Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israeli jets hit targets on Lebanon-Syria border
    ShareThisIsraeli jets hit targets on Lebanon-Syria border 25 Feb 2014 Israeli warplanes have launched airstrikes on targets near the border between Lebanon and Syria, reports say. There were contradictory reports on the targets of Monday’s attacks, with sources in Lebanon saying the airstrikes h ...
  • How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to M ...
    ShareThisHow Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations 24 Feb 2014 One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with e ...
  • NSAssociate Google Relegated 24 Feb 2014 CLG N ...
    ShareThisLooking for Monday's CLG Newsletter? NSAssociate Google Relegated 24 Feb 2014 CLG Newsletter to the Spam Bin Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 25 Feb 2014 CLG subscribers: If you use Gmail as your email provider, please go to your spam bin to retrieve Monday's CLG Newsletter. Perha ...
  • U.S. examines Afghanistan option that would le ...
    ShareThisU.S. examines Afghanistan option that would leave behind 3,000 troops 23 Feb 2014 One of the four options President Obama is considering for a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan beyond this year would leave behind 3,000 troops, based in Kabul and at the American installation at Bag ...
  • Washington directly supporting Svoboda neo-Naz ...
    ShareThisWashington directly supporting Svoboda neo-Nazi party fighting in Ukraine 24 Feb 2014 Svoboda is a Neo-Nazi Party, Ukraine’s fourth biggest party holding 36 seats out of 450 in parliament. They’re also part of the Alliance of European National Movements along with the BNP and Jobbik. Sv ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – February 24 2014
  • This Day In History – February 25
    1336 – 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit a mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. 1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain. 1836 – Samue ...
  • Soros group triples its lobbying spending
    Yet we are only allowed to mention the Koch Bros? WP The latest list of big lobbying spenders contains a (not)surprising name: George Soros. Well, not the billionaire himself, but the Open Society Policy Center, the Washington-based advocacy affiliate of his Open Society Foundations. (Working ha ...
  • DC Man faces six months in jail for unregister ...
    Prosecution rests in trial for D.C. man charged for one shotgun shell   Washington Times Editorial The District of Columbia has finished presenting its case on why Mark Witaschek is a danger to society for possessing a single shotgun shell and muzzleloader sabots in his home. This outrageou ...
  • FAIL! CNN to cancel Piers Morgan show amid rat ...
    British tabloid host acknowledges turning off Americans over guns WT CNN has given up on trying to make Piers Morgan the new Larry King after a three-year run and will pull the plug on the Briton’s 9 p.m. talk show, which has been finishing far behind rivals Megyn Kelly on Fox News Channel and R ...

The Air Vent

  • Another Opinion Post
    I heard a radio host in Kalamazoo, comment on a letter written in by a listener on emotion and opinions.  The idea was that emotions and opinions cannot be wrong and at least the emotion can’t-be-wrong claim is  a common thread in human culture and one of my apparenlty numerous pet-peeves. ...
  • The Problem with Ocean Heat Uptake
    A recent article on the global warming hiatus  garnered a bit of attention in blogland and the substantially less technical mainstream media. It was published in Nature Climate Change: Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus.   Of course th ...
  • A Big Project
    Brandon Shollenberger is collecting a list of Michael Mann’s screwups.   I’ve thrown in a short thousand words myself.  I could have kept going but I’m showing more restraint in my old age….:D   If you have your own info to add, I’m sure he would be happy to collect ...
  • The Future of Weather – Uncommon Sense
    USA today published yet another climate rant on the state of global warming.  This time they tied it to the polar vortex that is still freezing our ___ (insert anatomy here) off.  The article is filled with the ‘local is not global’ and ‘weather is not climate’ (until the ...
  • Isn’t it time we gave a little recogniti ...
    Raise the price of energy, we need to save the planet …My hands are cold …My fingers are cold …I can’t see the drive …I think my nose is actually froze Turn down the heat, we must conserve …My neck is cold …My ears are cold …My back is hurt … ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook to close unpopular email service
    Facebook is doing away with its email service, the company announced Monday. Previously, the company had controversially listed an “@facebook.com” email address as a Facebook user’s default email address. Emails sent to that address would go...
  • FBX partner AdRoll launches a new way to retar ...
    AdRoll, a Facebook Exchange partner, recently unveiled AdRoll Retargeting for Mobile, a new offering that allows marketers to effectively advertise to customers and prospects across devices. According to AdRoll, their expanded mobile retargeting is currently the...
  • Facebook prompts users to ask friends for key ...
    Haven’t filled out all of your timeline information? Your Facebook friends can ask you to do so. Some users are seeing prompts on mobile and desktop to ask their friends for information that isn’t present on...
  • Facebook ads API partner AdStage announces new ...
    AdStage, a Facebook ads API partner, announced Monday that the company has raised a $1 million round of funding. The company is also launching a new app partnership program and platform API to allow developers to...
  • Facebook memorial accounts: privacy settings w ...
    Facebook announced recently that the company has made a change in the way that legacy or memorialized accounts of deceased Facebook users are viewed. Previously, when an account was being memorialized, the privacy setting of the...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The New Great Game Round-Up: February 23, 2014
    CIA Drones in Central Asia, Russia to Take Control of Manas Airport, China Fights Separatism & More *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Ce ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Billie Holiday- “All of Me” I was going over the list of the artists we’ve had on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick and one that was missing was the amazing Billie Holiday! So tonight we add her to the list with her singing All of Me…Enjoy…DJPJ.
  • What You Should Know About the Ukraine-Style A ...
    The Venezuelan autocrats of the past are now masquerading as democratswith the aim of just getting all their old privileges back The US-supported opposition in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is taking its cue from the anti-government protests taking place across the Atlantic Ocean in Ukrai ...
  • Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: M ...
    Peter B. Collins Presents Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps As a member of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Copps cast the only dissenting vote to the approval of Comcast’s acquisition of NBC/Universal. In this conversation, he details his strong opposition to the new pro ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- How to Defeat the Oligar ...
    If divide and conquer is the technique that keeps the people oppressed, it is obvious that the one thing that the ruling class fears above all else is that the public will unite against them. If the people were ever to put aside their doctrinal differences and coordinate their efforts, the resul ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Norwegian Media Break Story of Israeli Ambassa ...
    A few days ago, I reported that Israeli ambassador to Norway, Naim Araidi, had sexually harassed both his female embassy staff and workers at his residence.  After I reported this story, I posted to social media seeking a Norwegian journalist who might take up the story.  Yesterday, my prayers w ...
  • Israeli Cabinet Voted to Assassinate Arafat Ye ...
    The Gatekeepers, originally a documentary film and now a book, continues to offer a wealth of inside information about the Israeli national security apparatus.  The latest tidbit an Israeli friend gleaned is this September 2003 Yediot article recounting the decisions made during an Israeli secur ...
  • Israel Lobby Funds, Exploits Minorities to Shi ...
    Over the past few days, two New York Jewish museums made some serious blunders in disinviting two different academic speakers from making presentations.  A few days ago, Prof. Judith Butler’s invitation to speak at a conference about Franz Kafka was rescinded after the Algemeiner and other ...
  • Israel’s Ambassador to Norway to Resign Over S ...
    Israel’s ambassador to Norway has been recalled by the foreign ministry (see Yediot article displayed below).  Local Norwegian staff at the embassy and the ambassador’s household staff each accused him of exposing himself and other acts of harassment, an allegation he denies. Israeli ...
  • Israel Arrests Sanctions-Busting Ultra-Orthodo ...
    After reporting here that Israeli serial sanctions-busters and arms dealers, Avichai Weinstein and Eli Cohen were being investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Greek security services for attempting to send spare parts for F-4 fighter jets to Iran, yesterday the Daily Telegr ...

OpEd News

  • "Lest We Forget" The Day Rachel Corrie Died
    Rachel Corrie was killed March 16, 2003, by an Israeli soldier who crushed her to death with an American-built Caterpillar bulldozer. She will be remembered by those who celebrate and cherish a young American woman who said no to Israel's occupation and no to the constant attacks on Palestinian ...
  • Banks Are Obsolete: The Entire Parasitic Secto ...
    What else can we do with the $1.25 trillion we'll save by eliminating these obsolete financial middleman parasites? A lot. Technology has leapfrogged the banking sector, rendering it as obsolete as buggy whips. So why are we devoting 9% of our economy to an obsolete parasite?
  • Don Snyder on Love and Loss: "Of Time and Mem ...
    It was the winter of 1998 and my father was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I began to think he would leave this world without me ever knowing who he was really. That seemed profoundly sad to me. I wanted to do something about it. You know, who our parents were before we knew them, and the love st ...
  • Move Over, Monet: Quilt Art is Fine Art
    As quilts evolve into greater acceptance as a fine art medium, more and more quilts are featuring the pictorial compositions that combine traditional art skills with textile techniques, like many of the examples shown in this article. The 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, the largest quil ...
  • The Comcast-Time Warner merger: The case for p ...
    The proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable is a case in point for the necessity of putting major corporations under public ownership.

