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Missing Lethbridge father found alive in Calgary
CALGARY— A Lethbridge father has been found alive about 48 hours after family reported he went missing. In a brief statement released Saturday morning, Lethbridge Regional Police said Matthew Aaron Robillard was located by city police in Calgary.
There’s Poop on the Moon
When the Apollo boys visited the Moon back in the ’60s and ’70s they left more than just some experiments, rovers, and family portraits behind –- they also left, shall we say, a little bit of themselves on the lunar surface. It makes total sense when you think about it, but still… there’s poop on the Moon.In this video, Minute Physics and Destin from Smarter Every Day show how astronauts would relieve themselves during the Apollo missions (or at least the gadgets they used — we all know how they did it) and why it was decided to make astronaut poop a permanent part of their lunar litter.(Becau
Yet another paper shows the hot spot is missing
Remember the evidence is overwhelming, and deniers deny the evidence. But in Oct 2012, two atmospheric scientists were reporting, yet again, the models are wrong. Twenty years after we started looking for the fingerprint of the amplification required to make the CO2 theory of global warming work, it still isn’t there. Forgive me for harping on. It’s still The Most Major Flaw in climate models. Never heard of “the Hot Spot”? See the first post on the hot spot argument. The models are wrong (but only by 400%!) See how climate scientists admit it’s important and missing. See how they stoop to cha
Keep Essential Information Hidden in Plain Sight with a UV Pen
Considering the amount of passwords, PINs, and other vital information, such as Social Security numbers, that we have to keep handy it's not surprising that many people write down information like this and keep it on a sticky note or the back of a business card. If you want to keep essential information readily available and yet hard to decipher, consider picking up a UV pen and LED flashlight so you can write down your passwords on any paper source. More »

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Two wind-turbines down in a week in the UK — Sabotage or failure?
Two wind towers are down in the last week in the UK 18 miles apart (Devon and Cornwall). It was thought the first tower (a six story £250,000 tower built in 2010) collapsed in the wind: “The bolts on the base could not withstand the wind and as we are a very windy part of the country they [the energy company] have egg on their face,” she said. “There are concerns about safety.” But, suspiciously,
Colbert Now Accepts Science of Climate Change, But 'Problem is Too Big to Cure, Just Give Up'
On Monday's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly exposed the core of the Rightwing's denial of climate science. Once you accept the scientific evidence, he suggests, you might feel compelled for a minute to do something about it, but there are just too many people who are profiting off what we are doing now. Plus, it all sounds very hard. "Sure, I know America beat Tojo, we crushed Hitler,
An Econ Conference for Undergrads
In April at Georgetown.  Click through if you might be interested.

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Giving death its due
PENANCE is coming in April 2013. After the Sandy Hook massacre, I saw a few bits by various other crime writers agonizing over their choice of genre, wondering if, by writing stories that featured violence and mayhem they weren’t contributing to a culture that makes violence and mayhem possible. I applaud the sentiment. Whenever there is evil, it seems our first impulse is to point the finger at s

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The Corbett Report
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Gladio Revisited
As one of the most thoroughly-documented examples of a decades-long program of officially-sanctioned false flag terror, Operation Gladio remains a woefully under-reported piece of the War on Terror puzzle. Today we go behind the trite summarizations of this program to look at it in-depth, examine its roots, and discover how it is continuing to operate right through to the present day. CLICK HERE t
Interview 591 – Morgan Duchesney on the Canadian Council of Chief Executives
Today we’re joined by Morgan Duchesney of HoneyBadgerPress.ca to discuss his article, “The Canadian Council of Chief Executives: Northern Oligarchy.” We talk about the Council, its activities, and the influence it wields over the Canadian government.
Interview 595 – Sibel Edmonds on NATO, Terrorism, 9/11 and Drug Running
In this ground-breaking interview, famed FBI whistleblower and Boiling Frogs Post founder Sibel Edmonds lays out the thread connecting NATO’s Gladio operations to Turkish paramilitaries and ultra-nationalists, and how the operation continues through cooperation with terrorists and the Islamization of Central Asia and the Caucasus. From Abdullah Çatlı’s remarkable life (and death) to the rise of Fe
Episode 256 – Gladio Revisited
As one of the most thoroughly-documented examples of a decades-long program of officially-sanctioned false flag terror, Operation Gladio remains a woefully under-reported piece of the War on Terror puzzle. Today we go behind the trite summarizations of this program to look at it in-depth, examine its roots, and discover how it is continuing to operate right through to the present day. For those wi

