Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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Exterior of the 1938 Diner in Wellsboro, Tioga...Exterior of the 1938 Diner in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Winken, Blinken and Nod Statue in Wellsboro, T...Winken, Blinken and Nod Statue in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Interior of the 1938 Diner in Wellsboro, Tioga...Interior of the 1938 Diner in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The "castle" in BlossburgThe "castle" in Blossburg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Family, politicians battle over “Brand Mandela”
    As long as you don’t dig too deeply into the dirt on Nelson Mandela’s past, then the iconic image of Mandela (or Mandiba, his clan name) has fantastic marketing power. The world governments and controlled media with their over-the-top reportage on Saint Mandela use this cult of personality for t ...
  • Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lie ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has dropped yet another bombshell allegation: President Obama wasn’t honest with the American people when he blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack in that killed hundreds of civilians. In early September, Secretary of State ...
  • Strange Haunting Sounds Emitting from One Worl ...
    New York residents are concerned after they have been hearing strange sounds emitting from the newly built One World Trade building Strange and rather haunting sounds have been emitting from the newly constructed One World Trade building in New York City. The building which is the replacement fo ...
  • Life on Earth may have developed below rather ...
    How life on Earth came into existence is still one of the greatest mysteries in science but new research into the “deep biosphere” indicates that the first replicating life-forms on the planet may have originated deep underground rather than, as commonly believed, on the surface. Scientists have ...
  • Inside the Box: People don’t actually like cre ...
    In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed ...

Not My Tribe

  • Pearl Harbor wasn’t our first 9/11
    Before Pearl Harbor, there was Remember the Maine (Spain’s sneak attack), before that Americans were admonished to never forget the Alamo (Mexico’s sneak attack). After Pearl Harbor, the sneak attack that conscripted US public opinion into WWII, there was the Gulf of Tonkin (Viet Con ...
  • A lesson the US forgot about Iraq? Prosecute w ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Whose fault is it that America is “forgetting the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan”? We never learned them… Instead of prosecuting war criminals like General “H.R.” McMaster, assemblies of war lovers like the Colorado Springs World Affairs Cou ...
  • Israel wouldn’t know a “historic m ...
    International diplomats have secured an agreement with Iran which appears to defuse current tensions. Crippling economic sanctions will be relaxed in exchange for limiting Iran’s capability to produce nuclear weapons. Everybody is breathing easier except Israel. Why? Is the Israeli regime ...
  • New Mexico State Police treat African American ...
    OUT OF CONTROL. New Mexico state police stopped a minivan for speeding and the African American mother at the wheel decided, correctly it turned out, that she and her five children risked who knows what on a rural backroad at the hands of white cops. Oriana Ferrell of Tennessee –perhaps of ...
  • Okay then, self-congratulations to you for thi ...
    How about those journeyman activists throwing their social justice experience around like it’s inviolate because they’ve been at this longer than the whippersnappers trying to rock their slow boat to China. They know what works after thirty years of experience, and they’ll admi ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • How to Debunk WTC Thermite
    Editor's Note: Please help further the study of nanothermite in the WTC dust by donating at MarkBasile.org. Posted on December 8, 2013 by Kevin Ryan                  The evidence for the presence of thermi ...
  • WTC Developers Cleared of Fault by 2nd Circui ...
      WTC Developers Cleared of Fault by 2nd Circuit Adam Klasfeld Courthouse News December 5, 2013 Claiming the collapse of 7 World Trade Center on an “unprecedented constellation of events,” the 2nd Circuit on Wednesday chucked negligence claims against the building’s landlords and de ...
  • Previously Unreleased 2013 NYC ReThink911.org ...
  • Lawsuit Against NIST On the Way
    A small group of engineers is planning to sue NIST for the fraudulent 2008 report that was supposed to explain the 9/11 collapse of WTC7, in an effort that will presumably involve AE9/11Truth. Kevin Ryan exposed the fraudulent non-explanation in 2011, and newly uncovered data confirms Ryan´s con ...
  • ReThink911 at the Ottawa Transit Commission
    Published on Nov 24, 2013 http://www.rethink911.org

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • FIFA World Cup and rainforest plants: an Amazo ...
    Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian in London, has described London as a city 'rich in history and filled with ghosts'.© Helen Saunders/SurvivalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a Yawanawá Indian from the Brazilian Amazon, came to London to learn English and in 2013 joined Survival International to s ...
  • Bullying tactics drive Penan to abandon dam bl ...
    The abandoned Long Singu longhouse last week after the government rushed through the Penan's move to the unfinished relocation site.© Raymond Abin/SurvivalMembers of the Penan tribe from the Malaysian state of Sarawak have bowed to overwhelming pressure and abandoned their 77-day protest ag ...
  • Waorani men arrested over killings of uncontac ...
    Ompore Omeway, a Waorani man who was recently killed alongside his wife. © Fundación Alejandro LabakaSix Waorani Indians have been arrested over the killing last April of an unknown number of uncontacted Taromenane Indians in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park. The Waorani and Taromenane are inter- ...
  • Breaking news: Guarani leader and film-star mu ...
    In 2008 Ambrósio attended the premiere of 'Birdwatchers' at the Venice Film Festival.© SurvivalGuarani Indian leader and film-star Ambrósio Vilhalva was murdered on Sunday night, after decades of campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land. Ambrósio was rep ...
  • UN urged to stop Peru's deadly oil and gas rush
    The UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples has been urged to protect vulnerable uncontacted tribes in Peru, who could be decimated by contact with oil and gas workers.© Chris Fagan/UAC/ProPurúsSurvival International has appealed to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of ind ...

Greg Palast

  • Chris Christie will Hate this Film
    Know why the Guvna of Joyzee is so bloated? It ain’t the burgers: He’s pumped up with billionaire big bucks – from buck-a-roos who happen to be the stars of our new film:  Vultures and Vote Rustlers Greg Palast Investigates Vol. 2 Working with The Nation Institute, the Palast investigative team ...
  • Rand Paul’s Zombie-nomics versus Janet Yellen
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Will Senator Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the un-dead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board?No joke.  Tea Party fave Paul told the Wall Street Journal he would have preferred Milton Friedman, the free-market fanatic, to ...
  • My Father's Victory in the Pacific
    By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
  • Steven Cohen Can't Make His Mommy's Monkey Jump
    By Greg Palast for Truthout [New York] Billionaire Steven A. Cohen's marriage was in hot water because his wife wouldn't tolerate the "other woman."  The other woman was Steven's mother. This week, Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors will plead guilty to criminal charges of insider trading ...
  • Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana. Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law.  The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Jud ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Louis Conte Speaks on National Vaccine Injury ...
    Dec 03, 2013, The NVICP (Vaccine Court) Debacle; Interview with Louis Conte on Linderman Unleashed By Anne Dachel Louis Conte, father of triplets, two of whom have autism, and has been involved in special courts for 30 years. His most...
  • Dachel Media Review: Tasing Kids, Police Database
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Dec 9, 2013, NorthJersey.com: Wayne Police creating autism/special needs database Dec 8, 2013, TIME: Susan Boyle Reveals She Has Asperger's--The British singer says the diagnosis was a...
  • Boy with Autism Lets Us Into His World Via Writing
    I received this letter - school paper - from a long time reader of AofA, and asked instantly if I could please share it with you our readers. This young man uses the Rapid Prompting Method to communicate. And just...
  • Free Download Post Couric Vaccine Program: Gar ...
    We ran this post in October of 2012. Katie Couric bravely ran a program about Gardasil (HPV vaccine from Merck) and adverse reactions. The outcry from the IVID (Industry Vaccine Injury Denialists) was fast and furious. We invite you to...
  • Buy One Ad on Age of Autism and We'll Double I ...
    Now through December 31st, if you take one ad on the Age of Autism left sidebar, we'll double the ad for free! Many of our readers have websites, books and products to promote to the autism community. We'd like to...

