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Scoop - NZ

  • increase testosterone in men
    Very low Teststerone In Guys Will cause Loss of Libido and Sex Life Drive. Our doctors have spoken to and helped near to 20,000 Aussie guys with the most common sex health issues dealing with men today.
  • A Drone War Report Done Right
    The 94-page report "License to kill; why the American Drone War in Yemen violates international law" released today presents the results of Alkarama's field research and analysis on the US strategy in its 'war on terror' with respect to international, examines the reactions of the US and Yemeni ...
  • Italian euro exit unless .. ?
    Italy remains stuck in depression. We now know that the spectacular spike in consumer confidence in June was a ruse, a white lie to talk up prospects and hold back the debt-deflation tide. ..... Italy's authorities - in thrall to the Bocconi Boys, free-marketeers from Milan's Bocconi Universit ...
  • Xinhua: US risks own security by spying on allies
    “One has to trust in order to be trusted. It is particularly true in friendships and alliances. America obviously failed to follow the simple rule,” the Chinese author says, concluding that trust is “the first and foremost casualty.” The latest “cascade of eye-popping disclosures” about Washi ...
  • Syrian army captures Safira, East of Aleppo.
    Syria's armed forces said on Friday they had captured a strategic northern town at the eastern gates of Aleppo, the former commercial hub long the scene of fierce fighting between government and rebel fighters. The town of Safira lies on a road the army said would be used to send in medicine ...

Independent - London

  • Agent provocateur: Inside the secret archives ...
    While the recent leaking of government-surveillance information hasn't exactly been welcomed by the secret services behind it, an exception comes in the form of the documents obtained by the spies of the Stasi, the Ministry for State Security run by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). ...
  • The curse of the second term hovers over haple ...
    'Tis that haunted season here in Washington again. I refer not to Halloween and the accompanying skeletons, synthetic cobwebs and plastic creepy-crawlies that currently populate our front lawns, but to the spectre that regularly returns at this stage in the political cycle here – the Curse of t ...
  • How my grandfather's brave and lonely stand fo ...
    I spent last week in South Korea helping make a television documentary about my grandfather, Henry Cockburn, who was British Consul General in Korea shortly before the First World War. He arrived in 1905, just as Japan was occupying the country and extinguishing Korean independence, for a posti ...
  • Los Angeles airport gunman 'targeted security ...
    The gunman who shot dead a security officer and brought America's third busiest airport to a standstill on Friday afternoon had enough ammunition to have "killed everyone" in the terminal, the mayor of Los Angeles said as the FBI launched a probe into the 23-year-old suspect's motives.  &n ...
  • Bulgaria's human timebomb: Syria's crisis hits ...
    This is not the Europe that Bangeen imagined. Crammed in a disused carpentry school on the outskirts of Sofia, the 32-year-old Syrian Kurd has fashioned a tent from a white sheet and a tree branch. It is enough to grant his family some privacy from the dozens of people sleeping in the classroom ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • The grain that damages the human brain
    With increasing recognition among medical professionals and the lay public alike that the health of gut and brain are intimately connected (i.e. the 'gut-brain' axis), the concept that gluten-containing grains can damage the human brain is beginning to be taken more seriously. Books like Dr. Wi ...
  • Are conspiracy theories the biggest threat to ...
    What is the common element between Liborgate, the Fed manipulating capital markets, China hoarding gold, and the recent ubiquotous NSA spying revelations? At one point, before they became fact, they were all "conspiracy theories" as were the Freemasons, the Illuminati, McCarthy's witch hunts, 9 ...
  • GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together ...
    The German, French, Spanish and Swedish intelligence services have all developed methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic over the past five years in close partnership with Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency. The bulk monitoring is carried out through direct taps into fibre o ...
  • Israel owns U.S. Congress: Sabotaging the U.S. ...
    The question of war or peace with Iran rests with the policies adopted by the White House and the US Congress. The peace overtures by newly elected Iranian President Rohani have resonated favorably around the world, except with Israel and its Zionist acolytes in North America and Europe. The fir ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Its official - Time to drop hazard ...
    The history of the national conviction that dietary fat is deadly, and its evolution from hypothesis to dogma, is one in which politicians, bureaucrats, the media, and the public have played as large a role as the scientists and the science. ~ Gary Taubes Finally someone from the convent ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • So this is how it ends(?)
    With the Edmonton Sun calling for Harper's resignation because his lies are too much - even for them. As Harper said of Paul Martin over the sponsorship scandal, either he knew and was guilty or did not and was incompetent. But Harper also lies constantly, including telling the House o ...
  • Kinda like the PMO . . .
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  • Arctic speculation . . .
    STEVIE'S STEALTH SNOWMOBILE: the Harper concept of the future of Arctic conflict. Now as we know, the CONs are not the sharpest tools in the drawer and the acquisition of equipment for promoting our Arctic presence has been a Stevie problem. And with global warming opening the Arc ...
  • Reefer sanity . . .
    A Uruguayan man smokes cannabis duringa demonstration in Montevideo in May.A senate vote to legalise the drugis expected in November.Photograph: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images Uruguay sets priceof legalised cannabis at $1 a gram Uruguay sets price of legalised cannabis at $1 a gram, ...
  • Jesse Staniforth brutally rips Rex Murphy a ne ...
    And a very well-deserved one it is. Rex Murphy's opinion piece isn't just ignorant, it's totally vacuous, the product of someone who literally seems to know nothing about the subject he's railing against. But then, there's the rub. Murphy is educated in the art of the word; not the pro ...

Media Matters for America

  • Debunking Conservative Lies About The Employme ...
    As the Senate prepares to take its first vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in over a decade, prominent social conservatives and right-wing media outlets have begun peddling long-debunked myths about the measure, which would protect employees from mistreatment on the basis of t ...
  • REPORT: Climate Denial Letters In Top US Newsp ...
    The Los Angeles Times recently announced it does not publish Letters to the Editor that deny man's role in climate change, but most major newspapers are not following suit. A study from Media Matters found that 14 letters that deny manmade climate change have been printed in The Wall Street Jour ...
  • Meet The A-Team: A Guide to Fox News' Health C ...
    Fox News regularly turns to serial misinformers and right-wing activists to analyze the Affordable Care Act. Here is a guide to Fox's health care "experts" and their history of misinformation.Fox's "Medical A-Team"  Dr. Marc Siegel Siegel: "Obamacare Is A Cancer On The Health Care Sy ...
  • Fox News Devoted 47 Minutes To CBS' Stale Beng ...
    On October 28, Fox News devoted more than 47 minutes over the course of 13 total segments to discussing a flawed report by CBS' 60 Minutes on the September 2012 Benghazi attacks.The Network Devoted 13 Segments Over 11 Shows To Benghazi Fox News Spent Much Of October 28 Using The& ...
  • What The Media Should Know About The Congressi ...
    Media coverage of the Senate hearing on the controversial Stand Your Ground self-defense law should not ignore the role the law played in the acquittal of George Zimmerman, research indicating the negative consequences of the law, and that a hearing witness who favors Stand Your Ground has had h ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • U.S. To Aid TEPCO In Moving Hot Fukushima Fuel
    Preparing to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, TEPCO recently dismantled the damaged roof parapet of Unit 4 and removed debris there. (Screenshot source: Enformable.com/Lucas W. Hixson.) As early as next Friday (November 8), the scariest decommissioning work at the ruined nuclear ...
  • Hybrid Solar Eclipse On Sunday November 3 2013
    A hybrid solar eclipse will be occurring just a couple of days from now, on Sunday, November 3, 2013. While the eclipse will be visible to those on the East Coast of the US, those in Africa and the Middle East will get the best show — with total eclipse being visible to those in Hybrid Sol ...
  • The Zombies Among Us – Exploring The Resurgent ...
    There are real zombies, or “sleep walkers”, in this world…the voodoo victims of hoodoo, drug-induced slavery, normally restricted to the tribal cultures of Western Africa and the West Indies (following the introduction of African slaves to the New World)… But I am here re ...
  • How Clean Is Your Electricity? Ask The EPA
    If you’ve ever wondered about the composition of the electricity delivered to your home (most of us have no clue), there’s one quick and easy way to find out. The EPA’s ‘Power Profiler’ tool has apparently been around for at least 2 years, but I only discovered it r ...
  • 100% Renewable Energy Future — How To Get Ther ...
    At the United Nations’ upcoming COP 19 event in Warsaw, the REN Alliance is scheduled to “introduce the theme of a 100% renewable energy future, and introduce case studies on how to attain this vision.” The side event is supposed to touch on technical integration of renewa ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

