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MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Paul Ryan is the Odds-On Favorite to Win the R ...
    There's been a lot of blathering about who the front runner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination is, and so far I've resisted taking part. But I guess I'm kind of curious: Is there much of a case to be made for anyone other than Paul Ryan? On the substantive side, Ryan sure seems ...
  • Gregory Clark Says We Humans Suck at Social Mo ...
    Gregory Clark writes interesting books. His last one, A Farewell to Alms, made a contentious argument about why, after a hundred centuries of zero average economic progress, growth suddenly exploded around 1800 in the tiny island of England and then spread throughout Europe and the world. Basi ...
  • There's One Group of Voters Who Likes Chris Ch ...
    Jonathan Bernstein notes today that Chris Christie's poll numbers have actually risen among one particular group of voters: tea partiers. It's a small sample from a single poll, so you don't want to take this to the bank until we get confirmation. And yet: If true (and again: see caveats ...
  • Quote of the Day: GOP in a Tailspin Over Debt ...
    From an anonymous Republican "leadership aide": We are mulling other options and trying to figure out the best way forward on this. The topic here is the upcoming debt limit increase. Everyone in the Republican caucus with a room-temperature IQ knows that provoking yet another debt ...
  • EU Concludes Google Antitrust Action With a Wh ...
    The European Union has announced an agreement with Google that resolves a longstanding antitrust action. If you search for, say, gas grills, you'll no longer see a results page with a bunch of Google ads for gas grills. You'll see ads from both Google and others. Tim Lee explains: Instea ...

Simple Climate

  • Heat drives Pakistani migration
    As floods don’t impact farming income like high temperatures does, according to Valerie Mueller from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC and her colleagues, perhaps some aid money should go to developing more heat-resistant crops to prepare for further clima ...
  • Heat drives Pakistani migration
    As floods don’t impact farming income like high temperatures does, according to Valerie Mueller from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC and her colleagues, perhaps some aid money should go to developing more heat-resistant crops to prepare for further clima ...
  • Planners must be alert to CO2 impact on water ...
    From droughts to deluges, meeting climate targets will make it easier for planners to cope with changes in river flows, says the University of Reading’s Nigel Arnell, though even then we must watch global warming’s impacts keenly.
  • Planners must be alert to CO2 impact on water ...
    From droughts to deluges, meeting climate targets will make it easier for planners to cope with changes in river flows, says the University of Reading’s Nigel Arnell, though even then we must watch global warming’s impacts keenly.
  • New tests seek peace in climate conflict blame ...
    Kyle Meng from Princeton University thinks a link between warming and violence has been solidly established, and now wants to find out what drives the link – but not everyone agrees.

e!Science News

  • Tree roots in the mountains 'acted like a ther ...
    For the first time, scientists have discovered how tree roots in the mountains may play an important role in controlling long-term global temperatures. Researchers from Oxford and Sheffield Universities have found that temperatures affect the thickness of the leaf litter and organic soil layers, ...
  • Female mice prefer unfamiliar male songs
    Female mice prefer songs of mice that are different from their parents when selecting a mate, according to a study published February 5, 2014 in PLOS ONE by Akari Asaba from the Azabu University, Japan, and colleagues. Furthermore, these preferences may be shaped by early social experiences with ...
  • Mass extinction may not cause all organisms to ...
    The sizes of organisms following mass extinction events may vary more than previously thought, which may be inconsistent with the predictions of the so-called 'Lilliput effect,' according to a study published in PLOS ONE on February 5, 2014 by Caroline Sogot from University of Cambridge and coll ...
  • Social media analysis shows the Garment Distri ...
    A new study shows New York fashion designers don't just flock to trends: They also do nearly all their business within the confines of the city's historic Garment District. read more
  • Crossover sound
    We all learn in high school science about the dual nature of light -- that it exists as both waves and quantum particles called photons. It is this duality of light that enables the coherent transport of photons in lasers. Sound at the atomic-scale has the same dual nature, existing as both wave ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • “Energy in Australia” book
    Graham Palmer, a regular BNC community member, has published a new book. It is titled “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” and is published by Springer (in their “Springer Briefs in Energy” series). It’s a slim, taughtly wri ...
  • BNC 2.0
    2013 was a quiet year for the Brave New Climate website. After a number of years of heavy blogging from 2008 to 2011 (averaging about 150 posts per year), I guess I’d run out of steam by 2012, and that lack of activity just got worse in 2013. Although my Twitter feed (@bravenewclimate) rem ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part III
    This is the third and final part of a comprehensive series on radiation that has been published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week — cancer… Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-n ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Photos of the week: Palestinians return to Jor ...
    This week: African immigrants and Palestinian activists occupy protest camps to demand their rights; self-demolition in East Jerusalem; solidarity with hunger striker Samer Issawi; and Israeli authorities block Negev Bedouin agriculture and dump garbage in the West Bank.       &#1 ...
  • Where is the Palestinian candidate for Israel’ ...
    When a minority consistently feels disenfranchised and excluded, it retreats from civil society. Now is the time to ensure that Israel’s Palestinian minority and its elected representatives no longer take that route – for the sake of all citizens. By Ilan Manor Following the shameful presi ...
  • PHOTOS: African asylum seekers renew protests ...
    Protest leaders vow to continue their struggle until a solution is found. Some 1,000 maintain sit-in at Levinsky Park. Photos by: Oren Ziv, Tali Mayer, Keren Manor, Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org   A renewed asylum seeker protest entered its fourth day on Wednesday as 1,000 African asylum s ...
  • PHOTOS: In fight against the wall, does Cremis ...
    After more than two years of vigils by Palestinian Christians that gained widespread international attention, the Israeli High Court issued a preliminary order questioning the path of the separation barrier that would further divide West Bank land, cutting off the Cremisan monastery and a valley ...
  • What does Bibi actually want?
    Finally recognizing the pressure over the Palestinian issue, Netanyahu seems to be negotiating for ‘an agreement with the world.’ What does Bibi want? I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that question. With so many attempts to decipher him – in interviews with his proxies, account ...

CenterLine

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

abelard - news

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | The Ineffable’s Player ...
    By Visible In this particular period of time, the final movement of The Apocalypse Symphony is playing. As any informed metaphysician knows, everything is vibration. The repeating sequences of the Apocalypse Symphony are specifically designed in a solve et coagula kind of a way; heavy on the sol ...
  • Who Controls The Gold Stealing New York Fed Ba ...
    The Pilgrims Society is the last great secret of modern history! ******************** Before gold goes berserk like Godzilla rampaging across Tokyo—and frees silver to supernova—let’s have a look into backgrounds of key Federal Reserve personalities, with special focus on the New York Federal Re ...
  • Visible Origami | Time and the River do not St ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. Existence is certainly like a river and when it’s used as a descriptive, most of what you hear is about it’s winding and bending from left to right, from right to left. You also hear about obstacles in the fl ...
  • Starving hives: Pesticides cause bees to colle ...
    Bees exposed to \”field-realistic\” doses of insecticides gather less than a half the pollen that they normally do, dooming their young to starvation, UK researches have said. While some scientists hailed the findings, pesticide makers remained unimpressed In a spin-off of their earl ...
  • PressTV – 9/11 truth coach wins Super Bowl
    By Kevin Barrett Since 9/11, the Super Bowl – America’s biggest annual event – has been drenched in war propaganda. The championship of American football, watched by more than 110 million Americans, the Super Bowl has become an orgy of flag-waving exhortations to “support the troops” ...

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • Intrusive ads are counter-productive – a ...
    My behaviour is clearly influenced by the presence of ads on-line and commercials on TV. However, the behaviour engendered in me is nearly always counter-productive from the viewpoint of the advertiser. Maybe I am an untypical consumer - but I doubt it.
  • Queensland switches back to coal
    After Stanwell took the extraordinary step yesterday of announcing it would mothball its biggest gas-fired power station and resurrect a coal facility built in the 1980s - sparking predictions that gas-fired power plants would be withdrawn in other states - it will today call for a scaling back ...
  • Queensland switches back to coal
    After Stanwell took the extraordinary step yesterday of announcing it would mothball its biggest gas-fired power station and resurrect a coal facility built in the 1980s - sparking predictions that gas-fired power plants would be withdrawn in other states - it will today call for a scaling back ...
  • Putin’s Sochi is “ready” but ...
    Journalists are not finding the luxuries they are used to at the hotels in Sochi.
  • Putin’s Sochi is “ready” but ...
    Journalists are not finding the luxuries they are used to at the hotels in Sochi.

Left Foot Forward

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Promotes Privacy Statement for All Emails ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is distributing and encouraging use of a Privacy Statement for all Internet users to adopt as part of their signature line in their online communications. Similar to the standard legal disclaimers found at the end of many emails, this Privacy Statement ...
  • Serpico Still Waiting for Certificate; House P ...
    New York Daily News: Frank Serpico Has Yet to Receive 1972 Medal of Honor Certificate from NYPD Legendary whistleblower Frank Serpico, who exposed rampant corruption in the New York Police Department in the 1970s and has been immortalized in the movie that bears his name, “still has yet to re ...
  • If SEC Builds Upon Whistleblowers, Ben-Artzi's ...
    Business Insurance: SEC Plans to Build on Whistleblower Successes Yesterday, the Securities & Exchange Commission publicly released its strategic plan for 2014-18, in which the agency states it plans to “build upon the establishment and successes of its Office of the Whistleblower,” accor ...
  • Former TSA Screener Details Agency Problems: D ...
    Politico: Dear America, I Saw You Naked This detailed column from a former airport screener with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reveals multiple agency problems and questions the effectiveness of several agency protocols and actions. These include automatic enhanced screenin ...
  • GAP Client Edward Snowden Speaks to German Press
    The following is a full transcript of the televised interview between ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and veteran documentary filmmaker Hubert Seifel from German public television network ARD: Mr. Snowden, did you sleep well the last couple of nights because I was reading that you asked for a ...