The EnvironmentaList
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Wind and Solar Groups Flee ALEC
Green energy groups exit the powerful conservative outfit following its attempt to end mandatory use of renewable energy by US states
Wolf Slaughter Continues in the Rocky Mountains
Fantasies of killing become increasingly bizarre
Shell Acquitted of Most Nigeria Pollution Charges
The case involved five allegations of oil spills in Nigeria, four of which were quashed by the court
Carbon Capture Technologies that Could Help Fight Climate Change
Evolving technology could make cleaning the air more profitable than fouling it, says Columbia University economist

bastard.logic
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RIP The Agonist 2002-2013. Feels good to be back (in…monochrome).

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Christianity Explained
He was still trying to sift Tyrer’s information into perspective, along with the astonishing sight of all these grown men, and two revolting-looking women, singing in unison, getting up, sitting down, solemnly droning out prayers, bowing their heads to their very strange God who, after the service, Tyrer had explained was actually three people, the Father, his Son who was crucified like a common c

Craig Murray
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Amelia Hill is a Dirty Liar
The Guardian hit a new low in Amelia Hill’s report on Julian Assange’s appearance at the Oxford Union. Hill moved beyond propaganda to downright lies. This is easy to show. Read through Hill’s “report”. Then zip to 20 minutes and 55 seconds of the recording of Assange speaking at the event Hill misreports, and simply listen to the applause from the Oxford Union after Assange stops speaking.
Whatever Happened to Craig Murray?
This blog is not closing down and will return to normal output shortly. The heart problem that put me into hospital after New Year was “paroxysmal atrial fibrillation”. This seems likely to have been the cause of the lack of energy I had complained was afflicting me towards the end of last year. It can be controlled by drugs and I was in hospital for six days while they got it controlled. On dis

Phronesisaical
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How Gun News Has Changed
Joe Nocera this morning gave us a roundup of last week's gun news. The news of various deaths and injuries by gun, that is.When the NRA declared January 19 Gun Appreciation Day, most of the news was about the accidental shootings at gun shows across the nation.This is really a turnaround in how gun news is covered and an example of the change that Barack Obama has brought to the nation as presiden

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Libertarians, the next generation of RINO, anything goes atheists.
by Mark Vogl:    And the push to the left in the Republican Party continues. It's time for conservatives to move on to a new America First Party.
Immigration and a Caveat about the Immigration Process
by Kevin C. Caffrey:    The artcie discusses how immigration since 1954 has changed the American culture
Senator Marco Rubio surrendered strategic ground on immigration!
by Mark Vogl:    Listening to Rush, Senator Rubio ceded the key terrain in the Immigration fight and one has to believe he is setting a marker for 2016
Super Bowl a means for you to send a real message to the elites!!!
by Mark Vogl:    It's time for Christians and others of faith to start making entertainment decisions based on the social messages being sent ...

