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Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• After shortest day sunrise still gets later
  Several people asked me about the odd phenomenon that in these here parts sunrise gets later each day until early January even though the days themselves get longer after the winter solstice. From EarthSky: The winter solstice always brings the shortest day to the Northern Hemisphere and the lon ...
• Last post…of 2013
  Festive Felicitations to you all, hope to see you in 2014, here on the Sciencebase site (newsfeed), on my Song, Snaps, Science page, or on Twitter @sciencebase), Google+ and Facebook, of course. Last post…of 2013 is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom S ...
• Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
  Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into ...
• Yesterday’s future tomorrow
  In a thousand years’ time, our apps and smartphones, our status updates and our tweets, Our hybrid EVs, solar panels, windfarms, all of our digital neats Will seem so quaint, and misguided, so twee and lopsided They’ll talk of yet more Dark Ages repeats Just think of our medical scan ...
• Zinc, the only supplement
  Zinc is the only supplement I take if I feel a cold coming on. Vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil etc have no proven effect. But, recent Cochrane analysis vindicates earlier research on which I based my choice. Zinc – The promise: Laboratory studies have found it can inhibit replication o ...

RFF Library

• Analysis of Whether Higher Prices of Renewable ...
  Informa Economics http://ethanolrfa.3cdn.net/5b92d3a4ba07986622_e0m6b1prr.pdf [From an E & E News PM article by Amanda Peterka, sub. req'd] The spike in ethanol credit prices last year did not drive up the cost of gasoline at the pump, according to a study released today that was commissione ...
• Why Every Serious Environmentalist Should Favo ...
  Centre for Policy Studies / by Richard Muller and Elizabeth A. Muller http://bit.ly/KAvTvY [Fracking Insider] A recently released report warns environmental activists that their opposition to hydraulic fracturing is “a tragic mistake,” and asserts that shale gas provides a solution to two global ...
• Next Generation Risk Assessment: Incorporation ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment (dated: Nov. 13, 2013) http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/risk/recordisplay.cfm?deid=259936 The landscape of chemical risk assessment is rapidly changing as a result of phenomenal advances in molecular systems biology, reports from the National Researc ...
• Next Generation Risk Assessment: Incorporation ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment (dated: Nov. 13, 2013) http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/risk/recordisplay.cfm?deid=259936 The landscape of chemical risk assessment is rapidly changing as a result of phenomenal advances in molecular systems biology, reports from the National Researc ...
• Ocean Acidity is Increasing for Reasons Beyond ...
  PLoS ONE (Dec. 17, 2013; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085117) / by Zackary I. Johnson, et al. http://bit.ly/1iJImeW [Abstract] Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from anthropogenic sources is acidifying marine environments resulting in potentially dramatic consequences for the physical, c ...

frogblog

• USA NSA Surveillance Ruling Has NZ Link
  A USA Federal Judge has just ruled that mass surveillance of the phone network by their National Security Agency (NSA) is legal. This contradicts another recent ruling where another Federal judge said such surveillance was ‘indiscriminate’ and an ‘arbitrary invasion.’ In ...
• A global climate policy – thoughts for Xmas
  These past five weeks, I have visited Europe studying climate policy.  I attended the UN’s 19th climate conference, UNFCCC COP-19, in Warsaw.  After Poland, I visited Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom and European Union (Brussels).  And I retraced my UN steps to the Middle East (J ...
• Gigantic seabed mining application not NZs future
  "New Zealand’s future lies in protecting the environment that is the basis for our prosperity."
• ‘Monitoring Places of Detention’ & ...
  A report released this month has provided evidence supporting the view that we still have a lot of work to do to make our prisons decent, humane, and likely to release people back into society in better shape then when they went in. New Zealand is a signatory to the ‘Optional Protocol to t ...
• The EU’s climate policy – swimming again ...
  I have argued earlier that the EU is leading the world on climate record and policy.  It is.  The EU-27’s emissions dropped 16% from 5.6 Gt. in 1990 to 4.7 Gt. in 2010, where ours rose 22%.  Its targets are better than others, and its policies are serious and rational. Yet everything is relative ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

• Almost Human Episode Review: “Arrhythmia”, “S ...
  Kriss & Kev review the last two episodes of Almost Human, "Arrhythmia" and "Simon Says"The post Almost Human Episode Review: “Arrhythmia”, “Simon Says” appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
• Movie Review: Grudge Match
  Phenom & Kev review 'Grudge Match'The post Movie Review: Grudge Match appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
• Movie Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  Kev & Phenom review The Secret Life of Walter MittyThe post Movie Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
• The Wolf of Wallstreet Review
  Phenom & Kev review The Wolf of WallstreetThe post The Wolf of Wallstreet Review appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
• First Official Still for Guardians of the Galaxy
  Funny thing.  Just yesterday I made a comment on Twitter about how we haven’t gotten any official stills or teaser trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy.  Then I wake up today on the first day of 2014 to the first official still for the movie.  Director James Gunn actually says he’s s ...

Simple Climate

• When the climate change fight got ugly
  Steve Schneider both had to fight other scientists who didn’t feel it was yet time to bring climate research to the people, and counterattacks from oil companies and a government unconcerned by pollution.
• The ice-age U-turn that set the stage for the ...
  Right from the outset of his career in climate science, Stephen Schneider drove us to see that we are changing climate, and decide how best to use our imperfect knowledge to avoid harm
• The ice-age U-turn that set the stage for the ...
  Right from the outset of his career in climate science, Stephen Schneider drove us to see that we are changing climate, and decide how best to use our imperfect knowledge to avoid harm
• Give those we love the climate they deserve
  The many stresses global warming causes edge us closer to conflicts like the one currently happening in Syria: for those who inherit this planet from us, we must keep pushing back.
• Give those we love the climate they deserve
  The many stresses global warming causes edge us closer to conflicts like the one currently happening in Syria: for those who inherit this planet from us, we must keep pushing back.

e!Science News

• MU researcher's study of African forest elepha ...
  Conservation of a protected or endangered species requires frequent monitoring and the dynamic techniques biologists utilize to ensure the survival of threatened animals. Often, scientists study biodiversity at all levels -- from genes to entire ecosystems. Currently, researchers at the Universi ...
• NREL finds a new cellulose digestion mechanism ...
  Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that an enzyme from a microorganism first found in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in 1990 can digest cellulose almost twice as fast as the current leading component cell ...
• Synthetic genetic clock checks the thermometer
  Genetic systems run like clockwork, attuned to temperature, time of day and many other factors as they regulate living organisms. Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have opened a window onto one aspect of the process that has confounded researchers for decades: the mecha ...
• When germs attack: A lens into the molecular dance
  Researchers at Johns Hopkins have zoomed in on what is going on at the molecular level when the body recognizes and defends against an attack of pathogens, and the findings, they say, could influence how drugs are developed to treat autoimmune diseases. read more
• After a 49-million-year hiatus, a cockroach re ...
  The cockroach in the genus Ectobius is a major textbook example of an invasive organism, and it is the most common cockroach inhabiting a large region from northernmost Europe to southernmost Africa. read more

unEarthed

• Teen Lobbies for Farmworker Protections
  Taking time away from college and work, Selena Zelaya returns to D.C. Selena with her father Miguel. (Photo by Matt Roth) Last week, I interviewed 18-year-old ...
• Clearing the Air in the Southwest with State, ...
  The journey towards a clean energy future in New Mexico The Four Corners Power Plant has been operating without modern pollution controls for the past fifty years. (Photo courtesy of E ...
• Top 10 unEARTHED Blog Posts of 2013
  Sharks and oil and honeybees, oh my! How much of Yosemite Valley will you be able to see on your next visit? Read more in the #10 unEARTHED blog post of the year. (Chrissy Pepino / Earthjus ...
• Coal: Bad in Stockings, Worse in Lungs
  Coal plants need to retire for the benefit of public health The costliness of coal becomes more evident once you factor in the significant damage that it does to public health. (Photo by TV ...
• Effective Litigation: The Antidote to Politica ...
  Our litigation forces protections where political leaders fail us Many environmental and public health safeguards still await approval, more than a year after the election. (Official White ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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• Palestinians catch settlers allegedly attempti ...
  Settlers invade the village of Qusra, where they are trapped by village residents. Palestinians eventually call the Israeli army to evacuate their attackers. Qusra has a long history as the target of settler violence. Palestinians in the West Bank village of Qusra caught a group of Israeli settl ...
• African asylum seekers: We will continue to st ...
  African asylum seekers held a press conference Tuesday in south Tel Aviv, where they announced that they will continue their “Strike For Freedom” until further notice. Representatives of the community from Sudan, Eritrea and Central African Republic spoke in both Hebrew and English a ...
• JPost editorial: Leftists bring Africans to Is ...
  The Jerusalem Post, which has a history of unbelievable editorials, has done it again. “The world’s leading Jewish paper” claims that the arrival of African refugees is part of a conspiracy by left-wing NGOs, meant to undermine the Jewish majority in Israel. Don’t look fo ...
• PHOTOS: Asylum seekers protest outside foreign ...
  Photos & reports: Keren Manor, Yotam Ronen, Tali Mayer, Shiraz Grinbaum, Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Thousands of African asylum seekers and their supporters marched from Levinksy Park in Tel Aviv’s south on Monday to protest in front of seven foreign embassies, calling on the internat ...
• Day 2 of African asylum seeker protest: What d ...
  African asylum seekers are holding their second of a three-day national protest. On Monday, thousands of asylum seekers, most of whom are employed by hotels and restaurants, went on strike and held large rallies in front of Western and African embassies. The protesters are calling on the interna ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

Tech Drive In

• Corning to introduce Antimicrobial Gorilla Gla ...
  The great smartphone revolution which kick-started with the introduction of iPhone in 2007 wouldn't have happened without Corning's scratch-proof Gorilla glass technology. Most flagship smartphones today, be it Android or iOS based, has the latest Gorilla glass as one of its most important compo ...
• Ubuntu might add torrent search to Unity in Ub ...
  Ubuntu received a lot of flak for their high-handedness when they haphazardly added Amazon search results to Unity dash without taking enough feedback from end-users. The fix-ubuntu debacle didn't help either. But with their decision to include torrent search results into Unity, Canonical is und ...
• How to check internet speed via Terminal in Ubuntu
  Speedtest.net is a pretty good place to check your internet speeds. But there is an even simpler way. Using the speedtest-cli command line app, you can actually check your current broadband speeds via Terminal. So here's how you do it.  How to install speedtest-cli in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu ...
• Ubuntu to achieve full convergence by 15.04, a ...
  In an interview with PCPRO, Canonical's founder and Ubuntu evangelist has claimed that the real convergence of various Ubuntu form factors will happen by the time 15.04 is released (14.10 at the earliest). And he is confident that Ubuntu will achieve this feat much before its biggest competitor, ...
• 0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris released , Get it via P ...
  Wildfire Games has announced the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris, the fifteenth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free and open-source game of ancient warfare. 0.A.D was recently in the news for their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.  What's new in 0.A.D. Alpha 15 "Osiris"? Multipl ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

• 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 →
• Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
  by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF Week in Links: Poultry, Big Pharma, Safewa ...
  Guidance 213 calls for the drug companies to voluntarily change their labels over the next three years to ban use of antibiotics for growth promotion or feed conversion (so called production uses). But, and this is a big but, the same resistance-inducing low-dose antibiotics administered through ...
• Five-Spoon Salute to Chili Master Jillian Fry ...
  On Monday, December 16, the Center's very own Jillian Fry walked away with not one, but two awards for her "Very Veggie Chili."
• CLF Week in Links: FDA, Farm Bill, Shrimp and More
  Yesterday U.S. House members approved a 50-day extension of the 2008 farm bill to allow more time for conference committee negotiations on a new, five-year bill.
• When the Fish and Plants Don’t Get Along
  We constantly monitor our water quality, fish health, and plant performance to ensure that we are keeping the system balanced, but what happens when something goes wrong?
• CLF-Lerner Fellows Volunteer Day at Boone Stre ...
  The CLF-Lerner Fellows enjoyed a sunny Saturday afternoon last weekend volunteering in East Baltimore at Boone Street Farm, a small community farm.

k2p blog

• Supervolcanos can erupt sponataneously without ...
  New research suggests that supervolcanos do not need an external trigger to erupt. Bouyancy effects and the magma volume could be sufficient for spontaneous eruption.
• Supervolcanos can erupt sponataneously without ...
  New research suggests that supervolcanos do not need an external trigger to erupt. Bouyancy effects and the magma volume could be sufficient for spontaneous eruption.
• Akademik Shokalskiy and Xue Long break free f ...
  Four days after Turney's tourists abandoned ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long have broken free from the ice they were trapped in. All's well that end well but Turney's comedy of errors will not be soon forgotten.
• Akademik Shokalskiy and Xue Long break free f ...
  Four days after Turney's tourists abandoned ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long have broken free from the ice they were trapped in. All's well that end well but Turney's comedy of errors will not be soon forgotten.
• Nature/Turney defend the Ship of Fools and the ...
  There were 18 PhD students on the expedition. Only 6 have a research connection with Antarctica (the other 12 studying the North Atlantic, Australia’s coastal waters, brain injury, Iceland, New Zealand’s North Island, urban climates, pedagogy, the Equatorial Undercurrent, pharmaceuticals, time s ...

