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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Japanese Learn to Mind Their Business for Others
    After two decades of economic stagnation and serial natural disasters, a growing number of young Japanese believe social entrepreneurship is the best way to rebuild their society. Masami Komatsu (37) is one of them. He founded his investment company Music Securities in 2001, a few years after th ...
  • Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devast ...
    The U.S. State Department late Friday released a draft environmental impact assessment of a contentious pipeline project that simultaneously acknowledged the dangers posed by ...
  • Protests in Portugal Get Creative
    Indignation in Portugal over rampant joblessness and cuts in wages, pensions and unemployment benefits, together with a growing tax burden, has given rise to innovative forms of protest capable of drawing large crowds. The common denominator is non-violence. A mixture of ingenuity, humour and no ...
  • Task Force Urges Joint U.S.-Mexico Approach to ...
    A group of business executives, civil society leaders, policy experts and former government officials from Mexico and the United States are recommending that the two countries expand cooperative law-enforcement efforts along the border. They also assert that both countries need to develop a join ...
  • Former Haitian Dictator Denies Abuses at Histo ...
    For the first time ever, on Thursday Haiti’s former dictator faced his accusers, answering questions about corruption and human rights abuses during his brutal 15-year regime (1971-1986). The court of appeals hearing was part of a process that will determine if Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran nuclear talks reach a turning point
    Summary: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - After two intense days of nuclear talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tehran issued a statement that described negotiations as a positive step forward due to a "more realistic" position adopted by the "Iran six" nations that compromise the UN Security Council's pe ...
  • Jalili: 5+1 response to Iran’s proposals more ...
    Summary: Tehran, Feb 27, IRNA – Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili said the response of the 5+1 to Iran’s proposal was more realistic than before. source: IRNAread more
  • Former Insiders Criticise Iran Policy as U.S. ...
    Summary: Review of Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett's "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran" (Metropolitan Books, 2013) - source: IPSread more
  • A proposed endgame for the Iranian nuclear crisis
    Summary: After a long hiatus, the Godot of US-Iran diplomacy may finally arrive in 2013, in light of the reciprocal overture at the recent Munich Security Conference, featuring the signs of a new approach to Iran articulated by Vice President Joe Biden. Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Sale ...
  • Even if Iran gets the Bomb, it won’t be worth ...
    Summary: 'All options remain on the table”, goes the mantra. This is code for saying that the West retains the choice of using military force to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon. We’ll hear it repeated this week, as negotiations between Iran and the “P5 +1” (the permanent members of the U ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Could the Solar System's Deepest Ocean Harbor ...
                    The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. Although Europa is covered in a thick crust of ...
  • Elliptical Galaxy Reveals a Spectacular "Ruins ...
                    The Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4261 revealed dozens of black holes and neutron stars strung out across tens of thousands of light years like beads on a necklace. The spectacular structure, which is not apparent from the optical image ...
  • NASA Discovers 3rd Ring of High-Energy Radiati ...
                     Data sent back from NASA's Pioneer 3 and Explorer IV spacecraft, both launched in 1958 and both carrying instruments built by James Van Allen, showed the presence of two distinct rings of high-energy electrons. This week, NASA scientists have announced the discovery o ...
  • Antarctica Team Finds Largest Chondrite Meteor ...
                    An international team of scientists at Belgium's Antarctica research station has found the largest meteorite in nearly 25 years, potentially helping them to unlock the secrets of our solar system's original chemistry. The eight members of the SAMBA project, from Universi ...
  • NASA Antarctic Probe of Earth's Last Unexplore ...
                   NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory joined an international Antarctic expedition last month on a trek to investigate subglacial Lake Whillans using a unique instrument designed and funded by NASA to help the researchers study one of the last unexplored aquatic environments ...

Natural News

  • Glass particles prompt recall of major Kellogg ...
    The latest in a series of recalls that spans several years, corporate food giant Kellogg's has voluntarily summoned back 36,000 boxes of Special K Red Berries cereal that it says might be contaminated with potentially dangerous fragments of glass. Though a company spokesman...
  • What to do if you are paralyzed by fear of civ ...
    Over the course of many months I have had the privilege of coaching many Natural News readers who take my online personal development courses. If there has been one concern many have in common, it is fear for the future of humanity. Some actually live in a state of...
  • How to overcome insomnia without prescription ...
    Are the worries of life keeping you up at night? Do you have trouble unwinding at the end of the day, and end up staring at the television or ceiling for hours trying to fall asleep? If getting normal rest is troublesome for you, there is hope apart from having to pop...
  • Paul Craig Roberts nails it on pollution, GMOs ...
    The observations of some political commentators are much more insightful than most others, and that is certainly true of Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. An economist, academician, former nationally syndicated columnist, one-time Reagan administration Treasury official and...
  • Detox your body quickly and naturally with the ...
    The first rule of detoxing is to stop taking in toxins. In these days of living in toxic soup environments, the only thing people can control completely is what is consumed. The first step is eliminating junk food. Then eliminate processed foods, even from health...

Threat Level

  • Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Sa ...
    A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with "Occupy Everything," and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
  • Flame Windows Update Attack Could Have Been Re ...
    When the sophisticated state-sponsored espionage tool known as Flame was exposed last year, no one was more concerned about the discovery than Microsoft, after realizing that the tool was signed with a modified Microsoft certificate to verify its trustworthiness to ...
  • Cablevision to Suspend Repeat Copyright Scoffl ...
    Comcast is to begin hijacking browsers of its internet subscribers who are detected of repeatedly infringing on public file-sharing networks while Cablevision Systems said it would suspend subscribers for 24 hours after their fifth offense.
  • Bradley Manning Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ fo ...
    Updated 4:08 p.m. FORT MEADE, Md. — Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic an ...
  • Supreme Court Thwarts Challenge to Warrantless ...
    The divided Supreme Court halted Tuesday a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008 and again in 2012.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romney Was AWOL on Sequester Deal He Now Criti ...
    History will record that Mitt Romney was a pimple on the ass of American politics: painful while here and forgotten once gone. Now the pustule has resurfaced. As part of his brief "Thank You Tour," Romney is using appearance on Fox News Sunday to attack President Obama for "berating Republican ...
  • Bipartisan Resolution Calls for U.S. to Suppor ...
    Among the ideas most thoroughly discredited by the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the notion of "preventive war" to avert supposed future threats. Now, as the nation approaches the 10th anniversary of that disaster, a bipartisan group of legislators isn't just seeking to commit the United States to ...
  • Boehner Misleadingly Claims Tax Revenue at a R ...
    Back in 2010, Ohio Rep. John Boehner defied recent history and basic math when he comically denied that the Bush tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 played any role in producing federal budget deficits ever since. Now in his refusal to countenance any new tax revenue in a last minute compromise t ...
  • Justice Scalia, Meet Congressman John Lewis
    By all indications, conservatives on the United States Supreme Court are preparing give the Voting Rights Act (VRA) thumbs down. Echoing his question four years ago in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District v. Holder, lifelong VRA foe turned Chief Justice John Roberts asked again on Wednes ...
  • As Sequester Looms, GOP Governors Lament Ameri ...
    Nothing focuses the mind, Oscar Wilde famously said, like the sight of the gallows. And so it is with Republican Governors on the brink of losing $6 billion in federal aid thanks to automatic budget cuts currently set to kick in on March 1. But it shouldn't have taken the specter of the seques ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Black Hole Spin Rate Deduced For First Time
    The spin rate of a supermassive black hole has been deduced for the first time by researchers working at NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-Ray telescopes. The black hole in question has a mass over 2 million times large ...
  • How DC Became The US Leader In Bike Sharing
    The way of leadership is best in example. I don’t think the White House is blind or deaf to peak oil, but oil pressure in DC is strong. Tar Sands and Occupy movements have surrounded the White House to bring home our hope that environmental concerns are not only for the tried and true naturalist ...
  • Volcanic Aerosols Likely Limited Warming Betwe ...
    Volcanic aerosols likely offset some of the warming that would have otherwise occurred over the years of 2000-2010, according to research from the University of Colorado Boulder. Nine of the ten warmest years since global temperature records began were between 2000-2010, and the trend has been c ...
  • The Birth Of A Planet, Protoplanet Imaged In T ...
    The first direct observation of a exoplanet forming out of its thick proto-planetary disc of dust and gas has been made by researchers with the ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Once confirmed, the finding should help to considerably improve the scientific understanding of how planets form, and ...
  • Newly Discovered Species Of Dinosaur Was Croco ...
    The discovery of a new species of herbivorous dinosaur has been made by researchers at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. The discovery also provides the first fossil evidence that prehistoric crocodyliforms (crocodiles and related animals) feed on small and juvenile dinosaurs. ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Dictatorship or Democracy
    By @TedFrier Long time readers know that one of my favorite quotes about the nature of politics, and democracies in particular, comes from Walter Lippmann's Essays in the Public Philosophy, where the preeminent American journalist of the 20th century tried in 1955 to diagnose why fascism and oth ...
  • Let's Call Him "Madhouse" Speaker Boehner
    By @TedFrier Bloomberg blogger (and self-described Republican) Josh Barro shows us how it is done.   In Florida, nearly 60% of voters oppose the expansion of Medicaid benefits, apparently vindicating the foot-dragging obstruction of that state's Republican governor - and convicted health ca ...
  • Good Riddance To Pope Ratzo
    Today is reported to the be last day in office for Pope Benedict XVI (real name: Herr Joseph Ratzinger). Not that I have any stake in this at all -- to me, one of the most telling arguments AGAINST conservatism's invocation of venerable human institutions is the Roman Catholic Church. But as far ...
  • Republican FDIC Chair Speaks Out Against Inequ ...
    By @TedFrier In a New York Times op-ed piece ("Grand Old Parity") certain to cause a stir, former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair cites a statistic that perfectly captures the revolutionary changes in the world economy today and the demon spawn they have produced, namely a new class of robber barons ...
  • You Can't Be "Serious"
    By @TedFrier Better late than never. In the very first months of the Obama administration in 2009 it was evident that the Republican Party's idea of bi-partisanship was a liberal Democratic president governing as a right wing Republican or not at all. With Republicans digging in their heels like ...

Care 2

  • PETITION - STOP DEEP SEA OIL
    Texan oil company Anadarko intends to conduct high risk deep sea oil drilling in New Zealand waters and could begin prospecting this year. - Take action today to protect New Zealand from deep sea oil drilling. Submitted by Grigori Rasputin to Environment  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
  • Puppy Mill Bill Cracks Down on Online Dog Sales
    Great news! This week members of Congress reintroduced legislation to establish greater federal oversight of puppy mills and online dog sales. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Unusual Uses For Eggs
    Did you know that eggs can be used for something other than food? Don't throw away that cracked eggshell either because you can repurpose it to use around the house. We've scoured the internet and compiled an interesting list of unusual household uses Submitted by Agnes N. to Green Lifestyle & ...
  • Shark fin-hungry China drives 'chaotic' fishin ...
    Humans kill about 100 million sharks each year, mostly for their fins, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and conservationists are warning that dozens of species are under threat. Submitted by Anna Jarczynska to Animals  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  • The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot
    This will be the first significant tea party victory in that we got what we set out to do in changing Washington, says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Kan. What they set out to do was..eviscerate U.S. government -drown it in the bathtub,-words of Grover Norquist Submitted by Angelika Roll to US Politics &am ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Gee, Sequester Has Come and We’re Still Alive
    What the hell was Obama thinking? He and his toadies did everything but sacrifice a live virgin on television in their bid to scare the bejesus out of Americans in the lead up to the start of the sequester. Obama and crew played every hysteria card with the exception of portraying the Republican ...
  • Woodward Pays Piper for Speaking Truth to Powe ...
    I am both amused and empathetic with the plight of Bob Woodward, who is now the focus of a Washington political kerfuffle ignited by his reporting that the sequester idea originated with Barack Obama’s new Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew. That claim led to a White House push back and p ...
  • Backdoor Deal on Syria to Win McCain and Graha ...
    Perhaps today’s vote sealing Chuck Hagel’s future as the new Obama Secretary of Defense had nothing to do with news leaked that Obama is getting ready to help Syrian rebels. But call me skeptical: The Obama administration is moving toward a major policy shift on Syria that could prov ...
  • Oscar Open Thread
    How many of you are watching the Oscar’s tonight? I think Barack Obama deserved to be nominated for best actor. His hysteria and weeping over the last week while pretending “he don’t know nuthin about birthin” that sequester, is truly award winning chutzpah. Now, as I hav ...
  • John Kiriakou Goes to Prison
    God bless Code Pink. Now, I don’t agree with many of their policy positions, but at least they practice what they believe. I am fed up, disgusted by the politicians who make a promise but, when it comes to standing firm, fold like a portable card table. I applaud Code Pink for having the c ...

Futurismic

  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Catholic advocates monitoring issues raised by ...
    The Catholic Sun Catholic advocates monitoring issues raised by extractive industries The Catholic Sun ... residents have been dependent on a coal-based economy for a century. “The technology is killing the jobs,” she added, and the strip mining and mountaintop removal mining practices are devas ...
  • 'Three Rivers' documentary to premiere on PBS ...
    'Three Rivers' documentary to premiere on PBS Beckley Register-Herald Whether from mountaintop removal, the impact of building a dam or invasive species, the landscape. “It's also the message of the National Parks Service, that we need to preserve these lands and river. I couldn' ...
  • Catholic advocates monitoring issues raised by ...
    Catholic advocates monitoring issues raised by extractive industries U.S. Catholic magazine ... on a coal-based economy for a century. "The technology is killing the jobs," she added, and the strip mining and mountaintop removal mining practices are devastating the land. Copyright (c) ...
  • Keystone XL: Cynicism on the Potomac - Huffing ...
    Keystone XL: Cynicism on the Potomac Huffington Post Why would we try to replace fracked gas or mountaintop-removal coal with solar and wind, if we're powerless as a country to lead the world to a clean energy economy? This is shockingly defeatist thinking from a bureaucracy that is now led ...
  • Ashley Judd mum about Senate run, past comment ...
    Daily Caller Ashley Judd mum about Senate run, past comments during DC appearance Daily Caller She has also criticized the tradition of fathers “giving away” their daughters at weddings, has compared mountaintop removal mining to the Rwandan genocide and characterized Christianity as a religion ...

