Saturday, January 19, 2013

19 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I


Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Mali - the new Afghanistan ?
    At the turn of this century a rebel army threatened the capital of an African country and in went Western troops to salvage the situation. In May 2000 the capital under siege was Freetown in Sierra Leone and the troops sent to prevent a takeover were British. They were led by the then Brig ...
  • Crowd Funding Solar Energy
    Andreas Karelas founded RE-volv in 2011. He started the organization, he says, “out of a sense of frustration felt by many of us working for clean energy. The change isn't happening fast enough and if it's going to happen now, we'll have to do it ourselves. There's a huge opportunity here to mob ...
  • Hot spell may sway sceptics
    Scepticism about climate change in Australia may be something else that will melt during the nation's great heatwave. Joseph Reser, adjunct professor at Griffith University's School of Applied Psychology, said ''there's a powerful climate change signal in extreme weather events in Australia f ...
  • Greek youth unemployment nears 60%
    Joblessness among Greek youth edged closer to 60pc in October, figures from the state statistics agency revealed on Thursday, with the country's unemployment rate hitting a new high of 26.8pc in October. .... Trades unions say the real jobless figure is much higher.
  • Stratfor: Crisis of the US Middle Class
    In the 1950s and 1960s, the median income allowed you to live with a single earner -- normally the husband, with the wife typically working as homemaker -- and roughly three children. It permitted the purchase of modest tract housing, one late model car and an older one. It allowed a driving vac ...

Independent - London

  • Aid agencies are struggling to cope with Mali ...
    Aid agencies are struggling to cope with the scale of the humanitarian crisis in West Africa caused by thousands of Malians fleeing conflict, according to a study out this week.Related StoriesFive UK hostages dead or missing as Algerian crisis comes to a bloody endFive Britons feared dead after ...
  • Five Britons feared dead after bloody end to siege
    A hardline but effective operation by Algerian special forces brought to an end the four-day hostage crisis in the desert yesterday, as they swept into the gas refinery at In Amenas, killing 11 terrorists and discovering that seven of the foreign hostages had been shot, possibly executed by the ...
  • The guns are quiet, but the dead are still to ...
    The Algerian hostage crisis ended yesterday as it had begun, in a jolting surge of bloodshed that left both innocent and guilty dead. Special forces stormed the In Amenas gas complex, and killed the remaining 11 attackers, but not before seven foreign hostages were shot, reportedly executed by t ...
  • West turns sights on threat in the desert
    The rebel assault on the gas installation at In Amenas will accelerate international efforts to destroy a "corridor of terror" Western governments believe Islamic militants are establishing across swathes of North and West Africa.Related StoriesFive UK hostages dead or missing as Algerian crisi ...
  • 'Grave fears' for energy industry in North Africa
    BP may be forced to reconsider further gas exploration in North Africa as a result of the Algerian hostage crisis, fearing more targeted attacks against its workers in the region, industry sources said yesterday.Related StoriesFive UK hostages dead or missing as Algerian crisis comes to a blood ...

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

  • Fish invasion: Monster catfish taking over Ger ...
    The enormous wels catfish is rapidly expanding in German waters. The fish can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh over 300 pounds, making recreational fishermen excited about the prospects of catching one. While biologists aren't yet calling the fish pests, they are puzzled by the boom. It was 3 ...
  • Resilient witnesses give graphic details of do ...
    The one thing she still remembers is the smell. A 42-year-old woman testified at the sex assault trial of anesthesiologist Dr. George Doodnaught on Thursday she smelled his body when he sexually abused her on a North York General Hospital operating table three years ago. "I'm never going to fo ...
  • Four-year-old girl molested on moving school b ...
    A four-year-old girl was allegedly molested by the conductor of her school bus in Mumbai, but in an apparent goof-up, a case of rape was registered against him, a senior Mumbai police officer said today. The complaint filed with the police says when the female attendant in the bus was helping o ...
  • Zumba sex scandal: Accused business partner cl ...
    The man accused of bankrolling the Maine Zumba studio, which instructor Alexis Wright allegedly used as a front for a brothel, denied having any involvement or knowledge of the alleged prostitution ring, but said he and Wright had an affair and he loaned her money. In an interview with "Nightli ...
  • Animapocalypse continues in Peru - dolphins, f ...
    It would seem the animapocalypse in Peru has continued into 2013. Throughout January various animals have been washing up along the shores of Peru's northern coast. According to the Sea Institute of Peru 12 dolphins, 35 sea lions, and 13 pelicans have been found dead along the shores of San Jo ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Help Ontario wildlife . . .
    DALTON'S DASTARDLY DEMONS are at it again. The David Suzuki Foundation has a fine blog, with a post by Jode Roberts, "Driving a hole through Ontario's Endangered Species Act". Seems that some trolls in the Ministry of Natural Resources are proposing that a lot of protection should evaporate. Cli ...
  • Christy Clark, Creekside Style
    Alison, doing her thing as only she can do it.
  • Chief of the Defence Staff,
    I've just had a bizzare conversation that once again makes me think you really ought explain to all ranks that the Prime Minister is not Canada's 'boss' and that the oath they swore is, in fact, to the Queen. In my day that much at least was explicitly clear. Mind you, I am assuming you under ...
  • Advice for Stevie . . .
  • Short comment non-Aboriginal Canadians losing ...
    Just a short comment, about non-Aboriginal Canada as it bigots and nutters froth and stonk about. These people about the rights the Indians have about hunting and taxes, or they howl about laziness and drinking. And now they go off about the blocked roads and uppity voices. Really, they ou ...

Media Matters for America

  • What The Media Should Know About Gun Appreciat ...
    The media has devoted significant coverage to the upcoming Gun Appreciation Day, which is organized by a Republican consulting firm that is pocketing a portion of the contributions. The January 19 event, which asks people to support gun venues and show opposition to ...
  • Media Coverage Of Debt Ceiling Continues To Pr ...
    Media coverage of the debt ceiling frequently claims that raising the limit without simultaneous spending cuts would give President Obama a "blank check," repeating a pattern of promoting this false narrative -- or failing to correct it -- that occurred during the unprecedented brinkmanship of 2 ...
  • Mainstream Media's Fixation With Anti-Immigran ...
    Now that the Obama administration and Congress are engaged in a debate over immigration policy, a Media Matters review of major news outlets has found that when it comes to immigration coverage, anti-immigrant commentator Mark Krikorian continues to be the medi ...
  • Four Falsehoods About Doctors And Guns Pushed ...
    After President Obama announced an executive action clarifying that doctors are permitted -- but not required -- to discuss gun safety with patients, conservatives in the media trumpeted a number of falsehoods, including the baseless claim that Obama is requiring doctors to report all ...
  • Conservative Media Criticize "Deranged" NRA Ad
    Conservative media figures, as well as other conservatives, criticized the National Rifle Association for releasing an ad that politicized the protection afforded to President Obama's daughters, calling the ad "over the line" and "beyond the pale." MSNBC's Joe Scarborough strongly criticized the ...

Global Research.ca

  • King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.
    A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration four years ago — but…
  • Gross National Product (GNP): How is it Calcul ...
    Although the Department of Commerce claims that GDP measures the final value of goods and services produced in the United States in a given period of time, it merely measures the income of the politically sanctioned commercial class. GDP is…
  • NATO’s War Plans For The High North. The ...
    Dangerous Cross-Roads in East-West Relations
  • Sins of Omissions: The United Nations Ignores ...
    On October 23, 2012, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja’afari sent a letter to the President of the United Nations Security Council and to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listing 108 foreign individuals arrested in the Syrian Arab Republic…
  • الإرهاب بوجه إنساني: تاريخ فرق الموت الأمريكية
    [الصورة: فرق الموت في السلفادور] البروفيسور مايكل شوسودوفسكي المنطقة: الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا تقرير معمق: سورية: الحرب التالية للناتو؟ ترجمة: علي شكري يعتبر توظيف فرق الموت جزءاً من الخطة الاستخبارية-العسكرية المحكمة للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. فتاريخ الولايات المتحدة الطويل والرهيب في…

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

  • South-central Partnership for Energy Efficienc ...
    The South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER) enters its second year with an exciting Summit, designed to explore, further develop, and prioritize policies and strategies needed to push energy efficiency forward in new buildings, existing buildings, and electric marke ...
  • Rep. Waxman Statement on New Reports on the Cl ...
    Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman issued the following statement on new research from the Pembina Institute and Oil Change International, indicating that the Keystone XL pipeline will accelerate the reckless expansion of the tar sands industry and the climate im ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • Obama's Climate Challenge
    (Rolling Stone) Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. After promising in 2008 that his presidency would be "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our pla ...
  • Obama Allies Browner, Podesta Now Oppose Arcti ...
    (The Hill) Officials with the Center for American Progress (CAP), an influential liberal think tank with deep White House ties, have come out against Arctic oil drilling as the Obama administration faces crucial decisions about the reg ...
  • As Electric Future Unfolds, Gasoline Remains King
    (Midwest Energy News) ETROIT — While electric carswow crowds and the media at auto shows, there’s no denying that for now, gasoline-powered cars still rule the roadway. That’s not to say electric vehicle technology isn’t important, sa ...
  • Keeping the Boats Moving Along a Mississippi D ...
    (New York Times) ST. LOUIS — For months along the Mississippi River here, the withering drought has caused record-breaking low water levels that have threatened to shut down traffic on the world’s largest navigable inland wat ...
  • As Drought Persists, Many Scramble to Save Eve ...
    (Reuters) The drought that crippled many communities across the nation last year shows little sign of retreating, and the threat of persistent water scarcity is spurring efforts to preserve every drop. As the drought of 2012 creeps in ...

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

  • Weekend Thread
    Do you care who is in the Super Bowl? I'd prefer to see the Patriots and the Niners, although Baltimore is almost local here, and it might be cool to see Ray Lewis go out on top. The Atlanta Falcons have a nice team, but I just can't get into teams that play indoors. I hope they lose today. ...
  • GOP Addresses Own Insanity
    It sounds like the Republican leadership treated their retreat like a giant therapeutic session for the Republican caucus. It's surprising that it seems to have gone so well considering that they were basically telling their rank and file that they had been acting so crazily that people would ...
  • Federal Investment = Better Flu Vaccines
    One of the things Republicans would like to cut is spending on medical research. Well, here's one example why that is a bad idea, and how a relatively small investment by the government has led to medical breakthroughs in fighting influenza. As early as next year, more modern and more effect ...
  • Baby BoBo Steps
    David Brooks' column today was actually epic. Jon Chait's takedown was so masterful that it dissuaded me from trying to add anything even more devastating. Sometimes you just have to tip your hat. Still, I have to share this bit from Brooks because it's hard to believe he wrote it: I may b ...
  • The Debt Ceiling Battle Is All But Over
    Steve Benen persuasively argues that the Republicans now believe that they cannot get anything worth having out of threatening the full faith and credit of the United States again, and they will give us a clean bill on the debt ceiling. The White House always believed this to be the case and ne ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Largely sober fare in this week's link roundup, with the gloom only really lifted by a bunch of sinister fast food mascots. Actually, we take that back. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Brutal Torture and Execution in 19th-Century C ...
    Justice in China at the end of the 19th century could be swift and brutal. And as these images show, such punishments were a popular subject for overseas photographers. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

