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The Daily Galaxy

  • Could Early Mars or Earth Have Seeded the Sola ...
        Could microbial life have been brought to the moons of Jupiter or Saturn on rocks blasted off those Earth or Mars?, Researchers note the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn were all once warmer and likely had little to no icy shell to prevent meteorites from reaching their liquid interior ...
  • Spectacular Starburst Galaxy M82 --"Harbors an ...
                    Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82. These new data highlight streamers of material fleeing the disk ...
  • NASA Presents Hesperian-Era Evidence that Mars ...
        In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory has determined the age of a Martian rock, found evidence the planet could have sustained microbial life, taken the first readings of radiation on the surface, and shown how natural erosion could reveal ...
  • Zeroing In on Gulf of Mexico Remnants of Colos ...
        Sixty five million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into a shallow sea near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The resulting firestorm and global dust cloud caused the extinction of many land plants and large animals, including most of the dinosaurs. At this week’s m ...
  • First Galaxies of the Universe May Be Invisibl ...
        Dust may be more rare than expected in galaxies of the early Universe making them much more difficult to observe, according to an international research team. In a galaxy named IZw 18, which has a chemistry that is more like galaxies of the very early Universe with a very low abundanc ...

Natural News

  • Top five holiday foods that promote cancer, di ...
    The holiday food rush is on across the USA, and for the next month, Americans will be stuffing their faces with precisely the kind of disease-promoting foods that will cause them to scream, "Where's my free health care?" in early January. The conventional media will...
  • Vitamin D deficiency increases pregnant women' ...
    A growing number of pregnant women are beginning to develop gestational diabetes during their pregnancy, usually around the 24th week. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 18 percent of hospital pregnancies are affected by gestational diabetes. This means...
  • The power of nut butters - Their various healt ...
    Nuts are an incredibly rich source of nutrients and minerals and are easy to incorporate into your diet - provided that you do not suffer from any allergies. Not only are they easily available, but they are also fast-acting, and only a handful a day can produce significant...
  • 10 powerful corporations control most of what ...
    It used to be the case that there were real choices involved in purchasing food from the grocery store, buying clothes from the mall or a department store and even watching the news on television. But today, the vast majority of what people consume in all spheres of...
  • Was the Bible correct that pork is truly an un ...
    The Hebrew people have avoided pork and pig products as a dietary principle discussed in the Bible. Leviticus clearly states that pigs, because they do not chew their cud, are an unclean meat. Modern science has shown that pigs carry a very high toxic load making them...

Threat Level

  • Cops and Feds Routinely ‘Dump’ Cell Towers to ...
    The nation's mobile phone carriers were hit by more than 9,000 requests last year for cell-tower dumps, which identify every mobile phone at a particular location and time, often by the thousands. The revelation, as part of a congressional inquiry, ...     
  • Guilty Verdict in First Ever Cybercrime RICO Trial
    A young Arizona identity thief is the first person in the U.S. to be found guilty of federal racketeering charges for facilitating his crimes over a website.     
  • NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Loca ...
    Despite what the NSA is saying, case law on cell-site locational tracking, while favoring the government, is nevertheless all over the books, with federal courts and appellate courts offering mixed rulings on whether warrants are needed.     
  • It’s Not a WikiLeak: Assange-Manning Chat Logs ...
    In March of 2010, WikiLeaks was just weeks away from bursting onto the world stage with the first of its major leaks from intelligence analyst Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning: the "Collateral Murder" video showing a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that ...     
  • Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge S ...
    Earlier this year, researchers say, someone mysteriously hijacked internet traffic headed to government agencies, corporate offices and other recipients in the U.S. and elsewhere and redirected it to Belarus and Iceland, before sending it on its way to its legitimate ...      ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GM Bailout Produced a Windfall for U.S. Taxpayers
    On Monday, the federal government announced it had sold off the remaining shares from its $49.5 billion bailout of General Motors in 2009. But the $10.5 billion loss on paper obscures the massive total return on investment for the U.S. economy overall and American taxpayers in particular. As a ...
  • Iran Sanctions Foe Dick Cheney Slams Obama on ...
    If any American public figure has completely disqualified himself from weighing in on President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, it is former Vice President Dick Cheney. After all, as a quick look back at his statements about the Iraq war shows ("Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Huss ...
  • Republicans Chicken Out on Tax Reform
    For three years, "tax reform" has been the centerpiece of the Republican Party's program for the American economy. Ever since taking control of the House, GOP leaders have promised that "lowering rates" while "broadening the base" would produce "revenue-neutral" tax reform. In 2011, 2012 and ag ...
  • Judge Blocks UnitedHealthcare from Dropping Th ...
    For weeks, Medicare Advantage insurer UnitedHealthcare has been a poster child for conservative grievances against the Affordable Care Act. The company, which covers 2.9 million of the 14 million elderly or disabled American enrolled in the private insurance program, announced it was dropping o ...
  • Conservatives Likening Obama to a Slave Owner ...
    Over the past couple of days, Jonathan Chait's "12 Years a Slave and the Obama Era" seems to have struck a nerve among the conservative commentariat. In it, Chait responded to the Obama caricature of the National Review's Quin HIllyer depicting the President with "chin jutting out, countenance ...

Global Research.ca

  • ‘Struggle Is My Life’: Mandela&#82 ...
    South African leader and international icon Nelson Mandela has died at age 95 at his Johannesburg home after struggling with health problems. 'A giant for justice', 'a father of the nation', 'a hero of our time' - world leaders have praised Nelson Mandela, reacting to the news of his death. Dann ...
  • “Nobody is Safe”: Foreign Forces N ...
    Syria has been marred by civil war by over two years. In August, videos emerged which showed alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians outside Damascus. Critics of President Bashar al-Assad claimed the videos proved the administration was behind the sarin gas attack, and led US President Bara ...
  • Legacies: Michael Hourigan and the Internation ...
    Australian lawyer and U.N. war crimes investigator Michael Hourigan was given the task of investigating the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents by shooting their plane out of the sky over Kigali on April 6, 1994. His evidence that…
  • El oso ruso toma cartas en el asunto mientras ...
    El poder estadounidense en Oriente Medio está declinando y los aliados estadounidenses en la región están empezando a considerar nuevas alternativas a Washington. La Guerra Fría nunca terminó para los dirigentes estadounidenses. No hay que hacerse ilusiones al respecto, Estados…
  • “Big Brother is Watching You” &#82 ...
    We noted in June that the single most important thing you can do to protect yourself from government spying is to realize that the NSA can turn on your cellphone or laptop’s videocamera and microphone without you knowing. And see…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Uprising Grows Against Fracking in a Surprisin ...
    An unspoiled pastoral landscape is the latest battlefield in the war against aggressive fossil energy extraction. "Do you think they're about to have sex?", one of the group whispers. I'm in Transylvania, crouched in the bushes with a bunch of activists in balaclavas, taking turns to speculat ...
  • Why the California Coast May Soon Be Getting N ...
    With local crude sources in decline and an abundant supply of crude coming out of Texas, Colorado and North Dakota, the way oil gets to California may soon change. For years, California has gotten much of its crude oil via pipeline from its own oil patches, or via tankers from Alaska or abroad ...
  • We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power ...
    A leading researcher says we have enough wind and solar to power the world. Are we willing to do what's necessary to transform our society? The environment is one bad news story after another. The Pacific Ocean is warming at a rate faster than anything seen in the last 10,000 years and ...
  • Plan Proposed to Allow Fracking Wastewater to ...
    A Coast Guard plan would allow companies to ship wastewater in bulk on barges on the nation’s 12,000 miles of waterways. The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the country’s waterways, will allow shale gas companies to ship fracking wastewater on the nation’s rivers and lakes under a proposed p ...
  • Great Lakes and $7 Billion Fishing Industry Th ...
    The insatiable and destructive Asian carp is reproducing in the Great Lakes watershed for the first time—now what? This story first appeared in OnEarth Magazine.Fifty years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported a species of Asian carp to Arkansas as part of an initiative to control ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Another Proposed Coal Export Terminal in Texas ...
    The third and final major new coal shipping proposal at the Port of Corpus Christi has been canceled, according to documents from recent Port Authority meetings reviewed by the Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition, a multistate campaign to halt expansion of coal exports from the Gulf Coast while promot ...
  • Austin Energy Cutting Solar Credits
    Is Austin Energy joining the war on solar? Bit by bit, our publicly owned, nationally renowned, supposedly green electric utility is trying to roll back programs that support customer owned solar. Austin Energy is cutting the Value of Solar tariff, which compensates solar owners for the energy t ...
  • Sixth Annual Austin Community “Green” Holiday ...
    Join us at the Sixth Annual Austin Community “Green” Holiday Party Thursday, December 19th, 2013  6pm-10pm Hosted by Barr Mansion 10463 Sprinkle Rd., Austin, TX 78754 (www.barrmansion.com) “Celebrating the Bounty of Winter” Menu with music by Cienfuegos Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin ...
  • Poor Construction on the Keystone XL Pipeline ...
    Congressional Oversight Hearings are Needed on the Keystone XL Pipeline Construction to Protect Health and Safety of the Public and Environment The bad news about the Keystone XL pipeline just keeps coming. After months of research, Public Citizen has brought to light the grave risks posed by su ...
  • Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” Takes on Tran ...
    Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” took issue today with a misleading television ad, sponsored by TransCanada in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The ad, titled “TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline: Eliminate America’s reliance on foreign energy” urges Americans to support the pipeline ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Strongest evidence yet found for life on Mars
    NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has provided enough evidence to suggest Mars could have supported life. Scientists studying the data and photographs retur...
  • Private investigator films UFO
    An investigator watching a building in the early hours managed to film something unusual in the sky. Joe Rodriguez had been on stakeout in Los Angeles...
  • Vast undersea freshwater reserves found
    An international team of scientists has discovered huge quantities of fresh water underneath the ocean. The researchers estimate that there could be u...
  • Coldest place on Earth discovered
    Scientists have measured a record-breaking temperature of -91C on a mountain ridge in Antarctica. America's National Snow and Ice Data Centre made the...
  • 130 million-year-old 'sea monster' found
    Palaeontologists have uncovered the remains of a huge prehistoric predatory marine reptile. The fossil remains were unearthed in Boyaca, a landlocked ...

