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The Daily Galaxy

  • Unexpected Changes in Star-System Chemistry D ...
        An international research team observed the young protostar L1527 in the Taurus molecular cloud shown above at a high spatial resolution with the ALMA Observatory, and discovered an unexpected chemical change in the transition zone between the infalling envelope and the gas disk. So ...
  • The Solar Systems Largest Moon --Up Close: A H ...
      Using images from NASA’s Voyager Mission (1979) and the orbital Galileo Mission (1995), researchers have created the first global geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, the largest in the solar system, and the only moon with its own magnetic field. With its varied terrain ...
  • Unknown Galaxy Clusters Discovered --"What We ...
      Four previously unknown galaxy clusters each potentially containing thousands of individual galaxies have been discovered some 10 billion light years from Earth. Most clusters in the universe today are dominated by giant elliptical galaxies in which the dust and gas has already been fo ...
  • A Collision with Another Universe --Are Signs ...
        The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the left-over heat from the Big Bang. This radiation provides a picture of the universe when it was only 400,000 years old. Now, 14 billion years later, it has cooled to microwave frequencies and is nearly uniform. The slight variations of 1 pa ...
  • "In the 'Blink of an Eye": Largest Mass Extinc ...
        It was the greatest extinction event of all time (at least by Earth standards): Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet has had some close calls. In the last 500 million years, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions, inclu ...

Natural News

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  • In the Middle East, Arabic Wikipedia Is a Flas ...
    Far more than a translation of its English counterpart, Arabic Wikipedia has 690,000 registered users who’ve authored more than 240,000 articles. Many of the articles reflect a Middle Eastern worldview entirely different from the Western one, and their writers navigate ...    &nbs ...
  • Top U.S. Spy Claims ‘Terrorists Are Going to S ...
    A clearly frustrated U.S. intelligence chief complained today that America's adversaries are changing the way they communicate electronically in the wake of the leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.     
  • Hacked X-Rays Could Slip Guns Past Airport Sec ...
    Security scanners used by airports around the country to detect weapons and other banned items in carryon luggage can be manipulated to conceal items from screeners, according to two researchers who examined the system.     
  • How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover ...
    After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco ...     
  • Sophisticated Spy Tool ‘The Mask’ Rages Undete ...
    Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyber spying operation that has been alive since at least 2007 and uses techniques and code that surpass any nation-state spyware previously spotted in the wild.     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Presidents McCain and Romney Mock France
    This week's White House visit by French President Francois Hollande has prompted Beltway talk of a new love affair between the United States and France. While McClatchy announced "Obama, Hollande declare U.S. and France bosom buddies again," the Washington Post reported "Obama and Hollande stre ...
  • Value Work? Then Tax Capital at the Same Rate ...
    Republicans have a new talking point. Because the latest analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the Affordable Care Act will give some workers the freedom to work fewer hours or retire early without the fear of losing health insurance, conservatives now regurgit ...
  • Memo to Media: U.S Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised ...
    Word that Speaker John Boehner will bring a "clean" debt ceiling bill up for a vote in the House On Tuesday brought a sigh of relief to Washington and global financial markets. After all, a U.S. default arising from a refusal to pay the bills Uncle Sam has already incurred would have meant, as ...
  • Post's Thiessen Tortures Logic with Bogus $70 ...
    And now for today's math quiz. Let's say you decide to work 2 percent fewer hours this year. At the end of the year, your total compensation is 1 percent lower. Does that mean you got a pay cut? If you answered "yes," you might want to reread the question. Or, you might be Marc Thiessen, fo ...
  • GOP Obamacare Foes Have Blood on Their Hands
    During the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus made a startling statement. The President, Priebus charged, "stole $700 billion from Medicare to fund ObamaCare," adding, "If any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to Medic ...

Global Research.ca

  • Suicides of Bank Executives, Fraud, Financial ...
    JPMorgan Chase is the unspoken architect of fraud, corruption, not to mention the establishment of the largest Ponzi scheme in World history.The agenda is to steal and appropriate wealth through market manipulation: “Just last month, JPMorgan Chase acknowledged that it…
  • Global Research News Hour: Valentine’s D ...
    “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” -anonymous Join host Michael Welch for a special hour of live radio, featuring special guests Richard Gage, Rocco Galati, and Yves Engler! The Global Research News Hour was revamped in the fall…
  • Staged Opposition Violence in Venezuela. Towar ...
    Violent opposition groups attacked government buildings and civilians, and clashed with police and government supporters following peaceful marches commemorating the Day of Youth. The violence has claimed two deaths and left 23 injured across the country. Thirty arrests have been…
  • Venezuela Coup? Gunfire, Clashes as 3 Dead in ...
    At least three people have died in violent protests in the Venezuelan capital, officials have confirmed. President Nicolas Maduro has condemned the unrest as an attempt at a coup d’état orchestrated by extremist members of the political opposition. Thousands of…
  • Korea: War and Forgetting on Jeju Island. &#82 ...
    Fifty years ago, E P Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class rescued the study of history from the powerful. Kings and queens, landowners, industrialists, politicians and imperialists had owned much of the public memory. In 1980, Howard Zinn’s…

TPM Cafe

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

  • The Real Reason Why This Week’s Massive Ice St ...
    Global warming supercharges storms, causes abnormal drought conditions, and ultimately, it causes damage. As the Weather-Channel-dubbed “Winter Storm Pax” barrels across much of the eastern United States this week, the warnings have been just short of apocalyptic. “This is a ...
  • I Don’t Want No Scrub
    Plastic microbeads from cosmetic products are filling up our lakes and rivers. New York State is the first seeking to ban them, and others aren't far behind. This article was originally published by OnEarth magazineNew York legislators want to be the first in the country to address a tee ...
  • Beyond Keystone XL: 8 Reasons for Optimism on ...
    Recent signs that Barack Obama may approve the Keystone XL pipeline have some environmentalists feeling down about the future of the climate. But huge and positive changes are quietly taking place. Climate change could have a crushing effect on the global economy, according to a recent report ...
  • Coal-Slurry Spill Devastates West Virginia Creek
    More than 100,000 gallons of toxic waste was released into Fields Creek and the Kanawha River. Some 100,000 gallons of coal slurry was accidentally released into a West Virginia stream on Tuesday. State officials are calling the spill significant.The source of the spill was Patriot Coal's Kana ...
  • Enough is Enough: Coal Pollution Spills Reveal ...
    The West Virginia chemical spill underscores why we need to do more to safeguard our water supply. Post Carbon Institute, Sierra Club, OVEC and AlterNet have partnered to show us what’s at stake in the fight against coal with a powerful slideshow of recent coal disasters (including ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Take Action: Last Chance to Submit Comment to ...
    With the release of the State Department’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, there has been a lot of buzz about the project. The report concluded that Keystone XL could create carbon pollution equivalent to nearly six million cars, or eight coal-f ...
  • Texas CREZ Project Completed and Already Respo ...
    “CREZ will turn out to be the most visionary thing this state has ever done electricity-wise,” predicts Paul Clark, executive director at the Wind Coalition, a regional partner of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Only a few days ago, the final segment of Texas’s $6.8 billion, 3,600 m ...
  • United Students Against Sweatshops Standing Up ...
    United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is holding a national conference at the University of Texas in Austin. It began yesterday, despite the campus being closed, and continues today, Saturday, February 8th.  Hundreds of students from USAS joined with UT Save Our Community Coalition to rally ...
  • Farm Bill 2014 – Progress or Business as Usual?
    After years in the making, this past Tuesday the Senate voted 68-32 in favor of the new Farm Bill, which is expected to be signed into law by President Obama in the next few days. While the nearly trillion dollar bill has received a lot of media attention on its relation to its cut of […]T ...
  • Up to 82,000 Tons of Toxic Coal Ash Spill Into ...
    Duke Energy said on Monday afternoon that between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released from a pond at its retired coal fired power plant in Eden, NC, and spilled into the Dan River. Duke said a 48-inch stormwater pipe beneath the unlined 27-acre a ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Insights Winter 2014 - Promoting Seed Sovereig ...
    As people who care about the planet and about those most vulnerable to hunger, we need to ask some serious questions: What is the most effective, ecological and humane way to feed the world? How can farmers sustain themselves, their communities and us? What is the long-term impact of how we grow ...
  • Video Highlights Water Rights and Energy Sover ...
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  • New Farm Bill Leaves Many Families and Farmers ...
    no_farmers_no_food.jpg The new version of the Farm Bill passed by Congress on February 4, 2014, and signed by President Obama three days later leaves several critical programs around nutrition and programs to support family farmers underfun ...
  • Transformation and Solidarity: Interview with ...
    Recently Rita Zanotto from the Landless Workers Movement (MST) sat down with Grassroots International’s Sara Mersha to talk about global movements, partnership and power.  read more
  • Life, Death and Bravery in Central America
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  A retired University of Hawaii administrator, Barbara Polk is currently on the boards of Americans for Democratic Action/Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii and has testified at the state Legislature on good gov ...

