Friday, February 14, 2014

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The Air Vent

  • The Problem with Ocean Heat Uptake
    A recent article on the global warming hiatus  garnered a bit of attention in blogland and the substantially less technical mainstream media. It was published in Nature Climate Change: Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus.   Of course th ...
  • A Big Project
    Brandon Shollenberger is collecting a list of Michael Mann’s screwups.   I’ve thrown in a short thousand words myself.  I could have kept going but I’m showing more restraint in my old age….:D   If you have your own info to add, I’m sure he would be happy to collect ...
  • The Future of Weather – Uncommon Sense
    USA today published yet another climate rant on the state of global warming.  This time they tied it to the polar vortex that is still freezing our ___ (insert anatomy here) off.  The article is filled with the ‘local is not global’ and ‘weather is not climate’ (until the ...
  • Isn’t it time we gave a little recogniti ...
    Raise the price of energy, we need to save the planet …My hands are cold …My fingers are cold …I can’t see the drive …I think my nose is actually froze Turn down the heat, we must conserve …My neck is cold …My ears are cold …My back is hurt … ...
  • Briffa 2013 Satellite Temperature Download
    To look at the local temp data in comparison to the Briffa 2013 polar.mxd data, I downloaded both the RSS and UAH gridded lower troposphere satellite data.   Unlike ground temperature data, the lower troposphere data is a layer of air which extends miles above the surface of the earth (Blue curv ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Looking for love? Facebook reveals Valentine’s ...
    For many couples, Facebook can play a part in Valentine’s Day planning. From sharing a funny (or heartfelt photo) to checking out the Facebook page of the restaurant they’ll go to that night, many people utilize...
  • Facebook gives Places Editor a facelift
    Places Editor — which allows users to edit or improve the Entity Graph listings on Facebook — has gone through a bit of a redesign. As first pointed out to Inside Facebook by Matteo Gamba of...
  • Facebook allows users to enter a custom gender
    Facebook announced Thursday that it will allow its users to customize their gender on their timeline. Previously, the only options available were female and male, but now there’s a custom option for users to identify as...
  • 10 first reactions to Facebook Paper
    Facebook Paper for iPhone and iPod hit the iOS App Store this week and if you haven’t downloaded it, you should. It’s actually pretty great. So much so that it inspired me to pull together ten first...
  • Facebook PMD Spredfast expands into Europe
    Spredfast, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, announced Thursday that the company has opened its first office in the U.K. Spredfast’s initial European office is located in London, where the company can focus on the increasing demand...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Exclusive Report- A Distillation of DOD Fu ...
    DOD spent $15,530,647,963+ on 186 individual contracts in January 2014 The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form. The Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $15, ...
  • Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: “ ...
    Peter B. Collins Presents Professor Anthony F. Greco MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has been a major voice for the American Left for over 50 years. In his new book, Tony Greco offers detailed criticism of selected subjects of Chomsky’s writings, from the Cold War to Viet Nam, Central America, Indone ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- Corporatocracy: How the ...
    A small, readily-identifiable ruling oligarchy that no serious political observer denies the existence of is able to keep the public from attacking it by dividing them along ideological grounds so that the public spends all their time arguing over definitions and splitting doctrinal hairs instea ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “Prohibition Kills: ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Peter ChristOn this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by retired police captain and co-founder of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), Mr. Peter Christ. Guillermo and Peter discuss the heroin overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the many ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli MKs Storm from Knesset During EU Parli ...
    I’ve been reading with some bemusement the reaction by Israel’s far-right MKs to the address given by EU parliamentary speaker, Martin Schulz.  In a speech that was largely supportive of Israeli interests and which opposed the BDS movement, the EU leader did make mention of his conve ...
  • Al Jazeera Reports Israeli NSA Spy Base Story
    Middle East Monitor has now reported about Ronen Bergman’s interview on Israeli TV in which he exposed the existence of the NSA base in Jerusalem.  Its small article was picked up by Al Jazeera Arabic, which approached two U.S. Middle East analysts for their comment.  One was Prof. Paul Sc ...
  • Who Hacked Sheldon Adelson and Israel’s Defens ...
    Sheldon Adelson’s Sands Resorts websites were hacked around the world yesterday (Tuesday).  The corporate e-mail system was also taken down, and on one of the company sites a map of the world featured the locations of company resorts in flames.  It also featured a picture of Adelson should ...
  • The Israeli Far-Right’s One-State Solution
    I was reading this article which recounted a statement by an Israeli government minister, who declared his support for the one-state solution.  No, he wasn’t a member of Hadash or even Meretz, he was a member of Naftali Bennett’s Bayit Yehudi, as ultra-nationalist as they come.  But ...
  • Secret NSA Satellite Facility Located in Occup ...
    Yesterday, I reported that Israeli security correspondent Ronen Bergman had revealed the NSA maintained a secret facility in Jerusalem that monitored all U.S. satellites.  I also reported something not in Bergman’s interview: that this base was part of another secret agreement allowing Isr ...

OpEd News

  • Growing Up Liberal
    I'm a middle-aged, affluent, prototypical WASP. I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Orange County where my father and grandfather were small businessmen and Republicans. Knowing all this you'd expect me to be a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. But I'm not. I'm unabashedly liberal.
  • Wind Resistance is Such a Drag
    The winds of change are blowing, and every day we are learning more how to harness them. A recent TV ad from Natural Gas shows a chart of energy use in the US. Coal is 39%, Natural Gas 28%, Nuclear 19%, and then Renewables came in at 13%! And "It's getting better all the time." What if there was ...
  • Publicity Stunts Work
    Publicity stunts work, and brands should consider this alternative, and review some examples that work.
  • No Honor in Killing God---s Dog
    Slaughtering coyotes doesn't restore the "ecological balance" as many pretend-hunters claim. Nor will a bounty by Pa.'s legislature solve what isn't a problem. Here's why.
  • Priceless: Small Museum with Big Heart Returns ...
    Amidst a host of international battles over the rightful ownership of plundered artworks, a small museum in Virginia is doing the right thing by repatriating a priceless piece of religious art to the Republic of Korea.

Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing China Environmental News Alert February 9 - 14, 2014 NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, e ...
  • Antibiotic Free Love for Valentine's Day
    Emily Martin, Campaign Manager, New York These days, it seems like there’s a lot of finger pointing at companies doing the wrong things when it comes to producing the food we eat.  So, this Valentine’s Day, I’d like to spread ...
  • Coal Ash: Why it is better recycled than as a ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC EPA has announced that the two primary encapsulated uses of coal ash are safe, so recyclers have no legitimate remaining arguments to support their previous requests for a weak coal ash rule. On ...
  • Will the world walk the talk about illegal wil ...
    Alex Kennaugh, Online Policy Communications Director, New York City Luminaries of the wildlife world filed into a London meeting room this week to talk about wildlife trade: Jane Goodall, Iian Douglas-Hamilton, Stanley Johnson, and others. They were ...
  • CPUC Proposes to Replace Power from San Onofre ...
    Sierra Martinez, Legal Director, California Energy Projects, San Francisco The California Public Utilities Commission is proposing a strategy to replace the electricity generated by the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) with a mi ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Broken Government - American Military Accomoda ...
    “Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It’s a major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion,� said a recent report.This new relaxation of rules for Muslims comes at a time w ...
  • The US and Afghanistan - Afghanistan Releases ...
    Afghanistan has released a group what U.S. forces have described as “dangerous� prisoners from a maximum security prison. That move is likely to further erode relations between the two countries.U.S. forces describe the 65 detainees released from Bagram prison as “dangerous individuals� ...
  • The Digital Edge - Comcast to Buy Time Warner ...
    Comcast is buying Time Warner Cable in a $45.2 billion deal that would combine the nation’s biggest cable companies, setting up a lengthy and contentious antitrust review in Washington.The two companies said the deal would benefit consumers and increase competition, but critics immediately war ...
  • Oil Addiction - Landrieu's Gavel Comes With Risk
    Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) new powers as chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee could end up being a double-edged sword for her already-difficult reelection chances.The Bayou Democrat took over the plum post on Wednesday evening, which could allow her to push legislation popu ...
  • Egypt After Morsi - A ‘Yes’ for Egypt’s ...
    The approval of a new Constitution in a referendum that took place on January 14-15, 2014 is an important step in implementing the roadmap announced by the current interim authorities in Egypt. The authorities feel that it provides them with greater legitimacy. After all, the participation rate ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Perhaps It's Time For Ted Cruz To GROW UP!
    Leading the shutdown back in October was the right thing for Ted Cruz to do. Despite all the criticism he received it was crucial to make one last-ditch try at stopping Obamacare before it started signing up Americans and becoming much more difficult to repeal. It was wrong, but no real surpris ...
  • Palestinian Authority Allocates $46 Million Mo ...
    Ever wonder what happens to all that money the U.S. and Europeans give to the Palestinians? Well this year for example the Palestinian Authority increased the amount allocated to pay terrorists by $46 million dollars. While most Western countries have laws and regulations prohibiting support fo ...
  • Now Wendy Davis Supports Abortion Ban After 20 ...
    Who knows, by the end of the Texas race for Governor Wendy Davis may even switch parties.  The former trailer resident told the Dallas Morning News yesterday that she would have supported a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, if the law adequately deferred to a woman and her doct ...
  • State Obamacare Exchanges May Be Going Bankrupt
    The way the Obamacare law was set up, the states were given $4 billion dollars to set up and run the first two years of the exchanges, after that the were supposed to be self-sufficient. The operative word is supposed. IBD is reporting that many of the state exchanges will face financial crises ...
  • NEW SCANDAL: IRS Singled Out Existing Non Prof ...
    Another one of those Obama scandals that the mainstream media refuses to report about is the IRS Scandal. When it broke last May we learned that the IRS singled out conservative groups to delay their applications for 501(C)(3) non profit status.  At the start of Tuesday's Ways and Means Com ...

