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Independent - London

  • Protester 'shot dead' in Kiev as clashes betwe ...
    Fresh clashes have broken out between protesters and police in Kiev after two demonstrators were feared dead following the escalating violence.     
  • Postcard from... Berlin
    Dressed up in jackboots and the grey uniform of former Communist East Germany’s hated border police, the man-sized bear goose-steps across the cobblestones in front of the Brandenburg Gate. He sidles up to giggling tourists who willingly part with their euros to have pictures taken of themselves ...
  • Oil: Saviour or curse for South Sudan?
    When South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011, oil was seen as a potential spark that could reignite tensions and cripple the new nation. But today, oil is motivating efforts to save it.     
  • Purdue University shooting: Police say gunman ...
    At least one person has been shot dead in the US state of Indiana after a gunman entered Purdue University, opened fire and surrendered within moments of killing a male victim, police have said.     
  • Stalemate in Ukraine: Is Brussels is doing eno ...
    The men and women protesters of Kiev’s Independence Square turn out on the bitterly cold streets of Kiev because they want a future as part of the European Union.     

The Daily Galaxy

  • Probing Far Beyond Milky Way to Map the Univer ...
        Researchers from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) today announced that they have measured the distance to galaxies more than six billion light years away to an unprecedented accuracy of just one percent. Their measurements place new constraints on the properties of th ...
  • Rosetta Spacecraft "Calls Home" --On Course to ...
        It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant spacecraft for the first time in 31 months. Rosetta is chasing down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will become the first space mission to rende ...
  • "Odd Couple" Galaxies Hint at Ubiquitous Natur ...
        An odd couple lives some 100 million light years away with spiral galaxy, NGC 2276 shown on the left, and its neighbor NGC 2300 on the right. There are quite a few intriguing questions concerning this pair. First of all NGC 2276 displays a perturbed spiral structure yet astronomers se ...
  • "A Mystery of Evolution" --Scientists Question ...
          Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 species ranging from man to frog. The research wa ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Twitter Followers Soar Abov ...
                   Join the 293,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...

Natural News

  • Popular breakfast cereals found to contain low ...
    A scientific study conducted at the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has found that popular breakfast cereals such as Corn Flakes, Kix, Uncle Sam, Raisin Bran and Honey Bunches of Oats are relatively free of toxic heavy metals. These cereal...
  • USDA moves to deregulate herbicide-resistant g ...
    The USDA has recently released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), suggesting the deregulation of 2,4-D-resistant soybean and corn seeds. Dow AgroSciences, in direct competition with Monsanto Company, made the request and plans to fully unleash the seeds within...
  • Fathers' diets and health found to influence o ...
    Passing on genes to children may have little to do with fate, coincidence or destiny. Maternal care is very important for healthy fetal development, but there may be even more at play in genetic development. New research suggests that gene expression can, in fact...
  • Research indicates that organic milk has more ...
    A recent research has established that organic milk has more health benefits than conventional milk. This research, published in December 2013 by PLOSOne Journal. This research reveals some interesting facts that can change the health of many people for the better. Organic...
  • Low-dose exposure to BPA could increase prosta ...
    New, eye-opening research on the negative effects of BPA chemicals on prostate health is emerging. After assessing the study of BPA on human stem cells, one researcher, Heather Patisaul from North Carolina State University says, "Overall I think this is some of the strongest...

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PERRspectives : Blog

  • Ted Cruz Forgets Iran-Contra, Cites Reagan App ...
    The sun still rises in the east and the force of gravity still applies. And when they want to sound tough on Iran, would-be Republican presidential candidates still cite Ronald Reagan as their role model. So following in the footsteps of Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney, Texas Senator Ted Cruz twee ...
  • What's the Difference Between a Medicare Navig ...
    The first numbers on the body count from the Republican sabotage of the Affordable Care Act are just now coming in. Last week, an analysis from Harvard's Theda Skocpol revealed that states that both set up their own health care exchanges and embraced the ACA's expansion of Medicaid are racing to ...
  • Mitt Romney Has Daddy Issues
    With the premiere of the documentary Mitt this week, the Mitt Romney rehabilitation project will be projected on screens around America. But the conservative effort to reinvent the flip-flopping, formerly pro-choice, health care reforming Massachusetts vulture capitalist as a paragon of faith, ...
  • Health Insurers' Stocks, CEO's Feeling Good ab ...
    For months, Republicans and their amen corner have been warning "Obamacare will destroy the private-insurance market" in order to "make a single-payer, i.e. socialized medicine, system inevitable." Apparently, the conservative prophets of doom forgot to tell the nation's major health insurance c ...
  • Missouri Blocks Navigators for Obamacare, but ...
    The first numbers on the body count from the Republican sabotage of the Affordable Care Act are just now coming in. Last week, an analysis from Harvard's Theda Skocpol revealed that states that both set up their own health care exchanges and embraced the ACA's expansion of Medicaid are racing t ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Rwanda “Genocide Fax”. Who was Behind the ...
    The New York Times and The New Yorker are desperately trying to revive the story of the so-called “Genocide Fax” of January 11, 1994. It seems to indicate that they can’t find anything better to defend their official story of…
  • Thailand: Thaksin’s Mad Dash to Sham Ele ...
    With little else to point to for legitimacy, elections are all Thaksin has left but it may be a trick he has used one too many times. To put into perspective upcoming elections scheduled for February 2, 2014, a little…
  • US Feigns “Horror” Over Cooked-Up ...
    As with every Western-backed conference assembled regarding Syria, dramatic fabrications revealed just ahead of proceedings are intended to give them and their predetermined outcomes both gravity and “urgency.” Upcoming “peace talks” to be held in Switzerland are no excep ...
  • Harold Pinter on “The Tapestry of Lies&# ...
    “There comes a time when silence is betrayal” – Martin Luther King, Jr  British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. For me, his acceptance speech, delivered three years before he died in 2008, was an…
  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: “An Ey ...
    ***NEW BOOK*** Available now at Baraka Books and on the Global Research online store Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa. From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction. *** Robin Philpot’s important new book Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa …

TPM Cafe

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

  • Alaskan Copper Mine Could Destroy the World's ...
    The Pebble Mine project would obliterate up to 94 miles of streams and threaten the area's fishing industry. ANCHORAGE (CN) - A giant copper and gold mine proposed for Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed could devastate thousands of acres of wetlands and the world's largest wild salmon run, t ...
  • Chemical-Related Hospital Admissions in West V ...
    After receiving the go-ahead to start using their water again, residents are flooding emergency rooms with complaints. It took nearly five days after a major chemical spill in West Virginia for residents to receive the go-ahead to start using their water again.Nearly 7,500 gallons of crude MCH ...
  • Forget Salmon and Tuna—It's Time to Start Eati ...
    The market and our palates need to catch up with changes in the marine ecosystem. It’s fair to assume that fishermen in Cape Cod usually fish for, well, cod. For centuries, cod were so numerous that they gave the region its name. But that’s not true any more.Fisherman Greg Walins ...
  • Company Responsible for Major Chemical Spill I ...
    Freedom Industries should face some serious accountability. It’s time to kill some companies. When businesses operate in ways that are clearly detrimental to the public interest - they should be dissolved and their assets should be distributed to the people they hurtThis will create a m ...
  • 5 Reasons the West Virginia Chemical Spill Sho ...
    In the week since the spill, some startling information has come to light that should make us shake in our boots. Most of us in the U.S. are lucky enough to have clean water come out of our taps every day; so lucky that we often don’t think about where our water is coming from and who's ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Keystone XL South Opens For Business
    Keystone XL’s southern half is scheduled to start operating for commercial purposes tomorrow, Wednesday, January 22nd. As much as 700,000 barrels per day of bitumen extracted from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, could be pumped through Oklahoma and Texas, igniting the fuse to the greatest carbon b ...
  • Pollution from the San Jacinto River waste pit ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency will host a community meeting, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, January 30th, to discuss plans to deal with pollution from the San Jacinto River waste pits. During this meeting residents can voice their concerns, and the EPA will be discussing planned const ...
  • How safe is the Keystone pipeline set to start ...
    Toxic tar sands will begin pumping through the Texas portion of the Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday (January 22, 2014) unless the Texas Attorney General decides to step up and protect our land and water. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to email Texas Attorney General Greg Abb ...
  • Tar Sands Flowing Through Texas
    The Keystone XL pipeline in Texas is slated to start up next week, pumping toxic tar sands to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast, unless Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott steps up to protect our land and water. Now is the time to email Texas Attorney General Abbott and ask him to use his bro ...
  • Coal and China – a hazy future
    NBC news reports a spike in air pollution readings over 20 times the recommended exposure levels suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Beijing on Thursday, cloaking China’s capitol in a thick, gray haze .  Click here to read the NBC story. The resultant air warning was just t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Remembering a Family Farm Defender and Champio ...
    john_kinsman_portrait.jpg John Kinsman was far more than a Wisconsin dairy farmer, though he proudly was that. He was a pioneer of organic and sustainable farming in the United States and a tireless advocate for global food sovereignty.&nbs ...
  • Cameroon activist takes on land grabber from W ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. ...
  • Veolia, a target of human rights organizations ...
    gri_protest_picture.jpg Since our office is in Boston, Grassroots International takes special satisfaction with the ouster of Veolia from running Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad system here. Veolia’s operation in the occupied West ...
  • Haitian Movements Speak Out Against Monsanto, ...
    Haiti’s peasant movements are reforesting the countryside, building irrigation systems, feeding communities – just to name a few activites that are improving lives for rural communities across the nation. In the video below,  members of Haiti’s Group of Four (G4) and the Dessalines Brigade ...
  • Celebrating 20 years of the Zapatista Uprising ...
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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Bizarre Economic Delusions of Barack Obama
    Ok. Here’s a questions. Who’s crazier? This guy: or Barack Obama? I’m going with Obama. The other guy at least seems to know what he is doing and is willing to take decisive action to protect his turf? Obama? Not so much. His claims about the economy are downright nutty. Let&#8 ...
  • Some Key Revelations from the Senate Report on ...
    The bipartisan Benghazi report issued today by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) is, as I noted in an earlier post, a damning document. The findings, which I list in the preceding blog post, are very straightforward. This report shreds the credibility of the New York Times, who ...
  • Senate Intel Committee Report on Benghazi Spel ...
    The report out today by the Senate Intelligence Committee is noteworthy, not just because it is bipartisan, but because its conclusions are clear and devastating for Hillary Clinton. The report leaves no doubt that there was ample intelligence in the months and days preceding the attacks on 11 S ...
  • Random Thoughts
    No single issue or theme for this post. Just some things that I find fascinating. Obamacare. Totally amused by the Obama disciples running around shrieking praise about how damn well the system is working. Two million plus people have “signed” up. Whatever the hell that means? Fillin ...
  • The Bullshit Story of Lone Survivor
    Peter Berg’s latest film, LONE SURVIVOR, which tells the story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s survival of an Al Qaeda/Taliban assault in Afghanistan and the deaths of his three team mates, is raking in the cash and resonating with a lot of Americans. Variety reports: Universal’s “Lon ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.5, Tonga
    Tuesday, January 21, 2014 01:29:13 UTC Tuesday, January 21, 2014 03:29:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.00 km (20.51 mi)
  • M 5.5, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Thursday, January 16, 2014 07:33:13 UTC Wednesday, January 15, 2014 09:33:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.00 km (23.61 mi)
  • M 6.4, Puerto Rico region
    Monday, January 13, 2014 04:00:58 UTC Monday, January 13, 2014 12:00:58 AM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
  • M 5.0, Cuba region
    Thursday, January 9, 2014 20:57:47 UTC Thursday, January 9, 2014 03:57:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.00 km (12.43 mi)
  • M 6.6, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, January 1, 2014 16:03:31 UTC Thursday, January 2, 2014 03:03:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 196.00 km (121.79 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Swift snowstorm rolls through northeastern US
    People make their way through Times Square during a snow storm in New York on January 21, 2014A major snowstorm rolled across the northeastern United States on Tuesday, with forecasters calling for as much as a foot (30 centimeters) of snow in some places before it leaves a cold snap in its wa ...
  • Syria warring sides join world powers in Montr ...
    Police block the street for the arrival of the Syrian government delegation at their hotel on January 21, 2014 on the eve of the Geneva II peace talks in MontreuxInternational diplomats and Syria's warring sides arrived in Switzerland Tuesday for a crucial peace conference, after months of wra ...
  • Obama to invite 47 leaders to US-Africa summit ...
    US President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency (NSA) and intelligence agencies surveillance techniques at the US Department of Justice in Washington, January 17, 2014President Barack Obama will invite 47 leaders to a landmark US-Africa summit in August, seeking to widen US ...
  • Richard Sherman is honest about his competitiv ...
    Over the weekend, Richard Sherman lit up the internet with a sideline interview completed after he helped the Seattle Seahawks clinch their spot in the Super Bowl. "Well, I'm the best corner in the game," he declared. "When you try me with a sorry receiver like [San Francisco 49er Michael] Crab ...
  • Florida state House candidate Joshua Black wan ...
    Joshua Black is a Republican candidate for the Florida state House. According to his website, he's the second of 10 children and the product of homeschooling. He's spent some time as a street evangelist. He says Republicans have "a serious communication problem" and that the GOP has "a hard tim ...

