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Independent - London

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe" --Phy ...
        Top quarks are the heaviest and among the most puzzling elementary particles. They weigh even more than the Higgs boson – as much as an atom of gold – and only two machines have ever produced them: Fermilab’s Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. There are several ways to pr ...
  • Forget WhatsApp! --NASA Creates App to Trace E ...
        For years, scientists have been studying a mysterious infrared glow from the Milky Way and other galaxies, radiating from dusty regions in deep space. By duplicating the harsh conditions of space in their laboratories and computers, scientists have identified the mystifying infrared e ...
  • Andromeda's Dwarf-Galaxy Mashup --Astronomers ...
        Andromeda, the massive sister spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, is orbited by a swarm of small galaxies – astronomers so far have counted more than 20. They have names like Andromeda I, II, III, IV...etc. Researchers from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, among othe ...
  • RNA --Does It Harbor a Clue to the Origin of L ...
                           How did life on Earth begin? An giant step toward solving this puzzle was taken in the 1980's with the Nobel Prize–winning discovery by Tom Cech and Sidney Altman that RNA, the sister molecule of DNA, can catalyze certain chemical reactions inside cells, a job previ ...
  • NASA Observes Immense Solar Flare --What Trigg ...
        On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, but scientists don't yet know the fine details of what sets the ...

Natural News

Threat Level

  • Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Offline Amid All ...
    Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has gone offline, apparently after losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to a years-long hacking effort that went unnoticed by the company.     
  • Behind iPhone’s Critical Security Bug, a Singl ...
    Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious "goto" in one part of Apple's authentication code that accidentally bypasses ...     
  • Why AT&T’s Surveillance Report Omits 80 Millio ...
    AT&T released its first "Transparency Report" this week concerning U.S. government surveillance of its customers. But to those familiar with the leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ma Bell’s numbers come up short by more than 80 million spied-upon customers. ...    & ...
  • Reading Between the Lines of Redacted NSA Docu ...
    Following the leaks of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. government has released a treasure trove of classified documents in a bid to quell public dissent. But answers to key questions about NSA surveillance have been blacked out from these ...     
  • How America’s Soldiers Fight for the Spectrum ...
    Communications, navigation, battlefield logistics, precision munitions—all of these depend on complete and unfettered access to the spectrum, territory that must be vigilantly defended from enemy combatants. Yet despite the importance of this crucial resource, America’s grip on the spectrum has ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Want a Larger U.S. Military? Then Finally Pay ...
    The New York Times reported Monday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is has proposed cutting the U.S. Army from its wartime peak of 570,000 troops to as few as 440,000. Under pressure from the 2011 sequester and the recently inked Murray-Ryan budget plan, Hagel's blueprint would shrink the act ...
  • New Georgia License Plate to Mark 150th Annive ...
    The state of Georgia this week began offering a new version of its vehicle license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag. Sponsored by the Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (to whom a portion of the purchase price and annual registration fees will go), the revised desig ...
  • John "Today We Are All Georgians" McCain Calls ...
    John McCain is experiencing another bout of premature emancipation. Just hours before Ukrainian President Yanukovych and opposition leaders reached an agreement that could help end the chaos and carnage in Kiev, the Arizona Republican lashed out at Barack Obama Thursday, calling him "the most n ...
  • Five Years after Santelli's Rant, a Look Back ...
    Five years ago today, CNBC regular Rick Santelli launched into the infamous rant that many credit with birthing the Tea Party movement. That the Tea Party's toxic mix of blind rage, shocking detachment from the facts and periodic descent into racist rhetoric pre-dated Santelli's frothing at the ...
  • Georgia Republicans are Killing Hospitals--and ...
    By now, millions of Americans--most of them in red states-- are growing familiar with the "coverage gap." Thanks to their rejection of the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid in states they control, GOP leaders are leaving at least five million people in an insurance "dead zone," earnin ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Road to Moscow Goes Through Kiev: The Prot ...
    The takeover of power in Kiev by the mainstream opposition is a coup that has been executed by force, which overlooks the opinions of at least half of the Ukrainian population. Yet, you would not know this from listening to…
  • The Victim of a Police Assault Should Not be P ...
    The prosecution of occupy activist Cecily McMillan highlights the worst hallmarks of how police and prosecutors in New York responded to the occupy protests.  These include abusive targeting of people who are not protesting or who are even obeying police…
  • How Small Reactor Fires Could Result in U.S. N ...
    No matter the size, a nuclear reactor pool fire is dangerous enough to change millions of lives forever. The Nuclear Information Resource and Service and dozens of other organizations on Tuesday uncovered an unpublished study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission …
  • NATO Moving East, Building “A Roman Empi ...
    NATO’s first act of illegal “humanitarian” aggressive war called “Operation Deliberate Force” in 1995 against the Republic Srpska which it got away with and emboldened it to later carry out “Operation Allied Force”, the merciless brutal air campaign against ci ...
  • The Globalization of NATO: Military Doctrine o ...
    THE GLOBALIZATION OF NATO Author:  Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Clarity Press (2012) Pages:  411 with complete index Now Available: Order directly from Global Research The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Court Ruling Makes It Harder to Pollute Appala ...
    A District Court re-established a buffer zone around streams to keep toxic coal mining spoil from entering sensitive waterways. Last week the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia tossed out a late-2008 Bush Administration decision to scrap a decades-old rule protecting streams fro ...
  • Arsenic Could Have Been Poisoning River Before ...
    Water samples show very high levels of arsenic, an ingredient of coal ash, in a river that supplies drinking water. More than two weeks after a stormwater pipe burst caused 82,000 tons of coal ash to spill into a North Carolina river that supplies drinking water, state officials have discover ...
  • Arsenic Could Have Been Poisoning River Before ...
    Water samples show very high levels of arsenic, an ingredient of coal ash, in a river that supplies drinking water. More than two weeks after a stormwater pipe burst caused 82,000 tons of coal ash to spill into a North Carolina river that supplies drinking water, state officials have discover ...
  • Rainwater Harvesting Booms in Wake of West Vir ...
    West Virginians whose tap water was polluted are getting clean water from the rain. Some residents of the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia lost access to clean drinking water on January 9, when a coal-processing facility spilled roughly 10,000 gallons of crude MCHM—a chemical used to tr ...
  • Giant Nevada Water Transfer for Las Vegas Unde ...
    Two federal complaints say the groundwater pumping and transfer will threaten protected species and permanently damage the ecosystem. LAS VEGAS (CN) - Regional water consortia, environmentalists, Native American tribes, the League of Woman Voters and other filed two federal lawsuits challengin ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Natural Gas Climate Change Impact Almost as Ba ...
    While we’ve all grown accustomed to seeing the words “natural”, “healthy” and “environmentally-friendly” thrown around in advertisements for a variety of consumer goods, it’s important to remember that household items are not the only things capable of being greenwashed – case in point, natural ...
  • Nuclear Loan Guarantee: A High Risk Investment ...
    Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced on Wednesday, February 19th, that his agency approved a multibillion dollar taxpayer-backed loan guarantee for the first nuclear reactors to be built in the U.S. in more than 30 years.  We view this as a costly act of desperation for a failing project. An ...
  • Enbridge’s Toxic Record is Keeping its Tar San ...
    A second Canadian pipeline company has its permit tied up in the State Department’s approval process. Enbridge, Canada’s largest pipeline company, is trying to expand its Alberta Clipper line, but is now facing delays. Enbridge started up its first phase of the line, which has a capacity of 450, ...
  • Court tells Nebraska Governor he cannot author ...
    On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Nebraska’s recently passed law allowing TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline Co. to proceed with construction across Nebraska was declared unconstitutional and void. The ruling came from Lancaster County District Court Judge Stephanie Stacy. The Court ruled for ...
  • World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Project Cr ...
    Late last week, NRG Energy, Inc. announced that Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is in operation after six years of construction.  Located in the Mojave Desert, 300,000 software-controlled mirrors and three 450-foot towers at full capacity can produce up to 392 megawatts of solar power.  ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Care 2

  • UT: Dog Lovers, Protect Your Rights by Contact ...
    Your voices were heard loud and clear! We are delighted to tell you that HB 97 passed the Utah House of Representatives. If passed by the Senate and signed by the governor, it will end breed-discriminatory legislation (BDL) against all dogs in Utah Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • This Epic Chase Between a Squirrel and Hawk Wi ...
    Edge of your seat video. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Mercury the kitten, continues to charm as he j ...
    A kitten that has no front legs after being reportedly hit by a weed whacker is thriving -- and steadily gaining fans on Facebook. Submitted by marie H. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Go nuts to significantly lower risk of obesity ...
    A research team from Loma Linda University in California studied 803 Seventh-day Adventist adults to establish an association between tree nuts (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts)..... Submitted by Jelena Radovanovic to Health & Welln ...
  • Dear Bayer: Fire. This. Clown. - SIGN PLEASE !
    "We did not develop this product for the Indian market." - Bayer CEO Marijn Dekker on their cancer-fighting drug with a $69,000 consumer pricetag. ONLY for Western patients who can afford this product, Submitted by Angelika R. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |&nbsp ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Hillary Clinton Does Nothing as Her Goons Assa ...
    The case of Ray McGovern is a genuine alarm bell that should scare the hell out of every American who cares about freedom and the Constitution. Three years ago, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was giving a speech at George Washington University and denouncing political suppression in Egy ...
  • Ukraine Ain’t Our Fight
    Enough of the East versus West horseshit. I spent a good portion of my life living under the cloud of a Cold War that, with the benefit of hindsight, was unnecessary and a waste of money and human life. Now, having learned nothing from the past 50 years, we appear hell bent on meddling in [...]
  • Farmageddon
    I do not have a financial interest in the following film, but it is something you must see. The irony here is that most of the people who have had their farms raided are on the left end of the political spectrum. Yet, when you hear their shock and outrage at the abuse of power, [...]
  • Obama Boarding the Crazy Train to Syria?
    Put this in the category of, “You gotta be shitting me!” Yahoo’s Oliver Knox writes: Americans unquestionably oppose any U.S. military intervention in Syria of the “boots on the ground” variety. They’re not fans of the idea of air strikes there, either. But how would they respo ...
  • Obama, Weak as a Mouse Fart
    Is Barack Obama auditioning to play the Big Bad Wolf who fails to blow down the house made of bricks? I think so. Look at his pathetically weak posturing today on the issue of the Ukraine: President Barack Obama condemned the violence in Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that the U.S. holds the gover ...

