3 February - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

BBC News cock-up (Photo credit: Irregular Shed)

The pollock's (Theragra chalcogramma) speckled coloring on top helps keep pollock safe from predators when close to the sea floor. It is similar to a sandy ocean floor, allowing the pollock to blend in. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Giving alms to the poor is often considered an altruistic action in many cultures and religions. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Activation of Brain Region Predicts Altruism. (Photo credit: --Tico--)

Altruism (Photo credit: Peter Nijenhuis)

Center for a Livable Future

• The CLF Week in Links: Meat Safety, McDonalds ...
  McDonalds fish supply is entirely wild-caught Alaska Pollock—why not include small oily fish that are lower on the food chain? They probably tastes the same fried and would have more omega-3-fatty acids.
• The CLF Week in Links: Horsemeat, Transgenic S ...
  The discovery of horse DNA in supermarket beef products in the UK created quite a stir. But it’s not just horsemeat, offensive enough to horse lovers, there may be pig meat in the beef as well—I can’t imagine British Muslims are taking this news lightly. Food safety issues are being investigated ...
• If You Grow It, They Will Taste It
  A faith garden is what you might expect: a plot of land, a lot of mulch, some herbs, some tomatoes, a ton of squash. But it’s also food woven into tradition, a commitment to feeding those who are less fortunate, and a plan to help children connect with the Earth.
• The CLF Week in Links: Climate Change, Cabinet ...
  With Lisa Jackson’s departure from the EPA, announced at the turn of the year, and now Salazar's from the Interior, President Obama has some serious recruiting to do. We hope the replacements for both agencies will bear similar profiles in courage.
• The Year of Ethical Eating
  You may be surprised by which restaurants do not provide paid sick days. Hint: Five Guy Burgers and Fries, Maggiano’s Little Italy, McCormick & Schmicks, Morton’s & Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses, and Starbucks.

k2p blog

• Altruism among plants? or do they mean nepotism?
  There is a suggestion that plants can be "altruistic" but requires a rather curious definition of altruism as being only when the benefactor is related to the beneficiary. I would have thought that this was a case of nepotism among plants rather than altruism.
• Altruism among plants? or do they mean nepotism?
  There is a suggestion that plants can be "altruistic" but requires a rather curious definition of altruism as being only when the benefactor is related to the beneficiary. I would have thought that this was a case of nepotism among plants rather than altruism.
• Noted in Passing 2nd February 2013
  A weekly post on things that were interesting or which I would have liked to have blogged about …….
• Noted in Passing 2nd February 2013
  A weekly post on things that were interesting or which I would have liked to have blogged about …….
• Swedish justice system in free fall as serial ...
  The Swedish justice system not only looks ridiculous today but also apparently deals with something other than justice. As a film script it would not be considered even for a C-movie. But the Swedish justice system seems to have conspired and cheated and framed a man as a serial killer for 28 mu ...

Left Foot Forward

• This week’s most read
  The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
• Why are British workers getting less productive?
  The IFS produced a new report today examining why British workers are getting less productive.
• Homecare: It’s time to care – why ...
  Matthew Egan, assistant national officer for Unison, explains why we need an Ethical Care Charter. Homecare: It's time to care.
• Comment: So the BNP’s going out of business? B ...
  It is better to have the BNP in politics than to have their supporters outside the process, becoming ever more violent and disengaged, writes Kevin Meagher.
• JRF: Council tax benefit – the sting in ...
  Katie Schmuecker, research manager for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, looks at the sting in the tail of council tax benefit.

Consumerist

• Twitter Admits To Hack, Data For 250,000 Users ...
  Here’s a great way to end the week. Twitter confirmed this afternoon that it was recently the victim of attacks that appear to have user information for around 250,000 in the hands of hackers. “This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized acc ...
• Govt. To Publish Data On What Drug & Device Ma ...
  Want to know if your doctor is receiving free lunches and other perks from Pfizer, GSK or some other huge player in the pharmaceuticals or medical device business? Starting in Sept. 2014, that information will be made available to consumers courtesy of the federal government. Following numerous ...
• SodaStream Customer Service Finds It Hilarious ...
  Consumerist reader C. had a problem of a well, rather delicate nature. She writes that after receiving a SodaStream for Christmas, she was beyond excited to try it out, using a few of the company’s flavored syrups to make her own carbonated beverages at home. That excitement waned when she ...
• Delta Actually Listens To Customer Complaint A ...
  Remember Josh, whose story we posted yesterday? He got this crazy idea in his head that Delta Airlines offered free movies on demand in the Economy Plus section, just because their website happened to say so. He sent off a quick e-mail complaint asking for a refund, and Delta explained that the ...
• Bank Of America Site Outage Leaves Customers W ...
  For the last few hours, Bank of America customers across the country have been complaining about being unable to access their accounts online or through the bank’s mobile app. “We’re aware of the online banking issue and addressing as quickly as possible,” a company rep t ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Assange to Run for Australian Senate: Daily Wh ...
  International Business Times: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Run for Australian Senate, But Could He Actually Win?   WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has announced that he will run for a senate seat in his native Australia under the banner of a new Wikileaks party. It is uncertain ho ...
• Grassley Hammers IRS Over Whistleblower Treatm ...
  WOWT: Grassley Outlines Shortcoming in Proposed IRS Whistleblower Regulations Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)January 29, 2013 Summary: The Internal Revenue Service continues to fall short of fully including the whistleblower provisions written by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (R) in 2006. I ...
• Global Fund Whistleblower Files Lawsuits: Dail ...
  Whistleblower Fired by Global Fund Board Files Lawsuits The former Inspector General of the Global Fund – the international financial institution that distributes money to fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis – has filed a lawsuit against the multi-billion dollar organization after being dism ...
• GM of Inter-American Investment Corporation Fa ...
  The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the private sector lending arm of the multilateral Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), continues to display its contempt for the U.S. justice system, despite the fact that the United States government is the IIC's largest single donor. Jacques ...
• Whistleblower Fired by Global Fund Board Files ...
  GAP has learned that Laurence Fauth – an attorney retained by John Parsons, the former Inspector General of the Global Fund (GF) who was dismissed from his post on 15 November 2012 for alleged "unsatisfactory performance" – filed an appeal of the decision before the International Labour Organiza ...

UK Progressive

• Feds to Publicize Drug and Device Company Paym ...
  by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber ProPublica After years of anticipation, all of the nation’s drug and medical device makers must soon begin publicly reporting payments they make to U.S. physicians, according to final regulations announced this afternoon by the federal government. The re ...
• Violence Begets Violence in America
  by David A. Love So, what do you make of a country where a third grader brings a gun to school to ward off bullies? In Inkster, Michigan, an eight-year-old boy brought a nine-mm semiautomatic handgun to his elementary school two days in a row for protection, and to scare off three girls who were ...
• The Jobs Report, and Why the Recovery Has Stalled
    by Robert Reich We are in the most anemic recovery in modern history, yet our political leaders in Washington aren’t doing squat about it. In fact, apart from the Fed – which continues to hold interest rates down in the quixotic hope that banks will begin lending again to average people – ...
• Obama’s Flip-Flops on Money in Politics: A Bri ...
  by Justin Elliott ProPublica When President Obama told supporters that he would morph his campaign into a new nonprofit that would accept unlimited corporate donations, the announcement set off a familiar round of griping from campaign finance reformers. The creation this month of Organizing for ...
• Why Consumers are Bummed Out
    by Robert Reich The Conference Board reported Tuesday that the preliminary January figure for consumer confidence in the United States fell to its lowest level in more than a year. The last time consumers were this bummed out was October 2011, when there was widespread talk of a double-di ...

NewsAlert

• Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Calls on Texans t ...
  The Blaze
• Harvey Mansfield -- The Left on Campus
• North Dakota Went Boom
  The New York Times
• (Video) Study names Chicago most corrupt city ...
• College grads taking more unpaid internships, ...
  The Philadelphia Inquirer

JoNova

• Do forests drive wind and bring rain? Is there ...
  Clouds over Amazon forest (Rio Negro). Image NASA Earth Observatory. What if winds were mainly driven by changes in water vapor, and those changes occurred commonly in air over forests? Forests would be the pumps that draw in moist air from over the oceans. Rather than assuming that forests grow ...
• Two wind-turbines down in a week in the UK &#8 ...
  Two wind towers are down in the last week in the UK 18 miles apart (Devon and Cornwall). It was thought the first tower (a six story £250,000 tower built in 2010) collapsed in the wind: “The bolts on the base could not withstand the wind and as we are a very windy part of the country they ...
• Yet another paper shows the hot spot is missing
  Remember the evidence is overwhelming, and deniers deny the evidence. But in Oct 2012, two atmospheric scientists were reporting, yet again, the models are wrong. Twenty years after we started looking for the fingerprint of the amplification required to make the CO2 theory of global warming work ...
• Sydney Morning Herald: Jessica Wright gets her ...
  The SMH — another Fauxfacts publication Jessica Wright of the Sydney Morning Herald blatantly tries to smear Heartland with outright falsehoods: “A sister pro-tobacco lobbying organisation and corporate member of ALEC, the Heartland Institute, paid for Senator Bernardi’s accomm ...
• Gillard calls election for Sept 14th 2013
  I’ve heard rumors she might rush a March election partly because the global economy is teetering… (and the coalition obviously heard those rumors too, with the mini-campaign launch they put on the weekend). But given that the polls are fairly awful it’s not surprising she&#8217 ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• Ham Radio is on the only post-SHTF communicati ...
  With the presumption that throughout your region all electricity is off, how will people communicate? Cell towers need electricity Land lines might not need electricity at home if  they are the non-cordless, but the phone system itself needs electricity TV and radio need electricity to broadcast ...
• Serious Al Qaeda Threat
  I rarely mention terrorism here, but it is within the realm of Armageddon. Many mad religious folk are actively wishing for the end times to begin, so that they may rise up to Heaven. Some have decided that they can cause it to begin, by building a third temple on Temple Mount for example. And i ...
• Chinese Sinkhole: Buildings Collapse
  I’m not convinced that sinkholes are anything more natural occurrences that occasionally get a kick-start from human activities. Certainly the apparent rise in the number of sinkholes worldwide seems to be merely an increase in reporting. Still, you never know! A massive sinkhole in Guangz ...
• Giant Sunspot AR1654: Serious Threat
  I said this a few days ago: If sunspot AR1654 sends an X-flare our way, it will still  most likely be one of the hundreds per century that do us and our satellites no harm at all. But because it is a large sunspot, pointing our way soon, then the potential for the next Carrington Event is there. ...
• Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene
  I’m generally not a fan of theories disguised as fiction, and not a fan of prophecy either (too much to wade through to find anything real, and too hard to determine you have found it). That’s two reasons why Cosmic Locusts by J.J. Keene is one of the many 2012-related books I failed ...

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 ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• NATO in Syria: The Cost of a "New Libya"
• Idle No More: The Kattawapiskak River Housing ...
• Edible City: Grow the Revolution
• La France au Mali: Repérer les médiamensonges (FR)
• Fractured Land: Confronting Big Oil the Ravage ...

