Tuesday, March 05, 2013

5 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Thai islandThai island (Photo credit: @Doug88888)
English: Nyan Win, Abhisit Vejjajiva and Thein...English: Nyan Win, Abhisit Vejjajiva and Thein Sein at government luncheon reception in Naypyidaw (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Bagan panorama behind Abhisit and The...English: Bagan panorama behind Abhisit and Thein Sein (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Life in Loi Taileng
    Words and Photos by Brennan O`Connor Loi Taileng, the headquarters of the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), is on barren hilltop near the Thai border in Burma’s Shan state. Landmines lay scattered in the valleys below. On one side of the stronghold is the Thai borde ...
  • Thein Sein urges EU to drop sanctions against ...
    Burmese President Thein Sein appealed on Monday for the lifting of European Union sanctions against his country
  • Thai tourist industry ‘driving’ el ...
    Conservation activists accused Thailand's tourism sector of using illicitly acquired animals to supplement its legal supply, with wild elephants caught in Burma and sold across the border
  • Latpadaung commission delays report for third time
    The Latpadaung Inquiry Commission, which is investigating the violent crackdown on peaceful protestors near a Chinese-backed copper mine, has delayed the publication of its highly-anticipated report
  • Thein Sein: ‘With freedom comes responsi ...
    During Thein Sein’s stop in Norway during his five-country tour of Europe, DVB’s Deputy Executive Director Khin Maung Win sat down for an exclusive interview with the president. Burma’s leader addressed ongoing conflicts in the country, media reform and whether or not he’ll run in th ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Stunning List of Economists, Financial Experts ...
    Top Economists and Financial Experts Say We Must Break Up the Giant Banks.
  • Nuclear Industry Lies Spread by Techno-Geeks
    New World Health Organization report on Fukushima disaster tells fraction of the story. Good enough for many to downplay the contamination of the entire region and ocean.
  • The Politics of Show versus the Politics of Go
    If you want to stop the man from keeping you down you have to keep the man down, constantly, vigilantly, forcefully, with slow, steady political pressure.
  • Glenn Greenwald: Why the Obama Administration' ...
    Military prosecutors have decided to bring the maximum charges against Manning after he admitted during a pretrial hearing last week to the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history. They announced Friday they will seek to imprison Manning for life without parole on charges that include aidi ...
  • The End of Virtual Slavery Is In Sight
    Family Farm defenders launched a campaign in Florida demanding the company provide a living wage for their mile and stop pushing GMO alfalfa on farmers and demanded they stop manipulating prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Switchboard

  • To-Do List for the New Secretary of Energy: Mo ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City In 2008, Ernest Moniz, director of MIT’s Energy Initiative (MITEI), wrote an open letter to the newly-elected President Barack Obama, offering his recommendations on energy policy.  He discu ...
  • Obama Nominee for EPA Has Track Record of Safe ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City President Obama has announced he is nominating Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. McCarthy’s track record of standing up for clean air, climate action, and public healt ...
  • How much better could travel be in LA?
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Last week, I presented at the UCLA Complete Streets conference and attempted to answer the question: how much better could travel be in LA if we really set our minds ...
  • The Minamata Convention - what it means for Ar ...
    Susan Egan Keane, Senior Environmental Analyst, Washington DC It has been over a decade since the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) first sounded the alarm about the transboundary nature of mercury pollution, and four years since the natio ...
  • Andy Stevenson Guest Blog: 5 Reasons Why the S ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Andy Stevenson is a Finance Advisor for NRDC The State Department issued its draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday.  While this report was mainl ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Dot
    I was really struck by this photo of Venus through Saturn’s rings: Venus is the dot. It reminded me of a time, not too long ago I guess, back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the sight of our planet from space put our lives in a bit of perspective. A lot of [...]
  • Brian Leiter’s slow-motion car crash
    A distinguished lawyer asks: Brian Leiter, aka the Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, while sheltered behind the security that tenure gives him from any consequences that may flow from his blog, is vigorously seeking to “out” various people in the legal c ...
  • democrat, adj.
    Pronunciation: /ˈdɛməʊkræt/ 1. An adj. that isn’t one used by conservative members of the Republic Party to sound deliberately and defiantly ignorant because that’s something to be proud of. Not at all related to these adj. rare examples: 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. ...
  • Breaking! Must Credit Daily Tucker! Democratic ...
    Jesus Christ, what a pathetic operation Tucker Carlson is operating.
  • Jeb
    Jeb Bush flip-flopping on immigration, now saying he doesn’t support a path toward citizenship for undocumented Americans, is a sign that leading Republicans can be serious about winning the 2016 Republican nomination or they can be serious about winning the general election, but they can& ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Former partner ordered to stop using Cochran F ...
    A federal judge has ordered the former managing partner of The Cochran Firm's office in Los Angeles to stop using the Cochran name in advertising his legal services.
  • Michael Jackson wrongful-death suit headed for ...
    A judge in Los Angeles has cleared the way for Michael Jackson's mother and three children to go to trial on claims that the concert promoter for his planned This Is It tour was negligent in hiring and supervising Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the sing ...
  • Eighth Circuit: No violation in dog sniff of s ...
    A federal appeals court has ruled that a Missouri school system did not violate a student's constitutional rights by requiring him to leave his backpack in a classroom while dogs sniffed the room for drugs.
  • Problems persist with law school jobs data, wa ...
    The American Bar Association now requires law schools to be more upfront about how their graduates perform on the job market, but problems with misleading or incomplete employment data persist, according to a watchdog group.
  • Midsize Matters: Roetzel & Andress' expansion ...
    As chairman of 215-attorney Roetzel & Andress, Jeffrey Casto finds that the pushback big firms are experiencing from clients about their bills is working to his firm's advantage.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • US 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

environment 360

  • African Forest Elephant Populations Fell 62 Pe ...
    Populations of forest elephants in central Africa plummeted by more than 60 percent from 2002 to 2011, with dwindling habitat and an acceleration in poaching driving the elephants toward extinction, according to a View gallery Elizabeth M. Rogers A forest elephant in Gabon new study. An int ...
  • Why a Highly Promising Electric Car Start-Up F ...
    Better Place was touted as one of the world’s most innovative electric vehicle start-ups when it launched six years ago. But after selling fewer than 750 cars in a major initiative in Israel and losing more than $500 million, the company’s experience shows that EVs are still not ready for primet ...
  • U.S. Educational Standards to Urge Teaching Ab ...
    A new set of U.S. educational standards that is expected to be released this month will recommend that global warming be included in the science curriculum for all U.S. public schools. The Next Generation Science Standards, which are being developed by a coalition that includes the National Rese ...
  • Loss of Wild Pollinators Affecting Global Cro ...
    Research data from 600 fields in 20 countries shows that wild bees and insects are more effective pollinators than domesticated honey bees, suggesting that the continuing loss of wild insects in many agricultural landscapes has negative consequences for crop harvests. Reporting in Science, an in ...
  • Earth Unlikely to Face an Ecological Tipping P ...
    A team of international scientists has rejected the idea that the planet could face a sudden and irreversible ecological shift as a result of largely human-driven pressures, suggesting that such global transformations are more likely to occur over a long period of time. While earlier studies hav ...

Red Ice Creations

  • University creates first wireless, implanted b ...
    Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next. This new wireless BCI allows the ...
  • The 911 Illusion: Patsies & Beneficiaries
    The alleged killing last year of Osama bin Laden, which fittingly occurred in a mansion within 1,000 yards of a Pakistani military training academy, signaled the winding down of the biggest psychological warfare operation ever prosecuted by the global oligarchy. The Patsies In the wake of the 91 ...
  • Prosecutors crack massive egg fraud case in Ge ...
    Prosecutors are investigating around 200 German egg farmers suspected of falsely labelling their produce as organic or free-range, in what has been described as fraud on a massive scale. It would seem that millions of eggs had been sold under false pretences over the last few years, exploiting t ...
  • DARPA Wants a Searchable Database of All Your ...
    The ultimate privacy killer DARPA is working on an embryonic project that would store your every verbal conversation on an Internet server, creating a searchable chat database that would represent the ultimate privacy killer. Having failed to establish its infamous Total Information Awareness sy ...
  • China executes 4 foreigners, televises death march
    China executed four foreigners on Friday for killing 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast showing them being led to their deaths that harkened back to the mass public execution rallies of past years. The attack on the sailors on the Mekong hi ...

