Thursday, January 17, 2013

17 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • AlAkhbar on Explosions at Aleppo University
    The explosions struck an area near the university dormitories and the architecture faculty, both opposition and government sources said.
  • >83 killed in Aleppo University blasts
    The scale of destruction in videos shot at the site, however, suggested more powerful explosives had been used than the rockets the rebels are known to possess.
  • High time PM got serious on youth unemployment
    If I have one New Year's wish it is that John Key returns from his Hawaiian summer holiday brimming with enough determination to challenge the nation's employers - and himself - to tackle youth unemployment. It is truly bizarre that the number of unfilled skilled jobs is increasing at the sam ...
  • Concern rises at France’s Mali mission
    .. the US has appeared slow in its response to French requests for military help, reflecting considerable unease in Washington at what some officials say is the ill-defined nature of the military operation. According to some US officials, French troops could be left waiting for weeks or months i ...
  • Obama to accelerate Afghan withdrawal
    Barack Obama and Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai came close to sealing a deal at the White House on Friday that would keep a small US force in the country after the pullout of most international forces at the end of 2014. Obama also hinted that that pullout may be accelerated, citing a spe ...

Independent - London

  • Aviation: Why flying into Milk isn't as unlike ...
    Destination: Milk International. This week plans were announced to rename San Francisco's airport after the gay rights activist and politician, Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978 while serving as a city supervisor.
  • Couple sought over killing of British tourist ...
    Police in Honduras are looking for a man and a woman suspected of gunning down a British tourist in the street as they tried to steal his camera.Related StoriesBritish tourist 'shot dead by robbers' in HondurasWhite House calls NRA's reference to Obama's daughters in ad 'repugnant and cowardly'B ...
  • Desert storm: Islamists take Mali fight to Algeria
    Islamist militants were holding  up to 41 Western gas engineers at a remote BP site in Algeria today, deepening fears that the conflict in Mali could unleash an anti-Western war across the deserts of northern Africa.Related StoriesForeigners 'kidnapped' by Islamist militants in AlgeriaEnglish n ...
  • Did Israeli troops deliberately provoke teenag ...
    Like most parents at a time of crisis, Sidiqy Khalaf Awad was surrounded by her children today. She has 14 in all. The image of her 15th, Samir Ahmed, who looked much younger than his 16 years, is plastered all over her village and now brings her only sorrow. For Samir is dead. He was shot in t ...
  • Mark Fabiani: 'The master of disaster' who is ...
    Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is on a contrition tour every bit as emotionally gruelling as the seven he won in France.Related StoriesBritish tourist 'shot dead by robbers' in HondurasWhite House calls NRA's reference to Obama's daughters in ad 'repugnant and cowardly'Barack Obama unveils A ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Man accused of threatening to eat judge's kids
    A north Georgia man has been arrested after authorities say he mailed a letter to the wife of a Cobb County Superior Court judge saying he would cook the couple's children and eat them. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports 58-year-old James Edward Satterfield is accused of sending the threa ...
  • Maher to Handler: Romney was a 'cold, robotic ...
    Tuesday night on E!, the Entertainment Network's "Chelsea Lately," host Chelsea Handler talked to Bill Maher of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" about his $1 million dollar donation to to the pro-Obama super PAC known as Priorities USA Action and why he supported the president against former Ma ...
  • U.S. citizens among hostages seized in Algeria ...
    Islamist guerrillas seized a number of hostages, including Americans, in a brazen attack early Wednesday on a remote gas-production facility in Algeria, and the United States vowed to take all necessary steps to deal with what it called a "terrorist act." Algeria's official news agency said two ...
  • Evangelical minister calls to embrace LGBT ins ...
    The Rev Steve Chalke says Christians need to find ways to support those in or seeking faithful same-sex partnerships An influential evangelical minister has declared his support for monogamous and loving same-sex relationships, and called on the church to stop treating gay people as pariahs. T ...
  • 'Supergene' explains red fire ant society: study
    The complex social structure of the red fire ant, a fast-spreading invasive insect with a painful bite, is made possible by a DNA fusion known as a supergene, biologists said Wednesday. It is the first study to link supergenes to animal behaviour, the scientists reported in the journal Nature, ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Alex Himelfarb on #IdleNoMore
    This Alex.
  • "Divided No More"
    Divided No More is an #IdleNoMore inspired blog by Indigenous scholars and activists and is full of thoughtful and inspired commentary. I highly recommend paying a visit.
  • The unsmart ones
    That would be the NRA dragging the president's kids into their little tantrum. It isn't like there life is going to get any easier from here on, but really!
  • Aaron Swartz Tribute: Post your papers!
    Wow, as a tribute Aaron Swartz, who hung himself last week while facing charges for distributing millions of papers for free through JSTOR, academics all over the world are posting .pdfs of their papers online.  Access to most of these papers is likely restricted because they are stuck behind ...
  • Blowback
    In this post commenter Double Nickel drew my attention to a Sun piece by John Robson (I won't link to that publication). It's of a bit convoluted piece, full of misrepresentations (e.g. "Queen of England") and outright racism ("the white man") that gets the lumpenprols a-frothing, but he does ma ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media Cherry-Pick Facts To Falsely Label Head ...
    Media outlets cherry-picked facts from a recent Health and Human Services report on the Head Start education program to promote the myth that the program is a failure. However, neither the HHS report nor other studies confirm those claims, and reports actually show the program has had a positive ...
  • Hannity Uses Zero Dark Thirty To Falsely Claim ...
    During his Fox News program, Sean Hannity cited the plot of the movie Zero Dark Thirty to push the theory that enhanced interrogation techniques helped the U.S. intelligence community locate Osama bin Laden. However, CIA records show that enhanced interrogation techniques were not key to fi ...
  • Nine Media Myths About Proposals To Strengthen ...
    Media figures have smeared the Obama administration and promoted myths and falsehoods about gun policy in the days leading up to today's release of the White House Task Force's recommendations to reduce gun violence.Is any attempt to regulate firearms a vi ...
  • Fox Tells Half The Story On Debt Ceiling Fight
    Fox News figures downplayed concerns about the debt ceiling, pointing to the government's ability to make interest payments on its debt even in the event of a shutdown. But the process used to focus payments on the debt, known as prioritization, could have disastrous consequences for the governm ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Colin Powell After Mee ...
    Conservative media launched vicious attacks against former Secretary of State Colin Powell in an effort to discredit his remarks and Republican credentials after Powell criticized Republicans for having a "dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party."Colin Powell Declares "Dark Vein Of I ...

Global Research.ca

  • Frenzy in the Gold Market: The Repatriation of ...
    A part of the German gold stored in the vaults of the New York Fed and the Banque de France is to be moved back to Germany. This move could potentially "trigger a chain reaction, prompting other countries to start repatriating the gold stored in London, New York or Paris.... "
  • Illegal Siege: Why We Must Never Forget Palestine
    In 2011, one year after nine people from the Gaza Flotilla were executed by Israeli commandos in international waters, The Spirit of Rachel Corrie Mission, a humanitarian cargo boat carrying sewage pipes entered Palestinian waters in an attempt to break…
  • The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate ...
    Rob Kall points out that the military-industrial complex is the winner of the Golden Globe award: Homeland won best TV series, best TV actor and actress. It IS a highly entertaining show which actually portrays some of the flaws of…
  • Canada’s Environmental Gamble: The Threa ...
    560 full time jobs versus potential ecological devastation: you decide what's more important.
  • Addicted to Plastic: The Rise and Demise of a ...
    Documentary that explores the history of plastic and how it came to dominate our lives. From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. No invention in the past 100 years has had more influence and presence than synthetics. ...

TPM Cafe

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

Water - AlterNet

  • New Report Outlines Our Future: Climate Change ...
    Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year sweltering in temperatures above 100F (38C), with climate change on course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone place.The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Frida ...
  • Why the 'Idle No More' Movement Is Our Best Ch ...
    As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger strike outside the Canadian parliament building, thousands of protesters voice their support in Los Angeles, London, Minneapolis, and New York City. Spence and the protesters of the Idle No More movement are drawing atten ...
  • 5 Reasons Natural Gas Won’t Be an Environmenta ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If you’re hoping the natural gas boom means we’ve solved our environmental and economic woes, you’re going to be disappointed. While natural gas produces less nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide wh ...
  • Major Military Contractor Poisons American Tro ...
    In the spring and summer of 2003, when U.S. troops were guarding cleanup of a neglected water treatment plant in the Basrah oil fields in Qatmat Ali, southern Iraq, they noticed orange dust scattered on the floor and sitting in open sacks. Within weeks, several were suffering nosebleeds, eye ...
  • Australia on Fire: Record-Shattering Heat, Wil ...
    NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin our show in Australia, where hundreds of bush fires continue to rage amidst the country’s fiercest heat wave in more than 80 years. It’s so hot, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has taken the unprecedented step of adding two new colors&#x20 ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Fire at South Texas Nuclear Power Plant
    Tuesday, a fire erupted in the Unit 2 main transformer that feeds power from the reactor to the public power grid of the South Texas Project Electric Generating Station near Bay City and about 85 miles southwest of Houston.  The unit 2 was automatically taken offline and STP officials say unit 1 ...
  • 2012 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
    Well, it’s official.  According to scientists with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States with an average temperature of 55.3 degrees Farenheit.  That’s 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher ...
  • Texas Breaks Another Wind Energy Record
    As we close in on the end of 2012 with a winter front keeping temperatures low, Texas achieved a new wind power integration record of 8.638 GW on Dec. 25 at 3:11 p.m according to the Texas grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Electricity from wind accounted for 25.71 ...
  • New wind installations my pass new natural gas ...
    According to Bloomberg, with four days left in 2012, wind-turbine installations are expected to exceed natural gas-fueled power plants in the U.S. for the first time as wind farm developers race to complete projects before a renewable energy tax credit expires. New wind capacity reached 6,519 me ...
  • The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
    Fine particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.  The question has been whether or not cleaning the ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Doomsday Clock holds at 5 'til midnight
    There will be no change to the hands of the infamous 'Doomsday Clock' this year, say scientists. The clock represents humanity's proximity to destruct...
  • El Dorado - was it a place or a person ?
    The fabled lost city of gold lured conquistadors on futile treks through the rainforest for centuries. The myth of a lost city arose following Columbu...
  • Asteroid deflection mission seeks ideas
    The European Space Agency is appealing for ideas for a future mission to study asteroid deflection. The concept of sending a crew on a mission to prev...
  • Could 'Almas' be surviving Neanderthals ?
    Stories of a species of 'wild man' have been coming out of Central Asia and Mongolia for years. Similar in concept to Bigfoot or the Yeti, the 'Alma' ...
  • Anatomy 'wrong' in early animals
    Scientists now believe that they may have got the backbones of some early animals back-to-front. The remarkable revelation not only means that the tex...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Mississippi Shutdown Averted as Rains Ease Dan ...
    (Bloomberg) The drought-depleted Mississippi River is about 6-feet higher at a choke point in southern Illinois than it was two weeks ago, the National Weather Service said, allowing barges to pass safely at least through the end of th ...
  • US East-Coast Cities Are 'Sitting Ducks' for S ...
    (Guardian) Cities on the United States east coast are "sitting ducks" for the next big storm because of the destruction wrought by hurricane Sandy, one of Barack Obama's top scientists warned on Tuesday. Marcia McNutt, who last week a ...
  • House Passes $50B Sandy Aid Bill
    (Politico) The House approved nearly $50.6 billion in long-sought emergency aid to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday night, after Northeast lawmakers successfully added tens of billions to bring the package more in line wi ...
  • Enbridge Pipeline Hearing: 5 Climate Change Pr ...
    (Vancouver Sun) Five protesters have been charged with trespassing after crashing Tuesday's public hearings on Enbridge's Northern Gateway project at its Vancouver venue. The five were taking aim at what they say is a flawed review pr ...
  • TransCanada Continues Building Pipeline Across ...
    (The Oklahoman) The daily "scatter sheet" tells the story. The one-page report details how TransCanada is deploying about 850 workers along the Oklahoma portion of its Gulf Coast pipeline. The 485-mile pipeline is being built in piece ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Winning Public Opinion
    You may have noted over the years that I very rarely link to or discuss polls about issues or job approval numbers or even elections. In the presidential race, I mainly linked to Nate Silver's analysis of polls rather than to any individual polling outfit. Part of the reason I am not prone to ...
  • Guns and Mental Health
    Here's a .pdf of the twenty-three executive orders and actions that the president initiated just after noon today. The second item allows mental health professionals to report patients who they think are a risk to the community. I worry about that. It's one of the main ways we might have avoi ...
  • If People Saw the Sandy Hook Classrooms...
    It can't be done. But one thing that would settle this gun controversy for good would be if the police published the real images from those classrooms at Sandy Hook. The crime scene photos or, even worse, panoramic video. Two classrooms filled with little kids' jaws and eyeballs and brains an ...
  • Bang, Bang, you shot me down
    We are a violent nation. A nation where far too many of us have worshiped at the alter of the God of Guns and the consequences of that worship, a culture steeped in violence, particularly violence blasted out of the barrel of a pistol, shotgun or rifle. We have a long and deadly history when i ...
  • Tom Coburn's salary is stupid
    Because as the good Senator said himself, if we don't raise the debt ceiling it's only the stupid things that would not get paid. ts the non-essentials that wouldnt be paid, its the $250-300 billion a year in stupid things we do that we wouldnt pay, its the programs that arent an absolute nec ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • When NYC Skyscraper Reflections Become Abstrac ...
    These stunning photographs show various New York City buildings reflected in the facades of other skyscrapers – glinting surfaces that are both beautiful and hazardous. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The History Behind Singapore's Only Surviving ...
    For some 70 decades, the tunnels and chambers of Singapore's last remaining WWII air raid shelter have gathered dust, only recently to be rediscovered. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Incredible Beauty of Thailand's Loi Kratho ...
    Stand mesmerized as Thailand's people illuminate the river and night sky with beautiful lights... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stunning Early Postcards of Geishas Posing in ...
    Amazing photos of geishas, playing their roles as the ultimate swimsuit pin-up girls of their time... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From Nazi propaganda posters, to deadly homemade street drugs... Another diverse serving of links a la carte. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • How to check cops checking your driver's licen ...
    Yet another nasty branch on the poisonous tree of data abuse in Minnesota is bearing its digital fruit. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former law enforcement officer, got 'checked out' by an absurdly sprawling array of Minnesota law enforcement officers illegally abusing their driver's license lookup s ...
  • MPD Tracking OccupyMN Facebook BBQs: Minneapol ...
    Dateline: Pseudo-Secret Minneapolis (aka Fridley): What WCCO called the "secret" "City of Eyes" Strategic Information Center has been located on the Google! Your Federal Stimulus Money & FY2010 Homeland Security Appropriations At Work - A Facility for Spying on Facebook Occupy Barbecues It' ...
  • MPD Homeland Security Unit at Cruz House: Minn ...
    After some months, the Minneapolis Police Department released dozens of pages about Occupy Minnesota / Occupy Minneapolis and several high-profile operations, particularly the eviction of protesters from 4044 Cedar Ave. This data was released from the Department late yesterday afternoon. Interes ...
  • Federal Homeland Security TSA VIPR Team & #Vik ...
    Things are a little strange at the Vikings/Packers Game today. A drone has been photographed hovering around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west side, and a Homeland Security / TSA "VIPR" team has been hanging around as well, indicating the federal government is shifting into "protecting" the ma ...
  • The Next Big Thing - Idle No More MN: Indigeno ...
    Many hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more, Natives and supporters joined up at the Mall of America on Dec. 29 in sympathy with those struggling against the Canadian government. Burned sage wafted out into the crowd as echoes of drums & cheers throbbed off the walls. Reportedly, many were in ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • US to recognize first Somali government in 20 ...
    Story Image:  Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (L) speaks in Mogadishu on November 4, 2012. The United States will on Thursday recognize the first Somali government in two decades, heralding a significant shift in ties since the deadly 1993 attack on US helicopteThe United States wi ...
  • US economy picks up since November: Fed
    Story Image:  People wait to cross the street after shopping at Macy's department store on December 26, 2012 in New York City. The US economy has picked up pace since November, with Christmas sales modestly stronger and New York and New Jersey rebounding from HurricaneThe US economy has p ...
  • US economy picks up since November: Fed
    Story Image:  The US Federal Reserve building is seen on July 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. The US economy has picked up pace since November, the Federal Reserve's Beige Book survey of regional activity showed Wednesday.The US economy has picked up pace since November, the Federal Reserve's ...
  • US blames Assad regime for 'despicable' campus ...
    Story Image:  Syrian's gather at the scene of an explosion outside Aleppo University, between the university dormitories and the architecture faculty, on January 15, 2013. The United States on Wednesday condemned the "despicable attack" on university buildings in the SThe United States on ...
  • Majority upholds landmark US abortion ruling: poll
    Story Image:  Pro-choice activists with the National Organization For Women hold a vigil outside the US Supreme Court on January 23, 2012 in Washington, DC. Sixty-three percent of Americans would rather not see the US Supreme Court overturn its historic 1973 ruling on Sixty-three percent ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Closed-door trial of Soviet/Russian sleeper ag ...
    A married couple accused of spying on Germany on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia for over two decades has gone on trial in Stuttgart.
  • US providing intelligence support to French fo ...
    The United States is providing intelligence support to hundreds of French troops that entered the West African nation of Mali last week, according to American and French officials.
  • Iran secretly sold ‘untold quantities’ of ammo ...
    An independent report has concluded that some of Africa’s most brutal conflicts are currently being fuelled by “untold quantities” of Iranian-manufactured small-arms ammunition.
  • Turkey peace talks halted as Kurdish activists ...
    The future of peace talks between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurdish minority appeared uncertain yesterday, after three female Kurdish activists were found murdered assassination-style in downtown Paris. The murders marked the first-ever killings in Europe of senior members of the ...
  • Iran official in secret visit to Egypt to disc ...
    The trip was apparently meant to send "a message to the United States that Cairo will have little trouble finding another ally if Washington decides to curtail its humanitarian and military aid to Egypt".

