Wednesday, April 03, 2013

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Saudi prosecutor calls for crucifixion
    On 25 March 2013, at the first court hearing of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a Saudi prosecutor called for “death by crucifixion.” The prosecutor invoked haraba, a form of Islamic punishment enforced by the Saudi government, involving crucifixion and dismemberment. The cleric’s ...
  • Antarctic Melt = 3 x Global Average
    The length of the summer melt season in part of Antarctica has been getting longer, and increasing ice loss, for the last 60 years. The summer melting has been linked to the rapid break-up of ice shelves in the area and rising sea levels, the scientists said. Researchers with the British A ...
  • Christchurch: A Health 'Time Bomb' This Winter ?
    CDHB member Andrew Dickerson said he was concerned about the “growing sense of despair” in some areas. Damaged, damp and overcrowded homes meant communicable diseases like influenza, whooping cough and measles could flourish this winter, putting increased strain on a health system already under ...
  • Madoff: US government stalling bank prosecutions
    Bernard Madoff, who admitted in 2009 to running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, told media outlets this week that the government-appointed trustee for his firm’s investors is refusing to act on evidence showing the complicity of major banks in his activities. “Although I have offered the ba ...
  • Hollywood ploy to insert DRM into HTML5
    Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML5 — in other words, into the very fabric of the Web. Millions of Internet users came together to defeat SOPA/PIPA, but ...

Independent - London

  • North Korea deepens tensions as it blocks acce ...
    North Korea today barred South Korean workers from entering the Kaesong joint industrial zone operated by the two countries just north of their demilitarised border, in the latest escalation of its apparent campaign to force its southern neighbour and the US to the negotiating table.Related Sto ...
  • The downfall of Jérôme Cahuzac: Cosmetic surge ...
    Jérôme Cahuzac made a fortune as a cosmetic surgeon offering hair-transplants to the rich and famous. He just became the ugly face of Socialist France.Related StoriesDcotor who claimed to have made Silvio Berlusconi 'technically immortal' diesGerard Depardieu's new home up in flames as fire eng ...
  • Taliban kill 44 in court bomb attack
    Nine Taliban suicide bombers killed themselves and 44 others yesterday in an attack on a courtroom in western Afghanistan where 10 of their comrades were on trial, a local official said.Related StoriesMalaysia prepares for electionsPakistan's youth favour Sharia law and military rule over democr ...
  • The Afghans mourning the George W Bush days: T ...
    The former US President George W Bush hardly lacks critics for his foreign policy decisions, which took America into war in Afghanistan. But in a corner of Kabul, some Afghans are so grateful to him that they have named a bazaar after him.Related StoriesMalaysia prepares for electionsPakistan's ...
  • Ex-firefighter and girlfriend suspected of spa ...
    A former volunteer firefighter and his girlfriend are due in court accused of scores of arson attacks on the coast of the state of Virginia.Related StoriesVideo: Footage released of Florida sinkholeObama the antichrist? Global warming a myth? Lizard people controlling the world? New conspiracy ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • You are NOT what you eat!
    Did you know that 60% of the American population suffers from at least one system of poor digestion - gas, bloating, belching, heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, and more? While you may have heard that you are what you eat, the truth is that you are actually what you absorb and assimilate. Alth ...
  • Monsanto Protection Act: A post-mortem for our ...
    It's time for a brief post-mortem on the events leading to the passage of the Monsanto Protection Act (MPA). Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA into law, there are certain facts that need not be forgotten for the next time (and there will be a next time) b ...
  • Syria: Democracy vs. foreign invasion. Who is ...
    A Syrian's Perspective: Bashar al-Assad's Democratic Movement Bashar al-Assad has been systematically demonized by the mainstream and so-called alternative media who claim that he is a brutal dictator. Actually Bashar is a reformer who has done much to further the causes of democracy and freed ...
  • Almost third of US West Coast newborns hit wit ...
    Researchers have discovered that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had far-reaching health effects more drastic than previously thought: young children born on the US West Coast are 28 percent more likely to develop congenital hyperthyroidism. In examining post-Fukushima conditions along the W ...
  • Tremors at Bayou Corne, Lousiana salt dome hal ...
    The head of Louisiana's Department of Natural Resources named 13 scientists and other experts Friday to serve on a blue-ribbon commission tasked with determining the long-term stability of the area around northern Assumption Parish's sinkhole. The 13-acre sinkhole and consequences of its emerge ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Posturing . . .
    STEVIE LOVES UNIFORMS. Maybe he should visit and stay there, and take Airshow with him, too, come to think of it.
  • Priorities . . .
    STEVIE THINKS PANDAS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE, even those who have walked 1,600  kilometers.
  • Boris out...
    I started blogging here in April 2006 after Dave kindly offered me a space for my voice. Thank you Dave! That's pretty much SEVEN years ago. I'm not sure how that's happened, but there it is. I've had much less energy for blogging over the past while, my posts have gotten shorter and from my ...
  • On a positive note . . .
    INHABITAT reports that clever young people exist, with an article you should read, by Morgana Matus, "17-Year-Old Builds Algae Biofuel Lab in Her Bedroom to Win $100K Intel Science Talent Search Prize". Sara Volz
  • Dimmit . . .
    THE WORLD'S A MUCH brighter place when you're not too bright for it, according to the folks who make MinusIQ | The pill to lower your IQ permanently.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Mangles Positive Auto Sales Numbers To Bas ...
    Fox host Stuart Varney and guest Marc Morano falsely suggested higher truck sales in March translate into a rejection of more fuel efficient vehicles by American consumers. In fact, the driving force behind higher truck sales is a rebounding construction sector, and sales of more fuel effic ...
  • What Media Should Know About The Anti-Immigran ...
    Mainstream media outlets should be aware of damaging economic attacks leveled by anti-immigrant groups in an attempt to derail comprehensive immigration reform. In reality, research indicates that comprehensive immigration reform would improve the U.S. economy, create jobs and boost American wag ...
  • Fox Host Refuses To Acknowledge Economic Reality
    Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson pushed the right-wing media's false claim that an increase in government employment made up the bulk of job growth during the economic recovery. The private sector, however, has added millions of jobs since 2009 while the public sector has shed hundreds ...
  • Meet The Speakers Behind The Anti-Equality Sup ...
    The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has organized an anti-equality rally outside the Supreme Court this week as the Court mulls over the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Media outlets should be aware and report the extr ...
  • This American Life Features Error-Riddled Stor ...
    Public radio program This American Life pushed a series of myths about Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI), a Social Security program that supports families that include children with disabilities. The piece ignored that the recent rise in disability benefits is tied to the rece ...

Global Research.ca

  • Avoiding Economic Collapse: A Guide to Complem ...
    As the Cyprus fiasco focuses attention once again on the faltering Euro, the public is finally questioning the value of the money in their wallets and bank accounts. But as the issue of monetary reform gains currency amongst the public, a vast array of complimentary currencies are already helpin ...
  • Worse than the Great Depression: Mass Unemploy ...
    Workers in the United States are in a very difficult situation—one made significantly worse by the Great Recession and the very slow “recovery.” The latest data as we write this (available for January 2013) indicates that although the unemployment rate…
  • Professor Chossudovsky, Lecture, Ottawa, April ...
    The Middle East Discussion Group (MEDG) cordially invites to LUNCHEON MEETING Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 12:00 with Professor Michel Chossudovsky Mosaic Carling Buffet, 2583 Carling Av . Ottawa K2B7H7  $15 per person Our invited speaker is Professor Michel Chossudovsky who…
  • U.S. Aid to Haiti: “Troubling” Lack of Transpa ...
    Image: LYNNE SLADKY/AP/SIPA A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) identifies significant problems with the delivery of U.S. aid in Haiti and finds an overall lack of transparency on how the billions of dollars obligated…
  • BRICS Challenges Unipolar World and US Dollar ...
    The BRICS just became impossible to ignore.  At the close of the Fifth annual BRICS Summit in Durban, South Africa last week, there was little question that this group of five fast-growing economies was underwriting an overhaul of the global…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Protests in Israeli jails after inmate death ...
    Israeli prison guards have fired teargas on Palestinian inmates in several Israeli jails who have been protesting the death of a prisoner who died of cancer. Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, who w ...
  • The Month in Pictures: March 2013 (The Electr ...
    During the month of March, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian demonstrator at al-Fawwar refugee camp; two other West Bank Palestinians died of injuries from Israeli fire sustained e ...
  • Israel bombs Gaza Strip (Ma'an News Agency)
    Israeli warplanes bombed the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, in the first airstrike on the enclave since a November ceasefire. Two airstrikes hit a tile fact ...
  • Federal anti-discrimination law being used to ...
    The Real News Network episode "Shutting Down Critique of Israel on Campus" interviews Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Ratner provides a ...
  • Unlikely Jerusalem village takes the lead on L ...
    Outside of the official Land Day protest in Sakhnin in Northern Israel, the largest demonstrations took place in Jerusalem. On Salah al-Din Street, which links the Old City to Sheikh Ja ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Pipeline spill in Arkansas calls into question ...
    On Good Friday, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude burst in Mayflower, Arkansas and was discovered—not by the pipeline company—but by a local resident.  According to the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), which referred to Wabasca as “oil sands” in ...
  • PACE is Good for Texas
    You may have never heard of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), but it has the potential to make a huge difference in adoption of distributed renewable energy systems, such as rooftop solar installations. PACE allows businesses to borrow money from local governments to work on energy efficien ...
  • Texas Clean Energy Goals Under Attack
    It wouldn’t be a Texas legislative session without some truly backwards bills.  Today we have House Bill 2026 by freshman Representative Sanford of Collin county that would eliminate our state renewable energy goals. In 1999, the state of Texas made a commitment to renewable energy in the ...
  • Texas House Energy Resources Committee to hear ...
    The House Energy Resources Committee is scheduled to hear Representative Dennis Bonnen’s bill, HB 2166, relating to the continuation, functions, and name of the Railroad Commission of Texas; providing for the imposition of fees, the repeal of provisions for the suspension of the collection ...
  • Public Citzen’s Guide to Amending the PUC Suns ...
    Public Citizen’s positions on the pre-filed amendments to the PUC Sunset bill can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/Guide_to_Amend_PUC_Sunset_bill_HB1600 or in the table below. Support These Amendments to Improve the PUC Sunset Bill Bar code # Sponsor Description Comment 830096 Cook clean up c ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 'Dragon skeleton' found in China sea
    The skeleton of a large sea creature has been discovered off the coast of China's Shandong Province. Measuring 3.5m in length, the large snake-like sk...
  • Do movies influence UFO sightings ?
    Hollywood movies involving UFOs and aliens could have a direct effect on the number of real-life reports. For years there have been noticeable increas...
  • Large Hadron Collider upgrades begin
    The particle accelerator that lead to the discovery of the Higgs Boson is to have its energy doubled. The upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider will c...
  • Sleep paralysis and 'demon' sightings
    Sleep paralysis can not only prevent you from moving, it can also make you hallucinate as well. Most people will have experienced sleep paralysis at s...
  • Germans planned to build 'sun gun' weapon
    Back in 1945 it was revealed that German scientists had been planning to build a giant space mirror. The claim originated with US army experts and was...

Grassroots

  • Haiti needs solidarity, not soldiers: First-ha ...
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  • If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sov ...
    Subheadline:  Farmers speak out at the World Social Forum in Tunisia seeds-india-yakshi.jpg Thousands of small farmers joined students, activists, unionists , human rights ...
  • Commemorating Palestinian Land Day
    palestine-boy_in_field.jpg  For 37 years, March 30 has been celebrated as Palestinian Land Day, a day of action for land rights.  On this date in 1976, Palestinians inside Israel mobilized to protest Israel’s plans to take 2,000 h ...
  • The True Costs of Industrialized Food
    brazil-agrotoxin_poster.jpg The real costs of the industrial food system on people’s lives and the planet are as extensive as they are hidden.  The article below by long-time Grassroots International friends, Beverley Bell and T ...
  • Supporting Women's Rights and Power
    janaina.jpg  “There are thousands upon thousands who weren’t as lucky as I was—I survived hunger....I probably would not have survived had it not been for the support and solidarity of groups like Grassroots International.”  Janai ...

Climate

  • Environmentalists Signal They’ll Sue BNSF Over ...
    (The Seattle Times) The Sierra Club and four other environmental groups Tuesday said they intend to file a federal lawsuit to force BNSF Railway and six coal companies to better contain the coal being shipped in open-topped train cars. ...
  • Australian Agriculture Faces Extreme Weather R ...
    (Reuters) Australia's most productive agricultural areas face a greater risk of extreme weather from climate change in coming decades, including a higher number of droughts, a report from the country's Climate Commission said on Wednes ...
  • EU Energy Chief Tells Germany to Keep Fracking ...
    (Reuters) Germany risks losing its competitive edge in energy generation if it is too quick to reject fracking as an option in drilling for gas, European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told a German newspaper. "I advise ...
  • U.S. Fracking Boom Threatens Massachusetts Cle ...
    (90.9 wbur) Could fracking, the controversial natural gas drilling process, come to New England? Geologists say the black shale beneath the Connecticut River Valley may hold enough of the clean-burning fossil fuel to make it economic t ...
  • EPA Proposes to Revise Industry Potentials for ...
    (Bloomberg BNA) The Environmental Protection Agency will propose revising the global warming potentials industries use to calculate their annual greenhouse gas emissions to conform with international reporting standards. A proposed ru ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • The Clap Looks Good By Comparison
    The Republican Party is really unpopular. But I wonder what it going to happen to their brand over the course of this year. Considering that the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have agreed on an immigration reform deal, what will happen if Marco Rubio simply walks away from a deal? Or, wh ...
  • Meanwhile, in Afghanistan...
    This isn't a reason for our forces to stay in Afghanistan, but it's a worrying sign for the fate of the government there once we leave. At least 54 people were killed and 90 others wounded Wednesday in an insurgent attack on a government compound in western Afghanistan where Taliban fighters ...
  • Today in Stupid
    Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has filed a petition with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. He objects to the three-judge panel's 2-1 ruling that Virginia's anti-sodomy law is unconstitutional, and he wants the full 15-member court to meet en banc to rehear the case. The case actually ...
  • One of These Things is Not Like the Others
    Possibly because they were bored, Public Policy Polling asked the public about a variety of conspiracy theories. Interestingly, of all the ones they mentioned, the majority of the public only truly subscribes to one. They don't think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. In fact, only one in four Am ...
  • Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
    Let's go along with Stu Rothenberg and call it a debate, and not an argument that he's having with Daily Kos's Steve Singiser. And let's credit Rothenberg for conceding many of Singiser's debating points. I still have a problem with this statement: But if the question is whether there is an ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From lone survivors of airline disasters to business icons who bounced back from the sack, it's a mesmerizing mix of miscellany. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Penan Peace Park: A Bornean Tribe's Last S ...
    The Penan tribe of Sarawak, Borneo have been losing their rainforest to loggers and plantations for decades. The Penan Peace Park project offers them new hope. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Abandoned Steam Ship Transformed into Giant St ...
    Previously abandoned and left to rust, steamer the TSS Duke of Lancaster has been given a new life in a project aimed at making her the largest outdoor gallery in Europe. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Coolest Links of the Week
    From bizarre stamp forgeries and audacious jailbreaks, to soberingly creative public health ads, this selection of links brings together some fascinating nuggets. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rivers Aglow With Ethereal Globes of Color
    In the River of Light art installation, ethereal spheres of light float down rivers, highlighting our need to preserve vital water supplies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...
  • NEW VIDEOS: Interviews from Enbridge blockade ...
    Got a batch of videos here from the last week to check out. Glad to have a little chance to bring these interesting projects, including Idle No More MN & the Enbridge Blockade near Leonard MN (also known as the encampment) going strong since late February. All these videos are basically uned ...
  • LOL wow for the House of Cards: Cyprus bank co ...
    Admittedly this is a little bit speculative but it looks pretty big. lol wow I can't believe they are triggering a huge EU bank run in Cyprus by confiscating big slabs of bank accounts to satiate the European Central Bankers - it's blamed on rich Russians who 'deserve' to have their savings jack ...
  • Stay Fly: Holy Smokes
    Oh I dearly hope this is an authentic photo - isn't it easily the greatest news photograph ever? Floating around, see : Something Out of The Godfather... | E L V O M I T A R . C O M etc. Good luck to the Catholics, they need help like all of us. Regardless, there's no swag like Vatican swag. Th ...
  • City Pages Poll: A time for quixotic votes?
    This is a bit of a joke, but after some really bad turns lately, a friend trying to raise my spirits a bit suggested that it would be a good idea to get people to vote for HongPong.com on Best Local Blog on CityPages. Is this high profile? Not really. Trendy? No. In with the cool cats? Dubious. ...

