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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Scientists See Increased Asteroid Threat
    Asteroid strikes like the one that occurred over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February are much more likely to happen than previously thought, scientists said in a report published in the scientific journal Nature.     
  • Olympic Torch Blasts Into Space Ahead of Games
    A rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off Thursday from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.     
  • Olympic Torch Blasts Into Space Ahead of Games
    A rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off Thursday from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.     
  • New Space Station Crew to Launch Japanese Sate ...
    The crew of a new expedition to the International Space Station said Wednesday they are planning to launch a small Japanese satellite, receive two cargo spacecraft and spacewalk with an Olympic torch during their six-month mission.     
  • US Aquarium Fights for Russian Beluga Whales i ...
    A US aquarium denied permission to import 18 Russian Beluga whales has launched a legal battle to overturn the decision by US federal authorities, an environmental policy website reported this week.     

Natural Health News

  • Eat Your Broccoli
    By Dr. Mercola Vegetables have an impressive way of offering widespread benefits to your health, and broccoli is no exception. When you eat broccoli you’re getting dozens, maybe even hundreds, of super-nutrients that support optimal, body-wide health. Man-made substances just can&r ...
  • The Age of Antibiotics is Coming to an End, as ...
    Visit the Mercola Video Library By Dr. Mercola Believing an antibiotic will cure your illness is taken for granted by most people nowadays, but that is rapidly changing. According to the experts, the age of antibiotic drugs is coming to an end. And the implications are dire. Th ...
  • Two Exciting Alzheimer’s Advances: A Novel Ear ...
    By Dr. Mercola At present, some 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association's 2011 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures.1 By 2050, this is expected to jump to 16 million, and in the next 20 years it is projected that Alzheimer's will affe ...
  • 8 Stress-Busting Tips from Experts
    By Dr. Mercola Every year the American Psychological Association (APA) conducts a survey on the impact of stress in America – and as you may suspect, it’s substantial. The latest survey found that many Americans are still reporting extreme stress levels (8, 9 or 10 on a 10- ...
  • Crouching Garnish, Hidden SuperFood: The Secre ...
    By Sayer Ji Few foods commonly available at the produce stand are as beneficial to your health as kale. And yet, sadly, it is more commonly found dressing up something not as healthy in a display case as a decoration than on someone's plate where it belongs. Kale is actually a form of cabb ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: November 2-8, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we brought you a healthy diet of treaties, chemical weapons, drones, and a sprinkle of terrorism. Duncan rounded up various treaty related news items this week, and argued that US treaty practice does not have to be a zero-sum game. Pete ...
  • Opinio Juris Podcast on Arguments in Bond v. U ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Peggy, Julian, Duncan and I took a stab at a podcast discussion of Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments in Bond v. United States.     You can now find an audio of the argument itself here. Mentioned in the course of the discussion are related posts by ...
  • The Misleading Human Rights Watch and Amnesty ...
    by Michael W. Lewis [Michael W. Lewis is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University. He is a former Navy aviator and Topgun graduate.] Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released reports last week criticizing the use of drones in Yemen and Pakistan.  Both reports have significant ...
  • Guest Post: Self-Executing Treaties, Criminal ...
    by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He and Professor Sarah H. Cleveland filed an amicus brief in Bond v. United States arguing that the Offenses Clause provid ...
  • A Friendly Request for Paul Clement, the Solic ...
    by Duncan Hollis Lots of commentary today here and elsewhere on yesterday's oral arguments in Bond v. United States, with vote-counters quick to predict the Court will retreat from Missouri v. Holland and the question is only how much.  I have views on the merits, but, frankly I'm having troub ...

Public News Service

  • Smallest Hike for Social Security Recipients S ...
    Smallest Hike for Social Security Recipients Since 1975 PHOENIX – For Arizona's Social Security recipients, it is the smallest benefit increase in decades, but it could be worse. The federal government has announced a benefit increase for next year of 1.5 percent. National AARP Presiden ...
  • Court Temporarily Halts Horse Slaughterhouses ...
    Court Temporarily Halts Horse Slaughterhouses in Neighboring NM, MO PHOENIX, Ariz. - Valley Meat Company, Roswell, N.M., cannot begin its horse slaughterhouse business, at least for now. A federal appeals court issued a temporary injunction after the Humane Society of the United States appealed ...
  • AZ Food Banks Brace for Holiday Rush
    AZ Food Banks Brace for Holiday Rush PHOENIX - One in five Arizona families lives in poverty and struggles to put food on the table. It's a situation that becomes all the more difficult during the holidays, but Arizona's food banks are working hard this month to ensure that thousands of families ...
  • Jewell: It's Possible to Balance Energy, Conse ...
    Jewell: It's Possible to Balance Energy, Conservation on Public Land PHOENIX - There's room for energy development on public lands, but more care has to be taken to do it responsibly, and other uses should have equal priority. That's the message from Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in a speech t ...
  • Report: First 8 Years Are Critical To Children ...
    Report: First 8 Years Are Critical To Children's Success PHOENIX - Nearly two-thirds of America's children are having a tough time achieving necessary skills by the time they are in third grade. And a new study from the Annie E. Casey Foundation concludes it's twice as hard for kids from low-inc ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Syria Coverage
    Published: 09 November 2013 More than 100,000 people are estimated to have died already in the Syrian Civil War with no end in sight. Myriad outsiders have become involved with foreign fighters from around the world, including from the United States and Europe. More recently, President Obama t ...
  • Bayonet 95
    The 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Commander, Col. Harry D. Tunnell IV, prepares for an aerial reconnaissance mission in an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter over the Kandahar region of Afghanistan, Jan. 16. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Shannon Wright, 82nd Airborne CAB.) 03 ...
  • An Army Ranger Gives an on Ground Account of t ...
    DOD Oct 25, 2013 5:45 am - by Stephen Trujillo Edited by Jacob Siegel Stephen Trujillo was a combat medic with the 2d Ranger Battalion during the invasion of Grenada. Here is his first hand account of key moments in the war. Stephen Trujillo was a combat medic with the 2d Ranger Battalion d ...
  • The Trial That Won’t Go Away
    23 October 2013 Written by: Barbara Lawrence Television dramas make trials look deceptively short, succinct, and neatly wrapped in a one hour package with ample time to raid the refrigerator.  They are not. I decided to observe the trial of MSgt CJ Grisham myself. What follows are my rec ...
  • Warning to Judge and Jurors in Grisham Trial
    20 October 2013 Mouse mutilated and published by US soldier on trial: CJ Grisham This week, the trial of CJ Grisham ended in a hung jury.  A source in the courtroom told me that the jury was 5:1 in favor of conviction. A retrial has been set for 18 November 2013. The judge and jury are ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Nina Simone – “Mississippi Goddam” The Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick this week is a real treat. Once again it features the incredible Nina Simone. The song is Mississippi Goddam and was Nina’s response to murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama ...
  • The Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy
    Welcome to the Most Completely INSANE Point in Human History: The All-or-Nothing Early on Thursday, 7 November 2013, Greek riot police stormed the offices of Greece’s main public broadcaster, which had been under a five-month occupation by workers who opposed the government’s decision to shutdow ...
  • A License to Kill in the Constitution-Free Zone
    Trigger-Happy Border Patrol Agents & Their Underage Victims Last week, in my hometown of Laredo, Texas — a city resting on the US-Mexico Border — US Border Patrol agents shot and nearly killed a 20-year-old Mexican national, yet another case of the agency’s highly questionable use-of-force p ...
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  • Let’s Not Repeat the Barack Fuckup with Hillary
    Did You Know: George Soros Is Delighted to Join More Than One Million Americans in Supporting Ready for Hillary Not that it really matters who the Democrats nominate for the presidency in 2016. Whoever that politically regressive and morally bankrupt party chooses will be at best an uninspired a ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Shin Bet Arrests Palestinian Journalist Return ...
    Israel’s security services arrested Palestinian journalist, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, after he returned from a reporting trip to Egypt two days ago.  Abu Khdeir, who reports for the Palestinian Al Quds and the Kuwaiti Al-Rai, was arrested at Ben Gurion airport when he arrived on a flight from E ...
  • Swiss Scientists Confirm Arafat Murdered by Po ...
    Yesterday, the PA and scientists who studied the skeletal remains of Yasser Arafat confirmed (full scientific report here) that he was assassinated, poisoned with the highest dose of polonium ever recorded in a human being.  The level was either 18 or 36 times the normal level (depending on how ...
  • Israel and Exile: a Nation in Need of a Foundi ...
    Exile – A Myth Unearthed by Ilan Ziv, National Film Board of Canada Ilan Ziv’s remarkable film, Exile, a Myth Unearthed is now being screened around the world. You may recall that this was the film the BBC commissioned and then abandoned last May after pressure from UK ultra-Zionist ...
  • Anatomy of a Pro-Israel Con #Fail
    I don’t know what it is about reporting on Israeli drone failures that brings the right-wing con artists and hoaxsters out of the woodwork, but the ghouls are out in force once more.  Maybe it’s the influence of Halloween or the new moon. You’ll recall that after my last report ...
  • Israel Appoints Accused War Criminal as Specia ...
    The IDF has just appointed (Hebrew) Lt. Col. Gur Schreibman as commander of the notorious Shayetet 13, the IDF equivalent of U.S. Navy SEALS.  Shayetet 13 was the unit which perpetrated the Mavi Marmara massacre and indeed, Schreibman was a commander who participated in that killing field operat ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Today in the Post-Racial Society
    Clearly not racism: Home improvement maker Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person in a gorilla mask in between them and asked: “Which drummer is not like the others?” The tweet, from Home Depot’s o ...
  • The Meaning of Freedom
    The true meaning of freedom is killing your children because you believe God will come down and heal them instead of getting them the medical help they need.     
  • “The Patrician Elite to Which Vidal Himself Be ...
    I guess Harvard needed the money. Mr. Steers said Mr. Vidal, in his original will, left everything to Howard Austen, his partner of 53 years who died in 2003, then amended it in 2011, awarding it to Harvard. A few paintings were bequeathed to the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. At about ...
  • I’ll provide the lasers, but you’re going to h ...
    There’s a story to tell about the odd configuration of my Facebook page, I just don’t have the time to write it. But I’ve trained you well, Dear Readers, so surely, you can come up with something awesome if I prompt you thus:     
  • It’s Funny Because It’s–Oh, Nevermind, It’s No ...
    Marvel comics is unveiling a new superheroine in the form of a teenage Muslim girl from Jersey. Wingnuts responded with measured skepticism, fearing it’s simply tokenism. HA HA HA!!! I’m just kidding! They didn’t really react that way. Instead they reacted like THIS: And she wi ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Antarctic Researchers Discover Strips of Rock ...
    Narrow ribs of dirt and rock beneath Antarctic glaciers help slow the glaciers' flow into the sea, according to new research from scientists at Princeton University and the British Antarctic Survey. Using satellite measurements of the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Click to Enlarge NAS ...
  • Grand Canyon 'Zombie' Uranium Mine on Hold for ...
    The reopening of a major uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has been put on hold until December 2014 or whenever a federal court rules on the proposed revival of the mine, the Guardian reports. The owner of Canyon Colin.faulkingham/Wikimedia Grand Canyon's South Rim Mine, Energy Fuels Res ...
  • Disturbed Tropical Forests Store Carbon But Ar ...
    In tropical forests that are regrowing after major disturbances, the ability to store carbon recovers more quickly than plant biodiversity, researchers from the U.K. have found. However, even after 80 years, recovering forests store less carbon than old-growth Ricardo Solar A regrowing tr ...
  • Beijing To Limit New Cars By 40 Percent in Ant ...
    In an effort to reduce severe air pollution in the Chinese capital, Beijing will limit by 40 percent the number of new cars sold annually for the next four years, cutting license plate allocations from 240,000 to 150,000 each Wikimedia Chang'an avenue in Beijing year. The cap, whic ...
  • Treaties May Not Be The Key to Global Sustaina ...
    Sweeping international treaties are no longer the key for charting the planet’s path to sustainable development, according to international leaders gathered at the “Rio+20 to 2015” conference last week. Instead, they said, partnerships among governments, businesses, and NGOs hold the most promis ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Elongated S ...
    "French archaeologists made a surprising discovery during an excavation in Alsace, France, when they uncovered a substantially elongated skull dating back 1,500 years. The skull appears to have been intentionally elongated through the practice known as cranial deformation, which is usually assoc ...
  • FEMA Camps: City to Exile the Homeless; It’s n ...
    Under the radar from the prying eyes of the public, South Carolina made it legal to get rid of their homeless problem. The people were given a choice, FEMA Camps or jail. The irony of it all was this happened right at the 50th Anniversary of Civil Liberties in August. The bad part is different c ...
  • Poppycock – or why remembrance rituals make me ...
    On the briefest of visits to London, I was appalled to notice that our television presenters and politicians and dignitaries have almost all resorted to stereotype by wearing those bloody poppies again – even though I suspect most of them would not know the difference between the Dardanelles and ...
  • Russia sends Olympic torch to space
    Russian Soyuz rocket flies Olympic torch to space station By Alissa de Carbonnel | Reuters A three-man crew took the Olympic torch to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket on Thursday, ready to send it on its first space walk in a showcase for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. An onb ...
  • Man Opens ’Pandora’s Box’, Dies
    The strange, unfortunate, and mysterious death of a man who opened Pandora’s Box. Pandora’s Box, of Greek mythology, contained all the evils in the world. If one dared to open the box, the evils would escape and spread over the earth. --- Death of 37-year-old Carlisle man still a mystery By Vict ...