Grassroots

  • Interview with Miriam Nobre, Global Feminist A ...
    miriam_photo.jpg Miriam Nobre is a Brazilian feminist activist and current coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), an international feminist movement that connects grassroots women to eliminate the root causes of poverty and violence aga ...
  • Report from Post-election Honduras Cites Viole ...
    honduras-marchers_with_banner.jpg This is a preliminary summary from the US-based Honduras Solidarity Network / Alliance for Global Justice election observation delegation. The summary casts doubt the credibility of Honduran Supreme Elector ...
  • If Farming Is Hard, Free Trade Makes It Harder
    Subheadline:  Why it's Time to End the WTO bali_online_poster.jpg Being a farmer is hard.  This is true no matter what policies exist. The work itself is difficul ...
  • Standing in Solidarity with the Palestinian People
    palestine-children.jpg By Claire Gilbert and Mina Remyread more
  • MPP’s Much Ado About Women
    b_350_0_16777215_00_images_stories_women_2012-12-20_afiche_mujeres.jpg Haiti, like everywhere else, has a complex relationship with women. Women’s work in and out the home is invaluable, sometimes the difference between: eating or not, ...

Care 2

  • URGENT: Ask Australian Officials to Delay the ...
    According to news sources, officials in Charters Towers, Queensland, are removing bats from Lissner Park. Although nonlethal tactics are being employed, reports of mother bats becoming separated from their babies are pouring in, and we're told that Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • Keep Tasmania's Old Growth Forests on the UNES ...
    Please sign and urge both the World Heritage Committee and the Federal Government to leave the protected area in tact without boundary reductions. Better still, urge the Federal Government & UNESCO to support extending the listing to include the Tarkine Submitted by Cher C. to Environment &nbsp ...
  • Governor Susana Martinez: Make protecting New ...
    New Mexico and the Southwest are in the midst of a severe drought. What little water New Mexico has is now under threat. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Boycott foie gras
    This time of the year " Foie gras " is high prized .Nobody cares that the animals walk through hell Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • World unites for Mandela memorial
    Tens of thousands of South Africans united in proud celebration Tuesday at a rain-soaked emotional memorial service to global freedom icon Nelson Mandela, attended by presidents and princes and watched by millions Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |  & ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Sy Hersh Exposes Obama Lies on Syria
    He may be old but he’s still young at heart when it comes to investigative journalism. I am talking about that crusty, cantankerous guy whose record for breaking seminal news stories has no parallel. He was the first to expose CIA spying inside the United States during the Vietnam War. He ...
  • A Day Seared into America’s Soul
    NOTE–This is a reprint. I wrote it more than two years ago while working on Ford’s Island at Pearl Harbor. Ford’s Island is akin to Gettysburg. You can literally feel the ghosts of history. It touches your very soul. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks o ...
  • Now For Some Fun
    The news on all fronts is so grim and disgusting that I thought we needed a lift. So let me introduce you to a young old friend–Marsha Posner Williams. Marsha and her husband, Wayne, produced the first Rewards for Justice terrorism ads back in 1990–Are You the Next Hero–which f ...
  • Radioactive Larceny Karma
    I was unable to post anything yesterday when news broke that a truck load of radioactive cobalt had been stolen and was missing in Mexico. I did hear the sometimes delusional Charles Krauthammer jump on the hysteria bandwagon by insisting that Hezbollah could be the culprits who grabbed the leth ...
  • Obama Readies Lipstick for His Healthcare Pig
    Putting lipstick on a pig don’t necessarily make the porker more pretty or more kissable. And that is the fools errand that Barack Obama is set to undertake starting this afternoon. Obama apparently is surrounded by sycophants and morons. The appear to believe that the major problem with O ...

Futurismic

  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • NSA Boundless Informant explicated - for moar ...
    Just had to crosspost this relatively down-to-earth explanation of how all the cell phone data is hoarded in the NSA mass data mining system. What this lacks in documentation it makes up for with relative plausibility & general lack of fancifulness. SOURCE: Cryptome.org : http://cryptome.o ...
  • Aha: Carbon Market digital currency "Ven" by H ...
    Lolz just stumbled on this - had to write a quick post with a lurid headline. Ven is like the Sharper Image / corporate greenwashing version of Bitcoins and it's all tied into a big ball of classic shady stuff. There is a really nice blob of greenwashing social constructions underpinning the Ven ...
  • Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
    Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...
  • Bitcoin taps $200 again as ecosystem for servi ...
    Prices around $200 USD now, interesting price patterns. Stabilization & slow growth reigned since the woolly early 2013 era. Here: Bitcoin fake fibonacci trend line fun - even in crashes it never broke thru the lowest trend line. It's hard but not impossible to see it below $100 again. I thi ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Watch: Obama, Raul Castro, Maya Angelou Honor ...
    Nearly 100 heads of state traveled to South Africa for the memorial. Tens of thousands gathered at the FNP Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg today for a memorial to honor Nelson Mandela, who died last week at the age of 95. Nearly 100 heads of state traveled to South Africa for the memorial, ...
  • Watch: Cop Shoves His Dog Into Surrendering Su ...
    The suspect, who tried to surrender, had to get stitches on his face and shoulders. A North Carolina cop was cleared of all wrongdoing by a grand jury yesterday--even after a video showed him pushing a K-9 unit dog into a suspect’s car.  The dog then mauled the suspect, who had to get stitch ...
  • How Big Agribusiness is Trying to Muzzle the A ...
    “Ag-gag” laws have been passed that prohibit things like taking a farm job undercover. For years, animal rights activists have secretly taken on jobs at factory farms to expose the awful conditions animals live in.  While the infiltrations still go on today, big agribusiness is trying to crush ...
  • Gay Catholic School Teacher Fired For Getting ...
    The educator was told that his marriage license violates his teaching contract. A Catholic high school teacher in Pennsylvania was fired after he applied for a marriage license in nearby New Jersey.  MSNBC reports that the teacher, Michael Griffin, was told that his marriage license violates h ...
  • Did Porn Warp Me Forever?
    Like other boys my age, I grew up with unlimited access to smut. At 23, I wonder if it's totally screwed me up. It was the era of Kazaa and we knew no better. Among my group of male friends at my austere private elementary school, watching, discussing and even sharing pornography became a ...

Threat Level

  • Cops and Feds Routinely ‘Dump’ Cell Towers to ...
    The nation's mobile phone carriers were hit by more than 9,000 requests last year for cell-tower dumps, which identify every mobile phone at a particular location and time, often by the thousands. The revelation, as part of a congressional inquiry, ...     
  • Guilty Verdict in First Ever Cybercrime RICO Trial
    A young Arizona identity thief is the first person in the U.S. to be found guilty of federal racketeering charges for facilitating his crimes over a website.     
  • NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Loca ...
    Despite what the NSA is saying, case law on cell-site locational tracking, while favoring the government, is nevertheless all over the books, with federal courts and appellate courts offering mixed rulings on whether warrants are needed.     
  • It’s Not a WikiLeak: Assange-Manning Chat Logs ...
    In March of 2010, WikiLeaks was just weeks away from bursting onto the world stage with the first of its major leaks from intelligence analyst Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning: the "Collateral Murder" video showing a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that ...     
  • Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge S ...
    Earlier this year, researchers say, someone mysteriously hijacked internet traffic headed to government agencies, corporate offices and other recipients in the U.S. and elsewhere and redirected it to Belarus and Iceland, before sending it on its way to its legitimate ...      ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • FSIS Yanks Inspectors From Yauk’s Specialty Meats
    Yauk’s Specialty Meats, a Windsor, Colo., establishment, is recalling approximately 90,000 pounds of various meat and poultry products that were produced under insanitary conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food... Continue Reading
  • FSIS Yanks Inspectors From Yauk’s Specialty Meats
    Yauk’s Specialty Meats, a Windsor, Colo., establishment, is recalling approximately 90,000 pounds of various meat and poultry products that were produced under insanitary conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food... Continue Reading
  • Harvard Law and Food Safety – February 2 ...
    New Directions for Food Safety:  The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Food Law and Policy Division;... Continue Reading
  • Harvard Law and Food Safety – February 21, 2014
    New Directions for Food Safety:  The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Food Law and Policy Division;... Continue Reading
  • Lawsuit Filed in E. coli Outbreak Linked to Gl ...
    Melanie Dunstan became the third California resident to file a lawsuit against Glass Onion Catering this week.  The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff fell ill with an E. coli O157:H7 infection... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
    Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style, Electric Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
  • Los Angeles: 2015 Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell wil ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, SUV, Hyundai, Electric If nothing else, Hyundai wants to make it as easy as pie for you to check out its upcoming hydrogen-powered 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle. Given that the Korean automaker will be the first to offer a mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in the US ( ...
  • Quick Spin: Toyota Crown Royal Saloon Hybrid [ ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Quick Spins We don't often come into contact with the Toyota Crown Hybrid, especially in colors other than pink. But when Toyota offered us the keys and a half-hour window to test out the Japanese version of the Lexus GS on US soil not long ago, we had to accept. ...
  • Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
    Filed under: Technology, Electric "By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...
  • First Drive: 2014 BMW i3
    Filed under: Hatchback, BMW, First Drives, Electric We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: Filmmaker Danny Schechter on Impact of ...
    In part 2 of our interview with Danny Schechter, who has made six nonfiction films on Nelson Mandela, including "Mandela in America," he recalls the impact of the anti-apartheid leader's visit to eight cities–including New York, Detroit, Oakland and Los Angeles. Schechter is also author o ...
  • VIDEO: Amy Goodman Discusses Mandela, Immigrat ...
    Watch the videos below to see Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on MSNBC's “Melissa Harris-Perry" last Saturday, where she joined the discussion on remembering the complexities of Mandela, the anti-apartheid movement's influence on a generation, and more. Remembering the complexities of Mande ...
  • Watch Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman on MSNBC's ...
    Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on MSNBC's “Melissa Harris-Perry” show this Saturday from 10am-noon ET.
  • "Poverty Wages in the Land of Plenty"
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The holiday season is upon us. Sadly, the big retailers are Scrooges when it comes to paying their staffs. Undergirding the sale prices is an army of workers earning the minimum wage or a fraction above it, living check to check on their meager pay and b ...
  • The Oscar Shortlist Interviews: 2014 Nominees ...
    This week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 15 films left in the race for the Documentary Feature Oscar. A record 147 films had originally qualified in the category. Watch our interviews with three of the filmmakers who made the shortlist, and see all of our Oscar-r ...