Daily Tech

• ESA May Print 3D Lunar Base out of Moon's Soil
  A 1.5 tonne building block has already been produced for demonstration purposes
• Report: Apple No. 1 Phone Vendor in U.S. for t ...
  Strategy Analytics found that Apple shipped about 17.7 million phones for the fourth quarter
• Verizon Offers up Pricey Prepaid Plans: $60/mo ...
  Both plans come with unlimited talk and text, but no 4G LTE
• Google Promises Major Changes to Avoid EU Anti ...
  Google doesn't want to follow in Microsoft and Intel's example
• 2/1/2013 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Oriental Review

• The Sword of Stalingrad
  2nd February marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the toughest 200-day battle of the Second World War which turned Stalingrad into a landscape of apocalyptic ruins. The two hundred days and night of sheer hell that made up the Battle of Stalingrad altered the course ...
• Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
  On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...
• Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
  On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the sto ...
• Portraying Fathers of the Syrian Revolution
  During the whole of the “Arab Spring” and the Syrian war in particular, the Arab press has kept the actions of the emir of Qatar, Saudi Arabia’s royal family and the leader’s of Israel and Turkey in their crosshairs. When confronted with the published facts, it is possibl ...
• The Arab Winter And Revolutionary Illusionists
  One question is driving us in the face of the Arab revolts: how to assess it? The answer requires a sober view of the events. Let’s start with Syria. Nearly two years ago an opposition movement has been formed, which was run over by history in a very short time. Different internal and exte ...

BlogHer

• When Life Give You Lemons, Make Lemon Yogurt Loaf
  Editor’s note: My backyard lemon tree is so loaded with ripe lemons at this time of year that it’s all I can do to keep up with them. This Lemon Yogurt Loaf made by Katie of So Tasty, So Yummy looks so, well, yummy, that I bet I’ll be making it all season long. --Jane Ah lemon bread...it is so ...
• Can You Make Free Voice Calls with Facebook Me ...
  Facebook is rolling out some new functionality for its mobile Messenger app. The rollout started in Canada and is making its way to U.S. iPhones now. The new feature allows you to make free voice calls through Messenger if you are connected to wifi. Frederique Bros at Women Love Tech has all the ...
• Uber Confused: Trying to Choose a Health Insur ...
  [Editor's Note: Whether you are unemployed or taking the leap to self-employment, choosing a health insurance plan can be baffling and expensive. Here's one story (complete with detailed numbers) of analyzing COBRA versus high deductible plans and trying to choose. -Paula G I have been paying ...
• Stop Wasting Food with These Strategies
  When we started getting all up with the frugality at the Arens household, we quickly realized we couldn't make a new meal every night. Three people just don't eat that much food. Even with eating leftovers literally every day for lunch, there were still days we threw some away. And that felt bey ...
• Whip Up A Cupcake Stand From Craft Supplies Yo ...
  [Editor's Note: When Sarah from Life Sweet Life was asked to donate a custom party package to a charity auction she wracked her brain about to display the prize. Pinspiration struck and she remembered a DIY cupcake stand she had seen on Pinterest. After a few tweaks to the design and a raid of ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
  A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
• Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
  There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
• Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
  Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
• Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
  People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
• Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
  Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Feb. 1, 2013
  In this Jan. 18, 2013 photo, BHP Billiton spokesperson Norman Benally steps down from one of the smaller buckets used at Navajo Mine east of Farmington, N.M.  The Navajo Nation is in negotiations to buy the Navajo Mine from BHP Billiton in 2016 when BHP’s lease expires. (AP Photo/The Duran ...
• Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield: Coal industry&#82 ...
  Darren Epps over at SNL Energy has a fascinating little piece out this afternoon about some remarks made by Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield: In a wide-ranging keynote address at the CoalTrans USA conference in Miami on Jan. 31, a candid Alpha Natural Resources Inc. Chairman and CEO ...
• Kentucky records first coal death of 2013
  The bad news came in earlier this week from Kentucky: A miner died while welding at a surface mine site in Leslie County on Saturday morning. Jerry A. Watts, 52, of Slemp in Perry County, was welding on the liner of a bulldozer blade when a jack slipped and the liner hit him on the [...]
• Protecting the rights of coal miners
  In recent months, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has been patting itself on the back for what it says are stepped up efforts to stop mine operators from discriminating against coal miners who complain about dangerous safety and health practices in the workplace. We mentioned this ...
• Board drops ball – again – on Tomb ...
  Over at the State Journal, Taylor Kuykendall just posted a good follow-up piece to a story we broke two weeks ago in the Gazette. As he explains: A rule regarding methane levels in West Virginia coal mines is held up at a health and safety board that failed to attract enough members to officiall ...

Daniel Miessler

• In Atlanta For a Week And a Half
  I am going to be in Atlanta for about a week and a half if anyone wants to get together. UFC tonight and Superbowl tomorrow. Related Posts:Being EfficientPath to true happiness ‘revealed’ | BBC NEWS…A-Week on FacebookThis is Why I’m For Carry LawsFacebook’s Rel ...
• Bird Flu Story Epidemic Imminent
  All the early indicators are that this season stories about Bird Flu will wipe out millions of other news items. We are especially concerned about the vulnerability of the young and old stories in our communities, and those already compromised by poor immunity to public indifference. Thousands o ...
• Stylometry
  “Your writing style can give you away and on the internet anonymity is difficult to achieve,” say the US researchers who have developed online tools to analyse writing. Advertisement The researchers, from Drexel University in Philadelphia, studied the leaked conversations ...
• Deleting Horizontal Lines in Microsoft Word
  If you’ve ever had a problem deleting a horizontal line in Microsoft Word, this post is for you. The answer is something of a trick, as the horizontal line is not a line (or a graphic), it’s a bottom border. Removal In Office 2013 go to the Design tab and look to the far righ ...
• This Will Be The Last Article You Read | ...
  Online content is habit-forming because it follows what I call the “hook framework,” a four-step user flow composed of a trigger, action, reward, and investment. To end my own bad habit of spending too much time wandering the Web, I had to break the hook, ensuring I didn’t pass through its four ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

• High energy physics jobs: terror against forma ...
  After some time, I checked the work of all the people listed in shortlists at the Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill And I think that the composition of the folks is scary. Even though the page claims to list "theoretical" jobs, I haven't found a single person – among the dozens – ...
• Longest match in Davis Cup
  Being a sports fan may be an amazing waste of time, especially if you get stuck in a pond with black swan matches. Today I decided to watch the Davis Cup doubles, Czechia vs Switzerland, played in Geneva, a few miles from the LHC. A reason was that some friends and relatives did the same. T ...
• Steven Chu quits, misunderstands the end of St ...
  Physics Nobel Prize laureate Steven Chu is leaving the chair of the U.S. energy secretary. Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics (Yahoo News) His final words are all about the climate skeptics. He boasts that "only" 1% of the nonsensical green projects he has funded ...
• France bans light at night
  François Hollande became many French conservative women's most favorite socialist politician of all time. Not only his government attacked the Islamists in Mali but they have also decided to expel some radical imams from France. Well, the second event is a positive one and I am somewhat les ...
• Czech temperature record 1961-2012
  Because Frank E. L. asked me about related issues, I have downloaded all the monthly/regional Czech Hydrometeorological Institute's temperature data from the years 1961-2012 to Mathematica and calculated all statistical quantities I considered interesting. Here is the PDF preview of the notebo ...

Tatumba 2.0

• REM sleep disorder may lead to untimely death ...
  Although their genetic underpinnings differ, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease are all characterized by the untimely death of brain cells. What triggers cell death in the brain? American neurologists and sleep experts suggest i ...
• Proof the US Government Is A Criminal Enterpri ...
  by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show: The American government is a criminal enterprise organization, not an alleged criminal enterprise operation, a proven criminal enterprise operation. Meanwhile, you and I are treated like the real criminals as we are detained, In this article I have chosen t ...
• UFOTV: UFOs The Best Evidence 1 – The Visitors
  Episode-1: THE VISITORS: Traces UFOs throughout history, including sightings by the world’s most famous people, and an astounding collection of UFO photos and videos which seem to defy explanation and science. Now presenting one of the most anticipated and requested programs ever made on U ...
• Anti-Gunners’ Wish List: Ban Private Gun Sales ...
  from AmmoLand: While banning guns and magazines is being actively promoted by the anti-gunners (as evidenced by introduction of Sen. Feinstein’s S. 150), the criminalization of private firearm transfers is the centerpiece of their anti-Second Amendment efforts. This is part of a strategy to chip ...
• French president makes victory stop in Mali
  French President Francois Hollande met Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traore and spoke to French troops on Saturday, after landing in Timbuktu, making a triumphant stop, six days after French forces parachuted in to liberate the desert city from the rule of al-Qaeda-linked militants. ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• BPA: Why I Became Best Friends with my Slow Cooker
  By Heather White, EWG Executive Director My slow cooker is battered and dinged, and I love it.  Fill it with filtered water and dried beans in the morning, set on low, and by dinnertime, I have a steaming pot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot ...
• Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in ...
  By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in short supply.  Being raised... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
• Parkinson's and Pesticides
  By Alex Formuzis, VP of Media Relations Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook often points out that many pesticides that were once liberally sprayed on food crops and considered perfectly safe turn out to be anything but - after... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit ...
• ChiTrib Finds Toxic Fire Retardant in Crib Mat ...
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst The Chicago Tribune reports it has detected cancer-causing chemicals known as chlorinated tris in 11 crib mattresses made in China and sold by Babies R Us, Foundations and Angeles brands. None of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• Cleaning Never Tasted So Good
  By Samara Geller, EWG Research Fellow Olive oil and lemon juice,...sounds like a base for a fantastic vinaigrette, right? As a former professional chef, I always keep these simple ingredients stocked to create a variety of tasty sauces, dressings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• The story behind Steve Capus' NBC News departu ...
• Remembering Ed Koch
• The pope of Kingsbridge
• Jumaane Williams joins the chorus against a Br ...
• Why Christine Quinn doesn't mind that you're l ...

Views & News from Norway

• Diaper smugglers raid local stores
  Norwegian babies may have been born under a lucky – and rich – star, but as supermarket rivalry drives nappy prices down, shops are being raided by Eastern European customers for “the world’s cheapest” disposable diapers, leaving the little ones in Norway short of  a basic necessity. ...
• Terrorist files charges against prison
  The Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people in twin attacks in 2011 has officially reported the director of Ila Prison and the Norwegian Minister of Justice and Public Security to the police for violating his human rights. Anders Behring Breivik, who has three cells at his disposal in a special ...
• Trucker charged with 17 cases of child molestation
  A 44-year old Norwegian truck driver was formally charged this week with sexually abusing 17 minor boys, many in the back of his own vehicle in assaults that occurred all over the country. Some of the cases carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail, reported Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). A po ...
• Statoil mourns all its five victims
  The last of the missing employees of Norwegian state oil company Statoil who were among hostages held in a terrorist attack in Algeria on January 16 was confirmed dead at the end of the week, as the caskets of his four colleagues were brought back to Norway. A memorial ceremony is planned for ne ...
• Oslo’s ‘nynorsk’ theater tur ...
  Norway’s national theater dedicated to the nynorsk form of the Norwegian language is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with a special program boasting 30 different plays, brisk ticket sales and a string of theatrical awards. Det Norske Teatret, which debuted amidst violent confli ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• How Tight is the Link Between Oil, Food and Po ...
  The linkage is this tight: In this graph "grain" is the world’s annual production of rice, wheat and corn, "oil" is the global production of all petroleum liquids, and people are people. I normalized the numbers so that they all start off from an index of 100 in 1985. Thi ...
• Put Your Questions to the Experts, Round 4a: G ...
  This is the fourth installment in our popular Q&A series. In case you didn’t catch it on previous occasions, we added a new sub-forum titled ‘Put Your Questions to the Experts!‘, where our forum members put their questions to experienced permaculturists we’ll approach over the weeks and mo ...
• Prepared for Disaster
  Editor’s Note: The PRI Sunshine Coast starts their next Internship on February 11, 2013. Get in quick! After being flooded in again recently (an at least once a year occurrence), this time with PDC students and volunteers on the property, we are very happy we are somewhat prepared…. ...
• Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge 4-Week Group Inter ...
  There are those points in life where it’s all up-hill struggle, when you know there’s so much to be done that it’s not even worth contemplating it all, you just have to keep your eyes on the ground in front of you and keep putting one foot in front of the other. Then there are ...
• Ridge to Valley – a Holistic Watershed Perspective
  This excellent little 20-minute video does a great job of covering the basics of watershed management and landscape rehydration. You won’t hear the words ‘permaculture’ or ’swales’ once, but it’s clear that both are in use here, to great effect. If we can get ...