Left Foot Forward

• What a real ‘Benefits Street’ woul ...
  This is what a real 'Benefits Street' might look like.
• Cabinet papers remind us of Thatcherism’s ongo ...
  As George Osborne announces more cuts to welfare, again causing an even more divided and unequal society, we must learn the economic lessons of the past.
• 3 things the government *is* doing about flooding
  The government, and Owen Paterson in particular, have been criticised for not doing enough about flooding. Here, then, are three things they are doing.
• University bosses get huge pay rise while staf ...
  Bosses at Bournemouth University have received a bumper pay rise - despite a majority of university staff being offered just a 1 per cent rise by bosses.
• How Labour can win Tory voters in 2015
  Tory voters are defecting. The problem is that only a fifth of these defectors are switching their allegiance to Labour.

Consumerist

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
  By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...
• Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
  By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...
• US Public Radio interview with Arundhati Roy
  Smiley and West, NPR — December 13, 2013 West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West. Smiley: And in Los Angeles I’m Tavis Smiley. West: Brother Tavis, we are blessed to have one of the great and courageous intellectuals of our time. She is Arundhati ...
• US Public Radio interview with Arundhati Roy
  Smiley and West, NPR — December 13, 2013 West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West. Smiley: And in Los Angeles I’m Tavis Smiley. West: Brother Tavis, we are blessed to have one of the great and courageous intellectuals of our time. She is Arundhati ...
• India: Revolutionary Students Challenge the He ...
  Democratic Student Union, Jawaharlal Nehru University — December 14, 2013 Nelson Mandela: A Hero for the oppressors, A BETRAYER FOR THE OPPRESSED! The mournings & praises from the imperialists and their agents, are Mandela’s “legacy” of brokering one of the biggest sell outs of the 20t ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Merry Chistmas
  While I consider Christmas to be a most commercialised and materialistic manipulation for the vast majority of people, there is in this time an idea of helping others, and when that becomes primary and the materialistic crap becomes irrelevant then we know we are nearly there as a people. Anyway ...
• Appeal for Support to Keep Middle East Show on Air
  Here are some subjects already partially recorded or in the works, soon to be aired; 1) the USS Liberty 2) 9/11 3) War crimes & treason charges so as to purge the traitors among us.
• Former US Marine: President Obama should be tr ...
  I am confident that at some point the American patriots, who seem to be in a bit of a coma and have been sleeping for a long time, are going to wake up soon and realize that when they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US, the president of the US also took that oath and has breached ...
• Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
  This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
• Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
  It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• The 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 ...
• When The Shit Hits The Field
  SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...

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

• Sudan's Economies Suffering due to US Support ...
• 'Struggle Is My Life': A Look at Mandela's Legacy
• Foreign Forces Need to Stop Fueling Violence i ...
• Will Iran's Landmark Nuclear Deal be Torpedoed ...
• West's Praise for Mandela is Based On Its Own ...

Daily Tech

• CES 2014: Sony Announces Z1S, Z1 Compact
  New devices impress, but leave something to be desired in each case     
• CES 2014: "PlayStation Now" Cloud Service Brin ...
  The closed beta will begin at the end of January, and the full release is expected this summer     
• CES 2014: Mushkin Adds 480GB USB SSD to Ventur ...
  There was no mention of price     
• CES 2014: TrackR Helps You Find Those Lost Keys
  Smartphone apps help you solve a common problem     
• CES 2014: Next Generation Audi TT’s “Virtual C ...
  Audi's new virtual cockpit is full of win     

Oriental Review

• Who is Jesus Christ and Who is Irrational?
  Julian Christmas Eve is perhaps a perfect moment to reread a wonderful column by American Professor of Criminology from North Carolina State University Michael S. ADAMS. A sixty-seven year old proud atheist friend of mine recently interjected the sweeping statement “all religion is irrational” i ...
• Was Sangeeta Richard the CIA’s maid in Manhatt ...
  Part I Wage row The US is right that when Khobragade applied for her visa, she falsely stated her paid would be paid the minimum US wage of $7.25 an hour. But Satyabrata Pal, former Indian ambassador to Pakistan, writes in the daily newspaper The Hindu: “Every Indian diplomat in the US has told ...
• Was Sangeeta Richard the CIA’s maid in Manhatt ...
  Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the detective character Sherlock Holmes, wrote that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. When Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was arrested by the FBI in New York the reason cited was she was paying ...
• Syria’s hospitals targeted by NATO-backed arme ...
  Since 2011 NATO-backed armed groups have systematically attacked more than two thirds of Syria’s public hospitals, and have murdered, kidnapped or injured more than 300 health workers. The most recent example of this was the destruction of Aleppo’s specialist Al-Kindi hospital. Syria’s Health Mi ...
• Vitali Klitschko’s American Coaches
  It has become the custom in independent Ukraine that there is not a single government ministry or agency and not a single political party in parliament besides the communists where “quiet Americans”, or British, or Germans, do not stand by side to tell the Ukrainian politicians and o ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

• How Much Justice Will Survivors See in this Ne ...
  Welcome to a new year. The Christmas/New Year period is tough, not festive, for so many survivors. Difficulty in maintaining relationships with family, friends and colleagues is one of the lifelong impacts of childhood sexual assaults. A time of year emphasising the love and support offered by t ...
• Catholic church opens Commission hearing with ...
  Last week survivors, many of whom had travelled long distances, crowded into the hearing room for the historic first Royal Commission hearing into how the Catholic Church handles child sexual abuse. Many lasted only until the well paid Church lawyer first opened his mouth. What emerged was so of ...
• Truth, Justice and Healing comes not from a Co ...
  Survivors in Australia are waking up this week to a different world. A world where those in positions of authority do not look the other way, shrug their shoulders and callously ignore the fact of the criminal child rape of children, the criminal coverup of those crimes and the ongoing re-abuse ...
• Victims Heard at Last
  Statement issued by survivors of Catholic child sexual abuse, their families and supporters on the first day of Royal Commission hearings into the catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse: The children of Australia have long been denied our basic human right to safety. In order to ...
• Inquiry Asked “What Does Justice Look Like?” I ...
  Survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions in Australia were very nervous and excited with the imminent release of the final report of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. We have been betrayed by those in authority so uniformly throughout our entire lives. We have seen those dete ...

WL Central

• 2013-12-25 Edward Snowden: Alternative Christm ...
  Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. read more
• 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
  NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
• 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
  Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...
• 2013-12-05 Anonymous joining fight in the Ukraine
  Ukrainian version: http://anoninsiders.net/anonymous-ukrainian-pr-2238/ To People of the Ukraine, we are anonymous. read more
• 2013-11-29 WikiLeaks Calls for US to Drop Gran ...
  Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00 GMT In the face of the US government's three-year attack on WikiLeaks, an anonymous Department of Justice official talking to the Washington Post now claims that there is little possibility of prosecuting Julian Assange for publishing, but that a Grand Jury remains ...

U N News

• UN rights expert warns that all Brazilians mus ...
  Brazilian authorities need to give further priority to the poorest and most marginalized, to ensure that inequalities in the country are progressively eliminated and all receive access to sanitation and water, an independent United Nations human rights expert today urged.
• Protect trafficking victims, punish perpetrato ...
  An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on the Government of Belize to adopt a comprehensive programme to protect and assist victims of trafficking and to ensure that the perpetrators of this scourge are punished.
• UN rights expert urges Bahamas to boost effort ...
  Voicing concern over the lack of a national action plan by the Bahamas to address trafficking in persons, an independent United Nations human rights expert called on the Government to ramp up its efforts to fight the ongoing problem.
• Condemning murder of Honduran journalist, UNES ...
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the killing of Juan Carlos Argeñal Medina, who was shot dead in his home in southeastern Honduras.
• Uruguay's move to legalize cannabis endangers ...
  Amid growing debate over international drug control policy in Latin America, the United Nations drug and crime agency today said that a decision by the Uruguayan parliament to legalize cannabis is a strike against international cooperation.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Yendegaia National Park Created!
  YENDEGAIA National Park Created! Original post: 2013/12/12:  Tompkins Conservation 370,000 Wild Acres in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego via a Joint Collaboration: Piñera-Tompkins DECEMBER 12, 2013— In Tierra del Fuego—the southernmost extreme of the Americas—Chile will gain a spectacular new nat ...
• Why Wolves? – David Parsons
  A few weeks ago Dave Parsons, TRI’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist,  gave a lecture in Santa Fe for a program called Science Cafe for Young Thinkers sponsored by the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. The lecture is about wolf ecology and trophic cascades explained at a high school level.
• Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Proposed for Fede ...
  Your comments are due by December 2, 2013 Please let the US Fish and Wildlife Service know that you value the yellow-billed cuckoo and want it protected! On October 3, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo as ...
• Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
  Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...
• Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
  Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...

reference frame

• Cold weather: comments welcome
  In previous days, we in Central Europe have experienced near-freezing (0 °C, 32 °F) temperatures with a very small amount of snow. Things improved today: we enjoyed an almost sunny day with temperatures reaching almost 10 °C, 50 °F. Slightly more than 1/2 of the TRF readers are located in the U. ...
• Trinary star won't disprove the equivalence pr ...
  Today, science writers were busy to write about the newest death of a pillar of modern physics, in this case Einstein's theory of relativity: Google News, Physics World, BBC, dozens of others... Your browser does not support the video tag. Video by Anne M. Archibald, a PhD student and a co ...
• Puppies poop in the direction of the magnetic ...
  The Christian Science Monitor and lots of other news outlets inform about a seemingly crackpot-sounding yet fascinating Czech-German (well, mostly, 10:2, Czech) research published in Frontiers in Zoology, Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field (PDF full) Incidental ...
• Earth probably has no dark matter ring
  Three days ago, Nude Socialist was probably the first source that mentioned a provocative suggestion. In the article GPS satellites suggest Earth is heavy with dark matter, Anil Ananthaswamy mentions an unpublished proposal voiced by Ben Harris at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical ...
• RSS AMSU 2013: 10th warmest year on record
  Roy Spencer et al. claim that 2013 was the fourth warmest year of their 35-year-long satellite era. Their satellite friends/competitors at RSS AMSU which has been my primary source of temperature data since the beginning of this blog seem to disagree. RSS, 1979-2013, graphics by Mathematica. ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Woman won’t have to pay for stolen $47K rental car
  A Nova Scotia woman is relieved her fight with an international car rental company is over and she will not have to pay $ 47,000 for a Mustang convertible that was stolen from a rental lot. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Woman f ...
• Starbucks threatens pub owner who responds awe ...
  from RTAmerica: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: US threatens sanctions on countries who aid Snowden from RTAmerica: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – S ...
• Weather woes wreak havoc on air travel across ...
  The relentless extreme weather conditions in much of Canada caused flight delays and cancellations across the country Tuesday and generally wreaked havoc on air, road and other forms of travel. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Wea ...
• W.A.N Radio with Gary Hendershot,
  from Charlie Mcgrath: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: W.A.N. Radio 5-7-13 hr2 McGrath and Sheriff Richard Mack from crabbydogtrix: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Ant ...
• Tory MP gives late Christmas present to enviro ...
  Canadian environmentalists have been treated to an unexpected admission from Ontario Conservative MP Peter Braid. The member of Parliament from Kitchener-Waterloo made a direct link between climate change and extreme weather events. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so n ...

Modern Survivalism

• 12 Survival Kitchen Knives
  When it comes to survival and preparedness, much effort is spent having to do with the kitchen (food, storage, alternative cooking, etc..). When considering your preps, don’t overlook your kitchen tools. A survival kitchen needs its knives… The following is a list (and blade images) ...
• Spices, Herbs, Seasonings With Your Long Term ...
  Spices and seasonings added to a long-term food storage program will enhance what otherwise might be dull and mundane, adding flavoring and edibility of food storage staples. Spices are dried seeds, fruit, roots, or bark of plants. Herbs are considered leafy parts of plants used for the same pur ...
• Use These Foods First During A Disaster
  At the beginning of an emergency, one in which the electricity has failed… Before you start breaking into your emergency food storage of rice-and-beans, FIRST use these foods…   …foods from your REFRIGERATOR and FREEZER, before they spoil and go to waste. BUT! There are ca ...
• How To Choose The Best Foods For A 72-Hour Sur ...
  When a disaster occurs, it is too late to shop or search for the supplies you need. A 72-hour survival kit with a 3-day supply of food is the bare minimum that is recommended for EVERYONE, regardless of where or how you live. The most important aspect of this kit is its food and water. […] ...
• Cheap Breakfast for Surviving Hard Times
  For only 10-cents per serving, you could enjoy a healthy and inexpensive breakfast, or any meal, with a cracked grain cereal mix. Here’s how…   9 Grain Cracked Cereal Mix You may be affected by hard times, or you are simply looking for ways to be more frugal with your food budge ...

Fast Company

• PulseWallet: Pay By Scanning The Veins In Your ...
  Shoppers can access their electronic wallets after the point-of-sale technology scans their veins.For those who worry about the security of different mobile payments products, PulseWallet hears you. At CES 2014, the company is showing off a supposedly "spoof-proof" technology that allows consume ...
• Watch Bone-Chilling Vine Videos From Crazy Peo ...
  A few brave souls have confronted the elements to bring us six seconds of looping, frozen hellscapes. Your teeth will chatter just watching.Instagram screenshots of the weather forecast don't do justice to today's frigid nationwide temperatures. Rather, offering a more complete understanding of ...
• Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Launches Jelly, A ...
  Biz Stone and Ben Finkel created Jelly to function almost like a modern-day visual search engine.No matter how big the exit, it seems Silicon Valley entrepreneurs eschew retirement. In the case of Twitter (and its $2.1 billion IPO), the cofounders have continued churning out products with fanati ...
• Watch Michael Bay's Onstage Meltdown, How He C ...
  The film director lost it live at CES 2014 during a Samsung presentation, reminding us all how not to handle a freeze-up.Whenever anyone asks me why I have anxiety about public speaking, they ultimately pose this question: "What's the worst that could happen?" Now, I finally have something to po ...
• Are Entrepreneurs Just Con Men?
  America loves a good hustler.America loves a good con. Take the much-lauded American Hustle: Christian Bale's and Amy Adams's inveterate hustlers are far more lovable than Bradley Cooper's conniving FBI agent. See, too, The Music Man, The Sting, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. As an audience, we're mor ...

