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Scoop - NZ

  • Split to Zadar
    Book your dependable Split airport transfers before heading out to well-deserved vacation in Croatia. Split Airport taxi and shuttle service for Groups of All Sizes.
  • Chabad Jewish Holiday
    A variety of dinners, parties, events and service are organized during the Chabad Jewish Holidays. These holidays are aim at celebrating the Jewish heritage. These are the special dates on the Chabad Chassidic calendar.
  • 10 'Frugal Innovations' from India
    GE's Healthcare's engineers were set a formidable challenge: take a 15 lb. electrocardiograph (ECG) machine that cost $5.4 million. Squeeze the same technology into a portable device that be held with one hand. They were also charged with developing it in 18 months for just 60 per cent of its wh ...
  • India: 10 Frugal Innovations
    GE's Healthcare's engineers were set a formidable challenge: take a 15 lb. electrocardiograph (ECG) machine that cost $5.4 million. Squeeze the same technology into a portable device that be held with one hand. They were also charged with developing it in 18 months for just 60 per cent of its wh ...
  • Nimbin Accommodation
    Crofton's Retreat is the latest in Nimbin Accommodation, set in an open rural environment, you'll experience the comfort of all new rooms and facilities decorated with individually decorated themes.

Independent - London

  • JPMorgan agrees $4.5bn payout over mortgage se ...
    US banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $4.5 billion (£2.8 billion) to investors over claims it deceived them over bad mortgage investments in the run up to the financial crisis.     
  • Sri Lanka remains defiant over David Cameron's ...
    David Cameron has once again called for a transparent and independent investigation into war crimes committed during Sri Lanka's 26 year long civil war, asserting that he backs a March deadline set by the UN.     
  • Sri Lanka dismisses David Cameron's call for i ...
    David Cameron has once again called for a transparent and independent investigation into war crimes committed during Sri Lanka's 26 year long civil war, asserting that he backs a March deadline set by the UN.     
  • Batkid Miles Scott fights crime in San Francis ...
    San Francisco was transformed into Gotham City for a day as leukemia survivor Miles Scott became superhero 'Batkid' and battled with villains to clear the streets of crime.     
  • At least 19 dead as floods hit Vietnam
    Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have killed 19 people, left eight missing and forced about 80,000 from their homes, disaster officials and state media said.     

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Jupiter's Great Red Spot Should Have Disappea ...
        Jupiter's Great Red Spot is one of the solar system's most mysterious landmarks. Based on what scientists understand about fluid dynamics, this massive storm – which is big enough to engulf the Earth two or three times over – should have disappeared centuries ago. Pedram Hassanzadeh, ...
  • "Detection of Laser Light May Signal Presence ...
        Concentrated laser light in the universe may singal the presence of a technological civilizations that might be living on distant planets. “Think about humanity 300 hundred years from now,” said Geoffrey Marcy this past August. Marcy is currently Professor of Astronomy at the Universi ...
  • Image of the Day: A Galactic Illusion
          The edge-on spiral galaxy UGC 10288 appeared to be a single object in previous observations. However, new detailed radio data from the NRAO's Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) revealed that the large perpendicular extension of UGC 10288's halo (blue) is really a distant background galax ...
  • "Tiny Primordial Black Holes are a Viable Cand ...
          Scientists are still debating whether dark matter, which provides the elusive missing mass needed to keep galaxies from flying apart, is made of microscopic particles or macroscopic bodies. On the “macro” side, dark matter could consist of relatively small black holes that formed in ...
  • Hubble Captures Amazing Cluster of Some of the ...
        The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the center of the Milky Way. This glittering cluster contains over 100, 000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at it ...

Natural News

  • Obamacare 'fix' affirms Obama as absolute dict ...
    In a desperate bid to save the rapidly collapsing Obamacare socialized medicine program, President Obama announced a "fix" yesterday that would "allow" health insurance companies to avoid cancelling whatever plans haven't already been cancelled due to Obamacare itself...
  • Turmeric improves skin health, protects from U ...
    The Holy Powder of India, turmeric, is spreading its healing influence around the world, blessing the open mind with its plethora of health benefits. (It is a great brain-boosting, mood-enhancing antidepressant). Used extensively in Ayurvedic, Unani and Chinese medicine...
  • Loyal Obama supporters now realizing they, too ...
    I've said before, although it is not much of a consolation, that even those who support Barack Obama and his signature healthcare reform law were going to be hurt by it just like those of us who have never supported either the man or his law. Millions of American...
  • Action alert: Just 2 days left to help stop th ...
    There are only two days left to post your comments to the FDA concerning the agency's desire to place onerous new food safety regulations on small, local farmers (while allowing big agribusiness to conduct business as usual). Click here to read the full alert at Cornucopia...
  • Bill Clinton tells Obama to honor his word and ...
    When you have Bill Clinton imploring you to be honest, the world has definitely taken a tour into the bizarre. Earlier this week, President Obama, currently under fire from all segments of society for lying about Americans being able to keep their current health insurance...

Threat Level

  • Think NSA Snooping Is Bad? Check Out MPAA Thea ...
    Hollywood studios are urging theater operators to crack down on in-theater camcording with the deployment of night-vision goggles, low-light binoculars and security cameras. What's more, the latest version of the Motion Picture Association of America's "Best Practices to Prevent Film ...  & ...
  • Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced ...
    Hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced this morning to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for a damaging, politically motivated computer intrusion at the private intelligence firm Stratfor in 2011.     
  • Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rule ...
    Google's massive book-scanning project that makes complete copies of books without the authors' permission is perfectly legal under U.S. copyright law, a federal judge ruled today, deciding an 8-year-old legal battle.     
  • Secret Trade Pact Will Spread U.S. Copyright R ...
    The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-national trade agreement the United States is negotiating in secret, seeks to export U.S.-styled intellectual-property rights abroad, according to a leaked chapter of the deal WikiLeaks published today.     
  • NSA Transparency Hurts Americans’ Privacy, Fed ...
    Adding limited public accountability to the NSA's vast electronic spying programs would actually harm the privacy of Americans, Obama administration officials told a Senate hearing today     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Media Parrots GOP Katrina Talking Point, Ignor ...
    And now for today's memo for Republicans and the media outlets determined to amplify GOP talking points. The troubled launch of the Affordable Care Act's enrollment period is neither Barack Obama's Iraq nor his Katrina (New York Times). Leave aside for the moment that one program is designed to ...
  • Obama versus the Animal House Health Insurers
    In the 1978 classic Animal House, Kent Dorfman (Flounder) is distraught after seeing the damage his frat brothers had done to his brother's brand new Lincoln Continental. In response, Eric Stratton (Otter) famously tells him, "You f**ked up. You trusted us." That scene came to mind as Presiden ...
  • Will Bush Tell Jay Leno His Joke about Jews "A ...
    NBC has announced that former President George W. Bush will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday, November 19. Coming just days after the Anti-Defamation League admonished Bush for agreeing to deliver the keynote address at a fundraising event for an evangelical group whose missi ...
  • The Revenge of the Insurance Industry
    President Obama on Thursday apologized to Americans whose existing health insurance was being significantly altered or cancelled altogether just as enrollment for the Affordable Care Act was commencing. "I am sorry," the President announced, "that they are finding themselves in this situation ba ...
  • GOP Obamacare Foes Forget Bush's Medicare Navi ...
    Among the myriad tactics Republicans are using to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, the GOP attack on so-called Obamacare "navigators" is probably the most ironic. After all, the Bush administration similarly dispensed grants to dozens of community groups, hospitals, universities and non-profits ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Multi-billion Dollar Laundering of Drug Pr ...
    The United Nations reports a 50% increase in Afghan opium production, a record crop in 2013, and no end in sight for opium eradication.  Corporate mainstream media outlets politely warn of “failed” eradication, and of the spread of “unchecked” opium…
  • A Perfect Storm Brewing for Ireland’s Economy
    “We are now mainly borrowing to pay interest on the burgeoning national debt”[1]   While much has been made recently of Ireland’s exit from the punishing EU/IMF bailout programme, Michael Noonan, the Finance Minister, has welcomed post-bailout ‘surveillance’. Dutch Finance Minister…
  • Crimes against Humanity: Why Is Henry Kissinge ...
    Two months ago, hundreds of thousands of Chileans somberly marked the 40th anniversary of their nation’s September 11th terrorist event. It was on that date in 1973 that the Chilean military, armed with a generous supply of funds and weapons…
  • Behind the Diplomatic Conflict over Iran Nucle ...
    What is really behind the fierce diplomatic conflict that has erupted over the Iran nuclear negotiations? What are the motivations of the Israeli and French governments in opposing an interim agreement that would require significant concessions by Iran in exchange…
  • US Foreign Policy Designs, Geopolitical Roulet ...
    The three day nuclear negotiations between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group of world powers that started on November 7thcame to an unsuccessful end when,apparently, France balked at the proposed interim deal as not sufficiently controlling Iran’s nuclear technology. Whether…

