Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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Swat: Global Strike TeamSwat: Global Strike Team (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SWAT team members approach a building with a g...SWAT team members approach a building with a gunman inside. Thirteen people were killed and 30 more wounded in an attack by a lone gunman at Fort Hood, Texas, Nov. 5, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jason R. Krawczyk See more at www.army.mil (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SRA Dave Orth (L) and SRA Clarence Tolliver (R...SRA Dave Orth (L) and SRA Clarence Tolliver (R), members of the 60th Security Police Squadron's Base Swat Team, Travis Air Force Base wearing black uniforms stand with M-9 pistols ready behind covering foliage. They are participating in a simulated hostage (Released to Public) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Leco Bearcat tactical vehicle used by...English: Leco Bearcat tactical vehicle used by the Lee County Sheriff's Office (Florida) SWAT team (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Chameleon Circuit performing at VidCo...English: Chameleon Circuit performing at VidCon, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Baroness Susan Greenfield giving a talk at the...Baroness Susan Greenfield giving a talk at the Said Business School, Oxford, as part of the Tomorrow's People conference on life extension in March 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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War Resisters League

  • On the Ground in Turkey: Repression Gets Personal
    (Originally posted on the Facing Tear Gas website November 28th, 2013.) After the mass escalation of anti-government protest this past late May in Turkey, events there have fallen out of the headlines. But mobilization and repression continue. This past November … Continue reading →
  • War Resisters League: Drop the Charges Against ...
    On the morning of October 22nd, 2013 agents of the Department of Homeland Security – acting on on behalf of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan – arrested Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action … Continue reading →
  • What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
    On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →
  • Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
    by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →
  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF-Lerner Fellows Volunteer Day at Boone Stre ...
    The CLF-Lerner Fellows enjoyed a sunny Saturday afternoon last weekend volunteering in East Baltimore at Boone Street Farm, a small community farm.
  • CLF Week in Links: Overfishing, Climate Change ...
    Students’ lunch breaks keep getting shorter—some as short as 15 minutes; the people of Millsboro, Delaware, are trying to prevent an enormous chicken processing plant from moving into town; oil companies are budgeting to pay for carbon, but Koch Industries is fighting it.
  • Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
    Most food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20 million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say we cherish most.
  • What’s Up With the Cans in Canned Food?
    I now use an electric pressure cooker to make all of the foods I used to buy canned. It is affordable and BPA-free, but the initial cost of the cooker is not negligible. These recommendations all assume that there is access to these foods, a refrigerator, a freezer, and not to be forgotten, a r ...
  • WashPo’s “Too much of too little” misses the point
    Eli Saslow's recent article on SNAP perpetuates the stigma of receiving food stamps and fuels the false perception that low-income consumers are uninformed about proper nutrition.

k2p blog

  • You are not just your genes, you are how they ...
    Is the importance of the gene as the driver of evolution being overplayed? So it seems to me that it is perfectly logical that a set of genes only describe and define an envelope of possibilities. It is gene expression which then - reacting to environmental or other triggers - determines the p ...
  • Solar and ocean cycles – without any CO2 ...
    The de Vries solar cycle together with the AMO/PDO are sufficient to explain the main climate variations of the last 1000 years It is unnecessary to invoke carbon dioxide and its effects to explain the climate cycles The 21st century will see an underlying cooling due to the de Vries solar cyc ...
  • Obama and the “birthers”
    But it makes me wonder as to what would happen if, after Obama has completed his two terms, it comes to light that was - in fact - ineligible to have been elected President under under Article Two of the U.S. Constitution? Would the record of his Presidency be expunged? Would all legislation si ...
  • Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
    The Power of forgiveness  
  • NSA covers less than 10% of the world’s ...
    Five billion records may seem like a big number but it is not as comprehensive as one would expect to see from anybody aspiring to be "big Brother". The NSA records only 7.58% of the world's mobile communications. If the NSA (and Obama) aspire to truly being the "Big Brother" of this Brave New W ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

  • Note: Earlier Post of Story of Black Friday X ...
    See updated/final post:  http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/woman-kills-three-for-last-x-box-at-chicago-wal-mart/Filed under: Uncategorized
  • “Woman Kills Three For Last X-Box at Chi ...
    ["Some American officials are calling a trip to the mall an act of patriotism as the United States tries to rebound and rebuild." went a common news refrain after 9/11/2001.  Today, "patriotic" consumers are enlisted into the hyperbolic fray between Microsoft's X-Box One and the latest Playstati ...
  • Arab writers denounce celebration of Israel at ...
    [Recently received:  "Below is a statement issued by Arab writers and intellectuals protesting having Israel as the guest of honor at the Guadalajara International Book Fair – Mexico, which opened on Saturday November 30......The main signatories are: Idriss Allouch (Poet) from Morocco, Abdul-Ra ...
  • Arab writers denounce celebration of Israel at ...
    [Recently received:  "Below is a statement issued by Arab writers and intellectuals protesting having Israel as the guest of honor at the Guadalajara International Book Fair – Mexico, which opened on Saturday November 30......The main signatories are: Idriss Allouch (Poet) from Morocco, Abdul-Ra ...
  • Israel’s Colonial Conquest at Mexican Bo ...
    Protest Israel’s honoured status at FIL! Published on 12 November 2013 Written by Connie Hackbarth, Alternative Information Center (AIC)  Israel was selected as guest of honour at the 2013 Guadalajara International Book Fair/Image: fil.com.mx Mexico’s Guadalajara International Book F ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Former US Marine: President Obama should be tr ...
    I am confident that at some point the American patriots, who seem to be in a bit of a coma and have been sleeping for a long time, are going to wake up soon and realize that when they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US, the president of the US also took that oath and has breached ...
  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • U.S. Role in Global Drug Trafficking
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a briefing of the series of articles by Konstantin Penzev recently posted by the New Eastern Outlook (here, here and here). He carefully reviews the sources of the global narco-culture tracking back to the clandestine experiments done in the military laboratories of the ...
  • Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To ...
    What are the Ukrainian protests about? On the surface, the protests don’t make sense. The Ukrainian government made the correct decision to stay out of the EU. Ukraine’s economic interests lie with Russia, not with the EU. This is completely obvious. The EU wants Ukraine to join so that Ukraine ...
  • CNN Censors Interview of the Russian UN Envoy ...
    On Tuesday the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin was interviewed by the CNN host Christiane Amanpour on the Syrian and Iranian issues. The full text of the interview was published on the web-site of the Russian mission to the UN. Surprisingly, several key Q&As were me ...
  • The humanitarian tragedy of Syrian Christians: ...
    We are publishing the remarks by Metropolitan Hilarion at the Colloquium on Serious Crisis in Syria, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, November 17, 2013. “We have gathered together today to discuss the most terrible humanitarian disaster of the last decades – the tragedy of the Syrian people. What is h ...
  • Future of Internet after the Snowden affair
    Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about American intelligence agencies’ wiretapping of European leaders, as well as their collection of the personal data of European citizens, will apparently have far-reaching implications which go far beyond a simple diplomatic scandal. This was d ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Victims Heard at Last
    Statement issued by survivors of Catholic child sexual abuse, their families and supporters on the first day of Royal Commission hearings into the catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse: The children of Australia have long been denied our basic human right to safety. In order to ...
  • Inquiry Asked “What Does Justice Look Like?” I ...
    Survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions in Australia were very nervous and excited with the imminent release of the final report of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. We have been betrayed by those in authority so uniformly throughout our entire lives. We have seen those dete ...
  • RIP Father Kevin Lee – a disobedient pri ...
    The sad news is filtering through about the death of Father Kevin Lee in last week’s massive typhoon in the Philippines. This was no doubt a very great tragedy for his friends and especially his young family, with whom he had spent so little time. Kevin saw his daughter Michelle born in la ...
  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 3 The V ...
    The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry was the first of the current trio of investigations into the coverup and enabling of widespread child sexual assault by religious institutions. All three inquiries are officially named in softer, and more complicated and inclusive language, but the core issue ...
  • Why Aren’t We More Outraged by This Corr ...
    Last month it was revealed Catholic church officials were less than honest with police in NSW about the crimes of their carefully protected child sex offender colleagues and friends. Many would say, so what’s new? What was new was the release under Freedom of Information of documents reque ...

WL Central

  • 2013-12-05 Anonymous joining fight in the Ukraine
    Ukrainian version: http://anoninsiders.net/anonymous-ukrainian-pr-2238/ To People of the Ukraine, we are anonymous. read more
  • 2013-11-29 WikiLeaks Calls for US to Drop Gran ...
    Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00 GMT In the face of the US government's three-year attack on WikiLeaks, an anonymous Department of Justice official talking to the Washington Post now claims that there is little possibility of prosecuting Julian Assange for publishing, but that a Grand Jury remains ...
  • 2013-11-29 Assange Statement on Anakata Extrad ...
    Statement by WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange concerning Sweden's extradition of WikiLeaks consultant Gottfrid "Anakata" Svartholm Warg: "It is time someone says it like it is: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is a political prisoner and Sweden has fallen off the map of decent nations in its treatment ...
  • 2013-11-15 Jeremy Hammond Sentencing Statement
    Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Jeremy Hammond and I'm here to be sentenced for hacking activities carried out during my involvement with Anonymous. I have been locked up at MCC for the past 20 months and have had a lot of time to think about how I would explain my actio ...
  • 2013-11-06 Statement by Sarah Harrison
    Wednesday 6 November 2013, 18:30 CET As a journalist I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend. I worked in Hong Kong as part of the WikiLeaks team that brokered a number of asylum offers for Snowden and negotiated his safe ex ...