Futurismic

  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...

Al Jazeera

Energy & Environment News

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AlterNet Top Stories

  • The Top Five Things You Need to Know About Ema ...
    What the newly released trove of documents reveal about the Wisconsin Governor and his inner circle. I spent the day reading Kelly Rindfleisch’s emails. They were released as part of the final court proceedings regarding the first John Doe, the closed-door, criminal investigation of Scott Wal ...
  • Russia Feels Double-Crossed over Ukraine – But ...
    Ukraine's future security, political cohesion and territorial integrity depend on how Putin reacts to events. What will Vladimir Putin do now? The Russian president is under intensifying western pressure not to act rashly in Ukraine following the toppling of Russia's ally, Viktor Yanukov ...
  • News Quiz on Some Shocking Events of the Week ...
    How news aware are you? All these events were on AlterNet and elsewhere. See how well you do. A test to see if you've been paying attention this week to the news, from the cataclysmic to the kooky. All the answers on this quiz have been gleaned from articles on AlterNet.org. See what you may h ...
  • Is Sex in Cinema Getting Too Real?
    As the controversial and explicit sex odyssey 'Nymphomaniac' opens, Emine Saner asks actors what they think about being asked to perform in increasingly graphic sex scenes. The script, Christophe Paou says, was even more sexually explicit, so the French actor knew what he was getting ...
  • Exxon CEO Joins Anti-Fracking Lawsuit After Dr ...
    It seems it's not so easy to be pro-fracking when it affects you directly. Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is involved in a legal battle over fracking. The weird part is, he’s on the side that’s against it.Don’t worry, Tillerson hasn’t changed his “Drill, baby, drill” mentality or had a change of ...

Threat Level

  • Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Offline Amid All ...
    Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has gone offline, apparently after losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to a years-long hacking effort that went unnoticed by the company.     
  • Behind iPhone’s Critical Security Bug, a Singl ...
    Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious "goto" in one part of Apple's authentication code that accidentally bypasses ...     
  • Why AT&T’s Surveillance Report Omits 80 Millio ...
    AT&T released its first "Transparency Report" this week concerning U.S. government surveillance of its customers. But to those familiar with the leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ma Bell’s numbers come up short by more than 80 million spied-upon customers. ...    & ...
  • Reading Between the Lines of Redacted NSA Docu ...
    Following the leaks of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. government has released a treasure trove of classified documents in a bid to quell public dissent. But answers to key questions about NSA surveillance have been blacked out from these ...     
  • How America’s Soldiers Fight for the Spectrum ...
    Communications, navigation, battlefield logistics, precision munitions—all of these depend on complete and unfettered access to the spectrum, territory that must be vigilantly defended from enemy combatants. Yet despite the importance of this crucial resource, America’s grip on the spectrum has ...

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Turkey News - Feb 25
      In voice recordings Erdogan and his son Bilal allegedly discuss how to hide huge sums of cash, Turkish main opposition calls on PM to quit - Today's Zaman AUDIO (Turkish): In new voice recordings Erdogan and his son Bilal allegedly discuss how to hide huge sums of cash - YouTube ...
  • The Power of Parliamentarians in Abolishing Nu ...
    Address by Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., to Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, "Climbing the Mountain" Conference, Washington, D.C., February 26, 2014 At first glance, the elimination of nuclear weapons appears to be a hopeless case.  The Conference on Disarmament i ...
  • The impact on communications will be disastrou ...
    By Alfredo Lopez It might seem like a game of Monopoly played by real monopolies and, with a tired groan, one might be tempted to dismiss it as part of an ugly but irreversible trend. But the merger of cable-television mammoth Comcast with its runner-up competitor Time-Warner Cable [ ...
  • Megan Rice’s allocution
    From TransformNowPlowshares Here is the prepared statement Megan Rice read to the court on Tuesday, February 18, 2014: PART I               As I sat observing the facial expressions of participants present in the hearing on January 28th ...
  • Inequality on Campus
    As the United States begins to grapple with the issue of growing economic inequality, it should not ignore the widening income gap on American college campuses. Some of the nation’s poorest people work at higher educational institutions, and many of them are members of the faculty.  Oh, ye ...

Grist - News

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • I Need Democracy Now! Because ...
    #because-montage img { width: 214px; float: left; } To celebrate Democracy Now!'s 18th birthday, we asked our listeners and viewers to submit a photo or video that describes why Democracy Now! is important to you. Submit a link to your own photo or video message at d ...
  • The Comcast-Time Warner Merger Threatens Democracy
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Comcast has announced it intends to merge with Time Warner Cable, joining together the largest and second-largest cable and broadband providers in the country. The merger must be approved by both the Justice Department and the FCC . Given the financial a ...
  • VIDEO: Bahraini Human Rights Activist Zainab a ...
    On Monday, Democracy Now! spoke to human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja upon her release from prison by the Bahraini government after nearly a year behind bars. At that time she faced a return to prison pending her appearance in court today on charges of damaging police property, defacing a ...
  • Laverne Cox, CeCe McDonald on Facebook's New G ...
    Part two of our special looking at violence and discrimination faced by transgender women of color. We speak to African-American transgender activist CeCe McDonald, who was released last month after 19 months in prison. She was arrested in 2011 after using deadly force to protect herself from a ...
  • People of Color Are Losing Their Right to Vote
    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “I found myself standing in front of railroad tracks in South Florida. I was waiting on the train to come so I could jump in front of it and end my life.” So recounted Desmond Meade, describing his life nine years ago. He was homeless, unemployed, recent ...

Solari

  • Break Away in 2014
  • The Touch
    “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” ~A Course in Miracles By Catherine Austin Fitts I tense up when I get the calls. I can usually hear it after the first few syllables. Sometimes, it takes one or two sentences. It is the Touch. So ...
  • Email From Author of Study on Roundup/Gluten I ...
    By Jon Rappoport A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing gluten intolerance and celiac disease. http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/study-monsantos-roundup-causes-gluten-intolerance/ I emailed one of the c ...
  • G20 Vows to Add $2 Tn to World Economy to Lift ...
    (Click image to view larger) By Martin Parry The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as a fragile recovery takes hold. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group o ...
  • Pentagon’s Chuck Hagel Plans to Downsize ...
    By BBC News Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two. Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming the active-duty Army to 440,000-450,000 personnel, down from 520,000 currently. Cold War-era Air Fo ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Circular Stoas Vilentum University Embraces En ...
    Stoas Vilentum University places a strong focus on sustainability, which is reflected in its form, materials and interior spaces. The school's cylindrical shape minimizes energy loss while allowing plenty of natural light to flow down through its core. The     
  • Incredible Spiraling Desert Breath Installatio ...
    From a birds eye view, the sprawling installation appears like a massive spiral spinning toward a large circular pool in the center. The spiral is made from two arcing pathways, one of circular pyramids made from sand and rising from the desert floor, and     
  • Oldest Fragment of Earth Ever Found is Confirm ...
    If you thought that diamonds were forever, they have absolutely nothing on the zircon of Jack Hills, Australia. Professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin, John Valley has confirmed that this bit of Earth's crust is the oldest fragment of the planet     
  • Green Planet Architects’ New Platform Connects ...
    With climate change and environmental destruction threatening our planet, building green has never been more important. Many architects and builders are generally interested in sustainability and dabble in "green", but it is rare and special to find an architect     
  • Orproject Unveils Giant Bubbles Filled With Fr ...
    Beijing's record-breaking air pollution has spurred officials and designers to come up with innovative solutions - and the architects at London-based Orproject recently proposed the creation of gigantic Bubbles filled with fresh air! The inflatable spaces     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Sun Burst Aftermath
    ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite shows the aftermath of 18 February’s ‘coronal mass ejection’. Acquired at 0445 GMT, a little more than three hours after the initial eruption, the image demonstrates the Sun’s magnetic field reconnecting in the form of loops. Look ...    &n ...
  • Space Rock Smacks Moon, Creating Biggest Lunar ...
    Pow! That would be the sound of a giant rock smacking into the moon (if the moon had any atmosphere to carry the sound, of course). But you can imagine the burst coming from the explosion in the video above, ...     
  • Chemicals Turn Fish Into Trippy, Transparent W ...
    Dead fish can be surprisingly beautiful. Hiding beneath their scales is an elegant, skeletal architecture, a complex biological scaffold that with some skill, can become art.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Northern Galaxy Duo
    NGC 2276 and NGC 2300 are "boundary" targets in that they are the northernmost objects in the New General Catalog of space stuff. Being this close to the north celestial pole (and Polaris) makes them challenging targets for equatorial telescopes.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Curiosity’s Trac ...
    This look back at a dune that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove across was taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 538th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 9, 2004). The rover had driven ...     

