Wednesday, December 04, 2013

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Post-glacial sea level, combined with isostati...Post-glacial sea level, combined with isostatic rebound, resulted in a sequence of Baltic lakes and seas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Changes in sea level during the last 9,000 yearsChanges in sea level during the last 9,000 years (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

e!Science News

unEarthed

  • In Remembrance: Jan Nona
    Big-hearted fighter never gave up Jan Nona in her kitchen, with tap water contaminated by coal ash. (Photo courtesy of Aaron Jaffe / Circle of Blue) “You hav ...
  • The Insanity of Pennsylvania Coal Ash
    How is coal ash dumped at one site hazardous, but beneficial at another? A portion of the Little Blue Run coal ash impoundment. October 2011. (© Bob Donnan) ...
  • Calif. Ends Rule That Poisoned Us with Flame R ...
    Beginning in 2014, furniture no longer must be treated with toxics Chemicals like those used in flame retardants in household furniture often escape as vapor or airborne particles. (PSR LA) ...
  • Giving Thanks for the End of Catfish Stuffing
    Federal court victory ushers in new health standards The Kingston coal ash disaster in December 2008. (TVA) Five years ago, fish biologists scooped up a catfi ...
  • Thanksgiving: A Time to Consider Our Food Harv ...
    Farmworkers are continually exposed to dangerous pesticides Farmworkers in Wayne County, NY. (Courtesy of Alina Diaz / Alianza Nacional De Campesinas) Today, ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Politico Calls Obamacare Sabotage Sabotage Too
    It isn’t just me…. Politico calls out Republican sabotage…
  • Republican Sabotage Working
    For three years, the Republicans have been working full time to sabotage The Affordable Care Act. Our nation’s “press” can only report on the problems from the roll out, and they rarely do any real journalism pointing out how many people are benefiting from the legislation alre ...
  • Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More
    This is a great article from the Huffington Post on Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More  And Some Policies Are Being Cancelled… There is no legislation where everyone is a winner. The point of any good law is to help the most people while harming the fewest. In the case with Obamacare ...
  • 1,046,000 Texans Won’t Get Free / Afford ...
    That’s right. If Ricky the dirtbag worked with the the feds, they could have set up a system to enroll Texans like the one in Oregon, California, Washington and other places to get free, or low cost health insurance to millions of hard working Texans. But noooooooo. Weall in Texxas duddunt ...
  • Dear Patty Murray
    So Patty,  you are “negotiating” with Paul Ryan are you? Here is your new message. If the wealthy paid taxes at the rate of the middle class, and corporations weren’t allowed to stash their profits overseas, we wouldn’t have a deficit. There is no need to screw the elderl ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Israel’s AG is not representing the publ ...
    When the State defends illegal outposts in the High Court, it tends to mislead – since it prefers the interests of the government over those of the public. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Last week, a new low was reached in the relationship between the State and the courts. In a judgment o ...
  • Report: Israel to let Palestinians use some of ...
    Israeli officials reveal plans to allocate nearly 5,000 acres of privately owned Palestinian land so as not to stand in the way of a PA-USAID economic development program. Israel is pushing through a plan to allocate nearly 5,000 acres of land in Area C of the West Bank (under full Israeli milit ...
  • Druze youth likely headed to prison for consci ...
    Omar Sa’ad reports to Israeli army induction base and announces his refusal to enlist. He is expected to be sentenced to prison. Sa’ad has declared his refusal to be ‘both nationally and conscientiously motivated.’ “I was raised first and foremost as a human being, ...
  • Beaten, arrested, threatened: A personal accou ...
    She was clubbed and dragged while her friends were beaten and arrested during a demonstration against the planned expulsion of thousands of Bedouin in the Negev. By Alma Biblash (translated by Dimi Reider) On Saturday night at the anti-Prawer demonstration in the village of Houra, a policeman sw ...
  • PHOTOS: This tear gas brought to you by the U.S.A.
    Text by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler On the same day that Bethlehem’s minister of tourism noted that the US government provided $400,000 to decorate the city for Christmas, local activists brought a few more US-sponsored ornaments to show to visitors in this West Bank town at the height of its tou ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
    Most food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20 million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say we cherish most.
  • What’s Up With the Cans in Canned Food?
    I now use an electric pressure cooker to make all of the foods I used to buy canned. It is affordable and BPA-free, but the initial cost of the cooker is not negligible. These recommendations all assume that there is access to these foods, a refrigerator, a freezer, and not to be forgotten, a r ...
  • WashPo’s “Too much of too little” misses the point
    Eli Saslow's recent article on SNAP perpetuates the stigma of receiving food stamps and fuels the false perception that low-income consumers are uninformed about proper nutrition.
  • CLF Week in Links: Lead Up to Giving Thanks fo ...
    Sunday kicks off the second annual International Food Workers Week, and a big element of their campaign is raising the minimum wage. The tipped minimum wage for restaurant workers is $2.13.
  • How FDA Should Regulate the Safety of Fruits a ...
    Unfortunately, the rule fails to place any regulatory responsibility on the animal production facilities that generate contaminated animal manure—and thereby threaten to contaminate produce grown on nearby farms. Instead, the full burden of mitigating risk of contamination falls on produce farm ...

k2p blog

  • DNA sequenced from a 400,000 year old hominin ...
    The Max Planck team have now taken a giant leap backwards in time in extracting and analysing an almost complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a 400,000-year-hominin. The specimen is from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain. The results show that it is related to the mit ...
  • The inexorable numbers – 10:10:10:100 is ...
    It is not a forecast or an objective but merely the inexorable arithmetic of demographics which leads to the inevitability of 10.10:10: 100 around the year 2100. 10 billion population, 10 births per 1000 of population, 10 deaths per 1000 of population and a life expectancy at birth of 100 years.
  • Numeracy and language
    Just as conventional languages enable culture and provide a tool for social communication, the various languages of mathematics, I think, enable science and provide a tool for scientific discourse. I take "science" here to be analaogous to a "culture".
  • Volvo to test self-driving cars on Gothenburg ...
    In 2017, 100 self-driving cars will be let loose on selected highways around Gothenburg with ordinary individuals as a test driver .
  • Chinese Jade Bunny took off for the moon tonight
    China will launch the Chang'e-3 lunar probe to the moon at 1:30 a.m. Monday from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, The Chang'e-3 programme encompasses a lander and a moon rover called "Yutu" (Jade Bunny).

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • CNN Censors Interview of the Russian UN Envoy ...
    On Tuesday the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin was interviewed by the CNN host Christiane Amanpour on the Syrian and Iranian issues. The full text of the interview was published on the web-site of the Russian mission to the UN. Surprisingly, several key Q&As were me ...
  • The humanitarian tragedy of Syrian Christians: ...
    We are publishing the remarks by Metropolitan Hilarion at the Colloquium on Serious Crisis in Syria, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, November 17, 2013. “We have gathered together today to discuss the most terrible humanitarian disaster of the last decades – the tragedy of the Syrian people. What is h ...
  • Future of Internet after the Snowden affair
    Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about American intelligence agencies’ wiretapping of European leaders, as well as their collection of the personal data of European citizens, will apparently have far-reaching implications which go far beyond a simple diplomatic scandal. This was d ...
  • The role of the BBC in the Syrian conflict
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes a transcript of outstanding 12-minutes long video describing the evidence of falsification technics used by the BBC correspondents while reporting on Syria on the eve of historical voting in British parliament on August 29, 2013. This is how the BBC website introduces a ...
  • “Christian world is facing challenges of ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an abstract from the address of Metropolitan Hilarion to the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches taken place in Busan (South Korea) last week. No other presentation has provoked such agitation and excitement, delight and  indignation in the hall. The matter i ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • Inquiry Asked “What Does Justice Look Like?” I ...
    Survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions in Australia were very nervous and excited with the imminent release of the final report of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. We have been betrayed by those in authority so uniformly throughout our entire lives. We have seen those dete ...
  • RIP Father Kevin Lee – a disobedient pri ...
    The sad news is filtering through about the death of Father Kevin Lee in last week’s massive typhoon in the Philippines. This was no doubt a very great tragedy for his friends and especially his young family, with whom he had spent so little time. Kevin saw his daughter Michelle born in la ...
  • A Tale of Three Inquiries – Part 3 The V ...
    The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry was the first of the current trio of investigations into the coverup and enabling of widespread child sexual assault by religious institutions. All three inquiries are officially named in softer, and more complicated and inclusive language, but the core issue ...
  • Why Aren’t We More Outraged by This Corr ...
    Last month it was revealed Catholic church officials were less than honest with police in NSW about the crimes of their carefully protected child sex offender colleagues and friends. Many would say, so what’s new? What was new was the release under Freedom of Information of documents reque ...
  • Will the Royal Commission Use Its Teeth?
    There have been a number of times when evidence before the Royal Commission’s public hearings has been conflicting. Confusing. Dodgy even. But this week’s questioning of YMCA managers has uncovered what only the most naïve would consider to be anything other than direct and deliberate lies to th ...

