Tuesday, March 05, 2013

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Scoop - NZ

  • Greek Military Prepares Mass Repression
    Chrysanthopoulos said that in the coming months, “There will be further increases in armed actions. There will be bloody demonstrations.” Without giving details, he said, “There are contacts by certain politicians with elements in the armed forces to guarantee that in the event of major socia ...
  • Spanish Locksmiths Refuse to Evict ..
    With Spain's unemployment rate over 26pc, the country has seen a huge amount of homeowners default on their rents or mortgage payments, prompting a wave of repossession by government-backed banks. However, following several suicides some locksmiths are no longer willing to carry out banks's ord ...
  • Indian women pinning creeps via smartfone
    After outrage and protests erupted, four businesswomen set up Safecity.in, a website for victims of harassment to channel their anger. The site encourages them to “Pin the Creeps” by reporting incidents of harassment and abuse — ranging from catcalling to rape — which are added to an online map ...
  • Japanese PM calls for a “strong Japan”
    In his policy speech to the Japanese parliament on Thursday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a “strong Japan” and ominously drew a parallel between the current tense standoff with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea and the Falklands war in 1982 between Britain and Argentina. ...
  • Cameron confuses City with Nation
    It sounds like the stuff of satire. On Thursday, RBS, the bank that taxpayers were forced to buy, posted 2012 losses of more than £5bn. That was after paying out more than £600m in bonuses. On the very same day, an EU draft agreement to cap bank bonuses emerged – and the prime minister immediate ...

Independent - London

  • An heir for North Korea's Dear Leader? Reports ...
    The future leadership of North Korea looked a little clearer today, after reports emerged that Kim Jong-un became a father late last year.Related StoriesMusician denies Tokyo murder of Irish student Nicola FurlongNew Chinese leadership backs defence spendingIndian police officers suspended afte ...
  • In pictures: Japan two years on from the tsuna ...
    Two years after the devastating tsunami and earthquake that hit Japan, the nation is slowly starting to rebuild itself.Related StoriesMusician denies Tokyo murder of Irish student Nicola FurlongNew Chinese leadership backs defence spendingIndian police officers suspended after video captures th ...
  • Thousands of Pashmina goats perish in India af ...
    Thousands of Pashmina goats, the source of famed shawls and blankets and a mainstay of the local Himalayan economy, have perished in northern India in the some of the heaviest snowfall in decades.Related StoriesMusician denies Tokyo murder of Irish student Nicola FurlongNew Chinese leadership b ...
  • Palestinian students attack British Consul-Gen ...
    Britain’s Consul-General to the Palestinian Territories was forced to abandon plans to deliver a speech at a university in Ramallah earlier today, after his car was attacked by a number of students.Related StoriesFears of war crossing borders as 48 Syrian soldiers killed in IraqAbu Dhabi bars f ...
  • UN cancels Gaza marathon after Hamas says wome ...
    The annual marathon race run through Gaza has been cancelled by the UN agency responsible for staging the event after Hamas said women would not be allowed to take part.Related StoriesFears of war crossing borders as 48 Syrian soldiers killed in IraqAbu Dhabi bars foreign observers from court a ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Evidence that comets could have seeded life on ...
    A new experiment simulating conditions in deep space reveals that the complex building blocks of life could have been created on icy interplanetary dust and then carried to Earth, jump-starting life. Chemists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii, Manoa, show ...
  • Giant camel fossil found in Arctic
    Camels are well known for their ability to survive the hot and dry conditions of the desert, but a study suggests they once thrived in colder climes. Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a giant species of camel in Canada's High Arctic. An analysis of protein found in the bones h ...
  • Herbal defluoridation of drinking water
    Researchers in India have developed a filter system based on a medicinal herb, which they say can quickly and easily remove "fluoride" from drinking water. The technology described in the March issue of the International Journal of Environmental Engineering uses parts of the plant Tridax procumb ...
  • Mental picture of others can be seen using fMR ...
    It is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using advanced imaging techniques according to a study by Cornell University neuroscientist Nathan Spreng ...
  • Viruses: More survival tricks than previously ...
    Research uncovers a virus which infects a host that has a non-standard nuclear genetic code. Among eukaryotes with modified nuclear genetic codes, viruses are unknown. Until now it had been believed that the modifications to the genetic code effectively prevented new viral infections. However, ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The best of times, the worst of times . . .
    MOSCOW, 1937: time of terror. The Atlantic has a fine article/book review by Benjamin Schwarz, "Moscow Under Terror". It's a wonderful description of a surreal environment with real horrors, and worthy of pondering. Genrikh Yagoda Yezhov and Stalin
  • Caution . . .
  • Fiction peddlers
    Reading MoS, I'm struck not for the first time, that some senior members of the Air Staff here, I suppose Australia too, live in a fantasy world. If I were in charge (come on, we all have these moments), I'd retire or fire any military leader who couldn't see past the F-35. They be fantasists ...
  • The nitty and the gritty . . .
    If you Facebook, very interesting pictures and information can be found on Blood-Kainai Tribe Politics & News. 
  • Attention Ontario Separate Schools!
    Pull your collective head out of the middle-ages and pay attention to what happens to homophobic bullies in this day and age. They find themselves really unfavourably...called out, named, tweeted, written up, written down, sued, countersued, broadcasted, googled with unsavoury terms. Promine ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

  • Afghanistan: Atrocity against Civilians. The F ...
    On March 1, a U.S./NATO helicopter gunship killed two Afghan brothers, seven and eight years of age, as they tended cattle in Uruzgan province. According to reports from residents, the boys were listening to a radio, which the helicopter crew…
  • George W. Bush to be Held Accountable for War ...
    When the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute is dedicated on April 25, 2013, at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, protestors will be there to demand the ex-president be held accountable for war crimes, crimes against humanity,…
  • The Global Polio Eradication Initiative: “New ...
    Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were interviewed on Charlie Rose on February 28th, 2013 that mainly focused on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and how “new approaches” to their…
  • Para las mujeres iraquíes la promesa estadouni ...
    Una década después de la invasión de Iraq encabezada por Estados Unidos la destrucción causada por la ocupación extranjera y el régimen subsiguiente ha tenido un impacto generalizado sobre la vida diaria de los iraquíes, el ejemplo más alarmante de…
  • Does Obama’s CIA Nominee John Brennan Kn ...
    Image: White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, who is President Barack Obama’s nominee to be CIA director. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and other defenders of CIA Director-nominee John Brennan say they are reassured by his Jesuit education at Fordham that he…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Under The Pipe
    The Keystone XL pipeline is embroiled in controversy from coast to coast. Environmentalists are rallied by its giant carbon footprint, the damage caused by spills, and the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests. Meanwhile, landowners are being forced to give up their property rights and co ...
  • Texans affected by the Keystone XL pipeline – ...
    Today, the the Department of State released a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the new Presidential Permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The Draft SEIS is available at: http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/draftseis/index.htm. The SEIS acknowledge ...
  • Texas Landowner Julia Trigg Crawford Files App ...
    We Texans and Public Citizen  Support Crawford Family as Legal Action Continues Against Keystone XL Southern Segment – #NoKXL Yesterday, Landowner Julia Trigg Crawford and her attorney Wendi Hammond announced that they have filed their appeal against TransCanada with the 6th Judicial Court ...
  • Austinites join the Washington Climate Forward ...
    On February 17th, environmental activists gathered in front of the Whole Foods headquarters in Austin, TX to show their support for the Tar Sands Blockade and to raise climate change awareness, adding their voices to the over 40,000 that gathered on the Mall in Washington, DC that same day. The ...
  • Forward on Climate Rally – A Call to Activism
    I have been a Public Citizen intern since January of this year.  As a Political Science graduate student, in both Undergraduate and Graduate studies I have been immersed in the political process and the theories behind the ideas that have formed our nation.  When I was a bit younger, I dabbled i ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

