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English: Mankellbron, a combined road- and rai...English: Mankellbron, a combined road- and railway bridge in Sveg, Sweden Svenska: Mankellbron i Sveg. Kombinerad Järnvägs- och landsvägsbro. Sedd från söder. Deutsch: Mankellbron, seit 2006 nach Henning Mankell benannte kombinierte Straßen- und Eisenbahnbrücke der Inlandsbahn vor Sveg, Schweden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Daily Galaxy

  • "Massive Stars Dominate the Evolution of Their ...
      "Massive stars dominate the lives of their host galaxies through their ionizing radiation and supernova explosions," said Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, a curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics and an author on the paper. "All the elements heavier than i ...
  • Never-Before-Seen River of Hydrogen Flowing th ...
          Using the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University has discovered what could be a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space. This very faint, very tenuous filament of gas is stream ...
  • Recognizing Extraterrestrial Intelligence --“T ...
        “They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognize them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology." The intriguing remark was made by Lord Martin Rees, a lead ...
  • NASA Zooms in on Total Destruction of a White ...
        An exceptionally close stellar explosion discovered on Jan. 21 has become the focus of observatories around and above the globe, including several NASA spacecraft. The blast, designated SN 2014J, occurred in the galaxy M82 and lies only about 12 million light-years away. This makes it ...
  • Image of the Day: "Sentinels of the Arctic" -- ...
        Life on an exo-planet? No,these amazing images were taken near the Arctic Circle, where temperatures can fall as low as -40 degrees Celsius by nature photographer Niccolò Bonfadini who captured the shots during a nine-day camping trip to Finland last January. "I was blown away by th ...

Natural News

Threat Level

  • Hacker Behind SpyEye Banking Trojan Pleads Gui ...
    A Russian hacker who developed the widely used Spy Eye banking Trojan has pleaded guilty today to creating the malicious toolkit that was considered one of the most popular hacking tools for two years.     
  • Tech Giants, Telcos Get OK to Release Stats on ...
    In Obama's speech 10 days ago outlining surveillance reforms, the president promised he would allow corporations like Google, Apple and Microsoft to be more transparent with their customers about NSA spying. Today, we learned what that means. The Justice Department ...     
  • Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $ ...
    The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk ...     
  • If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI ...
    While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated ...     
  • Neiman Marcus: 1.1 Million Credit Cards Expose ...
    More than 1.1 million customers were affected in the recent hack that affected high-end retailer Neiman Marcus, the company has finally revealed.     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Canadian PM Redefines Anti-Semitism in Israel
    Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded what many observers deemed a triumphant four-day visit to Israel. His powerful message to the Knesset that "through fire and water, Canada will stand with you" earned him the praise of conservatives in Israel, Canada and the U.S. alike. ...
  • Bush was Silent on Medicare Drug Plan Fiasco i ...
    There is little question that President Obama will address the Affordable Care Act in his 2014 State of the Union address. Given its troubled rollout and the neverending Republican effort to sabotage his signature domestic policy achievement, silence on Obamacare isn't an option. Nor should it ...
  • GOP Marks 10 Years since Giving Bush Clean Deb ...
    This week, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congressional leaders that the federal government will hit its debt ceiling in late February. But just days after House Speaker John Boehner declared Uncle Sam "shouldn't even get close" to the edge of its borrowing limit, his spokesman Michael Ste ...
  • For Conservatives, Everything is the Holocaust
    During the 2012 presidential campaign, GOP nominee Mitt Romney declared that discussion of the nation's record-high income inequality should be left to "quiet rooms." As their casual comparisons of modest tax increases to the Holocaust show, conservatives would do well to heed his advice. Afte ...
  • Huckabee: Wives Must "Graciously Submit" to Hu ...
    This was not the best of weeks for once and possible future GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. First, the Fox News host doubled-down on his "Uncle Sugar" charge that the Affordable Care Act's conception coverage mandate showed that Democrats believe women "cannot control their libido or ...

Global Research.ca

  • Thailand: US Sides With Increasingly Violent, ...
    The US State Department openly sided with Thaksin Shinawatra and his proxy regime, and backed their planned one-party sham elections being carried out in a climate of political intimidation, terrorism, assassinations, and a draconian “emergency decree” in a statement released…
  • Is This the Big One? The New Wave of Financial ...
    Global stocks were hammered on Friday for a second straight day on news of a slowdown in China and turbulence in emerging markets. The Dow Jones Industrials suffered its worse drubbing in more than two years, tumbling 318 points on…
  • Cut Off the NSA’s Juice
    The National Security Agency depends on huge computers that guzzle electricity in the service of the surveillance state. For the NSA’s top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice to keep Big Brother nourished is essential — and any interference…
  • States Fight Back Against NSA: Can US States R ...
    The American people aren’t falling for NSA’s propaganda.  They want the rogue agency reined in. But Obama refuses to rein in the NSA, Dianne Feinstein says that Congress “doesn’t have the votes” to do anything about mass surveillance, and at…
  • Food Lobby Threatens to Sue Any State that Tri ...
    The Organic Consumers Association is reporting that the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association — the mega corp. lobby group that represents 300 companies and way more than just grocery stores — is using a talking points memo to basically misinform and intimidate…

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

  • Why the Shale Gas Rush Will Be an Economic Bus ...
    A team of professionals has analyzed whether or not fracking would be good for New York’s economic health. If nothing else, the recent chemical spill in West Virginia reveals the extent to which elected officials go along with powerful industries at serious cost to public health and th ...
  • New Yorkers, You've Been Duped: Why the Shale ...
    A team of professionals has analyzed whether or not fracking would be good for New York’s economic health. If nothing else, the recent chemical spill in West Virginia reveals the extent to which elected officials go along with powerful industries at serious cost to public health and th ...
  • 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 ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Citizens Affected by Recent Earthquakes ...
    Small towns like Azle and Springtown, in the North Texas area have experienced about 32 earthquakes over the past two months leaving citizens concerned about what is happening to their home. According to a recent study from the University of Texas, most earthquakes that are coming from the area ...
  • Deadly Train Explosion Signals Wake Up Call to ...
    After several major accidents involving crude oil trains derailing and exploding, the National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB] is warning that “major loss of life” could result from an accident if tougher regulations on oil-by-rail shipments are not implemented. The NTSB’s recomme ...
  • Watershed – A film by Robert Redford – Screeni ...
    The Green Sanctuary Committee is hosting a free screening of Robert Redford’s film, WATERSHED, in Austin, TX WATERSHED tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and offers solutions for the future of the American west. JANUARY 31st  at  7 PM First Unitarian Church 47 ...
  • Solarize Texas
    Let’s Solarize Texas! Texas has more solar energy potential than any other state in the nation, but it’s going to take lots of us working together to utilize this great resource. In 2013, Plano Solar Advocates launched the first Solarize program in Texas. The first phase of Solarize ...
  • Learn about the toxins in your life – see the ...
     Unacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut documentary, one man and his camera traveled extensively to ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Divers uncover relics of Stone Age 'Atlantis'
    Stone Age artifacts left behind by Swedish nomads have been unearthed on the floor of the Baltic Sea. Divers exploring the bay of Hanö off the coast o...
  • 'Cannibal rats' infest enigmatic ghost ship
    UK authorities are on the look out for an infamous ghost ship that is said to be crawling with rats. The ill-fated cruise ship Lyubov Orlova might hav...
  • Woman is terrified of newspapers
    One woman from Kent suffers form an unusual phobia that makes her frightened of newspapers. Diane Freelove has had to endure a paralyzing fear of pape...
  • Purple tomatoes soon to be sold in shops
    Genetically modified tomatoes with added nutritional value could soon find their way in to supermarkets. Despite a general lack of consumer interest i...
  • How old is the Grand Canyon ?
    New research has suggested that the iconic geological formation may be a lot younger than thought. A popular destination for tourists from all over th...

Grassroots

  • Life, Death and Bravery in Central America
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  A retired University of Hawaii administrator, Barbara Polk is currently on the boards of Americans for Democratic Action/Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii and has testified at the state Legislature on good gov ...
  • Alfredo Lopez, Human Rights Defender and Big H ...
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  • Today’s peasant movement – sophisticated, thre ...
    viamarch.jpg The term peasant often conjures up images of medieval serfs out of touch with the ways of the world around them. Such thinking is out of date. Today, peasants proudly and powerfully put forward effective strategies to feed the ...
  • Recovery in Gaza After Winter Storm Alexa
    gazaflood4.jpg The occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) faced one of the worst winter storms seen in decades last month. The West Bank experienced record snow fall, which municipalities were ill-equipped to handle. While Gaza was spared m ...
  • 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 ...

Care 2

  • This Little Girls Reaction To Seeing Her Fathe ...
    But if youre holding me…Then who is that guy over there? Absolutely adorable! Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Feeling creative? Try wearing some origami
    Watch this remarkable artist create wearable dresses by folding flat sheets of paper - amazing! Submitted by Giana Peranio Paz to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • VIRAL ACTION NEEDED Ralphs: STOP Supporting ...
    You probably don't have "buy tickets to an animal abuse show" on your grocery shopping list list, do you? Yeah … probably not. But Ralphs, a grocery store chain in Southern California, continues to promote SeaWorld in its stores Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Business  |   Note-it ...
  • Chicago 14-year-old shoots himself with gun da ...
    A Chicago father has been charged after his son accidentally shot himself with a gun that he was given as a Christmas present. Jason Leavitt, the 14-year-old boy shot himself in the leg on Jan. 6. However, police did not reveal the shooting to the... Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Cult ...
  • Update: More Major Retailers Drop Angora Wool
    © iStock.com/maten~Update: Following an appeal from PETA, retail giant Gap Inc., which owns Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta, said that it has no plans to obtain angora wool. PETA is urging the company to take the next logical step Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Business  |  &nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Barack Obama’s State of Disaster
    Seriously, is anyone going to watch the charade tonight? You know, the so-called “STATE OF THE UNION” address? Most Americans are fed up with Barack Obama’s lies and delusions. My piece on his failure to create jobs is but one of many examples of his delusions. What is truly ir ...
  • Theory Interrupted.
    Many have wondered how scientists could claim there was an event horizon. A place that, once you arrive there, you may never return. We know there are black holes in politics. Anthony stuck his weiner in it. But some have pulled out before they got sucked in. So, does it, the black hole, exist? ...
  • Greg Hicks on the Smearing of Ambassador Chris ...
    Greg Hicks, the Foreign Service Officer who served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya (that means he was the number two guy in the Embassy and was the Deputy to Ambassador Stevens), wrote a powerful piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s oped pages this week. It is a must re ...
  • The First Obamacare Clinic?
    I took the bait. Buddy of mine, a retired SEAL, sent me the following reveal of the first Obamacare Clinic in Chicago. It is up and running. After watching this, I think one could conclude that the Doc attended the Three Stooges Medical and Comedy College. Right?
  • Edward Snowden and National Security Nonsense
    Jesselyn Radack, the attorney for several whistleblowers that were charged under the Espionage Act, is out today with a very important opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Why Edward Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial. Warning–you must have a WSJ subscription to read the full piece. H ...