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Jan 17
          Suicide bombings kill at least 22 in Idlib, northern Syria - Chicago Sun-Times US State Department blames Assad regime for 'despicable' Aleppo campus blasts - AFP Russia condemns attacks on Syrian University of Aleppo blaming the explosions on terrorists - PressTV Syria ...
  • Why We Need a Mossadegh Legacy Institute
    A Mossadegh Legacy Institute has been created.  If you're not sure what that means, read a few of the endorsements:   In full agreement with Cindy Sheehan, especially where she emphasizes the American nature of this responsibility, of this moral wound [see below], I am very glad to lea ...
  • Kids Killing Kids - Right Here in Maine
    Kids Shooting Kids   http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2013/01/kids-shooting-kids.html   There is a big dust up going on here in Maine over the discovery of a two-year spree of violent video making where local youth used public spaces to produce their "films". A local Brunswick high sch ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Zunes on Kerry, Hag ...
    Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Professor Zunes discusses ...
  • Growth is the Enemy of Humankind
      By Dave Lindorff What is wrong with America?              Big question. Simple answer. read more

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: Amy Goodman on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Ha ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" Sunday to discuss the Obama administration’s use of drones, and John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA . Wach the videos below to see much of the conversation. Visit NBCNews.com fo ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, January 13th from 8-10 am ET.
  • Part 2: Jonathan Katz on How the World Came to ...
    To mark the third anniversary of the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, we continue our conversation with Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster . He was the only full-time American reporter in Haiti when the earthquake stru ...
  • Book Excerpt: How the World Came to Save Haiti ...
    Read an excerpt from the new book by Jonathan Katz, who will be on Democracy Now! Friday to discuss the aftermath of a the January 12, 2010, earthquake in which a quarter of a million people died. In The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, Katz ...
  • DN! Interviews Oscar Nominees: "5 Broken Camer ...
    When the Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature were unveiled on Thursday, Democracy Now! saw that we had interviewed the directors and subjects of three out of five selected films. Last year, we sat down with filmmakers who tackled topics ranging from rampant sexual assault in the U.S. mi ...

Solari

  • Solari Special Report: Coming Clean Beyond the ...
    by Catherine Austin Fitts Ultimately, the fiscal cliff is the tip of the iceberg of our economic and cultural woes. Our problems are deeper. The more of us who are prepared to look honestly at our situation and take responsibility for it, the sooner authentic solutions will become possible and ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...
  • Just a Taste – 01.03.13
  • Poland Joins Growing List of Nations Banning GMOs
    Well….now it’s Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to Duponzanto and Mon(ster)santo and the bland corporate and US government assurances that GMOs are entirely safe, when a growing bod ...
  • Will SEC’s New Rules on Marketing be a Boon fo ...
    By Dina ElBoghdady The ads may start coming in the next few months through e-mail, on billboards, even via a passing reference on Facebook — companies looking to give you a chance to invest on the ground floor of a start-up that could hit it big. The tantalizing offers may be legitimate or [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Seven Sizzling Hybrid and Electric Cars from t ...
    Read the rest of Seven Sizzling Hybrid and Electric Cars from the 2013 Detroit Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2013 Detroit Auto Show, Acura, Acura NSX Concept, cadillac, Cadillac ELR, Infiniiti Q50, Infiniti, lexus, Lexus IS 300h, NAIAS 2013, Nissan Leaf, Ni ...
  • Antony Gibbon’s Inhabit Treehouse Lets You Sle ...
    Read the rest of Antony Gibbon’s Inhabit Treehouse Lets You Sleep High Up in the Trees Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Antony Gibbon, Antony Gibbon Designs, cedar cladding, Daylighting, Inhabit, Sustainable, Treehouses
  • Enter The LightCollector Photo Contest for a S ...
    Have you entered our mobile photo contest yet? There’s still time to enter for a chance to win $1000! Are you a designer, architect or creative who finds inspiration in photography? If so, you’ll want to check out Philips’ new free LightCollector photo app to collect photograph ...
  • PHOTOS: Siemens’ LEED Platinum Headquarters at ...
    Read the rest of PHOTOS: Siemens’ LEED Platinum Headquarters at Masdar City Nears Completion Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", "leed", abu dhabi, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, clean tech, Daylighting, eco design, Emirates Palace Hotel, Estidama, gree ...
  • REVIEW: We Try Out Hushamok’s Gorgeous and Eco ...
    Inhabitots’ editor-in-chief, Jill Fehrenbacher, had a chance to give Hushamok’s gorgeous baby hammock a try with her sweet six-week-old newborn baby. The hammock comes complete with an elegant Okoa stand made from untreated European beechwood and an organic, VOC-free mattress. A stun ...

Pogue's Posts

  • The Fitbit Flex Improves on Its Rivals
    At the Consumer Electronics Show, FitBit flashed the features of the FitBit Flex. It's a silicone bracelet just like the Up and Nike bands, but with neither of the drawbacks - it does track sleep and it does use energy-saving Bluetooth 4.0.
  • C.E.S. 2013: A Genuinely Novel Gadget, the Sel ...
    Google, which has had a successful self-driving car experiment for some time, was not at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. But a few other companies were showing their own take on the concept.
  • C.E.S. 2013: What's New in TVs
    David Pogue walks the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show and finds humor in the excess -- mostly of it unintended by the companies.
  • Microsoft's Surface Pro Tablet Changes the Game
    Even if the Surface Pro is not strictly a laptop killer, it nonetheless changes the game. It's a machine nobody's built before, and it should get a lot of imaginations whirring. For thousands of people, it will be an ideal mobile companion.
  • 12 Days of Gadgets: Necomimi Brain-Powered Cat ...
    Necomimi Brain-Powered Cat Ears is a headband with fluffy white cat ears attached. They perk up, flop down and otherwise turn, cutely and catlike, in sync with your brainwaves.

The Progressive Realist

  • Memories of a Childhood Interrupted in Afghanistan
    I was born in an apartment building in Kabul, where we had inconsistent power and running water. My mother tells me that I used to love water and would scream, “Water is here. Power is here” every time we would get running water. I would run to the tap and make myself wet. Hours of playing with ...
  • Hagel Faces Down the Neo-Cons
    It’s terrific news that the neo-conservatives like Bill Kristol and Elliott Abrams, who have been peddling the slander that Chuck Hagel is an anti-Semite, got no traction with leading pro-Israel senators. The announcement by New York senator Chuck Schumer and California senator Barbara Boxer tha ...
  • Mali and Afghanistan: Uncanny Parallels
    Analogies in international affairs are fraught with peril, but there is no denying the parallels between the situation in Afghanistan in the months and years leading up to 9/11 and recent developments in Mali. Rebels in Mali — a loose coalition of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Movement ...
  • Tipping Point in Pakistan?
    Some months ago I swore off writing about Pakistan. I got tired of calling attention to the same old problems over and over again. What were the characteristics of this status quo? Bear with me. The army playing two dysfunctional parties off against one another, while preserving the pleasant f ...
  • Top of the Morning: Chemical Weapons Used in S ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. State Department Cable: Chemical Weapons Used in Syria Foreign Policy has the scoop about a secret cable which confirms dark fears that the Syrian government is prepared to use chemical weapons. “The cable, signed by the U.S. consul general in Istanbul, Scott Frede ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • We're Not There Yet on Guns
    Guns have killed more than 900 Americans since December 14, 2012. The shocking statistic seems powerful enough on its own to prompt the type of action seen in President Obama's gun-control announcement today. And yet the 23 executive actions and legislative laundry list—gun reform of a size not ...
  • Millenials Don't Know Much About Roe v. Wade
    The rapid acceptance of same-sex marriage, and the growing acceptance of marijuana legalization, has a lot to do with the changing demographics of the country. As a class, young people are just more tolerant and less prohibitionist than their older counterparts. To a degree, this extends to abo ...
  • Will Congress Pass Obama's Gun-Control Legisla ...
    President Obama unveiled his package of proposals to reduce gun violence today, a mix of executive actions he can undertake unilaterally (23 of them) and ideas that will require new laws passed through Congress. I'll tell you what I think about the package as a whole in a moment, but here are t ...
  • Hagel Faces Down the Neo-Cons
    It’s terrific news that the neo-conservatives like Bill Kristol and Elliott Abrams, who have been peddling the slander that Chuck Hagel is an anti-Semite, got no traction with leading pro-Israel senators. The announcement by New York senator Chuck Schumer and California senator Barbara Boxer th ...
  • President Obama Announces Action on Gun Contro ...
    This afternoon, President Obama announced a package of proposals to reduce gun violence. These are executive actions, not legislation, and will—among other things—strengthen law enforcement efforts against gun crime, encourage more stringent background checks, and provide resources for gun safe ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Latino Gang Leader Convicted in L.A. Ethnic Cl ...
    A Latino street gang leader and his son were sentenced in federal court Monday to lengthy prison terms for their role in a years-long campaign of racist terror and ethnic cleansing targeting African Americans in and around Los Angeles. Since at least the mid-1990s, Latino street gangs across Los ...
  • Illinois Politician Associated With Racist Sit ...
    Michael Kleen, the Republican candidate for mayor of Rockford, Ill., is running on an innocuous “safer streets” platform, pledging “appreciation for commonsense and moderation” on a campaign website that sparkles with sweet reason, offering a profile of a trustworthy, public-spirited candidate. ...
  • Boy, 12, Convicted of Killing Neo-Nazi Father
    The tragedy of the racist and the son is now complete. A California judge found a 12-year-old boy guilty today of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his father, Jeff Hall, a West Coast leader of one of the country’s largest neo-Nazi groups, the National Socialist Movement. The boy was ...
  • Yeager Not Alone: Radical Right Reacts to Gun ...
    When Tennessee weapons instructor James Yeager threatened Wednesday to “start killing people” if President Obama moved ahead on gun control, his infuriated rant went national, with dozens of media outlets and blogs expressing amazement. In thousands of comments about Yeager’s YouTube video and a ...
  • DHS Reportedly Investigating Tennessee Weapons ...
    Editor’s Update: The Tennessee Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security Friday suspended the handgun carry permit of James Yeager, who earlier threatened to “start killing people” if gun control advanced, according to WTVF-TV in Nashville. Commissioner Bill Gibbons sai ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Responds to President Obama’s Announcemen ...
    President Obama today announced 23 executive actions and proposed legislative action stemming from Vice President Biden’s Gun Task Force. The ACLU had this reaction to the President's announcement:read more
  • Federal Complaint Filed Against UPS For Forcin ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today against UPS for unfairly forcing a pregnant package driver to take unpaid leave, refusing to accommodate her with light-duty work and forcing ...
  • America’s Path From “I Have a Dream” to “I Hav ...
      RootsAction.org, the national group mobilizing as an independent political force, today sent out an email blast contrasting Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” proclamation with President Barack Obama’s “I Have a Drone” philosophy.read more
  • Mombasa Seizure Seals E Africa Reputation as ...
    The seizure of two tons of ivory in Mombasa, Kenya today has helped cement East Africa's growing reputation as a clearing house for the bloody illegal ivory trade. Media today reported Kenya police had intercepted the largest ever haul of ivory at Mombasa port, two tons of elephant tusks wor ...
  • Common Cause Applauds New Reform Bills to Ampl ...
    Common Cause applauds Reps. John Yarmuth (D-KY), David Price (D-NC), and John Sarbanes (D-MD) for introducing three strong reform bills Tuesday that would create incentives to enhance the voices of regular Americans in elections by creating small-donor matching programs for federal elections.rea ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • How Obsequious Media Coverage Perpetuates NRA ...
    John Nichols Hysterical at the prospect that at least a few elected officials might stop treating its pronouncements as political gospel, the National Rifle Association announced Tuesday that it had attracted 250,000 new members in the mont ...
  • The West's Crisis is One of Democracy as Much ...
    Slavoj Žižek In one of the last interviews before his fall, Nicolae Ceausescu was asked by a western journalist how he justified the fact that Romanian citizens could not travel freely abroad although freedom of movement was guaranteed by ...
  • Energy Corporations Must Change, Die, or (at t ...
    Jim Warren “The truth is that we have a planetary emergency.” – NASA climatologist James Hansen (October 2012) North Carolina has a unique opportunity and duty to help avert runaway climate change and repair our wounded de ...
  • Energy Corporations Must Change, Die, or (at t ...
    Jim Warren “The truth is that we have a planetary emergency.” – NASA climatologist James Hansen (October 2012) North Carolina has a unique opportunity and duty to help avert runaway climate change and repair our wounded de ...
  • Imposing Real Consequences for Prosecutorial A ...
    Glenn Greenwald Whenever an avoidable tragedy occurs, it's common for there to be an intense spate of anger in its immediate aftermath which quickly dissipates as people move on to the next outrage. That's a key dynamic that enables ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • New Plan Offers an Effective, Affordable Packa ...
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 16, 2013) – Investing in a broad portfolio of Bay-Delta water solutions can save Californians billions of dollars in costs while increasing water supply and strengthening protections for the ailing delta ecosystem and its fisheries, according to a new proposal released ...
  • Amid Drought, Water Wars Pick Up on Borders
    Battles over water along state borders can increase during times of drought, and Texas is no stranger to such conflict. As the state's drought wears into its third year, it is locked in a legal conflict over water with New Mexico. And a North Texas county is suing the state of Oklahoma to ge ...
  • Filmmaker bringing story of ‘paya’ to the masses
    With the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct looming, a filmmaker is asking for help in her effort to tell an untold portion of the Owens Valley water wars.
  • Water wars: Can rising tide be stemmed?
    Homeowners and businesses throughout the Southland already have seen in their ever-rising bills what officials are saying these days about water: It is the new oil. But fueled by the second of four annual rate increases imposed by the city of Chicago for Lake Michigan water, towns throughout the ...
  • Residents show support for widespread tribal i ...
    A youth-oriented public awareness movement that began with indigenous nations in Canada has made its way to the Owens Valley, prompting three local demonstrations organized by young tribal members.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Watts Up With That Double Feature: Invasion Of ...
    by Greg Laden via Scienceblogs You may know the blog Watts Up With That. It is Anthony Watts’ anti-science blog, dedicated to climate change denialism. A current post reports the finding of life forms from another planet, in a meteorite. This looks to be a huge story, the first evidence of ...
  • Why We May Not Actually Have To Worry About A ...
    Over the past several months, ThinkProgress, the New York Times, and several other outlets have reported about a potential future doctor shortage that could threaten Americans’ access to care. By 2020, the shortfall between the supply of physicians of all specialties and the demand for the ...
  • How Allowing Undocumented Immigrants To Obtain ...
    Unlicensed drivers are three times more likely to cause a fatal car crash compared to licensed drivers, according to a new report from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. And requiring drivers to pass a written test and driving test before they can obtain licenses plays a major rule in ...
  • Teju Cole, Drones, ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ And The ...
    Novelist Teju Cole is Twitter’s foremost literary entrepreneur. His “Small Fates” project, which compresses a person’s life and death down to 140 characters, is a fascinating exercise in probing Twitter’s limits as an art form. But I’m profoundly ambivalent ab ...
  • How Your School Vouchers Fund Schools That Tea ...
    Voucher programs are funneling millions of dollars to schools around the nation that teach creationism as science, according to new research by activist Zack Kopplin and MSNBC. Kopplin cross-referenced private schools that received public funding in the form of “school vouchers” with ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • John Ibbitson - Media Troll
    NOTE: I've decide that I'm too busy to finish this right now. I'll post as is and finish when i can. It will (eventually!) be a response to this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-needs-to-stay-the-course-in-winter-of-native-discontent/article7311834/  A troll lived unde ...
  • Chief Spence Preparing For Death
    According to APTN News: Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has signed off on her will and is prepared for death, APTN National News has been told. Spence’s will includes a description of who will care for her daughters and she has also signed off on directions requesting non-intervention if her ...
  • An Insane and Degenerate Political Culture
    This country is sick. The Canadian body-politic is sick. I still  believe that most of the racist trolls denigrating "Idle No More" and Chief Spence are a minority of from 20-30% of the population. But I now think that the majority of Canadians sympathizes more with them than with progressi ...
  • No Surprises With the Corporate Media
    I've always said that there are good journalists and good pundits in Canada. I do, however, subscribe to the Chomsky-Herman model of the media. The main media has become a big business. As a big business, they share interests with other big businesses. As forms of mass communication, they were e ...
  • More About That Audit
    The awesome Canadians are making complete assholes of themselves. (Which, in a sense, is kinda honest!) Setting aside for a moment the obvious hypocrisy they're displaying in calling for Chief Spence to be dragged in chains to the Peace Tower for alleged indiscretions or incompetence that their ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Zellers keeping one store open in Toronto
    Zellers, a Canadian tradition for decades, announced in 2011 that US retailer, Target, will be taking over their 220 stores. Ever since, Zellers has been winding down for their eventual demise. But it turns out one store will remain open in Toronto.
  • New Year, New Diet: Enriching one's lifestyle ...
    Instead of focusing on getting fit at the gym this year, why not dedicate that time to improving your diet? With antioxidants garnering a heavy amount of media attention as of late, a lot of people are turning to berries, broccoli, garlic and tomatoes.
  • Toronto artist makes 'Cycle Critters' out of r ...
    It started with two kickstands. Toronto sculptor Mike Schram looked at those simple discarded bike parts and decided to craft a new piece of art, making a small bird. Now his passion has led him to sculpt 70 so-called Cycle Critters.
  • Five Toronto transit employees charged in phon ...
    The five enforcement officers with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) face obstruction of justice and fabricate evidence charges for allegedly writing phony tickets to homeless people. The five were fired along with three other enforcement officers.
  • Digital Journal announces winners in global Ph ...
    Digital Journal today announced the winners of its global Photo Essay contest. With submissions from Nigeria to Vancouver, Australia to Michigan, Digital Journalists captured stunning portraits of life in all corners of the world.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • C-17 to support Mali intervention
    Prime Minister Harper announced on Monday that Canada would assign one RCAF C-17 transport aircraft to provide logistical support to the French military intervention in Mali for a period of one week.
  • No “direct military” mission to Mali
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a press conference on Tuesday that Canada is not considering a “direct military mission” in Mali. He did not, however, rule out other forms of assistance.
  • Canadian Auto Workers staff continue to suppor ...
    The Canadian Auto Workers’ staff made $15,000 donation to the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire.ca program for 2013. Annie Labaj, Director of the CAW’s International Department, noted that the Rideau Institute and Ceasefire.ca “have been and continue to be important allies to our union and the ...
  • Armoured vehicles to Colombia?
    The Harper government is clearing the path for the sale of Canadian-made light armoured vehicles to the government of Colombia.
  • MacKay mulls Mali mission
    Defence Minister Peter MacKay has floated the possibility that Canadian troops may be sent to help to train troops in Mali.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-6-12
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes an ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...
  • Just A Couple Videos To Brighten Your Day!
    Due to popular demand, here are the songs I have been playing on my radio show: ASK YOUR DOCTOR BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-13-12
    Today, Kevin explains how illegal aliens are hurting America’s economy and what the government should do about it. Plus, find out how well Dr. Theresa Dale’s colon cleanse really works! Self Help: A Weight Loss Program That Works! Take A Stand With Kevin Trudeau! Health: “Top 7 Diets” According ...
  • New Information Regarding My Legal Battle
    Watch the video above to get all the latest information directly from Kevin regarding his legal battles!

