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Dandelion Salad

  • New Year’s Concert 2014: Vienna Philharmonic: ...
    Dandelion Salad Happy New Year! Love, Lo Moros Nous Capitania Albaida·Jan 1, 2014 Johann Strauss Sr. “Radetzky March”, the last piece at the New Year’s Concert Vienna 2014, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. see Gerald Celente: 2014 Will Be A Year of Extremes New Year’s Co ...
  • Gerald Celente: 2014 Will Be A Year of Extremes
    Dandelion Salad RT America on Dec 31, 2013 People have tried (with varying success) to predict the future, from soothsayers to reading tea leaves, from Nostradamus to calling Miss Cleo. But one man, Gerald Celente, has made a career out of forecasting trends as the founder of the Trends Research ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Calls on Compu ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 31, 2013 democracynow – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on internet freedom ...
  • Saudi Military Aid to Lebanon Targets Hezbolla ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV December 30, 2013 Saudi largesse is throwing money again – in a bid to cover up its bloodstained hands in violence hitting the Middle East and beyond. The latest public relations gimmick is the “donation” of $3 bil ...
  • Heather Wokusch: WP 2.0 (World Peace) — ...
    by Heather Wokusch Writer, Dandelion Salad Heather Wokusch Dec. 31, 2013 http://www.indiegogo.com As the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII draws near, what can be done right now to help prevent WWIII? WP 2.0 (World Peace) is an innovative and empowering project with five main goals: · Complete ...

Your New Reality

  • Murdoch Publisher Hired Goons To Video Surveil ...
    Real headline from Rupert Murdoch's The Times online, it appeared only briefly  Still one of the most disturbing stories yet published about the depths the Rupert Murdoch empire sank to in their efforts to stop the phone hacking related lawsuits that have now helped expose the true darkness ...
  • 'Conspiracy Theories' That Turned Out To Be Tr ...
    All of the below were deemed "insane" and "crazy" "conspiracy theories" by the mainstream media, some for decades....until declassified US military and intelligence files proved they were actually true. At which point, the mainstream media mostly ignored the truth, except for the occasional qu ...
  • Flashback: Netanyahu On 9/11 - "It's Very Good"
    2012: Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN trying to whip up fear about Iran's nuclear energy program.The full "It's very good" 9/11 quote from Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, from the NYTimes, Sept 12, 2001: Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, ''It's very good.'' Then he edited himsel ...
  • Departure From: MOON
    Neil Arstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, had to fill in an immigration form when he returned to Planet Earth.
  • Obowma Is At Again!
    We've previously covered President Obama's tendency to bow in front of dictatorial world leaders, and also children. Yes, as a very tall world leader he often has to lower his face to the sight-lines of the height-challenged, but....well, there is no but, when you're tall and you meet someone it ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Moshé Machover: Belling the cat
    A political project is purely utopian unless it can indicate a likely agent - a socio-political force able to realise it and whose long-term interests it would serve. In the present article I propose... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Best Music of 2013
    Best Music of 2013IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them; most can be had for less than a buck. Links will be live for one week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me know and I’ll comply. You heartless, small-minded, ungenerou ...
  • Obamacare implementation as teachable moment
    Here is an interesting thing about the new health care law: News stories on it sometimes conflate flaws in the existing system with those in the new one. Many complaints about Obamacare are actually complaints about America’s health care system.The administration bears some blame for that ...
  • How strange is too strange for bedfellows?
    Political coalitions often bring together otherwise adversarial groups: In the eighties a subset of feminists and Christian fundamentalists worked together on anti-pornography issues; starting in the nineties immigrant rights and business groups found common cause on citizenship reform (still no ...
  • Naturally occurring, but not with wanderlust
    About a year ago a local family began getting flammable water. The fact that their house’s recorded methane levels (along with their sink) shot up shortly after fracking began nearby was considered maybe not coincidental, so the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) looked into it. ...
  • Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
    Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems almo ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • GMO and ‘Natural’ Food Fight: Treacherous Terrain
    2014 is shaping up to be a decisive year for the future of food and farming. Grassroots activists are gearing up for new legislative battles, including state GMO labeling laws and county bans on growing genetically engineered crops. Meanwhile the multinational food corporations last month raise ...
  • Grass, Soil, Hope: How Organic Farming, Carbon ...
    I am very pleased to announce that my book Grass, Soil, Hope: a Journey through Carbon Country will be published by Chelsea Green Press in early June. I am equally pleased to announce that Michael Pollan has generously written a Foreword for my book. Here's a quote: "Hope in a book about the env ...
  • Social Media as a Megaphone to Pressure the Fo ...
    Renee Shutters has long worried that food dyes - used in candy like blue M&M's - were hurting her son, Trenton. Click here to read this article
  • Lost Hooves, Dead Cattle before Merck Halted Z ...
    The U.S. beef industry's dependence on the muscle-building drug Zilmax began unraveling here, on a sweltering summer day, in the dusty cattle pens outside a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in southeastern Washington state.Click here to read this article
  • Is Monsanto Using 4-H to Brainwash Your Childr ...
    Monsanto is boasting its partnership with 4-H programs by giving a shout-out to "National 4-H Week."Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • A 9 Year Old Girl Quietly Walks On Stage
    I Will Never Forget The Chills Her Voice Delivered Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • IPCC spin translated
    A lightheated romp through the misrepresentations of a political organization perverting science as only accomplished liars can manage - the Intergovernmental Panel being devoted to selling policy via fearmongering Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it! ...
  • If Only for a Second - You Need to Watch This
    'Carefree'...bear with captions. It's better than a sight gag. Laughter moments. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Seed : The Untold Story - The Final Push
    Noted on Facebook Non-GMO Project : story of seeds video project Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Russian Nuclear Weapons Have Supplied Power to ...
    "In fact, nearly ten percent of electricity in the United States over the past fifteen years has come from dismantled nuclear bombs." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • A Miracle in Wisconsin
    Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water arrived. Vending machines were removed. Grades are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, ...
  • Genetic Devolution
    We are setting ourselves up to lose it all to the limited constructs of a few geneticists’ awkward attempts at mimicking creation, who plug away at changing our genetic structure much like a baby taking his/her first steps and not anticipating the inevitable crash.
  • Taxpayer money spent to develop GM blight-resi ...
    It's an act that is perfectly legal, though some may view it as biopiracy. The genes in non-GM plants cannot be patent-protected.
  • Eternal sunshine of the mind-controlled classroom
    “So,” Jimmy’s father said, “my son really isn’t an individual.” “Correct,” the teacher said. “He just thinks he is.”
  • How glyphosate is being whitewashed for its re ...
    For more than a decade now, scientists working in the GM field have mounted vicious personal attacks upon serious scientists who have had the temerity to discover "uncomfortable things about GM crops and foods.” These people have been severely punished by the Agrochemical Corporations, presumabl ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Will Not Wait' on Inequality, de Blasio Tells ...
    ShareThis'Will Not Wait' on Inequality, de Blasio Tells New York 01 Jan 2014 Bill de Blasio claimed his place as the 109th mayor of New York City shortly after 1 p.m. on Wednesday, delivering an inaugural address at City Hall in front of luminaries like Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as ...
  • Plumes of mysterious steam rise from crippled ...
    ShareThisPlumes of mysterious steam rise from crippled nuclear reactor at Fukushima 01 Jan 2014 Fresh plumes of most probably radioactive steam have been detected rising from the reactor 3 building at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said the facility's operator company. The steam has been ...
  • Clare Short at risk of arrest in Israel, warns ...
    ShareThisClare Short at risk of arrest in Israel, warns defence minister Moshe Ya'alon 31 Dec 2014 Former International Development Secretary Clare Short could be arrested the next time she lands in Tel Aviv after the Palestinian organisation she is a former member of was declared an "illicit or ...
  • Doors finally open to flood of Colorado cannab ...
    ShareThisDoors finally open to flood of Colorado cannabis buyers 01 Jan 2014 Proprietors of the first stores licensed to sell pot for recreational use in Colorado had been rolling joints and stocking up their leafy merchandise ahead of today's grand opening. Under a law voted for by reside ...
  • Minneapolis building explosion and fire - up t ...
    ShareThisMinneapolis building explosion and fire - up to a dozen injured 01 Jan 2014 Two floors of a Minneapolis residential building collapsed following an explosion and fire. Police blocked off the scene on the West Bank as firefighters battled the three-alarm blaze.