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

  • We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power ...
    A leading researcher says we have enough wind and solar to power the world. Are we willing to do what's necessary to transform our society? The environment is one bad news story after another. The Pacific Ocean is warming at a rate faster than anything seen in the last 10,000 years and ...
  • Plan Proposed to Allow Fracking Wastewater to ...
    A Coast Guard plan would allow companies to ship wastewater in bulk on barges on the nation’s 12,000 miles of waterways. The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the country’s waterways, will allow shale gas companies to ship fracking wastewater on the nation’s rivers and lakes under a proposed p ...
  • Great Lakes and $7 Billion Fishing Industry Th ...
    The insatiable and destructive Asian carp is reproducing in the Great Lakes watershed for the first time—now what? This story first appeared in OnEarth Magazine.Fifty years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported a species of Asian carp to Arkansas as part of an initiative to control ...
  • The Fight to Take Public Assets Back from Priv ...
    No state has seen more "reverse" privatizations of water resources than California. While high profile privatizations have dominated the news in recent years, a new trend is quietly emerging -- communities taking public assets back under public control. The trend is most pronounced i ...
  • A Year Since Superstorm Sandy, Disaster Is Far ...
    No one can stop the next superstorm, mega wildfire, or 1,000-year flood. But we can get behind stopping the pollution that's disrupting our climate. A year has passed since Sandy, the second-costliest storm in U.S. history, slammed into the Eastern Seaboard, causing $65 billion in damage ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to Hold Hear ...
    U.S. Nuclear power plants and foreign control In September 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied an operating license to Unistar Nuclear Energy for its planned third reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland because it is fully owned by France’s Électricité de France (EDF)-a foreign entity. ...
  • Construction Problems Raise Questions about Sa ...
    Public Citizen Calls for Congressional Oversight Hearings and Delay in Startup  As the Obama administration considers whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline’s northern segment, owner TransCanada faces serious questions concerning construction and pipeline integrity issues on the Texas porti ...
  • East Texans Seek Shutdown of Pegasus Pipeline ...
    Citizens in East Texas are becoming alarmed as representatives from ExxonMobil, operator of the Pegasus pipeline, show up to post yellow and black-striped warning markers along the pipeline route running across their land, the same one that ruptured about 320 miles northeast of there in March, s ...
  • This week in the Healthy Port Communities Coal ...
    In response to the disaster in West, Texas, a listening session on chemical safety was held in Texas City with several federal agencies in attendance.  The goal of the listening session was to hear the public and stakeholders’ ideas on how the government should proceed in ensuring the safety of ...
  • American Council for an Energy Efficient Econo ...
    A new report by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has Texas ranked 33nd in the nation for programs to promote energy efficiency. This unimpressive ranking shows Texas has a wasteful reliance on fossil fuels which contribute to air pollution and global warming and cost ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • TIAA-CREF Divests Social Choice Fund from Cont ...
    wedivest-logo.png Grassroots International and its partners in the We Divest coalition join activists from around the country in congratulating TIAA-CREF for taking a step toward living up to its motto, “Investment for the Greater Good ...
  • Supporting Progressive Grassroots Organization ...
    The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) estimates that 9.8 million people in and around the city of Tacloban in the Visayas region of the Philippines have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda and that at least 660,000 of the affected people were forced from their ...
  • "Why Did They Kill My Family?" -- Testimony fr ...
    palestine-mahmoud_ezz_eddin_wahid_mousa.jpg The narrative below is the third in a series of three stories documented by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner since 1996. PCHR has gained an intern ...
  • Hydroelectric Resistance: MAB’s Energy Politic ...
    leonardo-maggi-and-sara-mersha2.jpg The article below orginally appeared in La Jicarita: An online magazine of Environmental Politics in New Mexico following a presentation by Leonardo Maggi (from the Movement of People Affected b ...
  • Hidden Tent Camps Persist in Haiti Four Years ...
    haiti-kids.jpg It has been almost four years since the devastating earthquake of 2010 shook Haiti to its core. In the aftermath—amid grand plans to ‘build back better’ and huge promises of international aid—more than 1 million people s ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! A CAUSE WITHOUT BORDERS: ...
    Stray cats and dogs, bullfighting, and circus animal abuse are animal welfare issues that are important to animal lovers everywhere, including the Mexican city of Torreon. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! HELP: THOUSANDS OF ANIMAL ...
    DONATE IF YOU CAN--Global Animal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that funds emergency animal rescue worldwide, is collecting donations to disperse between IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) and the International Humane Society, as well as other on-the-g Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
  • Will Couple Be Jailed for Returning Adopted So ...
    The parents, Cleveland and Lisa Cox, adopted the 9-year-old as an infant through Butler County Children Services; they brought him back there in October, citing issues of aggressive behaviors for which he had refused help. Submitted by PrimaSICK B. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!   ...
  • 5 Easy Ways to Green Your Jewelry
    Alternatives to just buying jewelry from anywhere. Submitted by Bridget Robertson to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Miles Scott, AKA 'Batkid,' Begins Fighting Cri ...
    Television news footage showed 5-year-old Miles Scott, aka Batkid, leaving the city's Union Square in one of two Batmobiles on Friday morning. The vehicles two black Lamborghinis with Batman decals were surrounded by media and onlookers. Submitted by BarbCat Knight to Health & Wellne ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama’s Titanic Moment
    Is it just me or does Obama beginning to look more and more like Titanic’s ill-fated Captain, Edward Smith? He is standing in the wheel house as the ship is going down and does not seem to know what to do. The panic among the Democrats is palpable. Boy, what a difference a month makes. [...]
  • The French Deception
    Folks, I know that some of you were taken in by the French charade in pretending to stand up for Israel against Iran, but you got it wrong. I love you Marge, but your initial impression is mistaken. I meant to write a few lines earlier and now want to get this out for your [...]
  • Why Israel’s Netanyahu is Full of Shit
    Next time you hear Israel’s Prime Minister jumping up and down decrying the threat of Iranian terrorism and insisting there is no room to compromise, I want you to recall this article from the Financial Times: Lawyers acting for terrorism victims in a US court case that accuses the Bank of ...
  • Benghazi Story Exposes CBS Corruption
    Up to this point I have not had much to say about the 60 Minutes piece on Benghazi. Why? Because I did not understand why they did the story. 60 Minutes did not break any real news with that broadcast, other than putting a face in front of the public of one of the guys [...]
  • Should There Be a Social Safety Net?
    I will answer the question posed above very simply, yes. I speak from personal experience, sort of. Let me introduce you to Andrew Jackson Johnson. My Great Grandfather. He died 100 years ago at the age of 55 of the side effects of tuberculosis. The death certificate also lists “mistrial s ...

Futurismic

  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
    Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...
  • Bitcoin taps $200 again as ecosystem for servi ...
    Prices around $200 USD now, interesting price patterns. Stabilization & slow growth reigned since the woolly early 2013 era. Here: Bitcoin fake fibonacci trend line fun - even in crashes it never broke thru the lowest trend line. It's hard but not impossible to see it below $100 again. I thi ...
  • Local cell phone spying KingFish stonewall: Mi ...
    It's been dawning on Americans this year that their everyday electronic devices are used by law enforcement for investigations. However the lawmen and the county attorneys are withholding the policy information about the Harris Corporation Kingfish system which is a device that can alter the ...
  • "Capital Shield 2014": Military Defense Suppor ...
    The US government runs a lot of exercises, which usually happens for ordinary training reasons. On the other hand, many researchers of geopolitics and covert politics note that exercises serve other geopolitical purposes -- for example demonstrating a military alliance with an ally state in fron ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Can Smoking Pot Be Considered a Form of Free S ...
    Activists lit up in protest of the War on Drugs—now they face severe charges. The latest front in the battle for rationalized drug laws is in downtown Philadelphia, where an activist facing a federal trial for marijuana possession asserts that he was smoking as a constitutionally protected me ...
  • The Most Outrageous, Inaccurate Right-Wing Sme ...
    There are many things wrong with comparing a healthcare rollout to a hurricane. The main one: Nobody died. It’s one thing for former George W. Bush flack and Sarah Palin staffer Nicolle Wallace to make a silly and self-serving link between the troubled rollout of President Obama’s Affordable C ...
  • What the "What Would I Say?" App Tells Us Abou ...
    What made this game of algorithmic MadLibs so popular? Maybe our desire to understand ourselves. Trending on Google and Facebook this past week, what-would-i-say.com is a new app made by Princeton graduate students during last weekend’s Princeton Hackathon that creates Facebook statuses to sou ...
  • How to Make Better Sex by Ditching Some Bad Se ...
    Americans still have completely destructive attitudes about sex. How can we get better at developing a healthy sexuality?  At a time when a twerking, tongue-wagging Miley Cyrus can dominate several news cycles, it might not seem that sex is lacking for attention — but a new blog, Do Tell, is t ...
  • Why People Should Stop Comparing Healthcare.go ...
    It's a Damn Technology Problem Media figures are comparing the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina. This comparison ignores a crucial difference: Nobody has died because of problems with HealthCare.gov, where ...

Threat Level

  • Think NSA Snooping Is Bad? Check Out MPAA Thea ...
    Hollywood studios are urging theater operators to crack down on in-theater camcording with the deployment of night-vision goggles, low-light binoculars and security cameras. What's more, the latest version of the Motion Picture Association of America's "Best Practices to Prevent Film ...  & ...
  • Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced ...
    Hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced this morning to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for a damaging, politically motivated computer intrusion at the private intelligence firm Stratfor in 2011.     
  • Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rule ...
    Google's massive book-scanning project that makes complete copies of books without the authors' permission is perfectly legal under U.S. copyright law, a federal judge ruled today, deciding an 8-year-old legal battle.     
  • Secret Trade Pact Will Spread U.S. Copyright R ...
    The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-national trade agreement the United States is negotiating in secret, seeks to export U.S.-styled intellectual-property rights abroad, according to a leaked chapter of the deal WikiLeaks published today.     
  • NSA Transparency Hurts Americans’ Privacy, Fed ...
    Adding limited public accountability to the NSA's vast electronic spying programs would actually harm the privacy of Americans, Obama administration officials told a Senate hearing today     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Bad for Food Safety: Dr. Hagen Leaving FSIS
    From POLITICO this AM: USDA will announce the departure today of Elisabeth Hagen as under secretary for food safety, a USDA official tells POLITICO. An announcement is expected later from... Continue Reading
  • Dirty Dining in Seattle
    KIRO TV did a great job of outing some of the “best” places to dine in Seattle.
  • E. coli Lawsuit Filed in California Against Gl ...
    “What we’re seeing here is yet another E. coli outbreak linked to pre-packaged, ready-to-eat food that is supposed to be organic, natural, GMO-free and good for you.  Instead, we’ve seen... Continue Reading
  • Trader Joe’s in California, Washington and Ari ...
    As of November 10, 2013, a total of 26 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O157:H7 have been reported from three states. The number of ill persons identified... Continue Reading
  • Athertone Foods (aka Glass Onion) E. coli Sala ...
    26 Sick with E. coli O157:H7 – 2 with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) – in Arizona, California and Washington. Athertone Foods, Inc. of Richmond, CA is voluntary recalling “Best Buy”... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
    Filed under: Technology, Electric "By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...
  • First Drive: 2014 BMW i3
    Filed under: Hatchback, BMW, First Drives, Electric We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new ...
  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid [w/video]
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesDelivering On Promises The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid should surprise no one. Its look is something we've seen since the non-hybrid versions went on sale last year. Its powertrain, mostly, we are familiar with from the already-on-sale Accord Pl ...
  • Report: Fisker's remains on the auction block ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Fisker, Electric How will a federal government that is partially shut down sell an automaker that is all-but-shut-down? We'll find out Friday when the Department of Energy starts an auction for what is left of Fisker's assets, according to TheDetroitBure ...
  • Frankfurt: Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E Rac ...
    Filed under: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, Motorsports, Electric, Racing The Spark-Renault SRT_01E looks like it'd be at home on any Formula One track in the world, but this is a car with a different destiny: the all-electric Formula E series. Unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show this week, ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison ...
    Today in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, cyber-activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Watch a press conference with his attorneys. SARAH KUNSTLER : We fought the good fight. We talked about Jeremy's motivations a ...
  • Web Exclusive: René Pérez of Calle 13 Intervie ...
    After our regular broadcast today, Juan González and René Pérez of Calle 13 continued the conversation in Spanish. They talked about Puerto Rico, Pérez's new collaboration with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, the intersection of arts and politics, how he got his nickname "Residente," grassroots so ...
  • Typhoon Haiyan Demands Climate Action at the U ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Typhoon Haiyan, a storm of historic proportions, has devastated the largely impoverished population of the Philippines. Thousands of people are dead, hundreds of thousands are stranded with almost no food or water, and millions have been impacted. The str ...
  • Typhoon Haiyan Demands Climate Action at the U ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Typhoon Haiyan, a storm of historic proportions, has devastated the largely impoverished population of the Philippines. Thousands of people are dead, hundreds of thousands are stranded with almost no food or water, and millions have been impacted. The str ...
  • READ: Thom Hartmann, "The Crash of 2016: The P ...
    Tune in Tuesday when we'll speak with Thom Hartmann about his new book, "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America—and What We Can Do to Stop It." In the meantime, you can read an excerpt from the introduction below. Hartmann is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk sho ...