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)

AlterNet Top Stories

  • My Fox News Nightmare: How I Tortured Myself w ...
    I'm a card-carrying member of the ACLU, so here's what happened when I watched 3 hours of Fox every day for a month. One October evening, in the midst of the 2013 government shutdown, I watched Bill O’Reilly work himself into something of a state. He sat at his desk, his hands palms ...
  • No Amount of Kale Is Going to Bring Back My 25 ...
    Cutting down on animal products has made a huge difference. I think a roast chicken is proof of heaven. If I were on death row, my last meal would involve unlimited melted cheese. And you’ll have to pry the butter out of my cold, dead, incredibly greasy hands. But I’ve learned recently that j ...
  • Bill Moyers on the Dark Money Assault on Democ ...
    Moyers, "We should know who’s buying our government." AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Bill Moyers, the legendary broadcaster and host of Moyers & Company. Earlier this month, his program, Moyers & Company, aired the documentary report,State of Conflict: North Carolina. He is the ...
  • The 'Bamboo Ceiling': Hollywood Shuns Asians, ...
    Calling out individual acts of anti-East Asian racism doesn't point out the structures that support the career ceiling for Asian American actors in Hollywood, beyond YouTube and cat videos. This article originally appeared on New America Media, and is reprinted here with their permission. ...
  • Dead Protesters, Tortured Prisoners: Ukraine A ...
    While human rights groups were calling on President Viktor Yanukovych to stop the bloodshed, he kept pretending that nothing bad was happening. The Nigoyan family fled to Ukraine from war-torn Armenia at the beginning of the 1990s. They hoped for a better future for their son Sergiy. He wanted ...

Threat Level

  • Hacker Behind SpyEye Banking Trojan Pleads Gui ...
    A Russian hacker who developed the widely used Spy Eye banking Trojan has pleaded guilty today to creating the malicious toolkit that was considered one of the most popular hacking tools for two years.     
  • Tech Giants, Telcos Get OK to Release Stats on ...
    In Obama's speech 10 days ago outlining surveillance reforms, the president promised he would allow corporations like Google, Apple and Microsoft to be more transparent with their customers about NSA spying. Today, we learned what that means. The Justice Department ...     
  • Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Laundering $ ...
    The CEO of Bitcoin exchanger BitInstant has been arrested and charged with money laundering over allegations that he and another man sold more than $1 million in Bitcoins to buyers and sellers of drugs on the underground drug site Silk ...     
  • If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI ...
    While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated ...     
  • Neiman Marcus: 1.1 Million Credit Cards Expose ...
    More than 1.1 million customers were affected in the recent hack that affected high-end retailer Neiman Marcus, the company has finally revealed.     

IntelNews

  • Israel jails Orthodox Jew who offered to spy f ...
    An Israeli citizen, who belongs to an Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewish group that rejects the existence of the state of Israel, has been jailed for offering to spy for Iran.
  • News you may have missed #866
    Academic study into the behavioral traits of contract killers. Interview with Blackwater founder Erik Prince. Interview with Blackwater founder Erik Prince. New book accuses Edward Snowden of 'treason'.
  • South Korean ex-spy chief jailed for accepting ...
    One of the most powerful figures in South Korea’s intelligence establishment has been sentenced to prison for accepting bribes in return for helping a private company acquire government contracts.
  • News you may have missed #865
    Renowned Egyptian scholar charged with espionage. Al-Qaeda training Western Islamists in Syria to set up cells abroad. Snowden has "no plans" to return to the United States.
  • Coroner’s report sees Russian state behi ...
    A previously classified report by the British government official who certified the 2006 death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko states that the Russian state was directly implicated in the murder.

War is a Crime.org

  • Turkey News - Jan 29
      According to wiretapped phone conversations Erdogan accepted two villas from a businessman in return for easing zoning restrictions in Urla - Today's Zaman AUDIO (Turkish): Urla Villas -1: Wiretapped phone conversations between Erdogan's daugther and businessman Topbaş - YouTube AUDIO ...
  • VIDEO: 2014 State of The Union (minus the Corp ...
    Originally Posted at PopularResistance.org Note: In some alternative universe, not only am I the speechwriter for President Obama, but I’ve actually convinced him to deliver the following as the 2014 State of the Union. – Dennis Trainor, Jr. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, ...
  • Webinar: Transitioning to a New Economy
      Webinar: Transitioning to a New Economy Thursday, February 6, 2014 @3pm EST The United States is winding down two wars and beginning a postwar defense drawdown, and at the same time we are in a new environment of fiscal pressure. Many states and communities across the cou ...
  • Peacemakers like Margaretta D’Arcy uphold the ...
    This is a repost of an article in www.news-beacon-ireland.info   Margaretta, in her peaceful act of civil disobedience, was seeking to highlight our own government’s failure to uphold both Irish and international law. We should applaud her courage, writes Joe Murray.   by Joe Murra ...
  • Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
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Grist - News

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Aaron Swartz: The Life We Lost and the Day We ...
    PARK CITY , Utah—A year after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remarkable young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, titled “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” directed by Brian Knappenberger, follows ...
  • Juan Gonzalez: New York City Overrules its Own ...
    Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez uncovers how internet giant Google is getting over on New York City taxpayers in his latest column for The New York Daily News : City overrules its own assessors and lowers Google's real estate taxes by $21 million. Read an excerpt below: City Fi ...
  • The Oscar Nominee Interviews: 2014 Picks Inclu ...
    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the five films nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar. A record 147 films had originally qualified in the category. Watch our interviews with three of the filmmakers who were nominated, and see all of our Oscar-related coverage ...
  • "Dirty Wars" Wins Official Academy Award Nomin ...
    The film, "Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield," has received an official nomination for 2014 best documentary by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The film follows longtime Democracy Now! correspondent and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Ye ...
  • Fukushima: An Ongoing Warning to the World
    TOKYO—“I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that they will act as a warning to the world,” wrote the journalist Wilfred Burchett from Hiroshima. His story, headlined, “The Atomic Plague” appeared in the London Daily Express on Sept. 5, 1945. Burchett violated the U.S. mil ...

Solari

  • Transcript of “What to Do When Things Ar ...
    Transcript of “What to Do When Things Aren’t Working, A Jon Rappoport Report” is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: This is Jon Rappoport. Hello everybody, and this is the New Year, Happy New Year, January 6th, Monday, 2014, and the title of today’s episode is “What to do W ...
  • Terraforming
    Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/Wikipedia By Wikipedia Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the biosphere of Earth to ma ...
  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, It’s About Blackm ...
    By Alfred McCoy For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Germany’s Der Spiegel, and Brazil’s O Globo, among other places. Yet no one has pointed out the combin ...
  • Suburban Chicken Coops
    By Catherine Austin Fitts A subscriber sent me a picture of chicken coops for sale at a Costco in Silicon Valley, in the suburbs south of San Francisco, saying he never thought he would see such a thing. Indeed, there is a whole movement under way across the country as ever more urban [...]
  • Hugo Barra, Vice President, Xiaomi Global & Lo ...
    By LeWeb Founders Hugo is a good friend of LeWeb, having joined us several times during his time at Google. This year he updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares his views on the tech sector in China and ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • President Obama Calls for ‘Year of Action’ in ...
    WASHINGTON -- A confident, relaxed President Barack Obama delivered a rousing State of the Union address to both chambers of Congress and the American people Tuesday night that struck a populist tone resonating throughout the country as income inequality has     
  • Chairish Launches a New App That Makes Finding ...
    Last year we reported on the launch of Chairish, an awesome new website that connects designer furniture enthusiasts with one another to create a hub for shopping and selling exceptional pre-owned home furnishings. Now we're happy to announce that Chairish has     
  • Submit Your Architecture Projects to the 2014 ...
    THE HOLCIM AWARDS IS NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES! Since accepting its first application back in 2005, the Holcim Awards has recognized more that 150 innovative architecture projects from across the globe that have advanced sustainability in the built environment.     
  • Infographic: Vampire Appliances That Devour El ...
    Did you know that the average television uses 10 watts of electricity when it's switched off? Every night as you sleep vampire appliances are stalking your house, sucking up energy and raising your utility bill. Castlegate Lights just launched a new infographic     
  • Sinagpore’s ‘i Light Marina Bay’ is Asia’s Fir ...
    i Light Marina Bay in Singapore is Asia’s only sustainable light and art festival that showcases innovative installations, the intelligent use of lighting, and an international line-up of creative talents. This year the festival will feature more than 25     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Spots on Mars
    This image shows numerous dark shapes and bright spots on a sand dune in the Northern polar regions of Mars. The bright spots are carbon dioxide frost. On Mars, the main atmospheric component is carbon dioxide, which circulates seasonally between the ...     
  • Scientists Digitize Psychology’s Most Famous Brain
    Henry Gustav Molaison is one of the most famous patients in the annals of brain research. In 1953, an experimental surgery meant to relieve his severe epilepsy rendered him unable to form new memories. When he died in 2008, his ...     
  • Why Is This Year’s Flu So Dangerous for Young ...
    You've probably heard by now that this year's flu season is a bad one. Here is a guide to the viruses that are going around now, plus a refresher on flu basics.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: River of Hydrogen
    This composite image contains three distinct features: the bright star-filled central region of galaxy NGC 6946 in optical light (blue), the dense hydrogen tracing out the galaxy’s sweeping spiral arms and galactic halo (orange), and the extremely diffuse and extended ...    &nbsp ...
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Stunning Lagoon ...
    The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young ...     

