultin ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Jesuit Father General Asks: Who gave the Unite ...
    According to the Superior General of the Jesuits, by intending to bomb Syria to enforce international law, the United States and France arrogate to themselves a responsibility they don't have, violating precisely that same law. Washington and Paris are planning to lead humanity towards barbarism ...
  • The financial "Hyper-meritocracy" - an oxymoro ...
    This column was prompted by William Galston's review of Tyler Cowen's new book Average is Over. Galston's column worries about the huge, permanent underclass that Cowen envisions will grow in the United States. I write to challenge Cowen's assumption that winners will prevail through a process o ...
  • Rare discovery: human brain boiled in its skul ...
    Shaken, scorched and boiled in its own juices, this 4000-year-old human brain has been through a lot. It may look like nothing more than a bit of burnt log, but it is one of the oldest brains ever found. Its discovery, and the story now being pieced together of its owner's last hours, offers t ...
  • Where have all the hurricanes gone? 'Mysteriou ...
    Experts predicted a very busy hurricane season, but scientists say there has been a 'mysterious lack of activity' this year. The unusually weak Atlantic storms can be partially blamed on factors such as the especially dry air, lack of El Nino, and colder than normal waters, but as a whole it ha ...
  • Namibia: 'demons invade' St Theresia junior se ...
    Panic befell students at St Theresia Junior Secondary School hostel at Tses after 20 pupils on Sunday afternoon suffered from epileptic type of attacks, triggering fears of demons. A relative of one of the affected girls said that those who were attacked ran around wildly and shouting: "The gir ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Foil hat time . . .
    BOOGITY-BOOGITY. “Adolf Hitler -- Agent of Zionism and Freemasonry”. Yup. Really. Must be true, it's on the web. 
  • A natural wonder . . .
    The view from a small window in the wall of the vast Niubizi Tian Keng in the Er Wang Dong cave system, where clouds form inside the huge spaces. Three tiny explorers can be seen negotiating the heavily vegetated floor “The cave so huge it has its own weather system: Explorers dis ...
  • Maher muses . . .
    Bag In — Bag Out BILL MAHER socks it to the Goppers with a delightful post on RSN, “California: Tea Party Free Zone” where he contends that California will pull the Gopper states into the twenty-first century: New Rule: Conservatives who love to brag about American exceptionalism must ...
  • Something of value . . .
    MONEY IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE IT IS. You believe that new plastic twenty is worth twenty dollars and so does the beer store. Properly, that twenty is termed Fiat money, its value is decreed by the issuing authority. There are lumps, but these currency systems work reasonably well world wide ...
  • Time to communicate . . .
    CALL YOUR MP or write or e-mail, or do all three. According to Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada who has a post on TSS, aka TAR SANDS SOLUTIONS NETWORK you should check out, then get hold of your worthy MP. “Tar Sands spills – Over 1.5 million litres and still spilling!!” shows the callous ...

Media Matters for America

  • After Admitting GOP To Blame For Shutdown, Rig ...
    Despite admitting that Republicans played a major role in forcing the government shutdown, the right-wing media have adopted GOP messaging portraying President Obama and Democrats as unwilling to resolve the crisis.Right-Wing Media Admit Rep ...
  • "Ghoulish," "Sick," "Aspiring Baby Killer": Ri ...
    Conservative media viciously attacked Texas State Senator Wendy Davis after she announced her candidacy for governor, linking Davis to infanticide and calling an image of her with kids "sick" and "disgusting."TX State Sen. Wendy Davis Announces Run For Governor Reuters: Wendy Davis Announced He ...
  • "Hold The Line": Right-Wing Media Urge GOP Int ...
    As the government shutdown loomed and then became a reality, right-wing media figures have called for maintained Republican commitment to keeping the government closed until Democrats agree to significant changes to the Affordable Care Act.Fox News' Sean Hannit ...
  • How Mainstream Media Spread The GOP's False Ha ...
    Mainstream media outlets echoed a deceptive framing, created by the conservative media and amplified by House Republicans, of comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), leaving the false impression that he dismissed the plight of cancer-stricken patients ...
  • What The Media Need To Know About "The Next Ci ...
    On October 8, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a challenge to campaign contribution limits that court-watchers call "the next Citizens United." Although opponents of campaign finance regulation characterize aggregate contribution ...

Global Research.ca

  • FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cance ...
    After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses. But…
  • The Militarization of Law Enforcement in Ameri ...
    Militarization of Local Law Enforcement Erodes Civil Liberties, Encourages Overly Aggressive Policing American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in 23 states today simultaneously filed more than 255 public records requests to determine the extent to which local police departments are using…
  • NATO’s Secret Armies Linked to Terrorism?
    At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with the global “war on terror”, new research suggests that the alliance’s own secret history has links to terrorism. [This article was originally published in December 2004]…
  • Obama says Iran’s Capability to Develop Nuclea ...
    The US President was recently interviewed by the Associated Press (AP) on a number of issues including the US government shutdown and his recent discussion with Iran’s new President, Hassan Rouhani. President Obama was asked about his conversation with Rouhani…
  • Independent Media: Five Global Research Author ...
    “Project Censored educates students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government.  We expose and oppose news censorship and we promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking. The growth of independent media&# ...

TPM Cafe

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

  • The Growing Environmental Costs of America's T ...
    There are growing concerns over radiation risks and a new report finds widespread environmental damage on an unimaginable scale in the US. Fracking in America generated 280bn US gallons of toxic waste water last year – enough to flood all of Washington DC beneath a 22ft deep t ...
  • Famed Chef Alice Waters Leads the Foodie Fight ...
    Waters, the founder of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse restaurant, and other foodie icons are protesting against fracking’s impacts on farming and food. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) imposed new regulations on the state’s fast-growing fracking industry last week, but dozens of elite chefs are still ...
  • Why Offshore Wind Energy May Take Off on the E ...
    After years of delays and legal battles, several offshore wind projects seem poised to be launched off the U.S. East Coast. But obstacles to larger development still remain. In June, after years of offshore wind power projects being thwarted in the United States, the first offshore wind turbin ...
  • Defeating Dirty Energy: 5 Inspiring Examples o ...
    These projects run the whole gamut of dirty and destructive development, from coal and oil to open-pit mines and giant dams.      This story first appeared in OnEarth.org.     Okay, so we’re all depressed. The planet is going to hell in ...
  • Forget Climate Change, We Must Prepare for a C ...
    We're headed for the collapse of the benign climate in which humans evolved and have prospered, and the loss of the conditions upon which many other lifeforms depend. Already, a thousand blogs and columns insist the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report is a rabid concoc ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Climate-Com: Climate Change Communications Fro ...
    Our climate is changing and action is desperately needed, but that message is not getting through to to many of our leaders. Climate-Com will explore how the media can better present current climate science so that the public and our leaders will be convinced to act. What: A panel discussion on ...
  • EPA to hold public events in 11 cities on thei ...
    The public will soon get a chance to present ideas and feedback to EPA officials on the agency’s plan to require existing power plants to cut their carbon emissions. The agency will hold a series of 11 public events around the country over the next two months, the agency announced today. The EPA ...
  • A Capital Area Symposium on Climate Resilience ...
    When:   October 4, 2013 Where:  LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin Central Texas Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies: A Capital Area Symposium. This one-day conference will bring Capital Area stakeholders together to identify and assess the shared challenges ...
  • Groups Protest Permit for Louisiana Coal Terminal
    PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana (Sept. 18) – Community and environmental organizations lodged a formal protest against the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’s recent permit for a coal export terminal in the already polluted Plaquemines Parish corridor. In a letter sent to LDNR Secretary St ...
  • Draw the Line – Saturday, September 21, 2013 – ...
    This coming weekend is a busy one for folks concerned about a variety of issues around climate change and eminent domain focusing around the Texas leg of the Keystone XL and other tar sands pipelines. Saturday, September 21, 2013 is a national day of action, some of the events happening in Texas ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Lost Da Vinci painting found in bank vault
    The priceless painting by Renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci depicts noblewoman Isabella dEste. Art historians had long suspected that the painting...
  • What was it that made Einstein a genius ?
    Researchers have long pondered over what factors played a role in making Albert Einstein so clever. Possibly the most recognized name in science, Albe...
  • Tutankhamun's tomb replica built in Egypt
    Authorities have been attempting to tackle the damage that tourism is doing to ancient Egyptian tombs. The tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs such as ...
  • UFO filmed over Cyprus
    A mysterious bright object was filmed in the skies over Cyprus on the evening of September 27th. The video was uploaded to YouTube a couple of days af...
  • Boston Dynamics reveals new WildCat robot
    The DARPA funded project has produced a quadrupedal robot that is able to run like a cheetah. The terrifying contraption moves in an eerily life-like ...

Grassroots

  • New UN Report says: It's Time for Action on Pe ...
    unctad_cover.jpg A new UN report brings urgency and insights into the current food system – and touches upon the hot button question that is increasingly on people’s minds around the world:  Is industrial food safe – either for pe ...
  • Bid on Unique Items -- Grassroots Internationa ...
    mv_exterior.jpeg As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations, Grassroots International is holding an online auction. Thanks to generous donors, we have a variety of unique items that our supporters can bid on. read more
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky
    Subheadline:  Panel of global leaders discuss: Women, social movements and the power of partnership Image:  merged_wmw-lvc_logos.jpg When: Saturday, September ...
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky Panel of glo ...
    Boston-based Grassroots International will present a panel featuring leaders of some of the world’s most powerful and promising social movements at a special event on September 28. Date and Time:  September 28, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm ...
  • Defending Indigenous Territories and Waters in ...
    copinh_sign.jpg Whether it’s life imitating art or the other way around, the assault so dramatically captured in the Hollywood blockbuster film Avatar (2009) is not pure fiction. The reality is that countries and corporations that are hell- ...