PakAlert

  • Russian General: ‘We Are At War’
    In an interview published Feb. 5 by km.ru, Gen. Leonid Ivashov, the former foreign relations head of the Russian Ministry of Defense and current president of the Academy of Geopolitical Studies, issued a sharp warning about the nature of the strategic crisis unfolding in Ukraine:
  • Sandy Hook; GAME OVER: NO Deaths NO Victims in ...
    The Sandy Hook shooting official narrative is now dead. We have seen in previous films how the Newtown school “shooting” was interconnected not only to the CIA, but also that Dawn Hochsprung – a supposed ‘victim’ of the event – is closely related to the family of a key propagandist. This propaga ...
  • Japan Developing Nuclear Weapons, Preparing Fo ...
    A new report has revealed that Japan may be gearing up for war with the ever aggressive China. Apparently, already having the technology, they are capable of making at least 2,000 nuclear warheads. The report comes from the Hong-Kong news organization, Asia Weekly, and outlines Japans secret ...
  • New World Order for Dummies
    Understanding your future with the New World Order Many things have been written by researchers, authors, activists and other individuals with regards to an oppressive global regime which is now unfolding in front of our eyes after being long in the making.
  • Wow! 15 Sinkholes Open Up In 24 Hours!
    In this newly released video from Dahboo77 we learn of sinkholes now opening up across the world, including 15 within 24 hours! You can see the list of sinkholes below video. Are all of these sinkhole being caused by normal Earth changes or is there something much more at play?

Andy Worthington

  • In Oxford, WikiLeaks Whistleblower Chelsea Man ...
    Chelsea Manning Given Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, Oxford, Feb. 19, 2014, a set on Flickr. Last Wednesday (February 19), I was delighted to travel from London to Oxford to attend the presentation of the Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea Manning ...
  • Ask Your MP to Vote Against the Tories’ ...
    It’s been some time since I wrote about this wretched government’s vile assault on the disabled, through the rigged assessments (the Work Capability Assessments) administered by the multinational company Atos Healthcare, and designed to find as many mentally and physically disabled p ...
  • A Love Letter from Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner, where it was published as “Younus Chekhouri’s Love Letter to His Wife from Guantánamo.” Please join us — just an email address is required to ...
  • Photos of the Shaker Aamer Protest in London o ...
    On February 14, 2014, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign held a protest outside MI6 headquarters on Albert Embankment in London. The photo to the left here is part of a set of photos I took on the day. See the full set on Flickr here. The protest was called to mark the 12th anniversary of […]
  • The Guantánamo Experiment: A Harrowing Letter ...
    155 men are still held at Guantánamo, and yet, despite the fact that most of these prisoners have been held for 12 years without charge or trial, many of them are completely unknown to the general public. A case in point is Emad Hassan, a Yemeni prisoner whose representation has recently been ta ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Remote, quantally channelled kinetic agitation
    There are several scientists acting like the proverbial sharp stick, constantly poking the balloons of alternative remedy quacks until they burst. They assess the latest nonsensical claims of so-called complementary medicine and then gives it a good poke with the sharp end. I do wonder if they e ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • Six Easy Ways to Help Your Crappy Memory
    When lost car keys, missed appointments, and forgotten passwords are every day occurrences, it gets frustrating. If your memory isn't as good as it used to be, as good as you'd like it to be, here are some of my favorite easy ways to compensate for a "less than perfect" memory.Read more. ...
  • Auto Finder Remembers Where You Parked, No Set ...
    Android: We've long-since acknowledged that one of the best ways to find your car is to mark its location on a map before you leave it. Auto Finder simplifies this process by noting where you parked without any input or setup on your part.Read more...     
  • HeadsUp Makes Cal the Perfect Calendar App for ...
    Android: Cal, the calendar app from the folks behind Any.DO, updated today with "HeadsUp," a feature designed to make your meetings more productive. Before, during, and after your meeting, the app prompts you with tools and shortcuts to help you prepare, get there, take notes or video, a ...
  • Google Music for Mac Is a Standalone Player wi ...
    OS X: Google Music is great, but if you don't want to keep a pinned tab open playing your favorite tunes, Google Music for Mac is a standalone player that looks great, is feature-packed but lightweight, supports your media keys, can play all of your playlists, and more. Best of all, it's free.Re ...
  • How I Learned to Stop Being So Jealous and Fin ...
    Jealousy and envy are two of the most common—yet negative and useless—emotions many of us have. For a long time, I let both of these destructive feelings overwhelm and poison me. Here's how I finally gained control over them.Read more...     

Water Wars

  • Q&A: Prepare for water wars with U.S., says am ...
    Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States.
  • Water wars with U.S. will become bigger issue ...
    WASHINGTON — Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States. In an interview […]
  • Letters to the Editor for February 24, 2014
    Upon picking up my newspaper Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 19, I couldn’t believe my eyes when looking at the front page.
  • Water wars with U.S. will become bigger issue ...
    Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States.
  • Letters to the Editor for February 21, 2014
    Nearly every day, The Union Democrat publishes articles about the severity of the drought, and discusses measures to take to help save water. The headline in today’s paper (Feb. 19) was, “Water measures likely expensive.”

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Futurismic

  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblowers Recover over $200 Million for T ...
    This week the Department of Justice issued a series of press releases announcing settlements in several cases under the False Claims Act. The settlement of these cases, originally brought under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, resulted in recoveries of over $200 ...
  • Washington Post Reports Federal Contractor Gag ...
    Washington Post Reports: Largest DOD contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan gags employees from reporting fraud. Employees who witness fraud threatened with termination if they told ANYONE outside of KBR of allegations. A February 20, 2014, report by The Washington Post revealed that Halliburton/KBR ...
  • SEC Backs Whistleblowers in Key Court Case
    Washington, D.C. Feburary 20, 2014. Today the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an extensive brief and position statement before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to fully protect whistleblowers who make internal disclosures exposing fraud against investors ...
  • Seattle Ordinance Expands Whistleblower Protection
    The Seattle City Council, in collaboration with the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission (SEEC), significantly expanded the City’s Whistleblower Protection Code. The changes went into effect on January 16, 2014. The revised code grants employees protection from retaliation for reporting alleg ...
  • False Claim Act Resource Updated
    The National Whistleblowers Center recently updated its False Claim Acts: Federal, State and Municipal Qui Tam Laws publication. This publication outlines all current U.S. laws that allow private citizens who witness fraud against a government entity to file suit “blowing the whistle&#8221 ...

TechDirt

  • Rep. Goodlatte Slips Secret Change Into Phone ...
    As you may recall, there's been a ridiculous (on many levels) fight concerning the legality of "unlocking" mobile phones. Let's go through the history first. Because of section 1201 of the DMCA, the "anti-circumvention" provision, companies have been abusing copyright law to block all sorts of a ...
  • Voltage Pictures Both Wins And Loses In Canadi ...
    You might remember how Voltage Pictures, creators of The Hurt Locker, was the first studio in the United States to really try to take a stab at copyright trolling, suing large numbers of purported P2P copyright violators en masse. Despite struggles with this approach the company has proven persi ...
  • Austin Begins To Show Us What Broadband Compet ...
    As we've stated more than a few times, so many of the problems that plague Internet and telecom markets could be remedied if we simply had healthy competition between broadband operators. Net neutrality, for example, would rarely be a problem in a market where broadband ISPs were seriously afrai ...
  • Another Area Where TPP Will Cause Problems: In ...
    Discussions about the flaws in TPP are severely limited thanks to the extreme secrecy under which it is being negotiated. Essentially, the only areas we can sensibly analyze are where we have leaked chapters. One of these is the text dealing with things like copyright and patents, which we wrote ...
  • DailyDirt: Publishing Digitally (For Free!)
    Publishing content digitally is a topic that comes up around here fairly regularly. If you're a longtime Techdirt reader, you'll know that we generally think digital publishing drives down the price of content to free (but that doesn't mean your work is worthless!) and giving away content is oft ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Congratulations! You Deserve a Drink or Something
    ‘Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.’ James Baldwin Yesterday, on my post about the food system, Todd commented that it is hard to find inspiration these days. To which I replied that maybe we need to give cre ...
  • Oh Hey. There Are People in the Food System.
    Monday night I listened to a presentation about the Our Harvest Union Co-op in Cincinnati. They are modelling themselves after Mondragon, but with a union twist. The goal is to put a little more justice in the food system and they are going to do it by growing and distributing food on a large sc ...
  • When Feminism Gets it Almost Right…But N ...
    Earlier this month twenty cities hosted an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Most Wikipedia contributors are men. The result being that entries on women are sparse. So these women are trying to fix that. Which is great. There are all kinds of theories about why women contribute less to Wikip ...
  • Bank of America is the Spawn of Satan
    My work, sadly, still has credit cards with Bank of America.  I have been on hold with them for the last 38 minutes and counting. You see Bank of America decided it was an awesome idea to fire a bunch of people  so that they could have “fourth quarter 2013 net income of $3.4 billion.&#8220 ...
  • A Little Help? Anarchist on Grand Jury Duty
    I’m on grand jury duty starting Monday and lasting five fucking weeks. This isn’t the first time I’ve been called for grand jury duty. The last time went like this. My fellow grand jury members and I were put in a room. A jovial prosecutor explained a wee bit about what was goi ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • DO NO EVIL GOOGLE – CENSOR & SNITCH FOR THE STATE
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDO NO EVIL GOOGLE – CENSOR & SNITCH FOR THE STATE By JimQwashingtonsblog.com The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic soc ...
  • Secret U.S. Government Watchlist Forces Compan ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSecret U.S. Government Watchlist Forces Company to Place Hold on Orders Australian David Jones told his order had been delayed due to name being flagged by database Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 25, 2014 A ...
  • Outraged environmental zealots push to muzzle ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comOutraged environmental zealots push to muzzle Charles Krauthammer Richard Berkow bizpacreview.com February 25, 2014 Outraged by conservative writer Charles Krauthammers latest column, die-hard climate change proponents are ...
  • Ted Nugent Compares Obamacare and the IRS to t ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTed Nugent Compares Obamacare and the IRS to the Nazis Jeff Dunetz Truth Revolt February 25, 2014 Appearing on Dennis Miller’s radio program Monday, Rock Star Ted Nugent compared Obama’s policies to Nazism, say ...
  • The Fateful Collision: Floods, Catastrophe And ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Fateful Collision: Floods, Catastrophe And Climate Denial dissidentvoice.orgBy Media Lens An epic struggle is currently taking place that will determine the fate, and perhaps the survival, of our species. It is a colli ...

