Wednesday, November 27, 2013

27 Nov - RSS SnapShot! II

The Earth flag is not an official flag, since ...The Earth flag is not an official flag, since there is no official governing body over Earth. The flag holds a photo transfer of a NASA image of the Earth on a dark blue background. It has been associated with Earth Day. Although the flag was originally copyrighted, a judge ruledhttp://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/CopyrightLaw/Copyrightability/articles/EarthFlagVsAlamoFlag_A.shtml that the copyright was invalid. Earth Flag Ltd. v. Alamo Flag Co., 154 F. Supp. 2d 663 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
National Committee on United States – China Re...National Committee on United States – China Relations (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Reverse of the Great Seal of the Unit...English: Reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. Dansk: Bagsiden af USAs store statssegl. Deutsch: Siegel der USA, Rückseite Français : Revers du Grand sceau des États-Unis d'Amérique. Македонски: Опачина на грбот на Соединетите Американски Држави 日本語: アメリカ合衆国の国章の裏面。 Svenska: Baksidan av USA:s stora sigill 中文: 美國國徽的反面 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Tsinghua University is a well regarde...English: Tsinghua University is a well regarded university in mainland China. The Tsinghua Observatory is shown. Magyar: Tsinghua Egyetem obszervatóriuma. 한국어: 칭화대학교. Bahasa Melayu: Tsinghua University ialah salah satu universiti utama di tanah besar China. Português: A Universidade de Tsinghua é uma das melhores universidades da China. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Embassy of China to the United States. Located...Embassy of China to the United States. Located in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Un ...
    When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars.  This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.  Accordi ...
  • “I Fear For What’s Coming” & ...
    Are you deeply concerned about the future of America?  Is something in your gut telling you that our system is fundamentally broken and that the mainstream media is not telling you the truth about what is happening?  If so, you are definitely not alone.  Right now, there are millions upon millio ...
  • Would You Date An Unemployed Man? – 75 P ...
    If you are a man living in America today, to a large degree your value to society is determined by how much money you make.  It should not be that way, but that is how our society works.  And if you do not have a job at all and you cannot take care of your [...]
  • China Announces That It Is Going To Stop Stock ...
    China just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States.  The central bank of China has decided that it is "no longer in China’s favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves".  During the third quarter of 2013, China's foreign-ex ...
  • One Lawmaker Is Literally Smashing The Belongi ...
    There is a war on compassion in America today.  You are about to read about a Hawaii lawmaker that has used a sledgehammer to smash up at least 30 shopping carts that homeless people were using.  Yes, you read that correctly.  He is actually carrying a sledgehammer around so that he can destroy ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Walmart workers plan raucous Black Friday
    Image Caption:  "I'm Elaine," declared one woman's sign. "8 yrs at [Walmart store] #1590, Miami, FL. Unjustly fired. Shame on you, corporate." Elaine (no last name given) and several others braved bitter cold to pr ...
  • Congressman's cocaine bust illuminates race an ...
    Image Caption:  Rep. Radel says he's going to get psychological help following his coke bust to better care for his family. But if he were a poor woman of color arrested for cocaine possession, he'd likely need help just feeding his f ...
  • NC Music Love Army releases Moral Monday benef ...
    Image Caption:  The NC Music Love Army will release an album on Nov. 26, with benefits going to progressive groups working in the state. Musicians who support North Carolina's Moral Monday movement against the legislature's ex ...
  • Young voters face a heavy 'time tax'
    Image Caption:  A new report documents the excessive wait times that young voters face on Election Day. A new report finds that young voters, and particularly young voters of color in the South, faced the longest lines in orde ...
  • Conservative group demands emails, phone recor ...
    Image Caption:  The conservative Civitas Institute is seeking emails and other records from Gene Nichol, a UNC law professor and director of the school's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. (Photo of Nichol courtesy of UNC.) ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Natural Health News andBill Gates’ Polio Vacci ...
    by Christina England In the depths of cyberspace lurks a press release written by the CDC, confirming that the OPV, or oral polio vaccination, given to millions of children throughout the developing world, is causing them to develop vaccine-induced polio. Instead of banning the vaccination, as o ...
  • Study Proves Vaccines — Not ‘Vaccine Ref ...
    Behind Whooping Cough Outbreaks Melissa Melton A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the whooping cough vaccines that have been in use since the 1990s — and not kids whose parents refuse the whooping cough vaccine — are actually behind the surge in w ...
  • Sherrie Questioning All: Judge’s ruling ...
    By Sherrie People need to understand the only reason we have the story of Sandy Hook is because the media and government told us it happened. Yet there has not been one shred of evidence or real proof any children were murdered that day. The fact is there is more evidence that it did not […]
  • Jim Garrison Response – Kennedy Assassin ...
    Jim Garrison Response – Kennedy Assassination – YouTube.
  • Smoking Mirrors | Welcome to the Age of I Don& ...
    By Les Visible One further comment on my journey. As I was leaving at the airport, I stopped in a couple of places to purchase a book and also to turn in my currency. At both places they asked for my boarding pass and I wasn’t even through security yet. They ran it under a […]

Veterans Today

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electric politics

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

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • US/NATO continue simulating war against Russia ...
    Voice of Russia November 26, 2013 US/NATO continue simulating war against Russia in Germany John Robles When the Cold War finished many intelligent, peace-loving and thinking people all over the world believed that there would be a drawing down of military forces and an end to the arms race as t ...
  • Georgian “Reintegration” Minister ...
    Rustavi 2 November 26, 2013 State Minister leaves for Belgium State Minister for Reintegration Affairs, Aleksi Petriashvili has left for Belgium this morning to discuss Georgia-EU cooperation issues a few days prior to the EU Eastern Partnership Summit with NATO authorities. Aleksi Petriashvili ...
  • Video: NATO Practices War In Africa, “An ...
    http://www.aco.nato.int/video-exercise-arrcade-fusion-is-well-underway-in-the-uk.aspx North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations November 26, 2013
  • U.S., NATO Ally In East African Naval Exercise
    U.S. Naval Forces Europe – U.S. Naval Forces Africa U.S. Sixth Fleet November 26, 2013 HDMS Esbern Snare Engages with East African Boarding Teams During Cutlass Express By Royal Danish Navy 1st Lt. Peter Hojgrav, HDMS Esbern Snare (L 17) Public Affairs During Exercise Cutlass Express 2013, ...
  • Ignazio Silone: They have been warned of wars ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Ignazio Silone: Resorting to the bloody diversion of war Ignazio Silone: War with today’s hereditary enemy ==== Ignazio Silone From Bread and Wine (1936) Translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher The mobilization of the paupers ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks: Daily W ...
    New York Times: NSA Report Outlined Goals for More Power This article, coauthored by Laura Poitras and James Risen, details a new February 2012 document disclosed by NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden that outlines a “four-year strategy for the N.S.A.’s signals intelligence operati ...
  • Call for Military Whistleblower Reform Loud an ...
    Military Whistleblower Reform Long Overdue Earlier this week, nearly 50 whistleblowers and organizations sent a joint letter to Congress calling for an overhaul of the Military Whistleblower Protection Act of 1988, which provides “limited and narrow protection” for those making lawful disclosu ...
  • Military Whistleblower Reform Long Overdue
    This year, legislation has been drafted in both the U.S. House of Republicans and the Senate in an effort to bolster the provisions of the Military Whistleblower Protection Act of 1988 (MWPA), which provides limited and narrow protection of lawful disclosures made by those serving in the United ...
  • Tyson Drops Pig Farm After Undercover Video Sh ...
    NBC News: Tyson Foods Dumps Pig Farm after NBC Shows Company Video of Alleged Abuse Tyson Foods, the nation's largest meat producer, said it has terminated a contract with one of its suppliers, an Oklahoma pig farm, after NBC News revealed undercover video of animal abuse at the facility. W ...
  • Make It Safe Coalition to Senate: Reduce Waste ...
    Note: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce are holding a hearing today at 2:00 p.m. EST in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342 http://1.usa.gov/1cxiRa1. Today, the Senate Homelan ...

UK Progressive

  • New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove’s Group Spent E ...
    by Kim Barker ProPublica On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove’s dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits. (Here’s the tax return itself, which we deta ...
  • Why Do Blacks Believe JFK Conspiracy Theories?
    by David A. Love November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. While a recent poll finds that a clear majority of Americans—59 percent—believes there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, with 24 percent believing Lee Harvey Oswald acted a ...
  • Three Large Truths Obscured by Republican Obam ...
    by Robert Reich Having failed to defeat the Affordable Care Act in Congress, to beat it back in the last election, to repeal it despite more than eighty votes in the House, to stop it in the federal courts, to get enough votes in the Supreme Court to overrule it, and to gut it with […]
  • Op Ed: The Noble Free – ‘For God’s Sake’
    by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall I’m writing from the 2013 GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM (11/05/13), a day long event at CSIS. This conference is attended by national business, academic, non-profit, government and military leaders; it is one of the most informative events of the year. Here the c ...
  • Who Killed JFK and Why
    by Brent Budowsky In a recent column, I called for a revival of the American space program as a way to make our nation stronger and bring the legacy of JFK alive in our times. On this day, I write for the first time about who I believe killed JFK, and why. I believe JFK was most […]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • NY Times climate news shrinks 30% — anot ...
    It’s not just the money that is leaving the room as reality bites, the chattering classes are not chattering about it so much either. The New York Times closed their  Green Blog earlier this year, which covered energy and environment. Seven reporters and two editors were moved into differe ...
  • There goes a massive windfarm – £4bn UK ...
    More money leaves the room. Last week David Cameron said the UK needed to get rid of all that green crap (or double-speak words to that effect). The message, confounded as it is, may be getting through. (Reuters) – German utility RWE has scrapped plans to build one of the world’s la ...
  • Sleepwalking to extinction, or maybe communism?
    From Sleepwalking to Extinction. Climate Madness is coming, and to save us Richard Smith says we need an eco-socialist civilization! Jo Nova thinks we need people who can add up numbers. Capitalism and the destruction of life and earth Super Typhoon Haiyan has sent a chill through the global ner ...
  • EU gives 20% (sic) of their budget to demigodd ...
    And people wonder why Greece, Italy and Spain are in a mess. By Sophie Yeo in Warsaw 20% of the EU’s budget will go towards fighting climate change, climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard announced in Warsaw today.  This equates to €180 billion on climate spending between 2014 and 2020, which wil ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    A couple of hours north of Perth. It’s not snow.