Institute for Policy Studies

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • Tesla recalling 29,000 Model S wall chargers t ...
    Filed under: Recalls, EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors Tesla's big wall charger adapter replacement program is about to get a lot bigger. For one thing, the replacement has become an official recall. Secondly, the number of affected adapters is higher than expected: 29,222 units. The National High ...
  • Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
    Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style, Electric Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
  • Los Angeles: 2015 Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell wil ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, SUV, Hyundai, Electric If nothing else, Hyundai wants to make it as easy as pie for you to check out its upcoming hydrogen-powered 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle. Given that the Korean automaker will be the first to offer a mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in the US ( ...
  • Quick Spin: Toyota Crown Royal Saloon Hybrid [ ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Quick Spins We don't often come into contact with the Toyota Crown Hybrid, especially in colors other than pink. But when Toyota offered us the keys and a half-hour window to test out the Japanese version of the Lexus GS on US soil not long ago, we had to accept. ...
  • Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
    Filed under: Technology, Electric "By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...

Time - Top Stories

Invisible Opportunity

  • Aggressive SWAT Team in Full Body Armor Raids ...
    Lily Dane At 8:20 p.m. on July 7, 2012, SWAT agents showed up at Mark Witaschek’s D.C. home to execute a search warrant for “firearms and ammunition … gun cleaning equipment, holsters, bullet holders and ammunition receipts.” Witaschek’s 14-year-old daughter answered the door and let about 30 of ...
  • Activist Post: The Psychology of Being a “Non- ...
    Bernie Suarez Activist Post There is a brand of people amongst us. They have no name but they exist. They are everywhere, at work, at home, at school, and in the streets, stores, and shopping malls. It is highly unlikely to not know someone who belongs in this category. It’s the so called non-co ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | The Many Splendored Opportun ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. I’m going to have to call exception to this article before it gets brought to my attention anyway. There are tall white guys on both sides of the struggle. This is how the bad aliens operate. Present something as u ...
  • Trigger-Happy Harvey Police Officers Shoot Inn ...
    BobTuskin.com Cop Block Horrifying incidents of police brutality are happening every day, all over the world. At what point will you stand up and refuse to pay for the salaries of state-sanctioned thugs like the ones you are about to read about? Think about it. As reported by Courthouse News Ser ...
  • Teenager Suffers Ruptured Testicle During Poli ...
    Bob Tuskin bobtuskin.com A teenager in Philadelphia may never be able to have children due to a ruptured testicle that was injured during an obviously violent police search. After the search he had to be taken to the hospital for an emergency surgery, and there will be no telling if the surgery ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Experts see that the 3rd Industrial Revolution ...
    Summary:  It’s been almost 4 years since the first article appeared on the FM website warning about the next wave of job losses from automation. Now experts slowly begin to grapple with this problem, estimating its magnitude, extent, and possible solutions. Here we look at three of these. ...
  • Martin Luther King Jr’s advice to us abo ...
    Summary: One of our greatest tools in the struggle to reform America is our history, its ability to inform and inspire us. National holiday’s point to some of these people, so that we can not only celebrate their accomplishments but als0 learn from them. Among those most appropriate for us ...
  • Murder by police. If these incidents do not an ...
    Summary:  Police casually shooting citizens. Nothing shows the rise of New America as the exercise of the ultimate power, demonstrating there are State agents, the rich & powerful, and the little people. A rash of incidents rubs our faces in this ugly truth. We smile and pass the soma. We ca ...
  • A Fed Governor speaks honestly to us about the ...
    Summary: Fed officials see as tools their ability to manage our confidence and expectations. This means a constant policy of exaggeration and distortion in their speeches, as truth and plain-speaking are secondary considerations. But there are exceptions. Perhaps the most famous is Bernanke&#821 ...
  • Scientists expore causes of the warming pause ...
    Summary:  Today we look at papers exploring the pause in warming of the surface atmosphere temperature, now in its second decade. This is one of the world’s most important science priorities, which will guide public policy for the next decade. Do we need a crash program to control CO2 emis ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Public Opinion in the Midst of the Syrian Civi ...
    I have been an admirer of Sam Whitt’s work for some time.  He has always done interesting research, being one of the first to study and publish on Katrina and run surveys/experiments on divided post conflict societies.   Whitt and his colleague Vera Mironova, conducted a survey of civilians and ...
  • Top of the Morning: Iran Disinvited to Syria P ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Iran Disinvited to Syria Peace Talks On Sunday, Ban Ki Moon made a surprise announcement that he has sent Iran an invitation to the much anticipated peace talks in Geneva this week. By Monday, that invitation has been rescinded under heavy US pressure. “The United S ...
  • France’s Re-Emergence as a Major Power
    If there is an Obama Doctrine in the realm of foreign affairs, it comprises robust multilateralism—being multilateral when the U.S. can, unilateral when it must. Subjected to scrutiny, however, the Obama Doctrine can only work if the U.S. has capable and willing partners. Yet under conditions of ...
  • Lawmakers Suggest Russia Helped Snowden Leak U ...
    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Several lawmakers with prominent positions on national security committees suggested on Sunday that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks may have been encouraged by Russian intelligence ...
  • IAEA Confirms Iran Is Complying with First Pha ...
    Today, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has begun to implement measures that will reduce its potential to produce material for nuclear weapons in accordance with the Nov. 24 “Joint Plan of Action” negotiated with the P5+1 state ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: It's Complicated—The Wendy Davis Story
    It's not going to be all pink sneakers and inspiring grassroots action this week for the Wendy Davis gubernatorial campaign down in Texas. On Saturday, The Dallas Morning News broke the story that key facts of her hard-scrabble, single-mother biography had been "blurred" by the campaign: Davis ...
  • Breaking: All Politicians Are Ambitious
    Imagine you were on a corporate board, interviewing candidates for the vacant CEO position, and you asked one, "Why do you want to run this company?" He replies, "It isn't so much that I want to run the company; I have no feelings about actually doing the job. You should hire me because I alone ...
  • The Examined Life of the Digital Age
    You've seen it on CSI and other police procedurals a hundred times: the detectives take a surveillance photo and watch as their computer cycles through a zillion photos of perps and crooks until it blinks with a match, telling them who their suspect is. You may have known enough to realize that ...
  • One Small Step for the Fourth Amendment
    Last week, Barack Obama delivered a speech announcing some reforms in response to Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency. As with most aspects of Obama's record on civil liberties, my response is inevitably mixed. The outlined reforms would certainly constitute a real i ...
  • Stevie Sings for Martin Luther King
    If we ignore 1979’s soundtrack to The Secret Life of Plants (though it featured “Send One Your Love,” 28 on the Billboard R&B chart), when Hotter Than July came out in 1980 it marked Stevie Wonder’s first album of newly recorded music since Songs in the Key of Life in 1976. It was his longe ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Feds Indict Klansman Who Designed Radiation Gu ...
    After nearly seven months, federal prosecutors have decided to move forward with charges against one of two men charged with conspiring to build a portable, remote-controlled device designed to deliver fatal doses of radiation to Muslims –  or “medical waste,” as the plotters called their intend ...
  • Nightline Profiles Young White Nationalist Act ...
    On Thursday, ABC’s Nightline ran a revealing profile of Matthew Heimbach, founder of the White Student Union at Towson University in Maryland and a rising star on the white nationalist scene. Nightline tagged along with Heimbach as he tried to recruit college students to his cause and sought all ...
  • Last Two Militiamen Found Guilty in Plot to At ...
    It took a federal jury in Gainesville, Ga., only 90 minutes to convict two members of a north Georgia militia in a plot to produce the deadly poison ricin and use it to “attack government buildings and kill government employees.” Samuel J. Crump Jr., 70, and Ray H. Adams, 57, were convicted Frid ...
  • ‘Doomsday Prepper’ Arrested on Gun ...
    Tyler Smith seemed to want to stand out among his fellow “Doomsday Preppers” – at least, that was the impression the Buckley, Wash., man gave in his Nov. 12, 2013, appearance on the National Geographic TV series that examines the efforts of fearful survivalists to prepare for a possible social a ...
  • Arkansas Town, Battling Legacy of Klan Activit ...
    Racism isn’t just immoral. It’s also bad for business. Just ask Jeff Crockett, the mayor of Harrison, Ark., a small, 95 percent white city haunted by the ghosts of century-old race riots and a current day Ku Klux Klan compound in the Ozarks just 15 miles outside of town. “Our Internet presence i ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Is Geneva 2 a Real Attempt at Peace in Syria, ...
    RIM TURKMANI, rimturkmani at gmail.com, Skype: reem.turkmani, @Rim_Turkmaniread more
  • ACLU Sues Utah for Not Recognizing Valid Marri ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Utah, and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC filed a lawsuit today in Utah state court on behalf of four same-sex couples who were legally married in Utah after a federal court struck down a state ban, but before the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily hal ...
  • Emperor Penguins Closer to Endangered Species ...
    In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the emperor penguin may warrant Endangered Species Act protection based on threats from climate change. The most ice-dependent of all penguin species, emperor penguins are ...
  • Former US General Warns of 'Tremendous Resentm ...
    Former US commander General Stanley McChrystal has warned that the US’s controversial drones programme creates “a tremendous amount of resentment” among “helpless” people in the areas it targets. McChrystal’s last post before retiring was overseeing NATO force ...
  • US Embarrassment “Trumps British Justice” in D ...
    The Court of Appeal in London has today ruled that the case brought against the UK Government by a Pakistani victim of a drone strike cannot proceed as it might result in the “condemnation of the US by a court of this country.”read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Four Years After ‘Citizens United,’ There Is R ...
    John Nichols
  • The Golden Age of Journalism?
    Tom Engelhardt It was 1949.  My mother -- known in the gossip columns of that era as “New York’s girl caricaturist” -- was freelancing theatrical sketches to a number of New York’s newspapers and magazines, incl ...
  • The ACA and America’s Health-Care Mess
    Gerald Friedman While it was enacted in 2010 without a single Republican vote, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.k.a. “Obamacare,” was built model first proposed by the conservative Heritage Foundation in t ...
  • Louisiana Court Rules That 7,000 Teachers Were ...
    Diane Ravitch Ckaris Williams, a New Orleans teacher and Katrina evacuee, prepares her classroom to receive students from New Orleans in Houston, Texas in 2005. (Photo: Dave Einsel/Getty Images)It is always astonishing to be reminded that ...
  • In Palestine, A History of Dispossession
    César Chelala Increasing acts of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have been repeatedly denounced. Together with the increasing number of settlements being built on Palestinian land, those acts of ...