Daily Censored

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Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #828
    Chinese researcher charged with stealing US drug. Turkish intelligence to 'oversee PKK retreat'. Analysis: Controversial Bush programs continue under Obama.
  • Did MI6, not CIA, kill Congolese Prime Ministe ...
    The 1961 abduction and murder of iconic Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was organized by British, not American, intelligence, according to a claim made this week by a British Labour politician and Life peer.
  • Spy equipment discovered near Russian military ...
    Sophisticated intelligence-collection devices hidden inside faux boulders have been discovered on an island situated across from a Russian naval base in Syria. The devices were found on Al-Naml, an uninhabited islet of only 150 square meters, which overlooks the Syrian port of Tartus, site of a ...
  • Court rejects release of spy records on iconic ...
    Canada’s highest court has rejected a legal argument in favor of releasing surveillance records on Tommy Douglas, an iconic Canadian politician who was monitored for most of his life by the security services.
  • CIA officer who purged torture evidence is rew ...
    A United States Central Intelligence Agency officer who was personally involved in the illegal destruction of videotapes showing CIA personnel torturing detainees, is now leading the Agency’s operations arm.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News Apr 4
        U.S., Jordan stepping up training of Syrian opposition amid concern that moderate rebel forces be overtaken by extremist Islamic fighters in southern Syria - Washington Post Syrian rebels set their sights on strategic south, a critical gateway to attack Damascus - MiamiHe ...
  • Tariq Aziz: Victim of US Imperialism
      Tariq Aziz: Victim of US Imperialism   by Stephen Lendman   He's ill, isolated and fading. His life hangs in the balance. Washington likely wants him dead. He blames America, Israel and Britain. They bear responsibility for destroying Iraq. More on him below.   read more
  • Antiwar Demonstration to Meet Obama in San Fra ...
    Supporting Guantánamo Hunger Strikers and Bradley Manning And Protesting DRONES   Event:         Antiwar Protest at Barack Obama’s $32,500/plate dinner When:         4 PM onward, Wednesday April 3, 2013 Where:&n ...
  • Sai, still being harassed by the TSA
      In February, we wrote about a young man named Sai who was bullied, harassed, and unlawfully detained by the TSA at Boston Logan Airport. Well, Sai is back. And the TSA is still harassing him. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spreads
      Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spreads   by Stephen Lendman   Detainees have few ways to resist. Refusing food challenges injustice. It's now past two months.    Media scoundrels at first ignored it. Now they say little. Capitol Hill's quiet. Pentagon officials downplay it. ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Watch: Amy Goodman with Vampire Weekend, Cyndi ...
    Stream live tonight! Amy Goodman joins the media panel on "Q in New York City," hosted by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC at 7pm ET. "Q in New York City" will be recorded live before sold-out audience of 600 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in Manhattan. You can watch the live video s ...
  • Edie Windsor's Day in Court
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about same-sex marriage this week. On Tuesday, it was about the controversial California ballot initiative known as Prop 8, which has banned same-sex marriages in that state. On Wednesday, the case challenging the co ...
  • Cheryl Wills on Her Family's Path from Slavery ...
    In our extended discussion with Cheryl Wills, NY1 anchor and author of Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale, she discusses the legacy of slavery and the impact of Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe on African Americans’ pride in their history. We also play an excerpt of Morgan Freeman readi ...
  • VIDEO: Understanding the Mondragon Worker Coop ...
    Watch a 2012 interview Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman did with Mikel Lezamiz, director of Cooperative Dissemination at the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in Spain’s Basque Country. He described how the project relies on a participatory model in which the workers are the cooperative&#8 ...
  • Watch Extended Interview with Economist Richar ...
    In this extended interview with Richard Wolff, he discusses how his parents fled Hitler and immigrated to the United States from Germany during World War II, and their influence on his worldview. "I grew up convinced that understanding the political and economic environment I lived in was ...

Solari

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Vertigo-Inducing Photos of Hong Kong Housing S ...
    Read the rest of Vertigo-Inducing Photos of Hong Kong Housing Show Just How Dense It Is Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, architecture of density, Art, Hong Kong, hong kong photographs, michael wolf, people per square kilometer, Photography, residential den ...
  • 2014 Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid Debuts as Por ...
    Porsche just unveiled its first ever plug-in vehicle – the 2014 Panamera S E-Hybrid! The new hybrid vehicle builds upon the Panamera S hybrid, but adds a more powerful electric motor with a higher-performance battery. Best of all, it has the ability to be recharged from home or public vehi ...
  • Whole Foods Announces Plans for 20,000 Sq. Ft. ...
    NYC foodies will soon be in for a real treat as Whole Foods has announced they’ll be operating a rooftop farm right atop their forthcoming Gowanus, Brooklyn store. The 20,000 sq. ft. greenhouse will produce fresh veggies and other greens to be delivered to the market below. Now that’ ...
  • Contact 1: Incredible Space Age City Made From ...
    Read the rest of Contact 1: Incredible Space Age City Made From 200,000 LEGO Bricks Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: contact 1, eco design, green design, kickstarter, lego architecture, LEGOs, Mike Doyle, sustainable design
  • Pelli Clarke Pelli Breaks Ground on the Transb ...
    Read the rest of Pelli Clarke Pelli Breaks Ground on the Transbay Transit Tower in San Francisco Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", boston properties, eco design, eco skyscraper, eco tower, green architecture, Green Building, green design, high ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Great April’s Fools Pranks From Around t ...
    It's April Fool's Day, and companies from Google to Virgin Atlantic have put up great jokes on the Web. Check out Nokia's new line of microwave ovens and Twitter's decision to eliminate all vowels on its free service to pack more information into those 140-character messages.
  • An Easy Way to Capture Live Video of Your iPho ...
    A $13 program called Reflector transmits the video image from your iPhone, iPod or iPad to your Macintosh or PC for easy recording or projecting. It's a great help for anyone making videos or trying to conduct a presentation.
  • Addressing Fears About LED Light Bulbs
    A column about LED light bulbs generated a lot of reader e-mail, probably because LED represents change. And change is always scary. David Pogue addresses some reader concerns.
  • TiVo Explains Extra Charge for the Mini
    TiVo, a maker of digital video recorders, responds to David Pogue's criticism of its $6 monthly charge for its Mini device, which allows customers to access their TiVo content from a second TV.
  • Reselling E-Books and the One-Penny Problem
    Among other questions raised by proposals from Apple and Amazon for e-book resales is this one: When a resold digital book is just as good as a new one, what happens to prices?

The Progressive Realist

  • SNAFU: Pentagon Waste Run Amok
    The U.S. Army recently discovered $900 million worth of spare Stryker parts, many of which are obsolete or unnecessary, collecting dust in a warehouse. None of the parts appear on the Army’s property books, a $900 million accounting error. From Stars & Stripes: Take, for instance, the $57 mi ...
  • Getting into the Weeds of the Central African ...
    Ed note. Our resident regional expert Carol Gallo takes us deep inside the troubles afflicting politics in the Central African Republic. Wonky political analysis to follow! What Just Happened? On Sunday March 24, a rebel coalition calling itself Séléka (“alliance”), numbering about 5,000, took t ...
  • Should the United States Conduct Drone Strikes ...
    Today, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Diaa Hadid wrote a story for the Associated Press that describes growing cross-border collaboration between al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI) and Jabhat al-Nusrah, or al-Nusrah Front, in Syria. An Iraqi government spokesperson is quoted as describing the border area as “a nes ...
  • The Risk of War with North Korea is Teensy
    The risk of war with North Korea is small, mostly because war is a very rare event in the international system. Bennett and Stam found that the risk of war in a single directed-dyad year (e.g., U.S.-North Korea in 2013) is 0.000065. Now, this current situation is much more dangerous than your av ...
  • The Arms Trade Treaty: What’s Next
    The General Assembly is set to vote on the final draft text of the Arms Trade Treaty today. Late last week, negotiators from UN member states put together the final touches on the long debated treaty to regulate the international, legal transfer of arms and armaments to prevent arms that are sol ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Greens Catch the Messaging Bug
    The Republican Party and the environmental movement, through some strange twist of fate, are suffering from similar strategic snags. The GOP has worked itself into a well-documented rebranding tizzy in the months since November, trying to refashion itself into the “exciting party that smiles." ...
  • How to Fix Social Security? Make it Bigger
    401(K) 2013/Flickr Many liberals, myself included, are frustrated by the mainstream conversation on entitlement spending, which holds as gospel that we need cuts to our two major retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare. But only one of them–Medicare–faces the prospect of high ...
  • Industry-Funded High-Frequency Trading Study F ...
    I recently published an article in response to a study of high-frequency trading (“HFT”) by Professor Charles M. Jones of Columbia Business School and an opinion piece he published simultaneously in Politico. My article focused on the funding of the research by Citadel LLP, a major HFT user. It ...
  • Red States Getting Redder
    Last week, I noted the extent to which opposition to same-sex marriage and opposition to abortion are still linked tightly together. With its new anti-abortion law—and long-standing ban on gay marriage—Alabama is the latest state to prove the point: Alabama lawmakers late Tuesday gave final pas ...
  • Americans Want a Path to Citizenship
    Jens Schott Knudsen/Flickr Sign in favor of immigration reform are on display outside Judson Memorial Church on West 4th Street in New York CIty on June 5th, 2010. The most important takeaway from the latest Washington Post poll is its news on immigration. Among all adults, 57 pe ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Under Huge Police Presence, Memphis Uneasily F ...
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “Here they come,” someone shouted, standing in the rain in the fenced-in and heavily guarded protest area set up here more than 100 yards from where the Ku Klux Klan was beginning its controversial rally Saturday on the steps of the Shelby County Courthouse. “I can’t see them,” ...
  • On Eve of Memphis Klan Rally, Officials Prepar ...
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Pay no attention to that man beneath the sheet. Do not go downtown to listen to his wicked words. Do not heckle or protest his presence. He is not worth it. His time has passed. He has no teeth. That’s the message of the city of Memphis as it faces a trying [...]
  • Slain California Cop-Killer Held ‘Sovereign Ci ...
    A 36-year-old software engineer who shot and killed a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer last fall was bipolar and held antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views, an investigation by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has concluded. Christopher Lacy’s ideological ties to the sovereign ...
  • Racist Maryland Student Leader Vows Patrols Ag ...
    White supremacist student Matthew Heimbach, a thorn in the side of Maryland’s Towson University who has led two racist campus organizations, says his White Student Union (WSU) will start patrolling the campus at night next week in order to halt what his group characterizes as a “black crime wave ...
  • DOJ Study: More Than 250,000 Hate Crimes a Yea ...
    More than 250,000 Americans over the age of 12 are victimized every year by hate criminals, according to a new government study that puts the number some 50,000 higher than the best earlier analyses. At the same time, the study found that in recent years only about one in three hate crimes are e ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Civil Society and Entrepreneurs Call on World ...
    Over 55 development, faith, human rights, community, and environmental groups from more than 20 countries teamed up today to ask World Bank President Jim Kim to end Bank support for all fossil fuel projects unless the projects are solely focused on directly increasing energy access for the poor. ...
  • CREW Calls on FEC to Investigate Checks and Ba ...
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate whether Checks and Balances for Economic Growth (CBEG) violated campaign finance laws.  The group, headed by Dan Perrin, spent at least $896,290 in October 2012 ...
  • The Rising American Electorate Sinking Together
    Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future warns Democrats that their base – the people who have been voting for Democrats – are not faring well in the economy.read more
  • New Report on U.S. Aid to Haiti Finds “Troubli ...
    A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) identifies significant problems with the delivery of U.S. aid in Haiti and finds an overall lack of transparency on how the billions of dollars obligated for U.S. assistance to Haiti are being used.read more
  • From Saccharin to GE Seed, Report Profiles Mon ...
    From its beginnings as a small chemical company in 1901, Monsanto has grown into the largest biotechnology seed company in the world with net sales of $11.8 billion, 404 facilities in 66 countries across six continents and products grown on over 282 million acres worldwide.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Rewarding Polluters and Locking Up People Who ...
    Andrew Simms A No Dash for Gas activist on top of one of power station towers during the occupation at West Burton last year. (Photograph: No Dash for Gas)What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their l ...
  • Transplanting Taxes from Corporations to the R ...
    Scott Klinger (Taxing Economics, an OtherWords cartoon by Khalil Bendib)Today, corporate profits are setting all-time records while middle class families continue to struggle financially. These trends are intertwined.read more
  • Why the AP’s Choice to Drop the I-Word Is a Cr ...
    Rinku Sen We applaud the Associated Press’s announcement that it is eliminating the phrase “illegal immigrant” from the 2013 style guide. The AP Blog quotes Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll on th ...
  • Wall Street Hogs Still Running Wild
    Jim Hightower Wall Street is a beast. And proud of it! In fact, a pair of animals are the stock market's longtime symbols: One is a snorting bull, representing surging stock prices; the other is a bear, representing a down market devour ...
  • 350.org Calls for Public Comment on Keystone X ...
    Mary Bottari After the recent tar sands pipeline spill in Arkansas, where thousands of gallons of toxic oil ran through the streets of a small community, the climate change organization 350.org is asking Americans to join in the public comm ...

Water Privatization

  • Government utility crushes private bidders
    Lehigh County Authority wins Allentown water bidding; Pa. utility privatization outlook dim
  • Gary airport privatization idea not new
    A joint city/airport committee readying a recommendation on privatization at Gary/Chicago International Airport is not the first effort to find private investors to spur airport development.
  • Commission rejects union appeal, upholds priva ...
    The Michigan Civil Service Commission has rejected union appeals and upheld the privatization of about 150 nursing aide jobs at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.
  • Privatization would raise rates - LETTER TO TH ...
    Water privatization can be incredibly harmful to ratepayers and to a city’s long-term sustainability. When municipal water systems are sold to private entities, accountability is lost and the cost to ratepayers increases. When corporations obtain water , profit becomes the primary goal, and resi ...
  • Winning bidder needs separate water rights for ...
    The winning bidder in the rehabilitation deal being dangled by the Metropolitan and Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS) for its 28-megawatt auxiliary units in the Angat hydropower plant will need to apply for separate water rights with the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) upon its assumption ...