Memeorandum

  • Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, re ...
    Lisa Lundquist / The Long War Journal: Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference  —  Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Pakistan Ulema Council.  Image from TOLOnews.  —  The tortuous path of the Afghan government's plan for a r ...
  • "CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller" (Pamela Geller ...
    Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: “CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller”  —  I won't be at CPAC this year.  Every year AFDI organizes a must-see event, addressing issues that the Grover Norquist/Suhail Khan cabal refuse to address (jihad, sharia, the war on freedom in the ...
  • CPAC TURNS AWAY PAMELA GELLER (BREITBART.COM)
    BREITBART.COM: CPAC TURNS AWAY PAMELA GELLER  —  For the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America.  But this year, the ...
  • In Voting Rights Arguments, Chief Justice Misc ...
    Nina Totenberg / Law: In Voting Rights Arguments, Chief Justice Misconstrued Census Data  —  At the voting rights argument in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts tore into Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, grilling him on his knowledge of voting statistics.
  • Dangerous Times: How Euro-socialism Set off a ...
    James Lewis / American Thinker: Dangerous Times: How Euro-socialism Set off a Fascist Bomb  —  In the terrible economic crisis of 1922 Benito Mussolini got 25% of the vote in Italy.  Two years later he had more than a majority.  —  You know the rest.  & ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 英国绿党四&#2131 ...
    一个看似不可能的团体是如何挑战英国的既有政治体制，并取得千百万人支持的？政 ...
  • 自然资本：&#3699 ...
    地球的生态系统就是我们经济的基础，但几乎从来没有在资产负债表上出现过，这对 ...
  • 干旱和地震&#2354 ...
    福岛事故前，中国核电已基本布满沿海地区，新增装机容量将无法回避内陆核电。王 ...
  • 中国动物保&#2525 ...
    彼得·李表示，过去对动物的怜悯曾经被认为是“反革命的”，但如今年轻一代越来&# ...
  • 中国海外投&#3616 ...
    伴随着中国企业的海外扩张，其腐败、工人待遇、缺乏社会交流和公关协调等问题也 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Did the Internet Kill “Girls Gone Wild”?
     When the world is tired of sloppy drunk chicks taking off their tops for trucker hats, it is tired of itself. World, we must be damn weary. The Joe Francis “Girls Gone Wild” empire has filed for bankruptcy protection.I’m sure you’re absolutely heartbroken over ...
  • Bradley Manning's Surprising Statement to the ...
    The statement below was read by Pfc. 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. This rush transcript was taken by journalist Ale ...
  • The Weaponizing of Salt, Sugar and Fat: The Se ...
    AMY GOODMAN: We spend the rest of the hour going deep inside the "processed-food-industrial complex," beginning with the "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food." That was the cover story in the recent New York Times Magazine that examined how food comp ...
  • Why Scalia’s ‘Racial Entitlement’ Nonsense Is ...
     Justice Antonin Scalia quite deservedly came under fire yesterday for his claim that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” If the justice were looking to confirm every suspicion that conservative opposition to the law that broke ...
  • The Sequester as a Tea Party Plot
     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 give them ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Sa ...
    A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with "Occupy Everything," and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
  • Flame Windows Update Attack Could Have Been Re ...
    When the sophisticated state-sponsored espionage tool known as Flame was exposed last year, no one was more concerned about the discovery than Microsoft, after realizing that the tool was signed with a modified Microsoft certificate to verify its trustworthiness to ...
  • Cablevision to Suspend Repeat Copyright Scoffl ...
    Comcast is to begin hijacking browsers of its internet subscribers who are detected of repeatedly infringing on public file-sharing networks while Cablevision Systems said it would suspend subscribers for 24 hours after their fifth offense.
  • Bradley Manning Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ fo ...
    Updated 4:08 p.m. FORT MEADE, Md. — Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic an ...
  • Supreme Court Thwarts Challenge to Warrantless ...
    The divided Supreme Court halted Tuesday a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008 and again in 2012.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Yet another Leafy Green E. coli Outbreak and N ...
    On November 17, 2012 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that several East coast states were investigating an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.  At that time a... Continue Reading
  • A Truly Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak
    Makes you look at salsa a bit differently. In 2002 a well-documented outbreak of Salmonella enteriditis infections occurred at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas during March and April... Continue Reading
  • Seattle University Law School Distinguished Gr ...
    I am somewhere in the air over Nebraska off to give another food safety speech, and my office emailed me a letter that I have been awarded the Seattle University... Continue Reading
  • PCA Salmonella Outbreak – Parnells Face over 1 ...
    Over 700 people were sickened and nine dies as a result of the 2009 Salmonella outbreak and massive peanut recall. AP reports today that Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart... Continue Reading
  • Just in Time for Easter, Chocolate Covered Mar ...
    The FDA posted a recall notice from Zachary Confections, Inc., which announced yesterday a voluntary recall of certain production lots of its Zachary Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Eggs because they have... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Toyota sizzle reel gives better look at ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Toyota, Design/Style, Electric Toyota is taking the tiny tandem Tango to Tron town. In a teaser video for the new i-Road, debuting at the Geneva Motor Show next week, we catch a light-bike-like glimpse of Toyota's quirky tandem-seat concept. We still don't know much ...
  • Official: Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing de ...
    Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Take the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, stretch it and take off the wheels then make it float and you've basically got the just-unveiled Cigarette AMG Electric Drive Concept. Powered by an all-electric powertrain that offers 2,2 ...
  • Report: Coda Automotive undergoes "massive lay ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Earnings/Financials, Electric Plug In Cars is reporting that there have been "massive layoffs" at California electric vehicle startup Coda Automotive. Apparently, more than 50 employees, "including a substantial part of its sales and marketing staf ...
  • Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
  • Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost
    Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...

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Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • On this important date let’s remember th ...
    Summary:  On this day in 1781 the America Republic was born in the midst of war. Here we review its evolution, and the latest stage — which looks like the largest step yet. At some point incremental steps create something new, something different. Science Fiction Shows a Possible Future fo ...
  • A reason for the US military expansion into Africa
    In 2004 the US military began to expand into Africa. In 2007 they created Africa Command (Africom). Since then they’ve accelerated and expanded operations. Africa has great natural resources, but why more interest now? Here is one possible explanation: the great game. A rival great power e ...
  • Who lies to us the most? Left or Right?
    Summary:  Finally an answer to a vexing question! Left or Right in America, who has the greater contempt for truth? Which tribe exaggerates the most in their propaganda?  Looking at the big picture of America, the answer seems obvious.  Considerable efforts gets expended to hide the answer.  In ...
  • The World of Wonders: Everybody Goes Nuts Toge ...
    Summary:  We live in an age of wonders, in which things unforeseen — or even unimagined — become daily fare for the news, or remain unremarked.  This is the third chapter in this series, attempting to open your eyes to the amazing things taking place.  Today we have the second half o ...
  • The World of Wonders: Monetary Magic applied t ...
    Summary:  We live in an age of wonders, in which things unforseen — even unimagined — become daily fare for the news, or even remain unremarked.  This is the second chapter in this series, attempting to open your eyes to the amazing things taking place.  Today we have a guest post by ...

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Obama: ‘I am not a dictator’
    "I am not a dictator," President Obama said Friday while defending his efforts to stop the sequester. "I'm the president." Obama said there are limits to what he can do to get a deal on the sequester during a press conference in which he blamed Republicans for standing in the way of a deal ...
  • Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA
    “One of the most pervasive trends in 21st century western culture has become somewhat of an obsession in America. It’s called “Hollywood history”, where the corporate studio machines in Los Angeles spend hundreds of millions of dollars in order to craft and precisely tailor historical events to ...
  • Chemtrails, Wireless And You
    A water-filled upright human is a sizeable antenna. And since all moving electrons generate electrical current, all those electromagnetic waves inundating our everyday lives pass into our bodies, where they each generate an electric current. These induced electric currents change the charge on w ...
  • Sarah Palin: Feds Are Stockpiling Bullets For Us
    Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook on Tuesday and put her two cents worth in on why she believes the Federal government is acquiring so much ammunition. Her remarks, seemingly to clarify her earlier tweet, about the current economic situation in the United States and the massive ...
  • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Confirms HAARP’ ...
    Few government research programs have produced as many questions and as much speculation as the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). From the potential of HAARP to disrupt and control communications to the possibility of controlling the weather and creating natural disasters, ...

Andy Worthington

  • East End Odyssey: Photos of a Journey from Ley ...
    East End Odyssey: A Journey from Leyton to Poplar, a set on Flickr. This photo set is the 81st in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, and is the third of four sets which either precede or follow on from a set I published last [...]
  • The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Photos: From Mile End to Bow and Stratford on ...
    From Mile End to Bow and Stratford on a Summer’s Day, a set on Flickr. This photo set, the 80th in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began last May, is the second of three that precedes and follows on from a set I published last July, entitled, [...]
  • Radio: Guantánamo, Black Sites and Torture &#8 ...
    On Friday, following the publication of my article “America’s Disappeared” on the website of the Future of Freedom Foundation, I was interviewed by Scott Horton, with whom I have been talking since August 2007, when he first picked up on my Guantánamo work, and then followed up ...
  • URGENT: Save the NHS Now! Legislation Enforcin ...
    UPDATE 7.30pm, Feb. 25: The campaigning group 38 Degrees has now launched its own official petition calling for a debate on the provisions for implementing enforced competition in almost all NHS services, which the Tories had been hoping would pass in a month’s time without even being noti ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • '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 ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Doctors cry foul at NHS 'privatisation by stealth'
    Leaked letter from top medical body reveals contract fears, putting health minister Lord Howe under pressure to rewrite rulesBritain's leading medical body has expressed grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large sections of the NHS by stealth – in breach of previous promis ...
  • Droughts and floods 'will be common events in ...
    Environment Agency calls for urgent action to prepare for extreme weather eventsBritain faces increasingly extreme weather conditions and urgently needs to improve its anti-flood defences and preparations for severe drought, says the Environment Agency.Its stark conclusion follows detailed analy ...
  • Wigan Athletic v Liverpool – as it happened| G ...
    Minute-by-minute report: Luis Suárez became the league's top scorer with a hat-trick against abject Wigan with Coutinho playing an important role as creatorGregg Bakowski
  • How Beeching got it wrong about Britain's railways
    As rail companies struggle to meet growing demand, the legacy of 1960s cuts has been to hold back revitalisation of the networkThe rail line from St Erth to St Ives is one of Britain's finest. Its tracks hug the cliffs that loom over the sands of Carbis Bay. In the early spring, Atlantic ro ...
  • As Chávez fights cancer, Venezuela prepares fo ...
    While a gravely ill president undergoes a new, tougher course of chemotherapy, both his supporters and opponents are unsure of what the future holds for their countryGustavo Patraín has been a loyal supporter of President Chávez for the past 14 years. "He's the man, the leader, the ultimate," he ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • US-led coalition forces accidentally killed 2 ...
    KABUL - International forces accidentally killed two Afghan boys during an operation in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said Saturday. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commander of U.S. ...
  • NATO soldiers kill two boys in Afghanistan
    NATO has admitted its forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province this week. The children, two young boys, were shot dead on February 28th by ...
  • NATO 2 Afghan Boys Accidentally Shot Dead
    U.S. General Joseph Dunford, the commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, said troops from the international coalition had mistaken the two boys for insurgents during operations Thursday in Uruzgan ...
  • Watchdog Says Afghan Government Must Act To Pr ...
    The closure of a local radio station in southeastern Afghanistan has prompted calls for the central government to step in to protect media freedoms. The Voice of Qalat, a radio station based in ...
  • Diggers accused of killing two Afghan children
    Afghanistan Australian soldiers have been accused of accidentally shooting dead two children during an operation against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.The boys, aged seven and eight, were ...

Futurismic

  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • MSPB Urged to Retroactively Apply WEPA
    Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act w ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final Rules, indiv ...
  • January 2013 Decisions of the Administrative R ...
    The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM
  • OSHA Announces Interim Rule on Whistleblower P ...
    Last Friday, OSHA published an interim final rule, and invited public comment on whistleblower protections for reporting violations of Affordable Care Act's health insurance reforms.  The Affordable Care Act contains various provisions to make health insurance more affordabl ...
  • IRS On Verge Of Crippling Whistleblower Program
    Whistleblower Advocates Submit Extensive Comment  in Response to Proposed IRS Regulations Yesterday, the National Whistleblower Center ("NWC"), the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense and Education Fund ("Fund"), Bradley Birkenfeld, Scott Rosen, and Gene Ross jointly ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Christopher Best's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of ...
    If you’re like me, and you work in an office, then teleconferences occupy a special place in your heart. One executive at a Canadian energy company in particular couldn’t manage to keep to himself just how much he was enjoying the conference call he was on. Now, I personally hav ...
  • Crowdfunding Picks: Throw Trucks With Your Min ...
    For many, many years, we've talked about all kinds of business models, including ideas (and early attempts) at crowdfunding before "crowdfunding' was a word. Obviously, over the past couple years, Kickstarter has become "a thing," along with a number of other platforms, like IndieGogo, PledgeMu ...
  • Amanda Palmer On The True Nature Of Connecting ...
    There's been so much talk about Amanda Palmer's TED talk this week, that the folks at TED rushed to get the video edited and up on the site within days, rather than the customary months. It is, not surprisingly, quite inspiring: The crux of the message: people are focused on the wrong qu ...
  • Why Is The UK Blocking Access To Sites Without ...
    We already wrote about the UK court letting the BPI decide what sites the court would order all UK ISPs to block access to, but as more details come out about the process, the scarier it is. As Duke noted in our comments, the whole process lacked any sort of due process: For those interest ...
  • Could Open Source Software Be Put Into The Pub ...
    There are dozens of free software and open source licences -- many would argue rather too many. Different licenses impose different conditions. For example, the best-known and most widely-used is the GNU General Public License, which is designed to ensure that anyone building on GPL'd software ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The Holocaust just got more shocking
    The New York Times reports: Thirteen years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has sho ...
  • Zionism = Jewish rule = racism
    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a speech on Wednesday at the UN’s Alliance of Civilizations forum said: Unfortunately the modern world has not passed the test when it comes to Syria. In the last two years, we have seen close to 70,000 people lose their lives, and every sing ...
  • The dangerous logic of the Bradley Manning pro ...
    Yochai Benkler writes: After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning yesterday offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far from over—not for Manning, and not for the rest of the country. To understand what is still at stake, ...
  • How Bradley Manning decided to make public the ...
    From the transcript of Bradley Manning’s statement (compiled by Alexa O’Brien) which he read to the court in Fort Meade, Maryland on Thursday: During the mid-February 2010 time frame the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division targeting analysts, then Specialist Jihrleah W. S ...
  • An Air Force rape victim speaks out
    The New York Times reports: After her Air Force training instructor raped Virginia Messick, a young recruit, he told her it was fun and they should do it again, she remembers. Then he threw her clothes at her and ordered her to take a shower. Ms. Messick was unable to move, cry or scream. She [...]

Watts Up With That?

  • Weekend Open Thread
    Traveling today, so post on any relevant topic.
  • Aerosols from Moderate Volcanos Now Blamed for ...
    While looking for quotes on an upcoming post about Ocean Heat Content, I ran across the press release for a new paper (in press) by Neely et al, which blames the recent slowdown in global warming on smaller more moderate … Continue reading →
  • Keystone pipeline passes environmental review ...
    From Tom Nelson: Keystone pipeline passes environmental review: It’s the [CO2-induced] end of the world as the Sierra Club knows it, and I feel fine Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on climate change, State Department analysis says – … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny – John Cook’s withdra ...
    Call a whaaaambulance! WUWT readers may recall that this blog and other popular skeptic blogs are in the running for the 2013 Bloggies in the Science category, as detailed here. Also, for the first time, the website “Skeptical Science” (operated … Continue reading →
  • The 1970′s Global Cooling Compilation &# ...
    A compilation of news articles on the global cooling scare of the 1970′s Does the bullet point list for solutions to global cooling at right look familiar? It reads almost like some of the manifestos we get from warmists today, … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • 3D printing breakthrough with human embryonic ...
    A team of researchers from Scotland has used a novel 3D printing technique to arrange human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for the very first time. It is hoped that this breakthrough, which has been published today, 5 February, in the journal Biofabrication, will allow three-dimensional tissues an ...
  • Calcium Supplements May Raise Mens Death Risk ...
    Men taking calcium supplements may be running a nearly 20 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests.Both men and women take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss. In this study of calcium intake, the risk of dying from heart disease was higher for men b ...
  • Researchers unveil first artificial enzyme cre ...
    There’s a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig’s lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years ago, when life on earth began to evolve – long before they became ingredients for new and improved products, from detergents to foods a ...
  • HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)

  • Alya Red: A Computational heart
    Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project, and show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart.