Wind Watch

  • Anglesey wind turbines catch fire in storm
    Wind turbines in Anglesey burst into flame in the gale force winds that hit North Wales. The flaming turbines were described as “giant Catherine wheels” after catching fire between 6pm and 7pm yesterday near Cemaes. Emma Shortman, who lives nearby, said: “I was letting the dogs ...
  • A-W deals with ‘runaway’ wind turbine
    Early Feb. 4, the Akron-Westfield School District’s wind turbine’s blade began rotating. On its own. “We have no control over the blades’ turning,” said A-W Shared Superintendent Randy Collins. “It is life-threatening to be near the wind turbine at this point.” “The whole thing could disintegrat ...
  • Wind power: Regional planners resist state uti ...
    The blades of wind-power generation are turning again, raising concerns of residents opposed to having windmills dot the landscape, and also those of regional planners criticizing an effort by the state Department of Public Utilities to issue siting “guidance” to communities and developers. The ...
  • Power line opponents surge against wind energy ...
    CALDWELL COUNTY, Mo. — Mike Ford shoved the rifle he carries for coyotes onto the dashboard, and his old Dodge diesel truck took out rumbling over frozen pasture to carry hay to cattle. It hadn’t gone a hundred feet before Ford started in on the people trying to — his word — “steal” his land. To ...
  • Ireland’s rural protests over wind energy
    Ireland is short of money but not wind, which now forms a central plank of its energy policy. But plans to develop wind power and export it to Britain are sparking a rural revolt, with local protest groups uniting through social media. Some claim Ireland will become a wind farm for Britain. Turb ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism Speaks and Avonte. Open Barn Door. Smac ...
    This week Liz Feld of Autism Speaks appeared on Katie Couric to talk about Avonte Oquendo's wandering, disappearance and death. This precious boy, a mother's son, died in The East River. I don't know if Avonte could swim or not....
  • What is Love? Autism Style.
    By Kim Stagliano So here we are - Valentine's Day 2014. I don't know about you, but I'm bit cynical this year. We have eleventy inches of snow on the ground. Have had more snow days here in CT than...
  • Dachel Media Review: Vax, Vax, Vax
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Feb 12, 2014, Des Moines Register: Harkin seeks law to end seclusion in schools Feb 12, 2014, Marshfield (WI) News Herald: Flu dangers not over so get...
  • Too Much of a Good Thing
    By Julie Obradovic While doing my Christmas shopping, I found myself in the book isle. Browsing the long shelves, a small white-jacketed book caught my eye. Not only was the cover beautiful, the title spoke right to me. David and...
  • Autism & Wanderland
    By Zack Peter I had just left the office, on my way home after a long day. I was ready to relax, maybe watch a minute (or 60) of some trash TV. Lord knows I could’ve used the mental break....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • Hemp Home Collection By Scotty
    Collection of Hemp Home Design CAD Drawing photos showcasing the sustainable lifestyle that this net zero energy efficient home, gardens, pergola, solar panels, solar water heating, pool, garage, safe room, […]
  • Hemp Home Post Frame Lateral Loading
    Post Frame Wood Structure Design-Industrial Hemp Wall Construction Its all about Energy Efficiency and Conserving Natural Resources when using a Post Frame Building option with the added benefit: Post Frame Buildings […]
  • QandA with HEMP Building Expert Grey Flavall ...
    Hempcrete Wall Details by Scotty-  Hemp Home Building Plans Q-n-A with HEMP Building Expert: Mr. Greg Flavall Co-Founder and Technical Director at Hemp-Technologies on the Hemp Home design by Scotty Additional […]
  • Hemp Home Catalan Vaulted Style Roof Waterproofing
    In the previous post I have been illustrating how I plan to build the Roof System for the Net Zero Hemp Home.  This post shows how I plan to both […]
  • Designing My Hemp Home
    My goal is simple: Net Zero and Affordable In my quest to promote affordable sustainable buildings has lead me to discover a new building product that provides high R-value for […]

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
    read more
  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Common Misfortunes of Capitalism
    Note cow in stream (The 5th of 8 posts about my new life in New Zealand) Obviously there is both an upside and a downside to living in New Zealand. All developed and developing countries are forced to operate under the same corporate-dominated capitalist system. New Zealand is no excepti ...
  • The Sacrifices of Empire
    (The 4th of 8 posts regarding my 2002 decision to emigrate from the US to New Zealand) It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods (see previous post). The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other de ...
  • American Ambivalence Towards Empire
      (The 3rd of 7 posts about my decision to emigrate to New Zealand) I had to move overseas before it sank in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. The concept of economic imperialism isn’t new to me. I have know ...
  • My New Expatriate Identity
    (the 2nd of 7 posts about my new life in New Zealand) For people over fifty, starting over in a new country is like dropping a lab rat in a gigantic maze. Like the rat, you suddenly find yourself in an alien environment that constantly confronts you with new decision points and obstacl ...
  • 10/14/02: The Day I Became an Expatriate
      (The 1st of 7 posts describing my 2002 decision to emigrate from the US to New Zealand) When I finally left the US in October 2002, I had been thinking of emigrating for many years. In June 1973, I shipped all my belongings to England, intending to start a new life there. Many ...

FourWinds10

  • What Happens to All the Salt We Dump On the Roads?
    1/6/14   As much of the country endures from the heavy snowfall and bitter cold that has marked the start of 2014, municipalities in 26 states will rely on a crucial tool in clearing their roads: salt.   Because the freezing point of salty water is a lower temperature than pure water, ...
  • Tar sands trains are derailing and exploding.
    Oct. 29, 2013 The Department of Transportation must stop these dangerous oil train tanker cars. Oil companies want to dramatically increase oil train traffic - using tanker cars that the Department of Transportation has known for decades are unsafe. Submit a public comment now.   This summe ...
  • NO NEED TO STOCKPILE WOOD IN TEXAS...YOU CAN J ...
    Jan. 24, 2014 Setting fire to methane bubbling up from water beneath the ice Residents in North Texas have discovered that their water is contaminated with methane gas. The Texas Oil and Gas Regulator has started an investigation after independent tests proved there was a high level of the ...
  • The Mob is Secretly Dumping Nuclear Waste Acro ...
  • 5 Easy to Grow Mosquito-Repelling Plants
    Jan. 9, 2014 Before reaching for the chemical sprays, try planting these easy-to-grow plants which have natural mosquito-repelling properties… As the outdoor season approaches, many homeowners and outdoor enthusiasts look for ways to control mosquitoes. With all the publicity about the We ...

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Energy Collective

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

Rodale News

  • Chik-fil-A Chicken to Be Antibiotic-Free in Fi ...
    The conservative Southern food chain that remains closed on Sundays and abides by the slogan "We Didn't Invent The Chicken, Just The Chicken Sandwich" may well be inventing a new way of feeding America fast. Chick-fil-A chicken, the chain has just announced, will soon come from animals raised w ...
  • 7 (Legitimate!) Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate
    Very few of us need a compelling reason to make ourselves eat chocolate. The taste and the momentary mood lift are enough to make it a treat that doesn't need a hard sell. But if you aren't eating it consistently, you could be missing out on some of the most amazing health benefits of dark choc ...
  • Seeds: How (and Why) to Choose the Right Ones
    Many people believe vegetable gardening is therapeutic—that getting their hands in the soil is good for mind and body. But in decades past, as grocery stores started offering a wide array of produce and aisles and aisles full of convenience foods, we began to lose some of that connection. We di ...
  • The Truth about Your Bread
    Bread: It's the staff of life. It's biblical. It evokes images of wholesomeness and simplicity. And it's become one of the least-healthy "health" foods being peddled to grocery shoppers everywhere, thanks to the way modern-day food processors make it. That fact came to light recently when the f ...
  • Where Did Nearly 9 Million Pounds of Tainted M ...
    Nine million pounds of anything is a huge amount, but the recent recall of nearly that much beef produced by a little-known slaughterhouse in California is a drop in the bucket when you consider that the largest meat recall in U.S. history involved 143 million pounds of beef. And the company's ...