Guardian

  • Manchester police to record attacks on goths a ...
    Decision follows campaign by Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity set up in memory of girl fatally attacked in 2007Police in Manchester have said they will begin recording offences against members of alternative subcultures in the same way they do attacks based on race, religion, disability, s ...
  • Afghan suicide attack on provincial courthouse ...
    Suicide squad dressed as soldiers leaves 44 people dead and over 100 injured in deadliest day for civilians in more than a yearNine suicide attackers disguised as Afghan army soldiers stormed a provincial courthouse and then battled security forces for hours, killing 44 people and injuring over ...
  • Amazon tribe threatens to declare war amid row ...
    Munduruku leaders hit out at 'betrayal' after government pushes on with dam construction without community's consentAn Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders.The Munduruku indigen ...
  • Assets worth €1.3bn seized from Italian busine ...
    Vito Nicastri, known as the 'king of wind' for his renewable energy interests, loses companies, property, cars and boatsAnti-mafia investigators in Italy have made their largest confiscation of assets to date: €1.3bn (£1.1bn) worth of property, cash and alternative energy companies owned by a ma ...
  • IMF sets terms of Cyprus bailout
    International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said Cyprus must press ahead with measures to bring the island's budget into surplus by 2018The International Monetary Fund has demanded that Cyprus cut state pension costs and reform its welfare system as the price of a €1bn (£854m ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Video New Afghan security agreement to soon be ...
    With Congress still struggling to pass meaningful gun violence legislation, the National Rifle Association unveiled its plan for school safety. Nancy Cordes reports on NRA's new ...
  • San Diego soldiers head to Afghanistan
    Military writer Gretel C. Kovach and photographer Nelvin C. Cepeda will report on the San Diego-based 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and their families throughout their Afghanistan ...
  • Top U.S. commander talks extending Afghanistan ...
    (CBS News) KABUL -- The war in Afghanistan is entering an uncertain and dangerous phase. The Obama administration is trying to figure out how to bring most U.S. forces home by the end of next year, but still leave enough to be sure Afghanistan does not slip back into chaos. The new man in charge ...
  • Karzai Taliban leader can run for the Afghan p ...
    Politics Afghan President Hamid Karzai has not ruled out that the Taliban's leader in the country may bid for the presidency in 2014 elections. The President has called on the Islamists to lay down arms and participate in the political process. Taliban leader Mullah Omar could be a 2014 pr ...
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2063
    As of Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at least 2,063 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Major Victory for SOX Whistleblowers
    Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a major precedential decision in the case of Wiest v. Tyco Electronics Corp., establishing the standards for protecting corporate whistleblowers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In a 2-1 split ruling, the Court held that corporat ...
  • IRS Tries to Duck Whistleblowers
    Late Friday, the Department of Treasury posted a notice in the Federal Register regarding the IRS's proposed rules for its whistleblower office (26 CFR Part 301 [Reg-141066-09]. The notice announces a public hearing on the proposed rules for the IRS Whistleblower Program. I previously ...
  • MSPB Urged to Retroactively Apply WEPA
    Today the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of Day v. Department of Homeland Security. At issue is whether the new definition of a protected disclosure set forth in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act w ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final Rules, indiv ...
  • January 2013 Decisions of the Administrative R ...
    The USDOL/OALJ Reporter has published case summaries and case links for cases decided in January 2013 by the Administrative Review Board.  The decisions are found at http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/REFERENCES/Caselists/01_2013.HTM

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • UN adopts Arms Trade Treaty
    On April 2nd, the UN General Assembly voted to approve a draft treaty to control the global arms trade. The proposed treaty leaves it largely up to the arms exporters themselves to determine the appropriateness of their exports. But groups working to control the arms trade are hopeful that by es ...
  • Drones update from Ottawa
    Thousands of emails and postcards are being sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other party leaders, and we are more than halfway to our goal of delivering 10,000 messages to Parliament. But there is a lot more work to be done.
  • Canada pulls out of UN drought pact
    The Harper government is taking another giant leap towards making Canada the least-green country on the planet -- by withdrawing from the international convention to combat desertification.
  • Thank you, Kevin Page
    March 22 was Kevin Page's last day as Parliamentary Budget Officer, and Ceasefire.ca would like to thank him for consistently demanding transparency from the Harper Government.
  • Drone strikes in Pakistan visualized
    Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a stunning interactive graphic by Pitch Interactive, shows all known drone strikes in Pakistan, beginning with the first strike recorded in 2004.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life. Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos Positively Enh ...
  • The Flu Season Is Upon Us
    Here are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and all illne ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
    Today, Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling We ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
    Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV or Cell Phone May B ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-3-12
    Today, Kevin gives you more proof that the FDA is only protecting the profits of big corporations and that the government is hiding documentation revealing the link between sunscreens and skin cancer! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Watch live: NASA holds briefing on antimatter- ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.comBy Kay Steiger NASA officials unveil the first results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment. AMS is cosmic-ray detector designed to seek out signs of antimatter and elusive dark matter from its perch ...
  • 70,291,049 Background Checks for Gun Purchases ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. CNS News April 3, 2013 There have been 70,291,049 background checks for gun purchases since President Obama took office, according to data released by the FBI. In 2009, the FBI conducted 14,033 ...
  • America’s Political Alternatives | Think Tank
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAbby Martinyoutube.com Guest host Manuel Rapalo talks to Christina Tobin, founder of the Free & Equal Elections Foundation, about the third party politics and the upcoming ‘United We Stand’ festival bring ...
  • Generic Drugs in India
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Binoy Kampmark As the Times of India reports, India started granting product patents on medicines in 2005 with one striking proviso. New forms or variations of known substance ...
  • Gun Criminal Snoop Dogg Releases Anti-Gun Song
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comHypocritical gun-control ballad from man who previously said “I wouldn’t be the nigga that I am if I didn’t pop niggas in their mouth” Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com April ...

Dandelion Salad

  • US Protection Racket Root of Korea Conflict by ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV April 1, 2013 The best way to understand the seemingly reckless, recurring threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is this: the East Asian region is being run like a Mafia protection racket. And the criminal ...
  • Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow·Apr 2, 2013 www.democracynow.org – Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch, joins us to discuss her new book, “Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.” Hauter tackles the corporations behind the ...
  • The Treason of the Intellectuals by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig April 1, 2013 The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not. Others among “Bush’s useful idiots” ar ...
  • For Sale, Habitable Planet, Too Late by Guy Mc ...
    Dandelion Salad by Guy McPherson Transition Voice March 25, 2013 According to legend, Ernest Hemingway bet his 1920s-era colleagues he could write a complete story in just six words. Hemingway is said to have considered the resulting piece his best work: “For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.” Makin ...
  • Jean Ziegler: Every Child Who Dies of Hunger I ...
    Interview with Jean Ziegler by Harald Schumann, Norbert Thomma, translation by Siv O’Neall Writer, Dandelion Salad Der Tagespiegel, Mar 25, 2013 Axisoflogic.com Lyon, France March 27, 2013 Every five seconds a child dies of hunger – that leaves Jean Ziegler no rest. He calls banks and corporatio ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Seen From Space: Curiosity’s Abandoned Parachu ...
    NASA's Mars machines continue to work in beautiful tandem as seen in this image, where the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera captured the changing conditions of the landing parachute that brought the Curiosity rover safely to the ground nine months ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Young Stars in t ...
    The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern ...
  • A Leader of Obama’s New Brain Initiative Expla ...
    Neuroscientist William Newsome of Stanford University is one of two scientists tapped by President Obama to lead a new brain research initiative, which the administration hopes to launch with $100 million of public funding and a similar amount from several ...
  • Scientists Find Signal in Space That Could Be ...
    A search for the collision of matter and antimatter in our galaxy has turned up a signal that could be the best direct evidence of dark matter to date.
  • Flushed Drugs May Threaten Stream Ecologies
    Most streams that flow near cities and towns are laced with drugs that escape from sewage treatment plants or pharmaceutical factories. Although often occurring at concentrations of a few parts per trillion, these compounds can nevertheless hurt aquatic life, turning ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Chris Hedges resigns from human rights organiz ...
    Chris Hedges: The suffering of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation and the plight of those caught up in our imperial wars in countries such as Iraq are not abstractions to me. Nossel’s... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Boycott resolution passed by York University’s ...
    The resolution demands that the university administration “abides by the BDS call” and urges York to “withdraw its investments from Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Amphenol and other companies that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Violence and dignity – reflectio ...
    Professor Noam Chomsky's 2013 Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Violence and Dignity - Reflections on the Middle East at Friends House in London on 18 March 2013 (text). The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go t ...
  • Moshé Machover: Remembering Akiva (Aki) Orr
    Moshé Machover remembers his friend and comrade, Matzpen co-founder Akiva (Aki) Orr (19 June 1931 – 7 February 2013). The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Noam Chomsky: Violence and dignity – reflectio ...
    Professor Noam Chomsky, delivering the 2013 Edward W Said Lecture: Violence and Dignity - Reflections on the Middle East at Friends House in London on 18 March 2013. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

  • Vermont's Health Care Reform Has Lessons for O ...
    Vermont's aggressive health care reform initiatives can serve as a roadmap for other states, according to a Master of Public Health candidate at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The paper, "Lessons from Vermont's Health Care Reform," will appear tomorrow in th ...
  • Avoid Impulsive Acts by Imagining Future Benefits
    Why is it so hard for some people to resist the least little temptation, while others seem to possess incredible patience, passing up immediate gratification for a greater long-term good? The answer, suggests a new study from Washington University in St. Louis, is that patient people focus on fu ...
  • Dementia Care Costs Among Highest of All Disea ...
    Joint study by U-M Health System and RAND estimates total dementia care costs at $159- $200 billion a year, expected to nearly double with aging population
  • On-and-Off Approach to Prostate Cancer Treatme ...
    Taking a break from hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatments once the cancer seems to be stabilized is not equivalent to continuing therapy, a new large-scale international study finds.
  • Effects of Unemployment, Unexpected Wealth Los ...
    A new study examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those periods of economic uncertainty draw down financial resources. The report studies families across race and income levels, revealing different experiences resulting from unemployment and the difficult ...

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • New Casebook on the Law of Armed Conflict
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Since I was unable to attend their book launch at Georgetown yesterday, the least I can do is put in a hearty plug for a new casebook written by a number of superb IHL scholars: Geoff Corn, Victor Hansen, Chris Jenks, Richard Jackson, Eric Jensen, and Ja ...
  • New Guidelines for Armed Private Security Comp ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon Armed Private Security Companies (APSC) doing business with the UN are now subject to a new set of practices and protocols that contain a multi-stakeholder monitoring and complaints mechanism.   These practices and protocols are set forth in the International Co ...
  • Guest Post: The ICTY Loses its Way on Complici ...
    by James G. Stewart by James G. Stewart [James G. Stewart is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is also presently a Global Hauser Fellow at New York University School of Law. In my earlier post, I voiced grave concerns with the ICTY’s recent decision on complicity ...
  • Pre-Trial Chamber Puts Ball in Security Counci ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, visited Chad earlier this year. The Chadian government made no attempt to arrest him, despite the fact that — as a member of the ICC — both SC Res. 1593 (the Darfur referral) and the Rome Statute obliga ...
  • ASIL Annual Meeting: International Law in a Mu ...
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey As many of our readers may know, ASIL’s 107th Annual Meeting with the theme of International Law in a Multipolar World is taking place in Washington D.C. at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel today through Saturday. Select highlights of the meeting include ...

Public News Service

  • U.S. Divorce Rate Continues Downward Trend
    U.S. Divorce Rate Continues Downward Trend PHOENIX - The divorce rate in the U.S. continues to fall, but a large percentage of couples still call it quits despite their vows of "for better or worse." The reasons can vary as much as the individuals involved, although experts say there are ways to ...
  • Lawsuit Claims the EPA is Failing to Protect B ...
    Lawsuit Claims the EPA is Failing to Protect Bees from Pesticides PHOENIX - A lawsuit has been filed against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it isn't doing enough to protect the nation's declining bee population. The suit was brought by a coalition of beekeepers and environmental g ...
  • Analysis – Ryan Budget Would Cost Big For AZ
    Analysis – Ryan Budget Would Cost Big For AZ PHOENIX – An in-depth analysis of the recently passed U.S. House Republican budget shows it would shift huge costs to Arizona state programs and taxpayers. At a time when the Legislature has already cut several key health and education p ...
  • Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program Turns 15
    Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program Turns 15 PHOENIX, Ariz. - Fifteen years ago Friday, in the wake of a blizzard, the first group of 11 captive-bred Mexican gray wolves was released in Arizona's Apache National Forest. Today, the recovery program population has grown to 75, but advocates say mu ...
  • Land Lines – Endangered Phone Species?
    Land Lines – Endangered Phone Species? PHOENIX - Millions of consumers have canceled their old land-line telephone service and replaced it with wireless phones. But many seniors and people who live in rural areas still depend on land lines. Consumer watchdogs are making sure they don't los ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...
  • The Drug War, explained
    The war on drugs is raining bullets on the poorest countries of in the American continent, and on Mexico. It is hard to describe just how much impact this billion-dollar business in drugs and weapons is having on the people of Latin America. But the people responsible are not just the cartels, t ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
  • Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
    Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • R’uh r’oh. California has ginormous Monterey s ...
    The Monterey shale oil formation could hold two-thirds of all US shale oil deposits, says a USC study. Monterey, it’s been fun knowing you as you exist today. While lip service will be paid to being extra special careful to the environment, the reality is greed-crazed drillers will soon b ...
  • Smile for those Facebook and Instagram photos. ...
    NYPD Facial Recognition Unit searches Facebook, Instagram, and other online photo repositories, matching mug shots to online photos, looking for suspects. A robbery victim told police she thought a friend’s boyfriend did it. She didn’t know his name but said photos of him were on he ...
  • California Central Valley water cuts will lead ...
    California Aqueduct When there’s not enough water to supply everyone, water cutbacks to farms mean unemployment in agricultural areas of California. Central Valley allotments from the Sacramento Delta to the Central Valley were cut to 20%. This does not meant a 20% cut to 80% of allotment. ...
  • Italy goes “Cyprus” on Sicilian Mafia, seizes ...
    I’m thinking that grabbing money from organized crime in an apparently illegal way may have unintended consequences. The seized assets in Italy were almost entirely alternative energy projects and the authorities don’t appear to have bothered with annoying niceties like Rule of Law ...
  • The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
    The elites in the EU and IMF failed to learn their lesson from the popular backlash to these tax proposals, and have openly talked about using Cyprus as a template for future bank bailouts. This raises the prospect of raids on bank accounts, pension funds, and any investments the government can ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Truth Is Offensive — Paul Craig Roberts
    In America truth is offensive. If you tell the truth, you are offensive. I am offensive. Michael Hudson is offensive. Gerald Celente is offensive. Herman Daly is offensive. Nomi Prins is offensive. Pam Martens is offensive. Chris Hedges is offensive. Chris Floyd is offensive. John Pilger is offe ...
  • 4.1.13 FULL HOUR WITH JAMES CORBETT
    MONDAY – APRIL FOOL’S 2013 – Jack Blood does his monthly installment with Good guy, and crack reporter James Corbett (www.corbettreport.com) Talk centers on cable news war propaganda, N Korea updates, the economy, and geo politics – also breaking news… NEED YOUR DON ...
  • New York politicians charged in bribery plot t ...
    A senior New York State politician was arrested Tuesday on charges that he tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for the Big Apple’s upcoming mayoral election. Malcolm Smith, a veteran Democratic senator in the state assembly in Albany, was among six people, including several local officials, c ...
  • District Attorney: No felony charges for Anton ...
    A Travis County Grand Jury choose not to indict Antonio Buehler on any felony charges stemming from his arrest on Jan. 1, 2012. He was, however, indicted on several charges of failure to obey a lawful order, a Class C misdemeanor. One of those charges is related to his New Year’s Day arrest, thr ...
  • This Day In History – April 3
    1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins. 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert ...

The Air Vent

  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...
  • Cryosphere – Sea Ice Video
    I wanted to see the 2012 ice loss in the Arctic so I updated the video’s.    The first video is full length, the second is just a clip of more recent years.   I repeated the result for the Antarctic which has seen increases in sea ice. . . .
  • Cryosphere at the Air Vent
    All data provided by NSIDC gridded satellite. Compilation by me so errors are mine.  All Y axis units Km^2. The Antarctic had the second highest sea ice area minimum summer level in 35 years while the Arctic set a record lowest sea ice area minimum this year. Arctic Minimum Arctic Maximium Antar ...
  • Priceless Entertainment from SKS
    John Cook continued his path of self destruction at “Skeptical Science”.   I’ve often wondered if the blog title was meant as a sarcasm.  Today, we know neither word can apply accurately to their work in any other sense.  When others noticed that Richard Betts of the met office ...
  • Lewandowsky – Strike Three!! What a riot!
    H/T Reader Skiphil again… Update: Barry Woods or Geoff Chambers seem to have found the quote. So the good docktor finally got his contribution to scientific understanding past the rigorous peer review of Frontiers of Psychology.   I have to say, I’m actually pleased with his improved ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook to remove ‘friends of fans’ metric fr ...
    Facebook plans to eliminate the “friends of fans” metric from its page insights product, according to Wisemetrics. The metric shows page owners their estimated total potential audience when counting the friends of users who Like their...
  • Nearly half of Instagrammers use Android
    Instagram today announced that nearly half of the service’s users are active on Android. The company reported 100 million monthly active users in February. Today’s news comes on the one-year anniversary of Instagram launching a version...
  • Human Rights Campaign, The Tea Party, MoveOn.o ...
    The Human Rights Campaign is this week’s most talked about page for non-profit organization pages with 1.6 million in total PTAT. It was also the top gainer in the category with a weekly growth of 1.4...
  • Facebook calls out ‘Local Search’ on iOS
    Facebook has renamed its Nearby feature on iOS “Local Search,” making its function more obvious and possibly increasing the number of users who will try it. For now, the tab is still called Nearby on Facebook’s...
  • Facebook updates Ads Manager to highlight conv ...
    Facebook today announced changes to the Ads Manager tool to reduce the number of manual calculations advertisers have to do to understand how well their campaigns are achieving their objectives. The campaign summary page in Ads Manager,...