Not My Tribe

  • Edward Snowden isn’t leaking allegations ...
    Corporate media doesn’t want to do its job investigating or reporting on security state mechanisms and excesses, and it’s not going to let Edward Snowden do it either. Isn’t it curious that they’re able to allege Snowden’s leaks are “allegations” instead ...
  • Blackfish has a name, it’s TILIKUM. That ...
    Yes, Orcas aren’t fish. “Blackfish” is the translation of a name indigenous peoples gave killer whales, holding them in respectful regard while keeping a traditional safe distance. BLACKFISH is also the title of a new docummentary about how the sea mammals are mistreated by Sea ...
  • 14 yr-old Philip Chism, black, charged as adul ...
    George Zimmerman has nothing on the US justice system. High school freshman Philip Chism is accused of murdering Boston teacher Colleen Ritzer. Though he’s only 14, Chism is being arraigned as an adult. Probably somewhere in America, a district attorney is hoping to prosecute a black juven ...
  • Occupy Denver hits the Terrible Twos!
    LOOK OUT DENVER! There was no birthday cake this year for Occupy Denver, though the second annual #S17 OWS anniversary celebration did not go unmarked. Subgroup offshoots of Denver’s notorietous Occupy deployed themselves with the usual rowdy spirit. Denver Homeless Out Loud, advocates for ...
  • Fuck the Police, say it while you can
    If you’re bleeding from a rollover accident and you’re a black male who’s prompted a white suburbanite to call the police, who arrive and shoot you; if you’re a non-suicidale teen who’s fallen from an overpass, broken your back, only to be tased a dozen times for no ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Truth - It's the Left-Liberals That are T ...
    Published on Oct 28, 2013 Related: Noam Chomsky Manufactures 9/11 Consent Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper- Corbettreport Oct 26, 2013 Noam Chomsky on 911 conspiracy Noam Chomsky debunked on 9/11 Truth! The Shame of Noam Chomsky and the Gatekeepers of the Left. -TAKEN FROM CHAPTE ...
  • The Rundown Live #120 Richard Gage
    Published on Oct 11, 2013 The Rundown Live #120 Richard Gage http://therundownlive.com/live LIVE M-F 8C/9E Related: Alex Jones and Richard Gage Debunk the National Geographic Hit Piece on 9/11 Truth Richard Gage Debunks Popular Mechanics, AE911Truth Richard Gage's Auckland Presentat ...
  • More Information On The 911 Attacks
    Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation Published on Oct 26, 2013 Most skeptics are not "conspiracy nuts," as the official culture would have us believe. Most skeptics are thoughtful, well informed and respected citizens who have studied the facts, found that the official story has hole ...
  • 12th Anniversary of 9/11 with Re-Think911.org ...
    Published on Oct 27, 2013 A 60-foot-tall billboard in Dundas Square, Toronto, that asks "Did you know a 3rd tower fell on 9/11?" is the backdrop of this Press for Truth and Toronto Truth Seekers video in support of the Re-Think 9/11 Campaign http://rethink911.org/ and discussing the ...
  • Two Petitions Regarding Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
     Petition: Fukushima Threatens Everyone in the Northern HemispherePetition: The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima Related:Fukushima The Coming Global DisasterHow To Fight Radiation Exposure Naturally

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Loggers face removal from land of Earth's most ...
    The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalBrazil has taken the first steps towards the removal of thousands of illegal loggers and settlers from the land of the Awá, Earth’s most th ...
  • Yanomami denounce illegal miners and lack of h ...
    Yanomami Indians have expressed their serious concern about illegal mining on their land© VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALYanomami Indians from Brazil and Venezuela met last month in Venezuela to discuss indigenous rights and national policies. Government officials from both countries, indigenous orga ...
  • Protestors call for Botswana boycott at World ...
    Protestors called for a tourism boycott of Botswana at the opening of the World Travel Market in London today.© Charli Botha/SurvivalAt today’s opening of the World Travel Market in London, supporters of Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, called o ...
  • Yanomami shaman publishes unique book 'The Fal ...
    'The Falling Sky' is a unique book by Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa.© Harvard University PressIn the first book ever written by a Yanomami Indian, Davi Kopenawa – shaman and leading spokesman for his people – describes the rich culture, history and ways of life of the Yanomami of the A ...
  • Guarani Indians fear imminent bloodshed
    Guarani man. Gunmen have taken up positions around a Guarani community, and fired shots.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil fear imminent bloodshed as gunmen known to have assassinated indigenous leaders in recent years have taken up positions around them, and fired shots. The Guar ...

Greg Palast

  • Steven Cohen Can't Make His Mommy's Monkey Jump
    By Greg Palast for Truthout [New York] Billionaire Steven A. Cohen's marriage was in hot water because his wife wouldn't tolerate the "other woman."  The other woman was Steven's mother. This week, Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors will plead guilty to criminal charges of insider trading ...
  • Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana. Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law.  The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Jud ...
  • Vultures and Voter Rustlers Palast Investigate ...
    Out this November! Get Palast's brand new DVD of his documentary investigations for BBC and Democracy Now! Watch 90 minutes of hard-hitting reports by Palast at his best. Reports include: - Election 2012 - Ohio Ballots - Mitt Romney's Auto Bailout Bonanza - DR Congo Vulture Threat - Vultures Pic ...
  • Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
  • The Golden Dawn Murder Case Larry Summers and ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi.  But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife:  The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a p ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Weekly Wrap: Standing Up for Yates
    By Dan Olmsted If I were to commit a crime in Tennessee, I would have but one wish: not to be prosecuted by Rolf Hazlehurst. Rolf is part Atticus Finch and part Sam Waterston on Law and Order, and all...
  • Dachel Media Review: Football and Signs
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Nov 7, 2013, US News: Inside the Autistic Brain: New Research Challenges Current Beliefs Nov 7, 2013, WFAA Dallas/Fort Worth: Halftime show about autism earning high praise...
  • Thank You Sephora for Pulling Kat Von D Lipsti ...
    Update: Lipstickgate is now on People.com - please feel free to comment over there. As you can imagine, not everyone understands the problem with the lipstick name. Thanks. KS Update: And Perez Hilton. By Kim Stagliano I want to publicly...
  • Dear Emily Willingham, Dorit Reiss, Christophe ...
    By Laura Hayes Dear Emily Willingham, Dorit Reiss, and Christopher Hickie, (or, insert name of any other vaccine bully here), Do you believe anyone has the right to be exempt from vaccines? Does the Constitution protect the individual’s right to...
  • Dachel Media Review: Infant Study Everywhere
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Nov 6, 2013, NEW STUDY ON SIGNS OF AUTISM IN INFANTS -- LA Times, NY Times, ABC News, NY Daily News Nov 5, 2013, Huffington: When Skepticism...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • GMO: The Eugenics Connection – F. William Engdahl
    The foundation of genetic engineering is eugenics. F. William Engdahl breaks it all down. This is a must-listen lecture.
  • EU Allows GM SmartStax Maize in Food and Feed
    The EU Commission today authorised the controversial genetically engineered maize SmartStax for food and feed. The decision was taken despite thousands of protest mails being sent to the Commission. Maize 1507 for cultivation to be decided soon.
  • Former EPA Scientist Explains GMO Disaster to ...
    Ray Seidler, former Senior Scientist at the EPA who wrote the Biosafety Plan with a PhD in Microbiology, presents the science and economics behind the GMO disaster - Why Measure 15-119 to ban their cultivation is necessary.
  • Klamath Basin Water Wars and Jefferson State
    Join Dave Hodges and myself this Sunday as we talk about the Klamath Basin water theft issue, Agenda 21, and the proposed new state of Jefferson carved out of a piece of both Northern California and Southern Oregon, which just so happens to be the area affected by the proposed removal of the Kla ...
  • Scientists who say GMOs not proven safe climbs ...
    Given the scientific evidence at hand, sweeping claims that GM crops are substantially equivalent to, and as safe as, non-GM crops are not justifiable.

new geography

  • Long Island's Flawed Housing Policy is the Rea ...
    Affordable housing is Long Island's greatest regional failure and the key to our success in the 21st century. Yet, for such an important topic, there is still a fundamental lack of understanding of the problem, and a marked lack of standardization in studying it. We don’t have a regional s ...
  • The Tough Realities Facing Smaller Post-Indust ...
    A couple weeks ago the Economist ran a leader and an article on the plight of smaller post-industrial cities, noting that these days the worst urban decay is found not in big cities but in small ones. They observe: Partly, this reflects the extraordinary success of London and continuing deind ...
  • Playing Musical Chairs with World Economies
    The world’s largest economies seem engaged in something like the children’s game of “musical chairs.” For years, the United States has been the world’s largest national economy, though in recent decades the integrated economy of the European Union has challenged ...
  • American Cities May Have Hit 'Peak Office'
    Despite some hype and a few regional exceptions, the construction of office towers and suburban office parks has not made a significant resurgence in the current recovery. After a century in which office space expanded nationally with every uptick in the economy, we may have reached something cl ...
  • Density, Unpacked: Is Creative Class Theory a ...
    “The heresy of heresies was common sense”—George Orwell The stories we tell affect the lives we lead. I do not mean to be abstract here. I mean, literally, the stories that are told make up a kind of meta-reality that soaks in us to form a “truth”. This “truth ...

water.org

  • A Better Life
    Meet Sumathi. Sumathi and her husband live in a small village in Tamil Nadu with their two young sons. Sumathi’s eldest son, Prabakaran, is eight years old and has a disability that has affected him since he was two years old.
  • A Toilet for Anita
    Anita and her husband live in Bihar, India with their three children and two elderly parents. For the last eight years, the family has been using a vacant government lot for defecation. They faced multiple issues getting to and from the lot, particularly when carrying small children during monso ...
  • Empowering 500,000 for safe water
    The Caterpillar Foundation expands partnership with new commitment to Water.org. Through this remarkable partnership we will accelerate our impact significantly and empower nearly 500,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation.
  • Cooking with Water
    Clean water isn't just the cornerstone of life, it's the foundation of a healthy, delicious meal.
  • $79 and 45 days later
    In the villages in India, women of all age groups fetch water for their household consumption. Despite her growing age, Siddamma continues to fetch water. She is 53 years old and lives in Karnataka, India.