Jadaliyya

• DARS Media Roundup (January 8)
  [This is a bi-weekly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the DARS Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in eac ...
• Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (December 2 ...
  [This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis ...
• Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 7)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
• O.I.L. Media Roundup (7 January)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
• Turkey Media Roundup (January 7)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...

mediagazer

• New bio of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes details ...
  New York Times: New bio of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes details power struggles, desire for political influence  —  Biography Casts Critical Light on Fox News Chief  —  Roger Ailes was so eager to influence national politics that in the run-up to the 2012 president ...
• Janice Min to be named co-president, chief cre ...
  New York Times: Janice Min to be named co-president, chief creative officer for Hollywood Reporter, Billboard  —  New Leader at Billboard Sees Future in Visuals  —  Janice Min, who gave The Hollywood Reporter a renewed relevance by transforming the daily trade pa ...
• At CES, Yahoo shows its plans to compete as a ...
  Rem Rieder / USA Today: At CES, Yahoo shows its plans to compete as a media company  —  Yahoo doubles down with new tech, food sites  —  Executives say it's just the beginning, and more initiatives are in the offing.  —  Yahoo is doubling down on ...
• Newspaper to Put All Reporters Through Social ...
  Chris Taylor / Mashable: Newspaper to Put All Reporters Through Social Media Boot Camp  —  One of the country's oldest remaining big city newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle, is set to announce a radical plan to arrest circulation decline and remain relevant in the digital a ...
• Kaz Hirai on Why Sony's Pay TV Bid Can Succeed ...
  Ina Fried / Re/code: Kaz Hirai on Why Sony's Pay TV Bid Can Succeed Where Intel and Others Stumbled  —  Sony's secret weapon to crack into the tight-knit pay-TV market?  The 25 million PlayStation 3 devices already in U.S. homes.  —  “That's a compelli ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

• Newsweek Article On 'Fall Of France' Gets ...
  We need to thank Newsweek for filling our New Year with joy. There is so much ineptness in a recent article by Janine di Giovanni aimed at destroying France -- now a specialty of the magazine. "French bashing" is trendy again among Anglo-Saxons! Yet this time, it comes from a supposedly repu ...
• Losses from natural catastrophes halved i ...
  Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, said claims from natural catastrophes including floods and hailstorms fell 52 per cent last year amid a quieter hurricane season. Insured losses declined to about $US31 billion ($35 billion), the Munich-based company said in a statement today. That c ...
• JPMorgan To Pay Over $2bn In Madoff Schem ...
  7 January 2014, 22:08 JPMorgan To Pay Over $2bn In Madoff Scheme Tweet JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay more than $2bn (£1.2bn) to settle claims related to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The bank will pay $1.7bn to settle criminal charges and a $350m civil penalty for what the Treasury Depar ...
• Sunderland sends Man U to 3rd straight lo ...
  Manchester United slumped to a third consecutive loss for the first time in 13 years when Sunderland added to manager David Moyes' troubles by winning the first leg of their League Cup semifinal 2-1 Tuesday ngiht. The setback against the Premier League's last-place team completed a hat trick ...
• Stop eating plastic
  Chennai: Fourteen per cent of school children carry hot lunch in plastic tiffin boxes, their parents regarding this a handy and stylish thing to do. A study, conducted by the Consumer Association of India (CAI) and Business School, University of Sydney, Australia, in 25 schools, both governm ...

no frakking consensus

• Professor of Climate Change, Chris Turney
  The distress call, the icebreakers, and the other scientific research.
• The Global Warming Prophecy
  At the heart of the climate change movement is the belief that we will be punished for our sins.
• Warmth: Another Word for Well-Being
  Rather than bringing pine logs to the poor, 21st-century energy policies do the exact opposite. More children now shiver in the cold.
• Celebrated Physicist Calls IPCC Summary &#8216 ...
  Former CERN official says 65 prominent IPCC authors have abandoned "scientific rigour."
• I’m Invited – Parts 2 & 3
  I've been invited to give oral evidence to a UK parliamentary committee - and have been offered a research fellowship at a think tank.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 12/23/13 - Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Uncon ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org – Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge – The state's same-sex marriage ban was overturned on Dec. 20, 2013, and county clerks began issuing marriage licenses immediately. The state is appealing the decision.
• 12/19/13 - New Mexico Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
  gaymarriage.procon.org – New Mexico Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage – The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples was unconstitutional, making New Mexico the 17th US state to legalize gay marriage and the ninth to legalize it this year.
• 12/18/13 - Check out some great photos from ou ...
  www.procon.org - - Check out some great photos from our successful charity golf tournament which took place on Dec. 2nd at the Calabasas Country Club. Thank you to all our players, sponsors, and organizers. In attendance were dozens of celebrities including: former NHL player Marty McSorley, ...
• 12/18/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Should Animal ...
  animal-testing.procon.org – Top Pro & Con Quotes: Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing? – Read pro and con statements from neurobiologist Dr. Dario L. Ringach (pro), ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall (con), the American Heart Association (pro), People for the Ethical Treatme ...
• 12/3/13 - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust E ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurance Companies Lower Premiums? - DEBATED - Read statements from the Congressional Budget Office (Not Clearly Pro or Con), Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) (Pro), David A. Hyman, Professor of Medicine at th ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
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• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• Pilot captures frozen Chicago
  A remarkable photo which captures the bitterly cold and icy conditions from the air has emerged.
• US Air Force helicopter crashes, killing 4
  A US Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter has crashed during a training mission in England.
• 187 million in US shiver as 'polar vortex' arrives
  Dangerously cold polar air snaps decades-old records as it spreads across the US and eastern Canada.  
• Russian research ship breaks free from Antarct ...
  A Russian research vessel stuck in thick ice for a fortnight has managed to break free.
• David Cameron slammed over Poles comment
  Poland's prime minister is criticising David Cameron over a comment he made about Poles.

environment 360

• Suburbs Offset Low Carbon Footprints of Major ...
  City-dwellers in the U.S. have significantly smaller per-capita carbon footprints than their rural counterparts, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. But the carbon-intense suburbs surrounding major cities essentially cancel out the small carbon footprints of ci ...
• China Crushes Six Tons Of Ivory to Stem Elepha ...
  In an effort to stem elephant poaching, Chinese authorities have crushed six tons of confiscated ivory, the first such effort in the country's history. Coordinated by the State Forestry Administration and the General Administration of Customs, the event was widely publicized and aimed at spreadi ...
• Urban Nature: How to Foster Biodiversity in Wo ...
  As the world becomes more urbanized, researchers and city managers from Baltimore to Britain are recognizing the importance of providing urban habitat that can support biodiversity. It just may be the start of an urban wildlife movement. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
• North Dakota Bakken Crude May Be More Explosiv ...
  Crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken field may be more flammable and explosive than previously thought, officials now say after a series of fiery railroad accidents. The crude may contain more flammable gasses, be highly corrosive, or more sulfurous than crude from other oil fields, according to ...
• Stranded Antarctic Expedition Rescued After Be ...
  Passengers trapped on an icebound Russian research ship off the coast of Antarctica were rescued today after being stranded for more than a week. A helicopter from China shuttled the 52 scientists, journalists, and tourists to an Australian icebreaker. The chartered ship was attempting to recrea ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust
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• 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

• CEO Note: Janelle Chanona to Lead Oceana Belize
  The New Year promises to bring many exciting changes here at Oceana. The first among many exciting piece of news is that Oceana recently hired a new Vice President to lead conservation efforts in our Belize office—Janelle Chanona. Janelle, a long time anchor for Channel 5 in Belize, most rece ...
• Don’t Let Congress Crush Offshore Wind’s Growi ...
  (Photo: Dan Century) The offshore wind industry rang in 2014 on a high note: both the Cape Wind and Block Island projects will qualify for the critically important Investment Tax Credit (ITC)!  These two projects are in the running to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. ...
• CEO Note: Looking Back on 2013
  (Photo: Oceana / Juan Cuetos) Everyone here at Oceana is eagerly looking forward to a new year of campaigning for our oceans. But before we set off, I’d like to look back at our accomplishments throughout 2013. Just a few months ago I marked 10 years of working for Oceana, and I can easily sa ...
• Oceana Fires Back at Flawed Federal Decision n ...
  Great White Shark, Guadalupe Island In the ongoing fight to protect the distinct population of great white sharks off the coast of California and Mexico, Oceana submitted a critical analysis of the federal Biological Review Team’s (BRT) status report used by the National Marine Fisheries Serv ...
• Hitting the Panic Button: 25 Senators Call For ...
  Turbines in Europe. (Photo: Nick Treby) On Monday, 25 U.S. Senators joined the growing chorus of voices calling for an extension of vital clean energy tax credits that are set to expire in two weeks unless Congress acts.

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Japan Times

• Hysteric Picnic opts for cassette grooves and ...
  In an age where the traditional guitar-bass-drums-vocals setup of a rock band is being eschewed in favor of more stripped-down groups using laptops and synthesizers, ...
• Hagi: Real-deal burgers from 1970
  There can be no doubting that Snow White's beauty derived in part from the Seven Dwarfs' lack of it. But what they lacked in looks, ...
• Hariyama: Remember this one, baby
  For lunch at Harimaya I was joined by my son, who was celebrating a birthday, of sorts. Six months. He's a good kid, but let's ...
• Fresh pressings from Norway’s sake brewery
  Nøgne Ø Brewery in Norway is best known for its line of award-winning craft beers, but the company is quickly gaining a reputation for another ...
• Winter is the tastiest time to visit Tsukiji f ...
  January is a delicious time for local seafood, as fish naturally fatten up to survive in icy waters. A visit to Tsukiji fish market in ...

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

• Big ice at Sochi defines Canadian men’s ...
  Who they picked, who they left on the shelf and why it will matter
• Anti-virus software drops McAfee from its bran ...
  Intel Security makes a new name for itself
• How the polar vortex is changing the way we ta ...
  Frostquake, polar pig, Siberian Express ... Brrr!
• A refugee camp and a game park hotel: Bev Oda ...
  The former minister charged taxpayers for hefty rebooking fees
• ‘A story of human sacrifice from Athens’ ...
  A review of 'The Parthenon Enigma'

Making It Count - CCPA

• Alternative Person of the Year Award for 2013: ...
  The Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques (IRIS) has released its third Alternative Person of the Year Award. In 2011, rating agencies had been its recipients whilst last year Chinese labour camps rose to the top. This year, competition was rough. After lengthy discussions, o ...
• CEO Pay: Out of Whack with Ontario’s Minimum Wage
  Last week, the CCPA revealed that the top 100 CEOs in Canada earn, on average, $7.96 million a year – or 171 times more than the average Canadian worker.  That’s also 373 times more than an Ontarian earning the minimum wage. To put that in perspective, the Top 100 CEOs earn in one hour what a [& ...
• Unlucky, lazy, or just female?: Why there aren ...
  Imagine finding $7.96 million in your stocking on Christmas morning. For Canada’s top 100 CEOs, that happy day has arrived. These 100 Canadians earn more than 99.9% of the working population of Canada.[1] But if you are woman, odds are you are not on that happy list. Not now, not ever. It would ...
• Minimum wage: What’s good for the goose is goo ...
  Ontario’s minimum wage has been frozen since 2010. It’s the second longest period minimum wage workers have gone without a raise since 1969. Oftentimes discussions about how much and how often to raise the minimum wage get positioned in relation to potential harm to business: how much can busine ...
• What’s a province to do on CPP expansion?
  It appears that a Canada-wide deal on CPP expansion is a bust, as Ottawa was the only objector and Ontario is now vowing to go it alone. It doesn’t appear that the Ontario government has a concrete proposal as of yet, but they will develop one in the coming months. It is truly unfortunate that a ...

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

• Fukushima’s Radioactive Wave Appears To Have H ...
  Fukushima experienced numerous explosions two weeks ago. Experts predicted radioactivity would hit the US West Coast within days. It appears that the radioactive wave has hit California: Health officials have confirmed the radiation spike but are in denial about the source. The echos online are ...
• Russian Warship Detected Off British Coast Jus ...
  A Russian warship was detected off the coast of Scotland the night of December 23, reveals the Daily Mail. And this is not the first time: This is the second such incident in two years. In December 2011, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko and escort sh ...
• Fukushima Explosion December 28th 2013; Deadly ...
  The Voice of Russia reports: Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3. TEPCO has confirmed the reports, adding that they were not clear on the details of the sudden change at the reactor because of “lethal radiation levels in that b ...
• Putin Orders Saudi Arabia “Destroyed” After Vo ...
  A grim memorandum circulating in the Kremlin today written by Federal Security Services (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov outlining the new security measures being put into place throughout Russia ordered by President Putin a few hours ago in response to the deadly Volgograd terror attacks furt ...
• US Global Source of Poverty and War
  The latest bilateral deal between House Republicans and Democrats on the US federal budget is a shocking reminder of the monstrous priorities for the American ruling class. Poverty, hunger, sickness and homelessness for millions more ordinary Americans; while unbridled US militarism stalks the g ...

