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Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener Report- What Anti-War Movement? ...
    As we examined last week on The EyeOpener Report, the fraudulent left/right political divide has been used to keep the people divided against each other even as it is used to dupe the public into supporting the very same political agenda through puppet administration after puppet administration. ...
  • Turkey’s Real Corruption Scandal
    Turkey & A Surrogate Battle between East & West for the Future of a Pivotal Land at the Geopolitical Crossroads Since December last year, Turkey has been rocked by a series of arrests and waves of allegations that the government of AK Party Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is riddled ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “Vigilante Justice i ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Ioan Grillo On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by investigative journalist and author of the book El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo. Guillermo and Ioan discuss the ongoing struggle in Mexico with focus on the ...
  • Thank You NSA, Snowden & the Media for Showing ...
    The Most Innovative Plot Ever to Put us Back on the Map as the Super-est I ask people to name the agency responsible for collecting all communication Intel in China, and they draw a blank. I quiz people on the Russian facility specifically in charge of communication data gathering (not the main ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Pete Seeger – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Tonight on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick we remember Pete Seeger. A folk singer, social activist and a caring human being, Seeger left a legacy of song and social commentary that he melded together with his banjo picking and guitar p ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • The Closing of the American Jewish Mind
    The headline of this post is inspired by the title of Allan Bloom’s seminal book, The Closing of the American Mind. Though Bloom, as a cultural neoconservative, may have disagreed with the substance of my argument. My family has been a member of Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle for eigh ...
  • Israeli Diplomats in South Africa (1964) on Bo ...
    Thanks to Yigal Arens for posting this amazing portion of an Israeli diplomatic memo from its South African legation in Capetown.  It was written in 1964 at the early stages of the sanctions movement there: Boycott activities: although threats of economic boycott don’t have a great impact ...
  • The Israel Project ‘Kills It’…Again
    Since Josh Block took over as chief of The Israel Project, they’ve been heard of very little, except for this semi-fraudulent opinion survey they cranked out recently.  So it came as no surprise when I read that Josh was absolutely “right on” the Scarjo thing. This is beautiful ...
  • Israeli Columnist Calls for Extermination of P ...
    Munich has opened a new front in the Israel-Palestine wars.  There John Kerry warned Israel that his peace talks would be the last chance.  If they failed, he predicted the rise of BDS and a looming one state solution: For Israel, the stakes are also enormously high. Do they want a failure that ...
  • As BDS Rises, Anti-BDS Rhetoric Falters
    In the fallout from the Scarlett Johansson imbroglio, there are lessons to be learned.  First, that money trumps principles almost always.  Johansson proved that.  I’m not foolish enough to believe that a brilliant actress is a great humanitarian or lives her life by consistent values, but ...

OpEd News

  • Protesting Keystone: We Do It Because It Is Th ...
    Will the Keystone Pipeline vigils stop construction of the pipeline? We don't know. What we do know is that doing nothing is not an option. We protest because it's the right thing to do.
  • Sudan: Colonialism's Dead hand
    Once again Sudan is at war, and current U.S. policies in Africa have not helped. For the past decade and a half, Washington has seemed more concerned with cornering resources than resolving problems and has been quick to choose military solutions over diplomatic ones. Oil plays no small role in ...
  • "NYT" highlights AIPAC's first failure in 30 y ...
    Money explains Wasserman Schultz's silence (she's chair of the Democratic National Commitee) and Hillary Clinton's fence-sitting, and an incident Landler also cites: Bill de Blasio humiliating himself to AIPAC on January 23. But The Times mentions the long list of Jews, including many liberal Zi ...
  • The End is Nye
    It's that timeline that really breaks it for most of us. We can calculate the speed of light. We can measure how far galaxies are from ours. These are provable facts, not theories. We know that our universe has to be billions of years old based on the distance of the Milky Way from other galaxie ...
  • The Knox and Farrow Stories
    On the Dylan Farrow statement, a story incidentally widely commented on by a number of progressive sites including Mother Jones and The Nation, our decision was largely derivative of the original decision by Nicholas Kristof and the New York Times editors to run the piece. Once it was out there, ...

Switchboard

  • Innovations in Energy Efficiency Finance --- l ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC An important innovation in energy efficiency financing is a simple new policy of the Federal Housing Administration: For a homebuyer to qualify for an FHA-insured mortgage to purch ...
  • Keystone XL Tar Sands Protests: A Moment in Ou ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr at the Keystone XL vigil       Photo: Rocky Kistner/NRDC Several hundred Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protesters gathered in Wash ...
  • NOAA Learns How to Cooperate on Shark Fins
    Seth Atkinson, Staff Attorney, San Francisco Shark Drawing from Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (via Creative Commons)   Here’s some good news to brighten up your week:  the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
  • Momentum Building: 41 Lawmakers Offer Proven G ...
    Franz Matzner, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. Forty-one members of Congress representing 9 northeastern states have just added their voices to the chorus calling for action to curb the unlimited carbon pollution that is d ...
  • GAO Report: Coal Companies Win and Taxpayers L ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York Senator Ed Markey asked a lot of good questions yesterday, and the Department of Interior should answer them as requested by the end of the month. Please find the questions farther down in this ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for Batteries - New Chewing-Gum-Like ...
    Researchers at Washington State University have developed a chewing gum-like battery material that is claimed could reduce the fire hazard potential of lithium ion batteries. The development is timely following UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recent declaration that the huge growth in people ...
  • Obama's Second Term - House Leader Cantor is P ...
     House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is taking the lead on crafting the GOP’s Obama-Care replacement proposal. The extraordinarily tough task faces many obstacles and is complicated by election-year politics and an unruly GOP conference.But Cantor believes the Republicans must shake ...
  • France on Edge - French Nationalists Confuse I ...
    Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National (FN), the most likely winner of the upcoming municipal and European elections in France, held a press conference on January 22, in which she presented the foreign policy of her party, including a passionate plea for France to break off its relations wi ...
  • Germany on Edge - Germany Gets Cozier with Islam
    Germany's new coalition government is signaling that it wants better relations with the country's Muslim community.In a series of newspaper, television and radio interviews, Thomas de Maizière—who was recently sworn in as Germany's new interior minister—has announced a series of pro-Muslim ...
  • Argentina on Edge - Buenos Aires: A Tale of Tw ...
    Inequality is nothing new in Latin America; the region has long occupied the unenviable position of being considered the most unequal area in the world. However, the human face of inequality is nowhere more apparent than in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Buenos Aires is a study in ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Why is April 2013 Attack on Calif. Power Subst ...
    What if there was a terrorist attack but no one told us? What if that terrorist attack exposed the vulnerability of the entire U.S. power grid? An April 16, 2013, attack had been virtually unreported until the The Wall Street Journal reported it yesterday. It started when someone (or some on ...
  • Video: Woody Allen Defends Himself On 60 Minutes
    In 1992, Woody Allen gave a no-holds-barred interview to Steve Kroft to defend himself against accusations by Mia Farrow that Allen molested their then-7-year-old daughter Dylan Farrow--below is that interview: Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Fee ...
  • Bill Nye vs Ken Ham, Science vs Bible Debate-- ...
    Last night Bill Nye debated Creation Museum founder Ken Ham on the age old "intelligent design" vs evolution debate. I did not watch the debate, although I read some of the reviews. The Truth is both of their positions were totally wrong. The "science side" believes that the creation of the ...
  • The Obamacare "Missing" Doctor Crisis is Hitt ...
    The other part of the President's promise, "you can keep your doctors" is also (not surprisingly) turning out to be a lie. As reported in the LA Times, not only are people finding their doctors are not in their new plan's network, but some are finding out even if the insurance company claims the ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama To Turn Guantanamo Bay Into ...
    On his first day as President, Barack Obama signed an order to close Guantanamo Bay. Five years later its still open. In fact the president repeated the promise to close the prison camp during his State of the Union Address last week. According to Newsbusted Anchor Jodie Miller, the pres ...

