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SRA Dave Orth (L) and SRA Clarence Tolliver (R), members of the 60th Security Police Squadron's Base Swat Team, Travis Air Force Base wearing black uniforms stand with M-9 pistols ready behind covering foliage. They are participating in a simulated hostage (Released to Public) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Longtime War Resisters League member, author, photographer and former editor of American Writer (UAW publication) Ed Hedemann gives an interview to journalist Eric Stoner. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Top: Lesser cornstalk borer larvae extensively damaged the leaves of this unprotected peanut plant. (Image Number K8664-2)-Photo by Herb Pilcher. Bottom: After only a few bites of peanut leaves of this genetically engineered plant (containing the genes of the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria), this lesser cornstalk borer larva crawled off the leaf and died. (Image Number K8664-1)-Photo by Herb Pilcher. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Invisible Opportunity

• Reflections in a Petri Dish | Bearding the Zio ...
  Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. When we hear about the doings of some celebrity or public figure, even when they tell us it is an intimate peek into their private lives, it isn\’t. The whole continuous stream of information that gets shaped and f ...
• HSBC and Chase Send Clear Signals That a Bank ...
  By Dave Hodges (INTELLIHUB) – For the life of me, I have no idea why anyone would want to bank in this criminal enterprise bank. Regardless, isn’t the money your money? Shouldn’t you be able to do with your money what you want without justifying the purpose to the bank that you designate to hold ...
• Israeli militarism predicated on 9/11 deceptio ...
  By Brandon Martinez No more than an hour after the World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001, Israel’s leaders initiated a coordinated campaign to blame their enemies for the attacks. Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, appeared live in studio at the BBC on 9/11, ...
• Genetic Engineering Companies Promised Reduced ...
  One of the main selling points for genetically engineered crops is that they would use substantiallyless pesticides than conventional crops. However, it turns out that GE crops need a lot more herbicides than conventional ones. Washington State University Charles Benbrook – former Executive Dire ...
• Genetic Engineering Companies Promised Reduced ...
  One of the main selling points for genetically engineered crops is that they would use substantiallyless pesticides than conventional crops. However, it turns out that GE crops need a lot more herbicides than conventional ones. Washington State University Charles Benbrook – former Executive Dire ...

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War Resisters League

• Historic Protest Settlement from 2004 RNC: WRL ...
  Yesterday’s historic settlement awarded to protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City was the largest in U.S. history – and many a WRL’er was in the mix! At the press conference, Ed Hedemann of the WRL … Continue reading →
• The War at Home and Abroad: Police Militarizat ...
    On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, Ali Issa, national field organizer with War Resisters League, spoke at an event called “The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire” at CUNY’s Graduate Center in NYC. The City University of New … Continue reading →
• On the Ground in Turkey: Repression Gets Personal
  (Originally posted on the Facing Tear Gas website November 28th, 2013.) After the mass escalation of anti-government protest this past late May in Turkey, events there have fallen out of the headlines. But mobilization and repression continue. This past November … Continue reading →
• War Resisters League: Drop the Charges Against ...
  On the morning of October 22nd, 2013 agents of the Department of Homeland Security – acting on on behalf of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan – arrested Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action … Continue reading →
• What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
  On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →

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.

k2p blog

• Coal is still king in Svalbard
  The economy of Svalbard, the Norwegian arctic archipelago that lies between the country's mainland and the North Pole, is still dominated by coal even as its value dwindles and employment in the mines drops.
• From graphene to borophene
  A unique arrangement of 36 boron atoms in a flat disc with a hexagonal hole in the middle may be the preferred building blocks for “borophene.”
• Parsing Obama’s SOTU on climate matters: ...
  Obama's SOTU address will be spun in many different ways but I felt it was a remarkable paean to gas. Climate change is undeniable but he took care not to call it global warming. Not a lot of alarmism as he praised the effects of using gas. He avoided mentioning the words "fracking" or "shale". ...
• Sochi Winter Olympics: Champions of Corruption
  According to Mr Navalny's Encyclopaedia of Spending, the athletes are not the only people who compete: "Officials and businessmen also took part in the Games and turned them into a source of income."
• Flatulent cows blow up their shed
  Methane gas from 90 flatulent cows exploded in a German farm shed on Monday, damaging the roof and injuring one of the animals, police said.

Left Foot Forward

• UK immigration policy ‘revolts’ Sc ...
  Scotland’s education secretary has claimed the UK's immigration policy is “driven by UKIP and by a nasty xenophobia”.
• Syrian refugees: this is a government gesture, ...
  While on the face of it sounds as if the coalition is doing its international and humanitarian duty in offering a safe haven for Syrian refugees, the proposal to accept just a few hundred refugees - and on a temporary basis - smacks of gesture politics.
• However unsavoury Jobbik’s views are, Theresa ...
  Only by challenging extremism in broad daylight can the cracks in extremist ideologies be shown for what they really are.
• The crisis in Egypt is in no one’s interest
  The UK government should make any further economic and military support to Egypt conditional on the return to democracy.
• Look Left going out shortly – sign up to recei ...
  Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Ben-Artzi Rocks Au ...
  WTVM: Former Deutsche Bank Employee Speaker for Whistleblower Tour at AU Last night, Deutsche Bank whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi spoke to more than 400 students at Auburn University, detailing his story of exposing $12 billion in securities violations at the world’s largest bank. The financial ...
• GAP's Radack Discusses Snowden on 'Meet the Pr ...
  Meet the Press: Snowden's Legal Advocate Discusses Potential for Clemency GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack appeared on Meet the Press yesterday from Moscow to discuss NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. She expressed disappointment in response to Attorney Genera ...
• Snowden Chat Wrap – Privacy, WPA Shortcomings: ...
  Free Snowden: Live Q&A with Edward Snowden Yesterday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden participated in a live web-chat, answering questions posed to him from citizens across the world. The whistleblower was forthright in discussing the balance of privacy and safety, why he does not expect ...
• Government Watchdog Group Declares Surveillanc ...
  An independent bipartisan agency within the Executive Branch has issued a landmark 238-page report that concludes the bulk metadata telephony program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) has provided only "minimal" benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal, and should be closed ...
• Independent Govt Board Finds Metadata Collecti ...
  Washington Post: Independent Review Board Says NSA Phone Data Program is Illegal and Should End Image via wikimedia user Garvid An independent executive branch board has found that the NSA’s metadata collection program is illegal, should stop, and that the Patriot Act “does not provide an adeq ...

UK Progressive

• Reproductive Rights and The Golden Rule
  by Tina Dupuy When our government was framed, religion was granted freedom in hopes it would return the favor. Call it the Great American Gamble. Give something authoritative in nature free reign and have faith it won’t take over. Here’s the primary debate of a free country: When does my freedom ...
• Op-Ed: President Obama Nominates ‘War Criminal ...
  By Sherwood Ross David Barron, a Harvard law professor who gave President Obama the green light for his illegal global drone attacks, has been nominated by Obama for a seat on the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. “Barron (co-authored) the infamous Justice department opinion authorizing ...
• Two Roads Diverged? Well… We’re Joining Both o ...
  This is The Monday Line Denis G. Campbell What makes successful publications successful? Giving readers what they want. We take pride in being a source of depth. Our 40 global contributors and their long reads are why people who visit UK Progressive stay on the website for about 5 minutes, a hug ...
• Here Comes the Sun
  by Robert Hunziker Climate change news is mostly negative, in fact, downright depressing, as glaciers melt away, torrential storms hit coastlines, and embedded droughts scorch countrysides. But, behind all of the gloom and doom, an upsurge of solar energy is quietly flourishing from California t ...
• Op Ed: Making Crooked MPs Think Twice
  by Sam Sholli The MPs expenses scandal was one of UK politics’ all time low-points. With claims for everything from house refurbishment to pornographic movies, trust in UK politicians has dipped severely and apathy towards MPs could not be higher. The question follows; what can we do? In fact, e ...

NewsAlert

• Chicago alderman encourages gun-free businesses
  WLS-TV on the Chicago Alderman (and former federal prosecutor) who thinks only police should be allowed to carry guns.
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JoNova

• Climate change violates Newton’s Third L ...
  Climate change violates one of Newton’s Laws First published on OnlineOpinion Dec 2007 and unfortunately still very applicable. by William York The claim that the science debate over cimate change is settled violates the most important of Newton’s Laws. This violation is not of the famous Laws ...
• UK poll: 62% don’t believe in man-made c ...
  Last week a new ComRes/ITV poll came out in the UK. The poll of 2,047 people from across the country shows that the population is split roughly into thirds. A third are skeptics, a third are believers, a third don’t know. Overall about 60% of UK citizens are not convinced that humans are c ...
• Unthreaded Weekend
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• Bloggies 2014 nominations — science cate ...
  Last year the Best Science or Technology Weblog category was dominated entirely by climate science blogs, and 4 of the 5 were skeptics. Not surprisingly Watts Up won for the third time (congrats to Anthony). Tellingly, Skeptical Science withdrew even though the skeptics vote would have been spli ...
• Don’t miss the EU transformation on rene ...
  Filed under: Skeptics are winning. The EU was always the leader in the Great Green Push, and announcements on Wednesday are an excellent sign. Both the media and politicians are finally coming around, dragged by reality. This is the good news. The bad news is it’s cost hundreds of billions ...

ReNew America

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

2012 Blog

• The Right Wing 2012 Agenda
  I’ve been paying close attention to the post-2012 activities of 2012 activists, and this one caught me by surprise… Ostensibly an exercise in leveraging a popular meme for profit purposes only, the “official” Dec 21 2012 site has now been revived using the most generic co ...
• The Bookcover I Forgot About
  The books, topics, notes and ideas that I didn’t write about in the last 13 years would take me a decade to wade through – which I might just do depending on how much is going on in my here-and-now. I just found some images I was considering for my Survive 2o12 book cover (and then f ...
• The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
  For a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude auroras) or the return of a long-period comet. Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
• Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
  I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
• Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
  Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• An Eyewitness Account About How Israel Has Con ...
• The West Supports Al-Qaeda in Syria
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Daily Tech

• Porsche's First EV Survived Two Wars, Eleven D ...
  Electric car could hit nearly 22 mph, go almost 50 miles on a charge     
• "Darkness" is Spreading: T-Mobile Mocks AT&T O ...
  T-Mobile's CEO continues to see just how far he can push AT&T     
• Lenovo Reorganizes Into Four Business Groups, ...
  The four business groups are the PC Business Group, the Mobile Business Group, Enterprise, and Ecosystem and Cloud Services     
• Samsung Leak Shows of Slick Android-Meets-Wind ...
  Tizen phones may actually launch next month     
• NSA Uses Angry Birds, Candy Crush to Spy on Am ...
  Browser cookies, mobile apps do the NSA's data mining work for it     

Oriental Review

• Polish involvement in Ukraine’s coup and ...
  Poland has been exploiting the destabilization of Ukraine in order to expand its influence further East at Russia’s expense. Together with Sweden, Poland launched the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative in 2009. This was commenced specifically with the purpose of spreading Brussels’ (and Warsaw’ ...
• Photos of besieged Leningrad 1941-1944 (in mem ...
  On January 27 Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad (today’s St.Petersburg), which lasted for 872 days and cost more than 1 million lives of the residents of the besieged city, having to overcome hunger, cold and bombings, and 1 more million soldiers and of ...
• Intrigues at Geneva II
  “The idea of Montreux” – the idea of engaging in a peace process and national dialog in Syria under international mediation – died before it could be born.  A nasty intrigue, involving the UN Secretary-General and the employment of such petty chicaneries as delaying the airplane carr ...
• Syria after Geneva 2: more ‘dirty war’ but als ...
  While little of substance seemed to come from the Geneva 2 peace conference and the dirty war against Syria seems set to continue, this does not mean the process has not advanced. John Kerry still mouths the 2011 mantra ‘Assad must go’, but it is much less convincing. Remember, Washington put gr ...
• Coup in Western Ukraine: the Arab Spring unlea ...
  Rioters have seized the administration building in Lvov and forced the governor to resign. It is not known who is currently in power in this region, but a puppet government formed by ‘opposition forces’ may soon be set up. Demands for ‘autonomy’, or quite possibly, explic ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Herbal Remedies Superior to Antibiotics for Ea ...
              Ear pain can be some of the most intolerable pain there is. This could be why so many people go directly to their medical doctor at the first sign of an ear infection, seeking antibiotics. It’s ... Related posts:Despite Many Warnings, ...
• UCLA Study Reveals Sugar In Your Diet Is Lower ...
                This might make you think twice about grabbing that can of soda. A UCLA study funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose ... Related posts:Keep ...
• Monsanto’s Bt-Toxins Found to Kill Human Embry ...
              Many individuals have heard it a million times, but for the uninformed, or those just looking to fuel their 2014 fire to finally defeat Monsanto and their cronies, you’ll be interested to know that Monsanto’s ... Related posts:Sea Cucu ...
• How the power of smell may be able to detect d ...
                Notice that your partner’s breath smells funny? Or that their body is giving off an unusually unpleasant odor? That may be your nose alerting you to the fact that they’re sick. According to a new study ... Related posts:Bees can ...
• Psychologists document the age our earliest me ...
              Although infants use their memories to learn new information, few adults can remember events in their lives that happened prior to the age of three. Psychologists at Emory University have now documented that age seven ... Related posts ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Freedom to spill: Coal must take bad with good
  Gazette photo by Chip Ellis My apologies for not having much to say on Coal Tattoo the last few days, especially given the huge coal-related story that’s been breaking here in Charleston and the surrounding region in West Virginia. I’ve been focusing on helping with our daily Gazette ...
• OSMRE: ‘It’s not the real world. This is ...
  It seems that at least some of the beltway media are expecting some serious news to come out of a hearing this morning before the House Natural Resources Committee, where Republicans are continuing to try to manufacture some major Obama administration scandal out of the Office of Surface Mining ...
• W.Va. Gov. Tomblin easing up on coal rhetoric?
    Photo via governor’s website video stream. If you were watching or listening closely to tonight’s State of the State address, you might have noticed what is at least a slight change in the tone of West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s rhetoric about the coal industry and the ...
• House Democrats’ agenda for W.Va. &#8230 ...
  Political watchers here in West Virginia are waiting this afternoon to hear exactly what proposals Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will make in his State of the State address tonight. But we were treated so far this week to several announcements of what the Democratic leadership in the House of Delegates ...
• Friday roundup, Jan. 3, 2014
  In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, an earth mover, and a dump truck move through the open lignite pit at Liberty Mine adjacent to the Mississippi Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near DeKalb. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) As I continue to catch up on things after the h ...