WL Central

  • 2013-11-29 WikiLeaks Calls for US to Drop Gran ...
    Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00 GMT In the face of the US government's three-year attack on WikiLeaks, an anonymous Department of Justice official talking to the Washington Post now claims that there is little possibility of prosecuting Julian Assange for publishing, but that a Grand Jury remains ...
  • 2013-11-29 Assange Statement on Anakata Extrad ...
    Statement by WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange concerning Sweden's extradition of WikiLeaks consultant Gottfrid "Anakata" Svartholm Warg: "It is time someone says it like it is: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is a political prisoner and Sweden has fallen off the map of decent nations in its treatment ...
  • 2013-11-15 Jeremy Hammond Sentencing Statement
    Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Jeremy Hammond and I'm here to be sentenced for hacking activities carried out during my involvement with Anonymous. I have been locked up at MCC for the past 20 months and have had a lot of time to think about how I would explain my actio ...
  • 2013-11-06 Statement by Sarah Harrison
    Wednesday 6 November 2013, 18:30 CET As a journalist I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend. I worked in Hong Kong as part of the WikiLeaks team that brokered a number of asylum offers for Snowden and negotiated his safe ex ...
  • 2013-11-03 Edward Snowden meets with Hans-Chri ...
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden met with German Green Party MP Hans-Christian Ströbele on 31 October regarding his being a witness for a possible investigation into NSA spying in Germany. read more

U N News

  • UN agency welcomes selection of two female neg ...
    The United Nations entity tasked with advancing gender equality today applauded the appointment of two women to the team negotiating between Colombian authorities and the rebel group known as the FARC.
  • Audit of Argentina's foreign debt necessary fo ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged authorities in Argentina to undertake an audit of its external debt to improve transparency, and to intensify efforts to improve social conditions for their people.
  • UN refugee agency voices concern at deaths at ...
    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has voiced concern at the recent deaths at sea after a boat capsized earlier this week in the Bahamas, the third such incident in the northern Caribbean since October.
  • Inspired by United Nations, New York museum ta ...
    On the spot in Queens, New York where the United Nations General Assembly met during the late 1940s, a Mexican artist is testing his hypothesis that ordinary people, through creative approaches, can find solutions to world problems facing the current world body.
  • Honouring three years of UN Academic Impact, y ...
    Created three years ago to actively support universally accepted principles in human rights, literacy, sustainability and conflict resolution, the United Nations initiative working with higher education institutions has marked its third anniversary by spotlighting efforts of students in the New ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

reference frame

  • Making exceptional symmetries of SUGRA manifest
    I found at least two hep-th papers interesting today. Nathan Berkovits brings us some field redefinition that maps his pure spinor formalism to the RNS formalism, using a new method of "dynamical twisting". My understanding is that it's not sufficient to understand why the calculated amplitudes ...
  • PNAS: male, female brains wired along differen ...
    Female brains don't separate the hemisphere much but they do divide front and back more sharply I have been sure for decades that the biological differences between the male and female brains are significant and are the ultimate reason of the statistical differences in the interests, talents, a ...
  • Hurricane forecasts are worthless
    I don't know the methods that folks in NOAA are using to forecast the number of Atlantic hurricanes and I am not interested in these methods because they clearly don't work. Pages such as this one (with different years in the URL) show you tables with the predicted and actual number of named sto ...
  • Feynman lectures on physics: Volume III now free
    Free online quantum mechanics course from a top guru In September, I mentioned that some folks were transforming the Feynman Lectures on Physics to free web pages with MathJax, the same \(\rm\LaTeX\)-based system to write elegant mathematical expressions that has been used on this blog for tw ...
  • Neoworx, neocounter: RIP
    I thought that the Neocounter in the right lower sidebar was the prettiest visitor counter on the market – because of the many types of geographic statistics and the pretty animations that many of you were surely hating (and you will cynically celebrate a few seconds by which the website speeds ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Paul Walker suffered ‘traumatic and thermal in ...
    Actor Paul Walker, star of the Fast and Furious film series, died of the “combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries” in a weekend car crash, the Los Angeles coroner announced today. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related po ...
  • Stunnning Chart: Today’s Stock Market is Eeril ...
    With the Holiday shopping season off to a slow start according to preliminary retail sales numbers and with the stock market sitting near all time highs, one can’t help but wonder what will happen when investors realize the economy isn’t really doing as well as we’ve been told ...
  • MUST WATCH: Expert Testifies to Congress that ...
    by Noah Rothman, Mediate: During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert testified that the consequences of the president ...
  • Mike Duffy audit: Senate kills attempt to call ...
    Senators have voted against instructing a committee to hear from Michael Runia, a Deloitte executive implicated in possible attempted interference with last spring’s audit into Senator Mike Duffy’s expenses. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund ...
  • Big Brother Jumps Air Gap Using Inaudible Soun ...
    from Mark Dice: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: New Mesh Network Documents Confirm Police Vehicle’s Real-Time Access To DHS Spy Cameras by Mikael Thalen, Story Leak: Following b ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Civil War And The Litmus Test For Key Military ...
    A renowned author and whistleblower who has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize for his humanitarian work, was contacted earlier this year by a high ranking military official to reveal the truth about a “litmus test” proposed by the current administration… apparently asking ...
  • There Is One Last Thing To Which The People Ca ...
    Article II, Section III of the Constitution to which every president swears an oath, commands that the president shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Public order requires government to remain faithful to the law as much as it requires the citizenry to do so; because if the acti ...
  • Survival SKILLS – More Than Just Food An ...
    The prepper’s of today will vary in their range of risk tolerance – from the casual prepper (high risk tolerance) to the extreme prepper (very low risk tolerance). Their preparations and preparedness will also vary corresponding to their risk tolerance and/or recognition of risk&#823 ...
  • 8 Lessons Learned From The Great Depression
    image: United Sates Farm Security Administration The Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s was a reflection of high unemployment, staggering debt, and a collapsed stock market. The hardship that resulted has not been experienced by Americans since. Those at the time somehow lived through ...
  • Paracord
    550 Paracord has made its name in the commercial industry through its use by the military as an important ‘tool’. It was first introduced and applied in parachute construction during World War II and was quickly recognized for its use in other tasks. Today it is used by both military ...

Fast Company

  • Circa's 10 Most Followed News Story Lines Of 2013
    People kept coming back for updates on the government shutdown, Boston bombings, Edward Snowden, and more.Mobile-first news outlet Circa did a year in review, rounding up its top 10 stories of 2013. Ignoring that there's almost a full month left in the year, the top articles had readers ferventl ...
  • John Maeda, Innovative President Of RISD, Depa ...
    The design legend swaps East Coast academia for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and eBay.After just six years as president of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda is moving on.Read Full Story     
  • With Medium 1.0, Ev Williams Tackles The Platf ...
    Ev Williams talks about designing the newly-launched Medium 1.0, and his vision for the blogging platform's future in online publishing."What is Medium?"Read Full Story     
  • The Doctor, Veterinarian, And Lactation Specia ...
    With services like Google Helpouts, house calls are back in a big, modern way.When Google launched Helpouts in November, it opened a marketplace for experts--from scrappy entrepreneurs to big-name brands such as makeup retailer Sephora--to share their skills over video chat.Read Full Story &nbsp ...
  • Zombie Drones! Hacker Finds A Way To Hijack UAVs
    A notorious hacker has created "SkyJack," which can hijack drones and turn them into a drone botnet.Samy Kamkar, a hacker best known for bringing down Myspace and creating an "Evercookie" that can follow your browsing habits forever, has released all the hardware specs and code needed to hijack ...

Jadaliyya

  • Devastation Is Upon Us
    They say that before you drown a calm fills you. A subtle euphoria loosens your last grip on life. Today, two futures lie ahead of us: one known and one unknown. Today, twenty-seven people sit in jail. Alaa Abd El Fattah, Mohamed Al-Rifae, Mohamed Hosny, Taimour, Mamdouh Gamal, Abdalla Zekky, ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Ralf Brand and Sara Fregone ...
    Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese, The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Polarization, Cohesion. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Sara Fregonese (SF): The book is based on the research project “The Built Environment: Mirror and Mediator of Radicalization?” ...
  • 20 Years of Talks: Keeping Palestine Occupied
      Twenty years ago, the PLO Central Council approved the Oslo Accord with the Israeli government. Israeli-Palestinian talks were slated to conclude within 5 years, yet two decades on Israel's occupation continues, and the situation on the ground has only moved backwards for Palesti ...
  • Twenty Years of Talks: Keeping Palestine Occupied
    Twenty years ago, the PLO Central Committee approved the Oslo Accord with the Israeli government. Israeli-Palestinian talks were slated to conclude within five years, yet two decades on Israel's occupation continues, and the situation on the ground has only moved backwards for Palestinians. ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 3)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...