Pointman's

• Is being Green left-wing or right-wing?
  I’m the son of a blue-collar upbringing and consequently a blue-collar view of the world. In many of the ways that really matter, I still am. It does give you a realistic outlook on life, which makes you wary of all politicians, irrespective of what their nominal politics might happen to b ...
• Is being Green left-wing or right-wing?
  I’m the son of a blue-collar upbringing and consequently a blue-collar view of the world. In many of the ways that really matter, I still am. It does give you a realistic outlook on life, which makes you wary of all politicians, irrespective of what their nominal politics might happen to b ...
• A Tale of Two Davids.
  I’m a people person, who likes talking with people, because each one is a new voyage of discovery. When it comes to media people, the one-way direction of the relationship is a bit too passive for my taste. They talk at me and I listen to them talking and although I take in the words  ...
• A Tale of Two Davids.
  I’m a people person, who likes talking with people, because each one is a new voyage of discovery. When it comes to media people, the one-way direction of the relationship is a bit too passive for my taste. They talk at me and I listen to them talking and although I take in the words  ...
• On climate science and all those leaks.
  Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of substantial leaks of sensitive material from deep within the very heart of climate science. In each case, it’s been fairly obvious that the person doing it works in the field and is relatively senior, if only because they have access to ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Idle No More Comes to the Gulf Coast, By Cherr ...
  Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Last Sunday, January 20, I had the pleasure of seeing a short-term dream materialize, when over 100 folks traveled from every Gulf state to attend a gathering organized by Idle No More – Gulf Coast, of which I am proudly a part. Idle No More is the ...
• How NOT to be a Gentrifier With Your Theater: ...
  New Orleans has seen a recent theatre resurgence. Below is a critical perspective on this wave of new theatre from educator and writer Catherine Michna, reprinted from her local blog catherinemichna.wordpress.com. I spent this past weekend at the Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest in New O ...
• Women With A Vision, Recovering From Arson, Pu ...
  Women With A Vision, a community-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS in communities of color, has just made a downpayment on a building in Midcity New Orleans. The Vision House will enable the organization to co ...
• Turning Problems Into Parades, By Nick Slie
  This weekend is MicroFest USA: New Orleans: RENEW. The event is a celebration of the renaissance that has taken place in New Orleans' performance and social justice fields since Hurricane Katrina.  Part festival, part think-tank, part community tour, and part dance party, the all-local prog ...
• This is Not Theoretical: Reflecting on a Recen ...
  Reposted from our friends at The Oyster Knife. This piece was written after guest contributor Nicky Gillies participated in the NOLA to Angola bike ride, a fundraiser for the Cornerstone Builders’ Bus Project, which helps people in Louisiana travel to visit their incarcerated loved ones.  ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I will say this again: I HOPE THAT AT LEAST SOME OF YOU ARE SAVING ALL OF THESE VIDEOS, AND LINKS TO ARTICLES, BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY QUICKLY DIS-APPEARING PERMANENTLY. LindseyStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Sun Feb 03, 2013 3:48 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Hey Amanda, You find anything conclusive on Mario Lanza, the kid's father? Is he for real or a stage-actor as well? I say again that this whole incident is very tragic with the loss of all of these kids lives. Let's always keep this in mind. The entire blame should be laid at the feet of t ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Gene Rosen FB people Censoring my video trying to get it taken down http://sandyhookresearch.blogspot.com/2 ... video.html This video has received a "complaint" about privacy issues. I was told I needed to take it down or fix any privacy issue. I had a map showing Rosen's house a ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Also found the comments below at http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/31/ac ... /#comments. It seems to speak to certain things being deliberately "disappeared" off the internet: I like the Wayback Machine to pull up old webpages: I put in the address for the Monroe Schools, where the C ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Found this in the comments section over at Professor Tracy's blog http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/31/ac ... /#comments This is the obituary of Adam Lanza's grandfather (sorry, commenter didn't post orginal link). This lists both Adam and Ryan as grandchildren, so it does seem to be the case t ...

TVNZ

• Etch A Sketch inventor dies aged 86
  Andre Cassanges, the former electrical technician who invented the classic toy Etch A Sketch, has died.
• Knife-wielding man tasered outside Buckingham ...
  A man interrupted the changing of the guard ceremony by holding a knife to his own throat.
• Kuwaiti man sentenced to five years for insult ...
  A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a man to five years in prison for insulting the emir on Twitter.
• Bolshoi ballet chief knows who is behind acid ...
  The Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director says he knows who was behind an acid attack on him.
• Successful skull surgery for girl shot by Taliban
  A schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education has undergone successful surgery.

environment 360

• U.S. Carbon Emissions Fall to Lowest Level Sin ...
  The continuing expansion of renewable energy technologies, advances in energy efficiency, and the rapid shift from coal to natural gas for generating electricity combined to bring down U.S. carbon dioxide emissions last year to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a report by Bloomberg N ...
• U.S. Carbon Emissions Fall to Lowest Level Sin ...
  The continuing expansion of renewable energy technologies, advances in energy efficiency, and the rapid shift from coal to natural gas for generating electricity combined to bring down U.S. carbon dioxide emissions last year to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a report by Bloomberg N ...
• Massive UK Wind Turbines Are a Sign of ‘Super- ...
  Two of the world’s largest wind turbines, with blades 60 meters (196 feet) long, have been installed off the Yorkshire coast, a sign of a growing trend toward producing colossal wind turbines to boost generating capacity. The 6-megawatt turbines, manufactured by Siemens, are so large that they h ...
• Mercury’s Silent Toll On the World’s Wildlife
  Scientists are only beginning to understand the impacts of mercury contamination on birds, fish, and other wildlife populations. But what they are finding is alarming — even low levels can cause harm, and chronic exposure has unexpected and troubling effects. BY REBECCA KESSLER
• Satellite Analysis Shows Gulf Oil Spills Typic ...
  An analysis of satellite images has revealed that small oil spills that have become common in the Gulf of Mexico are often much larger than reported, U.S. scientists say. Using technology that calculates the size of oil slicks based on differences in the texture of water surface, as captured in ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The Manitoban - The students' newspaper of the ...
  Tags: students newspaper university manitoba
• Bureau of Investigative Journalism
  Tags: journalism investigation news
• Climate Dialogue
  Tags: blog environment climate dialogue
• Reef Relief Founders
  Tags: blog environment reef
• Stuart H. Smith attorney: fighting oil, chemic ...
  Tags: oil chemical water radiation pollution

backofthebook

• RIM’s — er, Blackberry’s &#8 ...
  By Mark Evans While the new and much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 has finally launched, there’s another story that I think is as compelling: the public relations campaign that has happened over the past six months that let RIM arrive at yesterday’s launch with the wind in its sails. The PR work has ...
• BC throws a film party — for India
  \\\|\\\ Tags:  Bollywood, British Columbia, film, India, Ontario, Quebec Del.icio.us Facebook TweetThis Digg StumbleUpon ...
• Sun News might just get its way
  By David@sixthestate.net I don’t think there’s really any need for a detailed analysis of the following: Sun News Network, the right-wing, free-market, anti-government “news” channel set up by Quebecor and some former Harper staffers is losing money and wants the government to mandate a special ...
• The NHL is back, but I won’t be
  By Montreal Simon A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn’t been planning to watch it, until they turned up. And that I wasn’t the least bit excited that the season had finally sta ...
• An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU
  By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Exclusive: Reverend Deacon Robert Spencer of O ...
  Anti-Muslim blogger and activist Robert Spencer is also known as Rev. Deacon Robert Spencer.
• With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Ant ...
  A massive article in Alternet argues that the ADL's anti-Arab, pro-Israel mindset has led the group to perpetuate an anti-Muslim worldview.
• Bingham: Muslim Family Forced to Move From Hom ...
  Family looks for safer place to live after suffering anti-Muslim abuse in Bingham.
• Muslim patrols could become terrorist threat, ...
  "Muslim patrols" hysteria continues.
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester cancels sp ...
  Spencer invitation to Diocese of Worcester reportedly rescinded.

Energy News

• Ex-Tepco Worker: “Children in Fukushima are li ...
• Video: “Eerie situation in marsh near sinkhole ...
• Gov’t warns of impending quake shortly b ...
• NHK ‘Inside Fukushima’: Highest ra ...
• Asahi: Chilling warning seen in newly released ...

Japan Times

• Microsoft to release pro version of tablet
  Microsoft says the pro version of its Surface tablet will be available to purchase Feb. 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike the previous version that launched in October, the Surface Windows 8 Pro will use the full version of Windows 8, which is compatible with programs that run on earlier versions ...
• Shooting on Texas campus hurts three
  A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college Tuesday that left three people injured. The gunfire on the Lone Star College System campus about 30 km north of downtown Houston sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said. ...
• Japan bids to build S. Africa rail link
  Japan joined Germany, China and France Tuesday in bidding to build a 157 billion rand (¥1.6 trillion) high-speed rail link between South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban and Johannesburg, the country’s commercial hub. Funding models include partnerships between g ...
• Royal ‘slur’ nets Thai editor 10 years
  A prominent Thai labor rights activist and magazine editor was sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for violating much-debated laws designed to protect Thailand’s royal family. The verdict came despite repeated calls by rights groups to free Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, who has been jai ...
• Rail linkup to ease metro commute
  Railways in Tokyo announced Tuesday a new timetable set to come into effect March 16 when the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line are to be connected. According to Tokyu Corp. and Tokyo Metro Co., Tokyo’s Ikebukuro will be linked with Yokohama in 38 minutes at the fastest ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Politics on TV (and radio): Parliament, Page a ...
  The three things you need to see and listen to
• Headline from the Telegraph: ‘Watch out ...
  Check out how the Telegraph’s Kamal Ahmed gets started on his preview of Mark...
• The Liberal ‘debate’ in Winnipeg: ...
  John Geddes on what came up instead of fiscal policy, Mali, the poverty of First Nations and Canada's aging population
• This is the week that was
  Your guide to the last seven days in and around Parliament Hill
• Kidlit star Oliver Jeffers on tall tales, magi ...
  The darling of children's picture books confesses that he doesn't write with kids in mind