Climate

  • Poland, Wedded to Coal, Spurns Europe on Clean ...
    (New York Times) They call it Poland's biggest hole in the ground. The coal mine here is more than eight-and-a-half miles long, nearly two miles wide and as deep in parts as three football fields. Enough coal comes out of it to fuel ...
  • As EPA Lingers on Coal Ash, Michigan Group Rai ...
    (Midwest Energy News) With the U.S. EPA now more than four years into the process of developing regulations for coal ash, a Michigan environmental group says an ongoing lack of oversight raises serious safety questions. In a repo ...
  • Port Metro Vancouver Hid Its Sponsorship of Ca ...
    (Vancouver Sun) Internal documents obtained by a group opposed to coal exports show Port Metro Vancouver covered up its sponsorship of the Coal Association of Canada's 2013 conference. The three-day event in early September took place ...
  • Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret F ...
    (Huffington Post) An Arizona utility commissioner is asking for all the key players in a debate over a solar energy policy in the state to reveal any additional secret funding of nonprofits or public relations campaigns. The probe come ...
  • Federal Hydraulic Fracturing Rules on Uncertai ...
    (Houston Chronicle) The federal government is still wading through more than a million public comments filed on its plan to tighten standards for drilling on public lands, with "no date certain" for finalizing those mandates, ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Open Warfare
    Rightly or wrongly, freshman Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is seen as the man who is responsible for the recent government shutdown. As a result, a small plurality of Republicans now see Cruz as their party's leader. That is not helping him deal with the simmering resentment he has aroused on Capito ...
  • Romney Donors Are Flipping
    Some of Mitt Romney's and the Republican Party's most generous donors are lining up to give Michelle Nunn money for her campaign for Saxby Chambliss's Senate seat. It appears that at least part of corporate America has been convinced by the government shutdown that they don't need more Republic ...
  • Some People (according to Rep. Blackburn)
    Rep. Marsha Blackburn tells us that some people don't want the tyranny of Obamacare, because they like Fords and not Ferraris, etc. True story. Watch the video: And you know she may be right about some people. Some people want to be denied health care for a pre-existing condition. ...
  • How to Save the Right From Itself
    Ever since California changed their election laws in 2010, I've been thinking about how to orchestrate a progressive insurgency from the Golden State. Despite my obsession, my ideas are still somewhat nebulous. Now I'm beginning to think about how the moderate, pro-business right can use some ...
  • A Hateful Cult
    I don't think that there is any prospect of conservatives declaring peace on the safety net. The conservative movement has become a cult that is unmoored from Christian teachings about helping the needy. Their need to punish anyone who has fallen on hard times is almost limitless. I don't ev ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Hip-hop stars, grumpy cat, spooky cottages and female hackers – we've got everything in this week's coolest links! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Spectacular Blood-Red Hues of Indonesia’s ...
    Mount Bromo may not be the tallest volcano on Java, but it could well be the most spectacular. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether you enjoy learning about animals, people, civilisations or food, there's bound to be something you'll love in this week's link round up! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Photos of Spiders Battling Dangerous Foes
    We're used to thinking of spiders as the top killers of the minibeast world, but sometimes they meet their match in other creepy-crawlies... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Have a look at our coolest links from around the internet this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal Country's Decline Has a Long History - Na ...
    Coal Country's Decline Has a Long History National Journal The critics argue that by tightening rules on mountaintop-removal coal mining and imposing greenhouse-gas emission limits on coal-fired power plants, Obama and his allies are regulating the industry out of business—and putting legion ...
  • Shepherd University to host award-winning auth ...
    Hampshire Review (blog) Shepherd University to host award-winning author of novel on mountaintop ... Hampshire Review (blog) Mountaintop removal mining — a common sight in southern West Virginia –provides the backdrop for Ann Pancake's 2007 novel, “Strange As This Weather Has Been.” Earlier ...
  • Thousands rally for coal in Washington - The C ...
    Politico Thousands rally for coal in Washington The Courier-Journal John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, a member of the panel, said coal industry employment in Kentucky began dropping 30 years ago — from 47,000 in 1977 to 12,000 today — due to the increase in mechanized mining and mountaintop removal. O ...
  • Why we need an eco-revolution - Socialist Work ...
    Why we need an eco-revolution Socialist Worker Online (blog) The godfather of modern climate science, James Hansen, is a formidable activist, having been arrested some half-dozen times for resisting mountain-top removal coal mining and tar sands pipelines (he even left his job at Nasa this year ...
  • We've forgotten how to get it done - The Battl ...
    We've forgotten how to get it done The Battlefords News-Optimist Wikipedia notes the Culebra Cut (aka Gaillard Cut), the most difficult section of dirt work, had its summit lowered from 64 metres to 12 metres above sea level. That's great, but in the Appalachian Mountains, they regularly ...

Memeorandum

  • UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'es ...
    Mark Hosenball / Reuters: UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in ‘espionage’ and ‘terrorism’  —  (Reuters) - British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in “terrorism” when he tried to carry do ...
  • Sebelius Brings Health Care Talk to Town (Andy ...
    Andy Meek / The Memphis Daily News: Sebelius Brings Health Care Talk to Town  —  Forty-eight hours after a congressional committee grilled her over problems related to the new health insurance website, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Memphis, fl ...
  • WHAT THE HELL IS CHRIS CILLIZZA TALKING ABOUT? ...
    Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: WHAT THE HELL IS CHRIS CILLIZZA TALKING ABOUT?  —  The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, like a lot of mebers of the “liberal media,” is giddy at the thought of Chris Christie's likely big victory in the New Jrsey governor's race. ...
  • Gunfire at Los Angeles airport - Los Angeles ( ...
    CNN: Gunfire at Los Angeles airport  —  Los Angeles (CNN) — Witnesses to a gunman's mayhem at Los Angeles International Airport are providing the first possible clues to what motivated the attack.  —  “Hey, are you TSA?” some heard the alleged s ...
  • A Phalanx of Lies - CNN has been pondering wha ...
    Mark Steyn / National Review: A Phalanx of Lies  —  CNN has been pondering what they call “a particularly tough few days at the White House.”  “Four out of five Americans have little or no trust in their government to do anything right,” says chief p ...

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5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.6, offshore Coquimbo, Chile
    Thursday, October 31, 2013 23:03:57 UTC Thursday, October 31, 2013 08:03:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.7, Taiwan
    Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:02:09 UTC Thursday, October 31, 2013 08:02:09 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
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  • M 7.5, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Friday, October 25, 2013 17:10:16 UTC Saturday, October 26, 2013 03:10:16 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.5, east of the South Sandwich Islands
    Thursday, October 24, 2013 19:25:14 UTC Thursday, October 24, 2013 06:25:14 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • US 'scuttled' Taliban talks with drone strike: ...
    Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud speaks to a group of media representatives in the Mamouzai area of Orakzai Agency on November 26, 2008The Pakistani interior minister on Saturday accused the United States of "scuttling" efforts towards peace talks with the Taliban by killing the m ...
  • 10 trolly stories Thought Catalog could write next
    Internet publication Thought Catalog has become the premier destination for all things Millennial, boldly revealing secrets of 20-somethings, like the fact that women like to poop together, apparently, and that it's tough to be rich kids. Most recently, the trolliest of Internet publicatio ...
  • No, really, progressives should follow the Tea ...
     During the height of this fall’s government shutdown, Obama spoke to factory workers about Republican intransigence in Congress. He asked them: If they wanted a raise and more vacation time, would they just shut down the plant and walk off the job?Telling the story to reporter ...
  • How Democrats enable California’s pension slashing
    Last week San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed delivered his usual speech about the benefits of slashing the retirement benefits of his city’s public employees – and why he is now pushing for a statewide ballot measure that could dramatically change the lives of hundreds of thousan ...
  • Georgia PM names interior minister, 31, as suc ...
    Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, pictured at a rally in Tbilisi, on September 19, 2013Billionaire Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Saturday chose his 31-year-old interior minister and close ally to succeed him as premier when he steps down later this month.Irakli Gari ...

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IntelNews

  • FBI investigates Russian cultural center for a ...
    Authorities in the United States are probing a cultural exchange program run by the Russian government, on suspicion that it clandestinely recruited Americans as intelligence assets.
  • News you may have missed #856
    Expert says Australia spies for the United States. Canada silent on allegations of spying. Russia denies spying on G20 leaders during summit.
  • Mysterious website seeks intelligence on Hezbo ...
    Intelligence circles in the Middle East are abuzz with news of a mysterious website that appears to offer substantial financial rewards in exchange for information about alleged members of militant group Hezbollah.
  • US surveillance or Merkel’s phone prompts angr ...
    News of an invasive intelligence-gathering operation by the United States, which allegedly targeted the official communications of German chancellor Angela Merkel, has prompted angry responses from the European Union.
  • News you may have missed #855
    Luxembourg PM survives spy scandal in elections. World War I spy Mata Hari’s birthplace gutted by fire. Russian spy agency seeks to expand internet surveillance.