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

  • Bulgarian Turkish party leader steps down afte ...
    Story Image:  A video grab from Bulgarian television channel BTV shows a man pointing a pistol at leader of the Turkish minority Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, Ahmed Dogan, during his speech at a national party conference in Sofia on January 19, 2013. Dogan teBulgaria's veteran T ...
  • US, UK vow to pursue Qaeda in north Africa but ...
    Story Image:  British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond (L) speaks next to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta (R) during a joint press conference in Lancaster House, central London, on January 19, 2013. The US and British defence ministers on Saturday vowed to hunt down The US and British ...
  • US orders departure of Mali embassy dependents
    Story Image:  A Malian soldier poses on January 19, 2013, in Niono. The US State Department has ordered all family members of embassy employees to leave Mali, amid the country's escalating conflict with Islamist militants who control the vast arid north.The US State Department has ordered ...
  • Vonn dominates Maze to win Cortina downhill
    Story Image:  US Lindsey Vonn competes during the women's downhill world cup, in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 19, 2013. Vonn dominated overall World Cup leader Tina Maze to claim her 58th win in the series and first win of 2013.American downhill queen Lindsey Vonn dominated overall World ...
  • African leaders seek global involvement in Mali
    Story Image:  Malian soldiers stand next to a military vehicle, on January 19, 2013, in Niono. West African leaders Saturday urged more global involvement to fight Islamists in Mali as President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain there as long as needed West African leader ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Announcement: Calling All Undergraduate Studen ...
    To satisfy the increasing undergraduate interest in security and intelligence, the Security and Intelligence Studies program at King College is launching "The Security and Intelligence Studies Journal". It is the world’s first undergraduate scholarly journal focusing exclusively on themes of int ...
  • Sophisticated cyberespionage operation focused ...
    After Stuxnet and Flame, two computer programs believed to have made cyberespionage history, another super-sophisticated malware has been uncovered, this time targeting classified computer systems of diplomatic missions, energy and nuclear groups.
  • 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.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Jan 20
        Syrian Foreign Minister calls on rebels to drop arms and change Syria through dialogue - The Washington Post Syria’s Reconciliation Minister: Assad’s recent speech consisted of “preliminary ideas” about a transitional phase, Turkish Role in Syria 'Very Bad' - Al-Monitor VIDEO: FSA ...
  • American News Media Ignore Critical Media Scandal
      By Linn Washington, Jr. America’s corporate news media love highlighting David-besting-Goliath stories…except apparently, when the fallen Goliath is major media mogul Rupert Murdoch – the billionaire owner of America’s caustic FOX News and other entities. read more
  • Open Letter to New York Times Editors
      Open Letter to New York Times Editors   by Stephen Lendman   A personal note: I'm one of your fiercest critics. I'm certainly one of the most outspoken. My critiques are justified. I don't prepare them lightly.    I scrupulously strive for truth and full disclosure. If ...
  • Western Sponsored Aleppo Mass Murder
      Western Sponsored Aleppo Mass Murder   by Stephen Lendman   For nearly two years, Washington waged terror war on Syria. Death squad proxies are used. They recruited largely from regional countries.    Some come from Europe. America supplies small numbers. They invaded ...
  • Syria News - Jan 19
        Casualties in Aleppo Rocket Attack, Twin Suicide Bombings Near Mosque South of Damascus - Latinos Post Rebels may have more sophisticated weaponry blasting with sometimes inaccurate rockets - washington post 2 journalists killed in Syria - San Jose Mercury News VIDEO: Rockets hit A ...

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!

  • Aaron Swartz and the Freedom to Connect
    Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11. Aaron was a social justice activist, gifted with deep understanding of how computers and the Internet work, and how they could empower people around the w ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Fun – “Carry On”
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  • Gun Control for Dummies
  • Air Pollution in Asia: Real-time Air Quality I ...
    We’ve posted recently about the swelling pollution crisis in China, this map can show you the scope of the problem. View the Map
  • The Drums of War
    By The Economist WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku and China the Diaoyu islands is only a matter of time. You might well be right. Since Japan in September announced it would “nationalise” three of the i ...
  • 2012 Annual Wrap Up – Transcript Updated!
    We have just posted an updated version of the transcript for the 2012 Annual Wrap Up. You can find it in the Transcript Announcement. Also find it in the blog post; at the Subscriber [...]

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

  • Baxter the Humanoid Robot Promises to Revive U ...
    Say hello to Baxter, the $22,000 humanoid robot that could help revolutionize manufacturing in the US. Rethink Robotics, a Boston-based robotics firm, produced Baxter in an effort to give cheap offshore labor a run for its money. Rethink wants to use Baxter to perform simple jobs that manufactur ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pool Box: A Deluxe Backyard Pool Made From a R ...
    New Orleans-based architect Stefan Beese dove headfirst into recycled design by converting a defunct dumpster into a pristine backyard pool! The Pool Box is made from a 22′ x 7′ steel refuse container that has been lined with protective foam insulation and clad in pine wood slats. Be ...
  • JOCO Reusable Glass Cups are Designed for On t ...
    Australia’s coffee culture is offering a sustainable solution that people anywhere in the world can employ. The Aussie founders of JOCO Cups created a travel cup that is designed for the perfect brew — and it’s also made of 100% recyclable and BPA-free glass! JOCO Cups are 12 oz in s ...
  • New Report Shows Canada, the U.S. and Australi ...
    With images of vast forest lands and wild geese flying in the air, you would think that Canada is doing pretty well when it comes to environmental sustainability. Not so! It turns out that Canada is among the worst ranking first-world nations when it comes to being sustainable. The Conference Bo ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Three Windows 8 Features Worth Celebrating
    Here are three completely overlooked features in Windows 8, discovered while mucking around in the operating system's deepest, darkest corners.
  • 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.

The Progressive Realist

  • USC/CSIS Conference on Korean Unification (1): ...
    The University of Southern California Korean Studies Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies are running a joint Korea Project: Planning for the Long Term . CSIS will hold the last of three conferences in this project at the Asan Institute on January 21st next week. If y ...
  • Are Drones Really Working?
    President Obama's nomination of John Brennan, who currently serves as the White House Senior Advisor for Counterterrorism, should occasion a debate regarding how the United States can best confront, respond to, or mitigate our most pressing security challenges, including the current counterterro ...
  • Why I Advocate Scrapping SSBN's
    Several times in the past year, I have dropped mentions into my blog posts here at ID advocating that the US Navy be relieved of its strategic nuclear weapons watch, the latest of which was in my recent post about a GOP based national security strategy.  One of the pillars of such a strateg ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Mali, Cyberwar and “Zer ...
    Tony Capaccio, “Iran’s Cyber Threat Potential Great, U.S. General Says,” Bloomberg News, January 17, 2013. Iran’s developing ability to launch cyber attacks will make it “a force to be reckoned with,” the head of the U.S. Air Force Space Command said. General William Shelton said the Iranians ar ...
  • Development as Ideology
    In a blog post yesterday, Duke economist Marc Bellemare responded to a recent contrarian piece on Foreign Policy‘s Democracy Lab about development trends in Africa. In the FP essay, Rick Rowden argued that recent claims of “Africa rising” ring hollow because the expansions of G ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Hardball Works
    It would be easy to gloat over the fact that Republicans backed down (sort of) from their threat to cripple the American economy by destroying the full faith and credit of the United States government if they don't get everything they want. True, they didn't withdraw their debt-ceiling threat, ...
  • Obama Emerges with a Win on the Debt Ceiling
    I wasn’t sure to expect when President Obama announced that he would oppose anything other than a clean debt-ceiling increase. The incentives that led Republicans to the brink in 2011 haven’t gone away, and Tea Party lawmakers still hold considerable influence with the House Republican conferen ...
  • How Obama Might Make the School-to-Prison Pipe ...
    Included in President Obama’s plan for reducing gun violence is an idea made famous, or infamous, by the National Rifle Association in its press conference following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. After railing against violence in movies and video games, NRA spokesperson Wayne LaPierre c ...
  • Here a Gun, There a Gun, Everywhere a Gun
    As Jaime and I noted yesterday, many Democratic politicians feel the need to preface any discussion of guns with an assurance that they, too, own guns and love to shoot, as though that were the price of admission to a debate on the topic. But what you seldom hear is anyone, politician or otherw ...
  • The 13-Year War
    In October 2001, George W. Bush told the country he was sending the American military to Afghanistan in order to "bring justice to our enemies." It's safe to say support for the war would not have been as nearly unanimous as it was had he said, "Oh, and by the way, our troops are going to be fi ...

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

  • Religious-Right Radicals Join NRA Side In Gun ...
    Religious-right extremists who have spent most of their energy in recent years vilifying LGBT people or fighting the nation’s culture wars on other fronts have found a new demon to slay: gun control. It might seem odd that those who profess allegiance to the teachings of Jesus Christ would be so ...
  • Gun Appreciation Day’s Sponsors Raise a Few Qu ...
    The past few weeks have seen a plethora of over-the-top reactions and a flurry of right-wing freak-outs over new proposals regarding gun control in the wake of the horrific shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which a lone gunman armed with an semi-automatic rifl ...
  • Convicted Extortionist a Key Figure in Idaho C ...
    If you’re a band of antigovernment “Patriots” pitching a plan to build a walled city in North Idaho and manufacture handguns and assault rifles there, you might expect raised eyebrows, a little criticism. But potshots from other Patriots? Potshots, indeed, are flying at III Arms Co. and its sist ...
  • 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. ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Federal Government Issues Guidance Confirming ...
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued guidance today clarifying that young immigrants who qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are authorized to stay and lawfully present in the country, confirming that they are eligible for driver’s licenses.read more
  • Statement from Center for Democracy & Technolo ...
    The Center for Democracy & Technology joins other groups and individuals in the following statement. Today, on the anniversary of the massive protests against the Internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA, a broad network of individuals and organizations are joining to celebrate Internet Freed ...
  • Cambodia, Vietnam, and Donors Challenge Laos o ...
    At yesterday’s 19th Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council Meeting, heated debate occurred over Laos’ construction of the Xayaburi Dam and plans to build a cascade of dams on the Lower Mekong River. According to participants at the meeting, MRC governments disagreed about the prior co ...
  • Department of the Interior and Arizona Bureau ...
    The Department of the Interior and the Arizona Bureau of Land Management jointly announced guidelines for renewable energy development in Arizona. The decision comes as part of the Arizona Restoration Design Energy Project (RDEP), an initiative which has sought to minimize the impact of renewabl ...
  • Obama: I Have a Drone vs MLK: I have a Dream
    While many are drawing parallels between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama, some activists and analysts state that many of Obama’s policies run totally counter to King’s activism.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Water Grabbing to Follow Food Speculation?
    Shiney Varghese Writing in National Geographic in December 2012 about “small-scale irrigation techniques with simple buckets, affordable pumps, drip lines, and other equipment” that “are enabling farm famili ...
  • Aaron Was a Criminal and So Are You
    Abi Hassen The prosecution of Aaron Swartz and his subsequent suicide is heartbreaking. Aaron’s life and work was an inspiring example of how the Internet can elevate humanity beyond the dregs of rote commerce and cheap thrills. Aaron ...
  • Lather, Rinse, Repeat
    Lucinda Marshall The recent horrific assaults on women in Steubenville and New Delhi require a strong response.  Yet as happens all too often, our horror seems to make it difficult for us to fully recognize the pandemic nature of the p ...
  • On To Timbuktu II
    Eric Margolis PARIS – Confused over the surging violence in Mali and now Algeria? Trying to find Mali on the map? War, as the great Roman historian Tacitus wrote, teaches geography. This week’s new lesson is West and North Afric ...
  • Corporate Party Favors at the Inaugural Shindig
    Michael Winship If you’re one of those who equate the worlds of Washington and Hollywood — the standard joke: “Politics is show business for ugly people” — then a presidential inauguration is the Oscars, Golden ...

