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k2p blog

• Denmark continues its campaign to exterminate ...
  Denmark is a dangerous place to be a giraffe especially if your name is Marius. I suspect that Jyllands Park Zoo is desperate for a little publicity. Though just killing giraffes named Marius seems a little drastic. They might have been better off starting a campaign to keep their Marius alive.
• When molluscs and plovers take precedence &#82 ...
  High rains (which happen from time to time) and undredged rivers will inevitably result in escape channels for the water being restricted and increase the possibility of water breaking out of the river channels and finding their way to the sea. In the UK it seems rainfall levels have been verý h ...
• Jade Bunny declared dead
  The jade Bunny is dead.
• Copenhagen Zoo’s justifications for kill ...
  Animals are kept captive and alive in zoos just for gawking at. Once upon a time we did that with human "freaks". I would like to think that we are more "civilised" now where I take "civilised" to be elegance in behaviour. The behaviour of Copenhagen Zoo was particularly inelegant. The fundamen ...
• Global Big Maconomics
  Norway once again boasts the world's most expensive Big Mac with the ubiquitous double-decker burger now costing 48 kroner, or $7.80.

Left Foot Forward

• David Cameron is surrounded by climate sceptics
  The Tory party is rife with climate change sceptics.
• Fears of return to the past as dissidents targ ...
  Fears were growing last night that dissidents in Northern Ireland could be attempting to step up their efforts to derail the peace process.
• September 18 is decision day for Scotland: bui ...
  It is now clear the only way to retain sterling as the anchor of our future prosperity is to keep Scotland within the United Kingdom.
• Spain cracks down on judicial human rights act ...
  The Spanish Parliament has voted to press ahead with a bill which will limit the ability of Spanish judges to pursue human rights cases outside the country.
• The University of Edinburgh has put the rights ...
  Genuine equality issues are taking a back seat to accommodating religious intolerance in student politics.

Whistleblogger - GAP

• UNC Whistleblower Allegations Suggest NCAA Pro ...
  CBS Sports: UNC Whistleblower Willingham – Academic Sins Not Isolated Solid coverage of the ongoing scandal at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill involving whistleblower and literacy specialist Mary Willingham’s findings that some 10 percent of prior student athletes from revenue-pr ...
• 'The Day We Fight Back' Goes Global: Daily Whi ...
  Today, "The Day We Fight Back" Goes Global Today, GAP is teaming up with other good governance groups, transparency organizations and accountability advocates around the world for The Day We Fight Back, a worldwide day of activism aimed at protesting the NSA’s global mass surveillance. You can ...
• Today, 'The Day We Fight Back' Goes Global
  Good governance groups, transparency organizations and accountability advocates around the world are protesting mass surveillance today, February 11: the Day We Fight Back. The Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) is distributing the protest message below, drafted by the Government Account ...
• GAP President Criticizes UNC for Disparaging W ...
  Charlotte Observer: UNC Blames the Whistleblower February 8, 2014 Summary: This op-ed from GAP President Louis Clark criticizes how officials at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have made public statements that disparage a whistleblowing employee who exposed the university’s alle ...
• State Department Must Now Certify UN Whistlebl ...
  USA Today: New U.S. Law Links Whistleblowers Defense to U.N. Funds Last month, President Obama signed legislation requiring the Secretary of State to certify that each agency at the United Nations which receives U.S. contributions is adhering to best practices for the protection of whistleblo ...

UK Progressive

• Que(e)rying Michael Sam’s Timing to Come Out
  by Rev. Irene Monroe When NBA center Jason Collins came out last year, it was the moment the professional sports world had been waiting for —a gay athlete currently playing in a major league who comes out publicly. And what many may not have known is that the professional sports world had also h ...
• Boehner Invites Hispanic Wave to Vote Democrat ...
  by Brent Budowsky Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), taking the latest in his series of twisting and turning positions on immigration reform — which he was against before he was for, which he is now against this year but for next year — has fallen into the kind of trap I warned about in my latest [& ...
• The War on the Poor and Middle-Class Families
  by Robert Reich Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age Americans are in jobs than at any time in the last three decades. Only 113,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in January, on top of a paltry 7 ...
• Thuggery, Skulduggery and the Legitimization o ...
  Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad In a week that there has been much debate about thuggery—what’s a thug, who’s a thug and whether calling somebody a thug is new cultural codification for the “N-word” around an athlete’s rant in the heat of battle?—another entertainment sought to exploit celebrity in ...
• Why Nye vs. Ham is a Dangerous Debate
  This is the Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell A fascinatingly stupid debate sucked up last week’s media oxygen. The combatants were Bill Nye-TV’s ‘Science guy’ and Kentucky’s Creation Museum head, John Ham. The argument was whether or not the earth is just a Biblical 10,000 years old or billions ...

NewsAlert

• California Law Forces Chefs and Bartenders to ...
• Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get mor ...
  CNN reports:Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote -- and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes. The venture capitalist offered the unorthodox proposal when asked to name one idea that would "change the world" at a speaking ...
• (Video) College Students Scared Straight About ...
• IRS 'trusted partner' joined at hip with La Raza
  WorldNetDaily
• Chicago’s debt load per person is the biggest ...
  Bloomberg reports:Chicago is now the city of big debt, where each of its 2.7 million residents -- from infants in diapers to senior citizens on fixed incomes -- is on the hook for about $20,000 in long-term pension promises and bond obligations. Like the relentless snow clogging the city’s stree ...

JoNova

• Farewell, Knights of Delingpole? Say it isn&#8 ...
  Damn but we’ll miss you Dellers. Here today, what tomorrow? Of course we know we will keep tripping across your wake (I’m referring to the waves your words leave as they cut through the raging wash.)  I absolutely can’t believe we won’t be hearing more of you. The Delingp ...
• UK Met office predicts 15% chance of heavy rai ...
    Photo Chris Murray UK Met Office in December predicted a 15% chance of Jan-Feb-March being the wettest category SUMMARY – PRECIPITATION: Latest predictions for UK-precipitation show a slight signal for near or just above average rainfall during January-February-March as a whole. The ...
• Global Wind excuse — monkey-modeling sho ...
  The backdown continues. Faced with the ongoing failure of their models, the search rolls on for any factor that helps “explain” why the official climate scientists are still right even though they got it so wrong.  The new England et al paper endorses skeptics in so many ways. The w ...
• Coal is a gift from Gaia
  Solar Energy Storage – A Gift from Gaia There is a massive problem with photo-voltaic solar power. Modern cities and industries require power 24/7 but solar panels can only deliver significant energy from 9am to 3pm on a clear day – a maximum of 25% of the time. Even within this time, energy pro ...
• Do winds control the climate or does the ocean ...
  William Kininmonth essentially says that it’s possible that the trade winds have changed the climate, but asks why the winds themselves changed. Kininmonth explains that the ocean is much larger and holds much more heat than the atmosphere, and that the ocean drives the winds rather than t ...

ReNew America

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

2012 Blog

• 2012 Obsession Leads To Murder
  I guess we’ll never know, but I’d like to think that the key causes of this murder are alcohol and rage… even if they were arguing about the end of the Mayan Calendar. Smith said in opening arguments Thursday that Humphreys shot Peterson during an alcohol-fueled rage that was e ...
• The Right Wing 2012 Agenda
  I’ve been paying close attention to the post-2012 activities of 2012 activists, and this one caught me by surprise… Ostensibly an exercise in leveraging a popular meme for profit purposes only, the “official” Dec 21 2012 site has now been revived using the most generic co ...
• The Bookcover I Forgot About
  The books, topics, notes and ideas that I didn’t write about in the last 13 years would take me a decade to wade through – which I might just do depending on how much is going on in my here-and-now. I just found some images I was considering for my Survive 2o12 book cover (and then f ...
• The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
  For a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude auroras) or the return of a long-period comet. Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
• Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
  I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• An Eyewitness Account About How Israel Has Con ...
• The West Supports Al-Qaeda in Syria
• Syria Atrocities: Al Qaeda Slaughters Civilian ...
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Coup ...
• The New Geopolitics of the Middle East Panel: ...

Daily Tech

• PS4 Nearly Doubles Xbox One Sales in January
  Neither Sony nor Microsoft have released any hardware numbers for the month of January yet     
• Verizon Gets Much More Competitive Pricewise W ...
  Verizon is roughly $18-28 USD/month more expensive than T-Mo for 6-Mo. upgrades; $8 USD/month more for 2-yr. plan     
• Windows 8 Passes 200 Million Sales Mark After ...
  Microsoft's current operating system trails well behind its predecessor in sales     
• Chromebooks Can Now Run Windows Apps Thanks to ...
  Advantages of Windows for the casual consumer continue to erode     
• Largest Solar Thermal Plant "Ivanpah" Goes Liv ...
  Ivanpah is located near the California-Nevada border, about 45 miles southwest of Las Vegas     

Oriental Review

• Russia’s Right Turn
  An unfortunate legacy of the Cold War is the negative attitude some American conservatives yet harbor toward Russia. Conditioned for decades to see Russia and the Soviet Union as synonymous, they still view post-communist Russia as a threat. They forget that Tsarist Russia was the most conservat ...
• What about apologizing to Ukraine, Mrs. Nuland?
  Yesterday’s leak of the flagrant telephone talk between the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt has already hit the international media headlines. In short, it turned out that the US officials were coordinating their actions on ...
• Western Powers Back Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine
  Western nations, led by the European Union and the Obama Administration, are backing an outright neo-Nazi regime-change coup in Ukraine. If the effort succeeds, the consequences will extend far beyond the borders of Ukraine and neighboring states. For Russia, such a coup would constitute a casus ...
• Don’t Rain on Putin’s Olympic Parade
  The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will take place in Sochi on Friday. Regrettably, as soon as this venue was selected by the Olympic Committee in July 2007 in Guatemala, the Western media unleashed a vicious, often hypocritical, and extremely biased campaign against Sochi and ...
• What Links the Threat of a U.S. Default with t ...
  At the Munich Security Conference the Ukrainian opposition and the U.S. essentially agreed on a plan to force Viktor Yanukovich to capitulate. Arseniy Yatsenyuk told of this plan of action, which was worked out with the direct participation of Western representatives, after a meeting with U.S. S ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• 70 MILLION AMERICANS TAKING MIND-ALTERING DRUGS
            The heroin-overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has caused the media to focus, however fleetingly, on America’s drug problem. News accounts of the Oscar-winner’s tragic demise typically reference the startling increase in heroin-relat ...
• Generation Stress: Scandal of our depressed ki ...
            Tormented by bullies, under ­pressure to fit in and bombarded with school assessments, many children today find themselves struggling to cope Thousands of children aged 10 and under are being treated for depression, stress and anxiety, ... Re ...
• ‘Talking therapy’ could help schiz ...
                The first clinical trial carried out to evaluate the effect of cognitive therapy (CT) in schizophrenia sufferers unwilling to take antipsychotics has proven the treatment can reduce psychiatric symptoms. To be clear from the off, ...
• False memories: The hidden side of our good memory
                Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they are reproducing exactly an event that ... Related ...
• Caution: GMO Non-Browning ‘Arctic Apple’ Comin ...
              Like the decrepit hand of a wicked witch offering us all a shiny red apple, the latest GMO project puts a new poison in one of our favorite fruits.  This time, it is Neal Carter, inventor ... Related posts:GMO apples may be deregulated ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Coal ash spills and citizen suits: Sound familiar?
  Amy Adams, North Carolina campaign coordinator with Appalachian Voices, shows her hand covered with wet coal ash from the Dan River swirling in the background as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash into the river in Danville, Va., Wedne ...
• Well, what do you know … a coal ash spil ...
  Coal ash swirls on the surface of the Dan River as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash into the river in Danville, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48- ...
• EPA sets December deadline for coal ash rules
  Here’s the latest news day from Earthjustice: Late yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to finalize first-ever federal regulations for the disposal of coal ash by December 19, 2014, according to a settlement in a lawsuit brought by environmental and public health ...
• Freedom to spill: Coal must take bad with good
  Gazette photo by Chip Ellis My apologies for not having much to say on Coal Tattoo the last few days, especially given the huge coal-related story that’s been breaking here in Charleston and the surrounding region in West Virginia. I’ve been focusing on helping with our daily Gazette ...
• OSMRE: ‘It’s not the real world. This is ...
  It seems that at least some of the beltway media are expecting some serious news to come out of a hearing this morning before the House Natural Resources Committee, where Republicans are continuing to try to manufacture some major Obama administration scandal out of the Office of Surface Mining ...

