Wednesday, April 03, 2013

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • For Climate Action, 2013 “Good as It’ll Get”: ...
    A confluence of factors could make 2013 the most fruitful opportunity in years – and for years – for potentially major action on climate change, according to a leading voice on climate change policy, the British economist Nicholas Stern. “This combination of political circumstances in 2013 is as ...
  • Dozens Die in Attack on Court in Afghanistan
    Suicide bombers disguised as soldiers have stormed a court in western Afghanistan, killing at least 44 people in an attempt to free Taliban fighters standing trial, officials say. At least nine fighters were also killed in Wednesday’s attack, which occurred in Farah, the main town of Farah ...
  • Leaking Pipeline Offers Warning on Keystone XL ...
    Environmental groups are sounding alarms about conflicting reports on the size and seriousness of an oil spill that took place late last week in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas. The spill has generated particular interest because it emanates from a pipeline carrying “tar sands” oil, a partic ...
  • Tajikistan Government Critic Missing for Two Weeks
    Early on Mar. 15, a 58-year-old man put on his tracksuit and left home in Qurghonteppa, a 90-minute drive south of Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital. Morning exercise was a regular part of his routine, says Amnesty International. But on this morning the man, a prominent critic of President Imomali ...
  • Laughter Heals in Cuban Hospitals
    Three-year-old Yanaghy García has been in the William Soler Children’s Hospital, in the Cuban capital, for a month. He suffers from epilepsy, but he forgets about it all for a while and smiles at the antics of Mantequilla, a clown. “He is doing well and getting better. When I see him ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • BRICS Challenges Unipolar World and US Dollar ...
    Summary: BRICS Summit draws clear red lines on Syria, Iran source: Global Researchread more
  • The Long History of Lies about Iran
    Summary: If the lies about Iraq taught us anything, it is that we must pay attention to the massive campaign of lies about Iran source: Antiwar.comread more
  • P5+1 Coalition Fraying on Eve of Second Almaty ...
    Summary: WASHINGTON, Apr 1 2013 (IPS) - On the eve of its second round of talks with Iran on curbing its nuclear programme in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the so-called P5+1 (U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany) is showing signs of growing disunity, according to the European Union’s ...
  • America's Looming Hangover in the Middle East
    Summary: Following President Obama's address to an audience of Israeli students in Jerusalem last week, progressive commentators in the United States hailed the speech as a passionate appeal for peace "that placed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict squarely back on his agenda." But those intoxi ...
  • Ex-CNN Reporter: I Received Orders to Manipula ...
    Summary: PRAGUE, (SANA)- Ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyon revealed that during her work for the channel she received orders to send false news and exclude some others which the US administration did not favor with the aim to create a public opinion in favor of launching an aggression on Iran and Sy ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Titan's Atmosphere Points to Building Blocks ...
                       A laboratory experiment at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests complex organic chemistry that could eventually lead to the building blocks of life extends lower in the atmosphere than previo ...
  • NASA to Livestream 'Dark-Matter' Discovery Today
                   NASA will unveil the first discoveries from a powerful $2 billion particle physics experiment on the International Space Station in what could be a major vindication for the science tool, which almost never made it into space. NASA will hold a news conference toady at 1:3 ...
  • Image of the Day: The Milky Way's Brilliant Dw ...
                     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 Hemisphere and near the equator. Many navigators, ...
  • The Galaxy's 2010 April Fool's Uproar --"'Man ...
                                         In 2010, The Daily Galaxy did a post about a would-be saboteur arrested on April 1 at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland who made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Many of the Galaxy's readers and main-stream media took us to ...
  • Comment of the Day: "Are We Living in a Simula ...
                  "The fact that heavy elements were plentiful only 5 billion years after the big bang is a very good sign about the possibility of alien-life evolving in the very earlier universe. But of course that then leads to the annoying and now cliche Fermi paradoxical question: If ...

Natural News

  • DHS excuse for buying billions of rounds of am ...
    Responding to a letter from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Department of Homeland Security -- an agency that has no business being armed in the first place -- says it's buying billions of rounds of ammunition in order to "significantly lower costs." It's all about saving money...
  • Chemical warfare against the nation right unde ...
    Thirty years ago, Nancy Reagan launched her version of the war on drugs: "just say no." She campaigned on that slogan all over America. She was lampooned as an idiot. Now, some researchers estimate that 60% of the Mexican economy would cra ...
  • Garlic kills bubonic plague and other pathogen ...
    During the 14th and 15th century pandemic, the black death killed nearly half the world's population, according to, Bubonic Plague: Yesterday's Scourge--and Tomorrow's? As present-day cases of bubonic plague reappear in parts of North America and Europe, people are seeking...
  • How to eat GMO, use the Affordable Care Act, a ...
    Millions of Americans are being forced to buy conventional health insurance that directly benefits the pharmaceutical industry, which in turn fuels the biotech food "modification" industry, and that is the simple but evil math calculation being done by the big three...
  • Increased dietary fiber consumption dramatical ...
    Incidence of stroke in the U.S. and western cultures continues to grow at a staggering rate as it takes the lives of nearly 150,000 Americans each year, making this debilitating illness the fourth leading cause of preventable death. Closely aligned with heart disease...

Threat Level

  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...
  • Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Threatened and Hacked ...
    Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
  • FTC Announces Winners of Death-to-Robocalls Ch ...
    The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was simply not able to handle the ...
  • Cord-Cutters Rejoice: Streaming Broadcast TV W ...
    A divided federal appeals court, ruling 2-1 Monday, declined to block a unique, antenna-based subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device.
  • Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringem ...
    A federal judge is declaring as unlawful a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital music files.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Fights to Keep Texas Health Care Among Nat ...
    On Monday, Texas Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn joined Governor Ricky Perry to present a united front against the expansion of Medicaid in the Lone Star State. While Perry called Medicaid a "broken system," Cruz warned accepting Obamacare's massive federal assistance "will worsen ...
  • A Week in the Life of the One Percent
    Judging by the stories dominating the domestic news, the past couple of weeks have not been kind to that 47 percent of Americans Mitt Romney mocked as takers, freeloaders and self-proclaimed victims. While the Washington Post profiled a Rhode Island town in which a third of the residents are de ...
  • As CBO Predicted, Higher Taxes Not Hurting Spe ...
    As the nation teetered on the edge of the so-called "fiscal cliff" in late 2012, Republican leaders warned that higher taxes for the rich would crush "job creators" and derail the U.S. economic recovery. But according to a new survey, a majority of those earning over $500,000 a year report that ...
  • Republicans Ask CBO to Rig Tax Cut Numbers
    Perhaps the greatest myth in the Republican pantheon is the claim that "tax cuts pay for themselves." Sadly, that article of supply-side faith--that tax cuts fuel economic growth so explosive that federal revenue exceeds what otherwise would have been collected--has been painfully debunked by d ...
  • GOP Distorts Obamacare Studies
    The White House marked the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act with numbers highlighting its early impact. Over six million seniors have saved $6.1 billion on prescription drugs, while 3.1 million young Americans under age 26 have gained health insurance on their parents' policies. Al ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Critically Endangered Tortoises Seized at Airport
    Over 50 Ploughshare Tortoises and 21 Radiated Tortoises were seized at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok. Both species are critically endangered. Authorities arrested two adults – one a Thai national and the other was a woman from Madagascar. Both species of tortoise are native ...
  • Geothermal Climate Control System To Be Instal ...
    On 407–409 Greenwich Avenue, a geothermal heating and cooling system is being installed to facilitate energy-efficient climate control. This climate control system is for a three-story,12,000-square-foot celebrity chef restaurant that is being built where the Thataway restaurant used to be ...
  • Northern Hemisphere Is Becoming Warmer Than So ...
    You may not have consciously thought about it, but I imagine that to some of you out there who have an environmentally conscientious brain, the fact that the Northern Hemisphere has more landmass and the Southern Hemisphere has more ocean would have triggered some interesting questions. For exam ...
  • The State Of The Climate Change Battle: Scien ...
    During a ten-day period last month, two very different views about climate change were presented to the public from two very different bodies of influence. The two conflicting perspectives illustrate well the chasm which now exists between mainstream science and mainstream US politics regarding ...
  • 5 Appalling Facts About The Monsanto Protectio ...
    “Blink and you might have missed it.” Even though Food Democracy Now protesters took their fight straight to Obama, protesting in front of the White House against Section 735 of the bill, he signed anyway. Coming quickly to the forefront are disappointment and concerns for the popula ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • New Pope Airing Out Stuffy Catholic Church
    By @TedFrier In all my years of church-going, I do not ever recall hearing what I heard at Easter Mass last Sunday: a congregation putting its hands together, not in prayer, but to applaud a priest for his sermon. The surprise ovation might have been due to the homily's decidedly political messa ...
  • The sequester and the real world
    By @BGinKC I used to be a clinical lab scientist back in the day, and I was also the shift lead for my department and I managed the phlebotomists and lab assistants who collected and processed specimens. When HCA bought the hospital system I worked for, we went through four lab directors in a li ...
  • Stupid Strikes Again
  • Pay No Attention to the American People, Liz C ...
    By @TedFrier Liz Cheney did not like the way the 2012 election turned out so she is ignoring it and urging all other Republicans to ignore it too. Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by more than three million votes. Republicans lost the popular vote for the fifth time in the last six presidential ele ...
  • Who Are The Real "Makers" and "Takers?"
    By @TedFrier It takes one to know one. And so only marginally less militant than the reformed smoker who inveighs against the dangers of lighting up, and tirelessly campaigns to ban smoking in all public places, is a reformed conservative like Michael Lind, currently Policy Director of the Econo ...

Care 2

  • How Dangerous Is the Lead in Bullets?
    It's all in the lead. A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences found that OSHA lead exposure standards are too lax to protect military firing range employees. Submitted by JL A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Wind Lens: Fluid Dynamics Concentrated Wind Energy
    Yuji Ohya, a professor of renewable energy dynamics and applied mechanics, and his team at Kyushu University have impressed a Japanese consortium enough to attract an investment of $1.5 billion in an offshore wind power plant that will employ.... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & T ...
  • China hit by 'animal apocalypse' as mass die-o ...
    A mysterious wave of animal deaths that kicked off at the start of 2011 is picking back up in China, where tens of thousands of farm animals and wildlife have turned up dead in the communist country's waterways in recent weeks... Submitted by Evelyn J. to Animals  |   Note-i ...
  • President Personally Performs First Obamacare ...
    Obama later confirmed to reporters that, as clearly indicated in section 1233 of his health care reform bill, he hopes to personally kill thousands of senior citizens in the next three years of his presidency. ***HUMOR***ONION NEWS*** Submitted by Kit B. to Offbeat  |   Note- ...
  • ConocoPhillips: Don't let this happen again ! ...
    ConocoPhillips is sticking with its reckless plans to drill in the Arctic despite the failures and fears of its rivals. Shell, who spent 7 years and $5 billion dollars on exploration, was forced to halt its 2013 plan to drill in the Arctic Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |  &nbsp ...

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No Quarter

  • The CIA Playing Hardball on Benghazi
    When I first heard of this from a friend who had first hand knowledge, I was still skeptical. What did I hear? The CIA is conducting weekly polygraphs of officers who work in paramilitary activities (I knew it as Special Activities Division back in my day) and were involved in supporting the ope ...
  • Cyprus Continues to Reverberate in the Global ...
    It is fascinating to watch the implosion of the Greek Cypriot economy. Despite the fact that Cyprus is a tiny country with a tiny economy, it is having a gigantic effect on the Euro and global confidence in the European banking system. The headlines in today’s Financial Times tell the stor ...
  • Death Knell for Global Warming Hysteria, Al Go ...
    Rising temperatures, broiling deserts, surging oceans. Cats and dogs–living together. The apocalyptic predictions that the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be accompanied by soaring temperatures–i.e., man made global warming–has proven to be a delusion and a dark, ...
  • Are We Going to War with North Korea?
    Bombast is the order of the day in North Korea. They reiterated today that a “state of war” exits with South Korea. Well, duh! That’s been the case for more than 60 years. The escalation in North Korean threats comes against the backdrop of a military exercise in the South and ...
  • Jim Carey, Talking Out His Ass
    I refuse to give Jim Carey any recognition for his ignorant video attacking the likes of Charlton Heston over the issues of guns. Why? The ass has made a shitload of money shooting guns and killing folks on the silver screen. If guns are so goddamned bad then he ought to give back the money [...]

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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Students support legislation against mountaint ...
    Students support legislation against mountaintop removal Richmond Register Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition delegate Carol Hinds talks with EKU professor Elaine Waters about the affects of mountaintop removal Wednesday. Waters signs the petition that will be sent to legislators to encour ...
  • Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-rem ...
    Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-removal mining at UNCA event ... Mountain Xpress Junior Walk, a West Virginia native who travels the country speaking out against mountaintop-removal mining on behalf of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, i ...
  • LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop remo ...
    LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop removal York Dispatch Here's a better idea: Let's demand Congress pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, H.R. 526. The Act will place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal "mines" until the science demonstrates th ...
  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...

Memeorandum

  • Report Links High Rates of Gun Violence to Wea ...
    Erica Goode / New York Times: Report Links High Rates of Gun Violence to Weak State Regulations  —  Many states with the weakest gun laws have the worst rates of gun violence, ranking high on numerous indicators, like gun homicides and suicides, firearm deaths of children, and k ...
  • STUDY: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher ...
    Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress: STUDY: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher Rates Of Gun Violence  —  The National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies in Congress frequently claim that gun violence is highest in places with the toughest crime laws.  But a new study fro ...
  • A Leave of Presence - Thank you. Forty-six ye ...
    Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal: A Leave of Presence  —  Thank you.  Forty-six years ago on April 3, 1967, I became the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.  Some of you have read my reviews and columns and even written to me since that time.  Others were in ...
  • Sanford says fiancée surprised him at v ...
    CNN: Sanford says fiancée surprised him at victory event  —  (CNN) - Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who resigned because of an extramarital affair with Maria Belen Chapur, told CNN in an interview Wednesday he was “completely” surprised when Chapur - ...
  • Sen. Paul to deliver speech in New Hampshire ( ...
    Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Sen. Paul to deliver speech in New Hampshire  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will be the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Republican Party's Liberty Dinner in May.  —  Paul's office confirmed on Wednesday that the senator from Kentucky w ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • 城市农业即&#2355 ...
    养耕共生和温室大棚等新老技术使城市农业在一些大城市落地生根。城市农业在媒体 ...
  • 李克强的环&#2044 ...
    中国新总理李克强上任后，人们对中国环保新政出台的期望与日俱增。然而，李克强 ...
  • 中国投资在&#3276 ...
    摄影记者杰克·库尔茨通过镜头展示了，中国投资在老挝人日常生活中留下的印记。 ...
  • 西伯利亚水&#3000 ...
    环保人士认为供给中国城市的水力发电需要俄罗斯付出社会和生态代价，称其为“环& ...
  • 雾霾背后的&#3246 ...
    持续多日的大规模雾霾，在中国掀起了一场关于机动车油品质量如何升级，以及由谁 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Are the "New Atheists" Bigoted Tools of Empire?
    Scientific racism is a term seldom used today but which has a long and ignoble history in the modern world. In the late 18th century, the renowned scientist and philosopher Christoph Meiners published his famous treatise The Outline and History of Mankind. Central to his analysis was a q ...
  • 10 Craziest Things Pat Robertson Has Said
    It’s tempting to dismiss Pat Robertson as an unimportant distraction, a living relic whose various kooky opinions might have mattered in the past, but don’t matter any longer. That would be a mistake. While many other Christian right leaders have crowded the field in recent ...
  • Government Waste: DHS Documents Reveal Widespr ...
    Federal documents reveal the Department of Homeland Security conducted daily monitoring of peaceful Occupy protests and encampments in 2011.The memos, obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) through FOIA, show that the DHS routinely observed “Occupy-type” protest ...
  • Watch: Colbert Embarrasses GOPer Who Warned of ...
    On his show last night, Stephen Colbert took on Georgia RNC Chairperson Sue Everhart for using one of the stupidest arguments against marriage equality to date.Everhart’s claim, which made AlterNet’s  Top 5 Ways the GOP Has Failed to Appear Less Crazy, suggests people fight ...
  • Associated Press to Drop the Word 'Illegal' In ...
    A three-year campaign by Colorlines.com to get the media to stop using the term “illegal immigrants” scored a tremendous victory on Tuesday when The Associated Press, the nation’s largest news-gathering organization, announced that it was updating news-writing style rules t ...