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

  • UPDATED: 5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Show ...
    If the gun advocates behind this year’s inaugural Gun Appreciation Day had hoped to use the day’s festivities to build support for their anti-regulation platform, they are going to have to wait another year. Emergency personnel had to be called to the scene of the Dixie Gun and Knife ...
  • Utah Man Carries Rifle Into JC Penney To Defen ...
    A man in Utah was photographed at a JC Penney carrying around an unloaded version of the gun used in the Newtown tragedy to prove that guns aren’t as dangerous as they’re portrayed. In addition to the unloaded rifle, a loaded Glock pistol was strapped to his hip when his picture was ...
  • States Aim To Strengthen Gun Safety Regulations
    A new analysis from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence finds that out of “more than 190 gun-related bills filed in statehouses between Jan. 1 and Jan. 15″ — in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut — 114 bills strengthen gun regulations, while 67 weake ...
  • Congressman Receives Threats From Gun Advocate ...
    Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN), gun safety advocate who represents “real gun country,” told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Saturday that his office is receiving anonymous threats, warning the Congressman to watch his back. “I have never, ever in all my life feared for my security, and I& ...
  • Limbaugh Tarnishes Civil Rights Movement To Ad ...
    Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh sought to equate the fight for African American civil rights with opposition to gun safety on Friday, suggesting that the movement could have better protected itself from segregationists had it been armed. Limbaugh specifically signaled out Rep. John Lewis ( ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Getting With The Program
     So, ... it seems important for me to remind everybody that our political opponents, for the most part, actually believe all the nutty stuff that they say. Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. $3 billion "gravy trains" at Toronto City Hall. Radical left-wing kooks all decided to go into stu ...
  • Videos
    Doing other things today ...  This is a good listen. This was interesting. Hopefully.
  • John Ibbitson's Stupid Column
    So, my previous post was going to describe how Globe & Mail columnist and full-time shit-licker John Ibbitson is nothing more than a mainstream media version of an internet troll and to establish this by going through his execrable column on harper's response to the "Idle No More" protest mo ...
  • 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 ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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

  • It’s Almost Over…
    The holiday season is finally almost over, so let’s start the de-stressing process…. Ice cream seems like a quick fix, but you’re better off making some wise stress-busting diet choices such as: Eating oatmeal, which provides more of all the B-Vitamins (except for pantothenic a ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-19-13
    Today, Kevin explains the importance of eliminating hydrogenated oil, trans fats, and homogenized dairy from your diet. Self Help: Steps Toward Perfect Health Get Vitamin D FREE For Life! Promote Heart Health Turn Back The Hands Of Time Shower The Toxins Away Protect Your Body Health: Butter Is ...
  • 15 Ways To Beat Stress This Holiday Season
    The holidays are officially upon us and that means stress levels are rising to an all time high! Here are some helpful and essential tips to lower your stress levels and allow you to have a relaxing and more importantly, fun, holiday season! 1. Emphasize an organic, whole foods diet with plenty ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-1-12
    Today, Kevin reveals how the government is ‘helping’ the economy by letting you get sick and why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Self Help: Avoid Skin Cancer Safe Sunscreen Get Rid Of Gut Bacteria The Good Stuff Health: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings Toxin From R ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-15-12
    Today, Kevin explains how the media, internet, television, movies, magazines and newspapers are ALL misleading you. Plus, find out why, in life, it’s not about the mistakes you’ve made, but the lessons you’ve learned. Self Help: You Become What You Think About Most Of The Time Success Is A Decis ...

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

  • IL Rep. seeks special prosecutor to review 201 ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   An Illinois lawmaker is calling for a special prosecutor to review the 2010 death of a homeless man following the release of footage of his fatal encounter with a Chicago store owner. WLS-TV reported on ...
  • Slovakian steel hub remaking itself as ‘Europe ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Known mainly for its steelworks, the gritty industrial hub of Kosice in east Slovakia is hard at work reforging itself as a centre of creativity and the arts as it enters 2013 with the tag “Europea ...
  • Harris-Perry: Gun control may be ‘swifter and ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   On her Saturday show, Melissa Harris-Perry discussed the possibility that gun control advocates may want to focus on passing legislation at the local level. “While many are looking to the White Hou ...
  • Keiser Report: Welcome Home German Gold (E395)
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMax Keiseryoutube.com In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the currency war masquerading as a ‘storage plan,’ the Bond Kings threatening the gold repatriating Germany with having a Libya done ...
  • Spaeiouk, Memory 4: The Way Things Work (and o ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Dr. Spaeiouk No need to explain myself. I am I. However, to avoid misunderstandings and the inevitable moral confusion regarding matters of Intelligence, a brief tutorial migh ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Glaring Paradoxes: Let Us Be United in Unconst ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post January 18, 2013 I just finished reading a critical but seemingly irrational argument by one of the so-called constitutional experts against the concept of Nullification. I am neither an expert when it co ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Window of Opportunity For Pe ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 16, 2013 truthdig·Jan 16, 2013 Chris Hedges gives a talk at the Santa Fe Retreat as organized by Truthdig. [May 2012] * Chris Hedges discusses war and peace, including books he recommends at the Santa Fe Retreat hosted by Truthdig. * Chri ...
  • Michael Parenti on Media, Class, Politics, Dro ...
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Jan. 17, 2013 MidweekPolitics·Jan 16, 2013 Michael Parenti, noted political scholar and author of The Face of Imperialism joins David to discuss the changing role of media in the political landscape, ...
  • Jeju Island: In the Crosshairs of War
    Dandelion Salad Regis Tremblay·Jan 15, 2013 This a brief overview of the struggle to prevent the construction of a massive naval base in the tiny village of Gangjeong, on Jeju Island, S. Korea. In order to understand why the villagers have been opposing the construction 24 hours a day, 7 days a ...
  • 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 ...

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.
  • No title
    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 ...
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    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

  • Heavenly Look-Alikes: Animal-Shaped Nebulas an ...
    In honor of the Florida Manatee Festival, the NOAO is renaming nebula W50 as the Manatee nebula. Here, we take a look at other animal-shaped nebulas and how closely they resemble their animal namesakes.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Sunset o ...
    On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dark Clo ...
    This evocative image shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 ...
  • Is It Time to Treat Violence Like a Contagious ...
    It's often said that violence is a sickness, that gun violence threatens public health. Some scientists say these aren't just figures of speech, but literal truths: Violence truly is contagious, spreading through society like an infection.
  • Leprosy Reprograms the Body
    Leprosy has plagued humans for thousands of years, but that doesn't mean it has revealed all of its secrets. A new study in mice suggests the disfiguring disease employs a bit of biological trickery to do its damage: It reprograms ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Palestinian citizens wearily ey ...
    As Nazareth, the capital of Israel’s Palestinian minority, gears up for the country’s general election next week, the most common poster in the city features three far-right leaders noted for their... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • Will Bond v. United States Matter?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Bond v. United States is one of those cases that promises both more and less than it seems. At first glance, it seems an important and fascinating case because it is the first time the U.S. Supreme Court will revisit any aspect of the famous 1920 Oliver Wendell Holmes ...
  • Supreme Court decides to revisit Missouri v. H ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Just a quick entry (it’s late here in Tokyo) to note that the Supreme Court is going to hear the case of U.S. v. Bond, which, in effect, revisits the question of Missouri v. Holland and the scope of Congress’s power to implement U.S. treaty obligat ...
  • Weekend Roundup: January 12-18, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen The week on Opinio Juris started off on a lighter note with Ken’s post on the Obama Administration’s response to a petition to build the Death Star. And although the administration’s answer encourages readers to  ”pursue a career in a scien ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Friday, January 18, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has appeared in a court for the first time since his capture last year, in the western town of Zintan, where he is facing charges related to a visit by an ICC lawyer last year. Jurist has more here. US and ECOWAS troops will support Fra ...
  • Libya Admits It Should Lose Its Complementarit ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Not in so many words, of course.  But that’s the upshot of the Libyan government’s most recent statements.  Saif recently appeared for the first time in a Libyan court; his trial, which was supposed to start this month, is now set for May 201 ...

Public News Service

  • New Analysis: Evidence of Climate Change Stron ...
    New Analysis: Evidence of Climate Change Stronger Than Ever PHOENIX – Climate experts say the evidence is stronger than ever that climate change is happening, and comes with devastating consequences for Arizona and the rest of the nation. A new draft of the National Climate Assessment, r ...
  • Advocates For Medicaid Expansion Hopeful of La ...
    Advocates For Medicaid Expansion Hopeful of Lawmaker Support PHOENIX, Ariz. - The ball is now in the Legislature's court, following Gov. Jan Brewer's proposal to expand Arizona's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. ...(Read More)
  • Defensores de la expansión de Medicaid es ...
    Defensores de la expansión de Medicaid esperanzados de obtener apoyo legislativo PHOENIX, Ariz. – La pelota está en la cancha de la Legislatura, para secundar la propuesta de la Gobernadora Jan Brewer de ampliar el programa Medicaid de Arizona bajo la Affordable Care Act (Ley de ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • Merida and the Bechtel test
    The thing that most resonated about this talk was Colin Stokes’s defense of a particular Disney Princess: Merida, from Pixar’s Brave. I wrote a disappointed rant about that movie when it came out. I still deeply dislike the “You are a princess, act like it!” storyline. I ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Singing the song of angry men
    Steve Hynd ponders the derangement of three angry men from Kentucky who murdered a drug dealer because they wanted to “rid the world of evil” and how there are way too many angry men out there now. I can’t help but think that it takes a lot of rage at the core to do [...]
  • Federal Reserve thought there was no crisis in ...
    This is pathetic on so many levels. The Federal Reserve had no clue financial problems were coming in 2007. Yet blogs like Calculated Risk knew exactly what was coming and predicted it accurately. What’s worse, the very same dimbulbs who knew nothing in 2007 are still running the Fed. The ...
  • Guns don’t kill people, societal rage does…
    (Promoted from the comments on our post about gun laws and angry people. DJ discusses the growing and nasty divides in this country which threaten our unity, compounded and made worse by the already unhinged becoming violent. Is societal rage becoming the norm?) That societal rage is exactly th ...
  • Lance Armstrong non-apology apology
    Media reaction to the Lance Armstrong non-apology apology has been scathing. Zero Hedge invites readers to find the words “apologize” or “sorry” in the word cloud of his interview with Oprah Winfrey saying ,”we look forward to Lance’s rise to the ranks of pri ...
  • US falling behind other countries on cleantech ...
    A Pew Research report, Innovate, Manufacture, and Compete, says the US is starting to lose it when it comes to energy, cleantech, and renewable energy. Ever-changing government policies make it difficult if not impossible to make plans more than a year into the future for those wanting to build ...

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

  • Bogus 9/11 coin firm settles claims
    A company that sold September 11 commemorative coins supposedly containing silver from ground zero has agreed to pay 750,000 dollars (£474,683) to settle claims that it deceived consumers. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the National Collector’s Mint, based in Port Chester, New Yor ...
  • TSA: X-Ray Scanners To Be Removed Over Privacy ...
    – Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can’t fix the privacy issues. The other airport ...
  • City Offers Miami Heat Tickets In Exchange For ...
    The Miami Police Department is asking residents to turn in their weapons in return for Miami Heat tickets and gift cards. The gun buyback program is similar to those seen across the country.  Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado hopes that his buyback will prevent gun violence in the area. “What we& ...
  • ATF Supplied U.S. Government-Issue Weapons to ...
    A new investigation into the gun used to kill a Mexican beauty queen last month reveals that the murder weapon was a U.S. Government-issue pistol (only available to federal agents). The ATF agent that supplied this and other weapons to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel has also revealed that the gun-runni ...
  • Journal News Takes Down Controversial Map of G ...
    At the end of December, the Journal News published a detailed map cataloging all of the handgun permit owners in Westchester and Rockland counties, a move that caused much controversy among both gun rights and privacy advocates who felt the map placed figurative targets on the highlighted househ ...

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

  • Facebook roundup: Bing social search, PMD poli ...
    Facebook shares back below $30 - Wall Street was apparently unimpressed with Facebook’s Graph Search announcement. Facebook shares, which surged past $31 last week in anticipation of the company’s first big press event since going public, closed today...
  • Facebook cuts off ‘find friends’ access for Vo ...
    Facebook is restricting access to friend data for Voxer, the mobile messenger and walkie-talkie app it now identifies as a competitor, a Facebook spokesperson confirms. Voxer told AllThingsD today that it was given 48-hour notice that...
  • Facebook for Android update allows more flexib ...
    Facebook today released an update to its main Android application, which gives users more control over how they share items from mobile News Feed, as well as the option to send voice messages to their friends....
  • Facebook careers: ecosystem measurement manage ...
    Facebook added 27 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the security, engineering, finance, marketing and sales teams. The company added a listings for a security program manager, a security operations...
  • Facebook hires: mobile program manager, applic ...
    Facebook removed 19 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in the areas of engineering, recruiting, sales, marketing and data analysis. Notable hires include a technical program manager devoted to mobile, a software...