Switchboard

  • One More Week to Voice Your Support for Solar ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Thanks to fateful winter sun on the morning of Feb 2nd, Staten Island Chuck's "six more weeks of winter forecast" is proving to be a painful truth this year. More snow, ice and bone-chilling t ...
  • Push For a Fracking Moratorium Gains Momentum ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica This month, California lawmakers at both the state and local levels are moving forward with efforts to put in place a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other well stimulation activities. ...
  • Carbon nanotube flame retardants - two wrongs ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Carbon nanotubes are wee little microscopic-sized tubes made of  sheets of carbon atoms, rolled up into a tube like a paper towel roll. One roll is a single walled carbon nanotube, and a fe ...
  • Carbon Copy II: Six Quick Impressions from Cl ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Here are six quick reactions to the oral arguments presented this morning in the Supreme Court’s latest case on climate change and the Clean Air Act, Utility Air R ...
  • CU-Boulder Basketball Launches "Sustainable Ga ...
    Alice Henly, Resource Specialist & College Sports Greening Coordinator, New York The University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) continues to grow its leading “zero waste” sports practices by establishing a new partnership with sponsor c ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Ukraine on Edge - Ukraine Turns From Revolutio ...
    The uprising in Kiev has apparently reached its conclusion. President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition reached an agreement, negotiated by the Polish, German and French foreign ministers. The parliament is now effectively in charge, deciding who will be ministers and when elections will be h ...
  • The World on Edge - A World Ablaze - But Diffe ...
    A bane of modern military studies (let's eschew the term "science") is the concept of counter-insurgency--the idea that indigenous revolts around the world can be analyzed with "the scientific method" and that a set of general principles, if implemented, could cure the problem. Common sense tell ...
  • Ukraine on Edge - Ukraine on the Brink: A Frag ...
    Despite the news from Kiev at the time of writing - that the Ukrainian Parliament has dismissed embattled President Yanukovych and secured the release of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko - Ukraine’s woes are far from over.Protests in Ukraine have been increasing in scope and violen ...
  • Ukraine on Edge - Turning Revolution to Recove ...
    The uprising in Kiev has apparently reached its conclusion. President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition reached an agreement, negotiated by the Polish, German and French foreign ministers. The parliament is now effectively in charge, deciding who will be ministers and when elections will be h ...
  • Book Review - Music and Citizenship in the Six ...
    With the considerable media attention being paid to the fiftieth anniversary of the February 1964 appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, it is rather obvious that the rock music of the 1960s exercised considerable influence over American culture during that turbulent era and continue ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Harold Ramis: Rest in Peace
    Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler: "Let's say this twinkie represents all of the psycho kenetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning's sample it will be a twinkie, 35 feet long and weighing approximately 600 pounds."When news of Harold Ramis' death began to spread people beg ...
  • The Silence of the Media-57% of "Big Spender" ...
    Shhh! The media doesn't want you to know that 57% of the political spending by top donors goes to Democrats. According to a report in the New York Times, Michael Podhorzer, political director of the AFL-CIO says big labor will be at least $300 spending in the 2014 midterms, which is the same a ...
  • Gallup: Americans Believe President Obama Isn' ...
    Remember when Barack Obama ran for president promising that he would return America to world prominence? Those days are gone. In a poll released by Gallup on Monday morning, for the first time since he became president, most American's think world leaders do not respect Barack Obama . In fact ...
  • Alec Baldwin Tells NY Mag He's Leaving New York
    This is almost as good as the New York Jets winning the Super Bowl. In the cover story of this week's New York Magazine Alec Baldwin says he 'can't live in New York anymore: 'I just can’t live in New York anymore,' Alec Baldwin writes in a complaint-filled essay. “I just can’t live in New Yor ...
  • MI Senate Candidate Threatens Stations License ...
    “I was diagnosed with leukemia. I found out I only have a 20 percent chance of surviving. I found this wonderful doctor and a great health care plan. I was doing fairly well fighting the cancer, fighting the leukemia, and then I received a letter. My insurance was canceled because of Obamac ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Review: No Funding Available
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Feb 24, 2014, Eagle Tribune North Andover, MA: Parents of autistic children launch dinner club Feb 23, 2014, Cookeville (TN) Herald-Citizen: Fry appointed to state council on...
  • Your Life is your Life
    The process of living involves risk. We are not given a map to plot our course from birth to death. Nobody can answer the question for you "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Although, many will...
  • Judy Converse on How To Clear A Room: Unvaxed ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We've excerpted this terrific post from Nutrition Care for Kids. By Judy Converse Want to clear a room fast? Tell people your kids aren’t vaccinated. Then say, “Not only is that why they’re so healthy – it...
  • Red Alert: Sounding the Autism Alert
    By Cathy Jameson I received an Amber Alert message last week on my mobile phone. It startled me as the message was accompanied with a loud, blaring alarm. I was parked at Ronan’s school waiting for him to be dismissed...
  • Weekly Wrap: Here Comes the Combating Autism A ...
    By Dan Olmsted Can it be? Is it already time to wrangle over the re-re-authorization of the Combating Autism Act, the billion-dollar (give or take) boondoggle that was supposed to marshal the government's war on autism but instead has shillied...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • New Zealand committed to NATO operations in Af ...
    Wellington, February 25: New Zealand Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman Tuesday pledged his country's continued commitment to NATO operations in Afghanistan. Defence ministers of NATO-ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) states would discuss the military drawdown in Afghanistan and plan ...
  • Mississippi River traffic closed for oil spill
    A 100-km stretch of the Mississippi River remained closed to transport as clean-up specialists worked to contain an oil...
  • e-health centre soon in Ghatshila subdivision
    JAMSHEDPUR: The long-standing need of a well-equipped medical centre for villagers, largely tribals living in the remote peripheries of Musabani, Chakulia, Galudih in the Ghatshila subdivision of East Singhbhum, is set to be addressed with the opening of an e-health centre soon. The e-health cen ...
  • Lalu Prasad in Patna to chair RJD meeting
    A day after crisis gripped the Rashtriya Janata Dal which saw several of its MLAs defecting, party chief Lalu Prasad rushed back to Patna from Delhi on Tuesday. He will...
  • US cuts mark shift away from 'two wars' strategy
    Cost cutting: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel with General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at his Pentagon briefing on February 24. Photo: Reuters Washington: The cuts proposed by Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel would leave the United States with its smallest army since the ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • Designing a Natural Pool with Fish Habitat
    Designing a Natural Pool with additional fish habitat area for the Sustainable Hemp Home Series. Since the Hemp Home Designs are all about Sustainability.  Why wouldn’t the pool be as […]
  • Growing Industrial Hemp Research Videos | St L ...
    COLLECTION OF YOU-TUBE VIDEOS ON GROWING INDUSTRIAL HEMP. Be sure to comment on the videos and support your local Hemp Farmer! If you have videos, knowledge or other info to share […]
  • Hemp Home Collection By Scotty
    Collection of Hemp Home Design CAD Drawing photos showcasing the sustainable lifestyle that this net zero energy efficient home, gardens, pergola, solar panels, solar water heating, pool, garage, safe room, […]
  • Hemp Home Post Frame Lateral Loading
    Post Frame Wood Structure Design-Industrial Hemp Wall Construction Its all about Energy Efficiency and Conserving Natural Resources when using a Post Frame Building option with the added benefit: Post Frame Buildings […]
  • QandA with HEMP Building Expert Grey Flavall ...
    Hempcrete Wall Details by Scotty-  Hemp Home Building Plans Q-n-A with HEMP Building Expert: Mr. Greg Flavall Co-Founder and Technical Director at Hemp-Technologies on the Hemp Home design by Scotty Additional […]

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

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

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • 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 ...