Daniel Miessler

• Things I Do Immediately On a New Linux Box
  Here are a few things I do immediately on any new Linux box that I’ll be using: Upload my own .vimrc so that I have ‘jk’ as ESC, etc. Change my shell to zsh Enable vim commands in my shell, so I can ‘jk’ to go into vim mode on the command line Without these [… ...
• Free Will as the Ability to Affect Outcomes
  After all the discussion on free will I’ve had over the last several years, I think I may have found a way to achieve some clarity. First, a definition: free will The ability for an entity to truly affect outcomes in the universe as opposed to simply experience doing so. And here it is in ...
• Libertarians Don’t Ban Things
  Conservative, so-called “Libertarian” types love talking about being for personal responsibility and freedom, but so many seem to hate actually doing it. Marijuana? Ban it! Sex education? Ban it! Porn? ban it! 1,000 other things labeled evil? Ban them! Please listen closely: Claims t ...
• The Duality of Truth and Happiness
  I just saw the Lego Movie, and it was quite good. [ SPOILERS: Stop here if you're worried about plot issues. ] So, like most modern “kid” films, there was an adult thread woven throughout the movie. This one was fairly simple, but powerful: Everyone is special—even when they&#8 ...
• We Are the Water in the Pothole
  There’s an interesting pseudo-science argument that you hear in creationist circles that says humans must be a miracle from God because if the universe were ANY different, we wouldn’t be here. In other words, if molecules formed in a slightly different way, or if gravity was slightly ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

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

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

• US-British-French Resolution on Syria Citing H ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 12, 2014 Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 [download entire video] [download entire audio]
• Likely Greek Premier Tsipras, Campaigning in P ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio February 8, 2014 [download audio]  
• Need Executive Orders Nationalizing the Fed wi ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com February 5, 2014 [download audio]
• Impeach the State Department’s Hooligan ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 5, 2014 The just-concluded first phase of the international conference on Syria in the Swiss cities of Montreux and Geneva has underlined a serious crisis in the collective security apparatus of the world. Because of his outrageous partisanship and an ...
• Stop the Farm Bill with Its $8.5 Billion of Ge ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio February 1, 2014 [download audio]  

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• The Case For Organic Fruits and Veggies
• EWG’s Top Ten Environmental Health Stories of ...
• Study Finds Risky Gas Leaks in Nation’s Capital
• Snow White and Her Seven Drilling Rigs
• What We Can Learn From West Virginia

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Capital Health Care: What Congress costs NY ho ...
• Battle over oil trains begins, perhaps, with a ...
• For once, de Blasio paints a conservative picture
• Business leaders meet with Mark-Viverito on pa ...
• Peacock struts at Sochi

World News - Top Stories

• PM Enrico Letta steps down: Plagued by un ...
  The Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has said he will tender his resignation, opening the way for centre-left leader Matteo Renzi to take the helm of Italy’s third government in less than a year. His decision to resign, which will be formally announced on Friday, came after the Democrat ...
• Nicolas Cage stars in first trailer for J ...
  The first trailer has arrived online for Joe, in which Nicolas Cage plays a periodically violent man who strikes up a friendship with Tye Sheridan's abused teen. A...
• Joe Russo talks Captain America's new out ...
  Eagle-eyed viewers of the recent Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailers will have noticed that Steve Rogers is sporting a new suit, a conscious choice by co-directors the Russo brothers, designed to reflect Cap's new situation… "It...
• Kargil freezes at -17 degree C; rain, sno ...
  SRINAGAR: Ladakh's Kargil town was the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir at minus 16.8 degrees on Thursday and Kashmir Valley is expected to receive light rain and...
• Kerry pushes China on North Korea nukes
  BEIJING — Secretary of State John F. Kerry said he had held a very constructive meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday as he sought Beijing’s help in deterring North Korea from pursuing nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, experts said Kerry faced an uphill battle ov ...

no frakking consensus

• The IPCC Official and the Loaded Gun
  Chris Field - the head of the UN climate panel's Working Group 2 - thinks the world "is staring down the barrel of climate change."
• Government Tells Public They’re Morons
  Ontario energy minister says we should wear sweaters in winter.
• Video Interview: Activists & the UN Climate Pr ...
  In a 23-minute interview, filmed in the UK last month, I talk about activists and the UN's climate process.
• Wind Energy Meeting Silences the Public
  Government-mandated wind project meetings are supposed to be about two-way communication. But no questions from the public are allowed, and the notice period is ridiculously short.
• A Historical Perspective on Hysterical Rhetoric
  From 1948 to the present, environmental activists have declared that the sky is falling.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 2/11/14 - Attorney General Eric Holder Calls f ...
  felonvoting.procon.org - Attorney General Eric Holder Calls for Restoration of the Vote to People Convicted of a Felony - Holder said that 5.8 million Americans are prohibited from voting due to a felony conviction and called the situation "unacceptable."
• 2/7/14 - 35 Prescription Drugs Pulled from the ...
  prescriptiondrugs.procon.org - 35 Prescription Drugs Pulled from the Market – After being approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 35 prescription drugs have been removed from the US market since the 1970s over safety concerns. See all 35 drugs including Quaalude (pulled in 1985), Acc ...
• 2/6/14 - Should the US Authorize the Keystone ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - Should the US Authorize the Keystone XL Pipeline to Import Tar Sand Oil From Canada? - On Jan. 31, 2014, the US State Department issued its "Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement" for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. See the report’s executive summary ...
• 2/5/14 - 270 Books Citing ProCon.org
  www.procon.org - - 270 Books Citing ProCon.org - 68 books in 2013 referenced our research. Our websites on gay marriage, immigration, medical marijuana, and prostitution garnered the most citations. Notable authors who have referenced ProCon.org in their books include: Glenn Beck, Mark Bittman, ...
• 2/5/14 - Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Prescription ...
  prescriptiondrugs.procon.org  - Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Prescription Drug Ad Articles in Medical Journals, 1983-2013 – After the FDA authorized prescription drug advertising on television and radio in Aug. 1997, ads flooded the market resulting in more studies and articles written analyzin ...

Truth About Our World

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

TVNZ

• New gender options for Facebook users
  With a click of a cursor, Jay Brown went from Male to Trans Male. 
• Pistorius says he mourns for girlfriend he killed
  Pistorius said that he is consumed by grief on the first anniversary of his girlfriend's death.
• Rival Koreas meet again at border
  The rival Koreas sat down today for a second round of talks.
• US judge voids state's gay marriage ban
  A federal judge ruled today that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
• Woman thrown into manhole, escapes after 60 hours
  A woman made an incredible escape after being stranded in a manhole for over 60 hours.

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Supporter Spotlight: Summer Osterman
  (Photo: Summer Osterman) In each issue of Oceana magazine, we sit down with one of Oceana’s many supporters to learn why they are passionate about the oceans. In the most recent issue, we chatted with Summer Osterman, a yacht charter broker with Burgess Yachts. You can read our ...
• States Begin Taking Seafood Fraud Into Their O ...
  (Photo: Oceana / Jenn Hueting) Coastal states take great pride in providing their consumers with fresh, locally caught seafood. But ask yourself this…how do we know that what’s on the menu is what we’re actually being served? Last year, Oceana released the results of a nationwide study, whic ...
• Saved from Shell: Shell Cancels Plans for Arct ...
  (Photo: U.S. Geological Survey) An ice-ridden, remote, ecologically-rich, and picturesque region of Alaska’s Arctic will remain that way, at least for 2014. On January 30, Royal Dutch Shell’s new CEO, Ben van Beurden, made the announcement that sent a wave of praise ricocheting throughout the ...
• Oceana Victory—NOAA Backs Down from Underminin ...
  Oceana ran a series of Metro ads urging NOAA to side with sharks, not shark finners. (Photo: Oceana / Jenn Hueting) After months of public campaigning and pressure by Oceana and other conservation groups, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially backed down from a pr ...
• Workers Evacuated As Another ‘Out-of-Control’ ...
  (Photo: J. Stephen Conn) Last Thursday, a natural gas well operating off the coast of Louisiana began leaking methane gas into the air. Given the recent number of large number of spills and leaks taking place on Gulf rigs, it’s hard to believe that the federal government is now considering al ...