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is the American West entering a megadrought?
    The current drought in the US West is already 13 years old, and could already be deemed a megadrought. Past megadroughts have lasted for decades, sometimes even 100-200 years. It is way past time to ban grass lawns in semi-arid areas of the West, and don’t get me started about the abominat ...
  • Silicon Valley needs to realize it is a willin ...
    A tech investor views the carnage the NSA disclosures are causing in Silicon Valley and ponders what to do. As Hunter Thompson once said, “lie down with the pigs, they’ll call you swine every time.” For years, Silicon Valley has done whatever NSA wanted,  in exchange for money, ...
  • Banks for Ideological Purity. Do banks run Ver ...
  • Boycott RSA for colluding with NSA, and as war ...
    Big tech needs to get whacked upside the head as a warning not to continue playing kissy with NSA. A RSA boycott leading to bankruptcy would certainly get their attention. RSA got $10 million from NSA for deliberately dumbing down their security. Thus, RSA has continually lied to and miselead th ...
  • Pussy Riot want Putin out, Khodorkovsky in
    I can understand why Pussy Riot supports Khodorkovsky. He helped their two members get out of prison. Both  want prison reform in Russia now. However, Khodorkovsky was the biggest of the oligarchs before Putin poleaxed him. I’m not sure why he’d be any better as premier. Their rivalr ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • China Prepares Troops for war
    Xi Jinping preparing the PLA for war: Xinhua commentary   A special PLA unit undergoes a training exercise in east China’s Shandong province on Nov. 15, 2013. (Photo/CNS) Want China Times The large-scale military exercise — dubbed “Mission Action 2013″ — involving 40,000 s ...
  • 5.1 magnitude quake hits Japan 80km from Fukus ...
    5.1 magnitude quake hits Japan 80km from Fukushima nuclear plant 31 Dec 2013 A shallow 5.1-magnitude earthquake has hit eastern Japan, the US Geological Survey says, but there are no local reports of any damage. The quake hit at 10.03am (1203 AEDT) in Ibaraki prefecture, 146 kilometres northeast ...
  • Once again, Aerosol Spraying listed as #1 solu ...
    ED Notes: Yep. They started this program without your permission. AKA “Chemtrails” – We have yet to hear one of these alleged scientists discuss the side effects, or unintended consequences for such actions; which could range from changing the weather (er… “climate ...
  • NSA Intercepting Computer Shipments to Implant ...
    AND… Microsoft has the backdoor. WE ARE NOT AFRAID! Oh, the NSA. What a pack of ghouls they have become. Among their myriad shady dealings, a recently revealed/purported practice should give all of us even further pause. In fact, you might just want to hit the stop button. The NSA is appar ...
  • ‘Swine flu’ makes comeback in St. ...
    BE VERY AFRAID – GET WALMART VACCINATIONS NOW! Rumsfeld and friends will appreciate your business! If you have never had a vaccine….. YOU’RE NEXT! (NOT)   KSDK ST. LOUIS – Local health officials say flu season is ramping up. Barnes-Jewish Hospital announced Thursday it&#82 ...

The Air Vent

  • Adaptation to Global Warming
    A look out the back door in mid December.
  • Adaptation to Global Warming
    A look out the back door in mid December.
  • Taxes and Society
    There is a lot of dogma in politics regarding tax rates and general government performance. I personally have found that most people make statements about politics with literally zero data.  On thanksgiving, I spent about 4 hours on the government data website – http://www.bea.gov/iTable/i ...
  • Taxes and Society
    There is a lot of dogma in politics regarding tax rates and general government performance. I personally have found that most people make statements about politics with literally zero data.  On thanksgiving, I spent about 4 hours on the government data website – http://www.bea.gov/iTable/i ...
  • In the News
    There has been a ton of interesting activity in the climate world and I’m tired of missing out on it.   In case you haven’t noticed, Nic Lewis has established himself as a top expert on climate model performance. I don’t believe anyone in the climate community is turning out wo ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Top 25 Facebook apps: January 2014 — King’s ot ...
    While King’s three major titles — Candy Crush Saga, Pet Rescue Saga and Farm Heroes Saga — continually top our AppData monthly leaderboard, some other games by King are also growing, according to AppData’s monthly active...
  • Top 25 Facebook pages — January 2014: Coca-Col ...
    Every month, we track the top 25 Facebook pages with the most likes, according to PageData. In our first PageData leaderboard of 2014, we see that Coca-Cola has passed YouTube to move into the No. 5...
  • Top 10 Inside Facebook posts of 2013
    Here’s a comprehensive list of the top-10 most viewed stories on Inside Facebook (with the exception of the monthly PageData leaderboard lists): 1. Status updates to share what you’re doing or feeling will roll out to...
  • Facebook: We’re getting better at measuring th ...
    Facebook announced to advertisers that it has gotten better at measuring its own 20 percent rule — the guideline that an image advertisement can contain no more than 20 percent text. This has no bearing on...
  • 7 cents a fan: Fitness instructor whips his B2 ...
    Scott Rawcliffe is a personal trainer from the Gold Coast region of Australia. He also trains other fitness professionals, selling bootcamp programs to help them improve their business practices — little of it online. Rawcliffe also utilizes...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Dave Matthews Band – “All Along the Watchtower” This is the 100th Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. That’s a whole lotta picks and we’ve covered quite a range of music. I’ve been thinking about this one for the past couple of weeks and wanted something special. All Alon ...
  • Establishment-Made Heroes, Blind Seekers of Sa ...
    We all know of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: The five stage model divided into basic (or deficiency) needs (e.g. physiological, safety, love, and esteem) and growth needs (self-actualization). I am not pompous enough to call myself a psychologist, even though one of my bachelor degrees was in the ...
  • The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervent ...
    Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war. Imperial mil ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “The Surveillance St ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Shahid Buttar On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Shahid Buttar, a writer, poet, musician, and Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Guillermo and Shahid discuss how the complexity and totality of the surveillance s ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Bogie Yaalon Takes it to the Delegitimizers! POW!
    Israel’s Defense Minister, Bogie Yaalon is ticked off (in Hebrew it’s called b’rogez).  And when an IDF ex-chief of staff is ticked, look out.  It’s those damn delegitimizers again!  Making trouble for Israel. Bogie’s got their number.  He’s going to fight fir ...
  • Haaretz Declares Simon Shaheen Treif
    While this post about a particular person, it also embodies within it many of the prejudices that are writ large throughout Israeli society, even in the attitudes of its liberal Zionist intelligentsia. Haaretz’s culture blogger, Ilene Prusher, wrote a promotional piece about the UK Limmud ...
  • Haaretz’s Bad Case of Journalistic Amnesia
    Today, Haaretz reporter, Revital Hovel, published an “expose” (Hebrew, chasifah) revealing that the name of Israeli IDF torturer, Captain George, was Doron Zahavi. The only problem? This was no chasifah. This was old news, 3 1/2 year-old news to be exact. I know this because I first ...
  • Ben Gurion Foresaw Palestinian Expulsion in 1937
    There is much debate among historians and activists about the precise attitude of pre-state Israel’s leadership toward the Palestinian minority.  Leading up the 1948 War, how far was David Ben Gurion prepared to go?  Was he an active proponent of the ethnic cleansing campaign that eventual ...
  • Scion of Zion Calls Israel “Frightening, Sicke ...
    Imagine if you will a direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson with an impeccable pedigree penning an op-ed in the New York Times saying the author of the Gettysburg Address or Declaration of Independence would be turning over in his grave if they could see what Barack Obama has ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Gene Wilder?
    I was privileged to see a production of “Young Frankenstein” at the Kennedy Center a couple years back. It starred Roger Bart as Dr. Frankenstein, and it was good. It was really, really good. But the casting (of Dr. Frankenstein) was off. Bart’s performance was distractingly understated, a ...
  • The Core of the ACA
    As the ACA goes into effect, I think we can all agree that it reflects the longstanding priorities of conservative Republicans: Medicaid embarks on a massive transformation Wednesday — from a safety-net program for the most vulnerable to a broad-based one that finds itself at the front lines of ...
  • The political aesthetics of marijuana legalization
    As you’ve probably heard, Colorado has embraced reefer madness. Ironically, Denver was the site of the opening salvo in the federal government’s long war against the semi-innocuous substance: Seventy-six years ago, a guy named Samuel Caldwell became the first person arrested and pros ...
  • This Day in Labor History: January 1, 1892
    On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island opened to process the millions of immigrants entering New York. Although certainly not only entry point for immigrants, it was the primary location where the immigrants needed to labor in American factories first experienced the country. Annie Moore, an Irish imm ...
  • January 1: Ecce Foreskin
    According to Christian tradition, January 1 marks the eighth day of Jesus’ life. Among other things, it is the day on which — following Jewish custom — the Son of Man would have been circumcised. And while the rest of his body would presumably have ascended to heaven on the third day after his g ...

Desert Research Institute

  • New DRI project aimed at understanding Mercur ...
    A new collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)and led by Daniel Obrist at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) will attempt to characterize the complex dynamics of mercury in some of the Earth’s northernmost and most fragile ecosystems.
  • Dan Sauceda, December 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
    Meet Dan Sauceda, a graduate student in the Atmospheric Sciences program. He is currently working as part of the Urban Water Vulnerability-ISP EPSCoR project, working to characterize the urban heat island in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • DRI expands research and education opportuniti ...
    Through a new partnership with the University for Development Studies and World Vision International, DRI will establish an innovative research and education center focused on finding sustainable solutions to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and environmental problems confronting West Af ...
  • Scientists Present Lake Tahoe Nearshore Evalua ...
    Joint report marks initial collaborative step between the science community and resource management agencies to develop a comprehensive approach for assessing and managing the nearshore ecology and aesthetics of Lake Tahoe. 
  • A new look at air pollution sources and atmosp ...
    New research from DRI provides first thorough analysis of emissions from outdoor cremation rituals in India and Nepal.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Atlantic Ocean Zooplankton Are Now Reproducing ...
    For the first time, scientists have discovered species of Atlantic Ocean zooplankton reproducing in Arctic waters. German researchers say the discovery indicates a possible shift in the Arctic zooplankton community as The amphipod Themisto compressa the region warms, one that could be detr ...
  • Hydropower "Battery" Could Even Out Wind Energ ...
    Norwegian hydropower stations could be linked to wind farms and serve as giant "batteries" to even out power supply fluctuations, a Scandinavian research organization says. A major hurdle for renewable energy suppliers is intermittent power production — sometimes too much power is generated, oth ...
  • Solar Activity Not a Major Factor in Climate C ...
    Solar activity has had minimal impact on climate over the past millennium, new research from the United Kingdom indicates. The findings counter the long-held view that periodic fluctuations in the sun's energy output have led to lengthy periods of warm or cold weather in the past. Looking at cli ...
  • Russian Oil Giant Becomes First in World to Pu ...
    The Russian national oil company Gazprom has begun drilling for oil at a highly contested site in the Arctic. The oil field, an offshore site in the Russian Arctic known as Prirazlomnoye, drew international attention in September when a contingent of Greenpeace members boarded the platform in pr ...
  • Renewable Energy Comprised Total U.S. Power Ge ...
    All of the additional electricity-generating capacity added by the U.S. last month came from renewable energy sources, according to a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower projects provided 394 megawatts — 100 percent — of a ...