Wind Watch

  • A-W deals with ‘runaway’ wind turbine
    Early Feb. 4, the Akron-Westfield School District’s wind turbine’s blade began rotating. On its own. “We have no control over the blades’ turning,” said A-W Shared Superintendent Randy Collins. “It is life-threatening to be near the wind turbine at this point.” “The whole thing could disintegrat ...
  • Wind power: Regional planners resist state uti ...
    The blades of wind-power generation are turning again, raising concerns of residents opposed to having windmills dot the landscape, and also those of regional planners criticizing an effort by the state Department of Public Utilities to issue siting “guidance” to communities and developers. The ...
  • Power line opponents surge against wind energy ...
    CALDWELL COUNTY, Mo. — Mike Ford shoved the rifle he carries for coyotes onto the dashboard, and his old Dodge diesel truck took out rumbling over frozen pasture to carry hay to cattle. It hadn’t gone a hundred feet before Ford started in on the people trying to — his word — “steal” his land. To ...
  • Ireland’s rural protests over wind energy
    Ireland is short of money but not wind, which now forms a central plank of its energy policy. But plans to develop wind power and export it to Britain are sparking a rural revolt, with local protest groups uniting through social media. Some claim Ireland will become a wind farm for Britain. Turb ...
  • Torch Energy abandons wind-solar proposal
    MOREHEAD CITY — Torch Renewable Energy LLC, the Houston-based alternative energy giant, announced Friday it will abandon plans to develop a hybrid wind and solar facility near Mill Pond outside Newport. “In light of the unlikely prospect of acquiring a variance from the county’s current tall str ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • The PTSD crisis that's being ignored: American ...
    Image Caption:  (Image via Wikipedia.) Americans wounded in their own neighborhoods are not getting treatment for PTSD. They're not even getting diagnosed. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy coal ash spill la ...
    Image Caption:  Water quality specialists with the environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices visited the site of Duke Energy's Feb. 2 coal ash spill to test the water and take photos. (Photo by Appalachian Voices; to see more images ...
  • Corporate virtue and corporate subsidies
    Image Caption:  Two new reports from Good Jobs First take a critical look at public assistance to large corporations. Two new reports from Good Jobs First take a critical look at public assistance for large corporations. One ...
  • The power of Southern song: How the South shap ...
    Image Caption:  Pete Seeger meets with students at a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Miss. in August 1964. Seeger would write in his journal, "I am down here seeing if I can help, in a small way, some very wonderful people bring more ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Big Oil's push for seismic te ...
    Image Caption:  Hundreds of people attended a town council meeting in Kure Beach, N.C. this week to protest the mayor's endorsement of seismic air gun testing, the first step toward opening the Atlantic to offshore oil and gas drilling. (P ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Review: Airport Autism Test Run, ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Feb 5, 2014, NBC Connecticut: Battle Over Vaccinations Thrives in States With High Exemptions Feb 4, 2014, Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville): Kids with autism get airport test run:...
  • Meet VOR: Refuses to Redefine Choice Imposed b ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We are pleased to welcome VOR as a new sponsor of Age of Autism. As our children are growing older, we are looking a a plethora of new issues related to aging out and beyond. VOR will...
  • Dachel Media Review: Insurance Costs, Jenny Ba ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Feb 4, 2014, West-info.eu: The dangers of doctors ignoring autism Feb 3, 2014, KSDK-TV St. Louis MO: Autism insurance beneficiaries rising in Missouri Feb 3, 2014, Inquisitir:...
  • So Who has a Chiari 1? ..... a What?
    By Mary Beth Palo Exactly..... few of us probably know what that is. How sad, since every parent and doctor dealing with autism should know and be aware of it’s symptoms, it’s _________ and it’s incidence rate in children with...
  • Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) ...
    The workshop will educate parents on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the most effective ways to access coverage and treatment for autism. THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (Feb. 3, 2014) - Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) presents a free...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • Hemp Home Catalan Vaulted Style Roof Waterproofing
    In the previous post I have been illustrating how I plan to build the Roof System for the Net Zero Hemp Home.  This post shows how I plan to both […]
  • Designing My Hemp Home
    My goal is simple: Net Zero and Affordable In my quest to promote affordable sustainable buildings has lead me to discover a new building product that provides high R-value for […]
  • Ask a Builder-How would you build your retirem ...
    My retirement home will be a Hemp Home!  I feel a Hemp Home addresses the main issue facing mankind today (co2 emissions) without sacrificing comfort needed in both energy and […]
  • ADA COMPLIANT-RESIDENTIAL WHEELCHAIR LIFT-RAMP ...
    Design-Build ADA Wheelchair Ramp- ADA COMPLIANT-RESIDENTIAL WHEELCHAIR LIFT AND RAMP CAD DESIGNS WITH BEFORE PHOTOS AND BUILD NOTES Before Photo A-Design-Build Exterior Wheelchair Ramp CAD Design Automatic Wheelchair Lift Down […]
  • WARRIORS ONLY NFL PLAYOFF CHALLENGE
    2013 Playoff Scenario Bracket-Picking NFL Playoff Challenge Tip Now that the playoffs are finally here its time to enter NFL PlayOff Challenge.  To score the highest points possible I try to pick the teams that will make it to the Superbowl. 2014 NFL Super Bowl XLVIII Playoff Bracket 2014 NFL Su ...

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Sacrifices of Empire
    (The 4th of 8 posts regarding my 2002 decision to emigrate from the US to New Zealand) It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods (see previous post). The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other de ...
  • American Ambivalence Towards Empire
      (The 3rd of 7 posts about my decision to emigrate to New Zealand) I had to move overseas before it sank in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. The concept of economic imperialism isn’t new to me. I have know ...
  • My New Expatriate Identity
    (the 2nd of 7 posts about my new life in New Zealand) For people over fifty, starting over in a new country is like dropping a lab rat in a gigantic maze. Like the rat, you suddenly find yourself in an alien environment that constantly confronts you with new decision points and obstacl ...
  • 10/14/02: The Day I Became an Expatriate
      (The 1st of 7 posts describing my 2002 decision to emigrate from the US to New Zealand) When I finally left the US in October 2002, I had been thinking of emigrating for many years. In June 1973, I shipped all my belongings to England, intending to start a new life there. Many ...
  • Progressives Who Oppose Gun Control
    I’ve always been curious how American progressives got on the anti-civil liberties side of gun control. It strikes me as a grave strategic error. I have written elsewhere about the extreme difficulty liberals and progressives face in engaging the working class. I have also been ...

FourWinds10

  • THE SICKEST PLACES IN THE WORLD
    The Agbogbloshie e-Wasteland in Ghana. Fires are set to wires and other electronics to release valuable copper and other materials. The fires blacken the landscape, releasing toxic fumes. Credit: Blacksmith Institute UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 5 2013 (IPS) - Parts of Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria ...
  • What Happens to All the Salt We Dump On the Roads?
    1/6/14   As much of the country endures from the heavy snowfall and bitter cold that has marked the start of 2014, municipalities in 26 states will rely on a crucial tool in clearing their roads: salt.   Because the freezing point of salty water is a lower temperature than pure water, ...
  • Tar sands trains are derailing and exploding.
    Oct. 29, 2013 The Department of Transportation must stop these dangerous oil train tanker cars. Oil companies want to dramatically increase oil train traffic - using tanker cars that the Department of Transportation has known for decades are unsafe. Submit a public comment now.   This summe ...
  • NO NEED TO STOCKPILE WOOD IN TEXAS...YOU CAN J ...
    Jan. 24, 2014 Setting fire to methane bubbling up from water beneath the ice Residents in North Texas have discovered that their water is contaminated with methane gas. The Texas Oil and Gas Regulator has started an investigation after independent tests proved there was a high level of the ...
  • The Mob is Secretly Dumping Nuclear Waste Acro ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

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

Rodale News

  • The Pharmacy Chain Banning Tobacco Forever
    Do you ever wonder why pharmacies are selling cigarettes, the very cause of so many of the nation's health problems? Well, at CVS Caremark pharmacies, that irony will cease to exist on October 1, 2014. That's the date that the pharmacy chain, America's second largest in terms of number of store ...
  • Global Cancer Deaths Reach 8.2 Million
    Here's a depressing stat: Cancer is now the leading cause of death worldwide claiming 8.2 million lives every year, according to a new report released to coincide with World Cancer Day on February 4. The report, issued by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, is a joint effort of ov ...
  • The Best and Worst Ways to Treat Your Cold
    You get a cold. You head to the pharmacy or natural foods store and load up on over-the-counter meds or herbal supplements. You might even head to your MD, who will load you down with antibiotics and prescription cough medicines. Then you head home to chase those pills with orange juice and lot ...
  • Organic Farms and Biodiversity:Is Your Food Fi ...
    According to Elizabeth Kolbert's upcoming book, The Sixth Extinction, humans are causing the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaur days. That means we've got to look everywhere we can to preserve precious species, including the fields where farmers grow our food. The good news? Organic f ...
  • What is Organic? A New Campaign Aims to Help Y ...
    Natural—it's the one food label we wish would just disappear. Virtually meaningless, "natural" is a label that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly denied defining, despite numerous requests from both the food industry and from citizens. Instead, the agency sticks by it's v ...

