Saturday, November 16, 2013

16 Nov - RSS SnapShot! III

English: President Barack Obama welcomes Israe...English: President Barack Obama welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office Tuesday, May 5, 2009. At right is Vice President Joe Biden. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Français : President Barack Obama accueille le président israélien Shimon Peres dans le bureau ovale mardi 5 mai 2009. A droite, le vice-président Joe Biden. Photo officielle de la Maison Blanche par Pete Souza. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, m...Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, meeting Secretary Clinton for a working dinner in Washington DC, May 18, 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/links/

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • JFK 50th Anniversary Special Edition – S ...
    Jack Blood is back with the first installment of his JFK 50th Anny podcasts. Renowned Secret Service Expert Vince Palamara joins Jack to discuss his newly published book: “Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy” The actions and inactio ...
  • CMU Facial Recognition Technology Could Be Fut ...
    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Much like fingerprints, our faces are unique – no two exactly alike. As human beings, we see the differences, but what can a computer see? In the movie “Minority Report,” cameras in a shopping mall recognize Tom Cruise’s character and ads speak directly to him. While that’s f ...
  • Seattle police (allegedly) deactivate surveill ...
      RT via the Stranger Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city. Last week, Seattle’s The Stranger published an in-depth look ...
  • ‘Killer Robots’ could be outlawed ...
    ‘Killer Robots’ could be made illegal if campaigners in Geneva succeed in persuading a UN committee, meeting on Thursday and Friday, to open an investigation into their development * Keep in mind – What you see below is just what is admitted. We can only guess what’s in d ...
  • Newest Russell Brand Rant pretty much says it ...
    Editor Note: Taxing doesn’t work! As Mr Brand points out, is it too easily escaped by those in powerful places, and… What he doesn’t point out;  These “taxes on the Rich” are simply passed along to the rest of us in the form or Regressive Tax and high prices on nece ...

The Air Vent

  • Climategate Week 2013
    I’m gone for a week and won’t be blogging after today.   Perhaps Kevin will answer my graph on the previous thread while I’m gone. We will see if he embraces facts as well as he claimed. As for me, I’ll be lost in the northern woods of Michigan, which means that this is t ...
  • Winning and Losing
    Some things in blogland make you smile, others, not so much.   I just answered a comment from a reader which left me cold.  If you want to comment here, bring more than a thimble full of facts with you.   For reference, I am an EVIL business owner with a natural dislike for the authoritarian pop ...
  • Change and Hope – ($2700/family/year)
    So I’ve got the rest of the health care news for this year.   We’re looking at an 18 percent increase, our previous plan was dropped because it didn’t make sense for the insurance carrier to have different rules for different companies and we have several added coverages which ...
  • Snipped at Psychological Science
    I seem to have a way with people.  While they did allow quite a bit of critique in the replies, and nearly all were incredibly critical, my comments were snipped.  — The Subterranean War on Science I’ll just reproduce the critique here then: I can’t believe the self-righteous tone of ...
  • Health Insurance – Preliminary
    Another 17% annual increase, bringing the total for our 40 people to approximately 35% over the past 3 years and we will receive a new health plan.  The reason I don’t have exact numbers is because we got pushed off our plan last year also and changed companies. We currently pay 100% of ou ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Q&A with Inside Social Marketing speaker Kevin ...
    Kevin Mullett — the Director of Visibility and Social Media at Cirrus ABS, an award winning CMS, and MarketSnare, a product to help brands capture local opportunity via SEO for dealer networks— is one of the most in-demand...
  • How can Facebook advertisers capture a millenn ...
    Getting the attention of a millennial on Facebook is difficult — especially when big companies, social media outlets, and TV networks are not focused on which methods of advertising this generation actually responds to. The problem...
  • Infographic: Do Facebook mobile app install ad ...
    Facebook mobile app install ads have been a huge help in terms of getting users to discover new apps — but how often do those users return after installing through the ad? A new infographic from...
  • Class credit for hacking? Facebook expands Ope ...
    Facebook launched its Open Academy — an opportunity for college students to learn how to hack and develop software — last spring and has already seen great success. Now, as the program calls for winter 2014 applicants,...
  • Facebook gives PMD Center a facelift
    Facebook has been hard at work, making it easier for brands and advertisers to find what they need on the site via Facebook for Business, now it’s doing the same for those seeking third-party help. The...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Pivotal moment: Why US wants deal with Iran
    Imagine Washington-Tehran fighting jihadism together. The US corporate world is already deep into wet dreams of investing in Iran's energy industry and market. As Tehran's number one priority is to get rid of the sanctions, it will be fascinating to watch how Washington will deploy its carrots.
  • Obama Stands Alone
    Jittery Democrats Know-Tow To Republican Bullying Over The ACA;Democrats Shamelessly Prefer To Placate Republicans Rather Than Back Their President
  • The Assassination
    For Israelis, Arafat was the embodiment of the Palestinian people, an object of abysmal hatred. He was hated more than any other human being after Adolf Hitler and Adolf Eichmann. The generations-old conflict with the Palestinian people was personified by this man.
  • France Clueless On Iran
    Make no mistake. Kerry -- following President Barack Obama's brief -- badly wants a deal. But as this is a P5+1 affair, he simply cannot out the French as spoilers. Thus the subsequent tactic earlier this week of "blaming" Iran -- as in "they were not ready for a deal yet."
  • Mixed-bred Dogs
    OP-ED on The affordable Care Act as viewed by a tea-party member-satirical

Switchboard

  • The Interior Department's Remarkable Decision ...
    Bobby McEnaney, Senior Lands Analyst, Deputy Director Western Renewables Energy Program, DC The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in an example of how the land management system should work, made an announcement today to cancel a proposal that woul ...
  • Coal Workers Deserve Green Jobs and a Clean E ...
    Evan Feeney, Program Assistant, Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. Several weeks ago, I attended a House hearing on “EPA’s Regulatory Threat to Affordable, Reliable Energy: The Perspective of Coal Communities.” There were a numbe ...
  • Unpacking the Coal Lobby's Claims about NRDC's ...
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. The so-called American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) will go to any lengths, including manipulation and mischaracterization, to ensure that coal-fired power plant ...
  • Illinois' draft fracking regulations: haste m ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago The Illinois Department of Natural Resources today published a draft of its proposed fracking regulations in the Illinois Register.  Sadly, looking through them brings the expression “haste makes wa ...
  • Are Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Really Out of th ...
    Christine Wilcox, Research Scientist, Montana In 2007 the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing Endangered Species Protections from the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears claiming that they had recovered and were no longer threatened. ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Terrorism - The State of Bioterror ...
    "Part of what keeps programs like this alive is the concern that if we take it down and defund it, and then, God forbid, something happens in that narrow sliver of threat space, there will be hell to pay."A week after the 9-11 attacks, five threatening anonymous letters were sent to media outlet ...
  • Education on Edge - What the Obamacare Debecle ...
    Newspapers and cable news are overflowing with stories of Obamacare's disastrous rollout. Shutting down HealthCare.gov to fix crippling "glitches," President Obama's broken promises, increased rates, dropped coverage – all of these feel like they've come out of nowhere. Where was the adva ...
  • Nigeria on Edge - Nigerian Motorcycle Taxis Dr ...
    In recent years many African urban centers have banned commercial motorcycle taxis, citing danger for the drivers and the passengers. But some drivers in Lagos say the danger of driving a motorcycle is much less than the danger of starving without a job. In many parts of the world, a young man, ...
  • Phillipines on Edge - Aid Trickles Into Remote ...
    Badly needed aid and relief supplies have begun arriving in the hard-to-reach areas of the central Philippines one week after a super typhoon tore across the region.Many people in need, however, still have received little or no assistance. Interior Secretary Mar Roxas says that in a situation li ...
  • Broken Healthcare - House Approves 'Keep Your ...
    The House passed legislation on Friday that allows insurance companies to offer health plans that were cancelled for not meeting new requirements under ObamaCare.Thirty-nine Democrats broke with their party's leaders and backed the bill despite a veto threat by the White House, highlighting the ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Germany Says No To Weaponized Drones By Davi ...
    What happened was public pressure within a nation dedicated to peace and -- at the moment -- more resistant than Japan to being turned back toward war. Germany has now said nein, nein, and hell nein to killer flying robots. And not just to the use of weaponized drones within what Americans might ...
  • Climate Scientists Warn Of More Super-Typhoons ...
    The appeal by Philippine delegate Saño to the Warsaw summit will fall on deaf ears. As at previous international gatherings, the need to reduce carbon emissions is completely subordinate to nationalist rivalries and economic interests, especially of the major powers. No agreement has been reache ...
  • South Koreans On Jeju Island And The Afghan Pe ...
    On the 22 nd of October, 2013, the Afghan Peace Volunteers ( APVs ) in Kabul, Afghanistan, had a Skype conversation with peace activists at Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island, South Korea, during which they shared solidarity in saying ‘No!' to the U.S. war apparatus in Afghanistan and South Korea
  • Few American Progressives Joining Ramsey Clark ...
    What has been clear to survivors of America's heartless bombings, invasions, occupations, and covert violence for a long time is that American intellectuals, university professors, widely read authors and journalists, who speak against this carnage, never seem to say or write that Americans shou ...
  • Old-Fashioned Political Activism Doesn't Work ...
    For political activism to succeed, it needs to start by asking the right question-- How can we stop the wrong-doings for good?--and have a correct theory on which to base its answer. I propose the following theory