Dandelion Salad

  • New Mexico Admits Nuclear Plant Leaking Radiat ...
    Dandelion Salad RT America on Feb 24, 2014 Federal officials confirmed a local nuclear plant in southern New Mexico is leaking waste and releasing radiation into the surrounding area. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad was leaking for days before state officials were notified. While hea ...
  • Rick Rozoff: Former Soviet Republics, Current ...
    by Rick Rozoff Writer, Dandelion Salad Stop NATO February 23, 2014 John Robles Voice of Russia February 23, 2014 Recorded on February 18, 2014 Part I It is unprecedented that simultaneously three countries that are allies of Russia are being threatened by color revolutions: Venezuela, the Bosnia ...
  • The Man From The North: The Sabotage of Divisi ...
    The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad February 23, 2014 The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today&#822 ...
  • Prof. Francis Boyle: The Brown (Shirt) Revolut ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Robles Voice of Russia February 22, 2014 It is a fact that since 9-11-2001, the US Government has been in the business of destroying countries and using NATO as it principle instrument. That was stated more than a decade ago by then US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wol ...
  • Ukraine: Another Piece in US-NATO-EU Neo-con P ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Robles Voice of Russia February 21, 2014 A monstrous crime is being committed in Ukraine right before the eyes of the world and the western media is helping to cover it up and distract the attention of the entire world from the core fact that the events in Ukraine are not ...

Your New Reality

  • Tony Blair Offered To Help Rupert Murdoch Deal ...
    Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch UPDATE: Wow, Tony Blair's London office has confirmed the below story about the former UK prime minister offering advice to James and Rupert Murdoch shortly after the expose of News of the World's hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and th ...
  • David Foster Wallace's 'Books You Should Read'
    "Victim" - David Foster Wallace annotated this copy of Stephen King's Carrie Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace is too often remembered, and praised, as a "high-brow" writer, which is a shame, because such praise turns a lot of would-be readers off, which means they don't get exposed to t ...
  • Everything I've Ever Needed To Know I've Learn ...
      Philip K Dick wasn't just one of the great American writers of the 20th century, and one of the world's most famous science fiction authors, he was quite the philosopher, and many of his novels, short stories and speeches contained valuable life lessons for wired-up generations of Centur ...
  • Dictators Love Censorship And Hate Free Speech ...
    When Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph was opposed to 'media censorship' By Darryl Mason Alleged "free speech" champions, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, has sent lawyers after the Paperboy website, that does an excellent job of rounding up daily front pages of newspaper from around the world. But ...
  • Pianotallica
      For someone returning to playing piano and keyboards 32 years after giving them up for writing, and as a 1980s Metallica fan, this performance of 'One' by Metallica and master pianist Lang Lang at the Grammy's is fucking mind-melting, and hugely inspiring. Heavy metal piano? Don't mind i ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Sun Burst Aftermath
    ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite shows the aftermath of 18 February’s ‘coronal mass ejection’. Acquired at 0445 GMT, a little more than three hours after the initial eruption, the image demonstrates the Sun’s magnetic field reconnecting in the form of loops. Look ...    &n ...
  • Space Rock Smacks Moon, Creating Biggest Lunar ...
    Pow! That would be the sound of a giant rock smacking into the moon (if the moon had any atmosphere to carry the sound, of course). But you can imagine the burst coming from the explosion in the video above, ...     
  • Chemicals Turn Fish Into Trippy, Transparent W ...
    Dead fish can be surprisingly beautiful. Hiding beneath their scales is an elegant, skeletal architecture, a complex biological scaffold that with some skill, can become art.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Northern Galaxy Duo
    NGC 2276 and NGC 2300 are "boundary" targets in that they are the northernmost objects in the New General Catalog of space stuff. Being this close to the north celestial pole (and Polaris) makes them challenging targets for equatorial telescopes.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Curiosity’s Trac ...
    This look back at a dune that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove across was taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 538th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 9, 2004). The rover had driven ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Determined ignorance: still impervious to facts
    Climate change is a hard policy question to address because it pits those who believe in evidence against those committed to knowing as little as possible. And unfortunately, the dumbasses control a great deal of political territory, a gigantic ice sheet of stupid that never recedes enough for ...
  • Money and elections in Washington: Pro wrestli ...
    kayfabe: Term in pro wrestling. Kayfabe was the unsaid rule that the wrestlers should stay in character during the show and in public appearances in order to maintain a feeling of reality (albeit suspended) among the fans. - Urban DictionaryNational politics never feels as much like kayfabe to ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • 20 States Considering GMO Measures
    Back in January, almost 10 states were weighing bills that sought to address GMO labeling and cultivation. How things have changed since then. Now it seems 20 states are considering measures, with two others — Colorado and New Hampshire—having already rejected legislation. Others will inevitably ...
  • UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Onl ...
    Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and trade systems in order to increase diversity on farms, reduce our use of fertilizer and other inputs, support small-scale farmers and create strong local food systems. That's the conclusion of a remarkable new publication from the U. ...
  • 'Sound Science' Deception
    Food is big business; everyone eats. Global food production is about profit. In the North, store shelves are always full. It's cheap, were told it's safe, healthy and suddenly it's sustainable, because sustainable sells.Click here to read this article
  • How to Easily Detect a Certified Organic Farm
    Today, I have a very special guest speaking with me over the phone. His name is Dr. Hubert Karreman, and he is the veterinarian at the Rodale Institute. The Rodale Institute was founded in 1947 by organic pioneer J.I. Rodale to study the link between healthy soil, healthy food and healthy people ...
  • What Sank the GMO Labeling Initiative in WA St ...
    Last November, a slim majority of Washington voters were persuaded that they did not need to know about the GMO ingredients in their food.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Navigate the Global Meat System with New Meat ...
    A new report released last month by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe fell under the radar for many of us here in the U.S. However, that shouldn’t keep you from checking out this comprehensive guide to the global meat system and its effects. Besides covering many of th ...
  • Religion, Making a Difference, and Food
    What if the distinctions of religion were visible in the ways religious institutions handle food – the way they grow it, the way they acquire it, the way they donate it, and the way they teach their constituents about food?
  • The Positive Change Created by New Supermarket ...
    I read the headline “It takes more than a produce aisle to refresh a food desert” with part amusement and part exhaustion. I knew there would be an onslaught of articles bemoaning the wasted resources being spent on financing food retail in underserved neighborhoods. Then I read the news story t ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Valentine’s Chocolate, Soc ...
    On this Valentine’s Day, I urge you to purchase fair-trade chocolate. The working conditions imposed by Big Chocolate on workers have been described as miserable, and there has been documentation that child labor fuels some of the industry.
  • Redefining Waste in Aquaponics
    While aquaponics takes inspiration from nature, as an ecosystem it is greatly oversimplified, and many of the natural checks and balances that mitigate things like solid accumulation simply do not exist.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Presentations against Fluoridation
    Compilation of some of the most compelling information against fluoridation : Government Reports, Scientist's Position Papers, Medical Journals, Government Agency Documents, National Organizations Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
  • The sceptics are right. Don't scapegoat them.
    Floods and gales in the UK are not evidence of climate change.The Green Party, Greenpeace and Ed Miliband demand we purge the climate sceptics. No insult is too strong IPCCs latest report Lack of evidence re trend in the magnitude or frequency of floods Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • Koch Brothers and FGCU
    Representative Ray Wesley Rodrigues is the budgeting manager of FGCUs Arts and Sciences department,meant to be devoted to environmental sustainability; receiving contributions from energy companies Exxon Mobile's H.B. 157 protects from antifrack lawsuits Submitted by John Farnham to Society &amp ...
  • Hug a Lion
    Zoologist Kevin Richardson (aka The Lion Whisperer) in Johannesburg in South Africa ; they act just like his children Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Use force to save starving Syrians
    Written by DANNY POSTEL and NADER HASHEMI affiliated with University of Denver- Middle East Studies...persons such as this serve the global military agenda behind the mask of education or intelligentsia Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!   ...

