Saturday, March 02, 2013

2 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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The Alma tunnel in Paris, where Princess Diana...The Alma tunnel in Paris, where Princess Diana died (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
These photographs were taken at dusk and are o...These photographs were taken at dusk and are of flowers and tributes left at Kensington Palace soon after the death of Princess Diana on 31 Aug 1997 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • Noah's *100%* Beef Burgers
    While the horsemeat scandal continues to unfold – prepared meals were removed from shelves in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland over the weekend – the European Commission has decided to authorise the use of animal meal in feed for farmed fish, beginning June 1. It was banned in 1996, during the "m ...
  • Nest of fiefdoms and treachery awaits next pope
    .. some analysts speculate that the revelations from the leaks at the very least accelerated Benedict’s decision to resign. In early 2012, he appointed three trusted cardinals to investigate beyond the criminal case involving his butler. They interviewed widely inside the Curia and out, and deli ...
  • Defending Mantel on Royalty, Fashion, Fertility ..
    It’s an essay less about actual royals than the way they’ve been presented to us. And it travels from the coverage of Kate to the death of Diana to the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III to the possible blood type of Henry VIII, with a detour through a couple of Stevie Smith quotations an ...
  • Bahrain-on-the-Hudson? Lifting humidity, heat ...
    Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 per cent in the past six decades, and that loss in labor capacity could double by mid-century, US government scientists reported on Sunday. Because warmer air can hold more moisture th ...
  • How to avoid drones ..
    The al-Qaida extremists bypassed the brightly colored, high-end synthetic floor coverings and stopped their pickup truck in front of a man selling more modest mats woven from desert grass, priced at $1.40 apiece. There they bought two bales of 25 mats each, and asked him to bundle them on top of ...

Independent - London

  • 'The tip of the iceberg': Egyptian hot air bal ...
    The Egyptian balloon crash that killed 19 tourists – the worst ballooning accident since the Hindenburg disaster – was “inevitable”, according to a British pilot, who says last week’s incident is “the tip of the iceberg”.Related StoriesSouth African officers involved in death of man dragged by ...
  • Australian soldiers kill Afghan children, aged ...
    Afghan officials have said Australian soldiers killed two children who were tending cattle.Related StoriesJohn Kerry extends US aid to rebels in Syria conflictSyrian rebels win American aid - but not the guns they wantFive killed and at least 70 hurt in market blastsAustralian soldiers 'kill Afg ...
  • Australian soldiers 'kill Afghan children', ag ...
    Afghan officials have said Australian soldiers killed two children who were tending cattle.Related StoriesJohn Kerry extends US aid to rebels in Syria conflictSyrian rebels win American aid - but not the guns they wantFive killed and at least 70 hurt in market blastsAustralian soldiers kill Afg ...
  • Beppe Grillo suggests Italy might leave the Euro
    Italy's comedian-cum-power broker will have raised further eyebrows in Eurocrat circles today with a suggestion that Italy ought to leave the single currency.Related StoriesMoscow anger at UK decision to give controversial banker Andrei Borodin asylumPresident who drove himself to the airport – ...
  • Cute polar bear makes debut at New York zoo
    A fluffy white polar bear cub has been unveiled at a zoo in New York.Related StoriesGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin feels 'emasculated' by smartphonesMan swallowed up by 30ft sinkhole in FloridaObama labels $85bn budget cuts 'dumb'Barack Obama labels $85bn budget cuts 'dumb'Florida sinkhole: work ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Valérie Trierweiler 'succumbs to Marie-An ...
    President François Hollande's 47-year old partner was slammed for eschewing her Left-wing principles in favour of unabashed champagne Socialism despite the threat of "thousands of job losses in the coming weeks" in companies ranging from Renault to Air France. VSD, the weekly magazine, tra ...
  • FLASHBACK: Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged w ...
    Hena Akhter's last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl. Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh's Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man. The imam from the loca ...
  • World powers restart nuclear talks with Iran a ...
    Talks began Tuesday between six world powers and Iran over its controversial nuclear program for the first time in nearly eight months. But the mood going into the negotiations was as bleak as the fog that hung over this snowbound Central Asian city. "I don't think tomorrow (Tuesday) is likely ...
  • Friend of Prisoner X: Mossad made 'big mistake ...
    Lior Brand, who knew Ben Zygier when he lived next door to him on Kibbutz Gazit as a lone IDF solider in the mid-1990s, tells Haaretz he believes had he been permitted to see him in jail, he wouldn't have killed himself. Ben Zygier's friends in Israel are "angry and upset" they could not visit ...
  • Research: Brain can't cope with making a left- ...
    Making a left-hand turn requires a huge amount of brain activation and involves far more areas of the brain than driving on a straight road or other maneuvers. Most serious traffic accidents occur when drivers are making a left-hand turn at a busy intersection. When those drivers are also talk ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Fiction peddlers
    Reading MoS, I'm struck not for the first time, that some senior members of the Air Staff here, I suppose Australia too, live in a fantasy world. If I were in charge (come on, we all have these moments), I'd retire or fire any military leader who couldn't see past the F-35. They be fantasists ...
  • The nitty and the gritty . . .
    If you Facebook, very interesting pictures and information can be found on Blood-Kainai Tribe Politics & News. 
  • Attention Ontario Separate Schools!
    Pull your collective head out of the middle-ages and pay attention to what happens to homophobic bullies in this day and age. They find themselves really unfavourably...called out, named, tweeted, written up, written down, sued, countersued, broadcasted, googled with unsavoury terms. Promine ...
  • Tom Flanagan self-destructs
    PMO not happy, Wildrose and CBC dump him. The University of Calgary is at least showing signs of discomfort and I imagine there's a meeting or two taking place. The conservative pundit and University of Calgary political science professor made the comments at a lecture about changes to ...
  • Stevie games . . .
    DEFENDING DEMOCRACY is merely a Parliamentary manoeuvre, according to Stevie. Odious.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Hypes Bogus Theory That Immigrant Detainee ...
    Fox News pushed Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's theory that the supervised release of some undocumented immigrants is "payback" for her state's immigration enforcement efforts. But the release was nationwide, not just in Arizona, and was in response to impending budget cuts from sequestration.Ahea ...
  • Wall Street Journal Deems Voting Rights Act Un ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial claimed that there is no longer a need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires that states and jurisdictions with a history of discriminating against minority voters obtain preclearance from the federal government before changing their voting laws. ...
  • 10 Examples Of Sean Hannity Saying Things That ...
    Fox News' Sean Hannity brushed aside Rep. Keith Ellison's (D-MN) assertion that Hannity was "immoral" for "saying things that aren't true." Yet Hannity has a long history of using his Fox News program to push false and misleading claims.Hannity Dismisses Claim That He Sa ...
  • Fox News Uses Supervised Release Of Undocument ...
    Fox News personalities are hyping fears that a supervised release of undocumented immigrants will lead to more crime. But the immigrants affected by this policy are still subject to deportation and face restrictions such as checking in with authorities and wearing ankle monitoring bracelets.ICE ...
  • Conservative Media Echo Misleading GOP Claim O ...
    Conservative media are parroting a Republican claim that a federal report says health care reform increases the long-term deficit. In fact, the report says that the deficit would only increase if cost containment measures in the bill were phased out over time, and found that ...

Global Research.ca

  • Afghanistan: Any 15-30 Year-Old Male is a Targ ...
    The US built Al-Qaeda and Osama’s encampments AUDIO In Afghanistan any 15-30 year-old-male is a target for US “elimination”, activists were arrested and sent to prison in the US for attempting to deliver a letter to Whiteman Air Force Base,…
  • Greek Military Prepares for Mass Repression
    Former high-level Greek diplomat Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos told the UK’s New Statesman last week that discussions had taken place between senior Greek politicians and the armed forces on the military’s response to what Chrysanthopoulos described as an “explosion of social unrest”…
  • Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Un ...
    The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination... Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected.
  • “Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan ...
    Global Research Editor’s Note The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence estab ...
  • Unemployment Hits New Record in Euro Zone, Per ...
    Economic statistics released this week reflect a further weakening of the world economy and a further fall in the living standards of the international working class. Reports on unemployment, manufacturing activity, economic growth and personal income in Europe, China and…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Israel arrests Palestinian activists "to finis ...
    As protests continue across Palestine in support of thousands of prisoners languishing in Israeli jails, local organizations say that the Israeli authorities have increased their pressu ...
  • Podcast: Protests across Palestine after young ...
    A young Palestinian father dies after Israeli interrogation in a prison equipped by private British-Danish security firm G4S; New documents show the US investigated Gaza flotilla passen ...
  • Israel lobby group gears up early to counter c ...
    The next church general assemblies won't take place until 2014. But a key Israel lobby group has already begun to organize against any potential divestment resolutions related to Israel ...
  • American teacher denied re-entry to Israel (N ...
    At the beginning of January, upon re-entering the West Bank from Jordan in order to teach my second semester at Ramallah Friends School, an American-owned Christian institution, Israeli border agents denied me entry. Despite having a valid one-year multiple-entry visa from the Israeli Ministry o ...
  • Bumper haul of giant rays caught by Gaza fishe ...
    A huge haul of Devil Rays have been caught by Gaza fishermen, who lay the fish out on Gaza beach before they are taken to market by horse and cart. Palestinian fishermen say they have n ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texans affected by the Keystone XL pipeline – ...
    Today, the the Department of State released a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the new Presidential Permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The Draft SEIS is available at: http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/draftseis/index.htm. The SEIS acknowledge ...
  • Texas Landowner Julia Trigg Crawford Files App ...
    We Texans and Public Citizen  Support Crawford Family as Legal Action Continues Against Keystone XL Southern Segment – #NoKXL Yesterday, Landowner Julia Trigg Crawford and her attorney Wendi Hammond announced that they have filed their appeal against TransCanada with the 6th Judicial Court ...
  • Austinites join the Washington Climate Forward ...
    On February 17th, environmental activists gathered in front of the Whole Foods headquarters in Austin, TX to show their support for the Tar Sands Blockade and to raise climate change awareness, adding their voices to the over 40,000 that gathered on the Mall in Washington, DC that same day. The ...
  • Forward on Climate Rally – A Call to Activism
    I have been a Public Citizen intern since January of this year.  As a Political Science graduate student, in both Undergraduate and Graduate studies I have been immersed in the political process and the theories behind the ideas that have formed our nation.  When I was a bit younger, I dabbled i ...
  • $10 million to Cut the Tape!
    The reason that the U.S. is lagging behind in solar energy isn’t because of the cost solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. Solar PV is becoming increasingly more affordable as technologies advance to increase efficiency and manufacturing costs continue to decline. However, the cost associated with get ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Honduran Peasants Resist Land Grabbing, Occupy ...
    ofranehwomen-small.jpg Last month, Honduras passed legislation to allow the construction of charter cities in the ancestral land of Afro-descendant Garifunas and peasant communities. read more
  • Insights - Winter 2013: Evaluating our Impact ...
    As people interested in making long term and lasting change, we all need to know if we are on the right path. Do our donations, grants and hours of activism make a difference? And could they be doing even more? These core questions drive the evaluation we do at Grassroots International with each ...
  • Stop the Wall youth coordinator arrested as re ...
    Israeli government repression of Palestinian human rights groups continues with arrest of Stop the Wall Youth Coordinator, Hassan Karajah. At 2:30 in the morning of January 23, 2013, the Israeli military raided the home of Hassan Karajah, Youth Coordinator of Grassroots International partner, S ...
  • Climate Justice Statement of Solidarity with I ...
    idlenomore_san_antonio.jpg January 28, 2013 was marked around the world as an International Day of Solidarity with Idle No More, a movement sparked in November 2012 by First Nations women in Canada, in resistance to legislative threats to i ...
  • Brazilian government recognizes Kaiowá’s terri ...
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Climate

  • BP Oil Spill Probe Did Not Address Cost Overru ...
    (Reuters) BP Plc's investigation of its disastrous 2010 Gulf of Mexico blowout did not address the impact of cost overruns on the well, a BP executive said on Thursday, in the final day of testimony this week in the massive civil trial ...
  • Dust from Africa Affects Snowfall in California
    (AP) One of the driest spots on Earth - the Sahara desert - is increasingly responsible for snow and rain half a world away in the western U.S., a new study released Thursday found. It's no secret that winds carrying dust, soot and ev ...
  • Local Warming: U.S. Cities in Front Line as Se ...
    (Reuters) The signs of rising water are everywhere in this seaport city: yellow "Streets May Flood" notices are common at highway underpasses, in low-lying neighborhoods and along the sprawling waterfront. Built at sea level on reclai ...
  • White House to Meet with EU Climate Chief
    (The Hill) COMING FRIDAY: Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s climate chief, will meet with top Obama administration officials. The officials include White House aide Michael Froman, the deputy national security adviser for in ...
  • Policy Group Says U.S. Energy Policy ‘Like an ...
    (Midwest Energy News) To achieve true energy security, the United States badly needs a single federal energy policy and a new White House council to make it happen, retired Marine Corps General Jim Jones said this week at the annual co ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • State Dept. Releases Keystone XL Report
    In politics, it is a time-honored tradition to release unpopular news late on a Friday afternoon in order to minimize both the news coverage and the reader/viewership. That's why the Obama administration's State Department waited until 4pm yesterday to release their report on the Keystone XL pi ...
  • Republican Talking Points Won't Prevail
    I don't know if it is a coincidence or not but Mitt Romney is certainly on-message with his latest criticism of the president. In his first public comments since Election Day, Romney slammed Obama for berating Republicans instead of leading the country, adding that the presidents habit of b ...
  • Do You Care About the Conclave?
    Since I am not Catholic and wasn't raised Catholic, my interest in the conclave that will elect the next pope is a totally detached kind of interest. It's kind of like how I view the election of a new prime minister or president in a powerful foreign country. I care. I might have some prefere ...
  • Have Some Music
    Here, mainline Massachusetts. If you saw the movie Repo Man you might know this tune. Discuss
  • Remember Online Integrity?
    Joshua Treviño co-founded Red State. For a while he even teamed up with Armando LLorens of Daily Kos on a now (pretty much) defunct project called Swords Crossed. He wrote speeches for the George W. Bush administration. He used to be known by the pseudonym Tacitus, in honor of the legenda ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Lago Epecuén: The Lake That Drowned A Thriving ...
    Over two decades ago the tourist village of Villa Epecuén was submerged beneath a rising lake. Recently, the waters have receded to expose the haunting ruins... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Forging Ahead in Modern Times: The Ancient Loh ...
    The Lohar of north and central India are a caste of blacksmiths with a long history and an ancient way of life that may not last much longer... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Krampnitz: Potsdam's Abandoned Nazi and Soviet ...
    The buildings at Krampnitz are falling into ruin; a far cry from the grand installation that once housed Nazi and then Soviet military. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    Wonders of design dominate this week’s collection of cool linkage, and combined with some other fascinating titbits, it’s a recipe for some seriously cool linkage. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Delicate Architecture of Water Droplets
    Fragile and fleeting, these beautiful droplets of water create their own architecture – captured brilliantly in these stunning macro photographs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.
  • Fracking to Unfold Under a Historic Farm
    A Pennsylvania property owned by an African-American family for eight generations will be restored and preserved with drilling proceeds.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...
  • Disgusting new FDA rule change would let toxic ...
    Blah this is just worth posting quickly. There is only one public comment on there right now. I have to say the Federal Register website is markedly better than it used to be, good for them. Saw this via: Activist Post: Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approval. Als ...
  • Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones
    This makes for some amusing Saturday afternoon viewing -- notable independent hiphop artist Immortal Technique joins Alex Jones for about 1hr20min. Getting right at the issues of Latin America, politics, immigration & moar. Format note: I would say that Jones interviews with a pretty wide cr ...
  • The Art of Failing Gracefully: DEA & DOJ need ...
    Hundreds of billions of dollars, between cash flows and valuations, depend upon the ability of American law enforcement structures avidly maintaining their illusionary belief system about laundered drug money, informants, and banking systems. All of this is normal, they say, it's normal to throw ...
  • #ForwardOnClimate: Battle within Sierra Club c ...
    The real question is: Can hydraulic fracturing ever be safe for our environment and public health? Sierra Club’s Oil and Gas Policy: We have reviewed the Club’s Oil and Gas Policy, as revised February 2012, and are pleased that it clearly states the reasons the Club doesn’t support hydraulic fr ...