big think

  • Marlowe on War
    "Accursed be he that first invented war." - Christopher Marlowe (born on this date in 1564) Read More
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You a Stronger Leader
    If you're looking for someone to solve your problems, look elsewhere. If you're looking for the "man with the plan," look elsewhere. If you're looking for someone to get things organized, don't ask me. I'm a leader, and that's not what I do.  So what exactly do I do? I prepare or ...
  • Three Good Reasons to Tell a Lie
    A few weeks ago, I heard Sam Harris on the radio pitching his new book, Lying , and found myself with furrowed brow over his absolutist stance against telling tales. Is it true that “we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations wh ...
  • Don't Make Me Love My Work!
    Miya Tokumitsu writes with incisive elegance about our altogether elitist and self-indulgent view that our experts have these days about the relationship between love and work.  That view, of course, originates mainly from Silicon Valley:  Your great work, which you love, is so creative ...
  • Markets, Unnatural Laws and Choices
    We’re letting unnatural laws unduly influence us. A fuss about “simple economics” can remind us that markets aren’t like gravity, and their so-called laws are neither laws of nature nor commandments carved in stone. Ask yourself: should markets fit our needs, or should we fit theirs? &# ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • This year’s bright young thing
    You will have seen the news recently that a new supernova has appeared in the sky. This one is quite close, a mere 12- million light years (more than 1020 kilometres from Earth. I reported on it at the time for SpectroscopyNOW “Astronomers have planned observations using the Hubble Space T ...
  • Weights and measures
    Sciencebase reader Clayton W from Canada was keen to find some obtain up-to-date and accurate physical and chemical constants that wasn’t just the US NIST page. He is currently tutoring some high school and higher chemistry and physics students, and wanted access to better resources than t ...
  • Smashing through the writer’s roadblock
    Countless psychology theses have been written about creativity under pressure, deadlines pushing people to new heights, the fight or flight adrenalin panic that opens the floodgates for a stream of consciousness to come gushing out. Obvious it seems that after a momentary panic revolving around ...
  • Fat versus sugar
    If you haven’t got an hour to spare to watch the recent BBC Horizon program about fat and sugar diets, then here’s an executive summary of Colin’s Beauty Page’s executive summary of the main conclusions: Extreme diets are a bad move…we can survive for a while withou ...
  • The song of M62
    Cosmology can often put our small-scale problems into some kind of perspective The song of M62 is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom Subscribe to our Email NewsletterThe song of M62 is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom ...

RFF Library

  • Regulatory Policy and Behavioural Economics
    OECD (RFFers can access this fee-based report through OECD iLibrary; the username and password are on the library’s landing page, top left) http://bit.ly/1nUlPgo Over the past five years, behavioural economics has been rapidly propelled from the margins of economic analysis towards the pol ...
  • Exploring Climate Finance Effectiveness
    OECD / by Jane Ellis, Randy Caruso and Stephanie Ockenden http://bit.ly/1eyhcEC Ensuring that climate finance is used effectively will help to maximise its impact. The effectiveness of climate finance can be defined as the extent to which an activity attains its stated aims. These aims can vary, ...
  • Establishing and Understanding Post-2020 Clima ...
    OECD / by Gregory Brine and, Andrew Prag (dated “1 October 2013″) http://bit.ly/LQz1Eu A new international climate change agreement that will have legal force and be applicable to all countries is being negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Clima ...
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Stress: Water D ...
    Ceres / by Monika Freyman http://bit.ly/1jg3JVH [The Guardian] America’s oil and gas rush is depleting water supplies in the driest and most drought-prone areas of the country, from Texas to California, new research has found. Of the nearly 40,000 oil and gas wells drilled since 2011, thre ...
  • Oil Sands Emissions Greatly Underestimated: Un ...
    Evaluating Officially Reported Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region with a Multimedia Fate Model Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early edition 2014; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319780111) / by Abha Parajulee and Frank Wania http://www.pnas.org/conte ...

frogblog

  • NZ and refugees – Syria and Australia
    Syria Today the government announced they will be accepting 100 Syrian refugees over 2 years out of the existing 750 pa quota plus or minus 10%. This is good news. New Zealand was standing out as the only anglo speaking country not to offer refuge to Syrian refugees. In September the UNHCR annou ...
  • 155 human rights recommendations for NZ &#8211 ...
    Last week the United Nations Human Rights Council reviewed New Zealand’s progress on human rights, in what’s called the Universal Periodic Review. This was our second assessment. The first was in 2009, and back then, 64 recommendations were made on things we could do better. This time 155 ...
  • How adversarial politics is putting women off ...
    What’s holding back female leadership and representation in the Pacific? This was the discussion point when Pacific female MPs, along with women in other political leadership roles in the region, gathered recently in Fiji. And what emerged was that one of the key barriers to women entering polit ...
  • Political decisions and Domestic Violence
    The 2014 election offers New Zealanders the opportunity to make history by electing the first strong green genuinely progressive government in more than a generation. The next wave of progressive change that is sweeping the world is green. The green revolution is transforming the way we live on ...
  • Aspiring Northland
    Finance Minister Bill English got it half right when he said recently that models of government intervention that had been applied in the Far North over the last thirty years had “disempowered them rather than helped them”.  Mr English told the Finance and Expenditure Select Committe ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • Amazing Spider-Man 2 Extended Trailer
    Yup…I don’t know about you but I don’t need to see any more for this movie.  I’m in. My only problem with this that they might have actually shown me too much for this movie. I really don’t need to see anything else. I’ll be in theaters watching it.The post Am ...
  • Second Captain America The Winter Soldier Trailer
    I haven’t seen a lot from this film but it’s been enough to convince me that the talk at Marvel that this might be the best solo film they’ve done yet might just be true. Chris Evans really seems to have embraced the role as Captain America. I’m loving how they’ve d ...
  • Transformers Age of Extinction Super Bowl Spot
    Look man, at this point you already know whether you’re in or you’re out.  This is Michael Bay’s 4th Transformers movie so if you’re somehow shocked by what you get, that’s your fault.  In true Michael Bay fashion this 40 second teaser for Transformers Age of Extinc ...
  • IC 424: Predator Dreads
    Topics: Movies coming out Woody Allen Whoopi Goldberg supports pedophiles Bryan Singer spoils Days of Future Past Separating news from rumors with Superman/Batman Kev & Kriss tell tales from High SchoolThe post IC 424: Predator Dreads appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • A Million Ways To Die In The West Redband Trailer
    Most people have a love hate relationship with Seth Macfarlane. You either love or hate him, simple as that. We are big fans of his last movie “Ted”, Family Guy tends to be hit or miss depending on your style of humor so theres that too. I have been hearing about this movie for a [&# ...

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Pinched: Salt Supplies Dwindle After Endless S ...
    from nbcnews.com: As if traffic snarls, scrubbed flights and power outages weren’t enough misery, the latest bit of winter savagery to hit the Midwest and the East is an extreme shortage of the salt used to clear snow and ice off roadways. Many cities have been forced to ration salt after weeks ...
  • In Congress’s Farm Bill, The Rich Get Richer
    from washingtonpost.com: Congress has sent a $956 billion farm bill larded with subsidies for agribusiness to President Obama, who issued a statement Tuesday praising it. Maybe he should first have reread his fiscal 2014 budget proposal. “The farm sector continues to be one of the strongest sect ...
  • #Sochi Officials Order Stray Dogs Killed Ahead ...
    from foxnews.com: Thousands of stray dogs have been living amid the mud and rubble of Olympic construction sites, roaming the streets and snowy mountainsides, and begging for scraps of food. But as the games drew near, authorities have turned to a company to catch and kill the animals so they do ...
  • Eat More Sugar, Die More Likely
    from forbes.com: If the torrent of studies suggesting that sugar is bad for our health wasn’t quite enough, new research again suggests that added dietary sugar increases the risk of death from heart disease. Among the health concerns of eating or drinking too much sugar have been a higher risk ...
  • #Florida Woman, 81, Behind Bars for Feeding Be ...
    from cnn.com: Don't feed the bears! It's an admonishment heard over and over again from wildlife officials. But Florida resident Mary Musselman didn't listen, officials said. And it got her arrested at age 81. She is being held without bond, CNN affiliate WFTS reported. "I think it is outrageou ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Homophobia in Uganda: Is Christianity the pro ...
    source :  Namugongolife I would imagine that most of you are pretty familiar with the so-called âAnti-homosexuality Billâ that is currently on the table in the Ugandan parliament. It is basically a law, that will get passed at some point or other, that seeks to effectively eradicate public ...
  • Missionary back from India (in the name of sav ...
    (CW Editor's note:  This is a cock-and-bull story created by missionaries to enter India on visitor visa as India doesn't give missionary visas.  The modus operandi of missionaries is 1) portray target heathen regions as  problem areas 2) setup Non-Governmental organizations 3) Use th ...
  • Sayre woman hoping to make mission trip to India
    source: Morning times,  January 27, 2014 Colin Hogan/Morning Times | Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014 12:51 am Sayre resident Krystle Garrison, 28, serves up a warm bowl of chicken soup during a fundraiser at the Sayre Christian Church Sunday, which will help pay for her mi ...
  • Former New Tribes missionary gets 58 years for ...
    source: Orlando Sentinel,  28 January 2014 By , Orlando Sentinel A former missionary for the Sanford-based New Tribes Mission was sentenced to 58 years in federal prison Tuesday for sexually abusing girls who were part of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon and filming the acts. Aut ...
  • American âfaith healerâ Benny Hinn cancels Ban ...
    source: The Indian Express, January 14, 2014 American evangelist and faith-healer Benny Hinn has cancelled his visit to Bangalore amidst protests by Hindu groups, who were all against Hinn holding his mission in the city, alleging that the evangelistâs âhidden agendaâ was to convert peopl ...