Farm Wars

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • What’s So Civil About War Anyway
    Published: 23 February 2014
  • A Simple Man scores a Major Win
    22 February 2014 (It has been a long day, and tomorrow comes early. I rush to write these words with a single pass and no edit. Please forgive me.) We begin: This is a difficult struggle to overthrow an enormously corrupt Thai government. The struggle is marked by a series of independent vi ...
  • Letter from Thais to Dutch Government
    Published: 10 Feburary 2014 This letter rendered in three languages: English, Thai, Dutch. Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie Laan Copes van Cattenburch 54 Utrecht, 30 January 2014 Dear Partyleader, Members of VVD and Friends of Thailand, We write this letter to explain why millions ...
  • Burma Army Continues Attacks in Nam Lim Pa Are ...
    9 February 2014 Kachin State, Burma The Burma Army continues attacks in Nam Lim Pa area in their attempt to drive out the Kachin people and control this part of Kachin State. Burma Army RPG Team in Kong Run, Kachin State, on 2 February 2014. The Burma Army continues its attacks with Burma Arm ...
  • Assessment of the Current Situation in Burma
    30 January 2014 Burma is in the midst of change and we want to report to you what is happening, both good and bad. We are grateful for those who have brought greater freedoms to Burma. We also want to stand with those who have not yet experienced those freedoms and are still under attack. Thank ...

The Killing Train

  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 5, Eva Bartlett ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. In this episode, I talk to Eva Bartlett, who has spent a good portion of the past few years in Gaza. She talks about the tunnels, agriculture, fishery, all of the impacts of Israel's comprehensive siege against the ...
  • Egypt's dictatorship for the digital age
    Egypt was ruled by the Mubarak dictatorship for 30 years before the people managed to overthrow him in 2011. Mubarak was not overthrown by the internet. Some business and technological literature claimed that, because the internet made it more difficult to keep secrets (a valid claim), the “dic ...
  • Three kinds of science - the Jan/Feb 2014 Bria ...
    My latest article is Jan/Feb 2014 cover story in Briarpatch Magazine. In it I analyze science and politics, talking about three different things that are called science: Science A (authority), Science B (business), and Science C (curiosity). Hope you enjoy. Link: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/ar ...
  • podur.org in 2013
    Since it's the last day of 2013, I thought I would look over what I did this year. I spent half the year in India, so I have a fair bit of India content here. I also started the Ossington Circle this year, which has been fun. I am not including short blogs in this list, just longer articles and ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 4, Paul Moloney ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This episode has Paul Moloney, the author of the book The Therapy Industry: the irresistible rise of the talking cure and why it doesn't work (Pluto Press 2013). In the book, Paul questions the idea that many of our ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Hundreds join protest against big oil and gas ...
    Residents in Kanbauk, Tenasserim Division stage a protest against several oil and gas companies for allegedly destroying roads and causing health problems in villagers
  • Sizing up the energy giants
    DVB speaks to Assoc Prof Nigel Finch of the University of Sydney on transparency in foreign investment in Burma and the relationship between the extractive industry and the Burmese people.
  • ASEAN Rice Federation in the works
    Five member states of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Burma, have agreed to establish a regional Rice Federation, according to Soe Tun, joint-secretary of Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF).
  • President’s Office douses notion of Women’s Mi ...
    A short exchange took place across the floor of the Lower House on Monday when a female MP enquired if there were any plans to establish a Ministry for Women's Affairs.
  • Rohingya crisis: Burma govt implicated in ‘Cri ...
    A report by NGO Fortify Rights implicates authorities in Crimes against Humanity by virtue of explicit targeting of Rohingya Muslims in policies restricting marriage, childbirth rights and movement.

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Arkansas Medicaid Outrage
    While not the optimal means of Medicaid expansion, the compromise accepted by Arkansas was a major advance for health care access. This means that Republicans in the state are refusing to go ahead with it. Which makes sense, since they’re opposed in principle to providing decent health car ...
  • Wild Kingdom
    If you are like me, you watched a lot of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as a child. Why I thought of this tonight for the first time in years, who knows.     
  • Harold Ramis, RIP
    Harold Ramis has passed. My favorite scene from his greatest film. Incidentally, I visited Punxsutawney in August. It is not a nice place.     
  • John Roberts, Shelby County, and stare circulu ...
    I understand that Amel Ahmed is ultimately on the right side of the voting rights issue, but there is no context in which the phrase “John Roberts was right” should appear in a discussion of Shelby County, unless the question is whether his clerks spelled his name right. To make one ...
  • To Noam Chomsky and Everyone Else: Richard Nix ...
    Oh Noam: Three Democrats have held the position of commander-in-chief since the Richard Nixon era, but if you ask philosopher Noam Chomsky, it was the 37th president and infamous Watergate casualty who was truly the last liberal to preside in the Oval Office. During a discussion on HuffPost Live ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

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

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Maps Show Extent of Oil and Gas Drilling in So ...
    Oil and gas wells, including those involved in hydraulic fracturing operations, scar a major portion of southwest Wyoming, according to a recent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey. Nearly 17,000 well pads and former Click to Enlarge Well scar locations drilling areas associated ...
  • Is Weird Winter Weather Related to Climate Change?
    Scientists are trying to understand if the unusual weather in the Northern Hemisphere this winter — from record heat in Alaska to unprecedented flooding in Britain — is linked to climate change. One thing seems clear: Shifts in the jet stream play a key role and could become even more disruptive ...
  • Rewritable Paper and Water Ink Could Cut Paper ...
    A new type of rewritable paper that uses water as ink could slash the amount of paper that's wasted daily, researchers say. The paper contains hydrochromic dyes — chemicals that change color when wet — and a single Click to Enlarge Printed document page can be reused dozens of times, ...
  • Global Forest Watch Tool Allows 'Near-Real Tim ...
    A new online tool called Global Forest Watch employs a trove of high-resolution NASA satellite imagery and large amounts of computing power to help governments, conservation organizations, and concerned citizens monitor deforestation in "near-real Click to Enlarge Forest loss in Sumatra ...
  • Life on Mekong Faces Threats As Major Dams Beg ...
    With a massive dam under construction in Laos and other dams on the way, the Mekong River is facing a wave of hydroelectric projects that could profoundly alter the river’s ecology and disrupt the food supplies of millions of people in Southeast Asia. BY JOSHUA ZAFFOS

Red Ice Creations

  • Hummingbird Pyramid Discovered Among 17 Ancien ...
    "A monumental discovery was recently made south of La Maná, Ecuador on November 17, 2013 while exploring low mountains along the Calope River. The megalithic ruins of an ancient temple have been partially exposed by the dynamite blasts of roadworkers and the erosive action of water, uncovering l ...
  • Climate Change and HAARP – A Working Relationship?
    Al Gore brings climate change message to Kansas City ... Former vice president Al Gore spoke about climate change Saturday during the Folk Alliance International conference at the Westin Crown Center hotel. But the former vice president, speaking Saturday in Kansas City, cited many more recent e ...
  • Google will 'know you better than your intimat ...
    In 15 years’ time, computers will surpass their creators in intelligence, with an ability to tell stories and crack jokes, predicts a leading expert in artificial intelligence. Thus, Google will “know the answer to your question before you ask it.” Most people would probably agree that computers ...
  • Time travellers: please don't kill Hitler
    In almost any science-fiction scenario involving time-travel, the default action is to kill Hitler. As terrible a human being as he was, there are many reasons why this probably isn’t a good idea If you find yourself suddenly gaining access to a time machine, what’s the first thing you’d do? If ...
  • Pat Tillman 2.0: Tale of Sgt. Peralta's 'Iraq ...
    21st Century Wire says… He was the Hispanic-American face of the Iraq War. His death was tragedy for his colleagues, friends and family. US Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta was killed during the Battle of Fallujah in 2004, from a bullet to the head. This is a fact, but what was added on top of this st ...

Not My Tribe

  • Occupy Denver: not as badass as they wanna be
    DENVER, COLORADO- Occupy activists were making their usual cacophony on Friday night when Denver police cruisers began converging into a familiar disproportionate show of force. Experienced skirmishers though Occupiers are, we couldn’t help whispering to each other as we watched more DPD o ...
  • Disparagement of Sochi Olympics launches cultu ...
    What a sad, embarrasing scene. What ungrateful guests Americans appear. Russia throws a magnificent party in Sochi, the penultimate of accasions almost still outside the bounds of what the international corporate media can control, and western journalists do everything they can to poop the party ...
  • Can we hope the Ukraine government snipers hit ...
    Protesters killed in Kiev, and too many revolutionaries are buying into the Western Media narrative. Even Democracy Now is parroting the theme, describing the demonstrations as opposing their government’s rejecting closer ties to the European Union. No, Ukraine was rejecting growing indebt ...
  • US Global War Of Terror opens the ball to dest ...
    To “open the ball” is a dance expression the US cavalry borrowed to describe the initiation of a military engagement. Against Native American prey this usually meant to wake the village by firing into the teepees. The US has long been covertly trying to destabilize Venezuela, but rec ...
  • Hey! The White Wealth Olymics are on!
    Commentators fawning over the winter sports dynasties, some of them actual petty-royal lineages, from Euro feifdoms and colonial sultanships, families of jetset ski bums: “It’s in the genes!”