Water Privatization

  • American States Water Company Comments on Cali ...
    American States Water Company today announced that despite California’s statewide drought conditions and Governor Brown’s recent drought declaration, water supplies for each of the 38 water systems at its utility subsidiary Golden State Water Company are sufficient to continue providing its cust ...
  • Editorial: Sign on to save our water
    If there is one thing all Floridians should be able to agree on, it is that our water supply is being threatened by pollution and overpumping.
  • Mangalore: Provide 135 litres of free water to ...
    Mangalore, Jan 19: Citizens Forum for Mangalore Development and People’s Campaign for Right to Water, Karnataka, launched, ‘Namma Neeru’ campaign in front of the DC’s office on Saturday January 18, against privatization of water.
  • Hill and contractor ink 50-year, $288 million ...
    HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- Apparently, water can be pretty pricey these days. Hill Air Force Base recently reached a contract agreement with American Water Works Co. that calls for a subsidiary of the company -- the Military Services Group -- to own, operate and maintain all of the water and the was ...
  • Local workshop will discuss minimum flows for ...
    Water will be the topic of the day Wednesday at the Alachua County Administration Building downtown.

Guardian

McClatchey

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

The Wonk Room

  • NOAA: 2013 Was Tied For The Fourth-Hottest Yea ...
    Even though parts of North America have been a bit colder than normal recently, the globe as a whole was much hotter than normal in 2013.The post NOAA: 2013 Was Tied For The Fourth-Hottest Year On Record appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • If You See Something, Say Something: Another T ...
    Obama just told The New Yorker, “I think we are fortunate at the moment that we do not face a crisis of the scale and scope that Lincoln or F.D.R. faced." A growing number of climate scientists have been warning us the President is very, very wrong.The post If You See Something, Say Something: A ...
  • Former Virginia Governor And Wife Indicted On ...
    Ten days after he left office, former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and his wife Maureen were indicted on 14 felony charges on Tuesday.The post Former Virginia Governor And Wife Indicted On 14 Felony Counts Over Gifts Scandal appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Female Tennis Player Reaches Australian Open S ...
    19-year-old Eugenie Bouchard is the first Canadian woman to ever reach the Australian Open semifinals. Before we take her tennis seriously, let's ask her who she wants to date!The post Female Tennis Player Reaches Australian Open Semis, Is Asked What Man She Wants To Date appeared first on Think ...
  • New Jersey Will Protect Pregnant Workers From ...
    Gov. Chris Christie (R) signed a bill barring discrimination against pregnant workers and ensuring reasonable accommodations so they can stay on the job.The post New Jersey Will Protect Pregnant Workers From Discrimination And Unsafe Conditions appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • Chris Alexander Stands Up For Pro-Western Ukra ...
    Laughable hypocrite, harpercon stooge and, now, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander (who has no problem with rape and torture when it's perpetrated by Canada's allies) is standing heroically with what looks like a small crowd of pro-Western Ukrainians) against the terribly undemocratic governme ...
  • Ontario Politics
    Should the ONDP's Andrea Horwath have taken the distasteful, but principled stance of siding with the cretinous Tim Hudak against the Ontario Liberal government's appalling and disgusting contempt of the legislature (withholding of information from the majority of MPP's; attempted destruction of ...
  • Elections Canada Trundling Along
    So Andrew Prescott has immunity from prosecution in return for, well nothing probably. It's 2014. The election fraud took place in 2011. The Supreme Court of Canada has already ruled that the next election can be a fucking free-for-all, harper has rammed through two omnibus bills to turn us over ...
  • Various and Sundry
    Obnoxious young asswipe Justin Beiber is found to have cocaine in his home (after police arrived to investigate the stupid spoiled brat's pelting eggs at a neighbour's house). Seems that homeschooled, Christian Bieber hasn't absorbed enuff of the teachings of his Lord n' Saviour, Jeeziz Christ. ...
  • The Military
    So, I'm now actually reading The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang. Here it is - right from the review: Stein and Lang have made great, sometimes awkwardly charming efforts to make what could have been a baffling policy paper into an eye-popping, very readab ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Feedback from Ceasefire.ca supporters
    Reducing the influence of Canada’s military industrial complex and transferring military spending to issues more relevant and beneficial to Canadians should be the top priority for Ceasefire.ca in 2014, according to many of its supporters.
  • Canada seeks more arms customers
    The Harper government wants to widen the list of Canadians arms customers in order to offset decreasing demand in “traditional markets” such as the United States and Britain.
  • Take our 2-minute member survey for 2014!
    What is your comment or suggestion for Ceasefire.ca for 2014 (leave your comment)
  • Ceasefire.ca campaign a success
    In a huge win, we cancelled the terrible $2 billion close combat vehicle deal. Thanks for all of your support in 2013.
  • Close Combat Vehicle cancelled?
    The government’s plan to purchase 108 Close Combat Vehicles may finally be dead.

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Evidence of ‘industrial-scale killing’ by Syri ...
    The Guardian reports: Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the “systematic killing” of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers. The three, former prosecu ...
  • Syria’s polio epidemic: the suppressed truth
    Annie Sparrow reports: One way to measure the horrific suffering of Syria’s increasingly violent war is through the experience of Syrian children. More than one million children are now refugees. At least 11,500 have been killed because of the armed conflict,1 well over half of these because of ...
  • The threat of institutional anti-extremism
    James Harkin writes: Moderation, just like extremism, is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Last month the British and US governments suspended deliveries of “non-lethal aid” – vehicles, communication devices, intelligence assistance – to its preferred group of moderate Syrian reb ...
  • In honor of radicals
    Andy Fitzgerald writes: America has a propensity for dismissing people and ideas with labels. Terms like “socialist” and “communist” are frequently hurled at those who dare to promote substantial programs that address poverty, or suggest that government provide what many ...
  • Music: Dhafer Youssef — ‘39th Gülay (to Istanbul)’
    The zither-type instrument is a qanun, played by Aytaç Dögan.

Watts Up With That?