Rodale News

  • Leah Zerbe
  • Food Packaging Materials Expose You to 4,000+ ...
    Your diet can be as wholesome and organic as possible, but if what you're eating came from a box, a bin or even your own refrigerator, it may be contaminated with one of 4,000 chemicals. And what that means for your health is a big question—but one that urgently needs to be answered, says an in ...
  • Why Food Certifications Could Have Saved Kroge ...
    Consumers have realized there's power in the courtrooms. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against food companies using the word "natural" on foods that in fact contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, and enough of these lawsuits have been successful that "natural" as ...
  • Stink Bug Rates: Polar Vortex Kills 95 Percent ...
    Time to turn your polar vortex griping and groaning into appreciation. New research from Virginia Tech scientists suggests the frigid January temps experienced across most of the nation may have decimated stink bug populations, a phenomenon that could save lots of crops during the growing seaso ...
  • The Biggest GMO Myths, Busted
    GMO Myth #1: GMOs have been around for 1000s of years. The Facts: Genetic modification is different from traditional breeding and presents its own set of unique risks. • The term "genetic modification" really refers to the unnatural process of taking genes from ones species and using a special ...

big think

  • This is Your Brain on a Laser Beam
    We are closer to achieving science fiction: your brain--your personality, your mind, your soul, your entire being--may one day be available on a disc. It's mathematically possible for your consciousness to exist without your body. This big idea and the research that supports it is explored in th ...
  • Was Darcy a One Percenter? Literary Money Ques ...
    Am I the only one fascinated by the issue of currency conversion in literature? When a posh fictional nobleman is rumored to have an income of such-and-such, or when a plucky nineteenth-century hero pockets his first dollar, I get the itch to know how much that is by modern standards. The proble ...
  • Where's Our Super-Fast Internet?
    Google wants to develop super-fast internet across the country known as gigabit broadband. We covered Google's announcement in March 2010, but it looks like it's facing hurdles from both telecom giants and government. The Wall Street Journal has more. As Kecia Lynn reported on Big ...
  • The Age of Explorers Is Not Over
    The Verge has an interesting article today taking us inside New York's Explorer's Club, that bastion of adventures who boldly dared to go where no man (or woman) had gone before. Today, as that Star Trek reference implies, the Explorer's Club is not collecting dust on the artifacts of Arctic ... ...
  • The Dangers Of China's “Back to Confucianism” ...
    THERE have been a lot of rumors lately about the possibility of a revival of Confucianism. Powerful scholars, not without personal agendas, call for a Confucian constitution. Some people have likened Xi Jinping’s Zhongguomeng (Chinese Dream) and the Zhonghua Minzu de Fuxing (Rejuvenation of the ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • BLM: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for ...
    US Bureau of Land Management http://on.doi.gov/1cyH5n9 [Oil and Gas Journal] The US Bureau of Land Management released a draft environmental review for the first proposed petroleum development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). US Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alas.) welcomed the announceme ...
  • Global Forest Watch: a Big Data Platform to Mo ...
    World Resources Institute http://www.globalforestwatch.org/ [Yale Environment 360] 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 m ...
  • Understanding the Connections Between Coastal ...
    National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18552 Understanding the Connections Between Coastal Waters and Ocean Ecosystem Services and Human Health discusses the connection of ecosystem services and human health. This report looks at the state of the science of the role of o ...
  • Moving from Risk to Resilience: Sustainable Ur ...
    Asian Development Bank http://bit.ly/1mxHooT Description Urbanization, combined with the increasing frequency and intensity of natural hazards associated with the onset of climate change, is contributing to rising risk exposure in the Pacific. The region’s cities and towns serve as hubs for admi ...
  • Every Breath You Take – Every Dollar You&#8217 ...
    National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER Working Paper No. 19858) / by Adam Isen, Maya Rossin-Slater, W. Reed Walker ($5 for non-subscribers) http://www.nber.org/papers/w19858 This paper examines the long-term impacts of in-utero and early childhood exposure to ambient air pollution on adult l ...

frogblog

  • Wages fail to keep up with productivity gains
    The Government has announced that from April 1 2014 the minimum wage will be increased by 50 cents to $14.25 per hour. This will give the over 100,000 or so people earning the current minimum wage of $13.75 per hour an extra $20 before tax for a 40 hour week. It’s still not enough to […]
  • Power companies letting down the vulnerable
    Many of you will remember the shocking story of Folole Muliaga, who died in 2007 when her automated oxygen stopped after her power was disconnected. Industry guidelines were subsequently put in place that require power companies to give special consideration to vulnerable families and people rel ...
  • Exclusion case shows need for change
    The exclusion of a young man with Asperger’s syndrome from Green Bay High School, overturned yesterday, was obviously a painful episode in the life of the boy, his family and his school. I don’t claim to know the details of this case, but from what I have heard I think it highlights two ke ...
  • Tribute to a Pacific Leader
    This week the Pacific and the world community lost a wonderful leader of sustainable forestry. Yati Bun from Papua New Guinea died suddenly while visiting a Pueblo community forest in the mountains of Mexico. Yati was travelling with the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) of which he was an intern ...
  • Carnage in Ukraine needs world’s attention
    President Yanukovych of Ukraine would be well advised to read the report put together by the United Nations on North Korea and the prospect of members of that regime being tried for crimes against humanity. His regime and interior ministers could well end up charged with crimes against their own ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economic Man and the Virginia White Tailed Deer
    The Virginia white tailed deer can serve as a paradigm for natural species and exhibit their essential characteristics. Once upon a long, long time ago, the human race was also a natural species very much like the Virginia white tailed deer. The race is natural no longer. It is a species mad ...
  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...

Insanity Report

  • New 3-Minute Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer
    Normally I’d get mad about them showing too much but honestly, this trailer has very little new footage in it.  This reminds me of the promotions for The Avengers when they flooded us with trailers and TV spots but thy were all basically the same footage cut in different ways with differen ...
  • IC 426: This is Your Brain on Drugs
    Topics: UFC 170 The unfair criticism of UFC 170 Ronda Rousey is that good Kev & Kriss have some funny “disagreements” is Guardians of the Galaxy a bigger risk than Thor & Captain America were Movie Rights for Marvel Characters would planet hulk or world war hulk be good mov ...
  • Almost Human Episode Review: Disrupt
    Kriss & Kev are joined by Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips to talk about Almost Human. We discuss the show so far and what we liked about the last episode: DisruptThe post Almost Human Episode Review: Disrupt appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • ‘In The Blood’ Trailer Features Gina Carano Ki ...
    I’m always hard on Gina Carano’s acting abilities but I still love watching her in fight scenes.  Truth is, I’m a fan.  I think she gets better with each film she does.  I just didn’t like the idea that people thought she should immediately be picked for a role like Wonde ...
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Character Featurettes
    Marvel & Disney have just over 5 months to make people interested in Guardians of the Galaxy and right now, they’re doing a pretty good job of drumming up some interest.  Right now they’re campaign is the exact opposite of what Fox & Bryan Singer did with Days of Future Past. ...

Survival - tribal peoples

  • '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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #WestVirginia Tap Water Test Results Expected ...
    from edition.cnn.com: Tap water test results in 10 West Virginia homes -- part of a state-commissioned study into whether the water is safe to drink after a chemical spill last month -- will be known in one to three weeks, scientists leading the effort said Friday. The project also is close to a ...
  • Not Just Bees: Disappearence of Monarch Butter ...
    from collective-evolution.com: Not only is Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (also known as glyphosate) causing cancer, birth defects, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and more, (read more about that here) it could also be shrinking the population of the North American monarch butterfly. The Worl ...
  • Food Packaging Chemicals 'May Be Harmful to Hu ...
    from medicalnewstoday.com: Many of the synthetic chemicals involved in packaging and storing the food we eat can leak into it, potentially harming our long-term health, say environmental scientists in a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Although some of these c ...
  • ​Oklahoma earthquake spike likely linked to fr ...
    from RT.com: Central Oklahoma has seen a massive increase in earthquakes in recent years, leading geological scientists to link the uptick in quakes to oil and gas development in the way of hydraulic fracking. From 1975 to 2008, the US Geological Survey found that central ...
  • #Minnesota cops don’t want to legalize medical ...
    from rare.us: The Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition’s opposition to marijuana legalization is another case of the drug war run amok. The coalition, which includes Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, Minnesota Sheriffs Association, ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Nepal: Speedy Religious conversion taking plac ...
    source:  Telegraph, Nepal  Feb 24, 2014 In a well-planned and organized manner, said Chairman Kamal Thapa of fourth largest party in the newly elected constituent assembly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, religious conversion is taking place in the country.
  • From the archive, 17 April 1953: India warns m ...
    source: the Guardian,   17 April 2013   The government of India is keeping a close vigil on the activities of missionaries within its borders Dr Katju, India's Minister for Home Affairs and Law, has told Parliament that, while everyone in India was free to propagate ...
  • Freelancers of God - Independent churches mush ...
       source: India today, April 30, 2011 Off a thinly inhabited road at Gurala village in Amritsar, Punjab, Karnail Singh holds his parishioners as a conductor holds his devoted audience. "Praise the Lord," he chants. A group of 150 men and women throw up their hands, pup ...
  • Taking âghar wapsiâ legacy forward
    source:  The Times of India, Jan 14, 2014 RAIPUR: Amid chanting of religious hymns, late BJP leader Dilip Singh Judeo's son washed feet of tribal Christians on Sunday to mark their return to Hinduism at a Hindu religious meet organized by Dharam Jagaran, an organization backed by th ...
  • Homophobia in Uganda: Is Christianity the pro ...
    source :  Namugongolife I would imagine that most of you are pretty familiar with the so-called âAnti-homosexuality Billâ that is currently on the table in the Ugandan parliament. It is basically a law, that will get passed at some point or other, that seeks to effectively eradicate public ...