PakAlert

  • Matt Drudge Issues Warning: “Have An Exit Plan”
    His web site may consist of just a single page, but Matt Drudge is arguably the most influential media personality in the world. Garnering nearly one billion readers monthly, the Drudge Report is able to literally shift public sentiment, making it an essential read for D.C. insiders, Wall Street ...
  • Obama seeking ‘dictatorial powers to impose po ...
    US President Barack Obama is seeking "dictatorial powers in order to impose his policies” and to sidestep a “recalcitrant Congress,” an American activist and academic writer says. “The problem is that President Obama’s attempt to pursue foreign and domestic policies has encountered enormous p ...
  • Fukushima Cesium 50,000x Higher Than Chernobyl
    This is a timeline from early on to about 1 year later. This is what we published using Tepco’s data to point out, a couple of features here, you see it going up — this is 50 million Bq/m³. I studied Chernobyl, we’d never seen things above 1,000 Bq/m³ in the ocean. This is why we called it an un ...
  • 3rd Grade Government Homework: ‘Good Citizens ...
    This brings us a great example of how the education system portrays "good citizens" as being unquestioning obedient taxpayers
  • Katy Is A Child Of The Devil” and Illuminati P ...
    Pastor Keith Hudson, the father of pop music mega-star Katy Perry, recently preached several sermons in which he has shown regret over the sinful and satanic influence of his daughter’s music on the young people of the world. The UK Sun obtained footage of a recent sermon in which Hudson called ...

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo: Where Being Cleared for Release Me ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Video: “Guantánamo and Us” – ...
    Regular readers will know that I returned on Tuesday from an intense and rewarding two-week tour of the US, in which I visited New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles calling for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tour was supporte ...
  • Photos: Close Guantánamo – The Washingto ...
    Close Guantánamo: The Washington D.C. Protest on the 12th Anniversary of the Prison’s Opening, Jan. 11, 2014, a set on Flickr. On Saturday January 11, 2014, a coalition of groups involved in campaigns calling for the closure of Guantánamo — including Amnesty International, the Center ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Talks About Guantánamo ...
    Last week, during the West Coast leg of my 12-day “Close Guantánamo Now” tour (supported by the World Can’t Wait), I was first in San Francisco, a visit that involved being reunited with a number of old friends, including Stephanie Tang and Curt Wechsler of World Can’t Wa ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington and Jason Leopold Disc ...
    On Thursday evening, as part of my 12-day “Close Guantánamo Now” tour (supported by the World Can’t Wait), which came to an end at Cal Poly in Pomona yesterday, I was at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim, California with my friend and colleague Jason Leopold, speakin ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Ancient alternative quackery
    From an interview with science-based science writer and oncologist David Gorski: Many discussions of alternative medicine reference the fact that it is “natural” and relies on methods used throughout history. Is this true; how did the initial ideas about alternative medicine originate? This is c ...
  • All-natural human ingredients
    Recently, a clever wag listed the ingredients for all-natural bananas, blueberries and eggs, you’ll have no doubt seen the cute graphics that did the rounds of the blogosphere. Anyway, obvious next step was to list the human body by ingredient, I suspect someone else may well have done thi ...
  • Very, very, very grey is the new black
    Mathematician Stephen Hawking who has long argued the ins and outs of black holes now reasons that they don’t even exist, at least not in the form we imagine. The whole idea of an event horizon beyond which the singularity’s massive gravitational field will not allow anything to esca ...
  • Temperature of a liquid is raised by heating
    This is not some incredible scientific breakthrough, obviously…the temperature of a liquid is raised by heating…yes indeed. Sciencebase gets a lot of visitors trying to do their science homework, it seems. Often they’re trying to find out the effects of adding salt to the boili ...
  • The real news agenda
    Every morning my digital radio wakes me at one minute to sevent to the dulcet tones of James Naughtie, John Humphrys, Sarah Montague, Evan Davis, Justin Webb and Mishal Husain. Or, some combination of those bods. Every morning I am irritated by the stuff they report, they almost always lead with ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Coal Mine Blockaded: 'The Forest Has Brought E ...
    (Photo: Leard State Forest/cc/flickr)Refusing to be "just the collateral damage of the coal industry," over 100 protesters succeeded in thwarting work Tuesday on a mining project they say will destroy a forest and the sacred and biodiverse spots within it while contributing to climate ...
  • Coal Mine Blockaded: 'The Forest Has Brought E ...
    (Photo: Leard State Forest/cc/flickr)Refusing to be "just the collateral damage of the coal industry," over 100 protesters succeeded in thwarting work Tuesday on a mining project they say will destroy a forest and the sacred and biodiverse spots within it while contributing to climate ...
  • GMO Protesters Arrested Outside Monsanto Meeting
    Protesters outside the Monsanto shareholders meeting were arrested for blockading the event. (Photo: @gmo917/ Twitter)Anti-genetically modified (GM) food activists staged a dramatic dual protest Tuesday at the annual Monsanto shareholder's meeting. ...
  • GMO Protesters Arrested Outside Monsanto Meeting
    Protesters outside the Monsanto shareholders meeting were arrested for blockading the event. (Photo: @gmo917/ Twitter)Anti-genetically modified (GM) food activists staged a dramatic dual protest Tuesday at the annual Monsanto shareholder's meeting. ...
  • Unions Sue Illinois Government for 'Pension Theft'
    In this Aug. 15, 2012 photo, state union members, supporters and labor leaders protest Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and pension expense legislation on Governor's Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill. (Photo: AP/Seth Perlman)A coalition of labor unions sued the government of Illinois Tu ...

Lifehacker

  • Get Social With Lifehacker and Your Favorite W ...
    Every day, we post selections of our stories to different social networks so you can stay up to date and share with friends. Why not join us on your preferred network and add a little awesome to your day?Read more...     
  • Bruce Lee's Best Productivity Tricks
    Bruce Lee is one of history's most productive people, which is pretty amazing considering he died at 32 years old. He was not only an action film star and martial artist, but also an instructor, screenwriter, director, and philosopher. Here's just a small bit of what we can learn from him. Read ...
  • Web Browser Battery Usage Compared, Internet E ...
    Window weblog 7Tutorials has done another round of their web browser battery usage tests, and the results are pretty much the same as usual: Internet Explorer keeps your computer running longer.Read more...     
  • The Two Mechanisms That Make Hiccup Cures Actu ...
    Nobody likes hiccups, and pretty much everyone has their own set of homemade remedies for curing them. The BBC takes a look at the two mechanisms that make these home remedies work. Read more...     
  • Deadspin NFL Cheerleading Is A Scam: A Former ...
    Deadspin NFL Cheerleading Is A Scam: A Former Ravens Cheerleader Tells All | Gizmodo NYC's Charming Water Towers Are Actually Bacteria-Filled Horrorshows | io9 Yes, the Google Bus is affecting rental prices in San Francisco | Kotaku She Was Harassed By A Games Reporter. Now She's Speaking Out. | ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • New Book Details Journey to Becoming A Whistle ...
    Former EPA manager turned whistleblower, William Sanjour recently published, From The Files Of A Whistleblower: Or how EPA was captured by the industry it regulated.  In 1991, Sanjour challenged rules restricting EPA workers’ right to speak to environmental community groups.&nbsp ...
  • DOJ Secures Second Largest Annual Recovery fro ...
    During the 2013 fiscal year, the Justice Department secured $3.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases under the False Claims Act (FCA).   This dollar amount, which is the second largest annual recovery of its type in history, brings total recoveries under the FCA ...
  • Claim an Award: Updated SEC Whistleblower Awar ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgment or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final R ...
  • General Electric Hitachi Agrees to Pay $2.7 Mi ...
    The Department of Justice announced today that that General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (GE Hitachi) has agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it made false statements and claims to the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulat ...
  • U.S. Whistleblower Incentive Laws Spur Calls f ...
    Since 2011, when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms were passed to giving incentives to whistleblowers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received 39 whistleblower tip-offs from Australians. SEC's Offiec of the Whistleblower statistics show that Australia has been one of its ...