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • The PTSD crisis that's being ignored: American ...
    Image Caption:  (Image via Wikipedia.) Americans wounded in their own neighborhoods are not getting treatment for PTSD. They're not even getting diagnosed. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy coal ash spill la ...
    Image Caption:  Water quality specialists with the environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices visited the site of Duke Energy's Feb. 2 coal ash spill to test the water and take photos. (Photo by Appalachian Voices; to see more images ...
  • Corporate virtue and corporate subsidies
    Image Caption:  Two new reports from Good Jobs First take a critical look at public assistance to large corporations. Two new reports from Good Jobs First take a critical look at public assistance for large corporations. One ...
  • The power of Southern song: How the South shap ...
    Image Caption:  Pete Seeger meets with students at a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Miss. in August 1964. Seeger would write in his journal, "I am down here seeing if I can help, in a small way, some very wonderful people bring more ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Big Oil's push for seismic te ...
    Image Caption:  Hundreds of people attended a town council meeting in Kure Beach, N.C. this week to protest the mayor's endorsement of seismic air gun testing, the first step toward opening the Atlantic to offshore oil and gas drilling. (P ...

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • MOC: Meet the most lightweight and easy-to-ins ...
    Music on Console aka MOC is perhaps the most lightweight and easy-to-install music player for Linux I have ever tested. And don't be intimidated by the fact that MOC is a console only player. Once you spend enough time with MOC, it becomes as easy to use as any other alternative music playe ...
  • UK goverment planning to ditch Microsoft Offic ...
    The inevitable switch is happening everywhere. Governments and public offices around the world is slowly waking up to the hard fact that proprietary software may not be in their best long-term interest after all, even if you ignore the cost-factor. News about City of Munich's switch over to Linu ...
  • Avatar: A new Open Source OS for the Internet ...
    The Avatar project intends to free the Internet once again, and let the users world-over to access  information beyond borders, and be as anonymous as you want without any worries of being constantly analyzed and monitored. Once released, Avatar OS sure looks like a promising way to safegua ...
  • FSF's fully free Android, the Replicant OS, hi ...
    From an ideological perspective, Replicant OS is the mobile/tablet variant of FSF's GNU/Hurd OS. It is aimed at creating a fully free-as-in-freedom Android which is devoid of any proprietary pieces of software, and one that is also easily installable on popular devices. See our earlier article o ...
  • In an epic move, Valve offers all Debian devel ...
    Remember that insane "developers chant" by former Mircosoft CEO Steve Ballmer? Well, Valve just pulled off something similar. In an epic goodwill gesture, Valve Inc. has decided to give away all its games, both present and future ones, to *all* Debian developers! All hail the devs! Most among y ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

electric politics

  • Applications of Quantum Probability
    Straightforward classical logic obviously doesn't entirely capture human decision making. Yet it often seems as if something logical exists in our illogic. Wonderful fodder for the arts! Now it turns out, amazingly enough, that human illogic, from a perspective of quantum probability, sometimes ...
  • When Secrecy Is Necessary
    You can't race a four-in-hand at the Daytona Speedway. Nor can you expect James Madison's Fourth Amendment to provide useful guidance about modern intelligence collection. That's just a disconnect. The reality is we do not have a Stasi state and, if we did, it seems to me that intelligence colle ...
  • Against the "Affordable Care Act"
    A signature failure of American government, our health care system is a world-class disgrace. Instead of its purpose being the public good it mainly serves predatory market forces. And the fact is, the so-called "Affordable Care Act," aka "Obamacare," doesn't bring necessary, fundamental changes ...
  • Evidence of Reincarnation
    You don't have to travel to South Asia to find people with reincarnation experiences. It happens here, too, and occasionally an American child will remember extraordinary details about their past life. About how they were a pilot, for example, or a golf pro. In a few of these cases the extraordi ...
  • Was Arafat Assassinated?!
    In November 2012 three teams, French, Swiss, and Russian, exhumed Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to try to determine his cause of death. Independently, they took samples from his body, mausoleum, and surroundings. The French and the Russians concluded that he died of natural causes. The Swi ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Pentagon Chief Consolidates Global Military Ne ...
    U.S. Department of Defense February 1, 2014 Hagel Meets With Defense Leaders at Munich Conference By Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT: On the sidelines of the 50th Munich Security Conference in Germany today, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with leaders ...
  • Russia Expects Afghanistan To Return To Neutra ...
    Interfax February 6, 2014 Moscow expects Afghanistan to return to neutral status after intl forces pull out – Russian diplomat MOSCOW: Moscow expects that, after the international community has completed its efforts to improve stability in Afghanistan, the foreign military bases and troops ...
  • Erich Maria Remarque: A war veteran’s in ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Erich Maria Remarque: Selections on war ==== Erich Maria Remarque From The Road Back (1930) Translated by A.W. Wheen I push on slowly, absorbed in my thoughts. The wood is nearer now. A cat stalks across the pathway. There the rail ...
  • U.S. Warships Enter Black Sea
    United States European Command February 5, 2014 Mount Whitney and Taylor enter Black Sea By Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs USS Mount Whitney BLACK SEA: The U.S. 6th Fleet flag ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), with 300 Sailors and Military Sealift Command ...
  • Portugal: U.S. Leads Large-Scale NATO Air Exercise
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces in Africa February 5, 2014 Triple Nickel kicks off REAL THAW 14 By 2nd Lt. Allie Delury 31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs F-16 Fighting Falcon at Monte Real Air Base, Portugal AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy: Approximately 260 personnel from the 31st Fighter Wing a ...

Intel Hub

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

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Popsci - Science

  • Interactive Infographic: The Search For Other ...
    Astronomers announced they had discovered planets around other stars—the first so-called extrasolar planets—in 1992. Other discoveries came a few years later, one by one at first and then in a steady stream by the mid-2000s. The Kepler mission turned that stream into a flood; when its data is fu ...
  • Ask Anything: Is It Worse To Be Licked Or Snee ...
    Tongues Out Constance Bannister Corp/Getty Images Different diseases affect different fluids in the body, so it’s hard to give a simple answer to this question. HIV, for example, shows up at infectious levels in blood, semen, vaginal and rectal secretions, and breast milk. But an HIV-infect ...
  • Watch This Magnet Fall Slowly Through Air
        This video from 2012 is making the rounds right now--with good reason. Drop whatever you're doing, leave your desk, quit your job, and find a magnet and copper tube, because, wow. Look at this! It's a Matrix time-freeze in your hands. The video is showing a demonstration of Lenz's law: the ...
  • Why 'Fake' Snow 'Doesn't Melt'--Because It's Real
    Snow way! Real snow shows char marks when a flame is put to it. TheBadAstronomer / YouTube After a snowstorm hit Atlanta and a good portion of the Eastern Searboard last week, snarling traffic and stranding many, rumors circulated that it wasn't snow. Some said that it was FAKE snow, eithe ...
  • Ants Playing Chess Find New Solutions To Old P ...
    The tour When a knight touches every spot on a chess board and returns to its original spot, as shown here in numbered moves, it's called a closed tour. Numberphile / YouTube Remove all the pieces from a chess board except for one knight. Then try to move the knight across all 64 squares ...