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IntelNews

  • Analysis: The Current State of the China-Taiwa ...
    Last week I spoke about the current state of the espionage war between China and Taiwan with Tim Daiss, a Southeast Asia-based American journalist who has been covering the Asia-Pacific region for over a decade. Our discussion formed the basis of a comprehensive piece on the subject, published i ...
  • Canada issues arrest warrant for former spy wa ...
    Authorities in the Canadian province of Quebec have issued a warrant for the arrest of a government official who until recently was responsible for overseeing the country’s primary national intelligence service.
  • British government tries to block probe into e ...
    The family of a Russian spy, who died of poisoning after defecting to Britain, has accused the British government of trying to cover up the affair in order to avoid embarrassing Russia.
  • News you may have missed #824 (India edition)
    CIA honed ARGO exfiltration skills in India. Ex-CIA officer says al-Qaeda wanted India-Pakistan nuclear war. Man passing defense info to Pakistan held in India.
  • Former Mossad officer describes Zygier affair ...
    A former member of Israeli spy agency Mossad, who claims to have worked in the same covert-operations unit as Ben Zygier, has described the latter’s incarceration and subsequent death as “scandalous”.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Mar 3
        VIDEO: 'Bullying’ Britain fanning the flames, warns Assad in interview - The Sunday Times Transcript of Al Assad Full Interview with the Sunday Times - Friends of Syria Syria army seizes key Aleppo airport road, Capture of highway will allow regime to deploy fresh troops -  Al ...
  • 10 Years Later: Still Shocked, Not Awed
    March 18, 2013 Washington, D.C. The Langston Room at Busboys and Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW 8-10 p.m. Free and open to the public. Sign up here: http://facebook.com/events/601163023231687 Ten years after the latest U.S. assault on Iraq began with a campaign of "Shock and Awe," we stop to cons ...
  • Remembering Aaron Swartz
  • Bradley Manning: Profile in Courage Above and ...
      Bradley Manning: Profile in Courage Above and Beyond the Call of Duty   by Stephen Lendman   He's one of America's best. He risked great personal harm. He did so to expose vital truths.    He's a true American hero. He deserves praise, not prosecution. In February 2012 ...
  • Thaw in Israeli Immunity?
      Thaw in Israeli Immunity?   by Stephen Lendman   Hope springs eternal. Palestinians waited so long. Don't expect too much too soon. Anything is better than nothing.   Israel's rap sheet includes decades of crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. Nuremberg justice is l ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • FRIDAY: Melanie Warner on How Processed Food T ...
    Tune in Friday when we will speak with former New York Times business reporter Melanie Warner, author of the new book, "Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal." Warner’s journey into examining the 'food processing industrial complex' beg ...
  • Albert Woodfox’s 40 Years of Solitary Confinement
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Albert Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for 40 years, most of that time locked up in the notorious maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary known as “Angola.” This week, after his lawyers spent six years arguing that racial bias tainted the g ...
  • See Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez Speak at Up ...
    Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez will be speaking in cities across the country during upcoming screenings of the new documentary based on his groundbreaking book, Harvest of Empire, which takes an unflinching look at how U.S. economic and military interests helped trigger an unprecedented ...
  • FRIDAY: Fmr. Gitmo Prosecutor Describes His Re ...
    Tune in Friday to Democracy Now! when we will speak with Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, a former military prosecutor, about the "rough justice" faced by prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay. Couch was assigned to prosecute Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was imprisoned at the prison camp and accused ...
  • Israel, Palestine and the Oscars
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first-ever nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian. “5 Broken Cameras” was filmed and directed by Emad Burnat, a resident of the occupied Palestinian West Bank town of Bil’ ...

Solari

  • Ingrid Michaelson – “Live it with ...
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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
    By Witta Priester What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of meteorological doom. Known informally as Undulatus asperatus clouds, they can be stunning in appeara ...
  • How AT&T Is Planning to Rob Americans of an Op ...
    By S. Derek Turner AT&T has a sneaky plan. It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network — and all of the consumer protections that go with it. It’s the final step in AT&T’s decade-lo ...
  • A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Rats
    By Dan Cossins Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats, enabling the animals to communicate directly via implanted microelectrode arrays to solve simple behavioral problems, according to a study published today (February 28) in Scientific Reports. The authors of the s ...
  • Most Innovative Companies of 2013: LANDWASHER ...
    By April Rabkin Beijing’s Forbidden City was the Chinese empire’s seat of power for 500 years. It was built out of rammed earth and wood in the early 1400s, and its majesty has been largely preserved, even though it’s now the Palace Museum and attracts as many as 130,000 touri ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Nike Unveils the World’s First 3D-Printed Foot ...
    Nike made history last week when it debuted the first-ever football cleat built using rapid-prototyping technology. Weighing just 5.6 ounces, the “Vapor Laser Talon” boasts a contoured three-dimensionally printed plate designed to provide optimal traction, as well as help football athletes maint ...
  • Green esCAPE Playhouse Provides an Amazing Bac ...
    Created by Zero Energy Design, the Green esCAPE Playhouse is a backyard retreat for kids that might just make the grown-ups a little bit jealous. Inside the weather-resistant spruce board house is an ample playroom featuring a large chalkboard wall and cubbies for toys and games, as well as an a ...
  • LAST DAY TO VOTE: Vote for Your Favorite Image ...
    LAST DAY TO VOTE! We’ve received over 300 incredible light-inspired photographs in our LightCollector photography contest over the past few weeks, and we’ve been calling on you to vote for your favorite images to decide which photographer is most deserving of the sweet $1000 cash pri ...
  • LaserOrigami Uses a Laser Cutter to Create 3D ...
    It’s widely assumed that 3D printing represents the next frontier in fabricating objects of all types, but researchers at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute have come up with a novel way of creating 3D objects out of 2D pieces of plastic using a laser cutter. LaserOrigami is a remark ...
  • PIN IT TO WIN IT: Pin Your Favorite Lamps.com ...
    From sparkling pendants to swinging LED wall sconces to ultra mod-style lamps, there’s certainly no shortage of beautiful, inspiring and unique lighting fixtures over at Lamps.com. If you’re looking for a way to light up your life this drab winter, then look no further than our Pin I ...

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The Progressive Realist

  • The Hart-Dworkin Debate, and Egyptian Legal Reform
    Ronald Dworkin, one of the most consequential legal philosophers in history, passed away earlier this month. Dworkin contributed to, and was associated with a host of developments in the world of legal philosophy and jurisprudence, but perhaps one of the most lasting aspects of his legacy was ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Cybersecurity, Drones a ...
    Massimo Calabresi, “The Path to War,” TIME Magazine, March 11, 2013. The most compelling argument for Obama, the former law professor, was that a nuclear Iran would spell the end of the international regime limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. Obama had written about the regime in college and ...
  • The United States Hasn't Helped Egypt's Libera ...
    US President Barack Obama stood at a White House podium, echoing the pride of the Egyptian people's call for freedom in a speech on Feb. 11, 2011, the same day that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally relinquished power. In his remarks, Obama told the world, "The United States w ...
  • Syria, Mali - Any Other Takers?
    It’s no wonder Secretary of State John Kerry has been walking on eggshells when discussing potential US support to the Syrian rebels.  As The Washington Post reported earlier in the week, a renewed discussion to supply the rebels with body armor, armed vehicles, and military training has arisen. ...
  • How the Sequester Could Affect the United Nations
    The United Nations is not immune to the sequester. The USA is the largest funder of the United Nations, paying about 27% of the cost of UN peacekeeping operations around the world; and about 25% of the regular UN budget. In US budgetary terms, these contributions are modest.  But for the UN, it ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: This Is Your Government on Sequ ...
    Today is the first day of the rest of your sequester, and the cuts are already coming—undocumented immigrants released from detention, furloughs on military bases, agencies scrambling to determine whom they won't be serving and what they won't be doing. The optimistic take on all this is that i ...
  • These Aren't the Budget Cuts You're Looking For
    Along with his many accomplishments as president, Barack Obama has given liberals many reasons to be disappointed. Well it looks like we're going to have to add one to the list: "I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that's been floating around Washington that somehow, even ...
  • Boehner on the Fringe
    In announcing Thursday that he would no longer negotiate with President Obama over a deal to reduce the nation’s budget deficit, House Speaker John Boehner said that Republicans would support no more tax increases. The question, he said, came down to “how much more money we want to steal from t ...
  • It's All in the Game
    It’s possible that people who live in Washington and work in a cottage industry that includes writing and reading this magazine feel about Netflix’s series of political intrigue, House of Cards, the way a resident of Los Angeles (me, say) feels about the guys on Entourage: I’m surrounded by ass ...
  • Yet Another Thing Guns Can't Solve
    The GOP is worried about women’s safety on campus. Or at least that’s what they’d have you believe of late, howling in protest at Colorado state Democratic representative Joe Salazar’s clumsy remarks about callboxes, and calling out the University of Colorado for teaching young women to vomit, ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Strange Bedfellows Snuggle Under White Sheets
    Check out the story of the Klansmen and the Crip. A Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard in Alabama and an African-American Crips street gang member in Memphis, Tenn., say they are teaming up to organize a counter-protest against the Klansman’s fellow hooded haters, who vow to hold “one of the biggest K ...
  • Wonkette Viciously Mocks Stormfront Fundraisin ...
    Don Black needs money – bad. It’s gotten to the point that the former Ku Klux Klan leader and founder of Stormfront – the largest neo-Nazi web forum – is begging for pennies. To no avail, though. With February coming to a close, Black hasn’t raised even half of the $7,500 he needs to pay his [...]
  • Klan Rally Planned for Memphis, But Threat of ...
    It began about two weeks ago, when a local television station in Memphis, Tenn., allowed a man with a hooded face, identifying himself only as “Edward” and speaking on what was apparently his own rear deck, to announce to the world that he would soon be bringing “thousands” of Klansmen to a prot ...
  • Neo-Nazi Threat-Maker Bill White Gets More Pri ...
    Proud heterosexuals — a small and nameless handful of them, anyway – are on the march. And they’re not being very nice about it. Back in June 2012, the Facebook page “Heterosexual Awareness Month” (HAM) was created to “celebrate heterosexuality.” According to the page’s administrators, who ar ...
  • Ohio Neo-Nazi Busted for Weapons Was Tracking ...
    A convicted felon from Ohio with neo-Nazi sympathies and an illegal arsenal of assault rifles, semi-automatic pistols and other weapons was tracking Jewish and African-American community leaders in Detroit before his recent arrest by a federal anti-terrorism task force, according to a report by ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Allows Dirty, Dangerous Keystone Tar San ...
    The Obama administration today took the next step toward approval of the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, despite the heavy toll the pipeline and its oil will take on the climate crisis, wildlife and the environment. Some 50,000 people protested outside the White House last month in opposition t ...
  • Sanders Statement on Tar Sands Pipeline
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement after the State Department released an environmental review that paves the way for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico: “No one who is serious about protecting the future of our planet and r ...
  • NWF: State Dept. Keystone XL Analysis Fatally ...
    The U.S.read more
  • State Dept. Releases Supplemental Environmenta ...
    Today the State Department released its supplemental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. A year ago, President Obama responded to strong public opposition by denying the original application and asking State to revise its environmental review of the Keystone XL project. The new review ...
  • Ahead of Singapore Round of Trans-Pacific Par ...
    With the sixteenth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations slated to begin on March 4 in Singapore, opposition to the deal in the United States continues to mount.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Hollywood’s Propaganda
    Margaret Kimberley There isn’t any part of popular culture which allows the citizens of this country to escape the glorification of American imperialism. One can’t watch a football game without seeing an honor guard present the ...
  • The Spreading Slick of Blame for the BP Deepwa ...
    Dominic Rushe It's been a bruising week for BP in New Orleans.read more
  • Did Arafat Jaradat Die Under Interrogation?
    Renee Lott On Saturday, Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died from wounds suffered while being held in an Israeli prison. Israeli officials claimed Jaradat died from a heart attack but now say the autopsy evidence is inconclusive.read more
  • Sequestration's Sire
    Christopher Brauchli The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature-a type nowhere at present existing. —Herbert Spencer, Essays [1891]. The Amer ...
  • The CISPA Government Access Loophole
    Kurt Opsahl The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—CIPSA, the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—is back in Congress. As we've written before, the bill is plagued with privacy problems& ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • California GOP Leader Says Pregnancies By Rape ...
    It appears ignorance about women’s health among the Republican party is an equal opportunity offender when it comes to gender. Celeste Greig, president of California Republican Assembly, the state’s oldest and largest GOP volunteer organization told the newspaper The Daily Democrat t ...
  • The 32 Dumbest And Most Devastating Sequester Cuts
    With Congress unable to reach a deal to avert the indiscriminate spending cuts put in place in the Budget Control Act of 2011, President Obama on Friday signed an order authorizing the government to begin canceling $85 billion from federal accounts for this fiscal year. As Obama said during a pr ...
  • States With The Highest Teen Pregnancy Rates L ...
    Teen pregnancies have fallen to record lows. But according to a new report from Guttmacher Institute that breaks out data by each state, the decline is uneven across the country. New Mexico had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation in 2008 (the latest available data), followed by Mississ ...
  • For Climate Hawks, The Five Stages Of Grief Ar ...
    The five stages of grief describes “a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss.” As Wikipedia puts it: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance A few years ago, I heard a very brillia ...
  • How An Anti-Choice Group Is Trying To Buy Virg ...
    Virginia’s gubernatorial election, is eight months away, but a leading anti-choice group is already spending big money to buy the governor’s mansion for Tea Party Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA). Susan B. Anthony List — an anti-abortion group that launched a program earl ...

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Digital Journal

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Eliminate Those Deadly Chemicals In Your Body
    Our US Government does not want you to know what their own agency, The Center for Disease Control, just reported in their own study. They took thousands of American citizens and checked their blood and urine for 212 toxic chemicals. They took a random sample of them and all 212 toxic chemicals w ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-17-12
    Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
  • Traveling This Holiday Season? Here Are Some S ...
    Well, the holiday season is here and you know what that means… travel. If you’re traveling a lot this holiday season to see family, friends or just to relax, you need to take the extra precautions to keep yourself from getting sick. Here are my suggestions to protect yourself before ...
  • Brrrrr! It’s Cold Out There!
    It is cold out there! So, what can you do to warm up and avoid the huge heating bill at the same time?! There are things you can do to keep warm besides blasting the heater or wearing wool from head to toe. How to Stay Warm During the Cold Season Poor circulation may be [...]
  • It’s Time To Turn Your Health Around!
    The holiday season is finally coming to an end and that means the excuses have to end, as well. It’s time to get into the habit of truly taking care of yourself. Lucky, you have me to guide you. Here are my top 12 ways to stay healthy all year long. I hope they help [...]