Climate

  • Iceland Seeks to Cash In on Its Abundant Renew ...
    (Yale Environment 360) Amid clouds of steam spewing from magma-heated pockets beneath Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, a start-up company is tapping volcanic forces to transform the climate change agent carbon dioxide from a problem into ...
  • What the New IPCC Report Means for Europe
    (Climate Central) Europe has been warming faster than the global average over the past 30 years, the UN's new climate report reveals. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part one of its scient ...
  • Clay Substance Spills During Ohio Pipeline Job
    (AP) Environmental regulators worked Thursday to determine the cause of a significant spill of a clay lubricant during construction of an underground pipeline in eastern Ohio. Southeast Directional Drilling Co. reported Tuesday it had ...
  • U.S. Government Shutdown Threat Sends Oil Pric ...
    (Christian Science Monitor) The threat of a government shutdown sent oil prices down near a three-month low Monday. Investors fear even the temporary furloughing of hundreds of thousands of government employees will crimp a weak econo ...
  • As Stability Eludes North African Region, West ...
    (New York Times) Political instability and violent protests in North Africa are taking their toll on the region's energy sector. In Libya, which has the largest proven oil reserves in Africa, heavily armed militias and str ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Right Interview, Wrong Questions
    It's a good idea to talk to an actual hostage negotiator to get some advice on how to end the government shutdown and avoid a default on our debt. But, when you know almost beyond any shadow of a doubt that the kidnappers will not shoot the hostage, that ought to inform the questions you ask th ...
  • Casual Observation
    This New York Football Giants fan is not enjoying this NFL season, at all. Discuss
  • Does Michelle Nunn Know What She's Doing?
    Maybe it is because I grew up as the son of an advertising executive, next door to a senior partner at a major Manhattan law firm, with classmates whose parents worked at places like Cantor Fitzgerald or the Institute for Advanced Study, but I've never been really comfortable with the language o ...
  • It's Not Always Good News for Republicans
    The headline is misleading, but I get what Reid Wilson is saying. For Republican governors who are thinking of running for president, the government shutdown offers them an opportunity to be a little above the fray. They can badmouth Washington in general terms, which is always popular on both ...
  • Dustbin of History
    It's kind of predictable that the Republican Party's major donors are pissed off at the party right now. One top party fundraiser said the Wall Street financiers and corporate executives he counts on for support are having fits over the GOPs brinkmanship strategy, especially related to a po ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Have a look at our coolest links from around the internet this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Reusable Toilet Paper: Handy Solution or Big P ...
    If talk turns to whether we should be reusing toilet paper, some get a bit grossed-out. Still, do the pros of reusable toilet paper outweigh the cons? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Dive into our pick of this week's coolest links and pics from around the web. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stunning Aerial Attack: Peregrine Falcon Snatc ...
    In this amazing sequence of photographs, we witness a gripping scene, as a peregrine falcon pursues, catches and proceeds to feast on her willet prey. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Find out what we've been checking out this week in our fabulous link round up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • A 'war on coal'? Think of it as a revitalizati ...
    A 'war on coal'? Think of it as a revitalization effort Boston Globe Ask anyone who has lived near mountaintop removal whether what they see doesn't look like a war zone. The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed new rules on coal plants are the first step in a revitalizatio ...
  • Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity - Bill ...
    Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity BillMoyers.com BILL MOYERS: In 2011 he joined a four day sit-in at the Kentucky governor's office to protest the mountaintop removal of coal. What prompted that? A man your age? WENDELL BERRY: Well good company. What prompted me was the thought that wh ...
  • Full Show: Wendell Berry, Poet & Prophet - Bil ...
    Full Show: Wendell Berry, Poet & Prophet BillMoyers.com BILL MOYERS: In 2011 he joined a four day sit-in at the Kentucky governor's office to protest the mountaintop removal of coal. What prompted that? A man your age? WENDELL BERRY: Well good company. What prompted me was the thought th ...
  • Letter: There are far, far worse things than w ...
    Letter: There are far, far worse things than windmills Concord Monitor What is awful is mountaintop removal in Appalachia, blasting the tops off mountains to quickly access the coal layer, burying streams and permanently destroying thousands of acres of natural habitats. What is awful is the mer ...
  • Family says mountaintop removal mine damaging ...
    West Virginia Record Family says mountaintop removal mine damaging cemetery West Virginia Record “This mountaintop removal mine forced people away from their beloved town in the hollers of Boone County,” Nada Cook-White said in the press release. “This cemetery is some of the only remaining evid ...

Memeorandum

  • California GOP Reaching Out (Josh Marshall/Tal ...
    Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: California GOP Reaching Out  —  A reader was telling me this morning about how the California GOP, after a pretty much nonstop 20 year decline, had perhaps hit rock bottom and was turning to some of its more pragmatic or centrist leaders to m ...
  • Rich People Just Care Less (Daniel Goleman/Opi ...
    Daniel Goleman / Opinionator: Rich People Just Care Less  —  Turning a blind eye.  Giving someone the cold shoulder.  Looking down on people.  Seeing right through them.  —  These metaphors for condescending or dismissive behavior are more than jus ...
  • California's New Feudalism Benefits a Few at t ...
    Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast: California's New Feudalism Benefits a Few at the Expense of the Multitude  —  Once famous as a land of opportunity, the Golden State is now awash in inequality, growing poverty, and downward mobility that's practically medieval, writes Joel Kotkin. ...
  • Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Wint ...
    Shaun Walker / Guardian: Russia to monitor ‘all communications’ at Winter Olympics in Sochi  —  Exclusive: Investigation uncovers FSB surveillance system - branded ‘Prism on steroids’ - to listen to all athletes and visitors  —  Athletes a ...
  • Boehner: No 'Clean' Votes on Reopening Governm ...
    Rick Klein / ABC News: Boehner: No ‘Clean’ Votes on Reopening Government or Debt Ceiling Without Negotiations with President Obama  —  House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday flatly refused to schedule votes for full government funding or to raise the debt ceiling witho ...

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  • The women who can’t have it all
    One of the biggest criticisms of "Lean In" -- and indeed, of much rhetoric about women and work in the early 21st century -- has been that it ignores class differences between women. Enter Alison Wolf, who's written an entire book about these differences.In "The XX Factor: How the Rise of Worki ...
  • Congress 'playing with fire' on debt ceiling
    US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks i Washington, DC on September 17, 2013US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Sunday that Congress was "playing with fire" as Republicans raised the threat of a US default if President Barack Obama refuses to negotiate on spending.Speaker John Boehner said t ...
  • According to Fox News, President Obama is fina ...
    Defending its perch atop of what Jon Stewart affectionately refers to as Bullsh-t Mountain, on Saturday Fox falsely reported that President Barack Obama is using his personal funds to construct a museum devoted to Muslim culture. MediaMatters caught the "Fox & Friends Saturday" segment, whi ...
  • Blame diesel fumes for honeybee colony collapse
    The importance of bees in our food system often goes unappreciated. Just by going about their daily business, these insects are responsible for pollinating three-quarters of the 100 crop species that provide roughly 90 percent of the global food supply. The most recent estimate for th ...
  • Sexual deviancy is normal
    While we are dealing here with pain, it is a pain the masochist is capable of transforming into pleasure; a suffering which he, by some secret alchemy he alone possesses, can turn into pure joy.—Jean Paulhan, Preface to Pauline Réage’s "The Story of O" (1954) If you were ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Climate Policy Expert Calls Lack of Money "Ele ...
    The Green Climate Fund was established to provide money for climate adaptations to developing countries
  • This Week in OtherWords: October 2, 2013
    Richard Kirsch explores the values divide contributing to the government's shutdown while Donald Kaul blames the impasse on the Republican Party.
  • Report from climate scientists confirms what c ...
    "We hope the IPCC’s report will help skeptics understand that the jury is in and has issued a clear ruling: climate change is underway and we must do all we can to slow it down," said Janet Redman, climate expert at the Institute for Policy Studies.
  • Reading Obama's Iran Speech
    President Obama's speech at the United Nations General Assembly reflected some of the extraordinary shifts in global politics that have taken shape in the last six or eight weeks. - Article originally appeared on The Nation's blog.
  • Inequality for All: Documentary Antidote to "E ...
    From gated communities in outer space to graphs about who owns the wealth, two new films are giving Americans a window into the issue of income inequality.

IntelNews

  • Canada denies reports of spy devices found in ...
    The government of Canada has denied media reports that surreptitious listening devices were found in an Ottawa building complex that is currently being prepared to house Canada’s Department of National Defence.
  • News you may have missed #852
    Did US deny entry to German author because he criticized the NSA? Analysts stress 'sophisticated tradecraft' after Iranian spy arrested in Israel. Northern spy lifts cloak on Koreas’ deadly rivalry.
  • Israel arrests Belgian citizen for ‘spyi ...
    A Belgian citizen has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of spying on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  • Files reveal names of Americans targeted by NS ...
    The names of several prominent Americans, who were targeted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) during the height of the protests against the Vietnam War, have been revealed in declassified documents.
  • British, American citizens among Kenya shoppin ...
    Several Americans and at least one British subject were allegedly involved in planning and carrying out the armed attack on a shopping center in Kenya last week, according to the Kenyan government.

War is a Crime.org

  • The Illegality and Evil of the War on Afganistan
    By Francis Boyle Introduction            Thank you.  I'm very happy to be here this evening once again at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, which has always been a center for organizing for peace, justice and human rights in this area ever ...
  • Syria News - Oct 7
      Syria: FSA demand ISIS withdraw from Azaz and Homs - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT VIDEO: General Strike, Protests Staged against Continued Military Presence in Aazaz by Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Al-Ayyam VIDEO: Azaz Rally Supports FSA and Northern Storm Militia - De ...
  • Beginning the Ending of War
    This article is the Introduction to the new book War No More: The Case for Abolition, published in October 2013. As I write this, in September 2013, something extraordinary has just happened. Public pressure has led the British Parliament to refuse a prime minister's demand for war for the first ...
  • Burlington City Council vs The Military Indust ...
      The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive weapons system the US military has ever pursued. With massive delays, cost blowouts and performance failings, the F-35 has become a symbol of the excess of the military industrial complex. It has also become a flashpoint of popular oppos ...
  • Stopping the F-35 in Vermont: Progress Report
    Stop the F-35 Coalition October 6,  2013        Update: October 7th Rally and City Council Public Hearing Important: There is a change of plans for Monday, October 7th.   The City Council has removed the resolution to bar the F- ...

Grist - News

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

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Invisible Opportunity

  • Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates t ...
    by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amounts to some pretty startling news regarding the extent of the Israeli lobby’s influence ...
  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | The Collapsing E ...
    By Visible Make no mistake, the penalties that will be paid, once the window closes, are severe indeed. If there is mercy in play, it is in play now. It will not be in play later. That\’s why it is taking so long. We lack the imagination and strength of vision to comprehend the cost […]
  • Savage: Only Outrage at Execution of Woman in ...
    by Sue4theBillofrights All other media outlets are omitting this crucial detail, that the unarmed woman was no threat and was actually trying to flee on foot when they executed her. The only talk radio host showing any kind of outrage over the murder is Mike Savage, of all people. He gets it, an ...
  • Activist Post: Vaccine-Refusing Parents Falsel ...
    By Heather Callaghan If statistics are what people want, then here are some alarming ones about the DTaP vaccine from Dr. James Howenstine (2003): In 1975 Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today less than 10 % of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. T ...
  • Priests threatened with arrest if they ministe ...
    By Alex Pappas In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown. “With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on mi ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Lessons from the failed forecasts of inflation ...
    Summary: How we handle our fears shows much about ourselves, our ability to see and think. Such as fear of inflation, a major obsession of Right since the crash. Here we look at the warning, see what actually followed, and briefly review the basis of these fears. Contents The inflationistas&#821 ...
  • The IPCC gives us straight talk about Extreme ...
    Summary:  During the past few years activists have broken free of the climate science consensus of the IPCC, considering it too conservative. This allowed free reign to their imaginations and voices, filling the media with warnings of extreme weather today and worse tomorrow. Once again the IPCC ...
  • Surveys look into the heard of GOP weirdness: ...
    Summary: This is the sixth in a series about the Right in America. The first five conveyed disturbing information, but the comments confirm what the op-ed pages tell us, that most Americans see nothing extraordinary with our current political system. Some consider us exceptional in a good way, s ...
  • What are the odds of violence from the Right i ...
    Summary:  Violence is as American as apple pie, part of most social movements since the Founding (used for, against, or both). Might it burst forth again? If so, by whom? The Left feels strongly about climate change, but looks like a spent force — capable of staging street parties but not ...
  • Most of what Democrats say is wrong about the ...
    Summary: The media are alight with denunciations of the Republican Party’s stance in Congress. They say that negotiating using the threat of shutting down the government, or even forcing a default, is irrational or even mad. It is unprecedented in American history! None of these things are ...