Daniel Miessler

• Daniel Dennett is Wrong About Free Will
  I am exceedingly frustrated by Daniel Dennett’s response to Sam Harris’ recent book on free will. It serves as the most elaborate, learned, and desperate hand-waving I’ve ever witnessed. It was such a weak argument that it looked more like an example that a brilliant philosophy ...
• Real Talk About the NSA and National Security
  People have good reason to be upset with our government about the NSA. I’m one of those people, and the list of sharp sicks in the American eye are equally obvious and repulsive. But we’re not having the whole conversation. We’re only having the obvious part—the easy part ...
• Why I Write
  People frequently ask my why I blog, and/or how I have kept doing so since 1999. Here’s my answer in the form of a letter I just received from a reader: Dear Mr. Miessler, I just wanted to thank you. Even after reading the bible, being preached to by my Catholic mother, and hearing referen ...
• From Ubuntu to CentOS
  After around five years on Ubuntu I’m moving to CentOS. It’s bittersweet. I develop a relationship with every distro I spend time with. Gentoo, for example, will always conjure fond memories for me. I ran it as my first long-time server OS for around seven years. Then I went to Ubunt ...
• Religious Cognitive Dissonance on Wealth Inequ ...
  The richest 85 people in the world now have equal wealth to that of the bottom 3.5 billion. Seems fair. What got me thinking, though, was how religious conservatives tend to be the most comfortable with this. They say things like, Well, if they’re creating the value… Sure, and by that rati ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

• Indonesia's Corruption Battle Gets Serious
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The KPK is changing the rules of the game
• US-Japan Defense Accord Upsets Seoul
  • (http://twitter.com/share) South Korea fears that US may set up Japan as responsible for regional security
• Survival Sex in Sri Lanka's Crippled North
  • (http://twitter.com/share) War and death make it a necessity
• Is There Opposition in Vietnam?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Some may be coming from a surprising source - the Communist Party
• Hong Kong's Crusade Against the Philippines
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Racism is at work in attempts to get Aquino to apologize for three-year old bus murders

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

• Kerry, Ban Ki-moon Threaten Wider War in Syria ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio January 25, 2014 [download audio]  
• State Department Puppet Ban-Ki Moon Has Shown ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 22, 2014 Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 [download entire video] [download entire audio]
• The “Inflammatory Rhetoric” the State Departme ...
  Syrian Arab News Agency January 22, 2014 Montreux, (SANA) – The international conference on Syria, Geneva2, kicked off on Wednesday morning with the participation of Syria’s official delegation, headed by Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem. Minister a ...
• NATO Anti-Syrian Front Fracturing on Eve of Ge ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio January 22, 2014 [download audio]  
• Crocker, Hayden Signal Faction of US and NATO ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV January 15, 2014 [download video] [download audio]

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• EWG’s Top Ten Environmental Health Stories of ...
• Study Finds Risky Gas Leaks in Nation’s Capital
• Snow White and Her Seven Drilling Rigs
• What We Can Learn From West Virginia
• Report Confirms Oil and Gas Drilling Has Cont ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Michael Grimm threatens NY1 reporter
• In his State of the Union, Obama promises to g ...
• De Blasio allies seize on Obama's pre-K remarks
• Obama touts health law during State of the Union
• LICH reopens bidding process for 'final and be ...

World News - Top Stories

• India lifts curbs on superjumbos
  India has lifted a ban on Airbus superjumbo planes, allowing flights on the world's largest passenger jet into New Delhi, Mumbai and two other cities equipped to handle the aircraft. Despite ever-growing passenger numbers, India had restricted flights on Airbus A380s in 2008 in an effort to ...
• Revisiting the Obama Doctrine
  Judging by recent statements and actions, President Barack Obama might be concerned by the unparalleled proliferation of al-Qaeda. However, he is hardly alarmed that it has become a rallying cry for Jihadi movements, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean affiliates, controlling larger territ ...
• Obama Faces Uneasy Nation
  President Obama "will lay out his agenda for the year on Tuesday night before a nation...
• Nancy Pelosi: Give Obama dictatorial powe ...
  On Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters she supports giving Barack Obama the power to unilaterally raise the debt limit to infinity, bypassing Congress in a move that clearly violates the Constitution, CNS News reported. According to Terence P. Jeffrey, "a reporte ...
• Youth has the ability to transform India: ...
  Tweet Terming its needs as developing the spirits of camaraderie, adventure and discipline, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the youth of the country to join the National Cadet Corps (NCC). He was...

no frakking consensus

• UK Adventure
  Having touched down in London, I'm chuckling over a Charles Krauthammer column titled Stop Jerking Canada Around.
• Neil Young’s Hiroshima – Exhibit # ...
  Rockstar's rhetoric about Canada's oil sands is intemperate, offensive, and ill-informed.
• The Invisible Judith Curry
  A bona fide climate scientist tells US Senators we have no idea whether human-caused global warming will be a serious problem. The media doesn't report it.
• The WWF: Still Donning the Science Costume
  Why doesn't the World Wildlife Fund argue for its vision based solely on that vision's merits?
• Gratitude
  Thank you for your financial and moral support.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 1/23/14 - United States vs. International Heal ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - United States vs. International Health Care Spending - The United States spent $2.7 trillion, 17.9% of its GDP, on health care in 2011. View our charts comparing nine other nations to the United States in health care spending per capita and spending as a % of GDP.
• 1/16/14 - Six States with Pending Legislation ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
• 1/16/14 - Governments That Use ProCon.org
  www.procon.org - - Governments That Use ProCon.org – ProCon.org is now used by 17 international governments including Ecuador, Iran, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, and Taiwan.
• 1/15/14 - Physician-Assisted Suicide Ruled Leg ...
  euthanasia.procon.org - Physician-Assisted Suicide Ruled Legal by New Mexico Judge - A Jan. 13, 2014 ruling by Second Judicial Judge Nan G. Nash prohibits the prosecution of physicians who help competent terminally ill patients end their lives.
• 1/14/14 - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Is a College E ...
  college-education.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Is a College Education Worth It? - Read pro and con arguments from President Barack Obama (pro), PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel (con), Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (pro), Napster Cofounder Sean Parker (con), and 18 more education expert ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• Ukraine lawmakers consider protester amnesty
  Ukraine's parliament have discussed an amnesty for those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country
• Aust union in damage control amid scandalous r ...
  The powerful union movement in the state of Victoria is in damage control.
• US drone crashes into Pacific
  An American drone has crashed off the coast of Southern California.
• Obama speech aims to bypass gridlock in Congress
  President Barack Obama has used his biggest speech of the year to try to revive his stagnant second term.
• NZ firefighters called on to fight Australian ...
  The New Zealand Fire Service has answered a call for help from across the ditch.

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust
  Tags: history canadian natives
• Canadian history for Martians | What it means ...
  Tags: canadian history
• The Goat that Wrote
  Tags: hiking photos blog
• NOconsensus.org - Global warming info you dese ...
  Tags: global warming science falsifiability proofs climate change and CO2
• Science Under Assault
  Tags: assault science Post Normal Science

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Caribbean Fishermen Join Environmentalists to ...
  (Photo: Shane K) In the midst of heated debates along the U.S. Atlantic coast regarding seismic testing, citizens in the Caribbean are waging their own war against energy companies who want to use this technology to search for oil and gas deposits. Seismic airguns have been shown to reduce ca ...
• Net Loss - Keeping Sperm Whales Out of Drift G ...
  (Photo: Gabriel Barathieu) In 2010, as many as sixteen sperm whales drowned in drift gillnets intended for swordfish off the coast of California. In the recent issue of Oceana magazine, we cover Oceana’s efforts to protect Pacific sperm whales from this fate. Read an excerpt below, ...
• Cobie Smulders Calls for Ending Fisheries Subs ...
  (Photo: Brent Flanders) People don’t often think of international trade laws when they think of ocean conservation. But international trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, are immensely important for ending harmful practices like overfishing. Today, Oceana’s VP for Chile, Ale ...
• Fins Are Finished
  (Photo: Choo Yut Shing) Each year, millions of sharks are slaughtered for their fins to meet the demand for shark fin soup. Over the past few years, several U.S. states passed laws against the trade in shark fins to help shut down the market. In the recent issue of Oceana  ...
• Diving In: The Story Behind Three Oceana Exped ...
  (Photo: Oceana) Each year, Oceana undertakes several scientific expeditions to explore and gather data about our ocean’s many ecosystems. In the recent issue of Oceana magazine, we cover three of these exciting expeditions from last year. Read an excerpt below, or visit the full article here. ...

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Japan Times

• Court awards ¥47 million to family of fatal bi ...
  The Tokyo District Court ordered a bicyclist to pay ¥47 million in damages on Tuesday to the family of an elderly woman he hit and ...
• Ukraine scraps restrictive anti-protest laws a ...
  In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister resigns and parliament repeals anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between ...
• Putin slams EU meddling on Ukraine, vows to ho ...
  Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizes the European Union for sending high-level delegations to Ukraine during its anti-government protests, saying that could be interpreted as political ...
• Bra only unhooks for true love, say makers
  In a long-awaited fusion between hot-blooded hormones and cold-headed engineering, a Tokyo-based lingerie company has produced a bra they claim will only unlock when the ...
• Obama vows solo action on economy in 2014 Stat ...
  President Barack Obama, looking to energize his sluggish second term, used his biggest speech of the year to push for programs aimed at narrowing economic ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Obama’s cheapest pop-culture reference
  That time that Mad Men cracked the State of the Union address
• Behind the lines in Ukraine
  Inside Kyiv’s central square, assorted opposition groups are organized and, at least for now, united
• Maajid Nawaz and the right to laugh at Jesus a ...
  Michael Petrou on the tweet landed a British politician in hot water
• Will my health insurance cover Google Glass?
  Google Glass launches line of prescription eyeglasses
• Why don’t MPs vote electronically?
  The arguments for and against one small change

Making It Count - CCPA

• A $14 minimum wage could put Ontario on the ri ...
  Six months ago, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne struck a panel to review the province’s minimum wage, the debate was still stuck in a 20-year-old business frame. The business frame is predicated on fear. It projects a worse-case scenario response to even the slightest of minimum wage increas ...
• Changing jobs and lifelong employment
  Everybody knows that we change jobs more often than we used to. Better still, in the Golden Age of employment, there were way more lifelong positions than there are now. Yet is you ask someone who is making that assessment when was this blessed era for all workers (though it’s unclear whether is ...
• The problem with Hudak’s million jobs promise
  Co-authored by Kayle Hatt and Trish Hennessy Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has a new jobs plan to create a million new jobs over the next eight years. ONE MILLION (cue Austin Powers reference). There are a few known details of his so-called plan – like cutting corporate taxes ...
• Permissive Parenting: Are We Raising a Generat ...
  When it comes to parenting, everyone’s an expert. And society loves to jump all over the latest media-feted example of overly indulgent parenting of kids of all ages—from toddlers to millennials. Sure, all parents make mistakes, and all kids have meltdowns (some of which might have, admittedly, ...
• Fact-Checking Rock Stars
  Has anyone else noticed the explosive rise of fact-checking in the Canadian media as of late? This is certainly a welcome development. Instead of the usual “He said, she said,” muddle in the name of balance, we are in the throes of a renewed quest for pure facts and unadulterated ver ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• Are Banks About To Collapse?
  Something is happening in the banking world and it looks ugly. In Russia ‘My Bank’ has halted all cash withdrawals. HSBC is imposing restrictions on large cash withdrawals. Currency in Argentina is collapsing. Venezuela has devalued its currency by 44%. Turkey’s currency fell to a re ...
• 85 People Own As Much as 3,500,000,000
  According to a new report, 85 individuals own as much as the world’s poorest 50%, that’s 3,500,000,000 people. “The tiny elite of multibillionaires, who could fit into a double-decker bus, have piled up fortunes equivalent to the wealth of the world’s poorest 3.5bn people, acco ...
• US Warships Head For Sochi – ‘Just in Case’
  According to the Pentagon, the US has sent two warships to the Black Sea region. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that “transport aircraft would be waiting in Germany in the event of an emergency during the Olympics in Sochi.” reported Pravda. Kirby also added that “if in the ...
• Vitaly Klitschko Confuses Boxing With Politics ...
  “Tomorrow if the president does not respond … then we will go on the offensive,” said Vitaly Klitschko, one of the leaders, addressing the thousands of protesters on Independence Square, Maidan according to RT reports. The former professional boxer worth $65 million is clearly ...
• Major Escalation in Ukranian Protests
  Protesters have escalated their game in Kiev, Ukraine. Chaos appears to reign in the city, with streets covered in burning tires and clouds of tear gas. Video: Ukraine police filmed beating rioters Over 200 police officers have been injured and two people were reportedly killed. Given that none ...