Daily Dose

• Forrester: Microsoft is beating Apple and Sams ...
  Microsoft has a higher consumer mindshare than mobile behemoths Apple and Samsung. In fact, the latest findings from Forrester Research say Microsoft was the only brand to achieve the coveted... Keep reading →
• Mophie Space Pack promises to double your iPho ...
  Mophie is already pretty well known for its battery pack cases, but its freshly launched Space Pack also adds extra internal storage for your iPhone. Launched today at CES 2014,... Keep reading →
• Twitch reveals PlayStation 4 owners accounted ...
  Twitch today announced PlayStation 4 owners accounted for 20 percent of its broadcasters over a 10-day period during the holiday season. That’s based on the company’s measurements between December 23,... Keep reading →
• Polar now lets users create and embed quick po ...
  Polar today launched a new feature that allows publishers to quickly create and embed polls right on their websites and apps. Users need only log into their account to begin... Keep reading →
• Sony announces PlayStation Now service for str ...
  At its CES keynote on Tuesday, Sony announced PlayStation Now, a new game streaming service that will bring older titles from the original PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 to... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• 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 ...
• Cut emissions and save on household bills
  From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Company accused of logging endangered rainfore ...
  An Indonesian wood supplier that was recently certified under the country’s legal timber verification scheme has been clearing natural forests – including stands of endangered ramin trees – and draining peat swamps on its concession, alleges a local environmental watchdog. The ...
• Environmental degradation leads to public heal ...
  A 'systematic and comprehensive' approach is needed to understand the impact of human behavior on the world's public health, according to a new report. Written by the Heal (Health & Ecosystems Analysis of Linkages) consortium, the study highlights multiple examples of the impact on human health ...
• Scientists uncover new crocodile in Africa
  Scientists working in Africa have uncovered a new crocodile species hiding in plain site, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Looking at the molecular data of the slender-snouted crocodile, the researchers discovered two distinct species: one in West Africa ...
• Japanese whale hunt stopped, for now
  Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said its fleet of ships has successfully disrupted the annual Japanese whale hunt in the waters off Antarctica.
• Activists urge Southwest to drop SeaWorld over ...
  More than 27,000 people have signed a petition calling on Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) to drop its partnership with SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:SEAS), over the theme park's treatment of its marine mammals, reports Change.org, the site that is hosting the petition.

Sierra Express

• Plan to remove street traders suspended
  Friday, 3rd January, 2014 saw a massive demonstration by street traders from strategic areas in the Freetown Municipality including places like Sani Abacha and ECOWAS Streets. According to some disgruntled traders the demonstration which processed from Sani Abacha Street to Youyi Building, came ...
• Oprah Winfrey to finally wed?
  Oprah Winfrey’s fiancé is preparing for them to finally marry, more than 20 years after they got engaged, after they made an emotional trip to Nelson Mandela’s funeral together. The talk show legend originally agreed to Stedman Graham’s proposal in 1992 after six years of datin ...
• Flaming Bible Church boosts Milton Margai Scho ...
  The Flaming Bible Church has donated millions of Leones worth of food and non food items and cash to the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Freetown. The donation was made on to the school by the branch Church which is headed by Rev. Desmond Allen who is also the General Manger of the […]
• Disabled want Joseph Sannoh to give account
  The ‘Disabled Got Talent’ award which attracted sponsorship from over six various multi-million investment companies like Africell, Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, Sign Africa, Bank of Sierra Leone, Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs among others ended with mixed feelings am ...
• In first ever interview after Kokobeh, Defiant ...
  “I hope to see a nation where our mineral resources would reflect in the lives of each and every Sierra Leonean.” Emmerson Bockarie is arguably Sierra Leone’s most popular musicians. The ‘Borbor Bele’ star has gained recognition far and wide, mostly for his ‘social commentaries’ on i ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• World dairy prices fall in first auction of year
  Dairy product prices fell in the first GlobalDairyTrade auction for 2014, led by skim milk powder while rennet casein made a new record high.The GDT Price Index dropped 0.8 percent compared to the last sale two weeks ago. The average...
• World dairy prices up again overnight (+graphic)
  Fitch Ratings has praised Fonterra Cooperative Group's decision to hold the forecast payout to farmers and slashing its dividend by two-thirds amid a growing gap in prices between milk powders and its cheese and casein products. The...
• Product mix big call for Fonterra
  Fonterra's top executives will have plenty to think about early next year when they devise the co-operative's next three-year business plan.Uppermost in their minds will be the rampant demand for milk powder, particularly from Fonterra's...
• UK butter eaters lose taste for Anchor after d ...
  British shoppers have noticed that their favourite Anchor butter tastes different - with the explanation being it's no longer from New Zealand.In Britain, the famous Kiwi brand is used by European dairy company Arla. Until recently,...
• Dairy lift adds to interest pressures
  Export commodity prices have joined the housing market and the exchange rate in the front row of drivers of the interest rate outlook."How much and how quickly interest rates rise will depend on what happens to the exchange rate,...

Hit & Run | Reason

• David Brooks' Anti-Pot NY Times Col No Dumber ...
  So we all had a good laff last week over David Brooks' anti-pot column in the New York Times (read Jacob Sullum and Matt Welch for complementary smackdowns). Russ "Mugger" Smith of the invaluable Splice Today points out something worth remembering. The Times' house editorial, ...
• Calif. Public Pension Initiative Cleared for S ...
  California Attorney General Kamala Harris has produced her title and summary for a ballot initiative that would change the state’s constitution to permit municipalities to make changes to future pension and health benefits for its workers. Of course, they should be able to do so now ...
• Leader of Al Qaeda-Linked Group in Syria Calls ...
  The leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, the Al Qaeda-linked rebel group fighting against the Assad regime, has called for an end to the recent violence that has erupted between different factions of Assad’s opposition. In an audio recording Jabhat al-Nusra’s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, b ...
• Ed Krayewski on Iraq and the Long Shadow of US ...
  You’d be forgiven if, while looking at recent headlines about Iraq, you thought it was the aughts again. Fallujah, the site of some of the most intense fighting during the U.S. war in Iraq, is again at the center of political violence in that country. The United Nations, meanwhile,  ...
• Polar (Vortex) Express in Illinois, Senate Mul ...
  Hundreds of passengers were stranded overnight on three Amtrak trains in Illinois due to snow drifts. They were rescued today and sent to Chicago, which may well be just another form of frozen torture. The Senate advanced another extension of unemployment benefits, but even i ...

Mercury Rising

• 60 Minutes Fails, Chapter Two: Renewable Energy
  Fresh off its bogus Benghazi debacle, what does 60 Minutes do? It ups the bullshit ante, this time whilst dealing with solar and wind power: “The Cleantech Crash,” which aired Jan. 5 and can be watched above, argues that renewable energy and other types of clean technology are a dyin ...
• What Does George Fox Say?
  Quite a bit, actually: Happy Saturday! (Here’s the video the above video is gently parodying.)
• Friday Cat Blogging
  Princess Mia does not permit drunken revelry in her kingdom.
• Bradlee Dean Trying To Broaden His Base?
  Or is he just quoting somebody out of context in a really deceitful and creepy manner? http://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2014/01/have-they-read-american-fascists-bradlee-deans-radio-ministry-shares-chris-hedges-meme.html  
• Happy New Year!
  Let’s hope for a happy 2014.

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

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Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• Iraqi troops kill 25 militants in Ramadi
  Iraqi troops have killed 25 al-Qaeda-linked militants in Ramadi in the western province of Anbar, a spokesman for Iraq's Defense Ministry says.
• S Korea halts teargas export to Bahrain
  South Korea has suspended tear gas exports to Bahrain under pressure from rights groups.
• Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi policemen
  Unidentified gunmen have killed seven police officers, including a captain, in an attack at a security checkpoint north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to security and hospital sources.
• ‘Riyadh wants al-Qaeda state in Iraq’
  A political analyst says Saudi Arabia supports al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists such as the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to establish an independent state in Iraq, Press TV reports.
• ‘US using al-Qaeda for ME dominance’
  The United States has been long using the terrorist al-Qaeda group as a cover for its imperialist policies in the Middle East, an analyst writes in a column for the Press TV website.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• How pandemics spread
  Air passenger links between cities internationally are the most powerful determinants of disease spread, new reserach has shown. Historically, the spread of infectious diseases tend to be limited by ...
• Optimal crop irrigation
  Growing crops in arid areas has become a little easier with the release of new technology that assesses the local environment. Understanding weather and environmental data to calculate how much water...
• How diet changes your gut bacteria
  Microorganisms in the gut adapt to changing diet within 24 hours, researchers have found. Furthermore, high fat diets encourage the growth of specific species of bacteria, including those that cause i...
• Quick Fire Science: Exploring Mars
  NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012, and it has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater. This week the team running the rover reported on what th...
• Oldest Homo genome revealed
  Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany have used new techniques to extract and analyse DNA from the bones of human ancestors from 400,000 years ago - the old...

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• The Lazy Girls Guide to Going Green(er)
  When it comes to general sustainability, odds are you're guilty of a few infractions. Maybe you keep the water running while brushing your teeth, or maybe you're addicted to shopping at fast-fashion stores for things you don't really want or need. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle   ...
• Icelandic brewery uses dead whales in its beer
  Whale beer is the brainchild of the Icelandic Steðjar brewery and fin whaling company, Hvalur, and claims to contain whale meal. Its launch is timed to coincide with the Icelandic mid-winter festival of Þorrablót (Thorrablot) Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  | ...
• Wildcare - WildCare -- Brown Booby
  Meet this bird and learn about it's recovery. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Hold BP Accountable for Dolphin Deaths ! PLEAS ...
  Take Action: Tell the Department of Justice to hold BP accountable. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• 60 Minutes' 'Cleantech Crash' Segment Misses T ...
  A recent "60 Minutes" segment is drawing sharp criticism for its pessimistic take on the green technology sector, which questioned whether clean tech has become a "dirty word." Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

• Miley the Cat Keeps Ailing Veterans Company
  Theres an unusual staff member at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Fort Miley in San Francisco. He had virtually no job experience before he joined the team, but hes uniquely qualified for his position. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
• Tell Xtreme- Big Cats are not "Party Rentals" ...
  Tell Xtreme Entertainment Party Rentals that big cats are not "things" or "objects" that should even be listed with other non-living things; such as robots, amusement rides and golf carts. Tell them you do not condone the use of exotic cats Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   N ...
• Save Elephants in Vietnam from Extinction ! PL ...
  They are now critically endangered, and without intervention from China the elephant may soon be extinct in some parts of the world Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• The Lazy Girls Guide to Going Green(er)
  When it comes to general sustainability, odds are you're guilty of a few infractions. Maybe you keep the water running while brushing your teeth, or maybe you're addicted to shopping at fast-fashion stores for things you don't really want or need. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle   ...
• Speak Out Against Animal Giveaways at Lake Els ...
  Please urge Mountainside Ministries to implement a policy against animal giveawaysthen forward this alert far and wide! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

• Death or Insanity at its Worse?
  Opinion by Patricia L Johnson Jahi McMath is the 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead by Children’s Hospital in Oakland, CA after the teenager suffered complications after surgery. Jahi’s surgery was performed on December 9, 2013, she was placed on life support … Continue reading →
• Do You Really Need to Sign Up for Insurance?
  By Patricia L Johnson When was the last time you received medical care? How well informed are you on current medical costs? Unless a person has been a recipient of medical care over the past several years, they are generally … Continue reading →
• Medical August through October 2013
  Filed under: News and politics
• Merry Christmas
  Filed under: News and politics
• Ignorance is Bliss Unless You Are an Officer o ...
  By Patricia L Johnson President Obama issued a proclamation regarding the death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013 which read in part as follows: “As a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela, by the authority vested … Continue reading →

Rogue Government - WP

• TOP 50 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
  Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
• TOP 50 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
  Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
• TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
  Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
• TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
  Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
• The King of the Freeloaders
  As Karl Marx once quoted Goethe “everything that exists deserves to perish.” And it is exactly that petulant and craven mentality birthed by the king of the freeloaders that conservatives are up against. The “progressive” notion of freedom is freedom from responsibility. ...

  My AntiWar

• Attacks Across Iraq Leave 45 Dead, 78 Wounded
• Afghanistan to Free 88 ‘Dangerous’ ...
• US Wants Afghanistan to Sign Security Deal in ...
• Iraq PM Urges People of Fallujah to Expel Al-Qaeda
• Israel Publishes 272 More Tenders for Settleme ...

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

• Welcome to the new normal - and how to prepare ...
  There is no simpler way to put it - we are entering a mini to full blown ice age, and despite the rhetoric, we all have to prepare for it. I don't care if you are rich or poor. Your skin color matters not, nor your political leanings. We all have to prepare for the obvious and the sooner you do ...
• 11-year-old girl arrested for reportedly stabb ...
  An 11-year-old girl was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly stabbing her mother 9 times at an apartment complex. Although the police have not specified the relationship between the girl and the victim, family friends told News 8 that the victim, Toshia Edmonson, was in fact, the girl ...
• UK Navy scrambles destroyer to challenge Russi ...
  Russian vessel detected 30 miles away from Scotland last nightOnly ship available to respond was on south coast of EnglandTensions heightened when aerial photos showed ship full of missilesA fully armed Royal Navy warship was scrambled to challenge a missile-carrying Russian vessel in the water ...
• FLASHBACK: In the '80s and '90s, thousands cam ...
  In the late 1970s, a handful of feminist scholars did some groundbreaking research and delivered some distressing news: one in three American women and one in ten American men, they reported, had been victims of childhood sexual abuse. Their studies proved that incest wasn't the rare anomaly it ...
• Can exorcisms help soldiers with PTSD?
  The 2005 tragedy haunted him when he returned to his home in Savannah, Ga. At night, a tall, shadowy figure crept into his room. Sometimes the Black Thing would threaten to kill him; other times it would choke his dead best friend. The dark figure, a "Destroyer demon," punished him, he said, "f ...