UK Progressive

  • The GOP Psyche: An Explainer
    by Tina Dupuy I believe the Republican Party’s psychic break happened the moment their “compassionate conservative” economic philosophy melted the world’s economy. President Bush, the champion of deregulation, bailed out the banks and then offered: “I’ve abandoned free market principles to save ...
  • Is Obamacare Success Being Overlooked?
    by David A. Love You can say what you want about Obamacare,but you can’t call it a failure.  It is turning into a political and practical success story, and it is gaining momentum every day. So much had been focused in the media on the shortcomings, failures and setbacks in the initial implement ...
  • Waves, Vortecies, Drought, Fracking and UCG
    This is The Monday Line By Denis G. Campbell Phil the groundhog saw his shadow. That means we will have six more weeks of winter. The oversized rodent made famous by Bill Murray in the film Groundhog Day has spoken and we must all suffer on. But this winter we’ve not seen many sub-zero days. [&# ...
  • Climate Change Hits Alaska
    by Robert Hunziker Valdez, Alaska carries the moniker: the “snowiest place in the United States,” receiving on average 300-to-600 inches per year. Additionally, Valdez is the end of the line for the Tans-Alaska Pipeline that carries oil from the Alaska North Slope.  It’s a beautiful setting ensc ...
  • Some Predictions on How Medicare Will Release ...
    by Charles Ornstein ProPublica The federal government’s announcement last week that it would begin releasing data on physician payments in the Medicare program seems to have ticked off both supporters and opponents of broader transparency in medicine. For their part, doctor groups are worriedtha ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • $7b paid in carbon tax to reduce CO2 by 0.3% a ...
    This news was so boringly predictable I almost didn’t post it, but numbers like this of actual outcomes of visionary Big-Government Experiments are hard to come by. Seven billion dollars works out to $350 per person, and $1,350 per household of four, for one year. If Bill Shorten (leader ...
  • Hulme tries to throw all scientists under a bu ...
    It’s another tiny marker on the road to reality. Mike Hulme has admitted that Cooks 97% study is “infamous” and “irrelevant”. He’s trying to wash himself of both the “Consensus” argument and Cook’s work which he can see are becoming a liabili ...
  • Climate Change is making us mental — fea ...
    These days people are practically getting post traumatic climate disorder after bouts of extreme weather. More pointlessly, some are getting pre-traumatic stress from events that haven’t even happened. Makes you wonder how humanity survived the ice ages every time a storm hit — no fi ...
  • We are 95% certain you are a big-tobacco funde ...
    @GalileoMovement has been leaked a peek of the main Catastrophic Climate Change keyboard. This is where the emergency response team arguments are generated for the public debate. For example: 97% of climate models didn’t predict the “pause”. The correct response is… Alarm ...
  • The Age columist says democracy, free press no ...
    The Age, sometimes the free press is not enough… Gay Alcorn suggests when voters get it wrong (and you are but a powerless columnist on a major daily paper) the answer is not “explain your case”,  or “publish and study the views of the people who disagree” but be fi ...

ReNew America

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

2012 Blog

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Western Powers Back Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine
    Western nations, led by the European Union and the Obama Administration, are backing an outright neo-Nazi regime-change coup in Ukraine. If the effort succeeds, the consequences will extend far beyond the borders of Ukraine and neighboring states. For Russia, such a coup would constitute a casus ...
  • Don’t Rain on Putin’s Olympic Parade
    The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will take place in Sochi on Friday. Regrettably, as soon as this venue was selected by the Olympic Committee in July 2007 in Guatemala, the Western media unleashed a vicious, often hypocritical, and extremely biased campaign against Sochi and ...
  • What Links the Threat of a U.S. Default with t ...
    At the Munich Security Conference the Ukrainian opposition and the U.S. essentially agreed on a plan to force Viktor Yanukovich to capitulate. Arseniy Yatsenyuk told of this plan of action, which was worked out with the direct participation of Western representatives, after a meeting with U.S. S ...
  • The media’s ‘crusade’ against Soch ...
    The Western press is once again brimming with a fresh wave of anti-Sochi slander. The new round is dedicated to the supposedly “skyrocketing” costs of the games, or the “bacchanalia of waste and corruption” as Steven Lee Myers of the New York Times so poetically expresses ...
  • Munich: Imposing Their Own Will on Eastern Europe
    The Munich security conference is a unique podium to address the problems of world politics. Once a year politicians, heads of international organizations, diplomats and security experts get together. No binding decisions are taken, the Munich conference of our days is very much different from w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • False memories: The hidden side of our good memory
                  Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they are reproducing exactly an event that ... Related ...
  • Caution: GMO Non-Browning ‘Arctic Apple’ Comin ...
                Like the decrepit hand of a wicked witch offering us all a shiny red apple, the latest GMO project puts a new poison in one of our favorite fruits.  This time, it is Neal Carter, inventor ... Related posts:GMO apples may be deregulated ...
  • Are you big pharma’s new target market?
                2018, it is estimated that the global pharmaceutical market will be worth more than $1.3 trillion USD. To corner their share of profits, established drug companies have to fight fierce competition from generic products, adhere ... Rela ...
  • In US, ‘Natural’ Food Label Means Nothing
                In the United States, pre-packaged foods loaded with artificial ingredients and chemicals can make it onto grocery store shelves boasting the label “natural.” Why? Because in America, there is no definition of “natural. ...
  • Why We Can’t Live in the Moment
                    The sought-after ideal of “living in the moment” may be impossible, according to research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, which pinpoints an area of the brain responsible for using past decisions and outcomes to ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • EPA sets December deadline for coal ash rules
    Here’s the latest news day from Earthjustice: Late yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to finalize first-ever federal regulations for the disposal of coal ash by December 19, 2014, according to a settlement in a lawsuit brought by environmental and public health ...
  • Freedom to spill: Coal must take bad with good
    Gazette photo by Chip Ellis My apologies for not having much to say on Coal Tattoo the last few days, especially given the huge coal-related story that’s been breaking here in Charleston and the surrounding region in West Virginia. I’ve been focusing on helping with our daily Gazette ...
  • OSMRE: ‘It’s not the real world. This is ...
    It seems that at least some of the beltway media are expecting some serious news to come out of a hearing this morning before the House Natural Resources Committee, where Republicans are continuing to try to manufacture some major Obama administration scandal out of the Office of Surface Mining ...
  • W.Va. Gov. Tomblin easing up on coal rhetoric?
      Photo via governor’s website video stream. If you were watching or listening closely to tonight’s State of the State address, you might have noticed what is at least a slight change in the tone of West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s rhetoric about the coal industry and the ...
  • House Democrats’ agenda for W.Va. &#8230 ...
    Political watchers here in West Virginia are waiting this afternoon to hear exactly what proposals Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will make in his State of the State address tonight. But we were treated so far this week to several announcements of what the Democratic leadership in the House of Delegates ...

Daniel Miessler

  • My Thoughts on the Minimum Wage
    image from bastardsofistanbul I’ve been watching the minimum wage debate from a distance without having an opinion. That was until tonight when I listened to the Intelligence Squared debate on the topic, and I can now at least frame the discussion. The arguments for the minimum wage There ...
  • A Response to Haidt Regarding Harris’ Moral La ...
    Jonathan Haidt responded recently to Sam Harris’ Moral Landscape Challenge, and in doing so made a number of significant errors. First off, I enjoyed the piece overall. I think his highlighting of how our biases are often controlling us more than we know is spot on, and it’s valuable ...
  • The Peel Case for the iPhone
    OK, so who IS it for then? It’s for those who want their phone to look like Apple designed it to even during normal daily use. It’s for those who didn’t buy an 8 mm phone only to put it into a 16 mm tank. It’s for those who want excellent scratch protection and minor [&#8 ...
  • The Disambiguation of Freedom
    Much or most of the free will debate is burdened by a single misunderstanding: Incompatibilists and Compatibilists are talking about two different types of freedom. There are technical names for them, but I’ll avoid using them here. Here they are in plain language. The freedom to act indep ...
  • SEO-based Brand Attacks
    One of the most important things to a business is being easy to find online. This is why having a good website, and knowing some basic SEO, is so crucial. I’m not a an expert myself, but I know a few of the fundamentals. And being a security person I tend to see opportunities for […] ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

World News - Top Stories

  • USFDA chief coming to India next week
    The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg will be on her first official visit to India next week. The week-long visit, between February 10th and 18th, will include Delhi, Kochi and Mumbai, the USFDA...
  • Spencer’s Retail eyeing ₹5,000-cr turnover in ...
    Spencer’s Retail, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, is on a fast growth track. The Kolkata-based retailer is targeting ₹5,000-crore turnover in another four years and is also looking at a...
  • Diesel cars have negated CNG gains, say experts
    The introduction of Compressed Natural Gas in Delhi in the 1990s was applauded by environmentalists. But, all the good work seems to have been frittered away as the Centre for Science and Environment’s director general, Sunita Narain, on Wednesday said the city had been unsuccessful in red ...
  • Iran, Pakistan enjoy key role in Afghan peace: ...
    Speaking at bilateral dialogue between Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) and Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), they said that presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan is creating implications for the politics of the region. The dialogue which was organized ...
  • Plastic Bag Charge A 'Complete Mess', Warn MPs
    6 February 2014, 1:42 Plastic Bag Charge A 'Complete Mess', Warn MPs Tweet A group of MPs has described the Government plan to introduce a 5p charge for plastic bags In England as a "complete mess". The Coalition hopes that introducing a levy on carrier bags next year will reduce the number of p ...