U N News

  • UN refugee agency urges Dominican Republic to ...
    Voicing deep concern over a ruling that renders countless Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged the Dominican Government to rapidly restore the nationality of those affected.
  • UN agency welcomes selection of two female neg ...
    The United Nations entity tasked with advancing gender equality today applauded the appointment of two women to the team negotiating between Colombian authorities and the rebel group known as the FARC.
  • Audit of Argentina's foreign debt necessary fo ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged authorities in Argentina to undertake an audit of its external debt to improve transparency, and to intensify efforts to improve social conditions for their people.
  • UN refugee agency voices concern at deaths at ...
    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has voiced concern at the recent deaths at sea after a boat capsized earlier this week in the Bahamas, the third such incident in the northern Caribbean since October.
  • Inspired by United Nations, New York museum ta ...
    On the spot in Queens, New York where the United Nations General Assembly met during the late 1940s, a Mexican artist is testing his hypothesis that ordinary people, through creative approaches, can find solutions to world problems facing the current world body.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Proposed for Fede ...
    Your comments are due by December 2, 2013 Please let the US Fish and Wildlife Service know that you value the yellow-billed cuckoo and want it protected! On October 3, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo as ...
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
    Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
    Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...
  • Save the Lobo ~ Rally November 20 in Albuquerque!
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – How Rar ...
    © Dave Foreman The last time we gathered around this ol’ campfire, I told the tale of how the United States Forest Service fought against changing its ways after the Wilderness Act became law in 1964.  They kept on the road on which they had been since the end of the Big War in 1945.  […]

reference frame

  • The first Amplituhedron paper is out
    We've been using the word "Amplituhedron" since September 2013 but only now, the first preprint with this word in the title was released: The Amplituhedron The authors, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka ["Yuh-raw-sluff Turn-kuh" if you allow me to bastardize a Czech name), are preparing two m ...
  • IPCC models: Tolkien's Middle Earth threatened ...
    Did you ever believe that the IPCC climate models have something to do with the reality? Were you ever tempted to think that the contemporary climatologists are able to write and publish anything if it helps their funding? Researchers from the University of Bristol decided to settle the quest ...
  • American Dream: a Danish Reality?
    High social mobility isn't a clear net positive The American Dream is a national ethos of the U.S. Perhaps every third Hollywood movie describes the life story of a person born to poor conditions who makes it. The Americans themselves believe that this social mobility is one of the virtues in w ...
  • Would it make sense for the current Academia t ...
    He's a nice chap but my answer is Yes Watch the live broadcast of the physics Nobel ceremony now. I turned it off once a woman talked about "darkness" and mentioned energy-saving light bulbs, sorry, this was just over the edge. What does this junk have to do with the Higgs boson? Two days ago, ...
  • Salaries and wages since 1932-1934: uniform 30 ...
    Some data suggest "almost no progress" I was looking at some reality of the life in the U.S. of the "dirty 1930s": Incomes and prices in 1932-1934 What I was amazed by is that there seems to be no progress in a vast majority of the entries here. If you just multiply all the prices and wages by ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • 2012 Calgary flood study foresaw June’s devast ...
    One year before flooding devastated Calgary, officials were given a study that warned the next big flood to hit the city would bring higher water levels and more widespread damage than was previously thought, CBC News has learned. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now ...
  • MAY THE ODDS EVER BE IN YOUR FAVOR – HOPE & DE ...
    By Jim Quinn, The Burning Platform: A Lot of Hope is Dangerous President Snow: Seneca… why do you think we have a winner? Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean? President Snow: I mean, why do we have a winner? I mean, if we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not round up twenty-four ...
  • Pussy Riot, Greenpeace activists could be gran ...
    Two members of punk protest band Pussy Riot could be freed from prison and 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest could avoid jail under an amnesty proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, lawyers said on Tuesday. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fu ...
  • Silver Eagle Sales Shatter Record at 42.4 Mill ...
    from Silver Doctors: The US Mint shut down production of 2013 Silver Eagles today as SilverDoctors’ readers are likely aware, but the 3 weeks early end to 2013 production failed to prevent an all-time sales record for the popular bullion coin. Coming in at 42,401,000 oz, the Mint bested the prev ...
  • Obama hails Nelson Mandela as a ‘giant of history’
    U.S. President Barack Obama tells tens of thousands gathered in a South African stadium today that Nelson Mandela was “the last great liberator of the 20th century,” a tribute to the man who became a global symbol of reconciliation. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Gloves With Thinsulate™ Insulation
    The other day I was reminded of how important it is to wear insulated gloves during the winter, and how Thinsulate™ is something to look for when choosing winter gloves. Not only from a comfort standpoint, but from a preparedness point of view – insulated winter gloves of varying weights a ...
  • Cocoa Powder For Your Preps
    The benefits of having cocoa in your food preps (and your regular consumption) are many. While advancing your overall food storage inventory, consider supplementing your food-staples with a variety beyond just the basics. Spicy or sweet foods, herbs, powders, etc., will provide flavors to satisf ...
  • When The Water Stops Flowing
    Will the water treatment facilities fail during a SHTF crisis? Many will. The question is… what about your water supply…? For most, if the power goes out, and after the generator fuel is exhausted (if there are generators,) the water will stop flowing. When the water stops flowing, t ...
  • Canned Protein Foods For SHTF
    While planning and choosing various foods for your overall preparedness food storage, also think about the proteins. All foods made from meat, poultry, seafood, beans and peas, eggs, processed soy products, nuts, and seeds are considered part of the Protein Foods Group. Proteins are the building ...
  • 2 Home Security Things You Can Do To Prevent A ...
    My former best burglar deterrent, ‘Bandit’, may he rest in peace We’ve written a number of articles to do with home-security including ways to prevent home burglary, and although there are lots of things that you can do for prevention, the following are just two of the many thi ...

Fast Company

  • Tell Us: Your Most Ridiculous Company Holiday ...
    You know what time of year it is. Be it gross, hilarious, embarrassing, awkward, happy, or just downright puzzling, we want to know your favorite company holiday moment. Punch, anybody?Are you ready? It's company holiday party season.Read Full Story     
  • Nike CEO Mark Parker On How Insight And Innova ...
    The "world's most creative CEO" tells us how great design and innovation drive successful business.Mark Parker joined Nike over 30 years ago as a footwear designer and product tester. Now he's the company's CEO.Read Full Story     
  • The Pandora Alarm Clock Lets You Wake Up To Yo ...
    The alarm clock will gently wake users with their favorite stations in the morning.Because a buzzing alarm clock is the epitome of Monday mornings, Pandora has introduced a gentler way to prod you awake. A corollary capability to a sleep timer that debuted in August, the streaming company has ad ...
  • Is Peers The Sharing Economy's Future Or Just ...
    The nonprofit organization is deeply entwined with Airbnb. So how much is the lodging platform--as well as the likes of Uber and Lyft--benefiting from Peers' benevolence?The recently created Peers calls itself "a member-driven organization that supports the sharing economy movement." Since its f ...
  • This Guy Made His Own iBeacon For $70
    After Macy's announced its plans to deploy iBeacons to beam in-store savings to your phone, one guy decided to build one out of a Raspberry Pi.Last week, Apple became the latest retailer to use its own iBeacon technology in a bricks-and-mortar retail environment. But the tech--which enables stor ...

Jadaliyya

  • New Texts Out Now: Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Monso ...
    Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Abdel Razzaq Takriti (ART): I first encountered the Dhufar revolution in a seminar on social movem ...
  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (10 December)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (December 10)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • Turkey Media Roundup (December 10)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
  • Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, ...
    Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement  By Sunaina Maira Paperback: $16.00 E-book: $12.00 Based on ethnographic research in Palestine, primarily during the Arab uprisings, Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement ...

mediagazer

  • NYT CEO Mark Thompson aims to create global ne ...
    Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: NYT CEO Mark Thompson aims to create global news brand, says international audiences are key  —  The global ‘New York Times’  —  First The New York Times became the national paper of record for the United States.  N ...
  • Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper. Facebook Use ...
    Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper.  Facebook Users Have Their Own Ideas.  —  Most people think of Facebook in a similar way: It's a place to share photos of your kids.  It's a way to keep up with friends and family members.  It's a place to ...
  • Police Restore Access to Crime Reports (The Nabe)
    The Nabe: Police Restore Access to Crime Reports  —  Last week, The Nabe reported that the city's police precincts would no longer directly provide journalists with the forms detailing crime reports.  On Monday, shortly after CUNY Graduate Graduate School of Journalism Dean ...
  • Apple's iTunes Radio Hires Sales Exec From Cum ...
    Tim Peterson / AdAge: Apple's iTunes Radio Hires Sales Exec From Cumulus Media  —  Former Cumulus Media Exec Michael Pallad Started Last Week  —  Apple's iTunes Radio has poached a top radio ad exec as it prepares to offer the service widely to advertisers in 201 ...
  • Yahoo acquires QuikIO, yet another startup to ...
    Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: Yahoo acquires QuikIO, yet another startup to add to its video team  —  Early this morning, the creators of a little known but excellent cross-platform video streaming app called QuikIO sent a farewell note to its users.  After December 31, the ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

no frakking consensus

  • Does the IPCC Do Science?
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes itself as a "scientific body." Where in its multi-year, multi-thousand-page bureaucratic report-writing process is science actually practiced?
  • That Silly Coal Speech – Part 2
    In the National Post today I argue that the extreme anti-coal stance of UN officials and green activists harms both people and the environment.
  • Anti-Democratic Green Activism
    If the public is to be represented at climate negotiations by someone other than their own government, it has a right to elect and dismiss those representatives.
  • Independent Greenpeace? Never Mind
    Greenpeace makes a show of rejecting government and corporate money. But it's close pals with the WWF - which gets enormous funding from exactly those sources.
  • UN Climate Fanatics
    According to Ban Ki-moon, the latest IPCC report vaporized climate skepticism.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/3/13 - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust E ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurance Companies Lower Premiums? - DEBATED - Read statements from the Congressional Budget Office (Not Clearly Pro or Con), Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) (Pro), David A. Hyman, Professor of Medicine at th ...
  • 11/18/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacture ...
    vaccines.procon.org Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information - With the start of flu season, find the ingredients for all of the 2013-2014 flu vaccines in addition to the ingredients and manufacturer information for 30 other types of vaccines from Adenovirus to Zoster.
  • 11/18/13 - Does Obamacare Allow People to Keep ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Does Obamacare Allow People to Keep Their Current Coverage? - DEBATED - See estimates on how many people have received health insurance policy cancellations due to non-compliance with the Affordable Care Act; read President Obama's Nov. 14 announcement about these ...
  • 11/13/13 - Health Care Stocks: Performance und ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Health Care Stocks: Performance under Obamacare - The charts and graphs in this resource show the average stock price increase of the top 10 largest health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device companies from Mar. 23, 2010 (the day the Af ...
  • 11/12/13 - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Ca ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Cannabis - Read about pharmaceutical drugs that contain chemicals directly from marijuana (Sativex), synthetic versions of chemicals found in marijuana (Marinol), chemicals similar to those found in marijuana (Nabilone, Dexanabi ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Chinese State Media Criticized for Touting Sil ...
    For Chinese citizens worried about smog, which has been blanketing major cities and smashing air pollution records recently, China's state media has some advice: Look on the bright side. State broadcaster CCTV and a Communist Party tabloid, Global Times, yesterday published editorials attempting ...
  • A Successful Push to Restore Europe’s Long-Abu ...
    From Britain to the Czech Republic, European nations have been restoring rivers to their natural state — taking down dams, removing levees, and reviving floodplains. For a continent that long viewed rivers as little more than shipping canals and sewers, it is a striking change. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Intensifying Storms Are Contributing To Ongoin ...
    The U.S. is losing wetlands at a rate of 80,000 acres per year, in part because of intensifying coastal storms and sea level rise, according to a new government study. From 2004 to 2009, the country lost more than 360,000 acres of freshwater and saltwater wetlands, a decline driven both by tradi ...
  • Five Questions For Jerry Brown on the West Coa ...
    California Governor Jerry Brown was one of the moving forces behind a new agreement among three Western states and British Columbia to align their policies to combat climate change. Under the pact, signed on Oct.
  • China doubles renewable energy pace as record ...
    Over the past 10 months China has added renewable energy sources to its power grid at double the pace of 2012, according to its National Energy Administration (NEA). The renewable energy push, part of a massive effort to cut air pollution in China's large cities, has added more than 36 gigawatts ...

oldephartte/Diigo

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Creature Feature: Polar Bear
    (Photo: Ansgar Walk) We’re sure you’re already familiar with the polar bear: a perennial favorite of zoo-goers, Coke commercials,­ and a poster-child for climate change. But we think these big white bears deserve a second look. (Photo: Alex Berger)
  • Creature Feature: Atlantic Puffin
    (Photo: nigel_appleton) Fantastic coloring and undeniable charm makes the Atlantic puffin one of the most popular and recognizable seabird species—but there’s a lot more to these sturdy birds than you’d first expect.  
  • CEO Note: Conservation Needs Strong Internatio ...
    (Photo: Oceana/Carlos Suarez) Conservation is an international challenge, especially when it comes to our oceans. Earlier this month the presidents and CEOs of 24 leading conservation organizations, including Oceana, send a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman urging him to inco ...
  • Creature Feature: Clownfish
    (Photo: michael fontenoth) The brightly-colored clownfish needs no introduction—the reef fish is one of the most recognizable fish in the world. But aside from being the star of Disney’s “Finding Nemo,” the clownfish has some impressive adaptations and a strange life history. There are actua ...
  • Support Renewable Energy - Opinion in Florida' ...
    (Photo: Oceana) Today I wrote an opinion piece for South Florida's Sun Sentinel about the need for renweable energy. I'd like to share mystory with you, and I hope you'll pass it along to your family and friends.