Solari

  • Frank “Sugarchile” Robinson &#8211 ...
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  • #Ask JPM
    By Catherine Austin Fitts JP Morgan Chase’s social media team offered folks a chance to tweet in questions to #AskJPM. The results were not what they expected. In fact, the response was so sincere, the JPM team had to withdraw. Results for #AskJPM A big gold star to those tweeting for tran ...
  • Reporting for Hard-to-Value IRA Investments is ...
    **CAF Note: These changes could have a dramatic impact on the market for crowd funding and micro cap equities. If the IPO market continues to be strong, watch for significant growth in start ups and expansion of small business.** By IRS New information reporting requirements are proposed to app ...
  • Spain’s Solar Police to Kick in Your Door
    By Alex Dunham As if Spaniards had not already been dissuaded by the potential €60 million fines they face for illegally generating their own solar power, they now have to look forward to a knock on the door from the ‘solar police’. A change to the ruling Popular Party’s (PP) Energy ...
  • Walking By Sees
    By Catherine Austin Fitts As a child I spent my summers in a farm high in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Each summer, we were educated on Yankee farmer stories. These were stories about people who were very wise and invariably involved a city slicker who could benefit from listening to m ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Volvo’s Stunning Pure Tension Pavilion is a Li ...
    Unveiled in Rome, Italy in September 2013, the structure was developed as an attempt to reinvent a typical trade show pavilion. Its dynamic form and energy efficiency is reminiscent of Frei Otto's experiments with lightweight tension membrane structures in     
  • World’s Largest LEGO Snow Globe Lights Up London
    LEGO artist Duncan Titmarsh just unveiled the world’s largest LEGO snow globe in London! Glowing with LED lights, the snow globe shows fourteen London landmarks in LEGO brick grandeur. Titmarsh used 120,000 toy bricks to make the gorgeous creation, which     
  • Red Cross Maps Super Typhoon Haiyan’s Destruct ...
    It's been years since I've seen the movie Twister, but one of Helen Hunt's final lines haunts me to this day: “You haven’t seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you.” She's talking about the massive (fictional) tornado that killed     
  • US Officials Crush $10 billion Worth of ‘Blood ...
    Ivory photo from Shutterstock On Thursday, U.S. officials destroyed $10 billion worth of "blood ivory" at a rock crushing facility in Denver, Colorado. The 5.4 tons of confiscated material was collected over a period of 25 years, and it included thousands     
  • Starbucks Unveils New Mobile Coffee Shop on a ...
    Whether it's to woo more travelers to take the train or to make it more convenient for passengers to get their espresso, we love the idea of a full-fledged coffee shop on board. The coffee shop sits on the train car's ground level and offers stools, bars and     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Ismeniae Fossae
    Ismeniae Fossae This scene shows a section of Ismeniae Fossae that straddles the southern highlands–northern lowlands of Mars. The 2 km-wide curvilinear trough that runs through this image contains numerous parallel grooves and ridges comprising material from the trough walls ...   &nb ...
  • Want to Save Lives? You Need a Map of What’s D ...
    If sorrow were a landscape, here’s how it would look from a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet.     
  • Preventing Malaria by Protecting Mosquitoes
    Mosquitoes suck. And malaria sucks even more. The disease—caused by the Plasmodium parasite, which is transmitted by mosquitoes—infects more than 300 million people and kills 1.2 million annually. One way to protect humans, though, is to protect the mosquitoes.     
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: This Shrew Can Su ...
    To prove the hero shrew’s powers, a grown man grabbed one, placed it on the ground, and stood on it for several minutes — a performance I’ve unremorsefully decided to dub The Maiming of the Shrew. When the man stepped ...     
  • Why You Need Not Fear the Poor, Misunderstood ...
    It’s hard to think of a critter that inspires as much hyperbolic hysteria as the brown recluse spider. They’re pretty much universally hated. If you believe the tales, these small arachnids are biting people all day, every day, producing massive, ...     

PakAlert

  • Video: Rep. Gohmert Warns Obama About The Gene ...
    A tea party lawmaker cited the Bible during a speech Wednesday on the House floor criticizing the Obama administration for its treatment of Israel
  • US Government, “Time to Make War on the Populace.”
    American citizens are soon to become endangered species under the current tyrannical regime that is now in charge of our country. Secretly and behind closed doors the Obama administration has been asking high ranking military commanders if they would fire on American citizens. These military per ...
  • Congressman: DHS Buildup For Civil Unrest Not ...
    Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert joins The Janet Mefferd show and confirms that the Department of Homeland Security has been stocking up on weaponry. Hollow point bullets and appears to be forming a ‘secret police force’ while providing no answers to Congress about why it is doing so. Get You Com ...
  • DHS Taking Control Of Local Police
    As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) doles out billions of dollars to convince local police departments to surrender control to the federal agency, a recent report indicates that intelligence gathered at precincts-cum-surveillance-centers will be shared among all levels of law enforcemen ...
  • 16 American Cities Foreign Governments Warn Yo ...
    Planning a trip abroad? It’s probably best to check out the State Department’s list of travel warnings for countries with unsafe political situations. At the moment, the State Department has issued travel warnings for 34 countries, from the Central African Republic and El Salvador to Iraq and No ...

Andy Worthington

  • New Report Condemns Role of Doctors, Psycholog ...
    Unusually, there has been so much Guantánamo-related news lately that I haven’t had time to write about it all. A case in point is “Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror” (also available here on Scribd), a 156-page report by the Task ...
  • Petition: Tell Boris Johnson Not to Approve th ...
    Please sign the petition on Change.org, asking London’s Mayor, Boris Johnson, not to approve a £1bn plan to turn Henry VIII’s former Royal Dockyard at Convoys Wharf in Deptford into a luxury, high-rise housing development that would be more at home in Dubai. All over London, housing ...
  • Will Carl Levin’s Amendments to the NDAA ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • “He Didn’t Commit a War Crime&#822 ...
    Last week was a busy week for legal challenges by former Guantánamo prisoners. Just after David Hicks announced that he was appealing against his 2007 conviction for providing material support for terrorism (which I wrote about here), Omar Khadr’s lawyer in the US announced that the Canadi ...
  • Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Appeals ...
    Ever since the conservative court of appeals in Washington D.C. delivered an extraordinary ruling last October, vacating one of the only convictions in the military commission trial system introduced for prisoners at Guantánamo, it has only been a matter of time before other appeals would be lod ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • A pre-festive warning
    I know some of you will be starting to think about Christmas already…don’t worry, that’s fine. I’ve got a little sing-along-a-Dave treat coming up for you with which you can begin the “celebrations”. I might even accept gifts this year, as long as they’r ...
  • Elephanticide
    There’s a “photo” on the internet that’s been circulating for months, but is gaining new traction on Facebook for some reason as people start to share it blindly. It purports to show an elephant that has been shot while eating and shows the “family” who allege ...
  • A Faraday look in his eyes
    More poetic silliness with a scientific bent. This time another hero, one of the great polymath scientist and science communicators – Michael Faraday – who started out as a chemical assistant to Sir Humphry Davy, inventor of the eponymous miner’s lamp. A Faraday look in his eye ...
  • Aural barriers protect workers
    It’s a distant memory to me, but apparently barbers and hairdressers still chunter on to their customers as they snip and tease the cranial follicular extrusions: “Turned out nice again…although they’re forecasting snow…oh that Chancellor’s got a nerve cutting benef ...
  • Chas and Nik
    The original Movember hipsters? Pictured: Croatian electromagnetic pioneer Nikola Tesla and British-born Hollywood great Charlie Chaplin. Chas and Nik is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom Subscribe to our Email NewsletterChas and Nik is a post from the scie ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Feinstein Bill 'Codifies' NSA's Worst Abuses
    Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and committee ranking member Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) speak during a news conference (Reuters)A bill recently proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein as an NSA reform law will do nothing to curb the spy agency's surve ...
  • Jeremy Hammond: FBI Directed My Attacks on For ...
    Hammond said: 'I took responsibility by pleading guilty, but when will the government be made to answer for its crimes?' (Photograph: Michael Gottschalk/AFP)The Anonymous hacktivist sentenced on Friday to 10 years in federal prison for his role in releasing thousands of e ...
  • Russian Foreign Minister Reveals Amended Draft ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Credit: UN Photo/Paulo FilgueirasRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed a crucial detail Thursday about last week’s nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva that explains much more clearly than previous reports why the meeting broke up without agre ...
  • Anti-Drone Movement Speaks: 'End the Secrecy, ...
    Anti-drone activists rally in Washington, DC. (Photo: Code Pink)Activists from across the globe kicked off the largest-ever anti-drone summit Friday with a boisterous White House rally then march to the headquarters of one of the most notorious weapons manufacturers in the world. ...
  • Amid Fizzling Climate Talks, Nearby Gas Pipeli ...

Lifehacker

  • Top 10 Ways to Customize Your Desktop
    You spend a lot of waking hours at your computer, so why not make it a little prettier (and more productive)? Here are 10 ways to customize every inch of your desktop, no matter what operating system you use.Read more...     
  • Momentum Adds Inspirational Quotes and To-Dos ...
    Chrome: It's easy to get distracted when you are in your browser. Momentum is a new extension that makes the New Tab of Chrome into a place to inspire you and make you get things done.Read more...     
  • Prepare for the Worst This Weekend
    We'd like to believe everything will work out just fine, but often enough it doesn't. Spend a little time this weekend familiarizing yourself with what you should do in case something unexpectedly bad happens, whether that turns out to be anything from a weather emergency or a surprise stomach p ...
  • Ask for a Gift Receipt When Buying Something E ...
    Sometimes we want to buy something at a store but really don't want anyone—including the checkout clerk—to know we intend to use it. Redditor herrijt discovered a simple solution: ask for a gift receipt.Read more...     
  • Have you tried scheduling work in 90-minute bl ...
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more ...

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: Huge Huntington Beach Desalination ...
    A controversial desalination plant proposed for a site on the coastline in Huntington Beach hit a California-Coastal-Commission-shaped snag yesterday, sending the company behind the project, Poseidon Resources, back to the drawing board. The Huntington Beach plant and another Poseidon desalinati ...
  • Letter: Water wars in Bonita
    Deborah M. Maclean, Bonita Springs: I want the water right first.
  • Water Wars: One Thousand Years of Troubled Los ...
    Maybe you've heard that today is the one hundredth anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the engineering marvel that brought enough water to the city to seed its growth (and much more on that later). But all it could...
  • How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A &#39 ...
    The pipeline that brings water out of California's Owens Valley to metropolitan Los Angeles turns 100 this month. The water wars it has spawned over the century still simmer, and the issues of water use, scarcity and stewardship are inextricable — if often invisible — to life in the city.
  • How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A &#39 ...
    The pipeline that brings water out of California's Owens Valley to metropolitan Los Angeles turns 100 this month. The water wars it has spawned over the century still simmer, and the issues of water use, scarcity and stewardship are inextricable — if often invisible — to life in the city.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • A Balanced Oil And Gas Decision In Utah: Agenc ...
    The Bureau of Land Management’s Utah state office on Friday decided to defer 99,960 acres of proposed oil and gas leases in and around the San Rafael Swell, which has been considered for everything from National Monument to National Park status.The post A Balanced Oil And Gas Decision In Utah: A ...
  • What San Francisco’s Bat Kid Tells Us Ab ...
    Make-A-Wish granted a five-year-old's dream to become Bat Kid. His request became a way for people in San Francisco and beyond to fulfill their own fantasies.The post What San Francisco’s Bat Kid Tells Us About America appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Politico: Rahm Emanuel Wanted ‘To Kill&# ...
    Is it harder to be the chief of state for an island nation threatened by climate change -- or to be a cabinet secretary threatened by the White House Chief of Staff for talking about climate change?The post Politico: Rahm Emanuel Wanted ‘To Kill’ Steven Chu For Talking About Climate ...
  • Obama Will Halt Deportation And Grant Legal St ...
    A new Department of Homeland Security memo out on Friday will halt the deportation of and grant legal status to some family members of military personnel. The post Obama Will Halt Deportation And Grant Legal Status To Some Relatives Of Military Personnel appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Monks, Young And Old, March In Protest Of Camb ...
    If built, the Areng dam would be located on the edge of the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, a “biodiversity hotspot” that is home to some of Cambodia's largest mammal species. But Cambodia needs more sources of renewable energy, according to a recent report from the United Nations.The post Mo ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Not In The West? (a reply to PLG)
    Yesterday I asked out of frustration just how the progressive "tactic" of isolated protests (which is the chosen form of activism by the people whose politics I mostly share) is supposed to provide any sort of real change to the world we all describe as veering towards some sort of apocalypse.Th ...
  • How Is It Supposed To Work?
    I won't ask the Liberals. They're clueless. "Compassionate Capitalism" or some sort of nonsense. In their language, that means slashing services for the poor in order to afford their tax-cuts for the rich "come hell or high water." Of course, the rich are supposed to "create jobs" with their tax ...
  • Political Loyalty
      Ford Nation continues to love their boy. Of course, the same thing holds true for the party faithful and stephen harper. But it ain't just a conservative thing. Look at the supposedly progressive types who still praise the record of the disgusting Dalton McGuinty! Or the pathetic rationa ...
  • http://thwapschoolyard.blogspot.com/2013/11/of-all-let-me-begin-by-saying-that-i.html
     First of all, let me begin by saying that I despise Jim Flaherty. He's a cretin whose economic understanding is stuck in the 19th Century. What he does that isn't based on two hundred year old cliches is based on crude, deliberate fraud. He's a thug, who has made more people homeless, cond ...
  • So, My Boss Likes Rob Ford
    Tells me that after he buys me lunch and news about the drunken buffoon comes on the radio. He likes the job he's doing so far. Mistakes the St. Clair streetcar line for LRTs. Thinks the cost overruns during construction were caused by ... ? (They were actually caused by lawsuits brought about b ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Has Iran outwitted Netanyahu?
    Rajan Menon writes: The much-anticipated breakthrough in the negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons has yet to materialize. But Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who believes that a wily Iran is outwitting its gullible interlocutors, isn’t breathing any easi ...
  • Iran slows nuclear advances in possible goodwi ...
    Barbara Slavin reports: Although Iran and the international community failed to achieve a breakthrough in Geneva last week, Iran has slowed its nuclear program in what could be a goodwill gesture intended to show that it will abide by a nuclear agreement. According to the latest quarterly report ...
  • National Security State: FBI and DHS warn Cong ...
    The Washington Post reports: FBI Director James B. Comey testified Thursday that the risk of cyberattacks is likely to exceed the danger posed by al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks as the top national security threat to the United States and will become the dominant focus of law enforcement a ...
  • CIA collecting data on international money tra ...
    The New York Times reports: The Central Intelligence Agency is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the United States — under the same law that the National Security Agency uses for its ...
  • NSA and DHS try to suppress free speech
    VOA reports: The U.S. National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have threatened legal action to block the sale of T-shirts that ridicule these two powerful government agencies. But the T-shirt designer says NSA and DHS are the ones breaking the law by assaulting free speec ...

