Sunday, February 03, 2013

3 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Map of Timbuktu from 1855 taken from http://ww...
Map of Timbuktu from 1855 taken from http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/timbuktu_1855.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Tuareg
The Tuareg (Photo credit: Maria Rosaria Sannino/images and words) 
Cour de la mosquée de Djingareiber, Tombouctou
Cour de la mosquée de Djingareiber, Tombouctou (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tuareg people are spread across a large area o...
Tuareg people are spread across a large area of West Africa, settled and transient amongst other cultures. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Timbuktu herders
Timbuktu herders (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Image of Timbuktu manuscripts.
English: Image of Timbuktu manuscripts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
People on a street in Timbuktu
People on a street in Timbuktu (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Postcard of a Tuareg displayed with his camel ...
Postcard of a Tuareg displayed with his camel in the 1907 Colonial Exhibition. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Tuareg from the Hoggar (Algeria) sitt...
English: Tuareg from the Hoggar (Algeria) sitting in the sand Français : Un targui du Hoggar (Algérie) assis sur le sable (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of Medieval Saharan Trade routes circa 140...
Map of Medieval Saharan Trade routes circa 1400 CE, centered on Niger (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Scoop - NZ

  • Tackling Crime Through Job Creation
    By most accounts, unemployment is one of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria. Observers say that the socio-economic problem is compounded by the fact that several thousands of jobless youths have been forced into crime because of idleness. They, nonetheless, contend that while there are ...
  • UK Probation Service to be privatised
    Last week, Chris Grayling, the minister of justice in the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government, announced plans to privatise 70 percent of the Probation Service in the UK, to be completed by spring 2015. “Transforming Rehabilitation: a revolution in the way we manage offenders” states, “Pri ...
  • Charter schools 'not fair' to communities
    Professor O’Neill, from Massey’s Institute of Education, was one of 12 education experts who last year conducted a detailed review of international private partnership schools – known as charter schools. He says the model proposed for New Zealand would simply replicate the worst elements of o ...
  • Tuareg enterprises looted in Timbuktu
    Malian army soldiers in Timbuktu make little effort to stop looting of shops owned by Tuareg and Arab minorities Reports from the Saharan city of Timbuktu said dozens of residents had attacked property owned by Tuareg and Arab traders whom they suspected of collaborating with the rebels. The ...
  • AEP: Japan suddenly at the centre of world affairs
    We all watch with disbelief as China and Japan rattle sabres over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, so like the seemingly minor events that drew Europe's alliance systems into conflict from 1911 onwards. Both graduated to fighter jets last week: Japan sending in F-15s; China deploying J-10s, and mobi ...

Independent - London

  • Battle-lines are drawn as debate over gay marr ...
    A gay marriage bill which profoundly divides France crept through parliament today in the face of thousands of wrecking amendments.Related StoriesGreece’s ‘Nazis’ are on the rise... and now they’re going into schools: How Golden Dawn nurture the next generationGreece’s neo-fascists are on the r ...
  • Man beaten in Cairo now blames protesters – bu ...
    When disturbing video footage emerged of a naked man being brutally beaten by riot police as he lay cowering on the roadside on Friday night, many Egyptians compared the scenes to the worst abuses of state power under former president Hosni Mubarak’s regime.Related StoriesFears that French and ...
  • Punxsutawney Phil, rubbish weather forecaster
    Punxsutawney Phil, the celebrated groundhog, was taken out of his burrow this weekend to reveal that spring would come early this year. Good news for those Americans who have suffered from the extremes of weather of late, but things look less good for those who prefer a more scientific approach ...
  • Barak hints Israel was behind attack on Syria
    Israel’s outgoing Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, has given the strongest hint yet that his country was behind an attack on Syria last week.Related StoriesSyrian television broadcasts images of alleged Israeli airstrikePrime Minister to meet with Afghan and Pakistani leadersSuicide bomber and gun ...
  • Suicide bombers in Kirkuk attack show al-Qa’id ...
    Suicide bombers killed at least 16 people outside the police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk today in the third such attack in the region in recent weeks.Related StoriesSyrian television broadcasts images of alleged Israeli airstrikePrime Minister to meet with Afghan and Pakis ...

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

  • 'Loud boom' alarms residents in Springfield, M ...
    People in several counties in our viewing area wondering "what was that sound?" Dozens of you have let us know about a "loud boom" or explosion between 6:30 and 8:30 Saturday night. KSPR has received reports about it from Mount Vernon, Nixa, Ozark, Aurora, and Reeds Spring but so far authoriti ...
  • At least 10 people injured as 6.9-magnitude ea ...
    At least ten people have been injured as 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Hokkaido, Japan. The authorities are assessing the extent of material damage. Two nuclear power plants are in the affected area. ­Some of the victims were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injurie ...
  • Soda, candy out under USDA's proposed school s ...
    The Obama administration proposed regulations Friday that would prohibit U.S. schools from selling unhealthy snacks. The 160-page regulation from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) would enact nutrition standards for "competitive" foods not included in the official school meal. In practice, ...
  • Big brother to log your drinking habits and wa ...
    Data includes weight, cholesterol, BMI, family health history and pulse rate Doctors will be forced to reveal alcohol consumption and smoking status Privacy campaigners described it as 'biggest data grab in NHS history' Part of new Health Service programme called Everyone Counts Officials insi ...
  • Burger King to DNA test its beef after food pr ...
    Burger King will reportedly test its meat to make sure it is 100 percent beef after horse DNA was found in beef products from one of its food processors. Diego Beamonte, Burger King's vice president of global quality, told Bloomberg Businessweek that "details for DNA testing have not been worke ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Kevin Page
    I don't think Harper had any idea just who he as appointing when he named Kevin Page as Parliamentary Budget Officer. The man cannot be intimidated and will crawl through mud and fire to do his job and then some.
  • "Turning point" and "Disarray"
    Government ministers should know better by now than to say things like this. Turning Point and Disarray are popular terms for describing the early phases of Western wars in developing countries. Really, all they mean are that the war has entered a new phase because the hardscrabble enemy unsu ...
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  • Sing Along . . .
    BUGGER THE BANKERS, performed by The Austerity Allstars.
  • Dealing with comment trolls
    McSweeney's style.

Media Matters for America

  • 10 Myths Conservative Media Will Use Against I ...
    As congressional leaders debate a framework for comprehensive immigration reform that will likely grant undocumented immigrants legal status, conservative media are engaged in promoting myths and falsehoods about what reform means for the country.Is It True That 20 Million Undocumented Immigrant ...
  • Major Newspapers Overlook NRA Leader's Flip-Fl ...
    During the January 30 hearing on gun violence, National Rifle Association representative Wayne LaPierre said a proposal to expand background checks would be a "nightmare" for Americans, contradicting his 1999 testimony on behalf of the NRA in support of such an expansion -- a flip-flop highlight ...
  • UPDATED: 16 Media Myths About Proposals To Str ...
    Opponents of stronger gun laws have used their media platforms to continue to promote myths and falsehoods about firearm policy, often parroting gun lobby talking points, in the weeks leading up to today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence.NEW: How do fe ...
  • Fox's Varney Claims Historically Low Discretio ...
    Fox News host Stuart Varney claimed that federal discretionary spending is "out of control." In fact, discretionary spending has already been reduced by $1.5 trillion, and non-defense discretionary spending is projected to be at the lowest level in 50 years.Varney: Discretionary Spending Is "Tot ...
  • A Look Back: Erick Erickson's History Of Infla ...
    CNN contributor Erick Erickson is reportedly leaving the network for Fox News. During his nearly three-year tenure at CNN, Erickson repeatedly made inflammatory statements, indulged in conspiracy theories, and false statements such as the smear that Democrats support mythical "death panels."Eric ...

Global Research.ca

  • Rogue Elements within US Military: Defense Nom ...
    The Washington Post today reports an interesting exchange that is said to have happened between the President in his first term, and Chuck Hagel, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense. Bob Woodward writes in the Post that…
  • Genocide in Guatemala
    Recalling “The principle function of the state and its officials is to protect its citizens” (NYTimes), Judge Miguel Angel Gálvez ordered the trial of Efraín Rios Montt, former dictator of Guatemala and his intelligence chief José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, for…
  • Washington OK’s Israeli Aggression on Syria
    It shouldn’t surprise. Washington and Israel are longstanding imperial partners. Significant regional operations are jointly planned. It’s done well in advance. It’s for strategic advantage. Operations are part of a greater regional agenda. On February 1, TIME magazine headline ...
  • Effects of Fluoride on Human Health: “Ca ...
    U.S. National Research Council Scientists: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain and Bones Concern grew in the late 1970s that even low levels of exposure to lead caused adverse changes in the mentally functioning of children. The same thing is now…
  • Drone Warfare: US Covert Actions in Pakistan, ...
    by Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K Ross In Pakistan a heavy CIA drone campaign targeted both so-called ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban. Three senior militants were among the dead.Yemenwas hit by the highest number of airstrikes in one month…

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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Water - AlterNet

  • 5 Power Brokers Who'll Determine the Fate of t ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.On Thursday, visitors to the PipeTech Americas Summit got a speech they weren’t planning on hearing. As employees from pipeline construction companies gathered to discuss new technology and listen to Tom Hamilt ...
  • Hate Eating Corporate Food? Democracy Is the B ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
    Las Vegas exudes an all-you-can-eat mentality. People walk between casinos carrying giant cups of slushy liquor; advertisements blare from speakers on the streets pitching the best shows, best food and best deals; escalators take you across streets and directly into malls. You spend your time ...
  • Time to Break Up the Monopolies: Why Fixing Ou ...
    This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.We may be able to agree that much of our food system is broken, but how we begin to fix it is much harder to understand. Wenonah Hauter, director ofFood and Water Watch, takes on this challenge in her new book, Foodop ...
  • Corporate Land Grabs Reveal a Hidden Agenda: C ...
    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 families to weather dry seasons, raise yields, diversify their crops, an ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Nuclear plants nationwide could share the fina ...
    Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. (NEIL), the company that insures all 104 U.S. nuclear power plants has just around $3.6 billion on hand to pay for claims from broken nuclear plants in California (San Onofre nuclear power station), Texas (South Texas Nuclear Project), Michigan (Cook nuclear power ...
  • Free Tickets to Documentary Chasing Ice Feb 8-10
    Chasing Ice  is an environmental documentary film, listed in the top 15 best documentaries for the Oscars, coming to Austin TX on Feb 8-10 at Regal Arbor. Chasing Ice follows acclaimed photographer James Balog on an epic journey as he deploys time-lapse cameras at glaciers around the world. &#82 ...
  • Ding Dong the witch is dead. Which old witch? ...
    According to a report yesterday by Terrance Henry of NPR’s StateImpact Texas (click here to read the article), the Las Brisas coal power plant proposed for Corpus Christi has not only been suspended, but Chase Power’s parent company, which was financing the project, has gone out of b ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • US Ban On LNG Exports Would Violate WTO Rules: ...
    (Reuters) The United States would violate global trade rules and damage its credibility if it decides to subsidize steel, chemical and other manufacturers by restricting exports of liquefied natural gas after years of pr ...
  • Kalamazoo Spill Was 'Most Disgusting Thing,' S ...
    (CBC News) No one in the small community of Battle Creek, Michigan knew that pipelines ran so close to their homes. That changed whenan Enbridge pipeline burst, spilling more than 3,000 cubic metres of Canadian oil sands bitumen  ...
  • CN's Crude Oil-By-Rail Plan Increases Risk of ...
    (Canadian Press) Opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline are threatening to turn their sights on CN Rail, as at least one Alberta oil company explores the possibility of transporting oilsands crude to the B.C. coast by rail car. Si ...
  • Canadian Oil Sands Profit Hit by Crude Price Gap
    (Canadian Press) Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., which owns the biggest piece of the massive Syncrude oil sands mine in northern Alberta, posted a dip in fourth-quarter profits as its crude fetched a lower price. The Calgary-based company sa ...
  • Chevron and Its Allies Take Aim at California' ...
    (San Jose Mercury News) San Ramon-based Chevron is leading an aggressive campaign to delay implementation of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, a cornerstone of the state's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. read more

