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The Daily Galaxy

  • Colossal Star-Forming Region Detected Through ...
        The Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) has peered through dusty fog to provide the first clear view of stellar nursery W49A --one of the best-kept secrets in our galaxy. This star-forming region shines 100 times brighter than the Orion nebula, but is so obscured by dust that very ...
  • Organics Found in Glass Created by 1-Million- ...
        Scientists have found organics from Earth's swamp trapped inside of glass created by a meteor impact almost a million years ago. The tiny pockets, only micrometers across, contain material such as cellulose and proteins. Though the impact glass was found on Earth, scientists say that ...
  • Massive Stars Light Up Spiral-Arm Structure of ...
        Astronomers cannot see what our Milky Way Galaxy  looks like because we are on the inside looking out. But they can deduce its shape by careful observation of its stars and their distances from us. A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, f ...
  • "The Great Attractor" --Cosmic Flows of the Lo ...
        This past June, an international team of researchers has mapped the motions of structures of the nearby universe in greater detail than ever before. The maps are presented as a video, which provides a dynamic three-dimensional representation of the universe through the use of rotation ...
  • MIT Zooms in on 3-D Enigmas of RNA --"Not Obey ...
        DNA stores the information of life, proteins provide the action, and in between sits elusive RNA, which serves both as a database of information and as a molecular machine. In the 1980's Walter Gilbert of Harvard coined the term RNA World, a primitive version of life on Early Earth th ...

Natural News

  • Mainstream media attacks multivitamins in yet ...
    Today the mainstream media is gleefully reporting findings they mistakenly believe show all multivitamins to be worthless at preventing disease. "Case Closed: Multivitamins Should Not Be Used," declares Forbes. "New studies dispel multivitamin myths," reports NBC News...
  • Lance Armstrong bribed fellow cyclist with $10 ...
    The legend that was cyclist Lance Armstrong continues to unravel, as new information from a whistleblower reveals a deeper level of deception than was previously known. A report in the New York Post says that a retired Italian cyclist, Roberto Gaggioli, is claiming...
  • Kefir is a great natural source of probiotics ...
    Kefir is a thick, yogurt-like drink made by fermenting milk with kefir grains. It originated in Russia and is characterized by its creamy texture, tart taste and fizzy effervescence. Kefir remains popular in Eastern Europe, where it is commonly used as an ingredient...
  • Dementia epidemic looms as number of sufferers ...
    More people than previously thought are believed to be suffering from some form of dementia, says a new report issued by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI). The latest estimates reveal that as many as 135 million people globally will be suffering from the disease...
  • How to manage your food intolerances
    Some people experience adverse reactions after consuming certain foods. This can sometimes be a recurring reaction when a person ingests the food. The actual symptoms may vary from person to person and depend on various factors but often include diarrhea, vomiting, skin...

Threat Level

  • No Matter How Hard You Try to Hide, This Profe ...
    Brian Finke At 4’11” and just over 100 pounds, Michelle Gomez does not look like the sort of person you’d hire to retrieve earthmoving equipment stolen by a peruvian crime family. But in the summer of 2013, that’s exactly what ...     
  • 60 Minutes Puff Piece Claims NSA Saved U.S. Fr ...
    Well, don’t we feel just a little bit ashamed today. While we’ve been whining about trivia like the frightening scope of the NSA’s domestic spying programs – scooping up all our cell phone records, wiretapping American tech companies – the ...     
  • Court Says NSA Bulk Telephone Spying Is Uncons ...
    America's founding fathers would be "aghast" at the NSA's bulk telephone metadata spying, a federal judge today said, finding that the program violates the Fourth Amendment and the legal argument justifying it is "the stuff of science fiction."     
  • In Bizarre No-Fly List Trial, Even the Verdict ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — Is former Stanford University scholar Rahinah Ibrahim connected to Malaysian jihadists, as the FBI once suggested, or is she the victim of misguided U.S. bureaucrats who erroneously placed her on a U.S. terror watchlist? Is she even ...     
  • White House Task Force Urges Curb on NSA’s Bul ...
    A presidential taskforce charged with determining what reforms are needed for the NSA and its surveillance activities has recommended the agency be led by a civilian commander, instead of a military one, and that bulk phone records the NSA wants ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • House GOP Report Silent on Medicare's Use of N ...
    On Monday, the GOP-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a damning report about the so-called Obamacare "navigators." That Issa's inquisition railed against the Affordable Care Act's use of dozens of dozens of community groups, h ...
  • GOP Releases Government, Takes U.S. Economy Ho ...
    That was quick. Just two days after he joined House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) in lashing out against right-wing extremists who threatened to trigger another government shutdown by blocking his compromise budget, Rep. Paul Ryan on Sunday promised to support the Tea Party's other favorite act o ...
  • Furious Conservatives Forget Bush Ordered Insu ...
    With the deadlines looming for Americans to enroll in health insurance plans for 2014, conservatives are shocked--shocked!--that the Obama administration is "strongly urging" insurance companies to start coverage on January 1 even in advance of receiving new subscribers' premium payments. For t ...
  • ACLU Lawsuit Highlights Growing Dangers for Wo ...
    Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed what at first blush seems like a very unusual lawsuit against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Her life jeopardized by the refusal of Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon, Michigan to perform or even infor ...
  • A Tax Break Both Parties Can Agree to Limit
    It would be fair to say the Ryan-Murray compromise budget announced Tuesday hasn't exactly produced rejoicing in the nation's capital. Democrats generally lament the entrenchment of austerity spending levels for discretionary outlays, including $8 billion in cuts to food stamps and the exclusio ...