The Progressive Realist

  • In Conflict Zones, Children Dying for an Education
    Christopher Butterfield is an intern for ThinkProgress. CREDIT: AP A child in countries wracked with conflict such as Nigeria, Pakistan, and Syria may be forced to play a variety of roles: target of terror, collateral damage, doctor — but only all too rarely student. A new Amnesty Intern ...
  • United States Lagging on New START Implementation
    The latest semi-annual exchange of data under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) shows continuing U.S. lethargy in implementing the modest reductions agreed to when it joined Russia in signing the treaty three-and-a-half years ago. One should not over-read any change from one pe ...
  • Top of the Morning: France Pushes for CAR Secu ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest France Makes Moves on CAR at the Security Council The resolution will likely be brought for a vote in the coming days. “Diplomats at the United Nations said Thursday that the resolution by France, the former colonial ruler of the Central African Republic, would dema ...
  • How the Security Council is Inching Toward End ...
    Yesterday afternoon the Security Council unanimously passed a strongly worded statement calling for greater humanitarian access inside Syria.  The statement urges Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s authorities to “take immediate steps to facilitate the expansion of humanitarian relie ...
  • House Intel Chair Defends Targeted Killing Program
    Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) CREDIT: AP WASHINGTON, DC — House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) on Thursday gave a full-throated defense of the targeted killing of suspected terrorists, even those with American citizenship. Rogers was speaking at a cybersecurity summit hoste ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: Politics is Dumb. And Stupid.
    Senator Mark Warner: "Enough is enough. Sequestration is stupid. Shutting down the government is stupidity on steroids." Timothy Egan: "Politically, the shutdown is terrible for a party trying to rebrand itself. When Bobby Jindal said Republicans have to 'stop being the party of stupid,' he swa ...
  • Restorative Justice's After-School Special
    “Education was where my heart was,” says Tyrone Sinclair in Growing Fairness, a documentary showcasing the impact restorative-justice programs can have in our nation's schools. Sinclair says he was expelled from school at 16, became homeless, and then ended up in jail. Now, he organizes young p ...
  • Would You Let a Robot Watch You Undress?
    Let's face it, we all need a break from talking about this god-awful shutdown (acknowledging, of course, that the best break of all would be to end the damn thing). In that spirit, via Technology Review, here's an interesting study out of Georgia Tech about what kind of robots young and old peo ...
  • McCutcheon Money: How Citizens United 2 Could ...
    Next Tuesday, October 8, the Supreme Court is scheduled (pending shutdown nonsense) to hear oral arguments on McCutcheon v. FEC, a challenge to the total cap on the amount of money one wealthy individual is permitted to contribute to all federal candidates, parties, and PACs. The current “aggre ...
  • Leave Boehner Alone!
    The government shutdown is a crisis with its roots in both policy differences and disagreements about what means are appropriate to settle those policy differences. But it's also a conflict of individual people and personalities. Not that this should be news to anyone, but the key players invol ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Leading Christian Hard-Liner Calls for Militar ...
    Rick Joyner, one of the leading lights of the Christian Dominionist movement, recently told his television audience that democracy has failed in America, and that the nation’s only hope, in light of the looming “tyranny” of the Obama administration, is “a military takeover – martial law.” Said J ...
  • Oath Keepers to Form ‘Civilization Preservatio ...
    The Oath Keepers are going operational. An article posted to the group’s website Tuesday announced the formation of “Civilization Preservation” units, basely loosely on the organization of U.S. Special Forces teams, to provide “community security and support during crisis” – but also “to assist ...
  • ‘General’ Who Ordered Murders for Racist Priso ...
    One of the senior leaders of the violent Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) – a man who ordered murders and other acts of violence – seems certain to spend the rest of his life in prison. Charles Lee “Jive” Roberts, a 68-year-old ABT “general,” was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Hou ...
  • The Bright Side of the Government Shutdown
    Once again, the battlefield of Gettysburg is the site of a Confederate defeat. It seems the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were planning a rally this Saturday at the Gettysburg National Military Park. But, as fortune would have it, the park will be closed because of the government ...
  • Leader of Anti-Gay Hate Group to Run for Governor
    Scott Lively, leader of Abiding Truth Ministries and the co-author of a revisionist work that blames gay men for the Nazi Party who, ultimately, had a hand in the Holocaust, has decided to run for governor of the state of Massachusetts as an Independent. The election is slated for November 4, 20 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize: People, Not C ...
    What does food sovereignty look like? The Food Sovereignty Prize, established in 2009 as an alternative to the World Food Prize, recognizes exemplary work that supports local, community-based, democratic food systems. We are proud to announce that this year’s prize has been awarded to the ...
  • The 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize: People, Not C ...
    What does food sovereignty look like? The Food Sovereignty Prize, established in 2009 as an alternative to the World Food Prize, recognizes exemplary work that supports local, community-based, democratic food systems. We are proud to announce that this year’s prize has been awarded to the ...
  • Greenpeace International Applauds Dutch Arbitr ...
    The Dutch government today announced that it would initiate arbitration proceedings against Russia under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea to secure the release of 28 Greenpeace International activists, plus a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer, currently being detained in ...
  • Greenpeace International Applauds Dutch Arbitr ...
    The Dutch government today announced that it would initiate arbitration proceedings against Russia under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea to secure the release of 28 Greenpeace International activists, plus a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer, currently being detained in ...
  • Hundreds Expected to Rally Against Big Money i ...
    On Tuesday, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in McCutcheon v. FEC, activists and organizations across a wide spectrum of issues will speak out in support of protecting the integrity of our democracy at a rally outside the court. In the McCutcheon case, the Supreme Court will decide whet ...

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

  • Just odd water
    The Aquino (Part II) administration does not seem to mind the turmoil over water service in this metropolis of some 15 million people, featuring the government outfit MWSS and its two concessionaires, Manila Water and Maynilad.
  • Japan biz group hits MWSS order to cut water rates
    MANILA, Philippines - The local Japanese Chamber of Commerce hit the decision of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) to order Manila's water concessionaires to cut their rates, a decision that would hurt Marubeni Corp., one of its members and a partner in Maynilad Water Servic ...
  • Sabesp tender roundup: São Paulo, Osasco water ...
    Southeastern Brazil's São Paulo state water utility Sabesp (Bovespa: SBSP3, NYSE: SBS) has called three tenders valued at a total of 78.7mn reais (US$28.3mn) to...
  • 8 glasses a day
    Last week I talked about the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System’s abrogation of its contract through the exclusion of tax it had committed to include. But there were other questionable decisions it made. It said there were some errors in the financial reports submitted by the concession ...
  • Chicago's Privatized Parking Meters Sour A ...
    With the city's parking meter lease making voters leery of new privatization deals, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for too many public interest protections in the Midway Airport lease, and too few investors saw it as worth the risk. Increasingly, though, governments turn to private investors to r ...

Guardian

  • Ed Miliband has majority backing over Daily Ma ...
    YouGov poll shows 72% believe opinions were wrong, as paper refuses to apologise over Ralph Miliband pieceAround 72% of the public believe that the Daily Mail was wrong to call Labour leader Ed Miliband's father Ralph the "man who hated Britain", while about 69% of people in general and 57% of D ...
  • Cabinet was told nothing about GCHQ spying pro ...
    Ex-minister says he was in 'utter ignorance' of Prism and Tempora and calls for tighter oversight of security servicesCabinet ministers and members of the national security council were told nothing about the existence and scale of the vast data-gathering programmes run by British and American i ...
  • Rebel Tory plot for early EU referendum backfires
    Adam Afriyie calls for early vote on EU membership while Downing Street says no to poll 'under any circumstances' A rebel Tory plot to force David Cameron to hold an EU referendum next year backfired on Sunday, after it was pilloried by most Conservatives but cheered by senior Labour figures.Ada ...
  • Egypt: at least 28 protesters killed as rival ...
    Opposing rallies to commemorate Egypt's participation in 1973 Yom Kippur war flare into day of violence across the countryAt least 28 people died in clashes across Egypt on Sunday as the country's two largest political factions gathered in competing commemorations of Egypt's participation in the ...
  • New National Crime Agency chief urges Theresa ...
    Keith Bristow, who leads the £450m agency, faces his greatest political battle in persuading May to keep Britain in EuropolThe head of the new National Crime Agency has urged the home secretary not to strip British police of crucial capabilities for fighting organised crime by withdrawing from t ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Is withdrawal from Afghanistan still on schedule
    12 years after the so-called ‘war on terror’ began in 2011, an estimated 55-60,000 American troops remain in Afghanistan. The Obama Administration has said all American combat forces will be pulled from Afghanistan by the end of next year. New York Times foreign correspondent Matthew ...
  • Marine from Milwaukee dies in Afghanistan fami ...
    Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremiah Michael Collins, a 19-year-old graduate of Milwaukee Hamilton High School, has died in Afghanistan, his family confirmed Sunday. Collins, an intelligence specialist, died Saturday at Camp Leatherneck, which is in Helmand Province. The cause of his death is under inves ...
  • Afghanistan Moves Closer To Historic Political ...
    Ashraf Ghani, former Afghan finance minister, center, joins hands with his supporters after registering his candidacy in next year's presidential election, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 6, ...
  • Registration Ends For Afghan Presidential Hopefuls
    More than 20 candidates have registered to take part in Afghanistan's presidential election scheduled for April. The last day of the registration process, which has been marked by deals among regional strongmen, Western-trained technocrats, and tribal leaders in intense political maneuve ...
  • Negotiating terms for after the US withdrawal ...
    WASHINGTON - Closed-door negotiations to determine the American military mission in Afghanistan after 2014 have stalled over U.S. demands to conduct lethal counter-terrorism operations and Afghan insistence that Washington guarantee support in event of cross-border attacks. President Hamid Karza ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • WHERE WE STAND ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S "POLICY DI ...
    Presidential Policy Directive 19 is a Directive that creates administrative procedures “protecting” employee-whistleblowers who work for U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA, DNI and the Defense Intelligence Agency. When first announced by President Obama in late 2 ...
  • New York Times Article Examines What Motivates ...
    In an September 20 article entitled Opting to Blow the Whistle or Choosing to Walk Away, New York Times reporter Alina Tugend examines "The question of when to remain quiet and when to speak out." Tugend interviewed National Whistleblower Center Executive Director Stephen Koh ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million.   Subject to the& ...
  • Court Ruling Major Setback For National Securi ...
     "Hundreds of Thousands" of Federal Employees Lose Civil Service Rights Washington, D.C. August 20, 2013. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling today potentially stripping "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees rights under civil servic ...
  • NWC's David Colapinto Featured on Program Disc ...
    NWC General Counsel David Colapinto appeared on The Firm, a show on CNBC-TV18 (India).  The Firm produced an in depth segment explaining the SEC's Whistleblower Policy. Mr. Colapinto shared his expertise in this informational program. 