Watts Up With That?

  • 2 degree target – a matter of policy gue ...
    Success of climate talks vital for 2°C target From the Potsdam Institute – Achieving a global climate agreement soon could be crucial for the objective to keep global mean temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. The challenges of meeting the … Continue reading →
  • Newsbytes: Japan Stuns UN Climate Summit By Di ...
    From Dr. Benny Peiser of the GWPF Rich Nations Block Push To Count Past CO2 Emissions At UN Climate Summit Japan set a new target for greenhouse gas emissions that critics say will set back United Nations talks for a … Continue reading →
  • A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” &# ...
    Image Credits: NASA,  BP.Blogspot.com, Wikimedia.org By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” NOAA’s State of the Climate In 2008 report found that: The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more, suggesting that … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week: NBC: Polar Bear ...
    Image: Toonpool Newsbusters reports: Teasing an upcoming story on Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams warned of “the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever” and promised “a jaw-dropping look at a way of life … Continue readin ...
  • Study shows wind turbines killed 600,000 bats ...
    I wonder how many bats coal and nuclear power plants killed last year? From the University of Colorado Denver Bats pollinate crops, control insects DENVER (Nov. 15, 2013) – More than 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines in … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cell Implants ...
    We’re much better at saving the lives of those who suffer a heart attack these days. Sadly, many people survive a heart attack only to later succumb to heart failure from the damage it caused. Modern methods help heal the heart somewhat after a heart attack, but cardiologists think stem cell the ...
  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...
  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...

CFACT

  • COP 19: Climate carnival of comedy
    As COP 19 participants continued haggling over the meaning of “consensus” and which pockets were the best ones to pick for the “Green Climate Fund,” 150 or so officials delegates and representatives from NGO’s and media crammed into a side event sponsored by the always entertaining Gaia Foundation.
  • Poland saying “Nie” to Green demands
    You've heard us say the UN's decision to have a climate conference in Poland was a big mistake. Poland is not only a nation highly skeptical of climate alarmism, but also one that is supportive and heavily reliant on coal and fossil fuels. Poland was probably not going to offer them the receptio ...
  • UN redistribution follies
    The typhoon tragedy in the Philippines happened at an opportune time for COP19. This will be used as a driving force to push loss and damage. Hold onto your wallet!
  • Pressing ahead on climate salvation
    Washington Times: "President Obama promised [to]“fundamentally transform” our nation — to “protect” us from climate “cataclysms” that exist only in presidential speeches, Hollywood movies, U.N. computer models and EPA press releases.
  • CFACT rallies 50,000+ Poles against climate treaty
    More than 50,000 enthusiastic Poles gathered in downtown Warsaw on Monday to celebrate National Independence Day, CFACT president David Rothbard was invited to the stage to deliver an impassioned address celebrating freedom and warning against the dangerous and oppressive climate agenda of the UN.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • Surprising Foods with More Sugar Than a Krispy ...
    by Dr. Mercola A major new report by Credit Suisse Research Institute1 explores the impact of sugar and sweeteners on humans' diets, with some shocking revelations and statistics. Worldwide, the average person consumes 70 grams of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup per day (that's 17 teaspoo ...
  • How Vaccine Policy & Law Threatens Parental Ri ...
    The Producers of The Greater Good are allowing a FULL and FREE preview through 11/23! Please support THE GREATER GOOD's Community Engagement Campaign by purchasing a Limited Edition DVD for only $19.95! Click HERE to purchase a copy to show your support! Visit the Mercola Video Library By ...
  • Risk of Depression Increased by Long-Term Use ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you take prescription narcotic painkillers known as opioids for 90 days or more, you may significantly raise your risk of developing major depression, according to new research that adds to growing concerns surrounding the use of these common medications. While those who to ...
  • Common Insecticides May Be Linked to Kids' Beh ...
    By Dr. Mercola Organophosphate pesticides are known for their hazards to human health. Prenatal exposure, for example, has been linked to delayed brain development, reduced IQ, and attention deficits1. As a result, pyrethroids2—synthetic chemicals derived from natural chemicals found ...
  • World's Fastest Growing Functional Food? Infan ...
    By Dr. Mercola The market for functional and fortified foods grew significantly from 2012 to 2013, with infant formula topping the list. In 2013, infant formula added nearly $5 billion in global sales, dwarfing gains seen for energy drinks ($3.5 billion), pre- and probiotic yogurts ($2. ...

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

  • Notes from the Asian Society of International ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve made the trek this week to New Delhi to attend the 4th Biennial Meeting of the Asian Society of International Law.  I’ll be presenting a paper on my favorite subject these days: The China-Philippines (Non) Arbitration. I’ve tweeted a few not ver ...
  • Corporate War Crimes Begin
    by James G. Stewart [James G. Stewart is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia Law Faculty.  Until recently, he was on the board of the Conflict Awareness Project, but had not role in this investigation.] Something momentus happened in Switzerland last week—national pros ...
  • After Saudia Arabia Spurns Seat on the UN Secu ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon On Tuesday, Saudia Arabia made official its rejection of a highly sought after seat on the UN Security Council in a letter to the President of the General Assembly.   The letter confirmed in writing its surprise decision of October 18 (announced less than 24 hou ...
  • New Book: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce the publication of a new book that I co-edited with my colleague and dear friend Gerry Simpson, The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials. As the title indicates, the book contains a number of essays that discuss little-known t ...
  • Doesn’t the U.S. Senate Care about Mercury?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis On November 6, the United States signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury and deposited an instrument of acceptance indicating its consent to be bound by the treaty on its entry into force, making it the first nation to do so.  Here’s how UNEP summarize ...

Public News Service

  • Bighorn Sheep to Once Again Roam the Catalinas
    Bighorn Sheep to Once Again Roam the Catalinas PHOENIX – Desert bighorn sheep will return to the Santa Catalina Mountains outside Tucson this weekend for the first time in more than a decade. Thirty bighorns from outside of Yuma will be released into the Pusch Ridge area of Mount Lemmon. ...
  • Planning Ahead for Heart-Healthy Holidays
    Planning Ahead for Heart-Healthy Holidays PHOENIX - For many people, the holidays bring fun, family and food together. It can be especially difficult to stay on a healthy course during the last couple months of the year, but it isn't impossible. According to Chrissy Meyer with the American Hea ...
  • Wearing Your Smartphone – Not Too Smart?
    Wearing Your Smartphone – Not Too Smart? PHOENIX - Wearable phones and computers are on loads of shopping lists as the holiday season approaches in Arizona, but scientists are warning that research indicates they present likely health risks - especially from cell-phone radiation. Dr. D ...
  • Bankruptcy Bias: Law “Written To Favor&# ...
    Bankruptcy Bias: Law “Written To Favor” Corporations Over Folks PHOENIX - Working families trying to get out from under their debts don't get the help that corporations do from the bankruptcy laws, economists say. Some people in Arizona who have gone broke recently have asked about t ...
  • Honor Flights Help AZ Vets See DC War Memorials
    Honor Flights Help AZ Vets See DC War Memorials PHOENIX - America's veterans are honored today for their service and sacrifice for the nation, but there is a program in Arizona that works year-round to do that. Susan Howe, founder of Honor Flight Arizona, which flies about 30 vets at a time t ...

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?

  • What’s Behind Israel’s Boom-and-Bu ...
    One of the great successes of the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” campaign has been the re-branding and re-packaging of Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”, attributing the source of its current wealth to its burgeoning hi-tech sector. As we know, the best propaganda ...
  • 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 ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Schießbaumwolle in Syrien
    11 November 2013 Schießbaumwolle, um hausgemachte Artillerie abzufeuern Der Krieg hat Syrien zerbrochen. Schwer bewaffnete Regierungstruppen kennen keinen Halt und werden jedwede Opposition zerstören um an der Macht zu bleiben. Die Regierung benutzt Luftschläge, Artilleriebombardements und Pa ...
  • Medal of Honor Petition for James Megellas
    15 November 2013
  • Crash of the MiG
    14 November 2013 Written by: Abou Ebraheem MiG jets bomb my city between five to ten times every day taking the lives of scores of innocent people. About two months ago, a jet fly over my city for its normal morning bombing.  The MiG flew over the city in circles in what looked like man ...
  • Syria: Darkly Hilarious
    13 November 2013 This video was made in the middle of the war, by Syrians in the thick of it. Notice the American, UN, and Saudi sitting on the left.  Russia and others make cameos.   The cave people holding the sign are Syrian civilian protestors.  
  • Guncotton in Syria
    11 November 2013 Guncotton used to launch homemade artillery. War has shattered Syria.  Heavily armed government forces will stop at nothing to destroy opposition to retain power.  The government uses airstrikes, artillery barrages, and tanks against its own people. Assad’s army is ...

The Killing Train

  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for that work. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): I think ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict.
  • Free, Tarek and John
    by Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy Note: this is a rather long article. If you prefer a PDF version, it is linked here. read more
  • Touchwood PR
    As the emergency contact for Tarek and John, I was happy to field media calls and requests. Now the emergency is over, and media are being handled by the most excellent and wonderful Touchwood PR. If you wish to schedule an interview with Tarek and John, pleaes contact Touchwood at press@touchwo ...
  • tarekandjohn.com
    When Tarek and John were arrested on August 16, we were taken by surprise. We used whatever tools we had to hand to get the message out. As their emergency contact, I used my own blog and my own twitter handle, and became one of their official spokespeople. In the intervening 50 days, we set up ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Ne Win’s grandson urges govt to free more pris ...
    Released on Friday from Insein prison after more than 10 years behind bars, Kyaw Ne Win urged the Burmese government to release not only all the political detainees, but other convicts “who deserve to be free”.
  • The stigma of HIV/AIDS in Little Burma
    Many Burmese migrants work in the dock in Mahachai, Thailand. Many of them are poor and dream of one day returning home. But many of them also enjoy new freedoms that were taboo in their own country, including sexual experimentation and multiple partners. And that makes them vulnerable to HIV, e ...
  • NLD refused permit to stage ‘constitution rall ...
    The National League for Democracy has been refused permission by police in Naypyidaw to conduct a survey to measure public perception of constitutional reform, the Burmese opposition party said.
  • Four Kachin IDPs sentenced for ‘unlawful assoc ...
    While the Burmese government released 69 political prisoners on Friday, a Myitkyina court on the same day sentenced four Kachin IDPs to terms of two years in prison for being in contact with the outlawed Kachin Independence Army.
  • Thai firm reacts after Dawei seizure rumours
    Italian-Thai Development Plc is ready to defend itself if the Burmese government decides to seize the concession of the Dawei megaproject awarded to the Thai contractor but says it has not been informed about any such decision.