Threat Level

  • Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secr ...
    The President Barack Obama administration is informing a federal judge that if it's forced to disclose a secret court opinion about the government illegally spying on Americans, the likely result could be "exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national ...
  • Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Threatened and Hacked ...
    Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
  • FTC Announces Winners of Death-to-Robocalls Ch ...
    The Federal Trade Commission gets about 200,000 calls monthly from consumers complaining about robocalls, those illegal prerecorded messages hawking everything from timeshares in the Bahamas to free money. Because the commission's "do-not-call" registry was simply not able to handle the ...
  • Cord-Cutters Rejoice: Streaming Broadcast TV W ...
    A divided federal appeals court, ruling 2-1 Monday, declined to block a unique, antenna-based subscription service that enables the streaming of broadcast television to any internet-enabled device.
  • Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringem ...
    A federal judge is declaring as unlawful a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital music files.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • cyprus parliament president says “no fut ...
    by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2013 13:20 -0400 Greece Iceland Just last week Yiannakis Omirou, Cypriot House of Representatives President, was calling for the nation to accept it is “time for responsibility” as they progressed towards a final solution; and yet today, as Cyprus’ Fama ...
  • Activist Post: Take Your Money Out of the Bank ...
    Dave Hodges Activist Post It is now clear, the government of Cyprus was given two options by the IMF and the EU in which they were told that they could steal money from private bank accounts or they could leave the Eurozone all together and face total economic annihilation. This theft involves s ...
  • Venezuelan Government Announces Transition to ...
    By Tamara Pearson, Ryan Mallett-Outtrim Miami, April 1st 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – In a public broadcast yesterday the Venezuelan government announced the transition to democracy. Measures include the sale of community media to business giant Rupert Murdoch, and the privatisation of the heal ...
  • Viva Tierra Colorada! by Justin Raimondo &#821 ...
    by Justin Raimondo, April 01, 2013 The people of Tierra Colorada, in Mexico’s Guerrero province, have had enough. On March 28, 1,500 armed citizens took to the streets, set up roadblocks, and arrested local officials. Tierra Colorada sits on a major road which runs from the popular tourist city ...
  • The haircut from hell
    WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN THEY TAKE ALL YOUR MONEY? (Hint: They already have.) By John Kaminski Prior to last week’s disturbing bureaucratic bank robbery stories from Cyprus, then New Zealand, then Canada — being piled on top of endless stories about drones, endless purchases of hollow point a ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Do we want to bring back traditional marriage? ...
    One of my co-authors pointed out that the previous post was incomplete:  Should we thank the Court as it rescues us from our bad laws? Or just bow?. It included a quote that was absurdly incorrect. Although peripheral to the point of the post, a correction is required. It’s this from “Gay ...
  • Should we thank the Court as it rescues us fro ...
    Summary:  America remains locked in a battle between Left and Right. Each fights to protect the Constitution — or the pieces of it they value. Neither cares for the Constitution as other than a tool to advance their interests. The Constitution, torn between them, slowly withers. The Americ ...
  • The future calls the Marine Corps, but they re ...
    Summary:  An organization’s destiny rides on its leaders’ decisions on those rare occasions when the future call. Their response puts the organization on the path to success, or decay. Sometimes that happens on the field in battle.  Sometimes it’s a call to action, to serve by ...
  • Social unrest coming to Europe? If not, why not?
    Summary: Five years of crisis in Europe, yet its streets remain mostly calm. What accounts for this? How long will it continue? “At the heart of the crisis, there is the challenge of redefining the social contract to safeguard the sustainability of Europe’s social model.” &#821 ...
  • The next step of computer evolution: becoming ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we examined the job prospects for journalists when computers do much of their job as well as people. But it might not end there. Computers will become bloggers, either in collaboration with people, or software run by people as a hobby. Here we speculate about what kinds of bl ...

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Take Your Money Out of the Bank, While You Sti ...
    It is now clear, the government of Cyprus was given two options by the IMF and the EU in which they were told that they could steal money from private bank accounts or they could leave the Eurozone all together and face total economic annihilation. This theft involves seizing the funds of all a ...
  • Chemtrails: Frightening Lesser-Known Facts
    "In the last ten years, respiratory disease in the US has moved from 8th to 3rd highest cause of death. Asthma rates have more than doubled in the western world and Alzheimer's' disease, a condition that is caused by aluminum poisoning, has also skyrocketed. "
  • A Surprising Number Of Americans Believe In Co ...
    Have you ever noticed that whenever the government or the mainstream media wants to demonize a particular point of view they call it a “conspiracy theory”? The unspoken message is that normal people such as us should never dare to question the official propaganda being put out by “official sour ...
  • China mobilizes military, on ‘high alert’ over ...
    China has started mobilizing military forces around the Korean peninsula in response to rising tensions that follow recent threats by North Korea to launch missile attacks against its southern neighbor and the United States. According to US officials, Pyongyang’s declaration of a ‘state of wa ...
  • The Confiscation of Savings in Canada? Cyprus- ...
    The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style “bail-ins” are actually proposed in the new Canadian government budget. When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself. And guess what? It is right there in ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Tories’ Cruelty Is Laid Bare as Mult ...
    Ever since the Tories came to power in May 2010, aided by the Liberal Democrats, who, sadly, demonstrated that everything they professed to believe in could be discarded if it meant being in government, the very fabric of civil society in the UK has been faced with extinction. This is a country ...
  • From Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer Tells His Lawyer ...
    As part of my coverage of the huge, ongoing hunger strike at Guantánamo, I’m delighted to make available the full text of a statement (actually an affidavit) made by Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, based on a phone conversation that Cli ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantánamo Hung ...
    The world is, I hope, waking up to the truth that something terrible is happening at Guantánamo — a prison-wide hunger strike, involving as many as 130 of the remaining 166 prisoners, which began nearly two months ago, but was denied by the US authorities until just two weeks ago, although ...
  • Prison-Wide Hunger Strike Still Rages at Guant ...
    Three weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” in which I reported the stories emerging from Guantánamo of a prison-wide hunger strike, the most severe since George W. Bush was President, and the gulf between what was being reported by the prisone ...
  • Voices from the Hunger Strike in Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • ALEC Behind "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave
    In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers. Community activists and labor leaders struck a deal with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to allow a vote on a paid sick leave ordinance that would cov ...
  • Water for Profit: Seizing Climate Change as a ...
    As the effects of climate change continue to ripple throughout the planet, some groups are acknowledging that the warming planet means big money is to be made on a resource more precious than oil — water. read more
  • AP Finally Agrees: “No Human Being is Illegal”
    The Associated Press, the largest news agency in the world, has officially eliminated the term "illegal immigrant" from its vocabulary, the news agency announced Tuesday. read more
  • Monsanto Cashes in on Ongoing Drought
    As ongoing drought continues to rampage through America's heartland, genetically modified seed giant Monsanto is cashing in. Monsanto announced a 22 percent jump in quarterly earnings, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, as farmers—who continue to struggle with withered fields and lo ...
  • Activists on Both Sides of Atlantic Denounce U ...
    Obama's proposal for a "Free Trade" agreement between the US and European Union is being championed by large corporations, but public interest groups and environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic are vowing to fight the deal. Long-opposed to the nefarious role that so-called ...

Lifehacker

  • Rainy Cafe Machine Plays Ambient Noise to Soot ...
    Ambient noise can do a lot to help boost your creativity. The Rainy Cafe Machine is a simple little site that plays both the bustle of a coffee shop and the soothing sound of gradually increasing rainfall. More »
  • GrouPlay Lets Everyone Contribute to Your Part ...
    Unless you're a professional DJ, chances are at some point you've had party guests over that get on your case for your taste in music. Everyone has their own preferences and no one wants to be left off the playlist. GrouPlay for iOS ensure they never have to by letting everyone on a WiFi c ...
  • What Type of Internet Connection Do You Use?
    With fiber making inroads and traditional carriers boosting speeds to compensate, internet connections are getting faster. What type of connection do you have? More »
  • I'm Cory Doctorow, and This Is How I Work
    When How I Work was just an idea, the Lifehacker team made a "yeah right, in your dreams, probably not gonna happen" list of people the series would feature. Cory Doctorow was toward the top. He's a hero of ours, and here are a few reasons why: He co-edits Boing Boing, one of the best blog ...
  • MacGyver Challenge: Hack Something Using an Ol ...
    Hello, fellow Lifehackers! Time for another MacGyver Challenge. What's a MacGyver Challenge, you ask? Simple. We give you an object and you show us what cool things you can do with it. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will win an autographed copy of the Lifehacker boo ...

Water Wars

  • MLC warns of Maharashtra water wars
    BJP MLC Ashish Shelar at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday said that a circular was issued by the additional director general of police, Ahmed Javed, stating that with the ongoing water crisis across the state, the likelihood of an impending water war is high.
  • Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by H ...
    The snow is falling in Helsinki as the Tiger tries to escape his past in this short story from Hassan Blasim He woke, and before the last traces of the nightmare had faded he made up his mind: he'd take him out to the forest and finish it. Fifteen years ago, before he shot him, the man said, "Do ...
  • Can Ghana avoid the coming water wars ? IMANI
    Have any one of you urban dwellers ever joined a queue all day to fetch water from a well just because your state-managed water system had not been flowing for days?
  • Has Ghana enough Water to Share with Citizens ...
    *IMANI Alert: Has Ghana enough Water to Share with Citizens on World Water Day? Can Ghana Avoid the Coming Water Wars and Seek Cooperation?*
  • Blue Peace: New Solution for Averting Water Wa ...
    MUMBAI, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --With the spectre of war looming over Egypt and Ethiopia due to discord on the Nile River Comprehensive Framework Agreement, a new report, Blue Peace for the Nile, ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Why Parents Of Young Children With ADHD May Wa ...
    The New York Times recently reported that rates of ADHD diagnosis among school-aged children has risen to 11 percent — a record high. That number is partially a consequence of more accurate ADHD diagnoses — but it presents a stark choice for parents debating the best treatment option ...
  • Why You Couldn’t Download DC Laws… Until Now
    ThinkProgress recently received a very special package courtesy of technologist and public domain advocate Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org. It included one of the twenty-three books that makes up the District of Columbia (DC) Official Code published by Thomson Reuters subsi ...
  • Family Planning Clinics Are Essential Health C ...
    In states across the country, women rely on publicly-funded family planning clinics — such as their local Planned Parenthood affiliates — for their primary care needs. In fact, according to the Guttmacher Institute, women choose to go to family planning clinics even when other health ...
  • Fox Host Blows Up Over Firing Of Rutgers’ Abus ...
    Fox News host Eric Bolling bemoaned Rutgers University’s decision to fire men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, after video surfaced of Rice abusing players by throwing basketballs at them, shoving them, and harassing them with profane and homophobic language, including “fucking faggot.” &#822 ...
  • GOP Pitches ‘Family-Friendly’ Policy That Woul ...
    House Republicans are planning to consider legislation that would weaken rules requiring businesses to pay their employees overtime
    when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Instead of allowing workers to make increased wages for working longer, the legislation would give employers the option ...

    thwap's schoolyard

  • Elections Canada: The Farce Continues
    Shorter Elections Canada: "We're useless." Read the comments at the link. Canadians are fed up. (Except for the pathetic harpercon hacks and trolls who vote down inarguable statements about the importance of electoral integrity and democracy.)
  • Boris, Alison and Moi
     A little while ago, in the comments section of one of her posts, Alison at Creekside was asked why she isn't blogging so much anymore. She replied that there didn't seem to be much point to blogging in the face of official sanction for an illegitimate government.(I don't remember which pos ...
  • A Break
    I'll resume my look at Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State tomorrow (maybe). For now, yeez kin watch a video. A terrible video I watched with my 5-year old last night. The guy who wrote that script probably got $150 (in today's money) for it. Threw it at his bosses and said "If yo ...
  • "Resisitng the State: Urban Colonization and R ...
    Chapter Three of Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State is based on interviews with Roger Obonsawin and Kathy Mallet, two First Nations people who worked to build friendly spaces and services for their fellow FN people in Canada's urban centres. Roger Obonsawin Kathy Mallet Neigh ...
  • "Resisting the State" ... More
    So, yeah, more about Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State. In Chapter 2, Neigh talks about the transplanted Trinidadian, Toronto lawyer Charles Roach. Neigh begins with an in-depth explanation of how the cultures of other lands filter into a locale via the process of immigration ...

on Government Oversight

TechDirt

  • USPTO Issues Final Rejection Of Apple's Rubber ...
    We've argued repeatedly how silly it is for courts to move forward with cases over patent infringement while the USPTO is reviewing those same patents. Considering just how often patent re-exams lead to changes in the patents (including rejecting key claims), moving forward before the USPTO has ...
  • YouTube Takes Down Music Video For 'Terms Of S ...
    Art Neill, from the very cool non-profit group New Media Rights (which provides legal services/advocacy for internet users and creators), alerts us to an unfortunate story involving YouTube pulling down a band's video, claiming terms of service violations, but refusing to explain much more. We' ...
  • DJs' 'Dihydrogen Monoxide' April Fool's Prank ...
    April Fool's Day. Either you love it or you hate it. There's not much middle ground. As a writer on The Internet, April Fool's Day is a 24-hour deathtrap composed of plausible stories that will set you on fire the moment you press the Publish button. It turns even the most cheerful of writers in ...
  • Author Claims That If Apple And Microsoft Star ...
    The NY Times has a slightly odd op-ed piece, written by Eamonn Fingleton, author of a book about how China is going to dominate the US economically. That may absolutely be true, but this oped tries to bend over backwards to prove that China will be more innovative than the US... and uses patent ...
  • Time Warner Cable: We Can Record You, But You ...
    So we just had a post about a spoof on customer service from Time Warner Cable by the gripe site TWCCustomerService.com, and I see that they've been busy with their next video as well, in which they call Time Warner Cable's customer service center and tell the representative who answers that the ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • People are not illegal
    The Associated Press has taken the bold move of proscribing the use of “illegal immigrant” in an update to its widely used style guide. Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant ...
  • Experimental evidence that meditation promotes ...
    Northeastern University College of Science: Scientists have mostly focused on the benefits of meditation for the brain and the body, but a recent study by Northeastern University’s David DeSteno, published in Psychological Science, takes a look at what impacts meditation has on interpersonal har ...
  • Music: Bugge Wesseltoft — ‘Yellow is the Colour’
  • Scientific racism, militarism, and the new ath ...
    After briefly reviewing the history of scientific racism, Murtaza Hussain writes: In the present atmosphere, characterised by conflict with Muslim-majority nations, a new class of individuals have stepped in to give a veneer of scientific respectability to today’s politically-useful bigotr ...
  • New York needs the NYPD to stop stop-and-frisk ...
    John Liu writes: The numbers don’t lie: New York City police have conducted 5m “stop-and-frisk” searches since 2002. More than 86% of individuals targeted were black or Hispanic, and 88% were innocent of any crime. The stop-and-frisk tactic is clearly discriminatory, often humi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Weather, not climate caused the brief surface ...
    Readers may recall the breathless wailing over a brief period of surface melt detected by satellites last year. The way the media and alarmists who drive the media behaved, you’d think that global warming had set the planet on fire. … Continue reading →
  • Open Thread Wednesday
    I have travel today, hence this open thread. Some folks report issues with posting comments, and from what I can tell it seems to be related to wordpress.com. Try clearing your cache and/or using a different browser if this persists … Continue reading →
  • Lewandowsky paper ‘provisionally removed ...
    UPDATE: Steve McIntyre has an interesting letter about the Lewandowsky and Cook affair here. Retraction Watch writes: Last week, we covered the complicated story of a paper by Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues that had been removed — or at least … Continue reading →
  • Future shifts in rainfall
    From UC Berkeley: Rising temperature difference between hemispheres could dramatically shift rainfall patterns in tropics By Robert Sanders, Media Relations  BERKELEY — One often ignored consequence of global climate change is that the Northern Hemisphere is becoming warmer than the … Cont ...
  • In a new study, James Hansen pushes nuclear po ...
    This is sure to get some enviros in a tizzy. From Chemical and Engineering News of the American Chemical Society: Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes Climate Change: Study estimates that nuclear energy leads to substantially fewer pollution-related … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Rally for Medical Research
    The Rally for Medical Research will unite millions of Americans across the country to call on our nations policymakers to make life-saving medical research funding a national priority. This unified call to action will raise awareness about the critical need for a sustained investment in the Nati ...
  • Bacteria find key to treating obesity without ...
    Weight loss after gastric band surgery may be partly caused by changes to micro-organisms that live in the gut, say US researchers.A study in mice has shown that surgery causes different types of bacteria to colonise the gut.Transferring samples of those bacteria into healthy mice caused them to ...
  • Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, ...
    And you thought it was all about the neurons. In an experiment that might seem like something only a mad scientist would conjure, researchers injected human brain cells into the brains of mice to see how it would affect the way the mice thought. It did: the mice got smarter. But the cognition bo ...
  • Biologists Make a Computer From a Living Cell ...
    If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust their activities in fermentation tanks used to make drugs and other chemicals. Now researchers ...
  • Human ear fabrication shows potential for growth