TechDirt

  • T-Mobile Writes The Best Press Release You'll ...
    Our general rule is that we ignore press releases, because they're fake news. People still send them to us sometimes, but I've got a pretty good email filter that filters them right into the trash. Every so often there's an interesting press release, but it's rare. It's even rarer from a large c ...
  • Legal Analysis Requested By Members Of Parliam ...
    We've seen a few times now how legal analysis suggests that the NSA's surveillance activities are clearly illegal. However, over in the UK, the government has appeared to be even more protective of the surveillance by GCHQ, and even more insistent that the activities have been legal. While there ...
  • Ukraine Parliament Repeals Anti-Protest Laws A ...
    A while back, we discussed the uprising and protests in Ukraine, along with the almost sadistically Orwellian threats utilized by the government there to attempt to stifle protests. Those efforts, combined with hamfisted legislation rammed through the Ukrainian parliament via the laughable hand ...
  • Have You Been Threatened By Lodsys? Please Sha ...
    One of the worst patent trolls out there has been Lodsys, a company that got a few crappy patents from Intellectual Ventures, which it claims covers some rather basic functionality found in lots and lots of mobile apps. It then started to threaten basically everyone if they used things like Appl ...
  • DailyDirt: Water, Water, Everywhere... In The ...
    Water is an essential substance for life (as we know it), so it's not too surprising that as we look for evidence of extraterrestrial life, we often start by looking for signs of water. (We also look for water on places like the moon because locations near water/ice would be nice if we ever want ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Oh Hello. Are You Still Here?
    Finally got around to getting the site back up.  Thanks to those of you who checked in.  I am indeed alive and may perhaps even drop a line or two on here in the nearish future.
  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • CNN Poll: 67% Oppose Obama’s Executive Agenda
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCNN Poll: 67% Oppose Obama’s Executive Agenda Clear majority of State of the Union viewers want Obama to work with Congress Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com January 29, 2014 Image: Barack Obama (YouTube). A CNN/ORC pol ...
  • CrossTalk: Radical Ukraine
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCrossTalk: Radical Ukraine Russia Todayyoutube.com Who is responsible for the violence on the streets of Kiev? Have opposition groups lost control over their more radical members? Why do Western media overlook the radical ...
  • Why Bitcoin Terrifies Big Banks | Interview wi ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWhy Bitcoin Terrifies Big Banks | Interview with Andreas Antonopoulos Russia Todayyoutube.com Abby Martin speaks with Andreas Antonopoulos, founder of Root Eleven and co-host of let’s Talk Bitcoin, discussing ho ...
  • Krauthammer to conservatives: Relax, Obama’s e ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKrauthammer to conservatives: Relax, Obama’s executive orders a ‘pathetic’ bluff Joe Saunders bizpacreview.com January 29, 2014 Despite all the talk about the president having a pen and a phone, the bluster about how Democ ...
  • Former Bush Officials Knock RNC Call to End NS ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFormer Bush Officials Knock RNC Call to End NSA Surveillance Jack Kenny New American January 29, 2014 Seven former officials in the George W. Bush administration and a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Remembering Folk Legend and Activist Pete Seeg ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jan 28, 2014 John Nichols: 94 year-old Pete Seeger’s music was stronger than the forces that sought to silence him.  *** Transcript *** Pete Seeger: Solidarity Forever DumDumDeDip on Sep 7, 2013 This is “Solidarity Forever”, the powerful “na ...
  • President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Ad ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert WSJDigitalNetwork Jan. 28, 2014 Full coverage of President Obama’s State of the Union address, hosted by Wall Street Journal Washington bureau chief Jerry Seib. *** Transcript President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address The White House Office ...
  • State of the Unequal Union
    Dandelion Salad Editorial socialistworker.org January 28, 2014 Obama’s prime-time speech may sound good, but actions speak louder than words. IF YOU’RE a regular reader of SocialistWorker.org, you’ve seen the statistics before about the growing divide between the super-rich and ...
  • #TPP Fast Track Targets Local Foods Efforts by ...
    Dandelion Salad by Karen Hansen-Kuhn Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy January 28, 2014 Congress is quietly considering legislation that would speed the passage of two mega trade agreements, and seeks to specifically eliminate government programs that favor “localization.” The bill woul ...
  • If There’s Global Warming … Why Is ...
    Dandelion Salad yaleclimateforum on Jan 28, 2014 It’s that time of year, the perennial “It’s snowing so it can’t be warming” season – or, as scientists call it, “winter”. Depends on where you’re standing, actually — I stood on a frozen ...

Your New Reality

  • Pianotallica
      For someone returning to playing piano and keyboards 32 years after giving them up for writing, and as a 1980s Metallica fan, this performance of 'One' by Metallica and master pianist Lang Lang at the Grammy's is fucking mind-melting, and hugely inspiring. Heavy metal piano? Don't mind i ...
  • Like Dogs, Humans Can Smell Sickness In Others
    An absolutely startling piece of news to me, and confirmation, years later, that my senses were telling me the truth. I once 'smelled' cancer in an elderly woman, and alerted a relative that she was seriously ill, when she and her family did not know she was ill. A horrible thing to do. The el ...
  • SexBots Are The Future Of Digital Performance Art
    As an experiment, Brandon Boyer 'fed' online sex bots to each other. And this is what happened:  Wow. Not much in media yet, but people are having online relationships with automated tweet bots. Some humans know the bots aren't real, and don't care. Unlike many real humans online, the bo ...
  • Kurt Cobain - My Top 50 Albums
    Image via DaveGrohlTumblr This full list of Kurt Cobain's favourite, and most influential albums did the rounds of the music press in the 1990s. While many are key influences on Cobain and the music of Nirvana, some made the list because Cobain they were bands he wanted Nirvana fans to hear and ...
  • "There Is No Obvious Connection Between Curly ...
    This excerpt from an academic paper (no link) is one of the most popular items on social media today, discussing the psychology of social media 'likes' and 'favourites'. Pretty excellent:

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Spots on Mars
    This image shows numerous dark shapes and bright spots on a sand dune in the Northern polar regions of Mars. The bright spots are carbon dioxide frost. On Mars, the main atmospheric component is carbon dioxide, which circulates seasonally between the ...     
  • Scientists Digitize Psychology’s Most Famous Brain
    Henry Gustav Molaison is one of the most famous patients in the annals of brain research. In 1953, an experimental surgery meant to relieve his severe epilepsy rendered him unable to form new memories. When he died in 2008, his ...     
  • Why Is This Year’s Flu So Dangerous for Young ...
    You've probably heard by now that this year's flu season is a bad one. Here is a guide to the viruses that are going around now, plus a refresher on flu basics.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: River of Hydrogen
    This composite image contains three distinct features: the bright star-filled central region of galaxy NGC 6946 in optical light (blue), the dense hydrogen tracing out the galaxy’s sweeping spiral arms and galactic halo (orange), and the extremely diffuse and extended ...    &nbsp ...
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Stunning Lagoon ...
    The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: The legacy of Ariel ‘the bulldo ...
    It is easy to forget, with eulogies casting him as the unexpected “peace-maker”, that for most of his long military and political career Ariel Sharon was known simply as The Bulldozer. That is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Eyal Weizman: The architecture of Ariel Sharon
    Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon's time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Max Blumenthal: How Ariel Sharon shaped Israel ...
    The true goal of Sharon’s separation regime was never to end the occupation but to reinforce it under new parameters that would prevent the collapse of Israel’s international image. A top aide to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Moshé Machover: Belling the cat
    A political project is purely utopian unless it can indicate a likely agent - a socio-political force able to realise it and whose long-term interests it would serve. In the present article I propose... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Arab Spring – power does not ...
    There are two parts of the Arab world that remain effectively colonies: Western Sahara ... and of course Palestine, where negotiations are underway conforming to the two essential US-Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: Eminent domain ...
    Thanks to rjs for the help in researching this post.Last week I linked to this article detailing how the relative lack of pipelines in Ohio is preventing fracking from taking off as the extraction industry would like. This means pipelines have moved front and center in some communities. Since ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: Eminent domain ...
    Thanks to rjs for the help in researching this post.Last week I linked to this article detailing how the relative lack of pipelines in Ohio is preventing fracking from taking off as the extraction industry would like. This means pipelines have moved front and center in some communities. Since ...
  • Commissioners' meeting background: Pipelines, ...
    Last week I posted a statement prepared for our county commissioners regarding a pipeline under construction in Portage County. As I began outlining a report on the meeting I realized a good deal of context was needed for those not in the thick of it. Here is a bit of background.Pipelines have ...
  • Commissioners' meeting background: Pipelines, ...
    Last week I posted a statement prepared for our county commissioners regarding a pipeline under construction in Portage County. As I began outlining a report on the meeting I realized a good deal of context was needed for those not in the thick of it. Here is a bit of background.Pipelines have ...
  • Commissioners' meeting background: Pipelines, ...
    Last week I posted a statement prepared for our county commissioners regarding a pipeline under construction in Portage County. As I began outlining a report on the meeting I realized a good deal of context was needed for those not in the thick of it. Here is a bit of background.Pipelines have ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Lettuce Seedling Trials: Do fertilizers and pr ...
    This fall, I studied methods to improve germination rates and seedling growth of lettuce by testing whether watering with natural fertilizers and probiotics affected seedlings differently than watering with a control of aquaponics system water.
  • Seafood Imports, Marine Mammals, and Open Ocea ...
    For those of you who love seafood and have a soft spot for marine animals (for example, sea lions), there are a few major issues to keep in mind as the U.S. aquaculture industry is poised to expand. First, most seafood consumed in the U.S. (91 percent!) is imported from other countries, many of ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Caramel Coloring, IPCC, Hog ...
    The warning comes from the IPCC and frames the problem of escalating emissions in terms of financial peril. Let’s see if anything happens at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
  • CLF Study Finds Caramel-Colored Sodas Could In ...
    A new study by CLF and Consumer Reports focuses on sodas that contain caramel color, a potential carcinogen known as 4-MeI. Drinking these sodas could increase your risk of cancer.
  • CLF Week in Links: Farm Bill, Food Stamps, Cal ...
    The $9 billion reduction undermines food security and makes a mockery of the right to food in this wealthy land of ours.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Botswana Bushmen: Modern life is destroying us
    The police came, destroyed our homes and dumped us in the back of trucks with our belongings.Thousands of Bushmen lived in the vast expanse of the Kalahari Desert for many millennia. Most have been moved, many argue forcibly, to government-built resettle Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbsp ...
  • A 9 Year Old Girl Quietly Walks On Stage
    I Will Never Forget The Chills Her Voice Delivered Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • IPCC spin translated
    A lightheated romp through the misrepresentations of a political organization perverting science as only accomplished liars can manage - the Intergovernmental Panel being devoted to selling policy via fearmongering Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it! ...
  • If Only for a Second - You Need to Watch This
    'Carefree'...bear with captions. It's better than a sight gag. Laughter moments. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Seed : The Untold Story - The Final Push
    Noted on Facebook Non-GMO Project : story of seeds video project Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • GMOs in USDA Organic Food
    How can you trust an agency that promotes GMOs to be in charge of a program that supposedly is against GMOs? YOU CAN'T.
  • Substantial Equivalence Monsanto Style
    If gene expression is not a consideration, then there is nothing to separate man from ape, and the CEO of Monsanto is substantially equivalent to our furry friend, the bonobo chimp.
  • 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%?