Care 2

  • Change EAZA Policy on Euthanasia!
    The fault is with EAZA official policy: that is what to be changed if we do not want Marius story to be repeated with some other animal in Dublin, Madrid, Moscow or anywhere else in Europe. To be precise, the point 4 of Euthanasia Considerations of the E Submitted by jess b to Animals  |&n ...
  • Kentucky Gas Explosion Keeps Fossil Fuel Disas ...
    Fourth natural gas or coal-related accident in as many days sends at least two people to the hospital Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Media: Its Time ...
    Special access has been given to corporate lobbyists, but the American people and Members of Congress have been shut out. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Animals vs Mirrors Compilation - YouTube
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  • This is my cat trying to talk to me
    I have something to say. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Benghazi, What Difference Does it Make?
    I will give Hillary Clinton credit for one positive thing with respect to Benghazi–her shrill reaction to a legitimate question at a Senate hearing continues to resonate as a rallying cry that will haunt her thru her Presidential bid. There is no single issue. Benghazi is really about thre ...
  • Why the Hating on Russia?
    Sorry for the hiatus in writing. I’ve been tied up with the memorial service of an old friend who committed suicide. His death left family and friends devastated. But that’s another story. I am fascinated by Cold War rhetoric blasting out of Fox and other news outlets as they discuss ...
  • TSA’s Toothpaste Terror Nonsense
    TSA’s latest warning about a vague terrorist threat involving toothpaste is a real head scratcher. The local Fox station in Washington, DC grabbed me yesterday for some comments: DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG Unfortunately, the insightful, clever, pithy soundbites I provided never made it to air. ...
  • The Despicable Acts of CIA Official Morell
    The evidence from the SSCI report on Benghazi coupled with recent comments by Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte, paints a damning, disturbing picture of Mike Morrell, an intel hack who served for a short while as the Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The story, which is up on ...
  • Superbowl, Show Business and America
    Not much earth shaking going on apart from the hoopla surrounding the Superbowl. So this is your open thread, especially if you hate football. Let’s start with censorship. Actress Scarlett Johansson’s ad for Soda Stream got nixed because she had the audacity to mention those forbidden word ...

Futurismic

  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • 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 ...

Al Jazeera

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.5, Vanuatu
    Friday, February 7, 2014 08:40:13 UTC Friday, February 7, 2014 07:40:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 100.10 km (62.20 mi)
  • M 6.5, south of the Kermadec Islands
    Sunday, February 2, 2014 09:26:35 UTC Sunday, February 2, 2014 09:26:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 40.10 km (24.92 mi)
  • M 6.5, Tonga
    Tuesday, January 21, 2014 01:29:13 UTC Tuesday, January 21, 2014 03:29:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.00 km (20.51 mi)
  • M 5.5, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Thursday, January 16, 2014 07:33:13 UTC Wednesday, January 15, 2014 09:33:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.00 km (23.61 mi)
  • M 6.4, Puerto Rico region
    Monday, January 13, 2014 04:00:58 UTC Monday, January 13, 2014 12:00:58 AM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)

AlterNet Top Stories

  • U.S. Considers Killing Another American Citize ...
    The NSA is using electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, to lock on drone targets, an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent people. Some officials at the Pentagon want to launch a drone strike on another American citizen overseas on evidence that is secret. ...
  • GOP's False Claims About Obamacare Blow Up in ...
    For the right, attacks against Obamacare's market disruption were great fun. Until it doomed their own plan. Oops! Late last year, when conservatives everywhere were grieving publicly for each American who’d received a cancellation notice from a health insurance carrier, the smartest amon ...
  • The Truth about Sex and Equality
    A New York Times Magazine story argues that parity squelches marital desire. It's not so simple. My husband pushed me against the refrigerator — playfully, but with enough force to set the humming behemoth rocking. He had been cozying up to me all morning: rubbing my shoulders, kissing me ...
  • 5 Ways Rich People's "Entitlements" Cheat You ...
    And the more they take from us, the greater their belief that they deserve the wealth we all helped to create. The word 'entitlement' is ambiguous. For working people it means "earned benefits." For the rich, the concept of entitlement is compatible with the Merriam-Webster definition: "The fe ...
  • The Scary Future of Creationism in America
    Ken Ham's debate with Bill Nye is a reminder: Many creationist tactics from Ham's native Australia could come here. The Great Debate between science educator Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham, live-streamed from Kentucky’s Creation Museum on  Feb. 4, was a clash of accents.Nye had the ...

Threat Level

  • In the Middle East, Arabic Wikipedia Is a Flas ...
    Far more than a translation of its English counterpart, Arabic Wikipedia has 690,000 registered users who’ve authored more than 240,000 articles. Many of the articles reflect a Middle Eastern worldview entirely different from the Western one, and their writers navigate ...    &nbs ...
  • Top U.S. Spy Claims ‘Terrorists Are Going to S ...
    A clearly frustrated U.S. intelligence chief complained today that America's adversaries are changing the way they communicate electronically in the wake of the leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.     
  • Hacked X-Rays Could Slip Guns Past Airport Sec ...
    Security scanners used by airports around the country to detect weapons and other banned items in carryon luggage can be manipulated to conceal items from screeners, according to two researchers who examined the system.     
  • How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover ...
    After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco ...     
  • Sophisticated Spy Tool ‘The Mask’ Rages Undete ...
    Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated cyber spying operation that has been alive since at least 2007 and uses techniques and code that surpass any nation-state spyware previously spotted in the wild.     

IntelNews

  • Somali officials divert arms to al-Qaeda-linke ...
    A confidential report by United Nations monitoring experts warns that senior members of Somalia’s federal government are systematically diverting weapons to al-Qaeda-linked groups operating in the country.
  • News you may have missed #868
    Honduras suspends eight consuls in US. Al-Qaeda’s expulsion of Syrian group prompts US debate. Ex CIA head says anti-Semitism likely in Pollard case.
  • Comment: Nuland’s leaked phone call is ‘ ...
    It appears to me that Moscow is attempting a populist form of intelligence-based approach, by which it tries to “name and shame” America’s perceived hypocrisy on a number of hot-button issues, such as civil liberties and the treatment of allies, including the EU. Interestingly, Moscow is trying ...
  • Thatcher warned about clandestine CIA activiti ...
    British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was warned in 1984 that American intelligence carried out operations in the United Kingdom without London’s consent. Although she dismissed the warnings, she authorized British counterintelligence to investigate the matter.
  • News you may have missed #867 (Syrian uprising ...
    Al-Qaeda breaks link with Syrian militant group. Is Israel secretly working to target al-Qaeda in Syria? Australians 'flocking to Syrian front line'.

War is a Crime.org

  • VIDEO: Protest against Military Use of Shannon ...
    This video was published on Shannonwatch.org  
  • New weekly ThisCantBeHappening! radio show Cl ...
    ThisCantBeHappening! has a new radio program of the same name. TCBH founder Dave Lindotff  will be hosting the show every Wednesday at 5 pm Eastern Time on theProgressive Radio Network. read more
  • Snowden Was Justified
    Snowden Was Justified from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates on FORA.tv
  • Syria News - Feb 14
      U.S., Russia pledge to unblock Syria talks, Brahimi says - Reuters VIDEO: Lakhdar Brahimi, Press Conference (Geneva, 13 Februrary 2014) English - YouTube Opposition plan for post-war Syria ignores Assad - Reuters FULL TEXT: Syrian opposition issues “Statement of Basic Principles” at ...
  • Bahrain: Seven years for criticising dictator ...
    The latest martyr on the road to freedom and democracy is 50-years old Asmaa Hussain whose soul ascended to Heavens yesterday. In the early hours of Tuesday, 11th February members of Death Squads attacked several houses at Jid Al Hajj town, West of Manama, breaking doors, smashing furniture and ...

Grist - News

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • People of Color Are Losing Their Right to Vote
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “I found myself standing in front of railroad tracks in South Florida. I was waiting on the train to come so I could jump in front of it and end my life.” So recounted Desmond Meade, describing his life nine years ago. He was homeless, unemployed, recent ...
  • WATCH: "Wounds of Waziristan" Features Anti-Dr ...
    An anti-drone activist and journalist has gone missing in Pakistan just days before he was due to travel to Europe to speak with Parliament members about the impact of the U.S. drone wars. The legal charity Reprieve says Karim Khan was seized in the early hours of February 5 by up to 20 men, so ...
  • READ: Prologue to "The Sixth Extinction" & See ...
    Tune in Tuesday when we'll speak with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about her new book, "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History." In the meantime, you can read the prologue, and learn about what some say is the biggest story on earth that the general public remains relatively unaware o ...
  • The Sochi Olympics, From Putin and the Plutocr ...
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The Sochi Olympic Games are rightly highlighting the constellation of abuses that have become standard in Russia under Vladimir Putin. Most notably is intense, often violent homophobia, tacitly endorsed by the government with the recent passage of the la ...
  • Amy Goodman Questions Freed Pussy Riot Members ...
    Two freed members of the Russian group Pussy Riot made their first public appearance in the United States Tuesday after being released from prison in December. Nadia Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina served nearly all of their two-year sentences for protesting Russian leader Vladimir Putin insi ...