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Stupid Media Bias Tricks, The Gag Me With A Sp ...
    This was a big week for lies and nastiness from the mainstream media, political wonks and  progressives. This was the week where Richard Cohen made us gag, The NYT made up a legislative initiative just so it could trash the GOP, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz proved that she really is just a ...
  • Another Democratic Senator Announces Support o ...
    I guess yesterday's Obama speech didn't move change a lot of opinions in the Senate Democratic caucus, the drive for a legislative fix continues: Freshman Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) on Thursday joined a Senate Democratic bill that would amend ObamaCare to let people keep insurance plans that are ...
  • Even The Best Terrorists Make Mistakes
    Ran across this story and had to share. It's from the Telegraph in the UK and tells the tale of al-Qaeda terrorists who cut off the head of the wrong guy who turned out to be another terrorist. Now this is something that should happen much more often. Moh ...
  • The President's Fix Exposes Another Obamacare Lie
    Remember when President Obama promised his health care plan would lower insurance  premiums by $2,500 per family? To help you remember, the video below shows him making that promise 19 times. After the president announced his "keep your insurance" fix today, the Centers For Me ...
  • Sen. Kirk: Kerry Briefing On Iranian Nuke Talk ...
    In a closed door meeting with the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry , Vice President Joe Biden, and officials from the State and Treasury departments provided a briefing on the talks to halt the Iranian nuclear program and to urge the committee to back away from a ...

Wind Watch

  • 600,000 bats killed at wind energy facilities ...
    Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines across the United States last year, with the highest concentration of kills in the Appalachian Mountains, according to new research. In a paper published Friday in the journal BioScience, University of Colorado biologist Mark Hayes used recor ...
  • Another turbine blade breaks in Huron County
    It was the third turbine to break in Huron County in the last 10 months and the second turbine owned by DTE to break down in that time. In March, a turbine blade in Sigel Township broke because of a manufacturing defect, said turbine supplier General Electric, according to a presentation by Buda ...
  • Wind turbine collapses in Washington
    Another of the thousands of wind turbines that now dot the Columbia Plateau has collapsed in a wind storm, this one at the Stateline wind farm near Touchet, Washington. It’s a fairly rare event, but still raises questions about the longevity of region’s burgeoning wind fleet, whether ...
  • Wind turbine goes up in flames
    [A wind turbine burned Sunday in Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt. Firefighters stood by helpless, watching a million euros destroyed. It was not the first such event.] Windrad geht in Flammen auf Düsseldorf. Es sind atemberaubende Aufnahmen, die im Bördekreis in Sachsen-Anhalt entstanden sind. Ein ...
  • Dead in Ooltgensplaat wind turbine fire
    A wind turbine caught fire Tuesday afternoon in Ooltgensplaat on Goeree-Overflakkee, costing the lives of two mechanics. Four mechanics were at work in the wind turbine on the Mariadijk, about 80 meters above ground, Tuesday afternoon. By a cause, yet unknown, a fire started in the engine room. ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter(2): A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, I am trying something. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are ...
  • Smarter: A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, a new experiment. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are very ...
  • Code for journalists, or why journalists shoul ...
    Friday I was visiting the Center for Collaborative Journalism, and I watched director Tim Regan-Porter teaching a class called Hacking the Media. In it, about 12 students were learning to do something with Ruby on Rails. Some of the students were journalism majors. Others were from engineering o ...
  • Aggregation and curation in journalism
    About two months ago, I had to explain the concept and use of aggregation in online journalism to a group of journalists (mostly editors) in Vietnam. I found most of my material in this blog post by Steve Buttry — and in fact, much of what you need to know is in his headline: Link, attribu ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use Hoo ...

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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Empty newsfeed.

Ian Welsh

  • I’ll be on Virtually Speaking Tonight at 9pm EST
    You can listen in here either during or after. Conversation will most likely center on these three posts: Baseline Predictions for the next sixty years A New Ideology How to Create a Viable Ideology And, I suspect, on my comments on why the progressive blog movement failed.    
  • The Obamacare Fiasco
    I think Schadenfraude nicely sums up what I’m feeling about Obama’s troubles with his signature health care bill, though I do feel  sorry for people who are being hurt by Obamacare. It’s not the website that is killing Obama, of course, it’s the cancellation of pre-existi ...
  • How Our Everyday Life Creates Our Character an ...
    We are what we do.  What experience during our daily lives creates our habits, both of action and thought and those habitual actions and thoughts are our character.  The character of men and women, and the shared character of a society is destiny: it determines how we respond to what happens, it ...
  • The Role of Violence and Coercion in Saving th ...
    It will be impossible to save the world from climate change without coercion.  The problem of climate change is a problem of common sinks and limited resources: the atmosphere can only absorb so much carbon, the seas only have so many fish and can only withstand us dumping so much plastic and ot ...
  • What is an economy?
    Perhaps the greatest difficulty I have talking about the economy is that most people don’t understand what an economy is. An economy is what people produce and the relations that make that production possible. An economy is not money.  Printing more money does not automatically increase th ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Steve Ballmer says he couldn't change Mic ...
    Steve Ballmer's announcement that he would retire from Microsoft came as something of a surprise, and left many wondering whether his eventual exit is...
  • Is it right to waste helium on party ball ...
    The US has been selling off its helium reserve, established in the 1920s to provide gas for airships - but even so, shortages have been occurring. Some scientists a finite resource that could one day run out should not be used for party balloons. In the universe as a whole, it is one of the ...
  • Libya Protest Turns Deadly as Militias Op ...
    CAIRO — Dozens of people were killed in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Friday after militiamen opened fire on unarmed protesters, setting off some of the worst violence in the capital since the revolt against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi almost three years ago. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow ...
  • Cancer diversity has 'huge implications'
    A single tumour can be made up of many separate cancers needing different treatments, say researchers. A team at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, have developed a new technique for measuring the diversity within a cancer. They showed "extraordinary" differences between can ...
  • Chemical watchdog agrees Syria arsenal de ...
    The 'most critical' chemicals must be removed by the end of the year. The world’s chemical watchdog on Friday adopted a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, only reaching agreement hours before a deadline expired. “The plan is adopted,” Christian Ch ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Citizen Science Movement
    Interview with Sean Bonner, citizen scientist and founder of Safecast, a lay nuclear radiation monitoring group founded a week after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima. Bonner started Safecast when the Japanese government failed to disseminate information about radiation l ...
  • Ageism: the Silent Killer
    Ageism or age discrimination seriously detracts from effective medical treatment. In contrast to developing countries, where older people are respected and revered, age discrimination is pervasive in all industrialized countries. Medical ageism, which refers to age discrimination in th ...
  • Medicinal Plants and Poison-Free Cancer Treatment
      (In my last of four posts about the effectiveness of natural health care, I offer two videos.) 1. Video #1:  Numen: The Healing Power of Plants by Terrence Youk and Ann Armbrech (2009). Numen is as much about the environmental health crisis as about plant-based medicine. It stre ...
  • Mainstreaming Natural Health Care
    (This is the 3rd of four posts on the effectiveness of “natural” or “alternative” health care.) Third Party Coverage Presently Germany, which has publicly guaranteed health care for all its citizens, is the only country to offer “natural” health care on a ...
  • How Natural Health Care Affects Genes
     (This is the 2nd of 4 posts regarding the effectiveness of “natural” or “alternative” health care.) The Wall Street Journal article I mentioned in my last post also mentions other research into the mechanism by which plant-based diets, yoga, and meditation halt ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • 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

Rodale News

  • Fresh Picks: 12 Surprising Flu Cures and How t ...
    • 12 unusual ways to ward off the flu from Dr. Woodson Merrell. Two hints:  Eat a weird-sounding honey and don't always grab your neti pot. (Livestrong) • Stephen Colbert’s not-to-be-missed take on the defeat of a GMO labeling law in Washington state (ColbertNation) • Yes, it IS possible ...
  • 3 Crazy Ways to Burn Fat
    Losing weight is all about calories in, calories out, right? While that used to be the prevailing theory guiding weight control, researchers are finding that obesity and overweight are far more complicated conditions that can't be pegged entirely to overeating. Studies are finding that everythi ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Gluten-Free Pie Crusts
    Pie is as American as Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. And there's no reason to avoid it just because you (or your family or your party guests) are avoiding gluten! In fact, it's actually easier to make a piecrust without wheat than it is to make one with wheat, since gluten, the protein in ...
  • Big Food Wants Feds to Ban GMO Labeling
    Of the $33 million that was spent to defeat a law requiring labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs) in Washington state, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a trade group representing large food corporations, spent $22 million, nearly all of it from an account named "Defense ...
  • 27 Foods You Should Never Eat
    Enter your email address below to receive your FREE downloadable copy of 27 Foods You Should Never Eat.