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Congressmen Urge Constitutents to Help Defeat ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAdan Salazar Prison Planet.com January 16, 2013 A freshman Congressman wants to leave the option of impeaching president Obama “on the table” if the commander-in-chief moves forward with executive actions tha ...
  • Congressmen Urge Constitutents to Defeat Obama ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAdan Salazar Prison Planet.com January 16, 2013 A freshman Congressman wants to leave the option of impeaching president Obama “on the table” if the commander-in-chief moves forward with executive actions tha ...
  • Iraq Slaughter: 55 Killed, 288 Wounded
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIraq Slaughter: 55 Killed, 288 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis Iraq’s, so far, deadliest day of 2013 left at least 55 Iraqis killed and 288 more wounded. In northern Iraq, attacks focused on Kurdish targets in ...
  • The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comwww.washingtonsblog.comBy WashingtonsBlog The Winner of the Academy Award and Golden Globe Is … Government Propagandists Rob Kall points out that the military-industrial complex is the winner of the Golden Globe aw ...
  • Maher to Handler: Romney was a ‘cold, robotic ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Tuesday night on’E!, the Entertainment Network’s “Chelsea Lately,” host Chelsea Handler talked to Bill Maher of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” about his $1 mi ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Preplanned Mali invasion reveals France’ ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV January 14, 2013 The speed and extent with which French warplanes have been deployed over the weekend in the West African country, Mali, point to a well-honed plan for intervention by the former colonial power ...
  • Exclusive: Exploding the Lincoln Myth by Rocke ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) January 14, 2013 Well, old honest Abe is back in vogue. The recent plethora of documentaries, movies, and books about him are all polishing up his halo once again. While they are putting t ...
  • Aaron Swartz: Is it time for an Internet Bill ...
    Dandelion Salad To honor Aaron Swartz’s memory, we must continue his work. RTAmerica·Jul 3, 2012 In the US, the Bill of Rights maps out the fundamental privileges each citizen has in the country, but is it time to draft an Internet Bill of Rights? Congress has attempted to implement legisl ...
  • The Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 14, 2013 Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that “catastrophic climate change is virtually certain.” This obliteration of “f ...
  • When Did the Coup Take Place? by Luke Hiken
    by Luke Hiken Guest Writer Dandelion Salad January 11, 2013 When did the coup happen here, and how did we miss it? I always imagined military coups to occur when jack-booted generals marched into the town square in front of columns of heavily armed soldiers. Pinochet, Mussolini, Franco come to m ...

Your New Reality

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    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
  • No title
    Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
  • No title
    Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - Science

  • Video: Discovery of the Spider That Builds Spi ...
    In December, we broke the news about a new species of spider discovered in Peru. Tiny, and likely a member of the genus Cyclosa, the spider builds large, spider-shaped decoys -- and vibrates its web, acting as a master puppeteer. ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Supermas ...
    A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae.
  • Short Penis No Obstacle for ‘Spermcasting’ Bar ...
    Even Charles Darwin marveled at the length of the barnacle's penis. In some species, it's up to eight times the body length. Not all barnacles are so well-endowed, however, raising the question of how animals that can't reach their neighbors ...
  • Curiosity Rover Prepares to Drill Into Rocks T ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover has explored a new area on Mars called Yellowknife Bay, which shows plenty of evidence of flowing water and even contains rocks that were once saturated with water. The rover is preparing to drill into a rock ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Rings of ...
    This image, taken with the Wide Angle Camera (WAC), shows the outer rim and inner peak ring of Raditladi basin. The basin's smooth floor and well-preserved peak ring structure indicate that Raditladi is relatively young. The concentric troughs along the ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: How 20 tents rocked Israel
    However futile the activists' efforts prove to be on this occasion, the encampment indicates that ordinary Palestinians are better placed to find inventive ways to embarrass Israel than the hidebound... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Netanyahu on evacuating Palestinian protest te ...
    Netanyahu: "We will not let anyone harm the contiguity between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim." IOA Editor: Obviously, what Netanyahu has in mind is "not let[ting] anyone harm" Jewish "contiguity... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestini ...
  • E-1 tent camp built on private Palestinian lan ...
    Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian protest leader: “The people who need to leave are the settlers who have taken over the land, because the Palestinians have the right to stay on their land.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • Moshé Machover: Israel-Palestine – race agains ...
    If an Arab state west of the Jordan is legitimate, then Zionist colonisation and its state were and are illegitimate. So by acting consistently to prevent a ‘two-state solution’ Israeli governments... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Moshé Machover review: The intersemitic crisis
    The veteran Israeli socialist, Moshé Machover, has just brought out a wonderful collection of writings, chiefly his own, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is no exaggeration to say that this... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Record-Breaking Weather At Walden Pond Testing ...
    With record-breaking warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulting in the earliest known flowering times in 161 years of recorded history in two U.S. locations, according to a new Boston University-initiated study published today, scientists now are pondering if at some point plants will be una ...
  • H1N1 Flu Shots Are Safe for Pregnant Women: NI ...
    Norwegian pregnant women who received a vaccine against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus showed no increased risk of pregnancy loss, while pregnant women who experienced influenza during pregnancy had an increased risk of miscarriages and still births, a study has found. The study suggests that inf ...
  • In the Eastern U.S., Spring Flowers Keep Pace ...
    Using the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrated that native plants in the eastern United States are flowering as much as a month earlier in response to a warming climate.
  • The Social Stigma of Migraine Headaches:Wors ...
    A groundbreaking study lead by William B. Young, MD, a neurologist at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Headache Center, shows that patients with migraine (a combination of severe headache, nausea, light sensitivity, and other factors) suffer social stigma from their disease similar to the ...
  • UNH Professor Available to Discuss Anticipated ...

Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Law and Robotics Conference Seeking Paper Prop ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Ordinarily I would leave events posting to our regular postings, but I fell behind and wanted to flag the upcoming Friday deadline for paper proposals for the “Law and Robotics Conference.” It will take place on April 8-9, 2013, at Stanford L ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that the United States would give Afghanistan its own fleet of aerial surveillance drones and would speed up the handover of detainees held by American forces. The European Court of Human Rights has found in Eweida and ...
  • Welcome (Back) to the Blogosphere, Diane Marie ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As Peggy noted a couple of weeks ago, the international-law blogosphere lost one of its most important collective voices when IntLawGrrls closed up shop.  Fortunately, one of the most important individual voices within IntLawGrrls is back blogging &#8212 ...
  • Can the Security Council Implicitly Amend the ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I argued yesterday that the Security Council cannot refer a situation to the ICC under Art. 13(b) of the Rome Statute while exempting nationals of non-States Parties from the Court’s jurisdiction.  Jennifer Trahan disagrees: I primarily disagree wi ...
  • David Caron Appointed New Dean at King’s Colle ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford My friend and colleague David Caron, C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named the new Dean at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London. The press release is here. I have kno ...

Public News Service

  • Report: More Arizona Students Eating Breakfast ...
    Report: More Arizona Students Eating Breakfast at School PHOENIX - School breakfast in Arizona is getting a positive review in a new report from the Food Research and Action Center. The study shows that more low-income students are being served a nutritious breakfast at school compared with the ...
  • Trapped! Doctor Warns of Bed Rail Danger for S ...
    Trapped! Doctor Warns of Bed Rail Danger for Seniors PHOENIX - In the past decade, more than 150 people have been killed and thousands have been severely injured when they become trapped in side rails used to prevent them from rolling out of bed. Dr. Steven Miles at the Center for Bioethics at ...
  • Advocate: AZ Child Protective Services “ ...
    Advocate: AZ Child Protective Services “Truly in Crisis” PHOENIX - Arizona has a record number of children in foster care, more than 14,000. Yet, the state's leading children's advocacy group says the Child Protective Services agency continues to fall down on its twin responsibilitie ...
  • Solar Cheap Enough To Compete Without Subsidie ...
    Solar Cheap Enough To Compete Without Subsidies In Some States PHOENIX – Solar power appears to be shining a lot brighter. A sharp, long-term fall in the price of solar cells has lead The Economist magazine and others to declare that in sunny areas with high electricity prices, solar pow ...
  • Spending Time in "The Waiting Room"
    Spending Time in "The Waiting Room" PHOENIX, Ariz. - Think "E.R." - but in real life. That's what audiences experience when viewing the film "The Waiting Room." The Academy-Award-shortlisted documentary portrays a day in the life of one of America's public hospitals. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
    New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...
  • Congress Passes Damaging Farm Bill Extension i ...
    Biotech riders omitted, but organic and other sustainable programs take a major hit By Colin O’Neil, Director of Government Affairs, Center for Food Safety On September 30, 2012 Congress did the unthinkable when it let the 2008 Farm Bill – the legislation that governs national food and farm poli ...
  • Post-Prop. 37 Poll Shows Strong Public Support ...
    Young voters, communities of color, women pushed landmark initiative to near win; more than one-fifth of ‘no’ voters favor GE labeling An independent post-election poll shows that California voters continue to strongly support the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the wake of Nove ...
  • Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
    400,000 public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental Assessment (EA) on the contro ...
  • Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
    Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...

Pensieve

  • Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
    In 2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation fo ...
  • Fractal Reality
    We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
  • Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
    Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
  • O Ridiculous Fortune
    O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
  • Where’s the switch?
    I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
  • How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
    We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
  • Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
    …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Cat beats investment professionals in picking ...
    Credit: The Observer, Jill Insley Orlando the Cat has trounced so called investment professionals in picking stocks, probably because he wasn’t focused on touting garbage stocks to clients (AKA “muppets”, as Goldman employees have charmingly called them) then secretly shorting ...
  • $670 million Littoral combat ship not expected ...
    Credit: US Navy The war pigs have built themselves a fine, new, rootin’, tootin’ class of fighting ships called the Littoral Combat Ship for a mere $670 million each. Tragically though, there are a few small glitches. The guns don’t fire right and it is “not expected to b ...
  • Lynda.com raises $100 million in outside funding
    If you’re a geek or a coder, you’ve used the training videos on Lynda.com. $25 a month for all the courses you want to take. I’ve used it many times. Lynda.com started 18 years ago on $20,000 and has been profitable virtually all that time. Last year they booked over $100 mill ...
  • Robot band plays Blitzkrieg Bop
    Now they just need to add a slam pit of robots. Hey, I wonder if robots can stage dive??? And of course they need a robot with the “Gabba Gabba Hey” sign too.:)
  • MIT refused to support keeping Aaron Swartz ou ...
    MIT cries crocodile tears about how deeply tragic the death of Aaron Swartz is. They vow a thorough investigation of themselves before of course finding themselves mostly blameless because after all who could have predicted such an outcome. That their actions allow MIT to keep sucking on the fe ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • KIDS SHOOTING KIDS (US oligarchy grooming chil ...
    This taken from a violent video game made by a group of kids in Brunswick, Maine calling themselves USN Films – USN refers to US Navy By Bruce Gagnon – Space 4 Peace There is a big dust up going on here in Maine over the discovery of a two-year spree of violent video making [...]
  • WAR ON MALI; France Starts Ground Invasion, NA ...
      France started bombing Mali a few days ago, and now they’ve started a ground invasion of the country. France made a statement that this “intervention” would “only last a few weeks”… what a deception. NATO allies have already stated the various ways in w ...
  • Obama Administration Seeks Approval to Test An ...
    As we have said the before – why invest in crazy theories when the truth is hard enough to sell. * In our home we apply a vaccine opt out waiver for our child. He is healthy, Smart and well behaved! Please be careful and do research before allowing any vaccinations to reach your children [...]
  • MSM Anderson Cooper Address The Sandy Hook Fal ...
    As we discussed on our show yesterday – this angle would be (now is) used to discredit legitimate questions about the unconscionable murder of children. Sure enough – yesterday night – right on cue….. Anderson Vanderbilt (Cooper), along with professional debunkers and the ...
  • Defence chiefs prepare new plans to defend Fal ...
    A series of military options are being actively considered as the war of words over the islands intensifies. It is understood that additional troops, another warship and extra RAF Typhoon combat aircraft could be dispatched to the region ahead of the March referendum on the Falkland Islands’ fut ...

The Air Vent

  • Yellow Science
    Reader Skiphil has left a link to some incredible commentary by our good friend Stephan Lewandowski who apparently holds a PhD in bovine scatology.  There is nothing wrong with being educated in scatology, however, Stephan’s propensity to practice his chosen craft publicly leaves one wonde ...
  • Common Sense on Government Spending
    Tom Fuller and I have always had a cordial relationship despite the fact that his politics are Pelosi-left.   He left a comment on the last thread in relation to taxes and the deficit which depicts exactly how the left-wing media is trying to portray our current debt situation.   While he is ref ...
  • Two Sides of the Laffer
    Happy New Year readers.   2013! I still owe everyone some commentary on Steig’s 3rd (or is it the 4th) victory lap.   I have spent several hours on the new Antarctic doom paper, hopefully I will have some time shortly to write on that.  In the meantime, we are awaiting some movement on the ...
  • Gun Control Demands
    Liberals are in a froth over a new gun ban on semi-automatic rifles (fire once per trigger pull).  While these are powerful and dangerous weapons, I flatly don’t believe this new ban will have any impact at all on violent crime.  Like so many things from the unbiased media, I cannot see an ...
  • IPCC – Full Speed Ahead
    Thanks to some very hard working bloggers and readers who care at WUWT, the IPCC second order draft has been released.   Steig 09 appears to be much less prominently referenced in the second order draft than in the zero order which is still too often.  I take it as an indication that some people ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Free voice calling rolls out to U.S. Facebook ...
    Facebook’s free voice calling service has begun rolling out to users in the U.S. after a trial in Canada that began earlier this month. As first reported by The Verge, voice calling will be made available...
  • Graph Search gives users insights about their ...
    Facebook’s new Graph Search tool gives users who allow followers — formerly called subscribers — a way to learn about their audience. Facebook launched asymmetrical following in September 2011. Users can allow followers to see their...
  • 9GAG, AMC The Walking Dead Social Game, Hay Da ...
    9GAG is this week’s no. 1 PTAT gainer for app pages on Facebook, according to our PageData tool, which tracks page growth across Facebook.. The image-based website has integration with Facebook as well as an official iPhone app....
  • Platform industry hires: Ampush, Nanigans, Nim ...
    Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers Ampush and Syncapse recently added chief revenue officers to their executive teams. Ampush also hired a CTO, while Nanigans picked up an SVP focused on mobile. A complete list of recent hires...
  • Graph Search: a recommendation engine only Fac ...
    Facebook’s new Graph Search is unlike any other search engine. It opens the vault of likes and interests stored in Facebook and combines it with meaningful social identity. In other words, it’s something only Facebook could...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Indigenous Resistance Two months ago, four women who were concerned about decisions being made by the government got together and had a meeting. Now, an international movement of indigenous people – as well as many others – has spread not only across Canada, but into the United State ...
  • Attack on Sovereignty
    “The pursuit of hegemony moves Washington closer to becoming a world dictator.” Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American u ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

Afro Spear

  • Sunday Inspiration
    I saw this documentary on Sis Deb’s blog. Knowledgeable and inspiring! I also added this comment to her post: Sis Deb, thanks …Continue reading »
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  • Positive Vibrations
    Three Zimbabwean women named among 2012 youngest power women Abandoned teen accepted to med school Teens Create A Way To Use Urine As …Continue reading »
  • Sunday Inspirations
    ENGLISH TRANSLATION There’s no one, there’s no one like Jesus There’s no one, there’s no one like him never never …Continue reading »
  • sat’day riddymz
    Thanks to Sis. Deb for permission to post this. This is so beautiful and inspirational!