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Suthep letter to Obama
    28 January 2014
  • Message from the Military: Afghanistan Farce
    27 January 2014 UNCLASSIFIED//NONE Ladies and Gentlemen:  Today's highlights: Afghan Media Afghanistan releases 37 of 88 prisoners from Bagram prison | Khaama Press According to reports, the Afghan government has announced to release 37 out of 88 Bagram prisoners, who were marked as da ...
  • Civil Movement for Democracy (CMD)
    Statement by Suthep Thaugsuban 27 January 2014 Dear Members of the Press: Please find attached Khun Suthep Thaugsuban's statement dated 27 January 2014. As usual, we urge you to exercise extreme caution in handling all information about the PDRC received from non-PDRC sources. We are happy ...
  • US Embassy Bangkok: US Soldier Running Rogue O ...
    CJ Grisham was arrested in Texas a second time this past November for criminal trespass. 18 December 2013 A troubled US Army Soldier claimed to be assigned to the US Embassy in Bangkok for an unknown purpose. The active duty counterintelligence soldier, who has a Top Secret clearance, is sta ...
  • Air Force being Downgraded to "Air Persuasion ...
    Published on: 12 December 2013 From: Eric K. Fanning, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff Chief Master Sgt. James A. Cody, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force To the Airmen of the United States Air Force: We are the best Air Force in the world ...

The Killing Train

  • Three kinds of science - the Jan/Feb 2014 Bria ...
    My latest article is Jan/Feb 2014 cover story in Briarpatch Magazine. In it I analyze science and politics, talking about three different things that are called science: Science A (authority), Science B (business), and Science C (curiosity). Hope you enjoy. Link: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/ar ...
  • podur.org in 2013
    Since it's the last day of 2013, I thought I would look over what I did this year. I spent half the year in India, so I have a fair bit of India content here. I also started the Ossington Circle this year, which has been fun. I am not including short blogs in this list, just longer articles and ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 4, Paul Moloney ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This episode has Paul Moloney, the author of the book The Therapy Industry: the irresistible rise of the talking cure and why it doesn't work (Pluto Press 2013). In the book, Paul questions the idea that many of our ...
  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for work on the issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Good Question Without A Good Answer
    The salutary executive order on the minimum wage does indeed make this failure more glaring: White House press secretary Jay Carney’s abrupt response Monday to a question about protections for LGBT workers reflects the unusual position the White House finds itself in — and the unanswered questio ...
  • Curiosity
    I do confess some curiosity over what would happen if the entire government went down due to some alien disease or poisoned ketchup mishap during the State of the Union address and a nuclear physicist became president.     
  • Sexism is Dead
    Worth remembering 10 years later how the wardrobe incident at the Super Bowl halftime show effectively ended Janet Jackson’s career with zero repercussions for Justin Timberlake.     
  • Syllabus
    This spring, I am teaching a graduate seminar on the Environmental History of the Americas. Since I know how much extra time everyone has, I thought I’d post the readings so that people can read along if they wish. I hope it is enough reading for everyone. I can always assign more. Februar ...
  • A New Republican Health Care “Plan”
    Not satisfied with the “Republican plan” that was enacted into law with no ex ante, contemporaneous, or ex post facto support from any national Republican, some congressional Republicans are pretending to have an alternative to the ACA. Its most salient issues: The end of guaranteed ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Switch SUPERNAP Named as Presenting Sponsor o ...
    DRI proudly announces Switch SUPERNAP as the presenting sponsor for the 2014 DRI Nevada Medal Event, set to take place in Reno on March 25, 2014 and in Las Vegas on March 27, 2014.
  • Brittany Johnson, January Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Brittany Johnson, a graduate student working in the field of hydrology for the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences. Her research focuses on the effects of climate change on vegetation, decomposition, microbial activity, and soil pedology in the Great Basin. 
  • DRI scientists’ co-author study linking Arctic ...
    A new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice  dynamics and the region’s changing atmospheric chemistry potentially leading to increased amounts of me ...
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) research at DRI
    Researchers at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) are exploring ways in which unmanned aircraft systems are increasingly being used in civilian government work as well as the private sector for use in applications as diverse as cloud seeding to fighting forest fires.
  • New DRI project aimed at understanding Mercur ...
    A new collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)and led by Daniel Obrist at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) will attempt to characterize the complex dynamics of mercury in some of the Earth’s northernmost and most fragile ecosystems.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Peru Park Holds Record Reptile and Amphibian D ...
    A new study crowns Peru's Manu National Park as the place with the world's most diverse collection of reptiles and amphibians — 287 species in all. The park's 155 amphibian and 132 reptile species outnumber those in Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, which, with 271 reptile Alessandro Catenaz ...
  • How Citizen Science is Democratizing Research ...
    When biologist Caren Cooper carries out her avian studies, she’s aided by thousands of assistants, none of whom are paid for their work. That’s because Cooper, a research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, relies on the help of so-called citizen scientists, volunteers from across the c ...
  • Changes in Humidity Are Used to Generate Elect ...
    Researchers have created a new kind of generator that uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water. Scientists from Harvard and Columbia universities have created small, prototype generators by coating a sheet of rubber with a soil Bacillus subtilis bacterial sp ...
  • Monitoring Corporate Behavior: Greening or Mer ...
    Companies with bad environmental records are increasingly turning to a little-known nonprofit called TFT to make sure they meet commitments to improve their practices. It remains to be seen if this is just a PR move or a turning point for corporate conduct. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Future Olympic Winter Games at Risk as Climate ...
    As few as six of the world's previous 19 Olympic Winter Games sites will likely still be wintry enough to host snow sports at the end of the century, according to a report by Canadian and Austrian researchers. Iconic locales such as Squaw Valley, Utah, and Vancouver, Vancouver, 2010 winter ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Children Speak on Life Before Life, and Immort ...
    Most people, regardless of race, religion or culture, believe they are immortal. That is, people believe that part of themselves-some indelible core, soul or essence-will transcend the body’s death and live forever. But what is this essence? Why do we believe it survives? And why is this belief ...
  • Labeling Obesity as a Disease May Undermine He ...
    Calling obesity a disease may undermine healthy behaviors and beliefs among obese people, according to new research. Writing in the journal Psychological Science, researchers from the University of Richmond and the University of Minnesota report that obese individuals exposed to messages about t ...
  • Turning Their Backs on Sweden's Welfare State
    As noted by e.g. Reason.com, Yahoo! News recently reported that Swedes are increasingly turning their backs on their globally lauded utopian welfare state. While very little known, Sweden’s welfare state “worked” through the early 1970s thanks to deliberately preserving capitalist institutions a ...
  • Watch chemicals turn into memories - the first ...
    Scientists have known for a while that our memories are the process are synaptic transmissions in our brain and are stored in neurons, but they have been able to film the actual process for the first time inside of a mouse. This groundbreaking video was made in the lab of Robert Singer of Albert ...
  • Leaked! Food Lobby Threatens to Sue Any State ...
    Apparently GMOs are so awesome and wonderful, the companies that sell them are doing everything they can to keep people from knowing it. The Organic Consumers Association is reporting that the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association — the mega lobby group that represents 300+ companies and much more ...

Not My Tribe

  • State of the Union Address a Pageant of Beltwa ...
    Media propagandists can’t conceal the state of the union address for what it was, a pageant of creeps, a pandering freakshow, and a flaunting of the celebration that the American constituancy is peopled by idiots on both sides of the aisle.
  • City For Champions? Colorado Springs is city o ...
    Colorado Springs is not home to an Olympic Training Center because of our competitive nature, proclivity for Classic Games, nor certainly any athletic bloodlines — our high altitude draws athletes in training so they’ll hit the games with a competitive advantage against the majority ...
  • UN disinviting Iran confirms Syria talks aren& ...
    So it turns out the “Syrian Peace Talks” were of the Mideast Peace variety: terminal consessions to an aggressor’s demands, as per usual Zionist. The US has successfully pressured the UN to rescind the invitation for Iran to join the Syrian peace conference, apparently because ...
  • Can Chris Christie pretend he doesn’t kn ...
    Commenting on televised politics is as meaningless as speculating about developments on reality TV. Since the Christie bridge debacle purports to effect which presidential candidate gets voted off the island, it might be worth at least delving where the talking heads are not. Of course Chris Chr ...
  • Haha. Bystander video of Schumacher ski crash ...
    When Formula One racer Michael Schumacher broke his neck on a French ski slope last week, Meribel resort spokesmen went into damage control declaring that the speed demon was skiing “off-piste”. That’s Anglo-French for off-track or out-of-bounds. Even though initial reports men ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • ReThink911 Fall 2013 Campaign Recap | WTC 7 Fr ...
  • Basile Nanothermite Fundraiser Completed!
    As some of you may know by now, our fundraiser for Mark Basile´s upcoming paper has reached our stated goal of $5000! A heartfelt "thank you" to all those that pitched in, and especially Mr. John O´Donnell! It is too early to publish any schedule for the study since the plan is being formulated ...
  • BBC caught fabricating Dr. Greening´s support ...
    John-Michael Talboo recently commented on the deceptive December 2013 article by the BBC, called "Canadians wary of 9/11 explanations - and of US officials." Talboo points out that the BBC relies on the recycling of thoroughly debunked sources to falsely portray Dr. Frank Greening as a scientis ...
  • Constructive criticism of sharpprintinginc
    When it comes to analysing the destruction of the WTCs, one of the best websites to date has been the sharpprintinginc website. It does not show favoritism to either the debunker or truther stances, instead examining both sides solely on their scientific merit. Many claims are shown to be e ...
  • Best take down of the no-planers... Ever!
    (Humorous excerpt from an earlier version of this paper):   ... With the backgrounds to all three scenarios suitably explained, we can now get to work on choosing which of them is the most suitable. Immediately, we see an application for occams razor, which is the principle that commands: ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • International travel fairs targeted over Botsw ...
    Protestors handed out leaflets to visitors of the Adventure Travel Show in London.© Survival InternationalProtestors have targeted Botswana tourism to the Adventure Travel Show in London and the Fitur travel fair in Madrid, to highlight Botswana’s persecution of Africa’s last hunting ...
  • Peru approves gas project, spells disaster for ...
    Uncontacted Nanti could be decimated by plans to detonate thousands of explosive charges and allow hundreds of workers to flood onto their land. © AnonPeru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes – despite internationa ...
  • ‘Kenyan government forcing us into extinction’ ...
    Homes of the Sengwer tribe in Kenya's Cherangany Hills torched by forest guards© Justin Kenrick/ SurvivalA Kenyan government campaign against one of the few hunter-gatherer tribes left in east Africa has escalated, as evictions spread throughout their ancestral home. The Sengwer have cared ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following th ...
  • You know I rarely ask you...
    ....for donations to our foundation, so you can take my word for it when I say, we need it. The Theft of the 2016 race is under way –– and the vote rustlers expect to grab Congress in 2014 as an appetizer.  Plus, the billionaire boys club is sucking our financial blood as if the world [...]
  • Give me 95 seconds
    A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]
  • Vultures and Vote Rustlers Watch the Trailer–G ...
      Watch the TrailerNow get the film! Shipped within 24 hours first class: The signed DVD of my new film, Vultures & Vote Rustlers. Includes an hour and a half of extras. Or download just the film right now. * * * * * What’s in this rocking hour of non-fiction detective tales? "Great fun ...
  • The Mandela Barbie
    By Greg Palast for Truthout I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his im ...