Making It Count - CCPA

• Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
  The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its debt. Of course we know Ontario is not Greece or California, and such comparisons are disingenuous. But it is possible that Ontario could find itself in a similar mess if i ...
• Atlantic Canada’s story of inequality
  Statistics Canada released new data yesterday on high income trends in Canada with nary a mention of the Atlantic Provinces. From a Canadian comparative perspective, the data told a story that was more striking for most of the rest of the country and in particular, Alberta, Ontario, BC and Quebe ...
• It’s Time for an Equality Premier
  Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus on solutions to income inequality. Now that would be truly groundbreaking. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Brand new data from Stati ...
• A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder ...
  Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a definitive answer after the government’s partial privatization of Information Services Corporation (ISC), the introduction of new private liquor ...
• Our Way or the Norway
  One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces. Norway has been very effective in distributing oil wealth amongst it regions and its population. Its level of income inequ ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• Joining A Global Nexus Conversation
    by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy This year Abu Dhabi made history, simultaneously hosting the 6th World Energy Future Summit and the in ...
• Evaporation from California Irrigation Adds En ...
  “California’s Central Valley is an agricultural machine. The valley, which accounts for one-sixth of irrigated lands in the United States, produced crops worth $US 21 billion in 2007, according to the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture, a comprehensive analysis of U.S. agricultural pro ...
• Queensland Floods Heighten Crisis Around Toxic ...
  “According to the Resources Council, those releases will probably negate the most recent rainfall, but won’t reduce the legacy water. Going into this summer’s wet season, it was estimated there was the equivalent of half Sydney Harbour’s worth of so-called legacy water, which has accumulat ...
• Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water ...
  “When groundwater reserves ran low in the 1940s, the region turned to Lake Mead. Today, the Las Vegas area gets 90 percent of its water from the no-longer-very-mighty Colorado River as it is corralled behind Hoover Dam in Lake Mead. And now that’s threatened. A new federal study released i ...
• Punjab ranks high in water pollution by industries
  “The SAD-BJP government’s claims about attracting over a lakh crore rupees of investment in Punjab have been proven hollow, evidently by their own admission. Not just are the bigger industries moving out, but Punjab is among the worst performing states in the country when it comes to ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• A simple … Yes or No … will suffice
  …. Hey … “dishonest” John McCain … you were quick to badger Hagel at your dog & pony show confirmation hearing … how about a simple answer to Hilary’s question … Were you and your GOP buddies lying to the American public about 9-11 then or not … a simple Y ...
• but “white” America SHALL only use potable (dr ...
  … OK … got it … sewage snow is acceptable to make  snow on Native American holy sites like the SnowBowl … but “white” America SHALL only use potable (drinking) water snow for its events … hypocrisy … This year, Flagstaff’s Dew Downtown event will use fre ...
• MON$ANTO WORLD
    …Welcome to Mon$anto world and the destructive GMO food chain they promote … Filed under: Blogroll
• THE SOUTH RISES
  Tennessee Introducing Major Gun Protection – NO Restrictions on Guns, Any Federal Law NULL AND VOID 01-30-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ Sen. Beavers and Rep. Butt Introduce Strong New Legislation to Stop Gun Control Sen. Mae Beavers and Rep. Sheila Butt introduced a bill Tuesday to amend ...
• EVER TO REMAIN DEAF, DUMB, SILENT
  … As gun violence and death increase in Arizona “we” allow our $tate Leader$ to remain deaf, dumb, silent …  Arizona’s gun-death rate among the worst in U.S. by Ronald J. Hansen - Jan. 27, 2011 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic… Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/p ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Asian bear farming: breaking the cycle of expl ...
  In the forests of Asia, bears are being captured. These captives will be sent to bear farms, most unregulated and illegal, where they will be kept alive in a small cage, locked away for life. Their bodies will be used as renewable natural resources, from which profit will be made through the ext ...
• Controversial research outlines physics behind ...
  It took over two-and-a-half-years for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics to finally accept a paper outlining a new meteorological hypothesis in which condensation, not temperature, drives winds. If proven correct, the hypothesis could have massive ramifications on global policy— ...
• Beyond the resorts: traveling the real and wil ...
  For its stunning variety of ecosystems, the Dominican Republic is like a continent squished into half an island. Lowland rainforests, cloud forests, pine forests, dry forests, mangroves, savannah, coastal lagoons, salt lakes, a rift valley, karst land formations, four mountain ranges—inclu ...
• Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify ra ...
  Last year scientists released a study that is likely to revolutionize how conservationists track elusive species. Researchers extracted the recently sucked blood of terrestrial leeches in Vietnam's remote Annamite Mountains and looked at the DNA of what they'd been feeding on: remarkably researc ...
• Living beside a tiger reserve: scientists stud ...
  During an average year, 87% of households surrounding Kanha Tiger Reserve in Central India report experiencing some kind of conflict with wild animals, according to a new paper in the open-access journal PLOS One. Co-existence with protected, free-roaming wildlife can be a challenge when living ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Kiwi scientists set sail for Antarctic expedition
  An international team of scientists has set sail from Wellington to study how changes to an Antarctic ocean region could affect global ocean circulations.Twenty-two scientists including researchers from New Zealand, Australia and...
• White Island continuing to produce 'vigorous b ...
  White Island is continuing to produce "vigorous bursts'' of mud, rock steam and gas up to 100m high and larger explosions including molten sulphur are possible, say experts.The seismic activity, which has lasted several days, poses...
• Tech Universe: Wednesday 30 January
  TRAP A CHARGE: The world around us is full of electric charge. And if you're clever enough, as one German designer was, you can harvest that electricity for your own purposes. Dennis Siegel created an
• White Island activity still 'vigorous'
  White Island has been spewing mud and rock several tens of metres into the air in the past few days, as GNS Science warns of a greater risk to visitors.Scientists monitoring the island volcano in the Bay of Plenty say the crater...
• Bee plight could have massive impact on econom ...
  The plight of bees could have a massive impact on the New Zealand economy, a University of Canterbury ecologist says.Ecology professor Jason Tylianakis said New Zealand exports 80 per cent of its food production, and crops such...

The Bovine

• “Everyone is a farmer”, says embat ...
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his state’s prohibition on raising so-called “feral” pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesn’t want to … Continue reading ...
• Windsor councillors vote to remove fluoride fr ...
  From Doug Schmidt in the Windsor Star: “Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay. “A lot has … Continue reading →
• New film “Milk” airing tonight on ...
  “Milk”,  the third documentary film in which raw milk and food rights activist Michael Schmidt has figured prominently, airs tonight at 8 pm on CBC’s Documentary channel.  See trailer below: From the cbc.ca promo page for the film: “Milk: The … Continue reading →
• Britain’s FSA goes after farmer and stor ...
  From Louise Gray in The Telegraph UK:  “Selfridges is being taken to court for putting public health at risk by selling fashionable ‘raw’ milk at its flagship London store, the government’s food watchdog has announced. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) … Continue read ...
• Why can’t we test GMOs for health impact ...
  Jokes abound about software end user licence agreements, which, by and large, nobody reads, although to install the product, you do usually have to click on the box that says you have read it and agree to its terms. Well … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Extreme Sentiment: Barron's Cover "Get Ready f ...
  Looking for extreme sentiment? Look no further than the cover of Barron's magazine. The cover speaks for itself, but check out some of the commentary in New Highs in Sight The party is far from over. The early-year rally that on Friday took the Dow Jones Industrial Average to ...
• Obamacare in Action: Retail Workweek Hits 3-Ye ...
  Hooray! The economy is adding jobs (supposedly). However, few look at the quality of the jobs, and whether or not they are part-time. Jed Graham has a nice post on Investor's Business Daily that describes what I have been saying for months: Obamacare has accelerated the trend towards part- ...
• Yum! The McRib is Back, Get Yours Today (After ...
  McDonald's does an excellent job at promoting sandwiches on its menu. Top on the list is the "McRib" which comes and goes in "limited time" offers. You can even use a McRib Locator to find out which chains have the delicacy. Before you rush out of your house to get one, you may be wond ...
• 500,000 People Sign Petition Asking Prime Mini ...
  The indignation of citizens over payouts and graft in Spain is highlighted by a flood of protests on Spanish social networks. A campaign on Change.org, a platform with 25 million registered has collected a record 500,000 signatures calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Marinao Rajoy. ...
• Last Hurrah for Jobs? Establishment Survey +15 ...
  Initial Reaction The establishment survey reported a gain of  157,000 job this month. However, for the third consecutive month, the household survey is much weaker than the headline number. The household survey shows a gain of a mere 17,000 jobs. Last month the household su ...

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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Derelict Cruise Ship M/V Lyubov Orlova Abandon ...
  The deck of the M/V Lyubov Orlova could be the loneliest place on earth right now. The derelict cruise ship escaped death by the shipbreakers in the Dominican Republic after her [...]
• East Coast Dock Workers Agree to New Contract ...
  By Brooke Sutherland (Bloomberg) — The International Longshoremen’s Association agreed to a new labor contract, ending 11 months of negotiations and eliminating the risk of the first Eastern port shutdown [...]
• Emma Maersk Takes on Water Near Suez Canal, Bu ...
  The mighty Emma Maersk, once the world’s largest containership by TEU capacity, was taking on water and lost power Friday night near the Northern entrance of the Suez Canal, fueling [...]
• Body Found in Maldives, Identified as Crewmemb ...
  Skeletal remains, blue coveralls, and a sun-bleached life jacket emblazoned with the words SAIGON QUEEN were recently found on a beach in the Maldives.  Images were sent to us by [...]
• For VLCC Owners, “Another Week of Pain Beckons”
  (Bloomberg) — Losses widened for the largest oil tankers hauling Middle East crude to Asia, the industry’s busiest trade route, as a surplus of vessels increased amid a dearth of [...]

Press TV

• ‘Japan frees Chinese fishermen’
  Japan has freed the captain and crew of a Chinese fishing boat, which had been stopped off Okinawa amid tension between Tokyo and Beijing over a territorial row, Chinese state media report.
• Bahrainis hold anti-regime protests
  Thousands of Bahraini demonstrators have staged anti-regime protest rallies across the country to renew their calls for freedom and democracy.
• ‘Chavez recovering gradually’
  Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro says President Hugo Chavez is “recovering gradually” from cancer.
• FARC says it will set 3 captives free
  The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) says it will free the three hostages, who were abducted earlier.
• British army unveils new spy drone
  The British army has demonstrated a new tiny spy drone as the latest weapon against Taliban militants in Afghanistan.

SciDev.net

• Online global renewable energy atlas launched
  A website aims to help governments and investors draw up energy policies, and find the best places for wind and solar energy projects.
• South Africa's fuel cell plan risks failure wi ...
  An ambitious strategy to create fuel cell products for export will need incentives and cross-government backing to bear fruit, says Radhika Perrot.
• New handle on drug-resistant leishmaniasis
  The Leishmania parasite uses a sugary secretion to outwit the human immune system and resist antimony drugs, say researchers.
• Genetic markers offer hope for tackling drug-r ...
  Newly discovered markers that appear to be linked to a hard-to-treat form of malaria could aid efforts to eliminate the disease before it can spread.
• Trials needed to test camel-urine cancer drug ...
  Saudi researchers say they have discovered a cancer-curing compound in camel urine, but further trials are needed to test the claims.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

More Sources

• Angelbabe 43
• Addicting Info
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• Tyranny Watch

IPS - Inter Press Services

• Solar Streetlights Light the Way Toward Green ...
  The tiny federation of St. Kitts-Nevis and its larger neighbour to the north, Jamaica, are leading the Caribbean’s search for new ways to become more energy efficient by installing new solar streetlights, a green alternative to traditional ones. In St. Kitts, the project is a collaborative ...
• This Is What a Humane Economy Looks Like
  The severe crisis crippling Spain is also sparking some creative responses, such the Okonomía project, a teaching initiative that helps individuals and communities to understand the workings of the economy and make more informed decisions to manage their finances. “Things have gotten so ba ...
• Pakistan Tribes Turn Against Army
  –“We demand an immediate end to the military operation in Khyber Agency because it has not brought any results during the past three years,” says Iqbal Afridi from the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf party. “The military operations are killing the local population while the militants remained unharmed.” ...
• In Mali, Driving Out Rebels but Not Fear
  “We know they are close. We do not feel safe,” mutters Allassane Traoré, as he stares down the road on which the Islamists entered the town of Diabaly in central Mali, almost two weeks ago. Traoré himself a muslim and a muezzin — the person who leads and recites the call to prayer at the [...]
• It’s All About Israel
  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. foreign policy were ...