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Another GOP official echoes Todd Akin: Women r ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The president of one of California’s oldest and most powerful Republican groups asserted on Friday that rape only rarely results in pregnancy. Celeste Greig, president of the California Republican ...
  • Are We the Most Evil Country in the World?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Macaray Think about that. If were NOT the most evil country in the world”i.e., the country with the greatest number of evil people in it”then we Americans ar ...
  • Maher: When world runs out of food we’ll be fo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   On Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” discussed labeling of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), tainted food and Europe’s horse meat scandal, warning that i ...
  • Ready for victory? Or do you uphold unlawful w ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comReady for victory? Or do you uphold unlawful wars, bankster economics, dishonored rights? By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com Muse: Uprising with lyrics You all took at least one US Government class. You learned US federal ...
  • Fear factor: The cycle that drives assault wea ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story   The cause of gun control in the US is lost unless we address the underlying anxiety that makes people feel safer armed The future of guns in our society may be better understood if we knew more about wha ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Gasoline Prices, A Challenge to Obama by Ralph ...
    Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Feb. 28, 2013 Here we go again. A sudden surge in the price of gasoline and heating oil is followed by reported expressions of frustrated despair by hard-pressed consumers in the midst of silence from the oil companies and abdication of responsibilit ...
  • Barack Obama’s Notice — Continuati ...
    Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 1, 2013 Notice — Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Situation in Zimbabwe On March 6, 2003, by Executive Order 13288, the President declared a national emerge ...
  • Transcript of Bradley Manning’s Statemen ...
    Dandelion Salad by Bradley Manning Transcript by Alexa O’Brien www.alexaobrien.com February 28, 2013 This statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Manning at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for les ...
  • Bradley Manning pleads not guilty to “ai ...
    Dandelion Salad Bradley Manning Tells Court Public had the Right to Know About US War Crimes TheRealNews·Feb 28, 2013 American Attorney for Julian Assange, Michael Ratner, reports he was in the courtroom and witnessed Manning speak with confidence and intelligence as he detailed the outrages tha ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party Would Be a ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad February 28, 2013 Edmonton Public Library·Feb 28, 2013 Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt: EPL presented Chris Hedges to launch Freedom to Read Week 2013 in Edmonton. Chris spoke about injustice and corporate greed in America…and argued Ca ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Above Copernicus ...
    Copernicus is 93 km wide and is located within the Mare Imbrium Basin, northern nearside of the Moon (10 degrees N., 20 degrees W.). Image shows crater floor, floor mounds, rim, and rayed ejecta. Rays from the ejecta are superposed ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Star Power
    Nebulae vdB 38 and Sh2-263 (the blue and red components respectively) are being made to glow by the unadulterated power of star SAO 112667.
  • Tweet, Screech, Hey: Animal Sounds Hint at Evo ...
    A new paper suggests that researchers look to bird songs and monkey calls to understand how human language might have evolved from simpler, preexisting abilities.
  • Watch Live: SpaceX’s Dragon Blasts Off to Spac ...
    Watch a live feed as SpaceX's Dragon capsule attempts to launch to the International Space Station bringing supplies and experiments. NASA's coverage starts at 5:30 a.m. PDT/8:30 a.m. EDT and, if all goes well, blast off is scheduled for 7:10 ...
  • Beneficial Bacteria May Protect Against Pimples
    If you were plagued by pimples in your teen years, you may have bacteria to blame—but not all of them. Researchers have found that not all strains of the bacteria commonly associated with acne are created equal: Some may ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Obama’s diplomatic overture wil ...
    Here is the rub. Mr Netanyahu already has a stranglehold on the politics of his potential peace partners. He can easily manipulate the fortunes of the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on the two... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Stephen R. Shalom: Do we know enough?
    In Knowing Too Much, Norman Finkelstein [argues] that both American Jews and the American public more generally are moving away from uncritical support for Israel. This shift, he suggests, holds out... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Pictures speak volumes in Oscar ...
    Israelis have been revelling in the prospect of an Oscar night triumph next week, with two Israeli-financed films among the five in the running for Best Documentary. But the country’s right-wing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s rightward shift leaves ...
    Far from marking a revival by the center-left, as most media presented the results, [Israel's 2013] election results signaled a further rightward shift in the center of political gravity in Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Akiva Orr, co-founder of Matzpen, passes away
    Matzpen co-founder Akiva Orr died last week in Israel. He is remembered by friends and comrades around the world. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Weekend Roundup: February 23 – March 1, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, it was too early for Talk Like a Pirate Day, but we certainly talked a lot about pirates. The reason of course was the Ninth Circuit’s decision to agree with Japanese whalers that the Sea Shepherd’s activities amount to pirac ...
  • Sea Shepherd, Piracy, and the “High Seas”
    by Kevin Jon Heller My previous posts (see here for the most recent) have explained why Judge Kozinski's opinion in the Sea Shepherd case wrongly considers a political end to be a private end. In this post I want to highlight what is ironic -- though not technically incorrect -- about Judge Ko ...
  • Discussing International Law in China’s Social ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku As part of my new research interest in China and its relationship with the international legal system, I opened a Sina Weibo account a couple of weeks ago. And it has been quite an adventure. Weibo is China’s version of Twitter and Facebook.  Since both Twitter ...
  • Duke Law, Ethics, and National Security Center ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson If you’re interested, the Duke Law, Ethics, and National Security Center is holding its annual conference – it’s being livestreamed over the web, if you go to the webpage and click the link.  The Chief Prosecutor, the Military Commissio ...
  • Are Human Rights Treaties the Inspiration for ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford “It is widely thought that the rapid growth of the international human rights regime has profoundly influenced the practice of written constitutionalism at the national level,” writes David Law and Mila Versteeg in their brilliant article recently published in t ...

Public News Service

  • Heart Dangers for Women Sometimes Not Obvious
    Heart Dangers for Women Sometimes Not Obvious PHOENIX – A sharp pain or a tight feeling in the chest, along with shortness of breath, are well known warning signs of a heart attack. But according to the American Heart Association (AHA), those are typical signs of a heart attack in men. ...
  • March Sequester Takes Nearly $28 Million from ...
    March Sequester Takes Nearly $28 Million from AZ Schools PHOENIX, Ariz. - Barring last-minute action by Congress, the sequester starts to kick in on Friday. According to a White House analysis, Arizona will lose nearly $28 million in federal funds for education, causing hundreds of teachers and ...
  • Report: Fewer Locked-Up Kids, Less Youth Crime
    Report: Fewer Locked-Up Kids, Less Youth Crime PHOENIX - In Arizona and nationwide, fewer juveniles are being incarcerated. At the same time, the juvenile crime rate is down sharply. A report released today by the Annie E. ...(Read More)
  • Environmental "Trial of the Century" Gets Unde ...
    Environmental "Trial of the Century" Gets Under Way PHOENIX - Billions of dollars and the health of the Gulf Coast are on the line, as the trial against BP got under way Monday with opening statements in New Orleans. Based on provisions in the Oil Pollution Act and the Clean Water Act, the oil c ...
  • Getting More Arizona Wind Power on the Grid
    Getting More Arizona Wind Power on the Grid PHOENIX, Ariz. - There is a treasure trove of renewable energy in the U.S., but the obstacles and barriers to getting it on the grid are many. Johnathan Hladik, energy policy advocate with the Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA), said the biggest hurdle ri ...

Center for Food Safety

  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • As Challenge over Seed Rights Approaches Supre ...
    Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply Today, one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) – two legal and policy ...
  • Center for Food Safety Calls on EPA to Follow ...
    New European Pesticide Agency study reports “unacceptable” dangers to bees; supports suspension of use in U.S. Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the cue of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and immediately suspend t ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Pensieve

  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...
  • Aaron Swartz on SOPA
    The late Aaron Swartz explains SOPA. His recent suicide has been in the news so much that I feel it isn’t worth discussing. His opinions, though, are. Related posts: Aaron Ortiz, Rest in Peace I’m very sorry to say that one of my namesakes... Aaron Ortiz, Flickr Pro These are some o ...

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
  • How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
    We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Pope’s Italian Problem, Cardinals and the ...
    Michele Sindona, a key figure in Vatican Bank money laundering during 1980′s Italian cardinals wanting to keep power within their ranks, decades-long money laundering by the Vatican Bank, as well as sex the ongoing scandals, create impossibly toxic politics inside the Vatican. The Italian ...
  • State of Michigan takes over Detroit
    Near downtown Detroit. Blocks that no longer have buildings To paraphrase the MC5, ‘The Motor City’s collapsing, people.’ Or, to put it another way, when the US economy catches a cold, Detroit gets pneumonia. Michigan will be appointing an emergency financial manager for Detroi ...
  • Sequester is a non-event, full of sound and fu ...
    Big business didn’t send in the big lobbying guns to knock sense into Congress and Obama to avoid sequester. Federal agencies already have solid contingency plans. The cuts are a mere 2.5%, which isn’t much at all. The total cuts are $85 billion, which is chump change compared to th ...
  • Will 3D printing change the world?
    Much attention has been paid to 3D Printing lately, with new companies developing cheaper and more efficient consumer models that have wowed the tech community. They herald 3D Printing as a revolutionary and disruptive technology, but how will these printers truly affect our society? Beyond an ...
  • 3D printing AR-15 parts, test-fired with 660 r ...
    The white part of the AR-15 was created using 3D printing. The design has been downloaded over 1,000 times so far. While it may be easy to paint [Cody ]Wilson as a 2nd Amendment-touting conservative, the 25-year-old second-year law student at the University of Texas, Austin told Ars on Thursday ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • The Obvious Hypocrisy of Tyranny
    If tyranny was a living being, it would be a strange and marvelous creature. By that I don’t mean it would be a good thing, I mean it would be something to gaze upon and marvel at, much like a dangerous or poisonous animal. One could appreciate its qualities, but one wouldn’t want to ...
  • US judge orders release of two anarchists held ...
    After five months in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury about the political opinions of their acquaintances, Katherine Olejnik and Matthew Duran are to be released from a federal prison in the US state of Washington today. A third man, Matthew Pfeiffer, remains incarcerated in or ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – March 1 2013
    FRIDAY Open Mind / Open Line edition MARCH 1 2013: jack Blood laments the Bradley Manning “Confession” – and welcomes Freedom Advocate, Activist Jim Babka (President of www.DownsieDC.org) Sequester LIES, and answers to the entangling of the Government in our lives! (please get ...
  • US offers $60m for Syrian intervention as sequ ...
    US offers $60m for Syrian intervention as sequester cuts loom 28 Feb 2013 Syria’s opposition has won fresh financial and material support from the US but its demands for weapons to fight Bashar al-Assad were ignored in favour of calls for a “political solution” to end the crisi ...
  • British terror suspects quietly stripped of ci ...
    Exclusive: Secret war on enemy within   London Independent The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks. An investigation by th ...

The Air Vent

  • The Power of Underpants
    As you can tell, I have been very busy lately.   I still have been lurking the same blogs and reading the comment threads so my time isn’t quite reduced to zero.   Recently, an article came out regarding some Ohio State researchers who claimed to have invented a process to burn coal and em ...
  • Lewandowsky – Strike Two
    Hat tip – Skiphil. – So Dr. Lewandowsky did it again.   He, and his coauthors, falsely used my name in order to support some kind of psychology paper on climate skeptic bloggers titled – “Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on ...
  • Condensation Driven Winds
    I have been receiving emails from the authors of the condensation driven wind theory for several days now as they have published a new paper.   Since I have no time whatsoever, I haven’t even read their latest work. Judith Curry has kindly taken on their guest post and it can be read there ...
  • The Lukewarmer’s Way
    When a climate scientist claims that 2 + 2 =5 and the rest of the scientists tell them it doesn’t, CS turns a blind eye.   Michael Mann’s hokey stick nonsense drives those of us who actually read math completely wild.  When they add extreme need for compulsory planet wide behavioral ...
  • A Reasoned Rejection of Science, Explaining th ...
    Ex-spurt is a commonly misunderstood term.   The true definition of Ex-spurt is, “A drip under pressure”, or perhaps in past tense form, “a drop under pressure.” Often an ex-drip will self-identify as a spurt, but on closer examination he is really just a drip.  Reader (A ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook roundup: Code.org, same-sex marriage, ...
    Zuckerberg participates in Code.org video – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey and other popular tech figures, appeared in a short film by Code.org to promote computer science...
  • Facebook tests new ‘rated’ action for books an ...
    Facebook is testing new built-in Open Graph actions for lifestyle apps, including a “rated” action for books, movies and other content. The new actions, which were pointed out to us by developer Tom Waddington, can be...
  • Facebook to reveal ‘new look’ for News Feed ne ...
    Facebook today invited members of the press to its headquarters for a launch event next week focused on News Feed. Unlike with some invitations that leave people guessing what will be announced, Facebook has come out...
  • Facebook recommends deals in new ‘My Offers’ s ...
    As part of a recent test that gives users a dedicated section of the site to collect offers they’ve claimed, Facebook is now recommending other offers that users might be interested in. Last week we saw Facebook...
  • Facebook temporarily reveals ‘returned value’ ...
    Some Facebook advertisers temporarily saw a new metric called “returned value” in their Ads Manager dashboard. Facebook says the metric was accidentally displayed, and it has since been removed. Marketing consultant Jon Loomer got a screenshot...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...
  • Video Report: Operation Gladio-Q & A
    Sibel Edmonds Answers Your Questions on Gladio B After four hours of intense conversation on Gladio B, this week James and Sibel take a step back to consolidate some of the information and answer listener questions. In this interview we discuss specific characters and events as well as the broad ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- February ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...