big think

  • The More Intelligent You Are, the Less Religio ...
                I participate in a Unitarian Universalist spiritual community. The UU faith has some basic beliefs, largely universal truths about how to be a good person, but when it comes to answering the big religious questions – is there a God, what happens when you die – UU-ism leaves that up t ...
  • All the Single Ladies, You're in Good Company
    If you don't have that special someone this Valentine's Day, don't despair. You're in good company. Nearly 50 percent of American adults are single. And many of them are happily single. In fact, "there are many life-long singles, especially women who are very happy, who are no less happy than .. ...
  • Frederick Douglass on Learning
    "A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people." - Frederick Douglass (born on this date in 1818) Read More
  • Behind Putin's Potemkin Village
    We're one week into the 2014 Winter Olympics and the international spotlight continues to shine on Russia, a moment in the sun that Russian President Vladimir V. Putin welcomed when Sochi was selected as the host city in 2007.  "This is, without a doubt not only a recognition of Russia’s ...
  • Why Rap Artists Still Hate Ronald Reagan
    “I leave you with four words: I'm glad Reagan dead,” Mike “Killer Mike” Render rapped in his song “Reagan” off the 2012 album R.A.P. Music . His harsh, inflammatory statements drew attention from the press at the time that only increased when the video’s similarly hyperbolic imagery (one ex ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies ...
    Yale Project on Climate Change Communication | George Mason University http://bit.ly/1jy6UIm [Yale Environment 360] 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 ...
  • Extreme Weather Events: Limiting Federal Fisca ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://gao.gov/products/GAO-14-364T The federal government has opportunities to limit its exposure and increase the nation’s resilience to extreme weather events. Since 1980, the U.S. has experienced 151 weather disasters with damages exceeding 1 billion ...
  • Oil Sands Economic Benefits: Today and in the ...
    IHS CERA http://www.ihs.com/pdfs/OSD-2013-Economic-Benefits-Jan-2-2014.pdf [Energy Wire article by Pamela King, sub. req'd] Oil sands development is contributing more dollars and jobs to the Canadian economy than some of the nation’s provinces, a new report has found. In 2012, the industry ...
  • Proposed First Update to the Climate Change Sc ...
    California Air Resources Board, California Air Resources Board http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/2013_update/draft_proposed_first_update.pdf [Green Car Congress] The California Air Resources Board released the draft proposed first update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan, which guides development and ...
  • Wildfire Fuels and Fuel Reduction
    Congressional Research Service http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/R40811.pdf Severe wildfires have been burning more acres and more structures in recent years. Some assert that climate change is at least partly to blame; others claim that the increasing number of homes ...

frogblog

  • Pesticide residues in many foods – organic is ...
    Yesterday, the agri-chemical industry’s New Zealand association Agcarm tried to spin its way out of the fact that almost all of about 600 samples analysed in Safe Food Campaign’s Dirty Dozen 2013 list contained pesticide residues. The Dirty Dozen Food in New Zealand more likely to contain pestic ...
  • We can make history in 2014
    " A Green government will invest in our people, will protect our environment and will build an economy which works for everyone."
  • “People … may have been caught out…I just hope ...
    Every now and then, things emerge in the give-and-take of daily life that illuminate insights with a deeper, underlying significance.   Such was the case yesterday. Some of us around the planet harbour a passing concern that dangerous, and perhaps catastrophic, climate change is likely if global ...
  • Why our website has gone black
    No, we haven’t been hacked and no, it’s not a technical glitch. It’s on purpose. Today the Green’s joined nearly 6000 other websites that have gone black as part of a global day of action against mass surveillance by blacking out their website to stand up for Internet freedom. Today, Tuesday 11t ...
  • Academic Freedom or Free Market?
    The Minister for Tertiary Education seems determined to see our universities and wananga reduced to organisations whose purpose it is to sell a commodity called education to ‘consumers’ whose primary relationship with such organisations will be a  commercial one. The National Governm ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • Netflix to Exclusively Air Final Season of The ...
    Man, Netflix has really gone from ‘They’ll never make it’ to being a real powerhouse.  When they started focusing more on streaming folks said they wouldn’t make it.  People always complain about the lack of newer movies on Netflix but Netflix has been setting themselves ...
  • The Purge – Anarchy Teaser Trailer
    So I remember when I was incredibly frustrated watching The Purge then did a review with Phenom & I believe Kev.  I remember Phenom saying something about how the movie should have been about people whose car broke down and they got stuck outside during The Purge.  A year later and that&#821 ...
  • RoboCop Review
    @H2oKev and @Phenomblak review the first blockbuster of the year, the remake of the 1987 classic Robocop. Listen and enjoyThe post RoboCop Review appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • Fox Casts Alfred & Penguin for ‘Gotham’
        The more I hear about this show the more I’m excited for it.  They cast Ben McKenzie last week for the lead role as Det. Gordon.  This week we get the casting of a younger Oswald Cobblepot (Penguin) and Alfred Pennyworth.  I don’t really have any problem with the castin ...
  • Ben McKenzie to Play Det. Gordan for Fox’s Got ...
    Fox and Warner Bros. TV have tapped Ben McKenzie to star in “Gotham,” casting the “Southland” alum as a young version of DC Comics’ famed Commissioner Gordon. Fox topper Kevin Reilly announced at the net’s winter TCA session that “Gotham” will feature the origin story of Gordon along with Gotham ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Crazy Ant Invaders Have Acid Advantage
    from nytimes.com: The crazy ant, the latest ant to invade North America, is having remarkable success at replacing its predecessor, the red fire ant, former king of the invaders. Part of the reason, according to research at the University of Texas, is that the newcomer can detoxify fire ant veno ...
  • More Gunk Spills in #WestVirginia, Turning Cre ...
    Patriot Coal Prep Plant Spills Slurry Into WV Creek* from latimes.com: State officials in West Virginia were trying Tuesday to contain a coal slurry spill into a creek in the same general area where a toxic chemical spill last month tainted drinking water for 300,000 people in and around the st ...
  • Catfish Oversight, Weather Radios and Christma ...
    Farm Bill Cuts $8 Billion in Food Stamps, Preserves Handouts to Koch Industries* from dailymail.co.uk: The federal government pays for a $15 million 'wool trust fund,' runs a $170 million program to protect catfish growers from overseas competition, sets aside $3 million to promote Christmas tr ...
  • @ChickfilA to Serve Chicken Without #Antibiotics
    from usatoday.com: Here's a chicken that has surprisingly crossed the road — away from antibiotics. Chick-fil-A, the nation's largest chicken chain in annual sales, shocked the fast-food world late Tuesday when it announced that the company plans to only sell chicken raised without antibiotics a ...
  • @KraftCheese Singles to Lose Artificial #Prese ...
    from cbsnews.com: Kraft is removing artificial preservatives from its most popular individually wrapped cheese slices, in the latest sign that companies are tweaking their recipes as food labels come under greater scrutiny. The change affects the company's Kraft Singles in the full-fat American ...

CrusadeWatch

  • From the archive, 17 April 1953: India warns m ...
    source: the Guardian,   17 April 2013   The government of India is keeping a close vigil on the activities of missionaries within its borders Dr Katju, India's Minister for Home Affairs and Law, has told Parliament that, while everyone in India was free to propagate ...
  • Freelancers of God - Independent churches mush ...
       source: India today, April 30, 2011 Off a thinly inhabited road at Gurala village in Amritsar, Punjab, Karnail Singh holds his parishioners as a conductor holds his devoted audience. "Praise the Lord," he chants. A group of 150 men and women throw up their hands, pup ...
  • Taking âghar wapsiâ legacy forward
    source:  The Times of India, Jan 14, 2014 RAIPUR: Amid chanting of religious hymns, late BJP leader Dilip Singh Judeo's son washed feet of tribal Christians on Sunday to mark their return to Hinduism at a Hindu religious meet organized by Dharam Jagaran, an organization backed by th ...
  • Homophobia in Uganda: Is Christianity the pro ...
    source :  Namugongolife I would imagine that most of you are pretty familiar with the so-called âAnti-homosexuality Billâ that is currently on the table in the Ugandan parliament. It is basically a law, that will get passed at some point or other, that seeks to effectively eradicate public ...
  • Missionary back from India (in the name of sav ...
    (CW Editor's note:  This is a cock-and-bull story created by missionaries to enter India on visitor visa as India doesn't give missionary visas.  The modus operandi of missionaries is 1) portray target heathen regions as  problem areas 2) setup Non-Governmental organizations 3) Use th ...

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 10 snazzy music production tools for Ubuntu/Linux
    Like many other niches, music production was not really a Linux forte. But that's changing now and like what happened to the video editing scene, popular music production tools are finding its way into Linux. Though I love listening to all kinds of music, I'm no music production expert. And henc ...
  • Why is Linux faster than Windows?
    Why is Linux faster than Windows? It's a very potent question which immediately stirs up a lot of debate, like we saw before. Some say its a myth. But most Linux users know it isn't, partially because almost everyone who adopted Linux were disgruntled Windows users once. But still, what makes Li ...
  • MOC: Meet the most lightweight and easy-to-ins ...
    Music on Console aka MOC is perhaps the most lightweight and easy-to-install music player for Linux I have ever tested. And don't be intimidated by the fact that MOC is a console only player. Once you spend enough time with MOC, it becomes as easy to use as any other alternative music playe ...
  • UK goverment planning to ditch Microsoft Offic ...
    The inevitable switch is happening everywhere. Governments and public offices around the world is slowly waking up to the hard fact that proprietary software may not be in their best long-term interest after all, even if you ignore the cost-factor. News about City of Munich's switch over to Linu ...
  • Avatar: A new Open Source OS for the Internet ...
    The Avatar project intends to free the Internet once again, and let the users world-over to access  information beyond borders, and be as anonymous as you want without any worries of being constantly analyzed and monitored. Once released, Avatar OS sure looks like a promising way to safegua ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Gardasil Vaccine, Katie Couric and Cyber-Lynching
    posted 1/29/2014 by Barbara Loe Fisher  The public flogging of veteran broadcast journalist Katie Couric began on Dec. 4, 2013, immediately after a 17-minute report on HPV and Gardasil vaccine was broadcast on her TV talk show “Katie.” 1 It was kick-started by a west coast business writ ...
  • Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
     posted 11/12/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher It was 1977 when I found out I was going to become a Mom. I instinctively knew I needed to be careful while I was pregnant, especially during the first two trimesters when the major organ systems of the fetus develop at a rapid rate. In the 196 ...
  • Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
    Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...