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

  • War Update: Haiti, Syria, Libya
    A look at US imperialism through out the world including the UN occupation and corporate exploitation of Haiti; the destruction of Syria through proxy forces; and the ongoing conflict and chaos is Libya resulting from the US/NATO intervention and destruction of the Libyan government in 2011.
  • What Immigration Reform Could Mean for America ...
    The real median wage of Americans is already 8 percent below what it was in 2000. The median pay of jobs created during this recovery is less than the median of the jobs lost in the downturn. One way to reverse this trend is enable these workers to join together in unions, and demand better pay ...
  • Educator Who Challenged Scott Walker's Voucher ...
    Complaining that the previous Walker budget had cut $1.8 billion from public schools, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers argued that it was wrong for the governor to use his 2013-15 state budget plan to essentially freeze public school funding while hiking spending for pri ...
  • Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim ...
    A 2004 Pentagon study concluded that "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies" -- specifically "American direct intervention in the Muslim world" -- through the US's "one sided support in favor of Israel"; support for Islamic tyrannies in places like Egypt and Saud ...
  • Tariq Aziz: Victim of US Imperialism
    He's ill, isolated and fading. His life hangs in the balance. Washington likely wants him dead. He blames America, Israel and Britain. They bear responsibility for destroying Iraq. More on him below.

Switchboard

  • What If Government Took Food Waste Seriously?
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Last fall, employees at Jim Durst’s farm in Yolo County, California, harvested about 30 bins full of oddly-shaped organic butternut squash. These gourds would never see the inside of a grocery st ...
  • Time for the World Bank to stop funding climat ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC World Bank President Dr. Kim has spoken repeatedly about the damages that climate change will inflict on our children and grandchildren and the poorest throughout the world. This is ...
  • State Renewable Energy Policy Developments - M ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Attacks on state renewable energy deployment policies continue in at least twenty-two states. However the news is not all bad with a near equal balance of states presenting opportunities to ex ...
  • Pebble Mine: We Can't Eat Gold
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California A wonderful new documentary provides a mouthpiece for Alaska Natives in Bristol Bay to raise their voices in opposition to Pebble Mine.  We Can’t Eat ...
  • Top 5 Things You Should Know About Transportin ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC On March 29, Exxon’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured, flooding a suburban community outside of Little Rock, Arkansas with between 150,000 and 210,000 gallons (3,500 to 5,000 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Hey world? SEK here.
    Please stop giving good people cancer. This is getting ridiculous.
  • The Mark Penn Test
    It’s a good one: The question for someone considering whether or not to support Clinton in 2016 is, will a Clinton 2016 campaign pass the Mark Penn Test? The Mark Penn Test, which I just invented, determines whether or not a person should be trusted with the presidency, based solely on one ...
  • Expand Social Security!
    This is correct. Not only should Social Security not be cut, given the failure of the 401(K) model, it should be expanded: Nowadays, whenever Social Security comes up in policy debates around Washington, the discussion often focuses on how best to cut benefits in order to shore up the program’s ...
  • “It is, truly, probably, the end days fo ...
    There are moments when all you can do is yell at your monitor. This is one of them.
  • Principles
    Rutgers fires abusive and homophobic basketball coach not when it finds out about his disturbing rants against players. Rather, it fires him only after the story becomes national and gives Rutgers sports a bad name. Because the latter is what’s really important. Also what is it with basket ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    A new joint contract between the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and IBM will support innovation and economic development.
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • 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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • South Dakota offers subsidies to lure lawyers ...
    Governor Dennis Daugaard on March 21 signed first-in-the-nation legislation establishing incentive payments to as many as 16 attorneys who agree to practice in rural areas for at least five years.
  • Government strikes out again in nuclear storag ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shot down the federal government's latest attempt to deflect blame for breaching its contracts with utility companies to store spent nuclear fuel.
  • Court considers whether inmate's sex reassignm ...
    A federal appeals court heard debate on Tuesday about the potential for security problems if prison officials follow a Boston federal judge's order to provide sex reassignment surgery to a convicted murderer diagnosed with severe gender identity disorder.
  • Melvyn Weiss's DUI arrest could mean his retur ...
    Famed securities attorney Melvyn Weiss, who spent more than a year behind bars after pleading guilty to charges that his firm paid kickbacks to lead plaintiffs, could face return to prison following his arrest for drunken driving in Florida.
  • Corporate disclosure enters the social media a ...
    Companies can use social media like Facebook and Twitter to disclose important business information, but they need to make sure in advance that investors know where to look, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concluded in a report issued on Tuesday.

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

environment 360

  • Arctic Air Pressure System Causes Unusual Marc ...
    A pronounced shift in Arctic air pressure systems has triggered unusually cold temperatures across North America, Europe, and northern Asia, while allowing a Click to enlarge NASA Surface temperature anomalies, March 2013 flood of warmer air into Greenland and northeastern Canada, accor ...
  • Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Chinese De ...
    Air pollution contributed to the premature deaths of more than 1.2 million people in China in 2010, or about 40 percent of early deaths worldwide caused by dirty air, according to a newly released analysis. The findings, based on data from a study on the distribution and causes of death globall ...
  • How Ontario Is Putting an End To Coal-Burning ...
    Ontario is on the verge of becoming the first industrial region in North America to eliminate all coal-fired electrical generation. Here’s how Canada’s most populous province did it — and what the U.S. and others can learn from it. BY KEITH SCHNEIDER
  • Genetic Discovery May Allow Lettuce Growth Eve ...
    A team of scientists has identified the specific gene in lettuce that causes the plant’s seeds to stop germinating in warm temperatures, a discovery they say could allow production of the food crop year-round even in the planet’s hotter regions. Writing in the journal The Plant Cell, the researc ...
  • Interview: Tracking Causes of the Decline of t ...
    University of Kansas insect ecologist Orley R. Taylor, who has been observing monarch butterflies and their spectacular migrations across North America for Monarch Watch/ Catherine I ShermanOrley Taylor decades, says he has never been more concerned about their future. A new census taken at the ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Strange sleep disorder makes people see demons
    Sleep paralysis happens when people become conscious while their muscles remain in the ultra-relaxed state that prevents them from acting out their dreams. The experience can be quite terrifying, with many people hallucinating a malevolent presence nearby, or even an attacker suffocating them. W ...
  • Exxon spill: ’I saw a river of oil heading dow ...
    This past weekend, the tranquillity of a suburban housing development in Arkansas was brutally interrupted by a strange flood – one not of water, but of oil. A pipeline belonging to ExxonMobil ruptured, spilling thousands of barrels of crude oil into the town of Mayflower. Our Observer filmed th ...
  • Air Force Wants New Energy Weapons to Cause No ...
    The Air Force is preparing to spend millions researching how unknown “bioeffects” happen when the human body is blasted by radiowaves and high-powered microwaves — which the Air Force hopes could lead to exotic new energy weapons. Recently, the Air Force Bioeffects Division announced it’s explor ...
  • 2,000-year-old Damascus synagogue destroyed
    The holiest Jewish site in Syria – the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue in Damascus – has been looted and burned, and its roof blown off. The Syrian army and rebel forces have both blamed each other for the demolition of the historic landmark. It is believed that the Jobar Synagogue, one of the wo ...
  • Kony2012: Unwanted in 2013
    Remember KONY 2012? It was a call-to-action film that came out of seemingly nowhere that rapidly went viral. Wikipedia writes: "The film’s purpose was to promote [Invisible Children Inc.] charity’s "Stop Kony" movement to make African cult and militia leader, indicted war criminal and the Intern ...

Wind Watch

  • US support for wind projects could be wasting ...
    The US government has not justified its financial support of wind energy and that failure could lead to unnecessary federal spending to boost the wind industry, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday. “Federal support in excess of what is needed to induce projects to be built c ...
  • Rural Mainers turn out in force to back bills ...
    AUGUSTA, Maine — People who live near wind farms and other opponents of expedited permitting for wind energy projects packed a legislative hearing room Thursday to testify in favor of three bills that aim to change parts of the Wind Energy Act of 2008. The act, which won unanimous support from t ...
  • Tipton puts stop to wind farms; Moratorium to ...
    Tipton County will not accept any new applications for the development of a wind farm. Steve Edson, director of the Tipton Plan Commission, said Thursday that he could administratively refuse to accept any wind farm application that did not have road, economic development and decommissioning agr ...
  • Turbines will damage our tourism industry &#82 ...
    The Scottish Government approved plans for an offshore wind testing centre despite admitting it would have an impact on tourism and recreation in the north-east. First Minister Alex Salmond insisted previously that Scotland’s tourism industry would grow alongside the development of offshore wind ...
  • Local control dropped from energy project bill
    MONTPELIER — Legislation that began earlier this year as a three-year moratorium on new mountaintop wind-energy projects limped off the Senate floor Tuesday as yet another study, dealing a setback to environmental activists who had sought to halt development on Vermont ridgelines. In a four-hour ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 10 examples of bespoke article design and scro ...
    Have you been noticing all the pretty sliding/scrolling articles that are popping up around the Internetz? My students think they’re wonderful, and so do I. So let’s look at a roundup of some great ones. Of course we’ll begin with Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Th ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 4: Software ...
    This post deals with two common assumptions: You need to learn particular software programs (e.g. Dreamweaver) so you can make things for the Web. Journalists work inside corporate content management systems (CMSs), so there’s no need for them to know Web coding. Both of those are i ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 3: The comma ...
    So there’s code, and then, there’s code. Code (with a capital C, italics, spinning pinwheels and possibly fireworks accompanying it) is what my roommate in college studied. She spent long nights in a lab with mostly guys, most with foreign accents, and earned a B.S. in computer scien ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 2: JavaScrip ...
    I’ve been thinking for a long time about how to write this post. This is the second in a series about coding, for journalists. It’s taken a while to get to this second post because I’m still feeling conflicted about exactly what to say. In the first post, I wrote about HTML an ...
  • Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS
    There's been a lot of talk about journalists learning to code, and that conversation mainly centers on programming. When we say programming, we mean the use of computer programming languages, which cause things to happen. Things happen because a user -- a member of the audience -- touches someth ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope-backed lawmaker leads push for new vo ...
    Over the last week, GOP lawmakers have unleashed a flurry of bills that would make sweeping changes to North Carolina elections. They share a common message -- and a common sponsor, backed by one of the state's biggest political donors. read more
  • The nationwide war on state renewable energy s ...
    A hearing is set for tomorrow on legislation to repeal North Carolina's renewable energy standard -- part of a nationwide attack on such laws being mounted by groups with fossil-fuel industry ties. read more
  • Another race case for a hostile Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court, poised to rule on a major affirmative action case out of Texas, accepts another one from Michigan. What might this say about dismantling race-conscious programs? read more
  • Exxon Mobil hit with $1.7M pipeline safety fin ...
    Four days before the residents of Mayflower, Ark. watched crude oil bubble up from their yards and pour down their streets, the Texas company that owns the failed pipeline learned it was facing fines for safety violations related to a 2011 pipeline spill that fouled the Yellowstone River in Mont ...
  • Southernomics as a model?
    Cheap labor, regressive taxes, federal dependency: Is the South's economic approach really an example for the nation? read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
    Rapists uphold the social status quo.  Hackers, especially the idealistic ones, subvert it.  They are far, far more dangerous to important people (who have staff and bodyguards) than rapists are.
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...
  • Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
    1) Almost everything you have more than someone else is because of where you were born, and who your parents were, including your genetic endowment and your life experiences.  Whether you believe in nature, nurture, or both, you don’t “deserve” squat. 2) Justification for havin ...
  • Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Sodas
    A judge has overruled this.  I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t comment on the legality, what I will say is that in this case, I actually support Bloomberg.  High doses of sugar and fructose contribute to obesity and the diabetes epidemic: they kill a lot of people.  A lot more people than ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Eurozone unemployment rate at record high
    BBC – The highest jobless rates were 26.4% in Greece, although this figure was from December, and 26.3% in Spain. Separately, figures confirmed a deterioration in the eurozone’s manufacturing sector in March. Read article
  • Mali crisis: EU troops begin training mission
    BBC – An EU mission to train Malian soldiers is due to begin as part of efforts to help the West African country counter an Islamist insurgency. The first of four Malian battalions will train under European instructors at the Koulikoro base some 60km (37 miles) from the capital, Bamako. A ...
  • Egyptian students protest mass food poisoning
    BBC – Students at Cairo’s al-Azhar university are planning a second day of protests after almost 500 of them were taken to hospital because of food poisoning. On Monday, hundreds of students demonstrated demanding the resignation of the head of the university. According to the Egypti ...
  • Cyprus crisis: Moscow will not bail out Russia ...
    BBC – The Russian government says it will not compensate Russian savers who have lost money in the Cyprus banking crisis. Russians are believed to have billions of euros in Cypriot accounts and deposits above 100,000 euros (£84,300; $128,200) in the two biggest banks could be reduced by as ...
  • NRA-funded proposal seeks armed personnel in s ...
    Reuters – A study funded by the National Rifle Association released on Tuesday proposed that armed personnel be stationed in every school in response to December’s school massacre in Connecticut. The proposal by the National School Shield Task Force also includes security accords bet ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security
    Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate it onto oil that flows through a tubing at the center of the curved mirrors. This heated oil makes its way into a h ...
  • Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emer ...
    If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled so ...
  • New crowdsourcing platform gives hope to small ...
    Less than 24 hours after launching its online marketplace, Mosaic raised $313,000 to power read more
  • “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
    Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...
  • India’s solar mission, phase 2
    An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...

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libcom

  • March of discontent: lessons in work struggles ...
    sciopero-22.jpg Reflections on the escalation of workers' struggles in Italy in the wake of the large logistics workers' strike of March 22. The working class is awake ...
  • EGYPT: Nothing has changed, but everything begins…
    1460729797_81f0114081.jpg Everyone, whatever he says, whatever he does, takes part in the class struggle… Either in an active or a passive way… While developing and deepening it or while denying it… A ...
  • National demo against privatisation - Universi ...
    Sussex House.jpg Monday March 25th is the national demonstration against privatisation being held at the University of Sussex. We'll edit this post with updates throughout the day. Also keep an e ...
  • Appeal for boycotting World Social Forum 2013 ...
    http://appelsm.wordpress.com/call/english/ Quote: Call World Social The people want the fall of the system Download the call here / pdf Revolutionaries of the world, read more
  • Write to Finnish anarchist total objector
    Anarchist total objector Topi Lauko began his prison sentence 18th of December in a low-security prison. He was transferred to a half-way house, maintained by Siltavalmennus NGO, in second half of February. Although in half-way house the conditions of de ...