Red Ice Creations

  • 2014 New Year Times Square Ball Ritual Feature ...
    Irish firm Waterford replaces the 2,688 pyramid crystal panels on the six-ton Times Square New Year’s Eve ball every year. This year, they chose an image almost identical to the logo of the Socialist International. The "front story" that has been offered is that ...
  • Sun has "flipped upside down" as new magnetic ...
    The sun has "flipped upside down", with its north and south poles reversed to reach the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24, Nasa has said. Now, the magnetic fields will once again started moving in opposite directions to begin the completion of the 22 year long process which will culminate in the poles ...
  • Volgograd Bombings Follow Saudi Threat to Atta ...
    Prince Bandar warned Putin, "The Chechen groups".are controlled by us - Twin blasts targeting a train station and a trolley bus in the city of Volgograd which killed at least 31 people follow a threat by Saudi Arabia to attack Russia using Chechen terrorists if Moscow did not withdraw its suppor ...
  • N.Y. judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal
    Citing the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records is legal, a valuable part of the nation’s arsenal to counter the threat of terrorism and "only works because it collects everything."U.S. D ...
  • Gay Group Calls For Re-Education of Phil Robertson
    For the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), suspending Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty over his comments regarding homosexuality isn’t enough - now they are calling for Robertson to be re-educated. GLAAD was instrumental in forcing A&E’s hand in the decision to discriminate again ...

Not My Tribe

  • Putin releases oligarch, blasphemers and hooli ...
    2013. They are arguably Russian President Vladimir Putin most formidable adversaries, behind the scenes, in popular culture and in the international court of public opinion. The corporate press think Putin did it to rehab his anti-gay stance in advance of the Winter Olympics. The most powerful l ...
  • Fake sign language interpreter gets it right a ...
    Hmm. “He also used no facial expression to convey the emotions of the leaders.” So he got that right too. Did you catch President Obama criticizing the use of prison walls and snipers? And admonishing other leaders for not tolerating voices of dissent?
  • Pearl Harbor wasn’t our first 9/11
    Before Pearl Harbor, there was Remember the Maine (Spain’s sneak attack), before that Americans were admonished to never forget the Alamo (Mexico’s sneak attack). After Pearl Harbor, the sneak attack that conscripted US public opinion into WWII, there was the Gulf of Tonkin (Viet Con ...
  • A lesson the US forgot about Iraq? Prosecute w ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Whose fault is it that America is “forgetting the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan”? We never learned them… Instead of prosecuting war criminals like General “H.R.” McMaster, assemblies of war lovers like the Colorado Springs World Affairs Cou ...
  • Israel wouldn’t know a “historic m ...
    International diplomats have secured an agreement with Iran which appears to defuse current tensions. Crippling economic sanctions will be relaxed in exchange for limiting Iran’s capability to produce nuclear weapons. Everybody is breathing easier except Israel. Why? Is the Israeli regime ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Here's Wishing Everyone A Happy New Year Full ...
    Click to Enlarge2013 a look back WeAreChange
  • FLASHBACK - 9/11 Debunking for Dummies
    The coincidence cited in this video, made by blog contributor Stewart Bradley, regarding the pilot of flight 77 having participated in a drill prior to 9/11, where an aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, is not a coincidence that I think has much merit. But I don't throw the baby out with the bat ...
  • FLASHBACK- WhatReallyHappened.com Picks Up Our ...
    Update: We have raised $3096 of the $5000 goal. Please help out with a donation if you can at: http://markbasile.org http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/277513 FLASHBACK - New WTC Dust Study Looks Set to Confirm Nano-thermite Did you know that a recent survey concludes that nearly half of every ...
  • C-SPAN's Washington Journal-- "Who is your pol ...
    Related:   My Call to C-SPAN on the Free Fall Collapse of WTC7 WTC Developers Cleared of Fault by 2nd Circuit - "Congressman The Evidence That WTC Building-7 Was Brought Down With Explosives Is Real And Proven!"
  • Ho, Ho, Ho! 9/11 Was An Inside Job!” - 9/11 Tr ...
    December 12, 2012Source: The OnionCategory: COVERAGE  Seasons greeting from your old friend Santa! My, my, Christmas is just two short weeks away, and everyone here at the North Pole can’t wait to deliver presents to all you nice boys and girls this year. Yes, Jolly ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • You know I rarely ask you...
    ....for donations to our foundation, so you can take my word for it when I say, we need it. The Theft of the 2016 race is under way –– and the vote rustlers expect to grab Congress in 2014 as an appetizer.  Plus, the billionaire boys club is sucking our financial blood as if the world [...]
  • Give me 95 seconds
    A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]
  • Vultures and Vote Rustlers Watch the Trailer–G ...
      Watch the TrailerNow get the film! Shipped within 24 hours first class: The signed DVD of my new film, Vultures & Vote Rustlers. Includes an hour and a half of extras. Or download just the film right now. * * * * * What’s in this rocking hour of non-fiction detective tales? "Great fun ...
  • The Mandela Barbie
    By Greg Palast for Truthout I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his im ...
  • Roast Goldman Sachs' Chestnuts on an Open Fire
    Call me crazy, but I’ve couldn’t stop myself:  I’ve made a film about the scoundrels, scalawags, scumbags and bankers just in time to roast their chestnuts on an open fire. Vultures and Vote Rustlers combines my favorite eight investigations for BBC-TV  and Democracy Now into a one hour film tha ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Best of: White Suburban Moms Public Enemy #1
    We ran this post in early November, but really? It needs it needs a permanent spot on the site. We are not going away - Warrior Moms. Ever. Happy 2014 - let's roll our sleeves up one more turn and...
  • Early Autism Diagnosis No Substitute for Preve ...
    Dec 30, 2013, CDC study says children with autism could be diagnosed earlier The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released new project findings on the prevalence rate of 1 in 32 Somali children with autism spectrum disorder...
  • Dachel Media Review: Communication Breakdown
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary after the jump. Dec 31, 2013, Forbes: Autism 2013: Communication Breakdown Dec 30, 2013, InsightNews.com: CDC study says children with autism could be diagnosed earlier Forbes What you won't see on this list are...
  • The Tragically Hip, Chronically Sick: America' ...
    On Dec 19, 2013, The Atlantic published the story, Living Sick and Dying Young in Rich America--Chronic illness is the new first-world problem, by Leah Sottile. It wasn’t about autism specifically, but everything about it related to what the autism...
  • Dachel Media Review: More Autism Schools, Ment ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary after the jump. Dec 29, 2013, Marin (CA) Independent Journal: Dr. Dustin Ballard: Don't blame it on the shots Dec 28, 2013, Chicago Tribune: Marklund Announces Plan to Expand Autism School Dec 28, 2013,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • A Miracle in Wisconsin
    Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water arrived. Vending machines were removed. Grades are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, ...
  • Genetic Devolution
    We are setting ourselves up to lose it all to the limited constructs of a few geneticists’ awkward attempts at mimicking creation, who plug away at changing our genetic structure much like a baby taking his/her first steps and not anticipating the inevitable crash.
  • Taxpayer money spent to develop GM blight-resi ...
    It's an act that is perfectly legal, though some may view it as biopiracy. The genes in non-GM plants cannot be patent-protected.
  • Eternal sunshine of the mind-controlled classroom
    “So,” Jimmy’s father said, “my son really isn’t an individual.” “Correct,” the teacher said. “He just thinks he is.”
  • How glyphosate is being whitewashed for its re ...
    For more than a decade now, scientists working in the GM field have mounted vicious personal attacks upon serious scientists who have had the temerity to discover "uncomfortable things about GM crops and foods.” These people have been severely punished by the Agrochemical Corporations, presumabl ...

new geography

  • NewGeography's Top Stories of 2013
    A new year is upon us, here’s a look back at a handful of the most popular pieces on NewGeography from 2013. Thanks for reading, and happy New Year. 12. Gentrification as an End Game, and the Rise of “Sub-Urbanity” In January Richey Piiparinen points out that gentrificatio ...
  • Neither Party Dealing with More-Rigid Class St ...
    President Obama’s most-recent pivot toward the issue of “inequality” and saving the middle class might be seen as something of an attempt to change the subject after the health care reform disaster. As the Washington Post’s reliably liberal Greg Sargent explains, this lat ...
  • Street Furniture for 'Sitable' Cities
    How can street furniture improve not only the walkability, but the sustainability of a city? The completely self-sustaining city may seem like a pipe-dream to some, but as with all outwardly impossible tasks, it all starts with the first step. Urban planners have focused on making communities ...
  • The Metro Areas With The Most Economic Momentu ...
    America’s economy may be picking up steam, but it remains a story of parts, with the various regions of the country performing in often radically divergent ways. To identify the regions with the most momentum coming out of the recession, we turned to Mark Schill, research director for the P ...
  • Public Engagement Miracle on 24th Street
    Confrontation and conflict are the favorite dispute resolution tools of Baby Boomers, who were born in the aftermath of WWII and grew up in the rebellious ‘60s. In stark contrast, members of the Millennial generation, born 1982-2003, bring a spirit of collaboration and consensus to sol ...

water.org

  • Matt Damon says, "Thanks!"
    The success of the past year would not have been possible without your support. To everyone who contributes to bring safe water and sanitation to the world, we thank you.
  • Best Videos of 2013
    2013 Top Videos: #5 Next » As we look back at a tremendous year, we invite you to join us in celebrating with five of our best videos from 2013!
  • Top 5 Water Stories of 2013
    « Prev 2013 Top Posts Next » Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
  • Kites, Games, and Bubbles
    Every child deserves a chance to play, and a time to be silly. Thankfully, access to safe water gives children their time back, and gives them the chance to be kids.
  • Education, A Good First Step
    Water.org’s experience has proven it is best to not only empower a community to own and maintain their water and sanitation facilities, but to also educate the members on how to maximize the benefits of those resources.