Afro Spear

  • Black Pete, Zwarte Piet: The Documentary
    Greeting’s Everyone, I need to thank Adrianne George who contributes to Black Expat.com. I just happen to find this post …Continue reading »
  • The Myth
    Thanks Cedric McCay for sharing this image!
  • Sunday Inspirations
  • Kinshasha Symphony
    Greeting’s Everyone, Kinshasa Symphony (2010) -CONGO A documentary by German directors Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer, “Kinshasa Symphony” shows how …Continue reading »
  • The Message and The Manifesto
    “Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Even in Death Israeli Media Cannot Report Iden ...
    Before writing anything else here, let me begin by stating that I think Ehud Olmert is as corrupt as they come in Israeli politics. Which isn’t saying much, since virtually all the major politicians in Israel (that is those who wield real power as opposed to those in Opposition) are corrup ...
  • Video: Shaul Horev Compromised Israeli Nuclear ...
    I’ve just recorded a video summarizing my reporting on the Shaul Horev laptop theft scandal.  I hope you’ll promote the video through your social media networks and YouTube channels to bring it the audience it deserves. Also, I’ve heard of  many more secret Shabak arrests than ...
  • Hezbollah Terror-Israeli Terror: Mirror Images
    NPR interviewed (audio) NYT reporter Nicholas Kulish, who’s been in Cyprus covering the trial of a low-level Hezbollah operative, Hossam Taleb Yaacoub, who allegedly scouted Israeli tourist destinations on the island for a possible terror attack.  What Israel hopes will happen is that a gu ...
  • Israeli Attorney General Opens Criminal Invest ...
    Today, Israel’s Attorney General, Yehudah Weinstein, agreed to open a criminal investigation against Judge Rafi Aranya, who was accused three years ago of beating his children. Weinstein did so after News1 and this blog publicly named the judge for the first time and exposed the fact that ...
  • Israeli Judge Accused of Child-Beating, Attorn ...
    Israeli media are reporting that an Israeli judge has been reported for beating his children.  Yet the social welfare system, attorney general and courts have refused for three years a request by the police to authorize a full investigation.  A website dedicated to whistleblowing involving Israe ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Beyond Foursquare: Geolocation Services Prolif ...
    This is the second in an ongoing series on the state of geolocation apps, sites and services. Also see: "How the geolocation revolution has evolved" In part one of this series, we looked back at the early days of geolocation, with Platial kicking off the geoloco revolution in the practical ...
  • How Newsrooms Should Best Handle Public Data
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines. For journalists, the most well-known project was the gun pe ...
  • How Do We Liberate the U.S. National Archives?
    The following is an MIT Center for Civic Media lunch live-blogged by the Center's Nathan Matias and Rahul Bhargava. Today, we're hearing from the National Archives and Records Administration about the archives they maintain, how they're making those archives available online at Archives.gov, ...
  • Bringing New and Open Mapping Technologies Int ...
    Next week 200-plus people will meet in Washington, D.C., to talk about the latest geospatial technologies and how to break down barriers to get new -- and open-source -- tools into the government. The government is not usually known for being on the cutting edge of technology, though efforts are ...
  • How Journalists Can Think Like Programmers
    I'm working on a fun little project at the moment that involves pulling data out of a Google Spreadsheet that is being curated by a team of journalists. The interesting thing about this project is that it so clearly illustrates the difference in thinking between people who regularly work with ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Oil Addiction - Keystone XL Pipeline Clears a ...
    A draft State Department report concludes that building the Keystone XL pipeline would not speed up development of Canada’s oil sands, dealing a blow to environmentalists who claim Keystone would worsen climate change.The report from the State Department says the Canada-to-Texas pipeline would ...
  • Edge of Healthcare - Researchers Develop Simpl ...
    Diagnosing the tropical parasitic illness Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, might soon be as easy as testing a urine sample. Such a simple test would permit more effective diagnosis and treatment of a disease that now afflicts nearly 18 million people around the world.People call On ...
  • The Edge of Archaeology - New Dinosaur Species ...
    Scientists in Utah have uncovered evidence of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur that used to be a popular snack for prehistoric crocodiles.Clint Boyd, of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, discovered evidence of the new species in a collection of small bits of fossil bones fou ...
  • The Edge of Medicine - Trackable Drug-Filled N ...
    Tiny particles filled with a drug could be a new tool for treating cancer in the future. A new study published by Swedish scientists in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization shows how such nanoparticles can be combined to secure the effective delivery of cancer drugs to tumour cells â ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - New Issue of Al Qaeda ...
    I'm not sure if I should be flattered or appalled. I just learned that the new issue of Al Qaeda's official, English-language magazine, called Inspire (and published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), features quotes from your humble correspondent. It appears that a CBN report from last May ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Three POSCO Resisters Killed In Bomb Attack
    Three villagers who are on a historical struggle against land acquistion for a POSCO steel plant in Patna village, Dhinkia , Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa state, India, died after a group of people threw bomb at the villagers. Manas Jena (32) died on the spot. Two injured persons, Nabanu Mand ...
  • "I Leaked Documents To Show True Costs Of War" ...
    Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's Statement for the Providence Inquiry. This statement was read by Bradley Manning at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. Th ...
  • The Third Intifada? By Uri Avnery
    Is this the third intifada? This question was raised this week by a number of Israeli security experts. And not only by them – their Palestinian colleagues were almost as perplexed. All over the West Bank, Palestinian youth threw stones at Israeli soldiers. All the 3500 Palestinians in Israeli p ...
  • The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point ...
    But not the tipping point that the rebel promoters were hoping for, including the NATO countries. But rather the momentum here has tipped in favor of the current regime due to its capacity to maintain a slowly rising level of popular support, and good relations with key foreign supporters during ...
  • Obama Wades Deeper Into Syria's Morass By Sh ...
    Obama's recent strides in Syria end with a logical conclusion: U.S. direct military intervention. The stage is still being set, waiting until optimal conditions are met for a Libyan style U.S./NATO mass-bombing mission to finish off the Syrian government. In the eyes of Obama the resulting disas ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • Sequester Brings Major Change: Obama Says He's ...
    Maybe the sequester has brought positive changes to the government, today at a press conference he called in order to bash the GOP about the sequester President Obama said "I am not a dictator" something that should make most American's breathe a bit easier.  He also indicated that he could ...
  • John Kerry and His Right to Be Stupid
    By Barry Rubin In practically his first outing as secretary of state abroad, John Kerry made some remarkable statements in a meeting with young Germans. The main thing being widely quoted is this: “In America, you have a right to be stupid if you want to be,” he said. “And we tolerate it. We ...
  • One Year Later and Still Missing Andrew Breitbart
    It's been a year since Andrew Breitbart passed away. And one year later he is still very much missed. His number is still in my cell phone,  name is still in my Linkedin contacts and Facebook friends, and the spark of fire and passion he injected into everyone who ever had the pleasure ...
  • Woodward Confirms: It was Gene Sperling Who Th ...
    Well that didn't take long! This morning the liberal political site Buzzfeed it was Gene Sperling, the director of the White House Economic Council who sent the threatening Email to Wapo reportner Bob Woodward: Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that ...
  • Will Egypt's Islamist Regime Listen to Tom Fri ...
    By Barry Rubin Sigh. Forgive me. I really don't want to write this article but it is too good a case study of the contemporary Western foreign policy reporting, debate, and elite attitudes toward international affairs. And doing a better job is vital because this task involves the fate ...

The Real Agenda

  • EPA Accused of Violating the Clean Water Act
    Costing Billions in Environmental Damage CEO Discusses Non-Toxic Oil Spill Cleanup Method on Fox Business Network, March 3 GULF RESCUE ALLIANCE | MARCH 2, 2013 In the wake of the ongoing civil trial with high stakes for BP over the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the OSEI Corporation Chairman puts a n ...
  • Bradley Manning says United States is ‘o ...
    “I felt I accomplished something that would allow me to have a clear conscience.” By DANIEL HALPER | WEEKLY STANDARD | MARCH 1, 2013 Bradley Manning pleaded guilty today to leaking classified material. “Army Pfc. Bradley Edward Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 ch ...
  • Scientist claims it is possible to reverse ext ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 1, 2013 The statement makes many Jurassic Park fans rub their hands. According to scientist Stewart Brand, colleagues are attempting to reassemble the genome of extinct animals and other beings in order bring them back to life. While speaking a ...
  • The Preparedness Primer: How To Get Started
    By DAISY LUTHER | ORGANIC PREPPER | MARCH 1, 2013 “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu (604 BC – 531 BC) Above is the most popular version of this quote by ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu.  But I’ve always kind of liked the more literal translation, wh ...
  • All the President’s Thugs
    By J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS | PJ MEDIA | FEBRUARY 28, 2013 Hey, Bob, you can’t say we didn’t warn you. We knew this White House was capable of attacking even the great Bob Woodward for telling the truth. You could have listened to Michael Barone. He saw it coming even before Barack Obama was ...

Wind Watch

  • Heath OKs wind ban
    HEATH —Speaking as if with one voice, 96 special town meeting voters quickly and unanimously approved the Planning Board’s zoning bylaw amendment banning “industrial scale” wind turbines from being built within town borders. “Well, that was easy,” said Town Moderator Doug Wilkins, who had worrie ...
  • Shepherd’s Flat wind farm’s $30 mi ...
    The Oregon Department of Energy said it will reevaluate its recent approval of $30 million in tax credits   for the Shepherd’s Flat wind farm, a collection of 338 turbines in Gilliam and Morrow counties that bills itself as one of the largest wind farms in the world. The decision ...
  • Wind farms will create more carbon dioxide, sa ...
    Thousands of Britain’s wind turbines will create more greenhouse gases than they save, according to potentially devastating scientific research to be published later this year. The finding, which threatens the entire rationale of the onshore wind farm industry, will be made by Scottish governmen ...
  • Wind energy reshaping Canadian County
    With each rotation of the blade, Tammy Huffstutlar can feel a growing sense of agitation in her body. “It just puts me on edge,” she said. “You can’t ever get used to the noise.” Swoosh. “You can’t help but notice them,” Huffstutlar said as she gazed out at the more than 20 wind turbines visible ...
  • Rural municipalities unite against turbines
    About 50 representatives from small towns across Ontario gathered in Wainfleet Friday to discuss what they view as a common problem — wind turbines. As more than 100 people concerned about the development of wind turbine projects in their communities showed their support, elected officials and m ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
  • The future, and journalism education
    My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...
  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...
  • Required reading: How open source makes you better
    In this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news websites are not as successful as they could be. If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the rest of the world is doing. I ...

Facing South

  • NC environmentalists look to state House to sl ...
    A proposal to speed up the state's timetable for fracking has passed the North Carolina Senate and now moves to the state House, where the speaker has expressed concerns about the legislation. read more
  • Are NC schools teaching Art Pope's version of ...
    A group backed by the Koch brothers and Art Pope, offering a conservative spin on U.S. history, is being promoted as a resource for North Carolina school teachers. read more
  • New type of small nuclear reactors planned for ...
    Taxpayers for Common Sense has given a tongue-in-cheek "Golden Fleece Award" to the U.S. Department of Energy for speculatively spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars on small modular reactors being sought by the Tennessee Valley Authority and Savannah River Site. read more
  • Why the Supreme Court may rule against the Vot ...
    Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Here's why it matters. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A year after Trayvon Martin's ...
    It was a year ago today that an unarmed teen was shot to death in Sanford, Fla. by a neighborhood watch volunteer. The tragedy sparked questions about Florida's and other states' "stand your ground" self-defense laws, but they all remain on the books today. read more

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Sequester is a Good Thing
    … because it’s about time people understood what government does.  This was agreed to by both parties, there are other options Obama could use to get out of it, he has chosen not to. This is bipartisan, and Americans need to understand that.
  • The Hidden Army: Hezbollah Teaches the World H ...
    Surveillance State notes something very, very important: Hezbollah and Israel have been at war for some time. In an effort to stop Hezbollah’s guerrilla fighters from communicating, Israel has in the past jammed the cell phone towers in the Hezbollah-controlled areas in southern Lebanon. Eager t ...
  • The Future of War in the Developed World
    I’ve been meaning to write about the fact that people don’t understand the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and Mexico for some time. In simple terms: the US military, the most expensive, most powerful military in the world, lost in Iraq (they had to pay bribes to leave). They are losing ...
  • The Future of War in the Developed World
    I’ve been meaning to write about the fact that people don’t understand the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and Mexico for some time. In simple terms: the US military, the most expensive, most powerful military in the world, lost in Iraq (they had to pay bribes to leave). They are losing ...
  • On Economic Justice
    Who should get how much? Who deserves how much money? How do we decide? It is, I believe, nonsense to say that deserve whatever we happen to earn.  The value of our money is not something which is reliant on us as individuals, but is based instead on the productive capacity of our society, somet ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

Empty newsfeed.

new geography

  • The Beauty of Urban Planning from the Ground
    In a piece called The Beauty of Urban Planning from Space, the Sustainable Cities Collective highlights views from space of uniquely designed street pattern designs in various cities around the world. There are ten examples that illustrate the zenith of urban planning. As attractive as the ...
  • Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from ...
    Readers of this forum have probably heard rumors of gentrification in post-Katrina New Orleans. Residential shifts playing out in the Crescent City share many commonalities with those elsewhere, but also bear some distinctions and paradoxes. I offer these observations from the so-called Will ...
  • Gentrification and its Discontents: Cleveland ...
    “Indeed, we have the know-how, but we do not have the know-why, nor the know-what-for”—Erich Fromm, social psychologist. The question of how you “become” as a city has been weighing on me lately. Is it enough to get people back into the emptiness? Is it enough to pre ...
  • America's Growth Corridors: The Key to a Natio ...
    In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, some political commentators have written political obituaries of the "red" or conservative-leaning states, envisioning a brave new world dominated by fashionably blue bastions in the Northeast or California. But political fortunes ...
  • In California, Don't Bash the 'Burbs
    For the past century, California, particularly Southern California, nurtured and invented the suburban dream. The sun-drenched single-family house, often with a pool, on a tree-lined street was an image lovingly projected by television and the movies. Places like the San Fernando Valley ...

GM Watch

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spiked

  • Scourge of the elites
    Christopher Lasch was a fearless iconoclast who defied left and right labels. Love him or loathe him, you need to grapple with his ideas if you want to understand today’s big political and moral debates.
  • ‘Anything is magnificent compared with n ...
    We could learn a lot from Chesterton’s thoughtful war on the eugenic elitism and lazy atheism that reduced everything, even humans, to mere matter.
  • Sylvia Plath: ‘The world itself is a bad ...
    On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, the cool cynicism and snobbery of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has gone mainstream.
  • The cult that wants to be a religion
    From its sacred text to its absurd creation myth, Scientology is far closer to recognised religions than its critics allow. Just with a therapeutic twist.
  • Museums are not playgrounds for pet political ...
    The movement to make museums the focus for work around social justice and human rights can only undermine their main purpose: the curation and display of objects.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • US Advances Women's Access to Justice
    Deputy Assistant Secretary Paula Schriefer says women in the United States fought long and hard to achieve laws that protect women from discrimination based on gender.
  • US Combating Terrorism Around The World
    According to Mr. Blake, US foreign assistance programs seek to build the capacity of Central Asian countries to address transnational threats such as those posed by Islamist militant groups while promoting regional economic integration
  • Urgent Action Needed to Return Liberty Residen ...
    The speakers pointed out that initial transfer from Ashraf to Liberty, where is a prison according to the assessments of UN professional organs, was carried out against the will of residents by giving specific assurances on UN behalf
  • US Unveils Efforts to Cope With Increasing Amo ...
    Deputy Assistant Secretary Frank A. Rose discusses the topic of space situational awareness, or what is also known as SSA.
  • 2-D Baby Shower Theme: Diapers and Dinners
    3D may be on-trend, but when it comes to planning a baby shower, this 2-D theme is the way to go. Find out why new moms love this baby shower concept.