CFACT

  • Gas guzzlers lead March auto sales surge
    CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot, appeared on Fox News yesterday to discuss why trucks, SUVs, and other "gas guzzlers" are responsible for last month's surge in auto sales.
  • Cooling, not warming, kills civilizations!
    Eugene Linden knows exactly nothing about the forces that have killed off every culture prior to our own—most of them for centuries at a time and many of them permanently. With few exceptions, the hundreds of failed cultures collapsed in the “little ice age” phases of the natural 1,500-year Dans ...
  • Regulations: crony capitalism’s tool
    Soros was instrumental at the least, integral at the most, in writing Obama’s 2009 Stimulus Bill that put nearly $100 billion into various Green energy companies and projects. Additionally, there is a little-publicized connection between Soros, Green energy advocacy, and the White House.... Lak ...
  • Canadian oil already “spilling” in ...
    Environmentalists mistakenly think that blocking the Keystone pipeline will prevent crude oil, derived from Canada’s oil sands, from being extracted and from being conveyed into the U.S. to be refined into gasoline, asphalt, and other products that are important to the transportation and manufac ...
  • A carbon tax would destroy America
    If you want to know what a carbon tax on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would do to America you need only look at the destruction of industry and business in Australia, along with the soaring costs for energy use it imposes on anyone there.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Venezuelan Parliament Ratifies Oil Deal with R ...
    The Venezuelan parliament has ratified a deal to set up a joint oil extraction venture of state-run Russian and Venezuelan oil companies, local media reported on Thursday, Moscow time.
  • ISS Orbit Readjusted Ahead of Crew Departure
    Russia's Mission Control on Wednesday readjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), raising it by 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) to ensure safe departure of crew members, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
  • Fire in Chechnya’s Tallest Building Put Out
    The fire that broke out in the tallest skyscraper of Chechnya’s capital Grozny on Wednesday evening was put out early on Thursday, a spokesman for the republic’s emergencies service told RIA Novosti.
  • Putin Tells Gazprom to Revisit Yamal-Europe-2 ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered energy giant Gazprom on Wednesday to return to the plan to build a second section of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline.
  • N. Korea 'Approves Nuclear Strike' on US - Report
    The North Korean army said Wednesday that it had received approval to launch a “merciless” attack on the United States, including possible nuclear strikes.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia Clarifies Status of SA Space Tracking S ...
    The space tracking station that is being built in South Africa as part of Russia’s astrophysical project RadioAstron can only be used with the radio telescope, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
  • Russia Clarifies Status of SA Space Tracking S ...
    The space tracking station that is being built in South Africa as part of Russia’s astrophysical project RadioAstron can only be used with the radio telescope, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
  • Obama Launches Project to Map Human Brain
    US President Barack Obama unveiled a bold project Tuesday to map the human brain, saying it could help treat brain disorders, create millions of jobs, improve billions of lives, and put Americans at the forefront of cutting-edge scientific research.
  • Russian Scientists Name Fossil Reptile After Lenin
    Russian paleontologists have named a recently discovered fossil ichthyosaur after Lenin, the head of the Natural History Museum at Ulyanovsk State University told RIA Novosti on Friday.
  • Russian Parliament to Mull New Ozone Protectio ...
    The Russian cabinet has introduced a bill to parliament regulating the use of substances that harm the protective layer of ozone shielding the Earth from harmful UV radiation.

Pruning Shears

  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Tips for Climate-Friendly Eating
    Talk of global warming and climate change usually lead to ideas for reducing our fossil fuel use. We need to do that, sure. But how we grow our food, and what we choose to eat, could have a far greater positive impact on global warming than anything else we do.Click here to read this article
  • From Saccharin to GE Seed, Report Profiles Mon ...
    WASHINGTON - 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. Today, t ...
  • "Eat-In" at FDA April 8 Demands Action on GMOs
    COLLEGE PARK, Md.,-- Activists to Prepare & Share "Stone Soup" to Protest FDA's Antiquated Policies on Genetically Engineered (GMO) FoodsClick here to read this article
  • The Downside of Expecting America's Agricultur ...
    Following World War II, with the onset of the "Green Revolution," feeding the world became a national mantra. But that idea has created big problems. Click here to read this article
  • Why Do G.M.O.'s Need Protection?
    Genetic engineering in agriculture has disappointed many people who once had hopes for it. Excluding, of course, those who've made money from it, appropriately represented in the public's mind by Monsanto. That corporation, or at least its friends, recently managed to have an outrageous rider sl ...

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.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Slaughter: Ten ...
    Lying and destroying food stocks, medicines and essential services are tried and tested (illegal) tactics.In Libya, the same is happening. Afghanistan, According to the U N Childrens Fund, about 600 under-five children perish a day of preventable disease Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • The Great Afghan Corruption Scam: How Operatio ...
    Americas post-9/11 conflicts have been wars of corruption, a point surprisingly seldom made in the mainstream media. Keep in mind that George W. Bushs administration was a monster of privatization. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
  • Iraq : 10 Years of Stupidity
    To use expressions like humanitarian intervention or human security given such predictable insults to basic human needs and rights beats Orwells 1984 Newspeak. An artificial country put together by the UK cannot be treated as a unitary state. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Go ...
  • Dr. Len Horowitz framed in murder and worm cas ...
    WHO OFFICIALS CITED FOR PANDEMIC FRAUD LINKED TO DRUG INDUSTRY CONSPIRACY TO MURDER AND DEFAME WHISTLE-BLOWING JOURNALISTS Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, and Jane Burgermeister are both in jeopardy Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • What's Wrong With This Picture ?
    March 27, 2013, some 15,000 middle and high school students from around the state of Washington celebrate We Day. Work on at least one globally-based service and one local project Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
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  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
    Why is it that people are spreading the word that the Terminator seed is being marketed by Monsanto? Could it possibly be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release this technology on a complacent populace?
  • New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor T ...
    An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
    Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Beijing Prepares for Avian Flu
    ShareThisBeijing Prepares for Avian Flu 02 Apr 2013 A decade after the deadly SARS virus wrought havoc in Beijing and other Chinese cities, hospitals in China's capital are gearing up in the event that another pandemic begins to spread. Following news that at least two men in Shanghai have di ...
  • Defense Secretary Hagel to take voluntary sequ ...
    ShareThisDefense Secretary Hagel to take voluntary sequester pay cut 02 Apr 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will take a voluntary pay cut as a show of solidarity with Pentagon employees who will have to take unpaid time off over the coming months, a Defense Department spokesman said on Tuesda ...
  • Mark Sanford wins GOP nomination in South Carolina
    ShareThisMark Sanford wins GOP nomination in South Carolina 02 Apr 2013 The former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has cleared another hurdle in his bid for a political comeback, winning the Republican nomination for a vacant seat in the House of Representatives. Sanford's political care ...
  • US deploys second destroyer closer to North Ko ...
    ShareThisUS deploys second destroyer closer to North Korea coast 02 Mar 2013 The United States says it has deployed a second guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean Peninsula as tensions mount with North Korea. On Monday, US defense officials said that the USS John McC ...
  • China: Four More Cases of New Bird Flu Strain
    ShareThisChina: Four More Cases of New Bird Flu Strain 02 Apr 2013 China has confirmed that four more people in one province are seriously ill with a bird flu virus new to humans that has already killed two people. The health bureau of eastern Jiangsu province said on its website that three w ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Stalking Soldier Arrested, Disarmed by Texas P ...
    28 March 2013 US Army Master Sergeant CJ Grisham: This Soldier has a Top Secret clearance. Over the past couple of years, I repeatedly warned the US Army that Master Sergeant Christopher “CJ” Grisham is a lethal threat.  These warnings were ignored. Grisham has harassed a long list of pe ...
  • Tragedy in Thailand
    27 March 2013 Burma neighbors Thailand on the west.  For 65 years, a war against and between ethnic groups in Burma has been on.  The conflicts created many internally displaced refugees, while others have crossed into Thailand.  Thailand has allowed this incursion for humanita ...
  • USAF and American Flags Atop Mt. Everest
    25 March 2013 Written by: Rob Marshall Family and Friends, I've been meaning to write this email for some time now.  I thought it would be better to hold off until the big event was close, but I didn't expect it to be just a few days away when I sent this!  As you can tell, I'm about ...
  • Seven Myths About “Women in Combat"
    17 March 2013 Published here with permission from the author. Written By: G.S. Newbold, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.) Marine photo / Cpl. Jennifer Pirante Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michelle Berglin trains for an upcoming deployment at Camp Pendleton in January. Myth #1 – “It’s about women in ...
  • Under Attack
    13 March 2013 Our website sustains repeated attacks and is frequently offline. We must upgrade the website which requires direct reader support. Please see this, and dig deep! We need it. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-michaelyon-online-com-alive

The Killing Train

  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...
  • Kerry in Kabul
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint press conference in Kabul this evening. There were three main issues discussed. The first was an agreement for the US Forces to make a phased withdrawal from Wardak province. Announced five days ago, Wardak has been ...
  • Foreign-imposed ideologies and report wars
    It's raining in Kabul so I spent a quiet day indoors, reading and watching television, surfing the 30 some Afghan channels. Yesterday the winner of Afghan Star (basically Afghan Idol), Sajed Jannati, sang a song for New Year's. Another New Year's concert took place today, and the singer was Farz ...
  • Waiting for 2014 in Kabul
    An article in Safi Airways magazine, which I read on the flight from Delhi, reports that while 10-12% is a good return on investment in the US, 50% and more is possible in Afghanistan. Waiting for luggage to come around at Kabul airport, looking up at the empty billboards offering advertising sp ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Govt launches probe into deadly school fire
    Burma has launched an official inquiry into a blaze at a Muslim school that killed 13 boys, state media said Wednesday, as authorities sought to dismiss fears the fire was linked to religious unrest
  • Eyewitnesses from school fire share their story
    Thirteen children were killed when a fire broke out in their Muslim school on Tuesday night. Eyewitnesses describe what they saw.
  • Rangoon officials blame school administrators ...
    Rangoon government officials have accused two school imams of being 'largely' responsible for the fire that killed 13 children on Tuesday, which authorities claim was caused by an overheated power transformer
  • After rioting, police crack down on drunken mi ...
    A group of young men were arrested on Sunday after an alcohol-fuelled bender led to vandalism in a Mandalay township, as police forces step up their efforts to restrain communal unrest
  • HRW satellite images reveal extensive damage
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) obtains before and after satellite images of Meikhtila, showing extensive damage to towns that were burned in sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims. HRW want the government to investigate.

Telegraph - Climate Change

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Pew Poll: Declining Democratic Preference for ...
    M.J. Rosenberg just featured the latest Pew poll on American attitudes toward Israel and Palestine.  He focussed on a decline among Democrats in those who say they favor Israel over the Palestinians.  In the past 35 years, those who declare their sympathies lay more with Israel declined from 44% ...
  • Israel Ranks Low in OECD Quality of Life Survey
    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which monitors key indices of social development among major western nations, published the Better Life index.  It is a new survey which asks respondents to indicate their own subjective view of their economic, social, and persona ...
  • Nakba Steals All: Land, Life, Libraries
    There are thousands of evils the Israeli Occupation does every day.  Just as there were similar evils of the Nakba which preceded it and served as its harbinger.  But we’re used to focusing on the big and obvious ones like land theft, expulsion, rape and murder.  In some ways the most plai ...
  • Qatari Emir Pledges $1-Billion Fund to Preserv ...
    Qatar’s emir, who earlier pledged $400-million for reconstruction of Gaza after Israel’s Cast Lead devastation, has vowed to create a $1-billion fund to preserve Arab Jerusalem: Qatar’s emir proposed on Tuesday that the Arab League create a $1 billion fund to protect the Arabic and I ...
  • Chinese Intelligence Aware Israel Used China t ...
    Ronen Bergman’s account of the Ben Zygier tragedy notes that Israel lured two high-level Lebanese to spy on its behalf.  One, Ziyad al-Homsi, mayor of a Bekaa Valley village, was brought to Beijing for what he thought was a trade mission.  There he was wined and dined by Israeli agents (he ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Media Sites Should Adopt Responsive Design
    Responsive design is the big buzz of 2013. If 2012 was foretold to bring prosperity based on the Chinese zodiac, Mashable's prediction for 2013 forecast a big year for responsive design, presenting a significant paradigm shift in the web design and development world where previously we were rest ...
  • The School of Data Journalism: Europe's Bigges ...
    The International Journalism Festival will take place April 24-27 in Perugia, Italy. We are excited to announce that the School of Data Journalism will be held for the second time at the festival. The workshop will be run by the School of Data team at the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Europe ...
  • How to Embed Open Spending Visualizations In Y ...
    The Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Spending platform is a hive of activity and packed full of colorful displays of spending and budgets from all over the world. Its aim is to help track government and corporate financial transactions across the world and present them in useful and engaging for ...
  • How to Embed Open Spending Visualizations to Y ...
    The Open Spending platform is a hive of activity and packed full of colorful displays of spending and budgets from all over the world. Its aim is to help track government and corporate financial transactions across the world and present them in useful and engaging forms. For some time now, us ...
  • How to Embed Open Spending Databases to Your O ...
    The Open Spending platform is a hive of activity and packed full of colorful displays of spending and budgets from all over the world. Its aim is to help track government and corporate financial transactions across the world and present them in useful and engaging forms. For some time now, us ...