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Can Red Wine Really Heal Cancer And Prolong Yo ...
    Red Wine The health benefits of resveratrol, a compound found in the skin of grapes (and thus in red wine), have long been known. Studies have indicated that it serves as an antioxidant, that it has anti-tumor properties, that it can help you live longer, and that it may be responsible for t ...
  • Big Pic: Mushrooms Make Wind To Send Spores Flying
    The spores released by an Amanita form a cloud of bright little specks. Patrick Hickey Mushrooms produce spores in order to reproduce and spread their mushroomy goodness throughout the land—or at least propagate the species. And for a long time, scientists believed they released these spor ...
  • This Adorable Turtle Bot Will Help Underwater ...
    u-CAT swimming in an aquarium at Centre for Biorobotics mihkell via Flickr, Courtesy of Centre for Biorobotics, Tallinn University of Technology Sure, there are plenty of UAVs and ROVs and other underwater robots. But these deep divers tend to be large and bulky, and can be something of a ...
  • See Comet Tails Flap In Solar Wind
    Last Thursday, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) captured images of two comets passing through solar wind. At the center is Comet Encke, and emerging later is Comet ISON.  STEREO consists of two sun-orbiting observatories, one ahead of Earth and the other behind. On Thanks ...
  • FDA Orders Personal Genomics Company 23andMe T ...
    23andMe 23andMe Since 2007, 23andMe has been selling a personal genomics test: using a kit, you submit your saliva for genetic sequencing, and receive a dataset all about your genealogy, disease risk factors, and so forth. Today, the Food and Drug Administration published a letter giving t ...

Facing South

  • Walmart workers plan raucous Black Friday
    Image Caption:  "I'm Elaine," declared one woman's sign. "8 yrs at [Walmart store] #1590, Miami, FL. Unjustly fired. Shame on you, corporate." Elaine (no last name given) and several others braved bitter cold to pr ...
  • Congressman's cocaine bust illuminates race an ...
    Image Caption:  Rep. Radel says he's going to get psychological help following his coke bust to better care for his family. But if he were a poor woman of color arrested for cocaine possession, he'd likely need help just feeding his f ...
  • NC Music Love Army releases Moral Monday benef ...
    Image Caption:  The NC Music Love Army will release an album on Nov. 26, with benefits going to progressive groups working in the state. Musicians who support North Carolina's Moral Monday movement against the legislature's ex ...
  • Young voters face a heavy 'time tax'
    Image Caption:  A new report documents the excessive wait times that young voters face on Election Day. A new report finds that young voters, and particularly young voters of color in the South, faced the longest lines in orde ...
  • Conservative group demands emails, phone recor ...
    Image Caption:  The conservative Civitas Institute is seeking emails and other records from Gene Nichol, a UNC law professor and director of the school's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. (Photo of Nichol courtesy of UNC.) ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Rest of November outlook - and what about winter?
    High pressure looks set to become dominant across much of the UK for the rest of November, ensuring a lot of dry, fine and settled weather.  Although cloud amounts are always difficult to determine in these situations, by day there should be at least some sunshine, with a risk of some frost and ...
  • Weather and climate round-up
    First taste of winter next week: After a mild autumn so far, the UK is about to experience its first taste of winter next week.  Cold air is expected to flood southwards across the UK from Tuesday.  As it meets the relatively warm sea vigorous convection is expected, with the risk of heavy showe ...
  • More on risk of new Maunder solar minimum and ...
    There’s been, as I expected, lots of interest in my blog from last week about the risk of a new Maunder solar minimum reach you can read by clicking HERE As part of my research into the story I visited Professor Mike Lockwood at Reading University where he told me that solar activity was falling ...
  • Real risk of a Maunder minimum 'Little Ice Age ...
    It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK and Europe were often severe. The severe cold went hand in hand with an exceptionally inactive sun, and was called the Maunder solar minimum. Now a leading scientist from Reading Universi ...
  • October - the month of wild weather swings
    By any definition autumn has arrived across the UK, with the first northerly gale of the season along the east coast. Meteorologically, today’s weather is perfectly normal for the time of the year. And along the east coast it’s the most dangerous direction for potential flooding.  Sharp fluctuat ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Business as Usual: Thailand Back in Crisis Mode
    There is an anarchic quality to Thai politics that has to be seen to be believed. At regular intervals, mass protests, military coups and other forms of upheaval toss out leaders whether they are democratically elected or otherwise. Since the turn of the century, media mogul Thaksin Shinawatra-- ...
  • Pound or Euro? Currency of an Independent Scotland
    The next few years are literally going to be make-or-break for the United Kingdom. First of all, the ruling Tories have promised a referendum on its membership in the European Union that, if it is held and voters decide against it, will mean the UK leaving the EU. It's a scary thought we can exp ...
  • Trade Deals: Ukraine Jilts EU, Returns to Russ ...
    When we last talked about Ukraine, it had elected a pro-Russian leader in Viktor Yanukovych--the same Russia-aligned "bad guy" the so-called Orange Revolution supposedly got rid of. Hard economic times (brought on by the global financial crisis) soured the partnership of his opponents Yulia Tymo ...
  • After 12 Long Years, a WTO Deal in Bali?
    For obvious reasons--nothing much happening in Geneva--I have devoted very little attention to the conclusion of the WTO Doha Round, having given it up for lost. For all intents and purposes, the Doha Development Agenda as it is officially referred to is still on the back burner. But, there was ...
  • So, Just How Urbanized is Our World?
    To be exact, it is 52.1% urbanized in terms of persons living in cities according to the latest 2011 figures from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Having turned the corner in 2007, the pace is accelerating for better or worse as more people choose to live in cities. A ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Un ...
    When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars.  This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.  Accordi ...
  • “I Fear For What’s Coming” & ...
    Are you deeply concerned about the future of America?  Is something in your gut telling you that our system is fundamentally broken and that the mainstream media is not telling you the truth about what is happening?  If so, you are definitely not alone.  Right now, there are millions upon millio ...
  • Would You Date An Unemployed Man? – 75 P ...
    If you are a man living in America today, to a large degree your value to society is determined by how much money you make.  It should not be that way, but that is how our society works.  And if you do not have a job at all and you cannot take care of your [...]
  • China Announces That It Is Going To Stop Stock ...
    China just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States.  The central bank of China has decided that it is "no longer in China’s favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves".  During the third quarter of 2013, China's foreign-ex ...
  • One Lawmaker Is Literally Smashing The Belongi ...
    There is a war on compassion in America today.  You are about to read about a Hawaii lawmaker that has used a sledgehammer to smash up at least 30 shopping carts that homeless people were using.  Yes, you read that correctly.  He is actually carrying a sledgehammer around so that he can destroy ...

BlogHer

  • Don't Hate Me Because I Do My Black Friday Sho ...
    It's all over my Facebook  and Twitter feeds.Don't shop on Thanksgiving night! Tell [Major Retailer] that Thanksgiving isn't about greed!Say NO to Black Friday on Thanksgiving!How dare these retailers try to steal our time with our families from us! It's wrong. Thanksgiving is a time f ...
  • Free Printable: Winterize your Home Checklist
    It's an all too common mistake that we make each year, and could save ourselves a ton of headache with a little preparation for Winter. I grew up in North Dakota, and have lived on each coast of the US, as well as Texas over the years. Each place is different, so of course you may need to adjust ...
  • How to Make Perfect Apple Pie
     Everything you could ever want in an apple pie! Buttery, flaky crust, tart and juicy apples, and sweet, warm holiday spice. It's simply perfect!Last time we hung out, I promised you guys a really great recipe for a basic apple pie.This is it!  THE Most Perfect-est Apple Pie in All&nbs ...
  • 10 Signs You Might Have Hired The Wrong Painte ...
    A few years ago, I impulsively ripped all of the blue wallpaper off the walls in our bathroom. I started texturing the walls, but quickly realized I was in over my head with two little helpers in tow. So I turned to Craigslist to find a painter. Here are the 10 warning signs I missed. 10 ...
  • A Mother's Sanctuary and a Few Moments Alone
    I really did have to go. But then I was alone. And the door was locked. The fan drowned out the noise, and I had my iPhone in my pocket. The bathroom is only a few feet away from the wireless router, so the signal is really good in there. So I stayed a while. I'd just finished cooking dinner an ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Could blue lights replace a daily cup of coffee?
                    Scientists claim they could be more effective at keeping you alert than caffeine  Blue light has been getting a bad reputation lately for its role in disrupting sleep. Smartphones and other gadgets used before bed can cause ...
  • Natural & Synthetic Caffeine
    understanding the difference Everyday, millions of people take part in a beloved daily ritual. For some, it’s starting the morning with a fresh cup of coffee, for others it’s a steamy gourd of Yerba Mate. What ... Related posts:Replacing Chemical Pesticides With Natural Ant ...
  • 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
            Mentally strong people have healthy habits. They manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in ways that set them up for success in life. Check out these things that mentally strong people don’t do so that ... Related posts:The Top 10 Things Suc ...
  • 20 Domestic Uses For Coca Cola… Proof That Cok ...
                      Coke is the most valuable brand in history, and “Coca-Cola” is the world’s second-most recognized word after “hello.” However, the beverage itself is an absolute poison to the human metabolism. Coke is very close to ...
  • Is Your Daily Wheat Bread Actually Healthy?
                  Wheat is everywhere and in everything. There is no food store that doesn’t have at least several isles with foods containing wheat! In my practice, it’s interesting to observe the reactions people have when we talk ... Related p ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Another coal miner killed on the job
    Bad news over the weekend from Ohio. According to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: Late Saturday afternoon, a miner was killed at the Century Mine on the longwall face, reportedly after being struck by a high-pressure hydraulic hose and high-pressure hydraulic fluid.  District 3 p ...
  • Proximity to the public: West Virginia’s ...
    The industry representatives to the state’s mine safety board are, from left to right, Charles Russell of Arch Coal, Terry Hudson of Patriot Coal, and Chris Hamilton of the West Virginia Coal Association. When we last left the West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety, board membe ...
  • Friday roundup, Nov. 22, 2013
    On May 9, 1959, Kennedy and U.S. Sen. Jennings Randolph (white hardhat) spoke with several miners at the U.S. Steel Cleaning Plant in McDowell County. Courtesy photo. In today’s Gazette story about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, reporter David Gutman had so ...
  • Blankenship vs. Hoppy: More of the same on UBB
    Maybe it sounded like a good idea at the time. A “joint friend” hooked Hoppy Kercheval up with former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship for an interview on the MetroNews statewide “Talkline” program. They’d take the show’s second full hour. Hoppy would get to ...
  • Remembering the Farmington Mine Disaster, and ...
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce Forty-five years ago this morning, an explosion ripped through Consolidation Coal Co.’s No. 9 Mine near the communities of Farmington and Mannington, W.Va.  Seventy-eight miners were killed, and the bodies of 19 of the victims remain entombed where they had ...