big think

  • Only Passion Can Transform Stress Into Success
    One interesting outcome of the research that we’ve been doing at the Center for the Edge is what’s required to address mounting performance pressure.  And we ended up casting a pretty broad net looking at a wide variety of arenas, not necessarily business arenas, where you see extreme pressure . ...
  • Surviving the Dark Days of Winter
    By DANIEL FREUND (guest blogger) Yesterday I left the house in the dark. I got to the subway in the dark, and I left work in the dark. I am not alone in realizing this gloomy reality, but our visual experience of dark days is only part of the story. Winter’s daylight is not only scarce; ...
  • What Patriotic Philanthropy Means
    David Rubenstein, the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, credits his country, the United States, for his ability to rise up from a modest upbringing to become a successful businessman.  Because of this, he now practices what he calls Patriotic Philanthropy.   So what does that mean ... Re ...
  • John Locke, President Bush and the Jesus Pushers
    Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has been incredulous all week about George W. Bush’s decision to speak at a fundraiser of a Christian evangelical organization that seeks the conversion of Jews. “Why on Earth would he be doing this?” Ms. Maddow asked rhetorically on her Monday show of his Nov. 14 appearan ...
  • Quincy Jones: Jazz Swallows Everything Whole a ...
    While jazz is a uniquely American invention that created rhythms from scratch, Quincy Jones says the genius of the art form can also be found in its appropriation of classical instruments. Watch Jones explain the evolution of jazz in the XPRIZE Insights video here: Image ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Disquiet on the Weather Front : the Welfare Im ...
    World Bank / by Abla Safir, Sharon Faye Piza, and Emmanuel Skoufias http://bit.ly/1eVchPt Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weath ...
  • Transaction Costs of Low-carbon Technologies a ...
    World Bank / by Luis Mundaca, Mathilde Mansoz, Lena Neij, and Govinda R Timilsina http://bit.ly/1bKBVl7 Transaction costs are major challenge to moving forward toward low-carbon economic growth, as new technologies or policies tend to have higher transaction costs compared with those in the busi ...
  • Energy Investments and Technology Transfer Acr ...
    International Energy Agency http://bit.ly/1grYs7s Global technology transfer and co-operation are undergoing profound changes. Growing innovation capacity among emerging markets and increasing investment flows between them are creating new, reciprocal opportunities through the deployment of tech ...
  • Technology Roadmap: Wind Energy
    International Energy Agency: http://bit.ly/1hWXMYs [From Press Release]  Wind power could generate up to 18% of the world’s electricity by 2050, compared with 2.6% today, the new report Technology Roadmap: Wind Energy – 2013 Edition finds. The nearly 300 gigawatts of current wind power worldwide ...
  • Ireland’s Carbon Tax and the Fiscal Crisis
    OECD / by Frank J. Convery, Louise Dunne, Deirdre Joyce http://bit.ly/1aamC6w Beginning in late 2008, Ireland experienced a fiscal crisis. This resulted in November 2010 in agreement between the Irish government and the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetar ...

frogblog

  • Touring with a Hunter Valley hero
    This week I concluded my New Zealand tour with Australian John Krey. John is the leader of the Bulga community in the Hunter Valley, a village of 350 people who stood up to mining giant Rio Tinto and won a landmark court case preventing the company’s planned expansion of an open cast coal mine c ...
  • A visa or freedom of expression issue?
    There’s been a story running, supported by the Sri Lanka Government that Lee and I were in Sri Lanka illegally on the wrong visas and were not detained or questioned. On one level they’re right; on another it’s absolutely untrue. Let me present the story as I know it: We applied for the visa we ...
  • TPPA: terms and trades of copyright
    There are many concerning aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), most notably the fact that it is being negotiated in secret but the intellectual property provisions recently revealed are deeply worrying.. The leaked intellectual property chapter reveals serious disputes betw ...
  • To boldly go where no sub has gone before
    The Kermadecs are a special part of New Zealand deserving of greater protection and new scientific discoveries are adding urgency to the call to create a Kermadecs Ocean Sanctuary. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has been undergoing an around-the-world voyage, ...
  • Governing Northland
    The Local Government Commission yesterday released its proposal for restructuring local government in Northland,  a big step in a process that was set in motion by the former mayor of Far North District Council.  The Commission’s proposal is to establish one unitary authority to replace FN ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • IC 414: Cash of Duty Ghosts
    Changes coming to The Insanity Report and Movie Trailer Reviews The work that goes into applying for SDCC press passes Award Season and Kev gets a ton of Indie movies to review Arkham Origins might have a better story than Arkham City Gamers who play for status symbol instead of enjoyment Why I& ...
  • IC 413: The Golden Rule: Don’t Be a Dick
    Killing Time on Netflix Batman Arkham Origins Happy “Dress up as another race in an offensive manner and then claim you had no idea it was offensive even though it is blatantly obvious it was offensive” Month Owning up to being offensive How stupid you have to be to do a racist costu ...
  • IC 412: For Colored Boys Who Listen to Drake ...
    Pacific Rim Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm NYCC They Live and the most awesome bad fight of all time Bedazzled dildos SNL and lack of black women talent Adrian Peterson is actually a good father King Kendrick Rap God Drake gets emotional….again Skinny jeans music Drake Slander Share with ...
  • IC 411: #NeverForget Travis the Chimp
    The NFL and Breast Cancer Awareness Going overboard with Breast Cancer Awareness month The Government Shutdown Just how dumb Republicans are Obamacare vs Affordable Care Act Fuck George Zimmerman’s wife Woman 0 Tiger 1 GTA Online Share with your friends:
  • IC 410: Phone Wars
    GTA V What might be in store for us in GTA Online and possible dlc Next gen systems The Iphone 5c At what point do we not need a faster phone? Droid vs Iphone….who cares? Kanye is right………..and an asshole Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Twin rainfall effects strengthen human climate ...
    Using a new method, Kate Marvel and Céline Bonfils at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have found that the way wet areas are getting wetter, dry areas are getting dryer, and the most wet or dry places are moving towards the poles are beyond natural patterns.
  • The man who got the world to agree on climate
    Bert Bolin played a key role in putting the risk of human-caused climate change on the political map, from one of the first official government recognitions, to guiding the IPCC to a Nobel prize.
  • The man who got the world to agree on climate
    Bert Bolin played a key role in putting the risk of human-caused climate change on the political map, from one of the first official government recognitions, to guiding the IPCC to a Nobel prize.
  • The underprepared figurehead that led climate ...
    Bert Bolin overcame the death of his mentor to define how computers and satellites would aid weather and climate research and set up organisations that would lead to creation of the IPCC.
  • The underprepared figurehead that led climate ...
    Bert Bolin overcame the death of his mentor to define how computers and satellites would aid weather and climate research and set up organisations that would lead to creation of the IPCC.