Global BDS Movement

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.

new geography

  • The Geography Of Aging: Why Millennials Are He ...
    One supposed trend, much celebrated in the media, is that younger people are moving back to the city, and plan to stay there for the rest of their lives. Retirees are reportedly following suit. Urban theorists such as Peter Katz have maintained that millennials (the generation born after ...
  • China Failing its Families
    China's recent decision to reverse – at least in part – its policy limiting most couples to one child marks a watershed in thinking about demographics. Yet, this reversal of the 30-year policy may prove unavailing due to reasons – notably dense urbanization and high property prices – that work a ...
  • Manufacturing, Exports, and the R&D X-Factor
    A recent visit by President Obama to an Ohio steel mill underscored his promise to create 1 million manufacturing jobs. On the same day, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced her department’s commitment to exports, saying “Trade must become a bigger part of the DNA of our economy.” These ...
  • Affordable Housing in Suburbia
    Like many older suburbs in high priced regions, Long Island faces two great crises: a loss of younger residents and a lack of affordable housing for the local workforce, including those employed as nurses, teachers and other professionals. Often, proposed developments on Long Island are tai ...
  • Are Special Service Districts a Boon or a Bane?
    America’s cities have been under fiscal pressure for an extended period of time. To cope with this, and better manage assets, they’ve increasingly turned to various forms of special purpose districts or entities for service delivery. Traditional independent service districts such as sewer di ...

water.org

  • Water At Home
    I have an exclusive water connection now. I don’t have to worry about waiting in line, or timing my days around when water might be delivered.
  • A Town Called Bèlanje - Part 1
    The people of Bèlanje, Haiti collect unsafe water from this open spring every day. Thankfully, less than one kilometer away, something is happening that will change their lives forever...
  • What Can 3,000 Rupees Do?
    3,000 Indian rupees is only ~$45 USD, but according to Bobby G., the director of our Central-Indian partner ESAF, providing a WaterCredit loan for that small amount can change everything in a woman's life.
  • Philanthropy meets the market
    From The World In 2014 print edition |Nov 18th 2013
  • WaterCredit for Muddumare's Family
    "All of us used to go out in the open for defecation. But now as the population is increasing, there is no space left for defecation."

Cryptogon

  • Homeland Secure: TSA Agent Confiscates Sock Mo ...
    Via: KING5: “Rooster Monkburn” the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. … May and her husband were going through the screening process when she noticed that one of her bags was missing. “And the (TSA agent) held it up and said ‘ ...
  • This Week in Acidic Radioactive Slurry
    Via: Sydney Morning Herald: The chemical spill at Ranger Uranium Mine last weekend was the second such incident in a week for the mine’s parent company, Rio Tinto, placing further scrutiny on the company’s uranium mining operations. Processing at the Ranger site, in Kakadu National P ...
  • The Criminalization of Everyday Life
    Via: Tom Dispatch: If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves “solving” socia ...
  • Nobel Winner Declares Boycott of Top Science J ...
    Via: Guardian: Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a “tyranny” that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the publications. Randy Schekman, a US biologist who won the Nobel prize in physiology or medi ...
  • Bloomberg Wants Mandatory Flu Vaccinations for ...
    Via: Politicker: On Wednesday, with just three weeks to go until he leaves office, Mr. Bloomberg’s controversial Board of Health is set to vote on new rules that would force children as young as six months old to be immunized each year before December 31 if they attend licensed day care or pre-s ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Most Homeless Children In New York City Si ...
    At a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness.  According to the New York Times, the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City was during the days of the Great Depression.  And the number of homeless ...
  • 37 Reasons Why “The Economic Recovery Of ...
    "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it."  Sadly, that appears to be the approach that the Obama administration and the mainstream media are taking with the U.S. economy.  They seem to believe that if they just keep telling the American people over and over that things are gett ...
  • Big Banks Are Being Hit With Cyberattacks &#82 ...
    What would you do if you logged in to your bank account one day and it showed that you had a zero balance and that your bank had absolutely no record that you ever had any money in your account at all?  What would you do if hackers shut down all online banking and all [...]
  • Too Big To Fail Banks Are Taking Over As Numbe ...
    The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than they have ever had before.  So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?  As you will read about below, the total number of banks in the United [...]
  • Wow – The Holiday Shopping Season Is Off ...
    According to the National Retail Federation, Americans spent an average of 4 percent less over the four day Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year.  Overall, that means that approximately $1.7 billion less was spent at U.S. retailers compared to last year.  It had already been projected th ...

Desertification

  • Civil society, modern water management techniq ...
    Read at : http://www.ecomena.org/desertification-mena/ Combating Desertification in MENA By Maha Ali Al-Zu’bi Desertification is a worldwide phenomenon afflicting countries all over the world. The desert is making a comeback in the Middle East, with fertile lands turning into barren wastes ...
  • Low-salinity water buried beneath the seabed o ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131208085304.htm Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans Dec. 8, 2013 — Scientists have discovered huge reserves of freshwater beneath the oceans kilometres out to sea, providing new opportunities to stave off a looming global wate ...
  • Moringa seed material can give a more efficien ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205092059.htm Better Water Purification With Seeds from Moringa Trees Seeds from Moringa oleifera trees can be used to purify water. Uppsala University leads a research group which has discovered that seed material can give a more efficie ...
  • To return to permanent pasture livestock syste ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://rosemarycottageclinic.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/desertification-agricultures-inevitable-destination/ Desertification – Agriculture’s Inevitable Destination? The Telegraph has published a report about research from the University of Colorado s ...
  • Combating desertification in Namibe (ANGOP)
    Read at : http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/economia/2013/11/49/Over-Usd-million-combat-desertification-Namibe,f525fb07-3e30-489c-8e21-530413fa80a3.html Over Usd 9.0 million to combat desertification in Namibe Namibe – More than Akz 900 million kwanzas (Usd 9.0 million) wi ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Varshavsky Warehouse Squat Case: St Petersburg ...
    Denis Levkin has been imprisoned since February 2013. He was detained when the police stormed the squatted warehouse near the former Varshavsky Station in St Petersburg, Russia, and charged under article 318 part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (use of vi ...
  • Por el Triunfo de la Confederación: 80th anniv ...
    cnt__405.jpg This article from the November issue of the CNT newspaper memorializes 80 years of a militant workers newspaper in Spain. It also focuses on the present and future of the CNT, and provide ...
  • Highs and lows of a wage rise - the new garmen ...
    RMG_woman-with_red_flags2013.jpg The Bangladeshi minimum wage board has, after long negotiations, announced a 76% increase in garment workers’ pay, applicable to all seven pay grades. This has quickly ...
  • Attack on squats in Warsaw during nationalist ...
    anti-fa.jpg On November 11, 2013, two squats in the center of Warsaw were attacked by nationalists and fascists. The squatters resisted successfully. In their declaration the squatters' collectiv ...
  • Nizhni Novgorod: Anarchist Ilya Romanov wounde ...
    Ilya Romanov, a 46-years old Russian anarchist, was wounded on 26th of October 2013. According to authorities, this happened when a homemade bomb suddenly went off in his hands. The accident happened next to a building occupied by Russian Army draft office. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
    Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...
  • Expensive Grass
    “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville  “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville       Alexis de ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Bolivarianism Triumphs
    by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, Venezuelans voted. They did so for the 19th time since Chavez took office in February 1999. They elected municipal mayors and other local officials. Nearly 2,800 positions were up for grabs. Ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidates regist ...
  • Amend the Fed: We Need a Central Bank that Ser ...
    by Ellen Brown December 23rd marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve. Dissatisfaction with its track record has prompted calls to audit the Fed and end the Fed. At the least, Congress needs to amend the Fed, modifying the Federal Reserve Act to give the central bank the tools necessa ...
  • Iran-US Interim Agreement: Historic Breakthrou ...
    James Petras Introduction The recent interim accord between the six world powers and Iran has been hailed as an “historic breakthrough”, a “significant accomplishment” by most leading politicians, editorialists and columnists (Financial Times, (FT) 11/26/13, p. 2), th ...
  • Ukrainian Protests Continue
    by Stephen Lendman Pro-EU elements called for a Sunday "March of Millions." They hoped for maximum numbers turning out. Their plan is a Washington manipulated power grab. It's got nothing to do with democracy. It ignores Ukrainian sovereign rights. The event's slogan was "Ukraine for ...
  • John Kerry's Anti-Palestinian Agenda
    by Stephen Lendman He's no peacemaker. He never was throughout 30 years in state and federal government service. He's one of America's privileged. He's super-rich. His record shows exclusive support for wealth and power. He spurns popular interests. He's been conducting Middle East shuttle ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Does Canada's economic recovery make the ...
    It’s been more than four years since the end of the recession, and the federal government claims the economy is doing great. But how accurate is that message? Is Canada’s economy the best in the world? Over the next week, CCPA’s blog Behind the Numbers will publish a series of report cards on C ...
  • On the front lines: Teachers, unions, and soci ...
    The roles and responsibilities of unions have come under renewed scrutiny. Provincial and federal government hostility towards organized resistance to current policies is intensifying through heated rhetoric and legislative trial balloons.  Much of this is facilitated by the current economic in ...
  • Video Launch: Rite of Passage
    CCPA-MB's new film, Right of Passage by Carole O'Brien, is about the experiences of at-risk students attending Gorden Bell High School's alternative education program in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Learn more about how students can benefit from alternative programs, away from the barriers they experien ...
  • Free webinar Dec 4: How to talk about taxes so ...
    Making the case for progressive tax reform in BC: Do you have a sense that our tax system could be fairer, but you're looking for concrete evidence to back up that intuition? Do you find yourself arguing that fair taxes can benefit society but you stumble when it comes to explaining how? Join Se ...
  • Waging an election on income inequality
    Two candidates in an upcoming federal by-election have made income inequality the main topic in Toronto-Centre. The CCPA's Growing Gap team created a short primer on income inequality that includes questions for candidates in the remaining all-candidates' debates in that riding. The CCPA's Tris ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Cost of Production and Energy Return of Oi ...
    Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the cost of production and the energy return from surface mining and in situ production of bitumen.
  • How Alberta’s Oil Sands are Produced
    Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the production processes for the two most common processes for producing the oil sands: surface mining and in situ production.
  • Oil Sands and the Environment – Part II
    This week, Robert Rapier continues to look at the environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands industry.
  • Oil Sands and the Environment – Part I
    Robert Rapier provides a first hand report on environmental issues originating in Alberta's Athabasca oil sands.
  • Soliciting Reader Questions for Oil Sands Tour
    On Sunday, November 3rd, I am heading to Fort McMurray, Alberta for a tour of the oil sands operations. Here are the details from the initial email that I received inviting me on the trip: Each year, the Consulate General partners with other U.S. Canadian missions to organize a tour of Canada’s ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • The End of Private Property in the Era of the ...
    *No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.**John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States *How *secure* do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and * forcibly ent...
  • Giant, Earth-Devouring Octopus Is New U.S. Mas ...
    The top of the ATLAS-V rocket in the NROL-39 launch. (Source: Twitter) Last night, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) launched an ATLAS V rocket to haul a dozen mini spy satellites up into orbit.* The choice for of the o...
  • Sometimes Cops Find Your Stolen Car. Sometimes ...
    Police officers are forcing people to choose between time behind bars or turning over their money and property -- all without ever making an arrest. Fight civil asset forfeiture abuse. www.aclu.org/policing-for-profit #prisonprofiteers This vide...
  • Drunkard Cop Given Second Chance Charged With DUI
    From KIRO TV Bellevue police Officer Andrew Hanke was charged with driving under the influence on Thursday. Hanke is the same Bellevue police officer suspended by his department last year for drunk and disorderly conduct at a Seattle Seahawks ga...
  • Government-Sanctioned Child Theft
    It is difficult to imagine anything more cruel or depraved than forcibly sedating a pregnant woman, ripping her child from the womb, and then abducting the baby. Such incomprehensible sadism is well within the ability of child protection bureaucrats....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
    I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
  • Misery in Motown
    Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →
  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
  • DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
    James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.