Russia Today

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Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking 9/11 Debunking: On WTC’s Design to W ...
    By John-Michael Talboo and Adam Taylor The video 9/11 Debunked: On WTC’s Design to Withstand 707 Impact, by RKOwens4, the page WTC 707 Impact, at 911myths.com, and the First time in history page at Debunking911.com, all make the case, based on statements from Leslie Robertson, that the Twin Tow ...
  • 9/11 Truth from QuickMeme.com
    http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3rjycc/http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qcq0y/
  • Victory for Protestor who says BBC 9/11 Covera ...
    Campaigner and film maker Tony Rooke claimed a moral victory today after a UK court gave him a conditional discharge even though he has refused to pay his BBC license fee. Over 100 supporters from as far away as Denmark and Norway cheered in front of the court house as independent media people c ...
  • JFK Secret Societies Speech is Actually about ...
    JFK was actually talking about current events of the cold war and how nontraditional enemies were gaining information on how the US was battling this war. In this speech JFK actually points out "the need for far greater "official" secrecy"...as well as "the need for a far greater public informat ...
  • Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots?
    LiberalViewer Published on Feb 23, 2013 Limits on drone strikes that can kill virtually anyone, anywhere? More ACLU related videos at http://bit.ly/oqoPgz Having killed hundreds if not thousands off people using remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, the Obama Administration has not been very ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
    The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • IACC: Lots of Redundancy, Little Innovation
    By Katie Wright The Serenity Prayer isn’t just for AA meetings anymore. I find it to be a useful calming exercise while listening to an Inter Agency Autism Committee Meeting. It helps me not want to jump off a bridge....
  • Judicial Watch Seeks Answers to Payouts Made t ...
    HPV Vaccine Gardasil linked to serious side effects, including seizures, paralysis, blindness, speech problems, short term memory loss, Guillain-Barré Syndrome and death (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against...
  • Dachel Media Update: Blue Lights, Special Ed, ...
    By Anne Dachel Mar 3, 2013, Palm Beach Post: Autism walk draws 7000 to downtown West Palm Beach Mar 3, 2013, Minneapolis Star Trib: Rising special ed cases are huge cost to Minnesota schools Mar 3, 2013, Detroit Free Press:...
  • Gentile Calls for NY to Remove All Children Fr ...
    GENTILE CALLS ON CHANCELLOR TO REMOVE ALL NYC CHILDREN FROM CONTROVERSIAL SCHOOL ONCE AND FOR ALL CITY HALL – In light of recent developments, Councilman Vincent J. Gentile, a long-time advocate for New York’s most vulnerable, is calling on New...
  • The Recovery Room: Can We Ever Abandon Biomed?
    By Julie Obradovic As I mentioned in my very first post, when I first thought about recovery from autism, I thought of it as something with a definitive end. Like the last chapter in a long, emotional, roller-coaster-of-a-book, I could...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Planned Obsolescence of Humanity
    We are living in a world where very powerful people behind the scenes hold license to decide who is to live and who is to die. They get to pick and choose who the throwaway people are. The expendables. The ones who hold no worth in their eyes. Through some sort of arbitrary judgment – one lives, ...
  • Monsanto and the FDA: 2 crime families working ...
    Imagine this. A killer is put on trial, and the jury, in a surprise verdict, finds him not guilty. Afterwards, reporters interview this killer. He says, “The jury freed me. It’s up to them. They decide. That’s what justice is all about.” Then the press moves along to members of the jury, who say ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    You drench your fields with it in the fall. You kill anything growing. And you drench the fields again in the spring, before you plant. Then, just as you’re going to plant, you hit the fields a third time with the poison. This is in addition to all the sprayings with Roundup, which is toxic, too ...
  • They Want To Tag Us Before They Bag Us
    My advice is to all Americans is to immediately work towards becoming self-sufficient to such a degree that it appears to others that your life depends on it, because it does.
  • The hideous BAM in Obama: map your brain for y ...
    This is the technocrats’ wet dream: “We can now power up an artificial brain of such power and intelligence that it can make all crucial decisions for the human race from Central Planning.”

Open Your Eyes News

  • Czech President Vaclav Klaus faces treason charge
    BBC – The upper house voted to refer the president to the constitutional court to rule on whether he had violated the constitution with a New Year amnesty. The wide-ranging measures were controversial as they resulted in multiple high-profile corruption cases being suspended. Read article
  • Dow Average Jumps to Record as Profits, Fed St ...
    Bloomberg – The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU) rose to its highest level ever, erasing losses from the financial crisis after a four-year rally fueled by the fastest profit growth since the 1990s and monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve. Almost $10 trillion has been restored to ...
  • Israel awards first Golan oil drilling license
    Globes – A month before US President Barack Obama is due to visit Israel, the Israeli government has awarded the first license to drill for oil on the Golan Heights. The license covers half the area of the Golan from the latitude of Katzrin in the north to Tzemach in the south. In the past ...
  • Egyptian protesters and police clash in Port Said
    DW – Egyptian protesters have clashed with police in the canal city of Port Said after a funeral procession, injuring several people. Part of a government complex was also set on fire in a second day of violence in the city. Clashes erupted on Monday when protesters threw rocks at the poli ...
  • Kim Dotcom loses court battle in US extraditio ...
    RT – The US has won a court appeal in its battle to extradite embattled Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom: A New Zealand court overturned a ruling forcing the US to grant Dotcom access to key evidence against him before his extradition hearing in August. The court ruled that such an expansive ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Cryptogon

  • Pirate Bay Now Running Out of North Korea [???]
    Update: Probably Still in Europe This post purports to explain what’s happening. You’ll need more propellers in your beanie than me if you plan on understanding this: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (P2) — Still Routes Through Europe I’m not really s ...
  • Brown University Creates First Wireless, Impla ...
    Make sure the firewall is configured properly on that thing. Via: ExtremeTech: Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 month ...
  • Spain: Homeless People Take Over Vacant Apartm ...
    Via: Guardian: “Life changes when you lose everything,” says Manoli Cortés. “There was a time when I was happy just to work and look after my home. Now, at the age of 65, I have suddenly become an activist.” She is sitting in a typical Spanish living room: immaculately cl ...
  • K-12 Student Database Will Share Information w ...
    You’ll love this. Check out the part in bold to see who’s behind this database. Via: Reuters: An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares. But the most influential new product may be ...
  • Israel: Palestinian-Only Buses
    Via: Telegraph: From Monday Palestinians travelling to day jobs into central Israel from the West Bank will be urged to board special buses at a checkpoint instead of the regular services used by Israelis. The scheme was drawn up by the Israeli transport ministry after residents in two Jewish se ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Wi ...
    The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops will soon be gone. At this point, approximately 40 percent ...
  • 12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Nex ...
    Are we running out of time?  For the last several years, we have been living in a false bubble of hope that has been fueled by massive amounts of debt and bailout money.  This illusion of economic stability has convinced most people that the great economic crisis of 2008 was just an "aberration" ...
  • Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The M ...
    Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families?  Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought.  Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack ...
  • All Of This Whining And Crying About The Seque ...
    If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. go ...
  • Will Italy Be The Spark That Sets Off Financia ...
    Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan.  Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 1 ...

Desertification

  • Allan Savory: How to green the world’s d ...
    Seen at : http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change.html Allan Savory: How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietl ...
  • Egypt’s Locust Swarm May Hit Israel and Jordan ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/03/egypt-locust-swarm-may-hit-israel/ by Tafline Laylin Israel has set up a special task force to prepare for the possibility that a locust swarm may migrate from Egypt and destroy precious crops. Already some sources are saying that a small … Con ...
  • Impact of climate change on agriculture (ELDIS)
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=63633?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29#.UTWuicd_bK0 Impact of climate change on agriculture − a case study in India In India over 60 per cent of the labo ...
  • Social Protection for Agricultural Growth (ELDIS)
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=63648?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29#.UTWtp8d_bK0 Social Protection for Agricultural Growth Various explanations have been advanced for the persistent ...
  • Rural households in a changing climate (ELDIS)
    Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=63651?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29#.UTWs8sd_bK0 Rural households in a changing climate This World Bank policy research working paper investigates hou ...

