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The Daily Galaxy

  • Discoverer of Pulsars --First Thought to be Si ...
                 The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and the arts, has appointed its first female president. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist credited with one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century. She was a doct ...
  • Giant System of Exo-Planets Discovered Orbitin ...
        A team of Japanese astronomers in January, 2014 obtained firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This result has a transformative impact on the theories of planet formation and g ...
  • New NASA Technologies Search for Extraterrestr ...
        "New NASA technology will be extremely useful to search for amino acids and other potential chemical biosignatures in samples returned from Mars and eventually plume materials from the outer planet icy moons Enceladus and Europa," says Daniel Glavin of the Astrobiology Lab at Goddard ...
  • Cassini Spacecraft Zooms in on Saturn's Hexago ...
        This spectacular view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon.' This movie, made from images obtained by Cassini's imaging cameras, is the first to show the hexagon in color filters, and ...
  • Hubble's Giant Successor Ready for Assembly -- ...
                With the arrival of the last three of the 18 flight primary mirror segments at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., all the pieces of the most powerful space telescope ever are ready for assembly. After traveling across the country, the mirrors were prepped to ...

Natural News

Threat Level

  • The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for An ...
    The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.     
  • Alleged Silk Road Founder Indicted Again, This ...
    Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder and owner of the underground drug emporium Silk Road, has been indicted in New York.     
  • In Just 6 Months, the NSA Spied on More Than 5 ...
    Four tech giants embroiled in the government's secret PRISM collection program reported today that they had received classified national security demands for the contents of at least 59,000 user accounts during the first half of 2013.     
  • Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to t ...
    Why the appellate court challenge pitting encrypted email provider Lavabit against the Justice Department is so important? It’s the only publicly documented case where a district judge has ordered an internet company to hand over its SSL key to the ...     
  • Digital Currency Founder: U.S. Indicted Me For ...
    The founder of digital currency Liberty Reserve says he was indicted and arrested last year after refusing to hand over the source code for his system to the FBI.     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • U.S. and Israeli Rabbis Clash over Kerry Peace ...
    The Middle East peace process being led by Secretary of State John Kerry is reaching crunch time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While his coalition partners to his left will likely walk if he abandons the process, many in his own Likud Party and among its hard-right allies will ...
  • Income Inequality and the Invisible Finger of ...
    Income inequality is not a disease, but rather a symptom of a disease. For over four decades, the United States has suffered from an atrophying of the great American middle class. The decline of post-World War II American economic dominance, the rise of new international competitors, the withe ...
  • Dr. Krauthammer Offers GOP a Cure for Its War ...
    Long before he became America's preeminent conservative columnist, Charles Krauthammer was a practicing physician in Boston. Now, the psychiatrist turned commentator is offering a prescription for his Republican Party suffering from the blowback of its war on women. The antidote to the yawning ...
  • Hatchcare 1.0 Was a Better Plan than His New G ...
    Along with his fellow GOP Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC), Utah's Orrin Hatch this week unveiled a new Republican plan to replace Obamacare. Due to its lack of a health insurance mandate, less generous tax credits to purchase coverage and stricter eligibility for Medicaid, th ...
  • Canadian PM Redefines Anti-Semitism in Israel
    Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded what many observers deemed a triumphant four-day visit to Israel. His powerful message to the Knesset that "through fire and water, Canada will stand with you" earned him the praise of conservatives in Israel, Canada and the U.S. alike. ...

Global Research.ca

  • Kerry v. Lavrov in Munich
    Kerry representa o pior do lado nefasto dos Estados Unidos. Isso é definido pela ilegalidade imperial e pelas permanentes guerras contra a humanidade. Lavrov e Vladimir Putin merecem o Prêmio Nobel da Paz. Eles enfrentam conflitos regionais responsavelmente. Eles querem…
  • Alto a la brutalidad de al-Maliki en contra de ...
    En nombre de una coalición de ONGs, el Centro Internacional de Ginebra para la Justicia (GICJ, por sus siglas en inglés) ha lanzado un llamamiento urgente a la comunidad internacional y a los organismos de la ONU tras su llamamiento …
  • The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Te ...
    In the weeks leading up to the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Western Media has released a dribble of “trustworthy reports” examining “the likelihood” of a terrorist attack at the height of the Olympic games. In late January, the British government…
  • News Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy. Media Bi ...
    “Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.” – Michael Parenti An exchange in January with Paul Farhi, Washington Post columnist, about coverage of US foreign policy:…
  • Spy Agency Engaged In Internet “False Flag” At ...
    Spy Agency “Masqueraded As An Enemy In A ‘False Flag’ Operation” We’ve warned since 2009 (and see this) that the government could be launching cyber “false flag attacks” in order to justify a crackdown on the Internet and discredit web…

TPM Cafe

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

  • PA Governor Wants To Scrap The Ban On Gas Dril ...
    Governor Tom Corbett talked up the benefit of reaping fossil fuels from the Marcellus Shale in a recent presentation As part of his state’s overall budget for the coming fiscal year, Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett has proposed lifting a 4-year-old ban on gas drilling in state parks a ...
  • Approving Keystone XL Could Be the Biggest Mis ...
    A State Department report fails to take into account the full climate impacts of Keystone XL. Who is Obama protecting? I have made my position on the Keystone XL pipeline quite clear. Approving this hotly debated pipeline would send America down the wrong path. The science tells us n ...
  • If We Don't Put People Before Profits, Spills ...
    There will never be clean water in West Virginia, because there is never justice. The dirty secret in President Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy policy was quietly overlooked in his State of the Union address.Three weeks after global media attention on the West Virginia coal-chemica ...
  • Shell Ditches Plan to Drill in Alaskan Arctic ...
    Anglo Dutch oil giant's new chief executive slashes exploration and development spending as profits fall 71 percent. Shell has announced plans to slash its exploration and development spending from $46bn (£27.8bn) to $37bn this year and has ditched plans to drill in the Alaskan Arcti ...
  • Fracking Just Arrived on Your Doorstep
    Spectra Energy is expanding its fracking pipelines throughout the U.S., including Boston. Suddenly, I'm in the crosshairs of the fracking industry, too. We all are. This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.com as a TomGram feature, and is reprinted here with their permission.For th ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas House Interim Charges to Watch
    Between legislative sessions, the Texas Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House of Representatives appoint Interim Committees to study important issues that help guide the Texas Legislature’s decisions in the future. These interim committees hold hearings and take public testimony. Their fi ...
  • No More Nukes – Come to a screening of Pandora ...
    “Pandora’s Promise” film screening / panel discussion tonight, but before coming you might want to read this peer reviewed response to the myths and propaganda in Pandora’s Promise produced by Beyond Nuclear - Reception: 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Screening / panel discussion and Q&A: 6:00 ...
  • Solar San Antonio’s Bill Sinkin Dies at age 100
    William R. “Bill” Sinkin, the founder of Solar San Antonio who celebrated his 100th birthday with the organization this past spring, has passed away.  Solar San Antonio will be celebrating Bill’s life at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, February 7, 2014 at the Temple Beth-el, located at 21 ...
  • Rally Tonight to Protest Keystone XL
    Now is the time to stand up and tell President Obama that the Keystone XL pipeline fails his climate test and he must reject it. People from across the country have mobilized to plan more than 230 vigils in 47 states to protest Keystone XL.  Join us tonight, Feb. 3rd, in Austin. With the release ...
  • The Big Game Goes Green
    Most of us, when watching “the big game” do not really stop to think about the enormous amount of energy it takes to power such an event. This year, the Super Bowl, as well as the parties and events surrounding it, are going to use about 18 megawatts of energy, enough to power about ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA to help companies reach the moon
    The space agency has renewed its efforts to aid private companies in the commercial race to the moon. While NASA has no plans to send humans back to t...
  • Lockheed develops huge laser gun weapon
    The defense contractor has built and demonstrated a working 30-kilowatt laser weapon for military use. Having been a staple of science fiction for yea...
  • New Voynich manuscript clue surfaces
    An analysis of plant illustrations within the text has turned up links to an extinct Mexican language. Discovered by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in 19...
  • Rats could evolve to be as big as sheep
    The extinction of several large mammal species could pave the way for super-sized rats. Being highly adaptable, rats could soon grow to huge sizes if ...
  • 4,600-year-old pyramid discovered in Egypt
    A step pyramid unearthed near Edfu is thought to predate the Great Pyramid of Giza by several decades. The pyramid is one of several built by either t...

Grassroots

  • Transformation and Solidarity: Interview with ...
    Recently Rita Zanotto from the Landless Workers Movement (MST) sat down with Grassroots International’s Sara Mersha to talk about global movements, partnership and power.  read more
  • Life, Death and Bravery in Central America
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  A retired University of Hawaii administrator, Barbara Polk is currently on the boards of Americans for Democratic Action/Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii and has testified at the state Legislature on good gov ...
  • Alfredo Lopez, Human Rights Defender and Big H ...
    alfredo_lopez_-_honduras201105-88_cropped.jpg  read more
  • Today’s peasant movement – sophisticated, thre ...
    viamarch.jpg The term peasant often conjures up images of medieval serfs out of touch with the ways of the world around them. Such thinking is out of date. Today, peasants proudly and powerfully put forward effective strategies to feed the ...
  • Recovery in Gaza After Winter Storm Alexa
    gazaflood4.jpg The occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) faced one of the worst winter storms seen in decades last month. The West Bank experienced record snow fall, which municipalities were ill-equipped to handle. While Gaza was spared m ...