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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

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Glaring Paradoxes: Let Us Be United in Unconst ...
    I just finished reading a critical but seemingly irrational argument by one of the so-called constitutional experts against the concept of Nullification. I am neither an expert when it comes to constitutional law nor do I profess to be one. That said, when I sit and read analyses made for nullif ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

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    if you’re a role model like this and not like this if your children know who this is but have …Continue reading »
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    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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    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 »

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

  • Capturing the Presidential Inauguration from Space
    If it's a clear day on Monday, GeoEye's satellites will capture incredible imagery of President Obama's second Inauguration and make them available for use by members of the media. These images will be transmitted back to Earth in near real-time and, expanding from GeoEye's approach for the 2009 ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Syria - Syria On The Verge Of M ...
    Inspired by the democratic movements all across the Greater Middle East region, known as the “Arab Spring,� the Syrians, though cautiously at the beginning, took to the streets demanding further political and social reforms and greater freedoms. Launched in March 2011, the Syrian uprising wa ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Kerry, Powell, and Hagel
    Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and nominated by President Obama to serve as secretary of State, stands foursquare in a bipartisan national-security tradition that has served America well for generations. Former Secretary of State, National Security ...
  • Palestinian on Edge - Fatah's Armed Gangs Are Back
    After keeping a low profile for the past few years, Fatah's armed gangs have resurfaced in the West Bank. The reappearance of the masked gunmen could only mean one of two things: either the Palestinian Authority is really losing control, or that it is using the gunmen as a means of intimidating ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Civilian Airliner Anti ...
    An Israeli defense technology company says it has successfully tested an anti-missile system designed to protect commercial passenger jets. Elbit Systems Ltd. on Wednesday said its C-MUSIC system to protect large jets against shoulder-launched missiles from the ground passed tests. Elbit said it ...
  • The Battle for Mali - The Moveable Mali Front
    Information regarding the hostage seizure at In Amenas, located to the far south east of Algeria near the Libyan border, remained sketchy as this column was filed last night, scarcely more clear than when I filed an early account, now erroneous on some details, in the Weekly Standard two days ag ...

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

  • BREAKING GOP Offer- Long Term Debt Ceiling Inc ...
    Finally a good strategy.  Instead of demanding dollar for dollar budget cuts/increase in debt ceiling, the GOP is taking a short-term approach with a clear offer that can't be refused without the Democrats looking bad.  They offering to extend the debt ceiling to April 15th (the deadli ...
  • The Bill of Rights-Each Right Was Created Equal
    by Matt Vespa I’ve seen Facebook statuses from some of my liberal friends that go like this: First Amendment ≠ Second Amendment. No. There should be equal advocacy for honoring the entire Bill of Rights in American political discourse. Only liberals seem to put things on graduated scale. ...
  • NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: Ready, FIRE, Aim
    Those of you who live outside the People's Republic of New York may not understand this, but the state's politicians are the most dysfunctional group of government officials in the nation. And no one is more over the top dysfunctional than Governor Andrew Cuomo.  As Assistant Director of HU ...
  • Understanding Next Week's Israeli Election
    By Barry Rubin The Israeli election set for January 22 and the coverage thereof is very strange in several respects. It is a contest in which his opponents seek to beat centrist Prime Minister Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu, of the Likud party, in a remarkably inept manner and in which internat ...
  • Despite Mistake--Dana Loesch Destroys Piers Mo ...
    After last night, CNN's Piers Morgan must realize there are some things that are more dangerous than (what he calls) a military-style assault weapon, that is debating Dana Loesch.  On his show he attempted to debate Dana as well as Scottie Hughes of the Tea Party network. The two women turn ...

The Real Agenda

  • The fight was worth it: TSA to get rid of nake ...
    AP | JANUARY 18, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration confirms that it is getting rid of airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers. Right now the TSA uses two types of scanners. One makes a generic image showing where agents should look for an object on the tr ...
  • No Shade of Grey on the Right to Keep and Bear ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 18, 2013 Life is a carousel, a big screen where events appear, pass by, and, due to human nature, repeat themselves throughout history. A person only needs to look back 25, 50, 100 years or a millennium — depending on how much one wants ...
  • Nanomaterial Rivals Hardness of Diamond
    By JOHN MATSON | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | JANUARY 18, 2012 It’s only a matter of time before a movie villain pulling off the crime of the century needs a cutting tool that is harder than anything else on Earth. Perhaps it’s a burglary that involves cutting into a case made of diamond—whic ...
  • Connecticut Representative Introduces Bill tha ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 17, 2013 H.R 226, introduced by Representative Rosa DeLauro was brought to the House last Monday and counts with the support of one of her colleagues. This is the first attempt by a State government to follow up on the steps of the Federal Go ...
  • National Rifle Association promises to raise h ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 17, 2013 The powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) began on Wednesday its own crusade against the initiative announced and signed by the President of the United States to toughen laws on firearms. In a letter delivered to attendees of the ...

Wind Watch

  • Feds decide Goodhue County wind project’ ...
    A bitterly contested wind farm proposed for Goodhue County got the go-ahead Wednesday to pursue a permit that would allow it to legally kill or injure eagles, in what could be the first case of federal authorities issuing a license to kill the protected national symbol. The 48-turbine project wo ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 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

  • Congressman introduces bill to prod administra ...
    As the nation prepares to celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Congressman Al Green, a Texas Democrat, has introduced a bill, for the fourth time, to fund a national program to test for housing discrimination. read more
  • From the Southern Exposure Archives: With the ...
    Much of the impetus for the civil rights movement came from students who led marches, took beatings, sang freedom songs, and went to jail. James Orange organized schools in Birmingham, Ala. and recounted his experiences in a 1981 interview in Southern Exposure, which we share in honor of the mag ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: How Southern states' weak gun ...
    Southern states with weak gun laws are a major source of weapons used to commit crimes in other states -- but some of the region's political leaders say they plan to resist new federal initiatives to curb gun violence. read more
  • Map Mischief: How gerrymandering has undercut ...
    In 2012, 45 percent of Southern voters chose a Democrat for Congress. But this month, less than a third of U.S. Representatives from the South will be Democrats. Welcome to the world of gerrymandering, Southern-style. read more
  • Amid North Carolina anti-labor campaign, publi ...
    Already the least-unionized state in the nation, North Carolina will become even more hostile to labor if its current political leaders have their way. But despite the anti-union onslaught, public workers scored a key win this week in the state's biggest city. 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

  • Iraq wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for ...
    Stirling Newberry has up an important piece on how protected works are used to pay for imports. You should read it.  There’s a reason the laws against “piracy” are more punitive than those against, say, negligent murder.
  • Iraq wouldn’t have happened if it weren& ...
    Stirling Newberry has up an important piece on how protected works are used to pay for imports. You should read it.  There’s a reason the laws against “piracy” are more punitive than those against, say, negligent murder.
  • 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 [...]
  • 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 ...

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 New Power Class Who Will Profit From Obama ...
    When President Obama takes the oath of office for the second time, he will also usher in a new era in American power politics. Whereas the old left-wing definition of “who rules” focused on large corporations, banks, energy companies and agribusinesses, the Obama-era power st ...
  • Will Driverless Cars Help us Drive Less?
    The war on automobiles is real. Backed by a legion of city officials, environmentalists, and new urbanists, the argument to mitigate vehicle has so far been an easy sell – at least in planning circles. Their assumptions echo concerns about the trajectory American cities – the downfall of rur ...
  • Rust Belt Cities: Invest in Odysseus, Not Barn ...
    Given its legacy of shrinking, the Rust Belt has issues. The issues arose naturally, and relate to the fact things leave, or that so much has left. Particularly, when things leave, the mind—both the individual and the collective city mind—can get protective and restrictive. Neediness ari ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UNAMI Proposal Fails to Resolve Ashraf Propert ...
    Before leaving the US, legal representatives of the residents were told they would probably meet Faleh Fayad, Maliki National Security Advisor or George Bakoos, Maliki political advisor.
  • Cold Air to Hang on Over Much of Europe
    In this pattern, high pressure hovers near Scandinavia and forces storms that roll in from the Northern Atlantic Ocean to drop southward or re-form over the Mediterranean Sea.
  • US Supports Resolution of Claims Involving Hol ...
    In reaffirming these commitments, Ms. Clinton states that the Department of State expresses no view on any issue currently in litigation. U.S. policy will continue to support the fair and just resolution of claims involving Holocaust-Era looted art
  • More Questions Than Answers According to Jodi ...
    As the State rests its case and the jury is dismissed until January 29th, the questions raised by the jury themselves show there may be more questions than answers in their mind regarding Arias' guilt.
  • 'Pot and Pan' Offers Delightful Thai Cuisine i ...
    My guest Tom Hallick, who has a nice part in Gangster Squad, raved about the Pad Thai, which consisted of Vernielli noodles, blended with vegetables. I ordered Red curry with Pineapple with brown rice and a side order of vegetables.

Worldnews

  • Beaten Brit Laura Robson laments her atta ...
    Laura Robson believes she may need to curb her attacking instincts as her career progresses over the next few years. The world No 53 was dumped out of the Australian Open by fellow teenager Sloane Stephens who reached the last 16 with a 7-5 6-3 victory in 109 minutes. Robson started slowly.. ...
  • Kirilenko avoids exit after taking fashio ...
    Gear change … Maria Kirilenko wears a yellow bandanna on Saturday after she was told her visor breached branding regulations. Photo: AFP RUSSIAN glamour girl Maria Kirilenko flirted with disqualification before booking a fourth-round showdown with Serena Williams at the Australian Open ...
  • Djokovic to take easy way to final
    Nice draw: Novak Djokovic should sail into the final. Photo: Sebastian Costanzo SHOULD the men's event follow the seedings, Novak Djokovic will end up playing plucky Spanish base machine David Ferrer for a place in his third consecutive Australian Open final. It no great insult to Ferrer to ...
  • Murray joins doping crackdown push
    ANDY MURRAY has backed a tougher anti-doping regime for tennis, including biological passports and more blood tests, to keep...
  • Agnieszka Radwanska ready for acid test a ...
    AGNIESZKA Radwanskas six-week preparation of cracking tennis balls surrounded by -10C conditions and on a different surface to Melbourne Park faces is set to face its first acid test tonight. The Polish star will meet No. 13 seed Ana Ivanovic with a quarter-finals berth on the line, but is c ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Cancer survivors mixed on Armstrong
    In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs while cycling. He's already been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and this week had to give back his Olympic bronze medal. But he still must... (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
  • David Beckham delights injured soldiers and ca ...
    The international footballer dropped in with actor Ray Winstone for a secret visit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on Wednesday. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
  • Video: Overall cancer death rate drops
    New American Cancer Society numbers show the overall cancer death rate has dropped significantly in the last few decades. Ines Ferre reports. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
  • Simple Blood Test Reveals DNA Marker That Pred ...
    Medical researchers at the University of Alberta tested the DNA of more than 300 women in Alberta and discovered a 'genetic marker' method to help accurately profile which women were more apt to have their breast cancer return years later...
  • HIV trial under scrutiny
    Critics say that antibody therapy is too expensive for its African target population.