Worldnews

  • Romney Returns, But Maybe Not For Long
    BOSTON -- Mitt Romney is stepping back onto the national stage – if only briefly. The former Republican presidential candidate criticized President Barack Obama's leadership in an interview aired Friday night on Fox News, his first public comments after nearly four months in seclusion ...
  • Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villa-Boa ...
    Let us suppose Andre Villas-Boas had never been appointed as Tottenham manager. How then might we have remembered him? Dynamic duo: Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas and star player Gareth Bale are flourishing Photo: GETTY By Jonathan Liew 11:00PM GMT 01 Mar 2013 Comments His legacy in Eng ...
  • David Cameron needs to reconnect to the o ...
    A senior Conservative backbencher has urged David Cameron to reconnect to the ordinary voter to tackle a crisis of governance in Britain. Image 1 of 2 Conservative MP Bernard Jenkins Photo: HEATHCLIFF O'MALLEY Image 1 of 2 Prime Minister David Cameron Photo: REUTERS By Julie Henry 1:06P ...
  • Touring Gillard's pitch to western suburb ...
    JULIA Gillard will today praise the "endeavour" of western Sydney residents as she begins her week-long tour of the Labor heartland with a pitch to the aspirations of the suburban class. In a speech at the University of Western Sydney tonight, the Prime Minister will highlight Labor's role i ...
  • Assad ‘legitimate president’ till 2014
    Close Damascus ally Iran expects Bashar al-Assad to remain Syria’s president until elections next year, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday. “The official position of Iran is that... Assad will remain legitimate president until the next... election” in 2014, Salehi ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 'Screw the Troika!' Portugal's Streets Flooded ...
    Photo: @freduarte Over 40 cities across Portugal on Saturday were filled calls by the thousands denouncing the austerity imposed by the Troika—the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. read more
  • Worker Advocate: Nation's Biggest Industry Fos ...
    The nation's biggest industry is fostering a low-wage, low-benefit workplace, charges restaurant worker advocate Saru Jayaraman. Co-founder and co-executive director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United and author of the bestselling Behind The Kitchen Door Jayaraman appeared on U ...
  • NATO Shot Dead Two Afghan Children in Latest A ...
    Children in Afghanistan are again casualties of NATO fire. In this latest incident, NATO forces shot dead two Afghan boys, ISAF admitted on Saturday. The shooting took place on Feb. 28 in the Shahid-e Hasas District of Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province. ...
  • The New Normal: Australia Had Hottest Summer o ...
    Australia has just experienced its hottest summer since record keeping began in 1910, the country's Bureau of Meteorology announced Thursday, continuing the climate change-induced trend of hotter, record-setting temperatures. Summer temperature anomolies (Bureau of Meteorology) ...
  • State Dept. Releases Keystone XL Environmental ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Pat Robertson’s “God”, Salaf ...
    By Ali Baghdadi On February 25, 2013, Mr. Pat Robertson, a Christian Anglican leader, surprised us with a new heavy weight “revelation”. Responding to an email from a troubled young woman, he told the whole world that bought or donated old sweaters and other clothes and objects cou ...
  • Calling Out the Misleaders of the Phony &#8216 ...
    By Larry Pinkney “It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally of ‘change’ but who is, himself, beholden to the very same blood-sucking corporate vampires ...
  • Washington Whitewashes Israeli Murder
    by Stephen Lendman Why not. It whitewashes its own. Washington is a rogue terror state. So is Israel. It denigrates non-Jews. It's waged war on Palestine for decades. It's guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. Its rap sheet makes serial killers look saintly. On May 31, 2010, Israeli command ...
  • Understanding Israeli Settlements
    by Stephen Lendman They violate international law. They prioritize land theft. They prevent peace. On January 31, the UN International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory condemned them for good reason. They deny Palestinian self-determinatio ...
  • A good cup of coffee to go with your police sh ...
    by Ruth Hull The morning of 2/12, a big African-American man in Big Bear stole a purple Nissan SUV, owned by Jay of Jay's Tree Trimming Service. (Lt Foy, Fish and Wildlife thought this car belonged to two maids.)  Around 12:45, while following two school buses, the vehicle passed a sheriff ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Collaborating for municipal tax reform
    Collaborating for municipal tax reform. This is a first. We have partnered with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and the Nova Scotia Chambers of Commerce to ask that the Province of Nova Scotia undertake a study into the potential for a shift from municipal property taxes to municipal ...
  • Canada heading for 'bitumen cliff'
    A new study published by the CCPA and the Polaris Institute shows how the failure to carefully regulate the bitumen industry is putting Canada on a dangerous economic and environmental trajectory. The study, by Tony Clarke, Jim Stanford, Diana Gibson, and Brendan Haley, shows that the curren ...
  • Saskatchewan's Anti-Poverty Plan, Does it Meas ...
    In the summer of 2012, the Saskatchewan government published its anti-poverty strategy, From Dependence to Independence, claiming that no previous administration in the province had approached the challenge of poverty “with a comparable commitment to holistic, cross-government solutions.” Our n ...
  • CETA: Constraining Manitoba's Economic Prospe ...
    This report also examines the potential impact of providing foreign investors with increased access to public procurement and the impact of weakening the provincial government’s ability to promote regional development and to ensure that Manitobans benefit from the province’s natural resource ...
  • Canada’s tax system needs ‘fairness’ reform
    According to a new study by CCPA economists Marc Lee and Iglika Ivanova, Canada’s tax system is in dire need of reform. Fairness by Design: A Framework for Tax Reform in Canada finds that ad-hoc tax changes over the last two decades have seriously weakened the redistributive role of Canada’s ta ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How Oil Can Improve Our Long Term Energy Situation
    Environmentalists are generally opposed to opening up areas to additional drilling, while on the other side are people who believe that underneath U.S. territory lies an ocean of oil, waiting to be tapped -- if environmentalists would only get out of the way.
  • Exclusive: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress B ...
    A member of the Department of Strategy at the USAF Air War College takes on the Navy's biofuels program and the Great Green Fleet with a scathing report being sent to Congress and the nation's top military leaders.
  • Book Review – Reinventing Fire
    While I disagree with Amory Lovins on many topics, the man is definitely a visionary. In his latest book Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era, Lovins and his coauthors make the case for retrofitting 120 million buildings, and for fundamentally changing our transportat ...
  • Al Gore Profits From Fossil Fuels He Vilified
    What Gore doesn't seem to understand is that this is the same cost-benefit analysis that results in the world's rising use of fossil fuels. He is like many environmentalists who don't seem to understand the real reasons we are dependent upon fossil fuels.
  • EPA Doubles Down on Unicorns
    In my previous column — Why I Don’t Ride a Unicorn to Work — I used an analogy to describe the US government’s approach to cellulosic ethanol mandates. In brief, they have mandated that something that does not exist — commercial cellulosic ethanol volumes — be ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Dairy Industry Wants Artificial Sweeteners in Milk
    Sugar in milk, particularly flavored milks, is a growing concern among parents and school officials. In response to the backlash against sugar, the dairy industry wants to add artificial sweeteners like aspartame to flavored milks without having to label the change blatantly on the front of the ...
  • Your Favorite Forest's Worst Nightmare
    Natural gas drilling has scarred Pennsylvania’s pastoral landscape, divided communities and neighbors, and raised serious questions about public health The defining natural feature of northern Pennsylvania is its woodlands, which make up one of the largest expanses of publicly accessible forest ...
  • Animals, Not Action Figures, May Ease Autism S ...
    There's just something about pets that makes people kinder. For instance, scientists have shown that people are more likely to have pleasant social interactions when walking a dog than when walking alone. So researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia decided to see how pets coul ...
  • 4 Things You Must Know about Your Water
    If you think your wallet is the only thing suffering from a bad economy, you might want to rethink your drinking habits. Your water-drinking habits, that is. Tight budgets and the economic crisis have diverted funds from the local governments that oversee the safety of your tap, and as a result ...
  • The New Problem with Your Dinner
    What happens when you feed families organic foods prepared and stored without the use of any plastic? Not what you'd expect. Although it was a small study, University of Washington (UW) researchers found surprising results when one group of families in their study ate only local and organic f ...

big think

  • Are You Too Stoned to Drive?
    What's the Latest Development? The state of Colorado, one of the first to legalize the general use of marijuana, is now facing a dilemma over how, and whether, to criminalize drugged driving. "Since the passage of Amendment 64 in November, Colorado has been wrestling with the many questi ...
  • How Big Budget Cuts Will Affect Health Services
    What's the Latest Development? Steep budget cuts to federal spending will hit the healthcare sector particularly hard, affecting no other portion of the economy more than defense. "Although the Medicare program will account for the largest chunk of dollars cut from healthcare simply beca ...
  • Going to Prison Just to Get Healthcare
    What's the Latest Development? Joshua Mezrich, MD and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, tells the story of a 41 year-old prison inmate who, after being diagnosed with two aneurysms, was released from prison. Because the ma ...
  • TED2013: The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.
    When seeking intellectual stimulation on the Internet, TED can be regarded as one of those special “signals within the noise”. The site releases one talk a day, helping to create a reputation of quality over quantity; at a time when web surfers are drowning in link-overload, this has been a grea ...
  • How Having Boys May Shorten a Mother's Lifespan
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers in Finland have found that having a boy, historically speaking, shortens a mother's life expectancy by a statistically significant amount. Their study, which looked at Finnish villagers in pre-industrial Scandinavia, showed that a woman’s risk o ...

Information Liberation

  • Milwaukee Police Chief's Freudian Slip: "I've ...
    [Skip to 34:40] Milwaukee police chief Ed Flynn, a rabid citizen disarmament advocate, had a revealing Freudian slip while speaking at Diane Feinstein's senate hearing on gun control. He told the committee, referencing the turf he lords over, "...
  • Cop runs into motorcyclist, threaten to ticket ...
    "Las Vegas Metro rear ends John Paul Rosario and then blames him for braking when someone was behind him."...
  • Gun Owner Is Arrested After Having His Home Il ...
    On Thursday January 25th, New Jersey police officers entered the apartment of Keith Pantaleon without permission, warning, warrant or explanation. After entering the apartment, they apparently had suspicion of him having a weapon, though none were ...
  • 20 Years In Jail For Selling a Gun to a Pot Smoker
    A draconian new gun control bill in the US Senate could see people who unknowingly sell guns to pot smokers be sent to jail for up to 20 years. S. 54, or the Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act, introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat ...
  • "Download this gun": 3D-printed semi-automatic ...
    Cody Wilson, like many Texan gunsmiths, is fast-talkin' and fast-shootin'--but unlike his predecessors in the Lone Star State, he's got 3D printing technology to help him with his craft. Wilson's nonprofit organization, Defense D...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Sciencebase Twitter archive
    Now, that almost anyone can download an archive of all their twitter activity, there are a few neat things you can do with the data once you’ve got it. For instance, you could upload it all to your Google Drive, set the folder as public and let anyone trawl through all your old tweets. So, ...
  • Meteorite map malarkey
    As is obvious within a few seconds of having tweeted the map purportedly showing “every meteorite that has hit Earth since 2300 BC”, the map actually just shows where the people are and where people have recorded meteorite impacts. The first comment on the Gizmodo item puts this quit ...
  • Exercise, alcohol, fruit and veg
    There was a strike at the BBC yesterday, so the usual “You and Yours” on Radio 4 was replaced with an annotated compilation of recent in-depth reports by Michael Moseley from past episodes (I believe). It made for an interesting alternative podcast listen on my dog-walk today. He dis ...
  • Five major challenges to avoid food crunch
    Growing population and an increasing poverty gap are major challenges for global food security especially when the issue of biofuels produced from crops is introduced. According to Tahereh Alavi Hojjat of DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA, governments around the world must ...
  • Sciencebase to be grilled by Cambridge student ...
    UPDATE: 2012-02-13 It’s on again and this year I can offer a little advice on how to get a popular science book published if any students are interested in hearing my thoughts on that. Also, I’ve dropped the price for students on the PDF version of Deceived Wisdom for the next couple ...

RFF Library

  • The Arab Spring and Climate Change
    Center for American Progress / edited by Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ClimateChangeArabSpring.pdf “The Arab Spring and Climate Change” does not argue that climate change caused the revolutions that have shaken the Arab world ov ...
  • Water Treatment Contaminants: Toxic Trash in D ...
    Environmental Working Group http://static.ewg.org/reports/2013/water_filters/2012_tap_water_report_8b.pdf [Association of California Water Agencies] The Environmental Working Group issued a report Feb. 27 focused on disinfection byproducts in drinking water. The report, called “Water Treatment C ...
  • Integrating Indigenous Livelihood and Lifestyl ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (February 26, 2013 v110 n9 p3639-3644; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1217822110) / by Éva Elizabeth Plagányia, Ingrid van Putten,Trevor Hutton, Roy A. Deng, Darren Dennis, Sean Pascoe,Tim Skewes and Robert A. Campbell http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3639.sho ...
  • America’s Energy Resurgence: Sustaining ...
    Bipartisan Policy Center http://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/2013/02/americas-energy-resurgence-sustaining-success-confronting-challenges …Though the U.S. has increasingly abundant and diverse sources of domestic energy, many challenges remain: affordable energy is still a challenge for man ...
  • The Climate Protection Act of 2013
    US Senate http://1.usa.gov/VXgchm [Slate] …here are the basics of the Senate carbon tax bill—technically, a “fee and dividend” scheme—that Obama won’t be fighting for: Proposed by Democrat Barbara Boxer of California and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont Would set a g ...

Scientific American - News

  • Crawl Space: Invasive Ant Armies Clash on U.S. ...
    The Argentine ant has spread to every continent except Antarctica, overwhelming native ants with sheer numbers and fierce battle tactics . But they may have met their match in a recent arrival: the Asian needle ant. The cross-species face-off, a surprise to entomologists, could topple ecosystem ...
  • Ice Core Data Help Solve a Global Warming Mystery
    Scientists can study Earth’s climate as far back as 800,000 years by drilling core samples from deep underneath the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Detailed information on air temperature and CO2 levels is trapped in these specimens. Current polar records show an intimate conne ...
  • Forensic Exam of King Richard the Lionheart Re ...
    They called him Lionheart -- a name that has become the epitome of courage in battle. More than eight centuries after the death of King Richard I of England, forensic scientists have now revealed the secrets of his most feted organ. [More]
  • Third 'Van Allen Radiation Belt' Makes Appeara ...
    When NASA scientists launched twin spacecraft to probe the Van Allen radiation belts last summer, they were expecting to study two rings of high-energy particles circling Earth. Instead they found three, overturning a 50-year-old model of the giant rings’ structure. [More] ...
  • Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World Histo ...
    From The Year without Summer , by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman. Copyright © 2013, by the authors and reprinted by permission of Saint Martin’s Press, LLC. [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • February in Review
    Refugee health, RCMP abuse, liquid uranium and the zombie apocalypse The movement for sanctuary cities experienced a historic win in Toron ...
  • Nova Scotia — Locavores' Delight
    Homegrown ginger, tobacco, goji berries and more This is the first of our Just Us! Just Journalism! series of articles dealing with issues of food security, sustainable farming, fair ...
  • Surrey Rally for Better Transit February 26th 2013
    On February 26, 2013 the Surrey Citizens Transportation Initiative (Surrey CiTI) organized a rally to demand increased funding for public transit in Surrey and throughout ...
  • Video pour la manif contre la brutalité polici ...
    depuis Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière  cobp.resist.ca/ NON À L'IMPUNITÉ POLICIÈRE! Que ce soit dans les interventions policière dans les manifestatio ...
  • Idle No More: Where the Mainstream Media Went ...
    Self-representing the people’s movement NOGOJIWANONG/PETERBOROUGH—You didn’t have to look hard to find racist comments and bia ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Italy's elections and the Five Star Movement
    David Seaton's News LinksThe "Grillini": this time the revolution won't be televisedThe election that made Beppe Grillo, an anti-establishment blogger-comedian, leader of the largest parliamentary force in terms of votes cast was an election that passed a damning verdict on Italy’s corruption-in ...
  • Capitalism: is we is or is we aint?
    David Seaton's News Links Read carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending is not only the key to economic re ...
  • Droned if we do, etc
    David Seaton's News LinksIt’s insane how vulnerable we’ve made ourselves, like drunks failing to look around as they walk into traffic. Hackers could shut down the way we live, and if they hacked into drones or nuclear codes, determine the way we die. If you think it through, which most of us av ...
  • What might a revolution look like?
    David Seaton's News Links I finished up my last post saying:(...) simply by nationalizing Monsanto and Walmart we would have a perfect, planned economy… in other words we are all dressed up and waiting for Lenin.And several people have since asked me what I meant by that.It comes in two parts th ...
  • Monsanto and the banality of evil
    A discussion about Monsanto arose in a private technology forum that I attend, which dredged up the following from me and that in turn I'd like to share with my regular readers. DSMy great uncle was one of the original chemists of Monsanto... the boss had no money for the payroll and he paid t ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Good News of the Day: Gay Marriage in California
    According to the latest Field Poll, approval of gay marriage in California is continuing its accelerated pace of the past few years. Between 1977 and 2006, the number of people who approve of same-sex marriage increased slowly but steadily at the rate of about half a percentage point per year. ...
  • James Fallows on Threat Inflation
    James Fallows has some things to say about the Iraq War as we near the tenth anniversay of the invasion. Go read. This was the most resonant bit for me: As I think about it this war and others the U.S. has contemplated or entered during my conscious life, I realize how strong is the recu ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 1 March 2013
    This week's catblogging shows just how much pictures can lie. Domino really looks like she's stalking a potential food item in this photo, but it's just a trick. She was doing nothing more bloodthirsty than walking toward the camera. But she sure looks intent on getting there, doesn't she?
  • The Dumb Sequester Cuts Are Only For 7 Months
    I've actually made this point twice today already, but both times it's been buried in a longer post. So here's a post that just says one thing: Yes, it's a dumb idea for the sequester to make equal, across-the-board cuts to every single agency in the U.S. government. But those dumb cuts ...
  • Chart of the Day: Everyone Loves Foreign Trade!
    Dan Drezner and I have had a friendly argument going on for several years about public attitudes toward trade. He's a worrywart who trembles in fear whenever some pol badmouths China during a primary in Ohio. I'm a Pollyanna who thinks it's a testament to the fundamental popularity of global t ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 384: Horrible People
    Topic: Kriss is allergic to the office Nasty ass coworkers Kriss & Kev are horrible people Fantasia has a beef with JET Magazine Iron Man 3 Shailene Woodley as MJ EA says game prices will go up Share with your friends:
  • IC 383: Chicks Can’t Fight
    Topic: UFC 157 First Women’s fight in the UFC The vocal minority of sexist men Dana White is an awesome sports commissioner Kev recaps his NYC trip Kev goes to the Church of Scientology Mass Effect 3 DLC Playstation 4 Share with your friends:
  • IC 382: Life Coaching
    Topic: Phenomblak joins Kriss & Kev for a completely random and off topic show. Share with your friends:
  • IC 381: Rappin for Jesus
    Topic: Rappin for Jesus Pope retires Getting out of Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day as a kid Dating is a hassle Troll better Lady dies after 10 liters of coke a day The new Die Hard Movie Share with your friends:
  • IC 380: Guard Grizzlies
    Topic: Valentine’s Day Men not dating The struggles of being a man in a relationship Dealing with cover thieves Next generation Gaming Papa John’s owner has a lake for a front yard Eminem slander WB and the Justice League movie Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Evidence rethink puts CO2 and ancient warming ...
    A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric Parrenin from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and his teammates, rather than happening 800 years before the CO2 change a ...
  • Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
    Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.
  • Extra stations bolster warming-extreme rainfal ...
    A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of Adelaide’s Seth West
  • Altered pressure patterns bring Eurasia intens ...
    Even as the world warms, stronger high pressures have driven extreme cold events happening since the 1990s in Europe and Asia, says Xiangdong Zhang at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
  • Mild winters raise risk of flu epidemics
    Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University, meaning health authorities have to watch for severe epidemics as climate changes.