CFACT

  • State Department Friday release: Keystone XL w ...
    It's 4:00 on Friday afternoon. Time to release a report with great news for the American economy, but which will leave hard-core enviros spitting, sputtering and gnashing their teeth. The Keystone XL pipeline is all gain, no pain.
  • Good news for oil companies and Green activists
    In news that could please oil companies and Green activists alike, the U.S. Department of Energy released a report claiming that using carbon dioxide to enhance oil recovery could be beneficial for the economy and the environment. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/254/5075.mp3]
  • Avery’s grim predictions are coming true!
    Reuters reports German renewable energy subsidies may cost its consumers an extra $1.34 trillion over the next 20 years (about $6,400 per family)—but won’t provide much dependable power! In the U.S., President Obama has ordered his EPA to cut back electricity, starting with the coal-fired plant ...
  • Save the planet, sleep with your dog
    OK. So you want to do something good to help save the earth. How about sleeping with your dog? Crazy as it sounds, the Australian government actually suggested this on its Living Greener website, saying that snuggling up with your pet instead of turning up the thermostat is a good way to save en ...
  • RELEASE: CFACT billboard campaign proclaims 16 ...
    CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker said, "We can't count on the establishment media to report fairly or comprehensively about global warming, so we placed this important information, that there has been no warming for 16 years, 80 feet wide and high in the sky where Washington politicians can ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Dragon to Dock Space Station on Sunday Morning ...
    Managers of private US company SpaceX and of the International Space Station (ISS) program gave the go-ahead for docking of the Dragon space freighter with the station on Sunday, NASA reported.
  • SpaceX Fixes Dragon Spacecraft Thrusters
    Specialists of a private US company, SpaceX, have started all thrusters of its Dragon capsule launched on Friday, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday, Moscow time.
  • Main News of March 01
  • SpaceX Rocket Thrusters Experience Problem Aft ...
    US private company SpaceX launched on Friday its Dragon space freighter on a second resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), but the capsule experienced an issue with its thruster pods, NASA and SpaceX reported.
  • Russia Starts Designing Launch Pad for Amur Rocket
    Russia began designing a new launch pad for the Amur heavy carrier rocket at the Vostochny Space Center that is currently under construction in the Amur Region in the country’s Far East, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) reported on Friday.

Pruning Shears

  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...
  • Nook & Cranny - 'The Bird With the Broken Wing ...
    Nook & Cranny took the top spot on my best music of 2012 post, so it’s safe to say I’m a fan. They’ve got a new album coming out soon, and here’s a live take of one of the tracks - The Bird With the Broken Wing.Pretty sweet, eh?
  • Blogroll Amnesty Day 2013 is here!
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day (BAD), the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Skippy has officially kicked it off, so here are my 2013 selections:Systemic DisorderThe Titanic sails at dawnMario Piperni dot ComAlternate BrainThe Mills River Progressivep ...

Organic Consumers.org

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Interview with Ivor van Heerden on Settlement ...
    emails revealed an apparent early plan to muzzle Dr. Ivor van Heerden when he rightly blamed the Army Corps of Engineers for most of the New Orleans area flooding during Katrina Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Japan Mass Media Banned From Reporting Radiati ...
    a joint French and Japanese NGO project found that external radiation continues to cause unacceptable health risks for hundreds of thousands of citizens and that government estimates ignore internal consumption of radionuclides Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |  &nbsp ...
  • Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page
    Ive posted all of the credible 3rd party paleoclimate graphs Ive compiled thus far, but I am sure there are lots more. Please post links to any credible paleoclimate data sources Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • China admits pollution brought about 'cancer v ...
    According to Greenpeace East Asia, 320 million people are without access to clean drinking water in China and 190 million people are drinking water severely contaminated with hazardous chemicals. Submitted by to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Death of a Hero
    The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims One measure of a society's honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.
  • The hideous BAM in Obama: map your brain for y ...
    This is the technocrats’ wet dream: “We can now power up an artificial brain of such power and intelligence that it can make all crucial decisions for the human race from Central Planning.”
  • Noncompliance Works! Roxy and Barb Chat
    Roxy and Barb talk about fracking, GMO Hemp, GMO labeling, organic gardening and seed exchange.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Sequestration Repeal Pushed By Progressive Hou ...
    ShareThisSequestration Repeal Pushed By Progressive House Democrats 28 Feb 2013 A group of progressive Democrats in the House has launched a late-game bid to repeal the so-called sequestration, arguing that Congress should scrap the cuts entirely if it can't agree on a suitable replacement. R ...
  • 'Homeland security' has received $791 billion ...
    ShareThis'Homeland security' has received $791 billion since 9/11 01 Mar 2013 In addition to the funds pouring into the Bush-founded Department of Homeland Security, Congress has allocated vast sums for "homeland security" expenditures in other departments, most notably at the Pentagon. ...
  • Jury Finds Occupy Wall Street Protester Innoce ...
    ShareThisJury Finds Occupy Wall Street Protester Innocent After Video Contradicts Police Testimony 01 Mar 2013 In the first jury trial stemming from an Occupy Wall Street protest, Michael Premo was found innocent of all charges yesterday after his lawyers presented video evidence directly cont ...
  • Obama signs order for 'sequester' budget cuts
    ShareThisObama signs order for 'sequester' budget cuts 01 Mar 2013 President Barack Obama on Friday signed an order that starts putting into effect across-the-board budget cuts known as the "sequester" after he and congressional leaders failed to find an alternative budget plan. The White Hou ...
  • Obama Allows Dirty, Dangerous Keystone Tar San ...
    ShareThisObama Allows Dirty, Dangerous Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline to Move Forward 01 Mar 2013 The Obama administration today took the next potential 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, wild ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Chris Kyle, Navy SEAL Murdered: Some Thoughts
    04 February 2013 News of Chris Kyle’s shooting has reached around the world.  Many people are asking for my thoughts, and so this morning I write these words in response. Chris was credited with killing about 160 enemy combatants in Iraq. He is called the most deadly sniper in US history. ...
  • FBR: Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State
    Burma Army Attacks Continue in Kachin State Kachin State 29 January 2013 From Free Burma Rangers Despite the Government of Burma declaring a ceasefire, Burma Army troops still continue to launch attacks in Kachin State. In this Report: • Burma Army troops take Hkaya Bum after repeated attack ...
  • Air Force Crashing
    25 January 2013 Team AFMC, The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require us to take prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks. Based on guidance r ...
  • SAR Overnighter
    24 January 2013
  • US Military Preparing to take Gut Shot
    24 January 2013  

The Killing Train

  • My lecture at Jamia on Aid Politics and Foreig ...
    The Jamia Journal did a nice little report and audio recording of my lecture on Feb 25/13 in the Poli Sci Department of Jamia Millia Islamia, here in Delhi. You can see it here.
  • Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?
    21 February, 2013 Countercurrents.org A review of Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009) If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? It's a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wea ...
  • Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Free ...
    Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main poi ...
  • The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space
    First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I'll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross t ...
  • Questioning Natural & Community Capital
    A Conference at York University about Capitalizing Power, organized by Jonathan Nitzan. In my talk, I try to relate Nitzan's "Capital as Power" framework to environmentalist thinking.

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Thein Sein: ‘With freedom comes responsi ...
    During Thein Sein’s stop in Norway during his five-country tour of Europe, DVB’s Deputy Executive Director Khin Maung Win sat down for an exclusive interview with the president. Burma’s leader addressed ongoing conflicts in the country, media reform and whether or not he’ll run in th ...
  • “With freedom comes responsibility&#8221 ...
    In an exclusive interview with DVB’s Deputy Executive Director Khin Maung Win, President Thein Sein addressed the media's role in the country's reform process.
  • Norway slammed for silence on ‘stateless’ Rohingya
    The Norwegian government has been criticised for failing to pressure the Burmese government on the statelessness of the Rohingya minority during a landmark visit by President Thein Sein to the country this week
  • Residents say police attacked first
    Residents from Ma-Ubin township say the police started the riot that turned violent on Tuesday night. Here they give their account
  • Naw Kham shown on live TV in China before exec ...
    Four convicted murderers sentenced to death for killing 13 sailors were shown on live television Friday being taken from a Chinese prison to their place of execution

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Washington escalates Syrian bloodbath
    Syria, following in the wake of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, has seen its entire society torn to pieces as a result of a US-backed war for regime change, with tens of thousands killed and wounded, the country's economy devastated and its population confronting a humanitarian crisis of tragic pro ...
  • Video: Horsemeat? GMOs Are The Real Scandal
    While the UK media becomes hysterical over the discovery of horsemeat in the food chain, RINF Alternative News takes a look at the real dangers of a handful of chemicals that are added to our food.
  • Should we humans feel guilty for overpopulatin ...
    Humans, to be sure, need to get a clue that they are not God's gift to the world. In fact, Shim Shimmel, the renowned artist, said, "With creatures like human beings, even the stars aren't safe."
  • OSCAR Awards for Sex and Violence Morally Obje ...
    Sex and violence as the theme of today's film-making that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) encourages by giving an Oscar award should get the public's attention. There is too much sex and violence around already that push us to the precipice of national disaster, and the ...
  • The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot
    The President should let the public see the Tea Partiers for who they are -- a small, radical minority intent on dismantling the government of the United States. As long as they are allowed to dictate the terms of public debate they will continue to hold the rest of us hostage to their extremism.

Switchboard

  • California Leads the Nation in Energy Efficien ...
    Sierra Martinez, Legal Director, California Energy Projects, San Francisco Although some naysayers question whether efficiency policies alter the amount of energy people actually use, there is no doubt that strong policies embracing this cheap and c ...
  • Reporting requirements in new DATA Act a commo ...
    Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Here’s what we know: Antibiotic resistant infections are on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control warns that dangerous bacteria are increasingly resistant to our arsenal of antibiotics. The World Hea ...
  • State Department Downplays Climate Danger of K ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The State Department issued an recklessly insufficient environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline on Friday. Despite the President’s tough talk on confronting climate chang ...
  • Reviewing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline: ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. The State Department released its draft environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would take tar sands from Canada to the US Gulf Coast for export. Past rev ...
  • Another flawed environmental review on the Key ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. A draft environmental review just released by the U.S. State Department for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline ignores mounting evidence the pipeline is not in the national interest.&nbsp ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Brothel Menu, 1912
    Have you ever wanted to see a detailed brothel menu from 1912, with extremely graphic detail about the services provided? Well, here’s your chance. This might be the most amazing historical document I have ever seen. Here’s another link if the first isn’t working
  • Online Integrity
    I’d have to say that Krugman puts it perfectly: It seems that some years ago Malaysia’s ruling party took a good look at leading pundits and policy intellectuals in the conservative movement, reached a judgment about their personal and intellectual integrity or lack thereof, and acted in a ...
  • Maddow is a fraud
    I never watch her myself, but I always assumed everyone I knew did, so I’m disappointed to learn that her “popularity” is entirely due to her manipulation of the Twitter machine. As Dan Riehl notes, “Hmm.” Because exactly. It’s much more likely that Maddow&#82 ...
  • One Example of Working-Class Environmentalism
    Too often, including in the comments at this blog, the idea that labor unions and environmentalists have irreconcilable goals goes unchallenged. But there is in fact significant common ground. Over the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Transit Workers Union, health care unions, and other unions opposed ...
  • Yet More on Conservatives and the VRA
    Apparently, John Roberts’s grasp of statistics ranks roughly with Glenn Reynolds’s. Relatedly, a view from Mississippi, that racially egalitarian paradise: “I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I think McComb would be all right,” he said, contemplating the prospect of Section 5’s ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI tasked as technical lead to implement Reno ...
    This morning a team of IBM experts from around the world, who have been leading Reno’s Smarter Cities Challenge for the last three weeks, presented their recommendations to the region’s political, educational and business leadership.
  • Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate S ...
    Meet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.
  • Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader highli ...
    Senator Reid discusses the success of DRI's GreenPower Program and its K-12 teacher training workshops specifically.
  • Antarctic ice core extracted by DRI scientists ...
    A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr. Kendrick Taylor, a research professor with the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past clim ...
  • DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized ...
    Amelia Gulling, DRI’s GreenPower Administrator was recognized at the annual Women To Watch ceremony for the Las Vegas business magazine, Vegas Inc at the Vdara in City Center on Tuesday Jan. 29th.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

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.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • NASA Discovers New Radiation Belt Around Earth
    A ring of radiation previously unknown to science fleetingly surrounded Earth last year before being virtually annihilated by a powerful interplanetary shock wave, scientists say. The surprising discovery — a new, albeit temporary, radiation belt around Earth — reveals how much remains unknown a ...
  • How Green Was the ’Green Pope’?
    One of Benedict’s lasting legacies might be how he steered the global debate over climate change. More than 1000 solar panels cover the roof of the Paul VI audience hall, generating enough energy to supply all heating, cooling, and lighting for the building. As the world’s one billion Catholics ...
  • De-Extinction: Environmentalist Claims Recrea ...
    Speaking from the prestigious TED Conference in Long Beach Wednesday, Sausalito activist Stewart Brand said scientists are developing the ability to reassemble an extinct animal’s genome, and even recreate the animal itself. Brand, who gained fame after he campaigned to have the original NASA sp ...
  • The Pope and the Spy Who Loved Him
    The butler did it! That was the tabloid take on the unprecedented breach of security that shook the Vatican last year, when a trove of secrets plucked from one of the most impenetrable places on earth—the pope’s private quarters—was leaked to the media. But why did he do it? And did he act alone ...
  • Vladimir Lenin’s Stoney Brain
    There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Einstein’s brain. Less well-known, but equally fascinating, is the case of Lenin‘s cerebrum – for just like Albert, the founder of the Soviet Union was fated to end up as a series of preserved slices. Lenin died of a series of strokes at the young ag ...