Daniel Miessler

  • iTerm Now Showing Directory Colors (Fixed)
    If anyone has the issue of directory colors being borked in iTerm2, and they haven’t yet committed suicide, try this: Disable “Draw Text in Bright Colors” under: Preferences -> Profiles -> DisplayRelated Posts:Feeds BorkedSplunk on LinuxAdding a Trailing Slash to Directories Us ...
  • Sandy Hook Lacked a Motive Like Water Lacks Mo ...
    CNN, and a bunch of other news outlets, are stating that the Sandy Hook shooting spree lacked a motive. Nancy Lanza did her son’s laundry every day, but was not allowed into his room — "No one was allowed in his room," where the windows were covered with black plastic trash b ...
  • A Simple Theory For Why There Are Fewer Women ...
    There is an incandescent argument in the tech community about why there are so few women in IT. Some say it’s natural, some say it’s discrimination, and others say it’s neither or both. I have an idea I’m calling the Attraction Argument, which I’ll present below in ...
  • On Art Interpretation
    I was at MOMA in NYC last weekend and came upon an idea. I have many friends who claim an inability to be creative. They’re experts in their fields, and are able to cite and invoke any number of concepts and points when called upon, but when asked to create something new they become immobi ...
  • Merlin Mann on Life Planning
    My narrative is that I’ve never known what’s coming next—I still don’t. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, ‘Let’s try this again.’ It’s been one anxious block of uncertainty after another. ~ Merlin Mann This is a strong quote fr ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Top Secret Floating Structures On Both Coasts. ...
    A report appearing in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald showed shipping containers stacked on a barge in Maine – with the structure appearing virtually identical to the Bay Area barge. Also, an unconfirmed report suggested a Google barge is taking shape in New London, Connecticut. ~ Mort Ams ...
  • Hiding Your House From Google Maps
    As it turns out, there is a way to prevent strangers from seeing your home online through Google Maps. Many Americans don’t realize it, but Google actually has vehicles driving around the United States taking what are called “street view” pictures. If your home can be seen from a public stree ...
  • How to Avoid NSA Detection On The Internet
    We unfortunately live in the age of surveillance, when agencies like the  NSA and FBI push and cross the boundaries of unconstitutional actions. This means that everybody needs to take steps to protect their data. ~ Daniel Jennings read more
  • School Computer ‘Replaces’ Parents
    Teachers are using a computer programme to help them work on children’s emotional and behavioural development to compensate for inadequate or poor parenting. As more and more mothers and fathers fail to give their children a proper grounding in life skills, schools are taking over with the ...
  • Police Buy eBay Data to Target Criminals
    Police forces are paying private sector companies tens of thousands of pounds for databases of detailed personal information that exposes the anonymity of sellers conducting criminal auctions on eBay. read more

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Norway’s curling stars continue to dominate
    The Norwegian men’s curling team was back on the ice in their fancy pants and dominating competition at the European Championships in Stavanger this week. After winning Olympic silver in Vancouver, they’re now hot prospects for gold in Sotchi this winter. Skip Thomas Ulsrud and his t ...
  • Wine auction nearly sold out
    Norway’s first legal wine auction this week was deemed a success, after nearly all the wine on the block attracted winning bids and one bottle, of a Chateau Petrus from 1950, sold for NOK 32,000 (USD 5,300). All sales of wine and liquor are strictly regulated in Norway, and must be carried ...
  • Foreign workers face family aid cuts
    Labour immigrants working in Norway, many of whom come from Poland, now face major cuts in the Norwegian financial support they receive for their children back  home. The country’s new conservative government wants to cut the support payments sent to families with children who don’t ...
  • Ryanair accused of illegal surveillance
    Low-fare Irish airline Ryanair has run into more trouble with Norwegian authorities. Norway’s state agency in charge of privacy issues has now charged Ryanair with illegally setting up surveillance cameras in a building used by employees at the Rygge Airport in Moss, south of Oslo. The bui ...
  • Enger wins booksellers’ prize
    Journalist and author Cecilie Enger has won this year’s Bokhandlerprisen (Booksellers’ Prize) for her gripping novel about her mother’s dementia, death “and much more,” as publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag describes it. The book already has won rave reviews in Norway ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • The Bunya-Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii)
    by Byron Joel, oaktreedesigns.com.au A mature bunya pine showing classic conical growing habit Of all the striking aspects of the subtropical regions of Australia’s east coast, the landforms, the climate, the exotic fauna… few offer as immediately impressive a sight as a fully mature ...
  • Moving Up the Food Chain
    by Lester R. Brown For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of the human diet that came from hunting versus gathering varied with geographic location, hunting skills, and the season of the year. During the northern hemisphere winter, f ...
  • Can Genetically Engineered Foods Trigger Glute ...
    A report was released today proposing a link between genetically modified foods and gluten-related disorders. Do you or a loved one suffer from gluten sensitivity? You may be wondering why you react to gluten now even though you never did in the past. You may be wondering why a gluten-free diet ...
  • March 2014 Permaculture Voices Mega-Conference ...
    Click for larger view What: Permaculture Voices Mega-Conference Where: Temecula, CA, between San Diego and LA When: March 13-16, 2014 Special: $250 off for bookings taken between November 29 — December 1, 2013 (that means US$710, instead of $960, for a full conference ticket) Geoff and Nad ...
  • Introduction to Naturalised Nursery Practice
    Applying the understandings of ecosystem mimicry to create alternative solutions to current nursery practices of disease control, fertilisation and sterile mediums. It is my belief that nature is our greatest teacher. By observing nature we can see that a tree in a forest is self-maintaining. It ...

Pointman's

  • The silver apples of the moon, the golden appl ...
    There’s a lot of stuff you can get away with in the armed services but being a bad leader of a group of men who know they’re going into harm’s way isn’t one of them. They have trust in you or they don’t and you can tell that from their faces. The skinny 25-year-old ...
  • Australia – you beaut.
    We have lived in a globalised society for a lot longer than that relatively recently coined phrase might suggest. Because we’ve greater and easier access to foreign news, and even if we don’t take advantage of that, more foreign news is still reported on by domestic outlets, but usua ...
  • The long dark nights of the soul and using the ...
    We all have our little things about us. Things we do and things our friends know about and say don’t worry about it; they’re always doing that. Like everyone else, I’ve my own peculiar things I do and by now am reasonably relaxed about. Possibly the most disconcerting of my ecc ...
  • Make no mistake, words are ammo.
    In every cell of every living organism on the Earth, there’s DNA, which if you want to get technical stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It’s a long double strand helix structure built using sequences of just four nucleotides; guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, which are usually represented ...
  • The Climate Wars and agent Deep Woolabra Wonga.
    I think it’s about time I finally told you I’m running an asset deeply embedded inside Big Green. Running is probably the wrong word; it’s more a partnership by now. They operate under the codename I gave them of Deep Woolabra Wonga, not only because they’re submerged dee ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • EU, Israel Reach "Compromise" on Science vs. S ...
    Israel and the European Union have reached a tentative agreement on a compromise formula that will make it possible for Israel to participate in a prestigious and financially lucrative European scientific research program. The compromise paves the way
  • Egypt's Latest Fatwas from Salafis and Brotherhood
    As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood's year in power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar's Fatwa Committee dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis -- the Islamists -- was
  • Diplomacy is best but...
    The Obama Administration's preference for diplomacy with Iran over military action is commendable. There is a chance that diplomacy may even achieve more than sanctions. This possibility lies at the root of the deal recently undertaken with regard to
  • PLO "Resignations" and the Peace Process
    Since the signing of the Oslo Accords 20 years ago, PLO leaders and officials have threatened to resign each time they wanted something from the international community or Israel. Saeb Erekat, the chief PLO negotiator, who is currently heading the PLO
  • Egypt: "Why Not Us?"
    Two and half years after the January 25, 2011 revolution, Egyptians still are wondering about their dream of building a modern Egypt. They look around, see the economic successes of China, South Korea and Israel and ask "Why not us?" It is a reasonable