Debunking the Debunkers

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Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 'Dalai Lama of the Rainforest' makes unique vi ...
    Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa will visit California in April 2014 to talk about his connection with the spirit world and the urgent need to safeguard the world's rainforests. © SurvivalAn Amazonian shaman and spokesman for Brazil’s Yanomami tribe will make a rare visit to California ( ...
  • India: Journalist harassed after exposing trib ...
    Jarawa women are being lured with alcohol and drugs and sexually exploited by poachers on their land. © SurvivalThe journalist and activist Denis Giles is facing harassment by police on India’s Andaman Islands after he released rare first-hand testimony of the Jarawa tribe reporting the sexual e ...
  • Ogiek are violently evicted from ancestral hom ...
    An Ogiek home that was destroyed by government officials.© Judy Kipkenda/OPDPSurvival has received disturbing reports that government officials have destroyed homes of the Ogiek, one of Africa’s last hunter-gather tribes, in their ancestral land in the Mau Forest. Politicians and their influent ...
  • Operation targets illegal gold-miners in Yanom ...
    Yanomami shaman and spokesman, Davi Kopenawa. Illegal mining is putting the Yanomami's lives at risk.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian authorities have launched an operation to combat illegal gold-mining on the land of the Yanomami tribe. ‘Operation Korekore’ is set to last ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Truthout Interviews Greg Palast on the Koch Br ...
    By Ted Asregadoo, Truthout | Video Interview Since the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that money essentially equals speech in Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission in 2010, and later in the US Court of Appeals Speechnow.org v. the Federal Election Commission decision, ...
  • Rest in peace, Aaron Swartz
    By Greg Palast But that's impossible, isn't it? Like the restless Jewish prophets before you, you are an outcast in your own land. And like the prophets before you, you are trouble, Aaron, a lot of trouble. Thank you for troubling us, Aaron. You are trouble, but very good trouble. Socrates' suic ...
  • Hedge Fund Hog Makes Mommy's Monkey Jump
    by Greg Palast update of story from Truthout On Thursday, a federal jury found Mathew Martoma guilty of insider trading. Martoma, who's only worth a hundred million or so, is small potatoes. He's taking a fall for his boss–and his boss' mommy–and her monkey. Martoma's boss is Steven A. Cohen, wo ...
  • Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following th ...
  • You know I rarely ask you...
    ....for donations to our foundation, so you can take my word for it when I say, we need it. The Theft of the 2016 race is under way –– and the vote rustlers expect to grab Congress in 2014 as an appetizer.  Plus, the billionaire boys club is sucking our financial blood as if the world [...]

Ian Welsh

  • Scenarios for Ukraine’s Future
    With the new Ukrainian government taking charge, the Crimea warning that it may leave the Ukraine and that it does not recognize the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government, and the new government asking the West and the IMF for aid in paying 17 billion dollars of debts it’s worth consi ...
  • A Few Words on the Ukraine
    As you’ve probably heard, the protestors have taken control of Kiev, the police have been defeated (literally), parliament has impeached President Yanukovych.  This followed the seize of arms depots and weapons, by the way, this was not won peacefully.  The former President, Tymoshenko, ha ...
  • Rational People Sell Out: WhatsApp Edition
    A while back I wrote something which made a number of people angry: Any new social structure must throw off surplus that people can live on, and that surplus must not be able to be bought up by the old system, which will seek to do so.  The ban against selling out/being bought out must [...]
  • Social Identity Markers are NOT a proxy for le ...
    I live in the Canadian province of Ontario.  A while back our disastrous Liberal party premier retired, and was replaced by the party, who chose a lesbian named Wynne. Wynne wants to cut corporate taxes and lower taxes on the rich. As with Obama, the fact that someone is part of an oppressed gro ...
  • I’ve never understood why people care what the ...
    On raising the minimum wage: President Obama’s plan to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would wipe out about 500,000 jobs by late 2016, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office… …The CBO cautioned that its estimates of job losses were subject to wide fluctuat ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

new geography

  • Oregon's Sad Focus on 'Happiness'
    Oregon is a beautiful place, and, for many of the state's well-heeled residents, including many refugees from equally beautiful but overpriced California, economic growth not only is unimportant but is even a negative. Rather than create opportunity, the real issue, according to Gov. John Kitzha ...
  • The Sea of Japan: Wading Into the Name-Game W ...
    Call it 'Nomenclature Nationalism', or 'The Tyranny of Also Known As'. The Virginia state legislature ventured into unfamiliar foreign policy waters earlier this month when it passed a law that requires school text book publishers to add six little words in reference to the body of water usuall ...
  • Where New Yorkers are Moving
    The American Community Survey has released domestic migration data that was collected over a five year period (2007 to 2011).  There is newer domestic migration data available, such as is annually provided by the Census Bureau's population estimates program, but not in the detail that the lat ...
  • Post-Nagin, New Orleans Is On Way To Becoming ...
    Last week’s conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on 20 charges of bribery and fraud marks the end of a tumultuous era in the city’s history, and perhaps also the beginning of a new era in American urban politics. Perhaps most remarkable was the almost total lack of protes ...
  • Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for ...
    This is the executive summary from a new report Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region, authored by Joel Kotkin for Greater New Orleans, Inc. Download the full report from GNO, Inc. here: gnoinc.org/sustainingprosperity The recovery of greater New Orleans represent ...

water.org

  • Perfect Timing
    With water nearby and time back on their side, this couple could work to earn money for their family. A story about the impact of Water.org's WaterCredit program.
  • Resources for WASH Financial Products
    In an effort to expand our impact in solving the global water crisis, Water.org and MicroSave are jointly developing a series of toolkits to provide information and tools for financial institutions to develop microfinance products for water and sanitation investments.
  • Safe Water At Last
    "We are thankful, now we can go to work easily and do not have to take time off from working for collecting water."
  • Water Gets Kids to School On Time
    Her children were late for school because they were busy getting water to survive. This became a problem.
  • Water Ends a Frustrating Cycle
    As with many families in communities where access to water is limited, Madduramma and her children faced a frustrating cycle of challenges that could only be resolved by having better access to water.

Cryptogon

  • Electronics Retailer Checks Customers’ N ...
    Via: EEV Blog: If your name happens to be fairly common like mine, then you may end up having your orders flagged and put on hold by Element 14, at least here in Australia. Because, well, their system sucks arse, and it seems like they are licking the arse of the United States government to [&#8 ...
  • Hopefully, MtGox Is Finally Dead
    MtGox has needed to die for years. I sincerely hope they they are down for the count this time. That thing was the bitcoin exchange from hell. Via: cNet: Embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has largely vanished from the Internet amid accusations that the exchange is insolvent after a years-long t ...
  • Comcast’s Deal with Netflix Makes Networ ...
    Via: Washington Post: For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse into monopoly—think of AT&T’s 70-year hold over telephone service, for example—that’s a minor miracle. But re ...
  • Use of Prescription Drugs in Kentucky and West ...
    I was reading this piece about the most miserable states in the U.S. when I came across this sentence in the section on Kentucky: The state’s population was the nation’s most reliant on prescription drugs, with 19.3 prescriptions filled per capita in 2011, tied with West Virginia. Wo ...
  • Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Affects Kids in ...
    Via: USA Today: A mysterious polio-like syndrome has affected as many as 25 California children, leaving them with paralyzed limbs and little hope of recovery. … While there haven’t been reports of the illness outside California, Van Haren thinks that’s only because no one is l ...

The Economic Collapse

  • What Is Happening In Ukraine Is Far More Impor ...
    What the people of Ukraine are being put through is absolutely horrible.  They are caught in the middle of a massive tug of war between the East and the West, and they are paying a great price for it.  Ultimately, Ukraine will end up either being dominated by Russia (a bad outcome) or by the [...]
  • 10 Stories From The Cold, Hard Streets Of Amer ...
    If the economy is really "getting better", then why have millions upon millions of formerly middle class Americans been pushed to the point of utter despair?  The stories that you are about to read are absolutely heartbreaking.  I don't know how anyone can read them without getting chills.  In A ...
  • China Starts To Make A Power Move Against The ...
    In order for our current level of debt-fueled prosperity to continue, the rest of the world must continue to use our dollars to trade with one another and must continue to buy our debt at ridiculously low interest rates.  Of course the number one foreign nation that we depend on to participate i ...
  • 29 Percent Of All U.S. Adults Under The Age Of ...
    Why are so many young adults in America living with their parents?  According to a stunning Gallup survey that was recently released, nearly three out of every ten adults in the United States under the age of 35 are still living at home with Mom and Dad.  This closely lines up with a Pew Researc ...
  • Does The Trail Of Dead Bankers Lead Somewhere?
    What are we to make of this sudden rash of banker suicides?  Does this trail of dead bankers lead somewhere?  Or could it be just a coincidence that so many bankers have died in such close proximity?  I will be perfectly honest and admit that I do not know what is going on.  But there [...]