War is a Crime.org

  • Video: Lou Reed at IVAW - UFPJ Concert
  • Revealed: Never Before Seen Photos of Tesoro F ...
    Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog A month after over 865,200 gallons of oil spilled from Tesoro Logistics' 6-inch pipeline near Tioga, North Dakota, the cause of the leak is still largely unknown to anyone but Tesoro. The pipeline resumed operations today. read more
  • Syria News - Nov 2
      Mass graves in Sadad: 45 Christian civilians including women and children killed by Nusra and Daash (ISIS) - Vatican Fides Agency Archbishop: "In Sadad, the largest massacre of Christians in Syria...We have shouted aid to the world but no one has listened to us" - Vatican Fides Agency ...
  • Free Screening of Ghosts of Jeju -- in Charlot ...
    Free public screening of The Ghosts of Jeju by Regis Tremblay with Regis Tremblay in town to discuss his film. Sunday, December 8, 2013, at 7 p.m. At the Friends Meeting at 1104 Forest Street, Charlottesville, Va. The Ghosts of Jeju is a shocking documentary about the struggle of the people of J ...
  • Come to the Drone Summit in Washington DC, Nov ...
    It's time to organize a global movement to stop the illegal use of drones for killing abroad and spying at home.  CODEPINK, The Nation Magazine, Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Constitutional Rights invite you to an International Drone Summit titled “Drones Around the Globe ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • More NSA leakers following Snowden’s footsteps ...
    by Clark Kent Several more current and former National Security Agency insiders, inspired by American fugitive Edward Snowden, have come forward as whistleblowers with details of the shadowy agency’s operations, according to an attorney at a whistleblower protection organization. “I think the go ...
  • Vaccine Damage: An International Plague
    by Catherine J. Frompovich Vaccine damage knows no national boundaries. As someone who has been researching and tracking vaccine information and data since the 1980s, when indications were surfacing that children were being harmed after receiving vaccinations, I empathize with parents who experi ...
  • Obama knew a month before launch that Healthca ...
    by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) When government officials are caught in a web of deceit or corruption, the first couple of questions usually asked by the media and investigators are, \”What did they know, and when did they know it?\” A story published this week by CNN answers those two ...
  • ▶ FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy – a D ...
    ▶ FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy – a David Kennedy film – YouTube.
  • Activist Post: Tel Aviv Regime Strikes Syria, ...
    Tony Cartalucci Activist Post Israel and its Western sponsors have admitted to an unprovoked airstrike in Syrian territory this week. This is the latest of several assaults Israeli planes have carried out against neighboring Syria over the past year. CNN, in its report, \”Israeli planes st ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • “Ender’s Game” is a horror m ...
    Summary:  Reader’s have requested revisits to the posts about “Ender’s Game”. As the poster below shows, it holds a mirror to show us aspects of today’s America.  Dark themes, evoking aspects of ourselves we prefer to hide (as popular art so often does).  Our fear, ...
  • Four graphs showing a nation in decline. An un ...
    Summary:  We mock China for their over investment in infrastructure. Gleaming new factories, high-speed trains, subways. Foolish ants. Exceptional America does it better. As a third in this series, we look at some pictures of how much America invests in itself.  These are snapshots, not a compre ...
  • Why do we pledge allegiance to a flag, ignorin ...
    Summary:  We need to return to basics in order to reform America. Devising complex technocratic solutions are a snare and dead end, building castles in the sky while the 1% gain strength.  We need to return to the fundamentals of the American project, both the symbolic and conceptual designs. To ...
  • Time to ask about lessons learned from our war ...
    Summary: This is a follow-up to Remembering is the first step to learning. Living in the now is ignorance. “The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.” — Lord Salisbury, discussing Great Britain’s policy on the Eastern Question (1877) “My first company com ...
  • Remembering is the first step to learning. Liv ...
    Summary: What have we learned from our experiences in Afghanistan? My guess: not much. Certainly not the vital lessons we need to learn in order to prosper in the 21st century. This is thousand words raising questions. In the comments post your thoughts, and pointers to works by others grappling ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Get Ready to Rumble….. NSA vs. State
    OK, so it’s not exactly Ali vs. Frazier, but NSA and the State Department are not happy with each other. From this morning’s Cable at Foreign Policy, Yochi Dreazen reports: Secretary of State John Kerry touched off the furor when he said some of the NSA’s overseas surveillance ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, al-Shabaab in S ...
    Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt, “As Security Deteriorates at Home, Iraqi Leader Arrived in U.S. Seeking Aid,” New York Times, October 31, 2013. Until now, Mr. Maliki was reluctant to openly ask for United States support. A former American official said that in 2012 Mr. Maliki was on the verg ...
  • How the U.N. Turned the Tide Against a Congole ...
    Indian MONUSCO forces fire an RPG to protect civilians in fight against M23 rebels CREDIT: AP PHOTO / MONUSCO The Congolese army has in recent days shown marked success against a Congolese rebel group, capturing its base city and upping the pressure for the rebels to engage in peace talks with t ...
  • Diplomacy Is Key to a Deal with Iran
    Paul Pillar, as usual, gets it exactly right: There are popular fundamental misconceptions about Iran’s nuclear program: that the Iranian leadership has a fixed goal of acquiring a nuclear weapon, that if left alone Iran would build such a weapon and that this presumed ambition will be thwarted ...
  • Top of the Morning: Funding Shortages Force Fo ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Funding Shortages Force World Food Programme to Cut Rations for Somali Refugees  About $10 million/month is needed to feed residents of these two camps in Northern Kenya. “The WFP and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have announced that beginning on 1 November, WFP wil ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: Congress Hits America's Poorest Wh ...
    Starting today, millions of Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—better known as food stamps—will see their benefits drop now that the temporary increase instituted by the Obama administration's stimulus package has not been renewed.  That means the extra $ ...
  • The Fifth Circuit Joins the War on Reproductiv ...
    AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File Earlier this week, District Court judge Lee Yeakal issued an injunction preventing some provisions of Texas's draconian new anti-safe abortion law from being enforced. As the Prospect's Abby Rapoport explained in detail, Judge Yeakal's ruling was hardly an u ...
  • How's about You and Him Fight?
    Hillary Clinton has about a year and a half before she needs to make the final decision on whether she'll run for president in 2016. Between now and then, and after she becomes an actual candidate (if she does), we're going to be seeing an awful lot of stories that read as though an editor said ...
  • Things that Are Still True about Health Care
    It's been a pretty intense month on the health-care front, what with the beginning of open enrollment for the new exchanges giving rise to lots of disingenuous fulminating from Republicans, not to mention a whole lot of crappy journalism. Any time a story dominates the news for a couple of week ...
  • Boob Jam: Keeping Abreast of a Changing Gaming ...
    Few things fan the fire in video-game culture quite like boobs. It started with Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. By the mid-1990s, games had detailed graphics and characters modeled in three dimensions. Lara came along at the right time. With her rather inflated attributes, she became the poster chil ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Hatewatch Exclusive: Alleged LAX Shooter Refer ...
    (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) The 23-year-old man who allegedly killed a TSA official at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday was carrying a one-page “manifesto” that included references to the “New World Order,” the Federal Reserve and “fiat currency,” according to a knowledgeable sou ...
  • Tennessee State Senator Doubles Down on Secess ...
    Tennessee State Senator Frank Niceley will be a featured speaker tomorrow at the “sixth session” of the Southern National Congress. Despite Niceley’s denials, the group is in fact an offshoot of the League of South, a neo-Confederate hate group that calls for a second secession. The Southern Nat ...
  • White Nationalist Academics to Gather This Wee ...
    When it formed six years ago, the founders of the H.L. Mencken Club envisioned a simple forum for the “intellectual right” to be filled with “young thinkers and activists” ready to tackle the tough issues confronting the country. In reality, though, the club was a gathering place for the country ...
  • Boy Who Killed Neo-Nazi Father is Sentenced
                   Jeff Hall (PHOTO BY SANDY HUFFAKER/AP IMAGES) The sandy-haired boy who was 10 when he shot his neo-Nazi father in the head two years ago will be the youngest inmate in a California juvenile justice facility, “surrounded,” his lawyer told the Los Angeles Times, “by gang members and ...
  • Florida Sheriff Who ‘Nullified’ Concealed Gun ...
    The rural Florida sheriff whose arrest and trial on misconduct charges became a cause celebre among the “constitutionalists” of the antigovernment Patriot movement this summer was acquitted by a jury yesterday. Nick Finch, the Liberty County sheriff who was arrested and suspended in June and acc ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Revlon Threatens Legal Action in Attempt to Si ...
    Cosmetics giant Revlon is lashing out at and threatening a coalition of cancer survivors, Revlon customers and women advocates who are urging the company to remove toxic chemicals from its products. Last week, Revlon’s general counsel sent a cease-and-desist letter to Ultraviolet and ...
  • 150,000 Tell the DOJ to Bar JPMorgan from Reap ...
    U.S. PIRG and Americans for Tax Fairness will present over 150,000 petitions to the Department of Justice calling for the agency to bar JPMorgan Chase from writing off the cost of an expected $9 billion settlement as a tax deduction. The petitions insist that taxpayers should not be forced to pi ...
  • D.C. Circuit Rules on Food Processor and Packi ...
    The U.S. Court Of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today issued a decision in a case brought by the fresh produce processor and packing companies Freshway Foods, Freshway Logistics, and their owners, seeking an injunction to prevent compliance with the federal rule requiring employers to provide ins ...
  • Federal Appeals Court Ruling on Contraceptives ...
    A federal appeals court ruling today that allows owners of secular for-profit corporations to refuse to provide certain forms of birth control to their employees is a dangerous distortion of the concept of religious freedom, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.read more
  • Shell Signals Return to the US Arctic as Early ...
    Earlier today, Shell’s chief financial officer Simon Henry said that the company is ‘putting the building blocks in place’ to drill in Alaskan Arctic as early as next year (1). Reacting to the news, the head of Greenpeace International’s Arctic oil campaign Ben Ayliffe sa ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Malala and Nabila: Worlds Apart
    Murtaza Hussain "Nabila, a slight girl of nine with striking hazel eyes, asked a simple question in her testimony: 'What did my grandmother do wrong?'" writes Murtaza Hussain. (Photo: Reuters)On October 24, 2012 a Predator drone f ...
  • Rip-Off: How Private-Sector Health Costs Are K ...
    Joshua Holland The federal government doesn’t have a deficit problem. Its fiscal issues are entirely related to the bloated cost of American health care.read more
  • Obamacare: The Right Wing’s Alamo
    Bill Moyers As Republican members of Congress demand apologies and administration officials dutifully offer up mea culpas for the botched Obamacare rollout, Bill wonders, wouldn’t it be fair to expect just a morsel of apology from the ...
  • On Rupert Murdoch's Hacking, and Obama's
    Christopher Brauchli Logical Consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. — Thomas Henry Huxley, Animal Automatismread more
  • Food Stamp Cuts: A Bipartisan Scandal
    George Zornick A farmers market in Roseville, California, where electronic Benefit Transfer cards are accepted. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)Starting Friday, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see a $5 billion reduction in fun ...

Water Privatization

  • American States Water Company Announces Regula ...
    On October 29, 2013, the Board of Directors of American States Water Company approved a quarterly dividend of $0.2025 per share on the Common Shares of the Company. This action marks the 310th consecutive dividend payment by the Company.
  • Former Water Allies Exchange Fire
    The latest ballot initiative attempting to wrangle control of Portland water from City Hall has drawn fire from the backers of the first ballot initiative. The coalition of environmental activists on Monday submitted the new ballot initiative , which would create a "people's water trust ...
  • Bachelet wants to give government more power o ...
    Chile's presidential frontrunner Michelle Bachelet has proposed a larger government role in the use and distribution of water rights, as the country faces growing water...
  • Water plant operations up for action at Sterli ...
    STERLING — — The Sterling City Council heard last week from Ed Schwab of Severn Trent Services about the advantages his company could offer in operating the new water treatment facility slated to be fully online by January 2014.
  • American States Water Company to Report Third ...
    American States Water Company announced today that the Company intends to release its 2013 third quarter financial results after the market closes on Monday, November 4, 2013.