2020 Science

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

electric politics

  • Memory Management in Ukraine
    Ukraine is split culturally and politically between East and West, but not in such a way that either side clearly could dominate the other. Forcing choices on Ukraine (as the EU and the U.S. sporadically seem to want to do) only exacerbates the tension. But given recent events, tensions breaking ...
  • Edward Snowden's Deception
    At the moment I'm odd man out on the left. I see Snowden not as a hero but as a criminal. I agree with Edward Lucas, senior editor at The Economist, who says Snowden may well be an unwitting agent of Russian intelligence, and that that would be the most favorable possible interpretation of his a ...
  • Applications of Quantum Probability
    Straightforward classical logic obviously doesn't entirely capture human decision making. Yet it often seems as if something logical exists in our illogic. Wonderful fodder for the arts! Now it turns out, amazingly enough, that human illogic, from a perspective of quantum probability, sometimes ...
  • When Secrecy Is Necessary
    You can't race a four-in-hand at the Daytona Speedway. Nor can you expect James Madison's Fourth Amendment to provide useful guidance about modern intelligence collection. That's just a disconnect. The reality is we do not have a Stasi state and, if we did, it seems to me that intelligence colle ...
  • Against the "Affordable Care Act"
    A signature failure of American government, our health care system is a world-class disgrace. Instead of its purpose being the public good it mainly serves predatory market forces. And the fact is, the so-called "Affordable Care Act," aka "Obamacare," doesn't bring necessary, fundamental changes ...

PR News

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Warships Move NATO Missile Shield Into Me ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization February 11, 2014 Europe’s missile shield grows – thanks to the US Navy The arrival in Spain of a US guided missile destroyer marks a key stage in building up Europe’s protection against ballistic missile threats. The USS Donald Cook, which arrived at Rota Nava ...
  • Interview: Ukraine on the Grand Chessboard
    Taylor Report February 13th, 2014 Ukraine on the Grand Chessboard “A Phase Beyond” the first wave of colour revolutions February 10th, 2014 Featured Guest: RICK ROZOFF Description: Rick Rozoff discusses NATO’s “Eastern Partnership” program, which targets ex-Soviet c ...
  • Foreign Instigators Behind Unrest In Bosnia An ...
    Itar-Tass February 12, 2014 Foreign factor behind events in Bosnia and Ukraine – expert Tamara Zamyatina MOSCOW: Dismissal of the prime minister and all federal authorities as well as early elections are ultimatums put forward by participants in massive protests staged in a country situate ...
  • Georgia: NATO Military Committee Inspects Mili ...
    Ministry of Defence of Georgia February 12, 2014 NATO Military Committee visits National Training Centre “Krtsanisi” The first visit of NATO Military Committee finished in the National Training Centre “Krtsanisi”. Commander COL Levan Beraia delivered presentation for the NATO MC members on the “ ...
  • NATO Moves Closer To Absorbing Finland
    Helsingen Sanomat/Helsinki Times February 13, 2014 Finland’s territorial defence not a hurdle to Nato membership Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Secretary General of Nato, assures in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat that Finland would not be required to revise its territorial defence upon se ...

Intel Hub

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

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

  • 20 Hours Until End of Crowd Funding Campaign
    My sincerest thanks - While I have not reached the target goal with just 20 hours left, I want to thank everyone who has shared and supported my crowdfunding campaign. Believe me when I say that I know I am blessed to have the kind of support that translates to good people shelling out what they ...
  • Merry Chistmas
    While I consider Christmas to be a most commercialised and materialistic manipulation for the vast majority of people, there is in this time an idea of helping others, and when that becomes primary and the materialistic crap becomes irrelevant then we know we are nearly there as a people. Anyway ...
  • Appeal for Support to Keep Middle East Show on Air
    Here are some subjects already partially recorded or in the works, soon to be aired; 1) the USS Liberty 2) 9/11 3) War crimes & treason charges so as to purge the traitors among us.
  • Former US Marine: President Obama should be tr ...
    I am confident that at some point the American patriots, who seem to be in a bit of a coma and have been sleeping for a long time, are going to wake up soon and realize that when they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US, the president of the US also took that oath and has breached ...
  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.

StillSmallVoice

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

Popsci - Science

  • Letters From Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin, 1855 Maull and Polyblank These letters originally appeared in the March 1903 issue of Popular Science. The "Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Charles Darwin" were compiled and edited by Darwin's son, Francis Darwin, and the British botanist Albert Charles Seward. Today would h ...
  • The Cosmos, Explained: Neil deGrasse Tyson On ...
    Neil deGrasse Tyson Marius Bugge When astronomer Carl Sagan hosted the 13-part TV Series "Cosmos: A Personal Journey," in 1980, it soon become most widely watched PBS show in the world, and still holds a legendary place in the hearts of many. Now, more than three decades later, the series i ...
  • Rational Paranoia: Scientist Pursued By Chemic ...
    Atrazine You must read this article in the New Yorker about a scientist being pursued by a chemical company after showing that one of its products was harmful. Tyrone Hayes, a UC-Berkeley scientist, received funding from the chemical company Syngenta in the late 1990s to study the effects of ...
  • There Are 177,147 Ways To Tie A Tie
    Shar Pei Sadly, this dog can tie no knots. Beverly Lussier via wikimedia commons Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm, recently led a small team on a quest to discern how many tie knots are possible. Their results, uploaded to arXiv, say there are 177,147 different ways ...
  • 25 Times Everyone Was BAFFLED, According To Th ...
    Ferret In A Tube! Flickr/John Mauremootoo 1) "The chemistry flops: Pupils baffled by O-level exams from the Sixties" 2) "The Chinese mummy that aged 300 years in a day: Experts baffled by 'perfectly preserved' body that turned BLACK just hours after its coffin was opened" 3) "The supermarke ...

Facing South

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Internat'l Political Economy

  • The PRC-India Trade Imbalance, c/o 'Shamsung'
    Spot the fakeryWhen it comes to globalized commodities, you probably cannot outdo Chinese no-name electronics as PRC-sourced fakes are the wares of street hawkers the world over. Hence, the 'Shamsung': Made-in-China products are also flooding into Indian markets served mainly by small and midsi ...
  • VW and 'Unionization' of Southern US Car Plants
    There's much interesting politicking going on at the moment among Southern states in the US Sun Belt hosting foreign automobile plants. For a very long time, they have been drawing Japanese and European carmakers keen on avoiding the hassles American unions--in particular, the United Auto Worker ...
  • Unlike US, Why EU Doesn't Hurl Expletives at R ...
    I strongly feel that the Sochi Olympics is a giant feast for the Western media to rip Russia to pieces. And as such, any detail, any mistake, anything negative at all no matter how small will be the centre of attention – and all the positive things will go unnoticed - Yulia Ivanova, Rus ...
  • US-Owned Cruise Lines: Guaranteeing Misery at Sea
    So many people to poison, so little timeAmerican air lines and cruise lines are renowned worldwide for their absolutely abysmal standards (if they have any). There is nothing as soul-destroying as taking a flight on American, Delta, United. US carriers are rightly regarded as utter garbage by gl ...
  • Will US Allow Lenovo to Buy Parts of IBM & Google?
    Will it come with PRC minders listening in as a standard feature NSA style?Call it Reds Under the Beds, Cyber Edition. The supposed land of free trade has customarily thrown significant roadblocks in the way of Chinese firms signaling their intent to purchase US tech-related firms on "national s ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