  • ‘Made in China’ – US air pol ...
    Chinese air pollution blowing across the Pacific is often caused by manufacturing of goods for export to the US and Europe, according to findings by UC Irvine and others. Study finds blowback causes extra day per year of ozone smog … Continue reading →
  • Study: Electric vehicles have little impact on ...
    A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides. … Continue reading →
  • The Inventor of the Global-Warming ‘Hock ...
    Professor Michael Mann, if you see something, say something – or maybe just keep your mouth shut Guest essay by  Dr. Fred Singer Professor Michael Mann, the inventor of the Hockeystick temperature graph, had a contentious editorial essay in the … Continue reading →
  • Senior meteorologist on extended USA cold blas ...
    Normally quiet and reserved WeatherBell senior forecaster Joe D’Aleo (co-founder of the Weather Channel with John Coleman) almost never writes like this. When he does, it gets my attention. A new forecast shows the cold blast in the eastern half … Continue reading →
  • The FOIA coping response in climate scientists
    Guest essay by Chris Horner The curiously titled article, “Climate scientists, facing skeptics’ demands for personal emails, learn how to cope”, in today’s E&E News “ClimateWire” http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/01/21/stories/1059993161 (paywalled), ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Angioplasty and its revolutionary impact over ...
    In the 1960s patients with a blocked artery would have required major open surgery and a hospital stay of a week or more. Half a century on, patients are treated in a matter of hours and return home the same day – and it\’s all thanks to the angioplasty procedure. Dr Duncan Ettles, p ...
  • Neural prosthesis restores behavior after brai ...
    Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior—in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food—using a neural prosthesis in a rat model of brain injury. Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that ...
  • ‘Beige’ cells key to healthy fat
    “Beige fat” cells found in healthy subcutaneous fat in mice play a critical role in protecting the body from the disease risks of obesity, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who say their study findings may have implications for therapy of obesity-related illness in humans. A re ...
  • Obesity and Diabetes: Why There Is No Obesity ...
    Recent studies suggesting that heavier people with diabetes have lower death rates than normal weight patients may be a myth. A strong body of research shows that being overweight or obese puts people at risk for chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, cancer and even early death. But s ...
  • Epigenetics: A timeline
    Researchers are clarifying epigenetic intricacies such as missing heritability, disease markers, methylated proteins, and imprinted genes. Learn about the history of epigenetics in this timeline spanning 130 years.

CFACT

  • Is this any way to treat the job creators?
    Energy expert Marita Noon notes that the U.S. economy has an awful record for jobs creation under President Obama, and gives "kudos" to the President and the U.S. Forest Service for their work in keeping people out of work -- whether it is the long-delayed Keystone Pipeline project or the FInley ...
  • Obama’s war on U.S. energy
    The U.S. is sitting on an estimated $119.4 TRILLION in oil resources and $8.6 TRILLION in natural gas resources just on federal lands -- but the Obama Administration would rather invest taxpayer dollars to shut down coal plants, find reasons to veto the Keystone Pipeline, burden Americans with h ...
  • The Iditarod on 12,000 calories a day
    This is an amazing story about humans -- and sled dogs -- and their battle against a challenging environment. Something to think about when we complain about the weather.
  • Feds “save” spotted owls by killin ...
    Radical environmentalists, including many who see humans as a plague upon the Earth, have succeeded in nearly totally destroying the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest, and they used the spotted owl as their primary weapon. Now the government is killing barred owls -- the spotted owl's l ...
  • The Clean Air Act: EPA’s charade to just ...
    The Obama Administration, in particular via the EPA, is intentionally setting out to destroy the U.S. coal industry and to make Americans pay a whole lot more money for electric power. This affects people's quality of life and the very ability of businesses and industries to operate at a profit ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Nanotech Company to Develop 'Quiet' As ...
    A Russian company’s proposal to create “quiet” asphalt for highways was one of several selected by the EU for further development, the state nanotechnology company Rusnano said Tuesday.     
  • New Siberian Particle Accelerator Gets Officia ...
    The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Tuesday that the country should move ahead with the construction of a new particle accelerator in Siberia to study exotic particles that could unlock secrets of the universe’s formation.     
  • European Space Agency Wants More Missions With ...
    The European Space Agency is interested in further joint space-probe missions with Russia to the moon, Mars and Jupiter, its head said Friday.     
  • Russian Fog Display Project Evaporates – Report
    A Russian startup company that developed a unique interactive display made of tiny water particles is shutting down because of a lack of funding, Siliconrus.ru reported.     
  • Kazakhstan Wants Russia to Remain at Baikonur ...
    Kazakhstan wants a permanent Russian presence at the Baikonur space center, the head of its space program said on Thursday, after years of argument between Moscow and Astana over Russia’s use of the site.     

Natural Health News

  • Nutrition Advocacy Group Makes Headway in Prot ...
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to nutrition, it is very important that you have the right to freedom of choice and information. Unfortunately, organizations such as the American Dietetic Association (now calling itself the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics or AND) are threatening your freedom ...
  • The Pesticide Producers and Junk Food Industry ...
    By Dr. Mercola The chemical/pesticide industry and junk food companies spent nearly $70 million to defeat ballot initiatives in California and Washington that would have required the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. Even with that amount of money thrown at campaign ads, the ...
  • Why Widespread Nutritional Deficiencies Are a ...
    By Dr. Mercola There’s been much controversy surrounding the question of whether or not you need to take supplements. Critics claim that vitamin supplements are a waste of money, as you can get all the nutrients you need from your diet. They also claim that most people are not, in fact, nutri ...
  • Paleo: Right and Wrong About Eating Like a Caveman
    By Dr. Mercola The Paleo Diet is one of the hottest diet trends around. With celebrity followers and even high-end restaurants taking notice of Paleo principles, some might even say Paleo has gone mainstream. As the diet has grown in popularity, so too have its vocal supporters… and critics. ...
  • How the Cycles of Light and Darkness Affect Yo ...
    By Dr. Mercola While it may not be immediately obvious as to why, light is actually crucial to your health. I've always believed that you could have the ideal lifestyle with respect to the food you're eating, the water you're drinking, and exercise, but if you don't sleep well, you're just no ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekly News Wrap: Monday, January 20, 2014
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa A senior UN official has given warning of the risk of genocide in the Central African Republic without a more robust international response to comm ...
  • Guest Post: Meloni–Can the ICC investigate UK ...
    by Chantal Meloni by Chantal Meloni [Dr. Chantal Meloni teaches international criminal law at the University of Milan is an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar at Humboldt University of Berlin.] 1. A new complaint (technically a Communication under art. 15 of the Rome Statute) has been lodged on th ...
  • Events and Announcements: January 19, 2014
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The European Society of International Law’s IEL group is holding a workshop on Sept 3, 2014 in Vienna. Their Call for Papers can be found here. Please note the 1st March deadline to submit proposals. The Organizing Committee of the 201 ...
  • Weekend Roundup: January 4-17, 2014
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen In the past fortnight on Opinio Juris, Kevin wasn’t convinced by the Muslim Brotherhood’s argument that can accept the ICC’s jurisdiction on an ad hoc basis because it is still Egypt’s legitimate government. He also discussed the OTP’ ...
  • Obama’s NSA Reform: Foreigners Get Protections ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From the third paragraph of President Obama’s implementation of surveillance reforms (Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28). [O]ur signals intelligence activities must take into account that all persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless ...

Public News Service

  • USGS Scientists Uproot Long-held Beliefs about ...
    USGS Scientists Uproot Long-held Beliefs about Trees PHOENIX - A long-held belief about old trees has been uprooted. A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey finds that trees' growth rates do not slow as they get older and larger; instead, they keep putting on mass along with their years. ... ...
  • Politics of Power Stall Disability Treaty in U ...
    Politics of Power Stall Disability Treaty in U.S. Senate PHOENIX - An international human rights treaty that's been bottled up in Congress for more than a year now, has hundreds of organizations for veterans and people with disabilities across the country calling for a new vote in the U.S. Senat ...
  • Report: Alcohol Use Should Be a Doctor's-Offic ...
    Report: Alcohol Use Should Be a Doctor's-Office Discussion PHOENIX – Many Arizonans are pouring themselves a few too many drinks on a regular basis, and despite the health risks, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds they are not discussing their drink ...
  • Advocates for Internet Freedom say Appeals Cou ...
    Advocates for Internet Freedom say Appeals Court Strikes "Huge Blow" WASHINGTON – It's being called a huge blow to all Internet users. A federal court ruled this week in favor of Verizon, striking down Federal Communication Commission (FCC) rules that regulate the Web. The ruling means ...
  • Food Bank: SNAP Cuts Causing More Hunger in AZ
    Food Bank: SNAP Cuts Causing More Hunger in AZ PHOENIX - The federal government's cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP and still often called food stamps, are being felt in Arizona. A 5 percent cut in SNAP benefits took effect in November, amounting to about ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Texans angrily protest fracking after 30 earth ...
    ShareThisTexans angrily protest fracking after 30 earthquakes hit town 22 Jan 2014 Dozens of residents from a rural Texas community traveled to the state capital on Tuesday to demand that regulators act immediately to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, amidst allegations that it's to blame f ...
  • Snowden Seeking Russian Protection After Threa ...
    ShareThisSnowden Seeking Russian Protection After Threats: Lawyer 21 Jan 2014 Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. contractor residing in Russia under temporary asylum, is appealing to the local government for protection after receiving threats against his life, his lawyer in Moscow said. ...
  • Ex-governor of Virginia indicted on bribery ch ...
    ShareThisEx-governor of Virginia indicted on bribery charges 21 Jan 2014 Former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell (R) and his wife were indicted on Tuesday by a federal grand jury and charged with accepting bribes in the form of money and gifts from the chief executive of a dietary supplements ...
  • Prosecutor: NATO 3 'intended to commit an act ...
    ShareThisProsecutor: NATO 3 'intended to commit an act of terror' in Chicago 21 Jan 2014 The trial of three out-of-state men charged with plotting terrorist attacks during the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago got underway with prosecutors and defense attorneys presenting vastly different views of ...
  • Former Va. GOP Gov. McDonnell and wife charged ...
    ShareThisFormer Va. GOP Gov. McDonnell and wife charged in illegal gifts case 21 Jan 2014 Former Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) and his wife Maureen were charged in federal court Tuesday with illegally accepting gifts, luxury vacations and large loans from a wealthy Richmond-area business ...