Ian Welsh

  • Fundraising Update: Two-thirds of the way to 2 ...
    In the last two days, we’ve raised $2,000 in one time donations, and $105 in recurring donations (which count triple). Thank you.  I am humbled.  Honestly, I wasn’t sure if we’d raise more than a few hundred dollars. The first tier is $3000, we’ve raised $2,315, so we&#82 ...
  • The Four Principles of Prosperity
    All economic theories are statements about what sort of people we are, or rather, what sort of people we should be. Economics has homo economicus, economic man, the rational utility maximizer who always acts in his or her own interest. We know that humans aren’t rational and we know that w ...
  • Donation Drive: Set the Schedule for 2014
    The simplest economic principle is this: people do more of what they’re rewarded for.  Right now, I can no longer justify writing at this frequency and level for free. Over the past few months I’ve written significant articles on  ideology, climate change, the failure of the Netroots ...
  • The Future of War in the Developed World
    I’ve been meaning to write about the fact that people don’t understand the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and Mexico for some time. In simple terms: the US military, the most expensive, most powerful military in the world, lost in Iraq (they had to pay bribes to leave). They are losing ...
  • Bitcoin is not optimized for privacy
    Just another quick note: Bitcoins keep track of every single transaction.  That information is filed into the bitcoin itself. Do not think that this is anonymous money, it is anything but. You’re still best off using cash for anonymous transactions or buying one use cards, etc… for o ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

new geography

  • Moving South and West? Metropolitan America in ...
    The United States could have three more megacities (metropolitan areas over 10 million) by 2042, according to population projections released by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM). Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston  are projected to join megacities New York and Los Angeles a ...
  • St. Louis: Salvage City
    A three installment start at a potential Discovery Channel “reality” program called Salvage City has created a minor kerfuffle in some local quarters. I haven’t seen the show, but it appears to feature a group of the Beautiful and the Bearded who break into buildings, ostensibl ...
  • Selfies Replace Focus on Big Picture
    Maybe it's my age, but, somehow, the future does not seem to be turning out the way I once imagined. It's not just the absence of flying cars, but also the lack of significant progress in big things, like toward space colonization, or smaller ones, like the speed for most air travel or t ...
  • The Illusions of Charles Montgomery's Happy City
    Striking a pose of defiance, contemporary urbanists see themselves as the last champions of happiness in a world plunged into quiet despair, and Canadian writer and journalist Charles Montgomery is no exception. Drawing on the emerging ‘science of happiness’, his new book Happy City, ...
  • The Changing Face of European Economics: Liber ...
    Where do we find the nations with the highest tax levels? In the mid-90s the answer was quite clear: in Western Europe. Both Denmark and Sweden had a tax rate of 49 percent of GDP in 1996, followed closely by Finland with a 47 percent level. The tax burden was somewhat lower in France, Belgi ...

water.org

  • Solutions in Kenya
    More than 28 million people do not have access to proper sanitation in Kenya. However if given the opportunity, families can make an affordable investment in a solution like this; unlocking the potential for dignity, health and economic growth.
  • IKEA Foundation to help 180,000 get safe water
    The IKEA Foundation awarded Water.org $6 million to help people access safe water through two innovative programs: WaterCredit, a microfinance program that gives families small loans to meet their water and sanitation needs, and the New Ventures Fund to search for new solutions to the global wat ...
  • For Decius, the Future Looks Bright
    Hopeful for an opportunity to build his skills and earn money to return to school, Decius signed up for a job as soon as he heard about the opportunity to work with Water.org and PRODEVA, and bring safe water access to his town.
  • Kathirvel, Changing Lives Through Masonry
    Kathirvel is 65 years old and a retired mason. Although he is retired, he now uses his expertise in masonry to work constructing toilets for families who have taken out loans through Water.org's WaterCredit program. He has built 200 toilets in the last year. He is training other masons to constr ...
  • Matt Damon says, "Thanks!"
    The success of the past year would not have been possible without your support. To everyone who contributes to bring safe water and sanitation to the world, we thank you.

Cryptogon

  • Iceland Let Banks Fail, Jailed Criminal Banker ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Iceland let its banks fail in 2008 because they proved too big to save. Now, the island is finding crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago have put it on a trajectory that’s turned 2 percent unemployment into a realistic goal. While the euro area grapples with record j ...
  • The Very First Porsche Was an Electric Vehicle
    Via: Cnet: The very first Porsche, an electric carriage, sat untouched in a warehouse for 111 years, but now it’s come home. On June 26, 1898, Ferdinand Porsche’s “Egger-Lohner C.2 electric vehicle,” better known as the “P-1,” rolled on to the streets of Vienn ...
  • Baltimore: Speed Cameras Issue Hundreds of Tho ...
    Via: Baltimore Sun: Baltimore’s speed cameras likely charged motorists for thousands more erroneous tickets than previously disclosed, according to data from a secret audit conducted for the city last year and obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Consultant URS Corp. evaluated the camera system ...
  • Scientists Find Ancient Plague DNA in Teeth
    Via: AP: Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn that new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks. Researchers found tiny bits of DNA in the teeth of two German victims killed by the Justinian plague about 1,500 ye ...
  • NSA Targets ‘Leaky Apps Spew Everything& ...
    Via: New York Times: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret Br ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Are Banking Executives In London Killing T ...
    Bankers committing suicide by jumping from the rooftops of their own banks is something that we think of when we think of the Great Depression.  Well, it just happened in London, England.  A vice president at JPMorgan's European headquarters in London plunged to his death after jumping from the ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of A Massive Emerging Mark ...
    This time, the Federal Reserve has created a truly global problem.  A big chunk of the trillions of dollars that it pumped into the financial system over the past several years has flowed into emerging markets.  But now that the Fed has decided to begin "the taper", investors see it as a sign to ...
  • 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching ...
    Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China?  If you are like most Americans, you have not been.  Most Americans don't seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should.  In majo ...
  • U.S. Cattle Herd Is At A 61 Year Low And Organ ...
    If the extreme drought in the western half of the country keeps going, the food supply problems that we are experiencing right now are only going to be the tip of the iceberg.  As you will see below, the size of the U.S. cattle herd has dropped to a 61 year low, and organic food [...]
  • Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Botto ...
    Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does?  In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do.  This shocking statistic comes from a new report on ...

Desertification

  • Rooftop farming or gardening : a solution (Cit ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2014/01/23/rooftop-farm-in-new-york-city-grows-50000-pounds-of-organic-produce-per-year/ Rooftop Farm in New York City Grows 50,000 Pounds of Organic Produce Per Year Linked by Michael Levenston Brooklyn Grange – A Rooftop Farm http://youtu.be/BTC_X1gblRE By ...
  • Urban gardening : hands-on education in nutrit ...
    Read at : http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/urban-farming-is-a-hit-with-new-york-city-college-students-1.6881634 Urban farming is a hit with New York City college students “New York City is the epicenter for urban agricultural innovation,” says Nevin Cohen, assistant professor of ...
  • Capacity development in tropical agriculture ( ...
    Read at : http://www.atdforum.org/spip.php?article541 The need for institutional capacity development in tropical agriculture The Tropical Agricultural Platform (TAP) initiative completed a comprehensive needs assessments to identify capacity gaps in Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) in Sout ...
  • Oil palm plantation and land grab (GRAIN / Afr ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=26907 Sierra Leone farmers reject land grab for oil palm plantation Summary & Comment: “This is the third of a series of interviews about resistance to the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central … Conti ...
  • International Call for Best Sustainable Develo ...
    A MESSAGE FROM DESERTNET INTERNATIONAL  We would like to draw your attention to the  CALL FOR BEST PRATICES – EXPO Milano 2015 International Call for Best Sustainable Development Practices on food security. All information is available at the following web-site: … Continue reading &# ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • "The politicians had to obey the crowd" - Inte ...
    kiev_20-01-2014.JPG This interview with a comrade from the Autonomous Workers' Union in Kiev was done on January 28, 2014. It sheds some light on the events around the Maidan: the array of reason ...
  • Russia. "Prison united all of us" - Interview ...
    Interview with anarchist prisoners in the so-called "Bolotnaya Case", former sailor Alexei Polikhovich, 22 (pictured), and historian Stepan Zimin, 21. They are amongst the many people charged with participation in the May 6, 2012 clashes with p ...
  • Jobbik chased across London by anti-fascists
    1535743_687650407945791_241472684_n.jpg Hungarian far-right group Jobbik were chased across London by anti-fascists on Sunday as their leader Vona Gábor visited the UK to meet with Hungarians living i ...
  • Indefinite strike at Coca Cola's Madrid plant
    On Wednesday the business put 1250 workers under ERE (notification of termination). Three other sites (in Asturias, Alicante and Palma) debate how to respond to the stoppage. The Coca-Cola bottling company in Spain has presented an Ex ...
  • IWGB strike action at the University of London
    strike.jpg Outsourced workers at the University of London’s Central Administration, employed by Cofely GDF-Suez, will be striking this Monday to Wednesday, 27 to 29 January, 2014. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Organized Atheism’s (aka Communism/Colle ...
    With Barry Soetoro’s fraudulent presidency winding down, it’s time for the Liberal Liar Machine run by Organized Atheism, (the Synagogue of Satan) to begin spinning their next web of deceit.  The apparent frontrunner:  The Ice Queen Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Hillary for President w ...
  • Christian Freedom Fighters In Ukraine
    No place and people on earth have suffered more atrocities at the hands of the Edomite, Godless ‘jewish’ BOLSHEVIKS since 1918 than the white Christians of Ukraine. First, the hard-working, long-suffering farmers were attacked, crops destroyed, and people starved to death by the mill ...
  • Christian Freedom Fighters In Ukraine
    No place and people on earth have suffered more atrocities at the hands of the Edomite, Godless ‘jewish’ BOLSHEVIKS since 1918 than the white Christians of Ukraine. First, the hard-working, long-suffering farmers were attacked, crops destroyed, and people starved to death by the mill ...
  • The Nuclear Scare Scam – THE ELITE AGEND ...
    His name is Galen Winsor.  He passed away in 2008 at the ripe old age of 82.  He was a Utah boy, born just down the road from me in the little burg called Morgan.  He was also, I submit, a decent and honorable man – who was not afraid to stand for scientific TRUTH. […]
  • The Nuclear Scare Scam – THE ELITE AGEND ...
    His name is Galen Winsor.  He passed away in 2008 at the ripe old age of 82.  He was a Utah boy, born just down the road from me in the little burg called Morgan.  He was also, I submit, a decent and honorable man – who was not afraid to stand for scientific TRUTH. […]