mediagazer

  • U.S. says online ads should be clearly marked, ...
    Diane Bartz / Reuters: U.S. says online ads should be clearly marked, undeceptive  —  The growing online usage of ads designed to blend in with the rest of a website's content, a practice known as “native advertising,” may be illegal in some instances, the Federal Tr ...
  • Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC (Tommy Christ ...
    Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC  —  Just over two weeks ago, MSNBC host Martin Bashir delivered a harsh piece of commentary that culminated in the suggestion that someone should “s-h-i-t” in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's (R-AK) m ...
  • Joel Johnson named Gawker editorial director ( ...
    Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York: Joel Johnson named Gawker editorial director  —  Joel Johnson, founding editor of Kotaku, Gizmodo and The Consumerist, has been named editorial director of Gawker, Nick Denton told staff in a memo Wednesday.  —  Johnson, current ...
  • International rights group appeals for the rel ...
    Addis Ababa / Associated Press: International rights group appeals for the release of Ethiopian reporter jailed for 18 years  —  ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - A rights group is making a global appeal for the release from prison of an award-winning journalist in Ethiopia.  &mdash ...
  • Dueling Arafat Reports Divide Palestinians - A ...
    BuzzFeed: Dueling Arafat Reports Divide Palestinians — And Al Jazeera  —  Was the late Palestinian leader poisoned?  “This is going to look biased.”  —  A new French report has found that contrary to recent Swiss findings, Yasser Arafat was ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • India says food security is non-negotiabl ...
    Tweet Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 4 (ANI): Commerce and Industry Ministry Anand Sharma said on Wednesday that as far as India is concerned, compromises on food security are non-negotiable. Addressing the plenary session of the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) her ...
  • Around the NHL: Penguins beat Isles on Cr ...
    Blue Jackets chat at 1 p.m. today Blue Jackets 1, Lightning 0: Bobrovsky injury hangs over win Blue Jackets notebook: Foligno flashes skill on highlight-reel goal Jackets-Lightning game summary Around the NHL: Penguins beat Isles on Crosby’s OT goal Blue Jackets: Jack Johnson a plus despite ...
  • Daily Primer Dec. 4: Canadiens look to sw ...
    (Source: New York Islanders) The Montreal Canadiens beat Martin Brodeur two nights ago at Bell Centre to win the front end of a home-and-home series against the New Jersey Devils. They'll be looking at a different goaltender when they take the ice Wednesday at Prudential Center. Cory Sch ...
  • Postgame Notes and Quotes: December 3 vs. ...
    (Source: Anaheim Ducks) The Ducks are the only team in the NHL without a regulation loss at HOME, going 10-0-2 at Honda Center this season. It marks the third time since the implementation of the shootout (2005-06 season) that an NHL club has gone through its first 12 home games without a re ...
  • Kings vs Ducks: Postgame Quotes (Los Ange ...
    (Source: Los Angeles Kings) Quotes from LAKingsInsider.com Martin Jones -  On when he got word he'd be starting: Last night after the game. On whether he was nervous: Yeah, I mean I was probably more nervous last night than today. Once you start the day and you start going through your ...

no frakking consensus

  • That Silly Coal Speech – Part 2
    In the National Post today I argue that the extreme anti-coal stance of UN officials and green activists harms both people and the environment.
  • Anti-Democratic Green Activism
    If the public is to be represented at climate negotiations by someone other than their own government, it has a right to elect and dismiss those representatives.
  • Independent Greenpeace? Never Mind
    Greenpeace makes a show of rejecting government and corporate money. But it's close pals with the WWF - which gets enormous funding from exactly those sources.
  • UN Climate Fanatics
    According to Ban Ki-moon, the latest IPCC report vaporized climate skepticism.
  • That Silly Coal Speech
    UN officials need to stop dressing up political arguments as science.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New Paper Offers Sweeping Plan to Decarbonize ...
    Eighteen prominent international climate scientists and economists have authored a paper that seeks to answer the most vexing environmental question facing the planet: How to reverse soaring carbon dioxide emissions and prevent the world from experiencing destabilizing climate change. Their answ ...
  • Microplastic Pollution Harms Worms at Bottom o ...
    As plastic trash accumulates in ocean ecosystems, it may be damaging worms and other sensitive marine life at the bottom of the food chain, scientists report. Two British studies found that microplastics — tiny remnants, less than 5 mm in diameter, from the breakdown of plastic trash — made seaf ...
  • Out of India’s Trash Heaps, A Controversy on I ...
    India is planning to burn more of its trash to generate badly needed electricity. But as the case of a waste-to-energy plant in New Delhi shows, critics are worried about lax air pollution controls and the impact of incineration on people who eke out a living picking through waste dumps. BY DA ...
  • Poachers Killed 22,000 Elephants in Africa Las ...
    Poachers slaughtered 22,000 elephants in 27 African countries last year, according to a new report. Officials with The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and two conservation groups said that 15,000 elephant Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay A herd ...
  • Wide Mangrove Destruction Is Documented Along ...
    Rapid agricultural expansion destroyed nearly two-thirds of the mangrove forestsin Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta between 1978 and 2011, increasing the region’s vulnerability to cyclones and typhoons, according to a new study. Using remote sensing imagery Click to Enlarge Webb et al., 2013 Man ...

oldephartte/Diigo

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Creature Feature: Clownfish
    (Photo: michael fontenoth) The brightly-colored clownfish needs no introduction—the reef fish is one of the most recognizable fish in the world. But aside from being the star of Disney’s “Finding Nemo,” the clownfish has some impressive adaptations and a strange life history. There are actua ...
  • Support Renewable Energy - Opinion in Florida' ...
    (Photo: Oceana) Today I wrote an opinion piece for South Florida's Sun Sentinel about the need for renweable energy. I'd like to share mystory with you, and I hope you'll pass it along to your family and friends.
  • Rashida Jones Talks Up Oceana and Belize on Ji ...
    (Photo: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) Last week, Oceana traveled to Belize with actresses Rashida Jones and Angela Kinsey. They spent four days visiting the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the entire western hemisphere, and learning about ocean conservation in Belize. Af ...
  • Creature Feature: Harp Seal
    (Photo: Jinho Jung) There’s no doubt that harp seal pups are perilously cute. But did you know that once they grow up, these seals migrate thousands of miles each year? Named after the dark, harp-shaped patterns on the backs of adult seals, harp seals are widespread in the chilly waters of t ...
  • Four reasons to be thankful for Oceana supporters
    Original photo © OCEANA/Carlos Minguell | Jewel anemones (Corynactis viridis). Gunboat wreck, Portimão, Algarve, Portugal. We’d like to send out a great big “Thank you” to all of our activists and supporters this Thanksgiving. Oceana’s grassroots activists have taken action over 600,000 time ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Grading Canada’s Economic Recovery: Underemplo ...
    This week, Behind the Numbers is publishing a series examining Canada’s economic recovery and scrutinizing the government’s economic message. Monday, we looked at GDP and Economic Growth, yesterday we looked at unemployment in Canada; today and Thursday we will be looking at indicators of employ ...
  • Grading Canada’s Economic Recovery: The truth ...
    This week, Behind the Numbers is publishing a series examining Canada’s economic recovery and scrutinizing the government’s economic message. Yesterday we looked at GDP and Economic Growth; today we’re looking at Employment. And Wednesday and Thursday will be looking at indicators of employment ...
  • Grading Canada’s Economic Recovery: Behind the ...
     “Among Group of Seven (G-7) countries, such as the U.S., Germany and Japan, Canada has had the strongest record of growth and job creation over the economic recovery.” - 2013 Budget “Canada now leads the G-7—in job creation; in income growth; and in keeping debt levels low.” - Speech from the T ...
  • Public-Sector Employees in Québec: Fat Cats? R ...
    It’s often said that public-sector employees are somehow privileged. That they are fat cats. That their wages are rather exceptional. Actually, some commentators even contend that working for the Québec government is synonymous with phenomenal wages and truly out of the ordinary working conditio ...
  • Black Friday GDP: Consumption Slows, But Inven ...
    Ironically, Statistics Canada’s third-quarter GDP report on Black Friday showed the growth rate of consumption being cut in half. Final consumption expenditure grew by 0.4% in the third quarter compared to 0.8% in the second quarter. Household spending growth fell to 0.6% from 0.9%. Government c ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • War Fears Rise After China Missile Tests Over ...
    The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Vityaz early-warning radar system deployed along the entire Russian border has confirmed the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) launching from their Type 092 Xia-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN) of two atomic JL-2 missiles off ...
  • EU Set to Monitor “Intolerant” Citizens
    A frightening proposal currently being considered by the European Parliament would direct governments to monitor citizens deemed “intolerant” and could even lead to a ban on all criticism of Islam and feminism. The European Framework National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance (PDF), which w ...
  • Global nuclear conflict between US, Russia, Ch ...
    A global conflict between the US, Russia, and China is likely in the coming months should the world powers fail to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, an American analyst says. “If the talks fail, if the agreements being pursued are not successfully carried forward and implemented, then there would ...
  • Putin Ends NATO Missile Pact, Warns Military T ...
    A sobering report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the 4 NATO F-16 fighter jets scrambled from Turkey hours ago to harass the Il-20 reconnaissance warplanes flying along Russia’s Black Sea coast on one their routine daily missions was in dire ...
  • China reveals its ability to nuke the US
    State-run media claims the Chinese military has missiles capable of hitting cities all across the U.S. China’s submarine fleet currently is on ‘routine patrol.’ According to Chinese media, this is the first time China has possessed ‘effective underwater nuclear deterrence ...

Daily Dose

  • Google Search for Android gets app listings, l ...
    Google today announced a big update to Google Search for Android that will make it a lot easier to find information. In short, the company has added app listings, meaning... Keep reading →
  • TouchCast brings its ‘TV studio in a box ...
    Video authoring platform TouchCast is bringing its ‘professional TV studio in a box’ offering to more devices. The company today launched a beta version for the desktop that it believes... Keep reading →
  • Microsoft to launch Windows Azure Region for B ...
    Microsoft today announced it is opening a Windows Azure Region in Brazil, slated to come online in early 2014. This will be the service’s first major expansion into South America.... Keep reading →
  • Cyber Monday 2013 mobile shopping: PayPal sees ...
    PayPal and eBay Enterprise have revealed some statistics for the Cyber Monday yesterday’s shopping craze. While the increases weren’t as big as for Thanksgiving, numbers for which were released on... Keep reading →
  • The most valuable lessons I learned from manag ...
    Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo, the ultimate online collaboration tool. “I can’t work effectively at home.” “Decisions are made in person.” “I feel isolated without an... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
    ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...
  • What price the carbon price?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, November 21 We all know that the act of 'putting a price on carbon' has contributed to the downfall of three Australian prime ministers and two opposition leaders. What might not be as well known is that carbon pricing has gone relatively unnoticed in ot ...
  • Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
    Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...
  • Cut emissions and save on household bills
    From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...
  • Energy freedom on or off the grid?
    By Ben Courtice. Chain Reaction #119, Nov 2013 It's long been a favoured wish of many environmentalists to go off the grid, to be self-sufficient in energy and other services, and avoid the corporate utilities and their coal-powered electricity. The ambition for freedom from energy bills and f ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • APP's Borneo expansion to be constrained by fo ...
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) will not convert any blocks of forest found to have high conservation value or substantial carbon stocks as it expands in Indonesian Borneo, according the forestry giant's managing director of sustainability. Responding to a report published by Greenomics, Aida Greenb ...
  • Microsoft founder funds Africa-wide elephant ...
    Beginning next year, light planes and helicopters will undertake the first ever continent-wide aerial survey of Africa's vanishing elephant populations. The hugely ambitious initiative, which will count elephant herds in 13 countries, is being funded by Microsoft founder, Paul Allen, through his ...
  • Sky islands: exploring East Africa's last frontier
    The montane rainforests of East Africa are little-known to the global public. The Amazon and Congo loom much larger in our minds, while the savannas of East Africa remain the iconic ecosystems for the region. However these ancient, biodiverse forests—sitting on the tops of mountains rising ...
  • Sri Lankan elephant amnesty will lead to poach ...
    Environmentalists have responded with alarm to a proposed amnesty permitting the registration of illegally captured elephants in Sri Lanka. Recent reports in Sri Lankan media have outlined the proposal, stating that during the amnesty period it would be possible to register elephant calves for a ...
  • 86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert ...
    Bigger than all of Brazil, among the harshest ecosystems on Earth, and largely undeveloped, one would expect that the Sahara desert would be a haven for desert wildlife. One would anticipate that big African animals—which are facing poaching and habitat loss in other parts of the world&#82 ...