Global Research.ca

  • Don’t be Fooled by Mainstream Media Jour ...
    Image: Anthony Freda “Under CIA manipulation, direction and, usually, their payroll, were past and present presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay and Costa Rica, “our minister of labor”, “our vice-president”, “my police”, journalists, labor leaders, student leaders, diplomats, and many ot ...
  • Global Finance, Geopolitics and “The Big ...
    2013 is coming to an end on a world-before totally broken apart; 2014 will be merciless for this world of which only ruins will remain. But “we can also build something good with the stones that block the path” (1)…
  • Syria Atrocities: The US Directly Supports the ...
    Who is behind these atrocities. What is the agenda. From the very outset of this conflict,  the Western military alliance has supported the “Al Qaeda affiliated rebels”. “Affiliated” to Whom? That is the Fundamental Question.   Al Qaeda, lest we forget…
  • Syria Atrocities: US-NATO have “Blood on ...
    New details of atrocities carried out by Islamist rebel fighters in the town of Adra, 20 kilometers north of Damascus, continue to pour in from survivors of the massacre there, in which reportedly at least 80 people lost their lives.”The…
  • The Post-colonial Imperial Agenda: America and ...
    On December 16 a section of the South Sudanese army backed by politicians angry with the policies of President Silva Kiir, attempted to seize power from the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) government in Juba. The Republic of South…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Fracking Hell: What It's Really Like to Live N ...
    Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town. Veronica Kronvall can, even now, remember how excited she felt about buying her house in 2007. It was the firs ...
  • Why Is the US Getting in the Way of Internatio ...
    The United States is the only country marring the good works of a UN resolution on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation. On 21 November 2013 the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and san ...
  • The 5 Worst Lies in Support of Mountaintop Rem ...
    Let's debunk the five biggest, baddest lies about mountaintop removal coal mining. There are ethical and committed people working in Congress, both members and staff, but their work is often stifled by clever politicians catering to special interests and major donors. On every environment ...
  • Coke's Conspiracy Against Tap Water
    The beverage behemoth is running a stealth campaign to sell you more drinks. Coca-Cola is running a stealth advertising campaign.         Stealth? Yes, it's a nationwide product promotion that's being run below the public radar! Why would a corporation as ad-dependent as Co ...
  • Uprising Grows Against Fracking in a Surprisin ...
    An unspoiled pastoral landscape is the latest battlefield in the war against aggressive fossil energy extraction. "Do you think they're about to have sex?", one of the group whispers. I'm in Transylvania, crouched in the bushes with a bunch of activists in balaclavas, taking turns to speculat ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Keystone XL Southern Segment Starts Up Despite ...
    TransCanada had announced start up dates for the southern section of Keystone XL for January 3rd, then changed that to mid to late January, then announced startup began on Saturday, December 7th. Following reports of hundreds of flaws that could lead to spills in the southern segment of the Keys ...
  • Another Proposed Coal Export Terminal in Texas ...
    The third and final major new coal shipping proposal at the Port of Corpus Christi has been canceled, according to documents from recent Port Authority meetings reviewed by the Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition, a multistate campaign to halt expansion of coal exports from the Gulf Coast while promot ...
  • Austin Energy Cutting Solar Credits
    Is Austin Energy joining the war on solar? Bit by bit, our publicly owned, nationally renowned, supposedly green electric utility is trying to roll back programs that support customer owned solar. Austin Energy is cutting the Value of Solar tariff, which compensates solar owners for the energy t ...
  • Sixth Annual Austin Community “Green” Holiday ...
    Join us at the Sixth Annual Austin Community “Green” Holiday Party Thursday, December 19th, 2013  6pm-10pm Hosted by Barr Mansion 10463 Sprinkle Rd., Austin, TX 78754 (www.barrmansion.com) “Celebrating the Bounty of Winter” Menu with music by Cienfuegos Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin ...
  • Poor Construction on the Keystone XL Pipeline ...
    Congressional Oversight Hearings are Needed on the Keystone XL Pipeline Construction to Protect Health and Safety of the Public and Environment The bad news about the Keystone XL pipeline just keeps coming. After months of research, Public Citizen has brought to light the grave risks posed by su ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Reports from Honduras Show Repression, Voter Fraud
    By Lydia SimasGrassroots International has been in close contact with our partners in Honduras throughout the recent elections there. Many offered first-hand reports that election observers and agrarian reform activists were intimidated, ballots were not collected, and people were threatened wit ...
  • Interview with Miriam Nobre, Global Feminist A ...
    miriam_photo.jpg Miriam Nobre is a Brazilian feminist activist and current coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), an international feminist movement that connects grassroots women to eliminate the root causes of poverty and violence aga ...
  • Report from Post-election Honduras Cites Viole ...
    honduras-marchers_with_banner.jpg This is a preliminary summary from the US-based Honduras Solidarity Network / Alliance for Global Justice election observation delegation. The summary casts doubt the credibility of Honduran Supreme Elector ...
  • If Farming Is Hard, Free Trade Makes It Harder
    Subheadline:  Why it's Time to End the WTO bali_online_poster.jpg Being a farmer is hard.  This is true no matter what policies exist. The work itself is difficul ...
  • Standing in Solidarity with the Palestinian People
    palestine-children.jpg By Claire Gilbert and Mina Remyread more

Care 2

  • Demand No More Mislabeled Foods!
    Have you read this? Sneaking GMO's into our food and LYING!! NO MORE!! We need to start making demands we are not buying what we wan Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • No Funding to Romanian Dog Killers in the Euro ...
    We ask that you remove Romania from the European Union and stop all funding until they abide by EU Animal Welfare laws and regulations. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Retire Tiger as Louisiana Football Mascot ! PL ...
    The Louisiana State University Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, have a live school mascot, Mike the Tiger. It has been the tradition of the University to have live tiger mascots since 1936. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! &n ...
  • India - buried under stinking rubbish heaps
    Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • UK Protestors Block Fracking Site With Giant W ...
    At 5.30 a.m., fifty people blocked the entrance to IGass exploratory drilling site in Salford, a metropolitan borough of GreaterManchester in North West England, with a giant wind turbine blade. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Edward Snowden–Traitor or Hero?
    There is an important piece in Forbes magazine that presents a new side of Edward Snowden, the now infamous/famous NSA leaker. It is worth your consideration and thought. Author Andy Greenberg offers a very intriguing take on Snowden: But over the course of my communications with the NSA staffer ...
  • Obamacare LMFAO
    Man, this is rich. Read it and laugh your ass off. Karma is a bitch!! Per the NY Times: Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, docto ...
  • More on L’Affaire Levinson
    The AP story on Robert Levinson, the former DEA/FBI agent who was alleged to be a “CIA Agent,” was gross mixture of bullshit and hype. As I pointed out in my initial post on this matter, the AP wrongly and maliciously, in my view, portrayed Levinson as someone entering and operating ...
  • Is Levinson Dead?
    If Bob Levinson, a former DEA and FBI agent, is not dead, today’s piece in the Washington Post may seal his fate. The Post is out with a totally irresponsible article titled, Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA: An American man who disappeared in Iran more tha ...
  • President Juvenile
    What a total colostomy bag. I will not refer to Obama as a “douche bag.” That would be an insult to the douche. As a female friend of my reminded me, a good douche leaves you clean and minty fresh. There is nothing clean nor minty fresh about these images. Nope. This is a full [...]

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Soviet Psychotronic lit review since 1911, int ...
    Let's have a nice link dump on some moar exotic science. If you care to scout this story out, you will have moar vortices of weirdness than you'll know what to do with. I like weird patents and ran into a few of them. Could all these things below be related? Can we hack a new machine to get into ...
  • NSA Boundless Informant explicated - for moar ...
    Just had to crosspost this relatively down-to-earth explanation of how all the cell phone data is hoarded in the NSA mass data mining system. What this lacks in documentation it makes up for with relative plausibility & general lack of fancifulness. SOURCE: Cryptome.org : http://cryptome.o ...
  • Aha: Carbon Market digital currency "Ven" by H ...
    Lolz just stumbled on this - had to write a quick post with a lurid headline. Ven is like the Sharper Image / corporate greenwashing version of Bitcoins and it's all tied into a big ball of classic shady stuff. There is a really nice blob of greenwashing social constructions underpinning the Ven ...
  • Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
    Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • U.S. Drone Strike Kills Nearly a Dozen Civilia ...
    Robert Greenwald, director of “Unmanned: America's Drone Wars,” demands immediate response from Obama administration on the drone strike. On Thursday, a U.S. drone strike hit a convoy traveling to a wedding in Yemen, killing about a dozen civilians. The New York Timesreports 11 deaths, wh ...
  • $2.75 an Hour?! The Shocking Secret of Goodwill
    Goodwill CEOs make over $400,000 a year. But some of its disabled employees are paid less than $3 an hour. Spreading Christmas 'goodwill’ during the holidays is what Goodwill donation centers claim to be all about. The company sells thousands of donated goods at low prices every year, partic ...
  • The Six Worst Attacks On Reproductive Freedom ...
    GOP lawmakers certainly failed our women this year. 2013 hasn’t been a great year for reproductive rights.  Ever since 2010, abortion opponents have imposed a flurry of state-level legislation intended to slowly chip away at abortion access, and that trend certainly continued this year.But wom ...
  • Imagine if Every Day Were 9/11. For One Commun ...
    Yesterday, on the anniversary of the Swift Raids, migrants are reminded that terror and torn apart families have become the new normal. On the day of the Swift raids, more than 300 U.S.-born children came home to find at least one of their parents gone.Seven years ago yesterday on a crisp Dece ...
  • You Won't Believe Trump's Latest Conspiracy Th ...
    “How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.” Donald Trump was up to his usual 'birther conspiracy' shenanigans this week after Loretta Fuddy, the State Health Director of Hawaii who authorized the rel ...

