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

Survival International

  • New Penan blockade against oil palm plantation
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach, during a previous blockade.© SurvivalForty Penan families, from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, are blockading in protest against the Shin Yang logging and oil palm plantation company for trespassing on their ancestral l ...
  • Massacre investigation exposes Indonesian army ...
    For decades, West Papua’s tribal people have suffered at the hands of the Indonesian military. This 'trophy' photograph was taken by soldiers, in the same year as the Biak massacre, after they killed a man and his 12 year old nephew.© SurvivalA tribunal set up to examine a notorious ma ...
  • Bushmen’s public appeal to end government pers ...
    Bushmen leader and spokesman, Roy Sesana in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.© Lottie Davies/SurvivalBotswana’s Bushmen have held a press conference in the country’s capital to demand an end to government persecution of the tribe. Bushmen spokesmen Roy Sesana, Mangana, Keikabile Modo ...
  • A year of successes: Tribal peoples' reasons t ...
    Tribal people around the world had reason to celebrate in 2013. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs the year draws to a close, Survival International’s new photographic gallery illustrates how tribal peoples around the world had reasons to celebrate in 2013. From the suspension of mining concession ...
  • Paraguay grants license to bulldoze UNESCO Bio ...
    The Ayoreo are outraged at new revelations that Paraguay has granted a license to bulldoze the last refuge of their uncontacted relatives.© Survival InternationalParaguay has caused outrage by quietly granting cattle ranchers a license to bulldoze a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve which is also the las ...

Greg Palast

  • Give me 95 seconds
    A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]
  • Vultures and Vote Rustlers Watch the Trailer–G ...
      Watch the TrailerNow get the film! Shipped within 24 hours first class: The signed DVD of my new film, Vultures & Vote Rustlers. Includes an hour and a half of extras. Or download just the film right now. * * * * * What’s in this rocking hour of non-fiction detective tales? "Great fun ...
  • The Mandela Barbie
    By Greg Palast for Truthout I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his im ...
  • Roast Goldman Sachs' Chestnuts on an Open Fire
    Call me crazy, but I’ve couldn’t stop myself:  I’ve made a film about the scoundrels, scalawags, scumbags and bankers just in time to roast their chestnuts on an open fire. Vultures and Vote Rustlers combines my favorite eight investigations for BBC-TV  and Democracy Now into a one hour film tha ...
  • Chris Christie will Hate this Film
    Know why the Guvna of Joyzee is so bloated? It ain’t the burgers: He’s pumped up with billionaire big bucks – from buck-a-roos who happen to be the stars of our new film:  Vultures and Vote Rustlers Greg Palast Investigates Vol. 2 Working with The Nation Institute, the Palast investigative team ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Best Of: Autism and The Ghosts of Christmas Past
    We ran this post by Teresa in December of 2011. By Teresa Conrick Those are my two daughters in 1995. They were watching a favorite Christmas video, The Snowman, based on the UK story by Raymond Briggs. Unlike our giddy,...
  • Merry Christmas from Age of Autism
    We'd like to wish our Christian readers Merry Christmas. And may all AofAers enjoy the love and peace of the season. Thank you for your support throughout the year.
  • Remember Avonte Oquendo This Christmas Day
    Avonte Oquendo has been missing in New York City since October 4th when he was allowed to bolt out of his school. Please take a moment to remember him, pray for him if so inclined, and for his family too....
  • USA Today Gives Couric A Lump Of Coal
    Managing Editor's Note: Katie Couric has delved into healthcare and safety issues in the past, most notably her campaign to encourage colonoscopies after her husband's death from colon cancer. Before her show was cancelled a few days ago, she aired...
  • Natalie Palumbo: Honored for Autism Advocacy
    Managing Editor's Note: Please join us in congratulating Natalie Palumbo on her honor as an Autism Hero from the Autism Light site. Here is the entry below - please leave comments at their site. Natalie Palumbo is 19 years old,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

new geography

  • Public Engagement Miracle on 24th Street
    Confrontation and conflict are the favorite dispute resolution tools of Baby Boomers, who were born in the aftermath of WWII and grew up in the rebellious ‘60s. In stark contrast, members of the Millennial generation, born 1982-2003, bring a spirit of collaboration and consensus to sol ...
  • The Law's No Ass: Rejecting Hollywood Densific ...
    The city of Los Angeles received a stunning rebuke, when California Superior Court Judge Alan J. Goodman invalidated the Hollywood Community Plan. The Hollywood district, well known for its entertainment focus, contains approximately 5% of the city of Los Angeles’ population. The Holly ...
  • The Blue-Collar Heroes of the Inland Empire
    The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield (nee Jacob Cohen), whose signature complaint was that he “can't get no respect,” would have fit right in, in the Inland Empire. The vast expanse east of greater Los Angeles has long been castigated as a sprawling, environmental trash heap by plann ...
  • What is a City For?
    The attached report is derived from a speech given last spring in Singapore at the Singapore University of Science and Technology. The notion here is to lay out a new, more humanistic urban future, not one shaped primarily by large developers, speculators and transient global workers. Singap ...
  • Where Working-Age Americans Are Moving
    Barrels of ink and money have been devoted to predictions of where Americans will migrate, particularly younger ones. If you listen to big developer front groups such as the Urban Land Institute or pundits like Richard Florida, you would believe that smart companies that want to improve their ch ...

water.org

  • Kites, Games, and Bubbles
    Every child deserves a chance to play, and a time to be silly. Thankfully, access to safe water gives children their time back, and gives them the chance to be kids.
  • Education, A Good First Step
    Water.org’s experience has proven it is best to not only empower a community to own and maintain their water and sanitation facilities, but to also educate the members on how to maximize the benefits of those resources.
  • Water At Home
    I have an exclusive water connection now. I don’t have to worry about waiting in line, or timing my days around when water might be delivered.
  • A Town Called Bèlanje - Part 1
    The people of Bèlanje, Haiti collect unsafe water from this open spring every day. Thankfully, less than one kilometer away, something is happening that will change their lives forever...
  • What Can 3,000 Rupees Do?
    3,000 Indian rupees is only ~$45 USD, but according to Bobby G., the director of our Central-Indian partner ESAF, providing a WaterCredit loan for that small amount can change everything in a woman's life.

Cryptogon

  • Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet Inventor of the AK ...
    Via: Time: Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet general who designed the ubiquitous automatic weapon that now bears his name, died Dec. 23 at the age of 94. Iterations of the gun he invented now exist in the tens of millions, making it the most popular rifle in the wars of the latter half of the twen ...
  • The OpenWorm Project
    Via: Telegraph: An ambitious project to recreate an entire roundworm, cell by cell, in a software model has reached a crucial breakthrough as the digital animal wriggled for the first time. The OpenWorm project brings together scientists and programmers from around the world in the common goal o ...
  • Pentagon Spending Billions of Dollars on Accou ...
    Black hole. Via: Reuters: With its efforts to build reliable accounting systems in disarray, the Pentagon isn’t likely to meet a congressionally mandated 2017 deadline to be audit-ready. All other federal agencies are audited annually, in accordance with a 1990 law, and with rare exceptions, the ...
  • Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War ...
    Via: Rolling Stone: If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a me ...
  • Google-Owned SCHAFT Robot Won DARPA Robotics C ...
    Via: Slashgear: The Google-owned Japanese robotics company SCHAFT has won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials by a wide margin. It scored 27 out of 32 points, beating its nearest competitor IHMC Robotics by seven points. Coming up third was Tartan rescue with 18 points, and MIT following that wi ...

The Economic Collapse

  • On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserv ...
    December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the ...
  • The Taper Is On – 8 Ways That This Is Go ...
    The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, an ...
  • 83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy ...
    During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even mor ...
  • Camden, New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Ci ...
    All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per ...
  • Dent, Faber, Celente, Maloney, Rogers – ...
    Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core.  Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial ...