Care 2

  • Starfish Ripped Apart by Mysterious Disease
    Starfish limbs wrench themselves from their bodies when suffering from a mysterious new disease. Biologists dont know what causes the affliction or how to stop it. Submitted by Giana Peranio Paz to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • IN Residents: Please Speak Up Again to Help Ca ...
    House Bill 1199 is now before the Senate for consideration. Please use Best Friends' legislative alert system and urge your state senator to support this important, lifesaving measure. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Urge ABX Air to Stop Shipping Monkeys to Labor ...
    Please take a minute of your time to urge ABX Air to join nearly every other airline in the world by banning shipments of primates destined for cruel experiments. Putting the subject line and letter into your own words will help draw attention Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  &nbs ...
  • Tell Congress: Stop the Fracking Frenzy ! PLEA ...
    A disastrous trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being negotiated behind closed doors. If passed, it could severely hinder our efforts to stop fracking, the dangerous fossil fuel extraction technique that pollutes our environment, Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  | ...
  • GOP rabbi schools Fox News on Duck Dynasty: Ba ...
    Shmuel Shmuley Boteach, a conservative rabbi who ran for office as a Republican and was endorsed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), on Tuesday blasted Duck Dynasty reality star Phil Robertson for doing tremendous damage to religion with... Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Cultur ...

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No Quarter

  • The Despicable Acts of CIA Official Morell
    The evidence from the SSCI report on Benghazi coupled with recent comments by Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte, paints a damning, disturbing picture of Mike Morrell, an intel hack who served for a short while as the Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The story, which is up on ...
  • Superbowl, Show Business and America
    Not much earth shaking going on apart from the hoopla surrounding the Superbowl. So this is your open thread, especially if you hate football. Let’s start with censorship. Actress Scarlett Johansson’s ad for Soda Stream got nixed because she had the audacity to mention those forbidden word ...
  • Black and Dirty
    Any long time reader here knows I am a person who respects the environment and have attacked government policy and corporate action that is reckless in regard to the health and safety of the children of our future generations. So it may seem surprising that, triggered by the Friday report from t ...
  • Shortened Version of Barack Obama’s SOTU Speech
    For those of you who could not endure watch President Obama the other night, here is an abridged version. Props are due. He was incredibly eloquent and passionate. Okay. Should have warned you about watching this and drinking coffee. I think Obama would be well served to take some lessons from t ...
  • He inspired us kids.
    He moved me. He made the folk and awareness movement advance by getting the audience involved. He created some things in our minds we had never seen before. From where he came and for what he made us young people think in the 1960s I see that he and I are now different. He was [...]

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.5, south of the Kermadec Islands
    Sunday, February 2, 2014 09:26:35 UTC Sunday, February 2, 2014 09:26:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 40.10 km (24.92 mi)
  • M 6.5, Tonga
    Tuesday, January 21, 2014 01:29:13 UTC Tuesday, January 21, 2014 03:29:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.00 km (20.51 mi)
  • M 5.5, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Thursday, January 16, 2014 07:33:13 UTC Wednesday, January 15, 2014 09:33:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.00 km (23.61 mi)
  • M 6.4, Puerto Rico region
    Monday, January 13, 2014 04:00:58 UTC Monday, January 13, 2014 12:00:58 AM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
  • M 5.0, Cuba region
    Thursday, January 9, 2014 20:57:47 UTC Thursday, January 9, 2014 03:57:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.00 km (12.43 mi)

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Another Dirty Trick: GOP Creates Websites To F ...
    A Florida man who wanted to donate money to a Democrat ended up donating to the GOP because of a misleading website. A Florida man who wanted to donate money to a Democrat ended up donating to  Republicans.  A Republican Party-controlled website was set up to look like it was in favor of the c ...
  • National Abortion Rate Sees Huge Drop As More ...
    Fewer women are getting pregnant because of expanded access to contraception. Between 2008 and 2011, the national abortion rate declined by 13 percent, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute that will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Perspectives on Sexual and Repro ...
  • NYC Mayor Strikes a Major Blow to Charter Scho ...
    The NYC mayor is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to funding charter schools. The image is surreal. Newly elected New York mayor Bill de Blasio, wearing a broad and slightly goofy smile, dwarfs the infinitely vilified outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg, who seems somewhat bemused himself ...
  • As Inequality Worsens, Millionaires Are Pullin ...
    The 1% evading taxation while choosing to share their anger rather than their wealth. When I became a partner in a law firm, something strange happened at the bank. Our relationship deepened. I became a premium client with premium needs.I was introduced to my customer relationship manager. So ...
  • Are You, or the People You Know and Love, Mens ...
    Ask yourself the questions. Characteristics of a Jerk:1.     They interrupt.2.     They don’t take turns.3.     They take advantage of people who are down.4.     They gloat in victory.5.     They are sullen in defeat.6.     They are not fair.7.     They lack integrity.8.     They are the peopl ...

Threat Level

  • The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for An ...
    The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.     
  • Alleged Silk Road Founder Indicted Again, This ...
    Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder and owner of the underground drug emporium Silk Road, has been indicted in New York.     
  • In Just 6 Months, the NSA Spied on More Than 5 ...
    Four tech giants embroiled in the government's secret PRISM collection program reported today that they had received classified national security demands for the contents of at least 59,000 user accounts during the first half of 2013.     
  • Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to t ...
    Why the appellate court challenge pitting encrypted email provider Lavabit against the Justice Department is so important? It’s the only publicly documented case where a district judge has ordered an internet company to hand over its SSL key to the ...     
  • Digital Currency Founder: U.S. Indicted Me For ...
    The founder of digital currency Liberty Reserve says he was indicted and arrested last year after refusing to hand over the source code for his system to the FBI.     

IntelNews

  • Thatcher warned about clandestine CIA activiti ...
    British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was warned in 1984 that American intelligence carried out operations in the United Kingdom without London’s consent. Although she dismissed the warnings, she authorized British counterintelligence to investigate the matter.
  • News you may have missed #867 (Syrian uprising ...
    Al-Qaeda breaks link with Syrian militant group. Is Israel secretly working to target al-Qaeda in Syria? Australians 'flocking to Syrian front line'.
  • Newspaper retracts report of Turkish jets atta ...
    A Turkish newspaper has retracted a report stating that Turkish military jets entered Syrian territory and destroyed an outpost belonging to an al-Qaeda-linked rebel group, after its members attacked a Turkish military garrison along the Syrian-Turkish border. In a published correction, the pape ...
  • Israel jails Orthodox Jew who offered to spy f ...
    An Israeli citizen, who belongs to an Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewish group that rejects the existence of the state of Israel, has been jailed for offering to spy for Iran.
  • South Korean ex-spy chief jailed for accepting ...
    One of the most powerful figures in South Korea’s intelligence establishment has been sentenced to prison for accepting bribes in return for helping a private company acquire government contracts.

War is a Crime.org

  • Turkey News - Feb 6
      CHP leader: Erdoğan collected $630 mln from businesspeople to buy out Sabah media outlet - Today's Zaman Bribe collected for Sabah media group carried by armored vehicle - Today's Zaman CHP asked source of million dollars 'donated' to foundation led by PM's son - CİHAN Report: Busin ...
  • Keystone XL's Northern Leg: A Fracked Oil Pipe ...
    Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog On January 31, President Barack Obama's U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the northern leg of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The State Department's FEIS argues that the northern half of Key ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Curing the Twin Crises of W ...
    https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-curing-the War and greed, militarism and extreme materialism, killing and consuming -- these two threats play off each other, and both can be cured by similar means.  In this week's show we hear an audio message from a newly forming mo ...
  • Justice gets the shaft when it involves Mumia: ...
    The latest from ThisCantBeHappening!:   Justice gets the shaft when it involves Mumia: Sen. Toomey and Philly DA Williams Slam Obama Rights Nominee for Seeking Justice By Dave Lindorff read more
  • “Hancock 17” Drone War Crimes Resisters Verdict
    Friday, February 7, 2014 at 4:45pm Town of Dewitt Court, 5400 Butternut Drive, East Syracuse Read or hear their Jan 31 Closing Statements On Friday, January 31, the Hancock 17 Drone War Crimes Resisters trial concluded with Closing Arguments. Eight defendants gave legal and moral Closing Arg ...