Desertification

  • The use of “gabions” or simple roc ...
    Read at : http://www.treehugger.com/resilience/how-reverse-desertification-rocks.html How to reverse desertification. With rocks. by Sami Grover From a fanciful Sahara forest concept to the planting of trees to stop the encroachment of desert, we’ve seen plenty of ideas for turning arid, h ...
  • Robot to gather much-needed data about deserti ...
    Read at : http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026295/this-tumbleweed-robot-blows-around-to-help-fight-desertification This Tumbleweed Robot Blows Around To Help Fight Desertification It’s not easy for researchers to collect data about the world’s vast and rapidly expanding barren, desert lan ...
  • Developing the foundation for the new Science- ...
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/programmes/Science/Pages/CST-Bureau-February-2014.aspx Strengthening the Dialogue between Scientists and DLDD Policymakers: Moving forward in operationalizing the Science-Policy Interface Policymakers struggle to create regulations and support policies that put ...
  • Green Great Wall of China (UNCCD)
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/media-center/MediaNews/Pages/highlightdetail.aspx?HighlightID=273 The Heroes behind the Green Great Wall of China The “Three North Shelterbelt Project” in China is the world’s largest afforestation project. It has restored over 26.47 million hectares ...
  • World Land Degradation and Desertification : A ...
    MESSAGE FROM DESERTNET INTERNATIONAL Dear colleagues, We are organizing a scientific session within the EGU 2014 General Assembly that explores Desertification and Land Degradation as the interaction of the human and biophysical worlds. The session will be held in Vienna … Continue reading ...

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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Recent Letter To a Mormon Bishop
    This letter just breaks my heart. First, of course, is the need to be “anonymous”.  God knows who you are – so why worry about what false teachers in a false church think of you? Secondly – why is this “anonymous” person not focusing on WHY LD$ Inc. refuses to ...
  • Why Our Federal Government is so Dysfunctional ...
    People wonder why I am so concerned about “Mormonism” and why I continually expose it on my blog.  I do so because I, as a former Mormon “insider”, know first-hand the deep level of involvement the Mormon leaders have with the International Zionist Crime Syndicate (ICZS) ...
  • Cell Phone “Kill Switches” – ...
    Jim Catlin is a close friend and Brother in Christ.  He left Hewlett Packard and entered the Christian Ministry in order to save souls instead of engineering electronics.  His intellect,  and unique insight into the Holy Scriptures is unequaled. I would advise all readers of this blog to pay clo ...
  • More Mormo Idiotic Follies
    On this day, exactly 160 years ago, February 19, 1854 – the Mormon “Prophet” Brigham (aka Bring-em) Young gave this incredibly wacky false-doctrine-laden sermon from the pulpit in Salt Lake City: Young declared: “Who did beget [the Savior]? His Father, and his father is o ...
  • A “Sinner in a Sailor’s Suit&#8221 ...
    This video is nearly a year old, but is still timeless.  What U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral William Lee is referring to in his impassioned speech at last year’s National Prayer Breakfast, is the concerted efforts of certain Edomite-ANTI-CHRISTIANS such as attorney Mikey Weinstein to actual ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Australia's Lip Service at the G20 Summit; Our ...
    The G20 summit has once again come and gone and, although the need for “tangible actions” was a great headline, when I actually read through the final official communique from the event, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.read more
  • 10 Questions on Natural Gas You Need Answered
    Being involved in the energy industry, I receive loads of questions regarding natural gas. It’s a hot commodity right now so I understand that people want answers. In this post you will find ten questions that have been boggling some minds lately.read more
  • Melting Arctic Sea Ice Causing More Warming Th ...
    Scientists have long modeled the expected warming due to the decreased albedo effect as melting Arctic sea ice exposes more open ocean. As early as the 1960′s climate researchers have predicted how this phenomenon will amplify global warming.read more
  • To Be, or Not to Be: Carbon Markets Post 2020?
    The US Submission on Elements of the 2015 Agreement has recently appeared on the UNFCCC website and outlines, in some detail, the approach the US is now seeking with regards “contributions”. Adaptation and Finance are also covered, although not to the depth of the section on Mitigation.read more
  • Rebranding Electric Drive
    Elon Musk may have duplicated Steve Jobs’ feat of making a tech item fashionable. But more likely he simply rediscovered why people buy a car: an emotional attachment. Selling EV’s and PHEV’s may be less about selling environmental benefits than about selling a sexy, exciting new technology.read ...

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • An Open Letter to Barack Obama
    by Stephen Lendman Congratulations, Mr. President. You're the latest in a long line of lawless leaders. You achieved rogue status without really trying. Contempt for rule of law principles, duplicity and moral cowardice define your administration. Pretense otherwise doesn't wash. Instead of ...
  • Israel Targets Palestinian Children
    by Stephen Lendman Imagine waging war on kids. Imagine doing it no-holds-bared. A joint Four Corners/The Australian broadsheet investigation discusses ruthless Israeli treatment. Palestinian boys are targeted. Beatings, arrests, detentions and torture follow. More on it below. In Novembe ...
  • Ukraine: Coup Plotters Consolidate Power
    Events continue fast moving. The Wall Street Journal headlined "White House Backs Political Change in Ukraine," saying: "The Obama administration Saturday issued a cautiously worded statement about the swift political change in Ukraine, but generally endorsed the parliament's moves to set new ...
  • Right-Wing Politicians Usurp Power in Ukraine
    by Stephen Lendman Fascists infest Ukraine's parliament. They gained majority control. They did so after dozens of pro-government legislators bolted the ruling Party of Regions. They violated Friday's agreed on terms. They did so in league with Washington. They impeached President Viktor ...
  • Op-Ed: Barack Obama's war against democracy
    By Ruth HullFrom Iran to Vietnam to Chile to Libya to Venezuela, the world is tired of America's opposition to democracy. The people with the world's best elections, according to Jimmy Carter, are fighting back against another American-sponsored attack on democracy.Former U.S. President and Nobe ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • MD Cops Assault Man For Videotaping, 'You Don' ...
    In this newly posted video, police in Towson, Maryland are seen threatening a man for videotaping, assaulting him physically, threatening him with arrest, demanding he leave, then demand he show them "respect." The man protests, "I though I...
  • Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphon ...
    Recording a police officer in public isn't a crime. Well, it isn't anything a cop can cite or arrest you for doing. Instead, a bunch of vague infractions are listed in hopes that something will stick and deter future citizen recordings. Shawn Rand...
  • Tennessee Supreme Court Says Cops Can Ignore S ...
    The Tennessee Supreme Court decided on Thursday that the only use for roadside sobriety tests is to collect evidence against motorists, using them to convict individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). The high court justices overtu...
  • Giving Birth in Chains
    *The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a measure that would forbid prison staff to handcuff pregnant inmates during childbirth. The bill has taken roughly a decade to work its way through the system. If it passes, Massachusetts will become the...
  • WhatsApp With That?
    Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook's blockbuster $19 billion acquisition of insta...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Gasbags over Sacramento. CA politicians talk a ...
    California legislators have had multiple opportunities to create genuine plans for water to help all residents and plan for the future. Instead they have indulged in tedious political infighting. Worse, Sacramento legislators have twice attempted to foist water bonds on the public that were so p ...
  • Banksters lining up to keep Ukraine supine wit ...
    Bankster thugs and their pals in Ukraine government have vacuumed that country’s Treasury empty. EU and Russia now pledge to bail out the country. How cozy is that? Heck, it might even be the same money and the same people. Banksters working with corrupt governments loot a country then bai ...
  • Apple security failure. Update your iOS device now
    The Apple security flaw is gaping, serious, should have been found, and gives one seriously to wonder if it was accidentally on purpose created for NSA. Apple of course doesn’t do apologies. Thus we can probably expect a snarling non-apology apology like Jobs did with the iPhone 4 antenna ...
  • Freefile. IRS offers free, online filing for f ...
    Freefile, from the IRS and private tax software companies provides a free, easy way for most taxpayers to file online. Those who make less than $58,000 adjusted gross income can choose several ways to file federal income tax using software from private vendors for free. Those making more than $5 ...
  • What reduced water allocation means to Central ...
    The feds are supposed, by contract, to limit water cuts to a Central Valley water settlement contractor to 75% of the full amount. Instead they may get 40%, which means 60% of cropland will go fallow. And they are among the lucky ones. Some Central Valley agriculture will get zero water from sta ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Loretta's Disappearance Part of a Horrific Pattern
    Missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - On February 13, The Native Women’s Association of Canada ...
  • NGOs undermined Haitian democracy
    This is the third in a series leading up to the 10th anniversary of the February 29 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government in Haiti. On February 29, 2004 the US, France and Canada overthrew Haiti's elected government. As my first two articles in this series outlined, Ott ...
  • Mexique, 5E: Fin de l'arraigo, le montage d'un ...
    repris de fuegoalascarceles traduit de l’espagnol par sabotagemedia Hier, le 17 Février, marquait la fin des 40 jours de l’arraigo* décrété par le Procureur Général de la République contre nos compagnon.ne.s Carlos López, Amélie Pelletier et Fallon Poisson. Pendant ces quarante jours ...
  • In Canada every system of oppression is organi ...
    An Interview with Harsha Walia K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) -  Harsha Walia is an activist, writer and founder of the Vancouver chapter of No One is Illegal. She has organized in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, Palestinian liberati ...
  • Why we need Warrior Societies PART 1 - 'Austra ...
    Wâbak Collective in collaboration with Brisbane Blacks presents a preview of: Why we need Warrior Societies PART 1 - 'Australia' Pour plus d'informations conc ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Don't cheapen the Holocaust by making it shopworn
    Humanity has seen many genocides since our ancestors killed off all the Neanderthals...  The Holocaust is different. How is this genocide different from all other genocides? There is a qualitative difference between ordinary enraged insanity and the carefully planned and managed destructio ...
  • Nuland and Pyett's tape
    David Seaton's News Links  “Clear communication expresses clear thinking, while muddled communication reflects muddled thinking” Writing Success Program at UCLA (The English Language) becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language mak ...
  • Inequality: a tale of two pyramids
    David Seaton's News Links This pyramid appeared in the Washington Post. Looking at it I was reminded of another pyramid in a classic poster from the 19th century, which could be a "poetic" rendering of the graph from the Post. The signs are all around us, if you want to take a peek at the ne ...
  • Explaining the virulence on the right... Socia ...
    David Seaton's News Links Naquasia LeGrand... the right stuffNaquasia LeGrand, the lady that tops this page, works at minimum wage shoveling fried chicken, for KFC. She is leading a fight to organize fast-food workers and raise America's minimum wage to $15. She is facing some of America's ...
  • 2014... and welcome to it
    David Seaton's News LinksPrediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi BerraAs luminaries such as Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra have pointed out, trying to predict the future is a mug's game... And at year's end political co ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • About Those New DOJ Guideline on Reporters' Re ...
    On Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a new set of guidelines designed to make it harder for law enforcement officials to seize the records of journalists: Among other things, the rules create a presumption that prosecutors generally will provide advance notice to the news media ...
  • Vladimir Putin May Be Tough, But He's Also Des ...
    Steve Benen catches Bill Kristol saying this about Ukraine: So, look; it's nice for President Obama to say it's not "a Cold War chessboard." I don't know why he says that with some disdain. That was not an ignoble thing for us to play on that chessboard for 45 years. We ended up winning ...
  • Am I the Only Person in the World Who Thinks W ...
    The AP reports that Microsoft is prepping a Windows update: "Just one year after the Windows 8 launch, Microsoft issued a free update to address some of the gripes. The system now lets people run more than two apps side by side, for instance, and its Internet Explorer browser lets people open ...
  • If the Supreme Court Strikes Down Campaign Con ...
    The Supreme Court will soon hand down its ruling in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a case that could finish up what Citizens United started by striking down virtually all individual limits on campaign contributions to candidates and parties. Rick Hasen suggests there might be a sil ...
  • Here's How to Think About the Netflix-Comcast Deal
    Over the weekend, Netflix decided to cave in to demands from Comcast that it pay an additional fee to guarantee fast service for its streaming video service. Since then, I've been scratching my head trying to figure out if this really matters. You can read Tim Lee here for a technical explanat ...