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    As details emerged about what happened between the feds and Lavabit, it won the operator of the email provider plenty of good will from the community, and it won the government even more antipathy. Our most insightful comment of the week comes courtesy of Scote, who questioned the government's ...
  • That Anonymous Coward's Second Techdirt Favori ...
    OHAI Tourists! *pulls on orange vest* For those of you not shaking your heads in disbelief that I'm here again, I'm That Anonymous Coward. People mostly just call me TAC, my current claim to fame is appearing in 4 sets of exhibits submitted to Federal Courts by Pretenda and its agents, as w ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Open Standards And Open Safety
    For this week's awesome stuff, we're going to highlight two projects that seek to bring out into the open things that are being held in secret for no good reason at all. Public Safety Codes of the World. We've written many times about Carl Malamud and his work with Public.Resource.org to buy up ...
  • DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's ...
    With the DOJ tracking down and arresting the alleged founder/owner of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it was noted that it had also seized 26,000 or so Bitcoins. However, in the criminal complaint against Ulbricht, it suggested that his commissions were in the range of $80 million -- or about 600,000 ...
  • The National Weather Service Sends Hidden Mess ...
    You may have heard that the federal government is shut down. Some have been sent home, while others are still working -- though many of those still on the job aren't getting paid. They're getting IOUs for payment once the government finally starts back up again. Apparently, some folks at the Nat ...

VacTruth

  • Little Girl Unable to Attend School Because Ju ...
    A little girl who has adverse reactions to vaccines is denied vaccine exemptions and access to school.
  • How Pharmaceutical Companies Hide the Dangers ...
    A 1:50 rate of autism in the United States, increasing autoimmune disorders, seizures, allergies and many other illnesses and disorders. Despite all this, your pediatrician, health officials, governments and pharmaceutical companies proclaim that vaccines are very safe. Did you ever wonder how t ...
  • Have All Your Staff Vaccinated and We Will Giv ...
    According to MK News, the UK Government has decided there is more than one way to force hospital staff into receiving this year’s flu vaccine. Knowing that many hospitals are struggling financially, the government has decided to turn their hand to bribery.
  • Blood Donations are Potential Biohazard from T ...
    The huge wave of serious adverse conditions after Gardasil vaccination has caused deep concern across the world. However, the suffering may not only be limited to those who are vaccinated. Blood donated from individuals vaccinated with Gardasil may have horrific consequences for the recipients’ ...
  • New Minnesota State Law Bans Cancer-Causing Fo ...
    Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota have banned formaldehyde from children’s products. Sadly, vaccines are excluded from this ban.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • How Obama’s effort to get re-elected may have ...
    Michael Hirsh reports: Despite Secretary of State John Kerry’s frenetic efforts, preparations for the “Geneva II” peace conference on Syria’s civil war are already foundering. The rebel movement has become increasingly radicalized against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and more fractured. A new ...
  • By accident or design, ISIS is helping Assad
    James Traub writes: I’ve spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20 miles to the w ...
  • Most Israelis would support unilateral strike ...
    USA Today reports: Two-thirds of Israelis would support a unilateral Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear targets if they believed their country was in real danger of attack, according to a new opinion poll. The poll was conducted less than a week after Iranian President Hasan Rouhani told the ...
  • In leaked video, Egyptian army officers debate ...
    The New York Times reports: A leaked video of senior Egyptian Army officers debating how to influence the news media during the months preceding the military takeover offers a rare glimpse of the anxiety within the institution at the prospect of civilian oversight. In the leaked six-minute clip ...
  • How we have become the tools of our devices
    The New York Times reports: Once, only hairdressers and bartenders knew people’s secrets. Now, smartphones know everything — where people go, what they search for, what they buy, what they do for fun and when they go to bed. That is why advertisers, and tech companies like Google and Facebook, a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Global Sea Ice Overview, Walrus Gathering and ...
    Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts For those beating the “imminent Arctic ice death spiral” drum, 2013 has not been a good year. Per the graph above, Global … Continue reading →
  • We Must Get Rid of the Carboniferous Warm Period
    Guest essay by Phillip Mulholland Late Carboniferous to Early Permian time (315 mya — 270 mya) is the only time period in the last 600 million years when both atmospheric CO2 and temperatures were as low as they are today … Continue reading →
  • Evidence that Clouds Actively Regulate the Tem ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have put forth the idea for some time now that one of the main climate thermoregulatory mechanisms is a temperature-controlled sharp increase in albedo in the tropical regions. I have explained that this occurs … Continue reading →
  • Crash boom bang
    The smart money is starting to abandon the CO2 vessel Guest essay by Fred F. Mueller The IPCC and its supporters in the media, in NGO’s and in governments have taken advantage of the issuing of the newly released 5th … Continue reading →
  • The Cloud Radiative Effect, Take Two
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, in my last post I took a first cut at figuring the cloud radiative “feedback” from the CERES dataset. However, an alert commenter pointed out that I hadn’t controlled for the changes in solar … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...
  • ▶ Atherosclerosis
    This 3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack myocardial infarction from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the endothelial arterial wall, ...
  • Development of a fly embryo in real time
    Development of a fly embryo in real time – YouTube.
  • GBacteria from Lean Humans Can Slim Obese Mice
    Graduate student Vanessa Ridaura and colleagues at the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the September 6 issue of Science that mice lacking bacterial colonies of their own that received gut bacteria from obese humans put on mo ...
  • Brain circuit can tune anxiety
    Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective and have unwanted side effects. To develop bett ...

CFACT

  • Co-founder to Greenpeace: “Allow golden ...
    Patrick Moore has launched a new campaign demanding the enviro-giant drop its "immoral" opposition to life and sight-saving golden rice.
  • Has Greenpeace lost its moral compass?
    Greenpeace is using its $300 million-plus income to stifle one of the most important advances in human nutrition and disease prevention.
  • More from Greenpeace indicted by Russia for piracy
    Fourteen and counting. Greenpeace parent: "She was just looking forward to seeing polar bears and never thought for one minute this sort of thing would happen."
  • Time to unmask the IRS’ Halloween goblins
    We could help the U.S. Treasury and take burdens off working Americans by removing the tax exemptions for advocacy groups like Greenpeace, the Ruckus Society, PETA, and even the Council on American Islamic Relations (recently renamed The Washington Trust Foundation). Greenpeace is no longer tax ...
  • UN “95% certainty” of manmade glob ...
    Despite sixteen years of no global warming, a UN climate panel nevertheless now claims it is 95% certain humans are causing global warming. Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot.com, says this is absurd, and here explains why. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/262/5228.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Texans Join Russians to Explore Prehistoric Sites
    As the US government shutdown now in its fourth day, hundreds of memes across the Internet offer levity for Americans in a time of crisis.     
  • Russian Meteorite as Old as Solar System – Sci ...
    The meteorite that exploded above a Russian city in February was about 4.56 billion years old – as old as the Solar System itself, a Russian scientist said Friday.     
  • Russian Experiment Reveals Why Astronauts Lose ...
    A top Russian scientist said Friday that an experiment that saw dozens of animals blasted into orbit on a satellite has offered up new clues about why astronauts’ eyesight deteriorates in space.     
  • Slow START: US Increases Deployed Nuclear Forc ...
    The United States has in the past six months increased its deployed nuclear forces and is moving slowly to implement the New START nuclear disarmament treaty even as Russia cuts its own forces well beyond treaty limits, according to fresh official data and experts.     
  • NASA ‘A Lonely Place’ During US Government Shu ...
    NASA was supposed to be marking its 55th birthday this week, but the US space agency gave furlough notices, not birthday invitations, to nearly all of its 18,000 employees, and began fretting about future missions as funding dried up with the US government shutdown.     

Natural Health News

  • Toxicology Expert Speaks Out About Roundup and ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Don Huber is likely the leading GMO expert in the world. He is an award-winning, internationally recognized scientist, and professor emeritus of plant pathology at Purdue University for the past 35 years. His agriculture research is focused on the epidemiology and co ...
  • Do Air Pollutants Play a Role in Bowel Disease?
    By Dr. Mercola Air pollution has long been implicated as a cause of heart and lung disease, in part because it triggers inflammation in your body. Now, researchers are beginning to explore its potential role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative c ...
  • The True Cost of a Flawed Health Care Paradigm
    By Dr. Mercola Americans spend twice as much on health care per capita than any other country in the world; in fact, according to a series of studies by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co, the US spends more on health care than the next 10 biggest spenders combined: Japan, Germany, France, ...
  • The Violent Side Effects of Antidepressants th ...
    By Dr. Mercola In light of a long list of mass shootings over the past several years, the causative role of psychiatric drugs in violent events will undoubtedly have to be evaluated and addressed at some point. Personally, I’d vote for sooner, rather than later. Antidepressants in part ...
  • How to Say No: Research Reveals the Best Way
    By Dr. Mercola Learning how to say no could easily be described as one of the best-kept secrets to happiness. If you become overburdened with commitments, it’s virtually impossible to find the time to devote to the things that matter most to you. And, spreading yourself too thin, ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Responding to Marty Lederman on Somalia
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Marty has a response up over at Just Security to my earlier post on the domestic and international law questions arising after the U.S. actions in Libya and Somalia late last week. Continuing the conversation, a few replies here. (1) Is there a statu ...
  • The Raids in Somalia and Libya – Theories of S ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein As all major news outlets have now reported, the U.S. carried out two armed raids overseas late last week: one in Tripoli that resulted in the successful capture of suspected core Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Liby, and another in Somalia apparently ai ...
  • Events and Announcements: October 6, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Events The Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, will be hosting the conference — Trials for International Crimes in Asia — on October 17-18, 2013. This will examine the legal issues arising from the tribunals conv ...
  • Weekend Roundup: September 28 – October 4, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we organized a book symposium on Investment Law in International Law: Integrationist Perspectives, edited by Dr Freya Baetens. If you enjoyed the symposium, don’t miss CUP’s offer of a 20% discount for our readers. More detai ...
  • Book Symposium Investment Law: “Investment Law ...
    by Andreas Ziegler by Andreas Ziegler [Andreas Ziegler is Professor at the University of Lausanne and Counsel at Blum & Grob Attorneys-at-law in Zurich.] The reference to John Gray’s bestselling “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” which states that most of common relationship problem ...