Solari

  • Valentine’s Day
    By Wikipedia Saint Valentine’s Day, also known as Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them. St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical ...
  • The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Bank ...
    By Matt Taibi Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Columbine and Mark McGwire’s biceps, Congress is feverishly crafting what could yet prove to be one of the most transfor ...
  • Pension Trusts and Municipal Bankruptcy
    By Pension Dialog As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, and in the case of Detroit, art, PensionDialog spoke with Mr. Robert D. Klausner to better understa ...
  • How a $100,000 Check Exposes the Politics of P ...
    By David Sirota When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued Rhode Island over the past three years. As I’ve written before, the concurrent trends of slashing ...
  • Average US Per Capita Income And Average Feder ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Volcano-Inspired Halo Tower Wins Third Place a ...
    The competition jury made the decision based on several factors, including technical innovation, landmark potential and the new structure's physical relationship with the existing sculpture of the Virgin located adjacent to the tower's proposed construction     
  • How Can We Waterproof Our Future?
    The Sea Tree design by architect Koen Olthuis (c) Waterstudio.NL When the movie Waterworld premiered in 1995, people regarded the Kevin Costner flick as a fairly ridiculous post-apocalyptic science fiction film: Now, nearly two decades later, the tale's     
  • Tiny Timber Noa is a Playful, Six-Sided Prefab ...
    The 270 square foot Noa house features a hexagonal floor plan and is built entirely from wood, with the exterior boards treated with iron oxide for a silvery aged finish. Since each side of the house, from the walls to the roof panels, are identically sized     
  • RH+Architecture Unveils the New University Lib ...
    The library is located in the center of the newly constructed Rectorat de Guyane campus in capital city Cayenne, and aims to reinvigorate the neighborhood and the city. It provides additional community spaces and the shaded intermediate space between the two     
  • Autonomous “Termite” Robots Work Together to B ...
    Computer scientists at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have created a small army of self-controlled robots that follow the same principles as ants or termites to create impressive structures out of foam blocks. The TERMES robots can create     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Absurd Creature of the Week: This Toad Grows a ...
    The dapper Emei mustache toad doesn’t just walk into the breeding season unarmed. For one chaotic month a year in China males grow extremely sharp facial spikes, which they use to shank rivals for the choicest nesting sites. Up to ...     
  • The Strange World of Bug Sex, in Pictures
    It's Valentine's Day, and just to make this "holiday" even more awkward, here are some images of bugs having sex.     
  • Science Offers Dating Advice for Spiders
    If you're a spider, dating is rough. Even if you do everything right, you still might find yourself paralyzed with your guts being sucked out. But your chances are better if you bring your lady a gift -- and wrap ...     
  • Clever Robots Act Like Termites to Form Proble ...
    Inspired by termites, a team of scientists at Harvard University has created a herd of robots that can build structures without the need for intricate plans or blueprints.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Star Cluster Jewel
    A Gaia test image of the young star cluster NGC1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken as part of calibration and testing before the science phase of the mission begins. The field-of-view is 212 x 212 arcseconds and the image ...     

PakAlert

  • BOMBSHELL: Government Documents EXPOSE FEMA De ...
    New documents reveal the criteria used to create the “Main Core” list that our government has been compiling on Americans. To give you a quick background, “Main Core” is a list designed to identify Americans who could be deemed a ‘terrorist’ threat both to the nation and to the government. It ...
  • Will This Prisoner Stop Obama?
    Keith Judd, the convict who ran for President, became somewhat of a celebrity after almost beating Obama in the 2012 West Virginia Democratic Primary. What wasn’t reported, however, was that after Obama won the presidential election, Judd filed a series of lawsuits detailing how Obama was illega ...
  • Obama Gearing Up For Complete Gun Confiscation
    The news has been circulating quite a bit lately that there is an all out effort to disarm the American people—and as more time goes on, it’s proving to be true. Although he would have loved to use the deaths of the Sandy Hook children to pass through his personal agenda, Obama is now having to ...
  • US Soldier’s Message To America ‘We Have Faile ...
    The video below speaks for itself as Gabor Zolna reads a message from a military man which tries to explain the answer to; why hasn’t our military come to help the American people from the criminal actions of the US government?
  • Homeland Security to Activate ‘National Licens ...
    UK version of spy system was used to target political activists The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload ...

Andy Worthington

  • Radio: On the BBC World Service, Andy Worthing ...
    This morning, I was interviewed on the BBC World Service’s “World Update” programme about Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and the latest news from the facility, in the long, drawn-out process of the US handing over control of the prison to the Afghan government. The show is here, ...
  • US Appeals Court Rules that Guantánamo Prisone ...
    In the latest news from Guantánamo, the court of appeals in Washington D.C. ruled yesterday that hunger-striking prisoners can challenge their force-feeding in a federal court — and, more generally, ruled that judges have “the power to oversee complaints” by prisoners “ab ...
  • Shaker Aamer Protest in London, Feb. 14, and A ...
    Please sign and share the international petition calling for the release of Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo. If you’re anywhere near Leicester on Saturday, February 15, 2014, and can spare a fiver to hear me speak, I’m the keynote speaker at Amnesty International’s East Midlands R ...
  • Video: Close Guantánamo Now – Andy Worth ...
    On Friday January 17, 2014, as the last public event of my two-week US tour calling for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, I spoke at a wonderfully well-attended event at California State Polytechnic (Cal Poly) in Pomona, California, attended by several hundred students and arranged by ...
  • Torture Began at Guantánamo with Bush’s ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Pro vaccination campaign – Polio
    There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and t ...
  • Pro vaccination campaign – Rubella
    There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and t ...
  • Pro vaccination campaign – Measles
    There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and t ...
  • Pro vaccination campaign – Mumps
    There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and t ...
  • Sizing up your carbon footprint
    Many of us are worried by future climate change, rising sea levels, storms and flooding, hurricanes and soaring temperatures in some parts of the world predicted to occur as atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide continue their upward trend. That trend had its origins in ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • How to Optimize Your PC Games' Graphics Se ...
    Most PC games have a plethora of graphics settings that let you strike the perfect balance between quality and performance. If you don't enjoy digging into these settings, though, both NVIDIA and AMD have apps that will do all the heavy lifting for you—with just one click.Read more...  &nbs ...
  • What To Do If You Chip or Bust a Tooth
    Hopefully you'll never experience the pain of getting a tooth knocked out, but if you do, The Wall Street Journal has a few suggestions for keeping that tooth safe while you wait to get the dentist's office. Read more...     
  • Gawker 10 Chicks Heathen Men Should Never Marr ...
    Gawker 10 Chicks Heathen Men Should Never Marry | Jalopnik The Best Halal Cart In NYC | Jezebel More Women Are 'Marrying Down' | Kotaku The Space Jam Video Game We Deserve | Defamer Watch Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Make Fun of Each Other for Charity | Kinja Popular PostsRead more...    ...
  • Order a Quesarito and other Secret Chipotle Me ...
    If a regular burrito from Chipotle just isn't huge enough, you might want to give the Quesarito a try. It's the burrito of your choice wrapped in a full cheese quesadilla instead of just a flour tortilla. You'll have to ask for it though; it isn't on the regular menu.Read more...   &nb ...
  • A Seven Step Plan for Effective Brainstorming
    Everyone brainstorms a little differently, but over on the MIT Sloan Management Review they've put together a seven step plan that should help make the brainstorming process more fruitful. Read more...     

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Futurismic

  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Advocates for Increased International Whis ...
    Mr. Kohn explained how NGOs and citizens of foreign countries can use the new protections created under the FCPA to battle corruption… Continue Reading
  • NWC Advocates for Increased International Whis ...
    On February 6, 2014, National Whistleblower Center Executive Director, Stephen Kohn, was a guest panelist at a forum regarding "Accountability in Government" held by the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program. Representatives of 19 countries including, Belize, B ...
  • California Welcomes Stronger Whistleblower Pro ...
    On January 1, 2014, stronger whistleblower protection laws went into effect in California… Continue Reading
  • California Welcomes Stronger Whistleblower Pro ...
    On January 1, 2014, stronger whistleblower protection laws went into effect in California. SB 496, along with two other new laws (SB 666 and AB 263), significantly strengthened and expanded protections for whistleblowers under California Labor Code Section 1102.5, California’s general ...
  • New Book Details Journey to Becoming A Whistle ...
    Former EPA manager turned whistleblower, William Sanjour recently published, From The Files Of A Whistleblower: Or how EPA was captured by the industry it regulated… Continue Reading

TechDirt

  • US Military Looking To Trademark Everything
    As we've noted plenty of times in the past, works produced by the federal government are not subject to copyright. However, they are (almost inexplicably) subject to both patent and trademark protection, where those things apply. A little while back, Jim Gourley over at Foreign Policy looked int ...
  • Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, B ...
    Clothing maker Lululemon appears to be schizophrenic. I know, weird, right? But that's the only conclusion I can come to for a company that started off by mocking Olympic trademarks, then dipped into the realm of suing other designers over patents on designs for yoga pants (side note: when will ...
  • Amid Growing Calls To Release TPP Text, NZ Say ...
    As happened with ACTA, the lack of transparency in the TPP negotiations is emerging as one of the key issues there. Here's a very interesting initiative by politicians from many of the TPP countries: Senior legislators from Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand and Peru today ...
  • Man Bravely Saves His Xbox From Burning House
    Look, for all you critics out there, I admit it: I love video games. They're my primary source of entertainment, since I long ago discarded regular television viewing, most music, and most movies. My entertainment quota is filled by literature and video games. But even my love for video games p ...
  • Dangerous Ruling In Germany Makes Domain Regis ...
    We already find the concept of "secondary liability" when it comes to copyright troubling enough. It's worrisome when a third party who had no direct involvement in the actual infringement can be blamed for it. Yet, in the legacy entertainment industry's insane infatuation with stopping all infr ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Fear of Cat Food and Other Anti-Revolutionary ...
    Sometimes you come across an article that so perfectly encapsulates something you have been obsessing about that you have to dust off your blog and throw out a minor rant. Latina Lista published just such an article this week.  So here we go. According to a study by the (in no way biased) Pruden ...
  • Oh Hello. Are You Still Here?
    Finally got around to getting the site back up.  Thanks to those of you who checked in.  I am indeed alive and may perhaps even drop a line or two on here in the nearish future.
  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...