Threat Level

  • No Matter How Hard You Try to Hide, This Profe ...
    Brian Finke At 4’11” and just over 100 pounds, Michelle Gomez does not look like the sort of person you’d hire to retrieve earthmoving equipment stolen by a peruvian crime family. But in the summer of 2013, that’s exactly what ...     
  • 60 Minutes Puff Piece Claims NSA Saved U.S. Fr ...
    Well, don’t we feel just a little bit ashamed today. While we’ve been whining about trivia like the frightening scope of the NSA’s domestic spying programs – scooping up all our cell phone records, wiretapping American tech companies – the ...     
  • Court Says NSA Bulk Telephone Spying Is Uncons ...
    America's founding fathers would be "aghast" at the NSA's bulk telephone metadata spying, a federal judge today said, finding that the program violates the Fourth Amendment and the legal argument justifying it is "the stuff of science fiction."     
  • In Bizarre No-Fly List Trial, Even the Verdict ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — Is former Stanford University scholar Rahinah Ibrahim connected to Malaysian jihadists, as the FBI once suggested, or is she the victim of misguided U.S. bureaucrats who erroneously placed her on a U.S. terror watchlist? Is she even ...     
  • White House Task Force Urges Curb on NSA’s Bul ...
    A presidential taskforce charged with determining what reforms are needed for the NSA and its surveillance activities has recommended the agency be led by a civilian commander, instead of a military one, and that bulk phone records the NSA wants ...     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Bill Keene’s Outbreak Legacy
    Hundred’s of people (there were a lot of guys with beards) from around the country came and and had a beer in honor of Bill.  The stories from family and... Continue Reading
  • Yauk’s Recalls More Meat Due to Rodent Activity
    Yauk’s Specialty Meats, a Windsor, Colo., establishment, is expanding its recall to include an undetermined amount of various meat and poultry products that were produced under insanitary conditions, the U.S.... Continue Reading
  • ACI – Food Borne Illness Litigation Advanced S ...
    ACI’s 7th National Forum on Food-Borne Illness Litigation, in San Francisco Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Hilton San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, CA “Each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans... Continue Reading
  • 33 with E. coli, most in California, Linked to ...
    A total of 33 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O157:H7 were reported from four states. The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows:... Continue Reading
  • Amarillo reports at least 4 Botulism Cases
    Amarillo Globe-Mews reports that health officials are investigating a possible botulism outbreak in Amarillo and warn health professionals and the public to be aware there might be other cases. The... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Mandela: The Man and the Movement
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Nelson Mandela’s passing last week at the age of 95 has been met with a global outpouring of remembrance and reflection. A giant of modern human history has died. Mandela is rightly remembered for his remarkable ability to reconcile with his oppressors, a ...
  • TONIGHT: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman on MSNBC ...
    Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on MSNBC's All in with Chris Hayes from 8:30-9 pm ET. Topic: Should Edward Snowden or Pope Francis be TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? Weigh in by Twitter at #discussDN or email stories@democracynow.org.
  • Nelson Mandela on How Cuba "Destroyed the Myth ...
    In 1991, Nelson Mandela traveled to Cuba to thank Fidel Castro and the Cuban people for supporting the fight against apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa. "The decisive defeat of the aggressive apartheid forces [in Angola] destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor," ...
  • VIDEO & AUDIO: International Human Rights Day ...
    Democracy Now! was on the scene this morning when dozens of protesters held an International Human Rights Day Immigration Vigil outside Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. In a dramatic civil disobedience action, eight protesters were arrested after chaining themselves outside the facili ...
  • VIDEO & AUDIO: International Human Rights Day ...
    Democracy Now! was on the scene this morning when dozens of protesters held an International Human Rights Day Immigration Vigil outside Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. In a dramatic civil disobedience action, eight protesters were arrested after chaining themselves outside the facili ...

Solari

  • Thank You, Dave Andrews!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts We’re partial to farmers here at the Solari Report. We are particularly partial to farmers who help other people learn how to farm, like Dave Andrews. Dave is the executive director of Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in East Troy, Wisconsin. Dave served as ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – ...
    **Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!** By Catherine Austin Fitts The federal government has delegated the management of monetary policy to a privately controlled central bank, result ...
  • Modified Limited Hangout Watch: Pentagon &#822 ...
    ***CAF Note: In the world of modified limited hangouts, the Pentagon waste story is the equivalent of the Caddyshack Gopher. You can’t kill it, although it makes no sense, and it just won’t go away. It is the ultimate “cover story.” Lockheed Martin is the largest contrac ...
  • Coming Clean: Crowdfunding
    In recent years there have been methods developed to decentralize investing. We take a close look at crowdfunding, the legal issues and dangers involved, and how to approach it as an entrepreneur. Crowdfunding is an important step forward in supporting both small and large efforts for the indivi ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • IKEA’s Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters Approv ...
    Earlier this year, Scandinavian flat pack furniture masters IKEA unveiled an easily deployable solar-powered shelter that can provide sturdy, safe housing in an emergency. Designed in collaboration with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the     
  • 2014 Incandescent Bulb Ban Got You Worried? He ...
    Before you start thinking the U.S. government is going to kick down your door looking for incandescent bulbs like they’re drugs – that’s not the case. The lighting ban isn’t a true ban; you’re still free to buy them in stores and use incandescents     
  • World’s First Cancer Treating Nanorobot Unveil ...
    Photo © Shutterstock A group of South Korean scientists have developed a microscopic robot that can both detect and treat cancer. The nanorobot is powered by a special, genetically-modified bacteria that can detect substances and proteins associated with     
  • Bang & Olufsen’s BeoPlay H6 Headphones are a D ...
    I travel all the time for my work as a design editor - and that means I never know where my next office will be. It could be a bustling cafe in New York City, a cramped jet, an active construction site, or an echoing NASA airplane hanger. All I need is a laptop     
  • Mesmerizing Earth Wind Map Shows Real-Time Win ...
    This mesmerizing Earth Wind Map showcases real-time data on global wind conditions in the form of snaking neon lines. Breezes are represented by thin strands of green lines, strong winds with long streaks of yellow, while the most violent currents are shown     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Vesta’s Aelia
    This colorful composite image from NASA's Dawn mission shows the flow of material inside and outside a crater called Aelia on the giant asteroid Vesta. The area is around 14 degrees south latitude. The images that went into this composite ...     
  • In Memoriam: The Space Robots We Lost This Year
    At the end of every year, news sites publish memorials for all the important people the world has lost. But nobody ever mentions the space robots.     
  • Steve Jobs’ Doctor Wants to Help Us All Live L ...
    David Agus helped Steve Jobs live longer. Now he want to help us all.   Bryce Duffy It’s 6:30 on a Monday morning and already David Agus is doing an admirable job of sticking to the rules. Dressed in the ...     
  • Building Bridges and Supercomputers Is Tough, ...
    Bay Bridge | Demolition began: November 2013 | Duration of project: 3 years | (1) The original eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, photographed from the Oakland side on November 8, 2013. (2) The 80-year-old steel is not ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Pulsating Stella ...
    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planetary nebula NGC 2452, located in the southern constellation of Puppis. The blue haze across the frame is what remains of a star like our Sun after it has depleted all its ...     