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

  • This rock could change the world if thrown thr ...
    By “power the world” does TIME MAGAZINE mean “heat” it?! To a rolling boil? –How incredibly inane. This piece of rock’s jagged asymmetry (probably to differentiate it from a lump of coal, the other fossil fuel), and the way it is lit, means to suggest shale ha ...
  • The making of American Taliban enclaves in Col ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.- While secularist crusader Richard Dawkins was delighting evangelical atheists at a nearby college campus, addressing how the charter school movement is subverting public education with religious indoctrination, the local District 11 school board was selling off another t ...
  • Now Colorado College students have to ask perm ...
    COLORADO COLLEGE- How do you protest having to seek permission to protest? Do it without. But Colorado College students learned on Wednesday that protesters risk arrest for trespassing: trespassing on the private property of a private college ostensibly protecting the non-dissenting students fro ...
  • The case of turning your 9 y/o kid into a Coca ...
    The news from America just keeps on getting worse and worse and worser. The Massachusetts Child Protective Services is investigating the dad of this 9 y/o kid because of how he has his kid performing in a ‘joke’ video for youtube! Rapper ‘Lil Poopy’ sings ‘Coke ain& ...
  • Lincoln: from Obama we hoped for a presidentia ...
    President Barack Obama couldn’t deliver on the campaign inference he’d fill Abraham Lincoln’s shoes, so what do we do? Cut the Great Emancipator down to size. Portray America’s most lionized president as political operator, and distribute copies of the film to all the nat ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Victory for Protestor who says BBC 9/11 Covera ...
    Campaigner and film maker Tony Rooke claimed a moral victory today after a UK court gave him a conditional discharge even though he has refused to pay his BBC license fee. Over 100 supporters from as far away as Denmark and Norway cheered in front of the court house as independent media people c ...
  • JFK Secret Societies Speech is Actually about ...
    JFK was actually talking about current events of the cold war and how nontraditional enemies were gaining information on how the US was battling this war. In this speech JFK actually points out "the need for far greater "official" secrecy"...as well as "the need for a far greater public informat ...
  • Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots?
    LiberalViewer Published on Feb 23, 2013 Limits on drone strikes that can kill virtually anyone, anywhere? More ACLU related videos at http://bit.ly/oqoPgz Having killed hundreds if not thousands off people using remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, the Obama Administration has not been very ...
  • Project Truth (WTC) - No Sound Claim (Audio C ...
    As I've written about the last comparison clip shown: Note: "Debunkers" will point out that the audio of the Tower "collapsing" in the above video, which comes from the Discovery Channel's Inside the Twin Towers documentary, is not the correct soundtrack. There has been dispute about thi ...
  • Book Launch - Postmark 9/11 - The Lost Letters ...
    "…a fascinating story that I hope will awaken the imagination of the American people to the truth about what really happened on 9/11. It has been the failure of the public to imagine the `inconvenient truth' that is the major challenge — not a lack of explosive evidence. This story may just be t ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...

Greg Palast

  • How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]
  • Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act: Protect ...
     Sign this petition RIGHT NOW at Care2. Dr. King's Dream Act is under attack. On Wednesday February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the law's requirement that states with a history of Jim Crow voting rules let the Justice Department review new voting procedures. This is the o ...
  • Too Fat to Vote Will a Supreme Ku Klux Kourt k ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You know why black folk in the south don't vote? According to The New York Times and the experts at the Pew Charitable Trust, they're just too damn fat! Normally I wouldn't care what the Times is passing off as fact, except for that, on February the 27th, the [...]
  • Thousands demand Obama to Smoke Pipe
    Rally Against Keystone XL Pipeline Photos by Zach D Roberts, photojournalist funded by the Palast Investigative Fund, at Sunday's rally in Washington DC, on assignment for Truth-out.  More photos here.
  • "I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT." T ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Activists alert: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his son Connor Kennedy were arrested Wednesday in Washington while protesting against approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. A rally in Washington, DC, protesting the Pipeline, has been called by Forward on Climate for Su ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: Utah Scraps Autism Insurance
    Feb 28, 2013, Salt Lake Tribune: Bill requiring insurance coverage for autism scrapped "A bill to mandate insurance coverage for autism treatment received a drastic makeover Thursday in the Utah Senate, disappointing hundreds of parents who hoped they could soon...
  • Weekly Wrap: Adam Lanza, Feeling No Pain
    By Dan Olmsted Talking about the Newtown mass murderer, Adam Lanza, is fraught with peril for people in the autism advocacy community, especially that part of the community which believes -- as I certainly do -- that vaccines have caused...
  • National Autism Association Announces "Marchin ...
    Managing Editor's Note: While other so called autism advocates talk about what our kids do NOT deserve, we can always rely on our friends at National Autism Association to give families from coast to coast an active, meaningful, progressive set...
  • A Vaccine Injury Case Goes to the Supreme Court
    EBCALA recently submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Sebelius v. Cloer. Nineteen other civil society organizations joined us to support petitioner Dr. Melissa Cloer in her quest that her lawyers receive payment for having brought her...
  • The Scientific and Basic Moral Reasons We Need ...
    By Teresa Conrick My beautiful daughter, Megan, will be 20 years old on March 2nd. The real heroes are the children, and now soon to be adults of this Autism Epidemic, who live each day in the shadow of pain....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.
  • The hideous BAM in Obama: map your brain for y ...
    This is the technocrats’ wet dream: “We can now power up an artificial brain of such power and intelligence that it can make all crucial decisions for the human race from Central Planning.”
  • Noncompliance Works! Roxy and Barb Chat
    Roxy and Barb talk about fracking, GMO Hemp, GMO labeling, organic gardening and seed exchange.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Eurozone unemployment inches up amid recession
    DW – Unemployment across the 17-nation eurozone hit a new record in January, indicating that the recession is engulfing more and more businesses. Youth unemployment continued to grow at a disproportionately high rate. The number of jobless in the eurozone edged higher to 11.9 percent in Ja ...
  • Low-earners, gay couples in German election cr ...
    DW – Germany’s opposition-controlled upper house of parliament has passed two draft laws: one for a minimum wage and another for equal tax status for gay couples. It’s no coincidence that they come in an election year. The German upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, was un ...
  • Skin cancer ‘able to fight off body&#821 ...
    BBC – A deadly form of skin cancer is able to fend off the body’s immune system, UK researchers have found. Analysis of tumour and blood samples shows that melanoma knocks out the body’s best immune defence. Read article
  • Bradley Manning pleads guilty to misusing clas ...
    Reuters – The U.S. Army private accused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified material he felt “should become public,” but denied the top charge of aiding the enemy. Read article
  • Glencore bartered with firm linked to Iran nuc ...
    Reuters – Commodities giant Glencore supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminum to Iran’s nuclear program, intelligence and diplomatic sources told Reuters. The previously undisclosed barter arrangement between Glencore, the world’s bigg ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Cooking up toxic air pollution
    When UC Davis scientists collected air pollution particles in Fresno and then exposed laboratory mice to them, they found that one of the most toxic sources was the backyard grill.
  • Some plastics should be classified as hazardou ...
    Less than half of the 280 million metric tons of plastic produced each year ends up in the landfill.  A fair bit of the rest ends up littering the landscape, blown by the wind or washed down streams and rivers into the sea.
  • Religious beliefs drive hunting decisions in A ...
    Stanford researchers have discovered that the introduction of Western religions is changing hunting patterns in the Amazon and affecting the region’s biodiversity.
  • Climate change threatens wolverines; protectio ...
    Citing shrinking mountain snowpacks as a result of climate change, federal wildlife officials are proposing to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
  • Does Central Valley irrigation boost the South ...
    Irrigation in California’s Central Valley pours so much water vapor into the atmosphere that it significantly drives up summer rainfall and runoff in the Southwest, according to a new study.

water.org

  • A WaterCredit Pilot
    Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
  • Strike With Me to Raise Awareness
    At a press conference in Los Angeles, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water crisis.
  • Learning Through Plays
    Children and adults learn about good hygiene practices through a series of street plays, including hand washing and the importance of using a toilet instead of practicing open defecation. They also learn about the connection between water-related illnesses and prevention.
  • A Loan Leads to More
    Mrs. Lalitha Patil lives in Gojaga Village. She took a loan for Rs.10,000/- from Water.org's partner, Grameen Koota (GK), and constructed a toilet in her home. Afterwards, she became highly motivated and decided to work with her village to become completely clean and hygienic.
  • From Kutcha Well to Water Point
    In Assam, access to safe drinking water and sanitation in rural communities and small towns is often unavailable. Community residents are dependent on rain, streams, and rivers for drinking and agricultural water. Additionally, unhygienic practices have contributed to the pollution of available ...

Cryptogon

  • Spending: With Sequestration and Without Seque ...
    HC asks: “I was curious why you’re not covering the whole sequestration flap that’s saturating the media right now.” The reason why I haven’t been is because it’s a trivial event, either way. Soviet America is so far gone, so dependent on insane state expendit ...
  • U.S. Navy Will Run Drone Missions 24/7 Out of ...
    Via: Gizmodo: I talked to the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, which had plenty to say about the upcoming drone playground, which is just one of “several bases throughout the world” the Navy wants. Each will host Tritons, with Point Mugu boasting four, conducting around five missions every ...
  • Florida Man Feared Dead After Sinkhole Swallow ...
    Via: Reuters: A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a sinkhole suddenly opened up under the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said. Rescuers responded to a 911 call late on Thursday after the family of Jeff Bush, 36, reported hearing a loud crash i ...
  • Mayor Bloomberg On National Debt: ‘Peopl ...
    What could possibly go wrong? Via: Politicker: Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default. “We are spending ...
  • Fat Finger: ‘Data-Entry Error’ Led ...
    Via: Wired: The U.S. military proudly touted a 7 percent drop in Taliban violence in 2012 as a measure of progress in America’s longest war. Only one problem: The drop never happened. Its explanation: a data-entry error. The Associated Press’ Robert Burns discovered the mistake, which undercut a ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The M ...
    Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families?  Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought.  Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack ...
  • All Of This Whining And Crying About The Seque ...
    If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. go ...
  • Will Italy Be The Spark That Sets Off Financia ...
    Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan.  Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 1 ...
  • 50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A ...
    The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die.  In the United States today, the health care industry is completely dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corp ...
  • The Big Dogs On Wall Street Are Starting To Ge ...
    Why are some of the biggest names in the corporate world unloading stock like there is no tomorrow, and why are some of the most prominent investors on Wall Street loudly warning about the possibility of a market crash?  Should we be alarmed that the big dogs on Wall Street are starting to get v ...

Desertification

  • Gardens in refugee camps in the desert (You Tube)
    Video seen at : http://youtu.be/y_PMX7OJTXs Video by NotForgottenIntl GARDENS IN THE DESERT MY COMMENT (Willem VAN COTTHEM) For me it’s a real pleasure to discover this nice video featuring the initiatives of my good friend Taleb BRAHIM. I have a … Continue reading →
  • Desertification in Nigeria (Google / Denny De ...
    Read at : http://dennybrett.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/desertification-in-nigeria/ I though I would be interesting to evaluate the bottom-up and top-down approach to a current desertification issue. The case study I will be examining are attempts to combat desertification in Nigeria. By examining ...
  • PureMadi for home use (Green Prophet)
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/02/puremadi-clay-water-filters/ PureMadi Are Basic Clay Pots and Sawdust Water Filters for Home Use by Tafline Laylin We love just about anything that is made with earth – a vast, renewable resource eclipsed by more modern materials. Not … Continu ...
  • Farmers adaptation initiatives to the impact o ...
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=64241?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29#.US_lOserWg0 Farmers adaptation initiatives to the impact of climate change on agriculture in northern Nigeria Thi ...
  • Indigenous knowledge and traditional grazing ...
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=64211?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29#.US_i-MerWg0 The role of indigenous knowledge and perceptions of pastoral communities on traditional grazing manag ...

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backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Second occupation at the University of Sussex
    bemefw4ccaafkew1[2].jpg Following the largest demonstration yet, a second occupation has begun at the University of Sussex. This statement was read from the steps of the occupied BSMS building. ...
  • Anti-privatisation struggle gathers momentum a ...
    BC5-uFsCEAALzWw[2].jpg Demo today (Thurs 28th Feb): 'the big one' | 1pm Library Square | Bring workmates, friends, and yellow squares. The long-running struggle agains ...
  • Grand Jury Refusers Katherine Olejnik and Matt ...
    feature-570.jpg After refusing to cooperate with an investigation against anarchists in the Pacific Northwest, Katherine Olejnik and Matthew Duran, who have spent the last 5 months in prison - much of ...
  • Neo-Nazi terror marked the protests in Sofia ( ...
    HoRa (People-against-Racism) warns: nationalist and neo-Nazi tendencies made provocations during today’s (Feb. 24, 2013) procession, which started officially from the Ministry of Economics in protest of high electricity bills. HoRa su ...
  • Factory in Greece resumes production under wor ...
    Vio.Me_.JPG Production at the bankrupt Vio.Me building supplies firm has resumed under control of the workers. After 3 days of intense mobilization, the factory of Vio.Me. start ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Revolution is What “They” Want! C ...
    The Communist/Edomite handlers of Barak Obama want America under Martial Law and they want Christian Blood to flow in America’s streets.  That’s their AGENDA – the ultimate goal of the “Frankfurt School” and the Fabians.   New World ORDER, only is birthed following ...
  • Criss “Angel” – the Magician ...
    “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” —2nd Thessalonians 2:9,10 There is “ ...
  • Can You OPPT Out of the “System”? ...
    Folks, the Edomite Bankster’s Gig is Up. People are waking up to the causes of their oppression and covert slavery like never before. The problem is, the Synagogue of Satan that controls Mormonism and all organized religions have what is best described as psychological Samson Complex &#821 ...
  • The Mormon Mafia Mind Control – No Diffe ...
    This open letter speaks for itself!!!!!!! An Open Letter to the Leadership of the Mormon Church View The following letter appeared on Craigslist. It captures the reasons why leaving the Mormo-Demonic Church is so painful.       Dear Elder (Name): As one who suffers from within, I ...
  • The Message – For All Who Love Christ
    I am posting this because I have seen the exact same thing, on the exact same date. My 25th Birthday – (2+5=7) was September 28, 1984. (Gematria of my birthday, 9-28-1959: 9+2+8+1+9+5+9 (seven numbers) = 43.  4+3=7.) In my vision, I met him and one other man who are to testify of Christ an ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • StLouis Get Out The Vote!
    In these next few days, we need to do all that we can to spread the message that Mayor Slay is the candidate who will keep St. Louis moving forward, and to get our supporters TO THE POLLS!! What we do between now and Tuesday March 5th REALLY matters!! Call, email, Facebook message, tweet, text [...]
  • Drain Tile Location-Preventing Water Damage
    When I’m not performing Green Building activities around the city of St Louis. I field numerous calls to fix and Build everything from- Drywall Repair, Painting, Basic Carpentry, Electrical Repairs, Water Leaks, Roof Repairs, and Plumbing issues. Today’s Plumbing fix and the costs to ...
  • Drain Tile Location-Preventing Water Damage
    When I’m not performing Green Building activities around the city of St Louis. I field numerous calls to fix and Build everything from- Drywall Repair, Painting, Basic Carpentry, Electrical Repairs, Water Leaks, Roof Repairs, and Plumbing issues. Today’s Plumbing fix and the costs to ...
  • CAD Bar Designs-Before Photos with CAD Drawing
    In this design-build project for Shady Jacks Saloon in Downtown St Louis Mo.  The Owner-Shady Jacks has 3 Main Goals for this project: 1-Create User Friendly Area for the Staff; with the addition of Racking Space for the Latest Non-Alcoholic and Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers; 2-Create Eye Appeal ...
  • CAD Bar Designs-Before Photos with CAD Drawing
    In this design-build project for Shady Jacks Saloon in Downtown St Louis Mo.  The Owner-Shady Jacks has 3 Main Goals for this project: 1-Create User Friendly Area for the Staff; with the addition of Racking Space for the Latest Non-Alcoholic and Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers; 2-Create Eye Appeal ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education
    This is Part I of a two part guest post by Dr Danny Weil. It’s a repost of an article Cornell University to Offer the “Hypodermic Needle Theory” of Education in an Attempt to Colonize Consciousness and Groom Future Elites originally published at Daily Censored Understanding h ...
  • The Criminals Who Run the Afghan Police
    The Obama administration seems baffled by growing popular support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. While they grudgingly acknowledge anger over the continued bombing of innocent civilians by NATO drones and war planes, they are less forthcoming about the real reason – the criminals wh ...
  • Guess Who Funds the Climate Denial Industry?
    According to the Guardian, a newly released Greenpeace study reveals it’s not just Exxon and the Koch brothers who fund the climate denial industry. In a recent article, they describe how a secretive charity known as Donors Trust enabled anonymous billionaires to donate nearly $120m ...
  • A Radical Alternative: Teaching Students to Think
    Lakeside School Seattle This is final in a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily Censored. In the ninth section, Dr Weil describes the alternative &ndas ...
  • Education Standards as Big Business
    KIPP is one of the largest charter school chains This is the eighth of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily Censored. In the eighth section, Dr Weil ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Left on the Cutting Room Floor of 'The Gatekee ...
    On February 28th, 2013, Dror Moreh, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'The Gatekeepers,' spoke with Dave Davies of NPR's Fresh Air about what he wasn't able to include in the film due to time constraints: DAVE DAVIES: I know that you talked to these gentlemen a long time, and there m ...
  • Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Ta ...
    [View the story "Seattle Seahawks Wide Receiver Doug Baldwin Talks About American Consumerism on Twitter" on Storify]
  • Statement of Emad Burnat, Co-Director of '5 Br ...
    Emad Burnat released the following statement in response to a second Buzzfeed story about his detention with his family at Los Angeles International Airport while en route to the 2013 Oscars. When I arrived at LAX with my 8 year old child and wife, excited to attend the Academy Awards, the las ...
  • From 'Epilogue: The Execution of Michael Moore'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore It was the night of March 23, 2003. Four nights earlier, George W. Bush had invaded Iraq, a sovereign country that not only had not attacked us, but was, in fact, the past recipient of military aid from the United States. ...
  • Statement of Emad Burnat, Co-Director of '5 Br ...
    Last night, on my way from Turkey to Los Angeles, CA, my family and I were held at US immigration for about an hour and questioned about the purpose of my visit to the United States. Immigration officials asked for proof that I was nominated for an Academy Award® for the documentary 5 BR ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • More Java-based malware plagues the cross-plat ...
    Java cannot seem to get a break. Only a few days after patching the last zero-day vulnerability, two more exploits are being found that make use of the runtime. One, as noted by Kaspersky, is a recent exploit of the latest runtime's attempts to install a McRAT executable by overwriting memory in ...
  • IFixit: Surface Pro Most Difficult Tablet to R ...
    iFixit on Thursday published a list of the best and worst tablets based on their respective repairability scores. While no slate scored a perfect 10, the company found that the Dell (DELL) XPS 10 was the easiest tablet to repair thanks to its accessible case, color-coded screws and labeled cable ...
  • First SOPA, Now Your Privacy: Facebook, Google ...
    In the United States, corporations dominate tech policy and privacy is a consumer issue, but the EU considers privacy a civil and human right, explains Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy. The new EU laws would affect users outside of Europe (including US web ...
  • FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban
    The "ban raises competition concerns; it raises innovation concerns," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told me last night at a TechCrunch CrunchGov event at our San Francisco headquarters. - TechCrunch
  • Judge cuts Apple award from Samsung by 40 perc ...
    Apple had a major setback in its ongoing mobile patents battle with Samsung Electronics on Friday, as a federal judge slashed a $1.05 billion jury award by more than 40 percent and set a new trial to determine damages.... "We are pleased that the court decided to strike $450,514,650 fro ...