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 [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

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Tech Drive In

  • 3 WhatsApp alternatives that respects your privacy
    The recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook (for a whooping $16 billion!) has prompted a lot of people to switch to other WhatsApp look-alikes for fear of their privacy. But are there any WhatsApp alternatives that are really secure? Let's find out. Three of the finest secure, private and cro ...
  • Keyboard filtering is coming to Unity spread i ...
    I don't know about you, but I'm a big HUD fan. And I swear by my keyboard. If you're like me, here's a development you would not want to miss. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will debut keyboard filtering for Unity spread feature, which is pretty great news for keyboard junkies like me.  Keyboard filterin ...
  • Ubuntu leaving Upstart for Systemd, a decision ...
    Upstart is an event-based replacement for the init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. The project was kick-started in early 2006 by Canonical. Systemd is similar to Upstart in core philo ...
  • 10 snazzy music production tools for Ubuntu/Linux
    Like many other niches, music production was not really a Linux forte. But that's changing now and like what happened to the video editing scene, popular music production tools are finding its way into Linux. Though I love listening to all kinds of music, I'm no music production expert. And henc ...
  • Why is Linux faster than Windows?
    Why is Linux faster than Windows? It's a very potent question which immediately stirs up a lot of debate, like we saw before. Some say its a myth. But most Linux users know it isn't, partially because almost everyone who adopted Linux were disgruntled Windows users once. But still, what makes Li ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

electric politics

  • The Ukraine Blues
    One feels frighteningly disoriented, hearing an American president support deadly mob violence for what is, essentially, counter-revolutionary change (in the form of IMF austerity). The president's message may be directed at unknown people far away but the effects are certain to be felt here, po ...
  • Healing by the Numbers
    It's difficult to say which is more astonishing: that it's possible to cure a fatal illness by opening energy gates with mental concentration, or that mainstream medical science has so blinkered itself that it refuses to examine the data. But data there is, in abundance, from an academic who in ...
  • Memory Management in Ukraine
    Ukraine is split culturally and politically between East and West, but not in such a way that either side clearly could dominate the other. Forcing choices on Ukraine (as the EU and the U.S. sporadically seem to want to do) only exacerbates the tension. But given recent events, tensions breaking ...
  • Edward Snowden's Deception
    At the moment I'm odd man out on the left. I see Snowden not as a hero but as a criminal. I agree with Edward Lucas, senior editor at The Economist, who says Snowden may well be an unwitting agent of Russian intelligence, and that that would be the most favorable possible interpretation of his a ...
  • Applications of Quantum Probability
    Straightforward classical logic obviously doesn't entirely capture human decision making. Yet it often seems as if something logical exists in our illogic. Wonderful fodder for the arts! Now it turns out, amazingly enough, that human illogic, from a perspective of quantum probability, sometimes ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Russia: Rice Should Worry About U.S.’s M ...
    Itar-Tass February 24, 2014 Russia’s FM source: Susan Rice had better advise US, not Russia MOSCOW: Russia has declared that the US president’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, would better counsel the White House, not Russia, a Russian Foreign Ministry source told Itar-Tass on ...
  • John Galsworthy: The pure essence of humanitar ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts John Galsworthy: Selections on war ===== John Galsworthy From The Burning Spear (1919) Mr. Lavender lay with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, clucking his parched tongue. “God,” he thought, “for one must use that wo ...
  • Interview: Former Soviet Republics, Current Ru ...
    Voice of Russia February 23, 2014 Soviet Republics and Russian allies US/NATO color revolution targets – Rick Rozoff John Robles Recorded on Februay 18, 2014 Audio: Download audio file Part I It is unprecedented that simultaneously three countries that are allies of Russia are being threat ...
  • U.S. National Security Advisor “Warns&#8 ...
    Russian Information Agency Novosti February 23, 2014 Obama Official Warns Russia on Military Action in Ukraine WASHINGTON: A senior US official on Sunday warned Moscow not to send troops into Ukraine amid the political crisis gripping Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor, saying such a move would constit ...
  • Jubilant Rasmussen: Ukraine Is A Close Partner ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization February 23, 2014 NATO Secretary General statement on Ukraine I am closely monitoring the important developments in Ukraine. The people of Ukraine must determine their own future in freedom and democracy. I continue to call for calm and restraint, so that all s ...

Intel Hub

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

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Popsci - Science

  • Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Ye ...
    Fermilab Fermilab, Reidar Hahn Top quarks are the heaviest of subatomic particles, and are prime components of all matter--everything from mayonnaise to your big toe. But while they are in virtually everything, they are impossible to isolate from matter under ordinary circumstances. To st ...
  • Famous Novels' First Sentences, Mapped [Infogr ...
    Maybe you spent a week in school making these, but the ones in your class almost definitely didn't look as good. The folks at Pop Chart Lab, which now has an oeuvre of infographics depicting everything from classic games to beer, took a literary turn with their latest chart. A Diagrammatical Dis ...
  • In Tibet, Dogs Breathe Comfortably With Less O ...
    Tibetan Mastiff Wikimedia Commons, timquijano See Spot run. See Lassie save Timmy from a well. See Tibetan Mastiffs climb 4,500 meters above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. The ever-so-fluffy Tibetan Mastiff, which commonly serves as a guard dog for the plateau's residents, is able to bre ...
  • A Scientific Look At Why You Hate Hawaiian Shirts
    Hawaiian Shirt Flickr/bobbi vie A couple jokes, from New Yorker cartoons: A penguin arrives at work with other penguins, except the arriving penguin is wearing a Hawaiian shirt. "You're kidding," he says. "I thought it was Friday.”   A priest in a Hawaiian shirt is delivering a sermon: "And ...
  • 11 Reasons Why Cat Bites May Be Linked To Depr ...
    Cat Glance Copyright David Corby via WikiMedia Commons In case you hadn't heard, cat bites are linked to depression. As I wrote last week, a study in PLOS ONE looked through the health records of 1.3 million people and found that 41 percent of people who were treated for cat bites were also ...

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Internat'l Political Economy

  • After Ukraine: Argentine, Venezuelan or Thai G ...
    Business as usual in downtown CaracasWhich shaky government will fall next? That is the question. The honest truth is that Ukraine's economic situation was hardly improved by either the pro-EU Yulia Tymoshenko or pro-Russia Yanukovych factions. Indeed, Tymoshenko leading the country into the poo ...
  • Tens of Trillions of Yen Later, Abenomics is a Dud
    The plight of the developed world is of massive interest to developing countries such as ours for the simple reason that, since we aspire to being developed status, what comes next is of consequence. Sadly, the examples of moribund Western Europe, North America (especially the hapless US), and J ...
  • US Footballers from Mars, Dutch Skaters from Venus
    Oranje-filled, Yanqui-free speedskating podium: the new Olympic standardSometime ago, John Gray penned the pop psychology bestseller entitled Men are From Mars, Men are From Venus. Not to be outdone, realist author Robert Kagan said in the wake of 9/11 that, in terms of foreign policy, Americans ...
  • How Computer Forex Traders Obliterated Humans
    When I become a wheezy old grandpa reminiscing about the "good ol' days" as my captive audience of grandchildren pays scant attention, I will discuss how people [remember those?] actually did market trading back in the day. Recent international investigations into alleged collusion in foreign cu ...
  • Ballroom Dancers 1, Anti-PRC Vietnamese Protes ...
    We can dance if we want to / We can leave protesters behind...This has to be my favorite Southeast Asian country versus China story of the year so far: Vietnam deploys dancers to foil [anti-PRC] protests says the headline. You see, the Vietnamese have a monument dedicated to Ly Thai To--the king ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 [...]