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

  • The Establishment Strikes Back
    The war is on. Wall Street Republicans are tired of seeing conservative Republicans lose primaries to complete freaks and then lose Senate seats to the Democrats. They are creating the Conservative Victory Fund to stop lunatics like Rep. Steve King from winning the nomination to run for retiri ...
  • Imagining Successful Immigration Reform
    I actually think that Harry Reid is correct. The Senate is going to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. I kind of doubt that all the Democrats will vote for it, but I still think they can get to 60 votes. What I have a much harder time imagining is a bill coming out of the House. I ...
  • How many children must die?
    Twenty children, ages six and seven, were killed by a deranged young man with semi-automatic rifles less than two months ago, and since that time we have not stopped debating, discussing, arguing and pontificating over the issue of gun violence. Admittedly, that was a conversation that was long ...
  • Super Bowl Thread
    A penalty flag on the first play? I hope that is not a sign of things to come. Enjoy the game!! Discuss
  • Serious Question
    Do you like or dread getting your hair cut? Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Only Volcano on Earth You Can Explore From ...
    Iceland is known for its many volcanoes, but Thrihnukagigur stands out as the only one you can explore on the inside. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Amazon Rainforest Reeling from Eight-Year Mega ...
    New research led by NASA has found that a swath of the Amazon rainforest is reeling from eight years of devastating megadrought. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Unbelievably Lifelike Body Art: The Creepy Opt ...
    Check out the amazing 3D-seeming body paintings of Japanese artist Hikaru Cho, who does some strange things to the human anatomy with only acrylics at her disposal. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Toe Wrestling: The Bizarre Sport Sweeping the ...
    Here's one sport you might not even know existed. But with broken toes and tough competition (with tougher sounding names) to contend with, toe wrestling isn't for wimps! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 2012's Biggest Moments in Science
    The year 2012 was another biggie for scientists and science freaks around the globe. This infographic recaps on the stories that got brains buzzing and tongues wagging. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The New 21st Century COINTELPRO Mobius Strip: ...
    A quick update on a number of different fronts developing around 21st century Cointelpro operations. This material includes the important bureaucratic fault line of authorizing "otherwise" illegal government operations, an important topic of research... Granted, Season 3 of the X-Files is playin ...
  • End of the Tar Sands? Under media near-blackou ...
    VIA: Protect the Sacred  Timeline Photos: Here is a picture of Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred. This is the first time a woman has signed such a treaty and she did so on behalf of the Brave Heart Society. Let the healing continue in the name o ...
  • Kurt Johnson & Corporate NAFTA farm politics, ...
    "[T]he activists we are concerned about here are the ones who want to change the way your industry does business--either for good or bad reasons: environmentalists, churches, Public Interest Research Groups, campus organizations, civic groups, teachers unions, and 'Naderites'." (quoted in Montag ...
  • 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' ...

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Militants free Filipinos seized with Jordanian ...
    Story Image:  Freed Philippine hostages, cameraman Ramil Vela (in bed) and his colleague audio technician Roland "Buboy" Letriro (L) are treated at the provincial hospital in Jolo, Sulu province, on the southern island of Mindanao, on February 3, 2013, hours after theyIslamist Abu Sayyaf ...
  • N.Korea military meeting hints at nuclear test
    Story Image:  This photo, released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via the Korean News Service (KNS) on February 2, 2013, shows N.Korean leader Kim Jong-Un meeting with participants of the 4th Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Workers' PNorth Korean leader ...
  • NFL Super Bowl returns to the Big Easy
    Story Image:  Workers install signs at the Superdome in New Orleans on January 31, 2013. New Orleans will return to the center of US sport's grandest stage by hosting Super Bowl 47 on Sunday, a milestone on the city's road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina.New Orleans will return to the ...
  • Russia in ground-breaking talks with Syrian op ...
    Story Image:  A rebel fighter poses in front of a Soviet-made T55 tank abandoned by pro-Syrian regime forces in al-Yaqubia in northern Syrian, on February 2, 2013. Ground-breaking talks between the Russian foreign minister and the Syrian opposition leader have bolstere Ground-breaking tal ...
  • White House releases Obama skeet shooting photo
    Story Image:  US President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Maryland, on August 4, 2012, in this photo released by the White House on February 2, 2013. The White House on Saturday released a photo of President Barack Obama skeet-shooting, inThe White House has ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #822 (Israeli airstri ...
    Should we be preparing for another Mideast war? Why did Israel attack Syria now and why did the Syrians admit it? Ex-Mossad head says Syria and Hezbollah will not respond.
  • [Updated] World braces as Israel attacks Syria ...
    The New York Times reports that gas masks were being distributed in multiple locations In East Jerusalem on Wednesday, as concerns about security were spreading among Israelis following the airstrikes on Syria. The Syrian, Lebanese and Jordanian armies have reportedly raised alert levels across ...
  • Syrian President’s mother said to have ‘ ...
    Arab media reports appeared to confirm yesterday an allegation made last week by a senior American diplomat that the mother of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had abandoned the country.
  • Would UK, USA, share intel with independent Sc ...
    Scotland plans to set up its own security and intelligence agencies if its people vote in favor of independence from the United Kingdom in 2014, according to policy planners. But critics contend that it might be some time before Scotland’s spy organizations are trusted by their sister intelligen ...
  • Israel intelligence confirms ‘major blast’ at ...
    Intelligence officials in Israel have confirmed reports of a “major explosion” that is believed to have severely damaged an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility, but refused comment on rumors that Israeli jets were seen flying nearby around the time of the blast.

War is a Crime.org

  • Author of Intelligence Estimate Hailed for Pre ...
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  • Washington OK's Israeli Aggression on Syria
      Washington OK's Israeli Aggression on Syria   by Stephen Lendman   It shouldn't surprise. Washington and Israel are longstanding imperial partners. Significant regional operations are jointly planned.    It's done well in advance. It's for strategic advantage. Operatio ...
  • Iran's Legal Right to Enrich Uranium Unchallenged
      Iran's Legal Right to Enrich Uranium Challenged   by Stephen Lendman   It's been that way for years. Iran fully complies with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) provisions. Its nuclear program is peaceful. US intelligence says so. Annually it repeats earlier assessments. &nb ...
  • Syria News - Feb 3
      U.S., Russia commend Syrian opposition leader’s offer to negotiate with Assad - The Washington Post Russian Foreign Minister Meets Syrian Opposition Leader - RIA Novosti Syrian opposition leader to meet Iran's foreign minister | Reuters Syrian Chemical Weapons Under Control - FM Lavrov - ...
  • Join David Swanson on Harvey Wasserman's Show ...
    DRONES & PEACE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA with the great David Swanson at 3-4pm (eastern) Monday on HarveyW's Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show.  David is one our most persistent, effective and unstoppable activists on issues of war, the environment and our Constitution.  Our act ...

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 ...

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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!

  • "12 Things You Didn't Know about Rosa Parks" - ...
    Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks. Tune in Monday to learn more about the celebrated activist in our interview with Jeanne Theoharis, author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2013). In the meantime, read an excerpt from the book bel ...
  • Rosa Parks, Now and Forever
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Monday, Feb. 4, is the 100th anniversary of her birth. After she died at the age of 9 ...
  • Obama’s Dirty Wars Exposed at Sundance
    *By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan PARK CITY , Utah — As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in for his second term as the 44th president of the United States, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Dirty Wars: The World Is ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Coming Clean: Detox Power with Dr. Laura Thomp ...
    “The first wealth is health.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson By Catherine Austin Fitts Detoxification has revolutionized my life. After sporadic (and very helpful) attempts, I started a detoxification program in 2006 with the help of my nutritionist Dr. Laura Thompson, founder of the Souther ...
  • Country Radio – “Listen to the Chi ...
    Related Reading: Greg Quill and Country Radio on Wikipedia.
  • Jon Rappoport Special Report: The Sandy Hook M ...
    “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” –Jim Morrison By Catherine Austin Fitts In America, fact is fiction and fiction is fact. I keep being surprised when someone I know takes the network coverage of Sandy Hook seriously, not understanding that such coverage is typ ...
  • Obamacare to Soon Cost the Average American Fa ...
    By Mike Adams Under Obamacare, American families are forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry. By 2016 — just three years from now — the cheapest health insurance plan available will cost a typical American family $20,000 a year ...
  • Super-Zeppelin: Revolutionary Airship May Beco ...
    By RT A functioning prototype of revolutionary airship is undergoing tests south of Los Angeles. A US company is developing a series of gigantic heavy-payload dirigibles with an innovative ballast system that mimics that of a submarine. The ‘Aeroscraft’ – developed by Worldwide Aeros – more res ...

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

  • Six Yummy Organic Recipes For Your Super Bowl ...
    Read the rest of Six Yummy Organic Recipes For Your Super Bowl Party Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Chili Recipe, Eggplant sliders, Homemade Tortilla Chips, Hummus pinwheels, Hummus Recipe, Lowfat dip, Mediterranean Salsa, Organic party food, Super Bowl Party, Super B ...
  • Stay in a Giant Wine Barrel Room Overlooking T ...
    Read the rest of Stay in a Giant Wine Barrel Room Overlooking The Black Forest in Germany Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Air BnB, eco design, eco-tourism, funky hotel, germany, green design, Recycled Materials, recycled wine barrels, Sasbachwalden, Schlafen im Weinfas ...
  • Foster + Partners Unveil Plans for 3D-Printed ...
    Read the rest of Foster + Partners Unveil Plans for 3D-Printed Moon Base! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3d printed lunar base, Alta SpA, eco design, esa, european space agency, Foster and Partners, green design, Monolite U, moon colonization, Scuola Superiore Sant'An ...
  • Sruli Recht’s ‘Forget Me Knot’ Ring is Made Fr ...
    Reykjavik-based designer Sruli Recht is known for producing producing fashions that surprise and delight, but his latest creation is of a more, shall we say, personal nature. We are of course talking about the “Forget Me Knot” ring, a one-of-a-kind bauble made with a swath of flesh from Recht’s ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Win a Lotus Travel Crib & Portable P ...
    Whether headed cross-country or just around the corner to a friend’s house, the Lotus Travel Crib and Portable Play Yard is perfect for any growing family constantly on the go. We’ve teamed up with Guava Family to give one lucky reader a Lotus Crib (worth $200) for free! This innovat ...