Facing South

  • The PTSD crisis that's being ignored: American ...
    Image Caption:  (Image via Wikipedia.) Americans wounded in their own neighborhoods are not getting treatment for PTSD. They're not even getting diagnosed. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy coal ash spill la ...
    Image Caption:  Water quality specialists with the environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices visited the site of Duke Energy's Feb. 2 coal ash spill to test the water and take photos. (Photo by Appalachian Voices; to see more images ...
  • Corporate virtue and corporate subsidies
    Image Caption:  Two new reports from Good Jobs First take a critical look at public assistance to large corporations. Two new reports from Good Jobs First take a critical look at public assistance for large corporations. One ...
  • The power of Southern song: How the South shap ...
    Image Caption:  Pete Seeger meets with students at a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Miss. in August 1964. Seeger would write in his journal, "I am down here seeing if I can help, in a small way, some very wonderful people bring more ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Big Oil's push for seismic te ...
    Image Caption:  Hundreds of people attended a town council meeting in Kure Beach, N.C. this week to protest the mayor's endorsement of seismic air gun testing, the first step toward opening the Atlantic to offshore oil and gas drilling. (P ...

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Internat'l Political Economy

  • Rebuilding the USSR, Retaking the Commanding H ...
    The stuff of Putin's fondest dreamsWith the 2014 Winter Olympic Games kicking off in Sochi, Russia, the world's attention has naturally focused on that country. The story of Boris Yeltsin handing over large swathes of Soviet-era industry to so-called "oligarchs" who purchased these interests at ...
  • Repopulating Doomsville: Detroit & US Migration
    Followers of international migration know that there is a movement among traditional migrant-receiving nations, usually Anglophone countries Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, to steer migrants away from overcrowded gateways into less-populated areas short on labor. In other ...
  • Buying Thai Rice: PRC Now Cares About Corruption?
    Yinglucks legacy is a colossal waste of food and moneyChina is famous for espousing a policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. This, of course, is in contrast to Western powers who usually demand "good governance" for aid or investment in terms of lessening corrupti ...
  • Did Harry Reid KO Obama's Asian, European FTAs?
    Reid Floors Obama with Lethal 1-2 CombinationThe traditional constituency of the United States' Democratic Party has always included organized labor. Despite union membership continuing to fall, organized labor remains crucial to the fortunes of many Democratic candidates come election time give ...
  • Goldhater: Can India Fix Its Current Account D ...
    First came the James Bond film Goldfinger, then came the spoof movie Goldmember. Now we have the threequel...Goldhater. It is generally well-known that India is a major if not the #1 market for the precious metal since many cultural traditions are based on it--especially as gifts. However, the s ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

BlogHer

  • Why Blog? To Find Your Own Truth
    I've been blogging for almost four years, but for the past six months, it has felt more like a chore than a joy. My posts have been sporadic at best, whether it was a lull in content ideas or a busy freelance schedule, one thing was clear: I seemed to have lost my passion for blogging. Image: ...
  • Wear Red Tomorrow to Raise Awareness for Women ...
    Tomorrow is National Wear Red Day to raise awareness on women's heart health. Heart disease is the number one killer of women, and it disproportionally kills more women than men. A few of the editors at BlogHer threw on some of our favourite red things and listed out ways that we're taking car ...
  • Should I Feel Bad Because I Have a Housekeeper ...
    Dear Mouthy Housewives, I have a housekeeper come clean my house two times a month. It's a luxury, I know, but I'd rather spend $100 to get my house cleaned than get a massage or a new outfit. It seems like no big deal to me, but my mother-in-law is constantly making snide remarks that a SAHM sh ...
  • Small Eyes? How to Do a Colorful Smoky Eye
    I am not a makeup pro by any means, but I know a couple of tricks which might maybe help one or two girls. So here are my little tips if -- like me -- you have small, hooded eyes. Tip 1: Stay on Your "Eyeball" With The Shadow It looks best (in my opinion) if you do not smoke your eyeshadow up ...
  • Amy Chua’s 'Triple Package' is Tiger Mother Me ...
    Amy Chua’s new The Triple Package seems to build upon the same “Chinese are superior” motto as Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- but it's actually more inflammatory and much less compelling than her last book. L- Jed Rubenfeld and R-Amy Chua, with their daughters, (Credit Image: © Sonia Moskowi ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Between the RAREs – Around the Campfire with U ...
    At our last get-together around this campfire, I went through the heartbreak of the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Review and Evaluation from 1971 to 1973.  For many of us wilderfolk at the time, RARE wiped clean any lingering belief that wilderness clubs and the U. S. Forest Service were togeth ...
  • Amigos de la Sevilleta to host Mike Phillips F ...
    February 2, 2014: Annual Meeting and Celebration 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Reception to follow The event will be held at USFWS headquarters on the Sevilleta NWR Reservations: (505) 864-4021 Brief Business Meeting Mike Phillips Live Music & Reception Amigos de la Sevilleta is holding its annual meeting ...
  • Support National Monument Protection for the ...
    PLEASE ATTEND THIS UPCOMING MEETING AND SUPPORT NATIONAL MONUMENT PROTECTION FOR THE 570,000-ACRE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAINS! If you cannot attend, please phone or write a short e-mail to our Commissioners (information below).  YOUR MESSAGE CAN BE BRIEF: “Commissioners - Please write a ...
  • Conservationists Ask Court to Halt Wolf Exterm ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 7, 2014 Contact: Gary Macfarlane, Wilderness Watch, 208-882-9755 Jonathan Proctor, Defenders of Wildlife, 406-214-5327 Timothy Preso, Earthjustice, 406-586-9699 Ken Cole, Western Watersheds Project, 208-890-3666 POCATELLO, Idaho – A coalition of conservationists, repre ...
  • Yendegaia National Park Created!
    YENDEGAIA National Park Created! Original post: 2013/12/12:  Tompkins Conservation 370,000 Wild Acres in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego via a Joint Collaboration: Piñera-Tompkins DECEMBER 12, 2013— In Tierra del Fuego—the southernmost extreme of the Americas—Chile will gain a spectacular new nat ...

reference frame

  • Bill Nye debates Ken Ham
    Evolution vs creation If you have 2.5 spare hours, you may want to watch the debate between a creationist and an evolutionist. The moving content begins around 13:00. Bill Nye is known as "The Science Guy" who became famous after he stole Professor Proton's shtick (and Sheldon Cooper's wall ...
  • Aristotelian teleology was never scientificall ...
    Sean Carroll believes many bizarre – more precisely, demonstrably wrong – things about the arrow of time. A few days ago, he decided to "humanize them" by partially defending Aristotle's teleology. Reality, Pushed From Behind Aristotle believed that events are happening in the way they are happ ...
  • SUSY as a balanced budget amendment
    Just a link. Kyle Cranmer of NYU (and ATLAS) at Quantum Diaries develops a fun analogy between the government and the Higgs naturalness: The Higgs Boson: A Natural Disaster! The tax revenues are the positive contributions to the Higgs squared mass, the government expenses are the negative contri ...
  • Split country: understanding how West, East Uk ...
    In a previous text about Ukraine, I would talk about the country as a single entity. It was the ultimate cradle of Russia and due to its orthodox religion, it belongs to the cultural East of Europe. But the largely geographic tension between its two halves has been around for decades and it is ...
  • Reactions to Hawking's black hole denial
    A week ago, we discussed the media buzz about Hawking's claims that event horizons don't exist. In the following days, I've read numerous reactions of physics bloggers (in the blogosphere) and other physicists (in the e-mail). While I agreed with many detailed statements and much of the spirit ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Obama IRS to Share Private Financial Data With ...
    by Alex Newman, The New American: As uncertainty grows surrounding a radical and deeply controversial addition to the sprawling U.S. tax regime, the Obama administration is now reportedly in negotiations with Moscow to share financial information with Vladimir Putin’s Russian government. The U.S ...
  • Sochi Olympic events begin as security concern ...
    As the Sochi Olympics open, the Russian government says it’s doing everything possible to ensure safety at the Games — even as the U.S. warns airlines that enemies may try to smuggle toothpaste tubes carrying explosives into Russia. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollar ...
  • The 4 Pillars of Poverty
    by Marc Faber, Daily Reckoning.com: think it is remarkable that, despite the growth the US has enjoyed since the 1960s, the poverty rate has barely changed. Writing for the Wall Street Journal last month under the title “How the War on Poverty Was Lost”, Robert Rector notes that: “Fifty years an ...
  • Sochi Olympics under tight security as concern ...
    As the Sochi Olympics open, the Russian government says it’s doing everything possible to ensure safety at the Games — even as the U.S. warns airlines that enemies may try to smuggle toothpaste tubes carrying explosives into Russia. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollar ...
  • The Countdown to the Nationalization of Retire ...
    by Nick Giambruno, International Man: Simply put, the new myRA program put forward by Obama is at best a sucker’s deal… or worse, it’s a first step toward the nationalization of private retirement savings. (Note: If you haven’t yet heard of myRA, I’d strongly suggest you ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Vanishing Privacy With Real-Time Facial Recogn ...
    Image credit: nametag.ws It is very disturbing (to me) the speed at which we are allowing technology to invade and strip our privacy. It seems that nearly every day we read about a new technological mechanism that chips away at our personal identity and right to privacy. The latest is the &#8216 ...
  • Survive Anything
    Can you survive anything? No, not literally anything; there are some “anything’s” that are out of your control. But, there are things that you can do to improve your odds to survive most anything…   YOUR HEALTH It all begins with your health. You must be able bodied ...
  • US Mint Gold And Silver Coin Sales Surge In Ja ...
    January sales of American Buffalo and American Eagle gold coins exploded as U.S. Mint Bullion coins soared to highs. And it wasn’t just gold coins, but sales of one-ounce, 99.9% pure American Eagle silver coins hit the highest tally since the same time last year – and only three othe ...
  • Safe Temperature For Cooking Meat
    Safe cooking is essential in preventing foodborne illness. You can’t see, smell, or taste harmful bacteria that may cause illness, so cook all meat to these minimum internal temperatures to destroy germs and pathogens as measured with a food thermometer before removing food from the heat source: ...
  • 3 Travel Tips For Crime Prevention
    When you are away from home, out in public or away traveling, here are three tips for crime prevention to help keep you from becoming a victim…   Know Your Area Of Travel Particularly before you head out to a new area of travel, discover more about it or the place where you will be. [ ...