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Japan Times

  • Brits feel squeeze on income
    Although the British economy seem at least to be showing signs of recovery, it remains difficult for young people to get on the property ladder ...
  • The great American losing streak in the Mideast
    Western statesmen are right to congratulate themselves on averting an immediate major crisis with Iran, but they are wrong to believe that they have resolved ...
  • Moral high ground as a tool
    Admirable as Nelson Mandela's saintly virtues were, he also had to be cunning, iron-willed, bullheaded and contemptuous at times to engineer the political miracle in ...
  • The revival of a Great Depression-era retread
    Paul Krugman and other economists now advocate the kinds of things Keynesians typically promote to stabilize the economy during a recession to become a permanent ...
  • Curry’s 43 not enough to propel Warriors past ...
    Kemba Walker loves a good challenge. So when Stephen Curry started lighting it up Monday night in his homecoming game, Walker decided it was time to ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Long Walk
    Images of three separate but interconnected events are in my mind tonight. The first is the outcome of another negotiating session of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw two weeks ago. The second is a sunny fall afternoon in 1998 when South African President, Nelson Mandela ...
  • A Part-Time, Do-It-Yourself Job Market
    Statistics Canada reported that employment grew by 22,000 in November. But 20,000 of those new jobs were part-time. The proportion of all Canadian jobs that are part-time rose to an even 19%. Broken down another way, 19,000 of the employment increase were people reporting themselves as self-empl ...
  • Grading Canada’s Economic Recovery: The big pi ...
    Over the past week, we’ve been evaluating Canada’s economic recovery. Today is the last post in this blog series. There is no dispute that Canada has had a ‘recovery’ – both Canada’s economy and unemployment have improved since the end of the low point of the recession – but the question i ...
  • Grading Canada’s Economic Recovery: More emplo ...
    This week, Behind the Numbers is publishing a series examining Canada’s economic recovery and scrutinizing the government’s economic message. Monday, we looked at GDP and Economic Growth, on Tuesday we looked at unemployment in Canada, and yesterday we began looking at employment quality by exam ...
  • Grading Canada’s Economic Recovery: Underemplo ...
    This week, Behind the Numbers is publishing a series examining Canada’s economic recovery and scrutinizing the government’s economic message. Monday, we looked at GDP and Economic Growth, yesterday we looked at unemployment in Canada; today and Thursday we will be looking at indicators of employ ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • EU-approved ‘safe’ air pollution levels causin ...
    Air pollution in the European Union is causing premature deaths even when levels meet quality guidelines, a report has shown. Even in areas where pollution was much lower than the limit, scientists found there is a higher-than-normal risk of death. The study, published the British Medical Associ ...
  • China-Japan Conflict Could Lead to World War I ...
    Former Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Sha Zukang has warned that the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands could lead to World War III. CIting a Chinese-language piece written by Zukang for the the pro-regime Global Times, a report in the China Times says that Zukang ...
  • South Korea Unveils It’s Own Air Defense Zone, ...
    South Korea has officially announced that it will expand its air defense identification zone, making it partially overlap those of Japan and China. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the expansion will go into effect on December 15th. The move comes after China established ...
  • Riots break out in Singapore. Think your count ...
    Mohamed Bouazizi. It’s not a name that means much to most people. But you’ll recall his story. Frustrated with the absurd amount of regulation and corruption that prevented him from being able to put food on the table for his family, Bouazizi was the 26-year old Tunisian fruit merchant that set ...
  • 125 Million Europeans Face Poverty
    According to a report by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, 124.5 million people live under threat of poverty or social exclusion in the European Union. The document published by Eurostat last week, reveals how in 2012, 124.5 million people, or 24.8 per cent of the population in Europe were ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
    Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...
  • High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
    ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...
  • What price the carbon price?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, November 21 We all know that the act of 'putting a price on carbon' has contributed to the downfall of three Australian prime ministers and two opposition leaders. What might not be as well known is that carbon pricing has gone relatively unnoticed in ot ...
  • Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
    Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...
  • Cut emissions and save on household bills
    From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013
    1. Carbon concentrations hit 400ppm while the IPCC sets global carbon budget: For the first time since our appearance on Earth, carbon concentrations in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million. The last time concentrations were this high for a sustained period was 4-5 million years ago when tem ...
  • China bans shark fin, bird's nest soup from st ...
    China has banned shark fin and bird's nest soup from being served at official state banquets, reports Chinese state media.
  • Palm oil IPO presents environmental, financial ...
    An Indonesian palm oil company has failed to disclose all the financial and environmental risks to investors ahead of its December 12 initial public offering (IPO), alleges a new report from environmental groups. PT Sawit Sumbermas Sarana (SSMS), a palm oil company that operates plantations in I ...
  • New mountain porcupine discovered in Brazil (p ...
    In Brazil's Baturite Mountains, scientists have uncovered a new species of prehensile-tailed porcupine, according to a new paper in Revista Nordestina de Biologia. Dubbed, the Baturite porcupine (Coendou baturitensis), the new species was discovered when scientists noticed significant difference ...
  • Conventional satellite imagery may underestima ...
    Analysis of forest cover using medium-scale satellite imagery may miss deforestation for small-scale subsistence agriculture, finds a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Sierra Express

  • Salone Mourns Nelson Mandela…The World Leader ...
    There is every need for the Government of Sierra Leone to join The Voiceless in consoling the Mandela family. Former President Nelson Mandela is not only a great loss to the South Africans but the World at large including Sierra Leone. Whilst listening to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BB ...
  • Natural resources and innovation among Africa’ ...
    In Johannesburg, UNDP Representatives in Africa discuss region’s inclusive growth and sustainable development prospects Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 December – Africa should capitalize on its natural resources and the entrepreneurship of its people to transition from economic growth to sustaina ...
  • A New Message from Alim Kamara
    Greetings good folks, Hope you are well. I’m going to let my publicist speak on this one. I would just like to say thank you for the support. On with the show…. A-Scholars, a programme founded by Alim Kamara, is set primarily to encourage people to give back to their respective commu ...
  • P R E S S R E L E A S E
    MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE DECEMBER 9, 2013 BY A PUBLIC NOTICE OF DECEMBER 4TH 2013, THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE IS INVITING THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS, BOT ...
  • Ambassador Bangali signs Dr. Nelson Mandela’s ...
    Sierra Leone’s multi-accredited Emissary to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ambassador Andrew Gbebay Bangali was today (9th December 2013) among Diplomats that visited the South African Embassy in Addis Ababa to sign the Book of Condolence of the former South African President Dr. N ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Michele Hewitson interview: Theo Spierings
    Theo Spierings, the chief executive of Fonterra, said: "The elephant! So you heard about the elephant."He showed me a picture of an elephant, an enormous one, with tusks, with "1st Day New Financial Year" printed across its trunk....
  • China demand lifts dairy prices
    International dairy product prices are pushing sharply higher, driven by strong demand from China.Results from the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction yesterday showed the GDT Price Index rose by 3.9 per cent compared with the last...
  • Big jump in world dairy prices (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products staged the biggest gain in five months, pushing the average price to a two-month high, as rennet casein climbed to a record.The GDT Price Index, previously known as the GDT-TWI Price Index, rose...
  • Commodity prices down as aluminium, milk powde ...
    New Zealand commodity prices snapped four months of gains as aluminium and whole milk powder fell, though a weaker kiwi dollar shielded local producers from the decline.
  • Terms of trade at 40-year high
    The string of stronger-than-expected economic data continued today with Statistics New Zealand reporting the country's highest terms of trade in 40 years.

Hit & Run | Reason

  • A.M. Links: NSA Scandal Could Cost Private Sec ...
    The National Security Administration's surveillance scandal is projected to cost private Internet companies billions as international clients take their business elsewhere. Congress approved a 10-year extension on the Undetectable Firearms Act hours before the 25-year-old piece ...
  • LA County Sheriffs Charged with Systematic Abu ...
    According to the Los Angeles Times, 18 current and past members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have been charged with abuse of inmates, misconduct, and obstructing an investigation. Here's the U.S. attorney leading the case: "The pattern of activity alleged in the ...
  • Forest Service Denies Threatening Hunters' Pro ...
    A week ago, I wrote of the battle between state and federal officials over restrictions on use of Arizona's wild areas. Specifically, back in August, officials managing the Coconino, Kaibab, and Prescott National Forests issued a terse press release threatening to seize property an ...
  • Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer on Health Care's Third-P ...
    Many doctors will gladly substantially discount their fees in return for up-front payments from people who pay directly for their health care. Hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and urgent care clinics do the same. Why shouldn’t they? They don’t have to pay an army of staff to f ...
  • Brickbat: No Hugging, No Learning
    Officials in Madison, Wisconsin, say they don't like the prospect of any hugging or cuddling going on there. At least, not for money. The Snuggle House recently opened, promising one hour withprofessional cuddler for just $60. Cops have already threatened to raid the place. Authorit ...

Mercury Rising

  • Tech giants tell NSA to limit bulk spying
    I blogged this over at DK. The Guardian has a version here. The NYT has a version here.
  • Juan Cole made the Bush White House Enemies&#8 ...
    Congratulations, Juan! And thank you, James Risen (via Eschaton): Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather ...
  • Hersh: Obama lied about Syrian sarin
    Via DemocracyNow, Sy Hersh in the 8/12/13 London Review of Books: Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intellig ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • US government shuts down key news source
    Elizabeth Murray, The Consortium: This New Year’s Eve, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will quietly deliver a devastating blow to the American public’s access to accurate, unbiased information that is unparalleled in quality and comprehensiveness by shutting off access to the ...