Pogue's Posts

  • More Things to Love About the BlackBerry 10
    David Pogue finds a score of new smartphone features that BlackBerry has innovated.
  • 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.

The Progressive Realist

  • Ankara Embassy Bombing: Not Another Benghazi
    Once again, hearts and prayers go out to a victim of a terrorist assault on a US diplomatic establishment. The February 1 suicide attack on the American embassy in Ankara claimed one wounded, a visiting Turkish journalist, and two dead–embassy security guard Mustafa Akarsu and the bomber himsel ...
  • The Era of Austerity or the Era of Intervention?
    A variety of commentators listened to President Obama’s Inauguration speech and, having heard few words devoted to foreign policy, declared that the second term of this Administration will be marked by less activism on the global stage.  The draw downs from Iraq and Afghanistan readily reinforce ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drones, Mali and Iran
    Thomas Hegghammer, “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists’ Choice Between Domestic and Foreign Fighting,” American Political Science Review, February 2013. Trudy Rubin, “The Next Steps in Afghanistan,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31, 2013. “It’s d ...
  • Libya's Spheres of Bad Influence
    The tragic events unfolding in North Africa have brought to the attention of the West a reality that has been long underestimated and neglected: the rapid collapse of law and order in the countries that went through the revolts of the so-called Arab spring. Western countries have relied on the h ...
  • Chuck Hagel Hearing and the Iran Nuclear Dilemma
    Senator Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee was a protracted, repetitive, and disappointing affair. Rather than discuss the decisions for which the secretary of defense is empowered by U.S. law to make and implement as the “principal assistant to t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Senator Pornstache
    On the day we learned of Ed Koch's death, we also learned that someone who has been making trouble in New York almost as long is thinking of running for Senate from New Jersey, where he now lives. We're speaking, of course, about Geraldo Rivera, the man who uncovered Al Capone's empty vault, wh ...
  • "Acting White" Isn't a Thing
    Every community has its problems. It’s only among African Americans, however, that those problems are pathologized and turned into a symptom of “culture.” Crime against neighbors becomes “black-on-black” crime, the predictable patterns of poor communities becomes a “culture of dependency,” and ...
  • Is Obama Moving to the Left?
    Is Barack Obama moving to the left in his second term, and what is he risking by doing so? That's what Ron Brownstein asks in a long National Journal article, and though Brownstein is as comprehensive and careful as ever, there are some fundamental flaws in his premises. But here's what he says ...
  • Exit Scott Brown
    When it was clear that Barack Obama would choose John Kerry to lead the State Department, I wrote that it was tantamount to giving Scott Brown—and the Republican Party—another Senate seat. Brown may have lost his bid for reelection, but he remained popular among Massachusetts voters, and would ...
  • A Contraception Compromise
    Last year, as part of implementation for the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration rolled out a rule on contraception that inspired a huge backlash from religious conservatives and began the “war on women” fight that extended through the presidential campaign. In short, Health and Human ...

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

  • Bombs and Racist Propaganda Found in Connectic ...
    Just down the road from the scene of the December school massacre in Newtown, Conn., police in Stamford have discovered a home filled with bomb-making materials, assorted firearms, and white supremacist and anti-police propaganda. Stamford police and FBI agents today identified and interviewed a ...
  • Struggling National Alliance Takes Another Hit ...
    In a growing campaign to embarrass and oust the chairman of the once influential National Alliance (NA), California member Jim Ring, widely seen as the real leader of the notorious neo-Nazi group, has resigned in order to “save the organization from going into complete obscurity.” Ring quit last ...
  • Texas Prosecutor ‘Involved’ in Ary ...
    Two men, reportedly masked and dressed entirely in black, gunned down a Kaufman County, Texas, prosecutor this morning as he walked to a city courthouse. The Dallas Morning News reported that the victim had been “heavily involved” in the investigation of members of the Aryan Brotherhood. The ent ...
  • Police: Hostage Taker in Alabama Standoff Has ...
    The man who ignited a hostage standoff in southern Alabama when he shot a bus driver and took a child into an underground bunker is a “survivalist” who has ties to the antigovernment movement, an official with the Dale County Sheriff’s Office told Hatewatch this morning. The gunman i ...
  • TeaParty.org Drops the (Other) H-Bomb
    Godwin’s Law, an Internet adage started by lawyer and writer Mike Godwin in 1990, states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” The law’s point, Godwin explained in a 1995 article for Wired magazine, was the Internet see ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New HHS Regulations on Contraception Coverage ...
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today issued new proposed rules for the copay-free birth control benefit under the Affordable Care Act, clarifying how the implementation of the benefit would affect women who work for organizations that claim a religious objection to contraceptio ...
  • Statement from NARAL Pro-Choice America on Oba ...
    Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said the Obama administration’s new regulations to implement the contraceptive-coverage policy reinforce the White House’s commitment to women’s health. Based on an initial review, NARAL Pro-Choice America is optimistic that t ...
  • Hagel Hearings Lessons: Iraq “Surge”; Israel’s ...
    ROBERT PARRY, read more
  • Americans United Issues Statement On Obama Con ...
    The Obama administration’s proposed rule on access to birth control for employees at religious institutions appears to preserve women's access to contraception while bending over backward to address religious objections to the prior rules, according to Americans United for Separation o ...
  • Michigan Reverses Policy, Issues Driver’s Lice ...
    A coalition of civil rights organizations welcomed Michigan Secretary of State’s decision today to drop an unlawful policy that prevented young immigrants brought to the country as children – commonly known as DREAMers – from receiving driver’s licenses and identification ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • What Security Means to Edi
    Diane Ovalle Michelle Chen Photo: Diane OvalleThere’s nothing special about the Arma family. They’re like countless other American households, with parents working hard to raise their k ...
  • The Growing Wealth Gap Is Unsustainable
    Antony Jenkins, chief executive of Barclays, who appears before MPs and peers on the banking standards commission this week, has removed one issue from the agenda, namely his right to a bonus of more £1m.read more
  • What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
    Frances Moore Lappé Photo by Tilman Cornelius Dette.In the late ’60s, my life changed forever. I asked, Why are millions of people going hungry? Every other species seemed to have figured out how to feed itself and its offspring. So w ...
  • The Baffling Response to Arctic Climate Change
    David Suzuki The Arctic may seem like a distant place, just as the most extreme consequences of our wasteful use of fossil fuels may appear to be in some distant future. Both are closer than most of us realize. read more
  • Guns and Games
    Kristen Saloomey Ryan Smith’s apartment has two giant wide-screen televisions and three video gaming systems: an X-box and Playstation in his bedroom, and a Wii in the living room. He says he grew up playing Mario and Ms Pacman and no ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Survey of nation's largest cities finds wa ...
    (Phys.org)—Although reports of drought conditions, water wars and restrictions have often painted a bleak picture of the nation's water availability, a new University of Florida survey finds that conditions aren't quite so bad as believed.
  • February calendar:
    1 Erie Auto Show Thursday and Friday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, noon-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Bayfront Convention Center presented by Automobile Dealers of Erie County features new car models automotive accessories Nationwide race car on display. Cost 5 at ...
  • U.S. water supply not as threatened as believe ...
    A research study adds a new twist to previous studies of the nation's water supplies. The study finds that when infrastructure is included in the mix (reservoirs, dams, etc.), water vulnerability is less of a threat than previously believed.
  • Popular crocodile slide may lead to Biloxi wat ...
    BILOXI -- It might look like families are being swallowed by a huge crocodile when the newest attraction debuts at Big Play Family Fun Park on Beach Boulevard in March.
  • Nation's Water Supply Not as Threatened as ...
    University of Florida research study adds new twist to previous studies of the nation's water supplies; finds that when infrastructure is included in the mix (reservoirs, dams, etc.), water vulnerability is less of a threat than previously believed.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Paul Krugman Destroys GOP’s Talking Points On ...
    On Sunday, economist Paul Krugman hit back against GOP claims that public sector employment has increased under Obama, and that such jobs consist mainly of wasteful bureaucrats and somehow count less economically than private sector ones. Back in September it was tea party Senator Rand Paul (R-K ...
  • New Mexico Utility Agrees To Purchase Solar Po ...
    The economic viability of solar power is advancing rapidly. It’s actually already more then competitive within certain markets, and the price of solar panels saw a precipitous decline over the last four years. In fact, solar technology has been advancing so rapidly that analysts have had t ...
  • Secretary of Defense: Iran Has Not Made A Deci ...
    If you watched Chuck Hagel’s Senate confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Defense, you’d assume that Iran is at most days away from obtaining a nuclear weapon, requiring an immediate decision on the use of force. “If your position is truly prevention and not containment, ...
  • NRA Head Fearmongers About Background Checks: ...
    National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre offered a litany of excuses for his organization’s opposition to universal background checks on gun sales and purchases this morning, telling Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that the American Medical Association ...
  • GOP Rep Compares Gun Regulation To ‘Banning Sp ...
    In an exchange on ABC’s This Week this morning with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) was outraged that lawmakers reacted to the mass murder of school children by an armed gunman by trying to prevent similarly disturbed individuals from obtaining guns. Th ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • thwap the Online "Activist"
    For reasons that will be a big secret for now, the old thwapster thinks he's going to take an indefinite break from online "activism" I can't see wasting my time bloviating on the inter-toobz about how this or that atrocity is a shitty atrocity. The phone lines are open though. You're free to s ...
  • 34 Homeless Deaths in Toronto
    This post was supposed to get done yesterday but I did a bunch of other good things instead. It's something that's been on my mind for a while. I might very well have missed something, but I seem to recall that when a homeless person froze to death in Toronto during the Mike Harris regime, ther ...
  • Ontario Liberal Sleaze
     The following post will be an expansion of the ideas in a comment I left in response to today's post at Owen Gray's "Northern Reflections" blog. I very much like Mr. Gray, even as he attempts, now and again, to resurrect the Liberal brand in Canada. In the case of today's post, where he wa ...
  • Freedom and Human Rights
    So I saw this YouTube video via Sister Sage, and I thought that, well, the first thing then is that a lot of these trolls' comments will dry-up after the taxpayer money spigot has been turned off. Secondly, that when we get power in this country we will destroy the Conservative Party of Canada a ...
  • Don't Feed the Trolls!!!
    I notice with considerable consternation, that the troll has returned to Saskboy's comments section. The individual in question will obnoxiously guffaw over the slightest errors (either real or the product of a deliberate misreading of what someone says) but lapses into cowardly silence when its ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Reflections of Change
    Tomorrow I will turn 50, a half century of life. Compared to those who raised me there appears to be little change from when I was born. There was no industrial revolution, no war wide wars, but looking closer change has a more human face.
  • Roberto 'Living in Limbo' Luongo has no where ...
    It goes almost without saying that we all need a home and obviously Roberto Luongo is no different. Yet after years of tremendous service in Vancouver, and a great start to the current NHL season, he appears to no longer have one there. So where then?
  • What is the appropriate sentence for Canada's ...
    Jeffery Deslisle is the first person convicted under Canada's Security of Information Act, a law passed in the aftermath of 9/11. Deslisle, a former Navy intelligence officer, was convicted of selling secrets to the Russians.
  • Canada says good-bye to penny
    Effective February 4, 2013, the Canadian government will not distribute any more pennies and that may mean you may lose or earn a few pennies when making purchases in cash.
  • Canada's national energy strategy: Alberta oi ...
    With the XL Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines in limbo, Alberta's Premier Alison Redford is looking at markets in Central and Atlantic Canada. In an effort to market Alberta oil, Redford is developing a national energy strategy.