PakAlert

  • An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertibl ...
    If you have ever questioned the official narrative for the September 11th attacks then you have, without a doubt, been dubbed a conspiracy nut by the establishment media and those who hang on their every word. Like the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination, the 9/11 Report assembl ...
  • Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To C ...
    What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? At a time when the United States is facing the greatest water crisis that it has ever known, Obama is allowing water from the Great Lakes to be drained, bottled and shipped to China and other countries around the globe. Right now, the Great Lakes hol ...
  • Document Reveals State’s Move To Vastly Expand ...
    A document currently circulating through the Washington state government details the attempt to vastly expand Continuity of Government powers by amending the state’s constitution
  • Video: Obama Explains the FEMA Camps
    The use of such camps can be expanded greatly, especially in the new Amerika, where everyone is a suspect, and Constitutional rights are a sometime option
  • Own the Land-Control the Resources-Enslave the ...
    Out West, the Feds Are Sitting on $150 Trillion Worth of Natural Resources Most of us realize that the Federal Government has claimed ownership of large portions of real estate across this land. However, few of us probably realize what a stranglehold the Feds have on many states west of the ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Stories of the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Re ...
    I wrote a version of the following article, under the heading, “Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Released to Saudi Arabia?“ for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to b ...
  • “Close Guantánamo,” Says Prison&#8 ...
    In an important op-ed for the Detroit Free Press, Maj. Gen. Mike Lehnert of the Marines, the first commander of Guantánamo, has called for the closure of the prison. Maj. Gen. Lehnert built the open air cages of Camp X-Ray, the “war on terror” prison’s first incarnation, in jus ...
  • Hunger Strike Resumes at Guantánamo, as Shaker ...
    In alarming news from Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, has stated that the prisoners have renewed the hunger strike that, earlier this year, involved at least two-thirds of the remaining prisoners, and reawakened the world’s media to the ongoing injustice ...
  • Save the NHS: Sign the Petition to Stop Jeremy ...
    Please sign the petition to save our hospitals! Just over 13 months ago, residents of the London Borough of Lewisham launched a campaign against proposals — by senior NHS managers — to severely downgrade services at Lewisham Hospital. To pay for the debts of a neighbouring NHS trust, ...
  • Fundraiser Day 3: Still Seeking $2000 to Suppo ...
    Please support my work! Dear friends and supporters, It’s the third day of my quarterly fundraiser, in which I ask you, if you can, to support my work on Guantánamo and related issues as a freelance investigative journalist. If you can help out at all, please click on the “Donate&#82 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
    Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into ...
  • Yesterday’s future tomorrow
    In a thousand years’ time, our apps and smartphones, our status updates and our tweets, Our hybrid EVs, solar panels, windfarms, all of our digital neats Will seem so quaint, and misguided, so twee and lopsided They’ll talk of yet more Dark Ages repeats Just think of our medical scan ...
  • Zinc, the only supplement
    Zinc is the only supplement I take if I feel a cold coming on. Vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil etc have no proven effect. But, recent Cochrane analysis vindicates earlier research on which I based my choice. Zinc – The promise: Laboratory studies have found it can inhibit replication o ...
  • Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up
    Papadakis publishers have released the Higgs edition of their unique publication – the result of a collaboration between the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky. Radevsky’s previous pop-ups include The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Bo ...
  • How does your garden grow?
    I just received what has to be the most bizarre press release ever. It’s either totally genuine and totally naive or a really good anti-gun spoof, can’t quite decide: “Since early eighteenth century the shotgun has been used for hunting and in warfare. Countless deer, rabbits a ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • Mailbox for iOS is adding support for Yahoo an ...
    Mailbox for iOS is adding support for Yahoo and iCloud accounts today, opening the app to a wide arena of potential new users, as well as me.com and mac.com email accounts. Read more on the Mailbox blog.Read more...     
  • WEI Tool Brings the Windows Experience Index B ...
    The Windows Experience Index is a very basic benchmarking tool that measures your system's performance. Microsoft removed the Windows Experience Index in Windows 8.1, but WEI Tool brings it back, just like you remembered it.Read more...     
  • A Kindle For Under $50, iTunes Cash, WeMo Swit ...
    At a loss for gift ideas? Amazon is selling its $69 Kindle for the stocking stuffer-approved price of $49 today. This isn't the Paperwhite, so you don't get a touchscreen, but I've actually found the buttons to be a much better solution for page turning. Read more...     
  • Have You Ever Hacked a Game Console?
    There are all kinds of good reasons to hack a game console that don't involve cheating at games, such as adding functionality, creating a media center, or just breathing new life into a beloved old gadget. Have you done it?Read more...     
  • Get Your Amazon Prime Membership Extended If a ...
    Here's a little-known fact about Amazon's Prime membership: The company guarantees your package will be delivered at the promised time. If it's not, Prime members can get a one-month extension of their membership.Read more...     

Water Wars

  • Unbreakable
    Water wars. Good luck with that claim Egypt. Last Pharaoh who tried that got drowned,
  • Calif. tries to find a balance with water needs
    By Karen Weise, Bloomberg A century after William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct first began watering the Southland, the water wars in California show no sign of abating. The state reached a milestone on Monday in its effort to balance equal-but-conflicting goals: channeling more water to dry ...
  • Global Climate Change Primarily Impacting Fres ...
    DeWayne Cecil, PhD, on Sharon Kleyne Hour Radio Show, Predicts Global Climate Change to Impact Water Wars, Water Supplies for Drinking and Agriculture, and Human Health (PRWeb December 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11412364.htm
  • Can California Quench Its Thirst and Protect t ...
    A century after William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct first began watering the Southland, the water wars in California show no sign of abating.
  • How Gaddafi’s Great Man-Made River Project bec ...
    April 14, 2013 - Libyans called it the eighth wonder of the world. Western media called it a pet project and the pipe dream of a mad dog.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Top 5 Most Viewed Climate Progress Posts Of 2013
    Social media are our most rapidly growing sources of traffic, the engine of our most widely read posts, and a core reason Climate Progress had its best year yet in 2013. The post Top 5 Most Viewed Climate Progress Posts Of 2013 appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Why Obama Is Sending Openly Gay Athletes To Ru ...
    Obama names openly gay athletes Billie Jean King, Caitlin Cahow to official Sochi Olympics delegation. The post Why Obama Is Sending Openly Gay Athletes To Russia’s Olympics appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Obama On Track For Fewer Deportations In 2013
    The Obama administration is projected to deport 16 percent fewer undocumented immigrants in the 2013 fiscal year than it had in 2012, according to the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.The post Obama On Track For Fewer Deportations In 2013 appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • D.C. Set For Nation’s Highest Minimum Wa ...
    Once Mayor Vince Gray signs the bill into law, the District's minimum wage will rise by $3.25 over the next three years.The post D.C. Set For Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage After Final Council Vote appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Looking Back
    It’s that time of year again. ThinkProgress has started its series of items looking back at 2013.The post Looking Back appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • NORTH KOREA!!!!!
    Last summer, North Korea's mad ambitions to attack the United States [actually desperate blustering in the face of USA/South Korean provocations] were all over the news until a bomb exploded at the Boston Marathon. "Poof!" North Korea's inscrutable threat vanished into the thin air from whence i ...
  • Soldiers's Suicides: Too Little, Too Late
    So retired general Rick  Hillier is calling for action, a public inquiry, a Royal Commission, something, into the recent spate of soldier suicides, and, as well, he offers qualified criticism of the harpercons' Veterans Charter: The other area Hillier pointed to for improvement was the new ...
  • Canada Post
    Basically we've got tens of billions to waste on fighter-jets and 3 billion to simply lose on public safety, but Canada Post has to cancel home delivery to save us money. So says Canada Post management and the think-tank that CP's prez is connected to. It's also a good idea to eliminate 8,000 d ...
  • Rob Ford and the Murder of Anthony Smith
    For the record: The alcoholic, hypocrite, incompetent, infamous shameless buffoon has insinuated that a Toronto Star reporter is a pedophile. The Star is talking with its lawyers. Because unlike Rob Ford, who knew there was a video of him smoking crack, the Star might actually sue when someone d ...
  • The Shamelessness & Stupidity of Rob Ford
    A while back, somewhere, I mentioned a book about stephen harper's grievous damage to Canada's parliamentary institutions. The political-scientist authors wrote that our institutions were designed with an implicit trust in the good faith of those who would be working within them, and that harper ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • What did Harper try to keep secret from the Un ...
    Canada’s international reputation is in tatters, and Harper’s government is willing to put millions of people’s lives at risk by undermining global peace and disarmament efforts.
  • Canada asked to sign Arms Trade Treaty
    The United Nations' High Representative for Disarmament, Angela Kane, is among those asking Canada to sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
  • Add your name! Tell Harper to sign the UN Arms ...
    So far 155 countries have signed the UN Arms Trade Treaty, including the United States, the U.K., France, and many other allies -- but the Harper government has not signed.
  • Questionable arms exports up
    Canadian arms exports to countries in conflict or known for human violations are on the increase, an analysis by the Canadian Press shows.
  • Able Archer: The war that didn’t happen
    Thirty years ago, in November 1983, one of the most dangerous crises of the Cold War occurred when the Soviet leadership convinced itself that the United States might be about to launch a nuclear attack.