Cryptogon

  • Obamacare: Tens of Millions Forced Out of Heal ...
    Via: McClatchy: Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies. “If you like your private health insurance p ...
  • Solid Concepts Unveils First 3D-Printed Metal Gun
    I don’t like 1911s on the best of days, and I was thinking, “No way that thing will cycle properly. Even once.” Well, I’ll be damned. Via: Guns: Solid Concepts is taking 3D printing over a threshold with their just-announced 3D printed stainless steel handgun. A 1911, the ...
  • New Artificial Blood Made In Transylvania (Yes ...
    Via: Smithsonian: Science, in all its grand ambition and contemporary sophistication, doesn’t quite have what it takes yet to replicate anything like blood. It not only delivers oxygen and essential nutrients, but also serves a host of other functions crucial for our survival, such as fighting i ...
  • Death Toll Likely Exceeds 1,000 After Typhoon ...
    Via: CNN: A day after Super Typhoon Haiyan roared into the Philippines, officials predicted that the death toll could reach 1,200 or more. “We estimate 1,000 people were killed in Tacloban and 200 in Samar province,” Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, said ...
  • Man Spent 34 Years in Prison for Murder He Did ...
    Via: USA Today: A man who spent 34 years behind bars for a decades-old killing was freed from jail Friday after his conviction was overturned. Kash Delano Register, 53, walked out of a downtown jail at about 4:30 p.m. and was greeted by family members and attorneys. … Register was convicte ...

The Economic Collapse

  • How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar An ...
    The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger.  What you are about to read is understood by only a very small fraction of all Americans.  Right now, the U.S. dollar is the de facto reserve currency of the planet.  Most global trade is conducted in U.S. [...]
  • Which America Do You Live In? – 21 Hard ...
    Did you know that 40 percent of all American workers make less than $20,000 a year before taxes?  And 65 percent of all American workers make less than $40,000 a year before taxes.  If you work on Wall Street, or have a cushy job with the federal government, or work for a big tech firm [...]
  • 14 Facts About The Absolutely Crazy Internet S ...
    Shouldn't Internet companies actually "make a profit" at some point before being considered worth billions of dollars?  A lot of investors laugh when they look back at the foolishness of the "Dotcom bubble" of the late 1990s, but the tech bubble that is inflating right in front of our eyes today ...
  • Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking And Cattle Rustli ...
    Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate.  An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it.  Down in Texas, cattle thieves can get up to $1,500 per head of cattle, and c ...
  • All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depre ...
    The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before.  This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.  Back in January 2012, it was sitting at just 10.4 percent.  So anyone that believes that "things are getting ...

Desertification

  • Effects resulting from desertification (Google ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.nebraskafps.org/?p=1230 Desertification: Topic Research Posted by mcody Desertification describes the desert-like conditions that exist in regions, often as a cause of human interaction with the environment. According to the United Natio ...
  • Green projects that protect the land from furt ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.examiner.com/article/desertification-the-next-green-revolution?cid=rss Desertification the Next Green Revolution by Suzanne Edwards Desertification is “the process by which fertile land becomes desert”. In simple terms, when no vegetatio ...
  • Over-intensive, unsustainable land use causes ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.giz.de/expertise/html/2560.html Combating desertification “When we protect and restore drylands, we advance on many fronts at once: we strengthen food security, we address climate change, we help the poor gain control over their de ...
  • Climate change : risks and possible ways that ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.philly.com/philly/news/science/20131102_ap_bae69a1d0d4a4a64a2df4c6d9d8a70e9.html Warming report sees violent, sicker, poorer future Desertification already affects up to 200 million people. Climate change means that within 10 years, it c ...
  • Establishment of shelter belts, woodlots, road ...
    Read at :Google Alerts – desertification http://weekend.peoplesdailyng.com/index.php/news/special-report/1445-desertification-eats-up-kebbi-state Desertification eats up Kebbi State One of the major problems associated with the physical environment in Kebbi State is that of desertification ...

News Blaze

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed every goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY         &#16 ...
  • NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
    ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • 7 Ways To Reduce Your Electricity Bill
    A lot of people are looking to save money these days. No one knows what the future holds, and we all know that the world has been marred with economic troubles in the past decade or so. A major household expenditure for most of us is our electric bill.read more
  • 3 Ways Superstorm Sandy Could Change Utilities ...
    A year after Sandy, the utilities that suffered the most damage and the longest outages have been taken to task by politicians and regulators. The starkest example is Long Island Power Authority, which was stripped down, privatized and will now be run by PSE&G.read more
  • UCLA Report: Top 10 Solutions to Global Ocean ...
    A new report released recently identifies the best solutions to tackle the urgent problem of an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter entering the ocean each year. Plastic pollution is a daunting crisis for the marine environment, one that demands action.read more
  • One Year Following Sandy, Go Out And Create A ...
    It’s tough to believe that only one year ago, Superstorm Sandy struck the Atlantic coast. The devastation from the massive storm was wide-spread and unyielding, and ended up knocking out power to over 8.5 million people in a matter of hours. read more
  • New Documents Reveal Canada Not Serious on Add ...
    Freedom of information documents makes public that Canadian climate policies under consideration will still lead to significant increases in tar sands carbon pollution. This comes days after the Canadian government released its annual report on greenhouse gas emissions.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Iran Nuclear Talks Resume
    by Stephen Lendman November 7 and 8 talks are scheduled in Geneva. They continue where mid-October ones left off. Previous rounds failed. It's hard imagining success this time. Iran's nuclear program is pretext. At issue is replacing its government. Washington deplores independent o ...
  • Sudden shift in Iran negotiations draws Kerry ...
    Michael Collins "Diplomatic heavyweights including US Secretary of State John Kerry have flown to Geneva for nuclear talks on Iran, in a sign that there could be an end to a decade-long deadlock. However, Israel has resolved to reject any proposal under discussion." RT, Nov 8 Russian President ...
  • The Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy
    By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Early on Thursday, 7 November 2013, Greek riot police stormed the offices of Greece’s main public broadcaster, which had been under a five-month occupation by workers who opposed the government’s decision to shutdown the broadcaster, firing thousands and de ...
  • Netanyahu Launches Anti-Iranian Twitter Campaign
    by Stephen Lendman He's obsessed with Iran. He's Israel's worst ever leader. He exceeds Sharonian evil. He responded harshly to Hassan Rohani's election. He attacked him unfairly. He called his agenda "talk and enrich. Talk and continue to enrich uranium. For future nuclear weapons." "We ...
  • Institutionalized Spying Targets Freedom
    by Stephen Lendman Out-of-control spying reflects America's true face. At stake are fundamental rights too important to lose. They're gravely eroded already. They're headed toward disappearing altogether. They may not survive much longer. Everybody spies on everyone else. America likely ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • David Macdonald presents to federal Finance Co ...
    On Tuesday, November 5th, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald was asked to present to the federal Finance Committee as part of the committee’s pre-budget consultations. Read the full transcript of David’s presentation here: What the feds should be focusing on. You can also watch a video of Da ...
  • Erika Shaker lecture: Scapegoating youth in th ...
    This past summer, Erika Shaker, Director of CCPA's Education Project, was invited to deliver a lecture at the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest's 2013 Summer Institute. The Summer Institute is an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary workshop that invites undergraduate, gra ...
  • Hennessy’s Index: Wal-Mart or Costco?
    Whether you shop there or not, the November edition of Hennessy’s Index looks at some fundamental differences between how Wal-Mart and Costco treat their workers. Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Rea ...
  • Impact of the CETA on the costs of patented drugs
    A new CCPA report, by Dr. Joel Lexchin and Marc-André Gagnon, examines the impact of the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) on pharmaceuticals. The authors find that the tentative EU-Canada trade deal will further tilt the balance towards the protection of brand-name drug manufact ...
  • Bruce Campbell discusses the Lac-Mégantic rail ...
    On Tuesday, October 23, CCPA’s Executive Director, Bruce Campbell appeared on the Business News Network (BNN) to discuss the findings of his new report The Lac-Mégantic Disaster: Where Does the Buck Stop? Campbell says the rail disaster was an accident waiting to happen, and speaks to the whethe ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Soliciting Reader Questions for Oil Sands Tour
    On Sunday, November 3rd, I am heading to Fort McMurray, Alberta for a tour of the oil sands operations. Here are the details from the initial email that I received inviting me on the trip: Each year, the Consulate General partners with other U.S. Canadian missions to organize a tour of Canada’s ...
  • The Lasting Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo
    Forty years ago Americans got a wake up call on energy security. As Robert Rapier explains, the energy policy decisions that were made in response to the crisis have a lasting impact today.
  • The Ice That Burns
    Methane hydrates are a huge natural gas resource, but are they worth the environmental risk?
  • Why Gasoline Prices are Falling
    Fall is always a welcome change of pace for most people after a long, hot summer. Not only from the temperatures, but fall almost always brings relief at the gasoline pump. Robert Rapier explains.
  • Government Mandated Spending: A Lesson in Wast ...
    The EPAct forced the DOE to spend money on what essentially amounted to the least stupid ideas, writes Robert Rapier. In many cases it was recognized that there was little chance of success, but the money had to be spent.