The Paper Trail

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backofthebook.ca

  • Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and G ...
  • Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company ...
    By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, ”His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and ...
  • Is Google making us less lituritt?
    By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Today is Family Literacy Day in Canada, an initiative organized by ABC Life Literacy Canada, which encourages families to incorporate reading and other literacy-related activities into their daily routines. There’s no question that developing literacy in children i ...
  • Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa
    By Alison@Creekside Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona: “I contacted a few p ...
  • Argo: We’ve written ourselves out of history
    By Paul Mather Okay I never do this, but everybody else in the house is occupied and it’s too icy to jog (or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). So, I’ve poured a cup of coffee, and here’s a long post. I was reading today about Argo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a [...] Tags:   ...

libcom

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

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLoui ...
    Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases? ↑Noteworthy Contributor↑ Years Company or PAC Contributions Subsidiary Contributions Employee Contributions Grand Total *AMEREN Electric Utilities 2 ...
  • Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLoui ...
    Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases? ↑Noteworthy Contributor↑ Years Company or PAC Contributions Subsidiary Contributions Employee Contributions Grand Total *AMEREN Electric Utilities 2 ...
  • Ameren UE Monetary GREED from the Dirty Coal I ...
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts SB 207: Unprecedented Overreach by Missouri Electric Utilities Missouri electric utilities including Ameren are working to pass legislation to charge a brand new rate increase fee to every business and resident electric bill. Despite the fact that Missouri electri ...
  • Ameren UE Monetary GREED from the Dirty Coal I ...
    Learn the Issues, Get the Facts SB 207: Unprecedented Overreach by Missouri Electric Utilities Missouri electric utilities including Ameren are working to pass legislation to charge a brand new rate increase fee to every business and resident electric bill. Despite the fact that Missouri electri ...
  • What the utility companies don’t want yo ...
    Share This: Dear Readers, Did you see this news over the weekend? It is what the utility companies have kept quiet and don’t want you to know about the legislation, Senate Bill 207 and House Bill 398, they are pushing in the legislature right now. Read the news below, then take action by s ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Swiss Pass CEO Pay Initiative
    According to the BBC, 68% of Swiss voters have backed a “fat cat” referendum to impose strict controls on CEO pay. The new law gives shareholders a veto on CEO compensation and bans “golden handshakes,” i.e. big payouts for new and departing managers. DW reports th ...
  • The Hypodermic Needle Theory of Propaganda
    This is Part II of a two part guest post by Dr Danny Weil. It’s a repost of an article Cornell University to Offer the “Hypodermic Needle Theory” of Education in an Attempt to Colonize Consciousness and Groom Future Elites originally published  at Daily Censored Cornell ...
  • The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education
    This is Part I of a two part guest post by Dr Danny Weil. It’s a repost of an article Cornell University to Offer the “Hypodermic Needle Theory” of Education in an Attempt to Colonize Consciousness and Groom Future Elites originally published at Daily Censored Understanding h ...
  • The Criminals Who Run the Afghan Police
    The Obama administration seems baffled by growing popular support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. While they grudgingly acknowledge anger over the continued bombing of innocent civilians by NATO drones and war planes, they are less forthcoming about the real reason – the criminals wh ...
  • Guess Who Funds the Climate Denial Industry?
    According to the Guardian, a newly released Greenpeace study reveals it’s not just Exxon and the Koch brothers who fund the climate denial industry. In a recent article, they describe how a secretive charity known as Donors Trust enabled anonymous billionaires to donate nearly $120m ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

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Energy Collective

  • 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.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Google, Apple and Microsoft may be exempt from ...
    Telecommunications companies want President Barack Obama's administration to rethink a decision that may exempt Google Inc.'s Gmail, Apple Inc.'s iPhone software and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows from an executive order on cybersecurity. ...Telecommunications and cable companies don't want to face ...
  • Google services should not require real names: ...
    "There was a debate on this subject and it was resolved," Cerf told Reuters. Requiring real names "denies (users) choice," he said. "Our conclusion was that choice is important." Google respected its users' rights more than Facebook, but the company did not go far enough, said Jillian York of t ...
  • United States: Changes Coming To U.S. Patent Law
    Companies interested in protecting their inventions should be aware of major changes that are coming to U.S. patent law. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by President Obama in September 2011, represents the biggest changes to U.S. patent law in more than 50 years. Although it ...
  • Opera releases beta version of new WebKit-powe ...
    A week after we first saw Opera's new Android browser at Mobile World Congress, a beta version has appeared in the Google Play Store. It's a significant product for Opera in that it uses the WebKit rendering engine rather than the company's proprietary Presto; as such, it should look and feel ve ...
  • Requiem for a Dream
    there was what happened with Quinn, which I think had to be very devastating to him. Quinn got her own attorney, who told her to coöperate with the prosecutor. There are interviews which I've now read with the Secret Service where they say she coöperated fully with them; she signed a proffer say ...