Solari

  • Dow Vs Gold
  • Second Release of Secret Trans-Pacific Partner ...
    By Wikileaks On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiators’ meeting in Salt Lake City on 19-24 November 2013. Today, 9 December 2013, WikiLeaks has releas ...
  • Santa Clause Rallies by Chuck Gibson
    By Chuck Gibson Most human activities have seasonal cycles. The stock market too, has seasonal cycles that have been powerful trends to follow over the long term. You have heard me mention the fact I believe the balance of the year and into at least the first month of next should be good based u ...
  • Waiting for the Financial Godot
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. Life in the financial markets increasingly feels like Beckett’s masterpiece; as all e ...
  • Dear Catherine
    ***CAF Note: We receive some wonderful testimonials. This one was so delightful, I asked the author if we could share it with you.*** By a Solari Report Subscriber I grew up a bookish, straight “A” student whose father wanted him to be a baseball player. In spite somewhere of that, I ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • AR+C Architects Carved House Gazebo into the S ...
    The front of House Gazebo features large sliding doors that not only provide a view of the expansive landscape, but also keep the house cool through a cross-ventilation system. Down a gradual slope a swimming pool offers an alternative way to stay cool in     
  • SNOW DAY: New NYC Food Truck Serves Savory Map ...
    Care for a side of social justice with your lunch? Then head on over to Snow Day, a new maple syrup-themed food truck that also provides jobs to formerly incarcerated youngsters, giving them a new lease on life. The wintery cafe-on-wheels debuted its recycled     
  • Metalysis Creates the World’s First 3D-Printed ...
    Rotherham-based company Metalysis just teamed up with engineers from Sheffield University to roll out the world's first 3D-printed titanium car parts! The company has developed a novel process for producing titanium powder from sand to make the metal much     
  • A-Kamp47 Vertical Urban Campground Provides Su ...
    Stéphane Malka began designing this stealth camp back in 2009 and finally was able to install it September of 2013. The installation is based on a couple rules, the first being a new law in France that says you can't kick someone out of housing during the     
  • Jerry Tate Architects and Students Unveil Awes ...
    Installed on a curved base platform, the shell-like structure is formed by ten crescent-shaped ribs, with timber poles tethered by nylon cords anchored into the ground. The project was conceived as a learning exercise for students, who developed a series of     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Judge Rules Chimps Can’t Be Legal Persons, But ...
    Can a chimpanzee be considered a legal person? Not for now, a judge ruled this morning in Niagara County, New York, but the legal arguments are just beginning.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Dark Stellar Nursery
    Illuminated by the light of nearby stars, the nebula M-78 exhibits a ghostly appearance in this 10-minute exposure taken with a 6" refractor at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. Located in the constellation of Orion -- some1,600 light years ...     
  • Curiosity Rover Zeroing In on Best Place to Hu ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — NASA’s Curiosity rover is zeroing in on its quarry. The latest results from the probe tell scientists that the site it’s exploring at Gale Crater is probably an extremely good place to find the chemical clues for ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Reaching for the ...
    A small, dense object only 12 miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Spiky Nebula
    With the cloudy weather, views of the Universe have been hampered this past week. Here is a recently completed image of a colorful nebula that was captured before the winter weather arrived.     

PakAlert

  • The Psychological Profile of President Obama
    In the midst of the series I am writing in which I am detailing the existence of governmental plans to brutally subjugate the people, it dawned upon me that a President can have all the draconian legislation behind him that he needs to carry out a brutal agenda against his people or a segment of ...
  • Obama Is Going To Throw You In Jail If You Don ...
    Smooth talking Obama is at it again as he beats around the bush after being asked a question by ABC News’ Jake Tapper. In an interview from 2009, when Tapper questioned the president on whether he feels that jail time is a suitable punishment for those who choose not to enroll in Obamacare, Ob ...
  • Texas Student Receives the Death Penalty for S ...
    A 23 year old student was pulled over for allegedly speeding off campus, by a University of the Incarnate Word officer. Lt. Cindy Pruitt, announced an investigation into the shooting of student by a campus cop. Pruitt stressed that the investigation was just beginning. No explanation why a ca ...
  • Making A Killing With Cancer: A $124.6 Billion ...
    If you had a business selling something that made you well over a hundred billion dollars per year, would you take steps to eradicate the need for your business? Or would you make every effort for that money continue rolling in? Take cancer, for example. Don’t let all the media hype about “Th ...
  • Starvation: Coming to Your Town…Soon
    Way back in 2006, NASA’s David Hathaway said on their website that Solar Cycle 25, which will start around 2022 was going to be a low sunspot cycle. Low sunspot cycles, as is rapidly becoming apparent, is linked to future cold weather. Neither they or the government said anything at the time or ...

Andy Worthington

  • President Obama Forcibly Repatriates Two Alger ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: Please Help Me Raise $25 ...
    Please support my work! Dear friends and supporters, Can you help to support my work on Guantánamo as a researcher, writer, public speaker and activist? Every three months, I ask you to make a donation to support my work. Please click on the link above if you can help out. Without your support & ...
  • Andy Worthington: An Archive of Guantánamo Art ...
    Please support my work! Nearly eight years ago, I began researching Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, writing about them, and campaigning to get the prison closed. I spent that first 14 months researching and writing my book The Guantánamo Files, based, largely, on 8,000 pages of ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the European ...
    On Monday and Tuesday, as I explained in a subsequent article, “an important step took place in the quest for those who ordered and undertook torture in the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ to be held accountable for their actions,” when a ground-breaking hearing too ...
  • Shaker Aamer’s Latest Words from Guantán ...
    If you’re in London, or anywhere near, and you care about the ongoing injustices of Guantánamo, then please come to a Parliamentary meeting for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, on Tuesday December 10, which is Human Rights Day. Established by the UN in 1950, Human ...

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Sciencebase

  • Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up
    Papadakis publishers have released the Higgs edition of their unique publication – the result of a collaboration between the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky. Radevsky’s previous pop-ups include The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Bo ...
  • How does your garden grow?
    I just received what has to be the most bizarre press release ever. It’s either totally genuine and totally naive or a really good anti-gun spoof, can’t quite decide: “Since early eighteenth century the shotgun has been used for hunting and in warfare. Countless deer, rabbits a ...
  • Dead Comet Sketch
    Yesterday evening we were all Monty Python Dead Comet Sketch over ISON. It was pining for the Oort, this comet had ceased to be, it was no longer trailing up the blazes…etc etc But, this morning, I wake to hear news that this comet has actually ceased to not be. Will this be the most [&#82 ...
  • Chemist with an iPad
    Touch Press has come up with the perfect gift for the chemist with an iPad in your life with The Elements in Action app. Great videos, neat explanations, easy to use. Wonderful demonstrations showing why you are not allowed to take mercury and gallium on your holiday flight, a foil “tank&# ...
  • Bromide in yer tea? Pull the other one
    According to Brian Clegg, writing about “bromide” in Chemistry World this week. Bromide salts had an early role in reducing the impact of epilepsy and seizures, which were at the time thought to be caused by an over-active libido and more specifically masturbation. “Potassium b ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 'Major Breakthrough' for Marijuana Legalizatio ...
    For the first time, the majority of voters in California are backing full legalization of marijuana, marking what many are calling a "breakthrough for marijuana advocates" and a clear (Photo: Dey/ cc via Flickr)repudiation of the War on Drugs and the zero-tolerance policy that has driv ...
  • Hagel Threatens Pakistan: Stop Drone Protests, ...
    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets with Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif in Rawalpindi on Monday. (Photo: ISPR via AFP - Getty Images)U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel threatened Pakistani heads of state on Monday with cutting off up to $1.6 billion in aid if the country's mass ...
  • Snowden Doc: Canada Set Up Spy Posts for NSA
    At the behest of the U.S. National Security Agency, Canada engaged in global spying operations, including setting up spy posts, CBC News reports. The collaborative efforts of the two nations' spy agencies covered surveillance in "approximately 20 high-priority countries." ...
  • One of Nation's Key Ecosystems Being Lost at S ...
    Scarborough Marsh in southern Maine.The nation's coastal wetlands are being lost at a staggering rate, a recent report shows. Wetlands, sometimes referred to as nature's "kidneys" for their ability to filter runoff, play an increasingly important role in the face of climate cha ...
  • One of Nation's Key Ecosystems Being Lost at S ...
    Scarborough Marsh in southern Maine.The nation's coastal wetlands are being lost at a staggering rate, a recent report shows. Wetlands, sometimes referred to as nature's "kidneys" for their ability to filter runoff, play an increasingly important role in the face of climate cha ...