Guardian

  • Gerry Adams ordered Jean McConville killing, s ...
    Recording of deceased Belfast IRA commander Brendan Hughes names Sinn Féin president as giving execution orderA tape recording of a deceased Belfast IRA commander in which Gerry Adams is accused of ordering the murder and secret burial of a widowed mother of 10 in 1972 will be broadcast for the ...
  • Los Angeles airport shooting: suspect charged ...
    US attorney says federal prosecutors could seek death penalty against Paul Ciancia, who is accused of killing security officerA man accused of shooting a security guard dead in a packed Los Angeles airport terminal was charged with murder as he fought for his life while detectives tried to piece ...
  • Plebgate police told: apologise or face a char ...
    Officers are to be brought back before the Commons committee as a report savages their evidencePolice officers accused of lying in the Plebgate scandal involving Andrew Mitchell will be hauled back to the Commons this week and forced to apologise for misleading MPs – or face being found guilty o ...
  • Nairobi mall attack: how an ex-SAS man and a f ...
    Two security consultants raced to the Westgate mall when al-Shabaab gunmen went on the rampage. Under fire, they organised the rescue of terrified shoppersA little after half-past midday on a sunny Saturday a disturbing call came through to Mark and John at the Nairobi offices of the oil company ...
  • Los Angeles airport terminal reopens after fat ...
    Authorities investigate motives of suspected gunman after LAX shooting spree that left TSA agent dead and others woundedThe Los Angeles International Airport terminal where a gunman opened fire on Friday morning, killing an unarmed airport security officer and wounding others, reopened fully on ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan Taliban debate new leader as minister ...
    Miranshah (Pakistan) (AFP) - The Pakistani Taliban's ruling council met Saturday to choose a new leader after a US drone killed Hakimullah Mehsud, as a senior government minister launched a bitter attack on Washington over the strike.Mehsud, who was under a $5 million US government bounty, ...
  • Who might succeed dead Pakistani Taliban leader
    FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, right, holds a rocket launcher with his comrades in Sararogha of Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border. Intelligence officials said Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 that the leader of ...
  • Pakistan accuses US of scuttling Taliban talks ...
    A Pakistani policeman searches a vehicle along a street in Peshawar on November 2, 2013 following the killing of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone attack in the Pakistan tribal region (AFP Photo / A ...
  • Pakistani Taliban confirm leaders death in dro ...
    death of their leader in a U.S. drone strike Saturday, a day after he was killed, as the group's leadership council met to begin the process of choosing a successor. The death of Hakimullah Mehsud, a ruthless leader known for attacking a CIA base in Afghanistan and a bloody campaign that ki ...
  • US killing of Talibans Hakimullah Mehsud spark ...
    A US drone strike has been blamed for the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and the Pakistani government is publicly furious. Privately, it might be something ...

Futurismic

  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Illegal Swiss Banking Collapses
    Whistleblower Disclosures Lead To Switzerland Joining The OECD Convention Permitting The Exchange Of Tax Information Between Countries On October 15, 2013, Switzerland became the 58th country to sign the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters ( ...
  • Update-Securities and Exchange Commission Whis ...
     The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the&nbsp ...
  • National Park Service Whistleblower Settles Case
    A whistleblower at the National Park Service, Robert Danno, has settled his whistleblower retaliation case.  Mr. Danno, a decorated 30-year Park Ranger, had his career stunted after objecting to the destruction of tress just to give Redskins owner Dan Snyder a better view of the Potomac Riv ...
  • Federal Court Holds Internal Whistleblowers Pr ...
    In a well-reasoned decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts held that an employee of the New England Investment & Retirement Group, who complained to his employer's internal compliance department regarding potential securities violations, was fully protected under ...
  • British Government Considering Whistleblower R ...
    According to an October 10, 2013, article in The New York Times, the British government is now considering creating a reward system for whistleblowers, similar to those in the U.S. The article states: “Britain’s government will “consider the case for incentivizing whistle-blo ...

TechDirt

  • Awesome Stuff: Sweet Dreams
    Arianna Huffington has been talking about the importance of "sleeping your way to the top" for years now, though in just doing a search to find some of her earlier speeches for that I see Huffington Post, just yesterday, ran another article on this. Of course, she means the importance of getting ...
  • German Director Proposes 'One-Stop Shop' For F ...
    It's always heartening to come across new ideas for ways to make creations more widely available to the public while allowing artists to benefit. Here's one from the German film director Fred Breinersdorfer, probably best known for his film "Sophie Scholl". In an article that appeared recently ...
  • Professor Fires Off Lengthy Email In Defense O ...
    On Constitution Day (Sept. 17th), a student of Modesto Junior College, Robert Van Tuinen, was prevented by Modesto Junior College administration from handing out copies of the Constitution. The college apparently believes free speech is limited to a single small concrete slab on campus, generou ...
  • Chinese Propaganda: The US Military Is Making ...
    For some reason, the propaganda machines of the Far East appear to operating as though their singular mission was to make me, personally, laugh myself to death. I admit this is an enticing military strategy, but so far the laughter hasn't led to death just yet. That said, I appreciate it when, ...
  • DailyDirt: Take Your Vitamins... Or Not. Who K ...
    It's not always simple to know what's good for your health. We've seen that the placebo effect is far more complicated than it seems (or is usually presented) as its effects have grown stronger and stronger over the years across many clinical trials. Doctors themselves aren't always certain what ...

VacTruth

  • Two More Children Left Paralyzed by Vaccines B ...
    In a shocking report, the Global Times reported that an expert from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Wang Yu, has openly admitted that vaccines can cause severe adverse reactions, including swollen organs, epilepsy, and in some instances, the diseases that they we ...
  • 7 Most Disgusting Ingredients Used to Make Vac ...
    The production of vaccines uses many disgusting ingredients. Additionally, the components used during the manufacturing process may violate your personal, religious, or ethical beliefs.
  • NYC Mayor is Calling a Meeting to Force Vaccin ...
    If you thought things in the world of vaccines could not get any worse, then you were wrong. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City has called for a public hearing recommending that all children under the age of five whose parents want them to attend day care facilities be vaccinated.
  • Seven Year-Old Vaccine-Injured Boy Refused Com ...
    On September 25, 2013, the Daily Mail reported that seven year-old Josh Hadfield had been refused compensation by the UK government, despite being left with severe narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine in 2010.
  • Little Girl Unable to Attend School Because Ju ...
    A little girl who has adverse reactions to vaccines is denied vaccine exemptions and access to school.

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • US Sponsored Genocide in Guatemala: Amnesty fo ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS Sponsored Genocide in Guatemala: Amnesty for Dictator? | Think Tank Russia Todayyoutube.com : Abby Martin speaks to Jamila Aisha Brown, global strategist with HUE Global about Guatemala’s constitutional court ...
  • Stop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStop Watching Us: Largest privacy rally in US history hits DC Russia Todayyoutube.com Crowds are flooding Capitol Hill in Washington DC, venting their fury against the NSA’s sweeping surveillance practices. The organ ...
  • An Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAn Angel Song for Peace and an End to Violence dissidentvoice.orgBy Finian Cunningham An Angel Song for peace and an end to violence against children. “War violates every right of a child — the right to life, t ...
  • ‘Scary you could be jailed for running compute ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comScary you could be jailed for running computer service CryptoSeal co-founder RT.com In August, the highly-encrypted email service Lavabit reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden went offline after it was ordered by a ...
  • Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police F ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comLeaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police For Gun Confiscations and Martial Law Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com October 26, 2013 A MP in the U.S. Army leaked this video of a briefing with FEMA officials who openly discuss ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Yves Smith and Dean Baker: The Top Secret Trad ...
    Dandelion Salad Moyers & Company Nov. 1, 2013 MoyersandCompany A cornerstone of President Obama’s plan to create more American jobs is a new agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), referred to by some as “NAFTA on steroids.” While negotiations are being carried out in secret an ...
  • Barack Obama’s Executive Order — P ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 1, 2013 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to prepare the Nation for the impacts of climate change ...
  • Ralph Nader, Gregory Jaczko, Naoto Kan: Danger ...
    Dandelion Salad Samuel Lawrence Foundation on Oct 28, 2013 A panel of speakers that includes the former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Dr. Gregory Jaczko; former NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford; nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen; and Political Activist, Ralph Nader, sh ...
  • New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War + Unmanned: A ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Oct 31, 2013 democracynow.org – A U.S. drone strike killed three people in northwest Pakistan earlier today, marking the first such attack since Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif publicly called for President Obama to end the strikes. Just last week, Amn ...
  • Empire Under Obama, Part 4: Counterinsurgency, ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Writer, Dandelion Salad andrewgavinmarshall.com Originally published on The Hampton Institute October 30, 2013 While the American Empire – and much of the policies being pursued – did not begin under President Obama, the focus of “Empire Under Obama” is to bring awarenes ...