Cutting Edge News

  • North Carolina Should be Condemned for Trying ...
    North Carolina's recent bill to establish an official state religion is in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and the 14th Amendment. The bill filed by North Carolina's state legislature on Monday states that the United States Constitution does not restrict states from making laws respecti ...
  • America on Edge - Is This the End of the 'Chri ...
    “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee / We don’t take our trips on LSD /We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street /We like livin’ right, and bein’ free.� —“Okie from Muskogee,� Merle Haggard, 1969These days, The Hag likes to suggest that he and Willie Nelson fired up ...
  • Broken Government - Defense Stocks Swell as Bu ...
    The biggest defense companies’ share value has soared faster than the stock market since sequester spending cuts began on March 1. While the S&P is up 3.7 percent and the Dow Jones industrial average has risen 4.3 percent, Boeing has jumped 9.6 percent, Lockheed Martin is up 8.3 percent. N ...
  • Ancient Days - New Clues in the Search for the ...
    The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost. We know that the ingredients are a plant dye, indigo, and a type of clay known as palygorskite, but scientists do not know how they were 'cooked' and combined together. Now, a ...
  • The Healthy Edge - Risk of Prostate Cancer Hig ...
    Men with an inherited genetic condition called Lynch syndrome face a higher lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer and appear to develop the disease at an earlier age, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.Lynch syndrome is an ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Toward Liberation: For Animals And Language B ...
    Surrender the privilege of speciesism, embrace empathy for all sentient beings, and allow compassion to guide your choices
  • Climate Crisis Threatens Urban Food Security
    Policies that focus on rural food production alone will not tackle the rising food insecurity in urban areas, says a report published by the International Institute for Environment and Development
  • Most Vulnerable People Need Protection From Ge ...
    Controversial geoengineering projects that may be used to cool the planet must be approved by world governments to reduce the danger of catastrophic accidents, British scientists said. Met Office researchers have called for global oversight of the radical schemes after studies showed they could ...
  • The Great Afghan Corruption Scam By Dilip Hiro
    How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption
  • Manipulating The World To Destruction By Dan L ...
    The "exodus" did not free the Jews - just the opposite - it has been used to keep Jews in perpetual bondage to a false sense of history and given them a conscience that sees themselves as eternal victims, and distracts them from realizing that they may also play a role in the injustices done to ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Finally! A Senior Administration Official Call ...
    For an administration which loves to talk about "reaching out to regimes such as Iran, Syria and/or the Taliban," they have been very slow in reaching out to the Chinese for help in curbing the whims and whines of Crazy Kim Jong Un the North Korean Dictator. Surely there have been l ...
  • U.S. Sees Highest Poverty Spike Since The 1960 ...
    According to the U.S. Census Bureau the number of Americans below the poverty levels are at numbers not seen since the mid-1960s when President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the federal government's so-called War on Poverty (which didn't work). In January, nearly 50 million Americans — on ...
  • Has Obama Learned How to Conduct Foreign Polic ...
    By Barry Rubin On October 15, 2009, I published the following article on my blog. Three and a half years later I think the question raised has been definitively answered. I've put into bold some of the particularly relevant passages below and put my up-to-date remarks in brack ...
  • PC GONE MAD! Associated Press Drops Term Illeg ...
    The Associated Press, the largest news-gathering outlet in the world will no longer use the term "illegal immigrant." saying the term illegal relates to an action not a person.  On the positive side they also reject the undocumented term A person may have plenty of documents, just ...
  • Dr. Ben Carson Blasts Racist White Liberals Wh ...
    “I’m speaking from experience when I tell you that there is nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government,” Former Congressman Allen West at CPAC 2013 Over the last week Dr. Ben Carson learned exactly ...

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Not My Tribe

  • Meet The Stars of local-Colorado Springs- burl ...
    ****** We have some radical superstars in our local area and I encourage all Lefties to give their performances a personal visit. Check out Peaks and Pasties
  • UN military units ready to take over for the U ...
    ——————————- Leave it for the so-called ‘United Nations’… this organization is always ready to be mobilized for Pentagon mop up operations after the US and its allies have smashed up yet another country. UN plans post-A ...
  • Prosecutors in the Blood Covered State of Colo ...
    “It’s my determination and my intention that in this case for James Eagan Holmes justice is death,” Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said at Monday’s hearing, which the accused attended. Mr Holmes’ parents sat holding hands in the public gallery. S ...
  • The Obama Administration- how coach plebeian t ...
    One of the most sadly comical aspects of the Obama Administration and the rather dense liberal types that put their hopes for future change in them, is how it is pretended that The Obamas are of, AND FOR, the people. And many brainwashed Americans even believe that!!!????? However, if so, why do ...
  • Maybe the US should just make all those marria ...
    ___ The two sides are both lined up to shoot each other down as to who should all be allowed to marry in the US, which is the one form of prostitution now fully supported by religion if engaged in by a man and a woman. Sure too though, in the US prostitution is basically [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mec ...
    I am happy to announce that my latest article is finally available online! My newest work, titled Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality, is a point-by-point refutation of Popular Mechanics' weak arguments regarding the controlled demolition of the three WT ...
  • New Evidence from AE911Truth Chemical Engineer ...
    "Mark Basile has tested paint chips from the World Trade Center dust from 9/11 and found that neither the blue nor red paint chips exhibit any explosive properties." A red/gray chip being ignited by Basile. Taken from Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup. As suspected, the paint chips do n ...
  • 'Splitting The Sky' Found Dead - He Was an Act ...
    From Facebook.com Sander Hicks shared a link. YesterdayRIP Friend and Comrade, Splitting The Sky. I knew him, and supported him. He died alone, but we are still with him. http://splittingthesky.blogspot.com/The 'Splitting the Sky' Blogsplittingthesky.blogspot.com
  • 9/11 Family Members Lorie Van Auken And Mindy ...
    Friday, March 22, 2013 CindySheehansSoapbox.blogspot.com I am honored to say that 9/11 Family Members Lorie Van Auken and Mindy Kleinberg, members of the September Eleventh Advocates, have informed me that they support the Tour de Peace, and its Mission Statement. Jon Gold Related: Jon G ...
  • Quotes on Conspiracy Theories - Updated Versio ...
    "An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act." - http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/conspiracy "A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepte ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Nasa Indian killed as Colombian violence continues
    Nasa Indians have been attacked from all sides of Colombia's civil war © Francisco PedroA 57-year-old Nasa Indian man has been shot dead in an alleged army attack in Colombia. Álvaro Chocué was shot in the head on Saturday, 30th March in the Caldono Indian Reserve in Colombia’s south-east ...
  • Salgado's 'Genesis' showcases photos of threat ...
    Zo'é children playing in a waterfall.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs London’s Natural History Museum prepares for the opening of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition ‘Genesis’ on April 11, Survival International has highlighted the plight of some of the ...
  • Tanzania: Land grab could spell ‘the end of th ...
    The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more.© SurvivalThe Tanzanian government this week announced a new ‘conservation’ area on Maasai lands, which community leader Samwel Nangiria says will spell ‘the end of the Maasai and the Serengeti ecosystem’ ...
  • Guarani trapped on ‘island’ celebrate land bre ...
    Guarani celebrate land breakthrough© SurvivalA Guarani community in Brazil is celebrating after the government recognized their land as indigenous, for their exclusive use. The 170 members of Pyelito Kuê/ M’barakay community, living on an ‘island’ between a river and a soya plantation, can now ...
  • Awá tribe's desperate call to evict loggers
    In a rare video appeal, the Awá have called on Brazil's Minister of Justice to act now and protect their land.© SurvivalEarth’s most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil’s government to evict invaders from their forest, as Brazil soccer fans lend their support fo ...

Greg Palast

  • How Bush won the war in Iraq - really!
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine If you thought it was "Blood for Oil"--you're wrong.  It was far, far worse. Because it was marked "confidential" on each page, the oil industry stooge couldn't believe the US State Department had given me a complete copy of their secret plans for the oil fields ...
  • Hugo Chavez vs "The Network"
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine London, February 2002. A tiny, dark and intense woman waited at the end of a lecture until I was alone, brought her face strangely close to mine and whispered, “President Chavez needs you. Right now. To Caracas. Right now. You must come to see him.” President Who ...
  • Fukushima: They Knew
    "Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" Two years later, the Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN An excerpt from Vultures' Picnic by Greg Palast I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the n ...
  • Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi Amigo
    By Greg Palast For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, as a FREE download. Based on m ...
  • How Do You Steal a Dream?Supreme Court hears s ...
    How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act For Care2.com By Greg Palast, author, “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” Sign the petition to Defend Martin Luther King's Dream Act - here. Jim Crow is alive and well — and he [...]

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Update: Blue for You and You and ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and commentary after the jump. April 2, 2013, MSNBC: Autism awareness rising as world 'lights it up blue' April 2, 2013, Fox News: Dr. Manny: The future is brighter than ever for children with...
  • UN World Autism Day Day Day Day Day
    By Anne Dachel If anyone thinks things are different in other countries, the sad truth is they aren't. This is the annual message from the Secretary-General of the UN for April 2, 2013 Autism Awareness Day. (Ban Ki-moon is from...
  • Congressional Action Alert - Autism Briefing A ...
    Congressional Action Alert - Autism Briefing Environmental Factors - What Are They and What Needs to Be Done? Please contact your representatives to attend this briefing! Go to http://www.house.gov/ and to http://www.senate.gov/to find your representatives' contact info. Please ask your...
  • Dachel Media Update: Holly Robinson Peete Speaks
    By Anne Dachel April 2, 2013, on Fox News, Holly Robinson Peete was introduced as "a board member of Autism Speaks." She described autism as a "global health crisis." She called for awareness. FOX NEWS: Holly Robinson Peete raises autism...
  • Autism Speaks' Geraldine Dawson on "The Divers ...
    By Anne Dachel On Friday, Feb 22, 2013, Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geri Dawson, Ph.D., gave the opening talk at the world's first Autism Investment Conference and explained why now is the time to make a profit from a...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Terminator Seeds and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
    Why is it that people are spreading the word that the Terminator seed is being marketed by Monsanto? Could it possibly be that the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” strategy is being used to pave the way for Monsanto to release this technology on a complacent populace?
  • New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor T ...
    An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
    Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...

new geography

  • Does the Post Office Deliver in Today's Urban ...
    The postal service has been ravaged by enormous deficits and massive layoffs. It will inevitably see the closing of thousands of buildings. Planners have taken notice. Countless journalists have lamented the loss of post-office buildings, praised their often remarkable architecture and called ...
  • Why Inmigration Really Matters, Particularly t ...
    Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s recent comment about immigration has drawn some local ire. At his annual remarks on the state of the city, the Mayor—in response to a question of how Cleveland can end its population decline by attracting immigrants—stated: “I believe in taking c ...
  • Will Obama Play his Aces?
    With the stock market hitting new highs, and unemployment easing, albeit slightly, President Obama can now seize his moment. After spending four years blaming George W. Bush for his lousy hand, the president now sits at the table with three strong aces among his cards. The key question is ...
  • Why British Prosperity is Hobbled by a Rigged ...
    The British have the least living space per head, the most expensive office rents and the most congested infrastructure of any EU-15 country. Thanks to a rapidly growing population –  the result of a healthy birth-rate and immigration – these trends are worsening steadily. At the same ti ...
  • Annual Update on World Urbanization: 2013
    Tokyo continues to be the world's largest urban area with more than 37 million people, according to the recently released 9th Annual edition of Demographia World Urban Areas. Tokyo has held the top position for nearly 60 years, since it displaced New York. There have been only modest changes i ...

water.org

  • Jeanne Jacque's Story
    Once her town rallied together, and worked with Water.org to dig a well, everything changed for Jeanne Jacque and her children.
  • Do something for World Water Day
    As you might imagine, World Water Day is our favorite holiday. There's no shortage of ways you can jump in!
  • Happiness in Selvi’s House
    Selvi is 37 years old and lives in Karattai Village in Vannur block, in Tamil Nadu. She and her husband work as agricultural laborers and have two daughters in school.
  • Support builds for the Strike
    More and more celebrities are supporting Matt Damon in his toilet strike protesting the lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for billions.
  • Spring Catchment in Haiti
    A spring is water that reaches the surface from an underground supply, appearing as small water holes or wet spots on hillsides or along river banks. In order to "catch" the water for use, the spring must be capped, allowing the water to pool up into the cement block. In this photo you can see t ...

Cryptogon

  • Italy Seizes Record Assets from Wind Farm Tycoon
    Via: BBC: The Italian authorities have seized assets worth 1.3bn euros ($1.7bn: £1.1bn) from a Sicilian businessman involved in renewable energy. Investigators allege that Vito Nicastri was a front man for the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, investing illegal earnings in his business empire. The anti-maf ...
  • Obama Administration Pushes Banks to Make Home ...
    Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing cras ...
  • ‘Let Them Eat Teslas’
    Why are tuition costs so high in the first place? Government Inflated the College Loan Bubble: The real problem is that we’ve been running a higher education bubble, one that — like the real-estate bubble — has been pumped up by cheap government money. Since 1999, student loan debt h ...
  • Earnings from February and March
    Here are Cryptogon’s earnings from February and March. In February, the total came to $759; a very rare earnings miss. You may have picked up on the fact that this site lives or dies by the U.S. Amazon commissions. Cryptogon readers backed off on Amazon purchases in February, and that&#821 ...
  • Stanford Bioengineers Make Transistor from Gen ...
    Via: Extreme Tech: Bioengineers at Stanford University have created the first biological transistor made from genetic materials: DNA and RNA. Dubbed the “transcriptor,” this biological transistor is the final component required to build biological computers that operate inside living cells. We a ...

The Economic Collapse

  • ALERT: All Of The Money In Your Bank Account C ...
    What would you do if you logged in to your bank account someday and it showed that you had a zero balance and your bank had no record that you ever had any money in your account?  What would you do if all of the money in your bank account suddenly disappeared in a single [...]
  • The Big Banks Are Recklessly Gambling With Our ...
    Have you ever wondered how the big banks make such enormous mountains of money?  Well, the truth is that much of it is made by gambling recklessly.  If they win on their bets, they become fabulously wealthy.  If they lose on their bets, they know that the government will come in and arrange for ...
  • This Is What It Feels Like To Have Your Life S ...
    What would you do if you woke up one day and discovered that the banksters had "legally" stolen about 80 percent of your life savings?  Most people seem to assume that most of the depositors that are getting ripped off in Cyprus are "Russian oligarchs" or "wealthy European tycoons", but the trut ...
  • Cyprus-Style Bank Account Confiscation Is In T ...
    The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts.  In fact, Cyprus-style bank account confiscation is actually in the new Canadian government budget.  When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself.  And guess what?  It is right ...
  • The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us T ...
    Don't be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day.  They are already very clearly telling you that they are going to do it.  Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem is the president of the Eurogroup - an organization of eurozone finance ministers that wa ...

Desertification

  • Land Acquisitions in Tanzania (IISD / Mark PURDON)
    Land Acquisitions in Tanzania: Strong Sustainability, Weak Sustainability and the Importance of Comparative Methods Full text link:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-013-9442-2   Abstract: This paper distinguished different analytical approaches to the evaluation of the sustainabi ...
  • Transfer of adaptation strategies (IISD)
    The transfer of successful interventions to reduce vulnerability is an outstanding goal in supporting sustainable development. This is however a challenging task since people and ecosystems display diverse characteristics including their ability to assimilate shocks. Within the multitude of vuln ...
  • Setting up a Drylands and Desert Restoration H ...
    COST Action ES1104 ‘Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertification: Setting up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub’ Funding opportunities for short term scientific missions For further details see http://desertrestorationhub.com/about/stsms Please find attached a flyer announ ...
  • UN drought program did Africa no good (Google ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – images of the Africa Drought http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/the-un-drought-program-did-africa-no-good-canada-was-right-to-withdraw/article10645044/?cmpid=rss1 The UN drought program did Africa no good. Canada was right to withdraw Margaret Wente The Glo ...
  • Desertification is the development of desert-l ...
    Read at : http://www.omicspublishinggroup.com/desertification/ Desertification Introduction: Desertification is the development of desert-like conditions in areas that have experienced personal disturbance such as deforestation, overgrazing, or poorly managed agriculture. Although the level of t ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Microsoft takes stock of strategy
    If you're a fan of tech podcast TWiT (This Week in Tech), with Leo Laporte, you would have heard some colourful commentary about the Surface Pro launch in the...
  • Jobs for 70,000 youths in Jammu and Kashm ...
    Tweet Jammu, April 3 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir plans to employ more than 70,000 youths in the government sector, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Wednesday even as union minister Jairam Ramesh pledged more central support. "Presently over four lakh youths are unemployed in the state and the ...
  • Nitaqat effect: Ravi to visit Saudi Arabi ...
    April 03: Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi will visit Saudi Arbia to convey India's apprehension about possible job losses to Indians due to implementation of a new labour law -- "Nitaqat" in the Gulf nation that seeks to...
  • 'Commando' is the girl's story: Pooja Cho ...
    Vidyut Jamwal is playing the title role in 'Commando', but actress Pooja Chopra says her character is equally important and it's central to the story. "In the film, there is a fight between the girl and the villain. The girl is the central character. Commando is the girl's story. It never ca ...
  • Ensure cleanliness, quality food, Bansal ...
    Tweet New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal Wednesday expressed concern over cleanliness and the quality of food served in trains and at stations and urged zonal managers to regularly monitor the situation. "He also asked senior officers to pay attention to punctualit ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • ASPEN UDDERCARE BARRIER PART A (Lactic Acid) L ...
    Updated Date: Apr 1, 2013 EST
  • Seven-year-old girl's vital op put on hold at ...
    Sienna Singleton (pictured left and right when she was two-years-old) was expecting an ‘imminent’ admission to Leeds General Infirmary. But its paediatric unit has been shut since Thursday night after it emerged that its mortality rate may be twice the national average.
  • Healthcare an obstacle as Republicans court La ...
    As GOP members of Congress seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they risk undermining outreach efforts among the law's biggest supporters. WASHINGTON — As Republican leaders try to woo Latino voters with a new openness to legal status for the nation's illegal immigrants, the party r ...
  • Hedge Funds Aren't Crazy About Cerner Corporat ...
    Hedge Funds Aren't Crazy About Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ:CERN ... Insider Monkey (blog) - Apr 1, 2013 Let's go over hedge fund and insider activity in other stocks similar to Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ:CERN). These stocks are Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:MDRX), Medidata Solu ...
  • Expanding Medicaid In Pennsylvania Would Incre ...
    Expanding Medicaid in Pennsylvania under the Affordable Care Act would boost federal revenue to the state by more than $2 billion annually and provide 340,000 residents with health insurance, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The increased federal spending on health care in Pennsylvania ...