no frakking consensus

  • A Historical Perspective on Hysterical Rhetoric
    From 1948 to the present, environmental activists have declared that the sky is falling.
  • The Church of Global Warming’s Changing ...
    15 months ago, it was a sin to declare out loud that the global temperature was no longer rising. Today, the IPCC, the UK Met office, and mainstream researchers are all admitting the obvious.
  • SKETCH: Unsettling the "Settled Science" of Cl ...
    Reblogged from Guy Fawkes' blog: The committee for Energy and Climate Change must be in line for an award. Its performance this week was exceptional. The mental level of Yeo’s committee is – well, the climate debate is so rancorous let’s try for decorum. Suffice it to say that John Robertso ...
  • UK Adventure
    Having touched down in London, I'm chuckling over a Charles Krauthammer column titled Stop Jerking Canada Around.
  • Neil Young’s Hiroshima – Exhibit # ...
    Rockstar's rhetoric about Canada's oil sands is intemperate, offensive, and ill-informed.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/5/14 - 270 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 270 Books Citing ProCon.org - 68 books in 2013 referenced our research. Our websites on gay marriage, immigration, medical marijuana, and prostitution garnered the most citations. Notable authors who have referenced ProCon.org in their books include: Glenn Beck, Mark Bittman, ...
  • 2/5/14 - Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Prescription ...
    prescriptiondrugs.procon.org  - Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Prescription Drug Ad Articles in Medical Journals, 1983-2013 – After the FDA authorized prescription drug advertising on television and radio in Aug. 1997, ads flooded the market resulting in more studies and articles written analyzin ...
  • 2/3/14 - ProCon.org received 343 media referen ...
    www.procon.org - - ProCon.org received 343 media references in 2013 compared to 285 in 2012. Notable 2013 media references included The Atlantic, Business Insider, CNN, Deadpsin, Forbes, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, New York Times, NPR, PBS, Psychology Today, Reuters, TIME, USA Today, ...
  • 1/30/14 - Educators in More than 4,500 Schools ...
    www.procon.org - – Educators in More than 4,500 Schools in All 50 States and Over 65 Countries Use ProCon.org – We expanded the number of schools where educators use ProCon.org from 3,560 schools at the end of 2012 to 4,571 schools at the end of 2013 – an increase of 1,011 schools (28.4%). By le ...
  • 1/23/14 - United States vs. International Heal ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - United States vs. International Health Care Spending - The United States spent $2.7 trillion, 17.9% of its GDP, on health care in 2011. View our charts comparing nine other nations to the United States in health care spending per capita and spending as a % of GDP.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Chef’s Corner: Mario Batali's Jellyfish Salad
    (Photo: Ken Goodman Photography) When you think of your favorite seafood dishes, we’re pretty sure that jellyfish is not on your list. But this often-overlooked sea creature can be the star of some very tasty dishes. In the recent issue of Oceana magazine, we featured Chef Mario Batali’s reci ...
  • Bloomberg by the Numbers: How Boosting Fish Po ...
    (Photo: Oceana / Jenn Hueting) We’ve been talking a lot this week about Vibrant Oceans, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s initiative. We’ve talked about our plan to work alongside Rare & EKO Asset Management to reform international fisheries management and to rebuild fish populati ...
  • Whale Shark Slaughterhouse Discovered in China
    (All photos: WildLifeRisk) Warning: This post discusses a graphic subject, and some photos might be upsetting to readers.  Sharks are still in danger, not just in the U.S. but around the world. WildLifeRisk, a Hong Kong-based conservation group, has recently revealed the world’s largest ...
  • Ted Danson Shares the Good News About Bloomberg
    (Photo: Oceana/ Carlos Suarez) If you haven't already heard, all of us at Oceana have some bug news to share with you. Bloomberg Philanthropies is donating $53 million over five years to help us restore fisheries in three of the world’s largest fishing nations: Brazil, Chile, and the Phi ...
  • CEO Note: Bloomberg Partners with Oceana to Sa ...
    (Photo: Oceana) The political world, recently, spent much time speculating about what former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would do next after leaving office. And, I have very good news to share—one of Mayor Bloomberg’s new goals will be to help save the oceans and feed the world ...

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Alternative Federal Budget 2014: Striking a be ...
    The following remarks are excerpted from the 2014 Alternative Federal Budget press conference, featuring Armine Yalnizyan, David Macdonald and Bruce Campbell (February 5th, Parliament Hill). This year is our 19th Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). From the beginning, we’ve developed a rigorous ec ...
  • Tackling Ontario’s Public Services Deficit
    As I established in my previous blog post, Deficit Games, Ontario’s current fiscal deficit is a non-issue. The deficit has declined to the point where it will dwindle away as the economy gradually resumes its long-term economic growth trend line. The enduring and highly visible deficit in Ontari ...
  • PotashCorp Projects Low Royalties
    The following commentary was quoted on page D1 of yesterday’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post: Thursday’s fourth-quarter report indicates that PotashCorp paid “provincial mining and other taxes” of $194 million on potash sales of $3 billion in 2013. In other words, Saskatchewan’s re ...
  • The staying power of Ontario’s deficit games
    Six years after the global recession plunged governments the world over into fiscal deficit mode, Ontario remains mired in deficit scare tactics engineered by the previous McGuinty government. In its waning years, the McGuinty government invested heavily in creating an atmosphere of fiscal crisi ...
  • A $14 minimum wage could put Ontario on the ri ...
    Six months ago, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne struck a panel to review the province’s minimum wage, the debate was still stuck in a 20-year-old business frame. The business frame is predicated on fear. It projects a worse-case scenario response to even the slightest of minimum wage increas ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Super Bowl 9/11 “Warning” Sends Shockwave Acro ...
    An ominous entry placed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report prepared by top disarmament official Mikhail Ulyanov and circulating in the Kremlin today claims that the “staged” warning given to the world yesterday by Edward Snowden protégé and defender Matthew Mills during a press c ...
  • 15 February “Catastrophe” Warned Will Shake En ...
    A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared the by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Ministry of Defense is warning that the assassinations this past week of three top Western bankers coincide with Snowden Documents detailing a 15 February 2014 “catastrophe” being engine ...
  • Are Banks About To Collapse?
    Something is happening in the banking world and it looks ugly. In Russia ‘My Bank’ has halted all cash withdrawals. HSBC is imposing restrictions on large cash withdrawals. Currency in Argentina is collapsing. Venezuela has devalued its currency by 44%. Turkey’s currency fell to a re ...
  • 85 People Own As Much as 3,500,000,000
    According to a new report, 85 individuals own as much as the world’s poorest 50%, that’s 3,500,000,000 people. “The tiny elite of multibillionaires, who could fit into a double-decker bus, have piled up fortunes equivalent to the wealth of the world’s poorest 3.5bn people, acco ...
  • US Warships Head For Sochi – ‘Just in Case’
    According to the Pentagon, the US has sent two warships to the Black Sea region. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that “transport aircraft would be waiting in Germany in the event of an emergency during the Olympics in Sochi.” reported Pravda. Kirby also added that “if in the ...

Daily Dose

  • Watson, IBM’s super computer, is now put ...
    IBM announced today that it is bringing its super computing platform Watson to Africa, where it will help researchers develop commercially-viable solutions in key areas such as healthcare, education, water and sanitation, human mobility... Keep reading →
  • Sony announces it will lay off 5,000 staff, ex ...
    Sony has announced that it is laying off 5,000 staff as part of major restructuring plans that will see the Japanese firm sell its Vaio PC business and spin its... Keep reading →
  • Apple removes the last remaining Bitcoin walle ...
    Bitcoin has been dealt another blow again, as Apple has pulled what is allegedly the last remaining Bitcoin wallet app on its App Store, Blockchain, the company behind the app... Keep reading →
  • Microsoft wants to swap your iPhone 4, iPhone ...
    Earlier this week, we wrote about a Microsoft Store deal offering to buy your smartphone or tablet for up to $250, and speculated that “device-specific deals” would come later. The... Keep reading →
  • Sony’s Xperia Transfer Android app lets ...
    Motorola isn’t the only one giving iPhone exiles an easy way to transfer data to a new Android phone — Sony today announced its Xperia Transfer app which does the same,... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar thermal is coming. But where will it land?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, January 30 2014. With the news that Chile is to join the solar thermal club, Australia could before long become the only inhabited continent without this revolutionary electricity generation technology. Spanish developer Abengoa is set to build a la ...
  • ARENA, Alinta agree funds for Port Augusta sol ...
    By Giles Parkinson. RenewEconomy, 15 January 2014 The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has finally come to an agreement with the privately-owned Alinta to co-fund a feasibility study into a solar thermal power station to augment or replace the existing coal fired generators in the South Aus ...
  • Casting away carbon, street by street
    By Stephen Bygrave. From Climate Spectator Australia's homes are among the largest and most inefficient in the developed world. Then we wonder why our household energy bills and carbon emissions are so high.  There are, also, few ways we get feedback regarding our household energy consum ...
  • The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
    Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...
  • High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
    ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Drought, fire reducing ability of Amazon rainf ...
    New research published in Nature adds further evidence to the argument that drought and fire are reducing the Amazon's ability to store carbon, raising concerns that Earth's largest rainforest could tip from a carbon sink to a carbon source.
  • Amazon rainforest does not 'green up' during t ...
    Analysis of satellite imagery has cleared up a controversy over whether the Amazon rainforest 'greens up' during the dry season.
  • REDD+ could fail without near-term financial s ...
    An ambitious plan to save the world's tropical forests by valuing them for the carbon the store may fail to reduce deforestation unless governments and multilateral institutions significantly scale up financial commitments to the program, argues a new report published by the Global Canopy Progra ...
  • Alaska roasting: new NASA map shows the Final ...
    Alaska got California weather at the end of January, as displayed by a new map based on data by NASA's Terra satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). The U.S. state experiences one of its warmest winter periods on record during the second half of January, including some ...
  • Alpine bumblebees capable of flying over Mt. E ...
    The genus Bombus consists of over 250 species of large, nectar-loving bumblebees. Their bright coloration serves as a warning to predators that they are unwelcome prey and their bodies are covered in a fine coat of hair - known as pile - which gives them their characteristically fuzzy look. Bumb ...

