Friday, May 03, 2013

3 May - RSS SnapShot! III

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The Discovery of Global WarmingThe Discovery of Global Warming (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Amanda Palmer's Ninja Beach GatheringAmanda Palmer's Ninja Beach Gathering (Photo credit: Burns!)
English: Medical examination of a child during...English: Medical examination of a child during a visit of the PHR mobile clinic to Bruqin, a village in the West Bank (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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The front label of the planned Ratatouille win...The front label of the planned Ratatouille wine to have been promoted by Disney, Pixar, and Costco, and subsequently pulled for its use of a cartoon character. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The Open Clinic for migrant workers i...English: The Open Clinic for migrant workers in Jaffa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: An anti-Occupation demonstration at t...English: An anti-Occupation demonstration at the Qalandia checkpint in East Jerusalem, involving Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...
  • Hooray for Disney-Pixar!
    I just saw Disney’s new animated film, Wreck it Ralph. I read that Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter gave the film’s director Rich Moore complete freedom, telling him not to make a “quote-unquote, ‘Disney’ film“. The result is very ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Google Glass: facial recognition and root acce ...
    Google Glass has been rooted, which is what Google wants since it will encourage development. But this and the probability of facial recognition software on Glass means seriously nasty stuff could happen. Once you have root access, you can do anything on Glass. Google Glass: Let the evil commenc ...
  • Woo hoo, chocolate 3D printing
    Stratasys has applied for chocolate 3D printing patents. Hopefully soon we’ll be able to 3D print fanciful chocolate designs. Imagine strands of different chocolate, like the above, interwoven into patterns that only a 3D printer can make. This won’t just be happening just with choco ...
  • Syria descends into hell aided and abetted by ...
    The coming US military intervention in Syria has nothing to do with restoring democracy. It’s about toppling Syria as a major power and thereby weakening Iran and Hezbollah. The economy of Syria is now a zombie and many former city dwellers are literally living in caves. The US and allies ...
  • Mounting criticism to deceptively named Bay De ...
    The Bay Delta Conservation Plan ostensibly aims to preserve the Sacramento Delta while funneling most of the water away from it via two huge tunnels for use by Central Valley agriculture and Los Angeles. Calif. Governor Jerry Brown strongly supports the BDCP since it enriches two key constituenc ...
  • Terrorism porn. What if Boston Bombers were sp ...
    A friend forwarded this terrorism porn email from the Council for a Terrified Populace, oh, sorry, I meant to say the Council for a Livable World. They are exploiting a national tragedy to boost their fund-raising by 1) identifying something you need be terrorized about, 2) explaining how they c ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Communications Giants in Good Hands with new F ...
        by Stephen Lendman   Obama’s expected to pick Tom Wheeler as new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman. More on him below.   In March, former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski stepped down. At the time, Free Press.net president Craig Aaron said the followin ...
  • MAYDAY 2013: Lori Price (editor of Legitgov.or ...
    MAYDAY 2013: Lori Price (editor od Legitgov.org) with Jack Blood – Breaking news DOWNLOAD MP3 BY RIGHT-CLICK “DOWNLOAD” and CLICK SAVE AS
  • 4.30.13 – Jack Blood Interviews Chris Ki ...
    4.30.13 – Chris Kitze (editor of Beforeitsnews.com) comments on Boston Bombings and breaking news DOWNLOAD MP3 BY RIGHT-CLICK “DOWNLOAD” and CLICK SAVE AS
  • This Day In History – May 2
    1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452) died. 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. 1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformati ...
  • Saudi Arabia ‘warned the United States I ...
      Saudis developed intelligence separately from Russia, which also warned the U.S. about the accused Boston bomber A letter to the Department of Homeland Security allegedly named Tsarnaev and three Pakistanis as potential jihadis worthy of U.S. investigation Red flags from Saudi Arabia to h ...

The Air Vent

  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook settles Timelines trademark suit
    Facebook and Timelines Inc. have reached a settlement in the trademark case against the social network, according to a document Facebook filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Timelines Inc. operates Timelines.com, a website for people...
  • Walmart, Macy’s, Target and others among this ...
    Walmart is the top gaining retail and consumer merchandise page in the People Talking About This metric this week. With over 28 million total Likes, Walmart is the second most liked retail and consumer merchandise page on...
  • Instagram adds new photo tagging feature, crea ...
    Instagram today announced a new way for users to tag their friends and other accounts, along with “Photos of You,” a new section of the profile that displays all the photos a user or brand has...
  • ‘Trusted Contacts’ lets users turn to friends ...
    Facebook today announced “Trusted Contacts,” an update to its “Trusted Friends” security feature that sends access codes to a few of a user’s close friends in order to help the person regain access to their account...
  • With acquisition of Atlas complete, Facebook l ...
    Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shared today on the company’s first quarter earnings call that its acquisition of Atlas from Microsoft closed last week and that she welcomed the team to Facebook today. Atlas Advertiser Suite is a platform...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Cowards Let Terrorists Take Away Their Freedom
    Almost half of Americans are willing to give up freedoms to reduce the threat of terrorism. They are cowards and they betray the courage and blood and lives lost to protect our freedoms.
  • Why Are Luxury Car Sales Growing at Record Rat ...
    How can sales of super-luxury cars grow at super-fast rates during a recession? The answer is simple: it's not a recession for everyone.
  • The Failure of Capitalism
    Capitalism is the most destructive economic system in history. The question begs to be asked: when will this nightmare for humanity end?
  • Invisible Success, Civilizations that Die or Q ...
    Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael, about a telepathic gorilla, won a Ted Turner award for book with a hopeful vision of the future. It's become a bestseller translated into many languages and I recommend it as must reading if you've never read it. This interview discusses the book AND an essay on inv ...
  • Dalai Lama, Jason Collins, Leviticus and You.
    If the purpose of religion is to control ourself, why do so many of us use it to condemn others?

Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing April 26, 2013- May 2, 2013 NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green su ...
  • Home Rule Victory in New York! - First NY Appe ...
    Daniel Raichel, Legal Fellow, New York For those keeping score, today’s ruling  by the state Appellate Division in the Dryden and Middlefield cases marks the fifth and sixth victories in an undefeated winning streak for the right of New Y ...
  • March/April 2013 Legislative Threats to the En ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC While the last few months fortunately haven’t seen much activity in terms of bill movement, a flurry of anti-ESA bills have been introduced as legislators start the 113th Congress. One of thes ...
  • EU protects bees, but US protects pesticide-pr ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The scientific evidence against the neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics) is stacking up like so many dead and dying bees. And, not just bees - turns out that our little aquatic invertebrate buddies are ...
  • We Don't Need NEPA - A Modest Proposal
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC   As the Senate continues the actions of the infrastructure committees to weaken public participation and environmental reviews of federal projects, there is another way communities can pro ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Broken Justice System and the Supreme Court& ...
    Perhaps the most compelling story in Karen Houppert’s superb Chasing Gideon is Greg Blight’s.   Blight spend nearly 30 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, based on evidence weaker than the “evidence” that convicted Cameron Todd Willingham. The state had n ...
  • Sherpa Exploitation
    When we think of labor, we probably don’t really think of the Sherpas, who guide climbers up Mt. Everest and other high Himalayan peaks. But in fact, the climbers often treat the Sherpas like beasts of burden. It is very dangerous work and Sherpa deaths are far from uncommon. The Sherpas a ...
  • This Day in Labor History: May 3, 1911
    On May 3, 1911, Wisconsin created the first workers compensation program, followed almost immediately by Washington and most of the Northwestern states. This was the beginning of a system, albeit quite limited even now, to compensate workers properly when they are injured or killed on the job. T ...
  • A Hack With One Less Conflict Of Interest
    Howie Kurtz fired has decided to move in a different direction towards a more proactive paradigm. One could argue that the smear of Collins, special mix of loathsomeness and incompetence that it was, was not in itself a firable offense. (I’m not sure I would be the one, but I can imagine i ...
  • Vintage Aesthetic Stalinism
    This is good old school David Brooks-era Weekly Standard: For the last few years, America has experienced a revival in swing dancing. Big bands and young neo-swing “jump and jive” groups like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies — who are currently receiving airplay on rock radio and selling ten thousand ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-lon ...
    In a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydro-geologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 
  • DRI and GreenPower sponsor Nevada’s first Indo ...
    On April 24th, a myriad of business vendors, farmers, investors and industry professionals on the forefront of solving water resource concerns in Southern Nevada, will gather in Downtown Las Vegas to discuss improving local food production and boosting the state’s food supply in the desert throu ...
  • KC King, Apr. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Kristen "KC" King, a Ph.D. student in the atmospheric sciences program.  She is a part of the EPSCoR Climate Change project, on the climate modeling team, and interested in climate models’ ability to correctly forecast teleconnections seen in the western U.S. in temperature and precipitatio ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    Funding was approved Tuesday by Nevada’s Board of Examiners for the state’s first Center of Excellence (COE). Under the contract, the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Developm ...
  • DRI world-renowned water expertise to support ...
    A new joint contract between the Nevada System of Higher Education (DRI serving as the lead), the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and IBM will support innovation and economic development.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Judge Hobbles Bulger's Planned Immunity Defense
    A federal judge has blocked accused Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's proposed immunity defense and bid for a long list of Justice Department documents, significantly hampering his planned defense during his impending trial.
  • Prager to Assume Deanship at Southwestern Law ...
    Susan Westerberg Prager, a leading figure in legal education who once served as dean of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, will assume the top administrative position at Southwestern Law School next fall.
  • EEOC Wins Record $240 Million Disability Verdict
    In the biggest jury verdict in agency history, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on May 1 won a $240 million award in a disability discrimination suit brought on behalf of 32 men with intellectual disabilities.
  • Boston Bombing Co-Conspirators Hire Veteran De ...
    Attorney Derege Demissie has built a practice representing marathon runners. Now the Ethiopian immigrant has taken up another job--as counsel to a man who allegedly aided Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
  • DreamWorks Prevails in 'Kung Fu Panda' Appeal
    A Los Angeles judge correctly instructed a jury that found the story of Zen-Bear, who learned tai chi and kung fu from a snake, a crane, a tiger and a leopard, were not substantially similar to that of DreamWorks Animation's 2008 film Kung Fu Panda, a California court has ruled.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Women Support Centres Help Odisha's Single Wom ...
    While the Odisha government's land allocation programmes mandate that all poor, landless families in rural areas are eligible for allotment of land - whether male or female-headed households - the reality is that women rarely own land.
  • You Tube Star Jim Meskimen Discusses How to Ma ...
    Comic star Jim Meskimen discusses how his video went viral in this exclusive interview with The Hollywood Sentinel.
  • Global Media Freedom At Low Point
    Reasons for decline included the increasingly sophis­ticated repression of independent journalism and new media by authoritarian regimes; the ripple effects of the European economic crisis and longer-term challenges
  • Lightining Kills a Woman in Assam
    At least 19 people were injured and several houses damaged by the lightning at Bengtol area in Chirang district.
  • US and Spain Collaborate to Promote Security a ...
    The US commends Spain's contributions to help keep NATO strong. US-Spain military partnership and cooperation on promoting security for both countries is an important component of the relationship.