Common Dreams

  • ALEC Behind "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave
    In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers. Community activists and labor leaders struck a deal with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to allow a vote on a paid sick leave ordinance that would cov ...
  • Water for Profit: Seizing Climate Change as a ...
    As the effects of climate change continue to ripple throughout the planet, some groups are acknowledging that the warming planet means big money is to be made on a resource more precious than oil — water. read more
  • AP Finally Agrees: “No Human Being is Illegal”
    The Associated Press, the largest news agency in the world, has officially eliminated the term "illegal immigrant" from its vocabulary, the news agency announced Tuesday. read more
  • Monsanto Cashes in on Ongoing Drought
    As ongoing drought continues to rampage through America's heartland, genetically modified seed giant Monsanto is cashing in. Monsanto announced a 22 percent jump in quarterly earnings, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, as farmers—who continue to struggle with withered fields and lo ...
  • Activists on Both Sides of Atlantic Denounce U ...
    Obama's proposal for a "Free Trade" agreement between the US and European Union is being championed by large corporations, but public interest groups and environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic are vowing to fight the deal. Long-opposed to the nefarious role that so-called ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • New Front In Western Wind Energy War: FERC vs. ...
    FERC's actions against Idaho's public utilities commission are extraordinary, marking the first time FERC has exercised its Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act enforcement authority directly against a state commission.
  • Aussie Climate Change Commission: 'Energetic C ...
    Record heatwaves, droughts, bushfires, rainfall, coastal erosion can all be expected in Australia in the near-term, reports the country's Climate Commission.
  • Natural Gas Revolution and Its Implications: L ...
    The Shale Gale, unleashed by technological breakthroughs in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has also led to a discussion of the United States potential to become a net-exporter of natural gas for the first time ever.
  • Ontario Shuts Down Coal-Fired Power
    In shutting down the province’s 19 boilers fueled by coal, Ontario will become the first industrial region on the continent to eliminate coal-fired generation. Weaning economies off of coal, as Ontario has learned, is no small feat.
  • Air Pollution Spurs Chinese Auto Industry Emis ...
    Chinese authorities from five separate government bodies are set to mandate new fuel economy standards on all vehicles in the next few years. The policy establishes two benchmarks for emissions.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • 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. Russia Today reports it daily. More on that below. Aro ...
  • Playing the Venezuelan Anti-Semitism Card
    by Stephen Lendman Throughout his tenure, Washington officials vilified Chavez unjustifiably. So did media scoundrels. He was America top hemispheric enemy. Donald Rumsfeld once likened him to Hitler. Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Anti-semitism accusations surfaced often. ...
  • Expanding Draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse A ...
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed CFAA. It explained the following: It's an anti-hacking law. It's a computer trespass law. It criminalizes accessing computer systems "without authorization." "(E)xceeds authorized access" terminology was left undefined. In 1984, it was en ...
  • Monsanto Protection Act
    by Stephen Lendman Agribusiness giant Monsanto's the world's leading GMO seed producer. They're hazardous to human health. They should be banned. They proliferate. GMO foods and ingredients are toxic. They're unsafe to eat. Independent studies prove it. Monsanto and other agribusiness giants ...
  • Scandal Hits Cyprus
    by Stephen Lendman Grand theft is official Cypriot policy. Bank account haircuts are authorized. Those above 100,000 euros are targeted. Depositors may lose much more than initially thought. Minimally it's around 40% of their money. It may be double that amount or more. Potentially it's ever ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Beyond the three R's: BC needs to plan for zer ...
    Our newest study shows how "zero waste" policies would protect BC's environment and climate and create jobs. Read the report and download the infographic here: policyalternatives.ca/zero-waste.
  • Businesses, not unions; guests, not customers, ...
    For some old arguments in a new format, check out this Orwellian video, compliments of Target, for this season's newest line of anti-union propaganda. Two exemplary Target "team members" explain why we no longer need unions because we have laws prohibiting child labour. According to them, unions ...
  • Very useful website from York University
    Very useful website from York University: Leadership, Feminism and Equality in Unions in Canada:   http://womenunions.apps01.yorku.ca/
  • Employee Association, Traditional Union or New ...
    More and more we’re starting to hear how groups of precariously-employed workers are responding to the vagaries of the “new normal” labour market. From lower-skilled workers to professionals of all stripes, an increasing number of workers are classified as independent contractors, temporary work ...
  • Strengthening Connections, Connecting Communit ...
    The 2013 Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget invests in good jobs, strong communities, and participatory economics. It is a comprehensive budget that involved 30 plus collaborators and makes strategic investments to boost the sluggish economy and expand opportunities for all Nova Scotians. ...

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

  • Defeat the planet-killing trade deal
    Nov. 28, 2012 Right now, the tar sands, a toxic oil reserve almost the size of Saudi Arabia's but over 3 times as dangerous for climate change, sits landlocked in Northern Canada. People power has twice blocked new pipelines into this poison, but now we have a bigger challenge. A new trade d ...
  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GULF COAST VICTIMS ( PT. 2)
  • THE ONGOING GREAT GULF COAST HOLOCAUST
  • Massive gas spill in Hawaii as fuel is loaded ...
    March 22, 2013 A massive gas spill has swamped a port in Honolulu after crews loaded aviation fuel onto a $45 million yacht belonging to Google co-founder Larry Page and dozens of gallons leaked out. Emergency services rushed to the Kewalo Basin, where Page's 193-ft vessel is docked, as a ga ...
  • China hit by 'animal apocalypse' as mass die-o ...
    April 2, 2013 (NaturalNews) A mysterious wave of animal deaths that kicked off at the start of 2011 is picking back up in China, where tens of thousands of farm animals and wildlife have turned up dead in the communist country's waterways in recent weeks. According to reports, the mas ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • New Front In Western Wind Energy War: FERC vs. ...
    FERC's actions against Idaho's public utilities commission are extraordinary, marking the first time FERC has exercised its Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act enforcement authority directly against a state commission.
  • Aussie Climate Change Commission: 'Energetic C ...
    Record heatwaves, droughts, bushfires, rainfall, coastal erosion can all be expected in Australia in the near-term, reports the country's Climate Commission.
  • Natural Gas Revolution and Its Implications: L ...
    The Shale Gale, unleashed by technological breakthroughs in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has also led to a discussion of the United States potential to become a net-exporter of natural gas for the first time ever.
  • Ontario Shuts Down Coal-Fired Power
    In shutting down the province’s 19 boilers fueled by coal, Ontario will become the first industrial region on the continent to eliminate coal-fired generation. Weaning economies off of coal, as Ontario has learned, is no small feat.
  • Air Pollution Spurs Chinese Auto Industry Emis ...
    Chinese authorities from five separate government bodies are set to mandate new fuel economy standards on all vehicles in the next few years. The policy establishes two benchmarks for emissions.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • The Patent Protection Racket
    In the face of organized crime, civilized people don't pay up. When you pay up, you're funding the criminals, which makes you complicit in their next attacks. I know, you're just trying to write a little app for the iPhone with in-app purchases, and you didn't ask for this fight to be yours, but ...
  • An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay
    Disney had two basic tribes, both at extremes: "the creatives" and "the suits". It was a thrill to work with the extreme that was "the creatives", there were lots of them and they could do anything and loved to do anything. I don't know how to say anything evenhanded about the other tribe. As f ...
  • Explainer: What's Aereo, why does it matter, a ...
    Aereo is trying to make live TV available over the Internet and yesterday the company got a step closer. The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request by some of the country's largest television networks to issue a preliminary injunction against Aereo, which would have cl ...
  • SEC Backs Social Media for Disclosing Corporat ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission gave explicit permission for companies to use social media to announce key information, so long as investors have been alerted about which sites will be used to disseminate such disclosures. The SEC's report issued Tuesday confirmed that fair-disclosure re ...
  • Prenda Law's Attorneys Take The Fifth Rather T ...
    Today the Prenda Law enterprise encountered an extinction-level event. Faced with a federal judge's demand that they explain their litigation conduct, Prenda Law's attorney principals - and one paralegal - invoked their right to remain silent under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Consti ...

WideShut

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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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Closing the gap: Australia vs. NZ on climate c ...
    The Australian Climate Commission have released a report ‘The Critical Decade: Extreme Weather’. Throughout the authors are unequivocal and forthright about the reality of the effects of climate change on Australia. Australia is already experiencing, and is going to experience, extreme weather e ...
  • Attention young creatives!
    A new website was launched today – www.urs.net.nz – aimed at supporting young people in getting creative. Damian Christie, better known as host of Backbenches (which will be back on TV screens next Wednesday, by the way), has today launched his project – ‘URS’. URS is a website ...
  • Selling New Zealand’s brand and profits
    New Zealand is headed towards having our farming families becoming peasants in their own land by allowing further and unnecessary foreign investment into processing of New Zealand dairy production. The ticking off of two new foreign dairy processors into New Zealand production by the Overseas In ...
  • Fonterra coal mine protest
    On Monday, local residents and Auckland Coal Action educated the Easter traffic on State Highway 2 about Fonterra’s proposed open cast coal mine at Mangatawhiri on the Hauraki Plains. The coal is to be used for energy at the milk powder factories in the region.   The banners highlighted th ...
  • SOP to Petrobras is law-making at its worst
    Simon Bridges’ amendment to the Crown Minerals Act criminalising protest activity at sea has just been tabled in Parliament and is an unneeded overreaction that takes away Kiwis right to protest.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...
  • Fraudulent Educational Reform in America
    What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Dangers of Shaving your Pubic Hair?
    By Dr. Mercola According to a recent survey, a large percentage of US college students remove some or all of their pubic hair,1 as does a sizable portion of the rest of the population. It’s a growing trend that may actually have ancient roots, as pubic hair removal was thought to hav ...
  • Sugary Drinks Linked to Over 180,000 Deaths Wo ...
    By Dr. Mercola I’ve been warning you of the dangers of soda since I started this site over 16 years ago, and the list of reasons to avoid this beverage just keeps getting longer. Americans in particular get most of their daily calories from sugar, primarily in the form of high fructose ...
  • Ethical Issues Related to Testing Anthrax Vacc ...
    By Dr. Mercola The US government has proposed a children’s trial of anthrax vaccine arguing that it is a necessary step in protecting them from the effects of a potential future bioterrorism attack using weaponized anthrax. The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) is in ...
  • CDC Says 1 in 50 Children Now Have Autism
    By Dr. Mercola It’s official. Even the conservative US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states the latest stats show one in 50 US kids now has autism. This is a startling increase from their 2007 data, which showed one in 88 children with the condition. Boys are also f ...
  • Do You Make Any of These Breakfast Mistakes?
    By Dr. Mercola Do you ever find that eating breakfast makes you hungry soon thereafter? If so, you’re likely eating the wrong kind of breakfast. According to the featured article, many are confused about what makes for a healthy morning meal. The featured article1 is a great example of ...

JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Nasa Indian killed as Colombian violence continues
    Nasa Indians have been attacked from all sides of Colombia's civil war © Francisco PedroA 57-year-old Nasa Indian man has been shot dead in an alleged army attack in Colombia. Álvaro Chocué was shot in the head on Saturday, 30th March in the Caldono Indian Reserve in Colombia’s south-east ...
  • Salgado's 'Genesis' showcases photos of threat ...
    Zo'é children playing in a waterfall.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs London’s Natural History Museum prepares for the opening of renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition ‘Genesis’ on April 11, Survival International has highlighted the plight of some of the ...
  • Tanzania: Land grab could spell ‘the end of th ...
    The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more.© SurvivalThe Tanzanian government this week announced a new ‘conservation’ area on Maasai lands, which community leader Samwel Nangiria says will spell ‘the end of the Maasai and the Serengeti ecosystem’ ...
  • Guarani trapped on ‘island’ celebrate land bre ...
    Guarani celebrate land breakthrough© SurvivalA Guarani community in Brazil is celebrating after the government recognized their land as indigenous, for their exclusive use. The 170 members of Pyelito Kuê/ M’barakay community, living on an ‘island’ between a river and a soya plantation, can now ...
  • Awá tribe's desperate call to evict loggers
    In a rare video appeal, the Awá have called on Brazil's Minister of Justice to act now and protect their land.© SurvivalEarth’s most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil’s government to evict invaders from their forest, as Brazil soccer fans lend their support fo ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Year ...
    from ammoland.com: The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes. ...
  • Stanford creates biological transistors, the f ...
    from extremetech.com: Bioengineers at Stanford University have created the first biological transistor made from genetic materials: DNA and RNA. Dubbed the “transcriptor,” this biological transistor is the final component required to build biological computers that operate inside living cells. ...
  • Low-Carb Diet May Slow Alzheimer’s Disease
    from mercola.com: Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. This fatal and progressive condition destroys brain cells, resulting in memory loss and severe thinking and behavioral problems (aggression, delusions, and hallucinations) that interfere with daily life and a ...
  • The Latest McFib: “Our Food Is Healthy”
    from civileats.com: Last week, in what is yet another example of Big Food’s symbiotic relationship with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), McDonald’s Director of Nutrition, Registered Dietitian Cindy Goody, spoke to her fellow colleagues at the Utah Dietetic Association meeting abou ...
  • Hansen's mea culpa? Says global warming has sl ...
    from hockeyschtick.blogspot.jp: A paper published today by James Hansen has some startling admissions, including: - the effect [forcing] of man-made greenhouse gas emissions has fallen below IPCC projections, despite an increase in man-made CO2 emissions exceeding IPCC projections - the ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • ALERT: All Of The Money In Your Bank Account C ...
    What would you do if you logged in to your bank account someday and it showed that you had a zero balance and your bank had no record that you ever had any money in your account?  What would you do if all of the money in your bank account suddenly disappeared in a single [...]
  • The Big Banks Are Recklessly Gambling With Our ...
    Have you ever wondered how the big banks make such enormous mountains of money?  Well, the truth is that much of it is made by gambling recklessly.  If they win on their bets, they become fabulously wealthy.  If they lose on their bets, they know that the government will come in and arrange for ...
  • This Is What It Feels Like To Have Your Life S ...
    What would you do if you woke up one day and discovered that the banksters had "legally" stolen about 80 percent of your life savings?  Most people seem to assume that most of the depositors that are getting ripped off in Cyprus are "Russian oligarchs" or "wealthy European tycoons", but the trut ...
  • Cyprus-Style Bank Account Confiscation Is In T ...
    The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts.  In fact, Cyprus-style bank account confiscation is actually in the new Canadian government budget.  When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself.  And guess what?  It is right ...
  • The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us T ...
    Don't be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day.  They are already very clearly telling you that they are going to do it.  Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem is the president of the Eurogroup - an organization of eurozone finance ministers that wa ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Most Highly Anticipated Android Smartphones fo ...
    This past year was a fantastic one for the Android community. The year started out strong with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and quickly got better with fantastic offerings from HTC, Motorola and LG. Google also released Jelly Bean with major enhancements to Android's UI and performance. If ea ...
  • Google Drive for Linux Confirmed yet again, Ar ...
    Google Drive for Linux is a contentious issue. It is now common knowledge that Google is an active user of Linux for its internal purposes. Google has deployed a version of Ubuntu, called Goobuntu (a light skin over standard Ubuntu), in large numbers for its employees. Google is actually an Ub ...
  • [How-to] Upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringt ...
    Yeah that's right, Ubuntu 12.10 is now upgradable to latest Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" release. And Ubuntu 13.04 is pretty stable for a beta-quality OS, though I still won't/can't recommend it for production machines. I have been using it in my netbook from the early alpha releases and it ...
  • FSGamer: Simple OpenSource Tool to Create Full ...
    Have trouble with fullscreen gaming on Linux/Ubuntu? Try FSGamer for Linux. FSGamer is an opensource utility that runs games in its own X server, which can improve the speed, reduce annoying interruptions, and make switching between fullscreen games and your desktop easy and reliable. FSG ...
  • 4 Simple Tweaks to Increase Unity Performance
    Unity has serious performance issues. Improvements are slowly starting to trickle in, but even then, the current state of affairs leaves a lot to be desired. Making Unity faster and slicker should be Canonical's top priority in my opinion, and that is why I am still a big proponent of "Project ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • cyprus parliament president says “no fut ...
    by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2013 13:20 -0400 Greece Iceland Just last week Yiannakis Omirou, Cypriot House of Representatives President, was calling for the nation to accept it is “time for responsibility” as they progressed towards a final solution; and yet today, as Cyprus’ Fama ...
  • Activist Post: Take Your Money Out of the Bank ...
    Dave Hodges Activist Post It is now clear, the government of Cyprus was given two options by the IMF and the EU in which they were told that they could steal money from private bank accounts or they could leave the Eurozone all together and face total economic annihilation. This theft involves s ...
  • Venezuelan Government Announces Transition to ...
    By Tamara Pearson, Ryan Mallett-Outtrim Miami, April 1st 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – In a public broadcast yesterday the Venezuelan government announced the transition to democracy. Measures include the sale of community media to business giant Rupert Murdoch, and the privatisation of the heal ...
  • Viva Tierra Colorada! by Justin Raimondo &#821 ...
    by Justin Raimondo, April 01, 2013 The people of Tierra Colorada, in Mexico’s Guerrero province, have had enough. On March 28, 1,500 armed citizens took to the streets, set up roadblocks, and arrested local officials. Tierra Colorada sits on a major road which runs from the popular tourist city ...
  • The haircut from hell
    WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN THEY TAKE ALL YOUR MONEY? (Hint: They already have.) By John Kaminski Prior to last week’s disturbing bureaucratic bank robbery stories from Cyprus, then New Zealand, then Canada — being piled on top of endless stories about drones, endless purchases of hollow point a ...