  • Electric Cars Under Extra Pressure from Europe ...
    (Wall Street Journal) The Renault-Nissan alliance’s multibillion-euro electric-vehicle program, marred by delays and disappointing sales, faces crucial tests this month amid the slump in European auto demand and the Japanese yen’s vola ...
  • Coal to Keep Firing India Power Plants
    (Wall Street Journal) India's power generation will remain heavily dependent on coal for the next two decades despite ambitious plans to increase production of hydro-based, nuclear, wind and solar energy sources, said the top bureaucra ...
  • Sierra Club Campaign Says Helped Retire 15% of ...
    (Reuters) New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Sierra Club, an environmental group, said Friday they were halfway to their goal of getting one-third of coal-fired power plants retired by 2015 through a variety of civic actions. Bl ...
  • Cuomo Says He Wasn't About to Okay Fracking in ...
    (AP) Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday a discussion over a new study the hydraulic fracturing with his former brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., didn't derail an imminent approval of the natural gas drilling method that could remain in ...
  • Natural Gas Seen Gaining With Obama’s Fracking ...
    (Bloomberg) President Barack Obama says his picks to guide energy and environmental policy in his second term will lead the charge against global warming, a fight that may have one immediate beneficiary: natural gas. Obama picked Erne ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Stupid and Evil Can't Fix Stupid and Evil
    I am no fan of Politico but I do thank them for their commitment to providing at least three Republicans in disarray articles a week. It's like pornography. Or chocolate. Or little tiny ponies skipping over rainbows and grazing in the field with unicorns. Who can ever get tired of their naked ...
  • America Has Passed Them By
    It is possible that Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman is totally insane. But, if he wasn't writing this stuff, someone else would have to do it because it is an integral and necessary component of the conservative strategy. First, let's look at what Klayman is saying. He's arguing that Pre ...
  • Is it a Southern Thing?
    I am going back to Ryan Lizza's big profile of Eric Cantor in The New Yorker again, and probably not for the last time. The following excerpt made a strong impression on me, as well as several other people. What struck me wasn't so much that Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) has had his head stuck in ...
  • Probably Should Make a Stink About This
    I'm a bit tired tonight and I don't have anything profound to say. I see that some folks ran a pretty sophisticated covert operation on Sen. Bob Menendez. It's somewhere between what we'd expect the CIA to do, although you would hope with more success, and a James O'Keefe special gone wrong. ...
  • Good Advice that Won't Work
    I think Arthur Brooks offers good advice to Republicans although I think he only gets about 75% of the way there. He's correct that Republicans are focusing on the wrong things. Failing schools need to be fixed not because teachers' unions are full of thugs, but because poor kids deserve good ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    Everything from hilarious business-type fails and uniquely Japanese hotel designs, to world-changing African-American nurses, and all shades of animal attraction. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Behind the Gates of Chios' Abandoned Leper Colony
    Lovokomeio was the first, and one of the last, leper colonies in Greece. These days, its crumbling ruins make it a fascinating place to explore. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Lago Epecuén: The Lake That Drowned A Thriving ...
    Over two decades ago the tourist village of Villa Epecuén was submerged beneath a rising lake. Recently, the waters have receded to expose the haunting ruins... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Forging Ahead in Modern Times: The Ancient Loh ...
    The Lohar of north and central India are a caste of blacksmiths with a long history and an ancient way of life that may not last much longer... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Krampnitz: Potsdam's Abandoned Nazi and Soviet ...
    The buildings at Krampnitz are falling into ruin; a far cry from the grand installation that once housed Nazi and then Soviet military. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • What Went Right at Almaty
    Iran and the P5+1 powers are finally negotiating instead of just talking.
  • Reconciling Displaced Libyans and Their Neighbors
    Thousands of Libyans remain internally displaced by ethnic tensions unleashed by the revolution.
  • President Suu Kyi?
    Aung San Suu Kyi's tremendous skills as an opposition leader don't necessarily translate to presidential politics.
  • Bulgaria: The Next Generation
    Bulgaria's younger generation is distinguished from those who lived during the communist era by an awareness of the rest of the world -- and how it perceives Bulgaria.
  • Defense Braces for a Bad Decade
    Rather than just sitting on the sidelines, watching in anxiety and frustration as this Washington catfight proceeds, defense-dependent communities and workers should get going on the proverbial Plan B.

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Remembering Elsbeth Bothe, 1927-2013
    For close to 20 years, Elsbeth Bothe brought her special brand of insights and living and social justice into IPS, and she contributed generously, and IPS is much the better for it.
  • Bulgaria: The Next Generation
    Bulgaria's younger generation is distinguished from those who lived during the communist era by an awareness of the rest of the world -- and how it perceives Bulgaria.
  • Defense Braces for a Bad Decade
    Rather than just sitting on the sidelines, watching in anxiety and frustration as this Washington catfight proceeds, defense-dependent communities and workers should get going on the proverbial Plan B.
  • Organizing the Public in East-Central Europe
    NGOs devoted to public works paradoxically became part of the wave of privatization that swept the region.
  • Cutting the Military Budget, 2013 Anniversarie ...
    The New Internationalism newsletter on sequestration and military budget, an uprising in Palestinian, and 2013 anniversaries.

IntelNews

  • British journalists worked for MI6 during the ...
    Numerous notable journalists working for some of Britain’s most prestigious publications routinely collaborated with British intelligence during the Cold War, according to a BBC investigation.
  • Hamas ‘found tracking devices’ inside weapons ...
    The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday it refused to take possession of a shipment of missiles after its weapons experts discovered they contained a number of carefully hidden tracking devices.
  • Analysis: The Current State of the China-Taiwa ...
    Last week I spoke about the current state of the espionage war between China and Taiwan with Tim Daiss, a Southeast Asia-based American journalist who has been covering the Asia-Pacific region for over a decade. Our discussion formed the basis of a comprehensive piece on the subject, published i ...
  • Canada issues arrest warrant for former spy wa ...
    Authorities in the Canadian province of Quebec have issued a warrant for the arrest of a government official who until recently was responsible for overseeing the country’s primary national intelligence service.
  • British government tries to block probe into e ...
    The family of a Russian spy, who died of poisoning after defecting to Britain, has accused the British government of trying to cover up the affair in order to avoid embarrassing Russia.

War is a Crime.org

  • Protest Drone Kills at the CIA
    SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013 10AM CIA HEADQUARTERS 900 block of Dolley Madison Blvd., Langley, Virginia The US CIA drone program is the worst and bloodiest kept secret. Officially it’s functioning is covert and hidden from scrutiny. Around the world those concerned with international law are opposing ...
  • AIPAC Conference Promotes War
      AIPAC Conference Promotes War   by Stephen Lendman   On March 3, AIPAC's 2013 conference began. It "Celebrat(es) 65 Years of Friendship." It's nothing to be admired.    It supports war, occupation, exploitation and dominance. It deplores peace, equity and justice.&nbsp ...
  • Italians Reject Austerity
      Italians Rejects Austerity   by Stephen Lendman   It's high time voters somewhere did. It transfers wealth to bankers, other corporate favorites and rich elites.    It wrecks economies. It creates poverty, unemployment and human misery. It turns countries into dystopia ...
  • Syria News - Mar 5
        Dozens of Syrian troops killed in Iraq after seeking refuge, raising concerns of war’s spread - The Washington Post Iraq accuses Qatar of financing jihadi groups in Syria - The Cable Kurdistan Region asks Turkey to negotiate with Syrian Kurds - Kurdpress News Aganecy Russia to ...
  • Eric Clapton also can’t stand the TSA, by Lisa ...
    The great blues guitarist and singer Eric Clapton is also fed up with the TSA. Read the rest at TSA News.

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “Maxine Waters of California alerted the entire country with a devastating result of sequestration. She warned that 170 MILLION jobs could be lost to sequestration. This is terrifying, especially when you learn that only 134 million people are working in the US. Sequester will be so catast ...
  • 15 Year Old Invents Early Detection for Pancre ...
    Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school. He developed a paper sensor that could detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer in five minutes for as little as 3 cents. He conducted his research at John Hopkins University. Continue Reading
  • Profiles: China’s New Leaders
    By BBC News China’s ruling Communist Party has unveiled the next generation of leaders who will take charge of the country. The seven men will sit at the top of the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s most powerful body. They were elected by more than 2,000 delegates to a Party co ...
  • Promises, Promises at the New York Fed
    By Gretchen Morgenson Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about a secret agreement struck in July 2012 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America. The existence of the confidential deal was disclosed recently in court filings, which showed the New York Fed releasing Bank of America ...
  • Water Treatment Contaminants: Too Much Toxic T ...
    By Renee Sharp and J. Paul Pestano Water Treatment plants along the east coast are struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, whose torrential rains washed tens of millions of gallons of raw or partially treated sewage into waterways. The less dramatic but equally urgent story: inside those wa ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Nanoscribe Unveils the World’s Fastest Nano-Sc ...
    Nanoscribe GmbH, a German company based in Karlsruhe, has released the Photonic Professional GT, a high-speed 3D nano-printer. An announcement from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) says that the printer, based on laser lithography, can produce three-dimensional objects smaller than th ...
  • North Pole Could be a Viable Shipping Route by ...
    Photo via Shutterstock Scientists from the University of California have announced that by 2050, ships will be able to travel across the north pole in summer months. This would slash costs of transporting goods between Europe and China, Laurence C. Smith and Scott R. Stephenson wrote in the jour ...
  • Autodesk’s New Milan Offices Achieve LEED Gold ...
    Read the rest of Autodesk’s New Milan Offices Achieve LEED Gold With Lots of Italian Flair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", autodesk, autodesk milan, autodesk milano, eco design, eco office, Goring & Straja, green architecture, Gree ...
  • VIDEO: Mitchell Joachim on How to Grow a Treeh ...
    We love treehouses here at Inhabitat, and are enamored with eco-architect Mitchell Joachim’s visionary ideas about how to grow living treehouses from ficus molded around frame structures. We’ve covered these brilliantly playful architectural ideas before on Inhabitat, but now we have ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: EVolo Skyscrapers – A Reference M ...
    EVolo Magazine has made a name for itself with its annual skyscraper competition, which started in 2006. Since then there have been over 4,000 submissions arriving from across the planet, seemingly covering just about every imaginable design parameter when it comes to vertical construction. Thei ...