BlogHer

  • 7 Things I Knew In My 20s. I Was Wrong.
    It's astonishing now to think back and recall myself in my 20s, and kind of mortifying, too. Because I thought I knew a lot back then. And I was absolutely right about some things. Two plus two, it turns out, does equal four. I was all over that one. But here are some theories I once believed to ...
  • Tithing Put Me In Debt
    There is no debate as to whether we should tithe or not. The Bible constantly talks about tithing.  Read: Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers. But when do you draw the line on how much you should give? Credit Image: PhillipC on Flickr During my first four years of being a Christian, I gav ...
  • The Science Behind St. Valentine's Day
    The Science Behind St. Valentine’s Day When you think of St. Valentine’s Day what pops into your head?Do you think of red roses, red hearts, boxes of chocolates, or romantic music? St. Valentine’s Day is about romance, or the sexual attraction between two people. Because of this, many of the sy ...
  • Saying "I Still Love You" When You'd Rather Tr ...
    “You’re the meanest Mommy everrrrrrrr! I don’t love you! I don’t even like you!” Ana Lu screeched, stomping on the floor, arms down by her side, hands balled into petite fists … wait for it … followed by the quintessential stomp out of the room. Into her room she goes, catapults herself onto her ...
  • Valentine's Day Burlap Heart Garland
    I have a lot of my readers ask me how to create the Burlap Garland Banner that I did for my daughter's first birthday (you can read the whole post here). I love decorating for every holiday, even if it something small. Here is a small burlap garland I made for Valentine's Day. It's simple and ea ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Getting it is not an accomplishment. Getting ...
    I am reposting here in full an excellent editorial written by Kristine Ward, Chair, National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) about the disgraceful performance of the Vatican’s paedophile protectors in front of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on January 16, 2014. EDITORIAL   ...
  • Who is Looking After the Children? Certainly N ...
    When a normal human being looks at a child they see a fellow human being. A human being who is tiny, innocent, vulnerable, loveable and full of potential. One who deserves our utmost efforts to protect them from harm. When a narcissist looks at a child they see an object who is easier than most ...
  • Does Papal Pretender Deserve Person of the Yea ...
    The announcement that Time Magazine had declared Pope Frank, the Paedophile-Protector-in-Chief, their Person of the Year for 2013 left all of us who are not either brain dead, brainwashed or irretrievably corrupt completely speechless. Surely this would be the joke of the new century, if it were ...
  • How Much Justice Will Survivors See in this Ne ...
    Welcome to a new year. The Christmas/New Year period is tough, not festive, for so many survivors. Difficulty in maintaining relationships with family, friends and colleagues is one of the lifelong impacts of childhood sexual assaults. A time of year emphasising the love and support offered by t ...
  • Catholic church opens Commission hearing with ...
    Last week survivors, many of whom had travelled long distances, crowded into the hearing room for the historic first Royal Commission hearing into how the Catholic Church handles child sexual abuse. Many lasted only until the well paid Church lawyer first opened his mouth. What emerged was so of ...

WL Central

  • 2014-01-14 Swedish Prosector Asks for Assange ...
    Retired Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren wrote a powerful op-ed for conservative daily SvD (Svenska Dagbladet) asking for the Assange case to be closed. read more
  • 2013-12-25 Edward Snowden: Alternative Christm ...
    Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. read more
  • 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
  • 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
    Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...
  • 2013-12-05 Anonymous joining fight in the Ukraine
    Ukrainian version: http://anoninsiders.net/anonymous-ukrainian-pr-2238/ To People of the Ukraine, we are anonymous. read more

U N News

  • Golden Rule,' iconic Norman Rockwell mosaic, r ...
    A mosaic based a on a work by American artist Norman Rockwell, long a favourite attraction on tours of the United Nations in New York, has been re-dedicated following its restoration during the reconstruction of the Headquarters complex.
  • In Cuba, Ban spotlights sustainable developmen ...
    Peace and security, sustainable development and human rights are on the agenda at the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which opens in Cuba today and where United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is delivering opening remarks.
  • Marking fourth anniversary of Haiti earthquake ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to increase its aid to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the impoverished country, noting progress already made in health and education, but warning that more needs to ...
  • Senior UN officials urge Group of 77' nations ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the General Assembly President John Ashe, today urged the bloc of developing countries known as the "Group of 77 and China" to work collectively towards reaching the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 ...
  • UN rights expert warns that all Brazilians mus ...
    Brazilian authorities need to give further priority to the poorest and most marginalized, to ensure that inequalities in the country are progressively eliminated and all receive access to sanitation and water, an independent United Nations human rights expert today urged.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • FROM WOLVES TO BEETLES – FISH & WILDLIFE SCIEN ...
    For Immediate Release:  Monday, February 10, 2014 Contact:  David Parsons (505) 275-1944; Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337   FROM WOLVES TO BEETLES – FISH & WILDLIFE SCIENCE TARNISHED Service Manufactures Scientific Studies to Support Politically Negotiated Deals Washington, DC — This was an exc ...
  • Between the RAREs – Around the Campfire with U ...
    At our last get-together around this campfire, I went through the heartbreak of the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Review and Evaluation from 1971 to 1973.  For many of us wilderfolk at the time, RARE wiped clean any lingering belief that wilderness clubs and the U. S. Forest Service were togeth ...
  • Amigos de la Sevilleta to host Mike Phillips F ...
    February 2, 2014: Annual Meeting and Celebration 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Reception to follow The event will be held at USFWS headquarters on the Sevilleta NWR Reservations: (505) 864-4021 Brief Business Meeting Mike Phillips Live Music & Reception Amigos de la Sevilleta is holding its annual meeting ...
  • Support National Monument Protection for the ...
    PLEASE ATTEND THIS UPCOMING MEETING AND SUPPORT NATIONAL MONUMENT PROTECTION FOR THE 570,000-ACRE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAINS! If you cannot attend, please phone or write a short e-mail to our Commissioners (information below).  YOUR MESSAGE CAN BE BRIEF: “Commissioners - Please write a ...
  • Conservationists Ask Court to Halt Wolf Exterm ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 7, 2014 Contact: Gary Macfarlane, Wilderness Watch, 208-882-9755 Jonathan Proctor, Defenders of Wildlife, 406-214-5327 Timothy Preso, Earthjustice, 406-586-9699 Ken Cole, Western Watersheds Project, 208-890-3666 POCATELLO, Idaho – A coalition of conservationists, repre ...

reference frame

  • Universe is maths, but only some maths is rele ...
    Max Tegmark of MIT has released his book, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, a month ago and it just appeared in the Kindle edition, too. I won't write a full-fledged review, especially because the book looks way too similar to Brian Greene's The Hidden Real ...
  • EU bans "butter spread" in Czechia
    Maoist comrade Barroso is celebrating another victory in his Blitzkrieg against freedom in Europe. In 1977, a creamery in Liberec, North Bohemia began to produce the traditional butter spread known as "pomazánkové máslo" which became an instant hit with the Czechoslovak consumers (although th ...
  • Mammograms don't detectably save lives
    I would recommend to scrap the policy of regular, semi-mandatory mammography screening Overscreening, overdiagnosing, and overtreatment are three of the chronic diseases of the modern healthcare systems. The New York Times brought to our focus the results of an extensive, 25-year-long survey in ...
  • Sochi, swimming, climate, activism
    I guess that many TRF readers are following the Olympic Games. Anthony Watts wrote about the attempt by the climate activists to politicize the event. Even the whacko-in-chief of 350.org Bill McKibben has endorsed the petition to fight the climate change. However, it was only supported by ab ...
  • Will SETI find E.T. WiFi by 2040?
    The Daily Galaxy is among those who bring us the new E.T. gospel: SETI's chief astronomer Seth Shostak (*1943) promises that by his 97th birthday in 2040, SETI will find electromagnetic signals sent by the extraterrestrial non-resident aliens. I am afraid that if he's around in 2040, people wi ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Why the U.S. is going to pot: Neil Macdonald
    Canadians used to be pretty smug about how progressive they were compared to the U.S., Neil Macdonald writes. But that wheel looks to be turning, and rethinking marijuana use is part of how American society is changing. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund ...
  • Hong Kong gold exchange eyes 1,500T warehouse ...
    by A. Ananthalakshmi, ShareNet The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society (CGSE), based in Hong Kong, aims to launch a physical bullion trading exchange and a 1,500-tonne depository in mainland China within the next year, its president said on Thursday. The century-old firm, which runs Hong ...
  • Hong Kong gold exchange eyes 1,500T warehouse ...
    by A. Ananthalakshmi, ShareNet The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society (CGSE), based in Hong Kong, aims to launch a physical bullion trading exchange and a 1,500-tonne depository in mainland China within the next year, its president said on Thursday. The century-old firm, which runs Hong ...
  • Valentine’s Day storm hits Atlantic Canada, Quebec
    A winter storm is pummelling Atlantic Canada today with strong winds, snow and freezing rain, as central and eastern Canada get a white and wintry Valentine’s Day stretching from eastern Ontario to Newfoundland. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me ...
  • Revealed: TEPCO hid dangerous Fukushima radiat ...
    from RT: Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) is again in the midst of controversy for failing to timely report on record radiation levels at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. It is now blasted for holding back strontium measurements since September. TEPCO on Wednesday revealed that it de ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Safe Jerky In A Home Dehydrator
    Dried dehydrated meat (jerky) has traditionally been made by drying meat at low temperatures (140°F – 170°F) for a long period of time. These processing conditions can make it difficult to assure a safe end result, including using a home dehydrator. It is important to reach a sufficient te ...
  • Dehydrate Chicken Strips
    The other day I made some dehydrated chicken breast strips, and I took a few pictures to show you how I did it. It’s simple…   The reason that I made this batch was actually for my dog, who loves to eat little bits of these as treats. He’s not spoiled or anything… It ...
  • A Snow Storm And Another Run On The Grocery Stores
    It constantly amazes me how often this happens – when there is a prediction of a snow storm, that within hours there is a run on the grocery stores – whose shelves quickly get stripped of bread, milk, water and other goods…   Sometimes it gets pretty extreme, as it did in ...
  • Survival Skill: Organize Your Preps
    While going about your preparedness, think “organize”. The effort of organizing can be taken to any level – the magnitude of which should be proportional to the task at hand. But at a minimum, have goals and have an organized plan. Know what you need to do to accomplish your go ...
  • Ground Water Source: A Dug Well
    A dug well is a simply a hole in the ground dug by shovel or backhoe. Years ago, a ‘dug well’ was used for many a household’s water supply, but most are “relics” of older homes, dug before drilling equipment was readily available or when drilling was considered too ...