Cryptogon

  • Recovery: Retirement Unlikely for Many Blue-Co ...
    Via: AP: Tom Edwards grew up in a family that’s been cutting trees and hauling timber in the Pacific Northwest for more than a century. The Spanaway, Wash., resident says he has worked as a logger since he was a kid — it’s just what an able-bodied youngster was expected to do. Now, at 53, […]
  • The Online Education Revolution Drifts Off Course
    Via: NPR: But by all accounts, the San Jose experiment was a bust. Completion rates and grades were worse than for those who took traditional campus-style classes. And the students who did best weren’t the underserved students San Jose most wanted to reach. It wasn’t really proving t ...
  • Maniac Fascism: Court Rules No Suspicion Neede ...
    Via: ACLU: A federal court today dismissed a lawsuit arguing that the government should not be able to search and copy people’s laptops, cell phones, and other devices at border checkpoints without reasonable suspicion. An appeal is being considered. Government documents show that thousands of i ...
  • U.S. Customs at JFK Destroys Eleven Instrument ...
    Via: Arts Journal: A few minutes ago, we reached the flute virtuoso Boujemaa Razgui by phone to discuss the assault on his instruments by US Customs at JFK airport. A Canadian citizen, based in New York and with a green card employment permit, Bouzemaa was flying home from Marrakech, Morocco, wh ...
  • The Perils of Plastic: The Problems With Debit ...
    Via: ReadWrite: I called the regional Secret Service office—that agency is involved in both protecting the President and investigating financial crimes—and talked to the agent that was handling the investigation. He confirmed my suspicions: The problem is far worse than we imagined. While there ...

The Economic Collapse

  • How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost ...
    Is the U.S. consumer tapped out?  If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014?  Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending.  If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well.  Unfortun ...
  • Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? An ...
    In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been sett ...
  • The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazyt ...
    It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory.  Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoeve ...
  • On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserv ...
    December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the ...
  • The Taper Is On – 8 Ways That This Is Go ...
    The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, an ...

Desertification

  • To end hunger while meeting the challenge of c ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46671&Cr=climate+change&Cr1=#.Ur7Y6VDvfK0 “Climate-smart” agriculture needed to steer food security through changing weather, Ban says Agroforestry, diversification of crops with legumes and other practical measures must be scaled up ...
  • Urban agriculture significantly improving live ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/in-home-gardens-income-and-food-for-urban-poor In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is … Continue reading ...
  • Orphan crops to sustain smallholder farmers (N ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/on.php?a=3149 Focus on… Neglected and underutilised species Variety is said to be the spice of life and to make our lives more interesting. And yet, worldwide, a significant proportion of the global treasure chest of plant biodiversity … Cont ...
  • Neglected and underutilised plant species (NUS ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=3168 Fighting poverty, hunger and malnutrition with neglected and underutilized species By Stefano Padulosi, Judith Thompson and Per Rudebjer Published by Bioversity International Website: http://www.bioversityinternational.org 2013, 60 pp, I ...
  • Construction of a dam in Zimbabwe (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report/99269/dam-project-displaces-hundreds-of-families-in-zimbabwe Dam project displaces hundreds of families in Zimbabwe Several thousand people in southeastern Zimbabwe’s drought-prone Masvingo Province have had to leave their ancestral homes and villag ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Into the Shadows - Britain’s dirty war in Ireland
    51B9-knoPwL__BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-70,22_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg The recent BBC documentary 'Panorama: Britain's Secret Terror Fo ...
  • Nicaragua: the Sandinistas repress the struggl ...
    nic.jpg Account written by comrades in Costa Rica and Nicaragua of how the left' government in Nicaragua used both police and its political militias against the struggle of working class pensione ...
  • Swedish nazi attack on anti-racist rally fails
    sthlmantifa.jpg Sweden, December 15, 30 or so nazis from the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) attempted to disrupt a rally against racism comprised of local Karrtorp residents and anti-fascist organi ...
  • XXV Congress of the AIT-IWA
    AITCongress.jpg From December 6-8, 2013, the XXV AIT-IWA Congress took place in Valencia, Spain. Around 150 people took part in the Congress, with delegates coming from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, ...
  • Abahlali: We were promised homes for all, not ...
    Mandela.jpg South African shack dwellers' direct action movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the death and legacy of Nelson Mandela. “If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Will Electric Cars Help or Hinder Climate Action?
    One of the nice things about not blogging over the holiday period has been the chance to catch up on other blogs. Llyod Atler’s December pieces in particular have been fascinating, including an invitation to discuss the question ‘Are electric cars going to make it harder to fix our cities?‘read more
  • Massachusetts Makes Smart Grid Mandatory
    Massachusetts has joined a growing list of states demanding that its investor-owned utilities invest in the smart grid -- and find new models for how those investments should be valued. Consider it the latest move in a state-by-state reconfiguration of utility business models.read more
  • In Texas, Natural Gas and Renewables Expected ...
    As a way to provide a framework for what to expect over the next twenty years, the Texas Clean Energy Coalition developed a study called Exploring Natural Gas and Renewables in ERCOT Part II: Future Generation Scenarios for Texas, to test energy models based on the best current information.read more
  • Five Reasons Why 2013 Was Not a Waste
    This year we saw a lot of smart, efficient solutions being put into place to cut waste in this country. We waste an awful lot of resources, including 40 percent of our food and more than half our energy. By continuing to push for efficiency, we can save billions of dollars.read more
  • The $100 Million Green Bond From Hannon Armstrong
    Infrastructure investor Hannon Armstrong launched a $100 million green bond offering. The bonds will mature in December 2019 and are backed by 100 individual wind, solar, and energy efficiency infrastructure installations at twenty properties valued at approximately $110 million.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Released Palestinian Prisoners Aren't Free
    by Stephen Lendman What country is a modern day Sparta? Which one lives by the sword? Which one deplores peace and stability? Which one threatens an entire region and beyond? Which one ignores rule of law principles? Which one has no constitution? Which one has no official borders? ...
  • The End for Erdogan and AKP - Financial Fraud ...
    Michael Collins Hurriyet Daily News columnist Mustafa Sonmez broke a story that should define the outcome of the Turkish crisis. If he's accurate about the Erdogan government's scheming, the crisis in Turkey is over. It is just a matter of time for the full scope of the fraud and corruption ...
  • 2014 Predictions
    by Stephen Lendman Some are best guesses. Others are easier to make. For billions worldwide, 2013 was grim. Expect 2014 to be no better. For many it'll be worse. Conflicts without end continue. Waging them threaten humanity. War profiteers never had it better. Washington bears most ...
  • Planned Israeli Jordan Valley Annexation?
    by Stephen Lendman In May 2011, Netanyahu addressed Congress. He was warmly welcomed. London's Guardian called it a "love-in." He received 29 standing ovations. Jerusalem must remain Israel's exclusive capital, he said. Loud cheers followed him saying: "Israel has no better friend t ...
  • Is Anything Left? Privacy Rights
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Beirut The answer to this question is being pondered across America in light to the two seeming mutually contradictory US Federal Court decisions handed down this month from Courts in Washington DC and New York. The legal issue of what rights are left to American citizens tha ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Top 5 Energy Stories of 2013
    Robert Rapier gives us his Top 5 Energy Stories of 2013.
  • The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2013 (#6-10)
    In the next two articles Robert Rapier will present his choices for the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2013. Here are Numbers 6-10.
  • Top Energy Stories of 2013 – Honorable Mention
    My Top 10 energy related stories of 2013 ended up being a 3,500 word story, so I decided to break it up into three parts. Today I will list some of the stories that could have arguably been placed in a list of Top 10 energy stories for the year. Later this week I will list stories 6-10 of my Top ...
  • How Bitumen Gets to Market
    Robert Rapier concludes his series on the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he looks at the current and future logistics of getting bitumen to market.
  • Seeking Input on 2013′s Top Energy Stories
    It’s that time of year, when I am compiling the year’s top energy stories. As I typically like to do, I would like to solicit input from readers on what should be included in a Top 10 list. Personally, I believe the top energy story of the year is the rail disaster in Quebec that kil ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Drug Court Judge Allegedly Drunk During Procee ...
    BROWARD COUNTY, FL * A Florida judge presiding over misdemeanor drug cases reportedly showed up to work intoxicated and had to be removed from court. In a palpable irony, even a person who has dedicated her career toward meddling in other people*s li...
  • Life in the Emerging American Police State: Wh ...
    *Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.**George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 In Harold Ramis* classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day ov...
  • Pittsburgh Woman Loses Arm After Alleged Polic ...
    A Pennsylvania woman lost an arm due to injuries she claims were inflicted on her by sheriff*s deputies and ignored by jail staff. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Amy J. Needham, 35, filed suit in Allegheny County Court on Monday after even...
  • Washington Post Columnist Says 'Complainers' W ...
    When last we wrote about Washington Post columnist and knee-jerk defender of the surveillance state, Walter Pincus, he was writing bizarre, factually incorrect claims about Glenn Greenwald (claiming Greenwald was associated with Wikileaks when he was...
  • Report: Cop Pepper-Sprays 13-Year-Old Boy
    A Pennsylvania State Trooper is now on unpaid leave after being charged with pepper spraying his girlfriend*s 13-year-old son. Police say that Trooper Ernest Boatright, 48, fired pepper spray at the boy without warning after he found him asle...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Hoist On Their Own Petard
    Happy New Year to all my readers. I thought I’d interrupt my summer holidays in balmy climes to have a bit of a chortle at two seemingly unrelated stories in the news over the last few days. One concerns cricket, … Continue reading →
  • Seasons Greetings
    And that’s it for LibertyGibbert for another year. Work and family commitments have meant I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked this year, yet we’ve managed to have some interesting discussions. Thank you to … Continue reading →
  • Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
    I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
  • Misery in Motown
    Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is the American West entering a megadrought?
    The current drought in the US West is already 13 years old, and could already be deemed a megadrought. Past megadroughts have lasted for decades, sometimes even 100-200 years. It is way past time to ban grass lawns in semi-arid areas of the West, and don’t get me started about the abominat ...
  • Silicon Valley needs to realize it is a willin ...
    A tech investor views the carnage the NSA disclosures are causing in Silicon Valley and ponders what to do. As Hunter Thompson once said, “lie down with the pigs, they’ll call you swine every time.” For years, Silicon Valley has done whatever NSA wanted,  in exchange for money, ...
  • Banks for Ideological Purity. Do banks run Ver ...
  • Boycott RSA for colluding with NSA, and as war ...
    Big tech needs to get whacked upside the head as a warning not to continue playing kissy with NSA. A RSA boycott leading to bankruptcy would certainly get their attention. RSA got $10 million from NSA for deliberately dumbing down their security. Thus, RSA has continually lied to and miselead th ...
  • Pussy Riot want Putin out, Khodorkovsky in
    I can understand why Pussy Riot supports Khodorkovsky. He helped their two members get out of prison. Both  want prison reform in Russia now. However, Khodorkovsky was the biggest of the oligarchs before Putin poleaxed him. I’m not sure why he’d be any better as premier. Their rivalr ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