The Galloping Beaver

• "Incidentally"
  Curious word, that. Once upon a time spy agencies were tasked with monitoring legitmate defence-related threats, say the Soviets and their allied and proxy forces, armed insurrectionists in Canada and abroad (e.g. FLQ, armed Aboriginal groups, Islamist terrorists), or Canadians in the habit ...
• "It wouldn't be B.C. without it"
  The words issued by the so-called prime minister of Canada when a protester managed to breach his security yesterday. Wouldn't it now? In other words, Harper expects to come to BC, (as little as possible), and be faced with people who vocally express their displeasure with his wrecking-ba ...
• In Canada
  The rise of the Harper Government, means that it can now be said that "Canadian" spy agencies (CSIS, CSE, etc) work for private industry. Now, should Enbridge or some other corporation decides that a pipeline or a shopping mall would look good in your neighbourhood but you don't, the spies ma ...
• Killing Canada
  Years ago I blogged here about the motivation behind Harper being one of absolute loathing for the country he happened to exist in. I can't seem to locate that post now, but I still think I have a point. Harper's goal is to destroy the Canada that you and I know and love, which is to say he aims ...
• His Immenseness will come out of his hole in . ...
  ... And then he'll make sure he's securely insulated from anything British Columbia by hiding behind the locked gates of a conservative bastion for the wealthy, Brentwood College School. Prime Minister Harper visits Cowichan on Tuesday for a private Tory party event at Brentwood College Scho ...

Media Matters for America

• REPORT: What Weekday Broadcast And Cable Eveni ...
  Weekday broadcast and cable evening news covered a variety of economic topics including deficit reduction, economic growth, and effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) throughout the fourth quarter of 2013. A Media Matters analysis shows that many&nb ...
• New Hampshire Newspapers Create Faux Legitimac ...
  Two of New Hampshire's top newspapers, the Union Leader and Concord Monitor, ran weekly opinion columns from members of the Josiah Bartlett Center (JBC), a Koch brother-funded ally of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), but failed to disclose the authors' conservative funding allow ...
• Conservative Media Ignore Facts In Their Outra ...
  Conservative media ignored several relevant facts to attack a California Supreme Court ruling that a qualified undocumented immigrant cannot be denied a law license simply for being in the country illegally, including that undocumented immigrants can legally practice law in California and that t ...
• Media's Latest Unemployment Myth: Benefits Hav ...
  Right-wing media voices have coalesced around the myth that unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed do not need to be extended because the economy is improving and benefits have existed for too long. These arguments, however, ignore key realities about long-term unemployment, namely th ...
• Right-Wing Media Revive Myth That ACA Birth Co ...
  Right-wing media have responded to a Supreme Court justice's decision to temporarily block the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) birth control mandate by falsely claiming that abortifacients are included in the coverage required by the health care law.Sotomayor Temporarily Blocks ACA Birth Control Man ...

Consortium News

• NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
• Israel’s Ethical Challenges
• The ‘Surge’ Myth’s Deadly Result
• The Mysterious Why of the Iraq War
• Forgetting Why Al-Qaeda Spread

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

• “Return To Fukushima” Airs This Week
  It’s not too late to catch America Tonight‘s exclusive four-part series, Return to Fukushima. The television special delves into real-world impacts of the nuclear disaster, industry and government efforts to mitigate the damage done, and how any ongoing fallout could affect the safet ...
• A Longer Life: Frozen Bubbles
  What happens when you blow a bubble and it’s cold outside? (Photo: Washington photographer Angela Kelly.) January 2014. It’s been unseasonably chilly, to say the least. Washington-based photographer Angela Kelly brings us a stunning gallery of photographs in the Huffington Post of wh ...
• This App Could Revolutionize Public Transit
  For bus and train commuters, there’s a new app that aims to make your experience even easier and less stressful, with realtime tracking of public transit, as well as arrival predictions and proximity alerts. Getting around the city with public transit can be fraught with issues, from wonde ...
• How to know when your cat is fully charged…
  Here’s how you can tell if your beloved pet is charged up and ready to go. (From Radio Hauraki, Live all over New Zealand and worldwide. Facebook page, November 15, 2013.)How to know when your cat is fully charged… was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, ...
• OrbSys’ Closed-loop Shower Uses 90% Less Water
  By collecting most of the hot, soapy water that flows off of you during a ten-minute shower, Orbital Systems’ new closed-loop shower promises to reduce your water use by up to 90%, all while reducing the energy it takes to keep that water warm- by as much as 80%! All of which begs the ques ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Agricultural Community works with State Agencies
  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the State of Vermont recently held a
• 'Superbugs' spreading from water treatement plants
  E. Coli bacteria. ‘There’s no antibiotic that can kill them …’ By Summit Voice FRI
• On not seeing the forest for the trees (or the ...
  One lesson I try to get across to my students is the importance of thinking about environmental prob
• New study links fracking chemicals to cancer a ...
  Gas well near Rifle, Colorado The sampling for this study took place in Garfield County. Imagine tha
• New Aquarium Set-Up: The Essentials
  Have you always wanted an aquarium and just had no clue where to begin? Don’t feel alone as mo

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

• Still Stuck in a Climate Argument
  (New York Times) When a ship carrying scientists and adventure tourists became stuck in ice in the Antarctic late last month, climate change skeptics had a field day. On Twitter and other social media si ...
• U.S. Sailors Sue Japanese Nuclear Plant Owner ...
  (Environment News Service) Seventy-one U.S. Navy sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are filing suit against the Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, after they were allegedly exposed to radiation from ...
• Is the Record Cold Arctic Outbreak Tied to Glo ...
  (Weather Channel) Can extreme weather events like this weekend's historic outbreak of cold Arctic air across the U.S. be caused by the warming of the Arctic? Though it seems counterintuitive – global warming bringing about extreme col ...
• Eight European Ministers Urged the EU to Set 2 ...
  (Reuters) Ministers from Germany, France and six other countries have called for the European Union to set a 2030 goal for renewable energy use, in opposition to their British counterpart who advocates a sole greenhouse gas emissions t ...
• Two Companies Settle $80,000 Frac Sand Mine Po ...
  (The Journal Sentinel) Two Minnesota companies have agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a pollution case at a sand mine in northwestern Wisconsin where sediments from the mine infiltrated a wetland, a creek and ultimately flowed into the S ...

GreenBiz

• New survey helps move "materiality" beyond the ...
  The latest GlobeScan and SustainAbility Issues Survey provides industry-specific insights on accountability and urgency.
• 20 crowdfunding ideas to kickstart sustainable ...
  Here are 15 smart ideas with a shot at success in the new year — and five that deserve a second chance.
• Whole Foods, Gerber say demand for green baby ...
  Parents weren’t always clamoring for sustainable baby goods. But thanks to pioneers such as i Play., the market has been steadily growing.
• Whole Foods opens one of nation’s most energy- ...
  The gourmet grocer’s new outpost in Brooklyn is a model for how businesses can incorporate energy efficiency and lower their carbon footprint. 
• 10 apps to green your business in 2014
  From crowdfunding to geomapping resources, here are five ways the Internet and mobile apps will shape decision-making in the year to come.

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

• Trilby Can't Sing Without Frank Luntz
  One thing I had not considered until this morning was how your average right-wing mouth-breather reacted to the news that Frank Luntz has basically given up on being able to message the GOP over the finish line and win them back control of the White House. It must be dispiriting news, no? ...
• Sabato's Bleak Predictions
  Larry Sabato's analysis of the midterm elections is pretty much rock-solid from an historical perspective, but I think history is not particularly useful in this case. At least, I don't think history that goes back before the Gingrich Revolution has a whole lot to teach us about what to expect ...
• Wanker of the Day: Jonah Goldberg
  Setting aside the appalling squalor that is detailed in the opening of the profile on Dasani, at no point in his USA Today column does Jonah Goldberg deal with the following reality: In the short span of Dasanis life, her city has been reborn. The skyline soars with luxury towers, beacons of ...
• My Congressman is Quitting
  This may not interest you, but my congressman, Jim Gerlach, is retiring. This comes as quite a surprise to me because, with the new congressional maps drawn after the 2010 Census, Gerlach was finally blessed with a safe district. Throughout the aughts, he struggled to win reelection every two ...
• Yellin is Confirmed
  Those of you who were yelling for Yellin to be the next chairperson of the Federal Reserve have gotten your way. She was confirmed by the Senate tonight in a 56 to 26 vote. I don't know if there were a lot of absences or abstentions, or some of both. I don't think she was the president's ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  There are some crackers for your perusal in this week’s selection of links, so dive in and enjoy. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Crumbling Ruins of the Most Haunted Island ...
  Venice is not somewhere we usually associate with horrors, but an island in its lagoon, now off-limits to visitors, has a chilling history of deaths. Welcome to Poveglia. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  A great selection of goodies for you this week. Don’t miss Christmas monsters, imaginary friends, a guy in a tutu, and real-life mad scientists. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Island Nation Doomed to Disappear Within H ...
  For hundreds if not thousands of years, the I-Kiribati have lived on their island paradise, but now their home is being slowly submerged under rising sea levels. 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
  The hottest links have got a geeky feel this week. Check out some awesome t-shirts, wallets, and real-life nutty professors. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

• First 100 Days Energy and Environmental Policy ...
  First 100 Days Energy and Environmental Policy Green Party US (press release) EPA, through rule making, will ban the dumping of mountain top removal wastes in stream beds and valleys. 4. NASA and other agency scientists will be encouraged to provide agency heads, and the President's Council ...
• Local minister says goodbye to the pulpit, but ...
  Herald & Tribune Local minister says goodbye to the pulpit, but not to the message Herald & Tribune He remembers when the church hosted the viewing of “The Last Mountain,” a documentary about the mountaintop removal in West Virginia, at the Historic Jonesborough Visitors Center. Wolff said they ...
• Reducing the Toxicity of Modern Technology - H ...
  Reducing the Toxicity of Modern Technology Huffington Post There is also the ideology of people who refuse to acknowledge scientific fact such as climate science deniers, or those who believe that fracking, mountaintop removal and deep sea drilling for fossil fuels pose little risk to ecosystems ...
• Groups Saying “WV DEP Ignoring Citizen Surface ...
  Groups Saying “WV DEP Ignoring Citizen Surface Mine Complaints” Turn to Feds Hampshire Review (blog) He said DEP gets and routinely dismisses hundreds of the complaints a year, often from people living near huge mountaintop-removal operations. “Wells drying up or being contaminated. Cracks to th ...
• Groups Saying "WV DEP Ignoring Citizen Surface ...
  Groups Saying "WV DEP Ignoring Citizen Surface Mine Complaints” Turn to Feds Public News Service He said DEP gets and routinely dismisses hundreds of the complaints a year, often from people living near huge mountaintop-removal operations. "Wells drying up or being contaminated. Cracks ...

Memeorandum

• Faulty Websites Confront Needy in Search of Ai ...
  Frances Robles / New York Times: Faulty Websites Confront Needy in Search of Aid  —  MIAMI — Three months after the disastrous rollout of a new $63 million website for unemployment claims, Florida is hiring hundreds of employees to deal with technical problems that left te ...
• Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly ...
  TIME: Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly Quit  —  By Zeke J Miller @zekejmillerJan.  07, 2014  —  Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has harsh words for Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy judgement in his soon-to-be-released memoir.& ...
• Obamacare ads to hit the Olympic slopes (Kyle ...
  Kyle Cheney / Politico: Obamacare ads to hit the Olympic slopes  —  The Obama administration is planning an Olympic-size ad blitz to push health coverage during the Winter Games next month.  —  The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday that it ...
• Trey Radel returns to Capitol Hill after cocai ...
  Deirdre Walsh / CNN: Trey Radel returns to Capitol Hill after cocaine bust, treatment  —  (CNN) - U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Florida, returned to work on Capitol Hill Tuesday for the first time after pleading guilty to cocaine possession last November.  —  He repeat ...
• The Senate's Last Compassionate Conservative T ...
  Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast: The Senate's Last Compassionate Conservative Tries to Help the Jobless  —  Dean Heller is no big spender, yet he talked five fellow Republicans into breaking his own party's filibuster of extended unemployment benefits.  —  Befo ...

Energy & Environment News

• Slowly, Asia’s Factories Begin to Turn Green
  Multinationals and local suppliers are increasingly going beyond local regulations in designing factories that cut energy costs and pollute less.     
• Dot Earth Blog: How the Obama Administration C ...
  The public’s help is sought in a push to restrict wasteful fishing practices that are harming rare bluefin tuna.     
• Dot Earth Blog: In One Image: Cold Snaps In Gl ...
  Cold snaps make for fun quips on global warming, but that’s about all.     
• Dot Earth Blog: China Follows U.S., Crushing T ...
  China uses a loud, much-publicized ivory-crushing event to send a signal to consumers and criminals.     
• Spain’s Solar Pullback Threatens Pocketbooks
  The Spanish government has changed its mind on a law offering attractive rates for solar energy, and instead will make producers pay a charge on electricity they generate and use themselves.     