Common Dreams

  • Algerian Army Stages 'Final Assault' on BP Gas ...
    The In Amenas gas field in Algeria (file photo) The hostage situation at the BP gas plant in the Algerian desert reached a bloody conclusion Saturday as the official Algerian news agency reported that the army had launched a final assault on the gas field taken over by an Islamic resistance grou ...
  • Palestinians Forge New Village in Protest of I ...
    Night at Bab Al-Karamah. (International Solidarity Movement / Abir Kopty)Palestinian activists began constructing a new village in the West Bank on Friday in protest of the illegal Israeli occupation in Palestine and ongoing land grabs by Israeli settlers in the area. ...
  • Palestinians Forge New Village in Protest of I ...
    Night at Bab Al-Karamah. (International Solidarity Movement / Abir Kopty)Palestinian activists began constructing a new village in the West Bank on Friday in protest of the illegal Israeli occupation in Palestine and ongoing land grabs by Israeli settlers in the area. ...
  • 'Mali Ko': Musicians Come Together in Mali to ...
    Musicians in the west African nation of Mali—now the scene of a military intervention by the French military with backing from the US—have come together with a message calling for a peaceful end to the violent conflict that has recently engulfed their country. ...
  • 'Mali Ko': Musicians Come Together in Mali to ...
    Musicians in the west African nation of Mali—now the scene of a military intervention by the French military with backing from the US—have come together with a message calling for a peaceful end to the violent conflict that has recently engulfed their country. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Wind Power Isn’t Perfect, But It’s a Hell of ...
    If we were to stick with our coal phase-out strategy without wind, we would need to burn more natural gas. The reality is that when the wind blows it gives us the opportunity to burn less natural gas when it’s being used to displace coal. This is partially why greenhouse-gas emissions associated ...
  • An Update on Climate Legislation
    This week the organisation known as GLOBE (The Global Legislators’ Organisation supports national parliamentarians to develop and agree common legislative responses to the major challenges posed by sustainable development) met in London and launched its biannual review of national climate legisl ...
  • Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Mandates: ...
    The basic question for proponents of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) is this: What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to reduce carbon emissions? Are you trying to keep future electric rates affordable? None of these goals are accomplished by the RPS.
  • New Energy Sources: Possibilities and Prospects
    Energy transition is not just an imperative: it’s a certainty. But while it’s certain that we’ll continue to transition towards a new energy mix, far less certain are the nature of this mix and the speed of our transition. Also uncertain, though certain to be profound, are the impacts of this tr ...
  • Webinar Replay: Energy Policy in the 113th Con ...
    The bankruptcy of solar manufacturer and stimulus-loan recipient, Solyndra, sparked a national media firestorm and political debate over the role of government in funding emerging clean energy technologies.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Open Letter to New York Times Editors
    by Stephen Lendman A personal note: I'm one of your fiercest critics. I'm certainly one of the most outspoken. My critiques are justified. I don't prepare them lightly. I scrupulously strive for truth and full disclosure. If only Times writers, contributors and editors maintained simila ...
  • Chavez Shows Clinical Improvement
    by Stephen Lendman Venezuelans welcome good news. They pray for Chavez's full recovery. News from Havana is encouraging. On January 14, The Havana Times headlined "Chavez Is Improving," saying: His respiratory infection is controlled. On national radio and television, Vice President ...
  • Israeli Apologist Benny Morris
    by Stephen Lendman On January 8, Morris headlined his Haaretz op-ed "The day after Iran's tomorrow," saying: "If Iran feels Israel or (America) are about to attack it soon, it could use missiles to attack attack Israel's military airfields and perhaps additional strategic installations as w ...
  • Pakistan’s Withering Heights
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. Nobody would cry nor would the sky fall if the corrupt Zardari regime is ousted by the voices of reason and a much desired non-partisan national government of unity is put in place to re-arrange the affairs of the nation……. There is no honest and accountable ...
  • Obama: Money Power's Point Man
    by Stephen Lendman Throughout his tenure, Obama's done what supporters thought impossible. He's governed to the right of George Bush. He mocks rule of law principles and other democratic values. He prioritizes wars on humanity. He's waging multiple direct and proxy ones. War on terror subter ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Our way or the Norway: managing oil wealth in ...
    When it comes to managing oil wealth, Canada has something to learn form our European neighbours. In a new report, CCPA’s Executive Director Bruce Campbell compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil wealth to that of Norway and finds that for too long foreign and d ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The War on Mali. (It’s not in the Hawaii ...
    Two things happen whenever a Clinton speaks; Innocent people die and rich people get richer. By R. Teichman,Global Research - The French government has stated that: “it would send 2,500 troops to support Malian government soldiers in the conflict against Islamist rebels. France has already deplo ...
  • Hippie Digest: Ozzy gets burnt – Hippie ...
    For If The Flies – Hippie Disneyland - “Poverty tourism—this is what this was.” “Are you Mexican?” the bartender at the jungle bar in Palenque asked Miguel incredulously. My boyfriend, who has never left Mexico and is used to being part of its homogenous culture, looked surprised at ...
  • CJE Saturday News Briefs
    Former New Orleans Mayor Nagin indicted WS – “Chocolate” thug! NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 18 (UPI) — A federal grand jury has indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on bribery, conspiracy and money laundering charges. The indictment charges Nagin — a Democrat who was ma ...
  • What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murd ...
    By Bruce E Levine, Truthout | Report - Starting with results of the Nazi elimination of diagnosed schizophrenics, Levine re-examines the evidence for the heritability of mental illness and offers some suggestions about Western civilization and our shared humanity. If a nation murdered and s ...
  • ‘Praying Bad’ Video: Catholic Prie ...
    By Michael Allen,.opposingviews.com – Former Catholic Priest Kevin Wallin, who was recently arrested in a crystal meth ring, dressed as a woman, used bizarre sex toys and had sex in the church rectory with odd-looking men, reports the Connecticut Post. Wallin, who was a priest at Bridgepor ...

FourWinds10

  • UNGRIP Declaring Our Inherent Independence
    Dec. 10, 2012 Extremely powerful. Please pass it on. This is a template for taking action, abiding by conscious awareness of our inherent rights as sovereign human beings. – Zen VIEW HERE http://www.
  • Coast Guard: 4-mile stretch of oil has appeare ...
    Oct. 4, 2012 Title: Oil sheen mysteriously appears off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Source: CNN Author: AnneClaire Stapleton Contributing Date: 2:57 PM EDT, Thu October 4, 2012 An oil sheen about four miles long has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. hist ...
  • New York blasted with toxic influx of sewage a ...
    Nov. 10, 201 (NaturalNews) Embattled with several feet of flood waters in some areas, persistent power outages, and rot and decay throughout tattered streets, many areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy are also now suffering the consequences of a massive influ ...
  • TV: Sucking and blowing from tank on troubled ...
    Jan. 4, 2013 Excerpts from Alaska Dispatch: Sean Churchfield, incident commander and operations manager for Royal Dutch Shell Alaska, offered few details on the overall condition of the Kulluk and had no update on the vessel’s hull. During Wednesday’s short press briefing, officials ...
  • New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed ...
    Dec. 8, 2012 Thousands of previously unread emails will be presented to court in February 2013 BP claim they always provided full disclosure on worst oil spill in history, new information seems to show otherwise Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew ab ...

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

  • Are You Eating Shady Cereal?
    A new year means a fresh start, and what better place to start fresh than your morning bowl of cereal—the meal that greets many Americans each and every morning. To help increase consumer awareness and hold companies responsible for labeling ingredients, a national coalition has launched "GMO ...
  • The Best New Reason to Plant a Tree
    The benefits of trees are growing. We already know they boost home value by gussying up curb appeal. They serve as beautiful water filters, too, reducing flooding and keeping runoff out of precious water supplies. But it's clear their benefits stretch much farther, though, as evidenced by a new ...
  • 5 Things You Need to Know about the 2013 Flu
    America is engulfed in a sea of influenza, an especially potent viral strain that's sickening people from coast to coast. And America's doctors are making no qualms about it—it's a nasty flu season—one of the worst in years. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows th ...
  • The BPA Replacement You Cannot Trust
    By now, the science is pretty played out: Bisphenol A, also known as BPA, poses a clear threat to your health. The cash-register receipt, plastic, and canned-food-lining chemical plays tricks on your hormonal system, acting like an estrogen imposter and promoting problems like breast and prosta ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Whoever Said that Feminism Was About Your Happ ...
    Recently I had occasion to browse my collection of yellowed "second-wave" feminist paperbacks, from the late 1960s and early 1970s. I bought most of them at used book stores in grad school. "Vaginal Politics," "Sappho was a Right-On Woman," essays such as “Down with Sexist Upbringing,” “How to . ...
  • Can Simply Moving Your Eyes Relieve PTSD?
    What's the Latest Development? Some therapists are hailing a new technique to relieve memories of past traumas which asks patients to recall severe events while quickly darting their eyes back and forth, "as if you are watching a high-speed Ping-Pong match." Called eye movement desensiti ...
  • Modern Cooking: How Gas Stoves Saved Millions ...
    What's the Latest Development? Cooking has changed dramatically since our ancestors were ripping raw flesh from between their worn teeth, anchored by a bulging and muscular jaw. A new history of cooking is explained in the new book Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson. The invention of the co ...
  • "Anonymous" Genetic Information is Easily Matc ...
    What's the Latest Development? Because such a wealth of personal information on nearly everyone is now available online, a person's anonymous genetic information may be enough to allow a third party to identify who the person is and where he or she lives. "n a paper published in Science  ...
  • Using Stem Cells to Grow New Organs and Test B ...
    What's the Latest Development? Using a special class of stem-cell known as pluripotent cells, medical technology companies are taking innovative risks. They have hopes of revolutionizing drug testing methods and creating a new field of treatment called regenerative medicine. The British ...

Information Liberation

  • Cop Tickets Man For Pointing Out He's In The Wrong
    A Venice cop on video makes up a "crime" to ticket a man for because he made him look like a fool by pointing out he was in the wrong. A crowd gathers and joins in the fun, everyone agreeing the cop is insane. As a result of the man "arguing" wit...
  • Legitimacy
    What is the difference between a government and a criminal gang or protection racket such as the mafia? In a word, it is legitimacy. In practice, this vague notion suggests that people view the government*its institutional composition, its personnel,...
  • Do American's Think We Face Tyranny?
    Luke Rudkowski hits the streets of NYC to find out what people think about the possibility of Tyranny in the United States. Let us know what you think of the video in the comments section below. Source 1: NDAA 2013 Allows Indefinite Detention Of...
  • Carmen Ortiz Releases Totally Bogus Statement ...
    After staying silent or issuing "no comments" for nearly a week, Carmen Ortiz, the US Attorney in charge of the prosecution against Aaron Swartz has finally released a statement about Swartz, his suicide, and her possible role in the suicide. As you...
  • Statist Media Courtesan: All Rights are "Infri ...
    Responding to critics of the Obama administration*s gun control proposals, MSNBC Anchor Andrea Mitchell argued that it is permissible for the federal government to infringe rights described as *unalienable* * such as freedom of speech and the right t...

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

  • Developing World Special Offer
    A few contacts from the developing world have asked about pricing of my book as they’d like to get a copy but the standard price is, they hint, a little high for their budgets. So here’s the deal. If you live in a blue zone on the map below – China, South America, Asia, Russia ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    UPDATE: Apparently, research from James Rose and colleagues has demonstrated that actually, fish don’t feel pain in any conscious, meaningful way. Sounds fishy to me… Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have an ...
  • Why crustaceans might be feeling crabby
    UPDATE: Apparently, research from James Rose and colleagues has demonstrated that actually, fish don’t feel pain in any conscious, meaningful way. Sounds fishy to me… Contrary to the words of Kurt Kobain, it’s probably no longer okay to eat fish because they don’t have an ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • The Climate Implications of the Proposed Keyst ...
    Pembina Institute http://www.pembina.org/pub/2407 To help inform the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, this backgrounder features new analysis showing that producing enough bitumen to fill the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, and inhibit ...
  • Petroleum Coke: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands
    Oil Change International http://priceofoil.org/2013/01/17/petroleum-coke-the-coal-hiding-in-the-tar-sands/ The Canadian tar sands have been called the “most environmentally destructive project on earth”, with good reason…But…existing analyses of the impacts of tar sands fail to accou ...
  • Charting New Waters: State of Watershed Paymen ...
    Forest Trends / by Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll and Katherine Hamilton http://bit.ly/13MuNlV The number of initiatives that protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other water-rich ecosystems has nearly doubled in just four years as governments urgently seek sustainable alternatives t ...
  • SpringerOpen, a Freely Accessible Science Sear ...
    Springer http://www.springeropen.com/ [The Intellogist wiki] Springer Open is a freely accessible platform, launched in June 2010, that allows user to access the scientific publisher Springer’s portfolio “of over 100 peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of scienc ...
  • Towards Consistent and Effective Carbon Pricin ...
    OECD / by Ivana Capozza and Joseph Curtin http://bit.ly/UwyEhV Germany committed itself to challenging greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets to 2020 and beyond. It has implemented a composite mix of policy measures to achieve its climate change mitigation goals, including a range of ma ...