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Mysterious polio-like illness found in 5 Calif ...
    Researchers have identified a polio-like syndrome in a cluster of children from California over a one-year period, according to a case report released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. read more
  • Oldest bit of crust firms up idea of a cool ea ...
    With the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming into sharper focus. read more
  • Study in fruitflies strengthens connection amo ...
    Pulling an "all-nighter" before a big test is practically a rite of passage in college. Usually, it's no problem: You stay up all night, take the test, and then crash, rapidly catching up on lost sleep. But as we age, sleep patterns change, and our ability to recoup lost sleep diminishes. read more
  • Seed-filled buoys may help restore diverse sea ...
    A pearl net filled with seedpods, tethered by a rope anchored in the coastal mud but swaying with the tide, could be an especially effective way to restore disappearing marine meadows of eelgrass, according to a new study. read more
  • NASA's IRIS spots its largest solar flare
    On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, but scientists don't yet know the fine details of what sets them off. rea ...

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Brave New Climate

  • There’s lies, damned lies, statistics an ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. It’s February and the September quarter 2013 National Greenhouse ...
  • Book Review: “Energy in Australia &#8211 ...
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan Let’s get one thing out ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • “Energy in Australia” book
    Graham Palmer, a regular BNC community member, has published a new book. It is titled “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” and is published by Springer (in their “Springer Briefs in Energy” series). It’s a slim, taughtly wri ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Christie Says “The Most Important Issue ...
    No Mr. Christie. That is not the most important thing. Even if you didn’t know “about” the plan, your staff made life horrible for thousands of Fort Lee residents on your behalf. Even if you said “destroy Fort Lee and that Democrat mayor who is getting too big for his bri ...
  • Christie Using Sargent Schultz Defense
    I know nothing…. Sure buddy. Just remember governor, road rage kills. So the next time you are sitting in gridlock, ask yourself if it is political.
  • The Titanic Took Longer To Sink
    Read it in a post on Raw Story. The Titanic took longer to sink.
  • Which Part Of The Bible Will Duck Dude Be Droo ...
    I just watched a piece on the Lawrence O’Donnell show about the parts of the bible that the “Jesus People” like Phil Robertson ignore, so they can babble on about the parts they like. From what I understand, the bible says adulterers, gays, and children who disrespect their eld ...
  • First Amendment – Free Speech – Ab ...
    If some television network has a “reality” show, then I can’t see where they should have a problem with any of the stars saying what they “really” think. Even is it is somewhat offensive. What takes me back is the fact that someone that pretends to be a christian ha ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Wind, water, bread: A West Bank village’ ...
    The feeling one gets after visiting Umm Al Khir is one of shock: do you insist on stealing even this little bit? By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz At the beginning of January, in the company of Yesh Din’s field researcher Muhaned Anati and field operations coordinator Yudit Avidor, I v ...
  • WATCH: Separation wall engulfs village of Al-W ...
    Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israel is building the separation wall on land confiscated from residents and village of Al Walaja. The village’s farmers are not willing to give up on the little land they have left but the state is planning to build a national park on the site. Social TV joins ...
  • How EU money enables the occupation, allows Is ...
    Has the seemingly permanent nature of Israeli control over the Palestinians rendered the legal term ‘occupation’ invalid? Last week I attended a one-day symposium in the Netherlands on the EU’s role in Israel/Palestine, hosted by ‘A Different Jewish Voice,’ a local ...
  • Israel’s class of military politicians a ...
    Israel’s doves may have a Palestinian partner, but they lack a locomotive to pull the peace train to its destination. Read part one: What does the future hold for Israel’s military politicians? By Thomas G. Mitchell From the 1960s until the outbreak of the al-Aqsa Intifada in late 2000, which le ...
  • Palestinian incitement: Genuine problem or rig ...
    It’s not uncommon to hear Israeli leaders accuse the Palestinian Authority and its media outlets of inciting to violence against Israelis and Jews. But is it actually true? A closer examination of the evidence reveals that the habitual blaming of the Palestinian Authority is not only mostl ...

CenterLine

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

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • US Supreme Court: You Can’t Sue Big Phar ...
    In a 5 to 4 vote, the US Supreme Court has absolved pharmaceutical companies, and over 80 percent of all drugs prescribed in the US, of legal liability for a long list of ill deeds including fraud, mislabeling, side effects and accidental death. This decision happened as a response to a lower co ...
  • PressTV – Israel real threat to world pe ...
    A political analyst says Israel poses a “real threat” to world peace, adding the international community must deal with the menace before the outbreak of a third world war, Press TV reports. In an interview with Press TV on Sunday, James Morris, a US-based commentator, said that Tel Aviv threate ...
  • Visible Origami | Demodex Mites and the Power ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. ♫Good morning! Good morning! Good morning! ♫ And… what a fine early Spring morning it is. Light is streaming through the window and one day it will be streaming through me and you. That’s something to think about. It’s a ...
  • Corrupt ‘Kids for Cash’ judge ruined more than ...
    By Larry Getlen Hillary Transue, 14, created a fake, humorous Myspace page about her school’s vice principal. Justin Bodnar, 12, cursed at another student’s mother. Ed Kenzakoski, 17, did nothing at all. It didn’t matter. As we see in the documentary “Kids for Cash,” which opens Friday, all thre ...
  • PressTV – Zionism to end up in dustbin o ...
    The Israeli regime’s enormous sway over the US government has inadvertently caused a backlash that will eventually send Zionism into the “proverbial dustbin of history,” says an analyst, Press TV reports. “The expression ‘Israeli-occupied territories’ normally refers to Palestine. But more and m ...

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Navigate the Global Meat System with New Meat ...
    A new report released last month by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe fell under the radar for many of us here in the U.S. However, that shouldn’t keep you from checking out this comprehensive guide to the global meat system and its effects. Besides covering many of th ...
  • Religion, Making a Difference, and Food
    What if the distinctions of religion were visible in the ways religious institutions handle food – the way they grow it, the way they acquire it, the way they donate it, and the way they teach their constituents about food?
  • The Positive Change Created by New Supermarket ...
    I read the headline “It takes more than a produce aisle to refresh a food desert” with part amusement and part exhaustion. I knew there would be an onslaught of articles bemoaning the wasted resources being spent on financing food retail in underserved neighborhoods. Then I read the news story t ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Valentine’s Chocolate, Soc ...
    On this Valentine’s Day, I urge you to purchase fair-trade chocolate. The working conditions imposed by Big Chocolate on workers have been described as miserable, and there has been documentation that child labor fuels some of the industry.
  • Redefining Waste in Aquaponics
    While aquaponics takes inspiration from nature, as an ecosystem it is greatly oversimplified, and many of the natural checks and balances that mitigate things like solid accumulation simply do not exist.
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