Lifehacker

  • Lovely Puts Your Search for a Perfect Apartmen ...
    Android: Apartment search service Lovely took the wraps off of their Android app this morning, which lets you take the hunt for a great apartment on the go on your phone or tablet. You get access to listings, photos, a top-down view of those listings on a Google Map, and the option to apply dire ...
  • The History of the To-Do List (and How to Make ...
    When I was a kid, I read a book called The Listmaker. It's about a young girl who uses lists to organize and make sense of her life. At the time I didn't read any more into it besides the fact that this was an odd hobby for a pre-teen girl to spend so much time on. Now, although I don't remember ...
  • Deadspin Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Suggest ...
    Deadspin Gift Guide Roundup: Your Best Suggestions For Drinkers | Gizmodo The Fascinating Story of Why U.S. Parks Are Full of Squirrels | io9 Why you think you're better than everyone else | Lifehacker 8 Questions That Will Improve Your Relationship with Your Boss | Sploid The future of our worl ...
  • How Do You Use Up the Balance on Old Gift Cards?
    Gift cards and the holidays go together like naan and curry. However, those pesky tiny remaining balances can be a bit difficult to get rid of. We've featured a few methods, but how do you avoid losing the remaining balance?Read more...     
  • Marissa Mayer Explains Why Having To-Dos Is Be ...
    Most of us stress out about cleaning off our to-do lists, and that's natural. After all, why jot it down if you didn't want to get it done, right? Marissa Mayer, however, Yahoo's CEO and former Google executive, explains that sometimes it's making the list and prioritizing it that's important—no ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Lawmakers In 23 States Adopted Secret Lobbying ...
    "No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants Act" was the single most-common bill, introduced in 23 states. The post Lawmakers In 23 States Adopted Secret Lobbying Group ALEC’s Anti-Immigrant Bill appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Iowa’s Alternative To Obamacare’s ...
    The newly-approved plan is a slightly more conservative version of a similar Medicaid expansion proposal already in place in Arkansas. Hundreds of thousands of more Americans could get coverage if more red states adopt the approaches.The post Iowa’s Alternative To Obamacare’s Medicai ...
  • Supreme Court Dismisses Major Test To Key Unio ...
    Supreme Court dismissal leaves lower court split on whether unions can use "neutrality agreements" that have been key to organizing non-union shops.The post Supreme Court Dismisses Major Test To Key Union Organizing Tactic appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Anti-Obamacare Senators Can Afford To Pay More ...
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Monday that he will forgo his own federal employer subsidy — one of at least a dozen Senators opting to pay the full cost of their own health insurance. The post Anti-Obamacare Senators Can Afford To Pay More For Insurance, But Their Staff Isn’t So Luck ...
  • Who Suffers When States Decide To Cut Off Lega ...
    In the political debate over 20-week abortion bans, here are the real people who will bear the consequences.The post Who Suffers When States Decide To Cut Off Legal Abortion At 20 Weeks? The Young And Poor appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Shamelessness & Stupidity of Rob Ford
    A while back, somewhere, I mentioned a book about stephen harper's grievous damage to Canada's parliamentary institutions. The political-scientist authors wrote that our institutions were designed with an implicit trust in the good faith of those who would be working within them, and that harper ...
  • Canadian Failure Makes You Sick?
    Are you sickened by your fellow Canadians' failure to do anything about stephen harper? What did you do to bring him down? What did you do to try to get others to do something about him? There needs to be something big, something huge, to change the present arrangement of power between corporat ...
  • A Little Observation About This Rob Ford Nonsense
    So, the radio's going at work. Talk radio. Some guy, John Oakley, who, it seems, has his tongue so far up Rob Ford's ass-crack that he can almost reach the hole, is conducting yet another attempt at a defense of his hero. He has Ford's lawyer on, letting the guy talk about how his client is bein ...
  • Dear stephen harper: Shove your Hockey Book Up ...
    Gawd. His pathetic warbling and now his asshole attempt to appear like a regular guy, some stupid ghost-written piece-of-shit about hockey. He's like some cheesy Hollywood movie slime-ball. His attempts at being nice are so transparently fraudulent, as he stabs everyone in the back.
  • Mr. Myxpikellix

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Questionable arms exports up
    Canadian arms exports to countries in conflict or known for human violations are on the increase, an analysis by the Canadian Press shows.
  • Able Archer: The war that didn’t happen
    Thirty years ago, in November 1983, one of the most dangerous crises of the Cold War occurred when the Soviet leadership convinced itself that the United States might be about to launch a nuclear attack.
  • Cost of ships could surpass $105 billion
    Public Works has released a through-life cost estimate for the Canadian government's National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. Costs are estimated to reach $105 billion and critics argue it could go higher.
  • Dismissive CSSA President sent as Canadian del ...
    The Harper government spent taxpayers' money to send Steve Torino, the President of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, to a conference on the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons, despite the fact the CSSA dismissed the Programme as not "even remotely important."
  • Steven Staples interviewed by Sun News on &#82 ...
    Ceasefire.ca responds to Sun TV's attack on I Remember for Peace

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • America outside the world
    In September 2001, 80% of Americans thought that protecting the U.S. from terrorist attacks should be the nation’s top foreign policy priority — and that was before the 9/11 attacks. The culture of fear that the Bush administration promoted and exploited, engaged tendencies that perm ...
  • The twilight zone: When Seymour Hersh and Pame ...
    “It’s one lie after another…more perilous, more sinister, more deadly.” That’s Pamela Geller’s reaction to a “bombshell allegation” dropped by Seymour Hersh alleging that President Obama lied about the August 21 chemical attack in Syria. Barack Oba ...
  • Bashar al-Assad’s sick sense of humor
    Ashley Frohwein writes: Here Bashar al Assad goes again. Joining the throngs of world leaders eulogizing the life and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela, the Syrian presidency recently released a statement on its Facebook page declaring that Mandela’s “history of struggle has become an inspiratio ...
  • Why won’t the President rein in the intelligen ...
    Ryan Lizza writes: On March 12, 2013, James R. Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to discuss the threats facing America. Clapper, who is seventy-two, is a retired Air Force general and Barack Obama’s director of National Intelligence, in charge of overseeing the ...
  • Is Silicon Valley taking a stand in favor of s ...
    Jeff Jarvis writes: Whose side are you on? That is the question MP Keith Vaz asked Alan Rusbridger last week when he challenged the Guardian editor’s patriotism over publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA and GCHQ leaks. And that is the question answered today by eight tech g ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Zombie asks a question
    Zombie, of San Francisco’s “Zombietime” fame, writes in with a question that he has graciously allowed to be given to our readers. He writes: I’m preparing to write an essay on the following hypothesis: Solar power installations, especially in desert … Continue read ...
  • Dr Judith Lean lecture at AGU
    Live blogging . Will add slides and commentary as it proceeds. Well attended maybe 400 ppl here. This is the crux of the problem with climatology forecasts. Nice to see a familiar face used. Heard David Appell and Richard Somerville … Continue reading →
  • An oopsie in the Doran/Zimmerman 97% consensus ...
    David Burton writes: I just realized the obvious answer to a question that has been nagging in the back of my mind for nearly a year and a half. In 2008 Margaret Zimmerman asked two questions of 10,257 Earth Scientists at … Continue reading →
  • Coldest ever temperature recorded on Earth fou ...
    Press Release: Landsat 8 helps unveil the coldest place on Earth SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Scientists recently recorded the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record set in 1983 and uncovering a … Continue reading →
  • A few first impressions of the 2013 AGU Fall M ...
    A photo essay. What follows are a series of photos and comments that catalog my impressions of today. As you may know, I’m attending the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting. After some hassle a couple of months ago, I was able … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

  • Record high temperature in 1913; record low in ...
    The hottest temperature ever recorded was over a century ago in Death Valley, CA. The coldest ever was 2010 in Antarctica. The second coldest was this July.
  • Quotes from Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
    "Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
  • Global warming “proof” is evaporating
    It is hard to tell which is more embarrassing or more offensive: The Obama Administration's recently upgraded war on carbon dioxide (and thus on fossil fuels) or the American media's blank stare into the oncoming headlights via its refusal to even consider that the man-made warming theory and m ...
  • Video: Marc Morano debunks “the climate ...
    Climate Depot's Marc Morano takes on "the climate change con" at CFACT's all day climate conference at Warsaw's Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, November 21, 2013.
  • Yea! The overheated climate crisis debate is s ...
    The crashing end to the global warmiing debate came recently, with the admission by the UN IPCC that there is a glaring disconnect between their climate model projections and observed real-world trends: Everyone now agrees (or admits) that the Earth has not been warming for the past 16 years. A ...