environment 360

  • Seawater Energy Technology Is Focus of Pilot P ...
    The U.S. defense and aerospace giant, Lockheed Martin, is partnering with a major Chinese company to build a pilot project off the southern Chinese coast that will use temperature differentials between the deep and shallow ocean to generate electricity. The technology, known as ocean thermal ene ...
  • Five Southeast Asian Nations Have Lost One-Thi ...
    Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam have lost one-third of their forests since 1980 and could be left with only 10 to 20 percent of their original forest cover by 2030, according to a review of satellite data by WWF. The conservation group warned that if present trends continue only 1 ...
  • A Key Experiment to Probe the Future of Our Ac ...
    In a Swedish fjord, European researchers are conducting an ambitious experiment aimed at better understanding how ocean acidification will affect marine life. Ultimately, these scientists hope to determine which species might win and which might lose in a more acidic ocean. BY PETER FRIEDERICI
  • Program Targeting Diesel Emissions Will Be Cut ...
    A federal program that has cleaned up or removed 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines from U.S. roads is scheduled to be cut by 70 percent under President Barack Obama’s latest budget. The program eliminated 230,000 tons of soot and smog-causing pollutants, slashed more than two million tons of ...
  • Interview: Telling the Life Story of The Ginkg ...
    Botanist Peter Crane sees the ginkgo as more than just a distinctive tree with foul-smelling fruits and nuts prized AJYIGinkgo leaves in autumn for reputed medicinal properties. To Crane, author of a new book, Ginkgo, the tree is an oddity in nature because it is a single species with no kno ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Israel gives up white phosphorus, because ’it ...
    So the IDF is looking for a replacement for the white phosphorus bombs. A senior officer in the ground forces explained: “As we learned during Cast Lead, it [white phosphorus] doesn’t photograph well, so we are reducing the supply and we will not purchase beyond what we already have.” This item ...
  • The New York Times Suggests "Terrorist Plots a ...
    RIC Note: It is encouraging in a way to see such ’revelations’ coming from a mainstream news source. The ideas presented may reach people who never would have conceived that the FBI (or other agencies) were anything but moralistic and virtuous protectors of freedom, liberty, and all that jazz. H ...
  • German ’Wise Men’ push for wealth seizure to f ...
    RIC Note: Echoing the old Soviet Union, the EU government is punishing the people with money, but not those who stole it! This is what Vladimir Bukovsky warned about when he questioned if the European Union was in fact a ’new’ Soviet Union. (read below). Two top advisers to German Chancellor Ang ...
  • Brzezinski: "EU-US trade pact can halt West’s ...
    The EU Observer has published the following article outlining Zbigniew Brzezinski’s suggestion of centralizing control and creating a trans-Atlantic trade bloc composed of all the western democracies, in order to compete with the juggernaut of Chinese power. Red Ice Radio guest and author Dr. Jo ...
  • May Day! Communist Goals as Outlined in 1963 C ...
    On this first of May, 2013 – a day celebrated by communists in their struggle for “liberation” – it is appropriate to reflect on the communist agenda. Many of its goals have manifested systemically in the decades gone by. Whether or not you believe there is a conscious agenda behind the changes ...

Not My Tribe

  • BIDDER 70 doc reduces super-activist Tim DeChr ...
    BUMMER. I was thrilled a documentary would tell the world about Tim DeChristopher. You might think his achievement would be more widely know. It’s a testament of the power he’s up against, added to the meager support he has received, that even here I have to explain who he is and wha ...
  • Threat of Atmel plant closure prompts city cou ...
    ATMEL KILLS SOLAR IN COLORADO SPRINGS –I told the gentleman from Atmel who trolled the city council meeting today, this would be my headline. Prompted by his threat to ship Atmel jobs to Malaysia if a 0.25 percent utilities rate hike went into effect, the Colorado Springs City Council vote ...
  • Our collective lockdown mentality, lest a sire ...
    LOCKDOWN. The term has become ubiquitous, though lifted easily out of context, being self-explanatory. Its predecessor “batten down the hatches” used to be too. Before the advent of recreational sailing it came from a work environment synonymous with incarceration, in the days of deb ...
  • De mortuis nil nisi bonum is well and good but ...
    It’s probably older than Latin. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” is a propriety imposed at death, as if to offer the deceased a false comfort that, however fraudulent the pretense of their reputation in life, they can take it with them. Well, most commonly, “Don’t speak ...
  • Teen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is diminishing excuse f ...
    We pick up yesterday’s story with Watertown and Boston under lockdown, it’s a prison term go figure, while paramilitary police conduct door to door warrantless searches to find an immigrant teen, college wrestler Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said to be armed and extremely dangerous, who fled f ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Paper Accepted and Published at Scientific Met ...
    I’m happy to announce that I’ve successfully had a paper accepted and published at the website Scientific Method 9/11. It’s an updated version of my paper Other Collapses in Perspective. In it, I present scientific explanations for why other steel structure fire-induced collapses are not compara ...
  • Fukushima's Catastrophic Aftermath Continues ( ...
    In her book titled No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 - 2012) said: Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse t ...
  • Salon blames Infowars and "conspiracy theories ...
    Just when you thought the attacks couldn't get more ridiculous... Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan: "Tamerlan “took an interest in Infowars,” according to Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister. He was also apparently interested in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was ...
  • Why is George W Bush being honored with #BushC ...
    Join CODEPINK in sharing this message together at the same time - automatically. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2005-and-justice-for-all Related: Ladies in Pink Slips: 10 Years of CODEPINK Creativity Prison for a poem? Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots?
  • Drones protest gains local and national support
    stopwar.org.uk · 020 7561 9311 · 23 April 2013 1) Drones protest gains local and national support 2) Shaker Aamer - parliamentary meeting & demonstration 1) Drones protest gains local and national support   The news of the Ground the Dron ...

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

  • Survival launches tourism boycott of India’s A ...
    Still of video showing Jarawa girls forced to dance for tourists.© AnonSurvival International has today launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on ...
  • 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
    Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
  • Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
    Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...
  • Indonesian military ‘development’ program spre ...
    The military presence in West Papua is almost always accompanied by human rights violations such as killings, arbitrary arrests, rape and torture. © Survival InternationalPapuan leaders have voiced their concern at plans for more than a thousand Indonesian soldiers to build 1,500 km of new roads ...
  • Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
    Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...

Greg Palast

  • Billionaire Bankster Penny PritzkerBreaks into ...
    By Greg Palast  You made fun of me when I suggested that President Barack Obama would nominate a confessed bank scammer, a loan-sharking mortgage predator, to his cabinet.  But thar she blows! Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone:  ...
  • Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artículo en español aquí. The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers ...
  • 3 Years ago Today Deepwater Horizon Explodes
    By Greg Palast The Hidden Truth - Watch the Film
  • My Apologies to the Family of Mrs. Thatcher
    By Greg Palast I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of an iconic stateswoman: Naggie Hatchet dead and gone Ruled her Empire State like Queen Kong Stomping on us little peeps Just to sell our Jewels to creeps. And lost the ...
  • Bradley Manning & The Deepwater Horizon
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Three years ago this month, on the 20th of April, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizondrilling rig blew itself to kingdom come. Soon thereafter, a message came in to our office's chief of investigations, Ms Badpenny, from a person I dare not name, who was floating some ...

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

  • Autism One To Feature Congressional Panel: Dan ...
    Congressional Panel: Congressmen Dan Burton, Dave Weldon, MD, and Bill Posey During his 30 years in Congress, many of them as Chairman of the Committee on Government Reform, Burton was involved in over 20 hearings on autism. Burton’s grandson developed...
  • David Aaronovitch Loses Then Deletes Times of ...
    Newly appointed Index-on-Censorship chairman David Aaronovitch loses on-line exchange about Wakefield and MMR in the London Times and then deletes it By John Stone With British journalists running relays to resuscitate the dead story of the Swansea measles epidemic the...
  • Dachel Media Update: Big Babies and More Brains
    By Anne Dachel May 1, 2013, UK Daily Mail: Babies born weighing more than 9lb 14oz or under 5lb 5oz have a higher of developing autism May 1, 2013, Boston Globe: New autism brain bank to help replace samples lost...
  • Heartbreaking Story: Adult Son with Autism Lef ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Below is a sobering look at the future for many familes as exhaustion of mind, body and savings in conjunction with intense care for an autistic adult child becomes untenable. The moderate to severe autism population has...
  • "Like" to Vote For Natalie Palumbo's Film Le B ...
    Photo only, Live link to movie at end of post. By Natalie Palumbo I’m 18, a senior in high school, an art student, and the younger sister of a 22 year old brother with low-verbal autism. I am a finalist...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Food As A Political Weapon: The USDA’s Suicide ...
      Pat Mooney, co-founder & Executive Director of etcgroup.org (formerly RAFI) discusses terminator & traitor seeds patented by the USDA & Monsanto, possible implications for bio-warfare and agra-terrorism.
  • Monsanto Wet Dream
    In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.
  • 2081 Universal Absurdity
    A dystopian future in which everyone is "finally equal...."
  • “Stunning” Difference of GM from non-GM Corn
    A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn.
  • GMOs in USDA Organic Food
    It seems that “organic” does not mean “safe from tampering.” What sorts of “business interruptions” justify using non-organically produced annual seeds? I’m willing to bet that the dramatic effects on crops due to drought from climate change easily warrant such activity, under this clause; howe ...