Urban Survival

  • “Two Turkeys” This Week!
    There’s much to taste this morning as the headlines seem to indicate a slow cooking of the world’s goose prior to the long weekend, such as it is with storms and such. For one thing, the Israelis are seriously pissed about the US going off and making what may be a massive mistake in allowing the ...
  • Coping: With Irregular Turkey
    Elaine came home from grocery shopping with about a 10-pound bird Friday afternoon (late) and didn’t have room in the fridge.  We figured that since the temps in East Texas weren’t going to get above 40, things would be fine and we would likely make it to Tuesday before having the turkey th ...
  • T’is the Season to be Rally
    Trah-lah-lah-lah-lah…. lah lah lah lah….This ain’t hard to figure:  Gold is down, so the dollar is up, so the number of dollars to buy the market should be down, so the futures should be weak. But wait!  The Dow is likely to pop up 60 and the NASDAQ and S&P also look like they’re s ...
  • Coping: With the Winds of Noumenon
    I’m not sure what set it off, but long-time readers will remember that I’ve had occasional dreams that have had what’s seemingly “prophetic content.”  The last “biggie” I had was before the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which I wrote up as having aspects of oil/petroleum industry, murder, fi ...
  • Peoplenomics: A Gathering of Trends
    Every year about this time, while most other people are out shopping for do-dad an thingamajigs to buy the affections of others, Ures truly starts looking at the “big picture” stuff in preparation for our Annual Forecast, which is unusually issued just after the turkey leftovers run ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • Fukushima Reactor 1 is 9 x Chernobyl - Unit 3 ...
    Military people call such places "FRONTLINE", liquidators who worked at the Chornobyl nuclear station called it "ROOF COATING". It was the most contaminated, and therefore the most dangerous, place in the zone. The remains of the roof coating of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Comet ISON's Day of Reckoning is Upon Us!
    Comet Hunter Don Machholz on what could be the celestial event of the century. That weird 6-tailed comet is NOT comet ISON ... The 6-tailed comet is an entirely different body that is much further out in space and cannot be seen with the naked eye,... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • Could Comet ISON Cause Revelation 8?
    Pastor Paul Begley of Indiana reads Revelation Chapter 8 and explains sonic booms in Canada, and meteorites hitting a boy in Florida Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com ...
  • Jim Marrs ~ The Government is The Problem no ...
    In this video Luke Rudkowski for the first time meets and interviews Jim Marrs about what he see's to be the problems and solutions in our current state. Jim Marrs is an American former newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • ALERT ~ Iranian President Says Iran Will Conti ...
    Iranian President Says Iran Will Continue To Enrich Uranium Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Israeli For-Profit Solar Developer with a Non- ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York With Hanukah candles being lit in homes around the world—mine included—starting tonight, you might be interested to know about an early rabbinic debate that has great relevance for o ...
  • 41 leading scientists call on EPA to protect o ...
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Yesterday, 41 leading scientists sent a letter to the EPA calling on the agency to protect our forests from the growing sucking sound created by biomass power plants. The scientists urged the agency to put ...
  • NY Energy State of Mind: Public authority sele ...
    Wendy Fok, Project Director, Commercial Buildings Efficiency, Center for Market Innovation, New York In a move that demonstrates that tenant demand for energy efficient buildings is stronger than ever, the New York State Energy Research and Developm ...
  • World Renowned Divers Send a Message to Congre ...
    Alexandra Adams, Oceans Advocate, Washington, D.C. When it comes to truly knowing and understanding the ocean, divers have a unique perspective; they experience the ocean's wonders and fragility first-hand.  It is that knowledge that has compel ...
  • Michigan Spreads the Energy Efficiency Go(bble ...
    Ariana Gonzalez, Energy Policy Analyst, Midwest, Chicago Office This holiday, between mouthfuls of turkey and stuffing, don’t be surprised if you hear a Michigander give thanks to the growth of energy efficiency. Governor Rick Snyder&rsqu ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • War Fears Rise After China Missile Tests Over ...
    The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Vityaz early-warning radar system deployed along the entire Russian border has confirmed the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) launching from their Type 092 Xia-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN) of two atomic JL-2 missiles off ...
  • EU Set to Monitor “Intolerant” Citizens
    A frightening proposal currently being considered by the European Parliament would direct governments to monitor citizens deemed “intolerant” and could even lead to a ban on all criticism of Islam and feminism. The European Framework National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance (PDF), which w ...
  • Global nuclear conflict between US, Russia, Ch ...
    A global conflict between the US, Russia, and China is likely in the coming months should the world powers fail to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, an American analyst says. “If the talks fail, if the agreements being pursued are not successfully carried forward and implemented, then there would ...
  • Putin Ends NATO Missile Pact, Warns Military T ...
    A sobering report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the 4 NATO F-16 fighter jets scrambled from Turkey hours ago to harass the Il-20 reconnaissance warplanes flying along Russia’s Black Sea coast on one their routine daily missions was in dire ...
  • China reveals its ability to nuke the US
    State-run media claims the Chinese military has missiles capable of hitting cities all across the U.S. China’s submarine fleet currently is on ‘routine patrol.’ According to Chinese media, this is the first time China has possessed ‘effective underwater nuclear deterrence ...

Daily Dose

  • Microsoft rolls out Xbox Video on the Web
    Microsoft has today launched the Web portal for its Xbox Video service, which provides access for users to stream and download movies and TV shows, just like with its Windows... Keep reading →
  • The Fluxmob Bolt: A tiny wall-charger and back ...
    Whoever figures out a way to extend a smartphone’s battery life beyond that of a typical working day (without recharging) will be a rich person. Until then, the manufacturers behind... Keep reading →
  • Moto G review: The best budget Android smartph ...
    On paper, the Moto G defies all expectations for what an entry-level smartphone should look like. An attractive design, a bright 720p touchscreen and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, all for... Keep reading →
  • Zillow’s Real Estate app lands on Window ...
    The US online real estate and home-finder database Zillow has launched its Zillow Real Estate app for Windows 8 devices. As well as offering users the ability to search, share and save... Keep reading →
  • Bitcoin passes $1,000 mark for the first time, ...
    Bitcoin hit a new milestone today, passing the $1,000 mark for the first time. The virtual currency is currently trading above the four-digit figure, with its highest at $1,030 on... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • What price the carbon price?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, November 21 We all know that the act of 'putting a price on carbon' has contributed to the downfall of three Australian prime ministers and two opposition leaders. What might not be as well known is that carbon pricing has gone relatively unnoticed in ot ...
  • Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
    Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...
  • Cut emissions and save on household bills
    From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...
  • Energy freedom on or off the grid?
    By Ben Courtice. Chain Reaction #119, Nov 2013 It's long been a favoured wish of many environmentalists to go off the grid, to be self-sufficient in energy and other services, and avoid the corporate utilities and their coal-powered electricity. The ambition for freedom from energy bills and f ...
  • Cooking without gas
    A zero carbon future means ditching gas for solar power. By Michael Green. From The Age, November 3, 2013 Together, Australia's houses could produce more electricity than they use, according to think tank Beyond Zero Emissions. And the transition need not take long. The analysis, released rece ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Google Earth reveals fish catch is 6 times gre ...
    Google Earth has once again been used by researchers for scientific discovery.
  • Mangrove ecosystems being obliterated in Myanmar
    Mangrove cover in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta declined by nearly two-thirds between 1978 and 2011, leaving coastal areas more vulnerable to disasters like Cyclone Nargis, which killed 138,000 people in 2008, finds a new published in the journal Global Environmental Change. The research, led by a ...
  • Controversial palm oil project approved in Cam ...
    A controversial palm oil project set in the West African rainforest in Cameroon has won a three-year provisional lease to convert 20,000 hectares of land for plantations. The project, which is run by U.S.-based Herakles Farms, has been heavily opposed by environmental groups who say it will dest ...
  • Camera traps reveal Amur leopards are breeding ...
    Good news today about one of the world's rarest mammals today: camera traps in China's Wangqing Nature Reserve have captured the first proof of breeding Amur leopards in the country, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The photos show a mother Amur leopard with two cubs. A rece ...
  • Not all mangroves are created equal: new map r ...
    Mangrove forests are one of the most important weapons in the fight against climate change. Not only do they directly store huge amounts of carbon, but they actively capture additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequester it in their soils. When mangroves are destroyed, huge quantiti ...

Sierra Express

  • African thought leaders to discuss key challen ...
    GENEVA, Nov 26 Investment, tax, remittances, and aid will all be on the agenda when African thought leaders meet in Geneva to discuss how Africa can raise more and cheaper finance for inclusive and sustainable growth, the Executive Director of the Africa Progress Panel (APP) said on Tuesday. Or ...
  • Road Transport Authority reveals statistics on ...
    Freetown, Nov. 26 (SLENA) – The 2010 global survey by the World Health Organization found that Africa has the most unsafe roads in the world, with a regional death rate of 24.1 road death per 100,000 population, compared to a global rate of 18 deaths per 100,000 population. In that survey, Sierr ...
  • Girl Child education in bad shape in Masiaka town
    Masiaka. Nov. 26 (SLENA) – The Principal of the Sierra Leone Foundation Secondary School in Masiakagirl child education, Port Loko District, Mr. Martin Sesay has said that the country’s girl child education project faces serious challenges in that part of the district. Speaking to SLENA over the ...
  • Women4Africa 2014 Nominations
    Nominations for the 3rd Annual Women4Africa™ Awards, taking place on Saturday the 10th of May 2014 is now open. Check out the categories here http://www.women4africa.com/categories-2/ For Information on how to nominate visit this link http://www.women4africa.com/how-to-nominate/ Women4Africa™ is ...
  • We want to empower young women; not to exploit ...
    AYV Miss University 2013 Organising Committee would like to bring to the attention of the public that all contestants for this year’s program: i)              must be University or college students ii)             must be 18 years or above iii)            must complete an AYV Miss University app ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Chinese complete takeover of Synlait Farms
    Shanghai Pengxin, which bought the Crafar family farms in a controversial deal last year, and the Synlait founders have crossed the 90 per cent compulsory acquisition threshold in their $85.7 million takeover bid for Synlait Farms.SFL...
  • Record exports push down Oct trade deficit
    New Zealand posted its smallest October trade deficit since the mid-1990s as milk powder, butter and cheese shipments drove exports to a record for the month.The trade deficit narrowed to $168 million last month, from $216 million...
  • Aussies to follow Fonterra model
    Australia's largest dairy cooperative Murray Goulburn (MG) looks set to follow Fonterra in adopting a specialised financial instrument to expand its capital base while retaining exclusive farmer ownership and control.MG said in...
  • Two-child China a boon for baby milk
    The loosening of China's one-child policy is expected to provide a boost for New Zealand infant formula exporters, many of whom are still being hit by the residual impact of Fonterra's botulism botch-up.The country's Communist Party...
  • Nutricia: Botulism botch-up may cost jobs
    New Zealand and Australian employees of infant formula manufacturer Nutricia could be the latest victims of Fonterra's botulism botch-up.The Mt Wellington-based company says its overseas markets have been slow to recover from the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Pot Smokers to Denver City Council: Stay Off t ...
    The latest version of Denver's rules for marijuana consumption eliminates the widely derided "smell test," which would have made pot smoking illegal when other people can smell it, even if you do it on your own property. It also omits a ban on mere possession in parks, which Counci ...
  • Julian Assange Probably Safe from the Zealous ...
    Realizing that attempting to throw Julian Assange in prison for leaking classified documents through WikiLeaks would put the federal government inevitably in a collision course with America’s own media, the Department of Justice appears to be pulling back, for now. From The Washing ...
  • Ahistoric, Unscientific Papal Prejudice Is Oka ...
    Pope Francis's Evangelii Gaudium about the "new tyranny" of "unfettered capitalism" might just be the biggest thing to hit the lefty blogosphere since Mitt Romney uttered the instantly immortal, irrelevant phrase "binders full of women." "It's about time," says Daily Kos diarist ...
  • Matthew Feeney on Scrapping the Welfare State ...
    The Swiss are set to vote on whether their country should introduce a basic national income of 2,500 Swiss Francs ($2,800) a month for every adult, regardless of their salary or net worth. Although the particular proposal in Switzerland may not be ideal, that does not mean, Matthew ...
  • White House Still Trying to Spin Obamacare, EU ...
    Realizing the national news media is no longer cooperating with positive coverage about the Obamacare rollout, the Obama Administration is turning to local news media instead. They are also working to coordinate a media strategy with health care groups. They still seem to think ...