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Japan Times

• Swiss voters send EU a message on immigration
  Conventional debate in Europe has interpreted increased anti-immigrant sentiment as the result of xenophobia, racism and a new sympathy for the authoritarian far right. Analysis ...
• Asia’s democratic dramas
  Socially and economically, Asia now stands roughly where Europe was at the start of the 20th century. One can only hope that its democratic journey ...
• Is it better to win Olympic bronze than silver?
  Research suggests that in the Olympics, those who finish third are likely to be a lot happier than those who finish second. There are broader ...
• A bridge across the Taiwan Strait
  For the first time since the end of China's civil war in 1949, official representatives from Beijing and Taipei sat down at the same table ...
• Storied family-run toy shop ‘sells dreams’ to ...
  'Continuing a small toy shop for five generations is a kind of miracle," says Masaki Terao, 58, proprietor and purse-string holder at Toys Terao, which ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• While you were sleeping: Curling’s &#821 ...
  But so are more #SochiProblems
• The sketch: Who here agrees with Jim Flaherty?
  Does Jim Flaherty agree with Jim Flaherty?
• Men’s hockey: Just the anti-climax Mike ...
  The Canadian men's hockey coach wanted a tough opener, and Norway—improbably—supplied it
• The QP Clip: Jim Flaherty gets awkward about i ...
  The exchange you can't miss from this afternoon's Question Period
• The best and worst @Sochi: Skeleton helmets an ...
  And many special appearances from Soshanna of HBO's 'Girls'

Making It Count - CCPA

• The Unappetizing Record of Prison Food Privati ...
  In the United States, prisons and privatization have become as American as apple pie. Today, approximately 130,000 people are incarcerated by for-profit companies in the United States, an 1,664% increase over the last 19 years. Even those prisons that remain state-run have sought to turn over al ...
• Young Workers Left Behind in Budget 2014
  Recessions are always harder on young workers, but we are nearly five years out from the end of the last recession and there is still no recovery in sight for young workers. The paid internships announced in this budget (some of which is previously announced spending) will only reach a maximum o ...
• Missing In Action: Federal Budget 2014
  Here’s the first section of the budget summary and analysis I’ve prepared for CUPE. The full version is on-line on CUPE’s website together with our press release . Missing In Action: Federal Budget 2014  CUPE Federal Budget 2014 Summary and Response   Conservatives ignore press ...
• Les priorités fédérales 2014 : chars, nucléair ...
  Après un autre 14 G$ de compressions budgétaires, nous voici de retour à l’équilibre budgétaire. Bien-sûr, si vous questionnez Jim Flaherty, le ministre des Finances, il répliquera au contraire qu’il lui faut toujours résorber un déficit de 0,1% du PIB avant d’y parvenir. Mais lorsqu’un déficit ...
• Youth employment measures in #bdgt14 do little ...
  It’s not unreasonable to say that Canada has a youth employment crisis. The employment rate for youth in January was at one of its lowest points since the start of the recession, at 50.6%. That’s only 0.1% higher than it was two years ago and down by a tenth compared to pre-recession levels. The ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• Ukraine Imposes Capital Controls
  Ukraine imposes capital controls and faces the abyss. Bloomberg reports: Ukraine’s central bank imposed limits on foreign-currency purchases, bolstering a sagging hryvnia after interventions failed to prop it up. The monetary authority yesterday set a monthly cap on foreign-currency purchases fo ...
• US In “Shock And Turmoil” After Snowden Info L ...
  A new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Obama regime is in “total shock and turmoil” today after the YouTube leaking by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of a highly encrypted telephone conversation between the US Assistant Secretary of Sta ...
• Secretive Obama “Shock Troops” Deploy Across A ...
  A highly concerning urgent action report issued today by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is warning that “American internal stability” has now entered into a “more dangerous and critical phase” after Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) intelligence assests began reporting the large-scale ...
• Super Bowl 9/11 “Warning” Sends Shockwave Acro ...
  An ominous entry placed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report prepared by top disarmament official Mikhail Ulyanov and circulating in the Kremlin today claims that the “staged” warning given to the world yesterday by Edward Snowden protégé and defender Matthew Mills during a press c ...
• 15 February “Catastrophe” Warned Will Shake En ...
  A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared the by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Ministry of Defense is warning that the assassinations this past week of three top Western bankers coincide with Snowden Documents detailing a 15 February 2014 “catastrophe” being engine ...

Daily Dose

• Londoners can register a new .London Web addre ...
  It has been a long time coming, but details around the new .London domain have surfaced today – yes, April 29 is the day you can procure your very own... Keep reading →
• Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to sha ...
  While there’s no shortage of mobile apps for discovering new music, that doesn’t stop a steady stream of new incarnations hitting app stores around the world. The latest one to... Keep reading →
• Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp says it will enable ...
  Bitstamp, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, plans to enable withdrawals again later today. The Slovenia-based firm suspended this transaction type earlier in the week because of a denial-of-service... Keep reading →
• The Nokia Lumia 1320 hits the UK via EE, Virgi ...
  Way back in October, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 1320, a six-inch, 720p phablet with a 5-megapixel camera and a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor. And today, Nokia confirmed it’s arriving in the... Keep reading →
• Indian music service Dhingana shuts down 2 mon ...
  Indian music streaming service Dhingana has quietly closed the shutters on its service, ending months of speculation about its future after it lost a key partnership. A brief farewell note... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• When climate solutions are seen as a threat no ...
  BZE's CEO, Stephen Bygrave, writes: 2014 is shaping up to be a big year on a range of fronts. The Renewable Energy Target, which I helped to design in the late 1990s, is under review. The carbon price, which I was also involved with, is under threat. There have been a number of ill-informed s ...
• Solar thermal is coming. But where will it land?
  By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, January 30 2014. With the news that Chile is to join the solar thermal club, Australia could before long become the only inhabited continent without this revolutionary electricity generation technology. Spanish developer Abengoa is set to build a la ...
• ARENA, Alinta agree funds for Port Augusta sol ...
  By Giles Parkinson. RenewEconomy, 15 January 2014 The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has finally come to an agreement with the privately-owned Alinta to co-fund a feasibility study into a solar thermal power station to augment or replace the existing coal fired generators in the South Aus ...
• Casting away carbon, street by street
  By Stephen Bygrave. From Climate Spectator Australia's homes are among the largest and most inefficient in the developed world. Then we wonder why our household energy bills and carbon emissions are so high.  There are, also, few ways we get feedback regarding our household energy consum ...
• The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
  Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Scientists discover new whale species
  Beaked whales are incredibly elusive and rare, little-known to scientists and the public alike—although some species are three times the size of an elephant. Extreme divers, beaked whales have been recorded plunging as deep as 1,800 meters (5,900 feet) for over an hour. Few of the over 20 ...
• Featured video: camera traps catch jaguars, an ...
  These are sights that have rarely been seen by human eyes: a stealthy jaguar, a bustling giant armadillo, and, most amazingly, a sloth slurping up clay from the ground. A new compilation of camera trap videos from Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorean Amazon shows a staggering array of species, ...
• Wonderful Creatures: the bizarre-looking marin ...
  Almost everyone knows what an earthworm is, but these very familiar animals are just one variation on a very rich theme that is at its most fabulously varied in the oceans. The mind-boggling appearances and lifestyles of the marine segmented worms are perfectly exemplified by this week's animal.
• Ivory trade's shocking toll: 65% of world's fo ...
  Forest elephants have suffered unprecedented butchery for their ivory tusks over the past decade, according to new numbers released by conservationists today in London. Sixty-five percent of the world's forest elephants have been slaughtered by poachers over the last dozen years, with poachers k ...
• Obama announces new strategy to tackle wildlif ...
  Yesterday, the Obama administration announced an ambitious new strategy to help tackle the global illegal wildlife trade, including a near-complete ban on commercial ivory. The new strategy will not only push over a dozen federal agencies to make fighting wildlife trafficking a new priority, but ...

Sierra Express

• Seven Sierra Leoneans face jail for housing fr ...
  Seven Sierra Leoneans have pleaded guilty to housing fraud and are due to be sentence on a March 20 this year, following a successful prosecution by Southwark Council. They were responsible for one of the largest housing fraud cases uncovered in the country in recent years. Over 3 years, Ibrahim ...
• RSLAF Poise for Saturday Victory in Brikama
  RSLAF FC are in high spirits in Banjul, The Gambia as they look set to overturn the Freetown result, when they take on Gamtel FC of The Gambia in the Brikama artificial turf on Saturday; 4:30 pm. Speaking on arrival at the airport in Banjul, where all protocol was observed in less than 15 minute ...
• Sia Morsay promises X-ray machine for Koidu Go ...
  An aspirant for the Chairmanship of the Kono Diamond Dealers Association, Madam Sia Jarieu B. Morsay, has promised the people of Kono a brand new X-ray machine to the Koidu Government Hospital, plus drugs and medical appliances. Addressing a jam packed meeting at the Fachima Hall in Koidu town o ...
• Energy Minister declares “Watch your neighbour”
  The Minister of Energy, Hon. Oluniyi Robbin-Coker (in photo), has disclosed at a press conference held at the Ministry’s conference room at Siaka Steven Street in Freetown on Friday, February 7, that a lot of Sierra Leoneans are stealing the National Power Authority (NPA) electricity and as a re ...
• ‘NPA spends six hundred million Leones a day t ...
  The General Manager of the National Power Authority (NPA) Dr. Ahmed Zubairu Kalokoh (in photo), has informed this paper that they spent Le600 million every day on fuel to provide electricity for the people when the Bumbuma turbine broke down last year. He maintained that last year was a difficul ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Farm block up for sale
  A big block of dairy land owned by Solid Energy is being put up for sale in Eastern Southland, PGG Wrightson Real Estate said.The block of 2000ha is one of the largest recent offerings of New Zealand dairy land, the rural specialist...
• World dairy prices up 0.5pc overnight (+graphic)
  Dairy product prices rose in the second GlobalDairyTrade auction in a row, led by butter and whole milk powder, while volumes continued to retreat.The GDT Price Index increased 0.5 per cent from the last sale two weeks ago. The...
• NZ commodity prices rise to a record in January
  New Zealand commodity prices rose to a record in January, led by gains in butter.The ANZ Commodity Price Index advanced 1.2 per cent to 334.3 from December. The index is 23 per cent above January 2013.International prices for...
• NZ shares drop to 4-week low
  The New Zealand sharemarket dropped to a four-week low, tracking a decline on Wall Street, after a report showed US manufacturing activity grew at the slowest pace in eight months, fuelling concern about global growth.New Zealand's...
• NZX eyes US investors thirsty for dairy deriva ...
  NZX, New Zealand's market operator, has taken another step towards expanding its dairy derivatives market into the US with approval to allow direct access for American customers.NZX is now a registered Foreign Board of Trade...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Justin Carter, Teen Jailed for Months on Feckl ...
  Dallas Observer has a detailed and infuriating update on a case I've blogged about for Reason back in June and July of last year, of a teen charged and held for months basically for mouthing off on Facebook. Their details: Carter's comments were part of a duel between dorks, ...
• More Bad News for Bitcoin: Silk Road II Hacked ...
  So reports Andy Greenberg of Forbes, the reporter so tied in that original Silk Road operator Dread Pirate Roberts or someone pretending to be him actually talked to him: On Thursday, one of the recently-reincarnated drug-selling black market site’s administrators posted a lo ...
• Exene Cervenka of L.A. Punk Band X Moving to T ...
  Exene Cervenka, singer from classic Los Angeles punk band X, has been making news this week for her massive estate sale, ongoing right now. She's shipping out to Texas, and she tells Rolling Stone why: "The other reason I'm moving, if the creek don't rise, is that when I move ...
• "Tase Him Again! Tase Him Tase Him Tase Him!": ...
  From CBS Local San Francisco, transit police just doing their (unnecessary, in this case) job with unnecessary force: Video has been obtained by KPIX 5 showing a BART police officer who repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a passenger in front of other riders. A woman who witn ...
• Court Strikes Down California's Concealed Carr ...
  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down California's restrictive concealed carry weapon (CCW) permit rules today, saying they are in direct conflict with the Second Amendment, as noted at Reason 24/7 earlier and in an earlier blog post by Damon Root. In its ruling, the cour ...