Desertification

  • DNI NEWSLETTER No. 4
    Read at : DesertNet International DNI Newsletter 4_2014 Extremely interesting newsletter.
  • National Program to Combat Desertification Act ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification https://www.devex.com/procurement/tenders/consultant-services-for-harmonization-of-national-program-to-combat-desertification-activities-in-armenia-and-development-of-national-report/137989 Consultant Services for Harmonization of National Program ...
  • Dependence of countries on international trade ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131219082800.htm Availability of Food Increases as Countries’ Dependence On Food Trade Grows Dec. 19, 2013 — Sufficient food is available for increasing numbers of people, but at the same time, the dependence of countries on internatio ...
  • Great Green Wall : forum to build new partners ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.einnews.com/pr_news/181231464/africa-s-great-green-wall-reaches-out-to-new-partners Africa’s Great Green Wall reaches out to new partners The Great Green Wall initiative is hosting an international forum to build new partnerships and acc ...
  • The Arab region : the fastest changing environ ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/nationgeneral/2013/December/nationgeneral_December143.xml&section=nationgeneral Beware, the UAE is running out of water resources Amanda Fisher / 18 December 2013 UN report says Ar ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Nicaragua: the Sandinistas repress the struggl ...
    nic.jpg Account written by comrades in Costa Rica and Nicaragua of how the left' government in Nicaragua used both police and its political militias against the struggle of working class pensione ...
  • Swedish nazi attack on anti-racist rally fails
    sthlmantifa.jpg Sweden, December 15, 30 or so nazis from the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) attempted to disrupt a rally against racism comprised of local Karrtorp residents and anti-fascist organi ...
  • XXV Congress of the AIT-IWA
    AITCongress.jpg From December 6-8, 2013, the XXV AIT-IWA Congress took place in Valencia, Spain. Around 150 people took part in the Congress, with delegates coming from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, ...
  • Abahlali: We were promised homes for all, not ...
    Mandela.jpg South African shack dwellers' direct action movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the death and legacy of Nelson Mandela. “If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid ...
  • Can fast food organising breathe new life into ...
    A piece on the recent fast food campaigns launched by SEIU – their origins, means, and prospects for revitalizing the labor movement in the U.S. Quote: “Olivia, who’s 23 now, has worked a string of fast-food jobs since she was a teena ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Mandela Mythos – Part II
    Really – you can’t make this stuff up!  The word BIZARRE is an understatement – but when one considers the TRUTH about Nelson Mandela, things start to make a little more sense, perhaps. At the December 10 memorial service for Mandela, world leaders, including of course another ...
  • The Mandela Mythos – Part II
    Really – you can’t make this stuff up!  The word BIZARRE is an understatement – but when one considers the TRUTH about Nelson Mandela, things start to make a little more sense, perhaps. At the December 10 memorial service for Mandela, world leaders, including of course another ...
  • Nelson Mandela – The Untold Story Behind ...
    “With the rest of the world, we mourn the passing of revered statesman Nelson Mandela. His courage, kindness and extraordinary moral leadership have been an example to all people. We express our love and sympathies to his family and the people of South Africa as they remember his extraordi ...
  • Nelson Mandela – The Untold Story Behind ...
    “With the rest of the world, we mourn the passing of revered statesman Nelson Mandela. His courage, kindness and extraordinary moral leadership have been an example to all people. We express our love and sympathies to his family and the people of South Africa as they remember his extraordi ...
  • George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
    Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Transmission Investment Gets Largest Boost Sin ...
    Investor-owned utilities and transmission companies invested a record $34.9 billion in transmission and distribution infrastructure in 2012, according to the Edison Electric Institute. The spending on transmission, $14.8 billion, was nearly a 24 percent increase over 2011 investments.read more
  • Would a Nest Help My Family Save Energy?
    Since my husband and I both work in the energy industry, we often exchange energy-themed gifts. He has given me energy books, power plant trading cards, and several times a year, someone in the family jokes about coal in the stocking.read more
  • EcoGrid EU, Part 2: Lessons on Engaging Custom ...
    On the Danish island of Bornholm, the Ecogrid EU smart grid demonstration project is providing a great number of valuable lessons in how utilities can engage customers to help everyone gain maximum benefits from smart grid technology.read more
  • Is Petroleum Sucking the Life out of the Planet?
    It had to be either a Freudian slip or a moment of rare political candour when Alberta’s Municipal Affairs Minister related to an audience on the other side of the country that oil and gas wealth is sucking the life out of everything else in Alberta.read more
  • Climate Change Impacts on the Alaskan Ecosyste ...
    The northern latitudes are experiencing some of the most dynamic impacts from climate change. This video, done by a student as a final project for a Climate Dynamics Class, explores some of the effects and consequences climate change will have in Alaska.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • No Joy to the World This Christmas
    by Stephen Lendman How can there be with wars raging out-of control! Who's celebrating while mass slaughter and destruction persist? No Christmas cheer this year for billions. No Feliz Navidad. No happy holiday. No Wise Men spreading good will. No silent, holy night. No decking the halls. ...
  • Hail to the Thief
    by Stephen Lendman On December 19, Vladimir Putin pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He did it a day after announcing he'd do so. Western media scoundrels reacted as expected. They praised his release. They denounced Putin earlier for imprisoning him. More on this below. Until his October 2003 ...
  • Mission Accomplished, Says Snowden
    by Stephen Lendman On December 23, he told the Washington Post: "For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished. I already won." "As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I ...
  • Syrian Refugee Crisis results in UN's Largest ...
    by Brian McAfee According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees the number of Syrian refugees is now over 2.3 million. The UNHCR also says that within Syria there are 4.2 displaced people as a result of the civil war that has been going on between Syria's president Bashar al-Ass ...
  • Israel Attacks Gaza
    by Stephen Lendman It wasn't the first time. It won't be the last. It's done it numerous times before. It strikes aggressively. It does it lawlessly. It's longstanding Israeli policy. Cast Lead and Pillar of Cloud attacks were major acts of aggression. Many other strikes were modest by compa ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Ben Parfitt: Conversation still needed about B ...
    In an opinion piece in the Province today, resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt supports the open letter from eight BC organizations calling for the BC government to deliver on its promise to consult with the public about significant changes to forestry policy.
  • Raising Ontario's minimum wage
    The Ontario government will soon receive advice from a panel tasked with reviewing how much and how often to raise the provincial minimum wage. Currently, minimum wage workers in Ontario earn an income that leaves them 25% below the poverty line.  This is wrong and needs to be fixed.  But bes ...
  • A round-up of commentary on the Canada Post cuts
    On Wednesday, December 11th, Canada Post announced a series of changes which included cutting staff, phasing out door-to-door mail delivery to urban residents, and a new pricing system, among others. Here's a round-up of some of our work related to this hot topic: Blog posts Cutting Canada Pos ...
  • Armine Yalnizyan on the Canada Post cuts
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan spoke to CBC Toronto's Metro Morning about the recent cuts to postal services. Armine argues against the notion that Canada Post is becoming a financial drain on the taxpayer and necessitates service cuts. Instead, she says, Canada Post needs to address the ...
  • Sixteen youth tell the stories of their neighb ...
    This year, CCPA-MB's State of the Inner City Report will take you through a visual walk-through the neighbourhoods of inner city youth. Sixteen young people from two community-based organizations were trained as photojournalists to tell the stories of the what they like and don't like about thei ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Cinema With The Right Stuff Marks 2013 Nationa ...
    December 18, 2013 Press contact:  Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456, scannady@loc.gov Public contact: Steve Leggett (202) 707-5912, sleg@loc.gov To Media:  Select high-resolution images and video clips are available for a limited time; register at www.loc.gov/pressroom/registration ...
  • 2013 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY QUOTES
    Maureen O’Hara, Award-winning Actress – “The Quiet Man” “I am overjoyed that the Library of Congress has inducted The Quiet Man into its National Film Registry. It was the thrill of our lives for John Ford, John Wayne, myself, and everyone to make it. I had never ...
  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Top Energy Stories of 2013 – Honorable Mention
    My Top 10 energy related stories of 2013 ended up being a 3,500 word story, so I decided to break it up into three parts. Today I will list some of the stories that could have arguably been placed in a list of Top 10 energy stories for the year. Later this week I will list stories 6-10 of my Top ...
  • How Bitumen Gets to Market
    Robert Rapier concludes his series on the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he looks at the current and future logistics of getting bitumen to market.
  • Seeking Input on 2013′s Top Energy Stories
    It’s that time of year, when I am compiling the year’s top energy stories. As I typically like to do, I would like to solicit input from readers on what should be included in a Top 10 list. Personally, I believe the top energy story of the year is the rail disaster in Quebec that kil ...
  • The Cost of Production and Energy Return of Oi ...
    Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the cost of production and the energy return from surface mining and in situ production of bitumen.
  • How Alberta’s Oil Sands are Produced
    Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the production processes for the two most common processes for producing the oil sands: surface mining and in situ production.