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Natural Health News

  • Good News: Meat Labels Will Now Show You Where ...
    By Dr. Mercola You may be in for a surprise the next time you buy meat from your local supermarket. The package will now be required to label where the animal that provided your meat was born, raised, and slaughtered. This is an improvement from the original Country of Origin Labeling (C ...
  • FDA Pertussis Vaccine Study Shatters Illusion ...
    By Dr. Mercola Recent vaccine research again reveals the gulf between what you’re told about vaccines—how they work and how effective they are at preventing infectious disease—versus what is truly known about naturally acquired and vaccine acquired immunity. Nearly a centur ...
  • The Forgotten Organ – Your Microbiota
    Visit the Mercola Video Library By Dr. Mercola Researchers are increasingly starting to recognize gut microbiota as one of your unappreciated “organs.”1 It may be even more apt to view your body as a “super organism” composed of symbiotic microorganisms, as proposed i ...
  • Micronutrient Supplements Reduce Risk of HIV D ...
    By Dr. Mercola In the US, more than one million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 The virus causes serious damage to your immune system, which leaves you vulnerable to disease-causing organisms, and may progress into AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). ...
  • Magnesium—The Missing Link to Better Health
    By Dr. Mercola Magnesium is perhaps one of the most overlooked minerals. This is especially important because, an estimated 80 percent of Americans are deficient in it. The health consequences of deficiency can be quite significant, and can be aggravated by mmany, if not most, drug treatments ...

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

  • How Would the U.S. and Canada (Legally) Merge?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I love Canada, and I have long been intrigued by plans to unite the U.S. and Canada in deeper political and economic integration (See this post from 2005(!)). So I have been excited to see the idea getting some mainstream media love with discussions of Diane Francis&# ...
  • Does the U.S. Congress Have to Approve the New ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Simon Lester of the IELP Blog raises an interesting and possibly important point about the new WTO Agreement just reached in Bali.  In order for the U.S. to enter into the agreement, will the U.S. Congress have to approve it? On first glance, the answer would seem to ...
  • Weekly News Wrap: December 9, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Middle East The UN General Assembly has elected Jordan to the Security Council to replace Saudi Arabia, which had rejected the seat in an unprecedented ac ...
  • New Initiatives on Bluefin Tuna Management
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the U.S. government agency that regulates offshore fishing, has proposed a new set of regulations to reduce bycatch of Bluefin tuna by economic disincentive. The Washington Post reports that: “Under the proposal, the ...
  • Why the U.S. is Not Invoking International Law ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku China’s East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) has spawned tons of media commentary, so much so that I have had little to add and can barely keep up with all the coverage. Still, there is one small legal point that bears some further discussion.   ...

Public News Service

  • Report Looks at ESA’s 40th Anniversary
    Report Looks at ESA’s 40th Anniversary PHOENIX - This month includes a milestone anniversary for the Endangered Species Act. It was passed by Congress 40 years ago, and a new report from the Endangered Species Coalition marks ten of the Act's biggest success stories. According to the gro ...
  • Affordable Care Act for Seniors: Benefits With ...
    Affordable Care Act for Seniors: Benefits Without Obligations PHOENIX - With the rough roll-out of the health care insurance marketplaces, some senior citizens are raising concerns about the Affordable Care Act. But a new report finds that for them, it has led to more benefits without more oblig ...
  • Retail Expert: Thanksgiving Day Shopping Here ...
    Retail Expert: Thanksgiving Day Shopping Here to Stay PHOENIX – Black Friday and Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but the Christmas shopping season is far from over. The National Retail Federation says Black Friday business was down a little more than 13 perce ...
  • Parents in Prison Get Capitol Hill Attention
    Parents in Prison Get Capitol Hill Attention PHOENIX, Ariz. - Having a parent in prison is more common than childhood autism in the U.S. That detail was part of a briefing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, when a report was also released that shared experiences and challenges for children whose moth ...
  • New Online Lung Cancer Screening Tool Can Save ...
    New Online Lung Cancer Screening Tool Can Save Lives PHOENIX - Lung cancer is the number-one killer form of cancer in Arizona and the nation, and the American Lung Association has now made available a new online screening tool to help people determine if they should get a low-dose screening for ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • White Man’s Burden – the Israeli O ...
    (crossposted from the Villages Group blog) Dear Friends, By a miracle of sorts, we had a mostly peaceful day in South Hebron today; such an event is so rare that I thought it might be worth mentioning to you. In lieu of a more substantial report, let me just say that Abu Sharif and Fadil pl ...
  • What’s Behind Israel’s Boom-and-Bu ...
    One of the great successes of the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” campaign has been the re-branding and re-packaging of Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”, attributing the source of its current wealth to its burgeoning hi-tech sector. As we know, the best propaganda ...
  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...

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

  • Not a Crosswalk
    Aleppo, Syria 09 December 2013 The Syrian war is growing.  Growing in size and complexity. Yet the more one learns about this conflict, the less accurate it becomes to call it “The Syrian War.”  Thousands of foreigners have flooded in.  Some are moving through southern Turkey t ...
  • Afghanistan: Talking Points US Troops
    08 December 2013 Many of our Soldiers in Afghanistan are required to carry this paper in a pocket at all times.  Troops are expected to memorize the talking points and cough them up to any journalists coming through. We decided to help headquarters spread their message. Many complaints ...
  • Thailand: Pause on Fighting for King's Birthday
    04 December 2013 I am in Turkey to study the Syrian civil war.  Yet this is also a crucial moment in Thailand.  A few words on the Kingdom are due. December 5 is His Majesty's birthday. As an American, I was raised since birth to reject all kings. That is our upbringing and what we a ...
  • Al Qaeda in Syria: A Snapshot
    1 December 2013 Given by Kawa Khalil, annotated by Michael Yon The Syrian rebel Kawa Khalil told me the recent story of the Holy Cross church. Before the war, the church doubled as a school, attended by Muslims and Christians.  After the destruction of Syria began, classrooms became ho ...
  • Daily Thailand and Syria Updates on my Facebook
    30 November 2013 Please "friend" my daily updates:   https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage

The Killing Train

  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...
  • 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 work on the issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): ...
  • 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. Topics: Canada
  • 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.

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Democratic Voice of Burma

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Couric's anti-vaccination segment a symptom of ...
    Because Katie Couric did a show giving voice to meritless anti-vaccine forces, people are going to die. You really can't get around that; the deaths may be decades from now, and the links from here to there may never be recognized even by the people around whom the threads are tied, but somewher ...
  • Life on Another Planet Would Have a Lot to Tea ...
    I was stimulated to write this particular column by the recent discoveries from the Kepler telescope on the existence of a fairly large number of "Earth-like" planets elsewhere in the Universe. But it is on a subject with which I have been intrigued for quite some time: what would it take for a ...
  • Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, My Neighbor, War
    In the years when I was growing up more or less middle class, American war on the childhood front couldn't have been sunnier. True, American soldiers were fighting a grim new stalemate of a conflict in Korea and we kids often enough found ourselves crouched under our school desks practicing for ...
  • New Evidence of Contra-Cocaine Scandal
    Special Report: Since journalist Gary Webb died in 2004, the story that destroyed his life has slowly come into clearer focus, revealing how President Reagan's beloved Contras really were enmeshed in cocaine trafficking. On this ninth anniversary of Webb's suicide, new corroboration has emerged.
  • High-Carb Diets Improve Blood Sugar Control
    Back in the 1920s and 1930s, medical research showed that high-fat and high-protein diets undermined the body' ability to control blood sugar. In contrast, high-carbohydrate diets improved blood sugar control, in diabetics as well as in healthy subjects. Yet many physicians today are still telli ...

Switchboard

  • The Pre-Vacation Race to an Empty Fridge
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco The exciting news is that I’m going to Hawaii on Friday.  Among the rest of the pre-vacation stress—leaving work projects in a good place, finding a bathing suit, ...
  • We Can Have Both a Reliable Grid and a Cleaner ...
    John Moore, Senior Attorney – The Sustainable FERC Project, Chicago Opponents of power plant pollution control standards waved the red herring of grid reliability at a congressional hearing last week where they seized on a comment by a Federal Energ ...
  • For Our Children--and the Economy--Congress Mu ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York By Pierre Bull and Kit Kennedy Few of us have the tedious details of the U.S. tax code on our minds during this holiday season. But one of the best gifts Congress could give us—and future ...
  • When Diesel Fails, Look to Sail
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California   It was a blissful moment; with light wind and flat seas, the sunlight refracted through the waves like millions of tiny gemstones. My girlfriend was humming along ...
  • Even Bigger Carbon Reductions, Even Lower Costs
    Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. About a year ago NRDC released a report describing a specific proposal for reducing carbon pollution from power plants under the Clean Air Act and providing the results of an an ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Kurdistan on Edge - Kurdistan Continues to Smo ...
    At the edge of empires lies Kurdistan, the land of the Kurds. The jagged landscape has long been the scene of imperial aggression. For centuries, Turks, Persians, Arabs, Russians and Europeans looked to the mountains to buffer their territorial prizes farther afield, depriving the local mountain ...
  • The Cyber Edge - In the Cyber Domain, the Best ...
    The media's pre-occupation with Edward Snowden's stolen NSA documents contributes to furthering our vulnerability to cyber attack, if only because it sucks the air out anything else reported. If the damage caused by stripping the U.S. of its national secrets isn't enough, headlines with new reve ...
  • The Iranian Threat - Congressional Democrat Vo ...
    A senior Democrat is lashing out at a provision of the nuclear deal with Iran that could make it easier for the country to repair its aging fleet of civilian aircraft.A little-noticed provision of the deal paves the way for U.S. companies such as Boeing and General Electric to inspect and repair ...
  • The Race for Alt Fuel - Some Businesses Make t ...
    Some companies could economically convert their operations to wood boilers for heat and power, according to a team of forestry researchers. The conversion to wood-powered burners would make the most sense for larger commercial and industrial operations in areas that have access to large timber r ...
  • The Thirsty Planet - Providing Water in the Th ...
    Pure Home Water has reached more than 100,000 poor rural women, children, and families with safe drinking water via ceramic pot filters produced at a factory in Tamale, Ghana. “It’s been a long, hard slog,� says Susan Murcott, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmen ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Serving The Earth And How Women Can Address C ...
    At the recent International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit, Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva discuss their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change. A renowned primatologist, Goodall is best known for her groundbreak ...
  • Feed The World, And Have A Sustainable Christm ...
    Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. But not fat enough. By 2050, the world will need 70% more food in order to feed a projected population of 9.6 billion. Closing this food gap will become one of the great challenges of the coming decades, particularly as a changing climate shrinks ...
  • 2C Temperature Rise Would Be “Disastrous” By ...
    Governments have set the wrong target to limit climate change. The goal at present – to limit global warming to a maximum of 2°C higher than the average for most of human history – “would have consequences that can be described as disastrous”, say 18 scientists in a review paper in the journal P ...
  • The Torture Of Not Knowing By Carolyn Baker
    In the age of catastrophic climate change and two years following the horrifying meltdown of reactors at Fukushima’s nuclear power plant, we realize that both phenomena are profoundly impacting our species and the earth community. What we don’t know with certainty is the exact extent of the dama ...
  • Climate Change Meeting In Warsaw: Too Little, ...
    At this point it seems that only a mass mobilization of the U.S. and world’s peoples will be able to provide the strength to stand up to the fossil fuel interests, the corporations, big business, banks, financiers and the weak or corrupt politicians who impede the way to build an equal and ecolo ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Obama Calls In The Cavalry: John Podesta Joins ...
    The man who helped to right the Clinton Administration after Monica is joining the Obama Administration. John Podesta who served as Clinton's fourth and final chief of staff between 1998 and 2001 before founding the Center for American Progress, a far left think thank with close ties George So ...
  • Are Sunni Arabs More Afraid of Israel than Iran?
    By Barry Rubin I'm surprised that the following coincidence was not connected to Purim. Once again an Iranian tyrant is threatening countries in the region, and it isn't just Jews that are worried. In an absolutely remarkable historical event, President Shimon Peres delivered a speech to 29 re ...
  • The US Lost $10.5 Billion on GM Bailout---But ...
    Mr. President---How could you lie to Whoopi Goldberg? And the rest of us too...In 2010 President Obama appeared on The View and promised we would get all of our money back from the auto bailout. Today Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced: The U.S. government ended up losing $10.5 billion on th ...
  • Must Watch: Rep Kuster (D-NH)--I'm Not Here To ...
    Freshman New Hampshire Democrat Annie Kuster (NH-02) was at an event where she was taking questions about the Middle East. She was asked about Benghazi by a concerned constituent, first she thought it was a senate issue, then she said she only wanted to talk about the Middle East. This woman doe ...
  • New Snowden Revelation: NSA Was Spying on Geek ...
    The latest document released from the Edward Snowed show that back in 2008 the NSA (and Britain's GCHQ) planted agents inside on line games such as like World of Warcraft and Second Life (these games are also known as massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Doesn't the NSA und ...