Mercury Rising

• Friday Cat Blogging
• Oppose the Comcast-Time Warner cable merger
  Free Press is leading the effort here. Gina Chon and Emily Steele of the FT have a lot more detail on the regulatory issues. Among other things, they note that the FCC is run by a former cable company lobbyist, Tom Wheeler. Thanks, Mr. Hopey Change!
• A land of light and shadow
  A picture of sunset in Honduras by Brother John A picture of a virtually empty stadium at the inauguration of Juan Orlando Hernández by Adrienne And a photo of massive protest, also by Adrienne: The caption says in part: In the face of 1) a military coup June 28, 2009 2) fraudulent elections Nov ...
• Today is the day we fight back (against NSA su ...
  February 11th was the day to call your congressman/Senator and tell them to stop NSA spying. What we can do Congress is considering two major bills. The USA Freedom Act curtails NSA surveillance abuses. The FISA Improvements Act attempts to legalize bulk data collection of phone records. We need ...
• Marcy Wheeler On The TSA And Ames/Levine&#8217 ...
  I made a comment in Charles’ post on Mark Ames and Yasha Levine’s attack on Pierre Omidyar, the very rich man who has now hired Glenn Greenwald, who Ames and Levine hate with a passion, to write for the media company Omidyar is creating. I’ve decided to dredge that comment out ...

Reality Sandwich

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

gCaptain

• Counter Piracy Warship Rescues Teenage Boy fro ...
  Talk about being in the right place, at the right time...
• COSCO Guangdong to Build Pair of Livestock Car ...
  COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co. secured a contract today valued at over USD $57 million to build two, 4500 square meter livestock carriers. The order was placed from an undisclosed European [...]
• Know Your Equipment – Digital Selective Calling
  By Captain Richard Madden, Those on deep-sea vessels frequently overlook the lessons learned from brown-water and fishing vessels.  This is unfortunate as it is much nicer to learn from others’ [...]
• Statoil and BG Group to Build Tanzanian LNG Plant
  Statoil ASA and BG Group Plc will build Tanzania’s first liquefied natural gas plant in Lindi and are due to meet with authorities about the project’s schedule and details in April, Energy Minister Sospeter Muhongo said.
• Vale’s Giant Ore Carriers Continue to Be Shunn ...
  By Manolo Serapio Jr and David Stanway SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) – China will only allow ships with capacity of up to 250,000 deadweight tonnes to berth at its ports [...]

Press TV

• Four African states reject ivory sales
  Leaders of four African countries have vowed to continue honoring a 10-year moratorium on sales of ivory.
• 'Iran must press Pakistan on abductions'
  A senior Iranian lawmaker has called for active diplomacy by Iran to exert pressure on Islamabad in order to secure the release of five Iranian border guards who were earlier abducted and transferred to Pakistan.
• Israel attacks Erdogan on flotilla deal
  An Israeli minister has accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of blocking a compensation agreement for those killed in a fatal attack by Israeli forces on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010.Relations between the Israeli regime and Turkey soured in 2010, when Israeli commandos attacked t ...
• US Congress wants spy budget details
  A bipartisan group of 62 members of the US House of Representatives have called on President Barack Obama to disclose the details of the US spying budget in his fiscal year 2015 budget.
• ‘Iran oil exports to 3 states rise’
  A recent report has revealed that Iran’s crude oil exports to its three major Asian importers – China, Japan and India – rose by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in January 2014.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• CUNY Corps with the Ernesto Malave Leadership ...
  My name is Yolanda Ransom and I am a junior majoring in Sociology at CUNY’s School of Professional Studies. Last year I was nominated to become a member of the Ernesto Malave Leadership Academy. The Leadership Academy consists of two groups that develop leadership in different areas. One group c ...
• April Coughlin Responds to the NY Times Articl ...
  April Coughlin was one of the CUNY SPS alumni featured in the New York Times article, Disability Studies – A New Normal, on November 1, 2013. We recently caught up with April and asked her why disability studies is an important field for everyone to explore. Here’s what she told us: ...
• Why Did You Stay?
  Why did you stay? He wouldn’t do those things if he didn’t really love you. I’m sure you’re exaggerating. What did you do to make him do that? Those are just some of the things that were said to me after I left my husband. Some believed his stalking was proof of his love for […]
• My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
  After stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving, I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood was where ...
• THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
  The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]

Dissident Voice

• ‘Don’t Mess with My Drone Junk&#82 ...
  It’s an old axiom – “If an extraterrestrial (we used to say ‘Martian’ but we know what is in store for Mars – terraforming, toxic bombs of sulfur, microbes and viral, self-replicating bots, Avatars of purple epidermis and femurs as long as an NBA star’s jump shot) were to just drop into a city o ...
• Not Getting Lucky in New Jersey
  Jay Dee was with his woman for five years, saw her Every day and slept with her every single night. They had a great kid together, a boy. Only trouble Was she was bipolar, you know, so they’d argue All the time, and I mean screaming arguments. So sick of it, Jay Dee finally said, […]
• The Dangerous Seduction of Drones
  After 10 years of this remote-control killing, the Obama administration should seek effective solutions that adhere to international law. Senior Obama administration officials say our government is sharply scaling back its drone strikes in Pakistan. That’s a step in the right direction. It would ...
• The Five Criminals
  RT is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States ...
• The Tide Turns Against Israel
  Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The context for his troubles was his commitment in 2009, under great pressure fro ...

Nick Turse

• Marfa, Texas.2013
  Marfa, Texas. 2013
• laphamsquarterly:"Shrouds no longer exist. I ...
  laphamsquarterly: "Shrouds no longer exist. Instead, you may patronize a grave-wear couturiére who promises “handmade original fashions—styles from the best in life for the last memory—dresses, men’s suits, negligees, accessories.” For the final, perfect grooming: “Nature-Glo, the ultimate in ...
• Marfa, Texas2013
  Marfa, Texas 2013
• projectrenew:A U.S. MK81 250-pound bomb safe ...
  projectrenew: A U.S. MK81 250-pound bomb safely removed from a residential area on Flickr.
• fotojournalismus:An Indian street child play ...
  fotojournalismus: An Indian street child plays in a dry river bed after flood waters receded in Allahabad on October 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA (via afp-photo)

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Newswise

• New Study Reveals Weight Differences between M ...
  Lafayette College researchers who took a closer look at debt struggles and weight differences between men and women found that for men, having trouble paying the bills tends to reduce the probability of being obese, while it appears to raise the probability of obesity for women.
• Physician Scientist Specialized in Thyroid Dis ...
  Dr. Antonio Bianco, a physician scientist working in the thyroid field, has joined Rush University Medical Center as professor of medicine, senior vice chair in the Department of Internal Medicine and division chief of endocrinology at Rush University Medical Center effective February 3rd.
• Early Childhood Education Can Pay Big Rewards ...
  High quality early childhood for disadvantaged children can simultaneously reduce inequality and boost productivity in America, contends James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and one of the nation's leading experts on early childhood education.
• Do Natural Gas Vehicles Hurt or Harm the Envir ...
• Pregnancy Study Leads to Fewer High Birth Weig ...
  The world's biggest study offering healthy eating and exercise advice to pregnant women who are overweight or obese has shown a significant reduction in the number of babies born over 4kg (8.8 pounds) in weight.

Metanoia

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

Jae's News

• Color Explosion Led to Fabulous Dinos 150 M Ye ...
  Dinosaurs went from drab to colorful fab just before 150 million years ago, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature. Submitted by Giana Peranio Paz to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Toy Dog Breeding Causing Horrific Brain Problems
  Selective breeding to produce doll-like dogs has resulted in horrific brain problems that researchers are only now just beginning to fully understand. Submitted by Giana Peranio Paz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Treasure trove of fossils found in Canada will ...
  Old bones galore! A massive trove of fossils discovered by researchers in British Columbia, Canada, will "significantly increase our understanding of animal evolution," according to the group's lead researcher Jean-Bernard Caron. Submitted by Giana Peranio Paz to Science & Tech   ...
• Poll Results - 2/13/2014
  See 1st comment. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• How A War Criminal Rationalizes Murdering 1 Mi ...
  Iraq has returned to the headlines, with parts of Ramadi and Fallujah again under al Qaeda control. American servicemen and women who helped liberate these cities are understandably frustrated. Is everything they accomplished in Iraq unraveling? Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov&#39 ...

Sunwarrior

• Apple Orange Cider
  Jason Wrobel indulges us with a vegan beverage to warm the cockles of your heart, Orange Apple Cider.
• 20 Foods to Boost Your Libido, Stamina, and Se ...
  Humanity has obsessed over aphrodisiacs for thousands of years. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to boost your libido, energy, and passion.
• The Amazing Antioxidants and Health Benefits o ...
  Blueberries, blackberries, boysenberries, strawberries....As a class, berries are loaded with nutrition, vitamins, minerals, and amazing health benefits.
• A Thought to Keep with You on Valentine’s
  Love is an essential part of being human...
• 16 of the Sexiest Vegan Foods – Look and Feel ...
  A good diet provides energizing, endurance-enhancing nutrients, keeps blood flow up, and protects against aging. Here are just a few of the sexiest to choose from...

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My AntiWar

• Historic Baghdad Market Burns After Bomb Blast
• How the CIA Flattened Literature
• Venezuela Seeks Protest Leader’s Arrest ...
• Execution of Arab Iranian Poet Hashem Shaabani ...
• Car Bomb Kills 5 Outside Airport in Somalia

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• 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. There are many different sources of beauty - a beautif ...
• Airport security confiscates Toy Story doll's gun
  Another gun-wielding toy has had its weapon seized by airport security. After a cowboy sock monkey Rooster Monkburn had his tiny harmless weapon seized last year, a Woody doll underwent similar probe at London's Heathrow Airport. Healthrow traveler John Hazen posted a picture of his son's figu ...
• Video surfaces of BART officer repeatedly usin ...
  Video has been obtained by KPIX 5 showing a BART police officer who repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a passenger in front of other riders. A woman who witnessed the incident, who did not want to go on camera, told KPIX 5 the man was harmless and that the officer used the stun gun for no rea ...
• 10-Year-old caught after stealing parents' car ...
  A 10-year-old Norwegian boy stole his parents' car, put his baby sister inside it and drove away, but that's not the craziest part of this story. After he lost control of the car, ending up in a snowy ditch, he told the snowplow driver who found him that he was a dwarf who had forgotten his dri ...
• The new US-Russia cold war
  Meet the new (cold) war, same as the old (cold) war. Same same, but different. One day, it's the myriad implications of Washington's "pivoting" to Asia - as in the containment of China. The next day, it's the perennial attempt to box Russia in. Never a dull moment in the New Great Game in Eurasi ...