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Dahr Jamail: The climate change scorecard
    Since a nuclear weapon went off over Hiroshima, we have been living with visions of global catastrophe, apocalyptic end times, and extinction that were once the sole property of religion.  Since August 6, 1945, it has been possible for us to imagine how human beings, not God, could put an e ...
  • Richard Rodriguez on what the Left has lost by ...
    Salon talks to Richard Rodriguez about his new book, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography: Let me read a line to you from late in the book, and if you could explain it a little bit. You say, “After September 11, critical division in America feels and sounds like religious division.” Where are you ...
  • Boycott by American academics has a particular ...
    The New York Times reports: An American organization of professors on Monday announced a boycott of Israeli academic institutions to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, signaling that a movement to isolate and pressure Israel that is gaining ground in Europe has begun to make strides in ...
  • Neanderthals and the dead
    The New York Times reports: Early in the 20th century, two brothers discovered a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton in a pit inside a cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in southwestern France. The discovery raised the possibility that these evolutionary relatives of ours intentionally buried thei ...
  • Music: Jon Hassell — ‘Voice Print’

Watts Up With That?

  • A side of the AGU Fall Meeting sure to cause s ...
    As many WUWT readers know, I attended the AGU fall meeting and I have a number of posts coming up that will highlight many of the posters and sessions that I attended. I have some video interviews in the bag … Continue reading →
  • Hacking (or quacking) the planet with geoengin ...
    Hack the planet? Geoengineering research, ethics, governance explored by Hannah Hickey Hacking the Earth’s climate to counteract global warming – a subject that elicits strong reactions from both sides – is the topic of a December special issue of the … Continue reading →
  • The EPA is challenged in the Supreme Court ove ...
    It has not been a good week for the EPA. After wide media coverage yesterday put sunlight on the massive fraud of one of their top climate officials, now today, there is a challenge filed in SCOTUS. I have been … Continue reading →
  • AGU Fall meeting: The Chelyabinsk, Russia, meteor
    The Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor was the largest since the 1908 Tunguska event. The airburst from the meteor on February 15, 2013, injured more than a thousand people and damaged thousands of buildings. It marks the first time scientists can study in detail … Continue reading →
  • Claim: Solar, AMO, & PDO cycles combined repro ...
    Guest essay by H. Luedecke and C.O.Weiss We reported recently about our publication [1] which shows that during the last centuries all climate changes were caused by periodic ( i.e. natural ) processes. Non-periodic processes like a warming through the … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • ▶ Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
    ▶ Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation – YouTube. You may receive endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation if you are in an emergency situation involving severe respiratory problems or if you are having general anesthesia during a surgical procedure. If you have severe respirato ...
  • Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cell Implants ...
    We’re much better at saving the lives of those who suffer a heart attack these days. Sadly, many people survive a heart attack only to later succumb to heart failure from the damage it caused. Modern methods help heal the heart somewhat after a heart attack, but cardiologists think stem cell the ...
  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...

CFACT

  • Hunger games and climate games
    Virginia schools are now giving out awards for composting the very food that Michelle Obama has mandated be served at school to children who prefer just about anything else to eat. The cost of operating this awards program likely far exceeds any social or environmental benefits, but that is lik ...
  • The power-mad EPA
    The EPA is a regulatory agency that appears to be consumed by its own lust for increased political power. Take the EPA demand that New York City replace 1,300 fire hydrants because of their lead content. Or their declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant equivalent to sulfur and nitrogen oxides. O ...
  • Green power gridlock: why renewable energy is ...
    President Obama pledged that under his administration electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket -- presumably so that wind and solar could become more acceptable financially as alternatives. The problem, notes Professor Larry Bell, is that renewable energy does not work that well with the ...
  • Death by renewables
    Existing wind turbine technology may provide intermittent electric power that, with huge subsidies, can be "competitive" in price with coal and oil - but the turbines chop up bald and golden eagles and other endangered bird species like Cuisinarts. Solar arrays can confuse migratory water birds, ...
  • Morano on Blaze TV: Global warming claims like ...
    'Every high school kid has never experienced global warming in their lifetime. Every elementary school kid has only experienced slight global cooling in their lifetime. Without warming, the warmists switch over to global 'weirding.'

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Iran Sends Second Monkey into Space
    Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of an ambitious program aimed at manned space flight.     
  • China Successfully Soft-lands Probe on the Moon
    China on Saturday successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said, the next stage in an ambitious space program that aims to eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the moon.     
  • Space Station's Orbit Raised to Ensure Safe Do ...
    The orbit of the International Space Station was raised on Friday to ensure safe docking of a Russian spacecraft early next year, said a spokesman for Russia’s mission control.     
  • Russia Launches British Satellite
    A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a British telecoms satellite blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.     
  • Freighter With Advanced Navigation System Dock ...
    An unmanned Russian resupply spacecraft carrying an improved navigation system docked early Saturday with the International Space Station, Russian Mission Control said.     

Natural Health News

  • Study Calls Into Question Effectiveness of Hep ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you are pregnant and will deliver your baby in a hospital in America, it's important to know that the hepatitis B vaccine is given to virtually every newborn in U.S.hospitals — many times without parents' consent — shortly after the baby is born. Since 1991, ...
  • Unethical Journal Retraction Fuels Mistrust in ...
    By Dr. Mercola In September of last year, the first-ever lifetime feeding study assessing the health risks of genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready corn (NK603) was published in Reed Elsevier’s peer-reviewed journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology. The two-year long study1 led by Gi ...
  • Bone Broth—One of Your Most Healing Diet Staples
    By Dr. Mercola According to an old South American proverb, "good broth will resurrect the dead." While that’s undoubtedly an exaggeration, it speaks to the value placed on this wholesome food, going back through the annals of time. The featured article by Dr. Amy Myers1 lists 10 health ...
  • Health Tip: Toys to Avoid for Young Children
    By Dr. Mercola If you’ll be shopping for little ones this holiday season, keep safety in mind when choosing which toys to buy. Contrary to popular belief, just because a toy is on store shelves does not mean it’s automatically safe for children, and many variables come into play t ...
  • How Biological Farming Can Transform Our Food ...
    By Dr. Mercola Jerry Brunetti, an internationally renowned speaker, is the founder of Agri-Dynamics, a company that provides holistic animal remedies for farm, livestock, and pets. He’s also a co-founder of EarthWorks Natural Organic Products, which provides products and consulting ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • AJIL Symposium: Reply by Kristina Daugirdas
    by Kristina Daugirdas by Kristina Daugirdas [Kristina Daugirdas is Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law] First off, I would like to thank Paul, Daniel, and David for their very thoughtful comments.  I’m glad to have the opportunity to respond to some of the key points that they made. Pau ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Congress and the World Bank
    by David Gartner by David Gartner [David Gartner is Professor of Law at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University] In Congress Underestimated, Kristina Daugirdas offers a valuable new perspective on the role of the Congress in shaping the foreign relations of the United St ...
  • BREAKING: ICTY Orders Immediate Execution of A ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller PRESS RELEASE (Exclusively for the use of the media. Not an official document) The Hague, 25 December 2013 MS/PR1593e Acquitted defendants to be immediately apprehended and executed The Trial Chamber on Saturday issued a decision on the status of the fre ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Comments by Daniel Abebe on “C ...
    by Daniel Abebe by Daniel Abebe [Daniel Abebe is Professor of Law and Walter Mander Teaching Scholar at the University of Chicago] In Congress Underestimated: the Case of the World Bank, Professor Daugirdas studies the World Bank to gain better traction on two important debates in the foreign ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Congressional Oversight of Int ...
    by Paul Stephan by Paul Stephan [Paul B. Stephan is the John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law and David H. Ibbeken '71 Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.] Many scholars believe that a shift of authority to international organizations benefits the Ex ...