Your New Reality

  • China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
    By Darryl Mason Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous 'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very popular. But not so very accurate: In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...
  • "China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
    Image via this great Joblo story  China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come and work for his studio. The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Grou ...
  • Kurt Cobain's Mad Bad Dream
    In the weeks leading up to the September 1993 release of Nirvana's In Utero album (title taken from a poem by his wife Courtney Love), Kurt Cobain explained what the Nevermind fame circus had done to his sleeping mind movies. "In my dreams, there's always this apocalyptic war going on between ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Black Hole Superjets
    Jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can transport huge amounts of energy across great distances. 3C353 is a wide, double-lobed source where the galaxy is the tiny point in the center and giant plumes of ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Three Dead Stars
    This trio of ghostly images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. Planetary nebulas are a late stage in a sun-like star's life, when its outer layers have sloughed off and are ...     
  • Earth’s Giant Ear Marks 50 Years of Listening ...
    Fifty years ago today, the Arecibo Observatory officially opened. Here's a look back at some of the lesser-known stories from the last half century, and a pile of awesome vintage photos.     
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: The 16-Foot-Tall ...
    Say hello to one of the largest and most impressive creatures to ever take flight: Quetzalcoatlus northropi of the Cretaceous period, a pterosaur with a wingspan of some 33 feet that stood as tall as a giraffe.     
  • What Ender’s Game Gets Right About Communicati ...
    It's often assumed that communicating with alien intelligence will be a simple matter of conveying basic concepts in math and science. We will know they're smart and they'll know we're smart. But how we'll actually go about doing this is ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
    t is assumed almost universally that there are two options for cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
    At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Moshé-Machover: DeZionization – strategic cons ...
    As [the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palest ...
    Fouzi’s work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Palestinian journalist/author/poet/activist Fo ...
    Journalist Magda Abu Fadil remembers Palestinian activist Fouzi El-Asmar who died last month in the Washington DC area. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Coming Saturday, October 12t
  • Cleveland concert meetup: Saturday, November 1 ...
    I had Muscle Cars by Wussy on my best of 2009 and Marathon by The Ready Stance on my best of 2012. So when I saw them scheduled on the same bill at the Beachland Ballroom you can imagine I was pretty fired up. They play Saturday, November 16th at 9:00 PM and I’ll be there with bells on. ...
  • Union and third party leaders not fighting, no ...
    On Monday workers from the Port of Oakland Truckers Association went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions. They were joined by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and their action closed one of the terminals. Their demands are fairly modest: an e ...
  • Streaming music services: not cannibalizing CD ...
    Earlier this week David Byrne added his entry to the “artist foresees imminent end of music” category. In the last couple years these articles have focused on how streaming services are supposedly destroying the ability of artists to support themselves with their music. They are us ...
  • On supporting the Naked Capitalism fundraiser
    On Saturday Yves Smith kicked off her annual fundraiser for Naked Capitalism (NC). If you aren’t familiar with NC, there are few sites like it - ones that go against the prevailing currents of Internet convention.Fifteen years ago just having such a site was an accomplishment. As more pe ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Kauai County Mayor Vetoes GMO Bill Passed By C ...
    LIHUE, Hawaii -Kauai County Mayor Bernard P. Carvalho, Jr. has vetoed Bill 2491, Relating to Pesticides and Genetically Modified Organisms, which was passed by the County Council on Oct. 16. Click here to read this article
  • More Than 230 Scientists Say GMOs Not Safe, In ...
    The number of scientists who have signed onto a statement challenging the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has climbed to more than 230 today.Click here to read this article
  • The Dangerous Durbin Anti-Supplement Bill
    The FDA can count on mainstream media to mislead the public. Let's get the truth out and stop this bill.Click here to read this article
  • GMO Wars: the Global Battlefield
    The case against GMOs has strengthened steadily over the last few years, even as the industry has expanded all over the world. Click here to read this article
  • Brazil Says 'Yes' to Genetically Modified Food ...
    A week and a half ago, according to Mexican media reports, a federal district judge issued an injunction suspending field trials of genetically modified corn. It's been illegal to grow GM corn for consumption in Mexico since 1998, so the decision effectively means no one can grow genetically mod ...

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Judge threatens homeschooling parents
    anti-homeschooling law in Germany, adopted under the guidance of Adolf Hitler The children were placed in a group home where tests showed the children were doing well socially and academically. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
  • While we were sleeping… Feeding the monster
    While we were sleeping, we were stripped of our civil liberties, constitutional rights, personal wealth and political power. While in a stupor induced by frenzied conspicuous consumption, we allowed our government to sell out our interests... Submitted by Elizabeth Jackson to US Politics & ...
  • Child Victims of CIA Drone Strike in Pakistan ...
    Two children who were injured in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan which killed their grandmother, while she was simply looking after her garden, visited the US Congress, along with their school-teacher father, to give evidence on their ordeal... Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • DAWNS Digest
    News to the Aid, Development and Humanitarian Community The Development and Aid World News Service (DAWNS) is a social enterprise for people who care about ideas, places and events off the radar of the mainstream press. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Not ...
  • Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, ...
    Despite at least $1.75 million in bribes said to have been paid the company around the globe, nobody will go to jai.l In 2010 the company settled an SEC fraud suit for $25 million.... wildly insecure and often inaccurate voting systems and tabulators Submitted by John Farnham to World  |&n ...

Farm Wars

  • Klamath Basin Water Wars and Jefferson State
    Join Dave Hodges and myself this Sunday as we talk about the Klamath Basin water theft issue, Agenda 21, and the proposed new state of Jefferson carved out of a piece of both Northern California and Southern Oregon, which just so happens to be the area affected by the proposed removal of the Kla ...
  • Scientists who say GMOs not proven safe climbs ...
    Given the scientific evidence at hand, sweeping claims that GM crops are substantially equivalent to, and as safe as, non-GM crops are not justifiable.
  • Dam Removal: Fish or Foul on the Klamath River
    The Department of Interior plans to destroy four dams on the Klamath River in Northern California and Southern Oregon so salmon can swim further than 180 miles up the river. But these dams provide water and flood protection to thousands of humans who also live along the river. Clean energy from ...
  • The Next Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ Will Be ...
    Over the years, many rural residents have been frustrated by federal environmental laws restricting logging and other forestry activities. The timber industry is dead. The mining industry is dead. The entire region is being deindustrialized and many residents and local leaders have stated that b ...
  • How Much Mercury Escapes From Broken CFL Light ...
    Readings taken from broken CFL bulbs indicate extremely high toxic levels of mercury.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'es ...
    ShareThisUK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism' 01 Nov 2013 British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in "terrorism" when he tried to carry documents from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden through ...
  • LAX police chief: Exact scenario played out in ...
    ShareThisLAX police chief: Exact scenario played out in drill at LAX Friday --TSA agent killed in LAX shooting, suspect ID'd 02 Nov 2013 A Transportation Security Administration agent was killed and several more people wounded when a gunman opened fire on Friday morning at Los Angeles Internatio ...
  • FBI: 23-year-old L.A. man, with 'anti-governme ...
    ShareThisFBI: 23-year-old L.A. man, with 'anti-government' leanings, is suspect in airport shooting [Of course. As predictable as rain.] 01 Nov 2013 A man armed with what police say was an assault rifle and carrying materials expressing anti-government sentiment opened fire Friday morning at L ...
  • Snowden Appeals to U.S. for Clemency
    ShareThisSnowden Appeals to U.S. for Clemency 02 Nov 2013 Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American security contractor granted asylum by Russia, has appealed to Washington to stop treating him like a traitor for revealing that the United States has been eavesdropping on its allies, a German p ...
  • TSA Agent Killed in Shooting at LA Airport
    ShareThis TSA Agent Killed in Shooting at LA Airport --TSA officials told NBC4 the shooting occurred at a security checkpoint 01 Nov 2013 A Transportation Security Administration agent was shot and killed and another security agent was wounded Friday when a gunman opened fire at a security check ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hospitals are opting out of Obamacare, some ar ...
    Hospitals in Concord NH do not accept Obamacare. People who live there have to drive 25 miles to the nearest participating hospital. Unfortunately, Concord is not an outlier. Hospitals, some of them big and well-known, are either rejecting Obamacare completely or only accepting a few plans. The ...
  • 3D printed horseshoes, custom fit to race horse
    These 3D printed titanium horseshoes are half the weight of traditional aluminum horseshoes, which means the horse may well run faster. The titanium shoes were produced for a particular horse: its hooves were 3D scanned in detail with a handheld scanner. The 3D capture was used to engineer new h ...
  • John Kerry makes tepid pretense of reforming NSA
    John Kerry pretends to be concerned about illegal and intrusive NSA snooping. The Obama Administration has been mostly mute about this – when not actively defending NSA, that is. We need to be on guard against phony concern from those with no actual interest in changing NSA. Kerry’s ...
  • Watermark. The movie
    Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, marking their second collaboration after Manufactured Landscapes in 2006. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe ab ...
  • Moonshine Bandits. For The Outlawz
    Mash up those genres! I just discovered the Moonshine Bandits and like them. Redneck hip hop?

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Top 25 Facebook apps: November 2013
    Though Candy Crush Saga is still all the rage, AppData estimates show that one of the fastest-growing top games belongs to Zynga. FarmVille 2 has gained roughly 500,000 monthly active users (MAU) in the past month,...
  • Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz leads World ...
    The Boston Red Sox claimed the World Series title over the St. Louis Cardinals, but Boston’s team also got the win on Facebook. According to Facebook, there were more than 32 million interactions about the Red...
  • Infographic: Everything you need to know about ...
    More and more brands are getting on board with Facebook apps — using them to give away prizes, reward ambassadors, and learn more about their fanbase. But what else can a Facebook app do? Circus Social...
  • Save $350 on Registration Fees: Sign up for Me ...
    Mediabistro’s Inside Social Marketing Conference will be held in NYC December 3-4, 2013. Take advantage of the $350 savings, register before November 6. The two-day conference will feature a prominent line-up of speakers and panelists, covering...
  • Facebook testing tag friends prompt on status ...
    Facebook has been trying to make it easier for users to tag friends in photos, with innovations such as prompts within photos in News Feed. Inside Facebook reader Kevin Mullett, Director of Visibility and Social Media, MarketSnare,...