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Cop Who Told Woman Have Sex With Him Or Get A ...
    "Have sex with me or get a DUI," that's what police officer Timothy H. Jones, who "served" for over twenty years as a cop, told a young woman he pulled over for drunk driving. Under threat of imprisonment, the woman complied and let the officer rape...
  • Prosecutors: Chicago Cop Angry Over 'Broken Ga ...
    From the Chicago Tribune: A Chicago police officer has been relieved of his police powers after being accused of breaking a senior citizen's hip when the officer shoved the man during an argument earlier this month. David Barrett, a 20-year veter...
  • Texas Deputy Killed in Dawn No-Knock Drug Raid
    A Burleson County sheriff's deputy leading a dawn, no-knock drug raid was shot and killed by the homeowner last Thursday. Sgt. Adam Sowders becomes the 40th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. Although So...
  • Fullerton Police 'Use Of Force' Trainer Says N ...
    More expert witnesses have been called in to testify in the beating death of Kelly Thomas. The defense called in its two final witnesses late last week -- Cpl. Stephen Rubio, a "use of force" trainer for the Fullerton PD, and Dr. Stephen Karch, a for...
  • A Christmas Gift for My Daughter
    This article was originally published in December, 2002. A previous version of it was published on December 25, 1966, dedicated to Harry*s then 9-year-old daughter. It*s Christmas, and I have the usual problem of deciding what to give yo...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Seasons Greetings
    And that’s it for LibertyGibbert for another year. Work and family commitments have meant I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked this year, yet we’ve managed to have some interesting discussions. Thank you to … Continue reading →
  • Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
    I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
  • Misery in Motown
    Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →
  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • Being doctrinaire leftwing leads to weakness a ...
    Richard Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb writing in the Guardian, dissects why the hard left is currently so weak and inept. The doctrinaire Left insists upon doing things and organizing the way it was done 80 years ago. However, the world has changed. The old ways no longer work. Anarchists get th ...
  • BioPen uses 3D printing to make custom implant ...
    The BioPen uses 3D printing techniques during surgery to put live cells and healing materials directly on the injury site. Wow. A custom-made and handheld BioPen will allow surgeons to repair damaged and diseased bone material by delivering live cells and growth factors directly to the site of i ...
  • RSA takes the hit, feigns ignorance, protects NSA
    RSA (owned by EMC) is pretending they know nothing about the $10 million contract with NSA to dumb down their crypto. Cringely calls bullshit on this. So do I. It’s better to appear stupid than culpable. And that’s exactly what EMC is doing. For the truth I reached deep into the bowe ...
  • Run Run Rudolph – Lemmy Kilmister
    This is from We Wish You A Metal Xmas…And A Headbanging New Year! (2008). Bill Gibbons (from Z.Z.Top) plays guitars and David Grohl (from Nirvana/Foo Fighters) plays drums on this track.
  • Doowop Christmas – Van Dells
    http://youtu.be/NCNVFduW7w4

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Stopping the Flow
    Line 9 organizing in context HAUDENOSAUNEE TERRITORY (KITCHENER)—A disquieting black hue to the water, animals struggling to breathe amid toxic fumes, a boom dragged across the ...
  • Call for Pitches: Write for The Dominion this ...
    Dear Contributors, A new year is upon us, but the more things change, the more they are the same. And we're sure you've got great story ideas to follow-up on and share. We want you to help you get those stories out there in the March/April 2014 issue ofThe Dominion. We can pay for two ne ...
  • Fille de survivantEs et hétérosexuelle, j’emme ...
    La décision rendue vendredi par la Cour suprême du Canada ravive en moi la peur que m'ont transmise mes parents eux-mêmes survivantEs d'agressions sexuelles. Cette petite alarme qui se déclenche dans votre ventre, juste en bas du n ...
  • Abbotsford Runs Homeless out of Town
    ABBOTSFORD: Four days before Christmas and there's no room for the homeless in Abbotsford. The City followed through on its crusade to dismantle a tent village on an unused parking lot beside Jubillee Park yesterday. Belongings were packed up for transport by City Parks vechicles to a local ...
  • Pivot Legal Society: Canada v. Bedford – The d ...
    The Pivot Legal Society, an intervener in Canada v. Bedford, published this succinct breakdown of what the ruling means. I thought it would be good to share it in its entirety here. Today the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a landmark un ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • 2013: Vladimir Putin's year
    David Seaton's News LinksBy his own measure, Mr Putin has had a good year. The Russian president craves international respect. By stepping back from the world, the US ceded to Moscow space at the top table. Phillip Stephens - Financial TimesVladimir Putin has been eating the "West's" lunch: Syri ...
  • Mandela's funeral
    David Seaton's News Links Mahatma Gandhi was lucky to die when he did and avoid such a degrading celebrity circus... between the imperial selfies and the surreal sign language interpreter, all that was missing was to have Miley Cyrus perform "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", with a massed choir. DS
  • Pope Francis reminds me of Gorbachev
    David Seaton's News LinksSome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expre ...
  • The Iran deal
    David Seaton's News LinksThings may unravel but at least there is hope. Perhaps this is what is most threatening to Netanyahu. He has never been willing to test the Palestinians in a serious way — test their good faith, test ending the humiliations of the occupation, test from strength the power ...
  • Kennedy's Death
    David Seaton's News LinksWriting up the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination has become a momentary cottage industry and I have little that I wish to add and will spare my readers all my "where I was when I heard the news" drivel. However, I would only remark what I personally find the mo ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Public Service Announcement
    I'll be off for the rest of the year, returning after New Year's. During the next week I might pop in with an occasional post, or I might not. Who knows? Friday catblogging, however, will appear as usual on Friday. In the meantime, enjoy what's left of 2013, and let's all hope that 2014 is ...
  • Merry Christmas!
    And now for our traditional Christmas ornament greeting, in memory of the late, much-loved Inkblot. Merry Christmas, everyone.
  • How the Media Would Have Covered the Birth of ...
    Dan Amira: The arrival of the messiah would have been a huge media event at the time had there actually been any media aside from the guy who announced the king's royal proclamations from a balcony. Consequently, we are forced to make educated guesses about how today's media would have c ...
  • Quote of the Day: I Will Defend to the Death Y ...
    From Sarah Palin, five days after defending Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson for his anti-gay statements in a GQ interview: I haven’t read the article. I don’t know exactly how he said it. That's a shocker, isn't it? But no matter. For Palin, this is basically affinity mark ...
  • Festivus Grievance Airing: I Want More Windows ...
    What do you want for Christmas this year? What I want is a nice Windows tablet. I already have an iPad and an Android tab, and a Windows device would round out my collection nicely. And although Windows haters are gonna hate, I'd personally find it pretty handy to have a tablet that can do ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • New Penan blockade against oil palm plantation
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach, during a previous blockade.© SurvivalForty Penan families, from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, are blockading in protest against the Shin Yang logging and oil palm plantation company for trespassing on their ancestral l ...
  • Massacre investigation exposes Indonesian army ...
    For decades, West Papua’s tribal people have suffered at the hands of the Indonesian military. This 'trophy' photograph was taken by soldiers, in the same year as the Biak massacre, after they killed a man and his 12 year old nephew.© SurvivalA tribunal set up to examine a notorious ma ...
  • Bushmen’s public appeal to end government pers ...
    Bushmen leader and spokesman, Roy Sesana in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.© Lottie Davies/SurvivalBotswana’s Bushmen have held a press conference in the country’s capital to demand an end to government persecution of the tribe. Bushmen spokesmen Roy Sesana, Mangana, Keikabile Modo ...
  • A year of successes: Tribal peoples' reasons t ...
    Tribal people around the world had reason to celebrate in 2013. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs the year draws to a close, Survival International’s new photographic gallery illustrates how tribal peoples around the world had reasons to celebrate in 2013. From the suspension of mining concession ...
  • Paraguay grants license to bulldoze UNESCO Bio ...
    The Ayoreo are outraged at new revelations that Paraguay has granted a license to bulldoze the last refuge of their uncontacted relatives.© Survival InternationalParaguay has caused outrage by quietly granting cattle ranchers a license to bulldoze a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve which is also the las ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Big Food Wants to Call GMO Foods 'Natural'
    from grist.org: Is genetically engineered food natural? The Grocery Manufacturers Association, a trade group representing some of the world’s biggest food and food-related companies, including ConAgra Foods, Bayer CropScience, and the Coca-Cola Company, thinks so. And it’s pressing the Food and ...
  • #FDA to Make Food Safety Rules Farmer-Friendli ...
    from usatoday.com: The Food and Drug Administration says it will revise sweeping new food safety rules proposed earlier this year after farmers complained the rules could hurt business. Michael Taylor, FDA's commissioner for foods, said the agency wants to make sure the rules are practical for f ...
  • What An '#Organic' Food Label Should Mean
    from latimes.com: Mandatory GMO labeling of all food will continue to arouse passions on both sides of the issue. Though it may not satisfy all GMO-labeling advocates nor be welcomed by all leaders in the biotechnology industry, allowing a GMO-free organic label provides more choice in the marke ...
  • #Fracking Chemicals Linked to Birth Defects, I ...
    from naturalblaze.com: A controversial oil and natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses many chemicals that can disrupt the body's hormones, according to new research accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's journal Endocrinology. Endocrine-di ...
  • Nine states propose 16 anti-fluoridation bills
    from naturalnews.com: Things are heating up on the fluoride front as states and municipalities all across the country rethink their official water fluoridation policies. According to the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), some 16 pieces of legislation across nine states were introduced or passed ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserv ...
    December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the ...
  • The Taper Is On – 8 Ways That This Is Go ...
    The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, an ...
  • 83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy ...
    During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even mor ...
  • Camden, New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Ci ...
    All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per ...
  • Dent, Faber, Celente, Maloney, Rogers – ...
    Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core.  Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial ...