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Family First, own goals and desperate measures
    I guess Family First is in a hard position. They really don’t want Louisa Wall’s marriage equality bill to succeed but they’re faced with a situation where most New Zealanders support it, where it passed its First Reading with an emphatic majority, and where the Select Committe ...
  • Welfare cuts challenged by the UN
    Yesterday the United Nations released a letter to the Australian Government asking them to explain their welfare cuts. UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights and the working group on discrimination against women are warning the cuts could have a detrimental effect on the human ...
  • John Key needs to raise killings of unionists ...
    While John Key is pushing the cause of free trade in Colombia, he needs to raise concerns around the appalling number of trade unionists that die protecting workers’ rights there. In 2011, according to the International Trade Union Confederation 29 trade unionists were murdered in Colombia. Colo ...
  • Who counts on Census day?
    Having worked in a university I know quite directly how vital census information is. This information is the lifeblood of research and planning. Like the TV advertisement says – we use it to design our cities, plan our services, develop business plans, and even decide what language books t ...
  • From 100% to 5%
    The Government has suggested that up to 90% of shares will be owned by New Zealanders, and Treasury’s figures show that around 5% of all New Zealanders will be able to afford to buy shares. Without even thinking of the Australian share float, which will dilute Kiwi ownership, the asset sal ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How GMO’s Contribute to Climate Change
    By Dr. Mercola Corn and soy—much of which are genetically engineered—are rapidly overtaking native grasslands in a number of US states. This is a trend that may have a not-so-insignificant impact on global climate change and subsequently, our ability to secure our food supply lon ...
  • The Rising Food Movement Continues the Fight f ...
    By Dr. Mercola The video above features Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and other books relating to the growing movement toward real food. In this talk, given at UC Berkeley, he discusses the rise of the food movement in the aftermath of California Proposition 37's failure to pas ...
  • Why Wellness in the Workplace Matters
    By Dr. Mercola Regardless of company size, reducing health insurance costs has become the highest priority for most companies in the US, as employee health care costs continue to outpace inflation and earnings growth. Companies are starting to realize the significant impact employee wellness ...
  • 15-Year-Old Invents New Test for Early, Reliab ...
    By Dr. Mercola Pancreatic cancer is a devastatingly fatal form of cancer, and is typically regarded as the most deadly and universally rapid-killing form of cancer. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute,1 an estimated 45,220 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this ye ...
  • MSM Health Benefits May Be Related to Its Sulf ...
    By Dr. Mercola The clinical use of sulfur as an adjunct in our diet is becoming progressively more recognized as an important tool for optimizing health. Certainly, diet is the primary tool for reducing your risk for chronic degenerative diseases. But the practical question becomes, how d ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indian Supreme Court 'reverses order' to ban ' ...
    The Supreme Court's refusal to make a ban on tourists traveling along the Andaman Trunk Road permanent has raised renewed fears of the tribe's exploitation.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court today reportedly reversed its previous ‘interim order’ to ba ...
  • 'Noble Savages': Chagnon's new book triggers r ...
    Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami spokesperson and shaman, has spoken out against Napoleon Chagnon's new book 'Noble Savages'.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians: ...
  • ‘Unprecedented’ suspension of mining on Colomb ...
    Many Embera-Katío have been uprooted by extreme violence that plagues their land© WikipediaA Colombian judge has suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia. The decision comes after waves of violence in Alto Andágueda in ...
  • SUCCESS: Gas giant backtracks on exploration i ...
    Uncontacted tribes in Manu National Park are now safe from Pluspetrol's gas exploration, but the Nanti continue to be threatened by the expansion of Camisea.© SurvivalThe Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeas ...
  • Survival’s ‘dangerous’ ‘self-destructive’ ‘fal ...
    Jared Diamond's book has come under attack for saying that most tribal peoples live in a state of constant warfare.© Survival InternationalOn February 4 2013 Jared Diamond was interviewed on BBC TV about his new book ‘The World Until Yesterday’. He would not agree to a Survival ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • The great orange juice scam
    from therealfoodchannel.com: "Fresh" and "pure"? One of the great scams of the industrial food cartel is the so-called "fresh" orange juice sold in supermarkets. This one particularly galls me because for years when I was dirt poor and had very few food choices, I thought I was doing a healt ...
  • Doctored: New Documentary Shows Big Pharma’s C ...
    from naturalsociety.com: In a new documentary by Jeff Hays, Doctored shows the shortcomings and even the insidious nature of the modern medical and pharmaceutical culture. Central to the film is the story of chiropractics, once considered by the western world quacks at best and cultists at wo ...
  • US farmers flood fields with dangerous poison ...
    from jonrappoport.wordpress.com: You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in. You’re buying your GMO seeds from Monsanto, and the food crops that g ...
  • Farm Theme Boosts Enrollment in Rural Kansas S ...
    from cryptogon.com: The first clue is a sign “Fresh Eggs for Sale” in front of the school. There is a sheep pen on the baseball field and the sounds of farm animals greet pupils every morning. This is not your ordinary elementary school. It is the Walton Rural Life Center, a kindergarten-th ...
  • The Polarizing Practice of Eating Horses
    from theatlantic.com: Everyone who seriously studies French or Italian food on scholarly (gluttonous) research trips eats horsemeat. Most every village in France, particularly the southwest and northern border regions with Belgium, and in Italy, particularly the northeast around Verona and Ven ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Wi ...
    The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops will soon be gone. At this point, approximately 40 percent ...
  • 12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Nex ...
    Are we running out of time?  For the last several years, we have been living in a false bubble of hope that has been fueled by massive amounts of debt and bailout money.  This illusion of economic stability has convinced most people that the great economic crisis of 2008 was just an "aberration" ...
  • Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The M ...
    Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families?  Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought.  Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack ...
  • All Of This Whining And Crying About The Seque ...
    If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. go ...
  • Will Italy Be The Spark That Sets Off Financia ...
    Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan.  Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 1 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Flipkart, India's Biggest Online Music Retaile ...
    Flipkart is a hugely popular online retailing giant from India. Nearly an year ago, Flipkart launched Flyte music service which enabled its vast Indian user-base to buy and download legit copies of DRM free songs from a wide array of artists and movies at reasonable rates. One thing ...
  • Steam for Linux Adoption Spiking, Closes in on ...
    Exactly a month ago, we published Steam's hardware and software survey results for January with a lot of excitement. Many considered it as a one off event and predicted that Ubuntu and Linux won't be able to sustain that kind of momentum. Well, February's survey results are out and the percent ...
  • Ubuntu Speech Recognition App Enters Invite-On ...
    Just a day ago, we introduced you to an upcoming Ubuntu speech recognition app, which looked pretty amazing in the featured demo video. Its author, James McClain, had promised the imminent release of the app to the public with an open source license. Ubuntu voice recognition app has now e ...
  • Shank 2, Waking Mars Arrives on Steam for Linux
    Highly acclaimed 2D brawler, Shank 2, finally arrives on Steam for Linux. After the official release of Steam client last year, Valve created waves by finally making the Steam client available in Ubuntu Software Center for free download just a few days ago. Barrage of games went on SALE for a ...
  • 6 Most Good-Looking Music Players for Linux
    There is no dearth for good quality music players in Ubuntu. Even the default Rhythmbox is pretty darn good. But how many of those music players can be considered as good-looking? It is a tricky question since looks are very subjective. Anyway, here's a collection of 6 best music players for L ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 225,000 American patients die in doctors’ hand ...
    Jon Rappoport In my previous article, I examined the silence of the lambs (media) concerning the collusion between Monsanto and the FDA. In the case of medical care in America, that purposeful silence reigns supreme as well. By the most conservative estimate, researched and published by mainstre ...
  • Anonymous strikes Wall Street CEOs, leaks pers ...
    The following is an excerpt from a statement announcing Operation Wall Street: It is obvious that the DoJ and other government entities such as the SEC think that it is more important for them to regulate freedom of speech and information rather than to regulate the blatant organized crimes of t ...
  • Beware: Universal flu jab just around the corner
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer 829 66 [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) A Madison, Wisconsin-based vaccine company is about one year away from enrolling a new universal flu shot into clinical trials, according to reports. The vaccine, known as Redee Flu, is said to provide protection against a ...
  • Clean and green – Inspiring urban farm g ...
    by: Carolanne Wright (NaturalNews) With food prices steadily rising over the last several years, by as much as five percent, families are scaling back and going without many staples just to put a meal on the table. Or worse, resorting to ‘bargains’ like fast food specials, subsidized ...
  • Dick Act of 1902 – The Law Which Cannot ...
    “The prohibitions of the Constitution were designed to apply to all branches of the National Government and they cannot be nullified by the Executive or by the Executive and Senate combined. Did you understand what the Supreme Court said here? No Executive Order, Presidential Directive, Ex ...

Veterans Today

  • Veteran Shares Personal Stories to Help Others ...
    He is a former Army sergeant, a Department of Veterans Affairs employee, a service-disabled veteran and someone with a brain injury he is Adam Anicich.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Marc ...
    March is Women’s History Month. Throughout the month, the Department of Veterans Affairs salutes women Veterans for leaving their mark on history and doing their part to secure the liberties of this great nation.
  • VA Will Use ‘Preliminary Findings’ To Reduce V ...
    To speed eligibility determinations of Veteran-owned small businesses for Department of Veterans Affairs' “Veterans First” contracts, VA will allow applicants the opportunity to correct minor deficiencies before an initial denial is issued.
  • Falling Through The Rabbit Hole Of Love And In ...
    Falling in love is the first step toward experiencing the divine light and a state of love, joy and soul consciousness deepest within ourselves .
  • James H. Fetzer: Anti-Iran Sanctions Violate I ...
    Many independent and conscientious thinkers and scholars in the world agree with this assumption that the sanctions which the United States and the European Union have imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are inhumane, unjust, contrary to the principles of human rights and constitute an act ...

electric politics

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

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Final European Nation Entering “NATO&#82 ...
    Cyprus Mail March 5, 2013 Kasoulides pushes ahead with PfP plans Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean Through NATO Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides continued meeting diplomats and ambassadors on the island yesterday in a bid to promote Cyprus’ application for membership to NATO’ ...
  • NATO Intensifies Submarine Warfare Exercise In ...
    NATO Maritime Command March 5, 2013 Exercise Proud Manta 13 gaining Momentum Since 23 February, ten NATO nations have been participating in exercise Proud Manta 13, NATO’s biggest annual anti-submarine warfare exercise (read more here) taking place in the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Sicily. Dur ...
  • Interview: U.S. Behaving Like Warlord in the World
    Voice of Russia March 5, 2013 ‘US behaving like warlords in the world’ – exclusive interview with Glen Ford John Robles AUDIO ==== The one advantage that they have in the world is that the NATO countries account for 70% of the arms spending on the planet and have a war machine that i ...
  • Cyprus: NATO To Absorb Last Remaining European ...
    Famagusta Gazette March 4, 2013 Cyprus inches closer to Partnership for Peace Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean Through NATO Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides today met with the Ambassadors of Britain and France in a move to promote an application for Cyprus to join the Partne ...
  • Georg Brandes: Giants of bloodshed; military s ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Georg Brandes: Selections on war ==== Georg Brandes From German Patriotism (1913) Translated by Catherine D. Groth Which great men do the Germans glorify? Goethe, Schiller, Richard Wagner, Carl Marx? — No. — Frederick the Great, Bl ...