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

  • America's Greatest Shame: Child Poverty Rises ...
    It seems utterly psychotic to live in a society that chooses to spread poverty to its young. It also seems psychotic to claim that cuts in food stamps are good for the poor while at the same time saying that it's quite OK for billionaires to pile up unearned, tax-sheltered income. The fact that ...
  • Why Does Government Allow Innocents to be Mowe ...
    Imagine lawmakers allowing lead to remain in gasoline because of the oil and gas lobby. Imagine them allowing secondhand smoke in public places because of the tobacco lobby. Pretty ridiculous except that's exactly why we have the parade of bloody AR-15 massacres--the gun lobby.
  • Pennsylvanians Support Pigeon Shoot Ban
    The Pennsylvania legislature still believes in animal cruelty. But, there may be a slice of light that will end their misguided beliefs/. What are those beliefs? And why do they have them? Walter Brasch explains.
  • Hey, Hey NSA: How Many Leaders Have You Spied ...
    There is an arrogance and blindness at the very top of the NSA hierarchy where arrogant believers in "information dominance" play Star Trek Games, argues News Dissector Danny Schechter.
  • The True Masters: What Dogs Teach Us
    Dogs, with their manifest human qualities, teach us to be more humane. And much more.

Switchboard

  • President Takes Steps on Climate Preparedness
    Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago The President issued an Executive Order on climate preparedness, directing federal agencies to begin identifying and removing barriers to actions that would, “increase the Nation’s resilience to ...
  • Grasping at Straws: Why a Legislative Glitch W ...
    Benjamin Longstreth, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. This post was written with my colleague David Doniger and is also posted on his blog. Opponents of EPA’s effort to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants under Clean Air Act Sect ...
  • Grasping at Straws: Why a Legislative Glitch ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. This post was written with my colleague Ben Longstreth. Opponents of EPA’s effort to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants under Clean Air Act Section 1 ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile makes polluter ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. October 28 – November 1 2013 Chile The Chilean Environmental S ...
  • How Safe is Your Food? Don't Ask the FDA.
    Linda Greer, Director, Health and Environment Program, Washington, D.C. I’ve been working on federal chemical regulation in Washington since the 1980’s and have thought for the longest time that nothing holds a candle to TSCA, the Toxic ...

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

  • Society on Edge - Study Contends Catholic Scho ...
    A national study led by a Michigan State University economist suggests Catholic schools are not superior to public schools after all. Math scores for Catholic students dropped between kindergarten and eighth grade, while math scores for public school students increased slightly. In addition, Cat ...
  • The Medical Edge - A Mighty Mouse that Uses Sc ...
    The painful, potentially deadly stings of bark scorpions are nothing more than a slight nuisance to grasshopper mice, which voraciously kill and consume their prey with ease. When stung, the mice briefly lick their paws and move in again for the kill. The grasshopper mice are essentially numb to ...
  • The Edge of the Universe - Dark Matter Still E ...
    The world’s most sensitive search for dark matter announced today that it has found—nothing. The first results from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector are null, scientists say, indicating that the invisible matter thought to make up a large chunk of the universe is even more elusive ...
  • Mexico on Edge - Mexico Comes Alive on the Day ...
    New Mexico and the borderland will come alive this weekend with activities related to the annual Day of the Dead celebration, which falls on Saturday, November 2, this year. As befits a cultural boom that is drawing in thousands and thousands of people, this year promises bigger and broader even ...
  • Broken Government - Food Stamp Scandals
    Nov. 1, 2013 — a date that will live in infamy — will bring a new monthly jobs report proving that the pain of the jobless is continuing unabated, as a cruel cut in the food stamp program is slated to take food off the tables of hungry children, elderly and disabled Americans.While the Dow J ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life By V ...
    An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development
  • US, Australia Face Backlash Over Spy Operati ...
    Already mired in a diplomatic crisis in Europe over National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance operations, Washington—as well as Canberra—is facing a backlash in Asia over the latest revelations that the NSA, working in tandem with Australian agencies, intercepted phone calls and data from emba ...
  • “ Collateral Murder”: Evidence of Genocide By ...
    The video known as “Collateral Murder” is strong evidence of genocide being carried out by the US against the people of Iraq. Hidden in the horrors of its brutality is a rich historical record revealing an armed force which systematically targets and kills non-combatants. The events shown are wa ...
  • White House Expected To Ease Sanctions Targeti ...
    Additional easing of Syrian sanctions is expected by mid-November according to staff at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Control
  • A New Phase Of Neoliberalism In Iran: The Un ...
    The privatization trend in the Islamic Republic of Iran is entering a new phase, which is an important story. Unfortunately, it has been drowned out by a heated "debate of the month" in the mainstream Persian media within Iran and in the Iranian diaspora. This debate is all about the Rouhani-Oba ...

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

  • Kathleen Sebelius Gets a "Fun" Present
    Kathleen Sebelius was on a Obamacare propaganda tour to Memphis Tennessee, There she was given a "thoughtful" present from Republican Tennessee State Sen. Brian Kelsey a copy of "Web Sites for Dummies" The Daily News in Memphis was there to take te picture, but the HHS doesn't really loo ...
  • Media Lies and Bias: Eighteen Examples In Only ...
    This was the week Barack Obama's "You can keep your insurance" promise was proven to be a lie.  And with the lie the liberal media went on attack, making up their lies as they went along. Below are 18 examples of their bias just collected since Monday. And they contain some whoppers. E ...
  • FINALLY! House Committee Interviewing CIA Offi ...
    Sixteen months since the terrorist attack on our mission in Benghazi, Libya Congress is finally getting to speak to some of the people who were there at the attack. According to CNN a House Intelligence subcommittee will hear from former Navy SEALs, former Army Special Forces and former Marines ...
  • New Healthcare.gov General Contractor Was Cite ...
    Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) builder of the registration and hub systems for Healthcare.com was cited in June by Health and Human services for playing it fast and loose with American's personal information. They were criticized for endangering the personal data of more than 6 million ...
  • Felony! Lois Lerner Shared Confidential Info A ...
    During the Congressional hearings regarding the scandal of the IRS and the Conservative 501C3 applications, we heard the IRS Inspector justifiably refuse to answer questions because it is against the law to share information about a tax document under consideration. Today we learned that disgrac ...

Wind Watch

  • 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. ...
  • Foes file lawsuit to block Aroostook wind project
    Opponents of a soon-to-be-built wind farm in the Aroostook County town of Oakfield took legal action on Tuesday, in a last-minute attempt to stop the project. They filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bangor, aimed at a 50-turbine wind farm to be erected by First Wind of Boston under its su ...
  • Judge voids township ordinances in Clinton Cou ...
    Three townships did not have the authority to enact and enforce the ordinances they passed last year to restrict a $120 million wind energy project, a Clinton County circuit judge has ruled. “Each township’s wind turbine ordinance is invalid, unenforceable, and therefore, void,” Judge Randy Tahv ...
  • EverPower drops New York wind farm plans
    ALLEGANY, N.Y. – A company proposing to construct more than 100 utility-scale wind turbines in Champaign County has dropped plans to build a similar installation in western New York, according to the Buffalo News. EverPower Holdings, a Pittsburgh-based maker of utility-grade wind turbines, ...
  • Wellfleet wildlife sanctuary wind turbine prop ...
    Mass. Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary will request that the Wellfleet Zoning Board of Appeals, when it meets on Thursday, Nov. 21, at the senior center, allow Mass. Audubon to withdraw without prejudice its request for a special permit to install a wind turbine at the sanctuary. Forma ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: I ...

Facing South

  • The overlooked fight against voter ID in Tennessee
    Image Caption:  Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that would require public welfare offices to issue photo voter ID cards. Though it hasn't gotten the attention that North Carolina and Texas have, Tenness ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Public concern grows over mon ...
    Image Caption:  Pie chart from "The New Politics of Judicial Elections: How New Waves of Special Interest Spending Raised the Stakes for Fair Courts" by the Brennan Center for Justice, Justice at Stake, and the National Institute on M ...
  • In Louisiana, a former Army commander goes to ...
    Image Caption:  U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré greets President George W. Bush in New Orleans in October 2005. After gaining fame for saving the Gulf from chaos after Hurricane Katrina, Honoré is now trying to save it from the irresponsibilit ...
  • The Affordable Care Act's most important date: ...
    Image Caption:  In last June's ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Supreme Court gave states discretion over whether to expand Medicaid to cover more low-income people. About half of the states -- ...
  • Auto Workers try a new angle at Volkswagen
    Image Caption:  VW workers staged a several-hour "warning strike" in Zwickau, Germany, on May 13, demanding a 5.5 percent raise. German plants have a dual representation system with both a union, which can strike, and a works council, ...

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

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Ian Welsh

  • Why Obama And Democrats Don’t Do Much of What ...
    Politicians do most things because someone wants them done who can hold them accountable if they don’t do it. That includes bad things, and good things. Anyone who doesn’t understand this reality doesn’t understand even the most basic part of politics. In 2008 Clinton reached out to the Netroots ...
  • The Bailout Caused the Sucky “Recovery”
    This will be another brief post.  Bailing out banks, brokerages and so on in the way it was done had the following effects: 1) Fewer, larger financial institutions.  Too bigger to fail. 2) Rewarding people for outright fraud and insane risk taking. Remember, they kept their bonuses and salaries, ...
  • Progressive Blog #Fail: Moral Failure or Demog ...
    (This post is written by Pachacutec, not by me. Pachacutec was a long time blogger at FireDogLake, and deeply involved in Netroots Strategy through 2009. – Ian) By Pachacutec: I read with interest my old friend Ian’s take on the failure of the progressive blogosphere, or “netroots,” from i ...
  • Jerome Armstrong on the Failure of the Netroots
    (This a comment elevated from my post on the failure of the progressive blog movement.  It is written by Jerome Armstrong, not by me. Jerome was the founder of MyDD (Kos’s Blogfather) and co-author of Crashing the Gates, among other things- Ian) by Jerome Armstrong I didn’t see Lieberman’s ...
  • A brief note on why the progressive blog movem ...
    In the early 2000s progressive blogging seemed like a big deal.  At the first Yearly Kos, as it was called then, big name politicians came and kissed our ass.  We were covered by major newspaper and TV outlets.  Etc… Today, we are nothing. The reason is simple: we could not elect enough of ...