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

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Book Launch: Yellow Ribbons by A. L. McCready
    The Militarization of National Identity in Canada. K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - This past week saw the Halifax launch of yet another timely and important book by Fernwood Publishing of Black Point, Nova Scotia: A.L. McCready's Yellow ...
  • Montréal Police Kill Donald Ménard
    Taser death speaks to increasing violence against society's marginalized As the first winter winds set in on Montréal, local activists gathered downtown at the corner of St. Ale ...
  • Algonquins Erect Land Protection Camp to Save ...
    (Kitiganik, Algonquin Territory/December 9, 2013) This past Spring, Quebec’s Ministry of Natural Resources—without meaningfully consulting the Algonquins of Barriere Lake—issued permits for the 2013-14 operating year to Resolute Forest Products and other large logging companies ...
  • Raise the Rates calls for 'Justice not Charity ...
    COAST SALISH TERRITORY -  The Raise the Rates Coalition paid a visit to CBC's annual Food Bank Day in downtown Vancouver Friday. The Coalition called for  justice not charity, "meaning raise the welfare rates so people can buy their own food instead of being dependent on food ...
  • Beat Nation exhibit / The Culture Makers: Inte ...
    As part of the Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture exhibit at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, there was a symposium on December 5, 2013 entitl ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Pope Francis reminds me of Gorbachev
    David Seaton's News LinksSome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expre ...
  • The Iran deal
    David Seaton's News LinksThings may unravel but at least there is hope. Perhaps this is what is most threatening to Netanyahu. He has never been willing to test the Palestinians in a serious way — test their good faith, test ending the humiliations of the occupation, test from strength the power ...
  • Kennedy's Death
    David Seaton's News LinksWriting up the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination has become a momentary cottage industry and I have little that I wish to add and will spare my readers all my "where I was when I heard the news" drivel. However, I would only remark what I personally find the mo ...
  • USA: mature or overripe?
    David Seaton's News Links Among the casualties of the Snowden stories are an embarrassed and chastened White House, an American technology sector which has seen its own government tarnish its business model of a global, open internet and the strong US relationships with allies such as Germany. F ...
  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Does the Minimum Wage Look Better if You Accou ...
    Over at the Economix blog, minimum wage skeptic David Neumark makes a reasonable point: sure, adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage has declined since the 1960s. But we've created and then expanded the EITC as a wage support tool since then, so you need to look at the two together. If you d ...
  • Help Me Out On This Whole Cell Phone on Airpla ...
    Hereditary Rep. Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania is a pretty conservative guy who believes the government should keep its nose out of private enterprise. Unless, that is, private enterprise happens to annoy him: Political momentum to keep a ban on cellphone calls during flights gained moment ...
  • Obama Shakes Hand With Raul Castro; Right Prep ...
    At Nelson Mandela's memorial ceremony today, President Obama shook hands with Cuba's Raul Castro. The Guardian reports: The controversial handshake with Castro is likely to dominate headlines back home in the US, where many conservatives fear the White House is preparing a broader rappro ...
  • New Study Says Poverty Rate Hasn't Budged For ...
    The Washington Post reports some good news: Government programs such as food stamps and unemployment insurance have made significant progress in easing the plight of the poor in the half-century since the launch of the war on poverty, according to a major new study....[The findings] also ...
  • In the End, Switching Congress to Obamacare Wi ...
    Back in 2009, Republican members of Congress thought it would be cute to require Congress itself to be covered under Obamacare. They should be willing to eat their own dog food, no? Now they're finding out that private coverage can be pretty expensive, and they're not happy about it. Ryan Coop ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • FIFA World Cup and rainforest plants: an Amazo ...
    Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian in London, has described London as a city 'rich in history and filled with ghosts'.© Helen Saunders/SurvivalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a Yawanawá Indian from the Brazilian Amazon, came to London to learn English and in 2013 joined Survival International to s ...
  • Bullying tactics drive Penan to abandon dam bl ...
    The abandoned Long Singu longhouse last week after the government rushed through the Penan's move to the unfinished relocation site.© Raymond Abin/SurvivalMembers of the Penan tribe from the Malaysian state of Sarawak have bowed to overwhelming pressure and abandoned their 77-day protest ag ...
  • Waorani men arrested over killings of uncontac ...
    Ompore Omeway, a Waorani man who was recently killed alongside his wife. © Fundación Alejandro LabakaSix Waorani Indians have been arrested over the killing last April of an unknown number of uncontacted Taromenane Indians in Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park. The Waorani and Taromenane are inter- ...
  • Breaking news: Guarani leader and film-star mu ...
    In 2008 Ambrósio attended the premiere of 'Birdwatchers' at the Venice Film Festival.© SurvivalGuarani Indian leader and film-star Ambrósio Vilhalva was murdered on Sunday night, after decades of campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land. Ambrósio was rep ...
  • UN urged to stop Peru's deadly oil and gas rush
    The UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples has been urged to protect vulnerable uncontacted tribes in Peru, who could be decimated by contact with oil and gas workers.© Chris Fagan/UAC/ProPurúsSurvival International has appealed to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of ind ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #Harvard Study: Healthier Diet Costs $1.50 Mor ...
    from upi.com: The difference between the healthiest diets and the least healthy diets is $1.50 a day, U.S. researchers found. Lead author Mayuree Rao, a junior research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 27 ...
  • #Alaska Renews Push to Amass Emergency Food Stocks
    from abcnews.go.com: Alaska is renewing an effort to secure a massive stockpile of emergency food supplies to be ready in case a major disaster cuts the state off from supply lines. Gov. Sean Parnell has promoted emergency preparations — including urging individuals and families to make plans of ...
  • Tougher Tactics Desperately Needed to Win War ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: As I listened to the ads from the ill-fated campaign to label genetically modified food in Washington, I felt a sickening case of déjà vu. About a year ago, I wrote a controversial article for the Huffington Post, titled "Ten Grassroots Lessons From Monsanto's Swift Boat ...
  • Food Allergies Less Deadly Than Accidents
    from well.blogs.nytimes.com: A fatal allergic reaction is a dramatic event, often involving a young person, so it naturally attracts attention. But that attention itself may lead people to overestimate the risk. In fact, a new study finds, people with food allergies have far less chance of dying ...
  • Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scienti ...
    The Eye Opener Report with James Corbett  from boilingfrogspost.com: That a former Monsanto scientist should find himself in charge of a specially-created post at the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company's products should surprise no on ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Most Homeless Children In New York City Si ...
    At a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness.  According to the New York Times, the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City was during the days of the Great Depression.  And the number of homeless ...
  • 37 Reasons Why “The Economic Recovery Of ...
    "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it."  Sadly, that appears to be the approach that the Obama administration and the mainstream media are taking with the U.S. economy.  They seem to believe that if they just keep telling the American people over and over that things are gett ...
  • Big Banks Are Being Hit With Cyberattacks &#82 ...
    What would you do if you logged in to your bank account one day and it showed that you had a zero balance and that your bank had absolutely no record that you ever had any money in your account at all?  What would you do if hackers shut down all online banking and all [...]
  • Too Big To Fail Banks Are Taking Over As Numbe ...
    The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than they have ever had before.  So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?  As you will read about below, the total number of banks in the United [...]
  • Wow – The Holiday Shopping Season Is Off ...
    According to the National Retail Federation, Americans spent an average of 4 percent less over the four day Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year.  Overall, that means that approximately $1.7 billion less was spent at U.S. retailers compared to last year.  It had already been projected th ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