BlogHer

  • 6 Ways to Make Your Blog More Professional
    Whether you are blogging as a hobby or for business and monetization, a professional feel to your blog is important. Blogs that are working with companies will especially need to pay attention to these fine details. If one thing is hard on the eyes, or if a company is unable to navigate quickly ...
  • Blowout Party Menu for the 2014 Oscars
    The Academy Awards is coming up once again on Sunday March 2. And for many of us, that means throwing an Oscar-watching party. So break out the bubbly, put out some snacks, and get ready for you and your friends to shout over each other at the TV. Here’s a menu that’s red carpet-ready, with seve ...
  • Celeb Inspiration! Best Hairstyles for Round F ...
    We all know that the right haircut can make you look fabulous. But you can’t always rely on your hairdresser to know what works best for your round face. My own hairdresser talked me into a short-on-the-sides style right after I’d gained some weight. It would’ve looked great on me before the wei ...
  • Celeb Inspiration! Best Hairstyles for Round F ...
    We all know that the right haircut can make you look fabulous. But you can’t always rely on your hairdresser to know what works best for your round face. My own hairdresser talked me into a short-on-the-sides style right after I’d gained some weight. It would’ve looked great on me before the wei ...
  • Spring Break Is Coming Up! How To Vacation Wit ...
    I’m sitting on a patio overlooking the Sea of Cortez in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  Heaven … no, seriously, I’m not exaggerating, it’s literally heaven.  Never in my memory have I needed to feel the sun on my face more than this winter.  Leaving approximately two feet of snow in NJ, ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2014-02-18 NSA and GCHQ spying on WikiLeaks
    In response to revelations on NSA/GCHQ spying on WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange released the following statement. read more
  • 2014-01-14 Swedish Prosector Asks for Assange ...
    Retired Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren wrote a powerful op-ed for conservative daily SvD (Svenska Dagbladet) asking for the Assange case to be closed. read more
  • 2013-12-25 Edward Snowden: Alternative Christm ...
    Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. read more
  • 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
  • 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
    Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...

U N News

  • UN hails probe into former leader's alleged ab ...
    The United Nations human rights office today hailed the decision by a Haitian court to open new investigations into former President Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity, saying that the move will help ensure accountability for past abuses.
  • UN rights office urges probe into Venezuela vi ...
    The United Nations human rights office today, deeply concerned about the escalation of violence in Venezuela, including the death of at least three people during protests on Wednesday, called on all parties to engage in dialogue to peacefully resolve the crisis.
  • Golden Rule,' iconic Norman Rockwell mosaic, r ...
    A mosaic based a on a work by American artist Norman Rockwell, long a favourite attraction on tours of the United Nations in New York, has been re-dedicated following its restoration during the reconstruction of the Headquarters complex.
  • In Cuba, Ban spotlights sustainable developmen ...
    Peace and security, sustainable development and human rights are on the agenda at the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which opens in Cuba today and where United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is delivering opening remarks.
  • Marking fourth anniversary of Haiti earthquake ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to increase its aid to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the impoverished country, noting progress already made in health and education, but warning that more needs to ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Big, Wild and Connected – John Davis’ TrekEast ...
    Dear Friends I am overdue to tell you of the completion of a book series in which you played a part, direct or indirect.  Island Press has published all three e-books, titled Big, Wild, and Connected, on the 7600-mile muscle-powered traverse I made of a future Eastern Wildway in 2011, with much ...
  • FROM WOLVES TO BEETLES – FISH & WILDLIFE SCIEN ...
    For Immediate Release:  Monday, February 10, 2014 Contact:  David Parsons (505) 275-1944; Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337   FROM WOLVES TO BEETLES – FISH & WILDLIFE SCIENCE TARNISHED Service Manufactures Scientific Studies to Support Politically Negotiated Deals Washington, DC — This was an exc ...
  • Between the RAREs – Around the Campfire with U ...
    At our last get-together around this campfire, I went through the heartbreak of the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Review and Evaluation from 1971 to 1973.  For many of us wilderfolk at the time, RARE wiped clean any lingering belief that wilderness clubs and the U. S. Forest Service were togeth ...
  • Amigos de la Sevilleta to host Mike Phillips F ...
    February 2, 2014: Annual Meeting and Celebration 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Reception to follow The event will be held at USFWS headquarters on the Sevilleta NWR Reservations: (505) 864-4021 Brief Business Meeting Mike Phillips Live Music & Reception Amigos de la Sevilleta is holding its annual meeting ...
  • Support National Monument Protection for the ...
    PLEASE ATTEND THIS UPCOMING MEETING AND SUPPORT NATIONAL MONUMENT PROTECTION FOR THE 570,000-ACRE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAINS! If you cannot attend, please phone or write a short e-mail to our Commissioners (information below).  YOUR MESSAGE CAN BE BRIEF: “Commissioners - Please write a ...

reference frame

  • Australian detector center promises gravitatio ...
    The Conversation published an essay by Dr David Blair, a LIGO member and especially the director of the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre [sic] at University of Western Australia, An end in sight in the long search for gravity waves Copies: Live Science, Science World Report ...
  • Can string field theory be a full definition o ...
    Michio Kaku is 67 today. He's a well-known popularizer of science who often likes to talk about crazy futurist concepts, promote physics using shows and statements that look like excessive if not cheap commercials, and spread excessive fear about things that are not really worrisome. But I still ...
  • Creatures with poor memory may time travel
    Last night, I watched The Time Traveler's Wife, based on a 2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger, so it's time for another crazy post related to Quantum gravity and afterlife and Wormholes into the past. The host introducing the trailer says that the novel/movie is a work of "good love and bad sci ...
  • Klaus, Weigl: on the situation in Ukraine
    LM: I have never heard Klaus' thoughts on the political matters in Ukraine before I began to write down my impressions about it (newsletter with my remarks on that). Nevertheless, it just happens that I agree with 100% of his and his former chancellor's opinions. VK+JW: political remark #18: ...
  • Any SUSY is better than no SUSY
    Orbifolds by R-parity could be neat, too Optimized for the mobile template Senior particle phenomenologist John Ellis was heard as saying the proposition about supersymmetry (SUSY) in the title and your humble correspondent agrees with that, whether or not he has actually said it. If it is tur ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Brother charged with 2nd degree murder of popu ...
    Jarek Paderewski, 27, has been charged with second degree murder in the death of his sister, Maja Paderewska, who was found dead in a Coquitlam townhome Sunday. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Quebec teens charged with 1st-degree ...
  • Tea Party Professor in ‘Epic’ Fight to Unseat ...
    by Robert Wilde, Breitbart: According to Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, “One of the inspirations of the tea party movement was to actually take individuals who were not career politicians and have them jump in as citizen legislators and join the vocal process.” Da ...
  • Tea Party Professor in ‘Epic’ Fight to Unseat ...
    by Robert Wilde, Breitbart: According to Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, “One of the inspirations of the tea party movement was to actually take individuals who were not career politicians and have them jump in as citizen legislators and join the vocal process.” Da ...
  • Meteorite crash creates brightest flash on moo ...
    Telescopes in southern Spain have recorded the flash of a meteorite that hit the Earth’s moon with a force equivalent to 15 tonnes of TNT. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Meteorite crash with moon creates brightest flash ev ...
  • The Fourth Branch – DEEP STATE – In Plaint Sight
    from Armstrong Economics: There has been the typical strategy to label anything that questions government’s ethics as the “conspiracy theory” so that it may still exist in plain sight. In most cases, there is a tool to further that goal of disinformation to allow corruption to exist in plai ...

Modern Survivalism

  • X-FLARE Unleashed FEB-25, One Of Most Powerful ...
    X-FLARE! Returning sunspot AR1967 unleashed a powerful X5-class solar flare on Feb. 25th at 00:57 UTC. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. This is the most intense flare of 2014 so far, and one of the most intense of the entire current solar cycle&#823 ...
  • Navy Seal Says It’s Amazingly Easy To Ta ...
    Former Navy Seal Christopher Mark Heben (trained in unconventional warfare including how to take down power grids) speaks with Judge Jeanine about the dangers of America’s power grid and how apparently ‘amazingly easy’ it would be for terror cells to dismantle. “Believe m ...
  • Most Dangerous Time Of Day Or Night For Pedest ...
    If you are considering a walk while out near the street or traffic, you may want to avoid the most dangerous times of the day when a pedestrian is most likely to be fatally hit by a car…   Analysis shows that a pedestrian’s most dangerous time is generally and more often during ...
  • The Piano Economy
    “You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” -Ayn Rand Summing up the present (distorted and fraud) economy, Karl Denninger recently said during an interview with Greg Hunter:   “If I look up and see a piano coming from the 50t ...
  • After the EMP comes Nuclear Meltdown
    An EMP (electro magnetic pulse), if strong enough (and regardless of the source – weaponized or solar), will potentially fry electronics and electronic systems within its invisible sphere of destruction. Many expert opinions and reports suggest that our electrical power grid could go down. ...