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • The Robama Doctrine
    Mitt Romney is back in the news with more than a little schadenfreude, talking about how he would be better not only to deal with sequestration but also with Iran.  Or so he claims.  But had he become president, it would have been interesting to see the Romney Doctrine in action—a foreign policy ...
  • Will Kenya’s Spoiled Votes Spoil a Peaceful El ...
    The issues of 300,000 so-called “spoiled” ballots is becoming a central question in Kenya’s contentious national elections. These are ballots that for some reason or another were tossed out. Now, the process by which these ballots are counted–or not–could be hugely consequential to the out ...
  • Who Is Ultimately Responsible for US Drone Str ...
    An article today in the New York Times offered a new piece of evidence in the CIA’s nine-year drone strikes campaign in Pakistan. Declan Walsh reported that anonymous officials—“two senior U.S. officials” and a “third official”—claimed that airstrikes on February 6 and 8, reported by Pakistani a ...
  • Reconciling Displaced Libyans and Their Neighbors
    Thousands of Libyans remain internally displaced by ethnic tensions unleashed by the revolution. While this month marked the second anniversary since the start of Libya’s uprising, the country is still struggling with the ramifications of its upheaval and the difficulties of reconciliation foll ...
  • Top of the Morning: Kenyatta Takes Early Lead ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Special, Kenya Election Edition Kenya Decides The election for the next president in Kenya took place yesterday. People waited in line for hours beginning at 6 AM to cast their ballot.  Here are some of the reports from the day: With about a third of the ballots co ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Introducing Economic Stimulus Done Right
    A new bill introduced today by Senator Tom Harkin and Rep. George Miller would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, and more importantly, peg it to inflation so that it would automatically adjust. The proposed wage hike is higher than the $9 per hour proposed by President Obama an ...
  • Republicans Upset Obama Is Also a Politician
    Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America Republican control of the House makes meaningful advancement on President Obama's agenda near-impossible. And so, to deal with this, Obama plans to make the midterm elections a priority. If Democrats can take back the House—or at least, shrink the ...
  • The GOP's Bush Dilemma
    CNN Jeb and George Bush sit with an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley. This morning, Washington solved the mystery of Jeb Bush's strange about-face on immigration reform: It was a simple case of political calculation gone wrong. In his new book, Immigration Wars: Forging a New S ...
  • The Sequester, Now What?
    President Obama gambled that the threat of the automatic sequester of $85 billion in domestic and defense cuts would force the Republicans to accept major tax increases, and so far he is losing the wager. The Republican leadership, which was badly divided over the New Years deal that delayed th ...
  • The Lone Star State Left Out To Dry
    When the sequester deadline came and went last Friday, it was hardly a surprise. In Congress, Republicans had repeatedly made clear they would be willing to let enormous cuts to discretionary spending take effect rather than compromise with the White House on raising revenue. But cutting off th ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movement Swells for ...
    The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups on the American radical right hit an all-time high in 2012, the fourth straight year of explosive growth, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As the new year began, serious talk of gun control, prompted by ...
  • Strange Bedfellows Snuggle Under White Sheets
    Check out the story of the Klansmen and the Crip. A Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard in Alabama and an African-American Crips street gang member in Memphis, Tenn., say they are teaming up to organize a counter-protest against the Klansman’s fellow hooded haters, who vow to hold “one of the biggest K ...
  • Wonkette Viciously Mocks Stormfront Fundraisin ...
    Don Black needs money – bad. It’s gotten to the point that the former Ku Klux Klan leader and founder of Stormfront – the largest neo-Nazi web forum – is begging for pennies. To no avail, though. With February coming to a close, Black hasn’t raised even half of the $7,500 he needs to pay his [...]
  • Klan Rally Planned for Memphis, But Threat of ...
    It began about two weeks ago, when a local television station in Memphis, Tenn., allowed a man with a hooded face, identifying himself only as “Edward” and speaking on what was apparently his own rear deck, to announce to the world that he would soon be bringing “thousands” of Klansmen to a prot ...
  • Neo-Nazi Threat-Maker Bill White Gets More Pri ...
    Proud heterosexuals — a small and nameless handful of them, anyway – are on the march. And they’re not being very nice about it. Back in June 2012, the Facebook page “Heterosexual Awareness Month” (HAM) was created to “celebrate heterosexuality.” According to the page’s administrators, who ar ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • “Obama’s Department of Fracking and Nukes”
    KARL GROSSMAN, read more
  • 52 Members of Congress Urge Continued Federal ...
    In an effort championed by Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), 52 House members sent a letter today to the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urging an about-face on the agency’s anticipated proposal to remove federal protections for wolves across most of the ...
  • Maryland One Year Closer to Fracking
    “The death of the bill to ban fracking in Maryland, Senate Bill 514, today brings Maryland one year closer to fracking. “It's outrageous that Maryland officials continue to believe that we can study fracking and somehow make it safe. By killing the bill, the Senate leadership jus ...
  • REINS Bill Would Dismantle America’s Public He ...
    Statement of Nasima Hossain, U.S. PIRG public health advocate, on today’s Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the REINS Act: “The REINS Act (H.R. 367) would block enforcement of existing health and safety laws by creating new bureaucratic hurdles and impossibly short timelines for appr ...
  • “First Baby Step” Toward Oversight Over Target ...
    In a win for congressional oversight over the government’s vast killing program, the Obama administration has shown an additional but undisclosed number of Office of Legal Counsel memos justifying the program to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, but has continued to withhold so ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • ‘You’re Not Allowed to Use Public Transportati ...
    Mondoweiss Editor's Note: The following report is from February 28, 2013. Although it was reported that Israel would begin segregating bus service in the West Bank starting March 4, the practice has been in effect for much longer. Yeshua-Lyth explained in an email: "The practice of bann ...
  • Clean Air, Safe Communities, and Good Jobs? It ...
    Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins Throughout history, nearly all of the progress we’ve made toward a more just and peaceful world has started with seeds of discomfort with the status quo, and the growing sense that a better way is possible. &nbsp ...
  • Shadow Lives: How the War on Terror in England ...
    Victoria Brittain Once, as a reporter, I covered wars, conflicts, civil wars, and even a genocide in places like Vietnam, Angola, Eritrea, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, keeping away from official briefings and listening to t ...
  • Our Current Economic Mess, Explained With Head ...
    Dave Johnson I was doing research, gathering headlines for a post. But the headlines told a story of their own. So here they are: 2010 November 2010, Corporate Profits Hit New Record, U.S. Workers Still Struggling 2011read more
  • It’s Time to Tax Financial Transactions
    Katrina vanden Heuvel On Friday at midnight, the sequester kicked in, triggering $85 billion in deep, dumb budget cuts that sent “nonessential personnel”— such as air traffic controllers — packing.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

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Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • WATCH: Bill O’Reilly’s Team Harasses Gay Color ...
    As expected, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is continuing his smear campaign against Colorado House Speaker Mark Ferrandino (D), who is openly gay, because of his opposition to instituting “Jessica’s Law,” which imposes excessive mandatory sentences for first-time offenders ...
  • March 5 News: Ships Could Be Able To Traverse ...
    According to a new study, something as small as a light icebreaker could go in the Arctic Ocean by the middle of the century, including straight over the North Pole, thanks to the ongoing effects of climate change. [NBC] Ordinary vessels, which account for more than 99 percent of shipping traffi ...
  • North Carolina Bill Prevents State From Issuin ...
    Starting March 25, North Carolina will begin issuing drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants who qualify for deferred action, otherwise known as DREAMers. But unlike the state’s standardized licenses, these are vertical, pink, and carry the words “NO LAWFUL STATUS.” In othe ...
  • Two Democrats To Introduce Bill Raising The Mi ...
    Two Democrats plan to introduce legislation today that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, more than a dollar over the proposal President Obama made during February’s State of the Union address. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has not been raised since 200 ...
  • National Security Brief: GOP Senator Says Iran ...
    Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) are planning to introduce a resolution urging the U.S. government to back Israel, militarily if necessary, should Israel “be compelled to take military action” against Iran “in self-defense.” Graham told the Washingto ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Bye Jymn
    My blog-roll link: "Let Freedom Rain" no longer works. Jymn has retired from blogging. Jymn was getting depressed about the failure of the enemies of the harpercons to present a united front against them. Then he had a flame-out over the workplace bullying at the hands of female bosses that he u ...
  • Tom Flanagan's career
  • Bombing War
    This looks like it'll be fairly objective. (Only just started it.)
  • Good One From "Sadly No!"
    "He's a renegade Jew and he's here to say ..."
  • Wednesday Morning Unoriginal Pop Culture Post
    These two tunes were going through my head while I was out walking the dog this morning ... and ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-12-13
    Today, Kevin gives you the solutions to your economic woes and explains why you absolutely cannot put a price tag on your health! Self Help: Inflation Cure Stop Eating Tainted Meat Voice Your Political Support Safest Hair Products Health: Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human’ Milk More Recal ...
  • KT’s Holiday Gift Ideas
    The holiday season is upon us and they can be the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, for yourself and others. So, this holiday, let’s help each other out by giving gifts that will help someone eat healthier, be healthier, and ...
  • Find alternative ways to stay healthy…
    On my show, I’ve always discussed why you should be using natural cures and remedies on a daily basis. The drug companies’ only goal is to keep you sick, and fill their wallets in the process. They are not looking to cure anyone. Natural remedies have been passed down through generat ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-10-12
    Today, Kevin reveals how he was able to build his financial empire and gives you tips on how to do the same! Self Help: Flood Your System With Nutrition Lose Weight Safely Become Financially Set Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast Follow Kev ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • State Rep: Surrender Your Guns For Obamacare?
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHealthcare records a slippery slope, warns lawmaker Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com March 5, 2013 Montana lawmaker Krayton Kerns warns that President Obama’s recent executive orders on gun control could lead t ...
  • When America is One Giant Ticker Tape — Unive ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Paul Haeder Okay, okay, today es muy interesante, lleno de literatura y periodismo. Full of literature and journalism. Yes, yes, Mister Welfare Man, I am doing job searches to ...
  • Gun talks hit a snag in Senate over universal ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAlexander Bolton The Hill March 5, 2013 The centerpiece of President Obamas gun violence agenda is in peril amid a deadlock among Senate negotiators over how to implement and enforce a proposal requiring background check ...
  • The More You Attack Ashley Judd, the Stronger ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story Topics: Ashley Judd   I think it’s settled: The Daily Caller is a publication run by a bunch of people who just discovered yesterday that sex exists, and they cannot get over how disgusted they are b ...
  • America’s first entrepreneur — George Washington
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJohn Berlau, Senior Fellow for Finance and Access to Capital at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, commemorates Washington’s birthday by highlighting a little-known facet of Washington’s life: his career a ...