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electric politics

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

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Stop NATO

  • McCain Vows U.S. Support For Georgia’s N ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia December 10, 2013 Irakli Alasania’s Telephone Conversation with Senator John McCain Telephone conversation was held between Defence Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania and United States Senator John McCain. Minister Alasania and Senator McCain discussed the main as ...
  • Tel Aviv: Georgian, Israeli Defense Chiefs Ple ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia December 9, 2013 Georgian Defence Minister’s Meeting with his Counterpart The Georgian Defence Minister’s visit to Israel [has been] completed. Within [a] two-day long official visit, Defence Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania met with his counterpart Moshe Yaalon ...
  • Poll: Americans Tired Of Unilateral Global Mil ...
    Global Times December 9, 2013 Exhausted by war, US public increasingly opting for multilateralism By Charles Gray    A recently released Pew Research Center poll about the American people’s foreign policies leanings has important implications for the future policy of the Dem ...
  • Stefan Heym: The whole scene was immersed in t ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Stefan Heym From The Crusaders (1948) It had been difficult enough to adjust himself to the idea that David Yates, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages at Coulter College, was being changed into a soldier, for reasons and pu ...
  • Astrium, Raytheon Team Up For NATO Ballistic M ...
    Raytheon Company December 9, 2013 Astrium, Raytheon team to compete for NATO ballistic missile defense work TUCSON, Ariz. – Astrium, the world’s second largest space company, and Raytheon Company signed a teaming agreement that formalizes the companies’ plans to compete for the ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Concerns about USDA Hog Plant Inspection Plan: ...
    Cost-Cutting of Deregulated Pig Inspection Comes at Food & Worker Safety Expense In this blog, GAP's Food Integrity Campaign looks at food and worker safety concerns raised by employees and inspectors at plants participating in USDA's pilot hog inspection program. Three of the five pilot ...
  • Foreign Policy Magazine Names GAP's Jesselyn R ...
    For her efforts in the "unmasking of the global surveillance state," Government Accountability Project (GAP) National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack has been named one of the world's preeminent thought leaders in Foreign Policy magazine's annual list of the Top 100 Global T ...
  • BofA: The First Step toward Fixing a Problem i ...
    Editor's Note, from GAP President Louis Clark: Michael Winston is a former executive at Countrywide Financial Corporation who blew the whistle on the company's clearly fraudulent activities that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. A guest on GAP's American Whistleb ...
  • Obama Admits Snowden Disclosures 'Identified S ...
    MSNBC: Obama – NSA Leaks Identified Some Areas of Concern In an interview yesterday with Chris Matthews, President Obama acknowledged that some of NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosures had “identified some areas of legitimate concern,” but that the programs remain essent ...
  • NSA Tracks Cellphone Locations, 5 Billion Reco ...
    Dear Daily Whistleblower News Reader: As we promised to report, with the amazing help of GAP supporters like you, we exceeded the Giving Tuesday initial match amount by the CS Fund of $47,500 two days ago, and we've almost reached our second match total of $10,000 (from another donor who ste ...

UK Progressive

  • How Mandela Brought Black America and Africa T ...
    by David A. Love Nelson Mandela, the revered leader, statesman and human rights icon, has left an indelible mark on his native country of South Africa. The Nobel Peace Prize winner inspired people throughout the world with his decades-long struggle against apartheid, and he spent 27 years in pri ...
  • Madiba & Francis: Forgiveness… Compromise… Country
    This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Everyone has expressed their shock that after 27-years in brutal prison conditions, Nelson Mandela chose non-violence to work through the system and bring about massive change for his country. Everything this man did from the moment he walked out of R ...
  • Federal Flood Maps Left New York Unprepared fo ...
    by Al Shaw, Theodoric Meyer and Christie Thompson ProPublica This story was co-published with WNYC Radio. When Patrice and Philip Morgan bought a house near the ocean in Brooklyn, they were not particularly worried about the threat of flooding. Federal maps showed their home was outside the area ...
  • Breaking Google’s Monopoly
    by Tina Dupuy Holiday Jeer: Google’s Pay-to-Fleece Game Ahundred years ago the business tycoon Samuel Insull consolidated smaller utility companies to form the behemoth (albeit public charity-sounding), Commonwealth Edison. Because of the infrastructure needed to provide energy to an increasingl ...
  • Media and Research Institutions Neglect Contri ...
    by Rev. Irene Monroe Dec. 1 was World AIDS Day! However, here in the U.S. you would have scarcely known. Much of the focus was, and still is, on developing countries. There was no reportage of it in key newspapers like the Boston Globe and the New York Times. None of the major television network ...

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  • The Mises View: "Bitcoin and Central Banking" ...
  • AIDS advocates say drug coverage in some Obama ...
    The Washington Post reports:The nation’s new health-care law says insurers can’t turn anyone away, even people who are sick. But some companies, patient advocates say, have found a way to discourage the chronically ill from enrolling in their plans: offer drug coverage too skimpy for those with ...
  • Stock party’s punch bowl isn’t running dry: De ...
    CNBC reports:The S&P 500's around 27 percent surge this year may have left investors jumpy about whether a correction is on the cards, but a hoard of pent-up cash means the rally can continue, Deutsche Bank said. The bank estimates around $169 billion in pent-up cash and short interest is likel ...
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JoNova

  • IPCC spin translated – the leaked Synops ...
    Joint Post: Geoff Sherrington and JoNova The IPCC Synthesis Report first order draft has been leaked (h/t Tallbloke) . It is part of the big Fifth Assessment report  see the parts already released here. The Synthesis Report supposedly summarizes the science. In the real world the topic du jour i ...
  • A few facts on Flannery, Climate Council, and ...
    Flannery and the Climate Council are at it again — trying to scare money out of people with their prophecies of bushfires. They are milking the fear factor from the October fires in the Blue Mountains, telling us disaster planning means we have to get “the facts straight”. Let& ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    .. … (Click to enlarge) Photo: Jo I took this flying from Denpasar to Perth. Glorious ancient landscape in the dry season far north WA. Click for a larger broader image.
  • Land clearing caused drop in rainfall in South ...
    Rain rain go away, let’s chop a forest down today? Mark Andrich and Jorg Imberger compare the rainfall patterns in different regions of southwest Western Australia. The areas where the most land was cleared show the greatest decline. They estimate that as much as 50 – 80% of the observed ...
  • UN $315 billion CDM carbon market comatose aft ...
    More good news. The CDM is one of the only truly global carbon markets. It’s been the main mechanism for “mitigation” in developing countries, (China says “thank you”). Born with the Kyoto agreement, it was in a sick state last year and was even said to have collaps ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves
    ILIAD Project Petri Dish and Instructions Screenshot from “The ILIAD Project Indiegogo Video” on YouTube Penicillin comes from bread mold, and many antibiotics in use today come from soil bacteria species called actinomycetes. You might even have some antibiotic-producing critters in your o ...
  • Vote For DigitalGlobe's Best Satellite Photo O ...
    Fires In Dunalley, Australia DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is an imaging company that uses a constellation of five satellites to beam down incredible pictures of Earth. In the past year, the company collected more than one billion square kilometers of imagery, and they've turned to the public t ...
  • The Week In Numbers: The Rise Of Bed Bugs, A P ...
    Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two 2,500 mph: the speed attained this year by the six-passenger Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two, the first commercial spacecraft to exceed Mach 1 99 percent: the portion of American exterminators that have encountered bed bug infest ...
  • Couples Under An X-Ray And Other Amazing Image ...
    X-Ray Couples With a real X-ray machine, artists Ayako Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka took these intimate, dark, and kind of hilarious images of couples. Ayako Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka via io9     
  • How To Make Your Very Own Legal Drug
        "You can ban drugs, but you can't ban chemistry," Mike Power, author of Drugs 2.0, explains in this talk at the HIT Hot Topics Conference. And he gives a personal, investigative story to prove it. Governments can legislate chemicals--ban a drug, say, a stimulant or a psychedelic--but what h ...