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Fried Chicken, Watermelon and Black History Month
I had an interesting exchange with a friend on the value of celebrating Black History Month. My position: A study of Black History is essential to making us powerful… individually and as a people, while celebrating Black History Month has become a stereotypical caricature attached to Black people, particularly Black Americans, just like eating fried chicken and watermelons. In my research on the
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Young Brazilian model Yasmin Assis drops her Panties
Now, it has come to my less than learned attention, during emails over the years, and some recently, that we have repeatedly referred to Brazilian women as ‘latinas’, which although I understand there is some mishmash debate as to the scope of the widely used, but somewhat ambiguously defined phrase, most Brazilians do not prefer to be so referred. And, we are all about people being called what th
Emily Ratajkowski Bikini Pictures being hottest women on the planet
No doubt, consider us big fans of both the better fast food chain burgers and their new found love for using some of the hottest women on the planet to ravenously consume their product even as wearing very little in some of the most sextastic commercials being produced these days. Moreover, now consider the ridiculously underrated goodness of 20-year-old model Emily Ratajkowski, and last year who
Amanda Seyfried’s Flashes her Sheer Dress While Getting into Car
Sure, some of the big doozies from the party-players get wild, but your rank and file thespian is an introverted fiend, locked in their abode wondering if their chin is too big or too small for hours on end, wondering if joining Scientology might give them a leg up in the business. Not so fun. Thus when the SAG Awards let out and the ‘after-parties’ began, we kept our expectations in check, which
Persian hottie Sarah Shahi Flashes Cleavage at ‘Bullet to the Head’ Premiere
You know, we have really missed Persian hottie Sarah Shahi since her L-Word days. Of course, she is moved on to some other stupid shows, but it is just not the same, as we have missed her sweet sweet body most of all, which, thankfully, she was giving a semi-decent taste of in New York for the Bullet to the Head premiere, the action flick starring Sylvester Stallone and a ton-load of HGH. The 33-y

Obsidian Wings
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Are criminal elements in the air in China?
by Doctor Science James Fallows at the Atlantic has been covering the ongoing terrible pollution problems in China. I think of Kevin Drum's discussion of lead and crime, and wonder if the high-crime American past is the Chinese future. Gas, by Edward Hopper (1940). Drum lays out the evidence that the "crime wave" of the second half of the 20th century was largely caused by lead pollution, and
your Moby Dick Friday open thread
by liberal 'ahab' japonicus The battery in the wireless handset of our phone no longer holds a charge, so I went to the local electronics store to pick up a replacement. Found the catalog with the models and the equivalent replacements, and in the spot where that battery should be, there was an empty space. The THB 101, there, THB 103, yep, 5 of them, the THB 102 (the fact that I now have
MiniTrue and Bush's attempt at immigration reform
by Doctor Science As the swallows return to Capistrano, so the Senate returns to immigration reform. Over at Balloon Juice, Kay reminds us what happened to President Bush's big attempt:NYTimes: The bill called for the biggest changes to immigration law in more than 20 years, offering legal status to millions of illegal immigrants while trying to secure the nation’s borders. ... Mr. Bush placed te

The Truth is Where?
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Israeli Anti-Missile Test Blew Up Space Shuttle Columbia.
By Yoichi Shimatsu 2nd February 2013.  Find Full Article Here:- Ten years ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded on descent during a top-secret mission. At the time, my analysis of the cause of the blast drew support from American aerospace engineers along with angry death threats from zealots in the Israeli Air Force. Not only was the Israeli military incensed by my revealing that their faulty
Extreme US Weather Map 2012
2012: Thousands More Weather Records Broken in the US, Costs Skyrocketing — Another “Year of What Climate Change Looks Like”  Find Full Article & Interactive Map Here:- Climate change increases the risk of many types of record-breaking extreme weather events that threaten communities across the country. In 2012, there were 3,527 monthly weather records broken for heat, rain, and snow in the U
Will Deep-sea Mining Yield an Underwater Gold Rush?
By Meghan Miner for National Geographic News Published February 1st, 2013.  Find Full Article & Animation Here:- Some environmentalists say the lure of precious minerals threatens ocean life and local cultures. A black smoker of a seafloor massive sulphide system.  Image courtesy Nautilus Minerals. A mile beneath the ocean’s waves waits a buried cache beyond any treasure hunter’s wildest dre
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II.
By Mike Dash Smithsonian.com, January 29th, 2013.    Find Article Here:- In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga. The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this remote wilderness for more than 40 years—utterly isolated and more than 150 miles from the nearest human settlement. Siberia