Discovery Educator Network

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Information Liberation

  • The Crooked Cop and the Case of the Vanishing ...
    In an unusual recent case, the US 4th Circuit Appeals Court overturned a crack cocaine conviction despite the defendant having pleaded guilty. The case involving Baltimore drug dealer Cortez Leon Fisher was not overturned because the plea agreement w...
  • Cops Swap Patrol Cars For Big Rigs to Catch Te ...
    Illustrating once again how police are now little more than revenue generators for a state which vampirically feeds on the public, cops in Knoxville, Tennessee are swapping patrol cars for big rigs in a bid to catch texters. The swap is *part of ...
  • Witnesses: Police Cruiser Runs Down Man On Bik ...
    HUNTING PARK - November 6, 2013 (WPVI) -- Two Philadelphia police officers and a bicyclist have been hospitalized following an incident in the city's Hunting Park section. Action News was there as relatives helped 30-year old Juan Mario Lugo, who ...
  • America: Rumors of Food Riots, Realities of War
    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spent $80M to fortify federal buildings in New York apparently in preparation for civil disturbances and possible food riots on November 1st. The DHS plans included armed private guards who would protect IRS ...
  • San Diego Gets in Your Face With New Mobile Id ...
    The San Diego regional planning agency, SANDAG, has been quietly rolling out a new mobile face recognition system that will sharply change how police conduct simple stops on Americans. The system, which allows officers to use mobile devices to collec...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • If your computer won’t open Google Chrome
    My Google Chrome completely crashed. It wouldn’t open at all. There wasn’t even an error message. After much thrashing about, I found a solution. You might want to bookmark this. Google reports that if Google Chrome does not open or stay open, and no error message appears, that you m ...
  • World’s first 3D printed metal gun
    This 3D printed metal gun from Solid Concepts is a copy of the revered 1911 semi-auto pistol and made so gunsmiths can get hard to obtain parts. It is completely legal and requires high end 3D printing capabilities to create. “We’re proving this is possible, the technology is at a place now wher ...
  • They’re baaack. Banksters securitizing single ...
    Private equity and hedge funds are buying tens of thousands of single family homes, renting them, then slicing and dicing the income streams and selling them. Securitization of course is one of the primary reasons the real estate market tanked and took down the economy with it. Banksters have no ...
  • Healthcare.gov problems are almost comical
    Are healthcare.gov problems the result of chimpanzees randomly typing code? I’m a software developer and have experience here. Their problems are just over the top. Telling people to send in written applications if they can’t get online doesn’t work because a government agent h ...
  • Greenbotics robots clean PV panels at grid sca ...
    Here’s a job that no one will mind being replaced by robots, meticulously cleaning solar panels 2-3 times a year in baking heat in deserts. Hell yeah, let a robot to it. Sunpower has bought Greenbotics, who builds these helpful robots, which use much less water than humans too. Greenbotics ...

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Like Oil & Water: BuzzFeed & Progressive Activism
    At midnight on Oct. 28, Amy Leaman and Josh Stuart posted on BuzzFeed.com, "10 Oil Spills That Look Like Justin Trudeau's Hair." By 5 p.m. it was gone. At 6:02 p.m, Stuart received an e-mail from BuzzFeed Community Editor Cates Holderness that said the post "violated our commu ...
  • ASSÉ’s Combative Response to Austerity
    Militant Quebec student union actively cultivating allies against neoliberalism “Austerity is not our destiny,” said Associati ...
  • Lest Harper Forget
    Risk of closures to Veterans Affairs offices expected to draw thousands to Sydney rally. K'JIPUKTUK (HALIFAX) – For a head of state who has so deeply embraced – and ...
  • Strengthening our Voice
    New Sierra Club Atlantic campaign to tackle fracking in all four Atlantic provinces K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Sierra Club Atlantic is launching an anti-fracking campaign that w ...
  • Toronto gay activist continues fight for equality
    Gerald Hannon talks about a history of persecution Gerald Hannon still chokes up as he recalls the night of February 5, 1981 when Toronto police smashed up four gay bathhouses and ar ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 8 November 2013
    Here is Domino staring up into the camera as she prepares to jump onto the couch. This is always a huge production. The sofa is a grand total of 18 inches off the ground, but she walks back and forth, meows piteously, gets on her hind legs to look at the cushions, then walks back and forth som ...
  • President Obama Doesn't Much Care What Benjami ...
    The United States and its allies appear to be close to an interim deal with Iran, one that would modestly ease some of the economic sanctions currently in place in return for some kind of freeze on its centrifuge activities. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is apoplectic at the prospe ...
  • Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in October
    The American economy added 204,000 new jobs in October, but about 90,000 of those jobs were needed just to keep up with population growth, so net job growth clocked in at 114,000. That's not bad. In addition, revisions to previous months increased previous estimates for August and September by ...
  • Lara Logan Admits Her Benghazi Report Was a Mi ...
    Lara Logan appeared on This Morning a few hours ago to admit that she had been misled by Dylan Davies, a security manager who told her a dramatic story two weeks ago about his actions on the night of the Benghazi attacks last year. Logan made Davies the centerpiece of a 60 Minutes segment abou ...
  • Chart of the Day: The Price of Austerity
    Paul Krugman is attending the annual IMF research conference and reports that the presentations have covered a wide range of topics: It’s pretty clear, however, that the blockbuster paper of the conference will be one that focuses on the truly ugly: the evidence that by tolerating ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Loggers face removal from land of Earth's most ...
    The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalBrazil has taken the first steps towards the removal of thousands of illegal loggers and settlers from the land of the Awá, Earth’s most th ...
  • Yanomami denounce illegal miners and lack of h ...
    Yanomami Indians have expressed their serious concern about illegal mining on their land© VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALYanomami Indians from Brazil and Venezuela met last month in Venezuela to discuss indigenous rights and national policies. Government officials from both countries, indigenous orga ...
  • Protestors call for Botswana boycott at World ...
    Protestors called for a tourism boycott of Botswana at the opening of the World Travel Market in London today.© Charli Botha/SurvivalAt today’s opening of the World Travel Market in London, supporters of Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, called o ...
  • Yanomami shaman publishes unique book 'The Fal ...
    'The Falling Sky' is a unique book by Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa.© Harvard University PressIn the first book ever written by a Yanomami Indian, Davi Kopenawa – shaman and leading spokesman for his people – describes the rich culture, history and ways of life of the Yanomami of the A ...
  • Guarani Indians fear imminent bloodshed
    Guarani man. Gunmen have taken up positions around a Guarani community, and fired shots.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil fear imminent bloodshed as gunmen known to have assassinated indigenous leaders in recent years have taken up positions around them, and fired shots. The Guar ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
    The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.

Food World Order

  • New Book #AnythingThatMoves Looks at the 'Amer ...
    from nytimes.com: Dana Goodyear’s new book, about being a wallflower at the American food orgy, won me over on its second page. That’s where she admits that, as a kid in the back of the family station wagon, she used to nibble on Milk-Bone dog biscuits. I’m not sure why this image lit up my plea ...
  • Discount Supermarkets Offer Huge Savings By Se ...
    from foxnews.com: Grocery bills can be more 10 percent of American's household expenses, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But when buying items on sale or using coupons isn't enough, some shop at discount or salvage grocery stores. What's that, you ask? These are supermarkets ...
  • FDA to Ban Artery-Clogging Trans Fats
    from abcnews.go.com: Heart-clogging trans fats were once a staple of the American diet, plentiful in baked goods, microwave popcorn and fried foods. Now, mindful of the health risks, the Food and Drug Administration is getting rid of what's left of them for good. The FDA announced Thursday it wi ...
  • Food waste study shows 4.2 million tonnes thro ...
    from rawstory.com: British households are throwing away 4.2 million tonnes of food and drink a year, the equivalent of six meals every week, a study published on Thursday said. Some £12.5 billion worth of food and drink was discarded in 2012, with the average British family ...
  • #Fukushima Trial Run Begins Dangerous Reactor ...
    from FukushimaUpdate.com: Preparations to begin the potentially catastrophic decommissioning of the crippled Reactor 4 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant will begin this week with a test run. The test, which could push back the beginning stages of fuel rod removal by two weeks, includ ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar An ...
    The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger.  What you are about to read is understood by only a very small fraction of all Americans.  Right now, the U.S. dollar is the de facto reserve currency of the planet.  Most global trade is conducted in U.S. [...]
  • Which America Do You Live In? – 21 Hard ...
    Did you know that 40 percent of all American workers make less than $20,000 a year before taxes?  And 65 percent of all American workers make less than $40,000 a year before taxes.  If you work on Wall Street, or have a cushy job with the federal government, or work for a big tech firm [...]
  • 14 Facts About The Absolutely Crazy Internet S ...
    Shouldn't Internet companies actually "make a profit" at some point before being considered worth billions of dollars?  A lot of investors laugh when they look back at the foolishness of the "Dotcom bubble" of the late 1990s, but the tech bubble that is inflating right in front of our eyes today ...
  • Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking And Cattle Rustli ...
    Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate.  An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it.  Down in Texas, cattle thieves can get up to $1,500 per head of cattle, and c ...
  • All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depre ...
    The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before.  This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.  Back in January 2012, it was sitting at just 10.4 percent.  So anyone that believes that "things are getting ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The high public cost of fast- ...
    Image Caption:  This graph is from "Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry." See link below. The U.S. fast-food industry generates $200 billion a year in sales. Why are s ...
  • The war on women voting in North Carolina
    Image Caption:  North Carolina's restrictive new voting law turns back the clock on women's access to the ballot. (Photo from the Library of Congress.) It's well-documented that the heaviest burdens under strict phot ...
  • Through song, Mississippi Delta teens speak ou ...
    Image Caption:  A new video offers Mississippi Delta teens' perspective on why the Affordable Care Act matters. (Image is a still from the video below.) The national debate over "Obamacare" rages on, but whose voices are ...
  • Youth help turn back the tea party in Virginia ...
    Image Caption:  Terry McAuliffe, at left, decisively defeated Ken Cuccinelli to become the next governor of Virginia, and he did it with the help of the youth vote. (Photo of Terry McAuliffe by Edward Kimmel via Wikipedia; photo of Cuccinelli b ...
  • Youth voting rights activists monitoring NC po ...
    Image Caption:  NC Vote Defenders is a group of young people and students taking action to protect voting rights amid efforts to restrict them. Galvanized by new laws restricting voting rights in North Carolina, young people a ...

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

  • Visible Origami | Dilettantes, Dabblers and Ou ...
    By Visible Let me make something very clear. There is a vast distance between the dilettante and dabbler and the consistent practitioner. The dilettante and dabbler get scared off at certain levels because they are not considered worthy of what comes after, given that they are dilettantes and da ...
  • Nearly 250,000 Colorado healthcare plans cance ...
    DENVER – There are nearly 250,000 Coloradans whose health care policies have been or will be cancelled as a result of the Affordable Care Act, the state’s Dept. of Insurance announced on Wednesday. Many of the policies are being cancelled because of stipulations under the new law that force insu ...
  • Iran calls for global nuclear disarmament | Ve ...
    Times of Israel Iran’s UN ambassador called nuclear weapons the greatest threat to present and future generations on Monday, just days before Tehran resumes talks with six world powers aimed at reining in its suspect nuclear program. Mohammad Khazaee told a meeting of the General Assembly’s disa ...
  • Anonymous ‘Million Mask March’ goes global | H ...
    by Clark Kent Million Mask March The Million Mask March is heading to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people worldwide joined Million Mask March rallies organized by the amorphous Anonymous movement. Rallies, both peaceful and confrontational, protested austerity, surveillance, corp ...
  • News: Irish politicians call for an end to flu ...
    by Tom Sullivan on Fri, 2013-11-08 12:33 The Dáil has debated a Private Members Bill on a proposed ban on the addition of fluoride into the drinking water supply. Independent deputy Catherine Murphy said that it was right for people to be sceptical and questioned expert opinion that fluoridation ...