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

  • ‘Don’t Mess with My Drone Junk’: Bezos Has It ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com‘Don’t Mess with My Drone Junk’: Bezos Has It All, A to Z, CIA Included dissidentvoice.orgBy Paul Haeder Its an old axiom If an extraterrestrial (we used to say Martian but we know what is in store for Mars terraforming, t ...
  • Utah – Achilles’ Heel of the Surveillance State
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUtah Achilles’ Heel of the Surveillance State – “Turn it off!” campaign targets the NSAs Utah Data Center Antiwar.comJustin Raimondo The movement to end the surveillance state is finally gettin ...
  • Third class coming soon to a train near you!
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThird class coming soon to a train near you! Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com Watch the full episode here: http://bit.ly/1eBoRlK With rail costs soaring, the government mulls over introducing 3rd class car ...
  • Major Silk Road 2.0 hack costs bitcoin users m ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMajor Silk Road 2.0 hack costs bitcoin users millions of dollars RT.com The original Silk Road, which was by all accounts a marketplace where users could solicit any number of criminal services anonymously, was first launc ...
  • 20 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is St ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com20 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Starting To Catch Fire Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog February 13, 2014 If you have been waiting for the “global economic crisis” to begin, just open up your e ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Bahrain Burns With Protests 3 Years On + Regi ...
    Dandelion Salad RT on Feb 13, 2014 Shia villages outside Bahrain’s capital have been left shrouded in tear gas after fierce clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators. The protest movement is marking three years of its uprising against the ruling Sunni monarchy, which has bee ...
  • How To Put a Corporation In Prison
    Dandelion Salad other98 on Feb 13, 2014 If a corporation continually breaks the law, they need to be put in prison. And believe it or not, there are at least TWO regulators in the United States who are not afraid to do that. The first is the Federal Energy Regulator Commission. And the second is ...
  • Chris Hedges Interviews Lynne Stewart (Full Video)
    Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges truthdig on Feb 12, 2014 The Truthdig Columnist sits down with the recently-freed civil rights attorney to discuss prison, freedom and the issues raised by her detention. youtube.com see Chris Hedges interviews Lynne Stewart, Part 1 Lawyer’s Jail Torment Marks U ...
  • #NSA Headquarters Could Go Dark if Bill Passes ...
    Dandelion Salad RT America on Feb 12, 2014 State legislators in Maryland have introduced a bill that would cut off water, electricity and other utilities to National Security Agency headquarters, which are located in the Old Line state. The bill is called the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, and ...
  • Noam Chomsky: How to Ruin an Economy; Some Sim ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky LeighaCohen on Feb 12, 2014 Noam Chomsky spoke at Third Boston Symposium on Economics on February 10th 2014, sponsored by the Northeastern University Economics Society in Boston, MA. Dr. Chomsky focuses on what economic actions that government, the super rich an ...

Your New Reality

  • Everything I've Ever Needed To Know I've Learn ...
      Philip K Dick wasn't just one of the great American writers of the 20th century, and one of the world's most famous science fiction authors, he was quite the philosopher, and many of his novels, short stories and speeches contained valuable life lessons for wired-up generations of Centur ...
  • Dictators Love Censorship And Hate Free Speech ...
    When Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph was opposed to 'media censorship' By Darryl Mason Alleged "free speech" champions, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, has sent lawyers after the Paperboy website, that does an excellent job of rounding up daily front pages of newspaper from around the world. But ...
  • Pianotallica
      For someone returning to playing piano and keyboards 32 years after giving them up for writing, and as a 1980s Metallica fan, this performance of 'One' by Metallica and master pianist Lang Lang at the Grammy's is fucking mind-melting, and hugely inspiring. Heavy metal piano? Don't mind i ...
  • Like Dogs, Humans Can Smell Sickness In Others
    An absolutely startling piece of news to me, and confirmation, years later, that my senses were telling me the truth. I once 'smelled' cancer in an elderly woman, and alerted a relative that she was seriously ill, when she and her family did not know she was ill. A horrible thing to do. The el ...
  • SexBots Are The Future Of Digital Performance Art
    As an experiment, Brandon Boyer 'fed' online sex bots to each other. And this is what happened:  Wow. Not much in media yet, but people are having online relationships with automated tweet bots. Some humans know the bots aren't real, and don't care. Unlike many real humans online, the bo ...

Wired - Science

  • Absurd Creature of the Week: This Toad Grows a ...
    The dapper Emei mustache toad doesn’t just walk into the breeding season unarmed. For one chaotic month a year in China males grow extremely sharp facial spikes, which they use to shank rivals for the choicest nesting sites. Up to ...     
  • The Strange World of Bug Sex, in Pictures
    It's Valentine's Day, and just to make this "holiday" even more awkward, here are some images of bugs having sex.     
  • Science Offers Dating Advice for Spiders
    If you're a spider, dating is rough. Even if you do everything right, you still might find yourself paralyzed with your guts being sucked out. But your chances are better if you bring your lady a gift -- and wrap ...     
  • Clever Robots Act Like Termites to Form Proble ...
    Inspired by termites, a team of scientists at Harvard University has created a herd of robots that can build structures without the need for intricate plans or blueprints.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Star Cluster Jewel
    A Gaia test image of the young star cluster NGC1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken as part of calibration and testing before the science phase of the mission begins. The field-of-view is 212 x 212 arcseconds and the image ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Money and elections in Washington: Pro wrestli ...
    kayfabe: Term in pro wrestling. Kayfabe was the unsaid rule that the wrestlers should stay in character during the show and in public appearances in order to maintain a feeling of reality (albeit suspended) among the fans. - Urban DictionaryNational politics never feels as much like kayfabe to ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2014 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2014 selections:BLCKDGRDBig Blue Dot Y’allWest Virginia Water CrisisThe Impoliticjoslyn stevens

Organic Consumers.org

  • Farmers Rise up against Agribusiness, Face dow ...
    Nearly twenty thousand march for stronger reforms in 'a country with one of the most unequal distributions of land in the world'Click here to read this article
  • Next GMO Battleground Could be New York State
    Labeling food containing genetically modified ingredients might be a federal issue at some point, but the states are not done with it yet. Next month, two state capitals within easy earshot of the major media outlets - Albany, NY, and Annapolis, MD - are going to be holding public hearings on se ...
  • GMOs Are Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds ...
    "It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray." - Rachel Carson, Silent SpringClick here to read this article
  • Activism Sweeps the Internet with Global Actio ...
    Privacy advocates held one of their biggest online actions to keep the Internet open, private and free. Click here to read this article
  • ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert
    Over the past decade, Elizabeth Kolbert has established herself as one of our very best science writers. She has developed a distinctive and eloquent voice of conscience on issues arising from the extraordinary assault on the ecosphere, and those who have enjoyed her previous works like "Field N ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Redefining Waste in Aquaponics
    While aquaponics takes inspiration from nature, as an ecosystem it is greatly oversimplified, and many of the natural checks and balances that mitigate things like solid accumulation simply do not exist.
  • Urban Gardening: Balancing Risks and Benefits
    You want people to be aware of the risks, but you also want them to keep enjoying the benefits of growing food in urban settings, as long as they are doing so safely.
  • MOOC Redux
    Approximately 10,000 students from around the world have enrolled in the second session of “An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health.”
  • CLF Week in Links: Drought, Meatless Monday, C ...
    In addition to forgoing meat one (or more!) days each week, you might consider cutting back on your ice cream intake unless you know that it is sourced from local dairies in non-drought areas.
  • The New Farm Bill: Did It Make History?
    What was dramatic and historic was the collapse of the legislative process that made this a three-year ordeal instead of a more typical one-year process.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Use force to save starving Syrians
    Written by DANNY POSTEL and NADER HASHEMI affiliated with University of Denver- Middle East Studies...persons such as this serve the global military agenda behind the mask of education or intelligentsia Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!   ...
  • New Petition to "Free Lakota Children from Sta ...
    S. Dakota violates federal law by placing 90% of the 750 Lakota foster children it seizes each year into non-Native homes and locked group psychiatric facilities Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Celebrating An Historic Agreement on Coal Ash
    "EPAs coal ash rulemaking was triggered by the largest toxic waste spill in U.S. history when a billion gallons of coal ash burst through a dam at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee." Submitted by Brian M. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Botswana Bushmen: Modern life is destroying us
    The police came, destroyed our homes and dumped us in the back of trucks with our belongings.Thousands of Bushmen lived in the vast expanse of the Kalahari Desert for many millennia. Most have been moved, many argue forcibly, to government-built resettle Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbsp ...
  • A 9 Year Old Girl Quietly Walks On Stage
    I Will Never Forget The Chills Her Voice Delivered Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • GMO Banning Wars
    Barb Peterson, Dave Hodges and Annie DeRiso take on the GMO banning versus labeling issue and talk to farmers around the country.
  • The Bilderberg Plan to Obliterate Humanity
    This is what humanity is quickly moving towards and unless you are the elite, you will be bred, dumbed down if needed, to serve a purpose for the global elite.
  • Mind control and mind chaos: the troll and the ...
    If, in any situation, you take the bait and try to reason with a person who is entrenched in non sequitur, you waste your time and energy. It won’t work.
  • Josephine County Moving Forward with Measure t ...
    If approved by Josephine County voters, the ballot initiative would prohibit new plantings of GMO crops and give farmers with genetically modified crops already in the ground a 12 month period to phase out their plantings and transition to non-genetically engineered crops.
  • Agenda 21 Is Increasing the Scope of Its Ensla ...
    Agenda 21 wants to remove all people from rural areas through the enforcement of the anti-small farmer administratively contrived policies frequently concocted by bureaucrats who are outside the reach of the electorate.