CASSE

  • Duck Dynasty, the Green Party, and Steady Stat ...
    First things first -- you can't have a healthy economy unless you also have a healthy environment. Shouldn't at least one political party get that?
  • The Hidden Door
    Mark Burch argues that voluntary simplicity is the best path for achieving both individual well-being and economic sustainability.
  • Dualist Economics
    Herman Daly analyzes the philosophies of Frederick Soddy, a well known pioneer of chemistry, but also an insightful pioneer of economics.
  • Five Christmas Gifts that Keep on Giving
    On the twelfth day of Christmas, my skewed gov gave to me EXPANDING GDP!
  • Ending the Insanity of Ecocide
    Ecocidal tendencies have no place in either our legal or our economic institutions. Here's a direct way to help put an end to ecocide.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Big voting changes coming to the South in 2014
    Image Caption:  People in North Carolina marched and protested against new voting restrictions that take effect in 2014. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) A look ahead to the changes in election procedures residents of Southern states ca ...
  • Study finds shift to 'dark money' in climate d ...
    Image Caption:  So-called "dark money" plays an increasingly important role in funding climate science denial efforts. A new study digs into the financial underpinnings of the climate denial movement and finds a sign ...
  • Pickets at Art Pope stores reach small-town No ...
    Image Caption:  Barret Brown of the Alamance County (N.C.) NAACP says the purpose of pickets being held at stores owned by conservative donor and state budget director Art Pope is to help customers understand where the money they spend there go ...
  • NC backslides on voting rights by disqualifyin ...
    Image Caption:  The red states fully reject provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, the blue states partially count such ballots, and the green states offer election-day registration. (Map from "Saving Votes: An Easy Fix to the Pro ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A call for racial justice in ...
    Image Caption:  A new report from the NAACP documents the racial and economic injustice of current energy policy -- and the many benefits of moving to clean energy. A new report from the NAACP makes the case for why energy pol ...

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 1986 : Leading Experts – 6 Degrees Warming By ...
    Average global temperatures would rise by one-half a degree to one degree Fahrenheit from 1990 to 2000 if current trends are unchanged, according to Dr. Hansen’s findings. Dr. Hansen said the global temperature would rise by another 2 to 4 degrees in the following decade. While the effect of sma ...
  • Understanding Record Antarctic Ice | Real Science
    Climate experts explain that huge amounts of fresh water are melting due to -70º weather in the interior of Antarctica, and it is pouring into the sea -forming new sea ice several hundred miles off shore. Makes sense if you have the IQ of a squashed cockroach. via Understanding Record Antarctic ...
  • Obama pushes program to turn public schools ov ...
    By Steve Light and A. Woodson 23 December 2013 President Barak Obama made a well-publicized helicopter landing in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn October 25 to visit Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. It is a public school where IBM has been placed in charge, ...
  • Larry Silverstein, WTC 7, and the 9/11 Demolition
    Larry Silverstein, the controller of the destroyed WTC complex, stated plainly in a PBS documentary that he and the FDNY decided jointly to demolish WTC 7 late in the afternoon of 9/11. In the documentary “America Rebuilds“, aired September 2002, Silverstein makes the following state ...
  • Newsbytes: For Global Warming Campaigners, 201 ...
    From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser News Media No Longer Interested In Climate Hysteria 2013 marks the 17th year of no warming on the planet. Almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the cause of global warming. 2013 was the best of years for climate skeptics; the worst of years for ...

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

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Stop NATO

  • Syria: First Russian-Chinese Joint Military Ta ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti December 25, 2013 Russia, China to Ensure Security of Syrian Chemical Stockpile MOSCOW: Russia and China are in charge of providing security for the Syrian government’s chemical arsenal as it is being taken out of the country, a senior Russian diplomat said on ...
  • William Cullen Bryant: Christmas 1875
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war William Cullen Bryant: Emblem of the peace that yet shall be, noise of war shall cease from sea to sea ==== William Cullen Bryant Christmas 1875 (Supposed to be written by a Spaniard) No tr ...
  • Interview: U.S. Intent On Maintaining Military ...
    Press TV December 24, 2013 US wants to ‘maintain military presence in Afghanistan’ Audio The United States insists on maintaining a military presence in the region by keeping its air bases and troops in Afghanistan, says Rick Rozoff from Stop NATO. “We have to remember that the US is ...
  • Archil Sulakauri: I just can’t believe t ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Archil Sulakauri From The Doves (1960) Translated by I. Petrova and Ts. Topuridze The raindrops rapped on the bottom of the pail. For a while they were silent. His hands in his pockets, Levan paced quietly around. Occasionally he stoppe ...
  • State Commission Meets On Georgia’s Inte ...
    Trend News Agency December 23, 2013 State Commission meets for Georgia’s integration into NATO By Nana Kirtzkhalia A meeting of the state commission for Georgia’s integration into NATO was held in Georgia’s government office on Dec.23. The main issue of the agenda was Georgia&# ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Senate Approves Military Whistleblower Protect ...
    Late yesterday, the Senate completed congressional action approving section 1714 in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, which overhauls the discredited Military Whistleblower Protection Act (MWPA) of 1988. The legislation reflects a bipartisan consensus between House and ...
  • OPM OIG Report Confirms Misconduct at OSC by A ...
    The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Office of Inspector General (OIG) substantially confirmed misconduct at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) during the 2003-2008 term of Special Counsel Scott Bloch in a report released today. The OSC is responsible for defending the merit system gen ...
  • GAP's Devine Named to 'Washington's Best Lawyers'
    GAP is pleased to announce that Legal Director Tom Devine has been identified by Washingtonian as one of "Washington's Best Lawyers." This prestigious list is generated every two years, and this marks Devine's sixth consecutive year on the list, having been named to both the 2009-10 and 2011-12 ...
  • Federal Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Un ...
    Dear Daily Whistleblower News Reader: Thank you again for another year of subscribing to our free service. This is the last Daily Whistleblower News for 2013. GAP will restart the service in early 2014. Happy holidays! Regards, Dylan Blaylock GAP Communications Director & Editor, ...
  • Snowden Whistleblower Status Confirmed by Ruli ...
    US District Court Judge Richard Leon has declared that the bulk phone record collection activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) are likely in violation of the Constitution's ban on unreasonable search. The very first of its kind, the 68-page legal opinion is highly critical of the const ...