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.6, Vanuatu
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• M 5.2, Baja California, Mexico
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• M 5.3, Alaska Peninsula
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• M 5.4, Alaska Peninsula
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• M 5.5, off the coast of Northern California
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Daily Censored

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AlterNet's Breaking News

• Britain's Deng traded from Bulls to Cavaliers
  Loul Deng of the Chicago Bulls rebounds against the Orlando Magic at the United Center on December 16, 2013 in Chicago, IllinoisBritain's Luol Deng, an NBA All-Star forward, was traded by the Chicago Bulls to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday in a deal for Andrew Bynum and draft picks, the te ...
• Obama presses Republicans on jobless benefits
  US President Barack Obama speaks about extending emergency unemployment benefits at the White House in Washington on January 7, 2014President Barack Obama made an emotional, moral and economic case for extending long-term unemployment benefits on Tuesday, kicking off his first skirmish of the ...
• Mississippi Tea Party candidate decries hip-ho ...
  According to a new report from Mother Jones, state Sen. Chris McDaniel — who is currently mounting a primary challenge to GOP incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran — previously said that increased gun crime in Canada was a consequence of the "culture" of hip-hop, and that waterboarding was ...
• McDonalds to shift to “sustainable beef” (once ...
  Starting in 2016, McDonalds will start purchasing something called "verified sustainable beef," the fast-food giant announced today.GreenBiz has the scoop:“Our vision is to buy verifiable, sustainable beef in the future for all of our beef,” said Bob Langert, McDonald’s vice ...
• Evgeny Morozov’s New Yorker put down of the Ma ...
  It is a peculiarity of Evgeny Morozov, the foremost critic of our Twitteriffic age, that he could write 4000 words in The New Yorker disemboweling the "Maker" movement without giving any indication whatsoever that he had ever talked to a single Maker or even so much as attended a Maker Faire.It ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Storage and Disposal Challenges of High Bu ...
  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has bowed to the wishes of nuclear reactor operators, motivated more by economics than safe spent nuclear fuel storage and disposal.
• An Interview with Rene Gonzalez, of the Cuban 5
  Rene Gonzalez, the only member of the Cuban Five to be released from prison since their arrest in 1998 was interviewed by IPS' Netfa Freeman at the 9th International Colloquium for the Freedom of the Five and Against Terrorism held in Holguín, Cuba,
• Demilitarizing the Economy: A Movement is Underway
  As we end the longest period of war in our history, we should be entering a period of postwar downsizing - but what about the communities dependent on the massive post-9/11 military budget?
• News on Mistreatment of Indian Diplomat Ignore ...
  "The treatment of Khobragade during her arrest raises serious concerns for us and for our international allies, but it is our belief this cannot be used as an excuse to ignore the deeper questions raised by the case," said Tiffany Williams, Institute for Policy Studies.
• Domestic Workers Deserve Protection: Hold Dipl ...
  Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was clearly mistreated by U.S. officers, but what about the abuse that migrant domestic workers live through every day?

IntelNews

• Discovery of spy parts leaves French-UAE satel ...
  The planned acquisition of two French-built spy satellites by the United Arab Emirates appeared to be in doubt last night, after news that technicians discovered “security-compromising components” in the satellites’ software.
• Exiled Rwandan ex-spymaster found murdered in ...
  The former head of Rwanda’s external intelligence agency, who had been branded an ‘enemy of the state’ by the Rwandan government, was murdered last week in South Africa.
• Czech police find weapons in house of late Pal ...
  Authorities in the Czech Republic said they found several weapons in the residence of a Palestinian diplomat who died in a mysterious explosion on New Year’s Day.
• Bizarre explosion kills Palestinian diplomat i ...
  The ambassador of Palestine to the Czech Republic was pronounced dead yesterday following injuries he sustained from a mysterious explosion at his residence.
• German magazine reveals more information on el ...
  Last June, we reported on the existence of an elite cyberatack unit within the United States National Security Agency (NSA), which operates under the Agency's Office of Tailored Access Operations. Now German newsmagazine Der Spiegel says it viewed internal documents that confirm the existence of ...

War is a Crime.org

• Turkey/Syria News - Jan 8
    Turkish PM Erdogan hit by allegations of son’s meeting with ‘Al Qaeda financier' suspected in a scandal over the sale of public land - The National PHOTO: Erdoğan's son meets 'Al Qaeda financier' - Twitter / reportturk More on Erdogan’s Son Caught with 'Al-Qaeda Financier' - Alex ...
• International Scholars, Peace Advocates and Ar ...
  Leading scholars, peace advocatesand artists from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia today released the attached statement opposing the construction of the new U.S. Marine base at Henoko, Okinawa, planned by the US and Japanese governments as a replacement facility of Futenma airba ...
• Days Before Casselton Oil Train Explosion, Oba ...
  Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog On December 20, both chambers of the U.S. Congress passed a little-noticed bill to expedite permitting for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on public lands in the Bakken Shale basin, located predominantly in North Dakota. And on December 26, President Obama signed t ...
• When Will They Ever Learn? The American People ...
  When it comes to war, the American public is remarkably fickle. The responses of Americans to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars provide telling examples.  In 2003, according to opinion polls, 72 percent of Americans thought going to war in Iraq was the right decision.  By early 2013, supp ...
• January 11, 2014 -12th anniversary of Guantana ...
  The Bush regime filled the off-shore prison at Guantanamo Bay by rendering men seized from around the globe into indefinite captivity, employing and legally justifying a program of torture they called "enhanced interrogation." Even Bush's team slowly began to release hundreds of prisoners for wh ...

Grist - News

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

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Time - Top Stories

• Syrian Rebels Fight Al-Qaeda
  While Assad sits back and watches
• Elle Crops Mindy Kaling's Curves
  Other stars get full-body shots
• McD Will Serve 'Sustainable Beef'
  But nobody's sure what that is
• Gravity Is Falling Back to Theaters This Month
  Because space is about second chances  
• White House Defends Biden
  Spokesperson blasts back against comments made by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

Invisible Opportunity

• Visible Origami | Sitting in the Bakelite Chai ...
  By Visible I’ll leave you with an illustration of this as it applies to sex and also feature The Tarot in such a way as to show the practical value of it. The Hermit card is a pictorial example of one who possesses the inner light. It’s got all kinds of attributes and one knowledgeable […]
• UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Onl ...
  Nick Meyer | AltHealthWORKS Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and monoculture-based crops, the United Nations is once against sounding the alarm about the urgent need to return ...
• Wake Up Call: Global Warming High Priest Al Go ...
  Malcolm Gladwell\’s great book The Tipping Point presents the case that sudden seismic shifts in society can result from small events, if the right factors are present. Tipping points happen when momentum toward an idea builds and finally crosses a threshold where it is evident that a majo ...
• German Scientists Show Climate Driven By Natur ...
  By P Gosselin on 3. Dezember 2013 Climate reveals periodic nature, thus no influence by CO2 Prof. H. Luedecke and C.O. Weiss (Original German version here.) We reported recently about our spectral analysis work of European temperatures [1] which shows that during the last centuries all climate c ...
• ‘Affordable care’ – Oregon man robs bank ...
  A homeless man has allegedly held up and robbed a Portland bank for $1, then sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison. Timothy Dean Alsip, a 50-year-old homeless man, was arrested by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department and thrown in jail on susp ...

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

• Looking at natural resources as limits to growth
  Summary:  Previous posts about the future of economic growth have examined the drivers of growth. Today we look at the most commonly cited barrier to growth: a future scarcity of natural resources. A typical doomster prediction, more precise and famous than most: “If current trends continu ...
• Looking at America’s future: economic st ...
  Summary:  “Is the economy in technological stagnation? Or will computers take all our jobs?” An analysis from the Fed gives us an answer. Another in a series of posts about the future of America’s economy and the coming of the next industrial revolution. . “The Productivi ...
• The promise and peril of automation
  Summary:  Today we have a status report on society’s recognition of the coming industrial revolution. The next wave of automation (the next industrial revolution) was long forecast (even in the 1950s), but became clearly visible in 2010 with the writings of far-seeing people like Martin Fo ...
• Pretty propaganda: the eco-fable of Easter Island
  Summary: Today we discuss and example of myth-making by the Left, a politically-useful fable. They do it more elegantly than the Right, but not as successfully (in terms of political effect). This is an expanded version of a post from February 2010. . Contents Myth-telling by the Left A National ...
• As we begin a new year, let’s look to th ...
  Summary:  Last month we looked at the big questions that 2014 might answer.  Today we look backwards, at the thousand words-plus posted daily in 2013. Let’s look not at the posts that got the most hits (shown here), those are seldom the ones that look significant a year or so later.  What ...

The Progressive Realist

• UN Peacekeepers Protecting Civilians in South ...
  South Sudan is in free fall. But things could be much, much worse if not for the presence of some 8,000 UN Peacekeepers currently deployed as part of the UN Mission in South Sudan. According to the latest figures from the United Nations, 189,000 people have been displaced by the current crisis i ...
• Ted Cruz’s New Plan to Shut Down Diplomacy wit ...
  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) CREDIT: AP Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has filed a resolution that sets two preconditions on Iran before the United States can engage in further negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program. The resolution, which is being shopped around the Senate for cosponsors, according to ...
• Top of the Morning: The Laser that can Diagnos ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest A Laser to Diagnose Malaria? It’s being developed by researchers at Rice University in the US. “In theory, said the inventor, Dmitri O. Lapotko, a physicist who studied laser weapons in his native Belarus, the technology can be used in a device powered by a car batt ...
• Security Experts Ask Senators to Pull Back Ira ...
  From left, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer (NY), Robert Menendez (NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Cory Booker (NJ) have co-sponored a new Iran sanctions bill. CREDIT: AP A group of national security experts and American foreign policy luminaries sent a letter on Monday to the primary co-sponsors ...
• A Violent and Flawed Election in Bangladesh
  Bangladeshi citizens were denied a genuine opportunity to exercise their democratic franchise on Sunday January 5, as national elections marred by violence, boycott and political tensions overshadowed the vote. The main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had been campaigni ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The Circle of Scam
  I've long held that what William Goldman said about Hollywood—"Nobody knows anything"—is equally true of Washington. At the same time though, people in politics are particularly adept at finding those who know even less than they do, and scamming them into giving over their political support or ...
• Daily Meme: Foretelling Yellen
  Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Janet Yellen as Ben Bernanke's replacement as the head of the Federal Reserve, with a vote of 56-25—a lackluster show of support that beat Bernanke's former distinction as the most-opposed Fed chair in history. The vote could have been even closer if not for the  ...
• The Moral Calculus Underlying the Debate Over ...
  The Senate is working its way toward (possibly) overcoming a Republican filibuster of an extension of longterm unemployment insurance, after which the measure will die when John Boehner refuses to bring it up for a vote in the House. Or perhaps not; Boehner's current position is that he's "open ...
• We Haven’t Heard the Last of Liz Cheney
  Across North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia Monday morning, members of Al Qaeda were popping the (non-alcoholic, of course) champagne corks. Why? Because the news had just broken that Liz Cheney would be dropping out of the Wyoming Senate race. With this bold warrior-patriot no longer ...
• New York’s Pot Legalization is Still Kinda Square
  Just days after the first state-regulated marijuana shops opened in Colorado—to the delight of everyone who loves a good pot pun in their morning newspaper—reports began to circulate that New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, was poised to bring his state into line with the twenty other ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Electric Cars Hit Milestone With First Grand P ...
  The world's first electric car Grand Prix racing series has drawn big motorsports names and at least one Hollywood star. Can speed and glitz help propel EVs into the mainstream?
• North Dakota Oil Train Fire Spotlights Risks o ...
  The fiery crash of an oil train in North Dakota points to the risks of transporting crude oil by rail.
• Will Climate Change Swamp the Statue of Libert ...
  Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty are in climate change's way.
• As Solar Power Grows, Dispute Flares Over U.S. ...
  As more U.S. homes install solar power, who should pay for the legacy electric grid? In California and other states, utilities are challenging “net metering” policies.
• Japan's Newest Island Triples in Size
  The new volcanic island Niijima is growing and should last at least several years more, scientists say.