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

  • Will Canada return to peacekeeping?
    Between 1956 and 1992, Canada was often the single largest contributor of UN peacekeepers. Since the late 1990s, however, Canada has virtually disappeared from peacekeeping. Professor Michael Byers presents the case for re-engagement.
  • Canadian special forces already in Mali
    Canadian special forces soldiers are already deployed in Mali protecting Canadian diplomats, but according to the government they are not on a "combat" mission.
  • Canadian special forces to Mali?
    Will Canadian special forces soldiers be sent to Mali? Prime Minister Harper has clearly stated that his government is “not considering” a “direct” military role in the current conflict. But can his words be trusted?
  • What’s your opinion about the war in Mali?
    The Harper government is moving toward more direct military involvement in Mali. What is your opinion about events in Mali and Harper’s response? Leave your comment.
  • Mali war: Blowback and mission creep
    The West's intervention to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in 2011 was one of the triggers of the current war in Mali, and as Canada's role in Mali slowly grows, the danger of being drawn further into a spreading West African conflict also grows.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Brrrrr! It’s Cold Out There!
    It is cold out there! So, what can you do to warm up and avoid the huge heating bill at the same time?! There are things you can do to keep warm besides blasting the heater or wearing wool from head to toe. How to Stay Warm During the Cold Season Poor circulation may be [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-8-12
    Today, Kevin explains what the United States government would do if American citizens started to rebel! Plus, Dr. Betty Martini explains the DANGERS of Aspartame and why you need to avoid it at all costs! Health: Asparagus May Help Hangovers Wine Protects Skin from Radiation Government: An Army ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-29-12
    Today, Kevin explains why most people will not be successful in network marketing.  Plus, Princess stops by the show to reveal secrets “Kevin” doesn’t want you to know about! Self Help: Maximize Your Downline Success Training Lose A Pound A Day! Government: Wisconsin Fight: Bill Limiting Unions ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-2-13
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-12
    Today, Kevin explains why you should not be donating your hard-earned money to large charities and for disaster relief. Plus, Kevin reveals where to find the best quality products in your area! Self Help: Protect Yourself From Meat Glue Shine A Little Light On Me Health: 9 Salads Calorically Wor ...

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

  • Stiglitz: Economic inequality preventing a rob ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Sunday said the United States would continue to recover from the economic collapse at a snail’s pace unless the middle-class was strengthened. Durin ...
  • Kirkuk Carnage: 41 Killed, 96 Wounded across Iraq
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKirkuk Carnage: 41 Killed, 96 Wounded across Iraq Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis At least 35 people were killed and as many as 90 more were wounded in a complex attack on an army base in central Kirkuk. The attack began whe ...
  • Rev. Jesse Jackson Says Gun Supporters Are Dom ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comKurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com February 3, 2013 During an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted on January 30, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said anti-government people espousing what amounts to a Confederate ideology wil ...
  • U.S. Approved Israeli Bombing of Syria … and M ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comU.S. Approved Israeli Bombing of Syria … and May Join the War at Any Moment By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Despite the Pretense that the U.S. and Israel Are Not Intervening In Syria’s Civil War, They A ...
  • Assad’s Best Friend Attacks Syria
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAssad’s Best Friend Attacks Syria By Veterans TodaySunday, February 3rd, 2013 Assad’s Best Friend Attacks Syria — — Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betr ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Sibel Edmonds on NATO, Terrorism, 9/11 and Dru ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post January 29, 2013 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 a ...
  • The real invasion of Africa is not news and a ...
    Dandelion Salad by John Pilger Global Research http://johnpilger.com January 30, 2013 A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this w ...
  • Drone Warfare Dance: The Things We Make
    Dandelion Salad Joe Friendly·Jan 31, 2013 Things We Make, a powerful theatrical dance exploration of the horrors of drone warfare directed by Shana Solomon at the Culture Project January 28, 2013 as part of their Blueprint For Accountability series. It preceded a conversation about drone warfare ...
  • Revolutionary Love and its Terrible Hurts by D ...
    by Daniel N. White Guest Writer Dandelion Salad January 29, 2013 One Morning in Sarajevo: 28 June 1914 by David James Smith, 2008 David James Smith is a British journalist and One Morning is his second book.  My copy was printed in the UK and has rave cover blurbs on it from various English publ ...
  • Martin Duberman: Howard Zinn’s Life and ...
    Dandelion Salad lauraflanders·Jan 28, 2013 Martin Duberman, the author of the biography of Howard Zinn, “A Life on the Left,” explores the historian’s powerful legacy. from the archives: Howard Zinn: Be Honest About the History of Our Country A People’s History of The US by How ...

Your New Reality

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    Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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    This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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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 ...
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    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

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Wheatley ...
    Magellan radar image of Wheatley crater on Venus. This 72 km diameter crater shows a radar bright ejecta pattern and a generally flat floor with some rough raised areas and faulting. The crater is located in Asteria Regio at 16.6N,267E.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Starburs ...
    Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, is a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Starburst galaxies undergo extremely high rates of star formation and are thought to represent a particular phase in ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Haunting ...
    This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. vdB 141 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes referred to as the ghost nebula, ...
  • Video: Fish Neurons Fire in Real-Time as It St ...
    Studying the links between brain and behavior may have just gotten easier. For the first time, neuroscientists have found a way to watch neurons fire in an independently moving animal. Though the study was done in fish, it may hold ...
  • You May Have Been Born to Flock
    More than 70,000 people will flood into the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans this Superbowl weekend, while thousands more swarm through the city's French Quarter. From a certain perspective, might those football fans resemble, say, a herd of wildebeest or ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • At least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built ...
    Dror Atkas: "The contemptible cooperation of the state with land theft in the West Bank is constantly growing... They are trying to retroactively legalize whatever they can in order to enable massive... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s left turn to the far right
    This election has been a personal blow to Netanyahu, but not to the right. Netanyahu misread the public mood, but not on the central issues that should define the left-right divide in Israel: the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Hannu Reime: Neither one nor two states, but a ...
    A continuous theme in ... the book is the view that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a confrontation between the Zionist settler-colonialism and the Palestinian Arab people; it’s the last colonial... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Remembering Howard Zinn
    We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • 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 ...

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.
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  • 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

  • Events and Announcements: February 3, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen  Calls for Papers The American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association (ILSA) have called for submissions for the International Law Weekend 2013 to be held in New York City on October 24-26. The overall theme is I ...
  • Ps&Is for DWIs – What should the Public Know?
    by Duncan Hollis In order for diplomatic missions to function, international law has long accorded diplomats and their families immunity from all local criminal laws.  And when a major crime occurs involving a diplomat, there's often a lot of press attention on the case by virtue of the privil ...
  • Saif Has Been Repeatedly Interrogated Without ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller Libya has filed a lengthy response to a series of Pre-Trial Chamber questions about the domestic proceedings against Saif. There is much of interest in the motion, but what particularly caught my eye is Libya's open admission that it has repeatedly interrogated Saif and con ...
  • More on the Future of American Legal Education
    by Robert Howse by Robert Howse [Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law.] Thanks to Kevin Heller for taking to Opinio Juris the discussion I started on Prawfsblawg about the future of American law schools. I agree with Kevin enti ...
  • Libya Didn’t Buy Al-Senussi; It Simply Made a ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve been catching up on the lastest filings regarding Libya’s complementarity challenges, and I’ll have a post tomorrow about some shocking admissions by Libya concerning its planned domestic prosecution of Saif Gaddafi.  But I would b ...

Public News Service

  • Arizona Goes Red Today for Women's Heart Disease
    Arizona Goes Red Today for Women's Heart Disease PHOENIX – You can expect to see plenty of folks in Arizona with a bit more color in their clothing Friday, because it's National Wear Red Day. The annual event is held to encourage people to wear red to help raise awareness that heart dise ...
  • Economist says a Fairer Tax Code Could Close t ...
    Economist says a Fairer Tax Code Could Close the Deficit PHOENIX, Ariz. - Some in Congress want to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to close the deficit. Some economists argue that a smarter strategy would be to change the existing federal tax code. ...(Read More)
  • The Flip Side of "Fake Online Girlfriend" &#82 ...
    The Flip Side of "Fake Online Girlfriend" – Real Danger PHOENIX - The "fake online girlfriend" hoax involving University of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o has made headlines for a couple of weeks. Sensationalism aside, a new report highlights the very real dangers online relationship ...
  • AZ Reform Groups View Senate Immigration Frame ...
    AZ Reform Groups View Senate Immigration Framework with Cautious Optimism PHOENIX - Immigration reform must include family preservation, say Arizona advocates. Various groups reacting to a reform framework announced by eight U.S. senators, including Arizona's John McCain and Jeff Flake, say the ...
  • Free Tax Help Available from AARP Foundation S ...
    Free Tax Help Available from AARP Foundation Starting Friday PHOENIX - Tax season is here again, and whether you use an accountant, a computer program, or file on your own, it can be an expensive and complicated process. But thanks to the AARP Foundation, free tax help will be available to Arizo ...

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

  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Cheap 3D printers create replacement hand for ...
    Liam had no fingers on his right hand. Two designers created a Robohand for him using 3D printers. Not only can Liam use his new Robohand, the designers have published the plans and made them public domain so anyone can now 3D print a Robohand as well as tweak the design. Ars Technica has [...]
  • Poe’s Law and the Kenyan Socialist skeet-shooting
    I posted satirically on Facebook and Twitter about Obama skeet shooting and it turned out to be a fine, if unintentional, example of Poe’s Law. Don’t be fooled. Photos of the Keynan Socialist skeet-shooting are simply meant to lull gun owners before their weapons are confiscated by ...
  • Flipper the cat gets new set of wheels
    A high school robotics club designs contraption for Flipper, a paralyzed cat with a twisted spinal cord
  • White and scary. Was Mark Hasse killed by Arya ...
    The Field Negro ponders speculation Assistant Attorney General Mark Hasse of Kaufman County, Texas was murdered by the Ayran Brotherhood. Oh lawd! Please tell me that the race war isn’t here already. I honestly wasn’t ready for this. At least give a brotha a chance to get his papers ...
  • ICE freeing sex slaves through data mining
    Bravo. ICE is using big data to ferret out and arrest those engaging in sex slaves trafficking as well as locating victims. This highlights how data mining can be used for good purposes and not just for surveillance. There are huge amounts of data on all of us out there. With the proper tools [...]