Dandelion Salad

  • E. M. Cioran–The Undiscovered Atheist by ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) March 4, 2013 I first got turned on to the work of E. M. Cioran when a life long Atheist friend of mine was vacationing in Paris and stumbled on his work in a bookstore there. My friend wa ...
  • We Are Bradley Manning by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig March 4, 2013 I was in a military courtroom at Fort Meade in Maryland on Thursday as Pfc. Bradley Manning admitted giving classified government documents to WikiLeaks. The hundreds of thousands of leaked documents exposed U.S. war crimes i ...
  • Don’t Mention the War! by Lesley Docksey
    by Lesley Docksey Guest Writer Dandelion Salad England March 1, 2013 Why is it, just when you think the British Government can sink no lower and visit no more embarrassment and shame upon the country they are supposedly there to represent, that within a week or less one of the Ministers will ope ...
  • Displacement, Intimidation and Abuse–Lan ...
    by Graham Peebles Guest Writer Dandelion Salad London February 27, 2013 With the coming of industrial-size farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists (deemed irrelevant to the Government’s, economically-driven development plans) are being threatened, and intimidated by the milit ...
  • You Can’t Wash Away Fracking’s Effects by Walt ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com February 23, 2013 José Lara just wanted a job. A company working in the natural gas fields needed a man to power wash wastewater tanks. Clean off the debris. Make them shining again. And so José Lara became a power washer for ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Spot the Space I ...
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which makes galaxy clusters act as natural ...
  • Europa’s Oceans Might Taste Like Earth’s Oceans
    The subsurface water on Jupiter’s moon Europa probably tastes like the water in Earth’s oceans. This is according to scientists who mapped the frozen moon in greater detail than ever before and discovered a new mineral on its surface. Their research ...
  • The Hidden Costs of Cognitive Enhancement
    Gentle electrical zaps to the brain can accelerate learning and boost performance on a wide range of mental tasks, scientists have reported in recent years. But a new study suggests there may be a hidden price: Gains in one aspect ...
  • Recent Global Warming Slowed by Volcanoes
    Global average temperatures have been rising in recent years, but not as much as they might have, thanks to a series of small-to-moderate-sized volcanic eruptions that have spewed sunlight-blocking particles high into the atmosphere.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Venus From Saturn
    Peering over the shoulder of giant Saturn, through its rings, and across interplanetary space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spies the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet, Venus. The vast distance from Saturn means that Venus only shows up as a white dot, just ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Herod exhibit digs up controversy
    Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrachi: “Israel wants to present the situation as if it is simply ‘borrowing’ these antiquities from the Palestinians, like it might borrow an exhibit from France or... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Obama’s diplomatic overture wil ...
    Here is the rub. Mr Netanyahu already has a stranglehold on the politics of his potential peace partners. He can easily manipulate the fortunes of the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on the two... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Stephen R. Shalom: Do we know enough?
    In Knowing Too Much, Norman Finkelstein [argues] that both American Jews and the American public more generally are moving away from uncritical support for Israel. This shift, he suggests, holds out... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Pictures speak volumes in Oscar ...
    Israelis have been revelling in the prospect of an Oscar night triumph next week, with two Israeli-financed films among the five in the running for Best Documentary. But the country’s right-wing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s rightward shift leaves ...
    Far from marking a revival by the center-left, as most media presented the results, [Israel's 2013] election results signaled a further rightward shift in the center of political gravity in Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Women's Health Must be Priority for State Heal ...
    Women's issues play a major role in the health of the nation and should be a key consideration for policymakers as they design and set up the new insurance exchanges, according to a report co-authored by policy experts at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Servic ...
  • Rapid Warming Followed by Equally Rapid Cooling
    Global Temperature Report: February 2013 - Global average temperature anomalies that jumped almost three tenths of a degree Celsius from December 2013 to January 2013, fell by more than three tenths through February, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director ...
  • Age-Related Dementia May Begin with Neurons' I ...
    Research published in the March 2013 journal GENETICS explains a novel interaction between aging and how neurons dispose of unwanted proteins and why this impacts the rising prevalence of dementia with advancing age.
  • RWJUH Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center Med ...
    Regularly getting four hours or less of sleep isn't enough rest for most people, but sacrificing sleep to get it all done appears to be the new cultural norm. During National Sleep Awareness Week, Anays M. Sotolongo, MD, medical director of the Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center at RWJUH, enco ...
  • Scientists Discover New Crocodilian, Hippo-Lik ...
    University of Florida paleontologists have discovered remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to science during recent Panama Canal excavations that began in 2009.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • HILJ Symposium: Constraining Language Through ...
    by Efrat Arbel by Efrat Arbel [Efrat Arbel is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School.] This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. Moria Paz’s article, “The Failed Promise of L ...
  • Argentina to U.S. Court: We Won’t Obey Your Or ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I have been remiss in not pointing interested readers to Anna Gelpern’s terrific posts on the ongoing NML v. Argentina sovereign debt litigation that is going on here in New York.   I want to highlight in particular her incredibly useful and interesting account ...
  • HILJ Symposium: A Response to “Consent to the ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis This post is part of the Harvard International Law Journal Volume 54(1) symposium. Other posts from this series can be found in the related posts below. INTERNATIONAL LAW VERSUS DOMESTIC LAW: SUPREMACY, SURRENDER, OR CO-EXISTENCE? Ashley Deeks’ Article, &#8220 ...
  • The Capture-Kill Debate Underway at Lawfare, a ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson A recent Lawfare post by Jack Goldsmith noted the appearance of NYU professor Ryan Goodman’s controversial new EJIL article, “The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants.” It was followed by an even more provocative summary of it in S ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The head of the IAEA has urged Iran to allow international inspectors access to a military site near Tehran to explore whether nuclear tests have been carried out there. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, has urged t ...

Public News Service

  • Colorectal Cancer: Thousands of New AZ Cases E ...
    Colorectal Cancer: Thousands of New AZ Cases Each Year PHOENIX - March is national Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, and this year in Arizona, more than 2600 new cases are expected to be diagnosed. Nearly 1000 cases will be fatal, even though colon cancer is very treatable when caught early, ac ...
  • Putting Food on the Table: Report says AZ Stil ...
    Putting Food on the Table: Report says AZ Still Struggles PHOENIX - Arizona comes in at number 14 on a list of states where people say they lacked enough money to buy the food they needed at some point in the last year. That equals nearly 21 percent of the population, according to a report by th ...
  • Heart Dangers for Women Sometimes Not Obvious
    Heart Dangers for Women Sometimes Not Obvious PHOENIX – A sharp pain or a tight feeling in the chest, along with shortness of breath, are well known warning signs of a heart attack. But according to the American Heart Association (AHA), those are typical signs of a heart attack in men. ...
  • March Sequester Takes Nearly $28 Million from ...
    March Sequester Takes Nearly $28 Million from AZ Schools PHOENIX, Ariz. - Barring last-minute action by Congress, the sequester starts to kick in on Friday. According to a White House analysis, Arizona will lose nearly $28 million in federal funds for education, causing hundreds of teachers and ...
  • Report: Fewer Locked-Up Kids, Less Youth Crime
    Report: Fewer Locked-Up Kids, Less Youth Crime PHOENIX - In Arizona and nationwide, fewer juveniles are being incarcerated. At the same time, the juvenile crime rate is down sharply. A report released today by the Annie E. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Driverless truck convoys in Japan get better m ...
    Tests in Japan of driverless trucks, with four truck caravans driving thirteen feet apart with only the lead truck having a human driver, used 15% less fuel. If driverless trucks become common, then millions of truck drivers (and workers in the businesses that support them, like truck stops) wi ...
  • Fed buys toxic slop from TBTF banks, faces pro ...
    The Fed bought so much toxic slop from the TBTF banks that it now may not be able to make its regular payments to Treasury. This may be an “accounting issue” for the Fed, but they used our money to buy the toxic slop. Thus, it essentially was a ginormous transfer of money from [...]
  • Mark Abernathy and the Sabre Rattlers Kickstar ...
    The Blaze profiles our friend Mark Abernathy and his band the Sabre Rattlers, who are raising money on Kickstarter for their new album. I encourage you to pledge. The music is powerful, mixing gospel with Americana. God is in the songs: Meet the Mormon musician who’s mixing gospel, blues and co ...
  • Iran nuclear weapons. Surely they must exist
    There are those who would have bombed or invaded Iran years ago to make sure there would be no Iran nuclear weapons, and their voices are getting louder again as another day of high level talks approaches. Even though Iran’s Supreme Leader has spent years forswearing nuclear weapons, which he c ...
  • Edible City: Grow the Revolution
    Dig in and Grow the Revolution at http://www.ediblecity.net Edible City is a fun, fast-paced journey through the Local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Introducing a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric ch ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Pope Benedict Threatened with Lawsuit by Rappe ...
    In a bit of incredibly ridiculous news out of California, a rapper from Oakland, who has been performing under the name “Pope Emeritus” since 2006, has threatened a lawsuit if Pope Benedict XVI is called that when he retires on Thursday, according to The New Yorker. “I don’t care who he is, I ai ...
  • N. Korea vows to scrap ceasefire if South, US ...
    North Korea has threatened to scrap the armistice which ended the 1950-53 Korean War if the South and US continue with an ongoing military drill. The Korean People’s Army Supreme Command spokesman issued the statement Tuesday, according to the state KCNA news agency. Pyongyang warned it wi ...
  • Bill requires welfare recipients to sign waive ...
    Low-income parents seeking federal assistance would be forced to sign away their Fourth Amendment rights under a bill proposed last week by Republican Rep. Stephen Fincher of Tennessee. The Welfare Integrity Act of 2013 would require applicants for and recipients of assistance under the Temporar ...
  • This Day In History – March 5
    1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are ...
  • Jeb Bush: I won’t rule out 2016 White Ho ...
    Former Florida governor Jeb Bush talks with TODAY’s Matt Lauer about the sequester cuts will have on the economy and national security and strategies for improving our immigration system. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bu ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook responds to New York Times writer’s c ...
    Facebook today issued a response to a recent article by a New York Times writer who claimed that the lower amount of engagement he’s seeing on personal posts is the result of the social network suppressing organic content...
  • Facebook creates new requirements for PMD program
    Facebook today announced that it will once again accept new applications to the Preferred Marketing Developer Program, but with two key changes. Applicants must be referred by a Facebook employee or an existing PMD and there...
  • Facebook reorganizes Power Editor ad creation flow
    Facebook recently rolled out an update to its Power Editor ad platform that offers advertisers a somewhat different flow for creating their ads. The new design lays out Facebook’s ad types more clearly, including mobile-only ads...
  • Guest Post: Facebook Is Now The Best Ad Target ...
    This is a guest post by Zazzle Media Social and Data Insight Manager Ben Harper. Facebook’s announcement last week that Custom Audiences targeting was to be expanded to include categories based on real life purchase and preference data...
  • This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
    A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Feb. 25 and March. 1. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Feb. 25 Keep up with...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- March 4, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Saluting Those Who Stand By A True Alternative
    The Boiling Frogs Post Team Thanks You For All Your Support We have achieved our goal in raising the funds needed to carry us for another quarter. We want to thank you for all your support. We appreciate your kind and generous donations during these tough economic times. We know that your suppor ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-“End the Biggest ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Bill Still Bill Still, the author of 22 books and two award winning documentaries, The Secret of Oz and The Money Masters, joins us today to discuss Monetary reform. If collecting interest on loans from imaginary money is such an obvious scam, then why aren’t more poli ...
  • The Missing Recovery
    “Sooner or later something will pop these bubbles … and the consequences will be horrendous.” Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed ...
  • We Need Your Support- Help Us Continue Counter ...
    Boiling Frogs Post Needs $8000 To Meet This Quarter’s Budget! What does it mean to be a ‘True Alternative’ among the too many and too powerful media outlets infested with lies and busy with implementing deception and propaganda? As a long-term truth seeker and activist, and as a founder and dire ...