new geography

  • Observations on Urbanization: 1920-2010
    Ninety years have made a world of difference in the United States. Between 1920 and 2010, the nation's population nearly tripled. But that was not the most important development. Two other trends played a huge role in shaping the United States we know today. The first trend was increasing ur ...
  • Bank Collapse in Cyprus: Which Way Now?
    Having run out of options to solve its bigger problems, European Union commissioners, in the spirit of famed bank robber Willy Sutton, have decided to go after depositors’ money on Cyprus for a simple reason: “That’s where the money is.” Will the current shake down of bank depositors on Cyprus s ...
  • Enterprising States 2013: Getting Down to Smal ...
    The following is an exerpt form a new report, Enterprising States, released this week by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and written by Praxis Strategy Group and Joel Kotkin. Visit this site to download the full pdf version of the report, or check the interactive dashboard to see ho ...
  • The Triumph of Suburbia
    The “silver lining” in our five-years-and-running Great Recession, we’re told, is that Americans have finally taken heed of their betters and are finally rejecting the empty allure of suburban space and returning to the urban core. “We’ve reached the limits o ...
  • Class Warfare for Republicans
    As a Truman-style Democrat left politically homeless, I am often asked about the future of the Republican Party. Some Republicans want to push racial buttons on issues like immigration, or try to stop their political slide on gay marriage, which will steepen as younger people replace old ...

water.org

  • A Toilet Brings Honor
    Mrs. Annakka Ujinikoppa and her sisters wanted to find a way to help their mother-in-law gain closer access to a toilet. They were finding the cost too high but then they discovered a WaterCredit loan.
  • A shorter journey in Ethiopia
    Wereda Gulo-Mekeda is located on the northern part of the Tigray regional state characterized by mountainous landscape with a limited supply of potable water. People there were suffering from this challenge, which was forcing them travel long distances to collect water.
  • Building Her Future: Mrs. Chawda's Story
    Galalben Keshubhai Chawda, pictured in red, is 38 years old and lives in Thakkerbapa Nagar, Ahmedabad, India. She has worked incredibly hard to become a successful construction worker and has skills in masonry, plastering, tiling, flooring and stone cutting. Here is her story, in her own words.
  • Feeling Good in India
    It is a known fact that children learn and absorb knowledge better than adults. Because of this, the ASOMI WSH Project, a partner of Water.org’s, initiated the Children Health Club Programme to teach good hygiene practices to rural school children.
  • 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.

Cryptogon

  • RoboBee
    It requires a tether for power and control, but who knows how long that constraint will last… Via: Christian Science Monitor: The successful controlled flight of the tiny RoboBee – designed by a team at Harvard – represents a key step in the development of insect-size drones with a range o ...
  • ‘Counterinsurgency Methods Used to Fight ...
    Via: CBS: Massachusetts State Trooper Mike Cutone realized that the methods of the insurgents he combated as a Green Beret in Iraq were similar to those used by the Springfield gangs. “Insurgents and gang members both want to operate in a failed area,” he tells Stahl, referring to th ...
  • Scientists Have Created Hybrid Viruses That Co ...
    Via: Independent: Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory. They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with hum ...
  • Digital Camera System Based on Insect Eyes
    Via: The Verge: Samsung may claim its smartphones are inspired by nature, but researchers at the University of Illinois are taking that concept much farther — they’ve designed a new digital camera system that draws from the eyes of insects. The system, which relies on a large range of mini ...
  • Printable ‘Bionic’ Ear Melds Elect ...
    Creepy pic at link. Via: Physorg: Scientists at Princeton University used off-the-shelf printing tools to create a functional ear that can “hear” radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability. The researchers’ primary purpose was to explore an efficient and ...

The Economic Collapse

  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percent ...
    The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.  Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system ...
  • 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.  The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights.  The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not go ...
  • Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is C ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done it.  He has succeeded in creating a new housing bubble.  By driving mortgage rates down to the lowest level in 100 years and recklessly printing money with wild abandon, Bernanke has been able to get housing prices to rebound a bit.  In fact, in som ...
  • 20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depressi ...
    The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet.  Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don't get it.  All the time I have people ask me when the "economic collapse" is going to happen.  ...
  • The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food St ...
    Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.  As you will read about below, JP Morgan has m ...

Desertification

  • Haiti’s big dig for replacing the 30 to ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://news.yahoo.com/haiti-aiming-plant-1-2-million-trees-single-144006280.html Haiti aiming to plant 1.2 million trees in a single day The big dig is planned for May 1. It’s part of an ambitious government effort to reforest the country aft ...
  • Land degradation source of environmental conce ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://postnoon.com/2013/04/29/desertification-indias-arid-future-dawns/122549 Desertification India’s arid future dawns A report says desertification, land degradation and drought has hit almost all states and union territories. New Delhi: Over on ...
  • Water resources available in the selected pilo ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://euroalert.net/en/calls.aspx?idc=2727 Call for proposals – Halting Desertification in Europe – Desertification 2012-2013 description and objectives The general objective of the Call for proposals is to obtain detailed information ...
  • Don’t let our future dry up (Google / Te ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://terraprimus.org/?p=612 World Day to Combat Desertification: 17th June by Anric Blatt The theme of the 2013 World Day to Combat Desertification is drought and water scarcity. Freshwater is valuable. Of all the water … Continue reading & ...
  • Desertification and the GGW (Google / The CS M ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertifiction http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2013/0430/Can-a-4-000-mile-wall-of-trees-stop-Sahara-Desert-s-drift Can a 4,000-mile wall of trees stop Sahara Desert’s drift? By Kyle Benjamin Schneps, Guest blogger Kyle Benjamin Schneps is a dual master ...

News Blaze

  • Women Support Centres Help Odisha's Single Wom ...
    While the Odisha government's land allocation programmes mandate that all poor, landless families in rural areas are eligible for allotment of land - whether male or female-headed households - the reality is that women rarely own land.
  • You Tube Star Jim Meskimen Discusses How to Ma ...
    Comic star Jim Meskimen discusses how his video went viral in this exclusive interview with The Hollywood Sentinel.
  • Global Media Freedom At Low Point
    Reasons for decline included the increasingly sophis­ticated repression of independent journalism and new media by authoritarian regimes; the ripple effects of the European economic crisis and longer-term challenges
  • Lightining Kills a Woman in Assam
    At least 19 people were injured and several houses damaged by the lightning at Bengtol area in Chirang district.
  • US and Spain Collaborate to Promote Security a ...
    The US commends Spain's contributions to help keep NATO strong. US-Spain military partnership and cooperation on promoting security for both countries is an important component of the relationship.

Worldnews

  • U.S. Military Plane Crashes in Kyrgyzstan
    Share 0 A U.S. military plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan today, shortly after taking off from the Manas Transit Center. The aircraft was believed to be a KC-135, a refueling tanker based on the Boeing 707. It is not immediately clear how many passengers were on board, but such tankers usually c ...
  • Chidambaram hopeful of pushing through in ...
    Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday exuded confidence that the government would be able to move ahead with the proposal to raise the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap in insurance and pension sectors. In his address at a seminar at the 46th ADB conference, he assured delegates that t ...
  • Presidents Bush and Obama, and the Faith ...
    In reflecting on both President Obama's speech in the aftermath of the Boston bombings and President Bush's speeches following the horrific attacks on Sept. 11, I have come to understand better the different ways each man conveys their faith and how this reflects on something going on in Ame ...
  • Rafael Benitez: Chelsea boss wins Premier ...
    Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez has been named Premier League manager of the month for April. The Spaniard, 53, is the first Chelsea boss to win the monthly award since Carlo Ancelotti in April 2011. Benitez's April record Premier League Europa League Games 4 3 Won 3 2 Lost 0 1 D ...
  • China Rising
    After centuries of western dominance, the world’s centre of economic and political weight is shifting eastward. In just 30 years, China has risen from long-standing poverty to being the second largest economy in the world – faster than any other country in history. From angry far ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Genetics May Dictate Treatment in Opioid-Addic ...
    Researchers have identified possible genetic markers of NAS severity, which may lead to more tailored treatment for withdrawal in infants exposed to opioids in utero. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
  • Back pain? 7 ways to strengthen your spine
    Here are a few tips to help you take better care of your spine and back. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
  • Alzheimer's disease study using novel medicati ...
    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists have linked chronic inflammatory events in the brain with the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease. Now, South Florida residents who have mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease can participate in a study that measures the...
  • FDA Approves Kcentra For Acute Bleeding
    A drug for acute major bleeding, called Kcentra (Prothrombin Complex Concentrate, Human) has just been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Kcentra, manufactured by CSL Behring, Marburg, Germany, works as an urgent reversal of vitamin K antagonist (VKA) anticoagulation in adults. T ...
  • Association of Procalcitonin With Acute Pyelon ...
    Prompt, high-quality diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis and later identification of children with scarring are important to prevent future complications. Examination by dimercaptosuccinic acid scan is the current clinical gold standard but is not routinely performed. Procalcitonin demonstrated a ...