Grist - News

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman Questions Freed Pussy Riot Members ...
    Two freed members of the Russian group Pussy Riot made their first public appearance in the United States Tuesday after being released from prison in December. Nadia Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina served nearly all of their two-year sentences for protesting Russian leader Vladimir Putin insi ...
  • VIDEO: 350.org & Indigenous Groups Hold Vigils ...
    Across the United States on Monday, protesters took to the streets in hundreds of rallies urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The actions in at least 44 states followed a State Department report claiming the pipeline's northern leg would have a minimal impac ...
  • VIDEO: Pete Seeger Recalls the 1949 Peekskill ...
    Watch an exclusive excerpt from our 2004 interview with the legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, who died Monday at the age of 94. We searched our archives and found Seeger's description of the Peekskill Riots of 1949, when he and the singer and actor Paul Robeson were attacked after ...
  • Peter Seeger: Troubadour of Truth and Justice
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Pete Seeger’s life, like the arc of the moral universe famously invoked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., bent toward justice. He died this week at 94. Pete sang truth to power through the epic struggles of most of the last century, for social justice, for c ...
  • Aaron Swartz: The Life We Lost and the Day We ...
    PARK CITY , Utah—A year after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remarkable young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, titled “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” directed by Brian Knappenberger, follows ...

Solari

  • Letter to the Mayor of Syracuse
    From: Catherine Austin Fitts Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM To: ”Mayor@SyrGov.net” Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner Dear Mayor Miner: I am writing to request that you ask your staff to invest ...
  • Changing Faces at Microsoft
    By Catherine Austin Fitts The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is: “The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on tho ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – ...
    **Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!** By Catherine Austin Fitts While benefits and contracts to private corporations from the federal budget have risen, the corporate portion of U.S ...
  • Break Away in 2014
  • Book Review: Jim Marrs’ Latest
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I have long been a fan of Jim Marrs. He is a serious journalist. He never gives up looking for the truth. He just keeps connecting dots. He writes beautifully. So I was interested to read his newest book Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Paris’ Ghost Metro Stations Could Become Subte ...
    Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and her team recently unveiled sketches for a series of projects that would reclaim the City of Light’s abandoned Metro stations. There are many different proposals for transforming those unused underground spaces including restaurants,     
  • How Can We Waterproof Our Future?
    The Sea Tree design by architect Koen Olthuis (c) Waterstudio.NL When the movie Waterworld premiered in 1995, people regarded the Kevin Costner flick as a fairly ridiculous post-apocalyptic science fiction film: Now, nearly two decades later, the tale's     
  • 14 Green Gift Ideas For Valentine’s Day
    IDEA 1: Eco-Friendly Valentine's Day Cards Nothing says I love you like the actual words, written down on paper. Getting love notes on Valentine's Day is an age-old tradition, so this year, why not scribble those sweet nothings into an adorable card printed     
  • Amazing Interactive Map Shows Carbon Footprint ...
    Amidst numerous discussions about reducing greenhouse gases stands a glaring question: what are the greatest sources of household emissions? To answer this, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley created this amazing interactive map that tracks     
  • 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is the Most Fuel-Effic ...
    In the past full-size pickup truck manufacturers have always boasted about how much their vehicles can tow or haul - largely at the expense of fuel economy. Now Chrysler has taken a step towards making these vehicles more fuel efficient with the 2014 Ram 1500     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Curiosity Rover’s Epic New Panorama of the San ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover recently climbed atop a dune and peered into the valley beyond. And in this stunning panorama — made from 101 images and stretching 30,000 pixels across — you can take a moment to see the Martian sights ...     
  • New Yorkers in Uproar Over Planned Mass-Killin ...
    In the menagerie of human mythology, mute swans occupy a special place. Across millennia they've symbolized transformation and devotion, light and beauty. Now a plan to eradicate the birds from New York has made them symbols of something else: a ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Solar Flare Beauty
    The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, beginning at 11:57 p.m. EST on Feb. 3, 2014, and peaking at midnight EST. NASA released images of the flare as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.     
  • New Bionic Hand Gives Amputee a Grip — And a S ...
    Dennis Aabo Sørensen lost his left hand in a fireworks accident during a family holiday when he was in his mid-twenties. Last year, the 36-year old Danish man got a chance to test out a new prosthetic hand that connected ...     
  • What Musicians Can Tell Us About Dyslexia and ...
    Musicians with dyslexia are extremely uncommon. A new study, the first to look at this rare group, challenges some of the conventional thinking on the relationship between language and music.     

PakAlert

  • Money Confiscation And Martial Law Unavoidable ...
    The wave of capital destruction which many have been warning about for the last few years, is now breaking like a tsunami,Poland, Ireland (also here), Spain, Germany (and here), and the rest of the Euro-zone (and here) are being inundated with failures and the overhang of immediate risk is effec ...
  • Chemtrails: Raw and uncut with Michael Murphy
    One of the world’s leading chemtrail experts speaks his mind The editor-in-chief of Intellihub News Shepard Ambellas managed to capture chemtrail researcher, activist and renown filmmaker Michael Murphy for a one-on-one interview
  • FEMA Camps: Are They Coming?
    Martial Law has already been established on paper, and a Supreme Court Justice now warns that the nation’s highest court would back executive orders to intern Americans, as it did during WWII. Senior Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the longest serving justice of the Supreme Court who has be ...
  • Video – New Fukushima Government Plan: Wholesa ...
    How much radioactive water can the Pacific Ocean absorb? The damage that is being done to our ecosystem is irreverseable, the future of mankind is dependent on our Oceans. Why is mainstream media not broadcasting this, morning, noon, and night?
  • Obama Prepares Government To Re-Educate Patrio ...
    One of the major things to keep in mind here is that the document clearly states the readiness of the government and military to act within America’s borders. Although it is highly illegal for the military to operate within our own country, the document that has been leaked explains that it is ...

Andy Worthington

  • Close Guantánamo Now: Transcript of Andy Worth ...
    On January 15, as part of my two-week “Close Guantánamo Now” US tour, marking the 12th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, I was the keynote speaker at a lunch event in a Methodist church in Los Angeles, which was convened by Interfaith ...
  • Clive Stafford Smith on Guantánamo: “You ...
    On Friday, a powerful op-ed appeared on CNN’s website, entitled, “Mr. President, what should I tell cleared prisoners in Guantánamo?” It was written by someone who has been meeting prisoners at Guantánamo, as a civilian lawyer, for nearly ten years, and has been meeting prisone ...
  • Poland and Lithuania Haunted by Their Involvem ...
    In the long search for accountability for the torturers of the Bush administration, which has largely been shut down by President Obama, lawyers and human rights activists have either had to try shaming the US through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or have had to focus on other c ...
  • GTMO Clock Marks 250 Days Since President Obam ...
    Today the GTMO Clock, an initiative launched last August by the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, which I established two years ago with the US attorney Tom Wilner, marks a particular anniversary. It is 250 days since, stung by criticism caused by the Guantánamo prisoners embarking on a p ...
  • Indefinitely Detained Guantánamo Prisoner Asks ...
    Two days ago, I published an article looking at the outcome of the first Periodic Review Board held at Guantánamo — a much delayed review process for ascertaining whether 71 of the remaining 155 prisoners should continue to be held indefinitely without charge or trial. This process was sup ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Evolution is confusing
    The infamous “March of Progress” diagram is not a scientific illustration of human evolution, although creationists haul it out repeatedly as some kind of evidence that evolution is wrong. They usually tell their flock that there are millions of “chimps” and millions of p ...
  • This year’s bright young thing
    You will have seen the news recently that a new supernova has appeared in the sky. This one is quite close, a mere 12- million light years (more than 1020 kilometres from Earth. I reported on it at the time for SpectroscopyNOW “Astronomers have planned observations using the Hubble Space T ...
  • Weights and measures
    Sciencebase reader Clayton W from Canada was keen to find some obtain up-to-date and accurate physical and chemical constants that wasn’t just the US NIST page. He is currently tutoring some high school and higher chemistry and physics students, and wanted access to better resources than t ...
  • Smashing through the writer’s roadblock
    Countless psychology theses have been written about creativity under pressure, deadlines pushing people to new heights, the fight or flight adrenalin panic that opens the floodgates for a stream of consciousness to come gushing out. Obvious it seems that after a momentary panic revolving around ...
  • Fat versus sugar
    If you haven’t got an hour to spare to watch the recent BBC Horizon program about fat and sugar diets, then here’s an executive summary of Colin’s Beauty Page’s executive summary of the main conclusions: Extreme diets are a bad move…we can survive for a while withou ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • What's The Best Feature Phone?
    Smartphones are awesome, and we talk about them a lot, but for some people, they're just not worth the complexity or the cost. Whether it's for a tech-challenged family member or you're giving up your own, this week we want to know which feature phones you think are the best. Read more...   ...
  • Quicker Logins, Hanger Bumps, and Exchange Ava ...
    Readers offer their best tips for getting to login pages faster, preventing hanger bumps on clothes, and making availability info more accessible in an Exchange environment.Read more...     
  • Breathe New Life Into Old Speakers by Re-foami ...
    Whether you have an ancient, but excellent pair of speakers sitting around your house, or you've scored a sweet set of vintage speakers from the thrift store, chances are they need need a little love to get them sounding great. In a lot of old speakers, the foam lining is the first to go, which ...
  • If You Have a Variable Income, You Need a Vari ...
    Managing your money is tough enough when you know exactly what you'll be making each month. When your income is variable, you have to deal with an extra layer of complexity. That's where this tip for a variable savings plan comes in handy. Read more...     
  • Jezebel Super Bowl Sex Trafficking Ring Busted ...
    Jezebel Super Bowl Sex Trafficking Ring Busted By the FBI | Gawker Single Americans: Cheap Prudes | Kotaku Meet The Man Who Hacked Jeopardy | io9 Real-life castaway says he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean | Valleywag Investor's Plan to Split California Would Create Poorest State in U ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • California Welcomes Stronger Whistleblower Pro ...
    On January 1, 2014, stronger whistleblower protection laws went into effect in California. SB 496, along with two other new laws (SB 666 and AB 263), significantly strengthened and expanded protections for whistleblowers under California Labor Code Section 1102.5, California’s general ...
  • New Book Details Journey to Becoming A Whistle ...
    Former EPA manager turned whistleblower, William Sanjour recently published, From The Files Of A Whistleblower: Or how EPA was captured by the industry it regulated.  In 1991, Sanjour challenged rules restricting EPA workers’ right to speak to environmental community groups.&nbsp ...
  • DOJ Secures Second Largest Annual Recovery fro ...
    During the 2013 fiscal year, the Justice Department secured $3.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases under the False Claims Act (FCA).   This dollar amount, which is the second largest annual recovery of its type in history, brings total recoveries under the FCA ...
  • Claim an Award: Updated SEC Whistleblower Awar ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgment or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final R ...
  • General Electric Hitachi Agrees to Pay $2.7 Mi ...
    The Department of Justice announced today that that General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (GE Hitachi) has agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it made false statements and claims to the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulat ...