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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 ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • SESA Seminar: Alberta Solar PV Performance - T ...
    Solar Energy Society of Alberta Grant MacEwan University 13 Nov 2013 - 19:00 Speaker: Gordon Howell, P.Eng, Howell-Mayhew Engineering So ...
  • Tim Flannery on climate change and energy tran ...
    Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD) has posted video of Tim Flannery's recent talk in Calgary— part of the Low Carbon Leadership Speaker Series sponsored by ABCD & Clean Energy Canada. From the Alberta Climate Dialogue website: Tim Flannery is the Chief of the Australian Climate ...
  • Worrying Trends in Canada's Latest Greenhouse ...
    Environment Canada recently released the 2013 Canada's Emission Trends report. The Pembina Insitute's P.J. Partington explains some worrying trends from the report in his blog and in the video below. Trending Bad: What Environment Canada's lates ...
  • Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan Workshop
    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society — Southern Alberta Chapter 4 Nov 2013 - 19:00 - 21:00 From the CPAWS SAB website: CPAWS is holding two Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan ...
  • Call for Delegates: Workshop Participants for ...
    Initiative:  Stakeholder consultation on the draft Surface Water Quantity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca River and the draft Tailing Management Framework for Mineable Oil Sands ...

Stop NATO

  • NATO Expansion To Borders, Terrorism Threats T ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti November 9, 2013 Defense Minister Shoigu Outlines Security Threats to Russia MOSCOW: Terrorism and NATO expansion near Russian borders pose key threats to Russia’s national security, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Saturday. Speaking in an interview with Ro ...
  • Stendhal: Dreaming of the Marshall and his glo ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Stendhal: You’ve got to learn the business before you can become a soldier Stendhal and Byron: Military leprosy; fronts of brass and feet of clay ==== Stendhal From The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrie ...
  • NATO Video: From Global Counterinsurgency To H ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations November 8, 2013 ——————————————————- Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Transformation November 7, 2013 Steadfast Jazz ...
  • NATO Video: From Global Counterinsurgency To H ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations November 8, 2013 ——————————————————- Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Transformation November 7, 2013 Steadfast Jazz ...
  • The NSA/US/NATO/Cyber Command are not simply p ...
    Voice of Russia November 8, 2013 The NSA/US/NATO/Cyber Command are not simply passively spying – Rick Rozoff John Robles Recorded on November 5, 2013 AUDIO The head of the US National Security Agency is also the head of the US/NATO Cyber Command, a tool of war designed to wage war in what the ar ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • MSM: NSA Did Not Do a Good Enough Job Protecti ...
    This article originally appeared in the Daily Kos. Since June, the main stream media has been reporting National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations exposing NSA's vast, ineffective, and unconstitutional spying. In the words of former Vice President Al Gore: [Sno ...
  • Senate Committee Approves New Whistleblower Pr ...
    The Guardian: Senate Committee Approves New Whistleblower Protection Measures On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved whistleblower protections for intelligence community workers in the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2014. GAP’s press release about the bill is here. The ...
  • Senate Intelligence Committee Approves Whistle ...
    Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) praised yesterday's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) approval of whistleblower protection in the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2014. The Committee restored Senate-passed Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) provi ...
  • GAP's American Whistleblower Tour is Making a ...
    Columbia Journalism Review: Warnings from Whistleblowers Past Yesterday Summary: This article spotlights GAP's American Whistleblower Tour, currently in its third year bringing prominent whistleblowers to universities around the country. The piece highlights the most recent stop at Florida I ...
  • Whistleblowing Highlighted at Nader’s Harvard ...
    Tom Devine, GAP Legal Director, joined Ralph Nader and nearly a dozen leading public interest lawyers, advocates and academics at Harvard’s annual Shake ’em Up conference in October. The conference ­– aimed at luring the nation’s next generation of top lawyers into public-interest law – spanned ...

UK Progressive

  • Why Washington Is Cutting Safety Nets When Mos ...
    by Robert Reich So how to explain this paradox? As of November 1 more than 47 million Americans have lost some or all of their food stamp benefits. House Republicans are pushing for further cuts. If the sequester isn’t stopped everything else poor and working-class Americans depend on will be fu ...
  • Will GOP Obstructionism Trigger Nuclear Option?
    by David A. Love Senate Republicans are looking for a fight with the president. This much was clear when they used the power of the filibuster to block the nomination of Rep. Melvin Watt (D-North Carolina) to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees mortgage giants Freddie ...
  • Fukushima Beings New Agenda for Renewables
    As well as an adverse viewpoint on capitalism by Robert Hunziker The Fukushima nuclear disaster is getting worse by the day, poisoning the Pacific Ocean and threatening a nuclear holocaust of some unknown dimension. You will not outlive this disaster. “This is a question that transcends being an ...
  • Op-Ed: NSA Spying Undermines Obama’s Call for ...
    by Sherwood Ross When America’s prestige abroad is in the gutter over National Security Agency’s eavesdropping on world leaders, President Obama incongruously is urging foreign companies to do business here in the United States. Could his timing be worse? Polls show his prestige at h ...
  • The Democrat’s Version of Health Insurance Wou ...
    by Robert Reich House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says Republicans will seek to delay a requirement of the 2010 Affordable Care Act that all Americans obtain health insurance or face a tax penalty. ”With so many unanswered questions and the problems arising around this rollout, it doesn’t make a ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Good news: Australians not partying in Poland, ...
    Not a bad Friday. Tony Abbott will not be travelling to Warsaw with a hairdresser, photographers, and a chef in an entourage of 114. Nor even is Greg Hunt (the Environment Minister) going. They are too busy back home trying to cut expenses and repeal the carbon tax (though that look like it wil ...
  • Consensus on human knee ligaments was wrong &# ...
    How much don’t we know? This week doctors announce that yes, really, there is a whole ligament in the human knee that we didn’t know about, and it’s not a small one tucked away but a mid-size one and “hidden” on the outside of the knee. They’ve named it the an ...
  • Australia is either Green genius or Kyoto-crim ...
    Tom Quirk has taken look at the numbers for the Australian Government’s direct action plan (someone had to do it). Not surprisingly in a vast nation with hardly any people, the numbers that matter are the ones about “land-use” — which means anthropogenic changes to farms ...
  • Ocean heat content around Indonesia shows Medi ...
    Rosenthal et al have put out quite a humdinger of a paper. They’ve reconstructed the temperature of the water flowing out of the Pacific to the Indian Ocean over the last 10,000 years and as deep as 900m. The Indonesian Throughflow  is pretty significant in global ocean currents. There&#82 ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded (with 200,000 mile chasm of ...
    Photograph by NASA/SDO Read about it, and watch the video below: As described on the NASA Goddard Youtube channel Published on Oct 24, 2013 A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long ...

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

  • The Psychology Of Loving Heavy Metal
    Heavy Metal Fans Jacek Karczmarczyk via Wikimedia Commons You can tell a lot about someone from their taste in music. Especially if they have a penchant for contemporary heavy metal. Researchers at the University of Westminster in the U.K. recently turned their scientific attention toward h ...
  • A Mobius Picnic Table And Other Amazing Images ...
    Mobius Picnic Table Michael Beitz via Colossal     
  • Fascinating Hypothesis: The Whole Idea Of Spec ...
    Collecting Time A remotely operated underwater vehicle collects samples of sand for scientists who study meiofauna and larger creatures, which are called macrofauna. Image courtesy of Deepwater Canyons 2013 - Pathways to the Abyss, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS Meiofauna are pretty weird. That's the ...
  • Big Pic: Super Typhoon Haiyan, As Seen From Space
    Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT The Philippines was hit with a super typhoon today. With waves as high as 15 feet and winds estimated as strong as 195 mph (and 235 mph gusts), typhoon Haiyan could be the strongest tropical cyclone in history—depending ...
  • Just Liking A Cause Doesn't Help: Internet Sla ...
        Changing your Facebook profile picture, wearing a pink ribbon or signing an online petition isn't going to change the world. Actually, it's probably making the social campaign of your choice worse off, according to a study out from the University of British Columbia. Slacktivism, defined in ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The high public cost of fast- ...
    Image Caption:  This graph is from "Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry." See link below. The U.S. fast-food industry generates $200 billion a year in sales. Why are s ...
  • The war on women voting in North Carolina
    Image Caption:  North Carolina's restrictive new voting law turns back the clock on women's access to the ballot. (Photo from the Library of Congress.) It's well-documented that the heaviest burdens under strict phot ...
  • Through song, Mississippi Delta teens speak ou ...
    Image Caption:  A new video offers Mississippi Delta teens' perspective on why the Affordable Care Act matters. (Image is a still from the video below.) The national debate over "Obamacare" rages on, but whose voices are ...
  • Youth help turn back the tea party in Virginia ...
    Image Caption:  Terry McAuliffe, at left, decisively defeated Ken Cuccinelli to become the next governor of Virginia, and he did it with the help of the youth vote. (Photo of Terry McAuliffe by Edward Kimmel via Wikipedia; photo of Cuccinelli b ...
  • Youth voting rights activists monitoring NC po ...
    Image Caption:  NC Vote Defenders is a group of young people and students taking action to protect voting rights amid efforts to restrict them. Galvanized by new laws restricting voting rights in North Carolina, young people a ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • 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 ...
  • The IPCC report - is the science settled?
    Last week the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) issued their latest high profile report on the current understanding of climate change.  Their main conclusion is that there can be little doubt that man is responsible for at least half of the rise in global temperatures since the 1 ...
  • Record Antarctic sea ice confounds climate models
    The extent of sea ice in the southern hemisphere continues to cause a headache for climate scientists, with news this week that Antarctic sea ice is now at record levels, based on satellite data which began in the late 1970’s.This is contrary to what climate models had predicted.It’s thought tha ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • American Exceptionalism: Why So Few Diesel Cars?
    It routinely surprises insular Yanks who dare venture abroad that the rest of us are quite fond of diesel cars. In this day and age of dear fuel, improved mileage has it attractions. Americans would beg to differ: They shake! They stink! That's what trucks run on! are among the things you hear t ...
  • Are the Port of Hong Kong's Glory Days Over?
    How the mighty are falling. Here's another one from the Far East shipping files: Hong Kong ranks regularly among the world's top three busiest container ports in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) handled. Yet, its previously unassailable status is coming under attack due to a number o ...
  • The Mother of Market Manipulation In Forex Tra ...
    With their often haughty attitudes and tendency to focus on short-term profits in the (unfortunately) correct belief that they are too big too fail, banks are easy targets for regulators and critics of capitalism-slash-globalism alike. However, I believe that there are still grey areas and that ...
  • American Stasi: Work for the NSA, Spy on the World
    I've been watching the Academy Award-winning drama The Lives of Others based on the operations of the East German-era secret police, the Stasi. Vast improvements in technology have enabled gathering ever-more information on the activities of you and me, and the United States has come under massi ...
  • Come to Texas: Can Tyler Cowen Say "FM Radio"?
    Koch Industries of Tea Party fame-funded arch-libertarian Tyler Cowen has an interesting piece in TIME about how Texas is America's future. Having stayed there for a time, I am of somewhat more mixed opinions about its virtues and vices than he is. Read for yourselves and see what you think. Be ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar An ...
    The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger.  What you are about to read is understood by only a very small fraction of all Americans.  Right now, the U.S. dollar is the de facto reserve currency of the planet.  Most global trade is conducted in U.S. [...]
  • Which America Do You Live In? – 21 Hard ...
    Did you know that 40 percent of all American workers make less than $20,000 a year before taxes?  And 65 percent of all American workers make less than $40,000 a year before taxes.  If you work on Wall Street, or have a cushy job with the federal government, or work for a big tech firm [...]
  • 14 Facts About The Absolutely Crazy Internet S ...
    Shouldn't Internet companies actually "make a profit" at some point before being considered worth billions of dollars?  A lot of investors laugh when they look back at the foolishness of the "Dotcom bubble" of the late 1990s, but the tech bubble that is inflating right in front of our eyes today ...
  • Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking And Cattle Rustli ...
    Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate.  An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it.  Down in Texas, cattle thieves can get up to $1,500 per head of cattle, and c ...
  • All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depre ...
    The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before.  This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.  Back in January 2012, it was sitting at just 10.4 percent.  So anyone that believes that "things are getting ...