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

  • California drought also due to drought of inno ...
    California finally declares an official drought yet the new measures will make things worse long-term since they encourage overuse of groundwater. Aquanomics says raise the price of water and put restrictions on over pumping and diverting water flows. Then maybe the aquifers won’t keep bei ...
  • Banksters setting up Greece for more plunder a ...
    Greece currently is paying back bailout debts to banksters using money loaned to it by banksters to pay off its debts. Such derangement can not long continue of course. Greece will run out of money to service debt sometime this year and will either need yet another bailout or to do what Iceland ...
  • GrassMargins – growing grasses on marginal lan ...
    GrassMargins is testing whether a variety of grasses can be grown on marginal land and then used to create biofuel and energy. The type of grass grown would depend on the area. Non-invasive species are used, with care given to insuring wetlands and habitats aren’t disturbed. Yields on marg ...
  • Development of grid-scale solar power plants h ...
    A lack of federal tax credits, tight financing, and utilities not needing more solar to reach 2020 California goal has greatly slowed development of big solar. California has mandated 33% in-state renewable energy by 2020 and utilities say they will attain that so they don’t need to make a ...
  • California drought will severely reduce nation ...
    The California drought continues. The red area in the image is Extreme Drought and encompasses the San Joaquin Valley, where enormous amounts of food are grown. A continuing drought through 2014 means economic devastation for California agriculture, and less crops for the nation. Prices for vege ...

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

  • “Common Core” (UNESCO) plans to tr ...
    Cradle to Grave: Watchdog says personal details about attitudes collected, measured, assessed The spying on Americans by the National Security Agency and the Internal Revenue Service’s attacks on conservative groups are “like a walk in the park” compared to government plans to track school child ...
  • Liberal icon urges Obama impeachment – & ...
    WASHINGTON — Worse than Richard Nixon. An unprecedented abuse of powers. The most un-American president in the nation’s history.   President Tricky Dick Nixon (Fascist)  Nat Hentoff does not think much of President Obama. And now, the famous journalist says it is time to begin looking into ...
  • The Elite 1% Gathering: Davos WEF 2014 Starts ...
    Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 22-25 January 2014 The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business And who is talking about it? This is a MUCH more influential gathering of Elite Controllers and wannabe mid managers… Than say the “Bilderberg Group” &#821 ...
  • Obama Expains his Low Aprroval ratings…. ...
    Boggles the mind. We would like think that the more the Feds bite off, and the more you become informed and aware…. The worse the dude in the White House looks.  Could he have said, “I am not perfect. I have made some rookie mistakes. Its a vast right wing conspiracy…” (o ...
  • This Day In History – January 21
    1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. 1793 – After being found ...

The Air Vent

  • Briffa MXD 2013 #1
    I’ve spent a little time compiling MXD proxies from Briffa 2013. I don’t have a lot of results yet but I thought I would put them up. First, I created a simplified reconstruction by centering the proxies and then normalizing by standard deviation and averaging.  That is why Phi claim ...
  • Flexible Thoughts
    I’ve spent a little time over my years studying the math behind neural networks.   I find the self-organization of neural networks to be mathematically interesting in the same way that evolution is.  While we humans can’t claim to understand the whole of the math of even a single neu ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Infographic: Facebook image dimensions
    One of the biggest headaches for novice Facebook page admins is making sure content looks good. While Facebook’s official image specs are hard to pin down, social marketing expert Jon Loomer recently compiled an infographic showing...
  • News Feed algorithm tweak: Status updates from ...
    Facebook announced Tuesday another change to its News Feed algorithm, this time involving status updates. Some page admins last year found that plain-text status updates (or status updates including a link) were doing well in terms...
  • Music startup breaks all the rules in Facebook ...
    My friend Jaron Ray Hinds shared this with us today — a social music startup that is getting conversions for 5 cents each. No jedi tricks, mass-scaled ad multiplication, or crazy targeting. Just optimized CPM bidding...
  • Infographic: Facebook word science
    Every Facebook page admin wants to know what (short of advertising or boosting) will prompt Facebook users to share their posts. A new infographic by ShortStack breaks down the science of what makes a shareable Facebook...
  • DataPoint: Did you know that King has more DA ...
    DataPoint:  Did you know that King has more DAUs than Zynga has MAUs? According to AppData, King has taking the crown. A new King reigns the app world… Developer MAU 1/1/14 DAU  1/1/14 Zynga 86 million 15.7...

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

  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “Aaron Swartz’ ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Peter Ludlow On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Professor of Philosophy and expert in digital culture, Peter Ludlow. Guillermo and Peter discuss the legacy of Aaron Swartz, as both an internet pioneer and vocal activist, one year after ...
  • BFP EyeOpener Report: Sibel Edmonds on the CIA ...
    In this exclusive interview for the Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener report, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discusses her recent article, “Turkish PM Erdogan: The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet.” We talk about Erdogan’s falling out with Fethullah Gülen and the CIA, CI ...
  • NarcoNews-Was “Mayan Jaguar” a Corrupt Underco ...
    ICE Investigation Targeting Drug Planes Plagued by Scandal, Court Records Show An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) undercover operation involving the sale and tracking of aircraft to drug organizations played out for nearly four years in Latin America, likely allowing tons of narcotics ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The New Great Game Round-Up: January 19, 2014
    China- Russia Counter NATO in the S. Caucasus, Dagestan: Olympic Torch Relay in Danger & China’s New Anti-Terror Strategy *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • UK Ambassador to Israeli TV: BDS “Not Yet Tsunami”
    Israeli TV Channel 2 news aired a lengthy segment on the economic costs of BDS to Israel’s corporate bottom line.  It is, as far as I know, the first full, dispassionate coverage of the subject in the Israeli media.  The report, aired on the weekend news program, traveled to the West Bank ...
  • Rabbi Pinto’s ‘Generosity’ Extends Up GOP Food ...
    In a recent post, I relayed a very smart theory posed to me by a journalist friend that Wonder Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto didn’t just decide on his own to come to the States and open an offshoot of his Shuva Yisrael movement in New York City.  In fact, so my friend suggested, he was sent […]
  • Breaking the Gag: Israeli Police Chief Accused ...
    The Israeli police don’t have enough scandal on their plate, what with Maj. Gen. Menashe Arviv accused of accepting bribes from Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto.  Now a new scandal (Hebrew) slouches its way toward Tel Aviv to be born.  In this case, I break yet another hopeless Israeli gag prohibitin ...
  • Israeli Miracle Rabbi Turns State’s Witness Ag ...
    Yesterday, an Israeli judge acknowledged the charade that the gag order in the Miracle rabbi case had become.  Not only did I break the gag, but virtually all Israeli publications were nibbling at the edges of the story with tantalizing details leaking out.  Finally, the justice system decided t ...
  • New Charges in Rep. Grimm Case, Israeli Police ...
    I hope you’ll bear with me in this post.  I’m going to tie together some disparate characters ranging from a crooked police chief, to a wonder rabbi, and a mobbed-up Congressman.  This will take us geographically from Tel Aviv to New York and Washington DC.  I promise it will be a fu ...

OpEd News

  • Chris Christie---s Many Tales From the Dark Side
    Chris Christie has burst onto the national scene in recent years. Despite having many critics and detractors he has become something of a darling of the mainstream media, and is viewed by many as a potential successful Republican candidate for the presidency. Is Bridgegate his obituary or an o ...
  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA
    As has frequently been noted, the TPP is not really about trade. The tariff barriers and quotas between the TPP countries are already low in most cases. Rather the point of the deal is to put in place a structure of regulations that will be more friendly to the large corporations who are in many ...
  • Lions and Tigers and Bears -- Oh My!
    Chris Christie took his oath of office today, amid the ongoing "bridge-gate" controversy and with his comparisons of New Jersey to Washington, DC -- he sure sounded like he had designs on the Oval Office. Even as new allegations emerge that Chris "Not a Bully" Christie withheld Hurricane Sandy r ...
  • Starting Over
    The United States as we once knew it, or thought we did, is finished.
  • No Place to Hide: We're All Suspects in Barack ...
    In Barack Obama's speech Friday, his unbridled defense of the surveillance state opened the door to the new McCarthyism of Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein, the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees, who on Sunday talk shows were branding Edward Snowden as a possible Russian spy.

Switchboard

  • GRAMMYs Honor Carole King for Protecting Wild ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Many people know Carole King as one of America’s best songwriters and performers, but over the years I have had the opportunity to see another side of Carole: the dedicated environmental advoc ...
  • Moving Forward: A Modern Freight System for Ca ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco What if parents of asthmatic kids in freight impacted communities like West Oakland, Wilmington and Riverside could breathe a little easier knowing that they no longer have to endure hundreds of dirty di ...
  • Reconceiving the elementary school library in ...
    Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions, Washington, DC   Now THIS is an exciting example of People Habitat:  The South African firm Architects of Justice has designed a remarkable new school library for one of that country's ...
  • Dan Burden, articulate on how to create walkab ...
    Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions, Washington, DC   Americans walk less on a regular basis than the residents of almost every other comparable country.  We’re also one of the most unfit and overweight countries in ...
  • WV Chemical Spill of MCHM - doing the math on ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The chemical spill of unknown amounts of crude MCHM, of unknown toxicity, and for an unknown amount of time has left a bad taste in my mouth. The whole thing stinks of too many unknowns. Over 300,000 ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Book Review - Avoiding Korean War II
    On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a lightly-armed diminutive spy ship was boarded by heavily- armed North Koreans near the North Korean port of Wonsan and the American crewmen and their commander taken prisoner. The unpredictable North Koreans claimed the Pueblo had been in its territorial wa ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Training Your Brain Usi ...
    A new brain-imaging technique enables people to ‘watch’ their own brain activity in real time and to control or adjust function in pre-determined brain regions. The study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, McGill University and the McGill Unive ...
  • The Race for Batteries - The Energy-Dense Suga ...
    'Sugar is a perfect energy storage compound in nature,' Y.H. Percival Zhang said. 'So it's only logical that we try to harness this natural power in an environmentally friendly way to produce a battery.'A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched ...
  • Heathcare on Edge - Target Will Drop Part-Time ...
    Target Corp. announced on Tuesday it would no longer offer healthcare coverage to its part-time employees.In a blog post on the company’s website, Jodee Kozlak, the executive vice president of human resources, framed it as a positive development for part-time employees of the company.â₠...
  • Broken Government - Ex-Va. Gov. McDonnell and ...
    Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and his wife were charged on Tuesday in federal court with illegally accepting large loans, luxury vacations and expensive gifts from a businessman and prominent political donor. A federal grand jury indicted the couple on 14 counts related to their decisio ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings In Secre ...
    Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria , said Amnesty International in a briefing published today. ISIS, which is linked to al-Qa’ida in Iraq, is an armed o ...
  • “Bride And Boom!” By Tom Engelhardt
    USA is number one in obliterating Wedding Parties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen.... And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of i ...
  • Walking In An Anthropocene Wonderland: "But I' ...
    According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the US Department of Energy and headed by a scientific team from the U.S. navy, by the summer of 2015, the Arctic Ocean could be bereft of ice, a phenomenon that will engender devastating consequences for the earth's environment and every l ...
  • UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice…And Now Dershow ...
    Preparing for a tough next few months is what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is doing these days and the UN Specialized Agency is working in the face of daunting odds. UNWRA was founded in 1949 and for more than 60 years it has been pla ...
  • Richard Falk Interview… Stealing Palestine By ...
    Let us look the children of Gaza in the eye if we can. And if we can’t, as I could not, seize the moment to reflect on what it means to be (in)human during this holiday season