Daily Dose

• Talent Backer: A UK crowdfunding platform for ...
  There’s no shortage of crowdfunding platforms for fledgling businesses that want to get a specific product or project off the ground, but there aren’t very many focusing on crowdfunding for... Keep reading →
• Japan is by far the most popular Asian country ...
  Japan is attracting all of the attention when it comes to Google Street View — the service that provides 360-degree images of locations, landmarks and cities — in Asia. That’s... Keep reading →
• ‘Internet newspaper’ The Daily Dot ...
  US “online newspaper” The Daily Dot has acquired UK-based The Kernel, a publication that fittingly bills itself as “the Internet’s favourite tabloid,” for an undisclosed sum. Following the deal, Kernel... Keep reading →
• Sorry Tesla, Beijing’s newly-announced s ...
  Chinese capital city Beijing has unveiled a new preferential policy for electric cars that includes a purchase subsidy ranging from CNY63,000 to CNY108,000 ($10,400 – $17,800), Xinhua reports. The release... Keep reading →
• Nintendo admits poor Wii U sales are continuin ...
  Nintendo has admitted that poor sales of its Wii U games console continue to hamper its business, even after it latest financial results [PDF] included a net profit of $93... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Casting away carbon, street by street
  By Stephen Bygrave. From Climate Spectator Australia's homes are among the largest and most inefficient in the developed world. Then we wonder why our household energy bills and carbon emissions are so high.  There are, also, few ways we get feedback regarding our household energy consum ...
• The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
  Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...
• High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
  ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...
• What price the carbon price?
  By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, November 21 We all know that the act of 'putting a price on carbon' has contributed to the downfall of three Australian prime ministers and two opposition leaders. What might not be as well known is that carbon pricing has gone relatively unnoticed in ot ...
• Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
  Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Investigation finds Chinese factory slaughters ...
  A four-year investigation by WildLifeRisk, a Hong Kong-based marine conservation group, has found that a single factory in China’s Zhejiang Province slaughters some 600 whale sharks a year to produce oil for cosmetics and health supplements.
• Feral crèches: parenting in wild India
  The Wildlife Conservation Society-India has been camera trapping wild animals for over 20 years in the Western Ghats. The results reveal the most intimate, fascinating and sometimes comical insights into animal behavior and ecology. These mammals generally become secretive and protective during ...
• Over 2,500 wolves killed in U.S.'s lower 48 si ...
  Hunters and trappers have killed 2,567 gray wolves in the U.S.'s lower 48 states since 2011, according to recent data. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) were protected by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for nearly 40 years before being stripped of their protection status by a legislative rider in 2011. ...
• Through careful management, indigenous people ...
  Humans have been actively managing vast areas of Southeast Asia's forests for longer than previously believed, according to research by paleoecologists from the United Kingdom presented in the current Journal of Archaeological Science. Strong evidence suggests that humans in Borneo, Sumatra, Jav ...
• 287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian ...
  It's official: Manu National Park in Peru has the highest diversity of reptiles and amphibians in the world. Surveys of the park, which extends from high Andean cloud forests down into the tropical rainforest of the Western Amazon, and its buffer zone turned up 155 amphibian and 132 reptile spec ...

Sierra Express

• AU First Ministerial Retreat concludes with ca ...
  Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 26th January 2014: The African Union Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Members of the Executive Council concluded today, 26January 2014, in the Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar, three days of intense debates on the Africa Agenda 2063, in the framework of the AU First Ministerial R ...
• Premiership Review and FA Cup 4th Round Preview
  Once again last weekend, the three top teams in the Premiership all won their fixtures to maintain the two point differential covering them and all of them won their matches by two goals, though all with different score lines.  Chelsea had the toughest test on paper as they faced Manchester Unit ...
• Minister commends management of Dohas Hotel
  Bo, Jan. 27 (SLENA) – The Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Alhaji Moijueh Kaikai has described Hotel Dohas located at Towama Road in Bo as unique and meets the development aspirations of that city. Alhaji Kaikai was speaking during the one year anniversary celebration o ...
• Where is the Sierra Leonean Youth?
  The decade civil war in Sierra Leone and its attendant massive destruction dealt seriously on the socio-economic fabric of the country. During the war period, about 80% of the youth joined the Revolutionary United Front/Armed Forces Revolutionary Council rebellion and steadily participated in th ...
• WAEC candidates in police custody
  Kambia, Jan. 27 (SLENA) - It was going to be a hell of situation in Kambia town, if it were not for the timely intervention of a team of police personnel led by the Support Officer, Superintendent Santos Bangura of the Kambia Police Station, SLENA reports. Reports say the team stormed the Sierra ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Sue Kedgley: Keep our cows out of factory farms
  My heart sank when I heard about Fonterra's idea to reduce the dairy industry's impact on our environment.Fonterra has come up with a strategy to make the industry more sustainable, and included it in a 10-year growth plan it has...
• China regulations disrupt Synlait sales
  Canterbury dairy processor Synlait's Chinese infant formula business is being disrupted by regulatory changes in the world's second biggest economy and the company says it may miss its baby milk sales target for this financial year.
• Synlait Milk hikes profit forecast
  Synlait Milk, the milk processor which counts China's Bright Dairy Food as a cornerstone shareholder, will beat its annual profit forecast by as much as 77 per cent on earnings growth, though might miss its sales target for infant...
• Build under way for Fonterra's Viaduct HQ
  Ground work preparations are well under way on the new Fonterra headquarters site in the Viaduct Harbour area on the corner of Fanshawe St and Halsey St.Eventually, buildings worth up to $500 million are planned on the site, previously...
• Brian Gaynor: Added value only sensible way to ...
  The booming dairy sector is making a big contribution to the country's export surge and the huge upturn in economic confidence.However, we shouldn't get carried away by this development because the dairy industry and Fonterra have...

Hit & Run | Reason

• The Mexican Government Absorbs the Autodef ...
  In parts of Mexico ravaged by the drug war, ordinary citizens have formed militias, dubbed autodefensas, to protect themselves against brutal cartels such as the Knights Templar. (No, not those guys. These guys.) The militias haven't been shy about taking on the government eithe ...
• Gene Healy Says Most Americans Shrug at State ...
  My fellow Americans, the State of the Union is … irrelevant. As the speech has become less important, presidents’ rhetoric has grown more frantically stentorian. Presidential scholar Elvin T. Lim notes “increasing rhetorical assertiveness” and “an increasing lack of humility” in the ...
• Will Obama Say Anything Interesting About Fore ...
  Later today, President Obama will give his latest State of Union address, which progressives are hoping will include plenty of liberal rhetoric and promises. Domestically, there are plenty of policy areas Obama will undoubtedly mention. The Obamacare website rollout was a disaster ...
• Why Rick Snyder's Plan to Conscript Immigrants ...
  Michigan Governor Rick Snyder seems to have hit a motherlode of bad ideas to save Detroit last week. First, he announced a bailout plan that’ll only feed more profligacy by the city’s political classes. Now, he has decided that he wants to repopulate the city with high-tech immig ...
• California Public School Students Suing Agains ...
  An interesting lawsuit went to non-jury trial in a Los Angeles court room yesterday; nine public school students, with the support of an educational non-profit called “Students Matter,” are suing the state of California over teacher tenure laws and other protections, which they argue ...

Mercury Rising

• Iraq War Cost Would Have Paid For A 100% Renew ...
  How much has the invasion and occupation of Iraq cost us? (Not to mention what it’s cost the Iraqis?) Enough to have paid for America to switch to a 100% renewable power grid. Seriously.
• Bluestem Prairie: Where You Can Read Next Fort ...
  On January 14, 2014, Sally Jo Sorensen did a post on the hypocrisy of one Stewart Mills III, of the Mills Fleet Farm family, currently running as a Republican against Rick Nolan in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District — and she provided detailed proof, discovered by her, that Mi ...
• Open Letter To The 85 Richest People
  Following up on Charles’ post of yesterday, I thought I’d link to this: Responding to the Oxfam report that concluded that the world’s 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population, self appointed spokesperson for the global e ...
• The Real War on Poverty
  The Urban Institute and Brookings Institute have a discussion panel here on the role of tax policy in the War on Poverty.
• Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

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

gCaptain

• Interesting Ship: New Compact Accommodation Ve ...
  Do not adjust your screen resolution, this interesting new ship is actually a compact accommodation vessel recently delivered to the Brazilian company GranEnergia.
• MV Smart Salvage Enters Phase Three
  Salvage crews in South Africa have kicked off the third phase of salvage operations to remove what's left of the MV Smart shipwreck in Richards Bay.
• Transpacific Container Shippers Agree to Rate ...
  Container shipping lines have agreed to raise Asia-U.S. freight rates in two stages, by $300 per 40-foot container (FEU) from March 15 and then by an unknown amount from May 1, in an effort to halt losses, their organization TSA said.
• Ivory Coast Rebuilds Navy to Battle Growing Pi ...
  Ivory Coast is adding around 40 new vessels to its depleted navy as it confronts a growing threat from pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, the country's defence minister said on Tuesday.
• Tehran Looks for Foreign Investment as Iranian ...
  The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) is poised to carry crude oil to Asian buyers in its own vessels as sanctions ease following the implementation of Iran’s nuclear deal with [...]

Press TV

• Renault resuming car assembly in Iran
  French carmaker Renault says it has resumed shipments to Iran for vehicle assembly, less than two weeks after Iran’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers took effect.
• US classifies militants operating in Syria
  The United States has classified militants fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for sending weapons to them.
• Former CIA chief hints Iran not after nuke
  Former Head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus says US President Barack Obama would use force against Iran if evidence was found that Iran was developing nuclear weapons.
• Seoul approves $7bn nuclear project
  South Korea has approved funding for building two nuclear plants, in an effort to boost its energy capacity and prevent possible shortages caused by closing several reactors in the country.
• Analyst: US seeking war in Syria
  America’s demand that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad be removed from power shows that the US is “laying out the ground work for war rather than for peace,” an American political and peace activist says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• April Coughlin Responds to the NY Times Articl ...
  April Coughlin was one of the CUNY SPS alumni featured in the New York Times article, Disability Studies – A New Normal, on November 1, 2013. We recently caught up with April and asked her why disability studies is an important field for everyone to explore. Here’s what she told us: ...
• Why Did You Stay?
  Why did you stay? He wouldn’t do those things if he didn’t really love you. I’m sure you’re exaggerating. What did you do to make him do that? Those are just some of the things that were said to me after I left my husband. Some believed his stalking was proof of his love for […]
• My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
  After stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving, I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood was where ...
• THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
  The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
• 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
  When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...

Dissident Voice

• American Crisis
  Though Thomas Paine galvanized this country into being and gave it its very name, The United States of America, there is almost no trace of him here. In Philadelphia, where he spent his most significant years, there is a Thomas Paine Plaza, but it is barely marked as such, with no statue of the ...
• The Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State
  As a futurist, one of my aims has been to bring forward some of the more challenging and insightful predictions of the political future. Of these, the most important is the idea that the Nineteenth Century nation-state model, currently accepted as sovereign, must go. Bad politics, or politics of ...
• Holocaust Day: Time for an Apology?
  A mass protest in Paris on Sunday against French President François Hollande turned into an anti-Jewish demonstration and ended in clashes between police and protesters. Seemingly, Jewish organisations around the world are scared by the recent developments in France. Once again, they clearly fai ...
• Propaganda: “The Dominant Grand Narrativ ...
  ‘Propaganda’ sounds like an old-fashioned word from a bygone era. It evokes images of the Nazis in WW2, particularly Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, or Soviet leaders in the Cold War and dictators in ‘Third World’ countries. Propagan ...
• NAFTA and the Next Phase of North American Int ...
  In preparation for the upcoming North American Leaders Summit which will be held in Toluca, Mexico on February 19, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently held a meeting with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. Over the last number of years, not as much attention has been given to the tri ...

Nick Turse

• Sri Lanka, 1995Perched on wooden stilts, Sin ...
  Sri Lanka, 1995 Perched on wooden stilts, Singhalese men fish for spotted herring in the monsoon-lashed surf pounding Sri Lanka’s south coast. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami crashed over these same beaches, it took the lives of 35,000 Singhalese with it. Steve McCurry / National Geographic ...
• "Every single day, 452 women in sub-Saharan Af ...
  “Every single day, 452 women in sub-Saharan Africa die from pregnancy-related causes; that’s...
• latimespast:"I don’t think people have any b ...
  latimespast: "I don’t think people have any business doing rock ‘n’ roll if they are timid about their music." Patti Smith is 67 years old today. Then-Times critic Robert Hilburn wrote this of Smith in 1975, the year her debut album, “Horses,” was released: Smith, a 28-year-old poet-playwrig ...
• ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 27, 2013. ...
  ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 27, 2013. Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, freed from prison under an amnesty, gives a press conference on Dozhd [Rain] TV channel. She was sentenced to a two-year prison term in July 2012 for offensive performance inside the Christ the Sav ...
• "Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts publicly warned h ...
  “Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts publicly warned his troops at Fort Jackson, S.C., last spring...

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Newswise

• David Allis, Pioneer in Epigenetics, to Receiv ...
  Allis's discovery that chemical "tags" bind to specific sections of histone proteins in order to activate or silence nearby genes has ignited the field of epigenetics, a relatively new area of study which explores the inheritance of physical changes that cannot be traced back to mutations in the ...
• Cedars-Sinai Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion ...
  The Cedars-Sinai Heart Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion, has been awarded LEED(r) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification, established by the U.S. Green Building Council, for its highly sustainable, energy-efficient design, construction and operation.
• Iowa State Students in Unusual Major Have Comm ...
  A month before starting at Iowa State, Caitlin Mock planned to study biology. Then she discovered a major that was under the radar but combined her interests in science and art--biological and pre-medical illustration. The unusual major (fewer than 10 programs exist in the U.S.) turns 30 this ye ...
• Chadwick Center Conference Draws World Experts ...
  A global forum for presentations and discussions by experts on child abuse and family violence is underway in San Diego.
• Parents Unclear About Process for Specialist C ...
  Parents vary widely in views about their responsibilities in getting specialty care for their children, according to a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

Metanoia

• Psywar screened on Free Speech TV on MLK day
  https://www.freespeech.org/tv-schedule/day/2013-01-22T00–2013-01-22T23?timezone=MST
• Rise Like Lions screened at Digital Film Festi ...
• Rise LIke Lions screened at Seoul Independent ...
  http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Seoul_Independent_Film_Festival/
• Lifting the Veil screened at Peace and Justice ...
  http://www.peaceandjusticefilms.org/2012fall/index.html
• American Empire: the Feature Film
  Scott Noble’s “The Power Principle” American Empire: the Feature Film by RON JACOBS Counterpunch Discussing the nature of the US Empire and how it got to where it is today with most US residents is always a challenge. Recommending books explaining it is equally so. This is espe ...