e!Science News

  • Short algorithm, long-range consequences
    In the last decade, theoretical computer science has seen remarkable progress on the problem of solving graph Laplacians -- the esoteric name for a calculation with hordes of familiar applications in scheduling, image processing, online product recommendation, network analysis, and scientific co ...
  • New chemical probe provides tool to investigat ...
    In an article published as the cover story of the March 2013 issue of Nature Chemical Biology, Lindsey James, PhD, research assistant professor in the lab of Stephen Frye, Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Pharmacy and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Ce ...
  • Pregnancy permanently changes foot size
    A new University of Iowa study confirms what many women have long suspected -- that pregnancy permanently changes the size and shape of a woman's feet. read more
  • New study reveals how sensitive US East Coast ...
    A continental-scale chemical survey in the waters of the eastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico is helping researchers determine how distinct bodies of water will resist changes in acidity. The study, which measures varying levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other forms of carbon in the ocean, was cond ...
  • Volcanic aerosols, not pollutants, tamped down ...
    A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight -- dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide. read more

unEarthed

  • Without Coal Ash Rule, Litigation Helps Commun ...
    Lawsuits by local and national groups clean up toxic coal ash sites Pennsylvania residents Sabrina Mislevy and Barbara Reed stand near the Little Blue Run coal ash dump site. Litigation has ...
  • A Wise Pause On Arctic Drilling
    
Shell suspends oil drilling operations indefinitely Sea ice in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) Shell announced that the co ...
  • Methane: It's Not Just From Cows
    Concern grows over methane leaks from oil and gas wells With the fracking boom building, natural gas is touted as a clean energy source. But the hard truth is th ...
  • NAACP Joins Charge to Protect Clean Air Standards
    Mercury and Air Toxics Standards under industry attack 68% of African Americans live within 30 miles of coal fired power plants, our nation's worst toxic polluters. ...
  • China to Introduce Carbon Fees
    U.S. excuses for climate inaction dwindling A large majority of Americans now want action.  (Ray Wan) Climate change deniers in the U.S. once c ...

Brave New Climate

  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...
  • Energy Policy – substance wins over style
    There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve touchy subjects, including ways to reduce poverty while improving or maintaining high standards of living el ...
  • Zero emission synfuel from seawater
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan ———&#8 ...
  • Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
    As the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies, especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation nuclear. W ...
  • 2012 BNC stats in review
    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...
  • Woodlands Water Heater
    Woodlands water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight. Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different names like ...
  • CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
    Choosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s  have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
  • The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
    Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • The Fascist 5 Strikes Again
    It looks like the 5 fascists on the supreme court plan on helping rebel scum make it harder for minorities to vote. The SCOTUS 5 think voting is an entitlement, and not a right, isn’t that right Scalia you pile of human feces. Just think. This will be known as the worst pack of slimeballs ...
  • Anything But Taxing The Rich and Corporations ...
    It appears the Republicans want to keep every tax haven, loophole, and shelter in place for the wealthy, and corporations. Even the corporations that make billions and pay nothing in U.S. income tax. I wonder whey this isn’t the “simple” message every Democrat is using. Attacki ...
  • Lie, Lie, Lie, Lie…
    The Republican Machine knows the sequester will be, and is unpopular. Their only hope is to tell everyone, shout it from the mountaintops that the sequester was 100% President Obama’s fault. Their only chance to save face is to make a lot of bs noise. Obama demanded it etc. Blah, blah, bla ...
  • Seen Ted Nugent Lately?
    If you see the Motor City Madman, ask him how he dodged the draft. From what he said a few years back it had something to do with him crapping in his pants for a week before going in for his interview, and filling his urine test cup with poop. Way to go Ted. A [...]
  • Mail Deliver On Saturday Over Thanks To Republ ...
    Do you like getting mail delivered on Saturday? Too bad. It is over. The Republican plan to destroy the Post Office so the “private sector” which technically means billionaires that own most of the stock in most corporations can make more dough. Thanks to the Republican Postal Destru ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • A divided Palestinian neighborhood, torn in tw ...
    Beit Safafa is a Palestinian neighborhood just south of West Jerusalem, inside annexed and occupied East Jerusalem, all within the boundaries of Israel’s vast Jerusalem municipality.  It is situated in-between the Green Line to its northern perimeter, and the Israeli settlement of Gilo on ...
  • The Israel lobby at its intimidating worst – i ...
    How the British Board of Jewish Deputies and its allies are smearing a decent critic of Israel as an anti-Semite – and the success they’re having. The view in Israel of British Jewry is that they’re cowed by traditional British anti-Semitism and running scared from the “M ...
  • The unequal right to water in unrecognized Bed ...
    By ruling that Bedouin citizens of Israel have only the right to ‘minimum access’ to water rather than ‘equal access,’ the Israeli Supreme Court established that the rule of law does not apply to Bedouin citizens. The resulting situation is intolerable for a country that ...
  • From Hebron’s streets to Ofer’s wa ...
    This week: Palestinians protest for access to a segregated street in Hebron while Israeli settlers freely march on it during Purim; reactions to the death of prisoner Arafat Jaradat; a teen is shot by Israeli forces; and right-wingers mock hunger strikers at Ofer military prison.     & ...
  • WATCH: Jewish settlers await destruction of Be ...
    Jewish settlers have been camped out in an illegal settlement in the Negev (Naqab) forest of Yatir for two and a half years, waiting for the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hieran to be razed so they can move in and build an exclusively-Jewish settlement on its ruins. By Nadia Ben-Youssef ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • World Indigenous Network Conference kicks off
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today announced the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya as the keynote speaker for the World Indigenous Network Conference in Darwin from 26 to 31 May 2013.
  • Indigenous Heritage Program grants
    Federal Heritage Minister Tony Burke today announced the successful applicants for the Gillard Government's Indigenous Heritage program.
  • Tasmanian Forests Agreement to save more than ...
    A new socio-economic impacts study has found the Tasmanian Forests Agreement would prevent substantial job losses in Tasmania's forestry industry.
  • Grants for Your Community Heritage open today
    The Gillard Government is supporting community heritage across Australia through the Your Community Heritage program.
  • Super trawler stopped again
    Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has today signed the interim declaration to prevent the super trawler until the environmental impacts of the proposed operation are better understood.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Florida Senate Bill (1) 666, The “Forecl ...
    The Florida Senate has now weighed in with their version of foreclosure “reform” and WOW is it a treasure chest of juicy, wonderful stuff. They want to dramatically change the rules for foreclosure, not just for all those new mortgages that might be executed after the bill is passed ...
  • Responding to The Troll Who Enjoys That Courts ...
    In case you haven’t been following, an anonymous troll has been logging onto my page and throwing around comments to my post, HAVE FLORIDA COURTS DECLARED WAR ON CONSUMERS I would encourage everyone here to log in, read the post then look to the comments below and read what he’sRead ...
  • Consumer Hero Florida Senator Darren Soto Stan ...
    If you’re still registered Republican in Florida, and you care about consumers and The Law, you’re got a few screws loose.  Now, I’ve never had any interest in the Democratic Party, but because of the current version of fascist republicanism practiced in this state, I’ve ...
  • America’s Foreclosure Wars, The US Federal And ...
    First, let’s start with a little history lesson. Remember way back to 2008 when the banks, Wall Street and the various gambling enterprises and hedge funds that rule the world’s money supply brought the entire world economy into the brink of a total economic collapse?  Well, consider what we’ve ...
  • The Reward For Bank Crime? The Foreclosure Roc ...
    So how do you reward a master criminal enterprise that was allowed to flourish all across the country? Well, attorney generals from 49 states sign an agreement where the masters of the enterprise agree to pay them a few dollars….and at least one attorney general rewards the criminal enterp ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • The CLF Week in Links: Food Fight, Sugar, Meat ...
    The lack of rain has dried up the pastures and made hay prohibitively expensive, so the number of cattle available for slaughter is no longer sufficient to keep the disassembly plant operating. Losing the $55.5 million payroll is a real body blow to the town and a harbinger of climate change imp ...
  • Feeding animals to animals: a call for vigilan ...
    Using rendered animal parts in feed can “recycle” contaminants such as arsenic, dioxins, and heavy metals back into the food supply chain, increasing their concentrations in animal tissues, and raising exposure risks among consumers.
  • Farm Bureau is a dubious ‘voice of agriculture ...
    The bill is being introduced for a third time, and for a third time its main opposition comes from the Maryland Farm Bureau. This persistent opposition begs two questions: What is the Farm Bureau, and whom does it represent?
  • Feeding animals to animals: EU weakens rule on ...
    Also contributing to this post is Jillian Fry, Project Director, Public Health & Sustainable Aquaculture Project In a disturbing turn, the EU has again weakened regulations addressing feeding animals to other animals, bringing their rules more in line with flawed U.S. policies. The decision, ...
  • The CLF Week in Links: Fish, Beef, Pork—Whom T ...
    A UNEP study urges people in the rich world to halve their meat consumption, and become "demitarians," there’s a good chance that yellow perch in three Maryland rivers are being affected by toxic pollution, horse meat, and more.

k2p blog

  • Jaguar Land Rover poised to “make in Ind ...
    JLR is poised to move from just assembly to the complete manufacture of some brands in India. They join the growing number of players who now see India as a sort of export hub.
  • Global warming on hold (courtesy of the sun)
    Global warming suspended.
  • Falcon 9 launches as Dragon sets off on its se ...
    SpaceX has launched CRS-2 — its second mission to the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule aboard the Falcon 9 rocket will dock with the ISS today.
  • Obama’s sequester
    The sequester is actually Obama's opportunity of getting the US to swallow some very bitter medicine without having to take the blame. If he signs off on it later today it will be because it is his sequester.
  • Fighting against species extinction is to deny ...
    The thought occurs to me that while there is no doubt that human activity is altering the environment for many species, it is of little benefit to try and deny evolution. Species protection must consist of helping "threatened species" to evolve and not in standing-still in some artificial envir ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Why are South African police mimicking white s ...
    The sickening killing of 27 year old Mido Macia in South Africa this week brought to mind the white supremacist murders in the US which amounted to ‘lynchings’. This, together with the recent high profile rape and murder of Anene Booysen - and even the Oscar Pistorius case - point to a latent v ...
  • Cameron praises flat taxes – but are they fair?
    David Cameron has been praising the Latvian tax system, calling it ‘attractive-sounding’ during a speech at the Northern Future Forum Conference in Riga. But one study by the IFS, looking at four plausible and revenue neutral flat tax scenarios, found two main reasons why flat taxes might not be ...
  • This week’s most read
    The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
  • Labour is still struggling to leave the Brown ...
    A poll conduced at the end of February by Ipsos-MORI for The Economist shows that the economy continues to be the public's most pressing concern. This is potentially a double-edged sword for Labour. The public still blame Labour, rather than the banks for the deficit. Moving beyond that will be ...
  • The Week in Washington: Cuts take effect, acti ...
    Larry Smith gives the lowdown on who's up and who's down this week across the pond.

Consumerist

  • Keep Those Worst Company In America Nomination ...
    Earlier this week, we began taking nominations from Consumerist readers for this year’s Worst Company In America tournament, and we’ve already received a deluge of e-mails. But we want more! So keep the nominations coming. We’ll be accepting nominees via e-mail through 5 p.m. E ...
  • Dell Sends Tech To Break My Laptop, Puts Off F ...
    John has an Alienware computer. Dell owns Alienware. So Dell sent a technician to his home to fix his computer when one of the USB ports quit working. This tech proceeded to break his computer, and was possibly part of Dell’s elite computer-breaking tech team that we’ve written about ...
  • And Now, A Moment Of Silence For $750K In Whis ...
    We would pour one out for Chivas Brothers in remembrance of the loss of about 18,000 liters of Scotch whisky, but, well, plenty has been poured out already. Workers accidentally flushed around $750,000 worth of bulk whisky instead of the waste water they were supposed to dispose of at a bottling ...
  • Ricky’s, Where A “Free” Trav ...
    Earlier today, Consumerist reader Steve popped into Ricky’s — a chain of stores in NYC — to pick up some of his usual pomade. On the shelf, he saw what initially appears to be a good deal — a free travel-size shampoo with the purchase of a tin of pomade. But something str ...
  • Restaurant Imposes 1% Property Maintenance Fee ...
    When you go out to eat, you generally pay the price on the menu, then a tip for the service staff. Should you also have to pay an extra fee for the maintenance of the building and grounds of the restaurant? One Florida restaurant thought so…at least, until the “personal usage fee&#82 ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • OSC Funding is Essential for Whistleblowers & ...
    This week, GAP and other good government partners sent a letter to Congress, requesting adequate funding for the Office of Special Counsel – the agency charged with protecting federal whistleblowers and investigating their disclosures. During a period when our government is cutting spending acro ...
  • Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Some WikiLeak ...
    Los Angeles Times: Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Some Charges in WikiLeaks Army whistleblower Bradley Manning pleaded guilty yesterday to sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website, but pleaded not guilty to other charges, including violations of the Espionage Act. He is expect ...
  • CIA/Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Report ...
    Today, Feb. 28, CIA/torture whistleblower John Kiriakou will report to the Federal Correctional Institute in Loretto, Pennsylvania, to begin a 30-month prison term. Kiriakou's attorney, GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, and NSA whistleblower Tom Drake (who was al ...
  • CIA/Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Report ...
    CIA/Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Reports to Prison Today CIA/Torture whistleblower and GAP client John Kiriakou begins serving his 30 month jail sentence today. Though he heads for incarceration, he is going to jail feeling optimistic, saying he wears his conviction as a "badge of honor ...
  • Whistleblower Documentary Raising $; Troubling ...
    New Documentary SILENCED Raising Money on Kickstarter to Tell the Story of Government Whistleblowers Oscar-nominated filmmaker James Spione is producing a new documentary, SILENCED, about the war on intelligence whistleblowers. It will feature GAP National Security & Human Rights Director ...