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

  • U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play
    As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. Secretary-General ...
  • The Carbon Warrior
    Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity. As one of the world’s foremost exp ...
  • In Haiti, Planting Trees Is No Simple Matter
    Reforestation and soil conservation programmes costing many thousands of dollars in this rural community have resulted in hundreds of small ledges built of straw or sacks of earth. In certain areas, the earthworks seem to be lasting, but in others, they are disintegrating. The construction and d ...
  • South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and ...
    The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of Fiji representing G77 nations. It took two weeks and 36 st ...
  • South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and ...
    The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of Fiji representing G77 nations. It took two weeks and 36 st ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Oldest human ancestor DNA sequence
    DNA from humans ancestors alive 400,000 years ago have had their mitochondrial DNA sequenced. For the first time, researchers have extracted and sequenced the mitochondrial DNA from an incredibly an...
  • Brain scan insight into dyslexia
    Dyslexia is down to a connectivity problem between different parts of the brain that decode language, scientists in Belgium have shown. Dyslexia is not a new disorder. In fact, the first case was do...
  • Key to male contraceptive
    A means to block male fertility that doesn't involve potentially harmful hormone treatments has been unveiled by researchers in Australia and the UK. A male equivalent of the female oral contracepti...
  • Quick Fire Science: Renewable Energy
    The UK government has this week announced changes to its subsidies for renewable energy generation. But how much energy does the UK generate using renewables? Here's your quickfire science on renewabl...
  • Football fever: dengue in Brazil
    The 2014 FIFA World Cup could have fans reaching fever pitch for reasons other than football: the event also coincides with the country's seasonal spike in dengue virus cases, an Oxford scientist ha...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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!  |  & ...

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  • Canada to Claim North Pole
    Comte reports: "Canada signaled intentions to claim the North Pole and surrounding Arctic waters while announcing the filing of a UN application seeking to vastly expand its Atlantic sea boundary." Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • Save Pit Bulls From Being Euthanized
    Animal Control has petitioned a judge to euthanize 10 pit bull/pit mixes after being rescued from a dog fighting ring. They could be sent to Best Friends or Bad Rap for rehabilitation instead of killing them. Please sign and share! Submitted by Terrie Williams to Animals  |   Not ...
  • Kick the dirty energy
    Fight Climate Change Simply by Switching Your Electric Bill We make it easy for you to buy renewable energy for your home or business anywhere in the U.S. without installing solar panels or wind turbines. Submitted by Jason R. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • PETITION - Sign the Postcard to Congress in su ...
    PETITION: Vietnamese people, Vietnamese Americans, and the children of U.S. veterans have yet to receive meaningful help from the U.S. government, I ask that you support the Agent Orange Relief Act of 2013 Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • 3-Year-Old Florida Boy With Autism Denied Righ ...
    They may just be chickens, but they mean a whole lot to 3-year-old J.J. The DeBary, Florida preschooler has autism, and his pediatrician recommended that his family adopt a pet to help. Research suggests that having a pet can help kids with autism to Submitted by Barb Knight to Health & W ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Ignorance is Bliss Unless You Are an Officer o ...
    By Patricia L Johnson President Obama issued a proclamation regarding the death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013 which read in part as follows: “As a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela, by the authority vested … Continue reading →
  • Compared to Peers a Pitiful, Pathetic, Poor Pe ...
    By Patricia L Johnson Every three years the PISA, Programme for International Student Assessment, is administered to 15 year old students around the world to determine their knowledge in reading, math and science. The last test was offered in 2012 … Continue reading →
  • Progress Report – Affordable Care Act We ...
    s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/HealthCare-Site-Progress-Report-Final.pdf.Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured Tagged: ACA Website, Obamacare, PPACA
  • Final Policy and Payment Changes to the Medica ...
    Details for Title: Final Policy and Payment Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2014.Filed under: Government Tagged: Calendar Year 2014, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, Medicare, Physician Fee Schedule, Policy
  • Final Report on The Supplemental Nutrition Ass ...
    www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/snap_report_-_final.pdf.Filed under: Government Tagged: Food Insecurity, Hunger, Republican cuts, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Rogue Government - WP

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

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Battling Extractive Industries in Romania
    Authorities in Romania have been attempting to bulldoze through public opposition to push through controversial extractive projects such as gold mining at Rosia Montana and shale gas drilling at Pungesti. However, amendments to the national mining law, which would have given Rosia Montana Gold C ...
  • “We in the Caribbean Are Living Climate ...
    The Mocho Mountains that run through the centre of Jamaica were once covered by lush tropical forests that helped control rainfall. Now, much of the forests and farmlands have been destroyed and the community is hard hit by the resultant extreme weather. “[The area] is one of those that was seve ...
  • Africa Prepares for Central African Republic D ...
    The African Union is preparing to deploy thousands of troops in the Central African Republic as a deadly conflict there spirals further out of control. On Monday, Dec. 9, African Union (AU) Deputy Chairperson Erastus Mwencha met with diplomats at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to wor ...
  • Ukraine Crackdown Turns Sinister
    As anti-government protests in the Ukraine move into their third week, there are growing concerns among individuals and civil society organisations in the country over the regime’s approach to protestors. Rights groups say that there are already similarities to the sinister crackdown on individu ...
  • Indian Boys Get Lessons in Respect
    In a shanty tucked inside Dharavi, described as Asia’s largest slum settlement, a little piece of theatre unfolds. Several young boys are heckled as they pretend to go vegetable shopping – and calling them names are young girls. The boys are embarrassed. While the exact opposite happens on ...

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Victim of police in-custody beating takes step ...
    The victim of an in-custody beating that led to the firing of Milwaukee Police Detective Rodolfo Gomez Jr. has taken the first step toward filing a civil suit, records show. Deron Love, who was handcuffed to a wall when Gomez beat him in an interrogation room, is seeking more than $50,000 in da ...
  • Bacterium can reverse autism-like behaviour
    Doses of a human gut microbe helped to reverse behavioural problems in mice with autism-like symptoms, researchers report today in Cell1. The treatment also reduced gastrointestinal problems in the animals that were similar to those that often accompany autism in humans. The work builds on prev ...
  • Sumatra's Sinabung volcano sees large eruption ...
    After a relatively calm period, a large vulcanian explosion occurred at the volcano this morning (04:30 GMT). VAAC Darwin reports an ash plume to 38,000 ft (12 km) altitude drifting 50 nautical miles to the NW. The eruption was preceded by a smaller one at midnight (GMT) with an ash plume altitu ...
  • Geologists discover 'Supervolcano' in Utah: pa ...
    Geologists at Brigham Young University have discovered what may be the world's largest "super" volcano that erupted in Utah's own backyard. While there are a variety of volcanoes that blast away in different ways, super volcanic eruptions are the biggest that collapse into large calderas. Yellow ...
  • Peer reviewers urged to speak their minds
    Marcus Munafò just doesn't believe some of the stuff he sees in journals - especially in psychological sciences, which have come under pressure to prove that studies in the field can be replicated. "Too often my gut feeling is 'surely this can't be right'", says Munafò, who is an exper ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Funerals and funnymen
    Well, off they go to South Africa, our Prime Minister and assorted hang-arounds past and present from different parties. They all were, are, or want to be in the driver's seat, so they are all hang-arounds. Chief among them but far from a chief is the current occupant of two-four Sus ...
  • CON control . . .
    SETTLER TREATY CARD: a fine concept from the folks at Briarpatch. Click on the link to see a giant-size version, 'cause the fine-print ‘some conditions apply’ is worth reading.
  • We Own You ...
    At least that is the tacit message that comes from the excerpted emails from the PMO (Nigel Wright) to the Conservative house leader in the senate. Although not subordinate in any way to the frat boys in the PMO, senators are taking orders from Nigel Wright. Now, I didn't do the heavy lifti ...
  • Patrick Lane, UVic commencement speech.
    There are honourary degree holders. And then there's the poet Patrick Lane and his commencement speech at the University of Victoria, reprinted in the Times Colonist. It is 65 years ago, you’re 10 years old and sitting on an old, half-blind, grey horse. All you have is a sadd ...
  • So a guy who has never played a team sport wri ...
    ... And we're supposed to believe that anything in it is in the slightest bit accurate? Because Stephen Harper is such a renowned historian ... on anything? Stephen Harper has not provided a single satisfactory answer to any question about his involvement in the alleged attempt to subvert a ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Criticizes HealthCare.gov Shopping Feature ...
    Fox News falsely claimed that HealthCare.gov does not allow anonymous shopping in order to stoke fears about security issues with the website. But the website has long had a window shopping feature, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on December 2 that it had improve ...
  • Second Wind For "Preposterous" Right-Wing Laws ...
    The New York Times reported on a dangerous legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought by officials in states who refuse to implement their own healthcare exchanges, which has been widely trumpeted in right-wing media. But these lawsuits are based on a far-fetched theory that the la ...
  • Conservatives Attack The Pope
    After Pope Francis released his first apostolic exhortation -- in which he criticized global inequalities of wealth and the tenets of so-called trickle-down economics -- right-wing media went on the attack, characterizing the pope's treatise as "disturbingly ignorant" and "pu ...
  • REPORT: Megyn Kelly's Guest List Is More Conse ...
    Since the show's debut on October 7 and through November 29, Fox News' The Kelly File has hosted conservatives significantly more often than progressives and has surpassed even Fox's Hannity in its divide between guests on the left and right. Megyn Kelly's Primetime Show: Sa ...
  • Fox Ignores Facts To Blame Pensions For Detroi ...
    As the Detroit bankruptcy moves forward, Fox News personalities have been quick to blame worker unions and political corruption for the city's unfunded pension liabilities. This discourse ignores the forces actually undermining Detroit's financial solvency: the dramatic reduction of the city's p ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Bike-Sharing Programs Improve Street Life
    We know that bike-sharing programs get people to switch from driving to bicycling. We know that good bike-sharing programs increase bicycle commute rates dramatically. We know that bike-sharing programs keep the air cleaner and citizens healthier. But new research has also found that bike-sharin ...
  • Earth’s OCS Cradles Huge Freshwater Reserves
    The latest issue of Nature promises temporary relief to a planet where fresh water is quickly becoming scarcer and scarcer (photo: cc, from freeaussiestock.com). Vincent E.A. Post of Flinders University in Adelaide and his coauthors Jacobus Groen, Henk Kooi, Mark Person, Shemin Ge, and W. Mike E ...
  • 8 Reasons Electric Cars Kick Your Car’s Boot
    “Boot” = “trunk” in British English. It also sounds a bit like butt. Hence, the headline. It’s no secret at all to people who own or have driven electric cars — electric cars totally kick the ass (or boot) of their gasmobile cousins. It’s not simply a ma ...
  • Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks On December 13 201 ...
    One of the best meteor showers of the year, the Geminids, will be peaking less than a week from now, on the night of December 13, 2013 (early morning of December 14, 2013). The exact peak of the prolific meteor shower will be right around 2 AM (local time) on the 14th — but anytime Geminid ...
  • Squat To Trot
    Commuters can now get both daily exercise and a free subway ticket by doing a 30-squat fitness session in the Moscow subways. No, really. It’s a promotion for the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics (photo/inset compiled from Mashable). How about New York? Times Square, 8 a.mSquat To Trot ...