Public News Service

  • Affordable Care Act: Newest Tool in Fight Agai ...
    Affordable Care Act: Newest Tool in Fight Against Breast Cancer PHOENIX - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this year's event marks a major change for women's ability to access the health care they need. According to Matt Schafer of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action ...
  • Photo Contest Celebrates Arizona’s Wild ...
    Photo Contest Celebrates Arizona’s Wild Places PHOENIX, Ariz. - Whether amateur or skilled professional, photographers across Arizona are being urged to enter their favorite photos of the state's wild places in a contest celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. The winners w ...
  • AZ-AARP Takes Social Security Message to Congress
    AZ-AARP Takes Social Security Message to Congress PHOENIX - Cutting Social Security benefits would do more than just hurt recipients, according to a new report from AARP that says Arizona's economy also would suffer. The study from the AARP Public Policy Institute calculates that every benefit ...
  • Tech is Changing How AZ Folks Get Around
    Tech is Changing How AZ Folks Get Around PHOENIX - Arizonans are driving fewer miles these days, and technology and ride-sharing programs are making it easier to get around without relying on a car. A report released today by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund examines how these developments are ch ...
  • Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal Gets Major Pl ...
    Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal Gets Major Planning Award PHOENIX, Ariz. - An ambitious proposal to protect nearly 1 million acres of federal public lands in western Maricopa County has received a major award for smart planning. The Arizona Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) sai ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Ifttt. If this, then that. Make your apps work ...
    Ifttt lets you create recipes for apps and websites in an easy to use way, moving data and files around in highly useful ways. In addition to the recipes in the image, I have recipes that save SMS texts to Google Calendar, send a weather forecast each morning, save any Facebook images I’m ...
  • Latino artists exhibition on immigration and m ...
    Butterflies are a metaphor for migration at De Esperanza y de locura / Of Hope and Madness, “a group exhibition of Latino artists who deal with migration and immigration issues understood as flights of both hope and insanity” at MACLA / Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana i ...
  • Minority government at work. Why don’t we call ...
    Is the phrase “government shutdown” actually an oxymoron?  By the time you read this, the government shutdown may or may not be over, and it may or may not matter to you personally, and it may or may not matter to the country – depending on the criteria you use to assess it. Those who […]
  • Maybe I don’t want a smart refrigerator
    Brave new you and your smart refrigerator, which will ever-so-helpfully report back to your doctors (and the NSA) about your dietary habits. Here’s what’s coming. The scale at the physician’s office registers +5.2 lbs. over your last visit. Doc accesses your smart refrigerator ...
  • Autonomous WildCat robot runs 16 mph
    A weaponized WildCat robot would be truly scary even if, in its current incarnation, a well-placed rifle shot would probably disable it. Future versions will no doubt be armored. Still, it’s an amazing piece of technology. WildCat is a four-legged robot being developed to run fast on all t ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • 5 Facts Regarding the Capitol Shooting (The Me ...
      Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism October 4, 2013   Media is reporting on a shooting that occurred this week at the Capitol involving an alleged woman who “rammed a black Infiniti sedan into security posts near the White House and then drove toward Capitol Hill.” This woman was report ...
  • U.S. Govt: Give us your Future and No One Gets ...
    Where we come from, this is called EXTORTION!   The games politicians play: Barack Obama is having a lot of fun using the government shutdown to squeeze the public in imaginative ways. The point of the shutdown game is to see who can squeeze hardest, make the most pious speech and listen fo ...
  • Could Public Banking Avoid Today’s Debacle ?
        by Stephen Lendman  Daily Censored Putting money back in public hands where it belongs would avoid what’s now ongoing. It’s an idea whose time has come.   It’s how to run America’s economy. It’s about doing it responsibly. It’s been done bef ...
  • Breaking: Attempted Breach at White House? Cap ...
    Witnesses now say that the incident was just a simple traffic stop gone wrong… Suspect did NOT try to ram or attack the White House. 2nd attacker reports by cops at scene were wrong. Shots were not from female in car (cops injured by friendly fire?) African American Baby in backseat of wom ...
  • Shutdown makes U.S. more vulnerable to terrori ...
    U.S. intelligence officials warned Wednesday that the government shutdown is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorist attacks and other security risks by forcing U.S. spy agencies to send tens of thousands of employees home. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. testified ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Q&A with Instagram, Vine photographer Meghan C ...
    Photographer Meghan Cignoli has shot short video ads on Instagram and Vine for major brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Ciroc and Lowe’s — among many others. Complex Magazine named her one of 15 non-celebrities to follow on...
  • Yahoo ends Social Bar, cutting off Facebook in ...
    Yahoo is cutting off Facebook integration through its social reader, the Yahoo Social Bar, an app that has declined precipitously in popularity. The company claims that it is sunsetting the Yahoo Social Bar in order to...
  • AppsFlyer, a Facebook Preferred Mobile Measure ...
    AppsFlyer, a Facebook Preferred Mobile Measurement Partner, announced that they’ve launched support for the newly-released mobile app action ads. Through the AppsFlyer NativeTrack SDK, developers can create engaging ads that get users to open up apps...
  • Instagram advertising coming to a screen near you
    The worst-kept secret in Menlo Park finally came true Thursday: Facebook’s Instagram has launched advertising for U.S. users. Instagram announced this in a company blog post, but rumors have been swirling for months. Facebook has pretty...
  • Facebook Home rents space to Instagram, Pinter ...
    Mark Zuckerberg has said that different kinds of content will be available on Facebook Home. That’s coming soon, as Facebook announced Thursday that beta testers of Android will see highly visual content from Instagram, as well as Pinterest,...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Was Race a Factor in the Slaying of Miriam Carey?
    Miriam Carey's sisters screamed loudly that their sister did not have to die in the hail of gunfire from D.C. police. They did not say or even hint that race had anything to do with the young black woman's slaying in her alleged attack on the White House. The blizzard of oft times conflicting re ...
  • UK's Liberal Guardian Bids To Become First Glo ...
    UK's liberal Guardian, an investigative newspaper "on fire," on a path to become the world's first truly global news daily.
  • Another Slump Ahead: The True State of the Economy
    This is lunacy. The economy is sputtering along at sub-2 percent, millions of people can't find work, public confidence in the government is down the plughole, and Bernanke's playing circle-jerk with the money supply. This is the recovery we're expected to believe in? Just look at the problems t ...
  • GOP's massive fraud: The shutdown isn't really ...
    There is an insidious method to the madness of government shutdowns. In general, the dividing line between what gets shut down and what doesn't is a similar dividing line between what America's political culture typically venerates as The State and what that culture lambasts as The Government.
  • The Return of the 19th Century
    A friend once told me that the wealthy elite didn't want to just "roll back" the New Deal, they wanted to roll back the entire 20th Century. His point was that all the social gains of the 20th Century were granted to us in order to combat global communism, and that with the collapse of communism ...

Switchboard

  • Reason Takes a Holiday: Day 6: Daily Dings to ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC “Some people claim that there's a woman to blame But I know it's my own damn fault” —Jimmy Buffet, "Margaritaville" Politicians in Washington keep trying to blame the other ...
  • Melting Sea Ice Means Uncertain Future for Wal ...
    Zack Strong, Wildlife Advocate, Bozeman, Montana Huge, tough, impervious to cold.  Long, sharp tusks.  Fierce enough to defend themselves against polar bears and killer whales.  A diet of shellfish that many cultures consider delicaci ...
  • Reason Takes a Holiday: Day 5: Daily Dings to ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC "It can be truly said, that I have a bat in my belfry.”—The Joker in the movie "Batman." The Joker is certainly right about those who instigated the government shutdown. Every day, ...
  • Ocean Stewardship is Compromised as Government ...
    Alexandra Adams, Oceans Advocate, Washington, D.C. While the clock ticks away through the House Republican shutdown of the federal government, political gamesmanship translates into real impacts to our environment, oceans and the resources we rely o ...
  • Latin America Green News: frost devastates Chi ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. September 30 – October 4, 2013 Chile Chile’s S ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Book Review - A Fateful Meeting of Minds at th ...
    Since the 1930s scholars, scientists, journalists and ordinary folk have wondered why the Nazis could have committed so many ghastly crimes against innocent people and children. At times a few helpful insights arise from the killers themselves. One that comes to mind emerges from Gitta Sereny’ ...
  • The Race for Solar - 3,000 Kilometer Solar Rac ...
    One of the most punishing races for solar-powered cars has started today in northern Australia.  The World Solar Challenge is a 3,000 kilometer trek through the Australia’s arid heart, from Darwin to Adelaide.  Thirty-nine cars made the finals, including teams from the U.S., Saudi Ar ...
  • Broken Government - Time to Change the Way We ...
    To end the shutdown, we need a coalition of the willing. Right now, with 200 Democratic votes in the House of Representatives, less than twenty Republicans would be needed to pass – first a discharge petition to get the motion onto the floor and then a clean continuing resolution. With that th ...
  • Broken Economy - Recession Looms in 2014
    The level of uncertainty among investors about the direction of U.S. fiscal and monetary policy is startling. At a recent gathering of top investors in New York, few displayed much conviction about the future path of the Federal Reserve’s monetary stance after its Sept. 18 decision not to wind ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Kerry Says Al-Qaeda 'C ...
    After separate raids by U.S. military forces in Libya and Somalia, Secretary of State John Kerry has repeated America’s commitment to pursuing wanted terrorists, saying they "can run, but can’t hide." In operations thousands of kilometers apart on the African continent, U.S. military fo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Boehner: Nothing'll Be Passed Until Obama Nego ...
    Speaker of the House John Boehner seems to be standing firm, today today he appeared on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and said there will be "clean spending bill" nor will there be a debit limit increase until the President agrees to negotiate. “He knows what my phone number is ...
  • What Will Obama Do With His Middle East Policy ...
    by Barry Rubin Turkish Reader: Haven’t you understood yet that the US does not care about whether a Muslim country is ruled by Sharia [dictatorship] or by secular [democracy] law as long as that regime is pro-American? Isn’t this U.S. interests “über alles”? Me: Yes I do care. Fi ...
  • U.S. Navy Seals Attack al-Shabab in Somalia--B ...
    In response to the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi U.S. Navy SEALs carried out a daring predawn raid Saturday on the Somali home of a leader of the terrorist group al-Shabab, who carried out the attack. Initial reports say the U.S. commandos appear to have killed members of al-Shabab, bu ...
  • The Tea Party Has Become The "Joooos" of Ameri ...
    For much of the past 2,000 years political elements across the world have used a group that looked and prayed differently, lumped them together to dehumanized them with the purpose of deflecting public anger their way and away the failure of their political leaders. Blaming the Jews was a succe ...
  • Sheila Jackson Lee: Creatively Stupid
    A standard phrase of Ron White, one of my favorite comedians is "You can't fix stupid." Sometimes I wonder if he came up with that phrase to warn us about Sheila Jackson Lee.  She may not be the dumbest person in Congress, she competes with Barbara Boxer, Hank Johnson and De ...