The Galloping Beaver

• New Model Country, New Model Army
  I want to add something to the outstanding series of posts from Dave this week. Harper wants to change Canada into some kind of theocratic fascist petro-state, complete with dead coasts and rivers, impoverished workers, and rigged elections. This much is clear when we look at the indicators and ...
• Stephen Harper would not approve
  THIS is what Canadians do. When someone needs help, real Canadians go out of their way to provide it. Then we have the Harper party approach to helping others: First up, James Moore. Your neighbour's kid can starve for all he cares. Next, the man who prostituted the Progressive Conserva ...
• Veterans are outraged. Now they need to do wha ...
  Unification, led by Paul Helleyer in 1968 and permitted by Lester Pearson, was a wound most veterans still bear. Initially intended as a modernization to bring three separate services under one joint operational roof, it steam-rolled well beyond the original plan to create a single service whi ...
• Veterans are outraged. Now they need to do wha ...
  There is a commonly held misconception that all members of Canada's armed services and, by extension, discharged veterans are Conservative supporters. That, of course, is simply not true on more than one plane. What is true, is that many voted for Harper and his uber-right-wing thugs based on ...
• Veterans are outraged. Now they need to do wha ...
  There is no doubt Canadian veterans have been treated in the most vile way possible by one of the most ignorant people in the Harper government. Julian Fantino has demonstrated, quite clearly, that he feels a greater duty to his benefactor, Harper, than he does to the armed services veterans h ...

Media Matters for America

• 10 Misogynist Attacks From Ted Nugent, Greg Ab ...
  Inflammatory conservative columnist Ted Nugent will be making two campaign appearances with Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott. Abbott is predicted to run against Democratic opponent Wendy Davis, who has been the target of sexist attacks from the conservative media. Nugent hims ...
• Ending Job Lock: What Economists Praise As Cho ...
  Economists are encouraged by reports that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase job flexibility by allowing workers to maintain health coverage outside employment, calling the impact good for workers and the economy. But to Fox News, increased flexibility just mean ...
• Right-Wing Gets Its Way On Immigration Reform
  Right-wing radio has been urging Speaker of the House John Boehner to back away from the immigration reform guidelines he had outlined last month -- this week he cowed to their demands, prompting The Wall Street Journal to highlight his fear of a talk-radi ...
• Millions Losing Unemployment Benefits Not A Pr ...
  Broadcast evening news programs devoted zero coverage to Senate Republicans' harmful block on extending long-term unemployment benefits. The failed measure received only minimal attention from national media throughout the day.Senate Failed To Extend Unemployment Benefits Senate Republican ...
• STUDY: Media Leave Viewers In The Dark About T ...
  Congress is debating whether to give the president the authority to fast-track a massive free trade agreement -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- between the U.S., Canada, and 10 nations from the Asia-Pacific region. The nations involved in the talks account for nearly 40 percent of the world's ...

Consortium News

• The Dangers of Stereotyping
• Tea Party and Thomas Jefferson
• Hectoring Obama Over Syria
• Amazon, the CIA and Assassinations
• Learning the Wrong Mideast Lessons

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Largest Nissan Leaf Market In US, Atlanta, May ...
  Originally published on CleanTechnica. Update: An Atlanta EV expert has chimed in with numerous corrections to the Atlanta Business Chronicle (ABC) article. I’m adding that as an addendum. If you read any of the quotes from the ABC article, the addendum is a must-read. Georgia is ranked&#1 ...
• Kenguru EV: The Wheelchair-Friendly Neighborho ...
  President Obama meets with Kenguru CEO Stacy Zoern (photo: kenguru.com). More than three million Americans can celebrate when they hear this story. Made in the USA but in demand worldwide, the Kenguru—a driver-only electric vehicle with no seats—promises mobility-challenged people un ...
• The Most Sudden And Fatal Predator On Earth
  The most dangerous creature in the world is not what you think it might be. (Photo: wholelifehawaii.org.) The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a large lamniform cartilaginous shark that inhabits the coastal surface waters of all the earth’s major oceans. Reaching over 20 feet ...
• Refitted Tunnel Shelter Farms Zero Carbon Veggies
  Premium hydroponic-grown, pesticide-free vegetables and herbs growing in the U.S. Gotham Greens facility (from eponline.com). Two entrepreneurs have recently made London the home of a very creative architectural reuse for food production—underground. Steven Dring, a former executive with Bunzl, ...
• Nothing Says Valentine’s Day Like the Mating C ...
  If you’re looking for truly unique gift for your lover this Valentine’s Day, you might have to get a little primal. For the environmentally minded, the sounds of some of the Earth’s most endangered species might be a fitting reminder that we have a responsibility to the animal ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Swedish pub serves pure water as vodka, and no ...
  Swedish pub serves pure water as vodka, and not completely by mistake The nature of the customer
• Source Water Protection Program helps protect ...
  The chemical spill into the Elk River in West Virginia last week that shut down the water supply to
• MCHM Wasn't the Only Chemical that Contaminate ...
  On January 21, a full 12 days after the Elk River contamination, Freedom Industries’ president
• Top Cleanroom Tips
  Top Cleanroom Tips The top five most popular cleanroom tips from Controlled Environments Magazine fo
• Watch Spacecraft Go From Lab to Launch in Two ...
  This time-lapse video from the European Space Agency shows the Gaia spacecraft inside the cleanroom

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

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

Axis of Logic

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

Climate

• BP Gulf Spill Oil Causes Heart Damage to Tuna, ...
  (The Times-Picayune) Crude oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill contains a chemical that interferes with fish heart cells, slowing heart rates, reducing the ability of the heart to contract and causing irregular heartbeats ...
• China to Reward Cities, Regions Making Progres ...
  (New York Times) Chinese officials announced Thursday that they were offering a total of 10 billion renminbi, or $1.65 billion, this year to cities and regions that make "significant progress" in air pollution control, according to a r ...
• U.K. Probes Whether Strange, Wet Winter Is Par ...
  (E&E Publishing) As Great Britain finds itself in the clutches of an extreme weather event, its scientists are inching closer to attributing this winter's unusual spate of floods and storms to climate change. As usual, however, the ...
• EU Factories Facing First Carbon Shortfall Sin ...
  (Bloomberg) European rules to curb the record glut of carbon permits are raising the prospects of a shortage for manufacturers from Dow Chemical Co. to HeidelbergCement AG. Companies in Europe, which need allowances to match thei ...
• Way Cleared for Medical Claims in 2010 BP Spill
  (AP) A federal appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of workers to be compensated for medical treatment for exposure to crude oil or chemical dispersants during the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The 5th U.S. Circu ...

GreenBiz

• Why a small German village bet big on renewables
  The rural town of Feldheim has become a surprising leader in clean energy.
• State of Green Business: Food sustainability g ...
  McDonald's, General Mills and other mega-companies are satisfying a hunger to solve increasingly complex food issues.
• 10 reasons health care needs sustainability tr ...
  By implementing more healthful policies, hospitals can benefit more than patients, employees and local communities.
• Can the World Bank's 'Thirsty Energy' effort c ...
  With a water crisis looming, this effort seeks to tackle the food-energy-water nexus head on with governments and businesses.
• 10 CSR ideas to retool the design and construc ...
  To build a better workforce, companies need to rethink hiring practices, energy efficiency standards, recycling and more. 

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

• Good Day for ObamaCare
  It's not much talked about, but when people lost their jobs in the Great Recession, many of them lost their health insurance. That's why it's notable that the percentage of adult uninsured (16%) just reached the lowest level it's been at since the month Barack Obama was first inaugurated as pre ...
• Not Again, Damon Linker
  Damon Linker is back for a second bite at the apple, but I still don't understand his argument. This time, he reiterates that liberals are "cocky" and that we're infringing on people's religious freedom by requiring that contraception be treated as preventative medicine under ObamaCare and impo ...
• Will Cowards Really Be Rewarded?
  What the Republicans did this week on the debt ceiling was a disgrace, and they were rightly called to the mat for it by Carl Hulse in the New York Times. The House vote to raise the debt limit and stifle the budget wars was remarkable not only for its lack of brinkmanship, but for the vote ...
• Are Liberals Getting Cocky in the Culture Wars?
  I don't have the same dog in the fight that Ed Kilgore does, so maybe that's why I'm less concerned by Damon Linker's piece than I am befuddled. You could accurately describe me as a secular liberal who has little patience for the religious right. I support female reproductive autonomy and the ...
• Cowardly GOP Will Be Rewarded for Hypocrisy
  It appears that Speaker Boehner disguised the vote to raise the debt ceiling by using a bill described as designating the air route traffic control center located in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the Patricia Clark Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center." I'm not sure how that came to be, but it's ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  From inspiring play parks to TV shows that changed the world, this week’s link roundup is a mixed bag of creepy chills, TV thrills and playground spills (for all). This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Gazing Into the Origins of the Universe 1.5 Mi ...
  In one of the harshest, most remote places on Earth, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory recently made a remarkable and award-winning breakthrough for astronomy. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  Don’t know if you’ve been abducted by aliens but want to check? Need an innovative business guru to emulate? Our 10 coolest links this week should help you out. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Freerunning Champ Tricks Out the Great Wall of ...
  Freerunning champion Ryan Doyle performs daring stunts on the Great Wall of China as part of his Red Bull “world wonders tour." This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Coolest Links of the Week
  This week's weekly roundup of interesting and fascinating articles, featuring a healthy dose of highbrow, informative links and fun irrelevant content to help you while a This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Wait Until You See What Our Coal Addiction Is ...
  Business Insider Australia Wait Until You See What Our Coal Addiction Is Doing To West Virginia Business Insider Australia One increasingly popular mining method, called mountaintop removal mining, could be the most destructive yet. While traditional coal mining extracts coal from underground, m ...
• Time is ticking to take action on enviroment - ...
  Time is ticking to take action on enviroment Martinsburg Journal It is serving so many people because the wells in southern West Virginia have been poisoned by mountaintop removal activity. We, the taxpayers, paid to supply this (now poisoned) city water and now we must find another solution. Th ...
• EQT reports record earnings for 2013 - State J ...
  EQT reports record earnings for 2013 State Journal The walk finished at the Monongalia County Court House to protest the destruction of mountain top removal in the region. The walk finished at the Monongalia County Court House to protest the destruction of mountain top removal in the region. an ...
• Train carrying oil derails in western Pa. - St ...
  Train carrying oil derails in western Pa. State Journal The walk finished at the Monongalia County Court House to protest the destruction of mountain top removal in the region. The walk finished at the Monongalia County Court House to protest the destruction of mountain top removal in the region ...
• Rebranding Morgantown: The City Listens to Pub ...
  Rebranding Morgantown: The City Listens to Public Opinions WBOY-TV The walk finished at the Monongalia County Court House to protest the destruction of mountain top removal in the region. The walk finished at the Monongalia County Court House to protest the destruction of mountain top removal in ...