Tikun Olam

  • Jewish Foundations Support Islamophobia at Hom ...
    Most Jewish foundations support the equivalent of Bubbeh’s chicken soup: Israel, synagogues, youth groups, Jewish education, Jewish studies programs, etc.  But over the past ten years or so, as the ideological battle within Israel has intensified with a rightward nationalist drift, a numbe ...
  • NYPD Arrests Suspect in Subway Murder, Hate Cr ...
    New York police arrested a 31 year-old woman suspected of murdering a man in Queens by pushing him in the path of an oncoming subway train a few days ago.  Though she fled the scene, she was found and taken into custody today thanks to video footage of her that was aired.  The statements she [...]
  • Egypt Arrests Israeli Activist Traveling to Gaza
    Last summer, after leaving IDF service, Andrei Pshenichnikov, age 24, underwent a radical political conversion.  He began working with anti-Occupation groups and decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship.  Further, he actually moved to the Deheisha refugee camp outside Bethlehem and took up jo ...
  • Support Tikun Olam: 2012 Year-End Appeal
    Support Tikun Olam Every year I write this post asking for readers to step forward and support the efforts I put into this blog to light a fire under Israel’s Occupation regime and hold it accountable for its deeds and misdeeds. In the past year, the most important expose I published was t ...
  • Chuck Hagel, Knifed in the Back by the Lobby
    As I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter whether it’s the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby?  When you get a knife in the back, it doesn’t matter who’s putting the shiv int ...

If Americans Knew

  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

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

  • Making Mapping Easy: A New Editor for OpenStre ...
    2012 was the year in which a wide audience began to understand the process behind making maps -- and that it's a massive, global effort in the pursuit of better and more complete map data. OpenStreetMap, a collaborative, open data process for making maps, has continued its fast growth last year ...
  • Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust
    The planets have finally aligned on one of my early assignments at The Boston Globe. The project is called Quizzler, and it is by no means going to change anything. It's a quiz system -- something the producers ultimately want because it will generate page views. It has been done. This post ...
  • Innovative Journalism Projects from 2012 That ...
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. While the Knight Lab spent last week looking back at 2012, what we're really excited about is 2013 and beyond. Nieman Journalism Lab has a whole series on what to look for ...
  • A Look Behind Designing The State Decoded
    Over the last few months, I've been working on a standard website design to bundle with The State Decoded. That's the project funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a standard, installable platform to display laws online. The project started as a Virginia-only site, for w ...
  • Balloon Mapping From the Ground Up: Public Lab ...
    Public Lab's balloon- and kite-based mapping approach is a new way to take aerial images from the ground. However, there are some considerations and things that can be learned from a few map stories. Each map project has distinct characteristics in its time, place, and local atmospheric cond ...

Cutting Edge News

  • America on Edge - Bilingual Seniors Have Menta ...
    Older adults who've spoken two languages since childhood have a distinct cognitive edge over their monolingual peers, according to a new study.Previous studies have shown bilingualism seems to favor the development of heightened mental skills. The new research, published in Neuroscience, provide ...
  • The Digital Edge - Booking Air Travel is About ...
    Once upon a time, to buy airline tickets we’d either call our travel agent or dial the airline directly. It wasn’t efficient and it wasn’t cheap. But there was a human being on the other end of the line who didn’t demand that we type into dozens of fields, check this box and that, then c ...
  • The Edge of Terror - Americans Held Hostage by ...
    The State Department confirmed on January 16 that Muslim terrorists seized the Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, taking at least 20 foreign hostages. Some of the hostages taken at the foreign-owned facility are American citizens. The official Algerian news agency said that the attack was an appar ...
  • Afganistan on Edge - Through Writing, Afghan W ...
    In the virtual space created by The Afghan Women’s Writing Project ( AWWP), women have the freedom to write about whatever they want and they can receive mentoring by a volunteer team of teachers and authors.Zahra A., who is in her 20s, is excited about telling her story through the project’ ...
  • Oil Addiction - Delivering BP Spill Fines to G ...
    Outgoing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson said working on the legislation that will deliver Clean Water Act fines from BP’s 2010 oil spill to Gulf Coast states was a high point of her four-year term. Jackson told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that working with ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

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

  • An Annotated List Of the President's 23 Gun Co ...
    What a pile of nothing. Both the POTUS and the SCHMOTUS had been warning that Obama would take hard constructive action on gun control.  For days advocates of the constitution were worried that Obama would seek to destroy the Second Amendment by executive fiat. Instead his actions were the ...
  • Rep. Hank Johnson '"NRA Fights Obama Because H ...
    Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) is not the sharpest crayon in the box, and today he let lose with another of his patented idiotic statements.  According to the intellectually-challenged Congressman the NRA is fighting the President's gun-control actions because of the color of his skin. ...
  • For The First Time EVER- An Obama Stimulus Pla ...
    It wasn't meant as a stimulus, but President Obama's latest attack on the Second Amendment is creating a boom in gun and gun-related sales as people rush to purchase guns and bullets in anticipation of the White House eroding the right to bear arms. Coming up in Las Vegas is the National S ...
  • Allen West Goes To PJM Media
    Allen West and his Favorite Blogger Lt. Col. Allen West known in my circles as Congressman Mensch has found his first post-congressional job.  The former Congressman has joined PJM a their  Director of Next Generation Programming.  NextGeneration.TV is a PJM s ...
  • Why Progressive/Liberals Blame Israel?
    By Barry Rubin There’s been a strange phenomenon building in the last few weeks that's been puzzling me. But I’ve just figured it out. Various people—there are many examples so you can insert your own--have been writing that Israel is making some big mistake. It is losing support, especial ...

The Real Agenda

  • Obama kidnaps society to justify gun-grabbing ...
    The U.S. President handed the public 23 measures he will impose on all Americans to “keep them safe”. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 16, 2013 U.S. President Barack Obama, announced 23 measures to be adopted by decree to tighten control of access to firearms, in ...
  • Attack on Sovereignty: The United States is th ...
    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS | PCR.ORG | JANUARY 16, 2012 Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, abou ...
  • The Hypocrite in Chief: Obama opposes armed se ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 16, 2013 New questions about Obama’s legitimate intentions when attacking the Second Amendment were raised Wednesday. In a new video, the National Rifle Association (NRA) points out Obama’s hypocrisy as the man who bears the torch ...
  • New York State starts up attack on Second Amen ...
    The State’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, and New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, championed a movement to further deteriorate gun ownership ahead of Obama’s speech today By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 16, 2013 New York voted Tuesday afternoon in his House of Rep ...
  • Venezuelan Vice President delivers State of th ...
    By IAN JAMES and VIVIAN SEQUERA | AP | JANUARY 16, 2012 Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro took the place of ailing President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday by delivering a short speech and turning in a state-of-the-nation report amid legal debate about his legitimacy. Maduro submitted t ...

Wind Watch

  • Some Canadian County residents considering law ...
    Some Canadian County residents are doing everything they can to stop two wind farm projects that would be built near some homes. Residents said they are considering a lawsuit against the company which plans to build 400 turbines on 46,000 acres of private land leased by farmers in Canadian and K ...
  • Vermont League of Cities & Towns: Give towns m ...
    WINDHAM — An ongoing wind turbine debate in the Town of Windham has prompted a statewide organization to rethink its stance on energy projects. The Vermont League of Cities & Towns is asking the state Public Service Board to give local concerns much more weight when considering energy ...
  • Wind developer wants to fast-track PSC approval
    FROSTBURG — Annapolis-based Synergics, developer of the proposed Fourmile Ridge wind project in eastern Garrett County, is seeking fast-track approval from the Maryland Public Service Commission. On Monday, Synergics Wind Energy LLC and Fourmile Wind Energy LLC filed a request for a waiver of a ...
  • Deluge of windfarms causes storm of protest
    The massive increase in windfarm applications across Scotland has sparked a furious public backlash. Nearly 10,000 people across Scotland have objected directly to the Scottish Government about major windfarm applications in the last five years. Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives sho ...
  • Wind energy project proceeding despite local o ...
    A wind energy project is moving ahead despite strong opposition from the host municipality’s councillors and residents. North Dundas council recently passed a motion resolving not to support any wind or solar development proposed within its boundaries. “We are not satisfied with the process and ...

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- ...
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    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

  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...
  • Teaching programming to journalists
    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn about jQuery. I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
  • Most-viewed posts in 2012
    According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months: Best social media tools for journalists (5,669) Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365) A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626) How to shoot video interviews (3,465) 10 Rul ...

Facing South

  • Louisiana governor continues to ignore growing ...
    Over five months since the Texas Brine sinkhole first appeared over the Napoleonville Salt Dome, residents of Louisiana's Bayou Corne struggle to be heard by Gov. Bobby Jindal -- and look to Washington for help. read more
  • VOICES: ALEC leads attack on North Carolina cl ...
    Corporate polluters are taking aim this year at states with renewable energy laws, starting with an attack on North Carolina's law by a corporate front group supported by Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries. read more
  • BP challenges official estimate of oil spilled ...
    The company is seeking to reduce its civil liabilities under the Clean Water Act by excluding the oil it salvaged from the total amount spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Meanwhile, the court has approved a settlement for medical claims related to the spilled oil and dispersants use ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Confronting a deepening clima ...
    With new data out showing that 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States, and with costs mounting due to droughts and other climate-related disasters, will political leaders finally take action to address the problem? read more
  • An action-packed 2013 in store for Southern labor
    The new year promises lots of action on the labor front -- and as always in the South, it comes with heavy baggage from the past. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • 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.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Justice is not Law, Law is Not Justice
    A law is deserving of respect to the extent, and only to the extent, it is just.  A law which is not just deserves only the level of obedience one gives to any group or individual who says “do this, or I’ll hurt you.”  That is, to the extent that you believe their threat is [...]
  • Sweden v. Canada: Taxation and Inequality
    Ok, so Stephen Gordon in MacLeans feels compelled to weigh in on taxes, to suggest that the Nordic countries just redistribute money from the bottom 99% to each other to maintain equality and so Canada should increase its GST and give money to the poor and middle classes. It’s true that No ...
  • Sweden v. Canada: Taxation and Inequality
    Ok, so Stephen Gordon in MacLeans feels compelled to weigh in on taxes, to suggest that the Nordic countries just redistribute money from the bottom 99% to each other to maintain equality and so Canada should increase its GST and give money to the poor and middle classes. It’s true that No ...
  • Fire Ortiz, the prosecutor who hounded Aaron S ...
    Swartz, if you hadn’t heard, was being hounded by Ortiz for downloading millions of JSTOR academic articles.  They claim he was going to publish them, and were seeking decades in jail, and a million dollars in fines. Swartz committed suicide. Lessig has a petition to fire Ortiz.  You shoul ...
  • Fire Ortiz, the prosecutor who hounded Aaron S ...
    Swartz, if you hadn’t heard, was being hounded by Ortiz for downloading millions of JSTOR academic articles.  They claim he was going to publish them, and were seeking decades in jail, and a million dollars in fines. Swartz committed suicide. Lessig has a petition to fire Ortiz.  You shoul ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • The California-China-CO2 Connection
    Michael Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission, is sincere and concerned about CO2 emissions. At a recent presentation at California State University Channel Islands, he spoke about California’s efforts to limit CO2 emissions. He mentioned green jobs, but, to his cred ...
  • How Polarization Plays Out in Washington state ...
    Washington may be a left coast “blue” state, but the geography of the voting well illustrates the national phenomena of intensifying polarization.  The division may be among individual people,   but also expressed in geographies down to precincts and census tracts.  The Washi ...
  • California's Demographic Dilemma
    It's been nearly 20 years since California Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election by tying his campaign to the anti-illegal immigrant measure Proposition 187. Ads featuring grainy images of presumably young Hispanic males crossing the border energized a largely white electorate terrified of be ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Kuala Lumpur
    The Kuala Lumpur region of Malaysia is generally defined by the state of Selangor and two geographical enclaves (the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya), carved from the state. These enclaves are the two seats of the federal government. Kuala Lumpur houses the national parliame ...
  • The New Places Where America's Tech Future Is ...
    Technology is reshaping our economic geography, but there’s disagreement as to how. Much of the media and pundits like Richard Florida assert that the tech revolution is bound to be centralized in the dense, often “hip” places where  “smart” people cluster. Some, li ...

GM Watch

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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

News Blaze

  • Potential Health Risk: Low Levels of Common Fl ...
    Low levels of common flame-retardant chemical damages brain cells and find May Have Implications for Autism patients
  • Water Levels Up on Ohio and Lower Mississippi ...
    Several drenching storms, combined with snow melt in some areas during the recent warm spell, have pushed a few tributaries of the Ohio River to flood levels in recent days.
  • Somalia Recruits Future Fire Fighters
    The Mayor of Somali capital and former basketball player Mahmoud Ahmed Nur who officially launched the recruitment sessions praised IQRA foundation for its help in the revival of Somalia's fire department.
  • Al-Qaida Survives and Continues to Threaten Th ...
    The United States commended the success of the Yemeni government, military, and people in re-taking important areas of southern Yemen, including the cities of Ja'ar and Zinjibar, from al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
  • edX Rules for Free Education in America
    Universities and teacher unions have forgotten basic economics. When you price yourself out of the market, something better replaces you. If you have kids, want an education, know anyone with kids, or just want to help save the world, spread the wor