My AntiWar

• Russia Holds Ground-Breaking Talks With Syrian ...
• Deadliest Sniper in US Military History Is &#8 ...
• Car Bomb and Attack on North Iraq Police HQ Ki ...
• Abu Sayyaf Militants Release Two Hostages in P ...
• President Assad Accuses Israel of Destabilizin ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Hagel Hearings Showcase Pro-Israel Agenda
  Summary: 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. foreign ...
• The U.S. needs a completely different approach ...
  Summary: As Washington and its great power partners prepare for more nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Obama administration and policy elites across the political spectrum talk as if America is basically in control of the situation. Sanctions, we are told, are inflicting ever-rising hardshi ...
• "Going to Tehran"
  Summary: People have been emailing me recently about my review of the Leveretts' new book, "Going to Tehran", which I mentioned in an earlier post. I thought it was a great book then, and still do so, even though people have complained about a variety of issues, for example the suggestion tha ...
• US: We are not sanctioning medicial supplies t ...
  Summary: In mid-November last year the first casualty of the sanctions on Iran was Manouchehr Esmaili-Liousi. Manouchehr was a 15-year-old from a nomadic tribe near the city of Dezful. He died in the hospital after the hemophilia medication that is produced in Europe and the US was not able t ...
• Building Blocks: The obsession that is prevent ...
  Summary: source: Foreign Policy

The Daily Galaxy

• From the X Files: "Fermi Bubbles" --Are They S ...
              "Fermi Bubbles,"  which might appear as a void in visible light in spiral galaxies. is the term used by Richard Carrigan at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in his work on the search for cosmic-scale artifacts like Dyson spheres or Kardashev civilizations. A Fe ...
• "The Virus Planet" -- Earth's Invisible World ...
              In the invisible, parallel world of Earth's they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 trillion times a second around the world.  There are 10 billion trillion, trillion viruses inhabiting Planet Earth, which is more stars than are in th ...
• "The Real Universe" --'Is 250 Times Bigger tha ...
                                     Is our universe infinite or closed? Because the visible Universe is expanding, the most distant visible things are much further away than its estimated 14-billion year age. In fact, the photons in the cosmic microwave background have traveled a coo ...
• The Mystery of the "Missing Dwarf Galaxies"
                  High-precision observations over the last two decades have indicated that our Universe consists of about 75% Dark Energy, 20% Dark Matter and 5% ordinary matter. Galaxies and matter in the universe clump in an intricate network of filaments and voids, known as the Cosmic ...
• The Real Universe --"Is 250 Times Bigger than ...
                                     Is our universe infinite or closed? Because the visible Universe is expanding, the most distant visible things are much further away than its estimated 14-billion year age. In fact, the photons in the cosmic microwave background have traveled a ...

Natural News

• USDA school lunch reform rules are a complete ...
  With huge fanfare and an overdose of propaganda, the U.S. government is announcing it's going to reform school lunches and vending machines to eliminate junk beverages like sodas. "Under new rules the Department of Agriculture proposed Friday, school vending machines...
• Mindfulness meditation shown helpful against c ...
  Mindfulness meditation techniques may help reduce the symptoms of chronic inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Waisman...
• The Art of Food Deception (Opinion)
  (NaturalNews)It's amazing how much we take for granted. We assume that all the food in the supermarkets and natural food stores are safe to eat. What we don't realize is the reality of the sinister plot to reduce the population. That was covered in part in a previous article that...
• The idea of adding fluoride to drinking water ...
  Despite strong opinions on both sides, Windsor, a city in Ontario, Canada, joins other municipalities, namely Lakeshore, Tecumseh, Amherstburg, Calgary and Waterloo, to end fluoridation, according to a Jan 28, 2013 report by Doug Schmidt in The Windsor Star. While...
• Graphic pictorial warnings help people quit sm ...
  Graphic pictorial warning labels on tobacco products may make it significantly easier for people to quit smoking, particularly those from disadvantaged racial or economic groups, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The research was conducted by...

Threat Level

• Twitter Hacked; Company Says 250K Users May Ha ...
  Following a string of revelations this week from several media companies who announced they had been recently hacked, Twitter announced on Friday that it had also been the target of a sophisticated attack, saying 250,000 users may have been affected.
• ‘Aaron’s Law’ Proposes Reining in Federal Anti ...
  Two lawmakers are proposing long-overdue changes to the anti-hacking statute that would help prevent prosecutors from overreaching in their use of the law, as occurred in the case of Aaron Swartz and a number of other cases in recent years.
• German Activists Punch Out Big Brother’s Eyes
  It's being called Grand Theft Auto for the surveillance generation, only instead of being played out in the digital world, it's played out in the real world. And the object of the game isn't to steal cars or pull off ...
• Gavin Newsom: Why Hacking Is Good for Democracy
  Despite the negative connotation of the word hacker, society is in the process of making itself more hackable. Instead of doing business as usual, expecting that our systems and data are impregnable, we have to play differently. Formal authority is ...
• New York Times Hacked Again, This Time Alleged ...
  In a dramatic announcement late Wednesday, the New York Times reported that hackers from China had been routing through the paper’s network for at least four months, stealing the passwords of reporters in an apparent attempt to identify sources and ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Groundhog Day for Republicans Blocking Consume ...
  ThinkProgress explained on Saturday: In a letter sent to President Obama on Friday, 43 Republican senators committed to refusing approval of any nominee to head the consumer watchdog until the bureau underwent significant reform. Lawmakers signing on to the letter included Senate Minority Leade ...
• GOP Splits Even as Illegal Immigration Plummets
  After its shell-lacking in November, the Republican Party is now splitting in two over the issue of immigration reform. On one side are the cynical, convinced the GOP must change its stand not out of principle or basic humanity but simply because of, as John McCain put it, "elections, elections ...
• On the Wrong Side of Everything, McCain Attack ...
  As a quick glance at his record shows, no American political figure has been as consistently and catastrophically wrong on matters of national security than John McCain. (Worse still, McCain's out-of-control temper and erratic judgment led many of his Republican colleagues like Thad Cochran to ...
• Public Sector Austerity Still Slowing U.S. Economy
  All along, the real danger of the so-called "fiscal cliff" wasn't that U.S. national debt would increase, but instead that it would drop too quickly. Now, the surprise news that the American economy contracted by 0.1 percent in the last quarter of 2012 is providing a case in point. Along with ...
• John McCain Comes Full Circle on Immigration-- ...
  The new bipartisan immigration framework announced by the "Gang of 8" brought some great news for Mitt Romney. After he lost the Hispanic vote by 44 points in 2012 (up from just 9 in 2004), Senate Republicans have apparently concluded you can have illegals, for Pete's sake. But at least for no ...

Blackspot News Feed

• THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
  Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
• “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
  An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
• Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
  With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
• Headlines for November 28, 2012
  Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
• Palestine Activism in the UK
  Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

Consortium News

• Richard Nixon’s Even-Darker Legacy
• The Trickery of the Military Budget
• The Lesson in Hagel’s Inquisition
• Israel’s Mysterious Raid into Syria
• Obama Shies from Iran Agreement

TruthOut

• Congress Must Debate the Libya War
  The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
• News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
  Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
• In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
  In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
• Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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• Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
  About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

• Billions Of Animals Die Because Of Cats
  A new research study has found that pet, stray, and feral cats are killing a tremendous number of wild animals. While this news is likely to upset many cat owners and cat lovers, the study’s conclusions should not be ignored. (If and how they become translated into public policy is another ...
• Environmental Impacts Of… Baseball Bats?
  Baseball bats were made out of a strong wood known as hickory when the game came into existence. However, original bats were quite heavy. Players preferred lighter bats for quicker bat speed, so the manufacturers started to use maple and white ash to produce lighter bats. The preferred wood is w ...
• Massive Storm On Saturn Imaged Eating Itself B ...
  The enormous storm observed on Saturn in 2010/2011 by NASA’s Cassini space mission, is the subject of a new study that has investigated what caused it, and its behavior. The storm was seen stretching across the whole of the planet, before encountering its own tail and mysteriously dissipat ...
• Chlorophull.
  Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page… Chlorophull. was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from CleanTechnica, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage.Chlorophull. wa ...
• Plants Can Be ‘Altruistic’ Research Finds
  Plants can demonstrate altruistic behavior, a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder has found. Evidence of altruism, and clear social behavior and communication, has previously been observed in plants. Plants have previously been found to aggressively compete with some genetic strang ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Houston Company Fined $1M for Clean Water Act ...
  A judge says a Houston company must pay $1 million in fines and community service payments for falsi
• Mud and Manure Management Workshop
  Join us for this informative workshop!
• An Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on S ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/bristolbay/recordispl
• Happy New Year!
  To start the year off on the right foot, a water change was performed and the water parameters were
• 2012 In Review: Added Value
  Elements of Added Value for 2012 Each year I maintain my Advanced Proficiency Rating in The Activato

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Gaza: “Pinpoint Accuracy” – More Child Sacrifi ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 29 November 2012 Image by txen
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What “Free Trad ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Nov. 26, 201
• Western State Terrorism Loses Crucial Battle I ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Nov.
• Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnershi ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Nov. 21, 201
• Stand Still For the Apocalypse by Chris Hedges
  Image by Walt Jabsco via Flickr by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 26

Axis of Logic

• Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
  "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
• CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
  22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
• UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
  Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
• The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
  Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
  22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Goodbye Scott Brown
  By @TedFrier Alec MacGillis of the New Republic has declared the Scott Brown Era over. It was brief as eras go, lasting just three years from January 2010 when Brown upset Martha Coakley to win the "Kennedy seat," and thereby rob Democrats of their filibuster-proof Senate majority, until earlier ...
• Highlights in Assholery - 2012
  by @TomBales1 The First Three 3.  RUSH LIMBAUGH Old Rush will always be among the top three in any such list as this one I make and for obvious reasons.  He goes from #1 in 2011 to #3 in 2012, not because he wasn't a bigger asshole than ever (he was definitely bigger) but because this ye ...
• Good Offence is Best Defense, Mr. Hagel
  By @TedFrier A prospective Defense Secretary who can't even defend himself. That was the unfortunate impression left by Chuck Hagel yesterday at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The most charitable thing you can say about the former Nebraska Republican Senator ...
• gARbLeD sPEakS!
  Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) via Twitter today: Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler 17 cent increase in gas prices overnight-30 cents this week. Ugh! We need American made energy and approval of the Keystone pipeline! 6:07 AM - 31 Jan 13 It goes up. It goes down. Representative Hartzler (r) ...
• Sorry, no roundup tonight
  By @BGinKC Sorry folks, but fans of Green Acres know that you can't plug a 3 an a 7 into the same circuit and the computer and modem/router together are, apparently, a three and the space heater is a seven and really, what was I thinking? So I am shutting down and reading a book, because the mer ...

Care 2

• Paul Watson Speaks Out On Japanese Whalers Tre ...
  Sea Shepherd Founder Paul Watson is interviewed as an observer aboard Operation Zero Tolerance, Sea Shepherd's Ninth Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign. Submitted by Brian M. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• INIDA: Another Rhino killed by poachers!
  Another rhino was killed by poachers at Kaziranga National Park in Assam today with the toll rising to seven at the UNESCO World Heritage site this month. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• The moment a fish fought back: Amazing photos ...
  SEA what happens when you mess with our big fish! Ha! -Sadly for the boat, it's said to have sunk to the bottom and the fish - who made a visible skip across the waves long after the boat was gone may forever be known simply as 'the one that got away. Submitted by Julie E. to Offbeat &nbs ...
• Video: Haunted by Violence, Children in DRC Fi ...
  He is in a child-friendly space managed by UNICEF partner AVSI in Mugunga III, a site in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where several thousand internally displaced persons have found shelter. Submitted by J.L. A. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it! ...
• 20 Most Effective Super Bowl Ads (VIDEOS)
  Its a rare competition that pits Budweiser against Betty White, but here goes. The Daily Beast presents its fourth annual ranking of the most successful Super Bowl advertisements. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Just Back From The Mideast – And I’m Really Wo ...
• Richard Nixon's Even-Darker Legacy
• Links? We Don’t Do No Stinkin’ Links: Cognitiv ...
• Wars That Aren't Meant to Be Won
• Debating Suicide

Paul Krugman

• Despicable Me
  I welcome your hatred!
• No Satisfaction
  When I'm watchin' my TV.
• WWS 543, Class 1: A Brief History of Trade Policy
  PowerPoint attacks.
• Government Spending in the Crisis
  The bulge goes away.
• Cockroach Ideas
  They keep coming back.