Common Dreams

  • 'Killer Robots' on the Rise, UN Warns
    Beware. "Killer robots" are on the rise, and not to be taken lightly, warns the U.N. Human Rights Commission in a draft report announced this week, which highlights the ongoing development of autonomous robots for use in combat by the world's leading military powers. ...
  • 'Worse Than Syria'? Civil War in Iraq 'Has Alr ...
    “It is wrong to say [Iraq is] getting close to a civil war... The civil war has already started.” read more
  • 1,856 to Zero: Secret Spy Court Authorizes 100 ...
    A secret federal court last year did not deny a single request to search or electronically spy on people within the United States "for foreign intelligence purposes," according to a Justice Department report this week. read more
  • Profits Over Water: 'State of Seige' Declared ...
    In a crackdown on mining protests, Guatemala declared a 30-day "state of siege" on Thursday in four areas of the country, suspending people's constitutional rights and sending in hundreds of police officers and thousands of soldiers following weeks of violence. Reuters reports that ...
  • 'Things Could Get Ugly': Fracking Set to Escal ...
    A new study released Thursday shows that a "significant portion" of fracking, a water intensive process, is happening in already water-stressed regions of the United States—most prominently Texas and Colorado, "which are both in the midst of prolonged drought conditions.&quo ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Western media and the War Machine
    by Phil Greaves It is now well over two years since the Syrian conflict began. I for one, will no longer give credibility to the falsehood that this brutal conflict simply aroused itself from the Syrian Government’s oppression of peaceful protest. There were many peaceful protests in Syr ...
  • Pakistan: Honest People in Corrupt Politics
    Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions, and persons as they think fit, within the bounds o ...
  • Only Ten Percent of Citizens Support Military ...
    The citizens of this country are in no mood to see U.S. military involvement in Syria. Of course, it has already begun. Consultation, secret assistance, and money given for "communications" (which allows other money for weapons) all contribute to the military effort. For months, Hillary Clint ...
  • Putting People and the Planet Before Profits
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers This past week of economic news reveals both the ruthlessness of big finance capitalism on people and the planet and that people are working for alternative, more just and sustainable, solutions. At the top of the list is more research on austerity. The Rein ...
  • Communications Giants in Good Hands with Tom W ...
    by Stephen Lendman Obama's expected to pick Tom Wheeler as new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman. More on him below. In March, former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski stepped down. At the time, Free Press.net president Craig Aaron said the following: "When Julius Genach ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Without change in public policy, Canada's gend ...
    The coming weeks will see women and men graduating in nearly equal numbers from schools across Canada. By the time those women and men reach their 30s, they will see the gap between their incomes and their share of paid work widen. This pattern will continue throughout their working lives. The w ...
  • Full List of Canadian Companies Authorized to ...
    The Globe and Mail has published a list of all Canadian companies authorized to use the Temporary Foreign Workers program. Companies on this list are not necessarily using TFWs, but the fact that the list is 475 pages long tells us something about the popularity of the program. 
  • Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights
    The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) is a national voice devoted to promoting labour rights as an important means to strengthening democracy, equality and economic justice here in Canada and internationally. CFLR provides a forum for its members to promote and publish their independ ...
  • Canadian Foundation of Labour Rights Internati ...
    Toronto (27 March 2013) – More than 160 people gathered in Toronto to discuss the critical role labour rights and unions play in reducing income inequality, advancing democracy, and promoting the social well-being of all Canadians.  The three-day conference, "Labour Rights and Their Impact ...
  • Alternate Routes journal
    The Alternate Routes journal publishes methodologically-sound political economy research that is of interest to labour researchers. The article Toby Sangster referred to on the TURC listserver is in this issue: Great-Recession Proof? Shattering the Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism. You can g ...

World Wide Hippies

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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

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • DOJ Issues Business Review Letter on a Propose ...
    On March 26, 2013, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice issued a business review letter [PDF] declining to state its present enforcement intentions regarding an innovative IP exchange organization (Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc., or IPXI). IPXI, a financial exc ...
  • Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Ma ...
    To promote its Office 365 software, tech giant Microsoft equipped a number of Forbes magazine print issues with free WiFi. The print mag was sent out to various subscribers, and when activated the T-Mobile WiFi router provided users with 15 days of free internet. DesignTAXI
  • European Month of the Brain: the EU and US put ...
    You may have seen our recent announcement about the human brain project (HBP). The deserved joint winner of our Future and Emerging Technology scheme; and hence recipient of around 1 billion euros in funding over 10 years. Separately you may also have seen President Obama's initiative on Brain ...
  • The Guardian falls victim to Syrian Electronic ...
    The group targeted and temporarily gained access to 11 Guardian-related accounts, all of which were revealed on its website. Many of the accounts (including @GuardianBooks and @GuardianTravel) remain suspended as of today, though others seem to have been successfully recovered. The Guardian sta ...
  • Netflix's Ted Sarandos talks Arrested Developm ...
    Q: What are you doing to combat piracy? Sarandos: One of the things is we get ISPs to publicise their connection speeds - and when we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access - people are mo ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Google Glass: facial recognition and root acce ...
    Google Glass has been rooted, which is what Google wants since it will encourage development. But this and the probability of facial recognition software on Glass means seriously nasty stuff could happen. Once you have root access, you can do anything on Glass. Google Glass: Let the evil commenc ...
  • Woo hoo, chocolate 3D printing
    Stratasys has applied for chocolate 3D printing patents. Hopefully soon we’ll be able to 3D print fanciful chocolate designs. Imagine strands of different chocolate, like the above, interwoven into patterns that only a 3D printer can make. This won’t just be happening just with choco ...
  • Syria descends into hell aided and abetted by ...
    The coming US military intervention in Syria has nothing to do with restoring democracy. It’s about toppling Syria as a major power and thereby weakening Iran and Hezbollah. The economy of Syria is now a zombie and many former city dwellers are literally living in caves. The US and allies ...
  • Mounting criticism to deceptively named Bay De ...
    The Bay Delta Conservation Plan ostensibly aims to preserve the Sacramento Delta while funneling most of the water away from it via two huge tunnels for use by Central Valley agriculture and Los Angeles. Calif. Governor Jerry Brown strongly supports the BDCP since it enriches two key constituenc ...
  • Terrorism porn. What if Boston Bombers were sp ...
    A friend forwarded this terrorism porn email from the Council for a Terrified Populace, oh, sorry, I meant to say the Council for a Livable World. They are exploiting a national tragedy to boost their fund-raising by 1) identifying something you need be terrorized about, 2) explaining how they c ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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frogblog

  • Green activist reportedly killed in Pakistan
    In some parts of the world, the task of standing up for Green values can be dangerous. It was with the deepest sadness that I was advised about the tragic killing of a Green party activist in Pakistan. According to news reports from the Global Greens, a member of the Pakistan Green Party, Mr Sha ...
  • GE not our farming future
    The Government’s National Science Challenges include an arrogant intention to spend taxpayers’ money on swaying community opposition towards support for genetic engineering. While the jargon loaded Challenge documents are a struggle to read, the message by pro-GE scientists in the primary produc ...
  • We need to address bee health
    The European Commission has just announced exciting plans to restrict the use of bee harming pesticides across Europe. We need to get the health of bees on the agenda of our Government so that we can protect these vital little insects. I wrote to the Chair of the Primary Production Select Commit ...
  • Bad employers get May day bonus
    It is ironic that the legislation re-introducing youth rates into New Zealand comes into play on a day normally associated internationally with workers celebrating their struggle for  better conditions. From today mean spirited employers have an opportunity to push down rates for young workers. ...
  • Introducing our Green Youth MPs
    Danielle Lusk – Metiria Turei Age: 16 School: Buller High School, Westport Tell us a bit about yourself: Hello there, I’m a keen adventuress, I love the outdoors, it’s pretty mean. It is my intention to become a white water kayaking guide, because who wouldn’t want to work, live and breath ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Survival launches tourism boycott of India’s A ...
    Still of video showing Jarawa girls forced to dance for tourists.© AnonSurvival International has today launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on ...
  • 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
    Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
  • Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
    Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...
  • Indonesian military ‘development’ program spre ...
    The military presence in West Papua is almost always accompanied by human rights violations such as killings, arbitrary arrests, rape and torture. © Survival InternationalPapuan leaders have voiced their concern at plans for more than a thousand Indonesian soldiers to build 1,500 km of new roads ...
  • Brazilian Indians occupy Congress in land protest
    Brazilian Indians protest in Congress against constitutional amendments© José Cruz/ABrAs Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food St ...
    from activistpost.com: Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money. As you will read about ...
  • At 95, Hitler's Food Taster Talks Paranoia, Po ...
    from montrealgazette.com: They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler' ...
  • Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
    from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related:&nbs ...
  • Duke Professor Suggests Simple Solution to Cou ...
    from activistpost.com: Arguably, animal rights activists are the most tenacious; so much so, that they have routinely been labeled anarchists and terrorists by various governmental organizations the world over. Yet, beyond the general demonization campaign of anyone who professes sympathy for th ...
  • Call to Action as Portland, Oregon Readies to ...
    from mercola.com: Water fluoridation is considered one of the most notable advancements in public health, and cities around the US spend millions adding fluoride to communal water supplies each year.  But, as stated in the video above, 99 percent of that fluoridated water ends up on your la ...

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

  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percent ...
    The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.  Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system ...
  • 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.  The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights.  The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not go ...
  • Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is C ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done it.  He has succeeded in creating a new housing bubble.  By driving mortgage rates down to the lowest level in 100 years and recklessly printing money with wild abandon, Bernanke has been able to get housing prices to rebound a bit.  In fact, in som ...
  • 20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depressi ...
    The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet.  Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don't get it.  All the time I have people ask me when the "economic collapse" is going to happen.  ...
  • The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food St ...
    Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.  As you will read about below, JP Morgan has m ...