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Letter from Thais to Dutch Government
    Published: 10 Feburary 2014 This letter rendered in three languages: English, Thai, Dutch. Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie Laan Copes van Cattenburch 54 Utrecht, 30 January 2014 Dear Partyleader, Members of VVD and Friends of Thailand, We write this letter to explain why millions ...
  • Burma Army Continues Attacks in Nam Lim Pa Are ...
    9 February 2014 Kachin State, Burma The Burma Army continues attacks in Nam Lim Pa area in their attempt to drive out the Kachin people and control this part of Kachin State. Burma Army RPG Team in Kong Run, Kachin State, on 2 February 2014. The Burma Army continues its attacks with Burma Arm ...
  • Assessment of the Current Situation in Burma
    30 January 2014 Burma is in the midst of change and we want to report to you what is happening, both good and bad. We are grateful for those who have brought greater freedoms to Burma. We also want to stand with those who have not yet experienced those freedoms and are still under attack. Thank ...
  • General Menard in Jail for Gun running
    30 January 2014 This is the Canadian Brigadier General that I wrote should be fired for incompetence in Afghanistan. This caused me no end of troubles but was worth it. My work directly resulted in Menard's firing and he departed the Army. And now he is in jail in Afghanistan. Maybe he has bee ...
  • Suthep letter to Obama
    28 January 2014

The Killing Train

  • Egypt's dictatorship for the digital age
    Egypt was ruled by the Mubarak dictatorship for 30 years before the people managed to overthrow him in 2011. Mubarak was not overthrown by the internet. Some business and technological literature claimed that, because the internet made it more difficult to keep secrets (a valid claim), the “dic ...
  • Three kinds of science - the Jan/Feb 2014 Bria ...
    My latest article is Jan/Feb 2014 cover story in Briarpatch Magazine. In it I analyze science and politics, talking about three different things that are called science: Science A (authority), Science B (business), and Science C (curiosity). Hope you enjoy. Link: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/ar ...
  • podur.org in 2013
    Since it's the last day of 2013, I thought I would look over what I did this year. I spent half the year in India, so I have a fair bit of India content here. I also started the Ossington Circle this year, which has been fun. I am not including short blogs in this list, just longer articles and ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 4, Paul Moloney ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This episode has Paul Moloney, the author of the book The Therapy Industry: the irresistible rise of the talking cure and why it doesn't work (Pluto Press 2013). In the book, Paul questions the idea that many of our ...
  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • No, Really, What the Hell is the Matter With K ...
    Needless to say, Kansas’s new bill authorizing both private and state discrimination against gays and lesbians is an utter disgrace: But even worse are the provisions that allow state employees to withhold services from gays and lesbians. “The sovereign,” as John Paul Stevens o ...
  • Colonialist Labor Relations with Every Cup of ...
    The tea industry, as exploitative as most of the rest of the food industry. Turns out Tetley likes its labor extra exploited, as if the British still colonized India. Must add to the flavor. The abusive conditions for APPL workers are consistent with conditions in the sector as a whole. They are ...
  • Chroncling the One Percent
    If the New York Times wasn’t there to chronicle the 1% and their real estate choices at least 2-3 times a week, who would remember this oppressed class?     
  • I Guess Virginia Is For Lovers
    A federal judge has struck down Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. Her holding is that because marriage is a fundamental right, the ban must be subject to strict scrutiny, which it fails: Tradition is revered in the Commonwealth, and often rightly so. However, tradition alone cannot just ...
  • Dead Horses in American History (VI)
    Victims of the San Francisco earthquake, 1906.     

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • From Oscar Parties to 'Inter Partes': An Intel ...
    We range widely in this look at the state of intellectual property law, beginning with the legal complications attorneys need to consider when negotiating endorsement deals with the stars. We also investigate the renewed respect being paid to the "indefiniteness" defense against business-method ...
  • Litigation Boutiques Hot List
    At the 10 law firms spotlighted here, it?s all about skill, not size. The lawyers at these litigation shops, all of which have fewer than 51 attorneys, are as clever at practicing on paper as they are at wooing a jury. Many of these lawyers have honed their craft at the biggest and best firms in ...
  • Innovations in Law Firm Technology
    The past few years have been momentous for law firms and their use of technology. In the electronic discovery area alone, innovations including predictive coding have found acceptance by the courts.
  • Seattle In-House Legal Departments of the Year
    Corporate counsel leading the way in compliance, outside counsel management, diversity and deal work.
  • Billing Rates Across the Country

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Australian Bushfire Has Grown to Size of Melbo ...
    A fire rivaling the size of the city of Melbourne is raging in southeastern Australia, as a NASA satellite image taken at night earlier this week shows. The Snowy River Complex Fire, which is burning mountain forests near a Click to Enlarge Australian bushfire and Melbourne at night ...
  • Amid Elephant Slaughter, Ivory Trade in U.S. C ...
    In the last year, the U.S. government and nonprofits have put a spotlight on the illegal poaching of Africa’s elephants and Asia’s insatiable demand for ivory. But the media coverage has ignored a dirty secret: The U.S. has its own large ivory trade that has not been adequately regulated. BY ...
  • Most Americans Want Action on Climate Change, ...
    A large majority of Americans — 83 percent — say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if those efforts have economic costs, according to a new report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. As many as 56 percent of Americans would be willing to pay an extr ...
  • Shrinking Household Size May Offset Progress i ...
    Household size — the number of people living together under one roof — has been shrinking worldwide, and the trend could have major consequences for resource consumption, new research finds. Although global population growth has been somewhat curbed in the developed world, the number of househol ...
  • New Plant Found in Andes Supports up to 50 Spe ...
    Researchers working in the Ecuadorian Andes have discovered a new species of black pepper plant that is a nexus of biodiversity. The plant, named Piper kelleyi, supports roughly 40 to 50 insect species, the scientists estimate, many of which are entirely dependent on the Specialist herbivo ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Confirmed: DNA From Genetically Modified Crops ...
    "In a new study published in the peer reviewed Public Library of Science (PLOS), researchers emphasize that there is sufficient evidence that meal-derived DNA fragments carry complete genes that can enter into the human circulation system through an unknown mechanism. It’s interesting to ponder ...
  • DNA from Clovis Boy Indicates Native Americans ...
    Genome sequencing of the Clovis boy, whose remains were found in Montana in 1968, has helped a team of researchers trace the genetic history of Native Americans. Their study shows that Asians, not Europeans, were the direct ancestors of American Indians. The latest genomic analysis of the Clovis ...
  • Mysterianism and the Question of Machine Sentience
    We are within perhaps a decade of creating computers that match and perhaps even dwarf the human brain in computing power, and that are capable of complex computations that may include something like reasoning and even a notion of self—what many would therefore consider to be autonomous, conscio ...
  • Underground Greenhouse Grows Produce Year-Roun ...
    With staggering food prices and shortages looming, there’s no better time to grow your own produce. Sadly, most greenhouses are expensive to build and impractical to heat during cold, wintery conditions. Thankfully, a solution is found with the Walipini. Developed for South American mountainous ...
  • Plans revealed to create Richard III genome
    The bones of the king under the car park have more to tell: scientists are to analyse the DNA from the remains of Richard III to create the world’s first complete genome sequence for a named historical figure. The process could reveal his hair and eye colour, his susceptibility to conditions inc ...

Not My Tribe

  • Hey! The White Wealth Olymics are on!
    Commentators fawning over the winter sports dynasties, some of them actual petty-royal lineages, from Euro feifdoms and colonial sultanships, families of jetset ski bums: “It’s in the genes!”
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman did not OD, he was coll ...
    A young doctor I once met travelling in Thailand told me that a heroin addiction would be his ideal state, provided his supply remained stable. A person could function, maintain a job even, regularly dosed with heroin. Unlimited financial means wasn’t required, just a regular, regulated so ...
  • Amanda Knox wishes Italy was like US where a b ...
    Amanda Knox is disappointed with the Italian judicial system. In America of course, if you can pin the crime on a black guy, white perpetrators go free. For the 2007 murder of Meredith Kerchner, African male Rudy Guede is serving 16 years, but Italian judges are convinced he was an accessory. An ...
  • Bear Creek Massacre, January 29, 1863
    The year 2014 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, on November 29, two days after Thanksgiving. But on this day, January 29 of the year before, a Shoshone village suffered an identical fate. The Bear Creek Massacre was also once called the Battle of Bear Creek, but the onl ...
  • Is this FBI-speak? Ima throw you off this balc ...
    Wherever did NY congressman Michael Grimm learn such language? It’s less likely Dale Carnegie than standard-issue FBI crap talk. If former FBI officer Grimm isn’t prosecuted for MENACING, threatening to throw a DC news reporter off a balcony, it would seem only fair that the represen ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Operation to save Earth's most threatened trib ...
    The Brazilian authorities have completed the first stage of their operation to remove illegal loggers and ranchers from Awá land. © Mário Vilela/FUNAIThe first stage of the Brazilian government’s operation to remove illegal loggers and ranchers from the land of the Awá tribe is now complet ...
  • Bushmen aren't poachers: Protests greet Botswa ...
    Vocal protests were held outside the 'London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade 2014' today to highlight the plight of Africa's last hunting Bushmen. © Survival InternationalLoud protests at an anti-poaching conference in London today highlighted the devastating impact of a ...
  • USAID’s cover-up of Ethiopia abuses overruled ...
    The US Congress has acted to prevent aid being used to support the forced evictions of Mursi, Bodi and Kwegu tribes from their ancestral land in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley.© SurvivalThe United States Congress has acted to prevent its aid to Ethiopia being used to fund forced evictions of t ...
  • Brazilian rancher vows to destroy uncontacted ...
    Brazilian rancher Marcelo Bastos Ferraz rejected the Ayoreo's plea to stop destroying the forest inhabited by their uncontacted relatives.© OPITIn a rare encounter between the Ayoreo tribe, Paraguay’s Environment Minister, and a Brazilian rancher responsible for the large-scale destru ...
  • Brazil: Guarani teenager killed on deadly road
    Guarani teenager Deuci Lopes was run over and killed on the road which runs alongside her community's land.© Spensy PimentelA Guarani Indian teenager, known as Deuci Lopes, has been run over and killed by a truck on a road which passes by her community’s ancestral land, in central-wes ...