Wind Watch

  • Deadly blades: US offers 30-year permits for k ...
    Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades. The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that stand in the way of the nation’s w ...
  • Shock as another wind turbine disintegrates at ...
    Another Donegal wind turbine has been smashed – by high winds! A blade on a turbine at Corkermore wind farm has snapped clean off and embedded in the ground below. Just a month ago the site was given the go-ahead to add four new turbines by An Bord Pleanala. The site of the windfarm is nine kilo ...
  • In growing trend, Wyoming wind project seeks p ...
    The Power Company of Wyoming plans to apply next month for a federal permit that will allow the firm to kill a limited number of eagles every year at its planned Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in Carbon County. The decision of the Denver-based developer to seek what is known as an “eagle-tak ...
  • Turbine neighbors blast lawmakers over windmil ...
    BOSTON — A plan to speed permitting for wind turbine sites across the state encountered a gale of opposition testimony on Tuesday as residents who live near turbines lined up to tell a legislative committee about the giant windmills’ harmful health effects. “This bill is disgraceful, ...
  • St. Croix County wind energy project dispute p ...
    A dispute over a proposed wind farm in northeastern St. Croix County has blown a huge hole in the normally tight-knit fabric of the farming community where the project’s developer hopes to build the $250 million project. That may be the only thing opponents and advocates in the town of Forest ag ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter(4): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. Are you reading M ...
  • Smarter(3): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math. Matt Waite use ...
  • Smarter(2): A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, I am trying something. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are ...
  • Smarter: A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, a new experiment. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are very ...
  • Code for journalists, or why journalists shoul ...
    Friday I was visiting the Center for Collaborative Journalism, and I watched director Tim Regan-Porter teaching a class called Hacking the Media. In it, about 12 students were learning to do something with Ruby on Rails. Some of the students were journalism majors. Others were from engineering o ...

Facing South

  • Remembering the late Mississippi populist Gov ...
    Image Caption:  Former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain passed away earlier this month at the age of 85. A populist, he fought to keep nuclear waste out of his state and appointed women and people of color to positions of power, including the state ...
  • Fighting for poor people's access to democracy ...
    Image Caption:  The Project Vote lawyers and plaintiffs who are challenging Louisiana over its failure to help public assistance applicants register to vote. (Photo courtesy of Project Vote.) A court battle is underway pitting ...
  • From Selma to Soweto: Nelson Mandela and the S ...
    Image Caption:  In the early 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined fledgling efforts to change the U.S. government's support of the South African apartheid regime, which he denounced as "modern-day barbarians." ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Will Trayvon Martin killing b ...
    Image Caption:  The American Legislative Exchange Council has come under intense scrutiny in recent years, and it appears to be hurting the corporate interest advocacy group's bottom line. The American Legislative Exchang ...
  • NC Election Day drug bust violated policing be ...
    Image Caption:  Downtown Mount Gilead, N.C., where an Election Day drug bust has stirred controversy about voter intimidation. (Photo by Dincher via Wikipedia.) Controversy continues over an Election Day police operation in t ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandella's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.

Telegraph UK - oil

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Ian Welsh

  • Stirling Newberry Could Use Some Books
    Stirling’s doing reasonably well, and is at the stage of boredom induced near-madness which people who have spent a long time in medical institutions will be familiar with. As NBBooks reports, he’d like books.  To me he said he’d like history and economic books. If you want to ...
  • Mandela Was a Terrorist
    That’s just a fact.  He was also the father of his country, and I believe he was a great man and a good man.  In 1985 he was offered release from jail if he would unconditionally renounce violence, he refused. One might want to think about the fact that a great man and a good [...]
  • Partial Transcript of My Talk
    On Hunter-Gatherers and the lessons for our own society and for improving our societies, courtesy of the Hipcrime Vocab, who has some smart thoughts you should read: Jay Ackroyd: What it’s really coming down to is we’re discovering the carrying capacity of the earth is for humans under our… Ian ...
  • The UK is a Propaganda Society
    People cannot make correct decisions if they believe lies: In May 2013 the reputable polling company ComRes asked a representative sample of the British public the following question: “How many Iraqis, both combatants and civilians, do you think have died as a consequence of the war that b ...
  • Why China Banned Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
    China has ordered banks not to engage in Bitcoin transactions.  The reason is simple: bitcoin is used to bypass currency restrictions, and China doesn’t want even more money flowing out of China (it’s already contributed massively to the Australian housing bubble and affected New Yor ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Monday's NBA roundup: Kemba Walker leads ...
    Associated Press Comments Zoom Charlotte Bobcats' Kemba Walker, right, drives past Golden State Warriors' David Lee, left, during the second half. Walker scored 31 points in the Bobcats' 115-111 victory over the Warriors Monday. (Chuck Burton / Associated Press) Charlotte, N.C. Kemba Walker ...
  • Clippers are expected to sign volatile fr ...
    PHILADELPHIA -- PHILADELPHIA _ After saying earlier Monday the Los Angeles Clippers weren't going to sign "anybody today or probably even" Tuesday, coach Doc Rivers said later the team was "close" to a deal with free-agent swingman Stephen Jackson. Jackson is expected to join the Clippers in ...
  • Curry scores 43 points, but Warriors fall ...
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Just when it appeared the Warriors had solved their disturbing dysfunction to begin games, they once again showed up dead on arrival Monday night for far too long after the opening tip. Despite staging an impressive revival from 15 points down behind home ...
  • Kings breeze past Mavericks
    SACRAMENTO, Calif — SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Kings general manager Pete D'Alessandro said he loves change. When he looks at the depth charts on his office wall, he's reminded how much change has taken place for the Kings through 19 games. "I was staring at them looking at the team," he sai ...
  • Streaks snapped
    WESTERN CONFERENCE — IT was a week of streaks coming to an end in the NBA this week, but especially in the West where the longest win-streak is Dallas' (13-8) three. Despite this, the Portland Trailblazers had a good week, with convincing wins over top competition. They ended the sport ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • 'Major Breakthrough' for Marijuana Legalizatio ...
    For the first time, the majority of voters in California are backing full legalization of marijuana, marking what many are calling a "breakthrough for marijuana advocates" and a clear (Photo: Dey/ cc via Flickr)repudiation of the War on Drugs and the zero-tolerance policy that has driv ...
  • Hagel Threatens Pakistan: Stop Drone Protests, ...
    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets with Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif in Rawalpindi on Monday. (Photo: ISPR via AFP - Getty Images)U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel threatened Pakistani heads of state on Monday with cutting off up to $1.6 billion in aid if the country's mass ...
  • Snowden Doc: Canada Set Up Spy Posts for NSA
    At the behest of the U.S. National Security Agency, Canada engaged in global spying operations, including setting up spy posts, CBC News reports. The collaborative efforts of the two nations' spy agencies covered surveillance in "approximately 20 high-priority countries." ...
  • One of Nation's Key Ecosystems Being Lost at S ...
    Scarborough Marsh in southern Maine.The nation's coastal wetlands are being lost at a staggering rate, a recent report shows. Wetlands, sometimes referred to as nature's "kidneys" for their ability to filter runoff, play an increasingly important role in the face of climate cha ...
  • One of Nation's Key Ecosystems Being Lost at S ...
    Scarborough Marsh in southern Maine.The nation's coastal wetlands are being lost at a staggering rate, a recent report shows. Wetlands, sometimes referred to as nature's "kidneys" for their ability to filter runoff, play an increasingly important role in the face of climate cha ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • A Rebel Comes of Age
    0 Release date: Dec 21, 2013 Prologue (excerpt) Ange’s skin crawled as Phillip placed the M16 in her arms. The gun was cold and unnaturally smooth. It smelled like burnt rubber. Then he left her alone with PJ, a tall, thin, forty-something with wavy, shoulder length blac ...
  • Talk About Testicularity
    Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger testifying in front of the British Home Affairs Committee about his decision to publish Edward Snowden's leaked NSA files. When one member accuses him of committing a criminal offense, Rusbridger makes utter mincemeat out of him: Here is a partial transc ...
  • An Occupy Wall Street Novel
      My new novel, A Rebel Comes of Age, is scheduled for release (as a $3.99 ebook) on December 21, 2013. It’s a sequel to my first young adult novel, The Battle for Tomorrow. In the first book, sixteen-year-old Angela Jones is arrested and sent to juvenile hall for participat ...
  • A Little Guy Sticks It to Apple and Jamie Dimon
    Tim Cook Apple CEO A New Brand of Shareholder Activism It’s fairly common knowledge that shareholders have little say in corporate governance. For the most part upper level managers run their companies as their own personal fiefdom. In addition to paying themselves obscene salaries, t ...
  • Sign Petition to INCREASE Social Security
      Scrap the Cap New bills by Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) seek to let the steam out of the phony debate over Social Security’s non-existent fiscal crisis by removing the $113,700 cap on earnings that are taxable for Social Security purposes. Under Beg ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Biggest and Smartest Corporations Already Acco ...
    Twenty-nine corporations, including five major oil companies, are starting to account for coming carbon limits in their business plans, according to a new report by CDP. They recognize the era of unlimited pollution will soon end, and it’s time to rein in their share of global warming emissions. ...
  • Thorium Reactors: Nuclear Redemption or Nuclea ...
    Thorium is up to 200 times more energy dense than uranium and as common as lead. It could be a safer, cheaper nuclear fuel. Could thorium be the faltering nuclear industry’s salvation -- or is it a mirage? Is the U.S. missing an immense energy opportunity?read more
  • Natural Gas: Not All It's Fracked Up to Be?
    Natural gas is currently being touted in a number of circles as a “game changer” and a “bridge to a low carbon economy.” It is an abundant, made-in-America energy source. It is about half as carbon intensive as coal when burned.read more
  • Technologies Meld As History Repeats Itself
    The Smart Grid is often described as bi-directional energy and information flows, enabled by a convergence of information technologies with operational technologies. That’s all true, but the word convergence is getting frayed from overuse, and for the latest trend, it’s not quite the right word. ...
  • New Federal Agency Renewable Energy Target Ove ...
    On the three-dimensional grid of the 21st Century, energy efficiency is not just about increasing the absolute amount of renewable energy generated and decreasing the amount of energy consumed. It is about managing the entire electricity grid, in all of its dimensions.read more