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Axis of Logic

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

Climate

  • Ex-Clinton Aide Expected to Join Obama
    (New York Times) President Obama, after a rocky year that leaves him at the lowest ebb of his presidency, is bringing into his White House circle the longtime Democratic strategist John D. Podesta, a former chief of staff for President ...
  • Massive Midwest Coal Deposit Sparks Controversy
    (Scientific American) The broad high prairie of eastern Wyoming and southern Montana was once the bottom of a shallow sea, a rich subtropical swampland for millions of years. Layers of plants began forming peat beds 60 millio ...
  • EPA Chief McCarthy Visits China to Talk Air Po ...
    (Washington Post) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy embarked on her first international trip this week, visiting China to talk about collaborating with that country to combat air pollution and climate change. ...
  • Oil Spill Reported in Billings County, North D ...
    (Bismarck Tribune) The North Dakota Department of Health said Monday that it is monitoring a spill of saltwater and oil in Billings County, of which some reached a small tributary of the Little Missouri River. According to a Health De ...
  • BP 2010 Oil Spill Claims System Shut Down
    (Tampa Bay Business Journal) A federal appeals court has halted BP settlement payments for oil spill damages to businesses "whose injuries are not traceable to the spill." The ruling by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Make Peace With Cuba
    Things that make conservative heads explode: President Barack Obama shook the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro at Nelson Mandela's memorial service -- the first time the leaders of the two countries long at odds have had any contact. The handshake between the two came as Obama made his ...
  • Nominees Start to Move
    And so it begins: Majority Democrats in the Senate won approval Tuesday for one of President Barack Obama's key judicial nominees, the first of his picks to win confirmation since they weakened the chamber's filibuster rules. Senators voted 56-38 to approve Washington lawyer Patricia Mille ...
  • Casual Observation
    Normal executives don't have to pay $8 million in hush money to their aides to keep them from talking to the press. Discuss
  • Palin Exegesis
    I have a busy morning after a working weekend, but you can amuse yourself with further exegesis of Sarah Palin's understanding of the Founding Fathers by Yastreblyansky. It's worse than you thought. Discuss
  • Another War on Terror Fumble
    The advantage of having a CIA officer pose as an embassy employee, usually a member of the State Department or a military attache, is that they enjoy diplomatic immunity, which means that they operate with a good degree of protection. It's much riskier to operate overseas as a NOC with "no offi ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    The hottest links have got a geeky feel this week. Check out some awesome t-shirts, wallets, and real-life nutty professors. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Damn Cool Dogs Wearing Shades
    The phrase may be “cool cats,” but as these canines wearing sunglasses show, dogs can give their feline rivals a run for their money when it comes to style. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    A bit of a mixed bag this week, but we're excited as it's the first one of the year to feature something holiday-themed. Sorry... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Fathomless Mysteries of the Deepest Lake o ...
    Lake Baikal in Siberia is unique is so many ways - many are drawn to its natural wonders while others are intrigued by its many mysteries. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There's plenty to keep you interested in this week's pick of links. Check out clean-shaven cartoon characters, awesome abandoned churches, cats with jobs and much more. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Christian Action League boss claims to know Go ...
    Christian Action League boss claims to know God's position on the Bonner Bridge The Progressive Pulse Creech! Next on tap from the good reverend, no doubt: An essay on the benefits of expanded use of mountain top removal to produce more coal and the evils of using solar power because of dang ...
  • DYCHE | How can Eastern Kentucky soar? - WDRB
    DYCHE | How can Eastern Kentucky soar? WDRB The coal lobby is wrong, however, to minimize the awful aesthetic, environmental, and quality of life effects of mountaintop removal mining. They must also face the fact that the long-term future for Eastern Kentucky coal is bleak regardless of what .. ...
  • Obama's failures on climate change - Record-Se ...
    Obama's failures on climate change Record-Searchlight (blog) Even though scientists tell us "Most of the coal and gas and oil that's underground has to stay there if we're going to slow climate change," Obama's EPA recently "allowed Kentucky to weaken a crucial reg ...
  • Extractive World Order: Plundering Planet Eart ...
    Extractive World Order: Plundering Planet Earth, Seizing Resources and Erasing ... Center for Research on Globalization Under the Act, coal operators in mountaintop removal operations can obtain an AOC variance if their site is used for “higher or better uses” after it has been mined. This creat ...
  • Charges Reduced Against Rev. Billy and Choir.. ...
    Charges Reduced Against Rev. Billy and Choir... Village Voice (blog) The two led a group of eight choir members in a musical protest against mountaintop removal, a controversial form of coal-mining that Chase helps to finance. The choir sang a song, then Reverend Billy preached a sermon on Chase ...

Memeorandum

  • McCain On Obama-Castro Handshake: 'Chamberlain ...
    Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: McCain On Obama-Castro Handshake: ‘Chamberlain Shook Hands With Hitler’ (AUDIO)  —  President Obama's handshake with Cuban President Raul Castro on Tuesday was met with a mostly muted reaction from conservatives and Republicans.  ...
  • Dan Rather Tells Piers the Difference Between ...
    Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Dan Rather Tells Piers the Difference Between His and Lara Logan's Woes: ‘My Story Was True’  —  Former CBS newsman Dan Rather is in a unique position to tackle the issues surrounding 60 Minutes following its erroneous Benghazi report, and ...
  • Again: Turkish Students Arrested for Nazi Salu ...
    Ari Soffer / Arutz Sheva: Again: Turkish Students Arrested for Nazi Salutes at Auschwitz  —  Two Turkish tourists could face up to two years in prison for giving Nazi salutes outside the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland.  —  The Turkish ...
  • No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under Oba ...
    Scott Gottlieb / Forbes: No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under Obamacare  —  The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor.  For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false.  And now, you might not be able to ke ...
  • Rubio Complains That Obama Didn't Take Castro ...
    Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: Rubio Complains That Obama Didn't Take Castro To Task For Denying ‘Basic Freedoms’  —  President Obama could have at least squeezed in a brief lecture on human rights when he extended his hand to the leader of a longtime adversary, Se ...

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  • How big banks scam their own employees, too
    Big banks' deleterious effect on homeowners, and a range of other actors in the American economy, has finally started to get some attention. But a new report from a union-backed group suggests that they have also exploited their own staff, with nearly a third of bank tellers depending on public ...
  • Chris Christie appointee accused of playing po ...
    Chris Christie is finding himself increasingly embroiled in a scandal over the September closure of two of the George Washington Bridge's three lanes connecting Manhattan to Fort Lee, New Jersey. At heart is the question of whether a Christie appointee (and high school buddy) had the lanes clos ...
  • Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Castro in 'gest ...
    Barack Obama (left) shakes hands with Cuban leader Raul Castro during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on December 10, 2013US President Barack Obama shook hands at Nelson Mandela's memorial Tuesday with Raul Castro, leader of long-time Cold War foe ...
  • U.S. rooftop solar power shatters third quarte ...
    More American homes than ever before -- nearly 31,000 -- had solar panels installed on their roofs in the third quarter of 2013, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) announced Tuesday. Combined with utility scale projects, the U.S. gained a total of 930 megawatts of photovoltaic ...
  • Must-see morning clip: The NSA is totally doin ...
    Jon Stewart has been keeping a tally of all the lies that the Obama Administration has been making about the surveillance activities of the NSA, and it's staggering."Over the past 6 months or so," he explained, "Americans have been playing a fun little game with the NSA. The NSA tells us they'r ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • From Zionist to Anti-Zionist Activist
    Phyllis Bennis traces her development from an active Zionist youth to a leading American anti-Zionist writer and analyst on The Real News.
  • Mandela's Global Social Impact
    Emira Woods speaks on the significance of Nelson Mandela's passing on CCTV America: "The spirit of Mandela lives on, a spirit that continues to fight for justice."
  • "Viva Mandela, Viva!"
    The Institute for Policy Studies Mourns and Celebrates Nelson Mandela, Revolutionary Freedom Fighter
  • "Viva Mandela, Viva!"
    The Institute for Policy Studies Mourns and Celebrates Nelson Mandela, Revolutionary Freedom Fighter
  • President Obama's Words on Inequality Are "Not ...
    President Obama’s remarks this week on inequality and economic mobility are on the right track but need to be followed by action, said experts Sam Pizzigati, editor of Inequality.org and IPS Associate Fellow, and Chuck Collins, director of the Inequality and the Common Good project at IPS.

IntelNews

  • CIA to cut back ‘unsuccessful’ non-official-co ...
    The United States Central Intelligence Agency is scaling down an ambitious human intelligence program that places case officers in non-diplomatic cover jobs, because it has been ineffective, according to media reports.
  • Saudi ex-spy director urges Gulf states to joi ...
    In a move that surprised many over the weekend, the influential former director of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency has urged Arab oil states to participate directly in the ongoing international negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program.
  • Israel has long list of assassination targets, ...
    Who killed senior Hezbollah commander Hassan Lakkis, on December 3? Veteran Israeli intelligence commentator Ronen Bergman has no doubt that Israel was behind the high-profile assassination. And he says there are more of those yet to come.
  • Australia tries to stop ex-spy from testifying ...
    The government of Australia has confiscated the passport of a former intelligence officer who was preparing to testify at an international court that Canberra engaged in illegal economic espionage.
  • Fujimori-era spy scandal returns to haunt Peru ...
    A spy scandal that rocked Peruvian society over a decade ago, has returned to haunt the current administration of president Ollanta Humala.