Sierra Express

  • John Bonoh Sisay joins London Mining Company’s ...
    Lunsar — (03 December 2013) — London Mining Company is pleased to announce that John Bonoh Sisay will join its Board as a Non-Executive Director. “I am delighted to welcome Mr. Sisay to London Mining Company’s Board,” said Graeme Hossie, CEO of London Mining Plc.  “Not only does John have extens ...
  • My Christmas Experiences
    Christmas has always been a major part of my life ever since I could remember. For a while it seemed the older I got the better the Christmases experiences however it did not last and it came to an abrupt  end by the age of 20. My worst and best Christmas experiences will be shared […]
  • African gospel music artist releases Christmas ...
    UNITED KINGDOM – The joy of the holidays is finally here and gospel musician Sam Adebanjo and Desire to Worship God are ringing in the holiday season with his latest hit “Papa O.” WORLD TOUR CONTINUES Music enthusiasts can see Adebanjo on the next stop on their world tour on Dec. 27 at the Manch ...
  • Accommodation – Halcyon Place
    Halcyon Place is a three story estate on the Westside of Freetown, Sierra Leone; comfortably situated in the friendly Tengbeh Town community. There are several “sweet spots” to relax and savor the panoramic view of the Lion Mountains and Leicester Peak.  The veranda offers a skyline view of Kroo ...
  • Sierra Leone makes more progress in TI index
    Sierra Leone has gone up four places in the 2013 Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International (TI).  The survey is a tool used by TI to assess perceived levels of public sector corruption in one hundred and seventy-seven countries around the world. Sierra Leone is ranked 11 ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • China demand lifts dairy prices
    International dairy product prices are pushing sharply higher, driven by strong demand from China.Results from the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction yesterday showed the GDT Price Index rose by 3.9 per cent compared with the last...
  • Big jump in world dairy prices (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products staged the biggest gain in five months, pushing the average price to a two-month high, as rennet casein climbed to a record.The GDT Price Index, previously known as the GDT-TWI Price Index, rose...
  • Commodity prices down as aluminium, milk powde ...
    New Zealand commodity prices snapped four months of gains as aluminium and whole milk powder fell, though a weaker kiwi dollar shielded local producers from the decline.
  • Terms of trade at 40-year high
    The string of stronger-than-expected economic data continued today with Statistics New Zealand reporting the country's highest terms of trade in 40 years.
  • Fonterra must do better, chief says
    Fonterra has to lift its game in food safety and quality, and also sustainability, says chief executive Theo Spierings.Addressing Fonterra's annual meeting at its Edendale site in Southland yesterday, Spierings said the botulism...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Jacob Sullum in Time: Why the Sandy H ...
    Today the city of Newtown, Connecticut, finally released recordings of the 911 calls police received during the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Deccember 2012. In a Time essay, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues that such primary materials can help people assess police and ...
  • Wanting to Testify in No-Fly List Lawsuit Land ...
    A civil rights trial was supposed to begin this week in San Francisco targeting the Department of Homeland Security’s opaque, mystifying and utterly inaccessible no-fly list. It immediately hit a snag. The daughter of Rahinah Ibraham, the individual suing the government for being pl ...
  • The Disingenuous Arguments Behind the One-Year ...
    Today, nearly a year after Adam Lanza murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the city finally released recordings of 911 calls made from the scene of that horrifying crime. The long delay was due to opposition by State's Attorney ...
  • Donate to Reason in Bitcoin, You Kook ...
    It's Day One of Reason's annual webathon, in which we cajole, bargain with, and tickle you into donating whatever you can–$10, $100, $10,000—for the cause of helping create ever-more libertarian journalism and commentary. Our ambitious goal is to raise $100,000 of tax-deductib ...
  • Ohio Judge Rules That Police Can't Search You ...
    An Ohio judge ruled last week that a state highway patrolman was overstepping legal bounds when he searched the vehicle of a driver who had been too polite to him.  The incident began when Patrolman Jared Haslar, who had been patrolling a speed trap, pulled over Joshua Fontaine for ...

Mercury Rising

  • US government shuts down key news source
    Elizabeth Murray, The Consortium: This New Year’s Eve, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will quietly deliver a devastating blow to the American public’s access to accurate, unbiased information that is unparalleled in quality and comprehensiveness by shutting off access to the ...
  • ALEC Exposed: The Guardian Has The Goods. Will ...
    Charlie Pierce said it, I believe it, that settles it: Nobody has any excuse any longer. Reporters — local and national — no longer have any excuse to treat ALEC and its work product as anything more than corporate-funded propaganda designed to exist outside the imperatives of democr ...
  • Shutdown 2 Watch: McConnell Attacks Tea Party, ...
    Mitch McConnell doesn’t want another government shutdown, yet he’s been reluctant to publicly, in front of cameras and microphones, confront those fellow Republicans of his who do. His reluctance has officially ended. He was interviewed by a writer for the right-wing Washington Exami ...
  • Shutdown 2 Watch: McConnell Attacks Tea Party, ...
    Mitch McConnell doesn’t want another government shutdown, yet he’s been reluctant to publicly, in front of cameras and microphones, confront those fellow Republicans of his who do. His reluctance has officially ended. He was interviewed by a writer for the right-wing Washington Exami ...
  • Spineless Chris Christie Flip-Flops On Obamaca ...
    A little over a year ago, New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie was really happy to be asking President Obama for Hurricane Sandy aid and posing for pictures shaking hands with him (but not hugging him, oh no no no, no matter what the pictures show). Barely nine months ago, Christie, buc ...

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

  • The Carbon Warrior
    Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity. As one of the world’s foremost exp ...
  • In Haiti, Planting Trees Is No Simple Matter
    Reforestation and soil conservation programmes costing many thousands of dollars in this rural community have resulted in hundreds of small ledges built of straw or sacks of earth. In certain areas, the earthworks seem to be lasting, but in others, they are disintegrating. The construction and d ...
  • South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and ...
    The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of Fiji representing G77 nations. It took two weeks and 36 st ...
  • South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and ...
    The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd Stern of the United States and Sai Navoti of Fiji representing G77 nations. It took two weeks and 36 st ...
  • New Hope for Haiti’s Decimated Forests
    Small farmers could play an important part in making Haiti – where just two percent of trees are still standing – green again. With a population of 10 million and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 7.8 billion dollars, Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, has been crippled by environmen ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Football fever: dengue in Brazil
    The 2014 FIFA World Cup could have fans reaching fever pitch for reasons other than football: the event also coincides with the country's seasonal spike in dengue virus cases, an Oxford scientist ha...
  • Place that memory
    When we recall an event, the brain automatically also calls up the nerve cells storing where the event took place, helping us to place our memories in space and time, new research using human subjects...
  • AIDS Awareness Week
    This week is AIDS Awareness Week. It is thought that, worldwide, 35 million people carry the HIV virus, and although current drugs work well to prevent AIDS, there is no cure in sight. Here's your Qui...
  • Cell stiffness signals cancer
    A new way to spot cancerous cells speedily, by looking at their stiffness, has been developed by US scientists. Cancers and a range of other diseases are associated with an abnormal build-up of flui...
  • Bacteria pick up mammoth DNA
    Bacteria can readily pick up and use fragments of DNA they find laying around, including old mammoth genes, scientists have announced. While it's been known for decades that bacteria can acquire gen...