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

  • Proof that the Book of Mormon is Pure Fiction ...
    In the field of modern Quantum Physics, the word ETHER is defined as: “a very rarefied and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space, including the interstices between the particles of matter, and to be the medium whose vibrations constituted light and other electrom ...
  • Apotheosis – Man Becoming God – Th ...
    Apotheosis is a Greek word literally meaning man becoming a God THROUGH HIS WORKS.   This is the ultimate end goal of the Gnostic secret societies since the days of Adam.   Gnosticism literally means secret knowledge.  Why has this knowledge been so “secret” and hidden for thousands ...
  • Why Mormonism (LDS Inc.) is a Satanic Masquera ...
    I had to laugh at today’s Salt Lake Tribune front-page story.  The entire article pointed an accusatory, holier-than-thou  finger at the FLDS (Fundamentalist LDS) “Big Brethren” spycams positioned pretty much everywhere in the twin FLDS enclave towns of Hilldale and Colorado Ci ...
  • The God of This World – (The God of Morm ...
    The author’s name is John Bertrand (J.B.) Phillips, and his seminal book is titled: “Your God is Too Small”.   It was written and first published in the year 1953 – but Phillips’ words and message are never more relevant and meaningful than they are today.   TRUTH i ...
  • Update on the Satanic “6″ Frequenc ...
    Please understand that it is not my wish to attack or denigrate others who may have an OPINION contrary to mine. However, when a deeply SATANIC AGENDA is falsely promoted under the disguise of Christ-like “peace and love” – I have the moral obligation to take a stand.  Nay, I h ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • All About Comfort
    Simple Comparison of Clothes to a Buildings Envelope Author:Scotty, Scotts Contracting-StLouis Renewable Energy 4/2/13 If you are reading this I’m going to assume that you aren’t a google bot or bing bot and wear clothes in your daily activities.  You are an actual human being who we ...
  • Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Le ...
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: We need more petition signers for the RES Complai ...
  • Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Le ...
    Twitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy wrote: We need more petition signers for the RES Complai ...
  • CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design ...
    Project Notes / Must Haves Additional Room for the Newly Added Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers Create a User Friendly area for the Bartenders with the addition of additional beer coolers under the lower shelf Decor Must Match Existing Finishes Materials Used 2″x20″x14′ White Oak ...
  • CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design ...
    Project Notes / Must Haves Additional Room for the Newly Added Alcoholic Beverage Dispensers Create a User Friendly area for the Bartenders with the addition of additional beer coolers under the lower shelf Decor Must Match Existing Finishes Materials Used 2″x20″x14′ White Oak ...

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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

  • Is the US Deliberately Thwarting Korean Reconc ...
    Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae Jung   According to the Radio New Zealand website Dr Tim Beal, a retired lecturer in Asian studies at Victoria University, the US may be using its current military exercises in South Korea to deliberately thwart that country’s efforts to strengthe ...
  • You're Next: Don't Let Them Do a Cyprus on New ...
    Please sign petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Reform_the_banking_system_so_that_no_more_bailouts_are_ever_needed/?cHHSRcb Readers may be aware of an effort by the New Zealand’s government to re-jig the Reserve Bank’s Open Banking Resolution to permit failing banks to ...
  • Follow the Money at Santa Monica College
    The mission statement of Alex Abramoff in his bid for student body president of Santa Monica College in California Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 3 of a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa Monica College. While thi ...
  • The Abramoff Way: GOP Mischief on College Campuses
    Police pepper spray Santa Monica protestors Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 1 of a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa MonicaCollege. While this might seem incredibly trivial, this is precisely how his father Jack A ...
  • Son of Casino Jack Runs for Pres at Santa Moni ...
      Kevin Spacey as Casino Jack Guest post by Dr Danny Weil (This is the Part 1 about a 3-part article about Alex Abramoff’s campaign for student body president at Santa Monica College. While this might seem incredibly trivial, this is precisely how his father Jack Abra ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...
  • Three Actions to Take NOW to Help Reduce Gun V ...
    These are the actions discussed at the March 23rd, 2013 panel discussion in New York City on gun violence following the 10th anniversary screening of 'Bowling for Columbine' organized by Moveon, USAction, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Pane ...
  • Hold Your Own 10th Anniversary 'Bowling for Co ...
    Please check this page frequently for updates all week This coming Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. To mark the date, Michael is hosting a screening of the film in New York City &nda ...
  • Jeffrey Toobin on Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Regre ...
    From NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross, March 6th, 2013: TERRY GROSS: So finally, since I did just talk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday, I want to ask you about something that I asked her, which related to something that you had said. And in one of our previous interviews when you and ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Debut of the Wall Street Journal Energy Panel
    Last week I made my debut as a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) new feature The Experts: Journal Reports. The idea is that the WSJ poses questions to the panel, and each panel member provides a response of 300 words or so. The first 4 questions that were asked — and ans ...
  • Protesting Keystone XL While Rome Burns
    I started to go with “Fiddling While Rome Burns” in the title, but I know many people who would take great exception to the notion the Keystone XL protesters are fiddling. Indeed, they do not believe they are fiddling. They believe they are standing up for the most important cause of ...
  • First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in U ...
    It will continue to be true that as long as the US government incentivizes these ventures, companies will continue to pursue them. But it is also true, says Robert Rapier, that every gallon of production they make will be produced at a significant per gallon loss.
  • Why Environmentalists are Wrong on Keystone XL
    Bill McKibben and and other protestors are being naive in choosing this particular battle. They won't make any meaningful impact on climate change even if they manage to stop Keystone XL. The reason that is important is that they could be channeling their energy into things that could potentiall ...
  • How Oil Can Improve Our Long Term Energy Situation
    Environmentalists are generally opposed to opening up areas to additional drilling, while on the other side are people who believe that underneath U.S. territory lies an ocean of oil, waiting to be tapped -- if environmentalists would only get out of the way.

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Rodale News

  • Higher Grocery Bills? Blame Insecticides
    Grocery bills are expected to climb as beekeepers watch honeybee hives continue to crash in catastrophic numbers. The connection between the troubled winged critters and your wallet? Honeybees offer upwards of $20 billion worth of free services to farmers each year as they pollinate fruit, vege ...
  • Approval of "Monsanto Rider" in Senate Budget ...
    Between 80 and 95 percent of Americans want genetically modified foods labeled—an unprecedented agreement in a nation of political polar divides. And yet, in defiance of the overwhelming majority of the public, the Senate just gave what amounts to a "free pass" for biotech companies p ...
  • The Best Reason to Clean Your Office
    Admit it: You've never dusted your office and you really just hope that the cleaning staff comes in to vacuum every once in a while. But here's one reason you might want to pay closer attention to how clean that office of yours really is: Researchers recently found that office workers carried h ...
  • Your Neighborhood's Cancer-Causing Secret
    Your driveway should feel like a safe haven. It's a place where kids turn asphalt into a blacktop canvas for chalk-drawn sketches, or the site of countless family games of hopscotch, hoops, and jacks. But a first-of-its-kind risk assessment found a concerning connection between a popular type o ...
  • The Biggest Problem with U.S. Fish
    If you think the economy has taken a dive in recent years, take a gander at the closest stream running by your house. Chances are, it's not in any better shape. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released its assessment of America's rivers and streams, and it paints a very blea ...

big think

  • Why Americans Aren't As Happy And Don't Like t ...
    In Coming Apart I talk a lot about the American Project and what I had in mind by that is the idea that human beings could be left alone to live their lives as they see fit with actually very few rules that they had to follow except criminal law. In trying to talk systematically about wh ...
  • Scientists Discover New Way To Get Hydrogen Fr ...
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers at Virginia Tech have succeeded in extracting sizable quantities of hydrogen gas from xylose, a common sugar found in most plants. They did this by creating a special cocktail of enzymes that combine with xylose and a polyphosphate under relativ ...
  • Thoughts from a Yale Mom about the “Princeton ...
    I think a little perspective is order. The incendiary advice of Susan Patton ‘77, a Princeton alumna, that Princeton women find husbands while at college and marry early, has crashed the Princeton website and generated millions of comments, most of them outraged, although some supportive ...
  • Poetry Is Not an Ornament. It's at the Center ...
    On the occasion of National Poetry Month, Big Think spoke to Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, about the value of using poetic language in everyday life. Pinsky founded The Favorite Poem Project in 1997. We asked him about his ambitions for this project.  I’m pr ...
  • Mind Memes for April 3: Mars Buzz, An Anti-Dro ...
    1. The Anti-drone Hoodie Some clothing is designed to make you stand out from the crowd. Then there are the clothes that are to designed to make you invisible to drones. A new anti-drone silver hoodie designed by Adam Harvey for his Stealth Wear collection hides its wearer from thermal i ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →
  • The Thirty-Second Version
    That’s all the time I’ve got to compose this post… Sorry about the absence, but you all know why. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this with you, courtesy of Zero Hedge and the blogger known as Gannicus. Learned … Continue reading →
  • Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
    Last Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart, south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
  • Early Exit For 2012
    If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • H7N9 bird flu
    Is another bird flu on the rise? Report from Nature on H7N9 type A influenza virus and reported outbreak in China. Scientists and public health officials worldwide are on alert after China announced on 31 March that two people had died and a third had been seriously sickened from infections with ...
  • Does eating fish really extend your life?
    NHS Choices critiques tabloid claims for recent research on fishy life extension. “…study has found that higher levels of omega-3 in blood at the start of the study were associated with a 27% reduction in risk of death from any cause, and a 35% reduction in risk of death from heart d ...
  • Buckyball discovery
    Science is often portrayed as a fixed set of rules, impersonal, and devoid of emotions. It is not, as can be seen from the discovery of fullerenes, or more specifically buckminsterfullerene, the molecule that became known as the buckyball and on which I must have written a hundred articles over ...
  • Whose line is it, anyway?
    Nineteenth century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli supposedly remarked that there are “lies, damned lies and statistics” but although the phrase was repeated often, it is more likely that it was coined by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. ...
  • Greening end of life gadgets
    Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a growing problem, there are mountains of obsolete computers, mobile phones, refrigerators, televisions etc piling up on dumps around the world. Regulations implemented at the National and European levels seek to force those disposing of WEEE t ...

RFF Library

  • Bridging Decision Networks for Integrated Wate ...
    Energy Strategy Reviews (published online before print: March 13, 2013; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2013.02.003) / by Afreen Siddiqi, Arani Kajenthira, and Laura Diaz Anadon (open access article) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X13000242 [Abstract] Integrated policy ...
  • Landscape Consequences of Natural Gas Extracti ...
    US Geological Survey / by E. T. Slonecker, L. E. Milheim, C. M. Roig-Silva and A. R. Malizia, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20131025 The combined effects of these two natural gas extraction methods [hydraulic fracturing and coalbed methane] create potentially serious patterns of disturb ...
  • Wind Energy: Additional Actions Could Help Ens ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://1.usa.gov/YwiOaK [From a Greenwire article by Emily Yuhle, sub. req'd]  Federal subsidies for wind energy sometimes overlap, letting some projects take several dips into the government’s coffers, according to a new report from the Government Accou ...
  • Restoring a Degraded Gulf of Mexico: Wildlife ...
    National Wildlife Federation http://bit.ly/10tkrEg [From Press Release] …This report gives a snapshot view of six wildlife species that depend on a healthy Gulf and the coastal wetlands that are critical to the Gulf’s food web. It describes different sources of restoration funding and prov ...
  • Analysis of Recent Proposals to Amend the Reso ...
    Congressional Research Service bit.ly/Yu6XtE [InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is outlining a host of unanswered questions about the efficacy and regulatory impacts of legislation to circumvent EPA’s pending coal ash disposal rule with state-crafted stand ...

Scientific American - News

  • Deciphering the Program of the World's First C ...
    Tune-in to PBS at 9pm tonight to watch NOVA 's latest episode about a mysterious machine found buried on the sea floor. Discovered off the coast of a tiny Mediterranean Island inside a 2000-year old shipwreck, the Antikythera Mechanism is widely-believed to be the world's first computer ...
  • China Estimated to Dramatically Underreport It ...
    It is a whopper of a catch, in more ways than one: China is under-reporting its overseas fishing catch by more than an order of magnitude, according to a study published on 23 March. The problem is particularly acute in the rich fisheries of West Africa, where a lack of transparency in reporti ...
  • Blinded by the Light: Wrecked Up by Our Juice, ...
    Have you ever seen the Milky Way ? Maybe, but have you ever seen it while standing in the Great White Way--or any Great White Way: Times Square, Piccadilly Circus, or Akihabara? A citizen science research project known as the GLOBE at Night suggests that much of urban humanity--which now cons ...
  • Mink Young Jeopardized by Industrial Chemicals
    Mink dive deep into the depths of New York’s Hudson River to hunt frogs and fish. Scurrying along the river shore, they nose around in the dirt, building dens. [More]
  • Psychiatry Tries to Aid Traumatized Chimps in ...
    As our closest relatives, chimpanzees have played a role in science for nearly 80 years. Because they can contract infections such as HIV and hepatitis, they have proved valuable for biomedical research. This research has revealed another trait, however, that chimpanzees share with humans: vulne ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Alex Hundert, safe and sound.
    I am out of jail; safe and sound. I have been out of the house, wandered around the neighbourhood, in daylight and in darkness last night. It is good to be out. Here is something I wrote last week. “…any strength that i may ha ...
  • Projet de Responsabilisation de la Police
    ATTN : Toutes personnes arrêtées ou ayant reçu une contravention Liberté d'information/Responsabilisation de la police ATTN : Toutes personnes arrêtées ou ayant reçu une contravention Un groupe d'individus rassemblent les noms des a ...
  • Indigenous women & prostitution: An interview ...
    Feminist Current Prostitution is a gendered issue, but it’s also an issue that is very much tied to class and race. Canada’s history of colonialism is not something to be ignored when looking at both causes of and solutions to p ...
  • Idle No More's Unsilent Spring: Vancouver, Mar ...
    Idle No More Vancouver started spring off with a big kick of energy, filling Commercial Drive. People from many backgrounds, indigenous nations and non-indigenous allies, ...
  • The Lebowski Blog
    Shock Doctrine Budgets in Toronto and Canada "Where's the f'ing money, Lebowski?" It's a pretty sad state of affairs when any right wing organization supporting ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • My solution to the North Korean crisis
    David Seaton's News Links This is all much simpler than it looks. Dennis Rodman has shown us the way! Here is the secret: Kim Jong Un is secretly in love with the USA and all things American. You'd really have to be madly in love with the idea of America to invite a freak like Dennis Rodman to ...
  • North Korea puts its armed forces on a war footing
    David Seaton's News Links "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The TimesWe seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological i ...
  • Obama's triumphal entry into Jerusalem... yada ...
    David Seaton's News LinksThe US is hoping that Obama's positive first trip will reinvigorate peace efforts, though most settlers are not worried. They see the composition of the new Israeli cabinet as a reassurance that Israeli policy will move away from peace negotiations. Christian Science Mon ...
  • America's central question
    David Seaton's News Links I remember once reading an Indian guru, who said that if the water buffalo had a god, it would probably look like a very large water buffalo. He believed that there is only one god, formless and all pervading, but that he/she/it responds to intense worship by taking on ...
  • What is the new Pope about?
    David Seaton's News Links His Holiness Pope FrancisFrancis is no liberal. He had no truck with liberation theology, the popular movement in Latin America and elsewhere which links the church’s work to radical social change, even though many of its supporters have been Jesuits. Not Francis: he ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • We Don't Need No Stinkin' Democrats on the DC ...
    As we all know, Republicans filibustered President Obama's nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the DC Circuit Court last month, so now we're moving on to the second of his nominees to fill one of the court's vacancies: Sri Srinivasan, an attorney who's not just respected by both liberals and con ...
  • The Antichrist Is Always With Us
    Ed Kilgore comments on the news that 13 percent of voters think Barack Obama is the antichrist: Extrapolated to the national electorate, it suggests that over 13 million Americans believe the President of the United States is a demonic supernatural being sent into the world to set up an ...
  • Atlanta's Kids Have Done Pretty Well in School ...
    Former Atlanta superintendent of schools Beverly Hall is now the poster child for cheating on standardized tests. But Hall claims that Atlanta schools really did perform better under her leadership, and as evidence she points to gains on the national NAEP test, widely considered to be reliable ...
  • A Brief Morning Whine
    I've got a problem. I figure nearly everyone is just going to laugh at me for this—though for different reasons on left and right—so I'm a little hesitant to even bother whining about it. But here it is. I like snark. I'm perfectly happy to trade elbows with the opposition. But ...
  • Our Brave New World of Employment Background C ...
    With unemployment stubbornly high, even a small problem can be enough to keep you from getting a job. And thanks to modern technology, employers are a lot more likely to be aware of these problems. Obviously a prison record has always made it hard to find a job. A poor credit report can blackb ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 389: Double Agent
    NWFO back together Trolling relationship experts on Twitter Operation Make AskCheyB quit Tiger Woods is a black double agent Hating on Tiger because of adultery Openly gay in the NFL in between homophobia and full support of gays the Fallon Fox/Transgender issue North Korea gotta go The Wolverin ...
  • Best of The Insanity Check: Side Chicks Don’t ...
    The 2nd “Best of the Insanity Check”. Side Chicks Don’t Have Rights: Gloria Allred thinks Tiger Woods owes his side chicks apologies Mel Gibbson’s mixtape,Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel & the “Rules of Ryce” More Mel Gibbson Share with your friends:
  • IC 388: Religious Rapers
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment Great sith council assignment in real life Religious rapers don’t know “No Means No” Door-to-Door Salesmen Savages Part 2 Ford makes a really bad decision with an Ad Teaser for Riddick Upcoming movies Upcoming Video Games BioWare says goodbye ...
  • IC 387: Savages
    Topic: New Sith Council Assignment St. Patrick’s Day = White People Get Drunk Day Kriss & Kev don’t like the way GSP fights Greek Soccer Player gets what he deserves The Steubenville rape trial We’re too easy on rapists Men don’t need to be taught not to rape, those ...
  • Best of the Insanity Check: The Co-Hosts
    The first “Best of the Insanity Check”. This focuses on the 3 co-hosts that have been a part of making the Insanity Check so funny & Ratchet: Ryce Juanton: Nothin But Pho, The Great Frosted Flakes Conspiracy of 86, Giant Stone Penises Dylan: Chicken Foot Soup, The Strawberry Let ...