Afro Spear

  • Sunday Inspirations
    24-year-old Arthur Zang, a Cameroonian engineer, invented the Cardiopad. The Cardiopad is a portable, touch screen device that enables heart …Continue reading »
  • Black Pete, Zwarte Piet: The Documentary
    Greeting’s Everyone, I need to thank Adrianne George who contributes to Black Expat.com. I just happen to find this post …Continue reading »
  • The Myth
    Thanks Cedric McCay for sharing this image!
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  • Kinshasha Symphony
    Greeting’s Everyone, Kinshasa Symphony (2010) -CONGO A documentary by German directors Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer, “Kinshasa Symphony” shows how …Continue reading »

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli News Documentary Finds Israeli Intelli ...
    Ilana Dayan proves once again why Uvdah is Israel’s premier news magazine program, airing (Hebrew) a moving, deeply troubling portrait of the last days in the life of Ben Zygier before he killed himself in Ayalon prison. She interviews senior prison officials, including someone who spent a ...
  • Rabbi Froman is Gone
    Settlers and Palestinians as Neighbors? One of the great ones of our generation has just passed: Rabbi Menachem Froman. He died of cancer today at age 68. I have posted about him several times. I will feature here Rita Castelnuovo’s wonderful photograph that accompanied the NY Times profil ...
  • Palestinian Family Appeals to Supreme Court in ...
    The following story is a perfect parable of the cluelessness of the IDF in enforcing the Occupation regime.  Military forces routinely kill or maim protesters (Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists) at the weekly protest in Bilin against the Separation Wall.  One of the worst series of trag ...
  • Even in Death Israeli Media Cannot Report Iden ...
    Before writing anything else here, let me begin by stating that I think Ehud Olmert is as corrupt as they come in Israeli politics. Which isn’t saying much, since virtually all the major politicians in Israel (that is those who wield real power as opposed to those in Opposition) are corrup ...
  • Video: Shaul Horev Compromised Israeli Nuclear ...
    I’ve just recorded a video summarizing my reporting on the Shaul Horev laptop theft scandal.  I hope you’ll promote the video through your social media networks and YouTube channels to bring it the audience it deserves. Also, I’ve heard of  many more secret Shabak arrests than ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Pop Up Archive and PRX Launch Audio Archiving ...
    This post was co-written by Bailey Smith, co-creator of Pop Up Archive, with help from Jake Shapiro, CEO of Public Radio Exchange. We believe that archiving can be so easy it doesn't even feel like archiving -- and that an entire new generation of meaningful content is waiting to be created, ...
  • Spending Stories, Open Spending Are Moving Bey ...
    2013 is going to be a big year for the spending stories project. In 2012, as we explained in more detail on our blog, we improved usability of our platform for spending data and developed stronger community ties around the world. Now we're primed to roll out some really empowering resources for ...
  • Beyond Foursquare: Geolocation Services Prolif ...
    This is the second in an ongoing series on the state of geolocation apps, sites and services. Also see: "How the geolocation revolution has evolved" In part one of this series, we looked back at the early days of geolocation, with Platial kicking off the geoloco revolution in the practical ...
  • How Newsrooms Should Best Handle Public Data
    This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines. For journalists, the most well-known project was the gun pe ...
  • How Do We Liberate the U.S. National Archives?
    The following is an MIT Center for Civic Media lunch live-blogged by the Center's Nathan Matias and Rahul Bhargava. Today, we're hearing from the National Archives and Records Administration about the archives they maintain, how they're making those archives available online at Archives.gov, ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Oil Addiction - Canadian Official Raps Greens ...
    A top Canadian official on Tuesday delivered a broadside against environmentalists in the United States who oppose the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver touted a U.S. State Department draft environmental review released Friday that dismissed claims fr ...
  • Edge of the Cliff - With the Sequester, Obama ...
    Congressional Republicans have had quite a comeback. In January, the GOP was forced to vote for a major tax hike with zero spending cuts. Now it is President Obama who has been forced to accept spending cuts with no tax hike. Who says divided government doesn’t work?Obama continues to complain ...
  • Broken Healthcare - Obamacare Insurance Plans ...
    There's mounting evidence that come fall, the health plans sold through the Obamacare exchanges will be bare bones affairs - with narrow networks of providers to select from, and heavy co-insurance once patients go "out of network."In many ways these plans will be a throwback to insurance scheme ...
  • Europe on Edge - Europe, Unemployment and Inst ...
    The global financial crisis of 2008 has slowly yielded to a global unemployment crisis. This unemployment crisis will, fairly quickly, give way to a political crisis. The crisis involves all three of the major pillars of the global system -- Europe, China and the United States. The level of ...
  • Road Food - Virginia Firm Puts Mobile Restaura ...
    In recent years food trucks have proliferated in big U.S. cities. As the popularity of the mobile kitchen continues to grow, a small business in the Washington D.C. suburbs is also profiting. East Coast Custom Coaches is a builder of food trucks.“You’ve got to come in, go around in this truc ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Melting Arctic To Increase Geopolitical Tensio ...
    The loss of sea ice in the Arctic will allow ships to navigate freely across the North Pole by the middle of the century and could lead to unprecedented geopolitical tensions between countries that have territorial claims in the region
  • Humanitarian Crisis Looms Across Somalia By So ...
    The Somali Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (SOMESHA) concerns the current Food security crisis exist across Somalia though the humanitarian situation remains fragile and gains could reverse without continued humanitarian assistance
  • 68 Years Ago: Greatest Generation Firebombs To ...
    On the night of March 9-10, 1945, General Curtis LeMay, head of the Twenty-first U.S. Bomber Command, brought an all-American brand of hell into the Pacific theater as his bombardiers laid siege on Tokyo. One Japanese doctor recalled “countless bodies” floating in the Sumida River. These bodies ...
  • Cowboy Capitalism: The Curious Case of Relianc ...
    Perhaps the most appropriate interpretation of this Reliance story is that it is all about profits with markets and regulations being only a smokescreen in the sense that, whenever market distortions are pointed out the ideologues claim a failure of regulations (and therefore that of the governm ...
  • Rethinking South Africa By Mazin Qumsiyeh
    Witnessing the miseries of slums like Diepsloot (lit. Deep Ditch) and Soweto (South West Township), I realize that apartheid is not ended here but mainly changed shape and this provides us with lots of lessons for Palestinian struggle against Israeli apartheid

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • House Judiciary Committee-ICE Intended to Rele ...
    I believe the technical term for that is SNAGGED!  The House Judiciary Committee  got its hands on a document dated 2/15/13 revealing that ICE and Big Momma Napolitano planned to release a total of  6,000 criminal illegal aliens on to the streets (if that is not an excuse to buy a ...
  • This is Really COOL: Blog Bash Shirts Will #R ...
    I cannot wait to get one: Washington DC -- One year after the sudden death of the conservative journalist, Andrew Breitbart, the Blog Bash event committee has continued to incorporate his legacy throughout the upcoming event on March 14 during CPAC. In addition to accepting application ...
  • Obama Admin. Supports Islamism More Than Do Eg ...
    By Barry Rubin Western observers, including the U.S. government view the situation in Egypt as improving. Actually, it's getting worse, partly due to U.S. policy. In April, that will become even more obvious. Egyptian parliamentary elections are scheduled for April 22. Supposedly, the Muslim ...
  • NewsBusted: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Moves to Ban B ...
    NYC Mayor Michael "The Mommy" Bloomberg has already implemented a ban on trans fats in NYC restaurants, and a rule that fast food and other chain restaurants publicly post the number of calories in their meals, banned large sugared soft drinks, banned pizza places to give 2 liter bottles of ...
  • Former State Dept Adviser -Obama a 'Dithering, ...
    Yikes Vali Nasr, a university professor Vali Nasr, an academic who worked for Richard C. Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in Mr. Obama’s first term does not have nice things to say about President Obama and his administration. In his book “The Dispensable N ...