War is a Crime.org

  • Video: Desmond Tutu on Mandela
  • War Is Over, if you want it
      By Nathan Schneider, http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/12/war-want/ Even in his proposal for “perpetual peace,” Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant lamented that war “seems inborn in human nature.” Yet he believed it possible to overcome and outlined a strategy for doing so. Just as ...
  • The People's Budget Goes to Washington
    Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. NewLocation: Cannon House Office Building 402 Washington, DC 20002 Also, join a group photo op at 9:20-9:30 a.m., at Capitol's East Front, House Triangle, near Independence Ave. SE and New Jersey Ave. Social and economic justice, peace, enviro ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Andy Shallal on Why He Shou ...
    https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-andy-shallal Andy Shallal is running for mayor of Washington, D.C. Learn more and support him at http://andy4dc.com Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson. Producer: David Swanson. Music by Duke Ellington. Download from Archive or&nbsp ...
  • Taking Mandela’s Struggle To Its Logical Concl ...
    Originally posted at AcronymTV  “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, b ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Afghanistan agrees on regional security pact w ...
    Concerned about the presence of foreign forces in the region, Iran and Afghanistan have decided to sign a joint cooperation agreement to boost “regional security” amid American efforts to force the Afghan president to seal a security pact with Washington. “Afghanistan agreed on a long-term frien ...
  • Pope Francis States Ideological Christians Hav ...
    by Jeff Roberts After only stepping into power earlier in 2013 after Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, Pope Francis is creating quite the stir around his views on the “extremist” ideals of the Christian Right. Pope Francis recently made quite the stir after commenting on the ideological purity in ...
  • Pro Libertate: What’s Wrong with Police ...
    By William Grigg In Iceland, police are mourning the unprecedented shooting death of a suspect. In the United States, police are scandalized by the unfamiliar spectacle of an officer using non-lethal means to subdue and arrest an emotionally unstable man who appeared to be armed. Icelandic polic ...
  • Making a Killing with Cancer: A 95.5 Billion D ...
    By Daisy Luther 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 h ...
  • ‘The human race is in trouble’ now ...
    By: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The first person ever to fall victim to the so-called \”post-antibiotic era\” — a New Zealand man recently died from a novel bacterial strain that is fully resistant to every known antibiotic — has sparked fresh concerns about ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The best response when hearing about Benghazi
    Summary: Recommendation: when you see someone ranting about Benghazi Benghazi BENGHAZI, ask why they are more concerned with the few dead in that incident than our troops pointlessly fighting now in Afghanistan. If he has no good answer, but continues to rant about Benghazi, spit on him. Or rath ...
  • Another easily solved problem: our massive gov ...
    Summary:  Today we have good news for you! Many Americans fear for the government’s solvency. Predictions bankruptcy or hyperinflation litter the Internet. These fears are one facet of the carefully cultivated fears (e.g., climate, jihadists) that dominate American political discourse. Fea ...
  • Sunday reflections on the FM website project, ...
    Summary:  Sunday is a day for contemplation. Today let’s look at the FM website. What’s the point of the project? What’s the cost? Why is worth doing? Some of these answers might help or even inspire you to action. . Contents The FM website project Today’s view of the fut ...
  • Well-funded organizations inciting us to hate ...
    Summary: Today we examine yet another example of agitprop by well-funded organizations inciting hatred of Muslims in America.  Will we fall for this, again? A divided and fearful people are an easily led flock, a gift to their rulers. Please push back against this propaganda, and those that beli ...
  • Applebees automates, and brings a new world of ...
    Summary:  The FM website serves to help readers more clearly see the future (it’s an unplanned emergent role). Today we look at one aspect of America’s future, bring both peril and promise: the next wave of automation. It’s already here, but seen by few. Today is not too soon t ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Obama: Option Of Totally Dismantling Iran’s Nu ...
    CREDIT: Brookings President Obama said on Saturday that any final nuclear agreement with Iran would likely allow the Islamic Republic to keep some aspects of its program under strict international supervision as the “ideal” option of totally ridding the Islamic Republic of its nucle ...
  • Yemen: Chaos, Conflict and Revolution
    The Yemeni Revolution, 2011-2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Yemen. The very name of this country brings many thoughts to one’s mind. It happens to be one of the oldest centres of civilization in the region, and is currently the second largest country in the Arabian Peninsula. If that does no ...
  • The Week Ahead Dec. 8-14: Iran-IAEA talks; Ira ...
    This bulletin highlights significant events in the world of arms control in the coming days, as compiled by staff and friends of the Arms Control Association. For more news and analysis on these and other weapons-related security issues, consider subscribing to ACA’s monthly journal Arms C ...
  • Sanctions Hawks Losing the Plot
    AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool A new poll of registered voters conducted by Americans United for Change and released last week is the latest to show majority support for the recent agreement in Geneva between the P5+1—the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council p ...
  • Meet the Tiny Rock that Could Start World War III
    CREDIT: Ahn Young-joon/AP Images Sunday morning, South Korea announced that it was extending its air defense zone to include a tiny reef off its coast. Now China, Japan, and South Korea’s flight zones overlap for the first time, upping military tensions in a region already rife with them. ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: A History of Shakenalysis
    2013: "Briefly laying aside differences hardened over decades, President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook the hand of the president of Cuba at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela." 2013: "Obama Shakes Hands With Raul Castro. Let’s All Freak Out." 2013: "An encounter between Obama and Iran’s ne ...
  • Americans Suddenly Discovering How Insurance Works
    It's been said to the point of becoming cliche that once Democrats passed significant health-care reform, they'd "own" everything about the American health-care system for good or ill. For some time to come, people will blame Barack Obama for health-care problems he had absolutely nothing to do ...
  • The Coen Brothers' Goodbye Song
    AP Photo/CBS FIlms, Alison Rosa The year is 1961 in Joel and Ethan Cohen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, and the title character is a struggling New York City folk singer caught in one of life’s loops. The movie begins where it will end, with Davis onstage at the Gaslight, one of the West Villa ...
  • NBC's Big Fat Gay Mistake
    Flickr/Edgar Zuniga There is no longer even the illusion of a free press in Russia—not after yesterday, when the Kremlin posted a decree on its website announcing the liquidation of RIA Novosti, the leading state news agency. “The move,” the news service wrote in its own account of the ...
  • The Year in Preview: Post-Preclearance Voter P ...
    Lots of things happened in 2013. President Obama was sworn in for a second term. We got a new pope and a new royal baby. Two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon and scared a nation. The Supreme Court stripped power from the Defense of Marriage Act and the Voting Rights Act. But these are all ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

SPL Center

  • ‘Sovereign’ Fail: Man Indicted in Cincinatti f ...
    Hamilton County Justice Center Following in the footsteps of other antigovernment “sovereign citizens,” Robert Carr figured he could take ownership of houses in foreclosure simply by moving in, changing the locks and filing “quiet title” legal papers. “If you abandon something, you forfeit all y ...
  • Peter LaBarbera Spreads Anti-LGBT Propaganda a ...
    This past weekend, Peter LaBarbera, founder of the Naperville, Ill.-based anti-gay hate group Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), was in Jamaica pushing his extremist views. “Do not be like us, do not be like Britain, do not sit idly by as so-called ‘LGBT activists’ manipulate w ...
  • Hate Group Ties Become Issue for Tony Perkins ...
    State Sen. Dan Claitor, a Baton Rouge Republican, threw his name into the race for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional district this week. That’s the same district that Tony Perkins has been openly coveting. Perkins, of course, is head of the Family Research Council, an anti-gay hate group. It wasn’t ...
  • David Duke Tossed Out of Another European Country
    Former Klansman and veteran anti-Semite David Duke was expelled from Italy after a court there deemed him “socially dangerous” for allegedly planning to create a pan-European neo-Nazi group. According to press reports, a Venice court upheld a decision denying Duke renewal of his residency permit ...
  • Craig Cobb Sent to North Dakota State Hospital ...
    Craig Cobb, the racist activist who was working to build an all-white enclave in the tiny town of Leith, N.D., until he was arrested on charges of terrorizing the townsfolk last month, has been sent to a state mental hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, police said. Cobb’s hospitalization last ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CCFC Urges Fisher-Price to Pull the Plug on it ...
    December 10—Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is calling on Fisher-Price to immediately stop selling its Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat for iPad® device. The Apptivity Seat is a bouncy seat for infants with a place for an iPad directly above the baby’s face, bloc ...
  • ACLU in Court Wednesday to Challenge FBI Agent ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union will appear in court on Wednesday on behalf of a U.S. citizen who was illegally detained and mistreated by American officials in three east African countries in 2007. After fleeing unrest in Somalia, New Jersey resident Amir Meshal was arrested, secretly impris ...
  • Time Is Running Out for the Budget Conference ...
    With less than a week remaining before the budget conference committee's Dec. 13 deadline, reports indicate that negotiators have not yet agreed on a federal spending plan for 2014. Though there is some optimism that a fairly small deal could be reached before Friday, nothing concrete has be ...
  • The American Civil Liberties Union Launches “M ...
    Millions of Americans currently live in a state that denies them, their friends, and family members the basic freedom to marry the one they love. Today, the American Civil Liberties Union is launching “My Big Gay (Il)legal Wedding,” a campaign that calls attention to the patchwork of ...
  • Two Spanish journalists abducted in Syria
    The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of two Spanish journalists who were abducted in Syria almost three months ago. Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been held captive by the Al-Qaeda affiliate Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) since September 1 ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Can Mandela’s Truth and Reconciliation Heal th ...
    Juan Cole Every transition from an authoritarian government to democracy is different. Some go relatively smoothly (Poland, South Korea). Others are rocky (Taiwan, Bosnia, Tunisia). In some instances, authoritarianism reasserts itself to a ...
  • How Inequality Became as American as Apple Pie
    Jessica Weisberg Last week, five days after Black Friday’s Walmart strike and the day before a nationwide fast-food workers strike, President Obama delivered a speech at the
  • Why it's Time to Occupy the State
    Paolo Gerbaudo Some veterans of the Occupy and indignados movements are considering a turn towards electoral politics. This change of direction reflects an increasing awareness among activists that (Photo: Atomische * Tom Giebel/ cc via Fli ...
  • Energy 'Reform' in Mexico Will Only Pave the R ...
    Claudia Campero (Photo: Lucy Nieto / cc via Flickr)In Mexico, as in many countries, information on amounts of recoverable shale gas reserves is uncertain. In 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration placed Mexico in fourth place wor ...
  • In the Shadow of War
    Beverly Gologorsky I’m a voracious reader of American fiction and I’ve noticed something odd in recent years.read more

Water Privatization

  • Peru budgets US$125mn for Cusco region water p ...
    Peru's presidential council of ministers (PCM) approved a transfer for 350mn soles (US$125mn) of its budget to secure water provisions for Espinar province in Cusco...
  • Aquino accepts resignation of Former Napoles l ...
    Manila, Philippines - President Benigno S. Aquino III has accepted the resignations of Rene Villa as the acting chairman of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), and Grace Karen Singson as chief privatization officer of the Privatization and Management Office under the Department of F ...
  • LWUA chief linked to Napoles resigns
    MANILA -- Acting Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) chairman Rene Villa, who admitted of becoming a lawyer of Janet Lim-Napoles, alleged mastermind in the P10-billion pork barrel scam, has resigned, Malacanang said Saturday.
  • Analysis || Is privatization bad? Not for ever ...
    At El Al and at Israel Discount Bank, the workers and the managers are the ones who are making all the profit. Fears that privatization means massive employee layoffs and turns the company’s controlling shareholders into affluent individuals have been proven baseless.
  • PNoy accepts LWUA chief's resignation
    MANILA -- Malacañang on Saturday said President Benigno Aquino III has accepted the resignation of Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) chair Rene Villa, who has been linked to the multi-billion pork barrel scam.

Guardian

  • Police officer Christopher Semak had sex with ...
    Officer, who is accused of sexual activity with a child, told girl he could be jailed if affair was discovered, court hearsA married police officer had sex with a 14-year-old girl at his home after texting her saying he could be jailed if their affair was discovered, a court has heard.Christophe ...
  • US east coast receives winter weather warning ...
    Washington DC, New York and Philadelphia are among the major cities expected to see several inches accumulate today
  • Nelson Mandela's memorial service: as it happened
    Follow live updates on the memorial service for Nelson Mandela at the national stadium in South AfricaMatthew WeaverPaul Owen
  • Abu Qatada pleads not guilty to terror charges ...
    Lawyer argues that presence of military judge on three-judge panel violates terms of deal that led to cleric's deportationThe radical cleric Abu Qatada, who was deported to Jordan from the UK in July, pleaded not guilty at a military court in Amman on Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to carry ou ...
  • Comic Relief under fire ahead of BBC Panorama ...
    Charity's lawyers warn of 'enormous damage' as supporters including Frankie Boyle and Al Murray launch Twitter attacksComic Relief faced a backlash on Tuesday after revelations about the BBC's Panorama investigation into its investments, with the charity warning that the programme would do "enor ...