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Target Announces Will Drop Health Insurance Fo ...
    According to a post on its corporate website, Target Corp. is joining the ranks of Home Depot, Trader Joe´s saying on Tuesday they will stop offering health insurance coverage for its part-time workers, effective April 1. Instead the retailer is offering $500 to employees who are losing their co ...
  • NAACP Leader Blasts Sen. Tim Scott --Calls Him ...
    NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, but in actuality it only promotes the advancement of African-Americans who agree with their leftist agenda.  On Sunday night the Rev. William Barber II, president of the N.C. NAACP attacked fellow N.C. African- ...
  • Part Of Keystone Pipeline Done-But Obama Still ...
    Two years ago President Obama faced protesters when visiting the Pipe Yard in Cushing OK. There  he announced he would swiftly permit the Gulf Coast Project, the bottom part of the Keystone pipe line. This week, that Keystone Gulf Coast Project will begin shipping oil through the 830,000 ...
  • Texas' Wendy Davis Blames Opponent For HER Lie ...
    While most of the the media had been covering Chris Christie on a 24/7 basis Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Wendy Davis got caught embellishing (polito-talk for lying) her biography. Her response to getting caught were pretty absurd as she used her lie as an excuse for bashing her opponent. Davi ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama Vows To Find Proof Of Tea Pa ...
    On Friday, President Obama made a speech where he announced reforms of the NSA surveillance operations. For example he promised to that an advocate for the people will be part of the FISA court proceedings, as for the rest of the problems he has promised to work with Congress to come up with som ...

Wind Watch

  • Huge wind turbine falls in Fayette County
    A giant wind turbine has crashed to the ground in Springfield Township, Fayette County. Emergency dispatchers said the turbine fell just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. Witnesses said they heard a loud boom and felt their house shake. Wind turbines have been growing in popularity in Fayette and Som ...
  • Debate on wind turbines in Somerset continues
    WESTOVER — A packed room of Somerset County residents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials debated the possible implementation of Great Bay Wind Energy’s application for an eagle take permit at the J.M. Tawes Technology Center. The Wednesday evening public meeting intended to use public ...
  • Study finds small aircraft face risks at airpo ...
    LAWRENCE — A study from the University of Kansas School of Engineering sheds light on a potential safety hazard that could affect hundreds of airports across the country and calls for updated guidelines to improve aviation safety. At issue is the proximity of wind farms to general aviation airpo ...
  • Council takes stand against wind development
    After a presentation by about a dozen concerned area residents, Belle Center Village Council and Mayor Rhonda Fulmer supported a resolution formally declaring their opposition to wind development around the village. Everpower Renewables has proposed a 300-megawatt project to construct up to 176 ...
  • DTE to replace 33 turbine blades
    UPPER THUMB — DTE Energy and General Electric will replace 33 blades at the troubled Echo Wind Park. “To date 33 blades have been slated for replacement,” DTE Energy’s Ron Chriss said Tuesday at the Huron County Commissioners meeting. He then sighed and repeated “33 blades.” The board asked if t ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter(9): A list for journalism students
    Zeynep Tufekci: Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release. Public radio journalist Stan Alcorn asks: Is This Thing On? (“Audio never goes viral.”) Freepress.net: The Net Neutrality Court Case Decoded.
  • Smarter(8): A list for journalism students
    Callie Schweitzer: How David O. Russell Made Me a Journalist. Matthew Mullenweg: The Intrinsic Value of Blogging. Steve Buttry: You don’t tip competitors on Twitter; you beat them.
  • Top 10 posts of 2013: Teaching online journalism
    In case you missed them, here are links to the posts on this blog that were viewed most often in the past year, according to the stats provided by WordPress. Only three on the list are from 2013 (I published only 27 posts this year). The oldest are from 2008 (also three posts), demonstrating the ...
  • Top 10 posts of 2013: Teaching online journalism
    In case you missed them, here are links to the posts on this blog that were viewed most often in the past year, according to the stats provided by WordPress. Only three on the list are from 2013 (I published only 27 posts this year). The oldest are from 2008 (also three posts), demonstrating the ...
  • Smarter(7): A list for journalism students
    National Geographic: 2013 Year in Review. Elise Hu: Tomorrow’s metric for news is action. Michael Wolff: Even the New York Times can't resist going lowbrow with native advertising.

Facing South

  • Alabama oil train disaster met with official n ...
    Image Caption:  An image of the Aliceville, Ala. oil train spill site taken earlier this month shows crude still seeping from the ground into nearby wetlands two months after the disaster. (Image is a still from the Kellogg's delivers Memphis a slap in the face
    Image Caption:  Union workers at Kellogg's Memphis plant say the company is disrespecting its majority-black workforce, locking them out to force lower pay. (Photo by Steve Payne via INSTITUTE INDEX: The ongoing injustice of raci ...
    Image Caption:  A new report looks at racial inequality in U.S. health care and how it's being exacerbated by states' refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. A new report by United for a Fair Econ ...
  • Freedom to pollute
    Image Caption:  The regulatory system failed to adequately oversee the chemical company behind the spill that contaminated the drinking water in nine West Virginia counties and sickened scores of people. The drinking water c ...
  • NC hog farm threatened with citizen lawsuit ov ...
    Image Caption:  Confinement barns and an open lagoon that holds hog urine, excrement and other waste produced at Stilley Farms in Jones County, N.C. Pollution from the facility is blamed for fouling the Trent River and Neuse River Estuary. (Pho ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