TechDirt

  • Most Transparent White House? No, NYT Exec Edi ...
    We've been among those who have pointed out how laughable the Obama administration's claims to be "the most transparent administration in history" are, when, from nearly every angle, it appears that the Obama administration is ridiculously secretive -- beyond any previous administration. So, it' ...
  • Here's Why The EU Is Crazy Not To Insist On Fu ...
    One of the most recent Snowden stories has garnered relatively little attention, perhaps because it appeared (in English) on the Danish site Information.dk: At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, the world's nations were supposed to reach an agreement that would protect future generations ag ...
  • Texas A&M Goes After Washington Brewery Over 1 ...
    For some reason that I can't explain, the convergence of alcohol and trademark disputes seems to be a thing. Previously, we've seen how disputes over labels and area codes in beer brands have resulted in this sort of thing. More recently, we've also seen how these trademark disputes can result ...
  • DailyDirt: Better Call Saul...
    The Super Bowl -- uh, "the big game" -- commercials last weekend had a few ads that demonstrate (again) that people will actually want to watch commercials if they're done properly. But sometimes it's the train-wreck commercials that you just can't stop watching. Here are just a few really (real ...
  • Congress Warns DOJ That If It Doesn't Support ...
    While the USA Freedom Act isn't perfect, it is one bill in Congress that has a lot of support and will fix many problems with the current NSA overreach. Much more needs to be done, but the USA Freedom Act is a good starting point. And yet, the Obama administration and his Justice Department have ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Oh Hello. Are You Still Here?
    Finally got around to getting the site back up.  Thanks to those of you who checked in.  I am indeed alive and may perhaps even drop a line or two on here in the nearish future.
  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Keiser Report: Staged Rumble in Wall Street Ju ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKeiser Report: Staged Rumble in Wall Street Jungle (E559) Max Keiseryoutube.com In this episode of the Max Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert compare Wall Street to World Wrestling Entertainment where alleged comp ...
  • ​Saudi religious police hunt down Twitter ‘wit ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSaudi religious police hunt down Twitter witchcraft accounts RT.com The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which serves as the religious police of the conservative Gulf kingdom, is conducting su ...
  • Top of the Flops: Multimillion-pound financial ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTop of the Flops: Multimillion-pound financial scandals Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com Watch the full episode here: bit.ly Accountancy firms get audited, but they’re not really getting censured &#8 ...
  • [319] $35B Wasted on Broken Sub-Hunters, Desti ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com[319] $35B Wasted on Broken Sub-Hunters, Destigmatizing Abortion, Hope for Drug Offenders? Breaking The Set with Abby Martinyoutube.com Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the Farm Bill Let Down, the NATO 3, Minimum Sentencing R ...
  • Let Them Eat Symbols
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comLet Them Eat Symbols dissidentvoice.orgBy Ajamu Baraka It is a point of historical controversy whether or not when told that French peasants did not have bread to eat, Marie Antoinette uttered the phrase Let them eat cake, ...

Dandelion Salad

  • New Law Makes ‘Offending’ Bahrain ...
    Dandelion Salad RT on Feb 4, 2014 If you don’t think much of the King of Bahrain, maybe it’s better to keep it to yourself – or else you could face 7 years in prison, thanks to some new laws to defend the monarchy. Previously, the punishment was a few days in jail, but now, [&# ...
  • Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nucle ...
    by Gareth Porter Writer, Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP Washington February 5, 2014 When Western intelligence agencies began in the early 1990s to intercept telexes from an Iranian university to foreign high technology firms, intelligence analysts believed they saw the first signs of militar ...
  • Howard Zinn: Historical Interpretation + Q&A ( ...
    with Howard Zinn Writer, Dandelion Salad February 5, 2014 “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, 1984 Noam Chomsky Videos on Feb 4, 2014 A people’s history, history from below, or folk history is a t ...
  • US, Allies ‘Arming Al-Qaeda’ in Syria by Finia ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV, Feb. 4, 2014 February 5, 2014 The titular head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has reportedly disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Videos emerged over the weekend of the Egyptian-born leader denyi ...
  • Corporate Media’s Bias is One of Omissio ...
    by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org February 4, 2014 “Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.” – Michael Parenti An exchange in January with Paul Farhi, Was ...

Your New Reality

  • Dictators Love Censorship And Hate Free Speech ...
    When Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph was opposed to 'media censorship' By Darryl Mason Alleged "free speech" champions, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, has sent lawyers after the Paperboy website, that does an excellent job of rounding up daily front pages of newspaper from around the world. But ...
  • Pianotallica
      For someone returning to playing piano and keyboards 32 years after giving them up for writing, and as a 1980s Metallica fan, this performance of 'One' by Metallica and master pianist Lang Lang at the Grammy's is fucking mind-melting, and hugely inspiring. Heavy metal piano? Don't mind i ...
  • Like Dogs, Humans Can Smell Sickness In Others
    An absolutely startling piece of news to me, and confirmation, years later, that my senses were telling me the truth. I once 'smelled' cancer in an elderly woman, and alerted a relative that she was seriously ill, when she and her family did not know she was ill. A horrible thing to do. The el ...
  • SexBots Are The Future Of Digital Performance Art
    As an experiment, Brandon Boyer 'fed' online sex bots to each other. And this is what happened:  Wow. Not much in media yet, but people are having online relationships with automated tweet bots. Some humans know the bots aren't real, and don't care. Unlike many real humans online, the bo ...
  • Kurt Cobain - My Top 50 Albums
    Image via DaveGrohlTumblr This full list of Kurt Cobain's favourite, and most influential albums did the rounds of the music press in the 1990s. While many are key influences on Cobain and the music of Nirvana, some made the list because Cobain they were bands he wanted Nirvana fans to hear and ...

Wired - Science

  • Curiosity Rover’s Epic New Panorama of the San ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover recently climbed atop a dune and peered into the valley beyond. And in this stunning panorama — made from 101 images and stretching 30,000 pixels across — you can take a moment to see the Martian sights ...     
  • New Yorkers in Uproar Over Planned Mass-Killin ...
    In the menagerie of human mythology, mute swans occupy a special place. Across millennia they've symbolized transformation and devotion, light and beauty. Now a plan to eradicate the birds from New York has made them symbols of something else: a ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Solar Flare Beauty
    The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, beginning at 11:57 p.m. EST on Feb. 3, 2014, and peaking at midnight EST. NASA released images of the flare as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.     
  • New Bionic Hand Gives Amputee a Grip — And a S ...
    Dennis Aabo Sørensen lost his left hand in a fireworks accident during a family holiday when he was in his mid-twenties. Last year, the 36-year old Danish man got a chance to test out a new prosthetic hand that connected ...     
  • What Musicians Can Tell Us About Dyslexia and ...
    Musicians with dyslexia are extremely uncommon. A new study, the first to look at this rare group, challenges some of the conventional thinking on the relationship between language and music.     