Fast Company

  • This App Lets You Crowdsource Dating Advice... ...
    And it might not be as weird as you think.Dating blows.Read Full Story     
  • A Gold-Worthy Rebranding Of The Olympic Museum
    After closing for renovations in 2007, Switzerland's Olympic Museum is open again. Here's how Base Design created its new graphic identity.Between the lazy use of Microsoft Word fonts, the botched numbers, and the "is it or isn't it Lisa Simpson?" debate, the Olympics have been caught up in some ...
  • This Company Wants To Makeover Your Sock Drawer
    Introducing Nice Laundry, a new purveyor of buy-in-bulk colorful socks.Funky socks are like the pocket squares of the digital era: a subtle, but important, sartorial detail that signals membership to a certain culture. So, it would only make sense for start-up guys to buy said socks from a start ...
  • Finally: Taco Bell Plans To Let You Order With ...
    The widely beloved taco chain plans on rolling out a new mobile ordering system nationwide this year.We have some good news to report for Taco Bell fans. The purveyors of thoughtful late-night fourth meals for the, er, "college" crowd, plan on introducing a new mobile ordering system to expedite ...
  • 4 Ways To Create Meaningful Content
    With so much content grabbing for eyeballs, how can companies connect with consumers in meaningful ways? A guide to the meaningful content movement.Axe body spray, once the embodiment of inane advertising,recently made a tectonic shift in its branding when it launched its "Make Love, Not War" Su ...

Jadaliyya

  • On Protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Quickly and ...
    Two Vignettes Conversation One was with the waiter in a large Sarajevo hotel, where we were generally a bit sheepish to be attending our conference (the deciding factor was that it was big enough for all of the participants, the down side was its odd business history and the fact that the main ...
  • An Inside Look at the Fight for Freedom of Spe ...
    The words you are about to read were fully censored by The Daily Targum, Rutgers University's daily newspaper, even though they were all fact-checked by Targum staff and are true to my personal experiences working there. Because all of these things happened privately, it was said that writing ab ...
  • A Gentle and Generous Mentor: Janet Abu-Lughod
    I first met Janet Abu-Lughod at a meeting of the Arab American University Graduates (AAUG). AAUG was co-founded in 1967 (disbanded in 2007), by Janet’s husband, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a leading political scientist of the Arab world. A graduate student at Columbia University at the time, I was rathe ...
  • The Janet Abu-Lughod I Knew
    I first meet Janet L. Abu-Lughod in December 1990 when I invited her to be a keynote speaker for the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) held that year in Berkeley, California. The conference theme, “The Utility of Tradition,” wa ...
  • A Scholar Open to the World
    Janet Abu-Lughod was a remarkable woman whom I had the privilege of knowing over a long period of time. A person of enormous intellectual curiosity, she approached the task of learning with an openness that was admirable. Throughout her scholarly life, she listened to her interlocutors and wrest ...

mediagazer

  • What Comcast-Time Warner Cable Means for Adver ...
    Jeanine Poggi / AdAge: What Comcast-Time Warner Cable Means for Advertising  —  A Better Alternative for National Advertisers, More Reach for Addressable Ads  —  Comcast's planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock will shake up the TV la ...
  • Guardian among 'World's Best-Designed Newspape ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Guardian among 'World's Best-Designed Newspapers' in SND contest  —  Peter Nguyen has some advice for newspapers submitting entries for next year's World's Best-Designed Newspapers competition: Consider bagging the special issues.  “There wer ...
  • This American Life and Google team up for a po ...
    Jessica Misener / BuzzFeed: This American Life and Google team up for a podcast-style Valentine's Day doodle  —  The Story Behind Today's Super Romantic Google Doodle  —  This American Life's Ira Glass tells BuzzFeed about the radio-inspired stories gracing today ...
  • Scripps Networks's Revenue Rises on Stronger A ...
    Ben Fox Rubin / Wall Street Journal: Scripps Networks's Revenue Rises on Stronger Ad Sales  —  Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. said its fourth-quarter revenue rose 8.2% as the media company benefited from higher ad sales and affiliate-fees revenue.  —  The nich ...
  • Can we save AM radio? (Trent Wolbe/The Verge)
    Trent Wolbe / The Verge: Can we save AM radio?  —  Keeping amplitude modulation out of the dustbin of history  —  Before Facebook, before the internet, before cellphones and TV and even FM radio, there was AM radio.  Entire families would gather around elabo ...

Views & News from Norway

  • French decision postponed again
    The judge presiding over the murder trial of Norwegian man Joshua French has delayed handing down his verdict again, this time until Monday. Both French’s defense team and the prosecutor wanted the judgement to be given during Friday’s sitting, but Judge Serge Kabondo said Norwegian ...
  • Solberg ‘direct’ with Russian PM
    Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg said she was “not the most diplomatic” when she met with the Russian Prime Minister Dimitrij Medvedev on Friday to discuss human rights and other issues. Solberg said the meeting was generally positive, but her counterpart did not like being ...
  • Plummeting new home sales ‘worrying’
    New home sales dropped sharply in January to 40 percent below the same time last year, according to the latest figures from the Norwegian Home Builders Association (Boligprodusentenes Forening). The biggest fall came in the Oslo area, where sales are down 56 percent on a 12 month basis. “T ...
  • Sparks fly around artist Melgaard
    NEWS ANALYSIS: Celebrated but controversial, Bjarne Melgaard is today considered by many to be Norway’s most important living visual artist, and lately he’s been setting off some Olympic sparks. For more than two decades his work has spanned an array of disciplines including painting, scul ...
  • Culture Minister regrets museum call
    Norway’s Culture Minister, Thorhild Widvey, may have to answer to a parliamentary committee over accusations of interfering with freedom of speech. On Friday the Conservative Party (Høyre) Minister admitted she regrets having  personally called the Chairman of the Museums in Sør-Trøndelag ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Reversing Desertification with Gabions
    Trailer only – watch full video here! Gabions are rocks and small boulders packed into a wire basket to combat soil erosion on the side of steep slopes. But to Geoff Lawton, they are more commonly used to pacify storm water in a flash flood event and to build soil in strategic locations in ...
  • Rob Hopkins Open Letter to the BBC on Lord Law ...
    To Jamie Angus, the Editor, BBC’s Today Programme. Dear Jamie, I am writing to complain in the strongest terms about your piece on this morning’s programme on climate change and the current floods which featured Sir Brian Hoskins and Lord Nigel Lawson. I write both in my own capacity ...
  • Permaculture Open Day at Caroola Farm (May 4, ...
    Caroola Farm (map) is hosting an open day celebrating permaculture, sustainability and local food / community resilience on Sunday 4 May, 2014 (International Permaculture Day). The vision for the day is to provide a selection of permaculture talks on subjects such as garden design, water managem ...
  • A Shorter Working Week is Possible
    Click for full view Marcin Gerwin: It was predicted in the 1930 by the economist John Maynard Keynes that thanks to the technological innovations, people in the twenty-first century will not have to work more than 15 hours a week. But here we are in the twenty-first century and many people in th ...
  • Permaculture Voices Podcast: Geoff Lawton Talk ...
    Geoff Lawton (Photo © Craig Mackintosh) It should all be fun. If you’re having fun you’ve got the design right. If you’re not having fun you have the design wrong. Sit down, have a cup of tea and think about it. — Geoff Lawton Geoff Lawton joins me today to talk about permaculture. Ge ...