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Ocean Acidification: What is It, and Which Com ...
    Chad Coffin, president of the Maine Clammers Association, worries about Maine’s mudflats. That’s because in some areas these low-lying coastal wetlands have become acidic enough to kill young clams before they reach maturity.read more
  • High Renewable Energy Costs Damage Vermont's E ...
    With regard to renewable energy, it DOES matter what Vermont does, especially if it is on the wrong track to the detriment of Vermont’s economy, which has been in near-zero-growth mode since about 2007, with declining real household incomes since about 2000.read more
  • Survey: Only 32% Of Utilities Know What Kind o ...
    When 235 utility respondents were asked by Black & Veatch what sort of data analytics their utility was using to improve operational performance, many said they simply didn’t know. Deploying technologies effectively is a bit of a head scratcher for many utilities.read more
  • If We Could See Carbon Dioxide, Would We Take ...
    As an Australian who is concerned about our changing climate there is a long list of quotes from our new Prime Minister that I find irksome. But right at the top is his description of emissions trading as "a market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one."read more
  • The Four Men Who Caused The Majority Of Global ...
    The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just four men, who between them invented machines responsible for the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Unprecedented Inequality under Obama
    by Stephen Lendman It's unprecedented in modern memory. Obama declared war on social America. He's gone all out to destroy it altogether. More on this below. On Tuesday, he'll deliver his annual State of the Union address. Expect empty promises. Expect duplicitous rhetoric. Expect beginni ...
  • Mass Surveillance Called Illegal
    by Stephen Lendman In 2004, Congress established the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). It did so to advise executive branch officials on these issues. It was virtually moribund. It accomplished nothing under Bush. Nor during Obama's first term. In November 2013, it held it ...
  • Fake Syrian Peace Talks Continue
    by Stephen Lendman Talks were stillborn when announced. Syria is Obama's war. He launched it. He continues it. He wants regime change. He wants Washington in charge of Syria's future. He wants Syrians having no say. He wants pro-Western stooge governance replacing Assad. He wants what Syri ...
  • Long Odds to Save Their Country The Syrian Tea ...
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Damascus. As a new workweek begins here is Damascus many citizens across a fairly broad spectrum appear to be backing, and even exhibiting a kind of pride for their diplomatic team at the Geneva II conference. It might appear flippant for this observer to suggest that returnin ...
  • Stand In Support Of Women And Girls And Agains ...
    by Brian McAfee There have been similar stories before but the one that came from India in December of 2012 of a 23 year old medical student who, after getting on a bus with her male friend, was attacked, raped and tortured by a gang of men on the bus. After their initial crimes the men t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Trish Hennessy talks raising the minimum wage ...
    In case you missed it, last week CBC Radio’s The Current ran a special episode on minimum wage, which was packed with great, though heart-wrenching stories and interviews. The special, Minimum Wage Wars, also included a great debate between CCPA’s Trish Hennessy and Charles Lammam from the Frase ...
  • Iglika Ivanova joins W2 Media Mornings as a re ...
    Can’t get enough of BC’s Public Interest Research Project? You’re in luck – you can now catch CCPA economist and public interest researcher Iglika Ivanova on Co-Op Radio’s W2 Media Mornings. At 7:45 AM Pacific on the third Monday of every month, Iglika brings key economic issues to the fore on ...
  • Employment Opportunities
    We're hiring! CCPA's National office has two employment opportunities: Senior Editor: This is a one-year, full-time contract with the expectation that it will become permanent thereafter. The primary responsibility of this position is as Editor of the CCPA Monitor, our monthly magazine of polic ...
  • Employment Opportunity: Senior Editor
    We're hiring! CCPA's National Office is looking for a Senior Editor. This is a one-year, full-time contract with the expectation that it will become permanent thereafter. The primary responsibility of this position is as Editor of the CCPA Monitor, our monthly magazine of policy analysis and com ...
  • BC Jobs Plan: where are the jobs?
    The latest report from our BC Office assesses the impact of the BC Jobs Plan two years in. The government's six-month progress reports have declared it a success, but the numbers tell a different story. Tune in to CKNW today at 9:30 to hear author Iglika Ivanova discuss the report with Bill Goo ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • T.R. Reid, Author of 'The Healing of America,' ...
    T.R. REID: I've known Max Baucus for quite a long time, he's the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. And he had me come make a presentation on my film and my book to the Finance Committee. And all sixteen members showed up on a Monday, which is pretty unusual in Washington. And I made the ...
  • Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Pr ...
    Announcement by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.  A Nobel Peace P ...
  • Cinema With The Right Stuff Marks 2013 Nationa ...
    December 18, 2013 Press contact:  Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456, scannady@loc.gov Public contact: Steve Leggett (202) 707-5912, sleg@loc.gov To Media:  Select high-resolution images and video clips are available for a limited time; register at www.loc.gov/pressroom/registration ...
  • 2013 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY QUOTES
    Maureen O’Hara, Award-winning Actress – “The Quiet Man” “I am overjoyed that the Library of Congress has inducted The Quiet Man into its National Film Registry. It was the thrill of our lives for John Ford, John Wayne, myself, and everyone to make it. I had never ...
  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • My 2014 Energy Predictions
    Robert Rapier looks into his crystal ball for 2014, forecasting trends for oil and gas, and a bankruptcy for one high-profile biofuel company.
  • Grading My 2013 Energy Predictions
    Robert Rapier grades his energy predictions for 2013.
  • 60 Minutes: The Rest of the Story
    Robert Rapier takes readers behind the scene of his recent 60 Minutes story, filling in some of the back story.
  • Quick Response on 60 Minutes Story
    As a result of Sunday night’s 60 Minutes story about cleantech, a lot of people are emailing me or clicking in here for the first time. I will have a more in-depth report on my contribution to the story — including bits that didn’t survive the editing process for a more complet ...
  • This Weekend on 60 Minutes
    I just got a note that a recent interview I did with Lesley Stahl on cleantech will be part of a story airing this weekend. I will have some “behind the scenes” reporting early next week.

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Police DUI Course Instructor Found Passed Out ...
    Whoever said crime doesn't pay was never a police officer. In this case out of Franklin, Tennessee, veteran police officer Brent Rose who serves as a DUI course instructor for the Franklin police department was found passed out drunk in his car ou...
  • (No) Honor Among Thugs
    Like countless other people, Los Angeles resident Sergio Arreola was the victim of criminal violence by the police, and forced to defend himself in court because his assailants were encouraged to lie and allowed to do so without punishment. The P...
  • Police Banned From Enforcing Traffic Laws In O ...
    When police departments begin viewing themselves as revenue generating entities rather than law enforcement entities, it has a deleterious effect on the public, which is now viewed as potential income, rather than citizens. If the incentives become p...
  • DEA Chief Criticizes Obama Marijuana Remarks, ...
    Criticism is mounting over reported remarks last week of DEA chief Michele Leonhart in a speech to the Major Counties Sheriffs Association. Leonhart criticized her boss, President Obama, for acknowledging in a recent interview that marijuana is not m...
  • Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School?
    The late Pete Seeger sing's "What Did You Learn In School?" by Tom Paxton...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Wind farms can provide crucial frequency regul ...
    Frequency regulation keeps the electrical grid in balance between supply and demand on a second-by-second basis. Gas turbines often do this now. However, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have found that wind turbines can do the same by changing the pitch of their blades. T ...
  • Jerry Brown continues banging rattle on high c ...
    Curse those pesky laws and bothersome judge who prevent Emperor of California Jerry Brown from building his billion dollar high speed rail boondoogle. Why the judge had the effrontery to rule the 2008 bond measure authorizing California high speed railit meant what it said about funding. Imagine ...
  • House Democrat says Obamacare can’t work, afte ...
    Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) says Obamacare can’t work because millennials aren’t signing up in enough numbers to pay for it. Moran, who announced his retirement after twelve terms, perhaps feels he can now speak his mind. He has a point. The vast bulk of those getting Obamacare get subsidi ...
  • Tough love for towns that run out of water due ...
    Some small towns in California may run out of drinking water soon. Should they be required show proof of real water plans before expecting to be bailed out by the state? Drought happens. Some towns have no contingency plans at all. Big Ag tends to think all the water are belong to them. Some in ...
  • Microsoft to stop XP support. Most ATMs use XP ...
    Microsoft will stop XP support soon. That mean no more security updates, assuming the ATMs that run XP are even doing updates, which they probably aren’t since they aren’t connected to the Internet. Or maybe some are even if they aren’t supposed to be, which might even be more ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Can NGOs Escape Professionalism and Become Mor ...
    Anarchists in the Boardroom and NGOization reviewed Anarchists in the Boardroom: How social media and social movements can help your ...
  • Book Review: Vandana Shiva's Making Peace With ...
    Making Peace With the Earth By Vandana Shiva Fernwood Publishing, co-published with: Pluto Press Paperback ISBN: 9781552665664 Paperback Price: $24.95 CAD Publication Date: Apr 2013 Pages: 288 Review by Jane Hudson It is possible to inte ...
  • GroundWire | January 27, 2014
    Community Radio News GroundWire Community Radio News: January 13 - January 27|   This week's edition produced on Musqueam First Nations territory by Morgan Yee at CiTR in Vancouver British, Columbia   The Headlines -The libera ...
  • Pancakes Not Pipelines Feeds Resistance: Skwom ...
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  • Inequality: a tale of two pyramids
    David Seaton's News Links This pyramid appeared in the Washington Post. Looking at it I was reminded of another pyramid in a classic poster from the 19th century, which could be a "poetic" rendering of the graph from the Post. The signs are all around us, if you want to take a peek at the ne ...
  • Explaining the virulence on the right... Socia ...
    David Seaton's News Links Naquasia LeGrand... the right stuffNaquasia LeGrand, the lady that tops this page, works at minimum wage shoveling fried chicken, for KFC. She is leading a fight to organize fast-food workers and raise America's minimum wage to $15. She is facing some of America's ...
  • 2014... and welcome to it
    David Seaton's News LinksPrediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi BerraAs luminaries such as Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra have pointed out, trying to predict the future is a mug's game... And at year's end political co ...
  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...
  • 2013: Vladimir Putin's year
    David Seaton's News LinksBy his own measure, Mr Putin has had a good year. The Russian president craves international respect. By stepping back from the world, the US ceded to Moscow space at the top table. Phillip Stephens - Financial TimesVladimir Putin has been eating the "West's" lunch: Syri ...