Sierra Express

  • Stand off in Kabala as youths and cattle reare ...
    The youths at Alkalia village and its environs within the Koinadugu District are reported to be very angry with the way and manner the cattle rearers are treating them with impunity. It could be recalled that on January 8 this year the newly constructed reservoir dam that was built by the Member ...
  • Bangura unveiled as Istanbul BB player
    Former Celtic and AIK and Sierra Leone international striker, Mohamed (Mo) Bangura who joined Turkish second tier league club Istanbul BB on the last day of the Turkish transfer deadline has been unveiled by his new club. Sierra Express Media UK understands, Bangura 24 signed a 2 ½ year deal on ...
  • Afro-Pop musician Salif Keita to thrill Sierra ...
    In an exclusive interview with the Executive Director of the International Business Communications Advisory Services and Training [IBCAST], Mr. Peter Tayoung, he stated that in collaboration with Music Makers Sierra Leone, they will be hosting the leading African internationally celebrated Afro ...
  • London Mining improves Lunsar roads
    London Mining Company’s contractor, Universal Ventures, has now completed the company sponsored Road Improvement Project, which has upgraded a number of roads that are vital to its operating community of Lunsar. The work, which entailed an investment of $43,500 equivalent of Le 186,180,000 compl ...
  • Deaf Association gets new President
    The Sierra Leone National Association of the Deaf (SLMAD) has appointed Alhaji Mohamed Rahman to serve as Acting President. The ceremony took place on last Thursday, January 30 at their Elk Street office in Freetown.  (Photo: Alhaji Rahman joyfully smiling while receiving his letter from his for ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices up 0.5pc overnight (+graphic)
    Dairy product prices rose in the second GlobalDairyTrade auction in a row, led by butter and whole milk powder, while volumes continued to retreat.The GDT Price Index increased 0.5 per cent from the last sale two weeks ago. The...
  • NZ commodity prices rise to a record in January
    New Zealand commodity prices rose to a record in January, led by gains in butter.The ANZ Commodity Price Index advanced 1.2 per cent to 334.3 from December. The index is 23 per cent above January 2013.International prices for...
  • NZ shares drop to 4-week low
    The New Zealand sharemarket dropped to a four-week low, tracking a decline on Wall Street, after a report showed US manufacturing activity grew at the slowest pace in eight months, fuelling concern about global growth.New Zealand's...
  • NZX eyes US investors thirsty for dairy deriva ...
    NZX, New Zealand's market operator, has taken another step towards expanding its dairy derivatives market into the US with approval to allow direct access for American customers.NZX is now a registered Foreign Board of Trade...
  • Milk scares leave stench
    Hayley Chamberlain hoists her son Louis on her hip. He's a big, happy 1-year-old - the picture of good health that New Zealand's dairy industry would like to stick on the sides of trains in Shanghai and Beijing.Hayley, 28, grew...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Andrew Napolitano on Obama's Executive Order T ...
    In the past three weeks, the president has made it clear how he plans to run the executive branch of the federal government in the next three years: with a pen and a phone. Andrew Napolitano asks pressing questions: How dangerous is a president who wants to rule by pen and phone? Wh ...
  • Brickbat: Bad Moon Rising
    A 16-year-old boy, who wasn't named by local media, has been charged with felony and misdemeanor indecent exposure after mooning a bus full of students in Prescott, Arizona.
  • Tonight on The Independents: Judge Na ...
    Wednesday night episodes of The Independents, as a perusal through the Reason archives will attest, tend to be chock full of libertarian red meat. Tonight is no different. Batting leadoff, playing natural-rights field (ducks), is Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and Reason.c ...
  • Will the Sochi Olympics Be a Massive Shitstorm ...
    The Washington Post is getting lots of page views and shares of a piece they put together yesterday afternoon aggregating reporters arriving to cover the Sochi Olympics only to discover their quarters are not exactly ready. What starts as a list of simple, not unusual problems for ...
  • Teh Internet is Full of Cool Things: Author! A ...
    Hit and Run habitue and recidivist commenter Alan Vanneman has a book out that sounds pretty interesting to this old literature grad student (I even bought the Kindle edition earlier today). Here's the Amazon description:  Author! Author! contains two short stories and a novella, ...

Mercury Rising

  • One of these is not like the others
    Kim Ives, Haiti-Liberte President Joseph Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly is shoveling money out of the national treasury to family and friends through expensive foreign junkets, aircraft rentals, vehicle acquisitions, and irregular withdrawals from Haiti’s central bank, according to Moïse Jean-Cha ...
  • Yes, the NSA is spying on Americans. And Marcy ...
    I realize this is not news. But, as with the Watergate scandal, nothing happens politically until key facts become undeniable. At that point, the media realize that they can sell advertising wrapped around the scandal, and Congressmen start imagining attack ads based on what they are saying, so ...
  • CBO Spins Good ACA Jobs News Into Bad News
    One of the biggest benefits of the Affordable Care Act is that fewer people will be forced to hold down crappy jobs in order to pay for health insurance. That condition, known as “job lock”, is considered a bad thing even by conservative economists. So, when the persons in the Congre ...
  • Marriage Equality Drive Makes Big Strides In V ...
    Check out this post at Blabbeando on the growing marriage equality movement in Venezuela. Then check out the videos here and here. The moral arc of the universe is bending towards justice the world over.
  • A truly useful product.
    Leave it to the Japanese to know what we need. Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian: The stakes are getting increasingly high in the battle for the weirdest piece of wearable tech. After wifi-detecting hats and smartphone-charging wellies, it was only a matter of time until it all turned to sex – wit ...

Reality Sandwich

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

gCaptain

Press TV

  • Iran MPs slam remarks by US envoy
    Nearly 200 Iranian legislators have slammed recent remarks by the US representative to the Geneva nuclear talks with Iran, calling them offensive and reflective of the US hegemonic character.
  • Iran stresses backing for Palestine
    A top Iranian lawmaker has reiterated Iran’s backing for the Palestinian cause, saying the struggle against the Israeli regime is the only way to liberate Palestine.
  • Egypt army denies Sisi candidacy report
    Egypt’s military has denied reports of a Kuwaiti newspaper that Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi would run for presidential election.
  • ‘Damascus warns Baku over militants’
    A report says the Syrian government has warned Azerbaijan over the number of Azerbaijani militants who have joined foreign-backed Takfiri groups inside Syria.
  • N Korea warns against South-US drills
    North Korea has warned that unless South Korea cancels scheduled military drills with the US, it would reconsider plans with Seoul to resume reunions for separated families.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • April Coughlin Responds to the NY Times Articl ...
    April Coughlin was one of the CUNY SPS alumni featured in the New York Times article, Disability Studies – A New Normal, on November 1, 2013. We recently caught up with April and asked her why disability studies is an important field for everyone to explore. Here’s what she told us: ...
  • Why Did You Stay?
    Why did you stay? He wouldn’t do those things if he didn’t really love you. I’m sure you’re exaggerating. What did you do to make him do that? Those are just some of the things that were said to me after I left my husband. Some believed his stalking was proof of his love for […]
  • My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
    After stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving, I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood was where ...
  • THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
    The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...

Dissident Voice

  • Let Them Eat Symbols
    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,” an even more inaccessible and scarce food for poor people. But what is certain and should be beyond controversy is that in res ...
  • Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nucle ...
    (IPS) — 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 military involvement in Iran’s nuclear programme. That suspicion led to U.S. intelligen ...
  • Iraq near Implosion
    As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hurried to his helicopter ready to take off at the end of a visit to Iraq last year, it was becoming clearer that the Americans have lost control of a country they wished to mold to their liking. His departure on March 24, 2013 was the conclusion of […]
  • There Will Be More Blood
    The question is no longer what, the question is when. Very soon, income inequality in the United States will reach such a critical level it is likely violence will be viewed as an acceptable response to America’s social ills. Unlike Depression Era bank robbers, assaults will be aimed at soft hum ...
  • Between Illegality and Incompetence
    If an attack were to be launched on America in the very near future, it is my belief that America would not know that attack were about to be launched. — Otis G. Pike, New York Times, Oct 18, 1975 History is by some marvels of anti-institutional warriors.  Now, the names of Julian Assange and [& ...

Nick Turse

  • "Death keeps no calendar."
    “Death keeps no calendar.” - George Herbert, 1640 (via laphamsquarterly)
  • tomdispatch:Juan Cole highlights 10 climate ...
    tomdispatch: Juan Cole highlights 10 climate change stories that are receiving little or no attention in the U.S. media. Given its obvious importance, global warming remains a remarkably under-covered subject. Cole begins this way: “Since many mainstream media outlets in the US are burying the ...
  • Where are U.S. Special Operations forces and w ...
    Where are U.S. Special Operations forces and what are they doing? In my latest article, I reveal — for the first time anywhere — the full extent of black ops deployments during 2013 and analyze the potential pitfalls of conducting a globalized secret war.  Without a clear picture of where the U ...
  • aljazeeraamerica:UN demands immediate action ...
    aljazeeraamerica: UN demands immediate action from Vatican on child sex abuse The United Nations on Wednesday demanded that the Vatican “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers and turn them over to civil authorities, in an unprecedented and scathing report tha ...
  • "It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking abou ...
    “It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about destabilization in Afghanistan, where U.S....

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Newswise

  • Food Insecurity Leads to Increased Incidence o ...
    The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio-economic crisis of 2008-9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.
  • Study of Brokers' Potential Conflict of Intere ...
    A new academic paper about potential conflict of interest in large retail brokers' routing of limit orders has stirred controversy on Wall Street and caught regulators' attention -- even before the paper has been submitted to a journal. While some in the industry have compared the study's possib ...
  • The Smithsonian Associates Announces 2014 Date ...
    The Smithsonian Associates presents a true night at the museum with a unique overnight experience for children in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Sleepovers will be held May 17, June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26, Aug. 8 and Aug. 22.
  • Doctors to CVS: What about E-Cigs too?
    In response to CVS deciding not to sell tobacco products, Pennsylvania physicians ask CVS to keep electronic cigarettes off shelves too.
  • Despite Awareness of Health Risks, Young Women ...
    A survey of young women who use tanning beds found that despite being aware of the health risks associated with indoor tanning, they continue to take part in the activity, according to research conducted by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • 'Marijuana Refugees' Move For Pot
    Making two interstate moves in a matter of months, with two young children in tow, wasn't something Moriah Barnhart had planned for. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Laura Ingraham cant believe Sonia Sotomayor is ...
    Why do we have a Supreme Court justice whose allegiance obviously goes to her immigrant family background and not to the U.S. Constitution? Ingraham said. So we have no rule of law. We are going to pick and choose who has to follow the law in the Unite Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Cul ...
  • Oil And Gas Facilities Need To Start Reporting ...
    "Large oil and gas facilities across the U.S. are releasing a total of 8.5 million tons of chemicals into the environment each year without having to report their emissions to a public EPA database, according to a new report." Submitted by Brian M. to Environment  |   Note-it! &n ...
  • A Funny Video That Makes You Never Want To Fal ...
    The word, natural, on any product doesn't guarantee anything. Stick with the organic label. Submitted by Brian M. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • General Confirms Enhanced Targeting Capabiliti ...
    The former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff, General Norton Schwartz, confirmed last week that the B61-12 nuclear bomb planned by the Obama administration will have improved military capabilities to attack targets with greater accuracy and less radioactive f Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics & ...