WideShut

  • The Story of CHRIS: A Critique of Naming and S ...
    This is the story of C.H.R.I.S. (Children Have Rights In Society) – a website run by a convicted football hooligan who couldn’t be a worse poster child for the name-and-shame concept.
  • Who Are The English Defence League?
    The EDL may claim to be a grass-roots anti-Islamic extremist movement out to protect Britain, but their creation and leadership are fundamentally tied to the war-mongering Zionist ideology of Israel and NEOCON agenda of the US.
  • What Zero Dark Thirty isn’t Telling You about ...
    Critically acclaimed film Zero Dark Thirty might win awards and make money, but that doesn't mean it presents the truth about the CIA and their history with Bin Laden. Why would it? The CIA helped with the film's development.
  • Police Further Contradicted Over Mark Duggan S ...
    Mark Duggan didn't shoot at police, appears to have been unarmed and the pathologist's injury analysis does not match police testimony.
  • Satanic Panic Reemerges In Jimmy Savile Scandal
    Notorious "satanic ritual abuse" psychoanalyst Valerie Sinason, uses the Jimmy Savile scandal to give new coverage of her baseless theories, and the press who once mocked her are eating it up.

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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frogblog

  • General debate, March 3, 2013
  • Give postgrads a chance
    Cutting student allowances to all postgraduates is short-sighted policy that pulls the rug out from under thousands of students. Many cannot work part-time due to course requirements to fill the deficit, meaning they will have to walk out of their courses. It will also add millions to student de ...
  • More damn statistics and Women in Canterbury
    I know I just wrote a post yesterday critiquing the Government’s choice of statistics, and no-one wants to read continual disputes over statistics but the following statements from Paula Bennett’s media release today are just too provoking: “I also recall dire predictions that Cantabrians would ...
  • Tame Iti and the Mana Motuhake of Tuhoe
    A quiet road outside Hamilton, the Hukanui Marae car park is full of journalists. Hone Harawira, David Clendon, I and a few others are welcomed on by Ngāti Wairere. This is Tame Iti’s mother’s marae so on the first day of freedom he comes here to start his journey home. Tame is in th ...
  • Statistics damn statistics
    Yesterday we found out the National Party’s welfare reform agenda, Future Focus, is getting results. Prior to Future Focus there was no work expectation on sole parents until their youngest child was 18 years old. “More than 10,600 sole parents on the DPB with children over six years ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Can You Cut Your Breast Cancer Risk by Skippin ...
    By Dr. Mercola In the US, women are still urged to get an annual mammogram starting at the age of 40, despite the fact that updated guidelines set forth by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in 2009 urge women to wait until the age of 50, and to only get bi-annual screening thereaf ...
  • Poor Sleep Increases Risk of Hard-to-Treat Hyp ...
    By Dr. Mercola When you mess with your body’s intrinsic need for regular, high-quality sleep, it sets off a cascade of biological changes that can seriously impact your health. The trouble is, of course, that many people don’t intentionally neglect proper sleep; instead, they sim ...
  • The Brighton Method - Helping You Conceive an ...
    By Roy Dittmann, OMD, MH So you want to get pregnant. You schedule your OBGYN exam, you are given a clean bill of health and you are cleared for takeoff! Now what? Are you concerned about your chances of conceiving a child with autism, ADD, diabetes, or obesity? How might your food choices ...
  • American Foods Chockfull of Ingredients Banned ...
    By Dr. Mercola More than 3,000 food additives -- preservatives, flavorings, colors and other ingredients -- are added to foods in the United States. While each of these substances are legal to use in the US, whether or not they are safe for long-term consumption -- by themselves or in com ...
  • Diclofenac Causes as Many Heart Attacks as Vioxx
    By Dr. Mercola A brand new meta-analysis reveals that the world’s most popular painkiller is as dangerous as ill-fated Vioxx. Vioxx (refecoxib) was pulled from the American market in 2004 — but not until 60,000 people had lost their lives from heart attacks and strokes as a deadly ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...
  • Secret plans for gas exploration in UNESCO Wo ...
    Plans to explore for natural gas in the Nahua-Nanti Reserve threaten the uncontacted relatives of this Nanti man.© Survival InternationalA report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited b ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Doctored: New Documentary Shows Big Pharma’s C ...
    from naturalsociety.com: In a new documentary by Jeff Hays, Doctored shows the shortcomings and even the insidious nature of the modern medical and pharmaceutical culture. Central to the film is the story of chiropractics, once considered by the western world quacks at best and cultists at wo ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    from jonrappoport.wordpress.com: You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in. You’re buying your GMO seeds from Monsanto, and the food crops that g ...
  • Farm Theme Boosts Enrollment in Rural Kansas S ...
    from cryptogon.com: The first clue is a sign “Fresh Eggs for Sale” in front of the school. There is a sheep pen on the baseball field and the sounds of farm animals greet pupils every morning. This is not your ordinary elementary school. It is the Walton Rural Life Center, a kindergarten-th ...
  • The Polarizing Practice of Eating Horses
    from theatlantic.com: Everyone who seriously studies French or Italian food on scholarly (gluttonous) research trips eats horsemeat. Most every village in France, particularly the southwest and northern border regions with Belgium, and in Italy, particularly the northeast around Verona and Ven ...
  • Midway: Message from the Gyre
    from cryptogon.com: Midway: Message from the Gyre http://www.midwayfilm.com/ http://www.midwayjourney.com/ Related: Vice Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The M ...
    Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families?  Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought.  Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack ...
  • All Of This Whining And Crying About The Seque ...
    If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. go ...
  • Will Italy Be The Spark That Sets Off Financia ...
    Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan.  Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 1 ...
  • 50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A ...
    The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die.  In the United States today, the health care industry is completely dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corp ...
  • The Big Dogs On Wall Street Are Starting To Ge ...
    Why are some of the biggest names in the corporate world unloading stock like there is no tomorrow, and why are some of the most prominent investors on Wall Street loudly warning about the possibility of a market crash?  Should we be alarmed that the big dogs on Wall Street are starting to get v ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

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

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu Speech Recognition App Enters Invite-On ...
    Just a day ago, we introduced you to an upcoming Ubuntu speech recognition app, which looked pretty amazing in the featured demo video. Its author, James McClain, had promised the imminent release of the app to the public with an open source license. Ubuntu voice recognition app has now e ...
  • Shank 2, Waking Mars Arrives on Steam for Linux
    Highly acclaimed 2D brawler, Shank 2, finally arrives on Steam for Linux. After the official release of Steam client last year, Valve created waves by finally making the Steam client available in Ubuntu Software Center for free download just a few days ago. Barrage of games went on SALE for a ...
  • 6 Most Good-Looking Music Players for Linux
    There is no dearth for good quality music players in Ubuntu. Even the default Rhythmbox is pretty darn good. But how many of those music players can be considered as good-looking? It is a tricky question since looks are very subjective. Anyway, here's a collection of 6 best music players for L ...
  • A Brilliant New Voice Recognition App for Ubun ...
    This has to be the find of the day. I was skeptical about the relevance of a full-fledged voice recognition application in a desktop OS like Ubuntu. But all that changed once I saw the video demonstration of the same. Not only does the app looks awesome, it is tightly integrated with Ubuntu' ...
  • Canonical Unveils Ubuntu on Tablets: "It is th ...
    Ubuntu is on a roll. Barely a month and a half after the official unveiling of Ubuntu for Phones, Canonical has just revealed their next flagship product, dubbed as Ubuntu on Tablets. With the introduction of platforms tailor-made for phones and tablets now, Canonical have made their intenti ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...

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Veterans Today

  • A short open letter to Secretary of State Kerry.
    Before you arrived in Turkey, its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told a United Nations forum in Vienna that the international community should consider Islamophobia as a crime against humanity “like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism.”
  • Israel-Palestine: THE question
    There is one absolute pre-condition for ending the Israel-Palestine conflict by diplomacy and negotiations on the basis, as it would have to be, of justice for the Palestinians and peace with security for all
  • The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point ...
    Can Washington and Her Allies Stop Syria’s Reconciliation Efforts? The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped by FRANKLIN LAMB Damascus — This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” sign ...
  • Israel celebrates successful 9/11 operation on ...
    When Israel finally does admit its responsibility for 9/11, and lavish honors on the Mossad terrorists responsible, will it be during Purim - the holiday honoring Jews who seduce gentile rulers and manipulate them into mass-murdering their enemies?For more than eleven years, Israel has been wild ...
  • George Galloway Boycotts Israeli Citizens
    Listen to George Galloway, a British politician, author, journalist, broadcaster, and a respected member of British Parliament, discuss many issues including how to boycott Israel by not debating or even talking to Israeli citizens.

electric politics

  • A Question of Rights
    Every American has a basic human right to live without the threat of gun violence. And that right exists prior to all the legal or political barriers that get thrown at sane gun control measures. Paradoxically, perhaps, if the gun culture wants to deny us our human right to live in safety their ...
  • Slavery and the Second Amendment
    High School civics does not provide a sufficient basis for understanding the Constitution. "Exhibit A" being the Second Amendment. Whereas modern American myth treats the Second Amendment as if it were written to guarantee the right of freedom loving men to defend their homes and sacred honor, i ...
  • A Hermeneutic and an Erotic Philology (of Brig ...
    It's not that Brigitte Bardot brings life to the meaning of the word pulchritude, although of course she does, it's that somehow she forces us to cherish our ignorance of her. A truly rare (and great) gift. And if in the superposition of a spacetime vortex she fundamentally altered the history o ...
  • Wrangling the Facts
    From the earliest times diplomacy has been a balance between honest interlocution and soothing ephemera. The art, some say, of allowing another person to have things your way. And always — always — with an iron requirement for accurate factual appraisal. Ambassador Dan Simpson is one ...
  • Congo Nocturne
    The Europeans required over a thousand years to come up with the European Union (and the EU still doesn't work right). The Congo, approximately the same size as Europe, has never had any history of legitimate, national self-governance. When Europeans started exploring the region in the late 1800 ...

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Stop NATO

  • NATO States Signal Direct Intervention In Syri ...
    Itar-Tass March 2, 2013 Friends of Syria’s decisions herald direct Western intervention – analyst ==== “It has already worked in Libya,” he said. “Next, a territory is to be won where an alternative body of government would be located. Then a no-fly zone would be declared and troops sent i ...
  • Brookings Leader: U.S. Should Intervene In Syr ...
    Brookings Institution February 28, 2013 Weighing U.S. Intervention: Syria v. Congo By Michael E. O’Hanlon ==== [M]ore capable U.S. forces that can help in the task even as other nations generally provide many of the peacekeeping troops. These conditions free Obama to make decisions about t ...
  • Romain Rolland: War enriches a few, and ruins ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Romain Rolland From Clerambeault (1920) Translated by Katherine Miller The chief seat of the disease was the idea of Nation; this inflamed point could not be touched without howls from the bea ...
  • U.S.-NATO Missile System: First-Strike Potenti ...
    Moscow Times February 28, 2013 Missile Defense Hits a Brick Wall By Vladimir Kozin* ==== U.S. operational missile defense systems to be deployed in Romania and Poland in 2015 and 2018, respectively, are not designed to intercept potential ballistic missiles launched by Iran…The only purpos ...
  • German Military Has Long Experience In Mali
    Deutsche Welle February 27, 2013 German military has long experience in Mali Since 2005, German soldiers have trained Malian engineers and Germany has donated large amounts of military hardware ==== Between 2005 and the outbreak of unrest in April 2012 a group of Bundeswehr advisors has been per ...