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

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

Pruning Shears

  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2014 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2014 selections:BLCKDGRDBig Blue Dot Y’allWest Virginia Water CrisisThe Impoliticjoslyn stevens
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: Eminent domain ...
    Thanks to rjs for the help in researching this post.Last week I linked to this article detailing how the relative lack of pipelines in Ohio is preventing fracking from taking off as the extraction industry would like. This means pipelines have moved front and center in some communities. Since ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: Eminent domain ...
    Thanks to rjs for the help in researching this post.Last week I linked to this article detailing how the relative lack of pipelines in Ohio is preventing fracking from taking off as the extraction industry would like. This means pipelines have moved front and center in some communities. Since ...
  • Commissioners' meeting background: Pipelines, ...
    Last week I posted a statement prepared for our county commissioners regarding a pipeline under construction in Portage County. As I began outlining a report on the meeting I realized a good deal of context was needed for those not in the thick of it. Here is a bit of background.Pipelines have ...
  • Commissioners' meeting background: Pipelines, ...
    Last week I posted a statement prepared for our county commissioners regarding a pipeline under construction in Portage County. As I began outlining a report on the meeting I realized a good deal of context was needed for those not in the thick of it. Here is a bit of background.Pipelines have ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Rat Runs Around Monsanto
    The company must be feeling international heat if it has half a dozen local cops chase a rat across the front lawn of Monsanto World Headquarters (MWH). It was January 28, 2014, the day of the stockholders meeting at MWH. Inside, Dave Murphy held Adam Eidinger's proxy vote so that he could int ...
  • Indigenous Groups: 'No Keystone XL Pipeline Wi ...
    Native American communities along proposed route vow resistance against 'black snake' pipeline Click here to read this article
  • Roundup Accumulates in GMO Food, Proving Its L ...
    An important new manuscript accepted for publication in the journal Food Chemistry disproves the widely held notion that GMO crops are 'substantially equivalent' to their traditional counterparts;Click here to read this article
  • Widely Used Antacids Can Cause Vitamin B12 Def ...
    Acid reflux is an extremely common health problem, affecting as many as 50 percent of Americans. Other terms used for this condition are gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or peptic ulcer disease.Click here to read this article
  • The New Farm Bill: Yet Again, Not Ready for Cl ...
    Imagine you're a policy maker in a large country in an era of increasing climate instability-more floods and droughts, driven by steadily increasing average temperatures. And say the policy you make largely dictated the way your country's farmers grow their crops.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The New Farm Bill: Did It Make History?
    What was dramatic and historic was the collapse of the legislative process that made this a three-year ordeal instead of a more typical one-year process.
  • Gone with the Wind (and Water)
    What happens when that snow melts and water rushes over the soil? Or when the soil dries out after the spring rains have come and gone, but the wind still blows strongly?
  • CLF Week in Links: Farm Bill, SOTU, Antibiotic ...
    There is not much to like about this bill, which will provide generous crop insurance to large-scale farmers while weakening the safety net for the poor among us.
  • Lettuce Seedling Trials: Do fertilizers and pr ...
    This fall, I studied methods to improve germination rates and seedling growth of lettuce by testing whether watering with natural fertilizers and probiotics affected seedlings differently than watering with a control of aquaponics system water.
  • Seafood Imports, Marine Mammals, and Open Ocea ...
    For those of you who love seafood and have a soft spot for marine animals (for example, sea lions), there are a few major issues to keep in mind as the U.S. aquaculture industry is poised to expand. First, most seafood consumed in the U.S. (91 percent!) is imported from other countries, many of ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • New Petition to "Free Lakota Children from Sta ...
    S. Dakota violates federal law by placing 90% of the 750 Lakota foster children it seizes each year into non-Native homes and locked group psychiatric facilities Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Celebrating An Historic Agreement on Coal Ash
    "EPAs coal ash rulemaking was triggered by the largest toxic waste spill in U.S. history when a billion gallons of coal ash burst through a dam at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee." Submitted by Brian M. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Botswana Bushmen: Modern life is destroying us
    The police came, destroyed our homes and dumped us in the back of trucks with our belongings.Thousands of Bushmen lived in the vast expanse of the Kalahari Desert for many millennia. Most have been moved, many argue forcibly, to government-built resettle Submitted by John Farnham to World &nbsp ...
  • A 9 Year Old Girl Quietly Walks On Stage
    I Will Never Forget The Chills Her Voice Delivered Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • IPCC spin translated
    A lightheated romp through the misrepresentations of a political organization perverting science as only accomplished liars can manage - the Intergovernmental Panel being devoted to selling policy via fearmongering Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it! ...

Farm Wars

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Assessment of the Current Situation in Burma
    30 January 2014 Burma is in the midst of change and we want to report to you what is happening, both good and bad. We are grateful for those who have brought greater freedoms to Burma. We also want to stand with those who have not yet experienced those freedoms and are still under attack. Thank ...
  • General Menard in Jail for Gun running
    30 January 2014 This is the Canadian Brigadier General that I wrote should be fired for incompetence in Afghanistan. This caused me no end of troubles but was worth it. My work directly resulted in Menard's firing and he departed the Army. And now he is in jail in Afghanistan. Maybe he has bee ...
  • Suthep letter to Obama
    28 January 2014
  • Message from the Military: Afghanistan Farce
    27 January 2014 UNCLASSIFIED//NONE Ladies and Gentlemen:  Today's highlights: Afghan Media Afghanistan releases 37 of 88 prisoners from Bagram prison | Khaama Press According to reports, the Afghan government has announced to release 37 out of 88 Bagram prisoners, who were marked as da ...
  • Civil Movement for Democracy (CMD)
    Statement by Suthep Thaugsuban 27 January 2014 Dear Members of the Press: Please find attached Khun Suthep Thaugsuban's statement dated 27 January 2014. As usual, we urge you to exercise extreme caution in handling all information about the PDRC received from non-PDRC sources. We are happy ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Shwe Maung may be ‘responsible for defamation’ ...
    Shwe Maung is reprimanded in Naypyidaw for his comments about alleged police involvement in the 28 January fire in Duchira Dan. However, the Rohingya MP for Buthidaung says he was only repeating what his constituents had told him.
  • Media Bill stuck in Parliament
    Burma’s new Media Bill is currently stalled in Parliament due to dispute over an article that defers press office search and seizure to the Code of Criminal Procedures.
  • Journalists remain in prison
    Five media workers are still being held inside Burma’s notorious Pakokku and Insein prisons for reporting on an alleged chemical weapons facility in Magwe Division’s Pauk Township.
  • Communal tensions running high in Sittwe
    Arakanese Buddhists call for local police be given the right to use lethal force and demand that the UN and other international relief groups be expelled from the area; meanwhile, dozens of local Rohingyas are moving to IDP camps in fear of more violence.
  • DVB talks to British Ambassador to Burma
    British Ambassador to Burma, Andrew Patrick, spoke to DVB Interview International about British military training in Burma, constitutional reform, the Rohingya crisis, and British business interests.

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Dead Horses in American History (I)
    How have I blogged here for 2 1/2 years without exposing you all to my collection of dead horse images? Over the next week, it’s time to change that and fill a gap in your life you didn’t know existed. Dead horse washed into tree by flood, near Louisville, Kentucky, 1937    ...
  • Book Review: The China Choice
    I reviewed Hugh White’s The China Choice for H-Net: In The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power, Hugh White argues that competition between the United States and China is inevitable, but that the nature of that competition depends on choices made in Washington and Beijing. China’s ...
  • Good News from the NLRB
    This is very positive news from the National Labor Relations Board: A proposal to streamline union elections that was slammed by Mitt Romney and scrapped by a Woody Allen-quoting judge is being revived by the National Labor Relations Board, the agency announced Wednesday morning. “Unnecessary de ...
  • Water News and Notes
    Variety of water related news on a work filled Wednesday. 1. Richard Lyon has a good run-down on the political side of the California drought. House Republicans are looking to pass a bill that will gut environmental protections for San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin delta and divert a ...
  • It’s Out There!
    The NRO launders some slime about Bill Cinton by going meta: You are likely to see a lot of stories like this one in the coming years, alleging previously unreported reckless sexual behavior on the part of Bill Clinton while he was in the White House. Some rivals of Hillary Clinton will see this ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Litigation Boutiques Hot List
    At the 10 law firms spotlighted here, it?s all about skill, not size. The lawyers at these litigation shops, all of which have fewer than 51 attorneys, are as clever at practicing on paper as they are at wooing a jury. Many of these lawyers have honed their craft at the biggest and best firms in ...
  • Innovations in Law Firm Technology
    The past few years have been momentous for law firms and their use of technology. In the electronic discovery area alone, innovations including predictive coding have found acceptance by the courts.
  • Seattle In-House Legal Departments of the Year
    Corporate counsel leading the way in compliance, outside counsel management, diversity and deal work.
  • Billing Rates Across the Country
  • Hookah Copyright Claim Goes Up in Smoke
    Although available in various designs and colors, the shape of a hookah's water container is not copyrightable, according to a federal appeals court.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Vast Forests and Frequent Fires Were Key Cause ...
    The release of volatile organic compounds from forests and smoke from wildfires had a far greater impact on global warming 3 million years ago than ancient atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a new study finds. During the mid-Pliocene epoch, forests covered a much larger percentage of the plan ...
  • NASA Image of Alaska Depicts Spring-like Tempe ...
    As the continental U.S. faced frigid weather and major winter storms in January, Alaska experienced record high temperatures. A map based on NASA satellite data Click to Enlarge Alaska’s warm January shows that the last half of January was one of the warmest winter periods in Alaska ...
  • Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier Is Moving at Re ...
    Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier is flowing into the ocean at a record pace of more than 17 kilometers per year, according to research by U.S. and German scientists. The glacier, which drains 6 percent of the Click to Enlarge The calving front of Jakobshavn Glacier massive Greenland i ...
  • Growing Insects: Farmers Can Help to Bring Bac ...
    With a sharp decline in pollinating insects, farmers are being encouraged to grow flowering plants that can support these important insects. It’s a fledgling movement that could help restore the pollinators that are essential for world food production. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • U.S. State Department Report Boosts Prospects ...
    In a long-awaited report, the U.S. State Department has concluded that the carbon-heavy oil from Alberta's tar sands will be extracted whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline is built, improving the prospects that the highly controversial project will be built. In an environmental impact stateme ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Even Unto Death: Snake Handling, Bringing the ...
    "These believers drink poison. Handle snakes. Risk all in the name of the Lord. For a century, their audacious brand of faith has been practiced out of sight in the Appalachian hills. Now a new generation of pastors pulls back the curtain, bringing souls and serpents into the light." There will ...
  • One of the most significant prehistoric sites ...
    Archaeologists who have spent the last few months excavating a planned development site in the middle of downtown Miami have discovered an ancient and extensive Native American village, which researchers believe may be one of the most significant prehistoric sites in the United States. The findi ...
  • Scientists Say There Are Only Four Emotions (I ...
    Scientists from the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow have just released a study which purports to show that there are only four basic emotions: Happy, sad, afraid/surprised, and angry/disgusted. This is demonstrated by the results of their study which involve ...
  • Colorado Company Makes Cannabis-Based Miracle ...
    A trend is beginning among families with sick children: more and more are moving to Colorado to find a cannabis-based treatment that works wonders on seizure disorders. As more and more families find out about the cure, the company that manufactures it is struggling to keep up with the demand. " ...
  • Corporatocracy: No Bid Government Contracts
    Corporatocracy is distinctly the dominate practice when it comes to doing business with the federal government. The once embryonic relationships between favored companies and agency bureaucrats, have germinated into distinctive hybrid organisms. Grafting into self-generating species resistant an ...