Simple Climate

  • Temperature patterns produce perplexing Plioce ...
    Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say Lafayette College’s Kira Lawrence and University College London’s Chris Brierley
  • Diving deep into ocean data uncovers ‘missing ...
    Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven’t been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps explain current surprisingly slow surface warming, and invalidates simple climate models.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • Climate change set to bring Western Europe mor ...
    Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current western Atlantic origin seemingly becoming less active, with possible consequences for North America.
  • How cold hearts and ice ages kindled the scien ...
    In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth’s temperature, showing the forcing role of CO2 that underlies our understanding of climate change today.

e!Science News

  • 2013 wintertime Arctic sea ice maximum fifth l ...
    Last September, at the end of the northern hemisphere summer, the Arctic Ocean's icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend and diminishing to about half the size of the average summertime extent from 1979 to 2000. read more
  • Green Pea galaxies could help astronomers unde ...
    The rare Green Pea galaxies discovered by the general public in 2007 could help confirm astronomers' understanding of reionization, a pivotal stage in the evolution of the early universe, say University of Michigan researchers. read more
  • The North American Cordillera: Constructive co ...
    The mountain ranges of the North American Cordillera are made up of dozens of distinct crustal blocks. A new study clarifies their mode of origin and identifies a previously unknown oceanic plate that contributed to their assembly. read more
  • Thin clouds drove Greenland's record-breaking ...
    If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. read more
  • Ancient climate questions could improve today' ...
    About 4 to 5 million years ago, the Earth was warmer than today. Now that greenhouse gas pollution has the planet's temperature rising again, researchers want to know more about why this early Pliocene period was so warm, with the hopes of improving future climate predictions. read more

unEarthed

  • Renowned Scientist Quits NASA Over Climate
    Dr. Hansen exits 46-year career to fight for carbon controls In recent years, Dr. Hansen has become more vocal and active in his quest for national solutions to climate change. (Arnold Adle ...
  • Happy Birthday, Cesar E. Chavez
    Injustices plague farmworkers while administration turns a blind eye The agriculture industry relies heavily on the use of pesticides, which are highly toxic chemicals that farmworkers and surrounding communities are frequently exp ...
  • It's Game Over for Foes of National Forests
    Roadless Rule—and 50+ million forested acres—survive test of time Spring blooms of fireweed in the Reservation Divide roadless area in Montana’s Coeur D’Alene Mountains. (© Terry ...
  • Friday Finds: Kraft’s Blue Box Chemical Blues
    Plus: Buzzing over bee deaths and clean energy power up Photo courtesy of @cdharrison (Flickr) Bloggers think chemicals in macaroni are cheesy Two food blog ...
  • Arctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs
    And ConocoPhillips eager to drill in the Arctic Ocean Earthjustice received some superb video today from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, of Shell’s beat up Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, as it was lifted onto a huge dry haul ship to ...

Brave New Climate

  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...
  • Two decades and counting…
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. While the French have been generating electricty for ~80 grams of CO2 per kWh for two decades, the Germans are still ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicanism Is A Disease
    You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
  • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
    Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
  • Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
    According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
  • Woodward Trying To Make Nice
    Bob Woodward will be remembered for two things. Watergate, and not reporting the identity of the Valerie Plame leakers before the 2004 election when he knew who they were. I am assuming “they” told Woodward who the leakers (traitors) were because they knew ‘ol Bob was a Bush su ...
  • Ann Romney Happy To Blame Media Bias
    It appears that Ann Romney thinks the media was biased during the campaign, and treated President Obama better than her husband. Here is a transcript from a Fox Lies interview: “Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered. Ann’s response: “Anytime y ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • WATCH: Israeli activists detained for filming ...
    In the video below (filmed by an Israeli Ta’ayush activist on Monday April 1 and subtitled quickly by yours truly) a policeman approaches Israeli activists who regularly go to the South Hebron Hills (he knows all their names already) and informs them they are being detained. For what? For ...
  • When the stones fly the wrong way
    Settlers threw a stone, and then another one, at a Palestinian’s head. Then they killed his sheep. The chances they will be indicted for attempted murder are slim. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz At the beginning of March, K., a Palestinian resident of the village of Al Mughayer, too ...
  • Settlers accuse ‘Haaretz’ of calli ...
    Fallout from Amira Hass’s article on Palestinian stone-throwing shows that as far as Israelis are concerned, any and every form of resistance against the occupation is illegitimate. The Yesha Council – the regional council for West Bank settlements, which operates also as the settlers’ political ...
  • WATCH: Hebron’s Shuhada Street: Authoriz ...
    How would you feel if you were suddenly forbidden from walking down the main street of your city? This theoretical scenario, inconceivable to most, is reality for the Palestinian residents of Hebron. Shuhada Street was a pivotal and vibrant main street in Hebron but since 2000, entry has been bl ...
  • What do ‘pro-Israel’ image-mongers ...
    A lengthy Forward article by Nathan Guttman describes the makeover of The Israel Project (TIP) following the replacement of its founder and leader, with erstwhile AIPAC killer-shark Josh Block. The breathless description of his battering-ram personality almost had me swept along – almost. And wh ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • The Banks, Breaking Into Homes, Destroying Pro ...
    I wonder what would happen if more Americans knew the banks have decided they can break into homes, terrorize homeowners and destroy their personal property? I wonder what would happen if Americans realized that the banks took the position that if they wanted to break into properties and use sle ...
  • What if The Banks Were Systematically, Repetit ...
    If Florida’s judges, Constitutional officers as they are, became aware that in a significant percentage of the cases that pass their benches, the banks were ripping off the State of Florida?  Would the judges have a duty to not allow the foreclosures to continue? And no, I’m not talk ...
  • Foreclosure Judge: It’s a ROCKET DOCKET ...
    The foreclosure fraud fiasco continues unabated.  In fact, the fraud continues quite nicely, thank you.  No one cares anymore about all the fraud, the crimes, the lies. But a much bigger and far more disturbing aspect of this whole fiasco is the fact that our state’s court system has turne ...
  • Foreclosure Judge: It’s a ROCKET DOCKET ...
    The foreclosure fraud fiasco continues unabated.  In fact, the fraud continues quite nicely, thank you.  No one cares anymore about all the fraud, the crimes, the lies. But a much bigger and far more disturbing aspect of this whole fiasco is the fact that our state’s court system has turne ...
  • Wells Fargo’s “Reprehensible&#8221 ...
    Two bankruptcy cases in Louisiana that have revealed systematic, persistent foreclosure abuses by Wells Fargo have gotten enough media attention that it is inconceivable that banking regulators don’t know about them. The lack of any intervention, or even so much as a throat-clearing by the Offic ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • State agencies sometimes send mixed messages t ...
    Each state has an agency that advises people not to consume certain recreationally caught fish, because of health concerns. Each state also has an agency that aims to prevent certain species from being overfished. Unfortunately, in many cases these two agencies are sending mixed messages to the ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Rivers, Slow Food, ADUFA, a ...
    Rep. Louise Slaughter (D–NY) said, “This study ends any debate. The extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock is endangering human health."
  • Coursera Wrap-Up
    The most cited reason that students felt compelled to change their own approach to food was how the food system impacts the environment.
  • CLF Week in Links: Soda, Chicken Waste, Bills ...
    The support from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association for campaigns against the Mayor’s program and sugar taxes proposed around the country is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s disinformation campaign during the long struggle to expose the lethal effects of cigarette s ...
  • Further Rebuttals to GE Salmon
    On a hopeful note, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Aldi have pledged not to sell genetically engineered salmon.

k2p blog

  • Middle managers are like monkeys
    Middle managers are the ones with the fewest "degrees of freedom". They have no space to escape from pressure from their superiors because of the demands from their subordinates. It is an organisational characteristic which can also be observed in the hierarchical structure of troops of monkeys. ...
  • Middle managers are like monkeys
    Middle managers are the ones with the fewest "degrees of freedom". They have no space to escape from pressure from their superiors because of the demands from their subordinates. It is an organisational characteristic which can also be observed in the hierarchical structure of troops of monkeys. ...
  • Swarm of 482 earthquakes (so far) in Iceland
    A swarm of over 400 earthquakes has occurred in the north of Iceland in the Grimsey area.
  • Swarm of 482 earthquakes (so far) in Iceland
    A swarm of over 400 earthquakes has occurred in the north of Iceland in the Grimsey area.
  • Indian surrogate mother dies after delivery of ...
    There are some very gray ethics involved in a "rich" Norwegian couple exploiting the poverty of a "poor" surrogate mother who dies - especially in doing something not permitted in Norway. No doubt the surrogate was paid the "going rate" for surrogacy (about $7,000). But I doubt the surrogate ha ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Manufacturing’s ‘winter of discontent’ continues
    Claims by the coalition government that the UK’s beleaguered manufacturing sector is beginning to show signs of recovery were dealt another blow this week by the reliable Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI), which showed that manufacturing contracted in the first quarter of 2013.
  • Michael Gove vs Reality
    Short video from the NASUWT documenting education secretary Michael Gove's long struggle with reality.
  • Lessons for Labour from France: manage expecta ...
    Francois Hollande's popularity recently hit a record low for a French head of state, with a whopping 67 per cent of the French population disapproving of the President. The lesson from France should perhaps be that the most sensible thing to do in the current climate is to keep expectations low, ...
  • How about we stick Cameron’s entire cabi ...
    Sticking Cameron’s cabinet on £53 a week would in itself be a stunt. But in the age of rich public school boys being parachuted into safe seats without having any experience of life outside Westminster - the struggle for jobs and daily budgets far more demanding than anything Osborne has had to ...
  • The Daily Mail: How the poor die and how the r ...
    The Daily Mail's reaction today to the tragedy of Michael Philpott's multiple manslaughter of his six children is not only quite disgusting, but it also shows the paper's double standards:

Consumerist

  • Jared Sold Us Two Really Terrible Engagement R ...
    Three years ago, it was a beautiful and memorable moment when Greg proposed to his girlfriend and she said “yes.” Only a few hours afterward, something that was memorable for a different reason happened: the rhodium coating on the future Mrs. Greg’s white gold ring wore off, ma ...
  • Will The Edge Of Glory Really Let You Slice A ...
    Have you always dreamed of slicing vegetables with the sharpened edge of a plastic credit card? Yeah, us either. But pitchman Anthony Sullivan does just that in the ad for the Edge of Glory, an inexpensive, small, and easy-to-use gadget that claims to sharpen any knife in your drawer. Is it wort ...
  • Carnival Poop Cruise Ship Breaks Free, Rips Ho ...
    If you thought the horror show was over for the Carnival Triumph, better known as the ship involved in the infamous “Poop Cruise” from earlier this year, you’d be wrong. Earlier today, Triumph apparently broke loose from its mooring and went drifting along the river. WKRG in Al ...
  • Would A Guaranteed Buyback Deal Convince You T ...
    If someone were to ask you, “Hey, wanna buy a $60,000 electric car?” you’d probably be like, “Yeah, one sec, let me just dip into that offshore bank account.” But what if it came with a guaranteed buyback deal that would allow you to resell it after 36 months? That& ...
  • Passengers Claim United Flight Was Diverted Af ...
    From the red-eye where my two choices of movie were the Jimmy Fallon/Queen Latifah vehicle “Taxi” or Halle Berry’s unique take on Catwoman, to my hungover experience of watching Meet Joe Black dubbed in Turkish, I’ve watched some horrible movies on planes. I’d never ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblower Exposes Watered Down Beer at Anh ...
    The Columbus Dispatch: Anheuser–Busch Punishing Him, Whistleblower SaysAnhesuer–Busch Brewery in St. Louis The brewing giant Anheuser–Busch is allegedly punishing a former employee with a lawsuit, in response to his claim that the company sells watered down beer. According to the whistleblower ...
  • UN Whistleblower Wasserstrom to Speak in NY; L ...
    Pioneer UN whistleblower James Wasserstrom will speak at a press conference next Monday, April 8, about a recent decision in his landmark whistleblowing case. Wasserstrom will travel from his post in Afghanistan to New York for the event. That morning he will also announce, and make available to ...
  • GAP Files Supreme Court Amicus as Detained, To ...
    On March 11, 2013, GAP filed an amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court in the case of Vance v. Rumsfeld. Petitioners Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel are U.S. citizens who worked as private security contractors in Iraq. Beginning in 2005, they witnessed corruption ...
  • Michigan Police Chief Resigns Amid Brutality S ...
    MLive: Whistleblower Accuses Ex-Romulus Police Chief of Covering Up Prisoner BeatingDowntown Romulus, MI An accusation of police brutality in Romulus, MI – a city where “allegations of corruption and investigations have been commonplace since 2011” – has forced the resignation of the city’s re ...
  • 'American Whistleblower Tour' Coming to James ...
    On Tuesday, April 9, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) will bring the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability to James Madison University (JMU). Rick Piltz (White House climate change scandal) and Thomas Tamm (warrantless wiretapping) will be the prominent whis ...

UK Progressive

  • A MuckReads Guide to North Korea
    by ProPublica As tensions simmer over North Korea’s latest nuclear threats, we take a look at some of the best reading on Kim Jong Un, the prospects for a nuclear conflict and life in the DPRK. Meet Kim Jong Un Time, February 2012 When Kim Jong Il died in December 2011, there was little known ab ...
  • Reaping What You Sow: White Supremacists Prepa ...
    This is the Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell The headlines in the last few weeks have been chilling. Colorado’s Prison’s Director was gunned down as he opened the front door to his home to greet a pizza delivery man who was a White Supremacist. The shooter had earlier killed a Dominos Pizza deli ...
  • Instant Gratification – For God’s Sake
    by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Last week the media spoke of nothing but the little island of Cypress and its banking system in a “mysterious” freefall. CNBC was in panic mode, warning that if not fixed within a day the planet wide economic system would surely implode. At the same ...
  • Friend of the Court: How Anthony Lewis Influen ...
    by Richard Tofel ProPublica Anthony Lewis had only been away from Harvard, his undergraduate alma mater, for eight years when he returned as Nieman Fellow in the fall of 1956. But what an eight years it had been. Lewis had gone from Harvard College straight to work on the news staff of the Sunda ...
  • Save the Term “Negro”… Really?
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad Iread a commentary recently lamenting the elimination of the term, “Negro” for American born Africans, now commonly referred to as “African Americans,” from the U.S. Census form. I just shook my head, said “Good-bye, Negro and turned the page. I didn’t pay much att ...