Mercury Rising

  • Senkakookky: US launches itself into island di ...
    Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian: US warplanes have directly challenged China’s claims of an expanding territorial air defence zone, flying dramatically and without incident on Monday over a disputed island chain [the Senkakus/Diaoyus]. … Lieutenant Colonel Tom Crosson, a defence department ...
  • Vermont Births Single Payer For All
    One of the lesser-known parts of the Affordable Care Act allows for states to not only set up their own health exchanges, but their own kinds of single payer health care. Vermont is the first state to forge ahead with single payer: Vermont—Home of Ben and Jerry’s, Maple Syrup, Bernie Sanders and ...
  • Honduras election, day 3
    In a discussion with RAJ at Honduras Culture and Politics, I think we have agreed that the results out of Cortes may not be anomalous. Nasralla reportedly did very well there, capturing 6/20 delegates according to La Prensa. The incomplete vote totals, while I haven’t verified them in deta ...
  • Another sham election in Honduras?
    Solid news out of the Honduran election is hard to come by. What is clear is that not many people are going to agree on the result. The National Party has claimed victory, based on a count of half the ballots, closed down last night. Although the level of intimidation, bribery, and outright mani ...
  • Lucha Libre: The Nationalists vs. Libre smack ...
    Via Quotha, Jesse Freeston of The Real News reports on the Honduran election. Things do not look good for democracy.

Reality Sandwich

  • Another Green World: Psychedelics and Ecology
      The following article appears in Manifesting Minds: An Anthology from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, available from Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.  read more
  • The Brothers Guthrie: Pagan Christianity of th ...
    "Inspiration and Aspiration" by Solon Borglum, in the garden of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, commissioned by William Guthrie. The following originally appeared on Newtopia magazine. read more
  • Conversations with Cobra, Chapter One
    Elizabeth:  I’d like to start our conversation with a big overview of the Fukushima situation, largely because so many people here on the west coast have expressed a lot of anxiety about it. There was something in our paper today from one of the columnists about not eating seafood. If you co ...
  • Amanda Charchian
    The following originally appeared on newtopiamagazine. read more
  • Separation
      The following is excerpted from The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, published by North Atlantic Books. read more

Desertification

  • South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and ...
    The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of Fiji representing G77 nations. It took two weeks and 36 st ...
  • New Hope for Haiti’s Decimated Forests
    Small farmers could play an important part in making Haiti – where just two percent of trees are still standing – green again. With a population of 10 million and per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 7.8 billion dollars, Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, has been crippled by ...
  • U.N. Climate Meet: “It’s About Sur ...
    For the small island developing states of the Caribbean, there is nothing more important than the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place here at the national stadium of Poland from Nov. 11-22. “We’re being impacted by climate change right now. We have to fight sea level rise, we a ...
  • OP-ED: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable ...
    Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were: A public works programme financed by deficit financing A new social contract ...
  • World Headed for a High-Speed Carbon Crash
    If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week. “It’s blindingly obvious that our economic system is failing us,” said economist Tim ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • Yemen movement withdraws from NDC
    Yemen's separatist Southern Movement has withdrawn from the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) as talks fail to end a political impasse in the Arab country.
  • KSA repatriation of Yemenis alarms IOM
    The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned of massive repatriation of Yemeni migrant workers from Saudi Arabia as Riyadh steps up its crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the kingdom.
  • 9 killed, 25 injured in Iraq attack
    At least nine people have been killed and 25 others injured after a bomb exploded in the middle of a funeral procession near the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
  • ‘Three other Saudis infected with MERS’
    The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported three new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia.
  • Syria army continues mop-up operations
    The Syrian army has conducted successful mop-up operations in several areas across the Arab country, inflicting heavy losses on foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Cell stiffness signals cancer
    A new way to spot cancerous cells speedily, by looking at their stiffness, has been developed by US scientists. Cancers and a range of other diseases are associated with an abnormal build-up of flui...
  • Bacteria pick up mammoth DNA
    Bacteria can readily pick up and use fragments of DNA they find laying around, including old mammoth genes, scientists have announced. While it's been known for decades that bacteria can acquire gen...
  • Remembering Fred Sanger
    Fred Sanger, the British biochemist who won two Nobel Prizes, died this week on Tuesday 19 November 2013, aged 95.Known as the 'father of genomics', he developed methods which allow ...
  • The Smallest Satellite Ever Launched
    This week a Dnepr rocket launched from Russia broke the record for the most payloads delivered to orbit in a single mission, launching 32 different objects into space. The day before a US rocket deliv...
  • World Toilet Day
    The 19th November was World Toilet Day. Established in 2001, the event seeks to draw attention to global sanitation and health problems associated with a lack of toilets, and break the taboo associate...

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Care2 - Environment

  • Why the Weather Forecast Isnt Always Right Bl ...
    Turns out climate change isnt just changing the seasons, its making it harder for professional weather forecasters to predict the weather. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Radio-Controlled Camera Buggy 'Car-L' Meets A ...
    While almost everyone would love to hug and play with lions, issues arise for most of us like the possibility of winding up as lunch. Thankfully, the Internet allow us all the opportunity to vicariously get up close and personal with these 'Kings of the Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |&n ...
  • RIP Masti, the tiger who remained wild at hear ...
    The wild tiger Masti first came to public attention back in 2002 when he was filmed by tourists who saw him moving around with a trap on his leg in the forests of Nagarahole in Karnataka. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Patient Photography of Steve Winter! VIDEO!
    National Geographic wildlife photographers have often recounted the painful waiting period that comes with getting the perfect shot. Countless hours are spent sitting within the stuffy confines of a blind or perched behind a crop of tall grasses, camera Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |& ...
  • Tiger road trip a move for good
    Auckland and Hamilton zoos male Sumatran tigers Oz and Jaka travel State Highway 1 tomorrow - to swap homes and cities to help further the international breeding programme for this critically endangered big cat. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Stop Electrocution of Tigers ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Four tigers have been killed by electrocution since November 2012; three of them in the forests of the Katni district in India. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Provide Water to Tigers on Reserves in India ! ...
    We ask that the state forest department continue to supply water to tigers on reserves. This will protect the strongest of the tigers from conflicts with humans that may wander off reserves in search of water and put them at risk Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it! ...
  • 9 in 10 British Columbians say it's time to en ...
    Nine First Nations on the BC Coast have banned the trophy hunt for bears in their territories. Will you pledge to respect this law? Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Thank Wisconsin Conservationists for Saving En ...
    Thank Department for safely removing endangered plant from path of new highway Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell the Congress they must support our wetlan ...
    Developers and polluters are trying to reverse long-established protections for our streams and wetlands, endangering all of our communities and threatening the safety of our drinking water. In response, the Obama administration has announced common Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |& ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • How to Safely Store, Thaw, and Roast a Turkey
    How to Safely Store, Thaw, and Roast a Turkey.Filed under: News and politics
  • CONGRATULATIONS to ALL SAILORS!
    ​ This morning the U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs, released the names of the Active Duty, Reserve and FTS Petty Officer Advancement Results of more than 21,000 Sailors selected for advancement as follows: Click here for Active … Continue reading →
  • Understanding the Republican Position
    An Opinion by Patricia L Johnson H. RES.413 which provides for consideration of H.R. 3350 passed the U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon by a vote of 228-189 (Roll No. 584). H.R. 3350 is a bill called “Keep Your Health … Continue reading →
  • CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHN AND KATHY ON BIRTH OF ...
    Baby is in the foreground on the right-hand side of the photo. Have just been advised that I don’t know the difference between right and left, but here’s my argument. The baby is on the left side of the screen, … Continue reading →
  • HAPPY VETERANS DAY TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL VE ...
      OOPS!  Looks like I left off the twins – TIM AND GREG TIM AND GREG HAPPY VETERANS DAY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY!Filed under: News and politics Tagged: 2013, Military, Service to the Country, Tim … Continue reading →

Rogue Government - WP

  • TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
    Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
  • The King of the Freeloaders
    As Karl Marx once quoted Goethe “everything that exists deserves to perish.” And it is exactly that petulant and craven mentality birthed by the king of the freeloaders that conservatives are up against. The “progressive” notion of freedom is freedom from responsibility. ...
  • 2013-2014 NFL Fantasy Team
  • Americans Warned of ‘Revolution from Abo ...
    Anyone that has spent more than five minutes delving into the background of the progressive media’s appointed Messiah — the self-professed Marxist radical community organizer and “regular” attendee of the Jeremiah Wright school of America-hatred — a man so well-vers ...
  • Conservatives Should Not Give Up
    After President Obama came to power, he ran trillion dollar deficits every year, doubled spending, exploded the national debt, downgraded the country’s credit rating, and sought to remove the debt limit, permanently. Unemployment slowly declines because of the record numbers of Americans giving 

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CARICOM Chastises Dominican Republic over Depo ...
    Outraged at a court ruling that would potentially render stateless thousands of Dominican people of Haitian descent, the Caribbean Community on Tuesday suspended the Dominican Republic’s bid to join the 15-member regional grouping. Dominican President Danilo Medina had reportedly promised ...
  • Pros and Cons of Uganda’s New ARV Therapy for ...
    Uganda has gotten plenty of kudos and some criticism over its roll out of the new antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women and their babies, known as Option B +. Recommended by the World Health Organisation in June 2012, Option B+ consists in life-long provision of ARV therapy to pregnant women ...
  • Peru’s New Cybercrime Law Undermines Transpare ...
    A new law against cybercrime that restricts the use of data and freedom of information in Peru clashes with earlier legislation, on transparency, which represented a major stride forward in citizen rights. The advances made in the law on transparency and access to public information have been un ...
  • ‘Business Is Business, Moses Is Moses’
    As civil war paralyses Syria’s transit routes and political flux in Egypt may affect security at the Suez Canal, Israel is busy repositioning itself as a transhipment hub and trade gateway to the Middle East. With the government initiating massive infrastructure reform, Israeli businesses are ho ...
  • Mental Illness Plus Police Often Equals Tragedy
    Just before midnight on Feb. 12, Kayla Xavier Moore’s roommate dialed 911. Moore, 41, a paranoid schizophrenic, was off her prescription meds and highly ...The post Mental Illness Plus Police Often Equals Tragedy appeared first on Inter Press Service.