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

  • Dachel Media Review: Attacking Vaccine Safety ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Jan 20, 2014, Kennewick, WA Tri-City Herald: Top 5 fears about vaccines (and how to rest easier) Jan 20, 2014, Journal News Westchester County NY: Autism cause...
  • Dear Autism and PANDAS/PANS Researchers - List ...
    By Teresa Conrick My daughter, Megan, born in 1993, has had a diagnosis of autism since 1995. Throughout the years, Megan has suffered from perpetual infections. As a young child, she had chronic ear infections. She was put on antibiotics...
  • Part 3--Regressive Autism---a New Hypothesis t ...
    Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. By Bill Welsh “First of all they ignore you, then they ridicule you then they fight you and then you win" Ghandi. It is important to remind readers that this series...
  • Dachel Media Review: Self Advocating, Sound Se ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Jan 19, 2014, SILive.com: At one Staten Island middle school autistic students are speaking out for themselves Jan 19, 2014, Scottsbluff (NE) Star Herald: The importance of...
  • The Unique Discipline of Martial Arts for Autism
    Look at that proud smile! By Kim Stagliano My Facebook friends know that I train in Karate and Kobudo (weapons) five or six days a week. On Saturday I had completed a one hour kickboxing class in the morning and...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Congenital Hypothyroidism and Fukushima Fallou ...
    Plume of airborne radioactive iodine arrival in the US correlates with increased rates of congenital hypothyroidism among the new born.
  • Nurse Fiona
    The latest addition to the Farm Wars cast of characters - Nurse Fiona!
  • The Fix Is In – GMO Contamination Greater than ...
    Tell me again about how I should feel grateful that Monsanto tells us that it will not sue if the contamination levels of its GMO seeds in our crops are under 1% when the seed we purchase is contaminated with levels of 1-3%, with an average likely of at least 2%?
  • The Eleventh Hour – Decision Time
    It is a well-known fact in biology that pressures of an existential nature on a species result in two possible outcomes. The first outcome is that the species evolves. It adapts by way of biological evolution to the new conditions and survives. The second is that the species does not evolve and ...
  • Golden Rice: Scientific Realities
    Golden Rice is not a realistic solution to the problem of malnutrition and could well create further serious problems for the people who grow and eat it.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • PM reviews strategy - Northeast CMs told ...
    New Delhi, Jan. 20: With elections approaching and under pressure on missed deadlines for infrastructure projects in the Northeast, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met chief ministers from the region to review the progress of crucial projects. While Singh said “considerable progres ...
  • The day my double appeared on the radio
    There is only one person by the name of Mohaman Babalala working for the BBC. So, as he explains, it was quite a shock when another was heard on a Nigerian radio station. It happened on 9 November, a Saturday. As I was heading out of my house in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, I received a ...
  • Li Na enters Australian Open semifinals
    Tweet London, Jan 21 (ANI): Chinese star Li Na has advanced to the semi-finals of the Australian Open tournament on Tuesday following her quarter-final victory at the Rod Laver Arena. The fourth...
  • Shop while you chat with Google’s shoppab ...
    Hyderabad: Till a while ago, many were apprehensive about online shopping. But soon, it has begun gaining ground among urban population and people have started developing a taste for it. Just when they have started to dive into it, Google has decided to join the melee by launching their “sh ...
  • Sanjay Dutt's parole extended, yet again
    The Maharashtra government on Monday extended Bollywood actor and 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case convict Sanjay Dutt’s parole by 30 more days on the ground of his wife Maanyata’s illness. Dutt was granted a month-long parole on December 6 last year as well, for a second time in l ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • More Crude Spilled in 2013 Than Previous Four ...
  • Gruesome Ohio Execution Brings Death Penalty D ...
    (Photo: Handout via Getty Images)The botched and gruesome execution of convicted murderer Dennis McGuire last Thursday has brought the debate over the death penalty back to the forefront in Ohio and elsewhere as many question the humanity of a practice which, experimental or otherwise, may amoun ...
  • DoJ Hiding Documents from ACLU Transparency Suit
    The U.S. Justice Department is hiding information about dragnet collection of data from a transparency lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.The National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md, June 6. (Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/File) Spencer Ackerman writing for the Guardian re ...
  • Peasants' Rights! Seed Rights! No GMOs!
    Farmers rallied outside the European Parliament on Monday in protest of a proposed law they say would threaten biodiversity and put multinational control over seeds. Image via GRAIN.orgPeasant farmer group La Via Campesina says the biggest problems with the proposed law are: ...
  • Public Not Buying Obama's NSA 'Reforms': Poll
    (Photo: Allison Shelley/Getty Images)U.S. disapproval of NSA spying has continued to climb since whistleblower Edward Snowden unearthed the scandal this summer, and President Obama's speech on 'reforms' last Friday has failed to allay the public's growing concerns. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • ADA COMPLIANT-RESIDENTIAL WHEELCHAIR LIFT-RAMP ...
    Design-Build ADA Wheelchair Ramp- ADA COMPLIANT-RESIDENTIAL WHEELCHAIR LIFT AND RAMP CAD DESIGNS WITH BEFORE PHOTOS AND BUILD NOTES Before Photo A-Design-Build Exterior Wheelchair Ramp CAD Design Automatic Wheelchair Lift Down […]
  • WARRIORS ONLY NFL PLAYOFF CHALLENGE
    2013 Playoff Scenario Bracket-Picking NFL Playoff Challenge Tip Now that the playoffs are finally here its time to enter NFL PlayOff Challenge.  To score the highest points possible I try to pick the teams that will make it to the Superbowl. 2014 NFL Super Bowl XLVIII Playoff Bracket 2014 NFL Su ...
  • 2013 Review-Popular Blog Posts-Poll for 2014
    2013 annual stat report for Scotts Contracting-StLouis Renewable Energy This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. Are there any t ...
  • StLouis Brick Home Hempcrete Insulation Retrofit
    Design by Scotty-St.Louis Brick Home Hempcrete Exterior Insulation Retrofit CAD Design Wall RValues 4 Inch Layer of Hempcrete = R14.2 Multi Wythe St Louis Brick Building= R5 Total Wall RValue=14.2 My latest quest to Build a Green St.Louis by retrofitting the Brick Buildings located in the St.Lou ...
  • 3rd Grade Solar Science Project-Results,Testin ...
    In my quest to make school fun we decided to test the power of the sun with some kool solar gadgets.  She said it was fun testing the different solar toys and the test results prove that the power of the sun is strongest… This is her project for her class I did my best […]

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Wyeth and the Multibillion Dollar Menopause In ...
    (Part I of a two part series on the dangerous and cancer causing campaign by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to “medicalize” menopause for profit), I have written previously (see The Multibillion Dollar Depression Industry and Drug Companies: Killing Kids for profit)  about the ingeni ...
  • Drug Companies: Killing Kids for Profit
          (Thanks to the corporatization of health care, Americans pay double what other countries pay for health care but have much worse health. The recent Obamacare roll-out has heightened public awareness about the role of private insurance companies in sucking billions of h ...
  • The Multibillion Dollar Depression Industry
    (Thanks to the corporatization of health care, Americans pay double what other countries pay for health care but have much worse health. The recent Obamacare roll-out has heightened public awareness about the role of private insurance companies in sucking billions of health dollars ou ...
  • The CIA Role in the Arab Spring
      (more from my research for A Rebel Comes of Age) L’Arabesque Americaine (French edition – not available in English yet) by Ahmed Bensaada (2011 Michel Brule) Book Review The current military junta in Egypt supports growing suspicions that the Arab Spring revolutions ...
  • How the CIA Promotes Nonviolence
    (More from my research for A Rebel Comes of Age) As Ward Churchill (in Pacifism as Pathology) and Peter Gelderloos (in How Nonviolence Protects the State) suggest, white middle class activists have very complex psychological reasons for their dogmatic attitude towards political violence. Howe ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • EPA's Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment Has Eve ...
    On Wednesday, EPA released its peer-reviewed, scientific “Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on Salmon Ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska” and concluded that large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed poses “significant” – and even “catastrophic” – risks to the ecosystem.read more
  • Dueling Charts of the Day: Peaker Plants vs. G ...
    Wind and solar power are transitioning from marginal to central players in the grid energy landscape. But wind and solar are also subject to the vagaries of daily and seasonal weather patterns, which means they sometimes can't be relied on to meet the grid’s critical needs.read more
  • Eight Steps for Safer Oil Trains Eyed by U.S. ...
    Due to the booming oil production in North Dakota, and the ramp-up of ethanol production, U.S. railways now are carrying an unprecedented volume of flammable liquid—and the majority of tank cars used are prone to be punctured in an accident, as safety investigators have been warning for 20 years ...
  • What Everyone Should Know About Deregulated El ...
    Most people that deal with energy have heard of a deregulated electricity market. Still, many find it difficult to differentiate it from a regulated market. It can be a challenging concept to understand, but I’m here to explain the confusing parts and fill in any blanks.read more
  • Climate Change, California, and the Smart Grid
    The California Energy Commission publishes an Integrated Energy Policy Report every two years. The most recent report serves many information purposes, such as assessing major energy trends and issues facing the state’s electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel sectors.read more

Rodale News

  • The Worst Seafood Advice You're Getting
    "Eat seafood twice a week!" It's standard advice that was outlined in the federal government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 2011, intended to steer people with heart disease and pregnant women toward eating fish and seafood that can ward off cardiovascular problems and make smarter, heal ...
  • 7 Surprising Reasons to Give Up Wheat
    Is wheat bad? Here's the quick backstory: The modern version of wheat is a far cry from the ancient plant. In fact, the newer, high-yield wheat we've been eating since the 1980s is full of genetic changes that seem to inflame our bodies, cause our guts to leak, and trigger autoimmune diseases. ...
  • Grape Nuts Goes GMO-Free
    Cereal lovers have another reason to rejoice: A week after General Mills announced that its flagship cereal, Original Cheerios, would be made without genetically modified ingredients (GMOs), Post Cereals has said the same thing about its iconic Grape-Nuts brand. Post sent a letter to GMO Inside ...
  • Is Your House Making You Fat?
    You count calories, exercise daily, and eat lots of fruits and vegetables. But a chemical that's hiding in your walls could be undermining your efforts to control your weight. The chemical, HBCD (short for hexabromocyclododecane), is a flame retardant added to polystryrene foam-insulation panel ...
  • Acetaminophen Warning Issued by FDA
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an acetaminophen warning, noting that prescription combination drugs that contain more than 325 milligrams (mg) of acetaminophen per dose haven't been proven to benefit people more than a lower dose but could put their health in grave danger. Th ...

big think

  • Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Passes Big Test
    The third powered test flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo was completed under the guidance of Chief Pilot Dave Mackay earlier this month.  In the video below, watch as SpaceShipTwo's hybrid rocket motor powers the spacecraft to a top speed of Mach 1.4, or 1.4 times the speed of sou ...
  • Human: The Most Dangerous Animal
    Humans compete viciously for limited resources. They form complicated tribes that fight with one another. They behave irrationally in all sorts of ways. And yet, humans also possess "a ridiculous tolerance for adversity." That is why, in the spoof video below, the narrator warns his alien viewer ...
  • Micro Moon over Super Moon
    The smallest Full Moon of 2014 reached its full phase just a few hours from lunar apogee, or its most distant point from Earth in the Moon's orbit. This happened last week. The apparent size of this Full Moon is compared to the last Full Super Moon (from last June), which was when the Moon was a ...
  • Researchers Say Facebook Will Die Off Like an ...
    Facebook has the same properties as an infectious disease. It has spread infectiously and will die off in a manner that is consistent with epidemiological models. These are the conclusions of a Princeton research team, which forecasts the date of Facebook's rapid decline to begin somewhe ...
  • If all Chinese go to the coast and spit, Japan ...
    THAT is a common joke among mainland Chinese who outnumber the Japanese roughly ten to one. It also mocks Japan’s geographical tininess. (It’s not a small country, bigger than Germany or Italy, but still less than a 1/25 the size of China.) Another running gag is how teachers, when drawing maps ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
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  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
    The resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary. Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines. [Cf. ...
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    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The antipodes, on the other foot
    When I was at school, they used to call Australia “the antipodes”, I suppose they still do, but antipodean to what? It’s certainly not antipodean to Britain. In fact, if you try this tool you can see that the Aussie mainland is diametrically opposite the open waters of Atlantic ...
  • Open your labbook, sign the petition
    A Whitehouse petition that any of us, not just Amercuns, can sign, was published last night. Here’s its mission: Access to notebooks improves the processes of patenting, inventing & preserving U.S. scientific & medical history. In 2013, OSTP mandated open access for federally funde ...
  • Open your lab book – sign the petition
    A Whitehouse petition that any of us, not just Amercuns, can sign, was published last night. Here’s its mission: Access to notebooks improves the processes of patenting, inventing & preserving U.S. scientific & medical history. In 2013, OSTP mandated open access for federally funde ...
  • 1+2+3+4+5+6… = -1/12 obviously
    If you could somehow add up all the whole numbers from 1 to infinitty the answer you would get is -1/12 (minus one twelfth), don’t believe me, here’s the astounding mathematical proof and if it seems absurd, then it’s no more absurd than the idea that you could add up all the n ...
  • After shortest day sunrise still gets later
    Several people asked me about the odd phenomenon that in these here parts sunrise gets later each day until early January even though the days themselves get longer after the winter solstice. From EarthSky: The winter solstice always brings the shortest day to the Northern Hemisphere and the lon ...