David Seaton's News Links

  • 2014... and welcome to it
    David Seaton's News LinksPrediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi BerraAs luminaries such as Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra have pointed out, trying to predict the future is a mug's game... And at year's end political co ...
  • 2013: Vladimir Putin's year
    David Seaton's News LinksBy his own measure, Mr Putin has had a good year. The Russian president craves international respect. By stepping back from the world, the US ceded to Moscow space at the top table. Phillip Stephens - Financial TimesVladimir Putin has been eating the "West's" lunch: Syri ...
  • Mandela's funeral
    David Seaton's News Links Mahatma Gandhi was lucky to die when he did and avoid such a degrading celebrity circus... between the imperial selfies and the surreal sign language interpreter, all that was missing was to have Miley Cyrus perform "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", with a massed choir. DS
  • Pope Francis reminds me of Gorbachev
    David Seaton's News LinksSome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expre ...
  • The Iran deal
    David Seaton's News LinksThings may unravel but at least there is hope. Perhaps this is what is most threatening to Netanyahu. He has never been willing to test the Palestinians in a serious way — test their good faith, test ending the humiliations of the occupation, test from strength the power ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Chart of the Day: Republicans Rule Sunday Morning
    Steve Benen has once again tallied up all the guests on the five major Sunday morning chat shows, and as usual, Republicans rule the roost. The chart below shows everyone with 10 or more appearances, and 77 percent of them are Republicans: This really is a bit of mystery. It's easy to g ...
  • A Year Later, We Finally Have a Pretty Good Id ...
    We will never know definitively what happened in Benghazi on the night of September 11, 2012. There were too many people involved, too many motivations for the attack, too many conflicting stories after the attack, and too little indisputable evidence about the exact course of events. Add to t ...
  • Another 13 Years in Afghanistan?
    I probably missed this while I was away, but the LA Times catches me up this morning: U.S. intelligence agencies warn in a new, classified assessment that insurgents could quickly regain control of key areas of Afghanistan and threaten the capital as soon as 2015 if American troops are f ...
  • As 2013 Comes to an End, Obamacare Starting to ...
    I've been away from the news for a few days, so I'm behind on things. How's Obamacare doing? Is it still a train wreck, an epic blunder, doomed to failure, the worst thing to happen to the American public since Dred Scott? I guess it must be. What can happen in the space of a few days, after a ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 27 December 2013
    Here it is, our final quilt of the year. The design is a "blooming nine patch." (The nine-patchy nature of the quilt might not be obvious at a distance. Click here for a close-up. If you look carefully, you'll see that every other square is 3x3 nine-patch.) It's machine pieced and machine quil ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to #Ma ...
    from nytimes.com: Customers began lining up before dawn on Wednesday to take part in what they called a historic departure from drug laws focused on punishment and prohibition. Many had flown in or driven hours specifically to buy a bag of marijuana. At the Medicine Man dispensary in Denver, whi ...
  • #China rejects shipments of #GMO corn
    from latimes.com: China rejected two shipments -- almost 546,000 tons -- of U.S. dried distillers' grain, a corn byproduct, because it contained genetically modified material, state media reported Friday.    China's top food-quality wat ...
  • Big Food Wants to Call GMO Foods 'Natural'
    from grist.org: Is genetically engineered food natural? The Grocery Manufacturers Association, a trade group representing some of the world’s biggest food and food-related companies, including ConAgra Foods, Bayer CropScience, and the Coca-Cola Company, thinks so. And it’s pressing the Food and ...
  • #FDA to Make Food Safety Rules Farmer-Friendli ...
    from usatoday.com: The Food and Drug Administration says it will revise sweeping new food safety rules proposed earlier this year after farmers complained the rules could hurt business. Michael Taylor, FDA's commissioner for foods, said the agency wants to make sure the rules are practical for f ...
  • What An '#Organic' Food Label Should Mean
    from latimes.com: Mandatory GMO labeling of all food will continue to arouse passions on both sides of the issue. Though it may not satisfy all GMO-labeling advocates nor be welcomed by all leaders in the biotechnology industry, allowing a GMO-free organic label provides more choice in the marke ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost ...
    Is the U.S. consumer tapped out?  If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014?  Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending.  If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well.  Unfortun ...
  • Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? An ...
    In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been sett ...
  • The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazyt ...
    It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory.  Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoeve ...
  • On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserv ...
    December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the ...
  • The Taper Is On – 8 Ways That This Is Go ...
    The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, an ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | No Time for Dumbasses, Steam ...
    By Visible Somewhere around March, we are going to see a perfect storm of converging conditions and events. These seem inevitable at the moment and that is partly so because they are also the last gasp efforts of desperate men and women, who are up against the emerging ingenuity of the cosmos wh ...
  • TSA agents reportedly destroyed Canadian man’s ...
    United States Customs and Border Patrol is under fire after a new report revealed that officials there confiscated nearly a dozen homemade instruments from a Canadian man and proceeded to destroy them. Canadian-born flute player Boujemaa Razgui was flying from Marrakech, Morocco back home to New ...
  • GM Freeze celebrates a GM-Free New Year in UK ...
    GM Freeze, 30 Dec 2013 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/242/ GM Freeze today offered congratulations to farmers and consumers as 2014 marks the first year since 2007 that no GM trials will be conducted in UK fields, and no new GM field trials are expected. Different GM potatoes have been tr ...
  • Antarctic ship passengers may be rescued tomor ...
    By Nick Enoch Passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve are expected to be rescued by helicopter tomorrow after three icebreakers failed to reach the paralysed vessel – but it could still be weeks before they reach dry land. A helicopter ...
  • ‘Stuck in our own experiment’: Lea ...
    By Paul Tilsley Published December 30, 2013 FoxNews.com The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is \”stuck in our own experiment.\” But Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Aust ...