BlogHer

  • Living Through Super Typhoon Haiyan in Drawing ...
    This Made me feel like this   because I was sure it was going to be like this  and I thought I was going to end up doing this  but when it came, all I really did was this.   We are all good. Thank you for all your well wishes and prayers. Regul ...
  • Michelle Obama (Plus Blake Lively, Whoopi Gold ...
    Who doesn't daydream of a job in Hollywood? As director David Frankel said yesterday, it's the sort of job that people would pay others to be part of; it's the sort of job you love so much that you'd be willing to do it for free. But how do people go about actually breaking into the industry? ...
  • Dear Husband: Please, Don't Help!
    I’m a grateful woman, most of the time. There are times, though, when I can take people for granted, I’m human. I forget to say "Thank you" or I just don’t show my appreciation enough. Then, there are those times when I’m really ungrateful and unappreciative, but not because I’m evil; I just did ...
  • I Scared Them with My Yelling
    I'm honestly not sure why I'm even writing this post. Sometimes for me there's something intimidating and yet freeing all at the same time about putting something into concrete words. But this time maybe I'm needing to say it out loud to hold myself accountable to do something I'm honestly not s ...
  • It's Not Easy Having a Hyphenated Last Name
    To be perfectly honest, I can't stand when someone asks for my full name on the telephone. Not only do I have an unusual first name (with an atypical spelling), I also have an unusual and hyphenated last name, and I end up saying something like this: "Okay, my first name is Adena, A-D-E-N-A, and ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • DIY rose and argan oil body spray
              Take a green step and make your own body spray. DIY Recipe: In a glass bowl, mix together: 15 drops of rose essential oil 15 drops of argan oil 5 tbsps rose hydrosol 1/4 cup vodka 8 oz distilled water 1 tbsp witch hazel Pour ... Related posts ...
  • 7 Tips To Lose Weight Before Thanksgiving (If ...
          Focusing on your upcoming Thanksgiving dinner indulgences can often overwhelm you with guilt. But a few simple lifestyle changes NOW can help you lose a few pounds before turkey day. From now until Thanksgiving, follow ... Related posts:Top Tips for a Stre ...
  • 10 Ways To Stop Stressing & Start Living Peace ...
          If you’re anything like me, you might worry like it’s a second job: if the coffee is good or bad, if we’ll get that promotion, and what diseases the future has in store for us. ... Related posts:Top Tips for a Stress-Free Life Living stress free is ...
  • Multitasking After 60: Video Game Boosts Focus ...
            A brain that trains can stay in the fast lane. That’s the message of a study showing that playing a brain training video game for a month can rejuvenate the multitasking abilities of people in their 60s, ... Related posts:The Computer Game Tha ...
  • Despite Many Warnings, Antibiotics Are Still O ...
                We’ve known for years that antibiotics don’t help in most cases of bronchitis or sore throat. And for decades, public health officials have tried to stop doctors from overprescribing antibiotics. None of that seems to have .. ...

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

  • Friday roundup, Nov. 8, 2013
    In this Dec. 2, 2008  file photo people stand in front of the Patnow coal-fuelled power plant near Konin, central Poland. Coal-reliant Poland is hosting  UN climate talks but also a high-level coal industry event on the sidelines of the conference, in an occurrence that has infuriated climate ac ...
  • Here’s why Central Appalachian coal is d ...
    A C.S.X. train loaded with coal winds its way into the mountains in this Nov. 21, 2004 file photo taken near the New River at Cotton Hill in Fayette County, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) The ever-helpful Wonkblog at The Washington Post has a good piece out this week with the simple headline, &#8 ...
  • Rep. Miller seeks IG probe of black lung cases
    Here’s the news just in from Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., and ranking Democrat on the House Labor Committee: Today, two members of Congress asked the Department of Labor’s Inspector General to investigate claims surfaced in news reports from the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News th ...
  • Changes at WVDEP’s mining division
    Here’s the announcement that was sent to all West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection employees: Effective December 1, 2013, Tom Clarke (ab0ve) will be reassigned new duties as an Executive Assistant to the Agency Head where he will deal with environmental matters related to en ...
  • Another coal miner dies on the job
    Here’s the bad news in today from Illinois via the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: A serious, accident occurred Monday afternoon (11/4) at the M-Class mine, which resulted in a fatality.  At about mid-face on the longwall, a large piece of coal rolled over on the victim, causin ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Controlling the Slide of Hacker News
    There’s a natural cycle to niche blogs that make it big. They start out niche, they attract more users, and the topics slowly migrate to the more general. Then, sometime in the future, it becomes a repository of pet-related animated gifs. Hacker News isn’t at the final stage yet, but ...
  • America Needs a Prime Directive
    America needs a Prime Directive. If we were to capture the current, implied one, it’d be something like: Take advantage of what is around you in order to maximize profit and growth at all costs. Great. We’re good at that, and it’s killing us. It’s time to stop. We need so ...
  • The Real Reason to Avoid Clichés
    We’ve been told this repeatedly throughout our writing educations and careers that clichés are to be avoided. But why exactly? We’ve been given many answers, with most of them reducing to: They dilute your message. Ok, fine, but why? A better answer I was reading a fascinating articl ...
  • Personal Drone Attacks
    I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about small, prosumer drones being used to attack people. It seems to me that this will soon become a major issue for those doing personal security. Here are some issues I see: Most security teams focus on ground-based ingress and egress routes, i. ...
  • Government and Corporations Fail For the Same ...
    It’s generally accepted that the left tends to blame corporations for our problems, while the right tends to blame government. What’s interesting is that regardless of which is more true, both entities fail for the same reason, i.e., in both cases there is a group that each is suppos ...

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.

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Views & News from Norway

  • Chess fever grips star’s homeland
    Norwegian newspapers and broadcast outlets suddenly have their own chess experts, front pages are plastered with news from the World Chess Championship in Chennai, India and constant updates top local websites. Chess fever is gripping the country, as home-grown chess star Magnus Carlsen started ...
  • Football bosses bury the hatchet
    Egil “Drillo” Olsen, the popular national football coach who was abruptly replaced earlier this fall, has won a formal apology from the leaders of Norway’s national football federation (NFF). He then retreated to his hytte in the mountains at Haglebu, telling reporters that he ...
  • Ruling doesn’t ensure Neda’s return
    An Oslo court ruling on Friday set aside the controversial deportation of 12-year-old Neda Ibrahim and her family, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to return to Norway. The court found their deportation order to be invalid, but the immigration authorities behind it say they may ...
  • New state budget full of changes
    Finance Minister Siv Jensen presented the new conservative government’s first state budget on the floor of the Norwegian Parliament on Friday, with proposals that include elimination of inheritance taxes, reductions in fortune taxes and a slight reduction in income taxes. The proposed tax ...
  • Friele brews profits on sale of coffee business
    The Friele family of Bergen says they will reinvest the profits they’ll gain when they complete the sale of another 45 percent of their coffee business, Kaffehuset Friele, to DE Master Blenders (DEMB) of the Netherlands. The sale may yield as much as NOK 1 billion (USD 166 million). Neithe ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Post-2015 Development: Africans Show the Way
    Time to move on from redefining the problems and concentrate on solutions already seeded on the ground. by Prof Roger Leakey (lead author of a UN funded, 3-year, 400-scientist strong IAASTD report that showed that the globalised agricultural model is not working, and showing how returning to div ...
  • Creating Buildings and Environments that Suppo ...
    by James Alexander Arnfinsen Our society is drunk, it is intoxicated on pursuing novelty, it is pursuing novelty at all costs, even at the cost of civilization itself. — Nikos Salingaros, from the interview In this episode I have the delight of connecting with Nikos Salingaros, who is a Pr ...
  • Ms Poubelle Provocateur – Glamour Goddess of L ...
    This is Ms Poubelle Provocateur, the erotic disgrace of the human race. The glamour Goddess of Landfill. A psychedelic fragment of my alter ego. Sauntering, sexy, inviting, sassy, trashy, eternal ethereal pin-up, made of abandoned pieces and elements. She is my one woman waste protest, unified w ...
  • Miracle Farms – a 5-acre Commercial Permacultu ...
    Twenty years ago, Stefan Sobkowiak bought a commercial apple orchard with the intention of converting it to an organic orchard. He did just that, but eventually understood the limitations of the organic model originating from monoculture. He then decided to tear out most of the trees and replant ...
  • Number of Scientists Who Say GMOs Not Proven S ...
    Editor’s Note: This is a press release update to this recent post. Developer of first commercialised GM food says debate isn’t over. The number of scientists, physicians and legal experts who have signed the group statement, “No scientific consensus on GMO safety”[1] has climbed to 230 in ...

Pointman's

  • 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 ...
  • Russia 3, Greenpeace 2.
    I like the Russians. You spend enough time studying a foreign people, you sort of fall in love with them, because that’s the beginning of understanding them and their country in any real sense. The accent is on liking the people rather than the leadership, who’re what you’re su ...
  • Climate Prat of the Year award 2013.
    How quickly time flies. It seems but twelve months since we last ran the competition but I suppose as we grow older, time appears to pass more rapidly. Sweet bird of youth etc etc. Anyway, a recent address by the almost beatified Bob Geldorf to a bunch of stunned school kids telling them that th ...