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Intel Hub

  • Grand Re-Opening of the Intelligence Hub Websi ...
    theintelhub.com | Thanks to all of our valued readers and great sponsors we will be upgrading the site rather substantially this Friday, March 8, 2013, as the changes will be for the better.
  • Texas Cop Fired After Shooting at Suspect 41 T ...
    RT March 4, 2013 A police officer in Texas has been terminated from the force after an investigation determined that he violated official policy when he rammed his car into a suspect’s vehicle, cornered him and then fired 41 shots, killing him. Officer Patrick Tuter shot and killed Michael Vince ...
  • Cuomo Announces Plans To Modify Gun Control La ...
    The Daily Sheeple  March 4th, 2013 Governor Andrew Cuomo who helped usher in some of the strictest gun control laws in the country wants to make some exceptions to allow the use of banned weapons in movies and TV shows filmed in New York. He recently stated: “We spend a lot of money in the [...]
  • Is Copyright Infringement Now Seen As Terrorism?
    Washington’s Blog March 4, 2013 We reported last year: The government treats copyright infringers as terrorists, and swat teams have been deployed against them. See this, this, this and this. As the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School notes: This administrati ...
  • Why Are Giant Sinkholes Appearing All Over Ame ...
    Michael Snyder | Of course there have always been sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and the number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically.

FRS

  • She Almost Stopped the War
    Katharine Gun: Ten years on,  what happened to the woman who revealed dirty tricks on the UN Iraq war vote? In the run-up to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. As a film of her story is planned, she tells of her anger [...]
  • We Must Not Fail Bradley Manning
    by KEVIN ZEESE, Counterpunch, March 4, 2013 As I sat in court last Thursday at Fort Meade, watching Bradley Manning take responsibility as the Wikileaks whistleblower, two things struck me: (1) his thorough intelligence fueled by intellectual curiosity and (2) his empathy for other people when s ...
  • OUT WITH THE OLD
    Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: BENEDICT, CATHOLIC, CHURCH, POPE, VATICAN
  • OUT WITH THE OLD
    Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: BENEDICT, CATHOLIC, CHURCH, POPE, VATICAN
  • Bradley Manning’s plea statement: Americ ...
    After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of ‘bloodlust’ of US helicopter crew Ed Pilkington, The Guardian Fort Meade, Maryland, Thursday 28 February 2013   Bradley Manning, the solider accused o ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • Two Beautiful Photos Of Venus, As Seen From A ...
    A mind-expanding planetary view. There's nothing quite like stretching out and taking in the stars. Except, maybe, taking in the stars from the neighborhood of Saturn. NASA's Cassini spacecraft took these two images of Venus--only a shiny dot, really, in each photo--as seen from the the Satur ...
  • Developing Space Programs To Launch Dozens Of ...
    Countries like Kazakhstan and Vietnam are taking a swing at imaging Earth. Is it just me, or is it getting crowded in here? More than 280 new observational satellites are expected to enter orbit around Earth over the next decade, Aviation Week reported from an analysis by Paris-based Eurocons ...
  • An Algorithm That Helps You Stalk, Er, Meet Ne ...
    Ah, the wonders of the intertubes never cease. Always wished you could be friends with your favorite celebrity… at least on Facebook? This new algorithm may help you get there. Researchers in Taiwan, China and the United States have come up with a computer program that lets you choose a targe ...
  • Physicists Create A Water Vortex That Ties Its ...
    Two physicists at the University of Chicago have created a knotted vortex in fluid for the first time ever. They describe their findings in a paper in Nature Physics this week. Vortices form in liquids, gases and plasmas, occurring naturally in everything from water to weather systems to galax ...
  • 5 Things You Should Know About The Baby Cured ...
    Early treatment answers some questions, raises others 1. The baby girl was cured with standard anti-retroviral drugs. When the baby was born in a Mississippi hospital in 2010, pediatric specialist Hannah Gay began treating her with three anti-retroviral drugs just 31 hours after she was born. ...

Veterans Today

  • Veteran Shares Personal Stories to Help Others ...
    He is a former Army sergeant, a Department of Veterans Affairs employee, a service-disabled veteran and someone with a brain injury he is Adam Anicich.
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Marc ...
    March is Women’s History Month. Throughout the month, the Department of Veterans Affairs salutes women Veterans for leaving their mark on history and doing their part to secure the liberties of this great nation.
  • VA Will Use ‘Preliminary Findings’ To Reduce V ...
    To speed eligibility determinations of Veteran-owned small businesses for Department of Veterans Affairs' “Veterans First” contracts, VA will allow applicants the opportunity to correct minor deficiencies before an initial denial is issued.
  • Falling Through The Rabbit Hole Of Love And In ...
    Falling in love is the first step toward experiencing the divine light and a state of love, joy and soul consciousness deepest within ourselves .
  • James H. Fetzer: Anti-Iran Sanctions Violate I ...
    Many independent and conscientious thinkers and scholars in the world agree with this assumption that the sanctions which the United States and the European Union have imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are inhumane, unjust, contrary to the principles of human rights and constitute an act ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Wi ...
    The world is rapidly running out of clean water. Some of the largest lakes and rivers on the globe are being depleted at a very frightening pace, and many of the most important underground aquifers that we depend on to irrigate our crops will soon be gone. At this point, approximately 40 percent ...
  • 12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Nex ...
    Are we running out of time?  For the last several years, we have been living in a false bubble of hope that has been fueled by massive amounts of debt and bailout money.  This illusion of economic stability has convinced most people that the great economic crisis of 2008 was just an "aberration" ...
  • Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The M ...
    Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families?  Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought.  Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack ...
  • All Of This Whining And Crying About The Seque ...
    If we can't even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. go ...
  • Will Italy Be The Spark That Sets Off Financia ...
    Is the financial collapse of Italy going to be the final blow that breaks the back of Europe financially?  Most people don't realize this, but Italy is actually the third largest debtor in the entire world after the United States and Japan.  Italy currently has a debt to GDP ratio of more than 1 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN welcomes news of HIV baby who appears to be ...
    The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today welcomed the news that a baby treated in the United States with antiretroviral drugs during the first months of her life appears to be functionally cured of the disease.
  • UN human rights experts urge greater oversight ...
    A group of United Nations independent experts back from Honduras today urged that Government to tighten oversight of the increasing number of private security companies, as well as to strengthen the judicial system to properly investigate and prosecute potential human rights violations stemm ...
  • Haiti: fight against cholera continues, but cl ...
    The United Nations has ramped up its efforts to eliminate cholera in Haiti. At the same time, claims against the Organization on that matter are "not receivable," a spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, after officials in the Caribbean nation were informed of the decision.
  • UNESCO chief calls for investigation into murd ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today called for an investigation into the murder of Marcelino Vázquez, the owner and manager of a radio station in Paraguay.
  • Haiti must ensure justice for victims of past ...
    A senior United Nations official today urged Haiti to ensure there is no impunity for human rights violations committed during the presidency of Jean-Claude Duvalier, who is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Official Daily Chemtrail Forecast
    The Chemtrail Forecast Systems was developed to show you real-time forecasts across the United States, eventually the world. When spraying, residual chemicals, they are carried in the upper atmosphere. This system tracks WHERE the heaviest concentration of chemicals is and/or where the spra ...
  • HAARP... Status and Real-Time Network Detectio ...
    A real-time sensor network from over 28 radio band that detect in frequency HAARP operates on. These frequencies are similar to a code and the clicks, beeps, and even at times musical sounds in the ionosphere tells us how strong it is. ~ Real Time Info read more
  • Illegals Infecting US with Deadly Drug Resista ...
    Tuberculosis has been around for centuries. It’s been known by a number of names such as phthisis, white plague and consumption. When I was doing a lot of family research a few years ago, I found several ancestors and relatives that died of consumption. It was then that I discovered this was ...
  • Censored!... “The Most Important Topic For 201 ...
    'They' really don't want anyone to know about chemtrail spraying, geo-engineering or the methane in Siberia... This video is a mirror to the original... the first video was removed. ~ Videosread more
  • ‘Obama Ran So Our Children Could Fly’... GA El ...
    Schools have been named after him long before his retirement or death, which is rather unprecedented. Students have been led in organized chants of his honored name. There are lesson plans comparing him to Abraham Lincoln. ~ Kyle Olson read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Mob Mentality
    Your expectation as to how people will behave during a collapse may be flawed. You may believe that because most people today generally seem to be ‘good’ and fairly reasonable or rational, that these same people will remain mostly good and rational during a collapse. This is flawed t ...
  • Emergency Preparedness Planning 101
    The reasons that people and preppers go about preparing, are many and wide ranging (What Are You Prepping For?). Be it for surviving after an economic collapse or an EMP blast that takes down the power grid, the planning and preparation can be become unwieldy and overwhelming, especially while c ...
  • Barriers To Situational Awareness
    The following barriers reduce our ability to understand the situation. Learn to recognize these barriers and take corrective action. Situational awareness is the personal awareness of your immediate situation, surroundings, circumstances, plans, and the risks thereof. Whether the prepper realize ...
  • What is The Best Survival Bicycle?
    A bicycle will be a valuable prep asset during a survival or disaster situation when ordinary transportation may be difficult or impossible. If we are ever to face a societal collapse, times will become tough, to say the least, and modes of transportation may become diversified. Bicycle transpor ...
  • Honey and its Benefits
    Honey, a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers, has been a staple ingredient for thousands of years for both food and medicine, and for many is a staple food prep providing a natural source of sugar and medicinal benefits. Honey has approximately the same relative sweetness as that o ...