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electric politics

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

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Stop NATO

  • Egypt Now Has Other Options In Emerging Multip ...
    Global Times January 1, 2014 Egypt knows it has other options in multipolar world By Clifford A. Kiracofe Egypt’s foreign policy is bound to change after the turmoil of the last two years. Dissatisfaction with Washington and emerging multipolarity in the international system influence deci ...
  • Interview: U.S. Pursues Geostrategic Interests ...
    Press TV January 1, 2014 US seeks ‘long-term interests’ in Afghanistan Audio America’s pressure on Afghanistan to sign a bilateral security deal, which authorizes an enduring US military presence, indicates that the US invaded the country “with long-term geostrategic interests,” says ...
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Remold the structure of gov ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arthur Schnitzler: Cannot praise war in general and oppose individual wars Arthur Schnitzler: Political reaction is the consequence of victorious wars; revolution the consequence of lost ones ==== Arthur Schnitzler From Some Day Pe ...
  • Pentagon Continues Military Operations In Cent ...
    U.S. Department of Defense December 30, 2013 Airlift Operations Complete in Central African Republic By Claudette Roulo American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON: A small U.S. Air Force support team and two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft began airlift operations Dec. 12 in response to a French req ...
  • Charles Morice: Woe to you enemies of peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Charles Morice From The Re-Appearing (Il est ressuscité) (1911) Translated by Coningsby Dawson “Woe to ye enemies of peace, for you shall be called the children of the devil. Woe to ye who live among your brothers as wolves among ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Happy 2014!
    by Denis G. Campbell 2013 was a tumultuous year which many of us are glad to see in the rear view mirror. We’d be grateful if you could find it within your means to throw some money our way via the PayPal link so we can continue to update and change with the times. For […]
  • Temporary Work, Lasting Harm
    by Michael Grabell, Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson ProPublica A version of this story was produced by Univision. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – This was it, he told his brother Jojo. He would finally be able to pay his mother back for the fender bender, buy some new shoes and, if things went well, maybe even ...
  • When Charity Begins at Home (Particularly the ...
    by Robert Reich It’s charity time, and not just because the holiday season reminds us to be charitable. As the tax year draws to a close, the charitable tax deduction beckons. America’s wealthy are its largest beneficiaries. According to the Congressional Budget Office, $33 billion of last year’ ...
  • November 2013 Hottest on Record
    by Robert Hunziker “This year is likely to be among the top 10 warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization,” Roger Harrabi (environment analyst), 2013 ‘One of Warmest’ on Record, BBC News, Nov. 13, 2013. According to Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteor ...
  • How a $1,000 Loan Ballooned into a $40,000 Debt
    by Minhee Cho ProPublica When Naya Burks was strapped for cash five years ago, she borrowed $1,000 from AmeriCash Loans at an enormously high annual interest rate of 240 percent. It wasn’t long before she defaulted on payments and AmeriCash took the opportunity to sue her – ultimately garnishing ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • diShokalskiy soap opera – rescue ship st ...
    Who could’ve dreamed up the script for this one? If you are following the saga of the climate-scientists stuck in sea-ice-they-think-is-shrinking,  the latest patchy news is that the icepack is so thick and so wide that the Chinese rescue icebreaker is also stuck and has been for a day or ...
  • Skeptical view makes Australian front page: cl ...
    The giant boondoggle is coming undone. What makes this article remarkable is the strong language coming from a credible source on the front page of a major national daily. We have crossed another line in the decline and fall of the Great Global Warming Scare.  Maurice Newman is chairman of the P ...
  • Third icebreaker abandons rescue of climate sc ...
    LATEST NEWS: Aurora Australis abandons attempt to save Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica. The SMH headline could’ve said “Another icebreaker abandons attempt to save climate scientist’s boat in Antarctica.” Welcome to Media-Sport, where we score points watching a part of ...
  • IPCC “science” on sea-levels dumpe ...
    It’s just another day on the road back to reality. The New South Wales state government in Australia has announced it will tell its local councils  that not only are they not bound by the IPCC sea-level predictions, they must do their own research on their own beaches. It’s the poli ...
  • Tell the world to stop blaming your home air c ...
    Guest post by TonyfromOz (Anton Lang) The Peak Power story is that spikes in electricity occur 6 to 10 days a year and we need to cut back on the power we use at home to ease spikes. In Australia, the spikes are on the hottest days of summer, and commentators tut-tut and blame the profusion of a ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • 2014: The Year In Science
      Lasers Unleash A Flood Of Space Data ESA's Optical Ground Station The European Space Agency’s Optical Ground Station on Tenerife in the Canary Islands can communicate via laser with NASA’s newest lunar orbiter. Here, it receives a laser transmission from a telescope on neighboring La Palma ...
  • Video: Rush Of Gas From A Champagne Bottle
    This is a cork popping out of a champagne bottle, as imaged by a high-speed infrared camera. The infrared light lets you see the plumes of carbon dioxide that shoot out of the bottle’s mouth behind the cork. Carbon dioxide is invisible to the naked eye; the fog you might have noticed around the ...
  • Mars One Narrows List Of Wannabe Martians For ...
    Concept For Mars One Colony Bryan Versteeg and Mars One The number of Earthlings looking at a potential one-way ticket to Mars has just shrunk by 99.5 percent. People started applying for a voyage to the red planet in April 2013 through Mars One, a Netherlands-based private venture that wa ...
  • Documenting The Lives of Tigers
        
  • Documenting The Lives Of Tigers
    Tiger peers at a camera trap. Steve Winter/ National Geographic This fall, National Geographic award-winning photographer Steve Winter published a book with Sharon Guynup called Tigers Forever. The images and stories that comprise the book come from three different National Geograph ...

Facing South

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • And the World's Match-Fixing Capital is...Sing ...
    Shuffle up and deal and...match-fix?The recent race riots in Singapore came as a shock to the rest of the world given the tightly regulated nature of the city-state. How could such disorder happen? Well, preconceptions about the supposedly antiseptic nature of Singapore may receive a further kno ...
  • Commercialism & Christmas in Non-Christian Soc ...
    Thailand features Christmas elephants, f'rinstanceYour Asian correspondent--obviously Catholic with a name like "Emmanuel"--has always found it curious that some of the most extravagant Christmas pageantry can be found in predominantly non-Christian societies. With the exception of the Philippin ...
  • Aid (Not Death) from Above: Drones for Disaste ...
    Some of these things don't come with missiles but with goodwillThe American habit of using drones on supposed "terrorist" targets that frequently results in killing civilians instead--"collateral damage"--has outraged a significant part of the civilized world. Former US President Jimmy Carter cr ...
  • Russia's Price for Buying Off Ukraine: $15B
    Put 'er there, Vlad, my country's yours for $15 billionLet us update this strange tale of Ukraine. Having told his opponents to in effect get lost since they didn't win any elections or succeed in gaining a vote of no-confidence, President Viktor Yanukovych headed to the Kremlin to speak to his ...
  • Boxers-Turned-Politicians: Pacquiao vs Klitschko
    Fighting Russkies, Striking a Blow for the EUIf this were an actual fight, it would be a grossly unfair one since Manny Pacquiao stands 1.69m tall and weighs 65kg whereas Vitali Klitschko--older brother of fellow heavyweight champion Wladimir of Hayden-Panettiere-is-my-girl fame--is 2.01m tall a ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost ...
    Is the U.S. consumer tapped out?  If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014?  Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending.  If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well.  Unfortun ...
  • Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? An ...
    In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been sett ...
  • The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazyt ...
    It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory.  Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoeve ...
  • On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserv ...
    December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the ...
  • The Taper Is On – 8 Ways That This Is Go ...
    The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, an ...

BlogHer

  • Health Resolution: Here's How to Get Better Sl ...
    2014 is going to be the year of sleep. As more research emerges tying a plethora of health problems to our perpetual lack of sleep, more gadgets come out that help us to sleep better knowing that it adds to our overall health.  According to a recent article in the Atlantic on sleep depriva ...
  • Eat Your Way to Good Luck and Prosperity: Blac ...
    Black-Eyed Pea Hummus is a flavorful twist to a traditional hummus.It’s a Southern tradition to eat black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day.  Black-eyed peas are thought to bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This tradition dates back to the Civil War.  Union troops pillaged ...
  • Craft and Design Trends to Leave in 2013
    We are all guilty of beating a dead crafty horse from time to time.  Long after a craft trend has jumped the shark we still can’t stop “putting a bird on it”.  Don’t get me wrong I love a good mason jar craft as much as the next guy, but if I never saw another one not involved in food ...
  • Blogging Resolution: 10 Idea to Get You Inspir ...
    So you made a resolution last night to blog more in 2014, but today, you're looking at a blank screen, immobilized by the blinking cursor.  The party you went to last night doesn't seem exciting enough to write about.  You had planned to tell this cute story about something your daught ...
  • Tips to Make 2014 the Year You Stop Yelling at ...
    Guilt. Anger. Disappointment. Sadness. Hopelessness. I felt all these things and more every single time I yelled at my four boys, ages six and under. It's now been 328 days since I have yelled and I am more than grateful. I share my story with you so that you too can get rid of those awful feeli ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Everything I Learned About Nutrition I DIDN’T ...
                      Andrea Conway Health Coach and her husband Dr. Jimmy Conway is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon in Oklahoma City.  Their  journey began like this:  One morning Dr. Conway awoke with left arm pain.  With a ... N ...
  • Antibiotic Use in Animals Under Fire
              Every day, Americans use some 51 tons of antibiotics. But only about a fifth of that is to treat human illness. Most of the rest is given to livestock — and not because the animals are ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you ...
  • What Are Pantry Pests And How Can You Protect ...
                There is nothing more disgusting than finding some small black insects crawling all over your favorite cereals. But this does happen. If you are not careful enough, your kitchen, including the pantry, can become overrun ... No related ...
  • Do Headphones Hurt Your Hearing?
    Headphones are a fantastic invention, aren’t they? Whether you’re on a packed subway or going for a jog, headphones allow you to be in your own little universe.  Listening to your favourite music or latest ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Relat ...
  • Why Drinking Chaga Tea Is Good For You
                    You may not have heard about it before, but chaga originates from chaga mushrooms (also known by their Latin name of “Inonotus Obliquus”). These mushrooms don’t look like normal mushrooms; they have a burnt charcoal appeara ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