Telegraph - Climate Change

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Central Banking and the Madness of Markets What is the purpose of central banks? How do they function, whose interest do they serve? How have they evolved over the years? Commonly referred to as ‘lenders of last resort,’ they are now also known as ‘market makers of last resort, ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • What Is The Real Agenda Of The American Police ...
    “The police operate according to Obama’s presidential kill power: murder first then create a case against the victim.” In my last column I emphasized that it was important for American citizens to demand to know what the real agendas are behind the wars of choice by the Bush and Obama regimes. T ...
  • Processing Distortion: “Abu Zubaydah’s D ...
    Peter B. Collins Presents Jason Leopold Investigative journalist Jason Leopold has just published the second of five parts in a series based on the private diaries that were collected when Abu Zubaydah was picked up in Pakistan in March, 2002. Leopold acquired them from an unnamed intelligence s ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Ben Dror Yemini: The Beat, and the Lies, Go On
    Over the past few days, Maariv’s far-right columnist, Ben Dror Yemini has been lying up a storm in a desperate effort to show that John Kerry hates Israel and loves Islamists like Hamas and Iran.  The evidence he’s offered is a sack of lies, as I’ve shown in this post. Yesterda ...
  • Israeli Hip-Hop Star Calls for Burning Palesti ...
    Israeli rap star, Subliminal (aka Yaakov Shimoni), posted a racist, genocidal Kahanist screed on Facebook in response to the murder of an Israeli soldier, Eden Attias, on an Egged bus in Afula this week.  While the killing of the sleeping soldier by a Palestinian boy was a horrifying crime, the ...
  • Reporters Without Borders Condemns Secret Arre ...
    Reporters Without Borders condemned the secret arrest of Mohammed Abu Khdeir by the Shin Bet, and his being held incommunicado under gag order.  Israel’s media may not report this story nor name the detainee who was arrested–solely for the practice of journalism.  Only a country that ...
  • Israel Lobbies Senators to Oppose U.S. Policy ...
    Man, if this doesn’t take the cake!  Buzzfeed reports that GOP senators publicly avowed that Israeli diplomats had lobbied them to oppose U.S. policy toward Iran.  While I don’t want to make the case that lobbies or lobbyists are evil incarnate since they seem to be as American as Wa ...
  • Israel Lobby Smears Kerry as Anti-Israel, Pro- ...
    An indication of just how low the Israel Lobby can go in its efforts to smear U.S. government officials who defy their wishes can be seen in today’s Maariv.  It features an article by Israel’s leading smear-monger rightist reporter, Ben Dror Yemini, calling John Kerry a supporter of ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Lowering Biofuels Standards
    The corn industry’s hustle to force us to turn it into fuel may have reached its peak. Normally, one might not look well upon the EPA lowering a standard that could theoretically burn something more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels. But ethanol is not only not particularly enviro ...
  • Learning to Live as a Civilization
    There’s a certain kind of environmental writing that drives a lot of people crazy. This is the jeremiad that tells us the world is failing, we are at a tipping point, civilization is doomed, etc. In principle, I don’t have a particular problem with the style, after all I do my share ...
  • Yoo Have to be Kidding
    Shorter John Yoo: I’m appalled by the executive overreach of Obama’s new ACA regulations. Plainly, Obama should have obtained these ends by arbitrarily detaining and torturing health insurance executives.     
  • The Bork Is Back
    You may recall that Ted Kennedy engaged in the least civil act in the known history of human discourse by accurately describing Robert Bork’s history of publicly stated views. One of those views was his argument that the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional because it violated the 1st Ame ...
  • Foreign Entanglements: Talking About the Talks
    On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks with Meir Javedanfar about the progress made in Geneva:     

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Groundbreaking Mapping Project Depicts Forest ...
    Scientists from Google, U.S. universities, and federal agencies have for the first time produced a high-resolution global map showing in striking detail the extent of deforestation across the globe. The project — which relied heavily on expertise from the computing View Animation Hansen, ...
  • U.S. Crushes Six Tons of Illegally Trafficked ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) destroyed six tons of elephant ivory today that field agents seized over the past 25 years. The U.S. Ivory Crush event, which took place in Denver, Colorado, marked the first time the FWS Click to Enlarge Julie Larsen Maher/WCS A portion of the ivor ...
  • U.S. To Crush Six Tons of Illegally Trafficked ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is destroying six tons of elephant ivory that field agents have seized over the past 25 years. The U.S. Ivory Crush event, which will take place in Denver, Colorado, at 1:30 p.m. Mountain Time today, will mark the first time the FWS Click to Enlarge ...
  • China at Crossroads: Balancing The Economy and ...
    After three decades of unbridled economic growth and mounting ecological problems, China and its new leadership face a key challenge: cleaning up the dirty air, polluted water, and tainted food supplies that are fueling widespread discontent among the country’s burgeoning middle class. BY R. E ...
  • Plastic Debris in Ocean Has Spawned a 'Plastis ...
    The plastic debris that litters the world's oceans has developed its own unique and diverse microbial ecosystem, researchers report. The microscopic community, which scientists dubbed the "plastisphere," Click to Enlarge Zettler, et al./ES&T Diatom and bacteria on plastic debris in ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Do We Live in the Matrix?
    "Tests could reveal whether we are part of a giant computer simulation — but the real question is if we want to know... As fanciful as it sounds, some philosophers have long argued that we’re actually more likely to be artificial intelligences trapped in a fake universe than we are organic minds ...
  • Israel Agrees to Return Stolen Organs of Dead ...
    Israel has agreed to return organs of dead Palestinians harvested by its forensic pathologists during autopsies, Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh told Ma’an news agency on Wednesday. Head of Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic institute, Jehuda Hiss, had admitted harvesting organs fr ...
  • Venezuela’s president Maduro set to rule by decree
    Venezuela’s national assembly has approved granting President Nicolas Maduro special powers to rule by decree in a 99-to-60 vote. The legislation, known as the “Ley Habilitante,” or Enabling Act, would allow Maduro to bypass the country’s top legislative body for a limited time - in this case fo ...
  • White House: NSA Surveillance Transparency Wou ...
    Transparency ’Crosses the Line,’ Officials Insist When the first leaks began to come out about NSA surveillance, the Obama Administration sought to replace demands for reform with promises of increased transparency. Apparently even that’s too much to hope for now. With Congressional bills from p ...
  • George W Bush’s new ’crusade’: converting Jews ...
    Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, an organisation which aims to promote the s ...

Not My Tribe

  • Veterans Day: when antiwar activists can tell ...
    What are active duty soldiers doing in veterans day parades? It’s premature isn’t it, and self congratulatory? They’re being deployed to a public relations stint designed to admonish the public to remember their sacrifice, except present day recruits weren’t drafted. They ...
  • WWII air veterans Doolittle Raiders celebrate ...
    I read 30 Seconds Over Tokyo when I was still a war-playing kid, before I would understand the unheralded consequences of the Doolittle Raiders deploying without advanced bombsights to prevent US war-making advantages falling into enemy hands. I’m pretty certain the account for young reade ...
  • Edward Snowden isn’t leaking allegations ...
    Corporate media doesn’t want to do its job investigating or reporting on security state mechanisms and excesses, and it’s not going to let Edward Snowden do it either. Isn’t it curious that they’re able to allege Snowden’s leaks are “allegations” instead ...
  • Blackfish has a name, it’s TILIKUM. That ...
    Yes, Orcas aren’t fish. “Blackfish” is the translation of a name indigenous peoples gave killer whales, holding them in respectful regard while keeping a traditional safe distance. BLACKFISH is also the title of a new docummentary about how the sea mammals are mistreated by Sea ...
  • 14 yr-old Philip Chism, black, charged as adul ...
    George Zimmerman has nothing on the US justice system. High school freshman Philip Chism is accused of murdering Boston teacher Colleen Ritzer. Though he’s only 14, Chism is being arraigned as an adult. Probably somewhere in America, a district attorney is hoping to prosecute a black juven ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • A Cheap and Effective Way to Spread the Word a ...
    These ReThink911 stickers are effective, inexpensive ways to get 9/11 into the minds of everyone you know – and don’t. Price $0.99 5 or more $0.80 each 10 or more $0.70 each 20 or more ...
  • GET YOUR CHOICE OF A FREE POLICY ACTIVIST BUMP ...
    No catch whatsoever, just a free bumper sticker at below link. I've gotten several other free bumper stickers from this site in the past and just finished the short form to receive the one above. There are seven others to choose from. http://www.peaceteam.net/Related: Petition: Join the Now Ove ...
  • Permanent Top Post by John-Michael Talboo and ...
    Many people subconsciously make the mistake of only seeing the issues concerning 9/11 in black and white, as opposed to shades of gray. This is known as the black-or-white fallacy. In this case, the false dilemma is: 9/11 was either carried out by Al-Qaeda or it was "an inside job." Just becau ...
  • Conspiracy theory FAQ, part 2
    The previous essay in this series examined a wide variety of the 'skeptical' claims which deny government involvement into the 911 attacks. Most of them folded like a cheap stack of cards once subjected to rigorous, informed scrutiny. More arguments will be addressed in this essay, and be warned ...
  • What to Make of the NY Times Ignoring the ReTh ...
    What are we to make of the NY Times ignoring the ReThink911.org campaign's above pictured sign directly adjacent to their building, the accompanying open letter to the Times, and over 500 letters from campaign supporters? 9/11 truth "debunkers" might have you believe this is ev ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Report exposes threat to dam 'Lost World'
    The Akawaio and Arekuna fish in the Mazaruni river and its tributaries. The proposed dam would flood the tribes' land and forever destroy an area famed for its scenery and bio-diversity.© Audrey Butt ColsonPlans to build a massive hydro-electric dam on the land of two unique tribes in Guyan ...
  • Sebastião Salgado and Vanity Fair highlight pl ...
    Vanity Fair magazine has teamed up with renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado to highlight the plight of the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe.© Vanity FairWorld-famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and Vanity Fair magazine have joined forces to publicize the plight of the Awá ...
  • Prosecutors issue urgent order for Enawene Naw ...
    The Enawene Nawe have been demanding for years that their full territory be returned to them© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s Public Prosecutors’ Office has threatened the government’s indigenous affairs department, FUNAI, with legal action if it does not move quickly to expand the Enawene N ...
  • Loggers face removal from land of Earth's most ...
    The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalBrazil has taken the first steps towards the removal of thousands of illegal loggers and settlers from the land of the Awá, Earth’s most th ...
  • Yanomami denounce illegal miners and lack of h ...
    Yanomami Indians have expressed their serious concern about illegal mining on their land© VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALYanomami Indians from Brazil and Venezuela met last month in Venezuela to discuss indigenous rights and national policies. Government officials from both countries, indigenous orga ...