No Quarter

• “Clinton raps Benghazi critics” (provided by H ...
  “Clinton raps Benghazi critics“: HelenK provided a link to an opinion article by Ron Fournier, “What I Learned Covering Hillary Clinton”: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the ...
• “Body of missing NY mother found in Turkey”
  Fox News provided a video and an article about Sarai Sierra: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Sarai Sierra, a woman living in New York City “has been found dead in Istanbul. The Turkish police confirm to Fox News.” Police say they were able to identify 33-year-old Sarai Si ...
• “2nd Oval Office Readied in White House Rehab ...
  I noticed that this is renovation project will take two years and cost taxpayers $376 million. “The government is undertaking extensive work to complete a new executive office for President Obama at the south end of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building, RCP has learned,” ...
• The Pathetic Legacy of Hillary Clinton
  As someone who genuinely believed that Hillary could and would make a difference at the Department of State, I am appalled. Her tenure was a time of mediocrity with no moments of true genius or brilliance. She traveled alot. She is an engaging, smart conversationalist. But on the diplomatic fron ...
• “Pink slips for Obama’s jobs council” (open th ...
  A major expanse of shipping lanes may open up soon in the Arctic Sea — and it’s the fabled Northwest Passage that Lewis & Clark and other less lucky explorers sought. The route could be in full operation by 2050. Bronwyn added that: A major expanse of shipping lanes may open up s ...

Futurismic

• Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
  *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
• Hope for a Global Spring?
  Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
• The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
  I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
• Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
  So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
• The Future Always Wins
  Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Author Silas House to visit Abingdon - TriCiti ...
  Author Silas House to visit Abingdon TriCities.com Silas House is an Eastern Kentucky native and has written about mountaintop removal, coal mining and life in the Appalachian Mountains. Posted: Friday, February 1, 2013 9:18 pm | Updated: 9:27 pm, Fri Feb 1, 2013. Author Silas House to visit Abi ...
• Churches, faith groups across nation plan 'pre ...
  Churches, faith groups across nation plan 'preach-in' on global warming U.S. Catholic magazine Last year, a busload of parishioners traveled to eastern Kentucky to see the results of mountaintop-removal coal mining, and another busload will travel to the state capital in Frankfort as par ...
• Protesters interrupt Bank of America recruitme ...
  Protesters interrupt Bank of America recruitment Daily Californian “We need to take a stand against the funders of health issues, including mountaintop removal, and funders of coal,” said Gabe Schwartzman, a member of the protest and a UC Berkeley senior. Protesters said that Bank of America doe ...
• Grammy-winner Kathy Mattea lends voice to envi ...
  Centre Daily Times Grammy-winner Kathy Mattea lends voice to environmental causes in talk at ... Centre Daily Times Mattea showed the audience photos of large-scale mountaintop removal mining operations, which mine the summit of a mountain. She said that the operations often have terrible conseq ...
• Human Rights Film Festival sheds new light on ...
  Human Rights Film Festival sheds new light on growing social issues The Duquensne Duke 21, the 2013 Film Series will show seven award-winning documentaries covering human rights issues of mountain-top removal mining, genocide and abuse towards women. The screenings of the films are free, open to ...

Memeorandum

• With Brown out, GOP mulls Romney energy (Joe B ...
  Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald: With Brown out, GOP mulls Romney energy  —  Massachusetts Republicans are desperately scrambling to find a strong Senate candidate to replace Scott Brown, with some even trying to persuade Mitt Romney's wife or son to jump into the race to avert a ...
• Body of missing NY mother found in Turkey (CNN)
  CNN: Body of missing NY mother found in Turkey  —  (CNN) — The family of an American woman who went missing in Istanbul nearly two weeks ago is in mourning after learning that Turkish police found her body Saturday.  —  Steven Sierra wept during a phone cal ...
• NRA chief: Public cannot 'trust' White House o ...
  Peter Schroeder / The Hill: NRA chief: Public cannot ‘trust’ White House on gun control  —  The head of the National Rifle Association (NRA) said Sunday the public should not trust the White House to pursue limited changes to gun-control laws.  —  Way ...
• Chicago marchers urge Obama to come home to ad ...
  Renita D. Young / Reuters: Chicago marchers urge Obama to come home to address gun violence  —  (Reuters) - Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and relatives of victims of fatal shootings in Chicago urged President Barack Obama on Saturday to come back to his hometown and address ...
• This gun rights backer, armed with his Glock a ...
  Joel Achenbach / Washington Post: This gun rights backer, armed with his Glock and his blog, is always on alert  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Heading toward a Starbucks on the pricey side of town, Rob Farago is packing.  The Glock 30SF lives on his right hip, holstered under ...

Energy & Environment News

• A Town’s Environmental Debate on Drilling
  Leases for 114,932 acres of federal land across Colorado are being auctioned off next month as a historic effort to increase domestic natural-gas production.
• Proposed Rules for Japan’s Nuclear Industry Ca ...
  Many in a nation still recovering from a nuclear disaster said that the guidelines — in line with standards in the United States — were too strict.
• Dot Earth Blog: After Steven Chu Leaves, Who S ...
  Who has the mix of skills necessary to propel a sustainable energy quest?
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Reprieve for the W ...
  The federal Fish and Wildlife Service is now said to favor a threatened species designation.
• Refining Helps 4th-Quarter Profit at Exxon Mobil
  The No. 1 American oil company reported strong earnings on its refining and chemical businesses, compensating for disappointing results in oil and gas.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
  Sunday, February 3, 2013 11:36:39 UTC Sunday, February 3, 2013 09:36:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.4, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
  Sunday, February 3, 2013 11:14:56 UTC Sunday, February 3, 2013 09:14:56 PM at epicenterDepth: 23.20 km (14.42 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Sunday, February 3, 2013 03:57:32 UTC Sunday, February 3, 2013 02:57:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Sunday, February 3, 2013 02:29:13 UTC Sunday, February 3, 2013 01:29:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
  Saturday, February 2, 2013 21:20:35 UTC Sunday, February 3, 2013 08:20:35 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• 中国新能源&#6530 ...
  中国新能源行业正处在最困难的时刻。从寂寂无名到风光无限，再到哀鸿遍野，仅仅 ...
• 10年回顾：从&#29 ...
  在国家层面的“环保风暴”逐渐销声匿迹之时，民众参与的环境社会运动走上前台。&# ...
• 中国在水资&#2830 ...
  在水资源保护领域，中国一方面以小规模创新模式领先于世界。然而，另一方面，政 ...
• 中国企业如&#2030 ...
  2005年，中国企业发布的可持续发展报告只有9份，2011年已达898份。中国企业节能减排与“&#325 ...
• 寻找雪域环&#2044 ...
  去年，青藏高原民间环保组织青海省三江源环境保护协会（以下简称三江源协会）全 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Barack Obama, Drone Ranger
  If you’ve seen the movie Zero Dark Thirty, you know why it has triggered a new debate over our government’s use of torture after 9/11.The movie’s up for an Oscar as best motion picture. We’ll know later this month if it wins. Some people leave the theater claiming ...
• A Ground-Eye View of the 'Valley of Deportation'
  EDITOR'S NOTE: Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix is a blogger and reporter from Coachella, CA, currently living in Salinas and working for the United Farm Workers Foundation. His blog, "The Diary of Joaquín Magón” appears regularly on the youth-led community news website, Co ...
• The Super Bowl Ad That Coke And Pepsi Desperat ...
  This Sunday’s Super Bowl will be punctuated by dozens of ads featuring everything from adorable puppies to kids in Star Wars outfits. But one commercial you won’t see is a provocative ad by the carbonated beverage company SodaStream — an Israeli company that is no strange ...
• Chu Resigns, Writes Of Our ‘Moral Responsibili ...
  Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced his resignation today. He sent out a remarkable letter to Energy Department employees.Given that he has not spoken out strongly on the climate crisis since the start of his term, his words on the subject are striking. Here are some excerpts:T ...
• Is Everything You Learned About Breakfast Wrong?
  The institution of breakfast is rarely challenged. It ranks somewhere between sleep and oxygen in reputed health benefit, and supposedly supplies irreplaceable energy to get you going, primes your metabolic system, keeps your muscles healthy, feeds your brain, and generally prepares you for t ...

Threat Level

• Twitter Hacked; Company Says 250K Users May Ha ...
  Following a string of revelations this week from several media companies who announced they had been recently hacked, Twitter announced on Friday that it had also been the target of a sophisticated attack, saying 250,000 users may have been affected.
• ‘Aaron’s Law’ Proposes Reining in Federal Anti ...
  Two lawmakers are proposing long-overdue changes to the anti-hacking statute that would help prevent prosecutors from overreaching in their use of the law, as occurred in the case of Aaron Swartz and a number of other cases in recent years.
• German Activists Punch Out Big Brother’s Eyes
  It's being called Grand Theft Auto for the surveillance generation, only instead of being played out in the digital world, it's played out in the real world. And the object of the game isn't to steal cars or pull off ...
• Gavin Newsom: Why Hacking Is Good for Democracy
  Despite the negative connotation of the word hacker, society is in the process of making itself more hackable. Instead of doing business as usual, expecting that our systems and data are impregnable, we have to play differently. Formal authority is ...
• New York Times Hacked Again, This Time Alleged ...
  In a dramatic announcement late Wednesday, the New York Times reported that hackers from China had been routing through the paper’s network for at least four months, stealing the passwords of reporters in an apparent attempt to identify sources and ...

Equality Trust

• UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
  The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
• The Spirit Level Documentary Film
  We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
• Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
• We work in partnership with One Society
  Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
• Among Equals: read our newsletter
  Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  

PDA AMERICA

• Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
  Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
• IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
  Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
  Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
• War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
  WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
• An American Suicide Terrorist
  William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

• Yes, even Organic Food can make you Sick
  On October 3, 2012 the Lake County Health Department (LCHD) learned that stool specimens collected from two students who attended St. Anne Catholic School in Barrington, Illinois were positive for... Continue Reading
• KCPQ 13 How to Avoid Foodborne Illnesses
  From KCPQ TV:  Here’s some tips from Bill Marler, who is a personal injury lawyer and nationally recognized food safety expert, on how to avoid foodborne illnesses.
• A Beef Company More Interested in Litigation t ...
  This is another it what will be a long – too long – series of outbreak investigations where we have represented consumers in what I hope will be a cautionary... Continue Reading
• Malt-O-Meal Salmonella Agona – Twice from same ...
  In April and May of 1998, public health officials in eleven states received an unusually high number of reports that patients receiving health care services for gastrointestinal illness had been... Continue Reading
• Veal Recalled Due to E. coli O157:H7
  San Jose Valley Veal, a Santa Clara, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,260 pounds of veal trimmings that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

• Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
• Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
  Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
• Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
  Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
• Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
• First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
  Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Ravens vs 49ers in 2013 Super Bowl XLVII
  It's Harbaugh vs Harbaugh in Super Bowl XLVII. Here's a few high-tech viewing options.
• Tea Party Community, an Unsocial Facebook Rival?
  Conservatives have their own online gated community, designed to keep out progressive voices. Is this going to be an unsocial network?
• Twitter Hacked! Affecting Approximately 250,00 ...
  Twitter Got Hacked, Possibly Compromising 250,000 Twitter Accounts
• Online Survivor's Bra Petition Catches Victori ...
  A mother and daughter's online petition for a 'Survivor's Bra' has caught the attention of bra-maker Victoria's Secret.
• Pinterest is Testing a New Look. Here's How to ...
  Social networking show-and-tell site Pinterest is testing a big upgrade to its look. Here's details and how to join the beta test.