Jae's News

• States with the worst schools
  For years, American students have consistently ranked poorly compared to most developed nations. And according to a recently released study, the U.S. education system remains mediocre, receiving a C− grade, for the third year in a row. Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't &n ...
• Veteran gay conservative activist: "No hope fo ...
  Gay political activist Jimmy LaSalvia is having a loud and public breakup with the GOP Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Chinese ivory smuggler gets record sentence af ...
  Tang Yong Jian, 40, was ordered to pay 20 million shillings (170,500 euros, 233,000 dollars) or else go to jail for seven years Submitted by Jae A. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Blind man rescued by hero guide dog gets new c ...
  A blind man who was being forced to give up his elderly guide dog after it saved his life has gotten a reprieve. Submitted by Jae A. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Obama: 'We Do Not Want Iran Having Nuclear Wea ...
  OBAMA: "I've said before and I will repeat, we do not want Iran having nuclear weapons," when asked about Iran by Agence France. --- An interesting statement, given that Iran has no nuclear weapons and wants none? --- Warmongering on behalf of Israel? Submitted by David B. to US Politics & G ...

Sunwarrior

• 6 Essential Steps to Improve Cardio Fitness
  It's pretty cold outside and many of us have put away our bikes for the winter, but you don't have to give up riding or any other cardio workout either.
• The True Cost of Eating Healthy May be Less Ex ...
  We’d love to eat healthier, but we just can’t afford to, right?
• Get that Ab Wheel Rollout Exercise Right!
  Tim McComsey goes over an exercise he sees done wrong too often: the ab wheel rollout. This will work your core hard, but only if you do it correctly.
• Peanut Butter and Jelly Superfood Smoothie
  Zain Saraswati Jamal shares a peanut butter and jelly superfood smoothie that will have you smiling in seconds.
• Aspartame Health Risks | A Silent Killer
  Aspartame tries to appear far more beneficial than it actually is, but it is far from the healthy alternative to sugar it would have you believe.

  My AntiWar

• Homeland Security Blacked Out Recommendation o ...
• AT&T CEO: Met European Officials, NSA Affa ...
• The NSA Has a New, First Time Ever, Privacy Of ...
• NSA Defenders Offer Weak Rebuttal of the RNC&# ...
• Pentagon Investigations Point to Military Syst ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Bad Sleep may boost Cancer
  Poor quality of sleep marked by frequent waking can speed cancer growth and increase the disease's aggressiveness, according to new research. Failing to get a good night's rest may actually have some serious health consequences.
• The real State of the Union
  US President Barack Obama's State of the Union (SOTU) address was a somewhat surrealist spectacle. Way beyond avalanches of PR spin, the US government for a long time has not exactly done wonders for the public good. So as it advertises itself in front of a dysfunctional US Congress dismissed as ...
• Beta-blockers killed 800,000 in 5 years - "goo ...
  Most people assume that scientific integrity is somehow assured; that there are safeguards along the way, preventing fraudulent research from harming patients. Unfortunately, scientific misconduct has become a very serious and widespread problem that threatens the entire paradigm of science-bas ...
• The Mohenjo Daro "massacre"
  In the 1920s, the discovery of ancient cities at Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in Pakistan gave the first clue to the existence more than 4,000 years ago of a civilization in the Indus Valley to rival those known in Egypt and Mesopotamia. These cities demonstrated an exceptional level of civic planni ...
• TSA loudspeakers threaten travelers with arres ...
  Travelers are reporting threatening messages coming from the loudspeakers of the Travel Security Administration. The TSA has been broadcasting warnings that people will be arrested for making jokes in the presence of the infamous federal checkpoint agents. Policestateusa.com has obtained exclusi ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Rotten to the core
  BC premier Christy Clark is not known for honest dealing. She and Harper work out of the same playbook and regularly employ the same people to work the sewers of a political system rife with cronyism and putrefied by secret back-room deals and political corruption. This time, a judge has ju ...
• PMSH 24 Seven.
  Stephen Harper Twenty-four Seven. Seriously. 
• JobScam. An idea without a plan ...
  ... is nothing more than a dream. That's what the weasel in a prime minister's suit is now trying to peddle to you. Having spent $2.5 million in advertising on a program that did not exist, this is how he explained it away. (From Aaron Wherry and you really need to read the whole piece). “ ...
• Optics
  About those photo-ops...
• Two things ...
  There are two things Harper isn't: an economist nor a statesman. Be clear on one thing. Everything Harper is doing now, on any file to which he actually pays attention, is for a single purpose - to retain power at all costs. And he will pursue any cynical course to make that happen, includi ...

Media Matters for America

• Media Reports Hillary Clinton's Comments On Be ...
  Hillary Clinton's recent statement that her "biggest regret is what happened in Benghazi" led to a media feeding frenzy who treated her statement as a groundbreaking revelation, while ignoring the fact that immediately following the attacks, Clinton accepted responsibility multiple times includi ...
• Right-Wing Media Freak Out Over Same-Sex Marri ...
  Right-wing media figures condemned the weddings of 33 same-sex and opposite-sex couples at the 56th annual Grammy Awards, describing the ceremony as an attack on Christianity.Grammys Featured Weddings Of 33 Couples Queen Latifah Officiated The Weddings Of 33 Couples During 56th Annual Gram ...
• Myths And Facts About DOJ Civil Rights Nominee ...
  Right-wing media have sunk to new lows in smears against President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, former NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) top official Debo Adegbile, a highly-qualified and widely praised civil rights litigator who was most recentl ...
• What Fox Won't Tell You About Scott Walker's E ...
  Fox News hyped Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's economic record, claiming that the governor's economic plan generated a nearly $1 billion budget surplus while ignoring that the current surplus is built upon a projected structural deficit and that the state ranks 28th in the nation for job ...
• Fox Whitewashes 8-Hour Food Bank Lines From No ...
  Fox News erased the devastating impact of a cut to unemployment insurance in North Carolina, citing a questionable University of Oslo study and pushing the North Carolina approach as a way to remove people from an unemployment "trap." In reality, North Carolina's jobless benefits ...

Consortium News

• Pete Seeger and the Causes of Mankind
• Red-State Blues: Trouble in Oklahoma
• An Afghan War for Drones?
• No Tears for the Real Robert Gates
• Egypt’s Coup Enflames Extremism

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• State Of The Union: Climate Change, Energy
  From President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address February 12, 2013, 9:15 P.M. EST U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that “the Constitution ...
• Electric Car Subsidies for Poor People Are a T ...
  Hybrid and electric cars can make a huge difference in reducing local air quality, and can help their owners save money while staying more insulated against the volatility of fossil fuel prices. Unfortunately, most plug-in electric cars cost more than the used cars that lower income families and ...
• Climate Change Could be Producing Super El Niños
  By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn The question of how global warming will influence El Niño has been a challenging one for scientists to answer. A new study suggests while the overall number of El Niños is unlikely to increase, particularly strong “super&hellipClimate Change Could be Producing S ...
• Smokey Bear, Take Two: Forest Fracking
  From the artist (anon): The Forest Service is leasing our national forests to gas companies for fracking in several forests already: Allegheny National Forest (PA) George Washington National Forest (WV & VA) Wayne National Forest (Ohio) Talladega National Forest (Alabama) Mesa-Uncompahgre-G ...
• Cree Hits LED Target The DOE Projected Wouldn’ ...
  Cree is one of a handful of early LED companies that is leading us into super-efficient lighting faster than any projected would be possible. In fact, Cree may very well be the #1 LED leader. Below is yet another groundbreaking announcement from the LED company. Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) raises ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• The D Word
  I have spent much of the past two weeks on the beach. While much of the rest of the country continue
• The Silence of The Labs
  Produced by Linden MacIntyre of CBC’s The Fifth Estate http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2
• Inquiry to probe Gladstone Harbour's leaking b ...
  Brisbane Times Tony Moore 8 January 2014 Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has ordered an immed
• UPDATE: Deadline For CSP Applications Has Been ...
  The USDA announced today that the deadline to submit Conservation Stewardship Program applications h
• Brutal Cold Leads to Several Water Main Breaks
  Brutal Cold Leads to Several Water Main Breaks Tuesday, Jan 7, 2014  |  Updated 2:53 PM EST NBCConne

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg’s AIG ...
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 12, 2013 Image by codep
• Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad michael-hudson.com January 11, 2013 Image by jim
• The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of ...
  Image by LividFiction via Flickr by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, Engla
• Gareth Porter: Afghan war, dead weight around ...
  with Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 12, 2013 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• America's Indefinitely Detained + Close GITMO ...
  with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 11, 2013 Ima

Axis of Logic

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

Climate

• BP Switches Oil Spill Claims Tactic
  (Wall Street Journal (sub. req'd)) BP PLC BP.LN +0.04% has been complaining for a year that money it has promised to pay to financial victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has been doled out to un ...
• Can Fracking Clean China's Air and Slow Climat ...
  (Scientific American) A fuel to slow climate change lies 3,000 meters below a new wellhead in China's Sichuan Province. There, shale gas production has begun, and it just might help wean China off the coal that has made it th ...
• Public Support for Fracking in Britain Falls f ...
  (Guardian) David Cameron is losing the battle for public opinion over fracking for shale gas because of high-profile public protests against the controversial technique, polling suggests. The latest results of a long-ru ...
• Ohio EPA, Health Officials Dismiss Radioactive ...
  (Columbus Dispatch) When Pennsylvania environmental officials tested creek mud near a fracking wastewater-treatment plant last year, they found radiation at levels 45 times higher than federal drinking-water standards. As the plant ow ...
• CBS Boss Will Meet With Two Senators Pushing M ...
  (Huffington Post) Two senators pushing major television networks for more climate change coverage will have the ear of a network executive this week. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) will meet with CBS News Pre ...

GreenBiz

• Google plows further into wind energy market w ...
  As part of its efforts to power search engines with 100 percent renewable energy, the IT giant has signed a 10-year agreement with Eolus Vind.
• Startups lead the way to crack the 'unsolvables'
  It's too easy to think that energy, water, air, food security and public health problems are too complex to tackle.
• How She Leads: Kathy Gerwig, Kaiser Permanente
  The health-care company’s sustainability exec discusses the relationship between health care and the environment, from farmers markets to landfill diversion.
• Could Google's acquisition of Nest hurt the en ...
  Many clean-tech advocates are celebrating the tech giant’s business deal. But there’s a counterargument to be made about potential drawbacks. 
• Could Google’s acquisition of Nest hurt the en ...
  Many clean-tech advocates are celebrating the tech giant’s business deal. But there’s a counterargument to be made about potential drawbacks. 

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

• Stupid Thread
  Today is a major travel day for me, so blogging will be light. I've seen a lot of stupid reactions to the State of the Union speech. What's the stupidest thing you've seen? Discuss
• The Wisest Use of Taxpayers' Dollars
  Sometime in the next decade, every woman who was alive when the Supreme Court issued their Roe v. Wade decision will be past their childrearing age, meaning that no American women who can have children will have ever experienced living without legal abortion as an option. Nonetheless, we are st ...
• Seeger and Dinosaurs at National Review
  Pete Seeger's testimony before the House Un-American Activities is a joy to read. I also enjoyed reading Howard Husack's strange lament and grudging tribute to Seeger in the National Review. Reading them back-to-back, it's easy to see how Seeger kicked William F. Buckley's ass. Here's my ...
• Text of the State of the Union Address
  Remarks of President Barack Obama As Prepared for Delivery State of the Union Address Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Washington, D.C. As Prepared for Delivery Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with ...
• Goodbye, Pete Seeger
  He lived a long life, but I'm sad to see Pete Seeger go anyway. He was one of the good guys. He have too few of them. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  Don’t know if you’ve been abducted by aliens but want to check? Need an innovative business guru to emulate? Our 10 coolest links this week should help you out. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Freerunning Champ Tricks Out the Great Wall of ...
  Freerunning champion Ryan Doyle performs daring stunts on the Great Wall of China as part of his Red Bull “world wonders tour." This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  This week's weekly roundup of interesting and fascinating articles, featuring a healthy dose of highbrow, informative links and fun irrelevant content to help you while a This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Lightning Strikes Etch the Sky Over White Sand ...
  The beautiful white dunes of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico are a dramatic setting for lightning storms in these incredible photographs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  Our top ten links this week may help you get rich, inspire you to get baking or just make you say "awww." This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

• Enviros Criticize Obama's State of the Union A ...
  Environment News Service Enviros Criticize Obama's State of the Union Address Environment News Service Those agencies responsible for drilling off our coasts, fracking, mountaintop removal, and fossil fuel exports have to prioritize climate change just as the EPA is doing, and the President ...
• U.S. House version of North Fork protection bi ...
  U.S. House version of North Fork protection bill passes key committee The Missoulian It's different from the park's purpose, and it's also incompatible with a mountaintop removal mine.” The act helps fulfill the American side of a 2010 agreement signed by former Montana Gov. Brian Sc ...
• None Of The Republicans Giving State Of The Un ...
  ThinkProgress None Of The Republicans Giving State Of The Union Responses Take Climate ... ThinkProgress Just for good measure, Rand Paul also went on record dismissing the need to regulate mountaintop removal coal mining, he spearheaded an attempt to undermine the Environmental Protection Agenc ...
• Meet the woman who elevated conservation photo ...
  Mother Nature Network Meet the woman who elevated conservation photography to a whole new level Mother Nature Network On several of these RAVEs we were able to build enough buzz to tip the scales in favor of conservation. In the Flathead River valley we helped the local NGO community succeed in ...
• Solar = #2 New Energy Source In 2013 (US) - Cl ...
  Solar = #2 New Energy Source In 2013 (US) CleanTechnica We're going to install thousands upon thousands of these marvelous machines and free ourselves from fossil fuels. You want to see monstrous? Take a look at mountain top removal, open pit mines, uranium mines, children suffering from ast ...