Sunwarrior

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • School administrator admits having sexual rela ...
    A female school administrator in California who was accused in a viral YouTube video of sexually abusing a student has admitted to police that she had an inappropriate relationship with her the victim, starting with she was just 14. Andrea Cardosa, 40, was arrested Monday when she turned hersel ...
  • Should David Cameron be prosecuted for recruit ...
    According to the London Evening Standard, a top British prosecutor has "warned that Britons who travel to join the Syrian conflict will face prosecution and potential life sentences on their return." Sue Hemming said it was a crime to fight in another country even if it was to topple a "loaths ...
  • France's role in the Rwanda genocide?
    The trial this week of a Rwandan genocide suspect in a Paris courtroom is a well-earned victory for the French human rights groups who lobbied so hard and so long for justice. The milestone trial signals the end of France as a safe haven for génocidaries. But more than this, the trial is li ...
  • Texas teen suffering 'affluenza' avoids jail again
    The Texas teenager who avoided prison after a psychologist described him as suffering from "affluenza" has been ordered by a judge to attend an undisclosed rehabilitation facility. Ethan Couch was given ten years' probation last December for killing four people and seriously injuring two while ...
  • No surprise: Vatican envoy rejects UN panel's ...
    Committee attacks church's handling of sex abuse allegations, but archbishop says findings are outdated and ideological The leadership of the Roman Catholic church is engaged in a tense standoff with the United Nations after a damning report on the Holy See's handling of the clerical sex abuse ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Veterans are outraged. Now they need to do wha ...
    There is a commonly held misconception that all members of Canada's armed services and, by extension, discharged veterans are Conservative supporters. That, of course, is simply not true on more than one plane. What is true, is that many voted for Harper and his uber-right-wing thugs based on ...
  • Veterans are outraged. Now they need to do wha ...
    There is no doubt Canadian veterans have been treated in the most vile way possible by one of the most ignorant people in the Harper government. Julian Fantino has demonstrated, quite clearly, that he feels a greater duty to his benefactor, Harper, than he does to the armed services veterans h ...
  • 140 characters of chickenshit
    Industry Canada (and by extension the Conservative government) is apparently so afraid of public opinion (and the internet) that they have a 12-step program process for issuing Tweets.
  • Rotten to the core
    BC premier Christy Clark is not known for honest dealing. She and Harper work out of the same playbook and regularly employ the same people to work the sewers of a political system rife with cronyism and putrefied by secret back-room deals and political corruption. This time, a judge has ju ...
  • PMSH 24 Seven.
    Stephen Harper Twenty-four Seven. Seriously. 

Media Matters for America

  • STUDY: Media Leave Viewers In The Dark About T ...
    Congress is debating whether to give the president the authority to fast-track a massive free trade agreement -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- between the U.S., Canada, and 10 nations from the Asia-Pacific region. The nations involved in the talks account for nearly 40 percent of the world's ...
  • NRO Accuses VA Attorney General Of Playing Pol ...
    National Review Online is pushing an accusation that Virginia attorney general Mark Herring is "politicizing" his office because he has refused to defend that state's same-sex marriage ban in court. In reality, Herring's decision is a common one -- state officials on both sides of the political ...
  • Sandra Fluke's Political Aspirations Spur New ...
    Right-wing media figures jumped at reports that Sandra Fluke is running for political office in California with sexist attacks and falsehoods about her advocacy for the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) birth control mandate.Sandra Fluke Filed Bid For Congressional Run, Ultimately ...
  • Right-Wing Media Hate That Obamacare Reduces E ...
    Right-wing media outlets are falsely claiming that workers voluntarily reducing hours due to provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is evidence that the law is harmful to the economy, ignoring economists' opinions about its role in reducing economic insecurity.Congressional Budget ...
  • "Road To Perdition": Right-Wing Media React To ...
    Right-wing media outlets and personalities attacked a Coca-Cola ad aired during the Super Bowl that featured members of different cultures singing "America the Beautiful" in several languages. Coca-Cola: Ad Shows "The Fabric of American Life" Ad Featured "America The Beauti ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • A Different World: New Interactive Map Shows W ...
    It’s easy to forget how completely our view and understanding of the world is based on things that are in actuality always changing — and in the case of climate, changing rather rapidly. This new interactive map from National Geographic really drives that point home — with only ...
  • CVS “No Go” For Tobacco: Good For The Company, ...
    Fifty years ago, the drugstore giant CVS/Caremark came into being. Also 50 years ago, Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first federal government report linking smoking with disease. Today, the events have coalesced: CVS, one of the nation’s top retail pharmacy chains (Walgreen is # ...
  • A Cosmic Perspective on the Human Being
    Thanks to “Espresso for the Mind” on Facebook for this wise definition of “human being” (www.sciencedump.com)A Cosmic Perspective on the Human Being was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS ...
  • New Scores/Apps For Car-Free U.S. City Transit
    The website that brought renters, homebuyers, and realtors a powerful index of walkability has done it again, this time for public transit (source: walkscore.com). At the end of January, Matt Lerner, CTO of Walk Score, announced a new ranking of the average resident’s access to public transit in ...
  • “Bones” On Groundhog Day
    Thanks to George Takei on Facebook! for this great Groundhog Day photoon!“Bones” On Groundhog Day was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free), follow us on Twitter, ...

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Axis of Logic

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

Climate

  • Fukushima Region Pledges to Go 100% Renewable ...
    (Think Progress) 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 renewab ...
  • U.S. Northeast Carbon Market Emissions Drop in ...
    (Reuters) Greenhouse gas emissions fell 6 percent in 2013 in the nine northeast U.S. states that participate in a trading scheme to cut carbon dioxide from power plants, helped by mild temperatures and some use of cleaner energy source ...
  • Handshakes and Body English Vex Corporate Carb ...
    (Bloomberg) Global companies are trying to shrink their carbon footprints by targeting business travel, and the early results are frustrating, even among companies with celebrated green credentials. Consider Nike, which flew several m ...
  • Texas Oil Regulator Warns Operators About Gas ...
    (Houston Chronicle) Texas Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick said the agency is sending letters to operators Wednesday reminding them of the state's natural gas flaring rules and warning that the state will enforce them. Craddick ...
  • Green Billionaire Steyer May Target Senator La ...
    (Politico) Billionaire activist Tom Steyer signaled Wednesday that he's willing to target Democrats who support construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Steyer's PAC, NextGen Climate Action, is calling on supporters to choose the ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Poor Boehner's Predicament
    One of the most boring things in the world is watching John Boehner try to figure out how to pass a clean debt-ceiling hike with a majority of Republican votes in the House. It's an example of the Republican majority having to deal with the repercussions of politicizing the debt ceiling over th ...
  • Head Meet Desk
    Every time that someone reads the following, a puppy dies. Just a few hours after Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) announced his his plan to retire amidst a congressional ethics inquiry, state Sen. Donald Norcross (D), the brother of arguably the most powerful Democratic Party boss in the state, threw ...
  • Serious Question
    Okay, so Vermont is the least religious state in the country and Mississippi is the most religious state. We probably didn't need polling to tell us this. So, how is that working out for the people of those two states? Discuss
  • Pardon the Interruption
    Today and tomorrow are massive travel days for me, as I wind my way back north towards rain and snow and sleet and home. While I drive long distances, you can ponder why power strikes back with a massive, wooden cock. Discuss
  • Hey, O'Malley, You're Doing It Wrong
    Speaking for me only (but not really), it's not a good idea for Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley to telegraph his intention to drop a potential presidential bid if Hillary Clinton should choose to run. The reason should be obvious. Anyone who is interested in getting on board the O'Malley tra ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Banks Feel Heat on Climate-Change Issue - Wall ...
    Banks Feel Heat on Climate-Change Issue Wall Street Journal She said PNC continues to have significant relationships with mining companies that engage in a technique known as mountaintop removal, despite signaling in 2011 it would curb its lending in the sector. A PNC spokeswoman said shareholde ...
  • Thousands Rally Against Keystone XL as Obama F ...
    Thousands Rally Against Keystone XL as Obama Faces Decision In These Times “You have fracking here, you have mountaintop removal over here, environmental justice here, the Lakota [opposing the pipeline] in Pine Ridge [South Dakota] over here. This is an issue where we have come together and it h ...
  • Christian stewardship group seeks to blow top ...
    Christian stewardship group seeks to blow top off mountaintop removal National Catholic Reporter (blog) “God's original plan was to hang out in a garden with some naked vegetarians,” declares a bumper sticker created by the nonprofit Restoring Eden -- Christians for Environmental Stewardship ...
  • Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, ...
    Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, Government or Coal Industry The Indypendent As governor, Manchin took Obama's EPA to court in November of 2010 over the revocation of a mountaintop removal mining permit. Tomblin, after taking Manchin's place, continued the lawsuit and organi ...
  • Shrinking: Appalachian decline - Charleston Ga ...
    Shrinking: Appalachian decline Charleston Gazette For one, coal mining has become increasingly automated in recent decades, particularly as companies have shifted to techniques such as mountaintop-removal mining, which are less labor-intensive." Coal executives replace miners with ever-bett ...

Memeorandum

  • CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes, Tobacco Produc ...
    Lindsey Rupp / Bloomberg: CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes, Tobacco Products by October  —  CVS Caremark (CVS:US), the largest provider of prescription drugs in the U.S., plans to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco-related products across the nation by Oct. 1 in an effort to supp ...
  • The Worst Idea in the World (Robert Stacy McCa ...
    Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator: The Worst Idea in the World  —  Five years after the Bolshevik Revolution, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises predicted that the Soviet project was doomed to fail.  In his classic work Socialism, Mises explained that the attempt to ...
  • Obamacare's Attack on the Work Ethic (Charles ...
    Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review: Obamacare's Attack on the Work Ethic  —  There is a point in almost every debate at which the losing party recognizes its predicament and concludes that its only remaining play is to try to corrupt the language.  In Texas, pro-choice h ...
  • Key Democratic Group Will Sit Out Midterm Elec ...
    Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed: Key Democratic Group Will Sit Out Midterm Elections  —  Priorities USA Action, the super PAC now backing Hillary Clinton, won't spend to help Democrats in the House and Senate this year, a spokesperson confirms.  —  Mike Theiler / Reuters& ...
  • Paul says GOP infighting is a good thing (Dan ...
    Dan Merica / CNN: Paul says GOP infighting is a good thing  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told a crowd of social conservatives Wednesday that fighting within the GOP is for the best.  —  Although Paul pointed out that the debate shou ...