My AntiWar

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

  • Keiser report: Iran not allowed to trade oil f ...
    In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss WTF in the UK as RBS slaughters SMEs and then robs their still-warm corpses; while over in China, the People's Bank has thrown a whole bunch of STFU at US Treasuries. They discuss the implications of both oil being price ...
  • François Hollande: Always a zionist
    François Hollande was elected president by cultivating ambiguity. Yet it was easy enough to read his previous statements to see full support for the State of Israel. The change he had announced to his constituents has not occurred. On the contrary there has been continuity with his predeces ...
  • Chinese 'rabbit' to hop to the Moon next month ...
    China's first-ever moon lander will be launched early next month. The robotic mission will include a rover, which was named after the Moon Rabbit of Chinese folklore. The landing may compromise NASA's current lunar mission. The lander and the rover are both part of the Chang'e-3 mission, the th ...
  • 'The train leaving for European paradise': New ...
    The belief that today or tomorrow Ukrainians might be rewarded with quick access to the gates of a European paradise is one of the core myths promulgated by the ideologists of Ukrainian statehood. The sudden decision of the Ukrainian government to shelve an association agreement with the EU, ta ...
  • Ten most radioactive places on earth mapped ou ...
    Do you know the dirty side of the nuclear industry? After researching this article by brainz.org, we were shocked to find out how truly awful our radioactive waste problem is and how it is going to be hurting us all, for a long time to come. Please take the time to read the links below, share th ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Paget Brewster and Paul F. Tompkins "Here's To Us"
    If Noel Coward didn't write this, he should have. I think it might be by Eban Scheltter. Paget and Paul are best heard as Frank and Sadie Doyle: The Toast of the Upper Crust and Headliners on the Society Pages…and oh, yes!…………They see ghosts! Also, their capacity for liquor is Beyond B ...
  • Mealy-mouthed, scum-sucking, self-absorbed, eg ...
    “My difficulty with the prime minister at this point, Peter, is that I don’t think he’s been forthcoming and honest on fairly simple questions when there appear to be contradictions," he said. "My instinct is when someone doesn’t answer questions, even simple and fairly innocuous questio ...
  • He knows nothing ...
    Over to Cathie's with you. She picked up on the thought I was having this morning. The late John Banner's character, Hauptfeldwebel Hans Georg Schultz, became synonymous with seeing nothing and knowing nothing in the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. As Cathie points out: We're supposed to believe ...
  • Why Is Peter MacKay's Anti-Cyber-Bullying Bill ...
    ... so goddamned big? Because, it's simply a reworded regurgitation of the repulsive Vic Toews Internet Surveillance Bill. You know, the one that got killed because the public was outraged at the idea of giving the police and government the power to spy on your internet activity. Now they want ...
  • Sublime . . .
    JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME, an unusual human himself, has made a TV ad for Volvo trucks (not affiliated with Volvo cars, btw), part of which you see above. According to Jalopnik, in an article “Jean-Claude Van Damme's Split Between Two Moving Trucks Is No CGI” that's real, no CGI, J-C actually di ...

Media Matters for America

  • How Print And Broadcast Media Are Hiding Obama ...
    After weeks of highlighting negative aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), media outlets have largely underreported the law's success in helping slow the growth of health care costs.Council Of Economic Advisers Reveals Slower Growth In Health Care Cost After Implementation Of The Affordable ...
  • There Are "No Vacancies" On The D.C. Circuit A ...
    In response to Senate Democrats invoking the so-called "nuclear option," right-wing media advanced a number of myths not only about filibuster reform, but about the qualifications of President Obama's nominees who have languished in the confirmation process. What right-wing media have ignored is ...
  • To The Right-Wing Media, It's All An Obamacare ...
    Right-wing media are dismissing President Obama's and Congressional Democrats' work on filibuster reform, a diplomatic agreement with Iran, and immigration reform as merely attempts to distract from the Affordable Care Act.Senate Vote Eliminates Filibusters On Most Presidential Nominee ...
  • Columbus Dispatch Doesn't Understand How Unemp ...
    The Columbus Dispatch claimed that unemployment insurance [UI] benefits create a disincentive to work to attack President Obama's recent call to extend them into 2014. However, multiple economists have found that unemployment benefits are not disincentives to work during economic downturns, and ...
  • Fox News Spent Less Than 5 Minutes Covering Fo ...
    Fox News spent under five minutes covering the controversy between Republican Wyoming Senate candidate and former Fox News contributor Liz Cheney and her openly gay sister Mary Cheney over Liz's opposition to marriage equality - significantly less than CNN and MSNBC, who both devo ...

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

  • China Oil Pipeline Explodes, Killing 35, Injur ...
    On Friday morning, November 22, an underground oil pipeline running through the Chinese port city of Qingdao began leaking, prompting its shutdown. Initial reports state that the underground pipeline exploded shortly after the shut down — killing at least 35 people and injuring another 166 ...
  • Nissan Leaf Is 4th-Best-Selling Car In Norway ...
    Originally published on Gas2. By Christopher DeMorro. It seems as though Norway as cracked the secret to encouraging high electric car sales, and that secret is to tax the hell out of anything powered by fossil fuels. While the Tesla Model S topped Norway’s sales charts in September, the Nissan ...
  • Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fu ...
    There are many reasons to reject fossil fuels now, after 200 years of their reign as society’s primary energy sources. History will articulate both the benefits provided to human society derived from fossil fuel energy technologies from 1750 to the present — and the extensive costs. In add ...
  • Sea Level Likely To Rise One Meter By 2100, Th ...
    If greenhouse gas emissions remain at current levels, global sea-level rise will by 70 to 120 centimeters by 2100, according to the results of a new survey of 90 of the world’s most active ocean and climate scientists. The survey was conducted by researchers from the United States and Germ ...
  • New ‘Extreme’ Form of Bacteria Found In NASA, ...
    A completely new bacterial life form that appears to inhabit only space agency ‘clean rooms’ has been classified after more than three years of investigation and analysis. Microbial lifeforms that can survive and even thrive in extreme environments — known as extremophiles &#82 ...

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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

  • New Zealand Court Denies Pacific Man's Request ...
    (Reuters) A Pacific Island man's bid to become a climate change refugee suffered a blow on Tuesday after a New Zealand court refused to let him challenge a decision denying him asylum. Ioane Teitiota, 37, had said he was trying to esc ...
  • What's in It for U.S. to Cut Greenhouse Gas Em ...
    (NPR) The United Nations negotiations in Warsaw over a climate treaty are moving at a glacial speed − and that's in part because there's a fundamental problem. In the coming decades, carbon dioxide emissions from China, India and othe ...
  • Fracking Boom Evades Wastewater Recycling Inve ...
    (Bloomberg) After two years searching for a blockbuster investment in oilfield water management, fund manager Judson Hill is still holding on to his money. Hill's NGP Energy Capital Management saw potential in what looked like a hot g ...
  • China to Launch Two New Carbon Trading Exchang ...
    (Reuters) China will launch two new pilot carbon trading schemes this week in Beijing and Shanghai as it strives to cut soaring rates of greenhouse gas, reduce choking smog and determine the best system for a nationwide roll-out. Chin ...
  • Philippines Government to Limit Coastal Rebuil ...
    (Quartz) Philippines President Benigno Aquino will restrict construction on some of the country's coastline after Typhoon Haiyan destroyed half a million homes and killed thousands, a move that could dramatically improve the country's ...

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

  • The Problem Is That People Disagree
    If you assume, as Alex Pareene does (and I think he is justified), that the Republicans would have eliminated the filibuster for judicial nominees even if the Democrats didn't do it, then there really was little to no reason for the Democrats to show restraint. However, that doesn't mean that t ...
  • Casual Observation
    Of course, I am not certain, but I suspect that Bill Donahue is a less than effective advocate for the Catholic Church. He just seems to have a knack for making sure that everyone knows about every harsh criticism people make about the church, even when those criticisms are pretty much universa ...
  • Serious Questions
    The Washington Redskins need a new name. Got any ideas? Discuss
  • A Dangerous Schism
    I guess Jeffrey Goldberg created some problems for himself when he made himself the arbiter of who can and who cannot remain "inside the Jewish tent." Probably, he is guilty of little more than seeing red when he read a Tweet by President Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski t ...
  • How's That Nihilism Thing Working Out?
    Let's stipulate that Republican strategist and pundit John Feehery is engaging in a bit of hyperbole and alarmism here; I still think he makes an important point that the business community would be wise to heed. If Sen. Harry Reids rule change on filibusters did anything, it sent a message ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    A bit of a mixed bag this week, but we're excited as it's the first one of the year to feature something holiday-themed. Sorry... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fathomless Mysteries of the Deepest Lake o ...
    Lake Baikal in Siberia is unique is so many ways - many are drawn to its natural wonders while others are intrigued by its many mysteries. 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
    There's plenty to keep you interested in this week's pick of links. Check out clean-shaven cartoon characters, awesome abandoned churches, cats with jobs and much more. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Elephants Never Forget: The Touching Legacy of ...
    The elephants of India's Cheetal Walk are surprisingly calm around humans, and it's all down to the lasting legacy of conservationist Mark Davidar. 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
    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

Mountaintop Removal

  • On Sustainable Energy, Ban Relies on Bank of A ...
    On Sustainable Energy, Ban Relies on Bank of America, Coal & Ads at UN Inner City Press There will be another bank in the mix: Bank of America, implicated not only in the predatory lending meltdown of 2008 but also in funding mountain top removal coal mining. Ban put Bank of America chairman ...
  • Coal company asks for review of EPA decision - ...
    Coal company asks for review of EPA decision Mount Airy News The case made headlines on April 23 when the D.C. Circuit ruled the EPA could withdraw terms of a Clean Water Act permit already granted to the company by the Army Corps of Engineers for its work on a mountaintop removal mine in Logan ...
  • Destructive Mining Practice Worsens Depression ...
    Destructive Mining Practice Worsens Depression in Appalachia Psychiatric News Characterized by the use of explosives and heavy machinery, mountaintop-removal mining (MTR) is an above-ground form of coal mining common in Central Appalachia. “Mountains are literally blown up and leveled, leaving p ...
  • Climate change worries - Parksville Qualicum B ...
    Climate change worries Parksville Qualicum Beach News Scientists began by working quietly studying ice cores in The Arctic; mountain-top removal in the coal fields of Appalachia, U.S.; acidification of the oceans; then announcing their results to the public. When they saw their message was not g ...
  • Reverend Billy Faces Year in Prison for Protes ...
    Reverend Billy Faces Year in Prison for Protesting JPMorgan Chase's Financing ... Democracy Now Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase had the most exposure to coal among the U.S. banks in 2012, financing $3 billion, $2.75 billion, and $2.17 billion respectively in loan and underwrit ...