UK Progressive

  • A Joyous Festivus To One and All
    by Denis G. Campbell Seinfeld fans know of what I speak as we all gather around the Festivus Pole and give thanks for another great year. Whether you celebrate Thanksgivakkuh, Christmas, Kwanza or Winter Solstice, all of us here at UK Progressive Magazine wish you the very merriest of times with ...
  • Megyn Kelly on Santa’s Race
    by Brent Budowsky Fox News host Megyn Kelly, for whom I have great professional respect, recently suggested on her show that Santa Claus is white. Kelly is wrong. Even a brief reading of the latest teachings of Pope Francis, which closely follow the teachings of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedi ...
  • 2013: The Right’s War on Christmas Continues…
    by Rev. Irene Monroe For the past decade now, when this holiday season rolls around we can always count on a yearly kerfuffle from someone from the Right—the continuing war on Christmas. That this annual present comes this year from a host on Fox News is no surprise. On her recent show “Th ...
  • Put a Dinosaur in Your Front Yard
    by Kyle Scott, PhD. Along with other Christmas decorations I put a dinosaur in my front yard. This seems odd, and it is. I do it so that when people ask me, “What’s a dinosaur have to do with Christmas?” I can respond, “What do twinkling lights and reindeer have to do with Christmas?” This […]
  • Payment Due: The Obamacare Deadline No One Is ...
    by Charles Ornstein ProPublica The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced this morning that nearly 365,000 Americans had signed up for private health insurance under Obamacare. The vast majority came from 14 states running their own insurance exchanges, while 137,000 came by way ...

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JoNova

  • Merry Christmas
      Merry Christmas to readers everywhere, especially to those who are far from family and friends in time or place…   … or possibly separated by the politics of modern tribes. A shame. Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast)
  • New British plan will pay people to be “ ...
    The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution has a new bright idea. Big-Government is going to take £1 each from people using electricity and instead of giving it to people who make electricity, they’re going to give it to people who don’t absolutely have to have electricity. Those pe ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
    Interference patterns ripple through clouds at my favourite rock pool.   Rating: 7.9/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 7.9/10 (7 votes cast)
  • Reddit gives up on debate, bans “deniers ...
    Reddit is a social media website which calls itself the “front-page of the Internet”. It’s possible you’ve even heard of it (but not from me.) One Reddit moderator proudly announced on Grist that climate change is the hottest battleground in all of science, and actual deb ...
  • Sun dumps 500 times as many Hiroshima bombs of ...
    Announcing the all new Solar-Insolation Hiroshima Bomb App, thanks to Dale Kent. Since 1998, Global Warming has been occurring at 4 Hiroshima Bombs per second, not that we can measure that rate to a statistically significant value*, or that it means anything at all. Every second the sun pours 27 ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Big Pic: 'Red Tide' Algae In Bloom
    Red Alert C-Wams Project, Planetek Hellas/ESA Several of the world’s largest desalination plants sit along the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Every year, they deliver 115 billion gallons of potable water to more than 550,000 people in Dubai alone. But the plants have had to slow or shut ...
  • FYI: Did Dinosaurs Get The Flu?
    Dino Flu Left To Right: Christian Martínez Kempin/Getty Images; Syldavia/Getty Images; Christian Martínez Kempin/Getty Images It’s very hard to figure out when the influenza virus first started making animals sick. Studies of the history of major human epidemics suggest the flu has been ar ...
  • 8 Ways Jellyfish Are Awesome And Terrifying
    Dek Dive into the fascinating world of gelatinous zooplankton. Array In October, a whole bunch of moon jellyfish swarmed into the intake pipes of the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southeast Sweden, forcing the plant to temporarily shut down while they were cleared out. Powerful jellie ...
  • 8 Ways Jellyfish Are Awesome And Terrifying
    Mooning Moon jellies, which don't sting humans, are believed to be native to Europe, but have spread throughout the globe. Mark Conlin/seapics.com & T. Brakemeir/Corbis The jellyfish is a fascinating creature. Floating lazily along in the ocean current resembling plastic bags, the ge ...
  • The Science Behind Reindeer's Color-Changing Eyes
    A reindeer in Sweden Look Sharp! via Wikimedia Commons Winter in the Arctic is grim—day and night blur together for 24 hour stints without sunlight. Reindeer manage to survive these gloomy weeks thanks to a peculiar adaptation. As the days grow darker, reindeer's eyes turn from gold to blue ...

Facing South

  • Big voting changes coming to the South in 2014
    Image Caption:  People in North Carolina marched and protested against new voting restrictions that take effect in 2014. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) A look ahead to the changes in election procedures residents of Southern states ca ...
  • Study finds shift to 'dark money' in climate d ...
    Image Caption:  So-called "dark money" plays an increasingly important role in funding climate science denial efforts. A new study digs into the financial underpinnings of the climate denial movement and finds a sign ...
  • Pickets at Art Pope stores reach small-town No ...
    Image Caption:  Barret Brown of the Alamance County (N.C.) NAACP says the purpose of pickets being held at stores owned by conservative donor and state budget director Art Pope is to help customers understand where the money they spend there go ...
  • NC backslides on voting rights by disqualifyin ...
    Image Caption:  The red states fully reject provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, the blue states partially count such ballots, and the green states offer election-day registration. (Map from "Saving Votes: An Easy Fix to the Pro ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A call for racial justice in ...
    Image Caption:  A new report from the NAACP documents the racial and economic injustice of current energy policy -- and the many benefits of moving to clean energy. A new report from the NAACP makes the case for why energy pol ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Christmas and New Year 2013 weather outlook
    Stormy weather looks set to continue throughout December, with further spells of heavy rain and gale force winds.  The depression which is bringing today’s rain is deepening explosively, with a central pressure of around 930mb expected on Christmas Eve to the west of Scotland.  This won’t be a r ...
  • More on highest tidal surge since 1953 and Dec ...
    TIDAL SURGE The tidal surge which affected the east coast last week was the biggest since the historic coastal flood of January 1953 according to the Environment Agency.  In 1953 hundreds of people lost their lives. In Lincolnshire the sea came inland by 3 miles in the area around Sutton on Sea ...
  • A look back at autumn and forward into early w ...
    Climatological autumn ended this weekend, and it turned out to be a very average affair.  UK mean temperatures were slightly above average, with both rainfall and sunshine both almost exactly average.  More locally as you might expect the three monthly seasonal statistics hide some detail.  Part ...
  • Rest of November outlook - and what about winter?
    High pressure looks set to become dominant across much of the UK for the rest of November, ensuring a lot of dry, fine and settled weather.  Although cloud amounts are always difficult to determine in these situations, by day there should be at least some sunshine, with a risk of some frost and ...
  • Weather and climate round-up
    First taste of winter next week: After a mild autumn so far, the UK is about to experience its first taste of winter next week.  Cold air is expected to flood southwards across the UK from Tuesday.  As it meets the relatively warm sea vigorous convection is expected, with the risk of heavy showe ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Commercialism & Christmas in Non-Christian Soc ...
    Thailand features Christmas elephants, f'rinstanceYour Asian correspondent--obviously Catholic with a name like "Emmanuel"--has always found it curious that some of the most extravagant Christmas pageantry can be found in predominantly non-Christian societies. With the exception of the Philippin ...
  • Aid (Not Death) from Above: Drones for Disaste ...
    Some of these things don't come with missiles but with goodwillThe American habit of using drones on supposed "terrorist" targets that frequently results in killing civilians instead--"collateral damage"--has outraged a significant part of the civilized world. Former US President Jimmy Carter cr ...
  • Russia's Price for Buying Off Ukraine: $15B
    Put 'er there, Vlad, my country's yours for $15 billionLet us update this strange tale of Ukraine. Having told his opponents to in effect get lost since they didn't win any elections or succeed in gaining a vote of no-confidence, President Viktor Yanukovych headed to the Kremlin to speak to his ...
  • Boxers-Turned-Politicians: Pacquiao vs Klitschko
    Fighting Russkies, Striking a Blow for the EUIf this were an actual fight, it would be a grossly unfair one since Manny Pacquiao stands 1.69m tall and weighs 65kg whereas Vitali Klitschko--older brother of fellow heavyweight champion Wladimir of Hayden-Panettiere-is-my-girl fame--is 2.01m tall a ...
  • World's Smallest Currency Union: Caribbean Cha ...
    Yes, Virginia, these dollars bear Queen Elizabeth II's imageThe Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) is the world's smallest currency union among the four existing worldwide. The European Monetary Union (EMU) is known by all, whereas the other two are in Africa. What makes the ECCU doubly int ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserv ...
    December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the ...
  • The Taper Is On – 8 Ways That This Is Go ...
    The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, an ...
  • 83 Numbers From 2013 That Are Almost Too Crazy ...
    During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire planet and our big banks are behaving even mor ...
  • Camden, New Jersey: One Of Hundreds Of U.S. Ci ...
    All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per ...
  • Dent, Faber, Celente, Maloney, Rogers – ...
    Some of the most respected prognosticators in the financial world are warning that what is coming in 2014 and beyond is going to shake America to the core.  Many of the quotes that you are about to read are from individuals that actually predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown and the financial ...