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

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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

  • Longoria lands new man
    Eva Longoria is reportedly dating a successful businessman who’s “crazy about her”. The 38-year-old actress was rumoured to have rekindled her relationship with ex-boyfriend Eduardo Cruz in recent weeks but new reports suggest she’s over the failed romance. A source tells America’s People ma ...
  • Top chef Gyllenhaal
    Jake Gyllenhaal’s romance with model Alyssa Miller is going from strength to strength. The Hollywood heartthrob has been dating Sports Illustrated model Alyssa Miller for around four months. It seems the pair are smitten and enjoy inviting friends over for a meal – with Jake firmly in contro ...
  • Kelly ‘pleads for Gaga call’
    Kelly Osbourne is reportedly desperate for Lady Gaga to give her a telephone call to end a spat stemming back years. The pair’s public feud escalated over the weekend when Kelly told Gaga to “eat my s**t” after the singer presented Kelly’s mother, Sharon Osbourne, with a birthday cake for he ...
  • Brown assault on video?
    Chris Brown’s alleged altercation with a man in Washington, D.C. may have been captured on video. The 24-year-old singer is facing criminal charges amid accusations he punched 20-year-old Isaac Parker in the face outside of a Washington, D.C. hotel when the man tried to photobomb a picture w ...
  • Moore ‘finding spirituality’ in India
    Demi Moore is reportedly attending a life conference in India where the Dalai Lama is expected to speak. The actress, who is expected to finalise her split from Ashton Kutcher at any moment, was seen in the suburb of McLeod Ganj on Monday in newly released photos published by Us Weekly. Acco ...

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

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.
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  • 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

  • End Taxpayer Subsidies for Nuclear Power
    Sign the Public Citizen petition! One week we learn the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has contaminated the entire North Pacific with via the daily discharge of  300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean. The following week we learn that Britain has approved the first new, “ ...
  • Cellphones and Breast Cancer
    Insurance Companies Cease Coverage for Cellphone-Related Cancer Check out the video below to see why cancer patients are filing class actions lawsuits against cellphone manufacturers. Why brain tumors have overcome leukemia as the most common childhood killer. And why cellphone manufacture ...
  • How to Start a Movement
     photo credit: sierraromeo [sarah-ji] via photopin cc Funny, eye-opening video tutorial on inspiring change. As always, an image (or video) is worth a thousand words. I guarantee it's not what you expect.
  • World Change Starts in Your Neighborhood
    A liberated lawn Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not - Dr Seuss Through the re-localization movement people are taking back power from corporations and reconnecting with nature and other human beings. An inspiring film from Australia des ...
  • "I Will Not Be Pushed, Filed, Stamped, Indexed ...
    Debriefed or Numbered" The Prisoner - starring Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 The Prisoner is a prophetic Owellian series from 1967 about dissident and whistleblowing spies who are punished by being sent to a remote village from which they can never escape. The late creator, producer, and sta ...

FourWinds10

  • Robert Kennedy Jr says British Petroleum has w ...
    June 4, 2013 12:35 am theunhivedmind 1 Comment ‘BP wrecked our Gulf’ says Robert Kennedy Jr BP is “getting off lightly” for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, a prominent member of America’s most famous political dynasty has claimed. A file picture released by the US Coas ...
  • North Dakota recorded 300 oil spills in two y ...
    Oct. 25, 2013 AP obtained records of 750 'oil field incidents' after officials kept the massive September wheat field spill quiet until discovered. The state hosts 17,500 miles of pipelines. For weeks, no one knew about a Tesoro Corporation pipeline that broke
  • Denver to start charging groups who do yoga or ...
    July 17, 2013 (NaturalNews) Fitness groups that hold classes at public parks, green spaces, and other multi-use public areas in Colorado's capital city of Denver could soon have to pay user fees to the city in order to continue using them, according to new proposals. Paid exercise programs l ...
  • 'OUTDOOR ALABAMA' MAGAZINE LIES ABOUT HOW 'GOO ...
  • Wal-Mart pays $81.6 million settlement for env ...
    June 12, 2013 (NaturalNews) Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest retailer, it is apparently one of the nation's biggest polluters as well, as evidenced by a massive fine levied recently by the federal government following an investigation of "environmental crimes" which las ...

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

  • Germany Hits 59 Percent Renewable Peak, Grid D ...
    Wind and solar power peaked at 59.1 percent of German power generation earlier this month. It happened at noon on a very windy and sunny October 3 -- the German holiday commemorating reunification. Germany hit 61 percent, a record, and 59 percent peaks earlier this year.read more
  • Record Breaking Solar Cell Efficiency From A ' ...
    Gallium is already on its way to becoming the workhorse of the solar tech field, and now a team of US scientists has hit upon an improved method for growing indium gallium nitride crystals that could lead to record-breaking solar cell efficiency.read more
  • New York City Takes 250,000 Steps Toward Energ ...
    Last week NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new effort to replace the city’s current amber streetlights for white, more energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs throughout the five boroughs.read more
  • Research: Fracking Uses and Loses More Water t ...
    Hydraulic fracturing’s water footprint is higher than previously thought, according to a new report that combined data from many sources to provide one of the most comprehensive looks at how water is actually used by the oil and gas industry.read more
  • Lessons Learned from Superstorm Sandy: One Yea ...
    On Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record made landfall along the heavily populated Jersey Shore causing massive damage and devastation. On the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, it’s important to look back and reflect on the lessons learned.read more

Rodale News

  • Are You Sudsing Up with This Ridiculous Soap?
    Plastic waste comes in all sizes, not just the clunky milk jugs and water bottles we're used to dropping off at the recycling center. In fact, unbeknownst to many well-meaning exfoliators, thousands of teeny micro-plastic beads could be washing down the drain every time they rinse away their ex ...
  • Fresh Picks: The Most Polluted Cities in Ameri ...
    • Cough cough: The most polluted urban areas in the country! (Grist) • Amazing infographic on how yoga changes your body, starting immediately (HuffPo) • Surprising things a kiss can tell you about someone (NYT Well blog) • And now a CSA for winter locavores: canning! (NPR's The Salt) • How t ...
  • The Hidden Threats in Your Spice Rack
    Your spice rack: It's an innocuous part of your kitchen décor that you reach for whenever you want to add some flavor and zest to your cooking. Spices are also powerhouse antioxidants, full of compounds that can ward off colds to cancer. But how safe are they? Most people don't view spices as y ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Homemade Gluten-Free Sourd ...
    Increasingly, researchers are linking gluten, a protein found in wheat, to all manner of digestive ailments and inflammatory diseases, and as a result, people are flocking to gluten-free foods in droves. The problem? A lot of the foods are just as processed as non-gluten-free goods, and filled ...
  • The 9 Best Gluten-Free Foods for Runners
    Considering that "gluten free" has become the healthy diet du jour, a lot of athletes probably wonder if giving up gluten, a problematic protein found in wheat, barley, and rye, can help them work harder and last longer. Are gluten-free foods the best foods for runners? There's no sc ...

big think

  • Germany Permits A Third Gender Option For Birt ...
    What's the Latest Development? Germany has become the first country in Europe to recognize a third gender option for people who were born with both male and female characteristics. Parents can now specify "X" in the gender box on their baby's birth certificate, relieving them of the pres ...
  • Building a Brain Like Ours
    When will we be able to build a brain to act and think like us? That is so far off in the future in my opinion that it’s interesting to think about because it forces you to actually see what you have and to try to quantify it in a way that could be instantiated in an artifact. So that’s a very . ...
  • Is Having Children a Good Retirement Plan?
    Perhaps most people live in traditional societies, where agriculture is the main occupation and your retirement plan is your kids.  You take care of them when you’re young and then when you’re old, they take care of you.  And so it goes from generation to generation.  That’s why these so ...
  • How to See the Hybrid Solar Eclipse This Weekend
    The last solar eclipse of 2013 will take place November 3 and it will be a hybrid solar eclipse, meaning it will start out as an annular eclipse with a "ring of fire" (depicted above) and then become a full solar eclipse.  The Slooh Space Camera will livestream this portion of the eclips ...
  • What is Driving Change in Afghanistan
    The most important thing in Afghanistan has been necessity, economic hardship and the fact that women have to work.  Women have to teach and most families nowadays have no alternative but to allow their women, their daughters, wives and so forth to go out to the workforce.  That necessit ...

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

  • Move closer…what if the Moon…
    …were as close to the Earth as the International Space Station (ISS). Gravitational and tidal effects aside, this is a nice photorealistic animation to show the night during the day. And, then…what if the Earth had rings like Saturn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz5Q2rGQtQ Move c ...
  • News from the Squares – Book review
    In Robert Llewellyn’s eagerly awaited sequel to News From Gardenia, erstwhile engineer Gavin Meckler is trying to get back to the present in his Youneec aircraft, but something is amiss. He soon realises he has travelled sideways through time to another possible future, as unlike his visit to 22 ...
  • Designing out desire for sustainable life
    We’ve got it all wrong, it seems. We invest millions in recycling centres, refuse sorting facilities, and in some parts of the world in assimilating every last scrap of metal, plastic, glass and feeding it back into the system as usable source materials whether that’s for plastics re ...
  • Amygdalin – anticancer “vitamin” B17
    Amygdalin the so-called safe and natural anticancer vitamin B17, is none of those things. It is not a vitamin in any sense of the word. It has no anticancer properties. It is poisonous. The compound, formula C20H27NO11, is a glycoside initially isolated from the seeds of the tree Prunus dulcis i ...
  • Stay safe legally, moderate your comments
    I’ve always moderated comments on my blogs. I own the blogs, I’m an independent science journalist, no blog “network” safety net for me, so why wouldn’t I? I treat the comments section like a letters editor at a newspaper would. All legitimate comments are posted, a ...