Worldnews

  • Hostages taken at BP plant in Algeria
    IN what could be the first spillover from France's intervention in Mali, Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas complex partly operated by energy company BP in southern Algeria. Two foreigners were killed and dozens of others, including Americans, were taken hostage. A m ...
  • Apple Dilemma: Does Everyone Already Have ...
    Using some unusual analysis of global wealth demographics not typically seen in a stock report, Pacific Crest Securities makes a case against owning Apple by theorizing that just about everyone in the world who could pay for an iPhone already owns one. "Street estimates for iPhone units in 2 ...
  • Fruit seeds for a healthy body
    Nutritional For the health conscious or those on a strict diet regime, fruit seeds can be the best option to fill empty stomachs without compromising on the basic requirements of the body. Seeds of watermelon, musk melon, flax/linseed and sunflower are the ones with high nutritional content, ...
  • Dutch Court Concurs With U.K. Ruling - Sa ...
    By Natasha Lomas Apple's (AAPL) courtroom skirmishes against its Android OEM enemy No. 1 Samsung (SSNLF.PK) have not been going very well of late, despite Cupertino's big $1 billion+ damages win against Samsung last summer. Today another legal blow for Cupertino: A Dutch district court has r ...
  • Sniper kills Russia crime boss
    One of Russia's most prominent reputed crime bosses, a 75-year-old nicknamed "Grandpa Hassan" who survived time in Soviet jails and assassination attempts, was shot dead on a Moscow street today in what may have been a turf war, authorities said. After the criminal chaos that characterised t ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Judge: Govt Must Prove Manning Wanted to 'Aid ...
    A military judge ruled Wednesday that in order to convict Bradley Manning of the most serious charge he faces—aiding the enemy—the government must prove that he knew or should have known that the documents he's accused of releasing would be seen by al-Qaida members. Col. Denise L ...
  • US Considers French Request for 'Targeting' In ...
    The United States has backed France’s operation with surveillance and logistical support. Speaking in Spain, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States is considering French requests for additional military help. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: ...
  • New Gun Laws' Chief Enemy: Democratic Senators
    President Obama announced his plan for stricter gun safety laws on Wednesday, saying that while some of his approach would be instituted by executive order much of the broader strokes would necessarily have to pass through Congress if they were to become law. ...
  • EPA Caves to Pressure from Industry, Oil Compa ...
    An investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency into whether fracking was contaminating a Texas homeowner's drinking water was dropped after the EPA succumbed to pressure from the drilling company, the oil industry and the GOP. ...
  • Champions of 'Idle No More' Stage Blockades Ac ...
    Though not officially sanctioned by the Idle No More campaign, First Nations chiefs and activists have picked up the momentum and are rallying across Canada Wednesday as part of a national day of action in solidarity with the ongoing environmental and indigenous rights campaign. Chiefs unsatisfi ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Introducing the Future Energy Fellows
    We at The Energy Collective are pleased to announce the launch of the Future Energy Fellows program, which is sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell and will provide the rising stars of the global energy industry and policy worlds with an online presence, means to connect and collaborate, and a forum to ...
  • Could Diesel Fuel Made from US Natural Gas Com ...
  • Propane: A New Alternative Fuel for Vehicles?
    When you hear about alternative fuels for gasoline, what comes to mind?  Most likely, you’re thinking about liquefied natural gas.  While that is the most popular substitute, it is not the only one breaking ground.  This may come as a surprise, but propane could be the next big fu ...
  • With Water and Energy, India is Different
    In India, the confrontation over rising demand for energy and food, and diminished water resources is, like a powerful political and cultural undertow. India is pushed forward by the forces of modernization to expand its energy production, electrical transmission, and water supply and transport ...
  • Europe’s Climate Change Fail
    Despite its green energy credentials, Europe has ramped up its consumption of coal. Ironically, the very policies that the continent has built its environmentalist reputation on — vigorous support for renewables — may be crowding out its best chances for reducing emissions, given its return to c ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Aaron Swartz, America’s Mohamed Bouazizi ...
    by chycho The United States is ripe for a revolution. People are pissed, and rightfully so. The only question that remains is if the restructuring will be peaceful, like what we saw happen in Iceland, or will it be violent, like what we see happening in Greece and Spain. As Chris Hedges has ...
  • Israelis Want Out
    by Stephen Lendman On December 15, Haaretz said "almost 40 percent of Israelis are thinking of emigrating." Recent poling said they'd leave if financially able. Who are they? Why do they want out? What can be done to keep them? Israeli governance combines militarism, repression, corr ...
  • Aaron Swartz's Suspicious Death
    by Stephen Lendman Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall Street Journal headlined "An Internet Activist Commits Suicide." New York's medical examiner announced death by "hang(ing) himself in his Brooklyn apartment." Lingering suspicions remain. Why w ...
  • The ‘fiscal cliff,’ Congress, and ...
    By Larry Pinkney “The Alice-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost to me, but after careful and extensive consideration, I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules—a veritable catch 22 ...
  • Kill for Peace - US and EU Sanctions Deny Medi ...
    Michael Collins United States and European Union sanctions against Iran prevent much needed medical care for the Iranian people. Those with cancer, for example, have lost the option of treatment through chemotherapy while hemophiliacs are at high risk for any surgery due to a denial of esse ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Federal Job Cuts and the Atlantic Provinces
    CCPA-NS has released a study that makes projections for federal public sector job losses in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of their impact in the region.  The report, titled “Public Disservice: The Impact of Federal Government Job Cuts in Atlantic Canada,” explains that ...
  • Joel Bakan to speak at the CCPA-BC Annual Gala ...
    We're pleased to announce that author and filmmaker Joel Bakan will be the featured speaker at our Annual Gala. Joel is the author of the widely-acclaimed book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (a companion to the documentary film), and Childhood Under Siege: How Bi ...
  • Interview with Scott Sinclair on trade and Atl ...
    CBC recently interviewed CCPA senior researcher Scott Sinclair about his report, Globalization, Trade Treaties and the Future of the Atlantic Canadian Fisheries. The report raises concerns about the impact trade treaties like CETA could have on the regulation of Atlantic fisheries. Wa ...
  • Executive pay in Canada: Overcompensating?
    For Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs, the rewards start clocking in very early into the New Year.  By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already pocketed $45,448. It takes the average Canadian an entire year of full-time w ...
  • Mapping Corporate Power in Saskatchewan
    "Mapping Corporate Power in Saskatchewan" traces the ties between the major corporate contributors to both the Saskatchewan Party and the New Democratic Party, and their links to other corporate interest and advocacy groups. The research demonstrates that Saskatchewan corporations have the netwo ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Revolution 99% Updates: Corruption, Coercion, ...
    Bradley Manning’s legal team to focus on delays at hearing today. If not delayed… Private First Class Bradley Manning is seeking dismissal of all charges as he returns to Maryland’s Fort Meade to resume proceedings. It’s been two years and eight months since the solider was detained in Ira ...
  • Education Beat: Say Your Prayers, CTU Took It ...
    by John Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ Say Your Prayers! There’s a saying that goes, “as long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.” At one time, that likely reflected a fairly uniform view ...
  • CJE Wednesday News Briefs
    Doctor explains why Al Roker pooped pants WS – I shit you not… This is a lead story on the news feeds this AM. CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (UPI) — A Chicago surgeon said NBC-TV’s broadcast personality Al Roker’s revelation he pooped his pants while at the White House said it w ...
  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    From survivalinternational.org - Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who have returned to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The children were jailed last week for b ...
  • Hippie Digest: Nudist resorts – Black Sa ...
    Black Sabbath Announce New Album, ’13,’ Due Out in June First record with Osbourne in 35 years Black Sabbath announced today that their new album will be coming out in June. Titled 13, the album features original Black Sabbath members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, mark ...

FourWinds10

  • GMO Farming, Glyphosate Significant Causes of ...
    June 29, 2012 Water pollution and air pollution has been and continues to be a serious issue in many nations. Both of these pollution types are successfully bringing down the health of not only humans, but also animals, plant life, and the ecosystem as a whole. While the causes of water pollutio ...
  • Amazon of Europe Threatened by a Straightening
    BELGRADE, Jun 30 2012 (IPS) - Wildlife is being increasingly threatened around the Danube river, the “Amazon of Europe”. The need for profit is taking over from the need to protect natural resources along the river. Austria and Croatia are engaged in a major project to tame the Danub ...
  • WHY ARE COWS TAILS DROPPING OFF?
  • ~WHAT THE FRACK?
  • Oil may be seeping from Deepwater Horizon site
    Dec. 13, 2012 CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending a total estima ...

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 ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Five Energy Predictions for 2013
    Normally when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline ...
  • A Look at DuPont Biofuel’s Work on Cellulosic ...
    Robert Rapier interviewed Mr. Jan Koninckx, global director of biofuels for DuPont Industrial Biosciences regarding DuPont's efforts in 2nd generation biofuels. DuPont is currently engaged in two major projects to commercialize advanced biofuels.
  • The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2012
    Happy New Year’s to readers everywhere! Last week we posted a poll listing 15 of the major energy stories of 2012. Readers voted, and the Top 10 are presented below with a short narrative describing the story. 1. Revolution in US oil and gas production continues The fracking revolution in ...
  • Vote for the Top Energy Stories of 2012
    For the past several years, at year end I rank what I felt were the the major energy stories of the year. 2012 lacked a blockbuster energy story like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, so I thought I would change things up a bit and just le ...
  • Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012
    In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011, I made five predictions for 2012. Those predictions were: President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline project will be approved (although ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Your Shower Curtain's Dirty Little Secret
    High-calorie lattes, a bowl of ice cream before bed—we all know these guilty pleasures will wind up thickening our hips if we overindulge. But take calories out of the equation and you may be surprised to learn another reason people have been struggling to lose weight over the last several deca ...
  • How Fast Food is Harming Kids' Lungs
    Before you bite into that Big Mac, take a deep breath—because deep breaths could be harder to come by if you're indulging in fast food more than three times a week. New research from New Zealand, published in Thorax: An International Journal of Respiratory Medicine, has found an association bet ...
  • 3 Surprisingly Unhealthy Seafood Picks
    In Roman mythology, the god Mercury represented financial gain and good luck. Today, the idea of mercury isn't so pleasant, and it's definitely not something you want on your plate. Linked to brain damage and cancer, the heavy metal is highly toxic and is building up in some of America's favori ...
  • Are You Getting Scammed by Whole Grains?
    Eating whole grain foods is one of the healthiest ways to add more protein and fiber to your diet. It's also one of the fastest ways to get an unexpected dose of sugar and calories, if you're not paying attention to the quality of the whole grain products you're buying, according to a new study ...
  • Survive the Worst Flu Season in Years
    This year's flu season is turning out to be a doozy. People are succumbing to the illness in record numbers—in some areas, at levels that rival the notorious 2009 swine flu epidemic. And yet, things can, and are, getting worse. Not only are seasonal flu outbreaks plaguing the country, but doct ...

big think

  • Progressive Airline Mechanics
    In an e-mail conversation I had some time ago, a Christian minister attempted to convince me that atheists, despite what they might say, live life on the basis of faith in the same way that Christians do: The life of faith is not completely irrational, nor is the life of rational ...
  • Company Plans First-Ever Commercial Space Station
    What's the Latest Development? Today's announcement that NASA would work with Bigelow Aerospace to add an inflatable room -- the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) -- to the International Space Station (ISS) is a step towards the Nevada-based company's goal of launching what they' ...
  • What Hyperspace Travel Would Really Look Like
    What's the Latest Development? A paper written by University of Leicester graduate students and published in this year's Journal of Physics Special Topics claims that, contrary to the streaks of stretching stars that several generations of science fiction movie fans are used to seeing, t ...
  • Justice Thomas’s Silence (Redux): Response to ...
    On Monday, I suggested that Justice Thomas might build on his first moment of non-silence in seven years.  “If he wants to demonstrate that he takes his judicial role seriously with landmark decisions looming,” I wrote, “Justice Thomas should consider asking a question now and then” during Supre ...
  • Will Hemp Legalization Finally Happen In The US?
    What's the Latest Development? When Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 last fall, legalizing marijuana for recreational use, the state government was also charged to "enact legislation governing the cultivation, processing, and sale of industrial hemp." A range of proponents, including ...

Information Liberation

  • Adams County Deputies Kill Dog at Wrong Addres ...
    Adams County, Colorado law enforcement just killed another man's innocent dog after arriving at a wrong address. Adams County officers in Commerce City made headlines last month when they gunned down a dog after capturing it with a noose, shockingl...
  • Police Detective Allegedly Used State's Prescr ...
    Via the Salt Lake Tribune: A former Vernal police detective now faces criminal charges stemming from his alleged theft of a couple*s pain pills, a month after the couple filed a complaint against him in federal court. [...]According to the civil ...
  • Aaron Swartz, Hero and Martyr
    My apologies for the sad tone of this piece, but a hero has fallen and we need to pay him tribute * and make sure his death is not in vain. Every turning point in the history of civilization has its champions and its opponents. The opponents of th...
  • Private Pilot Nearly Shot Down for Violating ' ...
    Last July, the Small Wars Journal published an essay co-written by retired U.S. Army Colonel Kevin Benson entitled *Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A *Vision* of the Future.* That article presented a speculative case study of domestic ...
  • Liberals Are NOT Gun-Haters
    Throughout the blog-o-sphere, I*ve been reading about how much liberals, such as those in the Obama administration and the Democrats who run our state government in California, hate guns. The term "gun-haters" can be found in countless articles ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
    Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
  • The Liberals Have Taken Over California
    An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
  • The Liberals Have Taken Over California
    An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Climate change makeover
    Often a name change, a brand re-launch or a corporate makeover becomes a matter of urgency when a company gets seriously bad press. I could list a few examples but will spare their blushes (#subtweet). Of course, when it comes to a phenomenon, the same thing can happen. Think global warming morp ...
  • How nutritious is horse meat?
    Just a quick round-up cribbed from NutritionData via KQED to address the issue of how nutritious is horse meat compared to beef in the wake of “StableGate” (horse DNA allegedly present in value burgers sold by UK and Iris supermarkets). Horse meat is about 120 vs beef’s 130 kil ...
  • How nutritious is horse meat?
    Just a quick round-up cribbed from NutritionData via KQED to address the issue of how nutritious is horse meat compared to beef in the wake of “StableGate” (horse DNA allegedly present in value burgers sold by UK and Iris supermarkets). Horse meat is about 120 vs beef’s 130 kil ...
  • Parkinson’s treatment might trigger crea ...
    According to a press release on Eurekalert: “Parkinson’s experts across the world have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon — many patients treated with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a therapy for motor symptoms such as tremors and muscle rigidity are d ...
  • Parkinson’s treatment might trigger creativity
    According to a press release on Eurekalert: “Parkinson’s experts across the world have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon — many patients treated with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a therapy for motor symptoms such as tremors and muscle rigidity are d ...

RFF Library

  • 2011 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri11/nationalanalysis/index.htm [Green Car Congress]  Total toxic air releases in 2011 declined 8% from 2010, mostly because of decreases in hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, even while total releases of toxic chemicals increased for the second year ...
  • Oil and Gas Water Use in Texas: Update to the ...
    Texas Oil and Gas Association (dated Sept. 2012) http://bit.ly/Y9TMz5 [Texas Tribune 1/15/13] A new University of Texas at Austin study has found that the amount of water used in the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing has risen sharply in recent years as oil and natural gas producti ...
  • Adapting to Sea-level Rise in Maryland
    Testimony of  John R. Griffin, Secretary, Maryland Department of Natural Resources before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works http://1.usa.gov/10bSm7M This is from a Pew Center on Climate Change post full of other useful links: To adapt to the problems caused by global clim ...
  • Bounding the Role of Black Carbon in the Clima ...
    Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (published online before print; doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50171) / by T. C. Bond, et al. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrd.50171/abstract [Green Car Congress] …The direct influence of black carbon, or soot, on warming the climate could be a ...
  • Recurrent Flooding Study for Tidewater Virginia
    Virginia Institute for Marine Science http://leg2.state.va.us/dls/h&sdocs.nsf/By+Year/SD32013/$file/SD3.pdf [Virginia Gazette] Recurrent coastal flooding — think Isabel, Ernesto, Irene, Sandy, the “Son of Ida,” and numerous other unnamed nor’easters — is a significant and growing ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Idle No More Teach-In at Dalhousie University ...
      Speaker: Rebecca Moore, student An evening of education, action and ceremony, teachers share information and analysis on the economic and political structures that ...
  • Idle No More Teach-In at Dalhousie University ...
    Speaker: Rachelle McKay, student An evening of education, action and ceremony, teachers share information and analysis on the economic and political structures that have a ...
  • COMIC: Charitable Taking
    Comic from the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of The Dominion. View larger version. For Heather Meek's previous comics, click here.
  • Enbridge Hearings: Pipeline 'Whistle Blowers' ...
    COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Five anti-pipelines activists were arrested this morning after shutting down the Northern Gateway Pipeline Review hearings in downtown Vancouver. The five "eco-terrorists" crashed the tiny hearing room and blew whistles for about 10 minutes - interrupting ...
  • Enbridge Hearings: Leave or Get Arrested
      On this morning of 15 January 2013, an official informed me that I "forfeited" my opportunity to finish speaking to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel. As I departed from the hearing room, I met with repeated threats ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Whither Obama
    David Seaton's News LinksThe demographic shift evident in the last election and the growing estrangement of the aspirational middle class from the super rich and a general disenchantment with the "conservative revolution" is offering the president-elect some interesting opportunities. However it ...
  • New Year's Re(v)olutions
    POTUS sits in Rosa Park's seat"It would be a good idea"Mahatma Gandhi, when asked his opinion of western civilization.Putting content into fine words would be the greatest of revolutions, now and always. Cynics today might be forgiven for thinking that the words of Jesus are often only used ...
  • The "cliff"
    David Seaton's News Links This is the perfect occasion to resurrect one of my favorite rants, that political paralysis in America is not a byproduct of ideological struggle but the principal objective of the billionaire front, that in the interest of economy I call, the "Tea-Fox-Koch-Murdoch-Bec ...
  • The Spanish Economic Crisis Explained
    David Seaton's News LinksIn case you are interested, this hour long documentary from the BBC gives a very workmanlike breakdown of how it all happened. Spain is the canary in the coal mine for the world's top economies, because of its large size and its fragility. The story carries lessons for e ...
  • The Sandy Hook school massacre
    David Seaton's News Links I have little to add to everything written about this horrible massacre. I find myself especially moved by the heroism of the school teachers that died trying to protect the children in their care. There should be a statue of them in Washington and a wreath laid at its ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • America's Brutal Treatment of Its Struggling W ...
    A couple of weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a story explaining the details of the fiscal cliff tax increases. Today it got new life as several bloggers united to mock the graphic that goes with it. Brad DeLong wants to know just how many single mothers with two kids and an income of $260 ...
  • The NRA Just Doesn't Know When to Quit
    Will it be possible to pass significant new gun legislation? The odds are long, but one thing that might help it along is the fact that the NRA has become so batshit crazy over the past couple of decades. Every time Wayne LaPierre's spittle-flecked ranting shows up on your TV screen, I'd guess ...
  • The Sad Story of Fish Oil and Small Sample Sizes
    Keith Humphreys passes along the sad story today of fish oil's journey from miracle cure to nothingburger. The chart below shows the evolution of research on Omega-3 supplements over the past 17 years, where a small "relative risk" number indicates a beneficial effect and 1.0 indicates no effe ...
  • Obama Introduces Hopeless Set of Gun Proposals
    President Obama announced his response to the Newtown massacre today: At a White House event at noon, Mr. Obama announced plans to introduce legislation by next week that includes a ban on assault weapons, limits on high-capacity magazines, expanded background checks for gun purchases and ...
  • Is the Housing Bubble Back?
    Yesterday I read a post by Karl Smith suggesting we might already be headed into a second housing bubble. His argument was a little convoluted, though, so I filed it in the back of my brain and continued with my day. This morning, though, I read this in the LA Times: Southern California's ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 374: #SoftC-erved
    Topic: #softc lame niggas still mad When the lights come on the roaches scatter Karma’s a bitch You’re not really about that life Where Michael Cane Tears rank Being Human comes back SyFy wins but we need more space based SciFi Ben Affleck could direct Batman Hot Indian chicks are li ...
  • IC 373: As Useful As Aquaman
    Topic: Being Lame on the Internet “Caping” for friends isn’t a bad thing Nerds & Geeks can be the worst lames on the Internet No one wants to be a nerd How Joe lost on Catfish Casting for Batman “As Useful As Aquaman” Why the Oscars are worthless Leonardo DiCap ...
  • IC 372: 2013 Pet Peeves
    Topic: First show of 2013 and Kriss & Kev are joined by Karen from The Black Guy Who Tips. They discuss their Pet Peeves that they aren’t putting up with in 2013. Share with your friends:
  • IC 371: The NWFO Bible
    Topic: Stupid Reality Shows #AvengersInitiative on Django How to deal with people who ignore the #AvengersInitiative The Bible is a terrible book Michael Bay Bible Translations The NWFO casts for The Bible movie Best Directors How good of a director is Ben Affleck? Overrated directors Share with ...
  • IC 370: Conscious Rapper Syndrome
    Topic: Kriss’ new tablet Teaching your kids about computers & technology early Kriss spills the secret about working in the computer field Django was awesome Black “Intellectuals” vs Tarantino Spike Lee & the “Conscious Rapper Syndrome” Kriss explains what ...