BlogHer

  • New Year's Eve Parties: What to Wear
    (Source)My bad, my bad.  I know I've been busy, but this is no excuse for leaving you hanging on what to wear for the  holiday parties.  I've discussed hairstyles (on here and on Blackhairinformation.com and  Naturalhairrules!!!) and even discussed makeup.  Wha ...
  • My Mom's Golden Pound Cake
    The recipe you see below was written by my mother sometime during my first year of marriage. She had come to stay with me when she found out I was pregnant with her first grandchild. You should know that my mom and I during my teen years did not get along to say the least. I gave her more troubl ...
  • Bedtime: A Drama Performed in Three Acts
    Act 1: In which my son gets clean Synopsis: At about 7:30 pm, we tell our son it is bath time and ask him to go upstairs for his bath. Repeatedly. Our son yells that he is not dirty or stinky and does not need a bath. Or, he says that he is busy playing/reading/doing any activity that is not bat ...
  • Social Media and Blogging Predictions for 2014
    While you're in line at the store, waiting to return those Christmas gifts (why did your mother-in-law think you wanted a magenta muumuu?), we've compiled our best predictions for social media and blogging for the upcoming year. By looking at current trends and past history, we were able to see ...
  • Meaningful Gifts For Kwanzaa
    Conceived in 1966, Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday, celebrated between December 26 and January 1. The seven days represent seven principles to unite African-American communities. On each day, some families gather to reflect or demonstrate a principle. The seven principles of Kwanzaa a ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • N.Y. Times Admits Raw Milk is Cure For Allergies
            WILL the cure for allergies come from the cowshed? Allergies are often seen as an accident. Your immune system misinterprets a harmless protein like dust or peanuts as a threat, and when you encounter it, you pay the ... No related posts. Related p ...
  • Vitamin Bashers Are Wrong, Says Top Doc
              “Don’t stop taking your multivitamin.” That’s the simple advice offered by board-certified family practitioner David Brownstein, M.D., in the wake of heavily publicized recent studies that concluded a daily multivitamin ...
  • ‘Superbug’ bacteria widespread in ...
            About half of the raw chicken breasts in a nationwide sampling carried antibiotic-resistant “superbug” bacteria, a U.S. consumer group said on Thursday, calling for stricter limits on use of the medicines on livestock. It could be ... No relat ...
  • ‘Food fraud’ a growing problem in ...
                If you are what you eat, you could be having an identity crisis. Foods we eat every day could include ingredients that aren’t supposed to be the there. It’s called “food fraud” and its a ... No related posts. R ...
  • Surprise: Mainstream Media (FOX News) Admits G ...
            The following may just be one of the most hard-hitting GMO (danger) reports ever aired by the mainstream media. Who would have ever thought Fox news would admit the dangers of GMOs? After all, the mainstream ... No related posts. Related posts brou ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Merry Christmas from Coal Tattoo
  • Friday roundup, Dec. 20, 2013
    In this Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, miners wait at the entrance to the Baiyanggou coal mine after a gas explosion occurred, in Xinjiang region’s Changji prefecture, western China. An official at the Xinjiang region’s work safety bureau sa ...
  • Energy Summit: Baby steps forward, but miles to go
    As these things go, yesterday’s Governor’s Energy Summit could have been a lot worse.  The annual summit has always been almost exclusively a cheer-leading session for coal, natural gas and big utility companies. The Division of Energy is far from inclusive in the voices it allows, a ...
  • Patriot Coal set to emerge from bankruptcy
    The Associated Press had the story yesterday out of St. Louis: A federal bankruptcy court has approved Patriot Coal’s reorganization plan, clearing the way for it to emerge from 17 months of bankruptcy, the St. Louis-based company said Tuesday as it finished wrapping up its exit financing. ...
  • ‘Coal in its current form is simply unsu ...
    The latest projections from the International Energy Agency are out this morning, and here’s how they read: Tougher Chinese policies aimed at reducing dependency on coal will help restrain global coal demand growth over the next five years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Anti-ageing For Real This Time?
    The research focused on an area of cells, called mitochondria, which produce energy. Over time, the communication between this area and the cell nucleus degrades, leading to the ageing process.Researchers injected a chemical called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD, which reduces in the ...
  • Pencil 53: A Creation Contraption
    Just got mine in.Related Posts:Tax rates and Job Creation in One Graph | The Washington…Yours vs. Mine in Application UI | Dustin CurtisO2 Platform – Real-Time Vulnerability Creation…How to Convince Someone Evolution is True | RedditJob Creation Idea: Six-hour Shift MaximumsT ...
  • The Poor Have More Meaning in Their Lives
    Waiting for Meaning, by Marlene Dumas While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life. (source) This fails to surprise me. Here’s my explanation: The poor live within an ...
  • Scientific Justification of the Critique Sandwich
    Anyone in a management or mentor role has probably heard the concept of sandwiching criticism between positivity. So instead of saying, Man, you really need to show up on time… You should instead say, Hi Mike, we really appreciate the work you do here. We have noticed you coming in late a lot th ...
  • Why Free Will Matters
    Most believe the question of human free will is a purely philosophical or academic matter. It is not. I’ll argue here that no question is more important to the human race. Stay with me. It’ll happen fast. Why I don’t believe we have free will My longer arguments can be found he ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Siblings share passion for performance
    Siblings Deeyah and Adil Khan have both been hitting the headlines in Norway recently: Deeyah for winning an Emmy-award, Adil for teaching Norwegians to dance. They’ve also both been musing about the challenges faced by immigrants and imigrants’ offspring. Deeyah Khan, known as an en ...
  • Short shelf life for new book law
    There were lots of books under Norwegian Christmas trees again this year, even though book prices in the country remain the highest in the world. A new book law that would have continued protecting the industry from price competition has had a short shelf life in the current government, but cons ...
  • Historically proud to be Norwegian
    Nearly three decades after Norway’s oil wealth started visibly changing everyday life and attitudes in the country, researchers can claim that Norwegians have never been prouder of being Norwegian. It’s not so much because of the affluent society that’s arisen, they say, but th ...
  • ‘Serious’ development in French case
    Joshua French, the young Norwegian convicted of murder and imprisoned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, now faces a new trial on charges that he also murdered his Norwegian cell mate Tjostolv Moland. News this week that the trial will start January 7 was called “a very serous developmen ...
  • Christmas storm disrupts holidays
    Traveling home for Christmas was no easy task anywhere in Norway this year, after another major storm swept over most of the country and closed roads, delayed or cancelled trains and ferries and also upset many holiday traditions. State meteorologists were warning that the weather would get even ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • How Goats Built My Food Forest and Gave Me Fue ...
    Trailer only — Watch the full video here! When Geoff Lawton told me that he had discovered a novel way to use goats to design his food forest, it seemed a most unlikely idea. In fact I was a little skeptical. Were the goats replacing the work of his interns? Did he manage to train... Read ...
  • Are We Using Invasive Species? (Kyrgyzstan)
    The rabbit has been an invasive species all across the globe for over 2000 years, but is most commonly known as a pest in Australia. Image courtesy of J.J. Harrison (creative commons) In agriculture we often have to ask ourselves a very serious question. Are we planting invasive species? This qu ...
  • Help This Farmer Stop Monsanto’s GM Canola
    You might not have heard of Steve Marsh yet but this man could lose everything to protect your right to eat GM-free food. Who is Steve Marsh? Steve Marsh is an Australian farmer who lost his organic certification when Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) canola blew onto his farm from a neighbou ...
  • Philosophy and Science – Or The Gospel Accordi ...
    by Nancy Swanson, Ph.D. Physics, Florida State University Science and philosophy have historically been intertwined; science was developed as a discipline in an attempt to answer some basic philosophical questions. These are: How do we know that there is anything “out there” independent from our ...
  • Invest in Humanity (video)
    In this compelling video montage (an artistic blend of TED talks, Burning Man, Samsara and others) Tim Jackson redefines our understanding of investment. It is an invitation to embrace a new form of economy; one bridging our shared past with our common future. In Tim’s words, "prosperi ...