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  • SOTU 2014: Relaxed, Good-Natured, and Pretty E ...
    This year I tried something new for the State of the Union address. No liveblogging, no tweeting, no notes, no nothing. I just watched it, like a normal human being. Did it work? Do I feel like I responded differently to it this way? Maybe. But probably not. I've long since been sucked into ...
  • Quote of the Day: Voters Hate Their Bosses
    From Maggie Gallagher, chastising her fellow conservatives in advance for their almost-sure-to-be-lame responses to tonight's State of the Union address: We say “job creator,” voters hear “my boss.” And voters hate their bosses. Here's the full quote: M ...
  • Liberals Finally Cleared of Anti-Vaccine Madness
    Are liberals just as prone to deny science as conservatives? The main exhibits against conservatives are evolution and climate change. The main exhibits against liberals are vaccines and GMO foods. But via Paul Waldman, we finally have some fairly strong evidence about the ideological leanings ...
  • If Obama's For It, It Must Be Bad, Part 3,476
    Dave Weigel points today to a perfect distillation of one of the most important political dynamics in Washington DC right now: Not everybody wants Obama to notice them. Advocates for Common Core standards — which guide guide math and language arts instruction from kindergarten thro ...
  • Net Neutrality Drifts Ever Closer to Oblivion
    In the wake of a circuit court ruling that the FCC doesn't have the authority to mandate net neutrality, Brian Fung reports on the likely next step from federal regulators: [FCC chairman Tom Wheeler] appears to be leaning increasingly toward using the FCC's existing legal authority to re ...

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  • Tropics are main source of global mammal diversity
    Ever since the nineteenth century scientists have recognised that some regions contain more species than others, and that the tropics are richer in biodiversity than temperate regions. But why are there more species in the tropics? A new study publishing 28 January in the Open Access journal PLO ...
  • New NASA Laser Technology Reveals How Ice Meas ...
    New results from NASA's MABEL campaign demonstrated that a photon-counting technique will allow researchers to track the melt or growth of Earth's frozen regions. read more
  • Targeted tutoring can reduce 'achievement gap' ...
    High school students who were at risk for dropping out greatly improved their math test scores and school attendance with the help of intensive tutoring and mentoring, according to a new study by the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab. The program's benefits were equivalent to closing nea ...
  • NREL study: Active power control of wind turbi ...
    The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with partners from the Electric Power Research Institute and the University of Colorado have completed a comprehensive study to understand how wind power technology can assist the power grid by controlling the active powe ...
  • Brain regions thought to be uniquely human sha ...
    New research suggests a surprising degree of similarity in the organization of regions of the brain that control language and complex thought processes in humans and monkeys. The study, publishing online January 28 in the Cell Press journal Neuron, also revealed some key differences. The finding ...

unEarthed

  • Thirsty Industry Wants to Frack Parched State
    California's driest year on record isn't stopping the oil industry An oil rig in Shafter, CA. The state is facing sudden growth in oil drilling. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice ...
  • A Year of Threats Looms for Western Rivers
    Drought, diversions threaten Colorado, San Pedro and other rivers The now-dry Colorado River delta branches into the Baja / Sonoran Desert, only 5 miles north of the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. ...
  • Victory in Leeco Mines Case
    Appeals court rejects company's request for premature mining A West Virginia creek polluted by mining runoff. The Army Corps doesn’t dispute that mountaintop removal coal mining ...
  • Emergency Measure to Stop Wolf Killing in Idaho
    Nine wolves already dead as Earthjustice goes to appeals court Members of the Golden pack in the Frank Church Wilderness Area. (Photo courtesy of Hobbit Hill Films LLC) ...
  • Getting It Right for the Arctic Ocean
    Court denies offshore oil lease in the Chukchi Sea for the second time A beluga whale surfaces in the Chukchi Sea. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) A c ...

Brave New Climate

  • “Energy in Australia” book
    Graham Palmer, a regular BNC community member, has published a new book. It is titled “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” and is published by Springer (in their “Springer Briefs in Energy” series). It’s a slim, taughtly wri ...
  • BNC 2.0
    2013 was a quiet year for the Brave New Climate website. After a number of years of heavy blogging from 2008 to 2011 (averaging about 150 posts per year), I guess I’d run out of steam by 2012, and that lack of activity just got worse in 2013. Although my Twitter feed (@bravenewclimate) rem ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part III
    This is the third and final part of a comprehensive series on radiation that has been published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week — cancer… Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-n ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part II
    This is the second part of a comprehensive 3-part series on radiation that is being published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week, we look at… mutations! ———- Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – P ...
    This is the first of a comprehensive new 3-part series on radiation, which will be published on BNC in weekly instalments. If you really want to distinguish science fact from science fiction on the many vexed issues surrounding radiation, including cancer risks, genetic and physical mutations, a ...

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& ...
  • How Billionaires Save Billions On Taxes
    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 ...
  • The War Has Started And The Catholics Are On T ...
    The Koch Brothers donated a million dollars to the Catholic University of America, and some Catholics aren’t happy. We all know that the money the Kochs donate to colleges has strings (chains) attached. The Koch Brothers plan is to bribe colleges with their billions, and force these colleg ...

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
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  • West Bank riot illustrates essence of occupation
    When residents of one of the most radical settlements in the West Bank terrorized their Palestinian neighbors, the army and police did what they are becoming known for doing: absolutely nothing. By Yesh Din (written by Yossi Gurvitz) On April 25th, 2013, Raed Mahmoud Ahmad Sabah was in his house ...
  • No, Abe Foxman, America is not out to get the Jews
    The U.S. Jewish establishment is starting to say publicly that anti-Semitism is the reason Jonathan Pollard is still in prison. This is sickening slander that reflects a deep-seated psychological problem.   Abraham Foxman, long-time leader of the Anti-Defamation League, capo di tutti capi of the ...
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    An in-depth look at the historical and political developments that shaped Israel’s current African asylum-seeker crisis — and one way to resolve it that meets Israel’s own needs while doing right by those who most need its protection. African asylum seekers in Israel have brought their struggle ...
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    The Israeli prime minister tells reporters he wouldn’t ‘uproot’ a single Israeli. Netanyahu’s office later explains that the object of the new demand is to score points against the Palestinian Authority by ‘exposing its real face.’ A couple of statements from ...
  • Israel’s new motto: ‘Never trust a smili ...
    There’s something that’s bothering Israelis these days, besides the Iranian nuclear program. It’s the Iranian Smile Assault. I’m not kidding. That’s what the Israeli government and Israeli media are labeling the appearances of Iranian officials in various international forums. When it was ...

CenterLine

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

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    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
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    GPMDG launched to promote renewable energy among corporates
    The Hindu
    In a key step towards promoting renewable energy among corporate India, the Green Power Market Development Group (GPMDG) was launched on a nationwide basis in New Delhi on Wednesday. The GPMDG initiative seeks to create a demand for ...
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    Pope Francis drafting potential encyclical on ecology
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    Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, said that the Pope “intends to put particular emphasis on the theme of 'human ecology,' a phrase used by Pope Benedict to describe not only how people must defend and respect nature but ...
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    Community-owned shops given mortgage opportunity from Ecology
    Blue & Green Tomorrow
    Paul Ellis, chief executive of Ecology, said, “Community shops make a vital contribution to building a more sustainable society: regenerating the local economy, increasing the local economy, increasing democratic control, reducing loneliness and even ...
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    Cold Man Winter strikes water pipes; insurers deluged
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    Plumber Nate Petersen prepares a pump to shoot water into the incoming city water line, left pipe, that has been frozen at a south Minneapolis home. Roto Rooter was been inundated with calls since the cold snap and regular work has been put on hold ...
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    San Jose Mercury News
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    Mexico's 'Water Monster' May Have Disappeared
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    The axolotl is known as the "water monster" and the "Mexican walking fish." Its only natural habitat is the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals — the "floating gardens" of earth piled on reed mats that the Aztecs built to grow crops but are now ...
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