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Care2 - Environment

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Save the Peruvian Amazon f ...
    Save the rainforests of the Peruvian Amazon, and the countless species they protect, from destruction at the hands of palm oil companies Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Sign now for a Frack-Free UK ! PLEASE TAKE ACT ...
    Please reconsider your position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, immediately and instead champion clean energy sources which do not risk our global climate, the natural environment and our health. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop The Objectifying ...
    These corporations understand what kind of a message they are sending to the female gender especially to the younger women who are gullible to these kind of advertisements and take these women as role models Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture  |  ...
  • GOOD NEWS! Endangered green sea turtles m ...
    Back in 1979, only 62 green turtle nests remained in Florida. Due to extensive conservation and protection efforts, they have made a dramatic. Officials estimate that the state now has 35,000 green turtle nests. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Save America's Pine Forests
    Please take decisive action to ensure the protection of the New Jersey Pinelands from devastation by this invasive beetle species. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Exercise improves cognition; activities of dai ...
    A new review shows that there is promising evidence that exercise programs can significantly improve the cognitive functioning of people with dementia and their ability to perform daily activities, but no significant effect of exercise on mood. Submitted by deb n. to Health & Wellness & ...
  • Regulate Endangered Pet Ownership in West Virg ...
    West Virginia is one of the only remaining states where ownership of all types of exotic pets remain legal and unregulated. A recent effort to crack down on exotic pet ownership was thrown out during the last stage, leaving dangerous and endangered Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • Urge the USDA to Protect Captive Bears ! PLEAS ...
    Despite dragging its heels for more than a year after PETA petitioned it to enact stronger regulatory protection for bears, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has finally opened the public comment period for consideration of this critical Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &nb ...
  • Tell Amazon and Microsoft you want a clean, gr ...
    Amazon and Microsoft use old-fashioned coal power the stuff that causes climate change for the electricity they need to store your e-mails, photos, music and videos. Take action now and tell these companies to make the Internet green. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   N ...
  • Sign now for a Frack-Free UK ! PLEASE TAKE ACT ...
    Please reconsider your position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, immediately and instead champion clean energy sources which do not risk our global climate, the natural environment and our health. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Compared to Peers a Pitiful, Pathetic, Poor Pe ...
    By Patricia L Johnson Every three years the PISA, Programme for International Student Assessment, is administered to 15 year old students around the world to determine their knowledge in reading, math and science. The last test was offered in 2012 … Continue reading →
  • Progress Report – Affordable Care Act We ...
    s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/HealthCare-Site-Progress-Report-Final.pdf.Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured Tagged: ACA Website, Obamacare, PPACA
  • Final Policy and Payment Changes to the Medica ...
    Details for Title: Final Policy and Payment Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2014.Filed under: Government Tagged: Calendar Year 2014, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, Medicare, Physician Fee Schedule, Policy
  • Final Report on The Supplemental Nutrition Ass ...
    www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/snap_report_-_final.pdf.Filed under: Government Tagged: Food Insecurity, Hunger, Republican cuts, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
  • How to Safely Store, Thaw, and Roast a Turkey
    How to Safely Store, Thaw, and Roast a Turkey.Filed under: News and politics

Rogue Government - WP

  • TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
    Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
  • The King of the Freeloaders
    As Karl Marx once quoted Goethe “everything that exists deserves to perish.” And it is exactly that petulant and craven mentality birthed by the king of the freeloaders that conservatives are up against. The “progressive” notion of freedom is freedom from responsibility. ...
  • 2013-2014 NFL Fantasy Team
  • Americans Warned of ‘Revolution from Abo ...
    Anyone that has spent more than five minutes delving into the background of the progressive media’s appointed Messiah — the self-professed Marxist radical community organizer and “regular” attendee of the Jeremiah Wright school of America-hatred — a man so well-vers ...
  • Conservatives Should Not Give Up
    After President Obama came to power, he ran trillion dollar deficits every year, doubled spending, exploded the national debt, downgraded the country’s credit rating, and sought to remove the debt limit, permanently. Unemployment slowly declines because of the record numbers of Americans giving ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Where Is the Global Economy Heading?
    In this column, Johan Galtung, rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University and author of "Peace Economics”, calls for growth with distribution rather than stagnation with inequality.The post Where Is the Global Economy Heading? appeared first on Inter Press Service.
  • Food Security, Trade Facilitation Clash in Bali
    The World Trade Organisation’s ninth ministerial meeting at Bali, Indonesia has morphed into a fierce battle between the countries seeking social safety nets for hundreds of millions of poor people and those insisting on having advanced import-facilitation programmes in the developing countries ...
  • The Asia-Africa Link Is IT
    Only 16 percent of Africa’s population of over a billion is online. But as Internet and mobile phone connectivity grows rapidly, the continent wants to join forces with Asian powerhouses to change its digital landscape. While offering its vast market, Africa hopes to leverage Asia’s information ...
  • Accra’s High Rents Means Ghanaians Lose
    Across Accra, Ghana’s capital city, adverts for letting property can be found all over. But for as many placards there are, you will get just as many verbal warnings from locals cautioning people to beware of swindling agents. With a growing population and a lack of housing to meet the dem ...
  • Off-Radar Gold Mine Sustains Kyrgyz Mountain V ...
    A generation after independence from the Soviet Union, most villages in Kyrgyzstan are ramshackle, broken places, scenes of hopelessness and despair. Able young people leave – for Bishkek, the capital, or for menial jobs in Russia. But thanks to a secret gold mine, one little mountain hamlet is ...

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 'Tips for Jesus': Massive mysterious tips are ...
    In today's day and age, generosity isn't always heralded or highlighted, but some inspirational stories of late show that goodness and kindness are still alive and well. Take, for instance, the "TipsForJesus" movement, an anonymous individual - or a group of individuals - who continuously l ...
  • Catholic hospital sent home woman enduring dan ...
    A Michigan woman said she was denied proper medical treatment three times by a Catholic hospital because it would have conflicted with the church's teachings. Tamesha Means said she was only 18 weeks pregnant in 2010 when her water broke prematurely, and she went to Mercy Health Hospital in Mus ...
  • Cancer patient and ObamaCare critic says he's ...
    A cancer patient, who publicly discussed the cancellation of his insurance under ObamaCare, now says he has been informed by the Internal Revenue Service that he is going to be audited. Bill Elliot appeared on Fox News on November 7th to discuss the cancellation of his insurance. He claims he w ...
  • In ISON's wake, a trail of questions
    I always find that writing the first line in a blog post is the hardest, and this has never been truer that now as I struggle to decide where I should even begin. My @SungrazerComets Twitter feed, and my email accounts, are all blowing up with questions about comet ISON. Many of them have alread ...
  • Manipulating the markets: Intelligence gatheri ...
    On any given business day, you can take a taxi ride into lower Manhattan in the wee hours of the morning and see lights and the glow of Bloomberg trading terminals eerily illuminating the 9th floor of the historic Federal Reserve Bank of New York at 33 Liberty Street. A securities trader workin ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • So a guy who has never played a team sport wri ...
    ... And we're supposed to believe that anything in it is in the slightest bit accurate? Because Stephen Harper is such a renowned historian ... on anything? Stephen Harper has not provided a single satisfactory answer to any question about his involvement in the alleged attempt to subvert a ...
  • "Threads"
    I have often thought the only way to "win" a nuclear exchange is to not use yours. That way you ensure at least some coherent civilisation remains. This British film explains why, and uses experts' views to build its scenarios and narrative. WARNING: This is a deeply disturbing film.
  • RCMP: Getting it wrong
    So RCMP Corporal Ron Francis has some of his peers turn up to his residence and remove his uniforms, the last of which he returned under his own steam. Why? Because he was smoking prescribed medical marijuana whilst wearing it. Apparently this is such a high crime in the Informal Code of t ...
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  • Past wars and now...
    Three suicides in a week.  Twenty-two among Regular Force members in 2011, an unknown number is 2012. [Evidently reservists are still treated as second-order soldiers by the system - plus ça change...] There will be more. There are things that can be done to prevent them, but not all of them. Li ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Megyn Kelly's Guest List Is More Conse ...
    Since the show's debut on October 7 and through November 29, Fox News' The Kelly File has hosted conservatives significantly more often than progressives and has surpassed even Fox's Hannity in its divide between guests on the left and right. Megyn Kelly's Primetime Show: Sa ...
  • Fox Ignores Facts To Blame Pensions For Detroi ...
    As the Detroit bankruptcy moves forward, Fox News personalities have been quick to blame worker unions and political corruption for the city's unfunded pension liabilities. This discourse ignores the forces actually undermining Detroit's financial solvency: the dramatic reduction of the city's p ...
  • Broadcast News Doesn't Have Time For Full Empl ...
    In 2013, broadcast evening news programs have largely ignored the need for the economy to return to full employment, instead placing overwhelming focus on debt and deficit reduction.What Is Full Employment? Bernstein And Baker: Full Employment Is When "All Workers Who Seek A Job Have One." In t ...
  • REPORT: World AIDS Day Gets 15 Seconds On Fox News
    Both CNN and MSNBC devoted significant coverage to the Obama administration's commemoration of World AIDS Day on December 2. Fox News, on the other hand, spent less than 20 seconds acknowledging President Obama's speech outlining significant new efforts to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS.On World ...
  • North Carolina Newspapers Largely Ignore Conse ...
    Local North Carolina newspapers cited two right-wing sham think tanks and published op-eds by their staffs while often failing to note their connections to the state's Republican party and to a major conservative donor.North Carolina Newspapers Cited The John Locke ...

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Pet Coke — #4 In “Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Use ...
    This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). 4. Petroleum Coke (Pet Coke) - Fossil Fuel Source: Oil Pet ...
  • Save Two Million Children by 2015 with Peanut ...
    Project Peanut Butter, a non-profit organization located in St. Louis, MO is trying to save the lives of two million South Asian and African children by 2015.  They say 20 million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition and 3.5 million die every year because they don’t have enough t ...
  • Formaldehyde — #5 In “Top 10 Toxic Ingredients ...
    This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on pet coke. 5. Formaldehyde Fossil Fuel Source: Natural Gas Formaldehyde is a carcinogen with known links to ...
  • New HIV/AIDS A3/02 Strain Faster, Deadlier
    “Determining the HIV-1 subtype of infected individuals could be important in the management of HIV-1 infections,” say A3/O2 study authors.‪ (Photo: GIZMODO) Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, appears to have generated the newest strain of the HIV/AIDS virus. In recent years, health experts ...
  • New Lawsuits Seek to Grant Chimps And Highly S ...
    On Monday morning, December 2, an animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a lawsuit in the Supreme court of New York. The goal of the lawsuit — the first of three planned –  is to persuade the court that chimpanzees (and other highly self-aware animals, li ...