Simple Climate

  • Delays raise emission halt urgency
    Staying under the 2°C warming target demands a serious action rethink, find Steve Davis at University of California, Irvine and team-mates, after updating a method that breaks down the steps needed into “wedges”.
  • Climate limits room at the global dinner table
    With farming producing up to one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and more people wanting more meat, agricultural research faces big challenges to avoid us having to make more difficult choices about what we eat.
  • Warming brings home the value of a meal
    Research into how climate change affects agriculture, and therefore the food we eat, shows the challenges farmers face and the knock-on costs to the rest of us.
  • 2012’s record events put climate in mind
    Wet summers and droughts, deadly storms, Arctic melting and Antarctic freezing. How do climate records in 2012 fit in with the broader picture of climate change?
  • Can we trust climate models?
    I’ve asked scientists I’ve spoken to for blog entries and articles published this year why we use models, how we know they’re accurate, and how to understand their projections.

e!Science News

  • New robotic fish glides indefinitely
    A high-tech robotic fish hatched at Michigan State University has a new look. A new skill. And a new name. read more
  • Scientists identify new 'social' chromosome in ...
    Researchers have discovered a social chromosome in the highly invasive fire ant that helps to explain why some colonies allow for more than one queen ant, and could offer new solutions for dealing with this pest. read more
  • PR professionals are not 'yes men' when pressu ...
    Public relations professionals who have provided ethics counsel to senior management are at least as fervent about serving the public interest -- sometimes even more so -- as they are about their duty to their organizations, according to a Baylor University researcher. read more
  • Using snail teeth to improve solar cells and b ...
    An assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering is using the teeth of a marine snail found off the coast of California to create less costly and more efficient nanoscale materials to improve solar cells and lithium-ion batteries. read more
  • Engineer making rechargeable batteries with la ...
    A Kansas State University researcher is developing more efficient ways to save costs, time and energy when creating nanomaterials and lithium-ion batteries. read more

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Brave New Climate

  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
  • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
    As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...
  • 2012 BNC stats in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour ...
  • Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...
    The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
  • CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
    CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
  • House Hopping
    House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Hey Debt Ceiling Traitors
    We don’t have to raise the debt ceiling. All we have to do is tax billionaires at the same rate of the middle class, and we would have a budget surplus. That’s right. Surplus, without having to starve granny, or refuse medical care to babies. Then we could tax corporations at the eff ...
  • Worried About The Deficit?
    Maybe we could have some of the Americans that have 8 trillion dollars sitting in the tax havens pay some taxes? You know, the folks that are hoarding all the money their “investments” squeezed out of your family. Remember, for every dollar Mitt Romney pays in taxes, I pay $4, if you ...
  • Poor? Sick? Have Republican Governor? You&#821 ...
    I just don’t understand why the millions of uninsured Americans who can’t afford to see a doctor don’t demand care. They could surround every capitol building in every state with a Republican Terrorist Governor and demand health care. Millions upon millions of Americans are one ...
  • Are You Really A Republican? A Conservative?
    To be a Republican / Conservative these days, you must agree that the following is just fine: A small business owner who makes a fair living will pay taxes at a rate over 4 times as high as wealthy Americans. These small business owners pay both sides of wage withholding taxes soon to equal 15.3 ...
  • Time To Leave Republicans
    This is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days. The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to only ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

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

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  • Does Rabin’s assassin support Naftali Bennett?
    As Benjamin Netanyahu rakes in endorsement after endorsement, first from Donald Trump and later today from Chuck Norris, his rival in the right wing bloc, Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) scored a huge run by getting the support of no other than Yigal Amir, the man who murdered Yitzhak Rabin. Late ...
  • Obama’s attack on Netanyahu could backfire at ...
    The irony: Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom paper is quoting top Likud officials that accuse President Obama for trying to interfere with Israeli elections. A few weeks ago, a well-known Israeli politician visited one of the large daily newspapers. During a meeting there, this person discussed his ...
  • The Donald Trump I know would say one thing to ...
    Shocking. Disgusting. Why is he even meddling in our internal affairs? You didn’t see Nochi Dankner endorsing Romney, did you? (Wait, he didn’t, right? Right?). But above all: disappointment. A talented businessman like Donald Trump? Can’t he put two and two together? Especiall ...
  • Solidarity, not directions: On Haaretz’s ...
    Earlier today I posted a short Item regarding today’s Haaretz’s editorial - urging Arabs to participate in the Israeli elections – which was printed in Arabic as well. I received a lot of responses (most of them negative), so I am posting here a translation of a longer explanat ...
  • Palestinian teen killed by IDF near West Bank ...
    This is the fourth incident in the last week in which a Palestinian civilian was shot to death after trying to cross or coming close to an Israeli fence.  Sixteen year-old Sameer Awwad from Budrus was killed Tuesday by IDF soldiers near the separation barrier at his village. Awwad, who was shot ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • LIVE UPDATE AT 12:30- JOIN ME FOR FORECLOSURE ...
    LawReviewCle’s Foreclosure Defense in America is an in-depth examination of the tools you will need to build a successful foreclosure defense practice, along with a detailed treatment of the emerging pleading, discovery, trial and appellate strategies you need to achieve results for your clients ...
  • The Corrupt 49 State Attorney General And OCC/ ...
    No matter how many blogs are written, no matter how many letters from Congressman Cummings and Issa are penned, there just will not be nearly enough doe or said to protest just how badly corrupt the United States government has become, a fact most clearly manifested by these corrupt settlements& ...
  • Corruption And The Federal Government Killed A ...
    It is too late to do anything for Aaron Swartz, but the who used the powers granted to them by their office to hound him into a position where he was facing a ruinous trial, life in prison and the ignominy and shame of being a convicted felon; for an alleged crime that the supposed victims did n ...
  • FORECLOSURE CRISIS WARNING! (Especially Pro-Se ...
    Over the last several years, the pace of foreclosure cases has ground to a halt.  To a certain extent this was due to the action and advocacy of attorneys and to pro se parties who filed pleadings and did what they could do to slow down the pace….. BUT THERead the Rest...
  • OUTRAGE! (Of the day) The Billion Dollar Forec ...
    “You can be sure the Wall Street banks consider tax consequences in negotiations and the government should, too,” he said. “Any portion of a settlement that’s intended to be a penalty should include language clarifying it isn’t deductible. Otherwise, the government’s punishment will have less s ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Humanity Paired
    Tomorrow the next chapter of the adventure begins. Our life with south Sudan was irrevocably joined together, not by choice …Continue reading »
  • Home, But Not Alone
    On Saturday we leave for our big excursion to the Republic of South Sudan.  We take a team of 16 …Continue reading »
  • How Was 2012 For Women?
    My new Huffington Post piece on how women fared globally and in Canada in 2012. huff.to/UDkrBq Filed under: Citizenship, Politics, …Continue reading »
  • Goodwill Hunting
    And on earth, peace to those of goodwill … Luke 2:14 Today I turn 62. A birthday is always a …Continue reading »
  • The Things You Can’t Buy For Christmas
    We live in the most financially minded era in history; nothing previous compares to it. Somehow we have put ourselves …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
  • Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
    August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
  • Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
    Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...

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 ...

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War Resisters League

  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
  • A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
    By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • 24 aircraft grounded as persistent teething pr ...
    Japanese airlines are grounding all their Boeing 787 Dreamliners for inspection: ANA are grounding 17 aircraft and JAL is grounding a further 5 to add to the 2 already undergoing inspections. This baby is going to give Boeing many more sleepless nights.
  • 24 aircraft grounded as persistent teething pr ...
    Japanese airlines are grounding all their Boeing 787 Dreamliners for inspection: ANA are grounding 17 aircraft and JAL is grounding a further 5 to add to the 2 already undergoing inspections. This baby is going to give Boeing many more sleepless nights.
  • Migration from India brought genes, tools and ...
    A new genome-wide study suggests that there was migration from India to Australia some 4,200 years ago during the Holocene and that they brought stone-tools and the ancestor of the dingo with them
  • Migration from India brought genes, tools and ...
    A new genome-wide study suggests that there was migration from India to Australia some 4,200 years ago during the Holocene and that they brought stone-tools and the ancestor of the dingo with them
  • European Court of Auditors finds misuse of €5 ...
    Criticism by the European Court of Auditors has been levelled against subsidies for ostensibly energy-efficiency projects which have been misused by member states.

Left Foot Forward

  • Comment: Strangers into neighbours
    Nicola Bacon is one of the Founding Directors of Social Life and a Young Foundation Fellow. She was a Director of the Young Foundation from 2006 to 2012, setting up programmes on wellbeing and resilience, communities and local social innovation. The start of 2013 has been marked by a deluge of r ...
  • Comment: Labour wants a true baccalaureate app ...
    Stephen Twigg MP, Shadow Education Secretary Labour has today called a debate in Parliament on the Government’s shambolic plan for changes to exams at 16. We do need to reform our education system so that it equips young people with the skills, knowledge and resilience that they need to play the ...
  • Comment: PMQs – Miliband exposes Conserv ...
    Once again the issue of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union risks sending the Conservative Party into a frenzy of debate and division.  Since becoming leader, David Cameron has tried his utmost to cast off his Party’s past. It was his plan to make sure that the Conservative ...
  • Comment: We need a clearer vision for the futu ...
    Cllr Muhammed Butt, Leader of Brent Council It has been refreshing and invigorating to see serious debate in the Labour movement about the long term future of local government in the wake of yet another disastrous settlement from Eric Pickles. Labour local authorities have been beacons of hope f ...
  • The Pickles Integration Speech – big on ...
    Jill Rutter writes on migration issues and through IPPR will be publishing a paper on integration in February 2013. A month after Ed Miliband’s speech on migrant integration and nearly 12 months after his Department published its integration strategy, Eric Pickles made his first speech on this i ...

Consumerist

  • Google Says Street View Car Didn’t Hit T ...
    So there’s this donkey, on a road in Botswana, right? And like, it seemed as if he was just going along on his little donkey way when along comes Google’s Street View car and what’s this? Suddenly he’s lying on the ground. That is the sequence of events some are citing wh ...
  • Here’s How People Have Successfully Used ...
    Earlier today, we shared the story of a grave consumer injustice: an AT&T customer who brought his own unlocked iPhone from three generations ago, but wasn’t interested in using mobile data. AT&T still mandates that such a smart phone have a data plan, though, and they caught him a ...
  • Home Depot (Sort Of) Explains How An In-Store ...
    Yesterday, we told you about a Home Depot customer who was put off by an e-mail from the retailer asking him to review a product he’d purchased in-store. He assumed the store must have linked the credit he used at the store with a purchase he’d made on HomeDepot.com a year earlier. A ...
  • FTC To POM Wonderful: But Seriously, Stop Clai ...
    POM Wonderful received another smackdown from the Federal Trade Commission today, when the commission agreed with an internal FTC judge who previously said the company was making deceptive advertising claims by telling consumers its products would make them healthier. And to top it all off, it a ...
  • Fewer Younger Adults Eating Out While More Bab ...
    There is a stereotype that young adults tend to eschew home-cooking in favor of dining out. Sure, it costs more but there’s no clean-up and it tastes better than what you’d make at home. But a new study says that more adults in the 18-47 age group have been choosing their dining room ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblower Rights Strengthened for Some Uni ...
    A provision in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA 2013) – which was signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013 – will strengthen whistleblower rights for U.S. police officers who work in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions. Specifically, all police officer ...
  • Ralph Nader Urges President to Pardon Kiriakou ...
    FireDogLake: Pardon John Kiriakou, CIA Whistleblower Convicted of Classified Leak Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader has signed a letter with a few of his colleagues urging President Obama to pardon CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou. The letter explains how Kiriakou "never tortur ...
  • GAP Position on President Obama's NDAA 2013 Si ...
    In late December 2012, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013. Included in this bill were sections outlining 'best practice' whistleblower protection rights for federal government contractors. This tremendous expansion of whistleblower rights  – which GAP led a ...
  • Whistleblower vs. The Most Contaminated Nuclea ...
    The Hanford Nuclear Facility, with the dubious distinction of being the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere, was the focus of the second stop on this academic year’s American Whistleblower Tour. Last Nov. 29, GAP partnered with Hanford Challenge – a spin-off organization tha ...
  • 'American Whistleblower Tour' Returning to Aub ...
    Stop Features Key Whistleblowers on Student Loans, Bernie Madoff Scandal (Washington, DC) – On Thursday, Jan. 31, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) returns to Auburn University to present its acclaimed program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability. The ...

UK Progressive

  • Export Push Reframes Debate Over Fracking
    Pennsylvanians Angry About Plans to Ship Gas Overseas by Alexandra Duszak, iWatch News When Pennsylvanians agreed to a massive increase in natural gas drilling in the state, they were told that the economic benefit would outweigh any potential risk to the environment. The drilling employs a cont ...
  • Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid ...
    by Justin Elliott ProPublica Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation. Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give the fullest picture yet of the arms sales: The list include ...
  • Why Obama’s Gamble on the Debt Ceiling Depends ...
    by Robert Reich A week before his inaugural, President Obama says he won’t negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt limit.  At an unexpected news conference on Monday he said he won’t trade cuts in government spending in exchange for raising the borrowing limit. “If the goal is to make s ...
  • R Toys R Us: For God’s Sake
    by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Leaving a meeting at Random House, traveling south on the “E” train subway, I heard news of a school shooting. Detraining NJT at Trenton, the full horror story unfolded: 20 CHILDREN DEAD; 7 ADULTS shot to death and several wounded. I pulled off the ...
  • How a Government Report Spread a Questionable ...
    by Justin Elliott ProPublica Several media outlets reported this month on an alarming finding from a new U.S. government study: Iran’s intelligence ministry, as CNN put it, constitutes “a terror and assassination force 30,000 strong.” The claim that the intelligence ministry has a whopping 30,00 ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • William Kininmonth: Is it Extreme Weather or C ...
    Following in the heatwave theme… William Kinninmonth points out that the long term data on the red hot centre of Australia shows that this January is not unusual. - Jo. __________________________________ Letter to the Editor of The Australian A pattern of extreme weather should not be conf ...
  • Australia – was hot and is hot. So what? ...
    The media are in overdrive, making out that “the extreme heat is the new normal” in Australia. The Great Australian Heatwave of January 2013 didn’t push the mercury above 50C at any weather station in Australia, yet it’s been 50C (122F) and hotter in many inland towns across Au ...
  • In Australia if you try to clear a firebreak o ...
    Maxwell Szulc As Greens blame coal miners and SUV drivers for contributing to firestorms that destroy houses, ponder that one man tried to reduce the risk of fires and cleared firebreaks on his property in WA in 2011 and is currently in jail for it, serving a 15 month sentence. Most of the clear ...
  • Skeptic win: UK Met Office quietly drops predi ...
    Joint Post: Jo Nova and James Doogue The UK Met Office are completely impartial about global warming, and delighted that things are not going to warm as fast as they thought. So to draw attention to the good news they waited to release it on the … quietest possible news-day of the year. Oh ...
  • Greens say deception, fraud “for the pla ...
    PR is more important than anything else to the Greens. When Johnathon Moylan fraudulently tricked investors, costing some of them thousands of dollars, Green leaders praise him for “drawing attention” to something. It’s as if stupid punters are so dumb and Green’s brains ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Giant Sunspot AR1654: Serious Threat
    I said this a few days ago: If sunspot AR1654 sends an X-flare our way, it will still  most likely be one of the hundreds per century that do us and our satellites no harm at all. But because it is a large sunspot, pointing our way soon, then the potential for the next Carrington Event is there. ...
  • Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene
    I’m generally not a fan of theories disguised as fiction, and not a fan of prophecy either (too much to wade through to find anything real, and too hard to determine you have found it). That’s two reasons why Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene is one of the many 2012-related books I failed ...
  • Giant Sunspot on the Horizon
    AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth. Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet. It is all about potential. While a killer sol ...
  • More Cranial Deformations / Elongated Skulls i ...
    Today I saw a local lad with an earring that made a hole in his ear lobe the size of a 50c piece. But that is today – I doubt that 1000 years ago people would dare to be so different just to make a spectacle of themselves…. “Cranial deformation in Mesoamerican cultures was used to di ...
  • Pane Andov on Failed Predictions
    Pane Andov, from Macedonia, is well known for his extensive presentations within posts at various forums  – I was one of the moderators that let him get away with it, and I saw a presentation he gave in Melbourne a few years back. Like Geryl, he comes across as genuine, but he lacks a BS d ...