Fast Company

  • The DRM Chair Self-Destructs After Just 8 Uses
    Meant to show the absurdity of digital rights management software that limits where and how often you can use digital content, this chair starts getting dangerous the more you use it. Useful, perhaps, as a prop in the world’s most aggressive game of musical chairs, The DRM chair is a ...
  • With Data Viz And GPS, Fuseproject Remakes The ...
    Game Golf, designed by Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject, is a caddy for the 21st century. It also lets you brag about your stats online. Cyclists have Strava. Skiers have EpicMix. Even casual athletes have devices like Fuelband. Golf, on the other hand, is different. Chalk it up to th ...
  • A New Ultra-Cheap LED Light Looks And Acts Lik ...
    Cree’s new light costs just $10, will last for years and lower your electricity bill, and is basically indistinguishable from your old, energy sucking bulbs. Until recently, options for non-incandescent light bulbs were fairly limited. There were the cheap and effective but harshly-l ...
  • RIP Crawley And Darmody: How And Why You Shoul ...
    Glen Mazzara and Terence Winter discuss the sad but creatively critical duty of killing beloved characters. At first glance, killing off a beloved character is a risky move for a TV show. When John Locke and Charlie Pace were killed off Lost, fans tore into showrunners Damon Lindelof and C ...
  • Holy Hell, Look At The New $3.9 Million Lambor ...
    The Italian automaker gives today’s youth something to lust after. This is the Lamborghini Veneno, just unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. It’s a limited edition of three. It’s made completely out of carbon fiber and costs roughly $3.9 million. It’s got 750 horsepow ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (February 2013)
    This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis a ...
  • A Betrayed Revolution?: On the Tunisian Uprisi ...
    On the evening of 14 January 2011, a single man was shouting on Bourguiba Avenue, "Ben Ali hrab!" (Ben Ali has fled), celebrating the stunning victory of a revolution. In this cry, the admiration for the people, love for freedom, and sorrow for the dead was heard. He was alone in the d ...
  • The Royals' New Rules: Backsliding in Bahrain
    Al Khalifa of Bahrain, the Sunni family that has ruled the Shia-majority country since 1783, has a long history of thwarting revolutionary uprisings. They have recently added five new tactics to their repertoire. My own experience with their new strategy happened on 29 January, when I lande ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (March 5)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • The Empire of Sexuality: An Interview with Jos ...
    Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée and Stella Magliani-Belkacem (FE&SM): In your work and your academic interventions, you have argued that the imposition of the categories of homo-hetero on the non-Western world is inseparable from the politics of imperialism and the dominance of the capitalist mode ...

mediagazer

  • Tribune Said to Want to Sell All Newspapers in ...
    Bloomberg: Tribune Said to Want to Sell All Newspapers in One Deal  —  Tribune Co. (TRBAA), the media company that entered discussions to sell its newspapers earlier this year, is seeking a single buyer for all of the publications, said two people with knowledge of the process.
  • EU to Quiz Germany Over Draft Rules for Google ...
    Aoife White / Bloomberg: EU to Quiz Germany Over Draft Rules for Google's News Clips  —  Germany will be quizzed by European Union regulators over a draft law that limits what Google Inc. (GOOG), and other so-called aggregators, can use to bundle news clips on the Internet.&nbsp ...
  • A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist--2 ...
    Nate Thayer: A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013  —  Here is an exchange between the Global Editor of the Atlantic Magazine and myself this afternoon attempting to solicit my professional services for an article they sought to publish:  —  From ...
  • We bid you adieu - I am inordinately proud of ...
    Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel: We bid you adieu  —  I am inordinately proud of the journalism The Kernel has published since December 2011.  Much of it has, in many ways, been unprecedented in the European technology industry.  But, ultimately, the project has not bee ...
  • Pearson CEO Is Said to Tell FT Staff to Brace ...
    Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg: Pearson CEO Is Said to Tell FT Staff to Brace for Fewer Jobs  —  Pearson Plc (PSON) Chief Executive Officer John Fallon, who has announced a plan to generate 100 million pounds ($151 million) in cost savings in 2014, told staff at the Financial Tim ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • 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 ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Mystery of a Prehistoric Fish's Bizarre Body P ...
    The many faces of Helicoprion. Artwork © Ray Troll / Idaho State University 2013 One of the tricks of paleontology is figuring out how all those fossils fit together to form a whole animal. The placement of the puzzle pieces wasn’t so clear with the bewildering spiral jaw of one 270 million ...
  • The Dangers of Ocean Litter, Writ Large
    Even dolphin statues are not safe from the dangers of entanglement in ocean litter like this plastic 6-pack ring In an apparent guerilla stunt, a wildlife sculpture in downtown Vancouver has been "caught" in a giant plastic 6-pack ring. The sculpture, located at the corner of Georgia and Thur ...
  • Great Whites Now Have Endangered Species Prote ...
    The man in the gray suit now protected by law. Photo: Jim Agronick It’s official; as of today, California’s great white sharks are now fully protected under the California Endangered Species Act! As new candidates for protection under this law, while the state of California considers permanen ...
  • The Importance of Being Here
    Oceana South America Vice President Alex Munoz prepares to dive at San Ambrosio. Special thanks to Revo Sunglasses for supporting the expedition team. © OCEANA Earlier this month Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to document the marine life and habitat of the waters of th ...
  • CEO Note: Shell Retreats on Arctic Drilling
    Arctic waters off-limits for Shell. Photo: Wikimedia Commons I have some terrific news to report: Shell announced yesterday that it will suspend attempts to drill for oil in the U.S. Arctic Ocean.  This announcement comes as a huge relief after Shell’s dangerous string of mishaps in the ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Romney’s Babbling, Jeb Bush is Flip Flopping, ...
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “I think there has to be some difference between people who come here legally and illegally. It is just a matter of common sense and a matter of the rule of law. If we’re not going to apply the law fairly and consistentl ...
  • It’s Great to Be A Corporation in The Golden A ...
    THE GRAPH above says it all and there’s more where it came from over at The Atlantic, in a post by Derek Thompson. Here are two things that are true about the economy today. (1) The Dow Jones industrial average is poised to set a new record as corporate profits stretch to all-time highs. ( ...
  • Republicans Target Ashley Judd, and Tucker Car ...
    We are used to knowing just about everything there is to know about serious political candidates. But will Judd be the first potential senator who has — literally — nothing left to show us? [...] In both 1996′s “Norma Jean and Marilyn” and 1999′s “Eye of the Beholder,” Judd went full frontal and ...
  • Austerity and Income Inequality in Portugal, S ...
    Portugal’s Streets Flooded With Message: ‘Austerity Kills’. Swiss Overwhelmingly Vote to Curb Executive Pay. Meanwhile, in USA! USA!, Electeds play sequential and contrived Grand Bargain / Fiscal Cliff / Super Sequestration games and much of the Electorate yawns. Much, but not all. First, about ...
  • State Dept. Late Friday Draft Release Clears K ...
    “You know the news is bad when it comes out at 4 PM on Friday.” – Michael Brune, Sierra Club The Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline’s route was released just a few weeks after about 35,000 people gathered in DC to urge the project not be built, and af ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians' Double-Standards Exposed Again
    Six days after Arafat Jaradat was found dead in Israel's Megiddo Prison, another detainee died in a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho. Jaradat's death triggered widespread condemnations not only from Palestinians but also from international human
  • Britain Legitimizes, Funds Terrorist Movement
    Forty years after Pakistani forces and their Islamist collaborators slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, there is finally some semblance of justice in Bangladesh. Of the ten people indicted for acts of genocide by the Bangladeshi war crimes
  • What if They Mean What They Say?
    The U.S. generally makes allowance for verbal excesses from foreign governments, but if expressions of hatred and incitement to violence are actually harbingers of behavior, destruction and murderousness cannot be far behind. At the UN Alliance of
  • Spain: Supreme Court Overturns Burqa Ban
    The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that a municipal ordinance banning the wearing of Islamic burqas in public spaces is unconstitutional. In its 56-page ruling, made public on February 28, the Madrid-based Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo) said the
  • Belgian Attitudes Toward Jews
    Belgium, your average European country, sits the middle of Western Europe, between Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. This small country of 11 million inhabitants houses both the headquarters of NATO and the European Union. If one wants to