Time - Top Stories

• 10 Years After Columbia, Remembering Fallen As ...
  10 Years After Columbia, Remembering Fallen Astronauts
• Chris Kyle, Author and Former Navy SEAL Sniper ...
  Chris Kyle, Author and Former Navy SEAL Sniper, Dies at 38
• Viewpoint: What Pygmies Can Teach Us About Chi ...
  Viewpoint: What Pygmies Can Teach Us About Childrearing
• In the Shadows of the Super Bowl, New Orleans ...
  In the Shadows of the Super Bowl, New Orleans Struggles
• Beyond Battle: Scenes of Drones in Everyday Life
  Beyond Battle: Scenes of Drones in Everyday Life

Invisible Opportunity

• Obama Pushing Aspartame on Grade Schoolers
  The Obama administration’s Department of Agriculture has released nutrition standards for “competitive” foods and has outlawed snacks considered unhealthy by the nanny state federal government. “Regular soda is out, though high-schoolers may have access to diet versions,” The Hill reports. That’ ...
• Cairns to halt water fluoridation (Australia)
  by Jacque Fresco Fluoride water CairnsThe Cairns City Council will remove fluoride from its water supply, saying it amounts to the “involuntary medication” of residents. But the council says it won’t be doing anything to determine if there’s broad community support for fluoridation to continue. ...
• Sandy Hook Hoax Compared To A Real school Shoo ...
  Sandy Hook Hoax Compared To A Real school Shooting – YouTube.
• Sandy Hook Fully Exposed – OFFICIAL PART ...
  Sandy Hook Fully Exposed – OFFICIAL PART 2 – YouTube.
• U.S SOLDIER SAYS “WE ARE THE TERRORISTS& ...
  U.S SOLDIER SAYS “WE ARE THE TERRORISTS”. – YouTube.

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

• Cartoon caption contest
  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
• Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
  The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
• Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
  US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
• BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
  Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Fabius Maximus

• A status report on the US economy. What lies a ...
  Summary: Today we again look at the US economy. What’s happening? What does it tell us about the future? . Recent US economic data is confused far more than usual.  For several months we have seen contradictory economic statistics (more so than usual).  The economic signals different drast ...
• Voices from the past describe the coming New A ...
  Summary:  Perhaps the most difficult aspect of the future is to convey the fantastic range of possibilities. Peoples’ minds rebel even at scenarios which are mundane, even likely, from a historical perspective. Let’s open our minds for a minute, and contemplate the possibility that w ...
• Deflating the housing bubble – an update
  Summary:  Since the first post here about the housing crisis in December 2007, it’s been described here as not just a central piece of the economic weakness but a illustration of our political dysfunctionality — our inability to use a crisis to identify structural weaknesses and gene ...
• About the future of an American army with wome ...
  Summary: Martin van Creveld discusses a timely topic: “To Wreck a Military“, Small Wars Journal, 28 January 2013. He describes the likely results of employing women as soldiers, no matter how politically and ideologically necessary. Here we examine his claims, however impolitic. His ...
• Why America’s growth is slowing, and a s ...
  Summary:  The 21st century holds many economic challenges for the world.  Rivals (eg, China). The robot revolution (job losses from the next wave of automation). And slowing technological growth, an essential driver of the US economy.  This is a follow-up to Has America grown old, and can no lon ...

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

• Georgia police acquired $200 million worth of ...
  Some 600 police departments and sheriff’s offices in Georgia have joined the many law enforcement agencies nationwide using military-grade equipment, once again raising concerns around local law enforcement’s need for such heavy duty weaponry. As I reported in 2011, the Pentagon gives away mi ...
• Obamacare to soon cost the average American fa ...
  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, the IRS has now announc ...
• Population Control Propagandist: “We Get Very ...
  During a recent lecture the head of the elite-funded, soap opera-producing Population Media Center admitted that his organization encounters “very little opposition of the public because of the very gradual evolution of the characters”. The US-based Population Media Center, which produces soa ...
• Why You Should Never Drink Sodas Again
  If you`re wondering what makes sodas so delicious that you just want to drink more and more… it`s flame retardant. I`m kidding. That`s not the ONLY chemical that makes sodas delicious. There are many others, but flame retardant has just been discovered in soft drinks like Mountain Dew, Fanta Ora ...
• Supreme Court to Review Case on Obama’s Forged ...
  On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court scheduled a birther case brought on by Orly Taitz which calls into question Barack Hussein Obama’s eligibility to be president of the United States. Dr. Taitz, a lawyer from Santa Margarita, Calif., also made the announcement on her w ...

Andy Worthington

• Photos of Brighton: The Sea and the Storm
  Brighton: The Sea and the Storm, a set on Flickr. This photo set is the second of three sets taken in Brighton during my visit from January 29-30, 2013 to take part in “Freedom from Torture,” an event about Guantánamo organised by the University of Sussex Amnesty International Society, featuring ...
• Tories Endorse NHS Proposals to Disembowel Lew ...
  In the end, then, the massive grassroots struggle to save Lewisham Hospital from government-backed destruction on the advice of the NHS’s own senior officials — which led to two massive demos, in November, and last weekend (see here and here) — proved not to be an end in itself ...
• Photos: Brighton at Night, in the Rain – ...
  Brighton at Night, in the Rain, a set on Flickr. On January 29, 2013, I travelled to Brighton, one of my favourite places in England, for “Freedom from Torture,” an event about Guantánamo organised by the University of Sussex Amnesty International Society, featuring myself, my friend ...
• From Guantánamo, An Innocent Man Pleads for Re ...
  I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
• Save Lewisham Hospital: More Photos of the Mas ...
  Save Lewisham Hospital: More Photos of the Massive Protest on January 26, 2013, a set on Flickr. So now we wait. On Saturday, as this second set of my photos shows — following on from the first set here — around 25,000 people marched through Lewisham, in south east London, to a rally ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

• 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

Lifehacker

• "What are your must haves for a good Super Bow ...
  What are your must haves for a good Super Bowl party? Any board gamers out there have any recommendations? How do you guys have your desks decorated? Is there a good program for OSX that will stitch together individual PDFs into one document? Has anyone tried over-dyeing their faded jeans ...
• Store Dryer Sheets in Your Car to Keep You and ...
  Reddit user j-mt recommends keeping an open box of dryer sheets under the driver's seat of your car. Not only will this keep your car smelling fresh, but if you feel a bit less than fresh after a heavy meal or hanging around smokers you can grab a dryer sheet and rub it over your clothes f ...
• Use Lollipops as Cocktail Stirrers
  Add some zing to your next cocktail party by using lollipops to stir your cocktails by choosing lollipop colors that go well with your drink. Real Simple magazine's weblog suggests that lime lollipops go well with vodka tonics. What other flavor and color combinations do you think would go ...
• Stalk Your Interviewer Online to Prepare for a ...
  If you have a big job interview coming up and you know the name of the person conducting the interview, consider spending a few minutes stalking that person online so you can find hobbies or clubs shared in common—finding a connection that you can bring up during the interview will h ...
• Five Most Popular Lifehacker Tips and Guides
  This week marks Lifehacker's 8th birthday, and to celebrate we put the call out to you to help us determine what some of our best tips, tricks, and guides from the past eight years have been. A lot has changed since 2005, but one thing that hasn't changed is the dose of quick and simple t ...

Water Privatization

• Will this shot of liquor privatization be easi ...
  THE GOVERNOR STEPPED UP to the podium and assured Pennsylvanians that his bold plan to privatize liquor stores was "certain to offer greater variety, better prices, more convenient hours and locations . . . and effective and helpful service."
• Will this shot of liquor privatization be easi ...
  THE GOVERNOR STEPPED UP to the podium and assured Pennsylvanians that his bold plan to privatize liquor stores was "certain to offer greater variety, better prices, more convenient hours and locations . . . and effective and helpful service."
• Fitch Affirms Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer A ...
  Fitch Ratings affirms the following ratings on Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Puerto Rico :
• Town joins chorus against merger
  Black Mountain aldermen have condemned a state seizure of the Asheville water system, joining a growing chorus of towns and cities hoping to derail a forced merger.
• Pontiac’s Public Works employees say they were ...
  PONTIAC — The last day on the job for 10 employees at the city’s Department of Public Works is Thursday, and some of them say they were misled as the department’s functions were contracted out to five private companies.

Guardian

• Police spies stole identities of dead children
  Exclusive: Undercover officers created aliases based on details found in birth and death records, Guardian investigation revealsBritain's largest police force stole the identities of an estimated 80 dead children and issued fake passports in their names for use by undercover police officers.The ...
• 'Halal pork' supplier named
  Northern Ireland-based McColgan Quality Foods revealed as source of halal products containing pork DNAThe supplier of halal food containing traces of pig DNA has been named as McColgan Quality Foods Limited.Food distributing company 3663 identified the Northern Ireland-based firm as the source o ...
• Bolshoi director Sergei Filin says he knows wh ...
  Filin, who suffered third degree burns to his face and neck in last month's attack, is undergoing treatment to restore his eyesightSergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet who was badly injured last month in an acid attack, has said he knows who was behind the assault.Filin, who ...
• Silvio Berlusconi accused of 'dangerous propag ...
  Threetime PM promises to refund €4bn proceeds from loathed property tax if his rightwing coalition wins wide-open electionsSilvio Berlusconi has been accused by opponents of spouting "dangerous electoral propaganda" after he vowed to ease the tax burden on austerity-stricken Italians if his righ ...
• Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool | Premier League ...
  • In pictures: the best images from Sunday's league gamesThis may prove the afternoon when Manchester City had a hand prised from their Premier League trophy. With 13 games remaining Manchester United's lead is now nine points though it came close to being a potentially terminal 10 before Sergio ...

McClatchey

• Mississippi's DMR's former chief denies wrongd ...
  Bill Walker, former executive director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, has hired the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz to represent him amidst ongoing state…Click to Continue »
• Commentary: Obama must get serious about entit ...
  President Obamas inaugural speech struck the notes expected on such occasions. He evoked our founding documents. He used words like timeless and enduring, and as with most Obama speeches, it…Click to Continue »
• Special-interest push for South Carolina inter ...
  Business leaders in Myrtle Beach, S.C., tried every tactic they could to win $1.3 billion in funding for Interstate 73, a six-lane gateway to their seaside getaway.Click to Continue »
• U.S. keeps building new highways while letting ...
  America?s highway system, once a symbol of freedom and mobility envied the world over, is crumbling physically and financially, the potentially disastrous consequence of a politically driven road-building binge. Many…Click to Continue »
• Politics and road building intersect in Kentucky
  Interstate 66, once envisioned as a cross-continent highway from the Potomac to the Pacific, ends in a pile of dirt just past a cloverleaf interchange north of Somerset, Ky., the…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

• UKs Cameron to host three-way talks with Afgha ...
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures, as he speaks during a conference about water management in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Hamid Karzai. Karzai spoke Tuesday at a conference about ...
• Pakistani Taliban condemns ideological war in Mali
  Mali as an "ideological war". French President Francois Hollande visited Mali on Saturday and vowed his troops would stay as long as necessary to continue the fight against Islamist rebels ...
• British Army unveils new Black Hornet drone us ...
  The British Army has demonstrated a new spy drone at Camp Bastion, which is their latest weapon against the Taliban. Codenamed the Black Hornet, the eight-inch long plastic moulded drone, with three ...
• Afghan army not good enough to thwart Al Qaeda ...
  Withdrawing British troops from Afghanistan will spark a "global jihad" and allow Al Qaeda and the Taliban to seize power, a top Afghan army commander has said. British Prime Minister David Cameron ...
• Cameron set for talks with Pakistan Afghanista ...
  British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan this weekend as part of moves to prevent a Taliban resurgence when foreign troops leave, and to promote regional ...