McClatchey

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

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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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Releases New Report on Importance of False ...
    Today the National Whistleblower Center released a new report on the importance of the False Claims Act which rebuts the Chamber of Commerce proposals.   "Whistleblower Reward Laws: Reform or Enhance?" was delivered by NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn at a briefing before ...
  • Special Offer: The Whistleblower's Handbook
    This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The third edition of the The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Ste ...
  • Dean Zerbe Gives Guidance for IRS Whistleblowe ...
    Today on Forbes.com, Dean Zerbe, the National Whistleblower Center’s Senior Policy Analyst, explains the potential issues that may be slowing or sidetracking submissions at the IRS Whistleblower Office. He also gives detailed insight into issues that may cause delay that whistleblower ...
  • Pennsylvania Moves Toward Adopting FCA
    Pennsylvania reportedly remains the largest state in the country without a state-level false claims statute. Two state legislators hope to change that. In early June, State Representatives, Brandon Neuman and Tony DeLuca introduced House Bill 1493, a state version of the federal False Claims Ac ...
  • Health Care Exchanges Not Covered Under False ...
    Today Senator Chuck Grassley questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the Obama Administration’s position that qualified health plans and other programs related to the federally facilitated marketplace and other programs under the Affordable Care Act are n ...

TechDirt

  • DHS Interrogates NY Times Reporters At Border, ...
    Thought it was just officials at UK airports detaining and interrogating journalists? According to a new lawsuit from two NY Times reporters, they were also pulled aside and interrogated by Homeland Security officials multiple times concerning their own reporting efforts. The two reporters, Mac ...
  • Feds To FISC: Of Course We Don't Have To Share ...
    As you may recall, in the ongoing lawsuit by various tech companies against the government, in which they're seeking to reveal some rather basic details about how many surveillance data requests they get and how many users are impacted, much of the feds' brief was redacted... even to the tech co ...
  • NY Police Chief Kelly Taking $1.5 Million Wort ...
    New York City Police Chief Ray Kelly has spent years defending the harassment of minorities via the PD's stop-and-frisk program. Kelly (and Mayor Bloomberg) have constantly pointed to the decline in violent crime stats as evidence the program works (and as justification for its unconstitutional ...
  • Bringing Transparency Back To The Patent Syste ...
    As Techdirt has noted many times, the patent system is broken, and in various ways. One major problem is the way it inhibits innovation, rather than promoting it, as its supporters usually claim. Here's why: The patent system was created to advance societal benefit by encouraging clearly define ...
  • How Not To Deal With Plagiarism
    We've had a few posts about plagiarism here on Techdirt, and how it differs from copyright infringinement. One important question that needs to be considered is: what's the correct way to acknowledge and correct plagiarism when it is discovered? Probably not like this, in a case pointed out to ...

VacTruth

  • Your Children to be Used as Guinea Pigs for Ne ...
    A US vaccine company has applied for permission to infect up to one thousand individuals, including children, with genetically modified live bacteria contained in an oral vaccine.
  • How the Current Medical System Misinforms You ...
    We are living in the age of disinformed consent. Parents assume their doctors and their public health authorities are providing them with all relevant vaccine information, and nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Bill Gates’ Polio Vaccine Program Eradic ...
    In the depths of cyberspace lurks a press release written by the CDC, confirming that the OPV, or oral polio vaccination, given to millions of children throughout the developing world, is causing them to develop vaccine-induced polio.
  • Deadly 5-in-1 Vaccine Kills At Least Eight Infants
    A press release stated that between September and October 2013, eight infants had died and many more had been seriously injured after they had received the pentavalent (5-in-1) vaccination.
  • Doctor Offers Vaccines to Starving Children
    A doctor from the Children's Hospital in Colorado is working on a bold new initiative to improve the lives of children in Guatemala who struggle with poverty and hunger each day. Unfortunately, his ambitions do not include plans to provide clean water or education.

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Italian Riot Police Remove Helmets, Join Anti- ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comItalian Riot Police Remove Helmets, Join Anti-EU Protesters Remarkable video shows cops in display of solidarity with fellow countrymen Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com December 10, 2013 A remarkable video shows Italia ...
  • Russia Today
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Today aangirfan.blogspot.com President Vladimir Putin has closed down Russia’s main state news agency, RIA Novosti. He has replaced it with a new agency to be known as Russia Today (which is separate from RT) ...
  • Video: Obama shakes hands with Raul Castro at ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comVideo: Obama shakes hands with Raul Castro at Mandela’s memorial Russia Todayyoutube.com President Barack Obama has shaken hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at a memorial service for former South African Preside ...
  • Google Wants Microphones In Your Ceiling & Mic ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGoogle Wants Microphones In Your Ceiling & Microchips In Your Head Last refuge of privacy to be completely eviscerated Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com December 10, 2013 Google engineering director Scott Huffman sa ...
  • Another Failed Mandate: Renewables on The Grid
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAnother Failed Mandate: Renewables on The Grid Prison Planet.com December 10, 2013 David Knight with the latest on government overreach. View the original article at www.prisonplanet.comCheck out all the best #altnews at D ...

Dandelion Salad

  • WikiLeaks’ Second Release of Secret Tran ...
    Dandelion Salad wikileaks.org Dec. 9, 2013 [...] Today, 9 December 2013, WikiLeaks has released two more secret TPP documents that show the state of negotiations as the twelve TPP countries began supposedly final negotiations at a trade ministers’ meeting in Singapore this week. One document des ...
  • Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Writer, Dandelion Salad andrewgavinmarshall.com Originally published on Occupy.com December 8, 2013 In the first part of this exposé, I examined the origins and recent history of the Group of Thirty as a highly influential institution in the arena of global financial gov ...
  • Seymour Hersh: Obama “Cherry Picked&#822 ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 9, 2013 democracynow – Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins us to discuss his new article casting doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the chemical attacks in the Damas ...
  • J is for Jubilee, K for Kleptocrats by Michael ...
    by Michael Hudson Writer, Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com December 6, 2013 Parts J & K in the Insider’s Economic Dictionary. Jubilee Year: In Judaic Law (Leviticus 25) a Clean Slate to be proclaimed every 50 years annulling personal and agrarian debts, liberating bond-servants to rejoin t ...
  • Killed Beaten Raped: Migrant Workers are Slave ...
    by Graham Peebles Writer, Dandelion Salad London December 6, 2013 With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abu ...

Your New Reality

  • How To Produce Hit Songs, By Rick Rubin
    (photo source) With his work on new albums by Black Sabbath, Metallica, Eminem and Jay-Z hitting the top of US and UK charts this year, producer Rick Rubin is back at the forefront of changing tastes, trends and sounds in both hip-hop and metal. Just like he was in the 1980s and early 1990s. So ...
  • Star Wars Episode VII - How To Build A Milleni ...
    Not much yet known about Star Wars: Episode VII, except it will be directed by JJ Abrams, from a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and will feature R2-D2 and C3PO (as all Star Wars films must), and that opening night is still more than 730 days away. One more thing, original trilogy cast mem ...
  • Why David Cronenberg Is Wrong About Stanley Ku ...
    By Darryl Mason Director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) says Stanley Kubrick "didn't understand horror" when he adapted Stephen King's The Shining. "I think I'm a more intimate and personal film-maker than Kubrick ever was," Cronenberg told the Toronto Star. "That's why I find The Shin ...
  • China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
    By Darryl Mason Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous 'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very popular. But not so very accurate: In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...
  • "China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
    Image via this great Joblo story  China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come and work for his studio. The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Grou ...

Wired - 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.     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: The Arab Spring – power does not ...
    There are two parts of the Arab world that remain effectively colonies: Western Sahara ... and of course Palestine, where negotiations are underway conforming to the two essential US-Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of Israel
    Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
    t is assumed almost universally that there are two options for cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
    At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Moshé-Machover: DeZionization – strategic cons ...
    As [the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Naturally occurring, but not with wanderlust
    About a year ago a local family began getting flammable water. The fact that their house’s recorded methane levels (along with their sink) shot up shortly after fracking began nearby was considered maybe not coincidental, so the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) looked into it. ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • DEADLINE DECEMBER 16: Tell the USDA You Don’t ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Hawai'i Island GMO Ban Mayor Is "Going to the ...
    Hilo, Hawai'i: Hawaii Island Mayor Billy Kenoi is "going to the Superbowl" after signing a law banning GMO crops. After nearly 6 months of deliberation, the Hawai'i County Council passed Bill 113 with a 6-3 vote followed by Kenoi signing the bill into law to prohibit open-air cultivation of all ...
  • Oregon Supporters of GMO Labeling Clear Big Hu ...
    A proposed ballot measure to require the labeling of foods with genetically modified organisms sold in Oregon has cleared a big legal hurdle, allowing sponsors to soon begin collecting signatures to qualify for the 2014 ballot.Click here to read this article
  • Your Body Needs Saturated Fat and Cholesterol
    The idea that high cholesterol causes heart disease can be traced back to Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902), a German pathologist who found thickening in the arteries in people he autopsied, which he ascribed to a collection of cholesterol.Click here to read this article
  • Coca-Cola Now Owns Zico Coconut Water, Honest ...
    80 percent of organic brands are now reportedly owned by mega corporations and what they're doing with their money is alarming some health-conscious shoppers. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF-Lerner Fellows Volunteer Day at Boone Stre ...
    The CLF-Lerner Fellows enjoyed a sunny Saturday afternoon last weekend volunteering in East Baltimore at Boone Street Farm, a small community farm.
  • CLF Week in Links: Overfishing, Climate Change ...
    Students’ lunch breaks keep getting shorter—some as short as 15 minutes; the people of Millsboro, Delaware, are trying to prevent an enormous chicken processing plant from moving into town; oil companies are budgeting to pay for carbon, but Koch Industries is fighting it.
  • Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
    Most food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20 million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say we cherish most.
  • What’s Up With the Cans in Canned Food?
    I now use an electric pressure cooker to make all of the foods I used to buy canned. It is affordable and BPA-free, but the initial cost of the cooker is not negligible. These recommendations all assume that there is access to these foods, a refrigerator, a freezer, and not to be forgotten, a r ...
  • WashPo’s “Too much of too little” misses the point
    Eli Saslow's recent article on SNAP perpetuates the stigma of receiving food stamps and fuels the false perception that low-income consumers are uninformed about proper nutrition.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Israels War on Palestinian Children
    In 1991, Israel ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).Israel is the only nation trying children in military courts.Since start of the September 2000 second Intifada, Israel arrested and brutalized over 9,000 Palestinian children Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbs ...
  • Brush with danger: The long battle over a spoo ...
    I took it for granted that the FDA would never examine triclosan with the scrutiny that it merited. Now it looks like it might. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ratted out: Scientific journal bows to Monsant ...
    Rigid criteria exist for a serious scientific journal to accept a peer-reviewed paper and to publish it. As well there exist strict criteria by which such an article can be withdrawn after publication. Submitted by Ray C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cost of National Security
    The US taxpayer and co$t of war Scroll down : there are a number of interesting categories Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Are There No Workhouses?
    You cannot get back into the workforce. No, we will not tell you why. Try as hard was you like. I am intimately versed enough in the arcanum of labor market data to be in a unique position to understand just how bad things are and likely to remain Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...