Not My Tribe

  • Amanda Knox wishes Italy was like US where a b ...
    Amanda Knox is disappointed with the Italian judicial system. In America of course, if you can pin the crime on a black guy, white perpetrators go free. For the 2007 murder of Meredith Kerchner, African male Rudy Guede is serving 16 years, but Italian judges are convinced he was an accessory. An ...
  • Bear Creek Massacre, January 29, 1863
    The year 2014 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, on November 29, two days after Thanksgiving. But on this day, January 29 of the year before, a Shoshone village suffered an identical fate. The Bear Creek Massacre was also once called the Battle of Bear Creek, but the onl ...
  • Is this FBI-speak? Ima throw you off this balc ...
    Wherever did NY congressman Michael Grimm learn such language? It’s less likely Dale Carnegie than standard-issue FBI crap talk. If former FBI officer Grimm isn’t prosecuted for MENACING, threatening to throw a DC news reporter off a balcony, it would seem only fair that the represen ...
  • State of the Union Address a Pageant of Beltwa ...
    Media propagandists can’t conceal the state of the union address for what it was, a pageant of creeps, a pandering freakshow, and a flaunting of the celebration that the American constituancy is peopled by idiots on both sides of the aisle.
  • City For Champions? Colorado Springs is city o ...
    Colorado Springs is not home to an Olympic Training Center because of our competitive nature, proclivity for Classic Games, nor certainly any athletic bloodlines — our high altitude draws athletes in training so they’ll hit the games with a competitive advantage against the majority ...

Debunking the Debunkers

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Global ad campaign urges tourists to boycott B ...
    Survival's new ad urges tourists to boycott Botswana over its treatment of the Bushmen .© Survival InternationalSurvival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – has launched a worldwide advertising campaign highlighting Botswana’s persecution of Africa’s last huntin ...
  • Rare first-hand testimony of Andaman tribe rev ...
    A rare first-hand account has emerged of the shocking sexual exploitation of Jarawa women and the introduction of alcohol and drugs to the vulnerable tribe on India's Andaman Islands.© SurvivalAn extremely rare first-hand account of the shocking extent of sexual exploitation of young women ...
  • Satirical film targets 'development' for tribes
    In the satirical animation 'There You Go!', development experts claim to bring 'sustainable development' to an imaginary tribe. Instead, they bring destruction. © Oren Ginzburg/SurvivalA new film launched today by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples ...
  • Major operation to save Earth’s most threatene ...
    After months of campaigning by Survival International, Brazil’s government is finally acting to evict illegal invaders from the Awá tribe's land.© Mário Vilela/FUNAIThe Brazilian government’s operation to remove all invaders from land of the Awá tribe is now in its fourth week. The large-s ...
  • International travel fairs targeted over Botsw ...
    Protestors handed out leaflets to visitors of the Adventure Travel Show in London.© Survival InternationalProtestors have targeted Botswana tourism to the Adventure Travel Show in London and the Fitur travel fair in Madrid, to highlight Botswana’s persecution of Africa’s last hunting ...

Greg Palast

  • Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following th ...
  • You know I rarely ask you...
    ....for donations to our foundation, so you can take my word for it when I say, we need it. The Theft of the 2016 race is under way –– and the vote rustlers expect to grab Congress in 2014 as an appetizer.  Plus, the billionaire boys club is sucking our financial blood as if the world [...]
  • Give me 95 seconds
    A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]
  • Vultures and Vote Rustlers Watch the Trailer–G ...
      Watch the TrailerNow get the film! Shipped within 24 hours first class: The signed DVD of my new film, Vultures & Vote Rustlers. Includes an hour and a half of extras. Or download just the film right now. * * * * * What’s in this rocking hour of non-fiction detective tales? "Great fun ...
  • The Mandela Barbie
    By Greg Palast for Truthout I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his im ...

Ian Welsh

  • Fundraising Update – $1,000 from an article ev ...
    Fundraising has gone well, with $160 in monthly subscriptions, and $4,490.  Tripling the subscriptions, the total is $4,970, meaning we’re $1,030 from the second tier – two significant articles a week, and an average of an article every weekday. Everyone who has given: thank you.  If ...
  • The Disposable Economy
    The most important fact about modern economies is rarely remarked on: they are job societies. The vast majority of the population works for someone else. For those without jobs, poverty, homelessness, and in some cases death, is a real prospect. Members of modern societies cannot support themsel ...
  • Our Choices
    We are all born into the world destined to die.  Our reality is one in which pain is far greater than pleasure: you can scream for days in pain, but not ecstasy: the heights of pain far surpass those of please, and have far more endurance. If there is meaning in this world it is [...]
  • The Right Stuff: What Prosperity Is and Isn’t
    Is a society prosperous when everyone has an abundance of good, the usual definition of prosperity? Are you prosperous if you have an abundance of goods, but no time to enjoy them? Are you prosperous if you have an abundance of goods, but you’re sick? Are you prosperous if you have an abun ...
  • Increasing the Minimum Wage
    Ontario is considering tying minimum wage increases to the consumer price index. This is an ok idea, but the CPI is systematically fiddled to decrease stated inflation, because a lot of costs are linked to it. A better way is to link it to productivity increases. But the best way is to link it t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

new geography

  • The Illusions of Charles Montgomery's Happy Ci ...
    This is the second of a two-part series discussing Charles Mongomery's Happy City. Read part one here. ‘The system that built sprawl’ Montgomery faces the hurdle of explaining why, if low-density suburbs cause unhappiness, so many millions of people, over so many decades, across several ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: The San Francisco Bay ...
    Despite planning efforts to restrict it, the Bay Area  continues to disperse. For decades, nearly all population and employment growth in the San Jose-San Francisco Combined Statistical Area has been in the suburbs, rather than in the core cities of San Francisco and Oakland. The CSA (Note) i ...
  • City-Specific Immigration Visas Would Be a Mod ...
    An idea that’s been kicked around by many is to help turn around struggling cities like Detroit by offering geographically limited immigrations visas. That is, to allow foreigners get their green card if they agree to live in a particular city for a certain number of years. Michigan Gov. ...
  • America's Glass Half-empty, or Half-full?
    The stock market is high, real estate prices have resurged, even the unemployment rate is dropping, yet Americans still feel pretty down about the future. A survey released in January by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research had 54 percent of respondents expecting American life to ...
  • Blue-Collar Hot Spots: The Cities Creating The ...
    It’s a common notion nowadays that American blue-collar workers are doomed to live out their lives on the low-paid margins of the economy. They’ve been described as “bitter,” psychologically scarred and even an “endangered species.”  Americans, noted one economist, suffered a “recession” but ...

water.org

  • Water Ends a Frustrating Cycle
    As with many families in communities where access to water is limited, Madduramma and her children faced a frustrating cycle of challenges that could only be resolved by having better access to water.
  • Solutions in Kenya
    More than 28 million people do not have access to proper sanitation in Kenya. However if given the opportunity, families can make an affordable investment in a solution like this; unlocking the potential for dignity, health and economic growth.
  • IKEA Foundation to help 180,000 get safe water
    The IKEA Foundation awarded Water.org $6 million to help people access safe water through two innovative programs: WaterCredit, a microfinance program that gives families small loans to meet their water and sanitation needs, and the New Ventures Fund to search for new solutions to the global wat ...
  • For Decius, the Future Looks Bright
    Hopeful for an opportunity to build his skills and earn money to return to school, Decius signed up for a job as soon as he heard about the opportunity to work with Water.org and PRODEVA, and bring safe water access to his town.
  • Kathirvel, Changing Lives Through Masonry
    Kathirvel is 65 years old and a retired mason. Although he is retired, he now uses his expertise in masonry to work constructing toilets for families who have taken out loans through Water.org's WaterCredit program. He has built 200 toilets in the last year. He is training other masons to constr ...