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Axis of Logic

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

Climate

  • Why Some Meteorologists Still Deny Global Warming
    (Mother Jones) Just before Thanksgiving, many conservatives seized on a new study examining the climate views of members of the American Meteorological Society. It's no secret that there's a schism between climate scient ...
  • U.S. Scientists Want Global Monitoring to Warn ...
    (Denver Post) Government-backed U.S. scientists on Tuesday urged for the creation of a warning system to help people anticipate the impact of climate change on food, water and cities. Early warnings would give more time to adapt, but ...
  • Minnesota: Winona City Council OKs Frac Sand A ...
    (Winona Daily News) The city of Winona will get two air quality monitors as early as next month to measure frac sand in ambient air. The Winona City Council on Monday unanimously approved accepting a proposal from the Minnesota Pollut ...
  • Greenpeace Arctic Activists Detail Russia's Ca ...
    (New York Times) An odd thing about the investigation into what exactly happened in the Arctic on Sept. 18 between activists on a Greenpeace International ship and the Russian authorities was how little the investigators aske ...
  • Environmentalists, Oil Industry Attack U.S. Go ...
    (Houston Chronicle) The Obama administration's plan to adopt a focused approach to auctioning Arctic waters for oil and gas drilling isn't winning many fans. In comments filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management before a T ...

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Not Sure That This Helps
    I'm not sure that Harry Reid is correct that Speaker Boehner will violate the Hastert Rule to pass immigration reform, and I am even less certain that Reid is improving Boehner's likelihood of doing that by predicting that he will "cave in" to pressure to pass the immigration bill. On the o ...
  • Oh No, Somali Girls Are Swimming!!
    If you want to know why there are so many Somalis in Minnesota, maybe you should ask a Somali. It appears the basic answer is that a large number of Somalis were brought in during the 1990's to work at chicken factories in Faribault and Marshall. In addition to that, the Lutheran Social Servic ...
  • He's Back
    Obviously, David Brooks must be back from his book leave. It appears that his critics are tanned, rested, and ready. My work here was done by others. Funny thing, though. I hadn't noticed that Brooks was missing. I guess that answers one perennial philosophical question. Does it rais ...
  • Casual Observation
    This kind of makes me long for the days of two kinds of fruit. Discuss
  • Stories of Poverty
    I was greeted by two stories on page 5 of this morning's Philadelphia Daily News. The first story is about a 92 year-old woman who perished in her Strawberry Mansion rowhouse yesterday when her kerosene heater caused a house fire. An elderly man who lived with her narrowly escaped the blaze. ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Direct Action Protest Hits Swiss Bank UBS for ...
    Between The Lines Direct Action Protest Hits Swiss Bank UBS for Role in Financing Mountaintop ... Between The Lines Mountaintop removal coal mining is a mineral extraction method in which the tops of mountain ridges are literally blown off with explosives in order to mine the coal seams beneath. ...
  • Students push for fossil fuel endowment divest ...
    Students push for fossil fuel endowment divestment USA TODAY Illowsky was motivated to join Brown Divest Coal after she attended a campus speech by an environmental activist from West Virginia about the dangers of mountaintop removal mining. "Right now, their economy is dependent on coal,&q ...
  • Barenaked Ladies Cancel SeaWorld Show After Wa ...
    Barenaked Ladies Cancel SeaWorld Show After Watching 'Blackfish' Huffington Post
    In 2009, she travelled to West Virginia and was arrested while protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. Mining activist out of jail after five days - ...
    Mining activist out of jail after five days Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An anti-mountaintop removal activist is free after spending five days in jail following his arrest for trying to leave a container of mining dust at the West Virginia Governor's Mansion. Mike Roselle, 59, of ...
  • 2°C warming could be too much - ScienceAlert
    2°C warming could be too much ScienceAlert “Such impacts add to the large-scale environmental pollution from fossil fuel extraction, which increases rapidly as continued demand for fuel shifts attention to non-conventional extraction methods such as fracking, mountaintop removal and tar-sands&nb ...

Memeorandum

  • CBS News chairman defends Lara Logan in staff ...
    Dylan Byers / Politico: CBS News chairman defends Lara Logan in staff meeting  —  CBS News chairman and ‘60 Minutes’ EP Jeff Fager held a meeting with CBS News staff on Tuesday and took questions about the fate of Lara Logan and Max McClellan, the journalists current ...
  • Rick Perry Can't Quit Campaigning (David Catan ...
    David Catanese / The Daily Beast: Rick Perry Can't Quit Campaigning  —  By David CataneseDecember 4th 20135:45 AM  —  Drubbed in the 2012 race after his ‘oops’ moment, the Texas governor is back for more, criss-crossing the country in what certainly l ...
  • Obama Cites Pope Francis' Views On Inequality ...
    Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Obama Cites Pope Francis' Views On Inequality In Economic Address  —  President Barack Obama on Wednesday cited Pope Francis' critical take on trickle-down economics in an address laying out his second-term economic priorities.  &md ...
  • Liberal law prof: Obama's unconstitutional pow ...
    Allahpundit / Hot Air: Liberal law prof: Obama's unconstitutional power grabs are creating a “very dangerous and unstable system”  —  Good stuff from Jonathan Turley at today's House hearing on executive power, although I regret that I couldn't find a more user-frien ...
  • Obama: I Want to Host ESPN's 'SportsCenter' Wh ...
    Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter: Obama: I Want to Host ESPN's ‘SportsCenter’ When I Retire  —  The president put in his ask to Disney CEO Bob Iger at a private meeting with entertainment moguls during his Nov. 26 visit to Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animat ...

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  • Kerry arrives in Israel for talks on Iran, pea ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks near US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting on November 6, 2013 in Jerusalem.US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel on Wednesday for the first time since world powers struck a nuclear deal with Iran that angered the Je ...
  • Rush Limbaugh: Obama is “having an orgasm” ove ...
    On his radio show on Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh said that President Obama is "having an orgasm" over pope Francis' recent comments decrying hyper-capitalism and global inequality.Limbaugh's comments were prompted by Obama's earlier remarks on income inequality and the economy, during which the pr ...
  • Top Obama aide rebukes China, Russia over rights
    US National Security Advisor Susan Rice, pictured in Washington DC on September 9, 2013A top aide to President Barack Obama rebuked rivals China and Russia over human rights Wednesday but admitted "painful" tradeoffs were sometimes necessary to ensure US security.National Security Advisor Susa ...
  • One year on, Newtown voices revive pain of mas ...
    A man hangs a sign on the front of his home near Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 15, 2012 in Newtown, ConnecticutOne year after a gunman burst into a US school and slaughtered 20 small children and six adults, the voices of their trapped and terrified protectors returned Wednesday to ...
  • Bashir quits MSNBC over crude on-air comments
    British journalist Martin Bashir arrives at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, California, on March 1, 2005British journalist Martin Bashir announced Wednesday he was quitting US news broadcaster MSNBC after he made crude on-air remarks about former vice presidential candi ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • Iran, Israel and the United States
                  It is a given that no elected Republican government official can agree with anything President Obama says or does. Whether or not this is due to genuine philosophical differences with the president, or, more simply, because he’s of African-America ...
  • Berkeley City Council Supports South Koreans R ...
        On Jeju Island, an environmental jewel sixty miles south of the Korean Peninsula, a massive naval base is being built to house US warships, submarines and aircraft carriers, serving as a key forward base for the " US Pacific Pivot", and turning the region into a hair trigger f ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Adam Hochschild on Ending S ...
    https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-adam Adam Hochschild discusses his books, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson. Producer: ...
  • The Anti-Empire Report #123
    By William Blum “If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.” – Eduardo Galeano What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don’t accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made? Well, we can proceed in one of two ways: read more
  • David Swanson in Portland, Oregon
    David Swanson at Laughing Horse Books 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, December 16, 2013 12 NE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 503-236-2893 David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of his new book, War No More: The Case for Abolition. Sign up on FaceBook. Swanson's books include When the World Outlawed War, nam ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Afghan opium production hits new record high | ...
    by WW4 Report on Sun, 12/01/2013 – 04:52 The latest Afghanistan Opium Survey (PDF), released Nov. 13 by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), finds that the country produced record levels of poppy in 2013. Total production reached 5,500 tons—up by nearly 50% over last year\’s fig ...
  • New report shows viewers are leaving the mains ...
    by Adonai on March 31, 2012 According to statistics CNN is loosing 50 percent of its total viewers leading the list of losers in the media. So it looks like people are turning elsewhere to get there news. To talk more about why people are choosing to ditch the mainstream networks and where they ...
  • Les Visible speaks @ the ‘Seek Speak Spr ...
    Les Visible speaks @ the ‘Seek Speak Spread Truth’ conference – YouTube.
  • RINF Alternative News & Alternative Media Brea ...
    Elizabeth Renter Testbiotech, a nonprofit organization started with independent (‘non-biased’) biotech research in mind, recently released a report on the spread of genetically altered plants. The organization says GMOs are spreading throughout the world without any controls in place to stop the ...
  • IMF frowns at Iceland debt write-off plan | Ic ...
    A plan to ease mortgage debts of every household in Iceland through a write-off has been criticised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). An announcement on Saturday by the new government that it would follow through on its promise to ‘erase’ 150 billion krona in debt has been met with scept ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Learning not to trust each other in America, a ...
    Summary: Strong social cohesion distinguishes successful from failed States, and has long been a strength of America. A side effect of the 1%’s successful programs to build a New America on the ruins of the America-that-Once-Was is erosion of our social cohesion. From that, should it conti ...
  • Do we get deflation or inflation? Today we loo ...
    Summary: One example of our inability to see the world through our ideological blinders is the obsession with inflation (coming real soon, so we’ve been told for 3 years) while deflation bangs on the door. We must learn to see better. Fortunately the people running the economy see more cle ...
  • Are conservatives right about the Fed? Is it a ...
    Summary: Central banks have never been more powerful, more significant to the economy, more controversial (although they’ve often been unpopular), or more misunderstood. Today we debunk two of the myths about their evil they do; at the end are links to posts about their limitations. . Cont ...
  • Why don’t we see the New America being b ...
    Summary:  The Internet has become increasingly dominated by engines of misinformation disseminating politically filtered views of the world largely consisting of errors of omission and exaggeration, plus outright lies. These suit a nation of sheep (how do you speak to sheep and children?). The d ...
  • Delusions of the well-educated and intelligent ...
    Summary: We’ve mined the comments on the FM website for evidence of delusionality on the Left, as evidence of a deeper ill affecting America. We’ve not done so recently for comments from the Right. Today we have a volunteer, one especially well qualified to show the nature of our pro ...