Memeorandum

• Ukraine government resigns, parliament scraps ...
  Laura Smith-Spark / CNN: Ukraine government resigns, parliament scraps anti-protest laws amid crisis  —  Are you there?  Send us your images and experiences, but please stay safe.  —  Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych accepted ...
• Rep. Grimm Threatens NY1 Reporter Following St ...
  NY1: Rep. Grimm Threatens NY1 Reporter Following State of the Union … Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm physically threatened NY1 political reporter Michael Scotto at the conclusion of an interview in the Capitol Rotunda following Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
• New York congressman threatens to throw report ...
  Ashley Killough / CNN: New York congressman threatens to throw reporter off balcony  —  Washington (CNN) - Rep. Michael Grimm, R-New York, defended his actions late Tuesday night after he physically threatened a NY1 News reporter at the Capitol.  —  “I verb ...
• Ted Cruz: The Imperial Presidency of Barack Ob ...
  Ted Cruz / Wall Street Journal: Ted Cruz: The Imperial Presidency of Barack Obama  —  In the nation's history, there is simply no precedent for an American president so wantonly ignoring federal law.  —  Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none ...
• Three quick State of the Union observations (D ...
  Dylan Byers / Politico: Three quick State of the Union observations  —  President Obama's State of the Union address included, amid the familiar rhetoric, some important indicators of what's to come in the year ahead.  Perhaps most importantly, his plan to take a dozen exec ...

Dot Earth News

• A Critique of an Upbeat Assessment of Nuclear ...
  The Union of Concerned Scientists finds big holes in the argument of four scientists seeking a fresh push on nuclear energy.
• Pete Seeger is Gone, but His Circles of Song R ...
  Pete Seeger is gone, but he leaves resonating circles of song behind.
• Journalists on the Environment Beat Look Ahead
  Seasoned journalists covering the environment explore themes that will be in headlines this year, and some that won't, but should be.
• More Views on Nuclear Power, Waste, Safety and ...
  Four longtime nuclear analysts join climate scientists seeking a fresh push on nuclear power.
• A Chat With Greenpeace’s Departing U.S. ...
  A departing Greenpeace leader explores shifts and hard lines in tactics and goals.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Soviet Psychotronic lit review since 1911, int ...
  Let's have a nice link dump on some moar exotic science. If you care to scout this story out, you will have moar vortices of weirdness than you'll know what to do with. I like weird patents and ran into a few of them. Could all these things below be related? Can we hack a new machine to get into ...
• NSA Boundless Informant explicated - for moar ...
  Just had to crosspost this relatively down-to-earth explanation of how all the cell phone data is hoarded in the NSA mass data mining system. What this lacks in documentation it makes up for with relative plausibility & general lack of fancifulness. SOURCE: Cryptome.org : http://cryptome.o ...
• Aha: Carbon Market digital currency "Ven" by H ...
  Lolz just stumbled on this - had to write a quick post with a lurid headline. Ven is like the Sharper Image / corporate greenwashing version of Bitcoins and it's all tied into a big ball of classic shady stuff. There is a really nice blob of greenwashing social constructions underpinning the Ven ...
• Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
  Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
• Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
  A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Australia PM blasts national broadcaster as un ...
  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, 2014Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched a scathing attack on national broadcaster ABC on Wednesday, accusing it of taking "everyone's side but Australia's" in coverage of asylum-seekers and the Edw ...
• Gay daughter of HK tycoon makes heartfelt plea ...
  The lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, who offered more than $100 million to find her a male suitor, has issued a heartfelt open letter urging him to accept her sexualityThe lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, who offered more than $100 million to find her a male suitor, has issued a ...
• Salvadoran ex-president 'tries to flee' amid g ...
  Former Salvadorean president (1999-2004) Francisco Flores (R) answers questions before Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador on January 7, 2014, during a special investigation into the disappearance of a $10 million donation made by TaiwanEl Salvador's ex-president Francisco Flores, who is und ...
• Obama's State of the Union challenges Congress ...
  US President Barack Obama receives a standing ovation before delivering his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 28, 2014 at the US Capitol in WashingtonPresident Barack Obama vowed to reverse a tide of economic inequality threatening the American dream, see ...
• Obama's State of the Union challenges Congress ...
  US President Barack Obama receives a standing ovation before delivering his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 28, 2014 at the US Capitol in WashingtonPresident Barack Obama vowed to reverse a tide of economic inequality threatening the American dream, see ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Remembering Pete Seeger
  Phyllis Bennis reflects on the passing of Pete Seeger, renowned folk singer and activist.
• Four Things Obama Should Say During his State ...
  IPS experts weigh in on inequality, taxes, global trade deals, and global talks with Syria and Iran.
• The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule
  Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.
• Sharon is Dead, but Sharonism Lives On
  There is nothing remotely honorable in the legacy of Ariel Sharon, Israel's perhaps most consistent war criminal.
• Open Letter: Release the Cuban Five
  John Cavanagh, IPS Director, implores President Barack Obama to commute the sentences of the Cuban Five.

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Jensens Sentenced after 147 Sickened, 33 dead ...
  Food Safety News reports, that a federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the two owners of the cantaloupe farm tied to a deadly Listeria outbreak in 2011 to five years probation,... Continue Reading
• Puffer Fish Poisoning Prompts FDA Warning
  The FDA and state and local officials investigated a case of tetrodotoxin poisoning in Fairfax County, Virginia which is believed to be linked to the consumption of imported puffer fish that was not... Continue Reading
• A Clostridium perfringens – Multiple sclerosis ...
  According to a press release from the American Society for Microbiology, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have added to the growing body of evidence that multiple sclerosis may be... Continue Reading
• South Africa – Don’t make me come back so soon!
  I was in South Africa in October for a food safety conference – clearly, someone did not attend. South African News 24 reports that Salmonella was the likely cause of... Continue Reading
• South Africa – Don’t make me come ...
  I was in South Africa in October for a food safety conference – clearly, someone did not attend. South African News 24 reports that Salmonella was the likely cause of... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

• Tesla recalling 29,000 Model S wall chargers t ...
  Filed under: Recalls, EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors Tesla's big wall charger adapter replacement program is about to get a lot bigger. For one thing, the replacement has become an official recall. Secondly, the number of affected adapters is higher than expected: 29,222 units. The National High ...
• Tesla recalling 29,000 Model S wall chargers t ...
  Filed under: Recalls, EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors Tesla's big wall charger adapter replacement program is about to get a lot bigger. For one thing, the replacement has become an official recall. Secondly, the number of affected adapters is higher than expected: 29,222 units. The National High ...
• Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
  Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style, Electric Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
• Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
  Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style, Electric Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
• Los Angeles: 2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell wil ...
  Filed under: LA Auto Show, SUV, Hyundai, Electric If nothing else, Hyundai wants to make it as easy as pie for you to check out its upcoming hydrogen-powered 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle. Given that the Korean automaker will be the first to offer a mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in the US ( ...

Time - Top Stories

• Happy Year of the Horse
  10 things only people who celebrate Lunar New Year will understand
• The World Map of Gender Equality
  The Netherlands comes out tops, Yemen is at the bottom
• The Werewolf Diet (Because Paleo is So Over)
  The Werewolf Diet (Because Paleo is So Over)
• Why Pete Seeger Mattered: An Appreciation
  Richard Corliss remembers Pete Seeger, dead at 94
• China's Tennis Champ Serves Up a Problem
  Li Na's go-it-alone defiance, the boldness of jailed activist Xu Zhiyong: Beijing's authoritarian leaders are facing a new individualism

Invisible Opportunity

• Reflections in a Petri Dish | Bearding the Zio ...
  Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. When we hear about the doings of some celebrity or public figure, even when they tell us it is an intimate peek into their private lives, it isn\’t. The whole continuous stream of information that gets shaped and f ...
• HSBC and Chase Send Clear Signals That a Bank ...
  By Dave Hodges (INTELLIHUB) – For the life of me, I have no idea why anyone would want to bank in this criminal enterprise bank. Regardless, isn’t the money your money? Shouldn’t you be able to do with your money what you want without justifying the purpose to the bank that you designate to hold ...
• Israeli militarism predicated on 9/11 deceptio ...
  By Brandon Martinez No more than an hour after the World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001, Israel’s leaders initiated a coordinated campaign to blame their enemies for the attacks. Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, appeared live in studio at the BBC on 9/11, ...
• Genetic Engineering Companies Promised Reduced ...
  One of the main selling points for genetically engineered crops is that they would use substantiallyless pesticides than conventional crops. However, it turns out that GE crops need a lot more herbicides than conventional ones. Washington State University Charles Benbrook – former Executive Dire ...
• Genetic Engineering Companies Promised Reduced ...
  One of the main selling points for genetically engineered crops is that they would use substantiallyless pesticides than conventional crops. However, it turns out that GE crops need a lot more herbicides than conventional ones. Washington State University Charles Benbrook – former Executive Dire ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

• Watch the Left burn away more of its credibili ...
  Summary:  Both Left and Right in America have gone crazy. Each sees this about the other, but not about themselves. There is no reality-based community in American politics, unfortunately. Many posts on the FM website have documented this about the Right. Today we’ll look at the Left in ac ...
• Grist tells readers how to talk to a climate s ...
  Summary:  A new work of climate propaganda sweeps through the Internet! It shows activists preventing political dialog by pretending their opponents’ views are entirely wrong. The price paid for this is political polarization, often causing paralysis in public policy. As we see in the lack ...
• We lived amidst dreams in 1963 & were harshly ...
  Summary: History can tell us not only about the past, but also suggest insights about our time. Here examine a bright episode from the past. In the 1960s we were wrapped in illusions about the nature of our government, which were ripped away during the 1970s. Do we see the world as poorly as we ...
• Global Cooling returns to the news, another in ...
  Summary:  FM website seeks to explain events, and successful predictions are among the best ways to do so. Last September you read Start of another swing of the media narrative – to global cooling. The current cold winter in most of North America brings a harvest of global cooling stories, yet a ...
• Climate change sinks the Left, while scientist ...
  Summary: Climate change appears on the FM website (about geopolitics) because it shows how America deals with highly politicized and complex challenges. 150 posts later, somethings are clear. Climate scientists are moving the frontiers of knowledge (as shown in this post) and skillfully coping w ...