Veterans Today

  • Confederate Soldiers – American Veterans ...
    - Every soldier’s grave made during our civil war is a tribute to American valor...we should share in the care of the Confederates'. Pres. McKinley
  • Truth and healing: Kathleen Rosenblatt and All ...
    The USA's soul is wounded. We need healing - through truth.
  • Military Headline News: Fishy VA Contracts, U. ...
    Military Headline News Despite celebrated budget cuts, the Pentagon is spending big on cyber operations. The U.S. Cyber Command is adding 5,000 staffers for offensive and defensive missions on the digital battlefield in the coming years. War mongering by North Korea has filled the media for week ...
  • Is terror an option for the occupied and oppre ...
    My answer is “No” but I think the question needs to be asked. It was provoked in my mind by a recent Ynet op-ed article by Ziv Lenchner, described as a left-leaning, Jewish Israeli artist. The headline over his piece was Israelis to Obama - we don’t care, don’t bother us.
  • What is Going on With North Korea is Not What ...
    The biggest eye opener for me in decades of reporting about North Korea came seven years ago when a top Chinese government agent in Japan told me China considered North Korea to be a US colony.

electric politics

  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...
  • The Bargain With Hell
    Delegates from the Northern and Southern States didn't do any simple deal over slavery in order to devise a Constitution. No: they consciously created a complex, interlocking system of iron-clad guarantees so that within the Union the institution of slavery would exist forever. These men truly i ...
  • A Question of Rights
    Every American has a basic human right to live without the threat of gun violence. And that right exists prior to all the legal or political barriers that get thrown at sane gun control measures. Paradoxically, perhaps, if the gun culture wants to deny us our human right to live in safety their ...

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Stop NATO

  • Price of NATO Invasion of Afghanistan: Over Mi ...
    Interfax April 3, 2013 Afghan heroin claims over 1 mln lives since NATO operation began in 2001 – Russian drug control chief MOSCOW: Over one million people have died from Afghan heroin in the world since 2001 and the NATO operation against drug production in Afghanistan is ineffective, Ru ...
  • Turkey: U.S. Air Force Reopens Combat Arms Tra ...
    U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa April 3, 2013 Ribbon shooting ceremony reopens CATM range By Staff Sgt. Eric Summers Jr. 39th Air Base Wing Public Affairs INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey: Members of the 39th Air Base Wing and Turkish air force 10th Tanker Base Command gathered for ...
  • Leo Tolstoy: Patriotism or Peace
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence Leo Tolstoy: Two Wars and Carthago Delenda Est Leo Tolstoy: Murder and vengeance are not the will of the people ==== Leo Tolstoy Patriotism or Peace? (1896) Translator unknow ...
  • Canada To Play Large Role In Massive NATO War ...
    Xinhua News Agency April 3, 2013 Canadian Armed Forces to participate in NATO Joint Warrior exercise OTTAWA: More than 900 sailors and airmen of the Canadian Armed Forces have departed to participate in a joint multinational NATO exercise in Britain, the National Defense Department said on Tuesd ...
  • NATO To Absorb Georgia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Mon ...
    Civil Georgia March 30, 2013 NATO Deputy Secretary General Comments on Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Integration Tbilisi: NATO sees no difference in the positions of Georgia’s previous and new governments about the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander V ...

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Intel Hub

  • Move Over IMF for the BRICS Development Bank
    James Hall | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an extortion financier’s outfit for a gang of exploiter banksters. The post Move Over IMF for the BRICS Development Bank appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Remnants of the “Manhattan Project&#8221 ...
    JG Vibes | A recent inspection has reconfirmed that a Washington state site left over from the "Manhattan Project" is not only leaking radioactive waste, but it is also at risk of a nuclear explosion.The post Remnants of the “Manhattan Project” is Leaking Radioactive Waste in Wa ...
  • Mainstream Media Admits Geo-Engineering Proble ...
    Derrick Broze | British scientists at the Mets Office Hadley Centre have called for a global government to approve global geo-engineering programs. The post Mainstream Media Admits Geo-Engineering Problem, Calls for Global Solution appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Earth and Space News by Suspicious0bservers
    Special Report One of the best YouTube channels to cover Earth, Sun and Space Weather is Suspicious0bservers who joined May 2, 2011 – his motto: Your mind is your weapon. by Avalonintellihub.comApril 3, 2013 With 80,212 subscribers and 12,946,165 video views, you can see that his channel is a po ...
  • Escaped Scientologist Goes Public About &#8220 ...
    JG Vibes | A former Scientologist that was on a compound since childhood is now going public with a book and media appearances to speak about the brainwashing, child labor camps, as well as other horrors that she witnessed and experienced.The post Escaped Scientologist Goes Public About &#8 ...

FRS

  • 1913, The Gadar Party, and the Roots of India& ...
    [In 1913, a growing number of migrants from India to Canada and the US  formed The Gadar Party in San Francisco, designed to  organize an army to overthrow British colonial rule in India.  This organization  organized thousands of primarily Punjabis and Sikhs to return to India with the purpose ...
  • Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn goes globa ...
    [Specializing on drawing from the resentment and powerlessness of Greek people suffering from the deepest crisis in memory -- and directing that resentment at migrants -- the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement is encouraged by the Greek bourgeoisie and reactionaries, to deflect blame from themselves, ...
  • NGOs’ Corporate/Foundation Mission&#8211 ...
    [The REVOLUTIONARY FRONTLINES blog focuses attention on revolutionaries and especially on revolutionary struggles that challenge the capitalist-imperialist world system and all reactionaries.  Revolutionaries work within a broad range of struggles as they gather and develop revolutionary forces. ...
  • NGOs’ Corporate/Foundation Mission&#8211 ...
    [The REVOLUTIONARY FRONTLINES blog focuses attention on revolutionaries and especially on revolutionary struggles that challenge the capitalist-imperialist world system and all reactionaries.  Revolutionaries work within a broad range of struggles as they gather and develop revolutionary forces. ...
  • US: “The Progressive Movement is a PR F ...
    Counterpunch, Weekend Edition March 15-17, 2013 Paid to Lose by JOHN STAUBER There is good news in the Boston Globe today for the managers, development directors, visionaries, political hacks and propaganda flacks who run “the Progressive Movement.”   More easy-to-earn and easy-to-hide soft mone ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...
  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Why the Obama Administration Sent B-2s to Korea
    CNN is reporting that as part of joint American/Republic of Korea exercises, the United States sent B-2 stealth bombers on a 6,500-mile flight to South Korea, whereupon they dropped some inert munitions, and then returned to base.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 28, 2013
  • Supreme Court: Gay Marriage, Internet, Cell Ph ...
    The Supreme Court was the stage for spirited discussion on the topics of gay rights and the definition of marriage on Tuesday. The verdict? Gayness, the Internet, and cell phones all exist on the same timeline.Contributor: Trent Sandusky Published: Mar 27, 2013
  • No Cheers for Rob Portman's Same-Sex Marriage ...
    Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio came out in favor of same-sex marriage. So why aren't I applauding him?Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Mar 15, 2013
  • Rand Paul Stands Tall in 13-Hour Fillibuster
    It was like something out of a movie when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky took to the floor of the Senate and conducted a 13 hour filibuster, holding up the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director, demanding the answer to one question.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 07, 2013
  • Death of Chavez Provides Opportunities for Ven ...
    Now that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan tyrant, has shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving Hollywood, Cuba, and Iran in severe mourning, the people of the country his misruled have a chance to begin to take their destiny into their own hands.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 06, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • BigPic: What Does This Photo, Taken From The I ...
    Where on Earth...? Canadian astronaut and expedition commander Chris Hadfield shared this photo from the International Space Station today. He thought it looked like "mouthwatering generous folds of icing"; to me, it looked more like a slice of walnut-studded cake. It's actually a photo of sand ...
  • The Changing Forensic Science Of Arson Is Free ...
    Modern investigations are finding no evidence for arson in old cases. A man who spent 42 years in prison walked free yesterday, released because the evidence that he had committed arson was faulty. Louis C. Taylor had been behind bars since he was 16, after he was convicted of setting a fire i ...
  • Laser Zaps Away Cocaine Addiction In Rats
    A new study found that lasers can zap away cocaine use behaviors in rats. Aiming laser light at the portion of the brain associated with impulse control could ease cocaine addiction, according to a new study in rats. "When we turn on a laser light in the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cort ...
  • How Toxic Dumping Led To Tragedy In A Small Se ...
    An excerpt from Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, a new book about a town in New Jersey devastated by industrial pollution The Fernicola brothers, Nick and Frank, grew up in the dirt cowboy subculture of the New Jersey waste industry. Their father, also named Nicholas (his son alway ...
  • A Muscle-Controlled Virtual Reality System
    Researchers create a virtual environment system in which you can pick up fake objects with real effort. Maybe this is how we'll work out in the future: throw on a pair of shorts, strap on our virtual reality goggles, and hit the weights. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are ...

Veterans Today

  • Confederate Soldiers – American Veterans ...
    - Every soldier’s grave made during our civil war is a tribute to American valor...we should share in the care of the Confederates'. Pres. McKinley
  • Truth and healing: Kathleen Rosenblatt and All ...
    The USA's soul is wounded. We need healing - through truth.
  • Military Headline News: Fishy VA Contracts, U. ...
    Military Headline News Despite celebrated budget cuts, the Pentagon is spending big on cyber operations. The U.S. Cyber Command is adding 5,000 staffers for offensive and defensive missions on the digital battlefield in the coming years. War mongering by North Korea has filled the media for week ...
  • Is terror an option for the occupied and oppre ...
    My answer is “No” but I think the question needs to be asked. It was provoked in my mind by a recent Ynet op-ed article by Ziv Lenchner, described as a left-leaning, Jewish Israeli artist. The headline over his piece was Israelis to Obama - we don’t care, don’t bother us.
  • What is Going on With North Korea is Not What ...
    The biggest eye opener for me in decades of reporting about North Korea came seven years ago when a top Chinese government agent in Japan told me China considered North Korea to be a US colony.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Obama's Anti-China Free Trade Area of Free Peo ...
    Question: What do you get when you cross the EU-US FTA with the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Answer: The Free Trade Area of Free People (FTAFP)[sic] During the Cold War, older readers will remember that the United States began funding pro-democracy propaganda via Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asi ...
  • Mideast Tragicomedy: Iraq's '$4B Bailout' of Egypt
    It is no big secret that Egypt has been scrounging around the Middle East for emergency funding insofar as it has been unable to conclude an IMF deal. Famously, mercurial Qatar has stepped into the breach, but has been unwilling to extend more money as of late. More good money after bad and all ...
  • Island Lovin': Chasing Revenue in Cyprus, Falk ...
    No pina coladas for you I'm afraid. On today's blogging menu are--can you believe it--tax cheats and squid. In the past I've enumerated the generic ways island nations or protectorates generate revenues: tourismtax havens (paradis fiscaux)offshore gambling sitesflags of conveniencenationality fo ...
  • No Steenkin' Tourists Please, We're Saudi Arabia
     To be sure, Saudi Arabia has a unique tourist monopoly insofar as all Muslim men and women who can do so are obliged to visit Mecca during their lifetimes. Pilgrims aside, though, there is not really a Saudi "tourist" industry as we understand the term--especially for leisure travellers. T ...
  • Have the Youth Ever Had It So Bad? (UK Edition)
    In 1957, then-British Prime Minister made the statement that his compatriots "never had it so good" amid the prosperity and plenty of the postwar years. A half century later, everything seems to have come undone that a recent BBC feature asks of the young people if they ever had it so bad in the ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • ALERT: All Of The Money In Your Bank Account C ...
    What would you do if you logged in to your bank account someday and it showed that you had a zero balance and your bank had no record that you ever had any money in your account?  What would you do if all of the money in your bank account suddenly disappeared in a single [...]
  • The Big Banks Are Recklessly Gambling With Our ...
    Have you ever wondered how the big banks make such enormous mountains of money?  Well, the truth is that much of it is made by gambling recklessly.  If they win on their bets, they become fabulously wealthy.  If they lose on their bets, they know that the government will come in and arrange for ...
  • This Is What It Feels Like To Have Your Life S ...
    What would you do if you woke up one day and discovered that the banksters had "legally" stolen about 80 percent of your life savings?  Most people seem to assume that most of the depositors that are getting ripped off in Cyprus are "Russian oligarchs" or "wealthy European tycoons", but the trut ...
  • Cyprus-Style Bank Account Confiscation Is In T ...
    The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts.  In fact, Cyprus-style bank account confiscation is actually in the new Canadian government budget.  When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself.  And guess what?  It is right ...
  • The Global Elite Are Very Clearly Telling Us T ...
    Don't be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day.  They are already very clearly telling you that they are going to do it.  Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem is the president of the Eurogroup - an organization of eurozone finance ministers that wa ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