Facing South

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • More on highest tidal surge since 1953 and Dec ...
    TIDAL SURGE The tidal surge which affected the east coast last week was the biggest since the historic coastal flood of January 1953 according to the Environment Agency.  In 1953 hundreds of people lost their lives. In Lincolnshire the sea came inland by 3 miles in the area around Sutton on Sea ...
  • A look back at autumn and forward into early w ...
    Climatological autumn ended this weekend, and it turned out to be a very average affair.  UK mean temperatures were slightly above average, with both rainfall and sunshine both almost exactly average.  More locally as you might expect the three monthly seasonal statistics hide some detail.  Part ...
  • Rest of November outlook - and what about winter?
    High pressure looks set to become dominant across much of the UK for the rest of November, ensuring a lot of dry, fine and settled weather.  Although cloud amounts are always difficult to determine in these situations, by day there should be at least some sunshine, with a risk of some frost and ...
  • Weather and climate round-up
    First taste of winter next week: After a mild autumn so far, the UK is about to experience its first taste of winter next week.  Cold air is expected to flood southwards across the UK from Tuesday.  As it meets the relatively warm sea vigorous convection is expected, with the risk of heavy showe ...
  • More on risk of new Maunder solar minimum and ...
    There’s been, as I expected, lots of interest in my blog from last week about the risk of a new Maunder solar minimum reach you can read by clicking HERE As part of my research into the story I visited Professor Mike Lockwood at Reading University where he told me that solar activity was falling ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • I Wanna Riot...In Singapore [?!]
    @#$% the Police, Singapore EditionSingapore has acquired a reputation for being squeaky-clean to the point of being antiseptic. It is particularly famous for two things in this respect: banning bubble gum in public that can litter surroundings and caning juvenile delinquents alike the Yankee bra ...
  • Numbers Don't Lie: Catholicism is Growing
    It remains remarkable how a non-negligible portion of the world population can be classified under a single church with a single leader and a single history: the Catholic Church. I've been performing religion-related research and came across a 2013 Pew Research poll describing the extent of this ...
  • WTO Welcomes Its 160th Member, Yemen
    Yemen, there's no need to feel down I said Yemen, pick yourself off the ground... A little neglected in the hullabaloo surrounding the conclusion of the "Bali package" at WTO negotiations in the eponymous Indonesian resort location has been the organization's acceptance of its 160th member. A s ...
  • Is Europe Overrepresented at World Cup? Nope
    It's the weekend and it's time we had another feature dealing with international sport. Perhaps inevitably, let's talk about football. Some are lamenting that the ranks of World Cup participants for next year's event is in Brazil are filled with European teams. Why does Europe get represented by ...
  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution is Dead, Lon ...
    Sorry 21st century socialist sympathizers, but the economic and moral bankruptcy of Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution is becoming more apparent with each passing day as his successor finishes off the job. Even rose-tinted glasses cannot obscure the damage done. First, "oil diplomacy" is saggin ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Most Homeless Children In New York City Si ...
    At a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness.  According to the New York Times, the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City was during the days of the Great Depression.  And the number of homeless ...
  • 37 Reasons Why “The Economic Recovery Of ...
    "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it."  Sadly, that appears to be the approach that the Obama administration and the mainstream media are taking with the U.S. economy.  They seem to believe that if they just keep telling the American people over and over that things are gett ...
  • Big Banks Are Being Hit With Cyberattacks &#82 ...
    What would you do if you logged in to your bank account one day and it showed that you had a zero balance and that your bank had absolutely no record that you ever had any money in your account at all?  What would you do if hackers shut down all online banking and all [...]
  • Too Big To Fail Banks Are Taking Over As Numbe ...
    The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than they have ever had before.  So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?  As you will read about below, the total number of banks in the United [...]
  • Wow – The Holiday Shopping Season Is Off ...
    According to the National Retail Federation, Americans spent an average of 4 percent less over the four day Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year.  Overall, that means that approximately $1.7 billion less was spent at U.S. retailers compared to last year.  It had already been projected th ...

BlogHer

  • "Excuse Me, Are You Ethiopian?" and Other Bac ...
    "Are you Ethiopian?"The cashier at Trader Joe's asked me this at check out after inquiring if I had a name for my frohawk. I responded,"No, why?"He replied,"Your look and your hair."Granted, I do have a huge red 'fro atop a 117 pound slim frame that sometimes draws a bit of attention and welcome ...
  • How to Set Your December Daily Journal Apart - ...
    Are you participating in December Daily?  I must admit that up until a few weeks ago I was not sure what December Daily was.  However, now that I know – I’m in.  All in.  December Daily started as a scrapbook thing and has morphed into a smashbook, art journal, paper craft ki ...
  • Sending a Bit of Love in a Cookie Tin
    During the holidays, I find our schedule jam-packed with traditions. Families and friends, as well as the community, seem to come together like no other time of year to celebrate. Getting caught up in the festivities of the season adds to the excitement, and as a parent, I find myself even more ...
  • Understanding Sharkeisha: Does Bullying On TV ...
    From Sharkeisha to The Real Housewives to the little girls emulating all of this in their schools and bedrooms, what is going on with the fascination of "girl fighting?" Infamous Table Flip Scene from Real Housewives of New Jersey via Bravo TV Mean girls have existed forever; fighting among gir ...
  • Give the Gift of BlogHer!
    It's that time of year -- where most of us (read me) desperately search for the perfect gift for the people in our lives. Time feels a little pinched right now, and maybe you've simply run out of ideas. We here at BlogHer have a solution: The gift of a BlogHer conference ticket! It's a pretty ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Eating Healthy vs. Unhealthy Will Cost You $55 ...
            Many people assert that unhealthy eating habits are the result of economic hardship. They say that healthful food is simply more expensive than unhealthful food. Now, science backs them up. The most comprehensive study of its ... No related posts. ...
  • 5 Health Benefits Of Peppermint
            In the midst of all the indulgence and decadence this time of year, it’s comforting to know there are some very real health benefits to some of the most common flavors of the season. Between candy ... No related posts. Related posts brought t ...
  • Cumin sleep aid tea
              Insomnia can be such a debilitating condition, because sleep is necessary to keep us alert, productive and for our overall well-being. It is recommended to get 7-8 hours of good sleep per night for optimal health. ... No related posts. Relat ...
  • Space technology company builds a functioning ...
    An artificial heart that took 15 years to develop has been approved for human trials. The device, which was fashioned from biological tissue and parts of miniature satellite equipment, combines the latest advances in medicine, ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you ...
  • Use This Herb to Naturally Whiten Teeth
            Yes, it’s true. The yellow powder that will stain (almost) everything it touches is the secret ingredient in giving you the brightest whitest teeth possible. Yesterday I came across an article on Examiner.com called “Whiten ... No relate ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Diversifying the Appalachian coalfields: Kentu ...
    Over in Eastern Kentucky, a wide variety of citizens, business leaders and government officials are getting to work this morning, with the start of Shaping Our Appalachian Region, or SOAR, an event aimed at jump-starting discussions about how to improve the lives of the people of the coalfield r ...
  • Friday roundup, Dec. 6, 2013
    Trees dominate the skyline on a cold winter morning at Lake Manawa, Iowa, in front of the MidAmerican Energy power plant, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) A topic that comes up periodically here on Coal Tattoo is why the U.S. should do anything about its greenhouse gas emissions abs ...
  • WVU, Gordon Gee and Massey Energy
    If you believe the anonymous sources being quoted by most of West Virginia’s media outlets, it appears that Hoppy Kercheval is going to get his wish.  As the Gazette’s MacKenzie Mays is reporting: E. Gordon Gee, former president at West Virginia University and more recently Ohio Stat ...
  • CONSOL closes on deal with Murray Energy
    Here’s the news announced today by CONSOL Energy: CONSOL Energy Inc.  announced today that it has closed on its previously announced agreement to sell its Consolidation Coal Company (CCC) subsidiary, which includes all five of its longwall coal mines in West Virginia, to a subsidiary of Mu ...
  • More silly attacks on Rep. Nick Rahall
    We’ve got a long, long way to go before the next election, but Republicans and their friends in the industry just can’t wait to take more silly shots at Rep. Nick J. Rahall. The latest effort is mentioned in a National Journal item that explains: In campaign politics, it doesn’ ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Announcing TokenScope
    TokenScope is a tool for evaluating opaque tokens for meaning during security assessments. It works by pulling in large, high-quality wordlists and transforming them in numerous ways, and then comparing them to your input. I’ve just released my TokenScope project. Go check it out if you&#8 ...
  • The Problem With Free Markets and Core Services
    Conservatives are known for their belief that free markets are the answer to all problems—including those like healthcare. The idea is elegant: you have a problem and you unleash the free market upon it. Companies will compete, and you’ll have the best outcomes. Done and done. It&#82 ...
  • A Drone-based Delivery System
    I read an article recently talking about consumer drones. It was a good piece, but at the very end it mentioned something I found fascinating: drones being used as a delivery system. I wrote recently about how consumer drones will affect personal security, but this delivery angle set me thinking ...
  • The Fix for America’s Democracy
    Image from www.nationalhellenicsociety.org Everyone seems to know the American experiment is failing, but what we’re not hearing is a crisp reason followed by a solution. Allow me to propose one. The two conflicting forces There are two primary forces in motion within human individuals and ...
  • iTerm Not Showing Directory Colors (Fixed)
    If anyone has the issue of directory colors being borked in iTerm2, and they haven’t yet committed suicide, try this: Disable “Draw Text in Bright Colors” under: Preferences -> Profiles -> DisplayRelated Posts:Feeds BorkedSplunk on LinuxAdding a Trailing Slash to Directories Us ...