Greg Palast

  • Rest in peace, Aaron Swartz
    By Greg Palast But that's impossible, isn't it? Like the restless Jewish prophets before you, you are an outcast in your own land. And like the prophets before you, you are trouble, Aaron, a lot of trouble. Thank you for troubling us, Aaron. You are trouble, but very good trouble. Socrates' suic ...
  • Hedge Fund Hog Makes Mommy's Monkey Jump
    by Greg Palast update of story from Truthout On Thursday, a federal jury found Mathew Martoma guilty of insider trading. Martoma, who's only worth a hundred million or so, is small potatoes. He's taking a fall for his boss–and his boss' mommy–and her monkey. Martoma's boss is Steven A. Cohen, wo ...
  • Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following th ...
  • You know I rarely ask you...
    ....for donations to our foundation, so you can take my word for it when I say, we need it. The Theft of the 2016 race is under way –– and the vote rustlers expect to grab Congress in 2014 as an appetizer.  Plus, the billionaire boys club is sucking our financial blood as if the world [...]
  • Give me 95 seconds
    A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]

Ian Welsh

  • The Comcast/Time Warner Merger
    should be disqualified on its face for trust reasons.  The largest and second largest cable TV providers joining together in an already consolidated field? This is why you can’t have good things, folks.  The influence over culture that mergers of media companies represent is vastly powerfu ...
  • Fundraiser Succesful
    We raised $5,445 in one time donations, and $250 in recurring donations.  Multiplying the recurring donations by 3 takes us over $6,000. Starting this coming Monday, for 3 months, I will do my part, and, on average, write two significant blog posts a week, plus have an average of an article a we ...
  • Last Day of Fundraising Drive: $70 from an art ...
    Our fundraising has gone very well, with $250 in recurring donations, and $5,180 in one time donations. Multiplying the recurring donations by 3, we’re just $70 from the second tier, which is an average of an article a weekday, and an average of two significant articles a week. Thank you v ...
  • The Fall of the USSR
    The best book on both successes and failures of the Soviet Union is Mancur Olson’s “Power and Prosperity.”  If you haven’t read it, you should.  The second best is Randall Collins essay in Macrosociology. The great problem with most critiques of the  USSR is that they do ...
  • Fundraising Update – $1,000 from an article ev ...
    Fundraising has gone well, with $160 in monthly subscriptions, and $4,490.  Tripling the subscriptions, the total is $4,970, meaning we’re $1,030 from the second tier – two significant articles a week, and an average of an article every weekday. Everyone who has given: thank you.  If ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

new geography

  • Searching Out The Half-Full Glass
    There is a shiny, brittle skin to the economic recovery that conceals an unhealthy flesh underneath. It is tempting to call this condition a glass half empty. But seeking the healthy and the fit in nontraditional places has become a quest for more and more Americans who are leading us down a ...
  • Has Scott Walker Really Turned Around Wisconsin?
    I’ve seen a few pieces in the conservative press lately boasting about Scott Walker’s performance as governor of Wisconsin. For example, the American Spectator ran an article called “Wisconsin Thrives Under Scott Walker“: In 2011, Wisconsin had a whopping deficit of $3 ...
  • Life as a Second City
    Imagine someone writes a newspaper story about you and prints the picture of your older, well-known sibling next to the column. It is clear to you why this was done: your sibling is more famous and recognizable. But how does that make you feel? Following the January 28th State of the Union ...
  • Possible Sign of Trouble for Los Angeles
    A quarter century ago, the Los Angeles-Orange County area seemed on the verge of joining the first tier of global cities. As late as 2009, the veteran journalist James Flanigan could pen a quasiserious book, “Smile Southern California: You're the Center of the Universe,” which maintained ...
  • How a Few Monster Tech Firms are Taking Over E ...
    The iconic view of tech companies almost invariably stress their roots in people’s garages, plucky individual entrepreneurs ready to challenge all comers. Yet increasingly the leading tech firms – Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and especially Google – have morphed into vast tech conglomer ...

water.org

  • Water Gets Kids to School On Time
    Her children were late for school because they were busy getting water to survive. This became a problem.
  • Water Ends a Frustrating Cycle
    As with many families in communities where access to water is limited, Madduramma and her children faced a frustrating cycle of challenges that could only be resolved by having better access to water.
  • Solutions in Kenya
    More than 28 million people do not have access to proper sanitation in Kenya. However if given the opportunity, families can make an affordable investment in a solution like this; unlocking the potential for dignity, health and economic growth.
  • IKEA Foundation to help 180,000 get safe water
    The IKEA Foundation awarded Water.org $6 million to help people access safe water through two innovative programs: WaterCredit, a microfinance program that gives families small loans to meet their water and sanitation needs, and the New Ventures Fund to search for new solutions to the global wat ...
  • For Decius, the Future Looks Bright
    Hopeful for an opportunity to build his skills and earn money to return to school, Decius signed up for a job as soon as he heard about the opportunity to work with Water.org and PRODEVA, and bring safe water access to his town.

Cryptogon

  • Court Overturns California Law Restricting Con ...
    Via: Los Angeles Times: In a significant victory for gun owners, a divided federal appeals court Thursday struck down California rules that permit counties to restrict as they see fit the right to carry a concealed weapon in public. The 2-1 ruling by a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel wou ...
  • Secret Military Contractors Will Soon Mine You ...
    Via: DefenseOne: The Army wants a contractor to conduct detailed social media data mining to “identify violent extremist influences” around the world that could affect the European Command, responsible for operations in Europe as well as Iceland, Israel, Greenland and Russia. Though the project ...
  • ‘American Dream Seen as Out of Reach’
    Any excuse to post this clip… Via: McClatchy: Racing into a new century in which many of the old rules don’t seem to apply anymore, Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about their chances of achieving and sustaining the American dream, according to a new Marist-McClatchy Poll. They se ...
  • Connecticut: Thousands Flout Gun Registration Law
    Via: The Courant: Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with state police by Dec. 31. But few thought the figures would be this bad. By the end of 2013, state police ha ...
  • You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi.
    Via: ProPublica: The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the Communist regime. But their spycraft — while incredibly invasive — was also technologically ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is St ...
    If you have been waiting for the "global economic crisis" to begin, just open up your eyes and look around.  I know that most Americans tend to ignore what happens in the rest of the world because they consider it to be "irrelevant" to their daily lives, but the truth is that the massive economi ...
  • It Doesn’t Take Much For People To Start ...
    If an ice storm can cause this much panic in our major cities, what will a real crisis look like?  The biggest news story in the United States right now is the "historic ice storm" that is hammering the South.  Travel will be a nightmare, schools and businesses will be closed, and hundreds of th ...
  • No Janet Yellen, The Economy Is NOT “Get ...
    On Tuesday, new Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen went before Congress and confidently declared that "the economic recovery gained greater traction in the second half of last year" and that "substantial progress has been made in restoring the economy to health".  This resulted in glowing hea ...
  • 22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami ...
    Today, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will retire.  This is going to happen day after day, month after month, year after year until 2030.  It is the greatest demographic tsunami in the history of the United States, and we are woefully unprepared for it.  We have made financial promises to the Bab ...
  • 221 Percent Increase In One Year? Why Are So M ...
    The number of Americans that renounced their citizenship was 221 percent higher in 2013 than it was in 2012.  That is a staggering figure, and it is symptomatic of a larger trend.  In recent years, a lot of really good people with very deep roots in this country have made the difficult decision ...