e!Science News

  • Overcoming brittleness: New insights into bulk ...
    From the production of tougher, more durable smart phones and other electronic devices, to a wider variety of longer lasting biomedical implants, bulk metallic glasses are poised to be mainstay materials for the 21st Century. Featuring a non-crystalline amorphous structure, bulk metallic glasses ...
  • Starting dialysis after -- not before -- conce ...
    Women with advanced kidney disease who start dialysis during pregnancy have superior live birth rates than those already on dialysis at the time of conception, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The findings ...
  • Researchers develop algorithm to identify indi ...
    Instruments on the Curiosity Mars rover not only measure the chemistry of rocks, elemental abundances of soils and wind speeds, but also take an incredible number of images from both mast-mounted cameras and up-close imaging systems mounted to robotic arms. The process of analyzing soil images c ...
  • Whither the teakettle whistle
    Despite decades of brewing tea in a whistling kettle, the source and mechanism of this siren sound of comfort has never been fully described scientifically. Acknowledging the vibrations made by the build-up of steam escaping through two metal spout plates is about as far as the explanation went ...
  • The Gorgons of the eastern Pacific: scientists ...
    Gorgonians are a type of soft corals easily distinguishable by the complex branching shape, which has also probably inspired their name, coming from the Gorgon Medusa- a creature from the Greek mythology that had hair made of venomous snakes. The existence of Medusa outside myth might be debatab ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part III
    This is the third and final part of a comprehensive series on radiation that has been published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week — cancer… Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-n ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part II
    This is the second part of a comprehensive 3-part series on radiation that is being published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week, we look at… mutations! ———- Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – P ...
    This is the first of a comprehensive new 3-part series on radiation, which will be published on BNC in weekly instalments. If you really want to distinguish science fact from science fiction on the many vexed issues surrounding radiation, including cancer risks, genetic and physical mutations, a ...
  • ‘Pandora’s Promise’ document ...
    For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Cinema Ventures website, here. I’ve been involved with the movie, in various small ways, for the last few y ...
  • Willacy’s Fukushima
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s “Drum” websit ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More
    This is a great article from the Huffington Post on Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More  And Some Policies Are Being Cancelled… There is no legislation where everyone is a winner. The point of any good law is to help the most people while harming the fewest. In the case with Obamacare ...
  • 1,046,000 Texans Won’t Get Free / Afford ...
    That’s right. If Ricky the dirtbag worked with the the feds, they could have set up a system to enroll Texans like the one in Oregon, California, Washington and other places to get free, or low cost health insurance to millions of hard working Texans. But noooooooo. Weall in Texxas duddunt ...
  • Dear Patty Murray
    So Patty,  you are “negotiating” with Paul Ryan are you? Here is your new message. If the wealthy paid taxes at the rate of the middle class, and corporations weren’t allowed to stash their profits overseas, we wouldn’t have a deficit. There is no need to screw the elderl ...
  • The Best Ted Cruz Blog Post Ever!
    From bayside on Raw Story: “Keep up the hate Cruz and soon republicans will be small enough to drown in a bathtub.” From Raw StoryArticle “Cruz lashes out at Senate GOP over shutdown failure”….. Personally I don’t thing “approval” for Republicans w ...
  • So The Tea Party Is Racist – Duh
    Why is it that only Congressman Alan Grayson is pointing out this simple fact? Grayson Stands Behind Statement… I am sure there is one or two Teabaggers that aren’t racist to the core. At least I am pretty sure. I am sure they hate President Obama simply because he is a Socialist, Ke ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Haaretz’s financial paper doesn’t ...
    TheMarker journalists toy with statistics to reverse the correlation between cause and effect, portraying unions, once again, as protectors of the privileged. TheMarker, Haaretz’s economic supplement (which over the last several years has gained a life of its own), is at it again. A report ...
  • PHOTOS: Palestinians destroy separation barrie ...
    During the early hours of Friday morning, Palestinians in two Palestinian villages took part in a “direct action” to destroy parts of the separation barrier. In Bir Nabala, located on the other side of Route 443, Palestinians used hammers to break open a hole in the wall, while Pales ...
  • Israeli rapper: ‘First burn all jails wi ...
    One of Israel’s most popular hip-hop artists, Subliminal, was pretty angry after a Palestinian teen murdered an IDF soldier in his sleep earlier this week. Subliminal posted a photo of the Palestinian, who was bandaged after apparently being roughed up during his arrest, and had some harsh words ...
  • From revenge attacks to demolition threats: A ...
    This week: An arson attack in response to the killing of an Israeli soldier, the Wall encircles Al Walaja, Palestinians observe the anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, a Palestinian prisoner is released, activists protest the demolition of Bedouin villages, animal rights activists take a ...
  • Palestinian family targeted by arson in &#8216 ...
    A 16-year-old Palestinian stabs a 19-year-old Israeli soldier to death in his sleep. That night, a completely unconnected Palestinian family’s home is set alight while they sleep, in revenge for the murder. A Palestinian home in the West Bank village Sinjil was firebombed early Thursday mo ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • The first ever Sailfish OS powered Jolla phone ...
    Sailfish OS project was started by a group of ex-Nokia employees aimed at continuing the development of MeeGo OS. Originally the MeeGo was the result of the merger of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin projects, both Linux systems. But when Nokia decided to ditch MeeGo in favor of proprieta ...
  • Ubuntu spotted in this Self Synchronizing Quad ...
    Another instance of Ubuntu being used in fields most of us are not even aware of. This video popped up on reddit a few hours ago. Skip to 01:00 to see Ubuntu in action.  Coding Motion: Synchronizing Quadcopters aka "Swarm" Seems like Ubuntu is becoming pretty ...
  • Metro: Last Light and Football Manager 2014 Av ...
    Two more blockbuster games are now available for Linux via Steam. Metro: Last Light is a single-player first-person shooter and horror video game developed by Ukrainian studio, 4A Games. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features a mixture of action-oriented and stealth game ...
  • Project Ara: Motorola's Open Hardware Platform ...
    When Google took over Motorola an year ago, the speculation was that Google would simply sell off the hardware division of Motorola since they are only interested in the patents. But the arrival of Moto X proved everyone wrong. And now, Google is really starting to bring more life into Motor ...
  • 15 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 13.10 ...
    Much like the previous Ubuntu 13.04, the latest Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" is also an incrementally updated release with no major visible changes. But that is to be expected with Unity slowly maturing as a robust desktop alternative. For a more detailed analysis, wait for our full ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
     posted 11/12/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher It was 1977 when I found out I was going to become a Mom. I instinctively knew I needed to be careful while I was pregnant, especially during the first two trimesters when the major organ systems of the fetus develop at a rapid rate. In the 196 ...
  • Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
    Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

Empty newsfeed.

War Resisters League

  • What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
    On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →
  • Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
    by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →
  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Alternate paths to Mars: NASA’s MAVEN co ...
    The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission is primarily a test of technology and capability and self-confidence and self-belief. With a very limited budget. NASA's MAVEN is expected to have a budget of about $672 million. MOM has a budget of about $70 million. As missions go, MAVEN represents a Mercedes "S ...
  • Final Mars Orbiter orbit increase successfully ...
    ISRO has announced via Facebook that the next burn to raise the earth orbit (apogee to close to 200,000 km) will be carried out at 0127 IST (2057 CET 15th November). If this goes as planned the next manoeuver will be to inject the probe into a Trans-Mars trajectory on 1st December.
  • China relaxes highly successful one-child policy
    It was no doubt authoritarian and draconian and there may well be many unforeseen emotional and psychological side-effects to come for many generations, but the bottom line is that the Chinese one-child policy has done the trick insofar as population numbers is concerned. The Chinese population ...
  • Hollande’s France is dragging down the E ...
    The global recovery needs Europe - and not just Germany - to do its bit. Instead, Hollande's schoolboy economics are not just threatening the Eurozone recovery but actually threatening to postpone the recovery.
  • India Mars Orbiter Mission Update – 14th ...
    Indian science journalists apparently just wait for official press releases and have no updates and little background to offer. Their lack of pro-active coverage and apparent lack of interest leaves much to be desired.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

Empty newsfeed.

Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Philippines: The US’ military plan to r ...
    “Let’s Take Advantage Of Suffering Filipinos!”   By David Swanson 14 November, 2013 Warisacrime.org   The same week in which a Washington Post columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to a ...
  • Philippines: The US’ military plan to r ...
    “Let’s Take Advantage Of Suffering Filipinos!”   By David Swanson 14 November, 2013 Warisacrime.org   The same week in which a Washington Post columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to a ...
  • US’ Kerry Praises Egypt’s “D ...
    [Reuters News Service on November 3, 2013, reported that "'Thus far there are indications that this is what they are intending to do,' Kerry said after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, referring to his recent remarks in Pakistan that Egypt’s military was 'restoring democracy'”. The rules ...
  • US’ Kerry Praises Egypt’s “D ...
    [Reuters News Service on November 3, 2013, reported that "'Thus far there are indications that this is what they are intending to do,' Kerry said after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, referring to his recent remarks in Pakistan that Egypt’s military was 'restoring democracy'”. The rules ...
  • NSA’s Phone/Internet Spy System = Electr ...
    [In an amazing admission, an NSA official proclaims the government attitude that the people have no right to telephone or internet privacy:  Because it's just the same as the common (though now challenged, in name) police "stop and frisk" policy and practice. -- Frontlines ed.] NSA official cite ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

Empty newsfeed.

2012 Blog

  • The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
    For a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude auroras) or the return of a long-period comet. Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
  • Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
    I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
  • Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
    Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...
  • When The Shit Hits The Field
    SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
  • Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
    Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The role of the BBC in the Syrian conflict
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a transcript of outstanding 12-minutes long video describing the evidence of falsification technics used by the BBC correspondents while reporting on Syria on the eve of historical voting in British parliament on August 29, 2013. This is how the BBC website introduces a ...
  • “Christian world is facing challenges of ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an abstract from the address of Metropolitan Hilarion to the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches taken place in Busan (South Korea) last week. No other presentation has provoked such agitation and excitement, delight and  indignation in the hall. The matter i ...
  • Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovere ...
    Horrific details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed, including two teenage boys, their mother and three of their grandparents who were thrown down a well. Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the lar ...
  • How Foreign Office dares to judge Libya and Ir ...
    The remarkable aspiration of the British Foreign Office to only accuse the administrations of Libya and Iraq for the current state of events there, concealing their initial cause, consisting in initiation by the West and Great Britain in the first place of the recent military intervention in the ...
  • Nobel Peace Laureate: “Mother Agnes is b ...
    Open Letter to the American people from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate My dear friends, As a teenager living in Belfast, I admired the American Peace Movement and many prominent figures within it. Fifty years later, two of the most inspiring people still remembered across the world are Am ...

E U Times

Empty newsfeed.