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Texas executes woman who killed mentally disab ...
    Texas performed a rare execution of a woman Wednesday, putting to death a prisoner convicted of the brutal murder of a mentally disabled man 15 years agoTexas performed a rare execution of a woman Wednesday, putting to death a prisoner convicted of the brutal murder of a mentally disabled man ...
  • Hoffman's cause of death undetermined
    A makeshift memorial for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at the entrance to the apartment building where he died February 4, 2014 in the Greenwich Village area of New YorkThe results of an autopsy of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's body were inconclusive, and further tests have been ...
  • Blake's triple-double lifts Lakers to unlikely win
    Steve Blake of the Los Angeles Lakers watches his game-winning three point shot for a 99-98 win over the Houston Rockets on November 7, 2013 in Houston, TexasSteve Blake, in his second game back from an elbow injury, notched a triple-double as the Los Angeles Lakers beat Cleveland 119-108 to s ...
  • US warns of toothpaste bombs on Russia flights
    Japan's Olympic athletes arrive at the Olympic Park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi on February 2, 2014The US government warned American and foreign airlines -- just ahead of the Sochi Olympics -- that terrorists could try to hide explosives in toothpaste tubes on Russia-bound ...
  • Twitter takes hit as user growth disappoints
    Twitter got a reality check as the high-flying messaging company reported modest user growth during a quarter in which it lost $511 millionTwitter got a reality check as the high-flying messaging company reported modest user growth during a quarter in which it lost $511 million.Even more disco ...

Institute for Policy Studies

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Yes, Raw Chicken Liver Pâté can carry Campylob ...
    Lynne Terry reports that since December 2013, Oregon health officials have been looking into the source of Campylobacteriosis that has sickened five individuals in Oregon and Ohio. All cases report eating... Continue Reading
  • Yes, Raw Chicken Liver Pâté can carry Campylob ...
    Lynne Terry reports that since December 2013, Oregon health officials have been looking into the source of Campylobacteriosis that has sickened five individuals in Oregon and Ohio. All cases report eating... Continue Reading
  • The Nasty Norovirus
    Norovirus is again in the news – cruise ships, fancy restaurants and even a high school. Norovirus is a virus that is encased in a protein shell. It can live... Continue Reading
  • The Nasty Norovirus
    Norovirus is again in the news – cruise ships, fancy restaurants and even a high school. Norovirus is a virus that is encased in a protein shell. It can live... Continue Reading
  • Multiple E. coli Positives Prompt Beef Recall
    PFP Enterprises, a Fort Worth, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 15,865 pounds of beef products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O103, E. coli O111, E. coli O121, E. coli O145, E. coli O26 and E. coli O45, the... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Time - Top Stories

Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | The Ineffable’s Player ...
    By Visible In this particular period of time, the final movement of The Apocalypse Symphony is playing. As any informed metaphysician knows, everything is vibration. The repeating sequences of the Apocalypse Symphony are specifically designed in a solve et coagula kind of a way; heavy on the sol ...
  • Who Controls The Gold Stealing New York Fed Ba ...
    The Pilgrims Society is the last great secret of modern history! ******************** Before gold goes berserk like Godzilla rampaging across Tokyo—and frees silver to supernova—let’s have a look into backgrounds of key Federal Reserve personalities, with special focus on the New York Federal Re ...
  • Visible Origami | Time and the River do not St ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. Existence is certainly like a river and when it’s used as a descriptive, most of what you hear is about it’s winding and bending from left to right, from right to left. You also hear about obstacles in the fl ...
  • Starving hives: Pesticides cause bees to colle ...
    Bees exposed to \”field-realistic\” doses of insecticides gather less than a half the pollen that they normally do, dooming their young to starvation, UK researches have said. While some scientists hailed the findings, pesticide makers remained unimpressed In a spin-off of their earl ...
  • PressTV – 9/11 truth coach wins Super Bowl
    By Kevin Barrett Since 9/11, the Super Bowl – America’s biggest annual event – has been drenched in war propaganda. The championship of American football, watched by more than 110 million Americans, the Super Bowl has become an orgy of flag-waving exhortations to “support the troops” ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • “Climate change is slowly but steadily c ...
    Summary: Americans have been subjected to barrage of propaganda about global warming of a length and intensity never seen in this nation except during wars. That it has failed so far (see polls here) seems remarkable (explanations vary). Instead of reflecting on this failure, finding lessons lea ...
  • Apocalyptic thinking on the Left about climate ...
    Summary:  Epistemic closure has infected both Left and Right in America. Examples of this on the Right are legion. Today we look at an example on the Left, and its potentially severe consequences for this already endangered species in America. . Contents Changes in American politics “Endin ...
  • A status report on the US economy. What can we ...
    Summary:  Today we have a quick look at the US economy. Where it’s at. Grading its performance. Where it’s going. . Contents The slow growth recovery Good news! Bad news! Perhaps very bad news: are we like Japan? The clock runs against us For More Information . (1)  The recovery: slo ...
  • What does the American public want done to fig ...
    Summary: For roughly 15 years public policy initiatives to fight climate change has been one of the Left’s major goals. They’ve expended vast resources of time and money (like this) to convince the public about the urgent need to take a wide range of measures — both new regulat ...
  • Look in the polls, as in a mirror, to see Amer ...
    Summary:  How have the two major parties done in attracting and retaining the public’s confidence and allegiance, from February 2009 to now? The long slow recovery should have boosted the Democratic Party, who have controlled the Executive Branch and the Senate. It hasn’t. In fact th ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Should the US Side with the Ukrainian Protesters?
    Bloggingheads.tv Senior Editor David Klion recently asked Volodymyr Yermolenko of Internews Ukraine whether supportive appearances by American politicians like John McCain are helpful or harmful to the demonstrators in Kiev.
  • Louisa Lombard: It's irresponsible to talk abo ...
    The humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic is urgent, but is it fair to call it a genocide? Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch recently spoke with Louisa Lombard, a leading expert on CAR at UC-Berkeley, who urged caution regarding the term.
  • What's a Responsible, Progressive Position on ...
    AP Images/SodaStream The recent contretemps over actress Scarlett Johansson’s work for an Israeli company, partly based in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, highlights the growing international movement to pressure Israel economically to end its occupation. But it also highlights the nee ...
  • The Moment of Creation
    AP Images On May 12, 1948, President Harry Truman convened a tense Oval Office meeting. In less than three days, Britain would leave Palestine, where civil war already raged between Jews and Arabs. Clark Clifford, Truman’s special counsel, argued the position of American Zionist organizations ...
  • Top of the Morning: 1 Million Now Displaced in ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. South Sudan Displaced Grows to 1 Million Meanwhile, the UN launched a $1.27 billion appeal to provide humanitarian assistance to those affected by this crisis.  “As many as one million people have been displaced in the recent fighting in South Sudan and internation ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Daily Meme: Buy Thin Mints, Support America's ...
    If there was any group that seemed capable of rising above the culture-wars fray, it's the Girl Scouts. After all, what could be more American than scrumptious treats,capitalism, and crafting? (The cookies are even gluten free!) Anti-choice organizations say the Girl Scouts have pulled the wool ...
  • Republicans Are Really, Really Bad at Hostage ...
    For some time, I've been arguing that we should not just extend the debt ceiling but get rid of it altogether. It's a weird historical anomaly that serves no practical purpose other than allowing the opposition party, should it be sufficiently reckless, to threaten global economic catastrophe i ...
  • Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?
    I have no doubt that right about now, Chris Christie believes he's being treated unfairly. He sees himself beset by his political opponents, by the media (both local and national), and even by some Republicans who'd like to see the guy who a few months ago looked like the most formidable 2016 p ...
  • What's a Responsible, Progressive Position on ...
    AP Images/SodaStream The recent contretemps over actress Scarlett Johansson’s work for an Israeli company, partly based in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, highlights the growing international movement to pressure Israel economically to end its occupation. But it also highlights ...
  • The Moment of Creation
    AP Images On May 12, 1948, President Harry Truman convened a tense Oval Office meeting. In less than three days, Britain would leave Palestine, where civil war already raged between Jews and Arabs. Clark Clifford, Truman’s special counsel, argued the position of American Zionist organi ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Attacks Tanto ...
    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is spearheading a campaign to build support for immigration reform among mainstream conservatives by pointing out what his advocacy group calls the “shocking extremism” of the anti-immigrant movement. In a 30-page memo sent to every member of Congress, Zuckerberg ...
  • Libyan Immigrant Held in Attempted Arson of Se ...
    Police have arrested a man identified from video footage as the likely arsonist who attempted to burn down a gay bar filled with patrons on New Year’s Eve in Seattle, and now the FBI has confirmed that it is investigating the case as a possible hate crime. The arson attempt, in which gasoline wa ...
  • Filmmakers Release Trailer of Documentary Abou ...
    Two filmmakers are hard at work putting the finishing touches on a documentary about Leith, N.D., the town where neo-Nazi Craig Cobb had begun buying properties to establish an white supremacist enclave far away from the multicultural cities. Here’s a preview of the film. Leith, N.D. – Tra ...
  • Two White Supremacist Gang Members Convicted o ...
    In the tribal, racially charged world of prison, integration is a threat and a sin – punishable by death. At least that appears to have been the twisted gospel of two members of a white supremacist prison gang who were convicted of second-degree murder in Atlanta on Monday for killing a fellow w ...
  • Discredited Regnerus Study Continues Its Reign ...
    For the anti-gay movement, call it the gift that keeps on giving. The thoroughly discredited study by University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus that was released July 2012 has turned up yet again, this time in the initial brief filed on behalf of the state of Utah in its fight agains ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • GAP Promotes Privacy Statement for All Emails ...
    The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is distributing and encouraging use of a Privacy Statement for all Internet users to adopt as part of their signature line in their online communications. Similar to the standard legal disclaimers found at the end of many emails, this Privacy Statement ...
  • Court Takes Swift Action to End Debtors’ Prison
    Today, the Supreme Court of Ohio distributed a new “bench card” to all of the state’s judges, giving much needed instructions to avoid the unconstitutional practice of sending people to jail when they owe the court fines and are unable to pay. The card lists the legal alternati ...
  • Court Takes Swift Action to End Debtors’ Prison
    Today, the Supreme Court of Ohio distributed a new “bench card” to all of the state’s judges, giving much needed instructions to avoid the unconstitutional practice of sending people to jail when they owe the court fines and are unable to pay. The card lists the legal alternati ...
  • Common Cause Statement on Introduction of the ...
    "Giant corporations, special interests and ultra-wealthy donors shout through big-money megaphones to drown out the voices of hardworking Americans in the political process," said Karen Hobert Flynn, senior vice president for strategy and programs at Common Cause. "This is bold le ...
  • Common Cause Statement on Introduction of the ...
    "Giant corporations, special interests and ultra-wealthy donors shout through big-money megaphones to drown out the voices of hardworking Americans in the political process," said Karen Hobert Flynn, senior vice president for strategy and programs at Common Cause. "This is bold le ...