The Progressive Realist

  • What the UN Security Council Resolutions Say ( ...
    Mohamed ElBaradei speaks at a press conference during his tenure as Director-General of the IAEA. The United Nations Security Council has adopted six resolutions as part of the international community’s efforts to address Iran’s controversial nuclear program. Collectively, these resolutions re ...
  • Congress Can Save Billions by Closing Guantana ...
    Ken Gude is a Senior Fellow with the National Security Team at the Center for American Progress. CREDIT: AP Since Congress began the push for austerity in 2011, it has slashed spending on domestic and defense programs, brought the United States to the brink of default, and shut down the feder ...
  • Obama Refocuses on Asia
    President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden talk with Vice President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China and members of the Chinese delegation following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, Feb. 14, 2012. (Photo: Flickr/White House/Pete Souza) read more
  • Top of the Morning: Global Fund Gets Largest R ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Global Fund’s Largest Replenishment Ever  And the US is pledging $1 for every $2 raised by other countries between now and September 2014. “Donors at the launch of the Global Fund’s Fourth Replenishment today pledged US$12.0 billion for the next three years, the l ...
  • Ukraine Roars Back to Life
    Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine December 1 (Photo: Flickr/Ivan Bandura (Mac_Ivan)) read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • We Wrote a Heartbreaking and Terrifying Post a ...
    As long as people have been publishing, they've been trying to figure out what will make large numbers of people burn with a desire to read the things they're publishing. Like much of the study of human psychology, what we don't yet understand far outweighs what we do understand. But now, with ...
  • The Homeschool Apostates
    To view the interactive version of this piece, open a browser to http://prospect.org/article/homeschool-apostates At 10 P.M. on a Sunday night in May, Lauren and John*, a young couple in the Washington, D.C., area, started an emergency 14-hour drive to the state where Lauren grew up in a strict ...
  • Reversing Broward County's School-to-Prison Pi ...
    AP Images/Phil Sears When, after a nationwide search, he was hired two years ago to serve as superintendent of Florida’s Broward County Public Schools, Robert Runcie began brainstorming ways to close the racial achievement gap. At the time, black students in the sixth-largest district ...
  • CNN Losing Interest in News
    CNN has been having problems for some time, with anemic ratings and something of an identity crisis. In a world where people can get news of the moment from a million places, just what is the network that pioneered cable news for? Not that the network doesn't still make plenty of money (it does ...
  • Daily Meme: Mission Unpassable
    Congress has until December 13 to pass a budget. If they don't, we could have another shutdown when funding dries up on January 15. Given their track record of late (Exhibit A, B, and C), this may be a tall order. Much of the media seems to agree. For example, this shade-throwing New York Times ...

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

SPL Center

  • Suffolk County, N.Y., Police Department Reache ...
    The police department in Suffolk County, N.Y., has reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) to enhance the training of its officers and improve the way it investigates hate crimes and bias incidents, resolving a federal investigation into the county’s policing practic ...
  • The Ruth Institute’s ‘Circle of Experts’ on Ho ...
    The California-based Ruth Institute (RI), a former project of the National Organization for Marriage Education Fund, split off from NOM and became  independent on Nov. 1. Like NOM, while ostensibly working to strengthen marriage (for heterosexuals), it works against marriage equality. And like N ...
  • O’Reilly Applauds Anti-LGBT Group in Annual ‘W ...
    December is upon us. And the first mortar rounds in the annual “War on Christmas” have been fired. Last night, Christmas sentry Bill O’Reilly invited a fellow Christmas-defending warrior from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to join him on his Fox News show to preview the upcoming battle. O& ...
  • Former Alabama Klansman and Mother Arrested in ...
    Facebook A former Ku Klux Klan leader in Alabama and his mother, who also was a Klan member, face federal charges related to a 2009 cross burning in a predominantly black neighborhood. Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, was arrested by FBI agents on Nov. 25 in Mississippi following the arrest four days e ...
  • Three More Defendants in Aryan Brotherhood of ...
    CNN Federal prosecutors now have guilty pleas from fully half the 36 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) who were indicted last year for committing multiple acts of murder, robbery, arson, kidnapping and narcotics trafficking. To date, 18 of the defendants have entered guilty pleas, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Lawyers Apply for Russian Exit Visas for Arctic 30
    If the applications are approved, the foreign nationals would be allowed to leave Russia to await ongoing investigations into a peaceful Greenpeace International Arctic oil protest. All of the foreign nationals, 26 people from 17 nations, have had their passports returned to them after their rel ...
  • Public Citizen to Philadelphia City Council: C ...
    The Philadelphia City Council should reject a proposal to allow advertising on Philadelphia school property and in schools, Public Citizen argued in testimony submitted to the City Council Committee on Rules for a hearing today. read more
  • Public Citizen to Philadelphia City Council: C ...
    The Philadelphia City Council should reject a proposal to allow advertising on Philadelphia school property and in schools, Public Citizen argued in testimony submitted to the City Council Committee on Rules for a hearing today. read more
  • Oxfam Launches New Appeal to Help Refugees fro ...
    Aid agency Oxfam is today launching a major appeal to help families affected by the Syria Crisis get through the harsh winter months – and beyond. Temperatures in Lebanon and Jordan are already plunging but the worst of the winter is yet to come. Many people are only wearing the thin summe ...
  • Oxfam Launches New Appeal to Help Refugees fro ...
    Aid agency Oxfam is today launching a major appeal to help families affected by the Syria Crisis get through the harsh winter months – and beyond. Temperatures in Lebanon and Jordan are already plunging but the worst of the winter is yet to come. Many people are only wearing the thin summe ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • In College Funds, Are Fossil Fuels the New Sla ...
    Laura Flanders read more
  • Detroit Bankruptcy Bankrupts Democracy
    John Nichols A man rides his bike past graffiti in Detroit after the last hurdle to municipal bankruptcy was cleared on December 3, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)Detroit elected a new mayor November 5 and he will take office in less than a mon ...
  • Black Friday Discounts on Corporate Taxes are ...
    Scott Klinger 'Large corporations have been receiving hefty mark-downs on their taxes for a long time.' (Public domain)Shoppers look forward to Black Friday all year round – the money-saving deals, the almost unfair price reductions, ...
  • Third Way’s Anti-Populist, Anti-Warren and Dec ...
    Richard Eskow Corporate-funded "centrism" of the "Third Way" kind is what's dead, says Eskow, not the promise of progressive populism. (Photo: istockphoto)An almost palpable air of desperation clings to the anti-“ ...
  • What You Need to Know About the International ...
    Diane Ravitch "The more we focus on tests, the more we kill creativity, ingenuity, and the ability to think differently," says Ravitch.The news reports say that the test scores of American students on the latest PISA test are &quo ...

Water Privatization

  • Conagua details key water infrastructure projects
    Mexico's national water commission, Conagua, plans to tender a series of water infrastructure projects to meet the 25 water pledges made by president Enrique Peña...
  • WTO urged to tread carefully on water
    WASHINGTON - As government representatives gathered on Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO), environmentalists and social justice campaigners urged them to specify that water resources cannot be treate ...
  • Brazil's Alagoas starts consultancy to pre ...
    Northeastern Brazil's Alagoas state water utility Casal has started a public consultancy phase to prepare a 129mn-real (US$54.7mn) tender for a public-private partnership (PPP) aimed...
  • Power project to be taken out of PPP program
    THE METROPOLITAN Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) wants to take a proposed power project off the public-private partnership (PPP) auction block and instead offer it via a negotiated deal.
  • China Controls Asia’s Water Wealth
    China’s water pollution and scarcity problems are a real nightmare for the rest of Asia.        