Voiceless Victim

  • Inquiry Asked “What Does Justice Look Like?” I ...
    Survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions in Australia were very nervous and excited with the imminent release of the final report of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. We have been betrayed by those in authority so uniformly throughout our entire lives. We have seen those dete ...
  • RIP Father Kevin Lee – a disobedient pri ...
    The sad news is filtering through about the death of Father Kevin Lee in last week’s massive typhoon in the Philippines. This was no doubt a very great tragedy for his friends and especially his young family, with whom he had spent so little time. Kevin saw his daughter Michelle born in la ...
  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 3 The V ...
    The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry was the first of the current trio of investigations into the coverup and enabling of widespread child sexual assault by religious institutions. All three inquiries are officially named in softer, and more complicated and inclusive language, but the core issue ...
  • Why Aren’t We More Outraged by This Corr ...
    Last month it was revealed Catholic church officials were less than honest with police in NSW about the crimes of their carefully protected child sex offender colleagues and friends. Many would say, so what’s new? What was new was the release under Freedom of Information of documents reque ...
  • Will the Royal Commission Use Its Teeth?
    There have been a number of times when evidence before the Royal Commission’s public hearings has been conflicting. Confusing. Dodgy even. But this week’s questioning of YMCA managers has uncovered what only the most naïve would consider to be anything other than direct and deliberate lies to th ...

WL Central

  • 2013-11-15 Jeremy Hammond Sentencing Statement
    Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Jeremy Hammond and I'm here to be sentenced for hacking activities carried out during my involvement with Anonymous. I have been locked up at MCC for the past 20 months and have had a lot of time to think about how I would explain my actio ...
  • 2013-11-06 Statement by Sarah Harrison
    Wednesday 6 November 2013, 18:30 CET As a journalist I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend. I worked in Hong Kong as part of the WikiLeaks team that brokered a number of asylum offers for Snowden and negotiated his safe ex ...
  • 2013-11-06 Statement by Sarah Harrison
    Wednesday 6 November 2013, 18:30 CET As a journalist I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend. I worked in Hong Kong as part of the WikiLeaks team that brokered a number of asylum offers for Snowden and negotiated his safe ex ...
  • 2013-11-02 Geoffrey Roberton's "The Refugee"
    In an exclusive for the Sydney Morning Herald, Geoffrey Robertson has provided, from his new book published this week, an excerpt dealing with the "case" against Julian Assange. This might be the most complete and most accurate summation yet. read more
  • 2013-10-14 Warning: WikiLeaks-Forum.com cannot ...
    Dear user, You are contacted because you are still registered with wikileaks-forum.com. This is to warn you that this website can not be trusted. People joined this forum in the belief that they were becoming members of WikiLeaks' official forum, a place to express and nurture their support. Reg ...

U N News

  • Insecurity obstructs social, economic developm ...
    Latin America remains the most unequal and most insecure region in the world, the United Nations reported today, calling for inclusive economic growth and enhanced security and justice institutions as the most efficient ways to reduce insecurity.
  • Colombia: UN chief congratulates negotiating p ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated Colombia following an announcement that negotiating parties in Havana, Cuba, reached an agreement on the issue of political participation in the South American country.
  • UNESCO chief denounces murder of Honduran came ...
    The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom today denounced the murder of Honduran cameraman Manuel Murillo Varela, who was found shot dead last week in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
  • UN General Assembly renews call for end to US ...
    For the 22nd consecutive year at the United Nations, the General Assembly today adopted a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.
  • Marking one year since Hurricane Sandy, UN off ...
    On the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy making landfall in the United States, United Nations officials are reminding the public not to forget the storm's less documented Caribbean victims.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Wolves Need You on November 20 Rally with us ...
      The US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to strip gray wolves’ endangered species protections and make other changes that threaten the survival and recovery of Mexican gray wolves. Fifteen years after they were reintroduced, only 75 Mexican gray wolves remain in the wild. Due to a fr ...
  • Rally to Save Wildlife – November 16 in Albuqu ...
    TRI received this email about an upcoming protest. We hope you will join them! We are volunteers with the group Stop Coyote Killing Contest in New Mexico. We formed last year when a Los Lunas business sponsored a coyote killing “contest” last November and we protested. It is our unde ...
  • TRI Comments on Proposed Revision to the Nones ...
    The US Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to add the Mexican Gray Wolf subspecies (Canis lupus baileyi) to the list of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.  At the same time FWS is proposing to classify the only wild population of about 75 Mexican wolves as a “nonessent ...
  • TrekWest Blog 44: Thanks for a Successful West ...
    Posted: 22 Oct 2013 10:46 AM PDT “Praying (yes, empiricists, I admit it) for the last few Pronghorn struggling to rejoin their herd divided by a barb-wire fence, and shedding tears of joy (yes, hard-core rationalists, I admit it) when the last one found a way under, and galloped off into the Bit ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Chopping ...
    ©2013 by Dave Foreman Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act and we will mark it with merrymaking and wingdings all over the United States.  The big national celebration will be in Albuquerque in October, and I am most happy that Terry Tempest Williams and I ...

reference frame

  • Stratocaching
    Geocaching is a kind of game related to orienteering in which people hide and seek GPS/GSM receivers at random places of the globe. Some Czech organizations have brought the game to a brand new level: see Stratocaching.CZ and an explanatory article in English or a fresher one translated from Cze ...
  • Fermilab Today on naturalness
    Today, Fermilab Today published a nice short article about naturalness written by Jim Pivarski of CMS. The article contains an unlikely arrangement of stones which seems to depend – much like the Higgs boson mass – on fine, unlikely cancellations. Pivarski also writes that it's unlikely for m ...
  • Visas no longer needed for Canada: thank you
    After four years, Canada abolished the tourist visa requirements for Czechs again. The visas have been introduced and canceled a few times in recent decades. Judging by the sentiment in the face, this Czech woman probably got the visas back in 2009 when they were imposed again shortly ...
  • State-of-the-art non-SUSY \(SO(10)\) grand uni ...
    Several recent hep-ph papers studied grand unification without supersymmetry, an approach that seems intriguing to a whole group of researchers. Grand unification theories (GUT) work nicely with supersymmetry (SUSY) – it's the supersymmetric version of the \(SU(5)\) and larger models that achiev ...
  • Imminent groundbreaking Wolfram Language
    Stephen Wolfram and his smart folks are preparing something big. For a few decades, Wolfram has been an epicenter of powerful computational paradigms – including Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, CDF, A New Kind of Science, and even a TRF guest blog on particle physics. But all these t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Peter Taptuna wins job as Nunavut’s new premier
    Education, economic development and housing will be Peter Taptuna’s top priorities as he takes over as Nunavut’s third premier. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Canada unprepared for oil tanker spills, B.C. premier say ...
  • TSA multimillion dollar program as effective a ...
    from RTAmerica: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: YOUR RANDOM DHS MONITORED PHRASE OF THE DAY from What Really Happened: YOUR RANDOM DHS MONITORED PHRASE OF... Americans Petition ...
  • Justin Trudeau, Peter MacKay trade barbs over ...
    Justice Minister Peter MacKay launches a tirade against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s stance on marijuana and recent comments he made to school children. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: It’s a boy for Defence Minist ...
  • Wi-Fi Spy Network Installed In Los Angeles?
    by Paul Joseph Watson, InfoWars: A series of photographs obtained by Infowars suggests that a similar wi-fi mesh network to the one which generated controversy in Seattle over its ability to track cellphone users is currently being installed in Los Angeles. As we reported earlier this week, ...
  • Why the premier hasn’t sacked Rob Ford
    A day after Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne set out the conditions for provincial involvement in Toronto’s chaotic city affairs, she may have been let off the hook by city council’s apparently successful bid to limit the mayor’s powers. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my t ...

Modern Survivalism

  • THE FLU And How To Avoid It
    If you want to avoid the flu, then know this… during the winter months when outdoor temperatures plummet and people spend more time indoors while interacting with each-other, it increases the likelihood of spreading germs — and the flu virus. As the flu season begins to ramp up durin ...
  • 2 Safe Ways How To Thaw A Frozen Turkey
    To safely thaw a frozen turkey takes time, so you need to plan ahead so you don’t find yourself behind schedule and mistakenly do something dangerous. Thanksgiving will soon be upon us and the traditional turkey dinner will be served across much of the U.S.; so for the sake of modern survi ...
  • Do Not Kick The Sheepdog
    Awhile ago, 58-year-old Ki Suk Han was pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City. Even though 60-90 seconds passed before an oncoming train hit the man, a group of up to eighteen bystanders simply stood on the platform and looked on as the train approached and ran him over. One, a freelance ...
  • How To Dehydrate Cranberries
    I love cranberries. The other day I dehydrated about 7 pounds of cranberries which were on sale. They reduced to fit in two and a half quart size canning jars afterwards. I snapped a few pictures and decided to share the simple secrets how to dehydrate cranberries…   Except for raw cr ...
  • American Liberty At The Crossroads: Do We Sit ...
    America’s systemic reaction to the unspeakable horror of the 9/11 attacks was to “protect” ourselves by planting the seeds for a police state that will eventually strangle the freedom that we grew up cherishing. Each incremental step toward tyranny seem so “logical” ...