Urban Survival

  • Market Record On Tap
    Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…  Our proprietary trading indicator over on the Peoplenomics website has really paid off:  market is about to hit a new all-time closing high today.  The market by the Dow closed yesterday at 14,127.82, and … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Excessive Prepping
    Rants from reader /critic Ray was pretty good this week.    “Preppers, money, you’re kidding?   Kurt Saxon is considered by most, the father of the modern survivalist movement. I remember hearing an interview with him, many years ago (probably … Continue reading ...
  • World Without End: Record Dow Week?
    (Palestine, TX) Well, for a second Monday, we begin the week watching for a blow-off top to get organized in the market.  The Dow futures this morning were down abourt 22 points, but some of that was due to earlier … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Clif’s Data Gap
    (Palestine, TX) Oh, here’s a for-sure happy items to put a smile on your face to start off Monday:   “George, Good morning.   I assume you are up and plowing thru the news so I will keep it short. … Continue reading →
  • Personal Income and Other Laughter
    (still in Ellijay, GA) What’s so funny?  Well, I get a wonderful kick out of the personal income and expenditure’s report that always supplies at least enough grist for a 20-minute stand-up routine.  I don’t know any of these average … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • BREAKING: Hugo Chavez Dies Today
    (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    North Korea threatens to cancel 1953 Korean War... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Mass Media Mind Control Using fear and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Michael Tsarion ~ Psychic Vampirism Michael... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Sharing the Internet: "Commotion Wireless"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://financearmageddon.blogspot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

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NRDC Switchboard

  • To-Do List for the New Secretary of Energy: Mo ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City In 2008, Ernest Moniz, director of MIT’s Energy Initiative (MITEI), wrote an open letter to the newly-elected President Barack Obama, offering his recommendations on energy policy.  He discu ...
  • For walkable cities, it's not about the densit ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   A few days ago, I was reviewing some good work by colleagues describing NRDC’s advocacy for sustainable cities.  The original draft stressed that dense living is th ...
  • Obama Nominee for EPA Has Track Record of Safe ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City President Obama has announced he is nominating Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. McCarthy’s track record of standing up for clean air, climate action, and public healt ...
  • How much better could travel be in LA?
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Last week, I presented at the UCLA Complete Streets conference and attempted to answer the question: how much better could travel be in LA if we really set our minds ...
  • The Minamata Convention - what it means for Ar ...
    Susan Egan Keane, Senior Environmental Analyst, Washington DC It has been over a decade since the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) first sounded the alarm about the transboundary nature of mercury pollution, and four years since the natio ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • High speed rail cheaper than Albanese thinks
    Transport minister Anthony Albanese is trying to derail the promising High Speed Rail option before it even leaves the platform, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “Mr Albanese appears to have decided to write off this nation building project before even releasing t ...
  • Don't waste solar energy on coal
    Matthew Wright Port Augusta is the ideal location in South Australia for a solar thermal power plant, due to its very good direct annual solar radiation and its proximity to a strong piece of grid infrastructure that services the old lignite burning power plants that are located there, owned ...
  • Greens push 100pct renewables plan for W.A.
    By Giles Parkinson The Greens Party has unveiled an ambitious new document that outlines possible pathways to turn Western Australia – one of the most energy-intensive states in the world – into one where its stationary energy needs are powered 100 per cent by renewable energy sources in les ...
  • Go LED and kill Hazelwood?
    By Trent Hawkins According to analysis conducted by Beyond Zero Emissions, lighting in homes is responsible for about seven per cent of household electricity use, and around 30 per cent of electricity for commercial and retail buildings. That's quite a large amount of energy use, but it could ...
  • A turn for the better
    If there’s one thing Wonthaggi has plenty of it’s wind. Energy researcher BEN COURTICE looks at whether it could prove to be one of the shire’s biggest assets. IF YOU install solar panels to offset your entire electricity use, you pay no electricity bill – you may even get a credi ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New York Times slashes environmental coverage
    On Friday at 5 PM the New York Times announced it was shutting down it Green blog, which highlighted diverse stories online, from energy to endangered species to climate change. The loss of the New York Times environment blog follows shortly after the paper announced it was dismantling its envir ...
  • Saving forests by putting a price on them
    During the 2013 SuperBowl, the championship game of the US National Football League, a truck company aired an advertisement that likened farmers to God’s favorite assistant. It suggested that when God needs something tough, or gentle, done, he calls a farmer. The narration, taken from a ...
  • Featured video: rare, strange mammal caught on ...
    A video camera trap expedition into Sumatra's Leuser ecosystem has captured a rarely-seen, bizarre mammal on tape. The Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis) is a goat-antelope found both on Sumatra and mainland Southeast Asia. Rarely seen and little-studied, the animals inhabit highland areas.
  • A promising initiative to address deforestatio ...
    The history of the Brazilian Amazon has long been marked by deforestation and degradation. Until recently the situation has been considered out of control. Then, in 2004, the Brazilian government launched an ambitious program to combat deforestation. Public pressure—both national and int ...
  • Global warming to open new Arctic sea lanes
    Rapidly melting sea ice in the Arctic due to global warming will open new shipping lanes that will speed transit between northern Asia, Europe, Canada and Alaska but unleash new safety, environmental and legal issues, according to scientists writing in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the ...