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

  • Zero tolerance mall cop filmed tasering an abu ...
    Supporters have raised $20,000 for an Atlanta security guard who became an internet sensation this week after he posted videos online showing his refusal to give in to abuse from troublemakers. Darien Long made headlines earlier this week after a video showing him tasering a violent woman outsid ...
  • American Sniper author Chris Kyle shot dead in ...
    Iraq veteran and ex-US Navy seal Chris Kyle, known as the deadliest sniper in US history, has been shot dead on a Texas shooting range, reports say. His body was found at Rough Creek Lodge range on Saturday with that of another man. A suspect was arrested. Mr Kyle, 38, wrote the 2012 bestseller ...
  • Dominican prostitute: Sen. Bob Menendez ‘likes ...
    This scandal runs really deep! According to our Deadlinelive.info ongoing investigation… Republicans, democrats, and media use some of these same “services” -  Stay tuned for the results of our research!   In a little-noticed email published online Wednesday by Citizens fo ...
  • The Future of “Obama – Care” ...
    * For the record – this is the #1 reason that we did everything we could to stop O Care. We have explored many free market / local solutions to the problems of US Health care, and none of them involve loss of privacy, insurance corps, or the IRS / Govt. In our opinion -  [...]
  • Decorated Combat Veteran Arrested In New York: ...
    n the latest attack on the American people, a decorated War Hero has been arrested and charged with five counts of third degree criminal possession of a weapon, for having empty 30 round AR-15 Magazines in his vehicle. On Sunday January 6th Staff Sgt. Nathan Haddad, a decorated combat veteran, w ...

The Air Vent

  • Condensation Driven Winds
    I have been receiving emails from the authors of the condensation driven wind theory for several days now as they have published a new paper.   Since I have no time whatsoever, I haven’t even read their latest work. Judith Curry has kindly taken on their guest post and it can be read there ...
  • The Lukewarmer’s Way
    When a climate scientist claims that 2 + 2 =5 and the rest of the scientists tell them it doesn’t, CS turns a blind eye.   Michael Mann’s hokey stick nonsense drives those of us who actually read math completely wild.  When they add extreme need for compulsory planet wide behavioral ...
  • A Reasoned Rejection of Science, Explaining th ...
    Ex-spurt is a commonly misunderstood term.   The true definition of Ex-spurt is, “A drip under pressure”, or perhaps in past tense form, “a drop under pressure.” Often an ex-drip will self-identify as a spurt, but on closer examination he is really just a drip.  Reader (A ...
  • 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 ...

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: photo tags, privacy, Crunchi ...
    Facebook re-enables photo tag suggestions – Facebook announced Thursday that it is re-enabling the photo tag suggestion feature in the U.S., which uses facial recognition to help users identify  friends in their photos. The controversial feature launched...
  • Facebook platform now encompasses more than 50 ...
    More than 50 million pages and 10 million apps are now part of the Facebook platform, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Facebook provided these updated stats after last reporting...
  • 27M users bought virtual goods using Facebook ...
    Approximately 27 million users bought virtual goods using Facebook Payments in 2012, up from 15 million in 2011, according to a document the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Facebook generated $810 million...
  • News Feed is the next Facebook pillar in need ...
    When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg debuted Graph Search in January, he explained it as being one of the three pillars of the social network. He sees Timeline, News Feed and Search as the primary ways users...
  • Facebook careers: filmmaker, product marketing ...
    Facebook added 42 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the user operations, product marketing, analytics and sales teams. The company added a listings for user operations analysts for regions including...

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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 ...
  • Must Watch Video- Operation Gladio Part I: Fro ...
    Unveiling the Curtain on the West’s Strategically Orchestrated & Executed Global Terror Campaign This groundbreaking investigative video report is Part I of series on Operation Gladio produced by James Corbett of Corbett Report. The episode includes an introduction to Operation Gladio and in ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Lila Downs – “La Bamba” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is all about me and one of my all-time favorite songs…La Bamba. I first heard way back when Richie Valens made it hit. This performance is by Lila Downs. This is the second time Downs has been picked for our ...
  • Podcast Show #104: Falling Dominos in the Horn ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar, one of our favorite globe-trotting journalists and offshore voices, joins us for this fascinating analysis of the French war in Mali, the bloody hostage scene in Algeria, and blowback from the “liberation” of Libya. In this wide-ranging ...
  • Must Watch Video- Operation Gladio Part I: Fro ...
    Unveiling the Curtain on the West’s Strategically Orchestrated & Executed Global Terror Campaign This groundbreaking investigative video report is Part I of series on Operation Gladio produced by James Corbett of Corbett Report. The episode includes an introduction to Operation Gladio and in ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Jerusalem Post’s Anti-Semitism Fetish Leads to ...
    J’Accuse! The Jerusalem Post is known for perpetrating hoaxes based on fake reports of anti-Semitism.  It published a story purporting that Norway was riddled with anti-Semitism.  Turns out the report was written by someone who made almost all of it up. He mistook his own personal fear of ...
  • Republican Jewish Coalition Lies Saying Didn’t ...
    A few days ago I posted here that I received an anti-Hagel robocall from the Republican Jewish Coalition.  Jim Rutenberg picked up on my report and included it in his post at the NY Times Caucus Blog.  He later updated his post with a denial from the RJC: The Republican Jewish Coalition called M ...
  • Israel Falls to 112th Place in Press Freedom Index
    Reporters Without Borders 2013 Press Freedom Index (full report) has just been published.  Last year, Israel was ranked 92nd and it sunk a further 20 spaces to 112th this year (out of 179 ranked).  The fall was at least in part due to Israel’s deliberate targeting of the Gaza press center ...
  • Pro-Israel Plutocrats Lauder, Adelson Funding ...
    Yesterday night, I was having dinner with my family when the phone rang.  I could see it was some sort of telemarketing call based on Caller ID, but I picked up the receiver anyway.  Turns out, it was the Republican Jewish Coalition calling with word of all the terrible things Chuck Hagel has do ...
  • Blowback from Israeli Attack on Syria
    Any thought that Syria would remain silent about Israel’s attack on a weapons convoy making its way through Syrian territory toward Lebanon was dashed today as not just Syria, but Iran, Russia and Hezbollah all condemned the strike in quite harsh terms: The Iranian deputy foreign minister ...

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

  • How Journalists Can Secure Their Digital Perimeter
    Truism of the day: Your digital perimeter is not secure. You know that. The question for journalists is what can you do right now to strengthen it? Are your editors and managing editors doing enough to help you? As my fellow Knight Fellow Melissa Chan, who was a correspondent in China, points ...
  • OpenBlock Rural Finds Three Key Audiences for ...
    The key lesson from the first year of our Knight News Challenge grant? The future of data journalism and digital public records at rural newspapers depends on building a product that balances the needs of three key audiences: the consumers, professional reporters and content sponsors. The ...
  • How the Geolocation Revolution Has Evolved
    This is the first post in a series on geolocation startups and services. For years, entrepreneurs, tech observers and journalists have known two things about the geolocation space: It holds an enormous amount of promise, and it's taking an awfully long time to get there. Geolocation s ...
  • Platial Leads the Way for Geolocation Revolution
    This is the first post in a series on geolocation startups and services. For years, entrepreneurs, tech observers and journalists have known two things about the geolocation space: It holds an enormous amount of promise, and it's taking an awfully long time to get there. Geolocation s ...
  • Mapping with Kites in the Age of Drones
    This post compares technologies for aerial photography, but it is also about how tool choices can embed values, including transparency, openness, and accessibility, into the growing popular culture of mapping. Most map imagery is collected by airplane or satellite and processed by GIS (ge ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Broken Government - Senate Leader Dodges on Se ...
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fended off questions about Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) at a press conference about immigration reform. The first question out of the gate was from CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, who asked Reid when he learned that Menendez had reimbursed a political do ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Managing State: Some Adv ...
    The back-to-back Senate testimonies of secretary of state nominee John Kerry and sitting Secretary Hillary Clinton served up quite a contrast: the former outlining the big policy ideas he intends to pursue; the latter delving into the details of bureaucratic information-dissemination and decisio ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syria's War Affecting T ...
    On January 21, members of the Turkish Youth Union (TGB), a far-left nationalist group, attacked German Patriot missile teams dispatched to help defend Turkey against threats from Syria. The incident served as a reminder of the unexpected ways in which the Syrian war could impact Turkey's stabili ...
  • Environment vs Energy - ‘Virtual Chimney’ ...
    Simple ‘blast’ fences called baffles could deliver improvements in air quality for people living near airports, new research has found. Placed behind a runway, the baffles could serve as a ‘virtual chimney’, funnelling emissions from aircraft engines upwards where they can disperse more ...
  • America on Edge - Prescription Overdose Rate R ...
    The rate of drug overdose from prescription opioids increased seven-fold in New York City over a 16-year period and was concentrated especially among white residents of the city, according to latest research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study is one of the earlie ...

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

  • Why Obama's Foreign Policy is So UnRealistic
    By Barry Rubin One of the main features of this misguided contemporary foreign policy debate is the corruption of the concept of Realism. In some ways, the school called Realism was simply a way of teaching principles long regarded as obvious in Europe to Americans, whose idealism abou ...
  • Unemployment Rate RISES to 7.9%
    More evidence  Obamanomics is a failure. The labor department just announce the unemployment rate grew to 7.9% in January as the total non-farm payroll employment increased by a disappointing 157,000. The U-6 number which includes unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the ...
  • BREAKING: Former NYC Mayor Koch Dead at 88
    Sad News Today--former NYC Mayor Ed Koch passed away at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital early this morning, he was 88 Years old. Koch served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.  He took over a c ...
  • ATF's Epic Fail In Milwaukee
    As Harry Reid bolts from Sen. Dianne Feinstein's renewed push to ban so-called assault weapons, other senators, including Pat Leahy and Al Franken, may politick their way into killing the bill in committee.  As Ed Morrissey of Hot Air posted yesterday, No one thou ...
  • Holy Cow---Hagel Was EMBARRASSING!
    Regular readers of this site know that I have not been in favor of former Senator Chuck Hagel's nomination---but even his biggest detractors did not expect the performance he gave today during his senate confirmation hearings.   It wasn't that he said things that people disagreed with, ...

The Real Agenda

  • Second Amendment vindicated: Armed Guard Stops ...
    AP | FEBRUARY 1, 2013 A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of do ...
  • The Bizarre History of Fluoride in the Water
    THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 1, 2013 Does Artificial Water Fluoridation Mean No Golden Years For The Elderly? (1) Research reveals a startling new finding: fluoride likely contributes to the epidemic of cardiovascular disease by stimulating calcification of the vascular system, including the ...
  • 25 people killed after explosion at Mexican Oi ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | FEBRUARY 1, 2013 An explosion occurred at one of the buildings at Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in Mexico on Thursday. The event took place shortly before 16:00 (GMT Mexican) and the causes are still unknown. At least 25 people have died and 101 were i ...
  • Obama’s Legacy: Big Government, Bigger M ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 31, 2013 The brightest highlight of Barack Obama’s presidency is that he has been able to keep alive the thought — in the heads of his supporters –  that they are entitled to getting free government handouts. At the same tim ...
  • Jewish Settlements Violate Geneva Convention, ...
    The body calls for an immediate withdrawal of all existing settlements occupying Palestinian territory. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 31, 2013 A team of researchers from the Human Rights Council of the United Nations warned Thursday that Israel’s settlement policy i ...