Pointman's

  • Climate Prat of 2013 – We have a winnah!
    Unlike last year, the available selection this one has been noticeably thin. A lot of the usual prats have been smart enough to pick up on the winds of change and are quietly deserting the sinking ship. All we’ve heard from them is the occasional splash of their tiny, wee, small, pale and ...
  • Who is Michael Smith?
    This is a guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. Among other things, it demonstrates the new reality that if the mainstream media allows itself to be muzzled by politicians, or chooses to only represent views it finds itself in agreement with, then those views can nowadays fi ...
  • Used intelligently, they’re our bitches now.
    Within any community of people, there’s always a natural diversity of personality. Usually that diversity is an asset to be tapped into and utilised, sometimes it’s a liability and people learn to cope with the variations. On average, some people are good in certain situations and ba ...
  • COP19 – the grubby truth behind it all.
    It must have been a weekend because I was about. The kids rushed in and I had the “Dad, Dad, he’s hurt” and their miniature hands plucking at me like a flock of birds pecking and pulling me urgently out of the house sideways. They do that, you know it’s important because ...
  • The silver apples of the moon, the golden appl ...
    There’s a lot of stuff you can get away with in the armed services but being a bad leader of a group of men who know they’re going into harm’s way isn’t one of them. They have trust in you or they don’t and you can tell that from their faces. The skinny 25-year-old ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

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Hudson New York

  • Human Rights Gets It Wrong
    On December 10, two British Muslims pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a Connecticut court. The U.S. government accused Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan of recruiting jihadi fighters and sending money to terrorists in Chechnya and Afghanistan. Ahmad
  • Turkey: Are Erdoğan's Days Numbered?
    Major political events have rocked the political scene in Turkey the past two weeks. Turkey's once seemingly-invincible prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seems in a tailspin. A few days ago, he lashed out at U.S. Ambassador Frank Ricciardone and
  • Iran's "Treaty of Hudaybiyya in Geneva"
    In reflections on the deal with Iran, one particular Islamic theological construct has been largely neglected: The treaty of Hudaibiyya. During March 628 AD, the prophet Muhammad marched his army on Mecca, the stronghold of his polytheistic opponents.
  • Has Kerry Heard of the Palestinians' "Hitler"?
    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry may soon have to come up with a new plan to help Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas solve internal problems in ruling his Fatah faction. The only plan that Kerry has thus far proposed is one that talks about
  • Anti-Fascists Caught Looking the Wrong Way?
    Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adbowale have been convicted at the Old Bailey for the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, in which he was run over by a car, then repeatedly stabbed, then nearly beheaded in Woolwich in May. Hardly unexpected, nevertheless, one

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • Police Brutality ~ Cop Tells College Grad ‘You ...
    How about the sheriff put himself in Guererro's position?! If a homeowner felt threatened by unidentified people lurking on his property, he could shoot them and claim "in fear of his life." Of course, if it is an old man shot, no problem, but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ht ...
  • Architects Of Our Demise Coast To Coast AM Alt ...
    Coast To Coast AM Alternative HH - Architects Of Our Demise Coast To Coast AM Alternative HAGMANN and HAGMANN Report. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www. ...
  • MAX KEISER ~ NSA Manipulates Bank Accounts + J ...
    In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the suggestion that the NSA may be manipulating bank account balances and financial markets. They also discuss 'accidental' tax breaks for billionaires in America; while,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • America Over A Barrel ~ Coast To Coast AM Alte ...
    Coast To Coast AM Alternative HH - America Over A Barrel Coast To Coast AM Alternative HAGMANN and HAGMANN Report. Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.fig ...
  • Obama Can't Get Approved For Obamacare Period...
    Whaaaaaaaaat? Why can't they find President Obama in the data base? He's not an American. Those if us with a brain already knew this. Those that have their heads up their rears do nothing but curse and call people names. Visit... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://Finan ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • New Inspector General report finds EPA needs t ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A new report was released today by the EPA Inspector General (IG)—the environmental agency’s independent internal watchdog— regarding drinking water contamination linked with natura ...
  • California's Efficiency Good News Story Part I ...
    Lara Ettenson, Director, California Energy Efficiency Policy, San Francisco We’ve seen a lot of great progress in 2013, including extensive energy-saving programs that save customers money and cut pollution. In addition, this year the state mo ...
  • More Bad News for the Pebble Mine: Rio Tinto ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA Today, in yet another sign that the massive Pebble Mine is doomed, the London-based mining giant Rio Tinto publicly announced that it is considering “divestment” from the ...
  • Historic Agreement to Slash Energy Use by Set- ...
    Noah Horowitz, Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency, San Francisco, CA Under a historic agreement announced today, the electricity used by the more than 230 million set-top boxes installed in America’s homes by y ...

Peakwater

  • A Successful Push to Restore Europe’s Long-Ab ...
    “From the industrial cities of Britain to the forests of Sweden, from the plains of Spain to the shores of the Black Sea, Europe is restoring its rivers to their natural glory. The most densely populated continent on earth is finding space for nature to return along its river banks. The re ...
  • WATER: Trial begins in Metropolitan rate-setti ...
    “The dispute is over how much Metropolitan is charging the San Diego agency to move supplies from the Colorado River to the city of San Diego. The city buys the water from Imperial Valley farmers and Metropolitan delivers it through its canals, pipelines and pumping stations. Lawyers will ...
  • Growing a Glacier
    This year has been a fascinating one for glaciology.  Dozens, if not hundreds, of important discoveries have been made, and are rampant within academic literature. However, the bulk of glaciological developments are often too complex for wider dissemination. Consequently, I relish glaciological ...
  • World Rivers Review – Dec. 2013: Focus on Arts ...
    Protecting rivers and communities from the ravages of large dams tends to involve brainy pursuits: there’s often a heavy focus on policy and political issues, and on designing strategic campaigns to stop destructive river projects and promote better options. While these efforts play a very impor ...
  • Water – Making It Personal: Communicating A Su ...
    “Throughout history, journalism and storytelling have defined civilization. Journalists are the first responders to global crises, the pointers to important trends and the translators between disciplines. Good journalists seek out knowledge, ask thoughtful questions, listen carefully and t ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • what is NOT debatable is they will do whatever ...
    . . . Whether the Koch Bros are truly doing this particular thing or not is debatable … what is NOT debatable is they will do whatever it takes to sustain their financial interest and profit in our current energy economy and solar like Tesla’s electric power without power lines is not part of th ...
  • What to believe … who to trust
    . . . What to believe … who to trust … which study referenced is objective and vetted independently … who paid for the study … what is disclosed to American is  intentionally convoluted making it doubtful that proverbial Philadelphia lawyer can clearly decipher it…   Why Are Americans ...
  • We “filter” everything
    . . . We “filter” everything we see, hear, feel so it is understandable everything in the bible is subject to “spin”…   The Right-Wing Is Filled with Biblical Illiterates — They’d Be Shocked by the Teachings of Jesus if They Ever Bothered to Study Them CJ Werleman, AlterNet It&# ...
  • Walmart and Disney Refuse to Compensate Injure ...
    … Walmart and Disney Refuse to Compensate Injured Bangladeshi Workers…   Kristina Chew, Care2: …Read the Article US and global companies need to face up to the reality that some of their products are produced by men, women and children working in sweatshop conditions.  Filed under: Blo ...
  • Those now waiting in the wings to lead our nation
    . . . Those now waiting in the wings to lead our nation … those to whom “we” have chosen to provide a strictly corporate sanctioned education … those to whom “we” have chosen to provide less than full disclosure and transparency … will when they take the reins be “rainmakers” and most Americans ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Jaguars in Argentine Chaco on verge of local e ...
    The majestic jaguar (Panthera onca), the largest of the New World cats, is found as far north as the southern states of the US, and as far south as northern Argentina. In the past jaguars ranged 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) further south, but their range has shrunk as habitat loss and human dist ...
  • Unraveling the secrets of one of the world's m ...
    The Sunda clouded leopard has always been shrouded in mystery. Only declared a separate species from its mainland cousin, the Borneo clouded leopard, in 2006, the IUCN lists the cat as Endangered. The distinction between the Borneo clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulas) and the Sunda clouded leopard ...
  • Biggest new animal discoveries of 2013 (photos)
    Thousands of species were scientifically described for the first time in 2013. Many of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely-related species, while others were totally novel. Below are some of the most interesting "new species" d ...
  • Scientists make one of the biggest animal disc ...
    In what will likely be considered one of the biggest (literally) zoological discoveries of the Twenty-First Century, scientists today announced they have discovered a new species of tapir in Brazil and Colombia. The new mammal, hidden from science but known to local indigenous tribes, is actuall ...
  • Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013
    1. China begins to tackle pollution, carbon emissions: As China's environmental crisis worsens, the government has begun to unveil a series of new initiatives to curb record pollution and cut greenhouse emissions. The world's largest consumer of coal, China's growth in emissions is finally slowi ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Ice-stranded Kiwis happy despite storm
    A New Zealand scientist stranded on board a ship in Antarctica has reassured family back home that all is well - despite the stricken vessel being barraged by blizzards and stuck in thick pack ice.Ornithologist Kerry-Jayne Wilson...
  • Astronauts' Christmas Eve space station repairs
    Two Nasa astronauts wrapped up successful repairs at the International Space Station on Tuesday after a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk to fix an equipment cooling system.Americans Rick Mastracchio, 53, and Mike Hopkins, 44, floated...
  • Exercising in pregnancy under scope
    Can exercise during pregnancy combat obesity in your baby? And could it help offset the so-called "fat gene"?New Kiwi research is attempting to pin-point the effect that genes can have on obesity, and whether it can be influenced...
  • First fully artificial heart in service
    The lines of thousands of love poems and songs may have to be rewritten, according to Professor Alain Carpentier, the inventor of the world's first fully artificial, self-regulating heart.His contraption is now beating inside the...
  • Jupiter moon has minerals, fountains and ... life?
    One of the moons of Jupiter may be another habitable part of the solar system according to new research showing Europa is rich in minerals and has spectacular water fountains spraying from a subsurface ocean.The Hubble Space Telescope...