ArmsControlWonk
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On Russian Fears and Future Stability
On the pages of this blog, and in his other work, Jeffrey has made the claim that the United States does not understand fundamental Russian fears, and that these fears are in turn preventing  further success in transforming the process of negotiated reductions through arms control into a different kind of relationship or simply dictating the end of arms control itself with Moscow.  I disagree.  We
The Many Dimensions of Parchin
Happy Friday, readers.  My name is Tamara Patton, and thanks to the ever-generous Jeffrey, I’ll be a new guest contributor here.  For those who’d like to know a little more about me and what I plan to offer, see the bottom of this post.  For the rest who just want to hear something interesting about Parchin, keep reading… Many of you know that the alleged high explosives testing site at Parchin re
Ward Wilson Wednesdays Part 2
Well, it’s still Wednesday in California — for a few more minutes. Here is the second installment in the Ward Wilson Wednesdays series.  This week, Ward looks at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Doubts about Nuclear Deterrence, Part II: Cuba by Ward Wilson I once sat in the office of a guy at Harvard. A distinguished scholar of nuclear weapons who’d had many responsible positions in government and the a
Setting Expectations for a DPRK Test
North Korea’s announcement of an impending nuclear test refers to a “a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action…”  Most people seem to be focusing on the possibility of a device using highly enriched uranium — which is probably right but maybe not the whole story. DPRK officials have been dropping some interesting hints lately.  In August, the DP

In These Times
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Extreme Makeover: GOP Edition
About 200. That’s how many public laws the 112th Congress passed, a record of sorts. Consider that Harry Truman’s “do-nothing” Congress managed to squeak through 906 laws, and the magnitude of the 112th’s resistance and rigidity becomes appallingly apparent. Moreover, with the economy sluggish and the unemployment rate still hovering around 8 percent at any given time—and at 14 percent for Afr
Clothing to Die For
Well, isn’t that nice. A few weeks after a fabric-fueled inferno killed more than 100 locked-in garment workers at the Tazreen Fashion factory outside Dhaka, the 23rd Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition gathered under a gold-colored “circular dome with dazzling lighting [like] a gala concert on a broad way [sic] theater,” the conference center’s website boasted. A minute of silence kicked
Santa Claus-ifying Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every year, right around the time between Martin Luther King Day and the beginning of Black History Month, the effort to distort Dr. King's life and legacy seems to intensify. Some years, we see conservatives preposterously assert that if Dr. King were alive today, he would join today's neo-confederate Republican Party. Other years, it is deception via omission—we see replays of Dr. King
Sports Authority
Dave Zirin is the rare sportswriter who covers, in his words, the space “where sports and politics collide.” His new book, Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down (New Press), explores the intersection of sports and politics over the past three years, touching on the London Olympics and their role in the city’s anti-austerity riots, the lack of accountability after the Pe

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Highlights in Assholery - 2012
by @TomBales1 The First Three 3.  RUSH LIMBAUGH Old Rush will always be among the top three in any such list as this one I make and for obvious reasons.  He goes from #1 in 2011 to #3 in 2012, not because he wasn't a bigger asshole than ever (he was definitely bigger) but because this year he had so damned much competition. Limbaugh, well known bon vivant, seditionist, probable pedophile and
Good Offence is Best Defense, Mr. Hagel
By @TedFrier A prospective Defense Secretary who can't even defend himself. That was the unfortunate impression left by Chuck Hagel yesterday at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The most charitable thing you can say about the former Nebraska Republican Senator's stumbling, bumbling, defensive performance was that, like all good generals, Hagel picks fights only
gARbLeD sPEakS!
Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) via Twitter today: Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler 17 cent increase in gas prices overnight-30 cents this week. Ugh! We need American made energy and approval of the Keystone pipeline! 6:07 AM - 31 Jan 13 It goes up. It goes down. Representative Hartzler (r) only seems to notice one direction - right wingnut. Then there's this: Keystone Oil Pipeline Seen Raising
Sorry, no roundup tonight
By @BGinKC Sorry folks, but fans of Green Acres know that you can't plug a 3 an a 7 into the same circuit and the computer and modem/router together are, apparently, a three and the space heater is a seven and really, what was I thinking? So I am shutting down and reading a book, because the mercury is headed for low single-digits down by the river. I'm way colder on the top floor on top of Signal