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

  • UN human rights group calls for investigation ...
    The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights recently visited West Virginia communities affected by the controversial mining practice and said allegations of health damage, water pollution, failure to protect cemeteries, and harassment of opponents should be investigated and add ...
  • Reversal of fortune: A prosecutor on trial
    In the world of abusive prosecutors, Ken Anderson stands out: Anderson, a Texas prosecutor who abused his authority to help send an innocent man to prison for decades, now faces 10 years behind bars for his misconduct. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Wal-Mart goes green?
    The Arkansas-based retail giant aims to become a renewable-energy giant. But can Wal-Mart's business model ever really be considered sustainable? read more
  • Death in Bangladesh and Texas: Will bottom-fee ...
    How many tragedies will it take before industry stops its relentless search for the world's cheapest wages and decides fair labor costs and safe working conditions are a part of doing business? read more
  • Ad campaign puts Arkansas oil spill images bef ...
    An ad campaign featuring images of Exxon Mobil's Arkansas oil spill disaster targets the federal regulators in charge of approving the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...
  • Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
    Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 with GNOME 3.6 Released
    As far as I am concerned, this is a very important release. Ubuntu GNOME (previously called Ubuntu GNOME Remix) has one of the best implementations of GNOME Shell desktop. And as we've already seen in our earlier Ubuntu GNOME review, if you want the best of Ubuntu and pure GNOME in a single pa ...
  • And like Clockwork, 18th Stable Ubuntu Version ...
    While big-league players like Microsoft finds it hard to release even their core products on time, Canonical has just released the 18th stable version of Ubuntu, namely Ubuntu 13.04 aka "Raring Ringtail", right on schedule. When you look back at the history of Ubuntu, you'll be amazed to find ...
  • Don't Starve: Refreshing Survival Game in Now ...
    After popular titles such as Counter Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) and Shank 2, Don't Starve becomes the latest entrant into the Linux gaming scene. And as always, Steam for Linux facilitated the arrival. Don't Starve is basically an endless wilderness survival game. Game's goal is to&nbs ...

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

  • Book Burning | The SPPI Blog
    The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is the first book on climate change that is fun to read. Using figures, cartoons, and whimsical sidebars, Steve Goreham describes our crazy world, which is far down the primrose path of global warming fantasy. Contrary to popular consensus, global warming is ...
  • Antarctica ice increasing because of global wa ...
    Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute have offered their explanation of why the sea ice in Antarctica is expanding: global warming is the reason. They believe the paradoxical shift is caused by water melting from beneath the Antarctic ice shelves and re-freezing back on ...
  • Boston Bombers Uncle Aided Chechan Terrorists ...
    By Alexander Higgins (Reporter) (Before It’s News) Further investigation into the Boston Bombers ties to the CIA reveal a shell company used to funnel funds to overseas terrorists was set up by Uncle Ruslan at the home of a top CIA official. As details continue to emerge about the connecti ...
  • Boston Bombings: Police Fired At By Other Poli ...
    By Alexander Higgins (Reporter) The police involved the manhunt for the alleged Boston Bombers are now under investigation for unprovoked shootings at other officers which until now have been blamed on the alleged bombing suspects. For those who listened to the live radio transcripts this is jus ...
  • Princeton University – A sweet problem: ...
    by Hilary Parker A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was t ...

Veterans Today

  • IMPEACHMENT OF U.S. PRESIDENT ALBERT GORE, Jr. ...
    The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the U.S.A. [hereafter the U.S. Constitution, or Constitution] are jointly the contract of specific performance between the U.S. citizens as the parties on one side of the agreement, and the U.S. government, its officers, employees, agents, ...
  • Army is Neutral and Has No Favorites
    Sudden emergence of Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007 under unknown Baitullah Mehsud (deceased) from nowhere was in reaction to Gen Musharraf’s pro-US policies and its continued vendetta is because of the role of liberal parties pursuing Musharraf’s policies.
  • THE QUANDARY OF THE “OLDEST CLAIMS&#8221 ...
    I received a query today from Ralph. Ralph tells me he has already waited 2 + years to get his denial for bad knees and a back from jumping out of things above the earth carrying 80 or more lbs of stuff that wasn’t part of him at birth. He has signed over his Form [...]
  • Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Declares War on Netanyahu
    In the last days of April, Netanyahu's government faced a vote of no confidence due to its proposed budget
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    The Defense Department marks the start of prime motorcycle riding weather by designating each May as Motorcycle Safety Month.

electric politics

  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

  • Havas North American revenue tumbles 3.9% in Q1
    PETEAUX, FRANCE: Havas, the holding company that owns and operates Havas PR, reported a 0.9% organic drop in revenue in the first quarter of 2013, compared with Q1 2012, to about $505 million.
  • REM taps Blaze for US Converse Eyewear account
    SUN VALLEY, CA: REM Eyewear has selected Blaze PR as AOR in the US for its Converse brand's optical and sunglass lines, following a competitive review.
  • Health execs rate UnitedHealthcare interaction ...
    NASHVILLE, TN: Hospital and health system executives gave UnitedHealthcare the lowest marks of all major insurance providers in terms of their dealings with the company, according to a survey from ReviveHealth.
  • Fleishman adds Panetta to advisory board
    ST. LOUIS: Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has joined FleishmanHillard's international advisory board.
  • Pollack work with USO grows
    LOS ANGELES: Pollack PR Marketing Group has expanded its work with the USO to include support for the "Barbecue for the Troops" and "Dance for the Troops" fundraising initiatives.

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Stop NATO

  • Bases, Wars, Programs: NATO General Visits Bah ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Transformation May 2, 2013 Deputy Commander Visits Bahrain, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates Written by Robin Michelle Barnett ==== General Bieniek…encouraged Bahrain to develop the Individual Partnerships Cooperation Programme (IPCP), an en ...
  • U.S., British Defense Chiefs Mull Arming Syria ...
    Stars and Stripes May 2, 2013 Hagel, British official say Obama ‘rethinking’ arming Syrian rebels By Chris Carroll WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is rethinking its stance of not arming Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said ...
  • Henri Barbusse: Butchery as far as the eye can see
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray The railway bank was near, and in the network of wire stretched between it and us many bodies were fast-caught as flies. The eleme ...
  • Pentagon Chief: NATO Benchmark For Global Mili ...
    U.S. Department of Defense April 30, 2013 Hagel Hosts German Defense Minister at Pentagon WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel hosted German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière today at the Pentagon and commended Germany’s leadership in Europe and among the NATO allies, Pentagon Press ...
  • Interview: NATO Subjugates Europe, U.S. Duplic ...
    Voice of Russia May 1, 2013 Terrorism: It is a duplicitous game which the US is good at playing – Rozoff Recorded on April 21, 2013 AUDIO One of the Boston Marathon bombers praised U.S.-backed-terrorists operating in Syria against President Bashar Al-Assad shortly before he set off the bom ...

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Intel Hub

  • New Documentary Film: Unveiled and Lifted
    Intellihub.com | Unveiled and Lifted, a new documentary experience from Lifting the VeilThe post New Documentary Film: Unveiled and Lifted appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Houston: Man Killed at Airport After Attemptin ...
    Shepard Ambellas | In a strange series of events a man determined to commit a mass shooting was stopped short in a blaze of pistol smoke by DHS and himself.The post Houston: Man Killed at Airport After Attempting a Mass Shooting appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Florida Sheriff: “Call us if the Guy Down the ...
    JG Vibes | Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw recently made a statement saying “We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government"The post Florida Sheriff: “Call us if the Guy Down the Street Says he Hates the Government” appeared first on Intellihu ...
  • Our Patent System Incentivizes Drug Companies ...
    Tech Dirt | If we want to stop such practices, perhaps, rather than just suing the pharmaceutical companies, we start to look at the ridiculous incentive structure we've set up, whereby drug companies take on very little of the actual risk, but are given incredibly powerful monopolies, such ...
  • Chinese Scientists Slammed for Creating New ‘D ...
    RT | News that a research laboratory in China is deliberately engineering new hybrid strains of bird-flu virus and human influenza which could cause a pandemic has some experts alarmed.The post Chinese Scientists Slammed for Creating New ‘Deadly’ Influenza Strains appeared first on Intellih ...

FRS

  • Mohawk warrior and champion of the people dies
        by John Hill, Mohawk Nation News, mohawknationnews.com, May 2, 2013   A great loss to the people, to the nation, to the resistance, anti-imperialist movement right across Great Turtle Island.  On March 13th, Dacajeweiah, Splitting-the-Sky, 61, left us forever when he passed aw ...
  • Julian Assange: Wikileaks Has the Goods on the ...
    AlterNet / By Medea Benjamin, Julian Assange, April 29, 2013 The WikiLeaks founder talks Bush and Bradley Manning. [Photo Credit: Espen Moe / Creative Commons] I had an opportunity to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted politi ...
  • Vietnam: April 30, 38 Years since the Liberati ...
    Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: april 30 1975, saigon, south vietnam, Vietnam
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh: May Day protests demand j ...
    TheGuardian Filed under: Bangladesh, People's struggles
  • India: Maruti Suzuki Workers Union pamphlet o ...
    Sanhati, April 30, 2013 [Note from Maruti Suzuki Workers Union : We are currently on an indefinite dharna in Kaithal, Haryana since 24 March 2013, which included an 8-day Hunger Strike, and will continue until our demands are met. Please join us, in large numbers on 8th May 2013 in Kaithal (in f ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Congress Wants the Abrams, but the Army Says ' ...
    There’s a reason that there’s a huge bloated Pentagon budget, and it really doesn’t involve the Pentagon. It’s about Congress and the private sector pushing for products the government doesn’t want or need.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 29, 2013
  • The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
    According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013
  • U.S. on Hot Seat: Israel Calls 'Red Line,' Say ...
    The U.S. declared that use of chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war would be a "red line" action that could provoke American military intervention. Now top U.S. ally Israel is formally alleging that Syria's ruling regime used sarin gas.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 23, 2013
  • Alleged Boston Bombers Not like Bad Guys in th ...
    After seeing "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," in the wake of the Boston bombings, I couldn't help but think how much easier it is to pick out the bad guys in the movies.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Apr 22, 2013
  • Obama Justified in Criticizing Senators Over B ...
    Many U.S. senators who voted against increasing background checks for gun purchases may have inadvertently handed their next challengers powerful fodder in campaign battles.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Apr 18, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • What Makes Ebola So Deadly?
    Ebola viruses prevent the body from mounting an immune response against them, but a new study finds that mutating just one gene makes the virus unable to suppress the immune system. A new study has found, at a molecular level, what makes the Ebola virus so deadly. The virus uses a combination ...
  • The World's Largest Rubber Duck And Other Amaz ...
        