Common Dreams-Views

Water Privatization

  • Suburbs: We need more detail before joining De ...
    Suburban leaders say they need more detailed financial information from Detroit before they are willing to join a regional authority to run the city's Water and Sewerage Department.
  • Suburbs: We need more detail before joining De ...
    Suburban leaders say they need more detailed financial information from Detroit before they are willing to join a regional authority to run the city's Water and Sewerage Department.
  • Maynilad spends P1.1B on pipe replacements in 2013
    Maynilad Water Services Inc spent P1.1 billion in 2013 to replace old, leaky pipes in its service area.
  • Maynilad recovered 140-MLD in 2013
    West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has recovered nearly 140 million liters of water per day (MLD) in 2013, which was enough to supply the requirements of about 140,000 customers. The recovered volume was used to serve communities in Manila, Malabon, Navotas, Calooc ...
  • Maynilad’s new pipes save 88M liters of water
    Maynilad Water Services, Inc. said its P1.1 billion investment on pipe replacement last year has paid off as the company was able to recover some 88 million liters per day of potable water.

Guardian

  • More UK storms prompt new flooding fears - liv ...
    Follow live updates as two more storms are set to batter Britain and severe flood warnings remain in place for parts of Somerset where police used megaphones from a helicopter to urge residents to evacuate their homes Matthew Weaver
  • London tube strike causes continued travel del ...
    Full coverage as industrial action on the London Underground causes transport delaysFred McConnell
  • Ofsted needs power to inspect groups that run ...
    Coalition rift emerges as education minister calls for extension of law to allow inspection of non-profit 'chains' that run schoolsThe schools inspectorate should be given greater powers to investigate "chains" of academies, the Liberal Democrat education minister David Laws has said, highlighti ...
  • Ban Ki-moon condemns persecution of gay people ...
    Amid criticism of Russia's anti-gay laws, UN secretary-general urges 'speaking out against prejudice' in keynote speech to IOCThe United Nations secretary-general has used a speech ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi to condemn attacks on the LGBT community, amid growing criticism of Russia's ...
  • House prices return to growth in January, says ...
    The bank's monthly index shows a 1.1% rise, but the annual rate of inflation fell to 7.3% from 7.7%House prices rose by 1.1% in January, more than offsetting a 0.5% decline in December, driven by strong demand from buyers, the UK's largest lender has reported.The Halifax's latest monthly index, ...

McClatchey

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

The Wonk Room

  • Rep. Labrador: President Letting Immigrants &# ...
    Rep. Raul Labrador suggested that the President is preventing immigration reform from taking place and making undocumented immigrants “suffer” as a result. The post Rep. Labrador: President Letting Immigrants ‘Suffer’ Because He Wants Comprehensive Solution appeared first on ThinkPro ...
  • Train Spills 12,000 Gallons Of Oil In Minnesot ...
    “It’s like it spray-painted oil,” MPCA spokesperson Cathy Rofshus said.The post Train Spills 12,000 Gallons Of Oil In Minnesota, No Major Cleanup Effort Planned appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • While The World Waits For A Real Climate Deal, ...
    Earning points for recycling. Flood planning. Anaerobic digesting. Bicycle sharing. Cutting parking. There's a huge variety of actions cities are taking right now to address climate change.The post While The World Waits For A Real Climate Deal, Megacities Are Taking Action appeared first on Thin ...
  • How GM Justifies Lower Pay For Its First Femal ...
    What we know about the details in GM CEO Mary Barra's pay package.The post How GM Justifies Lower Pay For Its First Female CEO appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • The Truth Comes Out
    Though widely misconstrued, the facts of the latest CBO budget projections represent positive news for the economy and supporters of the ACA.The post The Truth Comes Out appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • Lil' stevie harper's Corrupt Petro-State
    It's beyond ridiculous. A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline. On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta exploded, s ...
  • The Super-Incompetence of stephen harper
    Now, harper's never been much good at anything. For economic policy, the fact of the matter is that he's been coasting. Canada's economy was, for some reason, far more stable than that of the USA's. A big part of that was because harper hadn't yet been able to allow our financial sector to becom ...
  • And We Continue To Do Nothing
    Obama is a cynical con-man. harper is contemptuous of parliamentary democracy. harper devastates science. Fantino insults veterans. Carbon emissions are increasing, not decreasing. Inequality runs rampant and the welfare state lives on fumes. Etc., etc., and so forth. Some people put their fait ...
  • Shameless Stupidity of Julian Fantino
    Since my last post on him, Fantino has decided to show off even more of his mad skills at being a complete asshole. Turns out that the veterans who had come from all over Canada to try to talk him out of closing their local Veterans Affairs offices, and who were upset that he didn't attend the ...
  • Belated Cheers For the Demise of "Free Dominion"
    Internet discussion boards appear to be dying. But the rumours of "Free Dominion's" death* have nothing to do with sociological trends. Like many a right-wing boor, some person or persons on the site slandered and libeled an actual person and thought it was protected free speech. Here's a (too ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Sign the petition – Tell Harper to treat ...
    Sign the petition, right away. Urge Harper to provide veterans suffering from physical and mental injuries with the help they deserve.
  • Ottawa Event: Confronting Canada’s Defen ...
    Steven Staples will discuss the growing influence of the defence lobby in Canada. Ceasefire.ca supporters in Ottawa are invited to attend a special discussion hosted by the Ottawa chapter of Project Ploughshares.
  • F-35 back on the radar
    The bungled F-35 procurement that has been plaguing the Harper Government is about to heat up again.
  • Feedback from Ceasefire.ca supporters
    Reducing the influence of Canada’s military industrial complex and transferring military spending to issues more relevant and beneficial to Canadians should be the top priority for Ceasefire.ca in 2014, according to many of its supporters.
  • Canada seeks more arms customers
    The Harper government wants to widen the list of Canadians arms customers in order to offset decreasing demand in “traditional markets” such as the United States and Britain.

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • A threat to the U.S. power grid?
    An attack on a California power station last year “appears to be preparation for an act of war,” according to a senior technical executive for the Electric Power Research Institute, the Wall Street Journal reports. After the attack, Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal En ...
  • The Iraqi re-awakening
    Mark Perry writes: Gen. Raad al-Hamdani holds a unique place among Iraqi military commanders: He openly confronted Saddam Hussein — and lived. The incident occurred during a high-level briefing in the summer of 2002. A war with the U.S. was looming, but Saddam told Hamdani not to worry. Th ...
  • Iraq: Execution of SWAT forces furthers crimes ...
    Human Rights Watch: The execution-style killing of four members of Iraq’s SWAT forces, apparently by the ISIS armed group, is the latest atrocity in a campaign of widespread and systematic murder that amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today. Men presenting themselves as ...
  • NSA surveillance is the least shocking among r ...
    In a conversation with Kamila Shamsie, Pankaj Mishra says: [A] part of me doesn’t understand why we are so shocked and appalled by the excesses of the NSA. Have we forgotten about the Cold War and the innumerable hot wars, not to mention the numerous assaults on ordinary moral sense by the “free ...
  • Video: The F-35 — how the military-industrial ...
    The F-35 is the most expensive weapons program in history, with a total cost of $1.5 trillion. Learn more here.

Watts Up With That?

  • Monckton: Challenge to Prince Charles
    Lord Monckton invites ‘Chazza’ to spar over ‘unroyal’ global-warming remark His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Clarence House, London. Candlemas, 2014 Your Royal Highness’ recent remarks describing those who have scientific and economic reason to question the Establi ...
  • Small asteroid slams into Mars, impact capture ...
    A reminder that the universe isn’t always friendly. A spectacular image of impact crater follows. From NASA JPL today.  HD image here: 1920 x 1200 A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science … Continue reading →
  • Fighting the Wrong Battle: Public Persuaded Ab ...
    Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Skeptics are winning the battle to reject CO2 as the only cause of warming, but losing the war to the misrepresentation of CO2 as a pollutant. Some people generally know there is something wrong … Continue reading →
  • Climate craziness of the week: climate change> ...
    From the department of obvious science and anything to do with climate change must be bad comes this study from Australian National University: Waves costly for fish Big waves are energetically costly for fish, and there are more big waves than … Continue reading →
  • Press for a ‘Climate Scientist Who Got I ...
    (CNSNews.com) – Dr. Don Easterbrook – a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State who correctly predicted back in 2000 that the Earth was entering a cooling phase – says to expect colder temperatures for at least the next … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • The Creative Brain How Insight Works
    It is a feeling we all know – the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, scientists are using some unusual techniques to try to work out how these moments of creativity – whether big, small or life-changing – come ...
  • How brains see
  • Split brain behavioral experiments
    To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway.
  • ‘Stressed’ Stem Cell Breakthrough
    Researchers have transformed specialized cells into an embryonic-like state simply by stressing them out a bit—an unexpected finding that may offer an easier route for treating diseases with patient-specific stem cells. Stem cells that can become all other tissue types are typically obtained in ...
  • 3D Imaging of Live Cells
    New Technique Shows Living Cells In 3-D A new method of creating 3-D images of living cells without disturbing them promises to open an unprecedented view into how they operate. University of Illinois engineers say the technique, called white-light diffraction tomography, will let researchers wa ...