Memeorandum

• 'I Can Do Whatever I Want' - On February 11, w ...
  William Kristol / Weekly Standard: ‘I Can Do Whatever I Want’  —  On February 11, writing for the Washington Post, Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers ably summarized the latest “bad week for Obamacare.”  The Congressional Budget Office concluded that Obam ...
• Scott Hodge: Here's What 'Income Equality' Wou ...
  Scott A. Hodge / Wall Street Journal: Scott Hodge: Here's What ‘Income Equality’ Would Look Like  —  Take about $4 trillion from the top 40% of families and give it to the bottom 60%—voilà, no more inequality.  —  President Obama has talk ...
• Obamacare's war on jobs (Charles Krauthammer/W ...
  Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post: Obamacare's war on jobs  —  In the ongoing saga of the Affordable Care Act, oddly referred to by Democrats as the law of the land even as it is amended at will by presidential fiat, we are beginning to understand the extent of its war on jo ...
• The Golden Egg - The school of literary critic ...
  Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon: The Golden Egg  —  The school of literary criticism known as reception theory holds that a text should be studied in light of its effect on its contemporaries, that a reader should be aware of the “horizon of expectations” ...
• Facebook Cares More About Targeting Ads Than A ...
  Sean Davis / The Federalist: Facebook Cares More About Targeting Ads Than Affirming Your Gender Identity  —  The Associated Press announced this afternoon that Facebook, the Silicon Valley-based social media company, would soon give users the option of selecting roughly 50 diffe ...

Dot Earth News

• A Valentine’s Day Diversion: Blame it on ...
  A song explores the deep roots of male-female miscommunication and reconciliation.
• Study Sees Path to Cutting Substantial America ...
  A new study finds that natural gas leakage in North America is worse than official estimates, but identifies big opportunities for cutting the biggest sources.
• Fusion Advance Demonstrates Value of Long-Haul ...
  A small step on the long road to fusion as a bountiful energy source.
• Alan Alda Challenges Scientists to Explain Col ...
  A contest seeks scientists who can explain color to children.
• A Lighthouse in Winter
  The many faces of a Hudson River lighthouse in winter.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Thai riot police clear anti-government protest ...
  Thai police prepare to reclaim an anti-government protest site sorrounding Government House in Bangkok, on February 14, 2014Thousands of riot police were deployed in the Thai capital on Friday to clear areas occupied for weeks by opposition protesters, reclaiming the besieged government headqu ...
• New York fashion kings close out the week
  Models present Marc Jacobs designs during New York Fsahion Week on February 13, 2014New York design kings Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein closed out Fashion Week by unveiling their fall/winter runway collections to a star-studded audience.Fashionistas braved a major snowstorm, picki ...
• Group turns on Facebook privacy case deal
  Facebook freed members from the bonds of being either male or female, letting people opt for custom genders such as transsexual or "intersex" at the social networkChildren's advocacy groups fired at Facebook, rejecting a $20 million deal made to settle charges that the social network violated ...
• Obama to meet Jordan's king in California desert
  US President Barack Obama conducts a press conference on February 11, 2014 at the White House in Washington, DCPresident Barack Obama will launch a new round of Middle East diplomacy Friday in a plush oasis in the arid California desert, hosting a Valentine's Day summit with Jordan's King Abdu ...
• Battered Britain faces new winter storm
  A man rides an old fashioned penny-farthing bicycle through floodwater in the town of Worcester, western England, on February 13, 2014Yet another Atlantic storm was barreling towards Britain on Friday, threatening to dump a month's worth of rainfall on communities already struggling to cope wi ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Talking Points: State of the Union, of War, of ...
  Phyllis Bennis weighs in on the State of the Union address, AIPAC's campaign against the Iran talks, and John Kerry's 'new framework' for Israel-Palestine.
• Digging in on Drones and other Flawed Foreign ...
  Obama's declaration that "America must move off a permanent war footing" wasn't the Wow! moment it should have been during his State of the Union address.
• Remembering Pete Seeger
  Phyllis Bennis reflects on the passing of Pete Seeger, renowned folk singer and activist.
• Four Things Obama Should Say During his State ...
  IPS experts weigh in on inequality, taxes, global trade deals, and global talks with Syria and Iran.
• The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule
  Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• UPDATE: Where did all the meat from “di ...
  To date only retail outlets in California and Florida have been announced. Rancho Feeding Corporation of Petaluma, California recalled approximately 8,742,700 pounds of meat this week because it processed diseased... Continue Reading
• Where did all the meat from “diseased and unso ...
  To date only retail outlets in California have been announced. Rancho Feeding Corporation of Petaluma, California recalled approximately 8,742,700 pounds of meat this week because it processed diseased and unsound... Continue Reading
• Salmonella Positive Causes Curly Parsley Recall
  ROTH FARMS Inc. of Belle Glade, Fl , is recalling its “ bunched Curly Parsley” because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause... Continue Reading
• Salmonella Positive Causes Curly Parsley Recall
  ROTH FARMS Inc. of Belle Glade, Fl , is recalling its “ bunched Curly Parsley” because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause... Continue Reading
• Criminal Sanctions for Selling Bad Meat?
  Ricardo Lopez of the LA Times reported today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general has opened an investigation into the Northern California firm behind a massive recall of... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Time - Top Stories

• Pope's Valentine's Message: Get Married
  Doing so will 'bring you happiness'
• Obama's House of Cards Plea
  The First Fan doesn't want spoilers
• Lightning Strikes Plane
  No passengers injured on Spirit Airlines flight
• Baby Facebook Rattles Mexico
  The government isn't liking some names for kids
• Over 1 Million Tickets Sold for Sochi Olympics
  Over 1 Million Tickets Sold for Sochi Olympics

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 ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

• A Test Post Title Here
  Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
• A Second Test Post Title Here
  Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
• Cartoon caption contest
  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
• Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
  The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...

Fabius Maximus

• Magical theories of science, and how they infl ...
  Summary: Today we have an article by Professor Judith Curry that goes to the heart of the climate science debates, about epistemology (the philosophy of knowing) and the process of science. In America today science has become a pawn in the largely futile political debates, in which the public de ...
• We live in the America Bush Jr created. Unders ...
  Passing years make it ever more clear that Bush Jr was one of the few transformative Presidents in US history, decisively changing the course of both domestic and foreign policy. Consider just a few of his major policy initiatives. The roots of these policy changes lie in the past, but he brough ...
• Three views of exciting new climate research. ...
  Summary: The debates about climate science have divided us, which is nothing new. And it has provided a gift, showing how our vision of the world can be distorted by the apparatus (social mechanisms) through which we see the world. We have an opportunity to learn from these early years of a new ...
• Have we prepared for normal climate change and ...
  Summary: The climate always changes, with or without our intervention. The political struggle over climate-related public policy has left much of America not only vulnerable to anthropogenic extreme climate change, but also to normal climate variations. Another in our series about how America se ...
• Will we see the end of snow? More importantly, ...
  Summary:  Climate change is not only a challenge to civilization, but also a test of America’s ability to see the world, analyze it, and make appropriate decisions. It’s a test we’re failing. Both Left and Right use climate change — and climate science — like a ches ...

The Progressive Realist

• Map of the Day: Where The Press Isn’t Free
  Today’s map comes from the 2014 World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders  Click on the image for a larger view. Here’s what Reporters without Borders says about the index The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of informa ...
• CAR is Falling Apart. And Everyone Knows Why
  When the Security Council authorized the African Union MISCA force for the Central African Republic ten weeks ago, Samantha Power made clear that this course of action was chosen because it was the most expedient way to get international troops to CAR.  …Achieving these goals requires a cr ...
• Iran Revolution Commemoration Exposes Insecurity
  Article originally appeared on Voice of America Someday, Feb. 11 may be celebrated in Iran as a normal national holiday, akin to France’s Bastille Day or the US Fourth of July.   Alas, judging from this year’s official festivities, the anniversary of the 1979 revolution remains the occasion f ...
• Guest Post: Considering the BDS Movement from ...
  The following is a guest post by Joel R. Pruce, a post-doctoral fellow in human rights studies at the University of Dayton.  The transnational movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel continues to capture headlines and prompt crucial debate on the status of Palestinia ...
• Top of the Morning: Progress! China and Taiwan ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest Progress! China and Taiwan Hold First Official Meeting in 65 Years The talks focused on ways to formalize communications between the two parties. Baby steps, but still progress. “Representatives of Taiwan and China held their first official talks on Tuesday since th ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• New Orleans Deserved a Better Scandal than Ray ...
  AP Images/Gerald Herbert Given the prosecution's voluminous case and the defense's lack of any except "Who, me?", Wednesday's guilty verdict in former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin's trial on corruption charges was a foregone conclusion. But considering my adoptive hometown's—and state's ...
• How Big Banks Are Cashing in on Food Stamps
  AP Images/Rich Pedroncelli The Agricultural Act of 2014, signed into law by President Obama last Friday, includes $8 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade. One way the bill proposes to accomplish these savings is by reducing food s ...
• Kansas's Radical Attack on Gays and Lesbians
  The bill passed by the Kansas House of Representatives today has a bland title—"An act concerning religious freedoms with respect to marriage." But the language cannot conceal the vicious discrimination it's intended to protect. The bill would allow not only private businesses but, quite remark ...
• America In Decline
  I've always held that if there's one thing that proves America's superiority to all other nations, it's the quality of our television. Sure, other countries might be able to put together a Borgen or The Returned now and again, but nobody can match the good old U.S. of A. for our sheer quantity ...
• Daily Meme: Stuck With It
  Since millions of East Coast residents are stuck at home under a blanket of wet snow today, we take a look at being stuck, for better or for worse. Signups under the Affordable Care Act are proceeding along nicely, with 3.3 million people having gotten private insurance and another 6 million si ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Defending a Western River With Art and Collabo ...
  Kirk Klancke has watched over the Fraser River for decades. "Education is what is going to save these rivers," he says.
• Laser Facility Blasts Way to Fusion First
  A federal lab reports a new record for laser fusion energy.
• Germany Plans to Raze Towns for Brown Coal and ...
  Germany has ambitious renewable energy goals, but its reliance on coal is also growing. Towns like Atterwasch face relocation to feed demand for cheap brown coal.
• Where Global Warming Went: Into the Pacific
  The global warming "pause" has a cause: Trade winds have been burying heat in the Pacific.
• Giraffe Killing at Copenhagen Zoo Sparks Globa ...
  A healthy male giraffe was euthanized because its genes didn't add to the diversity of the zoo population.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Old Photos Surface Showing Breitbart, O’ ...
  Photographs published this week by an anti-racist website show the late Andrew Breitbart, a leading figurehead among mainstream conservatives, and his onetime protégé James O’Keefe – whose undercover videos are credited with causing the demise of the community organizing group ACORN – rubb ...
• Hatewatch Headlines – 2/11/14
  We’re kicking off a new daily feature highlighting the best stories around the web on hate and extremism. If you see a story that we should include, please email us (hatewatch at splcenter.org), post in the comments or send via Facebook or Twitter. Raw Story: Testimony in Florida trial tha ...
• Hatewatch Headlines – 2/14/14
  The Maddow Blog: Kansas makes anti-gay discrimination easier by using a “religious liberty” fig leaf. Media Matters: Subscribers to Newt Gingrich’s email list are subjected to an array of conspiracist and other bizarre solicitations. Right Wing Watch: Frank Gaffney warns Phyllis Schlafly that le ...
• Virginia County Sheriff Hosting Anti-Muslim Tr ...
  The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia is planning to host a three-day training by John Guandolo, a notorious Muslim-basher and conspiracy theorist who resigned from the FBI before he could be investigated for misconduct, according to promotional materials. It’s hard to believe t ...
• Idaho Journal Recounts History and Lessons of ...
  Bill Morlin, a Hatewatch blogger and the journalist who covered the Aryan Nations longer and better than virtually anyone else, has a great piece up about that group in the Blue Review, a journal of popular scholarship published by the Boise (Idaho) State University College of Social Sciences an ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Salt Lake City’s Becker Joins Mayors for the F ...
  Today, more than a month after officiating marriages for same-sex couples in Utah, Mayor Ralph Becker of Salt Lake City joined Mayors for the Freedom to Marry. Mayors for the Freedom to Marry is a national, broad-based and nonpartisan coalition of mayors who believe that all people should be abl ...
• Salt Lake City’s Becker Joins Mayors for the F ...
  Today, more than a month after officiating marriages for same-sex couples in Utah, Mayor Ralph Becker of Salt Lake City joined Mayors for the Freedom to Marry. Mayors for the Freedom to Marry is a national, broad-based and nonpartisan coalition of mayors who believe that all people should be abl ...
• Director Watch Compiles Company Performance, C ...
  When a new director joins a corporation’s board, there is often a big public display. Official press releases tout the new director’s achievements in politics, academia, or business and note how much the new director’s input and vision will help shape the company’s growth ...
• Director Watch Compiles Company Performance, C ...
  When a new director joins a corporation’s board, there is often a big public display. Official press releases tout the new director’s achievements in politics, academia, or business and note how much the new director’s input and vision will help shape the company’s growth ...
• Obama Mexico Visit Spotlights 20-Year Legacy o ...
  The 20-year record of job loss and trade deficits from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is haunting President Barack Obama’s efforts to obtain special trade authority to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), said Public Citizen as it released a new report that comp ...