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

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Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Germany: The Greatest Double Robbery in the Hi ...
    Anger is growing over the way the German government has handled information regarding a secret trove of some 1,400 works of art confiscated or fleeced by the Nazis and discovered in a Munich apartment nearly two years ago. German prosecutors confirmed on
  • UK Politicians Collaborate with Muslim Brother ...
    At the end of this month, on November 23-24, UK politicians, in a crushing betrayal of Britain's moderate Muslims, are planning join many of Britain's most outspoken Islamist groups and preachers at the sixth Global Peace and Unity conference, due to be
  • Palestinians: We Do Not Trust The Americans
    As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embarks on a fresh mission to prevent the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Palestinian Authority [PA] appears to be doing its utmost to internationalize the conflict with Israel. The Palestinians
  • Allies, Adversaries and the Right to Self-Defense
    According to the Arabic proverb, "If you honor and respect a noble man, he will become your friend, but if you honor and respect a villain, he will rise up against you." One view of diplomacy, deemed misguided by leaders such as Churchill, is to abandon
  • Holocaust Remembrance: New Tool for Anti-Semitism?
    Anti-Semitism has now become mainstream not just in France, as Guy Millière wrote on the Gatestone website last week, but all over Western Europe. One shocking aspect of the new wave of anti-Semitism is that the remembrance of the Holocaust is being

Urban Survival

  • For Peoplenomics Subscribers: How a US Bail-In ...
    A number of people have asked me to weigh in how a US Bail-In might work – and while the short answer is “It’s an extremely low-prob event” some explanation is in order…it’s long and involves a lot of thinking, though, so consider yourself forewarned.  An ...
  • Jobs Data and a Lesson in BTR/STN
    “OK, Ure, what is this BTR/STN crap in the headline?  It’s too early to make me figure out Ure BS acronymwiticisms…”  Fair enough:  Buy the Rumor, Sell the News.  Imminent new highs (and a chorus or two from the choir here at the East Texas Synod of the Church of the Almighty ...
  • Coping: A Longish Quake Rap
    This is going to be a long and winding ramble, so get that warm-up and we begin, as I explained recent to Peoplenomics subscribers, with Mr. Ure’s not-yet-patented “REAL Threat Board” which lives on my desktop. Oh, sure, the market is going to go up some days, and it will go down some days, but ...
  • # $26, # Greed, #FMTT
    I can’t remember there being so much hype around a social media IPO since… was it Facebook?  Nevertheless, this morning I’m besieged with breathless headlines panting “All eyes on NYSE for Twitter IPO…” and other such pap.  Us ‘lil people, not in the club are going to have to buy retai ...
  • Coping: With America, Off the Mark
    We begin this morning’s epistle with a fine (and to the point) read from Idaho Bill, to get things rolling.  It’s  a useful discussion of just what is “sin”? Aho George, A scholar friend of mine once told me that her knowledge of the word “sin” was not as the Bible thumpers ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • Q&A Session With Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein 19 ...
    Question & Answer Session With Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein 19 July 2011 Q & A SESSION with world renowned Islamic Scholar Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein Malaysia Lecture Tour, 19 July 2011 18 Sha'ban 1432  Imran Nazar Hosein is a... [[ This is a content s ...
  • Bill Still Report #120 -- Obama Good at Killin ...
    A shocking revelation in a new book says that President Obama bragged that he was "good at killing people." 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.figane ...
  • Last Days New World Order End Times Bible Prop ...
    Well known evangelical prophecy speaker Paul Mcguire states - THE GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND IS A ONE WORLD ECONOMIC SYSTEM, A CASHLESS SOCIETY AND ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT YOU ARE SEEING THE EMERGENCE OF THE "FOURTH BEAST" AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • World Wide Uprising against the Mainstream Media
    source http://www.naaij.org/2013/11/09/activ... Activists, that may not necessarily identify as Anonymous, are planning for a Worldwide March Against Mainstream Media[1] on Nov 16th. Similar to the recent Million Mask March that was largely... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit htt ...
  • The Idea Of The Amero Replacing The Dollar ~ J ...
    Biography: John Truman Wolfe has been a senior credit officer for two California banks. He is the co-founder of a prestigious Los Angeles-based business-management company where he oversaw the business and financial matters of some of the biggest... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

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

  • Demanding CLEAN Power
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The Wall Street Journal recently reported that 1 in 20 Americans live within a mile of a fracking site. That means more people than ever before have drill pads, toxic wastewater pits, and heavy truc ...
  • A New Era of Flood Management: Farms, Fish and ...
    Monty Schmitt, Senior Scientist, San Joaquin River Project Manager, San Francisco Something happened this week that probably would not have even occurred just five years ago – a farmer worked with conservation groups to sell his 497 acre dairy ...
  • Aggressive Energy Efficiency Programs Could Sa ...
    Ariana Gonzalez, Energy Policy Analyst, Midwest, Chicago Office Michigan homes, businesses, and industries could save nearly $7 billion on their electricity and natural gas bills over the next five years – and a whopping $13 billion over ...
  • This Week in Whales: Japan is Hunting Some Dol ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week (or close to it), presented by guest blogger Lauren Packard: The Japanese tradition of killing around 17,000 small cetaceans each year in Ja ...
  • The Utility of Fashion
    Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Let's be frank -- I am not a fashionista.  The last time I may have even been remotely on the cusp of being fashionable was well-over a decade ago, (unless you count my penchant for neoprene ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Major NATO war games come to Baltics
    Thousands of troops are taking part in some of the regions biggest war games on the Baltics’ eastern shores from Nov. 2-7. The NATO-backed Steadfast Jazz exercises involve over 6,000 soldiers from 20 countries, as well as 40 aircraft and 15 vessels.Troops will be training at the Adazi base in La ...
  • US warships to remain off Syria coast, reports say
    The US Navy is reportedly set to keep some warships off the coast of Syria, although chances of a military strike against the Arab country have grown slim. US Navy officials announced that only two of the Nimitz strike group ships will leave the Mediterranean waters in the next few weeks, while ...
  • Cynical German Ambassador confesses: “Now that ...
    The German ambassador in Athens Wolfgang Dold,  spoke of investments planned to take place in Greece by German companies. When will they invest? After the EU, IMF and others directed entirely from Berlin, are finished looting everything in our country. Then the Germans and other foreign entities ...

Daily Dose

  • It’s not just you: Instagram is down due ...
    If you’re unable to use Instagram, it’s not just you. A slew of tweets from users complaining that both the Instagram application as well as the company website were completely... Keep reading →
  • Shopify now allows stores to accept Bitcoin
    E-commerce platform Shopify is already tackling the world’s newest form of currency. Today, the company announced that it now supports Bitcoin payment through Bitpay on checkout for stores using the platform.... Keep reading →
  • Nexus 5 review: Finally, a near-perfect fusion ...
    The Nexus series of smartphones are, on one hand, the closest that Google ever comes to an iPhone-like union of hardware and software, and on the other they’re an uninspiring,... Keep reading →
  • 5 things you need to know when growing your co ...
    Brian Lakamp is the President of Digital for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and oversees the company’s digital strategy, which includes iHeartRadio. He previously served as Executive VP of Digital Media... Keep reading →
  • Why is the first medical tricorder coming from ...
    At the Dublin Web Summit last week, I met Sam de Brouwer, co-founder of one of the most interesting startups of the past couple of years, Scanadu. Following its successful crowdfunding... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • 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 ...
  • Methane matters: Is the future electric?
    Richard Keech critically examines the sustainability of gas. From Renew, magazine of the Alternative Technology Association, issue 125 I’VE heard it said that 50% of what we’ve learnt is probably wrong; the trick is knowing which 50%. I submit that the received wisdom that gas is a clean fuel i ...
  • Abbott's action - direct hit or direct flop?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Published in Climate Spectator, 21 Oct 2013 With the Abbott government pinning all its hopes on its 'direct action' scheme to meet its stated commitment to a 5 per cent emissions reduction by 2020, it is worth exploring the past failures and lessons arising from direct ac ...
  • Melbourne film premiere: Two Degrees
    Beyond Zero Emissions will host the Melbourne premiere screening of newly released climate change documentary Two Degrees on November 6, and we would love for you to join us! Power station, Port Augusta, with Flinders Ranges in background. Image: http://twodegreesmovie.com 6.30-8.30pm, Wednesda ...
  • Fossil fuel billions better invested in zero e ...
    MEDIA RELEASE, Beyond Zero Emissions, 16 October 2013 Billions of dollars currently invested in fossil fuel industries can and should be withdrawn and re-invested in zero emissions technology immediately. This is the message Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Will Haiyan's impact in the Philippines be wor ...
    While it's too early to assess the impact of Super Typhoon Haiyan — reportedly the strongest tropical storm ever recorded to make landfall — in the Philippines, the damage could be exacerbated by the large-scale loss of the country's forests.
  • Amazon deforestation could cause droughts in C ...
    Complete deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could reduce rainfall in the Pacific Northwest by up to 20 percent and snowpack in the Sierra Nevada by up to 50 percent, suggests new research published in the Journal of Climate. The study is based on high resolution computer modeling that stripp ...
  • Seahorses on your iPad: new app allows anyone ...
    Annually, approximately 13 million seahorses—live and dead—are traded around the globe. At this scale, the seahorse trade is potentially very destructive to a group of animals comprised of 48 species, 11 of which are listed by the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN ...
  • Dolphins, bats and the evolution of echolocation
    A dolphin swimming through the world’s oceans after fish, and a bat flying through the air with its membranous wings to catch insects or eat fruit: at first glance, it looks like no two creatures could be more different. But it turns out they share a superpower - they hunt prey by emitting ...
  • Critically Endangered Jamaican iguana imperile ...
    The story of the Jamaican iguana (Cyclura collie) is one of adversity and resurgence. Once believed extinct, the species has made a remarkable comeback over the last two decades. However, according to concerned scientists, a new plan to build a massive port in the iguana's habitat could push the ...