Fitwatch

  • Safety Tips for Cops Off Campus 2013
    This features opening commentary from a few FITwatchers. If you’re in a hurry, skip straight to the safety tips after the stars **** at the bottom. It has been a busy week at the University of London. Months of tensions … Continue reading →
  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Disarmament wins Nobel applause
    Ahmet Üzümcü of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons formally accepted the Nobel Peace Prize “with great humility” in Oslo on Tuesday, on behalf of the organization.  He said the prize recognized the combined efforts of a “collective spirit” in OPCW an ...
  • This year’s Nobel among ‘most solid’
    The Nobel Peace Prize is known for generating controversy and criticism, along with respect, when its winner is announced every year. This year, as it was being awarded in Oslo on Tuesday to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), historians tracking Peace Prize recipien ...
  • New union boss to pose challenges
    Mette Nord, the woman recently elected to lead Norway’s largest labour union, has vowed to further its left-leaning agenda. Nord says she will fight the Conservative government on any changes to working hours, social and tax policies that she believes will lead to inequality and the privat ...
  • New oil discovery comes amidst cuts
    Just as the Norwegian government is being urged to slow down the pace of offshore oil and gas production comes news that state-controlled Statoil has made another discovery in the Barents Sea. Statoil, already in a cost-cutting mode, will likely be inclined to develop this discovery despite curt ...
  • French indicted in Moland’s death
    Norway’s foreign ministry has sent a special envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo after its military indicted Joshua French, a young Norwegian man who’s been imprisoned in Congo since 2009, with the murder of his Norwegian cell mate. The indictment, confirmed on Monday, has stun ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Desert Food Forest and Organic Commercial Prod ...
    Outside the fence On August 6, 2010 Craig Mackintosh posted on my initial consultancy for the site I’m reporting on today. Three years and three months later, I can give an update on what has transpired since. Squash It is with great pleasure and excitement — which I feel for this pr ...
  • Need Some Permaculture Inspiration? Watch More ...
    Sign up your email address, and you’ll be notified of new inspiring permaculture video releases as they come!
  • A Tree Management Course at the Jordan Valley ...
    Trees are a nation unto themselves — they communicate through various methods including fungal root associations, aerial chemical messages, physical displays, leaf movement, colour and through other life forms. — Miles Durand In this day and age there is so much knowledge available, ...
  • Permaculture’s Achilles’ Heel
    There are some challenges in permaculture that do need to be addressed. And it is not what we commonly think — of such issues as big business trying to shut permaculture holistic practices down, or people just not caring about the next generations. In all honesty, if you think it through, ...
  • Man and Creature – Slaves to the Machine
    From the documentary Samsara. No words needed….

Pointman's

  • Used intelligently, they’re our bitches now.
    Within any community of people, there’s always a natural diversity of personality. Usually that diversity is an asset to be tapped into and utilised, sometimes it’s a liability and people learn to cope with the variations. On average, some people are good in certain situations and ba ...
  • COP19 – the grubby truth behind it all.
    It must have been a weekend because I was about. The kids rushed in and I had the “Dad, Dad, he’s hurt” and their miniature hands plucking at me like a flock of birds pecking and pulling me urgently out of the house sideways. They do that, you know it’s important because ...
  • The silver apples of the moon, the golden appl ...
    There’s a lot of stuff you can get away with in the armed services but being a bad leader of a group of men who know they’re going into harm’s way isn’t one of them. They have trust in you or they don’t and you can tell that from their faces. The skinny 25-year-old ...
  • Australia – you beaut.
    We have lived in a globalised society for a lot longer than that relatively recently coined phrase might suggest. Because we’ve greater and easier access to foreign news, and even if we don’t take advantage of that, more foreign news is still reported on by domestic outlets, but usua ...
  • The long dark nights of the soul and using the ...
    We all have our little things about us. Things we do and things our friends know about and say don’t worry about it; they’re always doing that. Like everyone else, I’ve my own peculiar things I do and by now am reasonably relaxed about. Possibly the most disconcerting of my ecc ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Why Isn't Kerry Listening to What the Radicals ...
    As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his efforts to reach a peace agreement between the Palestinian Authority [PA] leadership and Israel, Hamas reaffirmed that it would not honor any deal that does not meet its goals. The Hamas announcement
  • Egypt's Women: Covered-up or Locked-up
    The ancient Egyptians created a sophisticated civilization, particularly regarding the status of women. On women's rights, ancient Egyptian society was considerably more liberal and progressive than Athens and Rome. Ancient Egypt's eight female pharaohs
  • UK: Trial Begins for "Soldiers of Allah" Accus ...
    The trial of two radical Muslims accused of the "cowardly and callous murder" of British soldier Lee Rigby has begun at the Old Bailey court in central London. Islamists Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are each accused of attacking the
  • Who Is Destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque?
    The Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, was built on the Temple Mount -- which is the holiest site in Judaism, where the Temple that was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago stood. The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been one of the items at the center of the
  • Israel-Syria Border a Tinderbox
    Three instances of cross-border fire have occurred along Israel's frontier with Syria in the past week, reinforcing the Israel Defense Force's assessment that this border is set to present a mass of security threats in the near future. In the most recent

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • Dr. Jerome Corsi: Obama's Communist Revolution.
    Alex is joined by Dr Jerome Corsi to discuss the vast misappropriation of power by the Obama administration. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews. ...
  • UFO Crashes & Military Protocols
    This show tries to gather insight on the military's "First Response" protocols, the alleged recovery and cover-up procedures that are followed in case of a UFO incident. The investigation takes them to a claim of a military pursuit of multiple... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • The Truth About Nelson Mandela ~ Stefan Molyneux
    The Truth About The Terrorist and Commie Icon Nelson Mandela , Nelson Mandela is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist. But what is the truth about Nelson Mandela? Visit... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • WW3 Alert ~ The Push For War With China Is Now ...
    Poverty in Europe rises to 25%. The US government is imposing new taxes to pay the interest on the debt.Income has declined across the US and people do not have the money to buy gifts this holiday season. The semi rich are feeling the effects of... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • NSA Using World of Warcraft and other Online G ...
    It's a beat up, they are getting ready for the 'controlled Internet'. Manchurian President Obama organized it months ago, remember that White House dinner meeting? 100% Guaranteed that Facebook,  MS etc are going to be your Portal to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Balancing Act: EPA's RFS Public Process
    Franz Matzner, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. The nation’s biofuels policies remain much in the news of late, in part because for the first time ever the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed reducing the vol ...
  • Clean Energy Can Power Our Economy and Protect ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Shell Oil recently announced plans to resume drilling operations in the Arctic Ocean this summer. The company suffered a string of failures when it tried to drill there last year, from having its em ...
  • The Pre-Vacation Race to an Empty Fridge
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco The exciting news is that I’m going to Hawaii on Friday.  Among the rest of the pre-vacation stress—leaving work projects in a good place, finding a bathing suit, ...
  • We Can Have Both a Reliable Grid and a Cleaner ...
    John Moore, Senior Attorney – The Sustainable FERC Project, Chicago Opponents of power plant pollution control standards waved the red herring of grid reliability at a congressional hearing last week where they seized on a comment by a Federal Energ ...
  • When Diesel Fails, Look to Sails
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California   It was a blissful moment; with light wind and flat seas, the sunlight refracted through the waves like millions of tiny gemstones. My girlfriend was humming along ...