Scientific American - News

  • Mercury Emissions Threaten Aquatic Environments
    As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today, scientists warn that ongoing emissions are more of a threat to food webs than the mercury already in the environment. [More]
  • Chipmaker Races to Save Stephen Hawking s Spee ...
    Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long relied on technology to help him connect with the outside world despite the degenerative motor neuron disease he has battled for the past 50 years. Whereas Hawking’s condition has deteriorated over time, a highly respected computer scientist ...
  • Novel Solar Photovoltaic Cells Achieve Record ...
    Here's how to make a powerful solar cell from indium and phosphorus: First, arrange microscopic flecks of gold on a silicon background. Using the gold as seeds, grow precisely arranged wires roughly 1.5 micrometers tall out of chemically tweaked compounds of indium and phosphorus. Keep the ...
  • A Smut Above: Unhealthy Soot in the Air Could ...
    Black carbon, commonly described as soot, may play a larger role in global warming than previously estimated, according to a new study. [More]
  • Feeling Threatened Makes Us Nicer
    The way we behave when threatened sometimes goes against conventional wisdom: we soften up. Andrew White, a PhD student at Arizona State University, and his colleagues analyzed data from 54 nations and found that the more a nation spent on its military (presumably a good index of perceived threa ...

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

  • Understanding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored ...
    By Ben Sichel and Jackie Barkley It has been deeply saddening to learn about the allegations of abuse that have come from former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children in recent months. They have resonated throughout the Bl ...
  • Grève de faim en Nitassinan: Entrevue avec Ani ...
    Les Innus et le mouvement Idle No More Aniesh Vollant, une jeune militante de la réserve de Uashat, à côté de Sept-Îles, et Jeannette Pilot, une grand mère aussi de Uashat, sont deux femmes innues qui font présentment une grève de faim. Leu ...
  • We Are Jose: Vancouver
    On 16 January 2013, a dozen people gathered outside the Citizenship and Immigration offices at 300 West Georgia St. in Vancouver to protest the ongoing process of deportat ...
  • Not Extinct and Never Idle
      Marilyn James, spokesperson for the Sinixt Nation, speaking at Idle No More January 16, 2013 Sinixt Terrority (aka Nelson, BC) http://www.sinixtnation.org/ http:/ ...
  • Vive le Québec ... enfin!
    un regard sur les récents mois Depuis octobre 2011, l’impact de la commission Charbonneau se fait ressentir dans la province de Québec. Malgré un départ quelque peu lent, cett ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Democracy in an age of "unhappy capitalism": s ...
    David Seaton's News Links They say that only the good die young.  In the short time he lived, it was given to Aaron Swartz to define the principal problem facing public life in the United States of America: If it was conventional wisdom that a bunch of unelected bankers looking out for rich ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • There Are Limits to Hardball
    House Republicans have apparently agreed to raise the debt ceiling for three months, and liberals are widely declaring victory. I'd advise caution on two grounds. First, we haven't yet seen the actual proposal, so we don't know if they're offering a clean bill or one with obnoxious conditions. ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 18 January 2013
    This week's set decoration idea comes from my sister (aka Inkblot's Aunt, in comments). Get a box, she said, put a quilt in the box, and then put the cat in the box. Or, better yet, just wait for the cat to hop into the box on her own. After all, a cat in a box is a timeless theme of catbloggi ...
  • The Case Against (Temporarily) Abolishing Taxes
    Matt Yglesias argues that since the federal government can borrow money at negative interest rates, it should borrow instead of taxing: You're the mayor of a city. A storm strikes and ruins a whole bunch of your police cars. Now you need to buy new ones. You have two options for paying for ...
  • Let's Get One Thing Straight: It's Republicans ...
    David Brooks is worried that Democrats, sensing weakness, will spend the next four years trying to divide and destroy the Republican Party: He’s already started with a perfectly designed gun control package, inviting a long battle with the N.R.A. over background checks an ...
  • My Modest Proposal to Solve the Debt Ceiling Fight
    National Journal reports: Republicans appear to be willing to avoid a showdown over the debt limit and instead use the sequester as their main negotiating lever in upcoming fiscal fights with the White House and Senate Democrats. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Re ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 375: Young C Murda Jr
    Topic: Gotta have a little “ism” in you Using disrespectful words Kev tells an infidelity story Worst.Friend.Ever Carl Jr. is awesome Kriss doesn’t fuck with Obama anymore Working on the Enterprise actually sucks Higher body count: Picard or Kirk Herschel Walker = old man stren ...
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • Temperature cuts swathe through Australian seaweed
    A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University of Western Australia
  • 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?

e!Science News

  • Penn physicists help show math behind growth o ...
    Last year, a team of University of Pennsylvania physicists showed how to undo the "coffee-ring effect," a commonplace occurrence when drops of liquid with suspended particles dry, leaving a ring-shaped stain at the drop's edges. Now the team is exploring how those particles stack up as ...
  • Climate change's effects on temperate rain for ...
    Longer, warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate rain forests, but not all plant species will be negatively affected, according to research conducted by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station. read more
  • It's a dog's life: Doggy database aims to defi ...
    Using data collected about Labrador Retrievers, research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Veterinary Research is beginning to quantify the health, illnesses, and veterinary care of dogs. read more
  • Savanna study highlights African fuelwood crisis
    The dwindling reserves of fuelwood in Africa have been illuminated in a new study published January 18, which shows a bleak outlook for supplies across savannas in South Africa. read more
  • Charting new routes for women at work: Looking ...
    When mom is the boss at home, she may have a harder time being the boss at work. New research suggests that women, but not men, become less interested in pursuing workplace power when they view that they are in control of decision-making in the home. This shift in thinking affects career choices ...

unEarthed

  • President Obama Must Lead on Climate Change
    The silence is broken, now is the time to act On Monday, President Obama’s inauguration will officially mark the beginning of his second term, and with it ...
  • Going to Extremes In Arctic: Is it Worth It?
    Industry not ready for offshore drilling in treacherous waters Shell drill rig grounded near Kokiak Island. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Painter) ...
  • Journalists Expose Fracking Cover Up
    Earthjustice attorneys in court to expose industry secrets Tap water is lit on fire, as seen in the fracking documentary Gasland. New uncovered documents show ...
  • EPA Holds Slime Hearings In Florida
    Activists demand Clean Water Act enforcement statewide Green slime in Florida waterway. (Richard Solveson) Clean water activists showed up in force today at t ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Is There Something In Missouri's ...
    Experts, elected officials go AWOL from reason regarding coal ash Water that has come into contact with coal ash has been found to contain poisonous levels of arsenic, lead and other pollut ...

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

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicans Want To Screw More People Out Of T ...
    Since fewer and fewer people are willing to vote for Republicans for president the Republicans have a plan. Since Republicans  have drawn districts where they control the state even though more people vote for democrats, they want to change the electoral map. They want to keep Texas the same, bu ...
  • 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 ...

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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  • IDF evicts Palestinians from their land, arres ...
    The IDF arrested 10 Palestinians and five Israelis in the South Hebron Hills today (Saturday) while they were trying to reach Palestinian-owned land (i.e. doing absolutely nothing wrong) next to the illegal outpost called Mitzpeh Yair, in the southern West Bank. According to Guy, an Israeli Ta&# ...
  • Final Israeli elections poll: Netanyahu’s bloc ...
    The last polls ahead of Tuesday’s election have been published. Netanyahu’s Likud-Beitenu joint ticket could lose as many as eight seats, but the right-wing coalition he is projected to lead is still strong. Meretz is trending up, while Livni is losing support. We have updated out Poll Tracker w ...
  • Why no Israeli government will ever impose man ...
    Compulsory military service for yeshiva students is a popular issue for secular politicians. But Shas and other Orthodox parties will continue to get their way on this issue, partly because of Israel’s fragmented electoral system, but also largely because Zionism depends on the haredim for ...
  • Future Member of Knesset for Jewish Home party ...
    I posted a video Friday showing Jeremy Gimpel, number 14 on Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home list to the next Knesset, talking about the Dome of Rock being “blown up.” It wasn’t a gaffe: Here is Gimpel explaining in a radio show why the Dome of Rock – the holiest site ...
  • WATCH: Candidate from Jewish Home party wants ...
    Israeli journalist Yehuda Nuriel came across this video of Jeremy Gimpel, number 14 on Naftali Bennett’s Habait Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party, speaking before a church in Florida on November 13, 2011. Among other things, Gimpel seems to want the Dome of the Rock to be blown up, making way f ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Mortgage Settlments- Massive Tax Writeoffs ...
    As if more evidence was needed that Wall Street has rigged the game in its favor, the IRS is going to allow the banks that engaged in a massive nationwide program of mortgage fraud to write off their settlement:
  • The 49 State Attorney General Foreclosure Scre ...
    The banks that just settled with regulators over their mortgage abuses are getting off lightly, Cox suggested. When the amount companies must pay in a settlement "is just the cost of doing business, there's not very much deterrence value there," he said.
  • Florida Attorney General Announces $60 Million ...
    There’s a whole lot of snark in this post.  Take a look at how Florida’s….umm….I mean, The Banker’s Favorite Attorney General proposes to dole out some of the money stolen from taxpayers: Attorney General Bondi’s proposal to help Floridians, which was approved by th ...
  • URGENT! DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR SETTLMENT FUNDS ...
    The consumers and citizens of this state were sold out in a secret deal between the banks and the government they own. Now they want to offer consumers a few dollars ..... nuisance money ..... CALL TODAY TO GET YOURS!
  • 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 ...

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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

  • The CLF Week in Links: Climate Change, Cabinet ...
    With Lisa Jackson’s departure from the EPA, announced at the turn of the year, and now Salazar's from the Interior, President Obama has some serious recruiting to do. We hope the replacements for both agencies will bear similar profiles in courage.
  • The Year of Ethical Eating
    You may be surprised by which restaurants do not provide paid sick days. Hint: Five Guy Burgers and Fries, Maggiano’s Little Italy, McCormick & Schmicks, Morton’s & Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses, and Starbucks.
  • Now, Not Later – We Need to Talk about the Far ...
    The farm bill extension that passed was written behind closed doors and serves a few powerful interests -- not the interests of the average citizen, public health, and the environment. We should be outraged.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Food Safety, Shortages, ...
    This week in food—MRSA in milk, new food safety rules, Jane Brody's bizarro-world blogpost, strange doings at the NIH, still debating antibiotics in animal feed, trouble brewing Zambia, and more.
  • The CLF Week in Links: New Year, New Energy
    Here are a few of the news items that are getting the most attention at the Center for a Livable Future.