  • Books I Read in 2013
    I failed to read enough in 2013, and I intend to do better in 2014. I did, however, get to read a few great books, which I’ve listed below. Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace The Elements of Style (New Edition) Learning Node The entire GoT series Practical Vim Candide The Phoenix Proje ...
  • Why We Have Abysmal Broadband in the U.S.
    What bothers me about the U.S. broadband situation isn’t how bad it is, but that many people seem to think the reason is a mystery. Other advanced nations are providing tens, hundreds, and even gigabits of bandwidth to their citizens, while we wallow in the relative modem-ages. People enjo ...
  • Ricky Gervais’ Gift
    Ricky Gervais has a gift. I’ve known about it for years, but until just now I could not articulate it. My introduction to him was with The Office. It remains my all-time favorite show, despite being followed by offerings like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc. The Office taught m ...
  • From Evernote to Apple Notes
    I’ve moved from Evernote to Apple Notes (and Reminders) for 2014. Here’s how I saw the notes landscape: Evernote Pros: Cross-platform, collaborative notes Cons: Complexity, paid, non-integrated Apple Notes / Reminders Pros: Integration, simplicity Cons: No collaboration, not cross-pl ...
  • Why U.S. Healthcare is So Expensive
    A conservative (free markets and such) friend and I were having a private conversation about healthcare when he asked why there was so much waste in our healthcare system, i.e. why was the cost of actual care so low compared to how much we spend. Here’s my answer, edited for clarity: The w ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Eyes on love, feet on constitution
    King Harald of Norway used his annual new year’s eve speech to draw parallels between the love that gives us personal direction and value as human beings, and the Norwegian constitution which steers the country and enshrines rights and freedoms. 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of Grunnlov ...
  • Government zones in on immigration
    Norway’s new Justice Minister has slammed the former Labour government’s handling of immigration policy, and vowed to tighten up the system. Anders Anundsen of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) warned the new government won’t spend money accommodating asylum seekers ...
  • Our most-read stories in 2013
    Vasily Petrenko unwittingly attracted the most readers to our site in 2013 — not because of his skills as a conductor, but for his controversial remarks shortly after joining the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Petrenko told newspaper Aftenposten that orchestras ‘react better’ when the ...
  • Norwegian air passengers stranded
    The drama surrounding Norwegian Air’s trouble-plagued Boeing 787 Dreamliners has continued, after brake troubles left hundreds of passengers stranded in New York over the New Year period. The Oslo-bound flight was due to leave on Tuesday morning Norway time, but after announcing several ne ...
  • Residents evacuated after landslides
    More than a dozen households were evacuated and more residents were put on standby to leave after a landslide crashed down a mountainside into the town of Haukland on Tuesday morning. A new housing estate in the Rogaland county town was struck by a 50 metre wide avalanche of dirt and debris, and ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Regenerate Yourself
    The desire to create a permaculture paradise is deep in my bones, and has been growing in intensity every year since I began my studies of the permaculture design philosophy and methodologies a decade ago. Many of my friends share this vision – a homestead surrounded by bountiful fruit and nut t ...
  • The Fruit Hunters (video)
    Narrated by David Suzuki, this two-part CBC series is a fascinating look into the world of fruit hunters — people who travel the globe seeking rare fruits, to preserve their diversity, or just to enjoy. The documentary also covers some interesting background history on some of the fruits w ...
  • Cold Comfort
    In which the author recounts a chilling and idiotic brush with death. by George Monbiot It was a beautiful morning, a Saturday in October, and I was having tea with my next-door neighbour. We began talking – for this was almost 20 years ago – about the road the government was intending to build ...
  • Cold Climate Permaculture Video
    Ben Falk’s Cold Climate Permaculture Farm in Vermont A lot of people wonder if they can apply Permaculture design to their farm if they live in a cold climate. When Geoff Lawton visited Ben Falk’s farm in Vermont earlier this year, he saw the fruit of good permaculture design when applied with s ...
  • How Goats Built My Food Forest and Gave Me Fue ...
    Trailer only — Watch the full video here! When Geoff Lawton told me that he had discovered a novel way to use goats to design his food forest, it seemed a most unlikely idea. In fact I was a little skeptical. Were the goats replacing the work of his interns? Did he manage to train... Read ...

Pointman's

  • Climate Prat of 2013 – We have a winnah!
    Unlike last year, the available selection this one has been noticeably thin. A lot of the usual prats have been smart enough to pick up on the winds of change and are quietly deserting the sinking ship. All we’ve heard from them is the occasional splash of their tiny, wee, small, pale and ...
  • Climate Prat of 2013 – We have a winnah!
    Unlike last year, the available selection this one has been noticeably thin. A lot of the usual prats have been smart enough to pick up on the winds of change and are quietly deserting the sinking ship. All we’ve heard from them is the occasional splash of their tiny, wee, small, pale and ...
  • Who is Michael Smith?
    This is a guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. Among other things, it demonstrates the new reality that if the mainstream media allows itself to be muzzled by politicians, or chooses to only represent views it finds itself in agreement with, then those views can nowadays fi ...
  • Who is Michael Smith?
    This is a guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. Among other things, it demonstrates the new reality that if the mainstream media allows itself to be muzzled by politicians, or chooses to only represent views it finds itself in agreement with, then those views can nowadays fi ...
  • Used intelligently, they’re our bitches now.
    Within any community of people, there’s always a natural diversity of personality. Usually that diversity is an asset to be tapped into and utilised, sometimes it’s a liability and people learn to cope with the variations. On average, some people are good in certain situations and ba ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...
  • Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the gay ...
  • Police Harassment and Violence Against the Tra ...
    A shorter version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against t ...
  • RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
    From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • France: The Looming Battle over Muslim Integration
    A panel appointed by French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to review France's integration policies has urged the government to implement a "new form of secularism" that would raise the profile of Islam in public life—in order to improve the integration
  • The Islamization of Britain in 2013
    The Muslim population of Britain topped 3.3 million by the end of 2013 to become around 5.2% of the overall population of 63 million, according to figures extrapolated from a recent study on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe. At the same
  • Palestinians: Is Abbas Being Asked to Sign His ...
    The European and American attempts to impose an academic and economic boycott on Israel increase in direct proportion to the signs that the Palestinian-Israel peace process is sinking into the mud. Boycotts, however, will simply make the Israelis more
  • Peace Talks vs. Palestinian Terrorism
    Levels of Palestinian terrorism against Israel have risen considerably since the start of Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic talks, with a growing number of attacks coming out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Senior figures in the Israeli defense
  • Palestinians: Is Abbas Being Asked to Sign His ...
    The European and American attempts to impose an academic and economic boycott on Israel increase in direct proportion to the signs that the Palestinian-Israel peace process is sinking into the mud. Boycotts, however, will simply make the Israelis more

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • INFOWARS Nightly News: with Jakari Jackson Wed ...
    INFOWARS Nightly News: with Jakari Jackson Wednesday January 1 2014: John B. Wells Nightly News for Wednesday, January 1, 2014 Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or ...
  • Colorado becomes first state to allow recreati ...
    On the first of the new year, Colorado residents lined up at specialty shops across the state to legally purchase marijuana for recreational use for the first time. Buyers, age 21 and older, can only purchase small amounts of the retail pot at a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Rothschild Conspiracy International Banking Ca ...
    Rothschild Conspiracy: A documentary looking at banking tycoons: from the Rothschild family in Europe to JP Morgan and others in the US. How banks not only control governments but also appoint politicians through huge campaign donations. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Yoichi Shimatsu / Fukushima Report 'David' w/ ...
    Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is not going to explode Steam heat? What is happening at Fukushima Daiichi? Beginning on Monday December 30, 2013, the Internet has been flooded with conjecture claiming that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is ready to explode.... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Does the U.S. Debt Really Matter? Paul Krugman ...
    Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who is presently President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Summers became a professor of... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Fresh Food, Clean Energy: The New Brooklyn Who ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York This morning, I took the ten-minute stroll from my home in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood to the new Brooklyn Whole Foods to pick up some ingredients for a New Year’s feast. The ...
  • Bloomberg Challenges Multifamily Buildings to ...
    Melissa Wright, Associate Director, City Energy Project, New York Some good news out of the departing Bloomberg Administration in NYC this week – citywide climate change pollution is down 19% since 2005. This means that the city is already nea ...
  • Five Reasons Why 2013 Was Not a Waste
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City This year we saw a lot of smart, efficient solutions, many of which NRDC helped drive, being put into place to cut waste in this country. We waste an awful lot of resources, including 40 percent of our ...
  • A New Year's Revolution: Move Your Cash, Green ...
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California Do you recycle? That’s great, thank you. Compost, too? That takes some commitment; you have attained Level 2 of environmental actions. Have you also signed an online ...
  • Striving Towards the Eco-city: Experience from ...
    Pengfei Xie, Director, China Sustainable Cities Project, NRDC China Program, Beijing China’s rapid urbanization in the last 30 years has brought about many problems. The country is now facing a huge challenge to balance economic development wi ...

Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • …2014 and beyond…
    …2014 and beyond… This is that time of year when one dusts off their crystal-ball sagely venturing a peek.  Admittedly there is trepidation as it is unsettling when one’s projections prove to be illusionary & false. 2014 = 7 … which numerology suggests this is a year of “awareness ...
  • Close power plant raise power rate$
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  • there are repercussions
    …You think it just might be possible there are repercussions for wagging one’s bony finger in the face of the President of the United States…? …Got passed over for $$$ for the Yarnell fire… …Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s choice to taunt President Obama’s administration has a co$t…  Fi ...
  • Seize the Moment
    …YES … SIEZE THE MOMENT FOR EVERYONE NOT JUST THE FEW … MAKE THE MOMENT INCLUSIVE NOT EXCLUSIVE…   2014: Seize the Moment Posted: 12/30/2013 7:32 am The Congress has just ended one of the worst and least productive sessions in the history of our country. At a time when the problems fa ...
  • Would this type of action by the NSA really su ...
    …Would this type of action by the NSA really surprise you..?   The NSA Actually Intercepted Packages to Put Backdoors in Electronics 12/29/2013  •  Gizmodo …The NSA revelations keep on coming, and if you’re feeling desensitized to the whole thing it’s time to ref ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013
    China begins to tackle pollution, carbon emissions: As China's environmental crisis worsens, the government has begun to unveil a series of new initiatives to curb record pollution and cut greenhouse emissions. The world's largest consumer of coal, China's growth in emissions is finally slowing ...
  • Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013
    1. Carbon concentrations hit 400ppm while the IPCC sets global carbon budget: For the first time since our appearance on Earth, carbon concentrations in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million. The last time concentrations were this high for a sustained period was 4-5 million years ago when tem ...
  • Rainforest news review for 2013
    2013 was full of major developments in efforts to understand and protect the world's tropical rainforests. The following is a review of some of the major tropical forest-related news stories for the year. As a review, this post will not cover everything that transpired during 2013 in the world o ...
  • Jaguars in Argentine Chaco on verge of local e ...
    The majestic jaguar (Panthera onca), the largest of the New World cats, is found as far north as the southern states of the US, and as far south as northern Argentina. In the past jaguars ranged 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) further south, but their range has shrunk as habitat loss and human dist ...
  • Unraveling the secrets of one of the world's m ...
    The Sunda clouded leopard has always been shrouded in mystery. Only declared a separate species from its mainland cousin, the Borneo clouded leopard, in 2006, the IUCN lists the cat as Endangered. The distinction between the Borneo clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulas) and the Sunda clouded leopard ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Antarctic rescue delayed again
    The rescue of passengers, including six New Zealanders, from a ship stranded in pack ice in Antarctic waters has been delayed.Sea ice conditions are preventing a barge from operating between two rescue vessels, so the rescue of...
  • Horrifying video goes viral
    If there was ever a reason not to be nosey, then this video is it. And if you happen to be an arachnophobe, the scenes here are the stuff of your darkest nightmares.In this viral - and strangely hypnotic - Vine footage, an unidentified,...
  • Antarctic rescue vessel not stuck in ice
    Reports that a Chinese icebreaker assisting in the rescue of a stranded research vessel has itself become stranded in thick Antarctic sea ice has been dispelled by the organisation coordinating the rescue.A BBC reporter onboard...
  • Antarctic rescue: 'Nowhere for us to go'
    The leader of an Australasian Antarctic expedition ship which has been trapped in thick sea ice for almost a week has described the experience as ``sobering''.Seventy-four people, including six New Zealanders, have been marooned...
  • Antarctic rescue underway for trapped Kiwis
    A rescue icebreaker is slowly breaking through Antarctic sea ice to reach a research ship with 74 people on board, including six New Zealanders.The Russian explorer vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy has been marooned in ice 3000km southwest...

The Bovine

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

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • America's First Marijuana Stores Open in Color ...
    Colorado ushers in the new year as the first US state to allow retail cannabis sales. Marijuana users celebrated as Colorado became the first US state to allow retail cannabis sales, putting it in the vanguard of efforts across the country to legalize the drug. The western state famous for its ...
  • China's Bill for Cleaning Air Pollution Mounts ...
    As China enters 2014 reeling from one of the worst polluted winters in recent years, experts from two major research institutes have openly disagreed over what is the main culprit behind the capital city's dismal air pollution. Please consider Cars or coal? Scientists split over main culprit of ...
  • Happy New Year (and Some British Humor)
    Looking for a laugh? Play the video below "Putting Out the Dog" Link if video does not play: Mrs. Brown's Boys Happy new year to you and your loved ones! Wishing 2014 to be your best year ever. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.comMike "Mish" Shedlock is a regist ...
  • Apple Denies Working With NSA on iPhone Backdo ...
    Today Apple denied creating backdoors on the iPhone for the NSA to exploit. First let's review some articles that preceded the denial. Within the last few days came numerous reports NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone. Back in September, Der Spiegel online reported iSpy: How t ...
  • France in Review: Perfect Track Record of Econ ...
    In 2013 France stood out as the perfect model of economic ineptitude. It's very difficult to be perfect at anything, even failure. France managed. Here are some headlines. December 19, 2013: 50 Foreign Companies Operating in France Sound the AlarmDecember 16, 2013: Sharp Decline in France PMI; ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Dave Matthews Band – “All Along the Watchtower” This is the 100th Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. That’s a whole lotta picks and we’ve covered quite a range of music. I’ve been thinking about this one for the past couple of weeks and wanted something special. All Alon ...
  • Establishment-Made Heroes, Blind Seekers of Sa ...
    We all know of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: The five stage model divided into basic (or deficiency) needs (e.g. physiological, safety, love, and esteem) and growth needs (self-actualization). I am not pompous enough to call myself a psychologist, even though one of my bachelor degrees was in the ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “The Surveillance St ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Shahid Buttar On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Shahid Buttar, a writer, poet, musician, and Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Guillermo and Shahid discuss how the complexity and totality of the surveillance s ...
  • Podcast Show #120- ‘What Do We Mean By “Real R ...
    Boiling Frogs Show Presents Cindy Cohn On this episode of Boiling Frogs Show we are joined by Cindy Cohn, Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as its General Counsel. We discuss the latest developments on NSA, including the recent court ruling by Judge Richard Leon and t ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Sea Ice Further Delays Antarctic Rescue
    A planned helicopter rescue of 52 passengers on a Russian ship stranded in Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve was delayed on Thursday due to unfavourable sea ice conditions in the area.
  • Mitsubishi, Mitsui End Accord to Buy LNG From ...
    Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s biggest trading company, and Mitsui & Co. withdrew from an agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from Woodside Petroleum Ltd.’s Browse venture in Australia after delays to the project.
  • Taiwan Shipbuilder CSBC Wins $50 Million Conta ...
    About 10 hours before the stroke of midnight on 31 December, Taiwan shipbuilding firm CSBC closed out the year with a $50 million order from Singapore-based Iseaco Investment Pte Ltd.
  • gCaptain Shot Glasses and Other SWAG
    Happy New Year folks! As many of you noticed, we launched the all-new gCaptain store just before Christmas in cooperation with BigWeatherGear and Helly Hansen. Rob Almeida unveiled Blue Steel [...]
  • Chinese Iron Ore Trade Fuels Clash With Mexica ...
    When the leaders of Mexico and China met last summer, there was much talk of the need to deepen trade between their nations. Down on Mexico's Pacific coast, a drug gang was already making it a reality.

Press TV

  • China ‘manufacturing growth down’
    A new survey shows that the growth of China’s manufacturing sector in December 2013 was at its slowest pace in three months as a result of a drop in demand for Chinese goods.
  • Israeli tear gas kills elderly Palestinian
    An 85-year-old Palestinian man has died after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli regime forces in the occupied West Bank.IA/HJL
  • Israel slammed for West Bank attacks
    Human rights groups have condemned increasing Israeli attacks on Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
  • US Catholic priest found dead in church
    A Roman Catholic priest in the US state of California was found dead on Wednesday in his church's residence, police said.
  • ‘Italian MPs due in Iran for talks’
    An Italian parliamentary delegation will travel to Iran to discuss parliamentary relations with Iran’s Majlis and to make preparations for a visit to the Islamic Republic by Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, says an Iranian lawmaker.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • 2014: Failure of Palestinian Authority, BDS Su ...
    2013 was a year in which the so-called peace process charade was allowed to continue, leading Palestinians on yet another futile journey of broken promises. Meanwhile, the Israeli colonial project in the West Bank and East Jerusalem carried on unabated. But it was not entirely a year of doom and ...
  • The Black Panthers: Revolutionaries, Not Thugs
    Given academia’s almost total failure to treat the theme of exploitation and injustice, one could be forgiven for despairing of ever encountering penetrating political commentary in American universities. Happily, however, there are occasional exceptions to this dismal and habitual avoidan ...
  • Mandela, King, Malcolm X, and Jesus
    Now that he is safely dead let us praise him, build monuments to his glory, sing hosannas to his name. Dead men make such convenient heroes. They cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides, it is easier to build monuments than to make a better world., &#82 ...
  • Jobs and a Just Society
    A just society should provide everyone with access to a job yet nearly 2 million Canadians can’t find work. Officially 6.9 per cent of the Canadian workforce is unemployed. But this number rises to 10.3 per cent when those who’ve given up searching for work are included. Counting &#8 ...
  • From Egypt to Afghanistan: Who Is My Enemy?
    From Sherif in Egypt My dear enemy, I kill you with love… As my mind was growing, by reading and opening my eyes, my enemy took different shapes. At first, I thought he was the guy who beat the teenager pride out of me in a train fight over a girl, but that went by, […]

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Newswise

  • U.S. Global Share of Research Spending Declines
    The United States' global share of biomedical research spending fell from 51 percent in 2007 to 45 percent in 2012, while Japan and China saw dramatic increases in research spending.
  • Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use Far Higher in Sever ...
    Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, drinking and drug use are significantly higher among those who have psychotic disorders than among those in the general population. The finding is of p ...
  • Researchers Gain Insight Into Likelihood of De ...
    Researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology report on the first study in 35 years that reviews the circumstances around retinal detachment after open globe injuries (OGI) and describes a new tool that ...
  • Vitamin E May Delay Decline in Mild-to-Moderat ...
    In this VA Cooperative Studies Group trial, vitamin E was shown to slow functional decline and reduce burdens on caregivers.
  • NASA's Hubble Sees Cloudy Super-Worlds with Ch ...
    Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way galaxy and found both may be blanketed with clouds. The best guess is that the clouds are not like anything found on Earth. Their scorching atmospheres are ...

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Jae's News

  • Vet with PTSD makes first legal recreational p ...
    Colorado's legal recreational marijuana industry kicked off Wednesday with an Iraq war veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder making the first pot purchase under the new law. Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Loyal dog stands by fallen friend in amazing d ...
    The faithful pooch watched over the body of its dead pal despite temperatures near 9 degrees.- nydailynews.com Submitted by Frank S. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Abortion Rights Groups Say It's Time To Stop P ...
    Abortion rights activists are working on a counterattack to the 200 bills that have passed in states across the U.S. since 2010. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal, New York Judg ...
    U.S. District Judge William Pauley issued the decision Friday. He says the program "represents the government's counter-punch" to eliminate al-Qaida's terror network by connecting fragmented and fleeting communications." Submitted by Angelika R. to US Politics & Gov't  |  &nbs ...
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    See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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