Wind Watch

  • Sustainable Shetland claims victory
    Campaign group Sustainable Shetland is claiming a major victory against the Scottish government today, after a judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh indicated that the decision to grant consent to the Viking Energy windfarm would be quashed. According to a statement released by the group th ...
  • Couple win wind turbine ruling
    A windfarm has been ordered to demolish ten turbines and pay compensation and fines after it was successfully sued by a couple. Speaking to Le Figaro newspaper, the couple’s lawyer, Philippe Bodereau, said: “This decision is very important because it demonstrates to all those who put up wi ...
  • Windmill farm seeks permit to kill eagles
    A large wind farm in Solano County would be the first renewable energy project in the nation to be issued a permit to kill eagles under a plan released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, outlined in a draft environmental report, is to issue a golden eagle take permit t ...
  • Wind turbine burns up near Lahr — Fire Departm ...
    Ein Feuer hat eine der drei Windräder auf dem Areal Schlossbühl/Kempfenbühl oberhalb des Langenhard vollständig zerstört. Der Schaden beläuft sich nach ersten Erkenntnissen auf ein bis zwei Millionen Euro, hat Arno Markowsky, Geschäftsführer der Freiburger Ökostromgruppe bekannt gegeben. Um 12.3 ...
  • New Era Wind abandons area project
    “New Era no longer intends to develop a wind energy project in Goodhue County, and respectfully requests that the commission close all four dockets and all pending matters related thereto,” Peter Mastic, chief manager for the New Era Wind Farm LLC, stated in a letter to the Minnesota Public Util ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Government shutdown delays Texas voter ID chal ...
    Image Caption:  The government shutdown means a delay for the Justice Department's lawsuit against the Texas voter ID law. The Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to delay its lawsuit against Texas over its vo ...
  • The 'Muhammad Ali of the criminal justice syst ...
    Image Caption:  Herman Wallace in April 2013. (Photo via Angola 3 News.) Held in solitary confinement at Louisiana's notorious Angola prison for 41 years for a murder he did not commit, Herman Wallace passed away today -- just ...
  • Federal court orders EPA to get moving on coal ...
    Image Caption:  The collapse of a faulty coal ash impoundment at a TVA power plant in eastern Tennessee back in 2008 spurred EPA rulemaking that stalled, but a federal judge has ordered the agency to get moving again (Photo of TVA coal ash spil ...
  • Dangerous levels of radioactivity found where ...
    Image Caption:  This graph showing elevated radium levels at the point of fracking wastewater discharge into a Pennsylvania creek and downstream is from "Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania.&qu ...
  • Employee or independent contractor? Employer f ...
    Image Caption:  Wrongly classifying workers as independent contractors gets around laws like workers' compensation and family and medical leave. It's costing Texas construction workers millions, according to the International Brotherh ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

  • Opec head blow to Salmond: Scotland should sta ...
    Alex Salmond's hope of making an independent Scotland an economically self-sufficient nation from the North Sea were dealt a serious blow on Sunday night by the head of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec).     
  • Jude Law protests against Russian piracy charg ...
    The Hollywood star was joined by musician Damon Albarn and fellow thespians Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter outside the Russian Embassy in London to demonstrate against piracy charges faced by Greenpeace activists protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic circle.     
  • Independent Scotland 'would need to close £3.4 ...
    A newly independent Scotland faces billions of pounds of instant tax increases or spending cuts to afford Alex Salmond's flagship plan for an oil fund, a report for SNP ministers has indicated.     
  • Independent Scotland 'faces tax hike to pay fo ...
    An independent Scotland would have to hike taxes or cut drastically public spending to afford Alex Salmond's flagship plan for an oil fund, according to calculations unveiled by George Osborne.     
  • Alex Salmond accused of misleading voters over ...
    Alex Salmond today faced further accusations of attempting to hoodwink Scottish voters after the Treasury said it had uncovered serious flaws in his £1.5 trillion estimate for the value of North Sea oil and gas reserves.     

Ian Welsh

  • Why The Republicans Shut The Government Down a ...
    HBR has an article by Justin Fox on the government shutdown in Washington in game theory terms.  It’s good as far as it goes, but it amounts to this: It works, they get some of what they want People keep doing what works. Let’s add some more specifics. The article mentions that the f ...
  • (CORRECTED) If the Republican Bill were to Pass…
    Correction: I misread the bill, while the part about the individual mandate is correct, legislators were already going to be forced into the exchanges.  What the bill does is cut staffer subsidies, and most of those staffers are poor.  That’s not something I can support.   legislators ...
  • The Individual Mandate and the Government Shutdown
    Let’s get specific.  The House spending bill linked continued funding to a one year delay of the individual mandate—the requirement that everyone buy insurance.  This is not the same thing as delaying Obamacare, everyone who wanted a policy could still buy one.  While there are subsidies f ...
  • Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia ...
    Look, years ago, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) destroyed the warlords who ran Somalia’s capital.  These warlords, to give some context, would drag teenaged girls, by which I mean 14 years old, out of their parents shanty, take them away, and gang rape them. The ICU were Islamic, to be sur ...
  • Egypt bans the Muslim Brotherhood
    This includes seizing all their money and assets.  Among other things, this is a humanitarian disaster: who do you think feeds many of the poor in Egypt?  Who runs the clinics? One of my friends worked in Egypt, for the Mubarak regime, for a while.  He’s a man with a strong stomach, but th ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • DRC Signals Progress in Kampala Talks
    Margaret Besheer KINSHASA — Members of a U.N. Security Council delegation visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have reassuring signs from the government that it wants a positive outcome to talks with M23 rebels in the east. Kinshasa also expressed its commitment to implementi ...
  • APEC leaders seeks ways to foster growth
    AP Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is urging Asian business and political leaders to do more to counter the economic headwinds...
  • China refutes Japan's concern over mariti ...
    BALI, Indonesia - A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday rejected concerns raised by the Japanese side on the so-called maritime security and China's maritime activities. Qin Gang made the remarks when asked by press ahead of...
  • UN labour agency urges revision of migrat ...
    (Source: UN - United Nations) UN labour agency urges revision of migration policies after Lampedusa incident The Italian coastguard brings survivors of Thursday's tragedy to the harbour in Lampedusa. AMSA/UNHCR 5 October 2013 - The head of the United Nations labour agency today called fo ...
  • Germany hands over military base to Afgha ...
    BERLIN (AP) â Germany is handing over a key military base in northern Afghanistan to local security forces as part of the gradual pullout of Western forces in the coming years. According to prepared...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • Vigils Around the Globe for Greenpeace Activis ...
    Protests were held in cities around the world on Saturday to rally support for the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists currently being held by the Russian government on charges of piracy. Both activists and governments have been shocked by Russia's decision to level serious piracy ch ...
  • Canadians Tarek Loubani and John Greyson Relea ...
    Two Canadians who were arrested and held in a cramped Egyptian jail cell for more than seven weeks without charges have been released. John Greyson, left, and Tarek Loubani are pictured in undated photos.In a statement released early today, Canadian Minister of State Lynne Yelich said the govern ...
  • Canadians Tarek Loubani and John Greyson Relea ...
    Two Canadians who were arrested and held in a cramped Egyptian jail cell for more than seven weeks without charges have been released. John Greyson, left, and Tarek Loubani are pictured in undated photos.In a statement released early today, Canadian Minister of State Lynne Yelich said the govern ...
  • Climate Change: Mayors Around the Globe Leadin ...
    Part of the Sustainable Urban Masterplan for Shanghai, this image shows the channels with pedestrian and slow traffic lanes on the right, and urban food gardens on the left. The channel transports water from vertical farm to vertical farm, cooling the city and being filtered through various plan ...
  • Climate Change: Mayors Around the Globe Leadin ...
    Part of the Sustainable Urban Masterplan for Shanghai, this image shows the channels with pedestrian and slow traffic lanes on the right, and urban food gardens on the left. The channel transports water from vertical farm to vertical farm, cooling the city and being filtered through various plan ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Solutions: Taking Back Our Power
      Nothing like a nice government shutdown to remind us that the federal government is hopelessly dysfunctional. Congress and the White House are so focused on the needs of their corporate donors that most of the laws they pass hurt ordinary Americans rather than helping them. Fortunat ...
  • Books to Prisoners
     The Political Importance of Literacy Books to Prisoners is a Seattle-based, all-volunteer non-profit organization founded in 1973 under the sponsorship of Left Bank Books. BTP ships books to prisoners – at their request. Prisoners send them 1,200 – 1,300 book requests ...
  • Where Women Rule
    Below is a recent CCTV-English (Chinese state TV) documentary on low carbon development in Rwanda. It piqued my interest, mainly because Rwanda has the only parliament in the world where women are in the majority. Following recent elections*, women hold 56.3% of the seats. Former rebel ...
  • TV3 Tackles Income Inequality
    The American Pubic Broadcasting Service used to have fabulous, hard hitting documentaries when PBS first got going in the 1970s. Fast forward to 2013, and all the documentaries that seriously challenge the political establishment have all but vanished from free-to-air TV (except, perhaps, ...
  • UK Greens Call to End Debt-Based Money
    According to Positive Money, the Green Party of England and Wales has joined the US Green Party in proposing to strip private banks of the power to create money. The September 13 motion calls for this power to be placed with a democratically accountable National Monetary Authority at the ...

FourWinds10

  • Ecosystem and Food Supply Threatened by Gross ...
    June 18, 2013 Research has shown that many pesticides are neurotoxic and can cause disruptions to your neurological system and your brain. The reason why neurotoxins still enjoy widespread use on our food supply is really more about the bottom line for farming operations than it is about the sci ...
  • Zero Emissions Foolishness and Carbon Credit Rot
  • The WHO Must Release Report on Iraqi Birth Def ...
    Aug. 11, 2013 "The indefinite postponement of the World Health Organisation's report is alarming scientists and activists." (DETROIT) - Large parts of the Middle East are now contaminated with war pollutants. In Iraq, war debris continues to wear away and erode populated cities. Su ...
  • Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico twice as large as ...
    Aug. 12, 2013 Large dead zone in 2013 is partly due to wet spring conditions in the Mississippi watershed, which increased nutrient runoff, triggering algae blooms. The oxygen-depleted dead zone that forms each summer in the Gulf of Mexico has reached 5,840 square miles in size, according to NOA ...
  • EPA goes paramilitary, conducts armed raids wi ...
    Sept. 13, 2013 (NaturalNews) In what is another example of gross regulatory abuse, a squad of Alaska enviro-agents wearing POLICE-emblazoned body armor and dressed in paramilitary garb recently "raided" a small community for the purpose of - wait for it - checking the quality of water. ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Ron Binz Steps Down as FERC Nominee, Citing 'B ...
    After unsuccessfully attempting to stop the nomination of Environmental Protection Administrator Gina McCarthy, Republicans were able to derail Obama's nominee to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Ron Binz.read more
  • IPCC Report Underscores Need to Address Ocean ...
    The recent IPCC report addressed an impact of rising atmospheric CO2 emissions: ocean acidification. While national and international media outlets largely skipped the report’s findings on acidification, my eyes went straight to what we call climate change’s “evil twin.”read more
  • Climate and Conflict
    A recent episode from Dr. Joylette Portlock’s YouTube series, titled 'Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something', discusses the impact of climate change on national and international security, and how global warming can lead to dangerous conflicts.read more
  • Up-Size Your Solar: "You Want Energy Efficienc ...
    All the energy efficiency gurus will tell you the same thing: That energy efficiency is a no-brainer. But it’s intangible and a pretty long way from sexy. PV is tangible and sexy, and therein lies just one of the reasons Australians have adopted PV but failed to embrace energy efficiency.read more
  • Renewable Industry Leaders Call on EU To Suppo ...
    Renewable energy industry leaders have co-signed an open letter to the European Ministers of Energy, Commissioner for Energy, and Commissioner for Climate Action, calling for the EU to adopt a legally binding target for renewable energy in the form of the Climate and Energy Framework for 2030.re ...