Fast Company

  • 10 Most Popular Of The Week: Why You Owe Your ...
    Our readers voted with their clicks! 1. "A 600-Foot-Tall City On Wheels, For When It's Time To Get Away From It All" Co.Exist Hate your commute? Madrid-based architecture student Manuel Dominguez thinks that the city of the future is destined to be on wheels--600 feet above the ground.Read F ...
  • LoveRoom: The Social Network For Sleeping With ...
    LoveRoom invites users to seek out a room from another user--for free. The catch: you spend the night together.The website LoveRoom officially launched its beta version today and as of this post's timestamp, has so far a grand total of 41 members. The site is advertising itself as "a platform wh ...
  • A Scientific Journal For Kids, Edited By Kids
    Made up of editors as young as 8 years old, Frontiers for the Young Minds is a science journal created by a UC Berkeley professor to teach kids peer review.Science journals can be a bit... well, dense. To help bring more young people into the world of science and scientific research, a new scien ...
  • #Antisec Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Given Maxim ...
    Jeremy Hammond, the 28-year-old hacker who rose to prominence for the 2011 Stratfor hack, was sentenced to 10 years in prison today. I was in the courtroom.In a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, Judge Loretta Preska, who was previously asked to recuse herself due to a possible conflict of i ...
  • What Life Is Like In One Of The World's Fastes ...
    Through the photographs of Shaun Fynn, Shanghai's architecture becomes a symbol for future modern cities.All over Shanghai--and the rest of China--cranes erect high-rise apartment towers in record time. Shopping districts are quickly planned and just as quickly realized, while new transit statio ...

Jadaliyya

  • Fugitive Markets and Arrested Mobilities: Gazi ...
    Under the auspices of ongoing negotiations between the Iranian state and the P5+1 over the former’s nuclear program and the crippling economic sanctions unleashed by the latter on Iran and its citizens, Moharram proceedings are nonetheless underway full-force in Tehran. Even in Meydoone-e Kajj o ...
  • On Why Struggles over Urban Space Matter: An I ...
    Why do urban struggles matter in projects of social change? What is the importance of reclaiming public space in social movements? And at this gloomy global moment of extreme urban disparities and social inequalities, how do we re-think what is possible? For insights on these questions, we inter ...
  • The Civilian Administration of the Insurgency ...
    While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement in Northern Syria. This experience of reconstructing an administrative system through the bottom-up has enabled to restart the pub ...
  • Jadaliyya Launches Critical Currents in Islam ...
    Jadaliyya’s Critical Currents in Islam Page engages with a broad range of topics related to Islam as it is interpreted, practiced, and contested in political, cultural, and economic arenas throughout the world. The page is a place for fresh and critical perspectives on many of the issues that ha ...
  • Weaving Ethical Concerns and Aesthetic Aspirat ...
    Iran has recently been labeled the nose job capital of the world; a fact that comes as a surprise to those who get caught up on the Islamic Republic’s strict and serious image. As opposed to what one might imagine, no sort of governmental or Islamic legal permission is required to access cosmeti ...

mediagazer

  • How Flipboard Keeps You Glued To The Page (Aus ...
    Austin Carr / Co.Design: How Flipboard Keeps You Glued To The Page  —  The new Flipboard app, released this week, looks similar to previous iterations.  And for good reason.  —  Several years ago, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue was searching for the company's soul ...
  • The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition (empt ...
    emptywheel: The Second Page, Glenn Greenwald Edition  —  On the first page of a WaPo story on an Eric Holder speech, it said this. … Based on that, I think, a slew of journalists are reporting that DOJ will not prosecute Glenn Greenwald.  —  Then click the ...
  • Raul Ramirez, pioneering journalist, dies at 6 ...
    Stephanie M. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle: Raul Ramirez, pioneering journalist, dies at 67  —  Raul Ramirez, whose tough-nosed reporting and inspiring mentorship made him a defining force in Bay Area journalism, died Friday at his Berkeley home.  He was 67.  Mr. Ramir ...
  • Eric Holder May Have Just Toppled the First Do ...
    Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire: Eric Holder May Have Just Toppled the First Domino in Ending NSA Surveillance  —  The top line news from an interview Attorney General Eric Holder gave to The Washington Post is that Holder recognizes Glenn Greenwald's work in exposing NSA &mdash ...
  • Alec Baldwin Suspended From MSNBC After Contro ...
    Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed: Alec Baldwin Suspended From MSNBC After Controversial Remarks  —  The actor's MSNBC show has been pulled from the air for the next two weeks.  —  MSNBC announced Friday that “Up Late With Alec Baldwin” had been pulled from the n ...

Chemtrail News

Empty newsfeed.

World News - Top Stories

  • Steve Ballmer says he couldn't change Mic ...
    Steve Ballmer's announcement that he would retire from Microsoft came as something of a surprise, and left many wondering whether his eventual exit is...
  • Is it right to waste helium on party ball ...
    The US has been selling off its helium reserve, established in the 1920s to provide gas for airships - but even so, shortages have been occurring. Some scientists a finite resource that could one day run out should not be used for party balloons. In the universe as a whole, it is one of the ...
  • Libya Protest Turns Deadly as Militias Op ...
    CAIRO — Dozens of people were killed in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Friday after militiamen opened fire on unarmed protesters, setting off some of the worst violence in the capital since the revolt against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi almost three years ago. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow ...
  • Cancer diversity has 'huge implications'
    A single tumour can be made up of many separate cancers needing different treatments, say researchers. A team at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, have developed a new technique for measuring the diversity within a cancer. They showed "extraordinary" differences between can ...
  • Chemical watchdog agrees Syria arsenal de ...
    The 'most critical' chemicals must be removed by the end of the year. The world’s chemical watchdog on Friday adopted a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, only reaching agreement hours before a deadline expired. “The plan is adopted,” Christian Ch ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 11/13/13 - Health Care Stocks: Performance und ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Stocks: Performance under Obamacare - The charts and graphs in this resource show the average stock price increase of the top 10 largest health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device companies from Mar. 23, 2010 (the day the Af ...
  • 11/12/13 - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Ca ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Cannabis - Read about pharmaceutical drugs that contain chemicals directly from marijuana (Sativex), synthetic versions of chemicals found in marijuana (Marinol), chemicals similar to those found in marijuana (Nabilone, Dexanabi ...
  • 11/7/13 - Does the Phrase "under God" in the P ...
    undergod.procon.org – Does the Phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance Violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause? – Read our updated pros and cons including statements from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Stephen R. Reinhardt (pro), the Center for Individual Freedom (con), F ...
  • 11/6/13 - Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for Ame ...
    dare.procon.org - Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids (K-12)? - The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) program has been taught to tens of millions of kids worldwide. Proponents say it helps prevent youth drug use, and remains popular with students, parents, and polic ...
  • 11/6/13 - Did the Founding Fathers Support a S ...
    undergod.procon.org – Did the Founding Fathers Support a Separation of Church and State? – Read our updated pros and cons including statements from the Anti-Defamation League (pro), former US presidential candidate Rick Santorum (con), Garrett Epps, a law professor at the University of Baltimore ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • “Gliderpalooza” Ocean Survey Continues
    Students learn about a Rutgers slocum glider (Photo: Norm2006) Back in September, we told you about “Gliderpalooza,” a collaborative project to launch several ocean-going glider robots off the East Coast to gather scientific data.
  • CEO Note: Don't Ignore the Science
    (Photo: Wayne Hoggard NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC) Last month, the International Whaling Commission released a report that, for the very first time, established a firm connection between a sonar mapping tool used for offshore oil and gas exploration and the deaths of marine animals. In 20 ...
  • Safety Culture Aboard Exploded Offshore Rig: “ ...
    (Photo: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Panel Report 2013-002) Offshore drilling remains deadly and dangerous years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. The picture above is from a massive explosion on an offshore drillin ...
  • Creature Feature: A New Species of Humpback Do ...
    (Photo: Blue Dolphin Marine Tours) For today’s Creature Feature, we’d like to introduce you to a new species of humpback dolphin—so new, in fact, that it doesn’t even have a name! Humpback dolphins are a family of dolphins with a distinctive hump beneath their dorsal fins, similar to the hum ...
  • CEO Note: Oceana Honors former Secretary of S ...
    (Photo: Oceana / Tom Vickers) Wednesday night I had the honor of being on stage with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and HBO CEO Richard Plepler at Oceana’s Partners Award Gala in Los Angeles. The gala honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to the cause of prot ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Empty newsfeed.