  • The World's Largest Rubber Duck And Other Amaz ...
    Plus insects wearing hats made of water, Apple's new headquarters and more Click here to enter the gallery    
  • Watch Live As This Solar-Powered Plane Embarks ...
    Solar Impulse will attempt to fly across the United States using nothing but sunlight for fuel. A solar-powered airplane is set to embark on a historic flight across the United States this morning. Weather permitting, Solar Impulse will leave the Bay Area at 6 a.m. PST, and arrive in New York a ...
  • OpenWorm Is An Open-Source Virtual Worm, Accur ...
    An international programming project aims to create virtual nematode life. Predictive models are essential in engineering fields, but less common in biology, though accurate simulations of living organisms could help us understand disease, drug efficacy and neuroscience. OpenWorm, a new open- ...

Veterans Today

  • IMPEACHMENT OF U.S. PRESIDENT ALBERT GORE, Jr. ...
    The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the U.S.A. [hereafter the U.S. Constitution, or Constitution] are jointly the contract of specific performance between the U.S. citizens as the parties on one side of the agreement, and the U.S. government, its officers, employees, agents, ...
  • Army is Neutral and Has No Favorites
    Sudden emergence of Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007 under unknown Baitullah Mehsud (deceased) from nowhere was in reaction to Gen Musharraf’s pro-US policies and its continued vendetta is because of the role of liberal parties pursuing Musharraf’s policies.
  • THE QUANDARY OF THE “OLDEST CLAIMS&#8221 ...
    I received a query today from Ralph. Ralph tells me he has already waited 2 + years to get his denial for bad knees and a back from jumping out of things above the earth carrying 80 or more lbs of stuff that wasn’t part of him at birth. He has signed over his Form [...]
  • Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Declares War on Netanyahu
    In the last days of April, Netanyahu's government faced a vote of no confidence due to its proposed budget
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    The Defense Department marks the start of prime motorcycle riding weather by designating each May as Motorcycle Safety Month.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • German (Randian?) Solution: No Minimum Wage
    Sometime ago, I remember watching former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testifying before the US Congress when he was asked about his views about the minimum wage. "There should be none," I reflexively blurted out. Knowing that Greenspan was a libertarian former acolyte of Ayn Rand, the answer was ...
  • Egypt's World Beggary Tour 2013 Goes On
    The rise and millennia-long fall of the Egyptian Empire continues apace. From the giddy heights of empire catalogued in the Bible to its present penury, Egypt has come a long way--down, that is, with no end in sight. The latest humiliation of course is being flat broke after the "Arab Spring" br ...
  • EU-US FTA & the Lameness of 'Cultural Exception'
    There is already a certain desperation to the idea that trade can significantly be boosted between the US and EU FTA when they already have exceptionally low tariff levels. What more substantial trade barriers can be removed? Are these dynamic and growing markets? The answers, of course, are "fe ...
  • Of Profits & Reconciliation: Kaesong Industria ...
    They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that certainly seems to be the case here: opened in 2004 as a manifestation of the late Roh Tae Woo's "sunshine policy" of South towards North Korea, it was hoped Kaesong Industrial Complex would herald closer economic ties between the ...
  • Arab Spring F1 (Ep III): 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix
    For a third consecutive year, we have controversy over whether the Bahrain Grand Prix should proceed. In 2011, it was famously cancelled despite attempts by F1 bigwigs to insulate this event from the turmoil that engulfed the region via the Arab Spring of protests against authoritarian regimes ( ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percent ...
    The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.  Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system ...
  • 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.  The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights.  The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not go ...
  • Will The New Housing Bubble That Bernanke Is C ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has done it.  He has succeeded in creating a new housing bubble.  By driving mortgage rates down to the lowest level in 100 years and recklessly printing money with wild abandon, Bernanke has been able to get housing prices to rebound a bit.  In fact, in som ...
  • 20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depressi ...
    The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet.  Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don't get it.  All the time I have people ask me when the "economic collapse" is going to happen.  ...
  • The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food St ...
    Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.  As you will read about below, JP Morgan has m ...

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

  • 2013-05-02 LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks sol ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ( http://www.bradleymanning.org/ ) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 ( tel:516-578-2628 ) press@bradleymanning.org LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks soldier after SF Pride controversy Last Wednesday, it was publicly ...
  • 2013-04-30 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Sch ...
    Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians of the Nation's Capital FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13-14 DATE: April 30, 2013 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Scheduled for United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning WASHINGTON - An arti ...
  • 2013-04-24 WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
    WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE Wed Apr 24 17:24:44 BST Milestone Supreme Court Decision for WikiLeaks Case in Iceland Today's decision marked the most important victory to date against the unlawful and arbitrary economic blockade erected by US companies against WikiLeaks. Iceland's Supreme Court upheld ...
  • 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 ...
    UPDATE: Chilean journalist @PatricioMery advises ex-detective Ulloa has now left the Ecuadorean Embassy in Santiago, and confirms he is "safe and sound". He adds with a wink: "I don't know where he is. ;-)" WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, ...

U N News

  • Mexico must strengthen its protection of human ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged the Mexican Government to strengthen the national structures that protect human rights, in particular the right to life, and reduce the involvement of the military in policing to reduce the use of force in the country.
  • US faces gaps in protecting human rights in bu ...
    Despite progress and innovation in key sectors of the United States' economy, too many loopholes remain to adequately protect human rights from adverse business practices, a group of United Nations independent experts today warned.
  • Amid hunger strike, UN rights experts urge US ...
    With some 100 prisoners at the Guantánamo Naval Base on a hunger strike, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts today reiterated their calls on the United States to shut down the detention centre.
  • Argentina must ensure independence of its judi ...
    A United Nations expert today called on Argentina to ensure the independence of its judiciary, following reforms passed earlier this month that affect the election process of the Magistrates Council which appoints and removes judges.
  • Ban welcomes peaceful elections in Paraguay
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed peaceful general elections in Paraguay that attracted wide participation, reiterating the United Nations' willingness to work with the newly elected authorities and people in the South American country.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • 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.

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Darwinis ...
    One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin overthrew philosophy up to that time.  Darwin is not only the greatest biologist ever, but the greatest philosopher, even if most folks don’t begin to understand how much Darwin overthrew old thinking and shaped new thinking.  Ernst Mayr, who ...
  • Congressional testimony of Dr. Dominik Kulakow ...
    On April 11, 2013 Dr. Dominik Kulakowski, Assistant Professor at Clark University, testified before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation of the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives. His testimony was sent to us by George Wuerthner ...
  • Nationwide walks for wolves this weekend
    Walk for Wolves has been organized to raise awareness about the threats affecting the wolf population throughout the United States. In addition to losing their habitat, the most detrimental threats come from government bills allowing hunting and trapping an indiscriminate number of wolves by met ...
  • EARTH DAY 2013: TAKE ACTION FOR THE MANED WOLF
    Project at a glance:  Due to rapid habitat destruction, the Maned wolf in Bolivia is now facing extinction. To protect this endangered species, WLT-US is seeking funds to buy the 15,711-acre Santa Anita Ranch for $29 an acre. The purchase will more than double the size of 11,555-acre Barba Azul ...
  • TrekWest – A Coalition’s Campaign for Connectivity
    Original post, April 15, 2013 on Defenders of Wildlife by Matt Clark, Southwest Representative  If you are anything like me, you might get to feeling pessimistic sometimes because of all of the alarming news we hear about the growing extinction crisis, climate change and a plethora of other wild ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Who Is Michael LaVaughn Robinson???
    Michael LaVaughn Robinson About two months ago, my office was contacted by an anonymous source who claimed to be a former White House staff member of the Obama administration. He claimed to have sensitive information... (June 30, 2011) ~ Matthew Glosser - Video read more
  • The Impeachment of Barack Obama or an American ...
    The founder of LaRouche Political Action Commitee (LPAC), Lyndon LaRouche speaks harshly about Obama acting as a dictator and calls for his impeachment. Every American and person around the world needs to hear this! ~ Video read more
  • ALERT!... Government Funded Phone App Tracks ' ...
    A new phone application called 'Vaccine Refused' developed by the University of Iowa tracks – just as the name implies – vaccine refusals. [1] The application is intended to be used by health professionals to report the location of the refusal, the vaccine refused, and patient demographics! ~ ...
  • What The Hell Just Happened?... 'Tyranny By E ...
    What the hell just happened? That is the question that many Americans should be asking themselves following the news conference where Obama unveiled his plan for destroying the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. ~ Constitutional Attorney Michael Connelly, J.D. read more
  • Jim Tucker May Have Been Assasinated!
    If the official story says that Jim Tucker died from complications of a fall down a flight of stairs, then I submit to you that it is like almost every other ‘as documented by globalist controlled planet’ event in history, is the opposite of whats being recorded. read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Pet Ready Emergency Kit
    Don’t forget about your pets when preparing for emergencies or disasters. From deadly tornadoes to flash floods, there’s hardly a region that is not subject to one form or another of disaster. Unfortunately, when it comes to pets, statistics reveal that a majority of people have not consid ...
  • Short List Of Fast Growing Vegetables
    Fast crops are good to grow because they provide some food on the table in the shortest period of time. They are a good jump-start to the growing season after a winter of grocery store produce. If you have a limited season (colder climate zones), then you can help maximize your garden’s output b ...
  • Were Door-to-Door Searches Too Much?
    The Boston bombers of the terror attack on April 15 that killed 3 and injured 264 were identified by private citizens who shared their photographs with the police. The 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was discovered by a civilian. Now that some time has gone by and some of the emotion has subsided ...
  • The Globalists Chess Game… Syria, Iran, ...
    A dangerous game of chess; and it’s being played by the Federal Reserve globalists. The latest move, the one which will accelerate the end-game, is chemical weapons in Syria…   The clues of the next piece to be moved in this chess game are often revealed in the main stream news ...
  • 2nd Coldest Start To Spring In The USA
    image: www.hprcc.unl.edu We have been experiencing one of the coldest Spring seasons ever recorded in the United States as temperatures across the country have been the lowest on average since 1975, the 2nd lowest ever…   You may have noticed… winter has been slow to loosen its ...