Public News Service

  • FDA Aims to Reduce Use of Antibiotics in Farm ...
    FDA Aims to Reduce Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals PHOENIX - With the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the FDA wants to phase out the use of antibiotics to promote faster growth in farm animals, but some people claim its efforts to do that don't go far enough. The FDA's guidance asks ...
  • Study Raises Questions about Movie Ratings
    Study Raises Questions about Movie Ratings PHOENIX - You may give the OK for your child to see a PG-13 movie, thinking the content is age-appropriate, but a new study says that when it comes to some risky behaviors on-screen, there's little difference between those and R-rated flicks. Amy Blea ...
  • Pets for Christmas Maybe Not Such a Bad Idea
    Pets for Christmas Maybe Not Such a Bad Idea PHOENIX – It's always been conventional wisdom that giving a pet as a holiday gift is probably a mistake. But new research is changing some minds. Bretta Nelson, spokeswoman for the Arizona Humane Society, says most pets given as gifts appea ...
  • What Will Health Care Cost You in Retirement?
    What Will Health Care Cost You in Retirement? PHOENIX, Ariz. - Only one-third of older Americans are saving for retirement health-care expenses, according to a recent survey by AARP. Those out-of-pocket costs could easily top $200,000 for a retired couple. ...(Read More)
  • It’s Not Too Late to Sign Up for ACA Hea ...
    It’s Not Too Late to Sign Up for ACA Health Insurance PHOENIX - Arizonans still have time to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The deadline is Dec. 23 for insurance that takes effect Jan. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Air Force being Downgraded to "Air Persuasion ...
    Published on: 12 December 2013 From: Eric K. Fanning, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff Chief Master Sgt. James A. Cody, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force To the Airmen of the United States Air Force: We are the best Air Force in the world ...
  • Not a Crosswalk
    Aleppo, Syria 09 December 2013 The Syrian war is growing.  Growing in size and complexity. Yet the more one learns about this conflict, the less accurate it becomes to call it “The Syrian War.”  Thousands of foreigners have flooded in.  Some are moving through southern Turkey t ...
  • Afghanistan: Talking Points US Troops
    08 December 2013 Many of our Soldiers in Afghanistan are required to carry this paper in a pocket at all times.  Troops are expected to memorize the talking points and cough them up to any journalists coming through. We decided to help headquarters spread their message. Many complaints ...
  • Thailand: Pause on Fighting for King's Birthday
    04 December 2013 I am in Turkey to study the Syrian civil war.  Yet this is also a crucial moment in Thailand.  A few words on the Kingdom are due. December 5 is His Majesty's birthday. As an American, I was raised since birth to reject all kings. That is our upbringing and what we a ...
  • Al Qaeda in Syria: A Snapshot
    1 December 2013 Given by Kawa Khalil, annotated by Michael Yon The Syrian rebel Kawa Khalil told me the recent story of the Holy Cross church. Before the war, the church doubled as a school, attended by Muslims and Christians.  After the destruction of Syria began, classrooms became ho ...

The Killing Train

  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for work on the issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for that work. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): I think ...
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict. Topics: Canada
  • The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
    On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict.

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Myint Myint Aye completes third day of hunger ...
    Three farmers’ rights activists have been on hunger strike in Pegu division’s Paungde prison since Friday, 13 December, protesting their detention without trial.
  • The rebel voice of 88 returns
    Last September, Moe Thee Zun returned to Burma for the first time in 25 years. Last week, he sat down with DVB’s Rangoon correspondent, Alex Bookbinder, to discuss his political ambitions and the future of Burmese democracy.
  • Burmese ironman takes the gold
    Burma's Min Zaw Oo wins first place in the men's bodybuilding 80kg weight category in Rangoon on Sunday
  • Biased refereeing at SEA Games?
    The sports authorities and media from several Southeast Asian countries have pointed to what they have called “biased” or “questionable” judging in many of the events.
  • Suu Kyi says constitutional reform will unify ...
    “I see that the current constitution, while not only inciting enmity between the army and the people, was designed to use the Tatmadaw as scapegoats whenever issues arises that upset the public," said the NLD leader.

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Judge Leon's Dirty Climb to the Bench
    Civil libertarians are cheering federal judge Richard Leon for his ruling against the NSA's massive surveillance program -- and that's all to the good -- but Leon's route to the bench followed a twisted course of partisan investigations and one historic cover-up.
  • James Carroll Profiles Pope Francis in the NEW ...
    In his lengthy profile in the NEW YORKER, James Carroll, a liberal Catholic, concludes that Pope Francis is not a liberal. Whew! We should all thank Carroll for investigating this. Now that he has explained this, will the media coverage of the pope decrease? Or will the remarkable amount of medi ...
  • Chris Matthews and the Reagan Myth
    MSNBC's Chris Matthews has been doing an over-the-top job of self-promoting his new book, "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked." Well, it worked for the Jipper and the GOP but not for Tip, the Democrats, and most of the people of our nation. And that's what this column is about.
  • Snowden offers to help Brazil investigate NSA ...
    Snowden said that the NSA's spy programs are not motivated by the fight against terrorism, but rather "economic espionage, social control and diplomatic manipulation." He said, "When all of us band together against injustices and in defense of privacy and basic human rights, we can defend ours ...
  • Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer -- Behind the L ...
    He turned a birth defect into a multi-million dollar empire. Rudolph was shy as a child and was taunted by his classmates for being different or so the legend says, but classmate Herbie Wanamaker remembers it differently. "Oh it's true, nobody played with him. But it wasn't because he was differ ...