UK Progressive

  • Sequester Showdown: The President Takes Charge
    by Carl Matthes Politically, March came in as a lion! It wasn’t a blustering, winter-wind yowling lion, clawing, charging or flailing indiscriminately at everything in it’s way. Rather, it was a strong, confident and an assured lion who took the White House press room podium on March 1. The lion ...
  • Ode to Jerry Buss: NBA (and Los Angeles) Gamec ...
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad We take a break from the serious stuff to give propers to a man who changed our lives and changed our culture in the city of Los Angeles. The passing of Los Angeles Lakers owner, Dr. Jerry Buss, requires that we take pause and reflect on a man whose charisma [...]
  • A Graphic Guide to the Sequester
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica There’s been a lot of talk of the looming budget cuts that, without a last-minute deal went into effect 11:59 p.m. ET on March 1. Obama met with congressional leaders Friday to discuss how to avoid the worst consequences of the sequester. There was no resolu ...
  • The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot
    by Robert Reich   Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public’s business, and to sow distrust among the population. Imagine further that the plotters infiltrate Congress and state governments, reshape their districts to g ...
  • How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End- ...
    by Charles Ornstein ProPublica This story was co-published with The Washington Post. My father, sister and I sat in the near-empty Chinese restaurant, picking at our plates, unable to avoid the question that we’d gathered to discuss: When was it time to let Mom die? It had been a grueling ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Not the hottest ever summer for most Australia ...
    Despite the wild hype about records being broken, and how hot this summer has “felt” for most Australians there have been many hotter summers, and for millions of people this summer was not remarkable at all. The BOM is planting the unscientific suggestion it “felt warm” ...
  • Monckton explains why taking climate extremist ...
    Christopher Monckton is cutting across Australia and leaving a wake behind him. He’s called for one Doctor’s deregistration, and one university Prof to be investigated for fraud. Today the VC from Uni of Tasmania has agreed to the investigation. Below, Monckton answers the critics an ...
  • Wind Farms: Turbines break like match-sticks i ...
    Not a good news week for wind power. First windpower probably doesn’t produce as much electricity as people though it could. If the new estimates are right, humanity would need to cover 3 million square kilometers of the Earth to get just 10% of our electricity from wind. (And how many sto ...
  • Australian floods show how cutting electricity ...
    Coal power provides most of our electricity and despite widespread floods these plants have to keep working day in and day out to provide our baseload power.  | This one above is the old decommissioned “New Farm” Coal Power Station (1942)  |  Queensland State Library Anton ...
  • Monckton accuses Tony Press (Uni Tasmania) of ...
    Christopher Monckton has written to Professor Peter Rathjen, Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania to point out that one Tony Press has committed “serious professional and academic misconduct and scientific fraud, contrary to Australian Standard AS 8001 as amended by the relevant policy ...

ReNew America

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

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2012 Blog

  • Novel Coronavirus Human Transmitted?
    The third member of a UK family to contract the new virus, Novel Coronavirus, has died in hospital. It is similar to pneumonia, but substantially more deadly. So far 50% of twelve people infected worldwide have died. A patient diagnosed with the Sars-like coronavirus has died at Queen Elizabeth ...
  • Another Expert Agrees With Dark Comet Theory
    Astronomer David Asher (from Armagh University) has agreed with Bill Napier and Janaki Wickramasinghe (Cardiff University) that “dark comets” are real and dangerous. The following quotes are from a paper by Napier and Asher published in Astronomy & Geophysics. http://star.arm.ac. ...
  • DNA Evidence of Bigfoot?
    I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit: A team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch i ...
  • Meteors Hurting Humans: Actually Quite Common!
    In my book Survive 2o12, the appendix on the threat of asteroids and comets (follow the link to read it online) lists reports of modern era meteorites that have killed people or animals – it’s not a small list: 588 AD, 10 people, China 1490, supposedly 10,000 people, China 1511, Fra ...
  • Recent Human Evolution Determined
    It’s quite easy to spot Asian folks from behind. I always thought they just had shinier black hair than other races, but actually they have thicker hair. As do Native Americans, who originated from Asia. And we also know that some Asian people are more prone to sweating. Well, these are bo ...

Facing South

  • NC environmentalists look to state House to sl ...
    A proposal to speed up the state's timetable for fracking has passed the North Carolina Senate and now moves to the state House, where the speaker has expressed concerns about the legislation. read more
  • Are NC schools teaching Art Pope's version of ...
    A group backed by the Koch brothers and Art Pope, offering a conservative spin on U.S. history, is being promoted as a resource for North Carolina school teachers. read more
  • New type of small nuclear reactors planned for ...
    Taxpayers for Common Sense has given a tongue-in-cheek "Golden Fleece Award" to the U.S. Department of Energy for speculatively spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars on small modular reactors being sought by the Tennessee Valley Authority and Savannah River Site. read more
  • Why the Supreme Court may rule against the Vot ...
    Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Here's why it matters. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A year after Trayvon Martin's ...
    It was a year ago today that an unarmed teen was shot to death in Sanford, Fla. by a neighborhood watch volunteer. The tragedy sparked questions about Florida's and other states' "stand your ground" self-defense laws, but they all remain on the books today. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Syrian Crisis, Geopolitical Ramifications And ...
    Even as our car approached Damascus enroute from Beirut, we could see black plumes of smoke emerging from the outskirts of the city. The sound of bombardments continued all through the course of the day & night, with little respite. Way back in 2006, when Israel had waged the war on Lebanon, ...
  • The Return of Empires (III)
    Part I Part II «Smart power» in the service of the American empire The dissociation of the United States from a number of international problems by shifting these problems onto allies and delegating authority to them, a result of the United States’ «imperial overheating», is based on the c ...
  • News from Kyrzakhstan
    The international community was thrown into disarray after US Secretary of State John Kerry inadvertently outed the country of Kyrzakhstan. Analysts from the Arctic to Oceania, scrambling for answers, still have not been able to pinpoint the exact geographical location of the mysterious country. ...
  • US Shifting the Islamic Factor Away From the M ...
    The news that U.S. President Barak Obama would pay a visit to Israel this spring came as a surprise to Turkey — not least because U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone insisted that Turkey would be Barak Obama’s first stop in the Middle East after the U.S. elections. At the beginni ...
  • The Return of Empires (II)
    Part I A World of Postmodernism or the Newest Middle Ages? The process already taking shape in the world of consolidating «larger spaces», and the return of the empires of by-gone eras may not, at first glance, seem to respond to the spirit of the times. However, we are living in an age which, i ...

BlogHer

  • Nie Asks: What Are Your Saturdays Like?
    What are your Saturdays like? My Saturdays: Mr. Nielson makes whole wheat waffles with fruit and brings them to me in bed. Image: Stephanie Nielson I really want to know, so tell me in the comments -- I enjoy reading your input!
  • Pasta, Cheese, and Pepper: Just 3 Ingredients ...
    Pasta cacio e pepe, or pasta with cheese and pepper, is a classic of Italian culinary excellence. An old dish born from the tradition of shepherds who, in their long journeys, brought with them dry pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Simple ingredients but rich in taste and nutritional propertie ...
  • Should You Listen To Your Gut When Job-Searching?
    [Editor's Note: A job search can be a stressful time. Balancing the sometimes desperate need for a job with the desire to find the right fit (and something you won't regret later) can be a challenge. Should you trust your gut during this process even if all other signs point the other way? -Pa ...
  • Move your Posterous Blog to WordPress.com
    Editor's Note: Posterous is closing down, but they have an easy exporting system in place for you to move your blog contents to some other platform. Here are the directions for how to export to WordPress.com. -Virginia If you have a Posterous blog you are probably concerned about losing your co ...
  • Is Your Workout Right for Your Age?
    Editor's note: Working out in your 20s definitely feels different than in your 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond. Only should your fitness routine change along with your age? Sarah, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, addresses this question, along with how staying in shape can help revers ...

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

  • What’s next in the Upper Big Branch crim ...
    Well, in case you missed it, yesterday’s big news is in today’s Gazette: A former Massey Energy official who is cooperating with prosecutors on Thursday implicated the company’s former chief executive officer, Don Blankenship, in a decade-long conspiracy to hide safety violatio ...
  • Telling the truth about coal-mining job losses
    In response to a previous Coal Tattoo post, there’s been a little bit of discussion about the relative merits of making sure we use accurate data — as accurate and timely as possible — when we talk about what’s going on with our coal industry here in West Virginia and the ...
  • W.Va. coal jobs: What the data shows now &#821 ...
    This Sept. 18, 2008 file photo shows a Massey Energy coal mining site near Slyvester, W.Va.  (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, file) I’ve had a few questions from readers about the recent statements by the Tomblin administration saying that West Virginia has lost 5,000 coal jobs in 2012 alone.  We&# ...
  • Remembering the Buffalo Creek Disaster
    (A dog sits in Buffalo Creek hollow in the aftermath of the 1972 coal-slurry dam disaster in this photo by longtime Gazette photographer Lawrence Pierce) Today is one of those days on the West Virginia calendar, a day that will live on in memories and newspaper clippings as a symbol of why we ha ...
  • W.Va. mine safety: ‘Everything we possib ...
    Last Thursday, I sat through another maddening discussion among members of the West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety. They were talking again about new rules to implement the tougher methane monitoring requirements of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s 2012 mine safety legislation. As we ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Smuggling Trick
    A man named Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle with two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and asks, “What’s in the bags?” “Sand,” answers Juan, to which the guard replies, “We’ll just see about that…” ...
  • InfoSec Products Prediction: More Feeds, Fewer ...
    I’m at RSA this week and one thing struck me yesterday while walking through the expo hall: it’s going to become increasingly wasteful for companies with interesting approaches to security to spend money on their own UI. Instead, they’ll simply have their own feed, that uses ...
  • Neil Gaiman Commencement Speech
    Related Posts:A Happy CommercialA Talk on Parenting You Should SeeA Guy Talking About LifeHow to Handle BullyingThe Asteroid Situation in Perspective
  • Why Do We Respect Reading More Than Watching TV?
    Everyone knows smart people read and lazy people watch TV, but aren’t they often doing the same thing? I’m reading Game of Thrones right now, which is an epic fantasy series that I highly recommend. Being a human, I’m inclined to think highly of my own choices, and my desire ...
  • A Geek Proposal
    Related Posts:Obama and Jesus | ImgurThe Annoyed Geek’s Response to Stupid Computer…I was in a salon and Keanu Reeves walks in | ImgurDon’t LikeVery Gradual Change We Can Believe In

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

Empty newsfeed.

reference frame

  • We don't live in a simulation
    In 2011, I already wrote a text about the theories that our universe is a computer simulation: Rebooting the Cosmos Needless to say, a regular reader has seen lots of other criticisms of discrete physics, a more general concept. Let me return to this topic – and change the focus somewhat – i ...
  • AGW petition by Ranga Myneni: 1 billion signat ...
    When I opened Alexander Ač's blog today, I had to laugh. An unknown alarmist from Boston University named Ranga Myneni started a petition "with a billion of linked hands". Before the 144th birthday of Vladimir Lenin (which comes next year), he wants to collect a modest 1 billion of signatures. ...
  • Bubbles support \(10\GeV\) or \(50\GeV\) dark ...
    March 2013 is expected to be a great dark matter month, especially due to the eagerly expected results from AMS-02 that may emerge as early as the next week. Joseph S. has brought my attention to an excellent astro-ph paper by Tracy Slatyer (IAS) and Dan Hooper (FNAL) Two Emission Mechanisms i ...
  • Is the Higgs boson just Higgs-like?
    Jester wrote a satirical essay, When shall we call it Higgs? that I fully subscribe to. The ATLAS and CMS papers – and some media and theoretical papers inspired by them – keep on referring to the particle officially discovered on July 4th, 2013 as "the 125 GeV particle", "the scalar boson", ...
  • Czech president's alleged high treason: a chil ...
    Even followers of stations such as Fox News could learn about a story that makes my homeland look like a banana republic: Czech president could face high treason charges for his controversial amnesty Czech president Václav Klaus will leave his job in 9 days – after 10 years which he spent at ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Italian coffee shop in Montreal in trouble wit ...
    Caffè in Gamba in Montreal’s Mile End is yet another business battling the Office québécois de la langue française. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Quebec language police aim at more Montreal restaurants More Montreal restaurateurs are speaking out about the demands imposed. ...
  • Head of Chadian army claims troops kill Belmoktar
    The head of Chad’s military has announced on state television that Chadian troops deployed in northern Mali killed Moktar Belmoktar, the international terrorist responsible for the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that resulted in the death of dozens of foreigners. The French milit ...
  • Florida sinkhole threatens neighbouring homes
    Engineers worked gingerly Saturday morning to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground, as well as homes next door. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: B.C. wil ...
  • Chavez undergoing intense cancer treatment, VP ...
    President Hugo Chavez has been receiving chemotherapy since recovering from a severe respiratory infection in mid-January and “continues his battle for life,” his vice-president said. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Venezuelan vice-president says Chavez fighting for li ...
  • Keystone XL supporters hail U.S. State Dept. r ...
    A new U.S. State Department report is the latest evidence that the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada should be approved, supporters say. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Keystone XL pipeline comment period set by U.S. State Dept. The U.S. State Department has set 45 ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Views & News from Norway

  • Fewer Norwegians compete in Swedes’ ‘Vasaloppet’
    A total of 1,674 Norwegians were registered to compete in the major, and lengthy, ski race across the border in Sweden over the weekend known as Vasaloppet. That’s down from nearly 2,200 in 2009 and around a hundred less that last year. “I don’t really know why,” Jon Sven ...
  • Fewer Norwegians compete in Swedes’ &#82 ...
    A total of 1,674 Norwegians were registered to compete in the major, and lengthy, ski race across the border in Sweden over the weekend known as Vasaloppet. That’s down from nearly 2,200 in 2009 and around a hundred less that last year. “I don’t really know why,” Jon Sven ...
  • County roads in worse shape than expected
    Complaints have raged for years over the sorry state of Norwegian highways around the country, most of  which are just two lanes and narrow. A new report has confirmed that county roads are in even worse shape than the state highways, and that it will cost as much as NOK 75 billion to make neede ...
  • County roads in worse shape than expected
    Complaints have raged for years over the sorry state of Norwegian highways around the country, most of  which are just two lanes and narrow. A new report has confirmed that county roads are in even worse shape than the state highways, and that it will cost as much as NOK 75 billion to make neede ...
  • ‘Pay-back time’ for Myanmar
    The president of Myanmar ended his visit to Norway this week after three days of top-level meetings, official lunches and dinners and red-carpet treatment. Now, given Norway’s political and economic support for Myanmar in recent years, expectations are high that Myanmar’s reforms wil ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Strawberry Fields Update: Flood Protection and ...
    We previously published a report on the development of our site’s flood control and defense infrastructure in October 2010. This is an update on that which goes on to describe some of our plans for developing that infrastructure more in the future. Just to recap on the basics of our situat ...
  • Recycling Animal and Human Dung is the Key to ...
    © Kris De Decker, low-tech magazine (edited by Shameez Joubert) © Illustrations in red & black: Diego Marmolejo Flushing the water closet is handy, but it wreaks ecological havoc, deprives agricultural soils of essential nutrients and makes food production dependent on fossil fuels. For 4,0 ...
  • Biogas Project at PRI Sunshine Coast
    For some years now we have been looking at minimising our energy consumption, and at alternative forms of energy creation in order to produce the energy we need. As we have animal systems in place here at PRI Sunshine Coast, we have a fair bit of manure on the property. As well as animal manure, ...
  • The Energy Game is Rigged: Fossil Fuel Subsidi ...
    by Emily E. Adams, Earth Policy Institute The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil, and natural gas from their prices. Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to conservative estimates from the Global ...
  • Corporate Blowback
    Companies like EDF, seeking to terrify protesters with lawsuits, are likely to become victims of their own aggression. by George Monbiot Image: Todd Wiseman Without public protest, democracy is dead. Every successful challenge to excessive power begins outside the political chamber. When pro ...