Greg Palast

  • Rand Paul’s Zombie-nomics versus Janet Yellen
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Will Senator Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the un-dead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board?No joke.  Tea Party fave Paul told the Wall Street Journal he would have preferred Milton Friedman, the free-market fanatic, to ...
  • My Father's Victory in the Pacific
    By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
  • Steven Cohen Can't Make His Mommy's Monkey Jump
    By Greg Palast for Truthout [New York] Billionaire Steven A. Cohen's marriage was in hot water because his wife wouldn't tolerate the "other woman."  The other woman was Steven's mother. This week, Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors will plead guilty to criminal charges of insider trading ...
  • Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana. Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law.  The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Jud ...
  • Vultures and Voter Rustlers Palast Investigate ...
    Out this November! Get Palast's brand new DVD of his documentary investigations for BBC and Democracy Now! Watch 90 minutes of hard-hitting reports by Palast at his best. Reports include: - Election 2012 - Ohio Ballots - Mitt Romney's Auto Bailout Bonanza - DR Congo Vulture Threat - Vultures Pic ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Review: Autism Up, Haid, Avonte
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Nov 14, 2013, Fox 13, Salt Lake City: Center aims to aid those with autism spectrum disorder Nov 14, 2013, CBS 19 WA: Autism cases continue to...
  • Dachel Media Review: Acceptance Isn't Enough
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Nov 14, 2013, CBS Philly: More Support Needed For Adults With Autism Nov 13, 2013, NBC5 West Palm Beach, FL: "The look" parents of children with autism...
  • Lisa Goes' IACC Testimony
    NOTE: Below is Lisa Goes' testimony to at the 2013 IACC Strategic Plan Update Workshop today. Thank you, Lisa. Good Morning. My name is Lisa Joyce Goes. I am co-author of The Thinking Moms’ Revolution book, co-founder of The Thinking...
  • Vaccine Injury Exposed in Not A Coincidence Ga ...
    By Allison Chapman Today The Canary Party is launching their new “Not a Coincidence” campaign through the release of a compelling video of stories involving girls, and Mothers of girls, whose lives have been shaken after receiving Merck’s HPV Vaccine,...
  • Win an iPad and Help Autism Research from ARI
    Help Research That Makes a Difference: Complete Updated ARI E-2 Survey to Identify Autism Subtypes by Nov. 30 Who: Chief Investigator Steve M. Edelson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Autism Research Institute. What: Comprehensive, consent-based online survey. The survey is lengthy and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Dr. Bronner replies to Rappoport article on GM ...
    In a core waking trance, the leaders and money men, with their allies and field workers, in the campaign to label GMOs, are soothing themselves with a fantasy about what works in the arena of politics.
  • America’s Extinction Level Event
    This article is not about the devastation at Fukushima, instead, this article focuses on the fact that North America could have a total of 124 Fukushima events if the necessary conditions were present.
  • GMOs and the Culture of Death
    Leon and Barb talk about GMOs. Topics are: Mexico bans GMO corn, Columbian fight for seed freedom, free trade agreements, Rockefeller agribusiness monopoly and eugenics foundation, GMO ban moving ahead in Josephine County, Oregon despite state Monsanto Protection Act, and scientists who say GMOs ...
  • Criticize the moneymen who want GMO labeling: ...
    It appears that, among the pro-labeling community, there is a kind of cooperative ruling junta. They bankroll the show. They have support from certain activist leaders. There is no internal conflict. They control the terms of the game. They don’t engage in serious conversations with people who h ...
  • Like Rats at a GMO d-Con Trap
    This is eugenics, pure and simple. We are being conned by the USDA, FDA, and biotech industry into compliance with a malignant program designed to subjugate us through complete control of our food supply by which we poison ourselves each time we visit the supermarket and blindly toss that box of ...

new geography

  • Affordability: Seattle’s Ace in Becoming the N ...
    Silicon Valley has been well recognized as the nation’s hub of technology, having easily surpassed both Southern California and Massachusetts, but it’s now Seattle that may emerge as its greatest rival. Home to tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon, Seattle has attracted creati ...
  • Orlando, Florida: East End Market & the New L ...
    Getting meat and potatoes from the farm to the table depends upon a smooth, even flow. The smaller farmers' markets are mostly absent in the city these days, with a few vestigial exceptions: Reading Market in Philadelphia, Pike Place in Seattle, and Greenmarket in Manhattan, to name a few. Now ...
  • New Zealand Has Worst Traffic: International Data
    Three decades ago, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) at Texas A&M University began a ground-breaking project to quantify traffic congestion levels in the larger urban areas of the United States. The Urban Mobility Report project was begun under Tim Lomax and David Shrank, who have ...
  • Jerry Brown and California’s “Attractive” Poverty
    Jerry Brown is supposed to be a different kind of politician: well informed, smart, slick, and skilled.  While he has had some missteps, he's always bounced back.  His savvy smarts have allowed him to have a fantastically successful career while generally avoiding the egregious dishonesty th ...
  • Are Millennials Turning Their Backs on the Ame ...
    In his classic 1893 essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” historian Frederick Jackson Turner spoke of “the expansive character of American life.” Even though the frontier was closing, Turner argued, the fundamental nature of Americans was still de ...

water.org

  • Celebrate Toilet Day
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
  • A Better Life
    Meet Sumathi. Sumathi and her husband live in a small village in Tamil Nadu with their two young sons. Sumathi’s eldest son, Prabakaran, is eight years old and has a disability that has affected him since he was two years old.
  • A Toilet for Anita
    Anita and her husband live in Bihar, India with their three children and two elderly parents. For the last eight years, the family has been using a vacant government lot for defecation. They faced multiple issues getting to and from the lot, particularly when carrying small children during monso ...
  • Empowering 500,000 for safe water
    The Caterpillar Foundation expands partnership with new commitment to Water.org. Through this remarkable partnership we will accelerate our impact significantly and empower nearly 500,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation.
  • Cooking with Water
    Clean water isn't just the cornerstone of life, it's the foundation of a healthy, delicious meal.

Cryptogon

  • Ubiquity Eyes Turning Sears Auto Centers into ...
    Via: Data Center Knowledge: One of America’s retail pioneers may build a brand for the new economy, housing servers where it once changed your oil. Ubiquity Critical Environments, the data center unit of Sears Holdings, is considering a concept to convert some of its Sears Auto Center stores int ...
  • TSA SPOT Program: Billion Dollar Magic 8 Ball
    Via: GAO: Available evidence does not support whether behavioral indicators, which are used in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program, can be used to identify persons who may pose a risk to aviation security. GAO ...
  • U.S. Military May Have 10 Robots Per Soldier b ...
    Via: Computerworld: American soldiers patrolling dangerous streets will soon be accompanied by autonomous robots programmed to scan the area with thermal imaging and send live images back to the command center. Likewise, squads of infantrymen hiking through mountains will be helped by a wagon tr ...
  • Amazon Will Build and Manage Cloud Infrastruct ...
    Via: Networkworld: Amazon Web Services recently won a reported $600 million contract to build the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a cloud. But that cloud will not look like any other cloud on the planet. Given the sensitive nature of building an IT operation for one of the United States’ ...
  • The Weaponized Internet
    Via: Wired: The internet backbone — the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels — went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active weapon for attacks. According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit at ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Federal Reserve Is Monetizing A Staggering ...
    The Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and take them out of circulation.  Since the middle of 2008, these purchases have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a ...
  • Obama’s Secret Treaty Which Will Merge A ...
    Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see it?  The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the "NAFTA of the Pacific" and "NAFTA on steroids", but the truth is that it i ...
  • Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America Th ...
    A banker named Andrew Huszar that helped manage the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done.  He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street.  Instead, he says that it ...
  • Meet One Of The Victims Of Obama’s &#822 ...
    Have you ever cried yourself to sleep because you had no idea how you were going to pay the bills even though you were working as hard as you possibly could?  You are about to hear from a single mother that has been there.  Her name is Yolanda Vestal and she is another victim of [...]
  • 10 Facts About The Growing Unemployment Crisis ...
    Did you know that there are more than 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job?  Yes, I know that number sounds absolutely crazy, but it is true.  Right now, there are more than 11 million Americans that are considered to be "officially unemployed", and there are more than 91 mil ...

Desertification

  • Dunes to tackle desertification (Google / Neno ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://nenosplace.forumotion.com/t16943-maysan-install-two-thousand-acres-of-dunes-to-tackle-desertification Maysan: Install two thousand acres of dunes to tackle desertification by chouchou Environment Directorate Maysan agreed with the Ministry o ...
  • Desertification in Nigeria (Google / Global La ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.landscapes.org/local-national-action-desertification-nigeria/#.UoXSFo3TNn4 Local and national action on desertification in Nigeria by GLF Committee In July 2012, major flooding in many parts of Nigeria caused severe erosion. Livelihoods ...
  • Vegetation Reestablishment and Sustainable Lan ...
    COST Action ES1104 is organising a special session on Arid Lands Restoration & Combat of Desertification at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (Vienna, 27 April-02 May 2014). We invite submission of abstracts on ‘Theory and Practice in Vegetation Reestablishment … Continue ...
  • Satellite photos of Earth by ESA (Green Prophet)
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/11/middle-east-deserts-as-seen-from-space-far-out-photos/ Middle East Deserts as Seen From Space: Far-Out Photos! by Laurie Balbo The European Space Agency (ESA) publishes satellite photos of Earth (and photos of space taken from Earth) in an incredible ...
  • A major factor in pushing semi-arid lands into ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.farmweekly.com.au/news/agriculture/general/news/soils-under-threat/2677476.aspx Soils under threat MATTHEW CAWOOD  IT’S difficult to imagine Australia’s rangelands soils teeming with microbes, especially in the current severe ...

News Blaze

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
    Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...
  • Expensive Grass
    “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville  “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville       Alexis de ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • The Tragic Toll of Extreme Weather on Vulnerab ...
    In the large world beyond our borders, the impacts of climate change are being felt. In most cases, these impacts are being felt with even greater strength and causing even greater damage and sorrow. Some living through these disasters are calling for action.read more
  • Arizona Preserves Net Metering by Charging a S ...
    After two days of impassioned public comment on the future of net metering, the Arizona Corporation Commission voted 3-2 yesterday to charge $0.70 per kilowatt to solar owners to help offset utility revenue losses associated with the growth of rooftop solar.read more
  • Queensland: Now With More Solar PV than 22 Cou ...
    Queensland electricity company Energex recently released its monthly update on solar PV connection figures and as usual, there’s a fascinating story to tell. Turns out that Queensland is on the cusp of the Top 20 list of installed cumulative capacity around the world.read more
  • Global Solar PV Installations Will Double, Hit ...
    Continually declining solar photovoltaic prices will continue to power an international market surge, with annual installations doubling by 2020 en route to grid parity around the world, despite each international energy market presenting different conditions for PV growth.read more
  • Record Greenhouse Gases: Is 2 Degrees Still Po ...
    The latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin released last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed that global atmospheric greenhouse gases hit a new record high, rising 2.2 parts-per-million (ppm) from 2011 levels to an average 393.1 ppm in 2012.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Militant MadAmerika
    Phillip Farruggio From the Monday November 4th USA Today cover: “Elite warriors lost without war… For many highly trained ‘killing machines ‘, returning to civilian life is difficult and frightening.” This writer is not making this up, and this is not from some ...
  • Former Fed Official Apologizes
    by Stephen Lendman Andrew Huszar is a former Fed official. In 2009 and 2010, he managed its $1.25 trillion mortgaged-backed security purchase program. He's a former Morgan Stanley managing director. He's currently a Rutgers Business School senior fellow. He's a QE confessor. He witnessed B ...
  • Dead in the Water Peace Talks
    by Stephen Lendman Call it the curse of Zionism. Traditional Jews deplore it. True Torah Jews Against Zionism (TTAZ) say it: ● advocates "a political and military end to the Jewish exile;" ● fosters "pseudo-Judaism" based on secular nationalism; ● coercively seeks "arme ...
  • Holocaust Denial and Holocaust PTSD
    By Rachel Alebev "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." Golda Meir The following informed opinion essay will explore the origins of the holocaust denial propaganda movement that seeks to deny the reality of the Nazi regime's systematic mass ...
  • Why low key US response to Hezbollah and Iran ...
    Michael Collins The low key reaction by the United States Department of State to recent events in the battle for Syria's second largest city, Aleppo, reveals a shift in U.S. policy on the Syrian conflict. It looks like the Syrian rebel forces will lose a key supporter. In early November, t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Let's make every job a good job
    Ontario's minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently, the income of minimum wage workers sits a shocking 25% below the poverty line. The longer the minimum wage remains frozen the more its value erodes, and the longer its earners remain on the sidelines of our economy. As CCPA Eco ...
  • Making Every Job a Good Job
    Ontario's minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently, the income of minimum wage workers sits a shocking 25% below the poverty line. The longer the minimum wage remains frozen the more its value erodes, and the longer its earners remain on the sidelines of our economy. As CCPA Eco ...
  • New report on seniors care in BC
    New today from our BC office: a policy brief that analyzes how the government has responded to recommendations on seniors care from the Ombudsperson. Of the 140 recommendations directed at the Ministry of Health, only 6% have been implemented. Read more: policyalternatives.ca/nonresponse Watch ...
  • Scott Sinclair talks CETA on CBC Radio's ...
    On November 1st, Scott Sinclair, director of CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project, did an interview with CBC Radio's The Fisheries Broadcast. Earlier this year, Sinclair authored the report, Globalization, Trade Treaties and the Future of the Atlantic Canadian Fisheries, which raised con ...
  • David Macdonald presents to federal Finance Co ...
    On Tuesday, November 5th, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald was asked to present to the federal Finance Committee as part of the committee’s pre-budget consultations. Read the full transcript of David’s presentation here: What the feds should be focusing on. You can also watch a video of Da ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