Switchboard

  • Federal Investigation Reveals Massive Taxpayer ...
    Bobby McEnaney, Senior Lands Analyst, Deputy Director Western Renewables Energy Program, DC Interior Department Abandons Reforms that Would Have Addressed this Giveaway Today the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigatory arm of the federal ...
  • The Power of Measurement, Part II: Projected F ...
    Tina Swanson, Director, Science Center, San Francisco If your doctor, or even the pharmacist at your local drug store, measured your blood pressure, found that it was higher than what modern medicine tells us is healthy, and advised you to lose weig ...
  • Six stocking stuffers that will ultimately red ...
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco From a waste perspective, the best stocking stuffer is probably no stocking stuffer.  But if you are looking for that trinket that might be a little less wasteful, why not giv ...
  • What is the "Green Edge?"
    Alisa Valderrama, Senior Project Finance Attorney, New York Capturing stormwater using “green” practices such as trees, rain gardens, and porous pavement helps solve major urban stormwater problems while also improving the health and liv ...
  • All Systems Go As We Say Goodbye to the Old In ...
    Noah Horowitz, Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency, San Francisco, CA Six years ago, President Bush signed a federal energy bill phasing out energy-wasting light bulbs on a staggered schedule to ensure a smooth and su ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Way We Are - The Economic Outlook for 2014
    The peak season for economic forecasting is here and the consensus outlook has been pretty upbeat. To judge from forecasts coming out of the financial sector, the consensus is for about 2.5 percent real GDP growth during 2014, compared with an average of 2 percent over the past three years. Thre ...
  • Broken Government - US Likely to Appeal Survei ...
    The U.S. government is expected to appeal a judge's ruling that the National Security Agency's secret collection of telephone records from millions of Americans is likely unconstitutional.The decision has triggered new conjecture about the legality of U.S. surveillance. Former national security ...
  • China on Edge - China Replacing Labor Camps Wi ...
    Earlier this year, China announced it would close the country’s labor camps, overturning a law that had been in place for more than 50 years. However rights group Amnesty International alleges that the labor camp system has merely been replaced by other detention centers that continue to wrong ...
  • Book Review - Examining Hezbollah’s Reach
    In the Fall of 2002, as the Bush administration was focused overwhelmingly on pursuing al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in response to the September 11th attacks, no less senior an official than then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage suggested that the attention of the United States might actual ...
  • Our Darkest Hour - Son's Of Divorce, School Sh ...
    Another shooting, another son of divorce. From Adam Lanza, who killed 26 children and adults a year ago at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., to Karl Pierson, who shot a teenage girl and killed himself this past Friday at Arapahoe High in Centennial, Colo., one common and largely unremarked th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • NSA Surveillance Is About Power, Not "Safety" ...
    An open letter to the people of Brazil. This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Greenwald's husband David Miranda
  • Federal Judge Holds NSA Telephone Surveillance ...
    A federal judge in Washington, DC on Monday declared that the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone “metadata” from virtually every call made to, from or within the United States violates the Fourth Amendment, the constitutional provision protecting the “right of the people to be se ...
  • Four Degree Temperature Rise Will End Vegetati ...
    Latest climate and biosphere modelling suggests that the length of time carbon remains in vegetation during the global carbon cycle -- known as 'residence time' -- is the key "uncertainty" in predicting how Earth's terrestrial plant life -- and consequently almost all life -- will respond to hig ...
  • Arctic Waters Kept Warming In 2013
    The Arctic continued to shift to a warmer, greener state in 2013. That was the headline from the latest Arctic Report Card, an annual update prepared by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and partner organizations such as NASA. Scientists are tracking a va ...
  • Lost Freshwater May Double Climate Change Effe ...
    A warmer world is expected to have severe consequences for global agriculture and food supply, reducing yields of major crops even as population and demand increases. A new analysis combining climate, agricultural, and hydrological models finds that shortages of freshwater used for irrigation co ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Microsoft Exec. Chosen to Fix Healthcare.Gov ...
    Politico is reporting that Microsoft Executive Kurt DelBene, will succeed Jeff Zients in leading the overhaul of the embattled HealthCare.gov, according to four sources with knowledge of the decision. “Kurt has proven expertise in heading large, complex technology teams and in product developme ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Relying on Best Buy "Geek Sq ...
    Well they tried everything else. Despite the promise that the Obamacare website would be working by the last day of November, it is still not working, especially the back end which tells insurance companies that people signed up and sent their payments. According to Newsbusted Anchor Jodie Mil ...
  • JEWISH MOTHER SWEATER ALERT: 16 Signs That “Gl ...
    FROM SPPI BLOG Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that “the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” Well, it turns out that was a lie along with almost everything else that Al Gore has been p ...
  • American Studies Association Votes to Boycott ...
    The American Studies Association, the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history announced today their membership has decided to participate in the worlds oldest hatred...anti-Semitism. The way they are exhibiting their hatred i ...
  • BBC Reports Arctic Ice Cap +50% Over Last Year
    Much to the chagrin of the global warming mafia, the Arctic Ice Cap finished the "summer season" larger than last year but thicker also. The BBC is reporting that Data from Europe's Cryosat spacecraft suggests there were almost 9,000 cu km of ice at the end of this year's melt season. This is ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine explodes, sparks brush fire in Campo
    A wind turbine on a ridge overlooking the Golden Acorn Casino exploded today, sparking several spot fires in surrounding brush that collectively charred about a half an acre. David Elliott, a Manzanita tribal member, lives about quarter of a mile from the wind facility on the neighboring Campo r ...
  • Deadly blades: US offers 30-year permits for k ...
    Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades. The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that stand in the way of the nation’s w ...
  • Shock as another wind turbine disintegrates at ...
    Another Donegal wind turbine has been smashed – by high winds! A blade on a turbine at Corkermore wind farm has snapped clean off and embedded in the ground below. Just a month ago the site was given the go-ahead to add four new turbines by An Bord Pleanala. The site of the windfarm is nine kilo ...
  • In growing trend, Wyoming wind project seeks p ...
    The Power Company of Wyoming plans to apply next month for a federal permit that will allow the firm to kill a limited number of eagles every year at its planned Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in Carbon County. The decision of the Denver-based developer to seek what is known as an “eagle-tak ...
  • Turbine neighbors blast lawmakers over windmil ...
    BOSTON — A plan to speed permitting for wind turbine sites across the state encountered a gale of opposition testimony on Tuesday as residents who live near turbines lined up to tell a legislative committee about the giant windmills’ harmful health effects. “This bill is disgraceful, ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter(5): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) recent articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. (I missed posting the past two weeks.) Planet Money Makes a ...
  • Smarter(4): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. Are you reading M ...
  • Smarter(3): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math. Matt Waite use ...
  • Smarter(2): A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, I am trying something. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are ...
  • Smarter: A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, a new experiment. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are very ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope think tank behind campaign to discred ...
    Image Caption:  The Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank founded and bankrolled primarily by N.C. budget director Art Pope, sought funding for a campaign to portray the Medicaid public health insurance program for the poor and disabled ...
  • The U.S. Gulag: Incarceration and the 'immoral ...
    Image Caption:  Convict workers at Mississippi's Parchman prison in 1911. (Photo by the New York Times via Wikipedia.) The private prison industry is fueling high incarceration rates in Mississippi and elsewhere in the Un ...
  • NC scholars denounce conservative think tank's ...
    Image Caption:  Scholars for North Carolina's Future circulated an open letter calling on Gov. Pat McCrory and budget director Art Pope to condemn a Pope-funded think tank's broad request for correspondence from UNC law professor and ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Courts weigh polluter challen ...
    Image Caption:  (Photo by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikipedia.) This week top U.S. courts heard two cases challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules limiting health-damaging air pollution from power plants ...
  • Judicial Watch joins legal fray to defend rest ...
    Image Caption:  Judicial Watch, a conservative group that's sought purges of voter rolls in some states, has intervened to defend North Carolina's restrictive new voting law from a legal challenge by the Justice Department and civil r ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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Ian Welsh