Fast Company

  • Tower To Rise At MoMA PS1, With Self-Assemblin ...
    The winner of the 2014 Young Architects Program features self-assembling bricks made of corn husks and a kind of mushroom root.MoMA PS1 has selected the winner of its annual Young Architects Program, a temporary outdoor installation that will open in late June. Hy-Fi, the winning project from Da ...
  • Twitter's Fourth-Quarter Earnings Beat Expecta ...
    Twitter's fourth quarter, by the numbers.In its first ever public quarterly earnings report, Twitter posted $242.7 million in revenue and a net loss of $511 million, beating expectations.Read Full Story     
  • Why Twitter Loves TV
    The television and advertising industries want to make like the Internet and microtarget households. Here's how Twitter is trying to help them reach their goal (and make itself some money in the process).On February 5th, Twitter releases their quarterly report--their first as a public company--t ...
  • Tribeca and CERN Want To Change Storytelling W ...
    When forward-thinking artists and scientists come together, they can change storytelling. But is anyone in Hollywood listening?The left side of the brain controls logic, math, and science. The right handles creativity and art. What if leading thinkers from each discipline came together to explor ...
  • On-Demand Booze: Minibar Will Deliver The Alco ...
    "With virtually everything available at your fingertips, it's time to make alcohol just as easy to order to your home."It might be too cold for you to make it to work or meet up with friends for dinner, but it's never too cold for a drink--in New York City at least. A new app launched Wednesday ...

Jadaliyya

  • حوار مع ديبيش شاكرابرتي القانون هو الذي يحمي ا ...
    ديبيش شاكرابرتي Dipesh Chakrabarty من مفكري الحداثة وهو يدعو إلى فهم جديد لها في سياقاتها المختلفة، ويدعو أيضاً إلى "حداثة بديلة" يتحدث عنها باستفاضة في كتابه ”مواطن الحداثة: مقالات في صحوة دراسات التابع“، الذي صدر حديثاً في ترجمة عربية لمجيب الرحمان وصدر عن ”كلمة“. بالإضافة إلى ذلك ...
  • DARS Media Roundup (February 5)
     [This is a bi-weekly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and Subversion in the Arab world and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the DARS Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Kurdish Studies
    Kurdish Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (October 2013). J: What made you start the journal Kurdish Studies, and who are the scholars involved in its editorial work? Kurdish Studies (KS): The scholarly field of Kurdish studies has developed significantly over the last few decades, and has become an i ...
  • Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (January 2014)
    [This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis ...
  • Counting the “Missing People” of Omdurman: The ...
    [The essay is based on collaboration between the two authors. AbdouMaliq Simone conducted and wrote the field research about the drama school; he then invited Jadaliyya Cities Page co-editor, Hiba Bou Akar, to contribute. Simone’s field research is based on his life in Khartoum in 1987-1990, and ...

mediagazer

  • NBC News' Richard Engel: My Computers, Cellpho ...
    Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post: NBC News' Richard Engel: My Computers, Cellphone Were Hacked ‘Almost Immediately’ In Sochi  —  Being a reporter at the Sochi Olympic Games just got even worse.  —  NBC News' Richard Engel said that upon arriving ...
  • Relativity Launches Digital Studio Division (E ...
    Todd Spangler / Variety: Relativity Launches Digital Studio Division (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Roger Mincheff, former Myspace and Fox exec, tapped to run unit focused on branded content  —  Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh — calling traditional TV advertising a dead-end ...
  • Rieder: Foolish attempt to criminalize journal ...
    Rem Rieder / USA Today: Rieder: Foolish attempt to criminalize journalism  —  Rep Mike Rogers' bizarre notion that journalists who use classified documents are “fences”  —  It's an idea that needs to have a stake driven through its heart — right ...
  • Marc Andreessen talks about the evolution of t ...
    Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: Marc Andreessen talks about the evolution of the news business and why he is optimistic  —  Everyone seems to have an opinion about what's wrong with the news business — whether it's the best of times or the worst of times for journalism, whether pa ...
  • Crack Reporter: The Scoop on Rob Ford From Rob ...
    Rebecca Godfrey / Flare: Crack Reporter: The Scoop on Rob Ford From Robyn Doolittle  —  Photography by Miguel Jacob, Styling by Tiyana Grulovic  —  Robyn Doolittle is showing me the bullet holes.  Dressed down in a sweater and Uggs, her hair in a messy topkn ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Vedum likely to lead Center Party
    Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the former agriculture minister from Hedmark known for always wanting to protect his fellow farmers, now looks likely to become the next leader of the small farmer-friendly Center Party after top candidate Marit Arnstad said she didn’t want the job. Arnstad has give ...
  • Publicity galore after wolfskin ‘stunt’
    Sandra Borch, the Center Party politician who has a track record of sparking conflicts both within and outside her small troubled party, got exactly what she wanted when she published photos of herself wearing a wolfskin coat over the weekend: Lots of attention. Borch received a flood of nasty m ...
  • Religion used to avoid work
    Some managers at Norwegian social welfare agency NAV said they’re fed up with people who refuse work on the grounds of religion. The cases usually involve women who won’t take jobs which involve serving pork, selling beer or where they’re restricted by religious dress. A NAV ma ...
  • New US envoy faces more opposition
    The man nominated to be the new US ambassador to Norway still faces dissent within the US Senate, even though his nomination was approved Tuesday, as expected, by the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. George James Tsunis’ nomination is now up for a final vote by the full senat ...
  • Pilots descend on Oslo to slam Kjos
    He’s one of their own, but the pilot who founded Norwegian Air and is now keen to expand worldwide is facing nothing but turbulence from his fellow pilots. Members of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) descended on Oslo this week to fight what they call Norwegian’s efforts &#8220 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Rob’s Modified Walipini
    When a friend of mine told me that they wanted to build a walipini, my first reaction was, of course, “what the heck is a walipini?” The answer was simple: a walipini is an underground passive solar style greenhouse. It’s an innovative and potentially inexpensive way to grow food in our cold nor ...
  • 2013 Marked the Thirty-seventh Consecutive Yea ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute Last year was the thirty-seventh consecutive year of above-normal global temperature. According to data from NASA, the global temperature in 2013 averaged 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit (14.6 degrees Celsius), roughly a degree warmer than the twentieth-century av ...
  • Fernglade Farm – Mid Summer (January) 2014 Upd ...
    The author, testing out the new sprinkler Australia is a country of extremes. One part can have floods, whilst the other part is having massive bushfires and heatwaves. In Southern Australia, where I am, summer comes with extreme heat and the potential of very little rain. So a lot of my summer ...
  • European Permaculture Convergence 2014 (July 2 ...
    What: European Permaculture Convergence 2014 When: 25 – 29 July, 2014 Where: Lake Batak, Bulgaria Find out more and register here! Lake Batak, Bulgaria
  • “Let us Turn the Earth Into a Paradise” – Vand ...
    Recognized worldwide for her activism and involvement in the anti-GMO movement, Indian author, women’s rights activist and physicist Vandana Shiva visited Costa Rica this past January 21st. She spoke to a crowd of hundreds that gathered in the auditorium of the University of Costa Rica. A press ...