  • Drought and tropical storms hinder food supply ...
    A growing number of people in Haiti do not have enough to eat, according to the United Nations relief wing, mostly as a result of drought and the impact of recent tropical storms.
  • The majority of poor in Mexico are children - ...
    More than 20 million children and adolescents in Mexico are estimated to live in poverty, and five million of them in extreme poverty, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today reported in a joint study with the Mexican Government.
  • UN calls Canada&#39s pullout from drought conv ...
    The United Nations today said it was &#39regrettable&#39 that the Government of Canada is withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the only legally binding instrument that addresses desertification, land degradation and drought.
  • Brazil: UN experts voice concern over deprivat ...
    A United Nations human rights panel visiting Brazil has raised concerns regarding what it called an "excessive use" of policies leading to the deprivation of liberty as well as a lack of effective legal assistance to persons arrested or detained in the South American nation.
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas) dispute tops talks ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Foreign Ministers of Argentina, Cuba, Peru and Uruguay discussed the issue of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) during their meeting today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.
  • Monsanto Gets Immunity to Law – Can Plan ...
    (NaturalNews) President Barack Obama campaigned on promises to end secret prisons, decriminalize marijuana, balance the budget, honor the Second Amendment and make health care affordable. But what really unfolded was an explosion in the national debt (now $16 trillion and climbing), the signing ...
  • World War Z – Conspiratorial Review of N ...
    The core of the book is a UN plan developed to use survivors as bait to lure in the zombies so they can be exterminated. The number one enemy in this disgusting, pro-genocide anti-human publication is that, humans that have not submitted to communism and the United Nations, are undesirables that ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Rise ...
    Nature reserves [are] the little fragments of landscape where Man expects to preserve nonhuman life…. Nature reserves are the most valuable weapon in our conservation arsenal. –Michael Soulé and Bruce Wilcox  Steve McCormick, the President of TNC in 2005, wrote, “We need to move past the p ...
  • Film Premier for “The Current” in Durango April 10
      While the southwest is primarily a desert, more than 30 million people live here. In a few decades the region’s population will double while the amount of available water will decrease. Most of these 30 million people use water without thinking about where it came from or where it’s going ...
  • Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave The Rise ...
    We need to move past the place where we see people as essentially enemies of nature.  We need to break down the barriers between urban and rural, between set-asides and sustainable use, between “us” and “them.”                                       [...]
  • John Davis featured in video about TrekWest
     TrekWest’s John Davis hikes solo through Arizona’s longest single mountain range His 35-mile trek through Chiricahua Mountains includes big peaks, lots of snow, and a premier wildlife corridor  Portal, AZ — TrekWest conservationist and adventurer, John Davis, says he’s “looking forward to exper ...
  • Mexican Wolves 15th Anniversary Celebration!
    Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Return of Mexican Gray Wolves to the Southwest Friday, April 5th 6 – 10 p.m. O’Niell’s 4310 Central SE in Albuquerque Almost 15 years after they were first reintroduced to the wild, there are only 75 Mexican wolves in the wild. Please join us to celebrate th ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Americans Will Die After 'Gun Ban'!
    Christopher Greene explains that Americans will die after Obama's executive order to ban guns in America. ~ Related articles - Must see Video read more
  • UN Gun Ban Passes!... Next Step A National Gun ...
    The U.N. General Assembly has approved a wide-ranging gun control treaty, supported by Barack Obama, that is so radical that even the Democrat controlled Senate voted the treaty down. Some experts fear provisions in the final agreement would lead to unconstitutional national gun registry. ~ ...
  • United Nations DEMANDS... 'All Americans Be D ...
    The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first treaty regulating the multi-billion-dollar international arms trade, a goal sought for more than a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organised crime. ~ Video read more
  • As Americans Prepared For Easter - Obama Secre ...
    Following rampant allegations of voter fraud in last November’s Presidential election, Barack Obama defied his harshest critics this past week, by quietly signing an executive order establishing a Presidential administration dedicated to, among other things, registering non-English speaking citi ...
  • Hopi Elder Speaks... 'The Moment Has Come'
    A Hopi Elder Speaks... "You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour... and there are things to be considered"... read more

Tarpley

  • Detroit Under Austerity Dictatorship
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 1, 2013 To the extent that the modern world thinks at all about the problem of fascism, there is a tendency to regard this form of bankers’ totalitarian dictatorship as something which happens suddenly and all at once. Historians can remember Mussolini’s ...
  • While Media Peddle Wedge Issues, Detroit Goes ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio March 30, 2013 [download audio]
  • Italian Reactionary Demagogue Beppe Grillo Exp ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 27, 2013 It has been about a month since the Italian elections, and no new government has been formed to replace the hated IMF austerity regime of economics professor and Goldman Sachs consultant Mario Monti. The power vacuum is largely the work of the r ...
  • New Pope Francis I Supports the Wall Street Sa ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV March 19, 2013 The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as head of the Roman Catholic Church marks a watershed, since this is the first time that a prelate from a third world or developing country has become Pope. Bergoglio is also strongly identified with Cathol ...
  • Conclave Elects Argentine Francis I as Anti-IM ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio March 16, 2013 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • Will Globalists Use North Korea To Trigger Cat ...
    The West needs to realize that North Korea is under new leadership. The blowhard days of Kim Jung Il are over, and little is known about his son, Kim Jong Un. So far, the young dictator has followed through on everything he said he would do. To assume that the son will be exactly like [...]
  • Why All The Sudden Asteroids?
    Four large asteroids have flown past the earth in just one day as the Earth is experiencing an unusual cosmic bombardment. The largest asteroid (4034 Vishnu), a half mile across, is massive…   Fortunately for us, it has passed far from the Earth’s surface and we were in no dange ...
  • Massive Sea Based Radar Platform Heading To No ...
    The U.S. Navy is moving a sea-based radar platform closer to the North Korean coast in order to monitor that country’s military moves, including possible new missile launches.   The Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) is a floating, self-propelled, mobile radar station, and is designed to op ...
  • Get A 90-Day Supply, Now
    The warning signs are all around us; Wars, rumors of wars, North Korea threatening to set off WWIII by an untested young leader who likely possesses ‘Super-EMP‘ capability, a soon-to-be nuclear Iran who openly threatens annihilation, middle east turmoil, revolutions, talk of revoluti ...
  • Chicago Mayhem, Civilization’s Thin Veneer
    Hundreds of teenagers pouncing on non-suspecting pedestrians while walking city streets. This was the scene Saturday night on Chicago’s ‘Magnificent Mile’, an area of diverse specialty and retail shops, towering shopping centers, and iconic department stores. “You have ov ...

Fast Company

  • Rdio Begins Offering Movies And TV Shows To Un ...
    The Spotify competitor and the stealth video startup partner to bring movie and TV show streaming to Rdio's unlimited subscribers. Rdio, the online streaming music service, has partnered with its stealth sister video startup, Vdio, to offer on-demand movies and TV shows exclusively to Rdio ...
  • Consumers Care About Buying From Socially Resp ...
    How a company treats its employees and the environment are becoming bigger and bigger concerns for shoppers in the checkout aisle--and they want that information to be easy to find and verify. There will always be a segment of consumers who religiously buy products from socially-responsibl ...
  • How Depend Convinced Football Stars To Rep Its ...
    DeMarcus Ware talks about donning Depend briefs for a good cause. DeMarcus Ware is talking tough about underwear. The Dallas Cowboys defensive star was out in Manhattan last night and some guy had asked him what he’s doing here. “I said I’m here with Depend, promoting pro ...
  • Disownership Is Popular With Baby Boomers, Sou ...
    The sharing economy is taking off everywhere. As you probably have noticed, there is a growing economy made up of people and companies that share things (time, expertise, car rides, solar panels, bikes, etc.). Does a peer to peer car-sharing startup like RelayRides deserve to be in the sam ...
  • Did This $2 Billion Spectrometer Just Discover ...
    If so, the International Space Station is responsible for one of the biggest scientific coups of the past 25 years. NASA has scheduled an announcement for 1:30 P.M. this afternoon. CERN, the European particle physics group, has discovered what appears to be in the first results from the $ ...

Jadaliyya

  • Settler Colonialism and Alliance: Comparative ...
    Critics of Israeli pinkwashing in the United States and Canada have increasingly engaged in comparative critiques of settler colonialism. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto has invoked this critique for many years. Pinkwatchers across Canada also draw ties between Palestinian and Indige ...
  • Women Under Seige: Stateless in Lebanon
    Lebanon, and its capital Beirut, are often represented by the media as islands of freedom in the Middle East. The well-heeled neighborhoods of Achrafieh and Downtown are reminiscent of a Parisian boutique; while nightlife in Gemmayze and Hamra could compete with the scene in Berlin. But, behind ...
  • NEWTON in Focus: Thinking Through Gender and Sex
    This week we highlight various NEWTON texts relevant to the study of gender and sexuality. The authors of these texts write from a wide range of perspectives, approaching questions relevant to the MENA region from a variety of cultural and political contexts and (inter)disciplinary approaches.&n ...
  • Battle for the .book Domain
    Amazon has come under critical fire recently in the publishing world for its attempt to take control of generic top-level domains (gTLD) that end in .book, .author, and .read. The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers, as well as Amazon rival Barnes & Noble have all tak ...
  • Jadaliyya Monthly Edition (March 2013)
    This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya during the month of March 2013. It also includes the most recent videos, roundups and the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our Monthly Edition series.   The ...

mediagazer

  • Say Media Appoints Owen Thomas as Editor-in-Ch ...
    Say Media: Say Media Appoints Owen Thomas as Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite  —  San Francisco, CA, April 3, 2013 - Say Media, pioneer of Point-of-View Publishing, today announced the appointment of Owen Thomas as editor-in-chief of ReadWrite.  He brings nearly 17 years of edi ...
  • Fairfax Media in another major reshuffle (Lara ...
    Lara Sinclair / The Australian: Fairfax Media in another major reshuffle  —  FAIRFAX has restructured its business into five divisions in a move it says will allow it to maximise digital growth opportunities.  —  The restructure will see the former head of the Me ...
  • How paywalls are evolving (Felix Salmon)
    Felix Salmon: How paywalls are evolving  —  Last week, I hypothesized that the publishing industry was going to informally settle on a single management-consultancy company to ask for paywall advice from.  That consultancy, having seen everybody's internal figures, could th ...
  • With New Weather Channel Deal, Twitter Aims to ...
    Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: With New Weather Channel Deal, Twitter Aims to Make It Rain for Brands  —  Forecast: Cloudy, with a chance of promoted tweets.  —  Aiming to attract more big-brand ad dollars, Twitter and the Weather Company have a new deal to create cust ...
  • Web discovery engine Trapit launches publisher ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Web discovery engine Trapit launches publisher tools, with Here Media as first client  —  Trapit, a discovery engine for web content from the team behind Siri, is rolling out a set of publisher tools on Wednesday.  The tools allow publishers ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Microsoft takes stock of strategy
    If you're a fan of tech podcast TWiT (This Week in Tech), with Leo Laporte, you would have heard some colourful commentary about the Surface Pro launch in the...
  • Jobs for 70,000 youths in Jammu and Kashm ...
    Tweet Jammu, April 3 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir plans to employ more than 70,000 youths in the government sector, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Wednesday even as union minister Jairam Ramesh pledged more central support. "Presently over four lakh youths are unemployed in the state and the ...
  • Nitaqat effect: Ravi to visit Saudi Arabi ...
    April 03: Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi will visit Saudi Arbia to convey India's apprehension about possible job losses to Indians due to implementation of a new labour law -- "Nitaqat" in the Gulf nation that seeks to...
  • 'Commando' is the girl's story: Pooja Cho ...
    Vidyut Jamwal is playing the title role in 'Commando', but actress Pooja Chopra says her character is equally important and it's central to the story. "In the film, there is a fight between the girl and the villain. The girl is the central character. Commando is the girl's story. It never ca ...
  • Ensure cleanliness, quality food, Bansal ...
    Tweet New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal Wednesday expressed concern over cleanliness and the quality of food served in trains and at stations and urged zonal managers to regularly monitor the situation. "He also asked senior officers to pay attention to punctualit ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 4/3/13 - Is marijuana an effective treatment f ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Can marijuana help people with Chron's disease, ulcerative colitis, or other inflammatory diseases? Read pros and cons from several physicians as well as the official not clearly pro or con response from the Chron’s & Colitis Foundation of America.
  • 3/28/13 - Gay Marriage in the US Supreme Court ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Gay Marriage in the US Supreme Court, 2013 – On Mar. 26, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case regarding the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative. On Mar. 27, the justices heard oral argument ...
  • 3/22/13 - Celebrity Golf Tournament
    www.procon.org -  - ProCon.org and the March of Dimes Canada held a celebrity golf tournament on March 2, 2013 to raise money for our charities. See dozens of our celebrity golf tournament photos and watch the celebrity golf tournament videos on our YouTube channel.
  • 3/20/13 - Diabetes, Obesity, and 25,000 US Dea ...
    obesity.procon.org - Diabetes, Obesity, and 25,000 US Deaths Tied to Sugary Drinks, Harvard Study Says
  • 3/14/13 - State with Highest Obesity Rate Pass ...
    obesity.procon.org - State with Highest Obesity Rate Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill

Truth About Our World

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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 ...

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Daily Beast

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Energy News

Japan Times

  • Sonar festival sounds out Japanese hopefuls
    For two decades, it's entertained, educated and — on more than a few occasions — polarized electronic music fans. As Barcelona's Sonar festival enters its 20th year, it's still as contrary as when it first started: an event with equal space in its heart for abstract electronica and t ...
  • Sabres end Crosby-less Penguins’ winning strea ...
    Good periods. Bad ones. It didn't matter much to the Pittsburgh Penguins during their perfect 15-game run through March. In the end, they always found a way. April might be a little tougher, particularly without star Sidney Crosby. Outplayed on both ends of the ice for long stretches by rebu ...
  • Barakan wants InterFM to dial down the talk
    While station-surfing on my car radio several years back, I chanced upon a program about Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. The disc jockey said Page's solo in "Stairway to Heaven" was among his best....
  • Marinos turn back time with perfect start to n ...
    Yokohama F. Marinos may have one of the oldest teams in the J. League, but the three-time champions are aiming to have a vintage year after winning their first four games of the season. Marinos beat FC Tokyo 3-2 on Saturday to stand alone as the only side with a 100 percent record, with new s ...
  • Rubens’ best work is collaborative
    The 17th-century Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens is a great historical painter, not because of the scenes from ancient Roman history that he sometimes painted, but because, when we encounter his works, we find ourselves trying to understand what kind of society could possibly have produ ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Fiscal debate in Québec: myth busting and flak
    Some myths are just so hard to debunk. For instance, people in Québec generally assume that they are the most taxed in North America. IRIS tackled the well-rehearsed allegation in a recently published socio-economic notice. The reply resounded of what Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have prese ...
  • Carbon bubbles and fossil fuel divestment
    Divestment from fossil fuels is an idea whose time has come. Sparked by Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article last summer, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, divestment campaigns are now up and running on over 300 university campuses in the US, with 4 early victories ...
  • Build a Better Nova Scotia: the Alternative Pr ...
    The Nova Scotia provincial government is set to introduce its promised balanced budget this year. The Nova Scotia Alternative Budget, released today, proposes some concrete choices rooted in Nova Scotia communities. Rather than pay down debt, the NS-APB prioritizes balancing the social debt thre ...
  • New Shoes and a Haircut: Budget 2013 not so pr ...
    The Finance Minister got a new pair of shoes. Canadians got a new federal budget. And women in Canada got another haircut. Budget 2013 is all about Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! And who wouldn’t like a job. Maybe some training. Maybe even a full-time job. With benefits. And a pension plan. Oh go crazy, let’ ...
  • Austerity Through Infrastructure Cuts: Budget 2013
    One of the most amazing things about this budget is that one of its three focuses is actually the opposite of what it’s touting. You’ll likely hear that $14 billion will be spent on infrastructure over the next 10 years (actually, you may hear much bigger numbers, but they’re just re-annou ...