Fast Company

  • Why Do Companies Keep Getting Hacked?
    One reason is that security isn't always a priority for developers in a rush to bring a product to market. Another reason is that humans are stupid.Two weeks ago, a respected crowdfunding site, Kickstarter, was hacked. Snapchat was hacked the week before that. Skype's social media accounts were ...
  • Uber Will Let Customers Know When Surge Pricin ...
    The company has faced increased backlash for its surge pricing--up to nine times the normal fare--during periods of high demand.Uber has taken plenty of heat for its surge-price policy during busy hours, but the e-hailing startup tried to assuage this backlash Monday by announcing a feature that ...
  • Samsung Reveals The Galaxy S5: Its Waterproof ...
    The Korean phone maker's next handset is packed with glitzy new technology, including a heartbeat sensor.Samsung just pulled the wraps off the Samsung Galaxy S5 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And--you guessed it--the phone's a beast. Never one to shy away from tricking its gadgets ou ...
  • Waffle Tacos And Crunchwraps: Taco Bell's Brea ...
    Bacon, egg, and cheese fans, rejoice! The "Mexican-inspired" fast food chain's new breakfast menu will feature imaginative concoctions like Waffle Tacos and breakfast Crunchwraps.If cramming syrup-soaked bacon and eggs into a taco-shaped waffle sounds like the ideal way to start your morning, we ...
  • The Cosmos Bed Lets You Sleep Under A Starry Sky
    This futuristic egg-shaped bed mimics the experience of sleeping outdoors, minus the mosquitoes.When you were a kid, did you ever stick those plastic glow-in-the-dark stars to your ceiling above your bed and pretend you were looking up at the constellations? Do you secretly wish you could still ...

Jadaliyya

  • Turkey Media Roundup (February 25)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
  • Snapshot: Khartoum
    While working on a story in Sudan I found myself using my iPhone much more than my professional camera for personal snapshots. Mainly because it is easy, discrete, and has a deep depth of field. These are Instagram snapshots of observations and daily life in the Sudanese capital over a week in e ...
  • Bouteflika’s Fourth Mandate: The Cartel’s Gamble
    The Algerian regime can be understood as an economic cartel. It is, in other words, an assemblage of actors that controls a field (the State), and must agree on certain things in order to assure its benefits – whether they are material or symbolic. These actors are of different stripes (military ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (February 24)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (February 17-23)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Moral Panics, Sex Panics and the P ...

mediagazer

  • Seth Meyers' 'Late Night' debut an understated ...
    Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times: Seth Meyers' ‘Late Night’ debut an understated affair  —  Despite guests Vice President Joe Biden and Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers strikes a subdued note in taking over as ‘Late Night’ host for Jimmy Fallon.  —&n ...
  • AT&T, Verizon may join Comcast in Netflix stre ...
    Marguerite Reardon / CNET: AT&T, Verizon may join Comcast in Netflix streaming deal  —  AT&T and Verizon Communications may be the next big Internet service providers to strike a deal with Netflix to provide a direct connection from the video service to broadband custome ...
  • Journalists As Agents of State Surveillance (T ...
    Thomas Rose / J-Source: Journalists As Agents of State Surveillance  —  They're called ‘production orders’ and they signal what may be a growing trend among law enforcement agencies to co-opt journalists into becoming agents of state surveillance.  —  ...
  • Owner of Twitter parody account @GSElevator is ...
    Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook: Owner of Twitter parody account @GSElevator is John Lefevre, a former bond executive who has never worked at Goldman Sachs  —  @GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator)  —  A three-year parlor game has been ...
  • News Media Revenue Matrix: The Bird's Eye View ...
    Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: News Media Revenue Matrix: The Bird's Eye View  —  Publishers struggle with newer and more complex business models.  Some appear stronger than others but, above all, a broad palette is a must.  It is a means to capture emer ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Terror threat still rising
    Norway’s military intelligence service (Etterretningstjenesten, or E-tjenesten) has repeated earlier predictions that the threat of a terrorist attack continues to rise, also with the return of young Norwegian radicals who’ve joined the fighting in Syria. The intelligence agents also ...
  • Norway redirects aid to Uganda
    Foreign Minister Børge Brende, saying he “deeply regrets” a new law in Uganda that can send homosexuals to prison for life, announced Monday that Norway was withholding aid to Uganda’s government in protest. Norway joins Denmark and other countries that are reacting in disgust ...
  • Ambassador left under a cloud
    Israel’s ambassador to Norway, who arrived in the country two years ago with a mission to improve relations between Israel and Norway, has reportedly been recalled after female employees at the Israeli Embassy and at his residence complained of “inappropriate behaviour.”  Newsp ...
  • Krekar won’t be released early
    A Norwegian court has rejected an appeal from Mullah Krekar, the Islamic guerrilla leader and cleric who came to Norway as a refugee, to be released early from prison. He’s serving jail time for making threats against Erna Solberg, who now serves as Norway’s prime minister. Krekar wa ...
  • Another meteorite hit Oslo home
    Just as Norwegians were gearing up for their smashing performance in the Winter Olympics, another meteorite was found to have smashed into a house in Oslo’s Korsvoll district. The sensational event seemed to get lost amidst all the Olympic hype. Newspaper Dagbladet picked up the story, tho ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: Be Careful What ...
    Originally published on TransitionNetwork.org It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. One of my heroes, and the co-founder of permaculture, I generally find his intellect formidable, his insights on permaculture revelatory, and his take on the wider patterns and scenarios unf ...
  • Free Online Event: Whole Earth Summit (March 1 ...
    Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. – Bill Mollison Join Geoff Lawton, Sepp Holzer, Brad Lancaster, Joel Salatin, Stacey Murphy, Janell Kapoor, Peter Bane and many others at the free online Whole Earth Summit, March 11-13, ...
  • Take a PDC With Rhamis Kent in Vermont, USA (M ...
    Marble House Project will host an intensive six day Permaculture seminar and workshop with Rhamis Kent. The workshop will be staggered over two long weekends at The Marble House in Dorset, Vermont. The workshops span two weekends from May 9th-11th and May 16th-18th, 2014. This course will be tau ...
  • Torpedoed
    The results of a crowd-sourcing appeal prove that Discovery Channel engaged in fakery. The photo of a whale carcass which Discovery claims to have “found”. The suspicion that the Discovery Channel had abandoned its professed editorial standards was a powerful one. Its documentary claiming that t ...
  • Community Gardens with Geoff Lawton (video)
    Trailer only – watch full video here! Geoff visits a number of different Permaculture gardens that are springing up and notices a common thread — a lot of people are growing food that should never be grown in that climate and zone and are doing it successfully. How do they do it? Geo ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