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JoNova

  • Mafia caught laundering $1.7b through “r ...
    Real markets have real customers, who notice when things don’t add up. Fake markets are an invitation to criminals. The state forced payments from citizens for the wrong reasons, to solve a non-problem with the wrong method. In this case, state organized crime meets independent organized c ...
  • IPCC plays hot-spot hidey games in AR5 — ...
    The classic hot spot prediction (A) compared to 28 million weatherballoons (B). Click to enlarge. You won’t see this in the new report. It was a major PR failure in 2007. The IPCC won’t make the same mistake again. They’ve dumped the hot-spot graphs. In AR4 they put in two gra ...
  • Radi-Aid: Africa helps freezing children in Norway
    This is the Easter Spirit! Gotta love it. h/t Eric W Rating: 9.5/10 (18 votes cast) Rating: 9.5/10 (18 votes cast)
  • Lewandowsky, Cook claim 78,000 skeptics could ...
    The MoonLanding paper is finally here. Eight months after Lewandowsky was so sure he had a “peer reviewed” conclusion that he announced his results in The Guardian and The Telegraph , the paper has finally been published. Lewandowsky et al claimed to show skeptics are nutters who bel ...
  • Unpaid students to review AR5. This is rigorou ...
    The Risk Monger (David Zaruk) was astonished to receive an advertisement from the Dutch government looking for 60 young PhD students to help with the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. They salary is “none”. But they are not just looking for any old student ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • 6 Top Quality Survival Products
    I found this at the Daily Mail, but it looks like they have scanned it from a magazine like Popular Mechanics and didn’t credit it… Anyway, this picture could save you a thousand SHTF hours if you buy them all: Your're reading 6 Top Quality Survival Products by Robert Bast, and orig ...
  • Japanese Methane Extraction Could Trigger Tsunami
    Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the Tōhoku tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is muc ...
  • Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman…But
    The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn’t his middle name, and he hasn’t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn’t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stu ...
  • A River In Antarctica
    The Sahara desert used to be fertile – and that’s in modern history… Meanwhile camels used to live within the Arctic Circle, and hippos swam in English rivers. Not quite on the same scale of time (unless you believe in recent crustal displacements), but down at the South Pole t ...
  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope-backed lawmaker leads push for new vo ...
    Over the last week, GOP lawmakers have unleashed a flurry of bills that would make sweeping changes to North Carolina elections. They share a common message -- and a common sponsor, backed by one of the state's biggest political donors. read more
  • The nationwide war on state renewable energy s ...
    A hearing is set for tomorrow on legislation to repeal North Carolina's renewable energy standard -- part of a nationwide attack on such laws being mounted by groups with fossil-fuel industry ties. read more
  • Another race case for a hostile Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court, poised to rule on a major affirmative action case out of Texas, accepts another one from Michigan. What might this say about dismantling race-conscious programs? read more
  • Exxon Mobil hit with $1.7M pipeline safety fin ...
    Four days before the residents of Mayflower, Ark. watched crude oil bubble up from their yards and pour down their streets, the Texas company that owns the failed pipeline learned it was facing fines for safety violations related to a 2011 pipeline spill that fouled the Yellowstone River in Mont ...
  • Southernomics as a model?
    Cheap labor, regressive taxes, federal dependency: Is the South's economic approach really an example for the nation? read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • China and BRICS: Upgrading Global Agenda
    A few weeks have passed since the Chinese fifth generation leaders came to power. The first impression is really strong. Newly elect Chairman Xi Jinping has visited Moscow and has taken part in the Durbin top level BRICS event; he has received US Secretary of Treasure and Henry Kissinger in Beij ...
  • US’ policy towards Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline (I)
    One of the aspects of change in the mode of warfare, which has come to prominence after World War II, is the non-military aggressive tool of ‘economic strangulation’ through which the powerful states try to politically subjugate their target countries. Unfortunately the development and applicati ...
  • Human Rights and the Sri Lankan Pinochet
    70 years ago, during the WWII, when Japan bombed Madras and Cyclone, the ethnic divide between the Tamils and Sinhalese was hardly pronounced. Both were victims of great power politics that was being played out in the region. In the 1980s the hegemonic politics once again attacked the region. Th ...
  • BRICS: New Geopolitical Model and Russia’s For ...
    Another annual BRICS summit wrapped up on March 27 in South Africa. A cycle of top level events taking place by turns in the member states capitals is over. This time it was of special importance for Russia. In early February Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new Foreign Policy Conce ...
  • Qatar’s Great Power Games
    The recent Arab League summit, which illegally decided to provide military aid to the Syrian opposition under pressure from Doha, has once again demonstrated that there is a new power balance in the Arab world where the traditionally powerful countries like Egypt, Algeria and Iraq have again pro ...

BlogHer

  • Scared of Getting Sick? A Reality Check
    Afraid of catching the flu, or coming down with cancer? Join the club – only if your anxiety about illness is overboard, it can actually harm your health more than it helps. So what can you do to minimize fear and anxiety about illness and embrace courage instead? If you're suffering from a full ...
  • Should You Pay Your Kids for A's on Their Repo ...
    Report cards, grades, standardized testing, red green yellow, on and on and on. Our kids' performance in school is closely monitored, graded and reported back to us, the parents, in many ways throughout the school year. The question parents are then faced with is this: What will you do with that ...
  • Upcycled Kitchenware: Fancy Fruit Bowl
    Editor's Note: Is there anything more liberating than creating something you need out of used materials than buying something new? Getting the hang of the whole 'upcycling' thing brings constant rewards. --Heather:So, when I realized my kitchen was in desperate need of a Fruit Bowl, rather than ...
  • Create Your Own "Dating Bucket List"
     Editor's Note: Keeping things "fresh" in a relationship takes work. We're always looking for new and exciting things to do and fun ways to enjoy spending time together. Sometimes, we overwhelm ourselves trying to get it "right". Here are a few fun and easy ways to make any night a date nig ...
  • "Super Why!" Creator Asks: Does Jack Antonoff ...
    COOL?! Could it be? Is TODAY the day? When I'm at a red carpet event, flooded with flashing lights & flowing gowns, it's become customary that when I finally approach the photographers' line, they decide to switch their memory cards or the old school photographers (those who've attended a F ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Three years after the Upper Big Branch Mine Di ...
    Mine helmets and painted crosses sit at the entrance to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch coal mine Tuesday, April 5, 2011 in Montcoal, W.Va. The memorial represents the 29 coal miners who were killed in an explosion at the mine. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) Friday will mark the 3rd anniversary ...
  • More on the UMWA’s latest Patriot rally
    There’s more in today’s Gazette about the big United Mine Workers of America rally against Patriot Coal here in Charleston, including the above video by Doug Imbrogno, a story by Rusty Marks about the arrests of 16 UMWA members and supporters, and this piece by Dr. Paul Nyden, headli ...
  • Patriot fairness: UMWA brings huge rally for m ...
    I’m just back from listening to a few of the speeches and watching a little bit of the action at the huge United Mine Workers of America rally today in downtown Charleston. Thousands of miners, family members and various supporters attended the event, held as part of the UMWA’s ongoi ...
  • Friday roundup, March 29, 2013
    A house-sized dump truck hauls dirt and rock Tuesday March 26, 2013 at the Black Thunder coal mine in northeast Wyoming’s Powder River Basin near Wright, Wyo., source of almost 40 percent of the nation’s coal production. The federal government says it is withholding $110 million in m ...
  • How coal miners die on the job
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has just issued the report of its investigation into the July 2012 death of Johnny Mack Bryant II, a 35-year- old coal miner from Lenore, W.Va., at Coal River Mining LLC’s Fork Creek No. 10 Mine near Sumerco, Boone County. Here’s the sum ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Accuracy vs. Precision
    Accuracy of a measurement system is the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to that quantity’s actual (true) value. The precision of a measurement system, also called reproducibility or repeatability, is the degree to which repeated measurements under unchanged conditions sho ...
  • NASA’s “We Are The Explorers” Trailer
    Related Posts:Bike ParkourOn Failure and Success‪Java TrailerThe Onion Obliterates the “Idea Guy”Homebuilt Solar Death Ray
  • Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals
    Existential depression is a depression that arises when an individual confronts certain basic issues of existence. Yalom 1980 describes four such issues or "ultimate concerns"–death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness. Death is an inevitable occurrence. Freedom, in an existenti ...
  • How to Keep Your iMessages Synced Across All D ...
    If you’re an Apple acolyte like me you probably have at least one Mac, at least one iPad, and an iPhone. Using Messages across all of them is supposed to be seamless, and it is, but only if you do it right. Here’s how to do that. Unify on AppleID Email You can send Messages [...]Rela ...
  • Modern YoYo Hackery
    Some significant advances since I was doing it in 88′.Related Posts:Bike ParkourOn Failure and SuccessStellar Dance RoutineHomebuilt Solar Death RayKirk Pitches Commodore

Fitwatch

  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Italy seizes $1.7 billion from Sicilian counte ...
    Fox News and all the other media are full of the breaking news that the Italian police have seized €1.3 billion from Vito Nicastri. This guy with unsurprisingly close ties to the Mafia (including Matteo Messina Denaro, the widely believed Sicilian Mafia godfather) – which has an inter ...
  • Ernst Chladni: an anniversary
    Ernst Chladni, the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics, passed away in Wrocław (German: Breslau, Czech: Vratislav) on April 3rd, 1827. He was born 70 years earlier, in 1756, in Lutherstadt Edward Wittenberg. However, his family came from Kremnica, a mining/minting town in Cent ...
  • AMS-02: dark matter announcements
    Wednesday, April 3rd, is the day when the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will announce its first, potentially interesting results that will have some implications for our knowledge about dark matter. First, at 5 pm Prague Summer Time (11 am Boston Daylight Time), you will be recommend ...
  • Dwindling AGW and retiring Hansen
    Juliet Eilperin, an alarmist hired gun at the Washington Post, is among the reporters who took notice of some results from a new U.S. Pew Research Center survey. Two thirds of Americans favor the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline which is sensible because the project will make ...
  • UCSC study: sea lions like Backstreet Boys
    ...but the metronome is pretty good, too... The University of California in Santa Cruz – where I spent the first half of the year 2000 – has done research into the question which mammals aside from humans like Backstreet Boys. And I must emphasize that this is not an April fool's joke. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Ex-CFIA researcher tried to export pathogen to ...
    Two former Canadian Food Inspection Agency researchers have been charged with breach of trust after an RCMP investigation into their alleged attempts to commercialize CFIA property. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Ottawa RCMP officer, woman accused of child abuse Two people, inclu ...
  • The Chart That Will Crash The Market: “We Have ...
    The screeching coming from CNBS and elsewhere this morning is amusing. There’s only one chart that matters, and it will, when recognized, blow up the stock market — sending it down 50% or more. It’s this one: That’s it.  And the ADP report this morning is showing the path ...
  • Toronto Yorkdale mall killing likely gang-rela ...
    Two known street gang members went shopping before they were ambushed outside an upscale Toronto mall over the Easter weekend, police say. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Toronto Yorkdale mall shooting leaves 1 dead A man is dead and another has been rushed to... Toronto police s ...
  • Is Anonymous meddling in the North Korea standoff?
    Silly title. Yes, yes they are. It would seem that Anonymous is claiming to have hacked some NK servers hosted in China. And as well they have a claim that they are inside… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: North Korea shut last remaining military hotline ...
  • Suspect caught in B.C. border manhunt
    U.S. officials have confirmed a suspect in a shooting yesterday near a rural B.C. border crossing has been captured, but have so far released no other details about the arrest. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Car Explosion At Turkish-Syrian Border Caught On Tape On Monday we repor ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • DNB to cover customer losses
    Rune Bjerke, chief executive of Norway’s biggest bank DNB, has had to deal with angry investment customers, borrowers and government officials in recent weeks. Now he’s decided to at least compensate some of the bank customers who lost money on misleading investment products, after t ...
  • Maid held on murder charges
    A 60-year-old woman remained in custody this week, charged with the murder of the 90-year-old man for whom she’d kept house for many years. Police believe she strangled him the day before he was expected to make changes in his will. His body was found in his home in Oslo’s fashionabl ...
  • Housing prices may finally be settling down
    The high price of housing in Norway may have peaked, at least for now. Real estate brokers report fewer prospective buyers at open house showings, and sales figures for March were mostly flat after months and years of strong increases. Average prices for single family homes were up just 0.3 perc ...
  • Shipowner hit by lawsuit and probe
    One of Norway’s major shipowning firms, Torvald Klaveness, is under investigation for allegedly paying bribes. Klaveness is also the target of a major lawsuit filed by a customer that claims it systematically has been overcharged for transporting its cargo. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) ...
  • New book strips oil minister bare
    A new, unauthorized biography of Norway’s Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe has set tongues wagging over its literally naked portrayal of a man allegedly obsessed with power. Released just days before Moe’s small and troubled Center Party holds its annual meeting this weekend, ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Take a PDC with Geoff & Nadia Lawton – in Barc ...
    This is a unique opportunity to take a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course with renowned permaculture designers, consultants and educators, Geoff and Nadia Lawton, in Barcelona, Spain. In addition, after the PDC, there will be an optional 3-day Dryland Strategies and Earthworks practicu ...
  • A Small Acreage Permaculture Makeover (NSW, Au ...
    The original look of the property immediately around the house The intention with this property in Alstonville, NSW, Australia, is to reduce lawn and landscaping management by using the space and effort to produce organic food for the owner’s consumption as well as to produce an excess f ...
  • Smart Phones, Dumb Companies
    17 years, and the phone companies still haven’t sorted out the issue of conflict minerals. by George Monbiot If you are too well connected, you stop thinking. The clamour, the immediacy, the tendency to absorb other people’s thoughts, interrupt the deep abstraction required to find your own way ...
  • ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’
    This book is amazing. It’s essentially evidence of Food Forestry, if you will, on a continental scale…. Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, i ...
  • WWOOFing & Permaculture
    What is WWOOFing? (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) WWOOFing is a worldwide network of organizations, linking volunteers with organic farmers, and helping people share more sustainable ways of living. WWOOFing is an exchange – in return for volunteer help, WWOOF hosts offer food, accommo ...

Pointman's

  • Climategate 3, the goon squad and going nuclear.
    One of the climate establishment’s new coping mechanisms in handling what is effectively the third release of the climategate emails, is to put pressure on the people who were sent the decryption key, rather than looking for the identity of the leaker. The leaker goes by the name FOIA and ...
  • Climategate 3. FOIA’s accompanying email.
    Since I put up the email from FOIA that accompanied the second climategate release here, I thought I might as well be consistent and put up the email that accompanied the third. It makes for interesting reading, if only as a basis for some intriguing speculation. Pointman. ********************** ...
  • La, la, la. I can’t hear you, I’m ...
    I’ve been watching the slow and gory deconstruction of the latest attempt to rehabilitate the hockey stick, otherwise known as the Marcott et al paper. It’s a bit voyeuristic, but you just can’t help yourself in the end. Within the context of the skeptic blogosphere, it’s ...
  • Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
    It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...
  • Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
    Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you hate yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is. That’s where you are. Everyone ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Robert H. King responds to Louisiana Attorney ...
    From the Angola Three News website: Many thanks to all of you who have aided our cause and added your voices to our quest to free Albert from an obviously unjust imprisonment of more than 40 years. Please continue to make your voices heard and your dissent known, especially in light of the rece ...
  • Global Left Converges in Tunisia – Day One
    Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantial representat ...
  • Mayor Landrieu and Ronal Serpas Wage War Again ...
    Mayor Mitch Landrieu ran for office on a promise of reform of the city's police department. He promised a national search for a new police chief as his first major initiative as mayor. Then the members of his search team began quitting, saying the process was rigged. When Landrieu "national sear ...
  • New Orleans Film About James Booker Sets SXSW ...
    Bayou Maharajah Trailer from Lily Keber on Vimeo. New Orleans filmmaker Lily Keber's film Bayou Maharajah, about James Booker, "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced," premiered this week at SXSW film festival in Austin Texas, and has already ...
  • So, You Want to Collaborate in My Community? B ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: When I started Coastal Women for Change, it wasn't my vision to run a nonprofit. If it had been, I would have done my research and learned how to manage one. I was thrown into this work after a devastation. I was a cosmetologist before Hurricane Ka ...