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

• Richard Mack, Enemy of Federal Power, Now Atta ...
  Photo by Gage Skidmore Richard Mack, the “constitutionalist” sheriff who has been one of the leading promoters of the concept of “nullification” of federal laws by state and county authorities in recent years, stepped into the battle over same-sex marriage in Utah this weekend. Mack headlined a ...
• CIS Spokesman: Hispanics Lack ‘Strong Family V ...
  CIS So long GOP. Hello dictatorship. Immigration reform and the browning of America are going to turn the land of the free and the home of the brave into a one-party state like the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico. Further, immigration reform – including a path to citizenship an ...
• Seattle Arson That Could Have Killed Hundreds ...
  A horrific tragedy in which hundreds could have died was narrowly averted in Seattle on New Year’s Eve, stopped by patrons of an iconic gay bar who managed to extinguish a raging arson fire at the bar’s entrance before the flames spread. Now Seattle police are investigating the case as a possibl ...
• Neo-Nazi Craig Cobb Granted Bond But, So Far, ...
  For a cool million bucks – cash – Craig Cobb, the not-so-white white supremacist, can ring in the New Year without handcuffs or shackles. Since his arrest on Nov. 16 for terrorizing the tiny North Dakota town of Leith that he hoped to turn into an all-Aryan enclave, Cobb has been locked up witho ...
• Members of White Supremacist Prison Gang Charg ...
  Four members of a white supremacist prison gang and a female accomplice were arraigned this afternoon in Tacoma, Wash., on charges related to the brutal stabbing death last month of a fellow gang member. Derek Wagner was stabbed multiple times, including once in the heart, and bled to death afte ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Cost of Putting Seafood on Dinner Tables: 650, ...
  In order to put wild-caught seafood on dinner tables, more than 650,000 marine mammals are killed or seriously injured every year in foreign fisheries after being hooked, entangled or trapped in fishing gear, and enforcement of a U.S. law to protect marine mammals could help prevent tens of thou ...
• War on Poverty: How it Succeeded and How it Failed
  TIMOTHY CASEY, tcasey at legalmomentum.org Director of the Women & Poverty Program at Legal Momentum, Casey just wrote the report “Too Little Progress” [PDF] about the war on poverty after 50 years.read more
• CREW Releases Report Showing Committee Leaders ...
  Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a new report finding committee chairmen and ranking members in the House of Representatives increasingly rely on the industries they regulate for campaign contributions, amid a shift in industry money away from Democrats ...
• Nearly 11,000 Acres of Critical Habitat Protec ...
  In accordance with a landmark settlement agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized designation of 10,968 acres of protected critical habitat for the Cape Sable thoroughwort, a rare plant found only in South Florida and threatened by ha ...
• New Poll on the Legacy of the War on Poverty a ...
  Fifty years after President Lyndon B.read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Three Hearings, Nine Hours, and One Accurate ...
  Mark M. Jaycox Lee Tien Last week, press reports revealed more about the National Security Agency's (NSA) elite hacking unit, the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO).read more
• Now We Know. JPMorgan Chase is Worse Than Enron.
  Richard Eskow It’s beginning to look as if JPMorgan Chase has had a hand in every major banking scandal of the last decade. In fact, it’s the Zelig of Wall Street crime. Take a snapshot of any major bank fraud and chances are yo ...
• Democracy Needs Whistleblowers. That's Why I B ...
  Bonnie Raines J Edgar Hoover helped Richard Nixon gain power in the US. (Photo: Bettmann/CORBIS)I vividly remember the eureka moment. It was the night we broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, in March 1971 and removed about 1,000 ...
• How Change Takes Place in the United States: T ...
  Mark Weisbrot Last week, the New York Times reported that “Democratic Party leaders … have found an issue they believe can lift their fortunes both locally and nationally in 2014: an increase in the minimum wage.” re ...
• Four Points about the 1971 FBI Break-In
  Glenn Greenwald

Water Privatization

• ‘Pak, China share decades old cooperation in e ...
  BEIJING: Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Tuesday Pakistan and China shared decades old cooperation in energy sector and several projects between the two countries illustrated their close cooperation.
• AAP to take on Nagpur Municipal Corporation fo ...
  After taking on the private basic amenity providers in the national capital, Aam Admi Party (AAP) has turned its attention to Nagpur, where most of amenities are provided by private companies.        
• Liquor Privatization Campaign Draws Elections ...
  It didn't take long for the boozy ballot initiatives backed by the Northwest Grocery Association and filed last week to generate an elections complaint. Jesse Cornett , a political consultant who has previously editorialized on Blue Oregon against the grocers' goal of privatizing liquor ...
• Saudia plans privatization of sectors
  Saudia plans privatization of sectors
• Two water projects totaling US$445mn featured ...
  Following the awarding of two major water and sanitation projects at the end of 2013, Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión has included two additional water and sanitation projects, totaling US$445mn, in its portfolio of projects to be awarded in 2014 and 2015.

Guardian

• US air force helicopter crashes in Norfolk: fo ...
  US air force confirms Pave-hawk helicopter has crashed in Cley-next-the-Sea in north NorfolkFour people are believed to have died in a US military helicopter crash in Cley-next-the-Sea in north Norfolk, police have said.The US air force confirmed that one of its helicopters – a Pave-hawk – was i ...
• Nigella Lawson's recipe for a comeback: Master ...
  The Taste, Channel 4's new primetime cook-off, sees Nigella join the search for a culinary star weeks after bruising court case"Canapes for breakfast, don't ask!" tweeted Nigella Lawson on Tuesday morning, posting to her half-million followers a photograph of smoked salmon and dill nibbles, artf ...
• Government's flagship benefits scheme faces mo ...
  Documents reveal friction between Department for Work and Pensions and Cabinet Office as IT problems mountThe government's flagship programme to shake up the benefits system is facing fresh problems in a battle between two departments at the heart of the scheme, documents leaked to the Guardian ...
• JP Morgan Chase to pay more than $2bn in penal ...
  With the latest settlement, the US government will receive nearly $20bn from the bank over various chargesDominic Rushe
• Police challenged Rebekah Brooks's PA over not ...
  Cheryl Carter and Brooks deny plotting to remove notebooks from company archive day after announcement of NoW closurePolice challenged Rebekah Brooks's personal assistant about "discrepancies" over her account of how seven boxes of notebooks came to disappear from News International, warning her ...

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 »

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Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Federal Court Hearing Scheduled for UBS Tax F ...
  Arraignment Scheduled for 11am January 7, 2014 In U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale Whistleblower Expresses Concern over Sweetheart Deal that Could Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions of Dollars Fort Lauderdale, Florida. January 6, 2014.  Raoul Weil, the former head of UBS&r ...
• Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
  The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgment or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final R ...
• NWC Rebuts Chamber's Proposed FCA Reforms
  Intern Paul Lyons authored this post. On Friday, December 6th, 2013, National Whistleblower Center Executive Director, Stephen Kohn, was a guest panelist at the Congressional Civil Justice Caucus Academy's Briefing on False Claims Act Reform. The briefing was styled as a debate between Mr. Ko ...
• Tax Whistleblower -- If You Get A Rejection Le ...
  Originally posted at Forbes.com on December 10, 2013. After teeth gnashing and working through conspiracy theories, you have 30 days to appeal to Tax Court.  A good starting point is to call your assigned case manager at the IRS whistleblower office.  The IRS has been moving to be bet ...
• 2013's 10 Big Moments for Chief Compliance Off ...
  Originally published at Corporate Counsel on Dec. 20, 2013.   As sure as the fix was in for LIBOR, 2013 could be counted on to provide plenty of “Ripped From the Headlines” fodder for compliance and ethics commentators everywhere. With 2014 ahead of us and no end in sight ...

TechDirt

• Whistleblowers Who Broke Into The FBI 43 Years ...
  Whenever NSA overreach is discussed, many—even the NSA’s biggest advocates—refer back to J. Edgar Hoover's illegal FBI domestic surveillance program in the 1960s and 70s as the prime example of an out-of-control intelligence agency and the dangers of a surveillance state. But ...
• 7 Things You Missed If You Didn't Read Wired's ...
  Steven Levy, who specializes in massive articles looking into aspects of the tech industry, has a new one for Wired, called How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet. It basically looks at how the NSA legally coerced the tech companies into having to comply with certain court orders to hand over in ...
• A Bunch Of Security Researchers Cancel Appeara ...
  A few weeks ago, there was quite a big story concerning how the NSA paid $10 million to RSA to make its compromised random number generator the "default" in a key RSA product. The RSA issued a ridiculously stupid "categorical denial" of the report, which actually denied something entirely differ ...
• Not Cool: MPAA Joins The W3C
  The W3C has been at the forefront of open standards and an open internet for many years, obviously. So it's somewhat distressing to see it announced this morning that the MPAA has now joined the group. After all, it was not that long ago that the MPAA flat out tried to break the open internet by ...
• After Muzzling Scientists, Canadian Government ...
  Techdirt has been tracking the sorry saga of Canada's assault on free speech for a while, as it first muzzled scientists and librarians, and then clamped down on the public expressing its views. Now, it seems, the Canadian government of Stephen Harper is attacking knowledge by dismantling key s ...

VacTruth

• Deadly Vaccine Kills 8 Infants; Drug Maker Say ...
  Eight babies in China have died in the past two months shortly after being injected with the Hepatitis B vaccine.
• Do You Believe More Vaccines or Better Nutriti ...
  The effort to decrease disease outbreaks by increasing the funding of vaccine studies is misguided. Functional medicine has established that most diseases are caused by nutritional deficiencies and toxic overload, making one susceptible to disease.
• Dogs And Cows And Toxic Vials, That’s What Vac ...
  Falling vaccination rates have caused one government to train 35,000 health care workers how to handle parents who want to vaccine choice and vaccine truth.
• Your Children to be Used as Guinea Pigs for Ne ...
  A US vaccine company has applied for permission to infect up to one thousand individuals, including children, with genetically modified live bacteria contained in an oral vaccine.
• How the Current Medical System Misinforms You ...
  We are living in the age of disinformed consent. Parents assume their doctors and their public health authorities are providing them with all relevant vaccine information, and nothing could be further from the truth.

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comoriginal.antiwar.comBy Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, ...
• Ex-DARPA Head Wants You to Swallow ID Microchips
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comEx-DARPA Head Wants You to Swallow ID Microchips Google executive also pushes’e-tattoo that reads your mind Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com January 7, 2014 Former DARPA director and now Google executive Regina D ...
• Israel’s Education System Peddles Intolerance ...
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsrael’s Education System Peddles Intolerance and Lies dissidentvoice.orgBy Jonathan Cook John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement designed ...
• Report: Teacher Tells Student “Jesus Is Not Al ...
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comReport: Teacher Tells Student “Jesus Is Not Allowed in School” Teacher trashes messages first-grader brought to class referring to Christ, says non-profit group Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com January 7, 2014 A school teache ...
• Thou Shalt Not Make Fun of World War I
  Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThou Shalt Not Make Fun of World War I By DavidSwansonwashingtonsblog.com From The Guardian: <

Dandelion Salad

• What’s a Slum? by Michael Parenti
  by Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org January 5, 2014 When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in  Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem (a Manhattan working class neighborhood)  as “a slum inhabited by beggar‑ ...
• The Man From The North: Baking the Bread of Re ...
  The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad January 5, 2014 The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today”, when a rising po ...
• Pope Francis Needs to Condemn US Warmongering ...
  by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV January 3, 2014 In his annual New Year’s address, Catholic Pope Francis sounded particularly vexed when he urged an end to wars and conflict. “What on Earth is happening in the hearts of men? What on Earth is happe ...
• New Year’s Concert 2014: Vienna Philharmonic: ...
  Dandelion Salad Happy New Year! Love, Lo Moros Nous Capitania Albaida·Jan 1, 2014 Johann Strauss Sr. “Radetzky March”, the last piece at the New Year’s Concert Vienna 2014, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. see Gerald Celente: 2014 Will Be A Year of Extremes New Year’s Co ...
• Gerald Celente: 2014 Will Be A Year of Extremes
  Dandelion Salad RT America on Dec 31, 2013 People have tried (with varying success) to predict the future, from soothsayers to reading tea leaves, from Nostradamus to calling Miss Cleo. But one man, Gerald Celente, has made a career out of forecasting trends as the founder of the Trends Research ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Hubble’s Magnify ...
  This image of Abell 2744 is the first to come from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing programme, which is using the magnifying power of enormous galaxy clusters to peer deep into the distant Universe. Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, is thought ...     
• 10 Years of Beautiful Mars Art From the Spirit ...
  For two twin robots, a decade of exploration on Mars has brought incredible discoveries and scientific insight. But the Spirit and Opportunity rovers have also spent 10 years capturing the desolate beauty and splendor of the Red Planet.     
• Watch Live: NASA Scientists Discuss Paving the ...
  Watch live as a scientists and engineers celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers landing on Mars by looking at what we now know about the Red Planet and ahead at future exploration. The live feed starts ...     
• WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Supernova Dust F ...
  This image shows the remnant of Supernova 1987A seen in light of very different wavelengths. ALMA data (in red) shows newly formed dust in the centre of the remnant. Hubble (in green) and Chandra (in blue) data show the expanding ...     
• Engrossingly Gross Photos of Spiders and Insec ...
  These are some of the most detailed and disturbing bug-meal photos you might ever see. You can thank us later.     

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Moshé Machover: Belling the cat
  A political project is purely utopian unless it can indicate a likely agent - a socio-political force able to realise it and whose long-term interests it would serve. In the present article I propose... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Noam Chomsky: The Arab Spring – power does not ...
  There are two parts of the Arab world that remain effectively colonies: Western Sahara ... and of course Palestine, where negotiations are underway conforming to the two essential US-Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of Israel
  Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
  t is assumed almost universally that there are two options for cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
  At the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions, bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

• Does FDA's Stand on Agricultural Antibiotics P ...
  Antibiotic-resistant disease is a major threat to public health, and the primary cause for this man-made epidemic is the widespread misuse of antibiotics-primarily in agriculture.Click here to read this article
• Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Scie ...
  Good journalism examines its sources critically, it takes nothing at face value, places its topics in a historical context, and it values above all the public interest. Such journalism is, most people agree, essential to any equitable and open system of government. These statements about journal ...
• Natural Ways to Help Fight Flu
  When someone nearby you sneezes and you end up inhaling the virus. It's said that a single sneeze may produce up to 40,000 droplets, which may leave your mouth at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.Click here to read this article
• Fukushima Crisis Goes Global
  In a desperate attempt to cope with the continuing crisis since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) began the risky and complex operation of moving more than 1 300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged storage pool towards the end of November 2013 amid ...
• Monsanto's Harmful Weedkiller in Your Bread an ...
  Jordans cereal bars and Warburtons bread have been found to contain traces of glyphosate - a controversial herbicide that campaigners say poses a risk to human health. Andrew Wasley reports ... Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• CLF Week in Links: Poultry, Big Pharma, Safewa ...
  Guidance 213 calls for the drug companies to voluntarily change their labels over the next three years to ban use of antibiotics for growth promotion or feed conversion (so called production uses). But, and this is a big but, the same resistance-inducing low-dose antibiotics administered through ...
• Five-Spoon Salute to Chili Master Jillian Fry ...
  On Monday, December 16, the Center's very own Jillian Fry walked away with not one, but two awards for her "Very Veggie Chili."
• CLF Week in Links: FDA, Farm Bill, Shrimp and More
  Yesterday U.S. House members approved a 50-day extension of the 2008 farm bill to allow more time for conference committee negotiations on a new, five-year bill.
• When the Fish and Plants Don’t Get Along
  We constantly monitor our water quality, fish health, and plant performance to ensure that we are keeping the system balanced, but what happens when something goes wrong?
• CLF-Lerner Fellows Volunteer Day at Boone Stre ...
  The CLF-Lerner Fellows enjoyed a sunny Saturday afternoon last weekend volunteering in East Baltimore at Boone Street Farm, a small community farm.