RFF Library

  • US EPA Draft Climate Change Adaptation Impleme ...
    US EPA http://epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/fed-programs/EPA-impl-plans.html [Oil and Gas Journal]  The US Environmental Protection Agency released its draft climate change adaptation implementation plans for a 2-month public review. Comments will be accepted until Jan. 3, 2014. The p ...
  • Critical Impacts of Global Warming on Land Eco ...
    Earth System Dynamics (Oct. 8, 2013; v4 p541-565; doi:10.5194/esdd-4-541-2013) / by S. Ostberg, W. Lucht, S. Schaphoff, and D. Gerten http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/4/347/2013/esd-4-347-2013.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Henry Gass, sub. req'd] More than 80 percent of the world’s ic ...
  • Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke: ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/health/impacts-of-wildfire-smoke/ [From an E&E News PM article by , sub. req'd]  As much as two-thirds of the country is affected by smoke conditions linked to wildfires, even in areas not normally affected by such fires, a new report has ...
  • Challenging the Clean Energy Deployment Consensus
    The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation / by Megan Nicholson and Matthew Stepp http://www.itif.org/publications/challenging-clean-energy-deployment-consensus A majority of clean energy advocates believe that the world has all the low-carbon technologies it needs to address climate c ...
  • Identifying Options for a New International Cl ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Robert N. Stavins and Robert C. Stowe http://hvrd.me/1gGuTnQ The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) convened thirty leading ...

frogblog

  • What Tony Ryall doesn’t know
    A crucial part of the role of any Minister is to know what is happening in their area of responsibility. It seems that Tony Ryall, however, is taking a ‘hear no evil, see no evil’ approach to being the Minister of Health. My previous blog posts on what Tony Ryall doesn’t want to answer and […]
  • Fonterra – join the dots to combat climate change
    On Labour Day the holiday traffic on State Highway 2 got a free education from our roadside rally against the Fonterra coal mine at Mangatawhiri. This event was organised by “Auckland Coal Action” so I drove over from Thames with Jeanette Fitzsimons and other locals to support the ef ...
  • Transport and social equity: Part 1
    This is a cross post from The Daily Blog, where it was originally published Tuesday 22 October. Transport is often the third largest item of expenditure for a household. It is on average between 10-15% of the household budget, surpassed only by food and shelter. But it can be higher for low- and ...
  • Asian Human Rights Commission report on genoci ...
    A new report released by Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission is a damning indictment of the historical role of both the Indonesian and Australian Governments in West Papua. The report shows a consistent pattern of state killings, actual massacres and attacks on communities over the las ...
  • Have your say on two important tertiary educat ...
    The Government is in the middle of consulting on two really important documents relating to the tertiary education sector in New Zealand. The first is the Tertiary Education Strategy, which outlines the Government’s strategic direction for the next five years (2014-2019). The second is on the Go ...

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 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:
  • IC 409: Jesus Smash
    GTA V is the game of the year….period Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson Russell Simmons rewrites history on the the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Video Hollywood isn’t starving for creativity Passion of the Christ wasn’t a good movie Are there any movies that shouldn’t be remad ...

Simple Climate

  • 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.
  • Tundra plants show modern temperatures unmatch ...
    As plants preserved under glaciers for at least 44,000 years are revealed in surprising abundance, Gifford Miller from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team have used them to show how far beyond natural patterns the warming humans have driven is.
  • Tundra plants show modern temperatures unmatch ...
    As plants preserved under glaciers for at least 44,000 years are revealed in surprising abundance, Gifford Miller from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team have used them to show how far beyond natural patterns the warming humans have driven is.
  • Braving African piracy reveals abrupt rainfall ...
    After Peter deMenocal avoided harm extracting sediment cores in dangerous waters off the Somali coast, Jessica Tierney has painstakingly used them to show century-scale climate transitions in the area.

e!Science News

  • Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals -- twice
    Mammal body size decreased significantly during at least two ancient global warming events. A new finding that suggests a similar outcome is possible in response to human-caused climate change, according to a University of Michigan paleontologist and his colleagues. read more
  • Synaptic transistor learns while it computes
    It doesn't take a Watson to realize that even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. read more
  • A new way to monitor induced comas
    After suffering a traumatic brain injury, patients are often placed in a coma to give the brain time to heal and allow dangerous swelling to dissipate. These comas, which are induced with anesthesia drugs, can last for days. During that time, nurses must closely monitor patients to make sure the ...
  • 'Flipping the switch' reveals new compounds wi ...
    Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that one gene in a common fungus acts as a master regulator, and deleting it has opened access to a wealth of new compounds that have never before been studied -- with the potential to identify new antibiotics. read more
  • Pregnant women who snore at higher risk for C- ...
    Snoring during pregnancy may be bad for the new baby's health, according to research from the University of Michigan Health System. read more

unEarthed

  • Kauaʻi Mayor Ignores Constituents, Vetoes Ordi ...
    Ordinance would provide safeguards against pesticide exposure Large crowds had gathered at the County Building, in support of the ordinance. (Photo courtesy of Pesticides on Kauai) ...
  • Shell Plans to Drill in The Arctic in 2014
    Moves ahead despite past failures, warnings and a wrecked rig The conical drilling unit Kulluk sat aground 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, AK, on the shore of Sitkalidak Island in Januar ...
  • A Spooky Premise
    What if EPA’s coal ash rule doesn’t close unlined lagoons? The devastating 2008 coal ash spill in Tennessee. (SACE) The utility industry is speaking with one ...
  • Court Sends Pennsylvania Haze Rule Back to EPA
    Agency has an April deadline to rework standard Little Stoney Man at Shenandoah National Park. (NPS) On Tuesday, Oct, 22, the federal appeals court in Philade ...
  • Science Put on Ice By Federal Shutdown
    Research in Antarctic loses precious time during short season A sundog frames the silhouette of a U.S. Antarctic Program participant near McMurdo Station. (Carlie Reum / NSF) ...

Brave New Climate

  • 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 ...
  • MIT Climate CoLab update – the result?
    This is an update to this recent BNC post: MIT competition update – 3 days left, votes needed! ———- Guest Post by Ron Gester M.D. The Treasurer of SCGI, Ron is a retired emergency physician and geologist, who is a passionate about solving the climate change problem. Votin ...
  • MIT competition update – 3 days left, vo ...
    Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really counts. The winner will get in front of potential implementers at the Crowds & Climate Con ...

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

  • The real problem with the prisoner release
    The problem is not that Israel releases Palestinian prisoners, but how few it releases. Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth gives its readers a daily question, argued by two competing op-eds. On Monday, the question had to do with the coming release of Palestinian prisoners as part of the governm ...
  • For Palestinian citizens, 1956 massacre is not ...
    If Israel was able to inflict fatalities in 2000 just as it did in Kafr Qasim in 1956, with no accountability to the victims and affected families, how can Arabs feel safe about their rights as citizens? By Amjad Iraqi This week, Palestinian citizens of Israel marked the 57th anniversary of the ...
  • From prisoner release to home demolitions: A w ...
    This week: Prisoner releases, house demolitions, weekly demonstrations, olive harvests, prayerful protests, and asylum seekers.                        
  • PHOTOS: Hundreds of olive trees destroyed near ...
    Nearly 230 olive trees were destroyed earlier this week in the northern West Bank. According to B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that documents human rights violations in the occupied territories, the trees belonged to the Radwan family from the village Azzoun, and were planted no more than five y ...
  • WATCH: Bringing peace talks to the public square
    Last year, as part of a creative initiative, Israelis and Palestinians met in public spaces in an attempt to wrestle with disagreements and reach reconciliation and a written agreement. Last week, as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were actually holding talks and the Israeli media was busy c ...

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 →

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Tech Drive In

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    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 ...
  • Lightbeam: A brilliant Firefox extension that ...
    Lightbeam is a Firefox extension that debuted as Collusion in 2011 and created by Mozilla software developer Atul Varma as an experimental add-on to visualize browsing behavior and data collection on the web. Watch this highly rated TED talk where Mozilla's Gary Kovacs introduces the Collusion ...
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    When it comes to Ubuntu pre-installed laptop and desktop offerings, System76 pretty much pioneered the movement. Now they have come up with the first ever touchscreen enabled Ubuntu laptop called Darter UltraThin. It features a 14.1" 1080p full high definition touch display with glossy finish. ...
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    Towards the release of a major Ubuntu version, a lot of people writes to us seeking help regarding corrupted ISO image file problem. This can be because of so many reasons. At one point, the default Startup Disk Creator failed every time and I had to rely entirely on UNetBootin for creating ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • 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 ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...

2020 Science

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    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 ...

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War Resisters League

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    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 →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...

Center for a Livable Future

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    In 2010, oil gushed from the Deepwater Horizon for 91 days. How many years will it take for the Gulf’s ecosystem to recover?
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    For my fellow map nerds out there, here's a geocaching contest: use your Maryland’s Ice Cream Geocache Passport and you will receive the highly coveted Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail Pathtag.
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    Eating seafood is a good way to increase our intake of marine omega-3 fatty acids, which is important for our personal health. But there are big problems with eating this high on the food chain.
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    It’s heartening to see this issue of IFAP taking hold in so many media channels. Maybe now we can get some traction in Capitol Hill.
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    Because our project is located under a plastic hoophouse, we’re able to do the same thing in January that we do in July: grow food! 

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    Climate Central
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    Ecology: Lady of the lakes
    Nature.com
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    Aiken Standard
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    Building a Portfolio With a Focus on a Single Sector: Water
    New York Times
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    Yahoo News (blog)
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