Sierra Express

  • OPWA Annual Dinner and Dance 2013 – Today Nove ...
    Old Prince Waleans Association USA, Washington Metro Chapter, invites you to its Annual, Dinner and Dance to be held Saturday, November 9, 2013   ***  NOTE NEW VENUE AND TIME   ***   at Ukrainian Hall, 15100 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20905 Music by D J Lebbie and D J Omar. ...
  • Local Government Ministry embroiled in Chiefta ...
    The declaration ceremony for aspirants for the Paramount Chieftaincy election in Maforki Chiefdom, Port Loko was on 6th November, 2013 unceremoniously cancelled at the eleventh hour by the Deputy Local Government Minister, Hadiru Kalokoh after all the thirteen aspirants and their supporters had ...
  • Umar A. Sesay set for victory in Sanda Magbolo ...
    Umar Abdulia Sesay, a descendant from Kinthur Ruling House in Magbonlonthor and Mabonkaneh villages in the Sanda Magbonlonthor Chiefdom, Port Loko District was on Tuesday 5th November 2013 granted the right to contest the Paramount Chieftaincy election in Sanda Magbonlonthor Chiefdom slated for ...
  • SLRTA on road safety training in schools
    The Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) on Thursday 7th November, 2013 commenced nationwide road safety training in schools at the Prince Of Wales Secondary School (POW), Kingtom, Freetown on the theme: ‘Children Are Killed On Our Roads Often When Going To School.’ (Photo: Dr. Sarah Be ...
  • Method of voting for the SWASAL 2012 & 2013 An ...
    The SWASAL Awards Committee wishes to inform the general public that voting for the various categories for the 2012 and 2013 Annual National Sports Awards will start from 12pm on Friday 8th November 2013, and ends at mid night on Sunday 1st December 2013. Members of the general public are encour ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices dip 1.8pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products fell in the second straight GlobalDairyTrade auction overnight, led by whole milk powder and butter, though the average winning price is still 42 per cent higher than it was a year ago.The GDT Price Index,...
  • Commodity prices up again, near new record
    New Zealand commodity prices rose for a fourth straight month, and are now just 1.8 per cent below the record set in April, as wool extended its rally to a 22-month high.
  • Fonterra kicks off national roadshow
    Fonterra's thousands of farmer shareholders are being invited to meet and question candidates currently running for a seat at the dairy giant's top table. Elections are being held this month for three positions available on Fonterra's...
  • Fonterra chiefs left in dark
    Fonterra's botulism false alarm would not have occurred had responsibility for the contamination been swiftly passed to senior management, says Sir Ralph Norris.The former Air New Zealand chief executive, and current Fonterra independent...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Damning indictment in food sc ...
    Strip away the comfort statements in the independent inquiry report on the botulism food scare for Fonterra's board and one sentence jumps out: "In circumstances involving global reputational risk and notwithstanding the high calibre...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Tori Richards on Obamacare Enabling Deadbeats
    Tucked inside nearly 11,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act is a little-known provision that doles out three months of free health care to individuals who choose to default on their premiums. People who receive the federal subsidy to be part of Obamacare will be allowed to incur a t ...
  • Peter Suderman on Breaking Bad
    AMC's much-lauded series Breaking Bad, which concluded in September, chronicled the rise and fall of a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a meth kingpin after he is diagnosed with cancer. As Reason senior editor Peter Suderman notes, in addition to the personal story of a fam ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on the FDA's Proposed Trans Fa ...
    On Thursday the FDA made the surprise announcement that it would move to ban artificial trans fats, which are found in foods containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. The ban would not apply to naturally occurring trans fats, such as those found in meat and dairy products. A ...
  • Top Editor at Guns & Ammo Out Aft ...
    Readers of Guns & Ammo did not appreciate a pro-gun control column the magazine ran. It argued regulating firearms wasn’t an infringement of constitutional rights because all rights are regulated, and even included the tired and inaccurate “fire in a crowded” theater argument. T ...
  • 10 Days in Jail for Ex-Prosecutor Who Sent Inn ...
    Justice is served. A former Texas prosecutor accused of withholding important evidence in a murder trial, which resulted in an innocent man serving 25 years in prison, will go to jail. For 10 days. And he’ll pay a $500 fine and serve 500 hours of community service. The Associated Pre ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Obamacare Ratings Improve, Especially Among Cu ...
    Well, the Republicans, their media allies, and a few weakkneed weathervanes among the Democrats have been part of a non-stop three-week-long hate parade against the ACA. And guess what? It’s actually gotten slightly more popular during that time. Despite glitches at HealthCare.gov, despite ...
  • Dear God, Please Protect This Pope
    Francis is the first pope in history to do something as daringly humane as this: Last March, just before the opening of the most recent papal conclave, I shared a few thoughts about what a “Lutheran-Elector” might look for in a new pope. The great task of the new pope, I wrote, will be community ...
  • A Coward’s Crime
    Paul Taylor, Reuters: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband’s corpse. “We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination,&#82 ...
  • Marcy Wheeler gains long-overdue recognition
    Via Bob Swern at DK, Pema Levy, Newsweek: Experts on domestic surveillance admire Wheeler’s ability to connect current revelations to past mysteries. “You’ll read through these dense documents, and it’s about one thing; but she’ll find a clue in there to something we’ve all wondered about on som ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    Celebrities struggle with their sexuality too, I love boobies may be going to the Supreme Court, Kim Kardashian: is she healthier (and smarter) than the rest of us?, a dating site for egg donation and three women and the (literal) objects of their desire, and more in this week's update.  ...
  • Supernormal
    The following is excerpted from Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities, published by Random House. Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. —Lewis Carroll We begin with a simple question: Was Buddha just a nice gu ...
  • Psi in the News
      What does meditation and ayahuasca have to do with precognition? Does Dr. James Carpenter’s First Sight theory of psi unlock the secrets of psychic potential? Is there a changing tide in the public’s perception of the skeptical sub-culture? Find out in this edition of Psi in the News. r ...
  • The Khanyisa Psychoactive Healing Garden: A Be ...
    A State of Fragmentation By 2020, it is predicted by the World Health Organization that depression will be the leading cause of disease burden in the first world. This is a scary statistic. Despite all the advantages of western technology, it is clear that we are all struggling more than eve ...
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Desertification

  • 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 ...
  • Jordan’s Farmers Struggle to Weather Cli ...
    Abu Waleed isn’t quite sure where to begin his litany of grievances. Bugs that chomp their way through the mint he grows, or the dry well that forces him to pump water from a half kilometre away? Or perhaps the 160 dinars he spent on spinach seeds only to see scant growth after planting. F ...
  • Mongolia’s Wild Asses Cornered From All Sides
    Decades of international and local collaboration have brought the Tahki or Asian Wild Horse back from the brink of extinction and reintroduced herds to Mongolia’s Gobi desert and grasslands. However, the country’s other wild equine – the Mongolian Wild Ass or Khulan – is fast disappe ...
  • The United States of Drought
    As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage. By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year – 10 times the amoun ...
  • When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
    Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Karunyu’s husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of cent ...

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

  • ‘Nusra Front runs al-Qaeda ops in Syria’
    Al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has announced that the al-Nusra Front will carry the group’s banner in the Syria conflict, ordering the Iraqi faction of al-Qaeda to stop interfering in Syria.
  • ‘Egypt, UAE plot to topple Hamas’
    Officials of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, have accused Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of plotting to topple the movement and its military wing in the Gaza Strip.
  • Mortar shell hits Aleppo, kills six kids
    At least six people have been killed and five others injured after a mortar shell hit al-Ashrafiyeh district in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo.
  • Turkey ‘stops aiding Takfiris’ in Syria
    A senior Syrian Kurdish leader claims the Turkish government has stopped supporting the Takfiri militant groups operating inside Syria.
  • Weapons shipment seized in S Turkey
    A large shipment of weapons has been seized by Turkish security forces in the southern province of Adana near Syria border, Press TV reports.

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

  • Quick Fire Science: Megafauna
    This week archaeologists in Queensland, Australia, found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long. Archaeologists have already found the remains of many giant ancestors of moder...
  • Maths gives cancer clues
    Fresh insights into the development of cancers has been revealed by a new study. The story starts more than 100 years ago, when biologists looking at cancer cells down the microscope noticed that th...
  • Immune cell bodyguards to keep out TB
    Immune system bodyguard drugs that fend off tuberculosis could soon be possible, according to new research. TB is a major problem in both cattle and humans. In 2012, 1.3 million people globally died ...
  • IBM vision for computer of the future
    International computer giant IBM has unveiled its vision for a supercomputer in a sugarcube powered by electronic blood. The aim is to base the design on the workings of the ...
  • Tail wags the dog
    The direction in which a dog wags its tail tells other canines what it's thinking, new research has revealed. Scientists have confirmed previously that tail wagging isn't just a back and forth affai...

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Care2 - Environment

  • When Animal Shelters Struggle, Operation Blank ...
    At the end don't forget to vote. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TEACHING TORTURE: California Bullfighting Sch ...
    The academy, which teaches "movements & techniques," has been operating since 1997. The author recently launched an online petition at Care2 as a means of gathering support for its closure. Over 25,000 signers & counting have voiced SHUT IT DOWN! Join us! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nb ...
  • Stephen Harper, Right Hon, Prime Minister of C ...
    Horses brought us here and carried us through time, they sacrificed for us, loved us and fought our battles, and how do we return the favor? by slaughter pain and suffering. that is not how they deserve to be treated. Please sign petition. Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |  &nb ...
  • Mimi The Pregnant Maltese Gets Rescued From Sh ...
    Mimi was abandoned and left at a shelter after her owners learned she was pregnant. Mimi was hopeless with no one to love her, and no one to love her puppies. Submitted by marie H. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Australian Racing Industry: racehorses aren't ...
    *Warning: the video above contains graphic footage The racing industry refers to these horses as "wastage". Each year, about 18,000 racehorses are shot and killed -- most of them bought by meat buyers and turned into pet food. PLEASE sign petition! Submitted by Judy E. to Animals  |&nb ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Tell the FDA: GMO salmon is too risky
    Never before has a genetically-modified animal been approved for human consumption. And yet, the FDA's review has been insufficient, failing to consider broad environmental and public health risks from GMO salmon. Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
  • WARNING - DO NOT SIGN ! - BAD PETITION
    With your signature you will show your support for the COMPLETE REPEAL of the ANIMAL CRUELTY LAWS in the State of Texas... Submitted by Angelika Roll to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Photographer uses N.C. landfill as background ...
    Professor and professional photographer, Shannon Johnstone's project "Landfill Dogs" is not only highlighting the beauty of each of her extraordinary canine subjects, but is also giving shelter dogs from North Carolina's Wake County Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko-Eakin to Animals  |  ...
  • Pakistan: Child labour - Who are the ultimate ...
    According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), "Child labor refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • iPad Games for Your Pets (Even Lizards! VIDEO!)
    Ah, the iPad. What did we ever do before it? You can look up recipes, research homework, watch the stocks, catch up with friends, and entertain the kids in the grocery line all with the swipe of a finger. And now with the insurgence of apps for pets, Submitted by BarbCat Knight to Offbeat & ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • November 10, 2013 – HAPPY 238TH BIRTHDAY ...
    If you are unable to open the links in the image, you may go directly to the Military.com website and/or copy the following links into your browser: History of Marine Corps http://www.military.com/marine-corps-birthday Marine Corps Slide Show http://www.military.com/marine-corps-birthday-slidesh ...
  • Veterans Day Is November 11
    Veterans Day Is November 11.Filed under: News and politics
  • Deficit Dropped to 4.1% of GDP in 2013
    By Patricia L Johnson The naysayers can spin the words 24/7, but it’s tough to spin the bottom line, especially one looking as good as ours for the end of FY2013. The U.S. had Receipts totaling $2.774 trillion dollars and … Continue reading →
  • Happy Veterans Day to Our Veterans a.k.a. “Our ...
    By Patricia L Johnson United States Code defines a Veteran as follows: 38 U.S.C.  United States Code, 2011 Edition Title 38 – VETERANS’ BENEFITS PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER 1 – GENERAL Sec. 101 – Definitions From the U.S. … Continue reading →
  • Consumer Updates Why Are Jerky Treats Making ...
    Consumer Updates Why Are Jerky Treats Making Pets Sick?.Filed under: Government, Health and wellness Tagged: Cat, China, Dogs, Jerky treats, Pets, Warning
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