Pointman's

  • What a bunch of pissant spineless scum they re ...
    One glance at that picture above and you understand the mentality at work. All that’s missing is the soundtrack but I think we can all add that in for ourselves. It’s always the same song with just they lyrics varying. ‘Come out nigger, we’re here to string you up’ ...
  • Gott mit uns.
    Literally, it means “God with us” or more colloquially, God’s on our side. It originated as a battle cry of the legions towards the end of the Roman empire, when it had become fully Christianised and the words have rippled down the centuries into various cultures, with the Germ ...
  • The real problem with polls.
    I see yet more opinion polls on global warming wiggling their way through the bowels of the mainstream media like tapeworms. They’re only usually interesting in terms of spotting how the alarmists have bent the questionnaire, data, statistical methods or simply misrepresented the results t ...
  • Cool it …
    I wrote the following paragraph in a previous piece on fanatics and the subtle perils of prolonged contact with them - There is also an insidious danger to this sort of interaction with them; you start to get imprinted by them. If you’re not careful, you soon start to take on the same fanatical ...
  • The coming shape of 2014.
    About three years ago, I compared the ongoing plunge in any belief in global warming as being akin to the death of a belief system. In essence, it is a five stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. It covered what can only be termed the true believers, not t ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Call To Support Hunger Striker Outside Miami I ...
    Activists from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Florida have alerted us to this story: A young woman named Jenny Aguilar is on day five of a hunger strike outside the Krome Detention Center, an immigration facility near where the city of Miami meets the Everglades.  She has bee ...
  • Race, History, and Revolution in the Year's Be ...
    (A version of this article originally appeared in the New Orleans Data News Newspaper) We live in the era of Hollywood mega-budget sequels, where theaters are filled with stories based on comic books, children’s books, or a line of toys. Originality is rarely rewarded: this year, the ...
  • Hundreds of Musicians and Their Supporters Sto ...
    In one of the largest protests seen in New Orleans in the past decade, hundreds of musicians, club owners, and other supporters of live music protested outside, then inside, New Orleans City Hall today. The protest was originally called because a noise ordinance was scheduled to be discussed in ...
  • 20 to Life for a Phone Call?
    This call to action comes from the Friends and Family of Manuel Brown Manuel Brown is facing twenty years to life on a marijuana drug charge even though he never sold or bought any drugs. We need your help to prevent a miscarriage of justice! Call the Orleans Parish D.A's office& ...
  • Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Al-Qaeda-linked New Terrorists, DAESH, in Gaza ...
    It's official: Al-Qaeda has begun operating in the Gaza Strip. A video posted on YouTube this week showed terrorists belonging to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known colloquially by its Arabic acronym, DAESH, announcing
  • Dagestan: New Epicenter of Muslim Terrorism in ...
    Dagestan, the largest republic of the north Caucasus, can best be described in negative superlatives. It is probably the most violent spot in the entire Russian Federation.[1] The administrative bureaucracy of the republic's capital, Makhachkala, is
  • Stop the Executions by the Islamic Republic of ...
    Petition The Islamic Republic of Iran currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world. In a time where the world is naively rejoicing in the election of a "moderate" new Iranian president; Iran has stepped up its executions dramatically
  • "F**k the EU" Is Right
    The biggest farce in international politics is the European Union. Last week, the EU's international figurehead, Catherine Ashton, the "High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy," condemned new building projects in east
  • Ten reasons why the BDS movement is immoral an ...
    As a strong supporter of the two state solution and a critic of Israel's settlement policies, I am particularly appalled at efforts to impose divestment, boycotts and sanctions against Israel, and Israel alone, because BDS makes it more difficult to

Urban Survival

  • “Two Turkeys” This Week!
    There’s much to taste this morning as the headlines seem to indicate a slow cooking of the world’s goose prior to the long weekend, such as it is with storms and such. For one thing, the Israelis are seriously pissed about the US going off and making what may be a massive mistake in allowing the ...
  • Coping: With Irregular Turkey
    Elaine came home from grocery shopping with about a 10-pound bird Friday afternoon (late) and didn’t have room in the fridge.  We figured that since the temps in East Texas weren’t going to get above 40, things would be fine and we would likely make it to Tuesday before having the turkey th ...
  • T’is the Season to be Rally
    Trah-lah-lah-lah-lah…. lah lah lah lah….This ain’t hard to figure:  Gold is down, so the dollar is up, so the number of dollars to buy the market should be down, so the futures should be weak. But wait!  The Dow is likely to pop up 60 and the NASDAQ and S&P also look like they’re s ...
  • Coping: With the Winds of Noumenon
    I’m not sure what set it off, but long-time readers will remember that I’ve had occasional dreams that have had what’s seemingly “prophetic content.”  The last “biggie” I had was before the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which I wrote up as having aspects of oil/petroleum industry, murder, fi ...
  • Peoplenomics: A Gathering of Trends
    Every year about this time, while most other people are out shopping for do-dad an thingamajigs to buy the affections of others, Ures truly starts looking at the “big picture” stuff in preparation for our Annual Forecast, which is unusually issued just after the turkey leftovers run ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • Oligarchical Control of Modern Life
    Aaron Dykes & Melissa Melton are the creators of Truthstream Media.com presenting a teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we live in. Aaron is a writer, research and video producer who has worked on numerous documentaries and investigative reports. Melissa is an experi ...
  • Senator Rand Paul Suing President Obama over N ...
    Senator Rand Paul Suing President Obama over NSA Spying, Secret Iran Nuke Deal, Debt Limit Suspended There is yet another delay to part of Obama Care. Businesses with 50 to 100 employees will have another year to phase in health care coverage. Now, most of these companies already provi ...
  • Bank Run 2014 -- Get Your Money OUT! EU Docu ...
    Exclusive: EU executive sees personal savings used to plug long-term financing gapThe savings of the European Union's 500 million citizens could be used to fund long-term investments to boost the economy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis, an EU document says.th ...
  • Jobless America 2014 -- We Will See More Layof ...
    Australia jobless rate has hit all time new highs, Greece is reporting higher unemployment and nations across the Eurozone are now reporting higher unemployment. The US unemployment rate has been manipulated and the unemployment rate is around 30% and massive layoffs are accelerating. Bi ...
  • Massive Attack on Bitcoin -- Bill Still Report
    The Mt. Gox shutdown is spreading thru the Bitcoin world. Can it be stopped? If crypo currencies end up carrying a significant percentage of the world's economic activity (and I think they will) then governments are going to have to tax a lot more heavily if they expect to maintain their ...

Radical Chic

  • STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
    Our uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made me write ...
  • WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
    While it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic. In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not pull ...
  • WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
    Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
  • CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
    I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]

NRDC Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing China Environmental News Alert February 9 - 14, 2014 NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, e ...
  • Antibiotic Free Love for Valentine's Day
    Emily Martin, Campaign Manager, New York These days, it seems like there’s a lot of finger pointing at companies doing the wrong things when it comes to producing the food we eat.  So, this Valentine’s Day, I’d like to spread ...
  • Coal Ash: Why it is better recycled than as a ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC EPA has announced that the two primary encapsulated uses of coal ash are safe, so recyclers have no legitimate remaining arguments to support their previous requests for a weak coal ash rule. On ...
  • Will the world walk the talk about illegal wil ...
    Alex Kennaugh, Online Policy Communications Director, New York City Luminaries of the wildlife world filed into a London meeting room this week to talk about wildlife trade: Jane Goodall, Iian Douglas-Hamilton, Stanley Johnson, and others. They were ...
  • CPUC Proposes to Replace Power from San Onofre ...
    Sierra Martinez, Legal Director, California Energy Projects, San Francisco The California Public Utilities Commission is proposing a strategy to replace the electricity generated by the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) with a mi ...

Peakwater

  • West Virginia Creek Runs Black After Catastrop ...
    “Waters are running black for roughly six miles in West Virginia’s Fields Creek after more than 100,000 gallons of toxic coal slurry poured into the waterway from a Patriot Coal processing facility Tuesday. “This is a big deal, this is a significant slurry spill,” said Se ...
  • Why global water shortages pose threat of terr ...
    “Already a billion people, or one in seven people on the planet, lack access to safe drinking water. Britain, of course, is currently at the other extreme. Great swaths of the country are drowning in misery, after a series of Atlantic storms off the cough-western coast. But that too is par ...
  • River Thames Bursts Banks, Flooding Homes Near ...
    “As of late Monday, the Environment Agency had severe flood warnings—meaning there is a danger to life—for 14 areas in the southeast of England and two in the southwest, one of the hardest hit regions. It also warned that flooding was expected and immediate action required for 131 further ...
  • Rain Has Little Impact on Santa Cruz County&#8 ...
    “SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County’s thirst is still unquenched. More than nine inches of rain soaked some spots of the county during the weekend, downing trees, flooding roads and finally freeing endangered fish to swim upstream. But the drenching was more show than substance, ba ...
  • Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina ...
    “From 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal-ash slurry flowed into the Dan after the collapse of a corrugated metal drainpipe only a few feet beneath a 27-acre pond, known as an impoundment. Duke Energy, the utility that owns the impoundment and the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C., which clo ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • numbskull
    …How did Arizona ever elect such a numbskull  in the first place…? …This speaks volume about the qualities Arizona wants in those we choose to lead us…Filed under: Blogroll
  • Why does the press portray this as secret
    …Why does the press portray this as secret … come on … we all know they own a substantial number of Congress and our Supreme Court … So why would it come as a surprise they might get $$$ behind closed doors…?   Oil Firms May Get Secret Cleanup Payments   Read the Article at […]
  • Why does it need to be a victory for any one p ...
    …Why does it need to be a victory for any one person … how about victory for all Americans…   Republicans to offer condition-free US debt ceiling hike 02-11-2014  •  AFP …House Republicans said Tuesday they will introduce a measure this week to extend US borrowing authority with n ...
  • Wherever did you come to understand
    …Wherever did you come to understand and believe the privately owned FEDERAL RE$ERVE $YSTEM ever had the best interest of “we” (the people) as its principal interest…?   No Janet Yellen, The Economy Is NOT “Getting Better” 02-11-2014  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/  ………On Tu ...
  • Where in our Constitution
    …Where in our Constitution does it say that the 3 branches of our government are to be controlled and beholding to corporate interests at the expense of the people especially those the least among us…?   Where In The Constitution Does It Say Obama Can Rule By Decree And “Do Whatever He Want ...