Sierra Express

  • Scam… Minister Accuses Abdul Noah of Land Grabbing
    Minister of Lands, Musa Tarawally (photo) Tuesday 5th corroborates act of ‘land grabbing’ by a businessman Abdul Noah. He made this disclosure while reacting to allegations by Abdul Noah that his land, situated at Lumley Beach Road has been trespassed by the Lands Ministry. The Minister who anno ...
  • Well-Guico makes progress on Koidu City roads
    The people of Koidu City in the District were very much delighted to see road construction work now getting into top gear.  This came about after the contractor, Well Group Sierra Leone Limited decided to partner with a Guinean construction company, Guicopres. ( Photo: Well-Guico’s Road construc ...
  • “Sierra Leone’s Democracy is Unique,” OIC Scri ...
    Secretary General of the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation, (OIC) has described Sierra Leone’s democracy as “unique”.  (Photo: l-r Hon. Nicol having audience with the OIC Secretary General) Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu made the remark to Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Informat ...
  • SWASAL election
    Monday, 4th MARCH 2013:  The Electoral Commission of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists hereby informs members of the Sport Writers Association, Sierra Leone (SWASAL) that election for a new executive is slated for 16th March, 2013 at the National Headquarters of Sierra Leone Associatio ...
  • Salvador scores first for the 2014 World Cup
    SALVADOR, BRAZIL, MARCH 5, 2013 — Victor Mooney of Queens, New York and executive director of South African Arts International, Ltd. (USA) ended his two week visit to Brazil on Sunday with the launch of the One Million Score A Goal for an AIDS-free generation campaign in the City of Salvador, a ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Global dairy prices surge 10.4pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products surged to the highest since June 2011 in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction with the prospect of New Zealand production curtailed by drought in the North Island.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 10.4...
  • $1b drought hit tipped for economy
    Drought is likely to shave 0.5 per cent off gross domestic product by the end of the year and take a toll on next year's output as well, says ANZ bank.In an analysis of the emerging drought conditions, the bank's rural economist,...
  • Fonterra to build Dutch cheese factory
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is going ahead with a plan to build a cheese plant and dairy ingredient factory in the north of the Netherlands with Dutch dairy firm A-ware Food Group.The dairy companies...
  • Terms of trade drop to 2010 levels
    Exports fell in the last three months of 2012 in real terms and the impact has been compounded by a decline in what we can buy, by way of imports, for a given quantity of exports.Export volumes slid 0.5 per cent, while the terms...
  • Fonterra holds payout, issues bonus shares
    Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, has held its forecast farmgate payment on expectations of higher global prices in the second half of the season, and wants to grow its winter milk supply, meaning a tinkering with the...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • All the President’s Apparatchiks: Barack Obama ...
    Barack Obama is a “dithering” president whose foreign policy is formulated by political advisors trying to “spare the president the risks” that come with American leadership, basing it therefore largely on partisan concerns, according to a new book by a former State Department advis ...
  • Alabama Education Association Wants Kids in Fa ...
    Alabama passed a school-choice plan last Thursday that The Foundry hails as "historic." The Cato At Liberty blog is almost as optimistic, calling the legislation “a good start” and criticizing only the fact that it may inadvertently encourage schools to waste ...
  • Italian President Mulling Technocracy After De ...
    Reuters is reporting that Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is thinking about appointing a technocratic government as Italy’s political stalemate continues. The center-left bloc headed by Pier Luigi managed to take the lower house of parliament but failed to secure a governing ma ...
  • Reason Is Hiring
    Reason Foundation, a national nonprofit research and education organization, publisher of Reason, the nation's leading libertarian magazine, home of Reason TV and the Reason-Rupe Poll, is accepting applications for the following positions. For more information, please visit&#160 ...
  • EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy: Science Above Polit ...
    “President Obama on Monday named two people to his cabinet who will be charged with making good on his threat to use the powers of the executive branch to tackle climate change and energy policy if Congress does not act quickly. Yesterday, President Barack Obama nominated Gina McCart ...

Mercury Rising

  • Robert Weissberg And American Renaissance: The ...
    Yet another entry in the “They say they’re not racists, but” file: On the eve of the most widely anticipated conservative event of the year, the group responsible for organizing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 13) has chosen to feature the work of a controver ...
  • Ratzinger and Vatican II: the untold story
    Paul Surlis, The Consortium: Benedict, as Joseph Ratzinger, an expert at the council, explained and enthusiastically endorsed the reforming trends of the council. After each of the council’s four sessions, Dr. Ratzinger wrote a pamphlet-length account of what had transpired during the preceding ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Thank you, Keith!
    The Second Coming must be at hand. Someone has told the truth on FOX.
  • “The most sordid 42 years of Catholic hi ...
    Former Dominican friar and current Episcopal priest Matthew Fox on the dysfunction in the Catholic hierarchy: MATTHEW FOX: …Yeah, I think I’ll take the pope at his word here when he says he’s tired. I would be tired, too, if I left as much devastation in my wake as he has, first as inquisi ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Beat of the Shaman: An Interview with Musician ...
    In their book The Universe Story, mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme and historian Thomas Berry discuss how our primal ancestors used the drumbeat to establish an integral connection with the psychic or spiritual dimensions of the universe: "Their aim was a life in resonant participati ...
  • Where To Find Life Outside Earth
    Dying stars could host life, which we might be able to detect within the next decade. This finding, reported by e! Science, comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in a white dwarf's planet more ...
  • A Spiraling Eye-Encrusted Overview of the Art ...
    Introduction On the morning I started writing this, a five-year-old named Caleb happened to be visiting the house and interrupted my writing session to tell me (and this is an exact quote): "Jonathan, I see ghosty things other people don't see." read more
  • Ayahuasca Versus Daime: The Medicine of Yin an ...
    Throughout the past decade of working with ayahuasca, I've often thought of South American shamanism and the Santo Daime variety of shamanism as the yin and yang of the medicine world. read more
  • The Best of Times or the End of Time
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Desertification

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

Blogging Canadians

  • NRG Research Group Inc. and "the Person"
    The following email has been edited in terms of its original formatting. From: Dave Converse < dconverse@nrgresearchgroup.com > Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:31 PM Subject: 3 postings on your site To: "vicpopuli1@gmail.com" < vicpopuli1@gmail.com > Hello, I have noted that th ...
  • At the End of Capitalism’s Rope – BENJAMIN J. ...
    I suggest you go to Counterpunch and read the whole article, but here we see the benefit of Marx’s analysis of capitalism. “In Stack’s “manifesto”, he quotes Karl Marx.  Ironically, Marx is useful here.  Explaining how human labor-power is objectified in commodities, which then becom ...
  • "Weak-Minded People" and the State
    The "Abolish the State button" by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog November 25, 2012 One of the standard arguments against liberty that always seems to crop up is that it is hopeless. The State in some form or another is inevitable. Liberty- ana ...
  • "Big Money" and "the Government"
    @AntCorporations Economics trumps Politics. The Government is Big Money's bitch. by Johnny Argent As originally posted on: Johnny Argent (JohnnyArgent) on Twitter January 31, 2013
  • "The Singular / National 'United States'"
    US vs USA by Alfred Adask As originally posted on: Adask's law November 24, 2012 A couple of friends sent an email to me concerning the meanings of “United States,” “United States of America” and “The United States of America”. I replied as follows: It seems to me that the Founders were ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Bahrain hands over body of protester
    Bahraini authorities have finally handed over the body of a young protester, killed by regime forces, to his family for burial.
  • Saudis urge political prisoners release
    Saudis have staged a fresh anti-regime protest in the central city of Buraidah to demand the release of political prisoners.
  • Syrian army strikes back at militants
    The Syrian army says it has struck back at foreign-backed militants, who stormed the provincial capital of the northern Raqqa Province.
  • UAE puts 94 people on trial
    The United Arab Emirates has put on trial 94 people arrested on charges of trying to overthrow the government and having political activities connected with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
  • UK diplomat flees Palestinian university
    Palestinian students have prevented British consul general to al-Quds (Jerusalem) from giving a lecture at a university in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Spring 2013 Welcome Letter From Dean Mogulescu
    Dear SPS Students: I hope you have enjoyed your winter holidays, and are looking forward to the challenges and rewards of the upcoming semester. Whether you are a new or returning student, I am happy to welcome you to the School of Professional Studies for the Spring 2013 term, and to thank you ...
  • On The Day My Life Changed Forever
    Recently I read an FB status on a friend’s page that asked what a panic attack felt like and I smiled in sympathy. I wanted to reply and describe it, but I didn’t want to take up that much space. I recently experienced my first panic attack. Now if you’ve been a reader for a [...]
  • MA in Applied Theatre Students and Alumni in t ...
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    In October of this year, Paul Russo, Ph.D., SPS’s Director of Online Programs and an instructor in the Sociology program, led a team of current CUNY students and graduates to develop a free student-to-student text book exchange as part of the ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the M ...
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