Investigate - Breaking News

• Vitamin D deficiency provides ‘reasonable doub ...
  Vitamin D deficiency provides ‘reasonable doubt’ in child abuse case.
• New climate change report trashes exaggeration ...
  New climate change report trashes exaggeration of global warming.
• Email scam hits NZ: We are all Nigerians now
  Email scam hits NZ: We are all Nigerians now.
• Breaking news: leaked IPCC climate report admi ...
  Breaking news: leaked IPCC climate report admits ‘we got it wrong’.
• World’s top atheist Richard Dawkins defends ‘m ...
  World’s top atheist Richard Dawkins defends ‘mild pedophilia’.

My Care2 Picks

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

Farm Wars

• The Incredibly Flat World of Monsanto
  In the biotech sector, what they don’t see simply does not exist, and what they claim does not exist may be responsible for a myriad of diseases we are experiencing today. New scientific discovery reveals DNA manipulation can create mutations due to ignorance of gene control mechanism.
• 4-H Promotes Biotech to “Facilitate Youth Prog ...
  This is the wave of the future for our upcoming generations. Programming. And part of that programming consists of the acceptance and promotion of genetic engineering.
• A Global Citizens Report against Big Ag, Big P ...
  We remain at an impasse and continue to be poisoned by Government policies. It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
• A Miracle in Wisconsin
  Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water arrived. Vending machines were removed. Grades are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, ...
• Genetic Devolution
  We are setting ourselves up to lose it all to the limited constructs of a few geneticists’ awkward attempts at mimicking creation, who plug away at changing our genetic structure much like a baby taking his/her first steps and not anticipating the inevitable crash.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Captive Goodyear bosses holed up at French site
  ShareThisCaptive Goodyear bosses holed up at French site [] 07 Jan 2014 Two Goodyear bosses held captive by workers spent the night inside a factory in northern France that the company wants to close. The plant, which Goodyear has tried to sell or shutter for five years, has become a ...
• US terror drone attack kills two in eastern Af ...
  ShareThisUS terror drone attack kills two in eastern Afghanistan 06 Jan 2014 A US-led terror drone strike has claimed the lives of at least two people and injured some others in the troubled eastern Afghanistan, security sources say. Local Afghan security officials said the strike took place in ...
• It's Officially Too Cold For Chicago's Polar Bear
  ShareThisIt's Officially Too Cold For Chicago's Polar Bear 06 Jan 2014 Pack it up folks and stay inside, it is officially too cold even for the neighborhood polar bear. DNAinfo Chicago spoke to the folks at the Lincoln Park Zoo and their polar bear, Anana, will be staying warm inside a "climate ...
• Officials reject concerns over 500 percent rad ...
  ShareThisOfficials reject concerns over 500 percent radiation increase on California beach 06 Jan 2014 Health officials in California are now telling residents not to worry after a video uploaded to the internet last month seemed to show high levels of radiation at a Pacific Coast beach. The v ...
• 'Polar vortex' could send wind chill to 65 bel ...
  ShareThis'Polar vortex' could send wind chill to 65 below zero in Midwest 04 Jan 2014 Parts of the U.S. may see days of record-low temperatures beginning Sunday as forecasters expect a deep freeze to bring wind chill as low as 65 below zero in parts of the Midwest. Temperatures will hover arou ...

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

• JPMorgan to pay $2.6 bn to Madoff victims. No ...
  If we had a functioning legal system, the top people at JPMorgan would have been indicted long ago. Instead the company pays fines for offenses that most of us would go to prison for. The government fines them, the company promises to be good, and nothing changes. This cynical and pitiful charad ...
• Over-entitled SF tech douchebags, Snowden pard ...
  Jason Calacanis, Kara Swisher, and Robert Scoble discuss this and more in the new This Week in Startups. I highly recommend watching it. The chief topic was the overwhelming negative reaction, including within tech, to overly entitled whiny assholes in SF who think homeless are icky and that San ...
• Whoa! Toyota fuel-cell car has 310 mile range
  The Toyota Fuel Cell Vehicle debuts in the US at CES. They will be available commercially in 2015. Other car manufacturers promise similar fuel-cell cars. Fuel cells run on hydrogen and are zero emission. The generally accepted view that fuel-cell vehicles were dead appears to be completely wron ...
• Weather hysteria
  Yes, it’s cold. However overblown reporting pretending to be news and people way overreacting is not helping. When I was a kid, we used to go skiing when it was minus 10 and people didn’t make such a big deal about weather swings. This is cheap, easy, dumbed-down, meaningless “ ...
• The American Dream is dead, long live the Amer ...
  John Robb of Global Guerrillas and Resilient Communities believes events will force us to reinvent and reboot our country and that old dreams must die before new ones can be born. I now believe a new, vibrant American Dream is not only possible, but inevitable. A Dream so powerful, it has the po ...

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 7
  1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day. 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North Ameri ...
• Girl who falls asleep 30 times a day since tak ...
  It was supposed to be a simple vaccine against swine flu, but since she had it, Chloe Glasson’s life has been like a bad dream. Just four months after being given the Pandemrix injection, the 15-year-old schoolgirl developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy. Now, without warning, she falls ...
• Colorado pot shops will run out of marijuana w ...
  Marijuana dispensaries in Colorado are finding it impossible to keep up with the demands of recreational users. The first five days of days of legalized sales of marijuana have been big business for dispensary owners — so much so that some shops even closed early last Wednesday, the first day on ...
• Canada is so cold residents are experiencing l ...
  While America collectively freaks out over their impending ‘polar vortex’, Canada is changing the game when it comes to cold weather phenomenon as reports of ‘frost quakes’ emerge from around Toronto and across Ontario. Indeed, as temperatures drop overnight to around -4f ...
• Ex-Fukushima worker says ‘duct tape, wire nets ...
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the disaster stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, one of them is the continuous leaking of radioactive waste water into the ground beneath the plant and into the Pacific Ocean. A former employee ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook changes ‘Following’ on News Feed menu ...
  Facebook has apparently made a small change to the News Feed menu. Where it used to say “Following,” allowing users to access a feed of pages they’ve liked and celebrities/public figures/prominent users they’re following, it now...
• Facebook Q4 social logins: up in retail, down ...
  Competition — namely Google+ — is growing in the social login space, but Facebook is still the social login leader in Q4, according to a study released recently by Janrain. While Facebook is still the  No....
• Study: Pages that showed organic reach growth ...
  After several admins reported a large decrease in organic reach for many Facebook pages, a new study of 1,000 pages by social media analytics tool Locowise shows that on the average, organic reach went up by...
• How does Facebook affect Vegas?
  Facebook has changed the way many people communicate, but the social network has also played a hand in how people gamble. At the recent Social Gambling & Gaming Summit in Las Vegas, several game developers and...
• Facebook to announce Q4, year-end financial re ...
  Facebook will announce how the company did financially in Q4 on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Facebook will host a conference call at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT that day, with Facebook executives detailing economic and...

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

• US NGO Uncovered in Ukraine Protests
  CANVAS: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that w ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Part II- David Miranda’s Detainment: The Calic ...
  Dissecting Contradictions & Sensationalism in the NSA-Snowden Scandal In August 2013 Glenn Greenwald’s husband, David Miranda, was detained and questioned by authorities at London’s Heathrow airport. Miranda was coming from Berlin, where he had met with Laura Poitras and was give ...
• The New Great Game Round-Up: January 5, 2014
  Turkey: NGOs, Al-Qaeda & Erdogan, Beijing Blasts Double Standards, Kremlin Under Pressure After Volgograd Bombings & 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, ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Robert Randolph & The Family Band – “Traveling Shoes” This week on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick we visit the guitar once more. This time it’s Robert Randolph and the Family Band (an American funk and soul band) led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Other band m ...

Afro Spear

• 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 »
• Christmas Riddymz: Holy night Angélique Kidjo
• “Folks in Heaven” by J. Taylor Ludwig
  I was shocked, confused, bewildered As I entered Heaven’s door, Not by the beauty of it all, Nor the lights …Continue reading »
• A Christmas Message: Inspired by and for the m ...
  Traditionally, the Christmas season brings out the best in people… or it’s supposed to at least. This is the one …Continue reading »
• “Faith Trumps Atheist Angst” By De ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 This is the time of year when belligerent atheists corral fellow “freethinkers” together in an …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

• Israeli MKs: NSA Spying on Israel Justifies Re ...
  One of the more preposterous bits of news coming out of Israel is that Israelis actually believe that the revelations about NSA spying on Israel show that both sides are spying on each other.  So presumably because the NSA spies on Israel that means Israel has the right to spy on the U.S.  Ergo, ...
• Idan Raichel, Israeli World Music Star, Endors ...
  Ben White writes that Idan Raichel, one of Israel’s biggest pop stars and a celebrity in the world music pantheon, has publicly embraced (Hebrew) former IDF torturer Doron Zahavi.  Zahavi is the former IDF interrogator accused of raping Lebanese prisoner Mustafa Dirani, while seeking intel ...
• African Refugees ‘Occupy’ Tel Aviv
  Tonight I am proud and ashamed at the same time.  Earlier today, 30,000 African refugees and their Israeli supporters massed in Rabin Square demanding that Israel treat them as human beings and accord them basic rights guaranteed under international law.  They do this in the face of rampant Isra ...
• Israel Anti-Missile Defense Playing Russian Ro ...
  In the past, I’ve featured the skeptical reporting of Reuven Pedatzur and research of Prof. Ted Postol about the efficacy of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense.  Pedatzur reported on Postol’s findings that the anti-missile  succeeded in hitting less than 10% of its targets duri ...
• Hezbollah Smuggles Advanced Missile Systems in ...
  Both the Wall Street Journal (firewall) and N.Y. Times are reporting that Hezbollah has transferred some of its most advanced weaponry from warehouses inside Syria, where it’s been stored, and moved it into Lebanon.  Hezbollah has done so despite multiple Israeli air force sorties seeking ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• What you need you have to borrow
  The DOE’s proposed budget for FY2014 extends the benefits of the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) plan to everyone’s eligible Income-Based Repayment (IBR) loans. As of now only people who hadn’t taken out any federal educational loans prior to October 2007 are eligible for PAYE. These pl ...
• The National Security State
  I have a listicle of books on the national security state over at the National Interest: The following list is of the important books of 2013 that should be on your radar for 2014. My specific interests are in the history and the nature of the organizations that make up our national security sta ...
• That Green Lantern Won’t Raise Itself
  In her “conversation” with David Brooks, Gail Collins manages to capture in two sentences how not to think about legislative change: I’m with you on the single-payer option. If only the president had not taken the path that was touted by several generations of Republican deep thinker ...
• Desalination
  Yesterday, we discussed the serious problems the American West has with its water supply and the very real threats this portends for the region’s future. Those who truly believe technology can solve our problems sometimes turn to desalination plants as a cure. Sarah Goodyear sums up many o ...
• What Happens to Women Who Write Things Online
  Something you really need to read: I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the dark of my hotel room. I squinted at the screen. It was 5:30 a.m., and a friend was texting me from the opposite coast. “Amanda, [...]  &nbs ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Enzyme With Big Appetite Could Boost Biofuel
  U.S. scientists say a fast-eating enzyme called CelA could put thus-far-elusive cellulosic biofuels in closer reach.
• Onewheel Electric Skateboard A Self Balancing ...
  The Onewheel is a self-balancing, one wheeled electric skateboard designed to let you do cool tricks.
• A Car Factory That Does Without The Sprawl
  Two student architects reimagine a car assembly and detailing plant, moving it to the city, making it vertical, and giving the public an eye in.
• Why This Polar Vortex Thing May Be A Global Wa ...
  Scientists said the deep freeze gripping the U.S. does not indicate a halt or reversal in global warming trends, either. In fact, it may be a counterintuitive example of global warming in action.
• Formula E Electric Racing Car Hits Vegas Strip
  The Spark-Renault SRT_01E, set to be used in the initial Formula E Championship later this year, takes a trip on the Las Vegas Strip.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Accused Lawyers Denounce BP Claims Fraud Alleg ...
  Attorneys accused of fraud in the dispersal of BP PLC's $9.6 billion Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement have attacked a special master?s investigative report as completely untrue and have asked a federal judge to vacate his order adopting the findings.
• Boston University Settles Bulk of Diode Patent ...
  A lawyer for Boston University has informed two federal judges that it is in the process of settling cases with some two-dozen corporate defendants over a patent on light-emitting diodes.
• Law Professors Give ABA an Earful on Tenure's ...
  The American Bar Association proposal to eliminate its tenure requirement for law schools drew a hostile reception during the Association of American Law School's annual meeting in New York over the weekend.
• Justices Block Utah Same-Sex Marriages, at Lea ...
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted gay marriages in Utah, but the constitutional question of whether a state can ban those unions is racing to the high court faster than many of the justices might have expected just six months ago.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: No Need to Fear Profile ...
  A new year has dawned. Open it with a bang by finally completing your LinkedIn profile.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

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