Common Dreams-Views

• On Assessing Keystone XL: Set Wrong Standard, ...
  John Atcheson (Photo: Flickr/ Creative Commons / Stephen D. Melkisethian)Recently, the White House reiterated that the test for approving the XL Pipeline was, “ … that this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem ...
• Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They ...
  Clarence Lusane Schools across the country are adorned with posters of the 44 U.S. presidents and the years they served in office. U.S. history textbooks describe the accomplishments and challenges of the major presidential administrations& ...
• Asphyxiating Education
  Robert C. Koehler “The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for th ...
• The Other NRA: National Restaurant Association ...
  Michele Simon Saru Jayaraman Food movement leaders tend to stick to their specific issues, whether it’s advocating for healthy food, fighting for workers’ rights or curbing marketing to ...
• Will Illinois Coal Rush Spread West Virginia D ...
  Jeff Biggers

Water Privatization

• American States Water Company to Report Fourth ...
  American States Water Company announced today that the Company intends to release its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2013 after the market closes on Wednesday, February 26, 2014.
• In Memoriam: Dr. Pankaj Parekh
  DOWNEY - Dr. Pankaj Parekh, a world leader in water quality who made a heroic recovery at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 2011 paralyzed his legs and ravaged his body, died Jan. 30.
• Privatization is common but still controversial
  From trash to golf, study shows how outsourcing saves Missouri governments money
• Olympic Park Tests Greek Recovery Talk After P ...
  It’s almost a decade since crowds swarmed across the old Athens airport, which was transformed into one of the main venues for the 2004 Olympics. Now, stray dogs rather than athletes weave among the silent stadiums as a skeleton crew of security guards keeps watch.
• Olympic Park Tests Greek Recovery Talk After P ...
  It's almost a decade since crowds swarmed across the old Athens airport, which was transformed into one of the main venues for the 2004 Olympics. Welcome to Hellenikon, Europe's largest unused tract of urban real estate, an area that's twice the size of New York's Central Park, a ...

Guardian

• Flood crisis: heavy rain triggers new severe w ...
  Follow live updates on the flooding crisis as the latest in a series Atlantic storms deluges sodden Britain with yet more heavy rainMatthew Weaver
• Eurozone beats forecasts with 0.3% growth -- b ...
  Full coverage as data from across the eurozone shows Italy returned to growth in the last quarter, and France, Germany and the Netherlands beat forecastsGraeme Wearden
• Indonesia volcano eruption sparks mass evacuation
  Ash cloud from Java island's Mount Kelud forces 100,000 people to flee their homes and international airports to closeA major volcanic eruption in Indonesia has shrouded a large swath of the country's most heavily populated island in ash, triggering the evacuation of more than 100,000 people and ...
• Wythenshawe byelection: Cameron denies Ukip su ...
  PM says second place result for Ukip is not the breakthrough the party had hoped for as Labour cruises to victoryUkip did not make the breakthrough it hoped for in the Wythenshawe and Sale East byelection even though the Conservatives were pushed into third place, David Cameron has suggested.The ...
• Uruguayan president says US and Europe need ne ...
  José Mujica says countries that are biggest markets for drugs should consider moves such as regulated sale of marijuanaThe US and Europe need a new strategy on drugs and should look at alternatives such as the regulated sale of marijuana, says the Uruguayan president, José Mujica, whose country ...

McClatchey

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

The Wonk Room

• REPORT: Polls Show Americans Support Diplomacy ...
  A new polling analysis confirms that most Americans support the interim nuclear deal with Iran and a diplomatic approach to the issue. The post REPORT: Polls Show Americans Support Diplomacy With Iran appeared first on ThinkProgress.
• The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A ...
  The announcement will be made in California, a state struggling with record-setting droughts helped along by climate change.The post The White House Is Going To Ask Congress For A $1 Billion Climate Resilience Fund appeared first on ThinkProgress.
• California Lawmakers Propose First-Ever Warnin ...
  A first-of-its-kind proposal in California would make companies put warnings about obesity and diabetes on sodas.The post California Lawmakers Propose First-Ever Warning Labels For Sodas appeared first on ThinkProgress.
• Since DOMA Decision, 5 Federal Courts Sided Wi ...
  So far, federal courts are unanimous in favor of equality for same-sex couples.The post Since DOMA Decision, 5 Federal Courts Sided With Marriage Equality — 0 Sided With Discrimination appeared first on ThinkProgress.
• Tea Party Senators Introduce ‘You’re Not Marri ...
  Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee believe same-sex marriages should disappear as couples cross state borders.The post Tea Party Senators Introduce ‘You’re Not Married Anymore’ Bill To Nullify Same-Sex Marriages appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

• Dear CBC: The Olympics Isn't the Big Story
  ... You stupid fucks. "This just in: The harpercon government has just begun the process of ramming-through legislation that Elections Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand calls 'an affront to democracy.' Also, they've introduced legislation to strip citizenship from Canadians, even th ...
• Uprisingis to Defend the System?
   Once again; it's called a "Constitutional Insurgency."
• How the Fuck is it Supposed to Work???!!!?
  Non-violent, mainstream protesters; you leave me kerfluffled. Boggling. Please explain it to me! There's an inhuman policy that you don't like. You decide to protest. You set a time and place and you advertise. A few people show up. You know many of them. Depending on the issue and other fac ...
• Where's The Outrage???
  Oh, it's there all right. Every time you type "I can't believe there hasn't been an uprising yet" there are many more Canadians thinking the same thing. It's still a small minority of Canadians, but they're there. It's just that the "progressive" or "leftist" brain-trust has no idea how to harne ...
• Donate Money To The Opposition Parties
  Ten bucks. Five bucks even.Encourage other people to do it. harper will be raising money hand-over-fist after his "Fucking With Elections Act" passes. If the opposition parties get inundated with small donations from all over, it will help them resist. I'm going to be campaigning for my local L ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Alternative Federal Budget calls for reduction ...
  The Harper Government is slashing its care for veterans, closing libraries and disposing of books, shutting down primary services like Canada Post mail delivery and curbing funding of the arts and science, all in the name of austerity. Yet the government is still overspending on defence!
• NATO nuke upgrade planned
  Former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz has confirmed that a planned upgrade of the B61 nuclear bomb (the B61-12) will give the weapon enhanced military capabilities.
• Sign the petition – Tell Harper to treat ...
  Sign the petition, right away. Urge Harper to provide veterans suffering from physical and mental injuries with the help they deserve.
• Ottawa Event: Confronting Canada’s Defen ...
  Steven Staples will discuss the growing influence of the defence lobby in Canada. Ceasefire.ca supporters in Ottawa are invited to attend a special discussion hosted by the Ottawa chapter of Project Ploughshares.
• F-35 back on the radar
  The bungled F-35 procurement that has been plaguing the Harper Government is about to heat up again.

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• In Honor of Peter Alexander Egom: Economy & Africa
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 7, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 6
• In Memoriam: Hankel’s Death Leaves Germany a P ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 7, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 6
• The British Coup vs. Clinton Brought U.S. to E ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 7, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 6
• LaRouche Sees Danger by March: Thermonuclear W ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 7, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 6
• Western Powers Back Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 7, 2014, Vol. 41, No. 6

War in Context

• The Assad regime and jihadis: collaborators an ...
  Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi writes: Almost every day on my Twitter feed, I come across allegations that the jihadis operating in Syria- in particular, the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) or “al-Qa’ida” more generally (by which Jabhat al-Nusra is meant as well)- are somehow in secret collabo ...
• Syria killing accelerates as peace talks falter
  Reuters reports: More Syrians have been killed in the three weeks since peace talks began than at any other time in the civil war, activists said on Wednesday, as troops pounded rebel towns on the Lebanese border and negotiations faltered in Geneva. More than 230 people have been killed every da ...
• New York Times op-ed ‘The Dustbowl Returns’ ne ...
  Joe Romm writes: In yet another example of how the New York Times is mis-covering the story of the century, it published an entire op-ed on the return of the Dust Bowl with no mention whatsoever of climate change. It stands in sharp contrast to the coverage of the connection between climate chan ...
• Internet governance too U.S.-centric, says Eur ...
  The Guardian reports: The mass surveillance carried out by the US National Security Agency means that governance of the internet has to be made more international and less dominated by America, the European Union’s executive has declared. Setting out proposals on how the world wide web sho ...
• The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a probl ...
  Andrew Brown writes: There are 21 references to camels in the first books of the Bible, and now we know they are all made up. Some of them are quite startlingly verisimilitudinous, such as the story of Abraham’s servant finding a wife for Isaac in Genesis 24: “Then the servant left, ...

Watts Up With That?