Wind Watch

  • EPA to probe wind farm noise
    The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) will begin monitoring low frequency noise around the Waterloo Wind Farm, in northern South Australia, later this year. It says it will monitor noise levels for two months from the homes of residents near the wind farm in the Clare Valley. The director ...
  • Value of land cut by wind farms
    A Victorian council has conceded that a wind farm development still in its early stages has slashed the land value of its neighbours, and agreed their land rates should be cut. In what is believed to be an Australian first, South Gippsland shire council has amended the rates notice for one neigh ...
  • Are utilities using deep pockets to battle loc ...
    Are large utility owners using their deep pockets to force communities to reduce their property valuations below fair market value to avoid paying their fair share of property taxes? The issue was raised this past week at both the Berlin city council meeting and a meeting of the Coos County Comm ...
  • Falmouth Selectmen support removing wind turbines
    The Falmouth Board of Selectmen voted Jan. 30 to support removing the town’s industrial-sized turbines, Wind 1 and Wind 2 at the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Facility, in hopes to unify a divided community. “Typically government and good leaders think of the greater good of all. As a thoughtful ...
  • Grid constraints mean less power output from w ...
    A utility official says that some big wind projects in the region are not performing as planned due to constraints on the transmission grid. The news came as Vermont lawmakers focused on both climate change and a moratorium on new wind development. The Vermont Electric Cooperative buys electrici ...

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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' rights wielded agains ...
    A by-the-numbers look at how claims of "states' rights" -- once used to defend racial segregation -- are being used to justify legislative assaults on the interests of economically struggling citizens in North Carolina, Mississippi and elsewhere across the South. read more
  • Watchdogs dig up troubling questions about fed ...
    The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy fought the Obama administration in court to get it to disclose details about the $8.3 billion in loan guarantees it offered private companies to build two nuclear reactors at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle. Though heavily redacted, the documents they got sugg ...
  • Does UAW rally at Mississippi college signal r ...
    A gathering at historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss. this week to support workers' organizing efforts at a nearby Nissan plant felt like an old-time revival meeting. Was it signaling the revival of the labor movement in the region and beyond? read more
  • Bulk of Pope Foundation money channeled into c ...
    Every December, the family foundation run by GOP mega-donor Art Pope publicizes the money it gives to the arts and community services. But it rarely mentions its grants to conservative groups and causes -- even though they make up 70% of the Pope Foundation's philanthropy. read more
  • In North Carolina, full speed in reverse
    The legislative session that starts today promises to bring big changes to North Carolina as the leaders of the once-progressive state seek to slash unemployment insurance, create a more regressive tax code, impose voter ID requirements, increase private control of public schools, and enshrine r ...

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 )

Empty newsfeed.

new geography

  • Why Are There So Many Murders in Chicago?
    After over 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, the Windy City’s violence epidemic continues – 2013 saw the deadliest January in over a decade – and continues to make national news.  The New York Times, for example, ran a recent piece noting how Chicago’s strict gun laws can’t ...
  • How The South Will Rise To Power Again
    The common media view of the South is as a regressive region, full of overweight, prejudiced, exploited and undereducated numbskulls . This meme was perfectly captured in this Bill Maher-commissioned video from Alexandra Pelosi, the New York-based daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. ...
  • Gentrification as an End Game, and the Rise of ...
    “It took a bit of wind out of my sails, watching what happened in this neighborhood, watching how it happened…I don’t know how to beat this [gentrification]. I don’t know how anyone can beat this machine.”—From the article The Ins and Outs The Generalization of Gentr ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Rio de Janeiro
    Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil from before independence from Portugal was declared in 1822. That all changed in 1960, when the capital moved to the modern planned city of Brasilia, more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) inland. The move, however, did nothing to slow Rio de Janeiro's ...
  • Britain's Housing Crisis: The Places People Live
    For twenty years British house building has fallen behind demand, forcing up prices and rents. Here's a series of photos showing some of the things people have had to do to live. Victoria Campbell was living in a shed in her parents' garden in Havant, while she and her fiance saved up ...

GM Watch

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • CT scan may accurately depict 4,000-year- ...
    A Virginia museum is using CT scan to uncover the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. This week, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered with a medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby (CHEH-bee), its...
  • Ricky Gervais: the elderly are neglected ...
    The elderly are neglected and “forgotten” by society because people don’t want to be reminded of their own mortality, the comedian Ricky Gervais has said. Derek: Ricky Gervais stars in the new one-off comedy drama. Photo: Channel 4 11:32AM GMT 03 Feb 2013 Comments Gervais, ...
  • Support for Spain's ruling party falls in ...
    MADRID (Reuters) - Public support for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his ruling People's Party has fallen as they have been engulfed by a corruption scandal, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. Media reports over the past fortnight have alleged that at least a dozen top party officia ...
  • Why did Rush Limbaugh abandon Twitter?
    Remember when Rush Limbaugh joined the rest of modern society and got himself a verified Twitter account? Yeah, that was some hot news -- enough to garner him an instant 300,000+ followers. Well as of Feb. 3, 2013, it appears that El Rushbo's online persona is as dead as the GOP's hopes of r ...
  • Hussey says extended Oz squad necessary f ...
    Tweet Sydney, Feb 3 (ANI): Former Australian Test cricketer Michael Hussey has supported Cricket Australia's move in sending an extended squad to India, and said that the move is necessary to prepare the players for the potential difficulties in India. Hussey, who criticised the omission of ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Lesson Learned: A Curb On Drugmakers' Gifts To ...
    Most medical schools have cut down on students' interactions with the pharmaceutical industry by instituting gift restriction policies. These policies can reduce the prescribing of newly marketed drugs in favor of cheaper options.
  • Axela Inc. Retains Investment Bank to Evaluate ...
    TORONTO, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Axela Inc. announced it has appointed AmeriTech Advisors healthcare investment banking team to respond to recent strategic interest from life science industry companies. This involves licensing or sale of rights to certain of the company's recently...
  • Factors That Influence Parental Vaccination De ...
    Objectives. We aim to describe factors that influence parental decisions to vaccinate their adolescents. Methods. Data from the July to December 2010 National Immunization Survey–Teen Parental Concerns Module were analyzed to determine factors that influence parental decisions to vaccinat ...
  • Disparities in Unmet Need for Care Coordinatio ...
    OBJECTIVE: To determine (1) the proportion of parents who report a need for and receipt of effective care coordination for their child, (2) whether unmet care coordination needs differ by children with special health care needs (CSHCN) status and sociodemographic characteristics, and (3) whethe ...
  • Cepheid to Webcast Upcoming Financial Presenta ...
    SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced that its executives will be speaking at the following conferences, and invited investors to participate via webcast. Leerink Swann Healthcare Conference, New York, NYThursday, February 14, 2013...

Common Dreams

  • Egypt: Protester Fury After Video of Police Br ...
    Video of a man being beaten and stripped by Egyptian police has further fueled anger against President Mohamed Morsi. Footage of the incident was broadcast on Friday, and follows days of clashes that have left over 50 killed and many more injured. Reuters reports: ...
  • Blowback From US Drone Strikes on Pakistan Lea ...
    Blowback from U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan has left 10 civilians, including three women and three children, dead on Saturday, victims of an hours-long assault at a Pakistani army base. Media reports add that 13 security personnel and 12 people described as militants were also killed in the att ...
  • It’s All About Israel
    WASHINGTON - If former Defence Secretary-designate Sen. Chuck Hagel’s lacklustre performance at his confirmation hearing Thursday heartened neo-conservatives and other hawks opposed to his nomination, those who argued that the Israel lobby has been exerting too great an influence on U.S. f ...
  • Obama Administration Compromise Would Implemen ...
    In what women's health advocates called a "historic advance for both health care and equality," the Obama administration on Friday proposed a change to the Affordable Health Care Act that would allow churches and religious organizations to exclude birth control from health insuranc ...
  • 'Just the Beginning': US Drought Kills Hundred ...
    The historic drought of 2012, which continues to ravage over half of the contiguous US, has a new legacy: the death of hundreds of thousands of trees across the Midwest. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Can Natural Gas Push Nuclear Out of Energy Market?
    Making long term energy decisions based on today’s North American natural gas prices is a bit like swinging a hockey stick under the assumption that pucks don’t move, even when they are placed on slick ice.
  • Green Car Technology: Workhorses vs. Thoroughbreds
    Yesterday I made my annual trek to the Washington Auto Show, which hosts a media day before opening to the public. Between the show's focus on policy--a natural draw inside the Beltway--and the opportunity to connect with OEM contacts, it's always worthwhile.
  • Fun Energy Facts About Super Bowl Sunday
    With all of the microwaves heating up cheese dip, stoves preparing food, and refrigerators being constantly opened and closed, the assumption is that electrical draw would be monstrous on Super Bowl Sunday, right?
  • Ethanol: Back to the Facts on E15
    Instead of attacking research it doesn’t like, the ethanol industry should welcome information that could help more and more auto manufacturers adapt future vehicles to accommodate higher levels of ethanol.
  • The Superdome Scores a Touchdown for Energy Ef ...
    This year, the Baltimore Ravens will take on the San Francisco 49ers at the newly renovated Superdome. With $336 million worth of renovations, the Superdome is more modern, luxurious, and energy efficient than ever.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Washington OK's Israeli Aggression on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman It shouldn't surprise. Washington and Israel are longstanding imperial partners. Significant regional operations are jointly planned. It's done well in advance. It's for strategic advantage. Operations are part of a greater regional agenda. On February 1, TIME mag ...
  • Iran's Legal Right to Enrich Uranium Challenged
    by Stephen Lendman It's been that way for years. Iran fully complies with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) provisions. Its nuclear program is peaceful. US intelligence says so. Annually it repeats earlier assessments. Washington, other Western countries, and Israel know what they won't ...
  • Ban Ki-moon Fails to Condemn Israeli Aggression
    by Stephen Lendman Since last weekend, Israel attacked Syria multiple times. Doing so was premeditated, unprovoked aggression. Fundamental UN Charter provisions were violated. Israeli officials refused comment. For days, America was silent. On January 30, anonymous US officials said ...
  • UN Mission Condemns Israeli Settlements
    by Stephen Lendman On January 31, the UN International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory published damning findings. Access them in full through the following link. They revealed multiple international law violations. Settlements compromise fund ...
  • Syria’s first line of Defense: Dial 133
    Franklin Lamb Damascus There are more than 9000 of them. Predominately young but of all ages. Volunteers everyone. Often risking their lives just to come for a twelve hour work-shift, as many as seven days a week at the Syrian Arab Republic Red Crescent Society (SARCS) Emergency Operation c ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Repeat After Me: Ontario is Not Greece
    It's an apples to oranges comparison, of course, but the Fraser Institute's attempt to frame Ontario as the next Greece because of debt level is flawed for other reasons too. CCPA Director Trish Hennessy assesses the report's conclusions and says it's time we shift the conversation beyond auster ...
  • It's Time for an Equality Premier
    Trish Hennessy suggests in this blog that moving from austerity to finding income inequality solutions in this province could be the ideal way to address growing social unrest while helping to grow the economy.  
  • Fix our tax system. Improve quality of life. R ...
    BC has the lowest taxes in Canada, and it's not a good thing. We don't have the money we need for important public services, and at the same time, we haven't seen any economic benefit from a decade of tax cuts. But we can do something about it. Read the report or four-page summary; share and do ...
  • Income inequality on the rise, especially in l ...
    Income inequality in Canada is on the rise—especially in the country's largest cities. CCPA analysis of new data finds the richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation), while the bottom 90% of Canadians saw income gains of only $1,700. ...
  • Countering austerity: New CCPA-Ontario resources
    The CCPA-Ontario office hosted a full-day session at Ryerson University in Toronto on January 9, 2013. The session focused on countering the austerity agenda in this province and beginning the conversation about what a post-austerity agenda could look like. Alex Himelfarb asked Canadians to ima ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • EPA Doubles Down on Unicorns
    In my previous column — Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work — I used an analogy to describe the US government’s approach to cellulosic ethanol mandates. In brief, they have mandated that something that does not exist — commercial cellulosic ethanol volumes — be ...
  • Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work
    There is a reason I don't ride a unicorn to work. It isn't because it's too far to work. Nor is it because it rains here in Hawaii nearly every day and I might get wet. It isn't because the powerful automobile lobby has convinced me that driving a car to work is a better option for me. No, it's ...
  • The Amazing Reversal of the US Oil Industry
    Oil production in the US began to rise in 2009, in response to record capital expenditures by oil companies in the face of sharply rising oil prices. The rise has been sustained to the point that production rose all four years of President Obama's first term.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Most Dangerous Way to Kill a Mouse
    In a move to protect children and pets from toxic chemical poisoning, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making moves to ban 12 popular mouse- and rat-poisoning products sold under the D-Con brand name. Products included in the proposed ban include D-Con's pellet, bait bits, and ready ...
  • The Most Contaminated Foods You're Eating
    Every year, more than 9 million people get sick from foodborne illnesses. And while some of the deadliest outbreaks have been linked to unusual sources, such as cantaloupes or peanut butter, it's the foods you eat every day that are most likely to make you sick. The Centers for Disease Control ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Simple Homemade Sushi
    Like sushi, but wish you could enjoy it without taking a bite out of an endangered tuna or some other fish that's filled with PCBs or mercury? Make your own! Homemade sushi is much less daunting than you might think, and it allows you to stick with the most sustainable seafood on the planet. Yo ...
  • How Warm Winters Are Making You Sick
    The 2013 flu season is one of the worst on record—and, according to a new study, you might be able to blame climate change for that. Researchers from Arizona State University analyzed statistics on lab-confirmed flu cases, collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), datin ...
  • Will Your Canned Soup Carry a Warning Label?
    It's not a death sentence but rather, a clear warning. California isn't playing games anymore. It's calling the canned food chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, out for what it is: toxic. The state announced its intent to put BPA on its Prop. 65 list, a collection of compounds that by state law must b ...