  • HTML and CSS templates for learning, teaching
    I have made a GitHub repo containing HTML and CSS templates for beginners. An entire GitHub repo can be downloaded by clicking the “Download ZIP” button on the right-hand side of the main page. As a teacher, I find it’s very handy to have files ready to open and show to student ...
  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Glambeaux: Taking Cultural Appropriation Too F ...
    Every day New Orleans is faced with crime, racist activity and the never-ending gentrification debate. But there is something about Glambeaux, the new all-female flambeaux troupe marching in Thursday’s Muses parade, that forces me to speak. I’ve had enough with the appropriation o ...
  • Call To Support Hunger Striker Outside Miami I ...
    Activists from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Florida have alerted us to this story: A young woman named Jenny Aguilar is on day five of a hunger strike outside the Krome Detention Center, an immigration facility near where the city of Miami meets the Everglades.  She has bee ...
  • Race, History, and Revolution in the Year's Be ...
    (A version of this article originally appeared in the New Orleans Data News Newspaper) We live in the era of Hollywood mega-budget sequels, where theaters are filled with stories based on comic books, children’s books, or a line of toys. Originality is rarely rewarded: this year, the ...
  • Hundreds of Musicians and Their Supporters Sto ...
    In one of the largest protests seen in New Orleans in the past decade, hundreds of musicians, club owners, and other supporters of live music protested outside, then inside, New Orleans City Hall today. The protest was originally called because a noise ordinance was scheduled to be discussed in ...
  • 20 to Life for a Phone Call?
    This call to action comes from the Friends and Family of Manuel Brown Manuel Brown is facing twenty years to life on a marijuana drug charge even though he never sold or bought any drugs. We need your help to prevent a miscarriage of justice! Call the Orleans Parish D.A's office& ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Who Is to Blame for "Islamophobia" in the UK?
    After the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in London last May, The Guardian reported a surge in the number of anti-Muslim offenses. Also, last May, a poll by the British research firm, YouGov, showed that nearly two-thirds of
  • Who Is to Blame for "Islamophopia" in the UK?
    After the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in London last May, The Guardian reported a surge in the number of anti-Muslim offenses. Also, last May, a poll by the British research firm, YouGov, showed that nearly two-thirds of
  • Iran: More "Court Proceedings" for Loghman Moradi
    According to a report received by the International Committee Against Executions (ICAE), Loghman Moradi was taken by authorities from his cell in Rajai-Shahr prison yesterday in the early morning for "court proceedings," raising alarm that he was about
  • On the Border of Freedom: Ukraine and Venezuela
    In a thoughtful piece on conservative internationalism last year, Professor Henry R. Nau postulated that "American foreign policy should seek to increase the number of regimes that are democratic, not just to preserve global stability or defend national
  • Execution Alert: Loghman Moradi Hanged in Iran ...
    The International Committee Against Execution (ICAE) has just been informed by sources inside Rajai-Shahr prison that Loghman Moradi's name was called on the loudspeaker and that he will be taken away at 6:00 a.m.Sunday for "court proceedings". It is

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • The Mark of The Best 2014 -- Life without the ...
    This video discusses how the microchip is taking over society in all our everyday activities and warns of the coming necessity to have a microchip implant if one wants to function normally in society. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://w ...
  • Illuminati "BEAST SYSTEM" Fully Revealed! (2014)
    The Beast System fully revealed! Interested in Illuminati symbols and Occult knowledge? MUST SEE THIS!!Author: Jonathan AdampantsThe Way is hard, the Way is narrow, the Way is pure. We are not losing the war. The battle is already won. Do not despair, do not lose heart. Run the race to the... ...
  • Mike Rivero -- The New Ukrainian Government is ...
    What Really Happened Radio Show: Michael Rivero Monday February 24 2014: (Commercial Free Video) Michael Rivero is the webmaster of http://whatreallyhappened.com/ and host of the What Really Happened radio shows on the Republic Broadcasting Network. Formerly with NASA, Michael transitioned his. ...
  • Doug Casey -- The US following Roman Empire de ...
     Corporations will never raise wages. That's not what they do. They keep wages low to increase profit for their investors. Trying to change that would be like trying to force water back up a waterfall by saying 'please'. Ain't gonna happen. Instead, Abe should institute an Unconditional ...
  • JIM ROGERS - CRISIS In The EMERGING MARKETS. B ...
    UBS' George Magnus believes the next global economic "crisis"' lightning rod will be the emerging markets and as Jim Rogers tells BoomBust's Erin Ade in this brief interview, "the emerging market crisis has only just begun." While Rogers is careful to add that there are lots of emerging ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • One More Week to Voice Your Support for Solar ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Thanks to fateful winter sun on the morning of Feb 2nd, Staten Island Chuck's "six more weeks of winter forecast" is proving to be a painful truth this year. More snow, ice and bone-chilling t ...
  • Push For a Fracking Moratorium Gains Momentum ...
    Damon Nagami, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica This month, California lawmakers at both the state and local levels are moving forward with efforts to put in place a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other well stimulation activities. ...
  • Carbon Copy II: Six Quick Impressions from Cl ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Here are six quick reactions to the oral arguments presented this morning in the Supreme Court’s latest case on climate change and the Clean Air Act, Utility Air R ...
  • Carbon nanotube flame retardants - two wrongs ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. Carbon nanotubes are wee little microscopic-sized tubes made of  sheets of carbon atoms, rolled up into a tube like a paper towel roll. One roll is a single walled carbon nanotube, and a fe ...
  • CU-Boulder Basketball Launches "Sustainable Ga ...
    Alice Henly, Resource Specialist & College Sports Greening Coordinator, New York The University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) continues to grow its leading “zero waste” sports practices by establishing a new partnership with sponsor c ...

Peakwater

  • California drought: Feds say farmers won&#8217 ...
    “In a crushing reminder of the state’s parched plight, federal officials announced Friday that the Central Valley Project — California’s largest water delivery system — will provide no water this year to Central Valley farmers and only 50 percent of the contracted a ...
  • As Fracking Booms, Growing Concerns About Was ...
    “In a study conducted last year, researchers from the environmental consulting firm, Downstream Strategies, attempted to trace fracking water — from water withdrawal to wastewater disposal — at several wells in the Marcellus Shale formation in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. “We just ...
  • Omo River, Lake Turkana at Risk from Dams and ...
    “Dams and irrigated plantations being built in Ethiopia will bring major changes to the flow of the Lower Omo River, which in turn will harm ecosystem functions and local livelihoods all the way to the river’s terminus at Lake Turkana in Kenya. More dams are planned for the basin tha ...
  • West Virginia Creek Runs Black After Catastrop ...
    “Waters are running black for roughly six miles in West Virginia’s Fields Creek after more than 100,000 gallons of toxic coal slurry poured into the waterway from a Patriot Coal processing facility Tuesday. “This is a big deal, this is a significant slurry spill,” said Se ...
  • Why global water shortages pose threat of terr ...
    “Already a billion people, or one in seven people on the planet, lack access to safe drinking water. Britain, of course, is currently at the other extreme. Great swaths of the country are drowning in misery, after a series of Atlantic storms off the cough-western coast. But that too is par ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • although the arrest was unwarranted and illega ...
    …With absolutely no prior criminal history – the victim is guilty of “escape” and imposed one year of unsupervised probation. This conviction was upheld by the Arizona Court of Appeals, which ruled that although the arrest was unwarranted and illegal, the victim had engaged in an illegal ac ...
  • With the far reaching implications
    …With the far reaching implications of the $upreme$ Citizen Untied decision do you really think BP gives a damn…?   BP Gets Slick in Trying to Undermine Gulf Oil Spill Settlement   Read the Article at the Los Angeles TimesFiled under: Blogroll
  • you think those “freebie$” no long ...
    …What you thought our $tate Legi$lator$ were going to pa$$ on the opportunity to attend the “game” on our dime with free ticket$ … come on… …What you think those “freebie$” no longer exist … yea, right….Filed under: Blogroll
  • read … Rachel Carson’s Silent Spri ...
    …Want to know more about mercury … read … Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring… Aninterview on mercury toxicity and mercury detox: I’ve just posted an interview with Dr. Chris Shade of Quicksilver Scientific. Dr. Shade knows more about mercury toxicity than anyone I’ve ever met, and this in ...
  • Parasitic Sector Can Be Eliminated
    …Tell me you are not seriously considering the privately owned FEDERAL RE$ERVE will ever allow this to occur … If “we” want this to occur then we need get off our butts and make it happen as we are the only ones who can…   Banks Are Obsolete: The Entire Parasitic Sector Can Be Eliminated [& ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Could camera trap videos galvanize the world t ...
    Even ten years ago it would have been impossible to imagine: clear-as-day footage of a jaguar plodding through the impenetrable Amazon, or a bicolored-spined porcupine balancing on a branch, or a troop of spider monkeys feeding at a clay lick, or a band of little coatis racing one-by-one from th ...
  • The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is th ...
    In 1956, in the quiet seaside town of Minamata on the southwestern coast of Japan's Kyushu Island, cats began to behave very strangely. They convulsed, displayed excessive salivation, and gradually lost the ability to walk. Then, dead birds began to fall out of the sky. Shellfish opened and deco ...
  • Indonesian cop caught smuggling rare timber wo ...
    Green activists are crying foul after an Indonesian police officer believed to have laundered nearly $128 million in proceeds from illegal fuel and timber smuggling was sentenced to just two years in prison for illegal logging – a verdict described as 'shockingly lenient' and 'unbelievable ...
  • The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitio ...
    Due to the wonderful idiosyncrasies of evolution, there is one country on Earth that houses 20 percent of the world's primates. More astounding still, every single one of these primates—an entire distinct family in fact—are found no-where else. The country is, of course, Madagascar a ...
  • Sky islands: exploring East Africa's last frontier
    The montane rainforests of East Africa are little-known to the global public. The Amazon and Congo loom much larger in our minds, while the savannas of East Africa remain the iconic ecosystems for the region. However these ancient, biodiverse forests—sitting on the tops of mountains rising ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Tiny gem the oldest piece of Earth ever found
    A gem found on a sheep ranch in Australia has been found to have formed 4.4 billion years ago - making it the oldest piece of our planet ever recorded.The discovery alters our understanding of the early stages in Earth's formation,...
  • Volcanoes behind global warming 'pause' - scie ...
    The impact of volcanic eruptions on global warming could provide a new explanation for the so-called "pause" used by sceptics to deny climate change is happening, scientists have said.According to a study in the US, models for predicting...
  • More sinkholes open up in Britain
    A spate of sinkholes have opened up across the country as floodwater dissolves the underlying rock, while a "second wave" is likely to appear in the coming weeks as the rain stops and the ground begins to dry, the British Geological...
  • Pacific atoll's rebirth following devastating ...
    New research has shown the remarkable rebirth of a Pacific atoll devastated by a typhoon over a century ago.The University of Auckland study, published in the journal Geomorphology , highlights the dynamism of island systems of...
  • Scientists seek better predictions of volcanic ...
    Scientists may be able to better predict how quickly some volcanoes erupt after studying material thrown out of Mt Tauhara, overlooking Taupo.The imposing mountain, formed about 65,000 years ago, had some "peculiar aspects" which...