Cryptogon

  • Professor Tyrone Hayes, Atrazine and Syngenta
    That atrazine is dangerous is just the opener. The PSYOP that Syngenta is running against Hayes is incredible. Via: The New Yorker: Hayes published his atrazine work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a year and a half after quitting the panel. He wrote that what he called “h ...
  • The First Congressman to Battle the NSA Is Dead
    Via: PandoDaily: Last month, former Congressman Otis Pike died, and no one seemed to notice or care. That’s scary, because Pike led the House’s most intensive and threatening hearings into US intelligence community abuses, far more radical and revealing than the better-known Church Committee’s S ...
  • DEA Tactic More Secret Than “Parallel Co ...
    Via: MuckRock: To reiterate, the DEA redacted the name of a method its trainers and legal auditors deemed not only constitutional but also palatable to the public. As its position on the list suggests, this shielded tactic is “tips and leads paradigm” that is the “primary methodology for p ...
  • Scenes from a Militarized America
    Via: Washington Post: Watch this video, taken from a police raid in Des Moines, Iowa. Send it to some people. When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we’re talking about. You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-cov ...
  • Scalia to Law Students: “You Are Kidding ...
    Via: AP: “Well, of course, Kore­ma­tsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again,” Scalia told students and faculty during a lunchtime question-and-answer session. Scalia cited a Latin exp ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 28 Signs That The Middle Class Is Heading Towa ...
    The death of the middle class in America has become so painfully obvious that now even the New York Times is doing stories about it.  Millions of middle class jobs have disappeared, incomes are steadily decreasing, the rate of homeownership has declined for eight years in a row and U.S. consumer ...
  • The Stock Market In Japan Is COLLAPSING
    Did you see what just happened in Japan?  The stock market of the 3rd largest economy on the planet is imploding.  On Tuesday, the Nikkei fell by more than 610 points.  If that sounds like a lot, that is because it is.  The largest one day stock market decline in U.S. history is only 777 [...]
  • The Dow Has Already Fallen More Than 1000 Poin ...
    That didn't take long.  On Monday, the Dow was down another 326 points.  Overall, the Dow has now fallen more than 1000 points from the peak of the market (16,588.25) back in late December.  This is the first time that we have seen the Dow drop below its 200-day moving average in more than a [...]
  • You Can Buy A House For One Dollar Or Less In ...
    Would you like to buy a house for one dollar?  If someone came up to you on the street and asked you that question, you would probably respond by saying that it sounds too good to be true.  But this is actually happening in economically-depressed cities all over America.  Of course there are a n ...
  • 11-Year-Old Girl BANNED From Selling Cupcakes ...
    America is being suffocated to death by red tape.  You are about to read about an 11-year-old girl in Illinois that had her cupcake business brutally shut down by government bureaucrats.  Her name is Chloe Stirling and her crime was doing something that we used to applaud young people in America ...