RFF Library

  • The Economic Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies
    UC Center for Environmental and Energy Economics / by Lucas Davis http://www.uce3.berkeley.edu/WP_069.pdf By 2015, global oil consumption will reach 90 million barrels per day.  In part, this high level of consumption reflects the fact that many countries provide subsidies for gasoline and diese ...
  • China’s International Trade and Air Pollution ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (January 21, 2014; doi:10.1073/pnas.1312860111) / by Jintai Lin, et al. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/01/16/1312860111.full.pdf+html [Washington Post] …Less manufacturing in the United States in recent years has led to better air in ...
  • Powering Forward: Presidential and Executive A ...
    Center for the New Energy Economy http://cnee.colostate.edu/p/powering-forward [Greenwire article by Jean Chemniak] …Its 200 recommendations include many actions the administration is already taking or considering, including new DOE efficiency standards for appliances and more stringent st ...
  • Collaborative Action on Climate Risk
    Accenture for CDP https://www.cdp.net/CDPResults/CDP-Supply-Chain-Report-2014.pdf More multinationals and their suppliers than ever before now use CDP to achieve sustainable supply chain management. Written by Accenture, the CDP Global Supply Chain Report 2014, ‘Collaborative Action on Climate R ...
  • Africa’s Adaptation Gap: Technical Report
    African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) | UNEP | Climate Analytics http://unep.org/pdf/AfricaAdapatationGapreport.pdf Africa faces huge financial challenges in adapting to climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) that spells out ...

frogblog

  • Summer campaigning
    Happy New Year, hope you are having a fantastic summer. For the last two weeks I’ve been on the road campaigning to stop risky deep sea oil drilling and promote clean energy. Over summer I’ve been running the ‘Anadarko: wish you weren’t here’ campaigning on our beaches to send a message to ...
  • It’s time for an inquiry into safety in the fo ...
    Last week two forestry workers were seriously injured and another killed in forests near Whakatane, Gisborne and Wairau. This comes on top of 10 deaths last year in the sector and another 90 serious injuries.  Despite this the government – and Labour Minister Simon Bridges – is still silent on s ...
  • Domestic Violence and protection orders &#8211 ...
    At the end of last year I spoke at a rally in remembrance of two migrant women who were murdered in Wellington while having protection orders in place. While standing in front of the crowd I was recalling all the similar rallies I had been to over the years remembering all the women and children ...
  • Latest leak reveals TPPA undermines environmen ...
    It’s nothing short of absurd that a modern agreement like the TPPA doesn’t address critical issues like climate change and biodiversity loss.
  • Cambodia – violating global norms
    New Zealanders need to be aware of the current brutal crack-down by government security forces on unarmed peaceful protests in Cambodia, last week.  We have about 7,000 citizens of Khmer descent in our country now, and have contributed some $1 million to the Khmer Rouge trials. It is morally inc ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...

Insanity Report

  • Domestic Trailer for The Raid 2
    A new trailer for The Raid 2 (Berandal) has been released.  This is the domestic trailer for the movie.  This movie hits theaters in the U.S.  on March 28th.  Not much more needs to be said about this.  I can’t wait.  I don’t need to be sold on this movie.  No one should.  Just be [& ...
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  • Agents of SHIELD Episode Review: Seeds
    Kriss & Kev Review the latest episode of Agents of SHIELD, "Seeds"The post Agents of SHIELD Episode Review: Seeds appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • Arrow Episode Review: Blast Radius
    What makes Arrow such a good show is that even if the main story is filler, there’s still a lot of good tidbits from other parts. This episode picks up shortly after the midseason finale with Felicity out of Starling City checking on Barry Allen’s condition while Oliver tries to trac ...
  • Almost Human Episode Review: You Are Here
    Kriss & Kev review the latest episode of Almost Human, episode 8 You are HereThe post Almost Human Episode Review: You Are Here appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Study reveals world's highest deforestation ra ...
    Ranching companies are intent on clearing the last forest refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo.© GAT / SurvivalA new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay’s Chaco forest – the last refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo tribe  – is being devastated by the world’s highest rate of def ...
  • Kidnap and sexual exploitation of vulnerable A ...
    Reports of the kidnap and abduction of Jarawa women have led to concerns about sexual exploitation of the vulnerable tribe by poachers. © SurvivalSeven men have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction and kidnap of vulnerable Jarawa women on India’s Andaman Islands, accordin ...
  • Mandela's Robben Island comrade denounces pers ...
    The veteran anti-apartheid activist Michael Dingake has denounced Botswana's persecution of the Bushmen.© Michael Dingake/SurvivalMichael Dingake, a veteran ANC activist from Botswana who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, has issued a scathing critique of his government&# ...
  • Indian President’s passionate plea against ass ...
    The President warned that 'so-called development' must not be allowed to destroy the Jarawa tribe © Salomé/SurvivalIn a strongly worded speech the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, said this week at the inauguration of the ‘Andaman & Nicobar Tribal Research and Training Institu ...
  • Bushman beaten by Botswana’s paramilitary police
    Mogolodi Moeti was attacked by paramilitary police 'as an example to others' defending the Bushmen's rights. © SurvivalA Bushman from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana has been held at gunpoint and beaten by members of Botswana’s paramilitary police (SSG). Mogo ...

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Food World Order

  • Amazingly, Smoking Is Even Worse Than We Knew
    from newser.com: Yes, smoking is bad for you, but just how bad might still surprise you. A surgeon general's report out Friday reports (PDF) that lighting up is scientifically proven to cause diabetes, colorectal and liver cancers, erectile dysfunction, and ectopic pregnancy, the New York Times ...
  • Spain becomes first country to rely on wind as ...
    from aljazeera.com: Spain is the first country in the world to draw a plurality of its power from wind energy for an entire year, according to new reports by the country’s energy regulator and wind energy advocacy group Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE). Wind accounted for 20.9 percent of ...
  • #FreedomIndustries, Company in #WestVirginia S ...
    One week after W. Va. toxic spill, new owner of Freedom Industries puts firm in bankruptcy* from nytimes.com: Freedom Industries, the West Virginia company whose chemical spill last week tainted the drinking water of more than 300,000 residents in and around Charleston, filed for Chapter 11 ban ...
  • #California Declares Drought Emergency
    from afp.com: California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Friday due to what could be the western US state's worst drought in a century, which has sparked wildfires and hurt farmers. The declaration allows authorities to access federal help to battle the dry spell that has left ...
  • Air pollution in Beijing hits worst ever
    from NHK.com: Smog levels in the Chinese capital Beijing soared on Thursday to levels considered "extremely serious." Official readings for concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles, called PM 2.5, climbed up beyond 600 micrograms per cubic meter at one point on Thursday. Hazy smog ...

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  

Republicans are a Disease

  • Which Part Of The Bible Will Duck Dude Be Droo ...
    I just watched a piece on the Lawrence O’Donnell show about the parts of the bible that the “Jesus People” like Phil Robertson ignore, so they can babble on about the parts they like. From what I understand, the bible says adulterers, gays, and children who disrespect their eld ...
  • First Amendment – Free Speech – Ab ...
    If some television network has a “reality” show, then I can’t see where they should have a problem with any of the stars saying what they “really” think. Even is it is somewhat offensive. What takes me back is the fact that someone that pretends to be a christian ha ...
  • What Is With This Pope That Actually Thinks Ca ...
    What is going on here? We have a “Christian” that actually isn’t supporting “free trade” and “smaller government” or worse? A christian that thinks that folks who use their billions to pressure governments to help them more effectively rob the poor aren& ...
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    Our founding fathers spoke repeatedly about about the fact that they didn’t want a small group of American families to have all the wealth. This means the Estate Tax. In today’s world there are loopholes that allow billionaires to use trusts in bizarre ways to pass on their billions ...
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Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
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  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
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  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

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  • Peace groups should criticize Kerry too
    The fact that Israeli and American right-wingers are attacking Secretary Kerry should not make him immune to criticism from within the peace camp. Troubling reports have been coming out of the Israeli-American-Palestinian negotiations in recent weeks. According to Israeli and Palestinian media, ...
  • Settler violence: It comes with the territory
    Unlike any other aspect of the occupation, settler violence is something nobody outside the radical fringe in Israel will defend. This, alone, they’ll denounce. And yet, nobody — in Israel or internationally — has found the political will to put a stop to the decades-long phenomenon, ...
  • Student’s ‘political persecution&# ...
    An Israeli student’s accusations that her teacher expressed leftist views, amplified by a far-right political figure, now have the teacher fighting for his job. Israel’s education minister ordered the Ort school system to investigate a complaint against a high school teacher from one of it ...
  • Sharon was no De Gaulle
    To get out of the West Bank Israel needs a politician with the energy and reputation of Sharon and the political skills of De Gaulle. Whether such a figure exists is a different story. By Thomas Mitchell Ariel Sharon was Israel’s most politically successful military politician. His political car ...
  • The writing on the wall: Boycott is top story ...
    Following Channel 2 News’ remarkable Saturday night prime-time feature on the boycott of Israel, ‘Yedioth Ahronoth’ delivers same warning in big, bold letters on Monday’s front page. “100 leaders of the economy warn of boycott on Israel,” reads the lead headline in Monday’s Yedioth A ...

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    Row over renewable energy holds up EU greenhouse gas emissions deal
    The Guardian
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    Department of Ecology investigates oil and soap spill at West Bay Marina
    The Olympian
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    Quad City Times
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    Use of water 'your decision,' Tomblin says
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    RT (blog)
    ​A West Virginia community hoping to determine whether its drinking water is safe after a catastrophic chemical spill will likely be left with serious doubts after the state governor said he could not confidently answer that question. “We've been in ...
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