Rodale News

  • The Best Soups for Fall: Curried Chicken Wild ...
    Love soup? Who doesn't?? For the entire month of October, Rodale News is hosting a "Rodale Soup Club"—we give you a soup recipe on Friday, and then you post your pics, tweaks and tips to our Facebook page on Monday. Each recipe comes to you courtesy of Beatrice Ojakangas, author of th ...
  • Why Your Carpets Are Truly Toxic
    Is your carpet killing killer whales? You'd probably immediately answer no to that question, but the answer could be yes, all thanks to a highly toxic, highly persistent class of chemicals used on carpets for years. But that could soon change because of a new ruling issued by the Environmental ...
  • This Week's Pickings: Helping is Heart-Healthy ...
    • Giving keeps on giving: Why good deeds make for a strong heart (Scientific American via Refinery 29) • Kombucha: miracle drink or just stinky tea? (NPR: The Salt) • 4 telltale signs you might be toxic (MindBodyGreen) • Meteorologist has teary meltdown over climate change, vows never to fly a ...
  • Attention Men: 5 Ways Your Home Is Secretly Tu ...
    A home should be a sanctuary, a place of safety, not a cesspool of toxic stuff that can endanger your health. But the typical home is full of seemingly benign items and appliances that in fact spew chemicals that can mess with your fragile endocrine system. And tough-as-nails men are among the ...
  • FDA FINALLY Agrees to Kick Carcinogens Out of ...
    In a huge win for the poultry-loving public, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has, at long last, agreed to withdraw its approvals for three of the four arsenic-based feed additives given to turkeys and chickens. Of the 101 animal-feed products on the market that contain some form of arsen ...

big think

  • Children Distract Drivers Far More Than Phones Do
    What's the Latest Development? Monash University researchers put a discreet video recording system inside the cars of families with children between the ages of one and eight to see how their attention varied when the children were in the car. Of 92 trips examined, 90 of them included in ...
  • Technology Doesn't Work Without Poetry
    Change has always been with us, but the rate of change is changing.  It’s no longer evolution, it’s revolutionary.  The trajectory is changing, and the momentum is accelerating.  It’s acceleration and trajectory change all at once.  And three dimensionally.   But you really have to recog ...
  • We Know What You Do, But What Do You Believe?
    I’ve always been a pretty happy-go-lucky guy.  But about five years ago, I reached a point in my career where my passion was gone.  I stopped loving what I was doing and I even got to the point where I didn’t even like it anymore and for a happy person, just being unhappy was bad enough.  And it ...
  • Where’s the Left of Me?
    Why are all the radicals on the right today? My argument is that we have two problems in Washington: One is hyperpartisanship, as a Washington Post article details. Because of the disastrous reverberations of redistricting and exacerbated by a serious economic and cultural gap between th ...
  • In Life, Ride the Path, Not the Jumps
    The first thing I’ve learned about leading an extraordinary life is you don’t ride the jumps in your path, you ride the path itself.   So if you’re an equestrian and you’re trying to learn to jump you horse over little cross rails, you’re coach will tell you, “Don’t look down at the jump ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Elemental discoveries – Hipsterium
    Back in the day (well 1995) I created one of the first chemistry websites – Elemental Discoveries – it was a spinoff of my news column for the RSC’s young chemists’ print magazine New Elements (a name I coined to replace the old Gas Jar). Anyway, Elemental Discoveries was ...
  • Obamacare
    The US has shut down for the day…it’s some kind of budgetary rebellion over Obamacare, right? This is roughly how Wiki describes Obamacare, or to give it its formal name The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): “[Obamacare] aims to increase the quality and afford ...
  • Tim Minchin – philosopher
    Ooh get him in his robes and mortar board…no, I mean it “get” him, ignore the robes and mortar board, ignore the long hair if that’s not your thing. But, give his philosophy a listen to, all the way through…I perhaps do his speech an injustice quoting so briefly fro ...
  • The monsters in your peripheral vision
    A while ago there was a meme that went viral, it showed images of people one after the other, but if you stared at a spot just to the side of the faces flashing past something very strange happened – you got the impression that the faces were monstrous, ghouls, with distorted features. Giz ...
  • No mystery to free will, just cause and effect
    The debate about free will rages on and on, it always will, with some saying it would violate causality and the laws of physics if it were anything but an illusion, others pointing out that it is “god-given” and so must exist(!) and yet others pointing out that so much of the brain&# ...

RFF Library

  • Health Impact Assessment of Shale Gas Extracti ...
    National Research Council (download pre-publication version or pre-order final version) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18376 Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologies has expanded ...
  • EPA Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions fro ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43127.pdf As President Obama announced initiatives addressing climate change on June 25, 2013, a major focus of attention was the prospect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for fossilfueled—mostly coal-fired—electric genera ...
  • U.S. Natural Gas Exports: New Opportunities, U ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42074.pdf As estimates for the amount of U.S. natural gas resources have grown, so have the prospects of rising U.S. natural gas exports. The United States is expected to go from a net importer of natural gas to a net exporter by 20 ...
  • Evidence of Recovery of Juniperus Virginiana T ...
    Science (September 17, 2013, v110 n38 p15319-15324;  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308115110 ) / by Richard B. Thomas, Scott E. Spal, Kenneth R. Smith and Jesse B. Nippert http://www.pnas.org/content/110/38/15319.full.pdf+html Using dendroisotopic techniques, we show the recovery of Juniperus virginiana L. ...
  • Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat W ...
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society  (June 2013, v94, n6 p.821-834) by Noah Diffenbaugh, et al. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00066.1 Weather and climate extremes have been varying and changing on many different time scales. In recent decades, heat waves have ...

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

  • Buffy St. Marie on Fracking
    Hint: She doesn't like it. St. John, New Brunswick – Legendary performer Buffy St. Marie graced the Imperial Theatre in St. John last night, and gave a double standing ovation performance. Never one to shy away from a political s ...
  • Tit For Tat - As SWN issues injunction against ...
    Notice targets Irving's presence on St. John River - housing of SWN's equipment. Rexton, New Brunswick – Treaty scholar Suzanne Patles, herself named personally in ye ...
  • StFX community honours lost Indigenous sisters
    Today, silence can be heard across the country. The Sisters in Spirit vigil held at St. Francis Xavier University today is one of many occurring throughout Canada to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women. At the vigil – organi ...
  • Coalition rates political parties on health ca ...
    "All mainstream parties tinkered around the edges" When it comes to health care none of the mainstream parties is doing a stellar job. This is the conclusion of the Nova Sc ...
  • Arrêtons l'expulsion de Djaber Kalibi!
    pour plus d'information :  http://comitesoutien.wix.com/solidaritedjaber

David Seaton's News Links

  • The magnificent quest for Shinola (updated)
    David Seaton's News LinksThis is a revised version of something I wrote a couple of years ago, which I felt that, with a few minor changes, would be more timely today than when I first wrote it. In American-Speak someone of little understanding is said to be unable to distinguish between excreme ...
  • Washington: insanity made simple
    David Seaton's News Links What is going on in Washington, why are the Republicans in Congress acting in what would appear to be such a suicidal fashion?I think I have found the answer in  Mark Leibovich's "This Town", a book which I have mentioned repeatedly in recent posts.Cutting directly ...
  • Abandon hope all ye who enter here...?
    David Seaton's News LinksDante's Inferno -  "The Thieves" - Gustavo Doré "Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source."—Fareed Zakaria And so we have arrived at the bizarre juncture where it makes more sense for Mr Obama ...
  • Writing opinion in turbulent times
    David Seaton's News LinksHard times for a columnist with deadlines to meet. Everything is in the air, variables multiply dizzily.Handicapping the Middle East, more than ever, is mug's game. Years on, Obama is still an enigma wrapped in a candy bar wrapper, Putin... what does he want? Who is Angi ...
  • Chutzpah, thy name is Putin
    David Seaton's News Links "We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." Vladimir Putin "What a crazy world we are living in when Russia sounds more sane and responsible than our own government on a serious international crisis. ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • John Boehner Has Been Cruzified on a Cross of Tea
    Byron York has an interview today with a Republican congressman who is unnamed except for this description: "It's fair to say his was a perspective well worth listening to." The gist is that this guy was surprised by the passion of the Ted Cruz crusade to defund Obamacare, but nonetheless figu ...
  • Denny Hastert's Republicans Are Gone, Gone, Gone
    Eleanor Clift interviewed former House Speaker Denny Hastert for the Daily Beast this week, and the part that's getting the most attention is Hastert's claim that there's never really been a Hastert Rule. But that's not the most interesting part of the interview. It's this part, where Clift as ...
  • Anthony Kennedy Denounces Anthony Kennedy's Su ...
    Justice Anthony Kennedy thinks our political system should solve more problems on its own, instead of turning to the courts to solve them. Jonathan Adler is unimpressed: In most cases, the Supreme Court intervenes not to help the democratic process to function, but rather to alter the wa ...
  • We Are Witnessing a Destruction Test of P.T. B ...
    So Republicans have settled on their messaging, and it's this: Democrats are refusing to negotiate. We keep offering compromise after compromise, but Democrats won't listen to any of them. Will this work? The truth of a proposition has little or nothing to do with its pyschodynamics,1 so I ...
  • Hostage Taking Then and Now
    Here is Charles Krauthammer today: President Obama indignantly insists that GOP attempts to abolish or amend Obama­care are unseemly because it is “settled” law, having passed both houses of Congress, obtained his signature and passed muster with the Supreme Court....Yet ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Police arrest Penan as tribe blockades dam site
    Last year the Penan protested at the dam site for 36 days© SCANE/SurvivalTensions are mounting at the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Yesterday police arrested one man and dismantled Penan shelters. More than 100 Penan are currently blockading the dam site. The Penan, whose forest h ...
  • Worldwide protests demand stop to Brazil's ass ...
    Vocal protests were held in London today against Brazil's assault on indigenous rights. © SurvivalSupporters of human rights organization Survival International held a vocal protest outside the Brazilian embassy in London today in support of thousands of indigenous demonstrators in Brazil r ...
  • Minister receives daily 'Awáicon' to save Eart ...
    Brazil's Minister of Justice is receiving daily 'Awáicon' photos, such as this one showing internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado supporting the campaign for the Awá. © SurvivalSurvival International is sending Brazil’s Minister of Justice one ‘Awáicon ...
  • Jarawa face year-round threat from 'human safa ...
    Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road which cuts through the their reserve, putting them at risk from diseases to which they have no immunity.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalAs the world marks World Tourism Day, the administration of India’s Andamans is preparing to promote the islands from a sea ...
  • Tourists: Boycott Botswana over treatment of B ...
    Botswana attracts tourists with images of the Kalahari Bushmen, whilst driving them off their lands© www.botswanatourism.co.bwSurvival International is launching a boycott of Botswana tourism on World Tourism Day on Friday, over Botswana’s continuing attempts to force the Bushmen off their ...