The Progressive Realist

• Senator Says Iran Sanctions Bill Won’t Get A V ...
  Sen. Angus King (I-ME) CREDIT: Council on Foreign Relations Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said Tuesday that momentum in the Senate on imposing new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program has subsided and that those pushing the bill are considering alternative avenues to pressure the White House in ...
• As Egypt Burns, Tunisia and Yemen Step Toward ...
  Tunisia's National Assembly President Mustapha Ben Jaafar, President Moncef Marzouki and outgoing Prime Minister Ali Larayedh pose after signing the country's new constitution in Tunis January 27, 2014. REUTERS/Anis Mili read more
• Top of the Morning: Conflict Forced Nearly 100 ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Civil Conflict Makes Nearly 100,000 South Sudanese Into Refugees There are now 50,000 South Sudanese who have fled to Uganda alone. Some 89,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled fighting in South Sudan in one month, with more than 1,000 crossing into ne ...
• U.N. Still Unable to Deliver Aid to Besieged S ...
  CREDIT: EC/ECHO/Dina Baslan Despite claims to the contrary from the Syrian government, the United Nations said on Monday that it was still unable to deliver much needed humanitarian assistance to the thousands of internally displaced and refugees within the country. At the center of the issue is ...
• More on Moral Hazard in US Alliances: Explaini ...
  So this post is a bleg to those of you who know more about alliances than me. I am considering writing this up for an article, so I thought I would ‘crowd-source’ early comments on the basic argument. I also wonder if someone elsewhere has already suggested this idea in the vast alliance literat ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Daily Meme: The State of Our Union? Super-Stok ...
  State of the Union addresses used to be no-frills affairs—in 1790, George Washington delivered one that was probably around 6 minutes long to a joint session of Congress in New York City, leaving him plenty of time to swill a couple mugs of cider with his boys and get to bed at a reasonable hou ...
• President Obama Takes Action to Raise the Pay ...
  Sometimes in America, when low-paid workers stand up and speak out, even the President of the United States takes notice. This is one of those moments. This morning, the White House announced that President Obama will sign a “Good Jobs” Executive Order requiring government contractors to raise ...
• Hillary Clinton's Enemies Can't See Straight
  Rand Paul, who is weirdly a potentially serious contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, got asked on Meet the Press this past Sunday about a comment his wife had made about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. His answer was revealing, I think, of a mindset Republicans are going ...
• Vaccine Fear Mongers Are Wrong, But They're No ...
  It's been true for some time that conservatives are far more likely that liberals to hold a number of false beliefs about the world, some of which were always political (e.g. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, evolution is a myth) and some which became more political over time, particularl ...
• Campaigns and the Human Condition
  Over the weekend I watched the Netflix documentary "Mitt," and true to its billing, it humanized Mitt Romney to an extraordinary degree. That's not all that surprising, given that the film was directed by a filmmaker who is friendly with the Romney family and obviously sought to give a behind-t ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Has Obama Kept Promises on Climate Since Last ...
  Before the president's 2014 State of the Union, a look back at where he succeeded—and fell short—on his past promises.
• Yukon Government Opens Vast Wilderness to Mining
  Canada's Yukon Territory announced Tuesday that it has opened one of the largest unbroken wilderness areas in North America to mining and mineral exploration.
• Q&A: How Much is U.S. to Blame for “Made-in-Ch ...
  China exports more than goods to the United States; it also sends pollution across the Pacific. A new study aims to sort out responsibility for the foul air all nations share.
• Study: Planning Can Protect Whales in Seismic ...
  Scientists working with the consortium engaged in oil and gas development off Russia’s Sakhalin Island came up with a blueprint for reducing the ecological impact of seismic surveys.
• Illinois Village Leads Charge for Tougher Oil ...
  The Chicago suburb of Barrington, where traffic is blocked by 20 freight trains a day, filed petition for action on weak tank cars.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Squabbling Aryan Nations Factions Descend Into ...
  A Louisiana-based faction of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, headed by a man with his own checkered criminal past, has severed its ties in a rather public, name-calling way with an Illinois-based motorcycle club, the Sadistic Souls, headed by a former Ku Klux Klan leader. Morris L. Gulett, the Louis ...
• Court Records Provide Inside Look at the Tumul ...
  Chad Bostwick only wants the same “opportunities most parents cherish” – to tuck in his daughter at night, to be the first person she sees when she wakes up, to go to church on Sunday mornings, to knock back a couple of cold ones together once she’s a teenager, and even to beat up or […]
• Connecticut Police Officer, Part of ‘Bullies W ...
  After a years-long federal investigation, a 20-day trial and a snowstorm that delayed justice for another 48 hours, a former East Haven, Conn., police officer was sentenced today to five years in prison for violating the civil rights of Latino residents of the small working-class city. The forme ...
• AFA Radio Host: It’s the Fault of African Amer ...
  It’s sometimes hard to know just exactly what the American Family Association, the rabidly anti-gay group based in Tupelo, Miss., believes. It’s obviously against the advancement of any rights for the LGBT community, and it clearly harbors substantial fears about a secular government. But when i ...
• Feds Indict Klansman Who Designed Radiation Gu ...
  After nearly seven months, federal prosecutors have decided to move forward with charges against one of two men charged with conspiring to build a portable, remote-controlled device designed to deliver fatal doses of radiation to Muslims –  or “medical waste,” as the plotters called their intend ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Pete Seeger, Hudson River Activist and Folk Mu ...
  What can a song do? What can a sailboat do? Some would say music exists just to soothe or distract people from their troubles. Some say sailboats are just rich men’s toys. Wrong, wrong. In the summer of 1969 they helped to start cleaning up a river.  – from the book, Pete Seeger ...
• Nurses to President Obama: Steps to Fight Ineq ...
  With growing public alarm over widening income disparity – and the broad effect on American families – the nation’s largest organization of nurses today called on President Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday to lead the charge on fighting the income gap and poverty ...
• Sanders Applauds Obama on Minimum Wage
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) praised President Obama after the White House announced today he will sign an executive order setting the minimum wage for workers under new federal contracts at $10.10 an hour.read more
• NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue ...
  As H.R.7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, heads to the floor today, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue will be available to discuss this anti-woman measure and how, with this first action of 2014, GOP leadership continues to ignore the priorities of American voters.read more
• Peru Approves Gas Project, Spells Disaster for ...
  Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas projectonto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes– despite international outrage, the resignation of three ministers, and condemnation by the United Nations and international human rights organizations.read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
  Matthew Rothschild Pete Seeger died yesterday at 94, but he’ll live on for generations to come.Pete Seeger performing at Symphony Hall in Boston in 1989. (Photo Credit: © Ellen Shub)read more
• Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
  Matthew Rothschild Pete Seeger died yesterday at 94, but he’ll live on for generations to come.Pete Seeger performing at Symphony Hall in Boston in 1989. (Photo Credit: © Ellen Shub)read more
• Americans Expect Obama to Deliver on Income In ...
  Ana Marie Cox
• Americans Expect Obama to Deliver on Income In ...
  Ana Marie Cox
• 27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State ...
  Tim Dickinson

Water Privatization

• Maynilad cuts non-revenue water by 140 million ...
  Maynilad Water Services Inc recovered nearly 140 million liters of water per day (MLD) in 2013, or enough to supply the requirements of about 140,000 customers.
• Sale of Angat hydro plant to Korean company se ...
  The government aims to complete the sale of the Angat hydroelectric power plant to Korea Water Resources Corp (K-Water) by March.
• Art for Water helps people go deep in their th ...
  But as global supply of clean water declines and a global water crisis approaches, thinking about how to use water efficiently become increasingly important. Experts predict that by 2025, global demand for clean water will exceed supply by 56 percent. In the face of these water facts, Christine ...
• 'Clean Water Declaration' seeks to fig ...
  Life, liberty and the pursuit of ... clean water.        
• Rally for a new water ethic precedes state wor ...
  Wrapped in scarves and winter coats, around two dozen water conservation advocates met downtown Wednesday morning to demonstrate their support for a statewide campaign.

Guardian

• Turkey's huge interest rate hike calms markets ...
  Shares rise in Europe and Asia after Turkish central bank props up ailing lira with dramatic rise in interest rates, but will it ease the fears over emerging markets for long?Graeme Wearden
• Indian politician says women can invite rape w ...
  Asha Mirje says of Delhi gang-rape that sparked nationwide protests: 'Did she have to go to a movie at 11pm with a friend?'A female Indian politician and activist has said rape victims may have invited attacks by their clothes and behaviour, fuelling a national debate over a series of incidents ...
• Megan Roberts disappearance: public urged to l ...
  Police divers searching swollen river Ouse for York university student, who has not been seen since last ThursdayPolice searching for a missing 20-year-old student in York have urged members of the public hoping to help in the search to stay away from the swollen river Ouse and leave the hunt to ...
• News of the World hacker admits lying as part ...
  Dan Evans tells court that 2009 witness statement was 'drafted by News International lawyers' and he was 'toeing the line'Dan Evans, the former News of the World hacker, has admitted lying about trying to access interior designer Kelly Hoppen's phone messages but said it was because he was part ...
• Skydive girl survives falling nearly 1,000 metres
  Trauma surgeon says Makenzie Wethington, 16, should be dead after plummeting from such a heightA 16-year-old US girl who fell more than 915 metres (3,000ft) to the ground in a skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor has said.Dr Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surg ...

McClatchey

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

The Wonk Room

• There Was Another School Shooting During Obama ...
  He vowed to continue his efforts to reduce gun violence on our streets and in our schools, and reports of another shooting on a college campus minutes later underscored the urgency that is needed.The post There Was Another School Shooting During Obama’s State Of The Union Address appeared ...
• Senator Withdraws Support For New Iran Sanctio ...
  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said the new Iran sanctions bill he co-sponsored should not come to a floor vote while talks are ongoing.The post Senator Withdraws Support For New Iran Sanctions Bill appeared first on ThinkProgress.
• The 6 Craziest Reactions To President Obama&#8 ...
  Their immediate reactions: To mock equal pay and climate change.The post The 6 Craziest Reactions To President Obama’s State Of the Union appeared first on ThinkProgress.
• Jekyll And Hyde: The Two Sides Of Obama’ ...
  In his State of the Union address, President Obama once again tried to reconcile the split personality of his energy policy. He clearly stated his Dr. Jekyll commitment to cutting carbon pollution. But not before he pushed his Mr. Hyde expansion of domestic fossil fuel production.The post Jekyll ...
• Obama Goes Full Feminist: ‘Time To Do Aw ...
  President Obama named fair pay and paid leave as two areas that can help women become more equal. The post Obama Goes Full Feminist: ‘Time To Do Away With Workplace Policies That Belong In A ‘Mad Men’ Episode’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

• Deluded People Talk About Haiti
  I'm still reading Stein and Lang's The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar. It's taken me awhile because, .... well, I'll put it this way; I couldn't finish this book on Chartism because it started to get too depressing. With The Unexpected War, I can only take so much on the actions and subseque ...
• Canada Losing Something Precious
  Contrary to what witless "conservatives" think; we aren't in any danger of becoming an Islamic theocracy. How was that supposed to have worked anyhow? A couple of Human Rights Commission rulings that Halal food doesn't have to be labelled as such, followed by a bomb exploding somewhere and then ...
• Abandoning Chelsea Manning
  So Chelsea Manning heroically brought evidence of massive US war crimes to the attention of the world. Then Chelsea was betrayed by some rat-fink, twisted piece of shit and ended up in a military prison where she was tortured for years before finally coming to trial and sentenced to 35 years in ...
• Elections Canada and Legal Immunity
   Here it is! Elections Canada has rebuffed an offer of information about an alleged reimbursement scheme involving Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro’s 2008 election campaign, saying it doesn’t have the authority to give witnesses immunity from prosecution. Toronto lawyer Allan Kaufman ...
• See, Here's the Problem ...
  The link title (and the article's sub-title) is "Don't write off stephen harper." But, you see, he SHOULD be written off, BY EVERYBODY. Even if you agree with the basic tilt of his policies, it should be the bare minimum for a person who respects parliamentary democracy, that a politician not de ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Ottawa Event: Confronting Canada’s Defen ...
  Steven Staples will discuss the growing influence of the defence lobby in Canada. Ceasefire.ca supporters in Ottawa are invited to attend a special discussion hosted by the Ottawa chapter of Project Ploughshares.
• F-35 back on the radar
  The bungled F-35 procurement that has been plaguing the Harper Government is about to heat up again.
• Feedback from Ceasefire.ca supporters
  Reducing the influence of Canada’s military industrial complex and transferring military spending to issues more relevant and beneficial to Canadians should be the top priority for Ceasefire.ca in 2014, according to many of its supporters.
• Canada seeks more arms customers
  The Harper government wants to widen the list of Canadians arms customers in order to offset decreasing demand in “traditional markets” such as the United States and Britain.
• Take our 2-minute member survey for 2014!
  What is your comment or suggestion for Ceasefire.ca for 2014 (leave your comment)

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• House Select Committee Needed for Truth About ...
  By William Wertz Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 4
• The Choice Is Clear: It’s Glass-Steagall Now, ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 4
• Mining the Moon To Power the Earth
  By Marsha Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 4
• Interview: Nomi Prins: An Insider’s View of th ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 4
• The Future of Germany and China Lies in Joint ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 4

War in Context

• Whose Holocaust?
  The genocidal policies of the Nazis resulted in the deaths of about as many Polish Gentiles as Polish Jews, thus making them co-victims in a Forgotten Holocaust. This Holocaust has been largely ignored because historians who have written on the subject of the Holocaust have chosen to interpret t ...
• I traveled to Palestine-Israel and discovered ...
  Ferrari Sheppard writes: The mind has a way of making traumatic experiences seem like distant dreams to those who survive them. As it goes, the more traumatic the experience, the quicker the paramedics in one’s mind rush to dress wounds, resuscitate and stabilize the victim; the victim being you ...
• The Egyptian disaster
  Roger Cohen writes: In Davos, Secretary of State John Kerry talked for a long time about Iran. He talked for a long time about Syria. He talked for a very long time about Israel-Palestine. And he had nothing to say about Egypt. This was a glaring omission. Egypt, home to about a quarter of all [ ...
• Egypt’s next military dictator in the making
  The New York Times reports: When Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, named General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi defense minister, the officer pledged to keep the military out of politics and make way for civilian democracy. A year later, General Sisi ousted Mr. Morsi, insisting the mi ...
• Egypt has replaced a single dictator with a sl ...
  Nathan Brown writes: On June 5, 2013, Amr Hamzawy, an academic and former liberal parliamentarian, tweeted a quick criticism of the verdict of an Egyptian court. Earlier this month, he discovered that he was being investigated for a criminal offense and was barred from leaving the country. The g ...

Watts Up With That?

• Why did Met Office try to cover Up ‘the ...
  By Paul Homewood Last July, the Met Office published the second in a series of papers, discussing the recent pause in global warming. On page 6, they state: The start of the current pause is difficult to determine precisely. Although … Continue reading →
• Excerpts on climate from the SOTU – comm ...
  I made it back to a computer in time today to get a copy of the State of the Union address, here are the relevant passages about climate: ========================================== “Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back … Continue reading →
• SOTU Open Thread – what freaky climate c ...
  While the most recent public polls on climate-change give a ho-hum response, Dr. Roy Spencer recently surmised that in the State of the Union Address tonight, President Obama will join the “everything is caused by global warming” club. He writes: … Continue reading →
• El Niño sea monitoring system may fail – ...
  From the “send money or the instrumentation gets it” department comes news that the ATO array may already be toast due to budget constraints. One wonders if money sucked into climate programs might be a factor. From Nature News:  Nearly … Continue reading →
• BBC Meteorologist: Met Office Global Forecasts ...
  Paul Hudson, BBC Weather, says: The global temperature in 2013 was 0.486C above the 1961-1990 average based on the HADCRUT measure, figures released by the Met Office show. So far this century, of 14 yearly headline predictions made by the Met … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Butter has won the war. Margarine has been con ...
  Unilever has had a complete turnaround and is now adding real butter to its spreads.
• Future solar cells could be made from wood fibers
  A new type of transparent paper could one day replace the plastic substrates that are used in current solar cells.
• Should we blame the victim of head injuries if ...
  We have certainly covered "blame the victim" syndrome, but a case about to go to court puts a whole new angle on it. Could helmets be required even for car drivers?
• Tesla could build a factory in China, a future ...
  Tesla is looking over the horizon at future opportunities and ways to keep the market for electric cars growing fast, replacing gas-powered vehicles.
• Horny Toad's Spring 2014 collection stays caus ...
  In case you've been wondering where to get the perfect plaid button down, the answer is Horny Toad.