Japan Times

  • Problem-solving shows for celebs and viewers; ...
    On the problem-solving variety show "Kaiketsu! Nainai Answer" ("Solution! Ninety-nine Answers"; Nippon TV, Tues., 9 p.m.), comedy duo Ninety-nine and some celebrities offer advice to ...
  • Kawaii!! Japan’s Culture of Cute
    Kawaii!! Japan's Culture of Cute; Manami Okazaki & Geoff Johnson; PRESTEL Providing an in-depth overview of all things kawaii (cute), this book traces the cute aesthetic ...
  • Light and Dark
    "Light and Dark" is one of the late Natsume Soseki's longest and most famous masterpieces. Although the allure is partly due to its lack of ...
  • Tales of wonder from Tohoku’s deep past
    The first time most people outside Japan heard about the country's northern Tohoku region was when it was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami ...
  • Writer-farmer seeks hope in country life’s future
    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his administration have recently been mulling major changes to the country's farm policy. The move comes against the backdrop of ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Heinz Plant Closure Throws Leamington into Eco ...
    After more than 100 years of business, Leamington’s Heinz plant is closing, throwing 740 people out of work and sending the community into economic shock. I grew up in Leamington.  Many of my first memories are of the tomato harvest. Tomato season meant family dinners sitting on the tailgate of ...
  • Labour Shortage? Raise Wages!
    I have been hard on our new Employment and Social Development Minister, Jason Kenney, for buying into a widespread myth about labour shortages and skill mismatches in Canada. So, to give credit where credit is due, it appears Minister Kenney has been listening to the growing chorus of voices dis ...
  • A Canada Without Compassion: A Modest Proposal ...
    The Fraser Institute would like to remove compassion from the policy debate about poverty in Canada. Why? Because, according to the report’s author, Christopher Sarlo, compassion is causing us to confuse those who have lower income with those who do not have enough income to sustain life. For Sa ...
  • No matter how you slice it, Ontario’s Minimum ...
    It seems everywhere I turn people are talking income inequality. Whether it’s on the pages of the current Globe and Mail series, The Wealth Paradox, or in the Toronto-Centre by-election where both front-runners claim to be experts on the subject, the issue finally seems to be taking up space in ...
  • Balanced budget come hell or service cuts or a ...
    The Minister of Finance on Tuesday announced the fall update to the country’s finances. There was a surprise in the works for Canadians, instead of the $3.8 billion surplus in 2015-16 from the 2013 Budget, Finance is now projecting a $6.7 billion surplus—or nearly twice as much money. In both ca ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

Empty newsfeed.

Peakwater

  • Desalination isn’t the answer to Califor ...
    “On Wednesday, the California Coastal Commission may green-light a massive desalination plant in Huntington Beach. If approved, it would be the second operation in the area. The nation’s largest seawater-to-drinking-water facility is under construction in Carlsbad and is expected to begin ...
  • How do we balance needs of energy, water, and ...
    “In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers; including the need to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions gives a different picture. Adding the ...
  • You’re invited to Jenna Cavelle’s ...
    Environmental (In)Justice in Native America: The Case of the Owens Valley Paiute Over the past 150-years the expropriation of land and water from aboriginal communities in the Owens Valley have had devastating impacts for both people and the environment. Impacts include but are not limited to; l ...
  • Turkey to make symbolic donation for Native Am ...
    “The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency Directorate (TİKA) will establish a water supply tank for a Native American tribe in western Oregon in the United States, allocating $200,000 for the project. The aid was announced at a reception held in the Turkish Embassy in Washington. Tu ...
  • Canada’s Great Inland Delta: A Precarious Fut ...
    “The Peace-Athabasca Delta, one of the world’s largest freshwater deltas, is facing major change as rising temperatures, a prolonged drought, and water withdrawals for Alberta’s tar sands industry threaten to increasingly dry out this vast expanse of waterways and wetlands. Along the banks ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • what are they afraid “we” might le ...
    …why is it that WikiLeaks is the only new outlet to attempt to provide full disclosure and transparency to American citizens … why doesn’t our Congress disclose all aspects of the proposed treaty … what are they afraid “we” might learn…?   WikiLeaks Just Published Part Of A Massive Free-Tra ...
  • you are really asking me to believe
    …What you are really asking me to believe that corporate health care insurance CEO and mgt have our (yours and my) be$t interest in their heart … yea, right…!   The Obama administration’s administrative fix to the health plan cancellation problem "could destabilize the market and ...
  • do we want to…?
    …We can make this happen … the question is do we want to…? Elizabeth Warren Challenges Obama to Break Up "Too Big to Fail" Wall Street Banks   Read the Article at The Guardian   Filed under: Blogroll
  • the salient kernel
    …the salient kernel in the articles below is the incessant 24/7 drum beat on vilifying the Affordable Health Care Act/Obamacare by corporate press and its impact upon American consumers ….   Decision time for Dems: Fight or flight By: Alexander Burns and Katie Glueck The party’s frustration ...
  • …Say what…?
    …Say what…? No, Obama Didn’t Lie to You About Your Health Care Plans Dean Baker, AlterNet The claim that President Obama lied in saying that people could keep their insurance looks like another Fox News special………. READ MORE» Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Powered by Google, high resolution forest map ...
    Researchers today released a long-awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale. Powered by Google's massive computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the world's cou ...
  • Zero net deforestation is the wrong target, wa ...
    Environmental initiatives that target zero net deforestation may miss their mark when it comes to slowing climate change and protecting biodiversity, warns a commentary published in this week's issue of the journal Science. While zero net deforestation may seem like a worthy target in efforts to ...
  • Bangladesh plans massive coal plant in world's ...
    On October 22nd Bangladeshi and Indian officials were supposed to hold a ceremony laying the foundation stone for the Rampal power plant, a massive new coal-fired plant that will sit on the edge of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. However, the governments suddenly cancelled t ...
  • Could camera trap videos galvanize the world t ...
    Even ten years ago it would have been impossible to imagine: clear-as-day footage of a jaguar plodding through the impenetrable Amazon, or a bicolored-spined porcupine balancing on a branch, or a troop of spider monkeys feeding at a clay lick, or a band of little coatis racing one-by-one from th ...
  • Ground zero for endangered species: new progra ...
    Organizations within the international conservation community are joining forces to minimize impending extinctions in Southeast Asia, where habitat loss, trade and hunting have contributed to a dramatic decline in wildlife. The coalition is aptly named ASAP, or the Asian Species Action Partnership.

Science - NZ Herald

  • Earth's oldest signs of life uncovered in Aust ...
    Scientists have discovered possibly the earliest signs of life on Earth - remains of bacteria that are almost three-and-a-half billion years old - in a remote region of northwest Australia.Evidence of the complex microbial ecosystem...
  • Where did dogs first appear? DNA points to Europe
    For years, scientists have been dogged by this evolution question: Just where did man's best friend first appear?The earliest known doglike fossils come from Europe. But DNA studies have implicated east Asia and the Middle East....
  • Mutant crab catches eye of scientists
    They call him Blinky - a tiny freshwater crab fished out of the Hoteo River on the Kaipara Coast that's made a splash around the world this week, thanks to its three eyes.Scientists have described the bizarre deformity as "astounding"...
  • New signs to warn of Tongariro activity
    New electronic signs will alert trampers on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing to increased risk of volcanic eruption.Lights on the signs will change from green to orange or red, indicating increasing danger or road closure, the Department...
  • Scientists blast reform plan for waterways
    A national body representing freshwater scientists has joined other experts in hitting out at shortcomings in new government reforms to improve the controversial state of our waterways.Environment Minister Amy Adams this month revealed...