WWF - Latest News
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Industry key to conserving forests as demand for wood projected to triple by 2050
Frankfurt, Germany — By 2050, rising population and demand, as well as an increase in use of wood for bioenergy, could triple the amount of wood society takes from forests and plantations per year, according to the latest instalment of WWF's Living Forests Report. The report, presented today at the international paper conference Paperworld in Frankfurt, projects paper production and consumptio
Despite successes, Congo Basin forests being 'emptied' of their elephants
Libreville, Gabon – Authorities protecting the Gabonese segment of Central Africa's biggest forest elephant stronghold captured a record number of poachers last week. However, "terrifying" intelligence gathered from those arrested show wildlife criminals still have the upper hand in the battle to save Central Africa's elephants.A total of 17 poachers were arrested between January
Great Barrier Reef Scorecard Highlights Risk to World Heritage Status
Sydney, Australia - As part of their joint Fight for the Reef campaign, WWF-Australia and the Australian Marine Conservation Society today released a scorecard assessing the performance of both the Queensland and Australian Governments' management of the Great Barrier Reef.Last year, UNESCO gave Australia a deadline to outline how it would better manage the Reef, noting that a failure to make 'sub
Further action in Singapore vital in combating global ivory trade
WWF-Singapore and TRAFFIC Southeast Asia commend authorities on intercepting 1.8 tonnes of raw ivory tusks found in transit from Africa, on Monday.The next steps taken by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority and Singapore Customs will be as important as the seizure itself. Both organisations urge the authorities to notify CITES of the seizure, allow an independent audit of the seized tusks and

Centauri Dreams
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Habitable Zones: A Moving Target
Habitable zones are always easy enough to explain when you invoke the ‘Goldilocks’ principle, but every time I talk about these matters there’s always someone who wants to know how we can speak about places being ‘not too hot, not too cold, but just right.’ After all, we’re a sample of one, and why shouldn’t there be living creatures beneath icy ocean crusts or on worlds hotter than we could toler
Data Storage: The DNA Option
One of the benefits of constantly proliferating information is that we’re getting better and better at storing lots of stuff in small spaces. I love the fact that when I travel, I can carry hundreds of books with me on my Kindle, and to those who say you can only read one book at a time, I respond that I like the choice of books always at hand, and the ability to keep key reference sources in my b
TW Hydrae: An Infant Planetary System Analyzed
You have to like the attitude of Thomas Henning (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie). The scientist is a member of a team of astronomers whose recent work on planet formation around TW Hydrae was announced this afternoon. Their work used data from ESA’s Herschel space observatory, which has the sensitivity at the needed wavelengths for scanning TW Hydrae’s protoplanetary disk, along with the capab
New Book Recalls “Men Into Space”
These days we know that perhaps a million objects the size of the Tunguska impactor or larger are moving through nearby space, and talk of how to deflect asteroids has become routine. Given our increasing awareness of near-Earth objects, it wouldn’t be a surprise to hear of a new Hollywood treatment involving an Earth-threatening asteroid. But I wouldn’t have expected a science fiction series that

Obsolete
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Fallen.
Ever fallen in love..
Interesting to read Iain Dale's post on how he's falling out of love with politics, along with a couple of equally thought-provoking responses.  My own take on why apathy seems to have become the default response to politics is similar to Paul's, in that it leads back not to Thatcher, but rather to the surrender to the markets of the late 70s, exemplified by Denis Healey's going to the IMF and
Do we have to go through this again?
There really isn't much to add to the entire furore over Gerald Scarfe's cartoon in the last issue of the Sunday Times.  No, it clearly isn't antisemitic, unless you think as the Israeli ambassador and the Board of Deputies of British Jews apparently do that you can't portray an Israeli politician and blood in the same image for fear of invoking the blood libel.  It doesn't matter that
All going to according to plan.
Everything is going exactly according to plan in Mali.  In have swept the French, and out have swept the Islamist rebels. Of course, that means things are going exactly according to a classic guerrilla warfare plan, where a weaker force withdraws from territory it knows it could never hold only to return later with hit and run attacks designed to wear down both support from the local population an
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