Memeorandum

  • CNN/ORC Poll: Are Obamacare's flaws fixable? (CNN)
    CNN: CNN/ORC Poll: Are Obamacare's flaws fixable?  —  Washington (CNN) - Despite the flawed rollout of HealthCare.gov, a majority of Americans still seem to have an open mind about whether Obamacare will work, and more than half of those surveyed in a new national poll believe t ...
  • Release Detail - November 27, 2013 - Obama Hit ...
    Quinnipiac News + Events: Release Detail  —  November 27, 2013 - Obama Hits Historic Low In Ohio, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Clinton Tops Kasich, Ties Christie In 2016 Race  —  President Barack Obama's job approval rating among Ohio voters is a negative 34 ...
  • Much Ado About Bitcoin (Adrian Chen/New York T ...
    Adrian Chen / New York Times: Much Ado About Bitcoin  —  FOR the obsessive followers of the volatile virtual currency bitcoin, the price of a single bitcoin at the time their fixation began holds undue significance.  I know one bitcoin cost around $9 when I first stumbled o ...
  • GETAWAY-DAY EDITION - PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN GU ...
    Mike Allen / Politico: GETAWAY-DAY EDITION — PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN GURUS TO PUSH FOR BIG DEBATE CHANGES based on rise of social media and early voting — DE BLASIO ALREADY AFFECTING NYC  —  EXCLUSIVE: Top officials from past presidential campaigns have quietly formed ...
  • MAP: Incumbent Republicans Face Almost All Of ...
    Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo: MAP: Incumbent Republicans Face Almost All Of The Primary Challenges  —  Though much has been made about Democrats' positioning on Obamacare as 2014 approaches, it may be Republicans that face more hurdles in the early parts of the campaign. ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Tuesday, November 26, 2013 08:11:25 UTC Monday, November 25, 2013 10:11:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 41.50 km (25.79 mi)
  • M 6.6, South Atlantic Ocean
    Monday, November 25, 2013 06:27:08 UTC Monday, November 25, 2013 02:27:08 AM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
  • M 6.4, Fiji region
    Saturday, November 23, 2013 07:48:32 UTC Saturday, November 23, 2013 07:48:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 387.60 km (240.84 mi)
  • M 7.8, Scotia Sea
    Sunday, November 17, 2013 09:04:57 UTC Sunday, November 17, 2013 06:04:57 AM at epicenterDepth: 42.00 km (26.10 mi)
  • M 7.4, Scotia Sea
    Saturday, November 16, 2013 03:34:31 UTC Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:34:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 23.00 km (14.29 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Will comet ISON survive its near brush with th ...
    This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, captured on April 10, 2013 shows Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) at a distance of 386 million miles from the SunUS astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart.Comets ar ...
  • For poor, America is 'land of less' this Thank ...
    Two turkeys, one named Caramel and the other Popcorn and which are vying to be the National Thanksgiving Turkey, are presented to the press in Washington, DC on November 26, 2013The United States celebrates its "land of plenty" Thanksgiving Day this week, but for the poor and most vulnerable, ...
  • Germany's Merkel agrees coalition with Social ...
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the headquarters of the social democratic SPD party for coalition talks between her conservative CDU/CSU union and the SPD in Berlin on November 26, 2013 in BerlinGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday agreed to form a coalition government with cam ...
  • Malaysia family believes UK 'slave' is long-lo ...
    Police stand guard outside a block of residential flats as house to house enquiries are carried out in the area of South London on November 23, 2013 concerning the recent discovery of three women held captive for 30 yearsA Malaysian family believes a long-lost relative is one of three women al ...
  • World's most expensive printed book sells for ...
    The translation of the Biblical psalms, "The Bay Psalm Book", is seen at Sotheby's in New York on November 26, 2013The first book written in what is today the United States of America fetched $14.2 million in New York, becoming the world's most expensive printed book sold at auction.The transl ...

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Grist - News

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

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Natural Health News andBill Gates’ Polio Vacci ...
    by Christina England In the depths of cyberspace lurks a press release written by the CDC, confirming that the OPV, or oral polio vaccination, given to millions of children throughout the developing world, is causing them to develop vaccine-induced polio. Instead of banning the vaccination, as o ...
  • Study Proves Vaccines — Not ‘Vaccine Ref ...
    Behind Whooping Cough Outbreaks Melissa Melton A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the whooping cough vaccines that have been in use since the 1990s — and not kids whose parents refuse the whooping cough vaccine — are actually behind the surge in w ...
  • Sherrie Questioning All: Judge’s ruling ...
    By Sherrie People need to understand the only reason we have the story of Sandy Hook is because the media and government told us it happened. Yet there has not been one shred of evidence or real proof any children were murdered that day. The fact is there is more evidence that it did not […]
  • Jim Garrison Response – Kennedy Assassin ...
    Jim Garrison Response – Kennedy Assassination – YouTube.
  • Smoking Mirrors | Welcome to the Age of I Don& ...
    By Les Visible One further comment on my journey. As I was leaving at the airport, I stopped in a couple of places to purchase a book and also to turn in my currency. At both places they asked for my boarding pass and I wasn’t even through security yet. They ran it under a […]

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

  • Back to the future in New America: our new cla ...
    Summary: One of the news media’s master narratives is that the dark evolution of America just happens, much like the myth of the “invisible hand”. Inevitable. Resistance is futile. All is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds. In fact most of the drivers of risi ...
  • A slow-learning America cannot be a free America
    Summary: Sometimes you find an insight that changes the way you see the world. Our ruling elites made such a discovery sometime after WW2, that they’ve used since — slowly probing its limits, which they have not yet found. I found it, and and as a result see the news differently. Tod ...
  • Must our population always grow to ensure pros ...
    Summary: Economists are often criticized for excessive focus on monetary measures for a nation’s prosperity, and too narrow and backwards-looking vision of trends in society. Today we look at example of both: recommendations that Japan increase immigration. These matters affect not just Ja ...
  • Swear allegiance to the truth as a step to ref ...
    Summary:  Today we look at a characteristic of the people of New America, one that pushes us away from the America-that-once-was: our increasingly tribal view of the world, each with its own lies and contempt for those who disagree (especially experts). It keeps us easy to rule, and makes imposs ...
  • Understanding the new world shown us by Larry ...
    Summary: A weakness of my posts is that they don’t adequately convey the wonders of our time, the extraordinary events, the uncertainty of future outcomes.  Today I attempt to show the amazing nature of our new economy, as highlighted in last weeks’ speech by Larry Summers. We have e ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Drone War Testimonials
    The Rehmans: Nabila, Rafiq, and Zubair. Two beams of light came down from the drone lingering over the field where they had been gathering okra and hit Nabila’s grandmother, Mamana Bibi. The earth shuddered. Nabila fell; terrified, she stumbled into a run.  Blood was gushing from her arm. She ...
  • No, the Iran Agreement Didn’t Sell Out Human R ...
    CREDIT: Flickr user Nima Fatemi One of the criticisms of the deal recently struck in Geneva between Iran and the P5+1 is that, by not addressing the issue of internal oppression in Iran, it basically sells out Iranian human rights activists. The Washington Post’s Charles Lane brings up Ne ...
  • Neocons Fail Negotiation 101 Yet Again
    If you want to know how the neoconservatives who brought us the Iraq War are reacting to the interim deal to freeze Iran's nuclear program, the best way is to head over to the website of the Weekly Standard, where you can witness their wailing chagrin that the Obama administration doesn't share ...
  • China Looks West
    This article originally appeared on Real Clear World With the United States bogged down by economic troubles at home, wriggling to organize its departure from Afghanistan and grappling with a variety of crises in the Middle East, it comes as no surprise that China is using the opportunity to in ...
  • Top of the Morning: ICC Makes Big Ruling on Ke ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest ICC Rules that Kenyatta Must Sit Through His Whole Trial Kenya’s President now must attend his trial. The International Criminal Court has reversed a ruling that required Kenya’s president to attend only parts of his trial for crimes against humanity. The Hagu ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Affordable Care Act v. Supreme Court, Round 2
    AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases questioning the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate: Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius and Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. These rulings could have potentially major implications for ...
  • Daily Meme: The Turkey Has Landed
    The White House is expecting a very important guest tomorrow. Said guest is adored by the children of the nation, loves Beyoncé,  is obsessive about exercise, and a total ham in front of the press. He also tastes delicious with cranberry sauce. Yes, we're talking about the national turkey. The ...
  • The Contraception Mandate Cases Aren’t Really ...
    Earlier today, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear not one, but two challenges to the Obama administration’s contraception mandate; they’ll be heard together in an action-packed hour of oral arguments sometime in the spring. Both cases deal with conservatives’ ever-growing penchant f ...
  • Are the Obamacare Clouds Breaking?
    This morning, I was listening to NPR—because yeah, I'm an effete pointy-headed liberal and that's how I roll—and I heard a story about people in California who got insurance cancellation notices, but then wound up getting better coverage and couldn't be happier about it. And the other day there ...
  • Neocons Fail Negotiation 101 Yet Again
    If you want to know how the neoconservatives who brought us the Iraq War are reacting to the interim deal to freeze Iran's nuclear program, the best way is to head over to the website of the Weekly Standard, where you can witness their wailing chagrin that the Obama administration doesn't share ...