• Friday Funny: Science by the kilogram
  From Aarhus University, and the department of weighted (by the kilogram) peer review comes a really heavy new report. See actual photo caption at right, bold mine, I kid you not. I loved this quote from the press release: ‘Polar … Continue reading →
• 1 billon dollars to push their climate agenda
  Yes for all those people who think skeptics are lavishly funded, here’s proof. Oh, wait….. Obama to propose $1 billion climate fund By Alex Guillén, Politico President Barack Obama will ask Congress to set up a $1 billion Climate Resilience … Continue reading →
• Somerset Floods – February Update
  By Paul Homewood I have been waiting to update the situation with regard to the flooding of the Somerset Levels. I had hoped to include the rainfall data for the local station at Yeovilton, but the Met Office still have … Continue reading →
• Wackadoodle 350.org protesters disappear their ...
  Last weekend I pointed out that 350.org leader Bill McKibben had endorsed the antics of some 350.org members in Texas that adopted tactics of the Klu Klux Klan – showing up at somebody’s house with mask covered faces, torches, and … Continue reading →
• The $2.2 Billion Bird-Scorching Solar Project ...
  It’s not just Wind Turbines that kill wildlife, from the Wall Street Journal: “A giant solar-power project officially opening this week in the California desert is the first of its kind, and may be among the last, in part because … Continue reading →

treehugger

• Popeye the Sailor Man after a life of eating f ...
  Cartoonist Joe Mohr shows how the chemical might have affected the cartoon hero
• Photo: Chirping robin chick
  Baby birds are a wonderful mix of ugly and cute.
• International Olympic Committee should ban lea ...
  A biologist from the University of Guelph says the lead pellets used by Olympic shooters pose are a source of pollution.
• Wayback Machine: How to clean your sidewalk wi ...
  Or should we call this the "What could possibly go wrong department"
• Used plastic shopping bags can be converted in ...
  There might finally be a good use for all of those ridiculously wasteful and environmentally harmful plastic shopping bags.

Biosingularity

• Beautiful 3-D Brain Scans Show Every Synapse
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• Heart In A Box: Beating Heart Technology at UC ...
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• ‘On’ switches for cells
  Whether human or animal, vertebrate or invertebrate, nearly every creature begins life as a tiny clump of cells. Before those cells can begin blossoming toward being a fully formed organism, however, they first must reorganize themselves into layers, each of which goes on to form complex structu ...
• The Creative Brain How Insight Works
  It is a feeling we all know – the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, scientists are using some unusual techniques to try to work out how these moments of creativity – whether big, small or life-changing – come ...
• How brains see

CFACT

• Torch bearing radicals descend on pipeline exe ...
  How would you like to look outside and see masked radicals with torches on your front lawn? The age of the eco-terrorist is upon us.
• Loss of production tax credits brings big wind ...
  The recently ended wind power production tax credit was costing the U.S. taxpayer at least $12 billion a year -- and if the claimed number of jobs was indeed created by these subsidies, they were underwritten at about $32,000 per job. By contrast, so-called subsidies (which are actually tax pre ...
• Time to reform the Endangered Species Act
  The Endangered Species Act does not save endangered species very often. Instead, the law tends to have the opposite effect: anyone who spots an endangered or threatened species on his/her property has the perverse incentive to eliminate the predator who is destroying the value and use of his/he ...
• No title
  The Endangered Species Act does not save endangered species very often. Instead, the law tends to have the opposite effect: anyone who spots an endangered or threatened species on his/her property has the perverse incentive to eliminate the predator who is destroying the value and use of his/he ...
• Watchdogging Obama’s regulatory state
  In Obamaland (Illinois), children are punished for entrepreneurship and told to cease and desist. Down in Austin, Texas, however, a 9-year-old has created a thriving business with the blessing of even the local politically correct. Of course, maybe BeeSweet would have been shut down had it not ...

Ria Novosti Online News

• Hockey: Zidlicky, Jagr Propel Czechs Past Latv ...
  The Czech hockey team inflicted a 4-2 defeat on outsider Latvis Friday to record its first win of the Sochi Winter Olympics.     
• Siberian Communists Clamoring for Stalin Monument
  Russian communists have unveiled plans to erect a monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in a Siberian city where he spent time in his final exile before his rise to power, a local lawmaker said Friday.     
• Passion and Lechery Thrive in Sochi Olympic Pi ...
  Douglas Todd has traveled from California to be at the Winter Olympics, but he is not interested in sports.     
• Uzbek Mullahs Condemn ‘Harmful’ St. Valentine’ ...
  Religious leaders in Uzbekistan condemned St. Valentine's Day celebrated by worldwide Friday as a harmful holiday that contradicts to Islam and local traditions.     
• Plushenko Uproar Puzzles Russian Figure Skatin ...
  Russia's top figure skating official is mystified by the public outcry over Evgeny Plushenko's injury withdrawal from the Sochi Olympics.     

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian Space Telescope Enters Guinness Book o ...
  Russia’s Spektr-R telescope has been named the largest orbital radio telescope by Guinness World Records.     
• China Loses First Lunar Rover
  China officially announced the loss of its maiden lunar rover Wednesday due to technical problems. “China's first lunar rover, Yutu, could not be restored to full function on Monday as expected,” the state-owned China News Service said.     
• Defunct Soviet Reconnaissance Satellite May Hi ...
  A decommissioned Soviet military satellite will burn up in the atmosphere Sunday in an uncontrolled descent and surviving fragments may hit Earth, according to an aerospace defense official.     
• Russia Gives India, UK Satellite Images of Dis ...
  Russia’s space agency said Wednesday that it has supplied fresh satellite images to assist Britain and India cope with unfolding natural disasters blighting the two nations.     
• 3D-Printed ‘Mug Leaflets’ Puzzle Vote Official ...
  Russian electoral officials were at a loss after a candidate circumvented a ban on gifts to voters by printing out mug-shaped “campaign leaflets” on a 3D printer, media reported.     

Natural Health News

• Glyphosate May Be Worse Than DDT, Which Has No ...
  By Dr. Mercola Alzheimer's disease, a severe form of dementia, now affects an estimated 5.4 million Americans,1 and is the sixth leading cause of death in the US. According to one shocking projection, Alzheimer's is predicted to affect 25 percent of American adults in the next 20 years, rival ...
• Jet Lag, Late Nights, and Naps Disrupt Gene Fu ...
  By Dr. Mercola Your body is designed to sleep in the evening when the sun goes down, and increasing research is confirming that if you disrupt this biological cycle your health will indeed suffer. The problem is that, in the 21st century, many people ignore their body’s internal clocks, ei ...
• What the FDA Knew (and Hid) About Antibiotics ...
  By Dr. Mercola The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been repeatedly (and rightfully) accused of ignoring the elephant in the room when it comes to antibiotic-resistant disease, namely factory farming practices where antibiotics are routinely fed to animals to promote growth. Accordi ...
• 9 Ways That Eating Processed Food Made the Wor ...
  By Dr. Mercola I have long stated that if you want to be optimally healthy, you should spend 90 percent of your food budget on whole foods, and only 10 percent on processed foods. Unfortunately most Americans currently do the opposite, and their health suffers as a result. With most foods, ...
• Power of Monsanto: Shareholder Meeting Had Mor ...
  By Dr. Mercola At a January 2014 Monsanto shareholders' meeting, two rather disturbing trends took place (though, admittedly, neither was entirely surprising). First, it was readily apparent that the company has no intention of taking steps to label genetically modified (GM) foods, a ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Eugene Kontorovich’s Problematic Attack on Rop ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’m currently in Belgium, teaching an intensive course on international criminal law at Katholiek University Leuven. So I was struck by Eugene Kontorovich’s most recent post at the Volokh Conspiracy, in which he uses a new Belgian law permitt ...
• When Acquittal Is Small Consolation…
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Although the ICTY’s recent high-profile acquittals have been getting all the attention, it’s worth noting that the ICTR Appeals Chamber has just acquitted two high-ranking defendants, Augustin Ndindiliyimana, the former chief of staff of the ...
• Someone (Prof. Stefan Talmon) Finally Makes An ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku One of the most frustrating things about China’s response to the Philippines arbitration has been the brevity of its legal discussion and analysis.  In particular, I’ve long thought that China had a pretty good argument that the Annex VII UNCLOS arbitral t ...
• Weekly News Wrap: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa A Red Cross spokesman says a vehicle carrying five people has gone missing in northern Mali and an official from the group known as the Movement fo ...
• 2014 ASIL Certificates of Merit Announced
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I had the great pleasure the last several months to serve on ASIL’s Book Awards Committee (along with Jutta Brunnée, Jean d’Aspremont, Saira Mohamed, and a very well organized chair in Jacob Cogan).  I’m pleased to announce that the Society’s ...

Public News Service

• Poll: Western Voters Love Their Public Lands
  Poll: Western Voters Love Their Public Lands PHOENIX – Residents of the Rocky Mountain states want their public lands protected, and say candidates' positions on conservation and land use could decide votes in this year's elections. The latest Conservation in the West poll from Colorado ...
• Cancer Society: CVS Tobacco-Sale Stoppage May ...
  Cancer Society: CVS Tobacco-Sale Stoppage May Help Smokers Quit PHOENIX – Arizonans who smoke may have another inspiration when thinking about quitting, now that CVS Caremark plans to end all tobacco sales, according to Sandra Adondakis, regional government relations director at the Americ ...
• Government "By the People" Makes a Comeback in ...
  Government "By the People" Makes a Comeback in Congress WASHINGTON - Backed by government reform groups and a growing list of other organizations, 128 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced the "Government by the People Act" to encourage citizens to take their government ba ...
• AZ Highways Hikes Celebrate Wilderness Act's 5 ...
  AZ Highways Hikes Celebrate Wilderness Act's 50th Anniversary PHOENIX - To celebrate this year's 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Arizona Highways magazine is organizing a series of wilderness hikes this summer in some of the state's most spectacular protected lands. According to editor-i ...
• Report: Cost of Textbooks a Roadblock To Learning
  Report: Cost of Textbooks a Roadblock To Learning PHOENIX - The rising costs of college tuition, room and board aren't the only financial obstacles to higher learning, according to a new report, which finds that soaring textbook prices are keeping some Arizona students from getting the most out ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Virginia gay marriage ban overturned by US judge
  ShareThisVirginia gay marriage ban overturned by US judge 14 Feb 2014 A US federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. It is the first time that a southern state has had a voter-approved prohibition on gay marriage overturned. The ruling wil ...
• Pandemic Potential Seen in Gene Changes of Bir ...
  ShareThisPandemic Potential Seen in Gene Changes of Bird Flu 13 Feb 2014 Genetic variations in the deadly bird flu virus circulating in China increase the potential for a pandemic strain to emerge, researchers in Shanghai said. Three new variants of the avian influenza type-A H7N9 virus have be ...
• Russia warns West against interference in Ukraine
  ShareThisRussia warns West against interference in Ukraine 14 Feb 2014 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the West against interfering in Ukraine's crisis, saying at a news conference with his German counterpart that citizens of the ex-Soviet state should be allowed to resolve matters ...
• Afghanistan releases 65 prisoners against obje ...
  ShareThisAfghanistan releases 65 prisoners against objections from US 13 Feb 2014 The Afghan government has released 65 prisoners who the US says are dangerous fighters with American and Afghan blood on their hands but Kabul argues are innocent men illegally locked up for years by foreign soldie ...
• New bridge scandal subpoenas seek records rela ...
  ShareThisNew bridge scandal subpoenas seek records related to Chris Christie, ARC tunnel and more 12 Feb 2014 The legislative panel investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal wants to know how closely Gov. Chris Christie's office and allies at the Port Authority of New York and New Jer ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

• 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 ...

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