big think

  • The Case for Taking Love-Inducing Drugs
    What's the Latest Development? Oxford University philosophers have put forward a case for the use of love-inducing drugs in situations where sustained feelings of human affection would contribute positively to the rearing of children or maintenance of long-term relationships. Evolutionar ...
  • Zen and the Art of Conviction
    There’s always something electric in the atmosphere when someone dares to assert spiritual convictions in a decidedly secular context. It’s almost like, “I can’t believe s/he had the courage to say that!” That’s why I was so interested when I heard that Jeff Bridges, aka “The Dude,” was going to ...
  • Apology: a semi-obituary
    The outcome of a ménage à trois involving desperation, selfishness, and moral consideration, apology came into the world already tainted by its origin. Out of these weak beginnings, we could not hope for it to survive long and, sadly, we were proved right. The final blow to this battered ...
  • The Brutal Physics of Football
    “Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown contempt for the player guilty of it," said President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, a year in which 18 young men died playing high school and college football. The reform-minded Roosevelt's criticism led to swe ...
  • Always as good as the first time?
    In the 80's classic movie, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, experienced high school ingenue Linda Barrett tells her younger friend Stacy Hamilton that she should just lose her virginity already. "It's no huge thing.  It's just sex," Linda advises, pushing Stacy towards a date with much-olde ...

Information Liberation

  • "Gun Violence": The "National Conversation" We ...
    Gabrielle Giffords, the *surprise witness* at the January 30 Senate hearing on gun violence, was among thirteen people attacked by a deranged gunman in the parking lot of a Safeway in Tucson two years ago. Vanessa Guerena, another Tucson resident who...
  • Peter Schiff & Doug Casey On Gold, Investor Cl ...
    In just under 30 minutes, Peter Schiff and Doug Casey muse on many facets of the crumbling edifice of the status quo that is our current world. From Gold's relatively imminent rise to $5,000 and beyond, to investor ignorance of reality, Casey & Sc...
  • Police state gone wild: Couple facing 60 days ...
    An Indiana couple saved a wounded baby deer and nursed it back to life, saving its life and giving it a home. They named it "Little Orphan Dani." When Indiana state officials got word of this courageous act of compassion, they ordered the deer euthan...
  • Could a Military Coup Happen in the United States?
    Uh, oh! The Egyptian people might well be learning a lesson about standing armies that America's Founding Fathers tried to impart to the American people. Egypt's standing army, which has long been built up and fortified by U.S. foreign aid, is sendin...
  • Woman Sues Police Over 'Flash Grenade' SWAT Raid
    An Indiana woman falsely raided by a SWAT team is suing the city of Evansville and the police department after cops smashed down her door and threw flash grenades into her home in response to *threatening* Internet posts that she wasn*t even responsi...

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

  • Evernote Penultimate now free
    Evernote has made its hand-writing app for iPad free as of now. Always keen to grab any worthwhile freebies, I took a look and was quite surprised and pleased to see what they are using as a demonstration screenshot: Evernote Penultimate now free is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogEvernote ...
  • End-of-January Kindle Sale
    UPDATE: 2013-01-31 Amazon UK has the Kindle version of my book – Deceived Wisdom – at a knock-down price of just 99p today. Remember there are Kindle apps for most mobile devices and computers, so you don’t need an actual Kindle to take advantage of the offer. You don’t n ...
  • DCD, dicyandiamide, 2-cyanoguanidine
    2-Cyanoguanidine, also known as DCD (dicyandiamide) is a nitrile derived from guanidine used as a curative agent for epoxy resins in packaging. Since 2004, it has been used in New Zealand by farmers hoping to lower the environmental impact of livestock by reducing the rate at which soil microbes ...
  • Fossil perspective on economic growth
    A paper from a researcher at Fukushima University caught my eye recently. Not least because it was from that university, but also because the city was in the news again because of proposals to plant a wind farm off the coast there. Moreover, the paper is about how fossil fuels drive economic gro ...
  • NASA solar montage of Elmer the Elephant
    We usually think of the sun as that big glowing ball in the sky, at least on days when we can see it, grey here again (ahead of imminent snow storms). But NASA can paint a different picture using specialized instruments, either in ground-based or space-based telescopes, which can “see&#822 ...

RFF Library

  • Marine Fishery Allocation Issues: Findings, Di ...
    NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2013/01/docs/lapointe_allocation_report_final.pdf [From Press Release] For many years, the sportfishing industry has called for a reexamination of the outdated and inequitable allocations of many marine fisheries that are l ...
  • Sustainable Energy in America 2013 Factbook
    Bloomberg New Energy Finance for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy http://www.bcse.org/sustainableenergyfactbook.html …Highlights from the Factbook include: Renewable energy installations hit an all-time record with at least 17 GW of new nameplate capacity added in 2012. In April ...
  • The Water Resources Utility of the Future: A B ...
    Water Environment Federation | Water Environment Research Foundation | NACWA http://www.nacwa.org/images/stories/public/2013-01-31waterresourcesutilityofthefuture-final.pdf [From Press Release] Clean water utilities are undergoing a remarkable transformation. They are evolving from was ...
  • The Cost of Overdue Energy Efficiency Standards
    American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy | Appliance Standards Awareness Project http://bit.ly/W278t0 [From a Greenwire article by Whitney Blair Wyckoff] Delays in updating energy efficiency standards for certain appliances and devices could cost consumers and businesses $3.7 billio ...
  • US Voters Favor a Carbon Tax by 4-1 Margin: Fr ...
    The Nellman Group for Friends of the Earth http://libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com/93/76/0/2698/Carbon_tax_survey.pdf (survey instrument and results) http://libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com/93/a8/b/2701/summary_national_carbon_tax_survey.pdf (summary) [From the Press Release]Sixty-seven percent of Americans w ...

Scientific American - News

  • Controversial Stem-Cell Company Moves Treatmen ...
    US citizens who had pinned their hopes on a company being able to offer stem-cell treatments close to home will now need to travel a little farther. Celltex Therapeutics of Houston, Texas, stopped treating patients in the United States last year following a warning from regulators. A 25 January ...
  • Decelerating American Physics: Panel Advises S ...
    In a narrowly decided vote, an advisory panel to federal nuclear science agencies has recommended closing a particle collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., rather than eliminating other costly facilities. The reason: federal budget woes are hitting all types of government f ...
  • Magnetic Logic Makes for Mutable Computer Chips
    Software can transform a computer from a word processor to a number cruncher to a video telephone. But the underlying hardware is unchanged. Now, a type of transistor that can be switched with magnetism instead of electricity could make circuitry malleable too, leading to more efficient and reli ...
  • RNA Fragments May Yield Rapid, Accurate Cancer ...
    Fragments of RNA that cells eject in fatty droplets may point the way to a new era of cancer diagnosis, potentially eliminating the need for invasive tests in certain cases. [More]
  • Mice Have 'Massage Neurons'
    Picture the expression on your cat’s face when you stroke it. What makes it so happy? The answer lies in a particular type of sensory neuron that responds to pleasant stroking, say scientists at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The neurons, identified in mice, are simila ...