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

  • Craig Cobb: Will Leave North Dakota if Charges ...
    Craig Cobb, the mixed-race white supremacist jailed and charged earlier this month with terrorizing the tiny North Dakota town that he hoped to turn into a little Aryan settlement on the prairie, now wants to play “let’s make a deal” with government officials. In exchange for dropping criminal c ...
  • Three More Defendants in Aryan Brotherhood of ...
    CNN Federal prosecutors now have guilty pleas from fully half the 36 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) who were indicted last year for committing multiple acts of murder, robbery, arson, kidnapping and narcotics trafficking. To date, 18 of the defendants have entered guilty pleas, ...
  • Man Who Claims Ties to ‘Christian American Pat ...
    The U.S. Secret Service is aware of a man with ties to a group called the Christian American Patriots Militia who is the apparent author of a Facebook post that says the antigovernment group has the “authority” to assassinate President Obama. “We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill ...
  • San Jose State Suspends Three White Students f ...
    The San Jose State University campus was rocked this week by allegations that three white freshmen students harassed and bullied their African-American freshman roommate. The white students have been suspended and charged with battery and a hate crime. The black student was living in an eight-un ...
  • Joseph Franklin, Prolific Racist Serial Killer ...
    Editor’s Note: This is an updated version of a story posted yesterday, reflecting the fact that Joseph Paul Franklin was executed early this morning. BONNE TERRE, Mo. – The one-time poster boy for modern-day American terrorists was executed here early this morning after 33 years behind bars. Jos ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Walmart Gathering ‘Big Data’ That Can Be Used ...
    Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, is also becoming a leading collector of “Big Data” that can be used to invade the privacy of a majority of Americans and facilitate undetected discrimination, a new report finds today. “Consumers, Big Data and Online Tracking in the R ...
  • NEW REPORT BY GROUP COALITION: Walmart Gatheri ...
    “Our ability to pull data together is unmatched.” - Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon, September 2013 “We want to know what every product in the world is. We want to know who every person in the world is.” - Walmart CEO of Global E-Commerce Neil Ashe, May 2013read more
  • Video and Guide to Busting Common Excuses for ...
    Last night, the New York Times published the 5-minute Op-Doc “Why Care About the N.S.A.,” featuring Senator Ron Wyden and “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, written and directed by Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists). The short ...
  • Video and Guide to Busting Common Excuses for ...
    Last night, the New York Times published the 5-minute Op-Doc “Why Care About the N.S.A.,” featuring Senator Ron Wyden and “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, written and directed by Brian Knappenberger (We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists). The short ...
  • Supreme Court Accepts Challenge to Contracepti ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a challenge from an Oklahoma-based craft supply chain and a Pennsylvania furniture-making company to a federal law that requires employers to provide coverage for contraception in their employee health plans.read more

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Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Severe storms threaten Thanksgiving travel pla ...
    • Storm warnings in seven states on US's busiest travel day • Travel conditions are expected to worsen through the day  • No reports of widespread cancellations but delays expectedAdam Gabbatt
  • Glenn Mulcaire was paid £13,500 to research Bu ...
    News of the World private investigator researched Jon Venables and Robert Thompson on the year of their release from prisonThe News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire was paid at least £13,500 to research the two schoolboy murderers of James Bulger the year they were to be released ...
  • Alistair Darling accuses Salmond of 'back of e ...
    Former chancellor criticises Scottish government over debt burden and oil forecasts if independence achieved by 2016Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor, has accused Alex Salmond of publishing "highly misleading, back of an envelope" figures on Scottish independence, in a scathing atta ...
  • Bedroom tax: stress and struggle as benefits c ...
    Claimants explain how the policy has forced changes, from heating cutbacks to fruitless hunts for smaller homesSince the introduction of the bedroom tax in April, David Scriven has stopped using the central heating in his home, as a way of keeping down costs. His 17-year-old son comes downstairs ...
  • Silvio Berlusconi ousted from Italian parliame ...
    Senate votes to strip former prime minister of seat despite his claims that new evidence will exonerate him • Ups and downs of Berlusconi's career – timelineSilvio Berlusconi suffered arguably the heaviest blow of his political career on Wednesday when the upper house of parliament voted to ous ...

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

  • Six French Aid Workers Dead in Afghan Attack
    Police in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab said Wednesday that the attackers targeted local workers for a French aid group known as ACTED. Officials said the gunmen stopped the workers' car and gunned them down. Of seven passengers in the car, only one survived. Talib ...
  • Officials 6 Afghan aid workers...
    KABUL , Afghanistan (AP) -- Officials say six Afghans working for a French-based aid organization have been killed by gunmen in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab.Faryab Gov. Mohammadullha Batash said the Afghans killed Wednesday worked for ACTED, a non-governmental organization acti ...
  • Marine convicted of Afghan murder appeals to p ...
    Lawyers for a Royal Marine convicted of murdering an injured Afghan prisoner will tell appeal court judges that he and his family could face possible revenge attacks if he is named.The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas, and two other judges will be asked on Wednesday to allow the man, so far ident ...
  • Taliban kill six literacy workers in Afghanist ...
    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants gunned down and killed six people in Afghanistan working on a government-backed literacy project in the northern province of Faryab, officials said on ...
  • Afghan gunmen kill six local staff of French a ...
    ACTED in a volatile region in northern Afghanistan, the group said. The men were dragged from their car in the Pashtun Kot district of Faryab province, which borders Turkmenistan, before being gunned down, the provincial police chief Nabi Jan Mullahkhail told AFP. "They were travelling in a ...

Futurismic

  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Dean Zerbe Gives Guidance for IRS Whistleblowe ...
    Today on Forbes.com, Dean Zerbe, the National Whistleblower Center’s Senior Policy Analyst, explains the potential issues that may be slowing or sidetracking submissions at the IRS Whistleblower Office. He also gives detailed insight into issues that may cause delay that whistleblower ...
  • Pennsylvania Moves Toward Adopting FCA
    Pennsylvania reportedly remains the largest state in the country without a state-level false claims statute. Two state legislators hope to change that. In early June, State Representatives, Brandon Neuman and Tony DeLuca introduced House Bill 1493, a state version of the federal False Claims Ac ...
  • Health Care Exchanges Not Covered Under False ...
    Today Senator Chuck Grassley questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the Obama Administration’s position that qualified health plans and other programs related to the federally facilitated marketplace and other programs under the Affordable Care Act are n ...
  • Most European Whistleblowers Have No Protection
    On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Transparency International released a report finding that the vast majority of EU member states have either partial or no laws to protect whistleblowers. Two weeks ago, on October 23, the European Commission rejected a request to introduce EU whistleblower protecti ...
  • 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 ( ...

TechDirt

  • Judge Halts Sentencing After Feds Admit They F ...
    We've been following the crazy story of the Solicitor General of the US, Donald Verrilli, making blatantly false statements to the Supreme Court concerning how the feds would have to reveal to defendants that some of the evidence used against them came from secretive NSA data collection methods. ...
  • Resistance Grows To Inclusion Of Corporate Sov ...
    Remember CETA, the Canada-EU trade agreement, officially known as "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement"? You could be forgiven for losing track of where things were with the negotiations, which have been dragging on since 2009, but a kind of milestone was passed recently: Commission Pres ...
  • Suitcase-Sized Drones Extend And Deepen OpenSt ...
    An increasing number of online services use location information. This places suppliers like Google, with its Google Maps, in a strong position, since creating such geodata for entire countries -- or the world -- is something that can only be undertaken by large, well-funded companies. At least ...
  • DailyDirt: Will Renewable Energy Be Enough To ...
    According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists are 95% certain that human activities have been responsible for most of the climate change observed on the planet since the 1950s. Apparently, we've already burned 54% of the 1 trillion tons of carbon t ...
  • Public Citizen Suing On Behalf Of Customers Wh ...
    KlearGear's decision to charge a customer $3,500 for writing a negative review has finally paid off for the company. Whoever was in charge of inserting a non-disparagement clause into the site's Terms of Sale back in June of 2012 set in motion the worst of all possible scenarios. KlearGear's ...

VacTruth

  • Bill Gates’ Polio Vaccine Program Eradic ...
    In the depths of cyberspace lurks a press release written by the CDC, confirming that the OPV, or oral polio vaccination, given to millions of children throughout the developing world, is causing them to develop vaccine-induced polio.
  • Deadly 5-in-1 Vaccine Kills At Least Eight Infants
    A press release stated that between September and October 2013, eight infants had died and many more had been seriously injured after they had received the pentavalent (5-in-1) vaccination.
  • Doctor Offers Vaccines to Starving Children
    A doctor from the Children's Hospital in Colorado is working on a bold new initiative to improve the lives of children in Guatemala who struggle with poverty and hunger each day. Unfortunately, his ambitions do not include plans to provide clean water or education.
  • Dangerous Contamination in Vaccines Causes Sin ...
    Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, is currently facing serious troubles, as countries around the world are scrutinizing Sanofi’s products and practices. Recently, they have reported a massive third quarter decline of $1.8 billion in vaccine sales. This news ...
  • Ignorant Nurse Calls Parent “Loser” for Not Va ...
    A mother who made a recent trip to the emergency room at Palmetto Health Children's Hospital was left a nasty note from a nurse calling her a "loser."

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

  • Bitcoin Tops $1000
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBitcoin Tops $1000 Zero Hedge November 27, 2013 Well that escalated quickly. Having broken above $900 yesterday to new record highs (and a 100% gain in a week), the crypto currency is not looking back now. On what is highe ...
  • Is Xbox Kinect Listening to Your Skype Calls?
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIs Xbox Kinect Listening to Your Skype Calls? Gamers complain of Microsoft snooping on private chats to detect swearing Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com November 27, 2013 Users of the new Xbox One are complaining that ...
  • An Independent Scotland Would Be Rich
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAn Independent Scotland Would Be Rich aangirfan.blogspot.com Office of National Statistics, 2013. Published in the Glasgow Herald 27 November 2013. If Scotland becomes independent its citizens will be richer than those in ...
  • New Progressive Era – or Dead Cat Bounce?
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNew Progressive EraCheck out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
  • Migrant firewall? Cameron targets welfare bene ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMigrant firewall? Cameron targets welfare benefits for EU migrants RT.com Under the proposed measures introduced late on Tuesday, new migrants would not be eligible for unemployment benefits during their first three months ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance b ...
    by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad The Web of Debt Blog November 26, 2013 “Control oil and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. “Control food and you control the people.” Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reduci ...
  • 10 More Years in Afghanistan by David Swanson
    by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad warisacrime.org November 26, 2013 When Barack Obama became president, there were 32,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He escalated to over 100,000 troops, plus contractors. Now there are 47,000 troops these five years later. Measured in financial cost, or d ...
  • Ralph Nader: Does the President Matter? (2012)
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Ric Fouad on Nov 22, 2013 Ralph Nader, Keynote Address, Hannah Arendt Center 2012 Fall Conference: “Does The President Matter? A Conference On The American Age of Political Disrepair.” [September 21-22, 2012] [Nader begins at 12 minutes into the video ...
  • U.S. Officials Hint at Reservations on Final N ...
    by Gareth Porter Writer, Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Washington November 25, 2013 The “first step” agreement between Iran and the United States that was sealed in Geneva over the weekend is supposed to lead to the negotiation of a “comprehensive settlement” of the nuclear issue over the n ...
  • Dave Eggers’ The Circle, reviewed by Roc ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Writer, Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) November 24, 2013 This is actually article number 3 that I have written on the dangers of technology. Dave Eggers has thrown the gauntlet down on this subject with his new book entitled The Circle ...

Your New Reality

  • Why David Cronenberg Is Wrong About Stanley Ku ...
    By Darryl Mason Director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) says Stanley Kubrick "didn't understand horror" when he adapted Stephen King's The Shining. "I think I'm a more intimate and personal film-maker than Kubrick ever was," Cronenberg told the Toronto Star. "That's why I find The Shin ...
  • 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 ...
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