Fast Company

  • Aaooohh Werewolf On Netflix: Behind The Shocki ...
    The CG wizards at Zoic discuss making a human-to-werewolf spectacle for Eli Roth’s new Netflix series where the gore brief was simply: more. A warning to those who’ve received their human-to-werewolf schooling at the hands of Twilight: Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove might not b ...
  • The Science Of Awards: Your Data-Driven Guide ...
    It may not be possible to break the art of award-winning creativity down to sheer math but Columbia University’s Sudhir Venkatesh and students undertake a data-centric analysis of who wins at Cannes and what patterns and lessons are available for those looking to take home hardware. ...
  • For Green Design To Have A Chance, It Should B ...
    In The Shape of Green, architect Lance Hosey argues that the way toward green design is through aesthetics rooted in nature. Editors’ note: The following is an excerpt from The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design (Island Press). Design is shape with purpose.Read Full Stor ...
  • World's Smallest Flying Robot Finally Takes Off
    Quicklink URL:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22380287 Attribution:  BBC News The "robo-fly" weighs a fraction of a gram and can even evade human attempts to swat it. The worlds smallest flying robot has finally taken off, twelve years after a group ...
  • A List Of The 6 Best Alternative To-Do List Apps
    Evernote is great, but it's not the only choice for productivity and to-do lists. Here are some up-and-coming apps to suit all personalities, from the type A's to the guilt-free procrastinators. Mobile to-do lists such as Clear, Evernote, and Google Keep get a lot of love online, but they' ...

Jadaliyya

  • Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks f ...
    [The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 30 April 2013.] Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey Executive Summary Turkey has struggled to find the right response to the Syrian civil war, which has brought shellfire, bombs, militias, refugees ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (May 3)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • Jonathan Rashad on Freelance Photojournalism i ...
    Jadaliyya (J): Are you a freelancer or do you work with an agency? Why did you choose this path?  Jonathan Rashad (JR): I have always been a freelancer. I chose this path as it gives me much more time to focus on issues I am interested in covering, not routine news and stories I would ...
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  • Syria Media Roundup (May 2)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...

mediagazer

  • Leveson: Government's press regulation plans p ...
    Gordon Rayner / Telegraph: Leveson: Government's press regulation plans put on ice  —  The Government's proposal for a Royal Charter on the future of press regulation, drawn up with the help of the campaign group Hacked Off, has been put on ice after newspaper editors put forwar ...
  • Nicole Cliffe is Leaving The Hairpin to Start ...
    Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: Nicole Cliffe is Leaving The Hairpin to Start New Site  —  Nicole Cliffe, the books editor at The Hairpin, is leaving The Awl network's site to start her own.  Ms. Cliffe is partnering with Mallory Ortberg, who is a familiar n ...
  • Why Bill Gates-owned Corbis is screwing up its ...
    Corey Pein: Why Bill Gates-owned Corbis is screwing up its new acquisition  —  tl;dr: Corbis management strikes again.  —  Most people don't know much about Bill Gates's other company.  I didn't, either, until a few months ago.  I was only a teenager wh ...
  • Howard Kurtz Status at CNN Unchanged (Hollywoo ...
    Hollywood Reporter: Howard Kurtz Status at CNN Unchanged  —  The “Reliable Sources” host will address the controversy on Sunday's program.  —  Howard Kurtz status at CNN remains unchanged, according to the network.  —  “There has ...
  • BBC Newsnight journalists nominated for award ...
    John Plunkett / Guardian: BBC Newsnight journalists nominated for award for axed Jimmy Savile report  —  Liz Mackean and Meirion Jones shortlisted for scoop of the year by London Press Club, as is Mark Williams-Thomas's ITV film  —  The two Newsnight journalists ...

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

  • U.S. Military Plane Crashes in Kyrgyzstan
    Share 0 A U.S. military plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan today, shortly after taking off from the Manas Transit Center. The aircraft was believed to be a KC-135, a refueling tanker based on the Boeing 707. It is not immediately clear how many passengers were on board, but such tankers usually c ...
  • Chidambaram hopeful of pushing through in ...
    Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday exuded confidence that the government would be able to move ahead with the proposal to raise the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap in insurance and pension sectors. In his address at a seminar at the 46th ADB conference, he assured delegates that t ...
  • Presidents Bush and Obama, and the Faith ...
    In reflecting on both President Obama's speech in the aftermath of the Boston bombings and President Bush's speeches following the horrific attacks on Sept. 11, I have come to understand better the different ways each man conveys their faith and how this reflects on something going on in Ame ...
  • Rafael Benitez: Chelsea boss wins Premier ...
    Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez has been named Premier League manager of the month for April. The Spaniard, 53, is the first Chelsea boss to win the monthly award since Carlo Ancelotti in April 2011. Benitez's April record Premier League Europa League Games 4 3 Won 3 2 Lost 0 1 D ...
  • China Rising
    After centuries of western dominance, the world’s centre of economic and political weight is shifting eastward. In just 30 years, China has risen from long-standing poverty to being the second largest economy in the world – faster than any other country in history. From angry far ...

no frakking consensus

  • David Suzuki: All Mining Must Stop
    According to Canada's most prominent environmentalist, the mining of gold, silver, copper and other minerals poses an unacceptable risk to the planet's atmosphere.
  • Where Do Wind Turbines Come From?
    Mining the iron ore needed to build wind farms entails ripping mountains and valleys "to shreds."
  • Isn’t It Too Darn Hot?
    A resolution before the US Congress implies that global warming will increase prostitution. Cole Porter disagrees.
  • Secret Climate Meetings
    Confronted with what some believe is a house on fire, Canadian Members of Parliament retire to the shadows and whisper to each other in secret.
  • How Climate Scientists Think
    Nobel-winning work about self-delusion and flawed judgment applies to all of us - even climatologists.

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

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    obesity.procon.org Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Should They Be? - Going out to dinner? One baked potato should be the size of a computer mouse, a steak the size of a deck of cards, and a dinner roll the size of a yo-yo with a Scrabble tile's worth of butter. See how your meal ...
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environment 360

  • Seawater Energy Technology Is Focus of Pilot P ...
    The U.S. defense and aerospace giant, Lockheed Martin, is partnering with a major Chinese company to build a pilot project off the southern Chinese coast that will use temperature differentials between the deep and shallow ocean to generate electricity. The technology, known as ocean thermal ene ...
  • Five Southeast Asian Nations Have Lost One-Thi ...
    Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam have lost one-third of their forests since 1980 and could be left with only 10 to 20 percent of their original forest cover by 2030, according to a review of satellite data by WWF. The conservation group warned that if present trends continue only 1 ...
  • A Key Experiment to Probe the Future of Our Ac ...
    In a Swedish fjord, European researchers are conducting an ambitious experiment aimed at better understanding how ocean acidification will affect marine life. Ultimately, these scientists hope to determine which species might win and which might lose in a more acidic ocean. BY PETER FRIEDERICI
  • Program Targeting Diesel Emissions Will Be Cut ...
    A federal program that has cleaned up or removed 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines from U.S. roads is scheduled to be cut by 70 percent under President Barack Obama’s latest budget. The program eliminated 230,000 tons of soot and smog-causing pollutants, slashed more than two million tons of ...
  • Interview: Telling the Life Story of The Ginkg ...
    Botanist Peter Crane sees the ginkgo as more than just a distinctive tree with foul-smelling fruits and nuts prized AJYIGinkgo leaves in autumn for reputed medicinal properties. To Crane, author of a new book, Ginkgo, the tree is an oddity in nature because it is a single species with no kno ...

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Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Sociology: I Can’t Quit You
    True confession time, people. I commit sociology. And not just as a one-off. You might say—all right, I will say it—that I’m a repeat offender. In fact, I’m practically addicted. Scarcely a minute can go by without my synapses looking for their next fix. That might not be a politically correct a ...
  • Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
    By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new leader – stands out as a case in point: it is carefully designed to survive a non-confidence vote. It extends a few olive branches to the opposition ND ...
  • What price would you pay for an education?
    How much would you give up to get a university education? For most of us, four years of work, study, investment and anxiety are the costs we are willing to pay to secure the benefits and opportunities of a university degree. But is a university degree worth so much to you that you would allow [. ...
  • Climate change: Joe Oliver deems fears “exagge ...
    Federal Natural Resource minister Joe Oliver stopped by Montréal on 11 April to promote tar sands and closed the door to any strict greenhouse-gas ceiling. He claimed that, according to scientists, our fears regarding climate change are “exaggerated.” He refused to retract his statement the foll ...
  • National Day of Mourning: Past Sacrifice, Pres ...
    Weekends aside, there’s still a lot to thank unions for. Maternity leave top-up. Employment Insurance. Child labour laws. Numerous studies—past, and more recent—have identified the degree to which unions have contributed to more equitable, safer societies, and jobs where the normally stubbornly ...