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Intel Hub

  • Task Force Urges Joint U.S.-Mexico Approach to ...
    ipsnews.com | A group of business executives, civil society leaders, policy experts and former government officials from Mexico and the United States are recommending that the two countries expand cooperative law.
  • Third Radiation Belt Discovered Around Earth
    Telegraph.co.uk | Since 1958 scientists have known that Earth is circled by two doughnut-like rings of trapped charged particles called the Van Allen radiation belts.
  • Obama Blames Republicans For Sequester
    USA Today | President Obama and congressional Republicans battle each other over the sequester, $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that began at midnight Saturday
  • USDA Set to Approve Horse Meat Slaughter in the US
    Activist Post  March 2nd, 2013 Apparently horse meat is popular all over the world, albeit unbeknownst to most consumers.  And it seems equine meat will soon be making its way back to America. Horse meat hasn’t been legally produced in the United States since 2007, but the USDA is expected to ap ...
  • BPA is Deadly to the Developing Brains of Babi ...
    By Ethan A. Huff Natural News March 2, 2013 Scientists from Duke University in North Carolina have identified yet another major threat to human health posed by the plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). According to new research, babies exposed to BPA in utero, or during their developmental stages ...

FRS

  • Bradley Manning’s plea statement: Americ ...
    After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of ‘bloodlust’ of US helicopter crew Ed Pilkington, The Guardian Fort Meade, Maryland, Thursday 28 February 2013   Bradley Manning, the solider accused o ...
  • Bradley Manning’s plea statement: Americ ...
    After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of ‘bloodlust’ of US helicopter crew Ed Pilkington, The Guardian Fort Meade, Maryland, Thursday 28 February 2013   Bradley Manning, the solider accused o ...
  • Kevin Rashid Johnson and Oregon’s Isolat ...
    from Sketchy Thoughts by kersplebedeb This is an update about Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a prisoner activist and intellectual who is currently in a dire situation in Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon. As was reported last week, Rashid has been in the midst of a health crisi ...
  • Kevin Rashid Johnson and Oregon’s Isolat ...
    from Sketchy Thoughts by kersplebedeb This is an update about Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a prisoner activist and intellectual who is currently in a dire situation in Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon. As was reported last week, Rashid has been in the midst of a health crisi ...
  • Del Monte’s Culpability in Mindanao
    [For details on the action referred to in this statement, see the February 19 news report at http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/philippines-rebels-attack-pineapple-plantation-in-bukidnon/  --  Frontlines ed.] —————————&#8 ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
    I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • How Opponents Failed to Beat Chuck Hagel
    A week ago, Hagel’s nomination was effectively stalled. This week, Hagel cleared the filibuster easily, and the GOP declared victory. How did that happen? It came when they unwisely questioned Hagel’s military service.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Feb 27, 2013
  • Hacking an Act of War? China Hacking Report Ra ...
    A new reports blames China for extensive hacking into U.S. companies and organizations, claiming that People's Liberation Army Unit 61398 is a government/military corps of hackers dangerously proficient in gaining access to American servers.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Feb 19, 2013
  • SOTU: Obama was Right to Call for Nuclear Arms ...
    The U.S. has more than enough nuclear weapons to defend itself, and it has no moral high ground to call on countries like North Korea and Iran to not create any while we hoard and/or build more nuclear weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Feb 13, 2013
  • Dorner Case Tests the LAPD
    It seems an inappropriate time to review the firing of fugitive Christopher Dorner--yet that's what LAPD chief Charlie Beck ordered.Contributor: Anthony Ventre Published: Feb 11, 2013
  • Giffords’ Plea for More Gun Control Legislatio ...
    Gun control legislation won’t solve all of the country’s gun violence problems, but at least laws would put the authorities in the position to enforce tighter measures and make it harder for criminals to get access to certain weapons.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Jan 31, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • World's Sexiest Octopus Ostracized By Biologists
    Due to its peculiar lifestyle and mating habits, the larger Pacific striped octopus has been largely ignored by scientists. It doesn't even have a Latin name. In 1991, a biologist named Arcadio Rodaniche published a short abstract describing a new species of octopus he had discovered in Panama ...
  • Sculptures Of Giants And Other Amazing Images ...
  • Insanely Life-Like Sculptures Of Giants And Mo ...
    Plus a water-purifying billboard, landscape photos made from landfills, the most twee-tastic gadget ever, and more Click to enter the gallery
  • I Didn't Like TED. Then I Got It
    This was my first year at the cultural cartoon, crossroad of power, and factory of influence that is TED. I've spent my career following the rich and freewheeling through high-minded gatherings in the Bay Area, Aspen, New York, but this event, an invite-only affair lubricated by free artisanal ...
  • BeerSci: Is That Water In Your Pint Glass?
    Anheuser-Busch is being sued for watering down their beer, but there's a way to test for that. I was going to write about hops and the people who crave them this week, but got distracted by the unfolding drama around AB-InBev. The booze giant has had a crappy run over the last few weeks: First ...

Veterans Today

  • A short open letter to Secretary of State Kerry.
    Before you arrived in Turkey, its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told a United Nations forum in Vienna that the international community should consider Islamophobia as a crime against humanity “like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism.”
  • Israel-Palestine: THE question
    There is one absolute pre-condition for ending the Israel-Palestine conflict by diplomacy and negotiations on the basis, as it would have to be, of justice for the Palestinians and peace with security for all
  • The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point ...
    Can Washington and Her Allies Stop Syria’s Reconciliation Efforts? The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped by FRANKLIN LAMB Damascus — This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” sign ...
  • Israel celebrates successful 9/11 operation on ...
    When Israel finally does admit its responsibility for 9/11, and lavish honors on the Mossad terrorists responsible, will it be during Purim - the holiday honoring Jews who seduce gentile rulers and manipulate them into mass-murdering their enemies?For more than eleven years, Israel has been wild ...
  • George Galloway Boycotts Israeli Citizens
    Listen to George Galloway, a British politician, author, journalist, broadcaster, and a respected member of British Parliament, discuss many issues including how to boycott Israel by not debating or even talking to Israeli citizens.

War is Business

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Internat'l Political Economy

  • The World According to Lee Kuan Yew, Aged 89
    There is a vast difference between an electioneer and a statesman. Barack Obama is in many ways a master electioneer--very good at winning elections but very poor at running a country. A vapid and superficial character, he unfailingly exemplifies the "free lunch with extra sidings" American soci ...
  • I [Heart] Sequester Even if US is Still Screwed
    Once upon a time, the great American soul singer James Brown styled himself as Soul Brother #1. In these days of America being flushed down the toilet of history [whooosh], they alas have replaced this great entertainer of the past with a great appeaser of the present who caters to every infanti ...
  • Where's Yer White People Now? On 'Saving' Egypt
    I borrowed the line in the post title from The Ten Commandments when the Hebrews were being persecuted by the Egyptians: "Where's your Moses now?" Nowadays, I'd like to ask the current Egyptian leadership--especially the Muslim Brotherhood--something similar: Where's yer IMF white people now bra ...
  • Too Long in Exile: ADB's Kuroda Next BoJ Guv'nor?
    It is curious that Western financial new media is finally paying attention to Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda. Despite being the head of the most prominent regional lender in our part of the world, he has so far toiled in relative obscurity outside Asia. How obscure is he? His W ...
  • Japanese Stimulus: Enough White Elephants Yet?
    When it comes to the most pigheadedly wasteful spending to supposedly jump-start an economy, portly and profligate Americans only have one serious rival: the Japanese. Granted, the Japanese have been attempting to escape stagnation for over two decades now instead of America's one. Still, the sh ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The M ...
    Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families?  Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought.  Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack ...
  • All Of This Whining And Crying About The Seque ...
    If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. go ...
  • Will Italy Be The Spark That Sets Off Financia ...
    Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan.  Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 1 ...
  • 50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A ...
    The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die.  In the United States today, the health care industry is completely dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corp ...
  • The Big Dogs On Wall Street Are Starting To Ge ...
    Why are some of the biggest names in the corporate world unloading stock like there is no tomorrow, and why are some of the most prominent investors on Wall Street loudly warning about the possibility of a market crash?  Should we be alarmed that the big dogs on Wall Street are starting to get v ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...

WL Central

  • 2013-02-04 Julian Assange receives Yoko Ono Le ...
    On 3 February 2013 at a private dinner at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, attended by more than 150 guests, Julian Assange will receive the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2013 for his WikiLeaks work including, amongst other releases, Collateral Murder. This award is ...
  • 2013-02-02 Exclusive: CIA Drug Money Plot to O ...
    WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, who claims the CIA has been actively plotting to destabilise or even assassinate Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, after US anger over decisions such as the granting of political asylum to Julian Assange an ...
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 14 January 2013 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of statements made by members of the Swedish Executive and government officials on the Assange case. read more
  • 2013-01-17 Senator Ludlam to Foreign Minister ...
    Senator the Hon Bob Carr Minister for Foreign Affairs PO Box 6100 Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 28 November 2012 Dear Minister, Please find below a series of links to evidence relating to the existence of a criminal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks. read more
  • 2013-01-02 Inside the Hourglass, A World Risin ...
    With economic and military force, in the last decades the United States has attained sole superpower status in the world. The legacy of the US empire carries a dark history: genocide of natives, slavery of blacks and criminalizing immigrants from the South. None can deny that much of US hegemon ...

U N News

  • UN human rights experts urge greater oversight ...
    A group of United Nations independent experts back from Honduras today urged that Government to tighten oversight of the increasing number of private security companies, as well as to strengthen the judicial system to properly investigate and prosecute potential human rights violations stemm ...
  • Haiti: fight against cholera continues, but cl ...
    The United Nations has ramped up its efforts to eliminate cholera in Haiti. At the same time, claims against the Organization on that matter are "not receivable," a spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, after officials in the Caribbean nation were informed of the decision.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into murd ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the murder of Marcelino Vázquez, the owner and manager of a radio station in Paraguay.
  • Haiti must ensure justice for victims of past ...
    A senior United Nations official today urged Haiti to ensure there is no impunity for human rights violations committed during the presidency of Jean-Claude Duvalier, who is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.
  • UN kicks off Year of Quinoa' with focus on wor ...
    Top officials from the United Nations and the Andean community of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru today launched the International Year of Quinoa' to raise awareness of the nutritional, economic, environmental and cultural value of a food that has been traditionally cultivated for thousands ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Chemtrails... An Insider Speaks Out
    So you haven't yet figured out the airborne conditioning-agent release program that is being operated by the government. I'll give you some hints, but first I'll give you a little information about myself. I'm a retired government scientist with an advanced degree in one of the health-rel ...
  • The Iron Triangle... The Carlisle Group
    The Carlisle Group is a massive "private equity firm," which raises money from wealthy individuals and companies, and then reinvests the money into private defense companies with extremely high profit margins. ~ Documentaryread more
  • 15 Famous People Who Mysteriously Disappeared
    Amelia Earhart Though many of them are presumed dead, exactly what happened to these high-profile personalities still remains unknown. The Lost Roanoke Colony. The Dyatlov Pass Incident. The death of Natalie Wood. The Black Dahlia. The Bermuda Triangle. Bigfoot. Did Tony Soprano die at the en ...
  • US Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Samu ...
    On Wednesday, February 27th the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Shelby County v. Holder, which challenges the key enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. ~ Ed Hightower read more
  • Joe Biden... "I Know ‘Gruesome’ Details From S ...
    Speaking to the National Association of Attorneys General this afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden reminded the audience of the grisly horrors of the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. Video read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • What is The Best Survival Bicycle?
    A bicycle will be a valuable prep asset during a survival or disaster situation when ordinary transportation may be difficult or impossible. If we are ever to face a societal collapse, times will become tough, to say the least, and modes of transportation may become diversified. Bicycle transpor ...
  • Honey and its Benefits
    Honey, a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers, has been a staple ingredient for thousands of years for both food and medicine, and for many is a staple food prep providing a natural source of sugar and medicinal benefits. Honey has approximately the same relative sweetness as that o ...
  • TERK AM Radio Antenna Advantage
    The TERK AM antenna (model name: ‘Advantage’) may be the best portable indoor AM radio antenna today; an antenna that does not require power to amplify. For those who are preparedness minded, you know that communications is an integral part of an overall survival preparedness plan. H ...
  • How to Put Out a Grease Fire
    Fire needs three things to burn. Heat, Oxygen, and Fuel. A fire will keep growing until one of those is removed. The safest way to extinguish a grease fire burning in a pan is to remove the oxygen.   In the following order, Put on oven mitts to protect your hands. Get the lid that [...]
  • Liberty
    The following is an attempt at a definition of Liberty… a natural human right which is being increasingly infringed upon by our ballooning federal, state and even some of our local governments. While all civilizations have rules out of necessity to protect the rights of the society within, ...

Fast Company

  • The Strange Duo Of Sausage And Bubblegum Depic ...
    Together at last! Sausage and bubblegum? One might think the duo would be about as successful as that classic combo of Nuts and Gum--that is to say, not at all, and an all-around terrible idea--but Katja Pettersson managed to make a perfect paring, shown as part of the Glass Elephant exhib ...
  • This Disc Made Of Clay And Sawdust Can Make An ...
    The PureMadi water filter might not look like much, but it can remove almost any deadly pathogen from drinking water. And it’s cheap. The MadiDrop is a cheap ceramic disk made of clay, sawdust and water, and impregnated with silver or copper nanoparticles. The non-profit that develop ...
  • Hand-Tufted Rugs Inspired By Street Scenes
    Form Us With Love took to the streets of their hometown to find inspiration for the new Hidden Stockholm collection. Rugs have a tough life. The domestic mainstays are forever required to strike the perfect balance between hard-wearing and soft-to-the-touch; no matter how long they last an ...
  • Infographic: Everything You Were Afraid To Ask ...
    The average person defecates two pounds a day. Except ladies and priests, of course. You’d think that in any poop infographic, the grossest proposition would be the poo. Common mistake. The grossest proposition is actually what you might learn about poop. And in this case, the grosse ...
  • A Clever Kit That Turns Anything Into A Stool
    Bale of hay? Stool! Yoga ball? Stool! Old broken stool? Yeah, that’ll probably work too. In a world that’s already full of stuff, one of the greatest challenges today’s designers face is figuring out how to avoid adding more of it. That can include things like using recyc ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Rising Cost of Electricity in Jordan
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  • فارس يواكيم في ترجمة كتاب عنف الدكتاتورية لستي ...
    [“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها الكتاب والمترجمين في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة، نرفقه بمقطع من الكتاب.] الكتاب ”عنف الدكتاتورية“ المؤلف: ستيفان زفايغ، ترجمة فارس يواكيم. بيروت، دار الفرات، ٢٠١٣. جدلية: كيف تبلورت فكرة ترجمة الكتاب، وما الذي قادك نحو الموضوع؟ فارس يواكيم: كنت أعرف ستي ...
  • غريب حيفاوي: الفلسطيني لاجئاً في ذاته
    شاءت ابتسام عازم أن تجعل روايتها «غــــريب حيفاوي» (دار الجمل) أشبه بتداخــــل بورتريهات: بورتريه داخل بورتريه داخل بورتريه، لتنتهي جميعها بمركز ثقل واحد أو نواة ثقيلة ومكثفة قوامها التاريخ والذاكرة والمكان، الذي يجعل منه التغيير الديموغرافي فسحةً رحبة للالتباس. في هذا العمل-السيرة، يعاد ترتيب ...
  • What Does Morsi Not Understand About Police Re ...
    In mid-1861, Saeed Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, issued a Sovereign Decree to all police chiefs replacing the penalty of beating with imprisonment. Accordingly, regulations were issued stating that since  penalties in the form of beatings of some criminals are intended to once and for all d ...
  • Global Ban on CS Gas is Needed
    To mark the second anniversary of the February 14 Bahraini uprising, Pr. Damian McCormack, Pr. David Grayson and Tara O'Grady call for a ban on CS gas. CS gas,  2-chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, is a chemical weapon which is banned in warfare by the OPCW (Organisation for Prevention of ...