The Bovine

  • Scientist was threatened by company because of ...
    For all we know, this sort of thing goes on all the time. But that it’s not often stories like this break out into the media: From Jason Louv, on Ultraculture.org: “Tyrone Hayes, a scientist at the University of California, … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt legal news roundup
    Farmer and activist Michael Schmidt has more than one legal controversy on the go. A couple of weeks ago Michael was in the news for taking Ontario raw milk case to Ontario’s highest court.  On February 5th, 2014, a panel … Continue reading →
  • Judge’s ruling drove Dan Brown out of fa ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Lawyers for Maine farmer Dan Brown say a judge who issued an injunction last April barring him from selling raw milk “completely overlooked” that he would have had to spend $62,500 … Continue reading →
  • Fukushima radiation — it’s here now
    From Richard Chomko, via FB: The author reports that this was on a day it was snowing fairly heavily. Suspicion is that precipitation brings the radioactive particles down out of the atmosphere.  
  • GMOs in Australia; Raw milk in Ontario
    From the Centre for Social Poetry: “Two court proceedings of global significance are currently underway. The first is in Perth, Western Australia; the second in Ontario, Canada. Both cases have relevance not just for the future of food, but of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Bye Bye Mt. Gox: Bitcoin Exchange Website Appe ...
    The "MtGox" bitcoin exchange site that handled a vast majority of bitcoin transactions is now unavailable at best. More likely, money at Mt. Gox has vanished by fraud. Yesterday, Reuters reported Mt. Gox's CEO resigns from Bitcoin Foundation. Today the Wall Street Journal notes Bitcoin Excha ...
  • Ukraine Aftermath: Hunt for Yanukovich, Russia ...
    Let's tie up some loose ends on Ukraine, even as much uncertainty remains. Documents Reveal Plans to Use Army on Civilians Financial Times: Papers reveal Yanukovich plans to turn army against protesters The Yanukovich regime had drawn up plans for a massive crackdown on protesters in Kiev usin ...
  • Germany at Heart of Europe's Political Predica ...
    Germany is at the heart of Europe's political predicament. Although the status quo cannot and will not work, there is no incentive to change. Germany’s Constitutional Court has strengthened the Eurosceptics and eliminates further moves by Germany towards debt mutualization. Some think debt m ...
  • Monetarism, Abenomics, QE, and Minimum Wage Pr ...
    Telegraph writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is back at it. In arguably his worst article ever, Pritchard complains France is Looking Straight Down the Barrel of a Deflation Shock. Pritchard bemoans the horrors of falling prices and says "There is a technical solution to this. It is called QE. The ...
  • Detroit Bankruptcy Proposal - No One is Happy ...
    The Detroit pensioners are up in arms over the latest proposal submitted on February 20 by emergency manager Kevyn Orr. Bondholders are also upset. If everyone is upset, does that mean the deal is fair? Let's investigate the idea starting with Detroit bankruptcy plan includes deep pension cut ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The New Great Game Round-Up: February 23, 2014
    CIA Drones in Central Asia, Russia to Take Control of Manas Airport, China Fights Separatism & More *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Ce ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Billie Holiday- “All of Me” I was going over the list of the artists we’ve had on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick and one that was missing was the amazing Billie Holiday! So tonight we add her to the list with her singing All of Me…Enjoy…DJPJ.
  • What You Should Know About the Ukraine-Style A ...
    The Venezuelan autocrats of the past are now masquerading as democratswith the aim of just getting all their old privileges back The US-supported opposition in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is taking its cue from the anti-government protests taking place across the Atlantic Ocean in Ukrai ...
  • Turkey’s Pro-Western Imperialism Puppets Accus ...
    Western Influenced & Directed Regime Change Operations are Deemed as a “Conspiracy Theory” I just finished reading a ridiculous hit piece published at Eurasia.Net accusing the Turkish people of being conspiracy theorists for believing that the imperial US and EU are engaged in schemes toward ...
  • Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: M ...
    Peter B. Collins Presents Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps As a member of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Copps cast the only dissenting vote to the approval of Comcast’s acquisition of NBC/Universal. In this conversation, he details his strong opposition to the new pro ...

bloody crossroads

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Making platelets
    A way to grow blood platelets, a critical ingredient in the cogulation system, has been announced by scientists in Japan. When you cut yourself, tiny little blood cell fragments called platelets rus...
  • Brain-training boosts ball skills
    Brain-training exercises to boost visual awareness might be the way for baseball players to gain an edge over the opposition, new research has shown. Previous research into visual ability has tended ...
  • Stress depresses markets
    Stress hormones can depress financial markets, a new study suggests. Rapid price fluctuations on the stock market, referred to as volatility, usually reflects market uncertainty and causes brokers a...
  • Powering-up growth factors
    Growth factors with powerful wound-healing effects have been developed by Swiss researchers. Tissues respond to injury by making cells grow and divide to knit wounds together. Usually this occurs in ...
  • Acne bacteria spotted in grapevines
    The bacterium which causes acne in humans has been found in Italian grapevines. Proprionibacterium acnes - P. acnes - is a bacterium associated with human skin and is responsible, to the anguish of ...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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 ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Cost of Obama's Trip is Dwarfed By George And ...
    Facts! Submitted by Laura H. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Bush Spent 5 Times More On Flights To Texas Th ...
    Facts are facts! From 12/23./11. Submitted by Laura H. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Rock piles become mans meditative art
    Michael Grab spends a few minutes to a few days creating balancing rock formations that last 10 minutes to a few days; shares art on Gravity Glue website Submitted by Freya T. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Most Disgusting Female Prison In America
    Prisons and jails house over 2 million people in America. However bleak and undesirable the conditions of prisons are likely to be, they are, in fact, home to the people who live there. Submitted by Freya T. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Alabama House debated the Ten Commandments ...
    There it was, in one not-so-brief and not-so-shining moment, a summation of all the reasons Alabama cant solve its weightier problems. Submitted by Freya T. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

  • To Paraphrase VP Joe Biden, the Keystone Pipel ...
    By Richard E Walrath and Patricia L Johnson The Honorable Stephanie F. Stacy, Judge of the District Court, 3rd District, Lancaster County, Nebraska ruled on February 19, 2014 that the 2012 law allowing Governor Dave Heineman to approve the revised … Continue reading →
  • What is the Status of Keystone XL?
    By Patricia L Johnson Do you really know the facts behind the Keystone XL Pipeline Project? Executive Order 13337 signed April 30, 2004, by President George W. Bush dictates that the Secretary of State shall be ‘designated and empowered’ to … Continue reading →
  • Happy Valentine’s Day
    Filed under: News and politics
  • Republicans at Work – NOT Taking Care of ...
    By Patricia L Johnson and Richard E Walrath Following is an excerpt from a letter written February 7, 2014 to John A. Boehner, Speaker of the House from Department of Treasury Secretary, Jacob J. Lew. “As you know, the Continuing … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) & ...
    U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).Filed under: News and politics Tagged: EIA, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Winter 2013 - 2014 Propane Update

Rogue Government - WP

  • TOP 60 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
    IJReview.com hits the #3 conservative website by monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the 17th “news and politics” site in the United States, including all websites who publish in that category. On a side note, new start-up Liftbump.com cracks the Top 60. ...
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    Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
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