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 ...

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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

  • Guilty until proven innocent - the oppressive ...
    In tonight's show we take a look at the travesty of justice known as the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO). An AVO is a restraining order which compels an 'alleged' violent person to stay away from an 'alleged' victim. In a strange exception of the norms of criminal justice , when an AVO is iss ...
  • Dissent against water fluoridation sweeps thro ...
    In today's show we cover the astonishing story of how 9 Queensland councils (with more considering) have rejected water fluoridation. This avalanche of dissent was triggered by a decision by the State Premier Campbell Newman in 2012 to allow councils to decide individually whether to fluoridate ...
  • Round table discussion with studio guests Damo ...
    In today's show we take a look at some of the challenges to unconstutional laws which have been rolled out in Australia, with a close look at speeding fines. I am joined in studio for the discussion by Damon Crowe and Chris Tolland. In part 2 of the show we play you some highlights from a re ...
  • Malcolm Roberts exposes deceptions of the IPCC ...
    Malcolm Roberts is an indefatigable warrior for truth, reason and science, rationally opposing the evolving feudal super state which is now being formed around the world from the broken remnants of western (former) democracies. In today's show Malcolm shares some of his new research into the C ...
  • 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 ...

Beacon

  • Infographic: Shark Attacks
    A new study published earlier this year in Marine Policy put the number of sharks slaughtered each year at 100 million, or roughly three sharks caught per second. Outraged by these shocking numbers, Joe Chernov and Robin Richards created an infographic to put the figures in perspective. While s ...
  • Victory! 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline Protected ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads face thre ...
  • Victory! More than 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate more than 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads ...
  • Grins and Fins: Meet the Sociable False Killer ...
    This false killer whale flashes a (real) killer smile. Photo: Doug Perrine/Hotspot Media American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, captured this priceless image of a false killer whale mid-grin off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Less commonly known than the killer whale (or orca), the false killer ...
  • One Woman Stands Up for the Dolphins
    © OCEANA Just a few weeks ago, an international campaign to stop the annual gruesome slaughter of dolphins in Japan was initiated by one Scottish woman hoping to make a difference. Shona Lewendon started a petition to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requesting that Japan be denied t ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Why Obama Can Safely Support KXL: PEW Poll Sho ...
    It would be more accurate to talk about why Obama, and Electeds at every level, can very frequently and very safely support Big Petroleum in general, but at this moment, the focus is largely on TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline. It will carry “tar sands” petroleum from Canada to the Texas Gulf coa ...
  • Krauthammer Sides with Bill O’Reilly, and the ...
    “The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals,” he said. “That’s where the compelling argument is: ‘We are Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else.’ That’s a compelling argument. And to deny that you’ve got to have a very strong argument on the other side.” … “An ...
  • AP Stylebook Makes “Illegal Immigrant” No Long ...
    The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally. [Associated Press] WHEN THE largest news gathering organiza ...
  • Susan Patton Revives “MRS. Degree” for Princet ...
    Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.” – Susan Patton’s Marriage Advice for College Women THERE ARE way too many well-educated, ...
  • Rutgers Coach Mike Rice Should Be Fired *Update*
    [UPDATE] “I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of Coach Rice,” Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said in a statement. “Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, b ...

Hudson New York

  • Raping Women in the Name of Islam
    While jihadis in Syria are importing girls from Tunisia to satisfy their sexual needs, their colleagues in Libya are kidnapping and raping women. Last week, the father of two British women of Pakistani origin said that his daughters were gang raped in
  • Ireland to Build One of Europe's Largest Mosques
    City planners in the Irish capital, Dublin, have given the go-ahead for the construction of a sprawling mega-mosque complex that will cater to Ireland's burgeoning Muslim population. The massive €40 million ($50 million) "Islamic Cultural Center" will be
  • "Nuke Up Fast"
    If you like what is happening with North Korea at the moment, you will love what happens when Iran goes nuclear. In case anyone is in any doubt, it is always worth remembering that North Korea is a basket-case of a country – probably in the most abysmal
  • Jihadis' Exploitation of Muslim Girls
    What are the Muslim jihadis in Syria doing when they are not fighting against Bashar Assad's army? According to reports in a number of Arab media outlets, the jihadis are importing Muslim girls to satisfy their sexual needs. The sexual exploitation of
  • Muslim "Secret" Courageously Outed
    How rife is anti-Semitism among Muslims? Well if you poll the so-called "Muslim world, " as Pew and other organizations have done, the answer is: very rife indeed. Take Pakistan for instance. In 2006 only 6% of the population had a "favorable" attitude

Urban Survival

  • UrbanSurvival Banned in China!
    Got this from a reader who just went there:   “yes George, feel Honoured, because urbanSurvival was chosen by Chinese authorities to be blocked.! As I found out this weekend, returning to China for 2 months as I live here … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Cashing in on Prepping
    From an email making its rounds in the prepper community:   “To give you a little background about us, Cineflix is an international and award winning production company.  We produce over 500 hours of programming a year over networks throughout … Continue reading →
  • Yo! Fools!
    This being April Fool’s Day, I’m perplexed as to whether the day should be called George Day or Government Day.  A case can be made both ways.  I spent all day Sunday troubleshooting a server…so I can’t be all that … Continue reading →
  • Monday at the WuJo
    Nothing like starting off a Monday with a good WuJo account, like this one: Hi George, I’ve been a reader of Urban Survival for about 4 years and I’m a Peoplenomics subscriber also. Over the years I’ve read many Wujo … Continue reading →
  • Semi-Good Friday
    After more coffee:   It’s Good Friday Because… …some parking meters won’t requirement payment today,    (wrong: Most cities want any money they can get…)  …no bills will come in the snail-mail today.    (wrong: mail is coming, gov ...

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Radical Chic

  • WOULD YOU RATHER… have a man who pays th ...
    So you are a lady and you are looking for a man to spend the rest of your life with. There are only two options in front of you. On the one hand is a man who pays all of the bills – but he doesn’t listen to you. On the other hand there is [...]
  • IS HOMOSEXUALITY A CHOICE?
    I was watching a program the other day on controversial tv, and as you would guess the program itself was rather controversial. The subject of discussion was homosexuality and the person being interviewed was a gay man talking about his experience of discovery. At some point in his life he reali ...
  • BOYS WEAR BLUE, GIRLS WEAR PINK
    My daughter was barely even a day old and she was already struggling with her identity. I guess one could say we were bad parents, but how were we supposed to know that girls don’t wear blue sleeping hats? At some point in time an unwritten law must have been created. Under no circumstance ...
  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • China’s Massive Water Diversion
    “This month, a hundred years after the completion of the Panama Canal, China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, known in Chinese as Nanshui beidiao gongcheng — literally, “to divert southern water north.” The phrase evokes the suggesti ...
  • California’s small snowpack raises chills
    “The sprinklings of rain and dustings of snow that will fall on California over the next few days are not going to make up for three of the most remarkably dry months in state history, water resources officials said Thursday. “The mountains of the Sierra, which were buried in giant m ...
  • EPA Survey Finds More Than Half of the Nation’ ...
    “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country, finding that more than half – 55 percent – are in poor condition for aquatic life. “The health of our Nat ...
  • Ontology, Ethics and Epistemology in the Nexus
      Ontology, Ethics and Epistemology in the Nexus by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbright. Today I ...
  • Hundreds of dead pigs fished from Shanghai river
    “At least 2,800 dead pigs have been fished from a Shanghai river since Friday, but authorities insist that tap water in the city is still safe to drink. State news agency Xinhua said labels tagged to the pigs’ ears indicated they came from the upper waters of the Huangpu River, which ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • trot out the newest killing-machine “boy ...
    …don’t you know America’s military-industrial-corporate-congressional-complex is just dying hoping a new shooting war begin and they can trot out the newest killing-machine “boy-toys”…   U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid saber-rattling 03-31-2013  •  Reuters The ...
  • will “El Pope” will be as forthcoming
    …while noteworthy will “El Pope” will be as forthcoming and make a substantive statement about 2,000 years of sanctioned pedophilia within the church he is reputedly the leader… Filed under: Blogroll
  • a guaranteed ticket straight to hell
    …accepting any IMF loan especially for any third world nation or economy is a guaranteed ticket straight to hell…   IMF team to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday for loan talks 03-31-2013  •  Reuters   An IMF delegation will arrive in Egypt for talks with the government on a $4.8 ...
  • just how fast can you say hell yes
    …just how fast can you say hell yes… Could the Banksters Grab Your Bank Deposits? 03-31-2013  •  Jonathan Turley I couldn’t believe the plan in Cyprus hinged on the idea that the bank could just steal customer’s funds to balance the bank’s books. I muttered to myself that couldn’t poss ...
  • We got precisely what we paid for
      … Any thoughtful individual could easily suggest any mental-health issue was in jeopardy in Arizona … all one has to do is look at the quality and integrity (or lack thereof) in those “we” chose to elect “to serve & to protect” us … …We got precisely what we paid for… Filed under: Blo ...

Popular Technology

  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Harnessing religious teachings about stewardsh ...
    Many religious groups have taken on the role of environmental custodians, citing scriptures that urge living in harmony with plants and animals. Representatives of nine world religions pledged in 2009 to develop environmental programs. The Sikh religion’s contribution to that effort is cal ...
  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...
  • Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
    Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
  • Forests under fire: Australia's imperiled sout ...
    In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...
  • Extinction warning: racing to save the little ...
    Sometime in the late 1600s the world's last dodo perished on the island of Mauritius. No one knows how it spent its final moments—rather in the grip of some invasive predator or simply fading away from loneliness—but with its passing came an icon of extinction, that final breath pass ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Construction boom at city campuses
    Special report: Auckland universities Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.The unprecedented construction...
  • Project to unlock mystery of the brain
    A new era in the understanding of the human brain began today when United States President Barack Obama announced a US$100 million research initiative to start mapping the neural circuitry of the mind.The aim is to understand what...
  • A hundred billion reasons to keep looking for life
    Scientists at the University of Auckland believe they are one step closer to finding life in outer space.The new theory estimates there are 100 billion planets like Earth in the Galaxy, and will use data from New Zealand's Mt John...
  • Obama proposes $100m for brain mapping project
    US President Barack Obama has proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.He asked...
  • NZ scientists create 3D heart model
    Game-changing research by Kiwi scientists - producing world-first 3D models - will help doctors better recognise and treat potentially fatal heart problems.A newly completed programme, funded by the Health Research Council of New...

The Bovine

  • Go ask Alice — interview with BC raw mil ...
    The Bovine: There’s a major raw milk symposium in Vancouver April 6th and you’re one of the speakers, Alice. Could you tell us a little about what you’re going to be sharing with the participants at that event? Alice Jongerden: I will … Continue reading →
  • Go ask Alice — interview with BC raw mil ...
    The Bovine: There’s a major raw milk symposium in Vancouver April 6th and you’re one of the speakers, Alice. Could you tell us a little about what you’re going to be sharing with the participants at that event? Alice Jongerden: I will … Continue reading →
  • Montana Jones, Michael Schmidt, Shropshire she ...
    From Cecilia Nasmith, on Northumberland Today.com “COBOURG - Justice Robert Graydon pledged that the four defendants in the April 2012 case involving missing Shropshire sheep will be tried with dispatch, even if it means he has to work on a Saturday. Charges … Continue reading →
  • Montana Jones, Michael Schmidt, Shropshire she ...
    From Cecilia Nasmith, on Northumberland Today.com “COBOURG - Justice Robert Graydon pledged that the four defendants in the April 2012 case involving missing Shropshire sheep will be tried with dispatch, even if it means he has to work on a Saturday. Charges … Continue reading →
  • Chief Medical Officer of Health, Hazel Lynn, i ...
    It must be a tough job dealing with the likes of raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt. From Denis Langlois at the Owen Sound Sun Times: “Dr. Hazel Lynn was Grey-Bruce’s highest-paid public servant in 2012 for the fourth straight year. … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Fools Never Learn
    Proving that fools never learn, the Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit President Obama’s economic advisers and outside experts say the nation’s much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking ...
  • Do You Believe China's GDP Numbers?
    Do you believe growth figures in China? What about the US, Canada, or Germany? Actually, there is no reason to believe any GDP numbers. A recent email from Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets explains. From Pettis .... Last year China’s official growth rate was 7.8%, above th ...
  • Sharp Deterioration in French Manufacturing; H ...
    As expected, economic news in France continues to worsen. The Markit France Manufacturing PMI final data French manufacturing sector operating conditions continue to deteriorate at marked pace. Key points: PMI remains indicative of sharp downturn despite rising to three-month high O ...
  • Spain's Deficit Set to Soar; GDP Poised to Plu ...
    The situation in Spain took another sharp turn for the worse. Employment losses are the greatest since 2009, tax revenue is declining, the deficit is increasing and the IIF wants economically insane tax hikes. GDP Poised to Plunge, Deficit Poised to Rise El Economista reports IIF belie ...
  • Judge Rules Stockton CA Bankruptcy is Valid, C ...
    Today a judge ruled that the city of Stockton California is indeed bankrupt and that the city acted in good faith. Creditors asked the judge to void the bankruptcy, saying the city could raise taxes instead. I have been watching this story for a while. Here is some background on the Stockto ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Corporate Pow ...
    TPP – Wall Street’s Wet Dream & Washington’s Answer to its Own Dwindling Economic Performance One of the least discussed and least reported issues is the Obama administration’s effort to bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to the forefront, an oppressive plurilateral US-led free tr ...
  • The EyeOpener- Whistleblowers: The Silenced Heroes
    When faced with the overwhelming evidence of the widespread, systemic conspiracies that take place at the very highest levels of government, the general public has been pre-programmed to respond with the all-too-familiar retort: “But someone would have talked.” This reasoning is suff ...
  • Korean War 2.0: Deescalate Now
    Recent warnings of instability on the Korean peninsula by Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov come at a most appropriate time – and indeed, there is a frightening possibility that the situation could spin out of control. Since the North was heavily penalized by UN sanctions following its rec ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson-“Syria, Turkey, I ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents William Engdahl US-German author William Engdahl joins us today to explain the often under discussed role of big energy hiding in the shadows of orientalism in the conflict in Syria. Engdahl is the author of Myth, Lies, and Oil Wars. What would bring Qatar, Turkey, the Musli ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Natalie Merchant-“Carnival” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is one of most respected recording artists in America. Singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant began her 28-year career as the lead vocalist and lyricist for the band 10,000 Maniacs. She went left the band in 1994 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Baltic Dry Index Falls As Chinese Steel Fundam ...
    (Bloomberg) — The Baltic Dry Index, a gauge of costs to transport grains and minerals by sea, fell the most since Dec. 19 amid slowing charters of vessels to export [...]
  • Hybrid Eco-Tug Delivered to NYK Line
    Japan-based NYK Line welcomed a new hybrid tugboat into service at a recent inauguration ceremony at Yokohama Port. The tugboat Tsubasa will primarily assist vessel movements in and out of the port [...]
  • gCaptain Exclusive: Interview with Tom Boardle ...
    While at the Connecticut Maritime Association Conference in Stamford, Connecticut, I met up with Tom Boardley, Marine Director at Lloyd’s Register.   Headquartered in London, Lloyd’s Register (LR) is the [...]
  • Jumbo Delivers Bertha, the World’s Largest Tun ...
    Jumbo Shipping’s Fairpartner called on Seattle, Washington recently to deliver a rather unique, and awesome piece of equipment… Nicknamed “Bertha” and at a price tag of $80 million, it is [...]
  • Navios Closes $144 Million Deal for 5+2 MR2 Pr ...
    Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA) announced today that it has signed a $143.8 million deal to purchase five MR2 product tankers with an option for two additional MR2 eco-type product [...]

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

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