Desertification

  • Green Great Wall of China (UNCCD)
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/media-center/MediaNews/Pages/highlightdetail.aspx?HighlightID=273 The Heroes behind the Green Great Wall of China The “Three North Shelterbelt Project” in China is the world’s largest afforestation project. It has restored over 26.47 million hectares ...
  • World Land Degradation and Desertification : A ...
    MESSAGE FROM DESERTNET INTERNATIONAL Dear colleagues, We are organizing a scientific session within the EGU 2014 General Assembly that explores Desertification and Land Degradation as the interaction of the human and biophysical worlds. The session will be held in Vienna … Continue reading ...
  • New and improved varieties of cowpeas have num ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – Drought-tolerant plants http://www.theeagle.com/landandlivestockpost/article_fee41efe-a8e5-5851-9a57-3c61c1d6c84d.html A&M researchers study cowpea drought, heat tolerance By Kay Ledbetter Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Cowpeas, known as black-eyed p ...
  • A simple step to conserve water usage in your ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – Drought-tolerant plant http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/drought_tolerant_plants_save_water_money_and_time Drought-tolerant plants save water, money and time Selecting drought-tolerant plants conserves water usage while still providing beauty and function in the landsc ...
  • The effects of desertification, land degradati ...
    Read at : http://www.borgenmagazine.com/desertification-causes-starvation-deaths-africa/ Desertification Causes Starvation and Deaths in Africa GOBI DESERT, China- It has been predicted that the effects of desertification, land degradation and drought may expose almost two-thirds of the world’s ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Tristram Hunt: Labour party scab
    Tristram-Hunt-scab.jpg Labour party shadow education minister and Engels biographer Tristram Hunt crossed a picket line of striking university lecturers at Queen Mary University on 10 February to lect ...
  • Protests in Bosnia
    Protests and demonstrations broke out in Tuzla on Wednesday night and have spread to the towns of Zenica, Mostar, Bihac and Sarayevo. In the northern industrial city of Tuzla, thousands of workers have been made redundant with many of them losing their pensions and health benefits. Reuters repo ...
  • Russia: Final court statement of anarchist Ale ...
    Final court statement of anarchist Alexandra Dukhanina (Naumova), charged with violence against police during an opposition rally in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, made in a Moscow court on February 5, 2014. Alexand ...
  • Tube strikes: support your local picket line!
    5050728957_89ac802a25.jpg Thousands of London Underground workers are taking part in a 48-hour strike over proposed cuts which include closing every Tube ticket office in London. ...
  • How anti-immigrant myths serve the bosses
    migrant.jpg As the anti-migrant propaganda of the UK press continues, London Antifascists examine how their scapegoating lets government and employers off the hook. The relentles ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • My DRUG Problem!!
    This is too great not to post:
  • Only TWO Bibles – Great Short Video
    It’s truly amazing to me how so many good Christians are missing the boat concerning the origins of our modern bibles. They rationalize that the Bible should be more “readable” – and not have such “archaic” language – and so they abandon the King James V ...
  • Mormonism’s False Pretenses – How ...
    A man named Martin Luther, after intense biblical study, eventually understood how far Roman Catholicism had strayed from the pure Gospel of Grace of the Bible.  What Luther likely did not realize is that the Roman Church was not the original Christian Church; it was not “founded” by ...
  • Mormon Fraud On Trial in U.K. — FINALLY!
    Mormonism is indeed highly fraudulent!   The question is will they stand convicted of the same in a court of law?? In order to be convicted of fraud, a perpetrator has to first of all take or accept money or property from another under false pretenses and/or false promises.  The pending fraud ca ...
  • Inspiration Through Folk Music
    His name – Stan Rogers.   He was one of the great Irish folk singers of all time.   He inspired millions of people through the messages in his songs.  He perished in 1983 while rescuing fellow passengers in an Air Canada plane crash.   This post is to honor him and his music – […]

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Food, Water, and Fuel Are Necessary to Life an ...
    Bob and Barb Moriarty brought 321gold.com to the Internet over 10 years ago. They later added 321energy.com to cover oil, natural gas, gasoline, coal, solar, wind and nuclear energy. Both sites feature articles, editorial opinions, pricing figures and updates on current events affecting both sec ...
  • Do Methane Leaks Negate Climate Benefits of Na ...
    A new analysis recently published in Science concludes that more methane is leaking from natural gas wells and pipelines than the federal government has actually estimated, eroding some of the climate benefits of the cleaner-burning fuel.read more
  • Energy and the Environment
    One cannot refute the fact that an abundance of energy, primarily from fossil fuels, has been a boon to mankind over the past 250 years. For about the last 35 years however, it has been abundantly clear those benefits have been attended by a significant and mounting environmental cost.read more
  • Keystone XL Will Significantly Increase Oil In ...
    A major issue in the decision around the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is the extent to which this project will drive expansion of tar sands extraction and the associated climate change. We often hear Keystone XL dismissed as insignificant, but this misses the point.read more
  • Path-Breaking Agreement to Get More Clean Ener ...
    Why is it a big deal that NRDC has reached agreement on these core regulatory issues with an association that represents the utilities that serve more than 220 million Americans? Because our nation’s utilities have the opportunity to make vital contributions to clean energy progress as investors ...

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • If Obama Orders the CIA to Kill a US Citizen, ...
    http://www.blacklistednews.com/If_Obama_Orders_the_CIA_to_Kill_a_US_Citizen%2C_Amazon_Will_Be_a_Partner_in_Assassination/32848/0/38/38/Y/M.htmlPresident Obama considering whether to order the Central Intelligence Agency to kill a U.S. citizen in Pakistan. Amazon would be an accessory to the ass ...
  • Duplicitous Geneva Diplomacy
    by Stephen Lendman Washington can't be trusted. It doesn't negotiate in good faith. It never did. For sure, not now. Duplicity defines longstanding US policy. Are current Obama negotiations more smoke and mirrors deception? Are they pretense, not real? Does he want sustained conflict, not pe ...
  • Grand Theft Healthcare
    by Stephen Lendman Healthcare is about prioritizing health. Medical professionals say it's about maintaining, restoring and preserving it. It's doing it through illness and disease prevention. It's obeying Hippocratic Oath principles. It's a sworn duty to heal. It's about rendering treat ...
  • Street Violence in Venezuela
    by Stephen Lendman Since Chavez took office in February 1999, Washington instigated political, economic and street violence destabilization schemes. On February 4, right-wing manipulated anti-government student protests began in San Cristobal. They erupted elsewhere. They turned violent. Wa ...
  • US Intelligence Community Worldwide Threat Ass ...
    by Stephen Lendman America has 16 known intelligence agencies. James Clapper is Director of National Intelligence (DNI). On January 29, he presented his annual worldwide threat assessment. He did so to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence members. He lied calling terrorism "persi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Kansas Appeals Court Overturns Forced Blood Draws
    Many states have enacted laws allowing police to take blood by force from any motorist involved in a serious traffic accident, but the second highest Kansas court in Kansas says the practice is unconstitutional. Last Friday, the Court of Appeals reje...
  • Facebook Trash Talk is "Terrorism"; Presidenti ...
    "Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don*t get any ideas," riffed Barack Obama during his stand-up routine at the May 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner, directing his words at the Jonas Brothers, who were in attendance. "But boys, don't get...
  • Florida Cops Harass Man for Video Recording Ja ...
    Cops will always demand your identification, even when they have no reasonable suspicion that you are committing a crime, but they really dislike providing you with their name and badge number. However, there is no legal requirement for you to...
  • Homeland Security to Activate *National Licens ...
    The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database whi...
  • New Jersey's Largest Police Dept Plagued with ...
    From The Star-Ledger: The Justice Department will place the Newark Police Department under a monitor later this year, the first time in state history that a municipal police agency will operate under a federal watchdog, according to four sources fam...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Ascension Into Heaven
    I probably shouldn’t be telling you this. But in a secret deal, sealed only yesterday, James Delingpole, from next month, will be job-swapping with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. I will be looking forward to reading Tony’s Telegraph blog, commenting … Continue reading & ...
  • Judicial Activism And Its Threat To Liberty
    This week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the long-promised Royal Commission into union corruption. Its terms of reference—initially confined to a small number of unions and designed primarily to shine a light on the activities of the Australian Workers Union … Continue reading →
  • Some Musings On Specialization
    Sorry I haven’t posted anything new these past few weeks, but I’ve been laid low by a viral infection that I’m finding rather difficult to shake. So I thought I’d start a discussion with a few jottings, on a topic … Continue reading →
  • Hoist On Their Own Petard
    Happy New Year to all my readers. I thought I’d interrupt my summer holidays in balmy climes to have a bit of a chortle at two seemingly unrelated stories in the news over the last few days. One concerns cricket, … Continue reading →
  • Seasons Greetings
    And that’s it for LibertyGibbert for another year. Work and family commitments have meant I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked this year, yet we’ve managed to have some interesting discussions. Thank you to … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • Ivanpah, world’s largest solar thermal plant, ...
    The 392-MW Ivanpah solar thermal plant in California near Primm, Nevada officially goes online today, with a dedication ceremony. Celebrities include execs from the project’s creators NRG Energy, Bechtel, and Brightsource, and financial backers Google and the Department of Energy’s L ...
  • EU plans savings confiscation, redistribution ...
    In a perfect example of the merger of governments and corrupt banks against the rest of us, the EU executive wants to grab personal pension savings to provide ‘long-term financing’ to, you guessed it, those very same corrupt and mostly insolvent banks. This is savings confiscation to ...
  • Metropolitan Water District in SoCal has huge ...
    The Metropolitan Water District in southern California has planned for years for droughts and has the only full reservoirs in the state, Castaic and Pyramid. They did this by raising water rates and deliberately buying surplus water. Lots of water districts who didn’t plan nearly so carefu ...
  • Bitcoin gets smashed by unconfirmed transactio ...
    Bitcoin is getting torpedoed due to sloppy internal coding and outsiders exploiting this in hopes of ripping off the system. Yesterday bitcoiners were saying problems were just at one exchange, a technical glitch, and easily solved.  They sounded like the White House trying to defend the Obamaca ...
  • Solar thermal energy uses large amounts of wat ...
    Solar thermal power plants can use twice as much water as fossil fuel plants and are generally in deserts. The problem is obvious, water is pumped from aquifers. The primary advantage solar thermal has over solar photovoltaic (which uses practically no water) is energy can be stored for later us ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Gaslands is Jay Manafest's anti-oil and gas hi ...
    Canadian hip hop artist Jay Manafest has released a new video, Gaslands, that chastizes the oil and gas industry. Borrowing visuals from the RCMP riot on highway 134 in Ke ...
  • Public health care in Canada facing an emergency
    Public health care in Canada is facing a major crisis, as sustained underfunding, accompanied by active political sabotage by the Conservatives, points toward the demise of Canada's public system. Conservative politicians are refusing ...
  • Underdog to the Olympics: Halifax-based sprint ...
    K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Despite being the second-largest sporting event in the modern world, the Paralympic Games—the premier tournament ...
  • GroundWire | February 10, 2014
    Community Radio News from January 28th-February 10th This episode of GroundWire was produced on Fort William First Nations Territory in Thunder Bay, ON at CILU by Carly Forbes   Headlines: Free Speech Radio News returns to the airwaves ...
  • From Abadan, Iran to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
    Chess with the Doomsday Machine tells civilian side of war K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - A play about civilians and soldiers caught up in the Iran-Iraq war, Chess with the Doomsday Mach ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Nuland and Pyett's tape
    David Seaton's News Links  “Clear communication expresses clear thinking, while muddled communication reflects muddled thinking” Writing Success Program at UCLA (The English Language) becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language mak ...
  • Inequality: a tale of two pyramids
    David Seaton's News Links This pyramid appeared in the Washington Post. Looking at it I was reminded of another pyramid in a classic poster from the 19th century, which could be a "poetic" rendering of the graph from the Post. The signs are all around us, if you want to take a peek at the ne ...
  • Explaining the virulence on the right... Socia ...
    David Seaton's News Links Naquasia LeGrand... the right stuffNaquasia LeGrand, the lady that tops this page, works at minimum wage shoveling fried chicken, for KFC. She is leading a fight to organize fast-food workers and raise America's minimum wage to $15. She is facing some of America's ...
  • 2014... and welcome to it
    David Seaton's News LinksPrediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi BerraAs luminaries such as Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra have pointed out, trying to predict the future is a mug's game... And at year's end political co ...
  • Kennedy's Death
    David Seaton's News LinksWriting up the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination has become a momentary cottage industry and I have little that I wish to add and will spare my readers all my "where I was when I heard the news" drivel. However, I would only remark what I personally find the mo ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Comcast-Time Warner Merger Really Has Nothing ...
    Via Matt Yglesias, I see that Matthew Klein has finally written a short post that explains what's really behind the Comcast-Time Warner merger: To understand what the deal is really about, remember that pay-TV distributors are at the mercy of the networks that sell programming. According ...
  • Why Shouldn't Scotland Have Its Own Currency?
    George Osborne, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, said today that if Scotland votes for independence later this year, they can say ta ta to the pound. "If Scotland walks away from the UK, it walks away from the UK pound," he warned. Pro-independence nationalists went ballistic, accusing O ...
  • Quote of the Day: Mammograms Shouldn't Be Pawn ...
    From Aaron Carroll, responding to the deluge of lame criticisms aimed at a recent study showing that mammograms don't do much to reduce mortality from breast cancer: I leave you with one final thought. If you’re not going to be swayed at all by a randomized controlled trial of 90,0 ...
  • Does Winning $800 Really Make You More Right Wing?
    A few days ago a pair of British researchers released a paper that presented a startling conclusion: winning the lottery makes you more conservative. Apparently, having money, even if it's just money you won randomly, pushes you to the right. This got a lot of attention, and last night I fi ...
  • The Amazing, Hypnotic Appeal of Rand Paul
    So Rand Paul filed a lawsuit yesterday against the NSA's phone record collection program, and he's already getting flack for parachuting in and trying to steal the limelight from a guy who filed a similar suit months ago. Some other awkward questions are being raised too, including one from St ...