mediagazer

  • Live China TV coverage of executions raises ou ...
    Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times: Live China TV coverage of executions raises outcry  —  Chinese state TV broadcasts live images of four condemned killers shortly before they are executed.  Human rights lawyers and others express outrage at the unprecedented coverage.&nbs ...
  • What's New in Digital Scholarship: Why can Fac ...
    John Wihbey / Nieman Journalism Lab: What's New in Digital Scholarship: Why can Facebook posts be super-memorable, and did tweets direct bombs in Libya?  —  Editor's note: There's a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift t ...
  • Manning to Face More Serious Charges in Leak ( ...
    Scott Shane / New York Times: Manning to Face More Serious Charges in Leak  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — Military prosecutors announced on Friday that they had decided to try Pfc. Bradley Manning on the most serious charges they have brought against him and seek a sentence that co ...
  • Washington Post Eliminates Ombudsman Position ...
    Greg Gilman / The Wrap: Washington Post Eliminates Ombudsman Position  —  The Washington Post has confirmed its own ombudsman's hunch and announced on Friday that it has cut the 43-year-old position.  —  “We have been privileged to have had the service of m ...
  • Disney, News Corp. Discuss Hulu's Future (Wall ...
    Wall Street Journal: Disney, News Corp. Discuss Hulu's Future  —  News Corp . and Walt Disney Co. have begun discussions about resolving uncertainty over their jointly controlled online video site Hulu LLC, with one possible outcome being that one or the other company sells thei ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.
  • 2/21/13 - Incarcerated Felon Population by Typ ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Incarcerated Felon Population by Type of Crime Committed, 1974-2010 - As of 2010, US state and federal prisons housed a total of 1,552,600 inmates. In state prisons, 53.2% of the prisoners are in for violent crimes, while in federal prisons 52.1% are in for drug-relate ...
  • 2/21/13 - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medi ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana Defeated - The House Rules Committee gave HB84 an "unfavorable report," which killed the bill on Feb. 20, 2013. Eight states currently have pending legislation that would legalize medical marijuana if passed.
  • 2/21/13 - Incarcerated Felon Population by Typ ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - Incarcerated Felon Population by Type of Crime Committed, 1974-2010 - As of 2010, US state and federal prisons housed a total of 1,552,600 inmates. In state prisons, 53.2% of the prisoners are in for violent crimes, while in federal prisons 52.1% are in for drug-relate ...
  • 2/19/13 - NEW: Should churches (defined as chu ...
    churchesandtaxes.procon.org – NEW: Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? – Read pro and con quotes from religious leaders, scholars, politicians and organizations including the US Supreme Court (pro), famous atheist Richard Dawkins (con), th ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Brian Cox does some heavy lifting for UK science
    A personable presentation and a skilled Q&A given by Brian Cox last night, on receipt of the 27th Royal Society Michael Faraday award and lecture. Cox shared a story, his own personal timeline – a scientific journey littered by moments and personalities (Apollo, Benoski, Sagan, Feynman, the ...
  • Ashes to Ashes
    “Ashes to ashes” is how Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) John Beddington’s term in office has been coined, as he started with the crisis around the volcanic eruption of ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano and is coming to a close with the issues around Ash die-back disease affe ...
  • Memorable metaphors and the Two-Row Wampum
    There are a few big ideas – or metaphors for them – that tend to resurface time and time again in my mind. Admittedly, these are usually provided by the likes of Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett or Bob Dylan. But more frequently than you might think, the world of science policy offers up ...
  • Cymrodyr Cymru: Carlton House Terrace hits Cardiff
    The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences. This national remit can sometimes be overlooked given how much of our activity takes place at Carlton House Terrace in London. This week I have been reminding myself that the rest of the UK exists by visiting Manchester and Cardif ...
  • Time to get smarter on justifying science spend?
    What are the prospects for UK science? We know that the research budget fared comparatively better than other areas of public spend in 2010 (up to 2014/15) but these are difficult times, and what might happen after 2014/15, and following the next election? In Barack Obama’s State of the Union ad ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Child abuse in foster care and orphanages is a ...
    Forgotten Australians National Day of Action - 6 Feb 2013 With all the news we have heard over the years about the abuse of children in various Church organisations you may have drawn the conclusion that everything is now out in the open and, the worst is behind us and the wheels of justice ar ...
  • Fracked to death: how gas companies and their ...
    Explaining coal seam gas and its extraction (Source) Today's show reveals the shocking truth about the toxic, and one might say, genocidal effects of Coal Seam Gas, which is now spreading like a cancer throughout the country in both rural and urban environments. My guest in the second hour i ...
  • Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!
    You know what worries me even more than the predatory agenda of the ruling elites? It's the tendency of truthers to fall into line like lemmings on any given conspiracy, to engage in mass group think and, even worse, the readiness to leap to defammatory accusations about people whom they know ...
  • 3 way discussion on guns, your rights and the ...
    President Obama's attempt to "get tough" on gun control has provoked a massive backlash from the patriot community in the US who are sworn to uphold the 2nd amendment at all costs, even if that means civil war. On today's show we take a long hard look at some of the key questions in the debate ...
  • Lies and cover-ups by the Australian national ...
    Today, in the second hour, we welcome journalist Chris Graham to the show. Chris is the founding editor of the National Indigenous Times and the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. In the course of our interview Chris documents a range of ...

Beacon

  • The Dangers of Ocean Litter, Writ Large
    Even dolphin statues are not safe from the dangers of entanglement in ocean litter like this plastic 6-pack ring In an apparent guerilla stunt, a wildlife sculpture in downtown Vancouver has been "caught" in a giant plastic 6-pack ring. The sculpture, located at the corner of Georgia and Thur ...
  • Great Whites Now Have Endangered Species Prote ...
    The man in the gray suit now protected by law. Photo: Jim Agronick It’s official; as of today, California’s great white sharks are now fully protected under the California Endangered Species Act! As new candidates for protection under this law, while the state of California considers permanen ...
  • The Importance of Being Here
    Oceana South America Vice President Alex Munoz prepares to dive at San Ambrosio. Special thanks to Revo Sunglasses for supporting the expedition team. © OCEANA Earlier this month Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to document the marine life and habitat of the waters of th ...
  • CEO Note: Shell Retreats on Arctic Drilling
    Arctic waters off-limits for Shell. Photo: Wikimedia Commons I have some terrific news to report: Shell announced yesterday that it will suspend attempts to drill for oil in the U.S. Arctic Ocean.  This announcement comes as a huge relief after Shell’s dangerous string of mishaps in the ...
  • The Cutest Predator
    On February 8, Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. By documenting marine life and habitat the team hopes to persuade the Chilean government to protect more than 60,00 ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Obama Can’t Do “Jedi Mind Meld” So We’re Obvio ...
    “I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that’s been floating around Washington: That somehow, even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree that I’m presenting a fair deal — the fact that they don’t take it, ...
  • Queer Talk: CPAC’s Exclusionary Practices Unde ...
    CPAC – the Conservative Political Action Conference – is having a tough time. Please the more extreme Right, or work with the “re-branding” efforts, and be more “big tent” in who they invite? They turned away the LGBT Republican GOProud, and apparently the more moderate Log Cabin Republicans, an ...
  • Lib Dems Win, but UKIP Grabs the Headlines
    The Liberal Democrats hung on to the parliamentary seat of Eastleigh yesterday in a by-election more interesting for the minor placings and the inevitable fallout to follow. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was on hand to congratulate his candidate Mike Thornton after victory was secured by 1,771 votes ...
  • “It’s Good to be a Banker” (VIDEO)
    That’s the analysis of Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital: “It’s good to be a banker.” With the DC self-created financial crisis of the moment, it seemed like a good time to consider a bit of the context of the Super Sequestration sequel to Fiscal Cliff, Grand Bargain, etc. The vide ...
  • Boehner Joins House Extremists to Save His Spe ...
    “The revenue issue is now closed,” Mr. Boehner said Thursday, before the House left town for the weekend without acting on the cuts and a Senate attempt to avert them died. Mr. Boehner said the dispute with Democrats amounted to a question of “how much more money do we want to steal from the Ame ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians to Hagel Report: "We Don't Need U ...
    Palestinians repeated this week their opposition to the new-old idea of deploying a U.S.-led international force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "We will not agree to the presence of any foreign forces in our territories," spokesman for various
  • U.S. Helping Israel's Defense
    The cheering and the hugs exchanged by Israeli and American teams this week at Palmahim Air Force base, south of Tel Aviv, marked a historical turn of events. For the first time ever, a successful test launch had been carried out of the Arrow 3 missile
  • UK: Unemployment Benefits to Finance Jihad
    A radical Islamic cleric who lives off the British welfare state has been filmed urging his followers to quit their jobs and claim unemployment benefits so they have more time to plot holy war against non-Muslims. Excerpts of the speech, published by the
  • Palestinians Exporting Terrorists to Syria
    The Gaza Strip has begun exporting terrorists to other countries. If the terrorists are not stopped, they will start showing up in European capitals and probably cities in the United States. In contrast to claims by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas
  • Pink Anti-Semitism Is No Different from Brown ...
    The core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the assertion that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that is wrong is done by the Jews. For the anti-Semite every rich Jew is exploitive, every poor Jew a burden on society. For the anti-Semite,

Urban Survival

  • Personal Income and Other Laughter
    (still in Ellijay, GA) What’s so funny?  Well, I get a wonderful kick out of the personal income and expenditure’s report that always supplies at least enough grist for a 20-minute stand-up routine.  I don’t know any of these average … Continue reading →
  • Coping: A Prepping Note on Alarm Dogs
    Inquiring minds – like reader Everette – want to know…   “George……..   If I lived in the semi-outback…I’d have a pack of dogs…with different abilities, however, the best early warning intruder system is Peacocks…..seen th ...
  • Overhead Resistance
    Although the Dow rose an impressive 175 points on Wednesday, I was suffering through no end of troll-mail for my report to you Monday about how this could be the week the Dow sets a new (nominal) high on a … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Thursday at the WuJo
    The WuJo is very similar to the Twilight Zone where we collect experiences that go bump in the brain. Things that sound like they ought to have fallen out of the keyboard of a decent sci-fi writer, but which in … Continue reading →
  • Housing Data: Percentages or Dollars?
    The Case Shiller/S&P Housing report is out and depending on how you look at it, the numbers could be very good news for the economy…   “New York, February 26, 2013 – Data through December 2012, released today by S&P … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

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    "The power of accurate observation, is often... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Radio Commentary by Michael Savage Aired on March... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • More Foreclosures on the Horizon in California
    While parts of the United States are starting to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    It is simply amazing that the first day of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

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NRDC Switchboard

  • California Leads the Nation in Energy Efficien ...
    Sierra Martinez, Legal Director, California Energy Projects, San Francisco Although some naysayers question whether efficiency policies alter the amount of energy people actually use, there is no doubt that strong policies embracing this cheap and c ...
  • State Department Downplays Climate Danger of K ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The State Department issued an recklessly insufficient environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline on Friday. Despite the President’s tough talk on confronting climate chang ...
  • Another flawed environmental review on the Key ...
    Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. A draft environmental review just released by the U.S. State Department for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline ignores mounting evidence the pipeline is not in the national interest.&nbsp ...
  • How well is the BLM enforcing the laws coverin ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. In Fiscal Year 2011, the BLM conducted an Internal Control Review (ICR) of the onshore oil and gas Inspection and Enforcement (I&E) program. The ICR reviewed ten field offices with major oil and ...
  • Illinois Legislators Should Heed These Voices ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Last week a fracking bill came out of the Illinois General Assembly that got a lot of attention. This week I got a look at a video that reminds me why it was so important for so many ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, February 28, 13: Somerset, Massachusetts: The police officer who is facing felony drug charges after allegedly convincing an elderly man to hand over expired prescription drugs resigned from the … Continue reading →Nat ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, February 27, 2013: Benton, Arkansas: An officer was fired for violating polices and procedures after he was pulled over and arrested for driving while intoxicated. ow.ly/i6C2g Corona, California: The … Continue reading &#8 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, February 26, 2013: St. Louis, Missouri: A suspended patrolman disgraced the department and should be fired for striking a man with a baton, choking him, and slamming his head … Continue reading →National Police Miscond ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, February 23 to Monday, February 25, 2013: Houston, Texas: An officer has been accused of telling two women, including an undercover HPD investigator, he would tear up their traffic … Continue reading →National Police ...
  • Citizen Review Board Rules for Police 16 Years ...
    From the Charlotte Observer: Mayor Anthony Foxx is questioning how Charlotte’s Citizen Review Board handles allegations of police misconduct. Also, the review board’s chairman says the panel will consider drafting reform proposals for City Council to consider. In his first … Co ...

Total Collapse

  • Russia Puts Nuclear Bombers On High Alert Over ...
    A truly unsettling Space Forces Command (VKS) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin had ordered a fleet of Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers equipped with Kh-55 nuclear armed cruise missiles to “prepare for strikes” against US targets in the Pacific should Russia be a ...
  • Russia Goes On High Alert After UFO Shoot-Down ...
    A grim report prepared by the Space Forces Command (VKS) circulating in the Kremlin today says that one of its air defense units operating in “high alert”status, and located at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk, fired at and destroyed an “unidentified cosmic object” at an altitude of 20 k ...
  • Vladimir Zhirinovsky denies meteorite, claims ...
    Russian nationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky, long known for his flamboyance and outrageous remarks, said Friday that meteorite fragments had not rained down on Russia in the morning, but that the light flashes and tremors in several of the country’s regions resulted from US weapons tests, ...
  • Russian Navy to Get over 50 Warships by 2016
    The Russian navy will receive more than 50 new warships by 2016, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. In the coming three years, 18 surface warships, 30 special-purpose and counter-subversion vessels as well as six multi-purpose strategic submarines will be put into service, the ministry said in ...
  • Obama Warned To Prepare For Hillary Clinton Death
    A startling Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Obama was informed by White House medical personal shortly after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s return to the United States that her health prognosis was “grim” as her likelihood o ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook design tests, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Facebook design tests in New Zealand, porn blocking in China and Google Books for India. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right... Keep reading →
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    In today’s Daily Dose, a new Google search test, Instacart keeps up the yuppie pressure, and North Korea gets tinted. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
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    In today’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, The Flixies, music making money and Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
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    Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona. Listen to today’s Daily Dose for a roundup of news from the first 24 hours of the event. Check our full... Keep reading →
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    In today’s Daily Dose: Google Glass pricing and availability, North Korea’s 3G plans and tech words in the dictionary and more. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Don't waste solar energy on coal
    Matthew Wright Port Augusta is the ideal location in South Australia for a solar thermal power plant, due to its very good direct annual solar radiation and its proximity to a strong piece of grid infrastructure that services the old lignite burning power plants that are located there, owned ...
  • Greens push 100pct renewables plan for W.A.
    By Giles Parkinson The Greens Party has unveiled an ambitious new document that outlines possible pathways to turn Western Australia – one of the most energy-intensive states in the world – into one where its stationary energy needs are powered 100 per cent by renewable energy sources in les ...
  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...
  • Submissions to the SA Select Committee on the ...
    To download BZE's full submission click here. To download the Repower Port Augusta Alliance submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the li ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Overview of the CITES 16th Conference of Parti ...
    When countries meet in Bangkok, Thailand for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 16th Conference of Parties (CoP16), to be held from March 3-14, they’ll consider 70 proposals submitted by 55 States regarding a range of species, from p ...
  • Saving forests by stemming agricultural sprawl
    I’m fortunate to travel the world helping conserve habitats for some of the world’s most iconic species. When I visit places like the Amazon and Sumatra, I’m still awestruck by their diversity and pristine beauty. I’m also reminded how threatened they are. Our growing dem ...
  • Frogs radio-tracked for first time in Madagascar
    Researchers have radio-tracked frogs for the first time in Madagascar. Attaching tiny radio transmitters weighing 0.3-0.35 grams (1/100 of an ounce) to 36 rainbow frogs (Scaphiophryne gottlebei), the research team tracked the movement of the colorful frogs through rugged canyons in Madagascar's ...
  • Malaysian NGOs boldly demand forest conservati ...
    In an unusually bold statement, six Malaysian NGOs today called on the Sabah state government to pursue 'a more conservation focused agenda' in managing the state's forests. The call-to-action, addressed to Sabah's chief minister Musa Aman, focuses on three core recommendations: setting aside mo ...
  • Does the presence of scientists help deter poa ...
    While vast areas of wildlife habitat have been set aside in protected areas in recent decades, many reserves continue to suffer from illegal encroachment, logging, mining, and poaching. The recent spasm in elephant and rhino poaching within African parks merely underlines the problem. Intuitivel ...