k2p blog

  • Noted in Passing 19th January 2013
    A weekly post on things that were interesting or which I would have liked to have blogged about .......
  • Airport security is now more about business th ...
    So it is encouraging to read that TSA to pull revealing scanners from airports. But I am afraid that my cynical view remains that after 9/11: airports 'wasting billions' on needless security checks for passengers. As Business Week put it Airport Security Is Killing Us. It is time to demand th ...
  • 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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Sleeping In This Guy’s Car For $1,800/Ni ...
    Though this year’s Super Bowl is irrelevant because of its lack of Eagles, there are apparently still enough people out there who want to attend the festivities that the illegal short-term lease market is booming in New Orleans. In what we’re going to assume is a joke listing, someon ...
  • Fearing Brand Konfusion, Two Makeup Companies ...
    It seems whenever we hear about the Kardashian family at Consumerist HQ, somebody is mad at the sisters three not because of their reality TV empire or their somewhat mystifying celebrity, but because of their business dealings. In this most recent round of “What have the Kardashians done ...
  • How Tide Became An Underground Currency
    Everyone loves Tide, from the toddlers who gobble detergent pods to the criminals who boost it and sell it illegally. Some people even do laundry with it. The real question at the core of the Tide trade is this: How did bottles of brand-name detergent become a de facto currency? Why this brand, ...
  • Do You Still Tip Your Cab Driver When He Gets ...
    If your waiter accidentally brings you someone else’s food, you’re probably still going to tip him, provided that he takes it back and eventually gives you the correct dish. But when your cabbie gets lost, that meter can keep running while he tries to correct his course. So does he g ...
  • All Maple Trees Are Not The Same: Botanists Sa ...
    Canada is having a rough go of this whole “print new money and make sure it won’t melt” thing already, and now it sounds like there’s even more currency confusion. Botanists up north are claiming that the government put the wrong dang maple leaf on the country’s new ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Internal Hanford Document Sounds the Alarm: Da ...
    The Seattle Times: Hanford Official Had Sought Halt to Waste-Treatment Project An internal December memo from a high-level official at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state has been made public. The paper recommends that the plant halt all activities related to its nuclear safety, desi ...
  • DC Event: CIA-Torture Whistleblower Kiriakou t ...
    Dear GAP Supporters: We'd like to invite you to a special event next Wednesday, when CIA/Anti-torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou will be honored with the unveiling of his portrait! This portrait, the newest edition of prominent artist Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Tell the T ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Support for Mumbai Terror Group Lands Chicagoa ...
    by Sebastian Rotella ProPublica CHICAGO — A federal judge Thursday sentenced a Chicago immigration consultant to 14 years in prison for his role in supporting the Pakistani terrorist group that worked with Pakistan’s intelligence service to carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks and plot a foll ...
  • A Sea Change in the Firearms Debate
    by Tina Dupuy In August of 1925 The New York Times estimated 50,000 – 60,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in a parade in our nation’s capital. It was a huge public display of the once-secret group. H.L. Mencken called it “a full mile of Klansmen and their ladies.” The man sitting in the W ...
  • Why 58 Representatives Who Voted for Hurricane ...
    by Theodoric Meyer ProPublica When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Congress passed two relief bills almost unanimously. But when it comes to Hurricane Sandy, some in Congress seem to have had a change of heart. After Katrina, a $51.8 billion relief packagepassed the House of Representatives 410 t ...
  • Kerry, Powell, Hagel
    by Brent Budowsky Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and nominated by President Obama to serve as secretary of State, stands foursquare in a bipartisan national-security tradition that has served America well for generations. Former Secretary of State, ...
  • Would King have spoken on LGBTQ’s behalf?
    by Rev. Irene Monroe This Monday, we will mark 27 years of observing Martin Luther King Day. Some states began honoring Dr. King on January 20, 1986. King would have been eighty-four. He was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis by an assassin on April 4, 1968. If he were a ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Whistleblower Science Fraud Site is Shut Down
    I would like to see what was on the Science Fraud site. The only parts left seem eminently admirable. Apparently in just six months, the site received anonymous tips documenting suspicious results in over 300 papers. Some of those papers were subsequently retracted. Wherever there are big dollar ...
  • unthreaded friday
    Ive been away this week in Augusta (hence the gaps in posts). Driving back. This is the most south west point where the Indian Ocean meets the Great Southern. Have enjoyed the Blackwood river and canoes. Jo Rating: 7.8/10 (13 votes cast) Rating: 7.8/10 (13 votes cast)
  • 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 ...

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

  • Congressman introduces bill to prod administra ...
    As the nation prepares to celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Congressman Al Green, a Texas Democrat, has introduced a bill, for the fourth time, to fund a national program to test for housing discrimination. read more
  • From the Southern Exposure Archives: With the ...
    Much of the impetus for the civil rights movement came from students who led marches, took beatings, sang freedom songs, and went to jail. James Orange organized schools in Birmingham, Ala. and recounted his experiences in a 1981 interview in Southern Exposure, which we share in honor of the mag ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: How Southern states' weak gun ...
    Southern states with weak gun laws are a major source of weapons used to commit crimes in other states -- but some of the region's political leaders say they plan to resist new federal initiatives to curb gun violence. read more
  • Map Mischief: How gerrymandering has undercut ...
    In 2012, 45 percent of Southern voters chose a Democrat for Congress. But this month, less than a third of U.S. Representatives from the South will be Democrats. Welcome to the world of gerrymandering, Southern-style. read more
  • Amid North Carolina anti-labor campaign, publi ...
    Already the least-unionized state in the nation, North Carolina will become even more hostile to labor if its current political leaders have their way. But despite the anti-union onslaught, public workers scored a key win this week in the state's biggest city. 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

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Eurasian Union: Flawed Assertions
    I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The Eurasian Union has been in the news but somewhat quiet for a long time. Any attempt for Russia (or any country) to raise itself from subjugation in a world ruled by a single “hyper power” is sin to people like US Secretary of State Hillary [...]
  • Lithuania: Stamped Out Truth
    The contemporary Lithuania uses the official interpretation of bloody events that took place in Vilnius on January 13 1991 as an ideological foundation for Russophobia-based confrontation with its eastern neighbor. It says “the Soviet soldiers committed an intentional murder of 13 unarmed people ...
  • The Bared Teeth of the Syrian War: Qatar Feels ...
    The “Arab Spring” instigated by Qatar and its allies in Syria is slowly but surely beginning to subside, and the real people behind the terrible spectacle known as the “Syrian Revolution” are being mercilessly and cynically exposed. High-ranking officials in Qatar who wis ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Thank You From First Lady Michelle Obama
    Dear BlogHer— With Barack’s second inauguration just a few days away, I wanted to take a moment to check in with all of you here at BlogHer, to reflect on the past year, and to look toward the work that remains. First, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you did to i ...
  • Mother/Daughter Team: On Working Together & Ma ...
    Melinda Caughill and Diane J. Omdahl, RN, MS, are co-founders of 65 Incorporated, a company dedicated to making Medicare easy. They recently sat down with me via phone to talk about their company's mission and what it is like to be in an entrepreneurial venture working with family. The perspe ...
  • Dear Lily on HIMYM: Yes, Motherhood Is Hard
    Dear Lily, You've been on my mind and my heart since the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother aired. While I acknowledge that you are a fictional character, I have become attached to you and your friends over the years. I have laughed and cried with you for eight seasons now. But the other n ...
  • The One Tiny Thing That Can Make Your Dream a ...
    The Dream. Whether we've confronted ourselves or not, we all have one. So, what are you doing to make it a reality? Often, the road to The Dream seems overwhelming - a mountain of impossible tasks and daunting sacrifices lined with insecurity and doubt - otherwise, The Dream would be The Reality ...
  • Gun Control Laws: America's Obsession to Maste ...
    On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled some of the most aggressive, yet rather useless, gun control measures proposed in more than a decade following the fatal shooting spree in Connecticut that left 20 young children and six adults dead.Yet, gun control laws fail to offer the security America s ...

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

  • Remembering the Aracoma Mine Fire
    Aracoma coal miner Billy Mayhorn is greeted by his wife, Sharon, late Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006, in Melville, W.Va. Mayhorn was one of 19 miners who escaped after a fire broke out on a conveyor belt at the Alma No. 1 Mine.   AP Photo/The Logan Banner, Jerry Fekete My thoughts today are with the fa ...
  • Friday roundup, Jan. 18, 2013
      Gary May, former UBB mine superintendent walks away from the U.S. District Court in Beckley Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 with his attorney, Tim Carrico, after his sentence hearing. May was sentenced to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Judge Irene Berger also ordered t ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A List of Things to Know About San Francisco & ...
    I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here.  Some have been great, while others not so much. If you’re planning the move here, I hope this will help you know bet ...
  • Software Development as a Cooperative Game &#1 ...
    Software development is a cooperative game, in which people use markers and props to inform, remind and inspire themselves and each other in getting to the next move in the game. The endpoint of the game is an operating software system; the residue of the game is a set of markers to inform and a ...
  • Simple Math Behind Early Retirement | Mr. ...
    The most important thing to note is that cutting your spending rate is much more powerful than increasing your income. The reason is that every permanent drop in your spending has a double effect: via mrmoneymustache.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Hippie Digest: Ozzy gets burnt – Hippie ...
    For If The Flies – Hippie Disneyland - “Poverty tourism—this is what this was.” “Are you Mexican?” the bartender at the jungle bar in Palenque asked Miguel incredulously. My boyfriend, who has never left Mexico and is used to being part of its homogenous culture, looked surprised at ...
  • CJE Saturday News Briefs
    Former New Orleans Mayor Nagin indicted WS – “Chocolate” thug! NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 18 (UPI) — A federal grand jury has indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on bribery, conspiracy and money laundering charges. The indictment charges Nagin — a Democrat who was ma ...
  • What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murd ...
    By Bruce E Levine, Truthout | Report - Starting with results of the Nazi elimination of diagnosed schizophrenics, Levine re-examines the evidence for the heritability of mental illness and offers some suggestions about Western civilization and our shared humanity. If a nation murdered and s ...
  • ‘Praying Bad’ Video: Catholic Prie ...
    By Michael Allen,.opposingviews.com – Former Catholic Priest Kevin Wallin, who was recently arrested in a crystal meth ring, dressed as a woman, used bizarre sex toys and had sex in the church rectory with odd-looking men, reports the Connecticut Post. Wallin, who was a priest at Bridgepor ...
  • NY storm Sandy victims rely on volunteers as a ...
    RT Queens, New York, USA - The Rockaways in Queens, New York, is one of the places hit hardest by hurricane Sandy two and a half months ago. Miles and miles of devastated businesses, residential buildings and houses almost literally hanging by a thread, with almost zero chance of being rebuilt. ...

reference frame

  • What did the winters look like before global w ...
    Via Shooty, SME.SK When you kids ask you this question, what will you answer? At night, the temperature in Pilsen will drop to –10 °C again. The snow is everywhere, many roads seem impassable. What is the weather like in your place? A moderate number of Australian respond ...
  • Lance Armstrong and ephemerality of sports
    Enhancing humans to find a TOE Cyclist Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey. He gave short answers such as "Yes" to questions whether he's been using illegal compounds during every single triumph of his. It's hard to imagine why he would be saying "Yes" in the case that the true answe ...
  • Scottish streets became opaque to Higgs
    Scotsman.com runs an amusing, light story. Peter Higgs became a toy model capable of explaining the physics of Margaret Thatcher. For decades, the sidewalks of the Scottish capital Edinburgh were almost perfectly transparent to Higgs' excitations while Higgs was obscure: his cros ...
  • Growing Moon near the horizon and binocular vision
    When you see the Moon near the horizon, it appears larger than when the Moon floats somewhere in the middle of the sky. If you haven't joined the club of witnesses of this optical illusion, you're a rare exception and you're invited to try to explain the illusion as seen by the humans ...
  • Sean Carroll, Copenhagen, and consensus
    The recently published poll about the interpretations of quantum mechanics was discussed by Sean Carroll under this dramatic title: The Most Embarrassing Graph in Modern Physics I would agree with him that the diverse results of the poll are somewhat strange and a reason for discouragement b ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Central banks buying may boost Gold prices in ...
    from Bullion Street: Loose monetary policies and burgeoning sovereign debt across global economies is expected to help demand for gold in 2013, according to metals consultancy company, Thomson Reuters GFMS. In the second update of its Gold Survey 2012, which comes ahead of the Gold Survey 2013 i ...
  • Victorian Smart Meter Forum Nov 25 2012 Part 6
    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 ...
  • Adam Hamilton: Contrarian Gold Stocks
    by Adam Hamilton, Silver Doctors: Before investors can sell high and multiply their wealth, they first have to buy low. The lower any trade’s entry price, the greater its ultimate profits. The best time to buy low is when stocks are deeply out of favor, when few others are willing to buy. And th ...
  • Did a news crew capture a UFO while covering t ...
    As the Australian brush fires raged in the first part of this month, firefighters may have gotten a little extra hand from out of town. Way out of town. As one eagle-eyed news hound watched a clip of the wildfires filmed by the International Business Times, his gaze caught an odd, disc shaped ob ...
  • Did a news crew capture a UFO while covering t ...
    As the Australian brush fires raged in the first part of this month, firefighters may have gotten a little extra hand from out of town. Way out of town. As one eagle-eyed news hound watched a clip of the wildfires filmed by the International Business Times, his gaze caught an odd, disc shaped ob ...