Guardian

  • State pension age to be raised to 70 for today ...
    George Osborne will use autumn statement to signal new formula linked to life expectancy that could save £500bn over 50 yearsYoung people currently entering the workforce will have to wait until they are 70 before they can retire under plans to save £500bn over the next 50 years, George Osborne ...
  • David Cameron urges British students to ditch ...
    PM ends three-day visit to China by telling young people they should learn language that will 'seal tomorrow's business deals'David Cameron, who has notoriously poor schoolboy French, is urging today's youngsters to abandon the language of Molière and Voltaire to concentrate on the tongue of the ...
  • American Hustle – review | Peter Bradshaw
    The director of Silver Linings Playbook returns with a simmering and intriguingly confected black comedyDavid O Russell's brazen, nerve-jangling, irresistibly watchable black comedy American Hustle is loosely based on a true story from the 1970s of how the FBI forced a notorious New Jersey conma ...
  • Brazil plans 'World Cup courts'
    Country set to take South African-style measures as concerns rise that demonstrations will flare up during tournamentWorld Cup courts are likely to be established at next year's tournament in Brazil as organisers address the country's high crime rate and brace for the possible return of the mass ...
  • NSA gathering 5bn cell phone records daily, Sn ...
    • Washington Post reveals details of location-tracking program • NSA monitors data of individuals wherever they are in the worldPaul Lewis

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Special Offer: The Whistleblower's Handbook
    This year, as you are deciding what to give your loved ones, friends, and colleagues for the holidays, why not choose to give something interesting and useful? One of the most powerful gifts you can give is knowledge. The third edition of the The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Ste ...
  • Dean Zerbe Gives Guidance for IRS Whistleblowe ...
    Today on Forbes.com, Dean Zerbe, the National Whistleblower Center’s Senior Policy Analyst, explains the potential issues that may be slowing or sidetracking submissions at the IRS Whistleblower Office. He also gives detailed insight into issues that may cause delay that whistleblower ...
  • Pennsylvania Moves Toward Adopting FCA
    Pennsylvania reportedly remains the largest state in the country without a state-level false claims statute. Two state legislators hope to change that. In early June, State Representatives, Brandon Neuman and Tony DeLuca introduced House Bill 1493, a state version of the federal False Claims Ac ...
  • Health Care Exchanges Not Covered Under False ...
    Today Senator Chuck Grassley questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the Obama Administration’s position that qualified health plans and other programs related to the federally facilitated marketplace and other programs under the Affordable Care Act are n ...
  • Most European Whistleblowers Have No Protection
    On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Transparency International released a report finding that the vast majority of EU member states have either partial or no laws to protect whistleblowers. Two weeks ago, on October 23, the European Commission rejected a request to introduce EU whistleblower protecti ...

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Fuels From Thin Air
    Carbon dioxide has been the focus of a lot of discussions on global climate change and energy policy. Certainly, there are other greenhouse gases, but CO2 is the major by-product of our fossil-fueled economy that people have been massively pumping into the air at an extraordinary rate. Over mill ...
  • Appeals Court Considers Overturning Ruling Tha ...
    Back in May 2012, Judge William Alsup (yes, he's popular today) issued a very good and very thorough ruling explaining why APIs could not be covered by copyright. Alsup, who claimed he learned to program in Java to better understand the technical details of the case, went into a fair bit of deta ...
  • Finally, We Have Proof That The Washington Red ...
    Yeah, I get it, with great claims must come great evidence, and you're thinking there's no way I can prove that Dan Snyder and the people who run the Washington Redskins are androids from Tyrell Corp. as seen in the Blade Runner movies. But think about it. Thiiiiiink about it, people. How are w ...
  • NSA Is Tracking Mobile Phone Location On So Ma ...
    We all know that Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been hinting strongly about the NSA tracking people's location via mobile phone location data. Since the Snowden documents started getting reported on, Wyden especially had ramped up his hints that mobile phone location data still undisclos ...
  • Canadian Cyberbullying Bill Expands Scope, Tar ...
    The drawn-out process in which a bill becomes a law lends itself to harmful things, like mission creep and bloating. Canada's new cyberbullying legislation, problematic in its "purest" form, is now becoming even worse as legislators have begun hanging language aimed at other issues (child porn, ...

VacTruth

  • How the Current Medical System Misinforms You ...
    We are living in the age of disinformed consent. Parents assume their doctors and their public health authorities are providing them with all relevant vaccine information, and nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Bill Gates’ Polio Vaccine Program Eradic ...
    In the depths of cyberspace lurks a press release written by the CDC, confirming that the OPV, or oral polio vaccination, given to millions of children throughout the developing world, is causing them to develop vaccine-induced polio.
  • Deadly 5-in-1 Vaccine Kills At Least Eight Infants
    A press release stated that between September and October 2013, eight infants had died and many more had been seriously injured after they had received the pentavalent (5-in-1) vaccination.
  • Doctor Offers Vaccines to Starving Children
    A doctor from the Children's Hospital in Colorado is working on a bold new initiative to improve the lives of children in Guatemala who struggle with poverty and hunger each day. Unfortunately, his ambitions do not include plans to provide clean water or education.
  • Dangerous Contamination in Vaccines Causes Sin ...
    Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, is currently facing serious troubles, as countries around the world are scrutinizing Sanofi’s products and practices. Recently, they have reported a massive third quarter decline of $1.8 billion in vaccine sales. This news ...

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Impossible Dialogue: The Choice in Yemen
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comImpossible Dialogue: The Choice in Yemen dissidentvoice.orgBy Ramzy Baroud Chances are dim that elections will be held in Yemen next February. Yet without elections, the push for reforms and change that were inspired by th ...
  • New NSA Revelations Another Limited Hangout Wh ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNew NSA Revelations Another Limited Hangout Whitewash Mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge Echelon has listened in on all communications since 1990′s Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com December 4, 2013 In ...
  • Ron Paul: Bitcoin could ‘destroy the dollar’
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRon Paul: Bitcoin could ‘destroy the dollar’ Jose Pagliery CNN Money December 4, 2013 Imagine a world in which you can buy anything in secret. No banks. No fees. No worries inflation will make today’s money worth les ...
  • Paging Santa’s Puppet Repair, Pentagon on Line 1
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPaging Santa’s Puppet Repair, Pentagon on Line 1 By DavidSwansonwashingtonsblog.com Vice Deputy Under Elf for Hearts and Minds: Good Afternoon, this is the Vice Deputy Under Elf for Hearts and Minds, how may I bring ...
  • Another Security Installation Targeted in Iraq ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAnother Security Installation Targeted in Iraq; 21 Killed, 87 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis Militants have again targeted a security installation in Iraq. This time, it was in the northern city of Kirkuk. At 21 peopl ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Is Iran Being Lured to Shore up US Hegemony in ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation December 4, 2013 It sounds like an incredible question, but is Iran being lured in order to stabilize US hegemony in the geo-strategically vital Middle East? Yes, that’s right: is Iran being co ...
  • Rick Rozoff: NATO Worse Than Atavism, It’s Thr ...
    by Rick Rozoff Writer, Dandelion Salad Stop NATO December 4, 2013 John Robles Voice of Russia December 4, 2013 The West and the United States through its military wing, NATO, which has expanded into a global military force, continues to attempt to expand its influence into the former Soviet Spac ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Country is Decaying at an Al ...
    Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges ArushaCentre Calgary on Dec 2, 2013 Chris Hedges in Calgary, AB: Q&A see Americans are Living in an Orwellian Police State by William Blum Rivera Sun: Non-Violent Insurrection! interviewed by Cindy Sheehan Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years by Alexa O’Brie ...
  • Americans are Living in an Orwellian Police St ...
    by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org December 3, 2013 “If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.” – Eduardo Galeano What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don’t accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made ...
  • Noam Chomsky and Michel Gondry: Is the Man Who ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky democracynow on Dec 3, 2013 democracynow – At the premier of the new animated film “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” in New York City, Noam Chomsky joined filmmaker Michel Gondry in conversation. We play excerpts of Chomsky’s remarks on his ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Cassini Captures Amazing High-Res Animation of ...
    NASA's Cassini mission has captured an incredible high-resolution animation of the psychedelic jet stream known as Saturn's Northern Hexagon.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Youngest X-Ray B ...
    The youngest member of an important class of objects called X-ray binaries has been found using data from Chandra (blue) and the Australia Compact Telescope Array (purple). X-ray binaries consist of a dense object -- either a black hole or ...     
  • Visit National Parks on Other Planets With The ...
    Come see the ice geysers of Enceladus, the searing volcanoes of Io, or the secluded canyons of Mars! The wonders of the solar system have never looked so wonderful. That’s the sense you get from looking at this brilliant collection of ...     
  • The Window: Piecing Together a Power Plant Wit ...
    Outside Tonopah, Nevada, a construction team of 600 is working to get the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy project up and running by 2014. WIRED has an exclusive look inside the construction of this first-of-its-kind renewable-energy power plant.     
  • Volcano Alert: A System to Warn Us About the N ...
    Remember how Iceland's ­Eyjafjallajökull volcano shut down air traffic over the continent in 2010? A team of 100 scientists is working on getting ahead of the next major eruption.     

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...
  • The Finks: At The Royal Witherspoon
    If you need an introduction to The Finks, here it is:Things Work Out by The FinksAwesome, right? They have a new album out, and you should really think about buying it.

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
    Most food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20 million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say we cherish most.
  • What’s Up With the Cans in Canned Food?
    I now use an electric pressure cooker to make all of the foods I used to buy canned. It is affordable and BPA-free, but the initial cost of the cooker is not negligible. These recommendations all assume that there is access to these foods, a refrigerator, a freezer, and not to be forgotten, a r ...
  • WashPo’s “Too much of too little” misses the point
    Eli Saslow's recent article on SNAP perpetuates the stigma of receiving food stamps and fuels the false perception that low-income consumers are uninformed about proper nutrition.
  • CLF Week in Links: Lead Up to Giving Thanks fo ...
    Sunday kicks off the second annual International Food Workers Week, and a big element of their campaign is raising the minimum wage. The tipped minimum wage for restaurant workers is $2.13.
  • How FDA Should Regulate the Safety of Fruits a ...
    Unfortunately, the rule fails to place any regulatory responsibility on the animal production facilities that generate contaminated animal manure—and thereby threaten to contaminate produce grown on nearby farms. Instead, the full burden of mitigating risk of contamination falls on produce farm ...

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