The Real Agenda

  • The fiscal crisis in the United States is near ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 5, 2013 When one hears talks about the collapse of the dollar, it is hard to picture how a currency that is the base of all global transactions can simply disappear. An important point to understand is that such a collapse does not occur at onc ...
  • Kerry offers $450 million to rescue Egyptian e ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 4, 2013 Shortly before ending his first visit to Cairo, the new Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, said that in his meeting with President Mohamed Morsi he pledged to provide 450 million dollars (350 million euros) in aid to t ...
  • Cancer cells cause Mayhem in your Genetic Code
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 4, 2013 Scientists from Cancer Research UK and the Cancer Institute at the University College of London, have discovered that cancer literally creates chaos in the genetic code which is what allows it to multiply. The finding was published in t ...
  • Assad says Great Britain wants to further mili ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | MARCH 4, 2013 Since the civil war began in Syria, the public has head president Bashar al-Assad talk about the role of the rebel terrorists in the multiple attacks against civilians, hospitals and other infrastructure. Outside Syria, everyone knows t ...
  • “Estamos en manos de psicópatas integrad ...
    Escritoria cuenta su visión sobre como el mundo es controlado por “monstruos” de la vida real. POR CATALINA GUERRERO | EFE | MARZO 4, 2013 Los psicópatas integrados abundan en posiciones de responsabilidad, en las esferas de poder, de hecho estamos en sus “manos&#8221 ...

Wind Watch

  • Everpower legal claim dismissed by judge
    ALLEGANY — Officials reported on Friday that Cattaraugus County Supreme Court Judge Michael Nenno dismissed a lawsuit in its entirety that had been filed by EverPower Wind LLC. against the Town of Allegany Planning Board. Commenting on the lawsuit, John Hare, Allegany town supervisor, said the t ...
  • Senators give update on wind legislation changes
    GRAFTON — Vermont towns and “local control” would gain under revised legislation now under consideration in the Vermont Senate, three senators said at a forum on commercial wind development. The discussion, hosted by Friends of Grafton’s Heritage, which is fighting a proposed wind project in Gra ...
  • Winds of change blowing through wind power ind ...
    BICKLETON — As the superintendent of the Bickleton School District, Ric Palmer negotiates contracts, supervises the district’s single K-12 building, teaches classes, schedules sports and dons coveralls and a welding mask to fix buses in the garage. Starting in 2016, however, the 58-year-old plan ...
  • Wind farm developer’s appeal rejected by ...
    The state Public Service Commission on Friday declined to reconsider its denial of a construction permit for a wind farm in northwest Wisconsin. By a 2-to-1 vote, the commission decided not to grant an emergency request filed last week by Emerging Energies, the company seeking to develop the Hig ...
  • Iberdrola begins dismantling wind testing towers
    HAMMOND — Spanish energy company Iberdrola Renewables is in the process of dismantling its test towers in the town, on the heels of a January announhcement it would withdraw from its leases with residents to set up wind towers. Crews dismantled the first tower Thursday. “We’ve been in contact wi ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...
  • The future, and journalism education
    My university played host this weekend to several dozen journalism educators and some very wonderful working journalists. They all came to the Journalism Interactive conference to share what they know and learn new things about digital media and training the next generation of journalists. Most ...
  • What people search for online
    When you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time (I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your posts. Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
  • Should you get a master’s in journalism?
    To answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as well as an investment of your time and your money. Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, has addressed t ...

Facing South

  • Life after coal: Does Wales point the way?
    Declining coal production is hurting Appalachia's economy, which was already in rough shape. Scholars are looking at Wales, which lost its coal economy in the 1980s, for examples for how Appalachia might address its economic future. read more
  • Energy watchdog pressures NC governor over con ...
    NC WARN is running full-page ads in North Carolina newspapers calling on Gov. Pat McCrory to disclose exactly how much stock he holds in Duke Energy, his longtime employer, and to recuse himself from making appointments to the state regulatory commission that oversees the company. read more
  • What's needed for labor success in the South: ...
    What was true for the civil rights movement in the 1960s is true for the labor movement today: Any social movement in the South needs religion as part of its DNA if it's going to succeed. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Keys to Prosperity
    I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book on how to create prosperity.   Let’s run through the basics. First, you have to produce enough.  Goods and services.  Everything from food and shelter, to music and philosophy. Second, because prosperity means widespread affluence, ...
  • The Keys to Prosperity
    I’ve mentioned before that I’m writing a book on how to create prosperity.   Let’s run through the basics. First, you have to produce enough.  Goods and services.  Everything from food and shelter, to music and philosophy. Second, because prosperity means widespread affluence, ...
  • The Sequester is a Good Thing
    … because it’s about time people understood what government does.  This was agreed to by both parties, there are other options Obama could use to get out of it, he has chosen not to. This is bipartisan, and Americans need to understand that.
  • The Sequester is a Good Thing
    … because it’s about time people understood what government does.  This was agreed to by both parties, there are other options Obama could use to get out of it, he has chosen not to. This is bipartisan, and Americans need to understand that.
  • The Hidden Army: Hezbollah Teaches the World H ...
    Surveillance State notes something very, very important: Hezbollah and Israel have been at war for some time. In an effort to stop Hezbollah’s guerrilla fighters from communicating, Israel has in the past jammed the cell phone towers in the Hezbollah-controlled areas in southern Lebanon. Eager t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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new geography

  • Communities Need to Build Better Millennial Co ...
    A remarkable, but mostly unnoticed, 2012 study found a powerful correlation between a community’s civic health and its economic well being. The analysis by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and its partners found that the density of non-profits whose purpose was to encour ...
  • The Age of Bernanke
    To many presidential idolaters, this era will be known as the Age of Obama. But, in reality, we live in what may best be called the Age of Bernanke. Essentially, Obamaism increasingly serves as a front for the big-money interests who benefit from the Federal Reserve's largesse and intere ...
  • Disney Stops Thinking About Tomorrow
    Walt Disney's first version of Tomorrowland came to life in 1955. The attractions were geared towards the space age, and towards the future of transportation that Disney believed scientists of his time were about to create. The imaginary world was intended to “give you an opportunity to particip ...
  • The Beauty of Urban Planning from the Ground
    In a piece called The Beauty of Urban Planning from Space, the Sustainable Cities Collective highlights views from space of uniquely designed street pattern designs in various cities around the world. There are ten examples that illustrate the zenith of urban planning. As attractive as the ...
  • Gentrification and its Discontents: Notes from ...
    Readers of this forum have probably heard rumors of gentrification in post-Katrina New Orleans. Residential shifts playing out in the Crescent City share many commonalities with those elsewhere, but also bear some distinctions and paradoxes. I offer these observations from the so-called Will ...

GM Watch

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spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • US Helps Egypt Achieve Its Aspirations for Dem ...
    Secretary Kerry notes it is important, even urgent, that the Egyptian economy gets stronger and that people have jobs and have opportunity and that the energy of this country can be focused on a more prosperous future.
  • Norway's Funding of PA Under Scrutiny
    Morten Høglund, foreign policy spokesman for the Progress Party: 'We must use the power we have, and as a major donor to the PA, we must fight fire with fire and say that we will stop the aid unless the PA takes immediate action
  • Violence in 100-Hours Boroland Bandh Draws Con ...
    PJACBM strongly suspects the active involvement of some anti-social elements in those incidents to defame and malign the peaceful, democratic and non- violent movement for the legitimate demand of separate state.
  • US Backs Burma as It Siezes The Opportunity of ...
    Changes in Burma include from the release of hundreds of political prisoners to the revision of several repressive laws that many would have said were unthinkable just two years ago.
  • Evernote Issues Mandatory Password Resets Afte ...
    Online personal organizer Evernote reset passwords for all its users after attackers breached the company's systems and accessed login credentials