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

  • Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in ...
    By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in short supply.  Being raised... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Two more Norwegian hostages saved
    Norwegian state oil company Statoil reported Saturday morning that two more of their eight Norwegian employees being held hostage at a gas plant in Algeria had been brought to safety. The fate of the remaining six was unclear. Details of the Norwegians’ escape from the radical Islamists wh ...
  • Diplomats refuse to pay parking fines
    Foreign embassies in Oslo currently owe the city nearly half-a-million kroner (around USD 80,000) in parking fines. Some of the fines are up to three years old, but embassy staff can claim diplomatic immunity and refuse to pay. “International law allows the embassies to ignore the fines,&# ...
  • Norwegian flight runs off runway
    Norwegian Air, flying high in recent years, ended a challenging past week with an accident in Tromsø, when one of its jets ran off the runway at low speed prior to takeoff. No one was hurt, but passengers reportedly had to sit on the disabled aircraft for nearly 90 minutes until they were allowe ...
  • Heiberg ‘disgusted’ with Armstrong
    Gerhard Heiberg, the Norwegian business and sports leader who’s a longtime member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says he’s “disgusted” by the doping admission of former Olympic and Tour de France champion cyclist Lance Armstrong. He called Armstrong’s ...
  • Statoil caught in own ‘nightmare’
    Norwegian state oil company Statoil, like international companies all over the world, took a calculated risk when it decided to do business far from the stormy but politically stable Norwegian continental shelf. This week, with Statoil deeply involved in a hostage crisis in Algeria, its chief ex ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    This is the third monthly post for the research project about perennial plants and perennialising annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia — we have now completed the posts for Spring 2012. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing pa ...
  • Bill Mollison Interview
    Here’s a great interview, covering a lot of ground and history of the permaculture movement, as told to Frank Aragona.
  • A Maasai Tribesman Brings Permaculture to Kenya
    On my last visit to Zaytuna Farm, in May 2012, I had the great pleasure of meeting Joseph Lentenyoi, the lead person behind the establishment of PRI Kenya. We sponsored Joseph by covering his flights and putting him through our 10-week Internship, to help him get permaculture systems on th ...
  • Bang Goes the Theory
    Editor’s Note: For good measure, to go with the post below, I thought I’d throw in this little video: How neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer. by George Monbiot How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the world’s 100 richest people became $241 billi ...
  • Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 20 ...
    by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops—namely corn in the United States (the world’s l ...

Pointman's

  • On climate science and all those leaks.
    Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
    Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...
  • Turning Problems Into Parades, By Nick Slie
    This weekend is MicroFest USA: New Orleans: RENEW. The event is a celebration of the renaissance that has taken place in New Orleans' performance and social justice fields since Hurricane Katrina.  Part festival, part think-tank, part community tour, and part dance party, the all-local prog ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    We are just dealing with incompetent law enforcement as well as media with many questions remaining unanswered. Even the victim families are calling out for clarity regarding the alleged shooter's history as the Newstimes has reported. How long would it take for a competent FBI head to get s ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    RE: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/br_3.html The readings from the Old Testament are my concern in this comment. The author of the article on the Old Testament draws certain conclusions which are a matter of his own opinion. But because I see his views as a point of confusion and a pot ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I was listening to the Piper/Glenn/Fetzer show and I've got to say I agree with them, I don't say much but I read the forum often and I'd just preface this by saying that Frank and Amanda you have been like a breath of fresh air with your contributions to the forum and excellent research and C. ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Well, if anyone interested in getting to the truth about Sandy Hook is on facebook, then they might want to get in touch w/this guy, Jason Vega (https://www.facebook.com/jason.vega.545), who posted some comments over on a recent veterans today article (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/18 . ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Okay, this interview of Pozner on the Ed Schultz show is a bit nauseating, but the info at the end is kind of interesting. The guy making this video says that Noah is never in family photos w/the Pozners, apparently the Pozner father took off for Florida, the Pozners run all these corporations b ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • In Kenya Reserves, Poaching is Leading Cause o ...
    A 14-year study of elephants in northern Kenya has found that the animals are now more likely to die at the hands of human poachers than of natural causes. When researchers began tracking 934 individual elephants at two adjacent reserves, Samburu and Buffalo Springs, in 1997, elephant population ...
  • Journals of Iconic Naturalists Reveal Plants A ...
    An analysis of records kept by iconic naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold has revealed evidence that some native plants in the eastern U.S. are flowering as much as much as a month earlier in spring than they did even just six decades ago. Writing in the journal PLoS ONE, scientists ...
  • Black Carbon and Warming: It’s Worse than We T ...
    A new study indicates soot, known as black carbon, plays a far greater role in global warming than previously believed and is second only to CO2 in the amount of heat it traps in the atmosphere. Reducing some forms of soot emissions — such as from diesel fuel and coal burning — could prove effec ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Industrieselectricity needs, according to a new report. Writing in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soc ...

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

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Japan's Abe confirms cooperation with Britain ...
    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and British Premier David Cameron confirmed their cooperation over the ongoing Algeria hostage crisis during a telephone conversation Saturday evening. Speaking to reporters afterward, Abe said he and Cameron shared their concern that the situation remains "unpredicta ...
  • Beating kids to create 'fighting spirit' in sp ...
    In a recent interview on the Barnes & Noble Review website promoting his latest book, historian Jared Diamond mentions how treatment of the young "varies among traditional societies just as it varies among industrial societies," and gives examples of how some of the former use corporal punis ...
  • Pinturault wins super-combi
    Alexis Pinturault of France used his superior slalom skills to win a World Cup super-combined on Friday, after being 22nd fastest in the downhill portion. Pinturault was more than one second faster than any rival in the slalom to win by 1.15 seconds over Ivica Kostelic of Croatia, who was 21st ...
  • Fukushima's powder paradise
    I seem to have the whole mountain to myself. The vast majesty of Fukushima Prefecture spreads out below me, all around. Up here, skiing on powdery snow, zigzagging through challenging moguls, it's easy to forget about the nuclear reactors 120 km away. Say what you will about radiation, but Fu ...
  • Japan's growing diaspora reflects concern for ...
    Here's a surprising fact: One Japanese in a hundred lives abroad. It's surprising because so much is made lately of Japan's growing insularity. Young people seem less interested than ever in studying overseas, and voters last month elected a new government whose platform includes strong doses of ...

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

  • action & word
    … Now our Governor’s long term actions need to match her new found voice and words … difficult in a “red” meat state … Filed under: Blogroll
  • action & word
    … Now our Governor’s long term actions need to match her new found voice and words … difficult in a “red” meat state … Filed under: Blogroll
  • cost of spin
    … Daunting commentary on how Americans see, feel, understand what poses as “free-press” …   Trust in social media for news By: Byron Tau  ….  more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/survey-users-trust-social-media-as-news-source-86321.html A new survey finds social media is ju ...
  • cost of spin
    … Daunting commentary on how Americans see, feel, understand what poses as “free-press” …   Trust in social media for news By: Byron Tau  ….  more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/survey-users-trust-social-media-as-news-source-86321.html A new survey finds social media is ju ...
  • new ball game
    … Just maybe the NRA – Congre$$ – Gun Mfr – can acknowledge it’s a new ballgame …! President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced what he called a "common sense measures" plan to reduce gun violence, including legislation for a universal background check and new bans on assault weap ...

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

  • The amazing spider professor
    Here is a creature which, according to its size, can build from its own body a structure on the scale of a football pitch overnight, every night, and can catch the equivalent of an aeroplane in it. Professor Fritz Vollrath African...
  • Tech Universe: Friday 18 January
    SHELVING THE BOOKS: Quick, what are libraries full of? If you answered 'books' you might need to think again. The BiblioTech countywide library system in Bexar County in the US is designed for the digital age, so paper books won't...
  • 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

The Bovine

  • Ancient grains from Biblical times
    From Justin Cascio, on the Boston Local Food Festival blog: “Eli Rogosa has a long history with rare seeds. Twenty years ago Rogosa went to the Middle East to work with farmers in the ancient lands of the “Fertile Crescent,” … Continue reading →
  • Long-term dangers of covert farming
    From Heather Retberg, on the Complete Patient blog: “….For the last three years, I’ve been engaged in the urgent and pressing work of understanding who else is defining me, other farmers, and our community, and what impact those definitions bear … Continue reading →
  • Long-term dangers of covert farming
    From Heather Retberg, on the Complete Patient blog: “….For the last three years, I’ve been engaged in the urgent and pressing work of understanding who else is defining me, other farmers, and our community, and what impact those definitions bear … Continue reading →
  • 90 min “Moo Man” documentary about ...
    From Steve Robson, in The Daily Mail UK: “With the leading lady a 12-year-old cow called Ida and the story set against the backdrop of a Sussex dairy farm, it doesn’t scream ‘Oscar winner’. But a documentary about maverick farmer … Continue reading →
  • 90 min “Moo Man” documentary about ...
    From Steve Robson, in The Daily Mail UK: “With the leading lady a 12-year-old cow called Ida and the story set against the backdrop of a Sussex dairy farm, it doesn’t scream ‘Oscar winner’. But a documentary about maverick farmer … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Yen has Longest Stretch of Weekly Losses Since ...
    Lovin' Deflation Once again the spotlight is on the Yen. Please consider Japan Learned to Love Deflation in Wage Malaise Facing BOJ A decade and a half after Japan slumped into deflation, the central bank is set to signal its strongest effort yet to reverse the trend. The biggest challen ...
  • Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Stripping of ...
    Those looking for excellent news in the midst of a clearly-souring global economy can find it in Wisconsin. I am pleased to report Federal appeals court upholds Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s restrictions on public unions A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov. Scott Wa ...
  • Massive Fraud in Spain Threatens Entire Govern ...
    I am piecing together a story of fraud and corruption involving the highest levels of Spanish government. My unnamed sources think it could bring down Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. However, the news articles I have (primarily in Spanish) are particularly choppy. The brief background st ...
  • House Republicans Wave White Flag Without a Ba ...
    A friend of mine just emailed a story regarding a Republican budget cave-in with a message "you nailed it". To be honest, I didn't. Let's review my precise call. Politics of the Debate Obama will chastise Congress with talk of financial Armageddon if Congress does not raise the debt ...
  • Job Gaining and Job Losing Industries 2007-2012
    In response to Interactive Map: Job Gains and Losses in the Recovery by Job Type (Healthcare, Education, Mining, Construction, Finance, Real Estate, etc), I exchanged Emails with Salil Mehta who has a blog on Statistical Ideas. Salil asked for a better representation of some of the data in ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Glaring Paradoxes: Let Us Be United in Unconst ...
    I just finished reading a critical but seemingly irrational argument by one of the so-called constitutional experts against the concept of Nullification. I am neither an expert when it comes to constitutional law nor do I profess to be one. That said, when I sit and read analyses made for nullif ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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 →

gCaptain

  • After Losing Billions in 2011, CSCL Will Likel ...
    SHANGHAI–China Shipping Container Lines Co. (2866.HK, 601866.SH) said it expects to swing to a net profit in 2012 thanks to recovering demand and freight rates in the shipping industry. In [...]
  • US Navy Identifies Erroneous Digital Chart Dat ...
    PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - A U.S. Navy investigation to assess the circumstances surrounding the USS Guardian (MCM 5) grounding that occurred in Philippine waters will include information on faulty navigation chart [...]
  • Baltic Exchange Gains Nearly 10% on Capesize C ...
    Jan 18 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry commodities, rose on Friday for a eleventh straight session on Atlantic demand [...]
  • Japan Authorizes ABS as Recognized Organization
    TOKYO - The American Bureau of Shipping announced today they have been granted authorization by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to serve as a Recognized Organization of the [...]
  • OOCL Christens Pair of 13k TEU Containerships, ...
    Orient Overseas Container Lines announced today the christening of two 13,208-TEU container ships, the M/V OOCL Brussels and the M/V NYK Helios, at a ceremony at Geoje Island Shipyard in South [...]

Press TV

  • Egypt drops charges on 379 protesters
    An Egyptian court has dropped charges against 379 people involved in clashes with security forces during anti-junta demonstrations near the Interior Ministry in November 2011 in which 42 protesters were killed.
  • Three killed in Damascus club attack
    Three people have been killed and five more injured in Damascus after a mortar shell was fired into a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital.
  • Iran shares to be traded in Karachi
    A high-ranking Iranian business official says shares of Iran’s companies will soon be traded at Pakistan’s largest and oldest stock exchange under a cooperation agreement between Tehran and Islamabad to expand economic relations.
  • End siege on Ras al-Ain: Syria Kurds
    A coalition of Kurdish parties in Syria has urged foreign-backed militants to end the siege and indiscriminate shelling of the northern town of Ras al-Ain.
  • 17 Japan co. workers missing in Algeria
    A Japanese engineering firm says that seventeen of its workers are still unaccounted for in the aftermath of the Algerian hostage crisis.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Robotic router
    Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
  • Flexible batteries
    One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
  • Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
    Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
  • Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
    A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
  • Nanoparticles poison soil
    Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

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