CFACT

  • Global warming’s tree ring circus brings us th ...
    In the beginning Stephen Schneider believed in global cooling - then he flipped 180 degrees, rendering his global cooling book useless. Michael Mann invented the hockey stick to "prove" human-caused global warming, yet cherry-picked his tree rings and cheated on his data -- as did Phil Jones an ...
  • The Sierra Club hates energy
    The Sierra Club, notes Alan Caruba, has criticized President Obama for "throwing lifelines to old sources of energy like oil and gas" as part of its campaign to ensure that the President does not slip up and approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. They also oppose all fracking to extr ...
  • The Polar Vortex: Climate alarmism blows hot a ...
    Larry Bell once again states the obvious: that polar vortices have been with us for a very long time -- and that the latest cold temperatures are NOT a sign of global warming, as some would have us believe.
  • Build the Keystone pipeline, already!
    CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen suggests that President Obama's State of the Union address -- in particular, his promise to bring back jobs -- will be meaningless, bloviating nonsense if he does not approve construction of the Keystone Pipeline -- the nation's number one shovel-ready p ...
  • Another environmental lie exposed: Bees are th ...
    Alan Caruba exposes Friends of the Earh as willing to lie to the people to solicit money and increase its influence. One significant illustration of this fact is the FOE campaign against pesticides used on crops. FOE claims that these pesticides are responsible for massive bee kills -- but pee ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian Space Cargo Vehicle Docks with ISS
    A Progress-M resupply craft that launched Wednesday evening from the Baikonur cosmodrome has successfully docked with the International Space Station, delivering 2 ½ tons of fuel and other supplies.     
  • NASA to Coldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
    The coldest spot in the known universe will soon be inside a new low temperature laboratory on board the International Space Station, NASA has announced.     
  • Rusnano Technology Firm Eyes Offshore Partners
    Russian state-owned nanotechnology company Rusnano will continue working with offshore partners despite a push spearheaded by President Vladimir Putin to repatriate businesses working with domestic capital, the company’s head said Friday.     
  • Russian Scientists Propose Water Probe for NAS ...
    Russian scientists have proposed an instrument for an upcoming NASA Mars rover to search for underground water that could support life on the Red Planet, a lead scientist at the institute that submitted the project said Thursday.     
  • Russian Space Farmers Harvest Wheat, Peas and ...
    A variety of crops have been successfully harvested on board the International Space Station and verified as safe to eat, a Russian scientist said Wednesday.     

Natural Health News

  • Fun Facts About Hugging
    By Dr. Mercola Neuroeconomist Paul Zak, also known as "Dr. Love," recommends at least eight hugs a day to be happier and enjoy better relationships.1 Psychotherapist Virginia Satir also famously said:2 "We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need ...
  • The Dr. Oz Show: Information I Couldn’t Share
    By Dr. Mercola Last week I went to New York to tape a segment with Dr. Oz on multivitamins.  It's scheduled to air on Monday, February 10th. You can find the channel and time it airs in your area by going to a link on The Dr. Oz Show and entering your zip code. It was only a ten minute ...
  • Caramel Colored Carcinogens in Soda
    By Dr. Mercola In the realm of food coloring, caramel color sounds rather innocuous, natural even. Unlike artificial colors like FD&C Blue No. 1 or FD& C Yellow 5, which conjure up images of being created by a mad scientist in a lab, caramel color sounds like it comes from the a ...
  • Long-Term Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors and Ot ...
    By Dr. Mercola 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. Symptoms of acid reflux, or GERD, include heartburn, wheezing, tightness ...
  • New Research Fuels Roundup Weedkiller Toxicity ...
    By Dr. Mercola Last year, groundbreaking research was published suggesting that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup, might be "a crucially important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions." If you missed it, please t ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • More on the Al Qaeda Name
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein For those who try to keep up with the shifting nature of radical Islamist groups – groups too many in the media sometimes wrongly link to Al Qaeda –the stories earlier this week on the group formerly known as Al Qaeda in Iraq, now calling itself ISIS ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Is the Vienna Convention Hosti ...
    by Ulf Linderfalk by Ulf Linderfalk [Dr. Ulf Linderfalk is a Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law at Lund University, Sweden. The first part of his comments can be found here.] In what sense does the VCLT give a description of the way to understand a treaty? The way Julian desc ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Is the Vienna Convention Hosti ...
    by Ulf Linderfalk by Ulf Linderfalk [Dr. Ulf Linderfalk is a Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law at Lund University, Sweden.] Julian’s article focuses on a single proposition (p. 780) “[W]hen an interpreter thinks a text [of a treaty] is fairly clear and produces results that ...
  • AJIL Symposium: The Travaux of Travaux
    by Julian Davis Mortenson by Julian Davis Mortenson [Julian Davis Mortenson is Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law] It is often asserted that the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties relegates drafting history to a rigidly subsidiary role in treaty interpretation. Many commentators ...
  • AJIL Symposium: Response to comments on “A New ...
    by Karen Alter, Larry Helfer and Jacqueline McAllister by Karen Alter, Larry Helfer and Jacqueline McAllister [Karen J. Alter is Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University, Laurence R. Helfer is the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law at Duke University, and Jacqueli ...

Public News Service

  • Wendy’s Demands Progress Reports on Elim ...
    Wendy’s Demands Progress Reports on Elimination of Pig Crates PHOENIX - The world's third-largest fast-food chain is making more strides toward elimination of controversial pig cages. Wendy's says it will require its suppliers to provide quarterly reports regarding their ability to provi ...
  • Heart Disease in Arizona: A Real Lady Killer
    Heart Disease in Arizona: A Real Lady Killer PHOENIX - When someone mentions a heart attack, the vision that first comes to mind is often of a man grasping at his chest, but heart disease actually takes the lives of more women than men. To raise awareness of the prevalence, according to cardiolo ...
  • Free Tax Help Now Available Across Arizona
    Free Tax Help Now Available Across Arizona PHOENIX - It's tax time again, and no matter how you file, it can be an expensive and complicated process. But thanks to the AARP Foundation, free tax help is now available to Arizonans at locations statewide. According to Frank Perazelli, the state coo ...
  • Farm Bill Agreement: A "Win" for Clean-Energy ...
    Farm Bill Agreement: A "Win" for Clean-Energy Programs PHOENIX – Final passage of the much-delayed federal Farm Bill is expected today. The five-year compromise includes funding for programs that support conservation and renewable energy. While overall, the Energy Title funding has been ...
  • AZ Scorecard on Financial Insecurity “Di ...
    AZ Scorecard on Financial Insecurity “Disappointing But Not Surprising” PHOENIX – Arizona ranks 41st in the nation for overall financial security of its residents, according to a scorecard released by the Washington-based Corporation for Enterprise Development. Cynthia Zwick, ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Officers in Dorner mistaken-ID shooting will b ...
    ShareThisOfficers in Dorner mistaken-ID shooting will be returned to field 05 Feb 2014 Eight Los Angeles police officers who violated department policy when they mistakenly opened fire on two women during the hunt for Christopher Dorner will be retrained and returned to the field, LAPD Chief C ...
  • Save Mute Swans in New York City
    ShareThisQuick action: Save Mute Swans in New York City 06 Feb 2014 We demand our beautiful Brooklyn swans not be killed. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has unveiled a proposal that would kill 2,200 mute swans by 2025. The DEC's proposal "Management Plan for Mute Swa ...
  • Some 300 rallies held in US after State Dept. ...
    ShareThisSome 300 rallies held in US after State Dept. green-lights Keystone XL 04 Feb 2014 As many as 300 candlelight vigils in cities across the US were scheduled for Monday night, as those in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline urged President Obama to ultimately reject the project that wi ...
  • Fire prompts evacuation at US nuclear waste re ...
    ShareThisFire prompts evacuation at US nuclear waste repository, 'multiple employees' to hospital 05 Feb 2014 Emergency crews are battling a fire in the U.S. government's underground nuclear waste repository. Officials say a truck hauling salt caught fire about Wednesday morning at the Waste Iso ...
  • First human death from H10N8 bird flu reported
    ShareThisFirst human death from H10N8 bird flu reported 04 Feb 2014 An elderly woman in China is the the first person known to have died from a novel reassortant strain of influenza A H10N8, according to researchers... The 73-year-old patient presented with fever and was admitted to the hospital ...

Daily Loaf

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Jack Blood Show – February 4 2014
  • This Day In History – February 5
    1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the larges ...
  • Pa. chief: Cop for Christie caught shoplifting
    Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.  ~ Thomas Jefferson Monday February 3, 2014, 3:05 PM Associated Pre ...
  • Veteran Industrial Rock band (Skinny Puppy) ‘i ...
    Not sure why they didn’t choose Mily Cyrus, Bill Ray Cyrus, or the Beeb – That would make me confess to anything to make it stop. Skinny Puppy is awesome – they are back on tour in the USA – go see em / Great show!   Russia Today Veteran Industrial band Skinny Puppy ...
  • This Day In History – February 4
    1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. 1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802. 1801 – John Ma ...

The Air Vent

  • The Future of Weather – Uncommon Sense
    USA today published yet another climate rant on the state of global warming.  This time they tied it to the polar vortex that is still freezing our ___ (insert anatomy here) off.  The article is filled with the ‘local is not global’ and ‘weather is not climate’ (until the ...
  • Isn’t it time we gave a little recogniti ...
    Raise the price of energy, we need to save the planet …My hands are cold …My fingers are cold …I can’t see the drive …I think my nose is actually froze Turn down the heat, we must conserve …My neck is cold …My ears are cold …My back is hurt … ...
  • Briffa 2013 Satellite Temperature Download
    To look at the local temp data in comparison to the Briffa 2013 polar.mxd data, I downloaded both the RSS and UAH gridded lower troposphere satellite data.   Unlike ground temperature data, the lower troposphere data is a layer of air which extends miles above the surface of the earth (Blue curv ...
  • MXD Age Based Variance
    I woke up the other day wondering if age of a tree would cause a different latewood density response to environmental factors.   I don’t remember reading anything about it so it seemed worthwhile to check. I am working with 124 tree samples from the Polar.mxd file here.   This is the same ...
  • Briffa MXD 2013 #1
    I’ve spent a little time compiling MXD proxies from Briffa 2013. I don’t have a lot of results yet but I thought I would put them up. First, I created a simplified reconstruction by centering the proxies and then normalizing by standard deviation and averaging.  That is why Phi claim ...

Focal Point

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