The Bovine

  • BC E-coli case tied to raw milk cheese
    From Randy Shore, at the Vancouver Sun: “With one person dead and 10 ill, others who ate cheese from an artisan dairy in Salmon Arm are nervous. While investigators try to pin down the cause of a fatal E. coli … Continue reading →
  • Industry wants federal law to prohibit state-l ...
    From Michele Simon on Civil Eats: “With the disappointing results now in from I-522, the initiative in Washington State that would have required labeling of genetically-engineered food (aka GMOs), the looming question is, what’s next? At least for the junk food lobby, … Continue read ...
  • Nuclear Transformation of the WHO
    Food for thought, re Fukushima: From Mikkai, on the blog by Jan Hemmer: “In the report which it submitted to the WHO in 1958, the study group on the mental health issues raised by the use of atomic energy stated that … Continue reading →
  • Hospital backing out in case of 10 yr old Amis ...
    From David Michael on  the Journal of Natural Food and Health: “Akron Children’s Hospital (ACH) wants to back out of their involvement with the Sarah Hershberger forced-chemo case according to two reports received by the Journal from family friends at … Continue reading →
  • Food rights attorney detained in LA
    From Peace News Now: “Around 8am this morning, Attorney Ajna Sharma-Wilson was detained without explanation on a Frontier Airlines flight in LA. She is a lawyer who plays a critical role in defending the rights of people to consume and … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Eight Choices for "Generation Wait"; Percentag ...
    When you do not have a job (or have a low paying job), and are stuck with education costs that you cannot possibly pay back, what do you do? Eight Unfortunate Choices You stay in school accumulating debtYou go back to school accumulating debtYou move back homeYou share an apartment with others ...
  • Promises, Promises; Public Union Pensions NOT ...
    Numerous cities have filed for bankruptcy in recent years, and many more cities are on the brink. The reason is untenable union wages, and more importantly untenable pension promises. Sampling of Bankruptcy News Vallejo, California March 2009: Judge Rules Vallejo Can Void Union ContractsLos An ...
  • Unwilling and Unable! Washington State Rejects ...
    It did not take long for Obama's proposal as detailed in Obama Changes His Mind (But Only For a Year); You Can Keep Your Plan IF Insurers Reinstate Them to blow sky high. Two hours, to be precise. Washington State Rejects Obama’s Proposal The Seattle Times reports State insurance commissioner ...
  • India Gold Premium Hits Record 21.6%
    With India's 10% gold import duty on top of other capital controls, the price one has to pay for gold in India has reached a record spread of 21.6% vs. what one has to pay in countries where there are no such controls or import duties. My friend Nick at Sharelynx Gold pinged me earlier today wi ...
  • Scranton Unlikely to Make Required Pension Con ...
    It is really disheartening to watch Scranton public officials make matters worse for city taxpayers. I spoke about Scranton a couple days ago in Moody's Warns of Scranton Bankruptcy; Fitch Downgrades Chicago Citing Pension Problems; Liberal Fantasyland. Here is a synopsis of the detai ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • 1 Critical After Workboat Capsizes Near Seattle
    U.S. Coast Guard and fire and police personnel rescued three people Friday afternoon from a capsized survey vessel off Alki Point near downtown Seattle, but a fourth person who was recovered is considered to have sustained life-threatening injuries.
  • Ship Photos of The Day – Triple-E Float Out Ju ...
    By any other account, an event such as this would call for a celebration or something, but the recent float-out of the M/V Maribo Maersk was really just another day at the Daewoo Marine Shipbuilding and Engineering shipyard in South Korea.
  • Because Sometimes, One Tender Just Isn’t Enough
    Damen has announced today that their  67-meter, ridiculously over-the-top seagoing toy hauler (Fast Yacht Support vessel) M/Y GARÇON, has won the Excellence for Innovation Award at the International Superyacht Society (ISS) [...]
  • Propulsion Issue Forces Allure of The Seas Cru ...
    Royal Caribbean says propulsion issue onboard the Allure of the Seas has forced the company to cancel at least one sailing so that repairs can be made.
  • Ports of Singapore, Zeebrugge and Antwerp Sign ...
    The ports of Singapore, Zeebrugge and Antwerp this week have signed a LNG bunkering accord aimed at harmonizing and facilitating the use of LNG as a marine fuel.

Press TV

  • Tripoli clashes death toll exceeds 40
    More than 40 people have been killed and over 400 other injured in two days of deadly clashes between protesters and militiamen across the Libyan capital city of Tripoli.
  • Tensions high between US, Israel lobby
    Tensions are running high between the Obama administration and Israel lobby regarding diplomacy with Iran, American academic and writer Joel Kovel tells Press TV.
  • ‘EU states must not bar Syria refugees’
    The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHRC) has called on some European Union states, particularly Bulgaria and Greece, to stop turning away Syrian refugees fleeing the deadly crisis in their country.
  • Sri Lanka rebuffs UK rights probe call
    Sri Lanka has rebuffed a call by British Prime Minister David Cameron for an international probe into the alleged human rights abuses following the civil war in the South Asian country.
  • Egypt police disperse student rally
    Egyptian security forces have stormed Zagazig University's campus and fired tear gas to disperse students protesting in support of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • The Dreaded Freshman 15
    OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
  • The Dreaded Freshman 15
    OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
  • Africa and its Diaspora
    How connected are we?  Take the survey and share your thoughts! I recently watched the African Day parade which traveled down my street in Harlem, and attended the festival in Marcus Garvey park. It was a paradoxical experience for me. On one hand, it felt familiar, and I felt connected. I saw f ...

Dissident Voice

  • Drone Victims Take on Washington DC
    Faisal bin Ali Gaber is a soft-spoken engineer from Yemen. After he lost his cousin and brother-in-law in a drone strike in August 2012, he published an open letter to President Obama and Yemeni President Hadi. He said his brother-in-law was an imam who had strongly and publicly opposed al-Qaeda ...
  • Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at “La ...
    IPS — Russian 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 agreement. Lavrov said the United States circulated a draft that had be ...
  • Ecce Mortis: Raise High the Pothos, Technician ...
    1. College Degree Required Bright  April Fools noon, months ago.  Drunk. Barely stand.  Advertisement for horticultural technician read:  “Topiary Techniques seeks. Indoor Landscaper. Work with plants. College degree required. College degree a must.  Will train.” Clean office spacious new.  Expe ...
  • Do the NSA Revelations Impact Businesses? (Hin ...
    You shouldn’t worry about your government spying on you if you have nothing to hide. That’s what people would say to me when the NSA leaks started happening, when I first started talking about the dangers that these revelations pose to businesses, both small and large. That’s like saying that if ...
  • Germany Says No to Weaponized Drones
    Germany had planned to buy a fleet of “Euro Hawk” killer drones — perhaps in an effort to bring the European Union up to speed with certain other Nobel Peace laureates. But something happened on the way to the celestial colosseum. Of course, Captain Drone Man himself undoubtedl ...

Nick Turse

  • projectrenew:Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (August ...
    projectrenew: Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (August 1, 2013) – It was a narrow escape for villagers of Dai Hao yesterday when a piece of postwar ordnance suddenly exploded at noon in the middle of a rice field. Farmers who had been working there minutes before had gone home for lunch. The accident i ...
  • American soldier charged in killings of deaf, ...
    American soldier charged in killings of deaf, unarmed Iraqi teens Then-Staff Sgt. Michael Barbera is accused of killing Ahmad Khalid al-Timmimi, 15, and his brother Abbas, 14, as they tended to cattle in a palm grove near As Sadah, an Iraqi village about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad in March ...
  • Several years ago, while reporting from Vietna ...
    Several years ago, while reporting from Vietnam, I headed into the equivalent of a live minefield — a future construction site littered with unexploded ordnance left from what the Vietnamese call the “American War.”  I went there to cover the work of a demining team from Project Renew: a 16-mem ...
  • "In 2010, I arrived at Harvard University with ...
    “In 2010, I arrived at Harvard University with a mess of a manuscript — 10 years worth...
  • thepoliticalnotebook:Pew polling shows that ...
    thepoliticalnotebook: Pew polling shows that 66% of Americans feel favorably about the Department of Homeland Security and 54% feel favorably about the NSA. Check out this chart, though. One of the really interesting things about analyzing the partisan splits on agency favorability is that it ...

Sources+

Newswise

  • Perimeter Institute and Krembil Foundation Par ...
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics announces a multimillion-dollar partnership with the Krembil Foundation to establish prestigious research chairs for two of the world's top young theoretical physicists.
  • Large-Scale Analysis Describes Inappropriate L ...
    A new study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds that, on average, 30 percent of all lab tests are probably unnecessary -- and equally as many necessary tests may be going unordered.
  • Study Shows Cardiac Surgeon Report Cards Do No ...
    Despite nearly universal awareness of report cards on risk-adjusted mortality rates of individual cardiac surgeons, cardiologists in New York State do not use these reports when making patient referral decisions.
  • As Mars Goes, So Goes Earth?
    On Monday, November 18, NASA is set to launch MAVEN, a small scientific satellite, to do some chemical meter-reading in the Martian atmosphere.
  • Val G. Hemming Simulation Center to Be Dedicat ...
    One of America's largest healthcare simulation centers, incorporating more than 30,000 sq. ft. of virtual reality, surgical simulation, task trainers, standardized patients, and high fidelity mannequins, will officially be dedicated as the "Val G. Hemming Simulation Center" on Monday, Nov. 18.

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • Renisha's killer was charged--now we need just ...
    Thank you for charging Renisha McBride's killer with murder. Stand Your Ground or self-defense should never be used to justify the killing of an unarmed woman who posed no threat. We're counting on you to get justice for Renisha and her family." Submitted by Timothy Spurlin to US Politics & ...
  • A Carbon Tax Would Cut The Deficit By $1 Trillion
    "A carbon tax of $25 per ton of emissions would cut the deficit by $1 trillion over a decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • House approves ObamaCare insurance fix
    The House on Friday approved a bill to let insurance companies sell health plans that had previously been canceled due to ObamaCare regulations, a day after President Obama moved unilaterally to fix the problem. Submitted by Carol Dreeszen to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note ...
  • Green Party: President Obama, Halt the Trans-P ...
    "The Green Party today called for an immediate halt in the Obama Administration's closed-door negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), following the publication by Wikileaks of the TPP's intellectual property chapter on Nov. 13." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Please Sign! Abolish Fictitious Corporate Rights
    The Supreme Court has prohibited routine inspections of corporate property unless there is a warrant. This allows the corporation to hide any threats to the general public. Submitted by Alicia Batt to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
Related articles
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)