Peakwater

  • Uprising Grows Against Fracking in a Surprisin ...
    “Do you think they’re about to have sex?”, one of the group whispers. I’m in Transylvania, crouched in the bushes with a bunch of activists in balaclavas, taking turns to speculate why a car has crept to a halt close to where we are hiding out. “No, it must be the c ...
  • Jordan, the PA and Israel trade water from the ...
    Some good news out of the Middle East region for a change: It was announced at the Israel Business Forum that Israel has signed an historic water-sharing agreement with Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. But not all parties are happy with political manoeuvrings around the announcement. The ne ...
  • New report: Unregulated contaminants common in ...
    “Traces of 18 unregulated chemicals were found in drinking water from more than one-third of U.S. water utilities in a nationwide sampling, according to new, unpublished research by federal scientists. Included are 11 perfluorinated compounds, an herbicide, two solvents, caffeine, an antib ...
  • Breaking the ice
    Dear Readers of Peak Water, I begin my first column in the form of an open letter, intended to explain my motivations, and underlying passions for the topics I shall discuss. I hope that the reasoning behind subsequent posts will be made apparent by what is to follow. As predicated by the title ...
  • An end to global water shortage? Scientists sa ...
    “Australian scientists say they have made a discovery that could have major implications for the looming global water shortage crisis. Researchers claim they have discovered huge freshwater aquifers buried underneath the ocean on continental shelves around the world. They claim to have fou ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • are they NOT equally accountable
    . . . while the GOP is the ‘driver’ they are NOT alone as many Democrats sit silently on the sidelines … are they NOT equally accountable…?   The Bankruptcy and Privatization of Detroit Is a Terrifying Preview of What Republicans Want to Do to the Rest of the Country Thom Hartmann, AlterNet ...
  • cherry-picked
    . . . while I have no doubt that Obama likely “cherry-picked” what was disclosed to us to justify the Syrian attack … this is SOP for any President … name one who did not…?   Seymour Hersh: Obama "Cherry-Picked" Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack to Justify US Strike   Amy ...
  • they will if and only if
    . . . they will if and only if … WE … make $15/hr minimum wage otherwise what their incentive…?   Will McDonald’s employ $15/hour cashiers? 12-8-2013  •  Free Press Publications ..Every couple of years there is public debate about increasing the minimum wage. Most recently, there ...
  • are quite compelling
    . . . the implications contained in this cartoon are quite compelling … or don’t you understand…?   …May your troubles be less; may your blessings be more and may nothing but happiness come through your door…Filed under: Blogroll
  • chose NOT to adequately fund CPS
    . . . the fact that Chad Campbell and his cohorts in our Arizona State Legislature chose NOT to adequately fund CPS for years and years and years does not in Campbell’s assessment beg the question as to who is responsible … actually “we” need to look in any mirror as that individual looking back ...

Popular Technology

  • Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
    It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
  • Who is Willis Eschenbach?
    As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
  • 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
    "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • 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 ...
  • World's biggest palm oil company makes zero de ...
    Wilmar, the world's largest palm oil trader and a long-time target of environmentalists, has signed a landmark policy that commits the company to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain. The deal, if fully implemented, has the potential to transform the palm oil industry, which has emerged ...
  • Sky islands: exploring East Africa's last frontier
    The montane rainforests of East Africa are little-known to the global public. The Amazon and Congo loom much larger in our minds, while the savannas of East Africa remain the iconic ecosystems for the region. However these ancient, biodiverse forests—sitting on the tops of mountains rising ...
  • Animal Earth: exploring the hidden biodiversit ...
    Most of the species on Earth we never see. In fact, we have no idea what they look like, much less how spectacular they are. In general, people can identify relatively few of their backyard species, much less those of other continents. This disconnect likely leads to an inability in the general ...
  • Reversing local extinction: scientists bring t ...
    The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), also called the hermit ibis or waldrapp, is a migratory bird. Once, the bald ibis lived in the Middle East, northern Africa and southern and central Europe, but due to hunting, loss of habitat and pesticide-use, the birds disappeared from most of thes ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Census 2013: More Kiwis stub out smoking habit
    Adults' rate of smoking has declined to 15 per cent in the latest census, down from 20.7 per cent in 2006.Census 2013 counted 463,000 adults who smoked one or more cigarettes a day, compared with 598,000 at the previous census.The...
  • Living with disaster: Warning for Kiwis - be r ...
    MUNTED.Plastered across posters and T-shirts, inspiring a play, and named by a popular blog site as word of the year, "munted" became the catch-cry amid Christchurch's post-quake devastation.Science writer Vicki Hyde, a stalwart...
  • Oldest human DNA ever found decoded
    Anthropologists say they had decoded the oldest DNA ever found in the human family, extracted from a 400,000-year-old thigh bone found in a pit in Spain.The feat expands knowledge of human genetics by some 300,000 years, they said,...
  • Study to test if whales 'hear' food
    Do whales hear their dinner?For years, scientists have only been able to hypothesise that large marine creatures such as whales, sharks and dolphins use hearing as a way of locating food.Now, a research project led by the University...
  • Ancient javelins predate humans, prompt evolut ...
    The oldest known stone javelins have been discovered in Africa, predating humans by 80,000 years.Scientists say the 280,000-year-old spear tips discovered in Ethiopia were probably created by ancestors to ancient humans, rather...