Pointman's

  • The real problem with polls.
    I see yet more opinion polls on global warming wiggling their way through the bowels of the mainstream media like tapeworms. They’re only usually interesting in terms of spotting how the alarmists have bent the questionnaire, data, statistical methods or simply misrepresented the results t ...
  • Cool it …
    I wrote the following paragraph in a previous piece on fanatics and the subtle perils of prolonged contact with them - There is also an insidious danger to this sort of interaction with them; you start to get imprinted by them. If you’re not careful, you soon start to take on the same fanatical ...
  • The coming shape of 2014.
    About three years ago, I compared the ongoing plunge in any belief in global warming as being akin to the death of a belief system. In essence, it is a five stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. It covered what can only be termed the true believers, not t ...
  • Why the IPCC hesitates.
    This is a guest piece by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 – enjoy! —-<0>— The release of the IPCC Fifth Report has been accompanied by a barrage of criticism. “The latest IPCC report has truly sunk to the level of hilarious incoherence” Some critics have settled on the fi ...
  • Moments in a life and those restarts you have ...
    He’d drawn a dinosaur for her and it was a pretty good one, stretching the entire width of the blackboard. He’d used white chalk for the main details but added a huge lot of pecky touches in red and green. Too many I thought. He was another teacher and her beau and I’d watched ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Germany Aiming to Become More Muslim Friendly
    Germany's new coalition government is signaling that it wants better relations with the country's Muslim community. In a series of newspaper, television and radio interviews, Thomas de Maizière—who was recently sworn in as Germany's new interior
  • Marine Le Pen's Worldview: Oppose America, Emb ...
    Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National (FN), the most likely winner of the upcoming municipal and European elections in France, held a press conference on January 22, in which she presented the foreign policy of her party, including a passionate
  • Ayatollah Tortured, Near Death, in Iran for Cr ...
    Ayatollah Hossein-Kazamani Boroujerdi, a senior member of the Shiite Muslim clergy, is presently serving the eighth year of an 11-year sentence handed down to him by the Islamic Republic's courts for advocating the separation of state and religion inside
  • Iran: Letter from Hussein Boroujerdi, Politica ...
    The Shah's rule so saturated society with faith and ignited the passion for the 'Shia family' (Ahl al-Bayt) among people, that they gambled everything they had on the Shia authority. Keeping one's faith became the price of the whims and perversities of
  • Jordan Says No to Kerry "Conspiracy"
    Jordan's government officials and ordinary citizens have come out against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's proposals for reaching a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The Jordanians fear that such an agreement would be concluded at

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • Build Up to WW3 -- New Cold War?
    Are we witnessing a New Cold War, pitting the West against Russia? How does the West's foreign policy apply to Ukraine and the post-Soviet space in general? And which countries continue to hold to old Cold War attitudes? CrossTalking with Eric Draitser, Mark Almond and Steven Cohen. ...
  • Hacking The Hackers -- British government laun ...
    Government Communications Headquarters, the British government's version of the National Security Agency, has gone on the offensive against hactivist group Anonymous. According to documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ took a page out of the hacker group's playbook when it... ...
  • The Beginning Of The End For The MSM 2.0!
    Dan Dicks is an investigative journalist and an award winning documentary filmmaker. He is also the founder of an independent media outlet known as Press For Truth which produces videos and documentary films about issues that the mainstream media often fails to report on. Dan produced hi ...
  • The Economic Collapse Is Coming - Documentary
    When the world's financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system. The solution is the problem, that's why we had a problem in the first place. For Economics Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, the Catch 22 is self-eviden ...
  • Adam Loewy -- The Alex Jones Show(Commercial F ...
    On this Wednesday, February 5 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers efforts by Obama's police state to fend off growing criticism of its airport Gestapo, the TSA, and popular and growing outrage over the end of privacy and the dilution of much of the Bill of Rights. Alex also gets ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Innovations in Energy Efficiency Finance --- l ...
    Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC An important innovation in energy efficiency financing is a simple new policy of the Federal Housing Administration: For a homebuyer to qualify for an FHA-insured mortgage to purch ...
  • Keystone XL Tar Sands Protests: A Moment in Ou ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr at the Keystone XL vigil       Photo: Rocky Kistner/NRDC Several hundred Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protesters gathered in Wash ...
  • NOAA Learns How to Cooperate on Shark Fins
    Seth Atkinson, Staff Attorney, San Francisco Shark Drawing from Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (via Creative Commons)   Here’s some good news to brighten up your week:  the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
  • Momentum Building: 41 Lawmakers Offer Proven G ...
    Franz Matzner, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. Forty-one members of Congress representing 9 northeastern states have just added their voices to the chorus calling for action to curb the unlimited carbon pollution that is d ...
  • GAO Report: Coal Companies Win and Taxpayers L ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York Senator Ed Markey asked a lot of good questions yesterday, and the Department of Interior should answer them as requested by the end of the month. Please find the questions farther down in this ...

Peakwater

  • California Dries Up as Brown Pushes $15 Billio ...
    “California’s worsening drought is raising the stakes for a $15 billion plan endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown to build two 30-mile (48-kilometer) water tunnels under an ecologically sensitive river delta east of San Francisco Bay. The tunnels, each as wide as a two-lane interstate highway, ...
  • Fukushima Wash-Up Fears in U.S. Belie Radiatio ...
    “Seaborne radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will wash up on the West Coast of the U.S. this year. That’s raising concerns among some Americans including the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area city of Fairfax, which passed a resolution on Dec. 6 calling for more te ...
  • Beyond Pumps and Turbines- Elaborating the Soc ...
    Beyond Pumps and Turbines- Elaborating the Social Nexus by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is now a 1st year PhD candidate at the University of Manchester Business School  a ...
  • Down the theory rabbit hole- thoughts on Nexu ...
    Down the theory rabbit hole-  thoughts on Nexus scholarship by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is now a 1st year PhD candidate at the University of Manchester Business Schoo ...
  • Moving Mountains
    “When it comes to mining for copper and gold, prospectors will move mountains to make it happen. As in, physically dig up the rock, extract the precious metals and move the debris elsewhere. In the chilly high altitudes of the Andes Mountains, however, what may look like part of a mountain ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • is the label important
    …Is the label important … it works so leave them the hell alone… Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Cult, or a Culture? Jennifer Matesa, The Fix For every quasi-authoritarian 12-step meeting, I’ve gone to more than a dozen other more useful ones………… READ MORE»Filed under: Blogroll
  • “fracking” is unsustainable
    …While I believe that “fracking” is unsustainable and wreaks havoc on our shared biosphere … lacking substantive 3rhd party verification I this headline below serves only to evoke unwarranted fear… Frackers Are Setting off Swarms of Earthquakes Across the Planet By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Ty ...
  • $urveillance is profitable
    …$urveillance is profitable and sanctioned by Congre$$ and the $upreme$ in our ju$ice system… Google Has Launched a For-Profit Privacy Invasion Into Almost Every Aspect of Our Electronic Lives Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet Google’s bottomless appetite for knowing everything about our on ...
  • They need to keep their activity in the shadow
    …They need to keep their activity in the shadow as exposed to the light of day … the illusion is revealed and their power evaporates…   Banks Don’t Do Much Banking Anymore—and That’s a Serious Problem   By David Dayen  …As hedge funds, private equity firms, and other asset m ...
  • The internet as we know it to be today will evolve
    …The internet as we know it to be today will evolve and what emerges tomorrow we need not fear … believe if you choose that “they” will control today’s internet and that may well be correct … they will NOT control what “we” replace it with… The Internet You Know and Love Is in Real […]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • How hunters have become key to saving Bulgaria ...
    Surprising clatter cuts through the silence in the snowy forest shortly before sunrise. The powerful clicking sounds like a dropping Ping-Pong ball before culminating in a loud pop resembling the opening of a champagne bottle. This sound is heard clearly and far. Propped on a thick pine tree bra ...
  • Next big idea in forest conservation? Connecti ...
    Dr. Stuart Pimm is an expert in extinctions: why they happen, how fast they happen, and how they can be prevented. Reconnecting forest fragments and avoiding fragmentation, according to Pimm, are among the most crucial things we can do to conserve global biodiversity. His organization SavingSpec ...
  • Predator appreciation: how saving lions, tiger ...
    In the new book, In Predatory Light: Lions and Tigers and Polar Bears, authors Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Sy Montgomery, and John Houston, and photographers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson share with us an impassioned and detailed appeal to appreciate three of the world's biggest predators: li ...
  • Feral crèches: parenting in wild India
    The Wildlife Conservation Society-India has been camera trapping wild animals for over 20 years in the Western Ghats. The results reveal the most intimate, fascinating and sometimes comical insights into animal behavior and ecology. These mammals generally become secretive and protective during ...
  • Powered by Google, high resolution forest map ...
    Researchers today released a long-awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale. Powered by Google's massive computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the world's cou ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Experiment adds sense of touch to artificial hand
    To feel what you touch - that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a bottle, a baseball and a mandarin orange.The...
  • Bumblebees could fly over Mt Everest - study
    The flight of the bumblebee - once thought to be aerodynamically impossible - has proven to be even more scientifically astounding than previously believed following a study showing how the humble insect is able to fly high enough...
  • Is Australia the world's most environmentally ...
    In Western Australia, endangered great white sharks are being slaughtered. In Queensland, dredging spoil is to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef.In Tasmania, ancient forests - harbouring some of the planet's tallest trees - are...
  • Glacier that sunk the Titanic disappearing at ...
    The Greenland glacier that was thought to have been responsible for the sinking of the Titanic is moving four times faster into the sea than it was in 1960s and its instability could result in it moving at 10 times the speed by the...
  • Testing ability queried
    Dairy giant Fonterra is calling for government laboratories to be better equipped to identify bugs in food, after finding E.coli bacteria in its fresh cream.The company recalled up to 8700 small bottles of Anchor and Pams fresh...