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• Morano debates Nye on warming – Watch Now!
  Watch the great climate debate. Morano v Nye on Stossel.
• Ask the climate alarmists: “Where are th ...
  Marita Noon demonstrates from history and the modern record the absurdity of claims by climate scientist Richard Somerville that low-lying areas are under immediate threat from CO2-induced sea level rise and that increasing CO2 is threatening agricultural production. She presenrts evidence show ...
• A very cold reality
  As much of the nation is mired in bone-chilling weather, President Obama plans to address the nation about global warming -- because if you repeat a lie often enough, many people will believe it to be true. And the President needs for the lie to be perceived as truth, because the truth still ma ...
• America in lockdown
  CFACT Senior Advisor Paul Driessen documents how the Obama Administration has put the lid on economic growth by locking down oil and gas and minerals production on federal lands and watyers, then imposing heavy burdens on existing and planned operations -- all the while promising jobs creation o ...
• Great global warming debate rebroadcast on Fox
  Bill Nye the global warming propaganda guy got himself thoroughly trounced by Marc Morano the scientific facts guy in Thursday night's television debate. There's another chance to catch the debate which will be re-aired tonight at 10 PM on Fox News Channel. Tune in or set your DVR.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian Man Stabbed to Death in Poetry-Over-Pr ...
  A former teacher was detained in Russia’s Urals after being accused of stabbing an acquaintance to death in a dispute about literary genres, investigators said Wednesday.     
• Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court
  A Russian national pleaded guilty in Atlanta to creating malware that infected 1.4 million computers and extracted credit card information, the FBI said Tuesday.     
• No Evidence Snowden Spied for Russia – US Senator
  A senior US lawmaker said Tuesday that she has seen no evidence that intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was working with Russia when he disclosed troves of documents on classified US spying programs.     
• Canada Blacklists Ukrainian Officials as Obama ...
  Canadian authorities have imposed visa bans on unspecified Ukrainian officials linked to the recent violence in Kiev, CBC News reported Tuesday.     
• $57M in Amber Seized in Kaliningrad
  More than 30 metric tons of amber estimated to be worth about 2 billion rubles ($57 million) have been seized from an amber trader near Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, police said Tuesday.     

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia Could Go It Alone After International S ...
  The Russian segment of the International Space Station could live on as a separate facility after the project’s conclusion, the head of the company that oversees the country’s participation said Tuesday.     
• Russian Space Agency Plans World’s Biggest Rocket
  Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is to seek government approval to build the world’s largest rocket, its head said Tuesday.     
• ISS Cosmonauts Begin 2nd Spacewalk to Install ...
  Two Russian cosmonauts began a spacewalk on the International Space Station on Monday to install a pair of video cameras.     
• Russian Space Agency Joins Social Networks
  The Russian Space Agency said Friday it has opened accounts on Facebook and Twitter to improve its public relations.     
• Budget Cuts Delay Russia’s Antarctic Developme ...
  Russia has no current plans to open new research stations in the Antarctic or to modernize existing ones, a minister said Tuesday.     

Natural Health News

• Ear Tubes May Not Have Long-Term Benefits for ...
  By Dr. Mercola Middle ear infection, or otitis media, is one of the most common childhood afflictions, impacting up to 90 percent of children at least once before the age of 10.1 In most cases, ear infections clear up easily on their own and pose little long-term consequences. But in some ...
• Beta-Blockers Killed 800,000 in 5 Years—“Good ...
  By Dr. Mercola Most people assume that scientific integrity is somehow assured; that there are safeguards along the way, preventing fraudulent research from harming patients. Unfortunately, scientific misconduct has become a very serious and widespread problem that threatens the entire para ...
• Raw Milk on the Rise -- No Illness Seen
  By Dr. Mercola The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) commonly warns against drinking raw milk, citing numerous “outbreaks” linked to the product. But drinking raw milk produced by grass-fed cows from clean, well-run farms is actually far LESS dangerous than drinking p ...
• Grocery Manufacturer’s Association Overtakes M ...
  By Dr. Mercola The addictive and health-harming nature of sugar and processed food has been repeatedly confirmed through the years, and genetically engineered foods rank equally high on the list when it comes to foods that do more harm than good. Monsanto, as most of you may already kno ...
• Sharp Rise in Gout Seen
  By Dr. Mercola Rates of gout have skyrocketed in the UK, rising 64 percent between 1997 and 2012.1 That equates to about a four percent rise every year, and this painful condition now affects one in 40 people! Unfortunately, many of the media outlets that picked up this story have been foc ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Welcome to the Blogosphere AJIL Unbound
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m pleased to flag the fact that the American Journal of International Law has recently launched its own blog — AJIL Unbound.  Interested readers can find out more about the project and the Journal‘s interest in reader feedback here.  In the ...
• Guest Post: Colangelo–Kiobel and Conflicts of Law
  by Anthony Colangelo by Anthony Colangelo [Anthony Colangelo is Associate Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law.] As my comment to Roger’s initial post noted and my forthcoming piece in the Cornell Law Review explains, like Bill Dodge I view the presumption against extraterritoriality’s ...
• Guest Post: Dodge–The Presumption Against Extr ...
  by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is The Honorable Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. From August 2011 to July 2012, he served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adv ...
• Guest Post: Hafetz–Measuring the Value of a Cr ...
  by Jonathan Hafetz by Jonathan Hafetz [Jonathan Hafetz is an Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. This post is written as a comment to Stuart Ford's guest post, published yesterday.] Stuart Ford’s article, Complexity and Efficiency at International Criminal Courts ...
• Guest Post: Ford–Complexity and Efficiency at ...
  by Stuart Ford by Stuart Ford [Stuart Ford is an Assistant Professor at The John Marshall Law School.] It is common to see people criticize international tribunals as too slow, too expensive, and inefficient.  Professor Whiting even argues this is now the consensus position among “policymakers ...

Public News Service

• AZ, NM Make a Trade: Pronghorns for Gould's Tu ...
  AZ, NM Make a Trade: Pronghorns for Gould's Turkeys PHOENIX - Arizona and New Mexico are neighbors, and sometimes the neighborly thing to do is share or trade resources - even if those resources are critters such as turkeys and pronghorns. Rachel Shockley, spokeswoman for New Mexico Game and Fi ...
• 4th-Grade Reading Gap Follows Arizona Income Gap
  4th-Grade Reading Gap Follows Arizona Income Gap PHOENIX - Seventy-two percent of Arizona fourth-graders are reading below grade level. That's one finding of a new Kids Count Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. ...(Read More)
• Report: Shopping Carts Designed to Keep Grocer ...
  Report: Shopping Carts Designed to Keep Groceries Safe, Not Kids PHOENIX - Shopping cart safety for kids needs a closer look, according to a new study from Nationwide Children's Hospital. Researchers found that, from 1990 to 2011, more than a half-million children were treated in the nation's em ...
• New Homes Sought for Captured Wild Horses
  New Homes Sought for Captured Wild Horses PHOENIX – The state of Nevada is reaching out to people who may be interested in adopting a wild horse captured in the Virginia Range near Reno. Deniz Bolbol, communications director with Return To Freedom – American Wild Horse Preservation ...
• School Breakfast Report Ranks Arizona 27th
  School Breakfast Report Ranks Arizona 27th PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona is doing slightly better when it comes to getting a nutritious breakfast into the mouths of low-income students, according to the School Breakfast Scorecard released by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). The state is ra ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• NYPD Plans High Security on Super Bowl Blvd
  ShareThisNYPD Plans High Security on Super Bowl Blvd 28 Jan 2014 The NYPD will have a laser focus on the pop-up Super Bowl theme park set up in the heart of Midtown this week -- flooding the area with nearly as many cops as on New Year's Eve, law-enforcement sources said. Although there are not ...
• NSAssociate Google Relegated 29 Jan 2014 CLG N ...
  ShareThisLooking for Wednesday's CLG Newsletter? NSAssociate Google Relegated 29 Jan 2014 CLG Newsletter to the Spam Bin Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 29 Jan 2014 CLG subscribers: If you use Gmail as your email provider, please go to your spam bin to retrieve today's CLG Newsletter. Per ...
• GOP Rep. Grimm Threatens NY1 Reporter Followin ...
  ShareThisGOP Rep. Grimm Threatens NY1 Reporter Following State of the Union 29 Jan 2014 Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., threatened to "break" a local reporter in half and throw him off the balcony in the Capitol rotunda during a post-State of the Union interview. Grimm, who is under federal inves ...
• Obama to raise minimum wage for some federal w ...
  ShareThisObama to raise minimum wage for some federal workers 28 Jan 2014 President Obama plans to stress executive action in Tuesday night's State of the Union speech, including an order to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for some federal contract workers, administration officials s ...
• Obama takes tough line against Iran sanctions ...
  ShareThisObama takes tough line against Iran sanctions to Congress 28 Jan 2014 President Barack Obama took his hard line against new sanctions over Iran's nuclear program directly to U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday by pledging in his annual State of the Union address to veto any legislation that th ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

• 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• This Day In History – January 29
  1795 – The United States Naturalization Act of January 29, 1795 repealed and replaced the earlier Act of 1790 changes included increasing the period of required residence from two to five years and The Act specified that naturalized citizenship was reserved only for “free white perso ...
• Democrats scramble to block ‘New World O ...
  Obama wants to ‘fast track’ job-killing, sovereignty-threatening plan – The TPP NEW YORK – As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, powerful groups in the Democratic Party base are organizing to oppose “fast track” authority for the ...
• Senate bill would require smartphone ‘kill swi ...
  Democrats….(sigh) They have had this ability from day ONE (they also have had this capability for your computers) Now its time to codify it under fear of theft. Same Shite different day I guess… Flashback: Internet KILL switch? They target individuals not the collective… RT Senator A ...
• Thailand: US Sides With Increasingly Violent, ...
  Unlike in the Ukraine (or Syria)… Where NATO ( USA) sides with the protestors… (ahem) US State Department condemns protests against sham election, but ignores assassination and thuggery aimed at opposition.  January 28, 2014 (ATN) – The US State Department openly sided with Tha ...
• “Daily Table” to sell “Expir ...
    Ex Trader Joe’s President To Sell Food Past Its Sell-By Date, But Don’t Call It ‘Expired’   When Daily Table opens this spring, you won’t see signs like this. (SB) Consumerist For months, grocery business watchers have been waiting for the eventual opening of The Daily Table, a store ...

The Air Vent

• Isn’t it time we gave a little recogniti ...
  Raise the price of energy, we need to save the planet …My hands are cold …My fingers are cold …I can’t see the drive …I think my nose is actually froze Turn down the heat, we must conserve …My neck is cold …My ears are cold …My back is hurt … ...
• Briffa 2013 Satellite Temperature Download
  To look at the local temp data in comparison to the Briffa 2013 polar.mxd data, I downloaded both the RSS and UAH gridded lower troposphere satellite data.   Unlike ground temperature data, the lower troposphere data is a layer of air which extends miles above the surface of the earth (Blue curv ...
• MXD Age Based Variance
  I woke up the other day wondering if age of a tree would cause a different latewood density response to environmental factors.   I don’t remember reading anything about it so it seemed worthwhile to check. I am working with 124 tree samples from the Polar.mxd file here.   This is the same ...
• Briffa MXD 2013 #1
  I’ve spent a little time compiling MXD proxies from Briffa 2013. I don’t have a lot of results yet but I thought I would put them up. First, I created a simplified reconstruction by centering the proxies and then normalizing by standard deviation and averaging.  That is why Phi claim ...
• Flexible Thoughts
  I’ve spent a little time over my years studying the math behind neural networks.   I find the self-organization of neural networks to be mathematically interesting in the same way that evolution is.  While we humans can’t claim to understand the whole of the math of even a single neu ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• See the Sochi Winter Olympics through the Inst ...
  The U.S. Olympic team recently announced its roster for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Many of these athletes also love using Instagram, so Facebook compiled a list of all teams, venues and...
• Facebook rolls out deeper Custom Audience mobi ...
  In October, Facebook started testing an addition to Custom Audiences that would allow marketers to target people who had used a certain mobile app or visited a website. The company announced Tuesday that it is rolling...
• How do hotels and resorts stack up on Facebook?
  We looked at 2,121 hotels and resorts on Facebook, covering 114,634 posts. Highlights: Scenery shots generate the most likes at 28.71 per 1,000 impressions — almost 5 times as much as link posts. People are more...
• Facebook platform news: SPMD Kenshoo announces ...
  Kenshoo, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, announced Monday partnerships with digital ad agency Direct Agents and RIOT, a Brazilian social media agency. Through RIOT, Kenshoo will be able to strengthen its overseas efforts and gain...
• Facebook to allow page admins to comment on pu ...
  One of the main ways a Facebook user can leave feedback for a restaurant (or any other business) is through the reviews. Much like on other sites such as Yelp, users can grade the place-based page...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Not All Lives are Equal-According to the Inhab ...
  I rarely accept invitations for speaking arrangements. It is not my cup of tea. When I rarely do I insist in dividing my allocated time into 1/3 for speaking and 2/3 for Q & A. I don’t like canned speeches, but I happen to truly like lengthy Q & A sessions. Why? Because: It enables [...]
• The EyeOpener Report- Divide & Conquer: Politi ...
  From education to the environment, business to banking, housing to health care, it seems that there is no issue in the world that the industrialized western democracies cannot reduce to a simplistic paradigm of “liberal” vs “conservative.” In fact, this point has been so hardwired into the moder ...
• De-Manufacturing Consent- “Spies, Lies & the M ...
  Guillermo Jimenez Presents Douglas Valentine On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by author and CIA expert, Douglas Valentine. We discuss the NSA leaks regarding the agency’s assistance in the CIA assassination program that were promised, but so far not delivere ...
• How Economists & Policymakers Murdered Our Economy
  “Capitalist greed aided and abetted by economists and policymakers will have destroyed America.” The economy has been debilitated by the offshoring of middle class jobs for the benefit of corporate profits and by the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing in order to support a few overs ...
• The New Great Game Round-Up: January 26, 2014
  Uyghurs & Gülenists in Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang’s Never-Ending Struggle, Qatar-IMU Target Tajikistan & More *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and ...