Facing South

  • Louisiana governor continues to ignore growing ...
    Over five months since the Texas Brine sinkhole first appeared over the Napoleonville Salt Dome, residents of Louisiana's Bayou Corne struggle to be heard by Gov. Bobby Jindal -- and look to Washington for help. read more
  • VOICES: ALEC leads attack on North Carolina cl ...
    Corporate polluters are taking aim this year at states with renewable energy laws, starting with an attack on North Carolina's law by a corporate front group supported by Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries. read more
  • BP challenges official estimate of oil spilled ...
    The company is seeking to reduce its civil liabilities under the Clean Water Act by excluding the oil it salvaged from the total amount spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Meanwhile, the court has approved a settlement for medical claims related to the spilled oil and dispersants use ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Confronting a deepening clima ...
    With new data out showing that 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States, and with costs mounting due to droughts and other climate-related disasters, will political leaders finally take action to address the problem? read more
  • An action-packed 2013 in store for Southern labor
    The new year promises lots of action on the labor front -- and as always in the South, it comes with heavy baggage from the past. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Military Intervention in Mali: Special Operati ...
    The military operation in Mali launched on January 11 is another vivid example of special activities aimed at recolonization of the African continent. It’s an orderly and consistent capture of new African territories by Western powers. They have got hold of Sudan by dismembering it (taking away ...
  • President Assad: Syria Is Impervious to Collapse
    ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes the full transcript of the speech by the Syrian President Bashar Assad delivered at the Opera House in Damascus on January 6, 2013. He has outlined a plan to end the two year long conflict devastating the country. We urgently commend you to read it carefully in full and ...
  • Syrian Endgame
    «Quick victory» in Middle East or Big Regional Fire? Many think the events in Syria are nearing the climax. The West and Israel are openly talking about the «endgame» soon to come. Any peace initiatives put forward by Bashar Assad are flatly refused from the start, like the one he came up with a ...
  • Keep Pentagon Out of India’s MoD
    ‘Military diplomacy’ sounds like an oxymoron. Diplomacy is about culture and finesse –graduated gratification of desire- military is about roughing it out and instant success. However, the phrase ‘military diplomacy’ is as frequently used as ‘cultural diplomacy’. While the latter “conjures up im ...
  • Torn Between “Good Al-Qaeda” and “Bad Al-Qaeda”
    “US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the slimmed-down force would focus on preventing Al-Qaeda… from regaining a foothold in the war-shattered nation.” When Do We Fight Against Terrorists and When Do We Put Them On the American Payroll? The hypocritical foreign policy of Barack Obama is i ...

BlogHer

  • The BlogHer Women and Work Study: A New Infogr ...
    Blog her womenworkplace_infographic_final from BlogHer   Last December, BlogHer announced the results of our first Blogher Women and Work Research Study at the inaugural BlogHer PRO Conference. We surveyed our community to gather their feelings about work and their workplace. This month, ...
  • Oxygen Cancels Shawty Lo's "All My Babies' Mamas"
    [Editor's Note 1/16/2013: The Grio reports that Oxygen has cancelled "All My Babies' Mamas". --Grace] When the Oxygen Network announced All My Babies' Mamas -- a one-hour special on C-list, Atlanta-based hip-hop artist Carlos "Shawty Lo" Walker and his relationships with 10 former girlfriends, ...
  • Kick Start Your Vinyl Collection: One Essentia ...
    Last year, my husband bought me a vinyl record player for my birthday. I didn't realize then, how awesome it was. That thing has become a staple to our family. In fact, it replaced the television in our living room. There's something special about listening to music on vinyl that digital can't r ...
  • Sleep vs Me Time: Which to Choose?
    Editor's Note: Moms need more sleep! Moms need more time to themselves! We hear these bits of advice -- get more sleep, take more time for you -- but no one ever adds more hours to the day. Such a shame. Robin at Farewell Stranger writes about the problem, the way we exchange one for the other ...
  • An Open Letter to Those Who Think Sandy Hook I ...
    There is a hard underbelly in the aftermath of the tragedy in Newtown that I've been wanting to address for a while now, but have scarcely wanted to acknowledge it for fear of perpetuating it. But my disgust and anger is so full and complete these days that I can hardly contain it.At first, in t ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...
  • New Treatment Could Combat Deadly Chemical Agents
    An enzyme treatment which could neutralise the effects of lethal chemicals responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the world has been developed by experts at the University of Sheffield. Organophosphorus agents ... Related posts:Coconut Oil Could Co ...
  • Tell FDA Not to Approve Genetically Engineered ...
    Target: Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Goal: To stop the FDA’s approval of genetically engineered salmon. The Food and Drug Administration has recently stated that genetically modified salmon is an unlikely environmental ... Related ...
  • New York County Bans BPA In Receipts
      In an effort to keep residents safer from potentially harmful contact with chemicals, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed the Safer Sales Slip Act into law on Jan. 3, banning bisphenol A from cash register ... Related posts:San Juan County bans the growing of G ...
  • The Easiest Guide to Safe Household Cleaners Y ...
    Save a Buck, Save the Planet, Save Your Health Store shelves are bursting with chemical cleaners for everything from stains to sinks to unpleasant odors (vegetable curry, the horror!). These days, “unpleasant” seems to mean any ... Related posts:Fukushima Fish Carrying 258 Time ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • How to oversimplify coalfield politics (and po ...
    Earlier this week, the National Journal published a piece called The Shift Of King Coal: The coal industry still dominates in Appalachia, and that’s bad news for the Democratic party. Here’s how it started out: When West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller formally announced his decision t ...
  • War on coal: Obama EPA delays coal-ash rules again
    We’re a few weeks removed now from the four-year anniversary of the terrible coal-ash disaster in East Tennessee, and here’s the word from Bloomberg BNA on the Obama administration’s for doing anything to avoid a repeat of that incident: The Environmental Protection Agency stil ...
  • Gov. Tomblin, coal, and getting things ‘ ...
    In his inaugural address this afternoon, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin offered no real surprises on coal policy, with the possible exception of his promise that he would see to it that West Virginia’s coal production heads the opposite direction from what just about every industry forecast project ...
  • EIA: Coal production down in 2012
    Here’s the latest out today from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration: U.S. coal production, down almost 7%, fell almost everywhere. Central Appalachia production decreased significantly, down 16%, followed by a 9% production decline in PRB. By contrast, ...
  • West Virginia First: Beyond cheerleading for coal?
    Early this afternoon, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will be sworn in to serve a full term as West Virginia’s Governor. The inauguration and the start of a new term offer an opportunity to “Stay the Course” (the name taken by a Tomblin-supporting PAC that apparently thinks West Virginia ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Vim Mastery Levels | WhileImAutomation
    Lv0. who doesn’t know about Vim Lv1. who knows basic usage of Vim Lv2. who knows Visual mode Lv3. who knows various motions Lv4. who doesn’t use Visual mode via whileimautomaton.net So true. Although there’s another level for text objects–which I’m already us ...
  • Both Success and Failure Are Difficult: Pick O ...
    Waking up at 6.30am to exercise is hard. Waking up at 8am seems easy, by comparison. Resisting the temptation to eat sweets is hard. Indulging in a cookie at lunch seems easy, by comparison. Staying up late to get every last detail right is hard. Heading home when it’s “good enough” ...
  • Muting the Internet | Zack Shapiro
    I’ve lost track of how many sites are on the Internet or how quickly we can now create the same amount of data as we created between the beginning of letter writing and 1850. When something big is going on in the news. I don’t think it’s wrong to say that you can get tired of hearing about i ...
  • How to Explain SQL Injection to Anyone
    There are many ways to explain SQL Injection, and the “best” way is clearly determined by who you’re talking to. For somewhat technical folks, I like my friend Steve’s explanation, I use the explanation below. Two Key Concepts SQL Injection is a computer security ...
  • Soda Linked to Depression
    The study, which was released on Tuesday and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology‘s annual meeting in March, involved 263,925 people between the ages of 50 and 71. Researchers tracked their consumption of beverages like soda, tea, coffee, and other soft drinks from 1995 t ...

Fitwatch

  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
    Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Internet Freedom and Copyright Reform: Aaron S ...
    By Stephen Lendman,globalresearch.ca - The Wall Street Journal headlined “An Internet Activist Commits Suicide.” New York’s medical examiner announced death by “hang(ing) himself in his Brooklyn apartment.” Lingering suspicions remain. Why would someone with so much to give end it all this way? ...
  • Revolution 99% Updates: Corruption, Coercion, ...
    Bradley Manning’s legal team to focus on delays at hearing today. If not delayed… Private First Class Bradley Manning is seeking dismissal of all charges as he returns to Maryland’s Fort Meade to resume proceedings. It’s been two years and eight months since the solider was detained in Ira ...
  • Education Beat: Say Your Prayers, CTU Took It ...
    by John Konopak, Ph.D. (LSU, 1989, Education) WWH/CJE +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ Say Your Prayers! There’s a saying that goes, “as long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.” At one time, that likely reflected a fairly uniform view ...
  • CJE Wednesday News Briefs
    Doctor explains why Al Roker pooped pants WS – I shit you not… This is a lead story on the news feeds this AM. CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (UPI) — A Chicago surgeon said NBC-TV’s broadcast personality Al Roker’s revelation he pooped his pants while at the White House said it w ...
  • Bushman children arrested under renewed govern ...
    From survivalinternational.org - Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana. The arrests are the latest signs of a new government policy to intimidate Bushmen who have returned to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The children were jailed last week for b ...

reference frame

  • Anthem, foreigners, and PC: Czech edition
    There is some sense in which I personally like Karl Schwarzenberg, the 75-year-old prince who will become Václav Klaus' successor as the Czech president if he beats Miloš Zeman next Saturday. I think that he's been doing good things throughout much of his life, he isn't really obsessed with ...
  • Quantum physics doesn't depend on definitions ...
    Lots of people who are trying to understand quantum mechanics but who don't really want to listen constantly ask the same question: What is an observer really?This question is usually encapsulated in the linguistic mud that is equivalent to the following monologue: I'm sick and tired of expl ...
  • Clock: doom arrives in five minutes
    You may hear from Fox News and other journalists that the doomsday clock will show 23:55, five minutes before the midnight, as the time indicating the "imminent destruction of humans" for the whole year of 2013 (unless an urgent modification is needed). We are told that the timing – one tha ...
  • New Higgses at \(90-105\GeV\), \(\tan\beta=6\)
    A few days ago, I wanted to write about a new paper Recent Developments in HiggsBounds and a Preview of HiggsSignals (PDF) by Philip Bechtle and 6 co-authors. I decided there had been too many articles about SUSY fits on this blog. However, even an enemy of SUSY named Tommaso Dorigo positive ...
  • Czech Budweiser defends the trademark in the U.K.
    A major loss for the world's #1 brewer Pilsner Urquell is clearly the most valuable Czech beer trademark – not only because it's produced in my hometown. The brewery belongs to SABMiller these days, the world's second largest brewing empire after Belgium's AB Inbev which is known as the own ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Idle No More protesters stall railway lines, h ...
    First Nations demonstrators stopped passenger railway traffic lines between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal this afternoon, while others stalled major highways and rail lines in parts of Manitoba, Alberta, New Brunswick and Ontario as part of the Idle No More Movement’s national day of action ...
  • Against a Tyrannical Government, a 30-Round Ma ...
    from cgreene34 : SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom Related posts: Your CRIMINAL Government: FISA Law Reauthorized For Another 5 Years With NO New Protections For Americans – You WILL BE Spied On By Your “Government” from ...
  • Myers-Briggs Personalities and the Peaceful, V ...
    by Gary Gibson, Dollar Vigilante: All the world can be divided into 16 personality types, which fit into four distinct groups, at least according to the stunningly useful Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The MBTI is a psychometric (literally “soul measurement”) questionnaire that measures how people ...
  • Victorian Smart Meter Forum 25 Nov 2012 Part 7
    Victorian Smart Meter Forum a resounding success — and standing room only! Attendees from across Victoria packed into a conference centre in Oakleigh for Sunday’s Victorian Smart Meter Forum. Organizers estimated attendance levels at between 400 and 450, with latecomers spilling out ...
  • To Prevent Market Manipulation Physical Delive ...
    by Dian L. Chu, Oil Price: “Risk On” Mode It is pretty obvious that there is a lot of liquidity in the system, with the Fed`s loose monetary policy, extremely low interest rates, and traders in all out “Risk On” mode with regard to their two favorite funding currency crosses in the EUR/USD and U ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Parkinson's and Pesticides
    By Alex Formuzis, VP of Media Relations Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but - after... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
  • ChiTrib Finds Toxic Fire Retardant in Crib Mat ...
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst The Chicago Tribune reports it has detected cancer-causing chemicals known as chlorinated tris in 11 crib mattresses made in China and sold by Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. None of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  • Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
    By Samara Geller, EWG Research Fellow Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces, dressings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 10 Top Environmental Health Stories of 2012
    The top environmental health stories of 2012 were all about everyday hazards that are right in our backyards. They have to do with the unintended consequences of chemical pollution that could harm the health of our families, our neighbors,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...
  • Chemical Industry to Parents: Avoid Lead, Tail ...
    By Alex Formuzis and Sonya Lunder, MPH This is rich. The chemical industry has produced a new "health information" website titled Kids + Chemical Safety that mentions hardly any chemicals or any of the voluminous body of peer-reviewed research... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

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Views & News from Norway

  • 13 Norwegians in hostage crisis
    Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg went on national television Wednesday evening to confirm that 13 Norwegians were caught in a hostage crisis that continued to unfold at a gas production plant in Algeria. Stoltenberg called the situation “serious and unclear.” Norwegian state ...
  • Norwegian Air loses bid for cheaper crews, for now
    The Norwegian government has rejected a proposal that would allow Norway’s low-fare carrier Norwegian Air and other airlines to employ Asian residents on Norwegian-registed aircraft and compensate them with Asian-level pay and benefits, which generally are much lower than Norwegian levels. ...
  • ‘Let’s drill off Lofoten this year ...
    Oil and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe now wants to open up waters off scenic Lofoten for oil drilling later this year, stirring up a heated debate among government allies, opposition politicians and member of his own Center Party. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of the Labour Party rejected Moe ...
  • Oil fund may triple 2013 bonus payments
    Bonus payments made this year to external managers of Norway’s huge so-called “oil fund” may be triple the amount initially estimated in 2012. The fund, formally known as The Norwegian Pension Fund – Global, is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. The oil fu ...
  • Banks face potential rate scandal
    Norwegian banks are facing claims by several international financial institutions that they’ve been manipulating their interbank lending rates. Norway’s central bank, Norges Bank, is worried and has asked financial regulators to investigate. “If this isn’t market manipulation, ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Donate Towards Rocket Stove How-To DVD
    Watching the above video, and others I’ve seen like it, gives me rocket-stove envy. Rocket-stove envy can be a serious condition, if not dealt with in a reasonable time frame. Indeed, it can be a debilitating disease. Symptoms include, but are not limited to, sleeplessness, regret, em ...
  • Let Nature Speak – Learning from Ants
    We all love seeing nature at work. Although we’ve done immense damage to natural systems worldwide, the earth’s beauty still seems boundless, as is the spectacular complexity of the creatures that inhabit it. But beyond its beauty lies something arguably more valuable — les ...
  • Fernglade Farm – Mid Summer (January) 2013 Update
    What a difference six weeks has made to the food forest here! The change in climate between cool and wet to hot and dry happened in less than a week during early October and since that time there has been no significant rainfall. The rain probably won’t fall here now until about April ...
  • MittiCool – Clay Refrigerator
    Most of you will be familiar with the pot-in-pot refrigerator by now. Well, today we’ll revisit this concept by taking a look at the ‘MittiCool’ refrigerator, a possible ‘upgrade’ that also uses evaporative cooling through the use of clay, but which looks a little ...
  • Field Notes From Amazonia
    by Noah Sabich, Eco-Ola The placement of your feet on the wooden boards is essential; frequent use and infrequent maintenance have rendered the steep stairwell a treacherous walkway down to the docks. This is the port of Iquitos, Peru. It is a central location that gives access to the tributari ...