The Bovine

  • Raw Milk and Michael Schmidt in court today, F ...
    Today is a big day for raw milk in Ontario. Supporters of raw milk and food rights from across the province will be on hand today in Toronto to show their support to Michael Schmidt as he and his lawyers … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt “upbeat” as he pre ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Canadian raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been in legal limbo for about twenty years now. It’s difficult to even make that statement without wondering, first, about the system that allows … Continue reading →
  • One Small Step for Sheepkind…
    From Montana Jones: HIGH FIVE to lawyer Shawn Buckley for his superb work in ensuring justice was served in one small step today toward truths and rights. Superior Court Judge ruled today that Crown Damien Frost will NOT be permitted … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and raw milk in court Wed. Feb ...
    February 5th is the date when raw milk will have its day in court in Ontario: Raw milk farmer and food rights activist Michael Schmidt will be appealing his 2011 conviction on raw milk offenses. That conviction took place following … Continue reading →
  • What if… a US food policy official spoke ...
    From David E. Gumpert’s “The Complete Patient” blog: “I got a taste Sunday of what it is like to be a government food policy official in enemy territory. I spoke at the NOFA-NJ Winter Conference in Lincroft, NJ, and decided to assume … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Voters in Bankrupt San Bernardino Sweep Pro-Un ...
    The inevitable shape-of-things-to-come has finally arrived in a major California city. I am pleased to report Voters in bankrupt San Bernardino sweep old guard from power. Residents of bankrupt San Bernardino, California on Tuesday voted to complete a rout of the city's pro-union old guard, ele ...
  • Latest EU Proposal: Let's Pretend for Another ...
    What cannot be paid back won't, but that never stops officials from pretending it will. Please consider EU Said to Weigh Extending Greek Loans to 50 Years. The next handout to Greece may include extending the maturity on rescue loans to 50 years and cutting the interest rate on some previous ai ...
  • Questions of "Fairness"
    In response to Controversy in Detroit: What's a Fair Settlement of Bondholder and Pension Obligation Claims? reader Ken suggests my proposal to have Detroit bondholders and pensioners be treated with the same percentage haircuts is not fair. Ken asked "Which of the two would suffer more: pensi ...
  • Brazil, Russia Cancel Debt Auctions; Head-in-S ...
    Russia and Brazil don't like escalating interest rates. Their "solution"? Cancel government debt auctions. Russia Cancels Debt Auctions Second Week Yesterday, Reuters reported Russia cancels domestic bond auction citing market conditionsRussia's finance ministry cancelled its weekly domestic b ...
  • "Situation Impossible"
    Greek economist Costas Lapavitsas says "The Euro has Already Failed" and it's "Situation Impossible" for France. Via translation from La Vanguardia here is the complete interview .... LV: When I interviewed you for the first time in late 2011, you said that the ECB was not the magic solution t ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener Report- What Anti-War Movement? ...
    As we examined last week on The EyeOpener Report, the fraudulent left/right political divide has been used to keep the people divided against each other even as it is used to dupe the public into supporting the very same political agenda through puppet administration after puppet administration. ...
  • Turkey’s Real Corruption Scandal
    Turkey & A Surrogate Battle between East & West for the Future of a Pivotal Land at the Geopolitical Crossroads Since December last year, Turkey has been rocked by a series of arrests and waves of allegations that the government of AK Party Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is riddled ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “Vigilante Justice i ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Ioan Grillo On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by investigative journalist and author of the book El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo. Guillermo and Ioan discuss the ongoing struggle in Mexico with focus on the ...
  • Thank You NSA, Snowden & the Media for Showing ...
    The Most Innovative Plot Ever to Put us Back on the Map as the Super-est I ask people to name the agency responsible for collecting all communication Intel in China, and they draw a blank. I quiz people on the Russian facility specifically in charge of communication data gathering (not the main ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Pete Seeger – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Tonight on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick we remember Pete Seeger. A folk singer, social activist and a caring human being, Seeger left a legacy of song and social commentary that he melded together with his banjo picking and guitar p ...

bloody crossroads

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Bacterial source of marine medicines
    Microbes living on sea sponges produce a host of potent drugs, scientists have discovered. Sponges are regarded as a rich source of potential new drugs, ranging from antibiotics to anti-cancer thera...
  • Hacking into the Beijing cough
    Also here with us this week looking at the news is science writer Mark Peplow. You've been sniffing or taking the air in Beijing, Mark... Mark - Yeah, that's right. Have you ever b...
  • Antioxidants accelerate cancers
    Antioxidants, widely regarded as a means to protect cells against the damage done by metabolic stress, may actually accelerate the growth of cancers, new research has shown. Writing in Science Trans...
  • Preventing peanut allergies
    Up to 91% of children with a potentially fatal reaction to peanuts could have their allergy brought under control using a technique pioneered at Cambridge University. Peanut allergy affects about 1%...
  • Tracing our Neanderthal ancestors
    DNA from modern humans and Neanderthals reveals ancient interbreeding of the two species. As the success of family history TV programmes shows, we seem to be endlessly fascinated with our ancestors. ...

More Sources

Care2 - Environment

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

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • PETITION - Stand up for diplomacy with Iran. I ...
    A group of Rep's. are circulating a letter that states opposition to any new sanctions while talks are ongoing. Sending a strong, proactive signal now can blunt the impact of any new bad legislation. --- Tell your Representative to sign the letter today! Submitted by David B. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Strike coming at Dutch flower giant FloraHoll ...
    Workers at the company have been fighting in vain since last year for a new CBA and a decent social plan for hundreds of workers who are losing their jobs and others who will be transferred to new locations in a major restructuring announced in October... Submitted by Nancy C. to Business &nbsp ...
  • They're still there. Fewer but they are crazie ...
    Constitutional?!?! What's constitutional about corporations being people and their money being speech? The Nazi republican party is unconstitutional! Submitted by Jason R. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Good Samaritans Rescue Man, Dog From Frozen La ...
    Two strangers saved a man and his dog from Lake Michigan Tuesday. A man was walking three dogs near Montrose Point just after ... 5 p.m. One of the dogs ended up in the water, and the man went in after it. Two people heard the dogs barking along the bank Submitted by Barb Knight to Offbeat &nbs ...
  • Check Out These Places of Worship That Put Sol ...
    'More and more places of worship are going solar to promote environmental stewardship and enjoy financial savings. Religious organizations often look to lead positive change movements in their communities and putting solar on their roofs is....' Submitted by Ruth R. to Business  |  &n ...

Articles and Answers 2011

Rogue Government - WP

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