Futurismic

• Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
  *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
• Hope for a Global Spring?
  Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
• The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
  I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
• Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
  So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
• The Future Always Wins
  Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblower Scores Victory Over Justice Depa ...
  On January 15, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland issued a key ruling in support of Justice Department whistleblower Richard G. Convertino in his longstanding Privacy Act lawsuit against the DOJ. The Court ordered the Detroit Free Press to produce all documents related to how ...
• OSHA Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Retirement Hom ...
  On January 10, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit in federal court against S.E.M. Villa II Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates S.E.M. Terrace, a retirement facility in Milford Ohio. The lawsuit claims that S.E.M. Villa violated the whistleblower provisions of the Occ ...
• BNSF Railway Co. Agrees to Revise Personnel Po ...
  In a January 15, 2013 press release, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA and BNSF Railway Co. had reached an agreement for the company to revise personnel policies that violate the whistleblowers provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act and discourage employees from reporting w ...
• Dean Zerbe Honored As Contender for 2012 Tax N ...
  On January 6, 2013 The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center was announced as the 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year. Tax Notes also recognized nine others who were “contenders” for the title. Among the contenders was the National Whistleblowers Center’s Senior Policy An ...
• 2012's 10 Big Moments for Chief Compliance Off ...
  By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Janua ...

Science Express

• Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
• More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

• Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
  Looks like the community was in a comedic mood this week: the funny tallies shot past the insightful tallies to the point that the top four funniest comments all got more votes than even the first place comment on the other side! But that's not to say there was a dearth of insight either—s ...
• Chris Sprigman's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of Th ...
  This was a great week of techdirt posts . . . but that doesn't mean this was a good week for rational tech and IP policy. A lot of what I read on Techdirt this week was coverage of stuff I wish hadn't happened. For example, Glyn Moody's post on Google's offer to pay French publishers 50 mil ...
• House Of Representatives Bans Spotify Because ...
  Hey look, here's a story on which we at Techdirt actually agree with the RIAA. Shocking, I know. It appears that, for reasons that are unclear to just about everyone, the IT folks in the House of Representatives have banned the use of the perfectly legal and authorized music service Spotify be ...
• Ticketmaster Finally Dropping Captcha System.. ...
  I hate Captcha systems. Now, I don't only hate them because they're only mildy effective while being creatively annoying, but also because I'm a toaster-class Cylon and I consider them an affront to my intelligence. Okay, that isn't true, but the fact is that Captcha hasn't evolved all that much ...
• Rep Zoe Lofgren Continues To Improve 'Aaron's ...
  A few weeks ago, we wrote about Rep. Zoe Lofgren announcing plans to via Reddit, to introduce CFAA reform, called "Aaron's Law." Since then, Lofgren has taken into account numerous concerns and thoughts from various stakeholders, many of whom discussed it directly on Reddit, and has now announc ...

VacTruth

• 8 Damn Good Reasons Not to Get the Flu Shot
  Every year the mainstream media war drum beats for you to get vaccinated against the flu. Here are 8 damn good reasons not to get the flu vaccine.
• African Children Still Paralyzed After Vaccine ...
  It has now been officially confirmed that in December 2012, 38 children were hospitalized after receiving the meningitis vaccine, "experts" are trying to say that the children’s condition is psychological.
• Vaccination – A Very Personal Decision. Are Yo ...
  You are about to become a parent. Soon your baby will be injected with neurotoxins and other preservatives, and their immune system will be challenged to its core. If you aren’t lucky, you may experience what other parents in your situation have experienced: a vaccine-injured child...
• Court Awards $969,474.91 for MMR Vaccine Causi ...
  According to a document filed on December 13, 2012, a California boy was $969,474.91 for injuries caused by the MMR vaccine.
• What Vaccines Should I Avoid?
  "I am expecting my son to be born in April. I am very skeptical of anything that is related to vaccinations..."

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
• Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
  According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...
• Schools Teach Shame and Bullying
  I came across this news story yesterday. Some school official told a girl’s mother that, if her daughter wanted to end the harassment she was subjected to, she should get a breast reduction. Because, you know, how dare you have a body that might make people think of sex. And then there is ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  The internets are rapidly finishing the job Aaron Swartz started. Must read article on what is happening to women who are pregnant. Arrests. Deaths. Involuntary commitment. Medical tests. I am so glad my parents did not have access to microchipping technology. Though I suspect I would have gotte ...
• Pregnancy, Coercion, and Responsibility
  I was reading about this abortion restricting bill in Michigan. While I realize that it is another attempt to regulate abortion out of existence under the guise of safety and regulations, something in that article struck me. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a controversial package of a ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Now Return to the Subject of Our Constitution: ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• Bibi Netanyahu’s Humiliating Defeat
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• Russian Military Prepares for Growing War Danger
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• The Lid Is Off: Appeals Court Slams Obama for ...
  By Edward Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5
• Unanimous Endorsement: Rep. Jones Calls for Su ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, February 1, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 5

War in Context

• Video: Malians welcome French president to Tim ...
• Inside Gao where Arab jihadis took bloody shar ...
  Lindsey Hilsum reports: The jihadis carried out amputations in the sandy square where the residents of Gao used to watch basketball. The men who ruled Gao for nine months, until French and Malian troops drove them out last weekend, replaced the words “Place de l’Indépendence” i ...
• The world is facing viral mutations of the hum ...
  Wole Soyinka writes: My mind, frankly, was on anything but peace as I entered the United Nations conference hall to participate in a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence event. On that same day – 21 September 2012 – yet another UN resolution had been released on the crisis in Mali. I felt overwhelm ...
• Can Elliott Abrams be stopped?
  Jordan Michael Smith reports: Though secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearings were bruising, thanks to aggressive questioning from Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, it could have been worse. His staunchest critic was absent. More than anyone else, it is Elliott Abrams ...
• Victim of Egyptian police torture says ‘office ...
  Al Ahram reports: Hamada Saber, the man who was dragged and beaten by Central Security Forces (CSF) as recorded on a video aired by Al-Hayat satellite TV on Friday night, told prosecutors on Saturday that protesters and not security forces “initiated” the assault against him, accordi ...

Watts Up With That?

• Playing the global warming morality card in my ...
  Even ad engines see the religious connection to global warming Lately there’s been an ongoing series of rants in my local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record, from global warming activists posing as moralists with holier-than-thou views about how noble their … Continue reading →
• Conventional Wisdom, Unconventional Oil
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a discussion over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog, about peak oil. I find the whole madness surrounding peak oil to be one more example of our human love for warnings of future disaster. Few … Continue reading →
• About Climate Audit
  UPDATE: I’m happy to report that Steve writes in with an update on the tragic accident that sent him to New Zealand. It is good news. – Anthony My inbox has exploded in the short time I went out for … Continue reading →
• The week in Gore
  Al Gore has been running the interview circuit this week, and it seems since his sale of CURRENT TV to Al Jazeerra he has gone from golden boy to goblin boy in the eyes of the media. He’s pushing his … Continue reading →
• A Tropical Oddity
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wanted to bring you up to date on my current meanderings in the TAO buoy data that I investigated previously in a post called “Cloud Radiation Forcing in the TAO Dataset“. In my peripatetic … Continue reading →

treehugger

• U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu Steps Down
  Steven Chu, who is no doubt one of the best Energy Secretaries ever, is announcing that he is stepping down. We thank him for fighting the good fight for nature and science.
• The Month in Design, From Micro-Apartments to ...
  Also tanks in your backyard and killer stairs
• Nissan to Build 500 EV Fast-Charge Stations in ...
  There are currently only about 160 fast-charge stations for electric vehicles in the U.S., but Nissan plans to triple that number over the next 18 months by building at least 500 quick-charge stations.
• 10 Reasons Why Dolphins Are Undeniably Awesome
  Dolphins possess many admirable qualities and characteristics that endear them to us like few other species on Earth.
• Top 10 Tech Stories From January
  Drones scan for rhino poachers, self-repairing wires, hedgehog robots on the moon, disillusionment with gadgets, make a battery with pennies, and more!

Biosingularity

• Dendritic cells and T cells
  Dendritic cells trigger an adaptive immune response by activating two major classes of T lymphocytes—cytotoxic T cells that can kill infected host cells, and helper T cells that direct the activities of other immune cells. Cytotoxic T cells recognize class I MHC receptors loaded with antigen, wh ...
• Scientists Work To Unravel Mystery Behind Woma ...
  Twenty year old Brooke Greenberg hasn’t grown since age five. For the last 15 years mystified doctors have been unable to explain the cause for Brooke’s disorder that has kept her aging in check. At age twenty, she maintains the physical and mental appearance of a toddler. Eric Shadt wants to so ...
• The Beauty of Smooth Muscle
  We humans have long wondered how, exactly, we develop from embryos into adults. This photo of an embryonic smooth muscle cell hints at the tremendous complexity of this fundamental biological mystery. And for those of you who might be wondering just what smooth muscles are, they’re the involunta ...
• Leprosy bug turns adult cells into stem cells
  Leprosy bacteria can reprogram cells to revert to a stem-cell-like state, able to mature into different cell types, researchers report today in Cell1. The scientists stumbled on the discovery while researching the way leprosy spreads around the body. The mechanism of the hijacking is unclear, bu ...
• Aspirin, the 2,000-Year-Old Wonder Drug
  Developed in 1897 by the German chemist Felix Hoffmann, aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid, has long proved its value as an analgesic. Two millenniums before that, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used its active ingredient — which he extracted from the bark and leaves of the willow tre ...

CFACT

• Global warming? Washington should find the co ...
  National Journal: President Obama avoided global warming throughout the long presidential campaign, but it reemerged in his victory and inaugural speeches like a nasty surprise from a Trojan horse. What should Washington due about warming? Harken to Hippocrates and “first, do no harm.” From ...
• Pine bark beetle epidemic could harm drinking ...
  [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/252/5024.mp3] Pine bark beetles continue to kill millions of acres of trees in Western states. But now, a new study shows the epidemic in Colorado could lead to the contamination of drinking water supplies, as well.
• FrackNation: Must See Movie!
  My favorite parts of the movie were the extensive sections featuring the landowners who lease their land for frac’ing -– who are portrayed in Gasland and Promised Land as unwitting dupes of evil industrialists. But these landowners knew far, far more about both frac’ing and water than the pseud ...
• It’s final: Taxpayer-funded A123 auction ...
  A123 Systems is but one of a number of companies that have gone bankrupt after receiving millions of Obama Administration stimulus dollars.  It was among a laundry list of bankrupt companies, lead by Solyndra, that caused an uproar in Congress and lit sparks in the presidential debates when it w ...
• Crunch time for the Keystone Kops
  President Obama has a perfect opportunity to restore ethics and common sense to America’s energy and environmental policies. Our planet and children hope he makes the right choice and says Yes to Keystone.

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