The Bovine

  • Water fluoridation banned in Muskoka
    From Collective Evolution: “The district of Muskoka, Ontario is home to about 60,000 and is a hot spot for Toronto resident cottages. On Monday October 21st, the district voted during a council meeting to end the practice of water fluoridation. … Continue reading →
  • From cellphones to Fukushima — subnature ...
    “We’ve got 3 reactors, the cores have left the vessel. They’ve burned through the bottom of the vessel. We don’t really know where they are, because the radioactive environment even fries robots that TEPCO’s been trying to send in there. … Continue reading →
  • Food police in Manitoba schools are “put ...
    From Weighty Matters blog: “It’s quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article … Contin ...
  • More than one way to destroy enzymes
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “So I was curious to read a lengthy article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, “How Much for Salad in  a Bottle?”, about the new “raw” juices that have appeared. Most of the article … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones court procee ...
    On Nov. 15, Montana Jones posted the following message on her FB page: “NO COURT this Mon or Tues. for Michael Schmidt or myself — BUMPED again by our juducial system. Thanks to all who were coming out to support…I will post … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Detroit's Emergency Manager Threatens Pension ...
    Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr says a pension fund takeover is a "right, if not an obligation" after Orr learned of extra, unwarranted pension payments. Please consider Emergency Manager Weighs Pension-Fund Takeover. Kevyn Orr said in a recent interview that at the current pace, the cit ...
  • Prisoner's Dilemma Game in Greece; Contagion-S ...
    As a result of Troika-imposed austerity, Greece has a current account surplus that widened in September to over a billion euros. This happened because demand for foreign goods collapsed in the wake of 27.3% overall unemployment and a shockingly high 57.9% youth unemployment. The Coming Greek D ...
  • Covered Employment Update: Employment vs. Fede ...
    Here's some new charts from reader Tim Wallace on "Covered Employment" (working in a job eligible for unemployment benefits). First a few notes .... Typically, hours worked and wages paid to employees in covered employment are used as a basis in establishing unemployment benefits should an emp ...
  • US Spends $1 Billion on Russian Helicopters fo ...
    According to a top secret 2010 report the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter is better then the US-made Chinook helicopter built by Boeing in Pennsylvania. Army Secretary John McHugh wrote in a 2011 memo "that the Mi-17 stands apart" when compared with other helicopters. Another study shows the Chi ...
  • Young Voters Would Recall Obama, Congress, If ...
    The Washington Post reports Majority of youngest voters would recall Obama. Young people, who played a major role in putting President Obama in the White House in 2008 and keeping him there after 2012, now say they would vote to recall the president if given the chance. A new Harvard Universi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Iran-US Interim Agreement: Historic Breakthrou ...
    The recent interim accord between the six world powers and Iran has been hailed as an “historic breakthrough”, a “significant accomplishment” by most leading politicians, editorialists and columnists (Financial Times, (FT) 11/26/13, p. 2), the exceptions being notably Israeli leaders and the Zio ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “A Journey through t ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Anabel Hernandez On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by investigative reporter and author of the bestselling book, Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers, Ms. Anabel Hernandez. Anabel shares her remarkable story, detailing t ...
  • Checkbook Journalism & Leaking to the Highest ...
    The NSA Whistleblowing Case: Something is Awfully Rotten in the State of …? Imagine a major government whistleblower who leaks his evidence and obtained documents to the highest bidders in the mainstream media and mega corporations. Does that sound awful, disgraceful and despicable? Okay. Now, i ...
  • The New Great Game Round-Up: December 8, 2013
    Georgia-NATO & Russian Missiles, EU-Russia Quarrel over Pipelines, Chechnya Fights “Syrian Rebels” & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, heg ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    B.B. King – “The Thrill Is Gone” It’s a night of the Blues for the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick featuring the legendary American blues musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist B.B. King. The song is the Thrill is Gone written by Rick Darnell and Roy Hawkins in 1951. King&#82 ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • ABS to Open Office on Houston’s Energy Corridor
    BS made the strategic decision to provide greater access to our offshore clients by locating ABS’ industry-focused resources in a dedicated facility in one of the world’s most important energy centers
  • Nickel Is Best Bet for Barclays as Indonesian ...
    Nickel, the worst performing base metal this year, offers investors the best opportunity for advances in early 2014 as Indonesia is poised to halt the export of mineral ores, according to Barclays Plc.
  • Australia Approves Dredging Near Barrier Reef ...
    SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Australia approved on Tuesday major dredging work to expand a coal shipping port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef in a bid to attract more [...]
  • The Coming IPO of Scorpio Bulkers Inc.
    This week I turn my attention to the coming IPO of Scorpio Bulkers Inc., an ambitious dry-cargo start-up led by the same management team as Scorpio Tankers Inc. (STNG).  Scorpio [...]
  • Sunken Towboat Lifted in Mississippi River [PH ...
    The sunken Stephen L. Colby has been lifted from the bed of the Mississippi River more than two weeks after the towboat struck a submerged object and sank along the riverbank near LeClaire, Iowa, spilling oil.

Press TV

  • China, Russia 'moving away' from dollar
    The United States is experiencing an “economic collapse” because major powers like China and Russia have decided not to use US dollar in trade, a political analyst says.
  • Winter high energy prices kill Britons
    An estimated 31,100 “excess” deaths occurred in Britain last winter according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS)-a rise of almost a third.
  • ‘Iran N-deal thwarts Israel war plans’
    Iran’s recent historic nuclear deal with the six major world powers stripped the Zionist regime of any pretext to justify its threats of military action against the Islamic Republic, an analyst tells Press TV.
  • Bombing at Shia shrine kills 11 in Iraq
    A bomb blast has rocked a Shia shrine in central Iraq, killing at least 11 people, police officials say.
  • Russia to boost armed presence in Arctic
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the military to increase its presence in the Arctic amid Canada’s bid to claim the North Pole and surrounding waters.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
    The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • The Dreaded Freshman 15
    OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
  • The Dreaded Freshman 15
    OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...

Dissident Voice

  • The Hijacking of Mandela’s Legacy
    Beware of strangers bearing gifts. The “gift” is the ongoing, frantic canonization of Nelson Mandela. The “strangers” are the 0.0001 percent, that fraction of the global elite that’s really in control (media naturally included). It’s a Tower of Babel of tributes piled up in layer upon layer of h ...
  • The Oregon Governor Announces a Record Fourth Term
    the guv ponders a lasting impression the stats are in, long-term dole forever like the plague, the bubonic lesions of short-term unemployment lifted by those spatula gigs hospitality services they call it, as the guv thinks of ways to placate the tennis shoe guy Phil Knight wants a break Intel w ...
  • America Soon to Become a Corporate North Korea
    We give ourselves too much credit for being a free-thinking and rebellious people.  When we see North Korean citizens lining the streets of Seoul, ecstatically gushing over Kim Jong-Un, we snicker.  When we’re told that they refer to this pompous dictator as “Brilliant Comrade” and “Dear Leader, ...
  • Canada: Apartheid Template
    It’s enough to make one who knows even a little history gag. The death of Nelson Mandela has led to an outpouring of vapid commentary about Canada’s supposed role in defeating South African Apartheid. “Canada helped lead international fight against Apartheid”, noted a Toronto Star headline ...
  • No Shows
    The pirate captains of Israel’s apartheid battleship of state sail upon the same dead seas of hate once plied by South Africa’s blood-fisted predators, so, of course, they will not, cannot, attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral services. How could they when they despise everything the man and the mill ...

Nick Turse

  • tomdispatch:Best read of the week: TomDispat ...
    tomdispatch: Best read of the week: TomDispatch regular Steve Fraser at the Nation mag on the “Wall Street state of mind” we (in New York City in particular, but everywhere in America) have been living with these last years. It’s an incandescent piece and ya just gotta catch it! Here’s a sampl ...
  • "Freelancing is not for the faint of heart."
    “Freelancing is not for the faint of heart.” - Pulitzer Prize and George Polk...
  • McClatchy: In Ronald Reagan era, Mandela was b ...
    McClatchy: In Ronald Reagan era, Mandela was branded a terrorist : "President Ronald Reagan swung...
  • pulitzercenter:Non-communicable diseases (NC ...
    pulitzercenter: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause 63 percent of all cases of death in the world. That is equal to 36 million people per year. Nine million people die prematurely every year — even before the age of 60 — because of NCDs. People from developing countries suffer the most: 90 ...
  • University students with their necks painted p ...
    University students with their necks painted protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Nov. 3, 2011. Their signs read in Spanish “We have the right to be outraged,” left, and “Excellent education and for all!!” Students are protesting education reforms planned by the government th ...

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Newswise

  • Literary Experts Look at Why the Classic Dicke ...
    Charles Dickens' classic novella "A Christmas Carol" was written 170 years ago. Kansas State University's Naomi Wood and Dan Hoyt look at why the story about the penny-pinching, Christmas-hating Ebenezer Scrooge remains so popular today.
  • New Gene Therapy Proves Promising as Hemophili ...
    Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin found that a new kind of gene therapy led to a dramatic decline in bleeding events in dogs with naturally occurring hemophilia A, a serious and costly bleeding condition.
  • NASA's Juno Spacecraft Hears Amateur Radio Ope ...
    In a first-of-its-kind activity for an interplanetary spacecraft, thousands of amateur (ham) radio operators around the world were able to say "Hi" to NASA's Juno spacecraft Oct. 9 as it swung past Earth on its way to Jupiter.
  • More Homesick Snowy Owls in Forecast for JFK, ...
  • Video Tells "Miraculous" Story of How Severed ...
    Strangers often stop to ask Bob Seeman why he wears a padded glove on his left hand. So he hands out a card with a link to a YouTube video, which tells the extraordinary story of how Seeman's left arm was reattached after it was nearly completely severed in a tow truck accident.

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Jae's News

  • Liars at FOX pay $8 million for silence
    Fox News executive would stay quiet about everything related to the conservative news organization and its operations, including founder Roger Ailes and the lies they tell. Submitted by Jason R. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 18 Los Angeles County deputies charged in fede ...
    Los Angeles (CNN) -- "Eighteen current and former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies were indicted as part of an FBI investigation into alleged civil rights abuses and corruption, federal prosecutors said Monday." Submitted by Goddess Mary Oliveau to US Politics & Gov't &n ...
  • Top Republican Invokes Detroit To Call For Cut ...
    At least one top Republican is invoking the bankruptcy of Detroit and the rescue of the auto industry to call for cuts to the benefits of military veterans. Submitted by Gayle R. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 11 million dead in Afghanistan and Iraq?
    How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. -- Eleven million? More than enough, I would have thought. Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't  |&nbs ...
  • Open Thread - 12/10/2013
    Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 1 short take, and a homemade cartoon (shown). Still Moving Mayhem Minimal Mode. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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