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

  • Manifestation contre le Plan Nord à l'occasion ...
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  • January in Review
    Idle No More, special forces in Mali, salmon anemia and a trail of Cheetos Idle No More, the surging First Peoples and allies movement for respect of treaty rights, Indigenous sovere ...
  • IDLE NO MORE 38 sur le Campus de Grenoble le 2 ...
    Ce montage vidéo raconte l'intervention de l'équipe de soutien Iséroise au mouvement IDLE NO MORE (INM) sur le Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble lors de la journée ...
  • Halifax Media Co-op Call for Pitches
    Contribute to grassroots media! Get paid!   Stories from the perspective of marginalized communities in Halifax will be prioritized, including, but not limited to: people with disabilities, immigrants and refugees, Black communities, ...
  • Art After Capitalism
    Notes from the Inner City Artists' Commune HALIFAX — Capitalism has a way of limiting one's sense of what's possible, says artist Emily Davidson. "I wanted to ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Monsanto and the banality of evil
    A discussion about Monsanto arose in a private technology forum that I attend, which dredged up the following from me and that in turn I'd like to share with my regular readers. DSMy great uncle was one of the original chemists of Monsanto... the boss had no money for the payroll and he paid t ...
  • Is middle class renewal in any way based on ch ...
    David Seaton's News Links Fracking illustrated It seems to me that the challenge of rebuilding the American middle class: bringing back the jobs, ensuring good public education, health care and decent pensions is now to a great extent predicated on a very controversial "energy revolution": the l ...
  • The Israeli elections
    David Seaton's News Links“This is a government that will not be able to make decisions on anything — on the peace process, on equal sharing of the burden or on budgetary matters,” Emmanuel Rosen, a prominent television analyst, said early Wednesday on Channel 10. “The next elections are alrea ...
  • The Inauguration and the Speech
    David Seaton's News LinksI found Obama’s message encouraging, but then again the president always speaks/reads well.His speech was a direct attack on the Reagan revolution and made important social democratic points about solidarity and equality -- health and education -- being directly connecte ...
  • Lance Armstrong: price versus value
    David Seaton's News Links"Any given accumulation of commercial wealth may be indicative, on the one hand, of faithful industries, progressive energies, and productive ingenuities: or, on the other, it may be indicative of mortal luxury, merciless tyranny, ruinous chicanery." John Ruskin (8 Febru ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: Can Hollywood Solve the Worl ...
    From director Steven Soderbergh, singing the glories of Hollywood's ideology-free, can-do attitude: One thing I do know from making art is that ideology is the enemy of problem-solving. Nobody sits on a film set and says, "No, you can’t use green-screen VFX to solve tha ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 1 February 2013
    Here is Domino, looking boldly forward to a future of artificially intelligent robots to cater to her every whim. Not that this would actually make a big difference in her life, mind you. But they'd probably be slightly more responsive when she decides to wake them up in the middle of the nigh ...
  • Money Is Fungible, Contraceptive Edition
    Hey, guess what? Contraception is back in the news! HHS proposed a new set of of healthcare rules today that would allow faith-based nonprofits to opt out of contraception coverage entirely. Instead, their insurance carriers would be required to provide contraceptive riders at no cost. If an o ...
  • The Man in the Plastic Mask
    I know I'm exposing my ignorance of DC folkways here, but I'm curious: who's the dude in the picture on the right, taken during yesterday's Chuck Hagel hearings? Interpreter? Message passer-alonger? Stenographer? Someone who needed a hit of oxygen to stay awake while John McCain was droning on ...
  • Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in January
    The American economy added 157,000 new jobs last month, but about 90,000 of those jobs were needed just to keep up with population growth, so net job growth was closer to 67,000 jobs. This was a little less than December's number, which was revised upward to 196,000 (106,000 net). The unemploy ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 378: Bat Shit Insane
    Topic: Kriss has an epiphany People ain’t shit Chris Culliver says something stupid The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Bruce Wayne is crazy Batman beating Superman is the most realistic fight in comicbooks Comic Book cheat characters R rated comicbook movies Movie News Share with your friends:
  • IC 377: Scallenge
    Topic: Movie discussions Next Batman film Justice League lineup Children stories as movies JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars Movies and Music being generational Fuck It Gene evolved Brian Scalabrine is still better than you Share with your friends:
  • IC 376: Hulkamania
    Topic: America is ruining football 8 hours of pregame show Lingerie Football loses the lingerie XFL = What if Twitter Fans ran football The good ole days of Professional wrestling What happened to Hulk Hogan? Professional wrestling porn Obama’s 2nd Inauguration Algeria doesn’t negoti ...
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • Mild winters raise risk of flu epidemics
    Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University, meaning health authorities have to watch for severe epidemics as climate changes.
  • Iconic authors help reveal record early flowering
    150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University’s Libby Ellwood and her teammates.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Caught in the act: Researchers capture key mom ...
    Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time visualised the molecular changes in a critical cell death protein that force cells to die. read more
  • Quantum dots deliver Vitamin D to tumors for p ...
    The shortened daylight of a Maine winter may make for long, dark nights -- but it has shone a light on a novel experimental approach to fighting inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), an especially deadly form of breast cancer. read more
  • Cooperators can coexist with cheaters, as long ...
    Microbes exhibit bewildering diversity even in relatively tight living quarters. But when a population is a mix of cooperators, microbes that share resources, and cheaters, those that selfishly take yet give nothing back, the natural outcome is perpetual war. A new model by a team of researchers ...
  • Tracking the evolution of antibiotic resistance
    With the discovery of antibiotics, medicine acquired power on a scale never before possible to protect health, save lives, and reduce suffering caused by certain bacteria. But the power of antibiotics is now under siege because some virulent infections no longer respond to antibiotic drugs. rea ...
  • Imaging unveils temperature distribution insid ...
    A research team in Japan exploring the functions of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) -- a molecule that encodes the chemical blueprint for protein synthesis -- has discovered a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells. This discovery may lead to a better unde ...

unEarthed

  • Time To Confront A Major Climate Pollutant: Soot
    Arctic nations share unique responsibility for slowing ice melt Reducing black carbon emissions will slow climate change now. Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Not In Our Drinking Water
    Utility floats dangerous plan to barge toxic coal ash Mississippi River at Vicksburg closed after barge hit railroad bridge and began leaking oil. (Photo: WLBT) ...
  • EPA Moves To Ban Dangerous Rat Poison
    Manufacturer refused to comply with measures protecting children, wildlife There’s a dangerous type of mouse and rat poison on the market that when eaten b ...
  • Hawaii Utility Now Open For Rooftop Solar Biz
    State is leading the way to a national clean energy future Solar panel installation in Hawaiʻi. Clean energy future—you hear the term a lot these days. ...
  • Scope of Science: Climate in a New Era
    What your weatherman may not tell you about 2013 Crops shriveled to dust this summer while thermometers hit continuous triple digits in the Midwest and Southwest ...

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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  • Revisions to Prawer Plan for Negev Bedouin exp ...
    The latest revision to the Prawer Plan, which will eventually displace tens of thousands of Arab Bedouin from their ancestral land in the Negev (Naqab), in some ways improves its tone toward the Bedouin. But the Arab Bedouin community has resolutely rejected the Prawer Plan, and Benny Begin&#821 ...
  • Palestinians erect third West Bank outpost, ar ...
    In third such project in as many weeks, hundreds of Palestinians erect new neighborhood of Burin, calling it Manatir, or Bab Al-Huriya (Gate of Freedom). The activists and village residents were quickly attacked by IDF soldiers and local settlers. See update at bottom of post Some 300 Palestinia ...
  • The Washington witch trial of Chuck Hagel
    Under pressure over the issues of Iran and Israel at his Senate confirmation hearing, Obama’s nominee for defense secretary caves in completely. Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing of Chuck Hagel was something out of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” or the 1950s H ...
  • What will the third Netanyahu government look ...
    Netanyahu would like to include some centrist elements in his government in order to present a more moderate face to the world. However, any meaningful effort to end the occupation is not very likely.  The Israeli post-election routine is under way, and tomorrow (Saturday) night President Shimon ...
  • Postcards from Tahrir: ‘No freedom, brea ...
    As Egypt’s currency continues to fall and the IMF strings for a bailout package that will end fuel and food subsides, popular anger has turned on the country’s first democratically elected president. Now, out on the streets of Cairo, protesters are being confronted by the same forces they ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • A Sad Passing
    I want to tell you a story – a personal one, filled with anguish, recovery and hope. Ultimately it’s the …Continue reading »
  • Hyper-partisanship – The Steroids of Pol ...
    It’s become all too common and unfortunately has resulted not only in the fall of grace of numerous individuals but …Continue reading »
  • The Curse of Blind Optimism
    Recently our city’s mayor, in giving his annual address, made an interesting request of a large part of London’s population: …Continue reading »
  • Kathleen Wynne’s Victory – Look Deeper
    Ontario has a new premier and her ascension is nothing if not groundbreaking – the first female and openly gay …Continue reading »
  • The Necessity of Politics
    I returned from south Sudan to some 4,000 emails. One was from a good friend welcoming me home. He said …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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    A forum on renewable energy held in Tripoli
    Libya Herald
    A forum on renewable energy was held at the Plasma hotel, Tripoli, (19th January) organized by private sector company Alalamiyah Engineering Services. The forum was a meeting of 40 of the top Libyan experts in the various renewable and energy fields.
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    EducationGuardian.co.uk (blog)
    The UK has the biggest wind resource in Europe and yet only 4.5% our electricity is generated by wind. What is wind power and why have we failed to capitalise on our natural resources compared to other countries and what is the future of wind energy?
    Renewable Performance
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    Some renewable energy sources are variable, so over a year the actual energy output from wind turbines etc will be much less than the theoretical maximum if the energy conversion devices was able to work at 100% efficiency for the full time using its ...
    ALEC Targets Renewable Energy Standards and Global Warming Education
    Huffington Post
    This model bill, which ALEC is now seeking to roll out in various states, would end requirements for states to derive a specific percentage of their electricity needs from renewable energy sources. Given the gridlock on national legislation, renewable ...
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    STUDY IS A FORM OF PRAYER: Ecology expert Rabbi Ellen Bernstein to teach ...
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    NEW BEDFORD — A central part of the Jewish experience is study, according to Dr. Stuart I. Forman, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford. "Study for Jewish people is a form of prayer," he said. "It is the search for truth and ...
    Water quality standards webinar set for Feb. 8 | Ecology
    Maple Valley Reporter
    The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) will convene the next Water Quality Standards Policy Forum as an interactive public webinar on Feb. 8. The public may attend the meeting in person at Ecology's building in Lacey or by computer and phone.
    Family shares farming skills: Program teaches residents about Guam's ecology ...
    Pacific Daily News
    Farmer Diego Mendiola, left, explains how to plant a mango tree, while his grandson Sean Diego Mendiola, 9, and son Diego II Mendiola, 36, demonstrate the procedure during a tour of their farm in Inarajan yesterday. Photos by Jerick Sablan/Pacific ...
    Ogoni: Senate Committee On Environment and Ecology Meets With Shell Nigeria
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    The Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology had met on Thursday [31January 2013] with Shell Nigeria over the lingering oil spills and environmental degradation of Ogoni. The meeting, which was attended by the Managing Director/Country ...
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    Panel to examine water, sewer rates, and fees for connecting to WSSC pipes
    Washington Post
    The Washington Post. A panel that will examine water and sewer rates in two Maryland suburbs — and look at possible overcharges to homeowners — is scheduled to convene Monday in Annapolis to begin its work. A measure sponsored by Maryland State ...
    No evidence Marine Corps conducted critical water test at Camp Lejeune
    Tampabay.com
    The Marine Corps has repeatedly argued federal law didn't regulate the cancer-causing pollutants that fouled the drinking water at Camp Lejeune until long after the contamination was discovered. But the Corps' own regulations, starting in 1963 ...
    How water became a weapon in Arab-Israeli conflict
    Jerusalem Post
    The conflict between the Palestinians and Israel is fought on many fronts nowadays. This is the result of a change in strategy decided on by the current Palestinian Authority leadership in 2008. A 2008 report by The Palestinian Strategy Group, which ...
    North Salem residents asked to reduce, minimize water use
    WRTV Indianapolis
    State Road 236 will be closed north of the 100 block of East Pearl Street and south of the State Road 75 junction for repairs to the underground town main water supply line, the release said. Residents with questions can call (765) 676-6210. Copyright ...
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