The Bovine

  • UN embracing agricultural sanity?
    Seems the UN is not all “Agenda 21″. From AltHealthReport.com: Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and monoculture-based crops, the United Nations is once … Continue ...
  • Friends group raising $3.6M to save 5 acres of ...
    In case you’ve been wondering why posts on the Bovine have been so sparse lately, one contributing factor may be the editor’s pre-occupation with a controversy closer to home. The Toronto Waldorf School (TWS) has not figured much on the … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk “Godfather” in court Feb. 5th
    We haven’t heard any news from Michael Schmidt in what seems like ages. But now, out of the blue, here’s  a story in his hometown paper, giving updates on several of his various court proceedings. From the Owen Sound Sun Times: … Continue reading →
  • Water fluoridation banned in Muskoka
    From Collective Evolution: “The district of Muskoka, Ontario is home to about 60,000 and is a hot spot for Toronto resident cottages. On Monday October 21st, the district voted during a council meeting to end the practice of water fluoridation. … Continue reading →
  • From cellphones to Fukushima — subnature ...
    “We’ve got 3 reactors, the cores have left the vessel. They’ve burned through the bottom of the vessel. We don’t really know where they are, because the radioactive environment even fries robots that TEPCO’s been trying to send in there. … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • VA Refuses Christmas Cards from 51 School Kids ...
    A group of 51 school children in Texas spent the week before Christmas making Christmas cards for veterans. According to the VA, the kids made a mistake by saying "Merry Christmas". Fox News reports VA hospital refuses to accept 'Merry Christmas' cards. Boys and girls at Grace Academy in Prosp ...
  • Pettis on Debt, Malinvestments, Hidden Losses, ...
    Heading into 2014, Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets remains adamant that growth estimates for China are too high and that rebalancing (while necessary), implies lower growth than most expect. Via email ... It is widely acknowledged that perhaps the most important reason to change the C ...
  • Darlene Love - Christmas Wish
    Darlene Love has been appearing on the David Letterman Show every Christmas week since 1986, always singing the same song, 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'. I watched most of them. I caught the 2013 version this year as well. She is one of my favorite "girl group" singers from the 60's 1 ...
  • Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones. MishMike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market dire ...
  • Merry Christmas From the TSA
    Traveling this holiday season? Whether yes or no, the TSA has 12 helpful hints about what you can and cannot carry on planes. Link if video does not play: TSA's 12 Banned Items of Christmas Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com    Mike "Mish" Shedlock is ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervent ...
    Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war. Imperial mil ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “The Surveillance St ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Shahid Buttar On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Shahid Buttar, a writer, poet, musician, and Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Guillermo and Shahid discuss how the complexity and totality of the surveillance s ...
  • Podcast Show #120- ‘What Do We Mean By “Real R ...
    Boiling Frogs Show Presents Cindy Cohn On this episode of Boiling Frogs Show we are joined by Cindy Cohn, Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as its General Counsel. We discuss the latest developments on NSA, including the recent court ruling by Judge Richard Leon and t ...
  • Is MoveOn Less Progressive Than the New York T ...
    The New York Times is hardly a progressive newspaper — but when it comes to the surveillance state and ongoing militarism of the Obama White House, the establishment’s “paper of record” puts MoveOn.org to shame. And so, the same day that the Times editorialized to excoriate President Obama ...
  • The New Great Game Round-Up: December 22, 2013
    New Silk Road: Railways, Pipelines & Terrorism, Russia’s Response to U.S. Missile Defense Shield  & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony a ...

bloody crossroads

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

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  • Why Did You Stay?
    Why did you stay? He wouldn’t do those things if he didn’t really love you. I’m sure you’re exaggerating. What did you do to make him do that? Those are just some of the things that were said to me after I left my husband. Some believed his stalking was proof of his love for […]
  • My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
    After stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving, I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood was where ...
  • THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
    The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...

Dissident Voice

  • Vladimir Vladimirovich and the Grey Lady
    Bill Keller, editorialist for the NY Times and former executive editor of the paper, has recently penned a strong attack on Vladimir Putin arguing that Putin’s leadership “deliberately distances Russia from the socially and culturally liberal West”, describing the Kremlin’s policies as “laws giv ...
  • AIPAC’s Fed Candidate Stanley Fischer on ...
    The rushed campaign to insert Stanley Fischer straight from his position leading Israel’s central bank into the number two spot at the Federal Reserve has allowed little time for research into the appointee’s career or for informed public debate about his record. Like the failed rece ...
  • Looming Danger of Abrupt Climate Change
    The National Research Council of the National Academies (NRCNA) has pre-published (available to the public as of December 2013), an extensive 200-pg study: “Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change, Anticipating Surprises.” The goal of the report is to prepare society to anticipate the ‘otherwise unanti ...
  • “. . . . and furthermore, this committee ...
    the entire NSA and Surveillance Society has wrangled humanity  It’s the 25th, and I am thinking about my buddy Jacob. He’s 25, riddled with PTSD, Battle of Fallujah, Marines, young spirited, radicalized at boot camp and then in country. It was a big scam, but one that ate at his hear ...
  • 2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt
    2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most violently in some instances, by taking a few countries down the path of anarchy and complete chaos. Syria and Egypt are tw ...

Nick Turse

  • nwkarchivist:August, 1977- NYC Police Finall ...
    nwkarchivist: August, 1977- NYC Police Finally Apprehend Son of Sam Killer For months, New York police tracked Son of Sam, an apparently psychotic killer who terrorized the city, fatally shooting six people and wounding seven.  Last week, police arrested David Berkowitz, 24, a postal cler ...
  • guardian:The work of Vivian Maier, who died ...
    guardian: The work of Vivian Maier, who died in 2009, leaving behind 100,000 negatives that no one but she had ever seen. The photographs are being hailed as among the best in 20th-century street photography Photographs: Vivian Maier/Courtesy of Maloof Collection
  • "$80 billion"
    “$80 billion” - The amount of money the U.S. spends a year to keep 2 million prisoners...
  • "Martin Luther King studied Thoreau and Gandhi ...
    “Martin Luther King studied Thoreau and Gandhi and put their ideas to work in the United...
  • "The past guides us; the future needs us."
    “The past guides us; the future needs us.” - Rebecca Solnit, “The Future Needs Us” at...

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  • Merry Christmas to All
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