Popular Technology

  • 2,258 Meaningless Search Results
    Rebuttal to "2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles" James Powell continues to demonstrate his computer illiteracy by doing worthless database searches in an intellectually dishonest propaganda campaign. He updated his previous meaningless analysis in continued blissful ignorance that the 'Web ...
  • Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
    It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
  • Who is Willis Eschenbach?
    As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
  • 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
    "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Helping the Amazon's 'Jaguar People' protect t ...
    Tribes in the Amazon are increasingly exposed to the outside world by choice or circumstance. The fallout of outside contact has rarely been anything less than catastrophic, resulting in untold extinction of hundreds of tribes over the centuries. For ones that survived the devastation of introdu ...
  • On edge of extinction, could drones and techno ...
    Almost nothing is known about the little dodo, a large, archaic, pigeon-like bird found only on the islands of Samoa. Worse still, this truly bizarre bird is on the verge of extinction, following the fate of its much more famous relative, the dodo bird. Recently, conservationists estimated that ...
  • How hunters have become key to saving Bulgaria ...
    Surprising clatter cuts through the silence in the snowy forest shortly before sunrise. The powerful clicking sounds like a dropping Ping-Pong ball before culminating in a loud pop resembling the opening of a champagne bottle. This sound is heard clearly and far. Propped on a thick pine tree bra ...
  • Next big idea in forest conservation? Connecti ...
    Dr. Stuart Pimm is an expert in extinctions: why they happen, how fast they happen, and how they can be prevented. Reconnecting forest fragments and avoiding fragmentation, according to Pimm, are among the most crucial things we can do to conserve global biodiversity. His organization SavingSpec ...
  • Predator appreciation: how saving lions, tiger ...
    In the new book, In Predatory Light: Lions and Tigers and Polar Bears, authors Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sy Montgomery, and John Houston, and photographers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson share with us an impassioned and detailed appeal to appreciate three of the world's biggest predators: li ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Success: Farming smarter, not harder
    Fifteen years ago Doug Avery was locked into failure.The Marlborough sheep and beef farmer was barely coping, personally and financially, after years of successive drought had ravaged his farm."The severity of eight years of drought,...
  • Filming the adventure - but not too much
    Twelve Kiwi students set off on Monday on a voyage to the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand. They will be joined on the Young Blake Expedition by a crew of marine scientists and representatives from the navy, the Department of...
  • Brilliant Venus tricks eye with special glow
    Scientists have finally come up with an explanation for a visual illusion that was first identified in the 16th century by Galileo Galilei.He noticed how large the planet Venus appears to the naked eye when compared to Jupiter -...
  • Rangitoto gives clues on next blast
    Digging deep into Rangitoto Island has begun to reveal the explosive secrets of Auckland's youngest volcano - and the risk the city could face in future eruptions.Drilling began three days ago and has reached more than 70m. It will...
  • Out of the office, off to work
    Twelve Kiwi students set off yesterday on a 13-day voyage to the Auckland Islands in the subantarctic where they will help to plan the building of a world-leading research station. They will be joined on the Young Blake Expedition...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk — from Science to Policy
    The Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph will be hosting a one-day symposium on science and policy questions around raw milk on Tuesday April 22, 2014. Academics, industry and government representatives are expected to attend. According to the … Continue reading →
  • 43 Mainstream Media Outlets Cover Michael Schm ...
    That’s as of Saturday, Feb. 8th, according to Google’s news aggregator: Farmer takes battle over raw milk sale to Ontario’s highest court - Vancouver Sun - ‎Feb 6, 2014‎: “TORONTO – A dairy farmer determined to defend his right to provide raw milk urged … Cont ...
  • Raw milk gets its day in court — Feb. 5, ...
    The Bovine reports: More than 100 raw milk supporters from across the province made the trek through stormy weather to Toronto’s Osgoode Hall to hear the third-round appeal in Michael Schmidt’s raw milk saga last Wednesday Feb. 5th. It had … Continue reading →
  • Raw Milk and Michael Schmidt in court today, F ...
    Today is a big day for raw milk in Ontario. Supporters of raw milk and food rights from across the province will be on hand today in Toronto to show their support to Michael Schmidt as he and his lawyers … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt “upbeat” as he pre ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been in legal limbo for about twenty years now. It’s difficult to even make that statement without wondering, first, about the system that allows … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Industrial Production Declines, November and D ...
    This morning the Fed reported Industrial production declined. Moreover November and December were revised sharply lower. Industrial production decreased 0.3 percent in January after having risen 0.3 percent in December. In January, manufacturing output fell 0.8 percent, partly because of the s ...
  • MEPs Accuse Troika of Aggravating Unemployment ...
    Via translation from El Pais, Members of European Parliament Accuse Troika of Aggravating Unemployment and Poverty in Rescued Countries "They could have acted as surgeons, cutting superfluous. Instead they acted like butchers with an ax," says MEP Alejandro Cercas in reference to the policies t ...
  • Retail Sales "Unexpectedly" Decline; December ...
    In a rare, back-to-back performance, retail sales in the US fell for the second month after a downward revision put December sales into the red. Blame the Weather In a blame the weather tactic Reuters reports Retail Demand a Bit Cooler. While the two straight months of declining sales most li ...
  • Meet Janet Yellen "The Chair"
    In one of her first official pronouncements, Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen Lays Down the Law, Seeks Gender-Neutral Title of "chair" rather than "chairwoman". This prompted a humorous email discussion of ideas between a few friends including Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man blog (see Not ...
  • Italy's Prime Minister Letta Resigns Under Pre ...
    Under severe pressure following weeks of messy name-calling, Italy's prime minister Enrico Letta resigned. 39-year-old Florence mayor, Matteo Renzi, will stand in. President Napolitano refuses to call for elections, so questions of legitimacy are sure to arise, and indeed have already. The Fi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Exclusive Report- A Distillation of DOD Fu ...
    DOD spent $15,530,647,963+ on 186 individual contracts in January 2014 The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form. The Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $15, ...
  • Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: “ ...
    Peter B. Collins Presents Professor Anthony F. Greco MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has been a major voice for the American Left for over 50 years. In his new book, Tony Greco offers detailed criticism of selected subjects of Chomsky’s writings, from the Cold War to Viet Nam, Central America, Indone ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- Corporatocracy: How the ...
    A small, readily-identifiable ruling oligarchy that no serious political observer denies the existence of is able to keep the public from attacking it by dividing them along ideological grounds so that the public spends all their time arguing over definitions and splitting doctrinal hairs instea ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “Prohibition Kills: ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Peter ChristOn this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by retired police captain and co-founder of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), Mr. Peter Christ. Guillermo and Peter discuss the heroin overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the many ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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 ...
  • Bahrain ups security ahead of protests
    The Bahraini regime has beefed up security measures as the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom braces for nationwide protest rallies to mark the third anniversary of the 2011 revolution.
  • AI raps Bahrain's ‘relentless repression’
    Amnesty International has censured Bahrain’s “relentless repression” of anti-regime protesters, saying the Manama regime may once again use violence to quell the protests planned for Friday to mark the 2011 revolution.
  • 'Ceasefire extended in Syria’s Homs'
    The Syrian government and foreign-sponsored opposition have agreed to extend the ceasefire in Syria’s western city of Homs for three more days, a local official says.
  • Syrians hold pro-government demos
    Syrians have taken to the streets in support of President Bashar al-Assad and the country’s armed forces, which are battling a foreign-sponsored insurgency.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Feeling powerless makes for a heavy load
    Chris - People who feel powerless perceive the world of weight very differently. That's according to a new study out this week in the Journal of Psychology. Eun Hee Lee is a researcher at Cambr...
  • Mapping the milky way
    Chris - First this week, the Gaia space mission which was launched on the 19th of December is now orbiting around a virtual point in space which is called L2. It's about 1.5 million km f...
  • Arm prosthetic that feels
    The first prosthetic hand has been developed that allows its user to actually feel what they are touching, in real time. Dennis Sorensen from Denmark became the first amputee to use this new prostheti...
  • Breast milk antibody benefits
    Antibodies present in breast milk play a key role in the early development of the intestine and its bacterial passengers and should be considered as an additive for formula feeds in some situations, a...
  • New flu: H10N8
    A new fatal strain of flu has been identified in a patient in China. Documented in the current episode of the Lancet medical journal, the H10N8 bird flu virus was recovered from a 73 year old woman ...

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Care2 - Environment

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

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Our Legacy of Discrimination And Why the Cons ...
    The language of the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting the denial or abridgement of the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, seems pretty clear to most of us. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • Sign the No Dirty Gold Pledge ACTION
    Demand that the global mining industry provide retailers and consumers an alternative to dirty gold. Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Vatican: The Holy See
    The Vatican City is found in Europe, at the center of Rome City. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • One Billion Rising
    It is time to recognize that violence against women and girls is and remains a major political challenge of the 21st century, alongside racial, economic and gender tyranny. Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 21 Things You Can't Do While Black
    Here are 21 examples from the last five years of some of the things black people can't do without others thinking they're up to no good. Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

Rogue Government - WP

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