Worldnews

  • Justin Bieber shows up nearly two hours late f ...
    LONDON (AP) — Justin Bieber was facing the wrath of his young fans — and their outraged, overtired parents — on Tuesday after taking the stage almost two hours late for a concert in London. Concertgoers said the teenage star appeared onstage at the 02...
  • China’s defense spending to increase whi ...
    Facebook Follow @washtimes Secretary of State John F. Kerry released $250 million in economic and budgetary aid to Egypt. Should the U.S. help fund a government run by the Muslim Brotherhood? View results China’s Communist Party leaders Tuesday announced their spending plans for the People ...
  • David Cameron tells Cabinet: end cuts 'nimbyis ...
    David Cameron is to order Cabinet ministers to end their “cuts nimbyism” as they threaten to derail George Osborne’s demands for another £10bn of spending reductions. The Prime Minister is to rebuff Conservative ministers who are pushing for more cuts to the welfare budget in an attempt to prote ...
  • Tourists undeterred from visiting Mabul, Matak ...
    SEMPORNA: Despite the tense atmosphere due to the intrusion of Sulu gunmen in Lahad Datu and Semporna, tourists are undeterred from visiting Mabul, Sipadan Mataking islands off Semporna. Business is as usual for several tour and travel agencies which conduct dive trips to the islands and tourism ...
  • Garden plants could be used to clear pollution
    Scientists plan to use common garden plans to soak up waste from polluted land. Plant power: plants including ferns can soak up metal from former industrial sites Photo: Reuters 9:54AM GMT 05 Mar 2013 Comments Common garden plants are to be used to clean polluted land with the waste produced use ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • ADHD takes a toll well into adulthood
    First long-term, population-based study – from Boston Children's Hospital and Mayo Clinic – finds risk for suicide and psychiatric disorders; authors call for close monitoring, continued treatment BOSTON, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first large,...
  • Multitasking While Driving May Compromise Visi ...
    Most serious traffic accidents occur when drivers are making a left-hand turn at a busy intersection. When those drivers are also talking on a hands-free cell phone, "that could be the most dangerous thing they ever do on the road," said Dr. Tom Schweizer, a researcher at St. Michael's Hospital. ...
  • Queen In 'Good Spirits' As Treatment Continues
    Her Majesty is likely to stay in hospital for two days and has cancelled all of her engagements but is "otherwise in good health".
  • Queen's New Guard: 'Big Tone And Little Tone'
    Britain's tallest officer PC Anthony Wallyn and his 5ft 6in partner PC Tony Thich stand guard outside the Queen's hospital.
  • With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a ...
    curtwoodward writes "Now that President Obama's federal health care reform is past its major political hurdles — and with renewed focus on out-of-control costs in healthcare — companies that sell 'big data' software are licking their chops. The reason: Healthcare has huge piles of in ...

Common Dreams

  • Study: Africa's Elephants in 'Devastating Decl ...
    Photo: Richard Ruggiero/USFWSThe forest elephants of central Africa are suffering a "widespread and catastrophic decline," according to a study published Monday in the online journal PLOS ONE. read more
  • 'Mockery' of Transparency Continues as White H ...
    The White House has reportedly released additional top-secret legal memos claiming to justify the use of lethal drone strikes against US citizens to the Senate Intelligence Committee in a bid to appease lawmakers over the expected confirmation of 'kill list' architect John Brennan to CIA ...
  • Today's Most Insignificant Headline: Dow Hits ...
    Where's the Occupy movement when you need it? That's the question columnist Robert Scheer asked Tuesday amid abounding evidence that Wall Street and the wealthiest 1% are living up boom times while the rest of the U.S. continues to languish in the clutches of a recession that began nearl ...
  • Blow for BigPharma, Win for the People in Pate ...
    Pharmaceutical giant Bayer has been dealt a blow with a precedent-setting ruling that allows the production of a low-cost version of its patented cancer drug Nexavar in India, vastly expanding access to the drug and challenging the global pharmaceutical monopolies that put potentially life-savin ...
  • RIP El Comandante: Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
    Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez line up to put encouraging messages for him, in a box outside military hospital in Caracas March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins UPDATE 4:55 PM EST: Hugo Chávez has died. Earlier... ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • CleanTech Investment: Angels and Demons
    Finding ways to finance clean energy and address climate change should be a high priority for civilization, if self-interest ranks among our top values.
  • Mixed Reactions to Moniz for Energy Secretary
    President Obama’s decision to nominate Ernest Moniz as U.S. Secretary of Energy potentially places an advocate of nuclear energy and shale gas at the head of the department.
  • Ireland Launches Energy Efficiency Fund
    Despite – or perhaps because of - the acute economic recession in Ireland, the Irish government has earmarked USD 45 million in seed capital for a new energy efficiency fund to help reduce the cash-strapped nation’s energy consumption by 20%.
  • Laws Covering Oil and Gas Wells on Public/Priv ...
    A recent BLM review has raised concerns about the lack of oversight of oil and gas production on federal oil and gas leases. Many rules are going without enforcement.
  • Solar Energy: Grid Parity In India, Italy, and ...
    Deutsche Bank just released new analyses concluding that the global solar market will become sustainable on its own terms by the end of 2014, no longer needing subsidies.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • The Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Gr ...
    James Petras Introduction As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate are skyrocketing and close to 80% of the population is downw ...
  • Supreme Court Authorizes Lawless Wiretapping
    by Stephen Lendman America's Supremes are notoriously hard right. Equal justice under law is just a figure of speech. Rule of law principles and egalitarian fairness don't matter. Power politics corrupts the High Court. It lacks legitimacy. Five Supreme Court justices are Federalist Society ...
  • Israeli Commanders on Trial
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article said Israel's rap sheet makes serial killers look saintly by comparison. It's no exaggeration. Decades of crimes of war, against humanity and genocide explain. Accountability so far is wishful thinking. Hope springs eternal. In May 2012, Turkey issued arr ...
  • Kerry Supports Anti-Syrian Government Terrorists
    by Stephen Lendman Kerry replaced Clinton at State. He didn't miss a beat. He continues her imperial arrogance. He prioritizes war. He deplores peace. He supports Israel's worst crimes. He's contemptuous of rule of law principles. He supports wrong over right. He's indifferent to human suffe ...
  • Nuclear Roulette Update
    by Stephen Lendman Multiple P5 + 1 talks were held. Almaty, Kazakstan ones are the latest. Nothing gets accomplished. Washington obstructionism prevents it. Israel does so covertly. Netanyahu reacted as expected. Bluster substitutes for reason. "(T)here are no measures that will make Iran he ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Coast Guard: 4-mile stretch of oil has appeare ...
    Oct. 4, 2012 Title: Oil sheen mysteriously appears off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Source: CNN Author: AnneClaire Stapleton Contributing Date: 2:57 PM EDT, Thu October 4, 2012 An oil sheen about four miles long has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. hist ...
  • New York blasted with toxic influx of sewage a ...
    Nov. 10, 201 (NaturalNews) Embattled with several feet of flood waters in some areas, persistent power outages, and rot and decay throughout tattered streets, many areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy are also now suffering the consequences of a massive influ ...
  • TV: Sucking and blowing from tank on troubled ...
    Jan. 4, 2013 Excerpts from Alaska Dispatch: Sean Churchfield, incident commander and operations manager for Royal Dutch Shell Alaska, offered few details on the overall condition of the Kulluk and had no update on the vessel’s hull. During Wednesday’s short press briefing, officials ...
  • New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed ...
    Dec. 8, 2012 Thousands of previously unread emails will be presented to court in February 2013 BP claim they always provided full disclosure on worst oil spill in history, new information seems to show otherwise Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew ab ...
  • EPA to outlaw many wood burning stoves

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Plastic Chemical Could Impair Breathing
    More and more studies hint that a common chemical used in some plastics, store receipts, and canned food liners could be causing widespread damage. The latest evidence comes as researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health found a connection between early childhood exp ...
  • Dairy Industry Wants Artificial Sweeteners in Milk
    Sugar in milk, particularly flavored milks, is a growing concern among parents and school officials. In response to the backlash against sugar, the dairy industry wants to add artificial sweeteners like aspartame to flavored milks without having to label the change blatantly on the front of the ...
  • Your Favorite Forest's Worst Nightmare
    Natural gas drilling has scarred Pennsylvania’s pastoral landscape, divided communities and neighbors, and raised serious questions about public health The defining natural feature of northern Pennsylvania is its woodlands, which make up one of the largest expanses of publicly accessible forest ...
  • Animals, Not Action Figures, May Ease Autism S ...
    There's just something about pets that makes people kinder. For instance, scientists have shown that people are more likely to have pleasant social interactions when walking a dog than when walking alone. So researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia decided to see how pets coul ...
  • 4 Things You Must Know about Your Water
    If you think your wallet is the only thing suffering from a bad economy, you might want to rethink your drinking habits. Your water-drinking habits, that is. Tight budgets and the economic crisis have diverted funds from the local governments that oversee the safety of your tap, and as a result ...

big think

  • The Internet from the Planet of the Apes
    If you thought the Internet of Things was a big idea, what about an Internet that connects humans with apes, elephants and dolphins? In what has to be one of the most fascinating TED talks of the past year, a team of four TED presenters (including Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and rock star musicia ...
  • Over Time, Facebook Users Share More, But With ...
    What's the Latest Development? A seven-year study of the privacy settings of about 5,000 Facebook users reveals that while the amount of personal data made available to others increased as the number of network data fields increased, the number of those others who were seeing that extra ...
  • Municipal Broadband In The US: Who's Got It?
    What's the Latest Development? The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), a community support organization, recently compiled a map of the US showing towns and cities with publicly-owned Internet networks. About 340 communities currently enjoy the experience of having their Internet t ...
  • Why Do Americans Tolerate Extreme Wealth Inequ ...
    New data shows Americans haven’t a clue how stunningly massive the wealth gap in their country really is. An excellent video blowing up on YouTube depicts this disparity and explains how badly Americans tend to underestimate it. No matter how many statistics you’ve read on the subject, the video ...
  • Sweden To Mobile Tech Users: Pay The TV Tax
    What's the Latest Development? People who thought they could get away with not paying Sweden's mandatory TV tax because they replaced their TV with a mobile device received bad news last week: The government has decided to start collecting the monthly SEK173 (about US$27) fee from them a ...