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SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Oil Sands and the Environment – Part I
    Robert Rapier provides a first hand report on environmental issues originating in Alberta's Athabasca oil sands.
  • Soliciting Reader Questions for Oil Sands Tour
    On Sunday, November 3rd, I am heading to Fort McMurray, Alberta for a tour of the oil sands operations. Here are the details from the initial email that I received inviting me on the trip: Each year, the Consulate General partners with other U.S. Canadian missions to organize a tour of Canada’s ...
  • The Lasting Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo
    Forty years ago Americans got a wake up call on energy security. As Robert Rapier explains, the energy policy decisions that were made in response to the crisis have a lasting impact today.
  • The Ice That Burns
    Methane hydrates are a huge natural gas resource, but are they worth the environmental risk?
  • Why Gasoline Prices are Falling
    Fall is always a welcome change of pace for most people after a long, hot summer. Not only from the temperatures, but fall almost always brings relief at the gasoline pump. Robert Rapier explains.

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Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • 16-Yr-Old Imprisoned Three Years Without Trial ...
    From WABC: 20-year-old Kalief Browder may be physically free, but mentally he is still trapped behind bars on Rikers, where every day was a battle to survive. "It's very hard when you are dealing with dudes that are big and have weapons and shank...
  • Gary Raney: Rogue Sheriff, Federal Supremacist
    David Updyke, the first Sheriff of Idaho*s Ada County, used his office to operate a criminal syndicate that robbed and terrorized people under the color of *law.* Today, a very similar criminal practice is carried out with federal assistance in the n...
  • Judge Tosses Out 53 Drug Convictions Over Cop' ...
    A judge has tossed out 53 drug convictions because the cases may have been compromised by a Philadelphia narcotics officer arrested in a federal corruption sting. Common Pleas Supervising Court Judge Sheila Woods-Skipper overturned the convictions...
  • Peter Schiff: Bitcoin Is A Bubble
    Peter Schiff says Bitcoin's meteoric rise reminds him of Tulip mania....
  • Benjamin Franklin, Terrorist Lover
    According to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Benjamin Franklin was an irresponsible extremist for placing a higher value on liberty than security. In an interview with NewsMax, Dershowitz declared: *Benjamin Franklin was wrong when he sa...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
  • Misery in Motown
    Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →
  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
  • DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
    James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.
  • The New, Libertarian Conscience Of the Senate
    I said the other week that I agreed with Paul Keating’s famous denunciation of the Senate as “unrepresentative swill”. It’s now looking highly likely that, due to complicated preference deals which few voters understood or were even aware of, six … Continue reading ...

Politics in the Zeros

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  • Obamacare: Grabbing socialized medicine from t ...
    Pundits once said Obama was a master of three-dimensional chess. However, the Obamacare roll-out looks more like a three dimensional train wreck. Sue says Obamacare is trying to grab socialized medicine from the jaws of capitalism. We both support affordable healthcare for all. But can it be don ...
  • Desalination isn’t the answer. Conservation an ...
    Permits for the Huntington Beach CA desalination plant have been tabled until Poseidon Water, the company seeking approval, does feasibility studies on subsurface intakes for the water.  A LA Times op-ed says desal is expensive and has serious environmental problems. Ocean water desalination doe ...
  • Flag, live NYC Sept 2013
    Still ferocious, still uncompromising, Flag is members of Black Flag, minus Greg Ginn, who sued to block them using the name and bars logo, and lost. Hardcore at its best. The years have taken no toll. Featuring Keith Morris (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar/vocals), Chuck Dukowski (bass), Stephen Eg ...
  • Flooding Sacramento rice fields could also pro ...
    What’s that, you say, Sacramento CA has rice fields? Yes, and quite a lot of them too. In fact, the area produces much of the country’s rice. Researchers have found if they flood the fields in just the right way, then release baby wild salmon, that the fish grow much faster. They are ...

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

  • The November/December 2013 issue of The Domini ...
    The November/December 2013 issue of The Dominion is now online! Click on this link to download a PDF file of the entire 28-page magazine. You can support our work by subscribing to The Dominion today. For just $25 your get six issues delivered to your ...
  • Halifax Get Science Right panel looks at scien ...
    Federal cutbacks and silencing of scientists threaten Canada's future in science K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - Concerned scientists and citizens filled one of the larger Nova Scotia ...
  • In Too Deep
    Comic from the Nov/Dec 2013 issue of The Dominion. View larger version. For Heather Meek's recent comics, click here. For older comics, click here. AttachmentSize scan_13.jpeg4.98 MB
  • Going to Honduras – the reasons are simple
    You would think that Aboriginal people in Canada have enough to worry about.  With a legacy of colonialism, institutional racism and a constant fight to protect the environments that are foundational to our cultures, people of indigen ...
  • Toxic legacies
    Joint academic, grassroots project examines effects of ‘locally unwanted land uses’ on Nova Scotia’s Indigenous black and Mi’kmaq communities K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - They go by a ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • USA: mature or overripe?
    David Seaton's News Links Among the casualties of the Snowden stories are an embarrassed and chastened White House, an American technology sector which has seen its own government tarnish its business model of a global, open internet and the strong US relationships with allies such as Germany. F ...
  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...
  • Obama, the Asperger president?
    David Seaton's News Links Something that has always fascinated me is how Barack Obama ever got into politics in the first place. As we have seen on many occasions, but most clearly during the shutdown, he seems to be lacking the basic tools of  common and garden variety politics: he is t ...
  • USA: the twerking hegemon
    Twerking: The act of moving/ shaking ones ass/buns/bottom/buttocks/bum-bum in a circular, up-and-down, and side-to-side motion. Urban Dictionary Congress capped off a tense and exhausting day Wednesday with back-to-back House and Senate votes on legislation to re-open the shuttered government ...
  • Making sense (dollars and cents) of so much in ...
    David Seaton's News LinksI think we can be almost grateful for the idiotic crisis in Washington, which even with its possibility of a default which may do heavy damage to the world's economy, is giving us an ample warning of a far greater crisis looming in the foreseeable future, a crisis of dem ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 15 November 2013
    In a bit of bad planning, it turns out that most of the final quilts in our 2013 quiltblogging extravaganza are Irish chain quilts. This one is a single chain made out of fabrics purchased in Sedona, which is why it's cleverly named Sedona Chain. It's a crib size quilt that's machine pieced an ...
  • Sorry, But the 2012 Campaign Just Wasn't That ...
    God knows, Walter Shapiro has earned the right to be cynical about his fellow ink-stained wretches. Today, he takes on Double Down, the 2012 campaign sequel to Game Change from authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Shapiro thinks that it basically represents the final triumph of the "win t ...
  • Republicans Want to Torpedo the Insurance You ...
    Jon Chait notes today that to the extent conservatives have any kind of plan to replace Obamacare, their plans are generally far more disruptive to far more people. It wouldn't just be one or two million people who have their plans canceled or suffer from rate shock, it would be tens of millio ...
  • Leaked Treaty Puts US Hard Line on Patents and ...
    A couple of days ago, WikiLeaks leaked a copy of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. This is interesting in its own right, of course, but it's especially interesting because the draft copy specifies exactly which provisions the United States is fighting for and what positions oth ...
  • The Chattering Classes Are Now in Full Chicken ...
    We are in full feeding frenzy mode. Politico, by my count, has no fewer than 14 front page headlines today about the great Obamacare debacle. The Washington Post's four top news articles and its four top op-eds are all about Obamacare, and the top op-eds are uniformly panicky. Is panic just ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Report exposes threat to dam 'Lost World'
    The Akawaio and Arekuna fish in the Mazaruni river and its tributaries. The proposed dam would flood the tribes' land and forever destroy an area famed for its scenery and bio-diversity.© Audrey Butt ColsonPlans to build a massive hydro-electric dam on the land of two unique tribes in Guyan ...
  • Sebastião Salgado and Vanity Fair highlight pl ...
    Vanity Fair magazine has teamed up with renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado to highlight the plight of the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe.© Vanity FairWorld-famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and Vanity Fair magazine have joined forces to publicize the plight of the Awá ...
  • Prosecutors issue urgent order for Enawene Naw ...
    The Enawene Nawe have been demanding for years that their full territory be returned to them© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s Public Prosecutors’ Office has threatened the government’s indigenous affairs department, FUNAI, with legal action if it does not move quickly to expand the Enawene N ...
  • Loggers face removal from land of Earth's most ...
    The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalBrazil has taken the first steps towards the removal of thousands of illegal loggers and settlers from the land of the Awá, Earth’s most th ...
  • Yanomami denounce illegal miners and lack of h ...
    Yanomami Indians have expressed their serious concern about illegal mining on their land© VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALYanomami Indians from Brazil and Venezuela met last month in Venezuela to discuss indigenous rights and national policies. Government officials from both countries, indigenous orga ...

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

  • #China Easing Up On Its #OneChildPolicy and #F ...
    from seattletimes.com: President Xi Jinping announced Friday the most sweeping package of economic, social and legal reforms in China in decades, including a relaxation of the country’s “one-child” policy and the scrapping of its much-criticized system of labor camps. The changes rolled back har ...
  • @OrganicsToYou: @GoodEggs, Virtual Farmer's Ma ...
    from nytimes.com: When I was growing up, my father was fond of ordering steaks through the mail. When they arrived, my sister and I gleefully danced around the icy packages and argued over who got to open them. I can still remember marveling at the novelty of meat arriving in the same pile as re ...
  • What's The Most Important Thing Food Labels Sh ...
    from npr.org: Food labels have become battlegrounds. Just last week, voters in Washington state narrowly defeated a measure that would have required food manufacturers to reveal whether their products contain genetically modified ingredients. Supporters of the initiative — and similar proposals ...
  • Depressed People May Age Faster, Study Suggests
    from nbcnews.com: People suffering from depression may be aging faster than other people, according to a new study from the Netherlands. In the study of about 1,900 people who had major depressive disorders at some point during their lives, along with 500 people who had not had depression, rese ...
  • @YStarbucksSucks: Dispute with #Kraft costs #S ...
    from usatoday.com: An arbitrator on Tuesday concluded that Starbucks must pay $2.23 billion in damages plus $527 million in prejudgment interest and attorney's fees, following the coffee giant's early termination of a bagged coffee grocery deal between Starbucks and Kraft Foods. The award will g ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Federal Reserve Is Monetizing A Staggering ...
    The Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and take them out of circulation.  Since the middle of 2008, these purchases have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a ...
  • Obama’s Secret Treaty Which Will Merge A ...
    Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see it?  The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the "NAFTA of the Pacific" and "NAFTA on steroids", but the truth is that it i ...
  • Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America Th ...
    A banker named Andrew Huszar that helped manage the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done.  He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street.  Instead, he says that it ...
  • Meet One Of The Victims Of Obama’s &#822 ...
    Have you ever cried yourself to sleep because you had no idea how you were going to pay the bills even though you were working as hard as you possibly could?  You are about to hear from a single mother that has been there.  Her name is Yolanda Vestal and she is another victim of [...]
  • 10 Facts About The Growing Unemployment Crisis ...
    Did you know that there are more than 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job?  Yes, I know that number sounds absolutely crazy, but it is true.  Right now, there are more than 11 million Americans that are considered to be "officially unemployed", and there are more than 91 mil ...