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.
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  • 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 ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • In Bad Sign for Water Supply, California Snowp ...
    “The man in charge of surveying California’s snowpack to measure the amount of water that will flow into storage reservoirs over the next few months had bad news Thursday. “I’m finding nothing. Seriously, there is no snow on the course at all,” said Frank Gehrke, ch ...
  • Qatar Challenges Way of the Desert
    “In this country of just under 2 million, desert extremes meet a high-octane economy, testing both the limits and responses to the competition between water, food, and energy. “Qatar today is a nation of nearly 2 million people, and Doha — its capital, a city swelled by hydrocarbon w ...
  • Kenya Fights Floods and Drought
      “Kenya has been experiencing heavy rains since early March. Rivers have burst their banks and flooded villages, washing away homes, crops and bridges. Buildings have collapsed, vehicles been swept away and children buried alive in landslides. “The semi-arid northern lands, whe ...
  • Fracking debris considered too radioactive eve ...
    “A truck carrying drill cuttings from a fracking site set off a radiation alarm at a landfill in Pennsylvania. Emitting gamma radiation ten times higher than the permitted level, the waste was rejected by the landfill. “After the alarm went off, the MAX Environmental Technologies tru ...
  • Senators Urging Against Clean Water Progress
    “Yesterday’s letter to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe from over two dozen Republican Senators urges EPA to perpetuate the stalemate which is leaving drinking water sources without Clean Water Act protection. “We hope this letter has the oppo ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • $equester is just another word for let’s ...
    …what don’t you get … $equester is just another word for let’s make a deal … Oh, yea, the deal shall significantly benefit the few … not the many… The next sequester victors? By: Darren Samuelsohn and David Nather Congress and Obama spared the FAA from the sequester, sending a message: We’re wil ...
  • …there is growing acknowledgement public ...
    …there is growing acknowledgement public awareness … full disclosure … transparency … are fundamental to achieve authentic “sustainability” on water … Public awareness The single greatest challenge and opportunity in the water industry today is educating the public about the level of the long-te ...
  • America just doesn’t get it
    …America just doesn’t get it …countries are saying and have been saying … help us if you choose … but you don’t run our country … got it… Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency 05-02-2013  •  Los Angeles Times Bolivian President Evo Morales was expelling the US ...
  • really simple … just follow the $$$…
    …it’s really simple … just follow the $$$… Why Fantastically Wealthy Apple Is Borrowing Money 05-02-2013  •  Michael V. Copeland via WIRED.com  Wall Street is buzzing about Apple issuing around $17 billion in bonds. What this means in simple terms is that Apple is borrowing billio ...
  • as an elite member of the 1% you know “o ...
    …as an elite member of the 1% you know “our” be$t interest is always first in her mind… Obama Picks Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary   By Josh Mitchell and Jared A. Favole  …http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/05/02/obama-picks-penny-pritzker-as-commerce-secretary/   President ...

Popular Technology

  • 13,950 Meaningless Search Results
    In the never ending quest for alarmists to one up their incompetent friends they continue to seek out new ways to demonstrate their own computer illiteracy. Enter James Powell who in a meaningless analysis is apparently ignorant that the 'Web of Science' database does not have a "peer-reviewed ...
  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Conservation without supervision: Peruvian com ...
    When we think of conservation areas, many of us think of iconic National Parks overseen by uniformed government employees or wilderness areas purchased and run from afar by big-donor organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, or Conservation International. But ...
  • What if companies actually had to compensate s ...
    The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading pub ...
  • The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of ...
    Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite this, little is known about the biodiversity and ...
  • Letting nature do the talking this Earth Day ( ...
    Instead of writing a special article for this Earth Day, we are instead letting nature's beauty do the talking. The photos below were taken by the Mongabay.com team — Rhett Butler, Jeremy Hance, and Tiffany Roufs — in the twelve months since Earth Day 2012. Countries in this set incl ...
  • Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New ...
    New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) is facing a backlash over plans to aerially drop a controversial poison, known as 1080, over the habitat of two endangered, prehistoric, and truly bizarre frog species, Archey's and Hochsetter's frogs, on Mount Moehau. Used in New Zealand to kill po ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Kiwis urged to take tsunami risk more seriously
    New Zealand authorities are only just waking up to the risks tsunamis pose to our coastlines but they don't know how bad a destructive tsunami could be here, an Australian expert says.Meanwhile an Indonesian woman now living in...
  • Keith Turner: Innovation the key for Team NZ
    I had the great privilege to visit the Emirates Team New Zealand base in the Auckland Viaduct basin, just as they were preparing to pack up and shift to San Francisco.As a PhD in engineering, my eyes were trained to search for the...
  • World's smallest stop-motion movie filmed
    Scientists have taken the idea of a film short down to new levels. Molecular levels.IBM says it has made the tiniest stop-motion movie ever a one-minute video of individual carbon monoxide molecules repeatedly rearranged to show...
  • Govt doubles funding for new major science pro ...
    The Government will dedicate an extra $70 million to its National Science Challenges, more than doubling its funding for 10 new major research projects.The $133.5 million in funding will be used for 10 projects aimed at tackling...
  • US girl gets windpipe made from stem cells
    A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow...

The Bovine

  • Food Revolution Summit — Vandana Shiva intervi ...
    By Raoul Bedi, BASc  The past few months has seen a massive shift in the “tectonic plates” of the food rights and food security movement not only in Canada but in the larger North American context. Some might say that … Continue reading →
  • Alice Jongerden — milk fast day 16
    Alice Jongerden, former agister of BC’s Chilliwack based “Home on the Range” cowshare, started on a raw milk “fast” a couple weeks ago. So how’s it going? For all of you who are wondering…yes I am still on my milk … Continue reading →
  • When governments abandon the public interest — ...
    From Helke Ferrie, in Vitality Magazine: Our Constitution guarantees that the laws, from which our government derives its mandate, shall work in the “public interest.” In actuality, this mandate is mostly an experience of illusion for the public, because the … Continue reading →
  • Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Herschberger ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “But the technical legalities of the case fail to convey that, at its heart, this is a political case rather more than a legal case. Most fundamentally, the case is about … Continue reading →
  • From Quebec: “The Impossible Farm”
    While we do our best, here at the Bovine, to cover the Canadian raw milk scene, along with other food politics and food rights stories, we don’t often get much news from Quebec. Now we’ve heard how fewer French people … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Year of the Yaun?
    Last month I received a lot of emails from readers regarding articles on a new currency relationship between Australia and China allowing direct convertibility of Australian dollars into Yuan. In what may mark the beginning of a historic shift, Australia appears ready to bypass the U.S. do ...
  • Australia Manufacturing Collapses as Commodity ...
    Australia fundamentals deteriorate rapidly as evidenced by a collapse in the PMI Manufacturing Index in April. Key Findings Manufacturing activity contracted significantly in April as conditions weakened amid a strong Australian dollar, intense import competition, high energy costs ...
  • Global Manufacturing Stagnates; Global Recessi ...
    The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI shows Global manufacturing growth slows to near-stagnation. At 50.5 in April, the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI™ – a composite index* produced by JPMorgan and Markit in association with ISM and IFPSM – signalled expansion for the fourth straight month ...
  • Shock and Awe: ECB Prepared to "Cope With Cons ...
    As expected the ECB, cut its lending rate 25 basis points to 0.50%. Yesterday, I suggested the ECB may try a "shock and awe" move. They did, just not the move anyone expected. Instead, Mario Draghi said the ECB was Prepared to "Cope With Consequences of Negative Deposit Rates". Sh ...
  • S&P Predicts 20% Drop in Spain's Housing Price ...
    Spain's "bad bank", Sareb to speed up distressed property sales in an ambitious new timetable for liquidation. The bad bank is hoping to sell almost 42,000 housing units in the next five years. This is about half of the properties in its €50 billion (£42.5 billion approximately) portfolio ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 2, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Great Convergence In the past 500 years, the western world has come to rise to prominence over the rest. This process was the result of expansionist imperialism, militarism and warfare; but also of the development and projection of new economic and social models, largely those based around s ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 1, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • BFP Boston Terror Update 4- The Backdoor Deal ...
    Under-the-Radar Developments on the Syria Front The series of our analyses on the Boston Bombing-Syria-Russia-CIA connections continues with further related developments unfolding in the last few days. In my April 22 interview for Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener Report I provided three possible US ...
  • Lew Rockwell Show: The Boston Bombing, the CIA ...
    Sibel Edmonds Talks to Lew Rockwell about what’s “Really” Happening in Central Asia & the Caucasus  Yesterday I was back on the Lew Rockwell Show to talk about the geopolitical context and implications of the Boston Bombing. It was a great honor to be back on Mr. Rockwell’s show. Show Notes: ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • SEACOR Orders Pair of VLGCs from Hyundai Heavy
    After a $10.9 million loss in the first quarter this year, SEACOR Holdings’ (NYSE:CKH) Executive Chairman of the Board, Charles Fabrikant was justifiably unhappy with his company’s results.  However, it’s [...]
  • Opposing the Jones Act from a Hawaiian Perspec ...
    Continuing with the Jones Act theme we’ve seen this week, here are two views from Hawaiians opposing the Jones Act. In this first video, Reason TV sits down with Ken Schoolland, [...]
  • ABS Releases Advisory on Use of Scrubber Systems
    International classification society ABS has released an advisory on the use of exhaust gas scrubber systems in order for ships to meet increasingly stringent low sulfur fuel requirements, both now [...]
  • 1 Year-Old VLCC Bought for $74 Million, Heads ...
    In 2010, Teekay and their JV partner paid just under $100 million to order a newbuild VLCC, but since then quite a bit has changed in the crude tanker market. [...]
  • BG Group Rises After Output and LNG Profit Bea ...
    (Bloomberg) — BG Group Plc, the U.K.’s third-largest oil and gas producer, rose the most in almost a year after reporting production and liquefied natural gas earnings that exceeded analysts’ [...]

Press TV

  • ‘Iran-US ties outside president’s power’
    Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani says presidential hopefuls are not competent to talk about the possible normalization of ties between Iran and the United States.
  • Damascus airport hit by two rockets
    A fire has broken out at Damascus international airport after it was targeted by two rockets fired by militants fighting against the government.
  • Aref vows interaction with world
    Reformist presidential hopeful Mohammad Reza Aref has promised to interact with all countries except the Zionist regime of Israel if he wins the June presidential election.
  • Explosion at Iraqi mosque kills five
    At least five people have been killed and 19 others injured in a bomb explosion at a mosque north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
  • Australia set to buy 12 US Growler jets
    Australia has struck a deal with the United States for the purchase of 12 Boeing EA-18G Growler fighter jets, state authorities say.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

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