Rodale News

  • Air Pollution: The New Autism Trigger?
    Scientists identified another link between air pollution and autism, but this time with a twist. They found it's a combination of genetics and pollution that increases the risk. University of Southern California researchers published a first of its kind study demonstrating a specific interacti ...
  • It's Official: Organic Milk Is Better for You
    Organic milk is worth the extra cost if you're looking for the healthiest milk on the market, according to the findings of a new large-scale study. While there's often debate over the nutritional superiority of organic versus conventional foods, the latest data show that organic is the clear wi ...
  • Fresh Picks: Celeb Power Couple Goes Vegan, an ...
    The biggest health stories of 2013—and a few important questions to ask yourself this year… • Jay-Z and Beyonce go vegan for 22 Days (Ecorazzi) • Reheated rice could be more dangerous than a raw egg (Refinery 29) • Pour On the yakon syrup? 5 healthy sugar alternatives (Chalkboard Mag) • If you ...
  • Suffer from Migraines? Ditch Canned Food
    A migraine can make anyone miserable. But what if you could stop your next one in its tracks simply by giving up plastic containers and canned soup? That's a question researchers in Kansas are pondering after an animal study's results suggested that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical that's used in ...
  • Toxic Compounds Detected in Christmas Decorations
    Holiday decorations are meant to bring good cheer—not carcinogens—into your home. But a new report shows that not even your Christmas decorations are always 100 percent safe when it comes to toxic chemicals. HealthyStuff.org, a project of The Ecology Center, recently tested the composition of ...

big think

  • Putting Bill McDonough's 'Harvest of Value' to ...
    Almost every CEO I know has a hero or a role model. No matter how good we are at building, leading and running our companies, there’s always someone we really look up to; someone who’s daring to think in a radical way; someone who’s showing how we can reach new horizons. For me, that person is ...
  • Emily Dickinson on Poetry
    "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." - Emily Dickinson (born on this date in 1830) Read More
  • Late Notes and Other Workplace Memes for Decem ...
    1. The Subway Made Me Late and I Can Prove It! The subway has made you late for work. Don't fret. In New York City you can get "the transit equivalent of a doctor’s note," and the MTA has issued 250,000 such notes since 2010. The so-called Subway Delay Verification note is sent to ri ...
  • The Coldest Place in the World
    How cold can it get on Earth?  In 1983 a temperature of minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C) was recorded at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica. However, NASA researchers had a suspicion that a high ridge on the East Antarctic Plateau was likely to be even colder than Vostok ...
  • How to Optimize Your Health: Start By Analyzin ...
    There are five basic activities – eating, drinking, breathing, exercise, and goal setting – that shape your health for better or worse depending on how you do them.  If you do them right, you are a healthy person, says H. Robert Silverstein, Medical Director of the Preventative Medicine ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up
    Papadakis publishers have released the Higgs edition of their unique publication – the result of a collaboration between the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky. Radevsky’s previous pop-ups include The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Bo ...
  • How does your garden grow?
    I just received what has to be the most bizarre press release ever. It’s either totally genuine and totally naive or a really good anti-gun spoof, can’t quite decide: “Since early eighteenth century the shotgun has been used for hunting and in warfare. Countless deer, rabbits a ...
  • Dead Comet Sketch
    Yesterday evening we were all Monty Python Dead Comet Sketch over ISON. It was pining for the Oort, this comet had ceased to be, it was no longer trailing up the blazes…etc etc But, this morning, I wake to hear news that this comet has actually ceased to not be. Will this be the most [&#82 ...
  • Chemist with an iPad
    Touch Press has come up with the perfect gift for the chemist with an iPad in your life with The Elements in Action app. Great videos, neat explanations, easy to use. Wonderful demonstrations showing why you are not allowed to take mercury and gallium on your holiday flight, a foil “tank&# ...
  • Bromide in yer tea? Pull the other one
    According to Brian Clegg, writing about “bromide” in Chemistry World this week. Bromide salts had an early role in reducing the impact of epilepsy and seizures, which were at the time thought to be caused by an over-active libido and more specifically masturbation. “Potassium b ...

RFF Library

  • China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mit ...
    US Congressional Research Service (dated July 18, 2013) https://opencrs.com/document/R41919/ The 112th Congress continues to debate whether and how the United States should address climate change. Most often, this debate includes concerns about the effects of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
  • Carbon Capture: A Technology Assessment
    US Congressional Research Service https://opencrs.com/document/R41325/ Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is widely seen as a critical strategy for limiting atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)–the principal “greenhouse gas” linked to global climate change–fr ...
  • Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues
    US Congressional Research Service https://opencrs.com/document/R41668/ TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would transport oil sands crude from Canada and shale oil produced in North Dakota and Montana to a market hub in Nebraska for further delivery to Gulf Coast refineries. The p ...
  • Gas Rush: New Projects to Increase Greenhouse ...
    Environmental Integrity Project http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/news_reports/12_05_2013.php http://bit.ly/IMjeUO (press release) 95 new projects at oil, gas, or petrochemical plants will increase greenhouse gas emissions 91 million tons annually, or about as much as the output from 20 larg ...
  • Economic Analysis of Proposed Revised Waters o ...
    US EPA Economic Analysis of Proposed Revised Waters of the United States [E & E News PM article by Annie Snider, sub. req'd] An Obama administration rule proposal that would expand the reach of federal Clean Water Act oversight would have a net economic benefit of as much as $263.9 million a ...

frogblog

  • The future of Huntly?
    "Huntly...is a symbol of the ‘think big’ centralised fossil fuel-dominated electricity system that served us reasonably well for its time, but like the faded and peeling paint inside the station, it is an old-fashioned reminder times have changed."
  • Child poverty and the government response
    In October Child Poverty Action released a report ‘Benefit sanctions: Creating an invisible underclass of children?’ which found government policy “… effectively creates a class of economically vulnerable, invisible and unequal children whose wellbeing is intimately tied to the welfare/lab ...
  • Keeping more of Meridian in public ownership
    Yesterday, I announced a new plan that will keep more of Meridian Energy in public ownership. Purchasers in the Meridian sale are paying for it in two instalments. They paid $1 in October and, in May 2015, they will be required to pay a second instalment of 50 cents, at which point their instalm ...
  • Grandmas Shoes: Poverty, Headology and Deep Fr ...
    This talk was delivered by Metiria at the TEDxhomeBushRdWomen event in Wellington, 7 December 2013. I had an eclectic, sometimes impoverished childhood. We moved house a lot.  But when I was about 3 my family lived in a big old house called Hillcrest flats. Out the back was a garden and a long r ...
  • Rights and their role in shaping our country
    This week the constitutional advisory panel reported back to government. Based on really extensive consultations they’ve made some great recommendations for government action. The recommendation I’m most excited is adding economic, social and cultural rights, and environmental right to the Bill ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