Information Liberation

  • "You're a F***ING Coward!" - Man Lets Loose On ...
    As far as police confrontation videos go, this one is a ten... Actually, it's an eleven. Antonio Buehler of the Peaceful Streets Project made headlines a year ago after he was harassed by police for photographing them violently arresting a woman...
  • Apparently, Perjury Isn't a Crime When Police ...
    Last October third, a Salt Lake City SWAT team, working with a federal Drug Task Force, kicked in the door of a 76-year-old woman. As is so often the case, it turned out that the raiders had attacked the wrong home; the target was the house next d...
  • 7-Year-Old Suspended From School For Biting Br ...
    Via Fox Baltimore: At Park Elementary school, Josh was enjoying his breakfast pastry when he decided to try and shape it into a mountain. Josh said, "It was already a rectangle and I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top a...
  • The Sequestration Boondoggle
    Illegal immigrants will flood in! You will be stuck in security lines for hours! Children will go hungry! Planes will fall from the sky! No, this isn*t a recap of the nightmare scenarios concocted by Y2K maniacs some 13 years ago. Instead, this is...
  • Immigration and Market Wonders
    In response to the sequester savings currently taking effect in the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials reportedly let loose hundreds of detained illegal immigrants in order to comply with budget cuts. Many right-wing comment...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
  • The Thirty-Second Version
    That’s all the time I’ve got to compose this post… Sorry about the absence, but you all know why. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this with you, courtesy of Zero Hedge and the blogger known as Gannicus. Learned … Continue reading →
  • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
    Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Will Canada s Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipeline ...
    As controversy continues around the Keystone XL Pipeline that would snake through the U.S., a similar drama plays out north of the border. Canadian officials are deciding whether to green-light a pipeline that would carry a semiliquid hydrocarbon mix for 1,172 kilometers from Alberta's tar ...
  • Bendable Needles Developed to Deliver Stem-Cel ...
    As the surgical team prepared its instruments, a severed human head lay on the plastic tray, its face covered by a blue cloth. It had thawed over the past 24 hours, and a pinky-sized burr hole had been cut near the top of its skull. Scalp covered with salt-and-pepper stubble wrinkled above and b ...
  • Insect Wings Shred Bacteria to Pieces
    The veined wing of the clanger cicada kills bacteria solely through its physical structure -- one of the first natural surfaces found to do so. An international team of biophysicists has now come up with a detailed model of how this defense works on the nanoscale. The results are published in ...
  • Putting Tests to the Test: Many Medical Proced ...
    The routine use of 130 different medical screenings, tests and treatments are often unnecessary and should be scaled back, according to 25 medical specialty organizations. The medical societies jointly released lists of tests and therapies patients should question in their campaign, Choosing Wi ...
  • Blood Plasma Found to Have Stretchy Properties
    This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service . [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Talking Radical: Sadeqa Siddiqui on the Strugg ...
    The following is an excerpt from Gender and Sexuality: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists, by Scott Neigh. Here, South Asian Women's Community Centre coordinator Sadeqa Siddiqui relates her experiences wit ...
  • Poverty Activists: HRM Recycling Proposal Puts ...
    'This is nothing but poor-bashing' HALIFAX — A grassroots coalition of advocates for low-income people is upset that HRM Council is recommending that the province aba ...
  • Kitchener Residents Protest Little Rays Reptil ...
    Press Release Today, Saturday March 2nd, 2013, several members of K.O.A.L.A. (Kitchener Ontario Animal Liberation Alliance) attended a demonstration opposing animal abuse at Little Ray’s (travelling) Reptile Zoo.  The event was held from 9am to 5pm at Bingeman’s conference cente ...
  • How Sanctuary City Came to Be
    Constant Organizing, Perfect Timing Lead to Groundbreaking Motion Toronto - After years of organizing, the City of Toronto is finally a sanctuary for undocumented people. A moti ...
  • The University of Toronto’s Racist Assault on ...
      On Feb 13th a town hall meeting was held by students of U of T’s Transitional Year Program (TYP) to talk about the latest threat to the 43 year old program’s existence. The Provost (administration) of the university is a ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Anti-Science Left vs. the Anti-Science Right
    Today, Chris Mooney takes on the idea that both liberals and conservatives are equally anti-science. He admits that some anti-science views are more common on the left than on the right, and he specifically mentions attitudes toward GM foods, nuclear power, vaccines, and the biological basis o ...
  • Are Republicans Now Praising the EITC?
    In the New York Times this weekend, former Obama advisor Christina Romer writes that she's not a big fan of raising the minimum wage: We could do so much better if we were willing to spend some money. A more generous earned-income tax credit would provide more support for the working poo ...
  • John Roberts is Probably Right About Black Vot ...
    In oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act last week, Chief Justice John Roberts pressed attorneys on which state had a better record of turning out African-American voters. Was it Massachusetts or Mississippi? The answer appears to be Mississippi, but NPR's Nina Totenberg suggests this mig ...
  • Senator Leahy and the Blue Slips
    Fellow MoJoer Nick Baumann tweets that "too much of the coverage of Obama and judges has not mentioned Sen. Leahy and the blue-slip rule." That's true! One of the Senate's oldest traditions is that judicial nominees require approval from their home-state senators before they can move forward, ...
  • Here's One Reason It's So Hard to Pass Liberal ...
    Via Dylan Matthews, here's an interesting set of charts from a pair of researchers who studied how people feel about various issues vs. how politicians think they feel. The left-hand chart, for example, shows opinions about universal health care. In districts where 50 percent of the voters sup ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 385: Sith Council
    Topic: Sith Council Forms: Kriss, Kev, Tye Diamond & Rodimus Prime Trolling Trolls When is it okay to talk about people? Tye goes on a date with Ebony from Catfish Calling 9 year olds cunts Epic Facebook Trolling Charlamagne “Gets Real”….stupid Dumb Nigga Logic Video Games ...
  • IC 384: Horrible People
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    A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric Parrenin from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and his teammates, rather than happening 800 years before the CO2 change a ...
  • Cave deposits reveal permafrost concern
    Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a 500,000 year record collected by Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues.
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    A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of Adelaide’s Seth West
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    Even as the world warms, stronger high pressures have driven extreme cold events happening since the 1990s in Europe and Asia, says Xiangdong Zhang at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
  • Mild winters raise risk of flu epidemics
    Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University, meaning health authorities have to watch for severe epidemics as climate changes. 


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Treasury Grant for Renewable Energy Reduced 8.7% by Budget Cuts
Bloomberg
Grants to renewable-energy developers under the U.S. Treasury Department's 1603 program have been reduced by 8.7 percent because of automatic cuts to the federal budget that took effect March 1. The reduction applies to awards approved after that date, ...
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Advocates want tougher renewable energy standard in Minn.
Minnesota Public Radio
ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 30 groups plan to push for a renewable energy and jobs agenda over the next two years during this session of the Legislature. The groups include labor, business, faith, and youth organizations. They want to require ...
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Renewable energy grants will end
Minnesota Daily
A program that has funded more than 200 renewable energy research projects at the University of Minnesota over the past decade will come to a close after this year. In 2012, the state Legislature passed a bill allowing Xcel to keep ratepayer funds ...
Can the grid handle distributed renewable energy?
Midwest Energy News
Nowhere is this challenge more pressing than in California, which is on track to meet its goal of generating 33 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, said Geisha Williams, executive vice president of electric operations for PG&E.
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Ecology starts review of the Oak Harbor shoreline program update, seeks public ...
Access Washington
BELLEVUE – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on Oak Harbor's recently updated shoreline master program. The proposed updated shoreline program will guide construction and development on the city's 13 miles of ...
Register now for SOAR river, ecology camps
Kearney Hub
GIBBON — Registrations are being accepted for summer camps at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary southwest of Gibbon. Summer Orientation About Rivers, a hands-on nature day camp for second- through fifth-graders will be June ...
Darton to offer prescribed burn manager and deer ecology courses
WFXL FOX 31
Darton says that the White Tailed Deer Ecology and Management course will provide participants with a solid understanding of deer ecology and management; and include the latest research on deer behavior, scent communication, antler growth, genetics, ...
State Ecology Department Approves Issaquah Shoreline Master Plan
Patch.com
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has approved Issaquah's recently updated shoreline master program (SMP). Issaquah's shoreline program will result in significant improvements in the protection, use, development and restoration of 12 miles ...
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Finally, a Billboard That Creates Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air
TIME
So when the creative director of an ad agency in Peru sent me a picture of what he claimed was the first billboard that produces potable water from air, my initial reaction was: gotta be a hoax, or at best, a gimmick. Except it's neither: The billboard ...
Where's the water of the future? Right here
Fox News
Using the available water is much cheaper than building more reservoirs, pipelines, desalinization plants (to remove salt from seawater) and other infrastructure, said panelist Brian Richter, director of global freshwater strategies for The Nature ...
Highland Park residents who use more water will pay higher rate
Chicago Tribune
Beginning July 1, single-family residential homeowners who use less than 60 units each quarter will pay $1.81 per 100 cubic feet of water — which is considered a unit of water. If more than 60 units of water are used per quarter, the rate increases to ...
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State: Utility hid chemicals in drinking water, should pay $400k fine
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
TRENTON — Nearly three weeks after two officials at the East Orange Water Commission were indicted on charges they conspired to hide elevated levels of an industrial solvent in drinking water, the state's environmental regulatory agency today ...
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