Sierra Express

  • Foulah Town Association USA, congratulates Alh ...
    THE FOULAH TOWN ASSOCIATION USA extends their thanks and appreciation to the following individuals and their families for their combined donation of $1,300.00, which was presented to the Jamieu Salaam / Foulah Town by Alpha Hadiru Tejan on Sunday the 10th of February 2013, in recognition of the ...
  • Vimetco undertakes community development in Si ...
    In 2012, Vimetco–SMHL Bauxite Mining Company undertook various community development projects in all the five chiefdoms within its concessions: Upper Banta, Lower Banta and Dasse in Moyamba District; Bumpe Ngao in Bo District; and Kpanda Kemoh in Bonthe District.  (Photo: Multi-purpose Community ...
  • Tarawalie vs Land Grabbers
    Over the years, land grabbing has been the order of the day in this nation; many Sierra Leoneans have made it a lucrative occupation and our courts are overloaded with land cases. Sometimes, land palavers degenerate into bloody battles and loss of lives. To retrieve state lands, the then Sierra ...
  • Transparency International on Monitoring Mechanism
    Transparency International is responsible for ensuring the prevalence of transparency and accountability in the activities of states, communities, institutions and other political entities to enhance smooth running. On the 26th February, 2013 the organization engaged councilors, the civil societ ...
  • Windfall for Murray Town School
    “Make it Happen”, a charity organization based in Sierra Leone,  on Wednesday 27th February, 2013 handed over the keys of the newly refurbished ultra modern eight room toilet building to authorities of the Murray Town Municipal Primary School and Junior Secondary School at Murray Town in Freetow ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Terms of trade drop to 2010 levels
    Exports fell in the last three months of 2012 in real terms and the impact has been compounded by a decline in what we can buy, by way of imports, for a given quantity of exports.Export volumes slid 0.5 per cent, while the terms...
  • Fonterra holds payout, issues bonus shares
    Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, has held its forecast farmgate payment on expectations of higher global prices in the second half of the season, and wants to grow its winter milk supply, meaning a tinkering with the...
  • Dairy clear of DCD from November - Ministry
    Testing for a toxic agricultural substance in New Zealand dairy products has found no traces of it after mid-November last year.The Ministry for Primary industries and the dairy industry conducted voluntary testing after dicyandiamide...
  • Dry summer pushes up world dairy prices (+graphic)
    Dry conditions in the North Island helped drive milk product prices higher at the latest fortnightly global dairy auction, but ongoing strength in the New Zealand dollar is acting to take the cream off the top for farmer returns,...
  • World dairy prices up 3.1pc overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction rose by the most in five months, adding to positive sentiment that has pushed the kiwi dollar to near a 2 ½ - year high.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 3.1...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Shikha Dalmia in the Washington Examiner on Ob ...
    President Barack Obama has been jetting around the country warning that we’ll all be turning into pumpkins now that the sequester deadline has come and gone. But Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia writing in the Washington Examiner notes that there is a simple way for Oba ...
  • David Lampo on Harvey Milk
    Harvey Milk, the pioneering gay politician assassinated in 1978, was once a Goldwater Republican, but by the time he held office he was a fairly typical progressive. David Lampo reviews a new collection of Milk's writing, and in the process assesses Milk's mixed legacy. View t ...
  • Janitors Getting Pay Cuts: Another Obama Seque ...
    At a press conference yesterday, President Obama was asked about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s comment that the sequester wasn’t a “big deal.” The president replied that while Bloomberg may not feel the impact, others would. Like janitors. The president: "Starting tomorr ...
  • Baylen Linnekin on Crony Capitalism vs. Americ ...
    Crony capitalism is a major problem in the areas of food and agriculture. Take the dairy industry. As Baylen Linnekin explains, historically, this industry has been one of the most visible practitioners of crony capitalism—at least since it began to use government to squeeze out comp ...
  • Sequestration Sale! Subscribe to Reason
What the hell, let's go there: You actually need to click on the link to enjoy your 34-cent savings (let alone activate the hyperlinks), but you get the idea. Give it as a gift to your loved one or frenemy who thinks the sequester is a CIA-like Tea Party coup, or a homele ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Thank you, Keith!
    The Second Coming must be at hand. Someone has told the truth on FOX.
  • “The most sordid 42 years of Catholic hi ...
    Former Dominican friar and current Episcopal priest Matthew Fox on the dysfunction in the Catholic hierarchy: MATTHEW FOX: …Yeah, I think I’ll take the pope at his word here when he says he’s tired. I would be tired, too, if I left as much devastation in my wake as he has, first as inquisi ...
  • Corrupt head of Mexican teachers union accused ...
    Jo Tuckman, The Guardian: [Elba Esther] Gordillo [aka The Teacher], leader of the 1.5 million-strong national teachers’ union in Mexico, was arrested on Tuesday evening after the private jet in which she had travelled from California landed at an airport near the capital. She spent the nig ...
  • The Onion, 01/17/01: More Truthful Than It Kne ...
    Somebody dusted off the scarily and sadly prescient article on George W. Bush from the January 17, 2001 issue of The Onion and added links in the appropriate spots so we could all see just how accurate it was. Here’s a taste: Bush swore to do “everything in [his] power” to undo ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Ayahuasca Versus Daime: The Medicine of Yin an ...
    Throughout the past decade of working with ayahuasca, I've often thought of South American shamanism and the Santo Daime variety of shamanism as the yin and yang of the medicine world. read more
  • Lovepathy
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  • The Best of Times or the End of Time
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  • Biochemistries in Love
      Oxytocin, which is nicknamed by some the "cuddle hormone" or the "love hormone" is actually more properly identified as a neuropeptide because it acts not just within your body but also within your brain. Oxytocin has long been known to play a key role within socia ...
  • This Week in Psychedelics
      The University of Maryland approves a Good Samaritan 911 policy, ayahuasca subcultures spread in the US, and Colombia weights decriminalization of synthetic drugs in this week's psychedelic news.  read more

Desertification

  • Killer Heat Waves and Floods Linked to Climate ...
    Killer heat waves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals. Scientists in Germany say they have found how greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are helping to trap the jet stream, resulting in extraordinary weather such as the 2010 Pakistan flood an ...
  • Biofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust ...
    The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States’ prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates not seen here since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. A new study finds that, between 2006 and ...
  • In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Not ...
    Canada’s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal. The RCMP, the national police force, and Canada’s spy agency CSIS are increasingly conflating terrorism and extrem ...
  • Sahel Region Learning to Reap the Benefits of ...
    In Africa’s Sahel region, agroforestry techniques using traditional plantings known as “fertiliser trees” to increase soil fertility, as well as harvesting and grazing regulations, are offering new solutions to both food and human security. Such approaches were nearly lost in r ...
  • Thawing Permafrost May Be “Huge Factor&# ...
    Thawing permafrost is emitting more climate-heating carbon faster than previously realised. Scientists have now learned that when the ancient carbon locked in the ice thaws and is exposed to sunlight, it turns into carbon dioxide 40 percent faster. “This really changes the trajectory of th ...

Blogging Canadians

  • At the End of Capitalism’s Rope – BENJAMIN J. ...
    I suggest you go to Counterpunch and read the whole article, but here we see the benefit of Marx’s analysis of capitalism. “In Stack’s “manifesto”, he quotes Karl Marx.  Ironically, Marx is useful here.  Explaining how human labor-power is objectified in commodities, which then becom ...
  • "The Singular / National 'United States'"
    US vs USA by Alfred Adask As originally posted on: Adask's law November 24, 2012 A couple of friends sent an email to me concerning the meanings of “United States,” “United States of America” and “The United States of America”. I replied as follows: It seems to me that the Founders were ...
  • "The Criminal Justice System"
    In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: Nerds and Jocks by "Cannonball Titcomb" As originally posted on: Cannonball Titcomb (thatsnotkosher) on Twitter August 20, 2012
  • Ottawa Press Gallery finally catching up on Tr ...
    The disgraceful and obscene amounts of money Liberal leader wannabe Justin Trudeau makes booking himself as a speaker is not newly known as for example, I blogged about it back in July 2010 (see here) Nice to finally see the Press Gallery catch up with us lowly bloggers but now will they also lo ...
  • Far too late for Brits trying to brush off cob ...
    The damage has been done and nothing, absolutely nothing can turn back the clock now. In a way, I am glad that we in North America have Britain and the rest of the EU as examples of what can happen to us  too if  we don't employ and deploy drastic measures with the utmost haste wit ...

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
    In September, SPS announced that Linda Key (’12) received a prestigious Fulbright award. Applied Theatre students and alumni continue to break ground. At elementary schools in all five boroughs, Leah Page (’13), Liz Parker (’11), Rachel Evans (’13), Amy Sawyers (’13), Anneka Fagundes (’11) ...
  • Code for Change: Student-to-Student Text Book ...
    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
  • I am a marathoner.
    Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt&#8230 ...

Dissident Voice

  • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
  • The Dawn of Medicare
    A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
  • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
    In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
  • Inflation of the University Degree
    Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
  • After The Fireworks Have Faded
    On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

Nick Turse

  • nybooks:Ethiopian protesters may be leading ...
    nybooks: Ethiopian protesters may be leading Africa’s most promising and important nonviolent human rights campaign since the anti-apartheid struggle. Yet the United States has stood by as women and men have been hideously beaten by police, hundreds have been arrested, eight people have been ...
  • nybooks:Emerson, Thoreau, and Kipling ideali ...
    nybooks: Emerson, Thoreau, and Kipling idealized them, but wolves have been ruthlessly exterminated since at least the mid-nineteenth century. The Oneida Community in upstate New York was based on free love and communal property, lucratively funded by the development of wolf and bear traps. In ...
  • "Rape and other acts of violence, up to and in ...
    “Rape and other acts of violence, up to and including murder, as well as threats of violence,...
  • "Threats of sexual assault now seem to take pl ...
    “Threats of sexual assault now seem to take place online regularly. In late 2011, British...
  • Iraqi civilians killed by inappropriate use of ...
    Iraqi civilians killed by inappropriate use of force by U.S. Marines during the battle for Diyala bridge are seen in Baghdad, Iraq. April 8, 2003. Gary Knight/VII

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Kansas Ignores Koch Brothers, Keeps Renewable Energy
    CleanTechnica
    The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that twin votes in Kansas State House and Senate on Thursday put the kibosh on legislative efforts to roll back and delay Kansas' renewable energy standard (RES). Passed in 2009, Kansas' RES requires investor-owned ...
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    Renewable-energy committee members named
    Iowa Farmer Today
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank recently announced the appointment of 37 private-sector representatives to the secretary's newly re-chartered Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee.
    Measure would cloak terms of renewable companies' utility sales agreements
    Las Vegas Review - Journal
    Mount Rose looms behind the Ormat Steamboat Geothermal Complex near the Mount Rose Highway in this undated file photo from the Reno Gazette-Journal. A proposed state bill would keep prices of renewable power-purchase agreements confidential.
    Renewable energy: We're using more of it
    Petoskey News-Review
    Great Lakes Energy increased the amount of power it uses from renewable sources from about 9,000 kilowatt hours in 2009 to about 66,000 in 2011. That's five percent of its total fuel mix, which means that amount will more than double by 2015. Most of ...
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    Youth can help ecology through social networking
    Times of India
    AHMEDABAD: Youngsters of the city decided to take up more initiatives to sustain the ecology using social networking, at a seminar by Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) in Mica. About 120 participants which included scientists, researchers, government ...
    McMaster show combines art, ecology
    CBC.ca
    Combining art and ecology, McMaster students have put together a show that focuses on the environmental preservation of Cootes Paradise and the Niagara Escarpment. Called “Mapping Paradise,” the display is a collaborative art project put together by ...
    Collide-a-Scape
    Discover Magazine (blog)
    Meanwhile, the idea of ecological and climate tipping points–the earth being pushed over a precipitous edge–has firmly taken root in environmental discourse. Illustration by Cheng 'lilly' Li. CATEGORIZED UNDER: climate change, ecology, environment, ...
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    Survey will educate Dept. of Ecology about urban use of pesticides
    The Olympian
    Some 15,000 residents in the Puget Sound area are receiving a
    survey
    form by mail from the state Department of Agriculture to gain information about urban residents' use of pesticides in the region.
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    Water Power

    water floods pollution
    Problem Solver: Pipe leak halts neighbors' water for weeks
    Chicago Tribune
    For each toilet flush, she must transfer water from open-mouthed steel pots to an easier-to-carry orange juice container. She then carries the orange juice container into the bathroom, opens the top to the toilet tank, and pours. Austin repeats the ...
    Texas rice farmers go 2nd year without water
    Houston Chronicle
    The move by the Lower Colorado River Authority did not come as a surprise to farmers in three Southeast Texas counties, as the authority had announced in January that, barring significant rainfall, the lake levels would be too low to supply water.
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    Water returns to Fishkill after main break
    Poughkeepsie Journal
    Locolla said “a good amount” of water was spewing out of a storm drain. Most of the water settled in the church's parking lot, but it's believed some may have reached some residential properties. The village is investigating if there's water damage, he ...
    Water taxies to bring Bridgeport back to the beach
    Ct Post
    Water taxies to bring Bridgeport back to the beach. Brian Lockhart. Published 11:02 pm, Saturday, March 2, 2013. View: Larger | Hide. The burned out bridge to Pleasure Beach, in Bridgeport, Conn. April 2nd, 2012, seen from the Pleasure Beach side.
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