Farm Wars

  • How Monsanto Stifles Scientific Dissent
    If the starting point of a scientific product assessment is an approval process rigged in favor of the applicant, backed up by systematic suppression of independent scientists working in the public interest, then there can never be an honest, rational or scientific debate.
  • New World Order Dead Ahead
    The U.S. government is facilitating a national self-destruction for the benefit of Wall Street’s megalomaniac obsession. The pattern has been field tested by the IMF and WB for decades and is now being used in Europe. The $17 trillion U.S. debt is the end goal collection.
  • Landmark Case: GMO Contamination of Organic Fa ...
    70% of Steve’s farm was contaminated and he lost his organic certification. In a world first, he is suing his GM neighbour for damages.
  • Is Your Organic Seed Really GMO-free?
    How can we be assured that organic seeds and the crops grown from those seeds are really organic and free of GMOs? The answer is – we can’t.
  • Mayor Kenoi Signs Bill 113 – Hawaii Bans GMOs!
    With this new ordinance we are conveying that instead of global agribusiness corporations, we want to encourage and support community-based farming and ranching.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Rolling Stone issue with accused bomber dubbed ...
    ShareThisRolling Stone issue with accused bomber dubbed 'hottest cover' 09 Dec 2013 The controversial [but not when the New York Times published the identical picture] Rolling Stone issue featuring accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been named "Hottest Cover of The Year" by A ...
  • NYPD Orders Precincts to Deny Journalists Acce ...
    ShareThisNYPD Orders Precincts to Deny Journalists Access to Crime Reports 06 Dec 2013 The NYPD has ordered the city's 77 police precincts to stop giving out any information to the media about crimes taking place in their neighborhoods, cutting off a long-standing source of information for Ne ...
  • Transformer explosion, fire shuts down nuclear ...
    ShareThisTransformer explosion, fire shuts down nuclear reactor in Arkansas --Explosion resulted in a fire at switchyard --Unit 2 will remain offline while the cause of the explosion is investigated and damages are assessed. 09 Dec 2013 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has activated ...
  • Newtown to media: Leave us alone on anniversary
    ShareThisNewtown to media: Leave us alone on anniversary [of Sandy Hook false flag] 09 Dec 2013 Local government officials are urging the news media to stay away Saturday, the first anniversary of the Dec. 14 shootings that at Sandy Hook Elementary School. USA TODAY Editor-in-Chief David Calla ...
  • Explosion, Fire Reported at Arkansas Nuclear P ...
    ShareThisExplosion, Fire Reported at Arkansas Nuclear Plant: Blaze at Arkansas Nuclear One Near Russellville Contained 09 Dec 2013 A fire and possible explosion rocked a nuclear plant Monday morning in Arkansas. The Courier News, a paper that covers the area around Russellville, Ark., reported t ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Renewable energy cannot ever replace coal, gas ...
    It’s all about the grid – and NIMBYs and subsidies. It’s increasingly clear renewable energy cannot replace carbon-based and nuclear power. Our electrical grid requires supply and demand always be perfectly in balance. Renewable energy makes that much harder to do because its p ...
  • Mandela was a revolutionary who changed the wo ...
    Beware the “Santa Clausification” of Nelson Mandela say Adam Curry and John Dvorak their No Agenda podcast #572, quoting Cornel West. Mandela was a communist and used violence in his early days. He never renounced it and was uncompromising, as revolutionaries generally are. And he ch ...
  • Ultra violence, societal collapse in Mexico ha ...
    Borderland Beat ponders the deranged violence in Mexico, fueled by drug cartels and corruption, and wonders how it ever got so crazy. What they say applies here in the States. No, we don’t have the same sickening levels of violence, with thousands of young teen torturers and killers. Howev ...
  • Bad Religion – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    Christmas music I can believe in. The fun starts at 0:39.
  • 3D printing food: pasta, pizza, chocolate, veg ...
    3D printing food with The Foodini 3D; stuffed ravioli, pizza, cookies in fancy patterns, veggie burgers, and, as shown in the video, ghost-shaped spinach ricotta for Halloween. There are huge possibilities here for creating new types of food not yet thought of. Whee.  http://youtu.be/7HX9tVCbm5g

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Putin dissolves state news agency, tightens gr ...
    How will this change RT / Russian Today? (scroll down)   (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin tightened his control over Russia’s media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agency and replacing it with an organization that is to promote Moscow’s image abroad. The mo ...
  • CIA’s anti-terrorism effort (NOCs) calle ...
    BUT…. CIA is still very successful in CREATING Terrorism (wink) CIA officers given ‘non-official cover,’ often posing as business executives, tried to collect intelligence on terrorists. The NOC program reportedly has had few successes.   LA Times WASHINGTON — Several year ...
  • Record outdoor radiation level that ‘can kill ...
      RT Outdoor radiation levels have reached their highest at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant,warns the operator company.Radiation found in an area near a steel pipe that connects reactor buildings could kill an exposed person in 20 minutes,local media reported. The plant’s operator and the u ...
  • Why Is Homeland Security Taking Control of Loc ...
    911 set the stage, which is why 911 (and OKC)truth still matter! Federal Grants (Pay Offs and extortion) have nationalized “law enforcement” – go to your city halls and cut the cord. NOW!)   New American A key plank of the Obama administration platform seems to be the conv ...
  • John Lennon – We Love You! – Jack ...
      John Lennon VS The Illuminati Sean Lennon believes the US Govt (or forces employed by the Govt) killed his Dad:

The Air Vent

  • Sausage the Deer
    So I finally got a deer – while hunting!   I’m 44 so most had completely given up hope on me ever shooting one, and the office humor revolved around how much drinking we were going to do and whether I was going to bring the gun this year, but the area we hunt in isn’t […]
  • Climategate Week 2013
    I’m gone for a week and won’t be blogging after today.   Perhaps Kevin will answer my graph on the previous thread while I’m gone. We will see if he embraces facts as well as he claimed. As for me, I’ll be lost in the northern woods of Michigan, which means that this is t ...
  • Winning and Losing
    Some things in blogland make you smile, others, not so much.   I just answered a comment from a reader which left me cold.  If you want to comment here, bring more than a thimble full of facts with you.   For reference, I am an EVIL business owner with a natural dislike for the authoritarian pop ...
  • Change and Hope – ($2700/family/year)
    So I’ve got the rest of the health care news for this year.   We’re looking at an 18 percent increase, our previous plan was dropped because it didn’t make sense for the insurance carrier to have different rules for different companies and we have several added coverages which ...
  • Snipped at Psychological Science
    I seem to have a way with people.  While they did allow quite a bit of critique in the replies, and nearly all were incredibly critical, my comments were snipped.  — The Subterranean War on Science I’ll just reproduce the critique here then: I can’t believe the self-righteous tone of ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Where do Facebook developers come from?
    Facebook released a heat map of developers Tuesday at the Le Web conference, showing which countries have high concentrations of Facebook developers and which countries are emerging. Among the countries with greater than 10,000 developers: the...
  • Facebook SPMD SHIFT announces $6M round of funding
    Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer SHIFT announced Tuesday morning that the company has raised $6 million in Series B funding, led by DN Capital. The new funding will help the international expansion of SHIFT’s Open Marketing...
  • Does Facebook suffer from Seasonal Affective D ...
    Through Seasonal Affective Disorder, many people can become saddened or depressed over the winter months. Does this affect your Facebook activity too? That’s what Expion, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, wondered. Expion discovered that, among 50...
  • Top 25 Facebook apps: December 2013 — King rules
    King now makes three of the top 5 Facebook apps, according to statistics from AppData. Farm Heroes Saga passed up TripAdvisor in our monthly leaderboard, meaning the three most popular Facebook apps, in terms of monthly...
  • Top 25 Facebook pages: December 2013 — Vin Die ...
    One of the fastest-growing Facebook pages belongs to The Fast & The Furious star Vin Diesel. The page has gained 2.1 million fans in the past week — the most on our monthly leaderboard outside of...

ReDress News

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
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Amazon Rainforest

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  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
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Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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Tikun Olam

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    The controversy over Israel’s Prawer plan to dispossess 30-40,000 Negev Bedouin of their traditional lands and congregate them in reservation-style accommodations brought back to an Israeli friend the nightmare memory of a horrific incident in the early annals of the IDF and the State. Tho ...
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    Though parallels and echoes between South Africa and Israel-Palestine seem obvious, over the years I hadn’t given much thought to the lessons to be learned from Nelson Mandela’s approach to apartheid.  In light of his death today, his moral example and legacy seem even more relevant ...
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    Hezbollah senior commander, Hassan al Laqqis, assassinated yesterday by the Mossad in Beirut, was responsible for the group’s sophisticated drone program.  This included a robust hacking effort which had rendered Israel’s own most advanced drones helpless in the face of multiple cras ...
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    Please donate (tax-deductible contributions here) to support the original reporting you’ll find below. Hezbollah commander Hassan al-Laqqis, in his late 40s, was a close confidant of Hassan Nasrallah.  Last night about midnight Beirut time, he drove his Jeep Cherokee into the parking lot o ...

If Americans Knew

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  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
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David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Universities as Commercial Enterprise, an Ongo ...
    This essay on the current experience at the University of Michigan published on Inside Higher Ed, made the rounds last week. Titled “Corporate Values”, it includes several quotes that speak directly to my ten year experience at my current institution. To wit: America’s public r ...
  • The Real War on Christmas
    What would you call 540 square feet, infested by rodents and roaches in a complex where sexual assault is distressingly common, occupied by ten people? If you’re the New York Post editorial board, “too generous!” Again, as a friend says the New York Post isn’t a newspaper ...
  • The Final Evidence
    I guess conservatives were right. Obama is an islamofascistcommunistnazisocialistkenyanusurpertraitortoamerica. The president shaking hands with the great evil dictator of a nation 90 miles to our south? What kind of horror is this? Who will protect the nation from the great threat Cuba offers t ...
  • Wow, A Good Republican Position
    Bipartisanship lives. Or at least it should because this is one issue where some Republicans are right on: Two Republican lawmakers in recent days have said they will fight to keep a ban on in-flight cellphone calls in place because they can’t stand to hear people yammer. Rep. Bill Shuster ...
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Desert Research Institute

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    Meet Dan Sauceda, a graduate student in the Atmospheric Sciences program. He is currently working as part of the Urban Water Vulnerability-ISP EPSCoR project, working to characterize the urban heat island in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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    Through a new partnership with the University for Development Studies and World Vision International, DRI will establish an innovative research and education center focused on finding sustainable solutions to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and environmental problems confronting West Af ...
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    Joint report marks initial collaborative step between the science community and resource management agencies to develop a comprehensive approach for assessing and managing the nearshore ecology and aesthetics of Lake Tahoe. 
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    New research from DRI provides first thorough analysis of emissions from outdoor cremation rituals in India and Nepal.
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