ReDress

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

NRDC 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
    More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
    From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Worst of the Month – February 2013
    This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.   There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force.  If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...

Total Collapse

  • Euro Bailouts: Savers Be Warned – Your Money’s ...
    Germans are right to be worried about their savings because the euro bailouts will make most of them poorer in the long term — through higher inflation and lower payouts from life insurance and pension schemes. Why can’t crisis-hit nations follow the Cypriot example and make rich dep ...
  • Mexican Assassins Kill US Prosecutors, Police ...
    A truly chilling Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Mexican Drug War, that since 2006 has killed nearly 85,000 and displaced 1.6 million, has spilled over the border into The United States “in a deadly vengeance” with the killing by cartel assas ...
  • McDonald’s want ad demands bachelor’s degree, ...
    With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive. Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald’s restaurant for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelo ...
  • North Korea Intends to Walk the Walk
    Enough bluster: Apparently Kim Jong-Un intends to walk the walk. A prominent arms analyst has told an Australian think-tank that U.S. troop movements west of the peninsula indicate that a North Korean missile launch is imminent. From the Lowy Institute for International Policy: “The United ...
  • North Korea vows actual military actions
    North Korea’s military announced Thursday that it would take a series of military actions against the United States. In a statement, the North’s supreme military command said it is formally notifying the White House and the Pentagon that “reckless operations” involving cu ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • VIC - BZE Film Night - 'White Water, Black Gold'
    After a brief hiatus, Beyond Zero Emissions film nights are back...and we're pretty excited about it! Join us for a screening of the multi-award winning film 'White Water, Black Gold', which follows filmmaker David Lavallee on a three-year journey across Canada to document the environmental and ...
  • Presenter training course in April
    Have you been eagerly awaiting an opportunity to get more involved with the BZE team? Do you want to spread the message of an affordable, achievable zero emissions future but haven't known where to begin? Or do you simply want an opportunity to study BZE's research in more depth?  Well ...
  • Position vacant: Chief Executive Officer
    Beyond Zero Emissions, one of the fastest growing NGOs in Australia, is seeking an experienced, passionate and dynamic CEO who can lead a dedicated team of staff, members and volunteers in demonstrating how Australia can transform to a zero-carbon renewable energy future. Based in BZE’s Head ...
  • NSW should call CSG industry bluff, go to zero gas
    Threats that the NSW government's restrictions on the coal-seam gas industry will cause a price rise are a bluff that NSW residents should call, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “The gas industry has no real commitment to domestic gas supply, and certainly not to ...
  • High speed rail cheaper than Albanese thinks
    Transport minister Anthony Albanese is trying to derail the promising High Speed Rail option before it even leaves the platform, according to climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “Mr Albanese appears to have decided to write off this nation building project before even releasing t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Improving the rigor of measuring emissions fro ...
    While much has been written about the potential of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests, a proposed program to do just that has been challenged by a number of factors, including concerns about the accuracy of measuring for carbon reductions. Failure to properly accoun ...
  • Featured video: in-depth look at Madagascar's ...
    A new film Nosy Maitso takes a look at the people, researchers, and wildlife connected to Madagascar's Ranomafauna National Park. Apart of a World Heritage Site, the park was established in 1991 after a new species of lemur, the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), was discovered in its fores ...
  • U.S. Republican voters want action on climate ...
    A new poll by the Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) at George Mason University finds that a majority of U.S. citizens who identify as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents want the government to do more to tackles climate change. Sixty-two percent of those polled said that th ...
  • Where the flamingos fly: Mumbai, apparently!
    When you think of flamingos you think of the great flamingo migration, a sea of pink in Tanzania, or maybe even a funny cartoon with these dancing, lanky creatures but the last thing you would think of is Mumbai. Strangely, this modern chaotic city provides a temporary home to these lovely coral ...
  • Scientists discover new wasp species in a fiel ...
    Searching through materials at the Natural History Museum in Paris, Simon van Noort recently came across a long-neglected field box of wasp specimens. Collected 80 years earlier by André Seyrig in Madagascar, the box contained several specimens of wasp in the Paramblynotus genus. The big su ...

Sierra Express

  • Danish Youth Organisation Supports Youths in S ...
    In December 2012 IBIS, a non-profit, Danish non-governmental organisation that works at global, national and local levels to support equal access to education, influence and resources for both men and women through advocacy in Africa and Latin America, competed with other Danish NGO’s to partner ...
  • In Sierra Leone – report on safety assessment ...
    In fulfillment of its mandate to protect people and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation, a team of regulators from the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority (NSPRA) conducted inspections at the Sierra Rutile Limited (SRL) Wet and Dry Plants and its Floating Dredge a ...
  • UAE Foreign Minister Assures President Koroma
    Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan last Sunday, 31st March, 2013 discussed ways to enhance bilateral cooperation for economic development between the two countries.  (Photo l- ...
  • New York African Film Festival Celebrates 20th ...
    Despite twenty years of successive presentations of African Film Festival (AFF) to audiences in New York and around the United States of America, Sierra Leonean born AFF founder and executive director is still humbled and repudiates any embellishment of her accomplishments.  (Photo:Mahen Bonneti ...
  • Historic APC Election Victory Dance in Australia
    Saturday 9 March 2013 recorded a landmark event in the history of Sierra Leoneans in Australia as they celebrated the 2012 election victory of the All People’s Congress (APC) party of His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.  Organized by the party’s branch in Australia under the hard ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy auction prices tipped to keep rising
    Price jumps in recent Global-Dairy-Trade auctions have surprised economists, yet they believe prices could go higher over the next few auctions.This week's auction saw prices increase 14.2 per cent on a trade-weighted basis. Dairy...
  • Drought pushes dairy prices up 14.2pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products surged to a record in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction as traders competed for a shrinking volume of milk powder in the face of the continuing impact of drought.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose...
  • Dairying leads export price surge
    Led by dairy products, prices for export commodities surged last month - and this time the rise in world prices was not eaten up by a higher exchange rate.ANZ's commodity price index surged 7.4 per cent, the third-strongest monthly...
  • New milk powder scandal in China
    The Chinese partner of Hero Group, a major Swiss baby formula manufacturer, has been accused of deliberately mislabelling milk powder and a senior employee has been detained, officials say.Authorities in Suzhou in eastern China,...
  • Profit soars at Fonterra
    Fonterra enjoyed strong earnings in the first half and has raised its payout forecast to farmers for the current year, but executives say the second half will be hit by the drought that is gripping much of the country.The co-operative...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Congresswoman Does Not Realize the 'Assault Ma ...
    Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) is the chief co-sponsor, with Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), of the High Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act, which would ban the sale or transfer of magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds. Upon reintroducing the bill in January, she said banni ...
  • Caroline Kennedy Not a Serious Choice for U.S. ...
    President Obama may be just weeks away from selecting Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, as U.S. ambassador to Japan. It’s a choice as unserious as it appears. Writing for Foreign Policy, Clyde Prestowitz reviews the history of post-world war II ambassadors to Japan, starting with ...
  • "Anti-Government" Couple on Run After Kidnappi ...
    This story probably isn't going to end well: Joshua Michael Hakken and his wife Sharyn Hakken are on the run in Florida after kidnapping their own two children from Sharyn's mother this morning. Patricia Hauser has had legal custody of her grandchildren, four-year-old Cole and two-ye ...
  • Covered at Reason 24/7: Oregon Considers Legal ...
    Legalizing just medical marijuana might not be able to get a hearing in places like Florida, but the effort to legalize recreational marijuana continues elsewhere. From the Statesman-Journal: Forty years after Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize possessi ...
  • An ADHD Diagnosis: The Difference Between Spee ...
    According to new CDC data, one in 10 American kids, including nearly a fifth of boys in high school, have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The New York Times worries that "the A.D.H.D. diagnosis and its medication are overused in Americ ...

Mercury Rising

  • States Starting To Run Surpluses Again
    Thanks in large part to the growing number of states realizing that revenues must be raised, many states are starting to show surpluses: This spring, budget surpluses are blossoming across America. We’ve noted that the combination of employment growth and tax increases is boosting federal revenu ...
  • Williston, North Dakota: America’s GOP-D ...
    Move over, Alaska — you’ve got competition in the “Worst Place for a Woman in America” department: For North Dakota women, the booming state is becoming a dystopian nightmare rather than a job seeker’s utopian paradise. Rapes and assaults have multiplied in frequenc ...
  • Act against the Keystone XL pipeline
    350.org is trying to get 1 million signatures against Keystone XL. It’s easy. Just click here and customize your own letter to the State Department. They’re going for 1 million signatures by April 22nd. You can also co-sign a letter to President Obama here.
  • American journalism to be saved from Rupert Mu ...
    No, not April Fool’s. Connor Simpson, The Atlantic Wire (via FAIR): This could get very ugly, very fast. The Koch brothers are reportedly [by the LA Weekly] considering a bid for the Tribune Company newspapers — focusing on the crown jewels of the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, or at leas ...
  • Occupy Sandy Has A New Website: http://occupys ...
    In case you didn’t know, Occupy Sandy is still around, still doing good work, and still online — this time at http://occupysandy.net. Here’s some of what they’re doing right now: People’s Recovery Summit A 3-day gathering of workshops, panels, concerts & performances ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sing for Earth Day
    Celebrate Earth Day with the Rainforest Alliance by participating in the singalong! Following the success of the You Don’t Own Me PSA with Lesley Gore and the Don’t Frack My Mother PSA with Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, we are teaming up with the Rainforest Alliance to make a PSA for EARTH DAY! ...
  • An Economy of Caring and Sharing
      The following is an excerpt from Future Primal: How Our Wilderness Origins Show Us the Way Forward, recently published by New World Library.     read more
  • TED Rejects New Paradigm
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  • The State of the Occult: 2013
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  • "War on Consciousness" Webinar
    Recently Graham Hancock discovered that his TEDx Whitechapel presentation, "The War on Consciousness," was censored by the TED leadership -- removed from the TED YouTube page and criticized for reasons which TED later admitted to be unfounded. An outraged grassroots campaign led to ...

Desertification

  • Canada Pulls Out of U.N. Body to Fight Deserti ...
    Canada is pulling out of the United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa next year, making it the only country in the world not participating in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Canada’s Stephen Harper government made the decision behind closed ...
  • Water Crisis Hitting Food, Energy – And Everyt ...
    How much water does it take to turn on a light? It took 10,000 litres to make your jeans. Another three big bathtubs of water was needed for your two-eggs-toast-coffee breakfast this morning. We are surrounded by an unseen world of water: furniture, houses, cars, roads, buildings – practic ...
  • Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Po ...
    When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext – never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation. Now, as the United Nations begins the process of formulating a new set ...
  • Food Policies Failing the World’s Hungry
    The world’s food security remains “vulnerable”, new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington think tank, says such numbers are “unacc ...
  • Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
    Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies a ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Google Goes Way To Far!
    After using a pic of Cesar Chavez as their doodle for an April Fool's joke, Google has now outraged many. After pointless Panda updates, paying Adsense publishers a declining share of the profit, and trying to compete with Facebook, they have come out with the dumbest thing I've ever seen. It's ...
  • It's A Crazy Muslim World!
    This past week in Islam... An Egyptian satirist who models himself after Jon Stewart of the Comedy Network's, 'Daily Show,' is in a lot of trouble. Bassem Youssef has been arrested and is now out on bail. His crime? Making jokes about the countries president. It looks like Youseff may be in and ...
  • Red hot hatred of Christians manifested especi ...
    I will readily admit that The Philippines does take it a notch too high in their depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ.  I am sure there are millions of Catholics like me who are wishing fervently that  the Filipinos would tone it down and not be willing tools of the Left who want to ...
  • North Korea Invades?
    All of America is in fear right now, facing an invasion threat. There were massive rallies in North Korea today and they are threatening to attack. Their leader (Kim #3) has ordered strategic rocket and long-range artillery units into combat posture directed at the U.S. mainland, Hawaii and Guam ...
  • Green Party And Liberal Party Have Problems In ...
    Elizabeth May’s plan for electoral cooperation may flop in Labrador: Hebert MONTREAL—Under the guise of a nicely wrapped gift, Green Party leader Elizabeth May handed the Liberals an empty box this weekend. [...] It is possible that May has another more strategic agenda. As Green party leader ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • ‘Iraqi al-Qaeda helps Syria militants’
    The al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq have been increasingly cooperating with the foreign-backed militants in Syria over the past few months, Iraqi intelligence officials say.
  • Gaza rockets land near Israeli town
    Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have landed near the Israeli town of Sderot, following the Tel Aviv regime’s airstrikes on the Palestinian territory.
  • ‘US expands training of Syria militants’
    The United States and Jordan have increased the training of militants fighting against the Syrian government in an effort to establish a buffer zone along the southern border of Syria, a report says.
  • Palestinians to protest inmate’s death
    Palestinians are expected to hold a general strike and observe a day of mourning following the death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail due to lack of medical attention.
  • Israel launches fresh airstrike on Gaza
    Israeli warplanes have launched an airstrike on the besieged Gaza Strip, the first such attacks since a truce ended an eight-day Israeli onslaught on the coastal enclave in November.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Following Up With The MAAT Lab Conference
    Current student, T.J. Black (’14) contributed the following recap of the inaugural Master of Arts in Applied Theater Lab Conference that was held in mid-March: On March 17, 2012, students and alumni of the Master of Arts in Applied Theatre program gathered for the inaugural MAAT Lab Conference.  ...
  • 2013 ePortfolio Showcase
    The annual ePortfolio Showcase highlights students who have created ePortfolios for academic, professional, and/or personal use. The showcase aims to demonstrate the many ways our students are stretching definitions and creating full pictures of their learning. This year, in addition to acceptin ...
  • News From The Alumni Advisory Council
    The following post was submitted by Crispin Goytia ‘09, Chair of the Alumni Advisory Council.  The CUNY School of Professional Studies Alumni Advisory Council was formed with the intention of bringing alumni together to make time to dedicate and “give back” to the school that gave us ...
  • SPS Alums Present: The Birds and The Bees&#823 ...
    Maggie Keenan-Bolger (SPS ’10) and Rachel Sullivan (SPS ’10) are co-creators of The Birds and the Bees Unabridged, an original devised theater piece about female sexuality accompanied by a pre/post show art exhibit. Bringing together a diverse ensemble of 25 people, and over 15 visual artists, T ...
  • Distance Learning and Online Relationships
    This article by Wendy Williams originally appeared on the blog Getting Smart on February 21, 2013.  I never get to meet most of my students in person, because I teach asynchronous online courses via Blackboard, for the City University of New York (CUNY). I was part of a cohort of Ph.D. students ...

Dissident Voice

  • Generic Drugs in India
    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 substances could not fall under the patent umbrella unless they exhibited “enhanced efficacy”, terminology which has troubled foreign pharmaceut ...
  • Imperial Recipes for a Burnt Planet
    At the turn of the 19th century, industrialist and weapons manufacturer par excellence Alfred Nobel, guilt-ridden inventor of dynamite, established the Peace Prize that carries his name, proposing that it go “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity betwee ...
  • Change is our Only Tradition
    In the prevailing political dichotomy of left and right, it has always been obvious which side is destined to lose. As a shining example, Rush Limbaugh recently admitted that gay marriage is “inevitable”, that the issue is lost for American conservative politics. With news such as this, it is wo ...
  • Behind the U.S.-North Korea Conflict
    What’s happening between the U.S. and North Korea to produce such headlines in recent days as “Korean Tensions Escalate,” and “North Korea Threatens U.S.”? The New York Times reported: This week, North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jung-un, ordered his underlings to prepare for a missile attack on t ...
  • Israel’s New Generation of Racists
    Incidents of discrimination have doubled each year since 2008 and are increasingly perpetrated by youth.

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