Simple Climate

  • Warming makes flowers change dates, or don skates
    Plants that fail to reset their flowering times have to move to keep their cool as the climate changes, Tatsuya Amano at the University of Cambridge and his teammates have found.
  • Warming makes flowers change dates, or don skates
    Plants that fail to reset their flowering times have to move to keep their cool as the climate changes, Tatsuya Amano at the University of Cambridge and his teammates have found.
  • Heat drives Pakistani migration
    As floods don’t impact farming income like high temperatures does, according to Valerie Mueller from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC and her colleagues, perhaps some aid money should go to developing more heat-resistant crops to prepare for further clima ...
  • Heat drives Pakistani migration
    As floods don’t impact farming income like high temperatures does, according to Valerie Mueller from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC and her colleagues, perhaps some aid money should go to developing more heat-resistant crops to prepare for further clima ...
  • Planners must be alert to CO2 impact on water ...
    From droughts to deluges, meeting climate targets will make it easier for planners to cope with changes in river flows, says the University of Reading’s Nigel Arnell, though even then we must watch global warming’s impacts keenly.

e!Science News

  • Smoking cessation may improve mental health
    Health professionals who treat people with psychiatric problems often overlook their patients' smoking habits, assuming it's best to tackle depression, anxiety or substance abuse problems first. However, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who ...
  • Why did the orangutan come down from the trees?
    Orangutans come down from the trees and spend more time on the ground than previously realised -- but this behaviour may be partly influenced by humans, a new study has found. read more
  • Brain process takes paper shape
    A paper-based device that mimics the electrochemical signalling in the human brain has been created by a group of researchers from China. read more
  • Mathematical beauty activates same brain regio ...
    People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty. read more
  • New research uncovers debilitating effects of ...
    A new study from the University of Surrey, published today in the journal PLOS One, has identified the specific effect Chiari malformation has on the shape of a dog's skull and brain. This condition has become prevalent as a result of selective breeding and affects many toy dog breeds which have ...

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Brave New Climate

  • Book Review: “Energy in Australia &#8211 ...
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan Let’s get one thing out ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • “Energy in Australia” book
    Graham Palmer, a regular BNC community member, has published a new book. It is titled “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” and is published by Springer (in their “Springer Briefs in Energy” series). It’s a slim, taughtly wri ...
  • BNC 2.0
    2013 was a quiet year for the Brave New Climate website. After a number of years of heavy blogging from 2008 to 2011 (averaging about 150 posts per year), I guess I’d run out of steam by 2012, and that lack of activity just got worse in 2013. Although my Twitter feed (@bravenewclimate) rem ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Christie Says “The Most Important Issue ...
    No Mr. Christie. That is not the most important thing. Even if you didn’t know “about” the plan, your staff made life horrible for thousands of Fort Lee residents on your behalf. Even if you said “destroy Fort Lee and that Democrat mayor who is getting too big for his bri ...
  • Christie Using Sargent Schultz Defense
    I know nothing…. Sure buddy. Just remember governor, road rage kills. So the next time you are sitting in gridlock, ask yourself if it is political.
  • The Titanic Took Longer To Sink
    Read it in a post on Raw Story. The Titanic took longer to sink.
  • 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 ...

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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  • WATCH: Who is the mayor of Nazareth?
    The question of who will be mayor of Nazareth, the “political capital” of Arabs citizens of Israel, remains undecided. Unlike national elections where Arab turnout lower than the national average, turnout in local races often reaches 90 percent in Arab cities and councils. Israel’s H ...
  • Bennett goes berserk in response to facts in G ...
    Jewish Home leader and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett could not stand it when European Parliament President Martin Schulz criticized Israeli policy earlier this week. But what ticked him off even more was that Schulz told “lies,” such as that Palestinians have less water than Israelis &#8211 ...
  • When reality becomes hate speech: President of ...
    The facts of the occupation are indisputable – it is the words we use to describe those facts that are now being delegitimized. An absurd incident took place in the Knesset Wednesday when members of the Jewish Home party walked out of the plenum during a speech by European Parliament Presi ...
  • Ten reasons why the anti-Apartheid movement is ...
    Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday giving his top 10 reasons why boycotting Israel is immoral. What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this. By Sol Salbe Ten reasons why the anti-Apartheid movement is immor ...
  • Photos of the week: Border Police bloopers
    This week: Border Police bloopers in Bil’in, asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, Palestinian activists launch campaign in the Jordan Valley, anti-Arab graffiti in Silwan, ultra-orthodox Jews against the draft in Jerusalem, a far-right politician hands out award for McCarthyism in Israeli schools, ...

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 →

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Banker Source On Latest JPM Death: Crane Worke ...
    Wednesday we reported that another JP Morgan banker has been found dead, as the latest banker to meet a sudden and untimely demise is Ryan Henry Crane, the Executive Director in JPMorgan’s Global Equities Group. Today, Steve Quayle’s banker source “V”, who predicted that a wave of banker hits wa ...
  • JPMorgan Vice President’s Death in London Shin ...
    By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 12, 2014 The nonstop crime news swirling around JPMorgan Chase for a solid 18 months has started to feel a little spooky – they do lots of crime but never any time; and with each closed case, a trail of unanswered questions remains in the public’s mind. ...
  • Report: 95 percent of global warming models ar ...
    Michael Bastasch Environmentalists and Democrats often cite a “97 percent” consensus among climate scientists about global warming. But they never cite estimates that 95 percent of climate models predicting global temperature rises have been wrong. Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that ...
  • More toxic rice? FDA recalls Uncle Ben’s ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Just days after Natural News revealed the presence of the heavy metals lead, cadmium and tungsten in rice protein products, the FDA has issued an urgent recall of Uncle Ben’s Infused Rice products sold to institutions like schools and nursing ...
  • Organ Smuggling: Turkish Hospitals Traffic Inj ...
    Les Blough — Axis of Logic via Global Research Feb 8, 2014 Were it not for the well-documented terrorism and atrocities that we know are being committed by Turkey’s Erdogan government in Syria, we might pass over as political fiction the hand-me-down news report (below) about injured Syrians bei ...

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War Resisters League

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

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