  • Stark conclusions seek to empower young to sue ...
    Climate pioneer Jim Hansen and a stellar research team have shown that 1°C warming is the limit if we’re to avoid dangerous and potentially illegal consequences for the young - and we're already at 0.8°C.
  • Fighting for useful climate models
    By making choices in his climate simulations other scientists disagreed with Suki Manabe led the way in showing how much warming to expect, and that abrupt changes are possible.
  • The model scientist who fixed the greenhouse e ...
    Suki Manabe overcame a near nervous breakdown and a crashed early supercomputer to devise the first climate models to reliably simulate the role of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and include both the atmosphere and oceans.
  • Twin rainfall effects strengthen human climate ...
    Using a new method, Kate Marvel and Céline Bonfils at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have found that the way wet areas are getting wetter, dry areas are getting dryer, and the most wet or dry places are moving towards the poles are beyond natural patterns.
  • The man who got the world to agree on climate
    Bert Bolin played a key role in putting the risk of human-caused climate change on the political map, from one of the first official government recognitions, to guiding the IPCC to a Nobel prize.

e!Science News

  • Europe's rarest orchid rediscovered on 'lost w ...
    Researchers studying speciation of butterfly orchids on the Azores have been startled to discover that the answer to a long-debated question "Do the islands support one species or two species?" is actually "three species." Hochstetter's Butterfly-orchid, newly recognized foll ...
  • In surprise finding, blood clots absorb bacter ...
    Blood clots play an unexpected role in protecting the body from the deadly effects of bacteria by absorbing bacterial toxins, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found. The research was published Dec. 2 in the journal PLoS ONE. read more
  • Home teams hold the advantage
    The home team holds the advantage over visitors -- at least in the plant world. However, a mere handful of genetic adaptations could even the playing field. read more
  • Study offers economical solutions for maintain ...
    Millions of people across the world live or depend on deltas for their livelihoods. read more
  • Awkward Facebook encounters
    A friend posts a picture on Facebook that shows you picking food out of your teeth. Awkward! read more

unEarthed

  • Why Honeybees Matter
    Collapsed colonies spell disaster for our food system, and toxic pesticide is to blame Honeybee visits a mountain mint blossom. (Photo courtesy of Penn State) ...
  • Remembering Nelson Mandela
    A true visionary who never gave up hope Mandela in Johannesburg, 2008. (South Africa The Good News) Around the world, people are pausing to remember and honor ...
  • "Pure Michigan" Might Not be So Pure
    Many of Michigan's waters are poisoned by coal ash. Clean Water Action is spreading the word. DTE River Rouge Plant in Michigan. (Photo courtesy of Clean Water Action) ...
  • In Remembrance: Jan Nona
    Big-hearted fighter never gave up Jan Nona in her kitchen, with tap water contaminated by coal ash. (Photo courtesy of Aaron Jaffe / Circle of Blue) “You hav ...
  • The Insanity of Pennsylvania Coal Ash
    How is coal ash dumped at one site hazardous, but beneficial at another? A portion of the Little Blue Run coal ash impoundment. October 2011. (© Bob Donnan) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Obamacare Rocks And Republicans Can Only Lie A ...
    Republicans are scared to death. So many people will get a better deal because of Obamacare, and many will save thousands on their health care, they are afraid Democrats will get credit for actually doing something good. You know, attempting to do something about the worst problem facing America ...
  • Politico Calls Obamacare Sabotage Sabotage Too
    It isn’t just me…. Politico calls out Republican sabotage…
  • Republican Sabotage Working
    For three years, the Republicans have been working full time to sabotage The Affordable Care Act. Our nation’s “press” can only report on the problems from the roll out, and they rarely do any real journalism pointing out how many people are benefiting from the legislation alre ...
  • Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More
    This is a great article from the Huffington Post on Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More  And Some Policies Are Being Cancelled… There is no legislation where everyone is a winner. The point of any good law is to help the most people while harming the fewest. In the case with Obamacare ...
  • 1,046,000 Texans Won’t Get Free / Afford ...
    That’s right. If Ricky the dirtbag worked with the the feds, they could have set up a system to enroll Texans like the one in Oregon, California, Washington and other places to get free, or low cost health insurance to millions of hard working Texans. But noooooooo. Weall in Texxas duddunt ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Having never asked, Israel’s gov’t ...
    Israeli coalition leader Yariv Levin predicted that the cabinet will likely throw out the current version of the Prawer Plan, hours after former minister and co-architect of the plan Benny Begin clarified that he never said Bedouin supported the plan, as some Knesset members originally perceived ...
  • A letter from al-Walaja: Wars, walls and now roads
    A new Israeli-planned road, ostensibly meant to give the Cremisan Monastery access to Israel and Jerusalem, will cut off the Bethlehem-area village of al-Walaja from its lands. Its lands were taken and villagers displaced in first in 1948; in recent years Israel began completely surrounding it w ...
  • The military face behind the Prawer Plan&#8217 ...
    ‘The Bedouin will not live on his land with his flock, but rather will be part of the urban class that comes  in the afternoon and puts on his slippers,’ Moshe Dayan said in 1963. In the 50 years since, not much has changed regarding Israel’s efforts to justify its policy in the Negev: as ...
  • Knesset passes revised law for detention of Af ...
    The previous law was struck down by the High Court, which ordered the state to begin releasing the asylum seekers it was indefinitely detaining. Instead, the Knesset passed a law to circumvent the ruling and indefinitely detain asylum seekers in ‘open prisons.’ By Elizabeth Tsurkov A ...
  • Why aren’t Netanyahu and Peres going to ...
    Bibi says it’s the expense, Peres says it’s a flu he can’t kick. More likely it’s two other reasons: Israel’s past and present.   Nelson Mandela’s death brought up some inconvenient memories for Israel and the Diaspora Jewish establishment: Israel’s extremely fruitf ...

CenterLine

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

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Tech Drive In

  • Bitcoin soars past US$1000 mark! Adoption spik ...
    We wrote about Bitcoin open source project when it was officially launched sometime in 2010. We did a followup article when the value of one Bitcoin hit $1 USD. And somehow I managed not to buy any during those early days (it was not easy acquiring these elusive "internet money" back then, ...
  • Sputnik 3: After System76, Dell is the latest ...
    Ubuntu is finding new takers everyday. System76 was the first to introduce an Ubuntu pre-loaded touchscreen laptop. Though Dell is no stranger to Ubuntu and Linux in general, this is the first time they are showcasing a laptop running Linux equipped with a touchscreen display.  Sputnik 3: ...
  • The first ever Sailfish OS powered Jolla phone ...
    Sailfish OS project was started by a group of ex-Nokia employees aimed at continuing the development of MeeGo OS. Originally the MeeGo was the result of the merger of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin projects, both Linux systems. But when Nokia decided to ditch MeeGo in favor of proprieta ...
  • Ubuntu spotted in this Self Synchronizing Quad ...
    Another instance of Ubuntu being used in fields most of us are not even aware of. This video popped up on reddit a few hours ago. Skip to 01:00 to see Ubuntu in action.  Coding Motion: Synchronizing Quadcopters aka "Swarm" Seems like Ubuntu is becoming pretty ...
  • Metro: Last Light and Football Manager 2014 Av ...
    Two more blockbuster games are now available for Linux via Steam. Metro: Last Light is a single-player first-person shooter and horror video game developed by Ukrainian studio, 4A Games. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features a mixture of action-oriented and stealth game ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

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    Green Power Gridlock: Why Renewable Energy Is No Alternative
    Forbes
    Since just about everything we do and the equipment needed to support it depends upon a source of energy, wouldn't it be great if someone would invent perpetual motion machines that can generate all we want without consuming any resources or ...
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    From amongst the various alternate fuel companies Renewable Energy Group (REGI) experienced one of the sharpest declines in price as a result of this news. The company's stock fell by approximately 14.6 percent while its peers experiencing a less than ...
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    USA: Ecology OKs Sequim's Shoreline Master Program
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    Sequim's shoreline program will result in significant improvements in the protection, use, development and restoration about one mile of shorelines and the water quality of Sequim Bay, Washington Harbor and Pitship Marsh. The shoreline area consists of ...
    Ecology, power concerns voiced in Columbia River Treaty hearing
    Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
    U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, chairman of the House Natural Resources committee, leads a Congressional field hearing about the Columbia River Treaty Monday at Pasco City Hall. He was joined by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.,far right, the committee's ...
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    Last Sunday's Conversation about how plans for twin tunnels in the Delta might benefit the ecology of the estuary was written by Dennis McEwan, an aquatic biologist who works for the California Department of Water Resources. We asked readers the ...
    Local business leader earns top Ecology award for environmental excellence
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    OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) today recognized Marv McCord of McCord's Vancouver Toyota for his leadership and use of “low-impact development” and other environmentally savvy options when expanding the ...
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    Who Should Control Our Water?
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    During the Industrial Revolution, when people moved to cities en masse, household and human waste began to mix in Berlin's gutters. A stench rose from the street. Fouled water lead to deadly outbreaks of cholera and other water-borne diseases. By 1852 ...
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    On Monday, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority agreed on an ambitious plan to begin refilling the ancient salt lake with briny water pumped from the Red Sea — and relieve local shortages of fresh water at the same time. (The Washington Post).
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