Afro Spear

• Jada Williams essay comparing the educational ...
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• Central African Republic Elects First Female P ...
  Source: BlackAmericaWeb.com Congrats are in order for Catherine Samba-Panza. This beauty has been elected as the first female president of …Continue reading »
• sat’day riddymz
• sat’day riddymz
• What is more detrimental to the Black communit ...
  In light of the all the media buzz about Good Morning America host Robin Roberts publicly announcing her same-sex relationship (here), …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

• Pete Seeger’s Evolution on Israel
  Last night, in my appreciation of Pete Seeger I wrote about the Weavers mega-hit, Tzenah.  I noted the fullsome praise of the new Zionist nation that characterized its lyrics.  I also noted that, at the time, neither Seeger nor many others outside the Arab world understood the deep injustice tha ...
• Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens to Throw Reporter ...
  The sub-headline of this story: Godfather Goes to Washington. Michael Grimm seems to be letting the FBI investigation against his corrupt campaign finance practices get to him.  Just after the State of the Union address, Grimm took an interview with NY1 reporter, Michael Scotto.  At the conclusi ...
• Pete Seeger Dies: How the Mighty Have Fallen
  To lose both Pete Seeger and Shulamit Aloni in the same week: the world seems an especially cold and cruel place.  Today, Pete Seeger died (NYT obituary) at the age of 94.  He was the Iron Man of American music.  He outlasted almost all his contemporaries in longevity and his musical impact will ...
• Israel Attacks Syria Missle Facility in Lataki ...
  Israeli media are reporting (Hebrew and now in English) an attack on Syria’s missile infrastructure in the port city of Latakia.  It is Syria’s main port where it receives all weapons that arrive by sea.  Russia, one of Bashar al-Assad’s main military patrons sends much of his ...
• Israeli Whistleblower, Anat Kamm Freed from Is ...
  Anat Kamm, the Israeli whistleblower who leaked top-secret IDF documents which exposed targeted killings of unarmed Palestinian suspects and other potential war crimes, was released from prison after serving two years of an original four and a half-year sentence (reduced by one year after Suprem ...

OpEd News

• US media blacks out Snowden interview exposing ...
  The interview, broadcast by the German television network ARD, was largely blacked out by the US media. The New York Times carried not a word of what Snowden said, while the cable and broadcast news programs treated the interview with near total silence.
• NYT improperly redacted latest NSA leak doc, r ...
  The Times published Monday the latest revelation stemming from leaks supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, that US spy agency and its UK cohort, GCHQ, have the ability to harvest sensitive personal data from phone apps that transmit users' data across the web, such as the extremely p ...
• A Leftwing Tower of Babble?
  My decade of blogging has not dispelled a conviction in unity there is strength. The left is too much a tower of babble. Let us recall not just Ben Franklin's "We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately" but "our cause is the cause of all mankind, and tha ...
• How to measure Obamacare success
  What would Obamacare success look like, and what metrics should we use to measure it? And since it will likely still be years before we can render an informed judgment on the program---s efficacy at meeting its goals, and there are lots of incremental stories to write in the meantime, how do we ...
• The Passing of Anthony Guarisco
  IAAV/AAV was a 501(c)3 non profit organization that worked on behalf of Veterans who participated in the 1940s and '50s in U.S. atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and were injured as a result of their exposure to radiation released from the weapon detonations. Anthony Guarisco, an atomic vetera ...

Switchboard

• Is Poor Maintenance of Rooftop Water Tanks End ...
  Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY There is an important exposé in today's New York Times, which should be of interest to city apartment dwellers whose drinking water travels through New York's iconic roofto ...
• New York State Colleges and Universities Lead ...
  Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York As the mother of a student at one of New York’s many great colleges, and of a high school junior who’ll apply to college in the fall, I have a connection to the issues that are on co ...
• Submarines, Sonar, and the Death of Whales: N ...
  Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA There’s an old adage that the environment is never saved—just continually being saved.  And the U.S. Navy’s testing and training with high intensity active son ...
• (Continued) FDA Plays Chicken with Antibiotics ...
  Carmen Cordova, Sustainable Livestock Science Fellow, San Francisco Just to offer a little more insight on FDA’s inaction, discussed broadly in a previous blog, I’ve detailed the history of just one of the antibiotic additives in questio ...
• FDA Plays Chicken with Antibiotics: Newly Disc ...
  Carmen Cordova, Sustainable Livestock Science Fellow, San Francisco Here’s some unfortunate, but not so surprising news:  The Food and Drug Administration has allowed  30 potentially harmful antibiotic additives to remain approved fo ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• The Digital Edge - Researchers Create New Flex ...
  University of Houston researchers have developed a new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor, bringing the potential for a fully foldable cell phone or a flat-screen television that can be folded and carried under your arm closer to reality.Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University o ...
• The Race for Wind - Active Power Control of Wi ...
  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 acti ...
• The Economy on Edge - NYC Invests Heavily In B ...
  New York City and the State of New York are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to become a major player in the development of high tech industries. They have developed a concept called incubators - providing fully-equipped, subsidized workspaces for qualified start-up companies.  The ...
• The Music Edge - Remembering Pete Seeger
  Pete Seeger, the legendary folk singer-songwriter who fought for social change and played a major role in the American folk revival, died Monday at the age of 94.For many, Seeger will be remembered as America’s most-famous, and infamous, folk singer.Banjo player Tony Trischka first heard ...
• America and Israel - Will Israel and the U.S. ...
  Differing approaches to Iran's nuclear program do not bode well for Israel in 2014.Israel begins 2014 facing a truly Dickensian moment -- enjoying the best of times while staring at the worst of times.Since Jewish DNA tends to accentuate the negative, let's first focus on the positive: the amazi ...

High Country News

• Montana's Dueling Dinosaur fossils get no acti ...
  The controversial specimens still seek a scientific home.
• Accident sours the return of hardrock mining t ...
• The national park popularity contest
  An Oklahoma senator’s financial fix for our national treasures.
• Oil shale never stays down long
  The implications of Shell Oil's abandonment of its oil shale project in western Colorado.
• Montana tribes will be the first to own a hydr ...
  The three tribes of the Flathead Reservation may see significant economic and cultural benefits.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Full Text As Prepared Obama's 2014 State of th ...
  Remarks of President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, “Opportunity For All,” January 28, 2014, Washington, D.C.     Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, ...
• Hobby Lobby Update: 19 Senators File Amicus Br ...
  Today 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against Hobby Lobby who is arguing that paying for their employees’ birth control, a requirement under Obamacare, violates their company’s religious freedom. The Senators are filing an amicus  “friend of t ...
• Newsbusted: NY Times To Announce-There's No Be ...
  Last weekend the NY Times Sunday Magazine ran a very strange cover picture that featured Hillary Rodham Clinton as a planet. The cover generated all kinds of buzz even before its distribution with Sunday’s paper. Much of the buzz was not positive. Some used it as a source for humor, others were ...
• January 23, 2009: The Day The Government Beca ...
  The media wont tell you this....but the Government's dysfunction began January 23, 2009 when Eric Cantor offered the President a suggestion for the stimulus plan, Obama answered: "Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won." Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto ...
• What ABOUT Benghazi Does Hillary Clinton Regret?
  Yesterday, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton took questions after her closing address at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans. Clinton was asked if she would like any do-overs relative to being Secretary of State. Ms. Clinton responded that the Septembe ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Alumnus of school at center of NC voting right ...
  Image Caption:  Tyrone Davis, a recent graduate of Elizabeth City State University, will be among the guests of First Lady Michelle Obama at the Jan. 28 State of the Union address. (Photo from the White House website.) When ...
• Cereal maker Kellogg's union-busting in Memphi ...
  Image Caption:  E.H. "Boss" Crump in Memphis in 1949. Kellogg's profits are up. So why has the breakfast cereal giant locked out workers at its factory in Memphis, a city that has been the site of other historic la ...
• John Wilkes Booth: Presidential assassin, frac ...
  Image Caption:  Infamous as the assassin of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was also an oilman who engaged in an early form of fracking wells to boost production. Before he became infamous for the murder of President Li ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Four years after Citizens Uni ...
  Image Caption:  An effort to overturn a Supreme Court decision loosening restrictions on money in politics is growing. (Photo by Seth Schneider via Flickr
• Communities resist as tar sands flow through K ...
  Image Caption:  Activists in Portland, Maine showing solidarity with communities along the pipeline by locking themselves to TD bank. (Photo by Meaghan LaSala via Commo ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Review: Infant Attention, Medical ...
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Jan 28, 2014, Yale Daily News: Autism and infant attention explored Jan 24, 2014, KPTV Portland, OR: Oregon family uses medical marijuana to manage son Yale Daily...
• A Father's View - Adding Insult to Injury.
  By Tim Welsh This week I saw news about many tragic accidents that killed, injured and hospitalized people. These accidents were due to weather conditions. Although the Police did ticket a few for going to fast for conditions and some...
• Age of Autism Contest: Autism Mom by Shirley B ...
  I wrote about Shirley and her son Dan's success in a private karate lesson last week. Shirley has kindly offered a signed copy of her book Autism Mom to a lucky commenter. Leave a comment to enter. KS At age...
• Dachel Media Review: DSM V May Rob Services
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Jan 27, 2014, New York Times: Schumer Proposes 'Avonte's Law' to Protect Children With Autism Jan 26, 2014, St. Cloud (MN) Times: Increased rates of autism means...
• Advocating for Those with Autism: It’s Time To ...
  By Geoff Dubrowski Every time I begin this article I am delayed by the latest birth of a politically correct term. While celebrating this weeks birth of the word “thug” I decided I better get this thing done! The media...

Global BDS Movement

• Palestinian civil society to Oxfam: “match wor ...
  Oxfam ambassador Scarlett Johansson recently became the public face of Israeli settlement company SodaStream
• UN year of solidarity with the Palestinian peo ...
  Just three weeks into 2014, the BDS movement has already achieved important successes
• Pressure on Israeli banks from investors inten ...
  ABP, the world’s third-largest pension fund, and two major European investors are reviewing their holdings in Israeli banks over concerns that the banks finance illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories
• Another Italian Council condemns Pizzarotti ov ...
  Villar Focchiardo is the sixth local government to condemn Pizzarotti for its role in an Israeli railway that passes through occupied Palestinian territory
• Staples Norway to quit selling SodaStream
  SodaStream’s main production facility is located in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian West Bank

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%?

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Public review begins for expansion of Mexican ...
  The Interior Department this week opened to public comment and review its proposal to expand the range of federally protected Mexican wolves.
• Who killed the Mexican gray wolf? Feds investigate
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the killing of a female Mexican gray wolf that had been denning with pups in New Mexico.
• Western drought prompts feds to truck water an ...
  Persistent drought in the West has prompted federal agencies to begin hauling water to wild horse herds in Nevada and restricting public lands grazing across the region.
• Contraception key to reducing child, maternal ...
  The advice to the United Nations is unambiguous: Don’t repeat the previous mistake of ignoring poor women’s access to contraception in setting goals to reduce maternal and child deaths.
• Calculate BP's gulf oil spill damage broadly, ...
  The federal damage assessment of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should take into account the broader economic and social impacts of the 2010 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Research Council.

spiked

• Debt causes depression? Give us some credit…
• Obesity busybodies turn down the heat
• Stop taxing our patience with this petty politics
  The obsession with tax rates reveals all the parties' lack of economic ambition.
• Gay marriage at the Grammies – more offe ...
• Upping the ante in the fight for free speech
  Why spiked wants to make freedom of speech the great cause of 2014.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Bangladesh Hits 1 Million Solar Home Systems
  A few months back Nancy Wimmer told us about Bangladesh’s solar success read more
• Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security
  Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate it onto oil that flows through a tubing at the center of the curved mirrors. This heated oil makes its way into a h ...
• Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emer ...
  If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled so ...
• New crowdsourcing platform gives hope to small ...
  Less than 24 hours after launching its online marketplace, Mosaic raised $313,000 to power read more
• “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
  Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...

Worldnews

• India lifts curbs on superjumbos
  India has lifted a ban on Airbus superjumbo planes, allowing flights on the world's largest passenger jet into New Delhi, Mumbai and two other cities equipped to handle the aircraft. Despite ever-growing passenger numbers, India had restricted flights on Airbus A380s in 2008 in an effort to ...
• Revisiting the Obama Doctrine
  Judging by recent statements and actions, President Barack Obama might be concerned by the unparalleled proliferation of al-Qaeda. However, he is hardly alarmed that it has become a rallying cry for Jihadi movements, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean affiliates, controlling larger territ ...
• Obama Faces Uneasy Nation
  President Obama "will lay out his agenda for the year on Tuesday night before a nation...
• Nancy Pelosi: Give Obama dictatorial powe ...
  On Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters she supports giving Barack Obama the power to unilaterally raise the debt limit to infinity, bypassing Congress in a move that clearly violates the Constitution, CNS News reported. According to Terence P. Jeffrey, "a reporte ...
• Youth has the ability to transform India: ...
  Tweet Terming its needs as developing the spirits of camaraderie, adventure and discipline, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the youth of the country to join the National Cadet Corps (NCC). He was...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

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