Pointman's

  • Sleeping with the enemy.
    Carbon is the Great Satan of the environmental movement. They all worry about their carbon footprint, want to impose carbon taxes on it and even have schemes to capture the poor thing and imprison it down holes in the ground. Oh the humanity. For such a supposedly caring bunch, they can be so cr ...
  • It’s 2.45 in the am and I’m reflecting on a lo ...
    I’m writing this up in real-time. There won’t be any rewrites, no polishes, no second thoughts. It’s all going to be first draft stream of consciousness stuff, whether either of us like it or not. If you’re sensitive about bad language, walk away right now because my emot ...
  • We’re going to have to do something about peer ...
    Not too many years ago, there were two researchers who discovered that stomach ulcers were not the result of a stressful lifestyle, but simply an infection. The idea that ulcers were related to a high stress lifestyle was so deeply embedded in the medical establishment psyche, they couldn’t get ...
  • The Breaking Point.
    If you play team sports, or even just watch them, there’s very often a moment in the struggle between the opposing teams, when one of them breaks. Sometimes it’s sparked by a single incident but more usually, it’s an acceptance by the whole group that they’re going to lose. The opposition are si ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
    On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...
  • Amnesty International Urges State of Louisiana ...
    From an Amnesty International news release: Amnesty International called on Louisiana Attorney General James Caldwell today not to appeal a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of Albert Woodfox of the ‘Angola 3’ for the second-degree murder of a prison guard in 1972. Amnesty Interna ...
  • Angola Three Member Albert Woodfox Has Convict ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Today, February 26, District Court Judge Brady released a 34-page ruling that granted habeas to Albert Woodfox on the issue of racial discrimination in the selection of the grand jury foreperson for his 1998 retrial. This decision now overturns Albert’s convic ...
  • A Child On Death Row - The Story of Shareef Cousin
    From Resurrection After Exoneration: “I was a child. Death row didn’t affect me like it would now. Today, I’d go crazy!” On July 3, 1996, when Shareef Cousin was only seventeen years old, he became the youngest inmate on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. As a matter of fa ...
  • What Do We Have Left?, By Oliver M.Thomas Jr.
     Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Mardi Gras are over.  Today we celebrate Ash Wednesday, the beginning of  Lent where sinners take at least 40 days off to discipline their lives, give up worldly lusts and desires that control them most of the year, and make a pact with God ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    by FrankDialogue The last thought that occurred to me is that the government, through one of it's 'alphabet agencies' or contractors, probably has given jobs to a lot of web savvy and techie types to cause chaos among certain groups on the Web through the use of anonymous emails, 'controversial ...
  • Gun Talk • Re: The Best Guns for Home Defense ...
    Just racked the 500 next to my 25 year old BPS field model. no comparison but still a good backup and the girl can trap shoot with me now without having to share. she's a natural!!! broke more clays than me a few times. Statistics: Posted by Fulcrum — Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:10 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    There is a new podcast on this event: http://americanfreepress.net/podcast/Sa ... orn128.mp3 The first book to be published apparently pokes holes in the official version. http://americanfreepress.net/?p=8748Statistics: Posted by Krag — Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:55 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Compulsory celibacy makes no sense on the basis of human nature, as well as what the Bible teaches. A couple of proof texts on qualifications of overseers or bishops in the early church: "Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, res ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    by FrankDialogue The last thought that occurred to me is that the government, through one of it's 'alphabet agencies' or contractors, probably has given jobs to a lot of web savvy and techie types to cause chaos among certain groups on the Web through the use of anonymous emails, 'controversia ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Loss of Wild Pollinators Affecting Global Cro ...
    Research data from 600 fields in 20 countries shows that wild bees and insects are more effective pollinators than domesticated honey bees, suggesting that the continuing loss of wild insects in many agricultural landscapes has negative consequences for crop harvests. Reporting in Science, an in ...
  • Earth Unlikely to Face an Ecological Tipping P ...
    A team of international scientists has rejected the idea that the planet could face a sudden and irreversible ecological shift as a result of largely human-driven pressures, suggesting that such global transformations are more likely to occur over a long period of time. While earlier studies hav ...
  • Will Reform Finally End The Plunder of Europe’ ...
    Maria Damanaki, Europe’s crusading fisheries minister, is making major headway in changing a cozy, “old boys” network that over-subsidized the European fishing industry and brought about the severe overfishing of the continent’s marine bounty. BY CHRISTIAN SCHWäGERL
  • Oxfam Ranks Food Giants on Sourcing and Enviro ...
    The group Oxfam has published an online scorecard assessing the agricultural sourcing of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies, rating them on factors that include water resource management, climate Oxfam awareness, and transparency. Using publicly available information, ...
  • Major U.S. Utility Will Close Three Coal-Burni ...
    One of the U.S.’s largest electric utilities has agreed to close three coal-fired power plants in the Midwest, the latest sign of how the U.S.'s electricity supply is shifting away from coal to natural gas and renewable energy. American Electric Power (AEP) will shut down the three plants in Ind ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Is Google making us less lituritt?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...
  • Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa
    By Alison@Creekside Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona: “I contacted a few p ...
  • Argo: We’ve written ourselves out of history
    By Paul Mather Okay I never do this, but everybody else in the house is occupied and it’s too icy to jog (or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). So, I’ve poured a cup of coffee, and here’s a long post. I was reading today about Argo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a [...] Tags:   ...
  • A Modest Opinion – A day in the life of ...
    By Nathaniel Moher On Jan. 28th, Stephen Harper took a break from using the Internet for the purpose of helping all machines become sentient and thus beginning the robot revolution, in order to take to Twitter and post some pictures of a day in the life of Stephen “I Swear I’m Not A Robot – [... ...
  • Taxes are bad — unless, of course, they& ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net Here’s a puzzle for my readers: try to guess which one of the following two editorials, each of them discussing a slight bump in the tax rate for the wealthiest individuals, comes from The Globe and Mail, and which one comes from the local leftist rag: An extra two per c ...

Daily Beast

  • When in Doubt, Sue!
    Megan Thode, a former masters student at Lehigh University in Bethleham, PA, is suing the school for $1.3 Million over a C+ grade she received.Her claim? Lehigh had a ‘vendetta’ against her and are suing the university for breach of contract and sexual discrimination. Okay.
  • When Nutrition Became a 'Thing'
    Dr. Nevin S Scrimshaw, a nutritionist, saw the devastating effects of malnutrition in children across the developing world beginning in the early 1950s. 
  • The Heart Attack Grill Lives Up to Its Name
    This is not a nice story, but if it jolts anyone out there to change a destructive way of life, it can be a grim public service
  • Yuval Levin on the State of the Union Speech
    Surprisingly devoid of real policy proposals
  • What’d You Think of the SOTU?
    We asked Daily Beast readers for one-word reactions to President Obama's State of the Union address. Here's what you said.

Loonwatch

Energy News

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 ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Boost the Minimum Wage, Boost the Economy, fro ...
    A version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. (This version includes references to the debate plus charts and graphs from data specially tabulated from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey. The data don’t include the self-employed.) President Obama put the idea ...
  • Parliamentary reform idea: Get out of the House
    By Seth Klein and Shannon Daub [Note: Samara Canada has been gathering ideas for reforming Parliament. All the ideas they have collected are being posted on their blog, which you can find here. What follows is our contribution.] Here’s the big dilemma: Whatever reforms are made to Parliamentary ...
  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 20 ...
    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal ...
  • Sweet heart, bitter pill: Rising, dancing, and ...
    On Valentine’s Day this year women around the world will be dancing. One Billion Rising, a new initiative from Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler, calls on women to dance their way to a future without violence. Now, I’m all for dancing, but I’d like to add a little counting into the mix.  Each ...
  • The City of Regina’s Unquenchable Thirst for B ...
    It seems the City of Regina just can’t get enough of bad deals. Hot on the heels of the City Plaza debacle and the stadium funding mess, the City has now announced its intention to enter into a 30-year contract with a private corporation to upgrade its waste water treatment facilities. Jus ...

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.
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  • 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 ...

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Peakwater

  • Will Plans for Massive Tunnels to Pipe Norther ...
    “The oil industry, represented by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and former Chair of the Marine Life Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Task Force for the South Coast, is pushing for increased “fracking” in California. Fra ...
  • Construction of Disputed Turkish Dam Continues
    “About 1,450 workers are laboring around the clock to complete the Ilisu Dam, one of the most controversial public works projects in recent history, by the middle of next year. That would be exactly five years after European lenders pulled out of the €1.1 billion, or $1.5 billion, project ...
  • Activism and the Nexus: Shaping Policy
    Retrieved from GRIID.org Activism & the Nexus: Shaping Policy 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 MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbri ...
  • New Maps Provide Crucial Information For Water ...
    “For the first time, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have mapped long-term average evapotranspiration rates across the continental United States – a crucial tool for water managers and planners because of the huge role evapotranspiration plays in water availability. “Why are evapot ...
  • Parting the Radioactive Water: Can the Nexus G ...
      Parting the Radioactive Water: Can the Nexus Guide Us Through Our Nuclear Legacy? 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 MSc at the Universit ...

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

  • SOMETHING TO PONDER
    … I write with the clear understanding that for some on OWAC for anyone to express and question publicly is tantamount to committing heresy and possibly treason … … Since the facilitated seminar in early February … Dr. Kitt Ferrell-Poe – OWAC committee member – has ...
  • Why is this something that requires reauthori ...
    … Why is this something that requires reauthorization … ?   Congress Passes Reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act On Thursday, the House voted to pass the Senate’s bipartisan reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, marking a big victory for President Obama and ...
  • hope this turns out to be hyperbole and not true
    I only hope this turns out to be hyperbole and not true …!   Lobbyist Demands Approval For “Lethal” Drones Within United States 02-27-2013  •  Daily Paul.com Testifying against a bill that would put limits on the use of unmanned drones in Washington state, industry lobbyist Pau ...
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    … Forever choosing to chase illusive broken corporate promises and the deceptive rainbows  they paint …  Filed under: Blogroll
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    .. And what … you really think their Congre$$ and their Federal Re$erve will allow them to suffer as a result of any $equester … Gue$$ again …  Filed under: Blogroll

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Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Asiatic cheetahs: on the road to extinction?
    Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are unique among large cats. They have a highly specialized body, a mild temperament, and are the fastest living animals on land. Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, the Asiatic subspecies, is unique among cheetahs and the only member of five currently living subspecies to oc ...
  • Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmen ...
    Last year, Roger Peet, an American artist, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to visit one of the world's most remote and wild forests. Peet spent three months in a region that is largely unknown to the outside world, but where a group of conservationists, headed by Terese and Jo ...
  • Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
    For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
  • Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to h ...
    Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has hired a top U.S. official to help it work through trade and environmental issues. In November, APP announced it had retained Stuart Eizenstat of Covington & Burling, a U.S.-based law firm, to help 'ensure APP’s trade and sustainability ...
  • Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainfor ...
    The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second half of the 2000s, reports a comprehensive new assessment of the region's forest cover and drivers of deforestation. While the drop in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been widely r ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Shark attack: Ask an expert
    Following Wednesday's fatal shark attack at Muriwai Beach, we thought our readers might have some questions about sharks they'd like answered.NIWA fisheries scientist and fish biologist Dr Malcolm Francis is New Zealand's foremost...
  • Submarine sent to world's deepest sea vents
    Researchers steering a remote-controlled submarine around the world's deepest known hydrothermal vents have collected numerous samples from sunless depths of the Caribbean Sea where blazing hot, mineral-rich fluid gushes from volcanic...
  • Shooting fish: a difficult proposition
    Gun shots slow down and lose power almost immediately after they enter water - and the shark would need to have been on or very near the surface for hits to have been fatal, according to experts.William Cleverdon, owner of Will's...
  • Captain Kirk's Vulcan entry wins Pluto moons c ...
    Star Trek fans, rejoice.An online vote to name Pluto's two newest, itty-bitty moons is over. And No. 1 is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series.Vulcan...
  • Protecting Sharks: Plan to save feared predato ...
    A scientist who crossed the world to study shark populations in New Zealand waters made a slow-burning, alarming discovery.Over two summers in 2007 and 2008, New York-based biologist Demien Chapman carried out aerial surveys of...

The Bovine

  • CFIA changes the status of a reportable diseas ...
    From Karen Selick, on The Justice Report: “Montana Jones today brought to my attention an interesting article (“CFIA to give up on wiping out anaplasmosis”) published at Grainews.ca, a website that provides daily news on agriculture topics to Canadians.  Here’s the … Continue r ...
  • Monsanto vs farmer over seed saving
    From Charlotte Silver, on Aljazeera: “During last week’s oral testimonies before the United States Supreme Court, a 75-year-old soybean farmer from Indiana faced down Monsanto, as he challenged the biotech giant’s aggressive and frequently criticised pursuit of patent infringem ...
  • “Carry On Milking” — devotee ...
    From Joe Shute in The Telegraph: “Lunchtime at London’s Borough Market. And, for somebody flogging a product marked with a government health warning, Tony “the raw milkman” is doing a roaring trade. “That milk there is fresh from last night,” … Continue reading →
  • Big dairy lobbies for aspartame in milk; that& ...
    From the Activist Post: “Two powerful dairy organizations, The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), are petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to allow aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to be added to milk and … ...
  • Vernon Herschberger in court again in May for ...
    Via the Activist Post: “Update (2/22/13): We would like to encourage readers to take 1 day out of their busy schedules to show your support for Vernon Hershberger by attending a pre-trial hearing that is now set for March 18, 2013 at … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • China "Fully Prepared for Currency War" Says C ...
    Given the world's central bankers are already in a currency war, a policy statement made by a deputy-governor of China's central bank should not come as a surprise (except for the fact it was publicly and bluntly stated). Please consider China well-prepared for currency war: official. ...
  • Reflections on the "Wage Recession"
    Jed Graham at Investor's Business Daily has an interesting chart showing Wage Recession Hits 5 Years; Worse Than Jobs Drought. I can show it's even worse, but first let's consider a chart and commentary by Graham. As bad as the current job recovery has been — and it's by far the weakest since ...
  • 84% of Greeks, 90% of Greek Businesses Have Di ...
    Think Greece has been "saved" by the Troika? A quick look at some loan repayment stats may help you think clearly. Please consider More than 80 pct of Greeks are having difficulties repaying loans. At least eight in every 10 citizens who have taken out a loan are having trouble with repaym ...
  • Real Disposable Income Down 4%, Reversing Stro ...
    The Bureau of Economic Analysis report on Personal Income and Outlays for January shows a 4% decline in real disposable income (the biggest decline in 20 years) following sharp gains in December. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) eked out a .1% month-over-month gain. Personal Income ...
  • "The Blame Game"
    Finger-pointing and fear-mongering over trivial budget non-cuts are now in full swing. Obama is blaming House speaker John Boehner and of course Boehner is blaming Obama. Of the more ridiculous hype, Obama asserts "Navy ships could lie idle and children would lose out on vaccinations if th ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...
  • Video Report: Operation Gladio-Q & A
    Sibel Edmonds Answers Your Questions on Gladio B After four hours of intense conversation on Gladio B, this week James and Sibel take a step back to consolidate some of the information and answer listener questions. In this interview we discuss specific characters and events as well as the broad ...
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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

  • CNOOC Said to Cede Operating Control of Nexen’ ...
    By Rebecca Penty and Sara Forden (Bloomberg) — Cnooc Ltd., China’s largest offshore oil and natural gas producer, was barred from controlling Gulf of Mexico oilfields under U.S. terms for its $15.1 billion [...]
  • USS Freedom (LCS 1) Departs on Maiden Overseas ...
    By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Farrington, Navy Public Affairs Support Element West SAN DIEGO (NNS) — The Navy’s first littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) departed her [...]
  • Crowdsourcing the Ocean Floor: How Mariners Ca ...
    By Paul Cooper, Vice President of CARIS USA and John Hersey, ARGUS Project Manager for SURVICE Engineering: How is one sailboat captain helping improve maritime safety for all cargo ships [...]
  • Pirates Convicted for Attack on U.S. Navy Ship
    Successful or not, if you attack a ship, you are a pirate… and you will be convicted. Period. A federal jury in Virginia this week convicted five Somali men on [...]
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    New chartering contracts for LNG are key to improving fuel efficiency in the sector, according to an official from French energy company Total. “The current system looks unbalanced” stated Jacque [...]

Press TV

  • Britain Zionist lobby infiltrates UKIP
    Britain’s Zionist lobby has infiltrated UK Independent Party (UKIP) as the party, which was once a marginal group of anti-Europeans, is now becoming a force to be reckoned with.
  • ‘Russia’s stance on Syria unwavering’
    Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem says Russia’s stance about the months-long Syrian crisis has remained unchanged.
  • Syria militants hang two Palestinians
    Foreign-backed militants in Syria have hanged two Palestinians at a refugee camp in Damascus on suspicion of aiding the government of President Bashar al-Assad, reports say.
  • Britain heads for triple-dip recession
    Fears that Britain is heading for a triple-dip recession have been reignited with new official figures revealing an unexpected fall in the country’s manufacturing activity.
  • Portuguese protest austerity cuts
    Tens of thousands of people across Portugal have staged protests against government spending cuts and tax hikes, aimed at lifting the country out of recession.

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  • 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 ...
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    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 ...

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