  • Extinction is Guaranteed if We Do Not Colonize ...
    The Earth is a dangerous place, and humans make it more so.  There are many scenarios, from nuclear war, to designer diseases, to nanotech goo, too environmental catastrophe where we can wipe ourselves out.  Further, there are events almost entirely beyond our control, like meteor impacts, which ...
  • Extinction or Whole World Totalitarianism Events
    It’s time to talk technology, and the catastrophic futures it makes possible—and how to avoid them.  This isn’t just about climate change, which, if it goes really wrong, could wipe out humanity (if, for example, the oxygen cycle gets screwed up: entirely possible.)  It is about a wi ...
  • The 90/10 rule as applied to medical practitioners
    I’ve spent a lot of my life sick, and a fair bit injured.  In my twenties I spent 3 months in the hospital all in one go.  When I left I weighed 90 lbs and could barely walk.  (Full details here.)  I’d had back issues in hospital (sacroiliac joint) and about 6 months later, I [...]
  • Mandela’s NeoLiberal Compromise
    South Africa may no longer have apartheid, but the majority of the population still lives in poverty, the heights of the economy are controlled largely by whites, and rich blacks are concentrated in the upper ranks of the ANC and their families.  The rape rate is possibly the highest in the worl ...
  • Stirling Newberry Could Use Some Books
    Stirling’s doing reasonably well, and is at the stage of boredom induced near-madness which people who have spent a long time in medical institutions will be familiar with. As NBBooks reports, he’d like books.  To me he said he’d like history and economic books. If you want to ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Bollywood dance is very popular: Shiamak ...
    Shiamak Davar brought contemporary dance in our country a few decades back and then Indianised it to make it acceptable and even popular in both Bollyood and stage. Shiamak Davar takes...
  • Katrina Kaif’s journey in Bollywood
    After a less than desirable Bollywood debut in the fashion-meets-the-underworld themed Boom, it looks like Katrina Kaif will have the last laugh with Dhoom 3 SHE FAMOUSLY MADE her Bollywood debut in Kaizad Gustad’s skin flick Boom back in 2003. The film may have bombed at the box offic ...
  • Aircraft crash in Afghanistan kills 6 NAT ...
    Comment () Tweet KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says six service members have died in an aircraft crash in southern Afghanistan, in an area where there was no fighting reported at the time. The alliance says in a statement the crash occurred on Tuesday and that it's under investigation ...
  • Obama's top economic aide postpones move ...
    (Reuters) - President 's top economic aide is postponing his departure from the for a month...
  • Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story
    Two years ago, on a gorgeous November day, 12,000 activists surrounded the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Signs we carried featured quotes from Barack Obama in 2008: "Time to end the tyranny of oil"; "In my administration, the rise of the oceans will begin to slow. ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • 3rd Grade Solar Science Project-Results,Testin ...
    In my quest to make school fun we decided to test the power of the sun with some kool solar gadgets.  She said it was fun testing the different solar toys and the test results prove that the power of the sun is strongest… This is her project for her class I did my best […]
  • Pt3 Kid Sized Plumbing-Small Biz Energy Effici ...
    This final blog post of the Series-Small Business Energy Efficient Design Build Project.  I will be addressing the Must Have Request of the Client- Two Child Sized Plumbing Fixtures and extra counter area by sink located outside of bathroom.  If you haven’t noticed a design theme ...
  • IPCC Sept 27 Climate Change Press Release
    Added 11/21/2013 YouTube Video: Climate Change 2013 Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis View the press release on the latest IPCC Sept 27 Climate Change Press Release by viewing this pdf at http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/press_release_ar5_wgi_en.pdf Thank you for stoppi ...
  • CAD Solar SketchUp Design Layout For Shading I ...
    I use a CAD program for optimum Solar Panel Layout for the challenging buildings in the StLouis Region. This allows me to remove the Panels that are affected by Shading Issues. I then Place the CAD drawing onto a Google Earth Location and can provide a Clean Energy Output Report based on the loc ...
  • They don’t want people to be healthy-aga ...
    In a previous blog about My Take-ACA with Doc and Nurse comments I touched on a Doctors and Nurses comments about Obama Care.  Today I’m going to dig in and offer my opinion as to why I feel the Republicans and the Tea Party are so vehemently against the ACA. For m ...

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Are Left-Right Labels Obsolete?
    Many activists are starting to reject traditional liberal-conservative and left-right labels as overused and meaningless. Susan Clark and Wooden Teachout, writing in Slow Democracy (Chelsea Green Publishing 2012), seem to agree. One of the most valuable ch ...
  • The Rally
    A Rebel Comes of Age – release date Dec 21, 2013 Another Excerpt from my young adult novel (from Chap 22) When Clemente finally took the microphone, the stretch of McDonough between Patchen and Malcolm X was wall-to-wall people. The hip-hop activist, an attractive, thirty-something La ...
  • Covert US War Hands Syria to Al Qaeda
    US Suspends Non-lethal Aid to Syrian Rebels According to the BBC, both the US and Britain have suspended “non-lethal” aid to northern Syria. The decision follows the seizure of Western-backed Free Syrian Army bases by Islamist rebels. Last week, fighters from the Islamic Front ...
  • A Warning on the Bitcoin Bubble
    A Bitcoin is a type of alternative, computer-based currency known as a cryptocurrency because it uses cryptography (i.e. specialized digital security technology) to make it difficult to counterfeit. Up until a few months ago, interest in Bitcoins was limited to computer nerds seeking to opt ...
  • A Rebel Comes of Age
    0 Release date: Dec 21, 2013 Prologue (excerpt) Ange’s skin crawled as Phillip placed the M16 in her arms. The gun was cold and unnaturally smooth. It smelled like burnt rubber. Then he left her alone with PJ, a tall, thin, forty-something with wavy, shoulder length blac ...

FourWinds10

  • Captain: Massive amount of debris off Hawaii, ...
    The Garden Island, Nov. 25, 2013: Swath of debris spotted off Na Pali Coast [...] Capt.
  • The WHO Must Release Report on Iraqi Birth Def ...
    Aug. 11, 2013 "The indefinite postponement of the World Health Organisation's report is alarming scientists and activists." (DETROIT) - Large parts of the Middle East are now contaminated with war pollutants. In Iraq, war debris continues to wear away and erode populated cities. Su ...
  • Emissions of CO2 driving rapid oceans 'acid trip'
    Nov. 20, 2013 The world's oceans are becoming acidic at an "unprecedented rate" and may be souring more rapidly than at any time in the past 300 million years. In their strongest statement yet on the issue, scientists say acidification could increase by 170% by 2100. The report&#39 ...
  • Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico twice as large as ...
    Aug. 12, 2013 Large dead zone in 2013 is partly due to wet spring conditions in the Mississippi watershed, which increased nutrient runoff, triggering algae blooms. The oxygen-depleted dead zone that forms each summer in the Gulf of Mexico has reached 5,840 square miles in size, according to NOA ...
  • EPA goes paramilitary, conducts armed raids wi ...
    Sept. 13, 2013 (NaturalNews) In what is another example of gross regulatory abuse, a squad of Alaska enviro-agents wearing POLICE-emblazoned body armor and dressed in paramilitary garb recently "raided" a small community for the purpose of - wait for it - checking the quality of water. ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • My Carbon Footprint in 2012
    Writing a blog about reducing your carbon footprint is much, much easier than actually cutting your footprint. This post is where the rubber meets the road. It details my carbon footprint from 2012, the things I did, the things I didn’t do and my struggles along the way.read more
  • Faux Pause 2: Warmest November On Record As Ne ...
    Last month saw the hottest global November surface temperature on record, according to the latest data from NASA. Of course, the global surface temperature is only one of the many indicators the planet actually just keeps warming.read more
  • Selling Solar Energy: Why Does It Cost 49 Cent ...
    Why is it so difficult to win a residential solar customer in the U.S.? Why does it cost 49 cents per watt to acquire a customer in the U.S. while it costs less than 7 cents per watt in Germany? That's about $3,000 for the typical 6-kilowatt residential rooftop.read more
  • Decarbonization Updates
    While I was working on The Climate Fix I published several peer reviewed articles on climate policies of the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. In recent months I have updated these analyses and summarize the updates here.read more
  • What's In a Word – A Microgrid or a Managed Grid?
    College campuses are often identified as excellent candidates for microgrid deployments, and indeed, many have had them for years, without calling them microgrids. They had local generation for thermal loads, and as costs have dropped, significant installations of onsite solar PV.read more

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Renewable energy: Tony Abbott signals he could wind back or scrap targets
    The Guardian
    Tony Abbott has signalled next year's review of the renewable energy target could wind back, or even scrap, the scheme, saying lower power prices are the government's primary goal and the rationale for the RET no longer exists. Announcing modest ...
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    Michigan conservatives launch renewable energy group
    MLive.com
    The Michigan Conservative Energy Forum will push the state to reduce its dependence on coal and increase investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. The announcement comes two days before Gov. Rick Snyder is scheduled to ...
    Get ready for a massive renewable energy boom
    The Week Magazine
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