Desertification

  • Land for Life Award 2014 / “Una tierra para la ...
    Dear colleagues, Thank you for helping us spread the word about this opportunity.  We encourage your applications. Now seeking applications for Land for Life Award 2014 Are you doing great work to restore land and soils?  The UNCCD is now … Continue reading →
  • Libro Colotlán y sus árboles (Fabio Ruiz Ortega)
    Presentación. En diciembre de 2008 comencé este blog, con la finalidad de dar a conocer los árboles existentes en la región y la posibilidad de utilizarlos para el desarrollo económico y social. Meses después, en 2009, comencé a participar en … Continue reading →
  • DISCUSSING MY BOTTLE TOWER TECHNIQUE (Willem V ...
    On March 13, 2013, I uploaded a video on my “Bottle Tower Technique” http://youtu.be/HuykRRspWOY (HOW TO BUILD A BOTTLE TOWER ) More than 68.000 people have already seen it. Plastic bottles can be recycled by stacking them into bottle towers … Continue reading →
  • Lake Chad is now a speck of what it was five d ...
    Read at : http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/06/when_the_desert_devours_the_lake.html When the desert devours the lake Desertification is a growing problem in Africa and other parts of the world, and will cause more conflict and food insecurity as climate change spurs it on. By: Raveena A ...
  • How to block the march of sand and restore the ...
    Read at : http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/02/01/can_chinas_great_green_wall_stop_its_creeping_deserts.html Can China’s great, green wall stop its creeping deserts? Activist Byong Hyon Kwon is planting trees and shrubs in Inner Mongolia’s Kubuqi Desert to block the march of sand and ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Russia: Final court statement of anarchist Ale ...
    Final court statement of anarchist Alexandra Dukhanina (Naumova), charged with violence against police during an opposition rally in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, made in a Moscow court on February 5, 2014. Alexand ...
  • Tube strikes: support your local picket line!
    5050728957_89ac802a25.jpg Thousands of London Underground workers are taking part in a 48-hour strike over proposed cuts which include closing every Tube ticket office in London. ...
  • How anti-immigrant myths serve the bosses
    migrant.jpg As the anti-migrant propaganda of the UK press continues, London Antifascists examine how their scapegoating lets government and employers off the hook. The relentles ...
  • "The politicians had to obey the crowd" - Inte ...
    kiev_20-01-2014.JPG This interview with a comrade from the Autonomous Workers' Union in Kiev was done on January 28, 2014. It sheds some light on the events around the Maidan: the array of reason ...
  • Russia. "Prison united all of us" - Interview ...
    Interview with anarchist prisoners in the so-called "Bolotnaya Case", former sailor Alexei Polikhovich, 22 (pictured), and historian Stepan Zimin, 21. They are amongst the many people charged with participation in the May 6, 2012 clashes with p ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Truth about Lenin and the Jewish Communist ...
    Fact: Communism is a completely Jewish institution. Fact: The Bolshevik Jewish Butchers of Russia targeted and killed 10′s of millions of Christians in Russia. FACT:  Lenin was clearly demonically possessed.   Very few people know how he died.  Check out the last known picture of Lenin at ...
  • Treason Bowl??
    I have heard a version of this since 2002 – and each year the “Super Bowl” comes and goes with no “False Flag” attack materializing.  This year, however, may well be different.  So, in the “For What It’s Worth” department, I post the following warn ...
  • My Coming to Christ Experience – Aired o ...
    There are just a few details I would like to clarify: When I testify in my interview with “Bishop” Earl that the Holy Bible is God’s Word, there is absolutely no doubt that it is of divine origins and that it most definitely has indeed been “translated correctly”.   ...
  • Organized Atheism’s (aka Communism/Colle ...
    With Barry Soetoro’s fraudulent presidency winding down, it’s time for the Liberal Liar Machine run by Organized Atheism, (the Synagogue of Satan) to begin spinning their next web of deceit.  The apparent frontrunner:  The Ice Queen Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Hillary for President w ...
  • Organized Atheism’s (aka Communism/Colle ...
    With Barry Soetoro’s fraudulent presidency winding down, it’s time for the Liberal Liar Machine run by Organized Atheism, (the Synagogue of Satan) to begin spinning their next web of deceit.  The apparent frontrunner:  The Ice Queen Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Hillary for President w ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Colorado Health Department Disavows Activists' ...
    State public health officials in Colorado have recently publicly disavowed the latest paper from a team of researchers whose work has been routinely cited by political activist groups that want to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing.read more
  • Ten-City Project Boosts Demand for Architects ...
    Hurricane Sandy brought home what scientists had been saying for years: Cities need to get ready for the destructive effects of climate change. A year and a half later, resilience and adaptation are high on government agendas, but the root problem — carbon emissions — is as stubborn as ever.read ...
  • Some Lessons From Early Successes of the Next Wave
    As we see increasing evidence of a "next wave" of cleantech investing and entrepreneurship, we're starting to see some early wins emerge. What lessons can we learn from the experiences of recent demonstrated successes in the next wave of energy?read more
  • Reality Check: Society Pays for Carbon Polluti ...
    This open letter, co-authored by Jeremy Proville and first published on EDF Voices, was written in response to a New York Times article citing Dr. Roger Bezdek’s report on “The Social Costs of Carbon? No, The Social Benefits of Carbon.”read more
  • Obstructing Maine's Business and Energy Future ...
    Maine is a potential hotbed for new wind energy production. Over the past decade, hundreds of wind turbines have been constructed, many in rural areas. These wind energy projects have created hundreds of jobs and now power around 160,000 homes throughout the state.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Moving beyond the corporate vision of sustaina ...
    Rajesh Makwana In light of ongoing global negotiations on pressing environmental issues, it’s time for efforts to curtail the excessive influence of multinational corporations over public policy to be strengthened and scaled up at all levels – especially at the United Nations. The ...
  • ONLY LOVE TRULY HEALS
    Allen L Roland Only love truly heals because only love lies deepest within us. The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness (Unified Field ) which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~ and who ...
  • Obama Shifts Closer to War on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman In March 2011, Obama launched proxy war on Syria. Regime change remains policy. Peace talks are subterfuge. They're fake. Geneva II reflects more sideshow than substance. Washington abhors peaceful conflict resolution. Human suffering doesn't matter. Conflict continues ...
  • Free Expression on Trial in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Israel mocks democratic values. It has no borders. It's to steal Palestinian land. It has no constitution. Basic laws substitute. They fall woefully short. Ones in place are ignored. Universally recognized rights are compromised. They include life, liberty and security. ...
  • Militarism in Germany
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed WW I's 100th anniversary. On July 29, 1914, it began. It was called the war to end all wars. WW II followed. German involvement was central in both wars. In 1945, Hitler's Wehrmacht was disbanded. It ravaged and destroyed much of Europe. It ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Cops Ordered to Return Over $1 Million Seized ...
    In 2012, Tara Mishra decided to invest over one million dollars in a nightclub. Mishra gave the money to her future business partners, a married couple, to transport from California to New Jersey for her. The couple was pulled over for speeding...
  • "You Just Shot An Unarmed Man!": Witness Says ...
    Five months after police shot Fairfax County, Maryland father 46-year-old John Geer in his home, the police's investigation into the shooting has still yet to be completed. Now the man's friend who witnessed the shooting is speaking out. Video ...
  • Armed Mundanes: The Reason Why SWAT Teams Exist
    Most gun owners are familiar with the maxim "Gun registration is a prelude to confiscation." Relatively few understand the role of gun registration in threat assessments used to justify paramilitary police raids. Last Thursday (January 30), Police...
  • Drug Task Force Officer Denied Qualified Immun ...
    The law enforcement community and their love of no-knock warrants is starting to cost them. Multiple lawsuits have been filed over the past several years because of these tactics and just last month, a cop was shot dead by a homeowner defending himse...
  • US Towns Declaring Bankruptcy Are The Lucky Ones
    Who knew Detroit is the lucky one by being forced into Chapter 9 bankruptcy? The majority of Scranton, Pennsylvania's remaining 76,000 residents want to declare Chapter 9, and they want it yesterday. Bob Quinn, president of the Scranton and Lackaw...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Some Musings On Specialization
    Sorry I haven’t posted anything new these past few weeks, but I’ve been laid low by a viral infection that I’m finding rather difficult to shake. So I thought I’d start a discussion with a few jottings, on a topic … Continue reading →
  • Hoist On Their Own Petard
    Happy New Year to all my readers. I thought I’d interrupt my summer holidays in balmy climes to have a bit of a chortle at two seemingly unrelated stories in the news over the last few days. One concerns cricket, … Continue reading →
  • Seasons Greetings
    And that’s it for LibertyGibbert for another year. Work and family commitments have meant I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked this year, yet we’ve managed to have some interesting discussions. Thank you to … Continue reading →
  • Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
    I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • Weird scenes inside the compiler AKA ouch, thi ...
    Sometimes computers do astonishingly baffling things, like when a compiler that has otherwise behaved properly goes quietly bonkers. I have a niche specialty converting paleolithic DOS database applications to Windows. (“DOS?”, you say. Yes, DOS. Trust me, there are still zillions of ...
  • Western Union confused and perplexed by money ...
    Western Union is befuddled by the “complex nature” of complying with money laundering controls. Apparently it’s just darned hard to figure out how to not launder drug cartel money. They paid $94 million in fines in 2010, promised to sin no more, and to clean up their act. They ...
  • CBO: Obamacare will reduce employment, amounts ...
    The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a stunner report saying Obamacare will discourage many from seeking full time work and reduce employment by 2.5 million jobs in ten years. Those unemployed or underemployed receive large Obamacare subsidies. If they become fully employed, tho ...
  • Banksters ready to loot Greece again in anothe ...
    Banksters will lend more money to Greece to enable it to pay back money previously lent to it by banksters. Any dribble from this money actually helping Greece is purely accidental as is any resemblance of this plan to sanity. Instead, further onerous conditions will be forced upon Greece. Banks ...
  • On Philip Seymour Hoffman and addiction. An ex ...
    Millions are baffled and confused by the untimely overdose death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Recovering addict / alcoholics like myself call you “normies.” There’s no reason you should or could understand addiction. My white powder choice of poison (many years ago) was meth. Hof ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Deepan Budlakoti - Reclaiming citizenship, rej ...
    Deepan Budlakoti was in Montreal on Jan. 21 and 22, 2014 as part of his Reclaiming citizenship, Rejecting double punishment campaign.   He sat down for an interview w ...
  • John Kerry Shocks with Anti-Semitic B-Word
    Warning: This article deals with highly offensive anti-Semitic subject matter, including the b-word. The exact words spoken by Secretary of State John Kerry on February 2 at an international security conference in Munich: “The risks ...
  • Le collectif Wâbak, collectif de réalisation d ...
    Le collectif Wâbak, collectif de réalisation du documentaire Why We Need Warrior's Society, a besoin de votre support financier   Vous pouvez leur écrire à ouananiche@riseup.net   update: Le projet est terminé en australie. Dans les trois derniers mois...   J'ai été invité ...
  • Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
    Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented. In a 2010 survey it was revealed that under 13% of its contributors are female.CKUT recorded a live interview on January 31st with Amber Berson who is the organizer of the Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon that took place on February 1st at the East ...
  • Book Review: Jose Marti - Mentor of the Cuban ...
      Jose Marti - Mentor of the Cuban Revolution By John M. Kirk Paperback ISBN: 9781552664667 Paperback Price: $24.95 CAD Publication Date: Jan 2012 Rights: World Pages: 200 Review by Emily Bagnald John M. Kirk is a professor of langu ...

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Branson hosts renewable energy summit at Necker Island
Jamaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Caribbean politicians and renewable power experts gathered Tuesday on British billionaire Richard Branson's private isle to discuss ways of transitioning to clean energy in an effort to spur small island nations to slash their ...
Tony Abbott 'launching a full-frontal attack' on renewable energy industry
The Guardian
Tony Abbott pretended to support the renewable energy industry before the election but is now “launching a full-frontal attack” according to Labor's environment spokesman Mark Butler. The Coalition went to the election promising to keep the renewable ...
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Renewable Energy Finance Outlook for 2014: Where Will the Cash Flow?
Alternative Energy Stocks
The world of renewable energy finance is vast: encompassing everything from venture capital funding for innovative start-ups, to research and development (R&D) and manufacturing expansion spending, to project finance and all the way through to ...
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Fukushima Pledges To Go 100 Percent Renewable While Japan Grapples With ...
ThinkProgress
The province of Fukushima in northeast Japan, devastated nearly three years ago by the earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, has pledged to go 100 percent renewable by 2040. The energy will be ...
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London: Professor Tim Lang at Christian Ecology Link's 'Just Food' day
Independent Catholic News
Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University in London, spoke at Christian Ecology Link's “Just Food” day in London on 18 January. More than 50 people attended. This is a slightly edited version of his presentation. I can be dressed up to look ...
Data-intensive ecology needed to understand what makes the biosphere tick
National Science Foundation (press release)
The ecologists are asking questions such as: How are regional-scale processes in plant and animal invasions, and in disease transmission, shaped by continent-wide environmental and land-use patterns? How can continent-wide data lead to better forecasts ...
Professor Tamara Ticktin's ecology paper named one of 100 most influential
UH System Current News
Professor Tamara Ticktin, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa botanist and ethnoecologist, has authored a research paper chosen as one of the 100 most influential papers published by the British Ecological Society journals in its 100 year history. Her ...
Ecologists urged to avail themselves of big data in studies
UPI.com
A special issue of the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment has set out a definition of the new field and provides strategies for ecologists to do this type of research. "Ecologists can no longer sample and ...
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Feds Reaffirm West Virginia Water Safe for All
ABC News
A federal health official said Wednesday that West Virginians can use tap water however they choose after last month's chemical spill contaminated it for days. Still, public skepticism remains over its safety and some local doctors are advising some of ...
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Report: Fracking raising water supply worries
USA TODAY
The USA's domestic energy boom is increasing demands on water supplies already under pressure from drought and growing populations, a new report says. The water-intensive process used to extract oil and gas from shale underground — known as ...
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California drought: House Republicans take aim at water rules
Los Angeles Times
Still, the action highlights the growing interest on Capitol Hill in trying to do something about the water shortage, a potentially hot issue in this year's elections. Democratic lawmakers are calling for hearings and hurriedly drafting legislation of ...
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Bee-filled food, yellow water, stray dogs, strange toilets, and other ...
USA TODAY
Journalists from all over the world descended upon Russia this week in preparation for the start of the Sochi Games. As the media arrived, they began sharing their observations, as reporters have been known to do. For many, the conditions were — well, ...
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