Pointman's

  • The shape of things to come; Snailbats, HALsay ...
    Environmental alarmism is by now a well established phenomenon with nearly a four decade long history. In that time, we’ve been on the receiving end of doomsday predictions as diverse as holes in the ozone layer, overpopulation, resource wars, acid rain, a new ice age and the most successf ...
  • Another whopping leak from the IPCC.
    A substantial second leak, already nicknamed the Secret Santa leak, of further portions of the forthcoming IPCC AR5 has just occurred. There was a smaller leak of material last year, which was owned up to by the person who did it on their blog. While everyone is no doubt considering how on Earth ...
  • Credo.
    It seems to be a human need that we all have to have some sort of belief in a higher thing. Every culture that’s ever been, had some sort of belief system. I think it’s an unavoidable side effect of our unique consciousness. The people I’ve met, who ended up believing in absolu ...
  • Ladiees and Gennulmen, we have a winnah!
    It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s climate prat award and boy was the competition a doozie. Talk about a rush. It had everything; a bewildering variety of prats to choose from, agonies of indecision having to cull all the nominees down to finalists, rule changes when non ...
  • Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), an appreciation.
    The Germans have a word we don’t have in English, and it really doesn’t translate very well because of that lack – Lebenskünstler. In a typical Teutonic fashion, they jammed together two words which each nearly expressed what they were after, and created a new word, which denot ...

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

  • This is Not Theoretical: Reflecting on a Recen ...
    Reposted from our friends at The Oyster Knife. This piece was written after guest contributor Nicky Gillies participated in the NOLA to Angola bike ride, a fundraiser for the Cornerstone Builders’ Bus Project, which helps people in Louisiana travel to visit their incarcerated loved ones.  ...
  • Our People Are Worth the Risks: A Southern Que ...
    Reprinted from the SONG website and from the Scholar & Feminist Online, a webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women:  In the best parts of our tradition as LGBTQ people for liberation, we have resisted assimilation. We have held die-ins, we have risked our li ...
  • Post-Katrina, Funders and Foundations Failed N ...
    In December of 2006, New Orleans' social justice community came together to draft a letter addressed to foundations and funders, in response to the dismal response to the continuing post-Katrina crisis. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and other disasters still to come, the issues raised ...
  • Remember All the Children, Mr. President, By B ...
    Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments. Remember the 168 children who have been killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan since 2006. Remember the 231 children killed in Afghanistan in the first 6 ...
  • Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court
    From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights: Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overturn Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Law! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, 10:00 a.m Federal District Court, 500 Poydras Street Judge Feldman’s Court—Room C551 Many of y ...

Information Underground

  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote:There is no question that the hexagram is a symbol of Babylonian god/goddesses. Even the Nazis used it through their school of Theosophy. Tim, we have covered this extensively on other threads. The Nazis did not use the Star of David. I wil ...
  • Survival & Defence • Re: Individual and Sm ...
    Michael K. wrote: Timothy: I assume a struggle for survival in the wake of a wave of arson and "Helter Skelter." Revolution memes are the work of the Kike. Self Defense for anyone directly threatening my life, liberty, my pursuit of happiness (within properly considered moral groun ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    im not dead, just detained! [15:00:49] Joe BlowStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:43 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I presume the blood sample at birth was an amendmentStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:24 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    THE AQUARIAN 1 wrote: Hello, I've been reading a lot about the sovereign citizen movement. As you probably already know, the claim is that FDR handed the money interests Birth Certificates and Social Security numbers as collateral against new and future debts, in place of gold. Do the Rothsch ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Insecticides Pose Threat to Bee Populations, R ...
    European scientists have found that imidacloprid, the world’s most widely used insecticide, poses “unacceptable” risks to bee populations, a finding that some groups hope will result in a ban on the chemical. Asked to assess the health risks of imidacloprid and two other neonicotinoids — clothi ...
  • Key Offshore Transmission Line To Be Built For ...
    A group of prominent U.S. investors, including Google, is expected to announce today that it is moving forward with construction on the first leg of an ambitious $5 billion undersea transmission line that will connect Atlantic Wind Connection New Jersey Energy Link future offshore wind fa ...
  • Tidal Energy Can Meet 20 Percent Of UK Electri ...
    UK officials are underestimating the vast energy potential of marine tides, a renewable and reliable energy source that could meet 20 percent of the nation’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries electricity needs, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Philosophical Transactions of t ...
  • Should Polluting Nations Be Liable for Climate ...
    An international agreement to study how to redress developing nations for damages from climate change illustrates how ineffective climate diplomacy has been over the last two decades. But this move may pave the way for future court suits against polluting countries and companies. BY FRED P ...
  • California Solar Rebate Program Reaches 1-Giga ...
    California homeowners and businesses, taking advantage of a state rebate program that encourages the installation of solar panels, are now generating 1 gigawatt — or 1,000 megawatts — of electricity, roughly the equivalent of a nuclear power plant, state regulators say. Launched in 2 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Harper tries, fails not to impose theological ...
    By Montreal Simon It was a bizarre sight. Stephen Harper standing in front of a giant poster for “Dragon’s Den,” appearing to be deep in prayer. Although he was only at a newser in Montreal, trying to figure out what to say, after being asked an embarrassing question: Why is yo ...
  • Canadian humour: Deadpan, or just dead?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Vanity Fair devotes its January issue to celebrating comedic geniuses, and more than a handful of the spotlighted actors and writers have Canadian roots. But before all that celebrating begins, an essay by Bruce McCall ponders the dearth of Canadian comedy, and wonders w ...
  • I’m a racist. No really, I am.
    Things were not comfortable for German Jews in 1938, but nobody was interested in that story at that point. Just like how, in 2013, seemingly nobody is interested in the real story of Aboriginals in Canada ~~ By Jimmy Goatcher ~~ As I watched the video below, I thought about this idea that gets ...
  • A Modest Opinion – 2013: A Year In Preview
    Now that the hangovers are all done (or, if you’re like me you don’t get hungover . . . because you just keep on drinking), it’s time to see what 2013 has in store for us.  So, without further ado (I can feel the soberness creeping up), let’s get on to my Fourth Annual Year [.. ...
  • Idle No More and the racist backlash
    By Montreal Simon As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat.  “A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community.& ...

Daily Beast

  • Where Does the GOP Go From Here?
    To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
  • Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...
    Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
  • More Fallout at the BBC
    The BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
  • Chris Hayes is a Type?
    The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
  • Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us By
    Jeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...

Loonwatch

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Japan Times

  • Bryant, Howard overwhelm Bucks as Lakers gear ...
    Kobe Bryant played relentless defense, spurring his fellow Los Angeles Lakers to do the same. Dwight Howard dominated the paint, scoring easy baskets and blocking shots against the bewildered Bucks. Over the last two games, the Lakers have resembled the powerhouse everybody envisioned before t ...
  • "Blue"
    Western-style painter Ei Nakau's preferred style is abstraction. In 1968, he began a series titled "Cielito Lindo," a project to which he still contributes 40 years later. As is evident in the way he pours paints directly onto the canvas, Nakau values unpredictability and favors experimentation ...
  • 'Shitamachi' plants flex tech muscle by develo ...
    Young owners of several small manufacturing firms in the "shitamachi" area of Tokyo's Ota Ward have built the nation's first bobsled in an effort to demonstrate their technological prowess despite facing a prolonged recession that has gutted the historic area of factories. The project was prop ...
  • Chinese visitors fall since September
    Chinese traveling to Japan from September to December plunged 44 percent from the year before to 190,000 as the feud over the Senkaku Islands heated up, the Immigration Bureau said in a preliminary report. "The number of Chinese tourists appears to have fallen because Japan nationalized the Se ...
  • Hakuin: The sight of one hand clapping
    Most people know the famous riddle, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Many are also aware that it is connected with Zen Buddhism, and some will even know that it is a famous koan by the 18th-century monk Hakuin. A koan, of course, is a paradoxical parable or query used in Zen Buddhism ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Marc’s Enbridge Testimony
    Testimony to the Joint Review Panel on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project By Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives January 16, 2013 My name is Marc Lee, and I have served as an economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for more than 14 years. Most recently I have b ...
  • The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples — T ...
      As an ordinary Canadian I feel deeply that this wonderful country is at a crucial, and very fragile, juncture in its history. One of the major reasons for this fragility is the deep sense of alienation and frustration felt by, I believe, the vast majority of Canadian Indians, Inuit and Mé ...
  • What’s next for BC’s carbon tax?
    An oped of mine was published by the Vancouver Sun today: What’s next for BC’s carbon tax? Marc Lee Climate change forced its way onto the political agenda in 2012, as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the northeast United Stages just days before the election. And while action remains frustratingly ...
  • Dangerous Cavities: Kids need preventative ora ...
    Oral health coverage for kids, particularly kids from lower-income families, is something that the CCPA and others have been advocating for.  It is an area just outside of the present universal provincial health care coverage. However, when things go wrong it rapidly becomes something that healt ...
  • Selling out our natural resources
    In the beginning of December, the Harper government gave its approval to two takeover deals in the energy sector. Nexen is involved in offshore production operations around the world and in oil sands in western Canada. It will now be the property of CNOOC, a Chinese corporation. The second deal ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Filmmaker bringing story of ‘paya’ to the masses
    “With the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct looming, a filmmaker is asking for help in her effort to tell an untold portion of the Owens Valley water wars. Jenna Cavelle has been working on her documentary, “PAYA: The Untold Story of the L.A.-Owens Valley W ...
  • Groundwater Quality in the Owens Valley, Calif ...
    “The Owens study area is approximately 1,030 square miles (2,668 square kilometers) and includes the Owens Valley groundwater basin (California Department of Water Resources, 2003). Owens Valley has a semiarid to arid climate, with average annual rainfall of about 6 inches (15 centimeters) ...
  • Chinese loans could fuel regional conflict in ...
    “China has made great efforts to support poverty reduction in Africa, and likes to present itself as a friend of the African people. But loans for contentious dam and irrigation projects now threaten to pull China into an explosive regional conflict between well-armed groups in Kenya, Ethi ...
  • Why First Nations Movement Is Our Best Chance ...
    “Before the passage of Bill C-45, 2.6 million rivers, lakes, and a good portion of Canada’s three ocean shorelines were protected under the Navigable Waters Act. Now, only eighty-seven are protected. That’s just the beginning of the problem, which seems not to have drawn much attention fro ...
  • Saudi Arabia Stakes a Claim on the Nile
    “Forty years ago, when the farming started, there was a staggering 120 cubic miles (500 cubic kilometers) of water beneath the Saudi desert, enough to fill Lake Erie. But in recent years, up to five cubic miles (20 cubic kilometers) has been pumped to the surface annually for use on the fa ...

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

  • without consequence
    … I suspect from the beginning of time the powerful have always been able to commit crimes without consequence …   America’s False History Allows the Powerful to Commit Crimes Without Consequence   Mark Karlin, Truthout: Read the Article  Seasoned journalist Robert Parr ...
  • it’s not just Obama
    … and it’s not just Obama the privately owned Federal Re$erve is show who is Bo$$ … it’s all of US … got it … The Federal Reserve Shows Barack Obama Who The Real Boss Is 01-14-2013  •  govtslaves.info … Read Full Story     There is one organization that is considered to be so ...
  • lie–cheat–steal
    … Watching and learning from “white” America how to lie, cheat , steal … what would you do … … Native indigenous peoples learn well … Filed under: Blogroll
  • not just Texas
    … it’s not just Texas  … it’s not just oil/gas which halts full disclosure and transparency on the water our purveyors sell to us as SAFE and we compliantly consume … EPA’s Water Contamination Investigation Halted In Texas After Range Resources Protest AP  |  By By RAMI ...
  • pound of flesh
    … Tour de France wants their pound of flesh …         Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
  • The Truth About "Jon Stewart"
    "Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify ra ...
    Last year scientists released a study that is likely to revolutionize how conservationists track elusive species. Researchers extracted the recently sucked blood of terrestrial leeches in Vietnam's remote Annamite Mountains and looked at the DNA of what they'd been feeding on: remarkably researc ...
  • In the kingdom of the black panther
    The black panther has a mythical aura: Rudyard Kipling chose the animal for one of his heroes in the Jungle Book, in the 1970s it became the symbol of an African-American socialist party, while comic guru Stan Lee selected the stunning feline for his first black superhero. But the real black pan ...
  • Paradigm shift needed to avert global environm ...
    Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published this year, does just that. "It has been a sixty hour a week routine," Rirdan told mongabay.com i ...
  • Mercury hurts birds and people: what we can le ...
    Birds aren't that different from people. We learn from our parents, just like zebra finches learn songs from their fathers. We are active and noisy during the day, like birds, and we can also be territorial. Also like birds, we try to attract mates through colorful displays and beautiful songs. ...
  • The year in rainforests
    2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012. There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were undoubtedly overlooked in this review. If you feel there's somethi ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Iran plans to send monkey to space
    The Iranian Space Agency says it is going to launch a monkey into space.The head of the agency, Hamid Fazeli told the state's Mehr News agency the mission is preparation for manned space missions in the future. "Testing phase...
  • Neville Peat: Slow economy trampling environment
    The bottom appears to have fallen out of the environmental bottom line.Ten years ago the corporate world was being encouraged to add "environment" to company annual reporting and talk about initiatives to do with sustainability...
  • Tech Universe: Thursday 17 January
    CHARGING FOR THE FJORDS: Norway is the land of fjords, so car ferries are a pretty handy thing. To cross the Sognefjord between the villages of Lavik and Oppedal you'll soon be able to take an
  • NASA's Curiosity rover readying to drill on Mars
    Scientists have zeroed in on a Martian target for the Curiosity rover to drill into: A rock outcrop as flat as a pool table that's expected to yield fresh insight into the red planet's history.Running a tad behind schedule, Curiosity...
  • Liz Hanna: Heat's on to keep us comfortable
    Acclimatising to heat is a tough gig. Since 1970, central Australian regions have warmed 1.2C and as the world continues to get warmer, increasingly common and increasingly intense heat waves will make acclimatising even tougher.Our...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt’s raw milk tribulations ...
    From the Fraser Institute.org by Karen Selick, Derek From, and Chris Schafer “….A constitutional guarantee of liberty, to be consistent with J.S. Mill’s description, should ensure that everyone has the right to freely pursue their own happiness as long as their actions … Contin ...
  • The low risk from raw milk
    From the Canadian raw milk consumer advocacy group: “The unfortunate truth is that, no matter what we eat, all food has some inherent risk.  The question is of course, comparative risk.  At a conservative estimate, there are at least 10 … Continue reading →
  • Life, liberty and the pursuit of raw milk
    From Mike Hixenbaugh, at HamptonRoads.com: “It’s a scorching summer morning, and David Crane is standing with arms stretched wide in the middle of a pasture. He steps cautiously toward a stubborn cow, cajoling her to move out of the heat … Continue reading →
  • Sixteen results of prohibition
    From the Chicago Boyz: When a law bans exchanges wanted by everyone directly involved a number of things happen: 1) The exchanges continue; 2) Prices of the banned items rise and wars to control turf begin; 3) New criminals are … Continue reading →
  • “Double indemnity”, with same char ...
    .From Heather Callaghan, on the Activist Post: “Last September, Alvin Schlangen and his many supporters witnessed a victory when three charges were dropped against him in Hennepin county, Minnesota thanks to jury nullification. But now he is facing six charges in Stearns county … Con ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • ObamaMiles Tax Coming Soon; Transportation "Tr ...
    Yet another "Trust Fund" is broke. This time, discussion involves an alleged "Transportation Trust Fund". As with Social Security, there is no "Transportation Trust Fund", only a stack of unmarketable IOUs from one branch of government to another. If there is any trust in the system, ...
  • Over 25% of 401Ks Tapped to Pay Current Bills; ...
    At an increasing rate, even during the alleged recovery, consumers are tapping their 401Ks to pay current bills according to a study by advisory firm HelloWallet as describe in the Washington Post article 401(k) breaches undermining retirement security for millions. A report due out this week ...
  • "Debt Doom Loop" in Spain; Deficit Target Impo ...
    Magicians at the ECB have temporarily convinced market participants that Europe is in some sort of recovery. It isn't. All of Europe is now in recession, including Germany as noted earlier today in German Economy Shrinks Most in Three Years; Situation Significantly Worse Than Mood. " ...
  • German Economy Shrinks Most in Three Years; Si ...
    Germany is in recession. It's not a "technical recession", no matter how anyone labels it. And the recession will pick up steam as the year progresses. Please consider Germany’s economy shrinks most in 3 years as crisis hits eurozone powerhouse. WIESBADEN, Germany — The German econom ...
  • Obamacare Sticker Shock; Expect Insurance Prem ...
    Consumers are about to find out that the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare is not exactly affordable. The Wall Street Journal says Health-Insurance Sticker Shock is just around the corner. Health-insurance premiums have been rising—and consumers will experience another series ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    Indigenous Resistance Two months ago, four women who were concerned about decisions being made by the government got together and had a meeting. Now, an international movement of indigenous people – as well as many others – has spread not only across Canada, but into the United State ...
  • Attack on Sovereignty
    “The pursuit of hegemony moves Washington closer to becoming a world dictator.” Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American u ...
  • Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...
    Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...

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 →

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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
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