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

  • #Washington state battles over genetically mod ...
    from usatoday.com: Washington state is the next battleground in an ongoing effort by food activists to get products containing genetically engineered ingredients labeled. California voters rejected a similar initiative 53% to 47% in a bruising and expensive election in 2012. Initiative 522 go ...
  • In Age of Anywhere Delivery, the Food Meets Yo ...
    from nytimes.com: Now that the hungry can use cellphones and food-delivery apps to order anything their stomachs desire to the very spot where they stand, however, delivery is no longer confined to the apartment or the office — or even, for that matter, to a place with an address. “We go to the ...
  • #Colorado School of Mines engineers turn food ...
    from denverpost.com: Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountains for minerals: mining the minerals from food waste. They've turned putrid banana peels, eggshells and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. Now they're investigating what other muck may y ...
  • #HeartAttackGrill Founder Jon Basso: "My Food ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: Heart Attack Grill founder Jon Basso appeared on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop" Thursday morning for an extremely candid -- and at times bizarre -- interview. Basso made headlines earlier this year after John Alleman, the Heart Attack Grill's unofficial spokes ...
  • Flowering plant origins pushed back 100 millio ...
    from bbc.co.uk: Flowering plants may have originated more than 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists in Switzerland and Germany. The previously oldest known flowering plant-like pollen dates from the Early Cretaceous period. But the team described six types o ...

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

  • 30 Statistics About Americans Under The Age Of ...
    Why are young people in America so frustrated these days?  You are about to find out.  Most young adults started out having faith in the system.  They worked hard, they got good grades, they stayed out of trouble and many of them went on to college.  But when their educations where over, they di ...
  • Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That ...
    All of this whining and crying about a "government shutdown" is a total joke.  You see, there really is very little reason why this "government shutdown" cannot continue indefinitely because almost everything is still running.  63 percent of all federal workers are still working, and 85 percent ...
  • About 40 Percent Of All Food In The United Sta ...
    Could that headline actually be true?  Do Americans waste about 40 percent of all the food that we produce?  That sounds like an absolutely crazy number, but it is actually quite accurate according to a study conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.  What the NRDC discovered is that a ...
  • World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals H ...
    Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years.  In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel.  She was in a unique position to [...]
  • Oxford Professors: Robots And Computers Could ...
    What are human workers going to do when super-intelligent robots and computers are better than us at doing everything?  That is one of the questions that a new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr. Michael Osborne of Oxford University sought to address, and what they concluded was that 47 percent of al ...

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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

  • Government shutdown delays Texas voter ID chal ...
    Image Caption:  The government shutdown means a delay for the Justice Department's lawsuit against the Texas voter ID law. The Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to delay its lawsuit against Texas over its vo ...
  • The 'Muhammad Ali of the criminal justice syst ...
    Image Caption:  Herman Wallace in April 2013. (Photo via Angola 3 News.) Held in solitary confinement at Louisiana's notorious Angola prison for 41 years for a murder he did not commit, Herman Wallace passed away today -- just ...
  • Federal court orders EPA to get moving on coal ...
    Image Caption:  The collapse of a faulty coal ash impoundment at a TVA power plant in eastern Tennessee back in 2008 spurred EPA rulemaking that stalled, but a federal judge has ordered the agency to get moving again (Photo of TVA coal ash spil ...
  • Dangerous levels of radioactivity found where ...
    Image Caption:  This graph showing elevated radium levels at the point of fracking wastewater discharge into a Pennsylvania creek and downstream is from "Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania.&qu ...
  • Employee or independent contractor? Employer f ...
    Image Caption:  Wrongly classifying workers as independent contractors gets around laws like workers' compensation and family and medical leave. It's costing Texas construction workers millions, according to the International Brotherh ...

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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

  • Cynthia McKinney Drops Bombshell: Candidates t ...
    by Richard Edmondson, source In an interview which aired on Press TV on Saturday–one day before the AIPAC conference got under way in Washington–former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney revealed what amounts to some pretty startling news regarding the extent of the Israeli lobby’s influence ...
  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | The Collapsing E ...
    By Visible Make no mistake, the penalties that will be paid, once the window closes, are severe indeed. If there is mercy in play, it is in play now. It will not be in play later. That\’s why it is taking so long. We lack the imagination and strength of vision to comprehend the cost […]
  • Savage: Only Outrage at Execution of Woman in ...
    by Sue4theBillofrights All other media outlets are omitting this crucial detail, that the unarmed woman was no threat and was actually trying to flee on foot when they executed her. The only talk radio host showing any kind of outrage over the murder is Mike Savage, of all people. He gets it, an ...
  • Activist Post: Vaccine-Refusing Parents Falsel ...
    By Heather Callaghan If statistics are what people want, then here are some alarming ones about the DTaP vaccine from Dr. James Howenstine (2003): In 1975 Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today less than 10 % of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. T ...
  • Priests threatened with arrest if they ministe ...
    By Alex Pappas In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown. “With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on mi ...

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  • Legal Realities
    If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...
  • Inspector O
    It's not so easy to balance the curiosity of a child with the cynicism of a policeman, or a secret agent. But Inspector O, of North Korea, manages to look for things where others dare not go. And finds his answers. A deeply satisfying literary figure, O also helps us look into the mirror at ours ...
  • Purge the Generals
    It's rare for an officer still in uniform to become a whistleblower. LTC Daniel L. Davis earned his bones reporting publicly the results of his investigations into how things are failing in Afghanistan. Now, refocused on a bigger picture, Danny is calling for a purge of high level military brass ...
  • Wrong Turn
    The notion that America can fix politics in the Middle East or anywhere else is laughable. It won't happen through our good example, and especially not through war. Unless, that is, we were prepared to take over the government of Bamboozlestan and occupy the place for several generations, which ...
  • But For The Intercept
    In September 2009, Najibullah Zazi — a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Afghanistan — loaded his car in Aurora, Colorado, drove to New York City, and prepared to blow himself up in the subway system. Trained in Pakistan by al-Qaeda, Zazi had used simple, readily avai ...

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Stop NATO

  • Syrian Border: NATO Military Committee Chief V ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization October 4, 2013 Chair of NATO’s Military Committee visits Jordan A NATO military delegation headed by the Chairman of the Military Committee, General Knud Bartels, visited Jordan from 01-04 October 2013 by invitation of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
  • Arnold Zweig: Whole generation shed man’ ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arnold Zweig: Selections on war ==== Arnold Zweig From The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927) Translated by Eric Sutton It was pretty certain that a man who was likely to have a hole blown in his head, or be burst into whirling fragme ...
  • Interview: George Galloway on American excepti ...
    RT October 5, 2013 American ‘exceptionalism’ as exemplified by US international lawlessness Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa equated US ideas of its own ‘exceptionalism’ to Nazi ideals of a superior race this week. While a strong statement, no country can invade, occupy and rule wi ...
  • Mikhail Sholokhov: War’s bitter harvest
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Russian writers on war Mikhail Sholokhov: People worse than wolves. And it was called a heroic exploit. ==== Mikhail Sholokhov From And Quite Flows the Don (1928-32) Translated by Stephen Garry The second and third lines of reserve ...
  • Lithuanian Troops To Participate In NATO Artic ...
    Lithuania Tribune October 4, 2013 300 Lithuanian troops to take part in NATO exercises in Poland and Baltics Around 300 Lithuanian troops will be deployed to various training locations in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania during the Steadfast Jazz 2013 exercises on 2-9 November 2013, according to the ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • “Black Panther Political Prisoner Herman ...
    Breaking News!  –  Tuesday, October 1, 2013 http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2013/10/herman-wallaces-conviction-overturned.html Read today’s court ruling here.Miraculous news this morning! Judge Jackson has overturned Herman’s conviction, granting him full habeas relief based on ...
  • “Black Panther Political Prisoner Herman ...
    Breaking News!  –  Tuesday, October 1, 2013 http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2013/10/herman-wallaces-conviction-overturned.html Read today’s court ruling here.Miraculous news this morning! Judge Jackson has overturned Herman’s conviction, granting him full habeas relief based on ...
  • Condemn Petraeus and Interim Chancellor Kelly! ...
    CUNY Students Confront War Criminal David Petraeas, Sept. 9, 2013 NYPD Attacks CUNY Protesters At Petraeus Protest, Sept. 17, 2013 ————————————————- September 23, 2013 · by revolutionarystudents The i ...
  • Condemn Petraeus and Interim Chancellor Kelly! ...
    CUNY Students Confront War Criminal David Petraeas, Sept. 9, 2013 NYPD Attacks CUNY Protesters At Petraeus Protest, Sept. 17, 2013 ————————————————- September 23, 2013 · by revolutionarystudents The i ...
  • New Delhi: Protest against State Repression on ...
    September 23, 2013 New Delhi: On 21st September (Saturday), a joint protest against growing ‘State Repression on Cultural Activists’ was organized by a number of cultural, political and student activists of the city under the banner of Daman Virodhi Sanskritik Manch despite heavy rain between 2 ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

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    Calls for integrated policy on renewable, alternative energy
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    In 1915, Franz Kafka wrote a novel about a man who was arrested by two unidentified agents from an undetermined agency and put on trial before unseen judges for an unspecified crime. He was compelled to defend himself without knowing what crime he'd ...
    Concern grows for marine ecology as invasive Asian crab moves north into far ...
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    PORTLAND, Maine – A species of invasive crab with a voracious appetite that first showed up in the United States 25 years ago has spread to far eastern Maine, and marine ecologists are worried about its potential impact on the environment. A group of ...
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    FOR decades, rangers in Yellowstone National Park, in the American West, had to cull the area's red deer (known locally as elk, though they bear no resemblance to European elk, known locally as moose) because the animals' numbers were grazing the ...
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    LOWELL | When Lake Prairie Elementary School opens this week, the water will be turned back on after murky, discolored water forced officials to shut down the school's water system Wednesday. Principal Lisa Patton told parents in a letter Friday that ...
    Water biking: A new kind of commute
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    "My absolute favorite thing about water biking," said Schiller, "is being out on the water, having a terrific panoramic view of New York City skyline, no cars, no buses, no crazy taxi drivers. There are no blind spots on the water, nobody is going to ...
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