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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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Drastic changes ahead for the ...
    Image Caption:  Hotter temperatures are among many big changes in store for the Southeast over the next century due to a warming climate. Hotter days, rising seas, more diarrhea: An extensive new scientific report released thi ...
  • Modern-day Southern 'nullifiers' continue a lo ...
    Image Caption:  The late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) was part of a long line of Southern politicians who showed disdain for the federal government in order to protect the South's elite. (Official U.S. Senate portrait.) ...
  • In North Carolina, commemorating an innovative ...
    Image Caption:  The day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in April 1968, North Carolina Fund organizer Howard Fuller led a march of mourners through downtown Durham. He spotted two men on a rooftop holding rifles, unsure whether th ...
  • Are conservative think tanks breaking lobbying ...
    Image Caption:  An influential network of conservative think tanks uses corporate money to advance a corporate agenda, but it doesn't report any lobbying activity as required by law. The State Policy Network -- a national ...
  • Was Election Day drug bust an attempt to intim ...
    Image Caption:  Downtown Mount Gilead, N.C., where an Election Day sting operation has residents concerned about voter intimidation. (Photo by Dincher via Wikipedia.) A police sting operation in a small North Carolina town on ...

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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

  • The Death Of John Kennedy–Oswald in the ...
    By Mike Rivero I was 11 years old when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas Texas. When the December 14, 1963 issue of POST was discarded by my parents, I stashed it in my personal archive alongside several Popular Electronics, Superman comics, an autographed picture of Allen Shep ...
  • ▶ Conquering the Spirit of Debt – YouTube
    ▶ Conquering the Spirit of Debt – YouTube.
  • Obamacare ‘fix’ affirms Obama as a ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) In a desperate bid to save the rapidly collapsing Obamacare socialized medicine program, President Obama announced a \”fix\” yesterday that would \”allow\” health insurance companies to avoid cancelling whatever plans haven\& ...
  • ▶ George Carlin: The Illusion Of Choice &#8211 ...
    ▶ George Carlin: The Illusion Of Choice – YouTube.
  • The Vineyard of the Saker: Is a new revolution ...
    By Vineyardsaker Today I am beginning a series of articles about what I believe is the extremely deep crisis taking place in Europe and about the potential of this crisis to result in some cataclysmic events. I will begin by taking a look at what has been going on in France, probably the country ...

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  • Facts Versus Faith
    Color me skeptical but I don't see how a technocratic "third way" can be a sustainable political strategy. Instead — and perhaps I'm being too hard on the Democratic party here — all it really demonstrates is a failure of imagination. When ordinary people decide political questions t ...
  • The Coming Democratic Revolution
    Every journey starts with a single step. So, too, every revolution starts with a single idea, that justice requires a new social covenant. A revolution is about health care, but it's not about health care. It's about nuclear disarmament, but not about nuclear disarmament. It's about protecting t ...
  • A Constitutional Crisis
    The budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's elusive: this crisis has been b ...
  • Hostage Negotiations 101
    They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...
  • Legal Realities
    If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...

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  • Arctic: Pentagon Deepens Military Cooperation ...
    U.S. Department of Defense November 14, 2013 Eucom Promotes Cooperation Among Arctic Partners By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON: When travel brochures feature Arctic expeditions, adventure-seekers think of a once-unreachable fantasyland rich with wildlife and a pristine fro ...
  • Hungary: NATO Global Strategic Airlift Operati ...
    U.S. Air Forces Europe – U.S. Air Forces Africa November 14, 2013 Heavy Airlift Wing C-17s reach 12,000 flight hours By Ville Tuokko Heavy Airlift Wing Public Affairs PÁPA, Hungary: About 6 1/2 months after reaching the significant milestone of 10,000 flight hours, the Strategic Airlift Ca ...
  • Romania: NATO Readies Phase Two Of Missile System
    Southeast European Times November 14, 2013 NATO anti-missile system in Romania to strengthen Europe’s security By Paul Ciocoiu Bucharest: NATO has resumed building a military base in Romania with the construction of an anti-missile shield to protect the European countries from the ballisti ...
  • Cornwall: NATO, Allies Hold Strike Force Exercise
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Rapid Reaction Corps November 14, 2013 HQ ARRC heading to Cornwall for major training exercise Close to 1000 personnel assigned to Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) will depart this weekend to begin a major training exercise at RAF St. M ...
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    ==== 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: Visit to a military hospital Mikhail Sholokhov: War’s bitter harvest Mikhail Sholokhov: Who was he calling f ...

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    Tri-City Herald: DOE Nominee Pledges to Study Whistleblowing Policies The nominee to be the next general counsel of the Department of Energy will conduct an independent review of how the agency and its contractors deal with whistleblower complaints. Lawmakers from the Senate Energy and Natural ...
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    USA Today: CNBC – Whistleblowers Cite Hazards at VA Centers In 2007, a scandal emerged surrounding the lack of adequate care for veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Recently, images have surfaced of similar wrongdoing. A whistleblower employee at the Pittsburgh Veterans Administrat ...
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    Associated Press: High Court Considers Whistleblower Protections On Tuesday, the Supreme Court reconsidered the limitations and protections provided in existing whistleblower legislation, including the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 a ...
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    Real Time with Bill Maher: Bill Binney HBO talk show host Bill Maher speaks with GAP client and NSA whistleblower Bill Binney, a former Technical Director at the agency who resigned after repeatedly advocating for a spy program he helped design called ThinThread. The program was ignored in fav ...
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    This article originally appeared in the Daily Kos. Since June, the main stream media has been reporting National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations exposing NSA's vast, ineffective, and unconstitutional spying. In the words of former Vice President Al Gore: [Sno ...

UK Progressive

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    by Robert Reich Democrats are showing once again they have the backbones of banana slugs. The Affordable Care Act was meant to hold insurers to a higher standards. So it stands to reason that some insurers will have to cancel their lousy sub-standard policies. But spineless Democrats (including ...
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    by Justin Elliott and Liz Day ProPublica Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin drew scrutiny for a special arrangement that allowed her to work part time at the State Department while simultaneously maintaining a side gig working for a corporate consulting firm. Under the arrangeme ...
  • Rachel Maddow Cuts and Pastes Rand Paul
    by Brent Budowsky President Obama, to his great credit, has apologized to Americans who found their insurance policies canceled under ObamaCare and tasked his White House staff to find fixes to the problems I described in my latest column. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who is embroiled in controversie ...
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    by Rev. Irene Monroe In 2013, the reality that Rev. Frank Schaefer, pastor at Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Pennsylvania, will be forced to stand trial on Nov. 18th for officiating his son’s 2007 same-sex nuptials is not only wrong-headed — it is also wrong-hearted. “I love him s ...
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    by Marshall Allen ProPublica Patients don’t always know when their doctor has made a medical error. But other doctors do. A few years ago I called a Las Vegas surgeon because I had hospital data showing which of his peers had high rates of surgical injuries – things like removing a healthy kidne ...

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    The UN will not be happy about this. The global movement is falling apart. Japan, third largest economy in the world, and the land of Kyoto itself, has dumped their ambitious plan to reduce emissions by 25% by 2020. Now they warn that their emissions may rise instead. Cabinet members said on Fri ...
  • Sea level rise slowed from 2004 – Decele ...
    A new paper shows that sea levels rose faster in the ten years from 1993-2003 than they have since. Sea levels are still rising but the rate has slowed since 2004. This does not suggest that the missing energy from the atmosphere has snuck into the ocean, but rather that the oceans and the atmos ...
  • Tide shifts: Canada “comes out” an ...
    Remember how the whole world was moving to a clean energy future, and they would mock and scorn us if we did not do our part? Statement by Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Introduction of Legislation to Repeal the Carbon Tax  OTTAWA, ONTARIO& ...
  • A Skeptic’s Christmas wish list – ...
    Are the”rellies” asking what they can buy you for Christmas? Have you got friends who are skeptic-leaning and might appreciate an easy-going, cartoon-loaded book? Problem solved : -) Order it here. This is a book like no other. Carter and Spooner make a special combination. Reader ...
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    The Australian government is curtailing Climate ActionTM. But there are still billions of taxpayer dollars headed for Direct Action and renewables and other efforts to change the Global Weather. This petition from Des Moore has been circulating in email for a week or so. Des is a former Deputy S ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

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    Bertha Courtesy Washington State Department of Transportation 57.5 feet: the width of the world's largest tunnel-boring machine, the 25,000-horsepower Bertha 10 months: the time it will take NASA's new MAVEN spacecraft to reach Mars. The spacecraft, set to launch Monday, should help scienti ...
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    Code Flowers Daniel Brown via Creative Applications Network     
  • Found: A Receptor For The Smell Of Rotting Flesh
    A female specimen of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) breed with fantails Azul via Wikimedia Commons The striped zebrafish is a popular pet, not uncommon in aquariums. But it may have a lot more in common with pet owners than you might guess by looking at it—humans actually share 70 percent of our ...
  • Scientists Identify The Most Irreplaceable Pla ...
    Primary forest in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Natural National Park was named the most irreplaceable site for threatened species in the world. Daisy Tarrier via Wikimedia Commons It's common to talk about animal species that are threatene ...
  • The World's Oldest Animal Is Even Older Than W ...
    Ming Bangor University Here you see Ming, a mollusk of the species Arctica islandica. In 2006, researchers discovered the bivalve in Iceland, and examined its interior growth rings--patterns on the inside of its shell--to determine its age. That put Ming at an impressive 405 years old, maki ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Drastic changes ahead for the ...
    Image Caption:  Hotter temperatures are among many big changes in store for the Southeast over the next century due to a warming climate. Hotter days, rising seas, more diarrhea: An extensive new scientific report released thi ...
  • Modern-day Southern 'nullifiers' continue a lo ...
    Image Caption:  The late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) was part of a long line of Southern politicians who showed disdain for the federal government in order to protect the South's elite. (Official U.S. Senate portrait.) ...
  • In North Carolina, commemorating an innovative ...
    Image Caption:  The day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in April 1968, North Carolina Fund organizer Howard Fuller led a march of mourners through downtown Durham. He spotted two men on a rooftop holding rifles, unsure whether th ...
  • Are conservative think tanks breaking lobbying ...
    Image Caption:  An influential network of conservative think tanks uses corporate money to advance a corporate agenda, but it doesn't report any lobbying activity as required by law. The State Policy Network -- a national ...
  • Was Election Day drug bust an attempt to intim ...
    Image Caption:  Downtown Mount Gilead, N.C., where an Election Day sting operation has residents concerned about voter intimidation. (Photo by Dincher via Wikipedia.) A police sting operation in a small North Carolina town on ...

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    Energy. EPA Lowers Renewable-Fuels Target for 2014. EPA Likely to Present Range for Biodiesel Quota in 2014 RFS. Backers of the renewable-fuel standard say that biofuels increase U.S. energy security, but critics say the problems outweigh the benefits.
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    Renewable Fuels Quota to Be Cut in U.S. EPA Change
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    The Obama administration proposed a cut in the amount of renewable fuels that refiners must blend with gasoline next year, bowing to oil industry complaints that the targets contained in 2007 legislation were too high. In a draft rule released today ...
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    Increased state Department of Ecology enforcement against cattle polluting streams was a hot topic between ranchers and Ecology officials at the annual meeting of the Washington Cattlemen's Association. One hour set aside for discussion became more ...
    Global change: Ecology must evolve
    Nature.com
    The advances in ecology in the past century have hugely improved our understanding of species interactions, such as those between hosts and parasites or between predators and prey, as well as population dynamics, food-web dynamics and how ...
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    Water a Pressing Concern for Typhoon Survivors
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    The exhausting journey is necessary because safe water is desperately scarce in this storm-ravaged portion of the Philippines. Without it, people struggling to rebuild and even survive risk catching intestinal and other diseases that can spread if they ...
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